skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're from an elite university, then you'll have a good chance of getting into a FANG. A SE at a FANG will make triple as much as a SE for most other companies, so do try your best to get into a FANG. If you're smart, You might be able to earn 400K or more in just 5 to 8 years.

However, if you don't get into a FANG, it's not the end of the world. You might still be able to find another job at another software company if you're lucky. As the years go on, it'll be harder to get job due to the rapidly increasing supply of engineers.

The US has not hit peak SE demand yet, so don't worry, those days are still far away from now.

Oh and don't worry about wrong reasons. I know I'll get downvoted for this because it's politically incorrect, but: Working for $$ is the primary reason for work. If you didn't need to make money, then you don't need a job, you could just program on your own time whatever you wanted and have a hell of alot more fun than working as a SE.
With LTE I rarely have the need to use wlan.
I don’t really enjoy this response because Los Alamos was purpose built by the government to develop the bomb and realistically, could have been constructed in any remote area of the US.

The government even used eminent domain to force ranchers out of the area. I feel SV has developed much more organically.
If the employee had added a message,

"You have the constitutional right to keep and bear arms" when employees visited cabelas.com, would you call it a political message?

Both are simply informing people of their rights.
that's certainly not legal everywhere. it doesn't appear to be the case in canada where courts have overruled parents on this, and it definitely is not the case in germany, where, if a childs life is at risk, doctors have not only the right, but the duty to override the parents, and do whatever they need to save the child.
And don't forget about almighty inflation.
The Day Dostoyevsky Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Dream
Stay away from anything on Amazon that someone can arbitrage with a counterfeit. Personally I have been burned on supposedly real brand name refrigerator filters - the label looked like it was printed with an ink jet. On the other hand the Amazon basics brand is decent and I trust it more then the marketplace sellers, seems about the same as Walmart GV.
> 1) The article.

That only means that the team's head is on the chopping block. That's all.

> 2) How Google treats all of its other "underperforming" products.

This assertion is utterly absurd as you're describing the world's third largest cloud provider, and thus one of the dominant players, of being "underperforming" and justifying pulling the plug on a 8 billion-dolar a year business.
All platforms not under your control should be viewed as a risk.

> Pretty much anything that isn't basic compute VMs, storage, or out of the box Kubernetes.

I think this is perfectly healthy and a stance you should take everywhere.
Yeah, but the point if the article is Los Alamos (formerly a desolate plateau built up by Uncle Sam).
She didn't abuse anything. She followed the standard process and she created the alert on the appropriate page (labor relations) to inform people of company policy: https://miro.medium.com/max/1000/0*1BTVYLTvuHiJVvp_.jpg
On the "travel freedom" category - just want to say we live in extremely unusual times when it comes to travel and there's little reason to pay out of your savings to fund travel at the present moment.

In the US we've been living in the Golden Age of travel and credit card rewards for the last decade. I started churning cards in 2012 and have not paid in full for personal travel since. It's become slightly harder to churn than it used to but the sign up bonuses and earnings on cards is still at highs nonetheless.

It's great because I'm not a materialistic person and don't spend much on physical goods anyway, and to get my travel mostly paid for means I haven't had to spend my own money despite being in the "travel freedom" step of the equation.
This whole idea of basing your entire company’s infrastructure on a non responsive provider is so foreign to me. We have the regular old Business Support Plan with AWS and we can always reach a live person by opening a ticket and starting a live chat. It’s only $100/month minimum or 10% of your monthly spend with discounts. We go through an APN so I doubt we are paying that much even though we are a small company.

All of your vendors are just as responsive.
The extension is intended to inform Googlers of applications that are not approved for corp data, not just generic "employee guidelines and company policies." This is so you don't e.g. upload PII into a random unsecured S3 bucket.

Yes, it's company policy, but this is more like running into a meeting and then interrupting it so you can start reciting NLRB policy than it is posting a flyer. Worse, it misappropriates a security tool in order to do that. And when it comes to intentional actions that violate or undermine security, Google, like most companies, takes a pretty hard line.

Disclosing that I'm a Googler, and speaking only on my own behalf, with no connection to anyone involved except the fact that the extension is running on my browser.
See also std::embed.
Fair, but they still can't rate my plan with that number.

ACA plan premiums can only be set based on 5 factors: age, location, tobacco use, individual vs. family enrollment, and plan.
Cities of the World Where You Don’t Need AC or Heat, Mapped
Having gone through a 6 week long process just to get a working replacement for my Pixel 3, I vowed not to use Google Cloud for fear of a similar opaque customer support experience. I can't fathom the amount of organizational change that would be required to make Google a customer focused organization nor how they could possibly communicate that change to all the people they've burned.
Fun fact: if anyone is a fan of Guitar Hero or Rock Band, REAPER has been used by Harmonix Music Systems since the beginning for song authoring.
because warning fatigue is real and http usage is too high to put scary warnings on all those sites.

