skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Purely anecdotal: In my experience as a hiring manager seeing trends change over the past 10 years, and selecting from the top 10% of candidates by some vague metric, it's primarily about "does it pay a lot" and secondarily "does it offer full-remote"? A lot of my friends, former colleagues, and candidates I've failed to hire end up going to either a FAANG or a very successful brand-name company (typically a SV company) because

1. The TC is a lot higher, like 1.5-2x.

2. They don't have to move; or they do want to move, just not for a job.

It doesn't matter that the work is boring (really fungible cog low-impact stuff). It doesn't matter if the colleagues are meh. It doesn't matter if the company has a reputation for lay-offs/churn/etc. If you have those two items above, you'll likely have a good hiring success rate.

Even stronger: many of the "fads" (like cool programming languages, toolkits, frameworks, etc.), moral/virtue-discussions du jour (like hating on: FB, crypto, commercial spying apparatus, AMZN work conditions, etc.), etc. also don't appear matter in the large. Someone boycotting AMZN one day will be happy to accept a very healthy salary + benefits package writing legacy Java 6 backend code if it means a good double- or triple-digit percentage in compensatory promotion.

For this thread, I just asked an extremely talented programmer ex-colleague (Linux kernel hacker, expert at C) how his job is at Oracle and why he chose it:

> Ex-Colleague: Funny you ask, because I was stuck on-call over the holidays. I'm basically a plebe to Larry Enterprises. Mostly that and having a side gig. Not writing any cool code for sure.

> Me: Why not go elsewhere where things are a little more interesting for you? You have no shortage of talent.

> Ex-Colleague: Pay is great. Not a lot going on. Not a lot of fuss on the job. I easily own a house and pay a mortgage and have a lot left over. Definitely put in less than 9-5 worth of effort. Probably can retire early at this rate.

This type of attitude doesn't appear to be so uncommon, at least among people I know.

In my case for the company I hire for: Extreme stability (check; been around and stable for ~60 years), excellent work-life balance (check), really cool work (check; cutting edge research and engineering), and really good and diverse colleagues (check; gender balance and representation, stable personalities, highly interdisciplinary skills, sometimes world renowned), open-source and conferences (check), education and 20%-of-9-to-5 time benefits (check). Those things may matter to some extent, but contrary to the article, they don't seem matter as much as an extra $50k to $250k pretax compensation in the bank and being able to do so from a low CoL area at your comfort.

The good news for me at least is that we aren't a mega-growth-kind of company, so we can take our time. Ultimately the candidate that values the above does find us (or we them), considers it a dream job, and tends to stay for 5-25 years.
Math is off here.

It'd be $10 on android and $14.29 on iPhone to break even.
I am vaccinated 2x + boosted.

And yes, a gun is being held to our heads. I am not allowed to enter a bar without 'showing my papers'. I am not allowed to work without 'showing my papers'. I am not allowed in restaurants without 'showing my papers'.

Where do you get off saying a gun isn't being held to my head?
I think the parent poster was talikng about BANAL virus discovered in Laos, which apparently is closest to SARS-CoV2, but it doesn't have Furin Cleavage Site.

> The Laos study offers insight into the origins of the pandemic, but there are still missing links, say researchers. For example, the Laos viruses don’t contain the so-called furin cleavage site on the spike protein that further aids the entry of SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses into human cells.

From [1]. So yes, the claim made by the parent poster is patently false.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02596-2
Apple should split up the 30% cut into different portions of their value add, and then let developers choose which portions they want to have access to. Dropping the Apply Pay stuff would be 5% or whatever. Access to the Apple Store would be 5% or whatever. They could even charge more over the 30% by offering additional stuff, like auctioning off "app of the week" on the Apple Store.
Business leaders are growing more tolerant of unethical behavior, report says
All of that stuff is really interesting from a technical perspective, but if the persistent memory isn't cheaper than RAM then 95% of machines won't need it, or won't need more than a small buffer of it. It'll be amazing for database servers and almost nobody else.

