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In semiconductors Sweden was never more important than between 6th to 15th position in Europe.

The only well-known company that might have made semiconductors was ASEA, which might have made some thyristors before disappearing 33 years ago, after the fusion with Brown Boveri.

Now ABB has the headquarters in Switzerland. It has various sites in Sweden, but so have some US companies, without any of them being considered as Swedish.

Even the Eastern Block countries, during the Soviet hegemony, produced more diverse semiconductor devices than ever done in Sweden.

The most technically advanced countries in semiconductors in Europe, before the global fashion of mergers, acquisitions and spin-offs that obliterated most traditional semiconductor companies starting around 1999, were (in no particular order):

Netherlands (Philips)
Germany (Siemens)
France (Thomson CSF)
Italy (SGS-ATES)
UK (Plessey and a few others)

Relics of the former European semiconductor companies can be found now mostly in Infineon, NXP and ST, but all these present companies are the results of long chains of mergers and acquisitions of various companies spread all over the world, so it is difficult to define them as belonging to Europe, US or to any other specific country or group of countries.
> you don't want workers in IT, look at the USA, other than silicon valey (1 state), they all hire from India, and the salary from other states are comparable to what you find elsewhere in the world, including China

None of this is even close to true.

What are you smoking that leads you to believe non-Silicon Valley US IT salaries are comparable to Chinese ones?
We're small with no funding. Our competitors have $100Ms of VC funding. How do we even get network effects and brand loyalty?
I disagree, Redhat is not going anywhere anytime soon. FOSS is a funny thing because people seem to get more upset about things they were handed for free than things they pay for. Why should your entire *aaS stack be composed of free software of which you make money off of? How much money did anyone reading this donate to CentOS when they were separate from Redhat? Redhat bought the CentOS team because their own community refused to support their work. Think about that...you get what you give. People are really just upset they will no longer get free Redhat (which is what CentOS is).
- Not everybody from Europe wants to go to North America

- US specifically starts to feel weird for non US citizens

- There are immigration laws
Actual source: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/member-st...

“
Press release7 December 2020

Member States join forces for a European initiative on processors and semiconductor technologies
”

Appreciate your cynicism but maybe Brexit along with competition from China, the Far East and the United States will focus European minds. Let's not forget the many EU-wide research and development initiatives that are successful. I can provide a list if you so wish.
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They were acquired by Red Hat in 2014 or so.
Evidently that is not happening, whatever the intent.
hey, i remember csvplot. scatter is definitely coming at some point in the next few months. i have an old bitrotted prototype branch hanging around that'll have to be dusted off.

> I remember you and uPlot from an earlier post :) I'm happy to see you're continuing to improve it!

a lot has happened since then. i'm now at Grafana, where uPlot will power many core visualizations in upcoming releases :)
The main reason I use it for work is that software we buy (and is crucial to our business) tends to be only or best supported on CentOS/RHEL. The reason I chose CentOS over RHEL is that we don't have a large number of servers, so I'm guessing I would get fairly worthless support from RH even if I paid for it.
What about companies like mine, that run their own servers, to do stuff that is a legal requirement, but don't have money to pay RHEL?
Nope, IBM, Azul, Amazon, Red-Hat, Alibaba, Twitter, Microsoft also seat at the Java table.

Should I also start listing the dark sides of each company that seats at ISO C and ISO C++ table?

Python working groups also need money from those corporations, and Python is yet to provide the performance levels of Java, so much for free beer development.
What we get out of cameras is not a true rendition of the view, but rather a much processed image not to be trusted.
AFAICR, they're required to put a minimum two week period between the emergency use authorization request and the meeting.
Good paper indeed. And here's a nice blog post with nice visualizations for MCMC and Hamiltonian MC.

https://arogozhnikov.github.io/2016/12/19/markov_chain_monte...
Which firewalls let you block DNS over HTTPS? (Without resorting to blocking random IP addresses from some list that constantly needs updating.)
Doesn't seem like that's the case for Airbus, ESA or CERN for instance. I agree that there's a lot of bureaucracy in Europe but still stuff gets done from time to time!
How many of those were put together by governments?

(Airbus has pretty heavy government involved, to be fair.)
Matt Stoller has published dozens of whiny posts about supposed monopolies. Yet, he has yet to once mention the "consumer welfare standard" [1] because it would blow the thesis apart in every single post.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amattstoller.substack....
Two thoughts on this:

1. There are definitely times when I just want to post something I found interesting to Twitter and not, at that time, get sucked into other tweets

2. It also depends on what you think Twitter is. Wikipedia describes Twitter as a "microblogging platform" and "social network". I think this app looks good for the microblogging aspect of Twitter.
Sounds like you're comparing revenue with market cap, which doesn't make much sense.

