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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

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.