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To be more accurate California is an at will state (for everybody: low level employees and CEO's) and non-compete are illegal. Other states are different. It exists to protect the interests of employees. The flipside is if you do resign you don't have to wait 2 months before you leave. It is good practice though to give at least a two week notice.
>working at companies exist can be considered evidence of systematic discrimination.

No it can't unless you show that there are an equal number of qualified candidates, which there aren't in tech. CS grad rates for women are much lower.
> I'm not claiming that at all.

You absolutely did. In fact, you plainly used the phrase "nothing to do with". I'm sorry, but words mean things.

>In this topic I've stated that chronic long-term homelessness is largely the result of mental illness and drug abuse.

Then I am here to tell you that you have it perfectly backwards. What I've learned from working with the persons who make up the growing tent settlements in my giant city is that the perfect reverse is true: overwhelmingly, lack of capital triggers evictions, which triggers homelessness, and homelessness triggers mental illness, criminality and drug abuse. Exceptions to this pattern exist, but nowhere nearly in sufficient numbers to derail the characterization.

>You're arguing a straw man when you imply we live in some sort of Randian/Libertarian free market capitalist system. We don't. Social welfare policies are tools already used by modern governments.

I repeat: Your position is that concentrations of wealth -- such wealth's tangible assets dominated by holdings of real estate -- do not overwhelmingly divert the attention, priorities, electoral outcomes and revenues of government to their own ends at the explicit costs of the safety net. You seem to believe government does not sell political results exclusively to persons who can pay for those results...with capital. Again: total nonsense.

I've hung around with way too many homeless people who were working three to five years ago and were laid off as an effect of nothing but their employers' capital flight for me to fail to notice that capital allocation is the primary catalyst in this suffering.

>lob at our current system accomplishes besides FUD.

Don't worry about what I'm accomplishing; through your response, I've already demonstrated that the role of capitalism in human suffering is commonly and literally a taboo to discuss. Someone, maybe even you, although it need not be, will notice this when they hadn't before. That is a good thing.
Nothing against TOTP per se, but plenty enough against Google Authenticator and its typical use cases. If you log into a website on your phone and use an authenticator running on the same phone, it's not 2FA, it's just two passwords.
I'm evaluating next.js for a new project. But coming from create-react-app, I'm a bit skeptical of these "frameworks" that seem to provide little benefit beyond developer tooling (i.e. setting up webpack, hot reload etc). create-react-app was great in the beginning, but months later was really annoying. I get the feeling next.js could end up like that. At least you can eject from CRA.

I'm curious if anyone has gone the "roll your own" route with SSR + react, starting with a simple approach and adding complexity only as it becomes necessary. Has anyone done this and maybe also used next.js? I would love to hear a comparison, because at the moment I'm unconvinced next.js is really necessary if you know what you're doing, or you intend to maintain the project for more than 2 years.
Seems unlikely, because the Richter scale is logarithmic. For example, to bleed off the energy released by this magnitude 5.4 earthquake, you'd have to trigger 125000 magnitude 2.0 quakes. Fun little calculator on the USGS site: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/topics/calculator.php
I'm not aware, to be honest. I'm only now learning Elixir for a few weeks now and plan on taking up Rust next after building a small Elixir project.

What I found was:
- Elixir, has awesome support for concurrency and zero-downtime deployments. Runs on Erlang VM. Inspired by Ruby.

- Rust - replacement C/C++ as the low-level programming language of the future for people who want to write pretty code.
Ask HN: How do you approach timeboxing your studying and side projects?
How do you go about setting aside time for studying and projects after work such that you are progressing significantly while also enjoying your free time with other hobbies?
> With both a private blockchain and a signed transaction log you have to rely on the tx log/blockchain being published so that third parties can verify that all updates are consistent.

Maybe it is?
I wonder, can you get away with it at the Mountain View Walmart? In most of the country Walmart is ok with letting people sleep in their cars/rvs there. But I could see the Mountain View location having different rules
Why buy drugs/illicit things on an open, immutable and transparent ledger?

Best use cash and leave no trace.
If you're reusing passwords, it's still better.

Obviously it would be better to not reuse passwords, but in general it seems to be easier to encourage users to do 2FA than to not reuse passwords.
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Not just image searches, the entire website is basically unusable, especially without proper filters to block whole screen popups, unwanted login prompts, and modal windows obscuring everything. Not to mention the JS messing up the browser history so you can't go back to any page, because their scripts will fuck that up and only store the first and last page in the chain.
Everything in engineering is a trade off. The changes that were made were not inherently dangerous, but the certification process on those changes fell apart for a variety of reasons. If the certification process had been followed correctly, these planes would be flying safely.

