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Ask HN: What are some high probable outcomes cause by tech layoffs
Just saw that Microsoft will be laying off 10k+ employees.

Layoffs.fyi indicates ( filter: location :- Bay Area, date:- > last 380 days) about 60k people have been layed off in the last year. That does not include the Microsoft number.

I am curious about what the hive mind here thinks are the high probable short and long term effects of having so many unemployed people in such a high cost of living area? How will it shape the Bay Area for the next 1,3 and 5 years.
Looks like for the tech companies this is revenue per employee, and not profit per employee right?

Then for Tesla, it would be $754K in an apples-to-apples comparison. I can't find any info for SpaceX though.

Meta is at $1.64M per employee btw, roughly similar to Google. Didn't realize Apple and Netflix ratios were so much higher.

Source for Tesla and Meta: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Microsoft+vs+meta+vs+te...
> I've never heard of any social media service offering read-only access to logged in users.

Twitter allows read-only access even to suspended accounts as well as when you go over certain rate-limits (I believe there was a daily tweet limit at one point, not sure if still there).
• Could VC be a casualty of the Zombie apocalypse? (paulgraham.com)

• Rewriting Skynet in Rust (fasterthanli.me)

• Cyberdyne Insider says Terminators are Sentient (futurism.com)

• Really Sharp Stick Unveiled: New Russian Superweapon Against Alien Menace (businessinsider.com)
Got it, makes sense :) thanks for explaining!
You’d wish, but in my experience individual performance is only a small factor in layoffs. In one layoff I survived, our GM (with 1000+ people) was told who was being let go a day before the event. That involved 100+ people. People with above average performance ratings were let go, some with below average ratings stayed. As best we can tell, HR went with laying off senior/expensive employees based on the lack of certain technologies on their internal resume. Of course, your best employees don’t update their their internal resume much, because they are busy with all the work being thrown at them. It was chaos.

I’ve also seen companies do layoffs by cutting entire teams. Top performer on a misaligned team? You are also laid off.
"It's bigger in Texas"
If they're worthless to Apple why is Apple marketing refurb Mac Pro starting at $5k on their website right now?
Eventually you'll run out of bad ones to sack and then the that's when the good ones leave because they don't want to play the ladder game.

You're left with middling who might have a hard time finding other jobs but could play the ladder game well enough - potentially with devastating consequence for health of the technical stack as more "features" get developed.
And, as expected, only the House is stupidly dysfunctional. It's almost like voting for a party that tells you government can't do anything gets you a government that can't do anything
Although there are a lot of poor people in HK, it isn't true that most of them live in poverty:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-11-02/hong-kong...

1.6 million out of 7.3 million people is definitely serious, but hardly a majority. I've been to the SAR a few times, and don't think it is especially poor, especially when compared to even China's richest city like Shanghai.

As for my own personal experiences, please don't make assumptions like that. You have no idea what I've been through in my life, and it is rather not relevant to this discussion.
Well, drunk driving is a serious problem that can affect others.
It's also not enough for VSCode and Web Development. Opening VSCode on a medium sized Next.js project takes a good minute or so before Intellisense kicks in.

But I'm not willing to pay the prices on the UK website. I think an M3 Air with 32GB will be my next purchase.
Not willingly:

Twitter to Devs: Don't Make Twitter Clients... Or Else [2011]

https://mashable.com/archive/twitter-api-clients

Twitter's API Update Cuts Off Oxygen to Third-Party Clients [2012]

https://mashable.com/archive/twitter-api-big-changes

(how could Elon do this!?)
Apple does have a significant mark up, yes, but, the costs of bringing a product like that to market is not a matter of adding up the price of the components.
I'm a native English speaker but have a linguistics degree and have been a tutor. My mental model is that there are three broad things you need.

Knowing what it's supposed to sound like: for this I recommend radio and TV. This will help with aural comprehension as well.

Knowing how to make the sounds: for this, learning the IPA and looking at IPA pronunciation guides is very useful.

