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There are two parts of this story.

1. Amazon has attrition metrics.

2. Hiring managers at Amazon are deliberately hiring weak people that they intend to later fire so they can protect the rest of their team.

The argument is that because managers can't actually unilaterally hire weak people that this strategy isn't really feasible.

There are still bad parts of #1, but that isn't the most controversial part of the story.
> Why on earth do you think its fair for US based organizations to spread across the globe, reap the huge profits from that but funnel all the cash back into the US

Random guess, they're American :-)

Facebook, Google & co. are absolutely ravaging local economies, pardon me, disrupting legacy economies all over the world and a small chunk of that ends up as compensation in the US.

The rest of that, FAANG are just sitting on it like a dragon hoarding gold, as far as I can see.
Some of the EDA file formats are absolutely terrible. My first job out of school was building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NI_Multisim . As I recall, the file format was quite bad and I doubt anyone would be able to figure out what it meant without sitting in front of the tool, generating a file, then inspecting it.
The idea is that the government prints money to cover expenses. If you could somehow force everyone to hold all their wealth in cash, this would act as a wealth tax.

This doesn't work, however, because with very high planned inflation no one wants to use your currency, and without taxation there's no reason they have to.
Here in France, as a contractor, if I bill a client 100 000€ annually and decide to get as much as possible in personal income, 30 000€ will go as social taxes (health, retirement ...) and for the remaining 70 000€ you will have to pay around 25% as income tax (if you don't have any children).

You will have an income of ~52 000€ for 100 000€ billed during the year. You're not earning millions and yet around 50% of revenue was paid for tax purposes.
Regardless of their capabilities they get targeted by this sort of thing pretty aggressively and "App Stores" seem to do little to stop it.
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To me that's moving the goal posts. There are plenty of nomadic and tribal societies out there that function the same way they have for thousands of years.

Certainly our technologically advanced civilizations as they exist today are founded on capitalism, but I am not sure that is required, it has just become such an ingrained concept that "no one would ever do these unsavory tasks if we didn't threaten them with starvation and death" that we have difficulty imagining any other possibility.
> Once people could work from home, they decided they didn't want to live in a city anymore.

IMO it’s too early to claim that. People left the city during the pandemic because there was no point paying the premium to live in a city when all its amenities are closed. As cities open back up we might see a lot of people return. Anecdotally, I know a bunch of early career folks in their 20s that moved back in with their parents during the pandemic to save cash. That most certainly isn’t their long term plan.

I don’t doubt that a good number of folks won’t return to the city once this is over. But I wonder if that’s just an acceleration of moves they would have already made in the next 5 years or so, rather than something indicative of the death of cities.
I used Excel recently and it added a BOM, which is pretty awful. Is there any way to stop that nonsense?
Well, what's ironic, is that I read the Guardian, amongst other newspapers.

I personally find it helpful, when a newspaper from a country that is not my own, is linked-to on HN, what political leanings it has, as that helps understand the story and provide some background, and in some cases the particular views of a journalist.

I like balance, or at least reading stories with views I may not necessarily agree with, but at least I make the effort to read those. And perhaps I'll learn something, or change my views on a topic.
Whenever the discussion of commuting comes up, the discussion revolves around worst case scenarios.

We are software engineers! There is no reason for us to put up with a worst case or even an average case commute. If we want to go into the office, it's easy for us to move house or move job.

Its not worth agonizing over a few bucks an hour, especially when going into the office has its own monetary benefits as OP mentioned. It would be a non-issue for most people here to just pay for an Uber back and forth to work, and not have to worry about driving at all.
There is no tax free allowance in NL? Do you pay extra for healthcare or is it paid for out of that amount?
Indeeed, it is wonderful when people install outside Play Store and keep giving permissions for everything on flashlight apps.
> But I'd be surprised if having a "share" button where readers can share with their smaller circle of friends would be problematic.

Well that’s what happened.
> Why would someone that wants to exploit other people leave a place that lets them exploit others?

Because we'll kick them out. I'm always up for doing things i don't particularly enjoy because there's value in them, but I certainly don't want to live with someone who treats me like a slave.

> you will need something more than good vibes to serve as incentives

Sure. But you'll probably concede that we live in a world run by psychopaths where children in schools are taught how to become psychopaths themselves. The first thing we teach children is "copying is cheating" and we're wondering why we're fucked? I'm not saying there's a time and place where everything will be perfect and we can all live happily ever after (i'm not a hippy), but there's very rational reasons for the ways everything around us is bad, and very rational courses of actions to fix those.

