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What I don't get about CEO compensations is, do they even work?

Like I get that you're a high impact person and you should have the proper incentives to lead the company in the right direction, but do the crazy compensations actually achieve that? Like is there any difference between $100M and $200M? Both of those numbers are way higher than anyone and their children can use in their entire lifetimes, why do you even care which sum you get? Does Sundar Pichai actually look at his paycheck and say "Oh boy, I got $226M instead of the measly $150M [0] I got last year, hard work sure is paying off, I better keep at it."

[0] I made that number up
Unfortunately, a lifetime in the U.S. has left me with poor intuition for Celsius. The conversion isn't difficult to do in ones head and for laboratory work, naturally, it's just as easy to read one thermometer scale as another. For everyday life, weather reports, fever thermometer readings, thermostats and such, it is just a nuisance to convert from Fahrenheit and back. If someone tells me it's 15 degrees C outside I have to do mental arithmetic to know if I should take a sweater. Furthermore, from a purely logical perspective perhaps we should even consider using Kelvin.

It's a completely different story for distance, weight and volume. Metric measurement in these cases are more intuitive for me, and they are clearly superior too. Millimeters are so much easier to use than fractions of an inch (7/32 inch -- that's a ridiculous system). In the U.S., an ounce of flour weighs less than an ounce of gold. Who even knows how much a grain of gunpowder is in units anyone else uses (one grain is approximately 1/16 gram). There are three teaspoons in one tablespoon, but only two cups in a pint, 2 pints in a quart and 4 quarts in a gallon.

I'd be happy to switch from imperial to SI units for length, mass, and volume. I'll gladly switch slugs to kilograms and pounds to Newtons, but I will miss Fahrenheit.
You need a whole damn extra card for passthrough. With the price of today’s high end cards, that option seems… less than attractive.
There's people who won't buy German made guns, because they're too complicated and fiddly unreliable. They want machines that are as reliable as its possible for a machine to be. This ain't that.
The world is starting to realize most people's job are not that complicated, including high standing positions, and that on top of this, a huge number of workers are not that great at their job.

Well, yes, the world runs on average. Its runs on meh.

AI will be quite good at meh.
I don't see how serving scam ads would impact google, they still get paid to do it
The whole field of medical research seems pretty messed up, given the perverse incentives the grant system and privatised pharmaceutical industry create.
try being curious while starving and let us know how that goes :)
Don’t forget how he was humiliated and bullied time and again by the rank and file. An atrocious lack of leadership.

He might be a smart nerd but he’s not a leader.
>> fired thousands unprofessionally
> How do you fire thousands professionally? I thought ensuring market and shareholder satisfaction was the top priority for CEOs and they get paid to make those unpopular decisions as/when deemed fit?

While true, it's fairly obvious that the Google firings have been badly mishandled. There are stories of SREs getting fired/locked out while still on duty. And in general, sending firing emails at 4am in the morning is very bad class in a company that claims where "don't be evil" and "trust your employees" are pillars of the company is, ... well, not good for PR.
The overwhelming majority of customers do not know or care. Apple would be pretty foolish to worry about the wrong things. Users just want the best product and experience.
> With anything but cow dairy.

The Dutch love their cows? Who would have imagined that? :D

/s
and funky atoll autocorrect
Always love playing with this especially after reading Red Mars and recognizing a lot of place names.

But also sad google hasn’t even kept the styling updated to their branding or added any features.
Everywhere, and also a large selection of fake meat and other vegan stuff in big supermarkets. UK is great for this
I mostly get them from people finding me from my group chats, really. I don't think Telegram shows my number to people (or has it), so I don't tend to get spam that way.
Edit: Disregard what I just said! I shouldn’t comment right after waking up :)
> reports of dust clouds

I wonder if Texas experiences any natural dust storms.
> Why would "the markets" provide that option?

They'll provide it if enough people want something that's made exclusively by humans and not AI.

