skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Innovation happens at the individual level, and to that end, the Japanese are incredibly innovative. The person must then fight the hierarchies which farms the innovations from individuals who are undercompensated for their miraculous work. Same with the incredible craftsmen and artists. But if the hierarchy is bad, everyone loses.

The engineer would often then defect and seek a meritocracy where they are valued by their work and not seniority.

A quick lookup for the Flash inventor backs this. Fujio Masuoka is now CTO of a company in Singapore.

Shuji Nakamura, the inventory of the blue LED is the other primary example. He is now professor of Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with 208 US patents and a Nobel prize. He was in the news a lot, and stirred up much needed debate in Japan regarding who owns the work of an employee.

But one counter example is Nintendo. Shigeru Miyamoto is the genius behind Super Mario, and him and his small team are responsible for so much of their hierarchy's success. Nintendo stands tall to this day.

Sony is a mixed bag, but their gaming division is still winning.

Korea is actually known to be incredibly similar to Japan, and according to one theory the only reason why Korea outpaced Japan is because the Japanese were too busy addicted to Pachinko. That may sound absurd, but not if you've seen how ubiquitous Pachinko is, and it's pure gambling with all the dangers of addiction and lives in shambles. Ironically, 80% of the parlors are owned by Japanese Koreans.
I think the Go scheduler makes a good case for multiplexing a large number of user-mode threads (or goroutines) over a limited number of OS threads: whenever a goroutine needs to make a blocking syscall (e.g. writing to a socket), the work is offloaded to a "network poller" thread, and meanwhile the Go scheduler can continue to service other runnable goroutines.

It seems to me that this allows Go programs to maximize the use of their OS-thread time slices without being preempted on each syscall. Does anybody care to comment on how this impacts throughput and latency?
Also Stockholm in summer is empty. People leave the town and go on holiday, retract to the country side.

I also don't understand when he says there is/was no social distancing. That is totally not my experience here, a lot of people were working from home and commuter trains were quite empty.
Awesome! Finally some alternatives! I'll try it and switch to that GPL project if it's a better app! Thanks for sharing. Update: AltTab is already better and exactly what one wants from an alt-tab, and best of all, FOSS and actively in development on Github. It's got some small bugs to iron out but none that are dealbreakers for me. PERFECT, thank you.
The one the drives me mad the most is when I type a word which it incorrectly autocorrects to a proper noun (which gets capitalised), I then use backspace to delete that word and type the - completely different - correct one, but it insists on upper-casing the first letter to match the original casing of the incorrect autocorrect. It really should keep track of the fact that it introduces the case-change and invalidate it when the automated action itself is invalidated. This happens frequently to me.
Pleasure chatting with you — this is my stop: Mornington Crescent[1]. Until next time!

Why is Xmas like a lion on the beach?[2]

The Gnat and the Lion and the Hares and the Lion both involve claws. I prefer paws, a genre which has produced Androcles, the Lion and the Mouse, the Elephants and the Mice, and even apparently (I can't find it, but my hanzi search-fu is weak) the Tiger and the Mouse.

On the hares and lion, a Swahili argument against Sith morality: "Ndovu wawili wakipigana, ziumiazo na nyasi."[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game)

[2] They both have sandy claws.

[3] Some wag has added: even if the elephants are making love instead of fighting, the grass still gets trampled.
Memento.

Just the right movie at the right time with the right themes and tone.

Its sister movie 50 First Dates is pretty fundamental too to certain perspectives.
I'd like to think the younger generation is better at "tolerating" not drinking.

I remember my father and his colleagues used to have drinks together on occasions, and throw up, and get home sick, and wake up with a headache. My father hated alcohol, yet he still felt obliged to drink together. I had acquainted several of his colleagues, and not surprisingly, none of them like drinking. Most of them hated drinking.

So, it's actually a self-fulfilling prophecy. Everyone thought others expected everyone to drink, thus showed up to drink, and validated everyone's expectation.