Abolishing property as State-mandated religion doesn't mean that some people won't have more than others (this would be ridiculous). But at least it would mean that nobody would sleep on the streets while there are empty homes, and nobody would starve while there is wasted food. Both ridiculous situations are the consequence of private property and require considerable amounts of force and resources to apply. It obviously is not working at scale, as we can see from environmental damage and previously-unimaginable levels of inequality.
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Sorry but this is not a good comparison. Microsoft created many jobs which are all paying this kind of income tax. This article is about corporate tax which is tax on the company's profit.
> I don't think anyone's interested literally because it's a bigger number - you're responding to an imaginary argument nobody made.

Yet when some browser (Chrome) switched to Very Big Version Numbers, all other browsers followed suit and matched those version numbers very closely. So clearly there is marketing behind version numbers.
What? The seat being warm is the best case.
>Let's be 100% honest: you did not spend 4 hours a day commuting pre-WFH. You just didn't.

Just take a look at this:

10min walk to the station

5min wait for the train

1h 5min travel time

10min walk to the office

+

10min walk to the station

around 15min wait for the train

1h 5min travel time

10min walk to the home

the only thing you can argue is

>around 15min wait for the train
Well, yes and no. In my opinion, lobbying in itself is not evil if it remains within reasonable limits.

One of the limiting factor is to avoid giving the said lobbies unlimited funding. That is one of the reason for taxing corporations.
In 30 years we'll have plenty of computers from 2020 that are still used. Survivor bias is strong, we just don't see all the computers from the 90s that already gave up the ghost
I wish, we asked our university and they essentially wanted to charge ridiculous amounts to our research group. IIRC we asked about 100TB and their estimated cost was like 10k euros a year.

Regarding your dumping data comment. Yes that's certainly an issue. The problem is that researchers are required to do this, but there is no real consideration of the time this takes (it does not make a difference to your career/reputation etc. if you publish good or bad data), it's really out of the expertise of most researchers and there is little help provided by universities.
The absolute most under discussed aspect of this issue. As an employee you’re paying for their office space now... and they sell it as a benefit to YOU.
Sorry for the confusion. I mostly agree with you, except the par here you say that it should be allowed because of the current laws. I think the idea of not tolerating intolerance should be worked more strongly into our laws. The advent of the internet has allowed sizable hate groups to organize and coordinate their efforts as well as accelerated the spread of misinformation. The problem with simply disproving of Trump is that he has enough supporters to approve of him that he essentially gets to keep operating on their backs without any actual impediment, and given what he does it is a detriment to the society as a whole.
How can collect USA B2B leads data like emails and phone numbers?
I think paying your state and federal taxes in the United States should be seamless. Your employer should take the taxes out of your paycheck. At the end of the month/year, you should get a statement showing all the taxes you paid.

I recently had to update my W4 form at work for tax withholding, and what a pain in the ass to read and decipher. Add to that, and I had to do the same thing for my state taxes.

I want to point out that Congress has shot down the idea of making it easier to pay your taxes many times. I'm not sure if it is Intuit or some other entity, but paying your taxes should be easy. If you don't like the level of taxation, then work to reduce them, but paying them should be easy.
Are you sure you pay 40%? Googling around a bit to find the US income tax rates (assuming you are in the US) I found this:

https://www.bankrate.com/finance/taxes/tax-brackets.aspx

This is really just the first thing I looked at, but it seems to provide the desired information.

The highest bracket, for income above roughly 550k, is 37%. So considering only federal income tax it is impossible to pay 40% of your income in taxes, but also the first 550k or so of your income would be taxed at lower rates.
The NFT is a token for the story behind it, just like the artwork. It is issued by the artist. It has even better provenance tracing than the artwork, which could be a fake.
UC mobile browser exfiltrates users’ data even in Incognito mode
In practice it's quite common to run (and sometimes install) software that isn't whitelisted officially, even if it's outside strict IT rules.

Otherwise have fun editing scripts with Notepad++ because IT never cared to allow VSCode, unzipping using Windows Explorer's feature because your request for 7zip was denied since the feature exists on paper, navigating the web without content blocker, being restricted to Python 3.1 because the responsible doesn't care about updates, not being able to run your own compiled scripts, being unable to run your keyboard macros, having to manage your passwords in a txt file, having only Excel to analyze data…
leaky abstracttion is a... polite way of describing the Windows filesystem. :) Unix particularly Linux show how the filesystem abstraction can be sufficient for a huge range of problems, it's such a shame Pottering et al. fail to grok this.

