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I have no idea what it’s like as a seasonal associate at Amazon today.

But I do know what it was like 20 years ago.

A genuine mixture of chaos, frustration, hard work, and passion trying to build what’s next.

Chaos was ever present with a large team of dedicated Problem Solvers. Associates who understood the system well enough to solve anomalies.

Frustration largely came from the incongruence of trying to keep customers happy while trying to hire new associates that allowed us to “average up”(each hire improving the overall average).

Hard work was constant, but it was achievable for anyone in mediocre health or better. The biggest issue was the overtime. We did run mandatory overtime for all associates that was challenging, but doable. Exempt management just worked silly hours, it’s part of why I eventually departed on good terms post Holiday madness.

Seasonal Associates were referred to as temps back then.

They were all sourced from a single temping agency Integrity.

Often times just a mob of warm bodies, numerous temps discovered to be intoxicated, and a few times armed.

Shifting from paper pick lists to handheld scanners was a big change.

I guess you could call it early human/computer interaction that allowed individual metric measurement to be scaled.

An earlier poster’s reference to Taylor’s Scientific Management is interesting.

Amazon’s reputation in Operations being harsh originated 20 years ago when it scaled from a small team of true believers to a large enterprise of regular human beings.

We fired people quickly and decisively like an assembly line.

Amazon Operations then, and I presume now, is not suitable for someone who is physically unfit or unhealthy.

Which when looking at the unsuitability of such a high percentage of young people being unfit for military service(obesity epidemic), leads me to believe that many who choose to work at Amazon are physically unsuitable due to lifestyle choice.

Where is it all going?

I would love to see a flattening of consumer spending to avoid the need for seasonal hiring, but that’s unlikely, especially, with the introduction of Amazon’s truly artificial holiday stress test Prime Day.

The very early folks like myself benefitted enormously from the low wage gamble we took in exchange for Amazon stock options.

More recently, the upside in compensation and stock units is far more limited, although promotion prospects within the company are considerable.

There just isn’t the profit per employee with Amazon as there is with Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Netflix that is often confused and conflated by labour advocates.

I just remember us all making fun of Walmart and being like the Rebel Alliance. Now it’s portrayed as the Galactic Empire a mere 20 years later.

With all the great humour/satire around “Red Shirts” and evil minions in Venture Brothers, I wonder if we will see any satire around Amazon inspired by dystopian stories like THX1138.

Happy Holidays to all, especially those seasonal workers moving all of our Chinese made consumer goods from A to B.
Google AMP is dead?
I saw some articles people dropped their leads after install AMP on the website. Anyone faces issue with AMP?
That's a good question. Did OpenSPARC slow down RISC-V?

It's worth noting that, as the article points out, MIPS remains patent encumbered, the ownership situation of these patents is itself quite complex, and all in all, it's not quite clear how the new "Open" licensing will work.
This isn't a new policy. It's largely the same reason OpenBSD shipped with a fork of Apache 1.3.x for many years before ultimately writing their own httpd(8). The Apache 2.0 intertwines US Contract law with Copyright law, and that is considered wholly "not permissive enough".

"In addition, the clause about the patent license is problematic because a patent license cannot be granted under Copyright law, but only under contract law, which drags the whole license into the domain of contract law. But while Copyright law is somewhat standardized by international agreements, contract law differs wildly among jurisdictions. So what the license means in different jurisdictions may vary and is hard to predict."

https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
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Yes -- that big donation was exactly the thumb GP is talking about. :) It came from / was organized by Bloomberg, who seems to have had a strong preference for a NY school.

But there were also other reasons Stanford withdrew, including the weirdness of how real estate works in NYC.
Basically the car is more expensive because of the terrible quality. Your car literally broke after 2 years, most cars I’ve considered buying new have at least 3 year bumper to bumper warranty and 5 years or more for engine and transmission.

Your experience sounds absolutely terrible and I’m not sure why you’d buy another. The most basic Honda or a little French/Italian car would surely do. The Germans cars command a premium.
Aluminum is one of the most abundant minerals on earth. It's probably in just about everything. You almost certainly get more from your anti-perspirant that you do from an aluminum can.
I'm told that most people fear public speaking more than they fear death. I'm not wired that way[1], but it seems like a logical thing to help people overcome at a young age.

