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It depends on a few things, but the biggest factor is your primary buyers. General consumers and small businesses are quite price sensitive, high net worth people and medium sized businesses are less price sensitive and more willing to spend if the value is created. Large corporations and enterprises are the least price sensitive.

Also, consumers, small businesses and enterprises are the most demanding of support, but of those only enterprises understand they have to pay for it. Medium to large businesses are generally moderate support needs, as they reach the enterprise level the support demands go up.

So outside of who is the primary buyer, you need to define their support needs, risks, costs to run it and value generated to the client. Then price accordingly. I always try to value price not discount price. E.g. if the value your service or product provides is greater then the selling price then you are selling at a discount and IMO making a mistake generally. However, there are exceptions where it is necessary at least at low service levels to do this.

*edit, fixed punctuation.
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See my peer comment. You can "synthesize" gold pretty easily. I agree most people don't consider this when buying gold though. So "stronger belief" is still accurate. Unfortunately unscrupulous people make fortunes off of that strong belief.
YSK those 'kill switches' just have to be abandoned by their host to stop working. They create a huge evolutionary pressure for this.
There are two kinds of capitalism: value creation capitalism (also known as industrial capitalism) and value extraction capitalism. The latter includes quite a lot of financial capitalism, profit-driven warfare, and casinos and other addiction-driven products.

The former creates value while the latter extracts and concentrates it while overall creating net negative value. Addicting people to Skinner boxes is destroying hours of what otherwise might be productive, rejuvenating, or enriching time. It's macroeconomically indistinguishable from killing people.

One of the central problems of modern Western capitalism is that we fail to distinguish between the two. A businessperson is successful an a genius if they make money; nobody bothers to distinguish between those that make money by creating value and those that make money by merely extracting it and leaving a path of destruction in their wake.

Maybe we can figure out a way to re-channel the impulses of "cancel culture" in this direction, cancelling those that promote addictive net value destroying products and services. Since the algorithmic timeline and other personalized recommendation engines are by far the largest pushers of fascist and neo-racist ideology, the original goals of "cancel culture" might still be indirectly achieved.
Being a COBOL developer can be fun
Is it possible to have fun while untying spaghetti code knots? Yes it is, even with an old legacy programming language! The company culture will make the difference
He has a book on the topic: https://lethain.com//staff-engineer/
Hmm, it ocured to me that you can probably get a nice list of robot user-agents by querying all UAs that accessed the robots.txt file. I don't think normal browsers touch that file.

Also a thing to do on the cheap, if you want more usable logs is to do JSON logging[1] (one object per line). This is trivial to import into PostgreSQL and also trivial to query via tools like jq, as is.

[1] Example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25049667/how-to-generate...
probably not on the same level as a new vehicle, but the plastic wrapping/film that protects the laptop has to adhere to the surface somehow
I just got to feel the downsides of trying to add mysql support to an app that was developed for sqlite exclusively first with digikam. Digikam has experimental mysql support so you can host your photos and the db on your NAS and access it from multiple computers.

I assume that digikam makes many simple queries for each individual photo when showing an overview page with thumbnails, tags and dates, as it's all stored in the db and notably slower than with sqlite. With GBit LAN it's acceptable, wifi makes you want to rip your hair out. It's not the bandwidth, but the latency. The sqlite case never made you consider to fetch multiple thumbnails in one query and now it's probably hard to redesign the whole thing to do that.
Disagree, banks do not pay software devs a lot. Tends to be average or slightly above average. But nowhere near tech company salaries.

Bankers see powerful staff as risks, they much prefer having subpar staff that are guarded by rigorous process and management, as that is viewed as less risky. A single staff member who knows a lot and controls a lot of systems means they have dangerous leverage over the business.

Tech companies don’t view labour as a risk, they are part of the product.
> If people thought that engaging in social media was bad for them, they would stop.

This is the absolute cornerstone of your argument, and I gotta say, I think it is 100% incorrect.

This is, in fact, how we often define addiction: A behavior that a person repeatedly and compulsively engages in despite zero or negative side effects.

People will absolutely do things, and continue to do things, that they know for certain are bad for them.

I mean, seriously -- ask anyone in your life whether they think social media is actually good for them. I genuinely think every single person I know would respond to the effect of "I wish I used it less, but it's tough to quit."
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I hate diesel exhaust. New car smell makes me want to puke (and did, on numerous occasions, as a kid) so bad that I have to take breaks and open windows. The absolute worst is burnt heavy fuel like mazut, and other two-stroke engines that burn oil. It smells like cigarettes to me, but worse.

On the other hand, gasoline is kind of nice to smell. Go figure, chemicals react weirdly with our sense of smell, I don't think it's wise to rely on it for synthetic compounds (cue bitter almond smell).

