skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apart from anime Japan is pretty much a cultural desert for us, Westerners, right now.

I'm a late millenial and I would completely disagree. In fact from my perspective growing up and living on the West coast I'd argue that the only significant cultural imports into the US are from Mexico, the UK, and Japan, and to a much lesser extent Korea.

For one, sushi is incredibly popular amongst virtually everyone I know. Probably the single most popular foreign food choice, perhaps in a tie with "Mexican" which I put in quotes because American Mexican food is typically significantly different from authentic Mexican food while American Sushi is far closer to the real thing, at least in my experience.

As other people have mentioned video games are another absolutely huge cultural import from Japan, and the Japanese have created at outsized number of the most beloved franchises. I'm not sure I know a single person who isn't familliar with at least one Japanese-created video game character, Mario and Pikachu have a lot of reach! I don't think I could say that about even US videogames. Pokemon all by itself is absolutely massive, and I think in this conversation it is noteworthy that Pokemon Go! is the only successful AR title to date (that I'm aware of).

Not to mention Samurai and Ninjas are well known amongst virtually everyone I've met. I can't claim similar about the warriors of other countries.

It's also worth noting the Made in Japan is very much synonymous with high quality, and they have tons of brands that are very successful in this vein: Toyota, Honda, Sony, Hitachi, Makita, Nikon/Canon just to name a few.

Finally I think saying that "apart from anime" is a pretty huge cop out. Most people around my age watched a significant amount of anime shows growing up, and many still do. These aren't tech bros either-I didn't grow up in the Bay- just normal people with blue collar careers who will very much talk your ear off about anime. If we're talking about movies, Studio Ghibli continues to be extremely popular even amongst people who aren't into anime.

Elsewhere in the thread you say that you were under the impression that Japanese fever had eclipsed, but I really don't think it has, you also wrote

>I certainly do notice the fascination Japan as a country still holds among many in the tech-crowd scene like is the case for many HN-ers in here, but I thought that was a local and contained phenomenon.

I can honestly say nope! fascination with Japan is a very common phenomenon amongst a lot of people, from many walks of life and I honestly don't see it changing.
Stop eating, period.

You’re guaranteed to lose weight!
That's what I did at my last role, and it was made infinitely easier because I was the first engineer and it was greenfield development.

Our backend used a combination of network policies to only allow outbound TCP connections to a handful of forward proxies, each of which was one simple, easy to verify nginx server that forwarded to https://saas.service.example.com.

And on days when we learned of new supply chain vulnerabilities, we didn't have a security incident.
Yes, svn would support this use case.

If I remember right, svn used to be a bit more involved than eg git for just starting tracking of a local project. I think you used to need to set up a (local) server etc?

They seemed to have fixed that, so the barrier to entry is lower than it used to be.

Almost any version control is better than manual mucking around with files.

Git is probably the better investment, if you are new to version control systems; if even just because everyone else uses it these days.

But svn would work ok-ish, too. And you can always convert your history later, if necessary.
I guess mailcow would suit your needs. Two years ago I replaced an old OpenXchange setup with mailcow and it was fairly easy to switch over. It also support IMAP copy from the admin UI.
Out of interest, which British carriers? Am British so would like to know so I can avoid.

I thought Ryanair were Irish?

Also, why are Ryanair et al doing this? I mean, obviously Ryanair have a bit of a reputation.
In general you make a fair point but GPs business is cloud storage [1] and, as far as I know, they have one datacenter in SEA and it's in Hong Kong [2]. Presumably GP could open a datacenter in e.g. Singapore/Taipei/Tokyo instead and close the HK one—no negotiation with CCP authorities required.

[1]: https://rsync.net

[2]: I'm a customer based in SEA that previously used rsync.net's Hong Kong site but moved to one of the US sites following the events in 2019.
I most definitely think it's just as valid to present that Riley wrote this:

https://www.bmartin.cc/dissent/documents/AIDS/River/Prospect...

