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> What is it that you FAANG developers do that is so much more complex than what regular developers do?

A meager defense follows. I've worked both "midwest design shop" and FAANG-adjacent jobs, from junior to staff to manager.

The main thing is supply and demand. The supply of engineers willing to work at a FAANG, in a region that FAANG is willing & able to support, and are willing and able to go through the technical hazing process called a "hiring panel," is very much short of demand. On the other side, profits per employee are phenomenal at scale, so making hires at these rates still makes sense financially.

But to answer your real question: it's less about the complexity of the code on a day to day basis, and more about the complexity of the system you have to work within, both technical and political, and the expectations of scale. A microservice system has both network and political boundaries to work through, whether making changes or RPC calls.

Then, while a small scale system might see a one-in-a-million event once per year, a large system will see it many times per hour, or even per minute. Managing simple things like changes to a database becomes a multi-step process, involving tools and stakeholders, instead of just a quick 2 minutes of scheduled downtime. Engineers need to be capable of thinking through those sorts of things. Stuff gets real weird at scale.

As a result, of both the above, engineers frequently find themselves doing highly specialized work, which is even harder to hire for. The guy who knows scaling properties of Postgres inside and out hasn't written production web code in a decade; his skills are almost worthless outside of FAANG-scale problems. Amazon has folks working for years on all sorts of niche network optimizations, because microseconds matter to them, but good luck transferring those skills back to fullstack web dev.

Last, a not insignificant number of engineers at FAANG are doing fantastically easy work on the same pay scale. Someone has to manage the wordpress (or whatever) installation for the docs site, or some backend process written in Django just for six important people. They often still get an engineer title and pay scale. So, it frequently is harder, but certainly not always.
Microsoft to block internet macros by default in five Office applications
I’ve tried reading “How to Win Friends” and all I kept thinking was how it completely would never apply to a person such as myself.
My wife is from Germany. My point isn't really about how "free" Germany is compared to the US (that is an entirely different debate). It is about America and how nuanced things are. It's very difficult to explain a different country's history and sense of self and how that influences daily life.
A roman à clef is protected legally. It's why a movie like Citizen Kane was protected, despite the fact everyone knew it was about Hearst.
Douglas Adams seems strangely forgotten, considering how great he really was -- or maybe he isn't forgotten, in the British Isles and elsewhere?

As a grammar and syntax nerd, I was a huge fan of his puns on rhetoric.

"The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser, "hadn't even begun to speculate," he continued, settling himself back, "about the merest possibility of crossing my mind."
Guide to getting a tech job abroad
I pay for Google One but don't even use gmail
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From what I can see, check stubs would work as well, you could have no money in the bank...

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/securities-law/startups-and-cr...
Save it for a rainy day. Having a good rainy day fund helps take the edge off day to day living.
It's a common phrase/point in anti-car activist circles; it's already background knowledge for the guest, the host, and the audience. Hence the "I mean, I don’t have to tell The War on Cars this" that Doctorow prefaces it with.

For example:

https://humantransit.org/2016/07/elon-musk-doesnt-understand...
100%. I'm approaching the amounts that only a few years ago would have been in a fantasy land category, however there are issues with high stress levels, overtime and many others. I do understand many many people in my position would just pull through just because of money but eventually it wears out as a strong argument.
The US probably needs to view chips as a national security issue and proceed accordingly... meaning, move more manufacturing here.

It will raise prices and hurt the economy, probably, so I can understand the reluctance. Nothing is easy.
I've added this to the article. Thanks very much for the reference.
> This usually happens after you've created plenty of opportunities for the person to improve. Often that just doesn't happen

Doesn´t that mean you the employer failed too? It could be that someone is really not well fit for the role, but it could also be that the employer has no clue how to lead someone to success. As you say

> I'm often pleasantly surprised to see that people moved on and improved themselves

This is for me an indication that the employer lacks critical skills and needs improvement. Being a checklist manager and demanding improvement is the easy part, but making people grow in the direction you want is the hard part.
Science can only be as good as the people doing it.

The problem is that most papers, especially on very complicated topics, are not science and just serve the purpose of proving a point or helping someone's career.

Even without taking easy jabs at psychology (you would need full brain understanding of its inner workings and evolution over a lifetime, to have a 100% clear picture of what's happening - we probably have 0.0001% - it's all based on observations and interpretations), the reproducibility crisis is affecting a lot of areas.

Hopefully with more time and more people getting involved in the field, we'll get more and more science.

