skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a bit of background upfront, I'm a 6+ year AWS employee who went from an intern to full-time SDEI after graduation to relatively recently an SDEIII. All of the below also specifically applies to white-collar tech employees.

There are two big issues with a lot of employees at AWS, not knowing their worth and not having backbone.

It is not a privilege to work for Amazon. It is a privilege for Amazon that you work for them. In this particular case, this person says that he was an SDE II. That's great. You should be able to pretty easily go get a job at any of the other large tech companies. You're not locked into Amazon. You likely have a CS degree. You've got a couple years of industry experience in a field where most companies can't hire fast enough.

That said, don't leave Amazon. Leave your team. Internal transfers are easy and no longer gated on you being on a team for a certain amount of time. Start talking to other people from other teams and find a good fit. Most internal transfers are about culture fit and you likely won't be asked any coding questions.

You are not obligated by anything to stay on your team. End of. Amazon is one of the largest companies in the world. Don't feel some sort of personal responsibility to stay on one team. That's just not reasonable. They'll find a way to make do without you and if they can't why do you really care? At some local mom and pop shop, sure you may not want to leaving the owner hanging but Amazon ain't that.

Yes, there are rare occurrences where an org may try to block you from leaving. In which case, again, you are a tech employee of Amazon. You should be able to transfer to another large tech company.

As far as the loaner situation goes, have backbone. I've been asked to help out another team before. I did some research and decided I didn't want to. I told my manager and that was that. If he really pressed, again, see the prior options.

Don't be afraid to escalate. Don't care about politics. Your manager may hate you for trying to escalate on them but what the effect of that in the long run? You only get a 1% pay increase on your 150K annual salary instead of a 5%? You have to go work for Microsoft for 150K instead of Amazon?

Rough oncall? Change teams.

Oncall but want to go places? Do it anyways. All teams should offer a hot spot. Yes, this probably means you can't go hiking but it doesn't mean you can't go other places. Being oncall doesn't really ever change my habits other than having to bring my laptop with me. Sure, if you're on a team getting paged regularly, that won't work but I'm not sure why you want to be on a team that gets paged regularly after hours.

Come on people. If you work for a FAANG company, you are a very highly paid employee in one of, if not the, hottest career field in the world. You are very likely in the top 10% of world wide salaries. (118K+ year according to numbers from US Social Security Admin)
RabbitMQ runs perfectly fine on Windows too. As others mentioned in the comments, RabbitMQ supports a great variety of use cases. If you want to reach out for help, you can find my contact in the article.
In the big picture, wages are set by how much it would cost to replace you with an equally-qualified worker.

In a location-agnostic situation, this would mean "how much it would cost to replace you with an equally qualified worker anywhere in the United States?" (Or world, really, but let's stick to US for now)

What Facebook is probably signaling with this location-based cut is that this is the direction they are headed. They can't afford to immediately cut their Bay Area workers' salaries to this US-average-number (because they would lose their current workers faster than they can replace them) but they are not going to give preference in the future to Bay Area workers and will not pay new Bay Area workers higher salaries unless their physical presence in the Bay Area is explicitly needed.
> Well, I'd blame the pandemic itself.

Exactly.

In most countries, people are willingly staying mostly at home. More, they continue to restrain from shopping and eating out after the lockdown ended.
Web is pretty bad for many (most?) use cases.
If Google is willing to pay 500 but FB says you get cut to 250... you're going to work for Google. The companies will pay out as long as they get good returns on the money. Location will become irrelevant for pay.

If companies say you'll get a pay cut, it presents an excellent opportunity to poach some talent.
Which world are you living in where banning visitors having their phones is a reasonable thing to happen?
Cars do have more utility than motorcycles, but where I live (college town in American midwest) there are many poor people who drive small, cheap motorcycles. Speculation on why:

<50cc scooters are subject to different -- usually lower -- registration, insurance, inspection, and licensing requirements than cars.

State-minimum insurance for my cheap (KBB ~$1000) used (+200K miles) car would be about $700/year. Similarly minimal insurance for a 2010 Honda Ruckus would be $100/year. (I just checked Geico.)

Small motorcycles consume a lot less gasoline than cars, especially old, cheap ones being driven in-city.

Spare parts for scooters can be purchased and shipped cheaply, and assembled in a minimum of space with cheap hand tools.

Scooters don't require a full parking space to store. They can be stashed against signs, at bike racks, next to doors, in tiny alleys, or any other free spot. Living with other people? You don't need to worry about blocking the driveway, or being blocked yourself. Work downtown? You can get away without buying a pass at a parking garage.
"The point is the business wasn't declining until she changed the mission"

WTF? No. Are you just making this up?