I think it's important to understand the writer's past history on an analogous subject, as it points to his motivations. I think letting you know he also previously argued about the benefits of global warming "nourishing the oceans", https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/now-heres-the-good-news-o... , points to the type of arguments this person likes to make.

I agree the stuff about his failed bank is irrelevant.
I had to do this last year. Three calls to Apple Support... in the end I just wiped the phone and started over. The first time in 10 years. I was burning through my entire quota in 20 days and then racking up $10 per Gb over the quota with Optus. Very frustrating.
I do - thank you very much! Had no idea when I woke up this morning that I would be scanning my four year-old’s dinosaurs into it.
Having the same issue, using the SE 2nd too.
Thoughts on Hiring from a Relative Newbie
Well it does seem to be a cute filter for Python programming ability in that they definitely need to have taken a tour of the modern standard library to come up with

min(x)
max(x)
statistics.mean(x)
statistics.median(x)

But still - no 'for' loops? No if-then-else?
You might be giving some of these candidates a pass.
Linus Torvalds famously preferred tarballs over CVS.

For further discussion, keep in mind that thanks to competition from git etc, modern svn is substantially more bearable than it used to be before distributed version control systems became popular.
The whole German agenda on decarbonization is based on Russian natural gas, so call me not surprised. If they had labelled H2 investments as green it would be a whole different thing.
Dental insurance is really weak insurance. It is mostly a mechanism that allows employers that can afford the paperwork of offering benefits to give you the benefit of being able to pay for your dental expenses with pre tax money.

The maximum benefit amount is usually $1k to $2k. Maybe $3k at a generous employer. So if you ever had a really bad dental problem that exceeded those amounts, you are not insured from having to spend on dental problems that cost a lot of money.

Contrast with health insurance, where due to out of pocket maximums, you can suffer a very expensive healthcare event, and you are insured against having to pay $500k for the bypass surgery or NICU stay.
One of my favorite fallacies is the fallacy fallacy. Just because one used fallacious reasoning, doesn't mean they're wrong. e.g. I can give a bad reason for why 16/64 = 1/4, just cross out the 6's, but just because the reason is bad doesn't mean the result is wrong.
For the record, so was I, but by a repair/data-wipe technician.
How much karma is needed?
You really don't need insider knowledge to make an assessment like that. You just have to learn what you look for when it comes to BS and be prepared to get some negative karma points for calling out companies due to the multiple social media PR companies they employ that use various reputation defense techniques.
It looks like the map of the game Tokyo Metro from a player's perspective. It's a big game that surprisingly fits in small box with a large map and so many pieces.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/235344/tokyo-metro

But yes, 2D would probably be easier to navigate. 3D is more fun. Maybe that's the point, and the challenge of building it.
My book "Data-Oriented programming" is #1 Manning best seller for 2021.

The book formulates the principles of an approach to data that reduces complexity and illustrates how to apply them in a statically-typed language like C# or Java or in a dynamically-typed language like JavaScript, Python or Ruby.

Here are the 4 principles of Data-Oriented Programming:

1. Separate code (behaviour) from data

2. Represent data with generic data structures

3. Data is immutable

4. Separate data schema from data representation

It might sound like Functional Programming but if you look closer at the principle list, you will notice that principles #2 and #4 are not part of FP.

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That's one of the most helpful HN comments ever posted by someone whose user name sounds like a Sopranos character
And all that takes to break it is a compromised version floating around in WhatsApp groups saying Authenticator plus would give u blue theme.
And will use the Pareto principle to cut corners
I understand your example, but as a counterpoint: I do keep simple scripts in version control, too.

But the real simple stuff usually starts out in my misc scripts folder. But that's more for filesystem organisation, not because creating a git repo has any (mental) overhead.

> In the 20 years of (solo?) development of DF, do you not suppose a rational person would adopt versioning were a lack thereof impacting them noticeably?

