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I have five different recruiters from Amazon messaging me every week here in Vancouver. They acknowledge that other Amazon recruiters have been messaging me at the same time.

They must have a lot of open roles here, but all of the stories of having to grind leetcode style tests for the interviews puts me off from engaging.
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I work for a company which Amazon uses and pays us per seat. Scaling with them while they exploded in hiring has been a struggle.
so the technical question then is: how can i replace the file picker that the apps on my desktop use?
We’d be better off suing ourselves. It’s we consumers who ultimately burn the oil for our homes, hospitals, schools, cars, and general electrical needs.

Instead of engaging in inflammatory rhetoric, let’s try something useful like a carbon tax that prices in the environmental impacts of fossil fuel consumption.
Thumbnails in your file picker are table stakes at this point.

Everyone has a cell phone capable of holding thousands of images, most of which won't get an appropriate title.

For example, I'm tiling a bathroom now. It was very easy to just take dozens pictures of tiles send them off for approval, and get the top five back for a further price check. That entire workflow was enabled by thumbnails. If we had to check the filename of each image we were sending, it would have slowed things down immensely.
> How do you convince people about carbon based climate warming when the biggest proponents of global warming theory fly to conferences to discuss global warning in private jets, and love SUVs and large limousines like there's no tomorrow?

Who are the "biggest proponents of global warming theory" in your estimation? Celebrities? Activists? Climate scientists?

It seems to me that the people running Sue Big Oil are pretty big proponents of seeking cultural change around climate change. Are they flying private jets?
> Having 1 million users each wait a single second is already 11 days.

This will sound like a nitpick, but it's actually worse. 1 million users waiting a single second is 11,000,000 seconds, right? A day has 86,400 seconds. 11 million divided by 86k is 127.31.

That means million users combined just spent 127 days and 8 hours because of the "just one second" delay.
I consider at least the latter to be part of free speech as well. Then there is privacy (the Wayback Machine is likely a C&D magnet here), pornography/obscenity (many places are stricter than the US) and "hate speech" (here the US is unbeaten). Besides that, having the data spread over two countries means being susceptible to both governments.
He’ll be dead before then
> Fossil Fuel giants have captured governments and banks, extracting mega-profits while the world burns. It’s time to Sue Big Oil.

Their statement here is contradictory. Either this tactic will be pointless and ineffective, or the "Fossil Fuel giants" will use their "captured governments" to pass laws making it so--laws that the courts will then have to enforce.
>I lead a software dev team at a small startup. One of my direct reports is way smarter than me. They come up with clever, simple solutions to business needs. They're also really driven, and will do things like find out what our stakeholders need and create the specs and do planning for those things. Generally we are a team and communicate pretty well on those things, but most of the time I'm left feeling like I'm not adding much value. Usually, they're the one rejecting ideas and having better ones.

Give appropriate praise but avoid flattery.

>Really what I want is to continue leading the team as best I can, and not let my ego interfere. But I guess I'm wondering how to best manage this person. Do I just sit back and let them do their thing? Try harder to meet them at their level and challenge them? How would you all like to be managed if you were in their position?

Do that then, contribute where you can. Stop comparing yourself to others.

Imagine real life is like Skyrim where there are skill trees, except there's hundreds of skills. Someone might have leveled up 1 skill tree higher than yourself but as you realize you have better skills in other ways.

Only compare yourself to yourself yesterday. Could you raise your level and 'meet them', that's your decision to raise this skill up. Or are you raising another skill up? You probably can't be working on more than 1 at once.
Yep. They keep messaging me. Could double my salary and not a chance I would work there.

I know some recent grads that are starting there however.

I miss the days when I was young totally clueless about corporate or political values and I just wanted to program stuff.

Was so much easier.
Really soldified my stance that I should never work for a company where Musk is involved.
There is a risk here we are not talking about; Some significant number of people die every year trying low risk solutions to high risk problems, while not being qualified to judge risk.

Probiotics, tinctures, vitamins and a gluten free diet basically killed a friends mother who spent years on these things while her undiagnosed stomach cancer spread everywhere.

The issue as i see it, is that there is profit to be made stringing people along from one 'cheap and harmless shot in the dark' to the next.
I can’t be the only one who had this experience. I recently had the choice between pursuing a cool startup position and an AWS position. Once I was emailed all of the AWS interview material and the 4 hour itinerary… I just had to ask myself if it was even worth putting my time into it. The total comp would probably be better than the startup position, but everything else (work life balance, risk of being fired, opportunity for growth, etc) seemed (probably) worse from what I’ve heard. Suffice to say, I dropped out of the interview process and took the cool startup job instead.
How do you mean, did not have authority to?

