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by zamadatix | 2025-09-11 18:49:25+00:00
A lot of commission plans, even those which advertise "uncapped" commission, will still have the ability to set a cap for commission due to a single whale. Not that hitting your cap is an unenviable position in itself or anything... just perhaps a lot less exciting than it may sound (or not, just depends on the rules in the plan and what the leadership decides on the given deal). That is, if one sales rep can even claim such a large deal as their own work.

E.g. a few years back I worked with a guy (at an IT sector company) who had a quota of 3 million in the region, but won a single deal worth 30 million + had a great quarter in general anyways. He ended up not getting too much more than if he just had the great quarter.
by GJim | 2025-09-11 18:49:32+00:00
> The Making of the Atomic Bomb Book by Richard Rhodes

A good book.

May I also recommend the In Our Time episode on the Manhattan Project.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00108h1

(The Richard Rhodes book is on the recommended reading list for this episode, listed on the linked website; as are other very good books on the Manhattan Project worth a read).
by sarchertech | 2025-09-11 18:50:15+00:00
Product managers never get that right though. In practice it always falls back on the developer to understand the problem and fill in the missing pieces.

In many cases it falls on the developer to talk the PM out of the bad idea and then into a better solution. Agents aren’t equipped to do any of that.

For any non trivial problem, a PM with the same problem and 2 different dev teams will produce a drastically different solutions 99 times out of 100.
by evilduck | 2025-09-11 18:50:16+00:00
Cline has a new "compact" prompt enabled for their LM Studio integration which greatly alleviates the long system prompt prefill problem, especially for Macs which suffer from low compute (though it disables MCP server usage, presumably the lost part of the prompt is what made that work well).

It seems to work better for me when I tested it and Cline's supposedly adding it to the Ollama integration. I suspect that type of alternate local configuration will proliferate into the adjacent projects like Roo, Kilo, Continue, etc.

Apple adding hardware to speed it up will be even better, the next time I buy a new computer.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-11 18:50:25+00:00
> If those at the top are too perversely rich, it doesn’t matter wether those at the bottom may still be doing well at the moment. Human nature dictates that the rich will concentrate power and use it to dictate terms to everyone else, to pervert justice, and concentrate ever more money and power.

This is accurate except that it's missing the most important part: The mechanism by which this operates is large organizations, i.e. megacorps and governments. The power vested in the CEO of a huge conglomerate is independent of their personal wealth. A corporation owned by Wall St rather than the founder is at least as likely to engage in rapatorial behavior. Any proposal not effective to break up the power concentrated in large organizations is a sham.

And government spending works the same way. Most of the federal tax dollars collected go to the likes of Lockheed and UnitedHealth and affluent retirees, not the poor or middle class working people. It's actively counterproductive to shovel more money in those directions. It's funding the people who capture the government. Attempting an increase in government revenue when that is where the existing money goes is a plan to make the problem worse. Prove that you can cause the existing money to go somewhere else before you ask for more.

People keep proposing to take money from "Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos" because they're an unsympathetic excuse to divert even more public money to Northrop Grumman and the AARP, and then in the actual bill most of the money comes from doctors and engineers making six figures rather than ten. But the thing it actually needs is to have less public money going to cronies and more aggressive antitrust.
by skywhopper | 2025-09-11 18:50:26+00:00
Man, they are really proud of that initial seed round funding aren’t they? Forgive me, but $22 million does not sound like enough to truly revolutionize data processing technology.

The gist seems to be that they can overcome network latency issues when dealing with huge numbers of smallish objects in S3-like storage systems that need to be fed into GPUs? Yeah, those formats and systems were not designed to feed that type of processor. You’re doing it wrong if this is your problem.

After a lot of nonsense, it sounds like they just reformat the data into something more efficient instead. But they forget about the network latency and blame CPUs for slowing things down? And what was that sidetrack about S3 permissions?

I wouldn’t jump right onto this… well, it’s not clear what this even is exactly. But you can probably wait it out.
by adityaathalye | 2025-09-11 18:50:39+00:00
Thank you for the kind words, and feedback!

Yes, controlled excision is a (necessary) capability of all event-sourced systems and/or immutable object stores, i.e. it's quite universal already. All such systems have to build in some sort of special-case mechanism to excise facts, not merely redact (~tombstone) them.

But data-destruction superpower must be used sparingly, with care. See: git's documentation for --force-push, for example (and bemoan what popular git forges force us to do on a normal basis).

Back to DB-land...

Datomic does it this way: https://docs.datomic.com/operation/excision.html

Excision is the complete removal of a set of datoms matching a predicate. Excision should be a very infrequent operation and is designed to support the following two scenarios:

Removing data for privacy reasons Removing data older than some domain-defined retention period

Excision should never be used to correct erroneous data and is unsuitable for that task as it does not restore any previous view of the facts. Consider using ordinary retraction to correct errors without removing history.

