skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slightly Off-topic:

Is there any "clustering" of flags into visually similar designs?

Telling similar flags apart and correctly naming the country when the other option is presented as choice ... must be harder work and should ideally have more points :)
Well, yes, I don't know, I'm only going off never having heard of gerrymandering being a major problem in any other country.

Plus that in general America seems to involve politics in decisions which are more usually left to officials to do in an, at least theoretically, non-partisan way.
I don't know of any other country in which judges are elected by popular vote, or Ambassadors are appointed and approved by politicians instead of being professional government officials(this one I am pretty sure is unique).
And the name of the state is ....
Guessing this is posted as a reaction to adsbexchange getting bought.

Is this where people are moving?
Choosing to drink Coke doesn't force you to eat or drink anything else; there's no customer lock-in possible with a drink, nor any way of using that power to extend market dominance into other sectors.
Brazil also has experience with censorship of communications platforms.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/03/technology/judge-seeking-...

https://archive.ph/Xe8w5
*who has enough flaws of his own (anti-vaxx, anti-woke)*

I don't love this correlation.
First, ask yourself this: why do you need a diagnosis? Is it, so you can give a name to what is happening to you? A label, maybe? Or is it, because once we name things, we can treat them?

A diagnosis of autism is not an easy task. Opposite to what the Internet might make you believe, it's not a matter of "listening carefully" or so, it's a multi-hour, multi-day, set of diagnostic tasks, that take time and energy. At the end of this journey, you'll have a label for what you are experiencing (or not). And then?

I tell my patients, that a label makes three things easier: medical billing, provider communication, and (in rare cases) medical intervention. The rest is, diagnosis or not, pretty much the same.

We define as clinically/psychologically relevant all those mental states that a) lead to a noticeable reduction in the person's ability to enjoy and function in life, and b) can not be addressed by the person reporting them without help.

So that brings the second question: what do you need help with to address your mental state?

Is it simply acceptance? Only the individuals involved can give you that. And while "I am autistic" works on 4chan as an excuse for all kinds of behaviors, in real life it generally doesn't. Or is it to change things? Only you can do that. There is no working therapeutic medication for autism, and therapy generally aims at improving your journey into overcoming the facets that are detrimental to your daily life.

Another thing I tell my patients is that social interaction and coping are skills that are learned. To some people, most in fact, those learnings come easier than to others. I am short, below the US average, and I run ultra marathons. I have a marked disadvantage compared to 6ft lunks, simply due to stride, which meant it took more energy and time to develop this skill. On the other hand, I cope well and quickly, seem to have a rather accepting attitude towards others and life, and am good at social interactions. Those skills were much easier to learn for me.

You might be taller than me, able to learn long distance running faster, while having a harder time honing your social and coping skills. Autism is such a barrier to skill development. It's hard to develop people skills, if the headspace isn't there. But it's possible. You're a coder, view it as a hard code problem. Approach it, broken down into smaller tasks. Same for your daughter: it's not easy for any new, especially first, parent to empathize with their kid's outbursts and odd behaviors. Some people have it easier, some don't. That's a reason to work harder, not an excuse.

If you need a diagnosis, a certified mental health professional can help. But just like without, once you have the diagnosis the next steps are the same: go the hard mile to develop skills you need.
>Because it is not.

But in practice it is. Or can you show something better (that exists now)?
Mine definitely fetches mail in the background. All my accounts are IMAP, if that's different. I'll be working away and the notifications pop up. Maybe some setting?
Libxev: A cross-platform, high-performance event loop
> Personally, the one thing I do miss from the modern package managers is the Java-style namespacing that piggy-backs on DNS.

Though it's not directly apparent, I would say that cargo (and probably some other package managers) actually does that. It just also does a really good job of hiding that in the default cause where all your dependencies come from crates.io.

For every dependency, the source registry is also recorded, so the full package id is a concatenation of roughly "source registry URL + package name + package version". So if one were really interested in having bigger reliance on DNS to establish namespacing, one could utilize many different registries.

In practice, there are however good reasons related to supply chain security why you probably don't want to do that. E.g. domain names changing ownership adds a whole new attack surface that you need to secure against.
No. ChatGPT is not allowed for many countries. BTC is pure freedom. They're not on the same league.
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This is crazy useful for me.
Will you support stripe?
Flutter 3.7 Is Out
What will you advise to a struggling programming(webdev) student?
I'm currently learning html,css,javascript,bootstrap,react....MERN.. Of course I'm not learning all of them at once.

I try to make some vanilla js games, I fail to do so.

I try to create websites, I fail to do so. I can make websites but with basic CSS.

I've failed to understand bootstrap lol.

It's been 2-3 months. I'm a cs graduate.

