skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always guessed this was a major factor, though I still think too-low pay is a factor in a lot of cases, especially industries where pay tends to be anchored to minimum wage. However:

(a) This is public social media data, I guess? That seems like a noisy channel.

(b) Some of their suggestions are really dumb, and all miss the point in my view. If my boss is an ass, sponsoring a social event and expecting that to make things better is insulting.

The real solution theoretically doesn't have to cost any money: managers just have to be better people. For such famously bottom-line-driven organizations as large companies, it's funny how that zero-cost solution is so unlikely to actually happen.
I recently hit six figures at 20. By far not the norm.
Allende existed in a different time and place. He was in contempt of Chile's Congress due to alleged violations of Chile's Constitution, was supported by Marxist paramilitaries being supported by the USSR, and had praised the Communist revolution in Cuba and the dictator that it had brought to power.
You're not doing your argument any favors by comparing to European cities, which have great public transportation for the most part, and heavily discourage car use. The entire point of a downtown is to have everything accessible for humans. If it was meant for cars, downtown would look like a highway with service stations and drive-thrus.

I moved to Berlin a few years ago and aside from unplanned vacations into car-accessible destinations and heavy furniture pickup, don't miss having a car.

> Having minimal parking works ok when the population density is high and public transportation is good, but in a car-centric country like the US it just wouldn't work.

The US's design is not handed down from the Gods. It can and should change, for the livability of future generations if not the boomers who will cling to their coal-rolling machines as long as they can.
> Our analysis found that the leading elements contributing to toxic cultures include failure to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion; workers feeling disrespected; and unethical behavior

I don’t really believe these reasons or at least they don’t match what i’ve seen. I can only speak for FAANG: I think this is more compensation based than anything else.

In an effort to level the playing field FAANGS establish levels. Levels have salary ranges. Salary ranges mean top performers, the people who drive the culture of the entire org, can only be paid some amount more than bottom performers. By keeping these bands too tight the top performers can get better pay elsewhere and leave.

When your first top performers are leaving each one hits hard. Once it’s regular the culture becomes different, this isn’t a place to stay and grow, it’s a place to be a launchpad for the next place. And without top pay you won’t attract top talent so when these great people leave you replace them with average people. This reinforces the beliefs.

The other side of pay is current valuations are insane. Many startups are getting A, B and even D rounds with 300-500x (i’ve seen higher than 1000x) revenue to value ratios. Your FAANG may hope to 2x or 3x in stock value while these startups promise 20-30x returns. So you have to pay even more to beat the potential earnings they could get at a startup.

My theory is not that all pay has to change to keep people, but as a FAANG you need to spend to keep and attract the best or you risk losing everyone. When you work somewhere and all the best people want to stay, or when you work somewhere and more good people join; it’s really hard to mess up that culture
That's not true. If you are connected to the grid you absolutely pay fees already. Even if the fees aren't enough, they should be increased and equal per customer with or without solar. Questions: Why is it tied to installation sized rather than per installation? Why is the tax so crazy high per kW (it negates the entire value proposition for solar installations)? Why aren't we putting more money and doing more to encourage solar rather than the opposite considering the climate change cliff we are about to drive off of and California's budget surplus? Why is PG&E allowed to lobby politicians at all? Why isn't PG&E being challenged for not upgrading infrastructure with the billions they receive?

Are they just expecting home owners to buy solar installations out of the goodness of their hearts to save the planet, considering that it will make no financial sense to buy them anymore?
Tourists are highly likely to have money in their pockets and expensive gadgets with them, so they tend to be easy targets.

Someone foreign who learns the "ways" of the locals would easily be able to mingle though and go mostly unnoticed (Brazil has had peoples of all races for a long time, it's not like you stand out much by being blonde or asian, for example). And any local will immediately tell you to never walk around with money or expensive devices, and specially, never flash them around no matter where you go (near favelas there's a lot of unemployed/poor/desperate people - no one wants to live in one... so it ends up being a lot more dangerous in general than anywhere else).
I'm all for reducing parking lots generally, I just can't realistically expect that many others feel like I do.

As a temporary solution, can't they start planting trees in the parking lots? Just give up a single lot for every N lots, and turn it into a garden with a tree that can provide a lot of shade and is low-maintenance.
Sometimes, the soil is loose, making it impossible to dig deep to build underground parkings (or subways, for that matter) because it would make buildings sink. I don't know how common it is, but my city is like this. The area being liable to flooding because of a dam nearby probably doesn't help.

I believe pushing public transports and bikeways from "quite good" to "top notch, really convenient" and free (paid by taxes) would make a long way for all these issues (possibly mandating for cars to say out of the city for most use cases; it would make many situations more difficult to handle though).

