skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, you need to understand that many Japanese people want to change their country. Yes, in Japan too, "left" and "right" are 50/50.

The recognition that a form of organization is imperfect is very different from "not loving it".

For example I want to improve the way my computer program works, that does not mean I hate it, that's pretty much the contrary.

As much as I love Japan, I want it to be better. New problems have emerged that did not exist in the past, so the mistake is to change nothing.

(I say "I", but that extends to Japanese people who share this view too.)

Most of the people who want to improve the society (they are often labelled "progressives", yes I feel I belong to this side) meet the opposition of people that want to keep it as it is ("conservatives").

The problem is when "progressives" are depicted as "anti-<name of the organization>", here as anti-Japanese, by some of the most extremist "conservatives".

You seem to make the same association, and I'd like to inform you that this is right-wing propaganda, and it is obviously an erroneous fallacy.

So, as you have yourself integrated this fallacy, it means that you have been at least in indirect contact with the right-wing ideology, even if you seem to not be aware.

This association of terms prevents any movement.

The reality is that there are no "anti-Japanese" and "pro-Japanese", only "pro-{new,futuristic,improved}-Japan" and "pro-{traditional,old,unchanged}-Japan".

And the funny part is that in "old Japan" some conservatives want to go further in the past, but then they need to take an arbitrary reference in time. They like the Meiji period, but on many aspects Japan from the Heian period was way more "progressive" than nowadays and than what they are prepared to accept.

One more element I'd like to answer to you is why you did not notice any "progressive" people around you. They are very quiet. Because of the pressure created by a part of the society, they tend to keep it to themselves. For example, I discovered only last month that a neighbor was vegan (as I am, too), and she never reveals it because it invariably attracts harsh and negative comments on her from some other Japanese people (the "vocal conservatives" which I was speaking about). I categorize veganism as a progressive characteristic, and reciprocally it is absolutely labelled as anti-Japanese by people (okay let me say they are right-wing?) on Twitter for example.

Last but not least, let me precise that when I say "improved Japan" I do not mean "westernized Japan", as you seemed to imply in your critic too. On the contrary, I think that the path to the future is not yet showcased by any existing country, it has to be crafted.

PS: Oh, and several years ago I was very "conservative" regarding Japan, I had pink glasses and was in unconditional love with every single aspect of it to the point that I was blind to the problems even when they slapped me in the face. So I understand you, I was there before.
Why exclude getting rich as a way to become able to afford?
> Although most speakers are not exposed to these formations until after childhood,[citation needed]

Lol at “citation needed”
They think that you can just get out of it if you're smart and hard working. This is completely false. Intelligence is almost worthless nowadays. Stupidity is more valuable. Just look at Dogecoin millionaires. The only necessary ingredient to escape poverty these days is luck.

I'm certain that if Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos started their careers 10 years ago, today they would be moderately poor engineers/developers struggling to pay their rents.

When you start out as as poor or middle-class, the number of bad things which can happen to you on any given day is unfathomable. There are glass ceilings everywhere and monopolistic forces to suppress your voice and to spread misinformation which harms you in many different ways; all of it done to maintain the status quo.

On the other hand, good luck compounds.
Common data model mistakes made by startups
you didn't pay for a general purpose computer though. You paid for a computer tied to the App Store with all the advantages and disadvantages commensurate with that.

If you want to frame it in contract terms, this is like signing on the dotted line for a mortgage ("enter into the contract, buy the phone"), then some time later saying "this payment is too much" ("I don't like this bit, I want to pay less"). It doesn't work that way.
wish your parents took advantage of that
Even many STEM majors have terrible outcomes. Science? Most of those you’re going to need a PhD and you’re still going to be paid shit. Maybe an industrial R&D scientist with many years (perhaps decades) of experience can make it ok, but that’s a gamble. Technology? This one seems to be the he safest bet, software developers ofc can make nearly unheard amounts of money as a wage worker and IT work seems to pull in an ok amount once you’ve established enough experience. Engineering? Ok I guess, admittedly I’ve been very disappointed by the salaries I’ve seen out of a lot of engineering fields though. Math? Not a particularly valuable field in itself. I doubt there’s any employment for mathematicians outside academia, however I will admit the skill set can be widely applicable and even useful to other industries (including some aforementioned) so I won’t discount it too much.
Valve introduced a variant of this for Dota 2 recently. But they take a 50% cut. And it's more team based, than individual based.

https://www.dota2.com/newsentry/3066366095803889976
echo "user.max_user_namespaces=28633" | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.d/98-userns.conf
sudo sysctl --system
sudo usermod -v 10000-65536 -w 10000-65536 $(id -un)
podman system migrate
podman unshare cat /proc/self/uid_map
podman info
It's actually command + shift + /, i.e., command + ?
I’m not sure I would characterize Iran’s efforts as destabilizing the region, certainly not more than the US injecting billions of dollars of arms into the region.

