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> My group of friends averages in the 150-250k range of income which is high for the area for sure but it's evidence of the thriving technology scene.

That's honestly not evidence of a thriving technology scene, its evidence that you and your friends make a lot of money. Would you say you and your friends are representative of the typical worker in the Midwest?

I could see how it is low compared to farmers, but most farm income goes into operating costs. Farmer Joe could be making 500k a year but that doesn't mean he's taking home much in profit, in a lot of cases he's taking far less.
I have had a very rewarding and fulfilling career, and am gratified that I'm now able to pursue the things that interest me most: tools for font design, high performance 2D graphics, Rust GUI. A lot of this is connected to the things I was interested in as a teenager.
> But you can choose which company to be a customer of.

True, but I can't choose which corporations are spying on me. There are many corporations that spy on me at every opportunity despite the fact that I don't do business with them.
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> I am not aware of any untapped geniuses now toiling as coal miners, truck drivers or construction workers waiting for the salaries to hit a magic number for them to unleash their talents.

That's not who would be most affected by a long term trend of high salaries. It's the kids who would go to biz school or wall street or law school (or med school, but that's less of a positive, hah) instead because that's where the money has been in the past.
+ compare US work schedule to european - fewer paid vacation days, nonexistent maternity leave, expensive health insurance
It might be worth reaching out to the site owners and cold emailing products you find interesting, but are not currently maintained well.
might charging a ‘call to meeting’ fee based on the attendees salary/hourly rate be an alternative?
> It helps a lot to "stage" the original shots

In particular, a fog machine will help emulate the haze and backscatter produced by water and the particles floating in it.
See the dual biography of von Neumann and Wiener that I linked above.
This just makes me think why do I need a social network. I never did anything remotely useful on Facebook/Instagram(Although, Twitter is useful).

Why would I want to use this?
yelp doing something not shady or bullying? i'm very skeptical...
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"Top of their field" isn't the right way to put it. Entry level at Google means roughly, someone with no experience, or maybe one year of experience. Usually a new graduation from college. However, based on all the interviews and so on, Google thinks they are one of the top new graduates.

Someone who is the "top of their field" and gets employed at Google, like someone that people in a specific technology would know of, would be making a lot more. It depends a lot on what that field is, but making over a million dollars yearly wouldn't be surprising for an individual contributor.

For a more "middle" statistic, someone who is average-quality for a Google engineer, and has five years of experience, would be making around $350,000.

My source is https://www.levels.fyi/ and the verbal descriptions of what exactly the levels mean come from working there. L3 is a new grad, L5 is a solid contributor with some experience, someone "top of their field" would be L6, L7, or more.
The criticisms should matter to you!

Why do you believe that his representation of research on REM/NREM, light and deep NREM sleep is scientifically accurate?

Why do you believe his representation of effects of coffein and sleep medication is scientifically accurate?

I cover this in sections 14.3 and 14.4: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/#appendix-common-object...
Clearly you have to 'zero out' a graph for whatever the default state is. If I claimed otherwise, that was in error.

Yes, if the default value is -500, then setting your origin at 0 is going to cause confusion.

I think the problem in part here is that in academia you can make your publishing quota for a period of time on a 2% improvement to some process. In which case you're amplifying the outcomes as a form of self-promotion.

Rarely do software developers, city planners, or who knows what other professions are going to get any accolades or shifts in public opinion off 2% (unless it's taxes). In both cases you're trumping up the numbers. In one it's expected, and I think we can agree that things are perhaps not as they should be in the paper publishing circles without having to open that can of worms to define exactly why or in what ways.
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I would be very concerned about that killing productivity by making it so that nobody is willing to schedule them at all.
It is neither social nor a network. But it is a good community forum.
To call HN a social network is to redefine the term to apply to any website that allows comments.

It's really not.
Maybe this moron could have answered "no" to the question asking if he wants to install the boot loader on all drives but clearly, he's to dumb to do so just as he's too dumb to restore the uefi boot loader in os x (system settings-> syrup m startup disk). I stopped reading after that. People this clueless should not use computers without supervision especially Linux.
keeping in touch with family & friends - email, MMS, etc don't work.
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Now one can follow celebrities on instagram, facebook with their daily updates:)
Except you have no reason to use those things, unless you specifically go out of your way. In Woz's day, you HAD to work on that level to work with budget systems.

