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Or, track the loan payback percentage for each degree, let’s say 5 years after graduation. Publish those results, and stop making loans for programs where the repayment is less than X%. Then, basket weaving degrees won’t get loans, the cost for basket weaving programs will go down, as only those with parent’s stupid money will pay for basket weaving degrees. Students will be directed by market forces to degrees that actually pay, and repayment percentages will go up.
Apple would do themselves a lot of favors by embracing the fact that most technologists don't live in SV.

My proposal:

- Spend 10X this amount (25 Billion) making a slack competitor.

- Dog food it in house.

- Launch when you have solved the problem sufficiently.

- Make a profit and help solve many local housing problems globally.
This is interesting, but won't you lose out on a lot of the benefits of using ROS in the first place? None of the tooling (command line tools and roslaunch stuff) that expects nodes will work.
There's plenty of infrastructure where I am in a suburb of St Louis. We could also use some liberal SV people to help tip the politics the right way in my county. We have a few clients here too, they are not all on the coasts. Many mid-market companies have left California because their margins can't sustain the cost of operations.
"Yes, the student loan bubble and the first housing bubble and the two stock market bubbles of the past 30 years weren't enough, let's intentionally create another housing bubble."
I don't see how the fact that the process of becoming a bank is strictly regulated means that it's corrupt?
You have to be pretty far up in order to meet that bar, not many do.

People (including myself) overvalue the dollar amount and undervalue the various increased costs. If I had never come to the bay area, I would be earning half as much, but I would be saving more, I would be living in better housing in a better neighborhood, and I would have less pressure. By all metrics but a W-2 I would be wealthier. At some point it's entirely possible that I will reach that threshold where the bay area income will blow everything else out of the water, but that's a gamble and ultimately probably not "worth it" when I consider what I want in life.
If they're uncertain of your middle name for instance, uploading your ID just confirms that they had it right or wrong.
Why are so many people over 55 going bankrupt?
That seems more related to a lacking devops approach than to plpython capabilities.

pg coupled with Nix[1] could potentially solve all of these issues. nixpkgs includes a large collection of python libs that you can use to get reproducible environments.

[1]: https://nixos.org/nix/
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I was once asked to sort a singly linked list in an interview, and the bubble sort was the only one I could think of at the time. This was a small part of a larger coding test that I think was based on a problem they actually ran into, which a previous employee had solved badly. I got a low-ball offer and turned it down. It wasn't until a couple of years later that I thought about that problem again and realized a merge sort would have been perfect.
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Seize the means of production comrade!!!
I assume they are still an important player in the embedded x86 niche. When I worked on the Brazilian voting machines, we were using Via CPUS.
> This was fought at first until it became apparent that substitute refrigerants could be produced.

You mean that once costs become reasonable people moved fast and in concert to resolve the problem?
The team behind Todoist came out with a product called Twist, meant for more async and productivity focused approach and directly going against Slack distractions. I wonder if there are companies who have tried it in a bit bigger scale or why isn't Twist more known?
Conservation of parts that have a curve.
G-what?: An introduction to the genome-wide association study (GWAS)
Any word on a Linux release?
The same people doing nothing to fix the supply problem are pushing small blocks of 'affordable housing' as the only solution, while simultaneously blaming the job/wealth creators for giving people enough money to buy houses.

The addition of loans by Apple also seems odd to me. We've seen repeatedly that gov backed 'affordable housing' is not a sufficient solution to supply problems. It's just going to further create a two-tier market, with the lucky few getting 'affordable' houses and everyone else stuck paying millions for tiny houses using gov/company incentivized loans.

Not to mention this continues the trend of incentivizing and redirecting increasing amounts of middle class capital into low-value housing instead of into job creation and other net-gain investments.
Slide Rules Are Still Amazing
I switched to Brave, as it is also degoogled, but unlike Chromium has automatic updates.
Sure. But I said the basket weaving liberal art student. The 100k grad student can be everything from a CS major to a soon-to-be-tenured ivy league history professor. These are not the same people, and it's not what I said.
Eh, don’t fret too much, you’ll be a boomer soon...
A magma is a set with one binary operation. There can be any number of operations in an algebra, with any arity. For example, one of the simplest algebras has one unary operation. You can specify additional structure of an algebra beyond just the operations using axioms. Universal algebra is where I first learned this idea.
And the first party in the situation is being referred to as the third party.
The only way to fix California's many ailments is to vote and vote out the ideology that has had a firm grip on this State and it's cities for decades. The proof, as they say, is in the pudding. They can do anything they want. Pass any law they wish. And things are getting worse, not better.

