skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Automation has changed from when Japan was on top. The focus is now on software and open collaboration in a globalized society, not hardware built by factory workers with proprietary standards (looking at you, FeliCa)

China may surpass Japan in the automation/AI sphere. Lots of young, English-speaking, western-educated workers, plus the PRC has already innovated so much in manufacturing, shipbuilding, etc., and an ecosystem willing to splash cash on daring startups (albeit a lot of that is state funding, and you need CCP connections to come up in the Chinese startup world) in ways that leave Japan in the dust. Look at how Nvidia is working in China, look at the rise of Aliyun, Baidu Cloud and Tencent Cloud.

The only Japanese companies I know that are geared for automation for the new economy are companies like Mujin, LeapMind and Preferred Networks.

As a side note, the fact that Japan has managed zero-growth despite a rapidly shrinking, aging population; almost zero immigration; and roughly the same economic policy as from the 1980, is nothing short of a Herculean endeavor. I wonder what Japan is going to do when the population decline really gets in gear around 2040.
That Racket module functionality where you can add unit tests right with your code ("module+"), but will get stripped when compiled - that thing is quite magical. Is there another system that has this?
In fact, the ICOS ICO is open now:

https://icos.icobox.io/

Apparently, they promise to build part of your ICO for you in exchange for a 50BTC upfront fee (link at top right - 'Apply for FREE ICO').

Alternatively you can get their service without an upfront payment (hence 'FREE ICO'), by instead reserving 250 BTC worth of your ICO's tokens for holders of ICOS tokens. The latter can burn each ICOS token for 0.04 BTC worth of your token, which works out to a 75% discount on your presale price assuming that the ICOS tokens were bought during the ICOS ICO (for 0.01 BTC each).

The catch is, that since there's only 250 BTC reserved of each token, while there are, at least initially

4 * BTC_raised_in_ICOS_ICO

in outstanding rights to discounted tokens, buyers will only ever get a tiny discounted allocation.

You're currently looking at needing to participate in 100 ICOs until you've converted all your ICOS tokens. As there is no cap how much ICOS can raise, so this could get much higher.

Also, when the 250 BTC are oversubscribed, allocation is pro rata, based on how much ICOS you would be willing to convert. So lets say you've done due diligence and determined something will go up, now you're locking up your funds in ICOS and only a tiny fraction will buy the thing you want. It might make more sense to just sell your ICOS on an exchange and use the proceeds to buy the ICO normally.

The other catch is that the SEC might ban all this business before you find 100 ICOS-incubated ICOs to invest in. Nevermind that i haven't seen a reason why ICOS itself would ever acquire any clients. But they do have 10M$ in cash now.
> Heat

Not in the winter.
No, it's an independent company which has relationships with many issuers and many merchants.
After checking them out, it does seem like they hit a nice sweet spot of features and price. The lifetime plan is pretty tempting as well, but I do wonder how sustainable that is. I assume they are banking on a charge for increased storage in the future.
This is certainly the easiest way to get a working implementation, yes. There is an existing (but I don't think maintained) FUSE port of HAMMER and it would not be a huge amount of work to have HAMMER2 FUSE support I don't think. I am interested in a kernel port of HAMMER/HAMMER2 because I think this is likely to give the best performance in the long run.
I've had great support for Google Cloud directly from Google via paid support.

Anecdotes are great but it literally says 24/7 support in the article. That seems like it means there is someone to talk to all day, every day (which is obviously best effort but so are most other products).
Why is total GDP the correct metric, if per capita GDP is on the rise?
Japan is at the forefront of a post-industrial society. Much of the rest of the west would be in a similar position, if not for imported labor or outsourcing labor.

China will be in a similar spot soon. Eventually all of the world will be where they are.

The things and lessons they learn and discover will be useful to other mature economies soon enough.

