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The move away from CDMA happened with LTE. LTE required a complete network upgrade to add in the eNodeBs to supplement the BTS (basestations) from the CDMA world.

5G (3gpp rev 15 or newer) does require new hardware but a lot of networks have been planning for this. Sprint has been rolling out new MIMO capable antennas for use with 5g. Verizon similarly has been future proofing before the standard was finished. There will be new equipment required no matter what though. Especially with Verizon pushing millimeter in cities.
Interviewers write up questions asked, candidate solutions, and their commentary and hiring recommendation. Those writeups are sent to a hiring committee which reviews all the candidate's feedback and makes a hire/no hire recommendation.

If the committee sees a brainteasers, disagrees with a question, spots inconsistencies in the feedback, etc., they moderate their use of the feedback or ignore it altogether. There's also a mechanism to send feedback to the interviewer, which they can use to let them know a question is appropriate, banned due to having leaked, etc.
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> - Nonstop media barrage favoring both wars.

This is the cause of your top 3 points. When the propaganda machine is going full force, it's hard be the dissenting voice. When the editorial board of the washingtonpost says that there is "irrefutable" evidence of iraqi wmd and their involvement in 9/11, it's hard for skeptics and honest people to respond without being attacked. After all, the washingpost is one of the papers of record. They certainly wouldn't lie ( or so we are told ).

>- Utter lack of skepticism and rush to believe whatever was being put out by the Administration.

There were skeptics. The "news" ( both the left and the right ) branded them traitors. Hell an entire nation and our oldest ally ( france ) was mercilessly caricatured and attacked. ( Remember freedom fries and surrender monkeys )?

It's standard practice. The media riles up the public, silences the opposition and off we go to another illegal war. We fall for it every single time.
I know that Fortnite [1] and League of Legends both use XMPP. Eve just moved to XMPP [2] somewhat recently. There is a Hackernews thread that talks about the Eve article already too. [3]

[1] https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/news/postmortem-of-...

[2] https://blog.process-one.net/eve-online-chat-is-moving-to-ej...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16445365
Business then do the cost benefit of the shortcomings of things like NAT vs selling their now valuable IPv4 address space, think where they are going to come down?

You can see one such analysis at http://www.asgard.org/documents.html
I can't speak on how solid this research was, but I remember reading a book (one of Cialdini's, I think), that explained hazing behaviour as group cohesion enhancers. Basically, what you suffer during initiation will make your bond with the group much stronger. I suppose there might be something to it, given how prevalent such practices are all around the world, in all cultures.
Algae/phytoplankton tend to sink to the bottom of the ocean and become a long-term carbon store when they die anyway. That's how much of the oil and gas we're burning today was formed in the first place. No need for elaborate training of whales :)
This reads like a joke wikipedia article. Does anyone know if this is legitimate?
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Definitely agree about using the SQL to generate the code and not the other way around. For simple cases that's what I now do. For complex cases, I've grown to accept the idea that the translation between in-memory (in-program) representation and in-file representation is an important translation layer and actually should be hand-coded to a moderate extent.
I think the answer is that most people are not like that, and the ones that are don't think about it from that perspective or that explicitly.

That, in a nutshell, is why a lot of abnormal psychology is so very sticky. It's even worse than that, however. It's more that most people are just a tiny bit "like that," and no one thinks about it from that perspective.
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I agree there's a lot of waste but with the population expected to go up by 3-4 billion in the next decade that urban sprawl is not going to stop, and we're going to need 2x more land for food, especially as we're overfishing our acidified oceans today. Bio capture it's just not feasible because of the land required
Ok, we've added "and healthcare" to the title above.
The wheel of pain and suffering must roll on, otherwise people might get a clue and unite against their oppressors.

Or in the words of the freemasons, order through chaos.

Once hurt, few seem to have enough integrity to break the loop; so it snow balls nicely all by itself.
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> Macros are fancy, but I've yet to come across a use case for it that can't be replaced with a simple function call.

For starters, macros are mandatory for out-of-order execution; anywhere you need arguments to be manipulated before evaluation must be done in a macro. E.g., a short-circuiting "or" function is impossible without being either a macro or built-in to the language.

