skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The pandemic showed us making and using a silver bullet in record time - when a silver bullet is possible.

But the pandemic also showed us a large % of the American population are reluctant to make even minor, temporary sacrifices to protect their country. And that a decent fraction of American political leadership are happy to close their eyes to factual reality.
Keyboard with kana is inconvenient because it is just latin 26-keys keyboard and Japanese has about 40 kana characters. If they have added an additional row then it would allow typing twice faster than on a latin keyboard (because one kana character is equivalent to 2-3 latin characters).

But keyboard manufacturers do not want to make better keyboards for non-latin countries, they just overlay foreign characters on standard 26-key keyboard because it is cheaper.
Practically all went bancrupt between 10 and 12 years ago. Starting around 2000, Germany began to heavily subsidize private solar panel installations with guaranteed prices around 1Eur/kWh (later falling to 0.5Eur/kWh, now around 0.1Eur/kWh). With subsidies falling, demand dropped. And initial high subsidies (some claim, see [0]) made the industry too lazy to get competitive abroad, so around 2008 China began to ramp up production for cheaper panels at dumping prices. Politicians failed to react with import duties until it was too late (around 2013). Falling domestic demand, lower prices and higher production in China and political failure to protect domestic production all lead to the death of Germany's solar industry. Even big names such as Siemens solar branch, who could have easily weathered the storm and buy up their competition on the cheap, got out as fast as they could. Because political flailing signaled imminent doom and no betterment in the long term.

Of course nowadays there is again political hypocrisy mounting around the need for shorter transport routes, domestic independence, more capacity, etc. But even so, measures to prop up European solar manufacturers are very weak, import duties have been lifted and China's production has now become too strong to oppose. So there is a little useless promising before an election, then silence.

[0] https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/studie-zu...

see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27942010#27943382
This no longer works.

Discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27353917
Airtight boxes is punitive, which is what typical puritans enjoy imposing on any sort of pleasurable activity. Open air is sufficient for your comfort. You can move away down the street. Don't forget your inhaler, you'll need it as you walk past thousands of vehicles idling in traffic.
We ported a C++ Rendering Engine to WebAssembly
When considering whether to get vaccinated, you basically have to ask yourself two questions.

1. what are the side effects of the vaccine?
2. what are the side effects of infection with the virus?

In addition, there is the question of what is the probability of the corresponding side effects of vaccination and infection.

All study data that I know of say that serious side effects are 5 - 8 times more likely to occur with an infection with the virus.

In addition, one would have to ask how likely it is that one will be infected with the virus. Here, one can only base ones thinking on mathematical models. At present, it does not look as if we will be able to achieve herd immunity worldwide. That would mean that sooner or later everyone who is not vaccinated would be infected with the virus.

This from the peer reviewed studies I have searched and read via pubmed in the last few months.
Not a paper...TED presentation
"Electrical Battery Using Defective Tomatoes"

https://youtu.be/18sOzfxcrHE
People who support such measures are pretty homogeneous in their views and opinions from my experience. Then there are the diverse bunch that reject sexism.
Dietary supplements causing severe liver injuries in Australians
Schemas make formats easier to evolve.
Typing in hiragana directly in theory would allow to double the typing speed because one hiragana character is equivalent to 2-3 latin charcters.
> Because it's a US company governed by US laws around hosting an investment vehicle.

Yeah, I understand that. It was mostly a thought experiment. Say I invest in this company, sitting in my house in Japan. What are they going to do? Extradite me to the US because I gave some US company money in an unapproved way?
Windows 11 comes bearing THAAS, Trojan Horse as a service
> The article doesn't say whether the disk was encrypted or not.

So we can conclude that it was not. If the disk was encrypted (with decent passphrase/key) there is 0% chance that the article wouldn't mention it.