Chrome's eventual goal is to mark all not-secure pages as not-secure: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/marking-http...
I'll throw this advice in because it's served me well in my career. Somewhat related.

1) You can be a big fish in a big pond with other big fish (eg FAANG). Or you can be a big fish in a pond with small fish (think like a regional grocery chain). Try both to see which makes you happier. There are tradeoffs in both cases.

2) Your boss and the people you work with (ie your local context) is often a much stronger determinant of your happiness than what company banner you're under or your specific title.

3) Try looking at things outside of tech/engineering orgs for places where tech applications would create value. A good friend works in supply chain optimization with a CS background. He tells me that basic automation and data analysis on CSVs larger than what Excel can open is seen as wizardry. He's in great standing in the org and is seen as invaluable.
> What's the advantage?

More affordability for the people in those groups, and thus less separation of tech people from members of other sectors and socio-economic levels.

It's good to have enough people concentrated in one region to form great teams and give people options and mobility. But, beyond that, it starts becoming a negative to tech people and non-tech people.

SF and Seattle are insanely expensive. Most of my friends here in Seattle are in tech, and over the past few years, I've watched most of my non-tech friends get priced out and be forced to leave the area.

I don't think it's good for individuals or humanity as a whole for people to spend all of their time in a bubble surrounded only by people like themselves.
Would this also put a meta deadline on Stadia since, I assume, Stadia utilizes Google Cloud?
From what I have seen Alibaba cloud is #3. Don't forget that China is a huge market, and it is very hard for Western companies to be successful there. Alibaba has China government backing and that relationship is allowing them a lot of access in China
Thanks for the clarifying question. I’m not saying anything about rights at all - I think that’s a false dichotomy.

My comment is focussed on the rest of the logic.

People who trust the product end up with children with brain damage.
One other interesting point to add to the list. If you look at plots of historic CO2 estimates derived from the Vostok ice core [1], you'll notice that we are presently at the very peak (in time) of a climate cycle that aligns almost perfectly with four other cycles from the last ≈400k years. Now two points here:

1. It is extremely unlikely that anthropogenic emissions would align so conveniently with the tip of a natural climate cycle. There must be some other factor underlying the correlation, and/or the influence of human emissions is overstated.

2. The argument is that there is an alarming discrepancy between current measured CO2 and historic data derived from cores. However, core data is an estimate based on a number of assumptions regarding capture and diffusion of gasses during and post ice formation, and I have not come across any literature which questions whether ice core derived CO2 values may underestimate historic CO2 levels. Indeed, there are hints from plant data that this may be the case, but publishing such a conclusion would probably be career suicide in the current politicized academic climate.

The first point alone indicates that some natural degree of warming is to be expected at this point in natural climate variations, something which is never mentioned by proponents of climate change. The second point, if true, would mean that the effects of human activity on global climate are over stated and the current evolution of the system is normal, beyond our control, and/or has happened in the past almost exactly as it is happening now.

1. http://www.antarcticglaciers.org/glaciers-and-climate/ice-co...
I agree that it's not a popular opinion, but with these sorts of things the unintended consequences are not very visible. The people working part time may not realize it may be due to this affect.

It's also interesting to look at percentage of workers that work part time by country. US is relatively low at 22% while countries with a more generous welfare state are higher (France 39%, Norway 48%)

But there are a million other things going on as well so I'm not sure if it's related to that or something else

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.PART.ZS?most_rec...
Truthfully, I'm waiting for Multicore OCaml and I'll only use it, Rust and Elixir.

OCaml's typing system is in my eyes unbeatable. Still considering making a transpiler from it to Rust and Elixir but I'm grossly unqualified to write compilers. :(

Haskell though, I couldn't grok it. Seemed to introduce a lot of tension for very basic topics -- like strings -- and it lost me.
I'm a huge fan of Hermann Hesse. Beneath the Wheel is probably my favorite novel of his, although Steppenwolf & Demian are also fantastic. The Fairytales of Hermann Hesse
re-read every couple years. I've also bought it probably 5 times now, each time lending (giving?) it out to a friend. His fairytales hit the same themes as his novels and often do so with a bit stronger punch and a fun sense of magic.
That's not my experience. I think work stealing is low overhead as it amortises synchronisation, only does it at all when actively required to get more work, and reduces conflicts due to two ends of the queue. Why do you think it's high overhead?
Are you aware of the fact that your anecdotal evidence from the fifties may no longer be pertinent?

