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by mschuster91 | 2025-07-30 15:16:29+00:00
> A US president visiting his own golf course on a state visit!

Meh, I don't have too much of a problem with this one. A number of US Presidents, both modern and long-since dead, have been known to indulge in golfing [1].

There's so many truly bad things Trump has done, him visiting a golf course is hardly extraordinary in comparison.

[1] https://www.scga.org/blog/13174/every-presidential-golfer-ra...
by MortyWaves | 2025-07-30 15:16:38+00:00
I don’t think there’s ever been any good tooling for the entire collection of ASP.NET DSLs. Be that MVC, Razor, or Blazor. Genuinely the same problems I had in VS2010 still happen in VS2022.

There’s been some changes and improvements, but I really have to ask what the editor tooling team within that team are doing.

I know there are some very difficult problems involved in parsing and formatting and highlighting bastardised mixtures of HTML, C#, and JavaScript all in the same file but if anything I think that perhaps suggests it was a bad idea to begin with.

Consider the tooling for desktop and mobile apps with XAML (WPF, Avalonia) or even WinForms - they all have code behind support.

Meaning there is no need (or ability) to mix all three in the same file.
by rachofsunshine | 2025-07-30 15:16:39+00:00
Everyone's just playing a bunch of investor signaling games, because founders/VCs by nature are living in the world of finance, not the world of decision-making (at least in their public personas). It's part of why I opted out of that whole world when founding my own company. Not literally so that I can listen to my angsty 13-year-old Christian rock without answering to anyone (although I certainly do do that), but because I feel like that fear colors a whole lot of what gets done in tech these days.

Engineers very often tell me something like "well I have this idea but I don't think anyone will fund it" and - well, just build it, man! Your idea takes like two grand of startup capital, and I know for a fact you made 240k last year. There's this whole mythologized idea of founders as a separate breed, encouraged in no small amount by founders themselves, but...founding a company is literally just building a thing people want and selling it to them. You can wear clown shoes and do that.
by llimllib | 2025-07-30 15:16:51+00:00
It's easy to show that you're right and that code isn't dead so it can't be eliminated:

package main import ( "fmt" "github.com/vvvvv/dlg" ) func risky() error { _, err := fmt.Printf("unexpected error\n") return err } func main() { dlg.Printf("something failed: %s", risky()) risky() }

prints "unexpected error" twice
by foldr | 2025-07-30 15:16:53+00:00
It’s not “wishful thinking” because I don’t have any reason to care particularly whether less porn gets watched or not. I don’t wish for it. I just think you’d be surprised at how much small inconveniences will affect the behavior of average people.

Another factor is that a lot of sites won’t work well with a VPN these days. So you really need to keep switching back and forth, which is a pain (especially on mobile).
by p0w3n3d | 2025-07-30 15:16:54+00:00
I'd love to see indoor photos comparison. These photos all are taken outside where there's no need to do additional lighting from the camera, and using "some Sony 2004" camera is not a feasible solution in this case, because the flash would ruin everything, making people on the photo looking like a south park style stickers. I'd say that the software behind phone cameras copes well inside buildings, but standard cameras need additional help.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-30 15:16:58+00:00
Exactly. It’s also important to know that they support remote work, so these salaries really are not bad at all. For someone in a non-tech city who doesn’t want to move this would be a great startup job.

My only reservation is that I’ve interviewed with or worked for multiple companies that made some claim about paying everyone the same and there was always some loophole: The company might have a fixed base pay but then use very different equity grants. One company claimed to give everyone the same base comp and equity but then it was discovered that some people were getting huge annual “guaranteed bonuses” that were effectively base compensation. It has left me tired of seeing companies push the idea of everyone being paid the same while not being open about the entire compensation structure.

EDIT: To be 100% clear, I don’t know what Oxide’s entire comp structure looks like. The examples above were for past companies I worked for.
by steveklabnik | 2025-07-30 15:17:15+00:00
> To "run cloud?"

