skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Germany, the southwest, especially Swabia, is more conservative than the north. More tidy-freaks, stingy pennypinchers, more-concerned-with-the-appearance holier-than-thou, "we have always done it like this" and "you didn't clean your sidewalk properly, I've found a leave". Maybe "Kehrwoche" and "schwäbische Hausfrau" will yield sone entertaining google results. Businesswise, it is the region of small to medium family businesses, where the father of course passes on a highly emphasized tradition to the eldest son.

Switzerland is like this, turned to eleven, plus a lot of nationalism and need to be separate from the bigger neighbours. You won't get money from a bank or investor down there unless you are solidly local, doing something they understand and looks like all the other medium family businesses making machines or parts down there.

Caveat: Of course this is full of personal impressions, stereotypes and things like that. And it is strictly a collection of more negative aspects, there is of course a positive side.
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I also found it hard to discern the architecture

There are storage backends, there is a router component...

the examples at http://zenoh.io/docs/getting-started/first-app/ show curl-ing to the router(?), and it's presumably the router that talks to storage backend... so Zenoh is the router, and that runs on the remote device?

https://github.com/eclipse-zenoh/zenoh-python/tree/master/ex...

Alternative to the REST API it appears there is also some sort of peer network, and it mentions Zenoh peers and routers as separate entities?

The docs would benefit from some diagrams and definition of terms
We seem to systematically forget that the “shockwave problem” for FTL or even high fractional C travel is that all the light of the stars in front of you is now gamma radiation due to red shifting, and every particle you encounter behaves like cosmic rays. We will cook ourselves and our ships will turn to dust.

A warp drive that lets your local frame feel like .1c while you are actually traveling at .3c would still be a civilization-altering development.
That makes sense, thanks. So there's no dearth of entrepreneurship in CH, but it's concentrated in SMEs focussed on machinery rather than say Internet startups.
Unionizing is low-effort given global world order.

Let Bezos sell books.

The underlying logistical systems were funded by public research works and investment.

The workers should demand nothing less than the use of these networks for localized normalization of real needs (driving toward biologically sustainable and socially healthy), pushing profiteering hucksters back to alleyway dice games.

Nation state political games are what do not matter anymore. The rise of city-state structures has been predicted for a while now.

Global corps built the bridges between the future city-state hegemony. This, like a better AI, is a long term shift, but it’s in the works. Language will continue to change such that something like sciences unification will win or we’ll blow ourselves up.

I’d be hard pressed to say we’re at humanity endgame. But we’re definitely at a “hinge” moment. Once again it’s a Boolean; rational discourse or burn baby burn? Middle of the road isn’t a long term choice.

The side that fires up the most nihilists wins.
Never take Trump's words at face value - even as president.
But that's collective wisdom for how to do something - not collective wisdom that something can't be done. If the industry had decided that SaaS was impossible, that would be an example of collective wisdom to ignore.
Likewise! No problem, friend
> Because the Iran I know funds Hezbollah

Have you ever considered researching what Hezbollah is and is not? Or its origin and history?

> Are we talking about the same Israel?

It seems we are not! I think searching "occupied territory of Palestine" would shed some light on what we are talking about.
I consider Valve an excellent example of how this does not scale, especially when successful.

First, when there is no overt structure, it is replaced by politics.

Second, you can see the result: the difficulty (one might even say inability) to produce new product internally; instead new games come from acquisition: the incoming team might manage a sequel but after that the team dissolves and can't recruit new members for a second sequel.

I do think the dominant system would benefit from a rethink of the "leader/follower" mentality: everyone is needed (else why are they there) and they do different parts. Cleaning the office is important else the whole thing stops working; deciding go/no go on a new product is also important else the cleaners lose their job.

I am not sure how to fix this. The fact that we conceive of hives of bees as having a "queen" (who is in fact the weakest member of the entire colony with precisely zero decision making ability) shows how deeply entrenched this model is.
Funny enough, in the Navy's released footage of the "tic-tac" [1] this appears to be exactly what it does - it orients it's flat side towards the direction of intended movement then propels forward at (seemingly impossible) speeds. I'm not sure I have an opinion yet about if this tech is real, but it'd be interesting to hear (if these videos are fake) whether or not research went into "optimal" shape for breakthrough propulsion techniques which were then reproduced in a video.

https://www.navair.navy.mil/foia/documents
Switzerland is inherently multi-lingual. They have four official languages and there are regions in Switzerland where each of them are predominantly spoken (except for Romansh I guess).

