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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026) on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:32PM (#50342365)
REVNODE | Founding Sales (Founding AE) | Remote (US) | Part-time or Full-time | 1099

We build custom software solutions for all industries, for companies of all sizes. AI, embedded, sass, all of it. Business has been around for 11 years. Everything up to this point has been direct referral or through agencies. You'll be building out the sales department from zero. You will be supported to the best of my ability. This is a good role for someone who wants to build something from scratch and knows what they're doing. Expectation is that you own the entire relationship with the client, make sure they are happy, etc. Minimum contract size is $50k. Capability statement here: https://www.revnode.com/docs/capability_statement.pdf

Commission only at 20%.

Email [email protected]

Re:ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @03:32PM (#49870031)
A bigger house, a bigger car, a second car, a second home, more eating out, more vacations abroad, more charity spend, I can go on, but I think you get the idea. You can try to write this off as cultural differences, but if we're being honest, that's just cope.

The idea that economic growth is irrelevant is nonsense.

https://econofact.org/factbrief/fact-check-has-the-economic-...

Re:ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @11:57AM (#49867844)
I obviously said that in jest, an air conditioner is not expensive nor is it that expensive to run if you keep the set temperature within reason. The question itself is disingenuous. There is no one thing, because whatever the thing, there is a cheap knockoff available. It’s the quality of all things.

A cheap Android phone can do all the things an iPhone can, but the experience is worse. How do you quantify that?

I would urge Europeans to visit the US and stay at an AirBNB outside of a city to see how people live. I’ve done the same in reverse. Could I have a similar lifestyle to what I have in the US? Yes. But only with my American salary. This is the point that is being made here. There is nothing that Europe lacks. The problem is the numbers and what is available to the median household.

Re:ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @09:56AM (#49866679)
Air conditioning
Re:ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 on Saturday September 26, 2026 @07:46PM (#49861743)
This ignores the population differences between the two. When you look at GDP per capita, things are quite stark.
Re:Migrate from OpenClaw on Thursday June 18, 2026 @11:34AM (#48587000)
openclaw = claude code + memory + cron job

persistent memory plus cron job lets you do stuff that you can't do with just codex/claude code/opencode

Re:Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS on Thursday June 18, 2026 @11:28AM (#48586893)
They've been at this for a while. They do have offerings you subscribe for and pay monthly. They have also consistently offered an option for each of those offerings to bring your own or self host. They've earned my trust.
That's not true. Boss likes being flashy. You won't see them being used for actual work, but that's a different proposition.
Re:Scott Adams has passed away on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @01:41PM (#46605638)
Why is their reputation relevant? They're dead.

Reputation guides your behavior toward that person. But they're no longer around. There is no behavior toward them. They're gone. Their reputation is no longer relevant.

How so?
Yeah, that's not how things work. Senate can't pass anything unless the House agrees and the House is representative of the population. Also, footnote, we've been structuring governments this way for thousands of years. Rome, etc.
Industry includes FOSS and artistic endeavors, anything that’s done professionally.

My intent was to exclude research efforts, which is fundamentally different from engineering, which is a practical concern and not a “get it to just work” concern.

Engineering only exists within industry. Everything else is a hobby.
There is no market for such a thing. At that price point, you get a personal chauffeur. That’s what rich people do and he can do stuff that a self driving system never can.
The point of engineering is to make something that’s economically viable, not to slap together something that works. Making something that works is easy, making something that works and can be sold at scale is hard.
Re:Telo MT1 on Saturday August 02, 2025 @02:11PM (#44769893)
Slate is ugly and not nearly as functional. Predicting who is doomed at this point is silly. But there will be a small electric truck soon, which is nice.
> If the US is in the wrong, why should I as a citizen not want our government officials held accountable?

A core principle of American justice is judgement by a jury of your peers from your community according to our laws, not by foreigners on the other side of the planet according to foreign laws. Violations of our core principles through means we were not a party to is a violation of our sovereignty.