[1] Which isn't me saying I'm a badass or anything; I just don't especially fear public speaking in particular.
I'm somewhat skeptical of these results. I'm a member of an (amateur) improv group. When I improvise, I often feel more nervous because I'm thinking about several things at once: acting, supporting my partner, finding the "game" of a scene. In this way, I can get "stuck" in my head much more than I would in everyday life. While it certainly feels great to have a good show or practice, it can feel pretty crappy to have a show that goes poorly. If I had problems with anxiety, I'm not sure that improv would help.
This comment is inexplicably downvoted; if you're going to set up a VPN for the first time and don't want to get sysadmin-level intimate with Linux networking to boot up Wireguard (surprisingly easy!), Algo is your best bet.
She doesn't fit, but it isn't as extreme as you might think.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_pe... there are 43 people who reached 115, and we know how old 40 of them turned out to be. 9 of those made it to 117.
That fits pretty well with the 50% odds of dying each year. She supposedly lived about 7.5 more years after that point. What would her odds be? 0.5^7.5 = 0.0055242717280199 are pretty bad. But with a pool of 40, the odds that SOMEONE lived that long turn are 40x that, which is around 22%.

When you combine worse healthcare, challenges around record keeping, and specific evidence of fraud, I am inclined to believe that she was fraud. But the statistical case for it isn't as overwhelming as I would naively guess.

(That said, access to a larger data set could easily make the odds against her existence much more extreme.)
Not so fast. Facing fears can be beneficial or lead to deep traumas depending on many other factors.
> Will Sparc follow?

SPARC is already open, as in it can be used royalty free and there are open source implementations.
The ratings on the product page are meant to be purely about the product. Reviews that mention the seller are often removed. This is actually the main way sellers get rid of bad reviews: most one star reviews will include a reference to the seller and so amazon will usually remove them if the seller asks.

There is a separate review system for sellers, and the score is shown when you look at the buying options, but it's little used and much less visible.
Here's my take on this idea:

https://sandspiel.club/#52oSclzynCddZWyelRsm
how do you turn a P/E of 21 into needing somewhere between 20% annual growth (your current claim?) and 200% annual growth (your original claim? 20% quarter over quarter.)
I just deleted my account because of their participation in the de-platforming movement.
Nearly the very first line in your first link states they are covered by FDIC or NCUA, depending on whether it's a bank or credit union:

Like a regular savings account, a money market account at a bank is insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)...

Where they are not insured is in a Brokerage firm, like Robinhood.
I think that nanoMIPS would be much more interesting. As I understand it, nanoMIPS is a modern, de-warted variant. For example, nanoMIPS doesn't have branch delay slots!
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Is this only for their newest core or will they be releasing old stuff too? Would be really interesting to see the HDL for early MIPS processors like the 3051, 4300, 5900, etc.
I assumed that Apple has very similar weight on a resume as Google, is that not correct?
Yes, compared to the rest of the first world, USA consumer banking sucks and consumers suffer. Fees are higher than in other rich countries, there's lots of unbanked people who aren't able to get free or near-free bank accounts, there is a lack of fast&cheap wire (account-to-account) transfers, the identity theft problems of USA consumer banking are like almost nowhere else, USA seems to be way behind on contactless card payments, and automatic electronic payment of all (or almost all) household bills also isn't a thing yet there as far as I understand. Those all are a major parts of consumer banking experience, and there is a lot of aspects that can be improved and disrupted in USA.
I think you might be surprised how straightforward an app like this would be for Wireguard, and, unlike OpenVPN, for which there are a zillion wrapper options, Wireguard really needs some non-shell-user UX love right now.

Have you considered doing a version of this for Wireguard? It's much, much better than OpenVPN.
Sorry, I had no idea what a Juul was, and Google indicated it was a brand of e-cig. Only included the comment because I assumed other non-smokers would have no idea.
I wish I could compartmentalize it or cope better, but my health has notably worsened since the latest IPCC report was released. I've lost sleep, been anxious, and no amount of work I've done to reduce my own carbon footprint has made me feel any better. It was like a switch was flipped after which I was no longer to engage in the minimization or projection discussed in the article and have just fallen into a pattern of panic and self hatred.

I'm hoping that engaging with Extinction Rebellion and actively trying to pursue a career in energy and carbon sequestration can help me reduce the guilt and become more productive.
Why not give the cash to the owners. That's what stocks are for, right. Doesn't seem like a problem at all. A "low growth" company is a stable company. High growth is high risk.
$100s of Millions of Dollars Printed Everyday, Where Does the NEW Money Go?
Thank you for the thoughtful and respectful comments! I'm afraid my answer is a bit long, sorry! :)

> Well, to turn that around, what makes you sure that capitalism is working correctly here?

Well, I don't know that. I tend to assume that economics is usually true, or is at least a good approximation, because it usually is in my experience (or, more importantly, according to most economists).

Or better yet, let me make a more specific claim which I think better reflects my belief - I assume that in most markets, there are problems. No market truly approximates Econ 101 style free markets- because of sticky prices/wages, information asymmetries, human psychology being tricky, etc.