If they were to sit down, sober, honest about their not liking alcohol, they would have found that a bunch of people who didn't enjoy drinking, forced themselves to drink with one another.

This impression was marked on my mind, that I initially thought I always had to drink, too.

But, I was wrong; we had plenty to do in gatherings, BBQ-ing, playing cards and board games. And as long as I'm into some of the activities, not drinking isn't a barrier to friendship, or trust, or "team spirit".

It's quite liberating that the circle I'm in has jumped out of the self-fulfilling prophecy of "obliged to drink".
Have not heard about India’s shut down

I know the UK was going for herd immunity at first and then switched

Spain did lockdown drastically once things got pretty bad

My next question would be on Sweden’s case: is herd immunity real? Or as the virus spreads it reinfects ?
There is nothing wrong with being culturalist, to be so is absolutely not racist. A black, white, etc orphan child raised in communist China, would grow up in the same culture, with the same beliefs.

Those that decry 'racist', when one complains about China are indeed the true racists, for they think culture and race = the same thing.
Wow, anything that removes the need for conda is quite promising indeed!
What, no matias in there?
> After a brief pause, he added: "I guess the biggest problem I have is that many of our most ambitious products are the ones we can't talk about and so it's a bit of a sales challenge to tell somebody, 'Come and work on the most ambitious thing ever but I can't tell you what it is.'"

JG, I don’t think that’s your “biggest problem” - Siri is. Your privacy centric on-device strategy limits your view of user feedback, Google gets a lot of shit wrong but they know how to transmit user data and understand their feedback.
My girlfriend's father in Malaysia watched CCTV and a few other Chinese language broadcast news stations that had stories on what was happening in the US every day, so if the family in Xiamen has a TV then they might not "follow" US politics, but they definitely get informed about what's happening here.
One of the worst things about Windows and other Microsoft products is the design of their interfaces and typography - not sure why anyone would ever want to use their design principles for anything.
A lot (all I can find) of the early tweets are about an Indonesian TV called Trans TV. This https://twitter.com/Safarazzz/status/208335499281182720 is (one of?) the first on topic tweet from 2012. After that it's a flood: https://twitter.com/patienceinbee/status/225368805285691393 https://twitter.com/noellejoyeuse/status/228993592864165888 and these were before Lana came out as trans. And then https://twitter.com/ontologicalgeek/status/25747720273043865... https://twitter.com/linernotesdanny/status/25764253274016153... and so forth and so forth.

So yeah, people have noted this for at least eight years, probably on other forums even longer.
Show HN: Omg-Curry – JavaScript currying library
I hope we will see cleaner air in cities! But the time it takes to replace a country’s vehicle fleet is sometimes measured in decades, and no-one is even starting on a project of massively reducing fleet emissions. I think / hope you are right in the long term, but I think I am right in the short-medium term :)
Re: Prediction at the edge, I would think that it's better if there aren't going to be any updates to the model. Or if internet access is limited. Correct me if I'm wrong, but most of the ML inference actually takes place on the cloud nowadays, not on-device.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24089549 elsewhere. tl;dr: people tweeted eight years ago Matrix had trans themes at least or it's outright about being trans.
Same experience with gboard on iOS.
So the solution is to keep polluting?

I don’t understand your point here. If everyone makes the effort to walk/bike more there will be a reduction in pollution.
You can really go down the rabbit hole trying to figure out where the wheel+Alpine problem should be fixed. https://github.com/pypa/packaging-problems/issues/69 is a newer bug that is tracking this. Python relies on the "manylinux" specification (https://github.com/pypa/manylinux) which originally pinned build environments to CentOS 5, was updated in 2018 to use CentOS 6, and then updated in 2019 to use CentOS 7.

