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> A union is just a bunch of people getting together. Isn't this protected by free speech or something?

Union activity is heavily regulated in the US in favor of the unions. This is because corporations here have a history of union-busting using tactics like surveillance, disinformation, mercenaries, and even bombs dropped from aircraft[1].

For example, Tesla was just ordered to allow workers to wear pro-union clothing to work.

1. https://www.wvpublic.org/section/arts-culture/2022-09-02/rem...
You're making a number of assumptions about me which are all hilariously wrong.
Follow people (including people from other instances) and then interact with them on your timeline just like you would with Twitter.
I googled it, and apparently we still do that, at least for some of the production.
It was at a crypto trading platform who gave me a verbal offer, and then a month later tried to pull a fast one and wrote down an offer 50% less than what was discussed. When I probed, they responded “it’s out of my hands, leadership changed their needs…etc”

The offer was a pay cut from my current, very boring, but stable role.
> Do the people making such comments think this won’t be applied eventually to all sexual preferences?

I’d see two aspects of this:

- it cements the status quo. This technology isn’t bound by the availability of actors, real life societal issues etc, so I understand the disappointment when it follows exactly all the same lines as the current industry.

And a lot of people aren’t happy with the current industry, to say the least.

- there’s a decent chance that yes, that technology won’t be applied to other genres before a long time. Satisfying the majority first means lowering way way down the needs of the minorities. We’ll probably see incremental technical improvements before inclusiveness improvements, except if enough members of the minority become core participants in the development.
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> If that restaurant wants to use that as a competitive advantage over other restaurants they aren't going to want to have to give away their modifications, so aren't going to want to use AGPL software.

That's exactly the kinds of scenario the AGPL was written to avoid, right? The free software movement doesn't see software as a competitive advantage worth protecting; software is information that should be free.

To put it another way, if somebody releases software under a license that says "You may use and modify this for free, but you must contribute your changes back to the world," then your scenario seems perfectly fair.
> Are you perhaps mistaking 1Gbps with 1Mbps (1000K Baud)? Automotive networks are extremely slow, and there’s virtually no need for them to be faster.

No, it's not a mistake.

Electronics is a large field, quite a few concepts can be niche and unfamiliar even to its practitioners, so please don't assume something is incorrect just because you personally have never heard about it. I recommend doing a quick search first before trying to refute anyone. Here are just two examples I've came across recently:

1. Someone asked a question about a "DC-link" capacitor. One experienced engineer replied and claimed it's nonsense, because DC cannot pass through a capacitor. But in fact, it's a standard term in the power inverter industry that refers to the capacitors between an AC/DC and DC/AC power stage.

2. An article about Ethernet "magnetics". A reader replied and claimed the term "magnetics" is nonsense because they've never heard of it, if it's a transformer, just call it a transformer! But in fact, it's a standard term in Ethernet hardware that refers to both the isolation transformer and the optional common-mode choke at an Ethernet port. To a lesser degree, it's also valid in the power supply industry as a collective term for the magnetic components like inductors, EMI chokes, and transformers.

> Automotive networks are extremely slow, and there’s virtually no need for them to be faster.

High-speed, Gbps-level digital link solutions for automotive applications are currently being heavily promoted by semiconductor companies, it started since a few years ago. This is something you can immediately know just by a casual browsing of their websites and take a look of their latest chips, like Analog, Maxim, or TI. I assume this interest first came from the demand side, by the OEMs. You don't just make these chips for nothing.

One major application is the transmission of HD videos in a car entertainment system.

> Some newer forms of automotive networking used here and there for a time, but OEMs keep trying them, ditching them, and returning to slow networking.

You may be correct. This can be another attempt at it, and may or may not be ultimately successful.
As an old Pascal programmer who never really liked C.... even I have to say NO!!!!

What a horrible thing to do. I've never liked macros, and things like this are part of the reason why.
Yes, direct reduced iron (DRI). We may be moving back to it, too, when we move to green hydrogen as the reducing agent.
And if the compensation is so high you want to leave, just leave.
I know slandering "the woke" is de rigueur on HN, which is why you made this non-sequitur comment, but pedophiles renaming themselves MAPs has nothing whatsoever to do with "wokeness" or its terminology. Enjoy the endorphine hit though I guess.
I'm the same, I can't relate to the tons of posts I see about people struggling to filter for good candidates. I think part of it might be my autism. Since I can't read non-verbal communication I can't be "tricked" by it like a neurotypical person would. I have to consciously observe/analyze their non-verbal behavior in a totally unfeeling way. I would normally struggle detecting if someone was lying in a social setting, but with technical questions a person is either correct or incorrect.
Companies give tiny raises to loyal employees. If hiring is so expensive why don't companies make effort to retain employees by giving them raises that make their compensation at least at par with that of the new hires.
To me it seems simpler to just let someone go if they're not working out after 90 days; no need to tell every new hire that they're "on probation".
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Do y'all really see no irony of you being the first one to bring in corrective language while simultaneously assigning it to and blaming a pejorative SJW, I mean, woke, ideology? Not to mention the absolutely stupid premise in general that progressivism seeks to downplay pedophilia? Again, do you have any idea how it's perceived?

