skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think an important point here is that Amazon is viewed as an easier interview to pass than other FAANG+ companies. Being able to go from 50K-100K as an entry level non faang engineer to 150K-200K+ is a massive jump for many people and a very big name on their resume. Its a lot of folks first faang job.
Taxes wouldn't necessarily be raised. The idea would be to replace many (possibly all) of the usual government social services by these payments.

You already pay taxes, and they are already used to fund other people.
The idea would be to allow people to choose individually how to spend this money. The goal is efficiency, fair distribution of benefits and elimination of bureaucracy and administrative overhead.
I would have to agree.

It even starts with "I have answered this many times since announcing my departure. The reactions have ranged from shock to immediate understanding."

Ah, wait, so in the author's head there is some huge crowd of people (other than maybe family?) who feel the most burning question in the universe is why the Author decided to leave?

I have been at my company for 8 years. From a startup through a successful acquisition. I know every executive and senior engineer on a personal basis and am friends with most. If I left, I might get a pizza party and card wishing me well. There would be no scuttlebutt on why I'm leaving.
If you know what protected classes are, and understand that you shouldn't bring them up in any way, and only discuss them with candidates if they bring them up first and within that context (e.g. if they mention their "spouse" you can talk about that but best to not ask anything about kids until/unless they bring it up first again), you've successfully avoided 99.9999% of all pre-hire lawsuits.
Thank you! We really appreciate that. We're happy to be working on something that has already worked incredibly well in other domains while facing major technical blockers against use in ours. It gives us a clear, albeit challenging, problem to tackle.
Came here to say the same thing...
> If these jobs truly are necessary, then wages would rise to the point where people would be attracted to do them. If truck driving paid as much as FAANG software engineering, I assure you there'd be no shortage of truck drivers (even if it required grinding a trucker Leetcode).

This is exactly the problem though. The costs for all of those basic necessities that aren't fun go up relative to everything else. Most of the things poor people rely on fall into this category.
IMHO there's some red flags here. Shopify is well known and well known as being the biggest Rails company still all in on Rails. It shouldn't have been a surprise that they'd be editing ERB templates. The interviewing process being Rails heavy should have been a giant hint. If they wanted to be all in on React then they should have found a company that's all in on React.

I don't really see them as straying too far from their desired focus. Things and technologies change at big companies and developers need to have some flexibility. Learning basics of ERB templating isn't a big ask and it's conceptually similar to all sorts of different templating engines.

It also sounds like more front projects were coming and things were going to get better. 5 months is nothing in the grand scheme of things and it's an awfully quick bail. Especially considering the quality of Shopify as a company. If the FAANGs are the Kings of the programming world, Shopify is a Duke or Baron. Eyebrow raising to leave a company like that unless they ended up in a clearly better spot.
The parent's point was that it does matter if it was sold by someone who had never secured a share of their own to sell in the first place, which puts artificial pressure on prices.

(And before someone jumps in to give me the speech about how the future of civilization depends on market makers being able to fabricate shares long enough to cover: Yes, I know about the exception that permits this. The purpose of my comment was just to clarify what the argument was and that the parent of this comment was not replying to it.)
I don't think it's quite that simple. Cost of living has to be factored in, at least. Buying a bog standard middle class house in my city is $850K. And this isn't California, obviously.
Aren't they already? At the top of my inbox is a message informing me that I'm almost out of space. My infinitely expanding mailbox limit from Google has stopped expanding. A good things come to an end.
I legitimately laughed out loud at this:

>I don't doubt that more frontend work was coming down the pipeline for my team - even greenfield work - but I felt the months ticking by and my frontend skills degrading. In order to triage this, I worked on a number of frontend projects in my spare time at a pace that was admittedly draining.

This guy worked there for FIVE FRIGGIN MONTHS! OMG! If your coding skills are degrading so quickly maybe you aren't actually a senior engineer?

