skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"A mid-career Software Developer with 5-9 years of experience earns an average total compensation of RUB 1,440,000 based on 49 salaries." (Russia)

Assuming a 40 hour week, that's less than $11/hr. Belarus and Moldova are poorer countries, a figure for Moldova gives $7.

There are junior developer positions advertised in the UK paying £24,000 a year. Expect a 35 or 37 hour week and 6 weeks holiday, but it's not that much higher...
I think it's one of those tools that everyone has their own niche use. These are for Home, not for Shortcuts or Personal automation, but my wife tends to leave the floor heaters on. So I have an automation that turns them off at 10am and midnight. I get home after dark, so I had my front porch light turn on at sunset and off at midnight. For awhile my garage door opened onto a busy street, so we often left it open. I hadn't automated it, but I wanted either for it to automatically close or message me if it was open for 30+m and have the option to close it remotely. We have room heaters in my young son's room. It would be nice to remotely control that instead of going downstairs (thankfully his baby monitor shows the room temp). Most of these could be addressed with a manual device, but the lack of friction really helps--until your network goes down.

As for Personal Automation, I've heard others text their spouse every day as they leave work. Now they can do that automatically with an ETA.
I enjoyed reading your articles below:

https://tyler.vc/dropping-out

https://tyler.vc/education

https://tyler.vc/dropping-out-revisited

Is there anything you would have done differently in your career trajectory / educational path if you started over?
Political analysts seem to disagree, as both Republican and Democratic candidates are currently focusing mostly on energizing the core base, possibly to the detriment of swing voters.
> It's the same reason they don't adhere to each OS's UX/UI guidelines (including on Windows!)

To be fair, not even Microsoft does that.
How are the problems of melting permafrost, rising sea levels, and volatile weather patterns "largely imaginary"?
We didn't votate against amnesty, but against the full bunch of laws derivated from the process. Anyhow, after some discussions, the peace process was implemented and now over 95% of the guerilla members left the guns behind. There are a few remaining in narcotics business.
Mismanagement. They must have been fairly confident about getting that emergency loan, and when the deal fell through they had no plan B. Just lock the doors and walk away.

If I hear that they were bought out by some vulture investment fund like Bain Capital/KKR a couple of years ago I won't be surprised at all.
If the goal is to get it off the credit report then #2 needs to be addressed to the CRA, not the furnisher/creditor. Please see the safe harbor (for the CRA) language in the FCRA.
Yes, we definitely had false negatives. It's always hard to be sure if you made a mistake though -- someone might be super successful at another company but not work out well at yours. I'm sure we made mistakes, though I don't have stats on this.

We definitely hired non-new-grad non-FAANG engineers. In fact, new grads and FAANG alums were a minority for us.
Is there an easy setup for the aquarium experiment that can be done, for example, in school?
Wonder if the feeling of being overwhelmed by the work involved in carrying out said plans feeds into this somehow. I mean, it's very easy to get carried away when planning things, and end up creating an absolutely enormous list of requirements you 'need' to meet to finish the project, many of which may require knowing more about the field to proceed.

That's certainly been an issue with my own projects, where the 'plan' ends up being more in line with the current HTML 5 specification in terms of length.

Meanwhile whenever I don't announce my plans/write them down in any way, it works better because I just get on with stuff and stop get sidetracked by irrelevant details and extras.

Also, announcing plans publically gets everyone hyped up about something to the point its original creator may struggle to get said project to live up to its own hype.
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28 days compared to nothing (CityLab seems to be US based) is infinitive percent more :)
1930s: We have nothing to fear but fear itself.
2020s: WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE BY 2030!!!
> operating on the same premise for more than 2 decades.... their Government doesn't take care of their own people and it's not hard for plenty of farmers to see.

... and so we should have a marxist-leninist class revolution to install a dictatorship of the proletariat, by armed insurgency if necessary, and if so, funded by drug trafficking, extortion, and kidnapping.

^ it helps if you at least attempt to describe things fully.

and yes, I realize the contras don't have clean hands either and are guilty of many of the same things.
Your last two sentences seem contradictory.
This is very relative. Accepted facts are not cited every time they are cited in an article.

I would understand a mainstream journal use that type of language, but not a scientific one.
It's all about networking within the industry. Like you said, tell a compelling story, and make sure to have references to back it up.

