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by tylerhou 3y ago
E.g. interest rate risk. Maybe I've sold a bunch of variable-rate bonds before. But now I am worried about interest rates rising. I can't call the bond for some reason (maybe not enough money, maybe some regulatory reason). So I b
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by tylerhou 3y ago
Where did you get this impression? That’s not how I understood the article; I thought it was good.
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by tylerhou 3y ago
I don't think Apollo is just a hobby for Christian, given that he said that working on it is now his full-time job.
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by tylerhou 3y ago
Google uses a fair number of external dependencies. But Google imposes a fairly heavy cost to add a new dependency. You (and usually your team) has to commit to supporting updating the dependency in the future (only one version of a depende
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by tylerhou 3y ago
You’re strawmanning me. It would be better to let people stream songs by whatever artist they want. Then the fair thing to do is to levy progressively higher taxes on more popular/profitable artists to redistribute money to those who w
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by tylerhou 3y ago
I wouldn’t do 61B projects to learn how to interview; they aren’t too relevant because they focus more on writing software rather than data structures (and aren’t of the greatest quality IMO). The lectures on heaps, arrays, linked lists, an
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by tylerhou 3y ago
CTCI is not really useful for learning data structures, and I personally don’t think it’s a great book for learning how to interview either. Leetcode IMO is more effective, and once you feel comfortable I would look at classes like 61B and
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by tylerhou 3y ago
They might be referring to single-use lenses.
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by tylerhou 3y ago
Also, the SALT cap is not indexed to inflation, but the standard deduction is, so as time passes it’s likely that fewer and fewer people will itemize.
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by tylerhou 3y ago
Yes, it isn't fair that some people are taller than others, or more talented. The way we account for that is is not by outlawing behaviors. Rather, we levy progressive income taxes so that people who are lucky can help people who are l
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by tylerhou 3y ago
BNW was in March of last year: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.03456 Here is my summary of the algorithm from another HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34479148#34481937
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by tylerhou 3y ago
There are some downsides of perfect pitch. For one, choral singers with perfect pitch sometimes have a hard time re-tuning if the rest of the choir shifts pitch. (This can happen naturally over a long piece that has no accompaniment.) Anoth
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by tylerhou 3y ago
Cached: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:33YqNE... But the slides themselves aren't in Google's cache.
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by tylerhou 4y ago
> For example, the code for traversing a tree in any order is implemented using recursion, but this is not what production code would do, I think this is much too strong of a generalization. For small trees, a recursive traversal is cle
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by tylerhou 4y ago
Of course you'll be diluted as the company grows, so the point of asking is not to calculate exactly what your payout will be. But you can use the fully diluted # to estimate your ownership based on average/expected dilution from
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by tylerhou 4y ago
LLMs are not magic. I would be extremely surprised if they could invert even a simple hash. Some of them can’t even do basic arithmetic.
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by tylerhou 4y ago
> As a regulated payment token, USDC will remain redeemable 1 for 1 with the U.S. Dollar.
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by tylerhou 4y ago
Programmers like a single source of truth — until duplicating data is necessary for reliability (redundancy) or performance (replication). There is a reason why planes use 3+ CPUs running the same code, or why Google runs more than just one
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by tylerhou 4y ago
If they are sitting on excess cash, they can lower interest rates on deposits. The point is that when banks receive deposits, in the short term, their assets/liabilities doesn’t change.
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by tylerhou 4y ago
People send emails with monospace fonts to internal Google Groups all the time. If there is a bug in the external Groups, there likely? is a bug in the internal Groups. If that's true, then it will be fixed soon. The internal read&#x2F
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by tylerhou 4y ago
Why not standardize something like std::span in C?
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by tylerhou 4y ago
20% being discontinued is not really accurate.
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by tylerhou 4y ago
Can be, but having actually looked at (and worked on!) the YT frontend code base, you should use Angular/React. YT FE seems simple but there is a lot of stuff happening behind the scenes.
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by tylerhou 4y ago
The first line of the (also automated) email I got from Google notifying that I was laid off was > We have some difficult news to share. We are reducing our workforce and are very sorry to tell you that your role is impacted and we no lo
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by tylerhou 4y ago
Location: Berkeley, CA Remote: Prefer in-person 3+ days of the week. Willing to relocate: Yes, for the right opportunity. Technologies: C++, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go. React. Résumé/CV: Available upon request. Email
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by tylerhou 4y ago
Nit: In a graph with negative cycles, shortest paths are still well-defined for vertices s to t if there is no path from s to a negative cycle or if there is no path from a negative cycle to t. In the simplest case, suppose you have a graph
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by tylerhou 4y ago
Nit: It's not negative weight cycles that mess up Dijkstra's, it's negative weights in general. Dijkstra's is effectively a greedy algorithm for finding shortest paths. By their very nature greedy algorithms cannot &quot
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by tylerhou 4y ago
No comment on how useful this is for real world applications. But here is a technique of the algorithm. Most of my knowledge is from CS 270, where this was taught last week. (The course notes are public, the lecture is not.) https:/&#
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by tylerhou 4y ago
Managers and even directors allegedly did not know who would be laid off until it happened.
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by tylerhou 4y ago
It doesn't preserve the ordering of paths with different lengths. Suppose your bias is B. A length k path will get k*B added to its cost, while a length k+1 path will get (k+1)*B added. That will probably change the ordering of paths.

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