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This is very real. I run Defiant Inc (at defiant.com) which makes Wordfence (at
wordfence.com) - a popular firewall and malware scanner for WordPress. We're hiring PHP devs that are senior level only. The job demands it because we deploy code weekly to over 4 million sites on a wide range of environments and configs, many of which are mission critical.

We started hiring in 2015 and have always been 100% remote. We have a team of 38 now with around 25 full time US based employees. Hiring has always been a breeze for us because we've always been 100% remote. Until Covid hit and the word 'remote' started being used by basically everyone, even companies that are hybrid or are going to go back to in-office at some point.

There's another factor, and that is growth in the tech sector. There is just a shortage of great engineers right now and very high demand.

In response, we raised the salaries of our developers that are already part of the team significantly. Then we raised the advertised pay range for our PHP devs to $120K to 150K, we added a $20K signing bonus to all developer roles, and we started using recruiters for the first time. These changes have made a huge improvement to the candidates we're seeing. Keep in mind that these are 100% remote roles and always will be, with candidates based anywhere in the world - not confined to large tech hubs. Our benefits are incredible and we have 21 days PTO - just for additional context.

I think the only viable solution for employers is to respond to changes in market conditions, and do what we've done. Pay your people more, increase your hiring salary range, consider a signing bonus that isn't bullshit, but actually is a huge additional tangible benefit for talented engineers joining your company.

I don't think the kind of pressure tactics described in the article, like "exploding job offers" are the answer. You're just playing silly games and wasting a candidate's time and your own, plus potentially trashing your company's brand in the hiring market.

I've have worked as an ops engineer and dev for a long time before building a successful tech business, and I've lived through a hot hiring market several times, as a talented engineer working to maximize my earnings potential. I'd strongly encourage you to look around and get a sense of what the market can offer you. Have conversations with a few recruiters. Don't let your company use meaningless enticements to make you stay. And don't get enticed by pressure tactics or things that don't actually help you earn more and have a better quality of life. Focus on the fundamentals when evaluating options - base salary, actual starting days of PTO, medical, 401K if you're USA based. And take action now, because this probably won't last.

It's a great time to be a talented engineer, pretty much globally.
I work for a company that has been pretty strong on pipelining in people as junior engineers and progressing them within the company, but even the direction we had while working remote from covid is that training in juniors while out of office is something that higher ups don't want to deal with (even if they would have little involvement in the process, such is corporate bureaucracy), so they're reticent to open positions to more junior level developers, and grads are pretty much right out unless they've interned with us previously.
I think this is a compelling vision, but as a practitioner of functional core/imperative shell, I make use of the async/await keywords to understand where I/O is happening and to work towards moving it to the edges of my program.

I can do this without those keywords, but there's actually something quite nice about being certain that a given function does no I/O simply based on its function signature.
That's for heat conversion, no? This isn't about heat.
The POV of psi researchers these days is more like "psi phenomena might or might not exist, but if they do exist they're mischievous enough that there's no way they're going to show up unambiguously in a rigorous controlled experiment!" In this sense the physical effects of higher or "spiritual" magick are indistinguishable from psi, and for the same reason they're most likely not going to impact our understanding of "the laws of physics".
I think an efficient market is for intro to economics what a frictionless vacuum is for intro to physics - a way of accessing some fundamental truths, rather than a description of something frequently encountered in the world.

The existence of the hedge fund industry is a paradox for the idea of efficient markets. If markets are efficient, then the value added of hedge funds is zero. And if markets are efficient, hedge funds should only be able to charge their value added in fees, which is zero. Hedge funds charge a lot of fees. PE and VC funds charge even more. So markets are not efficient.
Wait, the EFF is subsidized by Google?

For what it's worth, it looks like most of their funding comes from individuals: https://www.eff.org/files/annual-report/2019/index.html
What's wrong with driving a bus?
It's also the case that it's a hell of a lot easier to find something around you that's a better weapon than a knife, than it is with a gun (basically impossible, unless the thing you find is also a gun), which enhances its tendency to be a "first strike, or else don't even show it" weapon, rather than one useful for deterrence without violence.

> Note that the UK has police armed with guns, but not police armed with knives.

Yup. The set of qualities that make knives desirable weapons for criminals don't make them good weapons generally. The cops have very different restrictions (fewer restrictions, that is) and goals. A truncheon plus some strong mace are probably much, much better for their purposes than a knife would be.
Honestly, I prefer the Windows sharpness much to the aesthetic and font design that the author of the font wants. Fonts are a nice for styling a document or website, but in the end the text is designed to be read, not to be art.

