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by hinkley | 2025-05-01 23:16:59+00:00
> Like the post says, when they're making lots of money, everybody else is making even more money.

I’ve worked with sales people whose compensation had loopholes you could drive a truck through, make sales that cost us more money than we made on the contract. Now a few of those are good for attracting VC money, but you have to be strategic and I’ve seen too much evidence of them not being so.

If you lock up your biggest potential customers with bad contracts that makes you default dead and no good way to weasel out.
by incompatible | 2025-05-01 23:16:59+00:00
The demonstration, UK railcards, is a bit odd. I thought they were sharing too much information, date of birth when only something like "under 18" would be needed. But these railcards have several different age-based options. What is the point of this age discrimination, surely you take up one seat on a train regardless of your age?

Per https://www.railcard.co.uk/
by tk90 | 2025-05-01 23:17:01+00:00
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by blibble | 2025-05-01 23:17:35+00:00
the OSI and the FSF agree, for different reasons

> Both the OSI and the FSF are agreed that Source Available with bans on specific use cases is not FOSS.

well... yes, because they decide the definition of the terms

> When you've got freaking Richard Stallman opposing you you really have to do better than just scream "corporate capture". Engage with his idea of Freedom, don't set up straw men.

Stallman has a very particular view of Freedom (itself a multifaceted term)

and he rather famously completely rejects the term "Open Source"

the situation we're finding ourselves in is one where three increasingly malevolent entities control and capture 100% of the value generated by writing and selling software with source code

if you're an employee of these entities, great for you

for the rest of us, this is a bad situation to be in

and certainly not one that could produce another Red Hat
by LorenPechtel | 2025-05-01 23:18:10+00:00
Collective bargaining isn't going to do much as negotiation is always about moving the costs around, it doesn't truly reduce them. We need to be looking for ways to actually make things more efficient.

I have recently been having some dealings with a medical office that provides a clear illustration of the problem. Doc orders test A and unrelated test B. Scheduling requires me to make follow-up appointments for each test because the insurance "wont pay for" discussing two of them in one visit. Why do we have a system where the incentives are so messed up?? Note that I think this is a case of saying the quiet part out loud, not that they are unusual. One thing per visit is the norm when dealing with insurance.

It wouldn't have to be that way. Make most such follow-up visits folded into whatever they are a follow-up on (even if whatever it was was external), the visit itself isn't billable and so the doctor is free to structure things in the most efficient way--and we generally don't need "you're ok" followup visits. You can't go with a full result-based system because that will cause cherry-picking (look at what we have seen with Medicare advantage plans), but there's low hanging fruit out there.
by philsquared_ | 2025-05-01 23:18:26+00:00
I don’t think it’s any of the reasons listed in the article or the ones mentioned here either.

I’ll be blunt, people don’t want to hire Gen Z because of bad past experiences with that generation.

When 1 in 6 companies are "hesitant to hire Gen Z workers," then yeah, obviously unemployment is going to be higher for them. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-6-us-companies-reluctant-10...

That’s just one article, but there are plenty more. Do a basic search for "not hiring Gen Z" or something similar and you’ll find tons of examples. It’s easier for people to believe AI is to blame rather than take the answer straight from the hiring managers mouths.

They don’t want to hire Gen Z because they see them as more hassle than they’re worth. I’m not saying whether that’s true or not, but that’s how a lot of managers and business owners feel right now, and you don’t have to look very hard to figure that out.
by evbogue | 2025-05-01 23:19:07+00:00
The article mentions a decline in the number of regions Deno Deploy has in production. It isn't criticizing the runtime, but the confusion is understandable since they have similar product names.

I wonder if there's a reason why there's a decline that the Deno people could weigh in on? Perhaps it's not a money issue, but some other reason why they decided to scale back the number of regions.
by wavemode | 2025-05-01 23:19:50+00:00
Gonna take a positive sentiment on this one - godspeed, oxide! Middle management can often be such a drain on the effectiveness of an organization, that for that reason alone I readily applaud any effort which eliminates at least some layers of it.