Really we’re in the endgame of fossil fuels, and arguably control of access to those resources that was the main reason that the US was so heavily involved in that region for decades. But with the green revolution needed and pragmatically quite close in reach, the US needs to fundamentally rethink its involvement.
When you exercise startup options:

1. Usually there is no liquid market, so for lack of a better term, the valuation is made up.

2. Related to point one, with no liquid market, there is no option to sell the options the raise the money to pay the taxes.

3. There are often restrictions (e.g. lockup periods) that legally restrict you for selling from a specific period. You are forced to take on the risk that the stock doesn't crash, often with much less info or freedom than investors and execs.

In fact, in the US, normally startup options are ISOs (incentive stock options) so theoretically they are NOT taxed on exercise. The issue is that AMT (google it) actually nullifies that ISO tax benefit in most instances, and AMT only has stuck around because Congress can not function to deliver reasonable tax policy.
Ticket Scalpers - my favourite example of rent-seeking
No these were interactive scenarios, with a human behind the controls. So it really depends on the human of course. But you can select where the situation goes, raise the tone of voice or aggressiveness of the actor (real actor videos smoothly integrated) of course the operator can make it shoot and you also need to simulate that. The subject in the simulator has a prop taser and gun that work pretty realisticly (blank bullets and no voltage of course). I don't know how common this kind of training is across US probably not that much.
There is 0 reason to use the cloud, unless exfil and selling data is your thing.

The cloud == someone else's computer. Never forget that.
The concept is rather intriguing in terms of having a compression algorithm that evolves towards an ideal optimization asymptote. I, for one, would be annoyed at the thought that the compression of an identical artifact might result in a different compression size output as it would seed doubt as to whether they actually had the same input.
The stress difference on cushion is there, but it's very faint. Absent and recap aren't really ever used as direct verbs that I've heard.

E.g. "I am going to be absent" and "I am going to recap you on this" (or really the more natural "I'll give you a recap" where it is not used as a verb at all) is the most common form I hear in the US
> I think it's clear that, at best, they don't want this discussion on the site

For what it's worth, there's a lot of drama mongering in the whole FN saga, and it's usually the same arguments repeated on all sides - the HN mods are known to push this kind of story down after a while. No need to resort to conspiracy crap.
Ask HN: Got first paid customer, what now?
Hi HN,

I had a side project (SAAS) that I stopped working on for 8 months (mostly stagnant, but still live) and now out of the blue I notice people are registering and someone actually just paid for a subscription. What should I do now? I have a full time job and is currently working on other side projects, should I resume working on this one? Reach out to the paying customer and ask what they like? Sell the project to someone who might grow it better than me?
Greek colonies employed mercenaries rather than the other way around. But Greek mercenaries were quite popular in Greece proper (between city-states) and around it. Egyptians and Persians used them extensively. One of the famous stories of the ancient world (you can find it in the Anabasis) is that of the Ten Thousand : an army of Greek soldiers left stranded in Persian territory after their Persian employer, Cyrus the Younger, died in battle.
"Defendant requests discovery for defense's exhibit "A": the entire contents of the Library of Congress.

Since the defense has not received the subpoenaed material, the case can not go to trial and the defendant should be released."
This kind of functionality is awesome. I have visual tracking problems for some reason. I get tunnelvision frequently, I often lose track of the mouse, and it's just generally hard for me to find things by physically scanning for them with my eyes.

One of the things that I love about text/search-driven interfaces (like my terminal, global search tools (Spotlight, KRunner, whatever), Emacs, etc.) is that the information I need to see comes to ME. I fix my eyes on one part of the screen, and I know that exactly whatever I need to consider will appear exactly there. It's great!

I really hope something like this can become a more standard/expected feature in most GUI environments.
You can (rightfully) blame external sources, but doing so isn't going to make any difference in your experience of life. If your desire is to own a house, there are actions you can do to get there. Is it fair? No, but neither is life.
For future reference, “lumber” is wood and “lumbar” has to do with your lower back (e.g. “lumbar pain”)
Invalid though two distinct nouns and not noun verb, isn’t listed here. I know there are others, just don’t recall at the moment.
So what does a world where no one is renting their time look like?
> At least for most of the Europe (and I suppose Asia), it's pretty common not to be restricted in any way.

