skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NIMBY's and clueless, greedy politicians.

Here, the county owns some land that it is going to put 100 houses on. They are going to put houses that cost 3x more than the locals can afford. Why? More money from property tax, and to hell with the average person.

The knock on effect is that regular houses will become more expensive, and in 10 years, only the top 10% of earners will be able to live here.
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> we kept finding plugins that were linting other languages (like GraphQL and HTML) from within ESLint

Every JS/TS codebase also contains Markdown, JSON, HTML, CSS files, and more. So it makes sense to support these as well, I guess.
I work in education. More specifically, primary education. I chose the field because I was passionate about wanting the change the landscape and modernize teaching practices. But, it was also very in-demand in my area and easy to get a job in the field. I live in a former large manufacturing hub for the auto industry. Working in publicly funded education, we have strong union protections, pensions, healthcare and life insurance. In large part because of the past gains from the manufacturing sector. The job comes with security and a set salary on a defined grid.

This past year marked my tenth full-time year in teaching. I've been reflecting often on my career thus far. When I started out, I wasn't sure that I would continue teaching primary school. I promised myself that I would do it for five years and keep savings high to allow myself to return to studying if I wanted to change fields. Most of my fellow graduates work now in government or education. Ten years in, I have a competitive salary that allows me a good standard of living. I didn't return to school. Although, I did upgrade courses to allow me to change roles. And, I'm now on the edge of starting a family. The career that I was fortunate and lucky enough to start is actually a perfect fit for having children.

The thing is I do feel stuck. There aren't many other career paths that would give me the same salary and job-security. I'm decent at the job. But, I'm not enjoying it. It's ridiculously stressful. Doesn't feel as fulfilling as it did. And, there is a culture of working on your off-hours to do the tasks that we aren't actually remunerated to do. Being a government employee, you often feel that your working environment is changing at the whims of politicians.

Because I'm passionate about technology. That's why I read hn. But, my only experience in tech was seeing entry-level help-desk workers and area tech support consultants. It seemed like miserable work. I was told my many respected adults, that technology could continue to be my passion and major hobby. It's true, my standard of living does allow me every tech toy I could have ever wanted and new computers I could only dream about. I'm weighing the positives and negatives.
German court allows patents for AI-generated inventions
I couldn't get into it. I wasn’t sure if it was the game itself, my movement away from being a gamer, or just missing the game I knew so well.
It's been clear for quite a number of years that renewables in Europe no longer need any sort of government support.

In any case, most of these support contracts have a "contract for difference" structure with a price established by competitive auction. In the early years, the prices were high as there were fewer bidders and large (unjustified) profits were made. But as time has gone on, increasing competition has pushed the prices lower and lower. On a net project-lifetime basis, it's probably now a wash whether you operate a wind farm under a CFD regime/contract or you just compete in the regular market. CFDs require you to reimburse the state when you get paid more than the strike price and so many (particularly wind) producers in the west/north of Europe were hit with large rebate bills in 2022 and 2023 as wholesale prices often exceeded the strike prices after the energy crisis caused by Russia's attack on Ukraine.

At least in the UK and Ireland, some renewable energy companies are opting out of the renewables-subsidy scheme completely. For example, the owners/promotors of the large Oriel off-shore wind project in Ireland are skipping all the bureaucracy and delays associated with the renewable auction process and will build the wind farm to compete directly in the day-ahead wholesale markets.

Of course there is a large benefit to being protected from the volatility of wholesale electricity markets but it seems like we've passed the point where the financial value of such a contract is required to make a renewables project viable.
Perhaps they are people who understand that the failure mode or nuclear, whether it's an accident at the station or regarding the long term byproducts storage (and also transfer), is not that good of a bet.

Or the kind of people who don't buy the assurances (from players, scientists working in the industry, and fanboys)

Or the kind of people who are not convinced by statistics about the "low" past impact of accidents and leaks, because they can see how they're downplayed and under-measured by governments trying to save face or promote further nuclear plans, but more importantly, because it just takes one grave accident to kill tons of people, doesn't matter if 200 previous accidents were "tame" enough.
Here's the "marvelous" arch:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yonaguni_Monument_Ar...

And the "staircase": https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yonaguni_Monument_Ma...
Wired: Why are so many young people addicted to video games?
Note that Dunbar's number (150) is quite controversial:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/11/science/dunbars-number-de...
You can be right about a specific and wrong about its role in the big picture/abstraction. Left brain dominance if a thing.
> She stressed that the difficulties in funding did not alter the fact that power generation costs for renewables are cheaper than fossil or nuclear energy. “Many projects nevertheless need financial safeguards for the banks to make investments available,” Peter argued

Well that's a fun little quote. If renewables are already a cheaper alternative to power generation, why would you need government funding and safeguards to convince banks to invest in a project?

