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Example of thoughtful design: prescription drug containers that can't be easily opened by children, but can be opened readily by adults.

Example of mindless nanny-statism: washing machines that you are simply not permitted to open at certain times, period -- not even in case of power outages, component failures, or plumbing emergencies.

I hope you can see the difference. Don't defend shitty engineering. It makes the whole world a worse place to live.
How Is a Company Valued by Financial Statements?
Just about all "practical" warp drives encase the "ship" inside of a miniscule bubble in regular space. The amount of photons and particles that actually hit that bubble and enter the expanded space within is absolutely tiny. The energy requirements to do otherwise are just flat out ridiculous. If humanity ever develops a practical warp drive it'll have to use this "bubble" approach one way or another or there's something seriously wrong with the theory of general relativity.
Recently retired BA 747 catches fire (tail G-CIVD)
It's solid for creating basic slides quickly, and it supports exporting to PDF by having your printer print the PDF from a browser (it came out perfect).

Here's a 100+ slide PDF of a talk I did the other month with Reveal using an out of the box theme: https://github.com/nickjj/nyhackr-cli-dev-env/blob/master/ny...

The PDF doesn't show it but I had a lot of animated gifs (almost every terminal screenshot is animated). Overall it only took like 30 seconds to assemble each slide once I knew the content I wanted to have, since it's just HTML in the end.

It also has a nice a presenter layout to see slide notes. Perfect for live streaming a remote presentation while having notes off to the side that no one can see on the stream.

The best part about it is the standalone version doesn't require running a Node server. It's just basic HTML, CSS and JS that you can open straight in a browser.

I'll be using it for future presentations.
> The inverse would be "hire people who don't give a shit."

That’s the complement. The inverse would be “Fire (or don’t hire) people who give a shit”. Also what you identified as a corollary is more accurately identified as the converse.
> Where is the Hispanic and Black representation?

Coinbase aspires to be a global company. What does "Black" even mean in that context? People with dark skin color? If so, a broad portion of South Asians and sub-Saharan Africans would qualify.

What does Hispanic mean? Would Spanish people qualify?

Did you mean only in the context of the USA? If so, how is that different than the Nationalist jingoism of Donald Trump, where you want US-centric population representation in a global company?
> If the goal is to persuade, the last thing you want to do is give the reader a reason to dismiss you outright.

I think the point this article is making is that writing is the pursuit of truth, not the pursuit of persuasion. It doesn’t matter how many people agree with you unless you’re trying to sell something.
This is not true. Have you ever used one? I own one and cycle with it daily.

It takes less effort to cycle, and so you can get faster speeds easier - my Vanmook would get it 30kmph with medium effort effort on flat roads, but then i can coast on that for a bit as it slows down (its not maintaining this speed through a motor). But you still have to cycle - it's not a motorbike.
Macaroons: Cookies with Contextual Caveats for Decentralized Authorization
Newspeak makes a distinction between "poc" and "non black poc"
> > I went into Aerospace Engineering thinking that I'll be able to design radically different looking airplanes.

> What is it you're doing as an entrepreneur you find so rewarding?

The aerospace industry rewards making minor improvements to conventional airplanes rather than building something novel. Entrepreneurship rewards building something new and "radically different", which is what he was looking for in the first place.
I don't seem to be able to DM... maybe not enough karma?
logan@legalpad.io and I can walk you through a few options.
How would one justify literally building something that someone has done very well, so that you can learn, literally by building something that's probably not as good.

I mean, on one's own time, this seems like rather a good thing to do.

But to say "Yeah, instead of something that works now 0 days work let's spend 3 months building something that may not work very well and we have to maintain" - is not a reasonable premise in most scenarios.

It defies the very point of trade specialization upon literally which the economy is built.

So while we should always be learning, learning in and of itself in most instances is not a good enough reason to do something at least at work.
I identify with both your sentiment and what PG wrote.

Going through life with this feeling of disconnection is very consuming, and can have severe consequences personally and professionally.

Time is especially unkind for independent thinkers who do not achieve what others consider success, fast enough. Being unconventional and 'creative' while young is something passable and understandable... maybe even fashionable depending on where you live. But being of the same mindset and past your thirties is not generally acceptable, unless you have show a measure of financial/professional success.

I would love to see PG write about this, if he has experience observing or living through these sentiments.
What if this need is illusory? What if hooking a human up to the web is akin to wiring a tiny LED to a trillion volts?
> And that it is a complete and utter insult to people with actual social disabilities when he blames “being on the spectrum” for being bad at his job?

That cuts both ways. Discrimination on neuro-diversity is also bad.

> And that it is a complete and utter insult to people with actual problems with racism when she blames “being Black” for missing a promotion?

