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Ask HN: Have you ever been “poached” internally? Is this even a thing?
A few jobs ago a coworker of mine, a fellow Senior Site Reliability Engineer who-like I-was frustrated with how our company manifested 'Devops', and also-like I-had zero interest in trying to play the 'hearts and minds' game of undergoing a devops transformation did something stunning (to me):

Because we were embedded with different development teams, we attended their stand ups and got intimate knowledge of what they were working on.

This friend of mine decided one day he'd pick a random ticket from this team's backlog, and assigned it to himself. He worked it, he wrote the code, followed all the same testing and QA steps the dev team did, merged it in, it got deployed.

Some would argue "this is what SRE's ought to be doing in the first place" and I agree, but lived experience has shown me the philosophy of Google's SRE way either gets perverted and bastardized entirely, or just completely abandoned for reasons that are taken entirely out of the hands of the SRE practitioners by engineering managers and org leaders (Warning, cynicism ahead: In my opinion for reasons due to poor capacity and resource planning by those very same managers and leaders)

Anyway, my friend started doing this more and more. To the point that he messaged me one day saying he was leaving the team. I asked him where his new offer was. He said "no I'm not leaving the company, I'm leaving the team".

The dev team manager noticed his work contribs, and when one of their developers left, grabbed our guy and pulled him onto their team proper.

My questions:
- Is the a thing that anyone else has seen happen?
- Have you done this/had this kind of internal "poach" happen to you (or someone you care about?)
- ....would you do it?
San Antonio here. Things seem to be fine. I went to the store on a Sunday morning and it wasn't very busy, nothing was sold out. I had been worried because I saw lines outside of a store closer to me, presumably due to capacity restrictions.

The other day, my husband went, and they were out of frozen potatoes. That can happen either from shortages or a freezer malfunction, though, so it was relatively normal. I am actually pleasantly surprised at how well the supply chain is holding up during this wave.
I think DeSo tries to do some of the stuff you mention.

However, this is massively tricky. How can you say that the next Instagram still uses square pictures, has the concept of likes, etc.

Though decentralized social networks provide portability, using it in reality is very difficult.
Well let's see, 20+ years of big tech companies colluding to keep salaries capped, and now inflation making a typical 10k salary bump a joke. Yep I won't be leaving my job either.
I've been using plausible like 8 months now, i very like it!
should apple be allowed to make a (what seems like substantial) profit off that lock-in? by comparison payment processors like stripe can offer as a baseline 2.9% and 30 cents. if you predict that the average uber is 10 dollars (which is probably low these days) that's 6% if you were able to process with stripe and they're still turning a profit.

If you want to make the argument that because of the substantial number of free apps that apple needs to subsidize the costs of review etc. then I'm 100% sure that these companies would rather pay for the underlying resources than get raked over by this pricing scheme.
It depends on the engineer. Some are interested in steering the direction of the product, but a majority are not. Coming in, picking up Jira tickets, and clocking out is enough for many software engineers. I don't blame them, and in fact it's probably a good thing; too many cooks in the kitchen becomes problematic.
Restricted Stock Units:
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/restricted-stock-unit.a...

"The term restricted stock unit (RSU) refers to a form of compensation issued by an employer to an employee in the form of company shares. Restricted stock units are issued to employees through a vesting plan and distribution schedule after they achieve required performance milestones or upon remaining with their employer for a particular length of time. RSUs give employees interest in company stock but no tangible value until vesting is complete. The RSUs are assigned a fair market value (FMV) when they vest. They are considered income once vested, and a portion of the shares is withheld to pay income taxes. The employee receives the remaining shares and can sell them at their discretion."
> Makes sense, do you have experience "walking back on"? Interviewing is such a PITA and I'd like to avoid it if I can.

Not sure which one you work at but at Amazon when I left (~2 years ago), you could come back within 6 months no questions asked without an interview, come back within 1 year you have to interview but no bar raiser, come back after 1 year full interview process. I never tried going back but that's what it was.
Isaac Arthur did a video speculating about Dark Matter Technologies: https://youtu.be/GHXG3xrIDLY. Perhaps you will enjoy it!
Yup. I mean I've worked with a couple good recruiters that were genuinely helpful, but many are exactly as you said, just in the way.

One recruiter just couldn't understand that the commute for me was major. I had just left a job which had a 1-1.5hr commute each way for me, and I was looking exclusively for something with no more than a 30 minute commute. They kept trying to toss my resume at jobs that had equivalent or longer commutes because "the perks are really nice" or the "pay was really good". Which I took to mean their commission would be really good.
How do you have your own server?

