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I joined Amazon as an SDE 1 in early 2015. I was promoted to an SDE 2 in q4 2016. I just was promoted this year to SDE 3.

Hard work, navigating to the right projects, and managing both upwards and down... senior and junior people on my part... I feel a bit ripped off. I'm not sure I would have wanted to get promoted knowing where my comp now falls.

The thing I'm unhappy about is that my target comp isn't actually that much more than where it already was as an SDE 2.

Without going into specific numbers, what Amazon does is if the stock value goes up, you only reap the benefits insofar as your existing grants are worth more. That means if you're above the target comp they assigned you, then you get no additional stock.

My job role as an SDE 3 has changed. I have more responsibilities and the influence I built as an SDE 2 has solidified. It's not easy by any means.

I'm going to just a bit longer as there is some initial vest that's wrapping up early next year... and then I go somewhere else.

My total comp this year is upwards of $250k because of the stock appreciation, but basically I got shafted with the promo raise. My salary and total comp didn't increase. I'm just reaping a higher stock price of vested shares.

Edit
In response to the article
>A warehouse worker hired now at Amazon who stays until retirement would leave with a fraction of that.

A buddy of mine works at the NYT in a tech role. NYT isn't doing anything different than Amazon. It takes a lot of nerve to write these kinds of articles... Hypocrisy at its finest.
It's crazy because the initial idea was, insurers would be more educated buyers and thus better able to negotiate with medical providers. As it turns out, with no skin in the game, they hardly seem to care to negotiate prices at all!
Doesn't that further a bidding war where the chief winners are sell-out politicians?
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...and make it 15 times as expensive, unfortunately.
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The funny thing is that a lot of Medicare recipients or soldiers are adamantly against "socialism" in the form of government healthcare.
That's awesome - I would be one of the people who would pay $400 to be carbon neutral each year. You should think big and do a Kickstarter with $25 gifts up to $5k gifts...

For $400 I want a t-shirt that says "I'm carbon neutral. Do you have the rocks to become carbon neutral too?" with a pic of olivine rocks and your website url.
Swatting predates online gaming. I have early 90s era bbs txt files clearly describing the practice. I wish they would do better reporting, they used to be the my favorite. I bet they themselves have noted prior art, given their age. Also, it was never a prank in the old docs, it was revenge, or 'the perfect murder'.

I feel like I need to start writing again after this barrage of terrible media since the election. Can we all raise the collective bar please?
"The best option would be all providers must charge the same rate to all customers. Then I could look up the price and know it’s been prenegotiated by big insurance companies. "

This should be number one.
So it seems to me that it is possible the original Bloomberg article may not be true, or at least has gotten details considerably wrong.

In any event, I have a couple questions.

1. Is it possible that some kind of small chip could subvert there boot process of the BMC?

2. Can the BMC subvert the host system in some useful way that would be hard to detect? I'm thinking about altered microcode loaded at CPU powerup.

3. Can the altered microcode be used to subvert the host complex remotely? This could be something like a Spectre or Rowhammer attack.
Unrelated, but when, and if Bloomberg is found guilty of pushing the fake Supermicro China story there should be a penalty for publishing clickbait headlines that are, for lack of a better term, fake news.

I know for a fact HN blacklists conservative news outlets such as Breitbart across the board. It seems a little biased and double standard to just let Bloomberg continue to push outrage and in some cases baseless stories and have them make the front page of HN.

/rant
You're not giving the community enough credit. We moderate the site, but we certainly don't determine it—and if we do something the community doesn't like, they are anything but shy in letting us know.
Not to mention the nightmare of ruby versions and packages.

I quite like the language by my biggest drawback to using ruby for anything is versioning and packages.
My total comp this year is upwards of $250k, but basically I got shafted

Only in our industry...
Standardize the bill format across all providers, and provide EDI billing option, or a digital copy, and then we have something very easy to parse and store and make comparisons. Barring that, develop OCR parser. There's probably just a few programs that hospitals use that generate the bill paper so most formats could be profiled.
That’s easy - medical debt isn’t written off by bankruptcy. So they’re pretty much guaranteed unending money.
These are "Passive" investors. Wall Street doesn't care about them. Reality reflects it.
Hah I had wondered the same thing when I found out about them, I should of explained. Heard their name too often for a few years.
Every human has rights under the law and international law. Just because someone can't vote doesn't mean they have inalienable rights that states can disrespect.
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Having a public option is the best way I think. In Australia, there is a private system and private insurance is fairly common, but when you can get generally as high or higher quality treatment free of charge in the public system, it makes it a lot harder for the private hospitals to charge crazy prices.

