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I've always wanted to live in Japan. I sometimes feel like I'm optimizing way too much for money, and reading the article it seems like I only have 5 more years to practically have a chance at being able to live in Japan. So I'm convinced that maybe some things are worth giving up for happiness.

So what am I supposed to do in order to accomplish the goal of working in Japan? I've self-studied the language since high school and would say I'm competent at reading and listening but not production. I haven't taken the JLPT yet but I would study for it if I'm going to take this seriously. I also have a lot of savings so money is not really as much of a concern.

I would really, really want to if time is quickly running out for me, but I don't understand what relationship I have to the country that would merit being able to stay there at least on a work visa besides the fact that I want to live there and enjoy the culture, which TFA states is not good enough of a reason. The author's NLP job was itself related to the Japanese language, but there is no specific connection to Japanese that my skills would provide. And I haven't so much as gotten a response back from my dozen attempts at an internal transfer at a Top 100 company. Sometimes it feels like the only reason you're able to get a job is because you know the right people, and I don't personally know anyone living in Japan.
So I’m just kinda wondering if y’all have any tips, or if y’all want to recommend any websites, apps, or books.
I'm saddened by the job losses, but the fashion industry (esp. the high end) seems nothing but a toxic drain on society and the environment. New "trends" dictated by celebrities and designers every year do nothing but sow personal insecurities and environmental destruction. Good riddance.
Again, it is already known to be very common in humans.
He’s laughing at the hypocrisy, which is so abundantly evident to him.
What general consensus?

You just wrote yourself that there is no consensus, even amongst scientists who have been extremely willing to recommend extreme measures from the start. The review paper showed the science isn't settled: that's literally the definition of no consensus.

The concept of scientific consensus is horribly abused. Look at the reply to my post. It's not about anything concrete, it just asserts everyone agrees with the poster. That's a lie, and obviously so. Yet simply by claiming it's true, some will believe it, as it's an unfalsifiable statement. Indeed you yourself believe it, even whilst reading a paper that says there's no consensus.
I haven't seen much difference between the two, if I understand what you're differentiating, as the type of executive that tends to project hop doesn't generally care about the underlying project, past its ability to further their own aims.

So whether it's an external acquisition or internal project is somewhat immaterial.
Sounds like you need to develop a hobby or two. I also tend to overwork when I have nothing else to do as I'd rather work than zone out in front of the TV. But this hasn't been a problem as I'd rather spend time on my hobbies than work... so end of work day is when I get to switch to my hobbies.

To put it another way, what I hear you saying that your work is the most interesting thing in your life right now and so, of course, you spend most of your time doing it. If you had other things in your life that we equally or more interesting...
Agreed - this is the all-too-common willing ignorance of colloquial semantics to pedantically demonstrate a non-point.
the "link:" operator doesn't work for me--it just seems to include the URL's tokens in the search
Believe me, I know how it is. My productivity has been shot to absolute hell. I am talking about start/end of day discipline that does not make it worse.
An excellent question that shouldn't be downvoted. Why is Bill Gates "the guy?" Don't read that in a conspiratorial sense, just in a rational "can someone explain this to me" sense.
Eh, don't underestimate the savings from reuse that's actually practical and not cost-plus. I think SpaceX have demonstrated the economic case for their approach with the F9. And once SpaceX demonstrate they can put cargo on Mars, NASA'll have to get in. Plus people may actually pay to migrate. If you think those numbers are unrealistic, look at SpaceX's posted total costs for their rocket development programs. I think the message is more "every space agency has ridiculously overpaid for decades."
Vegas is tiny compared to Nevada. You can have both. Nevada has lots of rocky terrain and winter snows, though, so much wouldn't be usable.
Broadly, US customer service return policies, despite what we hear, is superlative compared to most of the rest of the world [1]. If you travel a lot, the kind of return policies Americans broadly enjoy are pretty much non-existent outside the US, due to a relatively unique history of retail and general trust.

Culture is in general becoming a less pleasant, asshole-take-all experience because your "friend" embodies how trust and social fabric is corroded away. Not by big, monolithic, evil entities people like to rant upon here, but by everyday people like him making poor choices.

Choose better decisions [2].

[1] https://qz.com/772273/the-sneaky-genius-of-americas-lenient-...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/elal2/have_you_e...
Good riddance. The majority of my clothing spending was for rarely worn social compliance items like a suit, ties, and nice shoes.
This is a terrible interview and Gates comes across like duplicitous.