Any advice for me? Can you tell me what I should exactly be doing in my day to day life in order to reach my goal of being a programmer? Is programming learnable or you born with it?

I'm hitting up with codewars these days in order to boost my problem solving skills. But again when I go back to board to create vanilla js snake game, I fail to do so.
Bill Clinton? Bush? Obama? Not at all uncharted territory.
This is something to keep in mind. I can imagine the pressure associated with having to deal with the police and hoping you can explain the problem away. But they are the experts and can find a crime even if you don't think you did anything wrong. I remember reading somewhere that most of us commit a crime on a regular basis and don't know it since there are so many laws in the criminal code. It's best to talk to a lawyer when dealing with the police.
Wouldn’t that run on a new MacBook Pro m2 with 96gb of unified ram?
That's the line that got me to read the whole book.

Shortly after there was an exchange that went something like:

Person 1: "He said his suicide switch is missing?"

Person 2: "Yeah, we had to remove it. He kept pressing it."
Its the people at the very top of the corporate ladder who makes the calls to offshore. Always good to keep in mind when these same companies bitch and moan about China but are also the same ones who chose to offshore to China. China is, from my understanding, upfront with what they want out of the deal, so there isn't any actual, "well we didn't know so don't blame us." Nah, China told them upfront what those offshoring deals meant.
Technically, it's not a prerequisite, but a requirement. You can't renounce your old citizenship before gaining new citizenship. Japan requires you to renounce within a certain time after gaining Japanese citizenship, with a few exceptions (like Iran where you can't really renounce).
... who's infallible in the Catholic Church.
There’s no such thing as affordable housing
No chair. If its 3PM, I'll sit down for 30 minutes and take a nap. Then I'm good for another 2.5-3 hours of computer work -- standing.
I like the symmetry and readability of “Ada case”: snake_case but with uppercase letters where appropriate, such as acronyms. So instead of XMLHttpRequest or xml_http_request, you would use XML_HTTP_Request.
GNU Poke 3.0 Released
I do agree with your point on Walmart, what is on the shelves at a physical location. However, Walmart's online store is just as bad, if not worst, than Amazon.
Many companies have skilled engineers and enough hardware, and still have outages. It's an expected part of running any software service. Outages can be minimized, but the idea that they can be eliminated with enough people and computing resources is not how things work, from my experience.
An interesting view of Japan, outside of the big cities, is blog written by Richard Hendy (an English ex-pat) back in the early 2010s called Spike Japan[0].

He focuses on areas such as Hokkaido where there are glimpses of past prosperity but due to an aging population and the younger people moving to the cities, the communities that remain are crumbling, but in a very Japanese way. Hendy has a great sense of humor and the photography and storytelling is top notch.

This is a rabbit hole you won't mind falling down if you're at all interested in different cultures and comparing decaying rural areas to those in your own country.

[0] https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/

and a few sample blog posts to give you a taste:

https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/spike-hokkaido-2/lake-toya-...

https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/requiem-for-a-railway/

https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/ugly-japan-2/
This is an active area of research for sure. One idea is basically to come up with a few rules for what the districts must look like (as unions of precincts) and use Markov chain Monte Carlo to sample from a probability distribution on the possible districting plans. Several court cases have featured expert evidence from math researchers asked to quantify how crazy the districting is using this methodology (ish). Wesley Pegden's expert witness report in one such case is readily findable, for example.

One of the main difficulties is that we don't have much rigorous theory telling us how long to run the Markov chains.
It's about time. I'm sick of the lack of dynamic range of existing CMOS sensors—burned out 'picket fence' highlights and noisy bottom ends (at least film has a nice s-shaped transfer curve).

Hopefully, if this tech actually amounts to anything then it'll force all other sensor makers to complete at a similar level.

If this tech comes to pass, then for the first time we'll have photographic processes that are approaching the dynamic range of the human eye. That can only be good for photography/imaging.
> UofM has the most astronauts that made it to the moon

The Wikipedia page suggests that the US Naval Academy has had 3 graduates walk on the moon with UofM, Purdue and West Point all having 2. Good company to be in, for sure.

I have many extended family members in Ohio. What I've heard is that most feel like public education is going down hill. It used to be that any sufficiently advanced high school student would get to attend classes at nearby colleges for free (and receive credit) if their local school didn't have a course they were qualified for. The current program has been very watered down and is underfunded, so very few kids actually get to take advantage of it. Just one of many negatives I've heard over the years.
I believe that syntactic limitation to be a historical mistake that we keep doubling down on for no good reason. There's really no practical purpose to parse a-b as (a - b), as evidenced by popular style conventions for pretty much ever language with a binary minus operator.
Offhand I can't think of a good reason why many of the popular languages couldn't allow space. Most either don't have any places where you can have a keyword adjacent to a variable, or would just have to not allow variables containing space if the first word in the name matches a keyword.
I guess it depends on the rate structure you have. Higher rate variance between off and on peak periods definitely helps with the economic case for batteries, since it offers an arbitrage opportunity.