It's entirely possible that the Alpine user base isn't as big/important as I would think but this seems like something that needs to be solved.
It's not pipenv.
Cruel irony that cyclists, part of the solution, inhale the worst of the problem.
Free snacks would put me off, it's a terrible idea from a health perspective.
The pypa maintainers, in my experience, will engage with such issues but ultimately discussion dies off and they simply ignore corner cases. Realistically speaking if you want to ship impure wheels for anything outside of ppc(64le), armhf, x86 or amd64 you're SOL. Python packaging is an absolute shit show especially where impure wheels are involved. Between the manylinux "standards" that require downloading random Centos docker images because their libc is "probably old enough" to the setuptools vs distutils vs whatever else with none of them having actually mature support for binary extensions (and even less - really zero, and no docs - for raw .so's via ctypes) to the byzantine PyPI upload procedures with its underspecified platform tags (really a manylinux problem though), my Python packaging experience was so bad that I ultimately gave up on the Python ecosystem as a whole. Shipping applications and libraries with this language is simply awful to the point where I'd rather use a compiled language because it is easier to build binaries for 10 different arches under qemu than it is to ship a fucking wheel. I'm so over Python.
What You See Is What He Gets?
Even there, Google is hindered by the fact that it is so bad at hardware. The Pixel's camera lead is not as much as it used to be, and now Apple is ahead on video. The newest phone from Google uses the same sensor as the Pixel 2, whereas others have moved onto bigger sensors with quad-bayer filters.
Do people actually gets trashed and wasted with their team though? Usually I find that there is a "work" portion where people head to the bar after work and have a few beers and get buzzed and talk about work. And then people leave and people break off into groups and the "friends" portion of the night starts, when you might actually get drunk with your group of friends from work. But there is no illusion that there is any connection to work at that point.
Continuous Integration: What It Is and Four Why I Like It
Predicting subsequent words is hard for humans, but correcting typos is easy. I've turned off autocorrect completely because my typos are always immediately decodable to their human audience, moreso than Apple's seemingly random modifications.
Tech enabled homes, for example. Converting malls into homes, and managing building complexes using a tech stack...

If you really can't figure out one single use for cheap empty space, man, you need take a step back and just play around with your imagination a bit :)
change its mind about what? about him being like bill cosby? grow up.
Single Re Rock the Funk Distributed by TuneCore and Live on iTunes
Support students' UserFreedom. (video from FSF)
I found that wearing an anti pollution mask really was a night and day difference.
They take it a step further by conflating the CCP with Chinese people, Chinese culture and the Chinese nation. This is a tactic I frequently see where proponents of the CCP seek to call any criticism or skepticism racist.
Counterexample: Switzerland. "Independence" in 1291, so that generation has certainly died out. We still get "vote for me because all the opposition parties all suck" but at least we have more political parties (positioned over more than one dimension) than just, say, Aromat vs. Maggi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Charter_of_1291#/media...

(Note the seals, like for a papal bull, dangling from the document to make it official. When I first heard about "truck nuts", I was reminded of these documents.)
That sounds positively hilarious... rather you would just poop on other people’s work
I think the caveat here is that communism was culturally incompatible with Iran. It was a country without a large domestically-owned industrial base, where the Shah and his father represented the strongest force toward modernization of the economy, with a multi-millenial history of monarchy and tribal fragmentation.

This is not the same as, say, Latin America during the Cold War. There, the non-Western cultural antecedents came from indigenous cultures that were naturally collectivistic. Communism was a better cultural fit.

It was perhaps hip to be involved with communism as a young student in Iran. Still....how do you turn a fragmented, tribal, and superstitious country, whose population is made up of several different ethnic demographics, into a communist nation?

That was never a plausible outcome, so I doubt your theory that the US allowed the theocrats to win because it wanted to box out the communists. The US desired to maintain Iran's role as a security base and an investment hub. Neither the communists nor the followers of Khomeini would have allowed either of those two things to continue.

Even today, despite years and years of aligning with China, Russia, Venezuela, Bolivia, and other "leftist" regimes, Iran is not a communist nation. It is a resource-rich dictatorship with a resistance economy.

