skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this directionally but think you're a little over-pessimistic.

First, IME it suffices to join an organization poised for rapid growth. This can still happen in large tech companies.

Second, while luck matters, there's also stuff you can do to increase your chances of being picked for career growth roles. I'm at a growth company. Recently a relatively new engineer was picked to lead a project over some more tenured, well-liked folks who wanted it. The new guy got it because he has done some really incredible work recently and then marketed it internally well enough that management (and engineering) all agreed he'd be the perfect fit. Politics, making sure that resources are allocated the way you want them, is a skill all its own.
How does spending money on whatever have anything to do with monopoly?
At the point where you're noticing that Urgent Care costs less than a primary care appointment and find that problematic, it really starts to feel like you're just searching for things to disagree about. It's OK if we run out of things to dispute!
What do you think "actually an issue" means in this context?

For the most part, the development of striker fired pistols and duty holsters was driven by police and military use; these are contexts where a person draws a pistol several times a day (on some days) and hundreds or thousands of times a year. General process safety concerns -- like reducing the number of "safe" states that people have to think about -- do matter in that context.
As a young teenager learning to code in the mid/late 90s I distinctly remember two influential movies: Office Space and Hackers. It wasn’t until the dot com boom that I realized you could have a lot of fun and stay out of prison.
Maybe for French. But I doubt this is the case for more distant languages like Japanese and Russian.

Are American undergrads studying Tolstoy in Russian in the Russian department?
> - forcing a range means these ranges will skew lower so higher performing people will lose out and average salaries will go down

I could easily see this having the opposite effect: Forcing a range causes employers (particularly those with less name recognition) to increase posted salaries in order to get people interested enough to apply.

I don't see how posting lower salaries would do anything but discourage top applicants.
I worked on CI @ FB for multiple years before leaving last year.

>what does Meta’s CI infrastructure look like?

At it's core is a broken mess of Hack classes that I consider to be some of the worst code at the company. This, of course, varies depending on the platform. The developer experience for web (hack/js) was pretty good, but for mobile it was absolutely dreadful and wasn't getting better when I left. Depending on what code you were touching it could take hours to get signal.
$100k+ isn’t very helpful if you make $180k and only want to apply for jobs paying $200k+.

I could see ranges having some issues
Or 0k-infinity, which is the current state!
thanks, bruv!
Except D1 gives you a full powered SQL interface and DKV gives you “get”, “set”, and transactions.

D1 is also faaaaaar cheaper. Like 3+ orders of magnitude cheaper.
Salami slicing tactics are pretty common, that way you can gaslight detractors by saying they’re crazy for making a fuss over such insignificant changes.
I don't have a decent enough Android device to play with this, but how would one / could one run tsc alongside it on Android? Invoked through termux or something?
I think there's a bit of selection bias - people interested in esoteric choices like your display manager will be prone to fairly strong opinions.

Personally, I'm a fan of Wayland - but I'm not deluded either. Sway offers one of the better experiences, but you have to craft an awful lot of it.

I'm also fortunate that everything I need/use either supports Wayland or is a game that benefits from gamescope. Some requires more tweaking/encouragement than others.

Mixed environments are awful - ie: copying/pasting between Wayland/XWayland tends to freeze/hang in a specific direction. Making xlsclients return nothing should be the goal before getting too frustrated.

Screen sharing is fine thanks to Pipewire... and screenshots with grim/slurp - but again, some curating was involved and limitations apply (ie: no sharing 10-bit color displays)
They exist, but only as very expensive specialty gear for digital forensic investigators.

https://digitalintelligence.com/store
I didn't say otherwise. Only that a forced update mechanism is insufficient for stakes as high as burning down the house. Maybe the patch fails to download/install, or they take too long to develop the patch in the first place, or the patch doesn't work for all models on the first try. There needs to be a simple kill switch if we're talking about threats like this.

Besides that, the safe mode oven should still be able to cook food manually.
Since they've done it before — https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/04/24/306592297... — I would consider it highly realistic.
A very smart CS guy I know pitched functional programming for scientific computing- he said it would greatly speed up the performance of codes by not spending time computing results that weren't going to be used.

