skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my friends moved back from the Bay Area to Switzerland with his family. While he's happy that he's close to his family again, there's no question that he went from a place where engineers are at the top of the food chain to one where it's all about bankers and finance.

And the salary reflects that.
You have the timeline wrong. For example this is from August 2017:

“ Iran says military sites are off-limits for nuclear inspections despite U.S. pressure”

https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-iran-nuclear-201708...

American withdrew from the deal in May 2018 because Iran would not allow independent auditors to inspect all known or suspected sites.

See also this from 2015:

“The Iranian Nuclear-Inspection Charade
Iran is allowed ample time, up to 24 days, to hide or destroy evidence before inspectors are given access.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-iranian-nuclear-inspection-...

There were other instances going back to 2005.
L4 uses a similar model, and the last ~20 years of research around L4 has mostly focused on improving IPC performance and security. The core abstraction is a mechanism to control message passing between apps via routing through light weight kernel invocations (which is indeed practically the only thing the kernel does, it being a microkernel architecture).

Memory access is enforced, although not technically via the kernel. Rather at boot time the kernel owns all memory, then during init it slices off all the memory it doesn't need for itself and passes it to a user space memory service, and thereafter all memory requests get routed through that process. L4 uses a security model where permissions (including resource access) and their derivatives can be passed from one process to another. Using that system the memory manager process can slice off chunks of its memory and delegate access to those chunks to other processes.
> they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

Hey, the Swiss evolved the cuckoo clock into a wristwatch... nope, even this innovation was by two Polish and Czech immigrants.
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> company now making most of its money from services.

Nope, they still are a hardware company. 22% from services in the latest quarter .[0] It’s gaining, but still far away from majority services.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/382260/segments-share-re...
Ever since I read a study about ghrelin production changes in response to tasted, but not swallowed fat, I've stayed away from artificial sweeteners.

It doesn't seem like a good idea to mess with our feedback mechanisms.
I'm running docker-machine on an M1 mac right now (via rosetta), installed via homebrew.
I really do dislike your promotion video. Way too fast & flashy. Too many cuts taking me out of it.
Speaking of tech companies, Chatroulette (3m monthly users) is located in Zug, Switzerland and we are hiring. I am the founder. Sorry for spam.
That's remarkable. The S&P 500 P/E is over 36, which means that prices are far out of keeping with earnings. It would take 36 years for these stocks to pay out their profits as dividends to make up the price of the stock itself, like paying 2% interest. The P/E is not a perfect metric, but a number that big often presages a crash.

I know that the pandemic is throwing things out of whack; companies with sound businesses will all be having a had year at once. And TFA suggests that people believe the Fed will prop up stocks indefinitely. Still, I'd expect more people to be anticipating a crash and shorting the S&P.
The main thing I would have thought it has in common is being an incredibly expensive place to live.

> In 2019 Switzerland attracted $ 445 million of investments

That's, what, half a startup by SV standards?
If there is no evidence, what are they being pressured to "kneel" to?
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Not really my space so all I have to offer is a super minor nitpick. On iPhone the hamburger doesn’t do anything when I click on it in landscape or portrait. Best of luck with your project!
Apple security chief maintains innocence after bribery charges
A couple issues with your interpretation:

* Israel isn't subject to Iranian jurisdiction, so it can't be "illegal", at least not meaningfully. In other words, if we don't account for jurisdiction then any international conflict could be considered "terrorism", which doesn't pass a common sense test.

* The Oxford definition stipulates "and intimidation", not "or intimidation". There's no indication that the aggressor's intent was to intimidate (rather, if they wanted to intimidate, they would have attacked the target's family or otherwise not been so surgical).
If I remember right he said in a later interview that he regretted the alarmism in the first series. I believe it was an interview/presentation where he was demoing his idea of a global knowledge web, but do not recall where I watched it.
Isn’t the only reason the speed of causality is the speed of light because light is the fastest thing? And if you were able to go faster than it, that new speed would be the speed of causality?
Personal view here, articles like this talking about emotions etc. are a UI guy trying to justify themselves by suggesting there is some greater depth.

I don't really do much by way of UIs but one thing I am certain of is users use user interfaces to get a job done and little else. In terms of emotions, the only relevant one is that caused by pissing the user off. Any claims of the warm and cuddlies are misplaced, users don't care.
In a choice between a bad deal for the founder and insolvency, which would you choose as a founder?
.. including black employees?
Is it legal to hire someone in the US from a foreign country because the hiring manager is not fluent in English and needs someone with fluency in a foreign tongue, when other qualified candidates DO speak English? I lost an engineering job with a fortune 500 company once, for a job in California because I believe I did not speak Russian.
This is an update on the story from 3 days ago with 660+ upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25190668

It seems very notable that Apple investigated internally and, rather than firing him, is standing by him.

