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And snow ‘falls’ in gravity. This aggregated somehow else.maybe by tenuous electrostatic attraction (some ice particles get positively ionized when a photo kicks out an electron, some get negatively ionized when an electron attaches to them, & cetera and eventually they clump together to make a roughly electrical neutral object. The. Hydrogen bonds kick in once it’s electrically neutral (assuming it’s made of water or other polar molecules).
>their singular focus on only funding “hypothesis based research”

What is the alternative to "hypothesis-based research?"
Agreed. Have seen plenty of 'kiss up, kick down' behavior at larger tech companies. It is at times amusing and a small break from the suffering to see the person transform rapidly during interactions with the kissee or the kickee in short order.
Godspeed. Thank you for sharing your stories.

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Did the fake shipping code have a destination as your house? I'd expect they'd be able to check that.
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If I'm understanding the timeline of the study properly, they're looking at parents of toddlers. IMO it would be more interesting to see how many parents were still working part-time or not at all once their kids are old enough to go to school
At least in Asia, there's pressure for men to be providers (and they get socially disrespected if they can't). Not sure about the U.S. though.
I have no idea. But I'm willing to guess he faces lower odds of being asked for a date by senior personnel in the better-paid department he would like to work in, thereby de facto closing doors in my face.
Is reducing bias the most important goal?

(Definitely not for me. Life today is much better than it was 50 years ago in communist Yugoslavia, despite higher inequality and bias, due to progress in science and business.)
I saw a suggestion a while ago that the H1B1 visas should only be granted to the highest paid employees. The idea being that that they would be more likely to be essential to whatever business brought them in, so less likely to be the subject of abuse, and less likely to be abusing the h1b1 program to hire cheaper labor.
What is the alternative? Wild guess based research? Faith based research? I'm having a hard time envisioning how you'd design an experiment, and extract knowledge, without a hypothesis.
There's that, but also, Latin was the language of science throughout Western Europe until the 18th or 19th century; Euler, for example, published his papers in Latin, and if you browse the Mathematical Genealogy Project, you can see the transition from writing dissertations in Latin to writing them in local languages like German and Italian.

Nowadays, English occupies a similar position in much of the world — if you study a scientific or engineering discipline in a non-English-speaking part of the world, chances are excellent that you will also have to study English in order to read the literature in the field. To take an example you've worked on yourself, GCC's comments are in English, and so is the mailing list.

So it's quite common for people to use English loanwords in, for example, Spanish when discussing computers, video games, and so on.
> single battery pack and a power distribution system integrated into your vest

This could be really bad potentially, I think the average weight of just a normal vest they bring with ammo is between 40-80 lbs.

There would have to be several refactors to reduce the current weight before introducing the weight of batteries. I wonder if you could reduce the weight of bullets for CQB ammo. You don't really need a bullet to travel several hundred yards in a CQB/Tunnel environment. If so, it would make sense to have a special weapons system like a long barreled SAW with a thermal scope.
Note that it wasn’t him criticizing her - it was her boss, at least assuming PI means principal investigator.
If you're comfortable, could you describe some of your experiences facing sexism? Did you experience this after you released information that you're a divorced parent?
> Right now, the app only has one 3rd party SDK installed and that’s HockeyApp. Microsoft’s version of TestFlight. It’s unclear why it’s still there

HockeyApp also provides crash reporting (it uses the PLCrashReporter framework to do so), so that may be why it's still there.
By the time you have two children the cost of child care is often similar to or greater than after tax income. It's just not really financially viable to work at that point.
> i don't know, my first reaction is introduce democratic elements to the system as opposed to seniority

Unions are almost invariably democratic; where seniority rules are adopted by a union (and this is far from universal), they tend to be adopted democratically,and not to replace democratic control of the union, so these are not opposed concepts.
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This makes me think that some time in the distant future, when we're really great a terraforming

We're great at accidental terraforming now, we're actually warming the temperature of the planet.

But based on global reaction to the current terraforming I'm skeptical that we'll ever reach the point to where we can intentionally terraform the planet.
I've found that when you are matched with a team of good communicators, voice chat is a force multiplier. I've had games of Overwatch, Battlefield, etc. where the faster coordination really let us steamroll the other team.

Maybe the other players were just really good and I was getting carried? But from my anecdotal experience, good voice chat tends to add a ton to team momentum.

With someone who's playing TV in the background, someone who doesn't bother with callouts, and someone who's tilting hard... I'd rather mute them and myself.
Very sad to hear. You are a strong fellow for putting things out there in such a public way, I am sure you have helped many deal with their own struggles.
The advances were many.

