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>>If you work at a handset manufacturer, and sit in on sales calls, and one of your team members brings up anything remotely related to this or VOIP, you might see the carrier buyers get visibly upset and literally walk out of the room.

Is your anecdote over a decade old? That may have happened to a much weaker extent before IMS[1] carrier deployments became widespread, and before the consolidation of the Android and iOS platforms. Not to say that VoIP apps like Skype, Viber, WhatsApp, WeChat Voice, KaoKao, etc. plug into carrier IMS cores, but carriers definitely did see the writing on the wall and prepared for the cannabilization of their voice revenue for quite some time.

Note that Apple devices enabled voice-over-LTE as part of their iOS 8 rollout on iPhone 6's or higher[2], and Google recently figured out how to do the same for some Project Fi phones back in Feburary 2017[3].

The last remnant of strong wireless VoIP app vs. wireless voice differentiation practices is mainly the Middle East, but I believe handset manufacturers around the world generally do not experience such vehement (or even any) pushback from carriers these days.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Multimedia_Subsystem

[2] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203078

[3] https://9to5google.com/2017/02/17/google-mvno-project-fi-vol...
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Essentially, because at that time I was the only one in charge of producing the reports, and so I could choose any tool in the market. (This does not mean that I have not met resistance by other colleagues in using Chicken Scheme: had I used a more widespread language, other people could have helped me in hacking the reports.)

Recently I coordinated the development of a similar tool for another experiment, but this time I was managing a team of three. While everybody knew how to program in Python, I was the only one with an adequate understanding of Scheme. So I decided to allow the members to use Python. (This time, however, we produced Markdown reports, which we converted to HTML using Pandoc.)

Most of the other codes I regularly develop for my job do not involve HTML reporting but make heavy use of Python libraries. In this case, I either stick with Python or use Julia.
Studied and got an AWS certification. Played basketball. Traveled. It was a good summer.
> I guess it matters less on a device like this where you could more easily use external storage, but still. I wish Apple stopped soldering in stuff and just made things a centimeter taller if that was the tradeoff.

Here it's a bit more than just that: T2 is the secure boot system, but also the SSD controller (and a few other I/O things).

They could have put an m.2 slot though.
All websites looking "the same" is effectively evolution at work.
Many website designs and layouts have been tried, and the "best" of them have stuck around.

This can be seen in any product (cars, smartphones, food - the list goes on).

From time to time there are designs that don't look like others, and those may or may not be met with approval. If they're liked, those designs (or aspects of them) get blended with the standard.
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I'm not arguing they are perfectly objective evidenced by complaints from both sides. I'm arguing that they're not "government funded state propaganda" as GP claims, who would be expected to be pretty consistent in support of said government regardless of their views. :)

Overall, over the decades, I find the Beeb make a reasonable fist of being unbiased. With the occasional ludicrous attempt to balance by allowing a fringe a voice. Some instances of which have been apologised for.

When an opposition gets into power they still complain, no matter who Paxman or Humphries has had a pop at lately. I think any preferences of the types of stories they run are a reflection of the times, and perhaps the sort of people who choose to go into the media rather than any overt bias. Thus for some they are viewed as biased centrist or centre left in always seeking balance.
Go around visiting national parks for some eco-therapy
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It doesn't matter if the BBC is biased or not. There's no competition, so it's always possible to make the charge.

For all its faults, I still prefer the American system better. It's not better in every way... commercials (especially political ones) are a plague... but I would rather err on the side of Free Speech.
Ride my motorcycle across the U.S. like this guy did.

https://youtu.be/3OoEDJjE7RI
Are there curated guides like these for other fields (e.g. NLP)?
It’s not a competition, it’s an inevitability. You don’t want to roll dice every 4 years when losing equals industrialised genocide.

Better to not have those systems in place.
Probably slow response if any, judging by the interception of the stolen Q400 at Sea-Tac and having listening to the civilian ATC providing intercept vectors. Don't get me wrong, they coordinated well, but I guess I'd have expected a military jet to receive broad airspace clearance & use advanced radar to zoom straight to their POI.
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We've got renders

Notice how they all look like cars from Altered Carbon? And how the specs mention autonomous driving with a retractable steering wheel, augmented reality, and rear-facing front seats? VW will have these out by 2020 for sure.

[1] https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/electric-hybrid/id

[2] https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/electric-hybrid/concept-cars
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My only semi joking answer has been to hire a personal trainer and follow John Cena's workout regiment in an attempt to get truly sculpted - while I hit the gym frequently now, making it my job would let me get some awesome results.

