skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More like a "lack of zoning". Japan's very limited zoning restrictions allows more natural cities to be built.

Additionally, the train companies own the land around the train stations and are thus encouraged to develop the land for commercial use, effectively setting up destinations for the users of their train systems. The cities then develop around the train stations as the primary hubs of commerce.
Does anyone here work with super expensive "enterprise" VR/AR? My gut instinct is that they try to make something good, realize the tech to fulfill their dream is incredibly expensive, then pivot to "enterprise" to get more funding. Am I being cynical?
Because people have vouched for it it is no longer dead. Shadowbanned accounts' comments are dead by default.
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The yellow journalism from the CBC is at it again. You can't trust anything they say.

The actual thing that happened? Canada(mainly federal) completely screwed up. Trudeau was busy trying to get a manufacturing plant built to produce. That is to say, Trudeau was spending big $ on his own riding in montreal. https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/vaccines-will-be-produced-in-mon...

And because of that... we were really far behind for a long time. you might also notice... we never actually produced any novavax vaccines. We are pfizer and moderna. So where'd the money go? Oh right... Trudeau and corruption... basically the same thing.

https://nationalpost.com/news/u-s-vaccine-rollout-vastly-out...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/04/04/live-c...

Very clear that the CBC article is basically propaganda.
One detail I stumbled upon the other day is that interfaces can use the `this` keyword to refer to the type implementing the interface. This isn't supported for types afaik.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types....
Varda will send its first space factory to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
I’ve heard of that happening in Netherlands too, where it doesn’t make much sense for one spouse to keep working due to the cost of child care. That’s not universally cheap in Europe.
The main difference is that, at least in my country, my salary represents a part of what my company pays for my employment. AFAIR if I earn X my company is paying X*1.5 that goes into taxes, social security, etc. While in the US the salary is mostly given to the employee and they have to pay for all of the above. In your example, that company in NL could be paying something closer to 80k-90k which depending on the exchange rate is close to US$100.000

OTOH, we all know how some salaries are crazy high in high COL areas like SF, which I'm sure don't represent the whole of the US. I work with devs in Florida and NC that don't get pass the 6 figures.
Exactly. This is more interesting as an example of how to use the balenaCloud software to deploy code across a RPi fleet. It isn’t very exciting for an airplay server as that code is provided by rpiplay.

It’s all about setting expectations. I saw this title and was excited because I thought there might be a new airplay server available (airplay 2 even). Then I saw what the project really was and I was disappointed.
...until some folks start scheduling meetings at 9:30 am or 4pm.
Utility Types[0] will help you get to the next level on Typescript. It's important to know them and know how and when to use them.

[0] https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/utility-types.h...
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I think the unknown example is good but also somewhat confusing, because implicit typing would understand what set of types could be in that array at that moment.

Is there another example someone could give for unknown which isn't handled by implicit typing?
How would they be found out?

You harbor a personal resentment you believe to be true deep down and… people can read your mind and hold it against you for future jobs?
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Thanks! We do have a couple of similarities to Roam (backlinks, unlinked reference, graph view) but also quite a few things that make us unique.

First, our task management is completely different. Type tasks inside notes and they are available in your kanban/todo-list. You can also drag-and-drop tasks directly to your calendar.

Also, the way we work with blocks is (almost) unique where you can create saved searches to find blocks based on their content.

In short: simplicity, end-to-end encryption, and good design is what separates us from most tools.
I'm with you. But you missed the social interaction part. I actually like my coworkers as people and enjoy(ed) hallway chit-chat.

Some members of the team, for example a woman that does documentation, I see almost not at all any longer because she's not one of the WebEx invites. But she was always just down the hall in the office.
> 8% vacation money = 13th month

No, quite often it’s both. The holiday allowance is by law but an additional 13th month is also often paid out. Depends on the company.
I'm a software engineer that recently moved from California to Dublin, so here's my take on answering the questions (and not the dick measuring contest of US-vs-EU):

* Making $1 in the US != making $1 in the EU: There are all sorts of things built into the society here that simply don't exist in the US (or Cali anyway). For example, in Cali I was absolutely required to own a car, which means paying registration and insurance and fuel costs. Here in Dublin the public transit is good enough (amazing from my standard, but don't talk to a German about it) that I can get around perfectly fine without a car. So that's something like $10k/year that I don't have to pay.