The German-speaking part just happens to be the largest and also where the capital is located.
Yes and that's exactly my point... Iran building a nuke to counter Israel is not morally equivalent to the US building a nuke to counter the axis powers.
Intent. Understanding of intent is incredibly important when analysing any conflict.
They don't have a public nuclear weapons program because they don't want to suffer the sanctions that would be imposed on them, but they have a long history of interest in and pursuit of such a program. As for Israel, I fail to see how that's anything but whataboutism.
Consider a job in sales. The thank-you-note rule makes more sense. In a customer facing job, the mispronunciation test makes sense. In a bureaucracy kept-waiting makes sense. They all limit false positives just like FizzBuzz.

From an employer perspective, more candidates than jobs is a common problem. Finding reasons to whittle the stack of resumes is an ordinary solution. But seemingly arbitrary measures often ain't. Which-school maintains organizational culture. It gives people something in common outside the work.

None of it is necessarily fair.
Agreed. I love Jason Fried of Basecamp thoughts about the meaning of doing good work while balancing that with a normal life.

https://youtu.be/-YG0kMpzL_A
it seems reasonably sane if you read through it.

It doesn't matter if it seems sane that way. How many seconds does a driver have to read through that all when he's driving near the speed limit? Do we expect drivers to still keep an eye on the road while trying to decipher it? Do we expect every driver to slam on the brakes, and stand still until they've parsed it all?
Is this a joke, US has already used Nuclear weapons offensively twice and has the most destructive offensive nuclear capability in the world.
If anything, I think it likely that the Biden administration will be more pro Israel and pro war.

See eg:
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/11/joe-biden-administration-cabi...
The article has many problems past the generally insulting tone. The most interesting one I saw on a quick scan was the implicit suggestion that anyone would be happy if their emails immediately disappeared after reading, so as to establish forward secrecy. The article doesn't bother to define exactly what is meant by email so it is hard to know exactly what they are proposing as an alternative past the bizarre mention of Signal.
This is also consistent with the old joke that developers count like cavemen: zero, one, many!
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Many of the items on this list seem questionable to me, but perhaps the ideas first nucleated there. From https://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/silicon-valley-achie... :

• Long distance high-voltage transmission

• Amplifying vacuum tube

• First commercial radio broadcast

• Long distance continuous-wave radio transmissions

• Mobile radio systems development

• Klystron tube and microwave

• Radar

• Electronic measuring devices

• Nuclear induction applications

• X-ray microscope

• Traveling-wave tube development

• Silicon crystal-growing

• Programmable hand-held calculators

• Videotape and VCRs

• Development of the junction transmitter

• Linear accelerators for particle physics research and cancer treatment

• Swept-back aircraft wings

• Nuclear magnetic resonance

• Random access computer storage

• Disk drives

• Integrated circuits

• Planar processes

• Lasers

• Semiconductor large-scale integrated memory

• Silicon gate arrays

• Microprocessors

• Light-emitting diodes (LEDs)

• Personal computers

• Open-heart surgery

• Ink-jet printing

• High resolution aerial photography

• Spacecraft heat shields

• Batch processing of micro-machined devices

• Gene-cloning and gene-splicing

• Video games

• Silicon compilers

• Automated semiconductor manufacturing equipment

• Field programmable gate arrays

• Prodigious advances in artificial limbs and sensory aids

• Robotics

• Genetic engineering

• Satellite technology

• 3-D computing
“ Bobrick and Martire show that for the Alcubiere drive you can decrease the amount of energy by seating passengers next to each other instead of behind each other, because the amount of energy required depends on the shape of the bubble. The flatter it is in the direction of travel, the less energy you need”

I don’t buy into the UFO phenomenon hype, but does this mean that a disk shaped “saucer” requires less energy than a craft with an elongated geometry? Wow
"Have health insurance" is not comparable with "is covered by universal health care" without a lot of clarification.

1. It's dependent on employment.

2. It comes with various forms of limits, out of pocket payments, and other caveats.

3. It comes with a profit motive for the insurance company to decline coverage.

etc

So fundamentally, "Am I under the threat of financial ruin if I were to get ill?" is still very much alive even with health insurance.
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To add to the other reasons - the CS compiler optimizes different forms and Racket is currently optimized for it's own compiler. To give a concrete example, taken directly from the racket blog [1]:

> For example, Racket BC makes dormant code relatively
cheap, so Racket libraries generate a lot of code. Future
Racket libraries will likely shift to take advantage of
Racket CS’s cheaper function calls and dramatically cheaper continuations. One day, probably, Racket BC will no longer be a viable alternative to Racket CS for most programs.

[1] https://blog.racket-lang.org/2020/02/racket-on-chez-status.h...
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Breaking the speed of light barrier is a more fundamentally difficult problem than shielding from radiation, and that's an understatement.
Then I guess it won't be long until my local government makes bold claims about creating X's Shenzhen.
Was this the case before WW2 as well? I thought that it was different before then.
The concept I have in my head if I can describe it well enough, is that the speed of Causality is different in water, than it is in a vacuum.

