skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been to Taipei, and the language barrier was quite horrible. People speaking English seemed to be the exception, not the norm – I'd never appreciated Google Translate as much as I did in Taiwan. And a lot of things work quite a bit differently than in the West – so a few times I had to be borderline rude to trigger someone enough to attempt to explain stuff to me in English instead of just shooing me away.
If you live in the country you have citizenship in, with a right to be there, you might be lucky enough not to worry about it. This doesn't spread to all citizens of all countries: African Americans couldn't comfortably just move anywhere in the states in the 1950's, for example.

If you are moving to another country, it becomes even more important. Not only can the politics affect your life greatly (being gay might be illegal, for example, with harsh punishments), but in many places, you won't have a say in said politics. You can rally folks together, but most places won't let you vote.

Even if the laws at the present time fit your lifestyle, the political trends might be geared towards changing this. It really pays to pay attention to such things. Politics and culture are important to pay attention to, especially when moving to another country.
Heh. One might say they're right, aren't they? After all, it's "100 dollars", not "dollar 100" :)
Ha ha ha yeah. It's just me though.
For those who are not allergic to Microsoft, visual studio is a beast but it is quite intuitive, has a UI for everthing, very easy debugging and auto-complete. I don’t think there is anything wrong with using a professional tool for kids if the few features they will use are easy to do in this environment. Of course I am less convinced any of the languages in VS is a beginner’s language (apart perhaps from VB but it is going away).
The only thing different from the regular conversion operators is how bounds and sentinels are handled. In reality it is mostly just a code size improvement.
For the last 5+ years I've been using ZenBook UX32LN - it's still the best machine I've bought (I've replaced my MacBook 2012 for it with no regrets).

I was working linux for these years on it, but switched recently to Windows 10 + Microsoft's linux subsystem thingie - it works pretty nice - once this machine will totally break I think I'll consider one of Surface Books since the OS is not a problem for me anymore.

Why I work on it? It's fast (SSD + i7 (even if it's an outdated model) + 12GB of RAM) makes it really reliable for fullstack development. Besides that, 13" Screen is enough for me, makes it pretty mobile machine.
Berlin is to be taken with a grain of salt regarding intellectual stimulus though. It really depends on OP's area of interest. Effective Altruism is big, as are some research institutions (Charité, Max-Delbrück Centre & similar) and the topics surrounding this research, but if you're coming from outside the academic system, they are not that accessible.

If intellectual stimulus is what you're after, it's like searching for gold nuggets in Berlin. Not comparable to places like London. Can't compare to smaller German university cities.

Source: Living in Berlin for a couple of years.
Fravia! I thought he was gone for good. He got me into Opera which remained my browser of choice for 15 years? more?? I used to print his webpages off into plastic sleeves inside huge A4 binders and read them at school. Him and RMS definitely helped raise the bar about how the world could and should be at an impressionable age.
- Document / archive everything
- Keep a diary
- If you have an idea, build around it. A lot of startup started on "nothing"
> The reason we care about climate change is for the sake of children

Is it? And if so, whose? If we should plan for disaster by 2040, I'm going to see it. I stand a good chance of living 30-40 years past it (unless modern medicine collapses, which isn't unlikely).

Given the timespan involved, everyone who can intellectually contribute to fixing the problem in the article must already have been born. Voluntarily going childless absolutely deserves to be on that list. The children I choose to benefit may not be my own, and that's fine. I'd hope that the false equivalence with killing homeless people would be obvious, but just in case: there is a real difference between stopping a life that is already in progress, and deciding not to start one in the first place.

> If the present is any indication

That's a hell of an assumption. The safer stance is to assume that the West will shrink in significance, and for Asia and Africa to grow.

