I appreciate a response like this on HN.

IF there is a problem, let's solve the root issue (which may include looking at the algo feeds of all big tech, etc).

I will not comment on the European data here, but this is so wrong on the Canada side.

Sentiment against immigration is real in Canada. You're comparing refugee numbers when in reality Canada's population grew faster than most of the G7 in 2023 [1]

[1] - https://www.scotiabank.com/ca/en/about/economics/economics-p...

This policy needs a refresh - there are many issues with the H1B program today - a good article if you're interested: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-staffing-firms-game-...

We should be wary billionaires are controlling these policies.

Bernie Sanders did this interview a decade ago and he was right, unchecked immigration is not in the economic interest of the working class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0

If only there was a party for Bernie and his supporters.

This topic reminds me of the old interview Bernie Sanders gave nearly a decade ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0

I hope citizens wake up, business interests are not always aligned with your (citizen) economic interest. It doesn't matter if it's legal or illegal immigration, there are economic realities that we should talk about - stop focusing on the color of someones skin.

| I think Elon and Vivek's comments are more nuanced than they are taken.

If they are, they have the platform to provide that nuance. Take a look at the public H1B data for Tesla (disclaimer it doesn't tell the full story), it does not seem like they are vying for the top-99.9%.

It seems odd we're giving billionaires the benefit of the doubt. They are positioning themselves to win, and that's totally fine in the system we're in, but let's not assume they are friends of the working class.

Is there no balance we can strive to hit?

Seems weird to be ok with slave labour and poor practices, simply because you want to ignore the negative externalities and consume cheap things (ie. undermining local economic production).

Are the laws written such that companies as large as Nvidia have zero accountability over the destination of their products that may violate laws?

They don't need to track down every unit, but 20% of revenue ending up at a Singapore address might warrant some understanding of the end destination?

The article mentions return to office policies as a reason, but you have to wonder what the severance package was. Anecdotally, a company my friend works at just laid people off, and a majority of the ones that were not let go, wished that they were given the option.

You have to wonder if there's some interesting data with regards to tight (?) labour markets, policy that has nudged severance packages higher, etc.

1.5 month of salary for each year of being at SAP. And people who have been there for 20 years get 33.5 months.

That’s quite high even for Germany where it is difficult to dismiss people. Because it is so difficult, a method often used is a mutual agreement with a severance package above what you would get awarded by a court.

VMware was very generous, 6-12 months based on tenure from folks I know who worked there.

Is this a sarcastic quip or are you able to expand on this?

I use a lot of serverless daily, handling events (even ML inference), and it seems to work great, but would love to understand the alternatives and your perspective.

The overhead of abstracting away the servers is a luxury in many ways. This extra cost I believe was heavily funded by low-interest rates which flushed the VC world with dough. There’s been a lot less serverless talk since the fed started cranking the rates

Sorry, but this feels like a total non sequitir. Serverless or FaaS is pretty mature now. People get the concept, businesses understand the savings, and the services and tooling are stable. We don't talk about it because it's boring.

In my opinion the consoles for all the cloud providers are a convenience and should not be relied upon nor routinely utilized as part of operations.

I've used serverless for the past 3 years in production. Unfortunately my experience with it is that it's several orders of magnitude more expensive than a k3s cluster on a cheap provider like Hetzner, and it's slower.

When I last calculated the cost of serverless, it was ~500-5,000x more expensive for the compute compared to k3s and ~10x more expensive for bandwidth at a minimum. To me, removing the burden of maintaining infra didn't justify that level of cost.

Some examples:

- Upstash latency was ~70ms for Redis. Cost was prohibitive.

- AWS Lambda / Cloudflare Worker / Firebase Function cost becomes prohibitive. At least cold starts aren't as bad as they used to be.

- Firebase Realtime Database performance didn't scale, and wound up getting maxed out because of the way it works with nested key updates. Replaced with a Redis instance in k3s which is now running at <2% max capacity and is ~1,000x cheaper.

- Tried Planetscale. Cost was much higher than PostgreSQL.

- Tried Vercel. Bandwidth costs are very scary ($400 / TB egress, or ~350x the cost of Hetzner if you don't count Hetzner's free 20 TB per node)

That being said, I don't know of any good, reasonably-priced GPU offerings.

I don't dispute your claim (and am personally swayed of the argument of technical > admin in most situations) - do you have data that shows this disparity?

Purely conjecture (which means absolutely nothing), I've always assumed that admin:faculty rates are similar, but the volume is where it matters (ie. 2x more admin:faculty in headcount).

I don't, but suppose on a pure hourly basis they're paid the same. I think that's still unfair, given the amount of value a CS lecturer delivers over an admin.