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No that's not dead weight. Dead weight is people who don't contribute and don't get their work done.

Going above and beyond requirements is a personal decision.
Every MMO in existence has external markets for RMT. There are stories of players in elite WoW guilds making 5-6 figures for helping noobs clear content.

Some people don’t mind spending $2000 to build an endgame character that’s only worth $1000 by the time they’re done with it.

We don’t call automotive hobbyists “marks” if they pay a mechanic to tune their car and devalue its resale price. Professionals/careerists exist in every hobby industry.
My argument is that professional accomplishment can be achieved while just meeting expectations. I’ve seen people who are at the same level, work harder (read longer) than I do and yet get paid less and not get the promotions they were trying for. The system isn’t a perpetual growth machine, otherwise all of us would be VPs and CEOs. I never said I don’t do any work, I still work on things I want to and take great pride in every single thing I do. I just don’t do it for free or at the expense of other parts of my life. Ambition needs to be checked with reality.
Brilliant! Thanks for the idea and motivation!
One quality? Sheesh. There are so many incompatible or even contradictory models in this space which are also really useful in isolation.

If I had to pick one for fun, I'd say the inability to meaningfully process changes in energy. There's a change at work, good or bad, and you can't ride the wave (in time | effectively | appropriately | etc). Or there's a change in self, good or bad, and you can't process it, so you bring it to work and it interrupts your success at work.

That stuff is always happening all around us and within us, and it's extremely rare that people know it needs to be handled, let alone what to do about it. We are still in the stone age of this kind of work, and it not only blocks our own success but also propels us to block others' success whether we want to or not. We think/fear that it's only about emotions, we aren't sure what other words to use, we conflate labels with truth in the space, we overuse the disease model when other models provide more traction, and so on. A huge mess.
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It's a troll. "Optional activities" gets translated to "mandatory" and a game is "far more important" yet apparently in such a game nobody really likes each other, too.
> destruction of the facade of cultural homogeneity by right-wing rural culture

O_o Looking at it from the perspective of rural culture might be useful.

The idea that "global free trade made us all richer, but poor and middle income rural America by cents and upper class and tech by millions, while leaving the former un- or under-employed" isn't without basis.

And specifically, explains lived experience over the past few decades in rural America.

At some point, you have to stop being angry at people for thinking the way they do... and start being curious about why those ideas are attractive to them.
I like Path of Exile for having an explicit Solo Self Found mode. Unfortunately they seem to be on a path of making top-end gear pretty much required, which just pushes out the casuals. Good chance I'll be sitting the next league out.
If physics had somehow involved taking stuff from India they would have done it, which shows that the problem was with the attitude of the colonial era conquerors to the countries they took over rather than with archeology. In fact, a lot of the "they took the crown jewels" stuff has nothing to do with archeology at all.
School uniforms and strong dress codes are great equalizers in schools too.

Uniforms aren't given the respect they deserve.
TPM - bug squashing/or MBA manager would be my take. Would bounce if ever that was my metric. Its like GPM but for SEs.
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> Human traffickers engage in shitty behavior. Shocking.

Exactly, it demonstrates once again that digital pimps are just like the regular pimps. But hey "it's just an app"...

Absolutely evil.
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Hey, bob, what are we going to use for this spacecraft guidance software? Didn’t we have some old guidance code laying around? Let’s just reuse that, it worked great!
Most of the problems with product @ today's Google come from "shipping the org chart." You touched on this in your third point.

This was one of the major factors that led to me walking away from there after a decade.

That, and it's just a slow boring place to work most of the time. One spends the bulk of one's time basically seeking permission to do the thing that needs to be done -- by this I mean: get in the right MDB groups, get the right sign off on design docs, be sure to be in the right team, be sure to have gotten the right people on your code reviews, made sure there's visibility to the right stakeholders -- and hope to god the thing you're working on isn't sexy enough that somebody better connected won't just steal it from you when you're halfway through it anyways. Or just take credit for it.

And the perf process and the culture around it produces terrible results on top of that.

Paid well, but was a terrible place to work. Especially once COVID hit and the free gourmet food and subsidized massages were a thing of the past.
The problem is when you tell your manager it'll take you X number of weeks to finish a task, and your manager trusts that you're working hard and that the task simply requires X weeks of work... but in reality you're barely spending any time on it every day, and could easily have done it in a few days. Meanwhile, the rest of the project is moving slowly because they need your piece to complete.

If, on the other hand, the manager's trust has no relevance here, because you are not setting your own time-work estimates, then have at it!
A lot of the problems mentioned here are absolutely an issue for every intelligent human being, and not at all exclusive to autistic people. It might be more annoying to them? That I don't know but is hell of annoying for anyone that is high in industriousness.