Although that's not a terrible idea, I have never actually seen any major scientific code that was based on functional programming and was significantly faster than its non-FP competitors. My guess is that the folks writing the codes are already pretty smart, not doing any extra work that could be easily removed, and already take advantage of algorithms that use non-functional paradigms which give them significant speedups
Have been using this portal for a year or two and what surprises me is the number of fatalities in bus accidents in India and the like. Some weeks it seems like 50-odd people die a day in a bus accident in that part of the world. We had a 10 fatality bus accident here in Aus recently and it was "the worst road accident in decades". Pretty awful that it happens almost routinely elsewhere.
If the employer really has a too-wide range, they can just post two job openings that split the range into high and low experience options.
I did a bit of Googling and pretty much every article on the subject of clear ice includes impurities other than air:

> The most common impurities found in tap water include lime (also known as limescale), calcium, fluoride, nitrates, magnesium and certain other organic elements that are practically impossible to remove with regular filtration methods. So, when water freezes, the impurities that were evenly distributed in the water, tend to congregate near the middle, making ice cubes the whitest at their center. [1]

> But the reality is, most of the “impurities” found in your freezer ice cube are more likely nothing more than the minerals present in your tap water. Tap water commonly contains minerals such as: Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium [2]

Do you have a citation to back up the claim that it's only air bubbles?

[1] https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/why-are-some-ice-cubes...

[2] https://blockice.com/blog/whats-the-science-behind-clear-ice...
"The Topics API was included in July's Chrome 115 release, and if you don't have it yet, you will soon."

Imagine that you are Google and you need to replace third party cookies with your own system so you can make more money on ad services.

But to do that you need to get people using Chrome to update. How.

(Assume for sake of argument that the update is really just for adding the Topics API, i.e., Google is not going to make/lose money from any other change contained in the update.)

We're seeing sites warning users that they need to upgrade soon, presumably because "the site won't continue to work" unless they do.

Of course, that's false. Every website works without the Topic API.

Changing the user-agent string in DevTools to match Chrome 115's seems an easy workaround. Will Google try to prevent that.

Google cannot make Topics API an option and ask users if they want to install it. This is not a choice. If you ask users if they want ads, too many will say, "No." Amazing business model.

"... and if you don't have it yet, you will soon."

Some users will not. Because they will not use Chrome. Others might try to disable it. To those users resisting this "Topics API", I salute you.
And be innately good at both code and human relations. I couldn’t have handled that massive team size increase mentioned even if I was in that position. I would have probably quit to go back to technical stuff!
Giving management equity was done to mitigate the Principal-Agent problem[2], lesser management(agent) is aligned to shareholders(principal), less likely they will take action on their behalf effectively.

However this puts management interest in direct conflict with employees . More you exploit/squeeze the last bit of productivity the law and job market permits you will do so in determinant of employee health, fair and living wages.

As a shareholder, that is rational behavior, you only care to maximize returns to the extent permissible by the law[2] . Environment, employees or any other non profit concern cost money if not required by law why should you do it? the competition will not be doing it. They will become cheaper and be able to out compete.

Aligning management to shareholders solved the problem for shareholders, but it has made the problems for workers worse, combined with weak labor protections in this country means only protection workers have is the market, if their skills are niche and in-demand they will be able to negotiate better wages, otherwise they are screwed.

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America's unique strong immigration over the last two centuries is why labor protections are pretty weak compared to most of Europe and other developed economies, if citizen labor protests too much, America in the past always imported foreign labor to keep the supply high and market cheap for businesses.

Funnily all the right wing anti-immigration rhetoric is really anti-business as it gets- if it actually impacts policy in reduced immigration then workers will be able to push the labor demand-supply equation to their favor as they did in 30s. This is not necessarily a good thing for workers in the long term either, when America no longer is able to attract talent in same way as before, jobs will go abroad instead of being cheap and domestic.

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[1] Even when required by law, we will the follow the law only if there is any real threat of enforcement and penalties actually that are high enough to hurt. When the cost of breaking the law is negligible or non existent the law will likely be ignored.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...
Yes, it’s probably the licensing test, rather than the years of medical school and residency that are weeding people out.

Are you aware of the pass/fail rate on the license exams?
This is true of all government jobs. I used to be an Army officer. Our pay is set by Congress and in the federal budget. And yeah, that means low performers sitting away in bullshit staff jobs doing nothing earn exactly what the highest performers commanding elite units in difficult theaters of combat earn.

