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For the best schools, like Berkeley, I don't think this should matter much. At that level, SAT/ACT scores are pretty much just a threshold used to whittle down the number of candidates. Once you're over say 1500 on the SAT th
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As another datapoint, this HN page uses 56MB in Chrome for me.
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I agree, fewer of them should have guns. What I meant is that cops don't seem to genuinely want to take steps so that they "fear for their lives" less often. So it's the wrong approach to think that they wouldn't be
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The premise here is wrong. These guys aren't looking for better ways to deescalate - they're itching to kill. Never forget the UPS shootout last December where 19 cops opened fired, killing the hostage and a bystander, taking co
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People are plopped into existence as a citizen of a country. Not quite the same as choosing to work somewhere. https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
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Wow. Can someone more familiar with stuff explain how much of a big deal this is? Does this completely kneecap Huawei/China?
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That kind of thinking got us #45. Some things are more important than entertainment.
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Cal State Will Keep Classes Online in the Fall(nytimes.com)
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A good example of getting a ~3000x speedup from naive matrix multiplication in C here (slides 20 onward): https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu... Includes a 9-level nested for loop, which is alw
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Justice Dept. Drops Case Against Michael Flynn(nytimes.com)
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They have more deaths because they're paying up front. The bet is that over time deaths will be roughly the same, lockdown or not. Considering that we're far off from a vaccine and world economy can't be left on life support
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Those examples are either not very contagious or not contagious at all.
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Didn't everyone learn scientific notation in high school? It's pretty much exactly that, and you could put the coefficient/exponent into whatever bit pattern you'd like.
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I'll make assumptions about you too: you think reading things you don't like = bias.
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As long as the top is rotten, there will never be some sort of successful moral coup d'etat.
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I mean, this is absurdly more powerful than those dedicated DSPs.
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What's the reasoning behind this incredibly strong statement: "Most epidemiologists expect a vaccine in 1 to 2 years." ?
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Or think about just ending domestication of animals full stop. Maybe it's having grown up without pets but I don't understand the need.
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I feel like in general people underestimate just how fast computers are. Crazy to hear about libraries that choke on a couple thousand points when compared to https://hackernoon.com/drawing-2-7-billion-points-in-10s-ecc...
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Good list, the QR algorithm is particularly beautiful I think.
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If you are relatively young and completely healthy ... you overwhelmingly recover completely fine.
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Given that we seem to know (1) a vaccine will almost certainly not be finished within a year (2) the US government doesn't have the competence or trust to successfully implement contacting tracing (3) years of lockdowns are infeasible
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Yep at MIT it's also pretty pathetic - most dorms have dining halls instead of kitchens, and living in a dining hall dorm requires you to be on a meal plan. These meals somehow cost around ~$14 per meal. And apparently MIT dining is st
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I think it's often the parents who are buying into these things. Meal plans and dining halls are so popular because parents think their kids can't possibly cook for themselves or walk 10 minutes to eat out (at least that's my
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I don't think it's too surprising people are not interested in listening to authorities given 1) the bungled response from the WHO, CDC, and of course Trump administration. 2) the lack of clear messaging about the steps forward. T
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In real life, perhaps unlike debate camp, having your actions speak for themselves does actually matter.
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Really? Calling it bleach instead of disinfectant is the important source of misinformation here? The lengths people will go...
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We "let" people die all the time due to unhealthy choices, many of them being economically convenient. Do you have similar outrage over having a lower life expectancy than any other comparable western nation?
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What a moving redemption arc! Going from guerilla acts of racism to making a company that aids in institutional racism.
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Here's what Scott Aaronson says in regard to "trying all the possible inputs": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17425474

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