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> Every engineer is at least a little bit techno-utopian.

Funny how my career started in electronics and embedded software and one of the cool things I saw back then was smart home. It was before "IoT hype" and I really thought that controlling your lights or curtains remotely via XMPP is cool.
Now I'm building a house and hell no - I want to stay away of this crap, I want "dumb house" not smart. But still, technologically it's kind of cool
If the money is irretrievable, at least identified people can be sent to jail.
The article links to a site that links to this list, which includes Australia:

https://github.com/mfitzp/List_of_SMS_gateways/blob/master/s...
> engineers doing soul-wrenching, boring jobs in toxic environment who still say because they are very generously compensated (hello FAANG).

This is also what a lot of europeans do with FAANG jobs.. get a FAANG job, move to america, live there for 3-5 years in a 4 bedroom apartment with 12 roommates, eat ramen, come back home, and buy a house.

There's also a question of how much more money do you get... 5% more to do something shitter than now... not worth it... but 50% more, is enough to think it through, if nothing else, how much sooner can you retire with that.
This is true, these specific individuals not writing Java 6. Three of the five are doing something along similar lines of what you describe: a cool stack + a cool problem that indeed made them say, "let's give them a shot."
Warning: that page plays sound. How can they not know that’s not done?
This is mostly just arguing accounting, which is something Tim Cook admitted under oath that Apple doesn't do [1].

The benefit of such a simple fee structure is that it becomes insidiously difficult to ask questions and receive legitimate answers about equity. How much does it cost to host the app? To pay engineers & marketers to build security scanning and storefront features?

These are not questions we generally ask of private institutions. But Apple's products are decreasingly operating like a private institution; they're looking a lot more like a public institution; a critical platform that hundreds of millions of people worldwide rely on for productivity, entertainment, communication, and commerce. We do ask these questions of our governments; we want to know how much we're spending on things like the military, roads, NASA, because knowing these numbers is critical in assessing effectiveness and accountability.

Here's a question: Apple does invest some amount of money into application security scanning and reviews. Now there's an important domain; keeping your users safe. How much? We don't know. What we do know: They're REALLY bad at it. Inarguably, the worst in the industry; right down there with Microsoft Teams and Log4J. They keep many things quiet, but they can't keep that quiet. Are they spending billions, and seeing such poor outcomes? Are they spending thousands, and should be spending far more, but won't? We don't know.

This always leads to: If users had an issue with the platform, they would leave. Let's play in the space where this is true; where the smartphone market is full of fungible platforms (it isn't, but:). Would users leave if they knew just how bad the App Store & iOS was at keeping them safe? Many users don't even know what those two things are. But they still deserve to be kept safe; maybe even more-so than more experienced users like us. The onus is on Apple to keep them safe, and Apple has spent a decade failing at it. Where does the onus fall, then? To the void? It's reasonable to argue: Experts, and the Government. Someone needs to hold them accountable. If a bridge fails, injuring dozens of people, we don't say "well, they tried their best! just think on all the cars that were able to use it without it falling." Nor, do we expect drivers to do an engineering deep dive on every bridge they cross, so they can make an informed decision about which one they want to take to work today.

[1] https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/tim-cook-s-gut-says-t...
Yeah, this is so obvious once it's stated this way, but I'd never thought of it like that either. Every time I talk to prospective employers and they wax about their rapid fire technical challenges and 5-round interview processes that last six weeks, I wonder "how the hell do they expect someone with other commitments to do all of this?" And the answer is ... they don't!
Are surface parking requirements actually that common? My local codes (in Nashville, TN) [1] don't seem to care how you get your parking spaces as long as you meet the requirements for your building size and expected use, and buildings are frequently built over parking garages in the denser parts of town to maximize land use.

Surface parking's still the norm here as you move out towards the suburbs and land becomes cheaper, but that's not a regulatory thing AFAICT-- parking garages are really expensive per-space, so surface parking is the standard here unless there's a good reason to do otherwise.

[1] https://library.municode.com/tn/metro_government_of_nashvill...
10k raise is not worth adding extra anxiety - unless your current job pays so little it will make a difference.
Engineers are severly underpaid that's why money seem irrelevant, because these sums are too small to be.
the implication is that most people have a limit to how much money they can reasonably spend before they start seeking things other than more money in life.

even a poor person can tell you that an extra $10M in their pocket will be no more life-changing than an extra $1M.
First BR game I recall playing was actually a shareware single player Amiga text game named LabyrinthII by Russell Wallace. It was on Fred Fish Disk 162.

So a classic text adventure style interface and map, but you and the bots all started at random locations and have to go around searching for weapons & armour and trying to survive against each other to be the last one standing. Didn't have the concept of a shrinking playzone but was absolutely a Battle Royale.

