skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. Can you give an example? The configuration file we're talking about is what actions the home automation server could take in regards to hearing certain keywords. Suppose you want to add a keyword and the corresponding functionality (what should happen when you say the keyword). How would you like to add it using a JavaScript entry point? (For example what to do in response to a keyword to play a certain playlist.)
> Are your top performers only there because of the pay

In an ideal work environment, probably less so than other employees. But I think anyone who has their salary reduced is going to reevaluate their position, and those with more valuable skills are more likely to leave. The question is, what is more likely to cause a serious reevaluation, salary reductions or layoffs?

I think for most tech companies, a single round of layoffs is preferable, as the people who you want to remain are more likely to feel they aren't and won't be affected and not reevaluate their position. The reductions approach could work for smaller or startup companies with a flatter structure, where employees are more invested in the company's goals and successes, either through culture or shares.
> and if you do don't be wrong in your attack.

OP was clearly said the trials were sped up and that compromised safety. That's nonsense.
This probably is less true in tech where the salaries are higher.
Staff turnover in most companies is more than 15%. The same staff reduction could have been achieved by implementing a hiring freeze, moving people to strategic projects and putting underperforming staff on a performance management plan. However, as layoffs are now normal, it can be done without looking weak.
Certain camera/sensors and lens have distinctive visual aesthetics and also in the colour grading process, and much of it is a mix of art and science and the artistic vision of colour is embedded in the creative and technical aspects of film making from sets to costumes to what camera sensors and optics combination look like and how to change or enhance it in post production.
I think the problem with this strategy is that it causes the wrong people to leave. If you're a top performer, you're going to feel like a 10% pay cut is very unfair, and you're going to be able to get another job elsewhere fairly easily, even in this environment. If you're not performing particularly well, it probably doesn't feel as unreasonable, and even if you don't like it, it's tough to leave.

When done correctly, layoffs give 100% of the pain to 10% (or whatever) of the people, but you get to select the worst-performing people. Spreading the pain equally is much more liable to cost you your best-performing people.

I do think the one important thing to note is that the reference you quoted is to a manufacturer, where you've probably got more consistent performance across a given type of employee as compared to software developers.
If you want people to be accountable, you’ll have to start by taking responsibility and action into your own hands.

If not you, then who?
I didn't read the article, the title is too obviously unintelligent.
Obviously other tech companies have to not only copy one, but all of musk's management principles to be successful.
> but not necessarily meaningfully “poorer”

If you are not able to assure that you'll have a comfortable retirement years with the appropriate social safety nets to try to assure that someone who worked will be able to maintain at least the basic necessities for life, then having kids who make it into adulthood is that safety net.

The "ok, 60+ years old, unable to do meaningful work, move in with a successful child" is a fairly standard approach. This requires that you have kids and preferably enough that one of them will be able to support you moving in with them and isn't otherwise alienated from you.

Note that this only works on a per family basis and if you outlive your children (war can do that), then a more nationalized social safety net is something that because useful to have. By providing that safety net for retired adults, there is less pressure to have kids to support their parents in retirement and less pressure for single people to marry and have a family to fulfill that role.

Economic hardship (increasing the pressure to not have kids) and that safety net (reducing pressure to have kids at all) in both would then have downward force on the fertility rate and also would suggest putting off having kids until later.

Census.gov has a lot of interesting data for the rate - https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/04/fertility-rat...

Also of interest - Multigenerational family structure in Japanese society: impacts on stress and health behaviors among women and men - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15087144/
Right, I spent a few years learning the language and really love the people/culture/food/etc. However, it was pretty clear pretty quickly that the only way I would ever want to work there was as an expat for a US company.

Some of the local customs carry over to the firms operating US offices.
My friends wife, who had come over to US 10 years ago, told us some crazy stories about working for Japanese companies even in the US office, if it was all Japanese ex-pats.

For example, being given a written reprimand for not using the proper title for the level of boss she addressed in an email once. In English, it would be like if your bosses boss was John Smith, SVP and you failed to address him precisely as "SVP Smith" 100.0% of the time.

Or a reprimand / told to cover up because of the straps on her top not conforming to their office dress code. She was a woman who dressed very modestly, so it wasn't her, it was them. This was as recent as 4 years ago.
> deeply xenophobic monoculture society that restricts immigration and promotes traditional gender roles

Keep in mind that this doesn't just describe the modern Japan, it also describes South Korea, North Korea, China, and Japan of the past (with various militant/feudalistic governments).