An underwater explosion travels slower in water than it does in a vacuum. That's not just to do with the coefficient of friction of the water. The light from the explosion will take longer to reach you than it would if you and the explosion were in a vacuum.

Which leads me to another thought - does that mean that the matter of water is basically just another form of spacetime, in which the speed of Causality is different from the speed of Causality in spacetime in a vacuum?
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Another option to:

"One of the most effective techniques is one practiced unintentionally by most nerds: simply to be less aware what conventional beliefs are. "

Is to be aware of them, and to be aware that they may not be correct, or they may be correct and there are better and more effective beliefs now (new theories, but they may not be as well proven, yet), and better ways in the future (new theories/frameworks that aren't proven, or can't yet exist due to other lacking ecosystem components like technology or math or thought processes (Like open source back in the day, and then it won).

My response to all this is to consciously be aware of what I know and how old it is, and that there are probably better ways to solve these problems, or simply engineer the problem away (e.g. better password policy vs simply replacing it with SSO with good MFA).
On second run it looks like you're right. They have categories that have no lyrics at all.
The United States is literally the only country ever to have used a nuclear weapon offensively. Nations build nuclear weapons as a defence against invasion and regime change. Democratic or authoritarian, five eyes or 'axis of evil' the motivations are the same. M.A.D doesn't stop applying just because a nation is a theocracy.
I'm on the cusp of 40 and even in my youth (in the UK) videogames were ubiquitous. LoL appearing on ESPN is basically that ubiquity catching up with people no longer watching ESPN.
I think Switzerland is a nice place to live, but the technology choices are not too exciting. Mainly older tech, not much that is cutting edge. Dependable, reliable, professional, but not interesting like San Francisco!
The biggest advantage in Switzerland that I know of is no capital gains tax. So if you sell shares of your company you don't pay a tax on the sale.
In Germany one can start an Ug and convert to a GmbH later. There is bureaucracy though, almost everything has to be done at a notary, in person. And they will expect you to speak German. Have done it as a non-German speaker though (pre Corona). In terms of the difficulties one has running ones own company succesfully, it does not rank high.
But it is easy to complain about I guess.
I wish.

I hold a citizenship in an EU country (Lithuania) and would love to spend some time working in Europe closer to family. Swiss/EU bilateral agreements would allow me to work there easily, but every time I do some research it seems the (lack of) bureaucracy, compensation, and culture of innovation just pales in comparison to US tech hubs.

Here in the US, I can spin up an LLC by clicking a few buttons on one of the dozen or so online incorporation services for under $100. Cheaper if I wanted to do it myself. I can spin up little side-projects left and right. My day job is pretty run-of-the-mill for US tech standards, but pays more than I could ever dream of in anywhere in Europe (even if I take into account the value of better social services).

At this rate, I don't see any sufficiently impactful changes happening in Europe to make it meaningfully competitive, but I really hope it does.
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There's evidence that they typically coordinate closely for these sort of attacks.
Perhaps [1] has something to do with this? "Iran has openly announced all violations of the nuclear deal in advance, which have followed the decision by the U.S. to pull out unilaterally in 2018."
> Israel. Israel has never said that they want to destroy Iran.

Israeli politicians have said enough very questionable statements to fill a book. But everybody sorts of understands them to be targeted at a domestic audience for pandering. Why is Iran supposedly different here?
Yes, the new prevailing wage requirements are being challenged - and also might go away under the Biden Administration - but they apply now and to all new H-1B petitions even renewals.
Also Sophia Antipolis [1] used to be described as "European SV" but mostly in historical + quality of life contexts. The biggest employer being fat and slow corporate-y Amadeus, it's nowhere near to the startup scene of real SV.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Antipolis
Better wages sums up most of what I've heard from people living in Sweden. They must be staying in Sweden rather than moving to Norway for a good reason though.
Well, no.

When people talk of "Moore's law", they really imply that there's a huge class of problems that get solved automatically just because transistors get smaller and smaller.

This hasn't been true for a long while now. Yes, technology get better with time, but we don't get things like 32 cores in a PC just because transistors shrunk; smart people worked really hard to optimize this stuff.

TL;DR - there's no more free lunch in computing anymore.
Is it a bizarre suggestion? The laptop seems pretty wonderful by all accounts. Low power draw, amazing battery life, great OS (I’m still a fan), great mouse, I like the keyboards (blasphemy I know)...

So, if I like all those things, but I can’t build a docker image locally (for now), why not just do something that will potentially improve my development experience in addition to allowing me to use this machine?