Your comment about the "great mass of impoverished third-worlders" is not consistent with reality: the number of people in this state is less than a billion; you're leaving out the vast numbers of educated and capable folk in China, India, and Africa, who not only outnumber Western tech folk, but also many of whom have a far higher incentive to solve the problem because they directly risk their home locations becoming uninhabitable.
I'm not OP but I use Snapchat a lot to chat.
I like that the messages are not saved, it feels more natural for me as in I don't have to "think" too much about what I write, just as talking. This way it feels less staged, you can compare it to photos on insta vs photos on snap (likes and permanent vs none of that). With text it's obviously to a lesser extend but still.
No one can go through years of messages and see what i said back then.
Bangalore,India:

Rent price : 200$/month for a 1000sqft apartment.
Bangalore is often called the silicon valley of India, filled with software professionals.

Majority of the city's inhabitants are migrants from other parts of the country and almost everyone communicates in English.

The living expenses for a couple is not more than 600-700$/month including rent for a decent lifestyle.

The city has a good pub culture and mostly urban population.
The weather almost throughout the year is pleasant 25-30 degree C and light rains for around 4-5 months.

Ample available Shared co-working spaces filled with emerging software startups.

Although I would also like to point out some cons:

As an American, you might find the chaos of an Indian city overwhelming for some time. There are people literally everywhere and all common use services(taxi service, public transportation, laundry services, cafes, restaurants) are usually exhausted to the brim.

Traffic: Imagine NewYork in peak hours.
Wasn't there an article about an editor of pc magazine getting fired for writing some slightly critical articles some weeks ago?

I think the topic is how business interests from corporate sponsors are weighted against factual reporting.

Not saying magazines have much choices, but manufacturers disallowing any criticism speaks volumes about their products. We should strive for more transparency here.

Not that I would expect most tech articles to not be advertising these days. It has become a standard.
I can't speak for the GP, but I have two friends who are avoiding having children for similar/the same concerns. They believe climate change will cause mass famine which will kill off about half the population and essentially lead to the full breakdown of society, with the associated breakdown in law and order, the end of property rights, and money becoming worthless. I can't personally speak to the accuracy or these predictions, or how realistic these predictions are.
You should compare US wages to EU contractors income. The rights between the two are similar and the income is too (~ €150.000 per year). But everything is cheaper here so you quality of life will be much higher.
Agreed the behavior mentioned at the beginning of the article sound like stuff someone would do on Alcohol, not MJ.

Getting in fights and acting obnoxious are not typical behaviors.
Berlin is nothing like Silicon Valley. It’s a great city but job offers there are 60-80% lower salaries compared to the US, which makes Berlin being marginally cheaper (but with higher taxes) not really worth it.
So those panels are basically useless for 3 or 4 months of the year, i.e. November, December, January, February.

Would there be much improvement if you could tweak the orientation to match the seasons? E.g. tilt them down toward the horizon during the winter?

It's certainly a huge complication to have motorized panels that move all the time to track the sun. But maybe it wouldn't be that much of a hassle to go out there and manually reorient them (just in 1 axis) a few times a year?
Class loading in JAVA: Internals
How concerned are the locals about the potential of getting "harmonized" by mainland China? I wouldn't want to be there if that goes down.
+1 for Poland. Haven’t been to Krakow but Varsaw is awesome. I think I would prefer moving there compared to Prague. I’ve heard good things about Budapest as well.
There are some extremely convincing new veggie burgers that mimic the texture, taste and even bleeding of meat so well that meat eaters love it too [1].

I'm thinking of the Beyond and Impossible burger brands especially.

[1] https://youtu.be/bVNoDP66UEE?t=199
Ironically, scratch probably has more in common with the modern package-orientated JS ecosystem than more traditional languages! ;)

I was recently at a couple of secondary open evenings with my son, and it blew my mind how far CS education has come. The only thing that seemed slightly lacking was anything around tooling and unit testing, TDD being a nice segway between theoretical and practical application imo.

I strongly believe in a few years the current "${library} experience === cushy fintech job" environment will be completely reversed, as the number of strong developers grows and the self-taught guys like myself that have been in industry for ages die off.

