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> What will be fun is to figure out how California is going to implement this wild hared idea if the sport is not profitable

The law does not require the sport to pay anything more, this removes the "you may not use your own likeness" rule as being bad for the players.

The new change does not apply to anything they do on-field and it only starts in 2023, so it will definitely change decisions for college admissions.

This does not add any significant burden to the sport organizers, except they lost their captive monopoly on the athletes appearing in a commercial.

Right to negotiate for yourself is a big one.
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Then the bill violates the Commerce Clause of the Constitution and is illegal.

https://openjurist.org/10/f3d/633/national-collegiate-athlet...
> That's a neat fact, but the reality is that to support a human population of 7B+ with intensive agriculture and industrial production, the planet heating up is in fact devastating.

Are you sure of that? Increased CO2 causes plants to grow faster. Higher temperatures lead to greater precipitation. Shorter winter means you can squeeze in an additional growing season.

In fact the fossil and sedimentary record shows that until recently in evolutionary history CO2 levels and temperatures were much higher, and the world was covered in tropical rainforest.

If anything we are greening the world, reversing a desertification trend that started when grasses started out competing rainforest.

Of course we are doing it while polluting the planet and acidifying the ocean, which are real problems.
Option 4: Litigation. Bring suit to have the California law declared unconstitutional and request an injunction on the law taking effect until a decision is made. I’m willing to bet the NCAA will spend millions on this, not for the benefit of student athletes, but to allow the NCAA to continue to exploit student athletes.
They are not fast enough for real time 3D pose estimation (60fps)
AI could predict El Niño up to 18 months in advance
If the costs of storing data rise faster than data is generated, people will simply be more selective with what data is retained permanently.

Most data is junk anyway, and is only useful in the immediate or short-term. It's also somewhat pointless to debate without talking about a specific type of data. Some of it is highly compressible and is a non-issue.
They have not increased enrollment but they have massively increased financial aid.
Oh, so you're really objecting to the SEC's accredited investor rule + the contract provisions in private shareholder agreements that forbid transferring those shares without board approval?

That could work as long as the shares don't come with rights of information (financial disclosures) or control (board seats) - if they did no startup would ever be able to do anything, and if they did manage to do something their competitors could buy up 1 share and get full access to their books. It opens another can of worms though: if the shares don't come with any rights of information or control, there is a strong incentive and ability for insiders to take actions that cheat the public out of their shareholder rights. For example, they could claim that they "lost" the shareholder certificates and have no record of you as a shareholder (as in the recent Mary Poppins sequel), or they could issue new shares to dilute your ownership down to nothing (as in the Facebook movie), or they could take your money and not deliver a working product (as in Theranos), or they could take your money and then spend it on overpriced leases of buildings owned by the founder (as in WeWork). The reason we have accredited investor provisions is that presumably anyone with a million in liquid assets has the ability to hire lawyers to enforce their rights, and the sense to be aware of these scams and carefully document everything.

Interestingly, the selling point of blockchains & ICOs was that you could delegate the enforcement of rights to a computer and not need a lawyer to ensure you don't get screwed. It only really worked for the first two cases, though, and the SEC shut it down pretty quickly because the latter cases (like taking your money and running off to the Cayman Islands) became a real problem.
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Yes and no. Yes, an eSIM can contain several profiles from different operators. But only one profile is active at a time.

There is typically a default bootstrap profile, to provide just enough connectivity to get started and choose your actual operator. And then this operator profile will be installed too. But the system is more generic, and could store more profiles. At least in theory, in practice there is a cost to generating a profile so this is only done if there is a real need.
> Even if you have a "trusted=1" flag for repos, you can be sure people will set external repos to be just as trusted as the core ones

That was the thing - you couldn't.

I don't remember which way the level hierarchy went, but the idea was that rpm could not be executed directly even by root (LSM prevented that), and all package installation logic was confined to Zypper/libzypp. Packages and repos could declare their security level. Trying to pull in an upgrade to a LEVEL(core) package from a LEVEL(media) repository would fail. Zypper simply would not allow to install a package from a lower-security repository over an installed package that had come from a higher-security origin. Manually added LEVEL(core) repos would have been ignored.

There were a few layers of applied crypto, package signatures and immutable keyrings involved too. I had a prototype Zypper/libzypp with package-level signature verification almost ready just before my vacation and planned to polish it to an RFC after coming back. Best laid plans... During those two weeks the entirety of Nokia's linux development had been axed, maemo killed and thousands of good embedded systems engineers were suddenly looking for new jobs.

