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How's your hiring process? It sounds like you're trying to be all things to all engineers -- and not being any of them to almost anyone.

(We're tight-knit and cultured, but loose and independent! We're moving fast, and slow! We're making something simple, with a million LOC! Our process has "fail-safes", and yet somehow we have a ton of bugs!)

The one dichotomy I believe is that you're micro-managing and not managing. Your engineering management is probably running around offering spot-fixes. They're not providing direction. What kind of company is it? From the lack of consistency, I'm not picking up on any culture at all.

I can't tell what type of software you're making but if you're just hiring for "engineers", half of them will think you're moving too fast, and half will think you're moving too slow. NASA isn't going to hire a Facebook developer to write avionics, and FB isn't going to hire NASA engineers to write emoji-pickers.

You need to figure out what kind of company you are, and then hire (and maybe fire) based on that. No engineer is accusing NASA of being too fastidious, or Facebook for moving too fast, because everybody is on the same page from day one.

I don't think hiring is especially hard if you know who you are. Almost every software company (i.e., your competition) is terrible at hiring. Figure out your culture. Apple could hire even when their stock was in the toilet because they weren't afraid to show the world what they represented.
Have you ever thought about the situation as being analogous to a wholesale market like Costco?
Consumers pay for a Costco membership card, similar to the iPhone as it grants access to the store, then sells products in the store at a marked up rate (Apple tax as you call it). Consumers actually choose to shop at Costco because it’s a great experience for them just as consumers choose to buy iPhones and use the App Store as it’s also a great user expiernce (judging by the sales...if the Apple tax was so repulsive to consumers they may not buy as many iPhones). It would be nice if Costco sold everything at cost with no markup, just as it would be nice if I could use my Costco card at Sam’s club, but they don’t, and I can’t, and yet I and millions of others still have Costco cards and quite enjoy the shopping experience.
That's pretty cool, like a confidence score.
I have been burnt by this attitude as an employee many times. What people usually mean when they say "I want to hire someone responsible to own the project" is "I want to hire someone who will pick up my vision of what needs to be done, will make it happen, taking the blame in potential conflicts along the way and will then let me get the credit for it".

I ended up starting my own business and I think that's the only realistic scenario for someone who likes "taking projects from inception to delivery and who actively seek out projects to own".
My experience of Hollywood therapy is that it’s nothing like that, and in fact tends to be either highly confrontational, or involves magical insights from the therapist which have an almost immediate effect, and are invariably accepted with little resistance. The reality that therapy is mostly one person talking while another listens, nudging them make their own insights and helping people process difficult emotions and experiences.

Of course that’s not the whole practice of psychology or psychiatry, but it is most of what “therapy” (i.e. talk therapy) is.
At some point iOS feels like a third class platform, because I can't directly buy subscriptions or download my (already paid for externally!) Audible audio books. I think Apple is too arrogant to change this on their own so my only hope is the EU will regulate quasi-monopolies like the app store at some point. At the moment Apple users would benefit from a lot of regulations ranging from freedom of choice in the App Store to right to repair. That's not a good spot to be put in as a customer.
We usually have an expression that infantrymen age in dog years.
> Another thing I'd love to see, would be for banks to fundamentally reorient themselves to be their customer's advocates/financial guardians, instead of being yet another party encouraging people to borrow more than they ought to.

The largest bank in Norway has introduced some tools to help people make sense of their financial situation, and to help them save up money.

First and foremost is a budgeting tool, where they show you where money came from and where it went for each month. It has a lot of preset filters for labeling your transactions, and you can add your own. Top level view is "salary, rent, food" and similar, and then you can drill down a few levels. I found it gave a nice overview and allowed me to quickly pinpoint some small but frequent silly expenses I could cut down on.

They've also introduced a "saving game" of sorts, where you can set your own saving goal, like $2000 for summer vacation or whatever, and whenever you use your debit card they'll transfer a configured percentage of whatever you're purchasing into your savings account. So for example if I buy a coffee for $3, they add $0.3 to my savings account, deducting $3.3 from my main account. They've made some easy way to keep track of your goal etc.