If the numbers work and a bank can see a clear psth to being paid back they will invest. There's clearly information being glossed over here that would explain why banks aren't willing to invest without government safeguards.
My olfactory sense gets a major boost when I'm about to have a migraine. This is usually unpleasant, but sometimes it's nice...
Johnson resigned as PM after it was clear the party was going to change its own rules to make it possible to have another vote of no-confidence in him, then again as an MP after being told he was being investigated for misleading the Commons, and his party lost the election just a few days ago.

Johnson not in charge of what these libraries are facing, the damage he caused is too distant — blame Sunak for not reversing those things if blame is more important to you than repairing the situation, but for the latter the ball is in Labour's court.
I sympathize and you’re maybe being facetious. But a good engineer doesn’t just say “you’re an idiot”, they are able to clearly document and communicate the expenses to the business folks, and they are able to brainstorm ways to change the cost dynamics with trade off options for business.
Curious to know to... Seems crazy ;-)
This seems like a case where a little more debugging would have saved time over brute force bisection. The logging to print component orders had to be done eventually anyway.
Physically, Apple does not hinder you from doing anything you want with your device. If you take out the chips and put in other components, that's your business, not Apples. If you manage to hack the software on the Apple chip to work exactly as you prefer, Apple cannot do anything.

But what hackers are demanding is that Apple alter their software to work exactly as they want and assist them with this, even though most of them will not ever purchase an Apple device. To the detriment of normal customers who want devices that work well.

Why are these requirements not levied against other product manufacturers? Why don't you try to force Tesla to make their cars run on diesel? Why don't you try to force McDonalds to make you a Whopper?
It is true that Vulkan usually is behind DirectX by two to three years, but it gets there eventually. Keep in mind that Vulkan tries to cover a wider range of devices and platforms. Also, in my experience as a contributor to GPU HALs, Vulkan is far more thought-out while DirectX is usually a ship-quickly mess. Vulkan obviously benefits from hindsight here.
Formal job hopper here - but never for salary reasons more for learning and finding a good boss.
But totally agree that staying somewhere and learning and grow is what keeps employees. I unfortunately went through 2 payoffs and twice I has boss that shielded me off.

My advice is keep employees engaged with constant learning and new challenges.

PS: Job hopping has such a negative connotation - I hate when people say it’s moneywise. I learned way more than staying in a endless repetitive job with a boss that shielded me off.
The crypto bubble has been bursting almost constantly from 2011 onwards while bitcoin has crashed from $10 to $50000. The AI bubble will probably keep bursting in a similar way. (bitcoin deaths https://www.bitcoindeaths.com/)
If one doesn't count the ever-present possibility of freak accidents, the externalities, or the endless heaps of subsidies for nuclear (some covert in the way of colonial arrangements and other ways, others open), yes.
I have pain/food logs that uncovered nothing about my migranes. I started keeping a sleep log and discovered that on days I snooze my alarm and go back to sleep I have migranes. It takes some effort, but not "snoozing" my alarms (even 10 minutes) and getting up immediately has cured me of my migranes.

I share this in the event someone suffers this unknowingly.
Yeah, it’s a bit of a pain on mobile.
> said western Europe, not Europe

My bad.

> benefits you get in western Europe are 10x better than what you get anywhere in the USA

Benefits you’re entitled to. France, for instance, has put a lot of services behind an internet portal. Add to that the stigma of utilising them in many villages and you get low utilisation rates.

I would imagine the poor in Europe are a bit better off. (If we limit ourselves to the coastal states, the answer may be surprising.)
I use the word tunnel but it would be more correct to use "proxy"

There is no wrappring of udp packet into another layer of TCP. Wstunnel unpack the data at the client forward it using tcp/websocket, and after re-take this data to put it back into its original form (i.e: udp)

so there is no encapsulation of many protocol.

The only place where there is encapsulation, is for tls. if your client use tls to connect to wstunnel server. And that your data is already encrypted with tls (i.e: https) there will be 2 tls encryption
> I prefer this because it means I don’t have to decide whether I need an ordered map or an unordered map.

Well only if you happen to insert your elements in order. If you want a proper ordered map like `std::map` in C++ or `BTreeMap` in Rust then you are out of luck (at least in Python and Javascript).
This is really cool.

I don’t think I have diagnosable ADHD, but I have noticed that gamification features like “streaks” often cause more problems in building habits than helping them. My daughter, who is diagnosed with severe ADHD, eventually had to “give up” some of the streak based apps like Duolingo because they are, imho, preying on our desire to complete “streaks” only to increase in-app activity for their own platform.

