skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aren't small businesses best positioned to adapt to these changes?

It's not like they're sitting on piles of cash or other investments that are losing value. If costs go up they'll have to raise prices, just as the prices for what they're buying went up due to rising costs further upstream.

I figured the pandemic cleared out most of the small businesses that would have failed within five years anyway (half do). I wouldn't assume the small businesses left would have as much trouble with inflation as larger ones that operate at greater scales with tighter margins.
The Ruhrgebiet is a shithole. But then again, so is Florida. As is North Dakota and most of Utah. Arizona is pretty nice, but I probably think that only because of my Australian skin.

The USA is a huge shithole, and if you don't understand why anyone would think that, I have a bridge to sell you .. under which live 12 families, kids and all, who couldn't pay their medical bills after Mom/Grandpa died of cancer.

It is a very American thing to get so upset when the country is criticized. Haven't run into that in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, or Serbia. Okay, the Hungarians can match American nationalism at times, but for the most part you guys have a monopoly on incomprehensibly bone-headed nationalism occluding your view of the wonders of the rest of the world...
How come nobody mentions France in the comments? :)

I am French but have been working 12 years for a very large US company , spent a lot of time in the US, go friends there - an witnessed/helped several Americans moving to France.

Salary and healthcare were already covered. The fact that over a 3 days drive across Europe you visit 4 or 5 countries with vastly different cultures is a big plus. And by vastly I mean really vastly. We've been in constant wars for 2000+ years and this created a very nice and specific melting pot + cultural differences.

School will be very different. In France you will have a more formalized way of education (which is not a good thing), but also a very liberal one. Children will be drinking tap water starting at kindergarten and and stay like this their whole life.
They won't (usually) go to school on Wednesday.

The office will be less politically correct. You will have people discussing politics and religion - though this became less outspoken the last 10 years or so.

You will have good baguettes and average bread - but still eons better than the average US bread.

Bureaucracy is mcu better than the stereotype. But not good either. You have to learn the power of the "pffff" sound you make with your eyebrows up - which means "I understand that this is the rule, but you know, I have to do/get/send that and it is a huge problem if I don't". Many foreigners foolishly assume that a "no" means "this is not possible".

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pae2AMnmUVA for the more scientific approach to how to be French when you are not.
Global Foundries is still used as the northbridge chiplet inside modern AMD processors; only the CPU core chiplets are from TSMC.

Global Foundries has sizable operations in Dresden, Germany. Interestingly, this was a major semiconductor supplier of the Eastern Block, prior the fall of the iron curtain. AMD placed their primary foundry in Dresden, likely for the infrastructure and technical knowledge.

Global Foundries has decided that more money can be made at 14nm and above, than what is required for smaller process nodes.
No. Not at all. Too many cooks in the kitchen makes diminishing returns.
Pretty much that, you can be integrated in Berlin without speaking German nor interacting with german people
> thought I was saying FUBAR

Wow, I thought FUBAR was an acronym invented specifically to be polite and not use the f-word explicitly.
It's still a bit of an open question on the wet market.
I moved from San Francisco to London with my wife (no kids) in Spring of 2020. So my experience has been very covid-y but still hugely positive. We moved here because we always wanted to live in Europe and we only speak English, so London seemed like the best place to start.

TL;DR - I highly recommend doing this move if you can afford to do it (financially and socially).

Where do I live: Central London

What's the biggest sacrifice: I kept my job in the move and took a ~25% paycut in my job and got slightly worse hours. But the biggest sacrifice was being an ocean away from my friends and family. Oh and the clothes dryers suck here :-)

What have I gained: So much. I got to live in a city of 10M+ people with every possible amenity and activity you could ever want. I got to travel to so many parts of Europe that I never would have gone to otherwise. I learned how to make friends intentionally, something I haven't done since college. I learned how to work remotely effectively, something I thought I couldn't do. I learned how another country works day-to-day, which I think is hard to do without first-hand experience. I learned how to travel with last-minute plans (thanks Covid and RyanAir). I learned how much time I can spend alone with my wife in lockdown without going insane (infinite, so far!). In general I learned that we can live almost anywhere if we are determined to do it.

If it wasn't for my friends back in the US, I'd stay in London permanently. But after ~3 years in London we'll probably head back and try to resume our old life in some form. I hope that when I am older I can return, maybe I'll retire in Spain or send my kids to college in Europe.
The most expensive films Peter Jackson ever did (at the time of filming, that is) features that story hook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braindead_(film)

(too be precise, Wikipedia is says it's a rat-monkey hybrid, but I think that should be close enough)
It's kind of bizarre how it's an accomplishment to get your code closer to what the hardware is capable of. In a sane world, that should be the default environment you're working in. Anything else is wasteful.
Does that add a static random delay on bootup or does it randomly delay the job each time? Because for timers you can pick that for every single timer individually.
"An old man, turned ninety-eigth..."
Maybe that video can also help:

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10776
For those who are on the fence, looking at the mechanical keyboards and wondering if they are that great, I've been there and contemplated the idea of building one for a few years.