Funny thing, though. Zypper's source code was almost pleasant to work with after having seen the Lovecraftian horrors that made up libapt.
In a fitness experience, you can imagine the resistance at least, which is what I wind up doing in beat saber to increase my heart rate and calorie burn. It is actually an interesting problem: can the mind imagine the feedback that really isn’t there, causing muscles to work harder even if they don’t have to? For some people at least, the answer is yes, though I bet it would be hard for others. But shadow boxing, katas, and so on, have shown that imagining resistance has been around for awhile.

We can kind of imagine tactile feedback already in a UI, and vibration is effective in reinforcing that illusion. Perhaps the way forward is to further play around with fooling the brain (via some kind of cognitive interface) rather than somehow reproducing real feedback.
> WeWork leases office space and parcels it out to temporary tenants. But, what's to stop the management companies that already own the office space to do the same thing? Why pay a middle man?

WeWork's business model kind of reminds me of MoviePass in that they are very dependent on vendors who could also be their competitors. And there's the risk that the economy slows down and people cancel their memberships but they still have long term leases to pay...
I believe you misunderstood me. Take any architecture-engineering book before 14th century, and I mean go back to the dawn of man, and you won't even find Pythagoras theorem.

It was all collection of heuristics that worked and the collections were made from hundreds of years of trial and error.

Big buildings in Rome were all built with heuristics that had no formulas.

Euclidean geometry in architecture is a modern thing.
Is it production ready for serving PyTorch models? How about if I wanted to use something like Go to serve those models? That's fairly straightforward with Keras (Python) trained TF models.
I will say the support to my thread has received has been super nice and helpful.
The scandal was actually interesting because it showed the gulf between "rich" and "ultra-rich". The ultra-rich have always been able to buy their kids' way into college with 8-digit donations for new buildings; that's so obvious it's hardly even a secret. It's the merely-kinda-rich, who can't throw around that kind of money, who have to resort to the fake scholarships and so on.

Which makes it kind of difficult to feel bad for the colleges who were supposedly the "victim" of these scams: they have no problem with bribery, they were just complaining that they didn't get their cut.
This appears to discuss secretarial work like data entry which women weren't so much suited for as pushed into by limited options.

The fact that data entry was a female dominated profession because women were pushed into it and men discouraged from it doesn't serve to prove that current women are not able to work in the field.
What does 'generate float' mean as a financial term?
> Maybe if he had taken up smoking cannabis, he wouldn't have been successful

And maybe he would have been more successful. Maybe he also would have grown tiny little wings and horns. Who knows what could happen if he had taken it up?

This is nothing but pure speculation at this point lol
Every time I see this analogy, I wonder why people choose Kitty Hawk as the start date. Perhaps instead, they should treat Gagarin's flight as analogous to the flight of the Montgolfier brothers in 1783. The interval from the first manned balloon flight to the first airplane flight was 131 years, with decades of little apparent progress during that long time.
Then the lawyerbots will start moving too fast, too, so we'll need laws written and approved by congressbots.

You know, maybe the Unabomber had a point there...
> being "elite" is part of the brand.

Exactly. And what public policy needs to do is revoke the non-profit status of schools that fail to make any effort to expand despite having an abundance of resources and qualified candidates.

Harvard could easily accommodate 20,000 undergrads given the size and quality of its applicant pool. That fact that it doesn't spend a penny of its $30 billion endowment doing so reveals that its mission is brand management, not education. And that's perfectly fine. But it shouldn't enjoy a tax-advantaged status predicated on the make-believe that its a philanthropic organization.
There's not one example of a regional sports league that has had any sort of success in recent memory.

One of the foundational reasons that the WWF / WWE became the dominant power in the wrestling market is that they were the first to ignore regional barriers.

Rinse, repeat.
The average cost of 1 year of University is approx. 35k a year for private colleges according to collegedata.com. The average salary of 1 first year NBA player is 3 million. The lowest paid NBA player makes approx 500k. That doesn't sound like a "free" education to me. Players would be better off going straight to the NBA and going to college later, if they were still inclined.
> The APPLE DISK is different than most other drives because it ignores the timing hole, using the motor and ‘soft’ timing techniques instead.
Looks promising.

Can we have a consistent function notation

fn name(a: int, b: int) -> void {}

This also helps with clean functional type arguments.

swift and rust support this.

A single consistent notation will be helpful for new polyglots.
> Would you use an IDE without word wrap?

