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> I fail to see the relationship between a billionaire getting away with something, and my sense of rule of law. It simply means new Zealand has equal rule of law power to every other first world country

Uh, no. Other 1st world countries enforce their laws. For example, Iceland locked up bankers who broke financial laws leading to a crisis:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-03-31/welcome-t...
Cynical isn't the right word for the problem in swebs reasoning. Of course Bezos is a villain. But if you get Amazon to do this, it's good for the country, regardless of motivation.

So remain cynical but recognize that good politics can lead to bad companies doing good things.
There's a place for emotional appeals and there's a place for rational consideration of arguments. One does not preclude the other.
What do you think would happen if there were open borders? Would the US see net inflow or outflow of populace?
If this is to be interpreted as evidence that the workers have bargaining power, it is only the first step in a progression of improving conditions (because now they're able to negotiate.) If it's just PR-driven serendipity then it might even be accompanied by worsening conditions elsewhere. This seems reasonable because people are a lot more reliable at fighting for their own interests than they are at considering the interests of others.
They deactivate accounts after a couple of months without activity but can be easily reactivated (I went through this earlier this year after having been inactive for multiple years)
Call me cynical, but it could also be that AMZN will be automating all those lower paid jobs - as in: soon they won't even need 7.25$/H employees because they'll have machines.

In this scenario, 15$/H would just be their current price point for the following tier of bottom of the chain not-yet-automated tasks.
This strikes me as being out of touch to the perils of being a non-tech employee in modern day American. I hope this thread has been enlightening.

Congrats to Senator Sanders for forcing Amazon’s hand (and forcing Amazon itself to advocate for a $15 minimum wage increase). This is how you deliver positive policy change.
"They were written in a time where parallelism wasn't as ubiquitously supported as it is today, and thus, the entire implementation would need to be carefully rethought, refactored and possibly rewritten to grow that benefit. We're talking shared global mutable state, everywhere."

I keep a mental list of "things that are effectively impossible to backport onto an existing large source code base", which I really need to keep better track of. (By large, think developer-centuries at a minimum.) But it includes: parallelism/threads/concurrency, adding an external API, transactional correctness, ripping pieces apart and separating them by a network, and transitioning to a fundamentally different data store with different guarantees.

All of these have been done, of course, so they aren't literally "impossible". It's just that once you have a source code base with hundreds or thousands of developer-years into them, the amount of effort required and the resulting changes are so extensive that it's not entirely unreasonable to call the result a different code base. You certainly wouldn't end up with anything where you could code new functionality that works against both the old and new codebase without changes, unless you also made that a priority on its own and put a huge additional amount of work into it. (See, for instance, the amount of work PyPy has put into supporting CPython modules. Again, it's possible, barely, but it was on its own terms a very significant amount of work.) So there's a fairly real sense in which you didn't put these features into the code base; you created a new one with a clear parent line of development, but is no longer meaningfully the same.

Each of these things, and all the other ones I've forgotten, can be the basis of a new programming language, because at scale it's actually much easier to write a new language like, say, Erlang, and populate it with libraries, and proceed to use it to write tons of multithreaded, Erlang-robust project code than it is to write the same amount of multithreaded, Erlang-robust project code with C. However much work it was to create Erlang libraries, it's dwarfed by orders of magnitude by the amount of Erlang code using it. It's easier to write Rust and populate it with libraries and use it for projects than it is to write the same amount of safe project code with C. Etc.
Huh? Weird, it works on Windows and Mac for me (Alt-Tab on both, and Ctrl PageUp/Down on Windows, no such keys on my Mac keyboard to test though). I had to consume the browser key events in order to catch the function keys for the emulator (e.g. Chrome uses F1 on Windows for showing the help, but F1 is also needed in the emulators), maybe you're seeing a side-effect of this.

Feel free to write a ticket here with reproduction steps:

https://github.com/floooh/chips-test/issues
Is Amazon seriously approaching 1 million employees?
This article is specifically considering the question: are YIMBY ideas good? Why might they not be?
Looking at data from the US Census [1], in 2017 the SF-Oakland-Hayward metro area had:

* a rental vacancy rate of 4.2% (8th lowest out of the 75 largest metro areas)

* a homeowner vacancy rate of 0.7% (11th lowest)

The rates were similar for the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metro area. It's possible there are issues with this data, or that it's not measuring the phenomenon you're discussing, but this certainly seems to suggest that SF doesn't have a ton of vacant properties.

