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Why would anyone work at Amazon except for desperation?

The hilarious thing about your "raising the bar" hiring is that the abusive hiring process, abusive work culture, abusive HR policies, and the rapidly declining reputation cap the bar. Why would good people work at fucking Amazon? They won't. So you'll end up with a bunch of backstabbing Machiavelli wannabes.

And those people that shake out of Amazon? They don't have tech talent to rise above the machiavellis, so that means they are the FAILED machiavellian backstabbers. What could be worse? That means they will be ULTRA machiavellian out of paranoia in the next workplace.

Sure, tell yourself "this happens everywhere". "It depends on the team". I have never met an amazon employee that didn't admit the place was a terrible workplace and they only worked there for the resume checkmark.

Usually this pathetic machiavellian game theory plays out in middle management. Amazon however has trickled this down to the tech workers, which is not good.

All that for "ok" pay? Your vesting is a three year carrot that the HR policies try to ensure that you won't be able to cash? What a crap company.
If your bill is >$500 / mo, you get their "Business" support level which lets you use their customer success managers.

If you're not spending this much, you won't get good support from them or any cloud vendor. AWS, Azure, and GCP all push you to the forums or submitted a ticket which may or may not get read.
I’ve worked primarily with Chinese for years, both inside and outside of China. They consistently poke fun at and speak thoughtfully about the government and policy. It’s possible they just had learned to avoid being baited by westerners looking to confirm a certain narrative.
Most people just believe what they read on Facebook without even clicking the link. Sucks, but we can't allow idiots to be propagandized by misleading titles. Unfortunately nuance is dead.
Why are you being so rude to people who just want to foster a real conversation with you about cryptocurrency? When you're backed into a corner you can't resort to "it's not for you", and start making personal attacks. It frankly makes your case look paper-thin and further reinforces the idea that cryptocurrency is a chump's game.
No offense but it sounds like you need to take a media break and get some air. Go camping.
Cloud is too large and usually too cheap for most people to really get meaningful customer support. I have heard of the same challenges from Azure and AWS too.
You're right, and I apologize. I just got really pissed off at this and didn't think before I hit the button, so I'm going to own my mistake here and fully admit that's on me. I'm sorry about that, folks.

If there was a delete button on my comment here I'd hit it, but I don't see one. Feel free to delete this entire "thread" (my comment itself and these replies) if you like, I don't mind at all.
Base version gets PBT keycaps (yesss!) and Pro gets ABS (buuuh) Sadly not a typo. Hopefully the PBT set is available separately or (pretty please) PMK will make a custom run of the Ice-Cap.
you just reinvented the news journalist...
Having a mentor is a shortcut: it can save you a lot of trial and error learning. It also shortens the learning feedback loop.

As my dad used tosay: the stupid don't learn from their mistakes, the smart learn from their mistakes,and the wise learn from other people's mistakes.
good content on https://www.realpython.com
Still waiting for the apology from all the people who said that this was all very necessary to combat misinformation and save democracy, and that any suggestions that this could possibly have bad outcomes was relying on a slippery slope fallacy, and not to be regarded.
Things like that - e.g. conferences, paid travel, etc - are common. But I think it's different from a manager charging kickbacks for awarding an IT contract, and on only by pure semantic.
Affirm? https://www.affirm.com/
I ran into a situation where a manager with poor technical skills was promoted primarily because some hiring boxes needed to be checked. Then several of my peers began leaving the unit this manager was heading up. This went on for years until I was transferred into the problem unit. After I witnessed a couple instances of incompetence, I decided to sound the alarm in a meeting with her supervisor. In short, it came down to the supervisor stating that they had invested too much in this manager to change anything, although the turnover costs were mounting. I went into the meeting with all the intention of pointing out the problems and correcting them, but having faced the sheer stupidity from on high, I realized the futility of fighting, and resigned.

If the management doesn't care that this problem is hurting the team, how is one member of the team going to change it?
It is not worth the risk. Encrypt those - you don't have to choose a particularly secure key or encryption scheme, just one that's good enough that it's computational infeasible for Google to brute-force that scheme+key size for every one of its users.

Actually, it might be a good idea to encrypt everything on Google Drive - I wouldn't be surprised if they analyze your files and use the results to augment their internal profile about you (or, even if they don't now, they could very easily do so in the future - remember when they scanned your emails to target ads at you?).
Personal anecdote:

Even 5 years ago calls with customers and investors invited questions like "so are you in the city or in the South Bay?" Raising money in particular was very hard if you were not in the Bay Area.

Now nobody even asks where you are located and if you say you are distributed/remote everyone shrugs. Angels and VCs don't seem to care at all.