Will there be challenges - of course!! What growing business doesn't face challenges? Lots of commenters will argue that your structure won't work for this reason or that... but, what are we comparing to? Most corporate structures don't work either, and are full of crippling amounts of waste. People have just convinced themselves that the usual way of doing things is the only way of doing things.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-05-01 23:20:35+00:00
> If I read you correctly (from your workmanlike if somewhat stilted English) as German

Native English speaker from Canada, actually. My grandfather was from Germany though, so good guess sort of?

Anyways, I'm just going to re-organize some of your sentences and suggest you invest in a mirror to take a long and hard look into

> You obviously think a great deal of yourself

> I grossed last year a bit over 2x, just in cash comp, than that "top 3%" you're bragging about

> That's because my tax regime advantages winners and yours advantages losers. That's okay; losers need to live

> You should learn to keep a handle on it, though. You can open your mouth so wide you get your feet stuck in it, that way.

You should take your own advice, bud
by pnm45678 | 2025-05-01 23:20:57+00:00
It all depends what you’re optimizing for.

Clearly, when you don’t transfer indexes, you will not have to transfer as much data.

However, the tradeoff is that the database is going to have to do more work to regenerate those indexes when you reconstruct it from the text dump at the destination (as opposed to the case where the indexes were included)
by joshstrange | 2025-05-01 23:20:59+00:00
> I'd maybe take a look at Deno once AWS has it as runtime option in Lambda, but that seems unlikely to happen.

Are you using lambda currently for node? If so can I ask (at a high level) what your stack/deploy process is? I'm interested to know what someone who doesn't identify as an early adopter is using for lambda.

I constantly waffle my decision to go with lambda (Typescript/nodeJS) for my company. In some ways it's amazing, in other it's blow-your-brains-out frustrating. I've benefited from my use of it overall I think but I often wonder if Express/NestJS/other would have been the better route (if not going all the way back to my roots with PHP).

I'm using SST 2 (which uses CDK, which uses CloudFormation) to deploy my functions (1 function per endpoint). Unfortunately SST v3 decided to drop CDK and move to terraform but the upgrade path is almost non-existent. Essentially "Just spin up new infra with v3 then turn off your v2 stuff". I understand their decision and it was probably the right decision, it still burned me pretty bad. Needless to say, this has soured me (I already moved from Serverless Framework to SST a couple years ago and made it through the v1 -> v2 transition) and I'm considering alternatives. Ideally ones that don't require a complete rewrite but due to the fact that I'm not using any kind of framework (only my homegrown code/scaffolding) it might not be that hard to replace the "leaves" (endpoints) of my stack while keeping most of the other code the same.
by btown | 2025-05-01 23:21:02+00:00
I have mixed feelings about a world where zero-knowledge-based ID verification gets so good that it reduces barriers to being adopted widely.

On the one hand, it's better than a world where non-privacy-respecting ID verification becomes required anyways, and thus every bit of your online behavior becomes tied to your actual identity.

On the other hand, the presence of this kind of technology makes it easier for governments to say things like "all ___ content online must be restricted to ages 18+ or 21+" and actually have a way to implement that across Discord and TikTok and gaming chatrooms and everything inbetween, in a way that has already been deployed at scale... because it had not already been fought against from a privacy perspective when it was deployed for things like public transit.

The things that can be placed in that blank are far more widespread than one might initially think.
by jagger27 | 2025-05-01 23:21:17+00:00
The Railcard website you linked is pretty clear.

> For those aged 16-25, save 1/3 off rail fares for days out, seeing family and friends and even festivals!

> For those aged 60 and over, save 1/3 off rail fares for days out, holidays, seeing family and friends, and theatre trips!

