skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a key fact missing from this discussion:

What % of the world's $1 billion startups are founded in the United States?

If the best economic opportunities are in the US, then it makes sense that a lot of people would come here for them.

2020 stats: World population 8.8 billion, US population 330 million (4% of world population)

If "talent" is approximately randomly distributed among the world's population — a reasonable assumption IMO — then you wouldn't expect Americans to be founding much more than 4% of the world's $1 billion dollar startups... unless economic opportunities are not randomly distributed geographically, of course.

If the US is "the land of opportunity", so to speak, the US allows significant immigration, and the US population is a tiny minority of the world's population, then it's not surprising that immigrants — in other words, the best that the entire rest of the world has to offer — would do well relative to Americans.

The story starts with Tomas Gorny moving from Poland to the US, and becoming successful. But... how many Americans move to Poland for economic opportunities? My intention is not to diss Poland (which has a population of only 40 million), but rather to point out that the opportunities in the US attract a very broad world talent pool, so there's simply more competition.

Immigrants to the US are not randomly distributed. We're not just randomly rounding up people in other countries and dropping them here. Ambition and a desire to improve one's situation dramatically is a common trait. Otherwise it might not be worth moving from one's homeland.

The tech industry is "centered" on the west coast of the US (or was, pre-pandemic). But most people in tech are not native born Californians. That's not surprising. It would be surprising if native born Californians were naturally more talented than everyone else. The reality is that people around the country, and around the world, moved to California for the economic opportunities that happened to be in California, for historical reasons. It would be kind of silly to say the explanation is that native Californians are naturally lazy, and other people not born in California are harder working.
> hardly anyone would drive, either, unless they really had to.

What percentage of the US lives in these urban, super dense areas where this is even possible?

1-2%?

Also, weather. Most of the US does not have mild weather like California and has to contend with conditions that make bicycle travel a “fair weather”, novelty activity.
Ex-Google Engineer Says AI Bot Is 'Racist,' Google Ethics a 'Fig Leaf'
I think it's an S&P Global report that they're all quoting.

https://ihsmarkit.com/Info/0722/futureofcopper.html

Not sure if that's available but the same source was expecting a mild glut of copper over the next few years due to new mines opening and no one seems to predict higher prices long term, so I think this might just be standard industry whining that taxes and health and safety and environmental laws are holding them back.

> Even though a rise in demand is anticipated, this will not be enough to absorb the increase in supply, Commerzbank's commodities analyst Daniel Briesemann said in a note.

> Also, the conspicuous supply difference is due to the expected noteworthy recovery in mine output.

> According to ICSG, mine output >will rise by 3.9% due to the commissioning of several new projects and the expansion of existing mines, Briesemann said.

> This was echoed by UK brokerage Marex Spectron, which said in a research note Dec. 7 that according to CRU -- a commodity research company -- the view is that after a deficit in 2021, the following two years are expected to see a surplus.

> Aside primary copper production, an increase in secondary production, from scrap copper, was also likely to contribute to copper's surplus, Briesemann said.
Scoop: Meta officially cuts funding for U.S. news publishers
It's Linux with a kernel dated about 2010, so yes to all of them.
See, all of that makes a lot of sense. What doesn't make sense to me is

"Hey, so decades of work has gone into Window Managers and Desktop Environments. How will we preserve those going forward with this?"

And the answer appears to have been "Eh, we wont. Maybe later? They can just rewrite them all or something." Madness.
I love reading about the history around legendary companies like this. I was an avid Turbo Pascal user starting in 1990 or so. This sent me into a rabbit hole of research.

I thought I knew a lot about Borland's history, but what I didn't know was that the original team left Borland in 1987 to form JPI (Jensen & Partners), headquartered in London, taking a bunch of in-progress code with them that they bought from Borland for $1.7m. JPI made a range of development tools called TopSpeed, which I remember hearing about back then. Unlike Borland's language tools, TopSpeed was a unified compiler backend with a frontend compiler for each language.

JPI eventually merged with Clarion, which made a "4GL" IDE with its own crude Pascal-esque programming language that at one point competed with Microsoft Access, as well as with database-focused IDEs like Microsoft's Visual Basic and Borland's own Delphi. Clarion still exists, though it's now owned by a company called SoftVelocity, and is built on .NET, and looks like it's barely on life support.

Of the original Borland founders, I don't know what happened to Niels Jensen, but Ole Henriksen [1] started a business that designs technology for prefab "pod" houses, and Mogens Glad [2] became a movie producer.

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/ole-henriksen-a731323a/

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/in/mglad/
Totally, it was so clever and revolutionary in many ways. I put it on the same pedestal as you say with the Mini and Beetle.
I wonder how much of the current anxiety wave that seems to have stricken Millennials and Gen Z is because they have no idea how to be alone with their thoughts. Anecdotally, I have heard a great many jokes about needing a distraction due to negative internal discourse. Like if they are left alone for more than 5 minutes by themselves, they will inevitably spiral into depression. I have people in my life that need a constant supply of internet, podcasts, music, tv, etc, or they start to get anxious.

