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> This comment and those further down (particularly doubting the data) suggest that you're experiencing strong cognitive dissonance. There are, I'm sure, hundreds of engineers on HN that can testify to exactly how much FAANG pays and in which metro and how little experience they had (not including LC) before they started.

Another thing about these threads is that the hundreds of people making the big bucks are always the ones happy to confirm these numbers, and the (hundreds? thousands? who knows?) making small bucks just silently lurk and think to themselves, "I'm doing something wrong." So you get selection bias. Then one person actually has the gall to post "I'm making less, clearly doing something wrong" and he gets tons of responses like "You're underpaid, brah, go get another job!" It's just not a helpful response.

I say this as one of the lurkers who is tired of pointing out that many of us don't make these so-called average salaries, because the response is always the same: "Dude, it's data--can't argue with that. Leetcode and/or try a different company" (as if we haven't done that already).
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NASA just landed a highly advanced rover on Mars, with a helicopter that exceeded all expectations. They do new stuff all the time. And do you know how much funding they had during the moon landing era? Even then, the Lunar service module, LM, etc. were developed amd built by outside companies (North American, Northrup-Grumman, etc.). And then there's the political SLS debacle which soaks up so much of their funding.
I've been wanting to use PCVR for a long time, especially for virtual desktop scenarios, not even just for gaming. But the reality is I will never buy anything that puts money in Facebook's pocket. End of story. I really appreciate the work the developer did on this, but philosophically I see things like this that attempt to break the walled garden as a net-benefit to a bad actor (Facebook) rather than a net-benefit to consumers and users. It's actually better for the world and better for users if they have to make a hard choice about the ethics of their purchases, rather than feeling like they have an "out". So I commend the work, but Oculus is a no-go for anyone who gives any care at all about ethics for SO MANY reasons, Facebook owning it just being the largest (read the origin story for more).
>To sum this up: consciousness, in this view, is not an emergent property of complex systems. Rather it is a fundamental property of animals.

Or at the very least, it's a fundamental property of the particular kinds of physical systems that animals happen to be, and without understand what that is, we have no hope of replicating consciousness in any non-animal.

This makes sense to me, because consciousness seems to be a question related to brains, which are part of animals, so a really great way to confuse yourself would be to abstract the entire question of consciousness away from the life sciences and then wonder why you're so confused.
I'm diagnosed with severe combined type ADHD (top tier, best of both worlds) which could have something to do with this, but I can't say I have ever thought of this voice and action/driver as separate things.

My natural, pre-treatment, and unmedicated sub-/semi-conscious behaviour is not at all like that of a typical person.
Of course you're right. My frame of reference is for a civilized society in current times, where the individual is not subject to torture or death.
It's pretty simple - they see scientists as paid shills.

According to Stanford[1], out of 45 of the most influential clinical studies, only 44% were successfully replicated. So there is some truth that just because something is supported by evidence in a clinical study, it doesn't mean that it is factual.

Then these people see politicians using "the science" as an excuse for attacking their livelihood, shutting down their business, or putting their life in danger from what they see as an unsafe product. /r/HermanCainAward exists for similar reasons, those people see antivaxxers as putting their life in danger so their death has to be celebrated. Extremism on either side is a bad thing.

[1] - https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/201218#not...
Even that isn't necessarily the case anymore. growth has spread out past Woodward
My point is about the unbelievably privileged attitude of "you should make products for me free of charge, or else you're the greedy one". Not whether this specific product should exist, which is a different point from how it should be funded.
> people hate admitting being wrong

This is projection. There are multiple modes of approaching communication and not everyone uses the mode where communication is an exercise in one-upmanship.
What impact would using humans instead of mice in all lab experiments have?
How could that change drugs, vaccines research, etc?
Of course ignoring the obvious ethical aspects for the sake of question
The validity of COVID-19 science is the driver for lockdowns and mask mandates, which have become a political wedge issue.

It's essentially the same as religious thinking: Jesus said that lusting after a woman is adultery, so I need to be upset with porn stars for ruining marriages. Tucker Carlson said that my right to go daydrinking without a mask is a core American value, so I need to be upset with doctors for recommending the bar be closed or have distancing/mask mandates in place, and thereby infringing on my liberty.

It's not about thoughtful conclusions, it's about dogma. If you show a Southern Baptist evidence that porn isn't detrimental to marriage, they will just start defending their religious beliefs. The same pattern is happening with anti-mask and anti-vaccine culture.
>They literally didn't invest in their Android app because they wanted to be exclusive

Mind blown, I had no idea Snapchat was iOS exclusive. I was thinking just yesterday about how Clubhouse's strategy may (who knows really) have backfired, it seems to me by betting on FOMO-manufacturing they just gave time for others (like Twitter Spaces) to catch up before they filled a niche.
Given that executive dysfunction is one facet of ADHD/ADD, having opt-out is definitely preying on the users. Avoid.
They seem to have fixed my personal gripe with the PinePhone: the camera was terrible.
I was thinking it lacks a foreign function interface (FFI)
It also fits in a C-5
Then if they are not at fault, why should they have their right to vote revoked?
Well the FAA discovered the pilot lied and now the pilot is in serious ** with his career and reputation destroyed: I'm assuming he is looking at possible jail time (not a lawyer).