They also added a special savings account where you get much higher rate than a regular savings account, with the twist that you can only deposit money into it using a monthly auto transfer (maybe also the above "game", can't recall).

The budget tool I found nice, the saving tools I don't really need, but I see how it could be helpful to some to make it easier to save.

Of course the above won't work miracles if the income simply won't cover required expenses...
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Not sure I would call Boston especially north as it is south of, say, Nice.
This is all well and good until Apple bans these lowest common denominator cross platform frameworks. I hope they do this once Marzipan is shipping.

It's also not true that app startups aren't making money.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/headspace-vs-calm-the-meditatio...
With all due respect to the folks who drive 18-wheelers, flying a passenger aircraft and operating a truck require very different levels of training. Relatively small mistakes in operating an aircraft can have very serious consequences for large numbers of passengers.

Example: crew reacted incorrectly to autopilot problems following pitot tube obstruction by ice on AF 447 and stalled the aircraft, leading to death of all on board. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
Maybe they had complete control in the US, but that was definitely not true in Europe. Not sure about the RoW.
> And if we don't want to use American sanctions laws as a baseline, the alleged violations all happened while U.N. sanctions were in effect.

UN sanctions cover mostly military and nuclear equipment - I don't believe that either ZTE or Huawei participated in arms sales to Iran. US accuses both of integrating and reselling modem chipsets made by companies like Broadcom.

This looks to me like trade war where law is used instrumentally and public opinion is shaped to make it look differently to what it actually is.
Ask HN: Academics who switched to industry, what's your experience been like?
Academics: junior academic researchers including phd students, postdocs and early career profs.
I've usually found -Og to inline functions or optimise out variables I needed to investigate. It's happened often enough that I just use printf in release mode.
RHEL Engineer is one. Another is some networking cert.
(Note, however, that Sensor Tower’s figures are based on the App Store’s 30 percent cut of transactions. After the first year, Apple’s cut on subscription renewals is lowered to 15 percent. That’s not being factored in. But it gives you a rough idea of Apple’s losses here.)

Wait, what? They want to make a point by calculating figures which are off by 50%?
Texas is next ! Texas bureaucrats have been hasseling software engineers for too long, claiming unless they "pay up" to the state their exorbitant licensing fees, they cannot use the word "engineer" on their business cards or anything business related.
Let's Encrypt is the name of a service, ISRG is the non-profit legal entity that provides the service.

ISRG was created in 2013 to be the legal entity behind the Let's Encrypt service. It's not being "spun out," we just never had a website for the legal entity itself until recently.
From what I've heard Google does.
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Your company has a LEADERSHIP Problem!

And the 'cultural' problems: isolation, in-fighting, counter-productive competition, are symptoms.

Your 'leaders' have hired misguided Engineering Managers who created an environment that made this behavior possible, and your leadership is allowing it to continue.

> First Question: Are your founders / leaders Engineers?

> Second Question: Why do team members think that you're moving too-slow / too-fast?
You got your cause and effect backwards. The rules were only added after he did it, because he did it.
I like the $99/yr bar of entry. That, combined with the more rigid review process, keeps the App Store's average app quality higher than the Play Store's.
> In the past, you bought software in a box from a retailer who took a margin as high as 50%.

In the past, you bought hardware that could run software from more than one retailer.
Lone gunmen are probably best served by going off on their own. Think "consultant" not "developer."
Yes, a company town is also a good analogy. Maybe even a better one, though it is a lot easier and cheaper to switch mobile platforms than it is to pick up your whole life. To expand your analogy, nothing stops you from owning homes in two different towns at the same time. (Nobody is forcing you to carry just one mobile phone, even though most people do.)

And in this company town, yes they own all the stores and playgrounds, but you can still get stuff delivered from anywhere. (All these phones have web browsers that give you unencumbered access to the wider internet. No you can't play Fortnite through a web browser, but you can't play football by mail-order either, so the analogy holds.)
It all comes down to insurance. If your building collapses, the insurance company will want to know if you did every reasonable thing possible to prevent it before they pay out on your policy. One of those things is making sure that the person who designed the building knew what they were doing, i.e. were they a licensed engineer.

