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I'm sorry to hear that this happened to you. Brexit also put a lot of psychological pressure on my wife. She's from a Baltic country, but during Brexit, she'd constantly be asked if she was Polish for no reason at all.

-"Hi, nice to meet you"

-"Hi, are you Polish?"

Nothing against Polish people of course, but it made her start to gradually lose it. Each new instance would bring tears for days

Luckily, it seems Brexit is not on everyone's mind now. Good luck to you, try not to stress out (it's not your fault)
I felt in most pro-Brexit messages, there was an undercurrent of "...because we are better" or "and then they won't steal your jobs". EU parliament? Full of foreigners. Immigration? All foreigners. What's wrong with the steel industry? Foreigners working cheaply in other countries, or undercutting honest British workers here in Britain.

That's not to say there aren't adverse effects of internationalisation, or to belittle people who suffer from them. But this whole "taking back control" agenda was steeped with British exceptionalism and exclusivity.

Immigration was literally the sticking point of what triggered the whole shitshow. When David Cameron did his EU roadtrip to negotiate a better deal for the UK ("give us what we want or we'll leave"), there were 2 sticking point requests: lower the EU fee, and curb EU immigration. EU said no, Cameron called the talks over, and organised the sorry referendum.
What makes you so sure you have all the right answers, since you mention their arguments are hard to counter? I don't think the truth is partisan at the moment, and throughout history it's in moments like these, when people are extremely sure of the truth being partisan, that horrible things are allowed to happen. I mostly doubt when skepticism itself is demonized and made out to be the problem, and that seems to have be case lately.
Somewhat tangential, but I feel like writing it. I left the UK and moved to Portugal shortly after the Brexit vote. I brought a 6 hectare farm for mid-5-figures (for too big for one person really).

The process here was as follows:

1 - Get a 'this person really lives here' document from your local village council office (easy, done in a day)

2 - Get a tax number (easy, but may be worth taking an accountant with you, done on the spot)

3 - Go to your local city, show both documents, pay €16, they give you your 5-year residency on the spot.

Of course this is harder now the UK has actually left the EU, but still perfectly do-able as I understand it.

I also think this can be a tricker process in the big cities. Things are generally more chill in the rural area where I am. I.e. the local official had seen my face around the village and was like 'heh, you obviously live here, whatever', and didn't need to see any title deeds or rental contracts.
It's only a matter of time before the other states have rising case levels and lockdowns, vaccinations rise high enough that case levels are not important, or the states realise that it's not sustainable to be on eternal lockdown.

This virus is with humanity forever now.

Let's hope the right choice is made with the least amount of time. The only proactive thing a government can do is vaccinate and increase medical capacity.
I think this is OP's point... Bureaucratic nastiness is only half the game.
The referendum was in 2016, 4 full years before covid hit, and as an EU immigrant to the UK I can confirm the same - very soon after the vote it feels like the entire atmosphere in the country changed to be far less welcoming to immigrants.
> demands that are almost impossible to meet (can you account for all your international travels over the past 10 years?)

Yes, easily. That's some hyperbolic braggadocio. If you're a maniacal globetrotter, sure, I can see it being annoying or maybe even difficult, but "almost impossible"? Get a grip.
> One of the stranger conversations you can have with uk expats is those that supported brexit and are now perplexed that they suffer consequences.

As someone wrote pithily "This may not have been the Brexit that you voted for, but it was the one that I voted against."
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0420/ Python 3.3+ no longer requires the `__init__.py` file to make a package.

> You would then `import .foo`

The `import .foo` is a syntax error, and `from . import foo` does not work for scripts [1].

The basic `import foo` works if the directory is on your PYTHONPATH. That will be the case if you run `bar.py` as a script.

It gets more difficult if you want to separate scripts and importable modules into separate sibling directories (bin vs lib). You can't use relative imports to get around that, you need to use a virtualenv (or manual PYTHONPATH wrangling).

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/14132912
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I'm saying that more policing doesn't help the problem, which you're kind of brushing past here.

I also want homeless people off the street, but the police can't do that. All they can do is move them around, which makes everyone's life worse. If you want them off the street, you need to put them into homes (not shelters).

Also, please show stats that prove your point, because historical data simply doesn't support your argument. You decided to move into a high crime area, and you're pissed that "the streets aren't being cleaned up". The area you're living in used to be a lot worse than it is, but if you're in the tenderloin, or SOMA, you need to realize those areas have always been bad, and the bar to make them better is extremely high.