Another common use case is efficiency. Any substantial computation you do at compile/eval-time never has do be done at runtime. I've worked on a Clojure router that compiles its nested route structure into efficient string-matching/regex code before it ever gets turned into machine code. Other languages either have to re-parse the routes, or find a way to cache a more efficient representation as part of an extra build step.
Perspectives change as we age, particularly if you decide to start a family. It's easy and fun to socialize with your coworkers when you're young and unburdened. After all, once you're out of school, where are your friends most likely to come from? Work, of course. I met my wife and some of my best friends at various jobs. When you're married with kids, you tend to want to spend as much time with them as you can. Spending all my time with work friends outside of work hours takes away from that family time. It's less about "I hate being here and only want to put in my 9 - 5" and more about engaging with my family and in activities that I'm more apt to like as each decade passes.

The thing to be mindful of, especially when you're in your twenties, is those things you love about your work environment today, you may not like when you're in your thirties, forties, etc. I remember vividly and fondly of partying with work friends until the bars closed every weekend (and weekdays, too), going zip-lining, playing games together, and so on. I wouldn't trade those memories for anything, but I also would never want to relive that again.

My point is, have fun, enjoy your youth, and make some good memories. But don't discriminate against others who just want to be professionals and do their job. One day it's very likely you will feel the same as they do...
Google has been doing this for years. I installed an ad blocker specifically to clean up Google search results, they look much better now.
When I hear Musk talking about that, I have the impression that it presents what we have now (cloud life, connected life, access to information) as a sort of personal extension. And from that he seems to present the "neural lace" as the ultimate interface to connect to that. However, at the same time, he's mixing this with AI stuff and I'm skeptical. AI has not proven much so far (compared to what Musk seems to imply) : it's quite able to solve very specific problems. One could buy "AI modules" to become very smart at, say, StarCraft but that would be in one direction : neural lace gives you information about what to do during the game. It's not exactly like interacting directly with your brain, say, to inject kung fu like Neo in Matrix.

Now, how much of this is based on real stuff, how much is NeuraLink a kind of thought experiment, a super speculative attempt ?
Aren't the examples of brainteasers actually Fermi problems? Maybe they sound like brainteasers if asked without the appropriate context, but when you're doing a system design interview and you have to estimate your throughput or storage requirements, you're effectively solving a Fermi problem just like the one that asks you to estimate the number of windows in NYC.
"Life is chemistry"

"Let your food be your medicine"

I started with anti-inflammatory medication for my condition and inferred that an anti-inflammatory diet might help me get off the drugs. It did.

I think an anti-inflammatory diet is a superior solution

Best.
I just wish they'd stop selling unlimited. Everyone.

I want to pay for my bytes, and I want you (carriers) to give me the service I pay for, at an guaranteed rate. A SLA, basically.

Consumers get shafted on these deals. We pay for products with no agreement over what we're actually going to get. It gets tiring :/
They could use MRAM memory for the first option. Low capacity MRAM is quite practical and it has very high endurance.
If there's a specific number of balls, that's a great answer; if you need to fill up the interior, you're gonna need a lot more balls!!
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The EU Could Vote to Wreck the Internet Tomorrow
Yes it's very different.

D2 introduced a lot of new keywords, new semantics, not two "standard" libraries like with D1 where there were Tango. Tango is pretty much completely obsolete in D2. Most D1 code might work to an extend with the D2 compiler, BUT almost no D2 code will be able to run using a D1 compiler and it'll even be difficult to translate it directly.

D2 is basically when Andrei joined the development of D back in 2007.
I have to admit, it confounds me that fraud can exist on such a large scale in a platform, without really doing anything to damage trust in the platform itself.

The internet does a fantastic job of taking what would otherwise be a localised cesspool, and making the entire thing efficient on a global level.

And I'm sure this suits Amazon very well because I don't use Amazon for discovery. I do my research elsewhere and then buy through Amazon (prime only, of course) because I'm too impatient to wait a week for a delivery!
Peak US consumerism.

It's not consumerism when when I pay US$119/year for the privilege. Then it becomes, "meet your SLA that I'm paying money for, assholes."
The presentation does point out that new customer growth doesn't correlate well to IPv6 adoption (and to the extent that there is correlation, it's negative).
It could rewrite it like that, yeah, but sweet renaming all collided variables, likely to make it clear that they collided. It doesn't try to keep the distinction between what a macro introduced and what was already in scope (not worth the complexity).

This was back in 2014 though and sweet has changed a ton since then, so the output is probably different
> In order to perform a clinical trial with marijuana... investigators would need to get ... approved by the FDA... Part of this involves DEA review...