Just like any other region of the world, East Asia has a long history of unrests, rebellions, caste systems, and civil wars going back to the dawn of history. If your thesis is that a xenophobic monoculture society with traditional gender roles prevents "Western problems," maybe you should be more explicit about these Western problems and examine if the evidences really support that.
It is hard to find anyone who honestly suggests it is otherwise.

It was never about the workers. Layoffs are because companies think the workers cost more than they make. Everything else is just bickering over why they think this.
I thought phones had hooks for notifications n stuff regardless of if the app was open. Shouldn’t that cover most things you care about in the background? Am I wrong or is this different for Android (I’ve only used apple)?
I think it is an S-curve: if you are below the curve, or just on it, then pay amount matters a lot.

But above the curve, everything else matters a lot, especially having a good boss / project leader and a project that makes sense / is actually used by people.
This. Also the bigger the company is, the less the long term loyalty and people are generally there for the money.

So top performers will get moving quickly.
> it seems insensitive to tell 100k+ ppl Google or Amazon fired them because "well everyone is doing it!"

Is that any more insensitive than CEOs and C-suites telling laid off workers they "take full responsibility" and "had to make a difficult decision" while facing no consequences themselves?
That's a strawman. I'm neither your Phillipino mother nor ever suggested that she should be doing this.
Rose George's book "Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood" has a chapter on medical leeches if anyone is interested - still used today!
Yes, there was pull-forward growth in e-commerce. Using this from Benedict Evans in 2021 because it has numbers and a good graph:[1]

> The traditional way to think about ecommerce penetration is to look at share of total retail sales, and then deduct things like car repair, gasoline and restaurants - to get to ‘addressable retail’. On that basis, US ecommerce was at 16% penetration at the end of 2019 and increased to 20% or so in 2020, adding 12-18 months of growth in a year.

[1]: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2021/5/29/boxes-truc...
Layoffs definitely hamper morale and disrupt operations. I'm not so sure about paycuts as long as they're done in a spirit of solidarity. I'd be fine with it as long as a) it was temporary, b) execs took the largest cuts, and c) I thought they had a real plan for getting us through the tough times.

And obviously, not laying off people has a much smaller impact on staffing and the work one is doing, so I'd like that part better as well.
You are not wrong but try and turn it around:

AI creates all the content and the output gets put on the blockchain. I can now see what the intent was when it was created and if it wasn't created via an AI.

As a user that's the most secure way to interact with any content.
It’s also the same in .NET. If your Main() function references types that have a static constructor, the constructors could run before Main().

It’s a surprising thing when one first discovers it, but it makes a lot of sense.
this sounds alot like pranayama
I feel like half of these problems would be solved by pass signing and encrypting the stored passwords, and then refusing to decrypt anything not signed by a known-valid key without the user's explicit case-by-case consent and knowledge.
I'm a visibly nonwhite minority here in the deep south of America with friends of every skin tone, including those who are black. Not once has anyone younger than 40 been afraid of his physical safety due to the color of his skin, other than being in places where physical safety was questionable to begin with. Perhaps the true point here is that in Japan it is very rare that anyone has to fear for his physical safety for any reason.

I'd much rather live someplace where "actual white supremacy", to the degree it exists, is denounced by polite company, than a place where it is accepted in polite company that you're avoided for looking physically different and "no foreigners allowed" in businesses are common.

As one who only came to the States as an adult, it's really confounding to me the degree to which it's understood that America is a racist and white supremacist country. I just don't get it at all.
>> Lastly, the idea we should have been "visited" already. This has the unspoken implication of some big vehicle appearing in the sky, radio broadcasts and TV crews gathering, etc. Why? What sane entity would go about it in this manner?

It’s that basically what happened in our planets ‘Age of Discovery’? Some European ship shows up on a shore/lagoon and ‘takes over’?
So take a pay cut and deal with rising costs, but the company will still lose money and my stocks lose value. So ultimately we all end up losing?
Betting you’re not one of those with a target on your forehead, eh? Cutting salaries and keeping staff is better for the company going forward. Those driven by comp aren’t those that’ll stay long term. Raises come from switches.
No I am pointing out that you are ignoring how it is defined and the fact that it needs to be defined within the context of organizational strategy and vision before usefully claiming it is up or down.

