skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the problem: free college doesn't scale. A place like Germany, which has about half the college enrollment figures than the US (~6-7% for the US, 3-4% for Germany) has excess capacity and even lets some foreigners study for free. The US is in the opposite end of the supply : demand ratio.

Ultimately I think the crux of the problem is that in the United States a lack of a college education is seen as a serious character flaw. A lot of Americans understand this, but I think it's important to illustrate this for non-Americans. A lack of a college education is seen a such a flaw that it automatically invalidates the prospect of marriage for many people [1]. Democrats (and I count myself among them) often tout the fact that they regularly win most of the vote among college educated voters - how this is supposed to be a positive unless one views the opinions of non-college educated as lesser is a mystery to me. Outside of low-class neighborhoods, a child failing to get admitted to university is an embarrassment. I personally don't agree with these things, and they're likely far from universal, but I do think they illustrate

The result, I think, is a large segment of the population taking on debt to get an education that won't actually yield much of a return in the labor market. And the messed up thing is that in a way they are making a sound choice because the stigma of being uneducated is so strong. Whereas in many places like the aforementioned Germany getting an apprenticeship and becoming a skilled worker is respected. I've heard stories about this shifting and the requirements to attending gymnasium (the college-bound educational track) are loosening, but it's still probably nowhere near the level as in America.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/10/dating-...
PreQuilt's second customer (tiny startup)
I didn't say anything about innovative - I said legitimate.
Isn't a DW just part of the overall equation? These days I assume you'd want to do a lot more like train ML models as part of your pipeline, things that Spark/Scala allow you to do that'd be harder than just SQL. I think most customers use both.
Apple Notes is different. Notes stored in iCloud (default for iOS & macOS) are stored in a fairly inaccessible local database. They cannot be exported to any format other than single notes as PDFs. The service offers no public API.
The "good memory" referred to is the cpu cache. Search for "L1 cache", "L2 cache" online. Here's a starting point: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-L1-L2-and-L3-cache-of-a-mi...
I forgot Comic Sans existed.
I was just at the Guggenheim exhibition. I liked some of the paintings, but I wasn't really moved by it; I was much more taken by her naturalist paintings and sketches of insects (which were in the minority). However, it was intriguing to think about how these paintings were conceived nearly in isolation, preceding the abstract art movement by almost a decade.
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I'm not sure how they can invest in that.

I've seen amazon ec2 ips being used for ddos attacks and I blacklist the entire range for many of my websites/projects. The vast majority of visitors we get from there are abusive.
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I would much rather live in a world where this person may be heard than likewise.

"Don't take refugee in the false security of consensus."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2uzEM0ugY
BigQuery has had DML for over a year. There are quotas but the quotas keep rising and they can manually increase your quota on request.
Which example do you think uses term-level variables more than once?
As someone who is not a particularly big fan of Steam's platform, more competition in this space is a good thing.
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I've walked past tons of stuff lying around in display cases at Monash Caulfield without knowing anything about it. Wouldn't mind finding out more now...
Yeah you can interpret a Schwarzchild radius as a “void” in a certain sense (though more like a one-way dump) but a black hole is still very much a participant in the physics of our universe
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14% of people at Google still represents a slim portion of the tech workforce. I tried to search for how many software developers don't have a university degree. I did find that 40-50% don't have a CS or CS-related degree, but all I found was a Quora post saying 3% don't have degrees at all - and this was an un-sourced post that didn't share any methodology so we should take it with a grain of salt.
The Sony compacts are pretty good camera-wise, but the most recent compacts are bigger than the old ones. The old ones had 4.6" screens, now they are growing to over 5".
This sounds nice on paper, but Democrats find a way to screw stuff up just as much as Republicans. The surplus under Clinton that Democrats like to tout so much had more to do with being in a huge bull market than any specific policy that Clinton signed (though not increasing spending was certainly helpful).

Yes, wasting money on wars under Bush and Obama hurt us pretty bad, and Trump's tax cuts aren't doing us any favors. The real problem is that Congress doesn't pass a balanced budget. Those wars and cuts wouldn't be a problem if we funded them properly, raising revenue as necessary.

