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If you're counting on this for a recovery, you're in for a bad time. Remember, the drop is quick, the recovery is slow as molasses. It's going to take so so so much more for things to turn around and I doubt we will ever see the 2020-2022 days of high salaries and full remote again. I hope and pray I'm wrong, but after nearly 20 years in tech, my gut says we are in for some hard times ahead.

I've been saying this since at least 2009 when the company I worked for was sending credit card info from card readers across the network in plain text and they dragged their feet to fix it even though they knew we were violating some serious SOX policies.

At another company in 2015, I discovered we were sending user credentials for a large hospitals in plain text across the network and need to fix this ASAP. When I brought this up to management, they shrugged and said "it's been this way for years and we have other priorities". After a large New York hospital was breached, I suddenly had management show up to my desk in panic asking how we can fix the issue immediately. I came up with a nice write-up for both our company and the hospital IT groups on how to secure our infrastructure with certs and whatnot and they still half-assed it with self-signed certificates.

In 2018 I worked for a fin-tech company in charge of some A-list celebrity 401K portfolios. We had a default admin password for our production database. ZERO encryption on the data; including SSN, birth-date, phone numbers, addresses, beneficiaries info, etc.

Last year one of the leading payroll providers in the country (USA) I used to work for started aggressively out-sourcing the software and allegedly had a really nasty security breach due to a back-door inserted by one of the out-sourced team members. It's alleged that leadership threatened employees if they disclosed the incident to anyone outside a key group of members.

Nobody give a damn about security until their identity is stolen and they have to spend hours/days/weeks/months putting their lives back together from the fallout.

I worked there for a few years a little over a decade ago in Oregon. The wages were abysmal, so you're not wrong, but they still drew a lot of good talent because Intel was more accessible to the suburbs than the city of Portland (commuting to downtown Portland was awful) and remote options were limited. Krzanich era layoffs and the availability of more remote work options resulted in a rapid drain of talent though.

The working environment was toxic (still is based on what I've heard from folks I know working there). It encouraged working against your peers instead of with them. Top heavy management meant lots of poor choices and money burned on worthless projects that never saw the light of day. Always had the looming threat of layoffs which ate into morale. TONS of off-shoring and third-party contracts, which everyone here knows is a mess in itself. Piss-poor research before buying up smaller companies or doing joint-ventures. Pouring money into the construction of more buildings when so many of their current ones sit unoccupied. It's all just a recipe for immense failure.

This comment is so out of touch with the reality of the current medical system that I think you're in for a very rude awakening in the future. I can go on for days about all the stories I have to counteract this point. Even doctors themselves are feeling the diagnostic failure issues. My child's pediatrician went into the ER and said "I think my appendix is about to burst". They thought she was just being dramatic and they wanted to discharge her with Zofran and tell her to come back if it got worse. After hours of arguing with the ER doctors and nurses, she convinced them to do imaging. Boom, appendix about to burst. She had an operation 2 hours later.

I don't turn it on simply because it drains an absurd amount of battery. I don't even understand why it does so. Is it old tech? My Blink cameras have 2 AA Lithium batteries that take motion-activated video all day on a busy side-walk for at least a couple of months. Yet one shopping trip drains like 2% battery in Sentry mode, wtf? That's a lot.

I envy you. I've been on-call numerous times just this month and got paged almost daily, many of them between 10pm and 6am, 2am on average. Our on-call duty is basically house arrest for a week. The worst part is 90% of the pages are not real issues or I can't even do anything about them other than wait for them to self-resolve. It drives me insane and because it's FAANG, it's nearly impossible to get this changed. If I could find another job (and I'm trying!), I would bail in an instant.

I have a literal pager because my company wants to take over my phone with their software and have the ability to wipe it out any time they wish. No thanks, kiss my ass. They will not provide a work phone either. An actual pager was the only alternative.

I wonder how much of a difference it would make if these kinds of stories went prime-time. It sickens me that Chappell Roan can make the front page of the BBC about some comments she made online, but this one is tucked away in a lesser known part of the internet where the majority of the public will never see it. If you google Russell Maze, the search results are a bit anemic, it's very sad.

We should be loud and very angry about this type of injustice. It can literally happen to any one of us.

