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At least in the IT world, there are lots of contractors sold on their certifications who end up being complete frauds. I'd like there to be some sort of way to prove your merit especially when you have people's lives in your hands.
> Can the blackness of it be conveyed by my phone’s digital screen?

I wouldn't think so. If I understand these paints right they're basically designed to trap light that hits them, made of carbon nano-tubes. In person they seem to be completely without texture. Today's OLED phones get much darker blacks than the older LCD ones, but they're still not even perfect.
Yeah this is normal. What you cannot bypass is the security check where they look for weapons and such things.
> But can capitalism expand endlessly?

There's no limit to the value one can add. Consider computer software - there's no limit to how good one can make software. There's no limit to making better art, better movies, better houses, etc.
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I'm lucky that my car was made in the in between period, so all touch screen controls have physical controls as well.

I use the physical controls, especially when driving. But my navigatrix prefers the screen, primarily because she likes the visual feedback. (Not enough of the physical controls in my car have things that light up to let you know something's happened.)
I wonder if Softbank has released all of it's funds to WeWork. they usually release them in tranches based on milestone achievements. In this case doing an IPO was likely one. Which is probably why they were pushing against doing an IPO, potentially saving some of the remaining capital. Not sure.
As in, here on HackerNews? Because this site is not limited to tech topics?

Here's another non-tech topic from the frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21117707
Whereas in Margin Call, the message was 'I don't cheat and although I like to think we have some pretty smart people in this building it sure is a hell of a lot easier to just be first'.
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I'm not in the IT world, but I see two parallel worlds, the virtual world (like the next generation of Minecraft) and the real world

And people will spend more time in the virtual world to cooperate on different projects they love voluntarily.

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Oh SoftBank knew, and they tried some shenanigans late in the game to try to get this thing to IPO and not lose a boatload of money.

But it didn't work. Sanity has prevailed.
I know that comment is off-topic (made me laugh though) - but I just realized that that scene is (might be?) the origin of "black mirror"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSkGtW-fQ3s
Any love for James P. Hogan?

* The Two Faces of Tomorrow: https://www.baen.com/the-two-faces-of-tomorrow.html

* Thrice Upon a Time is one of the best time-travel novels I've read.
We’ll Forget John Lennon
I grew up in one, it'd be going home to the way life should be.
That’s well and good, but the limitation here is PCIe or other Bus bandwidth, and memory bandwidth. PCIe 5.0 gets us to 1Tbps per x16 slot. The top-of-the-line CPUs Max our at 6.4Tbps of memory bandwidth (Power10 when it is released).

This would require a large ASIC or FPGA to be useful, loaded with high-flocked HBM2.
Bioshock 2 gives us deontological choices
I didnt realise beamer was a proper (German) word, I assumed it was slang from the demoscene.
Can you point at the data you based your claim that global warming is so out of hand that the 0.3 degree cooling effect means absolutely nothing now on? I've been going over a lot (and I mean a lot) of data from many different sources. What I mostly noticed is that the temperature has been going up steadily from the early 1900s to around the mid '40s, after which it went down again until the mid '70s, after which it went up again. The current warm period seems to resemble both the Roman warm period (~350BCE-450CE) as well as the Viking age/Medieval climate anomaly, two relatively warm periods in recent history. The Roman warm period was followed by the Dark ages cold period (~450-850CE), the Viking age/Medieval climate anomaly by the Little Ice Age (~1350-1850CE). Judging by previous data it is likely that the current warm period will also be followed by a cold period, just as has happened countless times already.
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I'm quite busy so I can't type it all out. But Noam Chomsky has an interesting perspective on language, which is that we are predisposed to it. If our brains did not have fixed architectures we could not develop. Learning language is a genetically encoded process, much like the deterministic developmental structure of your brain is. Further, things like culture are the aggregations of personalities and other factors, so it makes less sense to argue there (though I believe that culture is also determined). Personality for instance, is almost certainly genetically determined. What we call personality is an amalgamation of traits, all of which (intelligence, thought patterns, sociability) are inheritable. How could we have evolution while at the same time not pass down things like "how quick I am to anger". Its not as concrete, but at times just may be.

Most likely you will slam me for the lack of rigor in my comment, which is fine, I don't have the time to spell it out and provide studies.
Yep yep. Guy's don't get it. It has something to do with the fat content in skin, but they can't feel much. Imagine if you had a weakened sense of taste your whole life. It must suck to not be able to feel things with any level of detail.

