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by hinkley | 2025-05-01 23:06:13+00:00
I suppose it depends. Maybe something isn’t worth doing in house. Like for instance if the parts show up unfinished or damaged you don’t pay someone to straighten bent rails, chamfer bolt holes and de-burr surfaces. Maybe you pay the vendor a bit more, find a new vendor, or hire a middleman to bring the parts in ready to ship.

Paying your support staff well is virtue signaling to be sure but as someone who’s always had a soft spot for top shelf QA and support folk, that’s not a bad thing.
by ivape | 2025-05-01 23:06:26+00:00
Like I said, it's not easy to put any weight on her. But again, I see a weight here that needs to be put on something. Let's say she shares her cancer journey, and she gets tons of great support. I still think this is in poor taste because many people don't get that support. Part of decency is to know that "hey, not everyone will get this kind of support, so let me take my place with the others". I hope that paints the weight properly, without putting the weight on her. There's no absolving the toxic consumers of the content. Where do you even begin teaching someone that if you don't have something nice to say about cancer, don't say anything at all? The whole thing is problematic, and such a scenario wouldn't even exist if the general population did not have such allegiance to popularity.
by trhway | 2025-05-01 23:07:20+00:00
You're weaseling around the fact that Fauci outright and knowingly lied to the Congress about funding the gain-of-function research in WIV. That research in particular includfed successful inserting of human ACE2 receptor binding protein into non-human coronavirus with the resulting virus successfully killing off mice engineered with the human cells with ACE2 receptors. That happens to be exactly what COVID is, and that happened right before the official COVID emergence in Wuhan.

>to provide agnostic and scientifically informed hypothesis around the origins of the virus.

you can't do this if you don't include the viruses created in Wuhan, and they intentionally hadn't. Of course they couldn't find anything definitive because they outright excluded the real source - the lab. That is dishonest manipulation which in particular killed the NIH scientific credibility.
by jsheard | 2025-05-01 23:07:47+00:00
It could be worse, the main alternative is something like Cloudflares death-by-a-thousand-CAPTCHAs when your browser settings or IP address put you on the wrong side of their bot detection heuristics. Anubis at least doesn't require any interaction to pass.

Unfortunately nobody has a good answer for how to deal with abusive users without catching well behaved but deliberately anonymous users in the crossfire, so it's just about finding the least bad solution for them.
by somat | 2025-05-01 23:08:43+00:00
three phase, If we are going with unrealistic dreams, I want three phase to every house.

"avoids eye contact as you patently explain that the only real benefit to three phase is for motors"

But really the US is a 240V system. we just split the phase and wire the house in two halfs. you should not even need to rewire your house. Just hook the neutral to the opposite phase in the panel, like magic you now have 240V in every outlet.

Don't actually do this it will end up killing someone.
by nathan_compton | 2025-05-01 23:08:58+00:00
I don't know - The Three Body Problem is certainly a _bummer_ but in a way it presents a universe where all lifeforms can at least identify with eachother with respect to the desire to out-compete everyone else for resources. The aliens in TTBP are basically just people.

In Solaris we are presented with something genuinely alien to human beings with which communication is barely possible.
by jasode | 2025-05-01 23:09:48+00:00
>Everyone [...] gets performance based compensation in the form of increases in salary, bonus, and equity. There's no reason sales people couldn't be compensated in the same way.

There is a reason and it's based on the external market dynamics that the company itself can't control. The potential candidate salespeople can see/compare how other companies pay for sales.

Whatever principled stance the company wants to take on compensating salespeople in a different way than "industry standard" e.g. "same salary + same bonus as the devs" or "flat salary no commission" etc ... those idealistic plans still have to compete in the marketplace with other companies paying high sales commissions. Therefore, if the more egalitarian sales comp structure means the "rainmakers" are choosing other companies instead of yours, it's a moot point.

E.g. 0xide's comp plan for recruiting good salespeople still has to be competitive with everybody else such as: https://www.cbinsights.com/company/oxide-computer/alternativ...

Sales commissions aren't an "industry standard" just because they're an "industry standard" type of circular reasoning. It's an industry standard because other compensation methods for salespeople that pay them like all the other non-salespeople don't work so most successful companies converge on paying high commissions for high performers. A lot of non-salespeople don't understand this so it seems like paying commissions for sales positions is arbitrary and unnecessary and therefore, "unfair". As a dev, I used to think sales commissions that exceeded my salary were ridiculous but having attempted sales myself, it now makes perfect sense.

