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> For undergraduate Berkeley has a 16% acceptance rate and Harvard has a 4% acceptance rate.

Berkeley EECS is sub-7%.
Since we are all sharing our bad stories:

I develop on an application which does, next to other things, send out push notifications to apps via Firebase on a schedule. I was implementing a limiter for these notifications (so you can only send ~4 in a 24h window) and tested them on a local instance by generating a lot of messages. As I wanted to create a few quickly, I didn't change the date from the default, now.

The actual limit was configurable, so I went and changed the config and realized I used the wrong file all along. So I switched the file, without realizing that the other file also had the actual live credentials configured (it was used for testing while developing this feature not long ago). I only realized the mistake when I had a lot of log messages along the lines of "sending push notification" at startup.

Luckily for me, we had thought of rotating the secret, so no notification got through. But I had a fun five minutes while searching my phone in panic to find out how bad it really was.

Hope the poor guy working at HBO reads these stories later to brighten his day a bit :)
I watched the video and saw how most of the suggestions are things that should be part of a "middleware" or a "validator" before getting to a controller. I think the closest C# gets to "macros" are the auto wired stuff (or whatever they are called) above functions/class definitions. A macro would make more sense but C# is more or less Java in how it wants to do things.

However, aside from what the video showed it does look like something that I would be impressed by on more novel logic programming areas (things like recursion, param names, dependency injections, etc.).
YES! HELP!
There are a lot of systems now that don't use oracles. Prices are maintained by people arbitraging any significant difference.
Q: Is the CDN cache consistent? i.e if I delete or change an object, does it immediately reflect across all the POPs across the globe?

If so what are the potential read/write/latency speeds we can expect per object?
fuck fuck fuck can anyone tell me how to undo an email with C++? Shiiiit, I'm so fired.
I don't have a direct TV account nor have I ever used any kind of a TV cable service. I also don't use AT&T so I'm not sure. Because I also got the email.
I don't know about changing key bindings, but you can use Cmd/Ctrl + number on Mac and Windows, yes.
Fantastic. I'm betting a large group of people would much more likely watch/read this than a typical technical paper, and still gain 60% of the knowledge.

I have to say, i was looking for a slide on how the otters cleverly know what messages they've already read, and that was unfortunate, but kudos!
Tables in Confluence are surprisingly good. It just works the way you expect. https://bit.ly/3xtwqXR
Because then the candidate will be upset when you lowball them because they're not as strong or experienced as your range max merits.
I found this to be true for languages that use the same alphabet, but found I could understand spoken languages with different alphabets much faster than I could read them, especially when the direction of reading was different.
IFSTile – Iterated function systems in the browser via WASM
> Banks have been inundated with cash resulting from federal government transfers (stimmy checks, paycheck protection program giveaways, etc.).

Oh man, you left out one of the weirdest ones going on right now! Because of the insanity of the housing market, there are tons of people who close on the house they’re selling a week or more before they close on the house they’re buying and are parking half a million or more in a bank account for a very short duration!

I’ve been in two hotels long-term this spring and both have been filled with people in this situation. They can’t be the only two hotels in the country with people doing this…
I've always felt that there should be a cloud hosted object database that should be query-able via graphql. It should offer auth and access rules like firebase.

Really don't want to maintain a server. I love firebase for that reason, although querying it is a pain sometimes. Would love to make graphql queries so I can fetch multiple things in a single call.
For prices you can use Uniswap's oracle which is time weighted average price and can't be manipulated unless you buy a ton of the token over the entire time period. In this case it was using a Sushi swap oracle (uniswap clone that's on matic) with very liquid pools so it was accurate, just lagged a bit when titan was dropping rapidly.
I also just received this email - had to chuckle, someone just had a reallllll bad day.
It wasn't all for naught, but success is not going to completely fill the hole inside. Lesson? It's simple, don't work all the time and neglect your family. I cringe everytime I hear Musk talking about working 100 hours a week. He has kids by previous marriages afaik, but it sounds to me like he's not much more than a sperm donor. He's a terrible role model for fathers. I worked probably 70 to 80 hours a week for 9 years. My son has a lot of complaints about me not being there and he's right. The only thing I can say to him is that I'm here now.
The other side I heard from someone who worked at Amazon:

The SMEs read critically and take the full time. The PMs skim it and start pitching whatever idea comes first to mind.
The cowling also provides containment of parts that happen to go ballistic.
First Look at the Reinkstone R1 10.1 inch color e-note
I thought this king had been replaced by the WHATWG?
Nice. I started an ISP in 1993. I was not a network engineer. I was an automotive engineer. It was the most intense learning curve I have ever been on. Back then you could find lots of people willing to help out who knew everything about networking. I went on later to dabble in ecommerce by publishing the ISP Business Plan. A word template and spreadsheet to get you started. Dozens of ISPs around the world used it when they started up. This site feels like the extension of that. Still a good business to get into if you don't mind being stressed by the weather. :-)
nah, people won't remember it in a year.
I got the email on 3 emails. I need to deactivate the one didn't even know I still had it on my phone until the email popped up.
> You're talking about multi-level marketing. Which isn't quite a pyramid scheme