[1] https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/data/ann17ind.html
Maybe you can find a similar configuration as a helm chart (https://helm.sh/) (i.e. a k8s pkg manager of sorts).
The hard parts are "getting to the top" and "staying there," not performing the duties.

I am sure the duties are "hard" in an absolute sense, but not relative to pay and accountability, not when compared to other jobs that are hard in an absolute sense, as you point out.
well, i need a cluster not just for hobby.
Why is gold doing so poorly then?
The thing is, Javascript is not going to pipe those orders to the GPU fast enough. Vulkan is not like OpenGL, with Vulkan you basically have to say for GPU how it should to EVERY LITTLE THING.

There is no purpose in having a low level API in Javascript, because such API's have to be guided like babies, and Javascript (and most of high level programming languages in fact) is too slow to keep up with their speed. Imagine helping a baby walk, but the baby move 3x as fast as you, but if you let his hand, he falls down.
At one of the Microsoft company meetings in the middle to late 2000s (I recall it was at Safeco Field) he claimed that when IBM was developing the PC he tried to convince them to use an MC68000 instead of the 8088. He said going with the 8088 set the industry back ten years. Assuming he wasn't making the story up, it's hard to imagine him making that quote or even agreeing with it.
If you want a reliable income while you save up, why not work at a large company with much higher total comp? Netflix even does all cash.
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Defensible feedback can still get you fired.
We have performance issues with Jira (cloud) and I fear the same could happen with Confluence in the cloud. Another point is license cost -- I think the price of Confluence is ok, but we have some confluence sceptics and a lower price would reduce the hurdle to introduce such a product.
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> I'm more looking for a way to communicate the fact that we don't do sales, but still continue discussions...

Seth Godin has two key questions to lead with -

- Who's it for?

- What's it for?

Perhaps a 2-3 minute video explainer can cover those items and describe how you work. Close with, 'still interested in working with me? Sign up here." Not everybody will appreciate the approach. Of course, you don't want to work with everybody.

A good marketing/video consultant can help polish-up the presentation.

Incidentally, Tim Ferriss recently interviewed the author of a book on $1M+ One-Person Businesses, might give you some ideas > https://tim.blog/2018/06/07/one-person-businesses-that-make-...
In some parts of the world, it is - often local economies are dependent on one large employer.

Working for low wages is better than no wages, but I don't believe dollars that I pay in taxes should go towards compensating underpaid Amazon employees (or Walmart, or whatever). The multi-billionaires should be the ones paying the people who work for them, not me.

And, this might astound you, but sometimes the choice is between several employers paying low wages. And regardless, the work still needs to get done; so someone has to have that job. That person should be paid appropriately.

Edit: error while editing
I assumed it was a security measure to prevent spammers, botnetters, etc. from buying server time via fraudulent means.
IMO, this is a genius move by AMZN

- Cuts down on bad PR
- Makes employees happy (while they dont get RSUs)
- Make the employees genuinely skilled in operating semi-automation equipment
- Make competitors bleed, because either they pay $15 per hour or face the PR wrath, while trying to catch up with AMZN in terms of automation.

If you think for a moment that AMZN started replacing 90% of employees with automation, they can still afford to give $30 per hour, and get good PR, while making the competitors look bad for paying $20 per hour.

I hope this doesn't lead to a minimum wage law that requires AMZN competitors to pay $15 per hour. It'll only mean death to those competitors.
Since he says he's "steel-manning," it seems that he is actually of the YIMBY position but is deliberately trying to put the opposite position forward in its strongest form. So I don't really think your personal attacks are even relevant.
>And it only comes now, 20 years after the company's founding, after it has huge profits (and can deduct expenses like salaries in the profits before paying tax), after it has crushed all competitors with extremely low wages that were only possible because many employees received government handouts too (so subsidized wages), and after it de facto has secured itself a monopoly.

Spot. On.

They outcompeted every small retail store and online warehouse by undercutting costs, partly by paying unliveable wages that have to be subsidized by the taxpayer in the form of foodstamps.
Passive-aggressive nonsense elsewhere, please. If you've got a point or comment, that's on-topic, just make it.
No, SQL Server just uses the normal .NET Framework to execute managed code which is also implied by the name of the feature, Common Language Runtime (CLR) Integration. Well, maybe one could also read this as integrating - in the sense of implementing - a CLR into SQL Server.
It's pretty much having the same impact as California Prop 65, which requires warning signs about "chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm" to be displayed where ever you may come into contact with them.

