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> many commercials lately about how great it is to work for Amazon.

South Park had a realistic vision on how it is to work at Amazon Fulfillment Center
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO9VRtrTJwc
Not flag worthy. Just reality most people hate the woke drama llamas.
He's a hard boss for sure. That's why he is successful. He doesn't take your shit and pushes you to do your job at its maximum potential. Of course, you don't need to work there, McDonalds' is always hiring and I hear they will be nice to you.
Sort of. The main issue is that AMZ/AWS doesn't differentiate (by title) between someone recently promoted to L6 (generally ~8-10 YOE) and someone deep in to L6 (~12-15 YOE). Other companies solve this with the Staff Engineer title, but AMZ doesn't have that. If you're an L6 who reports to an L7 Sr. Manager then you're functionally a Staff Engineer and supposed to be on the Principal track. Mileage varies across orgs/teams.

Gist: "junior" L6 SDE is more like Google L5, "senior" L6 SDE tracks mostly with Google L6 (or even L7 in rare cases).
I'm not aware of a list, but for most states you can Google "$state correctional enterprises" and the first result will be the "public" corporation that's using prison slave labor.

For example, here are Maryland's[1] and New York's[2]. These corporations may be reselling their slave labor to other companies, so it's difficult to get a complete picture.

Edit: One of the more evil aspects of NY's "corcraft" is that we send prisoners into toxic worksites to clean up asbestos and other hazmat[3].

[1]: https://www.mce.md.gov/

[2]: https://corcraft.ny.gov/

[3]: https://corcraft.ny.gov/abatement-services
Sorry about that. I don’t know how it happened, but it’s fixed now.

I don’t know what you mean by editors being cheap. I don’t pay them, they’re employees of the publications I write for. I assume they’re underpaid, of course.

My first draft is better than the finished product you’ll find in most publications (not bragging, it’s just the truth). Before it’s published, however, it goes through several rounds of editing with from one to three editors, and a technical review. This can last weeks. I may have to generate five revisions before it’s good enough. It could be that your acquaintances are writing for publications with lower standards.

EDIT: By the way, if you have friends who are submitting to publications that don’t pay, or pay only a token amount, please suggest to them that they stop. This depresses the market for writers who are tying to make a living with it. Don’t fall for the “exposure” gambit or give away your stuff to feed your ego. You‘re being robbed.
In a world where you can get 250
You can order whatever you want from Indian online pharmacies. Assuming you think you know how to prescribe antibiotics for yourself which is a dangerous mindset
Yeah sure... gave $20mil to ex wife... it was the $500 a month in rent he saved that pushed it over the edge.
Or maybe it’s just a tiny fraction of those millions of sellers on their platform?
Thoughts on SwiftUI After WWDC 2022
This would have been the strangest placebo I've read so far.
Are you willing to look beyond US issues? Check out Le Monde Diplomatique https://mondediplo.com/
Yes. It's the best kind of post, where you go deep into a rabbit hole of a silly question like "what is the most satisfying checkbox?"
A cult takes money from you and doesn't pay you a million a year or whatever these people are making.
Are you referring to a record of Christenings? Like every church everywhere would keep?
Back in the day, I received a copy of Pokemon Gold from a japanese friend of my parents, months before the euro release. I was extremely excited but then i saw that it was completely in japanese! It ended up collecting dust, since I didnt understand a word and never played it. Maybe I should have powered through anyway like you though!
we need to boycott companies which cannot prove that they don't use forced labour
I've been through that twice but now I'm on a $1 a month subscription which is worth it even if I read nothing some months.
From the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
> used by the original site

*Used by the original submission. (I think that's what you meant... The article has a title closer to what you used.)
H1B visas are for workers in the tech sector, but they have other visas for other purposes. H2A visas are for temporary/seasonal agricultural workers, H2B visas for temporary workers in non agricultural fields.

So they could be shipped in via H2B visas, or they could lobby for some new kind of temporary worker visa.

In Canada we've already seen similar - McDonalds (and other similar businesses) offers non-living wages for work, and when they can't find workers for low wages, the canadian government lets them ship in temporary foreign workers to run their fast food restaurants because 'there's no workers at the market (non livable) wage'.