It seems extremely unlikely they'd do that if they thought the case had any merit.
Yeah you better kneel whitey or you're definitely a racist.
Exactly what I came to post. This is an important model for numbers.

Traditionally one distinguishes between rational, algebraic, and transcendental numbers; e is transcendental. This tree is related to continued fraction expansions. Any number is a limit of a path in this tree, and one can talk about the pattern in the path from a CS automata theory point of view. Now e comes out one of the easier limits.
That's just for images. There could still be exploits in the HTML itself executing locally.
> "Iran is building an offensive nuclear weapon. In the U.S. our nuclear arsenal is a defensive weapon"

You can argue that Iran is not trustworthy, or that it's proliferation, but the way you put it, it's pure hypocracy.
> I wish in the past I had tried more things 'cause now I know that being in trouble is a fake idea

http://achewood.com/?date=01272005
Thanks for the feedback! I’ll clean that up
As a blind-leading-the-blind layman answer, if you shove a car forwards it will move slowly (ignore air/tyre resistance and such).

The same strength shove hardly moves an artic truck, it wobbles a Ford F-150, it pushes a sedan, it rolls a small sports car, without air resistance and axel friction, it’s only the mass which resists your shoving and determines the speed. and you can imagine waving a magic wand over the car to lower its mass then the same shove pushes it faster and faster. At the mass of a ball bearing the car pings away. Like a tennis racket swing can’t move a car but can move a tennis ball at 100mph.

Until there is no mass left, at that point any shove and it skitters away enormously fast. As mass drops the shove pushes it faster. As mass goes to zero, it goes “infinitely” fast.

There isn’t any mass left to remove, so the only way you can speed it up from here is to push harder instead... but now as soon as you touch it at all, at any pressure, it skitters away and you aren’t touching it anymore so you can’t push - damnit. The first inkling whisker of a skin cell touching the car and it’s off, the time it takes to “wind up” your shove power is too slow, the massless car is 300,000m away in a thousandth of a second. You can’t keep your hand on it, let alone go faster than it to provide more pushing force!

In fact the only way you can move your hand fast enough to keep up with it, so you can keep touching it long enough to give it more push, is if your hand also has no mass. And now your massless hand can’t be pushed by your real muscles for the same reason, once stuff has no mass you can’t get a grip on it. So pushing harder is out.

Maybe you can push it faster in a non-mechanical way like electromagnetically? Ok, you send some magnetic waves after it. Photons. They have no mass, so they travel at the same speed as well. They can never catch the car to push it. Like a game of tag where you run behind someone waving your arm at them but never quite able to touch them, you sure can’t push them harder if you can’t ever quite touch them. Nothing can catch up to provide more push.

So it can’t go faster than this “infinite” speed.

> How do we know that some immutable property of space/time causes light to travel at the speed it does rather than the other way around where some immutable property of light causes it to be incapable of traveling any faster

Because the speed isn’t how fast light goes, it’s how fast spacetime lets massless things go through it and light happens to be a massless thing. If mass is what resists movement, and you take all of it away, there isn’t any way to go faster because you can’t take more mass away than all of it.

(Wish I’d written this with whacking tennis racket on a car, bowling ball, baseball, ball bearing...) seems easier to imagine.
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And Dave decided to end the week with a bang; here's Docker Desktop running on an M1 (with lots of Duct tape); https://twitter.com/mugofsoup/status/1332382741892124675?s=2...
speed is just dependent upon the speed of the remote docker instance... and latency...

for me - perf is great.
I've read books upon books on Israeli history, general middle East history, the Iran-Iraq conflict etc since I got interested back in 1994, so I'm probably more aware of many of the nuances than many others.

I feel extremely sorry for the poor Palestinian people but I place the blame mostly where I think it fairly and squarely belongs: on the thoroughly botched UN.

Also note that just because media keep repeating the Palestinian myth doesn't mean it is true. The has never been a Palestinian country before 1948 when Israel was created.

It was always part of Syria, Iraq, Egypt or something else.
"Ditto for essayists. An essay that told people things they already knew would be boring. You have to tell them something new."

How come I know exactly where this essay is going? It is yet another "start-up founders are genetically, intellectually, and emotionally superior; the rest of the muggles are so envious."

Does Paul think everyone except startup founders works on an assembly line?

"You see this especially among political extremists. They think themselves nonconformists, but actually they're niche conformists. Their opinions may be different from the average person's, but they are often more influenced by their peers' opinions than the average person's are."

Oooh. So close.

Anyway, don't pop your shoulder out while you're patting yourself on the back.
Facebook's Libra may launch January 2021, with US dollars only – what this means
> longer term mortgages

These exist because prices have jumped up so much relative to income, so it's a side effect of speculation really.

