skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, very little IMHO. Take a look at the blurb at the top of this page [1]. "Cost of living in Japan is 16.88% higher than in United States (aggregate data for all cities, rent is not taken into account). Rent in Japan is 31.95% lower than in United States (average data for all cities)."

This correlates pretty well with my experience. Even in Tokyo, prices are not that high (compared to London or Sydney, for instance -- and nowhere near SV). Because there is a good train service, it's also very reasonable to live in the countryside and commute to work. Even if you work in Tokyo, it is very easy to live in Chiba , Saitama or Kanagawa. Admittedly I really live in the countryside but my monthly rent is just 66,000 yen ($591 US as of today) per month for a modern 2 bedroom apartment with galley kitchen, living room, balcony and 2 parking spaces. Used 3 bedroom houses routinely go for $100-150K in this area, with fixer-uppers being under $100K. Most of Japan is not expensive for rent.

Cost of living is higher than the US and salaries are lower, but people tend to be more frugal too. Also, children often live with their parents until they get married (late 20's to early 30's).

IMHO, the reason for the low fertility is that young men in Japan have to get their career going and work very hard right out of school. Women, on the other hand tend not to have those kinds of career aspirations (for better or for worse). They usually intend to get married and have kids. Young women tend to view their 20's as their time to be free and they often travel (a lot!).

Usually young women are fairly well off because they live with their parents. Even though they tend to contribute to the family income, the shared cost of living is quite a bit lower than if they lived alone. They work in factories, or in offices and don't really have a lot of responsibilities. They tend to put off getting married as long as possible because after they are married, they often have to quit their jobs and concentrate on running the household.

The average age of marriage in Japan is 30.1 years old, according to Wikipedia. The average age in the US is 28.2. Young people in Japan also don't tend to live together before marriage, while US couples tend to live together for 2-4 years before getting married (I couldn't get good stats, but it seems like 1-2 years before getting engaged and 1-2 years after getting engaged based on various google searches).

Because people in Japan do not live together before marriage, they are less likely to have children before marriage. This resource [3] shows an interesting statistic: The average woman has their first child at 30.7 years old, while the average US woman has their first child at 26.3 years old.

In my mind, this is really the difference in fertility rates. Women in Japan are trying to put off getting married and having a family, while Americans are not.

[1] - https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_result.jsp?cou...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_age_at_fi...

[3] - https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-the-average-age-to-have-a...
This is really cool. Will use this :)
There's a whole class of these occupations that are in a sense foundational to modern society yet are going extinct. Scientific glassblowing is another that comes to mind: https://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-caltech-glassb...

I kind of wonder to what degree this is a failure of national planning vs a natural cycle of technical skills. Does anyone still mourn the plasterers and stonemasons that made so many decorative building flourishes before the modernists took over with their "clean lines" and "reduced labor costs"?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09954#abstract -- A "hero" project is one where 80% or more of the contributions are made by the 20% of the developers. In the literature, such projects are deprecated since they might cause bottlenecks in development and communication. However, there is little empirical evidence on this matter. Further, recent studies show that such hero projects are very prevalent. Accordingly, this paper explores the effect of having heroes in project, from a code quality perspective. We identify the heroes developer communities in 1100+ open source GitHub projects. Based on the analysis, we find that (a) hero projects are majorly all projects; and (b) the commits from "hero developers" (who contribute most to the code) result in far fewer bugs than other developers. That is, contrary to the literature, heroes are standard and very useful part of modern open source projects.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.09954#heroproj-actual-pdf
As Aristotle said, “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Jack Dorsey’s diet looks a lot like a Silicon Valley-style eating disorder
I agree and think it is better to have some crazy and unconventional ideas than to restrain free research.

While this is probably some misapplied statistical analysis, I hope the worst consequence is a harsh rejection based on methodology. Free research will and should probably also lead to crazy ideas once in a while.

The status system in academia is pretty strong. This guy will face judgement among his peers.
Breakdown Palace
That would explain average income being high, but not median. It's also household income, not corporate.
Hmm.

Small: https://xcom.fandom.com/wiki/Sectoid_(XCOM:_Enemy_Unknown)

Tall and bold: https://xcom.fandom.com/wiki/Muton_(XCOM:_Enemy_Unknown)

Scales and snake eyes: https://xcom.fandom.com/wiki/Thin_Man

Insect-like: https://xcom.fandom.com/wiki/Chryssalid

Coincidence?
I don’t think that’s what most people would see as “net 30”. Terms are always from the invoice date, which in their case seems to be last of the month.
A little civil disobedience is good for the soul
Because you quote occam's razor then give no simple direct mechanism of action. There is a big gap in how a few degrees average heat increase causes mood disorders. It's more likely, for example, the result of the ten's of thousands of unregulated synthetic chemicals produced, some of which are hormone analogues like PHB and which make their way into the water sources. Then since they're not regulated no one filters them out or monitors their levels regularly.
Why is Taiwan absolutely critical to Chinese defense?
Whether or not this is possible, it seems like a serious DDOS risk. Some one with malicious intent could give you a huge hosting bill. It might be difficult to apply IP-based rate-limiting without a server.
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I'm with you on that, and it seems to be symptomatic of the project's refusal to step away from the legacy of mimicking OPENSTEP. They've made 1995 look like a goal towards which to aspire.

