skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally I first heard this distinction from a Japanese person, that Japanese culture is more "collectivist" than in the US. The article includes general statements like this that also include Japan:

> Generally speaking - there are many exceptions - people in the West tend to be more individualist, and people from Asian countries like India, Japan or China tend to be more collectivist.

One thing Japan is not is "pre-industrial"!

As an aside, you labeled the article as superficial, but I thought it actually went deeper into some nuance. For instance, it mentions that in Hokkaido, people tend to be more individualistic, possibly because it's a "frontier" of sorts compared to the rest of Japan. And the US is largely populated by people who (themselves or their ancestors) went to a similar "frontier".
This is basically my hope too. I don't want the advances that have been made in removing tobacco from public spaces to be undone by legalising marijuana. It is great that it won't be treated as a criminal act to use/possess/sell it, but I don't want this to make smoking (be it with a different substance) more acceptable.
Cryptocurrencies, unlike trading cards, have large negative externalities. They are causing component shortages, driving up GPU prices, enabling new scams and ransomware, wasting electricity, accelerating climate change.

It might be justifiable if cryptocurrencies were providing real economic value, but if we're drawing analogies to Pokemon cards, then they are net-negative value to humanity and we should hope for them to fail as soon as possible.
> "Kill my service if I hit a billing limit" is a scary footgun as well, and one that could impact larger customers.

Then make it opt-in but a highly visible one during account creation so that people who just want to test can enable it.
The difficulty of 3-2-1 increases as your data size goes up.

For me, the only sane thing to do is partitioning.

My first group would be data that if I were to lose it would cause great pain. I keep the size of this group as small as possible. A few hundred megs or less. You have a live copy, a backup on a USB thumb stick or drive, and a copy you email someone or snail mail a USB drive. It's simple to deal with. It has to be, because it's critical.

My second group is data that is important but not a serious threat to me. Photos and videos, mostly. This second group is where the headache starts and logistics, cost, and time become an issue. Offsite backup is either running to the bank deposit box (time consuming), or upload to cloud (also time consuming, and expensive). Containing the bit rot becomes a futile exercise. Especially considering most people aren't running ECC RAM and end-to-end ZFS with redundancy (for recovery) requires significant expertise and time. Parchive files are the best bet for most people.

Finally, my third group. I have a NAS with a simple mirrored ZFS setup. Two huge drives. I'll probably add a 3rd drive for added redundancy. There is no backup. This data I don't care that much about. I'd hate to lose it. But I'd hate backing it up much more. I don't live for my data, my data lives for me.

You have to ruthlessly prune data that you care to keep. Just like the burden of owning a boat or an overly large house, there is a burden to too much data you care about. The mistake a lot of people make is treating all data the same. Then they end up with terabytes of data of unequal importance and get sloppy protecting the tiny amount of data that truly matters.
Currently building a binocular company. Was able to get the product / design / marketing / ecomm going solo, brought on partner once the product market fit was proven to help with fin / ops. That made more sense than to start at the beginning, as the fin / ops was not much for the first few years (intense product / marketing tho).
I use KNX for the "important" lights. KNX is very reliable and completely decentralized, so it continues to work evern if the server crashes, but it is also very expensive. For all the utility lights, I use ZigBee. For irrigation, wifi+mqtt. Everything is controlled by openHAB, i need to check out HomeAssistant in the near future.
Dane here. I work 30 hours per week as a programmer. My wife works full time for an NGO. Looking at that chart I think we're fairly average for our country, maybe a little bit higher.

My wife is currently on maternity leave with almost full pay. I am allowed by law to take paternity leave, and as is common my contract gives me several months with full pay. Even if you don't get paid by your work, you have the right to take up to a year off (in all for both of us) with government support.

Even if we both lost our jobs, our (government-subsidized) unemployment insurances are enough to mean we would be able to live more or less as we do now for the two years that the insurance covers, without finding jobs. With some adjustments to our living standard, we might just about be able to at least stay where we live now, even with just the lower benefit rates that we would be able to collect after the two years. We are, however, both in positions where finding new work is fairly simple.

Health care is free and not tied to our employment situation. If either of us become gravely ill, we can worry about the illness, not the cost of treatment. There is no such thing as a "medical bankruptcy" here, and we don't have GoFundMe.

We were paid a little to go to university. I still have some (government) student loads from that time because I was a bit of a fuck-up and didn't work while studying, but it's not so bad.

All in all, I live mostly free of fear and certainly free of want. You think I'd trade that for 18k per year? Would saving up all of it mean I could get even close to this? And how do the people who are below average fare?
1) You started it :) Your sarcastic tone was ridiculously obvious :) I gave you the links - where is your gratitude? You’ve only brought your sarcasm here.

