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There is an inordinate amount of our present economy that is, broadly speaking, anticompetitive.

The government has been mostly disinterested in pursuing antitrust actions for about half a century now, requiring very explicit evidence of very specific forms of price fixing by very unpopular companies to take any action other than blocking the largest of mergers.

Recent political changes over the course of the 2020's have started to change that, and these changes represent significant news relative to the situation for the past couple generations.
My uninformed recollection from when the warning signs were raised, is there was not even budget to perform emergency maintenance, and they were resigned to the inevitable collapse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6HnqV6jzTU
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Minor note: as a percentage of GDP, the US military budget under both Biden and Trump is/was significantly lower than the post cold war "peace dividend" years under Bill Clinton.

If we are not doing prescribed burns or, say, schools need to hold bake sales, it is because Congress just isn't choosing to spend money on those priorities, not that the massive military budget is making this impossible.
It's so much simpler to have a shared "integration" database. Until you have actual, real need for separate data sources, don't.
He is me, and he was definitely joking
An immediate family member of mine lives with the same diminished quality of life as you. It is very significant. I wish you the best.
Google Patches Two Android Vulnerabilities Exploited in Targeted Attacks
> people are kept in line with CoC threats

Can you point to an example of someone claiming that a particular feature's performance claims were misleading, and then getting threatened with a ban or other sanctions for it, where they did not otherwise violate CoC?
> how a developer manages assets like source code

IMO there are some workloads, where it is beneficial for a developer to have access to a local repository with at least some snippets based on previous projects.

Having a leftover PoC of some concept written for a previous employer but never elevated to team use/production is both handy (at least to confirm that the build environment is still viable after an unspecified period of toolchain updates) and ethical (copying production code is not ethical - even if the old and new products are vastly different e.g. last job was taxi app, new app is banking app).

Making it all 'remote' and 'cloud' will eventually result in a bike reinvention penalty on each new employment - not everything can be rebuilt from memory only, especially things that are done 1-2 times a year; sure there is open-source documentation/examples, but at some point it'll just introduce even heavier penalty for a need to either know a lot of opensource stuff to have some reference points, or to work on a pet projects to get the same amount of references.
It's very irritating for sure, I really don't understand why they do it. It's like rubbing ones fingers on a person's glasses before they come to read your story. The scrollbars belong to the browser, don't take them away unless you have no scrollable content.
An estimated 28,000 workers died in the construction of the Panama canal. Even in the "safer" US-managed phase the death rate was 1 out of every 10 workers. Obviously there's an apple/orange effect to consider here. Nevertheless.
There have been many breaking changes throughout python 3.x releases:

- standard library modules removed

- zip error handling behaves differently

- changes to collections module

- new reserved keywords (async, await, etc.)

You can argue how big of a deal it is or isn't, but there were definitely breakages that violate semantic versioning
> How can that only be coming out now?

It isn't? Maybe the issue is coming into the light now in the US because Saudi Arabia and US historically been close pals, regardless of the human rights abuses, so maybe there hasn't been a push to "expose" them to the general public in the US until know?

I remember reading about Indonesia being pissed off at Saudi Arabia because many of the Indonesian workers died after going there, and Saudi government didn't seem to really give a crap about the workers. I think I read about this back in 2010 the earliest or something, in Swedish media.

It been known by the western world for a long time already.
How is this death rate compared to Qatar and Dubai death rate?

It seems to me orders of magnitude higher.

edit: hm I guess not

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/r...

edit2:
more clarity on the Qatar numbers

https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-how-many-people-have-died-f...

it's 15.000 foreigners dying in 5 years, counting all foreigner deaths in Qatar. I .... have no idea if that is high or not.
Read somewhere that they get 12% match on 401k. No pensions, but there’s almost none of that in today’s world.
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Let's roll back the entire tape and see where you said its a strawman and you're not actually proposing that and its all theoratical.

>> Well yeah, but you can just post the wiki article if that's better. HN is usually cool with that.

>> If you want to post about a random topic, and Wikipedia is better than the random blog where you encountered the topic, you should prefer to post the Wikipedia article. This is a specific case of "prefer to post higher-quality pages", which I hope is not controversial.

I'm sorry, there's nothing about it being a strawman and that you're not actually proposing it.

In fact, its quite easy to read the opposite, you say "This is a specific case of prefer to post higher-quality pages" and "Wikipedia is better than the random blog where you encountered the topic"

You got out over your skis and went too far. Maybe you spoke sloppily and were just speaking completely theoratically about an abstract example and forgot to mention that. Its fine, but I'd prefer you didn't pretend you made clear this was all an abstract intellectual exercise and you liked the article.
Have you considered getting married? I may very well have been able to afford a house before I got married but the timing and the compromises that would have entailed always seemed to hold me back.

