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by 29athrowaway | 2025-10-01 21:15:58+00:00
AI is a scapegoat.

Every year, large companies secretly rank employees and then yank the 10% or so they consider low performing. This is called rank and yank [1]. If your company has performance reviews and is ran by MBAs it almost certainly uses it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve

The most important aspect of rank and yank is that it has to be done in secrecy. Your company will not tell you it is using it. Even your manager might not know this.

When rank and yank is not done in secrecy, employees react to it by hiring the most mediocre people they can, sabotaging/isolating strong performers, hiring to fire, forming peer review/code review mafias, avoiding helping others as much as possible, etc. Anything they can do to not land in the bottom 10%. This cannibalizes the company and an example is what Ballmer did to Microsoft.

Any person with a ChatGPT account can now ask it to analyze the "game" of rank and yank from the perspective of game theory and realize how dumb the whole idea is. The rational strategy for the employee is to destroy the company from within. But MBAs love it because it involves a made up statistical distribution.

The only truth about rank and yank is that it's a stupid idea that has impacted the careers of millions of hard working people around the world, while also impacting many families and their future. It has converted thousands of companies into horrible places to work filled with workplace psychopaths at the top.

MBAs are people who believe in the work of the person that kickstarted the decline of American manufacturing, Jack Welch. Jack Welch extracted record profits from GE for 20 years, but left it a hollowed-out "pile of shit" according to his successor. The worse part is that MBAs aspire to be like him and in the process have ruined the whole manufacturing industry.

So to pull off a rank and yank every year you need a scapegoat, and this year the scapegoat is AI. In previous years it has been the economy, or some other excuse. AI will naturally become the scapegoat for everything.

Have you ever wondered why your company is laying off people while having job postings for the same positions? Does it happen every year? Does it happen after performance reviews? Is it always around 10% of the workforce? Oof... that's a tough guess, I wonder what it might be!

AI is the perfect scapegoat because the company can claim they're using AI and boost their value somehow. But if AI could reduce your headcount by so much then your company, your business model, your processes, your intellectual property, etc. have no intrinsic value anyways and the correct interpretation of the situation is that everyone should divest and make the share price go to zero.
by ericreyes217 | 2025-10-01 21:16:36+00:00
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by bluGill | 2025-10-01 21:17:02+00:00
> students that don't respect their teachers

Depends on where you teach. Some communities are much better than others.

I believe the majority of those reading this message have kids who respect their teachers (or if you had kids they would). You also live in an area where other kids respect their teachers if you have a choice (some of you don't, but if you have the choice and you will make that choice).

Near where I live there is an "inner city" school where the average teacher has been teaching for about 9 months - despite many teachers who have been there are 30 years. The typically teacher works just long enough to get some experience and then gets a job at a "suburban" school that pays less(!) but the students respect the teachers more.

> low-attention span of kids due to tech.

Kids have always been low attention span. Things are probably better than before because we have ADHD treatments that work that we just ignored in the past. Blaming tech is just the latest thing, but you can always find parents blaming low attention span on whatever the latest fad to blame it on is. Truth is kids are not really "designed" to sit in a classroom for hours every day - but it is still the best way we have to set them up for a modern life so we force it anyway.
by smcin | 2025-10-01 21:17:31+00:00
Yes it is a content farm. Your blog is called "Estimate Property on Blogspot". Some of the content is relevant, but how are (AI-written) articles like "Labyrinth Movie Interiors", "Exciting to See Aurora Alaska Northern Lights", "The offspring of explorers is the culture of acquisitions" relevant?

Also, looks like it was written by AI: GPTZero says 99% "The offspring of explorers is the culture of acquisitions" written with the help of AI. Sentences like "Data images songs and messages are possessed in networks and clouds. The culture of acquisitions has shifted from spices and metals to bytes and code yet the principle remains unchanged." are meaningless. Also telltale is no comma punctuation.