The FAA is underfunded. A pro-business administration applied pressure to help Boeing certify more rapidly. Due to time and money pressures, many things that should have been performed by the FAA safety inspectors were actually performed by Boeing engineers. The safety assessment was performed on incorrect numbers! (Boeing estimated some parameters and performed safety assessment. Then those parameters were updated after flight testing, but the safety assessment was not re-performed with the updated numbers! That's a huge problem in the process.)
Wouldn't it make sense in that case to just pretend it was a "regular" hijacking? Why should you go "hey pilots, open the doors or not, everyone is gonna die anyways." Vs. Open the door now or we'll kill a passenger every 10 minutes."
Society still has an immense effect on what children and teenagers prefer to do, via instilling role models. There is an amazing small experiment with primary school children. First, no girl in the class even has the idea she could become a pilot, because this is seen as a boy's/men's profession. Then a female pilots and a female car mechanic visit the kids, and explain what they are doing. Afterwards, half of the girls want to become pilot.
Excerpts from this feature are available here (only in German): https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/no-more-boys-and-girls/beru...
The narrow body gives you less room to work with. Delta Economy seats are 17.2” in the 737, 17.9” in the 767, and 18.5” in the 777.
Here's a useless anecdote: I was fired from Oracle a couple years back, and it was done as pleasantly as one could expect. It completely depends on who's running your department. I was in storage testing. My direct manager had mediocre people skills, but the director is a superb manager in all respects, and she was the one who pulled the trigger in a face-to-face meeting with me. She made it as clean and honest as it gets. I'm not a huge fan of the company, but I wouldn't hesitate to work for her again.

Obviously the experience of a singe drone has little bearing on anyone else. I feel bad for everyone getting pushed out of the boat this month.
Fair enough, but I wouldn't go so far as to make people afraid of trying it either, which feels like an unintended consequence of this line of thinking. The organization I went through at least worked out of the community and had experienced locals working for them who were doing most of the actual drilling.
One argument that I think has been propelling kubernetes is that projects using orchestrated containers benefit from a consistent application environment, and such orchestrated deploys can be much more easily distributed when the entire stack configuration can be packaged, and it enables greater out-of-the-box functionality like autoscaling for the teams deploying these projects--the zero to jupyterhub project is a great example: https://zero-to-jupyterhub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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It's not, really. Not technically. All of those tradeoffs and vastly more are made all the time, when certifying a new aircraft.

There's nothing wrong with relaxed stability, autopilots are 60 year old technology and have been keeping people safe since our grandparents were flying. And the certification process has for the most part produced very safe aircraft.

But in this case, the certification process was seen as too expensive. Boeing wanted to market a tweaked, high-efficiency 737 with newer engines, and didn't have the time to spend on certifying a whole new aircraft. So it used the same old one and the faster regulatory process.

But that assumes that the regulatory process worked. Clearly that cascade of changes was not in the spirit of "just small modifications to existing designs". But the FAA didn't squawk and certified it anyway.

And as it happened, just one of those choices (using the trim for stability control) turned out to be unsafe in unexpected ways. One was that the AoA sensor driving the thing was glitchy. But more importantly, the trim was originally certified on the assumption that a trim control failure could be overridden by the pilot, but no one realized that pilots weren't trained to think of trim as being a computer controlled thing and didn't understand what was happening when the MCAS started fighting them.
This only gets you there if the physical distance between the stereo images on the display is <= the distance between the eyes. If it is greater, you would need to look at something more than infinitely away / behind you (your eyes would have to diverge). In particular if the screen is already quite far away (e.g. a few meters), there's not much more far away you can focus anyway, since there's not much difference in angle between a few meters and infinity.
No, people are reading the original comment about how switching to USB-C would require all-new tooling for the production line for the Mini, because it's not as simple as "just swap out the Lightning port for a USB-C port and keep everything else identical so no extra manufacturing cost whatsoever."

The assertion being made isn't that the USB-C port costs $50. It's that switching to USB-C would require up-front investment that keeping the Lightning port -- which is also still being used in all of Apple's phones and all of the other "non-Pro" iPads -- doesn't.
How does it compare with Djikstra's stunting algorithm?
If someone on a small team brings K8S expertise to the table, it is worth considering. Otherwise, yeah, if you're at the stage where your team is focusing on building the product, then K8S is going to be a distraction.
I would also rather board the plane in 20 minutes instead of 50+ minutes for a widebody, not to mention deplaning and waiting for checked bags.
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The word privilege do not function on individuals. A barrier is a barrier if it prevent a individual from fulfilling their potential.
1. Robots get classified as toys which sets an unreasonable price point.

