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As an employer, I remain confused about the common notion that being an employee is somehow safer than owning a business.

The opposite is true.

First, I don't have need unemployment insurance. You are my unemployment insurance. I am hedging against your mistakes, as well as mine.

Second, I assess the situation to the best of my abilities, but also: How I see fit. As an employee, on the other hand, not being able to decide might as well feel like getting struck by lightning. (Here I would only add that as an employer it also feels like that if people fire you — as in: they quit — for any reason. It's just that you get more chances to practice it.)

Reconsidering the supposed safety aspect of an employment (since it's such a sticky idea) is certainly one thing I hope we would do. Unfortunately, when trying to discuss the issue with employees (not necessarily those who work for me), they mostly seem to rather not want to think about it.

Other thoughts. Why I run a company: It's certainly not money. I would even argue I (and most people I know running SMBs) relatively care a lot less about job money than the average employee does. I do it because would hate to work on something I think is bad and where attention is not spent, where it should be (so exactly what a lot of employees complain about in their company).

Best I can tell, a good reason to work for a company is getting to work on stuff that excited you and that you could not do better on your own. But I think more people should consider doing their own things more often! I would welcome more meta-competition in organizing work in a better way.

Points of disagreement with the post:

- People will miss things and systems fail, but I can't think of any reason why a CEO would not want to be able to spot the people who a) are not assholes and b) gel really well with the company. I don't want anyone to work overtime for me, but the above will still hold true. A company is complicated, and you being a considerate human being makes everything so much better.

- Yes, Excel is how you work with numbers, also those pertaining to human beings. That's just the responsible way to organize information about things. But if you think that robs me of my ability to think about or care for human beings, I am mostly confused. Can you not think of humans when you write code, because it's digital characters on a screen? Still, it's of note that even highly analytical people find something dehumanizing in that, when it pertains to themselves.
This applies to everything, a mechanic, a lawyer, a dentist. You can't have all the prerequisite knowledge on every field where you may need to make big choices so eventually you'll need to talk to someone.

If it's not the bank, and it's not you, it has to be someone else. You can ask over email for all the information available on the products from the bank and take it to an independent advisor. Eventually you'll run into the need to have a live chat with that trusted advisor or risk moving one mail per day in each direction trying to explain what you want and what you could get.
Red arrow pointing at Earth on solar system

Nailed it.
That’s why our code is so slow. Dozens of poor decisions that each account for 2-4% of overall time lost, but 30-60% in aggregate.
That's why there's independent financial advisors.
> I have to show up on Monday

For what, exactly? If it is simply to appease the whims of your manager, you already have the bad manager. Another hypothetical future bad manager is the least of your concerns at that point. Chances are the hypothetical future bad manager will be less bad than the horror show you are already in.

> the bank expects monthly mortgage payments regardless of whether my manager is bad or not.

There is some risk there, but most tech people already price in that risk by demanding much higher than normal compensation at their job, allowing them to have their mortgages discharged before the bad manager arrives. You might get caught in the unlucky case, but on balance the good managers don't disappear that quickly.
How is there going to be a lawsuit if there is no independent test?
There are different sorts of loans that you can do in different ways. It certainly does not fit a short pdf (I am not in the US). So it’s nice to have someone walk you through that consequences of the different choices.
Not to be confused with Entra (formerly Azure AD) Edition
"I've been in high tech for 30 years, and I've been laid off many times, most often from failed start ups. I _strongly_ disagree with a fully cynical response of working only to contract, leveraging job offers for raises, etc."

I've been in tech for 15 years and twice was enough for me. I now take on multiple contracts at the same time and make way more than I ever did as a regular employee.

I also won't work for startups as a full-time salaried employee anymore. They will always try to squeeze the hours out of you because they are usually trying to make a fast approaching deadline to get that next round of funding.

I had a well paying 6 month contract last summer and they wanted to hire me as a full-time, salaried employee. The problem was that I worked closely with their salaried employees and they were always overworked (many working on multiple teams) and working long hours on extremely tight deadlines.

The space was also over-saturated and when I researched the company, they were not turning a profit after a couple of years and continuing to take on rounds of funding.

When I refused the offer and wanted to continue as a contractor, they cut off all contact with me and I haven't heard from them since. It really showed me that they just wanted to overwork me and not pay.
Someone once asked Napoleon how he decided where to assign soldiers. Napoleon’s reply was that it’s simple: soldiers are either smart or dumb, lazy or energetic.

* The smart and energetic I make field commanders. They know what to do and can rally the troops to do it.

* The smart and lazy I make generals. They also know what to do, but they’re not going to waste energy doing what doesn’t need to be done.