Alternatively, I would take a hardcore tech break. Rent out a cabin in a remote area and just relax, write and hike all day. Maybe pick archery back up.
This is the ideal situation for me. I very strongly value personal development and I feel it's impossible to get with a regular gig. I'd prefer work that's more transient in nature and gives me time to explore projects for learning and personal interest.
I had 3 months between jobs 3 years ago. I watched all of Doctor Who (never watched it before) and just generally relaxed, ate healthy, and exercised. I also spent 2 weeks traveling. This was very useful because I was quite burned out from the previous job.

I have a year off between jobs right now (finance non compete) and I'm using the time to bootstrap a company
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can someone recommend some good books/texts on nuclear reactor design and control (i.e. with accurate detailed breakdown of the operation controls and the computation graph for reverse-mode automatic differentiation (adjoint sensitivities) ?
I went on a 300 mile hike
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Looks really cool! About to signup for the beta.
The more I think about it I might be getting the validation mixed up with healthcare.gov.

I definitely received the postcard though.
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It can't do it with Helium, which was used to test whether it is operational. Still doesn't make searching for nuclear alternatives legitimate or warranted.
I am not the author, but I do agree.
I will study some math. Revisiting high school math textbooks. They really hide the application part in those years!
I think it's more because of the PCIe interface, and access control and encryption through the T2 chip.
The PCIe interfaces SSDs that Apple's been using allow really fast speeds of upto 3Gbps, which is almost double those offered by other interfaces like M2 or even more faster than SATA.
What's disappointing is the base storage. 128GB in 2019 is so ridiculous. I would't otherwise mind a soldered SSD when I can just use the TB3 ports to connect external drive with virtually no performance loss. But 250GB internal storage is a necessity especially when the OS itself takes up almost 20GB out of the paltry 120GB.
> because its explicitly written down it can make code more readable.

more text to read does not means "more readable", it means more effort to do
I'm surely missing something, but how this is a bad thing for an average user. Surely the idea behind throttling is to protect users on shared instances from bad actors that are hogging resources beyond a reasonable amount. Running the CPU at 100% for 30 minutes, or do similar actions with the disk or network would degrade performance for everyone else and I would want my cloud provider to address that. I would be shocked if DO and Linode did not also have such a safety feature in place.
Maybe because quantum mechanics has interesting dynamics and produces interesting results?

Hey, there's a seed for a hard sci-fi novel: we live in a simulation (or pocket universe), the laws of which were intelligently designed to produce aggressive life forms in order to make entertaining viewing for the builders and their clients. So all the wars we decry actually saved our universe by keeping it 'interesting'.

(I find it interesting that I'm willing to allow that evolution as we know it is just a quirk of our universe's dynamics, but I assume that commerce is universal...)
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I had these few months and rather casually I'm putting the finishing touches on a side project. It was also beneficiary during the job hunting.

I wish I had traveled more, but laziness and monitor addiction is real :)
This is a badly written article, journalists should have a little science background.

"... the bats .... were carriers of a rabid and highly contagious virus."

Yes, it is a rabid virus...

"A person usually has some time before it is necessary to get the post-exposure prophylaxis vaccination."

A friend had to handle a bat in her cabin, and she was not told she had "some time" before the shots. If you've been exposed get your butt to the ER.

"An estimated 40,000

people in the US who might not be up-to-date on vaccinations

get preventive treatment for rabies after a bite or scratch from a dog or cat."

Statistically 100% of peeps aren't up to date on rabies vaccines. Vets, bat researchers, and bat house zookeepers may be up-to-date, but no one else is.

Rabies shots costs thousands of dollars, btw. Tricare, for military dependents, doesn't charge a copay for rabies post-exposure injections. My friend's insurance had something like $4000 copayment.
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I've been doing C# on a Mac w/ Rider and it's been a delight. There's a few rough edges (using Windows/DOS style paths in the csproj breaks my muscle memory) but it's great.
I think it’s about priorities. Selling gas to Germany for $$$ without middleman taking a cut and being able to shut down pipes is priority 1. German investment in Russian nuclear industry is secondary. I think Russia has more domain knowledge in this area than Germany anyways (France would be a better country being able to offer expertise, Germany just doesn’t have the strong history in this area compared to Russia, France, US, Japan). The only thing Germans can provide is cash, Russians have very strong experience with nuclear energy and they can do the tech implementation part. It’s just they have trouble paying bills.
Sandboxing issue can be solved by extending cmake with a directive specifying which paths are accessible up front.

I might be willing to do a PR soon
Absolutely travel. Traveling solo is a hugely rewarding experience. Stay in hostels to meet other people and make friends. If money is tight, choose a cheap area. If you like outdoor adventuring, combine it with rock climbing or summiting some mountains. (I can provide recommendations if you want)
I’m with this one. I’ve been out of work for an extended period previously. It’s very stressful.