The only downside is that given underfunding there are waiting lists for a lot of ‘elective’ things so if you don’t have private insurance you might wait up to, say, a year for a hip replacement whereas you could get it done within a week or two privately. So I pay $1K a year for private insurance just in case.

But in our large cities the hospitals and emergency departments are as good as you’ll find anywhere so I always go to a public hospital in an emergency. You can even use your private insurance there so the state system gets some benefit.
It’s one thing for you to go out in public, it’s another thing when “public” follows you around like a private investigator snapping photos of you everywhere. The right to privacy is the right to be able to go about your business unimpeded. It’s a core idea on which the bill of rights was founded. It’s not written of course, but I’d argue it’s a fundamental human right.
The problem with this idea is that SMCI was delisted for not filing basic paperwork with the SEC, and the delisting occurred before the Bloomberg piece was released. [0]

[0] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/22/supermicro_facing_n...
I disagree. Political questions are matter of choice, not fact. Values will always be a matter of debate.
> his

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> These statements are not equivalent.

Why not?

> C was a pure state and now B is described by the same density matrix

No, it isn't. All of B's measurement outcomes are the same, but the density matrix is necessarily different because B is in an entangled state. If this were not the case then it would lead to FTL communication.

> B is in a different mixed state afterwards

That depends on what you mean. The only difference is that afterwards, B is entangled with C as well as A, so now the joint A-B system is in a mixed state whereas before the A-B system was pure. In that respect, yes, B is in a different state. But viewed in isolation, B's state is exactly the same after the A-C entanglement as before.
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This person seems to have kept in regular touch with friends and family, texting regularly, and even telling them about buying deadly poison.
Not really, insofar as I can tell, but it was slightly less inactive back then.

It's not the corner of the sandbox that I play in any longer.
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At least in the USA, this isn’t true. Medical debt can be discharged in bankruptcy.
I go to the company and give them a dollar. They cryptographically sign over to me a digital Chuck E. Cheese token of sorts that I can cryptographically sign over to someone else. Just like I can do whatever I want with Chuck E. Cheese tokens, I can circulate my USDC around and do whatever with it. Then at some point in the future someone goes to the company and says hey I want a dollar. He signs the token over to them and they validate that it traces back to the dollar I gave them. They give the dollar to the other guy, presumably after fulfilling KYC requirements. So really they only need to KYC the buyer and the seller. Everything that happens in between is not really their business. It's not really anything really. Just a bunch of people doing cryptographic signatures and publishing them online.
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One MBV album on the list and he's going with "Glider," eh?
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Scale matters.

If it were only warm-blooded individual humans identifying you, there wouldn't be much potential for abuse. In the 1960s, your privacy was pretty much preserved even in public spaces. Unless you were a genuine person of interest, worthy of expending costly observational resources.

Now? Drive anywhere, walk anywhere - machines log your travels. It's a perfect recipe for abuse. Just scale, is all it takes.
The price isn't that important in the first round. $1k is not too much for some people to buy them and see if they're useful.

If they're useful, the design will get reworked and the price could come down. It's not very reasonable to expect this to work with any pair of glasses, it's apparently projecting onto the lenses so geometry is important. $200 is probably a stretch for the non-glasses part of the deal too.

Google glasses were expensive, a strange design, not very useful, and fairly creepy. But most of the software became Android Wear.
Nowhere in my previous comment does it say that I'm opposed to lack of privacy in public so I'm not sure how to respond to your comment -- that's not my issue. My issue is that someone shouldn't be targeted for monitoring on the basis of their immigration status. Either do it for everyone or nobody. If you're going to do it for everyone, then have a technical framework in place to ensure (to the best of our ability today) that the system cannot be abused by an errant clown, and have the procedures to provide transparent auditing etc possible and enforce these audits. Otherwise, it's my opinion we'll end up with a corrupt, abused system.

Interesting intellectual question for you -- if I have no rights to privacy on going outside, what are your views on the government making it illegal for me to obscure my identity when I'm in public (say, with a mask?)
I think we cannot stop now. Current CO2 levels plus the momentum in world economy is such that we need to actively digg out in order to survive. Becoming progress averse now would be disastrous since even with the highest affordable tech we live far from sustainable.
An engineer from Mozilla had published a blog post in which he said WebAssembly has been optimized so much that it’s faster than JavaScript.