More importantly I suspect the demand for more practical, industry recognized vocational CS qualifications will grow.
Bloomington Indiana. Super cheap cute college town.
Where do I get healthcare for so little? I pay €90 per month in insurance and an additional €240 per month through Zvw tax.
It reminded me a lot of Dublin, so +1
It is only "trouble" if you are involved.
I had this cool new tech around 2011(?), a sony dash.

It was like a tablet before tablets were a big thing, and a web browser and alarm clock and photo frame - that had some apps and a small app store kind of thing.

Whoever made the hacker news app that was supported on the chumby / sony dash - I owe you so much.

I started reading about things I would never have. Started hearing excellent view points and facts and so many things. I read it on the dash almost every night till it got unplugged the last time and I found an HN app in the android thing for a tablet.
You have to compare it with where you are coming from though.

I might move from Tokyo to Berlin and due to a combination of cost of living and taxes have the same after tax income, even though absolutely €70000 is a fuckton more. That goes for anywhere in Europe though.

I would recommend Tokyo as a great place to live overall, but intellectual and english, not so much :P
Amsterdam is a blast :)
Yeah for sure... I get exactly what you're saying.
I surf so this is the main reason I'm here for now.. I am working remotely though and will be moving back to Asia later this year, before the vaalies pull in.

But otherwise, in terms of weather - you can't beat it.

And yes... I think this place is kinda giving me "island syndrome"... That's why I need to get out of this place for a bit. haha
If you can weather the weather, Madison or St. Louis. Rent is cheap in both places (< $1000/mo is easy to find).

Madison benefits from having University of Wisconsin campus. It is also the capital of Wisconsin. While being around the same size as a flagship state school "college-town," it retains its own identity and culture (you never feel like the city revolves around the university). I've heard many people compare Madison to Austin, TX. UW-Madison has one of the oldest computer science departments in the US--high ranking department. Extremely bike friendly town. Winters are LONG; I suspect the cold keeps the city population a manageable size.

St. Louis is a mid-sized city. It has all the cultural amenities you'd expect from a big city (airport, food, arts, parks, etc), without the traffic or sprawl, and at a fraction of the cost. Wash U is the top academic center in the area. It's not a great city to visit as a tourist, but it's a fantastic city to live in, especially for the frugal-minded. Summers are hot and humid.
Kinesis Advantage only.
Quoting from myself upthread:

> Given the timespan involved, everyone who can intellectually contribute to fixing the problem in the article must already have been born.
The cold there is not comparable to the cold of Chicago and Montreal
Bristol, UK.

Vibrant city, lots of tech and a good aviation engineering scene (Airbus), lovely countryside around. Reasonably affordable (compared to London). Good communication links to the rest of the UK and Europe (International Airport - London under 2 hrs by trains every 30 mins). Downside - traffic is hideous.
It's well known in the competitive shooting world, where competitors calibrate their rifles from benchrests that minimize the effect of the human operators.

https://www.theboxotruth.com/educational-zone-98-shooting-a-...
If they are found to have lied to congress (Or to have feign ignorance at the matter) there will probably be stock implication, but very little in the way of punishment from the government.
I think visual feedback is important, I teached multiple people programming with https://processing.org/

Processing is more like a framework and comes in python and java flavour (although I think the language doesn't really matter as long as you grasp how loops work and what can be done with it).

Something like this:

def setup():
size(400, 400)
stroke(255)

def draw():
line(150, 25, mouseX, mouseY)

def mousePressed():
background(192, 64, 0)

The concepts learned by just playing around with this are valuable in any language.
Bangalore, India.

+ Reasonable cost of living (compared to the median salary of a SE) if you don't eat out much.

+ Rents haven't sky rocketed yet.

+ Thriving tech eco system/community.

+ You can get by on English. Though learning Hindi (for rest of India), and Kannada (for Bangalore) is highly recommended :-)

+ Good food and pub scene. In fact Bangalore is known as the pub capital of India! Decent night life too.

+ Lots of weekend getaway places. Himalayas is basically ~3hrs away by flight that costs ~70USD.