They also wouldn't have bothered to get the disk back from the YouTuber. Why would they if the data is unreadable anyway?
It probably will be Bavaria with subsidies from the COVID relief fund. Intel has plans to that effect, as well: https://www.eenewseurope.com/news/intel-eyes-bavaria-wafer-f....
This just in: "Search results are the result of searching"
Pure sarcasm, but no :)

> Overall semiconducting industry seems to be way more exciting than boring computer industry

The most groundbreaking things all tech must be about are cat video websites, and internet companies :D

People completely forget that were Morris Chang (the previous CEO of TSMC,) not been polite, and ethical to a fault, the industry would've still be dominated by monster big semis, manufacturing every chip around, and who would've milked all big chip users like internet companies to death.

I can't imagine Panasonic, Toshiba, Motorola, or AMD of old not scheming to squeezing their clients to the last cent, and strategizing to prevent clients from gaining negotiating power.

TSMC's benevolent stance in comparison to that would be almost bordering on charity.
You could read the studies. It isn't that hard actually. One would only need to want to have facts, not opinions and invest some amount of work to understand this.

I recommend https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ as a starting point.
Germany has plenty of water. Certainly more than Taiwan.
Loser/Creep were songs of that time. Loser is kinda optimistic though.
Extremely naive question, but I always wonder how you can "bootstrap" this kind of precision — intuitively for something to be this precise, the tools and equipment that "create" it should also have to be more or less equally precise.

Or is it a matter of manufacturing it, testing it, and rejecting some percentage of things that don't fit your requirements due to imprecisions?

Are there any good background resources on how some of these things are done?
I don't think that is a requirement for a role model and there is empirical evidence to the contrary.

So I don't buy "this is not how it works".
It's not even one name. Nguyễn is the very popular family name & Nguyên is a distinct given name with a distinct pronunciation.
Hmmm, isn't there people pushing for better standards, language, tools?
Or working with a 40M Loc codebase started in the 80s with 50% code duplication. Because it's so mission critical that nobody really touches existing code. Or that everything needs to be rubber-stamped by a ton of people and even a rename takes months to make it in the codebase. Oh well. That's probably every enterprise
Because it has one of the two largest clusters for that industry in Europe: Dresden/Saxony. The other one is Grenoble, France.

https://www.dw.com/en/bosch-is-the-new-star-in-silicon-saxon...
Also I have a .gq domain from freenom which works fine and I'm feel I'm getting more than the $0 paid.
It hardly seems a crime to give a company money, regardless of whether you get anything in return.
If you consider GlobalFoundries to be a valid competitor, then that move would make a lot of sense. Infineon and AMD used to do a lot of research and production in Dresden. The AMD fab has since become a part of GlobalFoundries. But there's still a healthy ecosystem of university research and medium-sized software companies. Or at least there was, when I visited GlobalFoundries in 2014.

Also, there has been a growing amount of research activity into chip design in Germany lately, driven in no small part by CERN's needs.

For example
https://ohwr.org/project/white-rabbit/wikis/home
used by the Control and Timing System at CERN and GSI
My understanding is that some of the issues stem from external recruitment agencies.
The agencies are pitching against eachother. They state they have a gender skew higher (6:4 Male to Female) than the market data (9:1 Male to Female) to win work.
They never can deliver on their targets and will blame it on location/salary etc, and place male candidates anyway.
But it sews the seed that the gender balance in industry is higher than it really is and creates these issues.

They become more pronounced the bigger the employer because the reality gets lost in translation.
No, it doesn't. It happens because HN shadowbans people who have the wrong opinions. dang and whoever else would say that's not true, but it's tough to debate, because the evidence is conveniently hidden by being unjustly flagged. It's tough to point to a comment and argue that every statement in it is indisputably true, relevant, and polite, when it's been hidden from everyone by some anonymous user without explanation or justification.

This kind echo chamber maintenance goes on day after day, while HN delusionally prides itself on curiosity, civility, etc.
This was definitely still the case in at least Vienna and Berlin as late as the '00s and early '10s (lived in vienna 2005-2012 and in Berlin 2013-current).