Edit: And it is commonly accepted that odors are wired to memories, so living on a boat when I was young and having family members that smoke are probably linked to these sensations.
ignoring the fact the vast majority of users never noticed , never cared, and still don't care but not robotic like click away the warnings.

I am not dismissing the need to let consumers know how their habits and information are used I am merely stating that many here overreact on behalf of people who really could care less, they just want their content
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I'll take "will" to be a given. There is something that is capable of thinking, and the thoughts it has are will. A decision, then, is when that entity has a thought that has intention.

I think it becomes nebulous by adding "free" to the equation, because it's not defined in relation to something specifically. Free from what? How would you differentiate it from a decision that's not "free" in this sense?

Free from thoughts? Free from gods? Free from memory? Free from circumstances? To differentiate it from "non-free will", we have to define what we actually care about, and then use it only with that scope.
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Makes sense. Most of the folks who have been in Bitcoin 6+ years have observed multiple crashes, exchanges going bust, Bitcoins vanishing into the ether (no pun intended), and people being unable to recover their assets.

People hold Bitcoin as insurance against the dollar collapsing. It makes no sense to assume that both Bitcoin and dollars will be circulating currencies: currency is a winner-take-all market, the most widely-accepted one will win. The Bitcoin price is a superposition of those who believe that Bitcoin is going to infinity and the dollar will become worthless, and those who believe that Bitcoin is going to zero and the dollar will retain its position as the global reserve currency.
> I signed up for a Gab account purely out of curiosity. There was literally nothing but misogynistic, homophobic, racist, antisemitic trash content on the entire timeline.

This is clearly not true and easily shown to be so.

There's either free speech, which will include a lot of unsavory, horrible or downright evil content, or there is censorship. It's one or the other. And while censorship might be considered a reasonable trade-off, it immediately turns the platform into a mouthpiece for the politics of the people who run it. And once someone has that kind of power, its abuse is inevitable.
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Boy is this a timely thread !

I've been looking into doing a little COVID lockdown project consisting of a multi-GNSS timeserver.

Does anyone have examples of projects using something like the UBlox ZED-F9T [1] which can do concurrent connections to 4 GNSS constellations ?

I'm not an electrical engineer, so unfortunatley I lack the skills to design a PCB from scratch. ;-(

[1]https://www.u-blox.com/en/product/zed-f9t-module
It could be either, but with pg I feel as thought it's just a personality thing.
I love the first-class RS232 support. I recently pre-ordered a ClockworkPi[0], which has more features but lacks USB-C and the dedicated DE-9 port (come to think of it, those two ports are more important than most of the ones on the ClockworkPi...)

[0] https://www.clockworkpi.com/
The Manchester Baby was the first stored program computer. IMHO that makes it the first computer and not just a giant digital calculator.
I have thought the same thing for a while. When you're at the airport it smells like fuel. Everyone's talking about the radiation, but I'm wondering if pilots and stewardesses aren't exposed to much worse through the cabin air.
> It is understandable that people are selfish

Existing residents resisting change really aren't any more selfish than new residents demanding change. Both are championing changes that are in their self interest at the expense of the self interest to others.
I haven't heard about the mining pools collaborating on censorship. Do you have any sources I can read up on?
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> My stories were awful. They had hardly any plot, just characters with strong feelings, which I imagined made them deep.

My thought is a bit of an asides from the main essay content but this applies to real people as well as story characters, just because someone has feelings strongly doesn't mean anything other than that. A few of my strongest feelings about various things are rather mundane and at worst destructive. Doesn't make them deeper than a puddle.

Strength of a thing is a bad proxy for depth, complexity or interest.
Comma.one ranks highest in making sure the driver is paying attention and second in "unresponsive driver" according to Consumer Reports...

I remember Hotz making a big deal about tracking the driver as much as the road. Which is something Tesla is behind on.
What a disaster. Breaking the rule that literals and variables are equivalent as r-values is terrible for the language. Python already has the walrus operator — it’s a real shame that they decided not to leverage it for disambiguating binding and matching in pattern matching.

match status_code
case NOT_FOUND:=_ :
print(“clearly we’re binding a variable here”)
case _:=NOT_FOUND:
print(“and here we’re matching”)
As an old school IT professional, I would recommend considering most of these companies' advice "how not to engineer reliability".