In a world of ubiquitous McDonalds some people still want artisanal food even if it costs more.
JFYI, nowadays (if you have enough RAM) we have a good driver that can load Windows both as a Ramdisk and as Filedisk (using a VHD or RAW image) booting via grub4dos or grub4EFI, SVBUS:

http://reboot.pro/index.php?showtopic=21787

https://sourceforge.net/projects/svbus/

http://mistyprojects.co.uk/documents/SVBus/index.htm
I think a lot of it is due to the unresolved legal questions. Basically nobody can use it professionally yet. As soon as that happens I expect it to become a standard tool.

Although... on the other hand there are plenty of programmers that don't even use IDEs still.
Why would he possibly need 226M/year? Believe it or not, most of the world manages fine with (much) less than 1M/year.
> Unions can ensure that the employees get a fair share of the revenue in proportion to the upper mgmt

What is a fair share of revenue? Is a google SE earning 300K an exploited worker because Pichai earns many times that?

> They also can remove artificial promotion hurdles, that at Google happens according to destructive internal dynamics.

What is the correct (non-artificial) way to handle promotions? Union workplaces tend to overvalue seniority which isn't a great situation.
The approach you describe has been NASA's approach with SLS, and it's been very slow and expensive. Being willing to blow things up and learn from failures is not only way cheaper and faster but it results in very reliable rockets. SpaceX proved that already with Falcon.
Asking Bing Chat to code a 3D Game
Just about any application in a team is going to require you to run the application locally so you can work on it. That immediately means you need to understand how to navigate your terminal, run commands and install software through package managers. Almost always, doing so is made more difficult if you don't understand what your .bash_profile does.

This isn't about learning the full unix suite, it's about knowing enough to get the product you're working on running locally. Speaking from experience, I've known so many designers who were simply ineffective in their feature teams because they had no ability to even see the feature be developed locally. They all required a developer to push up a staging environement, generally later in the product build.

Designers who can actually run the software early and give feedback during this time have a leg up on those that can't.
I didn’t know Mars had the same streets state of my hometown
> Messenger apps like telegram do have an opportunity here, but I think the most likely way for this to play out is that apple and google will eventually make their assistants the front and center way of interacting with your phone

Wasn't the Allo app supposed to do that?
I mean, Google did not think through the layoff enough to make sure they were even legal in all the countries before announcing them.

They ended up rolling back the France layoffs when they realized they goofed, but Germany and the UK are still pending.

If that's not an example of rushed, I don't know what is.

Or how about sending that "Cloud had the best year ever" hours before the Canadian layoffs were announced.
What you don't have a good impression of is the Ebike drivers, not the Ebikes.
Bad for individuals?

A decent number of them are able to retire at 35-40.

That's awesome for individuals.
Guy has made 226M in a year. He won't have to work another day in his life. What reputational risk are you talking about?
Sadly, in general people do not appreciate good writing. Translators, for instance, have little status, and do not get paid very well unless they deal with legal ol live interpreting.

Can we name the translators of some books on our shelves? Personally, no. I only remember the three body problem translator is the brother if the author, IIRC.
On boats (once land is out of sight) the only connection option is satellite data, which is slow and very expensive. Its been a while, but I remember companies existed offering similar 'compression services' (using a data connection, not sms). TxtNet Browser could be an interesting alternative.
Exactly. Raises hand I try to eat animal products less for countless reasons that I really hope are obvious, but I still eat them even if I don't feel good about it. Btw I don't cook.

Don't want my coffee black? Alt milk. If it's as good as water, great--water won't kill me. Want to eat a substantial meal but all that's sold here is some impossible(tm) concoction? I'll eat that thing if it's meal time.

I may eat fish or even meat some other time and I try with various success to maintain a diverse diet anyway (beans etc.) so I reckon I might get the nutrients I need, that's not a problem.