In the Philippines, 15 Mbps down / 3 Mbps up ADSL with a static public IP is not something that a foreigner could easily buy. Globe Telecom in Cebu asked for evidence that I have sufficient income to pay for this (2600 PHP per month), and their rules only allow documents from the Philippines, so my bank statement was rejected. I had to talk to their higher-level manager to negotiate an exception. And their default router has 2 seconds of bufferbloat, so I bought a TP-Link Archer C7 and installed OpenWRT to compensate.
recap vs recap is definitely a distinction that shows up in my western canadian speech patterns. Absent is a pretty subtle difference.

I suspect a lot of these vary with regional accents.
If anyone is interested I wrote a small guide to set up Sublime Text 4 for Python development using Python LSP Server: https://yeray.dev/python/setting-up-sublime-text-4-for-pytho...
If you have some kind of pricing model I understand the basic email validation and possibly getting a payment method up-front. It's too easy to program around a simple usage cap.
> 1) the minimum wage doesn't get increased with inflation

Sure it does. It's pretty much unchanged since 1980 (in a sawtooth, they build up some pressure due to inflation and then it jumps up due to legislation).

1960-1980 looks to average around 20% higher.

It's funny how these charts differ.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/04/5-facts-abo...

https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/103807392-min-wage-inf...

A strong argument can be made that minimum wage should track GDP, not inflation.
Maybe we should collect some good and bad examples here. Personally I dislike the onboarding situation at Twilio, their documentation is good though. Mailjet has good documentation and decent onboarding.
I would recommend trying a few “natural process” (the beans are dried before removing the fruit) light roasts. They’re often far richer in flavor, with much more pronounced fruit notes. Then if you can find a natural process dark roast (rare in my experience), compare. You’ll notice that while you may still taste the fruit notes, they’ll be masked pretty heavily by the roast.

It was a natural process roast that got me to even care about the difference, and now I almost always go out of my way for light roasts.

If you’re in/near/visit Seattle or have access to any of these roasters: Seattle Coffee Works specializes in light roasts, most of Victrola’s single origins are light, and many of Ladro’s are as well. All three often have at least one natural process. They’re all quite good!
It's not that large of a lock-in, you can fairly painlessly move from sqlite -> postgres. They share a lot of commonality.

I have no experience moving from sqlite -> mysql, but I imagine it's only a bit more difficult.

But I agree with thechao's comments also.
Auth logic or similar. Somewhere area in app that may be genuinely complicated and can't go wrong, where you need granular control over a set of states which often have sub states, and where there are things like remote requests to different services occurring.

And you can just write this stuff as basically lots of nested if statements but...

As an actual example, I have a state machine in an app I work on:

1. check if there's a session (if so goto 4). 2. If not go to email input. 3. On submit go to password input. 4. authorized. However: 2 and 3 and some of the time 1 have network requests, so handle those. Password can be entered wrong three times (error message changes accordingly, oh also no. retries are modifiable at admin level), which bumps user back to 2 (error message changes accordingly). User may have turned on PIN security, if so that will be an extra step before allowed into app. They may also have it turned on, but not one set, which is a slightly different flow. And they can turn it off/on from within app. Oh and biometric, same deal as PIN. Also can drop back to username/pword instead of OTP in some circumstances.

That's most stuff I think off top of head. That's a hierarchical state machine written using XState. It's easy to test (UI is seperate from the machine, and I can just plug in API functions for the remote calls). It's relatively easy to read (xstate API produces stuff that reads like a diagram, it's easy to explain what's going on). It's easy to add/remove states
What was used to monitor the power consumption?
"This channel has moved to Liberachat, effective immediately: irc.libera.chat ##hntop"

You and I have very, very different definitions of spam. I see a guidepost giving me direction.
You can build a house anywhere if you don’t need a salary tied to an expensive area.
American English speaker here, born and raised in Dallas, Tx. The stress goes on the second syllable for the verb for me ("I absent myself").
It's amazing how little even journalists care about fake news if it supports the right narrative. For example, there was a story which made the rounds here in the UK about expats who'd voted for Brexit being deported which ticked all the fake news warning signs: it was from a generic-sounding news site with a generic-looking logo and a standard Wordpress template, domain registered anonymously within the last year by someone in Kidderminster, with no apparent corporate backing, history, or identifiable staff or reporters, that had supposedly interviewed people in Spain and come up with a story that played perfectly to people's existing prejudices.

So I contacted one of the more reputable publications that had spread the story, The Independent, and pointed this out. The response from the author was basically that he didn't see the problem and it was up to readers to figure out if it was fake news: "The website quoted in the article does to me look to have a Spanish presence, although it looks like the rest of the news is aggregated. I don't believe there is any reason to disbelieve this particular article, and we have clearly attributed the quotes and included a link to Global247news, so our readers can always make up their own minds."