The autism-jab was in bad faith, and it worked on you. You turned his inability/carefulness not to make split decisions into a poor-faith excuse for being a racist tech bro oblivious to the struggles of others.
I don't seem to be able to DM... maybe not enough karma? DM me or logan@legalpad.io and I can walk you through a few options.
You have invented electrolysis.
I think the idea is you stop, read the sign (probably need to get out of the car), then either stay or go after parsing. Or if you're a regular you learn the rules that apply to you.
> It would make interplanetary and orbital settlement not just possible but easy

I don’t know about “easy”, but it removes a logistical wall.

I wonder if this sidesteps the time dilation effects of high speed travel.
Love that Greg Lemond has been lurking on here for 8 years for this moment ;)

Edit: Ah ok Geoff not Greg.
Would this study be evidence that artificial sweeteners do not reduce the chance of Type 2 because there's still an insulin response?
Disabling vulnerabilities mitigations on Tiger Lake results in worse performance
Babysitting employees is not really a function of the employers. If people wish to leave it's their choice
Eccentric humor mixed with legit concept.
Swedish runestones open gateway to ancient Viking civilization
We got an IBM PC XT in 1984. I disagree 180° with every claim about the past this article makes. Computers of today, and particularly mobile devices, are infinitely simpler and easier.
I really hope that the company behind Stuffit does not come in and send a C&D or something as we’ve seen in so many other heartbreaking cases.
I find it interesting that conventional thinkers are described as "sheep" in this article. In my experience, most people who I thought were shallow or "conventional" thinkers were not. Rather, they cared about different things than I did. They were independent thinkers, questioning assumptions, in the field where they were expert or passionate, and conventional thinkers everywhere else because they want to save their mental energy for the areas they care about the most.
Uber and several other gig companies have been operating in violation of California law for about a decade. The state could have shut them down at any time for any myriad number of reasons, but instead got friendly with them and took piles upon piles of their money. This isn't about spending money on any given proposition, but about systemic corruption in the Democratic party, where they'll sell out working people for campaign donations and c-suite positions when they leave office.
Reference please? I am not talking here about bright ideas... I am talking about something that is really bitch to implement (quite frankly I would rather take tinycc and mutate the c source (same goes for go source code) before compiling than going the LDE and Mistfall way but there might be something that I have missed in all those years) and I would love to see something that is beyond this. And imho, no, various payloads/drivers/rootkits/uefi/..., etc. doesnt come close in level of complexity. They are just bright ideas, but please I really would love to prove me wrong.

I would love to give some other example next time instead of 20+ years old piece of code. Please share the knowledge.
I don't think this will help much at all. Maybe for a few, but I doubt it will reduce costs for city-dwellers.

If you have any ambition, your networking is severely limited. If you have any desire to find a mate, your pool has decreased rapidly. If you want to see a concert or go to a new restaurant, you have far less options.
seriously right, this whole thread is very confusing.
Apple might completely take over end users' computers
There are people working for very little, but it is very rare. For example you make at least $15 an hour at McDonalds in Sweden since that is what the union agreement is for that sector. McDonalds isn't forced to sign it, but if they do they are protected against strikes. However you can have a small company without union agreement and pay whatever you like, but if your employees are in a union they might use it to start a strike action if your conditions are too bad.

Note that in Sweden unions aren't company specific so there is no way to prevent people from joining one.
> building highly scalable distributed system

I doubt that. Looking through the link and recently having discussed this in an OT-thread of an hobbyist-forum, the only thing you learn is AWS-lego. I don't see, how training for marketing keyword-riddled multiple choice-questions helps you in understanding the systems in question (case in point: Q1 of the "blog" - basically the only skill required is basic (!) logic matching requirements to the services (my mother can do this) and translating the marketing speech to requirements... – you don't need to know anything about interdependencies.)
Power consumption is the key factor here.
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Was it really? That guy was leading one of the largest and the most effective ground forces against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. His troops had contact with the U.S. and Russia for air support. I wouldn't be surprised if one of U.S. regional allies that isn't happy about the situation in Iraq and Syria gave U.S. some made up intelligence about an attack to provoke U.S. against him.

"BBC: Qasem Soleimani: Why his killing is good news for IS jihadists" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51021861
Interesting, I just used deck.js (I think a similar thing) to create a presentation after decades of professional power-pointing.

I decided to create my presentation in a series of markdown files, then run a script to compile them into a single HTML+deck.js side deck.

The overhead of setting the thing up originally was worth it, the iteration on the presentation (eg ability to work on a single section in a markdown editor) was much faster.
Lol. You can’t work only five hours a day _and_ still “give a shit”, according to the article.

Sounds like someone full of himself. I’m never going to work more than 8 hours a day for a company, preferably less even. I still get more stuff done in those hours that I do work.

