skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“ In his 1979 history, The Alcoholic Republic, the historian W. J. Rorabaugh painstakingly calculated the stunning amount of alcohol early Americans drank on a daily basis. In 1830, when American liquor consumption hit its all-time high, the average adult was going through more than nine gallons of spirits each year.”

I think I remember hearing a similar stat on the ken burns prohibition doc. I didn’t quite understand why it was supposed to be that much though. 9 gallons of liquor is 36 liters is roughly 100 bottles of wine equivalent per year so less than a third of a bottle of wine a day which is what 1 or 2 glasses per meal equivalent? So the question then is are people drinking liquor drinking wine on top plus cider apparently? Or is it just a lot because that’s the average and plenty of people aren’t drinking much at or at all and that makes for the right tail of the distribution to be really drinking a lot?
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To anyone wondering, pretty sure "Linus talking about GPLv3" here refers to Linus at Debconf in 2014 https://youtu.be/5PmHRSeA2c8?t=2840 (from there to 56:51 it's about open source licenses)
All of that sounds like a boot stomping to me. Complete oppression and control.
After many years of using different tools to keep track of tasks, I ended up with a very simple system: a markdown journal for what I do every day.

Whenever I have a task that I need to complete that day, I add an entry in the current day's log. If I get it done, I 'x' it. If not, I carry it over to the next day. Of course, for work projects we have Jira to track work as well, but my task list is for things like "set up meeting with so and so" or "get screenshots to so and so" or "start working on ticket 1234". Any meeting notes or random things I think might be worth recording, I put in the log for the day.

For my personal projects, I keep a LOG.md file in the repo for the project and usually a separate TODOs.md since I don't use Jira or anything like that. As new work comes up, I add it to the TODOs file. I also nest tasks just using tabs. It's super simple, but it gets the job done.

I've learned that I don't like relying on outside software for keeping track of tasks. It's just faster for me to type away using vim in a text file. It gets synced with the repo and I don't need to worry about signing in to some cloud software or worrying about them adding/removing/changing features on me (or going under).
JavaScript object model in one line of code
I wonder if this is largely a practical issue -- I've seen people waiting over a year for everything to get sorted out ( for example https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2021-April/235288.html ), that's just not reasonable.
There's an option to limit data sharing as well.
This does not counter what I said in any way.
actual HTML title == [[YouTube] Age verification issues - Can't download video. · Issue #28578 · ytdl-org/youtube-dl · GitHub]

actual rendered title == [YouTube] Age verification issues - Can't download video. #28578]

apparently this issue was closed

>> Suika commented Mar 29, 2021:

You are probably connecting from EU, right?

A change to YT was announced ~4 month that there will be extra steps for age verification in EU, iirc.

If you connect from outside of EU, it should work.<<
Dedicated SSID(s) with that/those SSID configured as a guest network goes pretty far. I happen to use Ubiquiti gear, but most any router is likely capable of creating a dedicated guest SSID (or multiple). That covers wireless devices (which is all the IoT stuff that I have).

The one aggravation I had was trying to get the Chromecasts to work correctly (where I wanted to be able to cast from a machine on the main LAN to a Chromecast on the Google IoT SSID). I would periodically get it working and then it would periodically break. I'm not even sure that it's working right now to be honest, mostly because a lot of the need for that use case (video playback) has shifted to FireTV sticks.
It's a vector in the mathematical sense.
Haven't a significant number of the multi-billion dollar violations turned out to be rather "oh we didn't know" as opposed to intentional malice?
People have over an hour commutes riding transit in nyc too. You only luck out if you manage to secure a job and an apartment along the same transit line, and that's rarely easy or cheap. Especially if you suddenly get a new job.
>Why do you want manual transmission?

Less bugs!

Seriously, dealing with all those auto-shifting is like knowing what you need and then a hard work to find how to make this stupid automatic to perform what you want as no one of them works as good as you wish. And why to have this extra troulble if you can do all you need with manual stick easily?

Also automatic is extremelly boring. I was thinking like you once but once I 'eaten enough' of this 'automatic' transmission I came to a conclusion that it never works and never will. At least not the way I want it.