Salespeople don't want to be paid like devs with an annual bonus. You have to treat them differently: https://a16z.com/why-must-you-pay-sales-people-commissions/
by dankbytes | 2025-05-01 23:10:11+00:00
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by joshstrange | 2025-05-01 23:10:33+00:00
I really want to like Deno. I started to watch "just a few minutes" of their keynote (I assume it was the most recent one, this was a month or so ago) and was intrigued by it and ended up watching the whole thing.

Then I went to go play with it add... I ran into odd compatibility issues (no, I don't remember them, I'm sorry) and tried Bun and everything "just worked". I'm sure Bun is not perfect but so far, every one-off script I've thrown at it has "just worked" which is amazing for me since I greatly prefer to work in TypeScript and (until recently with the type-stripping stuff in node) that was way harder than it needed to be.

If I never see an error about how I should change my "type" to "module" only to do it have it complain about 10 other things I will die happy.

I love Javascript, I love TypeScript, I feel like I'm primed to love Deno but all the parts of it felt half-baked. The comments in this article about things like Fresh and K/V store ring very true. I kept looking for things like "What backend framework should I use?" and the answers were all over the place and not very mature options. It felt like I was building on sand.

I hope I'm 100% wrong, I hope deno turns it around, I want more things like deno to exist, but the closing of data centers is not encouraging.
by ahnaqvi | 2025-05-01 23:10:42+00:00
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by lolinder | 2025-05-01 23:11:13+00:00
I'd argue it doesn't "just so happen" to benefit AWS, it was causal: Open Source created AWS. AWS is structured the way that it is in order to benefit from Open Source, and it grew to its current size by so benefiting.

In a lot of ways things like AWS are what the OSI set out to create when they set out to sell Free Software as an idea to corporations. This was the pitch.
by tristor | 2025-05-01 23:11:45+00:00
> So there isn't even a real argument you could ever make in support of anything Republican

I didn't make any arguments in support of anything Republican. The fact I put "left-wing" in quotes and pointed out that there is no left wing in US politics should have been an indication that I'm not supporting Republicans.

> But in the spirit of conversation, you are fully wrong. GDP is an indicator of economic activity.

Yes, it's what I described, it's economic activity in the frame of movement of money, it says nothing about the quality of life of any individual or how that GDP is distributed, this is why PPP is a much more reasonable metric. I am very much correct in my statements, you are intentionally misunderstanding or you don't understand how PPP vs GDP differ when making comparisons between regions/economies.

> You can't claim that Texas economy is growing because Republicans,

I don't think the Texas economy is growing due to Republicans. The Texas economy is growing because it's cheap to live there at the same quality of life that it's expensive to live in other states, so people move to Texas because they can't afford to live in other states due to the growing wealth disparity in this country, something that GDP conveniently ignores but that PPP doesn't.

> Republicans generally don't have the critical thinking skills to parse reality from ideology - if they did they would be Democrats.

If people in the US had strong critical thinking skills we wouldn't be stuck with first past the post elections causing us a false dichotomy between two shitty right-wing parties that are both run for the benefit of wealthy elites, but sure, we'd all vote Democrat, whatever floats your boat, given you've displayed a really sore lack of critical thinking in your response.

I'd nitpick the rest of your comment, but since you clearly didn't read and understand what I wrote, it's a wasted effort. You somehow bucketed me into the "Republican" bucket and replied to a strawman instead of acknowledging that GDP doesn't account for wealth disparity, which is why PPP (especially as a per capita metric) is superior for understand QoL differences vs GDP. Last I checked Republicans aren't lamenting the lack of a real left-wing party in the US and talking about the impact of wealth disparity, but go off I guess.
by hinkley | 2025-05-01 23:12:02+00:00
I’ve worked with a lot of engineers who punch down and what they all have in common is that they don’t have a clue how to make lemonade from “lemons”. They just want people who can read their minds. Tough shit. Never going to happen.

New people ask questions and make mistakes that reveal organizational problems that would help everyone if fixed. As a company grows there are more parts added to the system and at some point senior staff are going to feel like newbies doing something they haven’t touched in two or three years. All that work you did for newbies now pays off as lower overhead for putting projects into maintenance mode or scaling them up for a big initiative.

The worst outcome for everyone is if you hire a new employee and then let them alone. That’s short changing everyone.
by dgfitz | 2025-05-01 23:12:10+00:00
How quickly we forget being teenagers and young adults.