Google's problem for example is NOT that they are unable to sell more ads because their programmers are not productive - it's that they lack the vision to take the company from ad based to diversified and profitable in other areas which they have badly failed to do while still hiring ton of people and then laying them off. That's not productivity problem - it's a strategy/vision and bad hiring practices problem. Even if it meant that somehow you could hack the productivity metric to show it was reduced in some light - it doesn't mean jack when you are productive doing things that don't help your revenues.
Hiring during a recession is a proven strategy. Google is what it is today because it doubled down on hiring during the 2008 recession when the rest of the industry was in the midst of layoffs and because of it was able to monopolize on top tech talent for the next decade.
Well fortunately, any of us have the opportunity to get to a place where we can offer insight and contribute to the light winds that somewhat influence the global economy. When you have a role to play in that, maybe you’ll be invited. I hear the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting is a good time, if you are sad that you are missing out on something. As far as politicians, you might not like it, but we elect those politicians to represent us. So I am happy that they have a voice at these forums, even though sometimes that voice isn’t who I specifically wanted there.
its nothing to do with LEDs

all shots are conformed before they are graded. That means that they shoot a macbeth chart every time they change the lighting, allowing for people to make all the shots look the same before they start to fiddle with the colours.
Having a “women only” car shows there are deep societal issues that are normalized due to the country’s ultra patriarchal ways. A normal solution would be to prosecute the perpetrators but Japan doesn’t take women seriously. A “women only” car does not at all address the cultural problem of men thinking it’s okay to commit sexual assault.
Are you doing an online course? Funny enough, I was thinking of the same thing (or at least some mathematics basics before an online CS curriculum). I'd love recommendations if you have any. Cheers.
Online meetings leave evidence.
I keep trying Siri every now and then, and about the only things work reliably for me are (a) asking through my airpods for it to phone someone, (b) setting a timer and (c) asking what the piece of music I'm hearing is. But the answer to (c) is only on the screen for a short time, which isn't ideal if it's while I'm driving and can't write it down, and if I say "what was the music you just identified" or similar, it has no understanding whatsoever. Every time I try it I come up against something like that which feels really obvious. This ChatGPT version sounds pretty amazing in comparison.
I'm really glad to see this project.

I used to do this all the time by hand when I was actively dealing with phishing sites. I'd submit credentials to the site and watch for it on our account login page to identify the perpetrator.
and people that suggest taking all three "vaccines" for monkey pox, flu, and COVID should be viewed upon with disdain and skepticism.

I mean, how else can one best hide their poor track records by slipstreaming one vaccine into others with also dubious track record.
"re-crafting their core business"

The G MBAs have run business expansion efforts and morale into the ground, now they are going to chase this brass ring?
New Rails health check endpoint
> The spending is very stimulating visually and audibly (think lootbox openings)

This reminds me of an article (which I can't find again) talking about "the toy in the interface". A good game will be fun to simply interact with on a user interface level.

Has anyone built a lootbox simulator yet? Skip the game and just do lootboxes. Give people a way to scratch their lootbox itch for free.

If done well enough, with a good toy in the interface, this could actually draw attention and profits away from those who exploit.
Tell HN: I was able to select and copy text from a photo
I took a screenshot of a particularly funny Limkedin post to share with my wife. When I double tapped to zoom in to the photo, it selected a word, offered to “select all”, “look up”, or “copy”.

(On iOS 16.x, iPhone 14)

Maybe this is old news to others but the first time I’m noticing this.
Yes, I read real names in high school and am quite full of a) how prescient vinge was and b) how vapid kurzweil is
There's no point in debating the meaning of productivity unless someone claims it's neutral or up. If they're willing to make that claim then it might be worth that debate. Otherwise, it's a pointless side track.
Stranger Things immediately came to mind when I read the headline. Aside from the amateurish writing and the storyline that quickly became complete non-sense, the look and feel of the show was very much the equivalent of a fast-food chain. Overly saturated colors, everything looks punchy and overly sharp.
It's insane to me how many developers simply refuse to read documentation or spend any time at all learning the new tools they're supposed to use.
> Another artist that takes and uses and resells that work (without consent), is stealing that work.