- Pollution, bad physical infrastructure (road, clean drinking water etc.,) that's getting worse. Owning a 4-wheeler doesn't make sense anymore. It's not needed anyway.

- Bad air connectivity to USA. Bangalore isn't a hub.
You can't design a system with (supposedly) misaligned incentives and hope the SEC will research everything and keep it fair. That would just shift the solution from:

"Write articles that move markets"

to:

"Write articles that move markets in a way the SEC won't find out"

Also how good do you think it would be for Bloomberg (from a PR perspective) if their reporters are getting charged left and right for market manipulation?
I love that it shows memory bandwidth and also what generation/speed of PCIe slot is being used.
Depending on your ability to work remotely, I would make the "case" that you should consider Portugal.

Lisbon and Porto are super popular with ["digital nomad"] remote workers who work for international companies so earn in USD but spend [much less] in Euros for a superb lifestyle.

There's a reason @paddycosgrave moved Web Summit to Lisbon.
It's one of the cheapest cities in Europe and [unlike Barcelona] everyone speaks English. There is a good "tech scene" and a fantastic work-life-balance; surf, great food & warm/welcoming people.

A few things to consider that many people over-look:
+ Socio-Economic and Political stability.
+ General safety/security and crime levels.
+ Sanitation and healthcare availability/cost.
+ Availability/cost of healthy [organic/unprocessed] food.
+ Lifestyle to actually live in the place: is it "cheap" but a nightmare to live there?
+ Contract-law for short-term apartment/room rentals.

Portugal will exceed your expectations on all of these.

Portugal is very welcoming to US citizens, you won't have any "visa issues" the way you will in many of the [superficially] "cheaper" Asian countries.

If you want your budget to stretch much further, consider Braga. The cost of living is less than a third of SF, internet is fast and you get most of the benefits of Porto & Lisbon (or can reach those cities with a short train journey).

Note: I am [slightly] "biased", my Wife and I have recently "escaped" from London [after working there in tech for 10 years] and we are busy setting up a Co-living/Co-working House in Braga: https://github.com/dwyl/home
We will be opening at the end of this month and our target cost per month [1Gbps Internet, all bills, cleaning & gym included] is $300 (USD).

We chose Braga because it has all the "ingredients" for an awesome place for tech/creative people to escape the bigger cities and focus on their work while still having access to all the amenities great healthcare, superb organic/vegan food and good libraries/meetups/etc.
Says somebody apparently... living in Berlin?
Calling Berlin "marginally" cheaper than the Valley is something I'd be highly sceptical of. Rents aside I've not been to many other places where food, shopping and leisure has been as cheap.

Also, OP did not mention he wants to optimise his income?
Ugh vfx that’s a rough industry
What do you mean by Pune has excellent tech scene? There are lot of consulting companies in Pune but I dont think that qualifies as excellent tech scene. What are the excellenet Universities in Pune? The only thing I agree with you is its cheap. So is the rest of Asia and the world compared to San Francisco. Lol. Moving from SFO to Pune would be one of the worst things you can do if you are a foreigner.
If you know what areas/times of the day/people to avoid, absolutely liveable. Just like anywhere else, people in big cities do not care in general. Still, expect mildly unpleasant situations - gender is embedded in the Polish language and it will make people think and get confused all the time.
Yes, I’ve read 1491 as well :)
A previous employer had an extremely weird WAN topology, until you realised that all this data was circumnavigating the world as part of a grand tax reduction strategy. All fully legal of course.

In the end they simplified by simply cutting a deal with the Irish government. Of course they also went on enjoying all the facilities and infra provided by those who did pay their fair share of UK taxes. If any of the directors or their children had been taken ill or been in an accident, they surely would have expected the NHS to take care of them...