They've added theming support to GNUSTEP, but that's really lipstick on a pig. Then again, I can't blame them too much, the project is mostly quiet and doesn't attract as much attention as the other popular Linux toolkits.
How big a deal could the sanitization thing really be? Every coffee shop I've been to, including Starbucks, will fill pretty much any cup you give them. The only rule I'm aware of is that they're not supposed to handle the lids.

Apropos nothing much, my brother owns a coffee shop in suburban Chicago, and their clientele is mostly local; they have a whole collection of old mugs, which they let customers take with them and return later.
Even reproduction involves a fair amount of interpretation. The same camera will yield very different results depending on the skills and priorities of its user. Framing is especially important.
It's fairly surprising how often you'll encounter fringe views in academic circles

It's not just academia, either. I've known a few somewhat prominent people who believed in some off-the-wall things.

When I worked in television, I knew a top-ten market anchor who didn't believe in dinosaurs. Not in the way a creationist doesn't, because she wasn't religious. She simply didn't believe they ever existed.

At a top-five market station there was an anchor who believed drinking his own urine made him healthier. He was a medic during the Vietnam war and said he started doing it then.

The same station had a manager in the newsroom who believed that Jesus, the Bible, and everything associated with it was a fabrication because there is no recorded history before the invention of the printing press in the 1400's. If you ask him about Egyptian hieroglyphics, or the Rosetta Stone, or the Dead Sea Scrolls, he insists that they're all made up.

At another top-ten market station my boss (a high-level manager) believed that those yellow sodium lamps are used along freeways because it helps police see black people better in the dark. She learned it from her boss (an even higher-level manager) who believed the reason that highways are built in elevated circles around cities is so that if the city needs to be evacuated, the police can stand along the highway and shoot black people as they're trying to flee.

When I think about these things I wonder if certain professions attract whackjobs.

Then I wonder if I have any deeply-held beliefs that I don't realize qualify me for a rubber room.
For what it's worth, I read Goodwell's book cover to cover and loved it. It answers "why" questions rather than "how" questions, but those are the questions I had, and you can find "how" questions answered for your framework of choice on the internet.
I think the data scientist hiring frenzy may soon collapse as large companies run out of patience with their recently formed data science departments that struggle to deliver ROI (for many reasons, often not the fault of the data scientists). But I think we are not yet at the final iteration of the job market for these sorts of skills. Companies usually don't really want someone who specializes in model tuning and algorithm creation, they want something like a "full-stack data analyst" - someone who acknowledges that the modeling may be 2% of the effort and the rest is business analysis, data wrangling, engineering, stakeholder management, building tools for users/operators, etc., and rolls up their sleeves to deliver an end-to-end solution. There does not yet exist a catchy name for this role, but I bet that in a few years it will be what everyone wants to hire. So skate to where the puck will be...
Work long hours in an unairconditioned space with already compromised health.
> In France ballots are counted by benevolent citizens at voting places, and I always assumed it was a necessary condition for free democratic elections.

On the contrary, as an Australian who has been employed in several elections, I've always assumed that paying election staff is both fair and necessary to ensure neutrality and competence.

I mean, I'd quite happily do it for free, but work is work and needs to be compensated as such.
1) A huge number of farmers deliberately run their farms to try to show a net loss for tax reasons. 2) You're going to have to explain what off-farm jobs all these farmers have that provide them with 3-4x the median income in the places where they live, but somehow they have really rough lives because they own a farm.
Yeah, two out of five "authentic" pictures showcased have almost the same weird leg-up pose that definitely didn't happen by accident.

But I guess authentic is always appreciated, but not something you have free access to if posing for pictures is your job.
— Accessibility (deaf, blind etc)
Most layer 3 switches provide DHCP, and since almost all consumer routers also provide DHCP, probably most routers do provide DHCP.
How are you guaranteeing that sites on 1MB will live forever?
Considering how much is not in the book -- and that the book is not even that large as far as textbooks go -- part of me feels this criticism is somewhat disingenuous. I'd agree that the direction of the final part on research topics feels fragmented, but the rest of the book certainly doesn't. It's very clearly focused on developing deep neural networks and doesn't actually meander at all.

