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When I chose to return to Genentech I had an offer from Apple and it certainly met or exceeeded everything in my previous Google offers. This is consistent with my read on other employers like Facebook and Microsoft.
I grew up near Algoma and the article is right, I’d never heard of this shipwreck. That said the Door Penninsula is littered with shipwrecks and people there do take their maritime history seriously. Very cool find.
Thanks for the advice! I've considered data science and even did an internship at a startup in Toronto, but I didn't find the work as enjoyable.

>surround yourself with smart, hardworking people

This is honestly the #1 reason I haven't moved yet, I've never worked anywhere with so many knowledgeable people willing to share their experience. I can't go into details but the learning opportunities I've had this year have been way beyond what I could get somewhere else.

While some people might think I'm making a mistake, I'm willing to take the monetary inconvenience for a bit longer if I can use that knowledge wherever I go next.
I really like #7
I would say 2004 google (ipo) is very different from 2011 google (lary is back as ceo) vs now in terms of employee friendliness
One rocketship bias of this article appears to be lack of "focus on the customer" versus "strive to be the most valuable, but least critical." The latter can be good core advice anywhere ("pager duty" stuff at any company causes burnout for ICs and EMs) but customer traction is only really given to you on a plate at a rocketship (e.g. after Series A/B). Most of the piece is about scaling rather than understanding the user / customer and evolving the product ... a more balanced advice essay is going to talk more about gaining, keeping, losing, and re-gaining traction versus just scaling a sprawling org.
I was expanding the list of things that make markets "non-free".

Before various "free trade" agreements it would have been impossible for capital to have been moved to other countries, used to build facilities there, and then repatriate the profit. Now, in many cases, that's completely legal (and one might even say "encouraged").

The EU provides us with an example (sadly the only one I know of) where free movement of capital and profit was coupled to free movement of labor.
Artificial Consciousness Remains Impossible
These seem like very rare scenarios. If we're concerned about dire threats like this, the manufacturer needs a way to remotely send devices into an internet-disconnected "safe mode" before anyone's even talking about updates.
Was it Gametap?
I'd definitely go the FPGA route initially, it has software like advantages such as being able to reprogram stuff without having to tear it all up and do it all over. It also elegantly avoids having to build up soldering skills (which is a bit of a pain with SMD) Once you get the hang of that some simple CMOS circuits hole-through on a breadboard would be a gateway drug to building stuff for real. If you want another in-between step I'd go for a kit of some sort, something that you want to have anyway but would rather build yourself, there are quite a few producers of such kits and they range in complexity from 'blinking LED' to 'build your own glass teletype' and everything in between (and even more complex).

Compared to software it is a costly hobby though, and it also occupies more space beyond just a laptop. And it can be quite messy.
A small counterpoint:

My $DAYJOB's architecture is completely self-hosted (Proxmox, Nomad, etc). I would not prefer to have some external tool managing that infrastructure.
"filled by International graduates or aren't filled at all."

Do you have a source for that?

The stuff I saw says that a certain number of slots are reserved for international students, which further constrains the supply.
pwn college, the website in the submission.
I figure like everything else, this will just advantage the fly-by-night imports who you can't sue in the first place. They will continue to have no incentive to comply with any laws whatsoever.
Probably not, honestly. I get paid to do things like manage dependencies, and I'm not trying to do it at home. If this was one and done, just click a button and forget about it again, then maybe, but if I have to do things like think about what model number I have, and is it compatible with this version of the firmware, then no way.
This sounds like every MD in The Netherlands is equal to NS in the USA :p
Google does indeed deserve kudos for being an early adopter of great benefits, WLB, cool offices, etc. But I'm not sure how much credit they deserve for "sky high" compensation. I had a classmate with competing offers from both MS and Google back in 2007 - the Google offer was pretty close to MS's offer, both at the time and over the prior decade.

A big reason why silicon valley comp rose so much in the last decade was because major companies were previously colluding to suppress worker wages. And yes, this includes Google. It ended in 2009, and that's when tech compensation really exploded. See link at bottom.

If anything I would give Facebook far more credit. They were willing to pay more than any other major tech company. And more importantly, they also refused to participate in the aforementioned cartel, which resulted in a ton of poaching atcivity which drove up market wages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
50k in 1991 went much further than 60k in 2023.
Oh, looking at one or the other, almost certainly not. I mean that if you lined up 2 diamonds and a moissanite, I'd bet the average person would be able to pick out the odd one out.
It is their problem. It's not your problem or anyone else's problem right now. Stop trying to control the future.
Is there an open source / self hosted version of that (preferably with support for remote ssh, since it should be easy to support in a self-hosted environment)
Spotify’s in-app lyrics are being tested as a Premium-only feature
You can block by issuer / BIN with Stripe Radar: https://stripe.com/docs/radar/lists#default-lists.