So, provide proof of age via ID and get a discount. It's very common on public transit for the young and elderly to get a discount.
by vladms | 2025-05-01 23:21:18+00:00
> LLMs will happily hallucinate. LLMs will happily tell you total lies with complete confidence.

Perhaps we should avoid anthropomorphizing them too much. LLMs don't inhabit a "real world" where they can experiment and learn. Their training data is their universe, and it's likely filled with conflicting, peculiar, and untestable information.

Yes, the output is sometimes "a lie" if we apply it to our world, but in "their world" stuff is might be just strangely different. And it's not like the real world has only "hard simple truths" - quantum mechanics comes to mind about how strange stuff can be.
by jjmarr | 2025-05-01 23:21:26+00:00
There's a ton of boring and rote maintenance tasks on the English Wikipedia that are too complicated for a bot but are simple enough for regex to mostly be accurate. Stuff like fixing spelling errors, links to article names, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AutoWikiBrowser

Right now the tool (AutoWikiBrowser, linked above) is slow, old, Windows-only, and tough to maintain. AI will easily replace this. Heck, I'm already using it to generate the regex rules.
by khedoros1 | 2025-05-01 23:21:29+00:00
Very little. It's directly forbidden for my day job, and if I'm programming anything in my off hours, it's for my own enjoyment.

All of the code that I've generated by LLM has backed itself into a corner very early on, so I tend to use that as a starting point, then fix and refactor. I've made some toy-sized programs that way (but hours quicker than I would've looking up library documentation on my own).

I've had good luck refining my understanding of some concepts, talking through design of pieces of code, and basically generating snippets of example code on demand. Even in those limited cases, I end up relying on my own experience to determine what's helpful and what's crap. They're usually intertwined.
by bravura | 2025-05-01 23:22:31+00:00
I want LLM accessible bookmarks. That's it.

It doesn't work yet.

I use singlefile to archive pages I'm viewing Linkding.

Then I have a BeautifulScript4 script to strip the assets.

Then I use Jina's ReaderLM v2 to render the HTML to proper Markdown: https://huggingface.co/jinaai/ReaderLM-v2

Except, of course, for longer table oriented text documents like HN that doesn't work.

I want a plaintext archive of web pages in a github repo or similar. Not a fancy UI/UX
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by hn_acc1 | 2025-05-01 23:23:03+00:00
I think the OP means in a manual transmission. Auto will decouple at low speeds / engine braking won't be as severe. In a manual car, in 1st gear, I could possibly see it.

As someone who grew up BEFORE ABS, drove in the winter (in Canada), including first winter owning my own car with sport tires because I couldn't afford winter tires, spun / slid a few times even with top-of-the-line winter tires, etc.

ABS is a game changer in the snow. I used to go to an empty parking lot every winter during early snowfalls to play around and skid, start/stop, etc. Even EARLY ABS ('94 VW) means that 98% of the time (IMHO), the answer even in snow/ice is "slam on the brakes". Sure, you might have a few percent longer stopping distance than an expert who can do threshold braking - are you an expert? And the fact that you don't lose control of the steering is a huge advantage.
by weare138 | 2025-05-01 23:23:05+00:00
Google pays Mozilla and Apple to make Google Search the default search engine for Firefox and Safari. Google pays Apple about $18 billion each year, and pays Mozilla about $450 million each year.

“In 2021 these payments accounted for 83% of Mozilla’s revenue.”

OP just made one the best arguments in favor of breaking up Google's monopoly.
by jaronp | 2025-05-01 23:23:16+00:00
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by danpalmer | 2025-05-01 23:23:22+00:00
Railcards in the UK have a complicated history, but essentially there's a sliding scale of discount you can get up to the age of 30, in order to encourage more young people to use the rail network. You get more discount under 18, some between 18 and 25 for one price, and some between 25 and 30 for another price.