I'd say this is a serious deterrent to pilots contemplating similar action in the future but I don't think the problem was with the FAA or this pilot. The real problem was the senior management at Boeing who made the conscious decision to put profits ahead of safety. Thus they were directly responsible for creating a culture of short cuts and cheating which lead to the ending of several hundred lives.
Are you salaried or do you bill?
This is why you shouldn't ask me for advice! You should ask a professional. Unfortunately in this situation, the professional's advice was not just bad (as mine apparently was), but potentially deadly - and that's the problem I am lamenting in the original comment.
I'd ask you to elaborate on what you mean by each of your sentences, but I feel like I'm being trolled...
English is not my first language but I think joined is a common term to say when you start a new job at a new company. "I joined Google recently" or "I joined the team at X" seems like common terms I hear...
Consul is usually very reliable; when it breaks it can be very painful and mystifying. I've worked on removing it both from internal systems due to outages, and products, based on feedback.
You're right: I was doing my math wrong. I'm fixing the math in the article right now. Thanks for the correction!
https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2019/11/the-apprentice-wiza...
> remember, the 's' in 'IoT' stands for security

I don't know why, but this cracked me up. :D
Thanks for the pointer - that's a great resource. I'm adding a link to it to the article.
Ok this is not what I expected. I thought the headline was Scientist sending a message to destroy COVID. And COVID is attacking Scientists on an intellectual level.

I didn't expect, quote

>Dozens of researchers tell Nature they have received death threats, or threats of physical or sexual violence.

This is disturbing. I am wondering if these reaction are more mixed with political reaction rather than the refusal of science. And interestingly, they are mostly twitter and not Facebook. But currently Facebook gets all the blame.
For my solo developer self-hosted PaaS I really like CapRover [1]. Nice GUI, scalable Docker Swarm , with integrated route management, load balancing and one-click SSL. With available CLI you can use Gitlab CI to directly build and docker images and leverage CcapRover API to directly deploy on a dev stage.

Interessting discussion about CapRover vs. Flynn, Dokku, Nomad on HN one year ago. [2]

[1] https://caprover.com/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23465087
I really struggle with seeing the value add of helm. I use it, but mostly with a "less is more" approach. It is semi handy in a dev/staging/prod sort of environment, but really not all that much.

What I don't get is some people in my company thought it was a good idea to make a "docker helm chart"... That is, a helm chart capable of deploying arbitrary containers, ingresses, etc... Like, a true WTF, since the values file ends up looking awfully similar to a k8s manifest :D.
If we didn't build and charge for our app then we can't continue working on it and improving. We enable many people to get support they wouldn't be able to otherwise and significantly broaden accessibility compared to medication and in-person therapy. We're not a non-profit but we do need to improve our model.
Sad. I guess I'm not a Doctor. My mother will be very disappointed.
He had one: https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2019/11/the-apprentice-wiza...

It sounded like he didn't really choose to have one, just another guy showed up and said "I'm your apprentice". Though that's much like how Channell showed up in the 70s.
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Major - yes. "Great" - far from it. COVID is basically unstoppable despite the draconian measures lots of countries took. Post SMS if you're going out, yet your hospitals remain overloaded - HIV, SARS, MERS don't even come close to that.
For some reason those eggheads in labcoats insist we should point this telescope away from earth, can you imagine? What a waste.
Maybe think a bit harder on what it means to set the precedent if the government can bar you, as an adult, from all employment or travel based upon your willingness to take a drug or not. Or pick up a history book about what happens when an easily identified group of people (who, in this case, are typically stereotyped as being of a certain race, political party, and culture) start being blamed for things such as the deaths of children from a virus, and are stereotyped by the media and those in government as collectively selfish, ignorant, and the cause of all of our problems.

Don't let your fear or contempt for others land you in the category of people that have led the charge on setting up systems that are eventually turned on them once the next group gets their hands on the reins.

As far as being anti-science goes, the vaccine mandates which do not account for natural immunity or the date you got your vaccines are fundamentally anti-science.
I've had the Braveheart and later Mobian releases of the Pinephone. Currently have a Pinebook Pro. I'm super excited for the Pinephone Pro to finally get moved to rockchip hardware even if it is just a downclocked 2016 SoC with a few more tweaks for Pine64.