Also, I don't think people usually want to host their own servers.
I think you have no idea how bad people are with their money even as engineers.
I also recommend Plausible, I am a happy customer for maybe over one year. It is lightweight and easy to use interface at a great price.
Separate from web scraping, there is the use of automation to perform normal allowable user actions on the site. That should be considered distinct from large scale data extraction no
I don’t actually want any of that. I just want reduced work / work hours.

I’d rather make half faang compensation and work half as much.
I haven't really seen a whole lot of evidence that there's any stronger correlation between FIRE and engineers compared to other jobs (in fact, many FIRE blogs are from non-eng people).

And conversely, there's plenty of engineers who have kids (hence, very much not FIRE). The vast majority end up going down that route, in fact, at least in my experience.
Hmm? std::time::Duration doesn’t implement Mul<Duration>, and does implement Mul<u32>, and has methods mul_f32 and mul_f64. So you can multiply a duration with a number; and you can’t multiply a duration with a duration because that would be stupid.
Even a small bleed of a minority retiring early could have huge effects on corporate hiring ability. Especially for senior engineers.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/restricted-stock-unit.a...
Chicken thighs can be a great replacement for chicken breast. You may have to cook it a little differently, but if it's in a soup or other dish where it's mixed in, you can hardly tell any difference. I haven't done this myself but have seen great deals on whole chickens if you consume or freeze enough during the week for it to be worth it.
For those with PHDs or of some high math credentials:

What would be the next subject to learn in math and why?

After having taken these, what's next? Probability Theory, Calc Series, Linear Algebra / Differential Eqs / Discrete Math.

Could you annotate something about the subject with an example?
At least with Gitlab, the text of the merge request is used for the text of the merge commit that’s created when you merge in the changes, so the comments still get added to the Git history.
I was being a bit facetious, I meant you don’t have to put much thought because when they’re scoped or in modules you can just name them the way you’re naming them. Complex CSS naming rules (like BEM style) seem dated to me.
From the article

> In their work, Fraternali and his colleagues tested a leading contender among dark matter alternatives, called MOND, for Modified Newtonian Dynamics, which involves tweaking Isaac Newton’s law of gravity. First proposed by Israeli physicist Mordehai Milgrom in the 1980s, MOND hypothesizes that standard gravitational physics, which accurately explains the motions of objects with high gravitational accelerations, like planets in our solar system, might not apply the same way to slowly orbiting stars at the edge of a galaxy’s disc. So the discrepancy between the expected velocities of the stars in galaxies and how fast they appear to be moving may not indicate missing mass, but rather a math error, if the MOND gravitational law is right. But while the MOND model fares well with more normal galaxies, it too couldn’t explain the rotation of Fraternali’s team’s fluffy galaxy. It fared just as poorly as dark matter models do.

Maybe try reading before calling others stupid
But I like buttons. The more, the better. Complexity is more a function of depth than breadth.

I don't trust your integrated search feature to understand what I want, and in any event, I rarely feel like playing a game of Zork to get my work done.

Please use buttons, clearly labeled in English (if not the user's native language.)

Looking at your screenshots, you pretty much had it right the first time.
In the Internet age, monopolies should be defined in the 2nd degree.

It should not be about how many consumers using X anymore. It should be about how many consumers are related to consumers using X.

The reality is internet network effects create too much concentration of power. The question is how hard is it for a new business to build a dense network? And who profits from it being difficult?

Microsoft's anti-trust charges arrived in 1998, years before endemic Internetification of social interaction and making use of business's services. There were charged for attempting to control the Internet.

Apple's hypothetical anti-trust charges in 2022 would arrive years before endemic open APIs and personal data ownership. They would be charged for attempting to control people's freedom to interact with each other regardless of each others chosen platform.
> Plus what if you want to just save off your current status and log off for the day

Strictly speaking, that's what git stash [1] is for. Not so ideal if you want to push your WIP changes to Github though.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/git-stash
Compensation in the form of stock that's essentially as good as cash.
I think amazon is absolutely facing pressure from word getting out about working conditions. They raised their pay band for a middle level engineer 100k.
I've worked with ... 4 in over 25 years that I would work with again. They were helpful middlemen. Only 2 landed me anything, but I know the other 2 put in some effort and things just didn't work out. There's been dozens I've spoken with and wasted far too much time with.

tldr - they do exist, but in very short supply (like many skilled/talented people in most industries)
Some previous discussion on that here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27093793

It's interesting that the Dubai Lamps only use a relatively simple capacitive dropper with a linear post-regulator --- so it's probably actually cheaper to produce than some of the other LED bulbs with complex switchmode power supplies.