But on the other end, guys can go for hours on a computer no problem, but due to a lack of upper body strength, I need to exercise my neck and shoulder muscles once a week or slowly over time I'll start to get headaches.
Again that's the ethos of Go. In the many years I spent writing C++ or Python or Haskell I never had to write a max function because it's already there. I don't even need to think about it. And I can compose it easily to form more sophisticated things.

> Who does that?

Have you taken a look at the Python standard library?
Not sure if you have more than one kid of your own but fwiw having more kids definitely reduced this kind of anxiety for me. With my first it was really hard to not compare him to other kids (like you mentioned) even though I knew intellectually it wasn't helpful for either of us to do so. With the second they were so incredibly different from each other despite being raised in the same environment that it became much more obvious how silly it would be to compare them to someone else in a totally different environment. Now we have three and the idea of having free time to spend worrying about stuff like that seems like a luxury for the well rested.*

* An exaggeration, of course. We got a few hours of sleep in a row as recently as last week.
Is there anything wrong with Marcus?
You could have many children (10-100) living in well off families where malnourishment or lack of access to education would not be an issue. And I would gladly control upbringing of a real child, by raising it as my own, why do you think that controlling the upbringing is bad?
”You wouldn't if Apple didn't prohibit using VMs.”

Nitpick: Apple doesn’t completely prohibit VMs; it prohibits VMs not running on Apple hardware running the OS, and puts restriction on why you can run them. https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/macOS1014.pdf:

”to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software, for purposes of: (a) software development; (b) testing during software development; (c) using macOS Server; or (d) personal, non-commercial use.”

I think one intended use for that is for testing your software with older or beta OSes, but “already running the Apple Software” to me, implies running the same version in the VM as on the host.

I also think they don’t just allow running in a VM because it would make running hackintoshes perfectly feasible, losing them significant hardware sales.
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Nexus is my favorite in this genre... and in fact one of my favorite books ever. I had some trippy dreams while reading it :)
States could offer something like that if they need more people to work in certain sectors. It would be cool to see it tie into education system too.
Well a lot of those activities are paid too. Marching bands get paid. Tutors get paid.
Wut?

WeWork's revenues already cover its rent costs even at just 70% occupancy.

I still don't see this "cheating" you speak of.
> I'm not sure to what extent they have "authority over intercollegiate athletics",

Zero.

> but it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of college sports defer to rules created by the IOC governing bodies

To the extent those rules conflict with what the new law allows universities and athletic associations to do, a university doing so would be a violation by the University, but not by the IOC, which doesn't govern intercollegiate athletics at all.
but if college ball is the path to the pros... look at Basketball and Football vs. Hockey. Hockey has a well established Junior/Major Junior feeder system. NBA/NFL benefit from an unpaid sorting mechanism via the NCAA.
Good news for you, there are tons of remote software jobs that allow you to live wherever you want.
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okie dokie. I'll email you.
The least valuable NFL team - the Bills - had $86m in operating income.[1] Net profit would be lower.

The Cleveland Browns only had $32m in operating income, coming in as the 5th least valuable team. The Oakland Raiders were the 12th most valuable, with $28m in operating income (of course their value is high due to other factors).

Seems plausible that Alabama's program is worth over a billion dollars solidly. The value boost of being in the NFL is obviously what really separates the situations, regardless of comparable incomes.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/teams/buffalo-bills/?list=nfl-valuati...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2019/09/04/the-nfls...
> Let's stop pretending that college sports is anything but a glamorized professional sporting franchise

For 95+% of colleges athletes, their experience with college sports has absolutely nothing in common with professional sports. The pro-football edge case should probably be addressed somehow, but not in a way that ruins amateur sports for everyone else.
Your arguments are very much tail wagging the dog. NCAA has lucrative deals because of the schools, not vice versa.

A division with UCLA, Berkeley, USC, Stanford, UCSD, UC-Davis + plenty I'm forgetting would be instantly watchable in football and basketball. Really the only thing they'd be missing out on would be March Madness (a big deal) and the college football championship (a minor deal). There would be a very swift Rose bowl replacement, and I'm sure the invited BIG10 would be happy to attend, and if not for whatever reason a top 2 from that division would be a fun championship game too.

Really I see the only blocker here being participation in March Madness- but that feels like a short term roadblock and 'lets figure out when to pull the trigger' situation rather than an impossible hindrance.

The smaller sports will certainly suffer in the short term- but California is a massive market and having a California only college league is totally plausible.
Tell that to any injured student... or those students not actually given enough time to study for classes that aren't excessively easy to pass.

IMHO, if you're accepted on a Sports scholarship, you should be allowed to complete at least 5 years of schooling regardless of injury or ability to continue playing, and if you fail to meet scholastic eligibility, you should be released for a year to "catch up" while continuing coursework.

