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Given that you have a degree, would you consider going to the US for a year or two of work? While the Bay Area isn't for everyone, in my experience the environment is very driven by competence as opposed to tenure. For me, returning to Europe after working there also opened a lot of opportunities.

I also saw you writing that European companies are very driven by specific technologies. I do not think this is true. Sometimes companies will write "5 years of React" but what they are actually looking for is an experienced frontend developer.

What you should show is your ability to solve problems and learn independently. A company that does not believe a skilled frontend developer can learn another framework quickly (or don't want to give you the time to do so) is probably not a place you want to work.
OOh interesting. What's the blocker in terms of downstreaming? Are you looking for partners? Could be a great 5G/corporate networking use case I guess..
Believe it or not, you can display adverts without processing personal information. Magazines, TV, billboard companies, do it all the time.
That’s what sand worm was saying - level flight puts less stress on the wings than takeoff (where you accelerate vertically, thus have more than 1g).

Still, you don’t want to take a structurally damaged plane high up.
Mind sharing what causes the accident, does a sliding seat cause the driver to yank the steering wheel and lose control?

Also, what about adjusting the steering wheel while driving? Sounds like a similar threat.
Disable windows 10 automatic maintenance.

Windows is going into the Apple direction I guess.
PC = political correctness. What is wrong with people that invent a new abbreviation every second? Good CB (click bait)
For those wondering what this is, it’s Ruby Functions as a service. Setup is Heroku-esque in ease of setup. This is a great service!
We're slowly converging toward correct spelling though.
If you can do better, please do. Or teach us something instead of just complaining that other people liked it. Comments like this add absolutely nothing to HN; it was a total waste of time reading it.
Huh? PC isn't new. That abbreviation has been around since the 80s or 90s.
Put another way if you spend 20k hiring and you get a 9/10 male developer you could spend $30k increase the size of the funnel and get a diverse hire of the same quality.
On the other hand being higher buys you more time to correct for problems when they occur.
Two thoughts:

1) "Political correctness" has always meant "excessive language policing from the left" rather than anything more concrete—it was a pejorative term even before it was introduced to the general public in 1990 on the pages of the New York Times—so it's no surprise that it has a bad reputation.

2) It's kind of ironic to use a research paper by a group called More In Common, who seek to counteract polarisation, to slam a particular political group.
The liberal claim is that we need to fix zoning that makes supply expensive instead of goodwill regulations that can't work long term because they don't address the fundamental root supply problem.

If developers build expensive housing beyond demand they can't fill as intended, driving prices down, why should this not be better than nothing? Even if it's less lucrative for them than expected, it should be net positive for renters...
The accidents rates by country paints a completely different picture. [1] This wikipedia list of glaring pilot incompetence leading to fatalities doesn't seem to show any bias for specific regions. [2]

When using anecdotal data one just can't make sweeping judgements and conclusions data does not support, that takes discussion into the region of prejudice and bigotry.

This anecdotal one person usually 'an insider' finding one thing wrong or incident in some country and casually conflating it to the whole is seen too often and creates grossly inaccurate stereotypes, when the exact same issue or incident exists everywhere else.

This is not harmless and derails informed discussion. It creates prejudice and in this case stress among travelers when they travel to other countries thinking about 'training, hull loss, safety' based on uninformed discussion not supported by data on the ground. If you are going to travel in a Cessna the standards including pilot training is not comparable to jets whichever country you are in. But no stable functioning country in the world takes passenger and running jets casually as the accident and safety data shows.

1. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/america-russia-and-...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_error#Notable_examples
This is highly misleading and deceptive. You are mixing up the headline and data from link 2 which is mainly focused on which government agency licenses ATCs as the reason for lower scores, to the IATA hull loss data from link 1 which does not single out any country or region for below 'minimum safety target rates'.

This is the IATA data for hull loss rates for 2017 per million departures:

Asia Pacific - 0.18

CIS - 0.92

Europe - 0.13

Latin America and the Caribbean - 0.41

Middle East and North Africa - ​​0.00

North America - 0.00

The second link does not mention or link to anything about hull loss, safety issues, aircraft, training but talks about lower ranking due to ATC licensing by government agencies.
You mean in income? I would love to get there. I am based near Amsterdam and willing to relocate.

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"'High end' here means 'luxurious' – a marketing position for a building."