> Some comments dismiss this author as a new driver with a learning curve

Which is a faulty way to think about it to begin with because good UX patterns should aim to be as idiot-proof as possible, especially for a CAR of all things. The KISS principle should apply here.

I've had my '23 Model Y for almost a year now and I still find the UX very severely lacking. For example if you want to change the speedometer display from kmh to mph - for crossing the Canada/US border - it's located in a weird part of the "Display" menu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbqibzYjkxE

I have a sero-negative inflammatory arthritis. The only thing that makes it better is meloxicam; that shit is AMAZINGLY effective, completely makes my symptoms go away for 2-3 days if I take the full 15mg. Unfortunately due to the risk of stomach bleeding and my sensitive stomach, I only take 7.5mg every now and then and only 15mg when I really need to do something active (walk long distances). Note: I tried celecoxib and it did nothing, but some people have luck with it over meloxicam.

Now there are foods that make it worse: generally anything with high sodium like pizza, fries, fast-food/restaurant food (Chinese food especially). Caffeine also makes it slightly worse. By far the worst of them all is alcohol though. After the alcohol wears off, I'm in so much agony that I can barely walk.

Not true! This was actually a life-changing read for me. I stopped being the rock-star developer and turned to quiet quitting before quiet quitting became a thing thanks to this. I'm not joking. No more over-time, far less stress, more time with family, and no more burn out. I have no regrets.

In high school (over 2 decades ago), I figured out how to crack the school security software (and obtain its master password, thank you Windows swap file!) and after doing so, I installed a keylogger on the school library computers. I got access to dozens of email accounts, instant messaging accounts, etc. I'm self-taught all the way. In fact I dropped out of high school junior year with a 1.76 GPA. I knew what was right and wrong, but not yet mature enough to fully grasp the harm it does. I don't think any sort of ethics teachings would've changed anything.

Isn't this what the "Right to try" laws are designed for? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-try_law

Although it does seem like many companies are still not allowing this. I don't know much on the topic and I'm not sure why (financial reasons perhaps?) they'd refuse, but I've always found it absurd that we can poison ourselves to death (literally) with all sorts of substances legally, but experimentation with life saving methods are restricted. I've seen some very strange arguments against the experimentation like "well they could die sooner!" - yeah, but that's up to the person to decide, just like all other decisions they've made preceding it. A patient has the right not to choose any treatment at all, that could definitely make the die sooner. Why is this where the line is drawn for some people? It seems arbitrary.

> How can I fault them for having a gut reaction to not engage with Republicans? And if someone is still happy to call themselves a Republican after all this hate, I think that reflects something about their character.

Yes and sometimes it's worth peeling back the layers to find out why they are embodying that character. An offensive strategy creates a defensive response, nothing will ever get resolved that way; it only creates more hostility. Instead, I invest time into knowing what makes that person so stubbornly that way while re-asserting the fact that I do not hold the same values. In at least a few of those cases, those people turned around to become more open to the LGBTQ+ community despite still holding onto their Republican status. That's a win in my book because it's slowly getting them to think more independently.

One of my friends was homophobic and would often make homophobic slurs "he's wearing f*g sandals". Instead of telling him he's a bad person or laugh along with him to avoid making things uncomfortable, I simply reiterate that I have no issues with people identifying as gay because what people do in their lives is none of my business. I let him know that I've made friends with gay men and never had one make me uncomfortable or feel like they overstepped boundaries; I know that idea is sometimes what makes straight men afraid of gay men. It took some time, but one day he finally let out that he had a weird uncle that would touch little boys and that's what he associates the LGBTQ+ community with. To which I gently pointed out why it's irrational. He's finally starting to come around now. Recently he'd been heard saying he's ok if his daughter ever turned out to be a lesbian. Small step in the right direction...

Thanks for the information. I've been diagnosed with seronegative inflammatory arthritis myself, so I understand that the blood tests are not perfect; and "rule out" was used loosely to mean "unlikely to have". All of which is not really relevant to my point. My point was that health practitioners have become too comfortable with using anxiety (without evidence) to brush off patient concerns instead of utilizing cheap diagnostic tests to aide in the exploratory process of diagnosing a patient accurately.