As an anxious person, I see why. Like any skill, guiding your thoughts away from negativity without repression, is something that needs practice. If you are constantly distracted, you never get to practice this trait. I see the rise of "wellness" and pop-meditation as a reaction.
By comparison, the largest share of wind and solar in any country is only 43% in Denmark. Germany comes in second only 33%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable...

So if 70% is insufficient to demonstrate feasibility, then solar and wind are even worse off.
But that is what influencing is. By definition, these results show that cases given Wikipedia articles exert an otherwise unproportional influence on the legal landscape.

Not a particularly surprising result, but it shows how much of an effect such a little thing can have, and how big of an influence for example controlling what articles published vs not published could have over time.
The looming copper shortage does not just coming for EV's. ICE vehicles use a substantial amount of copper (and other metals). "Starters, generators, and alternators contain an average of 2.8, 2.6, and 1.5 pounds of copper, respectively. Alternators also contain 3 to 4 pounds of aluminum. Most of the remaining metal is iron. About one-half of the starters have a solenoid that contains 0.5 pounds of copper." [0]. So that's at least 4.3 lbs (1.95 kg) of copper per ICE vehicle, not including uses in electronics etc.

[0] https://www.911metallurgist.com/scrapped-starter-motors-alte...
This is true, but cash is still widely used by the unbanked as well. Go to a grocery store in a poor part of town and you will see plenty of cash being handled at the checkouts.
Depending on the town maybe longer.
Fuzzy matched to NAICS titles perhaps. I’ve gone through that jumble and “Driver” had so many edge cases
Perhaps "install" is the wrong word.

I want my software to be upgraded through the normal means. I don't want to monitor the Go website for new versions and I don't want the tools themselves to phone home with update checks (especially if Google is behind them).

I now notice that Ubuntu packages golang-go in their repositories, so I suppose Go is on par with Meson and Ninja. Strange that they don't mention that on their download page, though.

> You can also easily cross-platform compile with Go. Try that with C without jumping through hoops !

Clang has "--target=arm-linux-gnueabihf" to cross compile to ARM. You might need to go more specific (i.e. "--target=riscv64 -march=rv64gc" for specific RISCV configurations) but it's just a single command line flag. With GCC/G++ you need the dedicated compiler packaged separately to save space, but you'd use environment variables (export CC="arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc"; export CXX="export CC="arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++").

The only difficulty you'd run into is when you want to dynamically link the produced binary (because you need a compatible .so to link against). You'll have the same problem in any language, though.
Air Conditioning Will Not Save Us
That's a good site. Ugly as 1995 but still good info.
"Oracle expert"

2 weeks later: See your new recommendations for job opportunities in Delphi!
> I think it's hard for people in general to think differently and admit to themselves what they really want to do.

Yes, exactly. And not to mention it’s something that takes real effort and time, which can be in very short supply.
As if the source of the uranium was in any way comparable to gas or coal…
open source effort would be rather spent on UI/UX over CGAL or Libfive. The project is a dead end because they choose to reimplement inverse CSG instead of reusing years of R&D or any FRep library
> What about to serve or help your country?

did Kyivites ask citizens of Mariupol about their position on the armed coup against a democratically elected [1] president in 2014? That president was elected by a majority of Eastern Ukraine, including Mariupol. The president didn't break a law even to be impeached, yet political elites and their sympathizers around Kiyv decided the fate of the country for everyone in that year. There was no referendum, there was no impeachment process, there was no desire to preserve the right to representation of the people in Eastern Ukraine. But now you're asking a random guy from Mariupol to "serve or help your country". What for? To be tossed around once more?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Ukrainian_presidential_el...
It's easy to develop fault-free code: just redefine all those faults as (undocumented) features!

That's not a helpful answer, but it's basically the same thing you're doing--redefining memory safety vulnerabilities that would be precluded entirely by writing in memory-safe languages as programmer faults.
Hello @mindtropy. I read your comment under an other post. You talked about having worked in embedded industry in last 16yrs and how you used to enjoy working on electronics earlier but don't care as much these days. Can we email? My address is in the bio.
The problem is that in certain subjects (especially those with a potential ethical dimension like social and cultural pages) there is significant bias towards the left (I say that as a left-leaning person).

That's not healthy at all when being used as a resource without awareness and significant caution.
Visual Studio 2022 Roadmap – the first 64-bit version
I made a virtual bookshelf for book reviews
This is based on Peter Gyurov's work which he shared here a couple months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31293727.