For reference, during the economic crash of 2008-2009 I was out of (software) work for six months. I didn't write a line of code during that time. I was a Jr engineer at the time. My coding skills were absolutely fine.

I wonder what sort of interview questions one can ask to filter out people like this?

My current company has strict minimum experience requirements for hired senior engineers (not promoted ones). I don't think that's unusual...
In newer models they stopped doing that (xx50 and up, I thing). Must have been relaxing of some FCC requirements or something.

Previously I've read that this whitelisting was due to the fact FCC would certify the laptop with the particular adapter as a whole, and replacing the wifi/wwan adapter, or adding WWAN where there wasn't one, would make the whole device "uncertified".
> Thoughtcrime. Go ahead and vote me down.

Not exactly a call for a fruitful discussion.
I use fastmail.com and it's been a really good experience, to be honest it doesn't have all of the features that you can find on Google Workspaces but I didn't use most of them anyway. They also support multiple custom domains.
A communication infrastructure for a million processor machine [pdf]
Paul E. McKenney's Journal: https://paulmck.livejournal.com/
The answer is in the first sentence of the article.
The comparison is to a "rural half-acre". If you can afford a half-acre of land in a rural area but not a "shack" in the city, that implies a lot more about the continued under-valuation of "rural" land than costs of urban living. (Which the Georgists were arguing about more than a century ago.)
4chan didn't even exist when we invaded Iraq. And the justification for invading Iraq was anything but nihilism, it was a bunch of patriotism and xenophobia wrapped in religious crusade. By the time we invaded we had killed (and acknowledged killing) a million children due to sanctions.

I can't make the connection you make. When people were protesting against the Iraq War, they were told that they didn't believe in anything. I don't understand personal tragedy as an argument against 4chan; everybody you know is going to die eventually, and virtually everybody you're speaking to has known two people who died prematurely and preventably. I, in particular, don't understand people who traveled to kill instead being killed as an argument against humor.

The idea that a 4chan that didn't exist created Judith Miller is bizarre.
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hi LimitedInfo,

Sorry for the delayed response, I was waiting on a response from our dev team, and Susan in accounting.

I appreciate the feedback but I'm currently assigned to other tasks, so if you'd like revisions please contact Issac and submit a request for some of my hours.

Also please stop leaving fish in the fridge.

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jarrenae
I've never used one but that is what I assumed. But I can see the frustration - my Dyson vacuum also will not operate while plugged in which means you can only ever do one battery charge at a time. It's a pain in the ass if you have a bigger job to do.
The companies aren't that evil, and the people aren't that genius.

Also money. People want a decent day-to-day experience at their job and they want to be paid well.
But the bad culture stories are out now, and the culture hasn't changed as far as I can see, so what's the point of the increased comp?
Thanks, I think having a "read more" would be helpful. You do a good job of quickly demonstrating performance with some numbers, but there's nothing about security on there. I think it'd go a long way for people like me who are going to be immediately skeptical of software in C claiming to be safe.
> Eh. It depends on the kid and their circumstances.

Absolutely, hence why I phrased it as "unlikely". The wrong environment will kill anything.
I am guessing that is the old 2.5mm key travel Keyboard. Which is practically speaking extinct. Even 1.8mm is on the verge of disappearing. Most now ship with 1.5mm or 1.3mm. But some people somehow liked the butterfly keyboard with only 0.7mm but later reverted back to 1mm.

Personally 1.2mm was the minimum amount of key travel I could handle before a pain signal constantly sent to the back of my brain.

But the world loves to follow Apple, rightly or not. Hence we are getting thinner keyboard.
Windows 11 shell is based on chromium now.

I don't know if it shares with the core that buildin edge use. But if it is the case, then obviously you can't remove it just like you can't remove core of ie in pre windows 11 world.