It's better now but not to the point that I haven't smelled cigarette smoke or haven't seen people smoking!
On the other hand, I really like that way of giving "best practice" advice, as it's really useful advice. You end up with a deeper understanding of futures, but also concrete advice that you can apply easily.
In the most important ways. It's a huge difference, and it's something many of The Followers of Jobs don't seem to understand.

It's never just about engineering or nice design or being an asshole. The pieces have to fit together to create the UX, and the box the user carries is just one of the pieces.

Sony seemed to be attempting the opposite - locking their customers into their own tech and content - and unsurprisingly that failed.
This is why I believe those responsible for identifying these issues are incompetent.

If you follow your thought, you would need to discriminate against the privileged group you have identified. This will cause a rift between groups that get penalized and those that get advantages, obviously.

Basic toxic middle management strategy to cause strive among your minions so that they don't pester you. This is what you are mirroring 1:1.
If it was encrypted, then the news wouldn't be about someone recovering a quick formatted partition. It would be about someone breaking encryption.
For those companies involved in semiconductor industry, where machines cost 100M usd EACH... People are just a rounding error. Should we hire 100 more? 1000 more? Whatever
I think it's interesting that some of the fundamental types we rely on (numbers, strings, dates and times) are full of complexity and ready to trip up the unwary.
What is worth additional mentioning is PhAB (Photon Application Builder). It was a visual (like in Visual Basic) RAD C++ GUI app builder which came bundled with the OS and accompanied by a great tutorial. It was so great, I bloody wish its clone was available for Linux (and Haiku perhaps).

I also miss Photon's visual style. Subjectively, it was the best I've ever seen (and Haiku feels somewhat close to this taste actually). If somebody would offer a bundle of Linux (XFCE, GNOME, KDE) and Windows (10) themes resembling QNX 6 Photon I would buy them for some real money.
From Spain appears as "This video is only available to Music Premium members" :'(

Also, I remember the JASRAC to be very vigilant and strict...
Last night, I watched NGC's "Before the flood". At one point, a director for a local climate action institute in India was interviewed by Leo DiCaprio.

She pretty much pointed out that climate change is a social issue in no uncertain terms:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia5fMomBXbE

As an EU citizen, I applaud the ambitions, but I feel apprehensive at the same time. Regardless how you spin this, affordability is an absolute requirement.

For instance, on the consumer side of things, you see this concern expressed by the 'gilets jaunes' movement who were initially road users (commuters, truckers,...) protesting rising fuel prices as those add to the cost of living (whether real or perceived). Low income households can't afford to buy a new fuel efficient or electric car; or renovate their home to be more energy efficient (solar, isolation,...); or even buy groceries with a minimal carbon footprint (cheap food prices translate into externalized costs e.g. meat industry + availability / convenience).

Like, over the past few years, several cities have enacted a localized carbon levy for anyone who wants to drive into their city centers. While I'm a proponent of the idea, the net result is that visiting family by car has now become an expensive proposition. Public transport is a partial alternative, but it just doesn't offer the same availability / convenience as a personal vehicle.

A concern here is that this levy targets vehicle classes whose emissions are above an established norm. Turns out that a sizable proportion of low income class families living in those cities who find themselves owning a car they can't afford to drive anymore. This was explicitly raised as a policy concern in a parliamentary hearing in late 2020.

That's just one concrete example of why climate change is a social issue.

The problem raised by the Indian director in the documentary is rooted in the exact same challenge: finding balance between enabling 8 billion people to attain a sustainable, modern living standard while at the same time reducing humanity's reliance on fossil fuels.

One also has to understand that in order to attain Western living standards, "the rest of the world" is very much on a trajectory on par with historic social and economic dynamics and changes seen in America and Europe from the late 19th century hence. India and China together constitute about 35% of the global population. As the Indian director rightly questions: How can the West hold a moral high ground at this point in time while not having taken any notable affirmative action over the past 40 years to curb the impact of its own way of living profoundly?