However, I think a) the differences are usually minor and self correcting over the long run, and more importantly, b) it's often hard to interfere in a way that fixes the problems without messing things up more.

In other words, yes, maybe executive compensation is not perfect and is in a bubble or some such thing - however, I hesitate to think anyone on the outside can know if that's true or not, and "fixing" it without messing things up is hard.

Moreover, I think the focus on executive compensation is mostly meaningless anyway. It's not like an executive making a few extra millions is what costs employees their salaries, not usually anyway - in most large companies, where this discussion is relevant, we're talking small amounts of extra money per employee anyway.

Really, the reason most people focus on this is because it's flashy. It makes good headlines and political punchlines to talk about executives making millions - I highly doubt most people have truly done any of the actual work necessary to understand whether they really are "overpaid" or not. (As opposed to shareholders, who I relatively trust because it's in their interest to do the work, and they have no interest in making political points, only in earning more money).

> My own view is that neoliberal economic policies have led to workers having a lower share of economic output [1], resulting in an increasing share going to shareholders [2] and executives. As you say, it's totally in the interest of the people who have the money to give less of it to their workers.

Yeah, that's obviously in their interest. Personally I think if we want to help workers, we should be doing something like UBI or welfare or similar - we shouldn't be forcing companies to make sure that some employees have enough, we should be collectively making sure everyone has enough. I don't think it's morally right, or economically efficient, to force companies to bear that burden (and only for their employees) - I think that's an old school "paternalistic" view of employer/employee relations which is no longer relevant.
So basically like rust or rot but for plastic.

I don't think it would be that big a deal. For the longest time things were built with leather and wood instead of rubber/plastic and society survived just fine.

I think a lot of people are over-reacting to the idea of plastic rotting because they live in the Southern California filter bubble where nothing rots or rusts (because it's basically a desert) and so the idea that one wouldn't just be able to leave materials outside and expect them to be just fine is foreign to them. Having materials naturally degrade over time is just a fact of life everywhere else on the planet.
Commits per hour is interesting to understand CI/CD requirements.
HN + surrounding community have still not come to terms with what they have created, thus maintaing the totally irresponsible ‘absolutist’ view on free speech.

History, it rhymes.
BigInt in top browsers now, not under a flag. Just sayin'!

https://brendaneich.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/dotJS-201... et seq.
Will this make MIPS hardware virtualization available to the Western market? So far it's only been available in a Russian CPU (Balkal), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18142295

Article says that PRPL foundation may be governing Open MIPS. There was an L4-based hypervisor offered by PRPL, but the website seems to have been reorganized.

Virt whitepaper: https://prplfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/prpl-s...
And even such things as

> Heterogeneous-ISA with RISC-V and SPARC FPGA Soft-cores

https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.08091
>Instagram-savvy version of the fake watches one sees being hawked on the sidewalks of tourist cities.

I bought a "Tagheuer" watch on the streets of NYC for five dollars. At a glance, it looked OK but by the end of a day's wear it had completely self destructed.
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You're right, and fortunately that's exactly what we're doing. Lots of good science has been (and is being) done, with "disagreements" along the lines of "I can only reproduce 97% of your findings to p 0.05, with the rest at p 0.08". There's no substantive question remaining of the gist of it, though.
I actually deleted my Patreon account yesterday for the same reason. I was supporting Sam Harris through Patreon, but I immediatly set up a direct feed with paypal, takes two minutes. And I hope others will do the same.

Also Jordan Peterson who is another of their promenient users mentioned that he is working on an alternative solution to Patreon.
I know, I checked it out when I read the article. Point is, I couldn't tell from the HN headline what this was about.
The article just says the most recent 32 and 64 bit instruction sets will be open. No mention of open core designs (there are many old versions of MIPS, it has been very fragmented, so excluding these makes sense to get some commonality).
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I imagine the idea is not to necessarily make these kids completely comfortable with doing improv, but use some of the improv skills in their daily life. So if they're able to do improv in front of a class, giving a speech might not feel as bad as it did before their improv experience. Or they might be able to go to the beach when before they were too anxious about being seen in a bathing suit.

Kind of an exposure therapy, but where the exposure isn't directly the situation they're anxious about.
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Car mechanics also experience a surge in volume during longer holidays because even at normal volumes, customers frequently have to leave the car there for a day or several. Being out a car is disruptive on a workday, so losing the car for a longer time on days they weren't scheduled to work anyway may be a worthwhile trade-off.