Another artist accidentally uses a melody from another song (because it's a finite set) and are sued for all their income is a horrible system. The winners aren't the people producing value, it's the people who got there first and are now profiting off other people's work.
In Marooned in Spacetime we have a set of people who hoped for a better Tomorrow and some rich tourist types who wanted to see what happens in the future come out of stasis to find the Earth deserted. No war, no plague, no apocalypse, just fucked off.

They bubble forward a bit, just in case everyone took a timeout (maybe a toxin was released and there’s a cave full of bubbles waiting for the earth to repair, who knows), but only a few new people show up. Not even enough to repopulate the species. The weird thing is that your status is determined by where you left from not how rich you are. A powerful family skips forward and finds themselves lower status than a group of lower-upper class people with what amounts to top of the line camping gear, which is so much newer than the family’s gear that everything it can do it does better than theirs.

There’s one reclusive person who basically has a space ship. She has been away from humans so long she is barely human (relatable) anymore. She goes out to check other solar systems and finds nothing there either.

The implication is that either we gave up or we ascended somehow, but since they can only travel forward there’s no way to know. They missed the boat.
Yes, hello. It seems to be a matter of emphasis and sane defaults. Narrative is all about controlling emphasis. Film vs digital changes the default choices around which you build emphasis. Noise is an unreasonably effective tool for creating depth to contain emphatic range, so removing it from the defaults is going to create affective flatness on the margin.
They will, because those highly compensated employees are hitting the market and finding out that salary and comp isn't the same outside the bubble.

So they're sitting on million dollar mortgages in Seattle or SF on houses they bought at 2% interest during the good times and now the offer they're looking at won't make ends meet.

Now what? Who blinks first? Do the other tech companies need to slide salaries upward to fill their roles? Why would they? We were told there's a glut of engineers.
Why does it need privileged information. Interest rates are up. The information is public.
Unity-based port of Ultima Underworld engine resumes work
A 250 person organization assembling semi-off-the-shelf components and gluing mostly-preexisting software together is a very different proposition than 20-50 people building a modern CPU from scratch. That's an order of magnitude more complexity than the steam deck, and an order of magnitude fewer people.
"Less true" is a bit of a bold statement here. It's still _true_, but you're right in saying that the additional percentage you would need to affect the change might be different between different industries.

It's also possible to optimize costs on the benefits themselves to avoid needing to do that, at times.
>So because of a situation you claim is unprecedented

I claim? Do you remember any other global pandemics that reshaped the tech industry?
Can you elaborate, what specifically do you like about WEF?
Those reports were about the imax version though, and I have personally seen that happen in imax theaters showing 24fps content. That’s field of view, not framerate.
To add to this, any seeds from wild pollination will result in new 'varieties'.

It's trivial to regain diversity from this species, and it's not like apple is on the edge of survival.
I don’t need my employer to care about me. I have a family and friends for that. At work, it’s a business transaction. I provide them with value and I’m compensated with money. I increase the value I provide and I can demand more.
The layoffs without consultation with the lower levels will indeed leave a bitter taste. It gives the impression that hard work isn't awarded if the top management level has no visibility over your work. This will result in departments spending much more time selling their work, rather than actually doing the work. In the end, this is counterproductive for a company.
You can replace the 8088 in the original PC with a NEC V20, which provides these extra instructions. IIRC the CPU detection code in Wolf3D has to be patched too to make this work, because it only checks for 286+ and would exit with an error message.
With all the special effects and video postprocessing in photos and films today, it's no surprise they look unnatural. I think we're seeing in film and TV the same phenom that's already big in photography and music — digitally filtered and synthesized media feels unnatural. Well duh. It is.

Video and audio are being compressed to exclude noise and 'purify' the primary signal to make the product pop (something that's also making TV ads feel very unnatural today). But this isn't new of course. For decades, postproduction and direction of film and TV has been simplified and its primary signals boosted to make more impact. The cost, IMHO, is that acting has taken a back seat to visuals and background audio, creating the zombified chesspiece actors of today, which are also a big part of this “uncanny valley” of all forms of video. The result is expressive subtleties present in our remaining great actors (who are now age 60+) like Judy Dench or Daniel Day-Lewis are absent in nearly all actors under age 40, unless they got their start in stage or outside American media, where the practice of overproduction has not been as rampant.

I think what we're seeing is simply the viral spread of special effects, digitization, and overproduction into all of media, with video simply suffering its effects last.