Better to ask a question about how to attract blog views on your target keywords.
by coliveira | 2025-10-01 21:17:48+00:00
The tech industry has played a big role in scamming society into changing education to conform to them, instead of the opposite. Nowadays, schools are trying to "educate" children to use technology and in the process they're making the other more important goals become secondary. Critical thinking, reading, writing, math skills, etc., are all going down because schools think it is more important to use the latest gadget and software.
by twothreeone | 2025-10-01 21:17:55+00:00
Not to go against the OP, but that headline has to be one of the dumbest framings I've seen in a while.. why would you want to replace human teachers with machines? There are an estimated 250 million kids going without any kind of schooling in the world [1], if AI could provide even the most basic kind of education to them it would be a net benefit.

[1] https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1156366
by staticshock | 2025-10-01 21:18:03+00:00
Have you ever tried to submit a PR of your Makefile to the maintainers of, say, an open source npm package? If you have, what compelling story were you able to tell about that Makefile that got the maintainers to merge your PR? And after they successfully merged it, did you continue putting up PR after PR for each successive round of tweaks to that Makefile?

What an extraordinary amount of unnecessary effort that would be. My workflow does not belong to the repo, it belongs to me. The only thing that belongs in the repo is all the shared workflows (or the elements they comprise.)
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-10-01 21:18:10+00:00
> as if you can't understand any other angle of critique to UBI.

I think i have to repeat: You didnt criticise UBI but gov. abuse of power. Which could already reach deep down into everyones life in plenty of other domains besides UBI. Is any kind of state service by definition bad now?

Heck, we could even unnecessarily complicate the issue by putting the UBI responsibility on an extra governmental body, neither state nor private. The true question still remains: Is this whatsoever organisation good or bad and what to do about it. Once we close in on that answer, you might conclude that democracies are in principle pretty neat but this

> You can find another job, not another government

gives me little hope.

Your pessimistic stance on goverments hinders you from accurately describing problems with it, which means you cant articulate constructive solutions too. And as a cherry ontop, you might even reject reasonable policies "because government". Sounds pretty Randian to me.
by megaman821 | 2025-10-01 21:18:13+00:00
You have to be especially careful when comparing oil/gasoline vs solar/electric through. Oil has an especially well developed infrastructure for it being drilled, refined, delivered and stored. Electricity on the scale to power all transportation does not, so there are large short-term costs.

In terms of effeciency, you don't replace a billion BTU's of oil with the same amount of electricity, what you want is locomation. Only about 25% of oil's energy ends up spinning the wheels, compared to 85% of energy using an electric powertrain.
by mcv | 2025-10-01 21:18:37+00:00
> I'm a European - Dutchman living in Sweden

Then you really should know better than this, man. I'm Dutch, and from my perspective it's pretty obvious which way US media and the society as a whole is biased. There's barely any political left there.

> This has changed, especially in the last 15 years due to the radical left-wing slide of the 'democratic' party which now voices opinions which are comparable to those of European socialist parties.

You mean they finally support universal healthcare? Guaranteed maternity leave? 5 weeks of vacation plus unlimited sick days, like every single European country has?

From a European perspective, most of the Democratic Party is still well right of center. There is a real left wing, but it's very small. Bernie, AOC, Liz Warren and a few others; those would be actual left of center compared to Europe.

> I suspect they do not represent the political opinion of the majority of their potential voter base

Indeed. Most voters do want all those sensible things that mainstream Democrats still refuse to support.

> Obama or Harris

...are also still fairly right-wing on economic issues. Refused to support Medicare for All, Harris didn't want to condemn the genocide in Gaza, and was campaigning with Republicans and CEOs. She's about where European moderate right-wing neo-liberal parties are.

> It is quite remarkable how a country so big with so much potential has managed to produce a political class so dysfunctional and incompetent.

