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I'm around 40 and haven't read a physical book since the Kindle came out. Same goes for most the people around me (including parents and older friends). I think I know one single person who reads physical books, and they're a collector/enthusiast.

I don't think it's generational rather just some people "clicked" with ebooks and some didn't.

I couldn't live without search, saving passages, device handover, hold-click dictionary/wiki (so good for setting the image in your head if the book mentions a city/country you haven't been). I read maybe a few physical books a year before, now I read a novel or 2 a week, almost every week, and carry my kindle absolutely everywhere since they launched (have worn out 3).
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as a side note, this made me remember an article i read a couple of years ago: https://www.ft.com/content/99680a04-92a0-11de-b63b-00144feab...

"The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil", the story about the young iraqi oil engineer farouk al-kasim, who helped shape norways oil industry into what it is today.
if there's anyone here who has used both dhall and jsonnet in anger, can you comment on your experiences?
I think we're doing a lot of stuff right in Scandinavia/Norway, if optimizing for the average quality of life rather than personal freedoms is what you consider right. (I do, but not without critical analysis -- if it happens to appear otherwise from this post, I am actually very happy living here, but the lack of a critical eye in national media feels a bit oppressive sometimes).

What has become clear to me reading HN and other US-centric news sources, is that this is in fact a deliberate tradeoff. Certainly it's a multi-dimensional continuum that can be better or worse in certain areas, but it's not just a question of other countries not discovering the path to such a society. It's also a deliberate choice that has consequences many voters in other cultures would not accept.

The flip-side of the equality question is that the ability to excel diminishes. Everyone gets good (although rarely best-in-the-world) free healthcare and a strong social safety net, but taxes are very high. If you have the means, there are many things you might want to do that are not allowed to. E.g. building/expanding your property the way you want, or living off investment income (requires >50% more capital than elsewhere due to taxes, and that's assuming a low middle-class consumption).

Society is not without its issues, and there are certainly some power struggles going on in various areas - e.g. regarding the employment terms for public-sector employees, the ability of large worker groups to get good employment terms etc. There is some degree of hidden institutional corruption, and I suspect that there is a degree of wage collusion that would not be accepted in the US. The tax system strongly favors real-estate investments, which means that property is very expensive and average household-debt-to income ratio is >220%.

The oil, energy and fish industries are certainly strong enablers the social safety net, e.g. with oil companies paying 78% tax on profits, and with similar scheme for the hydropower companies.

I've written about some details of the Norwegian economic system and welfare net on HN before, if you happen to be interested.

Consulting vs. being securely employed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17001133

Summary of taxes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14828357

Begging and homelessness: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15169167

Taxation of real estate vs. company ownership: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14828227

The law of Jante, or the skepticism towards people who try to excel: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13914084

Balancing capital gains tax and taxes on company earnings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17277429

Free health care and the social safety net, in the context of whether "making the free choice" to "rent out your body" should be legal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17475051
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Find some open source projects by them, and have a look: https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
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And we are talking of flavours, but fat can concentrate also dangerous substances like lipophilic pesticides and venoms.
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> Later war models had a top that had a reverse thread, so to unscrew them, you had to twist the other way. This was done after the Germans were known to have found out about the existence of this type of compass.

I'm amazed by the simplicity of the solution, it's a brilliant idea.
Same for the buttons sewn on the uniform, and the other everyday objects that turn into a compass, I love how they are hiding in plain sight.
I don't know if you're being sarcastic, but there's nothing specialized or Kali Linux specific about lspci. Every linux distro I've seen comes with the lspci (also, lsusb, lsmem). system_profiler on OSX is probably the closest to all of these and more, rolled into one command line tool.
He's talking about an older model.
Illustrator is abandonware.
Speaking from experience, seems to me the GP’s need to make people jump through hoops to earn their trust is a damned important part of _why_ they need those professionals in the first place.
> Java's intent was "write Java code once, run anywhere". The JVM exposes a strict Java-centric view of what it can run, and it can be difficult to run other language environments on top of the JVM reasonably.

> Webasm is basically "write any code once, run anywhere". It models a very low-level CPU-like environment that the code fully controls at the byte level [...]

The only real difference between the JVM and WASM is that the JVM came from the academic world of "stack-based VMs are better" while WASM comes from the world of "register-based VMs are better".

Both have the same limitations that all the other VMs have. And languages are equally difficult to port to either of them.

What WASM has (and the JVM always lacked) is a compatible zero-friction VM installed on more or less every computer of this planet.