Really enjoyed that one back in the day, and would often play while listening to the 'Unknown Girl' mod that was on the same disk. The Amiga had proper pre-emptive multitasking after all :-)
Seems like a vulnerability, what's stopping someone from being targeted with thousands of inbound SMS messages that they suddenly have to pay for?
> Why do app developers deserve access to Apple's customers?"

Because it’s better for customers if they do, than if they don’t.
We really should call the “firing of unvaccinated healthcare workers” for what it really is: protectionism for and against aging upper management.
This is incredibly common at most BigCos, I would drop the term "poach", as others have mentioned.

For talented people this is can easily be a win-win all around.

Obviously for the team hiring the hiring process is tremendously derisked. They've already seen the candidate in action, and like what they see.

This is also great for the candidate because a huge part of the risk when accepting an offer is issues that might come up with the larger organization out side of the people you work/interviewed with.

Not that I'm ever one to cheer for the company, but it's also a win for the BigCo as it keeps talent inside and engaged with the company, without them leaving from getting bored or having someone outside offer better total comp.

The only people that "lose" out in this are the initial hiring managers, but if they're remotely competent they'll understand and continue a positive working relationship... and if they're not competent it's good they're losing staff.

The "would you do it" is no different than any other job offer: do you like the team, the comp, the projects? The biggest difference being the interview process is radically de-risked, and the transition is much smoother.
Seems to me all that is just not the web.

HTTP has been bent into supporting something else, something new.

I would be happy to see that new thing built out properly.

That said, I really hate apps trying to replace text and comms. Fact is they generally have fewer features, pester me with mobile notifications (which, yes I do turn off more often than not), and give marketing a ton of data many would argue they just do not need.

And they are being pushed super hard! For best price get our app. To use your new appliance, get the app...

Right now, if it is not offered up to me via browser, there is a solid chance I will ignore it.

Say, just for shits and giggles, we rolled some of this back so the core focus really is information exchange. Or leave it for a time.

Instead of http:// it is...

And start right there. Push out an RFC and declare this app space proper.

There is no need to replace the "old" web. It works just fine and its use case is as relevant as it ever was. I see it a lot like email. Works great and everyone is using it.

Replacing stuff tends to get real expensive real quick.

I entered the additive manufacturing space a while back. Love it. People making shit warns my heart.

The early message was replace and everyone pushing that has seen a lot of pushback. Manufacturing tech never really dies. Each tech form does a thing no other form can exceed.

What really happens is nature tech settles into its role where it performs in an exemplary way and we keep it so we do not lose real hard won experience and innovation.

When the message became an additive one in the literal sense, the conversations improved! Nobody wants to scrap high value tools. There is always someone making money in the core niche occupied by the tech.

Adding new tech makes much better financial sense.

The net is not that old yet.

Its youth makes this all hard to see, but I see no reason to believe we need to replace http.

Adding something new could make a ton of sense.
A Quick CVE-2022-21907 FAQ (work in progress)
Anyone remember yubnub?
They could put solar panels on the parking lots and mine crypto, it pays for itself, would be pretty schmick /s
A recruiter contacted me for a position at the company that I co-founded. Unfortunately I didn’t have the time to play along, so the only outcome was a message to the hiring manager.
> Given pseudonymity not linked to any real assets (unlike a company), it's even easier.

A pseudonym can be linked to a company with real assets. I don't follow you here. I even referred to such a situation above. As did the article.

To answer your easy question, yes I can easily imagine scenarios where I might give a sizeable amount of money to someone that way. I have an online business and people in distant countries who don't actually know me give me sizeable amounts of money. They have my webpage which looks legit and demo software which works. There's no magic identity ingredient here to protect them. They'd move on and deal with someone else. There's a risk of course in everything. You certainly shouldn't risk money you can't afford to lose.

Now as for giving out something like seed funding, this is where it actually does start to get interesting. As I also said above, and as the author of the article also says, one needs some kind of data trail to build confidence. No you certainly shouldn't implement your due dilligence in a way that can be easily hacked with ringers or plagiarized code.
I think it's a pretty big unsourced assumption that savings rates are similar between LCOL and HCOL areas. I'm curious if that's really true; I wonder if there's any research/polling done on this.
I get it; you want to avoid circularity. Unfortunately there's always going to be some in our conjectures, because we're all humans almost always trying to justify some set of implementations of human societies because we like the incentivized benefits of collective organization. People reach for something they think is truer than their own context to guide them. For vanusa, that's the value of knowledge, developed in academic institutions. I don't blame them for that.