Also real control with manual vs 'who knows what it will do' with automatic.
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You can place them in a separate VLAN for starters, and block traffic between anything other than the internet.
Covid, Ivermectin, and the Crime of the Century [video]
This decision came from the GCC Steering Committee, which has nothing to do with the FSF.

The history of GCC includes a dark period in which version control wasn't public, and the project was dumping release tarballs on the GNU ftp server. Then, Cygnus Solutions started the Experimental GNU Compiler Suite (EGCS), a fork with a much more open development model, capable of attracting contributions from the whole Linux and embedded industry. Within a few years, many Linux distros had switched to EGCS, including Red Hat.

If I remember correctly, talks of reconciliation started after Red Hat acquired Cygnus: other distros were worried that their competitor had gained too much control over a critical component of the OS. Eventually, the GNU developers and the EGCS contributors agreed to merge back under the GNU flag, but keeping EGCS's open development model.

Nowadays, the GCC project is still hosted on the Red Hat-owned Sourceware servers, and its governance body is a technical board of contributors with various industry affiliations: https://gcc.gnu.org/steering.html

TL;DR: the FSF and the GNU project no longer have much influence on GCC's direction.
> several orders of magnitude more engineers than the US

Wait, what? Several orders of magnitude, like at least 3 orders of magnitude? So even though India has 4x the population of the United States, it's training at least a thousand times as many engineers? That's amazing!

It's also totally not true at all. Spend a few seconds on Google.

Note that I don't particularly disagree with the rest of your comment.
Some of these countries have barely functional gasoline infrastructure, but valid (and getting better) electric grids. EVs jump them out of an ugly decades old trough of bad infrastructure (and good money chasing bad).

Chinese manufacturers already have found ways to produce sub-USD$1000 EVs. They barely meet US "standards", of course, as they aren't massive beasts of steel for a family of four girthy people, intended for a daily commute across the Ozarks, and cargo/towing capacity for thousands of pounds. But, they are a game changer for small, poorer families already in China and places that can easily import from China. As economies of scale continue to increase and Chinese car exports increase at world scale, there's in theory going to be an incredible step change just based on cars already available on Alibaba and before considering the effects that will have on car manufacturing competition.
I was a long-time skeptic of remote work, but after this last year I am convinced it can work well - and perhaps not just work well but work better than traditional office work. Our experience has been that people are just as productive in a 'visible sense' as when they were forced to commute and come into the office. But I also get the sense that people are happier, because they are able to skip frustrations (commute), retain their family life in a better way (seeing kids more), and free up mental bandwidth (by taking care of little chores/errands at will). They are able to create the work environment they want, eat more healthily, and do things like go for a walk and recharge. For creative work, I think there will be significant long-term benefits to having a work force that isn't just productive, but also happy, healthy, and fulfilled. Companies that are trying desperately to hold onto the old working model with stopgaps like "hybrid work" are simply dating themselves and will lose their best talent.
Civil war is impossible, the nation is united and doesn't want violence (all protests so far have been peaceful).

Coup would've already happened if it could, there is very little chance for it now. Lukashenko has spent decades surrounding himself with loyalist.

With silence and little pressure from Europe and the US towards both Belarus and Russia (apart from symbolic "concerns"), things are unlikely to change.

As long as Putin is in power, Lukashenko will remain in power.

There are many political points for Putin to gain within Russia by annexing Belarus, so that's something that could very well happen in the next few months.

Putin and Lukashenko have had several meetings in regards to Belarus integration over the last few months, with Lukashenko getting $1.5B in donations to support his regime after these meetings. So this seems like the likely scenario. And the time frame is much shorter <12mo.
Isn't ironic that the software house that created ShutUp10 is a Gold Microsoft Partner?
Holden has been owned by GM since the 1930s and has been building its own vehicles since 1948. Holden ceased building cars in 2017 and was disbanded in 2020 (RIP).

But yeah, the 4L60es are lemons in my eyes.
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In what sense does it 'use kakoune'? The page suggests some sort of design influence but the implementation is in a different language.
Those are all good points. Which is why I think we need to distinguish between different actual situations when we talk about this stuff.