I do agree with that. That they not only elected Trump, but re-elected his circus of incompetence is incomprehensible. (And it's true, Europe is also headed towards more fascism. It's bizarre, what's going on right now.)
by ransom1538 | 2025-10-01 21:18:43+00:00
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by chermi | 2025-10-01 21:20:06+00:00
Pinging the https://planting.space/ people! I know some of them are on HN, at least recruiting in the past. I haven't updated my knowledge in a while, but my impression of the company was basically that they were going make money using category theory(+all math) in clever and useful ways. I think they turned toward AI a little, but they're at the root a bunch of people who think category theory is useful. Hence, the ping!
by xbmcuser | 2025-10-01 21:20:28+00:00
One of the biggest thing a lot of people are missing is that from this year Solar + battery became cheaper than coal in China. And avg annual price decline for solar and battery is still around 8-10% ie if you don't go to solar and electric machinery you will not be able to compete with China as they are about to reach the point in the next 10 year where electricity/energy is practically free.
by ge96 | 2025-10-01 21:21:23+00:00
I think it's a thing with regard to tik tok videos for example where they use split-screening (main content plays on top, and some car doing flips plays on the bottom)

Also when I was in school we didn't have smart phones, at least a slide phone with a full qwerty keyboard was the latest thing, can do a lot less than a full computer in your pocket/social media
by jaydgoss | 2025-10-01 21:21:29+00:00
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by arjie | 2025-10-01 21:21:36+00:00
I suspect most people will land on this where their predilections already lead them. To me, the effort to delay Mathematics education is sufficiently bad that I can dismiss the rest of that school of education without much concern. If they are right, they are right by accident and there's not much to learn there. I know there are others like me out there, and for them a quick reminder of who this person is will probably be sufficient for them to escape reading (what they will believe to be) a low-quality post. Time isn't infinite after all.

If you feel less convinced by this, it's simply that you're not in my audience. But I think it's probably worth sticking a tl;dr on the original. Let me do that.
by jetrink | 2025-10-01 21:22:34+00:00
I heard one of the founders interviewed on the Hard Fork podcast[1] (which confusingly is primarily concerned with AI, rather than crypto.) I went in with very negative expectations, but came away with a positive impression and optimism that they might be onto something. As you say, AI is not core to the project. Instead, the focus is on using technology to facilitate individualized learning. It is true that teachers are 'replaced', but by humans whose job it is to keep the students focused and motivated, rather than to convey information.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/podcasts/hardfork-educati...
by rhetocj23 | 2025-10-01 21:22:36+00:00
Lol this is crazy.

I seem to remember the latest tools for software developers were pushed in the business organisation by the developers - and eventually the folk at the top relented and accepted it.

When the reverse is happening, alarm bells should ring.

But hey, Im not against these CEOs destroying the culture within the firm and making their employees hate their guts, resulting in negative productivity gains.
by therein | 2025-10-01 21:24:32+00:00
This is pretty unacceptable in so many ways.

Facebook should do bring your Meta glasses to work day for all the companies that are not as hip as they are.

Some companies might have IT departments that blocked X. Elon should buy xatwork.com or better yet use twimg.com to serve X but only at your workplace.

PirateBay is probably blocked at many workplaces. That's pretty backwards thinking. I think PirateBay should focus on creating more alternative frontends to bring back torrenting at work.

CloudFlare should smuggle in WARP so that you can tunnel out of your workplace.

Could put some cloud policies in place for IT departments to maintain control if they want.
by all2 | 2025-10-01 21:24:34+00:00
There is for JavaScript called XState. I think it is SCXML compliant .You might also take a look at qmuntal/stateless (not SCXML compliant), a golang module. It has rudimentary sub-state functionality.

I'm in the process of writing a golang library, if you're interested in seeing some raw development (IE, I'm in the middle of designing dev UX, and the guts of the lib have yet to be implemented).

You may also consider n8n for your uses. As workflow management goes, it is quite robust.

For embedded work, I honestly don't know. I do know that golang can be transpiled into C (https://tinygo.org/) and tinygo + qmuntal/stateless might work really well for your use-case.
by SJC_Hacker | 2025-10-01 21:24:48+00:00
> At least at my local one, there is a Court playing out a fictional version of a real event early in the reign of Henry VIII, a period right on the cusp which I would call medieval rather than Renaissance.

Henry VIII was in the early-mid 16th century. Thats's pretty darn late to consider medevial. Dates vary considerably but most historians consider the medevial era to have ended sometimes in the 15th century. Conquest of Constantinpole (1453) is a pretty common, albeit arbitrary date.