In London it has long been a joke that all new builds are branded "luxury apartments" as a matter of course, even if they are really low specification, i.e. the term "luxury" has become both obligatory and in the process meaningless.
I think they are looking in the wrong place. This is related to intestinal health and microbiome. So it is closely related to diet. But, I also suspect it is habitual. Some creatures in the body get "drunk" by the chemicals released when the body is in the state of anxiety. One such chemical may be histamine. This is the reason I believe why such trivial things as choosing train seats can cause anxiety. These internal creature can "paint" a perfectly normal process as catastrophic to get their feed. These are guesses from observation of what happens in myself. But I'm sure anxiety is caused by issues in the gut.
Where exactly is the water damage? Iirc, thoes detectors turn red when they get wet, but in that video every single one I can spot on the main board is not red. Do they use different ones nowadays?
Are there call centers for iPhone tech support or only F2F at Apple Stores? How have the problems changed compared to PCs?
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No.

If you could there would be a few galaxies which would be about equidistant from us along both paths. Therefore we would notice a few double copies of the same galaxies. It would be similar to standing in the middle of two mirrors. IIRC scientists have already ruled out a universe with a "radius" less than some ridiculous number (like billions of light years).

There. Just saved you a click. This is old and well know. Why is Forbes writing about it now?
I didn’t say I approve of commercial data hoarding, quite the contrary, it’s just that, for the moment at least, those companies can’t put someone in jail (or worse) based on that collected data, the way a government can.
That is, whatever rules you can make about killing non-combatants in a foreign land, you can make about your own folks right here at home. And that is where we're headed.

So the thought that the USA may soon treat its own citizens the way it's treated the citizens of the world in the last 130 years whenever it's wanted to - e.g. invasion, mass slaughter, carpet bombing, coups etc (assassination hardly rates a place in that list) - is terrifying to you. Fair enough, I guess. But why (I get the feeling from your tone) has it been perfectly OK that the US treat the rest of the world like that?
Same, I think, I commented to my wife something like "that's worrying I've been logged out, sometimes that means your account is compromised", but I get the "you're not affected" message too.

IIRC that was on Facebook Lite on Android. I don't know my password so didn't log in at the time, but it just worked the next time I tried.

Might be unrelated.
> unsavvy customers [...] should expect to pay a premium

No, they shouldn't.
Not to sound condescending, but…

You can transmit data by modulating in on top of something that propagates through space? Well, big deal, who'd thought? /s

In all seriousness, the big problem is, how to create gravitational waves in a controlled manner in the first place. Because the fact remains, that gravity is, by several orders of magnitude, the weakest force in our universe and it takes stooopid amounts of energy (and I means that in an all-encompassing way, referring to anything that goes into the metric tensor) to create an even noticeable ripple in spacetime. If we break down spectrally, its easiest to detect stuff close to DC, I mean, people did it 200 years ago, so to speak, but only over short distances, and really long integration times (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_experiment).

But anything meaningful for data transmission would require to operate at significant high frequencies. It's hard enough to wiggle around some "condensed energy", i.e. mass in the milligram scale at high frequencies, although in the lasers I build, the end facets of the optical filter are thrown around with accelerations on the order of 10e6 g-ees, at ~500kHz, but the gravitational waves created by that wouldn't register at LIGO even if several thousand of these, running in phase were placed right next to the test masses.

To make any sensible use of gravitational waves, we'd need to invent some form of gravitational …aser (light: laser / microwaves: maser), i.e. a gwaser. Gravitational Wave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. Okay, I admit it, this is one of these gedankenexperiments I play through in my head from time to time, trying to come up with some technological setup, that could do it. If I had to make a bet, I'd say whatever it'd be, it'd be similar to a free electron laser.

But it's foolish to even go further than rough speculation, what components it possibly may involve, because to really make headway in that direction, we'd need a workable quantum theory of gravity. And last time I've checked, that's still an open problem.

On the uphand, should we ever figure out, if one can, and if so how to build a gwaser, this would open up possibilities far beyond new modes of communication. I'm talking propulsion that uses gravitational radiation as "reaction mass" (that'd be a no brainer, since gravitational waves to carry momentum, that's why the orbits of binary black hole systems decay in the first place). But maybe even stuff that's really outlandish science fiction, maybe even not causality breaking (not all timelike curves do violate causaility; go ahead, draw a few Minkowsky diagrams, to see what I mean) FTL travel.

And given that, I'd put this mathematical result into the same category of applicability as the Alcubierre metric: A nice consequence of mathematical rigor, but without further understanding of fundamental physics of little practical interest, so far.
>But since the survey question did not define political correctness for respondents, we cannot be sure what, exactly, the 80 percent of Americans who regard it as a problem have in mind.
I don't think it's ironic. If that political group is not receptive to this reasonable attempt to show them how they're going wrong, that's on them and rather reinforces the article's gist.
Such a great myth that our culture perpetuates.

You genuinely think half of women are dying in Childbirth in undeveloped countries right now?