It's as simple as that. Keep voting these people into office from the local to the State level and you will not solve any problems, you'll create more and more.

I know so many people, both families and business owners who are planning to leave California. It isn't easy, you can't uproot your life and business just like that. One company where a friend works moved the entire operation to Arizona. Large company. They service multi-million dollar contracts and support hundreds of families with the jobs they create. They had enough and moved camp. Everyone I know from that one company could not be happier with the move. This is not an isolated example.

If Californians truly understood the financial state of this State, the abject failure of the government they have supported for so long, they would be horrified.

I have done lots of construction in CA, and so have friends and family. It's a nightmare, even for the simplest things.

Want to improve housing and the overall economic environment here? Stop voting for the same ideologies that have created and maintained the problems in the first place.
> Only two nuclear weapons have been deployed ever.

… intentionally; if you want to feel a stark sense of wonder that we ever survived the height of the nuclear-weapons age, you could do worse than to read Schlosser's "Command and Control" (https://www.amazon.com/Command-Control-Damascus-Accident-Ill...).
According to US News, University of Chicago is "Unranked in Best Engineering Schools". https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-engineering...

The high school student needs to ask the question, "where is the best place to get a undergraduate degree in a specific field"? Generic rankings, especially ones that are heavily influenced by the university's research record, are pretty useless for undergraduate education quality.
I didn't advocate shooting down drones. It should not be done under normal circumstances due to the falling debris hazard. But of all the ways to shoot down a drone (assuming it were necessary to protect public safety), using a shotgun is probably the safest, and I agree this should be done by police. Unless perhaps you're a firefighter trying to dump a helicopter full of water on a fire, and then I think most reasonable people would make an exception there too.
That's not a very good example. Athletes are being watched for 4-8 years before they are ever drafted. Colleges are watching all the high school games, and Pros are watching all the college games.
Elements of Mind Mapping Everyone Should Know
No it is not. Their Chromium got stale about a month and a half ago.

I had to switch to Brave because of that.
There's a lot of assumptions baked into archaeology, inherited from the early days when gentlemen scientists wandered around digging things up randomly and pronouncing on them. We get Vikings in horned helmets from the same phenomenon.

One of the assumptions is that life was "nasty, brutish, and short". The other, that early societies were very hierarchical and had a huge difference in living standards. There's not much evidence to support either, but that has been the baseline assumption for decades, because it reflected the beliefs of the Victorians.

Modern archaeology has to publish papers with evidence to counter these baseline assumptions. So having a paper that says that most people were able to afford to drink wine is good, because it counters a baseline assumption (based on no evidence) that only rich people could afford imported wine.
16k on 200k isn't a marginal rate calculation.

Top federal rate is 37%, top state rate is 13.3%. Total top marginal rate is 50.3%.
The article is about TikTok, so my comment was focused on its first appearance there that I noticed.
Eighth Grader Makes a Car's A-Pillars Invisible, Using Standard Technology
Looks like they'll be going for a 64-bit kernel, which is great!

I also hope KVM support is compiled in. Looks like someone else on the post is after the same.
I think it's just the simplest sort to describe/implement on a whiteboard.
Ok, I’ll bite back. Yes, “StringUtils.isEmpty” is materially worse, in every way. It’s not really any more readable: the first time you see it, you ought to check to make sure that is just checking to see if the pointer is non-null and the string is 0-length to make sure that it’s not doing something else, like trimming whitespace, which you may not want. You’re adding a few hundred kilobytes of dependency plus an extra unnecessary function call, just to make it less clear what your program is doing. If you use static imports, it’s even less readable because it’s not at all clear where this mystery function came from: I hope you’re lucky enough to be able to import this code into an IDE and click-through the function to see what it is and what it does. Maybe if it was just this one function it wouldn’t be so bad, but this bit of pointlessness ends up scattered everywhere.
Figuring out which employees are bad enough that they should be let go is quite costly, as is the resulting churn. You'd rather not hire those people in the first place, but once you've hired them you may be stuck with them for quite a while. So it can be a legitimate concern.
The logic of bubble sort is so simple that just the description is enough for an implementation. It's a common interview question for the same reason Fizzbuzz is used -- any programmer worth their salt should be able to just write it down.