Putting it into practice: Find a native speaker who is learning your native language. Get coffee once a week. Speak English half the time and your native language half the time. If you can't make that work, try dictating to your phone/computer in English. If your pronunciation is good, you'll get better accuracy. Gamify it for yourself if you can.
Despite my comments, the tool looks VERY cool and useful.
Yeah, even as a smartphone owner, I find it annoying how some places just assume you're able (and willing!) to install some arbitrary app to do business with them, etc.

That being said, it really doesn't have to be all that expensive. Sure, if you buy the newest iPhone every year and get a high-end Verizon plan, that'll cost some dough. But you can get a used or low-end smartphone and a cheap plan - they're out there: https://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-cheap-cell-phone-plans,rev...
Inspect the WebView’s in any macOS app
SouJava, the Largest Java User Group
You're thinking at a corporate efficiency level, which is why shareholders want layoffs.

To an individual manager, their pay is generally proportional to the number of reports, so the incentives are for them to hire.
> Now that https is ubiquitous, there aren't many caching proxies around to cause grief.

Well, there are still CDNs. csvbase is designed for a public cache for some pages. I haven't done much on this except for the blog pages, which use the CDN a lot.

I also have vague plans for client libraries that include a caching forward proxy as my experience is that most people export the same tables repeatedly. Likely that will be based on etags though so that the cache is always validated.

The designers of HTTP 1.1 clearly thought a lot about a lot of things, including caches.

Thanks for your thoughts. :) Keep in touch via email if you like (same goes for anyone else reading this): cal@calpaterson.com
I understand your point but if the world and human experience was truly this cynical, then how do you explain the European people supporting their governments assisting Ukrainians, when continuing the conflict is causing themselves direct discomfort and expense?
I wish he would just grow trees on those properties. For all we know all that land will be used to deploy soylent/fake meat alternative/cricket meat a la "eat the bugs".
Not sure. Tried to sell a several-year-old $5k pro laptop and thunderbolt dock a month or two ago at $400. No takers, which was surprising to me as it is a great one. But thanks for the travel laptop idea.
Ah that is what it was, thanks!
So this looks like true profit-per-employee ratio, the OP is revenue-per-employee ratio. I would expect companies to rank differently based on how profitable they are vs how much total money they are making.

E.g. one big outlier is Amazon, huge revenue income from retail, but close to zero profits.
But what is it? The README is just a bunch of screenshots and disjointed comments about what features it has listed in no particular order. It would be great if there was some summary from a birds eye view of what the project actually is.
I've had really bad personal luck with apple devices over the last 5+ years.
Twitter didn't have a keyword list to exclude after being in the business for like 20 years? They needed ad buyers to manually contact them and then needed someone to add that with a developer?
As customer of their tooling I can think of lots of stuff, but yeah management apparently not.
This doesn't really affect blocking requests in any way, actually it's the opposite: This change doesn't allow extensions to bypass builtin security features.

Firefox is going to continue to have more powerful blocking features compared to what a DNS based approach like pihole can provide.
It's not a panic when it's clear as day this app is used for surveillance purposes
There is no market. I can only sell electricity to PG&E and only at a flat rate.
> What else has dropped 50x in value in 3 years

I mean, it's not quite as extreme, but we all sort of expect cars to drop ~30x in value in about the same time period.
It is, I've written c++ as my primary language for 30 years. I skipped c++14 and I'm still using 17, but staying up to date other than that. But RAII doesn't come anywhere close to the borrow checker in the number of mistakes it prevents.
> I doubt the hourly price will ever truly be fair to individual car owners.

If it's not fair to them, then they won't participate, and the market will adjust.
Alteration of faecal microbiota balance related to long-term deep meditation [pdf]
And yet I remember my old 286 with what? 500mb of ram or something ...
Did my freebie. The update behavior is interesting.