The headway will make them leaders in innovating in this area of the economy. Automation will only keep on advancing and displacing jobs --Japan's workforce and jobs are in sync in this regard and if they thread it right, the reduction in human jobs will diminish with the number of able workers.
Heck, how does restricting immigration hurt us?
The difference is that a B&W TV will still be usable as long as there is an NTSC signal while an old ICE car won't be usable without gas stations.
Quite the opposite. Japan has never had more tourists than today: https://d3fy651gv2fhd3.cloudfront.net/embed/?s=japantouarr&v...

Or more foreign residents: http://stats-japan.com/t/kiji/11639

The change is particularly visible in the larger cities: for example, it's increasingly rare to find ethnic Japanese behind the counter at a convenience store.
Coincidentally, I also own a pair of the Oticon Opn 1, and I pretty much agree with the blog piece. My biggest gripe is how short the battery life is when on bluetooth. And my 2nd biggest gripe is that there is no way to 'lock' the Opn into Loop mode when wearing headphones. If the headphones move a bit, the Opn no longer detects the magnetic coil and disengages loop mode. I would like to be able to use the iPhone app to lock them into loop mode until I manually change the mode...

Oh, and yeah, I ALWAYS take my hearing aids out when I am at the barber! The idea of leaving them in... shudder!!
It's my understanding that the bow of the containership struck the side of the warship. The bow of a ship is typically much stronger than the side. I suspect that the damage report would be very different - if not a sinking, then catastrophic damage to the containership, and little damage to the warship if the situation was reversed.
Both U.S. navy ships had damage consistent with being hit head-on by merchant vessels. We're talking about the navy ships' hulls and structure resisting forces necessary to slow down the container ship enough that the ships can disentangle. I would not underestimate the forces that applied.
Japan has never been one to shy away from high-tech industries, and as the article notes, aesthetic sensibilities towards kawaii robots make this a natural progression for a high-tech, ethnically homogeneous, aging nation.

Although Japan was once an imperial power, its reconciliation with its past has not included a transition to a multicultural post-colonial state promoted by intellectuals and practiced by widespread (and largely economic) migration from former colonies to the home country at the seat of power, as it has occurred in the case of most other imperial powers. The difference being, the places where this transition did take place had been colonial empires for longer, and had for centuries notions of nationhood derived from shared values more so than shared ethnicity.
I think the average Japanese person doesn't care about how stale outsiders think they are, and they certainly don't feel like they need a "cure." If anything, society here is reverting more to a norm after being in a massive economic bubble.

Really, it's honestly kind of freaky how often I see western media articles about how Japan needs to act now, or they're doomed to fail and their population will vanish. Yet I see nothing about Bulgaria losing 25% of its population in 25 years or Belgium needing to reevaluate its global image for fear of irrelevancy.
There are pretty massive subsidies on new Leafs now. $10k reduction by dealers as well as $7500 federal tax rebate (and potentially CA rebate if you are low income).
By concatenating the output of the ads module with the output of the content module.
> ...so I guess large corporations are not skittish.

You're basing that off of a sample size of one?
I got plantar fasciitis from using a standing desk for 18 months. of course I switched to the standing desk to cure a bad back from sitting
$10k premium + accelerated depreciation

And in 3 years, I'll have all those features on my used Toyota. ;)
I'd argue eating a battery would end in a similar fashion.

this is a link https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/seven-substanc... to a Health and Human Services 14th Report on Carcinogens, classifying cobalt as a carcinogen

Point being, "liquid cancer" is fear-mongering hyperbole -- lots of things are carcinogenic.
I've been at my current company (satellite of a larger company) for a year and a half, we have 8 people in the office, max, every day. There are a couple people who usually work from home, some days it's only one or two people in the office. Our office is 4,200 sq ft and it's an "open office." We're not growing, we didn't just shrink from a massive size -- the company just picked an office and that was that.

I get paid well above market rate, I own a home just outside Boston, my macbook pro had an issue a few months ago and the company just issued me a new one without blinking. The company just doesn't give a crap. Open offices are cool and just what programmers do these days, right?

My last company was very similar. 5 people, > 2,000 sq ft, great salaries, open office. The CEO talked about how awesome it was all the time, and actually said he wanted MORE talking in the office. Annoying as hell.

