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"lunzi" and "huidu" are both nice concise terms, would be nice to have an terse english equivalent. I am curious if knowing this sort of term is actually helpful for the average engineer working at an org like bytedance, or if things are siloed to the point that the eng orgs are basically separate with limited Chinese-English collaboration outside of certain management teams.

PS: If you're interested in learning more Chinese tech terms, I've put together an Anki deck of 330+ cards with example sentences.

Anki deck: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1351796314

Preview of cards + list of sources: https://computerlab.io/2023/06/08/chinese-software-engineeri...

Sotheby's | Software/Data Engineers and Leads | Remote | Full Time

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We use and teach: Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, Bazel, Go, TypeScript, GraphQL, Python

Work-life balance is solid and remote-first.

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tfswitch might help with particular issue of terraform versioning:

https://tfswitch.warrensbox.com/

Even then some versions of terraform providers are not compatible with M1 macs. Docker would help with that probably, but so can: https://github.com/kreuzwerker/m1-terraform-provider-helper

Perhaps these sort of issues support the benefits of per-module docker images?

Sotheby's | Software/Data Engineer | New York or Remote | Full Time

Sotheby's is the world's leading auction house for art, luxury and beyond. We're constantly building new sales channels (like our retail marketplace platform) and products (like our art-backed financing offering) with some pretty interested technologies.

We're looking for engineers across a variety of teams, including the Platform team I'm a member of. If you're excited about developer experience, scaling high-value realtime systems, and SRE, you might be a good fit for joining this team! https://boards.greenhouse.io/sothebys/jobs/4004826004

Our stack: Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, Bazel, TypeScript, GraphQL, Go, Python

Work-life balance is solid and remote + roughly quarterly in-person meetings has been working well for my team. We're also hiring engineers for a new team based in Shanghai.

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> I don't think she actually did any female protagonists at all.

Of course there's Therese, the well-developed protagonist of The Price of Salt (aka Carol), a lesbian romance. This work and its movie adaptation are the reason she's a gay icon - both are popular and well-loved.

Highsmith published The Price of Salt under a pseudonym after her success with "Strangers on a Train", which is driven by the masculine characters you mention. From what I can tell, The Price of Salt is more directly based on her personal life, or rather her fantasies, and part of the reason she used a pseudonym is that her agent warned her that writing a lesbian novel would be career suicide. Wikipedia has more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Price_of_Salt "Highsmith described the character of Therese as having come "from my own bones"."

The concept of "so-so automation" [1] seems relevant: innovation that allows a business or organization to eliminate human employees, but doesn't result in overall productivity gains or cost savings for society that could then be redistributed to the laid-off employees.

I think so-so automation often is used places where there's a lot of zero-sum conflict between workers and management, or where the work itself causes a lot of negative human externalities. (This can be a good thing: it's probably okay to settle for a "worse result" from an automated system if it eliminates a lot of physical or psychological harm to people...some content moderation issues probably fall under this case, but not this one.)

[1] https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/lure-so-so-tec...

The Parity wallet bug from 2017 is the classic example so far, where someone who was just messing around with the smart contract 'accidentally' locked up $280m in assets[1]. I've linked to the GitHub thread below...this person didn't get anything from the exploit, and it wasn't for street cred (they deleted their account).

https://github.com/openethereum/parity-ethereum/issues/6995#...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/08/accidental-bug-may-have-froz...

I’m interested in hearing more about this approach, are there any papers on it? I see two different ideas here: the use of hypnosis to create unconscious “hooks” into conscious thought. This could be useful if for whatever reason certain features of conscious are not easy to detect (another comment mentioned that it’s harder to get clear signals from the frontal cortex). Then there is the idea of using muscle twitched / GVS as an information channel. It seems hard to get a high bandwidth from this (compared to invasive or EEG-like approaches).

Feeling basically neutral towards your employer (or nation) is probably how having reasonably aligned incentives feels at scale. If you were an hourly minimum wage worker for a large corporation, there's a good chance you'd spend a good part of your workday in a blind, passive-aggressive rage.

I often wonder if the release of Zelle around 2017 (near instant, fee-free transactions between personal and business bank accounts between certain US banks) was motivated by a perceived crypto threat.

If you want to see an index of meta studies, you can check out the Cochrane Collaboration: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/

It’s mentioned in the book Bad Pharma which has a pretty good breakdown of how drug marketing to consumers and medical professionals distorts decision making.

And the ability to cost-effectively signal to customers that your execution is better.

A few years back an artist did a LCD piece that used the daily NYT front page image as the seed for a generative painting:

https://anthology.rhizome.org/daily-times-performer

Baseball’s state and state transitions are easily serializable, no need for a lossy video stream :)