quantumofalpha

You meant STEM OPT? H1B masters pool only marginally improves H1B lottery chances, which are far too low today to begin with.

Even in California you have to worry about that, should your project

  Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer

Some fat cats are so big and dabble in so many things that you can never be sure

Not even say for $500k+ TC per year (not unreasonable today from faang)? Copyright for all pre-existing stuff stays with you, the question is just who gets IP rights by default to all the new stuff (including commits to existing projects) that you do while on that fat paycheck.

> What position do you have to be in at Google to be able to upload your side projects to "google.com/X"?

Software Engineer.

You just need to pass code review to make such a change - convincing people reviewing it would be the tricky part but not impossible. You could brand it a "20% project" or something.

Some of big tech are so big and dabble in so many things, that it's not unlikely that some part of your project competes or relates to some part of employer's business, enough to cause IP problems.

The process, at least as Google, is to disclose your project to a committee and ask for permission to do it in advance - if they accept they give you IP release waiver and tell you what parts you can and cannot do in your project, for them to not consider it an invasion into Google's interests. My experience with this process was largely negative. Bunch of jerks erring on the employer's side. I can totally see why people with strong interest in their personal projects may not be willing to participate in this circus.

At one of previous gigs we had weekly newsletters organized and edited by our VP. Besides org-wide news it typically featured 1-2 freshly written in-depth articles about some piece of our system or project by engineers who worked on it. An archive of these posts served nicely as a repository of knowledge: if you needed to know how some component worked, often there was an article there by experts involved, even if somewhat dated, giving you enough background and pointers to get started. The background stories were especially interesting e.g. giving you some historical context why something exists and was designed this way, which is often missing from other forms of technical documentation.

You can test if a processor is GenuineIntel or AuthenticAMD or something with cpuid eax=0 and act accordingly. So no problem whatsoever if AMD uses it for something else.

For compatibility with something? From a quick googling probably this thing - https://software.intel.com/content/dam/develop/external/us/e...

How would that explain 50% yoy increase that the article mentions? Number of active iphone users seems to grow a lot slower than that.

My bet would be on self driving car data.

I interviewed a while ago at their special project group (the car) and come to think they did mention they made a heavy use of commercial cloud providers...

Early retirement

What do you hope to get out of masters? After a few years in the industry employers stop caring much about your school and degree (unless it's PhD, that sticks for life). Work experience is a lot more valuable than another degree.

Titles don't mean much without knowing the type of company that assigned them. Every second guy is a VP at a bank - it means merely something like 'senior SWE' in banking, often you wouldn't even have any reports. 5yoe is reasonable time to reach it. Another example - anyone can be a CEO of own company. But once you get acquihired by FAANG suddenly you're just a PM for your startup's team.

That's merely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software

> Are there any open source licenses that explicitly forbid use when training an AI?

Github/OpenAI's defense is "training ML systems on public data is fair use" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27678354). Unless this assertion gets invalidated in courts I think they mostly don't care about wordage in your license

> I want to release some open source code, but I don't want to make the mistake of training my replacement.

Most of a software engineer's value is not in the code they write. By far and large employers care instead that you solve their problems. Code's just a by-product, means to achieve that.

That's the theory but it isn't that trivial to measure engineer's productivity, especially in small +/-20% range we're talking here. We aren't like bricklayers where you can directly and precisely measure the output.

That's why in practice google's famous "20% time" is 120% time and on other hand it also has a lot of coasters working at half pace while cashing in 100% pay.

From what I've seen, it's mostly not based on time in big US tech companies for salaried full-timers. Nobody cares if you put 20, 40 or 60 honest hours a week into a project. Ultimately, visibility and impact of your work is what matters, usually in comparison to your peers. If you get same impact working half the time than the person next to you, more glory to you. (Just don't let your manager directly or indirectly know that you're idling, that's essentially asking for more work - so don't complain if they oblige)

I've seen a fair share of googlers who work 4 days a week and getting 80% of the pay. Most prefer to get 100% of the money though, especially since at review time you're judged on what you accomplished, not raw butt-in-the-seat time.