I haven't done the math yet to figure out how that variance relates to payback time for batteries, but would be a fun exercise.
> all should (or at least the ones I've seen) have an integer.

To store integers like "5" with environment variables, I use export VARIABLE=5
under_scores look more "l33t" while CamelCase is more readable.
If you score enough points on the HSP visa (you don't even have to get that visa, just look at the point scoring), you can apply for PR in 3 years (70 points) or 1 year (80 points). Anyone on this forum probably can easily score at least 70 points just be getting a decent tech job in Japan.
>> They ARE the podcast industry. And they’ve been open.
>Hmmm is this really true?

They’ve accounted for the vast majority of podcast listeners since the early iPod days. It’s literally why they are called podcasts. They only dipped below 50% of listeners relatively recently.
So Indians are on the top of the emigration food chain and I wonder why Japan is not one of our top destinations.

There are like 50K Indians in Japan, mostly Tokyo. This is a surprisingly low number. Sure there is the language barrier but that barrier holds true for Germany also which has a lot more Indians.

My hunch is education - Japan does not have too many universities to attract young talent, as compared to Germany, Australia or the UK. I'm not sure if this is by design or if there are some other factors at play.

If Japan built a lot more universities and made it easier and relatively affordable for foreign students to sign up with English classes etc, perhaps there will be a lot more immigrants from countries such as India, Vietnam, Cambodia etc.
Samsung? Huawei?
Can you expand AEON (I assume it's an acronym)?
Societies are asking questions about how to maintain a stable population, not achieve exponential growth. As it is, they're facing exponential shrinkage.
Why can you not repurpose the land used for those 20 million houses back into green space or better uses for the remaining 30 million? Not to mention that there is much less competition for resources when the population is 60% of what it used to be.

You're acting like this is a major problem, but it seems like a great opportunity.
Congrats on this! I noticed though that the license [1] this is provided under puts restrictions on use and therefore wouldn't typically be considered open source, at least as per the commonly regarded open source definition, but maybe instead just "source available".

[1]: https://github.com/confluentinc/cli/blob/main/LICENSE
It's a compliment to the work Apple did that there is no clean step forward.
Without having used their service, does Spotfiy not DRM their podcast audio? It seems weird that they'd have a separate code path to fetch a non-DRM'd file from their server when most (all?) of the music they serve is already DRM'd.
Thanks! We've been shipping the CLI since early 2019 but had a few blockers along the way (alluded to in the blog post). We built the CLI on top of a lot of internal dependencies that were never going to be open-sourced, so we had to do a lot of creation and migration in order to have the CLI only rely on public dependencies (and in other cases, we went through the approval chain to release certain packages like `go-editor` and `go-ps1` into the open). Once we did that, once we cleaned up the codebase, and once we successfully pitched the business case for open-sourcing the tool, we were finally able to flip the switch. It's a small team so there was also always a prioritization question of working on open-sourcing vs. adding new features.

Excited for `snow` as well! ;)
Two things I can mention immediately that were not part of Apple's original HIG: optional focus-follows-mouse, and window resizing behavior. They got both of these wrong. Give me time and I am confident I can find some more significant examples.
No but C is a better model of most processors assembly, than most other procedural languages.
There was a question mark... Ok it was outside of the quotes but I didn't notice that. ;-)
I can consume 3k a day eating clean, but no more.

Eating all that in one meal would require some extremely unhealthy eating, for me.

I know sumo wrestlers and other extreme athletes are capable though.
I have a Wiim Mini, which is an Airplay receiver (which supports high-bitrate playback) with analog outs (so you can connect it to older stereo equipment). If an all-software solution won't work, you can still rely on the analog hole.
It's apparently a retail business in Japan. https://www.welcome-aeon.com
I agree that 20M isn't much for Musk but I really doubt he'd hide his involvement behind another company like this.. It's not his style, he'd trumpet it all over Twitter and claim it as a win for free speech or something :P

Considering the new owner is a jet charter they do probably have a similar motive, I just don't think Elon is behind it here.
The US Hasn’t Noticed That China-Made Cars Are Taking over the World
It's a shopping mall conglomerate. They specialize in massive multi-level shopping malls.
> Japan was world-beating in what categories 30 years ago (1993)? It wasn't computers.... Phones (no).

Japan was top or near-top in most of the portable electronics markets that mattered at the time, the ancestors of today's phones. Digital cameras, portable music players, PDAs/personal organizers, video game consoles, heck even the pedometer. So why are they barely competitive on the portable electronics of today (phones, but also smartwatches and the like)?