If I think about nutrition / fitness, between 40-20 years ago and now we made great progress: we went from "Fats are bad and make you fat" (pure propaganda to sell processed sugars), "BULK on a 4000 diet" to any video of Jeff Nippard quoting incredibly detailed studies about minutiae of nutrition and building muscle.
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> Most of the "frontend work" I saw was via Rails ERB templates

It seems that he didn't consider erb frontend or he dislikes it, he was expecting to work on js/react or whatever other framework he knows/likes. That demostrates that he doesn't fully understand what a frontend developer job is.
Whether you choose to use it or not, Tether infiltrates and affects the overall crypto market in the same way the Fed affects fiat.

Strange that you are obviously concerned about one and completely dismissive of the other. I guess it just doesn't fit the narrative you've bought into.
TIL my daughter is Barbicide Certified! Who knew. I'm not kidding. I put my last name in lookup.merits.com and her record came up. I think it's actually correct as she did take some courses on cosmetology in high school.
Maybe because Russia realized that Edward Snowden had a powerful name and they'd win favour with the lefties of the world if they protected him? That's one possibility. Or maybe because "let me try and be friends with the (perceived) enemies of my enemies." (although Snowden wouldn't characterize himself as an enemy of the US).

The important point is - a good thing done for bad reasons, might still be better than a bad thing.
OP was saying the system is flawed, not that they are exploiting the flaws in the system. Those aren’t the same thing.
Android mobile, tablet, TV, etc. apps.

Changing channels to it results in nothing. It goes to WeatherNation, Bloomberg, or anything else but Sky News only on every Android device within the app.

It works in the browser and iOS apps.
Tiny Core Linux 13 Released: Needs Just 46MB of RAM, 50MB of Disk
I look at how the ultra-wealthy are lionized in the US and genuinely wonder sometimes. It's amazing what we'll let those people get away with because we too want to join the exclusive club of high net worth individuals.
No need to apologize, I appreciate the feedback! I tweak our little initial landing page pitch lines all the time, and I feel like the current state is pretty bad. I'll see if I can't improve it :)
Now this is an answer I was waiting for. Thank you for explaining the real benefits of sticking to koda style. I guess this would be obvious if I used statically typed languages since there is no try except clauses in most of them
Oh I just thought it was sad the credit that should be going to you is largely going to Valve.
How would that help if they're having trouble hiring or retaining software engineers?
Talalay latex pillow. Memory foam sucks in comparison.
I also couldn't imagine this happening, just think it is a better way to frame to conversation and understand how G suite users are feeling right now. There is a counterpoint though based on what you said, the large number of business users also means a larger business opportunity for them. The G suite to workspace transition has been 10 years in the making, you could imagine spreading the outrage over a longer period of time and many users not even noticing it is happening.
I used to visit WSB 5 or 6 years back, whenever I visit it now it all seems to be millionaires pumping their positions in separate trading account as "YOLO" trade trying to get dumb people to pump the stock.

All WSB does now is magnify the winners/pumpers while leaving trail of poor people without their money.
Lenovo is quite good at supporting their products, as manufacturers go, so you might still be able to find an OEM pack that is not too stale.

Past that, I think the next best answer is you crack open the pack and you replace the cells yourself. The aftermarket packs are total garbage.
I would gladly pay for Gmail if it guaranteed that my Google account won't be disabled when some "AI" script considers it suspicious and if Google finally fixes issues with spam coming right from their @gmail.com addresses.
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I don’t have the code for that and it might require my studio to open a deal with vanguard to get access to the source.

Generally speaking though; the size of the components that run in the kernel is not important. The kernel mode software can act as a window to the rest of the system.
Last line, hilarious.
I was able to remove two or three other browser extensions when I started digging into uBlock Origin's capabilities. I also use it as a replacement for NoScript; it's easier to sync my allowlist between multiple computers with uBO than it is with NoScript.
The way he describes friction reminds of the book Anathem by Neal Stephenson. Good book with a giant obstacle of tons of made up vocabulary. I read that a long time ago, and now I'm not sure how much I enjoyed the story/characters and how much of it was just a different level of immersion and satisfaction from getting through the friction.
x86 isn't patented past AVX2 or so. It's too old, they've expired by now.
Would be nice if you provided a reference about Doug Ford hiding, or if he's just adhering to current law in his country.
I'm shocked by how much media attention this disclosure has received. I don't think Zuck is "threatening" anything. The same annual report also said immigration policies are a risk to Meta/Facebook's ability to hire enough talent. That doesn't mean Meat/Facebook is threatening to stop hiring people. It's a risk to the business. They disclosed that risk as required. I have nothing nice to say about Facebook and I wish for it's speedy demise but all of this news is just people taking a benign and factual disclosure completely out of context. It's absurd. Then again, I suppose Facebook contributed the very viral (dubious) "news" cycle they now find themselves the target of so perhaps it's just the universe's way of evening things out...
One or two examples exist. The venerable MetaFilter is heavily moderated ans charges $5 for a (lifetime) membership, which tends to keep out drive-by commenting.
I edited my comment to clarify this, but I meant "general-purpose OS" in a very broad sense - i.e. not much more than "can it load, execute, and time-share between arbitrary programs loaded from an attached storage device."