She, via Emerson Collective, has invested heavily and they would be in greater trouble were it not for her.

(I used to work for Quartz which was started by The Atlantic so my comments are based on actually having been there and know how these operations work)
The restaurant industry would be wise to note that the steep decline in customers preceded the lockdowns, and are being very slow to tick back up in states that have lifted theirs.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/05/19/american...

Getting people to come back will require making them feel safe, regardless of whether the government says they can open.
The part that doesn't make sense though is keeping the employees that live in SF, or paying an employee more if they choose to relocate to SF.

Tech companies typically do increase your salary if you move to a higher CoL area.
"Blister agents" refers to obsolete medications such as the extract from Spanish fly [0], which was used to try to help President George Washington recover from his cold:

"other treatments they gave [George Washington] during that period were enemas and drugs to make him vomit and something called blisters, where they applied Spanish fly onto his throat, which raises a painful blister, again to remove these terrible humors that are caution the inflammation."

-Bloodletting and blisters: Solving the medical mystery of George Washington’s death, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/bloodletting-blisters-solv...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_fly [473]
You have to compete with the same Amazon, Twitter, Google, etc whether you're hiring 5 star engineers for $300k+ each or 3 star engineers for $100k and under. I don't buy into the theory that one engineer is innately 100 times as skilled as another, but you're going to have a really hard time competing with FAANG if you just randomly scoop up a bunch of mediocre engineers willing to accept 50k a year each.

If I leave Silicon Valley to settle down in rural Vietnam, I'm not going to work for $50k a year. If I couldn't find something paying at least $150k+, I'd start my own company and live off my savings until I get it up and running.

There's a real market-based reason engineers get paid as much as they do. It's easy to lose sight of that here on HackerNews, but just look at what your white collar, non-tech friends do at work all day. Their productivity can often be easily doubled or tripled by better tech. That is to say, someone generating $30k in value per year for your business could suddenly generate an extra $30-$60k a year with better software to help them.
>How much is the 1.35% annual property tax on a million-dollar house, per month? You really want to whip out your laptop for all that?

I'll bite. In what scenario would it be useful to do this calculation in my head?
Nix seems wonderful, but I have one question: If nixos.org and github.com disappeared tomorrow, are users sufficiently enabled to keep the project going, or are those two single points of failure?
We've been WFH for about 3 years now, and aside from meeting up each Friday for lunch, if you're finding it hard to get the point across on Slack/email or it's taking too long, the best option is to pick up the phone and talk it through. Saves so much time, and of course it's nice to hear the voice of the other person.
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I love the outdoors, so your comment really speaks to me. But speaking as someone who has worked remotely for the last 15+ years I'm skeptical that the model will become even close to dominant.

* Not everyone is equally productive when working remotely. For a variety of reasons some people just work better in offices.

* Mixed office/remote teams are unstable. People will be drawn to offices if only for career reasons, which makes it harder for the remote works, hence makes the office more attractive, etc.

* Some jobs are just better done in person. Auto repair is not a remote job. Same for manufacturing.

What I hope for is that companies will realize they don't need everyone to commute to the office every damn day. I freed up about 3 hours of transit time and reduced my annual carbon emissions by about a ton just by commuting one day less in the Bay Area. There's no reason why most white collar jobs can't work from home a couple of days a week. This would already be a huge improvement.
First, facebook can stil datamine that photo even if it's not public. Second, if it were private, gradma would still be sharing it with people outside the control of the parents (what if gradma was dating a pedophile?). Third, gradma could've easily changed them to public any time.
> if you are competing against engineers who are willing to accept lower salary due to low CoL in another area, the company would offer less. Of course, that is not how things should be.

Why shouldn't it be? The market uses prices to signal things you should and shouldn't do. This particular price signal is saying, "move away!" If you don't have another, stronger signal that overrides it, it is not an efficient use of resources, and society suffers a dead-weight loss.

Why should all the software engineers all have to cram into Silicon Valley, pay California income taxes, and bid up the prices on a housing supply which remains wholly inadequate for the region? If tech stopped paying the California premium, the companies would see higher profit, their customers would see lower prices, their engineers more disposable income.

I would love for programming jobs to be available in every major city in the nation. Sure, the Mission is pretty cool, but there's hundreds of other cities in the US that have some pretty cool stuff too.
I can totally relate to this. I often feel that with all these "simplistic" products coming out they actually oversimplify it to the point where it actually takes longer to do. It is great to have the flexibility and all, but where do we draw the line from being too flexible or too simplified? Like you, I ran into the same issues with Notion, so I switched to Trello, but it has some lack of features that I really wanted. I've been searching the web to find team chats that particularly don't require too much integration, and is simple. Especially with task management. I've been seeing a lot of mentions about AirSend on twitter, and I checked out their website. They have a really simple to-do list that is built-in. My team and I just started using it last week, and so far I don't have too many complaints. Not sure if you are looking for a switch, but you might like them. I hope this helps! Their website is, AirSend.io
Is it abusive if you willingly sign up for it? Doctors are on-call for emergencies. We compensate for this so I'm not clear on why its abusive if employees willingly sign up. If you don't want to be on-call, find another job.
People who have control over $22 billion have the ability to get a large sum of physical cash very quickly.

