skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bad leaver clauses are difficult to enforce. What this person has done may not be an undisputed breach of company policy. More like what observers would consider subjectively unethical conduct that is potentially damaging to the company’s reputation. But which a court may not see as something that voids early termination bonus payouts.

On the bottom line, the €7m cash payout is a rounding error on the company’s balance sheet. And now it is off the books and will not trouble them and create negative headlines for a protracted period of litigation in court.
The rrod was pretty well know for a long time. Video games are sold to kids so it had the requirement to not use lead solder in them even though lead solder is perfectly safe and no way a child would be exposed to it, unless they eat the xbox.

Lead solder is much softer so with the countless hot cold cycles, when hot the solder expands and when cold it contracts, it will handle these cycles much much better. Without the lead the solder joints are not as soft and the hot and cold cycles eventually results in the solder joints cracking and no longer making a solid connection = rrod.

Some models were more prone to rrod but the biggest trick is to make sure you do regular cleaning and dusting to keep air flow working. Don't put the xbox in a cabinet with no air flow where it will heat up. Put a fan on the xbox if you can. It has been a long time since I followed the xbox scene but there are tons of posts online about the entire problem and best practices to avoid it.
This is just untrue.

But hey, if you believe it, my pointing out the flaws in the arguments is not likely to change your mind. So I’ll just politely disagree with you.

You have a good evening sir or ma’am.
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You know how risk is "priced in" right? It's an art, not a science. They buy/sell financial instruments to hedge that risk, like collateralized bonds or credit default swaps. Plenty of people lose big money when these bets don't work out.
He is in the echo chamber. He can't hear us anymore.
This was clearly the plan all along. The farce at the White House was just the pretense.
It looks fake. Turns out what looks real is shaped by experience in Earth atmosphere at Earth scale with Earth gravity. Those 70s and 80s sci-fi movies with close ups of plaster models turn out to have gotten it right. Even things like the earth panning behind the completely motionless ship looks like a bad composite job, because nothing is ever that motionless except a static image.
All the numbers in the article are made up (I coded up a quick JSON so we could render the page without showing real user information). Our reviewers make ~10x that number. In hindsight, we shouldn't have made up numbers that ended up with this math. That's on me!
That is true they are feint to civilizations that don't have the capacity to view them because of technological constraints. Those are exactly the civilizations you don't care about anyways, as they wont have the capacity to visit the site at that technological level nor respond with a signal in that general direction. So the beacon you place is trying to attract attention from a specific tech civilization you are interested in (from their perspective). Also when i say beacon i mean the green star. But not an active beacon, you place a dump particle swarm around the star that refracts light in to the green spectrum that's not possible by natural star type of deal. So energy wise not too intensive once you get the particles around the star. But there could be other methods as well that have nothing to do with green stars. For example another "beacon" could be augmentation of some sort near the most interesting objects in the universe... the black holes at the heart of almost every galaxy. You know as a conscious entity that others will look in that general direction as that is the most interesting place in the "neighborhood" so it warrants to do something round those parts to attract attention.
I don’t think it’s high housing prices cause high engineer salaries. By that logic all jobs in SF/Seattle should be high paying but that isn’t the case.

I see two ways it could be working:

1. High engineering salaries cause high housing prices

2. High engineering employer demand causes high housing prices (more employees in the same area and stagnant housing supply)

For 2, the high housing prices probably do push up salaries to an extent but the real cause is demand for engineers
This is rich. How's the Kool aid taste?
The median household income in San Francisco is $141K
> Similarly, in the U.K., any individual who sues to stop a new project on environmental grounds—say, to oppose a new road or airport—generally has their legal damages capped at £5,000, if they lose in court. “Once you’ve done that,” Bowman said, “you’ve created a one-way system, where people have little incentive to not bring spurious cases to challenge any new development.”

Not directly stated about wind power, but there is this account of why lawsuits might be common, slowing and derailing projects because the damages if you lose in your complaint are capped at a relatively low figure (not low for the average person, but not that expensive either).
Oh I see. I did indeed misunderstand.

Thanks for taking the time to explain!
Do you mind giving a rough salary range guide for a senior?
right you are gregory
I've pretty much settled on Zig at this point, if only for how dead-simple it is to cross-compile for other hardware platforms. The process of compiling working code for oddball platforms (in my case the Nintendo 64) was way easier than I expected it to be.

