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Index licensing might be an issue.

As a *Brit living in Japan* (non-resident) I think they should protect themselves at all costs, lest *what happened to my country happen to theirs.*

Double standards. He is an immigrant in Japan but he doesn’t want immigrants both in his host (Japan) and home (UK) countries. Pretty ironic come to think of. I guess he thinks his type are “good” immigrants, others are not so much.

And, soon someone will come along claiming unions and strikes don’t work. /s

With the advent of LLMs, data sovereignty is being bypassed. All three Service, Data, and Hardware sovereignty are important and should be the focus. It is not about prioritizing one over the other.

AFAIK, there is absolutely zero evidence either Intel or AMD CPUs are compromised, even less so that they're somehow remotely accessible by the US government...

The concerns are similar to US supplied fighters having the kill switch or remotely damaging centrifuges in Iran using software virus.

No one knows whether CPUs are compromised similar to no one knew beepers with explosives in Lebanon were compromised by Israel, allegedly during manufacturing. CPUs don't need to be accessed remotely, any compromised person locally will be enough.

These are fascinating cases to show how far state actors will go and how long the compromise can stay dormant.

Bold claim based on one month experience. May be living for 10 years and continuing to living here gives different impression.

https://www.reddit.com/r/JapanTravel/comments/xbejr2/apple_m...

Do you have a source that supports this claim?

I haven’t come across anyone using Apple Maps while living in Japan, most seem to use Yahoo! Maps or Google Maps.

Look into some of the products and services used in Japan for elderly care at home.

My FIL, in his late 80's was living at home alone. My wife used a monitoring service, provided by local package delivery company. They installed motion sensors in the toilet and on the door. If no motion detected for 24 hours, the company will alert my wife by phone and send the nearest delivery driver to check on him.

I myself have tried Home Assistant setup on Raspberry Pi and variety of sensors for different purposes.

Good luck, the Sapporo Chitose airport is closed for inspection of both runways.

BTW, you are safer in hotel than outside. No need to stay in lobby, go to bed, just protect your head. I experienced much bigger one in Sapporo in 2018.

I am visiting India. The app wasn’t installed automatically. I received the SMS telling me to install the app but I am using an Indian sim borrowed from a friend. So I figured I got the SMS because of Indian sim. My wife didn’t receive sms as she is using Airalo esim data service.

I didn’t know the SMS was legit or not and I just marked it as spam. The challenge I have found with mobile in India is the excess of sms spam. Also the sender is always some cryptic alphanumeric characters so authenticity is difficult to judge.

I actually prefer content style of Japanese websites. I get all the relevant info on one screen instead of having to scroll/click thru tens. The western style websites are very inefficient and hide info (feels scammy with lack of info).

There are subreddits dedicated to these kind of topics, for example /r/AmerExit /r/movingtojapan /r/expats (that I know of) with wealth of info. I am sure there are dedicated Facebook groups too. You most likely will find people and orgs that can help with migration in such targeted groups. As I understand, most desirable countries have seen multi-fold increase in inquiries and applications from US.

Does the Pope have significant personal income?

Monthly income for pope US$32,000 equivalent.

Does, which what I think you are getting at, the law apply to a head of state?

I don’t know if he will exempt as head of state, but as ordinary US citizen he will be paying taxes to US as his income exceeds FEIE exemption threshold.

A list of references for both sides of arguments.

Calgary removed fluoride from its water supply. A decade later, it's adding it back https://www.npr.org/2024/12/13/nx-s1-5224138/calgary-removed...

Toxic Treatment: Fluoride's Transformation from Industrial Waste to Public Health Miracle https://origins.osu.edu/article/toxic-treatment-fluorides-tr...

Portland has a divisive relationship with water fluoridation https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-oregon-water-fluor...

Fluoride Exposure: Neurodevelopment and Cognition https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/assessments/noncancer/...

Effect of fluoridated water on intelligence in 10-12-year-old school children https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5285601/

A tale of two cities finds that community water fluoridation prevents caries https://adanews.ada.org/ada-news/2021/august/community-water...

Children exposed to higher fluoride levels have lower IQs, a government study finds https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/06/health/children-higher-fl...

DRAFT NTP Monograph on the State of the Science Concerning Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopmental and Cognitive Health Effects: A Systematic Review https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/sites/default/files/ntp/about_ntp/...

The finding’s of the NTP’s 6-year fluoride neurotoxicity evaluation https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/sites/default/files/ntp/about_ntp/...

