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> The main problem with promotion-oriented culture is that it’s very hard to align promotion-criteria with business objectives, and so engineers end up doing a lot of work that doesn’t necessarily most benefit the product, users, or business – or even potentially their own growth.

Welcome to Amazon! Just about everything in this article rings true at Amazon. In fact, I’d say Amazon is even worse.

I think L4 to L5 and L5 to L6 promotions have certainly gotten easier over the years, and promotions have actively been used as a retention tool, given all the other (dis)incentives that would convince talent to leave.

What I saw in Amazon retail and Alexa was a culture of:

1) refusing to work on valuable projects unless you could actively claim to be the lead

2) taking credit for others’ contributions, or deliberately throwing a teammate under the bus and saying X didn’t work because of some thing specific they proposed (even if you agreed with it at the time)

3) general culture of back stabbing and not helping your own teammates, especially out of concern that your teammate would reap the promo benefit over you

And at a higher level, L7 managers will attribute a failed project, mismanaged project, or other issues to a partner team. “Our team is blocked on this other team Y” - never mind the fact that all the contracts have been agreed upon and this L7s team never wrote a line of code.

By the time I left, Amazon had gotten horrendous with organizations trying to invent “frameworks” so A or B can be done in 1 click, and this became the way for Sr SDEs and Principals to get their promotion. They create complexity and deliver some half baked, constrained way of solving problem X. This lets you show “impact” across an entire organization, even if this new abstraction has made engineers’ lives a living hell.

This was a major reason I left Amazon. The company was running out of ideas, and instead of focusing on products and customers, the engineering culture was heavily focused on inventing complexity for the sake of promotion. 9 times out of 10, the son of a bitch creating this complexity would take his or her promo and then move to another org, a new greenfield project. Never sticking around to deal with the pain they’ve caused.
TLDR - Associated with cars - "tech that can automatically curb your car’s speed to the prevailing limit"
I don't generally root for things to fail, but this one was so obviously user hostile in terms of UX and manufactured exclusivity that I'm really glad it's over.
This bumps up my desire to build my own mechanical watch using one of the kits here: https://rotatewatches.com (something I've had bookmarked for a while as a possible rainy day project)
You have to suspect that the underlying reason people are taking a pain reliever in the first place also makes them less empathetic to others. That could even be a larger effect than the one found in the study.

Understand that's controlled for in the OA, just mentioning another aspect in real-life situations.
Ask HN: What do you think of my landing page copywriting tool idea?
The last 3 years, I’ve been selling SaaS and digital courses on my website

And while it’s very fun and freeing, I’ve always dreaded the moment when I had to plop down own the used office chair my old boss gave me and bust out the sales copy for my products. Back then, switching from “product creation mode” to “copywriter mode” was more difficult than that 2,000-piece jigsaw puzzle I did last weekend with my grandma

Sitting in front of a blank google docs screen, I would start writing the sales copy for sales pages, email blasts, etc., and it would just take me days before I could get in the swing of writing good copy and truly hum along. Days I could not really afford to lose.

I’ve tried to learn as much as I could about writing good sales copy. I read books, took courses, watched videos, but when it came time to putting together my own sales page, and putting the right words into place, I would just spin my wheels. You can learn all the techniques and best practices, but figuring out how to apply it to your stuff in the right order on your website is a skill in its own right.

I have worked with professional copywriters and freelancers for help on improving my landing pages, and they have always been downright impressive. But sometimes, my products are not 100% complete or validated yet, and I’m simply just testing the waters—so it wouldn’t make sense to hire a pro yet.

I always had the itch to make some kind of tool that aids hackers in copywriting. It wouldn’t generate my entire landing page with AI or anything too fancy. But it swiftly would guide me along so that I could mindlessly plug-and-play the right copy in the right place on my sales page, resulting in higher conversions and ultimately, more sales.