I loved the idea and wanted to use it for my site, but I also wanted to give my reviews of the books and thought it would be fun if you could click the books to expand them.
That’s my point; nobody tries because harpies screech “network effects” every time it’s discussed…
Outside of Manhattan cars are generally faster than the subway, significantly so outside of rush hour.
I both agree with you and also think that Path of Exile ate their cake years ago and that hardcore playerbase no longer orbits around Diablo.
Oooh, so star-trek-y. Very nice.
This article is both too cynical and yet not cynical enough.

Of course Amazon is doing good not out of the goodness of it's heart but for good PR. This is true of literally every large corporation.

But that doesn't mean the good they do isn't good.

The way they are "neutralizing" them with ex inmates and vulnerable students is they're making a special effort to hire ex-inmates and underprivileged students.
I also enjoy Hamilton Watches, I've got the Khaki field automatic, it's great!
update: double-escape issue is now fixed.
One of those el-cheapo "fairy light"[1] things (a strand of multi-color LED's that can change color, blink, etc). I bought this as a lark when I was re-organizing my electronics lab area at home and strung the lights on and around the rack that holds part of my test equipment, and across to the rack that sits on my bench. Put it in "change color" mode and haven't touched it in over a year. The thing just sits there and shines and changes colors. That's it. Dead simple, stupid, cheap, and meaningless. And yet it brings me joy for some reason. Just about every time I walk through that room I find myself smiling and thinking "I'm so glad I bought that."

It's not really rational and I can't really explain it, but I just really enjoy it for some reason. shrug

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WGSP78V/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
> "It would be a place where people go to celebrate the worst aspects of human nature, and where nobody is ever held accountable for their actions."

Congress?
She had such an amazing impact on young women and PoC.

And she had the grace to understand what it meant to every one of us.
...AND land use reforms.
X11 with a bare wm has had less jank for me than GNOME, Wayland, and all the fixings. Wayland is an effort pushed by those who want to make their desktop "more digital"[0]. Which is fine, but when what you have works and is rock solid, you tend to want to keep it around.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32270950
> We need every possible contribution to fight the dooming climate emergency. Bicycles AND electric cars. Renewables AND nuclear AND carbon capture.

The problem is that some of these are working against each other. Electric cars means much much higher electrical energy needs - perhaps needing to even double the current grid. And that works against the need to decomission fossil fuel plants.

As such, significantly reducing car usage seems like a much safer bet than achieving a 0-carbon grid that is double the size of the current one in ~15 years.
The Efficacy of Facemasks in the Prevention of Covid-19
No need to be snarky. You can have efficient grocery shopping that saves everyone time if everyone paid by card/contactless like you see in NL or the Nordics instead of wasting time and resources counting coins and transporting them around when the digital alternative is so much more efficient.

No need to create more CO2 for the packaging and transport of groceries to your door if the supermarket is on your way from work anyway. Plus you get to pick the exact fruits and veggies you like yourself.

I assume you have a US viewpoint where grocery delivery is common but this is not a thing for consumers in Austria outside of the capital. It also costs extra so there's that.
> He kept on "reducing complexity" while re-building what is essentially the same, rather primitive, language. ANd he kept throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

What is interesting about Oberon is that it is a complete (i.e. OS + compiler + HW) usable system that can be understood in its entirety by a single human being within one lifetime.

As far as I know it's also the only system currently in existence that fullfills that promise.

Just the language part of Oberon is not optimal for running on the regular personal computer systems we used or are currently using. But AFAIK that was never its purpose either.
I thought we had this kind of covered 20 years ago with J2EE
Europe’s experiment: Treating trains like planes [video]
NSA Cybersecurity open source software releases
For me, I stopped being rigid. That takes courage to get out of a comfort zone. Try something totally oblique to what you’re used to doing. Recognize your strengths and build on top of them. (For me one of my strengths is curation and organizing information). You can only build on strength. Hope this helps.
If it means my grandchildren would be significantly less likely to die in water or oil wars then I'd take that trade today.
I was hiring on LinkedIn and what really annoyed me the most are two UI dark patterns.

1. If there is someone that LinkedIn doesn't seem fit, there are three clicks necessary to make this person fit compared to one click for accepting the rejection. And it is visually made very clear that this person is not fit.

2. The fitness as calculated by LinkedIn it not working correctly by flagging too many people as being unfit.

As a result, inexperienced recruiters or HR staff would blanket disregard these applicants even though a lot of them are much more qualified than non-flagged applicants.

[edit] Here is the overview I created at the time. One might argue that the sample is small. But I think it should be possible to speak to applicants in this case. https://i.imgur.com/n7i5VtP.jpg
The company can be co-opted by greedy upper management. (See DataRobot recently for an example). But that’s more like a company getting conned from inside the house. The company’s allegiance was sabotaged or subverted.

