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If anybody wants to play chess in their minds, Lichess has a option to turn the pieces invisible [1]. It's not quite as hard as playing by voice as you have the move list you can refer to but it's a start.

[1] https://lichess.org/account/preferences/game-display bottom of the page
There's a chrome extension called audiblogs [0] that can convert any article into audio format. Here's the audio version of this article: https://audiblogs.com/share/4ce7e9c6-0970-4fa6-8cdb-ac244104...

[0] https://audiblogs.com/
"For All Mankind" includes both of these plot points, with some details changed.
At Kennedy Space Center, LC39A and LC39B are about 3 km (2 miles) apart. So if one Saturn V blew up, the other pad wouldn't be destroyed. I don't know what would happen if another one was on the pad.
Amazon Fresh Opens in London
As cynical as I'd like to be towards Musk, I'm sending this comment over a Starlink connection that has made me rethink what my future could be. Living in a rural area, I was always under the impression that I'd need to move to the city and get a fiber connection eventually. With Starlink, that's no longer a concern. My latency is rock-solid at <50ms and download speeds are pretty capable as well.

Obviously Elon isn't entirely responsible for it, but I'm constantly impressed by his initiative in tech world. If Starlink weren't available, I'd be waiting ~3 years for Amazon to build some sort of equivalent service.
Twitter hosts their own servers rather than agreeing to another company's terms of service.
i was lucky enough to get free lunches (before that was considered part of your comp), free massages once a week back in the 90s. I haven't heard of massages since. Yahoo had them in 2010 but you had to pay.
The "food" providers, communication "providers", the companies paying virtually nothing for labor, etc. The folks focusing on the raw percentage of prisoners forced to stay in private prisons are missing the forest for the trees.
Whoah.
The abolitionist movement has been mostly dormant since the reconstruction era, but seems to be alive again this past year.

We need to ensure that these dots are connected; prisons are not only the moral successor to slavery, but the literal legal framework by which it continues.

Strictly speaking, slavery is not against the law in the United States; this carve out in the 13th amendment was seized upon immediately and remains with us today.
How about if you’re a seed stage startup?
Fundamentally though it is not still about some level of revenge? Just because we got more sophisticated to take into account things like intent doesn’t really change the math. You’ve made a nice quote but drawn a distinction without drawing a difference

If I steal $2k the punishment is usually still give $2k back and then all fees then even some punitive damages...
Is any of this shocking or contrary to what's already been said in public? You could summarize the whole article like this:

Tesla intends on building a great L2 system, releasing it publicly, and then moving on to L3 afterwards.
Academic RISC was designed by Patterson and Hennessy. Hennessy went off and was one of the founders of MIPS, Patterson is one of the instrumental leaders in the RISC-V space.
Perhaps. "Constellation" is particularly odd to me though. There are lots of unique lesser used words with 2 syllables instead of 4. So I'm curious why they chose it.
As long as Musk continues to insist that Tesla doesn't need Lidar, their self-driving technology will always be a level lower than Waymo/Cruise/etc
If you liked the retro art vibe -- don't miss the rest of the artwork that inspired this and the physical box mockup!

https://www.printmag.com/post/if-the-queen-s-gambit-were-an-...

https://twitter.com/pinot/status/1368983829256560648
> I hope this is better! Thank you for the chance to improve my communications skills. Have a nice day.

Unrelated, but I've always found it interesting how people try to avoid appearing like they're actually invested in the conversation they're having and the effect the results have on them.

"I'm not here to exchange ideas and make my understanding of the world better, no, I'm just here to improve my communication skills and I want you to know that!"

I understand the need for self-preservation, but going to this length of lying to yourself and observers to defend your ego is amusing in my opinion.
That article has very TSLAQ-type vibes, and in fact links to two TSLAQ sites at the bottom.

None of which are honest about how things have progressed.
How to 'un-Google' your Chromium browser experience
FYI this is by the same developer who authored the popular NetGuard (https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard) for Android.
Since many still use RSS and since this post on Seth's Blog is so popular, thought I would point out that the blog has an RSS feed: https://seths.blog/rss
The authors address this: the induced stress is not necessarily similar to the stress experienced on the job they're applying for.
There are tons of situations where not having everything on the server is beneficial.

A hack will barely get them anything, neither a warrant or a bored employee.

Of course any of those situations could result in an active tap that stores everything. But that is orders of magnitude more effort and still doesn't get any history.

Just minimizing the attack surface.
> It's a COVID related restriction - not a judicial system one.

I'm not sure what that means - just that it is an administrative restriction rather than something adjudicated in a court of law?

This doesn't make it less absurd, and might make it more.
If you build a business on top of another business you have to ask yourself how you are specifically helping them profit.

Business relationships are supposed to be about mutual profit, so if you are simply using them to make money they’ll eventually cut you off.
China is moving away from that as well. China did this because of the threat of capitalist invasion but the realize its dumb.