The progress they are making is great but still far from daily driving for me personally. I'm just glad the community exists. Even with the bugs and flaws the products may have it is better than nothing.
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Remasters of very old games are usually very enjoyable.
AWS alternative is a big statement.
You're using quotes but I never said those words. Never speak on my behalf again. It's insulting.

I don't want them to do it for free. I want then to not make a predatory product. I want them to make their money through a more honest business

And if they can't do that, I want them to do nothing
> … written with Smalltalk in mind…

"Since we must eventually implement our designs, a design pattern also provides sample C++ and (sometimes) Smalltalk code to illustrate an implementation."

Chapter 1. Introduction. "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software"

https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/6oHuKQe3TjQC
> Not op, but "We don't know" != "False"

That's not what the fat checker states. At all.

The fact checker states, and I quote:

> however, it has yet to be proven that it can treat COVID-19."

"It is yet to be proven" means, quite literally, anyone who looked into it never saw it work, ever. At all.
Montreal is definitely not colder than Calgary. More precipitation, so snowier in the winter, but not colder.
What kind of virtue signaling is congratulating a startup for their innovation before they've proven anything?

Also the word is "empathy" not "emphatic".
Sounds like a great economic opportunity for some construction contracting companies to specialize in these offices-to-apartments conversions. It is possible to gut a lot of the "soft" walls and infrastructure on each floor, bring in more plumbing, and re-build a new floorplan. I'd wager the companies doing these conversions can make a tidy profit (and create employment opportunities!), and still charge the building owners a reasonable-enough rate that they'd rather go this route than sell a dying office building at a huge loss.

You can get a bit creative with this too: e.g. dedicate some floors of the new apartment skyscraper as co-working spaces, and try to plan it so that everyone who rents in the building can use the co-working spaces for "free" as part of their rent and still have some leftover capacity to sell co-working memberships to others nearby as well.
In the article we are discussing, the gist of your concerns is addressed. The pinephone (and mobile Linux in general) is extremely immature and only really for hobbyists and people developing for it. You expected a daily driver, right now it is a toy for nerds.

Lack of users, investment and too many competing distros were all given in the early days of desktop Linux as reasons why it was simply not worthwhile. The thing is, this phase of development, where some devices exist that only nerds play with for a while, is necessary for there to ever be a mature Linux mobile UX. When you buy one of these devices you're not buying a Linux phone, you're choosing to participate in the process by which a Linux phone becomes a reality. And that process is picking up steam, Ubuntu tried it, many people have run Linux on their android devices with unlocked bootloaders, but pine (and librem and others) have actually created a market environment where things are actually advancing, and in my opinion advancing much faster than desktop Linux did.
I'm ambivalent. It's crazy expensive and will be cool, but with the improvements in satellite constellations, launch capabilities, and sensor aggregation that are coming out over the next 5-10 years, I suspect we're going to get platforms that surpass the JWST's capabilities much sooner than anyone thinks
How challenging it is, and how easy it is to sell a product that apparently does not meet the challenge.
Looks like a SlateStarCodex mind-dump.
You can simply look at the prevalence of religion and faith-based thinking to see utterly confused everyone is.

When the majority population believes in omniscient cosmic puppeteers, how much logic can you really expect?
> turned out to be a whole bunch of audio recordings and generic goal-setting form fields. I almost laughed when I was creating my first goal, because in the introduction video by the cofounder he makes a point to explain that, "Like many of you, I've invested in planners and organizers hoping that they would magically help me become more productive."

This is a huge red flag for any self-help app.

Therapists should never try to build a dependency upon the therapist, yet it appears this app is structured to do just that: Convince users that external tools won't work for them, then capture their activity inside of an app with an expensive annual fee.

The purpose of therapy should be to give users the tools to support themselves. For example, showing users how to use traditional organizers in ways that are more compatible with their conditions and building a system of reminders and automatic habits to support that goal.

The incentive structure of this app is inherently in conflict with the traditional goal of therapy: Self-sufficiency.
>you are deterministically governed by the laws of physics

Yes.
"Drone" has been an established term for decades. It is absolutely not limited to multi-rotor electric vehicles.

The Yamaha Fazer gasoline powered helicopter is commercially available. They specifically label it as a "drone".

https://global.yamaha-motor.com/news/2016/1011/fazer_r_g2.ht...
This. I recall reading some articles in WSJ and NYT that were nearly openly wondering how we could transplant level of control exerted in China over population to US. I absolutely agree that there are power centers in US that would absolutely love to copy what Russia is doing.

In a sense, it is happening already, but in a distributed way via Ring spreading like wildfire.
Fair enough, it's just a pet peeve of mine. Like people who had a few too many drinks and start cracking jokes about being an alcoholic.

