skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely a factor... average salary in Japan is slightly more than half the US.

That said, I've been to 25 countries / 40 cities in the past 2 years and Tokyo felt like an anomaly.

Price-wise, it wasn't too dissimilar to Eastern bloc countries where average salary would be yet again half what they are in Japan. You could get a great meal at a decent restaurant for well under 10 euros. Something similar in Manhattan would be over twice the cost. In a place like Bucharest, probably still more and be of worse quality.

And the city itself is highly modern and clean, unlike in those nations. It presents as a place that should be incredibly expensive in many aspects, yet it isn't - ie. the subway system is world class, yet a fraction of what the subway costs in NYC.

Right now I'm in Mexico City, and I've told many folks who live here, to their amazement, that Tokyo is roughly similar in cost for what I call 'middle class' living. In fact, for nicer restaurants, it seems more expensive here compared to similar places in Tokyo. Street food and the like is still a fair bit cheaper here, but when you simply look outside and try to compare them, it is shocking.
It is still unlikely that this will go anywhere

Birthrate issues in east asia come down to short term rewards vs long term rewards. Income/leisure/career vs national security/sustaining ethnic identity. This fixes nothing and helps no one
Truly portable C applications
Platforms Need New Building Blocks
That is how research works, and most often, it also finds interesting results in knowledge, future questions or new experimental techniques.

I just discovered a stand of trees in a park near me that has a rich acoustic texture, if you clap your hands, the returned echo consists of multiple overlapping time shifted echos. Step 3m in either direction laterally and you can perceive the same echo but at an angle.

Could make a really cool art+science installation where you could induce audio vertigo. Like https://garyhill.com/work/mixed_media_installation/tall-ship...
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Imagine being concerned for the well being of a stranger kid, and then a minute later decide to thoroughly destroy his life for the nearest years. Unbelievable.
Just use Podman with plain simple .container file which is controlled entirenly by SystemD. Rock solid and easy to fix.
> But as time goes by I just ask, all this work and costs and complexity, to serve files?

IMHO, a large amount of the complexity is all the other stuff. Account information, browsing movies, recommendations, viewed/not/how much seen, steering to local CDN nodes, DRM stuff, etc.

The file servers have a lot less complexity; copy content to CDN nodes, send the client to the right node for the content, serve 400Gbps+ per node. Probably some really interesting stuff for their real time streams (but I haven't seen a blog/presentation on those)

Transcoding is probably interesting too. Managing job queues isn't new, but there's probably some fun stuff around cost effectiveness.
Why did Grubhub lose to DoorDash and Uber Eats? DoorDash's market cap is almost 100x this deal, and Uber is twice that.
It's like how there's an inherent value to adding numbers together on a calculator. It "just works". Once you have it, you can rely on it to do the math part while you do more complicated things.

A prediction market that is a dance between observer and market and agent doesn't "just work". You can't rely on its predictions because they are conditional on your choices, it's a complex feedback loop.
My major gripe with hledger and other plaintext accounting systems: setting up the correct rules (regex for your expenses) takes too much time as it involves:

a) defining the regexes/categories) for dozens to hundreds of expense descriptions (e.g. walmart, gas station xyz)

b) "recompiling" your hledger journals after every rule change

c) checking for negative and positive errors (expense description was not matched OR too many different expenses were matched)

This process is much faster in a spreadsheet application. IMHO the journal format of hledger and other plaintext accounts apps is too verbose.

it would be a great relief if someone started a Github repository with expense texts used when you e.g. pay at Carrefour in Italy or Walmart in the USA with your debit card. People could submit those descriptions from the CSV exports of their bank accounts.

Another annoyance in Europe is that there is no API connection for open source apps to bank account statements, you always rely on manual CSV exports.
I find the bus tracking of this app in my city is pretty poor unfortunately. Probably not the apps fault probably an issue of the municipality but still annoying.

That being said, if this app could convince cities to also be used for payment that would be a game changer. Uber for public transit would really remove so much friction from using transit.
Ask HN: Why doesn't APFS always clone files when copying?
For example, why doesn’t the cp command automatically clone files without requiring the -c flag?
> "Can I remove CO2 from the air and turn it into something valuable faster than a tree?"

In some climate zones, grasslands do it better than forests.

https://climatechange.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/grasslands-mo...
Big tech doesn't want to fix it. It has been completely taken over by MBAs/HR/make line go up types, who love their little PowerPoint slides showing how outsourcing a team to India will save 60% of costs. To them engineering quality is a very intangible metric, it always loses out to tangible metrics like cost and headcount. The only real way things change is for startups to overtake big tech by being more aggressive, smarter and faster.
Engineering career mobility Who gets promoted?
The timing of this post is nuts. I was thinking about a post-apocalyptic future last night (as one does) and wondered if using the gyro on your phone would suffice if the initial location and full map was already available.