Of course, the state of "what the State of California knows" changes every few days, and there's no penalty for being proactive and posting your signs without actually verifying that one of the ~800 chemicals exists on your property. So every business just places a warning sign anyway, and consumers ignore the signs.
A GDPR for the US will be written by the very companies it was intended to protect consumers from.
Of course, this reminds me of the OS/2 2.0 fiasco.
Only Switzerland has a higher minimum wage than 15$ an hour in Europe.
This. I just made the exact same comment[1] before I saw yours

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18121684
not trying to disparage but this comment is wrongheaded in exactly the same way as the one i'm responding to. us workers don't live in subsaharan africa - so it doesn't matter if 30k is top 10% worldwide because we don't have global wage equilibrium. 30k for a single person is fine - you can eat and rent an apartment and probably drive a crappy car. it is not enough for a family, it is not enough to save for retirement, it is not enough to save for further education, and it is not enough to save for medical emergencies. it's not good enough.
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who is supplying batteries for Bolt?
Unless you are Amazon and people get more spending money. Yes everything else will go up with minimum wage but not right away.
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What was the effective hourly wage before with the RSUs factored in? Did they have a 1-year vesting period? There's so many details missing from this story that it's hard to assess the real impact of the $15/hr wage.
I find it fascinating how people blame the solution while it's the symptom that bothers them and they don't even notice the disease.

GDPR isn't only related to internet services. I received a phone call today from my mobile operator, they got bought by a larger company and it was a sales call. However, they were asking to speak to person in charge in regards to company-wide mobile subscription and services - we use none.

What was disturbing is that I was contacted on my private phone number in regards to a sales call related to the company I work at.

The details I left when buying their mobile service (which was 20 years ago) don't contain where I work at. I didn't work at all at the time, but I kept paying for the service.

I didn't update my account details so I found it a huge surprise when they knew exactly who to call and on what number.

Being a EU citizen, I went GDPR on them. I don't want people to call my personal number and disturb me in my own free time with sales calls in regards to my company. How did they get my details? Who authorized them to contact me? I've many questions and luckily - now I have legal backing when asking them to anonymize my data.
Because dispassionate logic and reason lead to the best ideas.

For an example of what a devolution into appeals to emotion and base notions looks like, turn on Fox News or MSNBC during the evening and witness the demagogues screaming straight at your amygdala and hippocampus. The current cycle degradation of discourse has opened the door to "fake news" and other very real problems. In this case, the bogeyman is real.
It is unlikely to have another JS engine. But the JS engine is exposed for WKWebViews, where creating a shim layer could work perfectly fine for many extensions.
> He also ignores that a lot of Manhattan workers live in other burroughs, cities, and even states.

And this phenomenon is unknown in other cities?
> because it was hard to unionize a workplace where people didn't stick around for a whole year on average.

That's why you want inter-professional union.
I always find it strange to hear people talk about climate change as if it is some sort of tricky challenge we need to solve, like improving education or curing cancer. It is a 'problem' of completely different magnitude. It is on track to end civilization as we know it within two generations. A rational society would think about nothing else.

Our children will be astonished and mystified - and furious - to see all the things we got up to instead of dealing with this thing that is the only thing that matters.
There are people who like all sorts of things. Some people like being tied up, whipped, and electrocuted by strangers. And a disproportionate number of these people live in San Francisco. I am just saying this isn’t a coincidence.

Best line in the article. The author legitimately raises many good points. I’ve never understood the supply and demand argument for YIMBY’s, particularly in the Bay Area. That’s not how cities work in the 21st century. More housing would just make SF into a stronger more desirable economic epicenter thus keeping rents high. Manhattan is a perfect example.

The points about Austin stand as well. Austin has had tons of available prime real estate for a long time. It still has plenty. Having, over the past 20+ years, watched SF become Mordor, Seattle become SF, and Austin become Seattle. I think this may just be the natural progression of things.
Grats, It took me a year of trying and patches to be able to rid my self of the bad habit. Haven't smoked in 5 years.
False dichotomy. I prefer to let people run their own lives instead of dictating it to them.
I reported (and had Apple engineers come to meet us) a severe bug (found and showed the engineers the single line of code in the public source code) in OSX 10.4’s wifi stack, wasn’t fixed until 10.8. Literally a single line of code.
What is your goal here? Are you looking to just tinker and learn? Or are you looking for something to slap your name on and give to prospective employers to say "See I worked on this project"?

