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Amazon has more employees than the state of Vermont's population, which last year had an average death rate of 500 per month. If anything this shows that working for Amazon is good for your health
Yeah. Long term it still looks like that idea might work out, but that was a funny story.

This paper offers like 1/1000th the evidence of that one.
Precisely explaining this nonsense won't help.
It probably helps to not speak in generalities here.

If you pay a person $5 to replace one of their light bulbs with LED bulbs then you have really prevented some CO2 from being released.

I agree that it needs to be easier to navigate the landscape of offsetting programs and that a lot of businesses are simply buying feel-good certificates.
Yeah, that's a small example, so it's fine either way. But larger examples with lots of parentheses can be overwhelming (see: Lisp).
Salt Lake City has a higher average temperature than Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Minneapolis, and many other cities at much lower elevations.

Salt Lake City isn't even significantly cooler than San Francisco and Seattle.

https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/US/average-annual-tem...

Perhaps if you could build a data center at 10,000+ or 12,000+ feet, it might make a difference.
The example notebooks in the repository are commited before the code has run so github renders them empty
Overall I really like this article. There are a couple of points others have mentioned are a bit problematic like #8. Empirical studies have shown the only effective way to reduce errors in code and ship reliably is to get enough sleep and maintain low levels of stress.

On #10 I would caution you, startup founder or engineering manager, that while we mostly feel this way about most people that we run into, at the end of the day, it's the person on the other side of the table who gets to decide what will make them happy. I've seen people get turned down for offers because the company they were applying to thought they were "too senior," and "wouldn't be happy," and so on.

The definition of happiness for some people is having a job, providing for themselves or their family, and doing good work. That doesn't make them lazy or any less committed to your start up. In fact you might want to consider whether your culture and team could use a mix of people who are dependable, stable, and reliable -- people who don't see your company and their work as extensions of their selves but simply want to do good work and be professional.

The really passionate people can burn out quickly and bring down the morale of the team when things get tough and aren't going their way. They can see problems as personal failures. The person who isn't invested emotionally in their work but in themselves, in my experience, can reliably weather the ups, downs, and shifts in the wind.
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But what's the point then? If there's a tool, that can make "documentation" out of source code, I can just look at the source code?
> ... azula can be used as an alternative to Electron.

I'd retitle the project/post as "Lightweight GPU Accelerated Replacement for Electron". That's much more interesting than a GUI for Node.
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A large part of London is built on floodplain though, hence the need for the enormous Thames barrier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Barrier). Flooding is a pretty big natural risk here.
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You can also hide all the desktop icons with a defaults setting:

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop false
And also different sources for positive and negative samples.
Like having a new guy learn the material, taught by the old guy who doesn't want anyone else knowing it!
> by picking Haskell you are throwing sticks between your legs unnecessarily.

You clearly have no idea how types work and how to use it to make you more productive as a developer. Being able to switch from Javascript to Typescript made me so much more productive.
Aren't there 32-bit ARM binaries available here? https://bell-sw.com
or here? https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html?variant=openjdk11&jvm...
So basically it's about people dying like the guy described above, except that the Amazon employees didn't even technically die on the job because they were found relatively promptly and received medical care?
Yeah, I'd replace "awesome" with "interesting," "has potential," etc.

Not always. Sometimes it's someone people know or their resume seems just a perfect fit if they're half as good in person.

But, in my experience, more often than not making it to the onsite stage means they got through some pretty preliminary screening.
Also, of course there are always exceptions to a platitude. I don't think we need to couch every single statement we ever make with "...but there are exceptions, of course!" which is basically what Knuth goes on to belabor.
Whoa i didn't realize planes did that. Kind of makes sense, 30k HP compressor hanging off the wing and all, but still seems crazy.

Edit: Also explains why the cabin fills with jeta fumes when they start the engines while passengers are on board.
I'd imagine the software flying the drones would have to compensate for the downdraft of the nearby drones and the turbulence. It would be interesting to see the software side of things. Can't wait for the open source project.
A 5-line constraint seems ridiculous to me, even in Ruby, and I imagine that just about every codebase ever breaks it. Do you have an example project following such a style?
Related with this: does anyone know of a good Lua indent file for Vim? All the ones I have tried have trouble with indenting things (writing `busted` specs in particular tends to be really annoying, the space on the next line after the `describe` is never right).
Just checked. Apparently, one 5th of the EU budget goes to support livestock - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/12/nearly-a...

A lot of it under the form of crop subsidies:

> This land, and other targeted subsidies for livestock, is worth between €28-€32bn (£24-£27.9bn) in CAP direct payments per year for the animal farming sector, 18-20% of the EU’s total budget.