Likely sub-100% work time is something you'd have to negotiate with your managers after spending some time at a company, not right from day 1. One case I've seen - a guy working 50% between google and PhD (working on alternating weeks) flat out said there's no way in hell he'd get hired into this kind of arrangement - it was only after building trust with management and moving to a team with lower workload/stress.

You probably confused it with continental europe - there education in public universities in many countries still is extremely cheap or free.

UK on other hand is like light version of US.

Not sure about technical details for that but perhaps something like https://vitess.io/docs/reference/features/vitess-sequences/. Vitess itself is a project that grew out of YouTube's needs to scale and shard their MySQL DB.

Yes, exactly. Video ID is just a base64'ed DES-encrypted primary int64 video key from MySQL. It used to be sequentially incremented until at some point they switched to randomly generated primary keys. Any (ex-) engineer who snapped a copy of the encryption key (it used to sit right in the code for anyone to see) can enumerate all videos from YT until that moment, including unlisted - which are only protected by secrecy of that one key. If the key leaks, then also anyone in the world can. That's what they are afraid of here. Source: worked for YT.

And they did! At least in California, that's the news here. Overleveraged people got a lesson but will be made whole it seems. And every houseowner massively profited from house prices appreciation. What more can you ask for? Have your cake and eat it too.

Depends on company, but most of those with RSUs generally give you every year refresher grants, each with another 4 year vesting schedule, so long as they are happy with your performance. Thus, if your initial grant was G0 shares, and refreshers each year are G_i, at each year you'd vest G0/4, (G0+G1)/4, (G0+G1+G2)/4, (G0+G1+G2+G3)/4, (G1+G2+G3+G4)/4, (G2+G3+G4+G5)/4, ... shares.

Note the so called "cliff" after year 4, it's your cue to look for a new job. Especially if your initial grant was relatively large compared to refreshers as is often the case, but stock did not perform too well to compensate for it.

Size of refresher grants depends on your level, review and stock performance - company usually has some target $ amounts in mind for them.

Non-paying tenants is just a short-term problem and you can put a dollar amount on it. It's not the worst thing that can happen to a property. People with deeper pockets than you and able to wait it out would still buy with the right discount for the inconvenience and uncertainty. Or even for the mere right to be your buyer - there's extreme housing supply shortage in certain markets if you haven't been following the news. With some comical extremities like people pledging to name their firstborn after the seller etc

It's longtail-ish but there could be a number of other reasons why you might not be able to rent out a property for many many months.

Renting out houses is not a risk-free business. Risk materialized and hit people who took way more than they could chew.

But I doubt most of them are really "crippled" in light of crazy price appreciation on the other hand. They might be forced to sell due to cash flow problems (immediate cause of most business failures anyway, no?), but should still be in the plus after the sale goes through.

US tech companies are generally no longer interested in bringing foreigners from abroad on H1B - it's mostly dominated by indian body shops today. Wage levels rule changes might change this status quo but it's not in effect yet. Companies would consider H1B if you're already in the states on this or another type of visa, or working for them already from abroad. In the latter case you have an easier option of L1A/L1B transfer without any lotteries, with the catch that you won't be able to switch employers until you get GC.

A popular alternative is F1 - study for masters/phd in the US. Upon graduation you can stay work for 1-3 years on (STEM) OPT. 3 years is enough time to get proper H1B or green card, unless you were born in India or China.

For exceptional candidates, there's EB1, EB2-NIW - you can self-sponsor these without a company if you think you fit the requirements. Another type is O-1, company sponsorship required for this type but it could be your own startup and once you're in, you can work for another company on it. Biden reintroduced Entrepreneur Parole recently, another way to get into the states to roll your own startup.

maybe you got a dvd

More like no arrests that they could talk about, but it's not unheard of for governments to launder the evidence until it's more admissible in court (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction)

It's mostly C++ or Java (& other JVM languages) in high class finance, some python and verilog for their niches. The article is about the odd one out firm that has its own rather unique stack. It essentially says so at the end - "[you] become less employable anywhere else".