Additionally, the way the discounts work is that you buy a pass that lasts for a period of time. That then needs to work with your current age. i.e. you can't buy 2 years of discount for under 30s at 29, you can only buy 1 year, so they need to share your age and I think possibly in some cases, date of birth.
by ascertain_john | 2025-05-01 23:23:56+00:00
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by testing22321 | 2025-05-01 23:23:57+00:00
It’s really cool to read reports like this, keeping in mind that just a few years ago many people were loudly proclaiming self driving cars were decades away, and would never be safer drivers than humans.

If they keep up the slow and steady improvements and roll outs to cities worldwide it’s hard to imagine my one year old ever needing to drive a vehicle.
by mike_ivanov | 2025-05-01 23:24:08+00:00
The official position was that China (along with Yugoslavia) wasn't truly socialist (they were referred as "opportunists" - google that), a kind of socialist-capitalist-feudalist hybrid. Vietnam, Laos, and DDR were considered developing semi-socialist. Romania, Bulgaria and to some extent Albania were the "true" socialists though.

The arguments were pretty solid. I think it was a fairly correct classification as it was based on who owned and managed the means of production. Only USSR, Romania and Bulgaria (and Albania) had a nearly total ban on private ownership.

Again, it wasn't about who was "better" or "purer" in some superficial sense, but there was a formal criterion: who owns the means of production.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-01 23:24:19+00:00
You're weaseling around the fact that Fauci used the actual regulatory definition of GoF, under which the WIV did not qualify as GoF. I can understand why this irks people, but I can also understand why someone as habitually precise as a virologist would use the statutory definition of a given term of art in sworn Congressional testimony.

If you listen to his testimony about that testimony, he goes on to explain that if he were to take the more expansive laymen term of "gain of function," then the other side of the boundary becomes meaningless. E.g. Using e. coli to produce insulin is gain of function.

> you can't do this if you don't include the viruses created in Wuhan, and they intentionally haven't. Of course they couldn't find anything definitive because they outright excluded the real source - the lab.

No they didn't. You can read the Slack messages and emails. There are literally hundreds of pages of the Proximal Origins authors debating the lab leak hypothesis... obviously. Unless you're talking about these private individuals not somehow parachuting into WIV to conduct forensics themselves?

Here are a few excerpts from their private communication:

> I am of the view that the natural selection hypothesis is the most likely (specifically the non-bat reservoir).

> I disagree with Ron that the passaging hypothesis is evidentially equal to the engineering hypothesis.

> Now, the presence of the furin site in pangos would nail it, but the absence (as it appears to be) wouldn't really tell us much.

These are the words of people who believe one thing (which may or may not end up being true) and both interrogating it and advocating for it... i.e. "doing science."

And again: science doesn't work by every scientist advocating for every theory. That is not remotely realistic from either a practical or a psychological perspective.

It works by scientists vigorously advocating for the theories they find most plausible, and other scientists saying that they're stupid and pointing out why they're wrong, which again anyone was free to do!
by bobtheborg | 2025-05-01 23:24:27+00:00
Can someone ELI5?

Reuters reported on March 12th that "Abu Dhabi-backed investment group MGX has made a $2 billion cryptocurrency investment in Binance, the companies said on Wednesday" and "It will see MGX become a minority shareholder after making the investment in stablecoin"

Why does it matter that the investment was made in crypto/stablecoin? (Pretend the stablecoin wasn't Trump affiliated. What purpose would this serve?)
by magicalhippo | 2025-05-01 23:24:43+00:00
> it's very rude to ask questions that aren't superficial

What do you count as superficial?

I'm nervous around new people and I don't like awkward silences. I'm also curious so I tend to ask a lot.

I usually ask about their job or things they like to do. I always find something I'm genuinely curious about in relation to what they say, and so I ask about that.

I'll leave some room for them to drive the conversation, but if the awkward silence creeps back in I ask some more.

So am I asking superficial questions when it comes to details about forest management, running a book store or getting a single-engine pilots license that I'm genuinely curious about?

I feel like there's some levels between chitchat about the weather and deep personal issues.