Have you looked into OCPD? (Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder) From my relatively uninformed knowledge on the subject, that sounds closer to OCPD. (Of course, talk to a licensed health practictoner, not a procrasting software engineer)
I recently backed Astro Slide on Indiegogo[0] and they do say it will be able to boot Linux alongside Android 11. The designer behind Astro Slide is Martin Riddiford who was also the designer of Psion Series 5[1].

[0] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/astro-slide-5g-transforme...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_5
Thank you so much - really appreciate <3
Exactly! I’m totally confident that life will find a way and Earth will be fine (no matter how badly we hurt the environment)… Not so confident however that the life that finds a way will include humans.
Headline seems to be clickbait. I haven't read the full 180 page report, but having searched it and read the summary, "emotion" appears twice and not in the context of the feelings of ranchers about monopolies. It seems to mainly be about a list of proposed solutions to the problem and their unintended consequences. Author seems to like some of the proposed interventions so I guess he's mad at the authors.
You keep bringing up wasp spray, for reasons I don't really understand.

Bear spray is pepper spray in a different concentration, and with a different spray pattern. s/bear spray/pepper spray/ if it brings clarity to the recommendation.
Where I live in the northeast US, it's pretty much the pattern with a lot of old industrial and/or port small cities. There's maybe a couple handfuls of gentrified blocks with restaurants, twee shops, entertainment venues, etc. Go a half dozen or so blocks and things get sketchier or at least a lot more rundown, albeit not historical Detroit levels.

But you need to start somewhere.
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“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out.”

- Karl Rove
The weather has been rather weird lately. The summer was very hot and smokey. Who knows what winter will be like.

I grew up in Northern BC so I don't mind the winter. It gets cold for a few weeks but is otherwise bearable.

You get an actual spring here which is nice. Lots of new growth and green things. It is an actual dramatic change which Vancouver doesn't have.

Despite the snow I would never want to be in Vancouver again in winter. The clouds are over your head all the time. It feels oppressive. Winter here has lots of light and sky. And you never get that brown leaf mush stuck on your shoes like you do in Vancouver.
My point is that he’s actually providing a service (or has been anyway).

These things become problematic when no service is provided, or the quality of service is lower than you would have gotten otherwise.

Clearly service was provided for going on 20 years, so that’s just fact.

I also think that $18.000 NZD per year, for any local government, hell, even for a corner bakery, is a paltry amount. That’s below minimum wage anywhere that I know of.
I've been getting into Ansible and Terraform lately. It seems like Nomad would fit better in an environment where you weren't going to be putting everything in K8s, so a mixture where you have Consul and Vault handling standard VMs alongside your Nomad cluster would make a lot of sense.
My bet is that the recent circulatory and heart disease excess deaths [1] are from the vaccine. The explanation in the article that it's from "people not seeing doctors" suddenly after 20 months into the pandemic doesn't make sense.

If you need an example of long term effects from the vaccine visit the vaccinelonghaulers subreddit. [2]

There are people advocating violence on both sides and we should condemn them both.

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/analysis-thousands-more-usual-dyi...

[2] https://reddit.com/r/vaccinelonghaulers/
But that's just it: this is a misunderstanding of what "equity" means, and it is certainly a misunderstanding of what the author/interviewee meant by it.

The article is strongly about more performance-oriented, meritocratic grading, not less so.

It considers this to be a problem of equity since current grading practices (in the opinion/experience of the author, at least) disadvantage certain students who perform better than others but have other problems (less access to tutors, less time for homework, less preparation before class etc).
You may want to keep an eye on https://github.com/vitalik/django-ninja

Its still a bit young, but I like a lot of what they are doing.

As for Instagram, I wonder if they replaced the ORM with their own in-house ORM or something else?
You have a source on that $100/barrel?

Last figures I saw were $30/barrel was breakeven.
There are lot of videos/tutorials out there on youtube, udemy etc but let me summarize what is needed to build a SAAS Web App assuming you don't know anything about web apps.

1. Fundamentals of Web including protocols (http/https), GET/POST requests etc.

2. Knowledge of HTML/CSS/Javascript to build based websites/web pages.

3. Learning a server side language such as PHP, Python, JS/NodeJS, Go etc.

3. Databases and how they work with web apps. Learn SQL and database design as well. How would you create Single Tenant vs Multi Tenant apps etc.

4. Basic Server knowledge to host web apps. I highly recommend learning Linux Fundamentals. Also learn how to host web apps using servers such as Apache/Nginx etc.

5. After these 4 steps, it then comes down to picking a all-in-one mature web framework (Django for Python, Laravel for PHP etc) to build a boring monolith app OR go cooler with newer technologies, micro services, SPA, shiny new frontend framework (React, Vue, Svelte etc) and more.

I doubt any single source can teach you everything so the trick is to find resources on each topic as you go along. Most importantly, create something and learn every day.