skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may be different in professional settings. In old country, drinking was effectively expected for several reasons including 'establishing trust'. Amusingly, anecdotally, I heard similar stories about China and its culture regarding drinking.

In US the only time I even heard of any kind of peer pressure was from first year college kids, who have not yet had a chance to explore their new found lack of parental supervision.
> Non-alcoholic drink options are available everywhere.

Ehh, they're pretty bad in the general case. I went to probably the top 1% of bars in the country recently (in The Shard in London). The entire sum of non-alcoholic options was 4 mocktails, all pretty good and very, very sweet (between us we tried 3).

There was one solitary NA beer: Peroni. This is probably one of the very worst NA beers I've ever had, after the Beck's one.

Probably they have the usual options of sugar/aspartame bombs like Coke too, but they're not on the menu.

If you're not into sugar, not drinking alcohol is extremely boring a lot of the time.

Which is sad, because there are actually some quite nice NA beers, wines and "spirits" (herbal extractions) now.

But then again, they probably don't actually want non-drinkers there as they can't sell them outrageously expensive drinks (the most expensive NA drink is £12.50, the champagne menu goes to 4 figures).
> This is subject to some major sampling bias. Drinkers cluster with drinkers. Non-drinkers with non-drinkers.

Or they don't, and virtually in every community above 4 people you will find drinkers and non-drinkers as well.
The author is a developer advocate which obviously requires attending a lot of events. Of course a software engineer will have a different experience.
Fun to add any silly components and click on "Present". Tim Cook be like "This isn't an upgrade, its a breakthrouuuugh.
They can run/fund NIMBY groups that encourage people to vote their way.

Local to me, we've had a few causes pop up with surprisingly well-run NIMBY efforts opposing them in recent years. The amount of money raised and the signs and slogans are way too good to be the product of the actual locals who speak out on behalf of these groups - somebody else is clearly funding them and doing some marketing.
> rooted deGoogled phone with location defaulted to off and all apps

asking for a friend, she wants to know how to do this, she is very privacy conscious.

> I nearly forgot to mention the phone's VPN-type firewall.

also she wonders what vpn service you use here

> logcat log-displaying program on a rooted smartphone without additional privacy protection steps being taken is astounded

and one last thing she wants to know is how would you do this for a windows 10 laptop? can you hook it up to some raspberry pi device that can monitor outgoing and incoming packets? I suspect its rooted but people keep telling her how its impossible to trojan windows 10.

> one's privacy has considerably lessened in recent decades,

just to add my piece, people have been collectively brainwashed to place lot of value to essentially phantom points, be it instagram likes, followers on twitter, retweets and crypto. they are willing to go above and beyond to do the surveillance voluntarily.

I watched a piece on instagram thieves who chuckled how easy their victims make their job for them by showing off what they've got and when they are away from home. I imagine this is the same for people who believe they are building a startup legally.

Remember the quote from the biggest social media creator: "They trust me dumb **s"
I feel like this is missing any mention of the history of KV stores. Unix came with an embedded database (dbm) from the early days (1979) [0] which was rewritten at Berkeley into the more popular bdb in the 80s. [1] Sendmail was one of the more common programs that used it. And then when djb built his replacement for sendmail, qmail, he invented cdb. [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBM_(computing)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_DB

[2] https://cr.yp.to/cdb.html
Maybe try Notesnook[0]?

[0] https://notesnook.com/
Everything is possible including AGI and simulating universe. If some mathematicians and physicists think these things are impossible it is up to them, time will show.
I agree that this sort of thing needs a study.

Fortunately the previous tweet linked to the original source, a published study of 5 million ER visits which appears to have a full set of controls and specifically measures time to inpatient transfer in excess of 5 hours as a mortality risk factor
https://emj.bmj.com/content/emermed/39/3/168.full.pdf
> I'd ignore Stross. He's been predicting inflation and famine since Brexit passed.

Thank God he was wrong about all that, it's hard to imagine what the UK would look like with close to 20% inflation.

Wait...
Eugenics requires that the offspring is more evolutionary fit than the ancestors. In this scenario, there is no evidence that co-marrying a different twin pair had a eugenic (nor a dysgenic) effect.
I have a relative that has fallen into several pyramid schemes and is perennially addicted to so-called “self help” books, spending hundreds of dollars on them per month, every month, for about two decades.

I won’t mince words. It is an embarrassing addiction. I often feel secondhand embarrassment when I interact with them. The level of naïveté required is astronomical, but somehow there it is.