With programs like these the free market for labour dies. Why are wages low? because companies can offer extremely low wages and when no one bites, ship in temporary workers.
How do you prove a negative?
No code" works well for making games but not general software... yet

It isn't that farfetched to believe that at some point, language models are going to be trained on things like complete front end generation, database setup, cloud infrastructure, at which point you will be able to create software through simple language with a few visual tools
Not a dev tool, but I was very impressed with this demo of Photosynth:

https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosyn...
But a ryanair, or ryanair style system, could fly from a large part of the US (certainly the east coast) to a large part of Europe already without the XLR A321s. What new routes does it really open compared with the A321LR?
- Rich Hickey early Clojure talks

- Lee Robinson-style tutorials

- https://threejs-journey.com/ and https://www.3dfordesigners.com/ (which incidentally one can use as the basis for dynamic threejs learning pages)

I think that's the biggest thing. Create a mini course on how to use the tool (e.g. a smaller version of https://css-for-js.dev/). That's a big lift, but then if you make that free and there's tangential benefits of learning related best practices when going through it, I think developers would be inclined to click through and see how it works.

https://docs.temporal.io/go/run-your-first-app-tutorial is cool but can you sandbox so I can just play it like a game without having to really install stuff? Developers know intuitively if it's easy enough to walk through and wrap your head around in a browser, it's maybe easy enough to get positive feedback from and overall value, and integrate into prod systems. Just an idea.
It goes beyond that. It's fair to say most SpaceX employees worship the guy as well as being super-motivated. They work there because they want to be there. The arrogance displayed in this thread is astounding. It would be like threatening 2007-era Steve Jobs with "f--k you, I'll just go to BlackBerry instead". Half a page down and already references to Karl Marx and slavery. I suspect lots of self-employed web developers here waxing poetic when they have never worked in a place led by a cult of personality. They have no frame of reference.
Polar bears need sea ice to hunt or their prey needs sea ice to evade them? Surely those seals will have to resort to resting on land instead, if there's no ice?

While people wring their hands, the polar bear population continues to climb
https://climateataglance.com/climate-at-a-glance-polar-bears...
On the other hand, they could just beat up or kill their disgruntled employees... I think things have improved and not regressed since then.
If an app can't use a certain logic for half of its install base, and needs a separate flow anyways, why would it bother with having two?
Presumably, most of the incarcerated people are there for a reason. What is collective economic damage that they caused? Is it more than $11B? What should we do instead? Pay them the minimum/reasonable wage while they are incarcerated, and then charge them a full rate for the economic and societal damage that they caused, so that they and their families would be in financial debt for the rest of their natural lives?
I never thought about that. Let me fix it.
What is your position, then - simply fatalism? You don't seem to be disagreeing with the author's premises, or his conclusions.

Even if the situation does turn out to be hopeless, that point of view does not seem to offer anything useful. Better to try and fail, at least!
> We criticize China for prison labor.

The biggest criticism for China is the reasons people are put into prison labor programs.
Yeah I did a really poor job with the discoverability there : ) Should I add an explicit icon to the toolbar maybe?

Btw, I created Shottr first and foremost for measurements, but tbh I'd say my main measuring tool in Shottr is still it's in-app selection. It's just more flexible, I can zoom-in, readjust the selection, use arrow keys to move or shift+arrows to resize, etc. But I guess this way of using the app is even less obvious and less used than the fancy auto-ruler thing : )
Another is Bill Gates Visual Basic 1.0 demo

It was revolutionary. Before that, making a Windows GUI was pretty low level with calls to C APIs and callbacks and registrations.

Visual Basic changed all that with point and drag and drop and you could make a GUI in a matter of minutes.

https://youtu.be/Fh_UDQnboRw
That's exactly what a penguin would say.
You understand we're not just talking about putting people in jail, right? We're talking about FORCING them to work? From the article:

> The ACLU also found that more than 76 percent of incarcerated workers surveyed by the Bureau of Justice Statistics say that “they are required to work or face additional punishments such as solitary confinement, denial of opportunities to reduce their sentence, and loss of family visitation.”
The cat is likely already out of the bag assuming contemporaneous advanced ETI is looking for other intelligence in our corner of the galaxy.
Kudos to you. If you think it's a fair deal, more power to you. I'll sleep better at night knowing that you feel like you're not being exploited, and that you're being fairly compensated for the work you do.

But I've heard too many horror stories to ever take that risk myself.
Wasn't this a carrier imposed restriction? I bought my 6t directly from OnePlus, and was able to unlock the bootloader as easy as a Pixel.
"There’s a common saying: “The weather has a mind of its own”. And what the Principle of Computational Equivalence tells us is that, yes, fluid dynamics in the atmosphere—and all the swirling patterns associated with it—are examples of computation that are just as sophisticated as those associated with human minds."

