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Why would old people vote for other old _people_? I understand they’d want to get ideas favorable to them to be applied, but that may as well come from any _not old_ person.

And to continue with the analogy, he neither replaces the coach, nor the actual team players. He just sits on the bench, paid for his - additional - role. Exactly the contrary of the Coinbase manager-IC, which is supposed to replace 2 jobs in 1.

Would you know any alternative?

Tl;dr: 89 fresh cadavers used since 2017 (cost ~860k$) for “hands-on training on non-perfused and perfused cadaver bodies” to simulate battlefield injuries.

Seems like “noble” (?) life-saving trainings to me. I personally wouldn’t oppose to my body being used for that borderline medical use-case.

After the +, not the dot

I’m super interested in this topic of “how to keep a community alive”, (1) introducing new blood - with the risk mentioned above - at a regular pace, and (2) keeping existing members as alive/active/connected as possible.

Would anyone here have good reads linked to that topic, I’m interested to share - writing this, I just realize I should’ve asked my friend Copilot too.

One interesting framework linked to this I found a couple years ago and still refer too frequently is the Orbit model (https://orbit-model.vercel.app)

As long as those “grunts” get a better reward than their teammates, that would be… fair?

French here, working/living in France, and not aware of any state-backed “shorter work week” test. According to my research, only SME applied it so far (with 2 exceptions of 1000 and 11k-employees). And no particular consensus on the results (many companies stayed on their 4d agenda after the initial phases, but again, we’re talking SME here).

   > How exactly do you ensure that you only hire the best person for the job?

I understood Scale’s stance as: « out of the candidates we have in front of us for any opened job position, we’ll select the one providing the best immediate value on their concrete field - as opposed to the one offering less of a direct outcome but more « indirect » value, such as helping make our workplace a diverse, intercultural and safe place. »

I’d bet this article answers very concrete decisions they had to take internally recently and the article’s writer simply decided to turn his opinion into a company « value ».

The exact opposite stance would’ve been possible (as in « we’re an intercultural, diverse place to work and we try to make the world a better and safe place for everybody, one hire at a time »), and companies usually mix a bit of the 2.

Don’t assume evil intentions or a big « socio-political » plan. That just looks like a company leader trying to make an opinionated decision public, so anyone working there could subscribe. Better in my opinion than nothing.

The MEI (as opposed to DEI) acronym is however unfortunate as it can easily raise unneeded binary conflicts, as seen on this forum ;)

Assuming that framework is true - which I’m not challenging at all -, why would you need to _fire_ the builders, instead of pivoting them to new greenfields projects - as I assume Tesla has many. Unless your CEO isn’t a maintainer/optimizer himself?

Based on my experience (electric motorbike), the regenerative breaks are super strong indeed. You can tweak their « force », but usually, the strongest level is the most comfortable - that you eventually keep all day long. It will cause you to full stop even on the steepest slopes.

Once you’re used to it, you dose your deceleration by focusing on how much you release the throttle.

And the only situations where you have to hit the breaks are the unexpected events - e.g., a car coming at the last moment and which you should give priority to.

I don’t think those company goals should be looked at face value. What is interesting to watch is the dynamics (what was there last year and isn’t there anymore), read between the lines (what is not mentioned as a goal) and the ordering (what is left at the end, what is more important than what).

You can’t expect such an exercise to be treated with transparency (#5. Lay off 20% more of those guys) as there’s just too much to lose by doing so. On the other hand, those goals are subtle but clear enough for the top managers of the company to inspire themselves and define their own - more concrete - yearly ambitions.

And the lower you go in the org, the more concrete the goals (assuming there are any at all). No yearly goal is worse to me than unclear ones, as it gives red flags of management not giving a shit and cruising.

> So perhaps we should prepend a C for “cheap” to the term AGI.

Only 2 letters away from making this TRAGIC.

Discovered SomaFM thanks to HN and in love with the SF 10-33 (SF police scanner mixed with ambient).

For those of you loving the “deeply-focused and manually curated music channel” vibe, I can only recommend to check out Digitally Imported (di.fm), which I started listening for free and turned into a paying user for years now. They now own many apps, each featuring its own music style (electronic music, jazz, classical, rock, zen, etc.).

Some live shows are popping up from time to time, adding a bit of “social experience” on top, but the overall feeling I have is exactly the same as the people commenting there: what a pleasure to just log on a very specialized channel fitting your current listening needs and only have quality sounds fulfilling those needs. No add, no commercial tune, no fuss: only rare versions of quality music organized in extremely consistent channels.

Friends at home for a relaxed moment? Why not tuning to “Late night jazz”? Aggressive repetitive coding: “Goa Psy Trance” will put you in the proper “copy-paste” mood. Long driving session: “Deep progressive” that is!

Apart from pleasing your ears, the valuable outcome (at a time of AI-propelled tracklists that will only push you to listen to the same mainstream music as your neighbours) is that you’ll gradually build a sense of what you like exactly, and when you like it exactly.

Had usually some issues with (metallic) screws or other minor pieces after 1-2 years. Will take a look at ceramic grinders in the future.

I’ve never found a salt grinder able to sustain the salt corrosion in the long run. Sooner or later, salt is aggregating and turning even the more resistant parts into rust.