If the worst you can say is it's not a classic text, that's really not saying much at all. I feel weird defending the book so much when to me it's just a book I found useful and I don't even feel that strongly towards it. But the strength of some of the criticism here doesn't seem motivated by the book itself.
...I meant as something owned by the cafeteria or restaurant, like metal forks and knifes, not something you carry around with you, just something you leave there after using for the staff to clean up.
> At the risk of going off topic, I still don't understand why GNUstep never seemed to have reached critical mass despite all these years of development.

As someone who was part of the GNUstep scene and contributed a tiny bit of code, I think the reason is obvious: GNOME was getting the big corporate investment, and KDE also had a stable foundation somehow. As you say, the "Linux desktop" very quickly came down to a GNOME/KDE duoply. Plus, GNUstep was written in Objective-C which was outside of a lot of devs' comfort zone at that time. So, GNUstep only managed to attract a few passionate hobbyists but no more.
"I can't see a reason why we don't have at least 10 of those projects being concurrently funded in the US, Europe and China. "

I think it's the same reason why scaling up a dev team by 10x doesn't produce much more output in the same time. There are a lot of open questions in fusion that need to be worked out. Until one day someone will be able to put all partial solutions together into a working system. In the end it just takes time to try things, fail a few times and learn from others' failures.
At a fundamental level, because we all need to eat. My wife and I can cut each others' hair (though we may be less than pleased with the results), but I can't grow enough food for us.
also works on 8+ and ios 11
> — System-wide UI consistency, especially in the fine details

> — Singular UI/UX vision eliminates points of confusion and everything-is-a-compromise choices for third party developers

I mean, first-party GNOME applications are as consistent as first-party Apple macOS applications; and third-party macOS applications are as highly customized as third-party applications one might run on GNOME. Not sure what you base your experience on but this is not really any more of an issue for those looking for consistency over all else.

> — Properly accessible by non-experts, even when things turn to shit

I'd like an example, not really sure what you're talking about here. In my experience, when things go wrong on macOS, you're prettymuch SOL until the broken feature is either fixed, reimplemented, or removed in a subsequent major release of the operating system. In my experience, Apple doesn't respond to bug reports any more than other desktop OS vendors, including open source ones.

> — Nominally "perfect" hardware support

The graphics drivers on macOS are very poor. Apple's decision to neglect and then subsequently abandon OpenGL is pure laziness, and their implementation was already bad when they were still maintaining it. Furthermore, hardware compatibility with random gizmos on macOS leaves a lot to be desired in comparison to Linux, in my experience, though I guess your mileage may vary.

> — Robust colorimetry

colord works just fine for me, no amount of software is going to profile your monitors for you though.

> — Millisecond audio latency

I'm pretty sure CoreAudio frames are not less than 44 samples.

What I will give Apple credit for is a great set of graphics manipulation libraries which make it simple to use high quality scaling and manipulation algorithms, and making sure it's a conscious choice to use cheaper, faster ones, and their implementation of seamless suspend-to-disk with full disk encryption is admirable (though honestly, dispensable at the end of the day). Their shaping and font rendering libraries are almost as good as Harfbuzz and FreeType 2 (though I think they've just started using FreeType at least on some platforms). Accessibility features are also pretty good, and depending on what disability you have, it's a tossup between GNOME and macOS.
This would appear to contradict their terms of service. Do you have a citation?
that's funny!
I suspect free-webhosts.com was a site you frequented, too?
I will use this everywhere.
I wonder if doing this in Unicode was a huge mistake.

Reading this article seems to me we are pulling the thread of a sweater, and getting caught in an unsolvable intersection of intersectionalist social issues (pun intended!). FYI I'm not taking sides other than to say we live in an actually diverse world and people have different social mores wether we like them or not, this talk will never end.

Maybe we should just have allowed 'svg' images into text, and you pick whatever you want to send to that person, and they see what you sent and that's that.

Then anyone can do anything, publicly, privately, whatever.

It's already getting hard with Emojis getting into text and passwords, it's making it just ugly.

Everyone could then 'do their own' thing and that's it.

We also could be past the peak of this emoji trend, they are here to stay in some ways, but I don't think the specificity is really that-that important. We just don't use most of these characters very often at all.
Did anyone else listen to the audio version of this article? Is it a really good text-to-speech engine reading it, or is it a real person? I feel a little bad asking because I'm probably insulting a real VO artist by asking.

The reasons I suspect that it's a machine are:

1. The voice sounds really familiar.

2. The person (or machine, but henceforth I'll just say person) read the names of the authors but never gave his own name.

3. The person had unusually long but consistent pauses between sentences.

4. The person read a few clauses strangely in a way that I don't think a real person, or at least a native English speaker, would have. The clauses were a little strangely worded, but the intent becomes clear as soon as you read the whole sentence. So although it's not impossible that a real person and native speaker would have gotten it wrong, they would have immediately reread the sentence with the correct inflection.