Like, where to start? Somebody save this one before the edits.
Relevant July 24th Science Mag interview of Shi Zhengli:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/trump-owes-us-apolog...
Name is Charlie da melio. Thank me later
Sad to hear that, this really kills the american dream.
If you can't name one important outcome for your job, maybe it's time to change jobs. OTOH, if all you lack is directing your attention to these important outcomes, I'd recommend some rituals like meditation.
Standardized mathematical notation is one of the crowning human achievements of the last 2 millennia.
I've only saved about 50-60 daily minutes as I live pretty close to the office, but I've also been very cognizant of my hours and not working more just because I'm available. Our pay wasn't increased (in fact, the opposite), so why would I work more?
Not unlike Topaz[0], a Ruby on RPython started in 2013 which has seen no activity in 3 years.

[0] https://github.com/topazproject/topaz
The only thing Amazon does is artificially inflate their rating up regardless of the individual reviews.

https://www.amazon.com/Rain-X-RX68106-ICER-WASHER-FLUID/dp/B...

This wiper fluid is known to cause expensive failures for rain wiper fluid sensors but it has a cheerful 4.6/5 aggregate rating, despite the numerous 1 star reviews saying the product broke their car.
Also see: https://github.com/graalvm/graalpython
In a way you're better off than I am -- I'm already accustomed to being surrounded by these assholes. (Didn't say I accept it though.) Keep the faith buddy, seems like simply doing things right ought to give the doer a huge advantage, right? Well we can debate whether that's true in the real world, or we can just refuse to believe it's otherwise and see what happens. You seem to be in a go-for-broke situation. You probably need to reach past several layers of shitty middle managers to reach the CEO who agrees with you that things ought to simply be done right. Get some support from the top. Or if you don't succeed at that, maybe you have to get the hell out of there. Obviously getting used to the "new normal" isn't an attractive option - life's too short. But that's coming from the middle. Those people don't like reformers, but they do respond well to having their asses kicked by their supposed superiors!
> it's mostly because I don't know when to stop the day

Of course you do. Stop at 8 hours.
For a couple of reasons; Gates is well known and will draw more visibility. He’s a well trained public speaker. He knows enough about the subject matter to communicate it effectively. Also, a short interview probably isn’t long enough for someone with deep subject knowledge to scratch the surface.
Countries regularly abuse and malware their own regulations for their own purposes. For example, Japan imports cheap labour from Nepal and Southeast Asia, and treats said labour very poorly. There is no avenue for “fair” treatment for the affected parties

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/01/02/national/abuses...
Be careful with expectations of "possible" vs. "practical". 5G for IoT devices is a big deal in remote field and some industrial settings where wi-fi is not an option. Two examples for you:

I worked on a pilot project with a state government group that wanted remote monitoring of water levels in wetlands and ponds spread across a few hundred square miles of mostly-rural area. wi-fi obviously wasn't an option and getting a WAN mesh setup was a huge pain in the ass and had its own limitations. We ended up testing with 3G, switching on twice a day to report, but the power consumption and data costs were too prohibitive to be practical long-term. 5G power use per bit is supposedly going to be far lower than 3G/4G. Jury is still out on data cost.

I now work in the automotive industry where vehicle logistics can be an interesting challenge. Parking lots for completed vehicles awaiting transport outside factories can be spread across a square mile of land (more if remote overflow lots are used), with multiple locations. There are multiple use cases for inspecting, tagging, remote driving, etc. these vehicles using aerial or ground-based drones and teleoperation to significantly cut down on costs. However, those use cases depend on high bandwidth, low-latency connections and extending effective wi-fi to lots would be massively expensive. 5G is a pretty interesting option here.

As others have mentioned, vehicle-centric use cases abound, but there are some additional ones for industries like oil & gas as well.
Ask HN: What is your failed/unfinished projects ratio?
Lot of times we end up measuring our unfinished projects as failures. I don't want to argue whether unfinished is a failure or not, but draw our irrational minds towards this observation. The journey to this ratio will be helpful to some of us.

And then I need some data also for my research, which I will share.

Do share how you reached this number, what assumptions you made, etc.

Every small projects count :)
The article unfortunately shares that same title, and wired doesn't seem to want to change it. Sometimes these sites change an article title after it has been up for a while, but no luck it seems. Theres definitely some really good stuff in the interview, hopefully having a different title here on HN makes it easier to have a conversation about that.
They probably wanted it to look good on their insane high resolution screen judging by the font... They shoulda sized it in em and not pixels specifically.

OTOH reader mode on firefox fixes any of that nonsense.
> "clear" == "transparent" == "colorless"

Pretty clearly talks about colour.

Yes, there's plenty of confusion, given "clear" is not a colour. Your urine can be perfectly clear while still being yellow.
names ! we want names !

also, decidable likely implies total - and my experience with total languages is that more often than not you need to add another turing-complete "scripting" layer on top of it (for instance, a TC language to generate expressions in the total language) as it's so cumbersome to write otherwise when you have actually business rules and not simple math examples
Note that the Prosperity, Parity and Licenze Zero licenses are not open source due to the restrictions they place on certain types of users, such as other businesses. This may be fine for one's usecase or as a business, but one must know that they are not in fact truly open source.
The point is to make sure you can't avoid paying the inheritance tax just by not being an American when you die.

