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Somebody doing your kitchen doesn't have to be employed by somebody else. They can simply have a contract with you. You pay them x in exchange for them going y in your kitchen.

Of course they can have opinions or refuse to do things in certain ways. But they can't force you to have a pink wall color, or other things. At most, perhaps if the see something dangerous or illegal in your kitchen, they may have a duty to do something about it.

Likewise, an employee can refuse to do things by simply quitting the job.

Harassment: again, quit your job, apart from that, general laws about harassment should apply, independent from you being an employee or not.

"fiduciary duty" - where does that come from? Why does somebody suddenly have a duty to take care of you? I am self employed. Why do you get people to have the duty to take care of you, but I don't? Who should have the duty to take care of me?

Suppose you pay me to renovate your kitchen.

Now what is your duty towards me? Is it now your duty to see that I earn a living wage and have job security forever? All just because you simply wanted a new wall color in your kitchen?
hahahaha, if you've been on HN long enough, you'll see that dang is a selfless mod that does a damn good job and keeping HN pure as possible.

He is the senate.
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>If I had to pay subscription for every piece of software I own I'd be ruined.

That's a very good point.

But also neither here, nor there. That's here the market seems to go, and it seems to indeed want us all ruined.

Or, rather, living paycheck to paycheck to pay those things...
> we should expect the same of employees.

No we shouldn't. The reason being that this puts employees at a significant disadvantage compared to the multitude of companies doing much worse things.

Obviously, there is always a line that one should not crossed. EX: don't do anything that is blatantly illegal.

But taken advantage of at-will employment status, which is fully within someone's legal right to do so? Go for it. If the company is upset about it, then they should have offered better employment terms.
I once quit a job after 6 weeks. From the day I started (when I saw my boss for about 30 seconds, was not given a computer or any information about how to get started/set up), it was clear things were not going well. The team I was joining had mostly disbanded (a mix of fired, left for greener pastures, or transferred to another region). As a result, there was no institutional knowledge, just as my team was put in charge of handling an immense new project.

I could see that in the best case, I would be there long enough to get up to speed on my position, just in time to leave. That wouldn't do a service to the company, so I gave my notice after 6 weeks.

To my boss' credit, he offered that I could stick around for a while until I found my next gig. Looking back, I guess this served his interests also — it would have been hard for him to recruit for this position if a newly-arrived team member left so quickly, following on the heels of several other departures.
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Sure but that's because a house in London is a fundamentally different asset today than it was say 30-40 years ago. I live in Toronto and people in my generation complain about housing prices here as well, that their parents bought a house for super cheap back in the 70s and 80s and now they have no chance to afford anything.

What's not discussed is that these cities were much smaller back then, had far fewer services both private and government, had much higher crime and pollution and a host of issues that have all been substantially ameliorated over the decades, specifically the 90s.

If people want the experience that their parents had to find cheap housing, then they have to move to a location that is in a similar state today that London or Toronto was in 30 years ago. Those places do exist and there's no shortage of affordable and cheap housing in Canada, many parts of the U.S., and I suspect the UK.

The problem is that what people my generation really want are all the benefits that have come over the past 3-4 decades without the cost of paying for those benefits, and that's just not likely to happen.
Sad that this is what we all have to compete against.
I haven't had success switching teams at all. I had a few that wanted to still interview me. I had a vp say he won't let me switch. The only time I ever switched teams, I had that decision made for me, worked out fortunately.

Having another internal team still want to do a technical interview was ridiculous to hear though.
“Unfortunately”.

What a ridiculous culture we’ve built if this sentiment is widely accepted. Just bizarre.
now or not going to be fired quickly?
Because learning a bunch of algorithms doesn’t translate well into day to day programming capability. This is exactly why those dumb whiteboard problems aren’t good for interviews; you’re not measuring what makes someone successful on a day to day basis.
It's always interesting to me when people react like this to an internet comment without sharing any research they did themselves.