That post was a top ranking HN post, not many days ago.
Sounds similar to me, slugging it out at the same, boring company in flyover country. That has allowed me to build up >$1M in retirement savings in mid 40’s. Classic tortoise vs. the hare.
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Sounds kinda like Kanban.
Computers have been around for awhile now. Stand up and look around. There is hardly any old people.
That's a blog copypasting another article. The original is here: http://thequietus.com/articles/20034-brian-eno-favourite-rec....
The US government has put in place extremely heavy barriers to open a medical care facility. If we were to allow people to open facilities that compete with hospitals, we would very quickly see advertised prices and dramatic price drops. The medical cartel and all its bizarre non-market activities are a result of the existing legislation in place.
Where does it say that foreigners can't vote in the constitution? Up until the 20th century the only requirement to vote in most states was residency, not citizenship. Many places only required 6 months stay to vote no matter who or where you were from, others required a commitment to long-term residency.

It wasn't until women's and black's voting rights started becoming a popular issue that voting was redefined to mean only citizens. And the only purpose of such a thing was to suppress the voice of these people for the benefit of those already in power.
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If you are interested, there’s lots of computational work to do in chemistry and applications. It might be hard to break into without going to graduate school, but there are many free high quality software available.

For chemistry with localized molecules, a potential software to look up might be Orca.

For physics and bulk materials, I am a fan of Quantum Espresso.

You probably won’t discover a new drug (whether you do computation or experiments), but computation can give an understanding about how existing drugs work and/or how they can be synthesized.
I did something similar as a proof-of-concept in Rust. Might be of interest to some people.

https://gitlab.com/Herbstein/restreamer
> its interesting to note, that the concept of morality, is in fact, moored as a consensual hallucination as to what is good.

Says who? You?

> therefore, as an atheist, you might mimic a "cultural" sense of goodness; but since the intent is not from the same source -- you may not pretend to share it. Logically, you are immoral simply because you do not share the same inspiration. This is a direct consequence of "assuredness".

if you want it in mathematical format ;)

Again, your entire argument here is hinged on the assumption that all morality originates from religion and everyone else is just faking it. What you believe is right and everyone else is, by definition, wrong. Give me a break with this "mathematical format" nonsense and condescending smiley faces.
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One active intervention would be a permanent individual gasoline-rationing program. No sells, no trades, decreasing allotments year-by-year. Thus encouraging -planned- driving, -smaller- vehicles.

The world needs to declare a WAR ON CO2 and put it on a war-time footing. Further considerations of tinkering around with an environment we've already de-stabilized only shows we haven't learned our lesson. We don't know enough to know what's safe... except the way things were.
So who is doing this? And why? I only know the top leaders of US politics and all of them pretend that they are holy and the other side is pure evil.

Funnily a child comment to you points out that "trump puts children in cage" and I followed the issue and somebody said it was an Obama era photo and they were detained by Obama because the so called parents were actually traffickers which I of course would support Obama for
Don’t Worry!!! Face recog startup founder here. Amazon’s tech only allows them to monitor a specific people list in real time. So search period should be limited. Otherwise it’s so expensive to do that. It only tracks for specific target list on real time cameras or photos. When it comes to searching on archives Amazon is so expensive to do it. As Reminisce Inc we are a photo delivery company. We have a face search tech ( similar to face recog but different, ours is exponentially faster than existing ones). Our tech is the only solution that allows us to search for specific list in archives. However we use our tech only to deliver souvenir photography to event attendees. We will not sell it to government. You can check for your photos in our db here it gives you the result in 15 seconds https://www.reminis.app
Ok, we've changed to that from http://www.openculture.com/2016/04/brian-enos-13-favorite-re.... Thanks!
Perhaps U.S. v Jones has some insight. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Jones

FBI/police put a gps tracker on a guys car for long term tracking. Ruled 4th amendment violation, unanimous. Differing reasons. The trespass reason wouldn’t seem to apply but the long term expectation of privacy would seem to apply. Oral arguments included ‘beeper’ vehicle tracking which is labor intensive, vs gps which they can do automatically behind their desk...
>Industrial carbon capture at power plants can do that for something like 70$ per ton.

And then you have a lot of captured carbon dioxide on your hands - next big cost is the storage/conversion.

IPCC summary on cost of forest sequestration :

> Estimates of the private costs of sequestration range from about US$0.10-US$100/tC, which are modest compared with many of the energy alternatives (see Table 3.9 and Figure 4.9). Additionally, it should be noted that most forest projects have positive non-market benefits, thus increasing their social worth

http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg3/index.php?idp=171#fig...
Source?

“Medical debt can be completely discharged if you qualify for Chapter 7 bankruptcy or you can pay it over three to five years through a Chapter 13 repayment plan”

https://www.thebalance.com/tactics-to-deal-with-medical-debt...
The Bill of Rights was written in an era when most Americans lived in small towns where everyone was recognized everywhere. The anonymity of urban and metropolitan life is perhaps a happy accident, but it wouldn’t have been perceived as a fundamental right to people living in a predominantly rural country.
How would that work though?