Once I got married though there was both more money and a realization that some possibilities (you know I might just pick up sticks and move across the country) were less likely. Plus expanding our family was very possible.

There's a reasonable view that says finding a spouse is a more major undertaking then finding a house. I honestly don't think that's the case. Go out on a date withe someone, if you enjoy it repeat that a few times. After 6 months imagine it'll be that way for the rest of your life,and then ask yourself, is it really that bad? If the answer is no propose marriage.
This has not happened for 15 years. It's entirely theoretical given current conditions, and we need to ground discussion in the reality where things are now.
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Arecibo did high power transmit for radar imaging of asteroids/comets/the sun/etc and ionosphere studies, among other things. FAST is not capable of transmit (it was not designed for it and the suspended receiver mass is much lower). Also, FAST has a RF-noise emitting theme park built just outside of it's grounds.

The uniqueness of Arecibo was this transmit coupled with such a large aperture (so small pattern on sky).
I'm not legally nor morally obliged to provide them shelter

i beg to differ. morally we absolutely are obliged to give them shelter.

When there are no locals struggling to afford shelter, then we can talk about helping strangers from other places

most of the germans who are homeless failed to take advantage of available support to get it, not because they couldn't afford it. otherwise if they didn't get support then the problem is a failure in the bureaucracy, not a lack of available space or resources. it is a fallacy to think that refusing help to refugees would improve the situation for locals. if it was that simple we could have solved those problems a long time ago.

this is the kind of rhetoric that stirs up xenophobia and plays into the hands of the kind of politicians that according to your last paragraph you also don't want to see elected.
Everyone travelling to, enjoying holiday in, or visiting events in Saudia Arabia, the UAE and gulf states with a comparable state of development has their blood on their hands. Yet still, people - especially in the tech industry - tend to romaticize and frequent some of these places. Absurd.
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Sadly no, and (IANAL) the law here is clear AFAIK. Money cannot be spent outside of what it was allocated. Firefighting I'm given to understand explicitly excludes prevention. This might be one of the most short sighted budget allocations I've ever seen. As a dollar spent on prevention easily covers 10 on fighting.
I'm only able to go by what R2R put in their .nfos, since I've not tried reverse engineering ilok plugins at all. But they claim that different companies use different ilok algorithms, and some of them haven't been cracked, yet.

Some seem to work a little like what you say, UVIs for example decrypt libraries against the ilok, and R2R has UVIEMU for that, but clearly it's not sufficient to crack all ilok plugins that way, or Softube's wouldn't remain uncracked.

And since ilok doesn't require a dongle anymore - there are machine and cloud licensing options too, and developers can opt in or out to each of the 3 license holder systems...
IMO it's likely that alien life would mirror the life we have here in a lot of ways. It's likely that aliens would have DNA or RNA, and would be made out of cells (unless they've become machines). So I think they would be pretty likely to understand what they are looking at given a bit of time for analysis.

The reason aliens are likely to be made out of DNA and have cells is simply that those things tend to naturally come to exist in our universe. We don't really have any evidence that any other chemistry (e.g. silicon-based) can produce life in this universe. If DNA-based life comes about elsewhere in the universe, it won't look exactly like us, but that life is also likely to have both plants and animals, just because life tends to try to fill every available evolutionary niche.
Pensions are absolutely crippling to a company long term.
In general the power to the amplifiers is series connected and the ocean does not come into the question at all. If it did you would have huge issues with corrosion even ignoring the effects on the ocean itself. So, along the cable there is a wire that carries small DC current that goes between the amplifiers, each amplifier places zener diode along this wire and gets its power from it. At each landing station there is a current source (that is capable of developing significant open-circuit voltage) that powers this (this scheme is the reason why the cables are laid not only in loops, but in "loops-of-loops").
Has "stop supporting the Gulf absolute monarchies" even been part of any presidential debate?
Not yet, but I look forward to the day a sensible court does.
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Doesn't matter - you can't make any judgement without knowing these numbers. They may have actually paid a higher tax rate than previously - we don't know.
Every few years, I find myself picking up Peter Thiel’s From Zero to One again. It’s like a checkpoint to see how my views have shifted alongside the fast-paced world of tech and entrepreneurship. I have to admit, the last time I dove into Thiel’s book, his obsession with monopolies really put me off. Back then, the idea of aiming for monopoly status felt contrary to the competitive spirit I believed fueled innovation. But after revisiting the book in 2024, amidst the revolution in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), I’ve noticed my opinions changing. Thiel’s concept of a “good monopoly” has started to make sense, reshaping my thoughts about building sustainable businesses.
Ask HN: Which book or course gave you an unfair advantage?
Is there a book you’ve read or a course you’ve taken that levelled up your game so much that it felt almost unfair?
Toyota is suffering from own-goals, not cooling demand.
None of what you said is relevant to the core point that labor compensation is determined primarily by substitutability. As for why we "accept" that, it's because it makes rational sense. Why would anyone offer more to someone to do what someone else will do for less?
That sounds fascinating, do you happen to have a link? (I'm getting a lot of German results, which unfortunately I don't have the fluency to parse to find the 'right' one.)
See also: Yggdrasill the tree-ship from Hyperion, and a similar idea from the movie The Fountain.
I once spoke with fish biologist about goldfish (or was it carasius? I don't remember), they reproduce via gynogenesis, it's like pathogenesis but they need some trigger like other fish spawning, and I said surely there must be some hidden pond in some misty mountains in China where there are still male goldfish. I asked him if he believe such hidden pond could exist somewhere and he said no and mumbled something about triploids. Scientists are not romantic.
I think we could do with governments actively trying to stabilize the value of assets like housing and maybe equities like they do with currencies. They could make a profit doing so as well but selling high and buying low.
That's a pretty weak excuse that would raise serious concerns if one of my managers said it to me. The job of a manager is to debug these kinds of things, and frankly, distinguishing between technical gaps and personal issues is the easiest form of this. That's not to say you never get it wrong, but you listen, adjust and course correct.
This is a near trillion dollar government initiative to plan a post-oil economy. This isn't a result of the free market.
Are you suggesting that you should enable the employee to move work done on company time and that is the company’s IP to a new company?