So I decided, eff it, I will make a tool that does exactly this. I have created what is essentially a gsheet where I plug in the value prop, benefits, customer problems, features, urgency & scarcity, etc. into my gsheet and then multiple visual landing page variants are created for me.

I still have to fill in some of the gaps, but 80% of the page is "organized" for me in a visual hierarchy based on my inputs. I mostly took advice from CROs and copywriters and tried to make a tool so that I didn't have to re-read the how-to's on copywriting.

*I want to know which parts of copywriting are hardest for you.* I would be so grateful to get your opinion here in this short 9-question survey! https://forms.gle/S2ewFBybpL4ndWdy8

I think HN's got some awesome hackers and founders in here that might be able to relate to my story and just wanted to get some honest feedback about the clarity of the value proposition and whether this is a tool that you'd use or not.
C++ is absolutely the world's foremost brutalist language.
If they type system (or at worst norms of the language/community) enforces it in parts of the code, that's _much_ more than a mental model.
I take an anti-histamine. They don’t usually make me drowsy, but if I am wake at 3AM and feel too awake, the anti-histamine is usually enough to push me back to sleep (although it isn’t immediate).
Science of Fasting
My detailed write up on fasting/caloric restriction and necessary adjustments we need to emphasize in our current daily dietary regimen and this possibly helps keep the metabolic and other diseases at bay, especially in at risk populations(south Asian).
My main "user-facing" applications are:

* Blue Iris - for video surveillance

* Home Assistant

* Jellyfin

My main backend things are:

* Node-RED - for more complicated home automation than can be reasonably built in Home Assistant

* deCONZ - for my Zigbee lights and sensors

* PostgreSQL

* StrongSwan and Wireguard VPNs - I'm still evaluating Wireguard. I like the simplicity, but there are some things that I can do with StrongSwan that I can't do with WireGuard (specifically, split-DNS).

* Pi-hole

* Kubernetes - I'm just playing with this at the moment, but I'm running Pi-hole in it as it's not a critical service.

* Nginx - reverse proxy and TLS termination.

* TrueNAS Core on a QNAP NAS

I'm sure there's some I missed.
I don't give party favors at my kid's bday. I wish more parents would join me
>What's the point behind putting all this effort into it when at the end of the day it means almost nothing?

At a company like Facebook, the difference between L4 and L6 is over $100k in salary, and $80k in stock (difference in 4 year refresh grant of $325k). $180k a year difference isn't almost nothing.
Don't forget Citizen's Miyota 9000 series!
I chuckled when they demolished the nearby Mead undergrad chem lab to make way for another such building, then I realized that the department graduating 5 undergrads a year might have something to do with it. I already missed the sculpture where the bagpipe guy used to play that got taken out for some ChemE building.
Thanks for sharing this!

That triopoly - or oligopoly, if you prefer - is really bad for startups.

It's not just that the big players can charge whatever they want. They also keep coming up with new ways to raise prices.

It's gotten to the point where startups are at risk of bankruptcy because of unexpected cloud costs [1]. Given their dominance, it's no surprise that Google recently hiked prices [2].

There are many ways to cut cloud costs, but founders I've spoken to don't have the time to optimize their spend. On a related note, my company, Usage.AI, has built a tool to automatically buy and sell Reserved Instances to cut EC2 costs.

If you're a startup on a tight budget, you can't afford to overspend on the cloud. And given the big players' continued price hikes, it's only going to get harder to stay within your budget.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2022/04/19/cl...
[2] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/update...
Living in a Stranger's Abandoned House Might Be Your Best Rental Option
Ahhh.You should try Budibase if you have time. I'm the cofounder.

It's open source and a little different than the other options you've mentioned. Below is the repo:

https://github.com/Budibase/budibase

Website:
https://budibase.com
My experience with a very high-end solar Casio was akin to yours, with the battery needing replacing after about five years. Perhaps gambiting is correct about the common nature of the battery, but multiple watch repair shops (both in a department store, and the "old man in a tiny room in an office building" type) refused to deal with it. I always had to mail it to an authorized Casio repair outlet.

