skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

Median wealth in Japan is 119,999 USD whilst in USA it is 93,271 USD.

I see way more misery in American cities than I ever seen here. I also had an ex (with a masters degree mind you) who was a cleaning lady for a short while, and they worked her to the bone, 12 hour shifts, and she literally had to run from company to company to be able to make it. Sure the company earned more money but that didn't mean that she earned more!

CEOs have smaller salaries in Japan than in US and shareholders make less to compensate for having more workers, is this really a bad thing? Do we really need more Jeff Bezos in Japan to be called productive?
For context https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/ and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
For reference, ~80% of antibiotics in the US are used on livestock, not to treat infections, but to prevent them and because pumping them full of antibiotics successfully increases animals' weights[1], as you said.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4638249/
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Note: I assume you mean the Tesla K80. It's actually 2 GPUs on one card.

But yes, it's a very good value.
For me, it's about the process as much as the outcome.

I don't write code only because I want to achieve some distant future goal. I write code because that's part of who I am in the moment. I enjoy typing, I enjoy problem-solving, I enjoy building things, etc. Like a spider weaving a web, it has become part of my nature.

The beauty of humans is that we are general purpose machines, which can do a wide variety of things, because of how our bodies are, especially our hands.

The future of course is also important. Greater financial independence, learning new skills, improving one's character, meeting interesting personalities. All these of course are things we can hope for and strive for, but should also try to have reasonable expectations about, and avoid excessive entitlement.
Student visas and work visas (the stepping stones on the path toward permanent residency) are admittedly relatively tricky. Lots of pointless bureaucracy, and requests for "guarantors". Which basically amounts to finding some random Japanese acquaintance or employer to put their signature (hanko) on a piece of paper.

Still, I expect the numbers from Asian countries to steadily increase—unless we go into some pandemic lockdown again.
Thank you for the rabbit hole, I look forward to the day when I see a scrawl on the wall saying “THE MAGMA PEOPLE ARE WAITING FOR OUR MISTAKES.” and being able to nod sagely whilst others are wondering what aliens wrote this.
I recently spent 3 months in Tokyo and I have say, that the quality of life, service, food, consumer products, safety, air/noise pollution, are the best I've seen anywhere.

It's especially pleasing given that the prices are very low in comparison to other world-class cities. I did, however, witness prices rising during the time I was there.

It's hard to see how Tokyo might have been stagnating given the quality of life I witnessed. It saddens me to say this but, I'd visit Taiwan to see what economic stagnation looks like - it feels like time-traveling back to the 90's.
> Most issues that voters care about are not local issues, so why do need a system to carve up representation along geographical boundaries?

That seems more like ratifying a failure mode rather than fixing it. Having geographic representatives mean that area is less likely to get railroaded in various ways, because they have an advocate who's accountable specifically to them, rather than some diffuse ideological block.

Also, a lot of issues that voters care about are actually local issues made national through centralization.
Right. Say a state has nine districts. Say the state favors one party 55% - 44%. How should the districts be drawn?

Should each district be as competitive as the state, so each district roughly works out to be 55% - 44%, knowing that by definition the state's districts would be 9-0 for one party?

Should you instead have five districts clearly for one party, and four districts clearly for the other, knowing that by definition each district would have a huge incumbency advantage?

A lot of people would say they want the districts to be both representative of the state's population, and competitive, without realizing those two principles are in tension.
We started at the end of my kid’s second year, so that’s about right. It was great for his social development at that point, since he wasn’t in an infant room or anything.
Not even a little bit. The reasonable thing to do would be to toss out the old system and have everyone cast a ballot for a representative and weight congressional seats by how many votes you receive, with some kind of thresholding system to keep from having to rebuild the capitol all the time. IE representatives below the threshold can delegate or amalgamate their votes.
That’s a convenient way of thinking about it. A more logically correct way of thinking about it is:

“any” can be any possible type

“unknown” is a specific stand-in type. It does not represent all types but is a subset of all types, which allows you to narrow its definition from nothing.

Unknown in practice is closer to a generic in terms of usage and semantics than “any”. It’s like a generic generic except it’s not useful until you direct it. It basically lets you kick the can down the road in your code of having to make a type decision, which is very useful for writing composable and uncoupled code.
Kept waiting for the author to make a point but it never came. Just another anti-Californian fluff piece.
I think sometimes ideas that are couched in scientific sounding language get picked up culturally for a while before the rest of the process catches up
That's what people do, but to do so they need to work in growth industries and geographies. Otherwise you don't make enough to do just that. Thus they go somewhere that does, in this case Tokyo mostly. Which makes the situation worse for the prefectures that they leave causing brain drain, and now those that stayed need to have the taxation to cover for the two they were already on the hook for, and now the two that the person gone to individualistically "save for their own retirement".