I think "the truth" means what brings us simultaneously to the greatest understanding, peace, respect for existence and consciousness, freedom from misery, and victory over cruelty. Anything that, over the long run, takes these away in greater amounts than it gives them back is a falsehood. If truth is not this thing, then why ought we seek it in the first place? I think that's how we can all be less of a slave to our incentives (except the incentive for the truth), even if they are to spread FUD and assert our own objective correctness :>
https://archive.fo/lVqpg
https://twitter.com/austen/status/1481043327097184259

> There’s not much weirder than meeting a bunch of the pseudonymous Twitter avatars you’ve followed for years in a 24 hour period
Plenty of internal hires come with a pay bump and level bump as well.
Proper URL: https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/A+Quick+CVE202221907+FAQ+w... (was rewritten by HN for some reason)
On Mistaking Whales
> I have guys on my team who if they asked for money I could easily add 20 - 50k to their salary. But they don't

Give them a raise, proactively.
This is a really dishonest form of argument and I don't think you actually read my post for context.

There's a very large difference between the relatively small gaps in genomes between related virus species and the grand canyon sized gap between COVID and it's nearest neighbor. The difference between omicron and delta is very small, delta and alpha also very small. These would be "expected" differences much like influenza changing to be a little different every single year. If we are to believe that a cave of bats cooked up a super infectious, lethal, extremely novel variant of CoV-SARS-1 then shouldn't other animal born diseases be the same? H1N1? Swine flu? Shouldn't they all have had extremely novel pathways given just how many animals it infected?

With the exception of certain hemorrhagic fevers I can't think of another virus that emerged from the wild with such extremely novel infection methods and I've been on this earth for a long time. Even H1N1, a big scare, wasn't THAT much different than it's neighbors.

Yet here we have a virus with basically never before seen infection pathways and virulence. Something that might have been created through scientifically tested and studied evolutionary pressure in a petri dish. It's not that hard to imagine. Get some lung cells, get some starter culture of a virus, and start beating it up with various methods until it evolves. Take those, and keep the survivors, and repeat ad nauseum. In fact, this is exactly how GoF research works. If you view it altruistically this allows us to create novel vaccines for novel infection methods. Unfortunately, it also means a leak will create a pandemic.

All of this could be cleared up in a month if China would allow regulators from the UN to investigate their lab and pull all the data associated with it. This is common procedure, and yet China appears to be railroading any attempt to do so going so far as to destroy related documents. Occam's razor, this isn't the action someone would take if it was a simple batch of bad bat soup. Logic would dictate you'd want to give up all the evidence of bad bat soup as fast as possible...yet 3 years later we have seen absolutely no evidence pointing to an animal borne infection pathway...
At least it told you Refactor widget. ;p Even worse is repos where the first line of every commit message is just “Merge pull request #12345 from user/fixstuff into master.”
In the same vein, why does (nearly) every organization ‘have’ to be for-profit?

What does that say about our societies that we have embedded the profit motive in (most) organisations?

Worth noting that obviously there are many not for profit organizations, just that they are largely clustered in the fields of health, education, social welfare, etc.

And also note the difference between (unlimited or at least not capped) profit and earning or being paid a living or even high wage. People often confuse the ability to earn a ‘good’ wage and a very high wage.
This is beautiful. Shithead is what would have happened if Terry Pratchett wrote a novel about recruiters.
Remember when there was an Ebola outbreak from CDC facilities in Reston, VA?

There is currently one in Washington, too
It does seem like everything has been invented! It's possible that he arrived at the puzzle independently but what's more puzzling that this is the first time I'm hearing about this Dutch game show given the sensation that Wordle has been.
To answer your question, yes, this happens. The cybersec team tried to "poach" me a while back, and more recently I was asked by the VP of Cloud Operations to leave my technical lead role within engineering and become Sr. Manager of SRE (I accepted).

Speaking of which, what caught my eye in your post is the problem you identity with how SRE is usually practiced vs. what it was supposed to mean. My mandate in this new role is to update our practices and technology to make our software more reliable, and I'm shooting to accomplish that specifically by tackling that problem. In my opinion, there's a reason why the term "SRE" was coined, and it all centers around shaping the organization, _not_ the technology. In an organization with properly aligned incentives, the technology should follow. (Of course it's not entirely one or the other—tech can feed into incentives and help shape the org as well.)

I'm doing my best to carefully guard the term "SRE" here and educate people about its meaning because the ideas and philosophies it brings to the table are precisely what will allow me to deliver what I was asked. If this resonates with you or anyone reading this, send me a message. We're hiring.
> No one had ever done it

WAT? Adobe launched "Creative Cloud" (which at the time was basically desktop-software-as-a-service) on July 17, 2013; if I recall correctly they had been trialing that for about 1year in Australia before deciding it's a good idea and doing the global launch. Not sure if Adobe was first, but they definitely preceded you by half a decade!
Keeping adding more temperature reading stations in cities and suburbans and you too will get record-breaking heat trends.
The Hudsonian godwit flies thousands of miles, non-stop
"Omicron-driven absenteeism."
I think you're the one who has no idea what you are talking about and should just accept that you're wrong.