I don't think it's a money issue. I really think it's a culture issue. The only company I ever worked at that had cubicles was my first job out of college and they were actually relatively strapped for cash. The difference is the founder was in his 60's and they were in business consulting, not software specifically.
Servo should be referred to as a prototype or experimental rendering engine. If you come across anything still calling it a research project, please let me know! I should have purged them all a year ago, but may have missed some.
Seriously, 20A? How do you even run an air conditioner on that, much less an entire house? 200A (at 240V split phase) is standard here in the Midwestern US. It's easy and cheap to get more if you want a better connection, such as for an EV or a home shop with welders and large motors.
This is a horrible development. If Mozilla starts collecting this sort of data on an opt-out basis, it will put many users at risk. Seriously, WTF?

> This is a proposed compromise that is being floated. Don't collect URLs, but only top-level+1 domains (e.g. images.google.com), and associate information with that. That lets us know broadly what sites we are seeing problems on, hopefully without compromising the user's privacy too much.

Sure, there's no problem with images.google.com because it's generically innocuous. But what about pornhub.com for users in Saudi Arabia? Or some Japanese site that's essentially child porn for users in the US? The top-level+1 domain in many cases is totally incriminating.

> Also, the information associated with the site is performance data: the time spent by the longest garbage-collection, paint janks.

Maybe so. But it's collection of the top-level+1 domain that's the problem.

> I'm not directly involved in this proposal, but I personally think it's necessary, and strikes a reasonable balance between the privacy-for-users and actionable-information-for-developers requirements.

Fine. But then, make it opt-in, to protect users.
The post explicitly says they are React Native + native modules.
It may also be easier to write a lax parser. Say some spec says a file must start with a magic number. Do you verify the number or just skip ahead? Say there is some metadata in the file you aren't interested in. Do you verify that it's valid before ignoring it?
Good one, the standing desk lobby is way too powerful imo
"Trains and buses are much more efficient at moving people than individual cars, even if they're self-driving."

I've said this on here before, but I'll say it again: efficiency is not everything.

Individual houses (or even apartments) are less efficient than having everybody living in barracks, hot-bunking the beds in three shifts, and eating some sort of nutrient-balanced kibble in cafeterias.

Human beings have goals other than efficiency. One ignores this fact at one's own peril.
> The bow of a ship is typically much stronger than the side

Especially if it travels through ice in northern nations like here in Canada, ice is like reinforced concrete. A certain amount of ice not icebreaker level but even an icebreaker rides up onto ice and breaks it with the ship's own weight.
The electron microscope seems to be an integral part of this thing's functioning, and is made up of a lot more than one molecule.
pretty sure they're making investments in startups over there
>As a side note, the fact that Japan has managed zero-growth despite a rapidly shrinking, aging population...

I think they have done an admirable job to be the no. 3 economy in the world despite neo-liberal economics --as they say, even Fukuyama is no longer a Fukuyama-ist and I think they are working hard at making a soft landing for their post neo-liberal economy, whatever shape that takes.

We all know consumerism only gets us so far and what lies beyond is still amorphous. They're trying to give it some shape.
At first I thought this was going to be "Earth".
I've worked with a Lenovo T60, a W520, a T430, and checked out the T560. They are steadily getting less repairable.
> And how, in 2017, when any civilian can purchase a handheld Iridium satellite phone for less than the price of the latest iPhone and a portable EPIRB for much less, could the communications system of a US Naval warship be so damaged and the ship’s leadership so shaken, that it takes the ship a full thirty minutes to transmit a Mayday (via Cell Phone no less)?

Appalling.
P.S. The rant wasn't directed at you/delias_, I was just randomly shouting into the ether. Kind of like an old crazy man in the subway.