Also, since HN threads about this topic devolve into pedantry, I'm pretty sure the term to be used in these types of threads is CSAM. It's explicit and long enough than it can be acronym-ized in a way that feels less icky that typing out "child sexual abuse material" each time.
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Tell them you got another internal role at your company. It's reasonable and totally unverifiable.
This entire industry is a joke with its interviews. Its not a reflection on you.
I frequently do. I get at least one offer a month.

You don’t need a BS excuse. You can just say you took a higher offer/offer with more vacation.

A lot of these companies aren’t paying competitively anyway, so they are used to people declining.
The multi-round interview process should be renamed "The Severance procedure."

Any Severance fans?
Just add a position / pay band for them (or move them up a rung into an existing band).

In many companies, org charts are public, but comp bands are secret, so this can be done without messing up manager/IC relationships.
The take-away here is that steps above ~60 do nothing to the image, you're just burning gpu cycles doing nothing.

It's basically just fallen into a local minima in the latent space and nothing will ever change, no matter how many steps you add.

The benefit of this kind of approach technically is that you can add a frame-to-frame diff as you're generating and stop early once you've hit a steady state, instead of having to pick an arbitrary number of steps.
And if they know that not to be the case, the offer is probably good enough to leave for anyway. So in my practicing, I found a new job.
Yes. I target hybrid roles in places I have no interest in living. Use an burner number app to pretend I live nearby, and away I go.
Wait until winter. I’m in the Midwest with gas heat. Years ago I signed up for the budget plan, where the monthly payments is fixed for nine months of the year. My budget payment reset for the next 8 months 2.5x higher. Cost per therm has gone from $0.30 to $1.20. When the first customers start getting $900 bills people are going to be pissed off
Is it? If this could be disabled, the performance would be so much better, it can be truly called Windows 12. But now M$ forbids user to do that without probably jumping through big hoops.
Yup, pretty much just this. I make lists of folks in certain groupings to be able to fake being able to see posts-from-the-subset-of-people-I-follow-from-yesterweb.social and similar (and hooo could this functionality use some ux polish), but mostly I'm looking at the feed of all people I follow.
MiniDisc, at least in Japan, was mostly used for writing musical data (and it required proprietary software to write in special ways, and wasn't mountable as a file system. (e.g. you couldn't just copy over .mp3 file and listen to them, so it had to be converted/encrypted/recorded onto MD in a way it is not readable in ordinary means.)

There was a specification called MD DATA for this purpose, which could be used to store data in more ordinary way, however such discs could not be read by musical device, and had to be one of handful device specifically designed for this purpose -- while it was also used storing pictures from digital camera, as far as I know, it only showed limited use compared to MO as data medium. (Those MD DATA devices could also read musical media, but couldn't record them.)

Later in MD lifecycle, specification like Hi-MD did allow data featured storage class support (which you could write like 300MB of data to standard MD discs, and 1GB on Hi-MD media) this was very late in the MD lifecycle.

MiniDisc used as MO technology at its base, but it was definitely not used interchangeably, and MiniDisc was really specific media (mostly) used to music.
Would golang or zig accomplish the same goals too?
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There's something to be said about boring and stable. I don't know how long you've been in your career, but I do know we're coming off a very long bull market for developer roles and salaries. That has created an expectation that our career must always be fun and fruitful. I've been doing this long enough that I've seen the other side of the market, and have gotten emails from talented developers desperate to get a job with the very boring company I was working with at the time.
How else would you make a digital ticket transferable (on 3rd-party marketplaces) and verifiably authentic? Honest question. It's probably possible.

The problem today is that if I buy a 2nd-hand a concert ticket on <literally any marketplace>, I might be getting screwed with a counterfeit ticket (as far as I know).
The third type as described is not really a 10X engineer but a regular one that benefits from cumulative improvements. Nothing particularly special.

The actual 10X'ers usually run the group or team technically and don't get their code evaluated in the usual sense. So no they do not create a backlog of PRs.

Let me also re-iterate, the true 10X'ers are quite rare in my experience. So rare in fact that talking about them this much doesn't even make sense. They would either start companies or matter only in the context of a small company/startup. Once it gets big, again they stop mattering in the grand scheme of things in my experience.
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Bricklaying? Google had a great WLB and l5s were clearing 500-700k TC and l6 was bumping up against a mil a year when I left more than 5 years ago. That’s early retirement and you don’t have to make a single sales call or ever manage people.
Yes, I do think we can come up with reasonable limits for some of these things at least.