Maybe chose the location of your next home more reasonably next time? The part of the city I'm in is really nice (the richmond neighborhoods), maybe take the commute hit and move?
> and London was by far better than most places

Anecdotal, but London is the only European capital city where I got shouted at on he street, in the middle of day, for being a foreigner. It happened about 10 years ago and actually the shouts of the two English young-ladies were directed at my (now) ex-wife, but I was still surprised by it. If it matters it happened in a posh-ish area of the city, around Kensington, I believe. As such the anti-foreigner mania that took over a great part of the British (and especially English) electorate a few years after that didn't surprise me.

Otherwise I found London a great place, the only real cosmopolitan city left on this continent together with Istanbul (I haven't visited Moscow yet, to be honest), otherwise everything else seems rather stale (Vienna) or too self-absorbed to care about anything else outside of it (definitely Paris, maybe also Rome).
A palpable amount of entitlement coming from the author. I like it (sarcasm).

> can you account for all your international travels over the past 10 years

Well, absolutely.

> It has now become a long and challenging obstacle race

It has, or is it maybe quite normal?

> But it’s not only the UK — the United States has also made it difficult for founders to immigrate and settle in Silicon Valley. Like the new post-Brexit regime in the UK, it’s expensive, comes with a lot of hassle and restrictions and involves sponsoring and numerous recommendations — usually by VCs who have decided to back the company. How is the British situation any different?

Welcome to the everyday life of 3rd world nationals & yet another great example of people in the "1st world" are so completely disconnected. How dare they be asked to prove they *can enter a country (again, sarcasm).

Sincerely, an amused 3rd worlder living in the 1st world.
> My impression is that another upside Silicon Valley has over the UK is that the US is genuinely a country of immigrants. Whatever hoops you have to jump through to get in or stay, I don't get the impression people are looked down on because they are foreign, once actually on the ground. Which is not so much the case in Brexitania.

The UK is easily among the most tolerant and least racist of European countries. In international studies, the UK scores very highly on all such measures, usually much better than continental European countries. See e.g. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/least-rac...

I don't understand this compulsive need of pro-EU voters to construct massive straw men about brexit voters and Brexit Britain. It is possible and reasonable for a country to decide it doesn't want to be a part of the European "project" without being a racist xenophobic hellhole.

On the original article, it is strange it never covers how easy it is for someone in India or the Uk or Africa to immigrate to Germany. The UK has mass immigration still from all over the world - when you have considerably more potential immigrants than you can reasonably accommodate is when countries start getting picky and having rules.
If I'm from the Republic of South Abroadia, and getting a taxi in Silicon Valley, will I hear a rant about immigrants? Will I get funny looks etc?

Maybe yes, I'm only taking about my impressions, I never worked in the US. Certainly doesn't seem to project that image, to me.
I don’t understand the entitlement people from other countries feel to live in my country. I don’t feel the same entitlement to live in their country.

Also, just because they are rich or can start a tech company doesn’t make them any more entitled to live wherever they want any more than anyone else.

Just a very bizarre stance IMO and it seems one-sided.
Out of interest what does similar numbers look like on Windows, Linux, etc?
Stepping stones of AI: language and commonsense
As a Catholic, I believe that the imitation of Christ is an obligation for every Christian. We should always aim to imitate Christ. This is a very old idea. The 15h-century book by Thomas à Kempis is an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_of_Christ
Is this something VC would help scale up? Or is it hitting some kind of hard limits of resources.
I think this article uses the word "bloated" as a verb, in that those kinds of features cause bloat, but the languages themselves are not necessarily bloated. It's like how saying I'm being fattened by eating a bag of chips doesn't necessarily mean I'm 300 pounds, though the chips definitely are fattening.
AFAIK immersion is very difficult because EUV is kind of like a disruptor beam. h c/13 nm is about 95 electron volts; that's enough to ionize just about anything, though they more often boost inner (non-valence) electrons up to outer shells instead. It's just as accurate to think of them as super soft X-rays as it is to think of them as "extreme ultraviolet." Sometimes they're called "vacuum ultraviolet" because air is opaque to them.

Refraction is the key to immersion's resolution improvements, and I don't really know how it works. I have the impression that the higher permittivity of the refractive medium means that the electric field of the light propagates more slowly into it because the material is electrically polarizing, but permittivity varies with frequency, normally decreasing at higher frequencies, so hard X-rays barely refract at all. That would suggest that EUV might not refract much, quite aside from being rapidly attenuated.

However, at least within and near the visible spectrum, refractive index increases at higher frequencies. So clearly there's a lot I don't understand.
From experience I don't think the UK is bad. It was very good before Brexit, now obviously people have to jump through a few hoops since there is no free movement with the EU anymore but it's not bad at all and the procedures relatively straightforward.

My experience with France is much, much worse, for instance.