And the new company would also be liable for using trade secrets that they shouldn’t.
Generally.

That is as it does not have pointer arithmetic, unlike C, and arrays / slices are bounds checked. So one will get a crash from a null pointer deref.

The other risk with null pointer access is struct member access via such a pointer, but again due to lack of pointer arithmetic, that can't be easily triggered. The one way would be to have a massive struct, say much greater than the page size, and deref through that - fairly unlikely.

The other reference types (slices, maps, interface values, channels) are safe unless subject to data race issues (multi goroutine update). However channels are safe there, as their role is to be used from multiple goroutines.

So the path to lack of memory safety would be a data race, leading to type misinterpretation, hence type unsafety, then incorrect access and/or spatial and temporal unsafety as a consequence.

Apart from poor design / implementation of explicit multi threaded apps, the most likely data race strikes me as accidental lexical capture by a goroutine, hence movement to the heap, and a resultant race. The sort of thing which was mentioned in a paper (by Uber?). Those should be amiable to detection by linters.

The other case of races from poor threading design would be harder to automatically detect, but also harder to trigger. Probably avoidable by correct use of mutexes around access to the shared types (slices and maps), or simply by following an Actor or CSP design model.
I use Github Copilot with PlantUML. I use PlantUML comments to describe what I want the diagram components to show and then the syntax is written for me. I can then edit it pretty easily and iteratively.
Au contraire.

With my remote voting, I can generate as many ballots as I want. If I want to make a dummy ballot that says I voted for any given candidate in order to fool someone it is easier than ever. Now instead of 1 physical ballot, I can generate multiple ballots, and do as I please with them.
What do you think "the cloud" is? I'm reminded of an old meme, "the cloud is just someone else's computer". They could raid a data center and seize machines. They could also subpoena data they are looking for.
I have yet to find a F50 company that has been completely “moral” from the start to now. They have all at some point stepped on the backs of numerous people (slave labor, toxic/unsafe working conditions), governments (tax dodging), and entities (ie, other companies) to get to this point. C-level executives are the worst offenders.
> until we can figure out a way to convince other americans that everyone deserves a home

I helped get a homeless person into a place that provided him with an apartment, food, and work that he could do, with a path to helping him become independent. He quickly left because on the street he had a better system for getting money that he could spend on drugs. It sounded like there was a large percentage of people the charity tried to help that ended up taking that path. There were some who were able to get back on their feet. The charity basically felt it was worth giving everyone a chance in order to reach the ones that were actually trying to get out of homelessness. However, as far as providing free housing is concerned, that is what this place did.

Unfortunately (at least for this person), the well-meaning people who were always willing to give him money on the street meant what the charity was offering wasn't of interest to him.
I don't disagree that everyone wants to corner the market but I do disagree that what would be left would be a market.
"More than 6,500 migrant workers from India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have died in Qatar since it won the right to host the World Cup 10 years ago, the Guardian can reveal."