Of course, it's still obviously worth it since your children won't have to pay the inheritance tax again...
Because we are all more likely to click on the link that says "Interview with Bill Gates" instead of the link that says "Interview with smart person you are not familiar with".
German fintech company Wirecard possibly robbed before its collapse
the intermediate layer between clients and the database is responsible to negotiate a protocol version, you shouldn't expose the storage model to the api layer, then schema versioning becomes a non problem.
Compile time CUDA device checking in Rust
If you are building new or renovating, run the cable pipes before the walls are in place. If the walls are already there its much trickier, but still doable with a long bendable drill and magnets, and you might end up with the switch on the attic as its easier to drop down.
Try wrapping lizardmancan in quotation marks - "lizardmancan". That narrows it down to 10 results for me

(also: you'll want to remove the space between site: and news.ycombinator.com)
Doesn't seem to work with addresses outside of the US
Malnutrition is rife in India with some 40% of children malnourished and stunted. Indian diet is not very nutritionally balanced and as a result, lifestyle diseases like diabetes and heart disease are quite common in the upper income brackets and malnutrition in the lower income brackets.
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Can someone break down some numbers here for me? What kind of voltage do you need to move that distance? Will this create huge magnetic fields along the cable under the ocean? (Yes I know almost nothing about electricity :)
I used to be the same. After the carrot therapy my tongue changed colour and milk tasted like the nectar of the gods.
His foundation has been in the health space since it's inception. He's very hands on, and consumes and synthesizes health knowledge, which he's been doing for a long time. He has a broad view of many of the factors that go into vaccines, treatments, societal impact, etc. I've never seen him stumped or give a political non-answer on any of the interviews he's been given. I consider him an authority on the topic.
He could smile because it's refreshening to hear questions or other people talk about critical things that are constantly being ignored by even the highest ranking politicians. He could also smile because he might find it funny that people bring those topics to him as if he were responsible for everything. We'll never know.
I'm not a fan of Gates, but he's clearly a smart person. Think of him as a sort of CEO of the organization that coordinates lots of the work done by the "really smart people", a CEO smart enough to be able to give Levy a better summary than Levy would come up with himself if he spoke to 10 actual experts.
Sample bias maybe.

Maybe it is true that fat men tend to be more corrupt than skinny people. Maybe the signal is true, but only holds when the context is a country in which the common person doesn't get enough to eat.

Is it likely that the effect is strong and consistent enough for generic predictions in any particular setting? Nope.
If there are clusters of subscribers and vast empty areas, does that help via beamforming?
You may underestimate the time and effort that can be involved in in-wall cabling in a retrofit situation... like most in my area I live in a house that is coming up on 100 years old, while I do my best to run all cables through walls there are situations where I have to run cables in conduits on the exterior as the only way to do otherwise would be to resheetrock most of the ceiling. There's just a cost-benefit analysis here, and most contractors aren't willing to put in the time (because the customer doesn't want to pay for the time!) to open up the walls to get access to run cables through them. Keep in mind that when you consider demolition, hanging sheetrock, texture, prime, paint, and clean, any cabling situation where walls need to be opened is probably going to be billed as a full day, and local building/licensing codes may not allow a low-voltage technician to perform that work, requiring a builder to be subcontracted.

There are tricks like flexible installer bits that allow for short runs through-wall without removing the wallboard but you're going to need an access hole every couple of studs at least... and at that point you're setting yourself up for so much patching it might be faster to just open up the wall entirely. You can also use all kinds of wire-pulling tools, I have a 30' telescoping fiberglass pole that I have used to run cables through inaccessible attics (flat and shallow roofs common here), but once again, you get into situations where running the cable for a single surveillance camera is an 8-hour job! I put up with this for my own house but clients aren't so happy about it...

And all of this is assuming wood-frame walls which are the norm for interior walls but exterior in many areas can be brick, adobe, etc., and blown-in insulation is great for heating bills but can make cable runs in exterior walls a huge headache.

At the same time, cables run "cable-installer style" (stapled to gables and run down exterior to straight-through holes) regularly last for over a decade and are very easy to repair when there are problems and modify when needs change. It's hard to blame them.
It isn't just MSM folks that go to him.

He's proven to be reliable over decades. That's the main reason, I think. There was a small reason to talk to him about public health at first, but over time it's grown into a huge reason.

The question remains, is what is he reliable at? Why do I and so many others want to listen to him more over the years? I think it's because of the depth and breadth of issues he discusses. It's a sweet spot for me, between talking in too much depth and not enough depth.
Yes. Perhaps a simple algorithm, but an algorithm nonetheless. Just as hydrogen is a chemical.
Said preparation involves little more than grinding stones and a brick oven, to which I can attest following several dozen quarantine loves.