Russia is a bit different and they couldn't really move it further east because it would be to far from their industrial centers. They had a hell of a time transporting the Buran system to launch already.
But the question in the grandparent post was about capacity - and in this regard, if some customer needs "X much" of legal services performed, then it's reasonable to state that if your legal team that can devote twice as much hours to that customer, it has twice as much capacity.
Dear Tim Sweeney,

Get together with Unity and open source your engines so we can drive towards a standard.

What’s actually interesting is content. Why should we developers be locked into walled gardens?

Thanks
Why is Ubuntu Linux the leading choice to replace CentOS for Finserv?
Have you opened an issue for that behavior? I haven't looked at the repo's issue reporting policy, but my experience says that telling HN isn't nearly as effective as telling the issue tracker. I would be especially interested in knowing if that happens in a DeGoogled setup, versus on "normal" Android
Controversies around even the idea of prisoners getting the vaccine, as a vulnerable population, seem to suggest the perspective will not change, I think: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...
The USA survived the 1930's dust bowl. That's what I understand took down the ancient Egyptians.

We're so interconnected and so advacned I think we'll be fine in the big picture and the long run. Sure, millions may die during famine, but billions will live on.
Edit: Actually, disregard what I wrote below, a comment on an earlier HN post explains it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7193033. The CFO was really jailed for personal tax fraud, not just for her role in the backdating scandal.

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While this article is reposted every couple of years, I always feel that I'm missing something in trying to understand why the CFO went to jail.

This page from the SEC lists the huge number of companies that somehow paid a penalty or settled as part of the backdating scandal, and it's lots of big names in the tech industry. For example, the CFO of Apple at the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_R._Heinen. However, it was really hard for me to find many people who actually ended up going to jail over their roles. So I can only conclude that either (a) the OpsWare/Mercury Interactive CFO had a really shitty lawyer, or (b) her involvement was more direct and culpable than is let on in this a17z blog post.
she looks at everything from a sexism lense?... in the essay's topic of sexism she experienced? Yeah, agreed, she's too narrowly focused on her topic... She should ramble more and include more unrelated observations.
> Imagine an equation of two or more variables (such as "capacity"). For example the "capacity" of a storage unit is an equation relating height, width, and depth to volume (3 independent variables).

> Any such equation can only be represented by a single number ("capacity" or "productivity") if all variables are dependent (and therefore, there is only one independent variable in the equation).

This doesn't seem right. You can have storage units with varied combinations of height, width, and depth, sure. But whether that matters depends on what you want to use them to store. An example of an approach that doesn't work would be storing unboxed fragile antique dollhouses. They have weird shapes, so you can't fill the floor area, and you can't stack them, so adding height to the storage unit doesn't add any capacity.

Except that of course you wouldn't just toss them into a garage and call it a day. (They'd break!) You'd keep them in boxes. Those pack and stack perfectly. Suddenly volume is what matters again, and increasing the width, length, or height of the unit by 10% will increase the amount you can store by about 10%.

This is even more obvious if you're storing water or oxygen. Fluids take the shape you give them. Your unit might have length, width, and height (though it really shouldn't... you want to store fluids in cylinders), but the only thing that matters for how much water you can put in there is volume.
I feel like this could be a huge break for GC Jordan. Would anyone mind helping me find him? Many others, including me, would also like to avoid jail and would compensate him for helping us do so.
I think the problem is deeper than whiteboard interviews. Too few companies are willing to invest in junior talent. Netflix famously only hires senior-level engineers, and Facebook has recently offloaded many of their internships to Major League Hacking [1], an exploitative outsourcing platform for unpaid, entry-level labor from developing countries [2]. This is entirely a problem of the tech industry's making.

[1] https://news.mlh.io/introducing-the-mlh-fellowship-externshi...

[2] A close friend who was formerly employed by MLH
It seems to be the same in Australia from what I can see. We have "police checks" where the police certify that you have not been involved in any crime specific to the job you apply for. So if you have committed fraud, you could not get a job at a bank. And if you are a sex offender, you could not get a job with kids. But as far as I know, a fraud can get a job at a school and a sex offender can get a job at a bank and the employer would not know anything.
Researchers around the world are already used to (3) and (4). I would guess also (2) but maybe that depends on age and location, and anyway I can't say for sure. We're definitely not there yet when it comes to (1), so - if you're an academic, please make sure to pre-publish all of your research so greedy corporations don't get their grubby IP hands on them.
Probably you dodged a bullet.

It's always seemed to me that people are aggressively attempting to hire for some criteria (even position) because they're either having trouble getting people on board, or holding onto them. There's something 'wrong' with them, for some definition of wrong.

Either they're looking in the wrong place, they're giving off a bad vibe that scares people off, or people who have that quality they're looking for are leaving at a higher rate than everyone else.