P.P.S. General note on working standing - occasionally, that is every few minutes or whenever I feel like it, I will move around from leg to leg, get up on my toes, move my knees around, etc. That feels much better than planting my heels on the floor and not moving for an hour.
20A? In USA, 200A is not uncommon. Some cities in the bay have 100A service minimum in their building code..
Interestingly, I just added a section on Gerbil, the Lisp dialect I have adopted instead of PLT, for many personal reasons.
A lot of the shadertoy stuff is iteratively built making it even harder to tease apart. A sophisticated demo may contain a 3d noise function, a ray marcher, a signed distance field approximator etc... and there's nothing like library separations.
Re-investing the profit is a choice by management that turns company assets into more company assets. It doesn't turn company assets into outbound cashflow to owners and investors.
> time parsing HTML is irrelevant compared to network latency and even DOM and CSS work that browsers do.

This is likely true for most sites on the internet. It is worth noting that on an overly large HTML file of ~1.4 MB, stuffing that into an HTML element object by assigning innerHTML with that content takes approximately 75 ms on my i7-6700HQ.[1] A much larger file of 10 MB took 656 ms to parse, which seems to indicate it scales linearly and processes ~16KB/ms (16MB/s). For the most heavy real sites I could find, it generally took no longer than 25 ms.

It's worth noting that 16MB/s is actually only slightly faster than 100Mb/s, so some people may actually take longer parsing than receiving the HTML. That said, the parsing/processing tested here may be doing more than what we strictly care about for this diuscussion, so I'm not including it as a rebuttal, but as a point of reference that thought was interesting.

1: var el = document.createElement('html'); console.log((new Date()).getTime()); el.innerHTML = htmlstr; console.log((new Date()).getTime());
Thanks, I know someone who can use this. I also saw a year or two ago some guy was selling some product or service or something aimed at supporting the older hardware with newer streaming services. I just don't generally use the streaming stuff.
For the First Time Ever, a Woman in China Has Been Cryogenically Frozen
You need 40 lines of code that was copy/pasted to make an erc20 token. The rest is just promises.
Just a nitpick here, but when you write

> breaking the global graph up into connected subgraphs

I feel like it's too conservative -- and takes "the transportation graph" as too fixed an entity. Consider how much the shape of the U.S. changed between 1917 and 2017 -- suburbs, the Interstate Highways, malls, fast food, huge parking lots, and on and on. The car literally gave us new ways of living with each other, for better and for worse.

So I think we should expect changes at least that radical in the next hundred years -- which suggests that we'll not just divide some abstract, eternal graph differently, but really truly reshape it.

I can't wait for super-fast trains + self-driving cars, AND I can't wait to see what kind of world they create.
My Mazda 3 Astina (sedan, mt) which I bought in 2015 as an ex demo 2014 has all of the AEBs, dynamic cruise controls etc. (You forgot to mention rear cross traffic alert, which is brilliant.)

I bought it specifically for these features.
I'm going through the bad back from sitting (and being sedentary in general).

I've got a standing desk as well. But standing is no substitute for exercise, which is what your back really needs - both the movement and the strengthening.
Always amazed at some of the threads that pop up in that world.

"I invested 50k can someone pls explain how this works?"
And if you buy a used luxury sedan, you can have all that stuff now. Go pick up a 2006 Lexus LS430 with 150,000 Mike's on it for $10,000; they were $70k new and have all those whizbang safety features and it's a Toyota Avalon underneath. You can put 400,000 miles on them if you treat them right.

You can do the same thing with the big German luxury sedans, but upkeep will be more. Those aren't Toyotas underneath. It's still pretty reasonable for the amount if car you get; just budget for it.
For sure they aren't done innovating on new ways to extract money from their customers ;)
Leaf is a special case because of the battery degradation issues. 100k miles on a Leaf is basically end of life (unless you buy the $5k battery replacement). That being said, you can pick one up in California for $5k in perfect condition with <50k miles and ~75% of battery life remaining right now. When you factor in zero cost of maintenance and zero cost for fuel over a lifetime of 2-3 years, and HOV access, it's the single most perfectly designed commuter car to ever exist IMO. I just bought one last month and it's the best car I've ever owned. Having a bunch of free chargers nearby means my total monthly cost to commute ~20 miles a day is a $75 insurance payment.