I'm in Africa typing this, and I can honestly say you have no idea.

FWIW, my sister-in-law had her baby at home, zero medical anything, just a widwife keeping an eye on things.
An American friend of mine once explained that a lunchbox is considered a sign of poverty in the US. Well there is nothing wrong with cheap and healthy.
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This was actually a fascinating read. The mountains are normalized to a generic pyramid shape, not for simplicity of comparison among them, but rather because most mountains that can be seen as a whole from the ground are pyramid-shaped volcanoes.
I dunno if OP was complaining necessarily - there are a lot of cool stories to be read in the old threads too!
So what in what scenario would it be more practical to send a letter through gravitational waves rather then light?
In my country all that is public information.
The staff told me it’s inside the price label so I’m guessing it stays on
Talk given by Rob Johnson [1] at MSR a few years back...

BetrFS: A Right-Optimized Write-Optimized File System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBt5NuNsoII

[1] http://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~rob/
It's not relevant for the size of integers considered for cryptographic applications, and I doubt sheer performance is the main consideration in such applications anyway. Having said that, if you do want a simple BSD licensed library for bignums that has asymptotically fast arithmetic, there is always the bsdnt library.
Seen it all before. If you think about it there is always an incoming "severe market downturn" - it's just that very few people can predict exactly when it will happen (look at 2008).

What really matters is this: do you have a strategy in place should things go south? Have you learned the lessons of 2008?

1) Do you have decent liquidity?
2) Do you have a diversified portfolio?
3) Have you been continually improving your skills and knowledge and expanding your types of skills?
4) Have you created multiple streams of income (both active and passive)?
5) Have you minimized your ongoing costs and developed a frugal lifestyle, or do you have an excessively high "burn rate"?
6) Have you kept debt to a reasonable and manageable level (i.e. you pay off your full balance on credit cards, you have a manageable fixed interest low interest rate mortgage).
7) Do you have an emergency fund in place?

You can't control the global economy. There will be wars including trade wars and corrupt politicians etc etc What you CAN predict is your own strategies, behaviours and preparedness.
This article makes me think about the disdain some people might have against the 'liberal elite', and according to the article political correctness does seem to be a trait of that particular class.

I think the key is to understand the reason why many Americans reject PC language and culture. Is such language overused due to a fear of being accused of *ism?

Or is it because people believe that communication should be empathetic by default, and doesn't need sanctimonious words to show it off? I generally assume there is no malice in someone else's words, which is especially helpful on the (mostly text-based) internet, where there aren't any para-verbal cues.
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Pronounce btrfs as “butter fs” and betrfs as “bee-turr fs” or something, then there is no confusion ;)

But yeah I agree, betrfs and btrfs are way too similar names.
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How so? In my country all that data is public information for anyone to access and HN normally sees the very same country as the role model.
Call your local news station. I bet they might be interested in a health-scare piece.

"We all know robo-callers are annoying, but could they also be deadly? More at 5."

That and contact your govt representatives.
I generally agree with everything you've said except for the act of settling a sex discrimination lawsuit being a negative signal. The existence of a sex discrimination lawsuit is certainly not a positive signal for any prospective employer, but it takes both parties to come to an agreement to settle. Settlement is also the overwhelmingly likely outcome of most lawsuits (> 90% chance).

The prospect of going to trial concentrates the mind wonderfully. A clarity descends. Sometimes you learn things about your own case that you didn't know before. (that it sucks - maybe) Trials can be unpredictable, better to come to an agreement that both parties can live with than to roll the dice.
Also, in a plane that cannot dump such as the 737, to burn off fuel one would prefer to stay in the thicker lower part of the troposphere. Going to altitude not only risks decompression, but it actually preserves the remaining fuel due to lower drag.

That is not a maneuver a pilot with a known-damaged aircraft would make to burn off fuel.
No, the problem I have is saying that "all miseries" come from that and nothing else.
The linked report is WAY more interesting than the article. Covers much more ground (not just 'PC culture') and in a better way.

I just started reading it not knowing what I was in for, somehow both easy to digest but still broad and not that shallow. Infographics, survey responses, profiles of 'typical' people in each segment of the political spectrum, etc. Quite an enjoyable presentation.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a70a7c3010027736a227...
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Good
Thanks for it.
I was surprised to see this flight was using an airbus plane. I remember the time when airbus choose the strategy of big huge planes going from hubs to hubs with the A380, and boeing decided to go for long distance direct flights. The second strategy seemed much better to me, and indeed i think the A380 isn't seeling that well.