If you are just tinkering/learning then I would suggest cracking some of the vulnerable vm's over at vulnhub.com
This isn't necessarily the case, as shown by countries like Australia with very high minimum wages.
Sorry, my bad, I never realized HN doesn't have PMs (or does it? Couldn't find an inbox). Sending the pdf to your email.
So happy to hear this, and I shared with the rest of the team. Thank you!
I keep seeing this response but I've seen no articles about the EU laying down the law and punishing these so blatantly obvious infractions. So either companies are not implementing it incorrectly or the GDPR has no teeth. The EU needs to act on these bad actors sooner than later if they want people to actually respect the spirit of the law.
You can't get to the top doing the same job. The responsibilities change. There is no CTO who is a day-to-day developer in any sizable organization. The higher you go, the wider the impact.

Some people don't want that change and are happy where they're at. Others cant make that change. But that's what it takes. You can definitely climb the levels by excelling at what you at that particular level. If you still disagree then I would point to the generations of millions of immigrant families that arrived with nothing and earned their way to the top primarily through raw technical merit.

And yes, as stated, impact needs to be measured to be judged. If you do something that nobody knows about, then there's not much you can say.
There can also be local factors at work if you’re looking for a job. I had a job doing Elixir/Erlang (obviously not something people are writing everywhere), and did an analysis of job listings for languages in my city.

I ended up finding C#/.NET was listed on 33/50 recent job listings, Java was on 30/50 (some jobs had multiple languages listed), and other languages cropped up between 1-20 times or so.

So in my market, if I want a job where I don’t relocate (with a 3 year old and a baby and a wife who chooses not to work non-remote SV jobs are out), I’d better get to learning C#.
NYC is huge and incorporates boroughs which could just as easily be discrete municipalities (look at the Boston metro area: cities like Brookline or Cambridge serve as easy analogues to outer boroughs).
Seeing a friend of mine go through that rigmarole more than once, my observations are that zombie startups simply aren't nice places to work, it's always crunch time, you're always piling on tech debt, and wiping your ass with the equity grant will serve you better than waiting for it to vest. The culture can turn hostile in an instant, and toxic management hires can come out of nowhere and upset the apple cart just to make their company look good for the mirage of an aquihire.

The founders don't give two shits about your career, mental health, or really anything, just meeting the next milestone.
I don't like hoops. I feel like startups are more about whether you can do the work, rather than learning and playing 4D Chutes and Ladders.

I've interviewed at large places and they either blew me off because no one cares (why would they) or they had pointless interview questions (cough google)
I know Zenkit but it is not a replacement for Jira. It could possibly replace Jira in some (not so complex) scenarios, but not Confluence. And the Zenkit Android app is a disaster.
Ems / xms was a hack to use the extra memory. Without those systems you would never see more than the base ram. These started out as 3rd party software before eventually becoming part of msdos. I still remember the sticker shock when buying a retail copy of EMM386. So I suppose 'support' is a bit weasely here.
Counterpoint: be annoyed at GDPR.

If a new regulation insisted that on entering a hotel room, a member of the hotel staff had to use a blacklight and you needed to explicitly approve every illuminated mark larger than a quarter, then you would be annoyed at that regulation.

There are supposed to be all sorts of other GDPR protections, about rights to be forgotten, about being able to access and selectively remove personal data from an online profile, that I have no idea how to activate. Instead all I get, as a user, is a bunch of consent forms, like the stupid cookie warnings, that I have no idea how to respond to, and no idea what I'm committing to when I click them.
Current Tesla owners volunteered their time to help new customers take delivery and get familiar with their new vehicles over the course of a single weekend.

I think you're going to have a hard time getting any of the people involved to try and fight to be classified as "employees"
In the world of at will employment, everything, anything and even "nothing" can get you fired.
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From memory, I think the runtime is pretty standard, what you got was a more restrictive environment in which the CLR and Framework can run so you had less chance of clobbering data, hanging SQL processes and shooting yourself in the foot.....unless you really, really needed to.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/cl...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/cl...
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Hetzner recently introduced the vSwitch feature. I believe it might be what you are searching for: https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Vswitch/en
>I'm assuming it relates to the tight labor market giving workers the power to choose where they work at (as opposed to "this is the only job offer I have")

Lol no it's still not like that unless you have a high salary career, and most people don't have those.
Well if you do your due diligence, look for startups which offer proper equity to employees (which is sadly very rare), you have an advantage over VCs. You get the option to quit or continue working at the company and earn the rest of your invested stock. The trick is to shop around, evaluating each startup while you work for it, until you find one that has hit the jackpot and made your unversed equity very valuable.
even if that person is the richest man in the world, a US senator singling out a private citizen in formal legislation is still "punching down". you really shouldn't cheer for that.