By the way, some function of the new shell seems relies on service not available under safe mode. So the explore.exe will crash repeatedly when you are in safe mode. __And it openes the edge for help article every time it crashed__, so you ends up with dozens of same tab in the edge.
$160k

It's literally the first sentence of the article

"Amazon will boost its maximum base pay to $350,000 for corporate and tech employees, from $160,000 previously, as part of an overall increase in total compensation intended to help recruit top talent and retain existing employees."
out of real curiosity - what would be the point of a firewall in a unikernel image? I mean presumably its to stop people from opening random ports. but if you bundle the application and you don't support a shell or forking processes in general then the only bound ports are those which the application explicitly opens.

so what value in requiring someone to run around the interface and open it in the firewall as well?
Sounds like a really good way for a manager with a hiring-based OKR to get short term good hiring numbers. Maybe the manager is also planning on leaving or maybe someone else is on the line for retention and this strategically benefits the hiring manager :D
This looks like I'll be spending some time catching up. Thanks!
I feel like I bump into this a lot in the tech world (especially the highly funded) and I’m not sure what the fallacy is called.

There are existing industries with smart people with a wealth of experience. A tech company comes along and claims superiority by virtue of deductive reasoning. But they pay almost zero heed to the inductive reasoning of the incumbents and have to repeat their mistakes - this time with an app.

I never understood why Uber would win. All it was going to take was an uber-like app that existing companies could pay for and their primary (non-funding) advantage was gone. Otherwise they’re a normal cab company with all that entails.
I put V30s in several Olivetti M24 PCs to speed them up a bit.
They used to have a free tier. They stopped offering it about 10 years ago but existing users were grandfathered in and it continued to be free. But no more.
A Henry Darger Dispute: Who Inherits the Rights to a Loner’s Genius?
This is so simplistic. You have a whole lot more reading to do before you can reasonably decide what’s evil.
I think making a problem more accessible like that is the fastest path to a solution.

It reminds me of the Stephen J Gould quote:

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
> Ms. Kelton laid out other suggestions M.M.T. economists have made in a recent blog post. Among them: Medicare for All, cutting the Pentagon budget, repealing some tariffs and unclogging the ports.

> Medicare for All, cutting the Pentagon budget ..

Not revolutionary, but the right direction at least.
Most geniuses aren't able to do what you claim. at best they could work wherever they want.

FAANGs have developed incentives for geniuses to favor them over less evil employers.
Huh. I always assumed, insofar as I thought about it at all, that his middle name was simply 'M'.
omg this is awesome, thanks!
Amazon is the only FAANG recruiter I ignore. Working 60 hour weeks just so I can get PIPed within 9 months of starting? No thanks.
My current alternative for Gmail is Fastmail. Seems like a decent cross between features and price. I'd rather pay and be the customer.
Maybe their perspective is different ?

Generally, extreme excellence in one domain is balanced by a lower-than-average (for a given value of 'average') performance, or attention, in some others. It is related to single-mindedness (is that a word!?) and possibly to individual mental and social make-up.

E.g. great scientists don't necessarily make good home-keepers (also insert famous memes about 'scatter-brained' and/or unkempt genii/geniuses).

I hesitate to use the word 'genius' for mere software developers in order not to devalue its meaning :P [tongue in cheek grinning emoticon here]

However, many extreme performers need, prefer, or desire to operate inside an ecosystem (bubble) that looks after and caters for their other needs so as not to distract them from what they consider most important to focus upon. Consider top-class sports people and the 'teams' of non-athletic support people they're often surrounded by.

The resulting effect could likely be described as a by-product of tunnel vision - anything outside their primary interest is a secondary consideration, if at all.
At 500k are you actually working 40 hours or expected to be always working? Also what is considered a senior engineer? Someone specifically specialized in a field or management type role?
That's all in the article. First sentence: "Amazon will boost its maximum base pay to $350,000 for corporate and tech employees, from $160,000 previously".

