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Isn’t this study using the same methodology that was recently debunked? The one about that fake ratio of positive vs negative thoughts? Someone had posted an article about it here in HN.

Wait, is the Boring Company still pursuing commercial transport via hyperloop?

Now it sounds like a doomed idea, basically just pneumatic tubes at a larger scale, but I remember how fresh it sounded a few years back.

> So it's ok if someone takes your car the next time you park on a free parking lot?

Not the best analogy since the parking lot is just an empty physical space. Taking it away wouldn’t also “delete” your car. The car is actually a separate physical object. But in a cloud drive, the file and the space are the same. Taking away the space is obviously going to take away the file.

On top of all that, the file still exists elsewhere for most people.

I think only you actually have all the context to be able to make that decision. Don’t let it be decided by a vote from people who don’t know you based on five sentences of limited information.

Agree with this. Conway's Law will always hold. If a company does not organize it's teams into units that actually hold full responsibility and full control/agency over that responsibility, those teams will burn out.

When getting anything done requires constant meetings, placing tickets, playing politics, and doing anything and everything to get other teams to accept that they need to work with you and prioritize your tasks so that you can get them done, you will burn out.

You know what? This is a really great point. When I reflect back on my career experience (at companies like Expedia, eBay, Zillow, etc.) the best distributed systems experience I had was at companies that standardized on languages and frameworks and drew a pretty strong boundary around those choices.

It wasn't that you technically couldn't choose another stack for a project, but to do so you had to justify the cost/benefit with hard data, and the data almost never bore out more benefit than cost.

I find it "exhilirating," not "exhausting." But I also don't think that "...your average engineer should now be able to handle all this." That is where we went completely wrong as an industry. It used to be said that what we work on is complex, and you can either improve your tools or you can improve your people. I've always held that you will have to improve your people. But clever marketing of "the cloud" has held out the false promise that anyone can do it.

Lies, lies, and damn lies, I say!

Unless you have bright and experienced people at the top of a large distributed systems company, who have actually studied and built distributed systems at scale, your experience of working in such a company is going to suck, plain and simple. The only cure is a strong continuous learning culture, with experienced people around to guide and improve the others.

Theoretically, by removing bullshit and friction from the job environment, employees will get more done, therefore making the company more money, therefore providing a larger pie to divide between them.

So on the topic of employee retention, there would be a "both/and" rather than an "instead of" argument, it seems to me.

Wow, this looks bad whether or not you accept the argument that the same work should result in different pay based on location. Let's say you still accept that pay should be "market-" (location-) based. It still looks like Google is targeting their black and brown employees with lower pay.

Have you tried reset password?

The level of effort to mislead seems to go deeper every time a new article comes out about it. Didn't I see a stat that said that 80%+ of people on Facebook who joined a hate group did so by suggestion of Facebook's own algorithms? Sheesh.

If I wanted to take down the internet for my kids, I could just block all their IP addresses in my router. Much easier and not illegal. (I have not actually done this.)

More info: https://player.fm/series/recode-daily/nice-raise-too-bad-abo...

When I saw the headline, I was really hoping that the accompanying article was actually not an argument for keeping pay stagnant, but it effectively was. So disappointing.

Does the author not know that pay is not even keeping with inflation right now?

This is why I support the ACLU. They are one of the only organizations set up to actually achieve asset forfeiture reform. But they need all of our help. Check out https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-po... to learn more about their efforts.

Obligatory link to Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

Core idea:

"I’ve seen three considerations that drive the successful adoption of the biphasic monetization strategy. First, companies need to prove the benefits of this biphasic monetization strategy by qualifying new services against 13 attributes that make up what I call the Unified Subscription Adoption Model (USAM). I developed the USAM as the first hybrid framework for assessing the end-to-end potential of subscription offerings, combining two widely recognized technology and product adoption models, but adjusting their core attributes to better match the idiosyncrasies of subscription-based offerings. Second, new features/services need to be added over time to maintain or increase the overall price of a given subscription bundle. And lastly, companies need to take into account how susceptible the demand for a given offering is to changes in price."

Mountain biking

Yes. I'm seeing emails from multiple recruiters and often the same recruiter reaches out 3-5 times. I just ghost them because a) I have asked them to drop me off their list before and b) I have no idea how they got the email address that they're using.

I used to have a rule that if the words "Amazon" and "recruiter" were in the email body then it went straight to trash. I may have to add that back.

Link to the discussion here yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347719

IMO the author displays confirmation bias in the post. He doesn't think about the effects of a higher availability information with a lower ability to seek out other contradicting points of view. If you're deluged with carefully chosen factual information, that's more convincing than outright lies. And this is often the situation we are in more often than not these days. Along with an inability to spot logical fallacies in lines of reasoning.

Some really good thoughts here. I'll summarize the ones that hit me:

- "Why are people searching Reddit specifically? The short answer is that Google search results are clearly dying. The long answer is that most of the web has become too inauthentic to trust."

This is it for me exactly. I search for the following kinds of things on Reddit exactly because results on other sites aren't trustworthy: Reviews are secretly paid ads. The "best" recipe for pancakes is only what's trending on instagram right now. The latest conditions on mountain bike and hiking trails are being shared inside communities like Reddit but not on the web. The same for trending programmer tools.

- "It is obvious that serving ads creates misaligned incentives for search engines..."

What I'm shocked by is that Google somehow maintained a balance on this for so long. Well, at least a good enough balance that people still use it primarily.

- "Google increasingly does not give you the results for what you typed in. It tries to be “smart” and figure out what you “really meant" ..."

This is the most annoying behavior because I really mean what I write.

- "There’s a fun conspiracy theory that popped up recently called the Dead Internet Theory..."

I hadn't heard of this. Now that's some sci-fi level of conspiracy but in today's world it seems totally plausible.

I use Pocketsmith to track expenses, assets, liabilities, make financial projections, etc. I have a sub-category of "Misc" called "Digital Subscriptions" that I put all subscriptions under regardless of whether or not they are cloud services, media streaming services, apps, or other. I view them as a kind of virus that will grow if left unchecked. Every so often my wife and I go and see if we're paying more than we think is necessary for digital subscriptions. Then we cancel. This way we've hit a kind of stasis.

I can ride my bike with no handlebars...

...sorry, couldn't resist.

I'm at 18 years and I still love solving the daily mysteries about why a system is behaving a certain way or how to optimize something so that it is more efficient. The whole diagnostic / debugging / problem-solving process is something I'll never grow tired of.

Should be interesting to watch this unfold. Hadnagy says they haven't mentioned to him what the transgressions are, but the organizer statement suggests they did.

Kudos for duckduckgo.com! Looks like they have it right.

Quick comment:

I don't really blame the search engines for listing a result with bad data because sites change so often. Whose to say that the data wasn't right at one point and a recent update introduced erroneous data after it was already indexed.

It seems to me like "caveat emptor" applies here and no matter where a site falls on search rankings the reader / consumer should perform some due diligence.

One of my favorite shell aliases is "alias weather=curl wttr.in/<City>"

Firefox is losing marketshare because Chrome is the default browser on Android devices and Android devices are the number one device in the world. Most people don't even know how to change their default browser.

I don't think Firefox needs saving. Those who use it are active and committed to it.