I'm specially annoyed when the interlocutor puts the burden of his own lack of understanding in you when you're trying to make a point across. If they secretly declared war on your idea, they can pick the least generous interpretation of anything you're saying and pretend you are an ignorant and pose as dismissive because you or your idea are not worthy of their consideration.

Short term they might be appearing smart but you know it was like trying to teach how to play chess to a pigeon that only bumped all the pieces of the board and look you in the eye wondering why you are so stupid.

Plot twist: you might be a little bit stupid in a twisted way: you were too generous with the wrong person. Giving too much attention to the wrong toxic interlocutor.
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SEEKING FREELANCER | Remote, contract work

I'm looking for a cryptographer to help design a protocol, and either write or audit security-sensitive code. We are not a "crypto" company in the web3 sense of the term.

We allow users to encrypt their data (not quite E2E) using their own passwords/keys, which makes certain features difficult to implement. We are therefore aiming to change the encryption scheme, and want to ensure we do this right.

When responding please include which AES mode you'd use for authenticated encryption.

Contact: hn@inc-query.com
I think my department was Agile, doing the stuff on the left (good) side of the Agile Manifesto [1], even as we didn't think we were doing Agile. We made deadlines, had smooth deployments, and any bugs in production were not that bad. Then new management came in (company was bought) and started pushing "Agile" on us, which is doing the stuff on the right [bad] side of the Agile Manifesto. Now we've missed deadlines, rarely have a smooth deployment, and are now constantly finding bugs in production. When pressed, upper management has stated that "Agile" is to make it possible to work faster than we were.

Yeah.

[1] https://agilemanifesto.org/
It introduces ONE parameter. And TWO, for the relativistic version. To simplify, LCDM introduces at a minimum one parameter (relative dark matter:visible matter ratio) for each galaxy to get the rotation curves correct. That's at least a billion parameters.

MOND has made successful predictions:. The EFE, for example (there are others). LCDM has not, as far as I can tell -- please correct me if I'm wrong [0]

> work except for the few problems it was created for

That's actually a poor heuristic. Suppose we hadn't discovered relativity yet (but had galactic rotation curves, which only depend on good telescopes and newton, and Doppler effect), and we observed mercury's precession. Would you then use precession as an argument for dark matter on the basis that there's a dark matter entity in our solar system pulling mercury around? I would think that would not be a good idea.

[0] ok I looked it up and actually LCDM predicted no galaxies with redshift greater than 7... And thanks to jwst we now know there are galaxies with much much greater redshift, a feature explicitly predicted by MOND.
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If we're talking about a casual poker game between friends where money doesn't matter, a verbal agreement that you're staking some additional item should be more than sufficient. Bringing the blockchain into it only makes sense if there's a genuine concern about someone not following through.
Is it really? I haven't worked at that many companies but I've seen it maybe once or twice out of hundreds of workers. I have see devs that were incompetent but tried. I see a lot of pms, managers, business analysts etc who seemed to always be collaborating with each other but contribute very little to the actual product. But the truly lazy dgaf dev is very rare in my experience.
The semantic web never caught on, it's <div> web all along.
Examples of problems or companies?

The problems should be obvious looking at tech or industry-by-industry headlines, or they should become more obvious over time as that research is covered.

The ones solving the problems are less obvious but the first step is always distinguishing between "solving" and "solved" which will help eliminate common emotional excesses of the critic archetype.

A lot of people mix up those two, but also a lot of people who do that are trying too hard to be Simon Cowell. Or a mix between Simon Cowell and Warren Buffett. They want to hold the bar, be the bar, set the bar. They mix intrinsic and extrinsic solution value and usually focus too much on the former.

It can be risky to your sanity to name specific companies unless you know the asker is above this behavior, and they should always specify whether they believe that meaningfully huge problems have been solved at a corporate level in the past.
Question for people who actually use SQLite in production: when do you start seeing performance degrade to the extent that you have to migrate to a "proper" DB? Can a transactional table scale to say 10 million+ records with a couple of indexes before it becomes a problem?
I think this is a weird framing of the issue. Sure, lots of businesses go under, and maybe being larger would have saved them, but maybe not. Plenty of VC-funded businesses go under precisely because they tried to be too large, when they could have perfectly comfortably served a few satisfied initial clients for enough money to pay all their bills.

I think the idea that companies go under because they aren't ambitious enough says more about modern attitudes towards growth than it does about the reality of business.
No, in a different sense, because the right to not have other people's choices imposed on you is a made-up right. The rights you have were decided upon by people who aren't you, and imposed on you.