This generally leads to services and infrastructure getting shut down. Not more stuff spread out to less people because certain modern lifestyle features, things like hospitals, need a minimum level of patients and experts to function well above zero.
does the type of tv matter? resolution/technology?? Or is the benefit more from the size and distance?? Can a smaller oen work? like a 50inch?
When one finds themselves holding the short end of the demographic stick, it is time for some creative thinking...
There'd be no harm in poking around.
Proportional representation can be done at multiple scales. You can simply add more representatives if districts feel to big.
> Word on the street is, vi BAAAD emacs GOOOD

I'd ask about tabs vs spaces, but that seems settled now ...
Yes, when gerrymandering was challenged in 2019 a bunch of mathematicians filed an amicus brief with a mathematical fairness test. Their work is here: https://mggg.org/

Other tests and models have also been proposed in the challenges to gerrymandering. The supreme court just had to pick one. But what the court ruled in 2019, along strict partisan lines, is this:

The Court ruled that while partisan gerrymandering may be "incompatible with democratic principles", the federal courts cannot review such allegations, as they present nonjusticiable political questions outside the remit of these courts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rucho_v._Common_Cause

So just like how the supreme court ruled in citizens united that it wouldn’t put any limits on money in politics, it ruled in this case that it wouldn’t prevent politicians from redistricting in their favor. The supreme court is imho part of the problem of American politics, not part of the solution.
Every battery that has ever come out of "the gigafactory" if you mean Gigafactory Nevada is a Panasonic battery. All the equipment in the factory belongs to Panasonic. All the money to build the factory was invested by Panasonic.
IANAL but the license (CCL) is quite permissive except for the one use case of building a competing SaaS offering to Confluent [1]; the same type of license most cloud providers are using these days. But source available is definitely a valid term as well. I really do hope people will use this code!

[1]: https://www.confluent.io/confluent-community-license-faq/
I've been using a Mac since 2013 and I've become so distanced from everything else that a few weeks ago I was surprised to hear that Windows 11... exists.

Before then, I spent a considerable amount of my teenage days trying to make various Linux distributions look like OS X.

This doesn't really feel much more than what I did back then.

The reason we prefer a Mac is because the whole ecosystem works the same way, follows the same guidelines and, most importantly in recent years: because if you bought yourself into the Apple ecosystem, it just works together.

One example which HelloSystem will probably never be able to do: I open an authenticator app on my iPhone, tap the code and then just hit Cmd-V on the Mac. I do this several times a day. _This_ is the Mac experience's edge today, not the rounded corners and whatnot.
I had assumed that cell wall formation was such a primitive part of bacteria that it would have developed once and be roughly the same for all species. Thanks for the correction.

I suppose there may still be some common sub mechanism that we could target? But we don’t understand the mechanism well enough to do that intentionally. It’s really tragic how little of biology we can simulate today.

Thanks for the informative responses!
Well color me surprised
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> The return rates that some people I know find acceptable are mind numbing to me. Some people I know return about 20% of the non-food things they buy, even after knowing that a significant fraction of the returned merchandise ends up in landfills.

Ever try buying Christmas lights on Amazon? The advisable way is to just buy a ton of things and return whatever is broken, which in 2021, out of 6 sets of lights I bought, I ended up returning 5.

Kids clothing is just random. Like, fuck it, 2 items, same manufacturer, same listed size, but completely different real world sizes, as in "item 1 is oversized and is large enough to wear next year, item 2 is too small by far, return both and try again".
I feel like this is very much a political tweet more than a technical one, there's incredibly valid cases (as seen throughout this thread) for not using a framework, and it's a pretty broad generalization to make.
This is smug nonsense. In a PR system there will be more than 2 parties, and Americans that love their "they all suck" badge of honor will find something worth identifying with.
Well, it kinda sucked when they wouldn’t let the permanent residents into the country during the first year of COVID, so you were essentially unable to visit family (or worse, unable to return to your life, home and work after such a visit).
The author lived in Japan
a very good plan right up until you fall off a ladder
The problem is that normal people don't understand "science tells us" as "science currently tells us X but this could change any moment as more research is done". To them it's more like "science tells us X so X is true for now and forever".

