skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just came back after a month of vacation in Japan. Honestly, I saw like 3 police cars on the entire journey and I saw more police officers in the airport than the rest of the trip.

I come from Sweden, a relatively safe country. However, compared to Japan it is not. I felt incredible safe in Japan. Everyone is super friendly but hard to talk to since they don't generally won't speak english.

I wanted to meet some japanese people and make some friends while I was there but it was harder than I thought it would be. This is probably the only critisism I have except that they should install a lot more garbage bins and learn that a sidewalk is not a good place to bike on. Why not make better sidewalks and a bike lane?
Many of the problems he describes aren't exclusively Japanese, but a few, like the hierarchical view and casual racism are far more particular to the Japanese.

It's not hard to understand where it comes from, however - Japan is something of a cultural isolate, and resisted European and others' overtures well into the 19th century - at which point they underwent explosive industrialisation and social upheaval.

Then there was the whole mess of their wars of expansion in early 20c., culminating in WWII. Following that, American occupation and control, which ended many decades ago.

What I'm getting at is that there's been a huge amount of technical and societal change in Japan over the last 150 years - but not as much social change. You can change how people make their meals, spend their days, travel to work, but you can't shake notions like bushido or sakoku overnight.
For a really hard SF look at this sort of thing take a look at Peter Watts' Blindsight.
White text on black background - what a horrible choice of colours. Cannot read it for more than 3 minutes.
I see. So, the point made was not so much that the "demon" has to go through complete flush of memory than its arbitration causes small energy waste on its own which compensates for the perceived diminution of entropy in the manipulated system. This allows me to proceed, thanks!
>a throwback to an era when web pages were coded by hand.

I like how they threw this line in just to make it absolutely clear that they don't have a clue.
>In the history of cryptology, women tend to be either systematically excluded or reduced to objects.

This is probably true, but cryptography/theoretical computer science might be one area where women have better representation than in other subfields of hard sciences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafi_Goldwasser, who invented a huge portion of modern crypto (zero-knowledge, set lower bound, doubly-efficient proofs, etc.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irit_Dinur, who basically invented property testing as well as a novel proof of the PCP theorem that wasn't hundreds of pages long

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~danama/, also known for her work on the PCP theorem (wife of Scott Aaronson)

http://elaineshi.com/, several papers on making ORAM and secure multiparty computation practical

Probably notable that the first three listed are all from/at the Weizmann Institute in Israel.
> For some reason github shows me a 404 when I try to see the full README.

README.txt placed in /docs/, not in root folder, so USE THIS LINK

https://github.com/leozide/leocad/blob/master/docs/README.tx...
My experience was totally different in in the main point: the Japanese were unfailingly polite and courteous with me. But, unlike this fellow, I was comfortable being viewed as a foreigner. And always respectful in my expression.

(I was also younger than him when I lived there, which might also have made a difference.)
What was milo doing then?
doesn't make it any less racist
Wendelstein is a smaller demonstration that will never come close to producing power. It's comparable to JET which cost ~500 million in today's money.

No fusion reactor so far has achieved ignition, that is, producing more energy than we put in. Are you suggesting we just assume one would work without building one?

ITER isn't meant to be commercially viable, it's the step in between something like Wendelstein/JET and a commercializable plant. If all goes well the plan is to follow up with DEMO which will be a commercial design that can be replicated for actual power plants.

Science and engineering cost money, and investment in fusion has consistently been substantially below what scientists estimated as necessary. There's a whole bunch of materials science, control systems, and so on that needs to be done. (And while there's plenty that could probably have been done more efficiently if this wasn't a multinational project, the political reality is that no country is willing to fund such a project on its own, and everyone who contributes wants some of the contracts to go to back to their own constituents; it's not great, but politics is the art of the possible).
I still think it's possible to build good non-native apps, but it's hard and you need to pay attention to details.

I've written a logviewer with electron. Getting the custom painted table-component and column-reordering to look and feel like Finder or iTunes tables was at least 10 hours of work.

Working on memory allocation so that javascript GC wouldn't introduce lags now and then was another 5 hours.
(That is the main performance problem with non-native apps, I think.)
I wouldn't say most. Racism and sexism are a problem in India though.

But that doesn't give anyone an excuse to be rude and disrespectful.
>The level of English in Japan is shockingly low, despite everyone studying it for 6 years at school. I honestly think it is kept deliberately low

>I honestly think it is kept deliberately low

Is this guy serious?
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I can't agree with all of the author's opinions, though I have lived in Japan for only three years and I don't live in Tokyo. For me the experience has been positive until now. I have met some of the kindest people in the world and I feel welcome in my university and in the research institute I did an internship at.