I was recently planning to get back to a regular pestle/mortar setup after yet another costly failure. Did you manage to find a way to work this around?

> I like to suspend a paper towel between the lid and the rest of the pot, absorbs excess oil and water.

Interesting. I like to keep that excess oil/water, as that extra moisture on the surface of the popcorns later helps the sugar/salt stick to it - without the need for additional butter/grease.

The floppy disk doesn’t mean a thing to younger generations, yet their icon representation is very common in a lot of UIs (save button).

So this point doesn’t make sense to me in this particular discussion - even though you may be right at the end of the day.

I’d say it boils down to the following: - humans can be selfish, or not - humans are powering businesses and gouvernement bodies controlling them, so both can think long-term, global benefits or short term, own-benefits - hence the need for control and/or transparency on decision making, whether it is a private company or a government body - we all know the fiduciary duty of a CEO ; I’m wondering whether some kind of « long-term good » duty also exists for CEO or political deciders, making them accountable of the long-term consequences of their choices.

Our economy and politics are indeed favoring short-term gains by design and that is « simply » what should be controlled to a certain extent. Not easy as this should be a global move, otherwise the long-term advocates are likely to be outperformed by their short-term competitors and not have the time to implement fully their strategies.

Claire Bushey (Financial Times) going over the last 4 decades and how (de)regulations, financial ups&downs and public opinions impacted US airlines leading to the current air travel situation.

While there definitively _are_ similarities, this example (as far as I’m concerned) is a perfect illustration of a line that shouldn’t be crossed, and that Medium - as opposed to YT - unfortunately did cross. I’m personally trying to avoid Medium links because of the 3-article-max/month paywall applied to my account, but clicking on a YT link isn’t a problem for me. Why? Go figure! I’ll have to deal with the ad(s) - more and more so! - and a request to test YT-premium, but the net benefit is felt like positive for me at the end of the day. And for them too I guess!

Medium should invest in UX study, get to know better their targeted users and implement a paywall that is _just_ painful enough so that it doesn’t cause the customers to associate your brand with a negative concept.

You can trick us into paying, but do it nice and sweet! We want to feel like you deserve it, not that we got forced.

Your point (first sentence) is totally valid - thanks for sharing it! -, but you then make it polarizing by getting emotional (« bribe », « desperate »), hence the down-voting, I guess.

They previously had to make their whole « internal processes » (for lack of a better term) remote-friendly, which wasn’t probably the case back then. When you build a physical-first team, your documentation, your newcomer-induction trainings, your typical way of sharing and bonding, those will all be relying on physical presence. That makes onboarding of full-remote colleagues terribly challenging, « doomed to fail » I’d even say. Being remote-friendly is an important effort that requires you to actually become remote-first. And this effort is only considered, started and approved by executives now that the global context has totally changed because of COVID. At least in the tech industry, there’s no coming back, and people at the top of the company, even if fighting on some details, are totally getting that.

So yes, my analysis is that, because of those fundamental « remote-friendly » changes, companies embracing the new normal can compete in a larger pool, which offers opportunities as well as challenges. Companies - in the IT domain - fighting this trend will only make their life terrible and eventually abide by the new rules (hey Apple! :))

Could as well be a 300% difference! :P

Not all motorways are made equal, and that may play a role as well. I frequently drive over French, Italian, German motorways and can say the quality and maintenance of the road vary greatly between European countries.

Eventually, I see so many other factors that could enter the picture that I’m wondering if that comparison makes any sense at all (apart from proving the writer is trying to force his point?).

   > how can you expect to be taken serious as the 'Chief Engineer' at SpaceX, (...)when you're also the CEO (...) and still on Twitter shitposting all day (...)

Hardcore emphasis on all day I’d assume. Just don’t fire Netflix as soon as you’re back home, actually do not get back home, and spend an insane amount of hours on the field will get you to a place where you can legitimately be in charge (CEO) and understand deeply the business (chief engineer) - aka become chief micromanager.

And that somewhat explains the rest of the personality: skip enough hours of sleep and you’ll finally end up as an over-sensitive, selfish bro.

Not exactly saying the above is a sane way of living and doing things that should be praised, but I personally respect him for the passion/time he puts in the process, which at the end of the day is the reason why some like-minded engineers are working for/with him on his bold visions, even if they don’t have as much skin in the game as him, financially speaking.

I mean, he’s not faking it, and that goes a long way when selling a narrative and embarking your next partner, whether a banker or an engineer.

I’d second that and can relate as I’d have loved to pay Medium for an enterprise global account that would’ve allowed selected, smart engineers from my current company to post blogs that would escape the Medium paywall. Looks like to me that option doesn’t exist on Medium - or I’m not able to find my way through your website.

That being said, you Medium folks - as it looks like you’re actively reading this thread - should work in priority on the global perception that Medium is hosting more and more clickbait and superficial content, as that is a possible concern for people like me who’d be willing to give you corporate money so that our possible readers would bypass the paywall.

In a nutshell: work on an option (or pivot to?) making good writers pay for publishing content and get rid of the others. Some of those writer will be fine with paying (corporate branding is their goal), while some others will ask for their share of the fame created and you may want to go the Patreon way for them, i.e. asking readers to pay as an option (?)