Thanks for the links!
This comment is loaded with some pretty unrealistic conclusions. Firstly, Vulkan support is becoming extremely common even on Windows-exclusive titles.

> Apple has their own Metal, so Vulkan is dead in the water there anyway.

How is Apple at all relevant in a thread about games? Apple has proactively shut out gaming in the past few years. Metal is almost exclusively used to draw fancy GUIs.

Furthermore, DXVK is an open source (strictly) project. Who honestly cares who came up with the API? People even run DXVK on Windows because it often offers superior performance.

There are some very big studios getting behind Vulkan: Embark, id.

As to the root comment: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experim...
Thank you! I reckon the fully integrated world also will need some sort of "darkness" layer (in parts) to not warp liquidity and quotes too much for the less liquid things - but I can see the tech and algorithms for that being there already , just not used much.

Looking forward to reading the full launch announcement!
That's a totally false choice. No one has to suffer for more (and more affordable) housing and more (and more convenient) mass transit - except perhaps the "winners" of the current system. It's also quite an entitled position you're espousing: just because you have the economic wherewithal to live in cities and forgo driving, doesn't mean that many people (and their families) who work in those same cities do.
No, it's common for conservatives to hide behind half-truths and misdirection.
Allegedly, if it doesn’t hit the 15% per year, you’ll get a top up refresh for the difference. Except you’re now stuck waiting another year for that to vest.
Kind of reminds me of The Mitchell and Webb Look skits about the Angel Summoner and the BMX Bandit. BMX Bandit (the workers) want to be useful, but they just can't compete with an Angel Summoner (automation machine) that can just summon an angelic horde every time and solve the problem without hardly any effort.

[1]: https://youtu.be/zFuMpYTyRjw
I have reluctantly reached this exact conclusion. Sure, I wish Linux were a growing target for developers, but after living through Loki/Icculus ports and Wine/Crossover/Transgaming/Proton, the only practical approach is the latter, it seems. I've made my peace with it.
Ask HN: How do you do research?
How do you find peer-reviewed studies on a topic you have interest in? Asking for any search engines or techniques you've found to be helpful when looking into a topic.
Ask HN: What books have you read that have changed your life?
Have you read any books that you consider to have changed the course of your life or radically altered your way of thinking?
Matter of time? It's definitely been happening since the beginning of this thing. GME isn't the only stock talked about on WSB.
I guess sort of intuitively (I'm not a cryptographer):

If your round function isn't invertible, then it's going to converge at some point on some fixed value, and the round function is going to stop doing anything useful.

More broadly, SHA2 is a sort of instance of a construction called Davies-Meyer, which treats each message block as the key to a bona-fide block cipher (SHACAL, in SHA's case), each encrypting the previous block. It's hopefully pretty obvious why a block cipher core needs to be invertible. :)

So I also find it kind of helpful to remember that you can take any block cipher and turn it into a hash, and then a "good" hash function is just optimizing the block cipher core around the goals of a hash function (be fast, be nonlinear, be hard to find differential trails through the whole sequence of round functions, &c).

It's a thing I don't love about illustrations like the one we're discussing, in that it sort of presents this "intelligent design" problem of, like, "how did we arrive at this incredibly complex fully functioning eyeball", when there's a whole series of smaller evolutionary steps that led to this point; it's more productive maybe to look at the bones of the whole design before diving into the details of which bits go where at each precise step.
Now, be nice.
It doesn't answer my question. His tweet reads "I’m feeling fine" - where is he then? His twitter's been ridiculous, like nothing is happening in 100m from the Parliament.

What does Doug Ford have to do with that? Why did you bring him up here?
To everyone that submitted their recommendations, Thank you! I'm trying to reply to each submission since so many of these are so good, but I may not get to them all. I'm bookmarking this to refer back to for the next several months. I have already found so many great resources.
> this move seems reminiscent of Netflix's pay structure, in the sense of offering a higher cash portion but lower equity.