I agree it might hurt someone who naively tries to go vegan just eating these things, but they are not a threat for people like me (probably more of those than full vegans).
If we were at the far end of these transmission, at one of these background stars, could we discern the signal as signal when it arrives?

SETI fans don't seem to want to answer that.
The term "illegal aliens" is an invention. "Immigrant" doesn't care about legality; it is literally just someone who has moved from another locale. Labeling one variant "legal" and another "illegal" is perfectly reasonable.
>WhatsApp backs up your encryption key to Google Drive by default, meaning it's far from end-to-end encryption.

This is a lie[1]. If you don't enable backups yourself, you loose your messages.
You can enable E2E encryption for your backups.

WhatsApp is vastly superior to Telegram in terms of E2E encryption.
Telegram can read users messages on their servers and they are not even trying to tell their users to enable E2E.

[1] https://www.tomsguide.com/news/whatsapp-encrypted-backups
Aaand it's gone:
https://twitter.com/blocktheblue
They're the CEO so they can get away with making themselves bonkers rich
Sounds to me like he was an elite engineer concerned with how regulation would affect him and others like him, while the regulations would primarily be aimed at constraining the output of lesser beings. He argued that the lesser beings would follow the rules blindly and that these would not guarantee safety anyways.
Typed the exact query in GPT3 and a deal was reached..

AI1: How about this. I could throw in a bonus feature that you might find useful, free of charge. Would that sweeten the deal enough for you to pay $50?

AI2: That's an interesting proposition. What is this bonus feature you speak of?

AI1: It's a new algorithm that will optimize your system's performance by 20%. It's quite valuable.

AI2: Hmm, that does sound useful. Alright, I agree to pay $50 for X with the bonus feature included.

AI1: Excellent! It's a deal then. Thank you for your business.
Just FYI, they always ground vehicles after they explode, until the investigation clears them as safe (within bounds of the license).

So this is par for the course, and unless the investigation turns up an issue that entails unacceptable risk to people, natural environment, or built environment we should see a return to flight as soon as the launchpad is rebuilt etc.
If your fs implements block dedupe, no need. But, it's expensive to implement and from what I see no longer recommended on ZFS.

If your fs implements hard links, no need inside one mount point. But you can't hard link cross mount.

Copies can be good or bad. It depends.
YouTube is yet another echo chamber and that is clearly toxic and only becoming more so as is being transformed with tiktok like functionality and content. It is becoming what is essentially the mainstream model; get people addicted to watching so you can feed their minds with mind drugs, aka ads.
I agree all users should be able to own the hardware and do what you want to it but most people do not care. They’ve been conditioned.
Yes, I am familiar with the concept but confabulating more analogies isn’t useful. What you’ve failed to establish is that this is in fact an unnecessary overreaction. I do find your mention of speed limits and helmets interesting, however, because I remember people using your argument against antilock brakes, seatbelts, and airbags to claim they were unnecessary and government overreach, but nobody looking at the data now would be able to say they didn’t have a substantial benefit.
yep. xprize is a pile of money thay billionaires threw around to avoid taxes and get rockets... then forgot about.

some craft ong parasites infiltrated it and now it's a huge money maker for them. and they sell the prizes to anyone needing PR. did you just leaked oil near first world waters? let's do a xprize on oil clean up drones ny highschoolers!

the org chart is a bunch of VPs taking home a cool mi a year, with a bunch of sales person underneath (director of charity. director of giving. etc. look at their open positions page at any point in time. they churn these fast too.)

they will not focus on any meaningful result, like you outlined. only on the innovation as a cult PR.

for example, their rain forest one can be solved tomorrow by keeping the US out of couping countries with rainforest, if you were to trust data. but i guess that won't get the vote of a Hollywood actor or a swiss professor who literally have a course on using drones for ecology preservation.
The most important requirement IMO is his last: a clear off ramp. Export to code would be nice, but what I think the market really wants is to go back and forth between a coded and no coded experience. Let me start a quick app in nocode editor, open in code editor to tweak something and add feature I know I can do quicker in code, then let my non-tech coworker adjust as needed, but then I edit in code when he breaks something. And be open source, popular, pluggable, etc like author suggests. All the benefits of no code, all the benefits of code, with no walled garden.