It is also one of the funniest phenomenons to see on this website, because it’s not just acceptable here, or even just popular here, but apparently a critical part of the culture to the extent that weird articles about dealing with ~Being super smart~ or ~Optimizing your life~ make it to the front page on a nearly daily basis, beating hundreds of submissions every day.

I am happy to see that people are being critical of it today though!
It's absurd to frame this as some sort of luxury consumption decision. Sure, that might be true for like beach front properties but we're talking about virtually every major city in the country.

People grow up and have social connections in these places. There are jobs there. There are political reasons for moving. But most importantly these are cities, not suburbs. It's just wildly ridiculous to disallow dense housing which would allow more residents and lower housing prices.
let's split it: <alcohol-centric culture> and <work culture>. These two cover significant portion of population to have intersection as a majority. The same way one can talk about <sport work culture>, or any other. To call it <alcohol-centric work culture> one would need to provide evidence of disproportional presence of <alcohol-centric culture> in work environment.

Given the fact that many companies prohibit alcohol these days, the proof would be a hard task.
The self-driving bit is what makes it tenable. All it takes is some people to offer parking a couple hours outside the city and for your home to drive itself out there when you go to sleep and drive you back to the city as you are getting close to waking up.

Government prevents parking like that? Then just have the vehicle drive around aimlessly while you sleep or hang out, like a limousine. If energy were cheap enough, there'd be almost nothin you could to do stop it.
> It hasn’t done squat.

By what metric? I'm not sure that's accurate [0]. It looks like the vacancy rate has seen a steady decline and the money raised ($86.6m) helped Community Housing Incentive
Program (CHIP) and Land Acquisition/Development opportunities.

[0] https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/vancouver-2021-empty-homes-ta...
No 14.5 months is the average for naturalization.

https://www.boundless.com/immigration-resources/how-long-doe...

Total time is 18.5-24 months to wrap up everything, but the 14.5 months you're able to be in the US which is what matters.

How does that compare to other countries? What's your ideal country that has the best immigration times?

- edit -

Green card from nil is also just a year or so on average, in which case you are living in the US and able to work.

These numbers are very comparable and much better than most countries. Please provide your ideal country so we can compare numbers.
I'm not following - how do the cheap houses in Indian relate to the high prices in SF and abolishing property ownership?
No one is forcing you to live in the city you do now. I am probably in a similar income range yet live a <3 miles from a major city that is known for high housing market.

People have such high expectations of housing, they are pricing themselves out. I do live in a 60+ year old, 1400 sf house, but that doesn't bother me.
Because politicians are accountable to voters and unless the monopolies are nationalized the monopolies are accountable to no one.
Canada and Australia both use a points based immigration system. Both countries are isolated from land borders that can be easily crossed. Contrast this with the non-points based immigration system in the US and tens of millions of immigrants from South and Central America. As I wrote - different immigration systems.
It's kind of funny realizing how much I try to add color and patterns to my clothing and house décor probably due to being someone who suffers from depression. Basically, more color and visual variety seems to mitigate some of the worse effects of depression for me especially in winter.
Probably blocked by somebody else's patent.
Drawing Mona Lisa with Only CSS
The author is a developer advocate which generally does require you to attend workshops and other events. Tech is a very broad world.
+1 to this!

https://docs.sigstore.dev/fulcio/certificate-issuing-overvie... has a good overview of how the certificate issuing works.

With Gitsign, by default a new keypair is generated per signing event (i.e. per commit) and never hits disk. The cert in the commit signature holds the public key, which we can check against Rekor (https://docs.sigstore.dev/rekor/overview) to verify it was valid at the time of signing.

If you have the time, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVhRQFS9Njg is a great deep dive into how Sigstore works in general!
> Georgia Guidestones

I had never heard about this before. What an odd tale. It's a real-life story of people falling into FUD over something pretty innocuous.
This is a thread about the wealthy investor class buying the literal land and shelter and hoarding it so they can profit off those they lease to. What was that you were saying about unsustainable and selfish?

Fight selfish with selfish.
"Sure, many object to new housing for reasons like "it will change the character of the neighborhood". But many others object because they are worried about the value of their own home going down."

At least in my area, it's all about people wanting the area to remain semi-rural. They generally aren't opposing low density SFH in independent builds. The people in my area are against many development and medium density homes.
The problem is market power. We want a free market in which supply and demand dictate price without manipulation.

But in any given region, there is a fixed supply of property that is slow to change to demand. And there is also a fixed demand- everyone needs a home. If one market participant buys up enough of it, they can choose to raise rents on that entire segment of the market. People need a place to live, and if their job, life, livelihoods are tied up in that specific area then leaving isn't a viable option.

