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This whole thread is basically a testament as to why the OSS model, unfortunately, is broken. Very competent people are expected to write widely used software for a salary that basically merely guarantees subsistence. It never ceases to amaze me how great software engineers allow themselves to be exploited in such a way. If you consider the societal impact that some of these projects have and the skill set that some of their maintainers have, which pretty much dwarfs the skill sets of people in other well paid professions such as lawyers or doctors, it's frankly ridiculous that they are expected to work for significantly less money. Not to mention that the abstractions some of these people wrote basically allow a significant number of people to enter the industry in the first place.
Not if you are buying for the long term. The shorters need to close their positions eventually so that’s a buy back. The shorters can’t be long term.
It is E=MC^2 though. 0.1% of the mass is converted into energy.
I went through a stage of detesting pizza.

"To thank you for your hard work, I've ordered pizza for everyone!"

'What time is it arriving?'

"7pm"

'Right so you're stealing 2 hours of my time, which you're valuing as a couple of pizza slices - and imagined I'd be grateful?'
> After 15 or so years of IoT devices, what do we have that resembles interoperability or open protocols?

Thread is what you are talking about. It's awesome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(network_protocol)
I think the OP's point is that a lot of people who think they are debunking aren't very good at it, and end up dismissing instead.

I realized just how low quality most debunkings are last year when I started wondering what happens if an uncertain person specifically searches for [$idea debunking] on Google. I chose "5G causes Coronavirus" as the idea in question. Sure enough, a whole pile of articles claiming to be debunkings came up in the results. The problems became apparent when reading them. Some of these debunkings were barely more coherent than the idea they were trying to debunk and would be very unconvincing. Almost always these were written by professional journalists. I did eventually find one that actually took the reader seriously and was free of obvious contradictions and errors but it was written by a physicist.

Common problems are:

- A belief that simply repeating the words of the journalist's chosen academic or corporate spokesperson is the same thing as a debunking. If someone is finding your article in the first place, it means they already have doubt about the establishment's view of something so simply repeating it can't convince them. This tactic is especially useless because basically any idea no matter how crazy it sounds will have academics and credentialed people who openly support it and campaign for it, so it turns into "my experts are more expert than your experts", which is less convincing still.

- An extremely off-putting and arrogant tone of the form "I can't believe I have to write about this, but ..."

- Articles that contain internal contradictions or are written in a manner implying the debunker doesn't understand the topic themselves. One debunking I read started by asserting that although 5G uses millimeter waves, such waves are completely harmless and only crazy deluded people could possibly think they were dangerous. Half way through the article it started talking about military experiments that beamed mm wave at enemy soldiers to cripple them with pain. No mention of strength or energy consumption was made anywhere, apparently without noticing that "used in weapons" and "harmless" are mutually exclusive without much more detailed information about why some are harmless and others aren't.

- Debunkings that aren't actually debunkings but rather, explanations of why $idea is true but good. One example of this is the (no longer available) section of the EU Commission website that claimed to be a database of debunkings of "myths" about the EU in the British press. When I spot checked some one day it turned out a large chunk were like this, maybe the majority, i.e. "Newspaper X reported Y. This is true but is justified by our policy goals". Well, that's a retort in a debate but not a debunking of a myth, and when that happens it makes people lower the perceived weight of the word "debunk".

These kinds of problem are so common it left me with a much greater understanding of why even some ideas seem to grow faster and further than you would intuitively expect.
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I'm a professional cook (I do professional BBQ competitions and own a food truck) and I own at least 5 Thermapens and several other Thermoworks products.

For me the Thermapen is worth every penny to me. It's fast, accurate, and reliable. I know that if I pick it up it is going to work and that alone is worth a premium. I've also had good experiences with their customer service - they will replace or repair them with little or no hassle.

Yes they are expensive but my oldest Thermapen is at least 10 years old. If you keep an eye out it's not hard to get them 25% off or more.
For quick'n'dirty stuff:

- VSCO
- Priime
- RNI films

For more advanced post processing:

- Polarr
- Dark Room
- CameraBag Mobile

If I don't have my camera with me, I use Halide for taking photos. For timing, occasional astro and other stuff I use Helios and Photo Pills.

On the desktop side I use CameraBag Pro and Darktable mainly. I occasionally use Luminar.

I started photography with analog in the 90s, so I really dig the atmosphere different emulsions or curves add to the photography and, I use these tools to create the feeling I want to create with my images.
It's literally the same issue as with zero-rating. It's a new "option", but not having it will mean your product has a massive disadvantage.
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A website that allows people to earn money hosting their hot tub to people who are searching within the site. They also do pools.
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The comments here along the lines of "there's already a game like that" are a bit annoying.