If it was with another job lined up, and I had money... oh I’d travel (still dream about Hawaii most nights since visiting. Ridiculous.), read, learn something, visit my family (rural ON), visit my girlfriends family (BC/the island), exercise and sleep long. Probably indulge in video games because I don’t often.

Yeah. Now I’m dreaming about two months off. If money’s not a problem, then enjoy your reclaimed time OP.
Rabies is one of the scariest diseases to me, because most aren't vaccinated, it's virtually 100% lethal, and most of the time, doctors will tell you that you don't need to be vaccinated "just in case", because the incidence is so rare.

If you can, bring in the animal that bit you; you don't want to go through the shots unless they are necessary, but you also don't want to die.
Well, none that admit to a bias anyway.
How has the certification benefited you since then? I am considering working towards it as well.
That's...alarming. I don't mean to be presumptuous, but I think you might be in the wrong line of work if that's the case. Work can suck, but it shouldn't be that soul crushing.
> They never hurt us

I guess as I understand it, it doesn’t matter if animals are normally friendly because rabies causes them to act aggressively.

Radiolab did an episode on rabies that is absolutely fascinating. They talk about the “Milwaukee Protocol” for treating it, which I’d never heard of before that. It’s no longer a recommended treatment, if it ever was, but the story really stuck with me.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/312245-rodney-versus-death
>What? I've been following the market and Tesla has not brought no new innovation in any aspect of the car (engine, battery technology etc). They've just hired some great designers and invested a lot in marketing. You can't even say that their cars are competitively priced. I've seen way more innovation from Chinese electric car builders.

You're talking past my point. I didn't say they were innovative, I said they showed they could build electric cars that match ICE ones and even surpass them in some regards. That doesn't require that much innovation, just putting very well together existing technology. It's the iPod all over again. Not innovative but it actually put the technology in a usable state for the mass market.

I currently drive a BMW 3 series. It has size/features/range that are enough (and often exceed) what I need. No one except Tesla offers anything I can reasonably replace that car with. Not even BMW themselves who offer the quirky i3 but nothing like the Model 3. While all the carmakers were fumbling around making hybrids a little bit better Tesla went and jumped ahead with getting an electric sedan built. There's no point in me getting a hybrid, I already average exactly 50mpg (4.7 l/100km) with the current diesel, a hybrid wouldn't add much if anything. Switching to an electric can be a 2-4x step for cost and CO2 depending on electricity costs and share of renewables in the grid at your location.
"Rabies shots costs thousands of dollars"

I assume you mean in the US. Really? I had no clue. They are like $5 in Eastern Europe.

Edit: I am referring to the post-exposure shots.

Edit 2: All of this reads like a bad joke - if our numbers are representative, rabies treatment is 20-2000x the cost of other countries in the US. Would be interesting to see someone play devil's advocate on this.
> If we keep net neutrality focused just on making sure that we get the data we pay for, free of blocking and throttling [...]

If I didn't get included in your zero rated list of services, or put forth the effort to conform to your amp-like provider-specific rules, then I am blocked or throttled or charged more for or whatever.

Pipes picking and choosing winners should be a no compromise situation. But you have to tackle the lack of alternative ISPs before you can get there (and you then probably will get there even without legislation).
Another sad case of lack of scientific formation. Could be easily solved spending 20 minutes at the schools to study basic ecology of parasites, vectors and diseases.

Microbats shouldn't be, never, ever, manipulated with bare hands. Specially if they seem to be sluggist or ill. Full stop. You need strong gloves, or much better, let it to a trained zoologist or veterinary.
Thinking on that... someone could use it to declare a revolution, or say claim a disaster has happened.
Flagged comment is correct. Gas cars are still superior for actual normal use. The issue is, as long as electric are priced above or similar to conventional cars, is and will continue to be, superior demand. Electrics are for the well to do only still in most areas. I say that as someone who would love an ecar, but find them both unaffordable, and mildly unsuitable for the driving I do regularly. But this is not a shiny metro-dwelling sentiment, so I suspect this comment, dispite being useful and relevant, will end up the same.

A plea: There are people outside cities. Lots of them. Stop pretending we don't exist, and calling us rednecks/flyover/etc. Its become a staple of HN and getting worse. It makes me sick to read the comments sometimes. We grow your food, build your infrastructure, but get no empathy when we have no internet access. Its bigotry plain and simple, and rampant here. Usually stated in cowardly downvotes rather than reasoned debate to perserve image. I fully think you should be required to respond, or upvote a response, before downvoting. It would surface the real bias entrenched here.
I would try to set up a healthier lifestyle, primarily by working on establishing consistent exercise and eating patterns.
China's track record with free speech makes the implications of completely bypassing any human 'journalist' kind of scary. I guess it's always been possible, but damn.
In many cities, you can't even rent an apartment without a credit history.
I can't think of another website that even remotely resembles superbad [0] and that's quite okay with me.
[0]: http://superbad.com
I don't think the BBC supports a political party, but support for certain positions is certainly evident. They are clearly pro-EU and anti-Israel, for instance.
Websites are not art*

They are communication mediums. Either delivering communication effectively to the user, or to let the user communicate effectively with others, or do so bi-directionally.

