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dls2016 commented on Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout theregister.com/2025/10/2... · Posted by u/raw_anon_1111

foobiekr · 2 months ago

Every single engineer I know who went to Amazon except one lasted under 3 years and to this day, often ten+ years later, they all will mention how much they hated it.

The one exception is an engineer who stopped engineering, switched into product, and transferred to China to hit on the women there.

Some Amazon practices actually sound great to me (short documents, read before the meeting) but so many things just sound needlessly, relentlessly cheap.

dls2016 · 2 months ago

I got a job at AWS/EFS from a post here on hacker news. Stayed there almost 2 years until RTO took its toll (left early 2024). If not for that, I'd still be there... and I went in with full knowledge of all the horror stories. Perhaps the EFS org was just a diamond in the rough, but it was honestly one of the best jobs I've had. Even the on call wasn't so bad, with management taking an extremely hands-on and proactive approach to reducing operational burden. Extremely high technical bar which taught me a ton about building and operating large distributed systems. I do wonder if EFS is still run so well.

I've since been at Oracle/OCI (absolute dog shit with the worst on call I've ever seen, and I've been in the military lol), and now at Microsoft/Azure, which so far seems like a decent workplace.

dls2016 commented on A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant (2017) washingtonpost.com/sf/sty... · Posted by u/mhb

infecto · a year ago

Honest question, what should they be paid? Its purely manual labor, there is not much if anything to innovate or be creative. The output is fairly binary, clean or not clean. I am all for fair wages but how do we know if $10 is the right price or too low?

Interesting how serious questions get so quickly downvoted. I am genuinely curious how you would price a dishwasher when the output is important but the work itself is fairly low value. Line cooks, chefs and most of the rest of the crew are not making much money themselves. Most Michelin restaurants are happy to breakeven for dinner service but make lots of profit on the catering, special events, books, branding area. I am not saying $10 is the right price only asking how do you price it when the industry as a whole does not pay well for back of house. We could say raise labor costs but most are already running razor thin margins.

dls2016 · a year ago

I made $10.50/hr washing dishes in 1998 lol it's not a fair wage for anything today, really.

dls2016 commented on Every company should be owned by its employees elysian.press/p/employee-... · Posted by u/ellegriffin

Nifty3929 · a year ago

I think it's easy to look at this with an existing, successful business in mind - but things don't always work out that way.

How would a business like this get started? Usually the owner is the one who invests a lot of their own time and/or money into the business to get it off the ground in the first place. Would we be asking workers to pony up in those early years when failure is likely? With Central States, the story picks up AFTER all that, when the business is already large and successful, and the owner just wants to retire.

And what happens when the business struggles or fails later? In the case of Central States, the workers were asked to buy shares from the owner, probably using a portion of the salary they'd otherwise get. IOW, they're being underpaid relative to market, in exchange for ownership, expecting to get more later when they sell the shares. So far so good, but how does this look when the business has a rough patch, even one that's not their fault?

dls2016 · a year ago

> IOW, they're being underpaid relative to market, in exchange for ownership, expecting to get more later when they sell the shares. So far so good, but how does this look when the business has a rough patch, even one that's not their fault?

Uhm, do you have a 401k?

dls2016 commented on Patagonia gave its staff 3 days to decide to relocate or quit businessinsider.com/patag... · Posted by u/A4ET8a8uTh0

hipadev23 · a year ago

Why are we acting like this is some egregious attack. This seems like a decent way to handle a necessary staffing reduction. How about we frame it another way:

1) You’re laid off, this is your final week, here’s a generous severance package.

2) Alternatively, if you’d like to keep this job, we’ll pay $4k toward relocation and you have three months to relocate to one of our 8 hubs. Let us know by Friday otherwise #1 is assumed.

dls2016 · a year ago

$4k is a slap in the face for someone who wants to keep their job.

dls2016 commented on How Miles Davis hired John Coltrane honest-broker.com/p/how-m... · Posted by u/paulpauper

SubGenius · 2 years ago

Every drummer, bassist and guitarist too! It's insane how so many of them later on went on to pioneer the fusion movement.

Joe Zawinul, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, John Scofield, Tony Williams, Marcus Miller and so on!

dls2016 · 2 years ago

Cobham!

dls2016 commented on Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming eos.org/articles/oceans-m... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

FrustratedMonky · 2 years ago

I heard interesting tidbit on Sabine's YouTube channel.

That climate scientist have actually 'toned' down the doom outlooks. Because it turns people off to much. Like there will be no action if people knew how bad it was.

So they take 'averages', that kind of show warming, but 'not that bad'.

When really, it is 'really bad'.

So the 'right' is saying all the climate scientist are 'doomer's and causing sensational hype to promote their theories to sell books.

When really, they are toning it down. To be as reasonable as possible. To be 'as sure' as possible.

dls2016 · 2 years ago

I've been saying this for years: climate science isn't science (in the falsifiable sense), climate is nonlinear and humans don't like to rock the boat. This is especially true with a big, cross-disciplinary project like the IPCC report.

(Yes, I understand parts of climate science are falsifiable... I'm at least semi-educated as a former meteorologist and former PDE guy. But the conclusions of the IPCC report are not testable.)

dls2016 commented on Oceans May Have Already Seen 1.7°C of Warming eos.org/articles/oceans-m... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

alexb_ · 2 years ago

There's been some talk about ship emissions changing and created more global warming because some of the chemicals they pumped actually had a cooling effect. I can't remember the specifics, but was there ever a reason why we couldn't just pump out cooling agents into the atmosphere?

dls2016 · 2 years ago

There was measurable temperature change in the days after 9/11.

dls2016 commented on Organ playing 639-year-long piece changes chord bbc.com/news/world-europe... · Posted by u/tigerlily

SOLAR_FIELDS · 2 years ago

Is there a test of originality for copyright? I wouldn’t call myself vehemently anti copyright but when the idea of “let’s just not play and the ambient sound of the orchestra sitting there is music instead” is the basis for the copyright it does make me question the validity of it. When someone who has done XYZ drug of choice and can come up with that idea in their drug addled state of mind as a pretty good first pass (if I were to to smoke marijuana and you asked me of a clever avant garde music idea, the concept of 4’33’’ is probably be one of the top three I would just list right off the bat not knowing of Cage) I really do question whether you should be able to copyright that idea. It’s even a bit of a hippie meme “what if the music is everything around us? Har har”

By the way I love 4’33” and don’t denigrate it - the way Cage executed the idea is flawless - which is one of the reasons it’s so timeless. I just don’t think it’s something you can copyright. And indeed, the stories you linked indicate that, though rather than point out the ridiculousness of the situation they simply used it as a money and publicity making opportunity.

dls2016 · 2 years ago

I think "transformative use" is the term you're looking for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_use