skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More homogenous and liquid? Than the US? EU speaks 30 languages. That's a big barrier in terms of communication across the EU. And it's definitely not as liquid a labor market as the US where employees and employers can both decide to part ways at any time while the EU has much more stringent requirements as I understand it.
Not for the first time, I have said to myself, no more buying candy from Costco. I just finished working my way through 1.5 Kg of chocolate from there and yes, I gained weight.

Sugar is addictive. Full stop.

@popotamonga: Don't eat 1 kg in one go though, that's really bad for your insulin swings in your blood. That 1 kg should last you at least ten days.
I agree, xlsx is pretty easy to deal outside Excel (at least until you hit 1M rows!).
Fact checking to censoring misinformation then on device content scanning. In less than 5 years we have made multiple leaps towards censorship.
I've worked at two different FAANG companies, and have a different view than some of the other commenters here. It sounds like you want to grow, learn, and advance, and I don't think you'll be happy kicking back and coasting.

The first piece is that mobility is high between teams at almost every FAANG company. At my first one, I moved 3 months later because the initial team wasn't a great fit for me maintaining a lot of slow moving legacy systems. I moved to a team working on much more greenfield projects with more attention on the products themselves, and I thrived for several years. See what your options are to talk to other teams and move to one that aligns better with what you want to work on.

The other related piece to this is that because mobility is so high, there do tend to be certain teams or areas with higher turnover and lower quality hires in some cases. No one wants to work on hard to maintain and neglected products, most good engineers that start there move on, and so it becomes a self-perpetuating cycle.

There are likely some extremely brilliant people to learn from at the company (even if not in your team), so try to seek out and find them in teams with openings. I agree it's easier to move after a year, but if the fit is really not right you can likely get an exception going to a team with an understanding manager (who you would enjoy working for anyways). Set up some non-formal meetings based on the internal job board and be open with all these experiences and concerns.

Finally, the internal toolset is a real challenge, but I've come to take a slightly less pessimistic view on it. First off, the internal tooling tends to be worse on an individual workflow level, but accepting it has largely been better for me than fighting it (in most but not all cases). It's slower than a modern toolset, but still usually productive once you embrace what it's good at. The flip side is there are usually good reasons it's evolved to where it is today. Some of these reasons have to do with the scale of how many teams are working together, and understanding that will help explain why it is what it is. The other reasons are just that some of these companies have now been around a long time, and shifting to something better would be quite painful organizationally, meaning it's not ideal but the alternative would also be painful for the organization at a whole. You're new to it, so are at the opposite end of that.
It is not conspiracy. There is literally an option on your Google account to stop using mic for collecting data. On older accounts, it is enabled by default.
"You killed him."

"No, I shot him. The bullets and the fall killed him."

- Collateral (2004 film)
Someone didn't read the article, his overall point is that vaccines work:

"However, while these numbers are true, to quote them as evidence for low vaccine efficacy is wrong and misleading."
Part of the idea of wastewater treatment plants is to address things like chemicals in wastewater. If the pipes on the way leak the tainted water, it can't be treated. Of course there are also "forever chemicals" that we can't neutralize, but we have no hope of dealing with chemically tainted water that never gets to the locations capable of addressing it.
I want to turn my pet project into a work product
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If only there were some safe way to just pump knockout gas into the cabin once everybody is boarded and strapped in, and then wake you up just before landing, air travel would be so much more pleasant.
This is a pretty flimsy analogy because we're not talking about criticism, we're talking about taking pretty onerous, inconvenient steps to avoid having CSAM detected on your devices. You might not have it on your devices, but if you tell someone you're doing all this the average knee-jerk reaction is going to be suspicion.
Is everyone coasting and there is a lot of turnover? This seems to be somewhat conflicting. Is there a lot of turnover because it is so boring people are quiting? I find this unlikely. I used to work in the government and most people are pretty content coasting, especially if there is a faang salary to go with it.

If people are getting pip'ed or fired it seems like it might be difficult to coast.
Just adding a bit of perspective.

I work in a unicorn company based in California Bay Area that has dev teams in Europe (Netherlands, Lithuania), India and Brazil (probably other locations as well). IME, this is how it works: we pay higher than local salaries, but they're not as high compared to Bay Area (think location-based salary adjustments). This doesn't really put meaningful upward pressure on average companies to catch up because salaries are often tied to what they're able to pay based on what market they serve (local city vs Europe vs global).

My understanding is that with Bay Area salaries come Bay Area interview bars, and that this bar is very high compared to your local dev shop. Not many can pass these interviews (the failure rate is high even in Bay Area). IIRC from my interviewer stats, the vast majority of candidates didn't even get through the screener round and less than a fifth were offered positions (I have in the range of 100s of interviews under my belt). And we only recruit fluent english-speaking candidates, which shrinks the pool significantly.