Assange was in Iceland at the time, and in Iceland there is a duty to assist people in distress. It is not unlikely that Assange had some hint that something like what was done to people like Khalid El-Masri was going on, and it was through his acts that this was revealed.

Such laws generally justify basically anything, provided that you have a reasonable suspicion that a person is danger.
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I think people are just upset because he is rich I noticed the amount of hatred for him seems to be directly correlated with how much money he has. If he didn't have money people would just see him as a memey nerd.
Counterpoint: right wants free market so that wages rises organically through businesses competing for workers, while the left wants open borders and endless government spending that leads of inflation and lower standard of living which we are experiencing now.
I don't think experience has that much to do with affordability. Tesla might assemble their batteries at their factory, but the actual lithium ion cells are manufactured by Panasonic, was well as supporting electronics. There's nothing magical or mysterious about the Tesla EV powertrain. Affordability is going to come down to necessity, demand (related to necessity), and how cheap a plentiful number of li-ion batteries can be made.

How much experience do you think is required? Other companies like Chevy, Chrysler, Hyundai, and Ford already have semi-electric vehicles for sale today. They don't all need to be successes. It can take just one of them to come out with an affordable electric vehicle when the economics are right, and sticking to plug-in hybrids gives them plenty of time to get experience.
of course they don't apply this logic to other businesses, because the vast majority of large company CEOs are probably assholes or do tasteless rich people things - it's sort of a requirement for the job. people have the equivalent of trump derangement syndrome but for elon.
It seems to me the spirit of the question is how much one is spending per month to live in their current dwelling. One should include mortgage, taxes, maintenance, and insurance in this calculation.
To those arguing that this letter is tantamount to insubordination and is therefore a fireable offense:

“Insubordination (noun)- refusing to obey orders from someone in authority.” [1]

Unless they had received direct orders not to criticize Musk at all, internally or externally, they are not guilty of refusing to obey orders. And if they had received such orders, that only adds to Musk’s burgeoning reputation for pettiness and immaturity, in which case these are the kinds of orders one could be forgiven for disobeying.

The whole point of the letter seems to have been “Musk’s behavior is detrimental to the company.” This implies that they care about the company and want it to succeed, and that their loyalty lies with it, not with Musk. As well it should. Tesla, SpaceX, etc are (or should be) companies, not cults.

1. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/insub...
The letter specifically called out, eg, unequal enforcement of workplace policies.
Did we read the same letter?

The following passage is one of many about workplace behavior, which therefore is part of working conditions:

Define and uniformly respond to all forms of unacceptable behavior. Clearly define what exactly is intended by SpaceX’s “no-asshole” and “zero tolerance” policies and enforce them consistently. SpaceX must establish safe avenues for reporting and uphold clear repercussions for all unacceptable behavior, whether from the CEO or an employee starting their first day.
I'm not sure that H1B visas are a particularly politically polarized position. I could easily see people on the right arguing against H1B visas on the basis that we should keep American jobs for Americans. I don't think there's broad agreement on H1Bs on the right?
This is a great example of something that can be built with the new unix module. It's unlikely we'd add a high-level API for this. The good news is you don't need us to do that since the unix module gives you all the power you need, and if it doesn't, please file an issue and we'll fix it.
You can 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon anything to make "connections" like that
Seeing the picture you want to upload is a channer problem?

You guess you just use proper file names?

This attitude is EXACTLY what the author is describing, and why Linux on the desktops fails to take hold.
ah but it will control inflation. So when the bank repossesses your home you can rest easy knowing a gallon of milk is 7 cents cheaper.
When it was Tesla and the beginning of SpaceX, I was like "Oh, that's cool". I didn't care much more than the surface level and didn't care to look deeper. Since then, he's exposed much more of himself and have caused others to look way deeper.

And it's looking more and more like the doesn't so much run three major companies as owns three major companies.
Corporations tend to have an easier time "capturing" regulatory bodies than legislatures, it is called "regulatory capture."
I feel like there's a part of the word "absolutist" that you don't get.
It's simple, just apply modern capitalism. In this case the rule is: Ford was a genius for realizing his workers need to make enough to buy his product. Anyone else who makes that realization is a dirty commie.
We can't really know if they broke their implementation of the Signal protocol because it's not open source and the code cannot be reviewed by the public. However, they have openly explained how reporting messages exposes the contents of messages and why it doesn't break the E2EE. All we can do is trust their explanation.

Or, don't. And don't use it. I don't.
Ok I'll bite:

>How do you convince people about carbon based climate warming when the biggest proponents of global warming theory fly to conferences to discuss global warning in private jets, and love SUVs and large limousines like there's no tomorrow?

Data. If the climate is warming, it is warming regardless of whether or not the people who are advocating for change are being responsible. Ad hominim attacks against people who hold a position really have no bearing on the truth of the position.

