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Ask HN: Any website that has engineering team size data of tech companies?
As the title suggests, I am interested is there any trusted resource where the size of engineering team of different companies is available?
Every group message I have received (100%) via MMS has been spam.
You might know that already, but NOBY indeed stands for "None of Your Business"(https://noyb.eu/en).

The organisation has been involved in nearly all of the last privacy related rulings in the EU and is a real blessing for consumer rights.
I tried using Zerotier a few years ago for personal devices/homenet (~10ish devices) and it frequently dropped/disconnected to the point I uninstalled. The Windows client was buggy/quirky and would get into a weird state where I couldn't click on a network to connect/disconnect properly and the app would have to be closed and client restarted before it would work properly again.

Ive since set up wireguard and use nginx for reverse proxy and haven't looked back. This has been rock solid, set and forget.
Your new employer can believe you? If they are hiring simply based on a couple words from a different company, then there is going to be risk for them.
IPv6 tunnels also help
Has any economy gotten out of 5%+ inflationary cycle without a painful multi-year recession?

Once the cycle settles, someone eventually has to pull a Paul Volcker, no?
Unemployment has pretty much recovered. Nobody is going to remember this time the way you're suggesting.

The way I'm going to remember it is that when this country had a crisis, instead of us coming together it caused division vitriol and hatred
Thanks! I would have to look outside my company for those. I have been browsing and applied to a couple great options (didn't get them). I'd rather not leave my company because tech jobs in the area are sparse (my company is one of the biggest), my wife won't relocate, and I'm not great with staying focused on remote work (would probably improve if it were consistent and/or interesting work). Looking internally is basically out of the question since I got a further development needed rating as a mid-level.
The Search for the Developer of Aquavanture
Leaving a cult is the ultimate sin in most cults, so it is not surprising at all. Any Apple employees reading this that want out, here’s a guide for help.

https://www.wikihow.com/Leave-a-Cult
Average lifespan actually increased during the decade before and the decade after the great depression too, so it looks like involuntary fasting had zero to do with it.
Somehow I'm not surprised that my choice of words was jumped on. Let's say "making use of" to keep further pedantry at bay.
Well, if they want to operate somewhere, they have to follow local rules.

I doubt American companies wouldn't comply with American law, European law is no less important than the American one and I don't see a reason why we should be accommodating towards foreign businesses, especially, again, those of a country which is a threat. Big companies shouldn't serve as a model to follow.
if you use a template engine with sane defaults, you can achieve the same level of safety.
>Also wondering if there is a way to agree to storing my data in the us.

Consent is always a valid legal basis for the processing, or transfer, of data. But it has to be freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous.
In the global chips arms race, Europe makes its move
"Associate" is not a downgrade. It's a generic title that means "employee" and literally everyone (except maybe named officers in the legal filings) is an associate.
> In a recommender engine, the best recommendation for your quality of life is at the top. In an ad engine… that list gets resorted

A recommender engine in principle could avoid recommending things that are unhealthy. Advertising has no such guardrails. It recommends things that reflect someone else's economic incentives, and not what's actually best for me.
Here is another a privacy-first alternative that works with a cloud subscription: https://awstats.sourceforge.io/

If your needs exceed the data analyzed by it then you should consider rethinking your "analytics model".
I said forced shutdowns of businesses and forced quarantine at home like East Asian countries. Not masking.
Ok, but let’s back it up one step.

Am I (a random internet guy) allowed to call the company you claim you currently work for on LinkedIn, and ask them whether you work there in such and such a position? Can I ask them how much they pay you?

Sure, I can ask, but can they answer? Is all or some of that really privileged information? There are two parties in your employment, and both own the information. Are you prohibited from telling others you work there or how much they pay you? If not, why would the employer be prohibited from telling others?
the employee's title while working there doesn't represent any liability that I can think of, and changing it post employment and lying about their title to anyone inquiring seems like a liability instead. Seems like they're trying to sabotage people's careers if they leave apple.
It's not as clear cut.

If someone is running a global web site and wants analytics, which of the 2 entities, or both, would he reference in HTML? Even if we're going to region-lock Europe to the European Analytics servers, analytics today often involves some computation done over the entire data set, including both US and the EU, done on the backend. Which backend would that be?

The privacy aspect has become something of a "think of the children" reason for a sort of "Internet xenophobia", as well as creating huge barriers to entry for small companies which cannot comply.
You are moving the goalposts - I did not call for this.
No, I didn't miss that part. "Next time, I'll really punish you" rarely works until there's actual consequences.
Because the convention is to scroll vertically and not horizontally, width is constrained but height is limitless in such a setup. Hence the differing treatment of width and height
Interesting this aspect wasn't included in the article
The relevance to the article or discussion being...?
Associate means employee
Yeah, certainly the tech debt code should be thrown away. I think this is hard to discuss without a concrete example in mind, though. Or rather without both having the same concrete example in mind.

