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What are you talking about? I don't know anyone in Los Angeles who believes this. I doubt very many people in NY or SF believe it either.
Newegg is fine as long as you never have to return anything you've purchased.

Which means it's not fine for Electronics. Their returns policy seems to be assuming that everyone attempting a return is malicious and trying to cheat them.
Exactly. When you buy into the "everything is luck, blah, blah" mentality then you have a built-in excuse to let yourself off the hook. You can be as lazy as you want, and when you fail, you can explain it away as "well, I wasn't lucky enough, aww shucks."

Whereas if you believe that you can build yourself up through effort and exertion, and believe that those things are the primary factors in your success, you have no excuses if you fail. You might still fail, but at least it won't be for lack of even bothering to give a sincere effort.

And I don't know about you guys, but I'm OK with failing if I fail for reasons that are totally outside of my control. What I'm not OK with, is failing because I didn't make a sincere effort within the scope of the things that I can control.
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> What I disagree with is the people that want to dismiss Gates success completely because his family had some money.

I don't know who you are talking to, but I've only heard his family's wealth discussed in the context of people discouraging young adults from attending or completing university, on the example of Gates. The point being that his family's wealth gave him exposure to technology and social networks that people of lesser means could only get through university.
I need a bunch of chargers for a sensor network (Right now using Wemos D1 Mini boards). Any advice on optimizing for price without compromising on safety? I don't trust the sellers that sell $2 chargers...
I don't think Shunting Yard and Pratt are equivalent in that way -- i.e. replacing procedure calls with an explicit stack.

When I wrote "Pratt Parsing and Precedence Climbing Are the Same Algorithm", multiple people replied and suggested that the Shunting Yard algorithm is also the same, with the equivalence you suggest.

In particular the author of the repo Jean-Marc Bourguet also thought that. Then he implemented it and realized it wasn't true.

See this section of the README:

https://github.com/bourguet/operator_precedence_parsing

I had the mistaken impression that they were "just" replacing an explicit stack with the call stack of the implementation language but that was not clear enough from Andy's code. It was not clear because that's not the case. Compare Pratt's algorithm with recursive_operator_precedence.py, which is a recursive implementation of operator precedence, to see the difference. Pratt and operator climbing are really top down techniques: they call semantic actions as soon as possible, they don't delay the call until the whole handle is seen as operator precedence does. My current characterization is that they are to LL parsing and recursive descent what operator precedence is to LR and shift-reduce

I think we had a discussion about an analogy LL vs. LR. Those are obviously not equivalent algorithms -- despite both being linear time, they recognize different languages.

I think in the Shunting Yard algorithm, when you parse 1 + 2 / 3, the 2 / 3 tree is made first. I guess that is somewhat true of Pratt parsing too for natural reasons of tree building. You build the tree when you bubble out of the recursion.

But it DECIDES that it has "led" for + before it decides it has "led" for /.

So in summary, Shunting Yard "decides" 2 / 3 first, where as Pratt parsing "decides" 1+... first. That's what I think anyway. I think you could probably make this rigorous, but I'm not sure.

I think of Pratt Parsing as LL(2) parsing for an operator grammar, although that's not technically correct because the precedence table is an extra piece of info outside the "grammar". You either lookahead 1 or 2 tokens, for null and led respectively.

So basically I think you could translate Pratt parsing to use an explicit stack -- but then you'd still be using Pratt parsing. The Shunting Yard algorithm is something else.
Exactly. The logic of this argument seems to be: luck is involved in being successful, therefore personal effort plays no role at all. It makes no sense.

I like your measure relative to what you were born into. Didn’t get enough to eat when you were a child and are now a millionaire. Self-made!

Born into a millionaire family and turned that into a billion? Self-made!

I’m personally thankful the tall poppy syndrome isn’t that common in the US. I’d hate an environment where success is looked down up. No, being rich isn’t everything, but if that’s what you want, I’m happy you found it.
My bad, it's Google Domains.
Why do you WANT to work more?

You are in the enviable position of being able to work for just 10 hours per week to support your quality of life. Perhaps you could pick a new hobby and dedicate your free time to becoming a master woodworker? Perhaps you could find a cause you care about and volunteer your free time to helping in some capacity? Perhaps you want to learn to paint or travel or meet new people or, hell, just sit in the park and feed the ducks.

Or if you really do want to do more income generating work, what do you want to work ON? Just saying "I should work more" isn't going to cut it.

> It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? - Henry David Thoreau
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the only thing cooler (in this age) than having millions of followers is not needing any followers.