It's a rabbit hole, and the cost can easily pile up, not even talking about the time spent studying all the possible mods and brands and styles, but at the end the satisfaction is there and I think that my custom keyboard is built to last a decade or more.

Using it for typing code, prose or instant messaging is a delight.
The type of experience is similar to what you get when driving a luxury car or wearing tailor made clothes, it feels good.

The base board I used is the GMMK pro, not the best choice if I had to do it again, I had to heavily mod it to achieve the sound profile I wanted and it is still a bit stiff.

I'd recommend buying something a bit pricier, built from small companies in the US or South Korea, those are in my opinion the most advanced design at the moment.

I used lubed Gateron Black Silent for the switches, very happy with the result, smooth, quiet with a bassy sound.

MT3 is in my opinion a very good choice for the keycaps profile, sculpted and retro, I used the Susuwatari from Drop.
The article describes a few interesting things, among which is a scenario in which guanine is added to RNA to improve its adhesion to the lipid layer. One such example they noted was a G-quadruplex.

Do we see/have other examples?
Your last sentence….. The macOS version is awfully not-Maclike in ways that matter and that you can’t fix with plugins (last I checked). They’re pretty far from a native Mac editing experience, and nothing about Sublime actually requires that divergence; TextMate 2 is still a much better native-feeling experience.

Edit: that said, I’ve now realized it’s been at least three years since I tried Sublime, so this could be improved?
> if you like tacos, stay on that side of the pond

I find it extremely hard to believe you can't find good tacos in London.

Last time I visited London and Paris I was overwhelmed by the variety of cuisines available. Probably the ubiquity of tacos in the US is replaced by food from every random tiny country you can think of.

Of course this isn't always applicable outside these 2 megacities; you're more likely to find more Turkish restaurants everywhere than Mexican ones everywhere in Europe.
Apple M1 Max and Pro Outrun Intel and AMD in Single-Thread Benchmark Sprint
This is one of the reasons that keeping code in a repository (especially a git repo) with good discipline on tying changes to issue descriptions is so key. It won't guarantee you'll find all relevant consequences of a change, but it really gives you a leg-up on the alternative of parsing out the results of a change by examining the code entrails.
> (..) if you took a vacation. it was actually expected.

It goes even further than this. It’s a problem for the employer if the employer doesn’t use their vacation time.
> What are you looking for which the “show only modified preferences” button doesn't provide?

Things handful of things I the user have actually set to be a certain value not the hundreds of things that are not the initial value the instant you launch the browser for the first time or the hundreds more that change from normal use after that. Just the 3 or 4 I have actually changed.
I don't think I have ever seen a major US office building where the printers were on an isolated network. They are usually on the same network as the workstations, but sometimes on the server network, so the print server can connect directly to them.

And to be honest, (I have been out of it for a few years now) I have yet to see a company block OUTGOING access on a DMZ.
Geez someone hit a nerve, eh?

I'm a Canadian and I've travelled most of Europe, and most of the US (among other parts of the world).

The simple fact that the US doesn't have universal healthcare, and refuses to do anything real about it, or other endemic self-inflicted issues like gun violence - problems the rest of the modern world solved long ago! - kinda puts you at the bottom of the list of modern/developed countries in my book.

OP used a rather inflammatory term for sure, but he's not wrong when comparing pros/cons of first-world countries to the US. Y'all have real problems that you could solve but _choose_ not to.

It's obviously not all bad, there are lots of things to love about the US, but I would never ever choose to live there for the reasons above and more.
> Words to blow ones minds, history that brings tears with a few simple footsteps...

These are exactly the kinds of faux profundities I used to hear — and say! — traveling in youth hostels in my late teens.

It’s jarring to see them coming from someone ostensibly past forty.
I appreciate your comment! but I really don't think that's the right conclusion. I've been doing this for years—people know what to expect from me. I'd rather be up front about the fact that I care about HN and YC, and don't like to let false accusations go unanswered. To some extent it's a temperament thing. Past experiences (long before HN) have conditioned me to be a bit passionate in this department, and with a community like this one, which is extremely sensitive to the truth, I think it would be a bigger mistake to pretend otherwise. Probably a hugely bigger mistake, because what works best for me on HN is relating to people, and I can only do that by being myself.