That would more closely resemble a fair exchange. As it stands a significant number of student athletes don't get a real education and/or are dropped before able to complete because of injury.
Edinburgh woman wants to lead Scotland's 'sober revolution'
This doesn't show that though. You have to examine the counterfactual: would the crime rate be even higher without the death penalty? If yes, it is a deterrent.
I've needed glasses for myopia since my early teens. As the inevitable decline in eye focusing ability set in (I'm now 52), I've taken to keeping a pair of glasses with weakened prescription (-1, 1.25, 1.5 diopter all seem to work equally well, just affects posture i.e. ideal distance to screen) near every computer workstation I use. With cheap mail-order outfits like Zenni cost is not an issue.

With these on, my eyes' comfortable (and nearly only remaining) "infinity focus" is used to work at a computer. One wonders, if myopia is, in fact, caused by long-term eye strain from excessive near focus time during developing years, whether a disciplined approach of using normal reading glasses designed for older folks, while doing all paper/computer work, might help against developing myopia.

I'm aware of bifocals and contact lenses/laser surgery (with these, ordinary cheap reading glasses would suffice) but I've always been most comfortable just wearing normal eyeglasses, so switching to weakened glasses as necessary works for me.
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Theoretically, endowments are _supposed_ to be paying for students’ education.
This is already old. Numerous discussions about this including more detailed articles, including licensing issue etc etc. Flagging, sorry
For Rachel Carson, wonder was a radical state of mind
There might be some additional help on the way directly in PyTorch for on-device :)

- iOS: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is...

- Android: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is...
> usually filled internally or from private networks.

I'm guessing you know this already, but there are also search firms that specialize in hiring executives.
I like the idea and will subscribe!
I don't think the government is the limiting body in what the players can make. The NCAA was the restricting governing body that prohibited players from making money. What this bill does is guarantee the college athletes can make money from external sources and the NCAA can't supercede the legal system. I think I'm getting that right.
Guess it's time to offer 3x. It's how supply and demand work, right?
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> It's not a great look that those guys can't make any money in their college career.

Especially since someone else with none of the talent and assuming none of the risk, is making wheelbarrows full of money.
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But if you're buying their education anyway, does that really teach them the ability to accomplish hard tasks? I don't imagine the university being especially strict on the students whose parents gave very large donations.

I understand the value for an "ordinarily wealthy" individual, who is wealthy enough to give a bit to the university but does not have the sheer amount of connections that a super-wealthy one would have.
> I distribute my thoughts using email.

I kind of get the feeling you don't target younger people? I wonder if you would also, in case you for some reason couldn't cell phones, find that totally fine, since landlines are the superior solution.

At the end of the day companies and politicians both have to go where people are, even if we find the platforms used despicable.
In my experience being at the receiving end of many arrogant and unprofessional "doctors", having that medical license is far from proof of anything. If anything, the licensing requirement functions as little else than yet another barrier to competition, which ultimately harms the patients.
Imagine an OLED screen with this as a back plane...
If you mean the TV series, it's:

The 'black mirror' of the title is the one you'll find on every wall, on every desk, in the palm of every hand: the cold, shiny screen of a TV, a monitor, a smartphone.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/dec/01/charlie-b...
This is arguably a "things might go wrong in the future" argument, which has no real substance as it can be made about literally anything. To really say something, you'd need to provide some more substance about why you think the current investors in Dropbox and Slack are less informed about economic conditions than investors in the rest of the market.
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You can’t just hire more top talent. “Elite” is “best”, not “more”.
I thought radar absorbing paint didn't work much below 1GHz. So it probably doesn't really help against passive radar.
Agreed; unfortunately, the schools getting this money already have more than they can possibly spend.
The problem is fundamentally caused by overconsumption and the solutions that don’t include reducing consumption will absolutely fail. If this were a school shooting you’re suggesting we be the hopes and prayers guy.
Here's a BMW in vantablack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCI2KYhC8vk
Every collegiate conference is regional. [0] Long flights are expensive and inconvenient. You could maybe justify a national conference for men's basketball, but that would eliminate all the minor sports and also would probably violate Title IX.

[0] admittedly, minor confused conferences like Conference USA and Big 12 stretch the definition a little bit, but they're still essentially regional.
sqrt(11000 miles) ~= 105 miles. If we assume the doctor is referring to a center of a square, then according to pythagoras formula, the longest distance to this doctor is 74 miles. Interesting how it matches like that.