* School/University: This is a big one. When I graduated from a California State school (great education, fairly cheap), I had about $25k of student loans to pay off (way on the lower end of the spectrum). I was able to pay these all off in the first couple years of professionally writing code, but someone in the EU wouldn't even have to think about that. So there's around $10k/year for the average engineers salary that just literally doesn't exist (not taking into account the stress and economic inequality caused by having a system based on giant loans to teenagers).

* Childcare: Although I dont have kids, plenty of my Bay Area co-workers did, and were paying on the order of $3k/month for childcare. This is absolutely bonkers nutszo crazyness, but it's a fact of life for many in the US. Doing a quick google search tells me (I have no practical knowledge here) that childcare here in Dublin is something on the order of $250/week which although expensive is still waaaaay cheaper then what you would be paying in California. So here's another $20k/year price difference between the US and EU.

Adding it all up, cost of living here is something like $50k/year cheaper then in California (without even talking about house prices), so getting paid $50k here you're going to be seeing roughly the same value as someone making $100k in Cali and although it might shock some of the hackernews crowd, <i>not all US programmers make $100k/year!</i> I havent done an in depth analysis, but if you look longitudinally across all costs, I would bet that the average software engineer in the EU is being paid in more value (not $, but life value) then the average engineer in the US, especially since people here (on average) report having much higher levels of life satisfaction, and live longer.

Exercise for the reader: I have a friend that recently took a huge pay bump to move to the Washington are and work for Microsoft. He just paid $1M for a 3 bedroom house. What does $1M get you in the EU? Is he actually making more value by taking that job, or is he effectively paying microsoft for the pleasure of living in Seattle?
I agree that the whole industry smells like a bubble, but these guys were high execs at Microsoft prior to that, maybe they just leveraged the investing landscape and still have some reason? idk
It's difficult to work out the cost of nuclear in France because the electricity industry is so intertwined with the state. For example, how much does their insurance cost? I bet they're effectively insured by state which doesn't show up in the figures. Also, the only country in the world that actually has a long-term solution for nuclear waste is Finland. To their credit, the Finns have built a storage facility that can remain intact for the necessary 10,000 years. The French have no long term nuclear waste storage, they're just kicking the can down the road, as is every other country except Finland.
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> Varda’s goal is to unlock the benefits of microgravity -- which can only be found for sustained periods in space -- for manufacturing novel materials, like bio-printed organs or specialized semiconductors. The startup’s bet is that the potential market for such materials is high enough to make the effort worth it.
https://netzpolitik.org/2021/wolf-culture-how-huawei-control...
In my knowledge, there are some differences:

- in error reporting: type aliases may be replaced by their definition in error reporting.

- you cannot create union types with interfaces

- legacy versions of TypeScript does not enable to create recursive type aliases such as type `List<V> = {v: V, right: List<V> | undefined }`

- interfaces with same name are merged

However the frontier between type aliases and interfaces seems more and more blur. Generally interfaces are encouraged over type aliases. I personally prefer type aliases because there are more capable and seems more elegant to me. However their poor support in error reporting makes me rely more on interfaces when possible.
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“Type aliases and interfaces are very similar, and in many cases you can choose between them freely. Almost all features of an interface are available in type, the key distinction is that a type cannot be re-opened to add new properties vs an interface which is always extendable.”
…

“For the most part, you can choose based on personal preference, and TypeScript will tell you if it needs something to be the other kind of declaration. If you would like a heuristic, use interface until you need to use features from type.”
https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/everyday-type...
Lots and lots of best practice exists specifically to help teams, and especially teams with some normal amount of turnover.

The problems of a solo dev are very different than a dev on a team. Knowledge silos don't exist. Distributed expertise doesn't exist. There's no one to mentor, no shared vision to maintain, no intertia to combat.

I consult on big complicated team projects. I also manage multiple solo projects.

On solo projects, deployment is a script I run from my dev machine. I'm the only person who deploys; anything else would be solving a problem I don't have.

The only "CI" is running the tests before I run the deployment script. I'm the only one who needs to see the outcome of the tests. Anything more would be solving a problem I don't have.

Architecture is whatever makes the most sense to me personally -- which is often miles away from what I would recommend to a client, who needs something any new hire will recognize and be able to work with.

I pay a service to manage backups so I can walk away from a solo project for months and know it's ticking away.

