skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's partly because developers of large estates often have conditions on their planning permission such as including a certain proportion of "affordable" homes within their mix and funding various community facilities. So on paper they have approval to build all of that.

The reality is that they can often make far more profit by building the expensive houses first, drip feeding them onto the market, and possibly never finishing the whole estate as originally approved. It's no accident that many homes are approved but never built. It's just a small group of wily giant building firms playing the system and getting away with it.

In theory local authorities who administer the planning system should call them on it. In reality it's a David and Goliath situation. Attempting enforcement actions can result in years of expensive legal battles ultimately funded by local taxpayers with no guarantee of success even in what appear to be cut-and-dried cases.
I’m not arguing against your point, it just appears completely irrelevant to the article under discussion, so I asked for clarification instead of just assuming you didn’t read the article.
Because wasting stuff is bad?
why would they need to do anything - including blogging - to handle 80kqps, that's ~one machine nowadays
But can you uninstall the root certificates of an adversarial government (i.e., your own)? Is it now necessary that the chain of trust includes entities you don't trust?
Can anyone calculate the dollars-per-request revenue and profit? Would be interesting to see how much it costs Amazon to make money and make some connection to the request rate.
I don't know if you ever do, but designing with fat tolerances helps. If you're just building something once, it often doesn't cost much more to over-engineer it. Choose a more powerful processor than you need, add more cooling than you need, use more fuses and power-supply filtering than you need. Opto-isolate all I/O. Test it in a hotter/colder/more-humid environment than you'll use it in normally...
does it do WebSocket or check at an interval? or does it have another approach?
I've never heard that saying, but it's a good one. That's been my exact experience.
didn't think about the documentation but that's especially true...it's a massive amount of copy, between all the tutorials, how-tos, educational material, and example code, all mindfully presented in a useful way
Considering that 33k is exactly the median wage in the UK, and google says the average starting computer science salary in the UK is 44k, I’d hazard that there seems to be some relevant information missing from your story
Yes. Parts of the south and isolated pockets are prosperous, the rest has been run into the ground. No jobs, no real wages where you're not back on £-0 at the end of the month so just working to work (if you're lucky), public services cut and cut to the bone. It goes on and on.

The council of Birmingham (biggest in the UK) just went bankrupt today. Liverpool is also totally gutted with poverty and no real employment or investment, and has had its council put on special measures for the past couple of years due to widespread corruption. Place is a bit of a shit show. It's just London and minor areas now, barely even a country. Only hope is to become even more of a financial rogue state and channel more of the world's dirty money.
Well not being an expert in the field, this is admittedly an extrapolation. However, what I have read is that after first use, spent fule still has 90% of its energy. Potentially we discard 9 times the available energy. I offered 3 to 5 times as I'm sure we would not get 9 times but maybe we could or maybe we could only recycle it once given our current science. Still getting twice the energy seems like a great idea to me.

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-....

That nievely suggest to me that there is a bunch left to use. Hence why some countries recycle it back into fule.

I dont know how the recycling process works. The risks as stated by several articles seem to be that during reprocessing bad actors could get a hold of it.

Why are you so resistant to the idea that we might recycle and reuse spent fule rather than mine, refine, and discard new fule?
AFAIK Canada is even worse than the US right now, or at least Southern Ontario.
And I don't think anyone is arguing that there shouldn't be some sort of legal action against cable stealing. My initial comment is really focused on the fact that it involves jail time.

To the oil ditch example, I certainly could see something like "it's $1000 and cleanup costs". The only way I could see jail time being justified is if you routinely decided to go around spraying the neighborhood with motor oil.

But for cable, there doesn't seem like there's ever a case where an individual could warrant jail time. Fine + cable bill for the free months of cable seems like more than enough for most people and for the "serial offender" it seems like lifetime subscription would be more than enough to avoid future problems (court mandated cable would be an interesting punishment :D)
You can skirt incredibly close, however - search Amazon for “unofficial Harry Potter”.
> You need to do something

Hold up, I think you're confusing "all" with "any". The conspiracy is launched if any conspirator takes an additional act to further it. Simply appearing later in the script doesn't mean an actor isn't part of the play.

So we must ask what co-conspirator Manning was doing. Even if we assume in Assange's favor that nothing prior to this exchange matters, I have a very hard time believing that after 2010-03-08T16:11:40 Manning just totally quit trying to access that computer or other resources. (Plus whatever Assange's "LM guy" might be doing with the data.)

> [In the car-theft analogy] You would [be charged] for your involvement with the car theft--you're knowingly participating in a crime and provided material support. Assange didn't follow up on his own agreement.

I would be charged, but not for that reason.