Japanese society has some social quircks which are kind of unsettling for me as a foreigner, but those have not spoiled my stay here.
So I guess the vitriol didn't have the time to subside after all.

Some interesting points, though.
I can understand, bicyclists are fucking annoying, and most of the time they are putting themselves and others in danger. For me, the road is no place for a bicyclist.

And, as you can see, there's no possible debate in the west: you have to have bicyclists, otherwise you're a backwards asshole. And I have to live with that, because that's society: you have to deal with people who don't think the way you do.

(You just have to look at the downvotes to see what I'm talking about ;P)
As database consultant/developer I can go from 60$/h to 170$/h.
Nice project, I like the format of entering new recipes. I think you will get good uptake even from users who don't know what GH is :)

Is this project open source or does it plan to be at some point? I've looked at some of the other projects out there that are similar, but many seem to die based on the founder running out of steam or getting busy with other stuff. I would really be interested in contributing to this or a a similar project if anyone has a suggestion for one that is open.
Thanks for your reply.

> We are testing the rendering engine, lighting, shaders, etc. in a visual test framework we created ourselves that compares each run of the tests with the previous and uses SSIM to output a comparison metric

So would this be something like rendering a frame of a test scene (utah teapot? real in-game scene?) in various states of rendering (with / without lighting, with / without specular / normals etc), and then making sure they look the same each time?

> Before joining Rare, I really wasn't aware of any testing whatsoever in the video games industry. It's been an eye opener and I wouldn't do it any other way.

You should definitely consider a GDC/etc talk, I imagine it would be an eye opener for a lot of people.
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It's kind of ironic how much he generalises Japanese people.

See bad thing - link to Japanese people as a whole or in general, rather than the individual.

It's an easy mistake to make. Especially if you do ever hear it in the inverse direction. "Foreigners do X or Y", etc.

If he aimed to replace generic instances of 'Japanese people' or 'in Japan' with specific reference to the instance or person, I think he'd have had a better time in life.

And yes, it's difficult to encounter any amount of racism and not feel that the group of people that the racist person came from, do not in fact as a whole demonstrate racist behaviours in general. Obviously not at a higher cognitive level, but at an emotional reacting to a certain way of having been dealt with or treat.

But it's absolutely necessary to stop the generalisation, even if only for one's personal mental health. It serves no purpose other than wiring our animal brains up more strongly, to think of us vs them.

And try and notice it more often in Western media too. Any time there is a mention of someone's race, see whether it would look out of place with Black or Latino or Asian replaced with white.

It's often a completely irrelevant piece of information.

As the use of the word Japanese is often irrelevant in this post.

Yep lot's of terrible people in lots of places in the world, and the fact that they were Japanese in this instance is more related to the fact that they were born and brought up in Japan than some inherent generic flaws with an entire country of people.

And yes Japan has problems that aren't in other parts of the world, and vice versa. It still doesn't befit using `X people do Y` type generalisations.
OK, thanks. hope the existing measures work.
It is extremely difficult to integrate in a foreign society. Even a good language level will only carry you so far.

In my opinion, Western Europe, US and Canada are quite open, and let people, if not integrate, at least mind their own business.

Immigrants are usually also to blame, since often integration is not a priority. I've lived in several places around Europe, and usually foreigners stick together: it is easier to become friends with a German in France than it is in Germany, maybe because immigrants have similar mindsets, and experience similar problems.

What worries me is that it seems these relatively open societies are rapidly closing: nationalism is on the rise everywhere.
I'm glad people like him weren't allowed in our country.

What country do you come from that denies entry to people based on how they translate Japanese signs? You're full of shit. Not surprised you hide behind a throwaway.
As a user, if good native is 10/10 non-native is at best 5/10. Usually though a native app isn't good so it's only 6-7/10. Non-native though are usually in the 2-4 range...

That Spotify, Whatsapp and Slack don't have native apps is a disgrace beyond comprehension. Those are probably the easiest type of apps anyone can come up with.
What are examples of modern PHP code currently in production (open source obv.)? Except obv. frameworks like Laravel.
I'm an American living in Japan (about 12 years now). Most of the stuff he's talking about is totally true. But, like some other commenters have been saying, I feel like: you figure that stuff out after a couple years and make peace with it (or not). There are many good and bad things about Japan. And it's different if you're a foreigner in Japan, yes. And it depends on where you're from and what color your skin is, etc.