Fluoridation cessation and children's dental caries: A 7-year follow-up evaluation of Grade 2 schoolchildren in Calgary and Edmonton, Canada https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34309045/#:%7E:text=Results:....

Toxicity of fluoride: critical evaluation of evidence for human developmental neurotoxicity in epidemiological studies, animal experiments and in vitro analyses https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7261729/

Low-to-moderate fluoride exposure in relation to overweight and obesity among school-age children in China https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31509932/

What happens when you remove fluoride from tap water? https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324086

Buffalo poised to resume fluoridation of city’s water supply https://adanews.ada.org/ada-news/2024/january/buffalo-poised...

Didn’t CVS get sued for following through on their AI labeling POC customers as shoplifters?

/r/AskEconomics is a good subreddit for such topics, mostly due to top level replies being highly referenced and vetted. Check it out for informed discussions.

IMO, US is a unique case as the biggest consumer, importer, military and financial power. All these economic concerns about debt, trade deficit, inflation etc is just election year rhetoric that will die down once new admin is sworn in (may be this is my prediction for 2025).

Chitose (pop. 98k), though remote, is about 45 minutes by train -- with frequent service -- from Sapporo (pop. 2 mil), which is a fairly big city.

I can see a young family living close to Sapporo, but parents working at TSMC.

The Chitose factory is not being built by TSMC, it is a Rapidus venture (IIRC Toshiba/Kioxia is one of the partners). They just received delivery of first EUV from ASML this week.

No one with young family will live in Sapporo, too far specially during 5 months of winter when train disruptions/cancellations are frequent due to excessive snow/blizzards. For example, just this week, every day JR trains were cancelled and/or fewer trains were in operation, it snowed every day and temperature below zero.

Most permanent workers will likely live between Kita Hiroshima (Ohtani's Japanese Pro baseball team new stadium located there) in the north and Tomakomai in the south.

Sapporo population is less than 2 millions and declining (1,969,058 in March 2024 declined from 1,972,381 in April 2022). All municipalities within Hokkaido prefecture have declining population, only exception recently was Eniwa (near Chitose) where population increased by couple of dozen people, increase attributed to enrollment of international students in the area after lifting of COVID restrictions.

The other TSMC facility in Kumamoto (pop. 738k) on the other hand is 2 hours from the nearest big city, Fukuoka (2.5 mil). Kumamoto is actually a less tenable location for talent. Yet things seem to be working out (the current workers there are mostly Taiwanese expats though).

Kumamoto is actually better/preferred location for Taiwanese expats, from proximity to Taiwan and warmer weather perspective, only little over an hour away from Fukuoka by Shinkansen. In comparison, Hokkaido is too cold and isolated, no high speed rail link to Chitose/Sapporo area or to mainland (Honshu).

Source: Live in Sapporo, also have lived in Ottawa, Toronto, and Seattle; was approached earlier this year by someone on HN for onsite role with a Rapidus US supplier.

I am currently on my third client in last 4 years from HN who wants to be hired thread. One very good client, stayed 18 months with them, significant equity appreciation until now; a very bad “deadbeat” client who still owes me $8K in back wages (6 months overdue); and my current client of 4 months, so far so good.

One thing I learnt is to request HN username and review their post history, and consider suspicious the ones who claim not having one or not participating in HN discussions.

A longer comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39311784

automated long-term trading bots

You don't need trading bots for long term investing or even infrequent trading. In LT investing, portfolio tracking and asset allocation/reallocation are the primary tasks. Robo-advisors were very popular almost a decade ago. Most brokerages have integrated such features now. Also, checkout M1 Finance.

I started investing first with the help of spreadsheet then shell scripting and now Jupyter Notebooks and Python. Beyond LT investing portfolio tracking, majority of time I spend on short to mid-term strategy development, back-testing and implementation; portfolio hedging and leverage; and options trading.

Only manual aspect is actual order placement, which takes only few minutes at best.

Try some of the subreddits related to investing and trading that might be inclined to use TA for example /r/Trading, /r/StocksAndTrading, /r/thewallstreet, /r/RealDayTrading, /r/DayTrading, /r/algotrading …

See my experience and suggestions at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39290661

Location: Japan

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Willing to travel: Yes

Languages: English (fluent), Japanese (intermediate)

Work Authorizations: US, Canada, Japan

Email: Contact email in profile.

Technologies: Python, Django, Docker, AWS, GitHub, SQL, Redis, Celery, R, Pandas/Numpy Data Science stack, DevOps, Flask.