I mean, folks should do what they want. But, I’d say calling this recommendation bizarre to be a bit over the top :)
Incompetent in Zoom, super competent in digital security.

Lots of people are incompetent in things that aren’t important. Feynman famously said he was incompetent in administration [0] to stop people from assigning admin work.

Competence isn’t a universal trait where people are perfect in everything or stupid in everything. I don’t get mad at a wizard because he’s incompetent at full plate.

[0]
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I think Biden will be less pro-Likud, but likely more hawkish, yes.

Trump admin's hawkishness varied wildly over time as various people moved in and out.
Do people genuinely don't know that they are buying fakes and the product is far from the real one or people know very well it's not an original, but they buy it because of the price and despite not being original is still good? If it's only either of those cases, then I can't see how cheese and desist type of actions would help the original producers?
I mean if suddenly you cannot find clones on the market, then a person who used to buy clones would fork out more money for the real thing or bought something else within their budget?
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Hah! I see, I missed the point
So much damage to the world economy and human suffering for 70 years, because a narrow interest group benefit from these crimes.
You can submit the application 90 days before your 5th year anniversary as a permanent resident and unless you have an issue - extended time outside the US while a permanent resident or a criminal record - it's a really easy application that doesn't require the assistance of an attorney.
I read it as misinformation--i.e., the legal onus is on Biden to prove that his 80M votes weren't fraudulent; not that Trump would use the military to prevent Biden from taking office. In fact, I had to re-read it several times to even determine what coup-like meaning you were suggesting it contained.
Hello Peter, thanks for doing this.

I'd like to know your opinion about acquiring an EB-1 visa being an IT worker. How difficult do you think it is ?.

I'd like to try to do what Julian Shapiro did: https://www.tefter.io/bookmarks/48931/readable.

Also, I'm in H1B-1. Could it be dangerous for me to try this?
Sure Germany would have said they were the good guys. The difference is in what they did: seek out to exterminate tens of millions of Slavs, Jews, and other groups they considered inferior.

I get that it's important to see history from multiple points of view, but this idea that "Both sides thought what they were doing was right and there is always a way to justify the means" is just unabashed moral relativism.
There are certain classes of creative work that especially turn this essay on its head: writing a textbook, typesetting a page, creating a film as an homage to a particular time period or genre. To do these things exceptionally well means noticing and meticulously following conventions that nobody realized existed before you did.
As a founder, there is nothing I hate more than other founders expecting their employees to work 996 for them. It shows they don’t respect their employees time and abuse it for their will. Unfortunately, this seems common in the startup world. I also think that’s why VCs love young founders as well.
People are complex. For example, Carmack is a high level Judoka. Half the people in my BJJ classes work as programmers, and would be considered ‘nerds’.
According to docs https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/multi-arch/ Docker for Mac can run ARM images on an Intel mac via QEMU already

so it doesn't seem a huge leap to imagine the reverse being possible before too long

(I kind of hoped it already was, but I guess the existence of blog posts like this and the one from Docker here https://www.docker.com/blog/apple-silicon-m1-chips-and-docke... indicates there's work to be done on the Docker for Mac app itself to get it working nicely)
Got to love the stats on the asker. 360 Points and 7 badges, all for asking how to continue an abusive relations. Yay for gamification
> That has _nothing_ to do with this youtuber.

In your view. Not in mine.

> trying to educate people on making as authentic a cheese as possible

That's the problem. It's never going to be authentic. These kind of cheeses are not just about a recipe; they're also about the ingredients. I don't recall the specific details for grana padano, but to give you an example, the "prosciutto di Parma" is made from pigs who eat a specific type of food that derives from a specific process involving a specific breed of cows (in the nearby area), etc.

You can't simply substitute the ingredient and think that it's going to be the same. It's not. And yet, you think it's "authentic".
Well yeah, shortly after the Bush administration supported a coup in the Palestinian National Authority, it caused conflict.

I don't think you can pin that entirely on the transition.
Some of my biggest regrets are doing what I thought was best when I should have done what everyone else was doing. This ranges from from not buying an overpriced house 20 years ago, to not partying at college, to following some interesting but unpopular technology. Its not all bad doing things your own way but you have to be careful about straying too much.
So is it expected that you do this intermittent fasting until you reverse T2 diabetes? If so - how long? Six months, 1 year, more or less? Or does this depend on individual - how long it takes her/him to reverse T2 diabetes? Or is this a lifestyle change that you incorporate until EOL?
It is iterative too, though: it iterates through an input sequence.

> Whatever categories you assign them in, I was more trying to show the differences

Fair enough. I take your overall point, I just don't think that not being a classic for-loop matters so much in practice, certainly not "most of the time" anyway.