My only question is why did it take him 10 years to "get fed up" with it? Most people who leave do so after a year or so. Most people who stay longer than a couple years tend to stay for a very long time.
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Croteam applied lots of automated testing by bots in The Talos Principle to ensure that changes in level design cannot lead to a situation where the game cannot be completed anymore:

> https://venturebeat.com/2014/11/04/the-talos-principle-under...

> http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022784/Fast-Iteration-Tools-in...
There are few solutions. I've settled on Mercury Reader[1] for now. Makes reading easy on the web.

1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mercury-reader/okn...
What are the kinds of things you're building with WordPress?

I'm curious because I run a couple of WordPress blogs, and I recently realized I can do a lot with the platform beyond just blogging.
Are you for real? Go read the article, he knows Japanese. And there's your civility, acting all indignant and calling people full of shit without bothering to understand what's going on.

Maybe you are the throwaway of author's?
Doesn't it depend on the data? Sure, the actual money transaction cannot be changed. Only journal entries can be passed to correct the amount.

But can't things like name of the person taking the loan can be changed? Obviously there is still a journaling entry recorded to track who and what changes were done.
This is specially important because wrong names can and do affect credit ratings etc.
> even the three year old hand-me-down laptop I’m using has 16GB of RAM

> on my old and now quite low-end laptop

Trust me, that's not a low-end laptop. Either that has the shittiest cpu ever and a terribly mismatched amount of memory, or the author's view of that is high-end or low-end is skewed; in either case, what's low-end nowadays would be ≤4GB RAM. 16GB is LOTS, useful for developers that run large builds and/or VM's regularly.

I very much like the rest of the article though, would love to see some latency improvements here and there!
Was anything "amazing" every created in Flash? It's obviously subjective, but things that would merit the "amazing" tag for me would be things like, Wikipedia, Google (the Search Engine), Facebook (love it or hate it, it's an awesome success), Google Maps, stuff like that.

All I remember from the Flash days, and I was a flash developer bear in mind, was clunky, contentless, CPU hammering folly. None of which I think I miss.
Because for example Fortran has multi dimensional arrays as first class entities. C does not. Yes you can get the same speed in C - yes you can do the same things in C but you can do them with simpler code easier to reason about code in Fortran.
It all depends on the team, but personally the larger the team gets and the more complex your application becomes (monolith/microservice/etc independent) types are invaluable when it comes to shipping an actual product. You gain speed increases due to paths being evaluated ahead of time (compile time), but these are all secondary to developer peace-of-mind and time saved when work actually needs to get done - this includes ticket revisits due to "oh I forgot about that case", or "user did x and now this object is a string".

Yes, you should write unit tests to cover this in interpreted languages with weak or no types, but this depends on the developer a) doing it, and b) not missing any cases - PRs/code reviews are not a catch-all. Especially in the case of factoring common logic out or some other form of refactoring, a strongly typed language is my best friend.
The remote-remote feature is great! Does any other client have such a thing? I basically need Google drive -> ftp.
I heard the "if you don't like it, leave line" from people all the time in America. Even with the pettiest of political disagreements, people say it.

So then I went to Japan and haven't received or heard of anyone receiving similar vitriol aside from the OP.

A foreign coworker (same race and nationality as me) endlessly complains about racism, discrimination, and being stared at here. I've experienced none of it.

I'm not here to dismiss the author's claims, but most of the weeaboo to Japan hater crowd I've found is people who lived very cushy lives with close family bonds, and when they put that aside in a somewhat "cold" culture, they take offense to everything. As a cold, unsocial person myself, Japan is incredibly welcoming in that I feel like I can finally be left alone without being isolated. I hated having people randomly start conversations with me in America. I disliked the "not my job" attitude of Americans. I very strongly disliked how confrontational and easily angered Americans were (especially how people complained about restaurant services and the minorest of things, while here, it's practically unseen).

And then there's the people complaining about being a "foreigner forever." Honestly, how many asians in America get asked,"so, where are you from?" whenever they meet someone? I've seen it countless times. It's just a matter of being on the other end of it now.

And then he leads into "I can't believe they don't restrict speech and porn the way we do in my culture." In all honesty, fuck off. This is no better than someone being disgusted by western media showing bare female hair. The standards are subjective.
Renewables can't provide power where it's needed, and largely can't provide reliable baseline power (hydroelectric being the exception, but it causes huge environmental damage in terms of both direct flooding and disruption to downstream ecosystems).

Fission could power us for 100-200 years at current consumption rates - substantially less if consumption continues to grow. It's not time to panic yet, but we can't afford not to be doing fusion research.
That doesn't make sense. Read accesses couldn't possibly be logged. You probably wouldn't want sensitive information like health records in a block chain. The risk for leaks is obvious.

