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by LorenPechtel | 2025-11-27 04:25:07+00:00
Depends on the visa category. Family preference visas for siblings can have waiting lists in the decades. But family preference visas for spouses of citizens have no wait list. It's just the system is slow. We went through some of it long ago, her time here threw us into proximity, proximity turned to love. That meant an adjustment of status, her old visa became invalid when we applied, but you have permission to stay while such an application is being processed. A hair under 6 months from application to first interview, a hair under two years before she got conditional permanent residency. (And I think that timing was not a coincidence, they stretched it out to just below the point it wouldn't have been conditional.) I would be terrified to do that under the current administration.
by zbentley | 2025-11-27 04:25:27+00:00
> Not being able to envision how it is in fact possible to write code with these invariants encoded in the type system is a fundamental fault in one’s ability to reason about this topic, and software correctness in general, in the first place.

Code proving that it’s possible to avoid branching into an abort (the concept, not necessarily the syscall) was not what the original GP requested. Nor was a copy of your employer’s IP. Published examples which demonstrate how real-world code which intentionally calls panic() could be better written otherwise was my interpretation of the request.

And I’m requesting that, too, because I am interested in learning more about it! Please don’t assume I’m asking out of inexperience with safety critical systems, dick-measuring, faulty reasoning ability, or unfamiliarity with using type systems to avoid runtime errors (where—and this is the source of this discussion—practical and appropriate). If you work on your tone, that would make it much easier to have educating discussions in contexts like this.
by contrarian1234 | 2025-11-27 04:26:14+00:00
I think it's a broader cultural issue where everyone has to have strong opinions about everything and make a strong stand - instead of picking your battles

Not that I necessarily disagree with their reasoning, but stick to having strong feelings about your core "mission"? It just feels a bit "unstable". Hard to imagine such stuff coming from Java or Python or whatever other major language
by mock-possum | 2025-11-27 04:27:35+00:00
> However, many young men feel like the pendulum has swung too much to the other direction. Society still expects men to do “manly things” (mandatory army service, physical labour etc) but girls around their age get policy benefits instead. I’m not going to into whether this feeling is justified or not.

Oh that’s okay I’ll say it - privileging women over men, and enacting a double standard where men are expected to comfort to a gender role whole women aren’t is NOT FEMINISM.

Feminism is not ‘the pendulum.’ If every aim of feminism were realized, men and women and all people would be equal. The goal of feminism is not a retargeting of supremacy, it is the destruction of supremacy in the first place.

There is really only one kind of person who throws around terms like ‘anti-feminism’ and ‘the pendulum had swung too far’ and I don’t think I need to waste my breath describing them, because every single one of us reading is intimately familiar with them.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-11-27 04:28:12+00:00
You don't, because you expect there to be a toilet, a sink, a shower, towels, a mirror etc. there. There's nothing to consider, it's just expected to be there. Same for the bathroom door.

But if i got burned once or twice by a room without a bathroom door, i'd start checking that too and avoiding places that don't have them.
by icy | 2025-11-27 04:28:27+00:00
I'm excited to see this migration happen, mostly because it signals to us (https://tangled.org) that large projects are willing to switch! We're working pretty hard to get Tangled out of alpha—we want it to be the place for free software communities.

Also recently wrote about our vision and commitment to indies and communities (and never enterprise!): https://anirudh.fi/future
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-11-27 04:28:29+00:00
Not saying that you're doing this, but isn't this the same as saying "it's okay for the nuclear launch systems to use 8" floppy drives."

It's perfectly okay if you are. And if you aren't then there's some place between "it's okay for missiles to use Series/1s from the 1970s" and "it's okay for people to use a 2 year old phone." Might be interesting to figure out where that point is.

For what it's worth, I think it's perfectly fine for US Nuclear Missiles to use IBM Series/1s, even with Floppy Drives. I had this wonderful idea that somewhere in the mountains was an old guy hand-winding copper wires around an iron core to manually make a read/write head for a floppy drive to sell to Raytheon to sell to the DoD to replace worn out IBM floppies from the 70s.
by davydm | 2025-11-27 04:28:34+00:00
I get your part about mentors. I came up through having to figure stuff out myself a lot via stack overflow and friends, where the biggest problem for me is usually how to ask the right question (eg with elastic search, having to find and understand "index" vs "store" - once I have those two terms, searching is a lot easier, and without them, it's a bit of a crapshoot). Mentors help here because they had to travel that road too and probably can translate from my description to the correct terms.