(For context, the "Spanish presence" was literally an address on the About page for an unnamed "Webmaster" which I'm not sure even exists as an actual address in Spain... and in itself seems a little fishy, given that the website was very definitely not registered to someone in Spain.)
>Fair criticism. I'll rescind my argument and present a new one, that does not rely on my subjective opinions.

I really appreciate your attention to fair debate. Thank you for this.

I agree with you that the example of uncompensated prison labor under threat of solitary confinement is morally wrong. I also agree that it at the very least skirts the line of slavery.

Where I think we (maybe?) disagree is that prison labor is not in and of itself slavery, nor morally wrong. I'm not even sure that compelled labor is inappropriate as a sentence. Under the right conditions, I tend to see compelled labor as an exemplary sentence because it's less about punishment and more about the repayment of the proverbial debt to society. My criteria for such compelled prison labor amount to:

1. The work should be acceptably safe, at least to common standards of occupational safety.

2. The work should be useful. The goal is not to punish through toil, but to contribute to the collective.

3. The work should benefit the public. It should not be in the service of a private entity.

I may be missing something obvious, but I think this more or less communicates what I have in mind. As an example, I sometimes see inmates picking up litter on the side of the highway. This strikes me as appropriate.

Overall, I find that people conflate the essence of prison labor with the modalities of prison labor. Just because it's implemented in a horrific an inhumane way doesn't invalidate the general principle. Similarly, the fact that prisons can be inhumane doesn't invalidate the principle of depriving an individual of liberty after a fair trial.

It seems like there might be some common ground between us, here. I hope there is :)
Have you tried FineReader? I used it a couple of years ago for table recognition
> what founders risk in terms of opportunity costs and lower wages is usually only slightly more than very early stage employees

Very early stage employees (before VCs get involved and impose the 10-20% option pool that you allude to) tend to get an outsized offering. (and, to me, a pre-VC employee sounds an awful lot like a co-founder, unless they're not committed heart-and-soul the way the founder is.)

You might not be aware of the risks that a founder experiences versus a pre-VC employee. These risks are substantial. Many are not even quantifiable. Everyone likes to joke about rewarding failure, but the reality is that the reputational risk is very high.

If you are instead talking about post-VC very early employees, there is an even wilder difference in the risk that those employees shoulder by taking a job with a VC-backed company compared to the founders.

Let's face it; working for and/or founding a startup is really, really tough and possibly even hazardous to your health. It's not for everyone. In fact, it's really not for almost anyone. But it's one of the few shots at winning a lottery where you can actually change the rules of the game while you're playing it.
Exercism (Code practice and mentorship for everyone)
> If there's one thing about unsophisticated people and investments, they always cash out when it's too late.

There is no such thing as "too late" in urban housing. Rural areas are so far "left behind" that it will take about ten times the investment that Biden wants to put up to bring it to civilized level, and he's already getting massive resistance... no way that the rural flight trend will be reversed.
Owning a reliable income stream is an asset, which is wealth.

Either you’re working to get that income (in which case you’re probably saving for retirement) or you need to buy it.
I'm not arguing that it isn't more risky for the founder. I'm saying that the payoff potential that remains esp when you look at the pool of startups, is almost never worth it compared to a job at a bigco, even at the top end.

Eg this is me explaining why I wouldn't work at a startup as I shoulder more risk and very very low chance at a payoff better than I could get at a bigco, and worse case you spend 5 more years at the big co and you can be getting into founder level payoffs.

At that point why even take a risk if there isn't a reward if you are a strong engineer. The only thing that makes sense to me is to be a founder, or go work a stable high paying job if you're able to.

This pay structure greatly limits access to very experienced employees for a startup.
Not for cushion, but I've heard the other two.
Formally Verifiable tic-tac-toe in Bash
Using petri-nets as a formal method to encode a game of tic-tac-toe - written in bash (for fun)
And what do you do when you’re not particularly good at anything? At least anything considered valuable.
Providing no evidence nor having experience in this area for why this is the case other than repeating the same thing over and over again isn't a very compelling argument.

For the record, I'm an angel investor and work with VCs. What you're saying makes no sense to me.
sudo dnf install -y podman-docker

cat /usr/bin/docker
#!/bin/sh
[ -f /etc/containers/nodocker ] || \
echo "Emulate Docker CLI using podman. Create /etc/containers/nodocker to quiet msg." >&2
exec /usr/bin/podman "$@"