So why does anybody bother to be a high performer? I don't know. Why do Olympic athletes in obscure sports with no pro leagues and no endorsement prospects still practice long hours and try hard? Why does anyone become an astronaut when they could earn more flying commercial jumbo jets? Some people just care about excelling at what they do, more than they care about money. Often you'll find these people in high-impact public sector work.
There aren't rules against entities other than the federal government funding a slot.
I created a site (HiringCafe) that fetches remote-only jobs from 20k+ company websites from all around the world. Additionally, it summarizes job descriptions via GPT.

As of today, there’s 40,918 remote jobs (mainly from companies in US, Canada, and Europe).

I’m working on additional features, such as job application tracking and multi country select.

I’d really appreciate your feedback so I can improve the site.

Thanks!
uwave control panels are pretty simple - usually just some buttons, a display, maybe a rotary controller, and an embedded controller IC.

But you really do not want to be experimenting with custom control unless you know exactly what you're doing. Aside from the risk of nuking food and/or accidentally bypassing the door switch and microwaving yourself/partner/kids/pets/etc, most uwaves have huge power capacitors near the controller board.

An unplanned encounter with one of those can kill you.

Here's a sample circuit. It's not super-complex. But there's a lot to go wrong, and it's really not a beginner project.

https://www.electronicsforu.com/electronics-projects/microwa...

Remotes are basically the same with (usually) an IR transmitter, more buttons, and no dangerous power switching. It's not all that hard to clone one, but the hard part is making the tiny physical buttons and inventing a better UI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7z4CU5mw9E
Among their many failures, I am still shocked that the notes section for each password was not encrypted. All kinds of assumed-safe info will be in there from secret question answers to former passwords and account numbers. What fool of a project manager pushed for that?
I hope he updates the page with:

05 September 2023: Hacker News Front Page

I doubt there's been a webpage that was slashdotted in 1999 and then became front page news of other website more than 20 years later.
I do too, but for me there are levels of importance and my backup strategy reflects that.

There are files I can't live without, files I don't want to lose (photos), and the rest.
We really can’t force you to see the obvious if you’re set on not understanding something.
Yeah, but so many hotels seem to use the legacy stuff.

Most keycards I've tested don't even register on my phone, meaning that they're using something pre-ISO-14443 (which very likely does not support any real cryptographic authentication).
Didn't all three of them check out years ago?
I'm talking about the ER not having a triage level that is equivalent to urgent care, not comparing urgent care to primary care.
Homekit tried to do this. I don’t know if they still do.

This can be done today by only advertising a ULA v6 prefix to IoT devices. The problem is the router has to now have global knowledge of what devices are allowed to talk to what services. Or the device has to work entirely locally with mDNS, DNS-SD etc.
its a game. the site intentionally picks photos with regional identifiers so you can get good at it
One of the scandals post 2008 crash was how bankers in Switzerland would use diamonds packed into tubes of toothpaste to spirit millions of dollars out of various countries.

Diamonds were essentially a shadow banking system, with analogies to the way crypto exchanges work today. You put cash in to get a tiny portable stone that you could exchange for cash or deposits anywhere else in the world, and you could reliably transfer massive amounts of capital around without records. Simultaneously diamonds made wealth both highly visible, and completely invisible when they disappeared. No public ledger either.
Employers will always try to get you to undervalue yourself so they can get away with paying you as little as possible. Taking tools away from them that they use to do this is only a good thing.
There's a little more to it: Make sure your manager, and maybe even your manager's manager, likes you. If your manager doesn't like you, change teams. If your manager's manager doesn't like your manager, you should also change teams.

The unfortunate reality of those high growth orgs is precisely that the growth leads to a lot of new managers, and as we all probably know by now, a new manager is a bad manager. Since they have no idea of what they are doing, having the best relationship with them as possible is the only thing that matters.

I've seen the best ICs, and the most effective managers, end up quitting/getting PIPed due to politics. I've seen low performance being rewarded by teams with good bonuses and no deliverable objectives in 2 years, and promotions before ever shipping anything. My evaluation of my performance, and resulting reviews and raises, have minimal correlation: But they absolutely correlate on how much my manager liked me. The more I've focused on this, the better the rewards, the product be damned.

This is extra-true in those rocket ship companies, precisely because things for the company are likely to go well regardless of short term performance: Only major failures, (like what Raylene describes in the article as avoiding being critical) can get you in trouble for actual company impact. In those cases your best bet is to be the firefighter who is also an arsonist, and find ways to sell your solutions to problems you yourself caused... but that involves far too much work.
I think you're confusing X/Y and faith here. You're making the basic assumption that the comment itself is in bad faith because it's not formulated the way you expect. That doesn't stand up to scrutiny because everyone evaluates and expresses things differently, and many folks would consider that a bad faith evaluation of feedback (whether it is positive or negative in reality wouldn't matter).