I'm pretty sure that you can say the same about just about any game created today, and somehow people still make new ones and sometimes they get lucky and have their game become popular. What's the point of dumping on someone's work like this?
Yeah but the instant you plug in a chromecast to watch netflix or disney+ they got you. Blu rays are drying up at an alarming rate, at least it feels that way.
That’s mostly how kubernetes works also. It’s not that uncommon of a pattern
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not to be a dick, but, i don’t think you understand that the problem with recklessly printing money is not whether you’re using paper or plastic.

read up on inflation a little.
It's safer as well. Some (most?) of those "unsubscribe" links have a unique ID hooked in with your email in some database so they know that they have a hit and can send more email to you.
Just license your software under the GPL, then corporations can't take and use it without contributing back.

It's hard for me to feel sympathetic for people who deliberately sign up for a model that encourages free-riding and then complain about it.
I think there is a similarity, though.
As a customer or buyer, you don't know if Tesla will ever be able to do L5 self driving.

Neither does someone spending 1k dollars on items in a video game ever know if it'll actually be done.

You can take a wild guess in both cases and for most kickstarter projects there might just be some normal hickups and delays.

People are still willing to shell out a lot of money based on some promises, because of "wanting to be involved" or part of that lifestyle.
This leads to a question. How many other smart device things have a created a mesh network without the owner knowing? Is there a way to detect such networks? I'm actually giving Amazon a break here because at least they are announcing it.
Working for a for-profit company is a completely different labor relationship than working for an OSS org or other non-profit. You absolutely should fight to prevent management from extracting more of the value you generated just because you cut your personal costs, but you may be able and willing to accept less income in order to contribute to an organization that you believe in that isn't profiting off your labor. One is adversarial theft, the other is the willing donation of your time to a cause.
Thank you! I am going to edit my original comment, but I was completely wrong. I see the conversation that I thought was deleted. My mistake.
> Twitter is useful. It is a tool, like a pencil, or an axe.

I think this is a common misconception and having it makes people put undue blame on themselves for "misusing" twitter.

Of course, one can go the way the author did here, and I would recommend it. But to make this a problem of personal responsibility of every individual is to misunderstand the problem at hand.

Social media platforms are not tools. They are active agents. An axe doesn't show you notifications of the most attractive wood blocks if you don't use it for too long. A pencil doesn't roll onto your notepad to tempt you to doodle. These are truly tools, and if you misuse them it is indeed your fault and nobody else's.

If you get hooked to social media, that is exactly the intention of a system that is actively pushing for that result. If we realize that, then we can take actions against it beyond the individual.
Plausible deniability doesn't actually mean anything unless your highly-paid lawyer (you're rich, right?) can convince the judge. The scenario where some random stranger does an illegal thing on your network by hijacking Amazon's network is a bit far-fetched compared to the most common obvious case (you did it), so you'll have to work hard to convince them that's the actual explanation.
This is why I saw "what most people consider". It's easy to market this to HN but most people don't know or care about this sort of control over their devices.
It's not really a framework that you implement, more a process for making an implementation?
good point, and while I do not think she should be classified as an incomparable intellectual given what little we know it would seem reasonable to think she probably had greater unrealized potential based on her gender in the same way that I look at someone like George Washington Carver and think what could he have achieved unobstructed by racism.
As the person who built the version that got popular enough for the Gartic company to build a competitor, I can say some developers are also the worst at having any design sense whatsoever, or adapting to competition ;).

I am morbidly curious if the simple website ads are sufficient--unlike myself and this author, they clearly have a lot more than just one person working part-time on their version, so presumably it brings the company money somehow.
My tax rate here in Norway is less than my federal tax, state tax, and insurance premiums were in the states. I now pay about $300 a year out of pocket and have no deductible. The wait times aren't really worse than they were in the US, and when folks do have to wait (for non-life-threatening things)... paid time off if you need it.

I broke my arm and got paid time off since I couldn't do the job while I was healing.

I have no gap in health insurance if I do not work: I don't have to consider such a thing when looking for a new job. You might be healthy, but other people aren't (or their family isn't) - which means they stay at a job they might otherwise not. Fast food workers and children and office workers all get the same level of care.

If things do go wrong, they will send a nurse to my house up to 6 times a day, which helps folks not have to quit their jobs to take care of family. ANd a bunch of little stuff like that. While you might not use this stuff now, your family members probably could use some of this.
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> Meanwhile, how many people can name an achievement of Robert Boyle, who actually was the greatest English scientist before Newton?