I think the answer is still unclear since they are using pre-determined routes (easier to track east -> west or east -> southwest than it is east -> north -> south -> north -> east again). But this is very cool that they have so much of the work done already. Maybe even all of it? I don't have the code to look at so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Either way, still freaked out they read my mind lol
I would have assumed that the workload would be similar to what Fred and Barney expected at the Bedrock Fire Department.
I'm not a lawyer, but what about those ubiquitous statements about how things are "provided without warranty"? It's clear that this guy is concerned about being liable for what could go wrong. Also, I'm not sure if laws and expectations are different in Germany where he seems to be based. Edit: sorry, his domain is .NL, but I thought otherwise because it seems a lot of people he cites working with in the readme have a .de domain.
ISA seems to run at 16MHz here, synchronous with CPU.
Yup, they used and listed some pretty big names as well. Charles martinet is the voice of Mario, so I'm completely unsurprised. I'm honestly not sure what they were expecting.

I don't know what the state of the art is for completely synthetic TTS, so maybe the project will come back at some point.
Nice site, but my time off planning start in October to September of the next year. I wish I could specify that. Keep up with the nice work!
> Changing the name to Raku doesn't obliterate Perl 6's history as Larry Wall's successor to Perl 5.

Further than that, the name change only happened after it already had at least one official release under the "Perl 6" name.
The reason you are choosing a particular hammer, comic book or umbrella on Amazon is because of mastery of marketing, logistics, and design software.

It sounds ridiculous but what is a software-enabled hammer? A construction robot could be a pretty big deal no? That might not exist today. You might still be buying hammers but everyone will want construction robots.
It's already online, then I consider it is launched
Now, you can take your phone, check your contacts, and ask them to test it : maybe try it with some friends too
Anyway, I think you have to communicate it
Even worse... X as the new state affiliated/controlled 4chan. A truly nightmare scenario.
Too Good to Lose: America's Stake in Intel
What think tanks closely affiliated with the establishment think about Intel.
I wonder how (and what) Patrick Michaud is doing?
One blind spot I missed: advertising and telemetry activity are to count strongly in the commercial score.

When I slide the Commercial slider to zero, only web pages which there are no obvious detectable ways for the host or author to make money from showing me the page should be returned.

Bad behavior stems from the drive to make money. Make a search where it is impossible to make money by being a result in the search (especially if a Commercial slider is slid to low or zero).
I use it at work exclusively. I love it due to the gesture controls and build quality.
That's an excellent point ! I had contemplating a need to build a search engine that only returns results from webpages with no trackers or ads.
Precision manufacturing, such as for ballpoint pens and Gundam figures, will more readily show defects, so that might be the reason.
I mean most Japanese games are known for their stories and character development - with negative remarks wrt the user interface. Also, Sony hasn't been Japanese in ages. It's even a pretty well known point theyre often salty about, because they feel betrayed by Sony for the most part
The writer appears to be under the impression that CO2 is not a valuable commodity.

In fact, it is, so long as it's under enough pressure, and in the right place. In Montezuma County, Colorado, sits the McElmo dome, an ancient underground CO2 well. They pump it out, down a 500 mile pipeline, to Denver City, Texas, where it gooses oil wells into pumping more crude out. Other than making more oil and making it cheaper, not really much in terms of greenhouse gas contributions- the CO2 starts underground and ends up underground.

Kinder Morgan won't just let you back up your truck and buy some (it's already spoken for), and even if they would, they'd expect you to pay a pretty penny for what we widely consider to be waste gas.

I think MIT is doing some good work. Just wanted everyone to be mindful of the massive scale under which CO2 is already getting bought and sold.
Awesome! This will finally let me use bluetooth devices behind a KVM!
If you can see the code directly in FOSS then why is opt-out still treated as radioactive?

You could also argue that opt-in telemetry still collects too much information, or programs might lie about not sending data in the first place.
Covering the Supreme Court and the Judiciary in (Mostly) Plain English
Ah, the good old “my job is so poorly paid I’ll work two” — rebranded as something good for your career.

Or maybe toxic hustle culture, rebranded.

A good 9-5 job won’t leave you requiring a second. And all the benefits it supposedly lists (like upskilling in other areas) can be done through hobbies or voluntary side projects.