I do not know whether this also applies to Eco-Drive.
Right, but that doesn't imply malicious intent and it doesn't disqualify them from building their own.

Talking to companies about their product and then later deciding you'd rather build your own isn't really surprising. Plaid was definitely aware that Stripe was a potential competitor going into those meetings.
Syncthing
Plex
Gitea
Searx
141M would be like me having to pay 1000$ fine for robbing a federal bank where I stole $10 billion.
i probably would not get a watch model from two decades ago, let's limit it to maybe past 5yrs.

most (all?) that i've seen have a power reserve gauge. if it's a daily wearer, that needle will be pegged to max and basically useless clutter. complications for their own sake are not my cup of tea.

most (all?) that have a date function have the extra-wide single digits, which i'm not a fan of.

(i could go on)

i know it's not one model, but there's certainly similar design language to them (as there should be, perhaps), likely due to the geometry of the movement itself. i havent seen anything wildly varying, as you say.
Assuming you're in the U.S. there has been positive inflation for decades, so unless you live in a place like Detroit, yes just like every year. This is just an _additional_ factor to raise your rent at an even faster rate.

That's not even considering the currency devaluation, which is probably an even bigger contributing factor than landlord uncertainty. But it sure doesn't help.
I wonder how this compares to Column, since the founder of Column also cofounded Plaid. I see both founders' comments in this thread it looks like but the Column founder doesn't seem too happy about it [0].

There also seems to be some vindication by the Bolt founder, based on his Twitter thread about how Stripe handles corporate development [1][2], it really reminds me of Paul Graham's essay not to talk to them, lest the same thing happen to you [3].

[0] https://twitter.com/pitdesi/status/1521915016668090368

[1] https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1485784823641755648

[2] https://twitter.com/pitdesi/status/1521906115914526721

[3] http://www.paulgraham.com/corpdev.html
Definitely stealing mom-technical. Though I do disagree somewhat with the conflation with blue-collar. I would almost argue white-collar folks are less likely to understand computers.
bookmarking server: espial: https://github.com/jonschoning/espial
Mappy.cz has a layout to visualize CZ with a 19th century map: https://en.mapy.cz/19stoleti?x=13.9488027&y=50.4665536&z=12

It would be awesome to have a similar style available there. I wonder how much work it would entail.
Autocar here starts by complaining that the "intelligent speed assistance" has been maligned as "speed limiters". But upon reading the article further, that's exactly what it is.

When a neutral party says "speed limiter" to me, I immediately think of the actual technology here.

When the article started out with "intelligent speed assistance", I thought this might be a cool feature that let my car go faster safely. At most, I thought the tech might be something that does increase safety by warning about sharp turns, but at least could give the car ability to handle faster speeds.

But on reading the article, it seems like there's nothing intelligent about it other than it's ability to read road signs and force you to slow down.

"Intelligent speed assistance" is indeed the Orwellian term. If the article wasn't written with such earnestness I would have thought it to be a parody.
Hello whomever from clubhouse is promoting this blog post on the internet. Looking forward, please consider adding more technical depth to the content.

This is meant to be a technical blog post and the only technical description of the system/model pipeline involves telling us its a GBDT. That's unfortunately probably the least interesting thing you could pick out to say about such a recommender.

The content briefly touches on real time features and building a feature store. Tell us about that. Tell us about how you measured the improvement of adding near real time features. Explain how this stateless microservice scales horizontally. Tell us about tail latencies while ranking hundreds of rooms for a user. Just something.
Any platform that supports C supports C++. Rust might be a hard sell, but C++ offers all of its plausible benefits.
I've seen them mention that they're looking at having the coordination server being self-hostable (and is for some client already), so I expect that to be one of the things you can get at the higher price points in the near future.
Apart from the look and feel, there are severe regressions with the operating system in a lot of places – external non-Apple hardware that would just work just fine on the existing OS stops working with a new OS version, etc. The quality of their OS has gone steadily downhill over the last few years.

