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> Muslim from London here - my father came here as an immigrant in the 80's, and stayed here. I would say that I'm integrated. Your outlook reeks of no only condescension and disdain for class struggle, but complete misunderstanding of how cultures develop and work.

I’m not talking about individual experiences, but aggregate statistics. In the UK, poor Muslims get more education than poor whites, but that doesn’t translate into better jobs: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/asian-muslims-and-black-p.... They have lower income mobility than similarly situated whites.

The statistics are much worse in continental Europe, where Muslim immigrants are stuck in inter-generational poverty. Turkish people started immigrating to Europe in significant numbers around 1970, around the same time Vietnamese people started immigrating to the US. Half a century later, Vietnamese Americans have fully caught up with British Americans in terms of income. But the situation for Turks in Europe has been starkly different: https://theconversation.com/many-turkish-people-who-migrated... (“By the third generation, around half (49%) of those living in Europe were still poor, compared with just over a quarter (27%) of those who remained behind… Migrants from three family generations residing in countries renowned for the generosity of their welfare states were among the most impoverished. Some of the highest poverty rates were observed in Belgium, Sweden and Denmark.”).

To an American those statistics are unbelievable. Germans, Italians, and Irish all came over a cheap labor and reached parity with British Americans within three generations. The Latin American immigrants coming to America today are on the same track: https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/135/2/711/5687353. Several groups of immigrants who came here as impoverished refugees, such as Koreans, Vietnamese, Lebanese, and Cubans, achieved parity even more quickly.

Your point about “class struggle” and the “barista, off-license shop keeper, [and] NHS keyworker” underscores my point. In Europe immigrants take those jobs, and then their kids take those jobs. That creates a politically and socially volatile situation. In America that doesn’t happen because immigrants have relatively high economic mobility. Irish and Italians did those jobs, and a lot worse, when they came here in the early 20th century. Today there is no meaningful class struggle centered around Irish or Italian identity because those groups fully integrated. In fact it’s a consistent struggle for US Democrats to build durable movements. Irish and Italians got FDR elected, but their kids and grandkids favored Reagan in a landslide.
General anti-capitalist critique, specifically of monopolists like Bill Gates. I tend to veer off in this direction as well so I get it.
2011 article is comparing against OOP, the FP perspective here is that we want to remove state from our systems
I graduated between dotbomb & GFC, so my dad was convinced programmers would never have jobs again. Further, Silicon Valley was not exactly top of the list for me given the preceding crash. Finally, if you wanted to stay on east coast in late 90s/early 00s in tech, there wasn't a lot of choice outside Wall St.
So I technically live in a "metropolitan area" with a 100k+ population. Somebody got really creative with boundary lines, supposedly to help with procuring federal dollars. I step outside in the morning to the sound of cows moo-ing. A few years ago our street had more chicken than people (until a fox figured out our street had more chickens than people). Occasionally I stop to let wild turkeys cross the road.

So even "big" areas can be quite rural.
How so? It costs more per kwh than renewables. If you are going to store electricity, it may as well be from renewables (which also benefit the most from storing power in a practical sense)
It makes sense in itself, but then why do you think the second email went through in this case, considering no factors other than content didn't change?
I don't get it. What does this do that Google Calendar doesn't?
An indoor marketplace with shelf space you can lease is actually the business model of most large grocery chains. [1] Food manufacturers rent shelf space to display and sell their products. But these stores are run by corporations, not by the government.

1. For instance see: https://www.vox.com/2016/11/22/13707022/grocery-store-slotti...
Ha that's the app I'm talking about, it was about a decade ago. It was still mind bogglingly simple compared to US taxes.
Well put! And it demonstrates why people (like the HN'ers who think they're 10xers) have trouble with git. They fundamentally don't understand the problem and how git solves it.
Sorry, but was this whole article written with AI? It seems unusually lacking in meaning and pretty banal. I keep trying to read it, but it seems like it is missing something.
Oh my goodness, the soundtrack was insanely cool! It's still my go-to OST for programming! You just cannot have bad mood when listening to it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=399YneFTwh0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs5QGN-zhwM
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Woah — with all the declarative and functional languages, looks like someone has just discovered a (stateful) state machine. They’re trying to convince us that this is a useful thing in a hypothetical situation where people do ridiculous, unsafe things on an ad-hoc basis. Not sure I’m buying it.

Oh, wrong universe.