Timezone differences are a big deal, even if the employees in far-away timezones form full-on teams. Communication is slow and inconvenient, and sync meetings at 9PM/7AM get old pretty fast. Typically there must be some sort of clear cut advantage to outsourcing that offsets the timezone issue (e.g. my understanding is that our India team is there because network conditions there are impossible to replicate in US and reliability despite wild variations in coverage is important for us).

And if you think being highly qualified is a high importance criteria, consider that in our Covid-related round of layoffs, a number of european teams got sacked. And these folks were no slackers, they're seriously some of the brightest folks I've seen.

In short, high pay European jobs do exist, but they're not common, they are hard to land and they are hard to keep.
Afghanistan's largest export in 2019 was gold with a total value of $968 million (43.2% of all exports), up from $7.35 million in 2014. https://oec.world/en/profile/country/afg
I don't understand why this is a concern. Someone would need 30 or so child porn images to generate these. Then they'd need to create these grey blobs and send them to the target. The target would need to save them in their photo library for some reason so they sync to iCloud. Then when all this triggers the review they'll see they are grey blobs and nothing else will happen?
They have finally removed the photo this morning. Thanks to all who reported it. On my Facebook page, I have the screenshots of all the incorrect images that they placed in the knowledge panel.
That’s not a bid for privacy, it’s a bid for spite.

Picking a Chinese phone based on financial circumstances, however, is understandable IMO.
What really opened me up to all of the complex biochem when processing different foods was the “what I’ve learned” youtube channel [1]. What you describe was actually tested by the US government with the starvation experiment around ww2 and is consistent with your symptoms.

Apparently when people are kept on a carb diet, but not given enough carbs, their live would suck quite a bit, they would loose muscle (but gain fat), not be able to think straight, etc. Its all fascinating stuff.

I would suggest trying a full water fast for at least 2 days to see how it goes. For me its much less stressful, and after I get rid of all the carbs (24-48 hours, depending on what I was eating before) I would blissfully operate without any problems, including heavy fitness and programming tasks.

And when I get to a point of too little glucose in my brain, because I had to fix a tricky bug, instead of searching for that chocolate treat, I’ll just sit for a but for 5-10 minutes, and let my body break down some of my fat to make more brain juice to operate normally.

You are right though that people are different and this is a fricking complex stuff, and might not work for you, just wanted to mention that there might be more you can try.

[1] https://youtu.be/APZCfmgzoS0
Good points. Are there different kinds of handcuffs? I’m under the impression they’re designed to bind one forearm to the other, rather than bind a forearm to immovable object.

Zip ties while used for temporary restraint by LEOs has weaknesses but medical restraints seem reasonable.
I had the same visceral reaction to that comment.

I was fortunate enough to work in an environment, where I was the "below-average IQ person," and I am not below-average, but I worked with some fairly smart cookies.

I know that some of my co-workers looked at me with disdain; but I was honored that most did not.

Working with frustrating people has been a very useful part of my career. As a manager, I had to make life-changing decisions for employees, and it was important for me to be empirical in my decision-making.

It appears that working for FAANGs is a "mark of distinction," these days. I know they pay ridiculous salaries. I'm pretty much aware of the working environment, and don't find the prospect enticing.

In NY, I know many, many folks that worked in the finance industry as brokers and traders. They got their licenses, and made a whole boatload of money in a few short years, while absolutely destroying their mental and physical health.

They then left, when they couldn't stand it anymore, and used the money they made to start companies, doing the things they liked doing.

Maybe that could be the approach the OP may want to take.
One has to start from somewhere. In the future, the freelancers should be separated from the full-time employees. And I have to count for other things like bonus, RSU, etc.
I recall working for a company who programmed POS in Basic... The place was 20 years late (in any domain) and dysfunctionnal. YET, it is still in business today and making money on a regular basis.

As for me I quit, because I could not focus on my role and instead focused on the environment.
You don't have to "coast", you only have to learn to leave the stress and problems at work when the day ends. Work to fix things by day, try to find some enjoyment in it, be kind, and leave the troubles at the office when evening comes.

If you can do this and manage to turn the project around you will have achieved far more than knowing the latest toolsets.
Can you tell us more about these chips that have high sugar content?
Electromagnetism is understood, but how about the brain?
Reminds me of the old Willie Nelson song, One in a Row.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXLfHJ6fIJo

And, since every trend must begin with a single data point, maybe it is a new trend. We just won't know anything about the direction until we accumulate more data points.
I've got a Samsung phone, and I never use the stock apps anyway.
So if I'm reading the article correctly:

1. It doesn't say anything about whether the medications would have been removed if they went through a wastewater treatment facility.