The fact that you are not going to the office is too broad of a category. I mean just look at the name, work from home, and it is misleading right there.

You may need to look into a co-working space or other option to get out of the house with so many distractions.

It's also going to be totally different for people who have no kids or who are employing nannies or day care to occupy the children.

The software design sessions thing, I absolutely do not buy the idea that this cannot be done remotely. Use a Zoom meeting, one of the many collaborative whiteboarding sites/programs and get people Wacom tablets if desired. But just a chat room, phone call, Discord voice channel, etc. should actually be adequate most of the time.

For onboarding and culture, just because people are not coming into the office does not mean that it has to turn into a free for all. You can still have rules about being around at a certain time or using certain software or video calls or whatever you feel you need to keep people integrated or whatever. The only thing that needs to be different is the literal physical presence of the person. Virtual presence can still be facilitated and required if you feel it is necessary.
I realize nations do this, but do nations like Australia or the U.S., which fancy themselves more in harmony with the rule of law, want to be put in that position?

Which reminds me, many nations, such as the U.S., have domestic laws which would prevent denying re-entry to citizens. The airplane example isn't the best because there are many technical ways to stop inbound air traffic[1]; ports of entry at land borders, not so much.

[1] Stopping outbound air traffic is even easier as a technical matter.
The horizontal pixel doubling as mentioned in the article was a common trick on home computer character sets, which helped cope with the poor horizontal resolution of color TV signals. Though the default font in PC text mode also has a similar appearance which seems a bit harder to explain. Perhaps it was a pure readability concern there, similar to the thick vertical strokes in many printed typefaces.
It's definitely not in Google's interest to require an action as awkward and engagement-killing as ID verification. They work very hard to not take such drastic steps.

Such requirements are being driven by governments who don't care at all about user convenience, only extending their control over people whilst blaming the private sector for "making" them do it.
Please review page, 13.
http://web.mit.edu/timblack/Public/admissions/application_gu...

They claim to be "need blind", but they still ask. I'm not sure when they started that policy, but a quick search claims they are only one of 5 schools that claim to be "need blind".
Compliance and forgiveness is probably the best policy anyway: courts will consider intentions. Companies that are sued for a violation and can tell the judge "look at the evidence: we have a history of doing the right thing and messed up in this one case" get a tiny slap and continue one. By having a reputation of make right and we won't sue companies have nothing to lose by making right. By having a history of suing they will win some cases, but many of them the total gained will be less than laywer fees because of all the companies that are able to say "we tried to make right but they rejected this reasonable offer".

Also, what if a company decides to ignore the GPL and pay up? The courts and law understand monetary damages. The FSF runs the risk of the judge deciding that the code is already out there, and the value the code is $X: therefore the infringer should reasonably buy a license for $X and doesn't have to give source code back. This would violate the spirit of the GPL, but would fit the letter of the law.
I think a lot about society and culture -- especially now that we have a young child. I think a lot of the "ills" are just different manifestations of bad parenting.

It's a values thing -- I learned from my parents and grandparents to think futuristically, to get value by creating value, to be suspicious of the free lunch, to not orient my sense of self too much around what others around me are thinking and doing.

This set of thinking prevents me from being interested in being an influencer, which is the same thing that kept me from being sucked into the dot-com boom and bust, from getting excited about crypto, from being sucked into the ebbs and flows of caring about what twitter cares about, etc.

There's a sort of steadiness that comes from your parenting and your values. And in the lack of that, you fall for one thing or another. If it wasn't "influencing," it'd be something else.
Why do you feel it's your job to point out people's privilege or entitlement? Who asked you to judge them?

It's none of your business.
Minivans may be largely out of favor in the US, but they're still readily available. Chrysler, Honda, Toyota, and KIA sell minivans, Ford also sells whatever a transit express is (feels not as long as a minivan, but also more comercial); and then you've got the larger vans (transit, sprinter) but I think those are originally designed and available in Europe.

They're available in luxury models or economy models, and lots of stuff in between, so a pretty wide variety to chose from, even if many people don't.
No bones about it, this is Amazon's response to

> If you don't want your smart tv to spy on you, then don't give it your wifi password.
> pro government control

That’s a surprising (to me) way to characterize those who were extremely cautious around COVID.