I've never claimed to be impartial and never would (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). What I do claim is that (a) we try hard to be fair and to follow HN's principles, especially the one about intellectual curiosity (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...) ; (b) we always answer questions truthfully, partly because it feels better that way and partly because it would be dumb not to (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...) ; and (c) we moderate HN less, not more, when YC or a YC startup is involved in a story (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). That, by the way, is the only reason why this imaginary riler-upper spent 11 hours on HN's front page today. We'd never allow that normally—it goes against everything the site is supposed to be for. But I dutifully gritted my teeth and bore it, because that's the principle, and because I'm not about to trade a global optimum for a local one (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), even though it sucks to periodically get slimed like this.
i love that github does this
> Europe is civilized. America is a wilderness.

Funny that you put it this way. That's the reason why some of cousins came back to Mexico from the US: They feel the US is very strict and there's a lot of rules, while over here in Mexico you are free to do whatever you want.
The problem is that you have to go through a GP first, which has a budget and tends to be very conservative. Many GPS will try some silly experiments for months before writing a referral. But once you get a referral it’s reasonably quick. Many companies now offer health insurance with private GPs, which tend to be less unreasonable re: referrals.

Said that it is much worse than Germany or France. To this day I don’t understand the British obsession for a healthcare system that would be acceptable in a middle income country (say Russia or Mexico), but that’s clearly not what you’d expect in a developed country.
I don't recall the Japanese being accused of poor quality. Just imitating rather than innovating. Many Japanese products like swords, knives, cameras, have been known for surprisingly high quality for a long time. Centuries in some cases.

I'd say Chinese manufacturing is a little cheaper and a lot lower quality, and generally the price difference is not remotely sufficient to make up for the loss in performance. You need a company in the middle who cares about their reputation to be safe buying it.
So tl;dr what is "buzzing" is start-ups trying to promise flying taxis to the rich. Hopefully this tech will be a gateway to actual electric long-haul aviation that could transform air travel.
This is something that doesn't get talked about often and i'm glad you brought it up.

For all its flaws, the US (and Canada) are societies built around inclusion. Anyone can become American or Canadian and they have. In North America, you are allowed to retain your original identity and flaunt your culture. In Europe, you must become only French, or only Dutch or only Italian. Your original identity is often erased.

Europe is a society fractured along lines of ethnicity and don't let anyone here tell you that ethnicity is not a huge part of identity. In europe, you are merely tolerated, you will never truly integrate and be accepted as "one of us". This is very evident in the words of non-white footballers like Ziyech and Ozil, one of whom is an EU citizen but plays for an African country. "Us" in the European context involves a specific ethnicity and this fact is very evident to people of colour in Europe.

You can certainly find individual europeans who buck this trend but the overall pressure from society is very different and this is the aspect a lot of people miss.

While europe's quality of life is great, what i'm getting at is a long-term problem that cannot be solved. And mind you, this is true everywhere in the old world as every society there is built around ethnicity.
>German culture's proclivity for peace-making

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitali_Klitschko#Political_car...

>UDAR is supported by the German government and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation[93][94] and received support in particular from Angela Merkel and also politicians from the conservative European People's Party. According to information gained by the German magazine Der Spiegel, the target was to "set up Klitschko purposefully as a new strong man in Kyiv—in order to counter this way the Kremlin's growing influence".

>Klitschko was one of the dominant figures of the Euromaidan protests.

Germany hasn't exactly kept their hands clean over the last few years. But I'm glad you enjoy the propaganda.
Sometimes re-enforcement of humility is key. People who do computers for a living operate in a space where they both define realities and operate in those definitions; it's pretty easy to build up a poorly-earned god complex there.
> Remember, Stephenson’s target audience consisted of “scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and entrepreneurs.” Given his choice to court private wealth, it’s no surprise that Project Hieroglyph was doomed from the start. After all, you can’t very well expect to succeed as a hero if you stop to ask the villains for their permission.

It's really, really hard to take somebody serious when their political frame of reference makes them see the world in such crisp black and white contrast they just assume, without any further explanation needed, that clearly everybody already agrees that entrepreneurs (or maybe private wealth? As in, non-government wealth?) are the real villains.
>Amsterdam... except for the terrible weather.

Must be truly spoiled coming from SF.
As for amazon: amazon.nl (not .com) and you are set.
Latitude isn't everything. I grew up on a latitude that is probably relatively uninhabitable in Canada.
> Living in America is by definition a privileged position

Low income Americans have it much worse than low income Europeans on probably every single metric you can come up with.
I'll chime in here and say I hate the weather in LA, so for me, losing that would be a plus. ;)
> you can't believe anything unless an official source is provided

Official sources are necessary but not at all sufficient. They are highly biased.
Matches what the antiwork subreddit defines itself as in it's sidebar
Google Drive now warns you of suspicious phishing, malware docs
"Hard to walk to the grocery store where you live" isn't the same thing as "hard to live where you can walk to the grocery store".