2. It's basically saying we accidentally performed a tracking experiment by adding compounds that don't occur (in those levels) naturally to wastewater, and then seeing where we could find those chemicals unexpectedly -- it's like dumping fluorescent dye down your drains to see if you can find it spotting in the yard, but with pharmaceuticals.
Actually, need to run step 1-3 at least 30 times

You can do steps 2-3 all in one step "Hey Bob, here's a zip file of those funny cat pictures I was telling you about. Some of the files got corrupted and are grayed out for some reason".
From the 1950s to the 1990s or so, it was well-known that mind control was a real thing. If someone got hold of you, they could literally go into your brain and program you to think whatever they wanted, and unless a "deprogrammer" turned you back you'd be in their thrall forever. An American of the 1980s would have no trouble listing off examples of people who've been successfully mind controlled in this way: Patty Hearst, the Manson family, the Peoples Temple...

I think this has to be seen in that light. There's something happening, and we should investigate it, but that's no guarantee it's at all like what we're thinking.
When you say that they "last longer" what you mean is that Americans are tolerating the deterioration for longer. Yes, the median American dwelling is 40 years old. No, that's not because they are built to last. Only someone with zero experience abroad thinks a 1980-model American house was built well.
that UI is absolutely gorgeous.
Yes it's very complicated. But is the US as a whole really in the wrong?

Indeed what was their goal? It was to bring al-Qaeda to justice, prevent a future breeding ground for terrorists (people who purposely kill innocents), and then there was mission creep to build a democratic country.

Is trying to build a democratic country bad? This means letting their people vote for their future.

I don't think any of these are bad. It's just that mistakes were made in the managing of it, and it failed in the end. Everybody is playing monday morning quarterback.
Another challenge is the track record of some of the chinese phone maker competitors that ship for example without google play services is not long or its not good.

My instinct. This is an insane amount of noise on HN. But of all the privacy issues folks have, CSAM scanning by Apple is not going to "destory apple's brand" and for most users the safety features (kids accounts flag up on nude photos etc) is actually what people want and we will see others following a lot of these moves.
Sure! Lots!

My Instagram account is mainly weed (legal in Canada) and Instagram censorship hits my content occasionally (because illegal cannabis selling on the platform is rampant).
That is a lot for Germany, can I ask what companies are they work at specifically?
> Replacing an almost trivial open format

The main feature of CSV is that it's aways broken, not that it's almost trivial.

> with one that requires a specific 85 kLOC codebase to access

sqlite is available essentially everywhere. Every browser uses sqlite extensively internally, so do tons of other software on your standard desktop machine (to say nothing of mobile OS where it's ubiquitous). Using sqlite is not any sort of constraint.

> SQLite is wonderful, but it's definitely not a replacement for CSV

Only in the sense that it's nowhere near as bad and annoying as CSV.
It certainly is, yes. I'm basing this in part on the claims in the GQ article. My point was that I view any kind of conspiracy allegation with a huge grain of salt, so when I think there actually likely is one, I feel outspoken about it.

If the claims in the GQ article are true, then I think Russian intelligence officers are likely responsible for at least some of the attacks in some of the locations. For example, in Russia. If the claims are false, I'd still lean towards an attack but with an indeterminate perpetrator. The probability of a deliberate attack seems pretty high, to me, even if the exact nature and culprits are still mysterious.

How welcome are they? Possibly very welcome, possibly not welcome; who knows. There could be a lot of branching possibilities, here, including perhaps the ability to place remotely-controlled devices in or near embassies so they don't need to be physically nearby to conduct an attack. Or they could've received approval from some governments (though that seems quite unlikely, except maybe for Cuba). Or there could be multiple groups involved. Or it could be done at such a long distance that they felt comfortable violating countries' sovereignty with plausible deniability (though that seems fairly improbable and brazen even for them, even if I think it's plausible).

There are also some allegations of attacks around the DC area. I'm sure at least some of the reports may be psychogenic, and the DC ones seem the most likely to fall into that category. But if those actually turn out to be real, then that'd be good evidence of how brazen the attackers are.
I think Key & Peele covered the topic well in this one!

But We Have Oil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3jcmFNxRzQ
> Six to eight weeks of vacation, plentiful Holidays, a 35-hour work week.

That's very rare even for jobs with good employers.
Also try to get alignment within your team. Does everybody on the team agree these things are so broken? If not, try to find out things you all agree are problems and then fix those (be it by sharing information better, or picking better targets).

I have no idea what you mean about "working weekends." It sounds like you just made up a line in your head "1 year" and then made up a story "I'll be such a victim if I have to fix every single thing myself in 1 year, it will require such suffering." Except nobody told you that you have to fix every single thing on your team in 1 year, why don't you fix half of it in 40 hour weeks, and if it's things people agree are problems and you outshine your team so much then I think you'll find it's nice to be appreciated.