At this point I would never do a macOS update unless I'm forced to do so for security purposes. I can't even begin to fathom why anyone installs the beta and does free QA for Apple.

I get the impression everyone at Cupertino works with only Apple Cinema displays and a lifetime supply of insanely priced Apple hardware; and no one bothers to test out compatibility with third-party devices at all.
1) I never found school to encourage creativity at all. Very much the opposite. YMMV.

2) My job, software engineering, is inherently creative.

3) Outside my immediate role, I have seen creativity discouraged or even punished (though the bosses always claim that creativity is important) but I have also seem it rewarded. It varies a lot.

4) When I worked in corporate research, they paid bonuses for patentable (and patented) ideas. I exploited that quite a bit and got a lot of satisfaction out of it.

5) One of my great joys in life is using my creativity OUTSIDE WORK. My job is not my life.

6) And even at work, I have seen people who created their own jobs by doing something new and different. This was a win for both the company and the (highly creative) employee.

7) Rethink your question. It's assumptions are too narrow.
At one point in time, MMOs were considered very social, since all interactions had to basically be done in person via chatting.

Nowadays you just hop in the dungeon finder, get hucked in with some random people who may not even be from your server but only from your sata center, who you will never see again.

The social aspect of games really has diminished.
Don't try to look for customers. Look for problems in a domain you know something about. Treat "finding and connecting with people who have a common problem" the thing you are solving for.

4-5 steps later, they might become customers - but they will not be at first. Stop looking for customers, look for patterns in problems, then figure out where people with that type of problem hang out. Have conversations from The Mom Test.
Getting cert errors for me when visiting that link. Using a self signed cert by the looks of it?

Edit: Ok now. Looks like they use Let's Encrypt which will default to a self signed cert if it can't get a LE one for whatever reason IIRC.
We were in a deflation spiral though, which would generally mean that the person receiving the loan (i.e. the tenant) would've been paying negative interest rates. The landlords would've been obligated to make the tenants whole for the 'damages' they received from receiving a loan from the landlords.
To me the big difference between OO and FP is complexity management.

In OO complexity is hidden. So you don't have to deal with the complexity of the internal state of an object while using the object. It's a divide and conquer approach.

In FP complexity is constrained. Pure functions and immutable data make it easier to reason about the code. This allows you to see all the workings and not get overwhelmed.
My understanding is that QSV transcoding stopped being trash with Skylake and newer, but I'm basing that off of this thread and use an i5-10400 for my own.

https://forums.serverbuilds.net/t/guide-hardware-transcoding...

My original "Pi for PiHole" replacement 5-6 years ago was a used AMD GX-415GA NUC-alike that I spent less than $40 on and half was for an SSD. I keep it around still because it cold boots incredibly fast and if there's anything you want to boot really fast, it's the thing running your DNS.
What would be pharmacologically relevant explanatory factors?
Could it be due to Glutamate NMDA excitotoxicity via co-agonism?
Or toxic Glyr inhibition overload?
The researchers should answer wether said hypothethical neurotoxicity would also apply to the co-agonist Glycine.
Although I seriously doubt serine overload beind a causative factor, the excitotoxicity should be cancelled by Glyr inhibition and by default should be negligible?

> The biosynthesis of serine starts with the oxidation of 3-phosphoglycerate (an intermediate from glycolysis) to 3-phosphohydroxypyruvate and NADH by phosphoglycerate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.95).
Could an oxitative stress overload potentiate this reaction?
Amazon Prime Video show you information on the actors in the current scene. If you are (e.g.) chromecasting from a phone you have it continually on the mobile display while the film is on the TV.
Check-Out Donations Aren't a Scam
I am not without complaints over my government (United Kingdom) - but they did manage to built an online tax system, without suddenly deciding that private companies would enhance the experience.