I agree that's a bit awkwardly phrased, let me send in a patch for that.

> Does this mean treating your own servers like "serverless?" Does it mean running Kubernetes? Is this primarily for people who want to self-host LLMs?

Not exactly any of that. We let you treat an entire rack as a single pool of resources, spinning up virtual machines that our control plane manages for you. Think "VPS provider but you own it." There's an API, but if you want to see what our console looks like, you can poke around with a demo here: https://console-preview.oxide.computer/
by sillystuff | 2025-07-30 15:17:50+00:00
Israeli jews and their supporters in places like Egypt, engaged in terrorist attacks like bombing bus/train stations. The goal was to turn the population against the jewish populations within these countries, so they would have no choice but to join the European Zionist Jews. Egypt even passed laws protecting Jews from reprisals. Zionists dishonestly call the reprisals to the jewish terrorist attacks "pogroms".

Once in Israel, the European jews who founded Israel called these Mizrahi jews "black animals" in the German pidgin, yiddish, these European Jews still spoke then. The white supremacist European Jews of Israel wanted to force these "black animals" to live in the desert, using them as cheap laborers. But, the Mizrahi forced their way into recently ethnically cleansed areas and took over the homes of the Palestinians who had been forced out by the European Jews (to make way for more European Jews). The Mizrahi even formed a Black Panther Party, but it was mostly cosplaying, as they just wanted stuff for themselves, there was no ideology against exploitation like the real Black Panthers in California.
by diggan | 2025-07-30 15:18:05+00:00
> For me, if the hours were equal, I would choose the higher paying one. And then, I would create and make outside of work. And since I have that much higher wage, it could be a jump start on my own business.

Yeah, I guess I've been lucky to be able to chose daily jobs in the past that basically gives me what you would create outside of work, except I got a fixed payment each month for doing something I really enjoyed. So I never had the need to do that stuff outside of work to derive enjoyment of most of my time, which I guess is my top priority and been most of my life.
by llm_nerd | 2025-07-30 15:18:17+00:00
If I get the contention of the article right, big tech was so greedy that they hired lots of people they didn't need, and paid them tonnes of money. I feel like I'm massively misunderstanding either the submission, or the definition of greed.

This industry is cyclical -- I mean, most industries outside of the absolute core like healthcare are cyclical -- and there are booms and busts. Everyone hires when everyone else is hiring. Every holds steady when everyone else is holding steady.

But by far the hugest influence right now is AI, and it is having a calamitous impact on everything. There is this broad industry feeling right now that such massive shifts are not only coming, they're already underway, that there is a wait and see sense all over the place.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-07-30 15:18:20+00:00
I have a few [wealthy] salespeople friends. Most have “commission-only” (0 base) jobs.

Many jobs will start you with a base for a few months, while you build commissions, but they stop it, after a while.

They can also get fired at the drop of a hat. Not much job security.

Sales are easy to convert to incentives. Just take a cut of the sale. It’s not so easy to calculate value from other jobs.
by benreesman | 2025-07-30 15:18:24+00:00
It's still a class thing. With the CoL in most SWE-heavy metros and the outright war on engineer pricing power over the last few years?

Just about any engineer who isnt independently wealthy is:

- recovering from layoffs and a period of unemployment at a high-COL cost structure

- facing layoffs with the above salients

- facing an imperative to insulate their fucking house with cash for their turn in the above crosshairs

Competence and a willingness to work hard stopped equalling access to basic necessities in November of 2022 - February of 2023, depending on how you count, and inflation has savaged a notional 200k.

"200k is plenty to live on" is rich, well-connected guy talk in 2025.
by Espressosaurus | 2025-07-30 15:18:27+00:00
It's a market problem. If I could get the lenses I wanted in APS-C format, I'd have an APS-C camera as my main camera. Instead the market has chosen for full frame to be the main place investment is done in, so I get a full frame camera since the APS-C cameras and lenses are second-class citizens (not true for Fuji, true for Canon, Nikon, and Sony).