Edit:

I use state, too. I get it. I just dislike it. It doesn’t usually compose and is rarely safe.
I've read at least three books on meditation and worked with a variety of apps, recordings, etc, and as these are all created for a western audience I've never seen anything mystical or religious in any of them. Anything by Jon Kabat-Zinn should be pretty free of religiosity for example , as his goal was to promote mindfulness within a medical setting.
Rare prolonged outages are bad for batteries, since the capital cost is too high. You want something that has very low capital cost, even if it burns a fuel. Simple cycle gas turbines power plants might cost $0.50/W.
I've seen that too. Or when the framework chosen goes away. If the person at a small restaurant or non profit who understood the page goes away you can at least find someone to come up to speed. But sometimes it relies on stuff that just isn't there anymore and you have to start over. I'm not in web dev, or whatever its called, but is there some technology in the space that is the equivalent ofba T-shirt and blue jeans, or a charcoal suit, that will be fine for a couple decades with only informational updates?
Microsoft’s Quasi-Acquisition of OpenAI: Clever Circumvention of Antitrust?
https://share.voomly.com/f/cvvB8_Z7o

The link above is a mini-MBA made with animation. Go out there, gain the business knowledge to take on these so-called tech giants.
I figure the heat cracking is more efficient then electrolytic. It’s called Red Hydrogen. I don’t know if the actual match checks out.
I just started swimming with a local Masters group a few months ago and can definitely notice a difference in my mood if I miss a couple practices. I thought it was just my imagination but didn’t even think about the breath aspect of it.
I'd argue that legalizing polygyny would encourage more men to participate in the economy more eagerly: if they succeed they can have multiple wives and have multiple children with each. This is not a small prize.

Contrast to the current situation: if you work your ass off, the best you get is a wife who will treat you with resentment and disrespect in a couple years, expect you to do chores at home and help change children's diapers, etc. If you divorce she can take half your wealth, and has the power to prevent you from seeing your children (until they turn 18 and decide to go look for you themselves, if you manage to stay alive til then).

A large portion of young men around the world (not just in Japan) are opting out of society because they don't see a point. "The juice is not worth the squeeze".

> Your idea doesn't really address any of the actual reasons a lot of people hold off from having children, it just presents a suggestion to "legalize polygamy for rich men", implying that this somehow addresses the many reasons that people aren't having children.

People are not holding off from having children. What's happening is there are more people who are failing to pair bond in order to have children. More men check out of society because they don't find the offer interesting, and as a result more women are unable to find a suitable mate.

Legalizing and normalizing polygyny solves the probem for a lot of women: just because someone is "taken" doesn't mean he's out of reach for her anymore.

Controversial truth: women prefer sharing a high value man than having the full attention of a low vaue man. Of course, they would prefer having the full attention of a high value man, but failing that, they'd rather share him than downgrade to a lesser man.
There are certain procedures that need to be followed to declassify documents which Trump definitely did not follow.

Also, I've read the legal briefings. Trump doesn't actually claim that he declassified the documents, only that he may have declassified them. And when pressed to clarify whether or not he was arguing that he declassified them, he complained that it was unfair to demand that he take a position on that matter. (Also, Trump never offered the declassification argument until well after the search warrant was executed, and not at any of the other several times when he was asked to return classified information.)

(And to be fair, Trump has been unfairly treated--if anyone else had SCI information in their personal residence, they would be arguing these points of law from jail awaiting their trial. That he has yet to be charged with any crime is a sign of how unequitable his treatment has been.)
All existing air cooled laptops and desktops would benefit because they can keep the same performance and operate much quieter. A colleague's laptop was nicknamed the hoverbook, because it always felt and sounded like it was going to take off whenever he typed 'make'. And heat isn't comfortable on laptops. Plenty of models you need to be careful to not burn yourself if you actually try to use it on your lap.

Oh, and gaming of course. Which has driven most consumer level performance improvements. Laptops haven't gotten 4k gaming sorted yet and already people talking about 8k.... and have you seen the size of the newest NVidia cards? Literally the size of a brick and often in need of scaffolding due to the weight.
If this topic is interesting, Andrew Huberman (paper coauthor) has a YT channel https://www.youtube.com/@hubermanlab
A lot to unpack (read - wildly speculate about) here.

10,000 generations ago. Like the next one but less of a "solved game".

1000 generations ago - Old men coupling with young women reads as small-scale tribal society to me. Polygamy, pride-of-lions. Groups are small enough that village elders control the, uh, means of production. The bottleneck on food is natural stocks.

200-300 generations ago lines up with the dawn of civilization and large-scale farming (5-7000 years ago). The bottleneck on food is human labour. Young people are encouraged to start (reasonably) self-sufficient farming families, and the surplus is traded for, taxed, or stolen.

