pixelcort

One of the maps in Yoot Tower is Kegon Falls. When I moved to Japan I found out it was a real place. Just took another day trip up there last month. Of course IRL it’s just an elevator but the view each season is amazing.

Yes there is a nice coffee table book that I keep in my living room!

中銀カプセルスタイル: 20人の物語で見る誰も知らないカプセルタワー(Nakagin Capsule Style)

‎December 23, 2020

ISBN: ‎978-4794224880

In Tokyo there can be one stairwell, and then the balconies have foldable ladders in their floors. How about that?

One of the Daikin models for Japan apartments/condos (known as mansions) has a tankless humidifier; it is able to condensate humidity from outdoor air and introduce it into the home. On a cold winter day it is able to raise the relative humidity from around 30% to about 45% or so. うるるとさらら is the name of their series of things that humidify.

Can the git repo that the terraform config lives inside of serve as state? For example, one commit ago this part of config was there and now it’s gone, showing temporal intent that it should be deleted in real life as well?

Exciting!

I live in Japan but prefer to read in English. However it seems your iPhone app is not available in Japan? Any plans to also provide your service inside Japan as well?

メリークリスマス！

It seems DAW means digital audio workstation.

Japan's banks have a similar system, based on half-width katakana. Fortunately most banks can fetch the name from each other, but sometimes transfers fail due to issues similar to those found in this article.

ECMO machines can do this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extracorporeal_membrane_oxygen...

There’s another rush hour between 9 and 11 pm.

Another way to confirm this is to compare with the morning rush hour. Way more crowded as most people start work at around the same time (most companies have a starting time of 9 or 10 am).

Yes, and only for a plan to take ten days spread over three months. Apparently that’s bad enough for people to demand a resignation.

One additional challenge that will need to be addressed in Japan is unreported overtime (サービス残業). Often my friends, upon preparing for a day off, will work about 8 hours of overtime beforehand and not report it on the time and attendance systems at their companies. From my understanding, unreported overtime is not always reflected in most statistics; even when self reporting I bet many people forget all the unreported overtime they do. Another example is rounding down: work 2.5 hours of overtime but only report 2.

I’m not sure what the solution is, but one idea is to lock out work laptops after a time limit, or at least record overtime when a work laptop is being used.

Until we can begin to accurately track and measure the unreported overtime, we won’t be able to improve it.

Finally, I think working in multicultural teams helps. When you see your peers have diverse beliefs and actions about work and life, you may be more willing to take more time off, and more accurately report the overtime you do take.

In the article they mention that:

> You definitely want to consider using these attributes if you are building a login form with the username and password on different pages.

In Tokyo, when I have the choice between an above ground train or a below ground option, I tend to choose the above ground choice if I have time and it’s not too much slower. This way I can enjoy the view and avoid the subway tunnel noise. I’d love software that would factor these things in too.

I am able to load Shinsei in Chrome earlier this year, was this a recent change? Do you mean banking or another service?

In addition to Differential Privacy, Secure Multiparty Computation is another way to maintain privacy, while allowing computation across multiple users.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_multi-party_computati...

The benefit of this is that you can get an exact computation, whereas with differential privacy the output is rougher.

The benefit of differential privacy is that it does not rely on the trust of a majority of other users; you can theoretically verify that a certain percent of the time your device sends out a wrong answer.

Isn't this distorted by the amount of unreported overtime? Anecdotally many of my friends in Japan work overtime but don't report it, or report a smaller overtime amount.

It is possible to buy housing in Tokyo without citizenship. You don’t even need permanent residency.

Source: I am a homeowner in Tokyo.

In Tokyo most convenience stores are within a few minute walk, and have printers and scanners. You can use a smartphone app to transfer PDFs to them.

If you print a lot, it’s probably cheaper to buy a printer, but I only print a couple times per year so I find it more convenient to use this.

Amazon Search | Software Engineer | Tokyo, Japan | Onsite | Full Time

https://www.amazon.jobs/jobs/827324/

We help build and maintain the search engine used for the Amazon shopping sites worldwide. Our team in Japan is involved in a range of areas with impact on the search engine globally, including heuristics and machine learning systems used to generate and rank search results, natural language processing for many languages, and UX features of the frontend.

We are looking for highly motivated engineers interested in delivering the next level of innovation to product search for Amazon. The position is based in the Amazon Tokyo office near Meguro Station.

Your benefits:

- The opportunity to work for a major online retail company

- An engaging work environment with great career opportunities

- A competitive salary including RSUs and other benefits

Amazon Search | Software Engineer | Tokyo, Japan | Onsite | Full Time

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/695299/

We help build and maintain the search engine used for the Amazon shopping sites worldwide. Our team in Japan is involved in a range of areas with impact on the search engine globally, including heuristics and machine learning systems used to generate and rank search results, natural language processing for many languages, and UX features of the frontend.

We are looking for highly motivated engineers interested in delivering the next level of innovation to product search for Amazon. The position is based in the Amazon Tokyo office near Meguro Station.

Your benefits: * The opportunity to work for a major online retail company * An engaging work environment with great career opportunities * A competitive salary including RSUs and other benefits

Which APIs were only available via Mac App Store that prevented distribution outside it?

Yes, but a weakref by string or number would be quite useful for ORM caching.

Not to mention most companies in Japan will only pay for rail passes that are not Shinkansen, with limited exceptions. There are express trains that are not Shinkansen that can be used, so I imagine most commuters use non-Shinkansen everyday when compensated by their employers.

As an alternative, iOS seems to temporarily offload apps to make room during updates. Because all the apps come from the App Store, the apps can be easily redownloaded afterwards.

In light of the recent post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18269007 about LP funding sources, is there any insight into the sources of where the money from this round is coming from?

I'm confused. Is this article announcing bad news or is it just describing how others announce bad news?

I'm living in Tokyo. There are a few companies providing these kinds of services. I get print advertisements in my mailbox weekly for them.