The only downside is the stdlib being as fast-moving of a target as it is. Right now I've had to put a pin on getting panic stack traces to work on my N64 code because apparently the upcoming release changes a bunch of stuff around panic/stacktrace handling (and it's already changed quite a bit over the years even before these new changes).
Not a berliner by the looks of him.
Thus two messages for every other country:

1. Make nukes, never give up on those regardless of what assurances of safety you get

2. If you are bigger and stronger - you are right, do whatever you want, international laws and rules do not matter any more

Lets see where all this will bring the world to in the next 10 years or a generation.
I run Fedora these days. Ubuntu is the worst.
The Botfly Test: Characterizing parasitic automated behavior in online communit
I rebuilt my home server a few weeks ago and the thing I was most anxious about getting working was the Ubiquiti controller which controls maybe 5 access points and managed hubs in my house.

The damn thing depends on mongodb and, worse, an old version of mongodb. I found a script that installed it all but it seems a system like that Ubiquiti controller really ought to use sqlite for a "just works" experience. For a while I thought maybe mongo was necessary if you had a really big installation with 10,000+ access points but if this article is right, sqlite ought to be good for the biggest installations out there.
What are you guys running when you are writing code?

I run IntelliJ and a browser, and mostly call it a day.
In the US when I lived on the west coast there were dedicated blood centers where you could donate. I have O neg blood which I think gets given to infants, so they would often call me up and get me scheduled as soon as I was eligible after the waiting period between donations. I was sometimes sluggish about scheduling a donation, but still managed to go over 20 times in the few years I lived out there.

Then I moved to east coast, and there is basically none of that infrastructure, you have to find a mobile blood bank or be aware of some event or community site that sometimes hosts them. I'm bad at that kind of community awareness, so the upshot is I haven't donated once in the 15 years I've lived here. Always surprised by that since there are so many more people on the east coast, I'm not sure where all the blood is coming from since they are so bad about getting people to do regular donations.
Closed loop pumped hydro can be built anywhere there's a hill, there's tons of available expansion capacity there
> so it was cool to see multiple mentions of Ada here, by people who like and use it.

I'm surprised how popular Ada is here in these comments. I like some of the ideas (ranged types, for example) in Ada, I'm inspired to give it a try after seeing all the comments here.
I think they mean, having a whole bunch of people doing end-to-end user-scenario tests all-day - like videogame playtesters - whereas what you’re describing sounds more like SDET work.
when I learned that fact it made me feel as if I want to switch away on a hair trigger, I do wonder if other modern arm platforms are safer, or just less scrutinized, and if Apple is still safer than Intel?
If the support was still there I'd still be using VB.NET.

I've coded professionally in a dozen languages, including a lot of time in x86 assembler, C++ etc.

Still like VB.NET better than any other. To me, it was the most readable code.
Maybe that's the case. But how can one lecture Europe about free speech and turn a blind eye when Putin kills Navalny?
SAP has had its fair share of bad executives. Mostly incompetent people, but occasionally also flawed characters. Their problem is that Europe has no IT industry that is equally mature as the one in the US. Among other things, this leads to dysfunctional talent development where people end up in managerial roles (or outright make it to executive level) without the necessary character traits or personal development to support their responsibilities.
Everything except for STEM and then even some of those, basically.
In Germany in fact we have Postident, which works fine, but is a bloated and unintuitive process and only makes sense for higher-margin and higher risk verification purposes, like opening a Bank Account.
What's strange to me is according to the graph it's not just combustion engine cars that peaked, cars overall more or less did too, in the graph.

Are trucks like the F150 not being captured by this data? How literal is "cars"?
Imagine if all messaging apps could talk to one another, that'd be the day
To be fair to Republicans, they have wanted to privatize Social Security for decades, for exactly the reason you state. Imagine what the 2% commission for Assets under Management (AUM) looks like for a hedge fund boss when trillions of dollars could be entering those funds one day.
For sure they can! The vast majority of our reviewers make a few extra $hundred every week around their day jobs in aviation. Our target audience for this is the folks who enjoy spending their free time watching YouTube videos like VASAviation or PilotDebrief (like me). We get a kick out of listening to air traffic control audio and hearing what's going on in the airspace system.
Instead of a moonshot micro kernel, why didn't Google just build and maintain a new Linux driver API/ABI layer with backwards compatibility and security? Not an easy endeavor, but is it harder than Fuchsia?
You definitely have the skills to do it yourself if you had to. I totally understand sidestepping the PAC. I've had it work occasionally, especially in the days when they would get back to you in a couple of weeks. Now it's a shitshow.
Maybe, I love how the author moves straight from the death of the ozone layer to “it will be a pretty show”
So, 500,000 birds out of 250,000,000?