Damn, the gulf state's abuse of foreign workers is right up there with US and Canada's treatment of foreign workers 100 years ago.
No rationale for that, but likewise no rational reason that corporates sholud be able to use multinational structures to completely avoid tax, which is what these planning structures are all about. Typically there are inter-company transfer pricing arrangements that mean that the companies in the taxed jurisdictions pay fees to each other so their profits are minimised and as much profit as possible is expatriated to low- or no-tax jurisdictions.
I'm curious where in the US you're from, or where you've seen that. Florida coast? In the cities I've lived, most of the houses were built right after WW2 (80 years ago), and in some older neighborhoods, most of the houses date to the victorian age. I can't even imagine someone doing a teardown on one built within the "last couple decades" (i.e. built in the 2000s).
Sometimes I feel they are even too much trained on Mermaid. I prefer graphviz but claude very often output a mermaid diagram even if I gave a valid graphviz example in my prompt.
Compare it to the deadliest job category in the US, transportation workers, which sits “14.6 fatalities per 100,000 FTE workers” or ~1.5k/10M/year https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm Construction is #2 on that list.

So 3k per year is for 10M workers is twice as deadly for a less dangerous profession, but with worse safety standards, poor treatment, and inherent risks from extreme heat it doesn’t actually sound unrealistic.
It depends on the state. Many states restrict HOAs from promulgating or enforcing rules about political speech. For those that don't, and where an HOA goes overboard in enforcement, I would very much like to see the case tried in Federal court. A proper ruling on the Constitutionality of certain HOA covenants is long overdue.
"Western morals"?! Those same western morals which awarded the recent soccer world cup to Qatar in spite of pre-existing, regular, un-changed trend of deaths of labour workers? The entire Gulf Arabia has had a long-established culture where labourers, "… workers or nannies are treated like literal slaves, sanctioned or not…"

Thousands died over the course of the construction of the entire infrastructure for the World Cup. Every country that participated in the World Cup played on the graves of the dead.

Is it "western morals" to patronise death by physical abuse, to play on the graves of the dead?

By the way, many countries and peoples are still waiting for the "western morals" to bear forth apologies and compensation for the African/Atlantic slave trade.
In chapter 5 they go into how the ownership was transferred to the University of Central Florida (UCF) at the start of 2018, after the hurricanes in 2017.

It seems unlikely that UCF had adequate time and resources to review and understand the Arecibo Telescope's original 1963 design, the 1974 upgrade, the structural inspection and maintenance records produced for nearly 50 years, [...] and the key factors, such as the wire breaks and cable pullout of the sockets and their significance on the strength and integrity of the structure.

The measured cable pullout may have appeared "normal" to [the UCF staff] and was not on their radar as signs of structural distress. The lack of concern may be because a small cable pullout was present from the beginning, and no one in authority had previously raised an alarm

But yeah, seems weird no-one of the contractors tried to raise an alarm.
As both town and gown, it's always nice to read about Oxford history. The article doesn't touch on the huge contribution made by students "in the trenches" too so to speak; the UK upper-classes having an unusually strong military tradition. I was reflecting today about the exceptional poetry that came out of the UK during WWI, and I guess academic progress in the UK during WWII is perhaps that war's equivalent
It's hard to comment on this without knowing more about the dependencies and when/how they changed their APIs. I would say if it was a major version change, that isn't too shocking. For a minor version change, it should be.

Stuff that is actually included with Python tends to be more stable than random Pypi packages, though.

NPM packages also sometimes change. That's the world.
> How can that only be coming out now?

There’s a Peter Griffin meme with a color chart explaining that.
like clockwork...
This is absolutely fantastic. I love it. Works great on about 80% of the website elements I've tried across about 10 websites now.

I tried it on our site, and was able to completely replicate some of our most esteemed components.

A few sites wont allow the selection. I activate the select mode then hover over elements, and it won't pick up on anything. Not that is has me wondering how I could have our own site prevent people from copying it as well.

Great work. I will be a long time user of this.
It's still significantly reducing the amount of Saudi oil and support of global oil prices to drive an EV. The inability to make a perfect choice shouldn't mean you can't make any choice at all; if you're needing to pick either product A or B but product A is knowingly worse than B despite B still having some bad externalities you should probably pick B!

You'd have to really look deep to find oil for the electricity generated in my area. Practically have to talk about the insulation on the wires in my home or the lubricants on the turbines. It's practically all natural gas, wind, and solar powering my EV.
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> The reason aliens are likely to be made out of DNA and have cells is simply that those things tend to naturally come to exist in our universe.

I think you are confusing carbon-based life with DNA-based life, for which N=1, the Earth. There is absolutely no evidence that DNA exists anywhere else. I'm prepared to accept the argument that carbon+water is a good basis for life, but this does not inevitably lead to DNA-based replicators.