skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two neighbors, ex-USA Citizens have give up the Citizenship to cut their tie with the IRS... They often say "America is here" (France).

IME if you plan a short migration for a project, witch means go, earn enough money, come back and you do not need ANY KIND of health services in the foreseeable meantime it's ok. If not...

USA level of services is third world compared to EU, bureaucracy is byzantine, surely you might earn much more in absolute terms, just to spend much more in countless fees, you get, perhaps depending from a place to another, very nice nature, nice colleagues, parties, spaces, ... It's an experience, but definitively not a country I'll ever choose or recommend compared to EU. Financially is a nonsense if not for a limited period of time, being healthy, etc.

My suggestion is NOT just asking about salaries but also about cost of living, about all the bureaucracy you need, about how to find a lawyer (because yes, you need one, even just to subscribe to a local gym) etc.
From the code it looks like they used this: http://ai2html.org

The FAQ on the front page provides a hint as to why this might be superior to just using an SVG or PNG.
Also works for Twitter, which doesn't have RSS by default.
> easy abortion makes hookup culture more prevalent

What specifically makes you say this? It seems like one of those "common sense" conclusions that begs to be supported by data. The trend might surprise you. Abortion rates have fallen drastically since Roe v Wade (obviously Roe v Wade didn't itself reduce abortion rates, but improved education and access to birth control has been very effective). Has "hookup culture" also fallen drastically? How are abortions fueling hookup culture if they aren't happening as much?
> Disappearance of the high-street due to Amazon

My own anectdata, but I've made the opposite observation. At least in my hometown (~10k population), I've been pleasantly surprised at just how resilient the high-street has been. In the past year, we've had a new bakery, a new arts and craft shop, a new cafe, and the farmer's market is going from strength to strength.

While several years ago, I would order relentlessly from the likes of Amazon, I've found myself purchasing local goods in local stores far more, and am better off for it.
Ask some artists, my art collective is using Midjourney as part of a project, and we are actively discussing how to deal with the subject of authorship and credit.
Hematoxylin and eosin stain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%26E_stain
Very much - hence why the pig is "raised in conditions that should limit pathogen exposure" and the multiple virus tests on both the heart and the patient before and after the transplant. And even then they missed one pig virus.
Sum types do not support loading new types at runtime which is fundamental in many GUI software
Shocking and depressing. It was a gross abuse of the trust that society places in scientists. What is astonishing is that the conlicts of interest of the authors would have been clear with a simple Google search. Yet, no newspaper thought of doing that! More likely, they took a decision to not pursue that angle.

I didn't know that Calisher is that old !
From a European POV, I would say that US democracy is about as functional as European union democracy. Remember how EU declared natural gas as "green"?

It is difficult combining low population areas with high population areas when they got completely different culture, wealth, and natural resources. Mistrust, suspicions, polarization, alienation and otherism abound.

The trend is however not impossible to break, and there is scientific understanding of those forces if people were willing to take them in. A key finding is to not shove culture symbols into peoples face, a proposition that scarce few want to agree in the name of cooperation. When people feel that their culture is threatened the natural repose seems to be the opposite and display as much of cultural symbols as possible.
Can you make a test move for just a few months and see if you like it?

Employment aside, there are other things that matters when you change countries / continents. As an European, I wouldn't like to move permanently to the US.

If you are making enough money in Europe, I don't see much incentives to move to US.
> Are you saying that a down round after having raised at a "silly" valuation is worse for founders than a seed round at a terrible valuation?

Raising at a terrible valuation isn't the alternative.

It's easy enough to think through the mechanics of a down round:

* Why would a company accept a lower valuation at all? Desperation. They need the capital to continue.

* Is a desperate company going to get good terms? No, this is how you end up with onerous liquidation preferences, lose control of the board, get outside executives foisted on you, etc.

* What happens to the team? The company landed in this predicament by being overextended, so people will lose their jobs. Morale tanks, other people leave by choice.

* What happens to the stock? It loses a lot of value. Not only is the company worth less, but there's more dilution than a typical round (which gets compounded if existing investors have anti-dilution provisions). More morale issues. More people leaving.

On and on.

Not everyone who raised at absurd valuations will end up in this situation, naturally. If they didn't spend the money, they'll be fine. (If they raised on a SAFE where the "valuation" was really a cap, they'll just have to reset their expectations. It was never really a valuation anyway. If they misrepresented things to their team though they'll still have problems.)