The ICC continues to be targeted because it is a threat to American sovereignty and has been for a long time. The US is not a party to the treaty. Neither is Israel. That the ICC is targeting Israel is clear evidence that the ICC can and will target the US at some point.
Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash on Thursday April 17, 2025 @09:38PM (#43724095)
You can self host something like https://big-agi.com/ and grab your own keys from various providers. You end up with the above, but without the pitfalls you mentioned.
> Who's going to bother to invest in American manufacturing when the tariff "strategy" changes daily?

Isn't that the point? If things are so unstable, you avoid the instability by manufacturing domestically.

Nobody cares about personal use. That's why we have concepts like fair use. It's when you turn around and try to make a business out of it.

You want to generate photos of copyrighted characters? Go for it. But OpenAI is making money off of that and that's the issue.

It seems like they made an effort to stop it, but their product is designed in such a way that doing so effectively is a sisyphean task.

Remember how she wasn't locked up? That set the precedent.
He asked what would you do. That's what I would do. And that's what I did. I'm sorry to hear you can't find work, but that's not a problem everyone shares.
> I only have a desktop.

Sell it. It's a paperweight for you right now. You can find a really nice open-box/used laptop for $300-400 that will allow you to work from anywhere. You can charge the laptop at a cafe or a library. $5 for coffee and you have a working space to take calls and work.

> I drive Lyft/Uber full-time

Stop driving Lyft/Uber. It's for those who don't have any skills beyond driving a car.

Sit down and determine what are the skills that you currently possess that are the most valuable on the market right now. Then sell those to the highest bidder.

My two cents, that isn't a job.

> I know I can earn 3-4x more doing freelance tech, but I can’t do that from a car.

Yes, you can. That's a limiting belief; it's just holding you back. All you need is a laptop. Need to make a meeting? Go to a local cafe. Nobody will even notice. More importantly, if you're doing remote contract work, perfectly acceptable to ask a percentage of the total upfront. That will go a long way to get you out of a car and into an apartment quickly.

> What would YOU do in my situation to break the cycle?

1. Stop driving Uber, stop renting motels, stop paying any bills, bring my costs down to near zero.

2. Start taking on as much contract work doing "freelance tech" that I can find, with as much paid upfront as possible.

3. Once I have 10k in the bank, rent an apartment and start cleaning up whatever mess is left.

4. Start making quality of life decisions. Maybe you don't want contract, but want a job? Maybe a nicer laptop? Closer to your kids? Live your life.

#1 is the hardest, because you're risking everything on your ability to deliver. You have to believe in yourself.

Re:Mistral OCR on Thursday March 06, 2025 @04:04PM (#43285060)
So an invoice attached to an email as a PDF is sent digitally ... those unfamiliar with PDF will think text and data extraction is trivial then, but this isn't true. You can have a fully digital, non-image PDF that is vector based and has what looks like text, but doesn't have a single piece of extractable text in it. It's all about how the PDF was generated. Tables can be formatted in a million ways, etc.

Your best bet is to always convert it to an image and OCR it to extract structured data.

Re:Europe has donated more support to Ukraine than the US on Friday February 28, 2025 @07:32PM (#43214020)
Another interesting statistic is that Europe has given Russia more money than it has given Ukraine in 2024. That's a fun one.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/24/eu-spends-more...

Re:Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @04:04PM (#43018345)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09PJYMK77/zcF9kZXRhaWxfdGhlbWF0aW...

I'm sure there are power supplies for servers that go above 1600 watts too. If you really want to, you can ... but you really shouldn't.

Re:Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @11:20AM (#43014673)
We also have 20 amp wiring, 20 amp breakers, 20 amp sockets, and plugs too. A lot easier than going 240 volt. That will give you 2400 watts max.
Re:Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @10:39AM (#43014062)
Ha! Find me where I can buy it for $2000.

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