The Renaissance era, was considered to have begun in Italy sometime in the mid 15th century. Of course it took some time to spread throughout Europe. But by ~1500 Europe was mostly considered to be in the Renaissance. Certainly by 1521 when Martin Luther appeared at the Diet of Worms which kicked off the Reformation
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-10-01 21:24:53+00:00
That's true of some of them. Some of the other ones -- usually the ones in out-of-the-way castles (but also, surprisingly, both of the events in Ptuj) -- could have been twice as busy, and they'd still have plenty of room.

Ah, anyway, it's nice that there's always something to do on a Summer's weekend...
by rahimnathwani | 2025-10-01 21:24:56+00:00
If your child took the MAP Growth test in Fall 2024 or Spring 2025, you can compare their RIT scores to the mean score of an Alpha School student in the same grade:

https://go.alpha.school/hubfs/MAP%20Results%20-%2024%2025/20...

Assuming a normal distribution, this will indicate whether your child is above or below the median Alpha School student. This may be impact your view about how well Alpha School is doing vs whatever school your kid goes to.
by myfavoritetings | 2025-10-01 21:25:00+00:00
After reading “The Making Of The Atomic Bomb” I came away with the impression that development of nuclear bombs was 100% inevitable after 1938 when the German scientists proved splitting uranium isotope could sustain a chain reaction. All of the top physicists in the world instantly knew this could be used to create a super weapon. Every power in WWII had a nuclear program but only 1 had the resources to execute on it. Being the only country with a nuke is basically a checkmate on the world order and game theory demands it be created once it was known it was possible
by bluGill | 2025-10-01 21:25:01+00:00
If the C-suite makes decisions "based on golf games" then you need to learn how to play golf. You don't have to be good, but don't be so bad that you slow up the game. It is okay to be 1-2 over par every hole, but you need to nearly always find your ball and not hit too far into the rough. Take some lessons if needed. (there are swings that don't have as much power but are a lot easier to be accurate - perfect for you who doesn't want you win, you just want to be good enough to play the game). Then make sure you are on the list of people who will "complete your four-some" when anyone is looking for someone to play.

Nothing wrong with being good at golf above if you want to. However this is about politics and that just means good enough to play and talk about the game.

edit: over par not under...
by jhirshman | 2025-10-01 21:25:19+00:00
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by kazinator | 2025-10-01 21:25:21+00:00
I'm not convinced that, in the 14 segment font, we should just give up and accept that lower case "a" and "m" should just be the same as their upper case counterparts:

We can represent a "double storey" a like this:

___ | ___| | | |___|

It's also unclear why we couldn't have a 14 seg lower case m like this:

_ _ | | | | | |

Maybe for each character, have a link to a documented rationale.

EDIT: Oh, look at the example font sheet featured in Wikipedia's Fourteen-segment-display page: it has these letters exactly as I say:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen-segment_display#/medi...
by librasteve | 2025-10-01 21:25:48+00:00
when I was a kid in junior school, I was taught that 0.1 means 1/10 something like the . is a division sign, digits to the right are the numerator and the denominator is the position of the digit to the power of 10

true, in fact the syntax of Python consumes the literal '0.1' as a double [float64] ... so ok maybe I was a bit strong that my fact trumps the Python fact (but it still feels wrong to say that 0.1 + 0.2 > 0.3)

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I welcome your correction on FatRat ... btw I have just upgraded https://raku.land/zef:librasteve/Physics::Unit to FatRat. FatRat is a very useful string to the bow and imo cool that it's a core numeric type.

See also https://raku.land/zef:librasteve/FatRatStr as my path to sidestep P754 literals.

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We are on the same page that the Rat compromise (degrade to P754) is optimal.

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As you probably know, but I repeat here for others, Raku has the notion of https://docs.raku.org/language/numerics#Numeric_infectiousne... which means that `x + 1/3' will return a Rat if x is an Int or a Num if x is a Num. All "table" operators - sin , cos, log and so on are assumed to return irrationals (Num).