I personally don't think either party is serious about balancing the budget, they just like to sling mud at each other so people vote them in for a second term because they're afraid of what the other side might do.

I don't vote for parties, I vote for individuals. I need to believe that the individual I support with my vote is serious about making a balanced budget and fighting for the things I want. If I can't trust any of the candidates, I don't cast a vote.
I sell industrial automation technology for a living. I could write a book on this subject. Really difficult to put into words in a few paragraphs.

I’d just say this:
Know your customers, know the market, know their needs, know their challenges.

Ask yourself: what are you solving for?

The answer is your value proposition.

Your value proposition depends on the customer, but you should be targeting a market with similar needs.

“SPIN selling” is a good framework.

You must establish “common ground” with customers. It’s how you build rapport and show you understand their needs and demonstrate your competency and expertise.

Technical sales is all about problem solving. It’s idenitfying problems (known or unknown to your customers) and introducing solutions that add value to their organization, the product, or the person. Understanding your customer, their environment and needs, and establishing common ground is essential for identifying and introduction technical solutions.

Feel free to email if you’d like to discuss the philosophy of technical sales in more depth: tranchms@icloud.com
Synced iMessage/SMS history ("Messages in the Cloud") is also E2E encrypted - unless the user enables iCloud Backup on an iOS device, which must keep a decryption key in escrow to support restore scenarios.
Don Tempelton's Sales Ready Product concept [1] (adopted by Sequoia), especially the ideas around MVP vs. SRP [2] were very useful to me.

Summary

To transform your product into a Sales Ready Product, you need:

- Unified Engineering, Product, Design and Sales teams

- First-hand customer research

- An inventory of customer objections

- Understanding of what matters most to customers (and what you can ignore)

- A qualification list (and the right initial customers)

- A demo that uses data from the prospect and includes a light switch moment

- Standardized and unified sales training and materials

[1] https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/srp/

[2] https://www.inkling.com/sequoia/
So now that Levandowski and Travis are out on their own, can they get back together and do whatever they were planning to- no restrictions from Google or Uber.
It took 7 years for this particular incident to come to light. Until I learned about it, I thought that Google/Waymo was pretty good about disclosures, but now I have to wonder what present-day incidents we will only be finding out about 7 years from now.
I do it every week and it has helped me tremendously over the last 3 years. If you can find someone you like and can afford it, I highly recommend it. I found my "coach" on Craigslist and since then have stuck with it. Let me know if I can answer any questions.
IMHO they should strive to by means of fair practices (that don't include using their dominant positions to suppers competition or use their wealth to buy-and-close other companies) but should never achieve that.
They might end up with their best use, but the public (well ok, government...) would not be compensated for the full value of the public good, right?

e.g. If you initially sell for $1 to BobTelco then BobTelco (and any future “owners”) eventually capture the real value of that spectrum.
Think of the universe, from beginning onward, as a 4-dimensional manifold. Physicists don’t know exactly what the topology of that manifold is, but they do know that mass can affect it
Thanks for the interesting example. You're right that this is unlikely to redeem a scaled up dandelion, but I thought it was still worth mentioning as it's often overlooked.

I work in internal and multiphase flows, and changing the turbulence level is much easier there than in aerodynamics.

I'll also have to look at the parabolized stability equations as I am not familiar with them. If you have a preferred reference, I'd be interested.
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I have a Pocket CHIP. It’s really cool. Comes preloaded with PICO-8, some other software (a synth, etc.), and a dead simple graphical launcher. But under the hood it’s running full on Linux. I got the Swift compiler installed and running on mine, for example.

Really too bad that the company went under.
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icgrep (http://www.icgrep.com) has a clever approach to searching text for arbitrary sets of characters in a parallel manner. If 128-bit registers are available and we're processing 8-bit characters (for example), the next 128 characters from a file are first loaded into 8 SIMD registers. Then a bitwise transposition is performed so that r0 contains bit 0 of each input character, r1 contains bit 1, etc., up to r7. Then with a series of logic operations across those registers (imagine the sum-of-product result of a k-map of characters of interest), searches for any arbitrary subset of characters can be performed in parallel, leaving 1s in the corresponding position of the result register for each match and 0s elsewhere. icgrep supports full regex patterns and Unicode (using 21 registers instead of 8), but what interests me are the elegant transpose and logic steps.
I see. I had only looked at the source code of the Nodejs competitor. To be fair the point still stands that you need to read the source to know what is really being measured.
The data sizing heuristic for basic vehicle positioning telemetry is a GB per vehicle per year assuming a professional driver (e.g. taxi, trucking, etc). A petabyte is about a million vehicle-years of positioning data, which isn't that much.