The cheapest LED bulbs use a capacitive dropper too, but they drive the LEDs very hard; bigclivedotcom (same person who did the video featured in hackaday there) has a few other videos showing how they can be modified for lower power consumption and thus correspondingly long life.
I can't think of other games set /on mars/ and /with demons/, but the broad weapon archetypes (shitty single shot pistol/rifle, shotgun, bigger shotgun, high fire rate chaingun type thing, 'BFG' esque super weapon) and doors with keys thing were both aped by a lot of games. And there were certainly other FPS games with demonic themes.

Regardless, 'Scavenged Present Day Military Equipment on Island' is a much less distinct theme than 'Demons on Mars'.

...

I think calling the Settlers and Syndicate RTS games in the same vein as Warcraft or Command and Conquer is a stretch.

If you compare the latter two to big RTS titles released even years later (Age of Empires, TA/Supreme Commander, Dawn of War 1 are some examples I can think of that weren't made by the same studios as Dune/C&C/Warcraft) you'll see all the core mechanics are still the same - base building, unit training, economy, UX conventions.

The Settlers and Syndicate are lower case real-time strategy games, but they aren't 'Real Time Strategy' games.
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Incoming North Korean Missile Warning Prompted FAA's Mysterious Air Traffic Halt
Yes, trivially. But the achievable savings rate depends very much on the absolute value of your salary, for any level of target creature comforts.
Can we talk about how the function he wrote had like 15 parameters?
Engineers end up paying a cool stuff compensation or life balance premium to some degree - an extreme case being games industry engineers.
Loosing out on 10k a year doesn't sound bad until you're 100k/yr behind where you could be.
A previous discussion of my writeup on this awesome feature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19520966
People think american cheese is literal plastic
They are also a stepping stone to real support personnel, and a subset of users fall off the stepping stone making support cheaper.
Contact me with your resume and I'll try to give you my best good-faith advice as a hiring manager. (And if I think you could have potential on my team, I'd even talk about hiring you
myself.)
> getting married and having kids

i have not met anyone yet who is married with kids but would have preferred an earlier retirement instead. kids are more expensive than all the other things combined that you listed - no amount of living in the basement or saving 30k on having no car is going to make up for that.
The headline is

> I Think I Know Why You Can't Hire Engineers Right Now

But nothing on the article touches on an exploration of why these factors (which seem reasonable, in general) are any more relevant now than they were a year ago. Or five years ago.
> I feel like these marketplaces could maybe justify 30% on the purchase of an app up front, where there are clear benefits to the exposure and platform offered by them. But ongoing revenue is really attributable to the app itself and feels to me much harder to justify.

It’s not 30% of ongoing revenue though. You only have to pay 30% in one situation: you are already earning millions of dollars in the App Store AND it’s the first year of the subscription.

If you earn less than a million dollars, you qualify for the small business program and the rate is 15%:

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-announces-app-s...

If your subscriber has been subscribed for a year or more, the rate is 15%:

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/subscriptions/#revenue...
Not everyone. There are people with compromised immune systems, who can't be protected with vaccines. They are at the mercy of vaccination status and masks of the people around them.
A crawl requires "extraction" of data from a web page, which according to Wikipedia is part of the definition of so-called "web scraping". Even if a crawler is using a sitemap.xml file, it still has to "scrape" (retrieve and extract from) that file first. It seems crawling always requires scraping.

If all the pages to be retrieved are known a priori, before retrieval begins, then one would likely call that "scraping". Whereas if not all pages are known before retrieval begins, then one would likely call that "crawling".
Rocket League. It will take a good amount of hours to learn mechanics, but this has been a game that really helped me out on learning routines and then being able to use those mechanics for intelligent plays. It's a lot about decision making and response time.
Yeah I realized that pretty much right after writing it, that it's biased from having gone through many iterations of dangers, and by now we know how to do it safer than less well used methods. So we can't say it's intrinsically safe only relatively from experience of use.
But 20% of $200k/yr is $40k/yr, while 20% of $100k/yr is $20k/yr. If you make twice as much while saving the same rate (i.e. cost of living goes up proportionally), you'll still end up saving twice as fast. Then move to a LCOL area, and you've got twice as much saved as the people who've lived there all their lives.
The valuation before the short squeeze was pricing in the risk of bankruptcy. Covid hit Gamestop hard, and part of why it was so heavily shorted was that many thought the company was circling the drain. A year later that's no longer such a common opinion, so even ignoring the shenanigans you'd expect the price to be considerably higher.
By the context English if you read it again is that “They” would be the people that funded such work.
> 1 divided by the number of experiments running on the lab

That would only make sense if you knew there was a leak but didn't know which virus was leaked.

