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Re:Ask HN: Talk me through the acquihire process on Saturday May 11, 2024 @05:54PM (#40330872)
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.

Amphetamine app in Mac App Store
From that list you linked:

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

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024) on Monday April 01, 2024 @09:51PM (#39901555)
Patch | Remote (all time zones) | Freelance/Contract | Rails, React, React-Native | Negotiable

We are a small team looking for contract developers, building an AI based product in the veterinary space. We are well-funded privately and have significant traction in medical circles.

Our stack: Rails, Render, PostgreSQL, React, React Native, Typescript, OpenAI, AWS, ECS.

We're looking for autonomous, product-oriented engineers across our stack to develop a breadth of features. We're open to part-time and contract.

We're also starting to build custom models and in need of expertise in fine tuning and custom model deployment/infra.

Send me a quick email at [email protected] with resume and preferred rate + hours.

Re:Render Is Down on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @02:03PM (#39830875)
All of ours are down. Doctors unable to use their mission-critical software right now.
Re:Render Is Down on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @12:33PM (#39829793)
my databases and redis are still down
Cause the first one was faked
Reality is AI is going to be used to write really really boring reports

Not everything is a spy movie

Re:Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs? on Thursday January 11, 2024 @11:33PM (#38963772)
> increase worker productivity by 10x-1000x.

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

fuck Cloudflare
Re:Google Cuts Jobs in Engineering and Other Divisions on Thursday January 11, 2024 @01:36PM (#38956602)
Wow this is very helpful. I'd heard that as well. Thanks for commenting this
Re:Swap OpenAI with any open-source model on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @02:34PM (#38548428)
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

Re:Why only 1% of the Snowden Archive will ever be published on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @02:12PM (#38181369)
Also called the online encyclopedia of incompetence
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…
Re:Building React-like components for Ruby on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @11:43PM (#38021371)
Small feedback, when I first saw your graph I thought ERB was 12x as fast not 12x as slow
Re:Sergey Brin's Airship Gets FAA Clearance on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @11:37PM (#38021348)
Sounds like you’re not using tax law to your advantage
Re:Desert Island Tourism on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @11:25PM (#38021292)
Nah, you’re the asshole here, bud.
Re:Sergey Brin's Airship Gets FAA Clearance on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @01:42PM (#38015677)
> 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

Sounds like good advice for many classic engineers
Re:Firstborn on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @09:38PM (#38008091)
This makes me not want to have a child
Re:The Supreme Court could soon change the internet forever on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:15PM (#38004821)
This article is incredibly bias
The founders probably took millions in secondary offerings
Wonder how big of secondaries the founders took
Re:Extroverts more likely to resist vaccines, study shows on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:57PM (#37894835)
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

Re:Extroverts more likely to resist vaccines, study shows on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:54PM (#37894824)
> they believed gave them a similar level of immunity

Believed correctly

Re:The Enshittification of Amazon Continues on Thursday October 12, 2023 @07:19PM (#37864443)
Me too, that and “anecdata” make me want to quit HN forever
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
Re:Pretty good career and life advice on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @11:42PM (#37760603)
The Stanford prison experiments are pretty well debunked at this point