Where I work the classic on-prem bare metal and ESX based systems are just massively more reliable than on-prem or cloud Kubernetes, and take far less people to operate. 3 or 4 9’s is easy with ESX and 5 is do-able. Kubernetes barely makes it into 1 9 and might not even do that! Still it employs a lot of engineers, and they probably get paid more than the crusty old ESX guys too! From that point of view you should definitely push for it.
If proof of work is necessary, how much work does proof of work need to do fundamentally? Is there any reason a cryptocurrency can’t be made that uses very little energy?
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The whole "hackernews desperately up-voting any post that cast's negative light on the investment opportunity that they missed" shtick is getting old. We get it, a lot of you knew about bitcoin in 2011 and did not buy in. Now, you are seeing it rise (and fall) over and over and are frustrated that you did not buy a couple hundred dollars worth of bitcoin 8 years ago.
The consequences are they go to court and are judged by their peers on the presented evidence/defence.
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I agree! There's no use in thinking too much about it. But, if you want to boil a frog without him jumping out and running away, first you need to make the water his favorite temperature, and then slowly raise it until it's too late for him!
These are the same profiteering bastards that give proper capitalism a bad name. They're not a Tesco, Walmart or any other part of supply chain management that adds value to anyone. They hijack the supply chain. A typical middleman distributor or outlet provides a benefit to transactions. Distributors will buy in bulk, thus requiring less logistic concerns for a manufacturer so the manufacturer can focus on production. They then handle how to get it to the most/proper outlets. An outlet handles customer relations and individual sales. Anyone who has ever done that knows how much it sucks to deal with the public. Plus, they're "friendly", easy one stop shops for multi goods a consumer can pick up at one time. Again, scalpers add no extra value that wasn't already in the chain.

Hijacking from an outlet to reoutlet and price gouge by artificially creating scarcity is a Class-A dick maneuver that adds nothing to the supply chain but naked profiteering. They're not capitalists, they belong in the same place in hell as people who kick puppies. Let that marinate.
> I don't but you're moving the goalposts and asking a different question. I was talking about personal preferences (e.g. like/dislike), and you're talking about "efficacy as a therapist."

No. You are advancing the position that the interests of people selecting therapists are served by newspapers publishing articles about their writings.

I think that if you ask people whether they would prefer a more effective therapist over a less effective one, most people would say they would prefer the more effective one.

Effectiveness as a therapist is part of how people form preference of therapists. Excluding it is arbitrary.

Nowhere do I suggest anything about therapists having any right to see any particular client. That idea is competely made up by you.
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I grew up with my Dad doing woodworking, so I picked up a lot from there. For tooling, I don't have a lot -- My Dad's old table saw when he got a new one, a compound miter saw, drill, hand held router, and recently acquired a pocket-hole jig.

For this particular project we were under pressure, so I picked up the wood from a big-box store a couple nights before the grand-kid started remote kindergarten. The next day took about 3 hours to cut the boards (1 hour), drill pocket holes (1 hour), and assemble the unit (1 hour) (minus drawers). Since I hadn't done drawers before, it took probably another 4 hours to bang out 3 drawers (each a different size). But that all was all "fun time", I had already put in my 8 hours of work, and doing shop work is a good distraction and this gave me a worth-while project. The wife ended up doing the stain and finishing (about an hour or so applying it, and a day or so to dry).

I ended up doing another one, where I took more time to do multiple coats of Danish oil (steel-wool treatment on the last couple coats), so I have a bit more time in that one.

If you are interested, I documented the second desk and put it up on reddit https://new.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/iprn2n/made_a_desk_for...

This design was originally supposed to have plywood on the inside of the seating portion, so that's why the pocket holes are visible. Turned out it was strong enough without it, so if I do another one I'll add additional 1x2 boards on the inside framing in that section, and taper the legs to make it look better.
I don't know how my reasoning could be more "based", but here--- listen to some pharmaceutical and vaccine experts and see what you think.

Here's what Derek Lowe had to say: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/01/21/mr... So to get a good RNA vaccine, you frankly have to make it work like a particularly stealthy virus, and not trip every single alarm before your payload gets a chance to enter the cells. But as mentioned, some activation of the innate system is needed to get the adjuvant boost. A lot of that work has to be done empirically, which is why we’ve seen so many RNA and DNA formulation ideas over the years. None of these have been stupid ideas (far from it) but some of them work better than others, and the current lipid nanoparticle ones are the current state of the art – the LNPs themselves activate the innate immune system, but in a way that doesn’t seem to trigger too much of a self-defeating cytokine response. It’s a useful enough effect that they’re being proposed as adjuvant additions to other, more traditional vaccines for that effect alone.

Me: Both the LNPs and the mRNA itself stimulate the immune system. Basically the vast majority of work in mRNA drugs for the last decade has been to try to reduce that-- and associated toxicity and unpredictable clearance. Meanwhile, the (right amount of) immunogenicity has been accepted as a feature in vaccine candidates.