2) Oh, RxJS is synonymous with reactive programming for you? Lol, keep learning :)
-XX:+UseG1GC on my install of clion. Maybe old JVM parameters have persisted in settings somewhere?
Reading PDFs on an e-reader is an awful experience though. Without reflowable text, either the device is physically larger than a page and cumbersome, or it's too small and zoomed out to read comfortably.
It's a little disingenuous to suggest that an intelligence firm founded by state intelligence officers is just another "Israeli company staffed by Israeli citizens", as though it were a street-corner restaurant. Other threads here have mentioned the close ties between that company and the government.

I have no problem believing that Israel "sponsors" them, but your justifications are baseless. Ex-intelligence officers are not government officials, they are civilians. And government contracts don't imply "sponsorship" in the usual sense, e.g. a landscaping company would not be said to be "state-sponsored" just because they are contracted to work around a government property.

You, and Apple, have to demonstrate how Israel materially supports the NSO Group outside of usual business practices.

Export controls means, one, that the product they're selling is likely a concern of national security, unlike, say, your average lockpick kit or GPS tracker.

GPS devices of almost any kind are subject to ITAR/EAR in the USA. It is extremely easy to run afoul of weapons export controls and there is quite a large market for ITAR-free products. It means extraordinarily little if a product is subject to these type of controls.
> you can't delegate the creation of a takeout either.

Not through Google's APIs. But you can, through adversarial interoperability.
assumes universe-computer is not arbitrary precision
Majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, if that's not dire, I don't know what is.
> I presumed the commenter is just extremely sensitive to the smell. The people I know like that don’t have a choice - it seems they are biologically like that.

Yes, I should said this more explicitly.
You could have reduced the risk substantially by transferring off their wallet to yours right after purchase. You still could have purchased your weed too.
Your compensation could change because of market forces, modern salaries are a product of supply and demand. Previously both supply and demand for high paying jobs was restricted to relatively small geographic areas. Now that remote working is in the supply can move out of high cost areas. However, the converse is also true, the demand can reach people who were not previously eligible. Some of those people would be happy with a significantly lower compensation package.

So to summarize, your compensation could decrease because there are now a lot more people competing for your job. Or it could increase because there are a lot more companies competing for your services.
I am so glad my classic games were such a great inspiration for you!
World cup is entertainment, not a power allocation
It gets more bleak every day
Is Javascript considered to be fast?

It might be close to as fast as it could given the inherent constraints of the language, but I would not call it fast in a general way.
> TypeScript's type system is so utterly broken that I honestly don't know if my code is ANY more robust than if I had written it in JavaScript.

You gave three examples that seem relatively rare. At work we use TypeScript to type a codebase that was mostly plain JavaScript, and we write TypeScript as plain JavaScript. It does very well its job of offering use better tooling and compile-time guarantees. If you consider it as a way to statically-type existing JS codebases, it's good. If you consider it as a language on its own, it's not great.
That ugly disposable McDonald's branded spoon doesn't strike me as something that 70s-80s era women would view as being "cool" or "hip". I really doubt a guy like Burt Reynolds would spend a few grand on a small amount of blow and then cheap out on the spoon.
Nobody is suggesting to make that the default uniformly across all AWS accounts.

It would be excellent for anybody intending to use the free tier for its stated purpose (getting to know the AWS platform) who would like to make the _choice_ to shut off their services if they are going to exceed the free tier quotas.

That way you are free to experiment, and if you blow up something while learning, you're not then leaning on the mercy of AWS support to refund you.
Now go and look at where does the sponsorship money of the top clubs of these countries come from.
Java’s new better FFI is almost ready with project Panama and value types will come, but it is exceedingly hard to retrofit into a language (but the idea for the exact semantics might have formed already!)
I found this to be the most important line in the article (author was referring to when Hiring Senior Devs, but it applies to everyone in the firm):

Stick with those who put the user and simplicity ahead of simply technology solutions.

Users are #1. It’s a constant battle between diving into the code/technology and reaching out to users and customers.
It's trivial to port this to JS / WebAssembly without losing speed (using bytearrays) ..it's a nice afternoon project actually
i’m replacing all my caseta and pico with dumb switches. the radio bits and the color matching are of utmost quality. the ergonomics of these devices however is exceptionally poor, and an example of market segmentation. (ra and ra2 provide the entire switch as a target).

zwave doesn’t come close to the reliability of lutron so dumb it shall be
If a photo of someone's kid includes a recognizable photo of me, and the photo is for private use then it's a different matter than someone exhibiting that photo for public use.

As for general freedoms, a person's freedom ends when it infringes on the freedoms of another. We can debate the nuance of that sentiment (that's what courts are for) but the freedom of anyone to privacy should exceed the freedom of some to make money.
What happens if the values go down along the way?