> Cars? Toyota is still #1 in the world. What else?

One of the big worries about the Japanese economy is a sense that Toyota has massively missed the bus on electric cars. Especially after building the first really successful hybrid, how have they fallen so far behind the likes of GM or Mercedes/BMW/Audi? Why are they still pushing hydrogen decades after everyone else has realised it's a failure?

> Why would they? Japanese companies speak Japanese and make things for Japanese. The exceptions are just that, exceptions.

It didn't feel like it 30 years ago. And for internet businesses, it's not going to be good enough.

> And to be clear, my point is why is Japan called out for this? Where's the article that Germany is a failure because they don't have a global payments competitor? How about France? India? China? Why is only Japan that gets this special "you're a failing country because you don't have a global payment offering"

I think insular startup cultures in those countries absolutely do get called out. German and French companies tend to try to at least serve the whole EU if not more. India and China are bigger markets than Japan. Even so, companies from those regions that lack global ambition absolutely do get called out for it; there's no shortage of articles in the European press worrying about how few European companies are playing on the global stage.
Ironically both articles come from a very typically western patronizing perspective

A lot of expats come to asia and get frustrated with many small cultural details. It's especially prominent when the person doesn't speak the local language (as this BBC corespondent... shocking). The general reaction is "why can't you just be more like the us/europe/etc." It's really miopic. There is always a larger broader cultural context for why things are the way they are. Things that have developed organically over generations and aren't exactly planned

Just a couple of examples:

"Hiring 6 people to do the job of 2 is sadly common in Japan, and it’s a big reason why Japanese people earn such low and stagnant wages.“

Yes, this is very common in Asia. They also will work extremely long hours. However the productivity (as also pointed out in the article) is much lower. People are a lot less stressed at work. This ties into other aspect of work culture.. where East Asian cultures have a lot less of a fixation on professionalism and it's more of "friends hanging out" at work. You go out to drink with the boss, and you sit playing on your phone at work sometimes. Okay, you might not like that yourself and you'd like to just do an intense 8 hours and clock out - but that's how things operate and a lot of people enjoy it. If your KFC has twice as many workers as it technically needs - do you work less and get paid less? Yes. That's the tradeoff

"I think an equally or even more important problem is corporate gerontocracy .."

This ties into some very fundamental cultural priorities about caring and respecting elders. Yeah you get a bunch of morons promoted b/c they're older and "more experienced" - but the flip side of the coin is that people generally really take care of the elderly. I took my grandmother to visit China once and she was blown away at how respectful and kind everyone was to her. Could you somehow have people care and respect elders and yet have CEOs that was 22yrs old? Maybe - but the two things are a bit at odds.

Living in Taiwan now, I can see the effect of westernization and it's a mixed bag (You have waves of US-educated Taiwanese reshaping the cultural landscape). It's very interesting to contrast with how things develop in China - which has gone for a more Japanese-style modernization and has been more selective about importing western ideas. I don't necessarily think the changes the writers want are bad (and I haven't really lived in Japan, so I wouldn't dare to have an opinion), but the way they're presented shows a very shallow understanding of what's really going on. At the end of the day you can't tweak one cultural irritant without affecting the whole cultural edifice.
You keep saying less is less more is more. That's a truism which is completely orthogonal to the point, yet you seem to be hung up on it to the exclusion of everything else every other commenter has said to you. Consider that just for a moment.
Are they doing excellent work? We all have raved about various startups and how great they were, until the externalities became widely understood. Is there something that excludes OpenAI from this possibility? My near term concern is that these language models are going to cause a host of issues for society. Botnets, misinformation, students using for homework, influence operations...

I believe trust in information is a bigger concern than global warming. As an aside, what is OpenAI's relative contribution to CO2 emissions compared with other companies of similar size?
I had one doctor in Boulder who I worked with remotely, and one in Cape Town. I'd say just Google "functional medicine doctors" in your area. Unfortunately, you'll have to evaluate their trustworthiness on your own because most of them are not licensed and a lot of them are full of bullshit.
Then maybe the welfare state is no longer suited to the country population profile, and each person show be saving for their own retirement and children?
Some niche counterpoint doesn't invalidate the systemic analysis by General Eisenhower.

Just like finding a 100 year old smoker doesn't mean smoking doesn't cause cancer.

Is this really not immediately obvious?
The real issue isn't the tax policy. The tolerance for depreciation of housing prices is grounded in the fact that housing is not bootleg social security. Both the Japanese state and companies take care of their people, so housing is not seen as an anti-poverty insurance.

If you want that kind of model you'll have to create the conditions for it first which means getting rid of the homesteading mentality.