I’ve been really loving Llamalife -
https://llamalife.co - they don’t do habits but they organize a lot of the schema around people who get overwhelmed easily.
> The median house price in Lisbon and Porto metro areas, are now above what the p95 Portuguese salary can pay. So yes, speculation and wealthy foreigners are an issue, as it's not Portuguese salaries propping these values.

The second sentence doesn’t necessarily flow from the first. The same is true in major cities in Canada, New Zealand, England, etc etc, and this has little to do with foreign visitors and much to do with interest rates and availability and quantum of credit.
Is there data about this exponential growth of grid storage?

Here in the Netherlands grid is over-capacity and cannot be expandee easily because it should have been planned 10-15 years ago. Grid storage is in a worse state than the grid itself.

A related report: https://www2.deloitte.com/nl/nl/pages/energy-resources-indus...
I'll never understand how people can have easy access to the latest price metrics [0], which clearly shows that renewables are miles ahead of nuclear, and still largue against them.

20 billion Euros would only give you a SINGLE nuclear power plant at best [1].

If the conservative government we had for the 10 years prior hadn't sabotaged the Energiewende we could have hit 100% renewables by now, instead we had the "Altmaier-Delle" [3][4].

France build Nuclear instead of Coal from the get go, if we could turn back time and do the same in Germany too, great. But unless we invent a time machine, the next best thing is investing into the cheapest CO2-Free technology we have right now, and that's renewables.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

1: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/edfs-nuclear-project...

2: https://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/bundestagswahl/true...

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpmceuO02uI
As a result of primarily this subsidy regime (with a small assist from very high taxes on electricity), consumer electricity prices in Germany are the second-highest in the EU: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/images/a/...

For non-household consumers, prices are more in line with the rest of the EU: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/images/a/... - and I suspect that statistic mixes small commercial consumers that pay residential rates and industrial ones, because to my knowledge, this subsidy is paid mostly by small consumers while industry and export are exempt...
I work for a government research lab. Our business model is that we don't receive government-budgeted money, we actually sell our services to other parts of the government. So in effect we have a bunch of researchers and engineers who theoretically report to "management", but actually report to a local program manager, who reports to an external sponsor.

We had an official manager, a "branch head", who was worse than incompetent. He couldn't find his butt with both hands, but he also thought he was God's gift to management, and would forcefully and emphatically make bad decision after bad decision.

Eventually, he had screwed up the group's major program so thoroughly it looked like a sure fire failure, and he found another job, and didn't bother to tell anyone; he just stopped showing up for work one day.

The level of management above him had bigger problems to deal with than replacing him, so they made sure we had a competent secretary and left us alone for two and a half years. It turned out to be arguably the most productive period of my professional life. My buddy and I took over business development. THe team turned the big project around and made it a rousing success, and grew the funding from it by two orders of magnitude.

The point being: there's bad management, that acts randomly or not at all; and then there's really bad management, which takes up your days with constantly changing orders, fixing relationships with customers or sponsors that they've screwed up, and levying time-taxes in the form of training, reports, and morale boosting exercises.

If given a choice between bad management and really bad management, pick bad management.

Fifteen years later, my buddy runs the place and I'm the senior scientist.
PS. Also, nota bene, as noted in the docs:

"Warning: This documentation is out of date and does not describe the behavior of the latest major version 4, which implements a new model. An up-to-date documentation can be found in the program help."
Vulkan hasn't changed anything in way Khronos works.

It is still extension spaghetti, multiple code paths working across extensions and driver bugs.

"Make your own SDK" kind of approach, which isn't as bad as OpenGL, only because they at least pay LunarG to make one.

But good luck with Android tooling for Vulkan on the NDK, other than a github repo full of samples.

A stagnant GLSL, hence why HLSL is now the de factor extension language for most studios, not only due to DirectX, with NVidia's Slang as a close second place.
Or: "extraverts talk more shit"
Not every design make sense.
I have lived on the internet long enough.
> Not everyone wants to install ESLint in every package.json

I don’t understand why? Adding the config to the repo takes minutes, and then you’re good: it’s shared with all the contributors and can work in CI.

Not sure why you would want to settle for "works on my machine"?
Isn't that is what dart ffi is for?
Oh very nice! Guessing there isn't support for node modules but still very cool.
>HN and other platforms that are convinced that wind and solar are the way to go instead of nuclear.

Wind and solar with nuclear is the way to go, in my opinion the perfect balance.
Making Embedded Systems
by Elecia White
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/making-embedded-systems...

https://github.com/eleciawhite/making-embedded-systems

Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition 4th Edition
by Scherz, Simon Monk
It was a company where 80% of employees were interns, I was one of them, the other 20% were people who couldn't get hired elsewhere, with just a handful of those who actually knew what they were doing. There was no leadership.