That seems like pretty heavy subsidizing to me, although in the US I have the impression that things are worse.

I think a lot of the europeans perception of the livestock industry comes from advertising, all those pictures on the supermarket of happy farmers next to happy cows and pigs, I think that's where a lot of it comes from.
No, the word 'vote' or 'downvote' does not appear in the guidelines. Further, pg has said that it is ok to use downvotes to indicate disagreements.
I think it's an appropriate response to such a blunt dismissal of an entire way of being
My examples would be Javascript vs Typescript. I am SO much more productive in Typescript than in Javascript and the number of bugs have dropped substantially.
I am guessing that the warehouse workers don't read "seattle-chatter" mailing lists or have lunch-area coffee to complain about.
I don't know if the opposite is true but it stands to reason that miserable customers = miserable crew.
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Maybe I was unclear, but it was a C++ program (dealing with macros, as I said - VARIANTS and DISP_IDs and PROPERTIES and stuff). No joy to use.

As for other languages, I haven't touched COM at all but the idea of making GUIDs for stuff and registering components in the operating system doesn't seem a good default approach to me. Pretty sure it's more reliable to link object files together by default, so you can control and change what you get without the bureaucracy of versioning, etc.

> ReactNative for Windows uses WinUI and XAML Islands, which is UWP, aka COM.

Is the fact that COM is buried under this pile more than an unfortunate implementation detail?
It would great to see benchmarks against gradle.

Gradle can become really slow in large projects.
For example: https://youtu.be/T1iWcnSjfOM
>10000x power alone

Sorry to dig this up so late, there is a usual misconception when reasoning with power (which you might suffer from) :

What matters is not power, what matter is what we measure. We are measuring electric field in volts whose square is proportional to the power. Going 10x as far, mean measuring a voltage 100x smaller. Even with just the dynamic range if your analog digital converter is reading you 8-bits values (values going to 256) with a 100x voltage reduction you get a smaller blip going from 0 to 2.
I live in Utah County, approximately 40 minutes south of Salt Lake City. I live less than 20 minutes away from Eagle Mountain, where they are going to build a new Facebook data center, and less than 20 minutes away from a rather large NSA data center installation in Bluffdale. We also have C7 and Rackspace 10s of minutes north of me and Adobe HQ 10 minutes away as well.

I don't know why people use Salt Lake City as a location for data centers in the sense of its cheaper to cool. We are high elevation, but we are a high-elevation desert. It's usually pretty hot here. We have winters, true, and it's way dry here, but the winters are rather mild, especially compared to places like Wisconsin or Chicago, where I am originally from. It must be because of cheap electricity and/or tax laws. We have a lot of wind power here, and some coal power as well. One thing's for sure: cooling isn't why they build datacenters here. I have no idea why but I'm not complaining either :)
I think that supports the above point. The dozen companies on the list only account for a few of that 903.

As the linked document mentions, there are very few OSHA inspectors. You’re very unlikely to have any sort of real OSHA enforcement at a small business in the US.

At a large employer, they often at least recognize and attempt to follow safety regulations. At a small business it is not at all uncommon for management to not care or even be aware that regulations exist.

Looking back at my years at a warehouse run by a small business, I didn’t realize how dangerous the things were that I was doing at the time, but pretty much every task I had involved an OSHA violation. It was just the way things worked, and it wasn’t any different than any other nearby businesses.
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....what was even the point behind this post? Did they really need to tell the internet why they don't hire people? Is it to stop people from applying?
> And even so the programming ergonomics will be terrible vs. a language designed with typelessness in mind.

Not my experience at all. I switched from Javascript to Typescript and I am way more productive now. So it is definitely not in general true that "the programming ergonomics will be terrible vs. a language designed with typelessness in mind".
How does this deal with existing connections?

One of the use cases is long-lived requests (e.g. uploading a file). If you restart the daemon and kill the existing connections, it's not going to make users happy. So only benefical in development environments?
AFAICT Android is a pain to upgrade because of custom closed-source drivers and lack of ABI stability in Linux, so you need to recompile a driver for a newer kernel.

Android is not a Google's internal product, unlike Bazel.
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That's an activist group, not a scientific group. Which is fine, but it means that "most dangerous" means "most politically interesting", not most likely to cause harm or death by some particular statistical measure.
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> My claim is this is death to productivity/throughput when you compare it to alternatives.

A claim with no evidence to back it up. My experience (for example) is exactly the opposite.
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"fatalities" means "die".