In the case of my wife, once both blood tests came back positive, she was properly referred to a rheumatologist to continue monitoring her symptoms and their progression. That is how the healthcare system is supposed to work. Run tests, if it comes back positive, keep investigating with the right specialists that are more experienced in the area, then continue to look for signals that a diagnosis is accurate. Not this hand-wavy speculation with lack of evidence we experienced early on. Now that she has started to develop rheumatoid nodules, it's becoming more accepted by her healthcare team that this is rheumatoid arthritis.

This is fantastic and a great step in the right direction, especially with the new treatments (mentioned in the article also). Unfortunately we still have doctors that either do not care enough or are not skilled enough to order simple blood tests.

Me, my wife, and my father all have various auto-immune issues. It's been a frustrating fight on all three fronts to get any sort of testing done. For myself this has spanned over a decade now. My dad's journey is just starting, but we've had to switch specialists numerous times to get one that would actually DO something.

For my wife, we begged two previous PCPs for years to get an ANA and rheumatoid factor panel done because I suspected she had rheumatoid arthritis. Those tests are simple and more importantly, they're cheap. No reason to not do them in the context of patient's complaints about chronic pain, especially if they provide peace of mind and rule out serious causes. PCPs consistently brushed it off as anxiety and stress. We finally found a new PCP to take it seriously, so lo and behold: positive blood tests for both ANA and Rheumatoid Factor!

It's absurd that we have all these tools available to us, but they're not being utilized in many valid cases where they'd be useful. So while the article mentions this would be a way to start treatment early by detecting the disease earlier, I have low confidence in the health system to take that initial step.

Three simple facts here: 1) This is obviously abnormal enough for the people in the video to flee 2) the aftermath - (1:15+) - clearly demonstrates it was unsafe to be there and 3) there is no way to predict if the next eruption would be equally abnormal or worse unless one were trained in this field

There is no arguing those facts, it's 100% clear from that video you linked. Am I going to stay away from the park the rest of the day? I don't know, maybe. It really depends on the circumstances. I am not a volcanologist. I'm not even a scientist. I don't understand the specifics involved here. If it were me, and I can clearly see something abnormal happened, I would NOT risk going back unless I can somehow verify it was safe to do so. That's common sense. It might involve finding a park ranger to speak with or calling the ranger station to get more information. I've been to the geyser at Iceland where they have signs that explicitly tell you about the unpredictable nature of it and how people have been badly burned. This is not a no-risk situation, especially when the situation is not the norm.

I've been to the big island of Hawaii during volcanic activity and they explicitly tell you to stay away from it due to the gasses, rocks, lava, etc. Maybe that elevates my skepticism over the safety here, but it seems that's for good reason.

EDIT: here you go mate, you don't need to look at Hacker News comments. Take it from the Park itself:

https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/news/240723.htm

> Biscuit Basin, including the parking lot and boardwalks, are temporarily closed for safety reasons. The Grand Loop Road remains open.

> Park staff and staff from USGS will monitor conditions and reopen the area once deemed safe.

Did you watch the whole thing? Skip to the 1:15 mark where people go back. The criticism is absolutely warranted here. I guarantee none of those people are capable of predicting what comes next after an explosion like that. I certainly don't. What if the next one is beneath where they're standing at the 1:15 mark and beyond?

I'm not sure how OP's comment doesn't reflect HN's standard of quality. It's exactly the type of quality response that's appropriate for this instance. I'd say your response isn't quite up to it if anything because you're making an argument against someone that is encouraging safety and well-being; and for no apparent reason at all but to point out someone is flawed? I don't get it.

I don't think this works out well for most people anymore. I mean that was true a few years ago when things were booming even, but now you're almost guaranteed to have a very hard time. I know someone that is over-employed and has over half a dozen jobs (yes you read that right, and it's been verified); most of them are at entrepreneur owned companies and they are all struggling right now, hanging by a thread with a skeleton crew.

What in the world... I'm a FAANG employee - I think I'm around 18 years of experience now (I stopped counting) - with a great resume (or so I'm told), and I can't even get 100K jobs to respond to me let alone FAANG jobs. I'm talking about the initial step too; I've had zero interviews or screenings.