Apple's recent annual revenue was ~275B.
Any Ubuntu LTS version is solid.

Switch to the LTS kernel as well if you can, i.e. if your hardware does not need the HWE (Hardware Enablement) versions. The HWE kernels are mostly for newish laptops anyway and proper server hardware shouldn't need it.
One of the main use cases for CentOS is situations where you need to run proprietary third-party software that the vendor only supports on RHEL, which is unfortunately common in the enterprise space. CentOS is (well... was) intended to be a fully binary-compatible rebuild of RHEL (bugs and all), which provides a way of running this proprietary software without also needing to pay for and maintain licenses for the host OS.
I assure you that there are many, if not the vast majority of tech workers in europe who think european politics is a joke. To pretend otherwise is laughable.

That you point at ARM is a good sign that you don't know what you are talking about.
ESA/Ariane for instance, which works pretty well
It is not just you. It’s shocking.
Here is a live performance. Interesting to see how it is being sung.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL9Rjn7EiRw
Why on earth a productive company would move to Europe, where your revenues are automatically slashed by 50% in taxes, and you are constantly exposed to whimsical unfettered politicians..

They could start here. Why Facebook, Google, Amazon don't open massive headquarters in Paris, Madrid, Rome or Berlin, and they rather stick to UK and Switzerland?

Also software managers won't move to Europe for the same reasons. European politicians have the upper hand and the last word in negotiations.
I worked on a server rendered project in the 00s. There was a screen that took 7 minutes to render for about 100 list items.

You can make anything slow if you really try.
Do you mean strictly a collaboration between governments, or just multinational European stuff in general?
What we need are top level JIT, AOT and GC implementations, anything else is just going backwards.

The people capable of achieving that, naturally have bills to pay.
a. The accounts I see are a bit more cautious in qualifying with "could". b. This would be something under a 2% fraudulent claim rate. c. The FEE seems likely to have a bias in such reporting.
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You're being disingenuous. There are different ways of measuring value, so when someone says "yes" you pounce on that even though that particular equivalency/measurement isn't the whole story when it comes to how we organize society.
So, what would a new bleeding edge modern architecture and instruction set look like if one could start from scratch? I assume general computing so cell phones and servers are the target.
Content-Type header.
Yes but if you can find a way to exploit it you can file it as a security issue and get Microsoft to fix it or even pay you!
The text is copied from when the Antergos distro told their users they would still get updates.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190808223051/https://antergos....
Americans who are able to get jobs in the tech industry do not have to worry about expensive healthcare, at all.

The US is very much a tale of two countries - but people here making a lot of money have a great quality of life.
How is TSMC being taken over by China?
Ah. Like I said, I'll read the book and see.

But if you follow Gates link, he writes a whole blog post titled "We need more Rogers: David Epstein’s Range explains the greatness of Roger Federer and other generalists," so I assumed he was featured a bit more prominently.

Did you follow that link and read Gates post before moaning about my comment? Probably not.
What collaborations has the EU ever created for us? Apart from Airbus, CERN, ITER, ESA, a single market and a stack of successful multinational companies?
I agree completely. Bitbucket is OK, but everything else is so painful, and the Bitbucket alternatives are better than it anyways.
Amusingly, one of the books in his list (Range) is precisely about this.

Reading more about areas outside of your own domain of expertise can only be a good thing as it introduces you to thoughts and concepts you otherwise wouldn't know about.

Frankly, more people in your field should read more broadly, particularly in the humanities.
Erm, the entire university system in Europe is built on collaboration between countries.

ESA is a thing. ITER is a thing. But mainly all those small international projects that simply would be too niche or small for a single country or market. Im talking about stuff like wave power startup, on land fishfarms, salvage operations in the baltic, cofinancing of highways (or powerlines so that green energy may find its way across the union), et cetera..
I think one of the main reasons it's still used is that the enormously popular cPanel/WHM requires CentOS or RHEL. It's a line of software that does system admin for you, which takes care of a lot of the PITA parts of CentOS.

Not that I recommend CentOS, I prefer Ubuntu, but I think that explains the main appeal, at least among web hosting services.
A lot of the Manhattan Project's spending was to scale the processes to industrial level in order to produce what was necessary to build bombs.

The situation is quite different with nuclear fusion.
Learn how to write SaaS application with Django and React from scratch
But does this person own all of the intellectual property?
Stick to government jobs, you will do well.
As a simple example of this, let us imagine for a minute that Amazon and Google go to war. Google drops all search results that point to Amazon products or products in the Amazon marketplace and direct those searches to competitors and competing marketplaces. Google also changes Chrome so that entries into the url bar that are not explicitly for amazon domains do not match or return any amazon domain or product.