I'm definitely not as smart as Wolfram, but in what way does the fluid dynamics of the atmosphere count as any common definition of computation?
I think the point of the app is that this is something big and rare. You're developing a daily habit, so you're pressing this once a day, which is pretty rare in the scheme of digital interactions.
I think this is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf5o5liZxnA
Electric heating is extremely inefficient, compared to almost all alternatives.
and for the people arguing over terminology... slavery is explicitly allowed in the constitution:

[n]either slavery nor involuntary servitude, as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted
Why would it be a joke? Firing employees plotting against the company and other coworkers seems prudent.
That's an appeal to tradition. If harassing gay people was a core part of American culture should we continue to do it? Beating up and killing people over one's political beliefs is wrong.
There's a big regional disparity problem with the FEDERAL minimum wage. There's no dollar amount you can pick that is both fair in high COL areas like SF, Seattle, New York (median home price over a million), and also feasible in low COL areas like rural Ohio or Mississippi (median home price around 100k).

If you want a fun thought experiment, what if minimum wage was tied to local cost of housing? In the Bay Area you might need minimum wage >= $50/hour to offset the prices caused by gross artificial housing scarcity. That would force a lot of businesses to close, and would push jobs out of to lower COL areas where the jobs are sorely needed. It would also punish the NIMBYs by taking away their dog walkers and hamburger joints, which might finally change the politics to actually permit affordable housing to be built.
Maybe, but that doesn't support the generalization that this is a broadly-held right-wing position, which is what we were debating. Note also that plenty of ostensibly left-wing companies want cheap labor as well.
I had a layman's question about black holes. The singularity is infinitely dense, and approaching it involves approaching the C asymptote, which in turn slows down time more and more and more. Is it possible that the universe could actually end before you hit the singularity? Like the time slowdown becomes so severe that you actually witness the heat death of the universe and the merging of all black holes before you actually hit the center? I've always wondered what would happen if you fell into a black hole and hit the singularity, and recently the thought occurred to me that it is simply physically impossible to actually get there.
Really digging unions in tech. I for one would love to slack off for a few years as a semi-sabbatical/early-semi-retirement before I leave a job. Or at least to dial down my contributions without fear of being paid less :)

Just kidding, I think unions are pure evil, and the above is not even the worst one of the many reasons.
For a general news pub, either The Economist or the New York Times. They have pros and cons depending upon what you're interested in. Both of them are a bit rich for my blood given that they're mostly competing for a fixed amount of bandwidth on my part. Personally, at the moment, I get the NYT (I've had The Economist in the past) but it's a fairly close call.
the original article title is misleading: it implies that the people doing involuntary labor aren't slaves.
Top economists say there are two tech sectors: profitable, and crypto
I don't see a LICENSE file anywhere in the repo or the website. Nobody is allowed to use Ante?
That is an absolutely horrifying interaction.

To re-quote a popular thing from the 90's: "If I wanted your app to make a sound, I'd rub my finger on the screen".

Yes, there are ways to make interactions feel more satisfying. They are subtle. This one is the equivalent of 144pt Comic Sans Titles animated in rainbow colors. Just, please don't.
No, because hubris is about having "excessive pride", and it doesn't take much pride to decide that I can parse the English language and determine that the person I am replying to has made a fallacious statement.
No it’s not. The law is changing to create new additional liabilities for people. The liabilities in question have never existed before, so it could never be limited.

If you commit an act of murder as a company agent, limited liability isn’t going to protect you. This law is simply saying that failing in your legal responsibilities as a specific company officer is a criminal offence. Just like committing fraud as a company officer, or failing to produce accurate accounts will also expose you to personal criminal liability.
In the future, hopefully, but probably in the distant future. It is common to hear about people "getting what they deserve" but very uncommon to hear a hope that the criminal becomes a better member of society.
+1 and if you need you can setup zero trust access that will require login to access as an IAP.
thanks for the compliment! I probably spent more time on learning After Effect and making this damn video than on writing the code for the first version of Shottr haha.
Where did OP say this was the only path to success? Warren Buffett took the more traditional one of just being related to influential and powerful people.
Feel free to reach out to me if you need some ideas. I brought it to work successfully and I’m now trying to get the rules to go open source.
My understanding is that those are not particularly uncommon, and that they're being hunted to prevent hybridization from occurring.

But I don't know what we think the world is going to look like in 10,000 years if we keep making species extinct and stopping them from re-integrating with their close relatives. Completely new species aren't going to pop up in that time. It's just going to be new specializations of existing ones. And if we keep going this way, everything is going to turn into houseflies and rodents.
I read the Financial Times and The Economist. I think they are pretty well researched without leaning in a specific direction too much. The comments on FT are also mostly very civil, with good discussion.

The Guardian is “intelligent” but is way too blatantly leftist, to get any sort of balanced information.
> Creating a work environment where long-term workers become happy and productive

Is there a large (or even mid-sized) tech company that managed to achieve it? I've never heard of one and I don't think it's possible. At scale these companies operate, senior level jobs are about navigating the organization and its bureucracy and there aren't many people who find that kind of work fun. Especially people who have an engineering mindset.