2. Robots arn't good enough yet despite any hype you've heard.

3. In cases where a the product works better than the alternative and people are willing to pay a sustainable price the company does well ... just like every product ever.
Lumping all white men together as if they are equally privileged is dishonest.

A poor white boy from Appalachia doesn't benefit from whatever "privilege" young white men in the Bay Area might tend to enjoy as a result of their parents' success.
I don't get it. Basically you are saying that advertising has a greater negative utility than the positive utility of any technological advancement which could be used for advertising. How could this possibly be true? Would you prefer a world where reading and writing were never invented if that meant advertising could never be invented?
The difference is that those tests were done on or near land, the fallout settled either on land or in shallow water, close to marine life.

The explosions which happened in deep water (Wigwam in 1955 for instance) had practically zero lasting effects beyond radioactive steam entering the atmosphere.
I think this is an interesting observation. I am curious to know, what would you say an ideal net income pre-IPO for a tech company aiming for profitability should be? I have no idea. I thought it might be enough to simply prove profitability in the pre-IPO phase, and then use additional capital raised post-IPO to flesh out their moats and prepare for faster growth in the future. I don't see why the public markets might demand an immediate cost cutting, unless they seriously are that short-sighted (but I don't know anything about public markets).

I'm hoping that Zoom can prove you can be profitable and still succeed in the public markets. That piqued my interest coming to this post. It sucks how many companies just stay unprofitable and private, or go public only for employees/founders/investors to dump shares and run.
This is entirely up to Delta though (or any airline).

Delta could have easily decided to fill Economy seats on their 737's with 18.5" wide seats... and then had a 2-and-2 configuration instead of 3-and-2 or 3-and-3.

Same is true for the 777, they could go with smaller seats and pack in more seats per row. Likely, the 777 is used for longer flights and they decided a more comfortable seat for an 8-16 hour flight is worth a few less passengers. Or, the 777 might be overweight if filled with too many passengers, so larger seats are justified.

At the end of the day, it's the economics of making these flights - airlines run on notoriously thin margins, and flying a passenger jet is very expensive.
I think you simply fail to recognize just how far ahead North America is from the rest of the world financially.
What exactly are the barriers to programming for women?
Or (1) they aren't sure if they would count as targeting EU users, because the rules are fuzzy and might be interpreted differently by each country's regulators, and (2) they don't have any need to target EU users since their content, and their monetization, is mostly of interest to non-EU users.

In that situation, there are two cautious ways to proceed.

One approach is to assume that you might be targeting EU users and so comply with GDPR. Even if you aren't doing anything with data that would make compliance hard, this is somewhat annoying because GDPR requires that you have a representative in the Union as a point of contact for users and regulators.

The other approach is to make a good faith effort to block EU users.

If you have little or no income directly or indirectly from EU users, the second approach has a lot to recommend it, especially until there is a good body of regulatory rulings on what GDPR actually means.
Spotted the Bama grad.
Fair. Finding the balance for a wide audience between believable and exciting is tough. I'm usually good at it but in this case, it's my favorite concept in my field of expertise so I get a little too enthusiastic.

Here is a master's dissertation from MIT on the topic that goes into lots of good analysis: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/103707
My understanding was that in At-will states, an employer-employee relationship could be terminated without reason or notice unless there is a contract in place that says otherwise. My (naïve) presumption was that companies would want to put these kinds of contracts in place for their senior leadership.
Just like it's useful to have both SQLite and Postgres available for smaller and larger data projects (and Spatialite and PostGIS for smaller/larger geo-data projects), it could be great to have Redis and Kafka for smaller and larger pipeline projects.

Does anyone have good patterns for joining across entries from two or more Redis streams? This is one of the most interesting aspects of Kafka/Flink/Spark/Storm/etc. Would be useful to be able to develop with streaming joins in Redis playgrounds.
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Sounds familiar. I am in medical devices and we often have situations where the technically correct thing would cause a huge amount of paperwork and FDA scrutiny so we look for ways to work around this. This can mean a technically inferior solution but it's more viable from a financial and time to market point of view.

It's a weird balance.
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Boeing’s culture needs to change. They have a history of shady behavior.