Since we already have the knowledge of what virus (supposedly) leaked, the odds are (1/number of labs experimenting with that virus).
God bless HEB.
> What's also of interest is that minutes before the initial ground stop order and details surrounding it were communicated to some air traffic controllers, NORAD notified the FAA to have Los Angeles Air Traffic Control Center clear the airspace around the northern stretch of Vandenberg Space Force Base, which is located about 170 miles northwest of Los Angeles. We assume this was meant to ready the area for a potential launch of a Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) interceptor capable of knocking down ICBMs. While the vast majority of GMDs are based in Alaska, a handful are based at Vandenberg for limited operational contingency and test duties.

Burying the lede a bit here… Preparing airspace for interceptor launch from Vandenberg is crazy, don’t think its ever been done before.
Hey random Internet stranger. Don't feel terrible. I have a CS PhD, work in AI, have a fancy job title and decent resume ..yet, I am not making anywhere close to these crazy numbers. I painted myself into a bad corner and am somehow stuck. I work crazy hours to keep myself up to date so I can get myself unstuck. I think most engineers are not making 300K-500K .. it is a bit like social media .. you just hear about the winners and not the losers. Also, the stock market was up like crazy in the last 2 years .. I think this accounts for some of the insane numbers we are seeing, people retiring, etc. The biggest mistake I made is my job doesn't give me shares/RSUs, etc. It was somewhat obvious that this was a problem but it wasn't terrible until most major tech companies did a x3 in 1 year. This was a 1 time lottery I missed (and I suspect many others did too). Things could have gone the other way too (I graduated from my PhD in 2008 and recall how terrible those days were).
I agree that it is a "Venmo problem", but more broadly it is a "human controlled/authority financial system problem". I do think something analogous could happen with Coinbase, particularly because your interactions with Coinbase require the use of centralized financial systems (bank account info or credit card info). I also think Coinbase holds and can access your private key. Correct me if that's wrong.

What's more important is that you aren't required to use Coinbase, or even anything like it, to use cryptocurrency. In fact sites like Coinbase defeat at least some of the point.
The companies that pay 80% of FAANG salaries without the LeetCode whiteboard bullshit are out there.
> Implement automation to flag and block/reject bad commit messages.

They'll just use `git commit -n` to skip the pre-commit hook.

And if it's verified in CI (e.g. with Danger), someone will just create a script to automate writing commit messages that pass the good commit message test.
It ran out of people willing to work for poverty wages.
Thanks for bringing that up. They've also hi-jacked that by making sure you can't hover over the actual img.
Why do you say kids are incompatible with FIRE? They add some expense, but it is not insurmountable with a high income like many senior software engineers enjoy. There are prominent FIRE folks with kids -- e.g., "Mr. Money Mustache."
You could be right as this suit alleging commonplace leaking was before ownership changed. https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news...
> The highest paying software companies employ LeetCode style interview

Ugh yeah it’s ridiculous. We can’t hire anyone! Have you considered not putting candidates through months of studying to memorize a bunch of algorithm tricks and then grilling them for 5-10 hours total on those?
No - that’s not what the cargo cult manual says.
But don't just read the manual. Keep doing the tinkering and experimenting to see how the documented bits can be used, misused, abused into doing new things too.
you realize it doesn't come out of the employee's salary, right? the company has to cough it up separately.
you might as well ask what's the point of insurance if you never wreck your car. I have some nice things, but none of them bring me as much peace as having a deep buffer for unexpected problems. if I learned that I would die in a month, I wouldn't be sad that I hadn't managed to burn all my money.
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Me too. Maybe we can share one full time job
In the same trivial sense, it's also an absolute ceiling for expense rate. Expenses are essential, and it's all about relative savings rate. Salary, ignorant of expenses, is meaningless for these discussions.