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Ask HN: I can't talk to group of people anything official/serious matter
I'm a manager, and I'm struggling with this problem. I feel scared to talk anything official/seriously to a group of people. But I can add contribute to already ongoing conversation initiated by someone. I feel comfortable with that.(But only until the entire group starts focussing on me)

I feel very difficult to start a conversation when everybody is expecting me to start. My voice will tremble, and I try to finish conversation quickly without saying much
(But, trust me, I want to talk lot of ideas to my team)

And I want to overcome this. Please help. I pledge every day to overcome this, but I can't. (I somehow escape such meetings). I'm struggling for many years.
I haven't done sleeper trains or really long trips. I did spend quite some time in NL and UK and took trains (2-3 hrs) in Sweden, Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland. Probably some other countries (and many more outside of Europe). Sure it's slightly nicer than pack of sardines in an airplane, but also I'd rather negotiate armrest for 1 hour than 5.
Especially when you account boarding, navigating the airport, having to show up at least half an hour before the flight, security checkups... All time-consuming tasks related to boarding the actual aircraft that you don't have to go through to hop on a train.
I see “no backups” as a feature, not an issue. If there are backups, that means that someone can a) steal them b) or ask to see them (government). I use signal a lot with a few friends, and we all know that the what we share might immediately disappear, and that’s ok.

The issue about phone number is real.
I'm not sure if I can even take a train from Helsinki, Finland to anywhere else in Europe. There's a sea between Helsinki and most of Europe and the track gauge is only compatible with Russia.
Not taxed at all? Is that really the case?

Most tickets I get are usually £10 fare then like £50 taxes? I think those are passenger duty Vs the actual flight itself though if that is what you mean?
What is the name of the tool?
They say that's set to be decided in or around 2023 one way or another.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-brass-set-202...
>I don't get this comment. Subjectively, how am I supposed to justify that I find PUA crap repulsive? I just do.

FDS differs from PUA in that they want to settle for a man who is valuable to them and PUA just goes through women one after another even if you manage to get laid with one woman, it doesn't stop anywhere.

>Maybe they should rethink their strategy then (by the way, what a lovely word to use when dealing with romantic interests).

>Objectively, how am I supposed to prove that it's of any use when literal billions of people live happy relationships without the use of any of that stuff?

We don't know that billions of those people are happy. Were slaves happy before slavery was abolished? Were women happy before feminism?

I am a guy who never used to get much attention from women but I read FDS and I see lots of women there have had very bad experience with men who they just fell in love with, who they didn't clearly vet and they suffer consequence of this in terms of abuse, being raped or consigning debt etc...

Their strategy is now focused on avoiding those men who have destroyed their life.
Nah, when I write something wrong in a letter. I just backspace and fix it there and then.

The one time I recorded a video I had to redo it like 10 times and I eventually just submitted it because I was tired of the shit.
Aviation only makes up about 2% of total global C02 emissions.

Because the majority of humanity has never flown at all. What fraction of your CO2 emissions came from flying last year?
Also cheaper by plane. Being a student with a limited budget, this very much affects my decision.

My tips would be:

* Book at least a week in advance.

* Buy a Bahn Card 25.

* Get up early.

If you do this Berlin -> Munich is €44.90 next Saturday on the 4 hour fast train. Also don't forget, it costs around €11 to go from Munich airport to the city.
> The performance is also quite comparable to statically typed GCed languages. (For example, you can probably get to 50%-90% of Java performance on most single-threaded workloads)

Citation needed, please. I disagree with this. I recently was able to achieve a massive speedup in a Node application through writing a native C++ module... and implementing Garbage Collection is required for N-API.
What is this spreadsheet supposed to prove? It sounds like its either a ego-measuring contest of which company has the best salaries + compensation with position in a certain country (Hint: It's still FAAMNG in Silicon Valley) or it is a giant weird flexing spreadsheet to show that devs in developed countries are paid more that those in third-world countries (Even those who work remotely).

The compensation in somewhere like California is still high due to the cost of living such as the high rents, travel, childcare and most importantly healthcare which isn't free unlike some places like the UK it is but paid via taxes. This is why some people don't understand when they see a certain celebrity programmer on this spreadsheet that works for one of the FAAMNGs and is apparently 'paid less' in the UK but some lesser known devs in the US are 'paid more' in the same company.

Again it turns out that it depends on the country they are in and it seems to be similar to something called 'Purchasing Power Parity'.
If it only took 4h, experience shows otherwise.

In any case, that was just an example, I am not doing Germany - Portugal by train, unless forced to do so. It is more than 24h.
While I like the idea of traveling by train, and I even took a night train from Munich to Budapest in the past, but on that specific route I had to share my cabin with a guy who just got released from jail a day earlier so I was not pleasantly relaxed. The fact that the cabin only had 2 bunk beds and I was pretty much isolated from other passengers and I had no way to keep my money and other important things in a safe, made me worried a lot.