(European perspective)
It only does IKEv2, but this script (mine) cuts out Ansible and is intended to be even easier: https://github.com/jawj/IKEv2-setup
Everything is a remix of other things that look like it. In this case it's the fact that everyone has the same word every day and you can compare how well you did that made it go viral.
> These stories remain ludicrous when compared with the unambiguous epidemiological evidence for zoonosis that we have in hand.

What would you consider the strongest evidence for zoonosis? All previous pandemics of novel[1] viruses have been of natural origin. But the technology to enable such an accident has only existed for a few decades, so that seems far from decisive. No one had died in a plane crash before the Wright brothers, but that doesn't mean the risk wasn't there.

We've found lots of viruses related to SARS-CoV-2 in bats; but no one questions that the virus is ancestral in bats, just whether it passed through some postdoc's hands on its way to humans. We've found new bat viruses in Laos, and perhaps SARS-CoV-2 emerged naturally from that; but the WIV was also sampling in Laos, so perhaps it emerged that way too. I don't think natural zoonotic origin is impossible, but I certainly don't see unambiguous evidence for it.

> The damage it does is distracting us from the unregulated wild-meat and fur industries that were the overwhelmingly likely cauldron for evolving these strains (as in SARS-1!).

I'd certainly argue for restricting those industries, even if this pandemic turns out to be lab-origin, just as I'd argue for restricting certain virological research of concern even if this pandemic turns out to be natural-origin. Per above, neither risk seems small enough to me to ignore for the sake of the other.

1. I say "novel" to exclude the 1977 flu pandemic, which somehow nobody gets upset about even though ~700k people died.
> I’d be happy if Apple just let me install apps outside their ecosystem

Android allows it, usage of alt stores is marginal.
I’ve been in at least five roles in eleven years at my current company, and projects frequently poach me for weeks or months at a time, sometimes leading to role changes, sometimes not. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but I enjoy it.
Sounds like someone has never heard of government
ACT is my ISP. Working fine for me.
If they're using baryon acoustic oscillations and the cosmic microwave background, theyre describing the amount of hadrons in the universe after these extra ones would have already become black holes, and be counted separately as "starting" as dark matter.

A black hole enthusiast then needs to figure out why those black holes would form before big bang expansion
Understanding as Hierarchical Model Building
Besides all of the already listed options I liked this one: "Decoding the New Consumer Mind: How and Why We Shop and Buy" by Kit Yarrow https://www.amazon.pl/Decoding-New-Consumer-Mind-Shop/dp/111...
I'm working on a solution that helps with transforming notebooks into web applications (with GUI). You just need to define YAML config (similar to R Markdown) and the framework will generate web app with interactive widgets. After change in widgets, user clicks Run button and the whole notebook is executed, converted to HTML and displayed to the user.

The framework is called Mercury and is open-source https://github.com/mljar/mercury
Obviously I am posting this from a throw-away (also, hail qubes) and am obscuring a few facts. Over a decade ago I was part of a illicit forum where goods and services were sold, and both parties had mandatory escrow with optional arbitration. Over my runtime I have settled between 1 and 100.000 ( ;) ) arbitration cases, ranging from a few cents to well over $100k. For those who may think they know what operation this was ... you probably never heard about it. All I can say that it wasn't ransomware, and nothing porn or trafficking related.

The entire topic interested me so much that I went our IRL to take courses in settling disputes and handling arbitration. Based on that I established rules to arbitrate and settle disputes by. Rules for both parties to interact, prior to sale of service/product and during arbitration.

Some cases took minutes to hours to settle, others days or weeks, sometimes even months. Sometimes people get incredibly emotionally involved for a few dollars, sometimes disputes for well over what I earned in a year, where solved by both parties only giving (yes/no) answers to my questions and inquiries, for them to request deletion of their accounts after the dispute was settled. The contents being mostly obscured by encryption, but only my rules allowed their commerce to flow in the first place.

I was tempted often to step in and steal money, but something told me that sitting out the experience would be so much more valuable for my moral compass and the understanding of people. I am happy it went that way, it did teach me so much about people, disputes, conflicts and problems. Now when I face problems and difficult characters in life, its like I have a cheat code of handling the situation.