Medium format explodes the cost and again, the lenses I want aren't even available.

So you go for what you can get, given the marketplace and also given the lens system you have bought into.

I doubt anyone is going wildlife shooting with a large format camera, for example.
by os2warpman | 2025-07-30 15:19:02+00:00
Who is "they"?

In the EU, total energy consumption peaked ~20 years ago and has steadily fallen since then.

In the US, total energy consumption plateaued ~20 years ago. Per-capita it has fallen.

In Japan total energy consumption peaked, you guessed it, ~20 years ago.

I assert that for India and China as their per-capita consumption reaches a level somewhere between that of the US and EU, total energy consumption will plateau. China is almost there; India has some time yet to go.
by tristor | 2025-07-30 15:19:12+00:00
And this is why I have an Olympus Pen-F in one pocket and my iPhone in the other pocket. I love my iPhone, and I use it for taking snapshots day-to-day like receipts for my expense report, but any time I care about capturing something I see I have an actual camera in my pocket. Micro 4/3rds for size/weight, unfortunately, but while I have a FF camera I am not lugging it around with me everywhere, a Pen-F literally fits in my pocket with lens attached.
by fsckboy | 2025-07-30 15:20:07+00:00
>o the 200k base SWE x 2 family can afford the 2x jacked up prices

you are talking about housing in a high income area and of course those prices are going to be higher, it would start out shocking if they weren't, and quickly stabilize where we are now, as people loaded up their wagons and headed toward the landrush

>It’s mostly catered towards those who can afford it

all markets cater to those who can afford it. if not, prices go down, or up, to establish a new equilibrium.
by jaberjaber23 | 2025-07-30 15:20:20+00:00
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Ask HN: Why not give passengers credit for even mild turbulence on flights?
by amichail | 2025-07-30 15:20:20+00:00
Jetliners could display a "turbulence credit meter" in the passenger cabin, updated in real time, to show how much credit on future flights you're earning based on the severity and amount of turbulence experienced so far.

It would turn a potentially frightening experience into something with an upside. Passengers would be happier.

Of course, pilots may not like this idea since some turbulence makes it feel like they are flying a plane instead of driving a bus.
by simonsarris | 2025-07-30 15:20:47+00:00
> Here we go, predictably pulling the oldest trick in the book, just two weeks after it was reported [1] that the Superintelligence leadership was discussing moving to closed source for their best models, not for any risk mitigation reason, but for competitive reasons.

That's not pulling a trick, that's doing precisely what Zuck said he would do. In April 2024 Zuck on Dwarkesh said that models are a commodity right now, but if models became the biggest differentiator, that Meta would stop open sourcing them.

At the time he also said that the Model itself was probably not the most valuable part of an ultimate future product, but he was open to changing his mind on that too.

You can whine about that anyway, but he's not tricking anyone. He has always been frank about this!
by lokar | 2025-07-30 15:20:52+00:00
I’ve seen this claim that Google and others had some plan to over hire.

From my time there that was not the case. There was the natural demand for more people on existing projects and lots of (often good) ideas for new projects.

The money just poured in. We could never actually hire close to the approved levels. Internal “fights” were over actual people, not headcount, everyone had tons of open headcount.

I think there was just so much money, revenue growth and margin that management (which was dominated by engineers) just did not care. Fund everything and see what happens, why not?
by floatrock | 2025-07-30 15:21:05+00:00
Must have been a rough morning, sorry.

Not the first one this happened to. Article offers a suggestion:

> If you want to keep squirrels, chipmunks, and other small critters from getting trapped in the bucket, you also could put a piece of hardware cloth or chicken wire over the top of the bucket. To keep it in place, you can use zip ties.
by yujonglee | 2025-07-30 15:21:21+00:00
> and interacts with a long list of 3rd party APIs? I doubt it.

It does not interact with 3rd party API.(except opt-out-able analytics) It uses local-ai models. No data leave user's device. It helps users in large org to try it.

> but the implication they’re trying to make is that those companies have chosen this software.