> I wouldn't recommend [wandering around like a clueless tourist, late at night] in any part of any city.

I have lived in Tokyo, NYC, San Francisco for at least 2 years each. Tokyo is a concrete and non-hypothetical counterexample to your proposition.

> We can always construct hypothetical situations that meet some criteria.

How is not recommending going to dangerous neighborhoods in America a hypothetical situation? There is statistical data and crime maps. You cannot deny that.
Lingo was not the first but it doesn't matter. Wordle is not popular because it's a copy of an ancient game that had been played as long as language has existed. It's popular because of its execution, tapping in to our current day and age (shared word once a day, easy emoji sharing).
I think he failed to clarify what would pivot depending on a point of view. I've seen enough examples of Japanese individuals past age of consent, even close to end of fertility or past it, yet assumed underaged, so the premise of "pedophile culture" seem to be based on inaccurate understanding to me.
"Just simply get a competitive job offer from the revolving doors of the top-10 top-paying companies and you won't see a 3x increase" is absolutely true, but only useful if you're talking about employees of these revolving door companies. If your getting a TC of 180k at a startup that gave you options of no value, and you score a high enough position at AMZN (as apparently this ex-colleague of mine did), then seeing total comp over 4 years exceeding 550k/year—while perhaps not the norm—is totally possible.

It could be argued that $180k is not a fair number to judge a 3x increase on for the reason you state, but it is what it is, this is a real salary that real people get paid. Not everybody flocks to FAANG as their first career move.
Yeah, I, too, tend to drift towards Minimax/Maximin strategies when playing games. Basically, I know I'm there as soon as all the joy is sucked out of my play. That's why IRL it is not an option at all for me.
Yes, velocities are known from looking at the wavelengths of light (red/blueshift)

So you’d have to fit another massive coincidence which is that the stars flying apart are also at the same time changing their emission spectrums to not look like they are.
Oh that makes a lot of sense. Then perhaps the cost of land is just too low in US cities? How are parking lots taxed?
> just because you found 10k comments on the internet doesnt imply this sentiment applies to 7bn people.

No, but at least the parent provided some kind of source to back up their assertion. Where's yours? I don't think it's safe to assume "nearly everyone who has kids don't have regrets".

I went through a phase 5+ years ago where I was reading a lot about this sort of thing, and found that there are more people who regret having kids (entirely) than I would have expected, and way more people who regret the timing of when they had kids than I would have expected.

As the parent points out, it is very very taboo -- especially for a mother -- to admit this sort of thing, so we can expect this to be under-reported.
"All the time" infers high frequency.

And sure, Reddit is full of humans, but it's nowhere close to a representative sample of the populations. That should be clear as soon as you start reading.
> they abuse by actively trying to worsen the user experience of buyers of their products who dare to include an Android

That's quite a logic leap and a logic twist.

The whole green vs. blue started way before Android even had any messaging story (and it still doesn't). It is literally "users on iMessage vs users sending SMS".

Funny how it's "they worsen user experience Android boohoo" in the US, but the exact same thing in Europe is "yeah, it's fine, they don't have a dominant position".
> Over in Europe and East Asia, $50 to $60k salaries are the norm

Yes, and we have plenty of nice stuff that goes along with it

Healthcare, 30 paid holidays, unions, paid overtime, weekends and calls off work come extra (it is 40h week period, want more pay for it), retirement, flex time, ...

Like the OP, my expenses are more than covered, getting more isn't worth the hassle to change.

Ah, and in some countries having too many companies on the CV isn't well seen, it appears the candidate isn't able to fit-in anywhere.
all the sudden all companies are doing 8 rounds of interviews
Do you have specific questions you ask during the interview process in order to understand the meeting culture?
Just because Chevron did something wrong doesn't mean you get off scott-free. Chevron can't fix global warming on their own, it takes everyone, including you.
It is actually possible to be able to travel point to point on your own schedule in the same small amount of time without all those externalities. See Dutch cities like Utrecht and Amsterdam. Where everything is a bike ride away.
Actually, going viral doesn't guarantee big money, not even a decent job.
I usually read (and intend, when I write) "all the time" as "more than you'd expect", not necessarily as "with high frequency".
Money is a natural concept that roughly describes how much value you created.

Eschewing money on the outset seems taking the high-road, but from a value creation and compounding perspective, it is pretty dumb.

If you create value, you better capture the value that you have created, so that you can compound it and give back the goodness 10000x.

Gates / Buffett can deploy Billions to large-scale charity because they captured value.

Elon Musk can deploy his Billions to revolutionize exploration.

If you think Josh is good with no-money, imagine how much good he can do with $10,000,000,000 money.

Paradoxically, Nice people should build wealth. Else, someone else will build wealth and they will deploy it in a not-nice way