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New comment by dhruvrrp in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

dhruvrrp — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:04:15 +0000

I work at AWS (disclaimer opinions are my own, do not reflect views of my employer) and i think the existence of a leaderboard has led to folks gamifying it. People see peers in a higher tier on the leaderboard and start burning tokens to catch up.

I think the company realizes this and is actively trying to avoid this, since for the new tools there isn't a leaderboard.

New comment by dhruvrrp in "Equipping workers with insights about compensation"

dhruvrrp — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:17:37 +0000

This blog is basically openAI admitting that Hey we parse and store your prompts!

I know it's well known in tech crowds that they use all prompt data for training, but most non tech people I talk to almost consider their chats with openAI to be private.

Why did they think this was a good blog post?

New comment by dhruvrrp in "Bricklink suspends Marketplace operations in 35 countries"

dhruvrrp — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 01:34:03 +0000

Some really big/rich markets on the list (Brazil, India, ME..).

I don't think LEGO is big in most of those countries (at least not in India), so they might be trying to slow down the secondary market in order to grow sales for new products.

New comment by dhruvrrp in "Microsoft tops $4T in valuation: Great news for MSFT, not so great for workers"

dhruvrrp — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:12:07 +0000

Well, not that great for current workers either. Microsoft RSUs are usually 20% (compared to 40-80% in other big tech) or less for most employees, and on average msft has 30-50% less total compensation than other big tech.

All this stock upside might put some people's compensation to their true market value, but even that is based on tenure and historical stock vests.

New comment by dhruvrrp in "Telo MT1"

dhruvrrp — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 23:02:14 +0000

My sports sedan gives 25 mpg, and my parent's Toyota hybrid SUV gives 58 mpg.

New comment by dhruvrrp in "Figma will IPO on July 31"

dhruvrrp — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 01:30:45 +0000

It's enshittification because most people don't need the 2 year upgrade cycle. For most individuals and small businesses, it was more like buy once and use forever.

New comment by dhruvrrp in "Why I stopped angel investing after 15 years (and what I'm doing instead)"

dhruvrrp — Sun, 04 May 2025 05:16:55 +0000

Isn't it exactly the opposite? It used to be low salary + gambling, but now that most people know how easy it is to screw early employees, folks ask for high(er) salary + gambling

New comment by dhruvrrp in "Irish privacy watchdog hits TikTok with €530M fine over data transfers to China"

dhruvrrp — Fri, 02 May 2025 15:29:03 +0000

I went digging for this, and their SEC filing for 2024 mention they have a stay from the Irish High Court.

> The IDPC issued an administrative fine of EUR €1.2 billion as well as corrective orders requiring Meta Platforms Ireland to suspend the relevant transfers and to bring its processing operations into compliance with Chapter V GDPR by ceasing the unlawful processing, including storage, of such data in the United States. We are appealing this Final Decision and it is currently subject to an interim stay from the Irish High Court.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/000132680125...

New comment by dhruvrrp in "Amazon Just Happens to Hold Book Sale During Independent Bookstore Day"

dhruvrrp — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 06:35:35 +0000

I would be really surprised if Amazon didn't have algorithms running that price matched other stores automatically.

New comment by dhruvrrp in "23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself"

dhruvrrp — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 05:31:33 +0000

I thought the CEO was trying to take the company private, for pennies to the dollar which caused the independent board to resign (see: https://investors.23andme.com/news-releases/news-release-det...)

New comment by dhruvrrp in "Money lessons without money: The financial literacy fallacy"

dhruvrrp — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:10:19 +0000

> Financial literacy itself is quite simple: spend less than you make.

I'd disagree with this. Financial literacy includes understanding how /how much to save as well. Too many people spend less than what they earn, but would be screwed if an emergency hit, because they have basically 0 savings/emergency fund.

And the consequences of this are dire, I've seen people in their 70s working because they basically cannot afford to not work due to a lack of savings.

New comment by dhruvrrp in "We Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Concurrency Bug at Netflix"

dhruvrrp — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 06:29:25 +0000

Interesting read, the fix seems to be straightforward, but I'd have a few more questions if I was trying to do something similar.

Is software deployed regularly on this cluster? Does that deployment happen faster than the rate at which they were losing CPUs? Why not just periodically force a deployment, given it's a repeated process that probably already happens frequently.

What happens to the clients trying to connect to the stuck instances? Did they just get stuck/timeout? Would it have been better to have more targeted terminations/full terminations instead?

Broadcom offers AT&T a 1050% increase to renew VMware contract

dhruvrrp — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:24:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/01/att_broadcom_filings_update/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41711428

Points: 13

# Comments: 5

New comment by dhruvrrp in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

dhruvrrp — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 19:39:11 +0000

>every single team is distributed. Unfortunately this isn't true. Amazon already forced all teams to co-locate, calling it RTT (return to team). So majority of teams are in the same location/building.

New comment by dhruvrrp in "Tesla recalls 1.8M cars because their hoods can open while driving"

dhruvrrp — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:57:37 +0000

> Although the problem is with the hood latch, as with many Tesla safety recalls, the problem can be fixed with an over-the-air software patch. The new software is able to detect if the hood is open and, if so, will display a warning to the driver to alert them to stop their vehicle and secure the hood.

So the OTA update doesn't fix the problem, just gives passengers a warning to stop and close the hood.

But does this mean they are not actually fixing the hood latches themselves? I don't think a warning will be very useful if the hood opens up while someone is driving down a freeway at 80 mph.

New comment by dhruvrrp in "[dead]"

dhruvrrp — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 07:00:12 +0000

Link to the Reuters report the article is based off: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-mu...

New comment by dhruvrrp in "VanMoof, the e-bike startup, officially declared bankrupt in The Netherlands"

dhruvrrp — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 10:55:12 +0000

Seems to be specifically the Dutch entity. I wonder how this would affect their USA business, since i see VanMoof bikes pretty often in Seattle

New comment by dhruvrrp in "We replaced Firecracker with QEMU"

dhruvrrp — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 01:28:46 +0000

In this context (the blog post) and the reason firecracker was created, was to isolate workloads.

And if youre running untrusted code, then using a virtualized environment is the easiest (id even say best) way to go about it.

New comment by dhruvrrp in "Telly Is the First TV Paid for by Brands"

dhruvrrp — Mon, 15 May 2023 19:59:11 +0000

I'm curious what the terms of usage would be, since eventually people will figure out how to block all the ads one way or another.

Also after having seen a few cheap Walmart tvs, some with very intrusive ads I think there might be a market for this

New comment by dhruvrrp in "SF payroll firm Rippling has to delay payouts after Silicon Valley Bank collapse"

dhruvrrp — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:59:34 +0000

Not really. According to the CEO's tweets the payroll funds are stuck in SVB, but Rippling is using their own funds/collateral to fund the payroll.

Ref: https://twitter.com/parkerconrad/status/1634315187837861889