The tool is picky (in that "Flashback to ActiveX bullshit" kind of way) about the platform that does the update. Has to be a real computer (won't work from Android). Has to be running Chrome 108+ (My out-of-support chromebook with 106 or whatever won't work). Can't be a Linux box with Chromium or Chrome (always fails with "Close other tabs using the controller Couldn’t connect to your controller because it’s currently being used by another tab or program."). I eventually passed it through to a Windows 10 VM with google-brand Chrome and got it to work, and that exposed some extra details.

Instructions and responses:

Hold "..." during plug in

press "..." + Assistant (the other button with 3 dots below it) + A + Y all at once

Re-enumerates as "NXP Semiconductors SP Blank RT family"

[Server does something]

Re-enumerates as "Freescale Semiconductor USB Composite Device"

[Server does something]

Re-enumerates as "Google LLC Stadia Controller rev. A"

... it looks like it's temporarily nudging the NXP (formerly Freescale) MIMXRT1061 processor into some kind of DFU-like firmware update mode via the button combos, loading a different bitstream so it can act as a USB composite device to expose the update mechanism of the BCM43458 (radio), flashing that, then rebooting the main CPU back into the USB HID controller mode.

You do lose the headphone jack, which is a bit of a shame because having it work as a Bluetooth audio device would make it even more useful - but at least it's a Bluetooth controller.
Montana State University has also done the same, including residence hall internet.
He almost won re-election and got crazy people to destroy Brazil’s capital city on Jan 8th 2023

But that’s not the point, the point is people in power will do whatever they want and have their reasoning for it
The US can easily wipe the floor with any conventional military. Even fighting multiple fronts at once.

Again, conventional warfare. Keeping countries occupied or forcing a certain regime in you favor? Totally different ball game. You can not force other people to adopt your values, even if you think they are THE GOOD VALUES(TM).

When David has the popular support and stands against your oppression, they can even beat the US Goliath.
Which is WAY better than Firefox for IOS.
> If you’re waiting for the electoral composition to change you’ve got a long wait.

1.8 million voters over the age of 55 die every year (one every 20 seconds), ~3.6 million every two year election cycle (per the CDC), voters who tilt conservative (per Pew Research). States turning blue will get there eventually, and aggregate political leanings will tilt as millennials and younger have less kids or no kids and drop religion. Would I like change to happen faster? Certainly; being held hostage politically at the national level by a minority party with no real policy to speak of is unpleasant (especially the policy weaponized to purposefully harm), but as a scholar, I have learned sometimes time is your adversary, sometimes your ally. Change happens slowly, and then all of a sudden.

If this enumeration seems crude, I’m unsure how else an engineer or systems analyst would approach such a problem. It’s a system, so you must think in terms of systems.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2020/06/02/the-changing...

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/05/29/gen-z-mille...

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/09/13/how-u-s-reli...

https://www.sociologicalscience.com/download/volume%201/octo...

https://www.ft.com/content/c361e372-769e-45cd-a063-f5c0a7767...
Not an accountant. 3 years is shorter than the expected 5-year depreciation [1], so if you took a section 179 deduction you may have to pay some of it back. It may actually be worse to trade in than to let the machine sit for a few years.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/publications/p946#en_US_2020_publink1000...
I did. My places were wealthy (endowments), which means good offices and equipment. But, it also means that bad apples can cause a lot of trouble without getting fired.

Money not quite FAANG, but solid, and didn't depend on employer stock prices, which is a big plus. Some tech was cutting edge; some was many years out of date.

As always, the devil is in the particulars of position. If possible, don't move your family, sell your house, etc., until you're six to twelve months in. It's like one of those Sherlock Holmes stories--it can take a while to realize just how bad a bad situation is.
That just seems like way too much effort for the gain it offers.
There is frequently a reverse proxy in front of all web services. It’s got nothing to do with the quality of the implementation behind the curtains. And “the actual load” is by definition managed by the endpoint not the router.

I mean it would be trivial to implement that reverse proxy in Go. And I do mean trivial; Go also includes a reverse proxy utility, so you can implement something basic in about 5 LOC.