> Another way of putting it, is that real productivity is way down, and the real economy is in deflation - stuff is getting cheaper, and the opportunities to create value are fewer and far between, the only places left are the stock market and housing etc..

That worries me.

I'd rather prefer growth to come from new IP than magic assets that can never go down.
> Why wasn't that treated as an emergency?

Companies can be incredibly callous about retention issues, especially if fixing them involves noticing which managers are responsible for behaving badly towards their staff.
Perhaps we could address offshoring by putting tariffs on countries with minimum wages lower than those in the US.
Fair enough but I did all the things you regret and I am very very happy I did them. Bought a house in 2009 when everyone said it was stupid because of the great recession, avoided partying, drinking or doing any kind of drugs, or "having fun" all throughout high school and university, and instead of using all the newest and greatest popular technologies I made my own libraries.

That house is now worth 3 times more today than when I bought it, almost all popular technologies from 10 years ago are dead and unmaintained today whereas the technology I made for myself forms the basis of my software company, and frankly I don't know many people in their 30s who still continue to maintain the same kind of friendship with their party buddies.

All this to say that it's irrelevant whether you do things everyone else does or do things no one else does. It's just a very poor way of reasoning about anything in life.
Oopsie, this CSS stuff. Fixing right up.
Exactly. It's an amazing place to live, has good tech scene, but it's not Silicon Valley. Also the economic focus is completely different - they focus on small enterprises and medium sized businesses which form a significantly more resilient economy (there's a reason why Switzerland did rather well in this pandemic).

Asking why the Swiss don't invest in same industries like Californians do would be like asking Morrocans why they don't fund an Alpine ski jumping team.

It's a fundamentally different focus - is that so hard to understand to people living in the Valley? That not all economies see the value in javascript webpages?
Even that is only somewhat true for London and Munich
Makes more sense, thanks!
Neither the B-1 nor the O-1 are subject to the 2-year home residence requirement so one of these might work. You also might want to kick off the waiver process at some point.
> it seems that most low wage earners survive by living in nearby French towns and commuting in to work

My interviews with Swiss companies when discussing the employment form usually turn to "you can live in France and commute daily to Switzerland". Yeah, thanks no thanks.
That the speed of light is invariant in a vacuum is a result of Einstein's theory of special relativity[0,1] and Maxwell's field equations[2]. These may be described generally with language like "speed of light" but they were described specifically and tested using math and science. And at this point, these are probably the most thoroughly tested and proven principles in science, since they underpin everything from cosmology to quantum mechanics to chemistry (and by extension biology) and a lot of our modern technology such as satellites (which have to take special relativity into account) and microchip design, for which quantum effects are relevant.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light

[2]https://web.pa.msu.edu/courses/2000fall/phy232/lectures/emwa...
It's worse for Tor users. Even if I solve all puzzles carefully and correctly, Google still fails me, gives me another round of new endless CAPTCHAs, and fails me again, another round, and finally grants access if it wants to. It takes literally at least 5 minutes to pass it, 10-20 minutes is possible. And even if you pass Google, there are still two failure modes: (1) The website may still think you fail the CAPTCHA even when Google said you pass, seems like a bug or an expiration timer, then you'll have to solve another three rounds of nightmarish CAPTCHAs. (2) Google may ultimately fail you and also disqualify you from solving any CAPTCHAs because of "suspicious traffic from your network", and this denial is often only triggered AFTER you've already solved all the CAPTCHAs. I have no problem if Google blocks Tor completely, but now Google is effectively playing a bait-and-switch game on the users, I'd call it a form of human right abuse.

Solving Google reCAPTCHA via Tor is a prefect game for masochists like myself... Well, to be honest, the only reason I'm doing it, is to get true pseudonymous online accounts.
The study found the difference was due to to labeling - flavour was controlled for.
Israel spies stole the evidence from Iran and presented it to the world.

In one of those presentations Netanyahu specifically called out Fakhrizadeh saying, “Remember that name.”
That the breakdown of civilization is possible is clear from the Bronze Age Collapse, the Collapse of the Roman Empire, The Incas, and pretty much all civilizations that flourished in the past. There are many attempts to study this and many different takes on it, for example Tainter's Collapse of Complex Societies.

I'm not sure that this should be terrifying, civilizations come and go, it's a question of when rather than if, unless you think our civilization is unique among all the others. But I don't think people should stay awake, worrying about civilizational collapse. Our own individual life is much more fragile, so maybe worry about getting enough exercise instead.

But this point doesn't seem very profound or interesting to me, nor do I believe it is Burke's central thesis, which I really believe is about the connections between different technological advances. That is, how does technological process happen, and specifically, how did it happen in the West? History of technology is fascinating to me.