This is the _"everywhere"_ that Java and the JVM wanted but never had.
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> This means that at some point, university levels of education will probably become necessary for any employment

You're not too far from Spain's current situation.

We have some lower qualification titles that last two years and are almost free to get that teach a trade, there are courses to become an electrician, mechanic, plumber, hairdresser, cook, etc. There is even one to become a systems administrator and one to become a programmer.
Sounds like a terrible choice of phone, and I haven’t seen this model in the actual top 10 list.

I’m currently testing a Redmi 5 (should retail for ~100, maybe less) and it is impressive. Eight cores, great screen, fingerprint sensor, 3300mah battery, all in a very nice package - only let down so far is the camera.
Norway is a bit of an outlier because of natural resources. Most importantly, the trust I put in the Swedish pension system (I.e I save next to nothing and trust I will get a good pension) is a bit less safe than a young Norwegians trust in their state being able to do good on their pension promises. This in turn means as mentioned in the article, a young person can earn $1700 and put half towards bills and rent, and the rest is for entertainment. The trust in the public safety nets is big (again you could argue we trust it too much but it is what it is). A young person isn’t saving for unemployment, illness, college, retirement. I think few low-30somethings in the Bay Area that has no student debt, and has half their income as beer money after all savings, insurance, rent, bills ...
The hard part is comparing what money is and what it means in terms of quality of life. It’s extremy difficult to do this (as recurring discussions on HN prove). What does $56k mean? Depends on what you need it for. What things cost.

Comparing a European state to a US state isn’t so far fetched either. Compare Norway to Oregon - not to the US. Population of small European states match many US ones.
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Envs are also globals. Dynamically scoped globals. They are evil and allow all kind of spooky action at distance, but sometimes they are a necessary evil.
It is definitely sarcasm.
Privacy is personal. Let’s start there
It seems possible that Alzheimer's is not a single disease, but a cluster (or a class) of diseases that have very similar symptoms and effects on neurology. Many causes, one manifestation, like cancer.
The correlation isn’t all that clear. Norway is rich but very frugal with the earnings. And living standard isn’t differing so much between Norway and Denmark, Finland, Sweden (neither of which has oil). The difference that stands out is the National debts of these countries.
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I'm not a fan of configuration files. Instead, I prefer the style of "calling" the program from within a script, and passing the configuration as parameters. This also allows to pass e.g. callback functions. Imho, this is much more flexible, and the advantages grow over time, whereas configuration files tend to accumulate awkward/convoluted constructs as the software matures.
The only successful technical/non-technical cofounder pair I've ever been a part of (as the technical half!) came out of a weekly meetup, and among folks in similar-stage startups I’ve heard variations on that theme (met at a conference, a meetup, a SIG, whatever) many, many times. Finding a co-founder is, in so many ways, like finding a partner — and, weirdly, you’ll probably find one the same way.

The time-tested rule of common interests and alcohol (in this case: conferences and meetups!) applies here as well.
As one of the co-founders of WASM, I can say, yes, the layering was a deliberate design decision for exactly the reasons laid out in the article.

Glad this is penetrating the wider consciousness.

Thanks for writing this, Steve!
>>> nowhere does an employee have a right to be reimbursed

Actually, there is. There are rules on expenses and meal. Probably not in most of the USA but the rest of the world is a thing.
I would definitely love to use this after you've made updates to the ACL. Could you please post a follow up when you've accomplished that.
> The likely reason why he can earn this much with a supermarket job is because everyone else has more disposable income, which means it's easier to make products more expensive and to afford to pay higher salaries for such jobs.

Prices also show this. If you want to go get a couple of beers in Oslo you’ll find $10-15 to be normal in central parts of town ($10 average for the city). Nominal wages don’t say much. Purchase power does.
I, on the other hand, really hope they don’t become public. That’s just going to allow for retaliatory voting.
> In effect, more successful English graduates subsidise everybody else (because it is supposed to be revenue neutral). And specifically English, because only English students pay the full £9,250 per year. (Scottish students pay nothing, Welsh and Northern Irish a reduced amount).

It's more complex than that; Scottish students are liable for the full tuition amount if they study in England, and the repayment terms are different (9% over £18330 currently, but it is changing), but Scottish students studying in Scotland have tuition paid for out of the Scottish government's general funds (and you can argue whether the majority of the government's income through Barnett Formula is fair or not to those elsewhere in the UK), though are still eligible to get bursaries/loans for living expenses.
I suspect it is also because grades matter less. In America, grades are bigger deal and affects who gets academic positions. That means that if school gives C where another gives A, former will have less successful students then latter despite having similar results.