It only took you 3 coarse and unhelpful posts to answer my legitimate question. Thanks for your cooperation. (5 Whys? Only 3 Whys were needed here.)
Is HN turning into Reddit?
The article does have some good sources. So I think it is legitimate.
I meant the Box type itself. In C++, std::string and std::function are usually intentionally padded, so that when the data is small enough, it can fit inside the object itself, rather than storing the pointer to heap-allocated storage.
Er, if you can do that, then why not "get adword revenue for each of these countries, read the value for Italy"?
Keepass can "auto-type" the password by emulating keyboard events.
Why wouldn't it be? The mechanism to create it sounds very plausible.
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“I’d like to understand how you structure problems, we can do a different topic if you like?”

“With ~50M people capable of clicking ads, and assuming they click one ad a day at 20cnt CPC, it would be around 3.6bn. I think my assumptions are on the high side, but order of magnitude is probably correct”

If done well, solving a problem (not a brain teaser) together can yield insight in how people approach new challenges.

If I’m hiring for someone to do what they already know this indeed not a useful question. on the other hand, if I expect the role to tackle various business problems as well I’m not sure what would be a much better way to get a sense on this. (Specifically because I’d want to discuss a not-too-complex problem that is outside your usual area of expertise)
Jaime from Mimosa here...happy to speak to the software radio related stuff, thanks Chris for mentioning. So we've done a huge amount of experimentation on auto-channel approaches now that we've had a few years to collect data and analyze. Simple answer is it's really different in different environments, and if you're collocating with yourself vs. with other WISPs and gear.

We definitely allow the B5 series to be more aggressive on auto-changes since it's dual-chain, and is in a noisy band, so moving 1 impacted chain while we keep the other up, if it means better throughput, is a nice option IF that's what you want.

To your comment Chris, we definitely will begin to open channel programming via software API for y'all, and more rich monitoring in the API/SNMP info relatively soon (hoping before year end).

When it comes to 5 GHz, I always suggest "exclude before you auto" - we were unique in offering single page spectrum setup and live spectrum analysis to make it easy for you to program where you want the radios to operate. So smarter exclusion based auto can be really nice if you know how to use it well. As you know, we built this all in the radio, but hadn't opened it up externally much other than the UI/browser.

We actually also built in some L2 and beacon discovery smarts to locally detect other radios on the same sync settings to make sure to coordinate so to speak. Frankly speaking, even if the radio wants to make a change, it has no way of knowing if it might impact something else, it just knows what's best for it's own operation without some higher level spectrum management coordination, so some coordination intelligence is a must if you have some spectrum that needs protecting when collocated.

Really the need for auto behaviors is relatively limited to backhaul and unlicensed - most don't want their sector/APs to move unless it's a major event given all the clients connected. On new products like the B24, we really just analyze narrowing channels if things get bad enough, but there's really no other channels to move to, and on licensed products, you have to stick to your licensed channel of course.

On multipoint, for example, the APs collect and analyze spectrum masks from each client, and the primary thing they'll do is allow an individual client to narrow (e.g. from the 80 MHz channel to 20 MHz) in case they see more noise in a part of the channel, poor mans OFDMA, but that functionality becomes very advanced in the 11ax based chip for us in the future.

Lots of new stuff announcing and shipping this week and in Vegas next month, so stay tuned.
Thanks,

https I am looking into that indeed, how that works with my hosting etc...

The year make sense to leave out and will look into changing that.

The FAQ, missed this update :), thanks for the note. Will improve that and fix the typo.

Thanks for the feedback
I don't have any experience in Healthcare IT but I'm curious why you say you wouldn't think of that as bio?

I work at a bioinformatics lab and have been surprised by the big disconnect between the mountains of real-time clinical data produced by healthcare each day, versus the relative trickle of data we get in our lab (after IRB, et cetera).

Seems like there is a lot of room for innovation in Healthcare IT that could connect to bio-research and make the whole research system more like modern software updates versus the box software(research papers) of the 80's.
Perspective from a US physician:

Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (or PGD, what you described as 'selective IVF') is not cheap. It costs upwards of US$100,000 and no commercial or government insurance will cover it.

