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Ask HN: I joined a FAANG and it is awful
I've worked for startups for 10 years and recently joined a FAANG company. Compensation and stability were part of my motivation, but the biggest reason was the assumption that I would be able to work with A+ players solving hard problems.

Instead, I'm on a team that has and horrendous turnover and is staffed with below-average IQ people.

This company builds EVERYTHING in house, and the toolset is like going backwards in my career 10 years.

If I do want to stick this out and turn this team around, I'm going to be working nights and weekends for at least a year - there's just too much to fix.

I've told this to lots of people who work in other division (that I can trust) and they've said the easiest thing is to just accept it as it is and coast. I've never done that in my career and don't think I could do that.

Has anyone been in the same boat? I'm told that it becomes easier to switch teams after a year.

I feel like I've made a terrible decision and don't know what to do next.

Any advice is appreciated.
Vite Update: PWA Documentation for VITE Started Rolling
Because the algorithm and list will be on your phone, and can (has, per TFA) be extracted.
These might help:

* https://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/series/unix-as-ide/

* https://themouseless.dev/

Personally, I use gvim for all my text editing needs and use a normal terminal (i.e. no tmux, i3, etc). There's not much to share, unless you are interested in my vimrc, aliases, etc: https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course
Let's hope his OS doesn't do swapping either
looks like someone with the same name as the author? that seems kind of unlikely. I mean at that point you’re advocating for the author to not have any identity, even a pseudonym, associated with her book, that way no one can possibly be confused
I mean, I'm no expert on restraining, but I think there are ways to restraining a person that attempts to bite you. I don't think the cops are reaching for the ball gag when they need to get someone cuffed and into a seat.
If they are attempting to bite people or spitting, definitely yes.
Can I ask why you were willing to work for an organization without understanding what they did? I don't really mean to single you out, I don't think this is an uncommon attitude, but isn't this the most basic information you need to get before you work for someone? What if they made weapons or espionage tools or something and sold them to the highest bidder? I'm sure even arms dealers have software teams working on innocuous-seeming internal tools.

If you aren't in a position to be picky about what job you take I understand, but I didn't get that sense from your comment.
It's called a class system.
Plenty of specialities are shipped to Eastern Europe. Ukraine being a well appreciated destination due to general grasp of English among young population, and hard working good engineers. Like the specialities we see delocolised to India, php ecommerce dev/customisation is one. And the whole enterprise j2ee kind of stuff, platform development. And also mobile dev has become popularly outsourced to Ukraine.

The software industry is seeing the same thing as what happened to factory industries. First the specialities that are least challenging to manage offshore, then eating the rest of the profession, leaving some niche I suppose like we still produce certain type of clothes, furniture and electronics in the well developed countries.

I've lived in several countries where outsourcing is common, it's always the same schema. Flocks of non very competent wanna be tech riches launch businesses of hiring cheaper labour with the promise to deliver quality projects. In the end it's a mess of a code base, but client see the bill as more digestive than hiring a team of people with all the tax and high social benefits to pay without any guarantee that anything will work in the end.

I don't know how the outsourcing hype will end given the difficulty to streamline software development. There is little cultural/message loss when sewing t-shirt with a logo and well defined patterns on them, all designed by an artist and industrialists in Paris or Milan. The translation of digital application which spans across multiple type of devices, on terminals and multiple servers, constantly evolving to quickly adapt to business needs is another story. But hey maybe we will rather have somewhat satisfying software made abroad for cheap and guaranteed further unemployment locally than pay what is worth and have products well fit for purposes.

Edit: typos
In that case, I'm not sure. The people reverse-engineering the algorithm say they aren't quite sure if that's because the system hasn't shown up in MacOS Developer Previews yet (where it has in iOS and iPadOS), or if that's because they are referring to the generic nudity detection instead of the database matching system.

For now, the security experts looking at this say that the nudity detection model is on all platforms, but the database matching in iCloud Photos is only on iOS and iPadOS and it's unclear whether it will come to macOS.
I guess this wouldn't work as a cure for HIV if it only kills actively replicating virus. Still amazing if it works in practice.
None, I don't have CSAM on my phone and never will have so why should I care. If it helps reduce these crimes im all for it.
"..there are almost no genuine software development companies in Europe. Software jobs there are mostly internal (enterprise) software development or customization, and not software product or service development."

So my career for the past 14 years has been a dream? Of course there are software product companies in Europe.

I can name any number of them for example in the really small (population wise) Helsinki area. Just to name a small subset: Supercell, Rovio, Remedy Games, Napa (ship design), Rightware (automotive UI:s), Basemark (AI and mobile graphics), F-Secure, Aiven...

Then there are hardware businesses that are deeply linked with software. Nokia (Networks, not phones...) being the most prominent of them, but new comers as well - IQM (Quantum computers), Varjo (VR headsets), Iceye (satellites)...