If they never got around to learning about version control, it's totally imaginable that they are sort-of rational, and that version control would have improved their lives.
They should have said no to Unicode identifiers with C11. They have now a big security mess.

They should have adopted u8 instead if wchar.
In India at least, the healthcare is not as super advanced but the public healthcare is free. Private hospitals have 2 modes. Either pay cash or cashless insurance.

If you have a heath insurance card, you just pick one and you are done.

If you are paying by cash, you ask for a price. Then you price shop all hospitals. There are no "surprises" as hospitals expect customers to pay upfront the cost of procedure and or a deposit for room/incidentals.

The good thing with this is, you say "hey hospital A, how much for a cataract surgery", same for all hospitals.
The bad thing is, if you don't have the cash, you either have to borrow or sell off property which throws people into poverty faster.

Recently government made a public insurance scheme where every family is covered for like 1200 procedures and is cashless. The good about it is, even poorest of poor can get private healthcare and hospitals get a steady revenue stream, albeit at a lower profit but in the long run they are expected to turn a profit.

In India, health insurance and insurance in general is missold. Agents sell " return of premium" and "money back" instead of risk cover because they get a fatter commission. I have talked to dozens of agents and they dislike term life insurance like the plague. "Why would you do that, its stupid. Yuck. Ew". Same for medical, the result being only rich could afford good care till now.
Nice! I have been "borrowing" the kid's toys too.
With enough photos you can get some great shots (such as this one)[1].
Looks better as a USDZ, than a GLTF.

[1] https://usdz.app/experiences/284-dragon
I'm probably more of a whisky & mescaline socialist myself, but this tweet seems to be a pretty vapid and vague summary of the year from a journalist.

Maybe it's a problem with Twitter as a medium in general? People over analyze these snippets and ultimately derive whatever they want to. Suddenly things like kidnapping, brutal rape and children dying of malaria start coming up and that's intense.

The weirdest thing is seeing Twitter appear in more and more journalism. BBC constantly references tweets in it's articles[0], I'm not sure why. A good tweet says nothing, suggests everything, gets people emotional and puts isolated individuals into a mob mentality. It's like a retirement home for pregnant mares.

I also had something about propaganda versus journalism, but I'm kinda tripping out here and losing my threads. John could probably say this better than me. Brb.

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59750154
Childhood me would love this so much. Thank you!
It's amazing how quickly people get fooled when they are offered money and "kickbacks" in return.
CTO of Safing here.

Yes, we dislike Electron and tried another route before switching to it. We have our hopes up for the new Microsoft Edge WebView2, which I hope to evaluate soon:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview...

The Portmaster updates itself automatically, and you can use the PKGBUILD for installation until we start publishing it to the AUR near-term.
What form of "shouldn't" are you using here?

"Shouldn't" as in: the developers of dwarf fortress should be ashamed?

Or "shouldn't" as in: the guy who uses mods is not purist enough?

Or something else?

Since dwarf fortress is free as in beer, I wouldn't complain too much.

I've played dwarf fortress a bit about a decade or so ago, and had fun. But I didn't stick with it. For me, the main benefit was in all the other games, like RimWorld, that dwarf fortress inspired.
AUR is incoming!
The hash is not constant.

With public key crypto you can implement a challenge response. Server generates random garbage, send to client, client signs the garbage using priv key, sends it back as a hash that the server can verify using pub key.

Another version of this is with shared secrets instead of public/private, by replacing the signature with simply HMAC(secret, garbage) and keep rest of flow same as above.
I may misunderstand your intention, but isn't this well handled by projects such as https://phaser.io/ and https://pixijs.com?
I guess gas is green if it comes from Putin. I mean those retiring German officials need some new jobs in gas trading companies.

Meanwhile we still have a huge "green diesel" problem with Germans dumping their polluting, smelly, carcinogenic used up engines into newer EU countries. I am so fed up with the whole green politics thing in EU. It's just for show so it benefits the biggest players.
Xi Jinping.

