hailwren

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by hailwren 6y ago
Yeah, tech has a starting salary advantage but FAANG just doesn't compare on the upside. What's the top 10% of FAANG outcomes (for Harvard grads) after 5 years? 500k, maybe? The jump to MD in finance makes 1M+ something like 10-20
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by hailwren 6y ago
5 year EV is much lower in tech than finance for Harvard grads. I'm not sure ab consulting. Consulting and tech have similar starting salaries, but consider finance/hedge fund engineer starting tc is about 3-4x tech for top 3 grad
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by hailwren 6y ago
Yes, and pairwise multivariate comparisons make the gap even larger. (i.e. considering two engineering students or two visual arts students etc)
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by hailwren 6y ago
Yes, and the gap grows even wider when you normalize for per-professional degree percentages (i.e. STEM/pharm/premed/prelaw/military inflating the bottom half of the curve)
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by hailwren 6y ago
This argument is specifically, and repeatedly, addressed by Greenwald in his article. [1] > The Hunter Biden documents have at least as much verification as those other archives that were widely reported. There are sources in the email c
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by hailwren 6y ago
You're looking for section 3.1 in [1] where they analyze the effect of scaling width and kernel size for any abitrary downscaling kernel. > Any algorithm is vulnerable to image-scaling attacks if the ratior of pixels with highweight
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by hailwren 6y ago
I was reacting the specific 'decentralization' mantra that is a linguistic artifact of cryptocurrencies. > how well does economic value align with our human values? I couldn't begin to define what 'our human values&#x
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by hailwren 6y ago
The problem with most of this crypto-anarchist rhetoric is that it establishes a value system that does not reflect the realities of the real world. decentralization, democracy = good and the opposite = bad runs up against fundamental value
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by hailwren 6y ago
> What I don't get is, why does Facebook want me to have a single friends list, under my real name? It's a neat solution to the multi-device problem (i.e. When I serve an ad to this device, is this a new user or the same one?)
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by hailwren 6y ago
You have to build it by hand, but check out the Dactyl or Dactyl Manuform. I think they're about the pinnacle of the erg keyboard world. 3d shape like a Kinesis but with more optimization for wrist angle and allows you to customize wri
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by hailwren 6y ago
Probably poverty and industry. Germany has more industry and has historically had a stronger economy. So, that probably leads to lifestyles that promote more energy use.
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by hailwren 6y ago
The fifth generation of fighter aircraft marked a significant departure from the idea of a fighter jet being anything like what we think of as a fighter jet. They're now designed and employed as fighter 'platforms'. Instead o
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by hailwren 6y ago
I'm sure it was done in coordination with the advertisers that pulled their ads. Probably a group coordination between the companies and groups like the Anti-Defamation League, the NAACP, Sleeping Giants, Color of Change, Free Press an
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by hailwren 6y ago
This argument was specifically addressed in the source. 'According to court documents, Wang was still employed by the PLA while he was studying in the United States and he made false statements about his military service in his visa ap
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by hailwren 6y ago
Right, you just rephrased the question to 'for whom does it matter' but otherwise the original question remains unchanged
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by hailwren 6y ago
This is interesting. Wittgenstein argues that this idea of 'tacit knowledge' has no meaning. What the article describes is practice. 'My point is that their explanations would not lead me to the same ability that they had.&#x
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by hailwren 6y ago
I laughed.
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by hailwren 7y ago
I think you've mixed up your logic a bit. A slow visual reaction time means that surgeons are already reacting slower in the real world. Any latency added (!!) by a network further adds to the delay between surgeon reaction and real wo
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by hailwren 7y ago
I worked in aviation for a while. This is super common. There isn't a pilot on the planet who hasn't turned avionics off in flight (there are always redundant and backup systems). There probably isn't a working pilot in the w
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by hailwren 7y ago
They wouldn't use the IMEI. Your phone also reports the IMSI which includes country code, network, and an identifier number. They'd only have to differentiate you from the other people from your country. By the problem statement,
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by hailwren 7y ago
They'd follow you from the airport. You could maybe evade if you were a trained expert who looked like a local national, but otherwise they'd just check CCTV (Taipei is covered in it) and follow your trail. I've never taken p
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by hailwren 7y ago
Instead of open-sourcing, shouldn't we just give them as much funding as possible to manufacture as quickly as possible? This isn't software. You can't just `git clone` their repo, and random indie hackers 3D printing things
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by hailwren 7y ago
Doesn't it incentivize honking when the light is green for you?
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Ask HN: Does anyone use their MBP touch bar for anything?
2 points by hailwren 7y ago|4 comments
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by hailwren 7y ago
NewHope has not been proven to be quantum resistant. I think researchers generally believe that NewHope will be proven to be quantum resistant, but there is the problem of adapting Micciancio's regular lattice proof to ideal lattices.
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by hailwren 7y ago
I think, generally, the concern with quantum resistant cryptography is that, like homomorphic encryption schemes, it’s unworkably slow right now.
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by hailwren 7y ago
It’s already a meme on college campuses that you aren’t cool if you still have the ‘long stems’. I’d say pros are doing well.
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by hailwren 7y ago
Ehh, a software engineer is a programmer. The name evolved, but I don't think there is any organization that has software engineering and programming roles separated.
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by hailwren 7y ago
It's sort of complicated. I did a boot camp, 100 applications 3 interviews 0 offers, went back to school (Harvard, the real one not the extension school) and am currently doing the summer internship grind (30 applications 3 interviews
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by hailwren 7y ago
Wouldn't that make it MultiPaaS anyways?

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