These systems are interdependent. Because there many are people who worry about how they'll get to work, the demand for these services during extended holidays goes up, which the industry is happy to accommodate by hiring temporary labor into a setting that's hardly fit for it.
Writing into a vector is O(n), writing into a LL is O(1), assuming you have an iterator to the location to write to. If you don't, then it becomes O(n), and writing into a vector can be O(1) if you're writing to the end.

C++ stl, LL appending is always O(1) and writing into a vector is O(n). There are plenty of caveats to this and the documentation should be referenced.

He's right btw that insert into a vector is generally faster in the C++ stl than insert into a LL. I don't recall off the top of my head why that is, just remember it's the case.
We are talking about google here.
My theory would be that this may be a result of imperialistic communism.

China: "Update your bus fleet, or else". "Done."

US: "Update your bus fleet." ...paperwork, bureaucracy, law suits, paperwork, ... 5 years later, rinse, repeat, extend deadline. file suit to get budget to extend deadline. 5 years later, rinse, repeat. fight labor unions, law suits, etc.. I'm sure that is even a bit simplified.
The name is not about the company, rather the user who takes control of their own Web economics. This requires facing down some anti-ad/tracker-blocking, and supporting favorite sites and creators (easily done from grants, no need to pay; but still requires courage compared to false security of taking ads and tracking).

I always thought "Opera" was pretentious, personally! But I'm friends with long-time CTO, who does go to Bayreuth every year for Wagner, so I mean this is best possible way ;-).
This is actually a better approach. But it's extremely hard politically. If we did this gas would be 12-20 USD a gallon, and we'd have a better world.
It's always struck me as curious that some game engines cause greater motion sickness that others, despite being similar. For instance I can play UT 2004 and HL1 based engines all day, but put me in front of a Source engine game and I want to barf after 15 minutes. Doom 1 engine makes me nauseous, but Build engine not so. Obviously it's the way my particular brain is picking up on the subtles cues from the engine, so I'd love to be able to strap something on my head and be able to enjoy more titles.
Perhaps I've become a bit of a cynic but I find it hard to imagine a well funded company without an exit plan.

I applaud BAT and hope either it or a successor works out to make it clear how we pay as users.

I expectation (or fear/disappointment) is that if Brave and BAT become widespread it will merely just form a new ad serving network with a different group collecting transaction fees.
yeah thats the one
> cannabis, LSD, and mushrooms are far less destructive than alcohol

Alcohol is tied, heavily, to crime. As much as 70% for domestic abuse issues, and closer to 30-40% for fatal accidents, assaults, etc. The stats below are from the 90s, but a similar, if slightly lower, correlation is still true in more recent statistics [2]

> "A discussion of the sources of data on alcohol and crime encompasses the National Crime Victimization Survey; the Uniform Crime Reporting Program; the National Incident-Based Reporting Program; surveys of probationers, jail, and prison inmates; censuses of prisons and jails; and the Fatal Accident Reporting System. Regarding the role of alcohol in crime victimization, approximately 3 million violent crimes occur each year in which victims perceive the offender to have been drinking at the time of the offense. Two-thirds of victims who suffered violence by an intimate reported that alcohol had been a factor. For about 1 in 5 violent victimizations that involved perceived alcohol use by the offender, victims also reported they believed the offender to have been using drugs as well. Approximately half the incidents described by the investigating officer as alcohol-related were between offenders and victims who were intimates. Data show that approximately 7 out of 10 alcohol-involved incidents of violence occurred in a residence. Among the data on drunk-driving arrests and fatal accidents are the number of such arrests. A trend analysis shows that over the last decade rates of intoxication in fatal accidents have declined across every age group. Data on the use of alcohol by convicted offenders show that among the 5.3 million convicted offenders under the jurisdiction of corrections agencies in 1996, nearly 2 million (36 percent) were estimated to have been drinking at the time of the offense. Alcohol use at the time of the offense was commonly found among those convicted of public-order crimes. "[1]

[1] https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/Publications/abstract.aspx?ID=1686...

[2] https://www.alcoholrehabguide.org/alcohol/crimes/
The people promoting Trump do not care in the slightest. I doubt they’ll even care if any serious allegations come out of Muller’s probe.
It depends on bunch of small and medium-size Chinese SoC vendors, would they jump to MIPS now, or not. RISC-V is pretty much default ISA among them nowadays.
Ask HN: What things to buy from Amazon with free $150 gift?
This might be irrelevant to HN, but...

I recently got a gift code worth $150 on Amazon.com.

Are there anything that's absolutely necessary to spend this on Amazon? (Books, tech-related stuff)
You are right, IMHO, but you are also wrong: "commits by hour" and "top committers" are the same metric simply applied to time frames.