And Optane failed that test.
i don't know if they are in agreement on the colors but they are in agreement that they don't see an issue and don't want to invest even a second dealing with it.

there seems to be no leeway i just asked for minimal changes as a compromise, also
the hex codes are here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29916162
Balaji from A16Z is pushing this and I asked myself why. Then I remembered that all tokens are illegal unregistered securities under US law and the SEC is running a crypto death lottery where they choose 10% of crypto startups at random and put them out of business. Pseudonymity allows founders to walk away and start again under a different name if the eye of the SEC falls on them and A16Z is legitimizing that strategy.
no. We infer dark matter. To use gravitation to say "there might be dark matter" and then later say 'dark matter exists because we see gravitational anomalies' is begging the question.
I worked for a company that did exactly this many years ago. (They were even able to parter with some retailer). Their product worked well yet they still went out of business long ago.
To be honest, I don't see much value in such a service, not that it doesn't exist, it's just hard to justify paying for this data.
I was once told recruiters did this because they didn't want you reading the email and heading straight to the company's site to apply. If you applied directly, the recruiter was out of the loop and thus out of a commission. I suppose I _might_ be able to negotiate that commission in the form of a larger signing bonus. I doubt that's a winning strategy.

It seems like it would usually be in the best interest of the potential candidate to work through the recruiter. By having been sought out, you have an advantage. You can actually talk to a recruiter and check status of your progress, where as a web application is a black box of which you may never hear another word. At some point the recruiter is going to feel invested in you.
A lot of this is the difference between a FAANG eng and a more average person. 300K for me is absolute abundance. 140K is great, but unless you are a single guy with low costs, hardly a rocket ship to having a lot of wealth. Lots of people earn 140K.
Back when I still bought them, I'd get them from the local big-chain supermarket. So I'm pretty sure they weren't fakes.
https://www.xaprb.com/blog/flight-is-impossible/
Which, of course, is some kind of undiscovered kraken kaiju monster. :)
Perhaps they overlap? I'd even hypothesise that they overlap with solving the 2 hard problems.

There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.

-- Phil Karlton, Leon Bamboogiewoogie @secretGeek, Martin Fowler

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html

• Naming things

>> Technology -> Cool Stuff to Work On

>> Purpose — The desire to do something that has meaning and is important.

• Cache invalidation (forgetfulness)

>> Intellection -> Smart People to Work With

>> Mastery — The urge to get better skilled.

• Off-by-1 errors (self or greater Good)

>> Certainty -> Repeatability in Work Environment

>> Autonomy — Our desire to be self directed. It increases engagement over compliance.
Covid-Hospitalization Numbers Are as Bad as They Look
Hate leap seconds? Imagine a negative one
Internal recruiters as they currently are should not exist. That's the hiring managers job, including negotiation of pay.

The only roles I've ever accepted were roles that involved a hiring manager reaching out directly to me. There's a reason for this, namely that the only recruiters worth a damn seem to be working in boutique firms and want to take a significant bite out of my future pay.

Really, just avoid them if possible.
> its easy to say that if they're not grabbing 30% of sales from YOUR small business.

They're not grabbing 30% of the sales from ANY small business. They lowered their fees to 15% for the first million dollars (I think both per year and per app).
FYI means "for your information". We use it when we are telling people about settled facts. It's also three letters that based on context could be seen as condescending on their own.

When we are discussing not-settled facts, there's better ways to frame our discussion.

For instance: "I believe, that CDM is an antiquated theory and MOND is a better explanation, because _______. I've had discussions with ______ and in particular ______"

It's less effort than your opening flame, it's less abrasive, and it opens productive discourse. Your opening statement is more like that of a political partisan than someone seeking discussion.
> Now what exactly is wrong with a linear volume slider? The answer lies within the way our ears perceive sound. The point is that our sensation of ‘loudness’ is LOGARITHMIC.

