Hacker News: imsofuture

New comment by imsofuture in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"

imsofuture — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:21:38 +0000

Foxglove | Software Engineers (Rust, Typescript) | SF, Remote (US, AU) | Full Time

Foxglove is a platform for robotics and autonomy teams to collect, analyze, and learn from the vast quantities of multimodal data required to build, train, deploy, and operate reliable robots.

- Sr. Software Engineer, Rust. SF or Remote (West Coast US, Australia): https://foxglove.dev/careers-single?ashby_jid=2c5bb4ed-c6d3-...

- Staff Software Engineer, Data Search and Curation. SF or Remote (US): https://foxglove.dev/careers-single?ashby_jid=10a3765a-8ffe-...

- New grads Data Search and Curation (Onsite SF): email jeff at foxglove.dev, mention HN in the subject

- other roles here: https://foxglove.dev/careers

New comment by imsofuture in "Stoat removes all LLM-generated code following user criticism"

imsofuture — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:50:27 +0000

It will be a painful decade until those who have already lost this weird ideological war ever realize it.

New comment by imsofuture in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations"

imsofuture — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:01:08 +0000

Superficially this is 'just' partisan politics, but I wonder if it's actually much more of a death knell for traditional media.

New comment by imsofuture in "Human"

imsofuture — Thu, 15 May 2025 13:36:47 +0000

The hubris that circulates around LLMs is astounding.

New comment by imsofuture in "Sudden Loss of Undocumented Workers Threw Tech Supplier into Upheaval"

imsofuture — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 19:40:15 +0000

I don't really care if companies are finding it hard to suddenly abide by the law. That was your burden from the start and you chose to avoid it.

New comment by imsofuture in "6 Raspberry Pis, 6 SSDs on a Mini ITX Motherboard"

imsofuture — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 04:32:07 +0000

Not to be too glib, but "a bunch of things that should have never been allowed in production, compounded by non-existent monitoring, and poor understanding of how works" is the cause of most outages.

New comment by imsofuture in "CEOs are hugely expensive – why not automate them?"

imsofuture — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:47:19 +0000

This is exactly the general hypothesis behind https://100dollarceo.com

New comment by imsofuture in "New model could explain old cholesterol mystery"

imsofuture — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 18:55:26 +0000

I believe the focus on LDL as 'bad' has been misguided. It's an improvement from 'all cholesterol is bad', but we just don't understand very much about how it all works, and so as we discover more, we slowly refine our understanding.

A lot of the theory about why LDL is 'bad' is based on the fact that arterial damage is repaired with the stuff, causing plaque. There's no evidence that LDL is causing the damage, just that it has a role in how it's fixed (in an ultimately detrimental way).

New comment by imsofuture in "Green recovery must end the reign of GDP, argue Cambridge and UN economists"

imsofuture — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 16:29:15 +0000

Private property entirely depends on violence -- that's not hyperbole, there's ultimately no other compelling force to enforce societal norms and rules (see: police).

It's only our familiarity and compliance with the system that prevents us from encountering that violence.

New comment by imsofuture in "Icelandair letting go its flight attendants and shifting their duties to pilots"

imsofuture — Sun, 19 Jul 2020 01:59:00 +0000

Literally flight attendants exist to help with the safety of passengers in any sort of abnormal situation. That they serve beverages is just kind of the thing they do when there's not a critical safety function.

New comment by imsofuture in "Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people"

imsofuture — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 15:19:12 +0000

If you're a manager, your job is to do things that make you uncomfortable.

Yep, one thing I noticed when I moved into a management role, was that the things that would make you move along as an employee, are the things it's now your job to fix or deal with. Maybe this is obvious, but there's kind of a visceral shift in perception that goes along with it.

New comment by imsofuture in "Advice to new managers: don't joke about firing people"

imsofuture — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 14:55:12 +0000

An experienced CEO joined a mid-sized company that I worked at a few years. His opening line, in his first all hands was a joke about firing the people who were a few minutes late to the call. It was obviously a joke, but you really can't make a worse impression and he was gone within a year.

New comment by imsofuture in "Remote work means anyone can take your job"

imsofuture — Thu, 28 May 2020 16:10:00 +0000

> I'm an outsider, but I'd guess that the people worth $600,000 Facebook salaries are already living there.

Myopic

New comment by imsofuture in "Ask HN: What startup/technology is on your 'to watch' list?"

imsofuture — Sat, 23 May 2020 04:14:58 +0000

Cadence https://cadenceworkflow.io/

New comment by imsofuture in "Show HN: Flight Instruments in Snap SVG and JavaScript"

imsofuture — Tue, 12 May 2020 01:52:03 +0000

Looks great. I have have a mind to make a VOR + map combo sometime, but I haven't mustered the effort yet.

New comment by imsofuture in "Ask HN: I want to resign with nothing lined up"

imsofuture — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 13:15:34 +0000

It's not a great job market (and unlikely to wildly improve), but you're young and have savings. There will never be a better time to feel the satisfaction of quitting because you plain just don't like it there.

Some of the other comments have advice like trying to get furloughed, and all those seem worth a shot, but yeah.... just walk!

New comment by imsofuture in "Aviation industry tries to go green"

imsofuture — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 04:00:41 +0000

I know that for piston engine aircraft, it is critical that the engine be properly warmed up before takeoff. Otherwise, the engine would likely stall shortly after liftoff, leading inevitably to a crash. This is a common cause of accidents.

This is not true. Engine start to takeoff is usually at least a few minutes, but there is no critical temperature factor for the engine (barring extreme heat or cold).

It's a lot like a car, you don't want to overly stress by flooring it when cold, before oil is circulating comfortable -- but running for 10s of seconds is plenty to get going.

New comment by imsofuture in "Show HN: CEO, Decision Making as a Service"

imsofuture — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 03:14:54 +0000

I think that's kind of the point: analyze the context, make an impartial decision.

New comment by imsofuture in "DigitalOcean is laying off staff"

imsofuture — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 20:50:06 +0000

It just means tech company these days.

New comment by imsofuture in "Revenue Generating Drinking Fountain"

imsofuture — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:59:34 +0000

People don't trust a random pipe that serves up free water literally because of the business model of selling a basic commodity like water.

"Ewww look at that dirty TAP water ugh, get some beautiful island fresh water in this bottle!" Of course, it's the same water anyway, but now someone has made money off it.

Capitalism (and since saying that word makes people so mad, let's say "capital seeking behavior" instead) is so hilariously perverse, we've now got advertisement supported tap water, because we advertised tap water v1.0 into obsolescence. And then realized tap water v2.0 (bottled water) actually had unintended consequences (plastic). So THIS time it'll work! Tap Water v3.0!