System services is a virus.
MMT does actually require a "sink" where the government takes in money.
The only way to remove the GIL without breaking existing multithreaded code is to replace it with multiple smaller locks. That approach is considered unacceptable because the small locks introduce substantial overhead.
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Inflation hurts people who hold mostly cash more i.e the poorest in society
International friendly link:

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It doesn't matter where the users are getting the software when the threat model implicitly trusts the OS vendor and makes it difficult for users to install the OS themselves.

Android phones ship with malware installed as root often with no methods for removing it.
The pervasive problem of 'linguistic racism'
I'm doubtful that barely rational populism is causing regular individuals to spend $1M on their favourite Baseball card NFT.

NFT is mostly driven by the elite, with common people acting as useful idiots to them by talking, tweeting, watching SNL skits about it.
It is not complicated but it requires some work and more.

Define “f(x)” is an infinitesimal if lim f(x)=0 when x-> 0.

which is the same as saying “f(x)” is smaller in absolute value than any real number.

Nothing more.

The problem: you cannot divide by infinitesimals. Now you need to “create a field” from these numbers and the reals.: this requires the axiom of choice. There is also the sign problem.

But in the end, “that is all you neeed”. You think of infinitesimals as “numbers smaller than any true real number”.
I upvoted you [after the red brigade had had a pass :) ] because you raise an important point: imagine what the tax rates would be if politicians - armed with a police force and judiciary - knew that no other nation could complete by offering lower tax rates?

The corrupt bolsheviks where I live would ratchet it up to 95% in a few years. As would everyone else's government.
I presume the tax man is aware of this kind of schemes
Annotation is a killer collaboration feature!

Zoom has it but it's awkward. Slack has a very convenient crayon that just works most of the time and is nice for quickly pointing at things, but Slack calls still seem iffy sometimes. Who else has annotation?
The disadvantage of an S. Corp is that you don't have any flexibility in evening out profit distributions between good years and bad years, right?
An actual casino without the need for a central authority can be implemented on smart contracts, and is the only real application of smart contracts that I see that is better than a centralized solution.
In the UK you pay a flat 40% over around £45k, no ambiguity whatsoever, then 45% over £150k. Not exactly millionaire status.
Add a UBI and it would work. There needs to be an economic floor which ensures there is no destitution. The aim isn't to get rid of wealth. The system now isn't working because wealthy people are securing their income and wealth without paying tax at the expense of social and civil programs.
> result in widespread adoption of things like mastodon.

Instead of government officials publishing on Twitter or Facebook directly, the feds should have their own Mastodon instance with everyone's work accounts, and that can get federated out to the other platforms.

Use their weight to make accepting federated content a clear feature, rather than supporting one specific private platform.
> You just described something that comes very close to "hire to fire".

Not at all. "Hire to fire" means that the person gets zero coaching because they are a sacrificial lamb. They have no chance to succeed even if they turn out to be skilled. "Holy shit I need to hire people" means that the bar is less consistent but every hire is intended to stick around. The latter puts people in a challenging position. The former is planned sabotage. Completely different things.
No, they are not stupid, they did it intentionally and that is why they are the biggest threat. They were full aware of the consequences of each of the above decisions, but did it anyway.

What has happened in the west is that governments used to work for its citizenry, now they work against them, e.g. the surveillance state.

But if the biggest threat must be a foreign power, let's think about it,

How many every day items do Europeans use that is manufactured in Russia?

How many every day items do Europeans use that is manufactured in China?

Why did the European establishment class outsource manufacturing to a hostile communist dictatorship?

Please explain why Russia is the biggest threat, you haven't come up with any good counterarguments yet. The potential threat of withholding future natural gas deliveries when all the pipelines are completed is not going to be that effective, because European energy sector is much more diverse and larger than Ukraine's, an old failed ex Soviet state with bad infrastructure.

And when we are talking about bad infrastructure, is it Putin pulling the strings or the Swedish Social democrats and Green government that can't provide sufficient power infrastructure to all places in Sweden?
Is tier one only Silicon Valley? There are plenty of people raising kids with short commutes in the Seattle area; you don’t even need a FANG salary. And Seattle’s still on the high end; people can also live in places like Austin, Portland, Boulder, etc.

And that’s all just in the US. It’s even more obtainable in other countries with better urban planning.
Aren't we confusing 2 different things here? Visas you get through employment - eg H1B - are specifically non immigrant visas. You are not an immigrant when you are in the US with an H1B.