Barring any finger pointing towards who does what, the filmmakers also interview the then-mayor of Miami Beach who first-hand faces the consequences of rising sea levels whilst being confronted with party politics. All he can do is install 400 million dollars worth of pumps just to keep his constituency's feet dry for the next 40 to 50 years.

He simply ends up stolidly remarking: "The ocean isn't Democratic or Republican. It just keeps rising."
> Cars are the problem, point it out.

Umm, no. In my case, cars are not the problem. They're the result. My city lacks decent and efficient transport from my home to places I go (office, university, etc.), and the lack of transportation is valid for many people, so we get cars.

If the same transportation infrastructure present in Barcelona, Amsterdam, Stockholm or London was present in my city, I'd just take the options and maximize my walk too. I may again have a car for trips, etc. but, it'd be used much less certainly.

So, I dislike the traffic, pollution, noise, parking problems and all, and I want to be a part of the solution, OTOH I have to live, have to show up for work, have to go to shopping and take all that stuff home.
This article seems to need a reality check.

If you look at current weather forecasts for the places mentioned (e.g. the capitals of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma), the
highest forecast temperature for the next 10 days is 100 F / 38 C, far from the mentioned 110 F / 43 C.
OK, I'm Indian and I will stipulate that transliterations of Devanagari are inconsistent, but that guy you linked to is just being a crude racist asshole. (0:39 "and it's so appropriate because she's Indian." Fuck you, Paul Henry!)

In the specific case, her last name would be pronounced "deekshit", with both "d" and "t" being soft like in Spanish. Both those consonant sounds do not exist in standard American/British English.

What is more exasperating to me is that we are not even consistent in English spellings of the same names. For instance, "Sameer" and "Samir" are both pronounced the same but the first is closer to the actual pronunciation.

As far as pronunciation goes, I have made peace with foreigners incorrectly pronouncing sounds that don't exist in their languages, but it bugs me when they can't be arsed to get the syllable emphasis right or when they use the wrong vowel sound even though the correct vowel sound is familiar to them.

Example of #1: A friend of mine is named "Manohar". The syllable emphasis and spelling is: "Muh-NOH-huhr". But his name gets pronounced as "Man-oh-HAAR" in the US. And it's not because he's pronouncing it wrong. Imagine if he pronounced every "Michael" as "Mikhail". People would be pissed.

Example of #2: I can understand them not pronouncing the soft "t" and "d" in "tandoori", but not so much having the first syllable rhyme with "can" instead of "run". Or "Punjab" becoming "Poon-jab" instead of "Puhn-jaab".

Also, #PSA, Hindi does not have the "zh" sound in it, so please stop pronouncing "Raj" as "Razh". Thank you. :)
Let's stop calling this process "age verification" and use the proper name, "identity verification".
> His memo didn't contain the incriminating ideas or language the people who wanted to get rid of him would have needed

That's...not how at-will employment works.
Leaking Secrets Through Modern Branch Predictor in the Speculative World
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.09833.pdf

"...BranchSpectre side channels can take advantage of much simpler code patterns than the ones used in Spectre attacks. We present an extensive BranchSpectre code gadget analysis on a set of popular real-world application code bases followed by a demonstration of real-world side channel attack on OpenSSL. The evaluation results show substantial wider existence and higher exploitability of BranchSpectre code patterns in real-world software..."
Shares in Chinese online tutoring firms slump after shake-up
It is, but your safety still depends on people abiding by that law, which they don't.
This is a good move for TSMC. A lot of action happens through ASML ( Netherlands) and IMEC ( Belgium).