I love this show, it's really a masterwork and a great learning program for young students as well as entertainment for us geezers.
So complaining that they don’t have the right mount point for a light when one doesn’t need to be mounted shows that the product either isn’t a good fit for you, or that you are grasping at straws.

I think it is unlikely that a carefully designed bike like this missed something simple like that. Much more likely you are kissing something.
What the hell? US withdrew from agreement, took out enriched uranium, brought back and amplified sanctions, killed the head of the military... What are Iranian leaders supposed to do!
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Maybe a normal job that doesn't exhaust you mentally and then a hobby where you can go all in with being unconventional.
I have a few points I roughly use:

1. What is the most simple representation of the idea? What in the MVP (minimal viable product)? How can you reduce this to it's simplest form?

2. What sub-problems or sub-ideas need to be tackled in order to realize this larger project? Try to figure out which ones must be solved first and which ones can be solved independently.

3. Try to find existing solutions to your abstractions - there's a good chance you're not the first to ask these questions. If there isn't something existing, repeat from step 1.

A ridiculously important part to solving these smaller tasks is to figure out how they can be tested. You don't want to get to the end and figure out some part doesn't work as it needs to.
Start with defining Vision, Goals, Objectives

Also you need a wall onto which you can cast an Ontology with Nodes and Edges. Then deep dive research into relevant topics while simultaneously refining your VGO. Every foray into a topic should yield additional nodes and edges to your Ontology.

Continuously check and adjust. Refactor and pivot when new knowledge and data points in a new direction.
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Maybe you're not aware of the back story. Coinbase was one of the few large companies that did not go all woke over the George Floyd incident.

The identity politics activists in the company took offence to this and demanded management make a statement. When management refused to bend the knee the activists made allegations of racism and took them to the nytimes.
Sad state of affairs that people need to be thought how to think for themselves. It's unnatural and only a product of the current educational systems. Greek philosophers were able to do a lot of great work over 2 thousand years ago.
This is exactly what these workers are doing. They're unhappy with their contracts, so they're trying to negotiate better terms.

Normally, you negotiate your contract because your company wants you, and finding someone else that would agree to the contract is a non-trivial amount of effort, so they'll hear you out. In these people's cases, all they'd hear is "lol, no" if they tried to negotiate individually, because they'd have virtually no power. As a result they're trying to find leverage in numbers: We want the freedom to negotiate all our contracts to our advantage, otherwise we're striking.

Allow me to put things differently: There is no law that says that Amazon must accept whatever terms are put forth by these unions. Amazon can, if they wish, outright refuse their terms and tell them that the contract is as-is and will not be altered.

While I'm not saying this is your case, I am puzzled at people who argue against unions with your last line, because it really does cut both ways. "If you are unhappy with a contract, don't sign it". Well, a union is a form of negotiating said contract, and to the companies being proposed those terms: "If you are unhappy with the terms, don't sign it". Makes sense, right?
From tfa:

> But some American officials argued that the death of Mr. Fakhrizadeh, the latest in a string of such mysterious killings of Iran’s top nuclear scientists, would send a chilling message to the country’s other top scientists working on that program: If we can get him, we can get you, too.
To be clear, where exactly are you in the process?
And can you demonstrate that the intent of Iranian leaders was to commit mass suicide?
It's said by Orson Welles' character in "The Third Man" (1949). Famous quote, allegedly ad-libbed: https://youtu.be/I8RW3K3hhWU
The commute of most of those workers is usually less than half of what most rockstars of Sillicon Valley need to endure, not to mention that the public transport extends to border towns in France and is significantly better than the one in SV. Geneva lies directly on the border so those towns are way closer to most workplaces than Oakland is to San Francisco.

The issue with Geneva is that there's no more physical space to build - but living in France with Swiss Geneva canton minimum wage will boost your quality of live way beyond most San Francisco dwellers.
You regard innovation as a zero sum game?

(Paul specifically says that to be successful, a founder has to be right and everyone else wrong.)
IMO trade-offs in a lot of cases. There is rarely a decision that's better, except when you've lived through it once, but that doesn't count, as none of us have do-overs.
> Iran funds Hezbollah that operates next to Israel

Both Israel and the United States extensively fund political parties around the world, some of which have military wings.

> Israel is not known to operate any milits in or around Iran,

There is a long history of Israeli-funded paramilitaries in the region, I know someone who worked in one. They also funded militias in Syria.

> they are not suspected of shipping rockets to Irans neighbors

The US does that for them.

> hey are not known to talk enthusiastically about flattening Iran or killing its inhabitants.

Hamas offered Israel a ceasefire and Netanyahu responded by going on camera and ripping up the offer.
UIs are not hard! They tale some skills and a certain personality type, which most of us are or can become, but the bottom line is to test out various ideas and listen to your users. Over 50% of it is simply that.

UIs are NOT hard!