Computers, and knowledge in general, is the the most accessible it’s ever been, in the history of mankind.

So you’re claiming that the trillions of dollars that have been spent trying to uplift the youth of yesteryear were a complete an utter waste?

Or has social media been the somma Huxley was talking about all along?

Nothing stops anyone from reading and learning, having hope for the future, and pursuing it. WhatsApp had a staff of like 15-25 people. Linux wa started by some dork with an idea and a lot of time.

Treating the world like victims that need protecting isn’t the play.
by sunshine-o | 2025-05-01 23:12:19+00:00
> the problem is the definition of Open Source is controlled by the Open Source Initiative, which has been captured by the hyperscalers

Thank you for pointing that out.

This is something I have noticed in the last decade:

A lot of fake, captured organisations have popup around open source. I once went down the rabbit hole to try to make a list and quickly found dozen of them. It is always very hard to understand what they do and employ a bunch of people who usually never wrote a single line of code.

One example found on the Fedora website is the "Digital Public Goods Alliance" [0]

- [0] https://www.digitalpublicgoods.net/
by Balgair | 2025-05-01 23:12:57+00:00
I think we have very different definitions of the word 'research' then.

I'd say that what you're saying is 'synthesis'. The 'Intro/Discussion' sections of a journal article.

For me, 'research' means the work of going through and getting all the data in the first place. Like, going out and collecting dino bones in the hot sun, measuring all the soil samples, etc. - that is research. For me, asking these models to go collate some webpages, I mean, you spend the first weeks of a summer undergrad's time to go do this kid of thing to get them used to the file systems and spruce up their organization skills, see where they are at. Writing the paper up, that's part of research sure, but not the hard part that really matters.
by navane | 2025-05-01 23:13:05+00:00
They stopped talking about it. They dropped the issue from their list. In my country they went to covid masks, siding with Russia in Ukraine (one of our ministers literally called zelensky a dictator) and now back to border controls I believe. It's like the "today I'm an expert in X" meme.

They always have like five taking points to whip their base in anger and it doesn't really matter what they are but they're always a bit lunatic.
by louwrentius | 2025-05-01 23:13:11+00:00
Seems like the rest of the HN crowd is swooning over Waymo. Nothing but glowing reviews.

As they become the monopolist, like they always do, watch how they’ll run the age old playbook to destroy the market and then hike prices.

I’m not against self-driving cars. I’m against self-driving cars owned by a few megacorps, that will have even control and surveillance capabilities in addition to what’s already in your pocket.
by boulos | 2025-05-01 23:13:15+00:00
In practice, you pay out the commission over time. So if someone was extremely deceptive, or the customer churns nearly immediately, you don't just keep getting the commission.

At Oxide's scale, it would likely be hard to hide out in the way you're suggesting. It's a very technical sale, and probably any material deal is going to involve some discussion with someone beyond just a single sales rep.

Perhaps to bcantrill's point in the post though, I would suggest you reconsider the assumption that Sales people are purely coin operated. I'd love to hear from their reps directly, but as an example from my own experience, lots of the early Google Cloud sales folks were there because they hated how places like Oracle or Microsoft treated their customers. They were absolutely taking less peak pay, for what they felt was a better relationship.

Sales is fundamentally about relationships and trust in this kind of high-touch transaction. Badly behaving reps are pretty quickly outed, one way or another, though at big companies it can take a while to fire them.
by treebeard901 | 2025-05-01 23:13:18+00:00
For decades they sold basically real food at cheaper than usual prices...

Then by the early 90s, they began to hollow it all out where you could keep a cheeseburger on a shelf for months and it wouldn't look much different. Then they started removing the amount of actual beef used. And most of the chicken is just like a paste that they form into nuggets or patties.

By 2000s, it was so cheap for them to produce "burgers" that they were able to have sales where you could get a regular cheeseburger for like 30 cents. The dollar menu all looked like it did a decade earlier, it's just that all of these ingredients were replaced to save on cost.

By 2005 or so, the cost began increasing and far outpaced any gain in income.

This happened for a while where today they want to sell you a combo meal for something like $15 in some places, and most of that food is basically just look like food and not even the real thing, despite being priced against places that just take bread, beef and cheese and cook it like you're supposed to.

The whole thing is a scam and McDonald's is a terrible company.