Then there are the subsidiaries of global companies developing software - NVidia, Trimble, Huawei (handsets), Amazon (robotics), QT, Electronic Arts, Unity...

This is not an exhaustive list but just a small subset out of the cuff. If I can name this bunch just from my local capital area in Finland I can only extrapolate that the Zoo of software companies in Europe is, in fact, quite large.

There are just not any Google of Facebook scale unicorns (except local subsidiaries of them course).
Glade for Gtk+ is another one, but it does seem to be unsupported these days. Gtk+ devs are apparently expected to write down their UI design by hand, with no visual or RAD workflow.
Salaries in Switzerland reach $500k-$1 million/year? Honest question, I know nothing about Switzerland.
Probably because coffee, cigs, and candy are cheap?
Archive: https://archive.is/7D68c

See also the actual source article, https://www.newsweek.com/united-airlines-warns-flights-atten...
On the one hand I would suggest suing Google.

On the other, I would ask: Isn't this better? Having someone else's photo and location attached to your work means you would never be identified in public, not receive death threats, nor be at risk of swatting. And you get to keep collecting royalties on your duly attributed work in the meantime. It sounds like a blessing in disguise.

Please note, I'm not trying to belittle your experience or your work. What you went through was incredibly traumatic and deserves to be written about. I just fail to see the harm in this. If you really want to be recognized for your work, the fix is simple. Just supply Google with your photo and they will rectify it on the page.
My coworkers go to starbucks or dunkin first thing to get a bunch of sugar-laced coffee. Coffee goes with sugar and cream.

A grande Frappuccino at Starbucks has 64g of sugar, double the daily recommended intake.
It's paywalled unless you're charged with a crime and even then there's a soft paywall.
Afghanistan: Taliban to reap $1T mineral wealth
Seems some travelling circus is taking revenge for that series of cancer affecting south american government officials.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/cancer-fear-of-south-american...
Because "science by PR" is the new fashion. Back in my day, we waited for the peer reviewed publication, and tied onions to our belts, which was the style at the time.
There are applications which automatically save images sent to you to your camera roll (such as Whatsapp, IIRC). How can Apple prove you put them there intentionally?

Granted, they most likely won't care, but it's a legitimate attack vector.
Cigarettes are relatively cheap and accessible, if they weren't you'd 100% find people prostituting themselves for them, it's probably as addictive as heroin.
That's the traditional experience vs. money trade-off. It seems people at a larger stage in life are happier about experiences they've had rather than money or status per se.

Though if you really want to travel or raise a happy family, you're also going to need some of the latter. And for most, that means being part of the rat race to some extent, once beyond your early twenties.
We're still at the phase of this story where we don't actually know what's going on. WSJ is reporting on it like it's understood, but the conclusion of NASEM (https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-diplomats-illnesses-likely-...) was that more research is needed.

Hard to detect "directed, pulsed radio frequency (RF) energy" when you have no idea what you're actually looking for. If you go looking at the bulk of the electromagnetic spectrum for correlators to a vague symptom list, you'll definitely find them but be no closer to explaining causality (or finding culprits).
The biggest problem with this theory is that it is so opposite of how apple does things. Apple always controls the entire stack.
Do we know that they haven't?
Yes, because somebody might freak out/panic on an airplane, let them die!

What are you even thinking?
That's the problem, there is no way to demonstrate (apply) for many countries, including UK.
I love the Wipeout series, despite finding the game very hard beyond the first few tournaments. I recently began playing Wipeout Pure (2007, PSP) on my phone via emulator, and it's remarkable how modern it still looks.

Wipeout is one of the few games that stuck with that '90s vision of what 2097 would look like. Everything from the design language, menu transitions, music choices and AI voices fit that theme in all games from 1995-2009. I believe Wipeout Fury HD for PS3 was the last game made by the original studio.

I highly recommend the "Zone" mode of Wipeout, where your ship goes faster and faster as you complete each lap. The course colors change into psychedelic combinations with each lap. The sensation is truly unique.

The OST also has some deep cut techno/breakbeat tracks from artists that didn't get released as singles, or at all.

1. Chemical Brothers - Leave Home (Underworld Remix 1)

2. Orbital - P.E.T.R.O.L (also on 1998's Pi OST)

3. Fluke - V Six

4. The Prodigy - Firestarter (Instrumental ver.)
You cannot extract or reverse the CSAM hashes. They've been encrypted and blinded using server-side-only keys. If TFA said that, it's lying.
I always saw Apple stuff as toys, so I own several ipads and boughta Mini 12 iphone because I was impressed with the size.
For computing, I use real computers running Windows 10 Pro or Linux (mostly Ubuntu) and I'm ready to leave Windows behind as soon as work no longer requires me to keep it.