To me a forum like this is like when I'd be sitting around in uni wondering aloud about some problem and someone will say "Well, maybe if you use the fact that the functions which invert the sign of the √2 and √3 parts in Q(√2, √3) are automorphisms, then you can see that the group containing them and their composition is just Z2×Z2".

The truth of that part isn't important. It's the fact that it's a good faith hint. It's my job to go find the truth given this mild heuristic.

They're the ones doing me the favour so I have to contribute in order to get more information. In this case, I can attempt to find an error in the proof or to ask clarification. But if I were to ask them to write out a proof then I'm being a fool and I'll get fewer hints from them in future.

I noticed that most people who really know their field don't cite their assertions. It makes sense. So now I'm not surprised when people don't provide a citation. It's just a hint. They didn't sign up to be my tutor.
If the law required severance the law is also pretty likely to make requirements of the employee as well so things will still be equal - when I say pretty likely I mean in every case I have ever seen.
But my case (with mesh intakes) serves the important function of keeping cat hair out of the heatsinks
Trying out the commute is huge. Losing two to three hours a day is a big drain. Worth it if you have an ideal job but not otherwise.
Can you give a link to the tool please?
He's not entirely correct, either. I haven't played it, but I did see video of it, and I was impressed by the stability of the dithering. It takes work to avoid it looking like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AKtp3XHn38 or something.
If anything, Tula is famous for metalworking, weapons, and gingerbread before anything else.
> the upper rungs of Stripe’s engineering individual contributor (IC) ladder put a lot of emphasis on cross-team coordination and other, managerial-like activities that I didn’t enjoy and felt I wasn’t very good at.

That's just the reality of senior IC engineering positions. At some point, there's a limit to the amount that you can contribute by sheerly by your own work - to have a bigger impact, you'll need to need influence/improve/impact others
Real manufacturing output is a lot higher than it was back in the supposed heyday of manufacturing.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OUTMS

Manufacturing employment, on the other hand, is down substantially because of automation.
Want a breakdown, ok.

My server, my raspberry pi in my house, my desktop and my phone all run an instance, with my server hosting a Mosca MQTT which they all use to send messages between.

My server runs anything web-facing, so the web-hooks and random API projects. The PI does things like Wake-on-lan the Desktop, working with Alexa (https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-alexa-home) and acting as a pi-hole. The Desktop listens for things like shutdown commands (from Alexa) and other commands to do things.

All together Node-Red just gives me the flexability to do everything at the "right" scope. The project is also cute as hell, just look at knolleary's response here: https://github.com/node-red/node-red/issues/719
Oh, hey, it's Chad's slides!

Coverage of the finals is usually much less detailed, unfortunately, since the number of teams is much smaller and the challenges don't necessarily go up. However, https://oooverflow.io/dc-ctf-2020-quals/ has a couple more writeups linked from it; https://dttw.tech/posts/SJ40_7MNS#proof-by-exhaustion from PPP and http://www.secmem.org/blog/2019/08/19/Shellcoding-and-Bitfli... from SeoulPlusBadass.
So if the foot soldier in the trench keeps complaining that they don't have enough bullets, and saying that without bullets they can't fight and will loose the battle, they shouldn't be listened to?

I think they are exactly the ones we should be listening to.
How was the experience with setting up a Cape Verde business entity for the domain? Any issues or regrets?
std::vector<RGBController *>

Dude! C++ 11 has been out for 10 years, get rid of your raw pointers!
Also saw the addition of the pronouns section and cringed. I hope such expressions of religious affiliation are optional.
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No idea, at the very least it didn't seem to build up a static charge, and it's worked fine for me for a long time. I imagine it probably depends on the specific yoga mat.