I agree that I handled the situation unprofessionally, but I feel excused, considering the circumstances. Whether I'd do it again depends on who'd need to clear up this mess. If it's people I care about because I got to know them - I'd keep my cool. But if it's some abstract "organization" where I was just a random cogwheel with zero connection to other cogwheels, then you can't expect me to care about anything that doesn't include "me".
You mean by becoming more expensive over time[0]?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
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- 4/2024 "Flawed Valuations Threaten $1.7T Private Credit Boom" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39539125

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- 5/2024 "Banks Want in on Private Credit" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40457696
And yet he continues to live in Europe despite having other choices.
Wasn’t the sea level 50m lower 10k years ago?
Uh, all of the locales you mention have been targets of huge foreign investment and ‘rich person’ immigration in the last decade.
> It’s not entirely surprising your country would prefer to forget that war. Disappointing perhaps but not surprising.

Maybe not, but that's hardly the only thing from history that we didn't learn about. I think you're massively underestimating how much history there is. Most of the world has millennia of history. It's not like America where you can cover the entire history of the country.

Also history is an optional lesson past age ~14. You can choose to do Geography instead. But I'm not going to call you uneducated for not knowing what a medial moraine is.
It’s not 8 bit. Just ultra low resolution with big square pixels. But the color spectrum seems big and unaffected by whatever the crystal is doing.
Late stage capitalism refers to the stage where the field has become dominated by a relatively few big players and the focus shifts from providing value (which was required in the early stages with lots of smaller competing players) to extracting value. That's where we are now in many of the big economic areas - a few big players squeezing everyone by providing less and charging more for it because they can. It's the enshitification stage. It sucks for everyone but the owners of those companies.
Pixel cut peridot is nothing new.
Rarely have I seen such garbage getting so many github stars. It seems to be all signaling of how clever the guy who wrote it is, without any actual substance to back it up. There is literally no way for anyone to get anything meaningful out of such an information dump. Even if you could memorize all the information, internalizing it takes years.

It's pretty much the reverse of Peter Norvig's best article, Teach yourself programming in 10 years [1]. If you haven't read it, I'd recommend you do to cleanse your palette.

[1] http://norvig.com/21-days.html
> I think you need time to grow and that doesn’t mean chasing salary for your entire life. It’s important to settle somewhere for a while and learn/grow.

While it is indeed important to find a place where one can settle and grow, it’s crucial to recognise that the concept of personal and professional development has evolved significantly, particularly among younger generations. The meaning of "settle" has changed a lot.

Today many professionals view career growth through a different lens. For them, personal development often involves seeking new challenges, acquiring diverse skills, and gaining varied experiences, which sometimes necessitates moving between jobs. While salary is a factor in these decisions, it’s not always the most influential one.

A significant concern for many young talents is the lack of meritocratic promotion structures in many organizations. They often find themselves in environments where hierarchical seniority is valued over actual competence and performance. This can be particularly frustrating when they have to report to or work with less competent senior team members, which can stifle their growth and innovation.

Furthermore, the workplace culture plays a crucial role. Toxic environments, where outdated practices and rigid hierarchies prevail, are unappealing to young professionals who value collaboration, transparency, and inclusivity. This disparity in expectations and experiences is driving many talented individuals to seek better opportunities elsewhere.

The result of an outdated work concept, which is still encountered too frequently, is that one often ends up dealing with superiors who have grown within the company’s hierarchy (they are “settled”), possessing authority but not corresponding technical skills or respect in the eyes of their subordinates.

In the future, as the younger generation enters the workforce, this will become increasingly less acceptable.

While settling down to grow is a valuable approach, it’s equally important to understand that growth, for many professionals today, involves finding environments that foster learning, respect competence, and provide clear, merit-based paths for advancement.
Real clear science is an American media outfit. It's part of the same media group as Real Clear Politics and was founded in Chicago. There's nothing fringe about skepticism of the Havana syndrome story. Despite Congress dumping loads of money to support agents' health issues claimed to have been due to mysterious and unverified sonic weapons, every medical investigation of these reports has failed to offer any support for it. We lack physical evidence, we lack any sensical motive; all we have is foreign paranoia and hearsay.
Wrong there, as Slang is the only sane alternative to a stagnant GLSL, unless you favour using DirectX HLSL.
Is it really? The cost per MWh generated seems far higher
I've seen renovated 9 bed 5 bath country estates from the 18th/19th century on 20 acres for the same price as 10 year old 6 bed 4 bath McMansions on 2-3 acres.