If the designer only tested on macOS, I don't think this has anything to do with what the designer "intended". It just shows a lack of testing on other platforms, something that happens quite often (i.e. when dealing with scrollbars [1]).

Personally, I dislike the vague, blurry rendering macOS uses. Macs usually compensate for their weird, blurry, bold rendering with high-resolution screens, but on lower resolutions I really dislike the way fonts look on macOS.

[1]: https://svenkadak.com/blog/scrollbar-blindness
How often is the rapid customer feedback just that the product sucks because it was built poorly?
Chromebooks sold 30M+ units last year. That's a bog standard Linux desktop accounting for about one tenth of 300M in total personal computer sales.

As everything gets more web based, the client OS gets less important, for better and for worse. Just as many people predicted 20 years ago. Radical changes takes time.
I've seen recruiters red flag Uber engineers as possibly sexist (and to a lesser extent racist).
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HR strip cover letters before they get to the engineers where I work.
> I’ve stagnated sharply skills wise

I felt the same way over the past few years and decided to switch to a Technical Product Owner role at the beginning of this year. I used to be your typical HN user who was extremely passionate about programming, learning new frameworks, functional programming, etc, but at some point over my 10 year career I kinda stopped caring about tech entirely. Switching to a product owner role was great for me. I still get to leverage my technical knowledge without having to worry about the actual implementation too much. I also get to develop my soft skills like planning, communication, and conflict resolution, which is frankly a lot more interesting and satisfying than programming ever was.
No one is reaching out in Switzerland right now, but I guess they should.
> Someone not reading the contracts they sign does not void the terms of the contracts.

In some cases, it does. In medical trials, you need "informed consent", and not just regular consent. It doesn't matter what papers are signed, if a patient isn't informed what the trial is testing, what known side effects there are, and what alternatives there are, it doesn't count.

More relevant to this issue, GDPR also uses the concept of informed consent. Under GDPR, tracking is legal only if consent is informed and freely given. The example printer fails both these conditions. It is not informed consent, because the tracking is not prominently disclosed to the user, and merely mentioning it in the fine print is insufficiently prominent. It is not freely-given consent, because a service being conditional on acceptance of tracking means that there is coercion to accept the tracking.

My viewpoint on the ethics tends to follow somewhat close to the GDPR's requirements. Even if somebody clicked through a 50-page EULA, that does not give informed permission to track somebody, and so it is still spying.
I don't know you, and this may be wildly off base. But I knew a guy who had a similar issue as what you're saying. In his case, the issue was that he had a need that isn't really sexual at heart (a need for companionship, and not even necessarily of a romantic bent). But he was trying to fill it though the endorphin release. That can't ever actually work, though, so can lead to depression and obsessive behavior.

Again, I don't know you, but your post reminds me a bit of my friend.

You mention that you have an existing psychological issue. This sounds like perhaps the sort of thing that could help guide any therapy you might be undergoing. I'd encourage you to bring it up with your doctor.
Interesting take. It's analogous to religious arguments defending the idea of miracles. I don't say that in principle the world must be causally closed and bound by natural laws; only that it seems very likely, as it enough to explain an insanely huge ratio of what we already witness, and the quality of the evidence for other stuff is very low.

I just finished with a quick edit to my post to be more specific, but I suspect your answer would be similar either way.
I heard this one a lot:

"The issue is not the process, it's your implementation".
I love how in NZ each town have “play centers” - basically hybrid between daycare and playground where parents join and maintain. You are always there to be with your child, tho I’m sure someone would take care for them if you need to run errand for 1 hour. This forms very healthy community of people and friends and trades like above happen. Toys, clothes, car seats - we got it all free…

We do have some friends who were asking “is this newish?” when gifting some item, so not everyone is on zero waste bandwagon.

And by the way, govs should promote zero waste movement way more. Probably starting adopting it themselves.
I've actually seen the opposite. I'm at a FAANG, but based in Toronto. For the first time, recruiters are saying to me that yeah, they can do better than that total comp. Often much better.

I like my boss and team, but if someone offers me enough money and a fully remote job, well, it's going to be hard to say no.
I like that some of them entered the language as negatives.
In theory DRM could be mathematically perfect. However DRM relies on actual implementations both in software and hardware and shares a lot with broader security. Software implementations can have bugs but it’s relatively easy to ship fixes. The hardware level however is where it becomes very difficult to ensure a valid implementation of “secure compute” or “trusted zones” which are key to DRM and general security, particularly from an agent with physical access. It costs money to ship new fixed hardware, if it’s even possible. Then even if a given hardware implementation is correct there are ways to physically glitch the hardware to skip the checks. ESP32 chips had an issue like that where the hardware encryption was correct but simply “glitching” the voltage at the correct time could cause the processor to skip the encryption check entirely [1]. It’s very difficult and costly to make hardware immune to all such attacks. Small seemingly unrelated physical details can become novel ways to break the encryption system (like specter).