It's the early-stage companies who took a bunch of money on an idea and spent most of it over the last year getting to a sellable product that are in trouble. They were only doing what they were told -- floor it, spend the money, build as fast as you can, raise more in a year -- but now things have cooled, they still need to find PMF and generate revenue, and while a year of runway might seem like a lot, it's blood in the water for investors.
I would double check this - assuming your wife will be going over on an H1B or L1 visa (edit: correction: L1 can get you an L2 as a spouse), as a spouse you would not be allowed to work in the US.
Using the median surely goes too far the other way though, discounting the fact that the US is far larger than any of those countries except Russia. Of course the US is less likely to have shooting-free years, it's far bigger.

Other ways to display this data would be:

- group Europe into 1

- split the US into states

- display error bars

- take 95% lower bound assuming a normal distribution

https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...
Yeah.... live there for a while though and you might find yourself wishing you were somewhere a little behind, especially if you don't agree with the government on every single little rule and prohibition.

I lived there for a year and while I appreciated the efficiency, when I needed it, the feeling of control of every little aspect of life and commerce eventually started to feel oppressive. I could give many examples but let me just choose one - I live in Thailand now and I can state for a fact that the single street I live on has more live music on any given night than the whole country of Singapore. (1)

Maybe that doesn't matter to you, but it sure matters to me. Singapore's one big, very well run, very efficient, very purposeful, corporate campus. Nice place to visit, you wouldn't want to live there.

(1) OK, maybe not every single night of the year - there are concerts and events in SG sometimes. But 99% of the time, absolutely.
That scenario assumes that crypto currencies as a whole will still be interesting by then.

I have doubts about real use cases being found and regulators are clamping down on it too. People should now also have realized that it's not a hedge against the market or inflation at all.
Things have changed dramatically and continues to in the wake of China-US tensions (many Chinese companies setting up shop in SG to avoid a risk of getting frozen out from western market access), HK imploding, Shanghai lockdown troubles and political instability in Malaysia

On fin tech, there’s Silicon Valley style critical mass now.
I'm not sure I'd have much time to venture outside of the city. Plus, I live in climate that's similar to PNW (coastal Poland), and actually the desert surrounding Las Vegas and semi-desert Bay Area were much more interesting for me. I'd much rather go to Florida for example, as I've never experienced the tropics before.
Kadence joined iThemes and then iThemes got bought out: https://www.kadencewp.com/blog/kadence-wp-is-joining-ithemes...
For what it's worth, I can recommend the Surface Go (2 and 3) as a tablet, even if you do not intend to run Linux. Simply because it's x86 and your not running Android or iOS.

While the actual tablet experience in Windows 11 is mediocre, the fact that I run plain, regular desktop apps makes the device so much more enjoyable to use. It's not a replacement for a decent laptop, but as a tablet, I'd pick this one over crappy Android or locked-down iOS any time of the day.
Well, to be fair, any good public transport comes at least every 15 minutes (and great public transport comes every 5 minutes or more often), so schedules aren't a problem if the current transport system is managed good...
Well, law enforcement agencies are required to take reports of violent crimes seriously.

I think that the analogy holds.
Hello there, I live in Berlin now and used to live in the United States. My family is there, and I go back to the east coast of the US often. The degenerating and dystopian quality of the United States is difficult to overstate, but almost impossible to capture verbally.

Whatever one cause attributes to the systematic breakdown of the US, it is difficult to deny the realities of the decline -- massive alcohol and narcotic dependency issues, increase polarization of politics, censoriousness on all sides of the discussion, narrowness, a shortening of attention, a loss of standards. I could go on, but it's too depressing.

I came to Berlin first in 2006. Yes, it was very cheap then, but also very monocultural: now there are many more forms of life here, and they benefit from their coexistence. Stay here, make this moderately good place even better.
Is English commonly syllabified across morpheme boundaries? It just looks so... wrong.
Moving to the US at this point would be like buying a ticket on the Titanic just after it hit the iceberg.

But sure, why not?
My experience is the opposite. Most productions users can tolerate downtime.

It's usually the company leadership that can't tolerate it to have downtime.

And it's fact, they are hit an unplanned with downtime of one service or the other every month or so because of an outage. They are used to it.

So if you plan for it, explain it, and limit the scope and time of it, it usually goes very well unless you are a fortune 500, a hospital or something alike.
I blame, the uneducated about viruses, wuhan-institute-janitor with the dead animals, on the food market, instead of expensive cremating them, making a little money in a side hustle.

Cluedo its fun for the whole family.

But it provides nothing tangible regarding responsiblity.

The janitor is clueless on the danger(the government does not properly educate its citizens, which have medieval concepts of medicine), a culture of side hustles & "stealing from the man that steals" is normal in all post-sovjet countries.

The problem here is that the risk is systemic. Meaning, the societal characteristics to be found in all post-sovjet totalitarian societities, will produce this again and again, against all promises of reform.
Which makes outsourcing exponentially dangerous endavours to these places a crime.