XTDB calls it ERASE: https://docs.xtdb.com/reference/main/sql/txs.html#_erase

Irrevocably erases documents from a table, for all valid-time, for all system-time.

While XTDB is immutable, in some cases it is legally necessary to irretrievably delete data (e.g. for a GDPR request). This operation removes data such that even queries as of a previous system-time no longer return the erased data.
by bhelkey | 2025-09-11 18:51:12+00:00
> it be un-foldable compromises the battery life, overall thickness (when folded) and weight to at least some extent

Not as much as you would think.

The Galaxy Fold 7 has a 6.5" outer screen (as compared to 6.3" screen in the iPhone 16 pro), is 8.9mm thick when folded (8.25mm in the iPhone 16 pro), has a 4400mAh battery (3,582 mAh in the iPhone 16 pro), and weighs 215g (199 grams for the iPhone 16 pro).

> plus it costs way more

The big downsides are price of $1999 launch price as compared to $999 launch price for the iphone 16 pro and durability. For durability, the foldable screens seem to be very soft making it easy to damage, say with a thumbnail.
by trenchpilgrim | 2025-09-11 18:51:43+00:00
> their lacking of human support for serious issues for paid offerings.

Turns out this problem disappears if you spend enough money.

GCP does a _lot_ of things as well or better than AWS. I particularly mostly like their IAM model (the entire stack including their nice managed identity implementation and use of public key cryptography instead of API keys) and how "projects" (cloud accounts) can inherit properties in a hierarchy.
by srhngpr | 2025-09-11 18:53:02+00:00
I'm struggling to understand the narrative around how Oracle is being positioned as a rival to Nvidia in the context of AI, or AI in general: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-may-have-a-rival-on-th...

"Oracle is clearly leveraging a number of advantages in its cloud software/hardware businesses to attract the largest of the AI enterprises, including OpenAI, xAI, Meta, NVIDIA and AMD,"

What exactly are these advantages?
by galaxy_gas | 2025-09-11 18:53:07+00:00
Ignoring the narrative portion , I routinely block the PQ IP spaces which change frequently in my services. They are mass brute force and exploit attempt-abuse report is ignored, spam/exploit scan, botnet CNC

They are also UpStream of several other provider. For example https://bgp.he.net/AS215540#_prefixes

I have not seen legitimate single request from ANY ip in this. Only spam bot and brute.
by canucker2016 | 2025-09-11 18:53:08+00:00
FTV, main issues from the fold test:

A forced reboot error first occurred between 6,000 and 10,000 folds, and the same error repeatedly appeared at roughly every 10,000 folds afterward (e.g., around 16,000, 26,000, etc.). Around 46,000 folds, creaking noises started coming from the hinge. At 75,000 folds, an unknown black liquid came out of the hinge, but it has not appeared again. At 175,000 folds, all speakers (earpiece, top, and bottom) stopped working. The hinge has become smoother. Free-stop still works, but elasticity seems to be lost.

The reboots at 10K intervals seems like a software problem fixable by an update.

The speakers failing at 175K folds seems like the major failing point. I suppose bluetooth would probably still be working so you could still limp through day-to-day activities.
by chipsrafferty | 2025-09-11 18:53:12+00:00
I've been toying with ideas like this for a long time now. I think the fitness function is critical, but the problem is that taste is subjective, and you need to listen to many riffs/melodies to evolve to a "good" state. Also, you either start with specific melodies, in which case you would skew the results, or start with random noise, in which case it would take a very long time to evolve to anything good. So it seems like you must constrain i tsomehow, such as "only use 12 tones, with full/half/quarter/third notes".

But anyways, my idea for a way to resolve the problem of fitness taking forever would be to livestream it on Twitch, in the same vein as the "Twitch plays Pokemon" where viewers can input commands to vote for an action, they could vote on the fitness of musical tracks.
by dijit | 2025-09-11 18:53:35+00:00
They have a very long deprecation policy for anything under the actual “Cloud” banner.

Their solutions are more technically sound, their API and UX significantly more consistent; they make the billing system available through the same interfaces that you use for other data processing on the platform.

I wrote a more detailed diatribe on the failings of other providers[0]; but largely the “correctness”, “consistency” are the main reasons. For example their IAM actually works for everything, including GKE pods; and they don’t oversubscribe and try to align VMs to NUMA zones (AWS didn’t do that when I last checked, Azure still doesn’t even try).

Also, as a previous customer; I got much better support from Google than I ever got from AWS; but this is a very variable thing depending on your size, where you are and who your TAM is. In the games industry in Sweden its seriously 10/10- I even talked to the hypervisor, storage and SDN/Network teams directly.