Insertion and selection sort are also O(N^2), but sorts like merge and quick will use them to sort small sublists in their recursive cases because they are fast when input is small enough.
I don't know of specific companies, was just trying to point you in the right direction. ️
With the insane property taxes the left wants to levy on personal dwellings, you never really own anything anyway. It's not a problem with just the elites - it's a problem with the leftists pretending to be on the side of the worker but then implementing 2% to 4% yearly property tax bills. See: Illinois.
For almost any sport this is a spectacularly bad metric. Just because it can be measured doesn’t make it meaningful. FWIW, the “fitness” required for sportspersons is a very sport-dependent diffuse constellation of factors.
Oops, guess some parents are going to have a bad time. Their problem, not mine. Parks are for everyone to enjoy. Bigotry in action, and a slew of apologists. Sad.
They should also include health insurance, which they don't in the US, and costs about $10K/yr (with high variance for family size and benefits package), or another 2-4 % on rayiner's example (again, high variance due to # of wage earners).
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Love reading stories like this about what it's like in the early days of a new business. Those early decisions about what to do when you're struggling to get traction are so critical, but no one talks about them. Thanks for writing this.
Bay area tax rates are about the same as living in Toronto, minus the public health insurance. I'm also skeptical a lack of tax money is the root problem here...
We're not discussing some mathematical formula.

The whole thread is about the political perceptions and opinions of whether such an article should be printed, based on perspectives on various societal issues, plus some meta-discussion on how journals should work.

Check out the (at the moment at least) top voted comment: "In case anyone remembers the incident at CERN (...)" etc.

And of course that meta discussion is much more useful than wether this individual article is correct or not.
Another interpretation of that catchphrase is that once it's written, it can't be unwritten, and that's true with laws, or at least they've very difficult to change once on the books.

We need to understand the full scope of the problem, rather than try to fix what isn't fully grasped, and honestly I have very little faith in the US government to accurately grasp the subtleties and nuances of the advertising and privacy problems.
The Hotspot JIT reads the CPU configuration at runtime to choose which optimizations are best or which instruction extensions are available.
If anyone else was wondering, IC seems to mean Independent Contractor.
I don't think people believe that, even if it might be true. I've long thought a "density will make your land more valuable" advertising campaign would be interesting education which might sway some avaricious minds.
I cannot see in the article that organophosphates were used around Lake Shinji before the introduction of neonicotinoids.

I certainly can’t see in the article that more fish died before the introduction of neonicotinoids.
>This is one of the reasons why systemd is preferred in large deployments and professional environments.

If I may take umbrage to one quote; Netflix uses FreeBSD for it's streaming platform.

"...systemd is preferred where it's preferred."
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> Functor isn’t the only algebraic structure either.

I actually wouldn't call it an algebraic structure at all. A functor really isn't just a set with some finitary operations. A quick search online [1] tells me I'm not alone.

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-functor-considered-to-be-an-alg...
Did you try asking about comp before interviewing though? I usually do and most of the time you get a reasonable answer. Probably depends on how easy it would be for them to estimate your own comp though
Market corrections are about supply and demand being balanced.

There is nothing emotional about suggesting that people choose to live and work in places they can afford to.

The solution to the Bay Area housing crisis is for employers to establish operations in places where housing is cheaper - not for housing to be confiscated from earlier purchasers through confiscatory taxation.
Not everyone thinks of the same thing when they think startup. I think the main difference is that some people also include starting a lifestyle business, or a business that's much less ambitious in scope than being a globally known name. There's nothing wrong with a business that employs less than 20 people, and nothing that necessarily means it has to grow.
Be good student perhaps? You'd rather have a bunch of money loaded people than people who earned their spot?
okay, now googling for self-proclaimed propaganda firms.
Hours worked matters in software when the project is so mismanaged that there are regular emergency situations. Someone “has to” be around for those events.

There are too many places that function like a firehouse and hours in seat matter at those places.
Your own startup will probably be 12hr/7day until it's funded or otherwise self-sufficient.