An interesting article I read long ago that appears to have never made much traction – and relevant for engineers that may work with audio apps.
According to Chase my grocery spending is up 40% since two years ago.

I buy so little beef these days. Chicken and pork (except for bacon which has doubled) haven't went up as much.

The weirdest things are out of stock these days. Those canned cinnamon rolls are nowhere to be seen. They were out of carrots the other day. Certain breads...

I really feel for lower or fixed income shoppers. Everything else has went up in price as well so they're making cuts somehow
The missing comprehensive package manager for Shell (part 2 of 3)
The video is from 2015, and says it was a 2 year pilot project. Do you know if there are there any updates on how the project went? Is it still operational? Did they build any more?
These article is full of “this one scientist did something” and extrapolate it to “all western scientists are bad and holding out information” without considering those same scientists didn't think it was plausible. You can't take one scientist's belief and extrapolate to all scientists. The person who wrote this article is just trying to do this for shock value.
He started SpaceX together with Tom Mueller.
It’s because 1) you don’t pay enough, and 2) you don’t take hiring seriously.
Agreed.

Why would I skip the recruiter and apply directly unless the recruiter is a non-helpful middleman? I’d love to have a direct contact to negotiate the whole process.
and https://github.com/leeoniya/dropcss, if you're feeling adventurous ;)
You're missing the period of time. Per month?
I worked as an IT administrator, over the years, there was less and less to do... in the end I showed up, and waited for anything to break, or anyone to have a problem... and surfed way too much.

It crushed my soul, and I find I have zero initiative anymore. That was 10 years ago, and I have yet to recover.
I think the idea is that the acidity gets neutralized by the calcium carbonate deposits on the sea floor.
None of that applies to software - they are not Gucci bags.
It's a tight labor market now, not just engineer positions.

as far as engineer or IT jobs are concerned, I have been wondering for years: is the root cause that we can't produce enough STEM graduates? starting from k-12.

I have no strong evidence, but my current company could not even find candidates(we're doing chip design), in the past it would have to work with H1B workers but covid19 made that a slow and impossible task.

some could argue H1B is just cheaper, per my understanding it's not always the case, it is more likely that we just don't have enough STEM graduates to fill the pipeline over the last 3 decades.
Personally I'd probably be the same. But this scenario would probably demolish my objectivity so completely that I would no longer be remotely able to pick right from wrong. If my kid was abused I would probably want cruel and unusual punishment instituted, if my kid was groomed online I would probably want to abolish all encryption or privacy laws standing in the way of finding the person doing it, etc.

That said, I still think it would be reasonable to want to know that they weren't in any agony. And there would probably be a point where I would think something is deeply wrong if a hundred intelligent creatures all suffered terribly just so that one person can live.

But in the end I'd probably go along with it, think we have way too much power for one species and donate or do everything I could to try make it right, and fail.
That's surprisingly effective. Nice!
Easy Mod Lowers Alder Lake CPU Temps by 5 Degrees Celsius
You don't need to wait

https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-gra...

https://www.newsweek.com/how-dr-fauci-other-officials-withhe...
> (the frying pan, really?)

Hardly original to PUBG. Valve had a frying pan in Team Fortress 2 in 2010, long before PUBG even existed: https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Frying_Pan
I was once told recruiters did this because they didn't want you reading the email and heading straight to the company's site to apply.

I've heard this a few times as well over my career, I wonder what-beyond missing out on that sweet contingency fee-recruiters have to lose by, as the article suggest: just being freaking transparent with candidates
https://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ/WhereDoIBegin
I was looking for this comment. The OP and the current top comment seem to think that many engineers wouldn't jump for 10-20K increases. While that is true if they are in a good role, many salary increases from jumping are high double digits right now.

Compensation, WLB, and benefits matter FAR FAR more for the majority of people than "good projects" or "smart colleagues". If you want those and can't get it in your job, well that's what open source work is for.
How are you going to manage problematic content such as child pornography and deliberate copyright infringement?