>How do you prove that carbon output is responsible for climate warming?

IMHO, it is impossible to prove causality in such a complex system. At best you can show a strong correlation, which the data does.

>Assuming you win your case what do Big Oil pay you with?

Money. They have a lot.

>Assuming you win and they cease energy production to eliminate future liabilities where do you obtain your energy from?

Solar and wind could cover a substantial fraction of our needs. It will not be an immediate switch, regardless of what people might want either way. For example, barring a giant battery breakthrough, aviation will likely be fossil fueled for quite a while longer. Rocketry is even worse. We need to figure out either substantially more grid-scale storage OR a super-conducting grid in order to match demand to supply. Otherwise, how do you heat your house on a cold, still winter night?

>I asked a question on climate change preparation a few days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31756033 and all I got was crickets.

Well you got 3 replies. Just like this one, that felt a bit like a leading question, so likely people did not want to engage.

I recommend reading "Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free" from IEER[1]. It provides an interesting discussion of what would need to happen for the energy sector to go 0-CO2 without nuclear power. It's surprisingly feasible in terms of society scale projects.

1: https://carnegieendowment.org/files/CarbonFreeNuclearFree.pd...
Firing an incomplete and/or lazy person is not tyranny.
And he'll think that until one day they can him for missing work due to a health issue.

This is why I find a lack of solidarity between working people to be somewhere between selfish and disgusting.
Upgrade to the MX Ergo maybe?
I'm not sure how much food delivery should cost. Though most local restaurants around me seen to do it for free (and tipping isn't expected, in fact it would be a struggle, most drivers drop the food and run now).

I'm not naive enough though not to notice that it's all done under the table. Few are paying tax or commercial insurance on their vehicles to do restaurant delivery.

I'm pretty sure doing it legitimately costs a reasonable amount. Doubly so when you aren't just trying to get your food to your customers but also paying a bunch of developers Silicon Valley wages to try to capture the entire market before someone else does.
Cancel culture is not strictly being cancel for your actions. It is unjustly cancelling somebody. If you hired a baby sitter who said they wanted to kill your child (even if it was a joke) it wouldn't be unjust to fire that person. Nobody would argue that was cancel culture.

Obviously, I am not saying what these employees are saying is equivalent, but cancelling somebody for what they say is not always cancel culture.
I wonder if the better touchpad support is at all due to the gitclear organized work to improve the trackpad experience on linux https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29555822
I can't imagine trashing my CEO and expecting to keep my job. Maybe that's a Gen-X thing?
Has the title changed? For me it says

"SpaceX fires employees who wrote letter slamming Musk’s “embarrassing” behavior"
By that logic being banned from Twitter was a consequence of Trump's free speech and the whole Twitter buying shenanigans are pointless.
I don't know why your first sentence is necessary.

As I said, the San Antonio Symphony does not appear to be a public organization. Of course I could be wrong, I just read the article. Wikipedia appears to confirm my interpretation. Though even if it were a city can't do "whatever it wants" they still have budgets and stuff. But it isn't so your point is moot.

I never said it was the performers fault. No idea what you're responding to.
>> Suspect one of the impetuses behind such stagnation is that in reality not that many Linux users use GUIs to do file stuff as so many of us live in the command line.

GTK is a GUI toolkit. It is literally made for building GUI applications. The Gnome developers are building a graphical DE. Your reasoning doesn't seem to sensible to me.
The impression I got from this article by his first wife was that his growing wealth and power, as well as being surrounded by similarly wealthy powerful people, sort of formed a feedback loop that just intensified personality traits that he already possessed.

https://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a5380/millionaire-start...
I'm speechless, I really don't what to say. It never came to my mind your perspective.

So do you lean more to Flat File CMS?
> What’s wrong with living life care free and restaurants?

There's absolutely nothing wrong with that. That's what I've been strongly advocating for during the last 2 years. Go out there and live your life normally as you see fit.

One problem is that at least some people out there are trying to milk Covid-19. Publicly, they tell their employer they're too scared of Covid-19 to come to the office so they get to stay home. Privately, they go out every weekend and interact with people normally and live their life.
Well, absent a constitutional amendment, the highest level of office Musk can reach (I think) is Governor of a state or Representative (either House or Senate).
Why not sue Big Coal? It's responsible for way way more emissions. Now, and in the future....

https://twitter.com/rosedotai/status/1530217546632335363?s=2...
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We’re also living in a volatile time. It might end up meaning a potential civil war is a lot more likely.

Desperation creates extremism. I don’t think the US is prepared for the monster it may unleash.
Sure, but what's the argument? "The left wants some immigration, but not a lot"? Because we already have "some" immigration, so presumably they want more immigration, and presumably they oppose constraining that immigration by education level or wealth or etc, hence "mass".

