skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks to the author for taking the time to write this up. I think it is a fairly realistic description of what the process is like for an engineer who has spent several years working in Silicon Valley at a well-known company.

The key takeaways, coming from someone with a similar background:

* Rely heavily on your personal network to both identify worthwhile opportunities and for referrals which, in the Before Times, pretty much guaranteed an interview

* It's worth thinking through what type of job would make you happy _before_ you get an exploding offer

* They had a _full_ pipeline, interviewing every day for three weeks straight. It's a grind, but you definitely get "in the zone". Additionally, setting this goal ensures that you are being properly proactive/aggressive in pursuing opportunities.

* You will probably see a design interview at any FAANG or hot startup. The classic one I've seen like 5 times is "how would you design a social media feed?" I still do not know the "correct" answer to this question.

I don't have hard evidence for this but it seems that the demand is still very strong for experienced engineering managers. I am curious to hear if the author interviewed for SWE positions or engineering manager positions have they have filled both roles in the past.
Very true. But announcing it ahead of time and providing time for a wind down also would've required a comms team.
github had subversion support ??? :)
I suspect GP knows this, but there's no way to go back and see what the branch ref was at a prior point in time. I believe they wish that refs themselves were versioned.

And yes, I know they're kept in the reflog. But that is short-lived and (I believe) local rather than eternal and global like everything else in git.
We are not gui yet.
I followed some of that and it was especially funny that he had just been defending Musk and posting some "well he's a super-genius—you know, like all us rich SV types—so we should give him the benefit of the doubt" sort of stuff, right before that happened.

The whole thing was truly beautiful. Overall, Musk's acquisition has provided some excellent entertainment.
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Not grandparent, but I use it every day. It's definitely the buggiest message client I've ever used. Maybe it's because I'm using Safari, rather than Chrome, but problems within the last few months of use include:

* long load times, sometimes I have to retry 15 minutes later. everything else works.

* often shows week old conversations when I open it fresh, eventually updating when it feels like it

* sometimes doesn't scroll to new messages, forcing me to manually scroll, even after page reload

* absolutely massive memory usage (685 Mb for that tab, seriously wtf)

* "open in a popup" used to be extremely buggy, but now it doesn't function at all, not being an actual detached window.

I'm patiently waiting for beeper.
>I've never seen a company produce one after that.

Almost every company does. They may not make it public, but yes leadership will reflect on this.

>"I take responsibility" is a beautiful thing to say but it's completely empty if you don't take the consequences as well

This isn't how most large tech companies work. If someone causes an outage that costs the company 7 figures there are no consequences assuming it wasn't done maliciously. It is more about learning and figuring out what went wrong and how to avoid it in the future and it is not about punishing people.
Plug an XPS 15 with 4k display into an external 120hz 1440p monitor and watch the sparks fly. Among many other issues.

Absolutely not anywhere close where it needs to be.
For the record, most people in Alberta don't want to leave Canada. Me included.

https://calgaryherald.com/news/support-for-independent-alber...

Most of those 23% don't understand how geography works, and how difficult it would be to export oil (and farm products) through a hostile Canada.

I think there's something similar to Oregan happening though. A minority of Albertans that live in rural areas don't want government by "someone over there."
I'm not exactly sure why you're getting downvoted. While I agree that we knew this was coming (Europe has similar emergence), I don't think a vaccine is really the best option here (although you could expand on that point. We already have proven prophylactic measures to prevent this disease.
> 1. Overuse of antibiotics in non-theraputic settings (e.g. agriculture)

> 2. Lack of interest in developing new classes of antibiotics

> 3. Insufficient interest in vaccine development

you left out

4. Underuse of antibiotics in people so at risk they already have it, and then among those, them who will catch it again within the same social group.

We have subpopulations and particular communities who engage in "way more than their share" of risky sexual behavior, many of whom also use drugs and alcohol liberally, and in the worst cases (like say drug addiction/mental illness) don't generally seek medical care or otherwise take care of themselves.

