New York actually had Air Taxis (passenger van helicopters) that shuttled people around the city until 1979 when a horrible crash ended the company forever.
Life almost certainly exists elsewhere in the universe (particularly if you consider that which is beyond what we define as ”observable”). As others have commented, it’s too large for it not to exist.
However, it does seem extremely rare and could be so rare that it doesn't exist in the observable universe (it's almost certainly not in our Local Bubble).
It is interesting to also think about the likelihood of "intelligent" life. Because while basic, simple organisms are bound to appear somewhere else considering the universe's vastness, the idea that they could develop this intelligence and self-awareness is another big leap that doesn't seem like it necessarily needs to happen wherever life is happening.
Hard to reconcile with people who would do something like that.
Differences in interpretations will happen but the YC rule that founder drama is too often a problem continues to exist and it shouldn’t be a surprise.
I'm not sure what rule the OP is referencing but otherwise reasonably successful start-ups often fail because founders clash on key parts of their vision (or behave in toxic ways towards each other or to other people in the company). This can very handily wreck your company or at a minimum substantially damage it.
What is the actual problem with AI generated text in and of itself?
If it was completely AI generated without any human intervention, it likely would have been fairly generic / poor writing anyway. At least for the time being, AI is a new tool at our disposal but it's still just a tool, like a calculator or a hammer.
Students should be judged on the merit of the work even if some of the work is AI generated.
The biggest problem I see is that learning usually requires effort/work and AI requires students to do less effort/work to achieve the same output. So the worry is that the quality of education received will decrease.
Example: no one cares that you wrote 5 pages on To Kill a Mocking Bird. They care that you read the book and thought critically about it. AI allows students to skip the reading and critical thinking portion, which is the most important part.
My boss told me AI isn't quite ready for production yet, but I should expect in just a few years that I'm expected to use an AI for most of my coding tasks. AI can write some very good code, but sometimes it does some "why did you do it that way" things which might or might not be a valid shortcut.
Something feels off about that and the other time lines. I’m sure I remember paying for Airtable pretty soon after it launched for a couple of months. Perhaps the timeline chart is literally just for the B2B channel?
I don't think the data is very "scientific", e.g: slack was officially launched in 2014 and got immediate traction. Yes there were 4 years of development but it wasn't even the product they wanted to sell.
If it takes a year or more to go from launch to first paying customer, what are you doing during that time?
Of course, you could be purposefully giving your product away while building the premium, paid-for features. I think that applies to some of these companies, and I'd be more curious about the time from launching that version to paid customers.
> - forcing a range means these ranges will skew lower so higher performing people will lose out and average salaries will go down
I could easily see this having the opposite effect: Forcing a range causes employers (particularly those with less name recognition) to increase posted salaries in order to get people interested enough to apply.
I don't see how posting lower salaries would do anything but discourage top applicants.
I can see how companies paying their current staff a lower salary would be hesitant to post the new job at a higher salary range. There would be a strong temptation to post at a lower range, despite that not attracting the best new talent, to avoid the demands of pay raises from the existing staff.
Of all the questions I've been asked in interviews over the course of my career, this is the only one I can actually still remember to this day. Partially because it's extremely unique. And partially because I was fairly certain at the time, judging by the look on your face, that I'd completely bombed it. (Also reading your explanation above, I now KNOW that I bombed it.)
Anyway, I'll attest to the fact that Dan at least didn't veto all candidates purely on the basis of their response to this question (unless I was the result of a massive clerical error).
Outcomes aside, I'm very thankful for my experience at Optimizely. My time there was a major inflection point for me both personally and professionally. I wouldn't be as effective in the workplace as I am today—nor would I have some of my most meaningful friendships—had I not cut my teeth at 631 Howard — thanks Dan (and Pete, if you're reading this too).
EDIT: Also considering the timeline and the role described in the OP's message, there's a nonzero chance we were interviewing for the same role. Small world!
I wouldn't call this the "secret" to learning a foreign language as an adult. Obviously immersion in a language is ideal, and the fact that he had already learned Spanish is even more ideal.
I'm currently 2 years into my attempt to learn Chinese and I can say that many of these tips don't apply to all languages:
1. Listening to music won't help with comprehension of tonal languages like Chinese because songs will usually ignore the tones so that they sound better set to music.
2. Reading children's books in character-based languages like Chinese will only be helpful if you're already proficient in a few hundred basic characters. Since there's no alphabet, there's no way to sound out words the way we can in English.
Otherwise, there are some great tips here. I agree that listening to classroom discussion and hearing others' mistakes is a great way to learn. It's also important to do daily, focused practice in the mornings when your mind is fresh and not muddled by other things.
Overall I think it's a good Quora answer but not necessarily a "secret" to learning a language.
Ah good point. I'm not very familiar with Thai. I'll also say that many Chinese songs try to retain the tones as much as possible, but they're generally a lot harder to make out in music, so it's usually not the most useful learning tool. I do think listening to music is important for cultural immersion in any language, though.
I've been looking forward to this game for years now. I thought it would never come. And now that it's here I'm totally saddened and appalled that EA would ruin such an incredible legacy for such petty reasons.
There has to be another way to stem piracy without totally obliterating the value of an otherwise excellent game...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Airways