The government already does limit bad parenting. Probably not the level you're talking about, but social services will step in if they believe kids are being abused. Personally, I think the government should do more to ensure kids have more options for peer and adult social contact outside of their cloistered nuclear family, and ditto for new mothers, and that that would help with bad parenting a great deal.

Payday loans are a big problem. People should be able to declare bankruptcy to remove predatory loans.

Fast food is causing real dietary problems. I do think we should do more to ensure people understand how what they're eating affects them. Putting nutrition information on food was a good step, and maybe we can come up with more improvements.

For sports gambling and gambling in general, I believe that anyone behind on their child support should be banned from gambling. I also believe that people should be able to put themselves on a "banned" list with a 1 month waiting period to be able to take themselves off.

Legislation gave us clean air and water, buildings that fall down much less, a monetary system that evaporates peoples' savings much less, food that isn't poisonous, schools that spread less disease, safer cars that use less gas, more power efficient homes, and on and on and on. So yes, the educated audience on HN does want to solve problems with rules and incentives.
I’m more surprised by the apparent editing error where the only sex worker evidently quoted is characterized as female throughout the piece except in one instance. I think the intent of the editorial missed-a-spot was greater anonymity provisions by default. I doubt it harmed the particular interviewee in this instance, but that kind of slippery protection of sources certainly won’t encourage more sex workers to talk to them or trust their process. Never mind that their single source is already unrepresentative of a very diverse range of attitudes among sex workers.
HN is paternalistic to the extreme. An entire community of people who were one of the smartest growing up, and now think they should dictate how everyone else lives their lives, using guns (I mean the government). The tut-tutting that is rampant in comments is par for the course.

Individual liberty and responsibility has always been a tough sell, but it’s still worth encouraging. Taken to its logical conclusion, no one would even be able to raise their kids given the risks to the children from a bad parent - much safer to give all children straight to the government to raise safely. After all, if even a single child is abused by a terrible parent, isn’t that too many?
I liked your metaphor, by the way. Thank you for engaging!
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Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice. Occam's razor.
Each employee, when interviewing candidates, is required to make the interview harder than their own was. In this way we incrementally improve talent velocity. We call it Agile Interviewing.
Governments should run gambling at even odds. Then your gambling is a bit like saving. You put in money each week and every once in a while you get a big payoff, but you are net even.

Most current state lotteries have worse odds than the mafia numbers games they replaced.
Can you say any company names? I’m an ex-FAANG eng in Sydney currently considering options.
I like that approach now more that you said that. It's very true, many will surprise you for various ways, and would never survive the absurd interview gauntlet and tests.

I just present myself as-is, which is probably less impressive, but I don't want to be hired somewhere based on false pretenses. That's just stress I don't need. I'd rather just switch careers and find something else to do before I do that. So I guess I just don't care enough to lie, which is kind of a lack of ambition of sorts. Misrepresentation is probably a better qualification for a sales position though.

I do think with poignant questions during interviews, you can tease out if someone knows what they're talking about. I just had a few interviews at a Fortune 500 and they peppered me with pretty great questions. Simple stuff, but good questions like, "what is a singleton" etc. You need to give a candidate some leeway, it's stressful and I don't sit around thinking about what a singleton is.. but I did have an acceptable answers to questions like that in my mind. "A static class which can only have a single instance". They liked me, but didn't hire me.

It's a tough industry that has brought engineers to their knees. Begging when nothing would work without them. It was supposed to be the next buoy of the American working class but instead the state of affairs is pathetic. That's what we get for disrespecting collective bargaining. At this point, there's definitely easier ways to make a buck than software. I wouldn't do it again but it's all I know.
Having a low active user count doesn’t mean there’s no one to interact with. I use it sometimes, I see lots of interaction. It’s not a success as a business (which it’s not necessarily trying to be) but that doesn’t mean it’s not a thing (a protocol) that many people are regularly using.
Disagree on the no need to make a ticket transferable part - this is the place where NFTs make the most sense - there really is only 1 seat 22B at the Lakers game next Saturday, but in an untrustworthy secondary market I want to know that what I’m buying is (a) legit and (b) the only version in existence.
I think at big companies that serve millions, it's more the other way. The brand hit of a substandard product or actual defects could result in recalls or lawsuits. It's the problem of scale: imperfect code works for a few hundred users but you need finely engineered code to work for millions. Same with other products as they will be used in every crazy way you can imagine and some you can't.
I don’t have magic to share and certainly have taken on bad jobs I regretted signing on to, but for one, I always look for some degree of humanized speech in the job listings. So what I mean by that is not so much fluff about how great the company is and how big the mission is, and more about “we’re looking to add X people who are good at Y”. But most of all, just simply job descriptions that feel like they weren’t churned out by a machine trained to hunt for “3 years of python”.