The big advantage of air travel is exactly this, you don't need to spend much time in the actual plane. And the passengers are by definition under full-time supervision by other passengers, so stealing or attacks are not so easy to get away with.

Having said that, I would still prefer to take the train when it's possible. Central railway stations are usually pretty much in the best locations of most European cities, where the connections are really good.

But there is one more thing that even the article mentions:
> In general, there is strong demand for reliable and frequent services between large cities

I second that: even in Germany the I.C.E is notorious for the delays and the poor passenger experience. So there is a lot to improve for the rail operators.
Or riding in Ukraine or Eastern Hungary. (Europe isn't just Western Europe...)
> if it's a good idea to tax air travel inside the EU to help the trains move forward

It’s rarely a good idea to look at a proxy instead of the real kpi you want to optimize.
Don’t tax air travel. Tax CO2 emission of the fuel if that is what you want to reduce.
In short, nothing special . ubuntu based linux with safe boot feature and a bunch of shell scripts. QT based user interface. Wonder if the community will create fully open source linux distro for the tesla cars to substitute the Tesla one or this is illegal to do?
I have found that 0% of my cover letters have made any difference. Every company that required a cover letter has so far rejected me.
Also besides more leg space you get to walk around and go to the cafeteria. And a better view i would say, thought that's debatable, view from the plane is pretty tripy the first few times.
For some journeys, the train takes disproportionately longer (Zurich -> Vienna) but when you consider that the journey is way more comfortable on a train (more space, ability to walk around), train stations are in the middle of the city and there is no security or check in queue, the longer journey is more bearable
No, you have to run like crazy hoping not to lose the connection train, being stopped in the middle of nowhere without any information, stuffed into wagons without air conditioning and possibility to open the windows, cramped with more passengers than available seats, without any place to stuff luggage, out of order toilets,....
As a 187 I hate pretty much every piece of transport (even most cars miss my femur length)...

I used to travel Southampton to London a lot (that's like 150km or so). IIRC renting a car used to be cheaper.
> [flying] is much more effective regarding use of time.

For short and medium distances it rarely is, given that

A) for flights, you ought to be at the airport 1 to 2 hours before departure.

B) the train typically takes you from city centre to city centre, while the airport is frequently 1/2 to 1 hours out.

C) on the train, you can work non-stop, while on a short flight a good proportion of the time you spend in security, boarding, take-off and approach, where you can’t be on your laptop.

D) on many routes, trains depart every hour or even more frequently, so you can basically go whenever you want.
Eeww maybe once flixbus is fully electric...
> I often imagine there is something like "subspace" or faster-than-light communication, and species across our galaxy are a bunch of chatterboxes chatting away.

I like to imagine, for the science fiction that I might write, a hypothetical phenomenon that allows instantaneous communication between two points (objects/particles/portals) but only after they have been "synced" or "bound" with each other, which must be done during physical contact.

So, you might construct two such "hyperspace modems", bind them with each other, then incur the initial cost of physically transporting one of them to another star system however many light years away, which may take years or decades but once it's there, communication between the two points would be instantaneous.
But you can operate them 2-5x cheaper.
Okay so fly to CDG in Paris and then enjoy the annoying train ride into Paris that takes an hour and leaves infrequently. How do you get to and from the airport anyway?

Many cities it’s a nightmare to get to the airport, whereas the train station is usually central.
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> In the meantime, we expanded the diagnostic testing agency from the Institutional Health and Environment Institute to the private medical institute (2.7), while the number of testable items has been increased (200 → 3,000 per day), but by the end of February, The company plans to increase the number of diagnostic tests to 10,000 times a day, three times the current level.

IIUC it says 3000 per day. (I'm not sure if it's the peak capacity or if they can sustain it for long periods.) Also, it looks like they are still working to raise it to 3000 and expect to reach it soon, not the current capacity.
Depends on what distances you are travelling I suppose; the prices for longer travel are, imho, very high and sure it is comfy but compared to a plane? Planes are cheaper and much faster. At the same price I think many would still take the plane. If trains were vastly cheaper, then maybe it would change a lot.

But only inside the Netherlands, I only know a few commuters in my circles who go by train; the rest drive a car, noting inconvenience (train then tram instead of door to door) and, more so, high prices as reason.
Human universals means the traits shared by humans across societies, cultures, etc. It's not trying to differentiate humans and animals. It's trying to show the commonality amongst humans.

> "females do more direct childcare" are true for most animals.

Also this isn't an animal universal. By a large margin, most animals ( male/female ) don't raise their young or even birth their young - fish, insects, etc are animals too.