* The dumb and lazy I make foot soldiers.

The takeaway, is that only after you lose your shiny glasses are you ready to take on larger responsibilities.

Don’t become jaded. Don’t carry around resentment - just get on with it - and you’ll
Very much be on your way to career advancement
What companies do this for you? I wasn't able to find any in a few minutes of research. I found several that operate as a registered agent, but that's just one piece of the puzzle.
Very simplified-- looking at incidents over time is a good sanity check.

If you expect microplastics to cause problems with blood flow in brains, you would expect stroke rates to go up with "microplastics exposure".

But they don't; so either the effect is nonexistent, small enough to be drowned by noise or completely compensated by another product of progress, and, frankly, all those scenarios sound rather unconcerning to me compared to well known environmental problems (e.g. atmospheric CO2).

You are absolutely right that there are a plethora of other negative effects to look at, but I will trust the young scientists yearning for a Nature publication to do their job, and will focus my political vote and personal efforts on know big problems until science shows this to be one as well.
The Four Year Bug
Escape Road 2
Tips for Brewing the Perfect Cup of Tea (2022)
I guess it's a matter of perspective.
Duties and rights/freedoms are usually connected. Like you have the right to tiger arms, but that entails the duty to stash and use them responsibly. You have the right to ride your car where you want to go, but that entails the duty of obeying traffic laws.
For this specific example: You have the duty to work, but that entails the right to have a job.
Does it entail the right to have a job you find enjoyable or fulfilling? Hell no! (hour long commutes or jobs you are clearly overqualified for are things you'll just have to accept according to this model still. "Culture mismatch" is not in the vocabulary of social security payout offices, interestingly)
To me it still sounds better than "no job? well guess bad luck for you" though. ymmv
The same reason arson is worse than a wild fire.
That's cool, than you, but does MLX support the Qwen 1M context yet?
how much ram?
Show HN: emcee – connect agents to APIs (via MCP)
Hi! Mattt and I thought it would be cool (and maybe even useful) if you could easily connect Claude to any API. Well, actually we thought it would be cool if we could order pizza and shitpost directly from our AI-powered IDE.

So we made emcee.

emcee takes a remote (OpenAPI documented) API, generates an MCP server, and exposes the API methods to your agent (or other MCP client) as tools.

The easiest way to try it out is with the Claude desktop app (directions on GitHub).

We think emcee is actually pretty helpful in a startup/SaaS context as an interface to your internal admin APIs. It also provides an easy way to connect realtime data to Claude.

Let us know what you think!
DeepSeek Mania Shakes AI Industry to Its Core
Perhaps he was simply "playing it up" for the camera, but I thought it was hilarious how worried he was about his cookie cracking.
Exactly. There's a strong case for being open about the advancements in AI. Secretive companies like Microsoft, OpenAI, and others are undercut by DeepSeek and any other company on the globe who wants to build on what they've published. Politically there are more reasons why China should not become the global center of AI and less reasons why the US should remain the center of it. Therefore, an approach that enables AI institutions worldwide makes more sense for China at this stage. The EU for example has even less reason now to form a dependency on OpenAI and Nvidia, which works to the advantage of China and Chinese AI companies.
A film was made about his life a few years after the war, which is now something of a classic, if only due to how often it is shown on British Television. It was a flop in the US though.
The point was to make explicit one's specific work achievements. In your case, it seems you do it via contacts/word-of-mouth which works for you. Reading a long CV is generally not that much of a chore since a lot will be boilerplate (eg. company name, duration etc.) which can all be skipped as you pick out technical/other details relevant to the job. I also disagree that older experience beyond 10 years (some even use just 5 years) can be skipped. The reason i like to see everything is that it gives me many clues as to the nature of the person i am to interview viz. whether they have a breadth of thought to understand different concepts, the experience to have done it in reality, whether they are adaptable/self-driven etc. Without this information in hand i literally have to spend the first half of the interview asking them what they actually did before i can move on to the interview proper.
The kallisti logo is surely worth bonus points too.
This is a piece of political posturing by the current government. People have been coming here and working on holiday for years, even though people are supposed to get a work permit if you come as a tourist and work remotely there's no practical to enforce it and no government has tried in the past. Making this change will have no practical effect on the economy.
> We're all entry level worker bees

Not one of your former managers that like you has gone on to high-level positions?
Living With Lag: https://www.fastcompany.com/3029918/what-its-like-to-experie...

...what it's like to experience video game lag in real life.
I have to think that some areas are more impacted than others. Say, shallow china sea area in asia with lot of small fisherman using drag nets and anchors and ignoring cable locations..

