skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a huge plot hole in the story.

> When the economy and job market began storming back, we were inundated with inbound requests for our services. Our perseverance seemed to be paying off. Except now we were hit with a new gut punch: “The Great Resignation.” Now our workers were reticent to come back to work. And if they did accept a job, they’d often leave after only a few days.

I couldn't understand how "The Great Resignation" made the situation more difficult for 70MJ. I've read the follow up comment[GrRegCm] and it didn't make things any clearer:

> During the Great Resignation, we found it took 10x the time and effort to get someone placed, eroding our already thin margins. Plus, if a worker left (which they began doing at a great rate), we're obligated to replace them. All of this made it pretty much impossible for us to make money. (Again, we're a for-profit business). I hope this clarifies things.

It doesn't.

There's a _sort of_ incoherency and inconsistency here.

On the one hand the "formerly incarcerated" have a hard time (re)-integrating into society. Among other difficulties they struggle harder than others, ceteris paribus, finding a job.

In turn this has, supposedly, certain negative effects like "the pernicious cycles of recidivism in this country--cycles that destroy lives, tear apart families and decimate communities"

That's both the societal issue you set out to improve and what made the for-profit venture viable.

But on the other hand the same "formerly incarcerated" can allow themselves to "often leave after only a few days", "which they began doing at a great rate". I guess the welfare system in the US is quite extensive if people - and not just any people but ex-cons - can allow themselves to quit jobs after a few days with nothing else in the horizon.

I'll qualify all of that and note that, as I wrote above, it's only _sort of_ inconsistent. It's possible that they don't have good alternatives, but they see everyone else quitting, including spoiled and overindulged by 2021 tech sector employees, and think their circumstances apply. Or they don't think but just do what everyone else.

It's also possible that I'm still missing here something and my whole analysis is wrong because of that.

But it's also possible that "The Great Resignation" isn't the reason for the company's failing.

I'm not convinced. If I did miss something I'd be happy to hear.

[GrRegCm]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31600686
The Kindle Store is closing in China
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I realize that your primary target is major venues, but do you have any plans for expanding to 200-500 cap venues? A management solution is desperately needed in that space!
They cut deep now because they hired too many in the past. Or rather, the business environment has changed compared to the when the hirings were made. Nothing wrong with that. As long as the severance package is generous. Would you rather they get bankrupted and let everyone go in the end?
It's more like insecurity through obscurity. Caste discrimination among educated circles is viciously covert. You may not know your caste or your colleague's caste. But the ones who are interested will definitely know it and discriminate on its basis. The discrimination and harassment will make no sense to you, unless something or someone tips you off. It's not like discrimination based on color or gender, where the difference is immediately apparent. You can't distinguish people of various castes unless you go actively looking for it. It's better to be aware of possible avenues of exploitation than be negligent and vulnerable to it.
I've purchased many homes and they're not great either but they're not as bad. First, I'm not required to go through a real estate agent by law. Real estate agents do a lot of work I'd rather not do in setting up the transaction. When it comes to purchasing a car the dealer doesn't do anything I couldn't trivially do myself.

Dealers are government corruption plain and simple. They offer next to nothing, sometimes scam us outright, but we are required to patronize them if we want a new vehicle.

Real estate agents on the other hand mostly just charge too much.
we gotta just build more housing
Why would home owners be irate? Do they use over 1000 gallons a day? Because it smells to me like "astroturfing".
> Guess what? The dealer sells multiple cars per day. You don't know enough to be a good negotiator against them.

Right - so let's get rid of negotiations all together and everyone pays whatever absurd price the sales team at Ford can think of without laughing out loud.

This isn't a box of cookies folks... besides your house, it's likely the most expensive thing you'll ever buy.