I'm theoretically sympathetic to your wanting to opt out of public services, but it's too onerous to have to maintain lists of houses not to put out if they're on fire.
As a manager myself, here is the problem I see in what you're saying: Most often, the time estimates are set by engineers themselves. I don't tell them "Do this task in 3 days" -- I ask them how many days/week it will take, and we track against that. This relies on my trust that they are working hard and not half-assing it.

The "minimum expectation" is therefore hard to concretely define. It's not "everyone should fix 3 bugs a week" or "everyone must implement 2 features a month," because the work is always going to vary depending on the specific issues and project needs.

The variability of coding work can make it hard to explain to under-performers that they're falling behind their peers.
we wrote a bit about our launch week strategy here: https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-how-we-launch

We've tweaked it a bit since this post however based on the learnings from last time, we're actually running one next week - it will have more pre-recorded video content
Re: ausplaining

I've learned the hard way that caring too much about work related topics doesn't contribute to your happiness.

Company men will replace you if they can do their business math for justification, because they cannot see the technical complexities of the things they are "wanting to be built" for the company.

Even when you can see dependencies of complexities that will break the plan a year ahead of time, and you were right in complaining about it, it doesn't effectively help you as a person.

Being stuck in the past is just the same waste of energy as being angry about it. Hate and anger are infiltration techniques and should be treated as such.

People will always react based upon their own experiences and understanding, and if you actively try to fight the statistics (aka you vs your team) you will just hurt your perception.

Being seen as rude by other people gives you a strategival disadvantage for negotiation, and that will hurt the rate of adaption of your own suggestions. The ironic part is that people are even more petty than the "I told you so list" that you mentioned, only that they think subconcious pettiness of system1 isn't "petty" but only "a feeling" even though the mechanics and dynamics of it in a rational context are the same.

Work is work, and it will always be "just work". As an autist you have to learn that other people don't care about things as much as you would do (in a utopian star trek world). As a hu-man (literally meaning being that forgets) you have a very limited capacity of memory, computation power and energy.

And your efforts are far more efficiently spent outside the world of company politics, where most people are just busy 90% of the time with sidelining or attacking other departments for their own egomaniac benefits. Playing this game is a huge drain on energy (at least for me) and I therefore decided not to play it.
Examples of companies.
I don't think examples would be repetitive, I think they'd be counterproductive because the tastes of the audience are varied and that would confound the point of the categorization. To the extent that the examples have explanatory power, they'd be explaining the author's taste in art, which isn't relevant.
Even if it is due to circumstances, I've never seen a lazy person become unlazy after intervention from management. Sample size .. perhaps 20? The best solution is to terminate them quickly. Zuck's attitude here is what I look for in leaders when considering whether to join a company. There is little that's more demoralizing than pulling someone's weight for years while management is too disorganized to fire them, or worse yet when management thinks that half of your output is actually the output of the person you've been carrying.
John Carmack has never felt burnout
I wish I could say the same, and I wish there were more studies on why some people experience this and why others don't. Sometimes life just feels like a massive dice roll.
“You don't need to like a thing in order to agree with that thing.” Thoughts?
So this may be a fairly common concept to many people, but weirdly, it only occurred to me a decade or so ago, and I've really come to love it; it's helped put me in the correct mental state regarding several pressing issues over the years.

And before someone says something like "yeah, that's what following the data is all about" or something similar, I agree: plenty of times working at our startups in the past I certainly had to make a business decision I didn't like simply because I couldn't disagree with the data.

So I guess that's a fairly good example, but I'm curious to hear of other examples where you really don't like something -- or perhaps you're opposed to it, for instance, for religious reasons, or simply because of how you were raised I suppose -- but you're nevertheless compelled to agree with it and to support it just because it's the most correct thing amongst all other alternatives.

It could be a philosophical belief or idea; a political view; a social/cultural value or behavior; a legal matter; really just about anything.
Or just straight-up fake the sign in page. There’s no way to tell.
Since you mention hiring EMs, is there a place to view the open roles for EMs?

The jobs page seemed mostly IC focused
> to catapult their careers ahead.

What is the value of one’s career? To make more money? Why is it smart to devote so much effort to moving up when you’ll be dead and your work completely forgotten much sooner than anyone cares to admit? If you’re seeking lasting glory then the well trod path there is politics, war, or art: technologists generally are not remembered outside their time (with maybe literally a half dozen exceptions since antiquity).