However, one can't date the beginning of the end of slavery even in England proper to any earlier than 1772. The advances that underpinned the Industrial Revolution were in place by that time, including the Newcomen steam engine - 1712. It's true that only ten percent at most of England's population were slaves in the Dark to Middle Ages but the rest were Villians/Villeins (serfs), tied to land.

It was actually the simultaneous agricultural revolution that made labor cheap because it made vegetables cheap. This revolution had little to do with machinery, with the exception of Tull's horse-drawn seed drill. (Admittedly, a big exception.)
No matter who was right, no company should allow such kind of escalation to happen.
There's a big difference between accepting 50k and 5million people, on both the British and the Chinese side.
No, it probably will. In the same way that you are not liabile for any accidents if you are a passenger in a taxi. It will take some time for legal scholars to work out all the details (e.g. gross negligence, etc), but it is very obvious that passengers in fully autonomous vehicles cannot be legally liable to the same extent that drivers are liable today.
I've read both those books. The way he went about those syntheses and tests on himself and managed to write such coherent details about the experiences really blew me away. It's really too bad what happened with him and the DEA because of his research. It's also too bad he couldn't finish the research he was working on before his health declined.
Given the assumptions the example is obviously correct. What if there are 8 amazing men and 2 amazing women but quotas dictate to hire 50/50?

The other thing is that the labor pool is already too large, lies from the industry notwithstanding.
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Latency is an active research area and a driver for updating wireless networks. You won't see the results in the current 5G roll outs, which concentrate on eMBB, but the research is feeding into the future URLLC (Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications), which is a 5G protocol aimed at machine-to-machine communications.

Beyond URLLC are protocols aimed at replacing wires in "serious" industrial control systems: things like real time control of grid switchgear and heavy machinery, so you might not see it on your phone. Latencies of the order of microseconds have been demonstrated in recent years and the stretch goal is about 200ns.
It's perfectly valid option for a couple to choose together that the mother will take on a more significant role in caring for their children.
Most of computer science deals with finite things. As such, it isn't necessary to introduce cardinal numbers or ordinal numbers. Natural numbers suffice. If you do, you quickly need to get into territory that requires lots of math background like well orderings, cardinal comparability hypothesis, transfinite recursion etc.
Then maybe we've found the limit of miniaturisation - this could mean that we need devices that could be routinely inspected by the users, hardware-wise. Maybe not every device owned by a person would be like that - this would be something you keep in your safe.
It does seem a little aggressive to try to get an employee to do useful work in 2^-53 of an hour. First you'd need a keyboard that could report 25 trillion words per minute…
Absolutely not.

We don't want union cruft within a hundred miles of tech.

It's already far too hard to shed incompetent people.
> In the same way that you are not liabile for any accidents if you are a passenger in a taxi.

A passenger is neither an owner, an operator, nor a manufacturer of a taxi.

Owners, operators, and manufacturers tend to be liable; passengers not under normal circumstances. If I get hit by a bus (to escape the taxi situation where the operator is usually the owner), the bus driver, bus line, and bus manufacturer can all be liable. Replacing the operator with a piece of equipment manufactured by the manufacturer and maintained by the owner takes the driver out of the equation, but there is no logical reason why it would remove liability from the owner.
> At some point in the future package managers for OSS May have to do LLVM compilation on the machine just to specifically target the bits and baubles of the specific architecture it’s running on.

Future? This sounds basically like what gentoo has been doing for 20 years.
Unless you don't have sick days or your company cuts PTO in half. In that case, in front of the computer or in bed, that's still working from home. Fuck them for not providing sick days and cutting PTO in half. Fuck them for no raises in half a decade. This is the way one can get more money in the same time from the same company without a raise. The less I work, the more money I make per hour, so my incentive is to work as little as possible while still getting the minimum amount of shit done. It's management that sets the incentives. Welcome to the idiots of corporate America. Sure they could give some raises sometimes or increase vacation or add sick time or really do anything whatsoever to show employees that they are appreciated and that their salaries are not going down each month due to inflation. Instead, they try to force extra work like trying to squeeze water out of stone. In the office, it's no different. People waste time in other ways. I'm just shocked that corporate executives and managers are so fucking oblivious to the incentives they create and the empty praises they try to placate their employees with. Fuck them. This isn't a situation where one should be ethical. The cards are stacked against employees and employees need to use any dirty trick to get the most out of their shitty employers.
I do wonder if toxicity is inherently built in to the nature of Overwatch. It's a 6v6 team game that incentives you into a play mode that punishes you heavily for leaving a game you aren't enjoying. I realize non-competitive modes are a lot less punishing, but anyone who's played a lot of Overwatch knows if you want to "play Overwatch the way it was meant to be played," you have to go to competitive. Speaking psychologically, I'm curious what that kind of experience does to a person's behavior (short term and long term).