Amazon's compensation has historically been very RSU-heavy (aka, you are partly paid in stock), especially at higher levels.
That's hilarious! Also a bit disturbing that you felt the need to recite some political "party line" to get a job (not that I think you were wrong), but I suppose if it's an explicitly political org it could make sense.

But more generally, I'm now interested in completely misinterpreted interview questions, and funny stories about same.
Also thought this looked like an obituary
Actually most revolutionary and astute observations about state of affairs recently came to me through tiktok. I wouldn't encounter them even if I watched network news 24/7
The first sentence of article stated it was $160,000.
https://modfoss.com/ - a blog by me, a person and a programmer! I don't know about great, but I try :)
> adjusted ebitda

You can just say "fake".
That is not correct, it simply would not be certified as airworthy without it. Differences in feeling between airplanes are fine. Airbus has a system of common type ratings allowing fairly quick transitions. Especially between A330, A340 and A350.[0]

> MCAS is a longitudinal stability enhancement. It is not for stall prevention (although indirectly it helps) or to make the MAX handle like the NG (although it does); it was introduced to counteract the non-linear lift generated by the LEAP-1B engine nacelles at high AoA and give a steady increase in stick force as the stall is approached as required by regulation.
> The LEAP engine nacelles are larger and had to be mounted slightly higher and further forward from the previous NG CFM56-7 engines to give the necessary ground clearance. This new location and larger size of nacelle cause the vortex flow off the nacelle body to produce lift at high AoA. As the nacelle is ahead of the C of G, this lift causes a slight pitch-up effect (ie a reducing stick force) which could lead the pilot to inadvertently pull the yoke further aft than intended bringing the aircraft closer towards the stall. This abnormal nose-up pitching is not allowable under 14CFR §25.203(a) "Stall characteristics". Several aerodynamic solutions were introduced such as revising the leading edge stall strip and modifying the leading edge vortilons but they were insufficient to pass regulation. MCAS was therefore introduced to give an automatic nose down stabilizer input during elevated AoA when flaps are up.

http://www.b737.org.uk/mcas.htm#background

[0]: https://www.airbus.com/en/products-services/commercial-aircr...
I'd say it's more than tangentially related. The blog post is about Richard Stallman, his life, and his contributions; it seems strange to not acknowledge the recent controversy surrounding him.
I flagged this submission because:

1. It's not about anything other than RMS in a general sense (like, hey this guy exists). It's blogspam.

2. Because TFA contains nothing of import, the comments will just be a rehashing of the same tired arguments both pro- and con-.
...both Rust and C have runtimes: https://blog.mgattozzi.dev/rusts-runtime/
Wut? They are threatening suicide, and hoping enough others are affected adversely?
Most teams at Microsoft these days have great work-life balance. Just stay away from the hardcore teams like core Windows development teams, compilers, Xbox.. The company will support you in any personal goals you have, you'll be able to find internal clubs for just about anything, and at least pre-pandemic, lecturers were frequently invited to campus to give talks on a huge range of topics that anybody could sign up to attend.
What the studies say is; "they can substantially reduce crashes that result in serious injury or death." That is not the same as a reduction in the total number of accidents. The number of accidents may actually be higher in a roundabout, but the severity is lower and they are more survivable.

https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/intersection/roundabouts/
> Suggesting that ideas can corrupt is especially troubling on HN, which is supposed to be more focused on rational/logical discourse.

But they can.

Religion, racism, terrorism, fascism: they are all ideas that can corrupt, and some people are more susceptible to this than others. If you find that you are at the end of your wits and unable to find one more source for management advice to the point that you have to turn to the masters of slaves of a few thousand years ago I think you should simply stop looking because nothing good can come of that.

Ideas do not exist in a vacuum, they exist in a timeframe as well as what was considered locally acceptable and those conditions all but ensure that anything that you think you might learn is going to be very hard to apply.

We study history to avoid repetitions, not to see what particular item certain despicable people from the past had to say.