Are they restriction on green cards too? I thought once you got your GC you didn't lose status for being fired.
Considering that functional societies exist, regardless of their size and technological state, without monetary compensation as a primary motivation, I am forced to wonder how much our narrative that we cannot have technological civilization without forcing a class of people into handling unsavory tasks via threat of starvation and death is just part of the self-perpetuating mechanism of our particular societal organization structure.
Well, no numbers exist in any real sense. Integers, real numbers, complex numbers, hyperreals, etc., they're all imagined, and built from axioms. Keisler does have a companion book that goes into more of the theory of hyperreals, and its bibliography (p209) points to deeper theoretical work too: https://people.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/foundations.html
The GIL is baked into the C API.

There's the performance argument as well, though that doesn't seem as fundamental to me (i.e. a sufficiently smart team of engineers might find a way around that).
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> Except of course for most of us who don't have money so we get paid shitty wages for making other people's inconveniences disappear. If such jobs were the highest paid, that would be less of a problem of course. But the highest paid jobs under capitalism are the least useful to society at large because they don't produce anything (CEOs, managers, financial/legal advisors, marketers, etc).

This might be able to be rectified under the current system by giving money to the lowest paid, so that they can go to school and learn a trade which they find has a more acceptable price:undesirability ratio. Ideally, everyone will have the option to not have to do tasks like cleaning toilets, and hence everyone will have to do it themselves or pay a lot to get someone else to do it.
> The point is that youths do risky things; it's a normal part of growing up, and is how you learn about risk and responsibility. Youth binge drinking shouldn't be seen as separate from youths just doing risky things because that's what youths do, else you'll come up with "solutions" that don't address the real issue and fail to solve anything at all.

Like banning flavored vapes! This was my argument, kids being kids, talk and explain to them why what they’re doing is damaging. Nobody accepted it for that argument, why are people accepting it for this one?
Healthcare is paid from post-tax income. As a single person, I pay approx. €150 monthly. There is also a deductible of €385-885, and choosing a lower amount means you pay more per month too.

There is no tax free allowance. There is general/labor tax credit, but it’s incredibly minimal and reduces with income:

* €2.837 for those with a taxable income under €21.043

* €2.837 - 5,977% x (taxable income - €21.043) for people with an income between €21.043 to €68.507

* €0 for people with an income over €68.507
Oh no, it won't break another time?
> "Because I can"

I love that spirit :)
I don't think the browser change was due to marketing (or not only). They needed a steady release stream that people just accepted, rather than holding off on installing 5.0, because that's a big change from 4.19. They release often now with many internal changes each time and the version number became pretty much meaningless.

Chrome now releases with "I don't care about your distro release schedule" cadence.
What is the responsible thing to do here?

Should a government announce to the people that everybody within it is potentially operating under foreign influence?
can someone explain how an irish company be tax resident of bermuda in the first place?
No, it's not about tactics or competition.

> it's not supposed to be elementary school gym class where the goal is having fun

You don't get it. It's about being so above the others that you can have fun again and getting away with it.

Quoting her:

> "they don’t want the field to be too far apart. And that’s just something that’s on them. That’s not on me,”

She's above the competition now. She is not there to win anymore.

It's hard to explain. When I read HN, I see the modern equivalent of corporate paper pushers who want to play nice and dream to excel at society game playing by society rules.

This is not the hacker spirit of the old days, which was about doing daring things. Modern ""hackers"" want to learn the framework of the day to put it on their resume linking to github that show they are teamplayer. This way they get a coveted FANG job then get 2.5 kids and a dog, a 401k, rince and repeat as happy cogs of society until the day they die. Lame.

No wonder why they don't get it!

It's a disease of the modern life ""hackers"": they don't want to bite the hand that feed them. To be fair, I don't expect much from people who need a day job to survive. They just want a ""fair"" competition of people playing by the rules, just like they do now, instead of admiring excellence, like they did before.

Simone is not afraid to stand above. That's a spirit I respect and admire.
Do you think googlers are paid by the hour?
> Your score shot back down to 72, you know have new areas to investigate, super cool !

I generally do not find it "super cool" when I suddenly/unexpectedly have new areas to investigate.

In most cases, the developer dealing with lighthouse scores is someone who just built a website to a client's spec, only to find out that there are things that it flags which are very time consuming to deal with. Set expectations all you want, but they want a near 100%.

To do all that work only for the score to drop later makes you as a developer look bad. A client who doesn't know any better will suspect you did faulty work.
> The problem is that Universities aren't punished for teaching inadequately.

They are punished in a way. It hurts a school to get a bad reputation among local companies for poorly-prepared grads. R1 research schools, particularly if they are public, may feel it less. But even then, the ones I've dealt with have always chased all the fads in trying to improve learning and metrics. A tenured professor who's just there for the research may choose to ignore it all of course.
Maybe someone needs to start a Firee-as-a-Service agency.