There is no "one" price for the asset... unless we remove all the competition that drives down prices (dealerships) and put all the assets into a single basket owned by one of a small handful of manufacturers in the world. What could go wrong?
Right, so in fact the literal, absolute first nuclear bomb was the Trinity Test, on American soil, and they did a great job of clearing out the area, nobody died in the detonation. And further Feynman for one did his own math and decided to watch the blast from much closer than everyone else, from behind a windshield of his car, as he judged mathematically that that would be enough to mitigate the radiation. So that tells you everyone else was basically very conservative about the effects.

Now fire? Personal experience, yes, I have personal experience. But coal fire? Fireblast? Firestorm? What kind of fire? Gunpowder? What is oxidizing, if it is even oxidization, are we calling it fire when it's a fluorine compound reaction?

So coal power has much worse smokestacks than nuclear's steam towers, those smokestacks have to be sky-high to lie about the harm they produce. The height of the stacks is the true extent to which the lies are piled higher and deeper. Illustrates the point of the harm, otherwise why use anything, just a bonfire.

What is the purpose of a chimney? It's just fire. No big deal if the smoke just stays there, right?

Yes there is, you start coughing harder and harder, and if you ignore that, you get worse, if you're trapped you could die. Smoke kills. Generally houses on fire kill with the smoke, not with the heat or flame.

And yeah one little cigarette can produce a lot of smoke, enough for people to complain and tell you to put it out, or give you a fine or punish you. So then a ton of carbon, with some amount of phosphorus, uranium, thorium and radium in it? They combine in the combustion in all kinds of ways. 100x more nuclear pollution, from fire, than a nuclear plant. The smoke from a cigarette in fact contains radioactive phosphorus from the fertilizer and radium because of the hair on the tobacco leaves and roots, that's what gives cancer the most. And how many cigarettes can a man smoke in his lifetime? 40 grams per box of cigarette, like 200,000 cigarettes is 10,000 boxes, that's less than a ton of cigarette filling. Not even getting all that smoke, that's enough to kill a man. Plus second hand smoke, and they're morally equivalent to coal.
> This article takes an off-the-cuff comment from the CEO of Ford and reads too much into it IMO.

How does it ‘read too much into it’? He literally says they need to go to a 100% online order, no inventory, no negotiation sales model. That’s a HUGE a change from today.
Heh, I may get overly excited to tell people that we're building a Ticketmaster/Live Nation competitor... The sentiment that one is sorely needed is so common, and yet so few people know we're doing it (the StubHub comparison is more typical)
Diplomacy is the art of saying “good dog” until you make it to the rock. Ford is learning what Tesla knew from the start: dealership interests aren’t aligned with EV manufacturers. There’s very little service revenue, and dealers are incentivized to add “market adjustments” to vehicles (which Ford dealers have been doing) creating a poor customer experience. Ford has existing dealerships and is going to have a heck of a time hacking around dealer franchise law compared to EV automakers who have no established dealer network. Someone on Twitter recently posted their Model S turning over 400,000km with only
$3k in maintenance costs. Imagine at scale what that does to dealership revenue when 5, 10, 15 million EVs are sold per year (which will happen in the next 5-10 years).

https://twitter.com/pluginalberta/status/1531406942119137281

> "We only profit in one way: from new car sales and new car sales alone," Maron said. "We can't ... profit from services because our cars have far less parts than gas-powered cars. There's no regular service visits for engine tune-ups and oil changes. ... We don't make money off financing programs. We don't have insurance products or add-ons. A franchise dealer would look at this and scratch their heads. They would not know how to make money on this model."

> Maron says Tesla is fully committed to its mission of replacing all gas-powered cars with electric vehicles -- a mission auto dealers may not be eager to embrace.

> "We don't simply believe that electric vehicles represent a nice complement to gas-powered cars," Maron said. "We believe it's imperative they are replaced entirely by electric vehicles. ... It would be impossible for traditional dealers to convey this message adequately. This isn't a knock on them, but dealers are not fundamentally committed to the mission of EVs — we are. They make 99% of their revenue off of gas-powered cars. If you're opening a Yankees team store, are you going to ask a lifelong Red Sox fan to manage it?"