Surely Boyle's law is well taught in high schools?
120k is a wildly high salary in Europe, and contrary to popular belief Europeans don’t just cut ties to their homeland and move to Silicon Valley just because the salary is higher. You can find a lot of compiler experts sitting safely in the UK or Italy or Russia.
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Owning your small store is extremely stressful, and arguably provides worse working conditions (on average) than the equivalent middle-management job in a supermarket chain. However, it might well be perceived as more satisfying by the worker, because s/he is less alienated from business outcomes and more autonomous in long-term choices. In this, the article probably has a point (although coops are not a panacea - if you don’t enjoy the political process, you might even find them more annoying than a traditional structure).
The question is whether that is reasonable.
Well, what I really wanted to do I never see any job offers (close to the metal C programming), so I kind of settle for "second best".

I did starterd sending resumes only for a few positions that I really wanted, but I can't afford to be picky anymore.
Nah. I think humans still have humanity in them and are extremely tolerant of family and friends. Society places a lot of value and gives a lot of respect to those who help others get their second chances.
Of course it’s not exactly like street view!

But it is a sort of map, ok probably Google maps rather than street view :)
> My $0 premium health care plan has only a $2000 deductible, $6000 out of pocket max

So, realistically, you have to account and budget for about ~330$ a month of your wages going away additionally for your healthcare during employment term negotiations.
I really, utterly and completely, fucking hate this.
I don’t remember much backstory in 1984 for how the surveillance state came to be, but I think it’s totally plausible that a government could co-opt this self-imposed setup and use it for 1984-style control.
> $132,000 is almost double my salary is the UK. They could easily get 2 full time UK devs for that, or even more in many EU countries with lower cost of living

Yes, but in EU a common problem is, good developers are not worth more because the companies are unable to make use of IT to justify a higher price. It's a bunch of ossified tech laggers, not tech leaders, that employs developers in much of the EU. They only need 2nd rate people to handle what US tech puts on the market.
> Suppose this is a task that, short of overhauling all our road infrastructure, ultimately requires GAI?

I would be surprised if level 5 self driving requires an AI smarter than a mouse or an eagle — freeform environment, arbitrary weather, hostile others, camouflage(!), long range navigation.

The rest of your points I broadly agree with though.
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Also anyone reliant on perishable medicines or regular treatments that would be threatened by utility outages - some medicines need to be refrigerated, for example, so after a week or so without power all of that stuff is probably a goner.
I thought Netflix paid more than Google / FB (from online hearsay).
They definitely can! Here is a cat interacting with a printout of the famous rotating snake illusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcXXQ6GCUb8
> likes steak as rare as possible

For pan searing, a quick and accurate thermometer doesn't actually make this much easier. I also have a Thermapen, but pan searing to a certain level of doneness is still a bit of an art because the final interior temperature after resting can be quite a bit different than the pull temperature due to residual heat at the edges of the meat. Even trying to get a consistent interior temperature using the same pan temperature (using a Control Freak induction cooktop) is difficult because the shape, thickness, and moisture content of meat can vary significantly. There's a few new gadgets that attempt to resolve this (e.g., this predictive thermometer with 8 sensors https://combustion.inc), but honestly having a lot of cooking experience is probably the best way to get a feel for when to remove the meat from the pan under rapid cooking conditions.

Of course, sous vide and reverse sear are completely different and while you can indeed get a precise temperature, those methods have their own trade-offs (namely, it's difficult to get as thick of a crust).
The biggest negative change that I've seen since the 90s has been the adoption of agile methodologies.

We used to have decent cadence in releasing software - maybe every couple of months, or even six. Now, everyday seems like a fire drill or a race to nowhere in particular. Managers generally seem to have lost the ability to plan or predict out over periods longer than a month. I thought this was just my bad luck, but after talking with others, I realize this is commonplace.

And, everyone on the team could at least partially explain most things in the system. Now, I run into so much copy-paste code. When I ask the programmer about what it does, they say "Not sure. I found it online."

And, there was a time when the programmers used to be the ones with offices with doors, if you can believe that.