Yes, it's possible to sustain a person in a technically animated state for a few minutes after vital systems have crashed.
Yep. You could replace FAANG with, say, a large aerospace company. If someone graduated from a good school with an appropriate degree and (possibly) has some relevant work experience, they'll [ADDED: most likely] be fine. Or at least fine enough. Way back when I even got an offer from one such on the basis of a resume and generic cover letter. No phone screen. They didn't even care if I came in for an on-site interview or not.

Smaller organizations can't afford to just play a numbers game and bank on hires being good enough to fit in somewhere.
I hope it's hardware or they would be selling vaporware.
Nah, I've tried since one of my kids is slightly lactose intolerant. Neither soy nor almond milk have proven to be suitable substitutes. It's not just the liquid, but something in the cow milk missing from the other milks.
Borderline incomprehensible, as are many of the (what appears to be) author's posts in this thread. You'd be far better off reading the Wikipedia entry rather than picking through this meandering, pseudo-mystic prose.
This is for sure done programmatically, as you might've guessed. And I'd guess they've built a software that models these animations and treats each drone as a node in a plot and then drones move independent of other drones since their routes are already plotted for them by the software.

So yes engineering wise this is amazing, both software and hardware, but the concept is not that complex.

Think of it as SwarmTouch but without the human "puppeteering" the drones ..

https://www.hackster.io/news/swarmtouch-lets-one-person-cont...
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That because it's statistically improbable and interesting, not probable.
> he indeed was correct about the fact the US government is able to access the data of our users. At that time, our servers were indeed running on Digital Ocean and they could pull out our drive and read our data.

You aren’t encrypting anything?
> The incident is among the latest in a series of accidents and fatalities that have led to Amazon’s inclusion on the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health’s 2019 Dirty Dozen list of the most dangerous employers in the United States.

Completely ridiculous. Look at the list:

http://nationalcosh.org/sites/default/files/uploads/2019_Dir...

In five out of these twelve, nobody actually died.

Those may be shitty jobs/companies, but they're not exceptionally dangerous - especially not Amazon.

This is spitting in the face of people who actually have dangerous jobs with exceptional risks:

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/01/08/most-dangerou...
Changed the title:)
Why does this blog post carry a series of instagram style selfies that have nothing to do with the content? Seems weird as hell.

Seeing the photos evokes the same reaction as seeing ads: I'm being forced to look at side-loaded content that I don't care about, in exchange for content that interests me.
Dont forget some of those systems are highly firewalled to middle-men who then send back data to the web or other UIs.
>I should point out that the photos appear to be a metaphor for the hiring process

I took it more along the lines of a metaphor of the power dynamic of the interviewee/hiring manager. Whereas the interviewee may be stressed and concerned about getting a job to put food on the table to feed their family or keep a roof over their head, the person in power doesn't give a shit about you...its all about them and their desire, which happens to be eating ice cream while flexing their power to deny you a job.

In the authors own words:

>Why take the outcome personally?

Yeah why take the outcome of your career and livelihood personally
I didn't know that a jiffy was the formal unit for kernel timing. That tickled me quite a bit.
Or facts presented by lobbying money :-)
"Common enough to have a word for it" and "probable" are not synonyms.
I am by not means qualified to judge on the quality of the patch, but I'm glad Linus is moving away from adding flags to getrandom() (resulting in subtly different behaviour than the Open/FreeBSD implementations). Now if only Linux fixed the "/dev/random provides higher quality random numbers than /dev/urandom and blocks when the entropy pool is empty" nonsense, that would be great.
The Verge had a long read on life of Facebook moderators that is worth a read if you have the time. https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...
> This is not an opinion thing.

Of course it is an opinion thing.

> never a concession as to its cons and costs.

Pretty much what I get all the time from people who don't know how to use type systems productively, and then think that because they can't nobody else can. If types doesn't work for you, don't use them. They work for me so I use them.
The lower the humidity the more efficient evaporative cooling is. These data centers don’t use traditional AC.
> I don't want your entire life story in my commit log.

Why not? Where else do you want it? Is something forcing you to read the full commit log?

There's no length limit on commit messages and commit messages are mostly out of the way. Most VCSes have a way to only show you the first line. So if you want summaries, that's what the first line is for. If you want the full story, that's what the body is for.

Combined with annotate/blame, commit messages can be very helpful source-level documentation. Nobody has ever complained about too much documentation, and commit messages are the perfect time to document what happened because it's one of the few times where our tools actually force us to write something in order to proceed. As long as we're being forced to write something, write something good and informative.
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Why not, though? There are enough helpful point-chasers out there who will gladly help you save time.
What is expected from a nominal workplace is that they spot someone collapsing on the floor and give that top priority - I mean the article mentions a 20 minute response time, that's not normal for a busy warehouse. Vs a 2 minute response time for making a mistake.