Or they're tools to get work done - maybe even make other art.

In all cases functionality is most important - which is not incompatible with aesthetics. Aesthetics and usability are vital too.

But it does constrain somewhat the variety of your medium. And that's okay.

As LitFan said - it's the same reason cars and smartphones tend to look the same as well.

* Except when they are, and when they are they should be appreciated as such and graded as such, and there are such websites, but they are by far the exception.
I'm all for FSF and F/OSS but I feel like we're discussing things of the past. What I think needs discussion instead is

1. what are the ethics of F/OSS in times of "the cloud"?

2. should we equip our software with additional constraints related to what kind of websites/service can and cannot be created with it (for example Open Access only, or at least freely crawlable by indie crawlers; eg I just learned GitHub blocked findx which has shut down today [1])

Rather than pontificating about traditional software licensing, I'm more concerned about your software's contribution towards software and information monopolization.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18413684
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I find that GV is also excellent at inbound robocall and spam rejection, FWIW.
You must simulate the value of the wave at every point of the universe, or at least a grid that has enough points to have the correct precision. It's even more work. Imagine simulating all the waves in all the ocean in the Earth, but worse because there are some nonlocality effects.

You can probably do some kind of smart representation of the wave, were you decompose it in some smart functional base of smooth waves. With a very optimized representation the calculations would be equivalent to the usual quantum mechanics calculations. With a not smart enough representation you would get something that needs more calculations.
Though Max Headroom is virtual in the “virtual YouTuber” or “virtual band” sense. ;)
Or hasn't happened...
In India they are free in State owned hospitals.
BYD is now designing cars for North American safety standards: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/electric-car-ev-china-trade...
> Streisand that orangutan!

Nobody is trying to suppress the video, so talking about 'Streisand' doesn't make any sense.

They're just saying it can't be shown as an advert on TV.
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Is encryption optional? In general I'm more worried of forgetting my password (and thus losing all my data) than of unauthorized access to my home desktop.
> And the job after that was the usual case of "How soon can you start?"

That's when I would normally say that I've been planning a trip so I can start in 2 months. Then you can relax with your next role lined up.

It actually works really well for negotiation too. While interviewing say that you've been planning a trip/something else and that you weren't even really looking for a job but the position you're talking about was so interesting you thought it was worth exploring.

That helps because it gives the appearance of:

1. Not being under financial pressure

2. Having many options for employment that you can choose at will

Both are very helpful when negotiating. High end individuals usually won't have to rush into a new job right away and will often do some intercontinental travel or large personal project between roles.
Console manufacturers have a different revenue model. They get money from games sold for their platform, this allows them to sell hardware with low margin or even at loss.
> I don't think the capacity is even remotely there for other manufacturers to come in and just buy up energy storage on the open market

If this is the case, doesn't it destroy the arguments of renewable energy advocates that "utility scale" batteries to store solar/wind energy are anywhere close to being realistic?
So from that point of view, where the real numbers exist in the same way infinity exists -- they're not really numbers but ideas about numbers. Pi isn't a number but an idea about the circle, which isn't a shape but an idea about shapes. Is that where constructive math takes you? This is all quite fascinating but totally unfamiliar to me.
> If you can, bring in the animal that bit you

Don’t they still need to kill the animal and send it’s head to the lab? At least when I was a kid you still needed the shots because it took a week to get the animal’s results back.
Or in Vietnam it was about 10 euro a shot and probably would have been free if I had been a local.
Rabies also returned to Europe in the big scam's period. With several recent cases in Greece since 2012. The country was clean of rabies in the previous 20 years.

The expansion of the golden jackal as new centroeuropean animal promoted for the deliberate extinction of the gray wolf by man, could also increase this probability. Jackals are much more prone to bite and interact with dogs and cats without killing it.
This is a great perspective but it's important to remember your sample bias -- you're only making judgments about the offender you've identified. Or more snarkily, you've only caught the people dumber than you.

When you're talking about basic attacks to steal some money, this is a substantial but not world-changing effect. On the other hand, a government or cartel willing to invest significant resources in cyber offense can really move the needle. What we've seen Russia, North Korea, Israel, and others achieve is probably only a fraction of what they've actually achieved.
Banning political ads is good. But IMO this ad is not political at all.

It is about climate change and the impact on the environment and animals. It is like maths and physics and not a matter of debate. It is not associated with any political party...