Since "Google is not a monopoly" I am sure no one would have a problem with this behavior... :)
Slyde is to me the most promissing startup for a new social media platform.
Is there a way to securely pre-fetch data from the db? If I have a valid cookie why is my account snapshot not getting fetched when I hit Citibank.com?

If I mark "remember my username", and I hit citibank.com, can't the banking back end start fetching my account snapshot when my browser hits / and then send over that data as soon as I authenticate?

I'm out of the loop so maybe this is already done or too complicated?
If everyone used it, no one would read it, so I’m all for it, in that context.
What else did the police do with your DNA? Was it logged forever in a government database? Can they use what they harvested for other things?

I’d be tempted to volunteer myself but I’d have to read the fine print. In this day and age my DNA is probably the only private thing I have left.
It's more complicated than that.

curl http | bash - you're basically throwing caution to the wind as everyone between you and the server can rewrite the request, meaning a fairly large number of people who serve you something malicious.

curl https | bash - you're putting your trust in the server, and the PKI / CA infrastructure. A small amount of people can hurt you. If we park the PKI argument, only the owner of the server can attack you. The problem here is, the server owner can specifically detect your behaviour, and take advantage of your trust.

language specific - _generally_ you're pulling a hash from a repository that's public and many people can and do audit. You can't be spot served a slightly different, malicious version of a file, without it first being published for others to see. This means the vendor risks their reputation with this kind of attack, and you're likely to find out about it at some point down the line.

Obviously reality is slightly more complicated, but if your language package manager is relatively modern, pulls and checks via hash, and offers up a .lock file functionality, then it's quite a bit different from a curl http(s) | bash.
Typefully cuts a long text into several tweets. Apps like https://threadreaderapp.com/ or https://the.rip/ unroll these stories again.

What's wrong with this network where sharing content requires to use such tools both for authors and readers? ;-)
There are many EU-based multi-nationals, nobody is arguing that. OP is talking about the efficacy of EU-initiatives to create specific industries within the EU - the track record of those isn't so great and are usually PR stunts.
It’s a real pain how slow it is. I’ve resorted to adding quick links to my bookmark bar for GCP products that I use often to get around the slowness.
FTR, FDA has approved a product (not a mRNA vaccine) using lipid nanoparticles in 2018.

mRNA vaccines had also (limited) human testing before these trials in the past years (mostly Phase 1).
Correction: you can many anything slow if you don't try.
I doubt Red Hat spent any money at all on acquiring CentOS. The OS was literally just Red Hat Enterprise Linux with the logos removed and without the subscription fee. RH probably just promised to help maintain it and provide infrastructure.

The folks who created CentOS didn't do it as a business. It was created because they wanted it to exist.
"if someone can suffer the US' shitty conditions, "

So crap, that people around the world are fighting to get in, what for those jobs that pay 2-3x, and real exciting projects to work on, and for the most part people that actually don't care about your funny accent.

It's unwise to discount one of the US's fundamental, perennial and systematic advantages as somehow a drawback.

Like it or not - the US has been sucking in global talent since it's inception.
He mentions it all the time. The index to his book has 11 references to the "consumer rights movement". A central premise of his book is that the "Watergate babies" shifted antitrust law from a focus on democratic control of corporate power to so-called "consumer rights".
Debian is really unique in that does not totally rely on a single corporation's largess like Fedora (Red Hat), CentOS (Red Hat), or OpenSUSE (SUSE). Being a worldwide, community-run project, it has multiple stakeholders and no single point of failure.
Happy to hear that. I looked up the scatter plot feature on Github Issues and I was wondering why there was links from Grafana issues in there. Now I know!
If we're talking about saving bandwidth, JS can be useful, although JS bundles are usually heavier than their HTML and CSS counterparts.

I have yet to see an example where rewriting the DOM would end up being lighter on devices with lower-end CPUs and RAM than doing a full page refresh. Browsers already cache static assets, generally a page refresh only takes a second or two (on reasonable connections)
> what stops them. from just going to US/Canada?
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Don't be so quick to assume that people want to move to and live in US/Canada.
Because UI snappiness is not the only thing that matters.

One example: Jira integrates with _everything_. It really matters that you can create tickets from Slack, send email to the management when epics progress, see Github pull requests linked to tickets, and so on.
I ended up moving off the 5X because it didn't have enough memory to keep a firefox page loaded when switching between apps. Have a Moto X4 now which works pretty well.
More demand for qualified labour will tend to increase the salary of people offering these skills. Salaries are not written in stone and evolve depending on market conditions.
I'm sad to agree. Having watched my own family, and my older parents, it would absolutely be better for them if everything worked that way.

