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In Las Vegas, always tip the front desk person. When you give them your ID and credit card, also include a $20 bill - or a green chip if you've already started gambling. It's in Las Vegas culture to tip everyone all the time. About half the time, I got a room upgrade that far exceeds the tip while doing this, although that's not really the point.

MIT doesn't offer scholarships to anyone. It only offers need-based aid.

Debt is a very useful financial tool that's misunderstood by a lot of people. These kinds of "TAKE THE MONEY" comments conflate credit cards used to buy a TV with a student loan to go to MIT. This "TAKE THE MONEY" will be almost worthless compared with the enormous returns that you get from an MIT education.

You should absolutely go to MIT. Consider negotiating more aid as someone else suggested, but even if that doesn't work, this is the best investment you'll ever make. If you want to do research, MIT's UROP program is amazing, and you'll be able to do whatever research you want as an undergrad. I really value my time at MIT - not only from an academic point of view, but also socially. Boston is full of college students, and believe it or not, MIT is actually probably the most socially active school there.

Can you use deep learning to do beat detection and music visualization? I find that Fourier transform methods are not good enough to do really good music vis.

The only news source I follow is bloomberg.com. I was introduced to it through the Bloomberg Terminal, and continue to follow it after leaving the industry. It seems to me like the only news service that reports without any bias.

This is very obviously wrong, but it is the conventional wisdom. Every time someone says something like this and mentions Jimmy Buffet you know they're just quoting some movie like Wolf of Wall Street.

Trading is a real job and the market is very inefficient. If you're too lazy to study it, you say things like what the GDC7 posted. It's pretty easy to predict Microsoft stock four months from now (it will probably be higher, but there's a small chance it will be lower), certainly easier than "the fate of the Universe trillions of years from now."

At the end of the day, trading is learning how to manage risk. What is Microsoft doing, how much is it likely to make, and will the macro environment support or suppress their strategy. Then you put on a trade to take advantage of this view. You may sometimes be wrong, but the idea is that over all of your decisions, you'll mostly be right and make more money than you lose.

Exactly. If you press the brakes the system gives complete control back to the driver. It's interesting to see all of the comments about the "horrifying" experiments Tesla is doing, and quoting science fiction movies about how robots are going to murder you. So much sensationalism.

If you will still have your home Internet just set up a VPN on your router's configuration page. It's really easy and I just used the router's factory firmware to do it.

Try meeting people in lecture and recitation to do problem sets together. This gives you a whole new set of people to meet every semester, for every different class that you take. Doing problem sets together is a really good excuse to introduce yourself to someone.

Join a fraternity or sorority and go to fraternity parties. It's really easy to meet people that way. Frats are by definition social groups, so they'll introduce you to a lot of people on campus.

This is kind of weird, but go to office hours for the classes you really like. It's usually the same few people going to office hours and they really care about the topic, so if you do too, you could become good friends.

Join a lab to do research. You'll meet a lot of the older professors and graduate students that way. It's a different set of people than your classmates.

As far as I'm aware, there's an attack where you can determine how correct a password is based on how long it takes to get denied. For example, take a simple algorithm where you check the password character by character, and return as soon as you encounter a bad character. This means you can detect a subset of a correct password.

Regardless of your politics, you should never avoid doing something you believe in just because someone might dislike you for it.

I’ve been using your product for a few days and it’s so cool. Just wanted to report two bugs quickly. It seems like the popover doesn’t appear consistently on HN, and לומר is not being pronounced correctly.

EDIT: So sorry – I was wrong about the word – it's being pronounced correctly!

I really like this extension, but can you restrict it to only a small subset of words that grows over time? If I see lots of different words, I'll forget them, but if I see the same words over time, I'll remember them.

Five years is not the only thing -- it's also summer prices, whereas the other peaks were during very cold winters. Natural gas is very very seasonal, so winter gas and summer gas are different commodities almost.

Production is higher than ever before. Anyone can write any article that they wish. The only public data available right now from the EIA is a little lagged, but keep an eye on the September number when it is available.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n9070us2M.htm

This is because of the shale revolution, so you can't go back that far. They're different eras. As for 2014, it was because of the polar vortex. The current high prices are in the summer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_2014_North_American_cold...

I'm sorry, but this is just wrong. Natural gas prices are higher than I've ever seen them, only comparable to one very cold winter year. This is not just a return to pre-Covid prices, this is due to government policy. Same with crude oil prices. Just look at the five year chart for NG1:

https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/NG1:COM

They don't need to. They're already the market leader, and will dominate the new age of EVs that they basically created. I think government should stay out of this and let the free market sort things out.

This doesn't seem dishonest to me. I'd do the same thing. If my company is truly strapped for cash, I'd offer a low salary (to "keep the lights on") and give more equity instead. If someone told me their bills are too high and they need more cash, I'd double the salary but give almost no equity. The whole point of going to a startup is to have ownership of something small that you grow to become something big, so you usually don't care too much about the salary.

I remember being a freshman and seeing the lecture hall 32-123 being temporarily hack-renamed to 6.001, and I didn't know what that was all about. I think it was the last lecture of 6.001, but I didn't know what it was back then.

You're being down-voted, but I think it's a valid point. Just because fruit flies are simpler organisms, doesn't mean we should be sleep depriving them until they die. Sounds very cruel. I look forward to the day when scientific progress in biological sciences doesn't necessitate having to harm any living creatures at all.

What you wrote is what I would have guessed. Are you also guessing or do you know for sure? It sounds right, but I'm very curious about the actual answer to this question.

Just follow the chart here: https://www.eecs.mit.edu/docs/ug/new_curriculum_63.pdf

I'm a vegetarian, and there are only two foods that I miss eating: burgers and sushi. I tried the Impossible Whopper and it was better than I remember the regular Whopper tasting. Offering it could be a really powerful force in pushing the food industry away from meat. I think Burger King is helping the cause enormously by offering it, and I'd be sad if its efforts were blocked by a frivolous lawsuit.

The list of benefits is missing the main one: you don't have to touch your mouse again.

Face ID works way better for me. I couldn't get the fingerprint reader to recognize my stupid sweaty fingers sometimes, but Face ID always works for me.

You can unlock your phone in the dark. It doesn't rely on visible light, as it shines its own infrared light on you. You were probably holding your phone too close to your face.

The Kinect caused a huge wave of innovation. It was a convenient and low-cost source of RGBD data, and many robotics labs got a few when it was released.

Very cool.

Cool.

Do you mind posting your rc files for this config?