I think most product companies are essentially self-insured. If Ford releases the Pinto and they get sued, they're paying the settlements themselves, not filing an insurance claim. So they are free to use whatever method they like to verify the competence of their employees.
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> Apple created the marketplace

It used to be that the maker of the OS spent tremendous efforts to attract developers. They did this for free to gain app market share.

So, your argument falls flat. Apple is doing this to generate profit. They continue doing so because of their dominant iOS market share and that for apps there is no alternative.

Please stop making excuses for trillion dollar companies.
What about PayPal? Would you trust them?

To me that's an equivalent service on the payment processing side
I wonder how widespread it's become in shitty prepare-for-coding-interview materials, so variations might be needed, but as a tool for identifying non-programmers, it is extremely good. It's ridiculous how good it is, it really shouldn't be, because as a decent programmer, it's so hard to understand how anyone could apply for a programming job, yet still be so bad at programming that they can't pass the test.

And yet, there are so many people like that it's fucking scary.
as much as I like the idea, I think it is a fair point to make. the original context for this discussion was threats made over the internet. it is actually kind of hard for a normal person to authenticate the identity of someone over the internet to a degree of confidence that justifies a killing in self defense.
No - the judge affirmed that the state can still control who can call themselves a "professional engineer" or "licensed professional engineer" - but allowed anyone to claim to be an "engineer" ... it's a situation akin to being an "accredited teacher" with a teaching credential compared to all of us who teach at one time or another
Spotify is also super easy to cancel
PGMs also provide the intuition behind GANs and variational autoencoders.
What's to stop nation states from pursuing eugenics projects behind closed doors? Should it be assumed they already are?
gatekeeping can only last that long
You can arbitrarily (rank-)correlate any variables of any distribution using copulas as an intermediary.

So basically, draw a multivariate correlated standard normal with the intended correlation. Transform the standard normal draws into quantiles of the standard normal (this works the marginal distributions are also normal). Now you have X and Y quantiles for your target distributions and you can draw from them.

The distributional transformations will slightly attenuate the correlation, and the choppier the distributions the more attenuation you'll get. Additionally, while you can do this for 3+ variables at once, there are constraints on the possible sigma matrix describing n-dimensional correlations.

If the variables have no fixed distribution you can use the eCDF of the actual data, so it's even possible to import e.g. population and income data and produce a permutation that gives you the correlation desired.

I agree that it is fairly difficult to do this if you have arbitrary DGPs with complex interdependencies in them--if you correlate on variables A and B, then it is difficult to guarantee the observed correlation between f(A) and g(B) and vice versa--but still you can provide a lot of utility with the copula method.
> Maybe a TLD domain that would be absolutely free?

Can't easily do this and prevent squatting without onerous identity requirements.
the rules were they before he did it, but not enforced (as usual). he triggered it.
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Is there any value in people who cannot write JavaScript?
Living paycheck to paycheck is common most places in the world. It's definetly a choice a lot of people make.
Why would you want more people to use violence? Mob rule is better?
The New York Times must be the global arbiter of who is the global arbiter of mental distress.
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1) Does your company have a solid Business Strategy?

2) Does everyone in the company understand and support this Strategy, and know how they contribute to it?

3) How do individuals know when their decisions and actions are aligned with the Strategy and contributing to the company's success?
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> Hiring is extremely hard because of economy.

What does this mean? Could you please elaborate?
A-series chips are just (very good) ARMs. I don’t buy that equivalence at all.
I don’t think you’ll find a strict correlation between level of training required, and salaries. There’s plenty of highly trained people with low salaries. I’d also be willing to bet that trucking accidents kill more people than airline ones.
EspeciLly in school where ADHD is overdiagnosed when the real problem is an environment with hardly any physical play and mostly sitting quietly for 7-8 hours.

I had a debate with someone where I argued that adderall and others are basically methamphetamines, one atom away from cocaine. Am I right?
We have expressions like "I love you so much, I could just eat you up." The term "rough housing" may be the closest we get, but I don't think it's generally understood to be associated with cute aggression.