It's been a stark and noticeable shift and it pre-dates COVID. COVID has just accelerated the geographic diversification trend dramatically.
The ship has totally sailed on whether it's a best practice to instrument machines employees use to conduct work, in the name of compliance and security. That's an utterly standard control, and unless you have a remarkably potent new argument against doing so, arguing that companies shouldn't do this sort of thing is kind of uninteresting. If anything, the prevailing sentiment (for better or worse, mostly worse) is that companies should be doing more of this, not less.
You've assumed an awful lot about me based on a few flippant comments I've made on social media. Perhaps that time would be better spent finding a different outlet for your frustration. It appears that these days people on HN jump to the "find another job" solution as fast as people on Reddit jump to the "get divorced" solution.
It’s more complicated than that. They held the line on costs, which let them maintain the freeze, which increased enrollment and alum donations and made investments beyond low-hanging fruit possible. They claim not to have changed their mix of in-state. Daniels is a legitimate tightwad so it’s in character for him to take cost control seriously.
Just installed nextcloud, an owncloud fork today. Be warned, while server side encryption works, e2e is completely broken and has been for non brand new accounts for quite a while judging by the github issues.

I'm not sure how much should I trust a vps host. I can mess around with encryption all day long but they can compromise my mail server without me ever knowing.
From my non-lawyer understanding: the Sherman Antitrust Act and any further bills/amendments aren't exactly explicit on what it means to be "anticompetitive" because it depends on the circumstances, and the writers wanted to allow the definition to adapt to changing circumstances. Regardless of if they buy them all at once, or buy and shutting them down serially, it's still arguably "anticompetitive". It's ultimately up to the courts to decide (if the FTC presses charges).
I cannot say exactly for this one, but with the LIBOR scandal numbers were probably not that high.

LIBOR was probably manipulated by 1 basis point (0.01%), give or take. Even with $1bn notional deal, which is a very large one, the difference would be $25k for 3 month payment.

I mean, well, it's still pretty good money, but it's not like they made a couple of trillions and only paid a mere half-a-billion in fine.
To all on social media. Enjoy your filtered, prescriptive, fact checked approved me feed with just the right amount of anti establishment to keep you from getting up or of your seat.

Frankly why any platform can be allowed to decide the worthiness of an article themselves is beyond me.

If FB were citing some insane group who score publications/data publicly and openly based on their content is say they're guilty of nothing more than trusting a trusted information outlet.
(I'll even accept that the JDL is probably more open than this and they get triggered by small green reptiles)

Now that Facebook is deciding what is worthy to be deemed "truth" it has entered firmly into the arena of editorialism. Of course FB want this, it is practically the last brick of the wall around the garden of it's user-base. But it should be something that is illegal as it's clearly broaching on anti-competition territory.

(This unfortunately exposes a problem in tech from the monopoly argument. There is always an alternative people can move to, that is not, and should never be, an excuse for crap behaviour by crap companies)
It's kind of a tough trick to get them to detonate properly.
I think it comes back to Fight Club:

> Narrator: A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

If the cost of the fine is less than the profit that can be made by ignoring it, it will get ignored. Especially because banks seem to have privatized profits and socialized losses. So I don’t think it should be necessarily proportional to a companies size but certainly a multiple of the cost of the externality. For example, if an oil company gets caught polluting, they should pay a big multiple of the damages so that it is ALWAYS cheaper ti invest in doing the right thing.

Also, the SEC is not a particularly popular organization and I think they have lost a lot of trust (if they ever really had any)
c15 on the tx81z, you'd have to model the 12 bit DACs and the steppy-nees of the wave shapes. also the CPUs in the tx81z were slow and some calcs would lag a bit which contributed to its sound... try sending midi data to the TX81z while sequencing it, your pattern with start swinging!

TX81z is one of my favorite synths.
Very well, you are right. I did mean the spirit, and free speech principles.

It just feels like every big tech company simultaneously and suddenly decided to crank up censorship. There are even examples of hosting providers and payment processors refusing service to other companies that don't follow certain "guidelines".

It's a censorship cartel. When all these companies suddenly decide to turn the screws on certain viewpoints, it is effectively limiting free speech on society. And I shouldn't have to say this, but free speech is a good thing.
Thank you for this, will take a look
This isn't a Google service. This is a Area 120 service, big difference.
Area 120 is an incubator. Tons of their products don't make it to the public.
Clickbait article :/.
Because there isn't a standard. The point is each one implements their own protocol instead of adapting a standard such as Matrix or XMPP. (Whether any suitable standard exists (much less existed in 2012!) is another issue, but regardless it's fair to say that the current state of things is not ideal.)
There is, in fact, plenty of evidence for nanoampere current causing profound biological effects. I personally attended a talk in 1987 by a biologist who induced insect larvae to grow to 4x normal size by E-M stimulation of such a current. And, there is George Becker's "The Body Electric", which anybody may read, summarizing a whole career, funded by the US Veterans Administration medical program, investigating those effects in detail.