Ultimately I’ve come to believe that DRM and it’s cousin of system security is an economic game. So DRM useless in that it will probably be cracked after some time, but that time can translate to revenues or control until that point. It depends on how much money you have to throw at either hardening and cracking systems. It’ll likely become harder (i.e. more expensive) in the future to crack hardware DRM in the future as the technology becomes more sophisticated and classes of vulnerability are discovered and mitigated. But then the cracks become more valuable both for anti-DRM or anti-security.

1: https://raelize.com/blog/espressif-systems-esp32-bypassing-s...
Maybe. It might be worth looking, tell any folks with an offer how much you’d lose, and either leave early if they add to it, or accept an offer with a start date after the vest.
I forget, is your quote attributable to Michael Scott or Wayne Gretsky?

You assume I've neither read the article or researched demonology. I have.

All of the neopagan bullshit and demonic sigils can be traced back to obvious frauds starting in the 19th century, when occultist grifting was in vogue.

This is a simplistic article on an already childish subject.
So much of the discussion seems focused on images recognition; how much of the full autonomous solution is the perception problem vs other elements of driving?

From the outside I’ve wondered if the missed schedule targets around autonomous driving is because we’ve conflated “solving” the perception problem with solving self-driving. Just curious what your take is on that
Some prosecutors will charm you into cooperation.

A request by a prosecutor is an informal request.

A search warrant signed by a judge is a formal demand.

Your corporate data policy will dictate whether you can share customer information without a search warrant or a subpoena.
Adjusted for income?
Was it mandatory to comply with such a request? I was under the impression that mandatory court orders need to be signed by a judge (not a prosecutor).
The Linux Desktop is like building a house by asking random craftspeople to each design, build, and install a single piece of the house. One craftsperson preparing one plank of wood; a second craftsperson preparing a second plank of wood, etc. Later, one craftsperson turning those planks of wood into a door frame. Then another craftsperson to add a handle & lock. And another adding the hinges. Yet another hanging it on the wall. On and on, for every single component in the house.

This does not lead to a well-functioning house. It will be creaky, leaky, drafty, and ugly, and more difficult/costly to maintain. Yes, you can live in it. It may even be lighter, or cheaper, or in some other way technically superior to other houses. But most people will get really annoyed by it, and just want a house built by a single contractor that "just works".

This is even ignoring the gigantic elephant in the room, which is hardware support. Getting hardware to work with a Linux desktop has only two options: buy from an OEM that ships a supported Linux OS, or play a combination of russian roulette & home auto mechanic.

(Linux desktop user for 20 years)
Probably meant ABIs which causes proprietary drivers to be locked to the version of Linux they are shipped with.
Same; Craigslist, Nextdoor, and Facebook marketplace too.
Even assuming the daemon thing would work, and that the daemons would turn out to be evil, why do you assume it’s your religion that would work, and not one of thousands others?
Not even remotely an expert on chip design, but deep learning dataflow is a lot more predictable and linear than what a CPU or even a GPU doing actual graphics needs to do. Speed of light latency is probably not an issue since the relevant distances are not one side of the die to the other but rather the distance between adjacent components.
The last bastion of DRM is forensic watermarking (so they can trace the leaked video back to your device) and key revocation (so your device won't play any new content). These techniques are so complex that they aren't used much.
You can always ask but another way is to come armed with a job offer. Considering you aren’t classified as “acceptable attrition” you’ll likely get a match or better from your existing employer. Hiring new talent is difficult and expensive so your manager has a lot of incentive to keep you around if you’re good performer.

But be warned that if your current company decides to let you go then you probably need to commit to the new company.
. I look forward to the results of that work in progress. In the meantime, I still think it's reasonable to expect an official response. As far as I can tell, Cloudflare has not publicly acknowledged the problem yet (please correct me if I'm wrong); even a disclaimer on the product page would be better than nothing. And the last private response I got about this was 4 months ago. But thanks for telling us what you can.
Wish I knew
I haven't used chromebook but isn't it a web based os? How is that standard Linux?
I've seen the law of excluded middle used to deny the existence of platonic idealism. But I really don't get it. I'd love to understand your explanation better.

