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climatekid··on Ask HN: Talk me through the acquihire process
Founder here of a company that attempted to do an acquihire Hail Mary.

Going to be frank with you. 1.5 months is not enough time. Go through the motions and meet with FAANG, but for all intents and purposes it is too late. There’s very little incentive for BigCo to buy a dead company.

Tell the team now, pay out their salaries for next 1.5 months but have them focus full time on getting new jobs. That’s the best you can do for them.

climatekid··on Ask HN: Does anybody know how to prevent Mac from sleeping?
Amphetamine app in Mac App Store
climatekid··on All billionaires under 30 have inherited their wealth, research finds
From that list you linked:

- FTX imploded for fraud and is now worthless - Bolt is now worth only $300M - Not sure about Brex

climatekid··on Render Is Down
All of ours are down. Doctors unable to use their mission-critical software right now.
climatekid··on [dead]
my databases and redis are still down
climatekid··on Why landing on the moon is proving more difficult today than 50 years ago
Cause the first one was faked
climatekid··on OpenAI deletes ban on using ChatGPT for "military and warfare"
Reality is AI is going to be used to write really really boring reports

Not everything is a spy movie

climatekid··on Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs?
> increase worker productivity by 10x-1000x.

Tell me you're not an engineer without telling me you're not an engineer

climatekid··on Brittany Pietsch, Account Executive at Cloudflare, records her layoff experience
fuck Cloudflare
climatekid··on Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions
Wow this is very helpful. I'd heard that as well. Thanks for commenting this
climatekid··on Swap OpenAI with any open-source model
I love the concept, but I think you need some more documentation. I tried using this in colab and get

PanicException: Error getting DATABASE_POOLS for writing: PoisonError { .. }

I can't find anything on google or your docs on DATABASE_POOLS

climatekid··on Why only 1% of the Snowden Archive will ever be published
Also called the online encyclopedia of incompetence
climatekid··on The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days
So one of the top reasons not to change was so 0.2% of the world population could follow a rule in a 2000 year old fiction book…
climatekid··on Building React-like components for Ruby
Small feedback, when I first saw your graph I thought ERB was 12x as fast not 12x as slow
climatekid··on Sergey Brin's airship gets FAA clearance
Sounds like you’re not using tax law to your advantage
climatekid··on Desert Island Tourism
Nah, you’re the asshole here, bud.
climatekid··on Sergey Brin's airship gets FAA clearance
> Brin runs a separate non-profit, called Global Support and Development, that has already carried out such missions by sea, in the Caribbean, Latin American and the South Pacific. It originally used Brin’s own superyacht to ferry medical personnel to the scene of hurricanes and other disasters

Sounds like he figured out how to write off his superyacht

climatekid··on Ask HN: What's the Most Impactful Feedback You've Ever Had in Your Career?
Sounds like good advice for many classic engineers
climatekid··on Firstborn
This makes me not want to have a child
climatekid··on The Supreme Court could soon change the internet forever
This article is incredibly bias
climatekid··on Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer
The founders probably took millions in secondary offerings
climatekid··on Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer
Wonder how big of secondaries the founders took
climatekid··on Extroverts more likely to resist vaccines, study shows
Genuinely curious, do you have a source on introversion/extroversion being biological like handedness?

I always assumed it was more learned. I used to be introverted but that was more due to low self esteem and now I’m more confident and rather extroverted

climatekid··on Extroverts more likely to resist vaccines, study shows
> they believed gave them a similar level of immunity

Believed correctly

climatekid··on New study will examine irritable bowel syndrome as long Covid symptom
This. It’s also very possible people can get long COVID from COVID, but it’s exacerbated and/or more likely for those who are vaccinated
climatekid··on Career Advice (2013)
The Stanford prison experiments are pretty well debunked at this point