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Thank you! (Generalist staff here). I should note that many other companies have shown t-shirt folding at this point; however, the significance of us showing it here is not that we can do it, but rather we can do it as one of many tasks, and do it with mastery.
This video shows how to use a Cryo ET machine: https://youtu.be/L-65mpdKLzQ
Each item is 33px tall, which on my screen, and for the sake of easy math, is ~1cm.
If every year got 1 row, and we were on a linear instead of a logarithmic-ish timescale, the start of section 1 (4.1 billion years ago), would be about 41,000km tall, which is slightly bigger than the circumference of the eath.
13.813 billion years at this scale, at 138,130km, is just over a third of the way to the moon.
Happy 1000th anniversary Vikings!
Wow does much better than Geekbench's prior top processor (https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks) the Intel Core i9-11900K (https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-core-i9-11900...).
10,997 for Intel i9
vs
12,693 for M1 Max
I'd also add https://tldroptions.io/ as a quick and dirty potential options valuator. That being said, I agree with the author's default assumption that private options should be valued at zero, especially for financial planning purposes. At the same time, it is this hockey stick that is a strong part of the allure of smaller startups. There's an entirely separate levels.fyi equivalent that needs to be made for the amount of equity employees get at various stages of a company. It should also note that the size size of the exit is inversely proportional to the odds that it'll happen.
We offer an API behind Azure DNS. As a hacky, but functional, workaround for our customers they can manually add our server's IP address to their /etc/hosts file. It'd be important for them to revert that once DNS returns; however as a quick fix this might help some people.
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From the introduction of the Paper:
"We emphasize that the whole technology is futuristic and the reason should be clear to all the accelerator experts... We also note that a 1000 TeV machine requires the accelerator circumference of the order of 1000 km with the magnets of ≃ 10 Tesla which is totally ridiculous... Even if it becomes the reality, the cost of the construction is of the order of or more than 100 billion US$... the power required for the operation of the machine may exceed 50 GW"
"Amazon.com represented less than 1.3 percent of total FedEx revenue for the 12-month period ended December 31, 2018"
"This is like viewing a mustard seed in Washington DC from Brussels"
I wish the rhetoric around "screens" was less focused on the delivery mechanism and instead more focused on the problematic thing behind those screens.
The issues raised here seem to not be related to glowing LCDs, but rather particular apps and behaviors in those apps that lead to addictive and problematic behavior.
"Screens" is even broader than saying things like "the internet is bad". The latter statement already sounds unhelpful because everyone has a better understanding of just how diverse of a platform "the internet" is.
I built one of these! With a shifter on the palm, and a separate control toggle, you'd get pretty much the full ASCII set.
Even though I'm right handed, it worked best on my left hand. This is because of how surprisingly nice it was to use my dominant hand to do something (use a mouse, eat, etc), while still typing with my left.
Alas I assume the reason this never caught on was due to the learning curve. People will never leave qwerty. Also it was pretty slow. When I built this back in 2005, I was thinking for PDAs and early cell phones and was only competing against T9 and early palm keyboards. After a few months of practice, I never topped about 45 wpm.
Watch the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw
These videos are frankly better explanation of college-level math concepts than most college classes.
Also, now you probably care much more about the intuitions of mathematics over the raw mechanics of it. Once again, this channel perfectly exemplifies this concept.
I would love to see a list compiled somewhere of two articles with exactly 6 degrees of separation. This is proving to be extremely difficult. In the entire HN thread so far, I only see one so far by dkuder https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Six%20Degrees%...
By far the best explainer of mathematics I've seen anywhere is 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw
These videos do an incredible job of illustrating how to intuitively arrive at an answer by composing many of the parts you need to build a proof for more complex topics.
Numberphile also did a great video on TREE(3) here (a 'useful' number larger than Graham's): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P6DWAwwViU
Here's diagrams of all of the tallest buildings by 2023 (including built ones) visually next to each other sorted by official height thanks to SkyscraperPage: http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=207
The Skyscrapercenter doesn't include the Dubai Creek Tower which is also already under construction.
ENV=prod is never a good default…
You can by this as a print:
60 inch print is $210 14 inch print is $40
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I no longer tell many of my less tech-savvy to use 2FA for most sites. The notable exception being their primary email and a few others. I instead push them to use a system like 1Password that will let them generate unique strong passwords.
For a huge majority of people, the odds of them losing, breaking, or wiping their phones and misplacing or forgetting to save their backup codes is MUCH higher than getting hacked while using a 1Password system.