Normalise single job, 9-5, again.
The clever IT department will put hot glue in all USB ports.
If one takes a step back, it's quite ridiculous and apparent the system is really irrational. Why would you ask a new grad about system design? How many new grads have actually had to deal with millions of users?
How did this work?

By swapping crystal oscillators with a higher frequency.
This is called inertial navigation, and it works over short distances but then breaks down due to cumulative error.

This is a pretty cool use case though since as you said it would be much easier over a fixed route.
psql is very good at that since 9.0
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Even in Europe Google Maps can be surprisingly bad. For example, in Portugal, their routing algorithm thought you could drive across the top of this dam. But when you get there, you absolutely cannot: https://maps.app.goo.gl/jBRNbeqZiY9cu8eL9 If you zoom out, you'll see it's quite a long detour to backtrack.

(I reported this mistake, and it seems to be corrected now)
Almost everything listed in this article is a downstream effect or side issue. Yes journalism is expensive and hard work, but that's not why people aren't reading/watching. People aren't reading because they don't trust mainstream news to deliver true facts. Journalists have consistently lost that trust over time and need to reckon with why that is.
I mean obviously you’d set it up through the proper channels. I’m sure there is a regulatory framework for doing exactly this sort of thing already.
Show HN: Bee stinger catheter for directly injecting drugs into tumors
When the immune system encounters a new antigen, it needs to make a decision about whether to attack, or to ignore. Making the correct decision is important for fighting infections, killing cancer cells, and avoiding autoimmune diseases. The decision is made using time-dependent chemical signals and computations that occur at different places (tumor, lymph node, blood).

So if we think of the immune system as a computer that uses chemical signals, rather than electrical signals, how do we communicate with the immune system, to help it make the right decisions? My lab has designed a catheter that allows us to deliver time-dependent chemical signals into tumors and lymph nodes. The catheter contains a 3D printed retention mechanism to prevent migration, and it is implanted using image-guided, minimally invasive techniques. Different drugs can then be delivered into specific locations at specific times, using programmable pumps, to convince the immune system to attack cancer antigens.
Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal was satire. Are you suggesting Naoki Hyakuta's comment was as well? I haven't read it that way.

And just because he prefixed it with a disclaimer of how bad it was doesn't negate his responsibility to not say stupid things.

And it is stupid to think that if you restrict the right for half your population to marry then you'll increase the birth rate.
The oldest deep London Underground lines have iron tunnel segments, which might make this method particularly difficult.

https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/in...
I dig your vibe. whaddya working on these days?
One could, but Mearsheimer is a crank, and Youtube is notoriously full of disinformation of all sorts.

So most of USA and other NATO countries citizens are totally unaware of it.

They're perfectly aware of it, because the Russian narrative has been echoed and propagated incessantly by left- and right-wing news outlets and social media commenters ever since 2014.
thats usually the case with companies that spout stupid buzz words like this. You know whats not green? A data warehouse storing all those indexes, but that think they can gain followers with their buzz words.
Twitter is full of propaganda bots for years, pushing real people away from it. Musk's recent attempts to get rid of bots just result in a hollow shell to become even more hollow, because normal people don't want to have anything in common with a platform.
CHIPS Act bureaucracy slowing down awards
Biden’s high-tech legacy fraying even before Election Day
They do support payment in some cities (mine included), and it works pretty well.

A bunch of the larger / better-funded systems are also moving to just accepting credit cards directly on the readers, which is even easier.
I don't think Big Tech can be fixed, due to its Bigness. Size inevitably generates bureaucracy and bureaucratic behavior. Big companies want to do mass hiring and mass firing. Employees are considered interchangeable cogs in the machine. I'd be happy to learn of a counterexample, but I've never heard of one.

The only hope is that smaller companies resist emulating the big companies. The myth is that BigCo hiring practices are what spurred BigCo success, but the reality is that this myth has the cause and effect reversed.
The Cosmos Teams with Complex Organic Molecules
I’m guessing America no longer has the edge on high-speed pizza delivery.
What do you consider "the news"

Skimming the Infotainment dopamine sites for fun but not for news. There has never been a news site and probably won't ever be in my opinion. Not newspapers, radio, television, scrawling on cave walls. Everyone has multiple agendas, hidden agendas and some more obvious.

Somewhat off topic from your question I enjoy when people make a mashup of all the "news" sites repeating the exact narratives they were given verbatim whilst playing circus music.