A more complete answer is more complicated obviously. But he has been super effective in consolidating power from all angles.
Is this a bundled package or all individual subscriptions? I’m curious what it costs to get all of these services per month.
False Morels (Gyromitra esculenta) can have toxic amounts of hydrazine, it is usually safe WHEN COOKED but a couple people have died from them.
Rimworld is nowhere near as deep as dwarf fortress, but it's a game many more people actually manage to play.

They are both interesting.
Auto repair shops face competition and few operate as networks which would deny you access across a broad geographical area. Those seeking repair have alternative and are not a risk of death or permanent disability when shopping for services.

Hospitals don't. Patients are.
I really appreciate Wittgenstein's idea of family resemblance concepts, that things we group together may not be in fact grouped by a shared trait, but instead my consist of a bunch of different sets of overlapping traits, such that no one trait is common to all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_resemblance
That looks to me like the “after” pictures from the Steiner Ranch fire here in Austin.

That woke a lot of people up.

In Steiner Ranch, the wooden fences acted like a wick to carry the fire from one house to the next. Embers can travel a mile or more before they set down and can ignite another fire. Anywhere that dried leaves tend to congregate, is also a place where embers will tend to land — and start a fire in the dried leaves that are already there.

No guarantees, but you can make your home more resistant to wildfire. See the FireWise.org site.
Plus it's not a fair analogy in the first place.

It would be more like if Trump or Q crazies took over power on Jan 6, then the NyTimes called for Canada and Britain to come to our rescue and restore Democracy.
Is that irony? I think irony would be if he was at the FEC (or perhaps not given some decisions by them).

This seems more like fraud runs in the family, which doesn't seem that uncommon (although maybe that's a variation of survivor bias in reporting?)

That said I wasn't aware of the ENRON link. It's so nice to see that the VPs from Enron were still able to afford Stanford, living costs while in a startup, etc. I'm sure that similar was true for regular people as well right? /s
Almost Always Unsigned
I plan to learn C++. It should just take a few years. By then there should be a new C++ standard I can start learning.
Not only did she sleep with them, but also said that he manipulated her to commit fraud playing the role of a victim of abuse. It was even made public that she formulated her victim defense strategy. It may work to an extent but imagine a male trying to say that they were victimized into commiting a crime.
> The problem is that miners are buying GPUs.

That's not a real problem, I can stop buying GPUs and keep playing most 3-5 years old games with a decent integrated one in a relatively modern CPU at a fraction of the price, and that's it. I'm not a gamer however, so I would understand hardcore gamers to be pissed off, but that's not a real problem as nothing vital is taken away from anyone.

The real problem is the steadily raising demand in energy which doesn't seem to stop anywhere in the future. If we accept the fact that more energy translates into more money, and that more money allows miners to add more and more GPUs (or ASIC dedicated hardware, energy-wise, a cluster of GPUs and a box that draws 3000 watts are exactly the same thing) then we're going straight to a future in which every resource will be used to produce energy.

How to stop something that screams "put more energy in = get more money out"?

No way, it's probably too late, and I expect a huge misinformation campaign from the parties involved, which already amassed a lot of money to pay for it. Therefore we'll see a stronger push for nuclear and other non clean sources, but also soaring prices of every other source, including clean ones, because the demand dictates the price, and there is where most demand is coming from.

And there's also the warming problem, because you know, consuming so much energy doesn't come without a price to pay.
Try booking a doctor's appointment in the US on a Medicare plan vs. under private insurance. You'll find that the former gets pushed out weeks and months, whilst the latter finds availability within days.
ok, perhaps I'm in a bad mood this morning, which makes me generally prone to cynicism.
CTO of Safing here.

I understand you dislike this. With the current auto-updating system we have in place this was the easiest solution, as the installer just installs one core component which fetches all others in the newest release.