And I really wish I could trust an llm for that, or, indeed, any task. But I generally find answers fall into one of these useless buckets: 1. Reword the question as an answer (so common, so useless) 2. Trivial solutions that are correct - meaning one or two lines that are valid, but that I could have easily written myself quicker than getting an agent involved, and without the other detractors on this list 3. Wildly incorrect "solutions". I'm talking about code that doesn't even build because the llm can't take proper direction on which version of the library to refer to, so it keeps giving results based off old information that is no longer relevant. Try resolving a webpack 5 issue - you'll get a lot of webpack 4 answers and none of them will work, even if you specify webpack 5 4. The absolute worst: subtly incorrect solutions that seem correct and are confidently presented as correct. This has been my experience with basically every "oh wow, look what the llm can do" demo. I'm that annoying person who finds the big mid-demo.

The problems are: 1. A person inexperienced in the domain will flounder for ages trying out crap that doesn't work and understanding nothing of it. 2. A person experienced in the domain will spend a reasonable amount of time correcting the llm - and personally, I'd much rather write my own code via tdd-driven emergent design - I'll understand it, and it will be proven to work when it's done.

I see that proponents of the tech often gloss over this and don't realise that they're actually spending more time overall, especially when having to polish out all the bugs. Or maintain the system.

Use whatever you want, but I've got zero confidence in the models, and I prefer to write code instead of gambling. But to each, their own.
by Arainach | 2025-11-27 04:29:25+00:00
Eh. Their messaging is immature here, but you don't need to be on the biggest thing - especially when you have a limited set of contributiors, not millions.

It is deeply unfortunate that Git won instead of Mercurial and even more unfortunate that GitHub won. GitHub's code review/PR UI is an abomination. We had better tools 15 years ago and GitHub is still a regression. There are tons of reasons to move off it if you're willing to pay the cost of working with alternatives.
by PeterHolzwarth | 2025-11-27 04:29:44+00:00
70s? Are the 70s and 80s far enough in the rear-view mirror that they have blended into one? (Well, at least up to 83-84).

Or, am I forgetting some 70's pop images/film animation that used this style? I'm thinking of the matte transparent quads look of the mech, etc.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-11-27 04:30:50+00:00
There are two possibilities:

They find this out in advance and find a 'normal' hotel and book a room there.

They find this out when they get to the hotel, complain to everyone, write bad reviews, never come back.

Lose-lose for the hotel (unless it's some remote destination with just one hotel there, but those are rare)
by cperciva | 2025-11-27 04:31:07+00:00
The problem here is that "mean" is a poor average. For hotels, if you're rating in 10 different categories, you really want a single 0/10 to bring the overall score down by way more than one point.

The opposite situation can also occur. At my university, entrance scholarships were decided a few years ago based on students' aggregate score across 25ish dimensions (I can't remember the exact number) where students were each rated 1-4. Consequently a student who was absolutely exceptional in one area would be beaten out by a student who was marginally above average in all the other areas. I suggested that rather than scoring 1-4 the scores should be 1/2/5/25 instead.
by Vikkyv | 2025-11-27 04:31:41+00:00
Great questions. We are thinking about this a lot. And please bare with me for long answer 1. Scaling Up: The "production" doesn't need to be built; it already exists. There are thousands of families in my district (Katihar/Purnia/Seemanchal) who already harvest and process Makhana manually. My goal isn't to centralize production (building a factory); it’s to decentralize access. We scale by onboarding these existing micro-producers onto our logistics rail, ensuring they adhere to our quality standards (hand-popped, no bleaching) in exchange for premium pricing.

2. Aggregator vs. Cooperative: The current aggregators operate on Opaqueness (hiding the farmer to protect margins). We are building on Transparency. The goal is closer to a "Digital Cooperative." We want the end consumer to know exactly which batch came from which pond. If we become just another faceless middleman squeezing margins, we have failed. We pay significantly above the local Mandi (market yard) rates because we remove the 4 layers of brokers between the village and the city.

3. Monetization: Currently, it is a standard D2C margin. The price gap is massive—farmers sell raw seeds for pennies, and city consumers pay premium prices (often a 500% markup). Even after paying farmers double the market rate and handling logistics/packaging, there is a healthy margin for the platform because we own the entire chain.

4. End Goal: The "Adopt a Crop" Subscription. I want to move away from one-off transactional sales to a model where a user subscribes to a specific patch of yield for the season. This gives the farmer guaranteed income before the harvest (solving their working capital crisis) and gives the consumer 100% traceable food.