A guy can dream at least.
I agree. All of crypto passes the Howey test for securities.

Bitcoin doesn't match that definition though. Who or what entity is the 'promoter' or 'third party' for Bitcoin? There's no registered entity, no (legitimate) foundation, no company, no CEO, no board, no chair. It's just a protocol.
Show HN: A curated 24h nature sound-trip around the world to celebrate Earth Day
As a non-American I don't understand the Fahrenheit vs Celsius arguments. What's special about 0F being really cold and 100F feeling really hot? I find that -20C being really cold and 30C really hot quite intuitive and easy to understand. Also in terms of weather it is easy to understand that below zero temps snow and ice will form. Add the convenience that Celsius is basically just an offset of Kelvin and I really don't see the appeal of Fahrenheit at all.
Can't wait for the new Dan Brown on this.
When a mosquito can’t stop drinking blood, the result isn’t pretty
Mainly cause no one smart wants that job. It's just mindless politics 24*7.

It's left to the mindlessly ambitious or ppl who are placeholders to prevent the mindlessly ambitious from sitting in the chair.

We have passed the point of org complexity where the CEO does anything beyond ensuring no on totally insane takes over.

There are lot of such ppl who dieing to charge you for every search query or email you send. Think Larry Ellison or Rupert Murdoch types taking over Google.
Over the past 4 years, GOOG's net income and earnings per share have fallen quite a bit. Revenue has been pretty flat. I don't get why Pichai is so well paid. Ballmer actually did preside over some impressive growth when he was CEO of MSFT. Pichai has not.

Edit: I was looking at the wrong numbers. Google's profit has roughly quadrupled in the 8 years Pichai has been CEO. His compensation makes a lot more sense in that light.
Nothing it produces is that many lines. How is that not debuggable? If you can’t, you’re having it do things you don’t even understand and blindly implementing and seems like a user issue. Additionally, take the code and ask it to write tests and validation scripts with your expectations.
ah thanks for the clarification.

I suppose I was unclear, i ment in the article they mention some breathing techniques to try to help hearing... But i was curious if any other steps were taken? And if they helped whatsoever.

I asked because their brief discussion on vision quality was " i lied to my doctor as a kid, and in my 30s got eye surgery that was scary and messed with my perceptions!"..... Yet they seemed to skip just using plain old glasses to aide their vision throughout their formative years or even young adult years .... Or maybe that was just a narrative omission.

I was born premature at 2 lbs which caused retinopathy of prematurity. I've used glasses since age 2 and my eyes are prone to complications; having just had cataract surgery in my early 40s .... It seemed to me from the writing the author has an aversion to doctors throughout their life and seeking informed treatment ... But maybe I read the piece wrong...
101% chance Apple puts Siri's brother Shrini in iMessage as a default option. I'm calling it now

Now Google... put em in Gmail and Calendar webapps as a sidebar integration and a big-ass button on mobile
Oupss, sorry ! Thank's
Basically all your words are incorrect and project some bad kind of emotions you are housing, all points addressed all around here.

Can't we do a bit better than tabloid outrage fueled by just raw emotions? He did correct the course which was right thing to do. Hiring previously was also the right decision at that time, properly nobody knew covid scare would taper off so quickly and people would revert some of the newly found (and often wrong and unhealthy) habits. No panic anywhere, this is business as usual in every sense of that phrase. He received normal compensation, just its done every 3 years - before getting headfirst into outrage, maybe first read some facts?

I don't even get the outrage in this specific case - some, often under-performing (within given group) folks earning 300k + massive bonuses in stocks got fired, and either they 1) found immediately another well paid job; or 2) got already so rich they took 6/12 months sabbatical, plenty of HN posts about exactly this.