My co-founder ended up on the list a few years back. We did things that were cool, but I think my co-founder ended up on the list because they had a hard time filling 30 slots for our niche.
Things may be somewhat different in Canada but I’ll try to stay generic so it should fit.

Startups are hard to value and they are essentially only valued when someone makes a monetary investment in them. So investor Aardvark puts in 100k and gets 10% sets a value of 1 million for the company and the value of the shares is calculated from that.

In most cases, employee shares cannot be made liquid unless the company offers to buy them. Most stockplans for startup companies don’t legally allow you to sell your shares to random people, but instead essentially make it so you can only sell to specific entities during specific events. This isn’t actually a red flag as this is common.

However the red flag would be if your company isn’t upfront about current valuation and when investment happens. For two reasons, your an employee and especially in a startup should understand roughly what current financial state company is in. But most importantly you are actually a shareholder, if you’ve excercised options, and they have a responsibility to keep you appraised of what’s happening with shares.
I'm a long way from the valley and regard googles behaviour as arrogant in the extreme, they are 1990's era microsoft with better PR, I don't trust them at all and that they seem to have taken control of the web via soft means is worrying as hell.
When the attacker has your keys and your phone, you have bigger problems.
I use syncthing and it's fine but it's not bulletproof. Simple sync cases are fine, but when you start having permissions and both sources actively write data, it can lock up and end up in a weird state.

To its credit, you can always resolve the problems with some careful deleting and the occasional permissions kludge.
> Fast Company has compiled a list of the most innovative companies, charging applicants fees between $495 and $1,000 to be considered.

I find this pretty distasteful, at least in the startup context. They’ve repeatedly approached me (after covering my startups) to apply. I’ve asked them if we can have the fee waived since they’ve essentially pre-vetted us, but no dice.

It might make sense to suck it up and pay them since we probably have a decent shot of getting selected, but I’ll never do it.
> This is not a compelling argument for a skeptic.

A layman rejecting the opinions of 99% of the climatologist's community is not skepticism, it's ignorance. That is not what skepticism is.
my line in the sand is play. Does this creature play?
Show HN: Pfetch – A simple system information tool written in Posix sh
edit: not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Integrity_Protection for anybody else
It seems like nearly every piece of macOS software outside of the App Store uses Sparkle for updates https://sparkle-project.org/
Fascinating. I wonder what the reason is. Perhaps they think they can boost turnout in partisans faster than they can convince. Thanks for that.
>True, but what is different this time is the cost and reach of propaganda.

Which benefits non-state actors as much as it benefits state actors.
I though ocean warming was enough of a problem as-is? Many thermo-nuclear weapons can reach temperatures exceeding one hundred-fifty million degrees. Also, that would probably wipe out the entire Pacific rim with colossal tsunamis. The radioactive fallout would then be carried throughout the world by currents, percolate throughout the ecosystems, and poison every one.
This is interesting. I thought iOS is pretty locked down.
How could you not feed such an adorable tiny creature?
Alternative title: The 30 most insufferable douchebags to avoid.
Yes, that's what I would expect from Nature. Maybe not from the NY Times.
> The special investigations team inside Uber [..] is not allowed to [..] file official police reports “even when they get confessions of felonies,”

One step above "snitches get stitches". Are such contracts/instructions even remotely legal?

Edit: By legal, I don't mean enforceable. Rather, I mean isn't giving such an instruction itself a criminal act?
Neo-reactionary, presumably:

- https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/516243/

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
Years ago, the best software engineer I've ever known took a break from programming and became a long-haul truck driver.

He found it a fantastic experience. He claimed that there is more overlap between the skills needed between the two than you'd think (and that he met a surprising number of other truckers who used to be software engineers).

If I decided to change careers, I'd seriously investigate that.
Well they have always been considered solitary. We don't even have a collective noun. So they may consider such things their idea of nightmare.

That said, we have discovered some areas where they gather[1], so it really comes down to us not knowing nearly enough. Much of life in the oceans remains a mystery.

[1] https://ourblueplanet.bbcearth.com/blog/?article=are-octopus...
I know I will be downvoted for stating a fact but I agree with you.

The gist of the so called environmentalists is (factually, these really are their proposals when you look at their numbers): ok USA and EU, you have to urgently stop your emissions, even if that means total economic breakdown. China and specially India, it's ok you can continue your emissions, and increase then by even more than the all 1st world will cut theirs (even if they cut it to 0), that's just fine since your are entitled to it because you didn't do it in the past.