It could be 9hr/4day, and you will do that until you run out of capital after 1800 work hours.
Tyler Cowen, big business booster extraordinaire, is concern trolling.

He calls this type of writing “Straussian” — It’s not meant to be taken literally, it’s a kind of intentional obfuscation.

Is this political message allowed? If someone posted a pro-Warren piece it would be flagged and removed.
I find it depressingly hilarious that there's an ad half-way down that says this:

> Don’t miss: The super rich elite have more money than they know what to do with

Hrmmmm... Maybe, just maybe, wealth distribution has something to do with this?
"People are generally more optimistic about their futures and irrationally excited about what they consume."

I don't think that's quite it. People get comfort from following a plan. Go to college, take a bunch of loans, and it will all work out.

They think if it doesn't, someone will bail them out because they followed the plan. Everyone else is in the same boat anyway, and maybe one of them will find a solution, or they can band together and demand something from someone else.

That doesn't line up with reality though. A lot of people do get left behind. The people with the "plan" are nowhere to be found, and were just repeating what worked for them without looking at the new numbers.
I had an interview question a few weeks ago (writing a JSON parser from scratch) that required me to remember that in python that a for loop allows you to iterate through not just a list but also each of the characters in a string. I forgot about that and spent several minutes wasting time trying to think of a regex-based solution before I remembered that was an option.

Why should an interview question reward you/require you to remember this? If I actually had to solve a real-world problem similar to this, I would google it, see a solution that iterated through the characters with a for loop and go “oh yeah, I forgot you could do that. Duh.” Why am I not allowed to google dumb things? On most days, my brain is focused on high-level abstractions that tie together two or more tools via disparate APIs, why the hell should I remember or think about for loops?
We American citizens who are EU residents need to get our act together and balance out the disadvantages that come with having a foot on each side of The Pond.

Despite being a permanent resident of Germany, I still apparently look like a regular US resident to all the sketchy outfits that send out crappy credit offers - there has to be something useful for humanity that I can do with that.
The extreme physics pushing Moore's law to the next level
I completely disagree.

While I do not believe we have hit peak oil yet, I do not believe we are far off nor will oil and gas demand continue to grow for "a long time".

- The personal transportation industry will go through the biggest change it ever has in the next decade. Bigger than horse + buggy -> automobiles. An electric car will be cheaper to operate and maintain. Production of EVs will proliferate even countries like China (already happening), India (already happening), and others. Autonomous ride networks, especially in dense urban areas, will also take a massive market share. The need for individuals to own vehicles will decrease in urban and even suburban environments. Couple that with almost any good or service you need being delivered to your door "instantly", the vehicle is no longer needed. The rise of remote working will also contribute to this. Yes, some people like their SUVs/Trucks, but that will pail in comparison to the reduction elsewhere.

- Air travel will grow, assuming economic stability of course. Towards the end of the decade, we will also have short length, all electric aircraft operating. That will shore up the growth of air travel in regards to the demand for more oil.

- Natural Gas growth long term... no way. Not happening. Within this decade, we will see the price of solar and batteries drop to levels never before imagined. Production and efficiency will also greatly increase. We have only just begun. You will have distributed "grids", where many more people are generating their own power, and borrowing from their neighbor when necessary. BRIC countries will also be leading on adopting these types of grids as well, especially in areas where the grid is not stable/doesn't even exist. See Puerto Rico. They have only just begun.

- Yes, the quality of life across the world is getting better. That means the demand for alternative energy and the Capability to pay for the infrastructure is ALSO increasing. This will move the growth needle forward for renewable energy. This will be your peak oil. Your peak oil will be in the past once you see entire areas of housing in BRIC countries running on Solar/batteries. Goodbye. Oil.

Also, I think humanity will do the right thing as a whole. Governments will STOP subsidizing oil like they do today. It will become much more expensive. Peak oil will be in the past at this point as well.

So go on, go invest in your oil companies and throw your arms in the air saying "yes, but it's not my problem, I'm just making money". War profiteers say the same thing. They never come out on the right side of the history book. Neither will you. Oil and Gas will NOT have growth for a long time.
Nvidia and AMD both make discrete mobile GPUs, and those are the only two options for offering better GPU performance on an Intel laptop when Intel's own GPU is inadequate. Nvidia's GPUs have for years generally had a substantial power efficiency over AMD's.