At this point it’s hard to believe you’re being genuine.
There seem to be a lot of those chrome video recording/school ones, like Loom. Seems like a lot of schools use it to record lessons. Being on Chromebooks I would think they are used to installing extensions, if allowed! Usually that is on a whitelist basis.

Do not know how much money it brings in though.
Having looked at and bought racks of used servers before, this pricing 'oddity' isn't that surprising to me. Apple is thought of as a consumer company, but 50k for a machine is strictly enterprise with the appropriate markup. In this case it got double whammied because of the switch over to Apple Silicon.
Yes, somebody building multiple of the world’s largest companies is a much higher hurdle than getting a degree or mid level manager job title.

By your logic we can’t consider any accomplishments from somebody’s past as a reliable indicator of their future results.

Which is obviously not true. “Credentialism” is giving far too much weight to low barrier to entry and easy to accomplish titles.

Ignoring past results, the fact that Twitter is functioning fine after 80% layoffs has already validated the decision to downsize. No need to look to the past.
The ICIJ investigation showed that HSBC reported on a bunch of suspected criminals and it turns out some of them were in fact criminals. There is no law that requires closing accounts after a suspicious activity report, some banks do so after multiple of them but it is not a requirement at all. Generally companies are not penalized for what they report on.

And like what is this?

> The records show HSBC worked with a bank in Tiraspol, within Moldova’s breakaway territory of Transnistria, for four years after the U.S. Treasury Department issued a 2011 advisory warning of the risks of doing business with the Tiraspol bank.

An advisory warning is not binding, is not an act of Congress, does not show up in the Federal Register, and just generally means the bank should monitor customers specified in the notice more, not that they should deny service entirely. These articles never say it directly but they are basically arguing for "derisking" which in practice means excluding large numbers of customers based solely on nationality.
GFN has the better quality nowadays, but back when they both launched it was pretty similar. However GFN 's UX has always been subpar because their abstraction layer over Windows regularly leaks - I've had Windows crashes which resulted in lost game progress, I've had to reauth, including random password and MFA to game launchers, shortcuts doing the wrong thing on the wrong layer.
I thought the trade in on the iPhone 10 was pretty good when I took advantage of it last year. But that was via T-mobile and came with a 2 year contract. I also traded in my apple watch for a new one, and though the $100 was pretty decent compared to the $250 I paid for it.

But for my second-gen iPad Pro, it is basically considered scrap. So not very consistent at all.
You can use Firefox nightly and enable any that you want.

I'd rather use the version of Firefox that doesn't crash more frequently, but that's the trade-off I gotta make at the moment.
Ah, I understand that part, but I assumed they were looking for the most ergonomic/succinct and idiomatic approach (ie not needing to reach for a crate). But it doesn't have the same performance characteristics as using itertools (which is better here)
I don't think Facebook cares about picking up some market share from the handful of users of TX state-funded Internet.

This is just a token move to make it look like Abbott is 'tough on China'. I see a presidential run in his future.
> How would conquest benefit the PRC, other than vague symbolism of "uniting the country" and depriving the U.S. of a potential base? Yes, there's power in the rally-round-the-flag effect, but that only goes so far from distracting citizens of the matters of survival.

Ask Putin. Symbolism might seem weak sauce, unless you're a totalitarian state whose choices are more symbolism (aka distraction) or collapse, because Door #3, liberalizing reform, is not a permissible option.
The impact of a specific panic does not extrapolate to the impact of all panics, and my claim is not falsified by such an example. Panics are defined by the language to represent unrecoverable errors.

func (x *Thing) Method() {
x.somethingThatPanics()
x.somethingThatAssumesTheAboveDidntPanic()
}

Recovering from a panic thrown by Method invalidates the state of the Thing which threw that panic. If that Thing is shared among concurrent actors, the entire program state is invalidated.
In this context, "all-cash transaction" means that the Activision shareholders get cash for their shares and not some combination of cash and MSFT shares.

Where and how MS got that cash is not being addressed.
We actually built this to easily add hands to this concept video: https://twitter.com/StrangeNative/status/1613218237969494017...