The same opportunity may exist, but the same motivation does not.
I can't see how it could be a good thing.

It might be the least worst thing that is possible at this point, though.
Same experience. I use to joke about it; “The more crappy lecturer you have, the more you perform.” Understanding that you don’t understand is powerful.
For what it's worth, you probably don't want to be working with people who are intimidated by email.
Oddly enough this strategy has been done before. Akamai did the same thing back in the day. ISPs were getting hammered with traffic so Akamai sold edge caches to the ISPs then also sold the CDN to websites and what passed as a “content provider” back then. Still super cool.
So researchers aren't checking AMD.

A bit later, AMD was uniquely not affected. But they were investigated, yes?

Seems like you like Intel more than AMD.

No problems with that, I'm the other way around :)
Just my guess, but I bet that from this point on, few people (in the developed world) will race to sign up for a new social network. Why? Given the societal and personal costs (and benefits) that we've seen with previous social networks, a lot of lay people are re-evaluating the utility that such services provide them. In many cases, the answer is to keep your current social network, but increasingly disengage from it. Sometimes people find that they actually prefer to be less frequently "connected" to people in their lives, whether family/friends or casual acquaintances, especially given some of the caustic personality traits often displayed on social networks.

Also, many of today's recent non-FB social network successes (Whatsapp, etc) were launched before the general perception of social networking, and internet services in general, became increasingly skeptical. Outside of tech, or people with very narrow interest verticals not served by mainstream social networks, I don't know anyone who is looking for yet another generic social network.

Curiously, if true, this plays both the the detriment and benefit of established social networks: their primary, most profitable users are not likely to flee, but they are also likely to be less engaged.
This is just plain wrong. Look at all the religion-run hospitals in America, and how they use religious values to affect their patient care and which services they do and don't allow. This has been affirmed by the court system even.

I personally don't like it one bit; people should be getting medical services based on the latest medical science, not based on some millennia-old book of fables, but unfortunately that's the law and the situation currently. And you can't just say "go to a different hospital", because in a lot of rural or small-city areas, these religious hospitals are the only providers around, so they have a local monopoly.

As another counterpoint, just look at Chik-Fil-A. That's absolutely a religious company, and they're quite proud of it. I don't like it either, so I don't eat there (then again, I avoid fast food anyway), but countless Americans are either OK with it, or really like it.
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At one point or another, most people have tailgated (followed too closely) the vehicle in front of them. While you may be frustrated that the motorist in front of you is driving under the speed limit, the reality is that tailgating is extremely dangerous.

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I wouldn't have called it a social network - there's really no graph of user connections, unless you want to consider a graph of directional has-replied-to or has-upvoted links, but that's pushing it.

But if another technology added an embedded HN clone, they would call it "social networking features", probably...
I like the idea, but that price is going to keep out many, many people. I'd guess around $1/month would work, but even then, in the eyes of most you are competing with free.
What's the connection between smart home tech and raising rents by combining units? I'm confused as to the message.

Catching illegal tenants and airbnbs isn't something I'm too opposed to but the slippery slope this opens up isn't an acceptable risk to me.
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Yeah I should hope so. If you spend some time around kids you notice that while there are a lot of average kids, there is no shortage of really bright ones that could totally be learning more than they are learning at a regular school. Mostly we don't kick them up to a higher grade, because it never really works out for the best. Probably because you forget most of the details of what you learn anyway unless it's a basic life skill or part of your career. What you get out of school is social experience and how to learn.
Sounds good in theory, but that is so far removed from what 99% of social media users do.
Nobody wants to rent/buy boxes, handle routers, etc. ; most users are on mobile, on the go.
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> can't imagine why anybody would see RUP as a bad process to follow.

Are you kidding, the 90s were filled with same for and against arguments of RUP as we have about Agile and Scrum now. No process is right for everything so you will have people misuse a tool and blame the tool. The same orgs that micromanage Agile teams would micromanage RUP teams and people will be just as angry about it. RUP is a tool and is as good or bad as the people using the tool.