I think the overuse of antibiotics on cattle has had much less to do with drug resistant human gonorrhea than giving populations humans who have gonorrhea insufficient quantities of inadequate antibiotics, particularly incomplete courses or treatment of cases without followthrough.That creates a perfect informal laboratory for developing strains of drug resistant bugs.
My first impression is that ex-googler won't have problem to find a new dream job. Probably not earning 400k/year, for sure :)
I completely hear and agree with you! In fact, you are being generous - given that rural folks are traditionalists who pride themselves on imagery of respect, authority, religiosity, etc - you'd think they would see the hypocrisy in their vile rhetoric.

It's a challenge - those few rural votes don't make a difference in an election. The few state and national elected officials that come from these areas are in a minority position. But, so long as they feel disrespected (rightly or wrongly) they will continue to pull political stunts (the walkout of Rs in Salem, the Bundy national park takeover, this push to join Idaho) and that could have violent repercussions.
What are these 3 star comments I keep seeing? Bots? Is it the same kind of thing as when redditors comment "this" instead of just upvoting? It keeps cropping up with no explanation or context.
50 MW should be able to power a small town (aroud 80 000 people) AFAIK. (ed: or half that, see sibling comment - i saw that an avg us house use up a kwh in 50 minutes - but that might be with gas heating etc. So "full electric might very well be more in the 30-40k ppl range).
Working for this guy sounds like it's 50% managing his executive function, 50% doing the work. It's not for everybody. Some of Musk's colleagues have mentioned their job is something like this. But it's also paid off extremely well for them. Up to you to decide whether you can pull off both of these jobs.

On the show 'Billions', Bobby Axelrod, the hedge fund founder has a right hand woman, Wendy Rhoades[1] who keeps him grounded and channels the mania into productive output. Sounds like your friends needs someone like her.

1. https://billions.fandom.com/wiki/Wendy_Rhoades
You're not "technically correct", because people can hate each other and still have sex, so your thesis doesn't actually hold.
How about this one? When I was working on my idle cycle harvester I happened to sit near Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat. I got invited to have coffee with them many mornings. I told them how I thought Google could contribute to managing genome data, and a few weeks later, they opened up a chat window and said "We wrote a mapreduce to compress DNA. Can you tell us if this is helpful?" and that's how Google Cloud Genomics was born.
> The median age of female's first marriage was less than 22 for 100 years and rose to 28 in the last few decades[1]. I would assume this results in a higher number of partners and more opportunities for an STD to spread.

This is a common talking point among conservatives, but it's off-base. Not only has the median number of lifetime sexual partners not increased (in fact, it mostly flatlined from the 1960s, and even fell for many demographics after the 1980s), but it's irrelevant to the issue of gonorrhea, because single unmarried women in their 20s are not the main demographic affected by gonorrhea today.
I get a significant amount of recruiter spam: Every day I get 2-4 cold emails from random recruiters that are generally poor matches. (IE, the recruiter never read my resume, is probably sending email to thousands of people, ect, ect.)

I always mark these as SPAM, and the next day more recruiter spam comes in. There's no way to unsubscribe because they always are from some random independent company.
You’re not wrong but at the same time I was hiring for a senior engineer a year ago and the market was ridiculous. Seniors only wanted to work if they could do part time for six figures and the consensus was they should be allowed to work 2-3 companies at once.