Like I said before about the car example, I could still fail to extract the secret key and/or have no chance to deliver any material support. However if you do any further actions like surveilling the owner's movements or tapping more data, I'm still in legal jeopardy because the law does not require every single conspirator to have done an additional act.

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To use another analogy with clearer timing: On Monday Bob calls Alice, and Alice agrees to drive a getaway car for a Friday bank-robbery. There's nothing for Alice to actually do or prepare yet, because she already has a car and knows the area. On Tuesday Bob is arrested trying to acquire some guns. Did Alice deliver on her promise? No. Can Alice be charged with conspiracy to rob the bank? Yes.
Find a place where principal isn't awarded for winning a political battle. They exist. You sound like you might be happier there.
A recent discovery of mine are "Sleaford Mods", a genre I like to call austerity punk.

When two people in their mid 50s complain about the cost of living, you know the system has completely and utterly failed us. I can only look with pity at the naive mass of people that still believe a better world is just an election away.
The piece puts the ideas of meritocracy and diversity in opposition in a way that I think lots of people would find objectionable.
It does the job until you have to get legal onboard, and then they will raise issues with the possibility of your startup becoming a competitor to Hashicorp
I recently got a Keyboardio 100 but am really finding it hard to adapt to, in large part because too many symbol keys are moved around, making it a pain for programming in particular.

More details on this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37398872
> just well-intentioned eager people with more knowledge than wisdom.

Yup. And that by definition is a junior colleague ;)
AGPL is almost exactly the same as GPL except that SAAS counts as distribution. That's the entire purpose of the license — to preserve the copyleft protections of the GPL in a world where most software people use is hosted.
Agreed. Make sure you get on apollo 11 and not the challenger.
Thanks for the response! So does vscode.dev, but it doesn’t support “Remote - SSH.” Could you confirm if this specific extension is functional?

To expand, for Remote - SSH to fully function it must read a ~/.ssh/config file as well.
> the sky high salaries, stock grants, benefits, flexible work hours, free gourmet meals, stocked pantries, gym memberships and lots more that you enjoy every day

Just a reminder that outside of SV/FAANG (so, 99% of devs?) all of that is not even close to be a reality.
I wish there was an HN for non-tech local/world news. And if someone can just go ahead and clone dang to moderate this new site that’d be great.
what kind of anti-intellectual stance are you taking here?
As an alternative note that's a single newly discovered
pocket with more helium than this reserve held at its peak.

Both figures absolutely pale in comparison to how much we throw out because it's not profitable but the fossil fuels it's in are, but that's nothing new.
Hydrogen is just petroleum with extra steps.
Netflix is one of the few companies that imo, unequivocally have a better culture than Google (despite working for the latter). However, it's a much smaller engineering org so I don't think it would scale as well.
Look, I'm not here to tell you that nothing ever changes, but none of what you're complaining about is new. You talk about an ocean of mirages yet you're clearly looking through rose-colored glasses..

Politicians have always been self-serving liars, that was no different in the 1980s and 1990s. Instead ancient relics pushing "tech tyranny", there were ancient relics pushing state-sanctioned racism openly.

Titans of industry like Jack Welch were given vastly inflated and undue amounts of respect for financial engineering tricks and clever marketing. And half the upper management of any sizeable company was snorting cocaine.

Crime was several times worse than it is today. Yellow journalism has always been a thing albeit perhaps cyclical in prominence.
Can you elaborate a bit more on the thing that everyone knows?
These days you'd save a VM image, in case you need to rebuild the code in 20 years.

Then in 20 years you boot up the image and find you can't log in because your cloud Windows account was deleted 10 years ago for inactivity, your build toolchain is too outdated to download artefacts, the vendor of your text-padding library deleted it in a fit of pique, your code-signing certificates have expired, the guy whose cell phone is on the corporate account 2FA left the company 15 years ago, the OS vendor won't allow new releases to use those obsolete, deprecated APIs.....
> It forces the customer to focus on getting the requirements right instead of hand waving it like "oh yeah, that's just what I want" and then come back later "I didn't want that, what I meant was" repeat ad infinitum.

This is amateur because you are leaving an insane amount of money in “change orders” on the table.

That is fine if you don’t want to do it, but it is sub optimal for maximizing your revenue stream.
And 25 years in they more or less control the whole internet. With WEI they will be able to decide who is allowed to use the web, and with what software. It was good while it lasted.
Clinton famously said "the era of big government is over" [1] I can absolutely see privatizing a reserve as being one of many bills meant to cut back on the size and scope of the government.

[1] https://clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov/WH/New/other/sotu.ht...
What is the appeal of functional programming for physicists?
And in the same time period, the average house size has doubled from 1300sqft to 2600 sqft. So people are paying about twice as much for twice the house.
What are you looking for in context of "Next" ? Better management position? Better technical challenges ? Better health ? better pay? All four ?
Competition being a click away is what keeps quality between Google and Bing comparable, and what keeps Google always trying to invest to stay a step ahead.