By all means fine the bejeesus out of Intuit - but do not think for one moment the actual problem wasn't that they managed to lobby their way into that position.

If anybody is interested, I quite like the UK government website - https://www.gov.uk/

It has the appearance that it was knocked up in notepad, but after using it, I have a modicum of respect for how it makes government usable.
One thing that I don't get - if I was in the enviable position to make such donations, the one thing that I'd do is fund a company/foundation with a single goal - capture the maximum amount of carbon (+equivalents, +research into other ways to fixing climate change).

There must be something I'm missing because I don't get eg what Bill Gates is doing. He says he wants to give away most his fortune to fix the biggest problems facing humanity - great. And then he's going for Malaria. Not that that's not a great goal too, but climate change really seems like the obvious one to me. I don't get it, climate change doesn't even appear on their list of top causes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundat...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation endowment is larger than Harvard's (and slightly more than Musk spent on buying Twitter), with that kind of money they could have moved a lot of things already.
> Plastic toys are bad for the environment

I guess you could substitute plastic toys for something else? or is useless plastic toys the only thing you know? Look at Wendy's kid menu "toys" for example if you need some ideas
google should work on some really hard problems they've ignored - customer service, privacy, etc.

It's why the only business I do with google now is in places where they essentially don't have competition, and only when I absolutely have to.
Could you link to Pintry? I couldn't find it from a quick Google search.

I finally found a use case for Pinterest after creating an account years ago and their landing page refreshed and acted weird so much in Firefox that they decided it was a phishing attempt and locked my account for some arbitrary amount of time. I'd rather not even start using it if there's a viable alternative
I’d be okay with just one :)
Package dependency resolution is fundamentally impossible to do efficiently and often broken (for legacy reasons) in specific implementations. Programmers are terrible at semantic versioning. Community package repositories are security nightmares. Under those conditions not including a package manager seems like a reasonable decision.
Interesting that decisions like these don't seem to get a ton of attention from taxpayers. Businesses have a natural incentive to find cost-cutting methods and pass those savings on to their customers - not exactly the same here.

My company, Usage.AI, has built a tool to automatically buy and sell Reserved Instances to cut EC2 costs by up to 57%.

I'm sure the NSA got some sweet discounts on a contract this big, but I always wonder how much these agencies are spending on the cloud overall. Maybe they're overpaying in the billions of dollars?
My money is on Ginny Thomas, seeing the tides shifting and not supporting this, decided to put it out.

That news agencies and commentators on the right IMMEDIATELY communicated in Lockstep about "this leak is an egregious affront to the court" points to that.
You cannot have a functional government without taxation.
Ex-googler here. I hated the promotion process with a passion. 20 pages of "evidence" which is usually just links to green/blue docs, CLs, and just flowery puff language to argue your case. My org skipped the promo committee process at the start of the pandemic when I was up for it. When we had teammate that changed teams join us for a virtual meet up to tell us _he_ got promo in his org. I quit the next week.
I mean, I'm not a bean counter. I'm just guessing that's why they like it.
Have you ever been traveling and used Google's instant translate feature? Sure, it's a feature, not a platform - but holy shit is that cool.
My only confusion in this ongoing saga is, how is there no open source free hosted solution for people to do this? Or are there any but they're not reliable/famous?

I have worked at Intuit, Bangalore for a short time as a contractor and once during a weekly feature demo, a guy joked that "user shouldn't see the obvious way to cancel the payment". There was laughter around. It was a dark pattern but no one cared. They were boasting about being one of the best places to work all the time.

But it was hell. They simply don't give contractors a place to sit and work. You're called 'Mobile'. So you get to sit only where the full time employees don't sit or when they are on leave. It was humiliating and i simply don't understand why they have that as a policy. The manager was talking as if he moved mountains for us a couple of contractors to sit. But it was actually a couple of desks where there was direct sun light and no full time employees would sit because it's so hot and you get sweaty in minutes. I left in a couple of months and didn't even say good bye.