Aunt Meg, is that you? I told you to stop it with the essential oils already.
How would that be controlled-for when there are shifts in unskilled and semi-skilled work around the globe, automation, local demographics changes, aging population, increasing densities of people (tending towards depression which also reduces aggression (T)), and massive income inequality increasing the economic stresses on the average person (that alone would kill T in all genders)?

> Can it be affecting the contributions of 50% of the population?

How would this be measured without a duplicate control Earth? Hypothetically: if everyone in sadder areas had as much food and money as they needed to be comfortable, I guarantee T levels would be much higher in men and women, there would be a lot more sex, a lot more happier people, and a lot more babies in 9 months.

> And what would we actually do if we did realize this?

The average person would probably do what they always do: shrug and do nothing. The plutocrats would only care if their top employees weren't performing optimally and would throw more money and/or better conditions at them.
> In Rust, if you're actually doing any compute work, you're stalling out the async system. In Go, if you compute for a while, the scheduler will let someone else run. You can get all the CPUs working. This is well matched to writing web back ends.

This is not a choice in Rust but instead a choice that is handled differently in the async runtimes, which are libraries. If I'm not mistaken, async-std (an async runtime in Rust) adds automatic yields similarly to how Go does.
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Seems to me that you would waste a lot of your personal time this way. They know enough about me before I even step in the door and I want some idea of whether the money can work. I ask for more than might be typical and I haven’t time to waste on companies that just want to show me what a great place they are to be at.
Article mentions my preferred take: stating my intention to help keep me honest on what I am trying to achieve.

Also: they function like an anchor tag. If you are spelunking a new code base for a specific functional area, a search in plain English would let you jump to the right spot more quickly.
This is something you can quickly see with Git. If the comment lines are older than the code lines you can at least start with the assumption that the comment might be outdated.

That’s more useful than dealing with stale documentation which can also be outdated. At least with code comments you have contextual proximity.
Google maps on Android lets me do something like this. It will occasionally prompt me to update the map with new data.
You're right. Sloppy thinking. I had something in my head about what might be causing the tendency for stronger gains toward the top end of capitalization-weighted indices.
While that is true, it isn't a problem inherently with comments.
You can save entire state sized regions offline for typically less than a gig on Google Maps.
An ex-Amazon PM ‘promoted’ the silent reading culture in my previous company. Definitely brought a lot of benefits:

- forced more senior / leadership members to read through and internalize the details. Reduces wasted time asking already answered questions.

- we used google docs. Question and answers were posted as comments. This formed a log of the majority of the discussion. Less note taking needed.

- allowed less assertive members to ask questions or give answers.

The only drawback - the overwhelming silence at the start that I never really got over…
I imagine you will use this in more than one place in the code. Why does it need a comment? Naming the function should be enough for most of it. Other languages probably aren't better at specifying the "in meters" part either, are they?
You have a good point there.
The W3C usually adds new specs years after major browser vendors implement them. A browser being created after that time would be expected to be compliant with W3C specs.
Similarly, the modern medical view of addiction is basically something like, "continued use in the face of adverse consequences." Laypeople really hate this definition, preferring to think of addiction as primarily a physio-chemical phenomenon, but the American Psychiatric Association has to say:

"Substance use disorder (SUD) is complex a condition in which there is uncontrolled use of a substance despite harmful consequence."

Source: https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-families/addiction/what-...

Most organizations that deal with addiction now operate using a similar definition.
AT&T strikes again
The Chinese regime moves to snuff out a pro-democracy newspaper
That means I've never bribed a cop, then. :)
Here is what happened on my journey so far - will try to keep it short but it might help somebody else in the same boat.

I wasn't enjoying my job (as an employee) - the biggest problem I had was a nagging feeling that the people in the industry I was working in were setting an agenda that farmers would simply never be able to follow.

I was actually suffering from depression but I didn't know it at the time. I had a huge argument with my boss and quit. I had been working on the product for a little while but didn't really have anything concrete.

Within a couple of months of resigning I had an MVP and a co-founder. We managed to get a little VC funding and went on the startup adventure.

Turned out the co-founder was a complete fraud. He was supposed to be my hardware guy (I was software) but he didn't know anything about hardware that I didn't already know. He couldn't even read a circuit diagram. I was kind of stuck at that stage, we were overseas developing the product and I thought rather stupidly I could get him to fit in doing something else.