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We’re hiring senior engineers to help us scale and build new products on top of our APIs. Right now our open-source Python-based sync engine regularly archives terabytes of data across a massive SQL cluster, and our APIs handle tens of millions of requests a day. We aim to scale that several times over in the next year.
Our team (https://www.nylas.com/team/) is roughly equal by identified gender (including engineering) and is comprised of startup founders; Debian contributors; {{Large Tech Corp®}} alums; MIT, Columbia, Yale, CMU, Olin, alums; and a professional dancer from the San Francisco Ballet. We actively and regularly work with the entire team to shape our culture to our ideal of honesty, transparency, individual empowerment, and kindness.
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I used to have a password algorithm then switched to 1Password and never looked back.
My problem of 4 years of algorithm use was that it would slowly change over time. I began to add mechanisms to predictably rotate the passwords. I began to add mechanisms that dealt with arcane dumb password requirements. Encountering a login from 3 years ago usually had me trying 3 different variants before getting it.
Furthermore, my algorithm still produces passwords that have considerably less entropy than a password generator will do for you.
The other advantage of password managers are for those damn security questions. I now routinely use 4-word diceware generated password as my security question answers and can store those in 1Password as well. The number of websites that let you bypass login with just a security question is mind blowing.
It's also tough to beat the developer experience that the modern JS ecosystem has brought to app development.
The Chrome dev tools alone are pretty incredible. Getting that much detail in your debug environment, paint cycles, render times, animation effects, and quick style experimentation is a huge deal.
The package ecosystem for JS is also an enormous advantage. Having access to data layer systems like Redux & the Redux dev tools, as well as any module designed to run on Node.js really helps ensure an actively developed ecosystem that abstracts more and more away from the end application developer.
Finally, I argue that performance bottlenecks are rarely an issue of the javascript. V8 is extremely fast and only getting faster. Most bottlenecks come from doing something dumb during rendering, or tying up a process reading from disk. These are issues that happen on all app platforms. The big difference is that Electron gives you to tools to effectively debug and optimize these, plus a HUGE wealth of online resources & tutorials to help new developers jankbust.
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Olin alumni here. Having Babson nearby definitely added to my experience. I was intensely interested in entrepreneurship during school, and took several Babson classes.
They're definitely very different and independent schools, however. While I have several friends from Babson, my social & professional life has drifted away from there. Of the companies mentioned in the article a handful of them (like Big Belly) are the results of fruitful Olin-Babson collaborations. The majority of companies that come out of the two schools, however, have had less cross-campus collaboration than I think many would like.
Olin alumni here. First of all this is an incredible survey of what Oliners have been able to achieve so far! Huge thanks to Lee & others for putting this together.
I've been a huge fan of Olin's educational model and am proud to have turned down Stanford to go there. From the very first day you get to Olin, you're immediately immersed in a collaborative, figure-it-out-together, project-based environment where failure happens and there's no ceiling to the scope of what you can do.
They also try harder than any curriculum I've seen to really ingrain the importance of an entrepreneurial mindset and user-centered design thinking throughout the program. For example, all sophomores are required to take a set of design classes that forces you (though much struggling) to emphasize the viability and desirability, not just the feasibility, of everything you do. Most classes make you to orally present and really communicate your ideas to an intentionally skeptical audience.
By the time you graduate, many begin to realize how well this actually prepares you to not just make cool things, but also structurally think about what people want and how to realistically make it viably work in the real world.
The tech industry notices as well. Oliners have had an extremely strong tract record, particularly in product management programs, at most of the big companies. If you're a PM at Google, Facebook, or Microsoft, you likely know an Oliner, which given a graduating class 80ish, is pretty good reach. Big company PM programs are also not foreigners to producing a lot of entrepreneurs and I've found many of the skills we were taught in college come around again and again in this industry. These skills are also highly prized by places like HBS, where a disproportionate number of Oliners also find themselves right after graduating.
Right now, we definitely play the law-of-small-numbers game. The school is very new (first class was 2006) and the class sizes intentionally small. The size is limited to ensure Olin can continue to be a laboratory for education pedagogy. Over time, however, I'm definitely optimistic this trend will only continue and I'm prod to have known several of the people mentioned in this article.
When I looked at this, my immediate reaction was how awful long the files are. A programming language's community should encourage smaller files that do one thing.
"…they had identified 52 genes linked to intelligence in nearly 80,000 people. These genes do not determine intelligence, however."