In other words, "mass" doesn't refer to an amount, but a lack of filtration/selection/etc. Note also that this isn't even an inherently bad thing--there's something noble about wanting America's doors open to everyone: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...".
Same. The Logitech Cordless Optical TrackMan is my favorite device. I wish they still made them (or something like it.)
The benefits of exercise in a pill? Science is closer to that goal
What's awesome, is that there is always room for another. Common economics that real keeps folks from even trying to enter a space, is because they don't think they can contribute. What's great about that, is you can do exceedingly well just being a B-level player in a field of A's and do the distributed model of B-level effort, but in many spaces, the economics can out-perform A-level effort in one-space.

There is ALWAYS enough room for one more contributor here. Often it's how innovation truly occurs and drives a particular thing further than it otherwise would have gone.

:)
>I'm not attacking left-wing people

You said "left-wing folks typically want ... more mass immigration", which I disagree with, though not with any real authority or conviction (I wrote a separate comment about it). The rub is - coming from most people on the internet at large, I would assume that statement was purposefully uncharitable, but I think on HN, the chances that a person (you, in this case) is being honest are higher (i.e. that your opinion that left-wing people want more mass immigration is derived honestly and holistically to the best of your ability, regardless of whether there is a reasonable argument against it out there somewhere).
SpaceX now has an MO: Protect Elon at all costs.

250,000 USD paid to keep a corporate jet flight attendant quiet about alleged sexual harassment by Elon and now the immediate firing of employees asking the company to clarify Elon's views don't reflect SpaceX's views or its culture. There can't even be a hint of criticism of Elon.
I've been corrected by folks going, "nuh uh". A discussion about retention, recruitment, enforcement of workplace policies, and airing of collective grievances is within bounds for protected. Provided it isn't deliberately offensive, an individual grievance, or knowingly false.
A good bet is to create an API for it and sell it on Rapidapi or some site, with a possible free tier.

I think a lot of devs would benefit from a good text summarisation algorithm (haven't tested yours just general advice) and since youre good at programming and not marketing make some npm modules, composer packages, gems and the whole shebang.

Soon you'll be making a few $k a month depending on how good and fast your api is. The free tier will help you get some search engine traffic. An on page demo is also very useful in this regard.

Also this has chance of landing some big co with deep pockets who just finds your product a good fit and couldn't be bothered to hire a dev to do this just yet. So make sure you have a $$$ unlimited plan. Good luck.
The poor will be also starving when we will not be able to produce crops due to extreme weather.

Climate disaster is around the corner and we need to act yesterday. With our current approach it seems that we screw the poor both today and in the future.
> Corporations tend to have an easier time "capturing" regulatory bodies than legislatures, it is called "regulatory capture."

Fuel prices are really high right now, and most people still need to buy it. If this kind of tactic causes them to go higher, I don't think it would be a hard sell to a legislature pass a law to negate the tactic.

Also having an "easier time 'capturing' regulatory bodies" doesn't mean they're not also pretty successful at influencing legislatures.
I wondering what the effects are to the flora and fauna in a setup like this.
No they aren't.

They are running out of people to over exploit.

Big difference.

Amazon will find better compensation and a modest change to work culture and environment will bring them as many people as they need.
Musk is using the definition of free speech where people you agree with face no consequences for speech, and people you disagree with suffer arbitrarily. That is always the definition powerful people use when they say “free speech.”
Birth of the buy-out win. :) Yes .. indeed they would.
This "blame the consumer" bullshit has been happening since cigarettes... And it is bullshit.

These large corporations, controlled by a relatively small number of _people_ have a disproportionate and coordinated impact on the environment that outstrips anything the average person can do.

They need to be held accountable, like we have done to other polluters and entities that have threatened public safety and security in our communities and society.

I don't know if this particular effort is the right approach, but I sure am sick of naive people pointing the finger at the average person saying they need to be personally responsible for fixing problems created by large corporations.

Edit: not saying the average person should do nothing, but it's literally the least impactful thing that we can do. Corporations and sources of pollution need to be made accountable first. Everything else is just noise.
This really does not fall into working conditions, in the legal sense of the word. "Musk is an asshole because of how he tweets" says nothing about the working conditions of SpaceX.

If the letter alleges that Musk directly harassed employees, that would be entirely different. But it doesn't; it merely says that Musks behavior in the public sphere is unpleasant (again, that's fair).
In some countries, like mine (Uruguay), it's illegal to call yourself an engineer unless you are one, but the local university does hand software engineer titles.

I call myself a senior software developer (I'm not an engineer, I did went to university but didn't graduate from that career, switched to an Information Systems degree instead).
If the problem is big enough for you, you are perfectly capable of changing company or country. If not, it's not important for you or you don't care enough to put in the work.