Example [1]

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo [video][2 mins][warning: does not contain circus music]
I get no interaction latency, perhaps because I made the tile size a little larger and there are fewer tiles. Give it a try. As someone suggested, the pieces only rotate which make it easier for finishing the puzzle.
You only need to go visit r/journalism to see why we are in a post (traditional) journalism society. No one wants to be preached to be activists. They want factual neutral reporting. The industry got captured, resorted to clickbait to chase money, and is in a doom spiral. But there’s great content on podcasts, substack, YouTube, etc.
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We shall see. Cars with better software are a really important differentiator. Toyotas may be reliable, they may be the most popular today, but then why doesn't everyone choose a Toyota?

And anyway, Toyota's most innovative and market-making vehicles, like the Prius: software plays a pretty big role no? I don't think you can reduce a complex product like this, but I'm not wrong: a car with great user-facing software is pretty exciting to consumers. The Apple Car would probably be pretty successful, the Tesla has pretty innovative software that differentiates it from other EVs, the deployment and preferences for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto enabled cars... it can be true that someone buys something despite the software being bad, but that's not where the trend is going.
There's a bit of a paradox with this analysis: a win for Ukraine means pushing Russia out. But Russia collapses if it's pushed out of Ukraine. Therefore there's no way to support Ukraine enough that they win. Could explain the timid attitude of the US and the mixed messaging - sometimes you could be mistaken for thinking that the US's position is that Ukraine already won by not being fully subjugated.

With the new President, who knows what the US's goal will be. Given the messaging from Trump and the head of "DOGE" it's looking ominous for Ukraine. (personally I'm baffled as to why making America great would require rewarding Russian imperialism, so I can't really get my head round their attitudes. Is it just contrarianism?)
It was just as annoying to constantly be pulled into discussions about Perl 5 in threads about Perl 6 back then too.
If you’re on a mobile device, adblockers are often crippled so a lot manages to slip through.
Apple's hitting its AI stride right as competition is slowing
IMHO this is as stupid as a Italian complaining about Americans using English fonts to display their language.

As I mentioned in another comment, there already are separate Japanese and Chinese code points for most CJK characters. It's just a handful of cases where for whatever reason the same code points were used (maybe they forgot to separate some characters due to human error), and the Japanese (it's always the Japanese) has been bickering about the situation ever since.
Same with keyboards and mouses which use insecure usb radio receivers. This company policy doesn't really prevent that.

The best way to correctly fight Shadow IT is to provide equipment and services so good nobody would even care using something else.
Isn't it also used as input to basically every e-fuel which can replace fossil hydrocarbons?
fwiw from my experience, the really strong new grads have either done relevant projects back at college or can come up with reasonably good answers on the spot (my team does a lot of pure algorithm/modeling/distributed system work so those are actually practical questions).

I do agree leetcode makes those questions significantly less useful
If intellectual-property protections were clearly beneficial for makers of physical things, you'd expect China to have adopted them by now: but their manufacturing sector appears to be thriving without.

So far as I can tell, the problem IP laws originally solved was that wealthy people wanted another way to create monopolies and extract rents. For that purpose, they certainly are effective.
I’m surprised they can’t flag these misclassified roads by tracking traffic flow through them. A bad road should exhibit little traffic (or even more reroutes).
No one could possibly say for sure. But undoubtedly if the west was apprehensive about war with North Korea then, they are more so now.
Im sorry if I lost you.

Im saying "just so" stories should not be a valid basis for concern.

Branding isn't evidence that proposals are in competition for funding opposed to additive.

The only evidence is your "just so" story, and even that doesn't mean it is meaningful.

It strikes me similar to a runaway precautionary principle or concern trolling. It doesnt matter if you can imagine a scenario where something bad happens. What really matters is if that bad scenario actually happens, and how often.
UniGAD: Unifying Multi-Level Graph Anomaly Detection
Some cities let you pay with contactless credit cards (at least London and New York have it; Boston and San Francisco are working on it) which seems like the most elegant solution to this, at least from a commuter’s point of view.
What follows is anecdotal conjecture: Grubhub has not really evolved much beyond the same core business model they have had for the past decade. The other companies are doing all sorts of partnerships, rewards, referrals, gamification of algorithms etc. Grubhub stagnated while these companies innovated
> if my terms of service indicate that the penalty for late payment is kneecapping by non-employee gig muscle?

Why stop there? If ToS overrides the 4th Amendment, why not the 13th?
Same here.

I once plugged my personal phone into the USB port of a random machine in the office to get a quick charge, and a guy from Information Security showed up in under ten minutes ready to have a heart attack.
How does one define mainstream news?
It's very expensive. Gen5 SSDs are around $100/TB. Hard drives are $16/TB.

It makes sense to have a small fast SSD for editing, but HDDs for mass-storage. And with video you usually want redundancy, storage gets expensive fast.