The espionage against Lockheed Space that lead to the ULA formation

The rudder denials with 737 before this current crisis.

The 767 lease debacle.

I’m sure I’ve forgotten more.

They keep getting away with it and it needs to stop.
Yes, on an even larger scale.
Hey there, yes. I guess I meant "services" / servers.
I suppose from my point of view - small fish in the ocean - I suppose Rust services running on lambda would be a-ok.

I'd love to learn more about how you build and deploy. Do you have any favorite articles / resources that I should look at?
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The original hashcash algorithm was meant to quench email spam which is not completely unrelated.

But in this case I think the parent was proposing tricking the attacker into computing a PoW without realizing it, which sounds pretty tricky.
There are a few factors that cause one to expect a monotonically increasing, concave yield curve [0].

Firstly, one must consider the term premium [1]. In short, you expect to be compensated more for lending money for a longer period of time. Consider lending money for two years. You could lend your money in two single year-long increments, in which case you would compound your gains from the first year when you lend out the second year. If you lend in a single, two year-long commitment, you rationally expect, all else being equal, to earn as much as you would have by lending as described previously. This drives the general upwards slope (or contango) of the yield curve.

Next, consider a credit component. When you lend someone money, how likely is it that you are paid back? If you expect there is default risk, you factor that into the interest rate you demand. As the tenor of the bond increases, the risk of default increases. However, the extra interest you demand for credit risk also decreases as time goes out. Why? What are the chances that someone defaults on a loan between 5 and 10 years? Probably greater than the risk that the party defaults between 10 and 15 years. This drives the concavity of the yield curve.

Finally, the movement in the curve is driven by expectations of future interest rates, as determined by Federal Reserve policy. Fed typically acts at the short end of the curve. In its tool chest, fed can manipulate rates like the fed funds rate, IOER, and ON REPO. As the economy improves, fed will raise rates. When economic outlook declines, fed will lower rates. If you expect that rates will be higher in the future, you will demand higher yields for longer dated bonds, since your invested money will earn less of a premium to interest rates in the future relative to where you invested today. On the flip side, if you expect interest rates to decline, you will want to lock in your money now, so you purchase longer dated bonds, since you do not expect to be able to get as high a yield in the future. This action at the long end of the curve, coupled with fed policy at the short end, ultimately drives yield curve fluctuations.

[0] https://obliviousinvestor.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/yie...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-30/what-s-a-...
> it would be nice to have more widebody flights

You'll be a fan of the new midmarket airplane Boeing is planning at the moment then.

It's really hard to think of an ideal time that Boeing could reasonably have done a clean sheet 737. They're constrained in how many programs they can run at a time. After the 777, we had the huge 787 program which pushed boundaries a lot.

Then we run into this situation now where a clean sheet 737 was not going to sell and airlines didn't want to wait and retrain their pilots, so they would've switched to the A320 making a replacement 737 untenable at this time.

It seems Boeing would've needed to somehow go back in time and do a clean sheet 737 around the same time as the 757/767 program. Which would've been amazing if they'd done it, but the 737 was still a perfectly viable aircraft back then so how could they justify it.
Extremely naive and condescending take. You and people who think this way are on an elementary school mindset of “justice” and fighting against the man combined with a misplaced ego power trip.
I don't think the person you're replying to is criticizing the industry though. From what I can tell, they're saying it's not the industry's fault that it lacks women.

That's how I see it anyway: mainly based on the fact that women make up only around 20% of CS majors, I don't think the issue lies in the hiring practices of most tech companies.
> Unfortunately, not even FB can really extract much value outside of North America.

Unfortunately for whom?
> Essentially, she notes that the yield curve has been inverted roughly 50% of the time in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Actually, she says specifically 1800-1929, which is an interesting choice because AFAICT the “3-month" security (the 13-week T-bill) referenced when discussing the 3m/10y inversion (the one discussed here as a key indicator) was first regularly issued in 1929. [0]

The behavior of the markets when either or both of the instruments in the analysis were not regularly issued is obviously not comparable. (Further, when they aren't both regularly issued, assessing how much of the time an inversion was in effect is, at best, creative extrapolation, and more likely outright fiction.)

> It’s an interesting take as everyone else conveniently (more like lazy) are not doing the research and going back as far back as late 18th century.

So lazy of everyone else to only study a measure as far back as the basic premises of using the measure are valid and the components that make it up actually exist.

[0] https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/research/history/histmk...
Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/computer-geek-nickname...

Sophos is just re-hashing the DM report. I hate blog spam.