Since that CSAM is not coming to Europe any time soon I guess I can ride that out and keep the iphones/ipads and slowly have a look around if there's an acceptable, dual sim phone that compares to the 12 Mini. Maybe my next phone will be a foldable...
It seems like it would be more value efficient to train a person making 40k a year how to do that then pay someone hundreds of grand a year who already knows how to do it.
That this is a contentious topic with biases on both sides. One group clearly benefits from any accusations being squashed before ever being investigated. Another benefits from never having to prove their accusations hold merit.

This is why due process is important.
For those of us who grew up with windowblinds... there’s a lot of the old MS that we miss.

Remember when we used to own our computers and the experience we wanted? Simpler times indeed.
Part of the point the article is making is that some of the contribution the carcass makes to the ecosystem is by sustaining large scavengers (and opportunistic carnivores). Burying the carcasses would preclude that (and likely reduce access for other members of the necrobiome).
That one has an easy solution: dump google.
No one knows exactly what to detect. Is it chemical? Sonic? Electromagnetic?
> On this note, is there any modern RAD solution like that, that's not essentially in maintenance mode, slowly dying or abandoned altogether?
>
> The closest that i can think of is Lazarus for FreePascal: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

Well, Lazarus is exactly what you are asking for. Its GUI designer is leaps and bounds ahead pretty much every other GUI designer for desktop applications and the IDE integration with the underlying framework is second to none. The project isn't only under active development but has more developers than it ever had.

The WinForms you mentioned feels like some abandoned beta that barely provides Delphi 1 level functionality in terms of "RAD-ness" and other frameworks abandon the entire RAD idea altogether, regressing back to glorified resource editors like you'd see in 16bit Windows back in 80s.
It's my understanding (I could be wrong) that they use a belt that's not attached to a seat. I think it might even be an extender that they hand out to parents with children on their laps.
I actually want Apple to stand ground and implement this feature. Like you said the double down on PR and marketing was enough for me. I may not be dumping all iOS and Mac for now. But it was "the" definite signal and evidence this is no longer the old Steve Jobs's Apple. It is like watching Mark Zuckerberg talking about privacy when he doesn't understand anything about it. ( Or more like he has a different understand of privacy than most people )

If they stand ground it makes the decision a lot easier for others. If they dont they will continue to use the boiling frog tactics.

After all they dont think they are wrong and they are still righteous. And It would be far more interesting to see how the world folds. The whole computing market, Google, Apple and Microsoft are currently operating with a moat that is literally impenetrable. This will be a small push towards a new world of possibilities.

Yes. I really hope they stand ground. I wish I won the lottery I could put a few million into the Social Media echo chamber to support this. Or you know, cough certain Apple competitor could do this.
From the actual source article (https://www.newsweek.com/united-airlines-warns-flights-atten...),

> Flight attendants used duct tape to restrain an agitated and disruptive man who was able to slip out of handcuffs on a flight in 2003, according to reporting from the Associated Press. And again in 2008, a woman who physically attacked both passengers and flight attendants got the duct tape treatment on a United flight according to The Seattle Times.

> A spokesperson for United declined to identify the "designated items onboard" the memo advises using instead of duct tape.
They are scanning images on online accounts, stuff that is stored on their systems and system files on machines (files they own). They are not, from what I have read, scanning customer-owned images stored on customer-owned devices.
Not much but one in Israel followed 1,497 fully vaccinated health care workers. 39 got covid, 7 had symptoms 6 weeks in.
Many people add sugar to coffee. Or eat cereal for breakfast, or donuts and pastries. Jelly on your toast? There are plenty of people who get out of bed and go straight for sugar in various forms.
I wasn’t able to summarise such a nuanced thing into one paragraph. So here’s the full link. No one is selling their body for smartphones either but it’s now being increasingly accepted as an object of addiction. It’s more about what impact an object or activity has on your life than anything else. Although, Sugar probably isn’t addictive enough to be so automatic that you are chugging a scoop of table sugar pacing the kitchen.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/what-is-addiction-201706...
And then the managers that cut cost jump up or over the ladder out of the department, and the next person deals with the smoking wreck of the situation, and they insource everything again. Then two years later, the cycle repeats.

The counterpart of this is that initially, the outsourcing group brings their A-team to bear, in order to win the deal. Those folks are generally as good as the people that they replaced. Six months later, those top operators are shifted to the next deal, and the C-team takes over, and then churn and attrition reduces it to a D or F team in short order.
Exactly, I think people are just getting a little too worked up over this whole thing. Apple computes a hash of each image you upload to iCloud then check it against a list of CP hashes.

Of all the things in the world to get worked up over, this is ridiculous.

I get it, the mechanism they're using has apparent flaws, and maybe some whacko could somehow get access to your phone and start uploading things that trick the algorithm into thinking you have CP.