Aka 0.2% of birds.

How many birds do coal power plants or other power sources kill?
I assume the long-winded "shall we switch" dialog was more for effect in the demo, but there's no reason why it couldn't hear "I'm an AI" and just send a quick enquiry data burst without having to continue the conversation in English.
Haskell + copilot (from Nasa) and/or MicroHs when targeting embedded (like RPi Pico)
But I repeat myself, apologies to Twain

Downhill = good, momentum is unstoppable, nothing stops the electrification transition, we’re simply arguing time horizon now; China will be the clean energy and mobility manufacturer to the world.

(50% of car sales in China in 2024 were battery electric or plug in hybrid)
I love this because it is making a practical, everyday item more accessible.

I know the toaster is not explicitly open source but I've been lamenting the fact that such an incredible amount of energy is spent making things more accessible but most of those things are not what 'normal people' actually need.

For example I think there is a greater need for more open source couches, bikes, houses, clothing, etc than the need for, say, software that helps us coordinate containerized web infrastructure (from a social good perspective)
I've been using Odin [1] for my hobby game development and I've been liking it a lot. Feels like a more ergonomic C.

Things I like:

- Vendor libraries like Raylib and MicroUI make it easy to get started

- I can pass around memory allocators and loggers implicitly using context, or explicitly if I need to.

- natively supports vector math and swizzling

- error handling with `or_else` and `or_return`

Things I don't like:

- Name spacing is a bit annoying. The convention is to prefix the procedures but I don't like how they look. It really isn't a big issue.

Have a quick read of the overview and if you are still interested, I highly recommand 'Understanding the Odin Programming Language' book by Karl Zylinski [2]

[1] https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/

[2] https://odinbook.com/
<< This absurdity is reaching people in the US, and you want to protect that - which makes me question your true intentions lmao

You can and should question it. It is the whole point. I actively encourage that. This is how we grow some basic common sense and critical thinking skills. As for my intentions, at best I can say it is complicated, but it starts with: I get bored sometimes.

<< Now on alternative media, like , Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, promoting Russian propaganda stating that Hitler was a victim, and WW2 was Poland's fault, among other absurd takes that only people with low cognitive capacity and deficient education would believe.

If it only affects people with either low cognitive capacity and/or low education, surely it should not be a problem in a country, where nearly all real jobs require higher education. If it does affect them, maybe the factor you selected is not.. as useful as you think.

<< If you want to promote Nazism, and protect that, you're on the right track, but don't expect people from nation with proper institutions to follow through. Just deal with that.

Here you go again. Promote is not the same as allow. I am not sure, what your hangup is, but I am starting to think you are not arguing in good faith.

<< Hopefully X will be banned in a lot of countries, the sooner the better.

You will be surprised to know, I would be perfectly ok with that. I might even cheer.

<< If you believe that you can't influence people's behavior and how they think, you have not even a basic understanding on the subject and we will end our engagement here.

edit: I would encourage you to re-read what I wrote. I don't think I want to post a novel here.

<< I never said that there should be an institution to promote Nazism,

Honestly, I think you are just lost.
Did you try with duckdb ?
Everything changed when the Electron Nation attacked.
China doesn't interrupt its enemies when they're making a mistake. In this case, America jumping headfirst into its own Great Leap Forward.
You can check here

https://dqydj.com/income-percentile-calculator/
The free market would likely go for a low friction solution. Require adult and all sites that allow anyone to upload content to add the RTA header. Make a law putting liability device/app makers to look for the RTA header and put the overall liability of enabling parental controls on the parents. App out of compliance could be pulled from the app store until compliant. Not perfect in any way but is trivial to implement. [1] Plenty of sites have already implemented it. [2] Privacy compliant, no data leakage, no sharing identities, no third parties.

Server operators just add one header, done. App and device developers would have to dig up some old code that can look for a header and check parental controls. Most kids are on phones and tablets. Complete mobile in two years as phase one. Desktops four years out as phase two. That may seem like a long time but this discussion has been ongoing since 2001 at least.

All the big tech companies have lobbyists. Have your lobbyists push for this and this could become a non issue in very little time.

[1] - https://www.rtalabel.org/index.php?content=howtofaq#response...

[2] - https://www.shodan.io/search?query=RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-R...
I do. I also fire people, and it is a difficult experience every time.

Additionally, small company employees are representative of a significant portion (~50%) of the US population and contribute around 40% of the US GDP.
Our team was just exploring an approach to building an AI Agent Builder by making API calls via LLM, so this is very helpful. I'll give it a try!
There is a finite amount of housing.