With how fast we iterate, creating a new installer and signing it (Win) every time is just a big distraction at this point.

We hope to provide a full offline installer in the future, but even that one will fetch certain resources during install, as the current geoIP database and intelligence data.
Aside from some major religions mandating the expansion of humanity (or at least their faithful) - which I suppose could be hubris in the religion - why is it excessively prideful to want our species to continue to exist? What moral framework accounts for a desire to continue our existence in the negative column?
The North vs South disparity always fascinates me. In many ways, they're the opposite of each other.

The North:

- Beijing sucks up all the resources, just like Moscow. People in the surrounding regions hate it, but it's also their best bet to make a fortune.

- Many regions feel post-Soviet. Industries are falling apart, the neighborhoods feel depressing. Young people leave and go to Beijing, Southern China, or abroad. It feels like how Eastern Europeans are making livings in Western Europe.

- People who stay in their hometowns are desperate to get jobs in the public sector.

- There are substantially more propaganda banners on the street.

The South:

- Just like op said, there are no obvious leaders. The cities in the two delta region create more network effects rather than suck up resources.

- The south is much more vibrant. People are more adventurous to make fortune in the private sector or start their own businesses.

- The vibes are less political, more economical.
Another good example why more governmental data should be open…
Unless the test is checking performance, another option might be to start up multiple instances of the database, and run many tests concurrently each on identically prepopulated separate databases.
It might very well happen to China but I don't think this is an inevitability or 'math'. Diminishing returns appear when existing systems are pushed towards their limitations, but it doesn't account for the dynamic nature of technological progress. When we were plowing fields with horses there were diminish returns but that didn't imply the end of history. You invent the motor and you're in an entirely new world altogether. Through paradigm shifts you can always reset the timer on your returns.

And sure we might be in an era of stagnation for 100 years and all the singularity people may be crazy but how likely is it really, that in the grand scheme of things there's not another era of rapid change, and that some country in principle can find a mode of governance that doesn't end in 'late stage Japan'?
> I think the CCP is no more evil than Napoleon

The comparison is laughable. Napoleon didn't starve millions of his own citizens.
I think the author is confused about the goals of “web 3”.
Because it is widely believed that there is a climate emergency caused by CO2 emissions and so people want to focus.
This is exactly how I got into computers at age 4. I’d type-in game code on the family Atari 800, taking great satisfaction if/when the games finally ran without throwing errors.

I’ve been looking for a similar resource to introduce my daughters.
(2020) :)
The safest mushrooms to forage and eat are the ones foraged from the grocery store.
I had to live and work on the opposite sides of the pennines, the M62 whilst having lovely views over the hills, is seriously horrible to drive on in the rush hours (worse in winter) and the weather difference was very noticeable

Much dryer in the east, similar difference all the way up into Scotland
bcrypt solves that in two ways. It uses per password unique salts and it has a tunable cost-parameter to deliberately slow down the computation, making it slow and infeasible to build a rainbow table.
My main concerns with Web3 are that it is "pay to play" in many aspects and it's less democratic than the existing Internet.
I rescue and relocate venomous snakes my neighbors find in their yards. They're easy to identify (in the US) and easy to deal with if you have a modicum of training.

But wild mushrooms scare the shit out of me. The only mushrooms I'll eat are accompanied by a cash register receipt.
It could also be that the media is often just a form of PR for companies
Yes, as someone with extreme outlier dental costs, I have come to the realization that dental insurance is not insurance at all, it’s simply a routine maintenance plan. The point of insurance is to act as a buffer for large unexpected expenses, and dental explicitly excludes those from coverage.
Hmm... ok, but I couldn't tell from the article, and the website's name is "izzy", which I mistook for a male name. I can no longer edit my answer though.
Reminds me of a pistol class I once took. The instructor said he didn't believe in using the physical safety, because people tended to use it as a crutch to ignore other safety measures.