He was useless at everything. Couldn't write a program to save his life, didn't understand the product designers, couldn't help with anything. I eventually had to sideline him into doing things like grant applications and whatnot which he did manage to finish although it took a few arguments every time to get him to finish anything.

I set a pretty punishing schedule for the field trials. It was a whirlwind really, lots of travel, got everything working despite having to drag that useless turd all over the place. A couple of years ago he quit and became a massive PITA while we tried to get the legal stuff sorted out to cancel his unvested shares - another long story of his stupidity and various own goals.

Anyway, shortly after he quit we did have customers and revenue and it looked like it had some momentum but I contracted a little illness over that Christmas and found myself unable to get out of bed and was at divorce level with my long suffering wife. It was bad. I had contemplated steering the car over a few ravines. That undiagnosed depression took a massive hold on me.

I went to the doctor who was instantly understanding of the utter despair I was in at the time. He referred me to a psychologist who set me on a path of recovery. It isn't always easy and that mood occasionally re-appears (especially after you get knocked back by another investor) but I feel like I have the tools and the understanding to keep it more or less in check.

The funny thing about that period of depression was that it was the most focused and creative period of my 50 year life. I wrote some really excellent code, built an entire system from firmware up to server software and it worked the very first time we tried it on animals. The first time. An incredible achievement that I am not sure I would have been able to complete without the focus and creativity that the depression was a part of. So I'm kind of ambivalent about episodes of depression being entirely destructive, they weren't for me.
A recruiter once told me, if you see 30 applicants for a high level tech job on LinkedIn, not to worry about competition, because ~27 of them were likely to be unqualified trying-their-luck applicants, mostly from other countries where the company was not going to hire, and mostly with no relevant skills or experience.

They told me the actual number of qualified candidates was usually just a handful or less.

I doubt this is true in SV, but I don't live in SV.
What kinds of feedback have come up about this for people with reading challenges like dyslexia?

The closest comparison I have to this is reading in school where it became very obvious who the fast, skilled readers were and who had to work harder to understand the text, which caused a lot of anxiety for the slower readers (which didn't help).

I can imagine a wide variety of possible outcomes for this, from accommodations being made to people just being a lot more mature as adults, but I'm also guessing there has been some trial and error about this at Amazon and some best practices have emerged.

Does anyone here know what they are?
Some mixes are very off, but I’ve loved most of them so far.

In fact I hope that more artists start recording and mastering for this from the start going forward.

That said, as a layman non-audiophile who doesn’t know the technical engineering details, I can’t help but wonder if the biggest win for me is an apparent lack of compression.

I don’t mean “bitrate and file size” compression, but rather the “take the soft stuff and loud stuff and cram them together” compression.

The thing I’ve hated about music from around 2010 onwards is just how much all the instruments and vocals blend together, especially in rock and pop music where all of the drums become as “snappy” as the snare and none of the instruments sound distinct. Everything sounds crisp, to the point that nothing sounds crisp.

At times, and with some albums, it actually becomes exhausting to listen to.

I noticed immediately with Apple’s Atmos mixes I have to crank the volume up a couple extra notches, but when I do I hear everything more distinctly, much like many of the albums from the 70s, 80s and 90s before everything had to be compressed and made louder.

But, like I said, I don’t know what I’m talking about or if there’s anything to this, but I’m so far getting more out of the average Atmos mix than I am of the average stereo mix.

Then the question becomes, if the artist intended for everything to sound one way but I enjoy it more the other way, who’s right?
For the same reason a jug of water poured on a lit match doesn’t vaporise: the thermal mass of the lead is enough to absorb the heat produced by the fusion.

It takes about one second for 1 megawatt to boil three litres of water.

The pulsed fusion system will produce a huge peak power output but only for an extremely short time. They design the system so that the total heat output is absorbed by the lead mass. The other constraint is the lead needs to be thick enough to absorb the vast majority of the radioactive particles before they reach the machine.
The bigger problem I see is that they’re clearly using production data on test systems (or using the production system for testing), including PII. This is a pretty big no-no and violates many security standards. I don’t blame the tester per se, but I do blame HBO for not having a process in place that prevents this kind of thing from happening.
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I got three… to the same email address.
>The phased array wisp thing has been tried before and failed.