Have you seen what happened to wages since then? To the cost of living? To the cost of homes?
> Make(1) is basically gnu make today

It is not on a number of platforms that enjoy popular usage.

> In technical terms, it is easier to rename BSDmakefiles rather than millions of projects out there.

GNU is not the standard. Generally it's a superset of it; if so, then it should have the onus of the nonstandard name.
Which university wants a genome for research? I would gladly give it, but don't know anyone who'd want my genome.
If you’re mounting a filesystem provided by the user you’re supposed to use the nosuid option which tells the kernel to ignore setuid bits on the filesystem.
Or managed Postgres on AWS Aurora, AWS RDS, Google Cloud SQL, Heroku, etc :)

SNS, Kenesis (Kafka), Google Pub/Sub are awesome. Not the same problem/solution fit as an event store, but awesome for the scenarios and architectures they're targeted at.
Indeed. It's a self fulfilling prophecy now.
However tempting (and it is very tempting), how much they’ve already spent should never figure in this kind of decision (aka the sunk cost fallacy). What matters is the return they will get from future commitments.
How Aim, the original killer app, reshaped the internet
Online commerce is a genuine improvement over "good old solutions" IMO, and Amazon used to be great at it. It's not like Uber or other startups who struggle to be profitable while effectively achieving popularity mostly by selling at a loss to kill the competition. Amazon clearly has a working business model that offers value over the brick-and-mortar shops of yore.

Amazon is hurting itself on purpose here, because of greed, not because their model is fundamentally flawed.
From what I have heard, a ton of google internal infrastructure is actually aging and not as nimble by todays standards. It was innovative in 2010, but has been largely commoditized.
Presumably the reason for changing the rules is to limit the number of draws, because wins and losses are more exciting. As he mentions, high level, full length chess has a rather disappointing percent of games ending in a draw. However, he doesn't even show that alphazero produces less draws in this variant (even the example game is a draw through repetition!). It may be interesting because it's different, but I don't really think Kramnik successfully argues that it's any better.
And yet not a single one of those massive companies has attempted to sue Bloomberg into the ground. Bloomberg never even retracted or apologized.

The silence following that whole debacle is deafening and probably very telling...
> Workers need to be willing to break the law in order to win victories against the people that make the laws.

Not if they want to win, they don't. Anarchism won nothing at the turn of the century. Organized (note the adjective!) Labor broke through when it became a political movement with representation in government.
Try harder to do what?

To change the employee/employer relationship from an economic exchange between two parties to one where there's a one-sided loyalty from the employee to the employer?
i run a bunch of services for some online social clubs and foss projects that i'm involved in. i've floated between a bunch of different service providers (Digital Ocean, Scaleway, Hetzner, Joyent Public Cloud, Vultr, and Linode to name a few) and now i'm working on setting up some colo infrastructure. i'll probably keep some of the cloud stuff around for failover and maybe some edge cache type stuff, but you don't really need cloud unless you have extremely variable loads on your system.

i won't say cloud isn't nice, i've been able to learn a lot by playing around with cloud servers. just good to remember that cloud isn't the only option for a lot of workloads.
Could they sell parts of it?
Sure, you can be friends with bigots and authoritarians. It shouldn't be surprising it is a cause for concern for many people.
This is certainly not as true with Microsoft or AWS. You remember the old saying that “no one ever got fired for buying IBM”? If someone bet the farm on IBM in the 70s, they could still buy compatible systems.

Do you think you are at more risk betting your enterprise on Microsoft or Google?
When I read this, and the other one, the only idea that I can come up with is that everyone is lying, at least a little bit.

It seems pretty unlikely that it would be within your job description to create notifications like this on specific websites, and from reading the blog post and the content here, it seems like these notifications are not meant for "company policies" whatever that means, or at the very least it doesn't make sense why a "security engineer" would have a job that notified employees about this.

So, the assumption therefore must be that this person knew they were going out of the norm, but assumed it was acceptable or protected speech.

That raises a good question: Is it the same thing as a message board? My gut instinct is... no, it really isn't.

This sounds like a tool that requires a specific level of authority to use (you need 2 approvals). Not just anyone can put notifications like this in the tool! So this isn't like a message board... this sounds like it was a person abusing their privileges.

Now, for me the next question is: does that mean they should be fired? Personally, I'd say... no. It shows bad judgement, but firing seems disproportionate. In that regard, even if it was a misguided attempt at using their organizing rights, there is an argument to be made that they shouldn't be fired for it (maybe warned, but not fired). So I think even though it sounds pretty fishy, I think there is likely still a possible case here for workers rights issues (though I am not a lawyer).
> the transition from SOA to Microservices is marked by the transition of smart pipes to dumb pipes, and dumb pipes have no knowledge of whether a message has been processed.