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johanabhuiyan/tesla-sla... (2016: 7 Reasons Why Tesla Doesn't Want To Sell Through Dealerships)
My mom knows I'm a software & hardware engineer, but I'm not sure she knows too much beyond that. My dad is also a hardware & software engineer, and I've long been a little disappointed at how little interest my mom has taken in what he does.

I'm also often surprised how often (non-tech-industry) friends have thought I "work for Apple". I do Mac & iOS development but have never worked for Apple. One friend in particular honestly couldn't wrap his head around how I made iOS apps but didn't work for Apple.
They also built tools to detect when you're doing that
I find Rust easier to read in a real IDE with semantic highlighting (although the IntellIJ plugin constantly breaks this) and inlay type hints so that everything doesn't end up blurring together.
I can’t be the only one who thinks, I’m getting hungry but I don’t have time to eat - maybe I’ll have another cup instead.
As a queer person in tech with definite introverted tendencies, polyamory is kind of perfect. Although I would be more specific and say relationship anarchy[1].

I really can’t imagine how it would work if I was straight though, there’s just so much more of a culture of being intimate friends in queer circles. I’ve got friends I would cuddle with and watch a movie, acquaintances who have seen my in my darkest moments, trysts as beneficiaries on my bank accounts, passionate lovers who I haven’t seen for years, housemates who used to date people I date now…

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relationship_anarchy
Yes, Arc for structured data passed between threads, atomics for smaller things like counters job queue length. Of course the fastest synchronization primitive is nothing at all :)
The other reference prices are the list prices of competing vehicles.

You also have it backwards. The current system of "MSRP as guideline" and you have to negotiate to find the real price makes it more difficult to compare prices between cars and automakers (unless you relish negotiating the prices of 4 competing cars simultaneously at 4 different dealers). The current system is set up precisely to not be price transparent.
Doubt it. The healthcare org I work for is still happy for all IT staff to be remote and the companies that have come headhunting me recently have all offered full remote. This is for analytics work in hospital systems, they aren't exactly the most forward thinking orgs but even they are adopting WFH as a new normal for back office staff.
>"I don't understand why so many people lately seem to want to use Rust for web domain stuff."

>"Rust is the new C++. Let's just stick with that."

I write "web domain stuff" in C++ and it is incredibly easy (well for me at least). In C++ I could always use my own styles / paradigms / patterns etc. etc. Not forced to any particular way. And modern C++ is incredibly safe if one wishes.

So if it is bad idea to write "web stuff" in Rust it means it is anything but new C++
The reference price is then their competition, and since prices are not obfuscated you can compare 1:1.

Just like now, but dealerships add a whole layer you have to figure out by determining likely "discounts" between different brand's dealerships.

If the manufacturer could charge more they'd already be doing so, the dealership doesn't actually dictate the prices, they get told the price and are expected to negotiate up then keep the difference.
Running out of cash – Hiring Freeze
https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/02/irl-layoffs-abraham-shafi-social-media/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/02/coinbase-hiring-freeze-rescinds-accepted-offers/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/02/insurtech-policygenius-cuts-25-of-staff-less-than-3-months-after-raising-125m/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/02/carbon-health-lays-off-8-of-staff/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/02/gemini-lays-off-10-of-workforce-as-the-crypto-revolution-enters-its-contraction-phase/

https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/01/a16z-backed-loom-video-layoffs/

https://www.bankingdive.com/news/varo-bank-could-run-out-of-funds-by-year-end-filing-shows/624628/
What does he do at big G?
More demand now leads to more confident investment which leads to more actual growth in the end. Brand awareness advertising isn't only about orders today. It's about implanting the idea "Maybe I'll buy in EV in a couple of years when my truck wears out" in a consumer's head.

It's only when demand is completely out of hand, or when you don't want to Osborne yourself, that you want to stop advertising.
I'm not sure there is a better solution though. Perhaps cattle and almonds were not meant to be raised/grown in California.