We are starting with selling packets to prove the logistics, but the destination is "Farming-as-a-Service."
by Lammy | 2025-11-27 04:31:49+00:00
I do like to deduplicate my BitTorrent downloads/seeding directory with my media directories so I can edit metadata to my heart's content while still seeding forever without having to incur 2x storage usage. I tune the `recordsize` to 1MiB so it has vastly fewer blocks to keep track of compared to the default 128K, at the cost of any modification wasting very slightly more space. Really not a big deal though when talking about multi-gibibyte media containers, multi-megapixel art embeds, etc.
by Fnoord | 2025-11-27 04:32:02+00:00
> We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.

Read: "Hi, I'm a right-wing populist."

Tradition is virtue signalling to them. Sovereignty is to fuel this anti-EU trend (a Russian propaganda point).

Durov is a Russian asset, I'm sure of it. Why, cause he got ties with the underworld, that is why. He didn't want to act on warez, narcotics, criminals, scams, etc. None of that he took serious, because in the viewpoint of a Russian criminal (the Russian state is the head of the criminal enterprise) all of that is just business. Which is also why he gets along so well with Trump. But when he didn't want to act on child pornography, he went too far. Because approximately all adults oppose that sexual preference. That is when France got his ass handed on a silver plate.

If this guy would care about free speech he'd be a lot more vocal about Trump and Putin instead of France and EU. The EU is under attack by Russian trolls, ask anyone who works in SOC. It has become worse...
by pornel | 2025-11-27 04:32:35+00:00
By alluding the switch to Rust was "without cause", and bringing up concerns of floppy users and retro-hobby hardware, you seem to be seeing the change only from a very narrow perspective of interests of very specific group of users.

There are lots of other users, and lots of other ways to care about them. Making software less likely to have vulnerabilities is caring about its users too. Making software work better and faster on contemporary hardware is caring about users too, just a different group (and a way larger one, and including users who really can't afford faster hardware).

Sometimes it's just not possible to make everyone happy, and even just keeping the status quo is not always a free option. Hypothetically, keeping working support for some weird floppy drive may be increasing overall system complexity, and cost dev and testing effort that might have been spent on something else that benefitted a larger number of users more.

Switching to a language with a friendlier compiler, fewer gotchas, less legacy cruft, and less picky dependency management can also be a way of caring about users - lowering the barriers to contributing productively can help get more contributions, fewer bugs, improve the software overall, and empower more users to modify their tools.

It'd be fine to argue which trade-offs are better, and which groups users should be prioritized, but it's disingenuous to frame not accommodating the retro/hobby usecases in particular a sign of lack of compassion in general. It could be quite the opposite - focusing only on the status quo and past problems shows lack of care about all the other users and the future of the software.
by godelski | 2025-11-27 04:32:40+00:00
Locality and humidity.

I also don't mean to be snarky here, because I'm not sure how to say this in a way that can't be interpreted that way and feel like I'm just explaining being human...

The answer is really just physics. The feeling of comfort is generally about differential in temperature, not absolute. (That's also a logarithmic relationship too) So to have that nice feeling of stepping out of a hot shower then the room needs to be a decently high temperature. Mind you, you're also wet. This makes the temperature differential more influential. So two things happen when you dry off. You no longer have that water to transfer and maintain heat and you've also cooled down a bit. Now when you walk into the normal room temperature the differential isn't so bad.

If I turn the temperature up in the whole hotel room I will then have to turn it down. Now that introduced AC and we have the opposite problem... Plus both get rid of humidity.

To be snarky and try to be a bit humorous:

Haven't you ever noticed that 100F/38C is "hotter" and more uncomfortable in a humid environment than in a dry environment? Haven't you ever noticed that 15F/-10C is "colder" in a humid environment? Haven't you noticed that being in a hot tub or sauna is comfortable but if it was that temperature outside you'd be cursing the gods? Haven't you noticed that in the summer 50F/10C is cold and most people won't wear a short sleeve shirt yet if it was the winter that's a nice day to go out and wear shorts? Haven't you... lived in a body?

It's winter man, here's a trivial experiment for you:

- Heat up your house: - Shower with door open - Shower with door closed - Don't heat up your house: - Shower with door open - Shower with door closed

Tell me the results. Which is the most comfortable? Also tell me your power bill for each day... You can figure this out in 4 days with essentially no cost of time or effort?
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-27 04:32:42+00:00
No, I get there are a lot of people like you, but you did have the choice of just using android didn't you? Governments are not ways to enforce your personal preference or force it on others. Apple felt their lightning tech was better, isn't having better tech and an environment where different ideas can be explored better? EU is already anti-innovation, you don't succeed with startups easily there, it's precisely because of this sort of close minded unimaginative thinking.