Remember, Uber also stores application positioning telemetry as well, so it isn't just the number of vehicles.
I don't think worship is an "animistic" quality. I think the tendency to worship is very much a refined trait in highly intelligent organisms.
Yeah, but is it RISCV?
Do you have more info on how Facebook tried to use Elixir but couldn't?
The Pixel phones have been unhackable at Pwn2own events while iPhones fall like flies in the hands of the Chinese groups.
This project is pretty active:

https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs

And I don't really get your hesitation to use a Microsoft stack. Bitwarden is distributed with Docker, so it isn't running on Windows or anything.
I started with XP way back in 99 after following the discussions on OTUG and then the white book came out.

I PP for 8 -> 9 years. Theres a bunch of things I learnt from that

It is really good for improving everyones skills. There is a fast convergence in good way to do things

The code quality is generally really good and people often develop good habits, everything gets discussed.

It doesn't work so well when people are across different projects, much better if they are all on the same project.

Teams reach a point where it doesn't actually matter if you pair or not, you tend to carry on making good code.

It can slow down experienced devs and they often don't get the same kind of "flow / mental zone" of coding they can get by themselves.

Developers need alone time to do their own coding experiments and to follow their own noses

It 100% has to be done right and people need to be open to the idea, I went into other companies who were trying to do it and it was failing massively. There was animosity and a lack of openness to trying it. People really didn't understand why they should do it, and felt coerced and threatened by it all. Untangling those messes seemed ... unproductive :)

It's exhausting.

These days I don't see the need for full time pairing, I see it more as a tool that has certain outcomes, and you use that tool when you notice certain kinds of problems / weaknesses. I would think that teams should "pair" at some point, and by that I mean watch each other code and have interactive discussion about code as it gets developed.
Mostly integration with services that sales/marketing/design/engineering people use. I'm not familiar with Discord beyond destiny lfg, but can you have webhooks for Discord to alert for example, new github PRs/commits?
Healthcare Let Neanderthals 'Punch Above Their Weight'
We will wait until the very last minute to do anything significant, reacting rather than anticipating. Then, when the effects of climate change are completely undeniable, we will try work-arounds other than solving the underlying cause.

My thought is that we will eventually try to put a thin reflective material into space (or manufacture it in space in 20-40 years) to create some sort of semi-permanent sun-shield that reflects 2-5% of the sunlight we receive. It would have to be massive in area, but think of your car's sun visor on a hot day.

Putting particles into the atmosphere to do the same thing would also do the job but it could affect other things and cause more abnormal weather.

I don't see our use of fossil fuels or consumption of livestock slowing down. People make exceptions for themselves because they are the center and most important part of their own experience. "You can't get a man to understand something when his job depends on him not understanding it" - Upton Sinclair.

Also it's worth saying that Bill Gates should be able to do better than a tiny 1 billion (1/96th of his wealth) given the dire situation we are in. Actions taken earlier will have a larger impact toward mitigating climate change. 1 billion is like him tossing a penny at the problem. I'm sure Microsoft has contributed a large amount of CO2 to the atmosphere over time as well.
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The gold standard was worse - there's a reason why we abandoned it. And regardless, Bitcoin is fundamentally a lot less stable than the gold standard. Gold production can be managed. Countries hold vast reserves of gold to adjust the money supply when needed. It's harder to mange the supply of gold than paper money that isn't pegged on any commodity, but it's possible. It is subject to manipulation, though, and the French exchanging large amounts of dollars for the stated gold value prompted the US to abandon it.