If you can't do that, then effort and money put into moving my content there would just be wasted because the hard problems of managing problematic content is why there are not a bunch of services like the one you are proposing. The hard problems aren't technical, they are the economic incentives of bad actors.

Good luck.
If you try to use your browser's standard right-click Pinterest intercepts and gives you the option to Save (to Pinterest), open link (the very one you are viewing) in a new tab, see more ideas about education (on Pinterest!), see more from renee ma (on Pinterest!), or login or sign up for Pinterest.

If you click on the image, which is a link, it gives you a sign-in form.

Sure, the three dots are there to click; but "Download Image" is the only function listed. Why wouldn't it just be a download button...

Edit: And it's truly a 'download' versus viewing it directly in the browser...
The paper asserts that, if you buy an amount of stock in the morning, that moves the price up more than selling the same amount of stock in the afternoon moves the price down.

To back up this assertion, the paper cites one of the author's previous publications from 2018, which in turn cites this WSJ article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/early-birds-suffer-in-market-14...
I do not disagree with your take, but I think you may only be speaking for a subset of engineers that are already fairly well compensated. The article likewise seems to discard the importance of money in favor of three other more immaterial factors, but I do not think this is representative of the situation of the global job market right now. I also think such a perspective can not fully explain the difficulties that many companies are having with regards to hiring engineers at the moment.

If you look outside of coastal cities, there are plenty of job offers for engineering jobs that pay less than 6 figures. Over in Europe and East Asia, $50 to $60k salaries are the norm. And people job hop frequently for a few extra $k because that corresponds to a significant increase in quality of life for them. The difference between a 2 br and 3 or 4 br apartment, between another kid or not, etc...

People will absolutely leave your company if they think they can get paid more elsewhere. People will absolutely pass over your job offer if they think they can get more elsewhere.

You also see the reverse phenomenon which is that you'll find plenty of engineers doing soul-wrenching, boring jobs in toxic environment who still say because they are very generously compensated (hello FAANG).
The right to buy is another property right.
If so then the world did not go into a depression because of that money printing.
Perspectives on the Cap Theorem [pdf]
Good point. So that population of people probably has some functional constraints. Sorta like seasonal laborer numbers increase in the fall/winter and diminish after. Or frictional unemployment always exists as some portion of the labor pool latently reacts to changing work conditions. Ie the two year hoppers are probably doing their usual thing if only because they’re within their 2 year commitment period at the current place.
A lot of corporate jobs I see look more like they want someone to come act a part in a play than actually do meaningful engineering work. That's why I think it's hard to hire. Offer a real job, or offer a ridiculous salary.
Great post! I think part of the problem for hiring managers at any not-small company is that the things that attract great engineers are not really things that a single hiring manager can solely control. If you're an excellent manager in a mediocre or bad environment there's only so much excellence you can promote in your team alone. And larger orgs must tend toward mediocrity/average by nature. I don't know where I'm going with this philosophical exercise. Maybe individuals would be best served intellectually if there were only small companies to work for?
I just looked at AAPL and it has $62B cash and $136B debt.
If you do the math ... where is all that CASH you're talking about?
Greg Kroah-Hartman has this video on writing and submitting your first kernel patch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4

I thought I remembered an article about this too but I couldn't find it.

edit: looks like sibling post by Decabytes might have it.
It addresses the problem in the same way that shoplifting addresses the problem of not having enough money for what you want. Technically, you're in the wrong. You're failing to pay a bill you signed up to pay. And no one will go after you for $4 (unless they really want to lose money, I guess.) But if you try the same thing on tens of thousands of dollars of subscriptions (say, as a business you make a decision to do that) you'll probably get sued.
How are the long term employment prospects for today’s SpaceX engineers?
Seek mental help? Hyper aversion to colors is not normal.
Sed – An Introduction and Tutorial by Bruce Barnett
> I suppose I _might_ be able to negotiate that commission

