skaushik92

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by skaushik92 1mo ago
The chart there is deceptive—to be fair, we should be showing 1 and 5 percentile as well. Saying “walking around a mall you might encounter a few decamillionaires” is shifting focus from the fact that 1 in 10 people are experiencing near ze
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by skaushik92 3mo ago
When there's such a large and obvious profit disincentive, we should probably question whether its a capabilities problem or a willful ignorance problem.
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by skaushik92 5mo ago
They’re getting salty about it for sure because it’s a breach of their privacy.
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by skaushik92 7mo ago
Speaking from experience, I find budgeting spreadsheets to be a great usecase for this.
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by skaushik92 7mo ago
I wish there were a video of this linked from the research paper.
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by skaushik92 1y ago
> ... but those of any complexity presumably ought to be in a library — that is, a set of magnetic tapes in which previously coded problems of permanent value are stored. Oddly, I never thought of the term library as originating from a p
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by skaushik92 2y ago
1.693T of 1.777T (~95%) is student loans from the federal government (the Federal Student Aid—FSA arm of the Department of Education).
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Student loan debt in the United States totals $1.777T(educationdata.org)
1 points by skaushik92 2y ago|1 comments
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by skaushik92 2y ago
The issue is that the executive branch still has prosecutorial power with impeachment as one of the only remaining checks against that (if I’m understanding correctly).
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by skaushik92 2y ago
A market correction is definitely taking place and jobs like the one in the post that are fully remote are highly coveted so it’s not so surprising. There’s still lots of places for tech to make a meaningful impact but acceptable risk toler
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by skaushik92 2y ago
> Key Advantages: [...] Can provide supportive evidence for VPN/proxy usage, when the latency is too high for all server locations I'm reading through the description, but I'm having trouble understanding the difference be
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by skaushik92 2y ago
Pyramid tiling is the general technique used by Google Maps and similar systems to track images as different zoom levels; also similar techniques are used for progressive rendering for example in JPEG 2000.
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by skaushik92 3y ago
You can disable default touch actions on buttons like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10614481/disable-double-...
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by skaushik92 3y ago
> So what should you say? Simply remind them that your results, availability, and team spirit make you a reliable actor in the success of the company. Emphasise your future commitment more than your past success. In short, show them that
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by skaushik92 3y ago
I read that as "expanding protections to reduce (privacy and security) risks ..." but I guess you're reading it as "expanding protections to reduce (privacy) and (security risks) ..."
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by skaushik92 3y ago
I noticed this too but I think it was really smart to post robots in those movement roles because it makes these motion limitations “robotic” and mechanical like you said. It felt really attributable to the robot itself being programmed to
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by skaushik92 3y ago
Also, it could be wherever nuclear wouldn’t be permissible otherwise (e.g floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean extracting CO2 from the atmosphere, away from populations that don’t want it nearby)
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by skaushik92 3y ago
They probably needed to prioritize getting the article out fast over coming up with good headlines since it’s a flash sale
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by skaushik92 3y ago
Neat story! Kind of reminds me of the employee whose last name is Null. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4456438/how-to-pass-null... Though this is kind of the opposite where a manual process misidentifies the
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by skaushik92 3y ago
Thanks for sharing!
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Ask HN: Any ways to find startups that are NOT remote?
10 points by skaushik92 3y ago|4 comments
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by skaushik92 3y ago
Basically what Chipotle kind of is
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by skaushik92 3y ago
There’s also this symbol from a language called Tamil that looks similar: கு
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by skaushik92 3y ago
Where does it say it is an HTTP/3 server? Looking at the tests it seems that it’s just a HTTP/1 server I think.
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by skaushik92 3y ago
I see what you’re saying and agree that HTTP3 is complicated but I would that since it’s a backwards compatible standard, the added complexities are completely optional. For most use cases the basic protocol is perfectly suitable and only a
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by skaushik92 3y ago
I agree that having an emotional response can help trigger societal change but it’s important to distinguish emotion that comes from within you after seeing information and you being fed content that is intentionally emotionally triggering.
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by skaushik92 3y ago
For me the intonation of words and the pauses between them seem quite off from natural speech as well.
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by skaushik92 3y ago
… with confident language no less xD
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by skaushik92 4y ago
Just nitpicking here but doesn’t the property of being ordered follow from being able to choose between options at any instance? One analogy that popped up in my mind is sorting: if you can provide an answer to a choice between any two opti
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by skaushik92 4y ago
Interesting point; yeah, I agree that a significant population does not have the ability to move around. If I understand you correctly, you’re saying that in a world where all sales tax is zero, the wealthier population will be able to arbi

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