I care a lot about what I do, but I’m not going to destroy myself or my life for someone else’s company. Already did that for the military, never again.
A Desert City Tries to Save Itself with Rain
Jointwt/twtxt is a Self-Hosted, Twitter -like Decentralised microBlogging platf
Have used it for many talks. Fantastic software. Especially the presenter mode in a separate window is nice.
I really like reveal. However I still havent found a good way of creating slides. I find writing directly in HTML too tedious, but haven't really found a good other way. Most of the Markdown converters that are floating around are to restricted. At the moment I'm using org-reveal which works quite well, but I often find that the layout options lacking so I end up putting a lot of HTML into the org files which again defeats the purpose. Anyone have a good solution?
USCIS is the best place for authoritative info... but it can be really hard to navigate through all their different programs and find what you need.
Chatting with an immigration attorney like Peter and his team, or our team at Legalpad, will help you understand what your options are, as well as the grey areas and nuance in some of the rules.

Sometimes what the government says, and how they actually respond to cases, can be pretty different - experience in the field matters, you need to see a number of cases to get a feel for what works/ doesn't work.
There's also a comparison between English-speaking countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_traffic_signs_in...

I find it interesting how the US uses text for almost everything, and how Canada is sort of a mix of US-style and European-style signs.
As a general rule, being a founder and/or substantial owner doesn't disqualify one from O-1 classification (and in fact is usually an asset). The standard for O-1 classification is less whether one meets an abstract standard of extraordinary ability and more whether one meets the specific O-1 criteria which are often within reach of talented engineers without advanced degrees, particularly those who have founded or are in the process of founding a company.
The financial incentive structures are also pretty skewed. Upside for founders is much, much higher than employees.

Proper incentives entice employee engagement.
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Ask HN: Should We Move Again?
I started a ML-based algotrading project in March by working with a flat mate in France. To this day, it has been really doing well (Our trading volume of yesterday was 1.6B usd).

When it started doing well, around June, we started thinking about going somewhere else: we wanted a change of lifestyle and lower taxes. After arguing for a long time, we ended up choosing Budapest, and we moved there about two weeks ago. We signed a lease here, and we are in the process of moving the funds from an existing french company to a Hungarian company, yet to be created. This process involves two teams of lawyers (we spent around 20k in lawyers fees so far). The lawyers are currently reviewing what is the best way to transfert. To our surprise, this is really complicated.
We are now a team of 5, my partner and I moved from France to Budapest, and a 3rd guy plans to join us "on-site" next Feb. The plan is that 3 of us work from our apartment in Budapest, 2 remotely.

My issue is that I don't like it here and I don't feel good. I though there would be meetups & a tech/ML scene here, and there isn't, at least not a big one. Starting from day 2 of arriving in Budapest, I had a constant headache of varying intensity (I never had that in my entire life before). I sleep ok but not great, and I feel depressed. I think I miss exercice, but gyms & pools are closed, and don't want to run everyday because the pollution is high in this period.

The issue is that starting a process to go somewhere else is quite complicated. It would involve cancelling the lease and changing the lawyers plans & work so far. It's mostly my partner who did the work of coordinating with the lawyers, and he likes life here.
Not committing here would also delay the process of moving the company out of France, and I estimate this cost to be around 100-300k per month of additional taxes.

Should we move again?
No one (basically) is going to care about the difference between a 46/11 and a 40/11 when the assist drops out at 25kph. If anything, you’re much more likely to be able to use the 40/11.

At the other end, the assist is going to cover a lot of gearing, and it’s going to make the gaps in a 1x setup a lot less important.

(FWIW, I ride a 1x42/11-42 and a 2x 50/34-11/32. And a triple on the tandem, and I lived with a cx geared 1x 39-12/28 for a few years. High gears are drastically overrated unless you’re racing)
Way to Learn Critical Thinking
That demonstrates the exact problem, whatever string you use to represent the null value EG "null" is now a keyword that needs to be enforced.

So "null" can no longer be someones username, which will cause weird edge cases...
Creativity is reserved to founders and designers, they don't like competition. If you give a shit, you're going to quit over artistic differences. Working hard usually does more damage than working smarter. And finally, we wouldn't need coding tests if there was a reasonable standard for bare minimum programming skills.
If anyone is interested in other resources and information on this topic, here are a few links.

NASA page on In-Situ Resource Utilization: https://www.nasa.gov/isru

NASA Swamp Works: https://technology-ksc.ndc.nasa.gov/featurestory/swampworks

Dr. Phil Metzger, who worked for a long time at Swamp Works before taking a research position at a university. Still very much involved in processing regolith and moon bases. https://twitter.com/DrPhiltill

NASA also hosts an annual competition around regolith collection called the NASA Lunabotics Competition. The last 2 years have been a little rough, with a cancellation due to government furloughs, then a cancellation due to the pandemic. Swamp Works engineers, technicians, and machinists attend and are often judges. Where they might make 1 or 2 prototypes per year, they're able to see 30-50 different designs and see their performance. The rules are setup to penalize activity similar to the incentives NASA has. Low bandwidth usage, high material collection, and low vehicle weight are all rewarded. https://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/centers/kennedy/techn...