I've played hundreds of hours of Overwatch on console with my wife. We don't use mics, because we had enough bad experiences early in our career to make it not worth the risk. I never have problems when I play by myself.

Surprising number of people questioning the methodology in this study. I would've expected that if it ran counter to anecdotal experiences described by women (and men who group with them) who play, but I'm not convinced more rigorous methodologies would significantly change the results. If someone does believe that, I'd seriously challenge their reasoning.
It wouldn't surprise me to learn that these findings could be repeated across all/most industries. I doubt that it is just female scientists that make this choice.
Raising children is a full time job. The broader problem is that the discipline is not at all treated as a profession. Instructors for those children are recognized professionals, but the guardians are not.

If you want to be good parents though, it is your imperative to put your kids above all else, which will naturally dissatisfy any members of the "all else" who don't have your well being and success as their priority.
Yeah. I flew from JFK to Glasgow in April of last year and IIRC we arrived around 2 hours early. It was early enough that there were no passport control agents around, and they had to be called in.
That's very uneconomical and an inefficient allocation of limited resources. Is there a way to "force" them to come back, i.e. by offering 80% off on student loans while raising costs 5x in parallel that can't be repaid by their spouses? There should be some kind of responsibility incorporated to the system. One should not just cherry pick the good parts (status/prestige/free time).
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Actually, women are favored for tenure track STEM jobs: https://www.educationnews.org/higher-education/study-women-f...

So yes, there is sexism in academic STEM hiring: 2:1 in favor of women.
do you know how modern ml works? do you know that every functional unit in a net needs to be differentiable and so needs to carry around either dual numbers (forward mode) or adjoints (reverse mode)? it's not as simple as just writing a math library.
Just as "waterstuff" ("Wasserstoff" in German) for "hydrogen" ("hudro" = water), and "sourstuff" ("Sauerstoff" in German) for "oxygen" ("oxys" = "sharp, acid").

Anyway. Also, "airplane' = "Flugzeug" in German = "Flying stuff". This is fun, actually. Flystuffs are outsending so much coaltwosourstuff that it is enharming the vapourball.
> Legal liability will shift to the manufacturers

Nah.. Manufacturers will even invest heavily in lobby efforts for this to never happen. Even if consumers will likely not own the car as they currently do (see the growing trend that you're not actually owning the car but you're paying for the license to use it indefinitely) they will be responsible for keeping it running will be the de-facto 'operators' regardless if the car is driving itself. The car will probably not store itself, not maintain/clean itself, will not keep it's radars/cameras active and not blocked by dirt/snow/etc.. Call me a pessimist but the consumers will likely get shafted.
Imagine how much more progress we could have had in science and business if we didn't de facto force out so many possible candidates who were interested in the field after they had their first kid.
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That's actually really helpful. It's tempting as a consultant to be reactive, but these are a few ways of being proactive that I had not considered. Thanks!
In practical terms, flutter due to approaching transonic conditions is probably pretty rare. That kind of flutter is (mostly or most often) due to the interaction of normal shocks with the control surfaces, or coupling with an elastic mode of the wing or tail surface.

The flutter in the first video is occurring at very much subsonic speeds, and looks to be either the result of flying a purposely underdesigned tail surface, or flying a properly built one beyond its rated flight envelope. The second video contains a wide variety of flutter instances, some of them aeroelastic, some of them transonic, and so on.

One way to get into a transonic flutter, however, is to be a hotshot business jet pilot who flies higher and higher and faster and faster. The higher you go, the lower the density, so your minimum speed increases. Also, the temperature goes down, so the speed of sound decreases. Where these two meet is called "coffin corner," and you don't always have to fly yourself into it by increasing your speed and altitude; you can fly close to coffin corner, and then fly into colder air or less dense air. No matter how you get there, you're stuck. Slow down, and the wings stall, the nose drops, you pick up speed, and hit transonic flutter. Speed up to stay in the air, by dropping the nose, and you hit transonic flutter directly.
Cool. Still excited to hear from @stevebmark!