That doesn't to seem to be characteristic of Microservices at all. It's more about small bounded context and independent deployment of the service. All of which is completely possible over the "smart pipes" that message queues that I mentioned will give you.

Insisting that this wheel must be re-invented or worked around to make it a microservice seems very odd.
Stadia would probably crumble alongside GCP by necessity too, right?
I can't answer for the original poster, but were it me, yes.

I'm certainly not doing anything to cure that disease. Strict privacy advocates aren't doing something to cure that disease (I guess they might be, but how would I know, they don't talk about themselves much ;) ).

I value a cure for Parkinson's more than I value my privacy. If selling the DNA I provided as part of a research dataset (that I provided without knowing who would be doing the research, but knowing it'd be someone because that's how research works) cures Parkinson's, I'm on board.
The part I found interesting was that the pop up was on a page specifically about labor rights: https://miro.medium.com/max/1000/0*1BTVYLTvuHiJVvp_.jpg

So it's not really inserting unrelated message. I feel like this is completely lost for some reason.
Porpoises are not seals?
Thiel doesn't care about Hogan's sex tape. He cares that Gawker outed his sexuality. With Gawker and Facebook he cares about information as it affects him personally.
Microcenter serves my computing supplies needs quite well. There's nothing like feeling the darn thing with your hands before buying it.
Hint: being cynical does not help your argument and makes you sound like an asshole
So is a CTO betting on Amazon never turning into Oracle.
>When you license lyrics, you don't necessarily get the actual written words to use (the lyrics).

Yep

>You simply get permission to use the lyrics.

Also yep.

>Genius volunteers listen to music and write down their interpretation (punctuation, spelling, spacing etc.)

This does not give the volunteers or Genius ownership of the transcribed lyrics.

>Genius has a TOS to prevent republication of their content.

The recent LinkedIn lawsuit seems to set precedent that you cannot enforce a TOS on publicly accessible content like this.

>Genius started the lawsuit because they claim Google violates this TOS by duplicating Genius's unique transcriptions.

Sure. Doesn't mean they have any chance of winning it.

>Google specifically claims they are NOT scraping Genius, but Genius claims they have proven that they do with watermarks.

My understanding is Google is claiming they get their lyrics from a 3rd party. If that's the case, they can certainly say that they aren't scraping Genius themselves.
>The execution is shockingly simple.

Only if you're blindly running shell commands the effects of which you don't understand.
In 3-5 years? Probably

In 10-20 years? Maybe

In 50-100 years? Probably not

There's a lot of investment opportunity right now so the industry is white hot.

When new investments dry up, there's still a lot of profitable companies with big moats, not to mention smaller players that have wanted more engineers but have been priced out of it, so things will be okay but maybe without salaries as insane.

In the long run there will always be some jobs but things will probably slow down a lot as big players will want to collect their rent and cut costs (read: jobs) to increase stock values.
These executives have no one to blame for erosion of trust in Google but themselves. Here is a company that appears to be driven by transient market share in their decisions while appointing itself the caretaker of the open internet and the dictator of open standards.
If it's profitable why do they care if it passes Amazon or Microsoft?
Google sure is nowhere near as capable or even willing as Microsoft or Amazon; heck even IBM through Red Hat could prove a much better steward for its enterprise customers.

But I think the morality is to never put all your eggs in the same basket, because any of them can fail for external reasons — e.g. horror stories about people locked out of any service because payments failed due to some stupid action by their bank; months to fix issues... don't be that guy/business with a single point of failure.

So, contingency plans, and a healthy distribution of your flows.

Have several banks/cards, several clouds, front load balance with a cross-platform HA solution, then for everything behind peg providers against each other; optimize for cost or convenience or whatever.

This is the resilient way; and possibly even antifragile as you develop new synergies in this meta-space. It also sends a message that interop is value to you, to the market.

When you operate at that level, there may be room for GC in your system — typically where you can afford it to fail / disappear but it's better/cheaper as long as it lives. You're already ready for the day it dies, because you make that risk assessment a parameter in your arch.
Man my firm was looking into going ahead GCP and now this
The problem is that you’re not just selling your DNA. You’re selling the DNA of everyone in your entire family.

Do you have their consent? Because I’d be really, really pissed off if I found my sister or anytime in my family did this test.
CS is one more tool in your box; you can make it your only tool and even build a good career with that one tool, but I’d recommend looking at your education as a quest for more tools, context, and mental models for building your career, and not as a training program.

Side note: CS is the second highest ROI I’ve had for tools. The highest is clear communication due to its ability to be such a multiplier on everything else I do.