I used to just have it directly on the wood, which was fine too, but then I put it on top of an upside-down, powder-coated-metal IKEA drawer thing (so I could put the power supply underneath for more shelf space). My fiancee was worried it might get scratched and conduct at some point, so we added the yoga mat.
Anyone here who was into case modding back in the 2000s? I ran a semi-popular German case-modding website and forum 19 years ago.

We put windows in our boring grey computer cases and bought blue LEDs for 2 EUR a piece to light up the internals. As LEDs were so expensive we often opted to use CCFL tubes. We put electroluminescent wire everywhere, even into keyboards. We built our own fan controllers from scratch to fit into a 3.5" slot. People payed 200 EUR for PC cases from LIAN LI and Cooler Master just to mod the shit out of them. Watercooling just became a thing and it was hugely expensive, the PC cases didn't have a place for the radiators so you had to get creative with your power tools. We went to LAN parties with our awesome machines, we organized collective orders in our case modding forums to buy cheap LEDs from china. We were amazed by the latest products, like LED fans that flashed the light in synchronization with the fan RPM like a zoetrope, so it appeared to stand still.

We couldn't even dream of a keyboard with individually RGB keys back then and now you get RGB in everything without even wanting it. Mass production has taken over and all the magic is gone. You just buy it and yeah it looks cool, but whats the fun in that if every PC looks the same - thats exactly what we didn't want, we wanted to be different.

Fun times though!
I've done this before. Got an offer while I was still interviewing with a few other companies. Accepted the offer then a few weeks later another, significantly better, offer came through.

I have absolutely no qualms about it, and I don't put the tiny stint on my resume. My work and expertise speaks for itself. It's sad that job hunting has become rife with Machiavellian machinations in the past three decades, but this is the world we live in. Acting otherwise is self-sabotaging.

Long gone are the days where we'd become "company men" loyal to CEOs and corporate pillars. We'd get to retire in our late 50s with pretty wives, a few kids, and decent savings. Job hopping is the most reliable way to get a raise. If you don't job hop, you might be on the chopping block come the next layoff wave.

This is all on top of the fact that engineers are woefully underpaid. I have finance friends that make literal millions in yearly bonuses. This is virtually unheard of in software, even though we provide orders of magnitude more value.

It is what it is.
From the vice article:

> For your smartphone to actually pay attention and record your conversation, there needs to be a trigger, such as when you say “hey Siri” or “okay Google.” In the absence of these triggers, any data you provide is only processed within your own phone. This might not seem a cause for alarm, but any third party applications you have on your phone—like Facebook for example—still have access to this “non-triggered” data. And whether or not they use this data is really up to them.
It’s more work on mobile than just copying the link. If someone really cares, they will come along and de-amp it like you did. I personally don’t get the zealotry on this issue is for news sites. Non-news I understand, but I usually prefer the amp link on pretty much any news site.
Okay, true, looks like Britney was first!
Haha yup
Reply that I posted to another comment:

Why? If a person can learn bunch of algorithms and apply them to custom problems they probably can do quite a bit with computers. And it shows that they probably can learn new stuff rapidly as well. I don't get why so many developers hate Leetcode. I love it personally, I think it's great. And also, I think people are just lazy and don't want to learn new stuff so they whine instead. I don't think whining will help them.
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Is the part we are disagreeing about what “not _yet_ showing any change” means? I doubt hospitals have ten thousand deaths which they procrastinated reporting.

More likely the author meant that November and December is not yet counted, and therefore must add the “yet” to the sentence.

As you say, [0] states that a slightly larger than average number of deaths occurred during Q2, and a smaller number during Q3. It may be a tragedy to die in spring and not in fall, and miss one last summer. Please keep in mind though that the claim you’re responding to was that 2020 the year didn’t see a significant increase in deaths - it was a very average year to die as a Swede.
Thanks for the link. Not sure why Hacker News doesn't want to hear the truth.
> SimCity was truly a game with multiple dimensions.

I keep hearing this, but what other dimensions does it have?