I get the sense that everyone here is imagining their own - very different - concrete example of tech debt, and talking entirely at cross purposes as a result.
A somewhat related study regarding gender biases in education released a few days ago:

https://news.yahoo.com/study-teacher-observations-biased-aga...

(The actual study is available at https://my.vanderbilt.edu/brendanbartanen/files/2021/10/gris... )

Black teachers and male teachers are rated lower during teacher observations than white teachers and female teachers, despite comparable or better outcomes for their students in test scores and student attendance.

Interestingly, the bias against male teachers is around twice the bias against Black teachers.
This is one particular point of view, and it's extremely sloppy reasoning to say that it's "scientifically supported", given that mathematics is not a form of science.

There are plenty of very smart people, not just mathematicians but also physicists & scientists who are mathematical platonists.
Protecting privacy would be not giving names out at all- instead they do confirm employment, but lie about what the role was.
> working from home monitoring, or insurance companies profiling individuals

Comparing that with what governments can do with data gathered about me, I know which ones I want to be protected from. Unfortunately they are the ones writing privacy laws and they leave huge loopholes for themselves.
Love this writeup, though I have to admit I'm slightly disappointed. From the headline I had expected to read how the author rigged his home security system to keep the doors locked. And to only unlock after his phone/fitbit logs him as completing his distance goal for the day.
I'm really sad that Dart didn't make it as Javascript replacement. It's much better designed language, but didn't get traction.
Any evidence this is the privileged class using it for capital flight and tax evasion and not the common man freeing himself from the economic authorities? In my opinion it doesn't matter. Good for all involved who are taking back control of their wealth
Cutting corners assumes not doing things that are necessary. What I've found is that systems in the cloud are often unnecessarily resilient in areas which they do not need to be.

The example of S3 is apt as often ephemeral files are kept in S3 in which case they don't need the reliability storage guarantees that you'll get with S3.

I've also found that just because you're paying over the odds for AWS's SLA doesn't mean jack to your systems actual uptime. All systems I've dealt with in AWS / Azure have had unplanned outages. I think almost all of these have been problems in the software itself nothing that AWS will help you with.
> Why? Because it's always good to have an excuse to work slower.

Oof. What's better is setting and going by your own pace and making sure you're projecting expectations with regard to that pace.
I understand your concern. It's also an analytics service. But I believe we are very different [1]. We deliberately collect very little data [2].

There is a big difference between "a person's surfing data" or "surfing data of all visitors combined". That's what we promise with Simple Analytics.

[1] https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/why-simple-analytics-is-a-g...

[2] https://docs.simpleanalytics.com/what-we-collect
What is more “evil” about American foreign policy compared to any other relevant global power?
disagree. If I leave a company I am have no role there - I am not an associate, a customer service rep, or an engineer. What was I during my employment is a question of fact that can be answered without liability, but changing my title and lying to inquirers about what it was might be a liability.
The capability of "curtailing" another race from expanding is contingent on having expanded into the galaxy.
Par for the course.

Peace mission.
What part of "61.93% [of] participants ... received COVID-19 vaccine" is confusing to you?

Both the "got COVID" and the "didn't get COVID" ("contemporary control") group had some people vaccinated and some not. They can slice and dice the data based on vaccination status; they clearly have the info.
While often ignored, item-to-item similarity recommenders work really well for new items and have been the basis for Amazon's and YouTube's early recommendation algorithms

https://glinden.blogspot.com/2011/02/youtube-uses-amazons-re...
They double in size but do they double in performances?
> there is so much ruby/rails magic going on that most Rails projects end up in terrible shape

Should check out Java Spring (and for a bonus round, Lombak). So much magic pixie dust spewed around to get around not being able to monkey patch.
wow, 1.3GB required space for something which looks like TTD clone which I played on 386 in 90s and didn't even dream about such HDD capacity :-O

I wonder how does it compare to OpenTTD so I downloaded it and complete OpenTTD takes 23MB

TTD, Sim City 2000 and UFO: Enemy unknown were probably my most favorite games ever
> Title is nothing subjective. In fact, titles and levels can be matched between two companies easily.