Certain modulations of radio-frequency E-M in those bands can induce current of such magnitude, even at power levels such as are produced by cell phones. But the regulatory agencies do not admit effects of modulations; regulations admit only the effect of heating by baseband energy absorption, microwave-oven style. On the plus side, the modulations used for digital transmission are not generally expected to produce coherent currents. But nobody has actually verified any of that.

Generally, if you are planning to bathe an entire population in a form of radiation it has never been exposed to at any time in its entire evolutionary history, it should be your responsibility to demonstrate it won't cause any trouble. But, under present FCC rules, it appears not to be.

So, instead, the experiment will again be run against the general population, and what happens will happen. Fingers crossed?

We have numerous examples from the 20th century of blithely assuming that new physical phenomena are harmless or even beneficial, with subsequent harm. My mother, like many in her generation, had cancer in her nose from (ineffective!) x-radiation treatment for acne 50 years before. That was not caused by heating.
Interested in this. I like my Ergodox EZ but I wish its maximum tenting was a little more. I also really want to try the nonflat key arrangement.

However, labeled keys and unique key shapes seems like a weird combination. Especially with Enter and Space on the same side.
There are a lot of incurious paint-by-numbers doctors in the US. Doing your job by rote won't get you fired.
This reason exactly is why i'm terrified of using email based two factor. I find the OTP from 1Password more reliable because nothing has to be sent or received.
Just to be clear what you're saying, you personally, or for the sake of others, need satire labels to identify that "CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine to Spin News Before Publication" is satire? That is the statement you just made?
I think the layperson wants the fine to be big enough that it disincentivizes the bad behavior that resulted in the fine and behavior like it. JP Morgan recorded $12.1 Billion profit in 2020, so a fine of $125 Million is about 1% of their annual profit. I doubt Jamie Dimon is sweating too much about that.
> When I first moved to San Francisco in 1997, it was a magical and inspirational place. Remember the Flying Saucer and Survival Research Labs parties?

I do remember that! I started working in 1999, and my coworkers and I were in SF a few times a week at various nerd parties. They used projectors to cat out the linux kernel on the wall as the decor. I miss those parties, because they were fun and also you got to meet other really cool nerds and talk about nerdy things.
How would you use setTimeout to replace useEffect?

useEffect works by running on each render (no dependencies) or running when rendering and dependencies changed. Where does a timeout factor in?

useLayoutEffect also doesn't work based on the microtask queue - it uses React's internal scheduler, which I would imagine makes sense in the context of the library. Replicating it with queueMicrotask is probably not a trivial task.
re talent, there is plenty in EU and getting a visa to USA is not the easiest / not everyone wants to emigrate to USA
Not in any meaningful way without first coming to terms on a shared ethical framework and a common understanding of 'serious', no.
Or an engineer. I briefly worked with a team doing radar systems, their CPU basically had every mathematical function you could want available as an assembly instruction. Want to work with complex numbers? It's in the instruction set. Want to convert between coordinate representations? It's in the instruction set.
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A lot of companies do not hire software engineers to implement the system; instead, they contract it to third party (tech service companies such as Cognizant). I think some sort of auditing is done at the delivery, if they concern about the license. But in the context of Java web app, the enterprise software is usually built on dependencies under APA, so it should be of less concern
The university is responsible for safety of its students so yes, I think the authorities need to grant permission at least to ensure this outside person isn't a complete maniac who is going to attempt to incite a riot, or who otherwise is likely to disrespect the policies of the university, whatever they may be. Option C is too late, options A and B are basically the same aside from semantics. I'd be fine with either if I were responsible for that speaker's presence.
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Digitalocean offers TOTP for 2fa, with backup codes! No email needed. If memory serves well they only offer a TOTP and SMS based 2fa so i'm not sure why an email would be sent for this.

Edit: Their docs mention the 2fa modes that are supported: https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/accounts/security/2fa...
You sound like you work at a larger company. I've worked at large companies and it's amazing how many resources large companies can waste, and how easy it is for people in those companies to hide that waste.

It drives me crazy when I see a lot of waste - whether it's time, money, or just human potential when people want to achieve more but they don't have the right opportunity because others dismiss them as not having potential. I became much happier when I moved to a small company that was run much more efficiently and very little was wasted, and if people are in a position where they don't feel good about what they are doing, there are sufficient opportunities for them to do something different.
You're right, it's the negative vs positive rights thing. So there for sure is a difference, and the stance that the government's purpose is to protect the rights of the empowered and to hell with anything that helps anyone else is a consistent viewpoint that I just strongly disagree with.
Ah, that's the tricky part.