Genetic screening is also not cheap. An exome (essentially looks at all ~22,000 known exons, or the genes that directly contribute to protein formation) costs US$6,000 - $8,000 and most insurances will fight tooth and nail not to have to cover it even when it is ordered by a geneticist. You might think "but there are much cheaper genetic tests besides an exome" which is true, but remember we are talking about rare diseases. Exome testing is still imperfect but it is essentially the only realistic option if your goal is to rule out as many known genetic diseases as possible, or if you know there is a high pretest probability of a genetic disease but less exhaustive testing was negative or inconclusive.

Actually, current PGD doesn't use exome testing but much more selective testing often based on the parents. One technique is FISH which can essentially only tell you if there are any "large" genetic abnormalities, like (micro-) duplications or deletions, which are large relative to, say, a point mutation. As an example, FISH testing would not reveal cystic fibrosis. The other is PCR, which is currently the technological limit for PGD testing because of the small number of cells and minimal amount of genetic material available for testing. There are several PCR assays available for specific conditions in the setting of PGD, which is where the parents fit in. We will probably see more and more assays becoming available, but it is unlikely that anything resembling an exome will be feasible for PGD in the foreseeable future.

Disclaimer: I am not a geneticist or reproductive specialist. If you can find sources by physicians in these fields, I would defer to them.
In saying that the government shares the blame you overlook the fact that it was a cabal across both banks and government, separated only by a revolving door, that both created then coordinated the response to the crisis. Allocation of blame in this scenario is difficult.
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The original research (not NYTimes journalism) is actually from 2001 [1]

1. Of the income groups studied, the highest percentage of income donated was from the <$25k group, with 4.2% ($587/yr), about one percent more than the 3.1% ($1,620/yr) average.

But the study's highest income division was only $100k. Had they included more ranges, they would find that giving goes much higher, e.g. $200k-500k donates 8.3% and $2m+ donates 14.0%. [2]

2. Also in the original study (though absent from the NYTimes article nine years later), is the finding that more people donated at the higher income levels. 77% donated in the lowest income group, but 97% donated in the highest.

And I would give that fact considerable weight for supporting the assertion "if the common folk of Europe were doing economically better, they would have been more generous".

[1] http://www.cpanda.org/pdfs/gv/GV01Report.pdf

[2] https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/statistics/wh...
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I agree with you. I know plenty of smart friends who have left the industry.

There's about ~9,000 hedge funds in the US, but I would personally avoid any fund with less than $1B+ in AUM unless you got several percentage points of the fund's profit generation or a chance to run a book. That takes the list down to maybe 600-750 hedge funds in the US that are worth working for... that list will probably get 50% smaller in the next couple years.

A lot of people are down this year against the S&P 500 up 10% and the Nasdaq up 20%
That's a vast oversimplification, as is the case with most dictionary definitions. You need to go to primary sources - starting with "The Capital" - to discover the nuances.

The notion that communism equals state ownership is particularly funny, given that Marx (and all his followers) defined communism as a stateless society.
"Master wedding-feasts" A maxim about Ancient Greek wedding crashers?

"Admire oracles" - Ha ha!

"Keep deeply the top secret" - how is this one simply baffling (per the article)? I'm not sure if they are referring to religious secrets or state secrets, but either way, how is encouraging people to keep secrets baffling?
> (which, for the record, are not used at Google)

I interviewed maybe 3 or 4 years ago at Google. Definitely got some questions that were not remotely programming related, but were just hard problems that probably were awesome if you already knew the answer.

I recall one was something along the lines of "You're making a bet in the final round of Jeopardy. Presume that your opponent is going to bet optimally given your bet. How much will you bet?". No matter what I bet, he bets such that if he gets it right and I get it wrong, he wins by $1, etc. There were different cases to consider, but all the hard ones boiled down to what felt like a differential equations problem.

It wasn't a programming question; it was a logic brain teaser question. And the interviewer seemed to really enjoy himself.

Didn't get the job. I now ignore Google recruiter emails.
If you're thinking of an Amazon type delivery (and not, let's say delivery of industrial goods, medicine, ...), the audience would not be there anyway.

Notably, major online retailers trialed same-day delivery (usually via bike messenger) within major urban regions (e.g. Zurich) for a moderate charge. Customers generally agreed that it was a great option, but no one used it, so it got canned.
I think this is going to have to happen for bio capture to work at all. We need land for food, and we'll need increasingly more of it in the next decade thanks to overfishing, and population growth