I wasn't aware it was controversial to use an IDE without word-wrap. I do not have it enabled on any of my editors.
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"Enabled" is one thing. But it should be available. In HN's code blocks, it's not even an option.
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I think there is a distinction to be made between removing a direct contact to a person using your platform, and removing a link to another competing platform to different content. (If you're linking to the same listing on another platform that's probably something a user agreement would have to deal with)

For example, if you said "check out our other listing on VRBO" in your AirBnB profile, but they were not the same listing - and AirBnB scrubbed your link, I would argue that would be anti-competitive behavior for a large player in the marketplace to remove the link. Why did they edit your content? Was it Spam? Was it against the rules? The only reason to remove it was to remove the competition from the other platform.

I acknowledge that the user acquisition pipeline / discovery chain for sales / rentals is very valuable and these platforms want to maintain the chain so they make their money. That said - you can't have your cake and eat it, and becoming a large player and exhibiting these behaviors has historically been a problem.

I also acknowledge that real moderation of these types of links is a problem. The "easy" answer that happens to benefit the company is removal of all of those links, but that reasoning seems flimsy.

If you're a major player in a market space with huge network effects and you remove links that your users have posted (in-line with your user agreement on your website), that's anti-competitive behavior that has typically not been looked well upon in the United States.
Same - I assumed donate over x and your kids get accepted. It turns out that x is exceptionally higher than I thought.
> I didn't think using the risk free to account for the time value of money was that controversial.

Its not "controversial". Its just that with negative rates, you can't take the log(interest rate) anymore, so the math literally breaks.

I don't think its a particularly difficult problem to solve, there are probably going to be a bunch of easy extensions to account for negative rates of the modern era.
That's funny; one selling point of rust is the easy propagation of errors thanks to the '?' but zig removed the % which was the equivalent I think
Aye, but you also need to set a limit on such ideas. It's very easy for something like that to run away. Because you make it seem like a psyops reservist is out to persuade the public to goose step around. What if the ilks of Twitter bring those people in specifically to combat misinformation because that's what they're good at? Someone in that position is like a hammer. A hammer can be used to create or destroy. It's generally the company's responsibility to figure that out.

Moonlighting is a dangerous thing to regulate. It starts to impede on personal freedoms. Until social media is regulated as a public sphere, there's really no bearing for anyone to make judgement who work there with either current or past employment.

Oh, also, I hope you understand that other people's opinion of me don't affect me. The same as my opinion of you shouldn't concern you either.
>Another option: CA universities become the least desirable place for the very best high school athletes.

That's laughable.

The best high school basketball players are only gonna be in college one or two years in any case. It's legal formality currently that makes them go there.

The idea that draft picks and their families are going to forego free money in California for the purposes of supporting the NCAA is, again, just a bit fanciful. These guys are gonna get drafted no matter where they go. So I can pretty much guarantee you that their agents will swing them to Cali.
Friend married a Russian cardiac surgeon, one with 20 years of experience, brilliant woman. She was not allowed to practice in the US without years of redoing residency and entry level exams and loads of money. She ended up changing careers as it was so much bother. Patients ended up losing out on a caring and bright provider.
Ah, fair enough. I guess it's just that the Matrix became popular with a much wider crowd who had never heard of Neuromancer and so weren't aware of the genre's existence or origins and thought it was more out of the blue than it really was.

Interesting about the connection to Blade Runner, too.
Lots of good ones on here already, surprised not to see anything from Ken MacLeod, quite a few of his SF books have very CS themes, for example The Restoration Game[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Restoration_Game
I think the argument is funny:

We will continue to arbitrarily create money, and create incentives which force us into subpar investments in order to motivate people to take out loans they otherwise wouldn't have, in order to work to create products there wasn't otherwise enough demand for, and in the meantime the middleman will collect the fees for their "work" in managing these "investments".

Really kind of reminds me of Rick and Mortys microverse episode.
Daemon by Daniel Suarez (a database engineer) definitely deserves a place on this list. It starts with the death of a famed and wealthy game engine programmer due to brain cancer... and develops from there. I don’t want to spoil it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(novel_series)?wprov=sf...
I agree but then it' not like they're suffering. $37million is nothing to them--and they can say they donated to a good cause.
The book that got me back into mathematics and computers, and led me into CS. Can't recommend it enough.
I think people should understand how this contributes to the general apathy regarding college tuition and other inequalities.

The people with the most influence have so many intertwined unspoken relationships that there is no benefit to addressing whatever the underclass is talking about.