If it were up to me popular science reporting always would include that disclaimer.
I addressed the point of your question directly by offering a plausible alternative explanation for what's going on here.
>Why is there “no such thing as affordable housing”? Because affordability is not, and has never been, an intrinsic quality of a building. We draw bad conclusions when we talk about it as though it is.

Who, exactly, is talking about affordability as though it's an intrinsic part of housing?
Darn, they’ve seen through my plans, and now nr 6 won’t allow me to gain citizenship!
Two Supreme Court cases that could break the internet
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Wingfield-Hayes is also right to decry the low-productivity menial jobs that Japan has in abundance. Hiring 6 people to do the job of 2 is sadly common in Japan

I’ve always felt this was a strength of Japan since it ensures employment of even unskilled workers. I remember one time walking near my hotel along a sidewalk in a construction zone, in the USA there'd be a “caution” sign (probably facing the wrong way), but in japan there were live workers at each side of the zone , and they called out a warning to pedestrians to be careful and when a construction truck needed to cross the sidewalk, the workers would physically block the sidewalk to keep pedestrians clear.

I’ve noticed around here that more road construction projects have replaced human flaggers with automated traffic lights… almost certainly better for efficiency and productivity, but probably not better for the people that would have done that job otherwise.

And maybe this leads to lower salaries in Japan, but that doesn’t necessarily mean low quality of life, I know someone in Japan that’s working as a suit salesman (retail sales, not administrative back office) and he can afford to support a family (stay at home wife plus 3 year old child) and a 2 bedroom apartment. I think that’d be much harder for an American worker selling suits at The Men’s Wearhouse
My exact question as well…where is the next one?
Worked 20+ years in German companies, all code and all comments were English, long before remote work (as it is today, all of my coachees have now mixed teams).
There's quite the chorus of "Everyone is moving to airframes.io" or other similarly phrased posts in the ADS-B Exchange buyout thread[1]. Based on what I'm seeing, I feel like this is probably a premature place to settle on.

1. If you go to https://github.com/airframesio/ , it talks about how they want to eventually open source stuff. But mercy, like 90% of their stuff is private right now.

2. The Airframes roadmap has basically not been touched since 2019. https://trello.com/b/1vq5pHNq/acars-server-public-board (linked to as the "Airframes Public Trello Board" on airframes.io about page, both owned/authored by Kevin).

3. I also have found no public API documentation for reading or querying data. There appears to be a webapp one could pretty easily reverse engineer, but I haven't found any ToS or usage documentation that grant any rights to use the data.

I would absolutely not go to airframes.io in it's current state.

Side note, I think this is a super fascinating use-case for what p2p might want to target. Trying to draw together & perhaps correlate & index many highly active streams of data is a very compelling (and hard) problem.

[1] https://www.jetnet.com/news/jetnet-acquires-ads-b-exchange.h... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34520355
As if the analyst doesn't get the results wrong! For 1/50 of the price, maybe a few more errors are acceptable, even.
Because waste systems are very effortful. It would simply take lots and lots of labor to gather, transport, and dispose of all that trash in an organized way. Labor that is currently engaged in producing food, clothes, etc.

Think about the relative population density in many of these cities as well. And the relative productivity.

Not at all an easy problem to solve.
IMHO, an important consequence of gerrymandering is that it makes districts less competitive. Instead of a district where neither party has clear grip (so the winning candidate needs a broader appeal), we have one which is either clearly R or clearly D. Now a candidate no longer has to care about the other team, because once your own party approves your candidacy, you are as good as elected. So party loyalty is what matters.

The result is a funnel to select fanatics over moderates, from both sides.
Is it just me or is the live message feed going ballistic?
Mexico cracks down on solar geoengineering
Countless municipal governments are trying to mandate a certain of units or percent of units be affordable.
You're pulling out the straw man where stopping the sreets being choked with parked cars and traffic somehow means ambulances can't move through them.

> There are no dense rural environments, you may be confused at what this term means but towns are not rural. The term is referring to a lack of density.

You can have a region with low density where the services are all concentrated.

Your straw man about making it so people can do something OTHER than use a car somehow meaning all cars vanish is also extremely tiresome.
Maybe it's not a position where it is critical that all answers are 100 % accurate. Maybe getting it right every once in a while is enough to pay for the GPT compute time, but not really for analyst time.
Many politicians and news media talk about it as if it’s an intrinsic quality, and also there are even “affordable” housing programs where affordable takes on special meanings that imply subsidies and set asides and so on. So whereas previously it was a neutral description it’s becoming a very particular thing.
Yes, this lack of standardization and ability to communicate is infuriating. I don't have an EV but even without that adding a battery to an existing setup is not that simple, besides being in theory a massive fire hazard, so it can't be in the house.