Why is this team trying so hard to hire team leads? Can't find any in house? Keep chewing them up? Or just incompetent hiring? Why doesn't this team have any women? Can't find any in house? Keep chewing them up? Or just incompetent hiring?

My guess is you would find out pretty quick why there is nobody quite like you at those companies, and soon they'll be fishing for your replacements.
install firefox. i thought i would hate it but its quite good and the debugger is on par with chrome
Not exactly - we don’t really have any way of knowing that empirically yet. Personally, I do wish I had given my body a bit of a bigger break after I got over the infection. So I guess I’m saying pay attention - watch how you’re recovering, and maybe think about easing back into vigorous exercise slower than you might have had you just gotten over a cold. And, as always, when in doubt, get your doctor involved.

It’s clear now a majority of people outside the vulnerable groups get over this illness with hardly any after effects. But it’s becoming clear that some people don’t, and suffer some amount of sequelae. We don’t know how many yet, and we can’t tell who will or who won’t yet. Given those circumstances, a slower than usual return to normal activity levels is prudent.

For instance, I’ve read that college athletes are restricted from play for about 10-14 days after even an asymptomatic COVID diagnosis, and then are carefully monitored for months afterwards. With any hint of lingering symptoms or a drop in performance, they’re given a cardiac MRI to check for heart inflammation, and potentially benched for 3-6 months. If you don’t have a team physician checking in with you after every workout, you’re gonna have to do that interrogation yourself.
'The Case For Color Blindness' by Coleman Hughes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_hRr5J9UUc

I was sort of raised to believe 'Color blindness' was the right approach to take. It wasn't until the last couple years that I realized there was significant push back to the philosophy.
> is outcomes the only thing to value here?

Yes.

The whole point of a criminal justice system is to reduce crime. That definitionally means focusing on making sure prison doors ain't revolving. Whether that crime reduction meets some individual's arbitrary standards of retribution is entirely secondary to that fundamental primary objective; revenge for the sake of revenge is not justice, but rather the precise opposite.
I disagree. The same ideology simultaneously glorifies sex-work as it criticises the objectification of women's bodies by men. The same ideology normalises both actual pornography as well as the increasingly pornographic advertising we see everywhere, that also attacks the over-sexualisation of everything. Other may disagree, but what we are seeing is liberalism approaching the part of lifecycle where it becomes a paradox. And a society built on a paradox is in its death spiral.
Something I’ve been curious about with computer-vision-only versus LIDAR: snow.

Now, I am naïve about the real intricacies of computer vision. But won’t snow be quite nasty for camera-only systems? It’s almost the physical definition of noise, as it’s random and reflective. Is there any research or experience with computer vision and dealing with a snowstorm? Because even human drivers aren’t great in that kind of low-vision scenario.

(Why yes, I did grow up in the Midwest.)
Wow, I just looked and my Gmail welcome message is from Fri, Dec 3, 2004, 3:08 AM. Which means that my Gmail is almost 17 years old I've got to do the takeout backups.

It is amazing how easy is for these type of companies to singlehandedly leave you without access to your own media.

To be honest, a similar thing happened to me when Microsoft decided to remove my Hotmail data after 3 months of not logging in. And also to my original linuxmail.org email... which was a cool email server that one day just disappeared (along with all my conversations) back when the inbox size was max 4MB.
How is that a “dark pattern?” There’s no deception involved. You’re calling things “dark patterns,” but I think you think dark patterns are just UX you find annoying.
Thanks! Making something for teams based around an event seems like it has some pros and cons. 1) built in virality 2) more friction and you can't instantly try it
I would be interested in seeing that controlled for IQ. I'll check it out
Thanks for saying and explaining what diversity hiring actually is. Much needed and much appreciated.
As someone who pretty much only uses them for quick and dirty data shaping, at least for me Google Sheet's filter experience is garbage compared to Excel. Takes 5 clicks to do anything, can't right click to add/remove filters, the filtering process itself is janky, doesn't recognize data types ...
Really? Because slowly pushing back opening dates and such leads people with no specific event to protest about.

I have supported 90% of the steps my fairly-restrictive government has taken so far, because they are backed by science. Would I be happy if they were extended indefinitely? Well, no. But, realistically, how would I know that was happening?

If schools are not fully-opened next fall I would definitely be raising a bit of a ruckus. But if Dr Fauci and all the other scientists were saying they really couldn't be re-opened because we were in the middle of another wave? Well, I'm not anti-science.

You can debate each step, but I really don't think that a continual drip-drip of extensions would raise a huge outcry at all.
I don't think they are supposed to give you advice on how to structure it (post the Enron scandal), they are there to say it's compliant or not.
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I…don’t even know what TSLAQ is, but, where’s that Hyperloop, battery swapping, and robotaxi?
It's because of the former that he is able to command the latter.