The other thing I did learn during my ... lets call it 'tenure' was that this type of trade and commerce brings out the darkest characters and the darkest in people. That's another topic on its own ... I am happy to see this get attention on HN. This sort of "justice" has been around since the early 00's, preceding most darknet markets. And somehow I keep being drawn to them ... well until I got scared of by the FEDS (who of course always were around, and sometimes did bust people during ongoing disputes) and then my tenure was over. Good luck to those still in the game.
While this is true, the quantity of the violence needed, and like, the legibility of the conditions under which violence is to be meted out, can be much better in the case of, like, laws and state, than,

well, perhaps if there was no state, there could be another mechanism which is comparable or better, but when contract enforcement in a particular area is excluded from state enforcement, while normal areas aren’t, I expect the violence used in that area to be worse.
Most of the devs at prop trading companies in Chicago or New York will hit 500k/yr after a few years if they can hack it and stomach it. Depending on how close to the money they are, it could be 2-6 years.
I've noticed that the emojis look like question marks in some clients (Slack etc) but renders fine when you actually post them.
Not only that, but using the subway to move across the city is objectively faster than a car, and the balance only starts shifting to the car when your destination is outside the city and requires more than 3-4 changes.
Ransomware puts New Mexico prison in lockdown: Cameras, doors go offline
Seriously? Last time I saw such a plan was 2008 and even then it was only that one provider...
Yes, this is common, and good. It helps optimize company, team, and developer hapiness...
I think it's a decent architectural decision.
It's a lot easier to develop solid code that handles a single request than code than handles multiple requests in parallel.

Functions are used for a lot more than HTTP, we use them for a lot of DB event handling such as post-processing, in which case cold starts does not really matter.

Maybe we'll one day get to a point where the cloud service knows the best way to run our code?
I am being sincere. There is no credible evidence to it. It is all counter-factuals and conjecture. You can read the link in my original comment.
> I’d say it is totally normal in many places even encouraged for people to move between teams and roles in large organizations.

My first job out of graduate school, forty years ago, was an office job at a large public university in the U.S. That university announced all nonfaculty job openings through a central office, and current employees were welcome to apply for internal transfers. I was not unhappy in the job I had, but I did interview a couple of times for jobs in other departments that paid a bit better and seemed more interesting. I didn’t get either job, but I came way feeling positive about the process, as I felt that I had been evaluated fairly and that other opportunities would come along eventually. If I hadn’t moved overseas a couple of years later, I might very well have continued working at that university until retirement.
Bitcoin Mining using the MS-DOS laptop
At least in the US, military officers don't make a lot of money relative to similar positions in private industry. Their total compensation is often underestimated as it includes healthcare for life, a housing stipend while on active duty, and a pension in retirement, but you might make more as an entry-level software developer than e.g. an Army colonel with 20+ years of service:

https://www.federalpay.org/military/army/colonel

The real money in the military-industrial complex is made by defense contractors, spefically the executives and shareholders of companies like Raytheon, BAE, and Lockheed Martin. Corruption in the upper echelons of US military itself, while far from unheard of, is vigorously investigated and prosecuted by bodies like NCIS. "Fat Leonard"-scale scandals do happen, but are rare:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Leonard_scandal
You’re constructing a straw man and arguing against it. I didn’t find Amsterdam boring because I couldn’t drive around. I found it boring because there was a limited set of repetitive things I could conveniently access. I found it pleasant, but also homogeneous and plain. There is greater variety to be had in most American cities, simply because you can access more neighborhoods, businesses, amenities, whatever in a short amount of time on your own terms. If you have to deal with public transit (slower speeds, wait times, changing lines, etc) then any such activity simply requires more time and makes it less likely you’ll do it. You end up living a less rich life as a result. All that said, I appreciated the intercity trains.
One of the big advantages of DDG's bangs is that you don't have to re-type/paste the whole search query. Instead, you click the search bar in DDG, type `<space>!g<enter>`. That's vastly simpler and faster than re-typing the query, then `<space>!g<enter>`.

One of the thing that I miss from Chrome from a while ago is the integration with Google. I remember that Chrome would show the query in the omnibar (on mobile anyway) when doing a search on Google. So if you needed to make changes to the query, you can continue doing so within the omnibar.

I think if we can get something like that Chrome feature in Firefox but for DDG (or maybe any search engine?), using Firefox's smart keywords feature would be a lot simpler, and you can bypass the extra request to DDG that it would otherwise take.
> The real solution theoretically doesn't have to cost any money: managers just have to be better people. For such famously bottom-line-driven organizations as large companies, it's funny how that zero-cost solution is so unlikely to actually happen.

Actually changing management culture at a large organization is very expensive if it’s even possible. Very far from a zero-cost solution.

I mean, it would be great if the entire management team just woke up and saw the light one day and became good managers, but this happens approximately never.

Success is much more likely with a complete management overhaul. If that is possible, and it often isn’t, then it will be very expensive.
Machos are a certain mass of black holes, aren't they? Or does it include small but dense ones too? I suppose we'd see those on the microwave background though if hawking radiation holds true for small black holes
Looking around that map it’s surprising to see just how many buildings of all sizes have solar panels fitted. Impressive!
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I worked at a job shop making gears for 5 years, until March 2020 when I got Covid and then Long Covid... I've been short of breath since then. I recently learned that my boss described me as "slow, but you never had to check his work, or that he was working"... so there's that. 8)

I'm hoping to make it back into programming, something I did before that.
I'll never understand the American thirst for money for the sake of it. If HN comments are to be believed, top performer at your average FAANG easily earn $500k per year.