It seems that it took them only a few years to catch up, and here we are, with airbus offering the best long distance flight plane. That's definitely a great company.
It's not faster for the size of integers used in cryptography. The crossover point is tens of thousands of bits, much more than is sensible to use in cryptography (don't mention post-quantum RSA :p).
Do you think it's even theoretically possible that an air traffic controller will say "looks like you might be having trouble with your plane... we're not going to allow you to land here. Go elsewhere"
I've flown on them thrice. All three flights were delayed, even when it was a 35 minute flight from Jaipur to Delhi (supposed to land at 9:00pm, landed at 11pm).

When I last checked, their website literally did not work (clicking the booking button after entering your details took you to a 404 not found page)

It's a disaster of an airline, especially when cheaper options such as Indigo are way more punctual
Here's why I am immediately skeptical.

People think games are easy. People think entertainment is a solution. That is almost always a sign of someone in trouble.

In reality, entertainment is the reddest of red markets. It is incredibly difficult to make a compelling experience. Even more difficult to sell it. Include risk in the calculation and you are literally better off working for minimum wage than writing a game.

It is absolutely no coincidence that this conference mostly showed off games. And - by all reports - very crappy ones, with game play you would expect from a game jam (albeit dressed up in million-dollar graphics). It is no coincidence they haven't got a proven game studio on board: their flagship game is created _under contract_ by a VFX company.

Games are not your Trojan horse use case. Figure out what your product is for. Get it in consumers hands. And you can bet your ass game devs will exploit it (iPhone anyone?). Otherwise you are a novel gaming peripheral. And you are going to have to work _a lot harder_ to show games worth playing. Even VR is struggling (and, I would say, failing) there.

So far, Google glass is still the most compelling AR tool I've seen.
I'm guessing that "guessing in the dark" is the way experiments for particles in the standard model have been done for a while now. I would assume that a single success would set off a chain reaction as the author said.
> Given that you have a degree, would you consider going to the US for a year or two of work?

I'd consider it, for the right job. I haven't looked for jobs in the US, and I would prefer a job in the Netherlands, but it's a possibility.

> I also saw you writing that European companies are very driven by specific technologies. I do not think this is true. Sometimes companies will write "5 years of React" but what they are actually looking for is an experienced frontend developer.

Possibly. From my perspective, it is hard to tell the difference, since I don't have a lot of professional experience.
There's lots of "verification" data there, and lots of info to make convincing phishing attempts. That's serious juju.

Like if I say "I'm calling from Samsung about your SMA500FU, phone number #####, ..." that gives me a lot of trust for a phish.

I wonder, say, how many phones I could get by mailing people an envelope saying their phone was at risk of exploding, sending corresponding texts, etc..
This is why I can’t take mongodb or nodejs seriously.

First off: you need two separate third party packages to achieve `mkdir -p` and `rm -rf`? How is that not a giant red flag for anyone reading this?

Secondly: this is exactly why I don’t buy the “having to define a schema slows down dev, so we can’t use sql”.

You clearly do have a schema, it’s just that it exists almost solely in your application code (i hope you at least have indexes in the db?). But now because your schema is changing rapidly you need a way to update the schemaless documents to meet... the new schema.

So now you’re back writing more fucking javascript to update the schema of your documents that are “schemaless” because your schema changes so often.

Did I miss anything?
I used Ting for a while, if I had better home coverage I'd still use them as my primary mobile provider, but I'm not in a great coverage area and it seems Verizon's 700MHz/Band 13 is my only consistently reliable service option at the moment. Adding lines for $6 with Ting was nice, I would use them with a dumbphone for a dedicated 2FA SMS line. It appears you can turn off the ability to recieve calls and texts, and with Ting that would probably take a whole 2 minutes since you can call and talk to a real person, usually with no hold time.

From Ting support forum:
"If you're looking to get a new SIM card to use mobile data, it requires a phone number... but it needs a phone number to be able to communicate with the tower...you can turn off calling and text messaging to it"
Thanks for your comments, they have kicked me out of my head space.
I suppose I got it into my head thinking of massive densities, like densities of neutron star. Anything dense enough to make a difference would be very loud and easy to spot... as I'm writing this, even if it were very dense.
The effect would only be seen when it is much closer to another gravity well.
Ok, how about this (I'm still stuck on this gravity idea), there is an unseen "cloud" of rock orbiting (very) slowly round the main body. Seemingly slowing down and accelerating as it orbits. A small body or cloud of bodies could easily be small enough for us to not see it, but enough to cause this effect. Sound reasonable?
Did you mean the Nigerian song by P-Square featuring the words "chop my money"? Because that's not about scamming.
I can’t beleive it’s not butrfs.
I always wonder to what extent this is true for Go. How does it handle depending on C libraries?
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