If you count entire cities as "well to do areas" then I suppose I agree.
This is most true in financial roles, where a consecutive week off gives the employer enough time to demonstrate there's no embezzlement happening.
I kinda feel like we’re headed for stagflation at this point. I don’t even think we can stimulus our way to temporary reprieve.
Base 64 encoding is good enough to hide a keyword from a casual glance
Google didn't really kill off FLoC, but rather no other browser implemented such a user-hostile feature.

Hard to sell ad targeting to your customers if iPhone users or Firefox users or Safari users can't be targeted.
LA was home base but I worked and visited most of the USA's states, and I just find American classism to be .. distasteful. And also, endemic no matter where you go.
Hackaday covered this recently too:

https://hackaday.com/2022/01/22/zhengbang-pick-places-your-c...
By professionals and by their peers. By what metric are the Midwestern schools on the same level?
Won't discuss publicly, but I'd say : worth doing, but leave your stuff in storage for two years -- the appliances won't work here anyhow.

Seek out communities (meetup, etc), and if you're doing it for a startup, you're doing it for the wrong reasons.

Pm for story time, but basically, it's an adventure, and one that will be of (mostly) your own making
Netherlands, 10 years now. Actually ready to move on… Portugal, Malta, Thailand, perhaps spending 1-6 months at a time in a given location.

Gave up my car and driving frequently. Fantabulous gift of freedom not having to deal with traffic and car management. Public transport is a gift, and taxis or very short term car rental programs are a fine fallback.

Gave up some income as salaries are annoying much lower and taxes are much higher. But quality of life, depending on where you go, is much higher.

Get rid of as much of your possessions as you can. You can re-buy what you really need, and with more great activities available (non-COVID times) you spend less time at home needing stuff. Also apartments are smaller, so you don’t want to be crowded with stuff.

My first 5 years were in Amsterdam area, and it’s really fun. So many great social options, including for nerds (lots of tech meetups, often with free pizza and beer :) ). Plenty of bars and clubs and restaurants. Most restaurants are underwhelming and overpriced, so that’s not the attraction… but it provides social options.

If you’re American, it’s incredibly easy to set up residence in Netherlands based on the DAFT agreement. Look it up.

Portugal and Malta have visa programs for freelancers and people who can show that they have reliable income from outside sources. Lisbon is pretty great with much better food on average than Amsterdam. And much better climate.
This may or may not help your cynicism, but here's 2 fun facts:

* NASA doesn't even get the majority of the US government's space spending

* NASA's budget is still larger than every other country's civilian space program combined
Are you able to make an appointment for a specific date or you actually have to call everyday to see if there are open slots?
Generally this problem is because someone went crazy with template haskell or generics
41m € of alleged losses. And for that want, the library of Alexandria was burned down.
Although it does not become clear from blogpost, I have another device and a backup server, so it is okay for me :)
Yeah my comment only really applies if you can choose the region of the country you live in. I don't really know what it's like in e.g. Indiana, so I trust your judgement on it.
totally agree, I absolutely hate when I return to a tab and it has to reload, losing the entire reason I didn't close it in the first place.
This definition is almost explicitly crafted to make IP seem worthless.

Information that requires investment to gain is considered valuable. This argument is basically "any job that isn't physical manufacturing should not be paid, since the ideas only spread instead of move."

Oh you spent $500m developing a novel cognitive treatment for ptsd and proving it works better than sota? Humanity thanks you! Enjoy your total loss."

Oh you wrote a book? Hopefully it wasn't a book on business building, since you'll be earning nothing for your effort.

Oh you're a consultant? How charitable of you!
Not entirely true; ShareX has many more features than Flameshot, including video capture and custom uploaders.
Met a lot of my best friends through there. Still hurts is gone.
One of Bitcoin's essential properties is that the miners are not trusted to validate correctly. If a miner mines an invalid transaction, then the network will simply reject their block.
Very cool!

My question: will this kind of thing become more mainstream? I've seen the web emerge, go from static pages to entire apps being delivered and executed in the browser. The last bastion of native apps and libraries seems to be highly optimized algorithms but maybe those will also migrate to a deliver-from-the-web and execute in some kind of browser sandbox.

Java promised to deliver some version of native code execution but the Java app/applet idea never seemed to take off. In some ways it seems superior to what we have now but maybe the security concerns we had during that era held Java back too much. Or am I misunderstanding what WebAssembly can bring to the game?