I do not blame ccp-china there. That potemkin village of a working society is very obvious for anyone willing to watch and able to look past "brute" reality-i-command-you-so sovjet style propaganda.

I blame those who thought they could perform already irresponsible endavours for cheap without oversight there.

Yes, medieval concepts of medicine. Why do you think those life animal markets still exist? Because frozzen food is considered "bad" for your chi. Now, im going to pretend that outrage at outrageous behaviour could have consequences.
In emacs with pdf-tools it seems you can enable a minor mode:

pdf-view-auto-slice-minor-mode

which does the trick. Just learned it.

EDIT: could try it. Exactly as intended. Will be of great help (I can now have a complete latex page in view with decent font size).
> just with a heavier syntax.

Ok, I'm glad we agree on that.

> I can see how writing

Eta reduction is one example, but a great deal of code is cleanly expressed as e.g.

vecLen = sum . map (^2)

And ocaml's type system is not capable of handling this gracefully. Very unfortunate!
You need a lawyer just to subscribe to a local gym?
Why would you believe women wouldn’t be exempt from the draft?

Do you have a historical example of that in the roughly 300 year history of the US? Do you anticipate on recent Supreme Court rulings that they will expand the idea of equality and not reinforce traditional Christian gender roles?
The US has a lot of issues but needing a lawyer to join the local gym is a gross exaggeration. Nobody is doing that.
> we should just hand all governance over to a consortium of industry leaders that are accountable to shareholders. If we're going to do an oligarchy, let's at least be efficient about it.

They might at least make the trains run on time.
If Princeton probably O1
This is not exactly a financial response, and that was the context of your question, so forgive the somewhat off-topic aspect of the remark -- yet, the negative aspects of life in the US have both real actual costs and possible future risks. All the talk about civil war might be bluff, but it is still alarming.
> The only downside to car culture is environmental concerns that I really hope electric cars fix.

How are they supposed to fix it?

In many countries we still burn gas & coal for electricty.

The cars need to be produced, which is alot more resource intensive than building better public transports, since a train transports hundreds of individuals at once, and can serve the transportation needs of thousands over the course of a day, the amount of material and energy for fabrication per-passenger is far lower. And thats's not even taking into account total service-time and cost of recycling.

The cars need parking spots when not in use, which requires space that could otherwise be used for housing/parks/recreation/businesses. Public Transport systems have far fewer downtimes (even when I dont ride the train, someone else does). Plus, they are more space efficient to begin with.

And of course cars need roads. Lots of them, and no matter how many are built, there still seem to be traffic jams.
OP here, yes that's the whole point, I'm attuned to the differences. There are two/three countries that I could say I'm fairly attuned to the difference, Sweden (native), the US (lived there for 6 years and we brought up on American culture) and _maybe_ China. In my experience, Sweden is more diverse in terms of dialects, architecture maybe similar, while the US has more natural diversity (obviously) and food. In terms of cultural diversity, both are quite homogeneous in the mainstream white population, and both countries have a large immigrant population, but Sweden's is more recent (30% of Swedes have a foreign background), but the US obviously have a big black population that goes way back.

On the other hand, I'm not very attuned to the differences within e.g. Norway, the UK or Spain, but based on the politics that is visible to me, there are quite stark differences in many European countries and I have no reason to believe they are less diverse than Sweden or the US.

You can debate which are more or less diverse, but you have to admit that they are on the same order of magnitude. The difference between European countries is an order of magnitude or more different that the differences within the US. I can't understand how anyone can argue otherwise.
New proof resolves question about regular substructures in graphs
You are joking but laws dictating appropriate clothes is an infringement of bodily autonomy, and the definition of appropriate clothes was a hot topic concerning religious attires just a few years ago.

A human right for bodily autonomy would include the right to decide what and what not to wear on their own bodies.
Could you share any interview links for those interested but not familiar enough to find the info on Google?
+1 having gone through the US immigration system, it doesn't quite work as a reasonable immigrant would think. Before you move, make sure to talk to a US immigration lawyer. The process will be long and painful unless she's moving to a university or for a religious job where some exceptions apply.

You might find yourself in a spot where you're not allowed to work, even for European clients legally
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I just looked at the data, it seems that both of us are somewhat right, but at this point birth control and education outweights abortion law:

In 1973, the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalized abortion in all 50 states. From 1973 to 1980, the abortion rate rose almost 80%, peaking at 29.3 abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age ...From 1981 through 2017, the abortion rate fell by approximately one-half.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_statistics_in_the_Uni...
How is that's even slightly related to OPs question?