0-50 generations ago (1000AD+)
??? Cultural escape velocity is reached. Women are having children later than ever before, pointing to less risky lives, greater food security, and increased autonomy, but also a heavier load of cultural baggage. Becoming elves isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Also, before someone else says it, blah blah blah average vs median.
My Swedish bank (Swedbank) had this service from some time in the 00's up until 2017 when they discontinued it. So they were way ahead of the game but for some reason dropped it.
Extracting text from PDF using ChatGPT
It has good power/weight ratio in theory, esp. if you're burning it (c.f. space shuttle), but hard to store or transport it both densely and safely in a practical way -- i.e., unless you're comfortable dragging around cryogenic lH2 in your sports car
'Long-tenured', i.e., older and better-compensated. Silicon Valley worships youth. So this layoff trend is a convenient way for FAANG-type companies to get rid of people they view as 'too old', keeping the younger, hungrier employees who are willing to work for less.
Some people diligently try to make sense of what happened but I have the distinct sense the public simply wants to move on and wipe the pandemic from memory as there are more pressing 'fights'.

Except viruses have no brain, no hurt feelings, no divisive politics, just their inexorable multiplication logic. The writing is on the wall.
Ask HN: What is your experience in tech consulting?
I just started my consulting firm moving from a lead tech role at startups, and I wanted to see other's experience in the forum regarding initially starting the firm, networking etc...
I started with 2 pro bono clients that in return will write a testimonial. I have got also potential paid clients in negotiation, I am focusing on writing and entering podcasting but I am not sure how.
Would also love to hop on some calls if anyone is down anytime.
What argument? I see a passing reference to the ontological argument followed by a bunch of metaphysical word salad. Not exactly a lot of substance to engage with there.

Edit: Sorry about the snarky reply. I just don't have the patience for these kinds of semantic games. I'll just stick to physics, which tells us non-trivial things about the world without defining things into existence.
How do you ensure, or guarantee preferably, that the government will continue to provide a level playing field by preventing anti-market mergers, when capital provides political power?

Is it not simply inevitable that the entities that like having monopolies will continue to accrue capital (political power) to the point that they can influence the government away from preventing monopoly?

We have real world evidence: the usa, and its monopolies and functional monopolies. See: O&G, telecom, ISP, food monopolies for certain restaurants and grocery stores in food deserts.
Interesting.

I use state machines all the time, mostly in FPGA's yet also in software, embedded and beyond. Yes, you do have to develop a sense of when and how to use them.

One of my software techniques is to use a state machine to initially solve and understand a problem. Once done and working, you can start to chip away at the state machine, eliminate states and sometimes refactor the code into something faster or more efficient that completely eliminates the state machine.

The other aspect of this is that state machines can, in some cases, add a layer of safety and failure mitigation.

In the end, it really depends on the nature of the project.
Study at a yeshiva? Parents send their kids to schools that teach this stuff. That's' how I learned it. And it takes years to deal with modern vs biblical Hebrew, and also Aramaic, etc.

Start with Sefaria so at least you can see what it looks like: https://www.sefaria.org/Genesis.1?lang=bi&aliyot=0
Most homes in Tokyo already are equipped with heat pump air conditioners FYI
Is Japan’s political power just completely captured by industry at this point? I live here and I can often not distinguish between pr and matketing of private interests and pr and policy directions of government.. I'm not even really trying to be rhetorical here.. I want to understand this beter.
It seems very plausible to me that calling a line of cereal "OK Go!" that's designed to be eaten on the go and has no other references to the band would not be confusing to the vast majority of people because they had a business relationship >10 years ago.

But the upside about this lawsuit is it will tell us very clearly if you're correct or not.
That‘s really no longer true for most debit cards these days. Issuers can process disputes for debit and credit cards in the exact same way (at least for transactions on Visa and Mastercard, i.e. practically for all online payments).

Higher tier credit cards often have additional insurance that goes beyond what the chargeback mechanism is designed for, though, but for fraud, you shouldn’t need these.
If you do that then you can't pipeline the response handling and you can't show loaded data until you fully transition to B. Any error would equate to every error.

You could have your loading state handle every little detail but then what was the point of the state machine anyway?
There's nothing wrong with internal combustion per se, if electrolysis+ICE works out cheaper than battery in terms of lithium/rare earths/whatever there is no fundamental objection to it.
Tech Job Requirements in 2023
Hmm, if that's the case then I'm not sure there's a good solution. The situation reminds me of the old web frameworks situation ("Python, the language with more web frameworks than keywords." har har) which was resolved when BDFL blessed Django.
Ah yes, the plutocracy with a Minister of Cyber Security with 0 knowledge on IT. So superior.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46222026
https://www.ilograph.com/blog/posts/multiperspective-diagram...
that's deal breaker enough.

linux is close, but it still doesn't have the desktop experience as good as windows by default
500 yen == $3.87 USD in 2023.
This isn't always true. Sometimes you want to stop large customers from performing naive cross-comparisons of price when the on-the-ground reality is more nuanced.