Tangential example: I understand aluminum recycling plants dot the Columbia river because (hydro-electric) power is cheap. In a similar way, water-dependent agriculture and animal husbandry ought to follow the water.
Genuine question, what is stopping you from identifying as another caste in 2022 with the mass adoption of the concept of identifying with different genders?

Just like being assigned a sex of Male or Female at birth, those who don’t want to associate can identify with another gender identity or even transition their bodies to whatever sex they please.

I don’t buy the notion that once a Dalit by birth you are destined to a lifetime of suffering, especially if you made it to FAANG in the USA, you won the lottery are in the top 1% of Dalits that are in the cohort of successful, wealthy, educated technologists who can break down the walls of caste identification back home. With the protection of civil rights laws and freedom of religion in the USA, you can use your money and influence to start a movement that breaks the chains of caste identity for the oppressed community back home.

I know the college youth in Delhi are very progressive and champion Women’s rights and protesting as a movement emerged when the horrific rape trials were brought to global attention. Maybe tap into this educated youth cohort to be the change for future generations to come and break caste identity at a conceptual level.

Money and freedom in another powerful country = power and influence to change the narrative back home as a symbol and poster child of Dalit role models changing the world.

Sorry I’m rambling, but if you made it to FAANG and aren’t paying it forward to your oppressed communities back home, then is your inaction to take a stand against Caste discrimination benefiting your oppressors because the top 1% of Dalits who can affect change left India as part of the brain drain of skilled individuals trying to make a better life for themselves abroad?

Let casteism die with the older generations, start a movement with the youth to turn the tides in favor of fluid caste identity until it is no longer relevant conceptually.

Someone please help me articulate this stream of consciousness into a single concise paragraph that is actionable. Thanks for listening, I would love to help in any way I can.
If I had to guess, account people who can work with employers and future employees to get deals done once the platform does initial matchmaking.

Not everything, particularly employment, can be self-serve through a website.
Rust does not in general have an order of magnitude advantage over Go. 2 or 3 would be closer, and that's with some nontrivial attention paid to optimization, not "you write Rust and it's automatically always faster".

Super high-end stuff can outclass Go by that much, like if you're seriously using DPDK or something, and in those cases I strongly recommend Rust over Go. There some other noches like that. But in general, it's not a factor of magnitude.
Turn off external access to your Confluence server.

Doesn't look like they got ours before I got to it, thankfully.
We're talking in the context about employers reading the plaintext of messages you send, right? Is Signal the same as Teams in this regard?
I'm genuinely sad to read this, even while I am so very impressed by the grace and integrity that you are demonstrating. I'm going to save this as an example of how to do hard things, right.

This is hard, but it's clear that the world has not heard the last of you.

Indeed, the world might not deserve you.
State of P2P communications across NATs (2008)
Wait what?

If there are no negotiations, and Ford's price is too high compared to the market, Ford is going to lose sales. That's micro-economics.

> besides your house, it's likely the most expensive thing you'll ever buy.

This is Hacker News, and I've spent 10s of millions on servers, colo, and cloud.
To make it as clear as possible -

Dealerships compete to win your business. They compete in varying ways, which include price and service.

Who does Ford compete with if they set all of the prices and offer direct sales for an entire product line (EV's in this case)?

The answer is "nobody". And we all know competition is what benefits the consumer... this is a regression, not an advancement.

The dealership model can use a shake-up - nobody will argue otherwise. But the answer isn't to destroy competition and allow manufactures to set whatever price they want. That benefits literally nobody except Ford.
For sake of discussion: aren't there uses of this that aren't nefarious?

Their claim that employees intending to leave "may put the organization at risk of malicious or inadvertent data exfiltration upon departure" is, cynically, corporate bs; but data theft or vandalism isn't entirely unheard of by departing employees.

