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by vitus 5y ago
At Berkeley, this depends on the major. If you're accepted to the College of Letters & Sciences (which houses degrees such as Physics, CS, Math) with an intended major, you're actually undeclared when you start out. Once you c
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by vitus 5y ago
I agree! But consider a different, entirely valid context of "almost all": "Almost all natural numbers are greater than 10." "Almost all prime numbers are odd." If we wanted to extend this intuitively, we might
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by vitus 5y ago
I don't disagree that these sets are the same cardinality. But cardinality isn't the only way to describe the "size" of a set. I suppose the typical measure-theoretic definition of "almost all" / "alm
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by vitus 5y ago
> But the article uses "almost all" in the formal sense? Which, by the way, also has pretty intuitive meaning, in my opinion. By formal sense, do you mean everywhere but a finite-measure set? Zero-measure? I'll use finite-
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by vitus 5y ago
It's pretty close, though. The closest proxy to this that I could find ("inside height" of the truck bed plus "open tailgate to ground") is 57.4-57.7" for a 2015 4x4, while the average adult male in the US is 5
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by vitus 5y ago
Um, it does...? Under "Personal account users": "Anyone who isn’t signed into a Google account can’t join your meetings." This is a feature, not a bug: https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2020/07
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by vitus 5y ago
The video subsequently shows the source submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27995270 which seems to be the most popular submission with a YouTube URL in the past month. HN search seems to prioritize text matche
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by vitus 5y ago
Yes, and California outside of the Bay Area is all the same salary band, whereas if you move across the border to NV, you get bumped down a band.
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by vitus 5y ago
I'm not aware of any public datasets, unfortunately. There are many internal maps; in short the winner was "cheap housing in the Atlanta metro area". (I'm glad that Atlanta's finally seeing increased engineering inv
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by vitus 5y ago
If anyone's curious about the underlying details: Each state has an associated salary band. For certain metropolitan statistical areas (defined by the OMB to encompass certain counties), as noted in the article, there is an overriding
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by vitus 5y ago
Actually, the US numbers are already filtered to 4-year institutions. "The overall 6-year graduation rate for first-time, full-time undergraduate students who began seeking a bachelor’s degree at 4-year degree-granting institutions in
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by vitus 5y ago
> A bright lad with a few years experience A few years experience specifically working with iOS. That doesn't say anything about how much existing experience he has in the security space. Here's a Java critical patch update fro
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by vitus 5y ago
Right, that seems to be the consensus read. I guess my point is that even PoW systems won't be entirely unaffected (albeit not quite to the extent that PoS systems are), since validators are crucial to the integrity of the blockchain.
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by vitus 5y ago
I'm actually a little confused by the text. (source: https://twitter.com/jerrybrito/status/1423429377459736577 ) The exclusion is for "validating distributed ledger transactions through proof of work (min
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by vitus 5y ago
To piggyback on the sibling comments: If you only determined direction based on relative volume between your ears, you wouldn't be able to distinguish between sounds in front vs behind you.
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by vitus 5y ago
I think there's a lot of (very much warranted!) bias against tech within the industry, whether it's Google's treatment of its AI ethics researchers (Gebru, Mitchell), Amazon's fake review problem, or Elon Musk marketing
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by vitus 5y ago
Amazon's historically had pretty good favorability ratings, especially compared to the rest of tech. Last year, before the pandemic upended everything, it was at 91% according to the annual Verge Tech survey (no, I don't think the
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by vitus 5y ago
> Kind of, but differences in time will forever deviate from the SI second so I don't think that really counts. I don't follow. Outside of days with a leap second, you are using the SI second. If you're measuring skew vi
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by vitus 5y ago
I like to think of it as UTC being off by 1s just before the leap second. :)
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by vitus 5y ago
Smear it! You sacrifice 1 on days with leap seconds (by 0.001%), but otherwise have all three. https://developers.google.com/time/smear
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by vitus 5y ago
I refer you to this much more, um, nuanced solution already in place in a number of top browsers: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/i... https://wiki.mozilla.org&
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by vitus 5y ago
The standard trick that I've seen used for removing a Yubikey Nano is threading a paperclip through that little hole, and tugging. Incidentally, you can also use a paperclip (a chain, even) to trigger a touch without having to touch th
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by vitus 5y ago
Next week!
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by vitus 5y ago
Well, non-whites were not generally eligible for citizenship until the Civil War (14th amendment). We have a long and illustrious history of discriminating against different races, when it comes to immigration. Just to list a few examples:
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by vitus 5y ago
Water is the biggest contributor to the greenhouse effect (~60% of the total), but that's because it's the most abundant by far (wikipedia indicates about 0.25% globally [0], by mass , which translates to something like half a pe
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by vitus 5y ago
> I back up my Google Drive periodically. 500GB takes a while to transfer. Do you download the whole thing each time, vs just changed files? Either way, (scheduled!) periodic backups sounds like a thing that could happen over trough (wel
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by vitus 5y ago
Clicking through to the actual study: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2021/EE/D1EE0... "Based on these data, we estimated the total electricity required to enrich 1 kg lithium fr
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by vitus 5y ago
Is there actually a search.json endpoint? https://github.com/HackerNews/API doesn't list this as a valid endpoint. Indeed, when I try to access it via curl, I get a HTTP 405 with a "Permission denied" er
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by vitus 5y ago
One thing that bothered me from an initial skim of that medium post: > Even if the difference is only 0.0011 nanoseconds, the test is reproducible and each gives similar results. From the graphs, this should read 0.0011 _milliseconds_. 0
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by vitus 5y ago
It's fundamentally the same attack as the plaintext case, although here it's breaking signature verification. Here, the computation is real_sig := Sign(msg) Cmp(real_sig, provided_sig) For a fixed message, Sign(msg) i

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