The problem is who gets to choose what is "more impactful". Maybe some of those staff were getting ready to shatter the world with an insane revelation that instigates "long-term structural change" and makes life better for everyone. Then Jobs would have invested her money improperly. But because she gets to almost unilaterally decide what happens under her purview, those former employees never get a chance.
Indeed, but modern frameworks get around this quickly. If you use Symfony, Laravel or Drupal, you will likely never use these functions, because they are packaged as a replaceable module with proper OOP interfaces and classes.

Most people who pick PHP these days are doing that because these very mature frameworks. I see no alternative to Drupal with all its glory in any of the modern languages.

I think PHP-s success was related to its relative low latency compared the early Ruby and Perl, especially when FCGI became supported. We could easily serve 200+ interactive websites on a single desktop PC, with five-nines SLO.

Sure, there are much better, more fun languages these days, but to retire PHP we need to find better worthy FOSS alternatives to the PHP CMS-es.
Doesn't Apple news plus do that or something?

I just picked 2-3 publications I really like and I subscribe to those. I'm not paying for everything, but I am paying for some.
No.

Restaurants saw a decline in bookings before those lockdown orders, and haven't bounced back to normal in opened-up states.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/05/19/american...
I suspect that eventually we may see a realignment to "utility" based pay rates as opposed to location. The old rates of SV may wind up their own tier in Work From Home who can demand that rate successfully.

Of course that depends upon proper judgement and valuation of employees and prospective employees.
I agree with you. Anyone working in a big enough company should already know the difference between being at HQ where you are near senior leadership, and being anywhere else.
Legislators puts pressure on them. E.g. by threatening to repeal CDA or bring other regulation if they do not self-regulate and "do something" about content they deem problematic for one reason or another.
Not sure if this is popularity tactics or if there is material benefit to the economy with all these new and funny rules.
> These types of censorship patterns are identical to that employed by China in intent. The practical consequences are the same as well.

True, if you ignore the fact that China is a government and YouTube is an internet video portal. And that there are sites like HN that can point it out. And that YouTube isn't taking steps to cover up what they've done.

But yeah, let's compare the policing of bad information in a pandemic that gets people killed, where YouTube doesn't benefit from the "censorship", to what China's government is doing. At least you get to feel good about your purity when you're posting comments on HN, secure in the knowledge that you don't have a teenager or a parent that might die as a result.
Twitter's Jack Dorsey Is Giving Andrew Yang $5M to Boost UBI
This perk at fb was halted in 2008 precisely for the reason you mention above - it raised all the rents suitable for employees at the time within that perimeter by $1000/mo.

(Source: I worked for fb)
Real Journalism is very expensive.

I fear the day when all the financially viable "news" is some YouTube channel with no investigative staff powering it, but caters to a niche that doesn't care about accuracy or integrity to sustain itself.
So I’ll believe that when I see it. The deadline got moved three times already.
On top of what others are saying, on modern websites, inline CSS is usually forbidden by the Content-Security-Policy, to provide defense in depth against CSS injection.

(This SO answer summarizes why CSS injection is something to care about: https://stackoverflow.com/a/718614)
Of course, you can still buy pixels in the aftermarket here: https://pixelpirate.club/
If the system accepted the files, then what was the problem?
Which is of course extremely cynical, as this is a very bad time to be tossed out into the job market.
Amazon is open about engineers owning their on-call duty. This should not be a surprise to a new hire.
Jack Dorsey pledges $5M to Andrew Yang’s UBI and Covid-19 relief efforts
Thats not plausible at all.

This lockdown has devastated media advertising across the board. Events require in-person experiences which are just not possible in the near-term.
I am interested in reviews of this tool. Has anyone used it?
Apparently Bob Lambert also had four sexual relationships while undercover, even fathering a child with one of them despite already having a wife and kids. One woman said she felt "raped by the state" when she learned who he really was, another whom he got pregnant got some money in a lawsuit at least. [0]

What an unbelievably shitty thing to do. Some people have no heart.