You can also request to receive BIN per transaction if you write into support (https://support.stripe.com/contact/login). This isn't allowed by default because Stripe needs to make sure the setup and use case is secure to ensure PCI compliance.
Exceptions, rules and all that and I wasn't making any superficial judgements: trucking is a harsh life, besides the fact that it is downright dangerous, iirc the most dangerous job short of the fishery industry (on ocean going vessels).
The supply of doctors in the US is primarily limited by the number of residency slots. Unlike many countries, foreign medical graduates can't practice here without doing a residency. I think the number of residency slots is kept low by the federal government (which funds them) and also by physician organization lobbying.
Part of systemic improvement to security comes from the market forces that reward producers putting out carefully designed and tested products and punish producers that don't. Your suggestion of requiring prior notice, coordination, approval etc. incentivises them to defer the cost of proper development until there is a crisis, so they can rush out any rubbish product, and force users and researchers to do their security testing for them. Let them fear the unknown, with their necks on the line, and design accordingly.
They can do that without unions, not sure why those are a necessary condition for mentorship.
Not a dig but it’s always better to be lucky than good. I’ve had an extremely lucky career but nothing like that. Two of the biggest brand blue chips then 3 really well funded startups that have been positive experiences but financially there is zero doubt I would have been better off at the big listed not faang companies.
Giving folks a path into IT via apprenticeships would be a lot easier with a union to support/enforce career growth/mentorships. Unions could also help create more developer co-ops that can offer onboarding and retirement.

Somewhat unrelated, I'd love to see some kind of code dividend for folks where you keep earning money from code you wrote (that hasn't been rewritten). I think the IP assignment stuff we all have to sign is ridiculous when it creates so much value. We are signing away our right to future profits.
Does that still work if you remove one device while renaming?
I’m one level ahead of you (L7) but, like, why does there need to be something “next”? I’ll make a seven-figure TC this year. That’s enough! I spent about $50k last year, and I live in New York.

My manager talks about getting me to L8 all the time and it’s exhausting. I’m done! I’ve won the income game! She is very career oriented and cares about climbing the ladder, I do not.

I’ve never actually cared about “career goals” or done “growth” really, I don’t think I’d actually be unhappy if I was stuck at L5 making a mere $400k forever. That’s a really high income, an integer multiple of what my parents ever made.

So my “what’s next” is keep throwing it into VTI and then retire in a few years.

FWIW there were very little politics involved in my L7 promotion, I just wrote a lot of good code and mentored some people to do the same.
Sure I can buy that - but how much?

In the last 4 years I've spent probably 60-80% of my time writing terraform for various companies and maybe 5% of that involved a hashicorp product, and arguably, it would have been easier deploying it without terraform.

Its main use case is to build cloud infrastructure, not interact with hashicorp products.
Worst case, the EV is only slightly better. Typical to best case, the EV is 2-4X better.

https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/comparative-l...
I'd sure hate to have my system ransomware compromised, and when I try to restore from a backup drive, the ransomware encrypts it, too, as soon as I plug it in.

I also have, on occasion, flipped the from and to parts of the command to restore from a backup. I'd really like to have a hardware switch to make the drive read-only.
The fact that mass-scale transportation of goods means that the amortized cost/impact per can of peaches is small doesn't invalidate the point that mass-scale transportation of goods is energetically ridiculous and likely adds about 3% of global greenhouse gases.

Sometimes the amortized cost per unit isn't the important point.
Okay, I think I see what you're saying now. I misinterpreted your statements earlier.
A whole gallery of them from around the world: https://interestingengineering.com/lists/29-of-the-most-hear...
Lot of messages in that that picture. Elements of simplicity, couple ordinary people rolling up their sleeves and saying why not them, classic American dream. Attire is also interesting, I think more for them to feel like they are at work and not hanging around a friends garage.

If you've ever had to wake up in the morning and set your own direction, you'll appreciate the picture.
I'm from the UK and moved to the US 10 years ago.

Software engineer salaries in the UK are on the 75th percentile of earnings vs the 90th percentile in the US. The US also has higher variance of income, so at the 90th percentile one would earn 2.6x the median salary vs 2.0x in the UK. If you are a highly paid professional the US is a pretty good place to be.

Just before the banking crash of 2008 pay for software engineers in London working in finance were fairly competitive with Silicon Valley. You generally got paid better as a contractor, £500-600/day which was then about $950-1150/day which if you worked all year (six month contracts were common) worked out at £120k/year ($230k) which was about double what you'd get as an employee so lots of senior engineers would do that (no need to worry about healthcare!)