I think there's a stronger argument of an X/Y problem in the statement, since they talk about what they see as output vs what they expect to see instead.

And frankly, I am disappointed too, as these people working on this project should have spent all that time understanding how Hashicorp actually handled the codebase and ensured that their own engineers followed the same quality level for development. They're all definitely capable of it, so they should actually do it.

Otherwise it's going to be hard to trust the fork to succeed.
This is just plain old testing, no?
Yep, must have been hilarious. Thanks.
He charges $80/month. In the most common year, I only have my annual physical, and that's covered by insurance. That translates to $0 out of pocket. Other years I have visits for other reasons. With the deductible and copay, it's more than $100 for any visit. I'd need 7-8 visits a year to reach $80/month out of pocket.

On the other hand, not having to make appointments weeks in advance, and even being able to send a text message to save a visit has some value. I don't think that would be possible with my insurance (the doctor wouldn't get compensated).
Interesting, do you happen to know what system that was? Sounds like an active attack of some sorts.
I haven't found that to be true. Negotiated wages are very different from employee to employee (in the same role), between companies, between roles, and how those valuations are done (ShortTermIncentives and LTIs). REI vs Cambia vs JPMC, the wages (both incentivized and not) are wildly different and they don't seem to care a bit.
You have to be concerned about age discrimination or assumptions based on your career trajectory at some point if you stay in a lower level IC position. If you’re in your mid forties, still “just” a software engineer, and interviewing for new positions, this will catch up with you. How do you explain having 15-20 years experience as a software developer with no career progression?
I’ve never heard of someone refer to OC as “affordable”. It’s one of the least affordable counties in the US [0]. Travis county (Austin) homes are less than half the price [1].

[0] https://www.attomdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Top-10-...

[1] https://www.redfin.com/county/2866/TX/Travis-County/housing-...
> Of course, mined diamonds aren’t blood diamonds, but her impression was still they were a little ickier

For all intents and purposes, they are. The voluntary processes the diamond cartels adopted to supposedly reduce diamonds coming out of "conflict areas" are a joke. Most diamonds are mined under exploitive conditions, often with severe ecological impact, and the owners are almost without exception "blood on their hands" people even if one particular mine operates more ethically.
She's taking a break from her important work on getting Hard Solo taken off the shelves.
Unions are essentially just a form of wage transparency. The union says everyone with X experience gets paid at least $Y. Bosses hate it, so it must work.
Im sympathetic to the price fixing concerns. But publishing wages seems like a detail of executing a price fixing scheme (which can be executed other ways currently). I dont see how it encourages price fixing. It seems to me the forces discouraging price fixing include ethical obligations, competition, and threat of law. I dont see how wage transparency overcomes any of these. You would still need to be an asshole willing to break the law with the threat of a competitor undercutting you.
Next, I want a bounty system to report third party recruiters and employers that post job descriptions without them

because right now the consequences are weak

maybe we can make the the consequences hold greater legal muster by tying it to something else, like "if you register for an account with the payroll tax department, your job descriptions must have cash salary ranges posted with the compensation description"
Yep - Eric left the company early, in 2020. Larry and Sergey are still employed there, but as you note, seem pretty checked out these days.
> and work on a tenuous 19th century narrative where job seekers were essentially beggars going hat in hand for a wage in exchange for exploited labour.

...Except that is still more or less the case for the vast majority of workers. Most employers won't even wait for you to finish your negotiation spiel before kicking you out and moving onto the next applicant.

Most people, at least in the US (which is seemingly the focus), are not working in an industry where workers have any real room for negotiation. You might be able to get a dollar or two per hour more if you really impress the hiring manager, but that's not happening for the $10/hr kinds of jobs that so many people work. And if you try to squeeze the employer for more, they probably have a stack of applications many of whom will take whatever the employer gives them because their alternative is getting paid nothing at all.
That's an odd* implementation decision.

Gpg is well established and eminently applicable here. Both the camera hardware as well as the photo journalist could sign the image data payload, and embed the signature in metadata, especially if the camera hardware accepted new keys. Trust chains could be established both via their publisher and the camera manufacturer.

But let's be real: no one will bother to validate anything.

* I'm being diplomatic