You'd have to funnel a lot of money straight through the company that didn't get eaten by real costs.... a startup with huge B2B costs or something would be kinda obvious and the money would have to sort of come out on the other end somehow back to the folks laundering it through another entity or something.... seems like an odd choice, or at least one where the real cost of running a real start up would be prohibitive.
The real joke of 'seacouver' is the an old adage for filming TV in Canada: Film in Vancouver, but never admit so in the script. If you want to tap the US market (who doesn't?) then the story cannot ever be set outside the US. The few shows that did (The Crow series etc) died quick deaths. X-Men went out on a limb by repeatedly saying Wolverine lived in Canada (Rouge finds him there). That was a risk. Everyone assumed they would have put him in Alaska. X-Files set a short arc on a train heading to Vancouver, but even there the bad guys were Japanese. None of the main story could ever happen in Canada.

Sell also Scrubs, filmed in LA but set in "San Frangeles" although never admitted in the script. They wanted to avoid the LA/SF/NY trend of mentioning place names and expecting the whole world to know what you are talking about. For the longest time I thought scrubs was set in Florida.
I agree with your comment but am unsure what is the point you're trying to make? My point was that these techniques might be used to later disenfranchise immigrants, legal or otherwise.
I think you have a wonderful observation. I don't think so lot of people know what is right. I think most people's definition of right is totally driven by political ideology consumed via mass media and social network echo chambers. I think most of us aren't educated about this topic to know the real long-term effects of open borders or isolationism. I think all sides have to put the emotion and rhetoric down and view it through multiple lenses. What does open borders look like for our economy and form of government in 10. 25, or 50 years? Does it likely lead to a place America loses the good parts of its national identity because the amount of people coming in can't be assimilated into our philosophies in our constitution? Does isolationism lead us to a place where we aren't longer a world leader and some horrible state fills the vacuum on the world's stage?
I certainly don't know. How do we define right and wrong in an era where ever issue of morality is polarized? Or where it's okay for one politician to do something but not for another politician? I think in the case of Google, they are selling their souls by providing services to a government that persecutes Muslims (and their own people), but we can't forget that they also have cooperated with the U.S. government which has committed just as many atrocities here and around the world. It's not in this moment that Google crossed the line. I think unfortunately, the great experiment of democracy is just about over. I fear it will be looked upon by historians as this emergent phenomenon that occurred between massive tyrannical empires.
I was going to post the same thing! Glad we HN members have some cultural proclivities (and age?) in common.
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I was sitting in a café yesterday working on code to rewrite Amp urls on HN when they decided to play Here Come the Warm Jets in its entirety. I tried not listening, but there was no way. So Amp links live on another day.

Edit: the article turns out to be really good, better than the usual list of favorite records, because he talks quite emotionally about what he loves about them and why. Eno is always a great raconteur but I don't think he's usually this personal.
Yep...I got an email last week for something for my daughter's birth...which 2 years ago. It was charged to an insurance I no longer have. I met deductible that year so everything was covered and it says I'm paying $0. They could lie about the some missing cost and I wouldn't know where to begin disputing it. If I don't successfully dispute it, it goes to collections and hurts my credit. Is my time worth disputing a $500 bill (it I had to pay it?).

It's a lose lose situation.
Kudos for the principled stance. Hope you can maintain that in the face of investor pressure.

Are you saying it's prohibitively expensive to archive footage to later recog against (storage), or is the recog itself the expensive part (compute)?
.... what? This reads a lot more like an advertisement than a comment about the story, with a bit of sarcasm?
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How about developing an interface to an external system using supplied credentials or where you needed to request credentials, and the supplied credentials were incorrect (generally always) or the request process takes a week. Either would have been fine if you had checked at the start and got the ball rolling.
Is it really complicated?

Workers are drones to be squeezed for all they have and then discarded.
You say, as you post on a website where the average user gets paid 6 figures+, works for a capitalist company (most of which aren't screwing over many workers), and could retire at 35 and live a comfortable life off the money saved up by working in tech.
> how unusual it is for the NYT to write about the suicide of someone non-famous

I'd say this article is less about a suicide than about NYC... In that case there are many NYT articles I've read over the years that fit this genre: the anonymity of being in a big city.

Two articles that come to mind (sorry no links) that I've read in the past year or two: one article about how New Yorkers who die and family cannot be reached end up in the city cemetery. Another interesting article about an 80s murder cold case and retracing the victims life 3 decades later. Both really good journalism.