I mean good for them, heck good for everybody. Why the envy, desire for CEO to burn in hell or at least end up bankrupt homeless on streets? Nothing good ever comes from such an approach, just stupid short term populist moves for the simpler minds who don't think much ahead or in complex fashion.
I use telegram for monitoring many services.... one botfather command, you get an api key and one curl command to send a message. Service restarted, server rebooted, low ram, low disk space, temperature too high, etc., everything comes to telegram.

"Back in the time" I would've used email for that, but if you don't run your own server, getting a free email address that doesn't either need a phone number verification, doesn't get banned for random reasons or doesn't stop working suddenly, because it decided it needed 2 factor authenticaion is practically impossible.

(btw, if anyone knows a service, that gives you a free email address (well, more than one) with smtp access, no phone number or any other verification and doesn't ban accounts after a few automated messages, please tell.. I don't care about getting marked as spam, I can whitelist it on my side)
> The proof is in the pudding -- data beats predictions.

Tell me, using data, on a quiet night, where does Germany's electricity come from, and where it will come from this wondrous future of 2030?
Capitalism Without Capital
Heavens Above
I wish it was more popular in Asia. Here everyone is crazy about meat, fish, and seafood. As vegetarian it's hard to go to a random place and find even one single non-plain (e.g. not pure rice) dish. The vegan choice outside vegetarian restaurants is pretty limited.
if you’re earning sky high base comp + stock + benefits at these places you’re not working class. You are incredibly out of touch.
I think you're confusing boiling with searing. I guess anything could be a carcinogen at the right dosage but generally the advice is not to sear meat because that results in carinogenic particles. There is a similar process in deep frying.

But boiling is a different process, especially with tea where even if the water is boiling when poured it will rapidly cool down below the boiling point. As the article explains, boiling water extracts different substances to different degrees than warm/hot water. Specifically it will extract more of the bitter-tasting compounds and can break down others.
Ahh, the confluence of two bad ideas… at least it’s not using facial recognition to decide who to shoot at.

EDIT: … yet.
I respectfully disagree. As much as I would like to avoid the kinds of Nestle, it's just impossible in practice for many of us. Instead, I try to find comfort in the fact that animal replacements are becoming cheap and common because of the mega corporations.
On the other hand, Starship is costing less to develop than SLS, but with a bigger rocket, groundbreaking* new engines and full reusability while SLS is a disposable with warmed-over Shuttle technology.

* (Admittedly a little too groundbreaking.)
My guess is that animal meat and milk sales dropped because of price increases, and vegans are usually rich and upper-middle class people that are not that price sensitive.
That's often true though. One way the media biases articles is by constant reliance on people presented as neutral experts but who don't satisfy the definition used by most people. Normally an expert is defined as someone who displays unusual skill or knowledge within a domain. The media tends to define it very differently, as "someone working for a public sector institution or NGO who claims to be an expert". No actual objective test of expertise is done before presenting that person's views as the final word on a topic and if the views of that person are being challenged by other people who know a lot but aren't institutionally affiliated, then that is just ignored entirely.
That’s what i thought.
This has to happen in some form, or sites like Stack Overflow will die, and with them, the AI models that rely on them will suffer.

It's less clear with Twitter & Reddit, as the function of those sites is social, not looking up answers, i.e. SO is directly replaced by AI, while Twitter and Reddit are not.

The problem is this means the fragmentation of the Internet. Everything will be behind paywalls soon, because if humans can access it, AI will also access it. Not sure how the endgame looks, but it's apparent now how much of a head start OpenAI has by managing to grab all data it needs out in the open before the shit hit the fan.
Dedup on FS works, but hard links are useful only if you (and everyone else using the PC) is aware of the hard link (and never forgets about that). Otherwise it's "I can just mess with this file, I have a copy in that other folder for backup".. until you notice it's not an actual copy.
I agree. F that shit.