Unless he has considerable rabbinic training, Walter is not competent to judge whether the (invisible) copepods are kosher or not. The categories in the religious laws have some connection to biology but are not determined solely by physical conditions either. At the risk of over-simplifying, these laws are meant to be possible to follow. Nobody is going to decide that, henceforth, all strictly observant Jews must filter their water to remove microscopic animals.
The point of the DSU isn't to force the engineer to recite what they did, it's to inform the peers so people can coordinate. I also find that engineers are reluctant to admit being blocked or to ask for help at all. My team gets value from the DSU. I'm sorry if you think the DSU (or the role of SDM) is so useless that it ought to be automated away.
Apropos automated approval of "tone". The company I work for now has a policy that documents must not use any "potentially biased" terms (e.g. "whitelist" or "master"). We now have automated agents that do simple search-and-replace (e.g. s/whitelist/allowlist/) over our internal Wiki pages. With no intention of debating the value or politics of such a policy, I wonder whether anyone is contemplating employing ChatGPT for more pervasive automated tone-control.
For example, compare "The army found the people in poverty and left them in comparative wealth." There should be contrastive stress on "wealth", or possibly "comparative", at least in my dialect of English
With single sentence examples, it's hard to tell whether this handles informational prosody, e.g. the given/new distinction, or infamous "John called Bill a Republican, and then he insulted him" where the accent means that the antecedent of he is Bill, not John, which further implies that "calling X a Republican" is an insult.
I cancelled my monthly donation. I was quite happy to pay for Wikipedia, but hearing that they are doing fine, and lacking any insight into what the wikimedia foundation does, I stopped. Plenty of other places to give tzedakah.
It bothers me that the author writes "If you register your domain in a banana republic because you think the TLD looks cool, and el presidente wants your domain..." with the implication that Spanish speaking countries are (more likely to be) corrupt. Remember that the first banana republic was a result of deliberate colonialism from the USA.
Now what is needed to get data on outcomes as well? I would likely choose to pay more for a increased chance of success. (Recall the recent coverage in HN of the professional musician for whom retaining ability to play saxophone was of great importance.) I recognize that some hospitals either serve more impaired populations or take on more high risk cases, so the comparison is not at all easy.
This is absurd. As an Amazonian for eight years I can say it would be absurd to do this. First, hiring someone is a lot of work. Second, we don't get much value from people the first six months anyway. We don't hire people to do boilerplate. We hire people who want to obsess over their customers.
In eight years at Amazon (in the supply chain org as SDE and SDM) I have not encountered anything close to "ruthless". It is true that there is rough stack ranking, but only in large organizations where it is statistically meaningful.
One thing I can tell you is that in my first job in 1977 right out of university I had an office with a door that shut and quiet space to work, which I needed because I was working in assembly language and as there were fewer machines that developers, I had to debug code on paper. I do think this strengthened my debugging skills, in part because as machine time was rare I had to plan ahead for which interventions would get the most return on my time.
I had an office at my next job, too. Needless to say that's all gone now, except ironically the work-from-home has once again given me a mostly quiet workspace.
Why the age cap? Is there a evidence that elderly are statistically more likely to be corrupt than the young? Or perhaps you think we (I'm 66) have suffered significant cognitive decline?
This is precisely why Amazon emphasizes Customer Obsession (giving a shit about customers) and Ownership (giving shit about your problems other people in the org have). I don't love everything about Amazon, I sure do like these two.
The question is not what you, as an individual contributor or even front-line manager would want, it is what the people in the executive suite would want
I note that streema.com is trying really hard to get me to install "easy search tool" by favouring the START button above the PLAY button. If it's not them directly, it's a dark-pattern ad they are running
That report is nonsense. For one thing, hiring takes a lot of work. No manager is going to invest the time in hiring someone just to have an expendable on the team to sacrifice. No manager is going to accept the drag on the team that arises by having a below-standards person on the team. Everyone here is clear that we'd rather do without than have a low-performing co-worker. Finally, even if some misguided manager did want to do this, each Amazon hiring loop has an independent person to enforce the policy that each new hire be better than half the people in a similar role.
It's true that some people leave, and sometimes you're not sorry to see them go. This is true in every line of work.
I found Amazon's culture - in particular the relentless obsession with solving actual customer needs - to be a perfect fit for my own engineering training from day one. I was not "molded" to fit it. As I see it, as an engineer I have expertise my customer can't truly know or measure. They really have to trust me. I earn that trust by taking on their problem as if it were my own. That's how I've worked my entire career, and that's what I love about the parts of Amazon I have actually observed.
I doubt anything I say could convince you otherwise, but I've had no experience at all in 8 years at being "stabbed" in the back. Nor have I any way to prove I am not an evil one. Amazon is large, you may be judging on a small sample size.
You can quite reasonably want to be independent of Amazon-the-online-retailer while being agnostic about cloud service providers. Speaking personally, I very much want local bookstores in my neighbourhood, but do not care whether there is a cloud data centre in my city or province, or which one it is.
I miss the point of this discussion. Does the HN readership really include a substantial number of drug lords, cyber criminals, spies, informants or live under a regime where they fear for their lives from state actors? I'm not cheating on my taxes or my spouse. Are there really many people being paid in cybercash from a genuine need to avoid state or corporate interest?
Certainly they do, but the public also has a right to insist that its servants (regulators, in this case, but also the other branches of government) be free of conflict of interest. In the particular case, they should not hire directly from the very industry they regulate. Ensuring that the regulators have expertise will be a problem, but at least no conflict of interest
Agree with your summary, but I am not impressed by the use of "stupid". Maybe "being willing to appear stupid", or "having beginner's mind" or "not making assumptions". But "stupid" is just click-bait. For that matter "laziness" too. Author says "work hard, but not all the time".
But the others (Arrogance, Carefreeness, Beauty, Rebellion, Humor) all seem right to me.