Examples? I don't know of any phased array PtP/PtMP system, at all, in anything like the form factor and pricing of Starlink or something like Ubiquiti's airMAX/airFiber/LTU series operating in the 5, 11, or 24GHz class spectrums. In fact your whole comment makes zero freaking sense, what do you mean "phased array wisp thing"? I don't see how it'd fundamentally be any different then all the very successful WISPs I'm familiar with, or for that matter the LR-LAN stuff that I've done myself. The advantage would be in that one of the trickier bits at longer ranges is getting alignment just right, labor or kit correcting for shifts, and tradeoffs in allocating regulatory max transmission power budget across end points. Skilled personnel can of course learn the alignment part reasonably and an important differentiator for a long time amongst different kit was the kind of tools it had to help with alignment. But it's not nothing and it can take a while, and then there is the rest.

A phased array system like Starlink's that could make its way into $150-500 CPE and hopefully <$5k basestation would be a nice evolution. Only need to get it roughly aimed in the right direction and then the system does the rest with no further human intervention, zero skill required. Basestation could extremely rapidly reallocate high power to various end points which matches consumer load patterns well rather then having to pick 30°/60/90/120/3x30/whatever sector antennas or 4'+ dedicated big boys for real distance.

I have no idea where this "4/5g physics" thing came into your head from. We're not talking physics we're talking economics and barrier to entry.
The PMs are often SMEs of related concerns and own stakes in the new idea being discussed
When I went through it was like, ~1k/month and somewhere from 5k-15k/hire over the top. Industry average is around 10k/hire and their pricing suggests they're probably banking that amount with pricing used to encourage loyalty and appease investors with the Saas narrative. They're not pulling in much greater than industry average, and even if they're double, its only 20m, which is still bad.
Oof. I think there are two types of engineers in the world. Those that have done something like this, and those that will someday do something like this.
I would love to see an amendment passed that limits all campaigns to the 3 months immediately preceding an election. Campaign, get elected, go to work, and not campaign, get elected, immediately start campaigning again. It's never not campaign season. Except we can't pass an amendment because everyone is campaigning.
A function still seems appropriate even if you're not using this multiple times. Unless how you're computing the haversine distance is relevant to the surrounding code, it would be much more readable to extract it out.
3M's target audience for post-it notes was offices, so they gave them away to offices.

Amazon's target audience for Ring is homeowners, so they gave them away to... not randomly selected homeowners. It sounds like they specifically gave them to police.
> but I think it's intellectually dishonest to portray is as fundamentally sound

No offense but I think this sentiment is a huge problem with Hacker News. I have a minimal understanding of fusion energy production from an engineering perspective but I know more than the vast majority of the world due to my background.

You are smart but not a subject matter expert in this topic.
Fusion is not a sustainable a reaction while fission is. Fission happens on its own, fusion requires something else to happen first (on Earth). Please don't insult the people in this thread who are subject matter experts in the field by implying they are intellectually dishonest. I am not a subject matter expert but recognize that a few of them are commenting in this thread with details that I have learned from other experts.
The clever folds that kept letters secret
You don't need to quote variables on the right hand side of an assignment.
I really don't, but I assume it's true. Someone else once said that you can't find happiness outside [of yourself]. So being content is about finding inner peace?
People with money seem so happy. I had a lot of cognitive dissonance when money didn't make me happy. The lifestyle I obtained felt like a gilded cage with no way out. The wife certainly wasn't buying my unhappiness and wouldn't consider that we should go back to what we were. If you didn't grow up with money, then I strongly recommend people get themselves a wealth counselor. I'm not even sure they exist, but didn't find anyone who could discuss with me my feelings about money and what it meant for my identity.
38 Games but half of those are away. With significant less space and revenue split. I am not sure where the cheapest Juventus Ticket of €136 came from. As it is more like the expensive ticket during a derby. With away ticket as low as €30 and €50 for Home Ticket. Seasonal Ticket starts as low as €650.

Basically the €215 Million is off by an order of magnitude.

The majority of revenue for Football teams actually comes from TV revenue, sponsorhsip and Mech. Most if not all EUR and UK Football teams generally keep the ticket price as low as possible to encourage people going in to watch the Game.

>If hundreds of millions per year.......

With Player transfer going at €100+ Million, I am not surprised. Although with Football, so far the game has proven money can buy you the best team ( whatever that means ) but not the trophies. Which still keep it somewhat exciting.
Excuse you. I assume people here are intelligent and will do their own research. Other entrepreneurs shared this with me, and I'm grateful.
The banality of evil is not limited to extreme evil. Nevertheless, Coca Cola's product certainly has a body count. Refined sugar is poisonous in the first place, certainly in the quantities Coca Cola sells it in, and Coca Cola also adds caffeine to make their product even more addictive. And why does Coca Cola want to associate their product with athleticism so badly? Because their product has developed a well earned reputation for being unhealthy, and they want to whitewash that reputation. They want to use athletes particularly because athletes are often role models for people in the domains of fitness and nutrition.

There is evil to be found in Coca Cola's business model, and therefore, it is appropriate to invoke the banality of evil to explain it.