There was also a short period of time (around when programmer salaries went to 6-figures) when programmers used to make more than their managers. Then, managers scoffed. To account for the rise in salaries, managers gave themselves bigger raises and decided to not hire as many senior programmers, because they're too expensive (or too old).
Is there some region lock/localisation happening here? I just see a product category "sidewalk bridges" which basically lists 4th gen Echos, but nothing else?
Now swing it the other way. Only harvest organs from those guilty of crimes. Would that make you less likely to commit crimes, knowing that your organs will be harvested?
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 and it seems pretty powerful to run anything I want.
Just because a company has many problems (work life balance, lack of diversity, pay, bad management whatever) doesn’t make it wrong for them to bring attention to any specific problem (in this case diversity)
Whilst that provides context it doesn’t explain the allegations.
Thanks! I am a big believer that "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" so your feedback is encouraging! Feel free to reach out at louis@shelf.so if you have any suggestion!
Right, so it's basically serialisation. Interesting, I always saw serialisation as releasing an already finished novel bit by bit, but just reading about the history of serialisation, it seems that was not always the case. Thanks for giving me the pointer.
Yeah there’s always this strawman (strawwoman?) argument against feminists for questioning the male-dominated status quo. Misogyny is deeply embedded in society and it’s not productive to go around blaming men for every problem; but neither should we accept that history is a complete telling of the world as it was.

History is dialectical, meaning its interpretation changes over time according to the norms of the times. Many historical accounts themselves are not contemporaneous with their subjects, some coming hundreds of years later. When understood this way, this drive to uncover feminist history is entirely in line with the historical narrativizing process.
I disagree that it's hard to market. There are plenty of privacy conscious people that would pay extra. I see billboards every day for duckduckgo that advertise their privacy features. I think a privacy focused TV or IOT device would do well.
This does match what I have seen as well. It's part of why I myself briefly considered a consulting gig.

I also know two people who, when we worked together at one studio, were unable to move from junior designer roles to producer roles. They quit and started a consulting agency together, and now get contracted as assistant producers.
> I don't think you realise how much money the average person in the UK earns

I'm well aware thanks, I've looked up the numbers.

> Become an average developer making 50k and you're in the top 15% of earners in the country. That's a lot of money!

Not really, and certainly not in the context of this conversation, if you head back up to the very top of the thread - "The massive gap between UK and US gamedev salaries seems to keep getting larger"

(FYI average dev compensation is under £40k)

> Anyone who sees a £60-80k salary here and scoffs at it has unrealistic expectations

> if you want to stay as a developer and not transition into a hands off management role then your earning potential will flatline pretty quickly

> I think that's just the nature of tech jobs in the UK

All of this is precisely the problem I'm describing, that realistic expectations in the UK are pretty poor in comparison to what you can make elsewhere, in other English-speaking nations. The nature of salaried tech jobs in the UK makes them relatively unappealing. So the most motivated people either go contracting, where they can make 3 times that if they do it well but companies don't really get to build sustainable teams, or they just plain leave the country in droves. Meanwhile British industry complains it can't find skilled people to work for it. There is a systemic problem with poor rewards and poor results in the UK in this area.

So to come back to this -

> I'm not sure of your point.

The point is that your earning potential as an employed software developer in the UK is severely curtailed compared to the US and some other markets, to the extent that it causes industry problems.
I totally agree. I mean, nobody cares that I agree. But I have been hurt so much by all that bullshit that readin your comment makes me better.

Now I have this question for all the HR departments who engage in spreading those "touchy feely" terms : either you do realize that there's a problem with that, then why do you go on spreading it OR you don't realize there's a problem, then why do you feel those terms are acceptable for the employees ?

I honestly ask. Because all of that looks to me as a total intellectual scam. And usually, when I think this way, either there's really a scam, either my system of values is completely at odds with reality (and I need to understand my blind spot)
I'd be surprised if that turned out to be true, but I truly hope that I'm wrong and you're right. :D
I worked for a hedge fund that did pizza on Fridays. I can assure you that ordering that for everyone was unrelated to the pay.
If I had to choose to pay for a compiler I would pay for Typescript even if it were 3x more expensive and supported less plugins than Babel. Babel is something I really struggle to not use, but find myself forced to use at times.

I’d much rather plunge money into any competing compiler to get it feature compatible.
With crypto if it’s on an exchange then you can lose it. Not your keys and all that jazz.

Never worth the risk unless there is a legal insurance provided by the government which there isn’t.
Does that include inefficiencies in digestion?
I suppose the 360 review is not always tied to such stack ranking, but it often is so I associate the two.
Depends entirely on their contract and what is expected of them. Coding is just one possible duty of a lead in this sort of project - the article itself talks about him undertaking various fundraising duties - thats in addition to whatever time period (eg. retrospective) the money is supposed to cover.

Having said that, the salary looks excessive and the commit history isn't a good look without clarification.

But assumptions aren't always the best guide to what is actually going on.
Yes, I meant Redux specifically, and all the other Elm derivative frameworks. I think that was clear.
Not yet, but it could have in a future generation, or even a future firmware update.