Asking for a friend. Does anybody know what this commission is?
On the flip side, dissatisfaction about engineering work conditions at AMZN (the notorious PIP culture) is a rising deterrent.
I have the same problem as you, I just don't know the fundamentals at math. So I decided to start from the beginning with basic arithmetic. You probably should ignore book recomendations like Spivak for now. The books that I use right now are "Arithmetic for the practical man" by "J. E. Thompson" and "The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure" by "Hans Magnus Enzensberger" which is a childbook.
Same here, and I learned to pretend and smile at the hiring manager and founders who were trying to make money priority sound weird. Eventually the money was being paid by the same people who offered the cool stuff to work on.

Now I can be choosy, for even more money
China arrests and disappears people for making minor off handed comments about the CCP, the way they handled it really doesn't prove anything other than they were attempting to silence -everyone- involved so they had complete control of how information flows, just like they do on every other issue that has international attention.
Survey and Comparison of Open Source Time Series Databases [pdf]
You must live in the sticks or something. I make well over 6 figures and can’t afford a house.
Honestly don’t think so, always a possibility, and even if they do it’s not a big deal
Doesn't matter. The virus will take care of them in a couple of days on the job. They would be out after that.
Have you tried the Gmail plain HTML version? I use it because it loads so much faster and without any JavaScript: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15049?hl=en
The entire game industry is built on "rip-offs". Can you imagine the gaming landscape if nobody was allowed to clone Doom, or Street Fighter 2, or Dune 2/Command & Conquer.

Clone it once, it's a "rip-off". Clone it 10 times in slightly different ways it's a whole new genre (as we have seen with Battle Royales).

Blocking developers from building games that copy mechanics, even seemingly verbatim is dangerous territory - I don't think anyone wins in the long term from getting any stricter with IP rights on video games.

/However/ imo a line should still be drawn at outright stealing assets - which I believe the creators of Garena Free Fire have actually done in the past, hopefully this lawsuit sticks with that and doesn't attempt to create a stricter precedent.

EDIT: I should probably include Warcraft in the early RTS list - seems like Dune 2 set up the conventions of the genre, but I'm not sure whether Warcraft or the first Command & Conquer did more work in popularizing it.

Likewise I know Doom wasn't the very first first person shooter, but it definitely popularized the genre to the point that making "clones" was more profitable.
As a rule, I don’t trust any third party recruiters but that generally limits me to mid sized and up companies unless I actively seek them out. On the other hand, I get an email from Amazon recruitment nearly every day and I have zero desire to work the bozos.
So you can buy anything? Where is that right enshrined in the constitution?
There is a pretty major flaw in this write up, which is the assumption that the changes we may see will be linear, be it sea level rise, temps, etc.

There are at least 4 tipping points that could upend this. If the Gulf Stream fails, Europe will be much colder than it is now, for example. Rapid breakdown of ice shelfs could quickly raise sea levels.

“It won’t be bad because it has not yet” is thin.

The middle latitudes are set to be in large part unlivable. Just imagine the geopolitical and humanitarian impacts of hundreds of millions of refugees. Just imagine when a country that is the source of a water source decides they need it and more than others downstream and reroute it.

These are massively destabilizing types of things. And not far fetched.

Sea level rise is the least of it tbh.
> I don't have anything interesting to say

Imagine all you can read about Networking is RFCs, because nobody has anything interesting to add because it's all in those cryptic (some of them at least) RFCs!
30% of the engineer’s first year salary.
I actually had a recuiter get angry at me recently for asking them for a basic job description and salary after their cold email had literally zero information other than the expectation I'd set up a call with them for a "very competitive role".

Like, I just don't understand the audacity of most of them. Especially when almost invariably their competitive pay is 30% of what even base level fangs would offer. Its a complete waste of everyone's time.