Maybe have the President work the fryer again and see if it boosts sales?
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-05-01 23:13:44+00:00
>1) not the point, that list of criticisms was a bad list of criticisms

My claim was merely that the situation was analogous. So yes, it is the point, in my view.

There is a grey area where you can do things that the electorate may want, which also happen to benefit your cronies. This overall issue is more severe for big government types, since more largesse is getting handed out.

I'd additionally highlight your use of the term "relevant electorate". Which underscores that "cronies" and "voters" may be the same people.

Direct Tesla subsidies would probably be quite popular with Tesla workers. That's a relevant electorate. Would that therefore make direct Tesla subsidies defensible? That's what your argument seems to imply.

>2) whether anything that happened in the last month is going to promote more domestic manifacturing is quite dubious at best.

I suspect some of the items from the FEE list won't be particularly effective at their stated goal either. In general, people will disagree about the likely effectiveness of government programs. So I'm not sure "likely effectiveness" is a great way to check for favoritism.
by nozzlegear | 2025-05-01 23:13:47+00:00
> Using a distro that handles things your way is your privilege. I assume most people who install packages care about the functionality they provide, not the brand name

This is an amusing example of "the duality of man," having just finished reading a bunch of comments to the effect of "the user should have the ultimate say as to what apps they can install from the App Store" in the Apple thread.
by thechao | 2025-05-01 23:13:48+00:00
Spur gear differentials are naturally adders (with carry!); so, traditionally they've only ever been used for analogue logic. They're overly complicated for digital logic: you need two spur gears to build a single gate (NAND) to perform a single binary operation. If you want any sort of reasonable lash characteristics you're going to need ~60 teeth. At that point, two 60 teeth spur gears give you a 3600-valued adder. That'd take something like 300+ spur gears in binary: it just doesn't make any damn sense.

I think the last time I looked at this, if I used the cast spur gears available I needed a staged approach to "start" the computer and a 1100 hp motor to run it.
by rank0 | 2025-05-01 23:14:56+00:00
Whats the point of open source if you can't fork or sell hosted clusters?

Also from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch_(software):

> On September 16, 2024, the Linux Foundation and Amazon Web Services announced the creation of the OpenSearch Software Foundation.[15][16] Ownership of OpenSearch software was transferred from Amazon to OpenSearch Software Foundation, which is organized as an open technical project within the Linux Foundation.

OpenSearch is Apache License 2.0. You can do whatever you want to/with it. How are Elastic the good guys in your mind?
by dewarrn1 | 2025-05-01 23:14:58+00:00
It sounds like a compelling film. Seeing now that it's produced by Penn & Teller's team, it makes me wonder about this fits into their "juggler vs. magician" dichotomy. The implication of that duo producing the film suggests that they might believe that Vermeer's reputation as an extraordinarily skilled artist ("juggler") might in fact be the result of Vermeer's use of a sophisticated apparatus that tricked patrons and viewers into thinking that he had extraordinary abilities, thus making Vermeer a master faker ("magician"). Or maybe they simply wanted to spur debate.
by crazygringo | 2025-05-01 23:15:00+00:00
> You've clearly never been to the US.

You're clearly wrong.

> Late-stage capitalism will find ways to make it cost exactly as much as driving your own car.

Late-stage capitalism is a defunct theory based on Marxism.

Real, actual capitalism results in competition which drives prices down, as long as there are two or more competitors and antitrust law is enforced. Which is generally the case.

And in the case of monopolies like city buses, cities set prices directly in response to democratic pressure. By your argument, NYC subways ought to be $25 a ride... but they aren't.
by riyanapatel | 2025-05-01 23:15:28+00:00
I'm assuming you're thinking about whether or not to allow the interviewee to use AI to answer code-related questions or problems. I'll be honest. This is a huge debate now, given the shift of utilizing AI. However, I believe that the interviews should be a direct reflection of what the employee will be doing at the company. If that company uses AI in their workflows, then why shouldn't it be allowed in interviews? You need to see the way the user utilizes AI to solve problems or understand their thought processes.
by creer | 2025-05-01 23:16:09+00:00
> 'How fat is Kim Jong Un?' They terminate the call instantly,

A more likely reason is that you just called them out. See how most scams work. There is no reason to stick around instead of pursuing easier targets.

On top of that, if necessary and meanwhile, others of the same team might do better at the same time for the same employer and succeed by contrast.
by GTM_Vic | 2025-05-01 23:16:43+00:00
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