Not continent-spanning grow-labs, which is the proposition being forwarded.
Everyone now knows that the wearing of surgical masks by the general public is beneficial. That wasn't clear in late February and early March, and the scientific community was uncertain. That's why a paper finding that surgical masks are effective was important enough to be published in Nature Medicine as late as 3 April (and has been cited hundreds of times since).[1]

It might seem obvious that surgical masks help, but there are a few reasons that people thought they might not:

1. Surgical masks let lots of unfiltered air in.

2. People might feel a false sense of security with masks, which could make them harmful.

3. People might touch their faces more when wearing masks.

Research like the paper I mentioned above, as well as the realization that asymptomatic and presymptomatic people play a large role in spreading the virus convinced the scientific community that widespread wearing of surgical masks is helpful. But blaming institutions for not knowing the right answer early on seems very unfair to me.

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2
Your comment applies equally to all luxury consumer goods. It also ignores the fact that many people derive pleasure from 'dressing up', or 'looking their best'.
Rule #1 of All Coding: Keep it simple. If it's not simple, simplify it.

Once you've got that rule down, pick a popular language (Python's good because you can ask questions and get answers), pick a simple program that'd be useful to you, and then figure out what you need to make it work. Then make it work, applying rule #1. Rinse and repeat.
Show HN: "Declarative” Sourdough Calculator
No they weren't. The whole "Russian bots influence elections" story is a QAnon style conspiracy theory, just one that took off amongst New York/Washington types, so they can't see that it's a conspiracy theory.
This is reddit humor, that I sometimes miss here. Thx neilduncan.
Adams is the worst kind racist bigot. Hiding his true face behind "testing the limits", "trolling", and other seemingly clever "unconventional ways of challenging the social norms".

That's just the manipulative narrative to make the highly toxic and divisive racist drivel he is peddling more palatable to the more moderate of his fans, who typically fail to see who he really is because their perception of him is framed by Dilbert comics.

I am not American, I have no stake in American elections whatsoever, but people like Adams make me question humanity. The guy makes me sick.
Hi HN!

There's a bunch of sourdough calculators out there --- but one of the things I missed was the ability to just write that I wanted a loaf of total 800g weight, x% hydration, and have the final loaf consist of 20% spelt, 10% whole wheat and rest wheat for example. So, I decided to create a calculator like this for myself, and I thought I'd share it with you. Hope you find it useful!
> mac presentation: Prepare MAC for presentation: minimize all apps, close browsers, send files from desktop and downloads to trash and set not disturb mode

This sounds like a terrible idea, just because of the chances of accidental trash emptying. Why not just a folder in a Documents or something?
TryHackMe Networks
> cultural "requirement": clothing that is required to fit into social circles. The shirt would be a good example of this, aswell as the tie.

So... fashion?
you must not have looked for long, most of the other OSS tools mentioned in this thread exist for several years already.
From the viewpoint of relational it is an execution strategy. Many columnar databases return row wise results via odbc or some similar interface and they look like relational databases.

The difficulties of doing columnar style queries for document and graph databases led at least one person I know to tell a certain three letter agency that they couldn't have the panopticon machine they wanted.

For online transaction processing rows are good, but for OLAP it is not even competitive.
He has spent a large amount of time coordinating and strategizing health care interventions in multiple countries over the last couple of decades. Seems like he would be in a very good position to explain this stuff to the public.
Could you name your specific criticisms? Gates was punchy, sure, but his answers seem reasonable.
Two conspiracy theorist die and go to heaven. At the pearly gates they are let in and allowed to ask god one question. They ask him, about the Epstein suicide, and god replies “no my sons, there was no conspiracy, it was in fact suicide”

The conspiracy theorists turn to one another and remark, “This goes even higher than we thought”
Faraday cage houses will become a thing.
"When the next pandemic occurs (and make no mistake, it will) and the federal government is unable to respond in a coordinated and effective fashion to protect the lives of US citizens and others, this decision by John Bolton and Donald Trump will be why."

-Stephen Schwartz, on Twitter, May 2018

People knew. Also, Americans don't really have the habit of factoring in major events outside of their control into their long term strategy. It will be ok. The danger is "over there". The oceans will protect us.
Last time I checked, it's a direct competitor / reimplementation of Babel in Rust.
The "smartest" (most accomplished?) experts within a field will often disagree with each other - sometimes on very important topics. I've encountered this first-hand. It's more common in certain fields than others, but I've seen at least a little bit of it almost everywhere. I can see value in an independent third-party from outside the field who brings experts together, listens to their best advice, and then decides what course to recommend.