0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lambert_(undercover_poli...
Well, if your labour is not, in fact, fungible it won't behave on the market as if it is fungible. You'll see this often for people paid a lot doing a single role for 30 years. Given the probability of a good replacement hire, they can't actually be replaced. Given their unique knowledge of that company, they're worth 50% to another. You'll also see this at startups where people will move from place to place keeping their income. But the median Facebook engineer's labour is fungible. It doesn't really matter which engineer is there so long as there is an engineer there.

And human beings are not being treated as disposable gadgets. Their labour is behaving like any other good in the market. There are some specifics but for the most part it is true.

There's no should to this. It's merely observational truth.
HEIC isn’t a proprietary codec, it’s an ISO standard
Few. Why would I want to play pinball myself.
Something something temporarily embarrassed billionaires
How can I explore photos that people I've blocked have uploaded, and get facebook to remove them? Seems like that should be possible.
Adobe: Mac Pro Afterburner ProRes Hardware Decompression Support
This is false, and we know it's false because in every country with optional maternity leave, more than 50% of women take their leave. Even in the US which lacks legal requirements for employers to offer paid maternity leave, over 70% of women took maternity leave--presumably the remaining 30% is largely a subset of the 33% of women who were not offered paid maternity leave. That you know people who were pressured into foregoing their leave is anecdotal.

[0]: https://mchb.hrsa.gov/whusa11/hstat/hsrmh/downloads/pdf/233m...
I've been getting paid SV salary to work remotely for SF/SV companies for a while now. This is just companies treating engineers as a cost center - showing true colors.
Do you think that an informed population is a net positive or a net negative? I personally think the former, and I had a pool of spare cash lying around I might try to put money towards that effort.
Exactly what I was going to post. At any given time it's about 80% likely SO is going to be open in at least one of my chrome tabs.
Of course, programmers in Oklahoma are not idiots either..

They know that not only does the company have a wider choice of employees - the employee has a
wider choice of employers.

They also know SV companies pay more then $90K, and if they already have a decent gig they will not 'settle' for what they could get at a small company. They may not ask for the full $150K - but they are going to ask for say $120-125k. End result is salaries will start to homogenize around the country.

P.S.
We've seen this in AZ as more tech comes in, salaries have been getting closer and closer to SF.
Good. I hope people do not feel I am being overtly critical, but deleting the photos mean nothing. Once something is posted on the internet, especially Facebook, it can not be un-posted. At least, that is what my understanding is.
i'm kind of super interested (also scared) in the effects FAANG companies allowing remote workers will have. sure, maybe salaries at FAANG might decrease as supply/competition rises, but then all of the other companies that arent FAANG now have to sort of raise the lower boundaries of their pay since they cant just say "well you can go ahead to move to SF if you dont like it". Are we looking at lower high end of the spectrum but a higher median?
The accused was inspired by movement commonly known as INCEL
On top of that, Sweeden is recording very high death rates and latest estimates point to around 7% in immunity.
This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who knows the general compensation strategy for all the major tech companies.

They don't pay based either on value added or cost of living (which is why compensation is higher in the Bay Area compared to London).

They pay based on market rate where the target is something like 95th-percentile based on market surveys they do. Presumably this hits some sweet spot in acceptance rate vs cost. Employee compensation is a big ticket item for these companies on the balance sheet so they're highly incentivized to put a lot of thought into their setups.

Additionally if we truly go fully remote salaries will almost certainly go down just looking at the supply change alone. Previously these companies only hired

* A) People who met the hiring bar

* B) People who were willing to relocate to one of office location

If you remove B you've massively increased the available talent pool.
My mother just yelled at my sister this week telling her “she’s not mature enough to get married” because her personal trainer job is currently on hold and my mom is paying her rent. This is something I’ve seen quite a few “conservative” parents do to their kids: they don’t think about what the kids are dealing with they just see that they aren’t making money and scream at them. It’s something she used to do to me before I finished college and it made getting out of bed and other every day things super hard. I used to be conservative but the total and complete lack of empathy people have even towards their own kids pushed me away from it.
Hi, yes, this is what Retool is for! (https://retool.com)

It's like Metabase, but instead of for buliding dashboards, it's for building CRUD apps. LMK if you have any feedback? We've been working on it for a bit now.

Thanks!
Interesting. Are you talking about the cRIO line or the PXI one?

My experience with the PXI line was that it was absolutely top notch. I’ve seen some really cool things done with that. Most electrical folks I’ve worked with loved the hardware but absolutely despised the price gouging. They were constantly looking for alternatives yet NI hw remained for most things.

The cRIO line.... it’s getting better and it has improved a ton, but in the early beginnings it was extremely buggy, both hw and software.
The only change they needed to make was one line on their upload form (according to comments elsewhere on the post). This wasn’t an Apple support issue, this was a lack of trying and sufficient testing on the College Board’s part.