Ever moved your source code to a thumb driver before you left your job, even though your contract technically forbids it, you've signed away the IP rights, etc?
It seems to me the way it would work in practice, is that they’ll probably have to give people in SF higher titles? Mostly hire people with senior pay bands in high CoL areas, and if those pay bands are competitive with the other offers they get (which may be less senior) then it works?
> I'm under the impression that the service part of the dealership _is_ the profitable part

If you drive a Ford, sure, it needs a lot of service. Which is why I stopped buying Ford. Toyota and Honda don’t need much service, and I don’t see how they are money makers for the dealer. And when you move to EV, you need even less service than before since the is no ICE to maintain.
> And in 2001/2, I'm not sure Amazon was all that notable, still a small Internet company then.

In 2002? No, Amazon wasn't a small Internet company. It had been around for a decade; it had been publicly traded for half that time. Look at that article I linked - they were spending nearly $100 million a year on infrastructure! Their annual revenue was three quarters of a billion dollars! They were a household name: Time Magazine had already named Jeff Bezos Person of the Year three years prior, in 1999! That CNET article describes them as an "e-commerce giant"...and they felt comfortable betting their tech infrastructure on Linux in 2001, when you insist it would be another decade before it wasn't just for hobbyists.

(And FWIW, Bezos was already quite rich and successful pre-Amazon:

> He first worked at Fitel, a fintech telecommunications start-up, where he was tasked with building a network for international trade. Bezos was promoted to head of development and director of customer service thereafter. He transitioned into the banking industry when he became a product manager at Bankers Trust. He worked there from 1988 to 1990. He then joined D. E. Shaw & Co, a newly founded hedge fund with a strong emphasis on mathematical modelling in 1990 and worked there until 1994. Bezos became D. E. Shaw's fourth senior vice-president at age 30.

Amazon was also quite well-funded from the jump, with dozens of investors, including hundreds of thousands from his parents alone.

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article...

He could have easily afforded a Solaris box or two for his site.)

I understand that you're not trying to convince anyone of anything, because all you're doing is saying "trust me" over and over. Please understand that, likewise, I'm not trying to convince you, because you're clearly completely disinterested in fact-checking your own beliefs. Nor am I a "Penquinista" fighting for Linux's honour or a BSD Hater or something - while I have one machine running Linux, I've got another running Windows; I've run both OpenBSD and FreeBSD at various times; I'm typing this on a Mac now. My motivation in arguing and providing counter-evidence here is just to try to set the record straight for anyone younger who might be reading this, who wasn't around at the time, whose head might be getting filled with misinformation.
I was agreeing with that point, with my comment about "default allowed".
the model won’t disappear any time soon

do you think people really care about TikTok artists?

one example i’m familiar with are the Island Boys

they’ve got their 15 minutes of fame, but no more than that

TikTok audience is practically trained to receive a new dose of serotonin on every swipe and if they’re seeing the same person again, that ain’t gonna do it
I agree that no-haggle, pay-for-feature pricing works. There was a reason Saturn was successful in the marketplace when it first launched, despite the cars themselves being ho-hum. Things turned south with Saturn when they moved away from their no-haggle pricing model and GM & the UAW tried to convert the Spring Hill production facility back to the "GM way": https://www.forbes.com/2010/03/08/saturn-gm-innovation-leade...
Who Was Pinocchio’s Mysterious Blue-Haired Fairy?
Why is "local profit" is assumed to be a positive thing? It seems to me that if we were to prove keeping money in certain places to be a benefit to society as a whole there would be much more effective and direct ways of making it happen
There is a much larger gulf between Tier 3 and large state flagship research university than large state school and a perceived “elite” school (Some Ivies, Stanford, CMU etc). But TBH some of the best education I have ever received in terms of teaching quality came out of a community college.
We tracked what happens after TikTok songs go viral
I would argue psychology is not a science and I'm not alone with that opinion
The problem is Ford will be the market. They are only offering these EV's direct from their website. There will be no dealerships to compete with on price and service.

> This is Hacker News, and I've spent 10s of millions on servers, colo, and cloud.

I'd bet you negotiated those contracts too.