We used "Our *Users* are Everywhere" to avoid that implication. It is not typical B2B software, but open-source desktop app that individuals can use.
by ecb_penguin | 2025-07-30 15:21:22+00:00
Sure, all those things could be "corporate greed". Opposite actions in different environments don't change the intent.

> Aside from all the claims with no sources/references whatsoever

It's an opinion piece about many of our shared experiences.

> blaming "corporate greed" for hiring employees?

They explained their argument.

> Isn't it also "corporate greed" to lay people off?

It depends. A struggling company that needs to reduce workforce to survive? No. A company worth trillions laying off en-mass because stock rates are down? Yes, probably.

> Blaming corporate greed for causing high salaries?

They explained their argument in the article

> Let me guess, if they started cutting salaries, that is also corporate greed?

It depends. A struggling company that needs to reduce salaries to survive? No. A company worth trillions cutting salaries because stock rates are down? Yes, probably.
by iotamigrator | 2025-07-30 15:21:24+00:00
UPDATE: After reporting the IOTA Foundation to the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, IOTA made the following statement: "Since the legacy migration tool has been deprecated now, we ask all affected parties to get in touch with us via token-reclaims@iota.org. We will manually verify your legacy claim for legitimacy and make the payment accordingly." ( https://x.com/iota/status/1945821199893668087 )

However, actual token claim requests go unanswered. This is now a well established pattern of fraud by IOTA Foundation.
by duped | 2025-07-30 15:21:24+00:00
That's reasonable, but signalling this to a startup during hiring is going to be a negative. There are three kinds of capital they get to play with, cash, equity, and culture. Cash is the least pliable of the three to them, equity the least liquid, but culture is actually something they can control.

If you have a team full of people who are just there for the paycheck, the only thing that will keep them there is increasing the paycheck. Which startups can't do in a crunch.
by throwaw12 | 2025-07-30 15:21:27+00:00
Big Tech is not the root cause.

Big Tech and empire builders there followed the classic business rules, additionally highly encouraged by Wall Street.

When its cheap, grow fast, when its expensive shield the bottom line, don't make risky moves and cut the fat.

People are same everywhere, you can't just put the blame on Big Tech. Other industries would do same when given opportunity
by alephnerd | 2025-07-30 15:21:32+00:00
No offense, but as a SWE turned PM turned VC, you're all code monkeys to me anyhow.

Dissing someone as a "HTML jockey" is just rude. People need to start somewhere, and the class of 20 and 21 had a horrid job market because of early COVID hiring freezes - it recovered for class of 22 but tanked immediately afterwards.

I don't deny that I dislike his opinion on "fake work", but you are falling into the same trap as well. All work is equally important, but wages are a result of a skills arbitrage, so demeaning any kind of work is just plain dumb.

And luck does play a role - class of 08 never recovered financially, unlike class of 07 and class of 09. If you miss the train, it sucks.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-30 15:21:39+00:00
> With the CoL in most SWE-heavy metros

They’re a remote company. They’re not targeting HCOL metros.

> and inflation has savaged a notional 200k.

> "200k is plenty to live on" is rich, well-connected guy talk in 2025.

Claiming that $200k is not enough to live on is rich-guy talk. The majority of the country lives on well below $200K.

I agree that a single person living in a HCOL metro like SF Bay Area would not find this compensation attractive, but that person also has nearly infinite other jobs to choose from nearby.

Jobs like this (remote work for interesting startup) do not need to pay HCOL comp.
by rafaelmn | 2025-07-30 15:21:53+00:00
Since you mention great CLI - is there a CLI tool that is free/cross platform that works like prettier ? I found https://csharpier.com/ but have never heard of anyone using it.

Also not sure how it works with linters like roslynator or stylecop ?

This is something I miss very much when coming back from TS, other languages also have better formatters. C# is very tied to editors/IDEs which is a nightmare in teams where some people use vs/vs code/rider
by _rend | 2025-07-30 15:21:56+00:00
For completeness, this description of alignment is misleading:

> Well, dear reader, this padding is added because the CPU needs memory to be aligned in sets of 4 bytes because it’s optimized in that fashion.