The point is: solve problems you actually have. Don't try to run a "professional" operation by doing what big teams do all by yourself. Big teams have different problems.
There is also the browser extension Make Medium Readable Again[1], one thing that I like about it is that it removes Medium's lazy loading[2]

[1] https://makemediumreadable.com/

[2] if you have a fast connection you may have no idea why it's bad, try to load an image-heavy Medium article on a slow connection and you will see what I mean (indistinguishable blobs of colour for about 30 seconds, then finally full res images, with no in-between).
I guess to avoid nuking the ecosystem Python 3 style.
One on my list of mind boggling "Tech 2.0" scams were:

1. Teranos

2. Magic Leap

3. Andelur Ghost

Only the last one still didn't get enough media attention. People who scored Andelur handshakes with the military & intelligence are the types who did it for Advanced Tactical Security & Communications Ltd ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADE_651 )

Andelur is basically trying to sell the governments around the world a Chinese toy copter for millions of dollars through incredible "Tech 2.0" type marketing fudging.

One thing these fellows can do for sure is a Hollywood grade CG. I was with a company on a competing bid for border patrol drone.

Even I, somebody with quite good experience with CG, was initially fooled by their videos. Indeed, they intentionally were trying to numb your guard by showing it flying in the rain, and being sprayed by water. https://youtu.be/5xDEroiMQWk?t=100

It took me a few minutes to figure out that the rain, and water spay in their videos were also impressively disguised computer graphics.
That looks pretty awesome! If this is what they could do with the version 1, then v2 might turn out to be really impressive.
Been going back to the office one day a week for a a few months now. People are okay with dropping the masks when not in the main flow of traffic (hallways).

One on ones with the boss are much nicer when we can go outside for a stroll....
I think the example type is useful for unvalidated input data e.g. from an API call. Or an update function for a DB abstraction.

Internally in the backend, you’d still use the type you just posited.
https://fly.io

- Easy Postgres clusters (but not managed)
- Heroku like deploys (but less magic)
- Easily geodistributed (deploy near your users)
- reasonable pricing to get started (and not too bad beyond that).
> I find it even more Groundhog Day. To wake up from bed, walk a few steps to my desk, and start plugging away. Yeah, commuting can suck, but at least there's more stimulation and "life" to it.

How about replacing your commuting by a morning walk outside?
"Life Where I'm From" is a fantastic channel. His series on homelessness in Japan is one of the best and most thoughtful pieces on the subject I've ever seen, and makes me very much question the way of homelessness elsewhere.

Japan isn't a perfect paradise by any stretch of the imagination, but if you end up having to build several high-density megalopolises, it's as close to an ideal model as possible. It's very hard to describe why their cities are so good because it's a list of a million small things. If you can, visit and see. It's a wonderful collision of familiar and bafflingly different all in one.
It's default, not just common. Anyone investing in research startup knows that there is slim chance that the company will be positive in valuation, just that the upper limit for valuation is very high.
Edit: Oops replied to the wrong comment.
Ya think? Here's the headlines on their front page right now:

* John Durham and the Amazing Disappearing DNC Hack (subtitle: Evidence grows that the alleged Russian hacking of the DNC server in 2016 was an inside job.)

* They Hate You So Much (subtitle: There’s just no hiding the fact that the Democrats loathe America. They proved it Monday.)

* Language Victim (subtitle: If English gets the job done, why knock yourself out?)

* The Taiwan Enigma (subtitle: The Chinese Politburo sees Taiwan as a renegade province.)

Wikipedia cautiously describes it as "conservative"[0].

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

EDIT: Fixed the Wikipedia link, The American Spectator is not the US Spectator, which is also conservative.

EDIT2: I find it funny that multiple people would take time out of their day to downvote this comment that's just pointing out the clear and obvious political bias of the paper that's confirmed by Wikipedia and reflected in their headlines and focus of reporting. It's an American paper that's comfortable running a lead article literally stating that the Democratic party "loathes America". This is almost caricature level politics.
"they built a bunch of stuff out of sandstone, which burns"

Sandstone is SiO2, it's already oxidized and cannot burn.

As a rule of thumb, ceramics, ores, and rocks of non-organic origin are oxidized material, they can only melt into lava.

Also we build houses out of wood and papper, so by your logic we are even dumber.
I always thought Rand's greatest paradox is the world she describes is not our world, not our reality, and readers think she is writing about our reality. The problem with Rand is her characters are not real humans: her heroes are born with innate, unlearnable talents they simple have at birth. She states ths over and over again in her literature: these innately superior humans are born that way, and it cannot be learned - they just are, and that "are" is god-like in purity of thought and a perfection of action. POPPYCOCK, complete bullshit and only suitable for immature intellectualism, of the type the GOP and most religions seem to rely.
It's not possible to ride defensively against a person popping out of a car. There is also no safe speed which is reasonable for actually using the road where this doesn't happen. I'm also not going to slow down to 12km/h on protected bike paths because people want to walk there. I think being noticed is part of driving defensively in those situations.