This can be price levers on individual features, security track record, non-obvious user patterns that deliver a lot of value, etc. You're given more opportunities to pitch the full value of your product in a way that engages the customer with their particular pain points.

Maybe we should still all use transparent pricing, but I don't think it's fair to say it's used to extract more cash (though some companies definitely do that).
Yes and supported (dual-8 POWER9, Raptor Talos II). Very stable. I'd consider it worth it.
I agree. I truly do not understand how people accepted first sound and then color in movies but now they are completely balking at frame rates higher than the completely arbitrary and actually-too-slow 24fps. 48fps makes motion so much smoother.
"Pandemics are known to cause widespread disruption, illness and hardship as we have experienced since 2020. An endemic means a disease is spreading in a community at the normal or expected level. A pandemic begins to shift to an endemic once the disease becomes more stable and manageable."

COVID has mostly moved from pandemic to endemic (like the flu).
Fuel cells might end up better than batteries if you consider the cost/lifetime of batteries. Energy density and safety are also valid considerations, the batteries are already at the limit of what you'd want to sit on top.
Nothing a quick search doesn’t explain given its industry jargon and well contextualized in the article (Gray hydrogen == upstream pollution)

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/clean-energy-green-hy...
I started selling NSFW stickers on Etsy. Originally it was a way for me to have a creative outlet but turns out a lot of people want this kind of product. Making just about $500 a month from it now. It’s great because all I have to do is draw the original art once and then I can just repeatedly print it and cut it out. It’s also a very relaxing hobby for me. I enjoy sending out envelopes with hand written notes. It’s refreshing from my usual 9-5 of spreadsheets.
Oh neat, I didn't realise it had been open sourced.
Not only it's a good thing, but it's bad faith anyway because it's not telling the whole story.

Houses are seen as pretty-much worthless overall, and many people would decide to destroy and build a new house rather than fix and maintain a 20 years-old one. There are many reasons to this, both cultural and practical.

The good consequence is that the prices here are relatively stable and does not inflate like in the west. It is possible to buy an individual house in Tokyo for the average resident, you don't need to be rich.

But the elephant in the room that the article forgets to tell is that while houses become worthless quickly, land does not. When you buy a property, about 80% of it's price is the value of the land itself, not the house. And while it can fluctuate depending on the area and it's surroundings, it does not degrade much over time.
There is no doubt fossil fuel companies want to keep selling more fuel, and current hydrogen is a prime client for that. At this point I don't think anyone is arguing that fossil fuel companies will push anything to continue making money through different venues while touting to help progress.

Now, hydrogen in cars isn't just about how the "fuel" is produced. People try to reduce it to CO2 emission number, but to me there's a lot more nuance. Petrol fuel burned by thousands of vehicles in the middle of a city isn't the same as petrol fuel burned in an hydrogen plant. The CO2 numbers might be similar, but the effect on people's life is completely different. EVs achieve the same goal, but if all vehicles can't be EVs (I think it's reasonable to expect cases where EV won't work), the rest being hydrogen or other low pollution alternatives is I think important.

Car makers themselves aren't touting hydrogen as the end all be all either, most makers in the game are using it as diversification to not put all their eggs in the EV basket.
Discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34079543

He says in the discussion that porting the games from flash took 3 years. I'm aware that sometimes a single bog post can be the result of a lot of work, but that's next level!
Hydrogen is the way to send energy from sunny places, like Australia to not-so-sunny places, like Japan. You can't send batteries, and you can't lay a cable that long. You can try to pack that energy in a different form of chemical energy like ammonia, or methylcyclohexane, or methanol, or synthetic methane or gasoline. The jury is still out. Europe is investing big time in hydrogen too, so chances are that hydrogen makes sense.
> Most big spenders are incredibly wealthy, like buy $30,000 wristwatches for fun wealthy. Games have figured out how to 'go infinite' on their spend possibilities and capture wristwatch money from these folks.

Do you have any data to back up this claim? I don't have data to prove the opposite either, but I don't believe this is true. I know multiple big spenders in real life. They have a very average income, but instead of putting the ~$500-1000 that's left each month into a saving accounts, they spend it on mobile games, i.e. make bad financial decisions. FOMO is probably the main driver.

I'm sure the people you refer to exist. There are whales that are so rich that they don't care about wasting $10-100k on a game, but I don't believe these are the majority of players that spend large amounts. I think the big spenders on average have below average income, they are just bad at self-restraint, and/or relatively young and inexperienced with money.