I think you are over-extending your speculation by saying that Khomeini was the US's horse in the race when it became clear that the Shah would lose power. This is evidenced by the fact that the US assisted Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq War shortly after the Revolution.
There's an old joke that the hard left in the US have the same policies as the hard right in the EU
Did the concept of atomic design never take off? A few years ago i remember various css and js bundles spawned around Brad Frost’s atomic design movement but i don’t recall any of them lately being on HN.

It’s a shame if they’re not making the grade, i thought the idea of composable UI elements sounded spot on.
I was 17. Questioned reality for 3 whole days. So surreal!
Why would companies keep their offices if no one comes in to work there? Why wouldn't they sell all the furniture? Get rid of the infrastructure? Etc, etc.

This isn't a decision that could be rolled back easily or without significant capex. Companies that are doing this must be thinking it's a long term thing.
The Importance of Culture. A Radical Equation for Improving Performance at Work
Of course it's successful to intentionally manipulate you with alcohol. Just because you can explain a phenomenon does not justify it; that's just giving up on the concept of "values" altogether.
The most disruptive errors are those that could seemingly be cleaned up with some simple rules (e.g. if the word is in the dictionary, then don’t change it). This doesn’t seem like a “state of ML” issue—the Gmail text completion is annoyingly good, and you-know-who can compose soliloquies and smut with uncanny skill.

And no, I don’t often discuss The Rock, but if I did (“Do you smell what the r...”) I'd expect it to finish the alley-oop. I do not want to go Rock climbing.

iMessage is software that is used <Carl Sagan voice> billions and billions of times a day, and half the time it feels like verbal jiu-jitsu (“jiu-hursuit” according to autocorrect just now) with Dory the fish.
What I’d Do Differently with My Startup Futurecam
Gokul's S.P.A.D.E. Toolkit: How to implement Square's decision-making framework
Looking at the circuit board is reminding me if a thought experiment I entertain from time to time: we keep trying to make the single purpose keyboard smaller so we have room for everything else in a compact device.

What if we didn’t? Instead of removing the volume, can we put something in it? Take this one for instance. How many layers does a keyboard trace need? 2? 3? How many things can you stuff on the backside of the keyboard? Between? Under?
Well, it was the first locking package manager for Python. A definite edge over plain pip.
It always worked without issues for me.
What's so bad about it?
Poetry is fantastic but it looks like pip is trying to create their own competitor. [1] I would much prefer if the pypa folks and the poetry folks got together to more tightly integrate the systems. Poetry solves a ton of problems ranging from venv management to making packaging easier to splitting dev and production dependencies. Consider me a huge fan.

[1] https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8511#issuecomment-6651402...
Because it’s useful to actually talk to people even if it’s over video chat.
I've recently switched back to iOS and hoped this behaviour was temporary as it got to learn my swiping style. Gboard on Android is almost perfect.
As you've shown, apparently I can't express myself without being insulted. So where does that leave us?
Ask HN: What are some good resources(blogs, books) for SQL Query optimization?
This. Basic supply/demand problem. For those in control of that scare resource (Bay Area housing close to employers/amenities), that constraint is pure profit.
In Mr. Sundar Pichai's Shoes
Hmm. Why can't you build wheels for 10 different arches with your same qemu setup? Is it that PyPI won't actually accept those wheels and so you'd have to self-host?

(I have contributed a tiny bit to the manylinux stuff, so I'm curious where the problems are, but I'm definitely not active in any sense... it does seem like a couple of these issues boil down to "there should be more people spending time on it," sadly.)
What is AI? Your washer machine and some rice cookers use AI (fuzzy logic)

Everything uses AI. A program with an if statement is AI.
I think even in those cases there are benefits.

I would certainly want to extend, modify and replace the data models for my core business as I see fit. But beyond those there are still going to be a whole lot of models in need in order to run the company but want to keep low maintenance. E.g. for hiring I might not have strong opinions what a job post, a candidate or an application should look like, so I'd be happy sticking to the standard in those cases and benefit of it being easier to mix and match tooling and pass around the data.