But once quality is close like that, defaults matter, which is why Google pays Apple.

If Bing wasn't there (or barely worked) and there was no competition to Google, then Google wouldn't need to pay Apple, because Apple would never consider Bing as a default in the first place.

The payment is a sign of how strong competition is, not a sign of a lack of it.
Fed had to set up a swap/lend facility that weekend. Sort of like they make it up as they go.

The specific regulator is going to retire. "Abbasi and Mary Daly, president of the San Francisco Fed, came under scrutiny after a post-mortem report undertaken by the Federal Reserve found problems with how SVB was supervised."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/key-san-francisco-fe...

And through regulatory capture the CEO of SVB was on the board of directors of the regulator!

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/ceo-failed-silicon-valley...
If you have tens of thousands, a `for` loop over an array in memory is plenty fast.

I've worked on a project that searched through 50 million vectors with linear brute-force search, just with a sprinkle of AVX (and it used the brute-force search, because the curse of dimensionality killed all the smarter approaches).
FWIW, I have a terrible hand tremor as well. I've found that with a good, wide-aperture magnifying glass or binocular microscope, I'm able to do soldering and even chip-level wirebonding. Having an armrest or other surface I can support my forearm/wrist on, with a tight structural loop to the target, can also help a lot.
I've never lived in SV, but many many companies at least attempt to offer some of the perks big tech companies have come to be known for. It suddenly wasn't enough just to have free snacks and coke, companies started offering more free meals (if not every day), larger bonuses, better workstations or laptops, etc. It really did resonate out to the rest of the industry.
What about dozenal?
This reminds me of when I was in college(EE) and working at an electronics store. A small aircraft owner wanted help with a regulator to (IIRC) drop 28v down to 12v and handle a few amps. I resisted helping design a solution but he kept pushing so I suggested putting a couple TO-3 packaged 7812s in parallel. We bench tested it and it worked so he went on his way. A few years later I learned you never do that as one regulator can end up handling the load and it ends up overloaded. Instead you use a pass-transistor(or other mechanism) to allow a single regulator to do the job. I still wonder if that guy's plane ended up going down in flames...
And how were the conditions 25 years ago for these same developers? Just because everyone doesn't get paid the same doesn't mean the overall compensation in the profession hasn't gone up.
What is usually posted to Slashdot that isn't posted to Reddit/Google News/HN/etc. (and vice versa)?
For extension experts, when should developers use a framework like this versus these options:

* Attaching to page DOM with custom HTML/CSS/JavaScript

* Shadow DOM

* Iframe

Shadow DOMs seem like a good hybrid between iframes and attaching to the page DOM.
Marine heatwave impacts are highly variable and highly predictable via models
I imagine so...I wonder if its possible to draft an open-source license that commits future versions of the project to be drafted under the same license. Maybe AGPL does this (?) I know AGPL applies to all "modifications", I wonder if that applies to modifications done by the maintainers themselves in the future. If so, maybe we'll see AGPL-like provisions becoming more popular in order to help folks feel more confident
I'm curious about this. Was it true that engineers in the Valley made good money before Google and the like?

I joined the industry after the dotcom boom, and I got the impression that older companies such as IBM were very very mediocre in pay, nothing like Google.

Was that not always true? You see that many people who joined after the IPO were able to retire after 15 years at Google (or Amazon), did that really happen at places like IBM for the average senior engineer?

You'd here about engineers who sometimes became multi-millionaires from an IPO that went well, but now people can become multi-millionaires from W-2 RSUs and a little bit of stock growth.
I know that the info can probably be found elsewhere, but it never stop to blow my mind when I see the gov selling off something extremely expensive with nothing more than a few lines of description and a picture of the front sign. I looked at the pdf document, almost all of it is legal stuff that doesn't describe the actual facility. It feel like they already got interest (lobbying?) buyers and the auction is just a formality.
It's just like the housing issue. It's not that we don't want to build more housing stock. The system is broken and artificially limited the supply
Just curious: what are you looking for? I tend to assume that staff-level ICs have a pretty good setup as far as established expertise and freedom to choose what they work on (though that varies a lot). What tangible benefits other than higher pay are you looking for with that next step?

Not saying the financial benefits aren’t worth it by themselves. Asking because I always figured I’d probably top out where you’re at, and I’m wondering what the view is like there.
Yeah if you reject 2 options out of hand and leave yourself with the option you like least it is going to seem like your options are limited.
How has using foundationdb been?