> ...

> Remember: since structs are aligned to 4 bytes, any padding is therefore unnecessary if the size of the struct is a multiple of 4 without the padding.

Individual data types have their own alignment (e.g., `bool`/`char` may be 1, `short` may be 2, `int` may be 4, `long` may be 8, etc.), and the alignment of a compound type (like a struct) defaults to the maximum alignment of its constituent types.

In this article, `struct Monster` has an alignment of 4 because `int` and `float` have an alignment of 4 for the author's configuration. Expanding one of the `int`s to a `long` could increase the alignment to 8 on some CPUs, and removing the `int` and `float` fields would decrease the alignment to 1 for most CPUs.
by bpt3 | 2025-07-30 15:22:00+00:00
The target audience as I understand it is companies that have gone cloud-only or close to it and are big enough where moving workload on-prem makes financial sense.

They can migrate to an Oxide "cloud" without too much difficultly as opposed to procuring, installing, and maintaining the rube goldberg machine you mentioned.

They also attract interest among the "we don't want to touch cloud" organizations where trying out $1M in hardware is a rounding error, but I don't know how much traction they'd end up getting.
by secabeen | 2025-07-30 15:22:07+00:00
Another important factor in many states is the drive towards living wages across the board. For decades, child care (and probably pet care) was done by low-status immigrants and women, often at wages not sufficient to live alone or raise a family on. In more recent years, we've pushed up minimum wages and allowed not just white men to seek and obtain jobs that do pay more. It's overall good that we shrunk the under-classes compared to 100 years ago, but that does mean that if your business model depends on taking advantage of low-status people, it's not sustainable anymore, and you have to raise prices.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-07-30 15:23:12+00:00
I wouldn't call it generosity - it's supply and demand like anything else. There is money to be made from tech products, whether that's software itself or anything (i.e. almost everything) containing software. There is a limited supply of good developers with the skill/experience to develop complex products and ones with high reliability requirements.

It'll be interesting to see how the use of AI-based software development tools plays out, and affects the job market, but so far - together with offshoring - it seems to be mainly a matter of limiting entry level opportunities. Whether this persists or not remains to be seen - companies seem to be hoping/expecting that AI will let them cope with fewer entry level developers, but given that currently you need a human to use the tool it's not clear to what extent that is actually true.

Trump has recently, somewhat unexpectedly, been making noises about offshoring and H1B developers - saying that US companies need to be more patriotic in their hiring practices. It remains to be seen if this will progress from bullying to actual policy/law changes, but a reversal of offshoring would do a lot to improve the US job market for developers, especially entry level.
by taeric | 2025-07-30 15:23:18+00:00
It is hard to get passed the first paragraph here. Even if I think "big tech" does terrible things, I think blaming them for a boom/bust cycle is idiotic.

Could their behavior be a big part of what we should study in knowing how to control things better in the future? Almost certainly. Does it help to frame them as a villain? I'm far less sold on that. Especially if you don't offer any sort of path on how things could have been run better.
Ask HN: B2B, Our idea is nothing unless we find our first pilot
by samehsbs | 2025-07-30 15:23:22+00:00
We’re building a B2B product and keep hearing from successful founders that, in the early days, they sent hundreds or even thousands of cold emails—testing different templates, until something resonated and the first company responded.

Right now, we’re facing that same struggle. Not getting replies is frustrating, especially when you're just trying to validate whether your idea is even worth pursuing, but the market won’t give you a shot.

So my questions are: - Do I really need to send hundreds or thousands of emails to validate? - Or if my idea clearly solves a real pain, should I expect replies even in the first batch? - Are companies today just harder to engage, especially with early-stage or pre-seed ideas? - Is it a matter of trust, and if so, how can we overcome that without traction?

Would love to hear how others approached this stage. What worked for you?