Since the crash of 2008 the US dollar has increased a lot against other currencies and has grown much more than Europe. The Obama administrations stimulus helped the US recover more quickly while the Eurozone was forced into austerity while it was forced to work through the contradictions in the way the Euro was set up, with countries issuing debt in a currency they no longer controlled.

The US tech sector went through a huge boom in the past decade which drove up tech salaries here more generally. It was also pretty good for UK tech salaries as Google and Facebook opened large offices in London.

The UK was a huge financial centre similar in size to New York with bank bailouts spread over just 60M instead of 300M people, but being outside the Euro the UK was not forced into austerity in the same way many EuroZone countries were. The Tory government used it as a way to shrink the state. This stymied growth and ultimately sowed the seeds for Brexit which I think was a misguided anti-establishment backlash, in its way quite similar to Trump in the US but with longer lasting consequences.

The government's Office of Budget Responsibility estimates Brexit to ultimately end up costing about 4% of GDP over 15 years. Certain financial services jobs are moving to the EU for regulatory reasons and it could well kill off much of the UK car industry which was heavily integrated with the EU. The UK was particularly focussed in engines/powertrains so will be heavily hit by the switch to electric vehicles and there seems little reason for global car makers to invest in the UK when they could invest in the much larger EU.

Even now, software developer salaries in London are higher than pretty much everywhere else in Europe except Zurich. But the rental costs are just obscene. Sometimes I think about moving back to Europe for a while but I'm not sure I'd move back to the UK since after a decade of austerity it all seems a bit grim.

Even though we will get rid of this awful Tory government soon the Labour Party has promised not to make any substantial changes to ameliorate the costs of Brexit, ruling out rejoining the single market.
Not really. The lawyer Kyle Mitchell said of the agpl,“Inebriated aliens might as well have beamed it down from space as a kind of practical joke.” Even lawyers have trouble understanding when its provisions are triggered.

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/01/24/Reading-AGPL

Use OSL3!
There are informal contracts and their enforcement occurs through extra-legal means. For example, there is a general compact not to murder in any society. So when revenge happens after murder, there's an informal moral understanding and cushion of social sympathy and forgiveness for vengeance, even if vengeance is typically illegal. In other words, if you break the agreement of peace then you should expect payment in violence.

For entities as large as the state, I think there is an informal contract for people not to engage in anarchistic or revolutionary violence until their living circumstances becomes untenable. The degree to which their circumstances are understood as unjust will interact with the response they get from society.

IMO such agreements must be informal and fuzzy, and a lot of peace is maintained through these extra-legal structures.
> there needs to be consent from the company being probed for vulnerabilities

So they never give consent and no vulnerabilities are ever discovered?

If I make and sell bread, there could be a surprise food safety inspection in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve, but don't we dare inconvenience some software firm that holds intimate data on millions of people.
Yeah that's where I started
Also an anecdote but I’ve had the same experiences.

The one that sticks out to me was a few years ago. I’m prone to sinus infections and this one just wouldn’t go away. I booked an appointment with an NP.

She took a brief look at me and then advised that I go to the hospital because “you might have a brain tumor”. I told her I get sinus issues all the time. She responded that her sister died of a brain tumor.

So off to the ER I went and 2k later I had an ER doc look at me like I was an idiot and diagnose me with a sinus infection.
> And fewer medical students are choosing a field that once attracted some of the best and brightest because of its diagnostic challenges and the emotional gratification of deep relationships with patients.

Is this true?
“They're Printing Money” – Nvidia's Revenue Shocked Wall Street [video]
> "With the increase in supply we’ll see prices fall through the price point and reach a level where, long term, it does not compete with bridal because it comes too cheap"

WOOSH
Posted a couple times on HN recently, that said I haven't seen solid confirmation from either my own sources nor from The Print, The Wire, or the Indian Express - all three of whom have very strong sources within the BJP, INC, the Judiciary, and the IAS.

My hunch is this was done to distract from the (credible) rumors of "One Nation One Election" which itself might be used to start an early election.
I google a term of interest, then simply check out the related news for the past 24 hours. Don't really care about the source as I consider all news to be entertainment.

The following are posted on HN quite a bit (I find them the most entertaining):

NYT,The Guardian, BBC, Bloomberg, The WSJ, South China Morning Post, Financial Times, WaPo, The Diplomat, Foreign Affairs, Atlantic, Reuters, AP News, Radio Free Europe(google spits this one out when you search for Russia, Central Asia/Eastern Europe), The Hill etc
Perhaps the key piece of career growth advice is to join Facebook as a new graduate when it was a 700 person company.
> if you want to start a business building developer tooling and you’re concerned about competitors using your work, you should probably start source-available (BSL) and then go for a license that is OSI-approved