This is just the way the market works, whoever has the greater demand will always use that fact to their demand. So while it may suck to be an engineer compared to the ones hiring them: that’s just the nature of our mode of production.
Have you reported that as a bug?
Well, I'm definitely not ChataGPT. The fact that you thought I was made me chuckle though!
How do you infer that op is blaming women? They merely stated a fact and didn't assign any blame.
I'm surprised reproducibility isn't a bigger deal for the OSS community.
Are you serious? I'm not even sure if Visual SourceSafe is better than "Once a week I copy all the files into a ZIP and date it" as a strategy for version management.
Risk to reward. They've determined that the risk your machine is a lemon is much higher than the reward of selling it. Anyone selling such a thing would be much better off on swappa, ebay, and similar places. The author seems to think that apple cares about the environment and chides them; everyone knows apple is in business to make money, and will prefer that to any environmental benefits.
I'm getting voted into negative territory. Sad to think that HN had so much homeless hatred.
I said the same thing even a few weeks ago, but the momentum for Mastodon is growing rapidly and it's really impressive to see, and Ivory is a very impressive client even in beta.

Almost everyone I followed on Twitter is using it now, and I actually prefer the experience. It's like Twitter but without all the bots/spam/hate, at least for now.
I bet I'd get flagged if I tried to email 100 of my customers from my gmail account in the same hour.
No hiring process prevents bad oncall rotations.
for me it ebbs and flows depending on my current circle and other things. My mid 20s-30s we didn't go out at all, just doing the family thing. Then we clicked with a bunch of people nearby and started hanging out every single week with parties on every occasion and everything, even through covid. Post covid a bunch of people moved and it seems to have died down again.
I tip my hat to your team and I owe you all beers, my friends. You are doing the lord's work.
I lurk on all the generally open Google-internal fora, and I think I have only heard one person try to make this case. The vast majority of employees who say anything about this are opposed to layoffs to increase the stock price.

If there is internal pressure from everyday employees advocating to accomplish this, they are being extraordinarily quiet. Unlike basically every other cause for which employees try to pressure the company. Google is quite open internally to people saying we should change this or that. It's almost a past time.

So I think this explanation is very unlikely.
Ned Ludd's premise was of the quality of autonomy and life of the workers that were being automated. As automation came in, workers got less money, treated worse, and had worse lives.

Being called a 'Luddite' was NEVER about technology, but whom gains from technology.

And I dare-say he was right in his concerns. The gains of technology are privatized by the owner class, even though we worker class are the ones who utilize them. One needs to look no further than the "gig economy".
This attitude has become so much more prevalent as well — hot take culture, focused on “dunking” and thereby looking better/smarter/whatever than the “competition”. Totally exhausting and another reason, perhaps, gathering with semi-strangers is less fun.
The one thing I really miss about svn is the central,authoritative, auto-incrementing revision numbers. Git hashes are less friendly to use - in the svn days it was easy to tell at a glance if you had an earlier or later version.

Yes, I know the many ways that git is better in practice, and would miss some of the workflows git's nature allows if they were gone. But we really did lose something too, especially when running git in "quasi-centralized" mode such as on GitHub.
This article kind of reads like "Generative AI isn't that disruptive to popular business models". Not sure whether I hold that opinion as well, but at least in consumer, my bet is on value to continue accruing where:

- businesses own the customer relationship

- there are network effects

- content is distributed

It does feel disruptive to me though that as margins come down, even more share of the pie goes to infra than to the content or product distributors.

If I had to make an investment thesis I'd probably lean on (1) content production costs trending to 0 (2) algorithmic, efficiency, or scale advantages
Yes, I did overlook this - and you're absolutely right, and I couldn't agree more. Thanks for calling me out on it.

We shouldn't be booting out some of the most productive / educated people in this country just because they get laid off.

We should be trying as hard as we can to keep them in this country!

To the extent that - a lot of people feel if a company does layoffs - the company should be forced to layoff H1B workers first. I think that is complete BS. Layoff the people it makes sense to layoff - not the people on the other side of the lottery.
If you ask 10 different people what the purpose of a union is and (more importantly) how it achieves that purpose, you will get 10 different answers.

I do not have any specific grievances I feel need addressed. So the idea of a union as a "nice to have" feels like an unnecessary risk. It's very easy that the union takes my dues and fights for causes I have no interest in, or even puts my job at risk.