There's also the trope "I'll hug him and squeeze him and rub his fur backwards and call him George" which is a reference to an old Bugs Bunny cartoon.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jPdHaNr0OAY

Related: The Spanish have a word for this.

https://www.lizettegreco.com/roberto/nervio.html
I expect every system with free person-to-person transfers and free withdrawals/deposits for individuals is funded by charging businesses using it. PayPal is like this, Sweden's Swish mobile payments are like this, I'm sure there's many others.
> How Well Does Paternity Confidence Match Actual Paternity?

> Evolutionary theory predicts that males will provide less parental investment for putative offspring who are unlikely to be their actual offspring. Crossculturally, paternity confidence (a mans assessment of the likelihood that he is the father of a putative child) is positively associated with mens involvement with children and with investment or inheritance from paternal kin. A survey of 67 studies reporting nonpaternity suggests that for men with high paternity confidence rates of nonpaternity are(excluding studies of unknown methodology) typically 1.9%, substantially less than the typical rates of 10% or higher cited by many researchers. Further crosscultural investigation of the relationship between paternity and paternity confidence is warranted.

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/504167
Yeah ... you bet we're like that.

I'd bet that, back in the days of Oog, there were gals & guys who were always chipping away at rocks trying to make better spear-points. Even though the people around them were fat from feasting. For the edge cases.

And then there were people always trying to make better pictures of the universe, even though all that ever led to was better understanding of the Big Mystery. (Isaac Roberts famously imaging Andromeda in 1888.) (Who could ever care about that?) Or Prof. Goddard and his stupid rockets.

And it's too bad that people who started exploring solid-state electronics back in the mid-1800s (like Karl Ferdinand Braun in 1874, or H. J. Round in 1907) didn't get 'addicted' to playing with them. We might have skipped vacuum tubes completely if they had. Everyone's loss.

Some of us are cut out to obsessively explore the unknown, some aren't. Karl Jansky, for example, stumbled onto radio astronomy, but showed little interest in the topic afterward. Just not cut out. Grote Reber WAS cut out, but his efforts were largely ignored until decades later. Everyone's loss.

'Should' you feel better about learning about computers, or would you get more social approval by obsessing about the private lives of dozens of celebrities?

Most people seem to do what they like with their free time, and don't worry about whether it has any value. So, who's a fit judge of what 'addictive behavior' is? ( And why are they so obsessed with other people's behavior anyway?)
Moving towards decentralised internet infrastructure such as https://ipfs.io could help with this. ISPs setting up IPFS caches for their customers could save a LOT of peering bandwidth.
My example included a citation for graduating seniors starting salaries.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/student-loans/highest-...

Not that I’m disputing the 10 year salaries.
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I recently found out about Sonoff-Tasmota ( https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota ), i hate it. Because now i bought for 300 € of Sonoff products for home-automation based on the MQTT protocol.

(The project allows you to flash the Sonoff products with custom firmware)

They also have an IR module, for customizing your remote.

Anyone else has other ideas that are similar for home automation without adjusting your electronic wiring?
Some nonparametric statistics math
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientist-who-edi...
Translation: We don’t offer much in the way of salary/benefits.
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This is exactly my experience. I started up with blogs and sites. Though they were good when I just started out but after a point, I failed to make a coherent, systematic and deeper understanding of the topic. I felt like I am getting knowledge in bits and pieces which weren't creating a complete and package.

Finally I started studying serious books in a disciplined manner. I wish I should have done this earlier.
It is different. When I shop at Costco I know I shop at Costco and that is what I paid for. But when I buy Netflix subscription, I am paying to Netflix, not Apple. Does Apple making Netflix as a service any better? I didn't quite see that. And since this is a recurring fee, which makes it even funnier, that I am constantly paying Apple for to essentially ALLOW me watch Netflix.

And don't forget this result in a higher price for customer, while Costco's model save customer money.

I am however, see it as less of a problem if they charge fee over one-time purchase and make me aware of whether I am paying it.
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