Another honest question if you don’t mind: I assume you stop at red lights (a system designed, installed and run by the government). Do you self-identify as someone who stops at red lights because you’re “pro government control”? I mean stopping no doubt interferes with your rights to travel, slows down your forward progress and lastly seems to be sold as “yes it’s an inconvenience but it protects both you and your community”.

It’s worth observing that gang members, murderers and the like most likely stop at red lights. Do they do it because they’re “pro-government control?” I posit not. It’s more likely they accept the inconvenience and they accept the temporary delay in their rights to travel because they’ve done the calculus of risk vs reward. Risk to both themselves and others. We all choose to stop because it’s the safest thing for everyone.
>as though escaping or distorting reality is inherently preferable. Maybe I equally misunderstand the motives of the heavy drinker?

You understand the motives just fine. Reality for many people is some combination of boring, stressful, depressing, etc.

So yes, escaping reality is very much preferable to these people. And alcohol and other drugs are very effective at this.

To state the obvious, improving your situation so you don't want to escape reality would be preferable. But that takes a hell of a lot more time, motivation, resources, and effort than just cracking open that next beer.
That also makes me wonder if Europe also has a ton of the workforce wanting to stay remote too? They have density and public transportation, while most of America is an abject disaster in that regard.
> RSA encryption was popular for SSL/TLS but because it does provide forward secrecy it was deprecated.

s/does/doesn't/ there.
He means the discussion of the article. The change is due to new EU legislation, links are provided elsewhere in the (whole) thread.
Surely you can see how they aren't the same.
One of the best parts of old stationwagons was the rear facing back seat. Fortunately Tesla preserved it for a while in the Model S.

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/we-call-the-back-ba...

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-s-child-seats-false-ki...
Why do they feel that way? It is debatable they would have finished, gotten the same press vs one guy who did it and without requiring changes back development might not have been able to keep up.
Efficient at what ?

The tax havens are efficient at something, but it's not what most people think government is for.
> They don’t want to ‘violate your privacy’ - they want to show diaper ads to parents, car ads to people who want a car and watch ads to rich people.

I find this to be untrue many times, as advertisers also want to convince people to buy stuff that they do not actually need or want as well.
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The problem is that they're using my hardware, my internet connection and my electricity without paying me or asking for my permission.
You can quit smoking and you can stop smoking. I did both.

How do you know you did quit? You actually are quite disgusted by cigarette smoke and byproducts.

First, after 10 years of smoking, I stopped smoking for 4 years but was prone to have a cigarette every couple of months.

Now after 5-6 year relapse I quit for good. Honestly, I don’t miss a thing. The smell sucks, the taste sucks. The only thing that doesn’t suck is watching smoke come out of your mouth, but it’s not THAT enjoyable tbh.
FTA: "One side-effect of this was relocation of value - you can target an Economist reader a week later on a different website."

Don't this new tracking restrictions favor content creators at the expense of advertising networks?

Let me explain better: If I understand well, now The Economist could sell exclusive access to their readers by selling advertising directly to the advertiser? I believe this gives media with a certain volume of visitors and engagement an entire new leverage over "legacy adtech"
Nostril masks too?

Everyone's different, but I love mine, and hate the full mask I have to use when my nose is occasionally blocked.
They don't disagree on the general ideology, at least on paper, but when it comes to enforcement actions SFC is much more prone to litigate than the FSF.

IIRC FSF has only sued once, conservancy has like 100x the rate of lawsuits per years-existed. :P
In general I do not like Microsoft's integrated indexer because I noticed it really slowed down performance, and seemed to hog memory.

Appreciate the utility you pointed out, will happily look into it.
Oh, dear! Nobody cares about covid here. Everything works as usual and we have no idea how many people died. Funeral tax profits increased by more than 50%. Government closed the border because we want to escape. The state takes revenge for our protests. And it’s impossible to describe the whole situation but political prisoners die in prison or commit suicide. Today, for example, one guy tried to cut his throat right in court https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57320591