I guess the ups and downs are ok as long as you don't have to sell and can continue to make the payments. And taxes.
It's been used as an indicator species: can your society support the infrastructure necessary to gather, train, and support a team; it's read as a marker of the health of the rest of the system.
I'm on the other side of the coin. I view the associated costs of working in an office as built into my salary. For example, if I go to an office, I suddenly now have to buy gas/repairs for my car, I have to buy office clothes, and I have suddenly lost days per year to commutes. If I work from home, I see myself as freed from those costs.

Put another way, I see my salary as the sum of the cost of the work that I do PLUS the costs associated with me getting the job done. Working from home is simply more economical (and my work/life balance is significantly improved).
Everything that is per user is a non-starter in my book.

Because the vast majority do 1-2 API calls to login once, are considered active and then never login again during the month. But you still have to pay as if it was active for the whole month.

That is why per API call pricing (a la AWS S3) or resources based pricing (1 CPU) is the best.
There must have been a misunderstanding. I don't care about consumption per se, just the effect that smoking in public spaces has on my nose.
Frankly? The best is when a child can read Ayn Rand and then be in a safe enough environment where they can discuss the ideas with adults who can greatly contextualize the discussion around that piece of literature.
> "How is the world supposed to take us serious"
They should at least take them cereal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h05YfP_8UsU
Yes the alarm clock was basically but an annoying and hopefully rewarding puzzle. It was designed to remind you that something was still unknown and also to get a great moment of AHA when solved.

Big congratulations on staying with it and solving that puzzle! By the way the alarm clock makes a return visit in my 2013 game The Inheritance.
I'm not sure it's even recommended any more. It's technically better because it means that Microsoft can apply security patches out-of-band, but on the other hand, it means that Microsoft can change The Code Your App Executes without you testing it, and tbh if you're writing a production app you should probably make sure your libraries are up-to-date anyways
I think you need to add a translation of the tweet. Because it sounds as if he didn't obey Apple's warning. Yet I think he approves of Apple's s notification. It is the government who he wasn't obeying? So the government installed the spyware?
No, the filename is the worst place to put metadata. Nobody can control what will happen to a file name.
I've spent time in Qatar. It was weird, as a western woman I felt completely alien. Not just because of the desert dust and the stark stark glassy steel city that suddenly rises from it. Mostly we shuttled between a compound and fancy hotels, malls and yacht clubs. And my friends I was visiting were not even rich, just working regular expat jobs (in petro or gas of course, helicopter to work some days..). Those I know who stay there are going just a little mad. But slowly rich. Is it worth it?
So if you have smart kid but don't have money you won't be able to help him. Poor will be always poor :(
NRK also published a detailed timeline of the events in Norwegian (Google Translate should work just fine): https://www.nrk.no/sport/sendte-denne-sms-en-_-sa-startet-nr...
Is it cynical to think this is basically an ad, and not that interesting or appropriate for HN?
Why don't we build new cities? Because we don't have pioneers anymore. This is actually a really intriguing idea. We should crowdfund the creation of new cities, pioneered by a new generation of dissatisfied priced-out hyper-techified metrosexual young people.
|Perhaps people don't pay attention in English class?|

Funny enough, I always assumed this same thing of the people who were trying to get Mark Twain books banned for the misuse of language =)

People who don't read books are always the ones who are the most afraid of the ideas contained within them, I suppose.
A book from the Flat Earth Society's reading list would be worth having around.[1] Kids should have an opportunity to see the stupid ideas of the past. It yields perspective.

The problem is not reading enough books. Kids who only read a few take them too seriously. After you've read everything from Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book to Johnathan Edward's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God", you get some perspective.

But with so much online content available, it's hard to get anyone to read in bulk today.

[1] https://theflatearthsociety.org/home/index.php/flat-earth-li...
Indo-China is an interesting choice of terminology here.
From a pragmatic user's point of view, that would look just like "Apple didn't happen to notice that I was a target of state-sponsored activity". Recent headlines do not suggest that Apple's cyberdefenses are all that great against state-sponsored stuff.

From a more philosophical point of view - expecting a large corporation to go mano a mano on your behalf, against a major state security organization...that's right up there with expecting Santa Claus to punish all the evil spies for being naughty.
I believe the Apollo Guidance Computer used a hardwired lower segment that always points to Bank 0 and one for Bank 1. Then a few freely changeable segments.

I also recall some systems where it works just as described, but you had to be incredibly careful about bank switching and IIRC there was a dedicated instruction to write the bank register and program counter register at the same clock cycle.
The natural reaction to "let's build something in-house" is almost invariably "let's try an OTS solution, surely one must already exist". Most successful internal projects require either an organizational culture of "we're at the forefront of technology" (but then you get "surely one must already exist in some other division" instead), a nuclear icebreaker of a champion that is willing to put their neck on the line, or a series of (un)fortunate events that leave your project as the only way out.
Thanks for putting up the link! Great to make a new friend btw!