The market participant literally is rent-seeking. They aren't improving these homes. They're raising prices by virtue of owning enough of them to be able to manipulate the market. They can charge more for the same service without providing anyone with more value.

Saying that anyone opposing this is some kind of communist against property ownership is a straw man argument. We just want to see a fair free market.
It compiles faster than go. Bolin released last week so it's unlikely anyone has heard of it. I had a lot of request to document the language so I'll try to do it one topic at a time.

If you reply to this comment I'll try to answer your question about the article or the language
My point was to compare European countries as they were suggested by the GP to be better.

Go ahead and choose one or so and come back with numbers to compare. You'll find the US is very good in comparison.
And your nice, quiet suburb is unlikely to get many high-rises if it’s actually far enough away from the nearest city center, because it doesn’t particularly make sense to build towers in the middle of nowhere.

By contrast if your suburb is nice and quiet despite being right next to a city because decades of policy have locked it in place and it’s pricing people out… too bad? Other people need housing too and outward from an already dense city is where it makes the most sense to build them.
The USA has fairly moderate alcohol consumption and cultural expectation of drinking compared to many other countries (it's something like 40th in a list ranking >100 countries by litres consumed per day per capita). Among English speaking developed countries only Canadians drink less, as far as I can tell.
> What about America is so fundamentally different than Europe that would make the same policies that work there not work here?

The amount of violent criminality? Look at any major light rail network in America and they are nowhere near as safe as the European equivalents.
Page 9/84 in the "whistleblower_disclosure.pdf" are about Elon Musk's claims of fake twitter accounts and bots. Good lord, this does not look pretty for Twitter.
I mean you don't build reactors somewhere out of in the middle of no-where, you need a labor force and infrastructure to build them.
Meat is nutritionally superior to plants. Humans do not process cellulose easily. It takes far more plants to equal the nutritional content of meat. I tried Beyond Meat as an experiment but it tastes awful. Real meat is better.
I agree, and it’s the same with Python. If you start with static, type-safe first, then Python’s flexibility ends up being so horribly convoluted that you avoid it in favor of simpler constructs. **kwargs? Massive union types? Super flexible dicts? Rather not!

I’ll define 50 strongly typed constructs over having to run my code through 50 times to catch all the runtime bugs.
That's a very limited view of bars and pubs.
tja is my favorite. There is also SchnitzelVerbrechen, MannausSachsen, de, Finanzen, wasletztepreis, 600euro and many more
Ask HN: Which programming language do you feel most productive in?
Forget the theoretical merits of any particular language -- which language do you feel you can produce the most output with, and why?
Science has failed our world
Science has failed our Mother Earth
Science fails to recognize the single most
Potent element of human existence
Letting the reigns go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith
Science has failed our world
Science has failed our Mother Earth
I put a headphone jack -into- the notch.

I don't even know what to complain about now.
I think it's time we take a descriptivist view of "Linux", because there is some hard-to-describe way that Android isn't "Linuxy". If a good mobile graphical BSD OS appeared from nowhere , we might consider it "Linuxy-er" than Android.

The presentation does a good job of explaining what is missing for a good "Linux smartphone ".
Didn't work on the desktop? I've been running Linux exclusively on my desktops for 15 years. Desktop Linux is better today than it's ever been.

Why does every OS need to be suitable for average consumers? Librem and Pine64 are doing great work in the mobile Linux space on the hardware side, and projects like PostmarketOS are doing great work on the software side. These are niche products for motivated enthusiasts, as they should be. They'll never grow to billions of users, nor should they. The tech industry's "grow massive or the product is worthless" mindset is pathological, in my opinion.
In effect it already is: we lack allodial title in the United States anyhow, and all land is subject to taking by eminent domain and taxation by local governments.
Likely under the guise of safety, environment, etc like building codes and conservation zoning.
I'm a non-drinker (but am a passionate meat eater for later context). I agree that I don't feel like anyone has ever thought less about me because of my non-drinking status.

I've also won prizes that are alcohol related. The perspective I wanted to share is that I look at this as a free opportunity to delight someone on my team that enjoys alcohol. I don't try to get the conference to drop them. Instead I look at it as a way that I can delight someone.

I would hate that we reduce everything down to the point where the only thing we can give out is glasses of water because that's the only thing everyone can agree on.