>So, get off the bike and walk

I am not supposed to and I frankly just don't have the time to walk every time there is an underpass, and there are 6 on the way to my university.

I think I'm very different from those car drivers because I'm not endangering or pushing away anyone, or being aggressive.
"Benito Mussolini was the kindest, most wonderful and generous man among all the axis leaders."

Works wonders
I do all like this:

GiHub actions-> docker build->docker push to github package repo

then on vm a 2 line script to docker pull && docker-compose up -d

Database all by hand.

Extremely easy i just push, wait build and restart
I'm not a solo-preneurs, but I have some open-source projects (mainly a live one, and one that I'm currently developping).

Here are the list of DevOpss flow I've done:

* One project is a website. I have a pipeline, triggered when something is merged to master, that builds Docker images, pushes them to a Dokku instance and deploy them.

* One project is a JS library. I have a pipeline, triggered when a git tag is created, that packages the library and uploads it to npm. I use Netlify to host the documentation website of it.

* For this same project, I'm planning to have a pipeline triggered for each PR to run the linter and tests.

I work as a DevOps/MLOps, and I'm quite comfortable with CI tools in general. I hate doing things manually and I love automating, so it comes quite naturally for me to do it. Once it's set up, it rarely needs to be changed.
I think what's very interesting is that most of the answers to my question sort of boil down (if you squint a little at the answers) to "this is hard, but general AI will make it easy".
Not a solo-preneur, but I’ve had great experiences so far with Dokku, an open-source Heroku clone. I’m running ~40 apps on my single VPS since a couple of years. I use it in combination with Github Actions, Bitbucket Pipelines and Gitlab CI. I still feel very flexible working with Dockerfiles and different cloud services. I’ve only had to update the dokku-letsencrypt plugin a couple of times in the past 5 years. Note that I haven’t had to protect important databases with PII for example.
That's interesting, I'd generally much rather drive an hour than walk 20-30 minutes. I lived on a college campus for a while where you could walk to everything and I like it much more now driving everywhere.
This was key for me as well. Just leave the house with my headphones and some podcasts or music, and wander around for about an hour, rain or shine.

I try to do it every day.
I'm starting to consider this myself and have been looking at https://serverless-stack.com/#guide as a way to prototype and build an MVP. The guide has quite a bit in it that I believe can be repurposed to that end although it doesn't cover backups etc, more integrations with AWS services.
It's the same in my province, yes speakers are better than headphones do you can better notice cars.
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‘Enterprise’ is the right market. You can afford what this costs if it saves you the consequences of doing a concrete pour wrong.
Most people don’t know the name Magic Leap. HN is a (relatively) small bubble. The only place where the name might have a bad effect would be in hiring or raising money. But, really changing the name would be worse in that regard as it would signal that they (Magic Leap) also thought the name was tarnished.
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It’s a contrast against HoloLens 2.
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> And with the lack of loyalty to the company, so it goes back unto the employee (e.g. training a resource is a futile endeavor — he’ll probably leave once trained.. so look instead to make him useful, and if he learns, it’s incidental).

This really, really hurts juniors. Recently, a colleague left because they hadn't promoted him to match what his responsibilities are. He got a 50% pay raise and the company is investing loads of scarce time into training his replacement. It makes so little sense to me that they wouldn't just match his salary (which they're doing for his replacement!) and avoid all the training costs.

There must be some kind of thing I'm missing here, because it makes no sense to me.
> How many contractors work 48 weeks a year?

Everyone I've known (and I've known dozens of contractors across many companies). In Europe, contracting practices truly are a normalized pathology.

I don't know the US contracting market, and if the pathology is as normalized as in Europe (i.e. if you can reasonably expect to treat it as a full-time job).
I'm certainly a _layman_ in this field. So As a historian, perhaps you could tell us more?
its interesting that they appear to only have two SLAM cameras (that I can see)

I can see at the front they have two extra cameras, that look like they are a near/far pair.

It'll be interesting to see what the tracking performance is
They were talking about fingers and we're talking about leap. It's about hands :)