What have been the biggest pros? The biggest cons? Would you use it again (one alternative could have been TikV).
The food is designed to make you work late and law firms and consulting outfits will realise this too if they haven’t already.
Sand dredging devastating ocean floor, UN warns
Anecdotally, I have been using one medical since 2015. Initially it was the best service ever, you could find a ton of Physicians and Family doctors. But it started getting worse every year. Now, there are 0 doctors in my area, only nurse practitioners. As much as I buy the argument that not everyone needs an MD for primary care, I do absolutely think NP are just not sufficient. Too many times have I gone with an ailment that was met with “let it run the course” or “try this OTC medicine”, that eventually escalates into a more serious problem that put me out of commission for weeks. Thank god I have a job that didn’t fire me. And the other times it is met with “let’s just order a bunch of tests or see a specialist to be safe”, which would have been handled very differently by an MD.
MariaDB is still GPL. That article references some kind of scaling add on, not the core product.
There's plenty of studies coming to the same conclusion. Mostly, the conclusions are that therapy can improve a near-absolute lack of human contact but not much else. Famously, going to a sports club, even sometimes just once per 6 months, had more positive effects than 2 hours of therapy a week.
Most of what Google did was copying other companies, like Genentech (I've worked at both, twice). It's almost as if Google got a list from Genentech and then just added 25% to everything. There were a few benefits that I haven't seen anywhere else, such as the death benefit, which led me to joke that I was worth more dead than alive.
Show HN: I just released acopw 0.3.0, a small password generator module for Go
I wonder if No-CD was released under a specific open-source license, that would be hilarious
“Do they need to know which websites you have accounts on in order to guide some business decisions? “

Clearly that must be the case. They might also also not want to “alert” customers with a prompt to change their iterations as it will make them aware of the breach.

Either way pretty sad all around.
I know truckers making $150k a year, living on 5 acres of land with a decent house and a 3k sqft metal shop for all their toys. Let's not go crazy making superficial judgements just to feel better about programming as a career.
This is actually more important that must people might think. Thanks for posting.
I use the definition: "Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned."

So no conflation.
Feel free to stop replying at any point since I can't really help, but I can't see a reason why /usr/bin/ksplashqml itself would have gone missing.

Is it possible that ksplashqml was really present, and actually the "not found" error was because ksplashqml could not find a custom splash theme file? Had you installed and removed any custom themes?
That's basically my plan, and to work on hobbies. Try not to get burned out by the next CRUD app startup I work for, learn some language that interests me, and live my life. It's nice, as a contractor, being able to take off a week randomly and not really feel hit by the lost income because I've refocused my life to downsizing expenses and upsizing enjoyment. Keep up with enough stack-mania to keep an income until I can call it quits for good.
Competitive tech salaries in the US will almost certainly come with competitive health insurance and other benefits.
You say it like paying 25% more than the prevailing wage is trivial for any company to do. Yes all they did was spend more money on talent than everyone else, and that's exactly what boosted the market.
In the UK, it's because Real Estate is a massive investment conduit.

Plenty of British Nationals and foreigners across the world will buy property in London, causing downstream impacts on housing across the rest of the UK.

In addition, British cities are artificially constrained from building due to the "Green Belt" construction bans from the 1930s-60s to prevent mass sprawl. All it did was essentially block construction though [0]

On top of that, the UK has a very severe inequality issue - almost all (relatively) high paying jobs are located in Greater London, which forces prices to go into hypergrowth in an area smaller than Santa Clara County.

Also, the UK has been in a lost decade since austerity kicked in around 2008 when several MASSIVE banks in the UK collapsed, which causes wages and spending within most industries and govt services in the UK to essentially be frozen at 2000s levels. [1]

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_belt_(United_Kingdom)

[1] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-12/a-lost-de...
There are non-exponential loans. What is considered the norm in the West would be considered as "usury" in many countries of the world. Especially when interest rates of 20-30% are charged in some cases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury

Even in today's world, there are loans with extremely low or even nil interest rates. Some institutions have a 'Rent to Own' setup whereby you have rental payments over the course of the loan so that at the end of the loan-period you own the asset.

https://ijarahfinance.com.au/islamic-banks/
I think this is essentially the source for newsasfacts.com, which I like a lot.
Forward compatibility is promising.
- The computing systems are kinda standardized now, with consoles and pcs using X64-86 architecture, Xbox using a optimized windows os, and PS4 (almost certainly PS5 too) running BSD. Industry standards would bridge the gap even more, like making open software mandatory (everyone just incorporates their code). More companies investing in FOSS like Vulkan instead of the proprietary ones would be helpfull too.
- The proton software on Linux makes a compatibility layer between the game and a newer system, and you can choose an older version.

I think we could eventually just leave the ''XYZ Game of the Year'' v.2.1.4 and never touch it again, and future gamers would at most have to select the proton layer version and vulkan-directx-other game engine version of the game release time, and it could be automatically done in the instalation.