It'd be good to know what the frequency is in the baltic area and if this is abnormal. Seems the locals think it is.
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To the author, if you're reading this:

If you were on such good terms with VP of Eng and C-levels, why didn't you reach out to them and ask what's going on? They could interfere and prevent your layoff.
ssh in the browser + self-hosting is usually all you need.
> Anthropic says AI can double human lifespan in 10 years time;

That's not a crazy thing to say, at all.

Lots of AI researchers think that ASI is less than 5 years away.

> deepseek's performance should call for things to be reviewed.

Their investments, maybe, their predictions of AGI? They should be reviewed to be more optimistic.
> All that wasted stress because one guy doesn't have a family or hobby.

It reads like the real problem was that the other developers fell into what developers seem to love more than anything: Pedantry. Instead of playing along with the false praise, they set out to prove the claim in the email wrong.
Relying on potential lawsuits alone to ensure compliance with complex requirements is irresponsible.

That's like saying that the customers and shareholders of a given company are sufficient because they can sue, and therefore financial audits of the company are unnecessary.

The solution doesn't have to be a heavyweight centralized agency, either. Simply requiring periodic tests by an independent, licensed third party (just like financial auditors) should be sufficient.
The collapse of Synapse is a pretty good example of why people don't -- and shouldn't -- put their money in the hands of a "fintech startup". And while not a "startup", the collapse of SVB certainly doesn't help due to its close association with SV and by extension FinTech startups.

I'm happy to use FinTech startup products for certain transactions -- CashApp and Wise are great and I might keep a small balance with them. But it takes decades of being around before people are willing to entrust serious deposits with them.
The earliest occurrence of the word "moat" that I could find online from Buffett is from 1986: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1986.html That shareholder letter is charmingly old-school.

Unfortunately letters before 1977 weren't available online so I wasn't able to search.

It also helps that I've been to several cities with an actual moat so this word is familiar to me.
FedNow is slowly rolling out. We'll see what happens.
Same.

In 3-5 sentences, what specifically differentiates Render from, say, AWS Lambda?

For example, how much money would I save from making the switch?
I "solve" most these issues by using a different tool/layer (YNAB) on top of my financial institutions so that I can see all my finances in one place with a good UI and and API. I agree things should be better, I just wanted to share how I handle tracking payments and bring some level of sanity to my finances.
> having a robust legal position is still rather important

Zero competent securities lawyers will argue waiving FINRA arbitration universally puts one into a more robust legal position.

For most Americans, it waives significant consumer safeguards and opens up realms of litigation tactics that are barred by industry rules but not law.
I doubt it's an attack. I suspect it's just a large number of people trying to sign up. I tried the chat and it's better for my needs and it's cheaper too. I won't be the only one that finds that. People are changing from ChatGPT in droves.
There's also NIST 1196a, "Standard Cigarette". As a friend said, I bet they taste like drywall and taxes.

https://www.nist.gov/image/cigarettes-lab

https://www.nist.gov/fire/history/standard-reference-cigaret...
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> I think this is just a relic of a different era and a different code of war

It's worth noting that this kind of civility only happened on the Western front. The eastern front was a no-mercy teeth out display of barbarism. I think the conclusion is that it's to the era, but the specific conditions that resulted in acts like this.
I might be misusing bad faith, but honestly I don't think so. I felt like trying to equate the Hunter Biden Laptop letter with the Iraq War was way too polemic to be good faith, designed solely for gotcha purposes rather than to continue or deepen a discussion. I think a good faith discussion would have had some standard by which they were categorizing Hunter Biden laptop letter signatories and wouldn't have equated the letter with all the intelligence fraud behind the Iraq War. I think it's not unreasonable to expect someone with Rayiner's platform on this site (and intelligence) to know that stuff. Maybe (probably?) you clearly take good/bad faith more seriously than I do; I think it's really easy to prioritize winning the argument or mindshare vs. participating in a discussion that benefits us all, and I think that comment had all the hallmarks of it. I don't think Rayiner's a bad person, just that he--like all of us--sometimes could do better (I'm also guilty of this, probably even recently who knows). I'm fine not agreeing on this, but I try pretty hard to criticize behavior and not people, and I think I've held to that standard here.

EDIT: I reread and I definitely gave the impression that Rayiner posts in bad faith a lot. I don't think that, and I apologize.
It's worse because people don't want to hire in those countries and the conjecture here is also that layoffs are unrelated to productivity, so there is nothing you can personally do to avoid getting laid off except having a family.

So it's worse for people who are productive in their jobs.