Also I reckon to me that a partially customized ontology, which is inevitable, is still easier to map between orgs than if they build it from scratch completely

Or maybe see it less as a standardized ontology but as a standardized way to create ontologies
What is the name of the Fortune 100 company mentioned in your story?
Scheduling in Go: Part I – OS Scheduler
I wanted a Sharp Zaurus. They had a pretty good Japanese hacking community.
As a non-drinker, I have to say, pressuring people to drink is toxic and a major societal problem.
Shiro Kawai: Schemer, Lisper, Actor
I was on my annual exploration of Scheme implementations, this time I focused my attention on Gauche for the first time...

I was surprised to find the twitter profile of the author, Shiro Kawai [1]. It turns out he also is a professional actor, has an imdb profile [2] and has been part of a lot of movies! People like this always make me feel [even more!] unaccomplished :-).

Anyway, thought it would be fun to ask here who knows of other multi-talented software developers.

1: https://twitter.com/anohana

2: http://imdb.me/shirokawai
Rust compiled to .NET bytecode
Whiplash (2014)
Tailwindcss is getting quite big.i would dare to say mainstream even.
Good for people who enjoy it but I do not.

Alcohol is a drug which has very bad effects on my system and I try to avoid it when possible.

If this is the condition for serious business for someone they will have to do business somewhere else.
This. You know your yearly salary (gross and net). Then you get it in different schemes depending on country and company. Some I now are:

- 14 payments (extras in June and December)

- 12+1 in December

- 12 + 2 x 0.5 (one extra in June and the other In December)

I believe dates were pick to match Xmas and Summer Holidays, two big spending anomalies

Anyhow you always negotiate yearly gross.
Or like Adobe's react-spectrum:
https://react-spectrum.adobe.com/architecture.html
i am in the pessimists camp who believes there wont be a COVID vaccine for decades. SARS is a corona virus and no vaccine has been found in 13 years. the common cold is a corona virus and no vaccine has been found since vaccination was invented.

the new normal is going to be with us for a very long time, so adjust and plan accordingly.
> Atlassian are basically the Oracle of ticket trackers

That's the best way of putting that I've ever heard. Stealing it.
> Unfortunately, brake dust and tire rubber also represents a surprisingly large amount of particulate matter as well.

That crap ruins clothes too. I cycle and the stuff that comes off the road is crazy sticky, oily, black and horrible.
It doesn’t wash out and is even hard to get off clear coated bike.
Watched "They Live" [1] while working as a quant dev at a large bank in '09. Work the next day was super weird.

[1] https://signal.org/blog/they-live/
Bureaucrats are drawn to startups? What?

I feel like the author is really clueless and has never worked in a startup.

You can't not get work done and survive in a startup. There's too much visibility into who is doing what to hide. That's not true in the US Government. I've met lots of losers in government who haven't done a bit of useful work in years.

The whole story seems like a concocted ... "oh look how badass and cool I am" scenario. The author is so full of herself.
This makes me wonder about the reliability of address verification technology.

There are plenty of addresses where the official version in databases is slightly off from what people actually write on their mail. If I got a credit card transaction with the "official" version, that would be a significant fraud signal, that they were sourcing bogus data from somewhere.
Delusion. It's a child's mindset. As kids they saw their parents and older kids drink alcohol and associated it with an exclusive privilege of maturity. They never grew out of that. They also delude themselves into thinking that they are uniquely immune to the negative effects of the poison they put down their throats.
It doesn't index the article contents though; only the story titles and comments, same as Google.
My experience working for the last ten years as a remote engineer couldn't be further from the way this is described. Just a single data point, ymmv.
What is the flipper? URL?
I would love to search books, video recommendations that people post on HN. It's one of the cool things I like here
> You sound like a fairly miserable person to be around, frankly.

i have absolutely zero interest in friendship, i have absolutely zero interest in jokes, i am simply here to collect data and earn respect