Also, do you work or are you paid for by Amazon? It's known they pay people to say how great it is to work at Amazon on e.g. twitter - not dystopian at all. I get really paranoid whenever someone jumps to the defense (or in your case sows doubt about an accusation towards) of a major corporation which can afford to both halve workload and double wages of all of their employees without having to worry about their bottom line too much.
What terms do I use to find these magical results?

If I google "Google Nest Home Mute Hardware disconnect" for example, none of the results on the first page state it is a hardware disconnect.

The support.google.com links all use vague language that never explicitly says there's a hardware disconnect. Just that the mute switch causes the microphones to be disabled.

Interestingly the last result on first page is this: https://store.google.com/magazine/google_nest_privacy#ada2d2...

And it's claims are known to be false.

> Your device will only send audio to Google if we detect that you or someone in your home is interacting with your Assistant

So I'm genuinely curious where all this information about the mute switch being a physical disconnect for the mics exists.
It's called "Vorausgefüllte Steuererklärung" (see https://www.elster.de/eportal/infoseite/belegabruf_%28privat...).
There's already been reports of the use of toy drones for scouting and bombing in the Syrian civil war. Then there was that strange maybe-fake bombing attempt on Maduro: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-45073385
I disagree, if the content of the loot box contains something which people are willing to pay money for, then the prize has value.

Just because it's non-transferable and non-redeemable doesn't mean it's value is nil.
Really nice tool! I often develop in a similar pattern (though not quite as functional) using IPython and it's %autoreload magic. This looks a lot cleaner.
And explosions. The drones are pretty but unless they explode they're no substitute for fireworks.
I left corporate for similar reasons. Got tired of people cracking jokes about crying at their desks, poor treatment of workers, and an especially terrible policy restricting your side projects.

It's a shame, because there was so much I loved about the culture in AWS.
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Then you disagree with the interpretation of the US Supreme Court, take it up with them.
Despite all the bad press, an Amazon warehouse worker job is still one of the better jobs you can get, at that level of employability.
Vermont has only 12 workplace deaths per year. Yes, being able and working at Amazon is better for your health than being 90years old with cancer.
Given that Vermont's population includes children, elderly, infirm, etc, it doesn't seem logical to draw conclusions from comparing the death rate of the two populations.
> To be fair, like 90% of tech articles I read are just self-promotion.

You need to filter more :). Good technical articles don't read like self-promotion, but more like someone discovering an idea and playing with it, or someone explaining an idea in detail, describing relevant trade-offs.
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The reason why the pictures are distracting is because it turns, what arguably is the best blog article I've read in years about hiring, into a glamor post. The pictures changes the tone from "it's about our business" to "it's about me."

There's a easy way to adjust the tone: Keep the headshot at the beginning, and crop the ones in the middle of the article to just the ice cream.

After the conclusion, include a blurb that says something like, "hiring is like choosing an ice cream cone; you can't have all the flavors," and then put in a ton of face shots with ice cream.

Keeps the focus in the article and still allows personal expression!
> the full power of dynamic languages?

There is nothing you can do in a dynamic language you can't do in a typed language. There is no "special power" that only dynamic languages have. If you truly believe that dynamic languages have "special powers" that typed languages can't have then I recommend studying a bit of basic computer science. Starting with the Turing Machine or Lambda Calculus.
I suspect it doesn't explicitly - provided it's got good enough positional information, it can just use all the traditional techniques of closed-loop control to get there and stay there.

How it gets the positional information isn't clear. Some sources say GPS, I'm guessing that relies on the relative error being very small and not caring about the absolute error.
... and why does she have so many pictures of her eating ice cream? Did she take these pictures just for this blog entry, or does that just happen to be the only pictures she has of herself?
I didn’t realize Amazon hires the elderly and people in hospital.
I'll repeat my question I did to another one - are you employed by or paid by Amazon?

"nobody died" is not good enough. Whataboutism is not a good counter-argument.
>> The last thing a startup wants is a transactional employee who considers employment an exchange of cash for time

which is unfortunate because transactional employees will generally be less impacted by the various ups, downs, and drama that startups typically experience
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“We found that interviewing at Ben&Jerry's removes most of our circadian bias (a.k.a. how an empty stomach turns us back into evil predators), while reducing candidates anxiety.”
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it's possible to bake some very tasty cakes without milk, but it involves trying new recipes and techniques.