Its ok that we have different likes and tastes. Don't guilt people that they like beer. It's ok, you can not like beer and they can like beer. And you haven't lost anything by winning a prize you don't like -- instead you've gained an opportunity to make someone else happy. Just pay it forward and the next time the universe might grant you a steak dinner instead. :)
> are things really that bad there?

UK resident here. I am in a lucky position where the current hardships don't affect me financially. In the short-term, I can ignore the issue and pretend it doesn't exist. I wish it was only a short-term issue.

Long-term however, most of what attracted me to the UK in the first place died with the pandemic. The high street in most places is a shadow of its former self (replaced by money-laundering fronts masquerading as gift/American candy shops), work in tech is stuck in a weird hybrid state where it's neither fully remote nor on-site and is the worst of both worlds, wages haven't kept up with inflation while housing prices have skyrocketed, businesses are struggling and will struggle even more as people don't even have the money to pay their heating/energy bills, let alone for discretionary spending. The NHS is basically a write-off at this point and your only option is to go private.

Taxes on the other hand are still high. Now I don't know anybody who likes paying taxes, but it stings less when you feel like you get your money's worth out of them (in terms of infrastructure or services, such as the NHS) and the tax rate is adequately calibrated. However, the tax brackets have yet to adjust for inflation, so you must earn more (and thus pay more tax) even though your standard of living hasn't actually changed at all. Services that you used to be able to get for "free" (paid by your taxes) such as the NHS are no longer functional, so you must now effectively pay twice and go private instead.

Politically, there doesn't seem to be any urgency to fix the problem either, from any side of the political spectrum. I haven't paid attention to them too much here (I can't vote anyway), but the feeling I got was complete apathy from the ruling class. It always felt like a plane flying on autopilot with nobody at the controls - we happened to luck out for a while and prosper despite that but now we're approaching a mountain and it will be really bad if someone doesn't change course.

I have an EU passport, when my current lease expires I will be moving back to the EU and taking my business with me. At this point I am losing money by staying here, paying huge rents and taxes for sub-par value in return.
I suspect this might be why most open source software struggles to reach the quality of commercial products. If it takes 10 attempts to get the major design questions right a company will either get there eventually or get outcompeted. Open source projects typically grow out of somebody scratching their own itch, and that doesn’t involve the scrapping and iterating necessary to make a product that fits many users’ needs.
It's mentioned in the article
Canada's immigration system favors engineers and skilled professionals. As the comment I was replying to put it this is a way for rich countries, like Canada, to drain the resources of poorer countries. This process benefits you, because you prefer to live in Canada compared to your home country, and it benefits Canada, because they get more professionals, but it hurts your home country who loses professionals.
Those reactors will be much safer then the street in front of your house.
It's not condescending for someone to imply "I live somewhere important, you live somewhere unimportant" ?

Phrased another way, if someone came in for an interview and said "I'm from Laketon, Indiana", do you think it would be appropriate for the interviewer to say "Oh, you're from the middle of nowhere." ? I don't think that would be appropriate at all.
Can you elaborate on your last sentence a bit more? Just trying to get a more thorough explanation. I just got my first 30 year mortgage so, trying to make myself feel better I guess.
This uses AWS's Textract service, but if you're doing a LOT of extraction, that gets pretty expensive pretty quickly. We do thousands of pages daily on CourtListener.com and created an open source microservice for this purpose. It can take PDFs, DOCX, DOC, TXT, HTML, or a handful of other files and extract the text, doing OCR if necessary:

https://free.law/projects/doctor

We're always looking for more people to use and improve it.
Yeah, it's all fairly bad, but then I'm not sure where I would move to.

US seems bonkers in its own way, Germany is buckling under the gas crisis, France... lovely place but i can't understand how it stays afloat. Poland is just about in free fall. Italy and Spain seem (?) perpetually in the grip of a political crisis. Other countries i know less about.

Switzerland? Netherlands? Denmark?
> For the most part others didn't get that hot of a deal.

How? Dollars are worth $0.5 in 1990. Yet your mortgage payment is unchanged. Your house payment is much less.

Rents are much higher.

You won.
I certainly don't trust them. 30% battery life may as well be near death on my windows laptops.

As for hours of use in marketing material I wonder what they'll claim when they actually get close to their current estimates? Just lie about it more? How will we know if they're getting close to the truth?
I'm not sure where you got the 14.5 months from. This is roughly how much time it took for my citizenship application to get processed, but it does not include the 5 year period of being a permanent resident (and applying for it also took ~1.5 years). Total time from setting my foot in the US on H-1B to getting citizenship was roughly 8.5 years.