So I am personally wary, but I can see where particular industries where workers are more exploited (videogames, for example) it's an easier personal trade-off to make.
tier 3 on most formularies: https://www.goodrx.com/bexsero/medicare-coverage
No, I don't think it is viable at large, but there are opportunities within fields and sectors.

The factors that make unionization particularly difficult are first the demographics of developers. The tendency for SW developers to be white, wealthy, and male set a prior political disinclination toward unionization that makes unionization more challenging. Education, tending to be higher, doesn't make up for these other factors.

Secondly, SW developers tend to attract a disproportionate number of self-ascribed libertarian types[1] - the sort who tend to see social relations reified as contracts. As such, a conceptualization of class and class relations aren't a part of their mental model of work.

As I said, I see these tendencies make unionization more challenging, however, there are sectors where demographics and culture may make exceptions. In more exploitative roles, QA and Ops may have greater potential, and sectors like gamedev the ability to commodify workers may ultimately make unionization easier to realize.

Looking toward the long term, projects like Women in STEM, or the myriad others that seek demographic equity in STEM could shift tech population in ways that make unionization a possibility. Sectors that are boarderline now, could find themselves more open to unionization in the future. I'm a bit hesitant to even add this because it's speculative and easy to find counter examples, especially in personal accounts. I'm strictly speaking about aggregate groups at the business org level which is conveniently appropriate to unionization organization and voting. Maybe you dissent, or are in an industry or field which dissents, but a specific counter example to broad trends does not an argument dispel.

1. I'm not placing a truth value of their self-ascription claims and I really don't want to discuss anything more than how this disposition affects their behavior.
Diamond Age was first published in 1995.

I don’t think I am out on an intellectual limb believing very very few people would have seen an AI written book back then.
It's a serious problem for retention when people's total comp drops by a large amount, and some companies (e.g. Doordash) have given people extra stock to make up for it.
What's the saying? First they came for the moderation, but I didn't care because they weren't moderating me. Then they fired employees so as to not have to pay severance or whatever but I didn't care because I don't work at Twitter. Then they came for the API and there was noone left to speak for me...

Twitter and Elon have already done quite a bit of damage to the company, platform, and reputation. This is just a continued pattern, and it is disappointing.

-edit-

Just to be clear with the original comment I'm just giving OP a little bit of a hard time on a Friday :)
You perfectly illustrate the problem with typical western thinking. The workers you refer to may be low paid when compared to the US and other western countries, but they are highly paid in their respective countries. A lot of the time, the jobs (ie: iPhone assembly, AI related) are highly sought after because they are a great alternative to the other jobs that the workers with their skill set can get. It is also a great way to get a step up the job ladder for them and new acquire skills.
I wonder what happens after that?

40B acquisition to bankruptcy sounds brutal. I'm sure there's some nuanced financial way they can recover and continue but wow.
Who knows? Probably someone who got fired on a previous round, that is.

Disabling APIs won't win you any friends
"Don't criticize if you can't do better," is never a good take.
Those are what I was alluding to when I said "it wouldn't be the first time the Feds abused the ever-loving hell out of the Commerce Clause" :)

Both those cases entailed the defendants manufacturing something, which would be where the Feds would claim jurisdiction via their jurisdiction over interstate commerce. It's harder to make that argument w.r.t. something after a retail sale has already concluded (i.e. after the interstate commerce has happened). I wouldn't doubt the Feds would try to assert that literally everything that ever happens is or pertains to "interstate commerce", but that'd be sufficiently broad as to invalidate all sorts of other judicial precedents if actually held up in court.
A big part of the problem with today's reactors is that they are full of water which requires huge heat exchangers (often bigger than the reaction vessel but still safety critical) and have a huge steam turbine.

Even if heat were free you'd have a hard time making the steam turbine powerset competitive in 2023.

