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Additionally, most municipalities run community centers and libraries which provide programming. The issue is there is declining interest in participating in these kinds of activities. It's a soc…

Yep. It's essentially a form of techie Gen X and Millenial nostalgia, and does come off a boomer-ish, hence why all old people are termed "boomers" now. HN is rife with it and it shows …

How much of this is just due to changing tastes? For example, Minecraft, Roblox, or an Xbox live subscription are the new lobbies for younger generations. Heck, the article mentions Internet cafes but…

> finance Most finance roles in Japan almost exclusively hire Japanese nationals > Japanese mega venture/US tech companies They don't tend to hire foreigners in most cases except for C…

Additonally, most foreigners who would comment on HN or Reddit are earning significantly higher than the average Japanese or even Tokyoian.

It's an age thing. Most HNers are in their 30s-50s so would have been impressed by Japan in the 1990s-2000s. Japan is a decent country but everyone who writes about it tends to overindex on the p…

This gets constantly asked on HN. What matters is where you live - the hiring market in Germany or Canada is going to be different from the Bay Area or NYC.

> From my weak knowledge of asian countries, I think they took up, loosely speaking, individualistic capitalism Not really based on my personal experience on the ground. The main difference was lig…

So French Swiss or German Swiss aren't going to be consuming French or German news media? If so that's refreshing compared to Canadians and Brits who constantly try to butt into American med…

> The discourse on nuclear is still quite chaotic in politics in Switzerland Does discourse from neighboring countries leak in as well? For example, German and Italian media's anti-nuclear sen…

It slows down SEZ creation as well, becuase an SEZ needs land, which forces state planning commissions to deal with the LARR headache, but at least it's state governments that are facing the head…

> I see at least 4 stations daily where there has been literally 0 progress in the past few months Where do you live? Delhi Metro has been quietly expanding rapidly over the past decade, and you ca…

Canadian wages were depressed even before the immigration wave. Every Canadian had a sibling or cousin who was living in America in the 90s and 2000s. Heck, in 2000 the median household income in Cana…

And those who enabled it (the leadership team at SuperMicro) were charged by the US [0] and Taiwan [1] [0] - https://www.reuters.com/world/us-charges-three-people-with-c... [1] -…

HN definitely has an older crowd, but additionally I've noticed HN is increasingly dominated by Europeans from 5am-2pm PST. "American" HN seems to kick off around 3pm-10pm PST now. Even…

I agree. I'm just trying to point out to HNers that Infineon wafers will end up powering MCUs or Power Electronics, not GPUs.

They used to, but memory is now more of a packaging play (eg. HBM) and less of a fabrication play. EU states are decades behind on backend processes like semiconductor packaging and OSAT as well.…

ASML the holding company is European, but a large portion of their IP is firewalled within the US or Taiwan, though plenty of IP is generated within Netherlands. Much of Asia (eg. Taiwan, Japan, South…

FYI Infineon primarily develops power electronics, compound semiconductors, and legacy nodes. This is critical but a distinct usecase from fabricating wafers for GPUs and bleeding edge SoCs. This he…

ZDRs, spot audits, and the fact that salespeople can be held personally liable both financially and even criminally for fraud if they sold a contract with a ZDR that was not honored.

At least in the F1000 RFPs I've seen and the decisionmakers I've chatted with, when they talk about AI guardrails what they mean is generic API (eg. can we rate limit, block connections, RBA…

Plenty of enterprises are still using Cursor, though they are facing plenty of pressure because Anthropic and OpenAI bundle Claude Code and Codex which can make it hard to justify an additional licens…

Not necessarily. Enterprise AI adoption has reached a point now where FinOps matter, and a harness platform story with a discounted underlying model can be enticing for a number of organizations. I&#x…

It also provides xAI with a pre-existing enterprise distribution channel. At the end of the day, distribution is equally as important as the underlying product itself and in some cases is even more cr…

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Those "Indian" restaurants are primarily run by Nepali nationals.