There is also heightened student pressure for similar reasons. but it is not just students.
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I think that the point was that "½ of the kids in the country" sounds very low. Admittedly that's not "near total lack of societal support" but still, half of the kids are not provided with something as basic as health insurance from the gov
Probably. Buy I think Holywood backed down a little bit on the whole "pirates are killing us". As research flows in less and less people believe them.
My comment was going to be https://vimeo.com/9802538

God, PCU was lightyears ahead of its time.
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I love the writing style of this author. Experiencing a well-written bit of content is refreshing, and honestly makes me want to go write something. I haven't felt like this since I moved from primary school fiction to adult novels.
I tend to over use semicolons; they help convey my fractured way of thinking.
When I said ignorance, I meant it very literally. You clearly are not at all familiar with the domain. The effort to categorize personality traits has been ongoing since the 19th century, and the big five have been studied since the 40s. Nothing about this is pop-science. This is about making measurements and predictions, which is exactly what science is. The big five have been the most useful tools for measuring personality traits for decades, and have produced predictions with far greater precision than any other framework in all of psychology, barring IQ.

I have not stated a single opinion in this thread. Everything I’ve said is supported by decades of scientific research, all you’ve posted is a long-winded description of your opinions and feelings.
Even so, the difference in weight is still definitely a cost saving measure.
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Ask HN? Just click! I have almost always found some good advice in these threads.
As the article points out, the economic miracle of Norway is fueled by oil and gas, just like Spain economic miracle was fueled by cheap industrial labour and construction decades ago.

Unlike Spain, they have been wise enough to use their money to diversify their economy, aware that this won't last forever.

Sadly there are few lessons we can learn and apply here to other countries, as not everyone has a tiny population and literally sits on mountains of money. Still I'm looking forward to see if their efforts pay off, and we don't find that the next generation of norwegians have a drop of 30% in their disposable income with respect to their parents.
Interesting to see the measure of total tax burden vs. GDP. Never heard that variant before, during discussions where it becomes obvious it's difficult to compare the tax systems of different countries. Apparently, perhaps not surprisingly, the Nordic countries top this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_reven...
Proof by example or analogy is not a proof.
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As you might already get it: do you know/visit any HN style news aggregator sites regarding politics, please?
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14828357 for a summary of the most important Norwegian taxes, which I posted elsewhere. Summarized as of last year.
Just to clarify, Industrial Engineering in Spain is a generalist engineering degree (mechanics/electricity and electronics/fluid mechanics/materials/etc). What the rest of the world calls "industrial engineering" is called "organization engineering" here.

The main difference between grades in Spanish engineering schools and the rest of Europe seems to be that the grade curve is heavily compressed between 4/10 and 6/10 (passing grade is 5/10). The amount of study needed to reach a passing grade would amount to an A elsewhere. As long as 25% (IIRC) of the students pass there are no consequences for the department. If less people pass, they just award a 5.0 to everyone from a certain grade up, they don't do curves. It is not unusual for people to retake a class for three or four years in a row.

There is not much guidance from professors either, no homework or extra assignments. There is just one or two midterms and a final exam, and if you're lucky there will be official course materials to study from but that is not a requirement. Most exchange students have a pretty bad time here, but on the other hand Spanish students abroad usually ace their exams with half of the work they are used to.
To clarify (as a safety hobbyist) why this is a problem:

* consumer hardware does not normally fulfil automotive safety requirements. It could for instance go into thermal shutdown or into a degraded mode if the temperature is too high. Additionally, there is no HW redundancy, I assume that if any of the HW components of the smartphone fail, the system cannot continue to maintain its safety properties.

* Android is a consumer OS, designed for consumer workloads. A real-time, safety certified OS like INTEGRITY, ThreadX, Nucleus etc should be typically used for such workloads.

* The safety-relevant software running on top of the OS is developed with specific toolchains and using specific programming languages.
Some requirements [1] for a language used in safety-critical context are defined behaviour, explicit dependability support (e.g. design by contract), predictable timing, suitability for static verification, significant field use, strong typing (not necessarily static typing!), feasibility to restrict the language to a subset (e.g. MISRA, JSF, etc).

One of the most popular languages for such software is C, which is not safe and doesn't fulfil several of the above criteria. This is mitigated through tooling, processes, code generation, design validation & verification and so on.