They don't understand the concept of files as separate from applications. They just don't. They understand the concept of sharing -- that seems to be intuitive enough -- but not of files as objects in themselves.

A system which works this way would, of course, be completely rage-inducing to myself.
Any source of this info?
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User to Dev: the memory usage is excessive. Dev with 256 GB RAM to User: WFM

I would not be surprised if a lot of these problems could be traced back to developers having above-average network connections and super beefy computers. Combine that with fresh or minimal installs while testing the software, without lots of data that accumulated over month or years of use and in consequence they experience their products as super snappy.

Summary: they maybe never experience their products as a normal user would.
Finland knows a thing or two, even if not present in the headline.
I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for IBM to "nudge" (force?) RedHat to roll out a new distro named Red Hat Universal Blue Linux or RHUB Linux...Just so that i can use loads of awful Dad jokes related to linux and Rube Goldberg devices. (Disclaimer: I love me some linux tons, but love me some Dad jokes even more.)
Slow servers are a thing too you know.
Valora – An open source alternative to Facebook's and Libra's Novi wallet
'REAMDE' by Neil Stephenson. It's about a fictional MMORPG and really fun.
>Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, IBM

IBM and Google both came almost directly from government money. Amazon, Microsoft and Netflix are arguably actual startups.
Hey Arash really great seeing you pop up on HN! We met a few times at MicroConfs and I’ve been periodically keeping an eye on your app.

Location sharing not particularly useful for me on a day-to-day basis, but I love it for family/group travel and outings.

As a consumer, I would pay for it but my sporadic usage probably has me looking at a low price point. And our company is so small we don’t have a use-case for it there. However I can think of a slew of businesses that would find it worthwhile.

Keep up the great work! Love your vision as a company and looking forward to seeing what else you have in store.

- Matt (from UserKit)
In most places the cost of living is pretty low compared to the US, so even the admittedly lower engineer salaries in Europe can give you a very comfortable lifestyle.

Eg. in France if you make 60-80k and live anywhere other than Paris you're doing great.

For the top end of talent there's always freelancing, with a different, higher band of earning levels.
Wow, everyone here is doing more than me. I think I read about 10 books this year, but some of those were references or cookbooks which don't really count. I can't say that any of them changed my life. They were all interesting, and some were helpful.

Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushroom by Stamets - great for anyone who wants to culture and grow a variety of mushrooms.

The Fungal Pharmacy by Rogers - This book is less useful but fascinating. It has a bunch of traditional uses of mushrooms, but also has references to modern papers on fungal use in medicines. It also lists common industrial uses as well (like the production citric acid).

A very Short Introduction: Fungi by Money - this is a very short book that covers many aspects of fungi.

Ham Radio Jargon and Q-codes by KC2TAV - this is more of a reference than a true book. It's ok, but the internet is probably a better resource.

The Organic Gardener's Handbook by Ellis and Martin - I read most of this, but got it mostly as a reference to identify and manage pests and diseases in the garden. This finally motivated me to build a compost barrel.

A couple of mushroom cookbooks.

We Get Confessions by Joseph - this one is good to understand how interrogations are correctly conducted, what your rights are in that situation, and what tricks are used by police. It's written with law enforcement as the target audience.

The Tactical Edge by Remsburg - this is geared toward law enforcement too. This can be valuable to understand police thinking and tactics. Some of the material can be helpful in self-defense or other high stress scenarios (first few chapters on body response, visualization, force continuum, etc).

Defensive Tactics by Christensen - still in progress with this one. I'm not sure how I like it so far - some of the stuff seems useful but some also seems impractical. I plan to read the main parts of the book. Then there are the individual parts for specific holds/strikes/etc. I'll probably skim these and select the 3 I think would be most useful to self defense for me. There's too many in the book to learn all at once, or even maintain true proficiency in unless you spend a lot of time practicing.
That nobody reads what you write.

Jokes asides I am a big fan of blogging[1], but it's not the best medium for reach.

[1]: https://francescodilorenzo.com
Interesting.

In Germany everything was either closed or the employees simply desinfected stuff after use.
> Weird coincidence...

Nothing weird at all. After I learned horse riding (focus: dressage) I started seeing horse-related stuff everywhere - horse carrying trailers on roads, shops, etc.

The "secret" is not some deep universe related mystery but your perception. Those horse-related things were there all along - I just never paid attention, my mind filtered it without any of it ever reaching my consciousness. Your mind filters out lots and lots of headlines when you scroll through the news or HN, your brain reacts when something is relevant.

That there has to be something relevant even if it's niche once in a while is not exactly shocking when HN goes through several dozens of headlines every single day. The site shows you so many diverse topics, it would be strange if you never have this experience.
I'm sorry, but $59 for a plastic syringe with a crooked tip?