End result: a planet with even more emissions than today and a destroyed economy in the western world.

But somehow, this will save the planet according to people pushing this catastrophic scenario.

Sorry no, these people aren't pushing major climate action to save the planet, they are doing it because they think it's hip to push this idea that the Western way of life should be destroyed to give way to their political ideology.
I don’t know much about this space, but is that not true of some of the other apps (Hinge, Bumble, etc)?
Yes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwtt51gvaJQ or any other variation.
Nope, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Integrity_Protection .
What is the DeepMind for Google interview process like?
But there's nothing an 8 year old can do to be helpful for climate change. At 8 you don't even really understand what the climate is or how it's different from weather, let alone what CO2 or methane are.

This appears to just be a continuation of the disturbing trend of adults trying to make themselves feel virtuous by speaking through their children.
Isn't that solution a bandaid?

Geoengineering imply that we are better than nature. We mess up Earth and we're going to fix it not by stopping pollution and our bad habits, we'll just create this bandaid.

It's much more of a gamble too.

We only have one Earth. Why can't we just pollute less? And address the problem directly. We use too much oil and are throwing plastic into the sea.

Your proposed solution sounds like it cost a lot. I think there are other cost effective ways to go address this problem and can lead to a win-win for everybody (well except for oil industry).
What backend do you use? What is your spam policy? Not really sure I fully understand the API.
>The experts who study octopuses risk becoming the least reliable observers on this point, because they are the ones most likely to be entranced by these wonderful creatures.

That sounds like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" line of reasoning though...

I'd inverse the usual advice about not anthropomorphizing and ask "why not anthropomorphize"? Most creatures, especially the more advanced ones, are pretty close to us. Some, we literally descended from not very long ago, evolution-wise.

They might not have abstract concepts and higher reasoning, but they could very well have "subjective awareness"...

>Conciousness debates are so fundamental yet so moot: One can only attribute conciousness based on observing behavior.

Well, that's for now. If we find the exact mechanism and complexity threshold required for consciousness (e.g. by experiment with simulations and artificial brains and brain modeling), we might be able to test and measure for it directly (e.g. with brain activity scanning).
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> Perhaps I don't have the skills to make such remote discernment as you seem to be able to do.

If you're a non-software developer managing software developers, that's (in my experience) a profound organizational issue that simply does not work in any situation, open office or remote. If you lack the skills to actually evaluate the work output by your reports, then you're left with piss-poor proxies that are more noise than signal and frequently have no correlation to what productivity actually looks like in the field.
I once deleted /usr ... Instead of /some/sub/dir/usr

It was interesting to see things like fonts disappearing randomly from web pages etc as my computer progressively went mad.
Actually, they do "build cities" as it was recently discovered: https://qz.com/1077632/octlantis-is-a-just-discovered-underw...
I feel like it keeps me very well-educated on modern day topics because it provides usually balanced argument points for both opposing parties.

I wish there was something like a LeftVsRight.com that had the user base of HackerNews where citizens uneducated on politics could go to see viewpoints from both of the two major opposing political parties.
My best guess is some sort of botched mkdir -p implementation.
I don't think its "on purpose" in the sense of a grand conspiracy.

If you're a designer, you cant keep sending the same clothes down the catwalk year after year, if you design for a client, you cant really design the same stuff as last time.

Everybody does it, even the software industry, the clothing industry just does it at a higher tempo.

Ultimately, you don't have to play the game if you don't want to. The most stylish people I know don't really follow what's fashionable, and then there's me with jeans, t shirt, and a nearing on 20 year old jumper (that's vintage right?). If anything 'fashion' just seems to be a keeping up with the Joneses thing, rather than about looking good.
tbh It's not like other browsers are particularly good at this either. Firefox is just as bad as chrome when it comes to platform UI guidelines.
Run a skydiving dropzone. If done well, it can break even money-wise, and you meet some pretty awesome people.
that's odd.. those have always worked great for me. Did you let iOS know what your home and/or work locations were?
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As someone who has claimed to be a part of the wider world of criminology, I am a bit puzzled how you could postulate that criminologists are not deeply involved in the criminal justice structure in the United States. Criminologists have been structurally incorporated into CJ at every level of policy making and implementation. Sociologists formulate the very rules for conducting studies (via IRB), sociologists gather, collate, shape, and deliver the data, sociologists write the papers, journals, and articles that use the data, and sociologists run the bodies and organizations that advise law enforcement, government, and universities that define values, decide policy, and force conformity (A/B/C C/B/A order).