If soul=psyche (as in Plato) then it seems easy to sell access to the attention. But if soul is referring to an ideal noetic form, then it's hard to understand how immaterial ownership would work without a material intermediary.
For my current job the posting said 4 years of experience. I had 1 at the time.

Officially, my company is only hiring seniors, but if a decent junior applied (at least a year of experience inclusive of internships), I could see us taking them, especially with the right tech stack.

So, apply anyway.
Please don’t bet the farm on having done that little bit of work. GDPR compliance is not something you can finish but instead you have to continually demonstrate. It involves hiring specialists and 8–14 week consultation delays before launching features.
FWIW, unless explicitly otherwise specified, official stats only consider people who have had two weeks since second does as vaccinated for the purpose of counting how many vaccinated get infected, hospitalized, or die.
> My goal is to make hiring slow down to a crawl, make it so hard to find anyone that it hurts the company and is forced to change it.

Hmm. I agree 100% on the intersection of practiced and asked as a key indicator for modern tech interviews.

Have you done any estimates of how long it is going to take Facebook to notice your efforts? I looked and they hired 15k people since 2019. Even if you block three a week, you're only a couple percentage points of drag.

Maybe you need to consider collective action?
Guys are digressing from the relevant part of your comment. It looks very much obvious to me that academics should state where their funding comes from, just like non-profits have to do.
Alternatively, being the most expensive and newest might be a poor position to be in when the crash comes?
I never understood _why_ but text rendering on windows has always looked like garbage to me.

It was obviously not the screen resolution or anything, because you can run a linux vm (say, on virtualbox) and the text rendering inside the VM will look much better than the text in windows.

> Nobody's "right", it's just personal preference.

I don't think that's true. macos is clearly better.
That’s not how to do it.
You get offer A and B then push them to bid on you. Having competing offers gives you leverage, use that to get the best employment terms.
You don't get to decide what UB means. It really does mean nasal demons are a possibility: all bets are off when you run that executable. Use of the term "undefined behaviour" to mean something else may be on the increase, unfortunately (https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/298/what-...), but if we're talking about C, it's meaning is fixed.
I read those "just sue them" responses as coming from people who have never even talked to a lawyer except when going through the paperwork of buying a house, much less been a party to actual litigation.

Companies keep lawyers on retainer to fight suits like this.They have resources of time and money to easily bankrupt someone with a disability who has just lost a job, and typically it won't even cost the company anything above what their normal retainer fees run.
Oh thanks, that works fairly well. I still prefer git-gui for this, but this will work nicely when I'm ssh-ed into a machine with no GUI.
are they all wanting your to lift-and-shift your life to US? or are they Remote positions
I have never met anybody who has looking into Linux outside of a Computer Science degree or as a computer hobbyist. Those people as it stand are a marginal amount of the population. The kind of people that bawk when you open up control panel. Or can only open up windows settings and find a how to online. None of these people have ever touched Linux. If you told them they had to run just "sudo apt-get update" in terminal, you instantaneously keep them from wanting to use it further. The shell is so scary to most people that they think it's hacking. I mean jesus I saw on CNN several years ago that when they described hacking, they had a backdrop video of someone running Ubuntu doing something like "sudo chmod x+ 777" and then "./the_virus_cnn_is_covering" or something.
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Many people are indeed willing to work below market wages in exchange for working on something meaningful to them.
For me, 1994 was the year of the Linux Desktop. YMMV.
These appeals to power are disconnected from the selection pressure given in the original proposition though, which was based solely on consumer choice, and which would have been more relevant to the original idea of lifestyles being designed vs spontaneous.
As someone that was educated in computer science and moved from software engineering to working in the data science world, I find applying to DS positions to be much harder and more painful than CS jobs.

CS is easy: Do you know the languages they want, know some algorithms, are you familiar with the same tools and libraries, how's your experience working with people on big projects?

DS: The field is so broad and so deep, you need know everything and if you don't, be prepared to be shredded. Your interviewer may have a PhD in physics, or a master's in economics, or maybe they're just a math major that did a bootcamp course. Do you know NLP and how to build a pipeline? I feel like I get whiplash when I look at DS job postings they're so all over the place.
Exactly this. We just gave all our devs a significant raise - way above the norm, and way way earlier than we would. We're acknowledging the reality of demand, scarcity and wage inflation. My co-founder (also my wife) and I immediately felt our blood pressure drop once we did that.

Market conditions are making it hard to retain and very hard to hire. We've done a bunch of other stuff to recruit - which I described in another comment here - and it's making a huge difference. Employers who don't respond to these market conditions are in for a rough ride.