There is zero truth to this statement. Perhaps job families can be matched (engineering vs sales, manager vs IC). Other than that, it’s impossible to equate. I’ve seen a VP of Engineering at a startup start as a junior engineer at a FAANG.
I use to live a sedentary lifestyle, writing code, watching movies and sitting around. smoking and drinking. eating unhealthy foods

by 29 i was winded walking up a flight of stairs. bp >130/75 and a resting heart rate of 90-100.

around 33 i started developing outdoor hobbies, bought a farm. and now own a framing business. last week my bp was 121/71 with a resting heart rate of 57. the girl who took my bp asked me if i took blood pressure medication (!). needless to say i dont.

find something active and athletic that you like to do, and do it. not suggesting changing careers but give yourself opportunities to exercise doing something you find fun. for me it turned out to be building structures and working outside. i still write code for fun. but the change of pace has been great.

and the money is stellar.

regardless, getting over a love affair with comfort did me a lot of good
It's not defined, because it depends on why you're processing the data.

Different reasons would entail different retention times.
The point remains. Having to jump through a bunch of hoops is the opposite of user-friendly.

And to take the argument more broadly: how many of us here on HN became interested in computing because they screwed around on their PC as a child? What about today's children, who get a smartphone, a tablet and maybe a Chromebook? What are we teaching them?
To elaborate a bit more, and in my opinion, a web browser provides an essential service, much like the water from the mains or the electricity that powers your home.

Without the web browser engine, no matter which HTML, CSS and JS you write, the fact is it cannot run without it.

What would be great to have is choosing which programming language runs in your browser. It'd be great for me to move away from JS engines like V8 or SpiderMonkey, and be able to run CPython (directly, not transpiled to JS) as my interpreted language. The stack could be HTML, CSS and Python, for example. WASM came to solve part of this, fortunately.

We are missing an excellent opportunity for more powerful web technologies if we don't embrace WASM.
If a lockdown and travel restrictions, with limited duration, could have contained the spread of COVID or some other disease, I don't think it's an unreasonable impingement on civil liberties. Practically speaking a few weeks of restrictions every few decades shouldn't be problematic, or at least much less problematic than something like wartime restrictions.

Of course the value of any lockdown policy is contingent on the practical ability to correctly assess the threat of a new disease early enough that such short-duration, non-pharmaceutical interventions could work. But I don't think temporary restrictions are incompatible with basic civil liberties.

EDIT: Removed amateur-hour epidemiology, restated "philosophical" argument contingent on NPIs being effective.
My civil liberties give me the right to leave my house and for people to have businesses and for me to visit those businesses. Perpetual lockdowns are a losing battle.
I think the psychology of pay raises and inflation is interesting. I’ve never heard anyone when inflation was low taking about how their 20% pay raise (from moving to another company for example) was 18% over inflation. This comparison of pay raises to inflation only happens when inflation is higher THAT YEAR, which I emphasize because technology salaries as a whole are one area that has greatly outstripped inflation over the the years.

I’m not trying to dismiss or minimize people who are not happy they effectively got a negative pay adjustment this year, just commenting that the perspective on how to measure pay relative to the economy and market doesn’t seem consistent, and I think that says a lot about psychology of rewards for work.

Obviously this also has different meaning in jobs where wages have been largely stagnant for many years, and weren’t keeping up with cost of living even before large inflation.

Anyway, if you are a software engineer or other highly paid professional, it might be an good thought exercise to examine your lifetime (or some other timeframe) increases vs inflation, or look at your spending that will be actually impacted by inflation (groceries etc) and calculate the tangible impact on your life in terms of cost. Again not to say that high inflation is positive or anything, just as a way of adding context and additional perspectives that are missing if you look at this year in isolation and it wasn’t a year you got a substantial increase in pay.
No, it's really not so clear if you take a more objective look. First off, the history of vaccination is irrelevant, because this is a novel technology.

Second, the short half life of mRNA does not guarantee that there are no long term effects.

Third, you are ignoring that in this choice between "two unknowns", the probability of getting symptomatic covid (presumably asymptomatic/mild covid is unlikely to cause heart issues) is less than 1. The probability of exposure to the vaccine for a vaccinated person is 1.

Fourth, unlike exposure to covid in young, healthy people, the vaccine guarantees that your tissues are exposed to a rapid megadose of an inflammatory protein, manufactured in isolation, as opposed to an infection where the protein is attached to the rest of the virus and exposure ramps up gradually. That's my personal concern and I feel like its being swept under the rug. There is a nonzero risk of autoimmune disorders which will be difficult to detect, especially if past preprints regarding expression of the spike protein in human tissues post vaccination prove to be true.

Finally:
>The long-term impact of either one cannot be conclusively determined in the short-term, barring the invention of time travel

Right, which is why vaccine trials normally take 5-10 years and "safe and effective" has been a campaign of transparent propaganda. Numerous past vaccines have been pulled from the market for fewer side effects. Combine that with the stigma against reporting side effects/speaking against the vaccines, the fact that the actual safety trial data is a secret known only to pfizer/moderna and the FDA, the rumors that adverse event collection during clinical trials was (deliberately?) inadequate, the history of big pharma deliberately harming consumers in pursuit of profits, the full protection of pfizer et al from liability, and the assertion that covid is less of a problem than it has been made out to be (especially with recent data on omicron), no, the choice is not clear at all if you have not been taken in by the propaganda.