For an encore: Sex tips by rapists, explosive manufacture by suicide bombers, vegetarian cooking by A. Hitler, marketing tips from J. Goebbels and how to run a start-up by Elizabeth Holmes.

Those are books I can do without.
It definitely depends, and you need to keep in mind network effects. But yes, a station getting little ridership was probably a bad investment and in hindsight would have been better served as a bus. (Alternatively: more investment is needed to better enable that particular station.)

As far as overdoing it on stations, you’re not entirely wrong but for this reason the Japanese train system has tiers of express service. I’ve heard sometimes it’s worth taking the local train 1 stop so you can then hop on the express train to the city.

Finally, it’s worth noting there are user stories besides commuting to/from downtown business district. Hub and spoke systems like Boston are good for the commute story but fail miserably at displacing the need for car ownership
Sure. But people want to run games on general purpose machines.

I’m not saying it’s impossible to cheat on consoles but it wasn’t a problem for us (lag switching aside; which was actually easy to detect).

Things like stadia help the platform more than consumers think; but people resoundedly rejected Stadia for a myriad of reasons.

I think everyone here paints a rosy picture of what content moderation is, and maybe we stretched our hand a bit thin regarding having enough humans involved (despite games taking 700-1400 people 4+ years to make in the first place)- but the rub is that people can’t have everything.

We can’t expect you not to try to tamper with the binaries and ruin games for others.

You can’t expect us not to try preventing it.

Because at the end of the day; people do submit reimbursement claims because of cheaters ruining their experience, and if there’s one thing that I can promise it’s that no amount of human review will ever be sufficient, we already put 70 or so humans on reviewing reports, and even then it was difficult to punish people, because if you ban someone they just buy another key from a Russian third market reseller for €3 (or if you make the game free god help you)
More and different (2012)
I thought his name was RMS Matthew Stallman.
It's a joke. Amazon (the company) is named after the river and so is the surrounding rainforest.

I think "The Rainforest Bookstore" would've been cuter and clearer
you weren't the only one to suggest this, thanks
I did run a startup for a year that was on crystal, and I will say the community is quite good at addressing real bugs. There are a lot of "you don't know what you're doing" bugs and "this is already fixed but you haven't updated" bugs and "this is really a feature request" bugs in the tracker. I wouldn't read into it much. There hardly exists a popular programming language or framework without at least several thousand open issues.
He doesn’t find it funny. If you know Marco from his old blog or his “tiny” podcast[1], you’ll know he is being cynical.

1. https://atp.fm
What company is only giving $25k in signing bonuses? Everyone I know who works at a (non-Amazon) FAANG got significantly more than that.
When does the 15% come in to play? If your recruiter tells you $xxx in stock, they actually discount that and you get a grant for 15% less shares than current market price?
This is why when I travel internationally I only eat McDonalds and shop at H&M.
...with an interesting "side effect": it allows most people in those cities to buy plenty goods and services made by people in poor countries. And not the opposite.
Yeah this sort of thing is necessary in statically typed languages like Rust and C++ but in Python (and e.g. Typescript) you can just use anonymous type unions like `str | None`.

There's no need to construct a static type to hold both possibilities because variables can already hold all types.
The museum is back in Israel where I'm originally from, but I live in the UK. Transporting this collection was not trivial and at the time it was easier to donate. I can only hope they made good use of them.
At least I got some photos: https://imgur.com/a/qSIR5
I agree with your point, but I think ads would be in that list!
Yeah, I wonder if that's part of the confusion. "Signing Bonus" is a weird name for what amounts to a large salary boost for the first 2 years. I think a lot of people think of a signing bonus as a lump sum you get when you are hired.
Have you actually done the math? The reality is that there aren't enough upper class people to generate sufficient tax revenue for a meaningful UBI. While I do support higher taxes at the upper levels, you can only squeeze people so much before they decide to bail out and move to tax havens.