Netflix gives you 100% of your total comp in whatever form you choose: all cash, all stock, or any combination in between. Also, Netflix's stock plan vests immediately-- they don't try to lock you in with 4-year vesting. They view stock compensation as something you've earned, so there are no strings attached.

It's well known that for top roles, Amazon's pay ranges are often well below their peer companies. You can see this on https://levels.fyi. So it makes sense that Amazon is trying to catch up.
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Is there any evidence that Kagan took money off the table or paid himself an outsized salary, or hired his friends on exaggerated salaries, or used the startup's funds as his piggybank?

Similarly, the article conflates A16Z leading the seed round but not the follow on round as being some kind of smell. A16Z certainly do lead follow-on rounds, but it isn't the norm. (It would be interesting to know if they exercised pro-rata or not, but even that isn't necessarily indicative of anything.)

I don't know if there is or isn't fraud here, but the only evidence seems to be that Kagan was good at fundraising, raise a lot in a frothy market on little traction, and did not succeed at building the product or a successful business.

One of the best things about the tech ecosystem is the lack of stigma around failure. I hope people don't lose sight of that as round sizes and valuations spike.
Perhaps I'm just bitter

I've been part of a non-zero amount of deals where there was one, or more, parties who've made that false claim. In an open group I participate in there are some early Angels and want-to-be investors. I've observed folks attempting this shortcut. And every time it's fucked over multiple people. So, yea, it's trust based - and truth will out.
We're following the project with interest, but for now, we're focused on directing engineering resources to other portions of the stack. FWIW our approach is in the low nanos of precision and accuracy, which puts us within spitting distance of the Nyquist criterion for never aliasing two packets to the same timestamp (thus losing a total ordering) at line rate 10G. That's massive overkill for our purposes (auctions 100ms apart), but it's a satisfying property nonetheless :)
> I don't want any other feature except a battery that can make it a full day.

I thought the Series 7 could make it a full day? My wife has a S6 and makes it about 36 hours with her normal usage (which is admittedly quite light).

For me, it's not a watch if it has to be charged every day or two. I need 4+ days of battery life so that I don't have to bring another charger on every overnight/weekend trip.
You say this as if it is a bad thing.
If the cash bonus is guaranteed, it's arguably less risky to get that up front because you could get fired or laid off after one year and not see the benefits of the higher base salary.
Anywhere non-ECC storage or computation occurs before it hits hashing or distributed, it's a SPoF.
The author also seems think Foucault pendulums aren't conclusive. That one is much harder to argue against than star trails (there's no need to prove the absence of celestial spheres or other kinds of star movement).

Honestly, I don't see much difference between a gyroscope experiment and the Foucault pendulum. Except that the later is much easier to do.
A garlic press.
Yamaha DX7 chip reverse-engineering, part 6: the control registers
I think a Likert scale is actually different than how they're surveying respondents in the article linked by the OP.

From Wikipedia: "A Likert item is simply a statement that the respondent is asked to evaluate by giving it a quantitative value on any kind of subjective or objective dimension, with level of agreement/disagreement being the dimension most commonly used...

The format of a typical five-level Likert item, for example, could be:

Strongly disagree
Disagree
Neither agree nor disagree
Agree
Strongly agree"

This is much different than "Give a number 1-5 to iPhone."
The Dialog Element
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

Now I certainly agree that there is no realistic scenario where any significant portion of people can just choose free fish in 5 or even 10 years[1]. But the automation of work tasks is like Mike's bankruptcy: it builds slowly until we have the sudden realization that we're over the cliff. Robots making and repairing robots, people watched over by machines of loving grace, the whole 9 yards.

Personally, I would like to have the UBI parachute strapped on before we find ourselves floating Wile E. Coyote style over an economic collapse. Given the rate at which new legislation passes in today's society, the time to start the fight is at least 20 years before you really need it.

[1] Unless those singulatarian types are right, and human-level machine intelligence is 7 years out: https://longbets.org/1/
Also, even the "non-generic" parts see plenty of reuse. For example, the wand pieces originally created for the Harry Potter sets have regularly popped up in unrelated sets as a decorative part of builds.
I have a similar feeling. I must be the fool for not raising capital while money is so cheap, especially when I see firms raising 7 figures with no revenue nor even a product.
I'm kind of more interested in "SV Gossip".

"Launched 2 hours ago". Can't look at other articles without subscribing.