When you started in 2008, were you self-taught, college/university or bootcamp? No wrong answers.

Have you been working primarily in JS the whole time?

Did you do front-end, back-end or some blend of the two?
Yes, but target_clones, at least, isn't a panacea. If you know how to make it work in a shared library, I'm rather interested.
My employer issues corporate Visas to any employee expected to incur >$500/year in expenses. Which means most of us have cards, at least in the US. We still have to complete expense reports, but we don’t pay anything out of pocket.
I use the Pomodoro Technique and Rescue Time.

Pomodoro forces a context change, every half an hour. This way I don’t end up yak shaving for half a day when all I needed to do was realise that this solution would require yak hair, go find a different solution.

Rescue Time helps me figure out what I was doing as a kind of forensic tool. There’s heaps of prodding and follow up available in the premium package (apparently), but for me just knowing that I will need to explain to myself why I spent three hours on HN and Reddit today helps me stay away. Mostly.
I am not trying to argue sexism/bias does not exist but from my experience any gaps in employment are a flag used to filter out candidates so in this particular scenario that might be the main problem to overcome.
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> I mean what's the point of a faster network if you're still capped at 2,5,10GB.

For those (a large majority, I suspect) whose actual data usage is determine by factors that have little to do with the network, the point of a faster network is less time waiting.

For example, I'm going to take about the same number of photos on my phone if I'm on a fast network as I will if I'm on a slow network. The fast network, though, will mean less waiting to transfer the photos to my desktop for editing or for sharing.

A good way to see this is to go the other way. Suppose you have a 10 GB cap. Would you object if your network were slowed down to dial-up modem speed (56 kb/sec)? That's more than enough to transfer 10 GB/month, so what's the point of anything faster if you have a 10 GB cap?
home insurance covers personal liability of the insured and the premises - and the rate of "collisions" is very far from 0.
You've managed to describe the function of a blacklist, but have not provided evidence that one exists.
Dang, two meetups per week is quite a commitment, but I can see it being valuable over the long term.

My interest in technology companies is that, presumably, they have more interesting technical challenges and are willing to spend the time/money to build optimal solutions from a technical standpoint.
>I mean what's the point of a faster network if you're still capped at 2,5,10GB

Bandwidth isn't just increasing to meet future demand but to ease existing demand. I recall a conversation I had with an industry exec a few years back, they told me that bandwidth demand roughly doubled every year while all they could do to keep up was increase cell density, which isn't always viable or cheap.

I think there's way too much marketing on 5G like it's going to revolutionize telecoms overnight. It's going to ease some of the strain on the networks as its rolled out over the next few years, and hopefully provide better QoS eventually.
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I think you should keep in mind that company culture, values, as well as operational dynamics are not scale-free. The size of a company matters, immensely. But in a market driven economy, you can jump ship and seek greener pastures, especially if you're skilled and operate in a high demand industry.
It’s pretty universal it’s jusy like asking where are all the US soccer superstars when the answer is that they are they are playing in the NBA and the NFL. Elite athletes are going to be elite athletes the sport itself is secondary, smart people are going to be successful in any field and the field of choice is also nearly always secondary to their success.
>Right now, the app only has one 3rd party SDK installed and that’s HockeyApp. Microsoft’s version of TestFlight. It’s unclear why it’s still there, but we don’t expect it to stick around for too long.

Because the current build & test pipeline uses it and it takes time to make non-breaking changes?

>On Android, Apple seems to be ok with leaking usage data...

Or, the Android team is lagging a bit ... in a company whose focus is iOS.
You’re talking about an organization that built market dominance on the backbreaking labor and suffering of underpaid warehouse workers.

It’s just not in the corporate DNA to care. The fish rots from the head.
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> Welcome to life in practically any large US corporation.

This. Which is why I do my best to avoid working for (or doing business with) large corporations. They're simply toxic.
> The closer your field's demographics are to your society's, the lower the risk of (unconscious) bias is.

That's only true if all biases cancel each other out perfectly.
Do you use Redis on flash by chance? I'm guessing it could help reduce reliance on more expensive memory-heavy servers (and their higher cost), but I don't hear often about real experiences with the enterprise version of Redis.
I wonder how much of this is people leaving science to pursue far more lucrative opportunities like running mathematically intricate financial scams for Wall Street banks in order to assure a good financial future for their children.

I know STEM PhDs who have left their field to get a bog standard devops job on account of it pays twice as well.