skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think most foreigners are willing to do the work that it takes to “make Tokyo work,” which I have seen first-hand.

First, there is the tax rate, which is super-high and the vast majority of Japanese pay without complaint. I am pretty sure there’s the highest top bracket in the world, and it’s super-progressive so you hit it quickly. Many of the foreigners who move to Japan try all sorts of tricks to avoid paying it (you get 5 years to avoid paying on foreign income not brought into the country), which just makes everyone else silently dislike them even more. I’ve literally been at a Japanese government office filing papers and overheard a Singapore resident asking a government employee if he can just transfer his business to a family member to avoid the tax rate because “it’s just too much.”

Then you’ve got the sense of shared suffering that is part of Japanese culture and super important. I think a lot of people who talk about “racial cohesion” are incorrectly identifying this, which is basically a sense that “we are all here to make this work for each other, and if you’re not you’re part of an other.” It’s not a race thing, although it can appear that way to others — if you’ve grown up in Northern Europe, you’ll understand what I mean; it’s kind of like the Asian version of Jante Law.

I can’t stress that shared suffering thing enough. Since the 1600s, Tokyo was destroyed on average of, like, once every 10 years, and right now everyone’s just waiting for the Great Earthquake and The Great Mount Fuji Eruption. It’s a hilarious, tragic, comical, romantic drama that plays out in the Japanese subconscious. (And since everyone will continue to pay a surtax for their shared national obligation to rebuild after the Fukushima earthquake — a tax that will continue for another decade — everyone’s also acutely aware that the bill will be massive, and they’ll be expected to contribute. Cue more foreigners departing to avoid taxes.)

The tax rate, combined with the sense of obligation to each other, supports one of the best healthcare systems in the world. Which in turn is part of one of the best government administrations in the world, filled with extremely smart people who feel a real sense of obligation toward their country to do a really good job. (Don’t confuse this with the political machine... let’s just not go into that.)

When you have a society where everyone is willing to “suffer” for each other, you can have a society like Tokyo. Like so many other great places, it works because people can just sort of expect others to do what’s right. And conversely, for reasons that look racist to outsiders but really aren’t, everyone also silently expects foreigners to do everything wrong. If there was an influx of people into Japan who didn’t share these values — and they’re real values, not a race thing — the whole country would quickly fall apart.
I think the whole idea of having to drive to get groceries is a fairly uniquely American thing. Here in the UK in a medium sized town I have multiple places to buy food within walking distance, from a corner shop (small, has convenience items only), up to a full sized supermarket.
> not outweigh the number of deaths that are caused when the screen distracts the driver and causes a crash

You could disable the screens while driving forward or at higher speed if you think that's important for safety. But we shouldn't remove them.
What are those "well documented biases inherent in IQ tests" and how do they affect "brown people"?
At one of my jobs we had SO MANY of these all-hands meetings quickly scheduled 10 minutes ahead of the start time... It gets too stressful after a while!
If they do have high IQ, what exactly are we to extrapolate from that?

This is a nation, that for no practical reason, decided it would be a good idea to poke an uninvolved developed country during a war in which they were already on somewhat unsteady ground.

What did this lead to?

The 'high IQ" nation getting literally burnt to the ground because they made their cities out of material that was very easy to burn to the ground. Perhaps not a bad thing, unless you go around egging people on to come burn you down.

And that's not to even mention the nukes...

So, is "high IQ" the most helpful thing, or something we can easily attribute prosperity to? History doesn't seem to give us a clear answer.
Microsoft could just not give discounts to computer suppliers that don't have UEFI secure boot on forced on.

I definitely recall Microsoft killing hardware manufacturers putting Linux on the machines that they sold by mandating that if they put Linux on any consumer desktop they would not get the OEM discount for a Windows licence for any computer they sold. It stopped new non Windows PC sales dead at the time IIRC. This was something like over a decade ago.
In https://www.nitricity.co/center-for-irrigation-prototype there is a link to https://d63e2e00-28d8-462d-a351-b8ebbb1cc3b0.filesusr.com/ug... (I found it after digging and digging through the site. It's very difficult to find any technical info.)
Thanks, I dont interview much and now that I'm looking I realize it really hurts me. I'd love to know if its best to apply for do a few jobs a year or dozens. I haven't seen many stats on this, you just see people getting new roles without saying how many times they got rejected.
It is. Try searching for 16*9 for the good reason it shows both the calculator, and then links to 16:9 and 16x9 aspect ratio content.

It's reasonable to think that the calculator already answered the question, and I'm not looking for pages on the simple multiplication once I've already seen the answer.