We were approached by a French startup looking for an acquihire and well, French labor law was a big reason not to do it (not because the people at the startup weren't good, but because staffing an Eng office around them was seen as too risky).

To some extent perception is reality here; we didn't really know that much about French labor laws, but the reputation and uncertainty is the issue.
> The maximum amount of notice you can be legally entitled to is 7 months

I believe the maximum amount of notice you can be legally entitled to as a contractor is whatever your contract says
Anybody used this yet and can share example outputs?
That is only a moat if they manage to continuously improve the models. If improvements just slow down enough and the business gets disrupted by a mich cheaper good enough version it is game over for employing 1000s of 500k a year engineers
If there's sufficient backing and motivation due to say...another impeding lawsuit, there most definitely will be, not just one, but a handful of "independent tests" each backed by the plaintiff and the defendant.
Appreciate you trying it out! The three-option is brilliant - I'm wiring this into the recommendation engine's branching logic now. Should be live in this week's update.
DeepSeek hit with large-scale cyberattack, says it's limiting registrations
Ask HN: So, how hard was it to get your AI to work?
I have been contemplating for while about this.

All the hype about AI is very familiar to us all. Let's leave it that for this thread.

But having taken on a few things for myself, trying to get customer ready results from homegrown AI/Rag/NLP/ML etc. I have to simply admit that it is by far the most challenging aspect of my programming career.

And I have not come up with results that even remotely would satisfy a paying customer.

How about you ?
Apparently, they’re hosting your DNS, too:

> Our nameservers: ns1.freewha.com and ns2.freewha.com
Do other countries also use NIST's products as standards, or do other countries have their own standards/NIST?
I've found Azure's serverless hosting decently easy to work with, too.
If you get bitten by flying bug, that's it. No escape.

I would love to live a carbon-neutral live, but giving up on flying - no way. An easy choice compared to those at war.

Bader willingly reentered the airforce, putting his life at risk, just to be able to fly.

On the German side, to get to fly at least prentend to be a Nazi. Without that, no flying.

Sacrifices have to be made to get airborn.
Probably because it didn’t have an American saving the day
We have one success after ~two years of ChatGPT hype (and therefore subsequent replication attempts). That's as fast as it gets.
Other big problem is one demonstrated also by the article; openscad is not great at any rounded shapes because it is mostly polygon based. So even if you write out the maths explicitly they might end up being wrong because of the difference between true round and the polygonal approximation
I like this, but it's odd to consider convents as institutions that last a long time without considering the catholic church, which back in the day was definitely 'growth at all costs'.

Also, I mean, some big businesses have been around for a long time, there's plenty of banks founded in the 1500s :)
But nobody is going to make monopoly profits from reducing emissions. It just costs money. Things that benefit everyone don't get nearly as much effort as things that benefit a single billionaire.
I don't know the answer, but this doesn't seem to tell us one way or the other. Even if there is independent lab testing for the final certification, it would be crazy for the company to not perform their own testing many many more times during the R&D process.

I have a friend who does mass spectroscopy testing to measure volatile chemical emissions from consumer goods. They don't do final certification testing for the relevant government agency, but they are contracted by the companies themselves to provide continuous testing services as the products are being developed and manufacturing processes are being dialed in. Once they have a finished product, it's sent to a government lab (or independent contractor, I'm not sure) for final certification.
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Okay, but your objection was requiring more evidence for the less likely assertion constituted an "arbitrary bar", you cannot argue that and quote _an arbitrary estimate by another commenter_
Sweden Suspects 'Gross Sabotage' After Damage to Cable Under Baltic Sea
In this flawed but underread sci-fi book

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51804

a group of people with the ability to use other people's bodies rapidly becomes morbidly obese. The book follows Pohl's formula of a hero who discovers a secret and I wouldn't want to spoil it by saying anything more.
Moat to what? My Google use has dropped significantly now LLMs are integrated into my IDEs. It’s not zero, but my use has dropped by more than 50%

My expectations are changing too, just this weekend I typed into google

“is Monday a public holiday in Auckland”

And their AI answered me and gave me an enthusiastic and utterly useless paragraph about how some holidays are sometimes on mondays.

I thought then, Google is DONE

I think they are only surviving on momentum, and because they are so large, they still have momentum, but in the face of automated thought accelerating innovation even an enormous amount of momentum can only carry you so far.
A Chinese AI advancement called DeepSeek is sending US stocks plunging
> which according to my brief checks costs around $10k/week

That's the market price though, for Microsoft its a tiny fraction of that.
Huh, interesting. I'll try that thanks!