That said, I agree with you that RUP has some benefits.
> These are the folks who were left behind by the Democrats in 2016

Left behind? Wasn’t it their official party platform to offer social programs to help retrain these “left behind” workers for new opportunities? Instead they decided to vote for the party that promised them they would bring back 19th century industry, like coal mining.
As someone who lives in a 'fly-over state', this is not accurate at all. Thanks to new tax policies companies are building/hiring more than ever and the midwest has some of the best degree values with flagship state schools.

The 2016 Democrat failures also stem from the arrogance of the coastal populations. A lot of my progressive friends didn't vote because they were sick of being looked down on because they didn't live in California or New York.
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I'm wondering what kind of VPS you get for which use case.

I've seen Ruby on Rails deployments running on 1 Core / 2GB RAM / 10 GB SSD size, but I have also seen mattermost deployments on 4 Core / 8 GB / 50GB SSD + 1TB data disks.

What do you think is "normal" today?
The study had 8 people where the surgery caused "very" or "extremely" bothersome visual problems, and 4 people reporting difficulty performing activities due to these; I guess those are included in the 6 dissatisfied people.
Free social networks (as in free beer) only accept users who don't have a bank accounts because the networks expect them to have one in the near future. Otherwise, there would be no reason for advertisers pay the social networks for the cost of these "free riders". Everybody ends up being monetized, that's the plan.
I think you're grossly underestimating the nuances of human interaction that are developed from ages 2-10. I can tell you first hand watching a friends kid who was home schooled trying to interact with his public school peers that they are like a fish out of water. To suggest as an adult you just need "dive in" to figure out social cue's is... unfairly simplified.

Can you potentially figure it out over a long period of time if you happen to hook up with some folks that are very understanding and tolerant of "odd" behavior? Sure... but you're talking years and years and years of interaction to recoup those lost social skills.
Except when you're in the majority, being white and male and a US citizen (in the US) isn't something you ever get discriminated against for. So this "protection" you talk about is pretty useless; if someone wants to discriminate against someone like me, they find some other convenient factor that isn't protected.
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Ship building is a specialized trade, with tradesman located in a town near the dockyard. I doubt that shipbuilders are motivated by the love of the sea.
The quote does not work in high-specialization industrial society where the product is constructed for a customer, with sales department claiming credit for the sale, and the owner pocketing the surplus value.

Much better motivation is love for a process, in ship building example, ship engineering with management supporting career development.
What makes it so difficult to change/improve the syllabi?
Maybe you're right, but this is self-serving and not serving the goal of presenting the cheapest products to customers. There are so many low-quality products on Amazon. Often the packaging is outrageously wasteful as well. For a bottle of supplements, they often sent a box within a box, filled with so much plastic, paper, etc. The environmental impact on Amazon is huge!
Fyi, Amazon's P/e was even 1.100 at a time. P/e is not the best indicator for a company investing/researching and selling in lower prices. The AMD product line-up proves that they are investing a lot.

What I see lately is that AMD is raising prices. This seems like a good indicator of how they are positioning themselves versus the market.
You are arguing against yourself there. Please define "high salaries". Wall st, Doctors, IT Professionals are already the highest paid professionals, and paid anywhere between 3x to many x more than your typical blue-collar salary. Are you saying this multiple needs be even more for the "kids" to work hard and become scientists, doctors or programmers?

I think we all know the answer to that.
Same, entered college at 14. My social skills were wack, was terrible at public speaking, very socially awkward. Was in my room playing Dota 2 for the first 2 years. I'm just finished up at 19 and I feel more mature and understand why so many universities didn't want to accept me at my age.

However, I think it all worked out, as long as parents make provisions for social adjustment things can work out okay. I don't know about 9 though, seems tough, i literally could not imagine it because college was a lot more than just studying. Especially since I was in a cognitive science not like a hard STEM, lots of social interaction and open ended questions.
The midwest is region that values hardwork and personal responsibility. The government offering retraining programs was not going to win any proud midwestern workers. I am not arguing against retraining the workers, just the view of it over here in fly over country
This has been the case in Server systems for a while - IPMI[1] has been used for remote KVM, power management, remote mounting of ISOs, etc. on many servers for years. HP's iLO, Dell's iDRAC, and even SuperMicro boards have an implementation. This pattern is pretty standard, but none of it's FOSS.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Managemen...
It's not the same as following in the traditional "use the follow to populate a timeline or feed" sense. I don't come to HN wondering "what did my peeps comment today?", rather I come to glance at particular stories, and perhaps read the comments.