Imagine the uproar if those results didn't come up because a bunch of children's math quizzes were found instead.
All of these replies seem to co-mingle the concepts of equal opportunity and equal outcome. The foundation of a free society is personal responsibility. Personal outcomes in such a system are pretty much guaranteed not to be the same (equal), since different people will use their freedom in different ways. Sucks for kids of irresponsible parents, who truly don't have self-autonomy. But then again, our society is full of compassionate safety nets for such kids.
We’re seemingly six months away from any and all diversity movements being dismissed as anti-white propaganda. It seems high time for the NAACP/BLM/ACLU to begin to walk back their extremist rhetoric before they’re deemed terrorist groups like they themselves have deemed so many other groups before.
its not karma, its hn community conformity points
Lol funny that you say that.

I’m not a developer by trade (mostly an email/excel/PowerPoint jockey these days), but am a local sme on a few things, one of which was absolutely critical for a very key project.

I was asked to mock-up a prototype of a core process that produced correct outputs. Dusted off my old toolbox and mocked it up in a combo of python and bash. Probably a total of 900-1000 lines of “code”. The mock-up, running on some little vm, ended up outperforming the production solution for quite some time! :)
Moore's Law has been sort of a special case in that it arguably functioned as sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy. "What do we need to do so that, in two years or so, we'll hit what Moore's Law would predict?"

But, as you suggest, the same general patterns apply to a lot of things. You know what you want to do. You have some idea of what you need to do to get there and how hard it's going to be. So people who have experience in such matters can make (usually) reasonable estimates of how quickly they can get there--even if they're (also usually) often optimistic. Because you're more likely to run into hiccups than unexpected breakthroughs.
There is growing evidence that healthy soil, full of worms, bacteria and humous is the result of a symbiotic relationship between grazing animals and grass crops.

Like how the Great Plains sequestered gigatons of "carbon" in massive soil deposits.

Too bad anyone who claims such things may be true is considered a Heretic.
Open source games list (OSGL)
A lot of this boils down to Japanese people being efficient and conscientious. I was walking around Ginza one day and noticed that sometimes you had to go multiple blocks to find a cross walk. People did it, and nobody jay walked. In DC or NYC it would have been a circus. Flying back to NYC from Tokyo is always jarring, like traveling back in time.
You may be right, perhaps it was Windows 8 to Windows 10. But even in the days of XP, upgrade nags were already in effect, and one keypress or mouse click at the wrong time (when the popup appeared) could send you down that road. Unless you already anticipated it ahead of time (from past experiences) and went through the settings and disabled automatic update checking.

The overall intent and attitude matters more to me than the details, and the general intent of Microsoft (and Apple, and Gnome, and Ubuntu, and many others) seems to be "we know how your desktop should look and operate better than you do."

This is completely the opposite of what I want, which is to have a workstation which is configured to facilitate my work, where nothing changes without my explicit REQUEST.
It loads but is totally unresponsive on my iPad.
> MIT’s leadership apparently took umbrage at his statement of these simple facts: that George Floyd “had not lived a virtuous life” (based on his multiple criminal convictions)

Surely the authors know that "statement of facts" has the ability to completely alter the interpretation of the rest of the content. Key questions are: why is this fact relevant in this context, what is the author conveying by bringing this in? Etc. To take a radical example, if one reads an article about a recent mass shooting followed by "statements of fact" about the declining population of whites in America, then one would reasonably conclude that the author is a white supremacist who implicitly supports the shooter. Non-white supremacists don't talk about the great replacement.

So the question is why would someone bring up the criminal record of an unarmed Black man who was extrajudicially killed by an officer of the state? What does this fact do for the reader? It's not hard to imagine what many would conclude. Editorial narrative is something I learned about in middle school, why are the authors feigning ignorance about its existence?
> "he biggest advantage of credit cards - the limited liability of the card holder to fraudulent charges" - in the USA, and IIRC also in UK, but not in general; in many countries there is no legal difference in cardholder liability between credit cards and debit cards.
I don't recommend using Rawhide, but standard Fedora is pretty up to date anyway, so it's not necessary.
Leaving everything to “personal choice” is nice, if you live in an alternate universe where no one has any causal effect on anyone else. In this case, you are inflicting a harm on others.

An acceptable compromise is one where restaurants and others must obtain licenses to become official smoking establishments, just as bars need a liquor license. That way, children can be barred from entering, and no one will invite others to one of those establishments for social events. But it’s pretty selfish to inflict cigarette smoke on others.
Ok, I am not sure why you needed state the obvious.

To be clear here the comment I replied to, that you then replied to was about "why do we need another DE, just contribute to gnome"

I explained why, your attempt at "refuting" my position is "well they do not need to accept your contributions because it is their project"

This is amazing circular logic...