With HA and a bunch of scripts you can actually get quite far in automating all this, but when the grid fails everything will shut down.

I'd love to see these babies become more easily (and cheaper!) to source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-titanate_battery

The energy density isn't super but for stationary applications that's fine. 6K+ cycles, fast charging, what's not to like?
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Since it’s Samsung it might as well be less than that.
Is this a joke?

"We also envisioned a true decentralization of the Twitter timeline...""
"We envisioned a world in which you could share your favorite song from Spotify and listen to it live with all your followers on Twitter.""
"Interested in tech? Here’s the TechCrunch-curated timeline. Interested in video games? Here is Twitch’s games and streamers timeline.""
"Today we’re beginning to test Tweet Tiles with @nytimes, @wsj and @guardian."

This is the furthest you could possibly be from decentralization. Sorry you lost your fake blue check.
I think I’ve got over a hundred to go over for one of my positions right now. I take a half day a couple times a week to go over them. I just consider it a priority and make time for it. Training and then firing someone is such a massive waste.
Have you considered using a license like Business Source License (BSL) that would eventually become a true OSI license, like Apache, after a few years?

I think it's valuable for old source available code to not bitrot away when the value of it to the company decreases.
IANAL, but from my understanding of Japanese law, technically you renounce your Japanese citizenship when you acquire a foreign citizenship. So, even though Japanese authorities might not know it yet (or ever), you lose the Japanese citizenship at the very time you recover your French one.

My understanding (again, not a lawyer) it that this could have legal implications if you do something of your Japanese citizenship after reclaiming a foreign citizenship. Although apart from running and winning an election, or maybe holding a job restricted to Japanese citizens, I'm not quite sure exactly how you could get in trouble.

The loophole dual citizens (since birth) use is actually just that: since they never acquired a foreign citizenship (they are born with it), they never lost the Japanese one... so all Japan can do is order them to make unspecified efforts to renounce their foreign citizenship. Looking it up on the internet and concluding it's complicated seems to count as "efforts".
Looks like "S.85 - A bill to impose sanctions with respect to TikTok, and for other purposes" from https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/85?...
Sure, it is fairly permissive as licenses go but those added restrictions fundamentally make this not open source, the use of this project is no longer fully open for use due to the restrictions you've place upon it.

It might seem overly pedantic, but it can be quite important since many companies try to blur the lines of what open source is for their own benefit. If interested, I go into a little more detail on this here: https://danb.me/blog/posts/why-open-source-term-is-important...
> You can't renounce your old citizenship before gaining new citizenship.

Often you can and in those cases Japan generally requires you to. However it would depend on the citizenship in question.
This is very on point.

As an Analyst your asset is to own the data and know all the odds and quirks.

Very similar to how developers need to own their codebase. Yes you can ask chatGPT to write a complex function. But your job as a developer is to see how it fits in with the rest of the framework. The logic is the simple part.

As many pointed out you also need to be brutally honest with the numbers and also the problems you may have caused or fixed.

Trying to hide any problems will very quickly throw you downhill, into an extremely uncomfortable position.

Although before it acquires feelings and a sense of job safety, I guess chatGPT can be better at that part.
>Apple has been basically been providing a public service with their free podcast directory since 2012.

that benefited them?
In the 90s, Taiwan was much poorer than Japan, but its per capita GDP is now at parity with Japan and likely passed it last quarter.

Occasionally, I’ll visit an area I knew from 15 years ago and it will feel like a completely different city. In particular, it’s shocking how much better the infrastructure and transportation has gotten. The cities have a lot more green areas interspersed into them also.
So the tl;dr is that building more housing, of any kind, will alleviate prices at the lower end of the market. I think this makes a lot of sense, though I find it weird that he starts off by saying that new construction doesn't have any impact, and then finishes by saying the opposite. I hear this same thing a lot from economists who say the impact of new construction is too small because it only accounts for <1% of the total housing stock each year at best, but that doesn't make sense to me - what other levers are you going to pull? Immigration?

Anyway, I'm putting all my hopes on remote work.
Nodejs solved all this years ago, now we have super fast shared package managers like pnpm, yarn etc, not to mention deno etc, why can't other languages adopt the same system?