Animating hands by hand (no pun intended) is horrendously difficult, so our 3D artist asked if we could help.

We built this within Shopify's Spatial Commerce team, which is a team that explores the intersection between AR/VR and commerce. Here are some of our other projects:

https://twitter.com/StrangeNative/status/1544666221181734912...
https://twitter.com/StrangeNative/status/1562450155080597505...
A lot of unhappy campers.

Seriously, for startups looking for solid talent, it might be a field day.
What would that accomplish? Most LLCs are created (incorporated) by a lawyer who then cedes control to the intended owners. Even if you had a requirement for a US person, you'd just have figureheads collecting some nominal salary. Plenty of low-income folks would be eager to get an extra $500 a month for doing nothing.

For what it's worth, the formation of an LLC is a state affair, and every state has its own rules around requirements, reporting, transparency, etc. Most states keep the paperwork public; some states don't, but these are not the states where housing shortages are all that profound.
This has been really disappointing imo. I’m donating to the Asahi Linux project now so when my 2021 MacBook stops getting updates I’ll be able to run Linux on it.

https://www.patreon.com/marcan
The price Apple sells these configurations is entirely unrelated to any sort of costs.

They just do it because they can as they are the sole provider of high end machines running macOS.
Yes, that is one of the classic blunders.

Related, never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
A car might drop in value by 30% in 3 years, not 30x.
Well, this is a pointless move on their behalf.
Well as of 2020, the republican party had no stated agenda apart from "get Trump re-elected". They also don't WANT to have an agenda, because 1) the US isn't actually as poor off as Fox News says so they don't really have to do anything if they want the US to keep being okay for well off white folk, and 2) because many of their constituents have bought so into "Gubermint bad" that they actively ask their politicians to do less work. Many constituents saw not electing a house speaker as a good thing, since it completely obstructed the government's ability to do almost anything.
This is about banning access to TikTok for client devices of a campus network. It has nothing to do with banning the TikTok app on government-issued phones.
It wasn't stupid at all, Russia wanted to maintain its buffer states against the Austrians and the Ottomans, as well as retaining vital passage through the Dardanelles. They also wanted to help the Sick Man of Europe along to his demise, and they were right- the Ottoman Empire did fall; it's just they went along for the ride.
You have the fastest Mac, that's what you do. If you're in an industry where doing something faster generates disproportionately more money, you will find people spend a lot of money on equipment to do their work faster.

You're probably a lot better off boosting productivity this way in a lot of cases before you hire a new FTE.
Show HN: Metapict – TikZ like figures using Racket
The "blog" consists of detailed examples of how to draw 2d figures using Metapict. Metapict is what I imagine Metapost and Tikz would have looked like, if they were written in Racket.
Nikita is a wild builder. It was insane to watch this play out through his twitter.

Now I'm really curious what Discord has planned for Gas.
It adheres to the definition. The problem with the phrasing is that nearly all people in America and many other countries are inundated with luxury items to the point where we view them as basic necessities. That doesn't make them necessities, they are still lifestyle choices that while more affordable than ever are still superfluous to our existence.

In other words, we're all spoiled brats ;)
Microsoft has been bribing enterprise executives with jobs, as part of their sales process.
I think these are all great suggestions for anybody, but it misses the point doesn't it? There is a reason these affect men more than women, why? And how do we fix that?
Is there a position there?
Caveat: I'm not a lisp-person, however:

It looks like a modern interpretation of a Lisp machine -- a "real" Lisp, where the entire environment is a Lisp, and you can network and do GUI stuff and OS stuff in Lisp, running either in a hosted environment or maybe on bare metal eventually.
I didn't get the impression that MUSCULAR (intercepting Google's inter-datacenter links, distinct from PRISM) involved Google's cooperation.
Dictators dream of conquest, often against economic or strategic realities. If the law prohibits that, call it a special operation and not a declaration of war.
There are easier ways to say they don't want it, which is what this says.