Germany is relatively close to both.
and ASML works together with Trumpf (lasers) and Zeiss (optics).
Digital Artwork Is Next Level After NFT
Not only this, but the reverse never seems to go remarked upon. Speakers of other languages have their way of pronouncing our names and we’re fine with it.
The car-dependent are so exceptionally good at spinning every pro-something into anti-car (unless it's pro car) that any attempted distinction between pro-something and anti-car is futile. Embrace the antagonism they force on you, be anti-car.
S.Korea to toughen rules to collect cryptocurrencies from tax dodgers
Keep your genetic straw man, it would just be the usual gang crime.
> He responded that it was because people secretly "proved" everything to themselves in multiple ways, but only wrote up one proof.

I don't do pure math, but I write the occasional theory paper, and this resonates. So much ends up on the cutting room floor--usually you proved the key result three or four different ways before finding a proof that is actually incisive/aesthetically pleasing/whatever to justify signing your name to it sending it out the door. Also most mathematicians are extremely averse to even saying something that's incorrect, let alone putting in print. There's ton of sanity-checking and trying to break your own result that, again, is rarely if ever mentioned in the final publication.
There are already quite a few plants (Globalfoundries, Bosch, Infineon, TI, Osram, ...) so the qualified work force is there.

Germany is also pretty heavy on high tech production, so there's a big existing supplier network.

Key suppliers like ASML are nearby (Both the Netherlands and Germany are part of the Schengen Agreement, so logistics-wise almost as open as cross-state transports within the US).
Oh, somehow I missed that there's a rustc book. Cool, thanks.
Japan is not uniquely advanced, but by an objective measure of economic complexity, Japan does have the most advanced economy in the world.

"Complexity" here essentially means that a country exports lots of different goods that other countries rarely export. A country that only exports unrefined petroleum will rank very low in complexity, while a country that exports a roughly even mix of goods across a wide range of different sectors will rank high in complexity. Japan is at the top of that ranking, followed by Switzerland.

1. https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/countries/114
OK, now go through the rest of your shopping needs and tally up the amount of time you are going to spend fetching these items. And no cheating by buying anything that had to be transported by truck or long haul.

I'm assuming you have a job. This provides you a basis for calculating the cost of having to spend more of your time bicycling these errands.

For my grandmother, maintaining the house, washing, running errands and cooking was more than a full time job. Meaning, she worked more than a 12 hour day and her daughter had to help her. This meant they couldn't have a job outside the household. Nor did they have much free time.

My wife has a full time job, which essentially doubles our income. The amount of time spent on baseline "errands" is approximately 2 hours per week in total (shared between the two of us). I spend on average 1-1.5 hours per day in the kitchen cooking.

The rest of the time is either income-generating work or it is spare time.

Are you willing to give up much of your spare time and cut back on your income?
Munich does have Infineon as well and it's closer to lots of the eventual customers in the automobile industry.
Yes there is. But moving at enterprise speeds. Python considered "new" and young. Codebases are 30 to 40 years old
Look at the «Whitworth three plate method».
As far as I understand, it should allow a «gain» in precision.
> My city lacks decent and efficient transport from my home to places I go

Because cars.

Yes, cars are also the result. It’s a self-sustaining cycle that takes active intervention that appears suboptimal in short-term analysis to break out of.
Problem with new players imho is the high level of corruption in certain parts of government and industry. While you cannot usually bribe a policeman in Germany, construction, permitting and industry subsidies and politics are heavily corrupt. Old-school industries are propped up by an old-boys-network and revolving doors between political parties, unions, administration and industry. Many politicians who did well by the coal industry for example got their comfortable retirement position in the boards of energy giants. Same for the car industry. Parts of those industries are even still owned by the state or federal government, e.g. Volkswagen is partially owned by the state of Lower Saxony and Germany.

That is also possibly the reason Tesla is in such trouble over their new factory. While they are a car manufacturer, and a modern, hip and green one at that, which politics openly hails as good, secretly they are damaging established interests by the traditional German car manufacturers and their allies in high positions. So the administration will nod and smile, but try to find ways to hinder them.
Another German here, I agree. The regulatory hurdles are insane, the sentiment among the population is anti-business and I see the chance that the Green Party will be in the Next government as another negative point for businesses.
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