Britons do not, actually, wish to carpet their entire island w/ semidetached housing, so each and every immigrant occupying a flat is one less that a native could be living in.
If you never read what you don't trust you wouldn't be on HN...
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Even other more complex appliances get tossed too easily. My spouse’s desire to get rid of our 15yo microwave was replaced a while ago by the satisfaction of being able to keep it going. I’ve fixed it twice with a few bucks of parts (waveguide cover, door switch).
All of that is only possible because of network effects, and a nationalized JR built most of that network.

And honestly, I think you’re overstating the degree of choice you have as a rider. Different lines carved out their corners and companies avoid each other. Service level is generally high, to the point that it’s a non factor. You take whichever train is cheaper/faster, and that’s it.

The problem is that rail has huge positive externalities that are not captured by the operators. You can address that by letting operators speculate on real estate, or you could do it with taxes.
The world would be a noticeably worse place if people didn’t study many of these fields. It’s kind of a reverse John Lennon’s Imagine

Imagine a world with no artists, no actors, no journalists, no authors, no philosophers, no historians, no teachers, no social workers, etc etc
> Brexit was the most stupid thing a country ever did to itself

America: Hold my beer...
Y'all have Spongebob Squarepants, we have Bernd das Brot.
Yeah, but many aspects of management are way more simple than doing said work that an employee would do.
The parallels with Lawrence are obvious, but I find that the character of Paul Atreides follows some older models as well.

Towards the end of the first book of Dune he has become an almost mythical figure, a Moses using his divine insight to lead his people to freedom, or a Mohammed throwing them into a global war of conquest.

That ambiguity is perhaps the book's greatest achievement: Paul's actions are only justifiable if the reader believes in him completely (he has really seen all possible futures and picked the best one) or not at all (he just wanted revenge and could not have foreseen the consequences).
It's called FCBGA, flip chip ball grid array. The only other option for packaging is wire bonding but that doesn't scale well with pin count.

Technically you could recall and repackage the dies but you'd need millions of dollars in equipment.
It's really tiring seeing the HN enlightened conservatives talking as if there is a coherent policy here. Withdrawing military support for Ukraine alone might be reasonable, I disagree with it but I can see the sense in it.

But Trump is absolutely wrecking every relationship we have in the world, trading or otherwise, except with Russia, where he wants to remove sanctions and increase trade.

Even if you disregard all "moral" foreign policy objectives, like deterring wars of territorial expansion, it makes zero sense in economic terms. We're abandoning >>50% of world markets in exchange for access to... Russia's market? What do they even have to offer that we want? Oil or gas? We already produce more than we consume! Trading more with Russia will only kill domestic oil and gas producers and accomplish almost nothing else.

It makes zero sense, it will never make sense, stop trying to make it make sense.
Fair 'nuff. You have my apologies.

Of course, if you hadn't replied, I could have simply asked @dang to remove it (I have done that, in the past).

I will ask them to remove my post, but you have preserved it anyway.
These things don't make sense together. Chances are, shrinking government will cause information to be withheld even more, since there will be fewer staff available to answer/process requests for data, or to create automated ways to retrieve it. A fully-transparent government needs to be staffed.
Got my workchats and email in one virtual desktop, a checkpoint of what I was previously working on in another, YouTube playing music in another. All controllable with hotkeys, with a UI customized down exactly how I want it. And with no fear of an "update" breaking my setup.
People forget that the natural landscape of Britain is forest. The enclosed fields people think are natural countryside are in fact an entirely human creation.
> I believe that it is still practiced in Iraq and Syria

And Iran, but especially in India: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism_in_India
It is really wild that all these little community groups manage to consistently outperform massive corporations.
Not the case here. These 3 corp are unrelated (Excerpt for the name, logo). Did you even read the blog post or the wikipedia article you post?
> Why does the shared clipboard only work some of the time? Did the Settings app really need a new UI? Why hasn't Finder been updated since forever?"

These are like smallest of the small annoyances.

Compare Facetime and Zoom, for example. Issues are on completely new universum.
Zoom has new RCE about almost every month. They just don’t give CVEs for them because they can be mitigated on server update.
The story of British Leyland is enough to scare anyone w/ even half a brain away from ever allowing British politicians to have even the least bit of influence over a company that competes anywhere near the consumer space.
Well, I mean, not all humans, I suppose you could distill a population down to one conclusion, but if the AI was a true higher order empathetic agent, it would be very much like getting shot with a point of view gun many billion times over.