Bitcoin is a whole different story. Unless there's a mechanism to easily change the amount of bitcoin in circulation, there's going to be perpetual deflation. The thing that a lot of gold standard and bitcoin proponents don't realize (not saying you're among these people) is that the total amount of wealth in the world isn't fixed. As countries industrialize, new more goods are produced, and services are available the global amount of wealth rises. Simply put, there's a growing amount of stuff in the world that can be bought and sold. The maximum number of bitcoins in circulation is fixed at 21 million BTC, so once that number is reached the cost of a bitcoin will (in theory) perpetually deflate.

TL;DR: A fixed supply of currency doesn't guarantee zero inflation. It guarantees negative inflation (AKA deflation) as the total pool of wealth rises. Deflation is widely considered to be worse than inflation, reasons for which we can discuss if so desired.
Non of those things are helpful for gaining strength or building muscle. Do a basic barbell program and eat 6000 calories every single day and I guarantee you that you will see results.
Even in the U.S. if your tips + tipped worker minimum wage fail to reach untipped worker minimum wage, your employer pays the difference (1).

1. https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/002.htm
I think the point with #797 is that the artists for each line are different, and thus there is compounding error. As it is, each line is identical to the last except for color.
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The tweet you referenced is talking about companies that actually applied to YC. Uber, for example, never applied to YC.
Fluid dynamics is hard and a simulation can only work with the inputs and parameters you set it up with.
If you find this interesting I highly recommend you to look at some vape-trick videos. Smoke/steam is great at visualizing vortices, and it's absolutely astonishing how much aerodynamically control some people can achieve.

Creating lots of small vortices in rapid succession, merging vortices, splitting vortices, letting vortices "suck in" other vortices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmv228G8R4o&time_continue=1m
> They can use them prior to typing, reading or even fully speaking.

Are you trying to say that this is a good thing? Do we expect our children to be able, say, to speak English?
I hope I never have to look at another line of MIDL.
The blog post is about the Titan M chip inside of the Pixel 3 phones.
He obviously likes the iPad more than the laptop. As a kid, I would tear the keys out of mechanical keyboards all the time out of curiosity and boredom, but that didn't break them.
I find that no one really bothers with the math anymore. If the bill is $11 most people will just put $1.50 or $2.00 rather than work out a fixed percent.
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Organs don't have inharmonic overtones, but organ tuning changes with air pressure/temperature/humidity, and organs are a big hassle to tune, so in practice organs rarely play at A=440Hz.
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A proprietary piece of hardware that connects to a proprietary, US-based cloud. This is the closest thing to garbage in the world of email.
> My hyper intelligent kid was able to direct himself to all kinds of educational content

Is this the same child that was convinced sleeping under a tree would be fatal?
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Depends on which stops are pulled on the organ. If it's just octaves (8', 4', 2', 16'...), then it will be quite pure, depending on what kind of stops are playing (flutes and principals are purer than reeds, for instance). If you add a mutation (2-2/3', 1-3/5', a mixture of multiple mutations...), then you'll have both the impurity of the mutations themselves, as well as their own overtones.

Or, you could have a string stop pulled, which is purposefully slightly out-of-tune to produce a "string" sound when paired with an in-tune stop.

A typical "pipe organ" sound on a digital keyboard will often have mixtures and other mutations. I've found that settings with names like "church organ" tend to be purer, perhaps only some flutes and principals.
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I'd bet Amazon is powering the facial recognition.
I forget what it was called, or even who had it (a social media site?, maybe Blogger?), but it was a service that slideshowed images that users were uploading. It was a good way to waste time. It was a site that seemed to have users that would post interesting images, and it was fun to see some of them. You could pause it, I believe.
or like the code equivalent of walking up to a locked door, shouting "let him in!" and being let in
The Light Phone 2 comes to mind: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/light-phone-2. It's not available yet, and I've heard some complaints that it has too many features. But, it aims to be a middle ground between a smart phone and a completely dumb phone.
I think this is pretty close to what Linus Torvalds does with his kids, but I might be mistaken.
I used to be able to pretend I had absolute pitch, back when I played in a college orchestra that rehearsed four days per week—I had that A (for tuning) memorized very well. Now that I'm over a decade removed from that, it's not quite as reliable as it used to be.
Absolutely. I'm a part of several servers that post to a channel whenever a github release is made, and some that post straight to Discord from the buildscript.