And in a series of journal articles e.g. in Frontiers in Immunology: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2018.0222... "This was observed in the case of administration of empty PEGylated liposomes, which were able to elicit IgM response in an in-vivo model. (27, 28). Besides their potential to deliver various immune stimulators to the specific sites as well as into the deep tissues where vaccine molecules alone may not able to reach, these NPs have also been exploited as adjuvants to augment immunogenicity of vaccine candidates."

Nature / npj Vaccines: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-020-0159-8 "Thus, multi-antigen candidates necessitate a significant amount of LNP for a given dose. LNPs are known to have inherent adjuvant properties."

Nature / npj vaccines: https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd.2017.243 "Exogenous mRNA is inherently immunostimulatory, as it is recognized by a variety of cell surface, endosomal and cytosolic innate immune receptors (Fig. 1) (reviewed in Ref. 35). Depending on the therapeutic application, this feature of mRNA could be beneficial or detrimental. It is potentially advantageous for vaccination because in some cases it may provide adjuvant activity to drive dendritic cell (DC) maturation and thus elicit robust T and B cell immune responses. ... The immunostimulatory properties of mRNA can conversely be increased by the inclusion of an adjuvant to increase the potency of some mRNA vaccine formats. These include traditional adjuvants as well as novel approaches that take advantage of the intrinsic immunogenicity of mRNA"
it's fast because it doesnt do the thing that everyone else does to be useful which is type checking
I know he does now but I’m talking about the earlier sections of the essay. He mentions taking time off from art school to work because he needed more money. What’s interesting to me is how he just decided to go to art school, study philosophy, or work on projects that had nothing to do with his career when he wasn’t already financially secure. The common narrative around really successful people is that they work really hard in a few focused areas but it seems like he just did whatever he wanted to and somehow it all just worked out.
What type of machine learning are you doing? for what? on what?
> And the way I use "real" (and I think it is the same way the article used it), is whether something has any grounding in our universe (some pattern as you said before).

Many of the things you described as "real" don't have grounding in our universe, i.e. things like "chair". It's possible I misunderstand your usage of the term "grounding".

> For example, wormholes are possible following the theory of general relativity, but we don't know if they are "real", e.g. can there actually be a wormhole in our universe. If we do end up finding one, then they are real. If we however find conclusive evidence that they cannot exist in our universe, then they are not real, but only an artifact of our (incomplete) theory of general relativity.

Sure, but how does that apply to spacetime? We know, so far as anything can be known, that space and time are two different perspectives of the same thing. Relativity described it, and we have measured and the effects it predicts with startling accuracy.

Here's a question: It matters if wormholes can or cannot exist regardless of if the current model permits them or not. Does it matter if spacetime fits your definition of "real" or not?
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Follow-up from the article submitted here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25566652

To be honest, the original article was witty and engaging, and this is just "Meh" ... but people might be interested in how it played out.

Edit: And now I find that this follow-up has already been posted and discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26073203

Sorry. As you were.
maybe, his mindset leads to money, dunno
> I think it's quite interesting that the NYT hasn't linked Scott's response [1] in their article about him. Surely if their article was written in good faith they would be happy to do so

Good faith doesn't mean doing whatever some internet rando thinks is reasonable.
From my experience, MDF and particleboard furniture usually weighs more due to the higher density of the wood and glue vs. traditional wood furniture.
Software engineering is extremely difficult and there are very few people that can deliver solutions.

High performance software engineers are rare and valuable.

That is the reason why some software engineers make tons more money than others.
Very thorough analysis that could use an update.

I feel sites like levels.fyi and Blind have given us a better look into the salaries of top (and not so top) paying companies. However they are missing the vast majority of companies paying modest salaries. I suspect these make up the bulk of the lower peak of a theoretical bimodal distribution.
I've used it to store the state of a global RNG. Thread local state is faster than locking a shared RNG and the observable behaviour is the same.

For high quality code you often pass around the RNG instance explicitly (improves testability), but often I just want a random number without bothering with explicit state management.
Unless you have strong opinions about either one's UX, the most significant difference that matters to most users between Bitwarden and 1Password is that Bitwarden has a free plan and 1Password doesn't. Sometimes the "free" price tag is the difference between being able to convince someone (or yourself) to use a password manager and not being able to convince them.

About UX: between BitWarden and 1Password, I haven't seen any actually compelling discussion of the two password managers' UX that goes beyond just the typical way in which anonymous internet commenters enthusiastically assert preferences. They both do their jobs well enough the vast majority of the time. If you're genuinely in doubt about the UX, try Bitwarden for free and then try 1Password if you can't stand Bitwarden's UX.