When I hear stories about rural lifestyle and people driving for an hour to get to grocery store, it doesn't seem that out of place.
Because it's really odd to associate a university with a professional sports team and not paying the athletes was the last straw after stadiums in the hundreds of millions, coaches salaries in the millions, television deals, etc. etc. already all made it seem like a joke.

There's nothing wrong with being a sports fan or being a player, or competing while at university, but the levels that football and basketball have gotten to are plainly ridiculous. Those games and how much money is sunk into them are just ridiculous to have at a university.

There is no reason they should enjoy any tax benefits and their presence distracts and overshadows the purpose of a university.
> But businesses didn't want a free market with many competitors.

Those who own capital did not want competition, businesses never want competition but are forced by good governments to deal with it, in this case the government which the Capitalists own did nothing to stop them. SMEs were larger part of the US economy than big business. Now big business is using tech to destroy SMEs, or even various protected monopolies like taxis. These are not political decisions, they are capital backed decisions. They can be undone only with an organized populace. So far the propaganda war has been won by capital. But the populace is quickly becoming disillusioned by the American Dream. And so the rich have scapegoated immigrants. But that's only going to work for so long.'

Most growth in the US has been and continues to be captured by Capital. Entrepreneurs usually get a small piece... Capital does most of the work and those who own it eat most of the pie when it grows. Disparity grows and power becomes consolidated. They buy up more and more patents to keep competition out. They make third world countries into their bitch. It's a vicious cycle of perfected power consolidation that needs to be broken up. It's not healthy for anyone... other than idiot consumers that will buy anything advertised not caring about who is producing it, on what terms, and who it's hurting and whether or not it's sustainable. All things you buy have to be replaced and if there is no competition and all these monopolies than the things that you own, like you car, will eventually own you through the loan you will pay to buy it... Same goes with all things which will be reduced to services owned by a few which collect most of the profit.
If SoftBank had to do creative accounting to value it at $47 billion in January in order to support the IPO price (and thus increase the value of their existing investment) then that might be fraud. I haven't seen anybody suggest that such evidence exists though.
This is true too, we are adapted to our environment, in particular the things that we do automatically (System I).

Playing chess well is a combination of both conscious and unconscious skills. However when deep learning systems play, it is all the unconscious, automatic application of statistical rules. They are playing a very different game from the human chess game.

Because there is no abstract reasoning involved here, these systems cannot apply the lessons learned from chess to another board game, or to something completely different in life, which humans can and do. So even though they are much stronger than human players, they aren't strong in the same way.
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It's not all that important, and clearly their kids would have done fantastically even without an 'elite' University education. Hell, they could just drop that $37m into a trust fund and their kids would be set for life, without lifting another finger again, let alone going to college.

On the other hand, from their mentality, why NOT do what it takes to give them the best 'chance' to 'succeed'?
I am nowhere near the position in my career to comment from personal experience but I imagine that if you are making that kind of money you didn't apply on Indeed. I picked the million dollar number for shock value above any market research.
All politics and grammar rules aside, I personally find 'they' to be really confusing when referring to a specific person.

IE: "is Pat coming to lunch with us?"

"Yes, they're coming in a moment."

Leaves me wondering if 'they' is perhaps referring to some implied group of which Pat is a part, like a SO or team at work (meaning we might need to take two vehicles and get another table at the restaurant) or just Pat.

I wish there was an acceptable non-gendered singular pronoun we could all agree on.
> The default phabricator workflow really like to squash many commits into a single diff.

That problem also noticeably cropped up when Mozilla switched to Phabricator for its reviews, and the end result was/is that there's now an official helper script for submitting commit stacks without squashing ("moz-phab").

Because that took a little while to develop after Phabricator became mandatory, though (and also because installing arcanist with all its required dependencies can apparently be somewhat of a pain, plus because arcanist has some further foibles like insisting to actually check out each revision you want to submit, which then subsequently can lead to needless recompiling), some people wrote their own solutions, which a) were ready earlier than the official solution and b) allow you to avoid installing arcanist at all:

- "Phlay" for Git (https://github.com/mystor/phlay)

- Mercurial already has the "phabsend" extension, which was then forked and extended and currently lives at https://bitbucket.org/KwanEsq/phabsend-moz/src/default/, though I think some changes might have actually made their way back into the original phabsend extension distributed with Mercurial (one problem with the official extensions as of a while ago was that it used a Phabricator API that didn't work for binary files - I think this has been fixed in the fork, but not yet in the official extension included directly with Mercurial).

(Also I think that there's currently work underway to make "moz-phab" work without a local arcanist installation, too).

So the takeaway from this is that there is indeed no good official solution for this, but "phabsend" or "phlay" might be a better starting point.