I don't think the current UK system deters people in itself. It's relative and people take the path of least resistance: If you're from the EU then it has become more difficult to move to the UK whereas you can still freely move around the EU + Norway and Switzerland so perhaps this influences some people within the EU. But if you look further than that (e.g. non-EU person trying to move to EU, UK, US, etc) then the UK is certainly not deterring anyone.
The world is not black and white. One good example of X does not make X good, whether X is ads, sugar, pain, or whatever. But you can look at X as a whole and decide whether it is a net good or not. And you can always make exceptions for particular types of X.
> now I'm not even sure if I need a passport to cross the border to France for a day trip.

You don't, in theory. However, within a certain zone from the border border agents have the right to ask you for identification. If you can't provide any they will take you along to determine your identity.

So while it's usually not a requirement to pass a border within the Schengen zone I highly recommend that you have proper identification on you.

Same goes for flying, at least before Covid. It was really rare that I even had to provide id within intra Schengen flights and if I was asked it was usually by the airline at the gate. The normal process was checking in automatically and then just badge yourself through the various checkpoints up and including the plane (depending on airport). Still, I would not recommend not to have a valid id or a passport when you fly. No matter if it's strictly required or not.
There is a divide between attitudes to continental Europeans in the UK though. I'm British and my wife is Spanish, and although she feels much more unwelcome now it's nothing compared to some of the racially-charged rubbish that I've heard people openly say about people from eastern European countries.
Knuckles also cut an opponent's face to shreds which prevents a fight dragging on.
big.LITTLE Processing: Defining the Future of SoC Architecture - https://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/exynos/newsro...

With this CPU design some cores are optimised for performance (at the expense of using more power) while some cores are optimised for efficiency (using the least power at the expense of computing performance). This makes sense for laptops and smartphones, as it can save power and thus run longer when being powered by batteries. But (in my opinion) not for Desktop PC's where most people care more about computing performance than saving a few watts.
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Ask HN: What to do if your FAANG is levelling you according to your nationality?
I applied internally to another team (for a 1-level bump and $20K extra comp) and got the job, but HR shot me down and wanted me to move across at the same level, no changes in comp.

When pressed, the other manager (who talked to my manager, with both being supportive) let leak that HR did not want to raise my level any further due to my location in Europe.

I have been here for four years and got steady raises and level increases throughout (ranked in top 3 performers for a team of 25).

Am overall royally frustrated by this, since it likely means it's implicitly the end of my career track.

I vested yesterday, so am considering leaving for a smaller company and saving myself the aggravation altogether.

What would you do?

(EDIT: I have been intentionally vague in some parts, but I am an EU citizen, currently fully remote, working for a US company on international projects. I also have a rare set of skills that I cannot go into, but which my new team values highly).
Seems frivolous to foist this on browser developers when custom elements already make this possible. Would be cool of course cause 3d stuff is cool.
seems like a pushing site
Me and my partner are in the same boat as your wife - we're from the baltic states and when people are curious about our origins, they ask if we're polish or not. I don't really hold it against people, but having to reassert your own ethnicity gets tiring. Most people are not aware of the country I come from anyway.

As a side note of the knowledge the general public holds, it seems like the history knowledge people get out of highschool is severely lacking.
The person is a journalist. I think that implies an order of magnitude more international travel than the average person.

Surely, not impossible, but might not be too trivial neither.
> are not even compromising on truck driver immigration now

Are you saying they should? I am from and in NL, and with all furthering EU integration there was the 'promise' from politicians it would be for the better for anyone. People who doubted this, for example truck drivers, were discounted as 'plebs' and not sophisticated enough.

Guess what happened when free movement of labor was granted to the Eastern block? Citizens from these countries quickly replaced the local drivers to the point Dutch transport agencies engineered mechanisms which guaranteed to could keep selecting foreign labor.

For the plebs this was of course no surprise. The ruling class just postulates 'everybody should become a knowledge worker'. I am highly educated but keep close tabs with all classes in my community.

The EU is mostly a trade bloc, a market for labor, where commodization (of labor) thrives. Primarily beneficial for companies and government (workers). It is my opinion we should build strong local economies with opportunities for all.

My only motivation for writing this is to present a differing viewpoint on the truck driver story.
> >Dents

> That would depend on the top finish, not so much of the material itself.

Would it? If I dropped an aluminium bodied laptop like a Macbook or HP Envy, I'd expect it might scuff and slightly dent at the point of impact. If I dropped the cheapest plastic bodied thing from Currys/Walmart/whatever, I'd expect it might scuff and crack the plastic between screws or something.

What top finish would you apply to a cheap plastic laptop to make it 'ding' like aluminium instead of crack in a drop test?
Globalization brought winners and losers. It was supposed to lift all boats when enthusiastically developed in 80s and 90s by academics, but it didn’t. And it’s not pretty for a lot of people and societies.