I remember playing SimCity in highschool and can't really remember anything it has that City Skylines does not. That is likely due to multi-decade-old memories and not that it actually lacks those dimensions.
I'm confused by the statement on ethics. What ethic is being broken by the employee, who is searching for a new job from a new company, while still under employment with his current company?
I definitely can relate to this. I also went to work for a software/hardware company which had tight, open office desks, hardware everywhere, no remote options, longer hours, stressful deadlines, etc. I knew I made the wrong decision during my orientation. I choose option 3, which was was stick it out for two years. Ironically by the time 2 years was up, I was in a much happier state. I had just become used to the situation. I learned a ton from the experience and all the smart people working there, but I would never want to go back.
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I can't agree. I doubt many people on HN are "absolutist" a lot of us do realize that the US prison system is horrible if you're not in a white collar minimal security prison (and he would not be, he is headed for a federal prison with probably 23.5 hours solitary confinement a day in a room and 30 minutes of exercise) and probably some time with his lawyers. I can't say I wouldn't side with the English judge in this case, he's just calling it like he sees it.
> If you've spent $57MM on Facebook ads, are you still considered a "small business"?

My thoughts exactly. Not necessarily agreeing with FB's act here, but this post and the way they connect their issue to a hot topic these days (small businesses) seems hypocritical and an attempt to make people sympathize with them. That's not what's happening here. They should instead talk about the entirety of their business (all their pages, not just a handful) and then claim it is a small business.
I actually have a medium-hair cat and it's been fine. But it's pretty far off the floor.
It seems a lot more damage is caused by stupidity, corner-cuttinf, fraud, bad design and poor maintenance, than is caused by deliberate attacks.

I feel this is overblown, most people in the society are not suicidal psycos.
I see that you deleted your further attempt to mock my presenting statistics in exchange for your anecdotes (I had no idea until reading your contributions here that that in the US there is no "actually having friends, nature, having hill-climbing organizations that aren't only lobist groups to be actually allowed to climb the mountains").

But since you did bring up Germany with the deleted mention of Operation Paperclip, I suggest you read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25367731 , in which @bildung and I discuss German migration to the US over the past 30 years (including 2019 data).
Sadly, though your idea is good, current reality I see it as mostly a way to get your name on a list. The government traditionally has ... not been kind ... to those who disclose or report or whistleblow on vulnerabilities, however responsibly or appropriately.
This is not a description of how he's being treated as a prisoner, but rather specifically as a prisoner who is being transported between a prison and a courthouse during a trial or hearing.

So... somewhat disingenuous.
I think the general theory is that the employee has the net disadvantage. If they lose their job, it's 100% of their livelihood, whereas for the employer, losing one employee out of a dozen or more is rarely an existential threat. Also, the employer has more power over the work environment.
Do you know if newer cases gotten better than P180, for sound isolation while keeping cool?

That's still my case, but it's huge and I don't need that space anymore.
My father used to work in electricity transmission, including some very long high-voltage DC lines. He said that a big problem they have with lower-voltage lines is people shooting at the glass insulators, and a big problem they have with the high-voltage lines is people shooting at the spacers... and also stealing bolts and straps for metal value. It's interesting to think about what could have happened if someone unintentionally caused serious damage to, say, a transmission line which was the largest connection into Los Angeles, but ultimately they are built pretty sturdy.

This kind of vandalism is just a huge hassle for just about any infrastructure that covers a meaningful amount of land.
At Stripe and each of my jobs before that, I had had a short commute to a beautiful office, and got to experience the instant gratification associated with developing purely software-based products. Now, I was stuck taking a crowded train to a dark office littered with hardware parts, working on a product that would take many years to reach mass-market adoption due to pesky little things like manufacturing and road safety.

This is after he went to a robotics company because it seemed different.

He may also have felt out of place with people who know computers, electrical engineering, and mechanical engineering. If all you know is webcrap, you may feel way over your head in a robotics company.