Happy Adventuring!
I'd love to see one of these work in Finland :)

Our sunset times vary from "sun never comes up" to "sun never goes down".

Practically any kind of sunset-based automation is completely useless for anything over here except maybe for some decorative outdoor lights.
It is the most watched event of humankind. If you want to call the winner the world champion, it would really help, if there weren't some alternative tournament, which champion is better than yours.

The simple fact, that Qatar bothered to buy the whole thing shows, that it is important.
For someone for whom the biggest component of that wealth is the current valuation of the home in which they live, the fluctuations of that price affects only the theoretical number, but does not affect their life in any meaningful way; they own and use the exact same asset as before, they are not trading it.

These price fluctuations matter for people who either want to invest into real estate or withdraw previous investment, not for people who want to live in their current house.
>getting on the Q pretty much right out the door

Q?
Some day I will burn a day of my life to learn it inside out and be done with it. Meanwhile I use magit.

Mercurial was much better IMO but people argued about performance, because, you know, the CPU is the bottleneck when I merge code. How much time has been wasted navigating Stack Overflow?
What does the end result look and smell like after it's done composting? How long does that take? I always thought composting toilets were mostly practical in trailers and other non-full-time locations so it's interesting you've adopted this in your home! One other advantage must be not worrying about clogs?
I also wondered which nation it would be, and guessed Argentina. But I guess a bandoneon isn't an accordion, technically speaking.
Very cool! Thanks for the link.
It's scriptable and you can assign shortcut key combo to anything, so... part ofthe blame falls back to you?

Do you think VS designers should accommodate your particular needs and desire of a particular shortcut over the needs of all other users who participate in their beta and user feedback and instrumentation data?
>He can be "exceptionally clear" and still biased in favor of TMSC.

Probably. But It wasn't that TSMC doesn't want to move, he made it clear the maths doesn't work out. Giga Fabs operate at scale and efficiency is precisely why you could make a $30 M1 Die.

>Well, we'll have to pay a few cents (or dollars) more per chip then.

That is easier for mature node. But most of the time we are not talking about mature node but leading edge.

If the maths were a few cents or even a few dollar things would have been done already. In US, for TSMC having the same margin would probably put M1 close to $50, while having higher initial R&D cost, meaning more volume to amortise the cost, or higher final retail price depending on sector.

So Morris's question to TSMC's client, are you willing to pay 50% to double for US made silicon. As far as all major US players, that is Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD and Apple. The answer has been a simple no. They want it cheaper! ( Looking at Nvidia's constantly moaning )

Of course there is another path, forcing TSMC to operate in US while lowering their Net Profit margin. Which is likely what is happening here. The only good thing is that US is finally understanding the risk of its supply chain. For some people like me who has been crying about it for nearly a decade.
Pfizer Says Employee Stole Files with Covid Vaccine Secrets
Hephaestus is the god of makers.

I loved greek myths as a child, and in re-reading them to my children I regained an understanding of just how deeply the Greeks influenced modern culture, but even more importantly, the depth of the imagination around their deities.

Ultimately, though, I think it's the Odyssey that really brings it all together. Every man wants to be Odysseus and every woman wants to fuck him.

Speaking of which if anybody has a copy of the Telegony I'd love to have one. Circe bore Odysseus's child, Telegonus:

"On the goddess Athena's advice, Circe tells him the name of his father./

she gives him a supernatural spear to defend himself which is tipped with the sting of a poisonous stingray and was made by the god Hephaestus./

A storm forces Telegonus onto Ithaca without his realizing where he is. As is customary for Homeric heroes in unfriendly land, he commits piracy,/

Odysseus comes to defend his property, and during the ensuing fight, Telegonus kills Odysseus with his unusual spear,/

thereby partially fulfilling Tiresias' prophecy in Odyssey 11 that death would come to Odysseus "out of the sea" (i.e., the poison of the ray)
I suggested that because the pricing page said 900 free users and that got me worried. Glad to see you are moving in the right direction!

I think you might want to try the API calls pricing model (a la S3) because as a dev I usually don't know how much resources I need. But I can estimate that if I have X user that login each day that makes Y API calls which translate to Z$ (with proper spamming protection of course).
It's hard to absorb the slides without being able to experience the talk in person, but the talk itself seems so dense that even attending it live seems like it would be challenging to really grok everything.

Hopefully a video of this talk will be available someday.
While not the most ergonomic, one can definitely create SoAs in Java and those will be just as fast as they are in low level languages.