5. I can't imagine a real person reading such an emotional piece in such an unaffected manner.

All that said, if it is text-to-speech, it's the best I've ever heard. But you can see how I feel bad about saying all this. It implies this is either a fantastic text-to-speech program or a questionable VO artist. If this was a real person and that person is reading this, I apologize. I mean no disrespect.
Nathan Barley.
i just see a bunch of sluts. what am i missing?
Which is the only thing that happened. Being quarantined' on reddit just means you don't show up in r/all.
It's actually quite good, or at the least it's better than Windows 10 on the same hardware for me, even if using wine (Apple is still the best here obviously)
"There was, and is, no intention ever to actually use tokamaks as an electrical-energy source."

I thought that's what DEMO which is planned to come after ITER is for.

I have listened to quite a few people working on fusion (ITER, also the people working on Wendelstein-X) and none of them were as negative as you are. Where do all the things you saying come from?
It is expected to see changes in fashion over time. Pinterest isn’t going to die because peoples’ tastes change, and neither is Instagram.

I also expect to see changes in social network. It’s unlikely that Instagram will be on top in 10 years, although it could definitely be another app/network/format owned by Facebook.

Anectodally, I’ve only used Instagram to promote my art and to network as a hobby with other people who like photos of desolate abandoned-looking buildings. The usage of people in my network is unlikely to change based on popular tastes.
Plenty of cafés already have coffee mugs and glasses. I’m drinking a cup of coffee from a Homer Laughlin mug warmed atop the espresso machine at a small mom and pop establishment right now. When I’m done with it, it will go into a bus bin a few feet away and washed by the staff here whenever they’re not too busy to do a load of dishes.

If I had brought my own cup, it would have been a 10¢ discount but to be honest, their mugs are better than mine.
Call me crazy, but I like supporting a policy of overproducing food.
Here Come AI-Enabled Cameras Meant to Sense Crime Before It Occurs
I went to a cocktail bar that used dry pasta. Some kind of very long macaroni. Genius.

It works perfectly and even holds up longer than a paper straw. And not only it is biodegradable, it is also edible.
I wasn't suggesting that any scrutinizing of the code for clear intent should be considered a "pet peeve". I was saying I see both sides in this particular case, and that in my opinion devlopers (myself included) often make a way bigger deal out of things than they really are -- when the larger part of their offense toward a particular choice is often more about personal taste than it is anything else (thus the reference to pet peeves).

Again, I like the use of the variable, because in my opinion it makes the code a bit clearer, but I also don't think it is the end of the world if someone chooses the option without it.
Because it’s not about averages. It’s about wider ranges.

Fair point on chemical pollutants.
You shouldn’t be downvoted for this, you’re absolutely correct about bringing your own cups.
Filestack deleted my applications (but not my account) without even the courtesy of letting me know beforehand. I still don't know why they did it.

Uppy looks like a great replacement.
Looks great! Please make a plan how to deal with abuse; in the past, most services that provided low-friction hosting stopped being low friction (e.g. they started requiring login with a facebook account), presumably to cut down on abuse (like phishers creating lots of accounts to host phishing sites).
My favorite coffee shop in LA, barnine.us uses glass canning jars for to-go. You bring back a dozen for a free drink. Totally ridiculously infeasible for non-boutique shops though.
I take my selfies with a Camera Obscura. You've probably never heard of it.
I think you and people with similar points are exaggerating, dipping the straws in a pot full of water until it boils and then using straw-cleaning tools such as this one is more than enough https://i.imgur.com/OeRC2Gz.jpg
I think it was even simpler than that: during the inflection point between GNUstep and Gnome/KDE, the mainstream market was dominated by Windows. It was clear that the open source community saw Windows as the yardstick for a successful Linux desktop.

Whereas GNUstep was associated with an utterly failed platform.

But subsequent to the NeXT buyout and as MacOS increasingly proved its geek credentials, you can see how the community yardstick has progressively shifted in its direction. Had the serious push for a Linux desktop begun ten years ago and not 25 years ago, GNUstep might well have been the victor.
Question for Hacker News readers outside the USA:

Is the gig economy global? Do these forces exist elsewhere?
>I made a complaint on an officer once and the next day his supervisor (who is Chief of Police now) called me up and said, "... are you suuure you want to go through with this? Because if we investigate and can't prove any wrong-doing, we will charge you with filing a false complaint!"

I'd ask him to send me that in writing so I can prep my attorney.
> Learning at that age is easier ... at the very least because you have tons of free time.

That isn't really a valid argument here though because Lambda School is a full-time program to my understanding, so it's expected you somehow have 8 hours a day to put into it.
This kind of thing goes back at least as far as Rousseau and seems to go in cycles. I think we're overdue for a new Kurt Cobain to come along and make guitars cool again.
Taiwan is an unsinkable aircraft carrier. It provides a massive platform from which to attack the mainland. Maintaining control denies this advantage to any attackers.