[0]: https://blog.dijit.sh/gcp-the-only-good-cloud/
by homeonthemtn | 2025-09-11 18:53:35+00:00
There is nothing wrong with policing speech on platforms. If you don't (or do) want specific kinds of speech on the platform you own, it is fully your right to discourage (encourage) users to behavior a certain way.

The repercussions of that are your own. Quite honestly, the repercussions are likely small in the long run if it helps to better establish civil norms and self governance.
by panarky | 2025-09-11 18:54:02+00:00
How do promises of $300B in future revenue somehow result in a $100B increase in Ellison's net worth today?

- The $300B from OpenAI doesn't even start until 2027 and runs through 2031

- We don't know anything about OpenAI's options to cancel, delay or modify the deal

- There's huge execution risk for Oracle, they have to scale up their operation by more 20x or 30x, obtain gear and staff and gigawatts of power

- Even if everything goes perfectly, and both Oracle and OpenAI perform, that $300B is revenue, not profit -- 70% or 80% of that goes suppliers for capex and operating costs

- That's an uncertain promise of a future stream of profits, and deserves a sizable discount to get back to present value

- Ellison owns about 40% of Oracle, so how does the share attributed to him personally get to $100B in today's dollars?
by tracker1 | 2025-09-11 18:54:32+00:00
All the same, you can run deno install in a directory with a package.json file an it will resolve and install to node_modules. The process is also written in compiled code, like bun... so I was just curious.

edit: replied to my own post... looks like `deno install --allow-scripts` is about 1s slower than bun once deno.lock exists.
by vdupras | 2025-09-11 18:54:37+00:00
I agree that the way I framed the comparison of the american civil war and the french revolution might appear disingenuous because of the omission of the napoleonic wars. It crossed my mind to include it, but because the parent comment was specifically about the Terror and because it doesn't change the core or outcome of the argument, I left it out to avoid the fluff.

I would also be tempted to begin arguing that it might be reasonable to leave out the napoleonic casualties out of the "what good has ever come from getting rid of rich people as a society?" question and I think I could make a case that stands, but I prefer to yield right now :)
by dang | 2025-09-11 18:55:36+00:00
I didn't say that HN was apolitical (an impossible state!). Rather I'm making an empirical observation about the users who complain, as you have, about how HN is biased in favor of the opposite side.

What I'm saying is that your perceptions and the perceptions of your opponents are the same, except for the high-order bit (the political direction you favor) which is 0 in one case and 1 in the other. You can pick whether you'd like to be 0 or 1 :) - apart from this, your perceptions about HN and the style of commenting are so similar that one cannot but conclude that some common mechanism underlies them. Whatever that mechanism might be, it can't be HN's bias, since by definition there can't be two opposing biases.

> You could release data

The public data is already more than sufficient and no one looks at it, except to bolster what they already believe, indeed are certain is obvious.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-09-11 18:55:45+00:00
I saw the comments everywhere from right-wingers, saying all left-wingers should be rounded up and imprisoned or killed. Are those the comments you're talking about?

It's really not great of all those right-wingers to advocate for violence against those they disagree with.

Of course, both you and I probably saw carefully curated outrage feeds, rather than actual data. I'm sure the actual data shows those openly advocating for violence are the minority across the board.
by pxc | 2025-09-11 18:56:22+00:00
I think the world was a worse place for Kirk's influence, whatever it amounted to. I think the circumstances of his death and the reporting on it are deeply ironic. But I can't feel joy at his murder. I just feel sick and anxious.

What I feel is nausea about the ongoing destabilization of American life and institutions. What I feel is worry about the danger so many people are in right now, the backlash this event is likely to cause, and the way this will fuel an acceleration of Trump's illegal military occupations of American cities whose citizens or officials Trump finds politically disagreeable. And in the back of my mind I also wonder what will become of Kirk's children, who are very young.

But I can't summon either glee or grief. All I've got is irony and deep unease, at least for now.
by jrflowers | 2025-09-11 18:56:39+00:00
Charlie Kirk’s performances were hours long and you’ve now posted three times about how a single clip that you saw vindicates his entire career and reputation - while also declining to discuss anything other than that one clip.

I don’t know how to explain this to you more clearly, but for an analogy, Paul McCartney played the drums on Back in the USSR but do you expect people to post “drumming is dead” when he passes?