I ask this honestly, because at this point in my own career the only answer I can come up with is the personal satisfaction of getting better and more knowledgeable about something I at one time enjoyed.
> clickjacking. That’s when, for example, a website frames your site, then hijacks user input such that users are fooled into thinking they’re interacting with your site while they’re actually providing data to the (evil) containing site. Imagine typing your bank credentials into (what you think is) your bank website, whereas it’s in fact an evil site logging everything you’ve typed

Nitpick but isn’t this backwards? e.g. a clickjacking attack tricks you into thinking you are interacting with a harmless site, when in actuality you are clicking “buy now” on amazon in an invisible logged-in iframe.
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This essay [1] by Peter Schjeldahl, originally given as a lecture to the School of Visual Arts in NY, gives, in my opinion, a much more poignant treatment of the subject of this blogpost.

[1] https://www.frieze.com/article/ourselves-and-our-origins-sub...
> Or is it that in another platform/framework, it's easier to allow requests to take long N+m to return if you want? True that would be easier in, say, an evented environment (like most/all JS back-ends), but... you still don't want your user-facing requests taking 5 or 10 seconds to return a response to the user do you? In what non-Rails circumstances would you do long-running I/O inline in a web request/response?

Yeah, that's what I'm getting at. It's true that even in evented backends there's a line beyond which it's probably better to put the long-running stuff in a background queue, but it's a higher bar than in Rails. I've run pretty high-throughput Node and Go apps that had to do a lot of 1-5s requests to external hosts (p95's probably up to 10s) and they didn't really have any issues. In my opinion, it wouldn't have been worth it to add a separate background queue; the frontline servers were able to handle that load just fine without the additional indirection.

byroot makes good points in a sibling comment about retries and more explicit queue control being advantages of a job queue pattern regardless of whether you're evented or not. I just think that those advantages have a higher "worth it" bar to clear in an evented runtime in order to justify their overhead (vs Rails).
Also good for them if true. Adults must be resistant to worldview challenges or they will be taken advantage of and brainwashed. Admitting that one is wrong should require that:
- The case is made through facts and reason rather than emotions
- The challenger is willing to invest time into making his or her case and be as open minded about possibly being wrong as he/she wants me to be open minded about me being wrong
- Significant practical harm of me continuing with my current position has to be demonstrated
When people expect everyone to just change their minds to suit them, the issue is a personality disorder, not autism.
You got it. And on a more broad level, knowing better but not doing is the root of all maladies.

And brings out questions about free will, agency, self-control, volition... and more.

These days I am fond of 2 books that actually touch on this very topic: "Grit" and "Ego is the enemy".
Most insane depiction of firenado I have seen in a while
> There is no material difference between the two other than the size of the institution doing the censoring.

Norms mean "we don't want to listen to you say that". Censorship means "we don't want anyone to hear you say that".

Say a church installs a porn filter on their network. That's moderation: the members of that community have a set of shared values they are protecting. Members are free to access the content elsewhere or leave the group altogether. By contrast, when they pressure the local library to remove books they don't like, that's censorship.

Conflating the two creates an absurd duality where you either support censorship or you support groups being held hostage to society's vilest elements.
These numbers are nonsense. Steak prices have doubled, not increased by 0.1%
Starlink won in the 100Mbps category. Almost everybody else won in the 1Gbps category, so can't sub out to Starlink.

The way the rules were set up, virtually any bid in the gigabit category beat the megabit category, so Starlink only won in the regions nobody bid in.
I don't think it's fair to assume the counterparty here is a "toxic interlocutor". Communication is hard, very hard, and engineers typically suck at it. And it is absolutely the burden of the speaker to communicate their ideas properly to the listener; it sounds like you're saying "the way I explained it is good enough for me so if you didn't get it you're an idiot". Finally, "secretly declared war on your idea"? This sounds rather overdramatic.
Immigration is just colonial appropriation. It's the solution proposed by city dwellers who think we should live 50 deep in a square mile of massive cities - generally an upper middle class who seem to believe they should have constant access to cheap servants they don't have to personally house and look after.

Japan already has massive cities. It doesn't work.

We need economics that doesn't assume you can always go around the world taking other nations resources - including the people they have schooled and trained to provide for their own population.
It's exhausting being mentally present while knowing you're not doing anything useful. Using that time to actually work on side projects feels very unethical, so it's kind of just going with the tide for 8 hours a day then being exhausted at night. So the challenges I found were usually in games, not anything productive.

I have far more energy now that I'm actually productively working in a new job and seem to have lost a lot of interest in games as a side effect.
You're right. They have it backwards. It's the legitimate site that needs to protect itself from being invisibly framed within a malicious site.