But, that alone is such a ridiculous phobia, if someone has that level of access to your phone, they could upload real CP and maybe even upload it to your Facebook for good measure.
> people would crave sugar when they got out of bed

They do, it's called "breakfast".
> Table sugar – known as sucrose – is found in sugar cane, sugar beet and maple syrup while glucose and fructose are the main constituents of honey.

Technically correct, which is the best kind of correct, I suppose. But it does not give me a lot of confidence in any other claims they proceed to make.
The most peculiar aspect is the shadowing effect of sugar. When you cut it you start to taste flavors a lot more.
Ask HN: How best to secure citizenship outside the US for my daughter?
Background: 38 y/o software engineer, married, with a 9 month old daughter, currently in the DC area. Due to the political climate in the US (off-topic for this thread/forum) I'm interested in securing an alternative citizenship for my daughter at some point in her lifetime. I understand this would be a large undertaking and assume it's not really feasible to cast a wide net, so I was hoping to rank our best options since it seems like we'll only have one approach, especially with us being older parents already.

I understand some countries would be more desirable than others to emigrate to, but I'd like to fully understand my options before weighing them. So for the purposes of this discussion let's assume any country is on the table regardless of the current political/economic/social situation there.

I'm prepared to relocate and work elsewhere but that's not a requirement - I just assumed with my skill set it would be the easiest approach. Bonus points if we (her parents) are able to obtain citizenship as well, but that's also not a requirement.

Basically I'm just looking to give her an option when she turns 18 if she needs it. Thanks in advance.
Instead of being a bad look for the airline, it should be a bad look for the perp and a good look for the company which refuses to let unruly passengers increase the dangers of flying in confined space within a fragile vehicle.

Behave or lose your privileges and you get to pay 3x next time you try to get on a flight.
remote work makes local laws useless.

If they make laws in the US to make it harder to have remote workers to protect local people then the companies will use an existing foreign office or open a shell office some place where laws are friendlier and hire from there.
That seems worse. Harder to accidentally kill someone with duct tape.
I agree that this is more damage control on Apples side, no amount of spin will make on-device scanning a good idea.

Apple should realize that users just want the privacy they have heard so much about over the years.
Isn't the procedure these days that the pilots are pretty much locked in to the cockpit and can only get out when the door is reasonably secured from people charging it? I would imagine that could be hard to ensure in situations where a taser may be needed.
can someone upvote me please? I need to add my account to my keybase profile.
Closing my eyes and hope the issue resolves itself
The people who run the city also live outside the city limits.
> What's unfortunate here is that a tiny minority of people have ruined domestic travel with their behavior.

Isn't this sort of thing fairly rare? Usually when things are "in the news" it means it fairly uncommon, because if it happens frequently it's no longer "news".

I haven't flown since COVID though, and never any domestic US flights either.
If the crew doesn't act decisively, the other passengers will. The duct tape seems fine to me. Over the mouth seems dangerous, but I wasn't there...I can see where it might have been the only reasonable choice.
I'm thinking it could be almost anyone, at this point.

In my case, I'm sure I've been rejected from job applications because anyone inexpertly Googling will find there are many people that have the same name as I do, but have been arrested for misdemeanors or even a murder.

Just last week, a guy from a BnB told me he was nervous because he thought I was a dangerous man because of the Google results he got.

So, it would seem that you are involuntarily being dragged to try to compete on Google's search results, even if you're a privacy-minded person.
The Taliban should have as much right to speak as anyone else; and service providers should provide legitimate services to the legitimate efforts the Taliban undertakes on a non-prejudicial basis, with the same terms as they offer to any other customer.

Now s/Taliban/8chan/ the above. Still agree?
Is this pattern named ?
This is how I feel as an American too. If i didn't have such strong ties here (family, friends, etc.), I'd move to Europe in a heartbeat and take the lower salary for QoL improvements.
Cops have back seats in their cars with a plexiglass screen and doors that don’t open from the inside. They also have tasers, pepper spray, and batons.

No such thing exists on an airplane so you would have to tie them to the seat somehow.
>employment in the rich world is 3% below its pre-pandemic high (see chart 1). That points to a deficit of about 18m people—a huge waste of talent, not to mention a hit to tax revenues.

It's telling how The Economist views lost taxes and lost "talent" as the worst effects of unemployment, rather than homelessness or hunger for example.

And apparently people using their talents for personal enjoyment is outside of The Economist's models. No surprise there.
Can you even get one of those Panasonic laptops outside of Japan?

Checked Amazon.co.jp and doesn't seem like they ship to Europe.
I'm actually interested in trying one of these out.
Yes, when they're assaulting you with saliva, a biohazard.

However I think that a ventilated bag over the head is probably safer. Blocking the mouth is risky.
We? Nah the US is done. We're a weakening power that's not going to be doing anything about these countries. They're going to continue to do what they want without consequence.
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