If you care about and are trying to improve your number of followers, you clearly haven’t made it. If you’ve made it, you don’t need followers. You probably won’t even have a social media account at all.
clever design, but that video was awful. It came across as either ill-informed or misleading - and the beige - oh my, the beige.
This is off a bit, he's pretty technical, BS in Electrical Engineering and CS from Princeton. And his pre Amazon jobs were managing technical projects at D.E. Shaw and Bankers Trust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos
>Beyond the realms of the boring technicalities i should say. There are countless photographers creating technically excellent, beautifully composed, utterly mundane work.

This is the real definition of success in my opinion. A few years in, pleasing composition and technical prowess is not exactly hard anymore. To create something with meaning, or a real story behind it, that's the meat of photography. I'm at this point now, and I hate it. I'm creating beautiful photos of nothing. I think the author is seeing this too however. Social media encourages you to make frequent, beautiful compositions that fit your brand or style, and that often compromises the soul of your work. If you're thinking about how your photo will fit on your feed, then you're victim of this anti-creative pattern of thinking, if your intention is to create meaningful, personal work.
It's allowed to persist because they've self-medicated and conditioned to not care. It was started because of fear ... so I agree that Brave New World is absolutely a more appropriate context in which we can frame ourselves.
Wouldn’t the main worry be insider trading? If you advised a bunch of people to adopt AWS this quarter, and the revenue bump to Amazon is going to happen a few months later, then you could unfairly use non-public knowledge to invest in Amazon ahead of time.

I don’t see how McKinsey would not be an “access person” held to the same insider restrictions as their client company’s executives.

Either way this snippet from Bloomberg seems to completely miss the point.
That isn't creating it on your own.
Owning a category domain name is not a guarantee of success or market position. (ex. pets.com)

Think of all the companies with domain names that do not reference their product category. (ex. google.com, amazon.com, etc.). It's not like they needed search.com or shopping.com to be successful.
You’re right that there is a possibility of somewhat disastrous results, but in my experience it’s not the motor or high voltage electrical that goes out but a plastic part, an on-off switchbor or a sensor.

Yes be careful, you could get an electric shock photograph before you take things apart and read instructions before putting things back together.
I am actually curious if what AWS does, to show relatively clear numbers on the business, is a common practice.
Can I ask why you think you should be more hard working? Social norms?
... so ... soma?
Whenever I am buying something I care about I avoid Amazon. I am cancelling prime because of it.
You might be talking about purely aesthetic design. But I disagree, I've been to the place and it was a very functional and easy-to-understand building architecturally. But also beautiful and calming. Aesthetics are a very important and underrated aspect of architecture and I'm glad that money has been spent on this project. When the architecture is not only functional but also aesthetically pleasing, people tend to use it more. And what good comes from a library that nobody would want to go to?
Different states have different amounts of financial aid. I fortunately have a state school that is highly ranked in Comp. Sci.

My family didn't get much financial aid, but I managed to put mostly on a loan and pay it back afterwards. I do realize that having a family rich enough to disqualify from financial aid is the "advantage" this article is probably talking about...

But still, it wasn't like it was easy to take the SAT like 5 or 6 times through practice regiments. Memorizing word-lists from 3 different "SAT-word list books" to master analogies / reading sections was incredibly rigorous, it was the hardest studying I ever did in my life. By the end of the program, I memorized well over 20,000 "difficult words" over a period of 6-months to improve my SAT score (and promptly forgot about them after the test). Its not easy to do.

There were plenty of other people in my SAT Prep classes who were unable to score as high as me... and there were plenty of people I know who worked harder than I did and scored higher than I. So there is certainly something to be said about "self-driven effort".

But I fully recognize that my family's values and money helped me achieve what others couldn't. I also know of friends who were unable to afford multiple test-prep classes year after-year during high school... multiple years of "Kumon Math", and other such extracurricular after-school academic classes. Only now as an Adult do I realize how expensive all those after-school test prep classes are.

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There's give and take for sure. The opportunity is money-driven, but the achievement is still personal. All the money and test-prep classes in the world won't help if the child is disinterested or lazy.
Sure, but that's the same issue you have in a dynamic language anytime you use an if statement, or a switch statement.
Sorry for my skepticism, but even in old systems, wouldn't such a time would be too small to measure even by a program on the same computer? and I imagine that having a preemptive scheduler makes things even more complicated.

It's hard to imagine the attack you describe being viable.
Seeing something that I am dreading physically "looming" in the distance would poke my anxiety button pretty hard.
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Oh no problem, I'm just wondering whether many people think this is a negative and whether it'll be a problem down the line.
"The use of smaller populations result in lower accuracy of the solution, obtained for a smaller computational time."