The tech jobs in bigger companies are mostly meh at best an their biggest saving grace is the pay. Bezos realizes that and tries to work with this reality. Most big cos work because they've found way to extract enough value of out their people who'd rather not be there (but the pay and stability is too good), and tech is no exception.
I’m kinda disappointed I can’t try it…
Minneapolis' Yimby Success Story Halted by “Environmentalist” Lawsuit
What is the specification problem? I don't think I've heard the term before.
I have a very grim outlook on the future.

> “did everyone get a slice?”

I don't believe so, but it makes sense: we've always been at (economic) war with Eastasia/Oceania
For a start, we shouldn't use them as slaves. Two wrongs don't make a right.

If we determine, as a society, that convicted criminals should "pay" for their crimes, that should be a civil matter determined by civil processes, not the fancies (and profit motive) of a prison corporation.
> They have also asked that lawmakers amend the Constitution to abolish the 13th Amendment exclusion that allows slavery and involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime.

Slavery work and for profit prisons may incentivise to send as many people as possible to prison. It seems a bad incentive if you are looking for a fair justice system.
There are differences of course, but culturally there is One Amazon. Both take a meat grinding approach, even for software engineers. Source: worked at AWS.
There is TLA+ for verifying specifications. Here is a talk by its creator:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Yp3j_jk8Q
Most oil, but some oil is now being priced in Rubles (and being source-washed thru India). But the Ruble has been appreciating as well...
yep, slavery definitely isn't an age old American tradition, it's China's fault!
Have you tried disabling smooth scrolling?
America: The Farewell Tour (book) talked about this. There's also the issue of prisoners getting nickel and dimmed on basic supplies, phone calls, etc where many leave in debt.
Oil was a similar price from 2007 to 2013. What is your point?
I have wondered at times if the reason why we don't have those things is because, in such an environment, 20th century management might not work. Basically, "the curse of lisp", although I don't mean lisp specifically in this case, but rather languages and tooling that unleashes the power of formal verification and, in a larger way, the power of math.

It's conceivable that in an alternate universe an individual engineer's productivity could be so high, because of math, that one developer would replace a whole team from our universe, and bugs would be extremely rare and mostly restricted to UI. From that point of view, the theory says, it's harder to build teams and these super charged developers are natural information silos. Or, in other words, it feels like the tech choices made have demonstrated a slight preference of less efficient developers that all understand a shared problem (e.g. this team is responsible for testing, or this team builds integrations with APIs, or another team parses unstructured data into structured data), over technology that would aid or formalize many aspects of those kinds of problems and others.

Also, in such a world, I feel that software engineering would be much more abstract, and it probably wouldn't be approachable to those who aren't legitimately fascinated and interested in this stuff. Sort of like how I've never met anyone in my life who studied Math just to get rich, even though you can become phenomenally wealthy if you do.

More likely though the answer is complicated and it's a mix of historical accident, what I mentioned, and a slew of other factors. Nonetheless, I too think it would be so cool if I could spend my time writing programs that write programs that write programs, all guaranteed to match how I stated the problem's invariants. I could spend the majority of my time really understanding the requirements and assumptions, as opposed to actually implementing the features.
This post is everything that’s wrong with UX. Somewhere along the way they forgot about simplicity of implementation, mental models, repeat user experience, and most of all, stopped listening to what the user wanted and instead designed things in an ivory tower for award shows.
Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers
The amount of Elon charity in this comment section is kind of insane:

> In an email, Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president, said the letter had made other employees “feel uncomfortable, intimidated and bullied.”

It's literally the same thing wokescolds do when somebody says anything they disagree with, only this time it's SpaceX and Elon Musk. There's not really any good argument for somebody who claims to care about free speech.

"It's a private company. They can fire whoever they want so long as it's not a protected class." And Twitter is a private company that can ban anybody they want. Don't like it? Go to Mastodon. Usually this argument doesn't fly for the people that defend his Twitter free speech position.
Champion of free speech only goes so far eh?
I don't speak any Welsh. I've never even been to Wales. I still knew what that phrase meant and was able to identify you had rot13d it.

Failing to understand languages isn't as impressive as you think.
My question is if this is the best approach. The dissenters may care deeply about the company and they be saying publicly what many others are feeling privately at SpaceX. Would engagement in this setting reap better rewards?
Why is this relevant? Are the proceeds of their labor given to the people they harmed? Who gets to measure the harm?

There is, however, a very clear conflict of interest caused by allowing the justice system to benefit financially from the people they imprison.
There is no argument to have. Calling someone fat and asking someone to help with climate change are nothing alike.