At the time, this was many years ago, I just saw all this as a fascinating technical challenge in database replication and distributed transactions; I’m obviously alot more woke now and wouldn’t get involved with it now.
As a lawyer I can say that companies use weasel wording all the time, to everyone, even for stupidly small reasons.
Nice is probably the last place I would go to in France. Bordeaux and Montpellier are much nicer places.
> hief economist at Fannie Mae.

So the same company that lied through their teeth during the 2008 crisis and buildup to it, to give the banks ability to package junk loans as AAA CDOs? The one that had to be bailed out by the taxpayer eventually? Sure, let's listen to them, they sound like a trustworthy source.
Everyone should be able to create digital media, not just consume it.
Everyone should be able to understand their tools, not just use them.
People should know that technology is not magic.
The traditional (eg mips) definition of risc was that the cpu should not hide how it operated - in essence, the compiler was required to schedule operations efficiently itself for both performance and correctness. That’s why MIPS and others have things like branch delay slots. It turns out that that is a terrible idea - it means binaries are tied to a specific micro architecture, let alone a separate implementation of the same ISA. Traditional risc also did not support floating point or integer division (both in software), except again software is necessarily slower than a hardware pipeline.

So risc has slowly become analogous to “more registers, orthogonal instruction set, not x86”
I love Mind Maps. We already added a mind map view to our own project management software and it's awesome. So the idea is good but really need to show some examples and screenshots (as mentioned from various people).
I'm curious how it will look in the future.
I had to use this metric to account for the, ahem, work ethic of some and the lack of tests resulting from it.

But I agree - a good test suite is going to be much larger than the code it's testing.
Show HN: Will this buoyancy perpetual motion engine work?
Engine Image: https://preview.ibb.co/hs6aB9/Perp.jpg

Please feel free to dismantle this weird idea or if you think you can improve on this design. Please go-ahead and improve on it.

The idea is based on principles of buoyancy and electro-mechanical cylinder (though there is no DC motor is been used, instead there are spring coils to which keys are given just like what clocks have)

Please explain the flaws and why it will not work?
> America seems to have gone all in on the the "lean meat" route

I'm constantly complaining to my family that meat here (in the US... more precisely, the Bay Area) isn't tough enough. They tell me I'm weird, and meat in the US is soft because that's how Americans like it.

(Lest the phrasing confuse people, all of us are Americans.)
I have friends doing the expat life in Taipei, I +1 this. Everything is super cheap and you pretty much have everything a developed city has.
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I agree my family couldn't handle it currently, but I think that's a UX problem rather thana protocol problem. I've often fantasized about creating a social network that just creates an inbox for each user and then sends emails for each post, and then later "opening it up" by revealing it's really just email.
Actually I think there is a parallel between Einstein and Darwin, but it's not the brilliance of their thinking. Most of what Einstein came up with is fairly obvious in hindsight. The one thing that wasn't is the math behind General Relativity: but Einstein needed the help of a mathematician with that.

What marks them both is their willingness to abandon the established dogma when it didn't match the facts, and to set off exploring alternative ideas. Both of them are iconoclasts: Einstein because he proposed time wasn't absolute, which is a seriously batty suggestion to just about everyone unfamiliar with his work because we are very familiar with how time works here on earth. To me Darwin the more impressive in this regard because his idea wasn't just seriously batty (no one had seen evolution at work when he proposed it, despite living in it's midst) but just putting it out there was enough to get others burned at the stake.

Another similarity is neither was your typical extroverted iconoclast. Quite the reverse in fact: they doggedly followed their favoured theories because the felt they did a better job of explaining the facts. Both seemingly didn't care that others would think less of them for their ideas.

You can point to others in the same mould: Galileo for instance. The doctor that endured years of ridicule from his peers for suggest gastric ulcers were the result of a bacterial infection is another.

Nonetheless Einstein stands out for second reason: he did it more than once.
Thats a fairly big call, but highly likely to be accurate
I love Portland, but I wouldn't consider it especially cheap.
Bend may be an option for people who really enjoy the outdoors and/or are looking for a smaller town.
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oh, he died. I guess he is gone for good. What an interesting person ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fravia