The "engagement" aspect of HN is in the quality of items that make it to the front page, and in the comments. It's not in the slow drip-drip-drip of near-real-time notification regarding the activities of specific users.
Even Bertrand Russell briefly advocated for preventive nuclear war with the USSR.
The FDA's mandate is to ensure safe and effective therapies, not high customer satisfaction.
Both are problems, really.
> Except you have no reason to use those things, unless you specifically go out of your way. In Woz's day, you HAD to work on that level to work with budget systems.

In Woz's day, most people were playing outside yelling "NERD" at the people who were working on computers. No one had to stay inside to practice coding or working with the machine back then.

I think people forget how antisocial it was considered to actually work on computers back then. I got the tail end of it as a 90s kid, but it was probably much worse in the 70s and 80s.

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In any case, I'd say its cheaper and easier to know about things today than it was back then. Sure, select communities would be photocopying the Unix source code (ex: Lions Commentary on Unix), but you still had to hope such tomes existed in your local library. It wasn't like today where you can just download obscure documentation on chips for free and instantly.

Do you want to know how AMD GPUs work? Just read the docs. https://gpuopen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/RDNA_Shader_I...

You used to have to pay money to get printouts of such docs. I'm pretty sure my local library wasn't holding holding the processor manuals or schematics for the Amiga back then.

Realistically speaking, if its the 80s, you were getting by on the Commodore 64 User's guide alone. https://www.lemon64.com/manual/

Frankly: There's far more information available today for Rasp. Pi or Arduinos than the 192-page Commodore 64 book (as influential as the Commodore 64 book was... it was still one beginner-level book).
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No at the start of a project. Yes for refactoring.

I used to write tests for all pure functions because they were the easiest tests to set up. They are also the easiest to debug so the test didn't really help unless you're checking for type signatures.

I think that implementation tests are important but I found that I suck at figuring our how to set up a test before the actual implementation. So I do them after the fact and judiciously.
Okay point taken.

Although, The "celebrities"(I am more interested in following Engineers, Computer Scientists. These guys are my "celebrities") I would want to follow are not on facebook/instagram(Or they don't share anything I'd be interested in on those platforms).
Calling it white male hegemony is precisely why the Democrats lost 2016. If they want 2020 to be competitive the message has to be more inclusive
I don't think this is exactly what you're asking but a good starting point:

https://sunscrapers.com/blog/python-best-practices-what-ever...

With 2 vs 3 code is easiest to write your code for python 3 and then in 2 import everything you have in __future__ package including unicode literals. That's still not enough and you still might need to do extra work. In python 3 there's argument encoding, which could do the encoding which doesn't look like it is available in python 2. So you probably shouldn't be use it and treat all input/output as bytes (i.e. call encode() when sending data to stdin, and decode() on what you get back from stdout and stderr).

Perhaps that might be enough for your case, although many things is hard to get right in python 2 even when you know what you should do, because of the implicit conversion.

Edit: this also might be useful: https://unicodebook.readthedocs.io/good_practices.html

Also this could help: https://unicodebook.readthedocs.io/programming_languages.htm...
Chrome is the new IE. There are a bunch of SaaS tools and self hosted tools that only work in Chrome.

The problem with Chrome is that developers push each other to use Chrome, so they only develop for Chrome, and the stuff they make might only work in Chrome.
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The likes of TikTok would disprove this guess, but given the age profile, your theory may still hold true if age-range-bound.
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This is pretty much the only thing I use FB for, and even here it's not that much. It lets me keep tabs on people I rarely communicate with, and gives me a way to easily communicate with them if I want to say "hi" after a year of no communication. For people I'm not that close with (not enough to exchange phone numbers), it lets me keep a list of these mere acquaintances.
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