Beyond that? Loyalty is to the biggest investors. Other companies. The CEO answers to the board, and the board tends to answer or connect to those companies. Sure, they profit, but that’s a pittance compared to the real money. Managers below that get their fraction of a fraction. And everyone else drools because that’s still real money to an individual.
I really dislike sensationalized headlines like this. A more accurate one might say:

> Amazon's plan to counter pressure from the Teamsters Union focuses on investing in non-profits.

For those who didn't read the article:

A leaked Amazon memo shows that the Teamsters Union is effectively putting pressure on Amazon by convincing its members to pressure politicians into not granting Amazon tax breaks, land grants, etc.

Amazon is worried that this represents a real threat to expansion as having local politicians turn against them will almost certainly mean their competitors like UPS (who is friendly with the Teamsters) will outcompete them.

So, Amazon is going to invest in local charities like those for ex-convicts and low-income students. This has two purposes:

1. Give politicians an excuse to give Amazon tax breaks (look at what they invest in the community).

2. Build positive sentiment with local members who will talk to politicians on Amazon's behalf. They'll be especially motivated to if Amazon threatens to pull funding from their non-profits.
Is your first paragraph a quote or your own comment? I usually post a ">" in front of quotes from articles or other users.

I've seen posts I put up get lots of votes, go to the top position and stay there. I've also seen others go up, then drop off. It stands to reason if someone reports something for a site guidelines violation that it would weigh the article. However, I'm not sure that's how it really works.

You could reference Dang's comments about things like this for more insight. I wish we had the source code of HN to inspect, but then again it's written in a custom language, so I'm not sure I'd understand it!

Either way, this place is usually awesome and they do a good job policing it in a way that it has stayed awesome for a really long time. That's not to say some individuals here and there aren't burned by it. It's just letting go of it that is important. I don't think anyone here has time for long term grudges. If they did, they aren't worth the effort thinking about them.

This place isn't going to make or break you or your idea. The only thing that can do that is you! Good luck and I hope you do well with the writing!
Roland Weigelt – Thinking About the Costs of a Software Feature
Open source with MIT license: https://github.com/moochee/moochee. Any feedback is welcome.
I bought a Specialized Hard Rock for about $400 back in 2006. It's still the bike I ride to this day. Yes it's an antique by contemporary MTB'ing standards (26" wheels, egad!) but the thing is a tank and it just keeps working. Other than routine maintenance and a bent derailleur hanger, it's been almost completely bullet-proof. Probably one of the best purchases I've ever made.
Actually the problem of inexperienced drivers isn't so hard - and governments here (and probably elsewhere) are making it worse by only allowing registered share- scheme scooters to be used on footpaths etc., when clearly private owners are more likely to be experienced. It would surely make more sense to require a basic sort of license to ride e-scooters on footpaths or roads, but honestly I think the public just need time to adapt - there were outcries over cars when they first started appearing widely on public roads (justifiably too, as they were pretty deadly).
Here's a fun hour and a half analysis on a page related to Ukraine: https://youtu.be/3kaaYvauNho
Art School for Programmers
I use it pretty much every day. Almost all restaurants and stores have an ATM, and when not, there's always one somewhere nearby.

For me it's a matter of principle, I use cash because I want businesses to continue accepting cash. I have credit cards and I sometimes use them out of laziness (or for anything over $200 or so, or online...) But if a business refuses cash then I'll refuse to do business with them, because I think they're disenfranchising people who don't have credit cards and I won't support that. Thankfully this is fairly rare.
I use both JS and Python for networking all the time and sometimes I wish there was just a first class way to say "these are u32" and "these are u128" because it can make things like this dead simple and blazing fast (pseudocode):

function <u1> inSubnet(<u32>networkAddress, <u32>networkMask, <u32>testIP)
{
<u32>lower = networkAddress;
<u32>upper = networkAddress + ~netmask;

return (testIP >= lower) && (testIP <= upper);
}

Number of IPs in a subnet is "~netmask + 1", network address of a host with a given netmask is "host & netmask", mask length to integer form is "0xFFFFFFFF << (32 - maskLength)", and so on. Subnet logic is all designed to be clear, lightweight, and fast from the ground up.

Of course it's also nice to have built in libraries like "ipaddress" too as most (if not all) of what you were wanting to do will likely already be done for you but in the cases it doesn't you're back to wishing you could just specify a type to save a lot of work.
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Some people have only lived in highly dense areas and can't imagine why you'd need a car in certain cities or regions.

Those seem to be the people who push the car-less idea the most, because it meets their world view, but doesn't work once you step outside the downtown bubble.

But what I think they want are solutions to the parking, traffic, and other issues that stem from city overpopulation and/or planning mismanagement of cities.

As an outsider I agree cities need to rework how they handle cars (idling in traffic for an hour to go 10 miles, parking being hell, etc.) but it's a specific problem to cities (some more so than others)