> Stay here, make this moderately good place even better

I think you missed the part about his wife's job in the US which is the reason for the move in the first place.
I find readability one of the most important properties of code. As the saying goes 'code is more often read then written'. Also, we have all seen where disregarding readability leads us, namely the java language, where one gets the impression that every java programmer is being paid in proportion to the number of characters they type. Any single step that leads us from readable code to typical java code may seem like a minor issue but in the end one ends up with code where the championship of large distance scrolling can be attained just in order to find out what is in a class.

In cases I was describing readability really takes a bit hit. It is a bit like writing the abc-formula and having to write (- data->b +/- sqrt(pow(data->b, 2) - 4 * data->a * data->c ) / (2 * data->a). Being able to write (- b +/- sqrt(pow(b, 2) - 4 * a * c) / (2 * a) is so much nicer.

Actually, the three classes I described by themselves do not need any virtual methods. But I was skimping on details a bit. There actually is a fourth class that is being used to mock the application facing class and that causes some virtual methods to be necessary.
I've also lived in both and Munich is definitely the more expensive of the two and afaik housing affordability is a factor, too. Maybe that played a role.
There are many contract opportunities in the US, often paying more than in Europe, sometimes a LOT more. You didn't provide details about what you do and how much you make, so it's hard to be sure in your particular case. You will be close to NYC, which also opens many opportunities. You could use some job search engine like Indeed to look around a little in your area of expertise.

This said, the visa issue could be a major hurdle and it's important to do your homework about this work visa that will be given to you.

Regarding the negativity about living in the USA... I immigrated to this country 20 years ago and I love it. I would never trade the US for Europe, despite Europe being an interesting place. It's not fun being poor in the US, like in most of the world, but I think overall it's an amazing country with lots of opportunities, great quality of life and wonderful people.
I'd argue that if you can't tell the difference between a good system design and a bad system design other than "see if it works," you shouldn't be in a position to be giving system design interviews. The idea isn't to get a working system, it's to see how the candidate approaches a system design. If it's a problem you know how to solve and you can't see problems with their approach, they're probably at least as good at it as you are.
I upgraded my development database from 12 to 15-beta this week. It was super painful, even with pg_upgrade, I cant understand why newer Postgres release can include compatibility for older storage formats. This is the number 1 weakness in Postgresql. I prefer to not upgrade major version for years because its so painful.
Some time ago I wanted to update my self-hosted PostgreSQL containers (for stuff like Nextcloud, and Gitea) and did not find a good solution to running pg_upgrade in such an environment.
To that end I created a little container [0] that tries to upgrade the database from one version to another.
Maybe this is useful to some of you :)

[0] https://github.com/alexandrospanagiotidis/postgres-upgrader
There was a post a few years back of some other substance that was affecting a tenant or owner. In their case, they found out in the very end that the apartments were actually built on former industrial/military space that was not properly cleaned up. It was a very detailed article and was posted here.
I always wonder how driving to bars and parties works like, because you have to either not drink or have to take some kind of other means of transport, like a taxi or well... public transport.

But yes, I think your concern is more about that you wouldn't enjoy living in a city to begin with. Which is fair enough, most of these things you enjoy aren't great if you don't have a workshop and/or plenty of space (though I have to note that amount of pottery workshops in my city is quite high which is nice because it makes it more accessible to people who can't own all the equipment).
It may be European perspective, but there are dozens of absolutely gorgeous historic cities within an hour or two of flight from where I live, so flying sixteen hours to see Seattle (where I could fly two hours to see Paris or Rome) is just a sorry proposition.
A Fake Vitaliy Klychko called several mayors via video around Europa
In my experience americans love to talk about diversity, but hate spending time with people of a different socioeconimic class.

So something like the London tube, where millionaires sit next to people that have been unemployed for the past 2 decades sounds like hell to them.
That's not a problem if you have money.
Not sure what you’re basing your claim on, but the vaccines have been tested and studied quite a lot.
Legdur – keep your legacy durable
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition
> we don't know how AI is doing it.

Don't you think doctors can do it?
Huh, I might go get a surface go* 1 (with 8gb of ram) as my Linux tablet. Trying to find out which android tablet I can install PostMarketOS on is a bit too difficult.

Any issues with the first generation?

Edit: sorry, my bad, I meant surface Go 1, not surface pro 1, which is too old I think.
Not to mention abysmal health and social services.
I am using a more data oriented approach [1],even if I mainly work with C# which is an object oriented language.

I use inheritance scarcely and I do not use encapsulation.

I separate the code from the data. I have data classes and code classes which do not hold state, and I treat those code classes similarly to modules in other languages.

Now I don't even need classes to hold the data since the introduction of records which are immutable containers of data.

[1] https://www.manning.com/books/data-oriented-programming
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