TuringNYC

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by TuringNYC 22d ago
The articles are from 2006 and 2011. Here is inflation since https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2022/04/inflat... Please lets have some decency towards the struggles of students
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by TuringNYC 28d ago
i think there is a big diff between 10-30min and 45min your 45min assessment is probably right for early career. once you have a family, it gets much harder and less common
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by TuringNYC 28d ago
>> Most American commute 10-30 minutes. You're on a board full of technologists. Many are in SF or Seattle or NYC. A 10minute commute means you live in a 5-20 Million dollar home in SF. Not sure how realistic that is. I work in N
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by TuringNYC 28d ago
Whether your company is WFH or RTO is a decision, but please dont try to do a hybrid -- where some employees on the same team are remote while others are in office. You end up with team members going to the office, and just staying on a zoo
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by TuringNYC 29d ago
>> Medicare pays 50% less than private insurance. So doing this would require either layoffs, cutting salaries for doctors/nurses/etc, or both. This may well be the right decision for society as a whole--that's a big pa
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by TuringNYC 1mo ago
>> Are smaller portions of solid blocks of sugar considered a bad thing? No, but it is bad if you're told by economists that prices arent going up.
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by TuringNYC 1mo ago
Except it doesnt only impact minimum wage workers...or does it only impact NYC -- its the same problem in Washington DC, Virginia suburbs, Boston, SF, Seattle. I suppose they could move to some rural area for cheap rent, but what jobs exist
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by TuringNYC 1mo ago
>> Putting 2 servings of ice cream in a thick plastic jar was always a dumb gimmick. One gimmick I quite detest is the use of highly concave bottoms some companies use, so as to reduce the volume of actual product. Similar to deep ind
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by TuringNYC 1mo ago
> And you must ask yourself, is the ability to sell your company to another company a benefit or should there be considerably stronger hurdles for this kind of thing? Distribution is a huge problem for small companies. So you almost have
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by TuringNYC 1mo ago
The best arbitrage was that purchasing a jar like that (empty, a la carte) would cost $3. So you were basically getting amazing ice-cream for $2. Half my pantry became reused Talenti jars.
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by TuringNYC 1mo ago
Yes, there are lots of cities in the US. Most cities dont have job centers. They might have jobs at Walmart, McDonalds, etc but not jobs that pay living wages. People are rational -- they either do the math, or have witnessed the math playi
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by TuringNYC 1mo ago
Not only is that my theory but that is literally the article we’re all commenting on “labor participation down” and this is one explanation based on discussions with hundreds of friends and classmates struggling with this issue.
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by TuringNYC 1mo ago
I talk to a lot of people in the Metro NY area. One problem here is -- if you need to commute into Manhattan (job center) -- it demands a certain salary, below which commuting in is a net-loss. Rent is $2000/mo. If you have a family an
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by TuringNYC 2mo ago
To begin with, they should make it a legal requirement to list Condo vs Coop in listings, not "condo/coop". One is usually easier to get, the other pushes people thru discriminatory hoops that many profiles have no hopes of p
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by TuringNYC 2mo ago
Congrats. I did want to respond to this >>> The hardest part of building Jamcorder was still, by far, the software -- roughly 200K lines of code spread across the firmware, app, and manufacturing tooling. It took over 3 years and m
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by TuringNYC 2mo ago
her hit song, along with the nikki french dance remix have been on my coding playlist for 30yrs!
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by TuringNYC 3mo ago
> Sounds more like people retire somewhat early I know many ex-colleagues who have been retired early -- they face age discrimination and cannot find work.
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by TuringNYC 3mo ago
>> There's got to be something wrong at the core of BD. They've been pawned off a bunch of times, Well...there is the uncanny similarity to the T-800 and and uneasy realization that the owner of BD could become Cyberdyne Sys
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by TuringNYC 3mo ago
>> But I'm not convinced about their view of having people casually going to a spa every week and getting a full body scan. People are already doing this monthly with DEXA scans!
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by TuringNYC 3mo ago
Seems Cloudflare is now doing this for scraping, so makes sense to continue down the pipeline!
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by TuringNYC 3mo ago
So jealous we dont have this in the Northeast. Hurry up!
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by TuringNYC 3mo ago
>> If you're at $5,000/month, a 4.2% raise puts you at $5,210. If you're spending $600/month on gas (not unreasonable for someone that drives an SUV and lives in the suburbs instead of in the urban core), you still
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by TuringNYC 3mo ago
>> I didn't quite follow your comment about vector support, are you asking for something beyond what pgvector + diskann provide (both available on Azure)? You dont support ultra-wide vectors from the largest embeddings models. We
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by TuringNYC 3mo ago
I'm trapped on Azure at work and we're constantly waiting for Azure pg to catch up with modernity. For example, you cant use this: https://www.paradedb.com/blog/hybrid-search-in-postgresql-th... Also for exam
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by TuringNYC 3mo ago
How do we know this is due to AI usage? Perhaps it is because the students missed key in-person learning at the tail end of high school due to the pandemic lock-downs? I cant imagine learning calculus / linear algebra on my own in high
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by TuringNYC 4mo ago
>> Concerts became about filming a DJ twiddling a USB controller. This is one of the worst parts of any concert, performance -- having a sea of phones in front of you recording. In a dark theatre, it is impossible to watch the actual
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by TuringNYC 4mo ago
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7008682/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_acc...
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by TuringNYC 4mo ago
>> That's why a web of trust was suggested. You keep track of who vouched for who and down weight those who vouch for users that prove to be bots. Except eventually it will also weigh down those users who supported <XYZ politi
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by TuringNYC 4mo ago
Similar! I think my experiences were best captured by the song SOFI TUKKER - Summer In New York https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCuSci5BSyQ A lot of this went away, not sure why. People are too glued to phones.

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