I understand the backlash, with Brexit vote and beyond.

I don’t like the criticism that UK people receive on choice they made for their society.
A couple of counterpoints (offered in good faith):

> - the UK needs the import/export flow it was used to pre-brexit to keep their current life style.

That is about goods, which are totally separate to immigration.

> - the current british population doesn't seem very motivation to take back the job they delegated to immigration.

Motivation has nothing to do with it. The employers offering these shitty jobs have gotten used to being able to pay poor wages to cheap imported labour. They need to pay more, and the jobs will be filled. Look at the wage growth of truck drivers as an example.

> - the UK education system sucks.

Disagree here. The UK punches way above its weight in terms of high end education institutions per capita (trailing only the US) The UK also has more STEM grads per capita than any European country.
What stops any developer of a large org using Docker Desktop through their personal license/account? How is such a restriction going to be imposed?
If you want to run Linux though, battery life is the least of your problems with (post.. was it 2016?) Apple hardware.
> One of the stranger conversations you can have with uk expats is those that supported brexit and are now perplexed that they suffer consequences.

I had some of these conversations in Portugal in the lead-up to the Brexit vote. "Turkeys voting for Christmas," was a phrase that came to mind.
Worker male wasps in social colonies are more closely related to each other than in other species (like humans). They develop from unfertalized eggs so inherit more of the same genes (75%). This may have lead to more alturistic behaviour as the best way to propogate genes is through siblings rather than offspring.
Windrush was particularly cruel and frankly taking the piss. People were asked to justify their right to live in the UK with a piece of paper ("Landing card") that their parents may have received 50+ years prior on arrival to the UK.

Leaflets given to people deported to Jamaica (their parents' homeland) said things like "attitudes to foreigners can vary abroad, try to <<act Jamaican>>, don't emphasise coming from Britain".
Just because someone has written about these difficulties, it doesn't mean that they're unaware of other people's difficulties. In fact I think it quite likely that they're a proponent of less border controls for people from developing countries.
Profile guided optimization can help compilers put data in the right place, but in general compilers are not very good at that.
Does this work with Docker compose files? For local development at the moment I mostly use docker-compose and for production using AWS Fargate so the kubernetes functionality is a bit wasted on me really
Look being a great fan of BSD (especially FreeBSD), i have one big problem with all of them on my laptop....and it is Wireless! A max speed of ~650kb/s is just not a usable one today.

Well and on the workstation that you cannot change fanspeed on a AMD-GPU, those are my 2 big-points.
That quote should be in a movie. Pretty awesome. Also wrong :-)
> Thomas and Alito favour obviously expanding the use of capital punishment and view most litigation related to it a liberal plot to undermine the justice system

Have they talked/written about it being a "liberal plot" or is that just a (quite possibly entirely accurate) description of a belief that would explain their actions without their having come out and said that?

I'd be interested to learn more if you have any suggested reading on the current members of the SC (not an area I know a huge amount about).
Interestingly. During my time in the navy, wearing a cover anywhere inside the skin of the ship was acceptable except for the mess decks. The reason for no wearing of covers in the mess decks was a sign of respect for the dead since mess decks on ships often server as a back up area for medical.
Society doesn't fall apart without private property rights. Lots of countries have socialized ownership, at least for some percentage of the housing stock, and they do perfectly fine. I'm not advocating for socialist ownership of all property, though. I'm a fan of private ownership (though would prefer that some amount of the housing stock was publicly owned for rental stock).

You're mixing up the rights of people and businesses here. I'm OK with the government prioritizing the ability for people to live over the ability of a business to make money.
I think these draconian laws are actually motivated because police forces have severe barriers to get access to peoples communication. Since tech giants do access private info, it has become some form of competition.

This is only the legal framework, I doubt they can surveil your traffic without getting physical access to your devices.
The hostile environment policy is truly dystopian. I'm sure the design of this policy felt reasonable to a bureaucrat somewhere, but in effect the only practical way to tell if someone "might be foreign" is their race.
Not bad for a 17 year old!
Mainly because C/C++ libraries/build environments/compilers just don't sit still and continue to evolve/devolve/diverge.

If you have a single language with a single compiler, presumably with a smaller user base, chances are that is less of a problem.
ASML has a market cap of c $350 billion. If they wanted to raise tens of billions on the public markets they could probably do it. Not VC territory at all. They're probably limited by the size of the market.
My favorite is using Nerves system that uses buildroot and boots directly to Elixir. Buildroot can be a bit of a pain but it’s fun to get a 20 mb Linux image with a few commands.
I can account for all my intercontinental international travelling since 1980, since I kept all my passports.

But how would I ever be able to account for international trips, where id was sufficient (so no stamp) or didn't need id in the first place, which is mostly the case since 2008?