Definitely a niche thing for heavy urban areas that have the charging infrastructure though. I can't imagine owning one in the Midwest.
I only mean this statement partly in jest.

Buy everyone on your floor a Nerf gun.
Yes, but practice is how you get good at anything.
a massive part of our population do no-brain jobs that could easily be automated. do you want 30 percent unemployment?
Were McDonald’s Fries Better Before the ’90s?
Why do the copyright mafia's work for them? Let them pay their lawyers first, THEN take the data down. Money is the only language these people understand, so let's force them to spend as much of it as we can.
I think people tend to project their western cultural framework onto Japan and see it not fitting well.

Much of east Asia is very internal-looking (China was the middle kingdom for a reason). They tend to keep to themselves as a society and value their values from their perspective --not as self-critical as other societies, in some ways. It's something anathema to a number of westerners.

So of course to some people it looks like Japan (or east Asia in general) is not "sharing" in their wealth with others as your implicit agreement is kind of a non-sequitur for some people.

Going on a tangent here, but for example, in India, Dalits will at times use English but primarily western philosophy to argue their position vis a vis the dominant castes because they lend themselves better to examine these questions.
The opposite really; cash for clunkers mostly just moved existing demand forward a year without increasing it in even the medium term. Rather, it did put a lasting dent in the supply of used cars, artificially increasing used prices.
Chuwi will be Attending IFA in Berlin: What will we see there?
Sure they are. It is always part of their national pride that being the most advanced Asian country and they treat their Asian neighbors as inferior to them, now and advantage is disappearing, their indifference turns into vile. One proof is their opinion towards China and Korea have dived into new lows in recent years.
I agree completely with you. I think you may have been downvoted because you implied that multiculturalism isn't a panacea everywhere. Japan's culture doesn't demand perpetual exponential growth like a lot of capitalistic societies do, thus racial and cultural diversity isn't needed to provide a constantly growing, continually deleveraged workforce like the US does. A homogeneous culture provides a common identity and lowers conflict and miscommunication during interaction. They have low economic inequality and high quality of life. I see very little reason why things should change very much for them.
The devices don't persist groups across reboot, so if they power-cycle (which can happen if they update), you have to regroup everything.
Might we agree to recommend to Microsoft users that they should use Microsoft AV. About 6 months ago we had a similar discussion [0] which arrived at that conclusion.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13489100
In context, that might mean if there has to be some opt-out situation then opt-out for the beta channel might be slightly more acceptable.
Met a guy on a relevant reddit :)
I'd be interested how those complaining about this "problem" would handle the business decision of how to update your terms when adding software that relies on third party offerings. If they add support for Some Music service, do they make it an awful experience where you have to agree to the terms for each vendor?

In earnest, what is a better approach here?
> Edit - why the downvotes?

Praising cultural homogeneity isn't PC.

They don't realize there are very few truly multi-cultural countries, even for most that say they are multi-cultural, multi-ethnic would be a much more accurate description. True multi-culturalism typically ends up with cultural ghettos and all the pros and cons that they bring.
My understanding is that the OOD can do it (obviously), or the officer in charge of CIC can command a turn (but had better have justification).

There's also this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Regulations_for_...
Gets some funding from the federal government != funded by the federal government.
Firmware programmers don't have the luxury of floating point calculation, L2 caches, etc.
The trailers still work!

https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/cmp/jamcen...

A good demonstration of how far video on the internet has come.

160px X 120px, 8 frames per second
I had a problem with their mac app years ago and ended up having a call on Christmas night with one of their engineers trying to track down what the bug was.

That said last I saw their software was just as buggy as its always been. Not worth the price IMO.
> Why do the copyright mafia's work for them?

Because it's the right thing to do in this case? If you define what you want to defend purely based on what a law you don't agree with can be used to do, as opposed to the merits of the actual instance, you're bound to pick a bunch of really bad battles.