Nuclear might be able to compete if we can get rid of the water. In Japan they are talking about producing hydrogen directly with thermochemistry, no powerset at all. There is also talk about coupling fast reactors or molten salt reactors to this kind of powerset

https://www.powermag.com/what-are-supercritical-co2-power-cy...

The claimed price of a NuScale reactor isn't going to beat a large LWR but it might possibly be able to build at the quote that NuScale quotes, whereas the large LWR struggles.

If you want "the power to save the Earth" you have to get costs down and reactors that can do that are still a decade + out.
You need to read the wikipedia article on the "Cursus honorum" from the roman empire. Everything old is new again, not just in computer science.

You step one foot off the path, and the pyramid means there's a zillion people in line clamoring to take your place, your old spot is already gone, already filled.

Its like asking how you become a pro football quarterback if you're starting in your 30s. That's easy, you don't.

You CAN however, have an enjoyable and successful career and happy life doing something else. Just not on the old path. Which wasn't working for you anyway, so you're not losing much.

> I spent years running around like a headless chicken to satisfy sales-type execs who had no interest in leveling me up.

I got bad news for you if you think hopping from a startup to a megacorp will avoid that, LOL. Its kind of like travel, where you eventually learn its the same everywhere and you can't run away from yourself.
I think this is what sets you apart from the customer Amazon was trying to target
AFAIK, slaughterhouses don't use CO2 (carbon dioxide) - they use CO (carbon monoxide). The effect is identical to nitrogen, and doesn't trigger the physiological suffocation response.
How would that require a comms team?

PS: let me clarify a bit. I'm not saying that Twitter should not have or does not need a comms team or that getting rid of them was not a stupid thing for Musk to do.

What I'm trying to say is that this latest stupid thing (not giving any warning about changing their app API rules so that app developers and users could have some time adjust) doesn't really have anything to do with the lack of a comms team. It's not one of the stupidities that naturally falls out of not having a comms team.

In this case all that was needed was for Musk when he decided to change this policy to (1) tell whoever he ordered to implement it to deploy it on $FUTURE_DATE, and (2) tweet that he'd ordered this change and it will go live on $FUTURE_DATE.
Low Latency vs. Target Latency (For Video)
> I think the overuse of antibiotics on cattle has had much less to do with drug resistant human gonorrhea than giving populations humans who have gonorrhea insufficient quantities of inadequate antibiotics, particularly incomplete courses or treatment of cases without followthrough.That creates a perfect informal laboratory for developing strains of drug resistant bugs.

This is provably incorrect. The standard treatment protocol for gonorrhea is a single IM dose. There's no such thing as an "incomplete" treatment for gonorrhea.

> We have subpopulations and particular communities who engage in "way more than their share" of risky sexual behavior, many of whom also use drugs and alcohol liberally, and in the worst cases (like say drug addiction/mental illness) don't generally seek medical care or otherwise take care of themselves.

It's common and perhaps tempting to lump "people who have a lot of sex" together with "people who use drugs and alcohol" and "people who don't seek medical care or take care of themselves", but the data shows that that's not actually the case. Particularly for the subpopulations most affected by gonorrhea, where the data very clearly and unambiguously shows the opposite relationship.
author here - glad to see this post on HN, and glad you liked it!

re: your last question - I interviewed for both SWE and EM positions, depending on what was available at any given company. At companies that had both roles open, I talked to folks to understand what they expected out of EMs vs engineers, as it varied a lot - and then I picked whatever was more appealing to me. In aggregate I went for 70% SWE / 30% EM roles (roughly)
> I'd even have happily paid Twitter to continue using Tweetbot.

I had thought since they first started locking down 3rd party apps years ago that if/when they ever had a "Twitter Pro" or whatever, that allowing subscribed users to use a third party app would be part of it. After all, lots of online service subs eliminate ads in the product, so why not Twitter?

I assumed rational thinking on their part, I suppose.