This plus the IQ comment, plus the nature of the question (how much deep down did you turn to HN because you thought we'd give you a simple quick fix? how much did you ask this "question" just to vent?) makes me think you might be a challenging person to work with. This could be a great opportunity for you try to attain technical mastery of yourself, your presentation, and your emotions/attitude.
Yes - only the US has this "feature."
Fantastic. Thanks for write-up.
The instant that bargaining begins, it's not an estimate you're discussing anymore, it's a commitment.

Very few people want estimates, they want commitments. They just frame the conversation around estimates to get people talking.

> At this point you might think, “Okay, just double your estimate”. Don't, this just leads to an arms race of deceit, and encourages more bargaining in the future.

It's not deceit, it's conversion of an estimate into a commitment.
I think this is the reason why people tripped over themselves to start relations with them, even the US and EU. Because other large powers might be really willing to help out. What would they have to lose? Their image?

Although I wonder why they weren't already exploiting the resources? Lacking investments due to security risks?
Awesome. I've been to Croatia twice. Which area? The islands south of Istrian peninsula? They seem pretty chill.
Baseless speculation: this is less about ongoing protection against keeping CSAM on their servers and more about a one-time sting operation requested by some sort of acronym’d official. The basic idea being: have a bunch of catfish agents send out these known CSAM images to folks through anonymous channels (sourcing the targets would likely be unfortunately trivial), expect that some of them will save the images and be synced to iCloud, coerce Apple into letting them see who has the material, sting them.

To this end, I would not be at all surprised to see that in some not-too-distant future Apple issues a big ol’ public apology and removes this feature. The operation will of course be long complete by then.

Just writing this out here so I have a “I told you so” link for if/when that time comes :)
My situation is complicated. There is no one singular cause of the problem.

Rest assured, I wish it were a case of "Doreen is just being stupid about something and if she would just learn this one neat trick, everything would fall into place." But it's really not.

It's not laziness. It's not me being neurotic. It's partly sexism and misogyny out in the world but that doesn't explain the whole thing.

I'm a writer. I need more Patreon supporters and more resume work and more tips on my blogs. Someday maybe I will have "a real business" of some sort. Until then, I need to somehow make writing cover my bills because that's what I am capable of doing given a long list of constraints on my life, including poverty making it hard to move on to other things.

Thank you for your concern. I hope your comment helps someone else.
Hackernews is by far the worst place to ever come for this advice. You're going to get the range of basically "use emacs, newb" to stupidly random Ebay laptops nobody has heard of. Roll your own thing and don't worry about what others use. I use void linux and I would never use hn for *nix advice.
"staffed with below-average IQ people"

I don't think anyone is in the position to judge other IQ's especially co-workers. These people passed the same interview loop as you. Just puts them in the same "IQ" bracket as you. Maybe they also feel the same way as you and don't want to put their effort in trying to turn this team around and just want to coast and switch later on. You need to get off your high horse and try to understand the motivations of the team by talking to them individually and bringing stuff up in standups/meetings and suggest ways to improve. Work with your manager. Maybe you can be the one who can turn this team around without burning out yourself. In the end, its just a job and trick is to not take everything personally.
Lineage and Linux exist and they're incredible. You've simply give up.
Seriously?

Look into Pegasus and Candiru
That only works if you only buy one or two at a time and have to go back to the store to get more.
Startup Uses Fungi to Make Artificial Milk
I didn't say anything about my past experience. Is it so incomprehensible that people did massive amounts of web development before React was even a twinkle in someone's eye? Is it so incomprehensible that someone could learn React and then choose not to continue to use it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War_(1985%E2%80%931991)#E...
You can probably buy a laptop with a certain generic form-factor with a rugged case that snaps onto the body. Panasonic, unfortunately, can't get economies of scale like LG, Lenovo, Apple.
I'm not and you shouldn't either.
Yeah it seems like that in that area. I've seen similar in Hungary. They are just using peoples' grievances with US and EU as an opening to get in and take economic control slowly.
What is new here is the method to remove bias.
Mouse bodies, anyway.
I agree. I wish there some better way of defining this.
Don't forget the other important point: very willing to jump through many laborious hoops in order to work for said company, which self-selects quite a unique group.
I'm surprised this article made it this high up on hacker news - it seems really superficial and behind on latest research, I'm always skeptical when everything is blamed on dopamine withdrawal - isn't gut bacteria meant to play a big part in causing cravings? And ketones perhaps? I'm no expert in this stuff though, so maybe it is all just about dopamine withdrawal?
CDC data problems put the U.S. behind on the delta variant
People doesn't matter which format is, since it simple work in any spreadsheet software.

Yeah i can generate any file with a bunch of printf, but csv i dont have to read a specification, i its possible to read with a bunch of read without have to use a xml or xlsl library.
I am not surprised censorship is used selectively by the powerful against their enemies.