It's not about what you or I would do, it's about what the median user does when the topic is public health and safety. And half of everyone is below average.
What you are saying does not align with the text of the directive. It clearly says that card numbers cannot be stored for any purpose. Quoting from the directive:

With effect from January 1, 2022, no entity in the card transaction / payment chain, other than the card issuers and / or card networks, shall store the actual card data. Any such data stored previously shall be purged.
speak for yourself! hehe

https://soundcloud.com/cassilda_and_carcosa/ontologies-tape-...
You're in the US --- California, to boot. I'm not sure what you accomplished by making the agreement "unenforceable", as your employer does not need to secure your agreement to terminate you for virtually any reason. Discovering that you text and drive in your spare time, off hours, is something they'll likely have no trouble firing you for, unless you have an employee contract that somehow gives you tenure except for for-cause hiring (almost nobody has one of those).
I think the issues the Bay Area faces are due to the diversity of residents and the diversity of their needs and not specific to the Bay Area. Its a byproduct of having a dense, creative economy.

Who gets to "define" the goals and strategy of the region?

Do the original techies get to define it or is it the new media techies or the original residents or the service workers supporting the techie lifestyles?

Just like Los Angeles used to be fairly homogenous and conservative prior to embracing the creative economy, eventually any city which has any success attracting the diversity of views required by a creative economy well face these issues.
I chose a product to the best of my abilities, and it turns out that it may not have been a right fit. Next time I will try another product. I don't see why that warrants such a confrontational tone and/or downvotes; nobody's perfect.
The exact same thing will happen with AWS, GCP, and Azure unless you are spending a minimum of about $1000/month or purchase elevated support.
I was thinking the same thing 1-2 days ago when I wasn't getting the 6 digit code.

It wasn't anything urgent, and it arrived after ~5-10 minutes. But if it were something urgent then it would have been a huge problem.
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Very, very cool demo! If someone decides to use this for production, don't forget about sanitizing inputs to mitigate XSS, CSRF, etc (and, of course, message storage, authentication, and all those other things.)
This article could have been just two paragraphs. Maybe even one.

I see no actual updates in it, only super careful language assuring the reader that the cause of the original problem is still being worked on.

Well... okay? Why did we need this fluff piece pumped full of perfumed language though?
A real-world comparison between Cloudflare and Fastly
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/accounts/security/2fa...

Looks like they provide backup options.
FWIW, I think this happens the other way too. There is no shortage of attractive single influencer dudes on sites like TikTok and Instagram who post endless videos which are various combinations of:

- talking earnestly about mental health and how much therapy has done for them

- tears and vulnerability, especially around the hurts they've experienced in past relationships they now describe as having been "toxic"

- questioning their own self-worth and wondering aloud if they are lovable at all

- emphasizing the importance of flags/non-negotiables in relationships and encouraging viewers to cut out partners and family who don't measure up

- being "fun" and joking around, including about things like how much they enjoy getting kinky, giving oral sex, etc

None of this is bad on the face of it, but it is kind of a question mark when the comment sections for this kind of content are choc-a-block full of married women posting crown emojis and openly expressing their wish that their partners could be more like the persona being depicted by the content creator.

And neither am I judging the semi-anonymous women who connect with this kind of thing, but I think it is probably filling much the same gap for them as something like porn/OF does for straight guys in terms of unmet emotional needs— it's just that it's the stereotypically female needs that it's catering to. And it probably has many of the same potential pitfalls in terms of risks to real-world relationships when the line between fantasy and reality is not clearly understood. For example, I'm aware of a few cases involving a creator like this where women met up with him and ended up quitting the community altogether because it was just too jarring trying to square what they'd built up of him in their mind with what he was actually like to hang out with in person.
If you're a cop, why do your job if the people are just going to be released with no consequences? Police can't do anything if the DA refuses to prosecute.
Slate star codex has a very fun and nerdy explanation of fashion cycles.

Let’s explain fashion using cellular automata. This isn’t going to be cringe-inducingly nerdy at all!

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/22/right-is-the-new-left/
Thumb shift keys are definitely an (incremental) improvement over the traditional placement, but they require a yet bigger commitment to retraining from the standard keyboard layout. I've been using Kinesis keyboards for 25 years, and finally this year committed to moving the shifts to the thumbs. This was worthwhile for me, but I hesitate to recommend the, ahem, shift to others.
Bitcoin is software. Software is unchanging and can never be upgraded.