You are correct they are free to run their project however they want, and we are free to fork or create other DE's that meet our needs.. but again this was a comment about linux getting yet another DE, and the growing compliant that linux has too many DE's

Linux has too many DE's because projects like gnome have a narrow focus that only care about their own goals and give 2 shits less if you do not agree with them. That is fine... but then people need to stop saying "dont fork, contribute"
Agreed. Your not supposed to even touch your smartphone while driving, how is operating your car touchscreen-based head unit any safer?!

Dials and buttons provides a tactile feedback that allows you to keep focus on the road and can be operated even with gloves, which is great in Canada winter season.
Thanks for your comments. Until today, I was under the mistaken impression that fertilizers required hydrocarbons.
He doesn't have one, just Whataboutism
Public transit is already completely over capacity and its getting worse every year. Its not sustainable.
Hope you don't mind it when people you don't like get to choose the curriculum. What happens when a fascist gets elected (again?) and decides it's time to make some adjustments to the school system?

You seem to have a lot of trust in a system that hasn't earned it.
That said at least it was feasible for me to live in a clean, $650/mo apartment of my own, in a great neighborhood, <15 minutes from Shinjuku/25 to Tokyo. The concept of an equivalent place in a place like NYC is laughable.
At the moment at least, you could probably say the same thing about all branches of engineering. Of course, some people just prefer doing non-software things but, as you say, they'll probably end up doing quite a bit of software anyway. (Which suggests that some sort of leveling almost has to take place unless we're OK just doing without new people going into other branches of engineering and science.
> Monastics live in windowless rooms

I have visited dozens of european monasteries – I can't remember ever seeing a windowless cell or a dormitorium. Even anchorites’ cells have windows.

Which makes sense given the medieval times: available light sources are candles and outside light. But also monastic life was focused on the Liturgy of the Hours which as the name says takes place on determined hours – and since it was late antiquity/early middle ages these were temporal, seasonal hours, depended on daylight. If you read the Rule of St Benedict you'll find diverse chapters which try to fit the monastic schedule into the available daylight and arrange the schedule to the seasons.
I would highly recommend the "history of japan" podcast on how the political structures of Japan operated and how the society that had been developing for hundreds of years worked in the "poking" of an uninvolved country, I'm assuming here you mean the US and pearl harbor. Long story short there is a history and cultural understanding of militarism that doesn't exist in the "West" and is particularly different than how the US perceives war and cultural obligations.

EDIT::ADD , I would specifically look into the fighting on Okinawa as an extremely poignant example of how this played out in real time only relatively recently. It displays some very telling cultural markers.
> Third, intellectual ability and achievement are the principal requirements for admission as a student or faculty member to any university.

This is the crux of the issue as I see it. The author sees achievement as a proxy for ability, and therefore achievement-meritocracy is the only acceptable system.

By contrast, MIT sees ability as only one factor among many that create achievement. If one takes the further axiom that ability is independent of protected categories like race and gender, then achievement-meritocracy does not recruit the most able students. Hence, affirmative action and reducing oppression.

Mathematically, author believes achievement=f(ability) so ability=f^{-1}(achievement) while MIT believes achievement=f(ability,identity, background) so ability=f^{-1}(achievement,identity,background)
So DX12 support has not been deprecated in newer drivers (as the page states), it has actually been completely removed.
I'm lucky/blessed/fortunate enough to live in a place where it is unlikely and use reputable ISPs.
"... Employees asked the police for help. According to a court filing, the police responded that dealing with this crowd was “not in their job description,” and they left. ..."

At least after the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster there was an inquiry into that police.

Article should have been titled The Dangers of Government Inaction and Lack of Accountability
You could give your users a score and the higher it gets, the more features become available. VPN on/off, registered since x days, ... a bit like normal Email reputation. Also speaking about automation, a legit user probably won't mind if all features aren't available right away or additional 2FA steps are needed. That kind of approach is also in part used in perimeter-less/zero trust security.

Also I'm thinking if Selenium is used, checking timing of the requests might be helpful. (In theory it should be possible to triangulate the users with multiple API servers by the way.)
It did start with a center. What is currently the imperial palace was originally Edo castle that Tokugawa built when he decided to move the capital there. But it was a castle city like any other once it was built.

But as people moved there and the daimyō’s money flowed in, it began growing outwards engulfing the surrounding towns and villages. The exact type of growth you ascribe to London and Paris.
Indeed Tokyo and other parts of Japan are clean and well run. It’s a cultural thing. I spent some in Europe about 15 years ago and likewise it was clean as well. I used to get stared at for crossing streets when you’re not supposed to (no cars but without the light). There were very few bums or beggars either.

From what I hear, things have changed in some places. Not sure the cause. Sometimes strikes maybe cultural things as well.
Having negative expectations of someone you've not met, based on conditions they were born into, is the very heart of racism and every bit as unfair and toxic.
It is a good webpage. Maybe the last year I saw it with the old design.