Probation over incarceration was a criminological theory made policy. Decriminalization of (x) are criminologists postulating about causal relationships. More importantly, criminologists are heavily consulted by the entertainment industry in terms of form and content.

Regardless, I feel completely comfortable to comment on the state of abysmal reasoning I see in my school. I did it to the PoliSci department for the same reasons. People who cannot define/explain the mathematical and/or computational logic underpinning their methodology have no place in relating conclusions and analysis from said studies. The methodology for encoding of life factors, interactions, and ethno-social details alone should be the biggest red flag. There are so many little biases, arguments from consensus, and cognitively dissonant perspectives that it becomes death by a thousand errors.

I hope these "data thugs" rip sociology to shreds. It is a good thing. These are all my opinions and observations, of course, but I truly believe that all of the social sciences are at an alchemical state; whoever can convince the patrons that they can cull prosperity/equality/justice/peace/wellness from the data gets the support and favor. But it is bullshit. Rather, it isn't science. Not yet. There are too many taboos, too much common knowledge, too much politicking, currently. Sociology needs to be culled in a compassionately dispassionate way by external forces, with the hope of the dross being scraped away so the concrete value, however much or little is there, can be recognized and built upon.
Sure, but we were talking about Amazon. The state of mail order retail in the 1930s isn’t super relevant.
> You have to be pretty damn sure you can build a better new world before you burn down the old one.

Isn't that just a social version of the precautionary principle?

You can never be damn sure you can build a better world without trying unless you are sure you can simulate that world ahead of time, and you can't be sure of that without validating your simulation. I personally suspect this sort of simulation is simply impossible because of well known "chaos theory" type phenomena like feedback loops in real systems. There is no way to A/B test history.

We now know that Marxist type systems of the sorts deployed by Lenin and Mao don't actually result in a better world and in many cases result in a worse one, but I don't think anyone could have proven such a thing ahead of time had the systems never been tried.

In practice the precautionary principle would lead to a world of absolute stasis since if the burden of proof is 100% on the actor then no action can be taken.

My personal view is that the ideal situation is a stable society with a frontier. That way you can go to the frontier and try new things and then the stable society can import the things that work. This isn't unique to me, and a version of it is called the Frontier Thesis. We once had this in the American West, but no more, so we should hurry up and build more rockets.
Who could have possibly predicted that the climate affects a lot of the planet.
The most important and missing information at the start of the article is _why_ the OP had their information posted on the forum, why they were getting sent this package.
In this context, SIP is macOS's "System Integrity Protection", not the Session Initiation Protocol:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Integrity_Protection
> they are accepted by the scientific community

That's precisely my point. Saying "scientists say X" does not transmit that X is accepted by the scientific community.

> Do you need to see that proviso expressed every single time?

I do since I consider climate change a serious and urgent matter.
After reading this article you're quoting I can't help but think you are either a troll or you just couldn't understand what the article was talking about.
The article doesn't say that racism is the root cause of climate change, it merely draws a parallel between the behaviours of denial found in people who refuse to believe in climate change or that racism is present in our societies/institutions. In fact, you could probably have guessed that just from reading the title.

EDIT: This was relevant to article https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/what-denie... originally linked. (After 2 successive link changes it does feel like OP made his point and then tried to fish for an article justifying it)
you seem to be biased toward human exceptionalism, probably as a way to take the skeptical position. but the proper skeptical position would be to assume consciousness in the absence of definitive proof, since animals are observably much more similar than different (compared to a microwave or even a plant).
Your claim that a take-home test is "lower stress" is undercut by the fact that you time your interviewees on their homework. Why do you think it is important to gauge how fast a person might be able to solve your toy problem, and why do you expect your candidates to dedicate 6-12 hours (unpaid) of continuous time to your company before you've even met them in person in most cases? Did you consider that this might inherently discriminate against those with significant time constraints in addition to their current job, biasing your results to new grads and people without hobbies and/or families?
I expect it was a typo, like that time Steam deleted people's data on Linux https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/17/scary_code_of_the_w... , or [edit: ok this one probably isn't relevant] when Adobe CC removed random folders on Macs. https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217665378--bzvo...