I don't care if apple required manually splicing wires to charge your phones (safely), how is it the government's right to force them to not do that? The whole point of having a free society is small things like this. I keep posting long posts on HN, so let me cut it short and say that lots of freedoms can be taken away in the name of convenience to others. Companies should be punished for monopolistic practices, but they shouldn't be punished for imagining alternative ways of doing things and succeeding with that. I've had android phones where the USB connector on the phone end broke or degraded, you can hopefully see my perspective as well? How can we have a free society like this if we can't even resolve and tolerate very small differences of opinion like this?
by z3phyr | 2025-11-27 04:33:09+00:00
There is another way. Irrationality. People spend a lot on religion. Like a whole lot.

What if there was a faith system of ultimatley going to interstellar medium. You have faith, you automatically pay, like the rest of the people and you dont question it. You get tax breaks. It will help you in the end of times or something.

Just decide the ultimate goal to be interstellar medium touching in all directions.

You are a farmer? Well now you continue to farm to feed budding spacers. You are a game dev? Well, people are going to get bored in space, continue developing games for the ultimate goal.
by HaZeust | 2025-11-27 04:33:49+00:00
>"That's fine"

Glad we sorted that out. Barring that, I am not interested in what things you find to be a "good/bad look" for my participation in this conversation.

>"Children should not have easy access to addictive drugs, digital or pharmaceutical."

They should not. And luckily for you, for at least 2/3 things you said, neither do adults. We've already established a baseline belief as a society that those (legally) require permissive access from subject matter experts, so I don't see your point. My originating comment - or the one I linked - certainly doesn't advocate for minors to have more permissive access to those (or any) industries than an adult?

For your comments onwards, you could have saved yourself a lot of time in your reply by acknowledging what I said in GP:

>"There's levels to it, and I understand a child can have all the tooling in the world about how to deal with bad influences, and neglect its application solely due to naivety;"

You are right that exposure does not build agency alone - but I never claimed such; access to guidance and mentorship builds better decision-making and problem-solving for a child, and letting them practice agency and autonomy in their own lives allows them to see real-world use cases and applicability of those decision-making and problem-solving skills.

It's how parenting worked before this newest helicopter-lite style of parenting emerged, which seeks to declare as many hardships, trials and tribulations in life as a boogeyman in which a child CANNOT interact with, and pressures parents to coddle their child and build a zero-problem world around them - when that's not how the real world works. In doing so, a parent does not equip their child with the tools to appropriately carry themselves in a sometimes inappropriate world.
by maldev | 2025-11-27 04:34:09+00:00
Exactly this. It gives you the CHOICE to stay healthy. Losing alot of weight is hard, before Ozempic I went to a weight loss clinic where they precribed stuff like the "hcg diet" or old medically assisted fads. I lost ALOT of weight, online they would all say the same stuff of "you'll just gain it back".

A person cannot lose weight that fast normally, losing 70 or 100 pounds at 2-4 pounds a month is alot of time. But I was able to lose it and go from not being able to run, to being able to walk and run all day at festivals. Guess how it's easier to lose weight now...

I think alot of people don't understand how hard it is to exercise or lose weight while fat, just due to the join pain and muscles. Let alone shoes not being meant to support you. Losing that, it becomes alot easier to "just go for a walk", or work on cardiovascular health. I got on it after I went on a trip with a friend and walking for a few hours had me bed ridden the next day and he was like "Ya, I'm tired but I could walk all day if I had to", and he wasn't fit. Now I'm that person and can fit in a whole meal with how much I burn from walking/running.

I will say for the time I was on a GLP-1 at the end, it's amazing. It's almost the same effect as the other pills on appetite, but without the side effects. Phentermine and other stuff will make people manic, paranoid, or make your heart pop out of your chest. This type of drug is a godsend, and anyone who's committed will maintain the weight loss and live a healthier lifestyle.
by komali2 | 2025-11-27 04:34:30+00:00
This is the main issue with tankies, not that they go bizarrely out of their way to defend the PRC (and weirdly sometimes the Soviet Union or even North Korea), but, as Westerners, every geopolitical analysis they have is Americentric. Every news article for them is framed as, "How does this affect, or, is influenced by, American hegemony?"

It often results in them completely disregarding the opinions, motivations, and agency of anyone that isn't American or a citizen of the PRC.
by scheme271 | 2025-11-27 04:35:18+00:00
This really depends on your relationship with the other person and your status (e.g. US citizen, permanent resident, etc). Long story short, if you are the spouse or immediate family of an US citizen, there isn't any queue to get permanent resident status aside from whatever time it takes the US government to process the various forms. That time can be substantial, e.g. 2-3 years but it's nothing like the multi-year wait that a spouse of a permanent resident needs to go through just to apply for permanent resident status.