To put another way, if you want to start a business, make sure what you're selling you can do better than others. If your business is hosting open source software and you can't do that better than others, then don't make that your business. Maybe you should have been selling non-open-source instead (which they pivoted to now anyways).
Why not try to hand off an easier 'playing hand'? Or is that controlling the future as well?
Was it absence of regulation or capital or some combination?
>it's the idea that you have a unique artifact formed over millions of years

No it isn't. There are plenty of ugly diamonds — they are also formed over millions of years and are never sold to consumers. This is an ad hoc justification. People only cared about the beauty of the diamond until lab made ones came along. They are cut to increase the beauty. That already makes it processed. Nobody buys uncut diamonds. And I'm sure there are other stones formed over millions of years that are just black and nobody cares for. Raw olivine for example is priced by the ton. I'm sure there are even cheaper minerals at these depths that nobody cares about at all.
Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator
Even a relatively large 3,000 person company is much different from a much larger company and especially if you've dome well financially it's pretty natural to either leave or just coast for a bit. And depending upon where you are you maybe don't want to take a new job but just take your pay for a while.
But not twice as much land.
Weird definition of capitalism. Tons of systems respect property rights and individual freedoms. And, in fact, none of these states operate under the condition where all property is privately owned. Where they fall on those measures doesn't correlate with the weal of the people either, at least not the way you are implying.
If you want to experiment with FPGA, the Lattice iCE40 series is a good starting point. It's not super capable (but will be more than enough for your project), but it was one of the first with a solid open source toolchain and has a strong open source / open hardware community as a result. It's also quite cheap.

Check out the iCEBreaker project for a decent board to get going with, and some educational materials: https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquared/icebreaker-fpga
As someone who has seen a lot of high quality furniture go to waste because they oulast their owners, I firmly believe the market has got this right. Furniture should not be made to last indefinetely. It has a lifecycle. It should not fill you with guilt to dispose of it.
GPL is burdensome for businesses to comply with, so I would support public funding for drop in replacements for common GPL tools and libraries
Ironic that you call it a walled garden when the online version is not self hostable as actual VSCode is and is offered online at Microsoft's sole discretion.
This is a clear consequence of devaluation of currencies (inflation).

It's documented to have happened at least as early as with the romans. The exact same things happened that we're seeing now: people made less babies, rich got richer, the middleclass turned into poor(er), most people stopped being productive and switched to rent seeking (owning land and properties became the goal instead of actually making things or delivering services) and so on.
Not at Google. The food is there because they have to spend all their money on something, or risk being singled out as a monopoly.

That sounds conspiratorial, but it's really the only thing that makes sense to me.
Literally every one of these examples is a database and terraform is a dev tool
I find the best furniture at antique shops, garage/estate sales, and charity stores.
fair point. makes sense.
> Free from a superpower where you only get one vote every 5 years and the rest is managed by administrations outside of democratic rule.

As opposed to the UK's... one vote every 5 years?
That's silly. If you see good advice you take it. Doesn't matter where it came from.

That is, unless you're too clueless to tell the difference between good and bad advice. Then you find someone to trust.
They're not though, because they are actually a different thing (plastic) and you can tell that from some distance.

Lab-grown diamonds are the same thing as natural, the same material, and can be produced to a higher specification for the same cost as finding (due to scarcity, labour, etc.) an objectively worse stone. (Or equivalently a given spec can be manufactured cheaper than it can be found.)

The correct flower analogy would be growing nicely coloured varieties in a nursery vs. hunting for those random mutations in the wild.

(Nobody does the latter!)
Agree. It was a reasonable salary 25 years ago.
I've bought a number of lab grown diamonds. For anything at 1 carat or under, you'd be a fool to buy a mined diamond.

I really want to buy a lab-grown tennis bracelet, but no luck yet finding one from a reputable vendor.
I was curious about the associated job specs. Whether they read like "Wanted: Software dev with the hyperfocus of ADHD and none of the nasty downsides".

However on page 3 or so of the very visually noisy sign up flow I've lost interest, doesn't look like there's an option to see any listings without first typing in ridiculous amounts of information.

Made it to the end by skipping fields and asking google what a representative american phone number is. The 'search' function returns no hits, even when you type in keywords from the example job postings. Likewise the buttons next to search marked things like "remote" or "internship" return no results. The page has "show more" on it, but says you've reached the end after a total of 15 listings. The four I looked at were indistinguishable from job listings seen elsewhere.

So the initial impression is they've put a huge amount of effort into trying to get information out of job searchers and not so much into trying to get employers to post roles on it.
Strong #boomer energy there buddy.
Not if you use "bastion" type hosts, right?
That's literally what we're being paid so much for, and what those stock options we're showered with are for. The idea is that developers build future value of the company, so instead of being rewarded in commission like sales people, we get stock grants.
Fits with erosion of regulation under Gingrich; veto override was on the table and Clinton capitulated, like with the telecom act of that year.