Here's a different view:

"Small Populations over Many Generations can beat Large Populations over Few Generations in Genetic Programming"[1]

The results of AI research is often very problem-dependent, as there are so many variables that vary between problems, and many ways to tweak the algorithms themselves. They're also often not reproduceable. So I take their claims with a huge grain of salt.

[1] - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.42.7...
> The price starts off at an insane $11,500 per domain

It's only insane if no one wants to pay that much. I bet tons of companies are willing to pay that for premium .dev domains.
I was expecting more space for books when I visited Oodi for the first time as well, but I don't think the limited shelf space in this library isn't such a big issue because of the other libraries in the city. The Helsinki region libraries (http://www.helmet.fi/en-US/) all form a single network. You can reserve a book, and collect it at your most convenient branch.
> First of all, Bill Gates had a TON of opportunity and privilege funneled to him from his parents.

He absolutely did. And yet even conditional on that category, the probability of becoming a billionaire is extremely low. Therefore, according to the parent comment, that counts as self-made.

> You cannot POSSIBLY believe that there is no wealth disparity in the US? That there is not a disparity in opportunity between the wealthy and the middle class/poor?

You're not following the parent comment's argument, and as a result your response isn't targeted at their specific point. Their specific point is invariant to wealth mobility. Even if you give me an extremely extremely unequal society, their definition of self-made success persists: The ability to exceed the median expectation for your category.

If you're born dirt poor in a slum, and end up running a small laundromat, whereas most of your peers are still scavenging in the slum, you're self-made, because you beat your peers. If you're born as a privileged white kid to millionaires, but end up becoming a billionaire, you're self-made.

Having morally invariant definitions for words is useful, because it's nice to have terms to describe things, without having to stop using terms because they offend peoples moral sensibilities.

Your argument that self-made success literally doesn't exist in any facet, and all is deterministic, so we should never use that term or consider it a phenomena, strains credulity, and makes it hard to describe certain elements of reality.
Probably Google's version of Twitch?
The underlying assumption is presumably that if you're on the side with non-ambient vision gear, you're also the only side with the blinding lights.
Something tells me Tim Ferris works a lot more than 4 hours a week himself.
I admire your bravey in volunteering and investing your precious and finite time in researching million lines of code that was forgotten by the rest of the world that some of its mettle, perhaps was still enpowering the program we use day by day but underappreciated.

Also, I think it's definitely a touching story to review how us evolve and obsolete code and algorithms, it's like a genetic and natural selection and we can learn from it to not let history happen again.
As a manager at various companies in the US, it's often been a struggle to get people to take their allotted PTO. And to get people to take 2 weeks off? Very infrequently. I had to make people take their PTOs.

Our European team colleagues? Not so much.
It would be nice to have access to the raw performance data, all 30 days, all 1485 tests. This report is missing even the full list of regions tested. The rest of the data is heavily processed.

Surprised to see Azure having straightest routes and one of the lowest latencies - they always seemed to be an csp underdog to me.
It's extremely obvious that the author is a computer scientist
What if I told you it's possible to accept one's privilege while disputing the degree to which it has directly contributed to specific, positive life/professional outcomes?
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Rex Sinquefield comes to mind. Also Howard Schultz. Oprah Winfrey. Leonardo Del Vecchio.

Maybe Kenneth Langone, Sheldon Adelson, and John Paul DeJoria.
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> In contrast: CPUs have 1-core, with 2-way SMT. That's 2-threads per L1 cache.

Comparing GPUs and CPUs are tricky. What you want to compare is not the number of logical threads that can be independently scheduled [1], but the number of simultaneous FMA units you can access. If you have an AVX2 processor, that's 2 FMA units each processing 8 lanes of 32-bit values, or a total of 16 lanes per L1 cache. AVX-512 has 32 lanes due to the wider vectors.

[1] The independent scheduling of a GPU thread is also a bit of a lie. GPU threads are closer to maskable lanes of a wide vector, rather like the mask vectors of AVX-512.
Only if you for some reason attribute gravitas to it.

This is just yet another scattershot TLD. It's about as consequential as .ninja in the grand scheme of things.
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> If you immigrate from Africa with nothing, and you get yourself a law degree and an upper middle class income - that's self made success.

A student from Senegal who attended my alma mater now works in Wall Street. In an alumni issue, he described what it was like to go from his tiny village to the capital city in Senegal for an interview for a scholarship at a prestigious international school (where his grades got him another scholarship for college). He described hitching multiple rides just to get to the city, and needed to borrow heavily to pay for the flights once he was admitted.

He named many families and community leaders from his village that he says were instrumental in helping him on that first major step. Where he is today wouldn't have happened without the trust and support of fellow community members. They made sacrifices so he could achieve a dream and eventually repay them.