Also I like to see that engineering managers are the ones doing recruiting if it’s a company that is not Google sized, or at least a recruiter who specializes in engineering. I don’t trust that the “Head of talent” shares the same motivators that get me out of bed In the morning. An engineering manager might not either, but I feel safer betting in that direction.

My two cents, YMMV, mine certainly has
Why should we put our mental health on the line for this industry? There must be other jobs that are fulfilling and pay the bills.
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Gas buddy is one app that wholesales this data out. I wouldn’t doubt it if the carriers themselves sell it.
What does the 'M' stand for in CSAM?

I don't mind what they're called as long as it's palatable to wider society and they don't feel offended.
Hits close to home. I did an interview with a static analysis company and everything went well until the “People Gardeners” interview. It was a relatively short meeting that was mostly taken up by them asking basic career history questions, but part of it supposedly had some kind of personality fit methodology.

I was told matter-of-factly that I was out of touch with my emotions and therefore couldn’t fit the team. To anyone who knows me, that’s basically the polar opposite of how I am. But, the ‘what if you’re wrong and are just oblivious?’ self-doubt circled for weeks. I can’t imagine what this sick joke of a psychology test would feel like for someone on the spectrum.

I definitely got the vibe from the recruiter that this step was maddening and unpredictable.
Then what is worth pursuing? Entrepreneurship? I can't even spell the word correctly without a spellchecker.
It’ll keep going as long as people tolerate it and continue to work for these exploitative organizations.
192,000 is not "virtually no one." There are a about dozen sovereign nations with fewer people.
That's not how that works. A heat pump can be more efficient than normal heating in the absence of a heat gradient.

If the outside of the house is colder than the inside, there is obviously no heat gradient to take advantage of. Thus a heat pump is a good choice.

If you're using what ever this micro fuel cell thing the article tasks about which apparently produces incredibly high temperature heat, you just heat the house with that. It's already hotter than the ambient temperature of the house You can't just slap a heat pump into such a system and have it suddenly gain efficiency. Where would the energy be coming from?
Yeah, I think "look at the code" is not that bad if is embraced, like the docs of Rust. But half-docs in wiki, then in another links with options, then in code not work, IMHO.
Assuming starlink remain "good guys"... good luck with that idea :-P
Making comments like this is just obligatory throat-clearing now, especially if you're in academia, which the quote source is. At this point I just fnord right over them and move on.
Thank you for the excellent segue as to why the police's monopoly on violence is a market failure that can be addressed by reinvisioning the gig economy.
You’d have to ask a tax attorney, but this exact scenario happened to a friend of mine who held his equity through a foreign entity. When he wanted to cash out, he was hit by an extra US tax penalty specifically for when you hold your equity through a foreign entity.

I was in the same boat as you when I started my company and looked into the same kind of setup. I researched it at the time but cannot remember the details.
Money is the exclusive right of sovereign nations!

How else are Erdogan, Madura, et al going to fund their piggy banks & militaries?
In my country it is a crime to possess imagery depicting underage sex acts. It does not matter if the actors are legal adults or not -- so, it probably does not matter if they are real either.
On consumer devices, this would be "USB4 120Gbps". Look for this when you're in the store.

If you're designing circuit boards or writing drivers, you'll need the full spec.

Assuming the new spec pushes 60Gbps over a single lane, that would be "USB 4 Gen 4x2" going by the USB spec. Two lanes (x2) at the new lane type (4), part of the new USB 4 spec. A device only capable of driving a single new fancy lane would be "USB 4 Gen 4x1".
The beginning of wisdom is to understand that nobody knows everything. I regularly interview candidates for my team and other teams. I can pretty much determine in about an hour if a candidate is a good fit or not. But one thing I have noticed lately is that some of them try to cheat (only possible with remote interviews of course). Basically they google answers as we are talking, or they have someone else do it in the background. It’s pretty obvious because there are long pauses, attempts to delay, indications that they’re reading something, and then they suddenly know the answers. They never say “I don’t know.” My “gotcha” technique is to ask a really esoteric question that I am certain the candidate would not know, and somehow, miracle of miracles, they suddenly know the answer after “thinking” about it for a minute. I actually don’t really care how much you know, rather, I care that you are honest, confident, resourceful, passionate, and that you communicate clearly. Obviously intelligence matters as well, and I’d take an intelligent person with the above-mentioned qualities who lacks knowledge in a particular technology than a “qualified” candidate who pretends to know everything and is a liar.
And hey, I’ll be the first to admit that I live on stack overflow.