At that point, aren't you well past the point where more money brings more happiness, even in high cost-of-living places? What's the point? Why not find a job that's fun and fulfilling?
I have to disagree with a little bit with this article.

For one everyone is looking to hire talent but not develop them. This means that most companies don't have talent development plan.

There are huge amount of engineers who have kids and mortgage that they need to pay off, so for the right price they will work on any none cool tech.
It's basically a JavaScript API that accesses devices' hardware accelerators; think devices with hardware exclusively dedicated to neural network processing. For example, a smartphone with a CPU dedicated exclusively to think kind of computation. Google has, for instance, on its Pixel 6 smartphone a chip called Google Tensor[0].

[0] - https://blog.google/products/pixel/introducing-google-tensor...
ya saying..."Totally 100% Genuine" Duracell could leak less...
I live in Europe, but whenever I visit a larger city, I always go to a parking garage. Only once in my life have I ever parked on a regular public parking spot.
are you interested in the norm in terms of raw numbers, or where you would need to work to achieve this? and are you interested in people who have won the stock lottery, or just people who have their total comp pegged at 500k+?

assuming the latter, you're looking at getting hired in at level as a senior engineer (maybe one level higher depending on the company) at most of your brand name tech companies that value engineering talent.
You can filter out a lot of bullshit by looking for the amount of conjecture in a given argument.
Scammers put fake QR codes on parking meters to intercept payments
Film crews in LA are renting the lots for their production, not taking a ticket as if they are parking as a regular customer. I’m sure the garage would have been accommodating if you had asked to use the space.
No opinion about the SPA thing but that guide is awesome. Thank you
> Depends on how you define works. It does effectively filter the people that can't code, but it also filters a lot of people that can code and just can't or don't care to do it under time or environment pressure.

It is much more important for a company to filter out likely low performers than it is to avoid filtering out likely high performers, because the costs of hiring an incompetent person are enormous. Not only do they not produce as much, they eat up others' bandwidth by asking too many questions, implementing super buggy code, or not communicating effectively. They make other people on the team feel like they're not pulling their weight. They're a pain to fire depending on company culture and laws.

This process is designed to overfilter and maintain an A-player roster as much as possible, vs putting butts in seats. It's hard to tell whether the pool is exhausted here - by some indications, there's a lot of attrition but also a lot of hiring...
I suggest to read Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem (Simon Singh) https://www.amazon.com/Fermats-Enigma-Greatest-Mathematical-... to fall in love with math ;)
On third-party Apple Watch apps
Exactly. Once your needs and wants are met, every extra dollar can just get saved, and means less time until retirement. For this reason, there is never “a point where the money just isn't a motivating factor anymore.” If you are already comfortable and have the trajectory to retire at 55, why not job hop if only to be able to retire at 45? To me, the only point where moar money is truly useless is the day you retire, and even then, maybe you want to pay for your kid’s college or something?
Actually only New Territories were later leased, the main part of Kowlung and Hong Kong Island were ceded to the British in perpetuity under the Convention of Peking.

The British ceded the main parts of Hong Kong back along with the return of New Territories under the understanding that there would be one country and two systems.

In the 70s and 80s the British government did everything Beijing asked with things like not making Hong Kongers full British citizens.

Those compromises were supposed to gain something for the people of Hong Kong after reunification with PRC.

It’s Xi that’s renegaded on that promise and refused to allow a free press or opposition politicians to stand in Hong Kong.

You’d be mad to think that this time “peaceful” unification would be anything more than “do what we say, say what we say and we won’t shoot you family”.
How things have changed! Didn't we just see a white guy display as a black lesbian to get job offers?
Pffft! —more likely to work the other way round, these days.
At the very least you should put solar cells above the parking lot.
Very very true. Training is a lost art in the software industry. Facebook, to its credit, provides a bootcamp to new hires, which is rare enough to be industry.

The problem with offloading it to universities is you turn the academic and foundational theoretical into the practical, thus making them vocational schools.

There needs to be a system of apprenticeships in software, not just internships for some and co-ops for University of Waterloo students.
This title is peak click bait. I don’t think you could’ve made it more clickbaity if you tried.
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Soil mechanics have nothing to do with actual permits. There are way around that. And it's up to the investor to decide if it is worth it or not.

What matters more for permits themselves, is the capacity of the nearby road network.
Bigger parking lots, multilevel ones => more cars => congested network => traffic jams everywhere.

(European perspective with civil engineering experience)