Current Interests: Healthcare and Finance, AI/LLM/ML/Data applications, SaaS.

Profile: Looking for development-oriented roles with customer interactions and pre-sales/customer success components. A generalist, previously SaaS founder, product manager, developer, professional services system engineer. Able to contribute in variety of areas, as needed.

Teams with good interpersonal communication skills are highly desirable.

Your ultimate career goal should be one or more of the following:

* Become financially independent

* Become a sought after technical expert

* Become a boss where you have a fewest layers of bosses above you.

Rest are expendable.

I have been using Hacker News for almost 15 years and saw the evolution of both threads over this period.

Who is hiring? thread used to be about personal recruiting and opportunities posted by individuals who were also engaged here. For example, I met a founder who previously went through YC batch and also a VC who was recruiting for one of his portfolio company, through this thread.

Now, the "Who is hiring?" thread has degraded into just another "impersonal" source of potential candidates, like LinkedIn, Indeed and other job boards, and/or being used for market exposure to target audience. Postings from personal and/or engaged accounts have dwindled to almost none.

IMO, you are likely to have better experience if you ignore postings that redirect you to career page to apply and postings from new accounts and/or accounts that do not actively engage in the community.

Who wants to be hired? thread seems to have had several incarnations, over the years, for people looking for job and or project. I regularly post to this thread and routinely get contacted, mostly by wannabe entrepreneurs who want people to work for free/equity only or recruiters. But I am not a traditional job searcher.

I received two paid engagements through this thread, primarily through direct contact by founders. First one was a pre-seed incubator startup that engaged me for a pilot with a potential customer. We parted ways after successful engagement in few months as I didn't want to move back to US and for long-term effectiveness with targeted vertical, a US based person would have been better fit. Actually, later I also participated in their seed round and with excellent outcome till now. The second one (latest) was a seed funded startup that engaged me for a PoC with a large Japanese company, which turned out be a very bad fit with poor culture and poor communications. They still haven't paid me for the time I worked with them.

I have also made good connections with a few fellow posters on this thread. I generally reach out to posters on this thread whose profile I find interesting.

IMO, if you focus on contacts by people who are engaged in community, you will have better experience. Now, I generally ask for HN username as a first step. Also, don't work for free, timely exchange of any money is a good indicator of character.

A good boss and collaborative team members makes all the difference.

In my case, as these were external customers with revenue implications, I had the backing of sales and executive management most of the time to push through lot of internal BS.

Yeah, internal customers treat as cost center, and are much more difficult to manage. I generally turned down requests from external customers when invited me to come onboard into their orgs.

Time-sensitive critical decisions as a career sounds like guaranteed burnout.

More than burnout, it was the boredom of "lulls" in between time-sensitive critical decisions that got me.

In my pre-sales/post sales system engineering roles, I was routinely approached by leadership and teammates to "put out the fire" as they used to say. I enjoyed those kind of challenges but such instances were not that frequent, may be once a month, and I found the time in between such cases incredibly boring. But the high of solving a pressing problem and then relaxing for a while was very addictive and rewarding.

I expect that I might have burnout if I was dealing with such cases everyday but a few cases a month might not be that bad.

Location: Japan

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Willing to travel: Yes

Technologies: Python, Django, Docker, AWS, GitHub, SQL, Redis, Celery, R, Pandas/Numpy Data Science stack, DevOps, Flask, PHP, Laravel.

Current Interests: Healthcare and Finance (non-crypto), AI/LLM/ML/Data applications, SaaS.

Languages: English (fluent), Japanese (intermediate)

Profile: Looking for development-oriented roles with customer interactions and pre-sales/customer success components. A generalist, previously SaaS founder, product manager, developer, professional services system engineer. Able to contribute in variety of areas, as needed. Majority of education and professional experience while living in US.

Teams with good interpersonal communication skills are highly desirable.

Contact email in profile.

It is a bug as there is potential to exploit this for karma farming and account reputation. Submit an archive link of already submitted story to bypass duplicate link check, once submission gains traction, admin replaces the archive link with original link but karma is farmed by archive link submitter.

This thread should have been merged into previous one and karma points should have been removed from archive link submitter.

Also a duplicate link checker upon replacing links would have caught duplicated submission. There is lot of room for improvement here.

I guess duplicate check didn't catch the submission as OP used archive link originally and bypassed your earlier submission. Dang changed the link later.