Coupled with the idea that many of their own children aren't even aware of what level of skill they demonstrated versus their family's money and clout. Many of them are oblivious to what other people struggle with, even if they are able to apply themselves in the same ways.
I believe the reason it became a huge scandal was because, the money that was used for the purchase wasnt given to the university rather than accomplice's pocket. Thus, not providing further opporunities for the needy. And for you to legally purchase a seat in those universities, it was gonna cost them much higher price tag.
I recently found a large stash of these and gave them away at VCFMW. Then I found more in my basement...
As an engineer I finally got to take the training course our techs go through and experience how a tech uses the software which we (engineers) developed and maintain. It was eye-opening. One particular example relevant to this discussion is the old version of the equipment had physical potentiometers which the tech would adjust to get a desired meter reading. The new equipment has you just type a number into a textbox in a Windows program. BUT - it doesn't even provide a slider or up/down arrows, you have to play The Price Is Right inputting guessed over/under numbers until a measured output in a second text box matches a desired value. It's clear that when the transition was made from physical controls to software based controls, not enough thought was given to ergonomics and how it would be used by an actual human.
I disagree. You are thinking of endorsements as if Nike and Underarmor are the only players here. But in every college town in America, Jim's Chevrolet or Thomson's Car Wash or whatever, would love to be able to have some of the local players on their tv or radio ads.

I'll bet car dealerships will be the first place in CA that you will start seeing college athletes on the billboards.

And it won't just be the top guys in the state. It will be the top guys on the local team. Even for smaller schools.
If most teams allow players to be paid, and Alabama doesn't want to play those teams, their position in the market will plummet. If you don't think that can happen, review the Nebraska Cornhuskers' history.
Financial engineering. They set the prices which they pay themselves to appear philanthropic.
It is a fantastic book, but unfortunately (as far as I can tell) seems to be out of print in paperback, which is a shame.
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No. There's scientific consensus on aggregate warming and overall destabilization of weather patterns. So we can say that generally speaking we'll have a higher chance of beating previous temperature records going forward.

That doesn't work the other way around when looking at single weather events.
>Or Option 3, just change the NCAA rules to match California, and let players get paid.

It needs to be pointed out that this law doesn't allow schools to pay players directly. There probably isn't enough money for that without totally restructuring athletic departments around the country (a football team like USC is wildly profitable, but most of that profit goes to pay for unprofitable teams like swimming, volleyball, etc). Paying players directly also has a number of Title IX repercussions that would likely need to be ironed out in court.

This law instead allows the players a way to make money for themselves based off their participation in sports. That simply frees athletes up in the same way that non-athletes are unrestricted from how they can earn money while in school. No actor is going to be kicked out of their school's theater program because they got $200 for acting in a local car commercial. Now the football player won't either.
Can you describe your stacked workflow with phabricator? I have tried to impose the LKML/straight-line-rebase workflow on my teams when I can, but problems with Phabricator _always_ crop up, and it's difficult to onboard people.

The default phabricator workflow really likes to squash many commits into a single diff. How do you go about preparing a "stack" of changes, prepare one diff for each git commit, and then apply changes on top of each one as review comments come in?

I've ghetto-rigged my own scripts to generate stacked diffs, checking out a new branch for each one, but it's fragile, and not really suitable for sharing with all new team members.

I have not found a magic arcanist incantation to generate a changelist based on multiple commits.
They hid links, hash tags, and other content referencing SnapChat. I didn't read anything in the article related to reducing scams. I'm also not sure that it would be credible to happen to block Snapchat just for scams. Are they blocking all links, or just to their social media competitors, for example. But this is a good point. Moderation is damned near impossible here, but it's suspicious to apply this to your competitors content including hash tags and verified profiles.
That is a feature, not a bug.

Why would a well-paid, highly regulated profession allow people to come into their turf and undercut them?

Not saying this is a GOOD thing. Merely pointing out that the system is working as intended.
Oh yes, all my experience is for computer science.
How do you read code from codebases that don’t respect the arbitrary column limit?
No, of course not. I would argue that:

- Some do, and we're really bad at figuring out which ones the are, especially ahead of time.

- It's a collective effort. Your thesis and my thesis might not be particularly groundbreaking or influential individually, but each one is a tiny step, more or less in the right direction, towards understanding something. It's mostly a myth that "geniuses" make huge leaps forward, while everyone else muddles around. Most ideas are presaged in the literature for a while before someone puts them together and runs with it.
Yes, if auto emissions, minimum wage, contractor laws, and many other progressive policies are any example: blue states often pile on to each others' policies to spread them widely. NCAA shouldn't count on NY, IL, WA, MA, or other big blue states not doing this.
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> if they pump out people that don't have skills over time their "Prestige" doesn't amount to much

I think you're underestimating the degree to which corrupt, inept institutions can maintain their influence over society.
In case you're lacking context (not all readers here are US basketball fans) - John Oliver has an excellent take on NCAA salaries issue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pX8BXH3SJn0