But I remembered it thanks to the subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/opensourcegames/ , and wow new OSGL is awesome and it has a lot of work.
> but the paranoia-kings would rather disable an entire feature because of it.

Windows is installed on many computers, including many office computers, of which many will inevitably have Haswell CPUs with IGP drivers installed by default.

Given how few people would be using DirectX 12 on Haswell IGPs, the decision is easy IMO.

In penetration tests I often find vulnerabilities that give me command access to a remote windows host as a low privileged user. Especially in windows environments, privilege escalation is super nasty because once you elevate privileges you have free reign of LSASS and have a lot of options for lateral movement on a network and dumping the "secure vault".
> The answer and the future is kids will be raised by the state and given an equal playing field.

Except for the parents powerful / wealthy enough to opt out of this system for one with more resources, who will, just as we do today.

Who is going to die on a hill to pass legislation banning private schooling and forcing a state monopoly on raising children? We would need generations of culture shift before many people could even debate the idea without involuntarily shuddering in horror.
It's impossible to stay ahead of the bugs, because they appear ahead of the patches, and there are undoubtedly many unpatched bugs out there.

But if I only visit sites where this is unlikely (and don't allow JavaScript, which you seem to have missed) I am much safer than when browsing willy-nilly with the latest patches.
I worked in a facility that to great fanfare built an insane building to house a $200M+ tool.

Unfortunately, it didn’t work out, and 3 years later, the tool was being hacked apart and hauled off by a caravan of scrapyard haulers.
SICP is great, and worth going through, for a better foundation in some ways. (You can use Racket for SICP exercises: https://pkgs.racket-lang.org/package/sicp )

But IMHO the highest-value things you can do to become a better software developer are to simply practice software development of various kinds. Work on software development in a company, contribute to open source projects, do little personal side projects (that ideally you polish up with quality and documentation, so that other people can use/extend them, or sometimes move on because opportunity cost), etc. Experiment with styles, technical approaches, etc.

When you can, work on things you want to work on, and let your needs and curiosity there guide what you spend time learning and practicing.

When you really have to grind Leetcode for interview theatre reasons, it's not entirely without learning value, but it has very little to do with real-world software development. So don't waste all your time on Leetcode. Pass the interviews you want to pass, but otherwise spend your time on more substantial and rewarding things. IMHO.
The truth likely falls the other way. Low grade compost is taxpayer subsidized in the us as it's mass yard and other nature waste. In cities with decent food waste programs the quality increases

And if you're a farm manager, the "chafe" and waste are "free", have no transportation costs, etc. In some jurisdictions the "chafe" has already printed money via crop rotation / wild grass subsides.
I also use it regularly. I do remote sensing and fine that and wikipedia indispensable.
> Meanwhile on my social feed my Japanese friends will admire the large living spaces in the US. I think most people are just convinced it is always better somewhere else.

I think it’s about different people having different preferences. Most folks in Dallas (average commute under 30 minutes) aren’t wishing they were crammed into subway car in Tokyo. Likewise, people who like the urban lifestyle in Tokyo probably aren’t wishing they were stuck in freeway traffic in Dallas.
I don't think homogeneity is what makes Japan work. More likely it's a common identity and shared values. You can have that without everyone looking the same or having the same ancestry. Strong institutions of cultural transmission are probably far more important.
"The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the state to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only. The child is not the mere creature of the state; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations." [1]

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/268/510
I buy my games DRM-free as much as possible. It means I'm mostly buying old games, but that's alright for me.
Also because no one works this way. The coding challenges are contrived and don't really reflect typical work. Like I've never had to do anything like strings that occur more than k times.

And these clarifications are mostly dumb. If you pass an emoji into my string function I'm okay with it not working. Similarly if you pass in a negative number then that's your own dumb fault if it does something unexpected.

That's how the real world works. You go to the extent that covers 99.99% of cases. If that means it doesn't work in your crazy scenario, well, create a ticket and it'll sit in the backlog until we clean up old tickets.
I installed it on my 4 year old top end gaming PC because Microsoft told me not to. Simple as that.
Maybe in companies flush with cash - most businesses won't change their hardware unless they have a good reason to. Losing support for getting security patches may be one such reason.

But the average office clerk will certainly not get regular updates to the latest and greatest hardware.
You raise a very fair question of “when does someone have the responsibility for turning their opportunity into their outcome and how quickly does that responsibility ramp from 0% theirs to 100% theirs?

Could it ever begin before conception? Could it ever begin before birth? At 6 months of age? At 1, 2, or 3 years of age? Is it 100% “on them” at 12, 16, 18, or 21?
Clarification: when you say "reader", do you mean the reader of this linked article, or the reader of the chaplain's statement?