Hacker News: oatmeal_croc

New comment by oatmeal_croc in "Amazon RTO policy is costing it top tech talent, according to internal document"

oatmeal_croc — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 22:31:52 +0000

5 days a work is diabolical. I was laid off earlier this year, received an Amazon offer and turned them down when I got another offer that was 3 days a week in the Bay. Now I wouldn't mind if I lived next to the office, but I don't. Commuting 5 days a week would ruin my life.

Now I'm definitely not "top talent", I'm as middle of the barrel as they come, but if I feel this way, I'm sure folks much smarter than me would just block Amazon recruiters on LinkedIn.

New comment by oatmeal_croc in "Amazon RTO policy is costing it top tech talent, according to internal document"

oatmeal_croc — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 22:30:31 +0000

It's a pretty non trivial problem to build and maintain infrastructure and customer relationships at that scale, yes, including the myriad of services they provide other than just "compute slices".

New comment by oatmeal_croc in "Cellular Starlink expands to support IoT devices"

oatmeal_croc — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 05:54:01 +0000

The starlink terminal literally has GPS - so Starlink already knows the location - whether it needs to get more accurate coordinates using beamforming is a question.

New comment by oatmeal_croc in "“Streaming vs. Batch” Is a Wrong Dichotomy, and I Think It's Confusing"

oatmeal_croc — Sun, 18 May 2025 00:28:47 +0000

Streams -> optimized for latency

Batches -> optimized for efficiency

New comment by oatmeal_croc in "How we made billing backendless"

oatmeal_croc — Thu, 15 May 2025 20:10:08 +0000

You could also say "I made the billing a winged cow sailing a boat" and it would be a figure of speech.

New comment by oatmeal_croc in "The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority"

oatmeal_croc — Wed, 14 May 2025 04:48:01 +0000

Yes, but it is not a priority. GTM is the priority. Make money machine go brrr.

New comment by oatmeal_croc in "Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights"

oatmeal_croc — Thu, 01 May 2025 08:53:18 +0000

Where do you get your information from?

New comment by oatmeal_croc in "Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights"

oatmeal_croc — Thu, 01 May 2025 08:50:57 +0000

Floodlight companies don't appear overnight. I suspect they won't appear at all, given the instability of the tariffs and the fact that the next President (or even the current one) could wipe them off, rendering their shiny new Floodlight factory completely useless overnight. This extends to any industry.

Tariffs need to be stable and updated with several months of advance notice - otherwise they don't serve their purpose.

New comment by oatmeal_croc in "Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights"

oatmeal_croc — Thu, 01 May 2025 08:48:07 +0000

The interesting thing is that India already has high tariffs for goods coming from China, however this might be different for finished vs non-finished goods and for consumption vs re-export goods. The tariffs aren't cheap though. Iphones not manufactured in India and sold there are significantly more expensive due to all the tariffs.

New comment by oatmeal_croc in "The Ozempocalypse Is Nigh"

oatmeal_croc — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:35:48 +0000

Of course it does, it is just much less effective than the injectable versions.

New comment by oatmeal_croc in "The Ozempocalypse Is Nigh"

oatmeal_croc — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:32:30 +0000

The thing is, GLP-1 isn't that hard to make, and these compounding pharmacies make effectively the real thing.

New comment by oatmeal_croc in "The Ozempocalypse Is Nigh"

oatmeal_croc — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 04:26:36 +0000

Few people actually pay 1000/month. Most get it through insurance (I pay 25/month), and most of the remaining get it through compounding pharmacies like HenryMeds which comes out to 300-400 per month.

In fact, I know a few people who get brand pills (Rybelsus) mailed from India, where it's much cheaper. This insane pricing is a US only thing.

New comment by oatmeal_croc in "How the U.K. broke its own economy"

oatmeal_croc — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 08:18:48 +0000

There's a TV show called parks and recreation which has that exact premise.

New comment by oatmeal_croc in "OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor"

oatmeal_croc — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 06:32:48 +0000

Even if true, so what? These are increasingly looking like a competition between nation-states with their trade embargoes and export controls. All's fair in AI wars.

New comment by oatmeal_croc in "EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force"

oatmeal_croc — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 06:30:42 +0000

That's not entirely true - the Tesla has a few hundred watts of overhead when charging - so a 240 W charger would probably not get over that hill. You could maybe keep the screen on and watch a movie while connected via USB-C.

New comment by oatmeal_croc in "New physical AWS Data Transfer Terminals let you upload to the cloud faster"

oatmeal_croc — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 05:48:14 +0000

I'd imagine with LLMs today, discovery work is probably done on the cloud by bots.

New comment by oatmeal_croc in "New physical AWS Data Transfer Terminals let you upload to the cloud faster"

oatmeal_croc — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 08:07:22 +0000

Judging by the locations (New York and LA) I wonder if this is to cater to folks from production houses who want to upload large video files for processing or backup.

New comment by oatmeal_croc in "How long til we're all on Ozempic?"

oatmeal_croc — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 05:27:31 +0000

This. You'll need studies to prove that semaglutide causes muscle mass -so you need to have a group that loses weight using semaglutide and another group that loses weight without it and compare the muscle loss. I'm willing to bet you'll see similar numbers. If you don't exercise, you will lose muscle mass when reducing weight - which is why trainers recommend resistance training and higher than usual protein while cutting.

New comment by oatmeal_croc in "7/67 Children Receiving Skysona Gene Therapy Develop Blood Cancer"

oatmeal_croc — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 05:31:54 +0000

I must admit I'm not a very medically literate person - someone please break this down - is this good news or bad news? Were we expecting more people or lesser people to develop blood cancer?

New comment by oatmeal_croc in "Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods"

oatmeal_croc — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 06:07:35 +0000

I mostly use Zoom for work calls, you can select microphones and speakers individually. I found that if you select your Airpods as your speakers and your laptop as your microphone, the sound quality on the Airpods suddenly get way better.