Alabama has had a very good run, accomplishing fully autonomous 10 minute competition runs, avoiding rocks, having a really great systems engineering approach.

There has also been a competition in Hawaii on Mauna Kea periodically. I was at Iowa State in 2014 when we attended. There's an area just west of the visitor center with an environment very similar to the moon. Teams tele-operated the robots from ~30 miles away in Hilo, introducing a time lag in communications. It was a really incredible experience, and a lot of logistical planning to ship a robot, spare parts, and tool to Hawaii. Dremels are never the right tool for the job...but a lot of jobs can be done with a Dremel. Here's a video from Alabama at the same site in 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqWpglIwOr4
Its not enough of a jump to close the gap. the a14 did not bring major improvements in power efficiency, despite being on 5nm.
My favorite Reval.js trick is to iframe my public demo site. I give a quick look into the actual thing being presented, without switching windows.

My university examiners always ave at my presentations.

I'm very happy using this tool, but I have to admit you need to be HTML savvy to be really productive. For me the WYSIWYG editors are surely a stepdown for now, and sadly I haven't seen much improvement recently.
People first choose to do harm. Racism is just hanging out there for them. Best to lower the attack surface and don't give them the bait. If it bothers you, perhaps literature and history isn't for you. Back then they had little knowledge and faced a brutal life. They still moved literature from idealism and flowery language to marketable characters and trendsetting themes.

Zero sum politics can run amuck. Next thing you know, a million people are horribly slaughtered. Consider if, one day, completely out of the blue, the UN declares all member nations to actively prohibit abortion or be attacked. Zero sum politicians see an opportunity due to recent sensational headlines, and run with it for self gain. What these politicians do not see are the true nature of their followers. New training from military academies. Myths of frontiersman motivating them all. Actual combat experience in Mexico. The war lasts more than a weekend because they face a much tougher adversary.

Lee, Jackson, Stuart, joined the military for self improvement. Opposing people like this, determined to be the best person they could be, should not be taken lightly. Virginia stayed out of it as long as they could. The war was going to be fought there regardless of what side they took and they cared little about slavery, or even government. If you look at Parson's Cause or Patrick Henry's Bill of Rights, they saw the Constitution as a foreign treaty. Government was a town hall meeting. On the frontier, posses were as much as you had and Faulkner was right. No one was innocent out there.

I would say every report of USA history is overblown except the Civil War. Far more horrible than most people think, and kept under wraps, rightly so. Why bring up all that horrible stuff again?
If you've never done this sort of thing before: there's a huge market for these "external consultants". Their unstated job (and reputations) are as whitewashing firms. You hire them to ensure there is "no evidence" of anything done wrong. The primary purpose is to create a credible defense in lawsuits but PR purposes are also common. Firms that find problems suddenly see their business dry up because most companies don't want this kind of honest evaluation (it just creates a problem and potentially exposes you to liability).

Without access to information about the firm doing the work, the report, or the underlying data it is impossible to know if a real investigation was done or not.
Discussing with project manager is great. That's why PM is there. Discussing with the director of software engineering? Probably completely irrelevant to the Big Problem he or she is currently trying to solve, which is much more likely related to culture, hiring/firing, budget, or strategy. When you tell that person that you are shipping a suboptimal product for reason X, they may truly want to help, but have no context to actually do it, and have much bigger fish to fry besides.
How Tall Is Mount Everest?
> Basically, it’s stabbing, throat-cutting, strangling, shooting, drowning, burning alive (yike), asphyxiating, pushing off a high building, or bonking on the head.

Weird the author forgot poisoning.

Lately one of my luddite friends keeps mentioning how computers will soon kill us all. Perhaps to add to his torment, I like to retort that computers won't need to kill us, they'll just need to convince us to kill ourselves.

Certainly there are many ways to affect that outcome via social media. I wonder what other tools the deepfake future will provide? Stealing the voice of a dead loved one could be used to great affect to push a troubled soul over the edge.

This being HN, I'm sure we could come up with quite a list of devious mechanisms. I am reminded of the two morons who planned to use x-rays to terrorize innocents: https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/19/justice/new-york-terror-charg...
You are not misreading. That's correct.
H-1B expires March 31, 2021.

My I-140 (for EB1A) was already approved, back in April 2019.

My I-485 (and I-765 and I-131) were filed around Oct 15, 2020 (last month), and I'm still waiting on the receipt notices. Just last week I saw the check debit my bank account, so I assume I'll get the receipt notices anytime now.
Diversity in team pays off, you are missing if you don’t have a diverse team. It’s not a charity anymore it’s more of a science in getting quality output from your team.