Or another analogy: If you read an 800 page book about the superiority of white people, and in that book the author spent three pages talking about how much better they are at surfing than nonwhite people, is the book about surfing? If the book got really popular does that make the author a famous surfer who is famous for surfing?
by Groxx | 2025-09-11 18:56:50+00:00
alas. don't suppose you know of any good articles on why it's removed? I'd be curious about the reasoning / challenges.

there are some rather obvious challenges, but a huge amount of the ones I've run across end up looking mostly like "it's hard to add to an existing language" which is extremely understandable, but hardly a blocker for new ones.
by Spivak | 2025-09-11 18:57:15+00:00
I'm so pumped for this launch, it seems like the ideal EV. It doesn't cost a fortune trying and failing to replace an ICE for long trips, good for hauling people and stuff locally, and isn't trying to be the car of the future. The fact that it's an EV is an afterthought, a cheap basic small truck to fit in the same slot as the old Ford Ranger is enough of a value proposition on its own.
by InitialLastName | 2025-09-11 18:57:50+00:00
Among other things, lots of those kids are probably using their phones to gamble way more money than they'll ever lose playing poker with their friends.

Playing poker with friends is at worst zero-sum with limited downside; your friends will probably cut you off when you run out of money and the money stays in your little pool. Betting sports against a faceless profit-maximizing corporation is negative-sum and if it turns into a problem for they're happy to raise your minimum and encourage dumber bets.
by rottyyyyyy | 2025-09-11 18:57:55+00:00
Yes, you build a command in pieces, breaking it down so as not to seem too petty to the gods in any single line of code. The longer the request, the more praise must be given, but also you can’t repeat yourself too much (if you call Ariadne “mistress of the labyrinth” the first time, the second time you might instead call her “wise and cunning one whose agile mind finds purchase on the frailest of notions.” The project is here: https://github.com/rottytooth/Olympus and here’s an introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agq99SyHfFw
by throw_a_grenade | 2025-09-11 18:58:28+00:00
Unironicaly, I think having systemd-something util that would provide TLS certs for .services upon encountering specific config knob in [Service] section would be much better that having multitude uncoordinated ACME clients that will quickly burn through allowed rate limits. Even just as a courtesy to LE/ISRG's computational resources.
by aredox | 2025-09-11 18:58:28+00:00
>you invented a significantly stronger, more inciteful quote (something Charlie didn't say)

https://youtu.be/KivCRqfFcqY?si=hLN0akbswSlPm8pE

But if we take 5 minutes to search, we can see Charlie Kirk has said publicly (and I quote):

"There's a direct connection to inflation and the trans issue. You say, Charlie, come on. They couldn't be further apart. No, they're exactly the same. They're the same in this aspect—when you believe that men can become women, why wouldn't you also believe that you could print wealth?"

(You are poor? Blame the trans)

"The transgender movement actually matters even more than biomedical fascism"

"the transgender movement is an introductory phase to get you to strip yourself of your humanity to mesh with machines"

"if you stop being a man, then maybe you can stop being a human being"

(Transhumanist scare you? Blame the trans - those non-human beings)

Maybe you think I exaggerate? Luckily, he has made his personal opinion clear:

"I blame the decline of American men. This never should've been -- someone should've just took care of it the way we used to take care of things in the 1950s or 60s"

Tell me, how did things were taken "care of" in the 50s and 60s? What could that be a reference to? (Wink wink)

Not convincing enough? Last direct quote from him:

“The one issue that I think is so against our senses, so against the natural law, and dare I say, a throbbing middle finger to god, is the transgender thing happening in America right now”

Really, who could think that when he said there are too many (how many? Doesn't matter, just believe it) mass shootings caused by trans people, he is inviting fear and hatred against them? Really, it would be dishonest to suggest such a thing, right?

He was also openly racist and homophobic, but hey, how could I or anyone suggest he was stroking violence and stirring hate?
by incomingpain | 2025-09-11 18:58:48+00:00
I’m Canadian, and US politics is a massive distraction and influence on ours. It gives me an objective view of their system because their problems often spill over into ours. I usually try to avoid diving into US politics, so I didn’t follow Charlie. Still, he was deeply respected by all of my political allies in Canada. I don’t know all of his positions, but I’d bet we agreed a lot.

One thing that’s shifted in my lifetime is the polarization of US politics. Republicans edged somewhat left because several outspoken anti-gay senators were later revealed to be gay. But Democrats swung much further left, and it’s been costing them elections. The polarization worsened as Democrats regularly dehumanized and attacked Republicans as fascists and racists. My expectation is that the recent attack of charlie kirk by south park is a key factor in this political assassination.

Charlie’s mission was to break that cycle. He stood for open discussion without violence. He often said the great failure of today’s politics is that Democrats and Republicans can’t even talk to each other. And when husband and wife stop talking, they end up divorcing.

The democrats/liberals ended that yesterday. There's no 1 entity to blame here. But how can anyone risk their NECK trying to have proper democratic conversations and debate anymore? You cant. The conversation is over. Divorce is coming.