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"in February I predicted trouble is heading for some late-stage startups"

... meanwhile back in 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/08/business/better-zoom-layo...

Ask HN: Looking for Roles in NYC

I've been working as a software engineer in Ad Tech for 3 years now. I've worked largely in developing, maintaining, monitoring big data pipelines that process TB/day. I have strong skills in AWS/Spark/Python, but I am happy to grow into a new challenge. I am happy with my compensation and benefits, but less enthused by the advertising industry - it doesn't inspire me to work hard. I would love...

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ASK HN: Predicting Time Series Data

I want to forecast traffic on my website (i work for a large company with thousands of hours spent on our website hourly across the USA). I am researching how to visualize and predict this time series at the hourly level. Any ideas here on modeling the time spent on the website on a city level? I have lots of historical data ~2 years

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Re:Ask HN: How did you find what you were good at? on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @09:34AM (#25265477)
Masters of a craft may be very good at a number of different crafts. The only difference between "master of" and "good at" is often how you feel doing that activity. Pick the one that you enjoy most and mastery will come.
Thank you!

Ask HN: How to build a personal blog/website from the ground up?

I have always wanted to build a very simple personal website or blog. Examples: http://www.paulgraham.com/index.html and http://ruina.tam.cornell.edu/.I have some experience with web development, but this will be a learning experience. Looking for all recommendations on how best to host and develop a website that is entirely my own.Thank you!

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Ask HN: Is there a way to programmatically test an API?

I am trying to build a test suite for a REST API that is transitioning to GRPC. I am wondering if, with the OPEN API spec, there is a way to programmatically test the API. Any services or libraries are welcome. Currently we are writing test cases with PyTest, which is calling the REST API. Thanks!

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