> But as a list of animal universals it's very incomplete -- "hunger" isn't listed, for example.

Because it isn't a list of animal universals.
I’m very much enjoying interviews now that I’m secure :D it’s amazing how straightforward you can be if you don’t really need a job.
That's still very useful information. Personally, I'm loving in a second world country and don't plan on moving in the near future, however, I am entertaining an option of trying to get remote contacts from US, and seeing how much would a company from SF have to pay for an on-premise developer is not only rationally helpful to set up my prices, but also very constructive for me emotionally to counter my imposter complex and general anxiety.

I'm really thankful to both developers who shared their salaries as well as to whoever compiled this spreadsheet.
Comments went a downward spiral right about when facebook got popular. It canabolised the regular comments + the comments from other creatives/bloggers
Funnily, people in the comments make the common mistake of talking of electricity generation when talking of energy. But electricity production only amount to about 25 to 30% of our energy consumption.

Most of electricity in the world comes from coal. Coal usage must drop to zero as fast as possible just to keep the climate in a barely liveable state, and we're not heading there, frankly.

One very big elephant in the room is why does renewable power looks so cheap at times: it's because production occurs either at fixed times (solar) or random times (wind), so basically renewable power is often produced when it isn't needed therefore worth almost nothing or even less than nothing. That's the main reason why renewable power looks cheap: because as long as we have some other reliable sources to fulfil demand and they really don't amount to much power anyway, their production isn't very useful.

Oil OTOH is what propels 99.8% of everything that sails, flies or drives. Oil is what makes globalisation possible. Oil consumption represents 50% more globally than electricity generation, so there's no believable way to replace the first with the second. So far, we have absolutely no idea on how to replace oil at scale. Most probably globalisation as we know it will end not because of evil trumpian protectionism, but because we won't be able to afford it anymore for lack of oil.
Hey, thanks for nice words, and yes, although we are still very early and it might take some time to get there, that is certainly the plan! We plan to offer different stacks, which means different FE, BE and DB, but I think we will start with DB because that is important to people.

Btw, idea right now is that you don't have to do much (or any hopefully) setting up of DB and instead we do it for you with some decent defaults, but we have to see yet how will that work out in practice.

Thanks again, and if you would like to try out once it is ready, consider watching the repo or leaving email on webpage.
That’s not at all what I said.

A mobile website is not an acceptable ‘form factor’ for functionality one might expect to find in a native app. It violates user expectations and is a significantly inferior medium for achieving mobile clientside functionality because it introduces friction and there are limitations on what can be developed (e.g. no notifications).
Okay, but at least I'd refrain from even mentioning the tech in the marketing tagline.

The customer does not care about the tech that much, they care about the value. The value is censorship-resistant and decentralized websites.
A flight between Helsinki and Rovaniemi is like 1h 20min. The train will take 8 to 12 hours. Even accounting for all of the airport bullshit, you'll save so much time by taking the plane without a big increase in cost (at least if you book in advance).
> Contractor / CEO / founder, $900k base, $1b equity

This one made me smile.
Has there been any concrete evidence of asymptomatic spread? Also from start I know most Pele fall in the 5 days range for showing symptoms. I think you'll find out much sooner if there is community spread. In Singapore they've done an amazing job at contact tracking and nearly all the cases are in distinct related clusters.
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Trains aren't cheap. Where is that coming from? Anytime I travelled in Europe, either plane or bus were the better/cheaper options.
Taxation of air travel alone might not be a solution in my opinion.

The thing is, you have to make trains an actually viable solution for people (speed, comfort). High speed all across the Europe would help a lot.
Trains are really slow actually.
This is the pro-tip, a Bahn Card 25 reimburses itself in 2-3 trips and trains booked 6 weeks in advance (which is what I do for airplanes) or even 3-4 weeks in advances are inexpensive (like 30€ for a Hamburg Dammtor -Frankfurt HbF which is way more comfortable than going to both airports).

One thing I despise about trains in Germany and France is that the experience still feels way too old school. What happens when something is delayed or when a connection has an issue makes you feel back in the eighties. The Deutsche Bahn applications are a great way to see that, it's confused and overly complicated. I wish the UX of apps/websites like https://www.trainline.eu/ would be the standard by now.
> In any case, that was just an example, I am not doing Germany - Portugal by train, unless forced to do so. It is more than 24h.

That's the point, we need to expand the rail network to make longer distance trips shorter, more comfortable, and affordable. Flying can't continue to be the default option.
These tweets are pretty rubbish, why would someone think that they should earn the same salary as someone else?
Salaries should be different even in the same company, that way people are then encouraged to work and study harder and to better negotiate and know their value.
But these tweets are even worse and it's comparing different companies and countries.
Also, trains in the Netherlands are highly unreliable with regular unplanned shutdowns (due to natural factors like heavy rain or human factors like high suicide rates by jumping infront of trains). Also, commuters tend to be too comfortable (taking off their shoes, talking loudly on the phone or messy eating).
Nor did I. But many times I've looked at train prices and bus boy did I consider.