Edit: let's also remember that the claims of both safety and effectiveness have been repeatedly revised, and multiple points of "misinformation" have been proven correct. So on top of all this it should be clear that our institutions are not deserving of the amount of trust that people like you are placing in them. The executive branch wanted a vaccine yesterday, the FDA suspended typical testing protocols for what amounts to a rubber stamp, and now we are the safety trials. Not even getting into our sudden collective amnesia regarding regulatory capture.
The isn't talking about that sort of "interface" (which Ada also has).

This refers to a difference in logical and physical program structure in which specifications are separate from bodies--formalized version of the header/source separation in C/C++. In addition to logical separation, this provides speed ups in recompilation times.
Interesting point in history, but at this point I don't think Gates' points run quite so true. Microsoft isn't just trying to break even on software any more.
You can't send the data of EU people to companies subject to spying states.
I guess that globally isolating potential hosts (including animal hosts, such as rodents in the wild) from each other for a prolonged period would technically work.
I personally don't see that many 60 year old white men flexing at the gym before/during Covid but then again I'm from Texas.
If after the 3rd time that happens the boss doesn't notice, that's their fault.
Wall Street thought he was a loser too after we was fired as CEO of Apple and just another dumb founder and he should sell his company to IBM. This story repeats again and again. Steve Jobs proved them all wrong and now everything Apple does is brilliant and they should buy Peloton.
Can't speak about VCs, but for celebrities and promoters there seem to be questionable cross-promotions: https://maxread.substack.com/p/mapping-the-celebrity-nft-com...
Forgive me, but that sounds like a strawman. I don't think I've ever heard someone say they'll "just not get it", although ironically many of those more enthusiastic about taking the vaccines sure seemed to act like they won't get it... until they got it anyway. But perhaps it's a failing of mine that the only people I meet who were skeptical of the mass vaccine deployment strategy usually had the exact opposite view you are suggesting they have.

Define "viable". Viable for whom? For what?
Why not? We can't criticize someone's reckless, selfish decision, even ten years past their death from it?
Or that by demoting people that Apple is lying and could be sued for tortious interference.
There are reasons for privacy, which include discrimination based on that information. Discrimination based on incorrect information is just as harmful.

That said "associate" is arguably vague.
I'm surprised corruption hasn't overtaken the endeavor. A thousand dollars in police bribes for every mile, and you could have the entire route protected for less than $3,000,000.
You are right, rewrote it as "invalidated"
I saw a cardiologist 11 months after my infection (Jan 2021 prior to vaccine availability to public). I had a small heart scare at the end of Thanksgiving break where I went to the ER out of precaution and discharged immediately as nothing was wrong, but to me felt like I was going to die.

They were not concerned that COVID had any play in heart health after that many months. Of course, more and more articles and studies are coming out regarding the actual short term & longer term effects accompanied with the unknowns. My story related very closely to these young people who woke up feeling like they are in their 50s/60s and scared they will croak any given moment.

After going through a year of hell, I'm quite optimistic and more aware of my heart health than ever.

This is another article I found last year that really resonated with my story and gave me lots of hope for answers. No doctor was able to give me one, so I had to experiment and try lots of stuff over the last year.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-covid...
That's when you suggest that the historical accuracy of the proposals should be weighed to determine the degree of certainty in future proposals from various sources, right?

Let's say person A gives longer estimates but is accurate within 10% more than 95% of the time. Let's say person B gives estimates half as long, but the team runs over by 75% a quarter of the time and by 150% about half the time. Whose proposals should the stakeholders choose?

If your company is making decisions based on estimates, the accuracy trend on those estimates is a far more important metric than lines of code, number of commits, story points, or nearly any other metric they're keeping.
I wonder as well. I'm baffled the article made no mention of vaccination status.
Sounds like you're new around here :)

Sadly this is the modus operandi for most HN comments these days; it's easier to nitpick details about something fun/interesting that a person did than it is to actually _do_ something fun/interesting & have the guts to (gasp!) post about it online for all to see.
Reminds me of old stories about Intel - how, when they were taking a (chip fabrication) process which worked at plant X to (new or re-tooled) plant Y, they would duplicate EVERYTHING from X at Y. Right down to the exact brand / line / formulation of the paint on (say) the walls of the lobby, the type of toilet paper in the bathrooms, etc.
For most of these people the NFT is the valuable part. If Twitter verifies your opensea nft and let's you put it on your Twitter profile that is the value.
HN hates Facebook. WhatsApp was a fantastic service built on a fantastic stack by fantastic people.