[1]: Taken from Embedded Software Development for Safety-Critical Systems, Hobbs. Interestingly the author would personally choose D or Rust for safety-critical development with the condition of having enough confidence in the compilers.
As someone who worked for a used book warehouse. Counterfeits are a huge problem. A large source of books for us was at a specific auction. We started getting so many counterfeit textbooks from that auction that we pretty much had to stop selling textbooks. For a specific textbook that we would get hundreds of, we would purchase one directly from the publisher and then compare.
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I’ve just been offered a new job and I’m not sure if I should take it. I’ve been at my current company for about five years, where I’ve had effectively no career growth — I’m still in exactly the same role as I was when I started, and in conversations I’ve had with various managers there’s no clear growth path that’s open to me. The new job is a step up in responsibility (from IC software engineer to team lead) but a dramatic step _down_ in compensation ($200k/yr plus equity in a known quantity to ~100k plus equity in a startup).

Basically, should I walk away from at least $100k/yr in exchange for something that sounds more interesting? It feels like a wildly irresponsible choice to make…
You have a very narrow view of who's paying for whom, which is what happens when education becomes a commodity. My tuition was paid for by the Scottish government, so by the UK tax payer. Now as a higher rate tax payer I help pay for everyone else, including English students who don't earn enough to pay back their fees.

And as a resident of London, my tax will be counted as English by the books, reinforcing the idea that England subsidises Scotland. But really it was the Scottish government's progressive tuition fee policy which enabled me to go to university in the first place.

If you really want to break the UK down and pit us against eachother, then why not be honest and say that London is subsidising everyone, including the rest of England? The English aren't discriminated against, they just choose to vote for politicians who are against devolution for England, for tuition fees, and against social provision paid out of general taxation. Things would be worse without the MPs from Scotland and Wales.
I'm writing this on a low end Android I bought 2 years ago for $25 bucks. ZTE force n9100, 1 GB ram, 1.5 GHz android 4.1.2 It works great for browsing the web and YouTube, havent tried anything else. It's just as responsive as any phone if not more responsive. The problem the author has is with the software, the hardware is exceptional in any phone, although 512 megs of ram may limit it somewhat.

Has anyone ever done anything productive with a cellphone? I doubt it.
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Wasm is stack based too. The way data flow is encoded is not so important. A compiler can easily generate code for either a stack machine or a register machine. The VM will decode that into SSA again, so it only matters insofar as the representation has to be compact and fast to decode.

The main difference is that the JVM has a garbage collected heap and high level instructions for OOP, whereas wasm is lower level than C and only slightly higher level than assembly. Instead of an object model with GC you have raw pointers.
The core is bikesheding and your post is bikesheding too. You start out saying you don’t have a horse in the race yet you still want to debate.

Just like so many others you simply cannot stand the idea that someone would paint their shed pink and try to argue that this is somehow a fundamental issue, but it’s not. This is Guidos shed, if he wants it pink it will be pink. And you should build your own damn shed if you care so much, instead of lamenting him his choices.
It wasn't clear to me, is amyloid beta role __only__ to protect the brain from herpes?

Or is there a particular reason the study used that particular herpes virus? Is that reason scientific or for press release purposes?

If it is amyloid beta's only job, is that typical?

Without amyloid beta what danger, if any, does this herpes virus pose to an unprotected brain?

Finally, wouldn't this be easy to test / verify in humans? Wouldn't a simple blood test show herpes or herpes antibodies? And then Alzheimer's?
Not unplugging, but on my 2017 MBP it sometimes take a jiggle or even unplug/reinsert to get things to connect properly: monitor, dongle, etc.
And to be fair to Apple, they make this remapping super-easy to do. No hacks, weirdness or third party tools are required.
Yes ! Stopping kids from staying up at night is the funniest game though. The length each party is willing to go to one-up the each other is where you truely get to know each other.
Lack of type safety and static analysis tools. You can't apply formal verification to it. I wouldn't sit in a car in which any safety critical component was driven by python. Hopefully you would also not be able to get it certified for road use. I happen to know people that work on these problems for German automotive companies. This wouldn't fly there. I truly hope that solid engineering wins out over these approaches. That being said I admire the audacity.
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They still have piles of the stuff on the ground, why don't you write to them and ask for a small piece for your mantelpiece?

Maybe persuade them to auction off a few pieces with proceeds going to an appropriate museum/charity?

I would say that a valve or any bit of tubing from one of those towers would make a very interesting conversation piece and would give the inspiration needed for pet moon shots.

Stick it next to a chunk of Berlin Wall and you have got the Cold War covered.

If you don't ask then you don't get.
Not by European standards
indeed very beatiful tonal range
here is a nice simple walkthrough
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