"Self-made" means different things to different people.
>Between the cost of daycare, health care/insurance, pet care, car payments and maintenance, student loan payments, and then a mortgage (even a cheap mortgage) on top of that, not to mention saving something for retirement, forget the 10x your salary by the time you retire or whatever, and once every 2-3 years go on a vacation at least to the next state over, I do sometimes wonder how households can make ends meet on less than $100k a year, and have no idea how a household can get by on the average $60k a year.

You list a bunch of optional things here as if they are some human right. Pet costs? Don't own a pet. Car payments? Do you think people struggling to make ends meet should be spending $250+ / month on a car? Buy a 20 year old Civic. Mortgage? Families making a combined $60k rent. Student loans? Why are they making so little with their degree? Poor choice? I doubt most families making $60k are paying off student loans.

>Not to mention get married (wedding costs are insane, going through that right now) or other life events.

Well that's just dumb. Families making $60k don't (shouldn't) kick things off with a lavish wedding.

>We make more than that, have no children, and we're still shuffling money around to make it all work.

I admit that I'm assuming a lot here, but if you two can't make things work on a six figure income I don't know, sounds like you're throwing away a lot of money on luxuries.

To me you come off as if you assume all of these luxuries are how everyone does/should live, and that's simply not the case.
That statistical model holds if you assume that the pool Bill Gate's was in generally had the same properties, and his ambition of talent was non-extraordinary.
Was it full streaming? Or did you have to download something to your own computer? Having to download only part of the game to stream it would be a bit better than the way things are now, but not much. I guess I'd have to try it to tell?

If it was full streaming, just go to the webpage and start playing, that would be cool. (Though, I suspect, a full streaming system would make playing multiplayer games nearly intolerable from a latency perspective.)
I've just started my first job with unlimited PTO, and I've never understood complaints like these. I can see how it isn't as amazing as a naive what's-on-the-tin reading would imply, but it seems to me that you can just set your bar at what a normal amount of vacation would be, plus a little bit if you feel like, since they're marketing it as "unlimited PTO". Eg, decide that three weeks is an appropriate, comparable amount, and then take three weeks off.

As I mentioned upthread, I've never had a job where I didn't work when and how much I wanted, go into the office when I felt like it, etc etc. I'm subject to the same pressures you describe, but it turns out they're really easy to handle: keep a rough eye on how many hours you're working.

The other day they had a rare beer release I wanted to go to in the middle of the day, on a Friday. I didn't have any meetings, so I "WFH" and worked 3-4 hours that day and spent the rest of the day drinking and getting dinner with a couple funemployed friends, including checking my email and responding to important ones for a few minutes every couple hours during the workday. I could've (and have in the past) written off those four lost hours of work as coming out of my effective productivity, but since this is a new job and I'm trying to hit the ground running, I just made it up in dribbles of an hour or two over the next week.

The dirty secret when people talk about being pressured at work is that 90% of the time, your employers are relying on you to do the work of pressuring yourself. If my employer wants me to work extra and go above and beyond, I make sure that it's explicit and metaphorically "on the record". Pulling all-nighters during crunch time or forgoing vacation for a long time should be banked as something you can draw on, giving you cover for taking a longer vacation or working shorter days after crunch time.

It's really up to you to set your work life balance, and the fears most people have about the consequences of doing so are largely (but not entirely) illusory.

The one major caveat here that I haven't ever had to face is if you're both at an abusive company and highly replaceable (eg feel like you couldn't get a similar quality job). In this case of effectively having a better job than you'd otherwise get, the power dynamic is markedly shifted and employers can get away with a lot. The only saving grace in this situation is if your more in-demand coworkers have healthy attitudes about work/life balance, since it's hard for management to crack down on individuals in a way that's perceived as unfair.
The social proof on IG being what several applicants stated as what drew them to the company is unfortunate. Now even more companies will feel the need to project zany and fun.

I'm just getting too old for this.
It is not like this. It is as if I come and stick some signs to your lawn, and you would not seem to object. But then NYTimes comes and tries to coerce you to remove my signs, because THEY do not like them.
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Doesn't it say "PREMIUM"? Here I'm seeing 12€/year: https://domains.google.com/m/registrar/search?searchTerm=ran...
Marriage-related crap is charged to credit cards and/or is subsidized through financial gifts by friends and family after the wedding.

Down payments are neither, unless your parents/inlaws are feeling generous.

The average savings account balance in this country is far less than 45k. You are completely out of touch if you think the average family can simply pull that out of their asses.
This looks super interesting. You can probably learn a lot if you pair this with a 3D printer, especially in the education industry. To be honest, I want one for myself! I'm surprised that they are willing to give Kickstarter a 20% cut when they could of done a preorder system since they are a reputable brand to begin with.