I used to watch her videos back when she had very little followers. I'm glad to see she picked up so many subscribers, it's well deserved. I enjoy the way she interacts with the people because it seems more natural than the other heavily edited/pro formats.

As a dev working in big tech, I'm sure they do feel embarrassed, and I'm sure there is jack shit they can do about it. Is that how you feel?

I don't know how many times I've reasonably pointed out why our product is extremely user-unfriendly - backed by evidence from user feedback and endless reddit complaints - but I still get shot down, badly. "Disagree and commit" they say, which is just short for "do what we tell you and shut the fuck up". If you bring up issues too many times, you end being treated like an agitator and they make your life hell. This has remained true for the many different industries I've worked in over the last 17+ years. Software developers are effectively powerless in many organizations.

I've worked in many different companies (healthcare, real estate, investment research, payroll, semi-conductor, streaming media, and more). I am currently in FAANG. All of your points pretty much apply across the board. Especially the one about tests, that is nearly universal. Outsourcing is a recipe for amplifying all of those negatives though and always has been. It won't be long before they start bringing those jobs back here again for that reason. Happens every time.

That would be a red flag for me in most cases, as the person being interviewed. If the interview is to gauge my knowledge of Javascript, then using sets should be in my favor since I'm using the most optimized approach to demonstrate I know the language well and can adequately do the job. If it's "not acceptable", then what is the goal there? To wrack my brain as part of some pseudo intelligence test? Shall we break it down to 1s and 0s too?

That's because any time people reach a terminus like this and ask social media for help, somebody always chimes in with "report to your state AG". I've seen the answer come up numerous times on reddit as the top voted solution for many different things. I'm guessing the hundreds of thousands is a combination of all states and requests over many years as well.

One of the first things I had to do when buying the car was go online and search for it. I had no idea it was there because it looks like part of the trim in my Model Y and and when you have an all-black interior, it doesn't stand out (especially in low light conditions). I had to show my family members where it was also. They need to put a red decal on it or something, so that it stands out more.

I saw Stephen Wolfram in the URL and hesitated to click at first for that exact reason. This turned out to be a fantastic write-up though, so I'm glad I gave it a chance.

Becoming a medical professional is very expensive; tuition often going into the six-figures. Becoming a physician takes a good decade or more of your life. The entry process is very competitive and limited, with majority of applicants being rejected. IIRC the acceptance rates are below 50%. Once a person clears those hurdles however, they are now faced with a torrential abuse of corruption, racism, fraud, elitism, favoritism, etc. that they must overcome.

Much of the medical field is like this unfortunately, it's not just doctors. Take for example this article about Duke's Nursing School and racism: https://archive.is/DIJ98. From what I've heard through third-party, corruption at Duke is at an all-time high. This is just the stuff we hear about too, so I'm sure these problems affect all of the top-tier colleges that nobody reports so they don't get ejected from these programs.

This seems to be the point most people are ignoring. I'm on the Spotify family plan, with 4 people using it almost all day. The amount of songs we've discovered, played, etc is absurdly high. We churn through music constantly, so even if I pirated everything, it would be ridiculously time consuming and not worth the effort to curate things the way I have with Spotify. A good batch of the music I listen to isn't even available to pirate; back in the day I had to use youtube-dl to find and download those and sometimes the quality was terrible.

All that being said, I'm not buying the "innovation" bullshit excuse they're throwing at us and I think such a large price hike for the family plan is too high, but it's still at a price point for me that doesn't justify moving to something else. There is a limit though, and at some point I will just move back to the high seas (like I did with movies).

Some of these web apps are from very profitable or big companies and that drives me insane because they have more than enough funding to do things right.

Take Home Depot for example. Loading their website in a mobile browser is soooooooooo slow. The rendering is atrocious, with elements jumping all over the place. You click on one thing and it ends up activating a completely different element, then you have to wait for whatever you just clicked to load and jump all over the place again. Very frustrating! Inside their stores is even worse! I asked for help locating an item from one of their workers one day and they pull up their in-store app. That too was slower than molasses and janky, so we ended up standing there for several minutes just chatting waiting for it to load.