Musk isn't super-human. He's a good engineer with great intuition for how to solve hard problems and a good "first principles" approach. He also has a great work ethic. There are tons of Elon Musks around.

What's rare is people as visionary and competent as him who are also rich and well-connected. Having someone who actually knows something in a position to make decisions about the allocation of large amounts of capitol yields results so amazing that they appear super-human, which buys him a hell of a reality distortion field and a lot of slack for being eccentric.

Musk got rich more or less by accident. The systems that advance people to those heights select for competence in the areas of social and financial advancement, not practical engineering or creativity, hence his rarity.

Of course today it's probably better than it ever has been in all of history. Historically the way to wealth and power was to brainwash a large number of people into killing (and risking their lives) for you and then sitting back and reaping the reward. That's still a thing, but at least now there are other routes.
No policy is ever enacted in such a way that an abundance of malice is the express basis.

This restriction has no basis in science or sense. A respiratory pathogen may provide another in a long line of childish excuses, but make no mistake: slavery itself is an abundance of malice.
Check your router's CPU. I own 4 routers and all of them use MIPS. RISC-V is more like Graphene, it's yet to leave the lab.
Would that not push for more life sentences? Would you now send a rapist to prison for life instead of 10 or so years? 3 months is far too short.
Critical facilities in locations where the grid is shut down? Well in that case a giant central battery can't help those places either, you need on-site batteries.
This is true, though I would say that pop-culture, mass media, etc. are signs of the direction broader society is trending towards, even if the rest of society lags behind a generation.
At this point, one of the primary limiting factors is the reality that the majority of folks using and implementing emulation technology probably have never seen a vector display in the flesh.

Conceptually, emulating a vector display is easy. They are unique but not thaaaat magical.

1. You have a certain amount of bloom

2. You have decay time function

3. You need, perhaps, a surprising amount of dynamic range? If you've seen something like an Asteroids cab in person, the bullets are super bright (with correspondingly larger decay times) relative to everything else

But, how people are interested in implementing that kind of thing and have access to a real vector display in order to study it? I suppose sufficiently good recordings of vector displays might suffice so maybe it's not that dire.
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For those who might be interested these companies are called Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs).

An example would be Velocity Global - https://velocityglobal.com/
What’re your download and upload speeds like?
"Ignorance of the law is no excuse" is not a just principle when the laws are so numerous and incomprehensible that everyone is always ignorant of the law. Plenty of people just end up getting bad legal advice, even when they thought they were paying top dollar for a good quality law firm.
It's a lot harder to have pipeline stages and no interlocks when you don't have delay slots.
I wasn't really able to follow this, if I'm being honest. But given the number of dependencies you listed, both human and software-based, it does not seem like Excel is the problem here.

It sounds like VBA has allowed that team to build an advanced prototype of a quote generation web app. The next step seems to be to convert the Excel formulas and scripts into JS or Python. Quality assurance may be a hassle, but that is to be expected with any kind of refactoring.
again you cant take the human minds tendency to attach value to things in their life and to operate in hierarchies. NFTs were inevitable as tokens of value because they function as physical objects. You can say thats a scam but all ypu are saying is that you dont yet attach value to NFTs. Anecdotes are not the way to validate your claim though.
> determine if the candidate has the required skills or not

What are the required skills, and how long will they be the required skills?

I've yet to have a job where I was doing the exact things they hired me for 6-12 months later. Things change constantly, why isn't "dealing with change" a highly-ranked skill for job candidates?
I don't think so, and I think level 3 is an error and should never be there. I think most will go from 2->4. L3 is just requiring human concentration that is impossible.

That being said I agree with the spirit of your comment.
That seems like the new "reason" -- at least it's more valid than the old reason of "stopping gambling". There was a documentary, Netflix maybe?, where guards would routinely do sweeps and find any game pieces that prisoners has made - paper folded to make dice, notes and score sheets for D&D, etc
Also, as should be obvious today of all days, the traditional media has completely outlived its usefulness.

If Western civilisation was healthy, a major focus of public conversation would be what we are supposed to do about this.

Instead? That royal kid and his actress wife. Despair doesn't cover it.
Yeah, if I wasn't abroad for my PhD I'd be voting for the Labor Party this election. They've got a new party head who's taking a stronger stand against Netanyahu and the pro-settlement Right than the other parties.

I do really wish my people's country could come up in the news without people breaking out in Zionism Derangement Syndrome in the comments, insisting genocide refugees are colonizers and racism is when we don't force minorities to fight in the army if they don't support the state. It brings to mind that academic crank who once said Israeli soldiers are racist for not raping Palestinian women. This kind of ZDS is why Netanyahu keeps winning -- it's all Israelis and Jews hear from people in other countries, and it affects our discourse.
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Whoa I hadn't heard his this. Interesting.