I've once missed my train in UK. Next one was something like 120 pounds vs 8 pounds for bus. I think it's the last time I've ever took bus.

IMHO difference in price should start to increase as electric bus TCO is already lower than diesel. The difference in XP should increase as less noise and pollution is added. Plus adding premium seats, air suspension would make a massive difference.
Might have been a bad example, I was about to book the TGV from Zurich to Paris 5 weeks in advance for a weekend trip and I have the Swiss half-fare subscription (like BahnCard 50). Still would’ve been ~170€ instead of 90 CHF for a direct flight (both ways)
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> But hey, I lived through it.

But would you tell us this story if you didn't?
Plus, train stations are often in the city centers, while airports are on the outskirts and are often not easy to reach.
>It's much easier to make a difference locally: in many places it's not hard to get to know your city councilors, [..]

I am not from USA, but over here i did have a 'pleasure' contacting them. They worked actively against communities they were supposed to represent. I am talking about both city councilors, and district ones.

You know whats the best part? you have like 3 options to pick, and they all are exactly the same(cozy job, with limited hours for appointments and ignoring your community)
ECL logic systems reached effective clock frequencies in excess of 500 MHz in the late 60s or so. It was extremely fast compared to contemporary RTL/TTL logic.
Central and South Europe have a shitload of mountains. Traversing them will be a total pain as infrastructure to build for high speed rail.

North of the alps and south of the Scandinavian is doable, but a lot of that territory is Belarus, Ukraine and Russia.

You have a natural corridor that can connect france with finland - which maps nicely with the hanseatic league territories. But from Athens to Amsterdam there is no way to build competitive train service compared to flights.
Comfort etc won’t last for long. In the UK new trains seem to mimic planes with their hard upright seats. Eg the LNER Azuma trains are horrible to travel on. They constantly cut corners on speccing trains. Ask anyone how the ride is on the new Caledonian Sleeper service...!
Cancer is not a disease, but a state of overall body deterioration. You can't fix it; only the body can fix itself.

Stop attacking it with carbs and plant oils, and give it the fuel it needs: unprocessed animal protein and fat.
I’m not sure if I should be horrified or not. Both by the fact this happens, and by the fact that you seem proud of it.

Learning sort and cut takes literally takes all of 10 minutes, so if it makes you pass over an otherwise qualified candidate you have your priorities completely backwards.
There are more realistic threats to elderly people in Japan: poverty and loneliness. They are lethal and getting only worse.
> Honestly I don't see how we can't replace trains with electric buses...

Oh geez. Even with our pretty crappy trains in Australia, I'd still take a train every time. Trains are faster, offer much smoother rides and are much more efficient than busses.
For those situations where the GC becomes a performance (or more likely memory usage) problem, it seems reasonable that the built-in WASM support of most engines will be able to provide an adequate performance (its already getting quite close): https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/jangda
Fair point, though I don't see any major problem even if air travel was to increase by 2 or 3 times, so long as we make significant reductions in other areas.

I took 6 flights (~3,000km each).

I would start with the immediate implementation of a tax (10%?, 20%?) on all new ICE vehicle sales. Revenue from this tax would be used to subsidize the purchase of EVs.
Apple's long processor journey
Good luck going through Italy on a train.
Yeah, I agree we should be cautious. But it does comport with what I've heard recently from actual Google employees, or (more often) ex-Googlers.
For comparison, here are the natural deduction rules expressed in modern notation:

https://leanprover.github.io/logic_and_proof/nd_quickref.htm...
We still have IRC channels with 300 people on a slow hour and over a thousand when busy. I don't think it's gone. As much as I hate discord, it still does it better, but IRC is by far the best place to meet strangers.
Germany had 46% renewables on average in 2019. Storage becomes only a large concern, if the renewables can achieve more than 100% of the grid load at significant times. Until then, it is more important, that the conventional power plants can be regulated quickly enough - that means gas is much better than coal as complementing renewables.
Sure, and flying up front on Cathay is a bit different from flying on, say, RyanAir.

https://www.express.co.uk/travel/articles/816431/Ryanair-fli...
At 200cm, I will choose trains whenever possible. Aeroplanes are a nightmare for me.
Source for that? You need ten buses to replace a single medium-length train. To my understanding trains trade higher up-front costs (infrastructure!) to lower per-passenger-km operating costs.
BahnCard is great, but what we really need is an inner-European loyalty card for trains. BahnCard only works in Germany and I don’t want to buy another loyalty card whenever I go to another European country.