Both credit cards records and health records are data where there is a single authoritative data source. You want to know who actually accessed the data, and not any sort of decentralized consensus about the matter.

Agree about the wider aspects however, but those are probably about payouts to stakes in immaterial data or zero knowledge trading of cryptographic keys rather than your health data.
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The police situation is something I've never heard of from colleagues who have lived in Japan (5 years ago); is this a recent development?
I wonder is it possible to create something here and drop it in an AR environment.
There is a bunch of people on the community slack who are using Fuse to make things. Generally, any question you may have will be answered in there. The dev team sit in there too, so it's first hand help
> Imperative collections are harder to reason about, especially for inexperienced programmers.

That's a blanket statement that is completely unsubstantiated.

In expect that, in reality both have strength and weaknesses and it depends very much on the person. Myself I always find imperative style much more manageable when programming in the small. And before you claim I was biased, I was exposed to functional programming almost from the start (and frankly I'm quite fond of it, but it's just another tool not a religion).
by here i mean in LeoCAD
Ask HN: Why getting paid on the Internet is still so difficult?
I wanted to start selling on the Internet by myself. On my website, not on eBay, Amazon or Upwork. I know only HTML and a little bit of JavaScript. I can use some script from StackOverflow to do the job for me. I can install Google Analytics script and setup a simple static website with a domain.

Is there any easy and fast way for me to get paid?
By easy I mean doable with my skills (no backend coding etc).
By fast I mean I can start charging in less than 2 hours.
To be specific, it is an open source developer
And then you end up spending far more on powerlines than it would cost to get working fusion.
>It seems like Ethereum is getting a lot more industry support than Bitcoin ever did.

Why do crypto currencies need industry support?
>Because Chinese are the largest tourist group. And everyone knows they are rowdy as shit.

>Tries to lump everything into one

Yeah, you're doing the same thing.
Do you think that's an outrageous idea?

I imagine lots of (young) Japanese people would look for better working conditions abroad, if they only had better English skills.
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A 3D printer.

On the very high level, I’ve implemented a small subset of what Autodesk Netfabb premium does, the subset relevant to the hardware my client is offering. That Autodesk software costs $500/year, I guess that’s what differs our product from the clones: a clone would cost $500/year extra.

Another thing, 3D printers are too different, they use many different technologies (FDM, SLA, DLP, SLS, etc.), and within each there’re different printing materials. These things are very relevant to e.g. slicing and support generation. Compared to the software like Netfabb which has to support all of them, our software only supports a single printer and a carefully selected set of printing materials. That’s why, hopefully, we were able to deliver better overall UX.
Hi, I'm Remi from Fusetools.
This interview with our CEO Anders does a good job of summarizing what we're about: https://www.forbes.com/sites/julianmitchell/2017/06/29/this-... (feel free to skip past the intro about why app development is A Thing :)

TL;DR
We're primarily about being able to create cool stuff in less time (cross-platform is just a side-effect of that). A lot of what we build comes down to creating good workflows for going from idea to the final product, and to find the right level of abstraction so that you can work very quickly (staying focused on the real job rather than boilerplate and glue code) without giving up control and being sandboxed.
It seems that he is serious. You knew that already. Perhaps you disagree? Perhaps you can present your own findings and contribute to the discussion?

Based on my own fairly limited experience in Japan, English as learned in school doesn't seem to translate (a ha ha) into effective English conversation. It seems that an academic rigor is taught (no bad thing, of course) but practical conversation skills are neglected.
I tried Fuse a while ago and even tough I didn't really got into it it was all very comfortable.

Lot of examples that look very promising really help to get into the main stuff quickly.

Tough, after learning React (preact actually) ; I'm wondering what it could help achieve more than going trough Native React. The last one is already well implemented and is "structured" like react, merging up some learning curve.

as Pier25 said earlier tough, trouble is when you need to implement "fancier" things. At which point you could have gotten into real native anyway.

It saves some time, but the pricing plans are ridiculous.

If you want to build a tool people want to use you need to build up something they'll like first.

I doubt anyone could be using it since more established tools are already been accepted by the community.

I will never pay you for a Visual Studio. I like coding with VIM or Subl, and I look after tools that I can use with a idiot text editor.

Hope you grow up from this :)

Cheers

edit: misread plans
YouTube couldn't have started when it did without flash, even if it's moved on to html5 now.

Also lots of indie game devs (e.g. team meat of super meat boy or binding of Isaac) got their start there, a lot of the early "upload your flash game here" might have paved the way for getting so many games on the app store model when it got going.