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> We typically manage out people who aren’t meeting expectations over the course of a year, but now we’re going to do more extensive performance-based cuts during this cycle, with the intention of back filling these roles in 2025.

Are they effectively saying that anyone terminated this year is probably for poor performance?

Usually there's more ambiguity, like changing business priorities.
Seems like they're doing pretty well by capitalistic standards, no?
Yeah 5% is a very weird number. Why not just stop over hiring?
First they came for the taxi drivers…
Being stuck carrying coworkers that don't perform sucks. Firing under-performers is what healthy businesses do.
You'd be far better off with better discrimination than them just looking at age.
But clearly people _aren't_ doing that, because Tesla sales are falling. Those lost Audi sales are presumably largely going either to another VW AG brand, or to another manufacturer entirely.
Yes any two streets crossing should ideally either be tiny (like small residential streets where no lights or signs are needed) or only one should be an obvious through street and the other(s) connecting streets. The key is to never have ”grids” of through streets.
I've been working with an app that uses Google to login for the past 10 years, and I've had problems with sub changing when these situations happened :
- Domain change
- Company being bought by another one and being integrated in their Google Workspace
- Employee leaving and coming back

To us, it's very very far from the quoted 0.04% which is to me very high. I had to deal with it 5-6 times in the past 10 years but of course that number will vary depending on the usage of your app and I'm not gonna venture and put a percentage on it.
You've either missed the point of what I wrote, or you're arguing with someone else.

I'm talking about the difference between epsilon-greedy vs. a more complex optimization scheme within the context of implementing MAB. You're making arguments about A/B testing vs MAB.
You don't need to write the treatise because the era of that kind of "logic" winning elections is over. (ie the left being able to label whole political movements as bad because certain bad people associate themselves with it)
I live in seattle where people are pretty good about yielding. It's confusing as eff which lights and what times the peds are going to get a walk signal when I'm taking a right and when they're not. Some also go walk at the same time they go green for right turns. Some slightly delayed. It's hard to watch both lights as a driver and the oncomming traffic.
Google may have quickly closed the original report because a company like that is soooo overwhelmed with garbage security reports and at first glance it is noise, not an actionable item to fix. there's a term for this that I can't quite recall off the top of my head. Bug Bounty Trolling?
That, or even use sensors to detect pedestrians coming along that are likely to want to cross, estimate their crossing time based on their walking speed, and make their light turn "go" as soon as they hit the intersection.

Some intersections have exactly this for cars already.
have you read about the hunger riots of rome and byzanz? the panopticon has to watch. bread and games are free or else...

if you ventured into farming or gamedev to get rich.. bad decisions all the way .
No, I wouldn't waste either of our time asking that question.
I assume that it's just the standard line that is fed to shareholders.

Shareholders like "we're cutting labor because of AI adoption" much more than "we're cutting labor to save costs and cull some deadend r&d". While both are fiscally positive, one gives off vibes of growth and innovation while the other doesn't.
My small rebuttal to that is that msn.com occasionally has articles they've sucked in that are paywalled on the original sites.

But I have archive.is for the most part to get around that issue.
'Unsafe' is a subjective label often applied haphazardly. I find people quick to label others as 'unsafe' tend to behave in unsafe ways of their own on the road, such as parking themselves in the left lane at or below the speed limit and refusing to move over.
I don't believe splitting Chromium governance model across Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Opera will help Firefox in any way.
Eh, batching is pretty efficient, whether the traffic is people/cars or digital. I wonder if the other safety issue about running red lights has a baseline for comparison with people running stop signs. I see both happening near me.
I really don't see Meta's social
media products being able to compete with new challengers without lobbying to have them banned, even less so if they keep driving away talent.

The migration of US TikTok users to Xiaohongshu this week, to the point where it is #1 on the US app store while still having half of its UI in Mandarin has been particularly eye opening.
No, because the amount of money you have in a bank account accumulates linearly, so you can only pay up to what you have put in. With insurance, you can get a payout more than what you have contributed up to that point, which is necessary for covering catastrophic damages.
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I like it when people naïvely believe the insurance companies' model of safety has anything to do with actual safety.
I knew what it was, for every can I had. As someone who is hypoglycemic I don't need a double blind experiment to tell me what a sugar rush and an insulin response feels like in the chest.
I'd prefer basic traffic enforcement to normalizing mass, sneaky, pervasive surveillance.
if you use a more reasonable calculation of inflation and calculate real GDP according to that, you'll see we've been in recession almost half of the years for the last 25 years.

Personally I prefer to use the US case shiller housing index as a good indication of long term inflation. Housing prices are so high, it is the basket of goods that matters the most.
No. Climate scientists did not base all of their current models on a 1980 study about how much CO2 trees can technically absorb.
I am not convinced that the data and the way they use it is a reliable indicator of ones driving safety.
Those are actually very good features. I guess null safety will come to Java with project Valhalla.
Education Cyberattack spotlights need for better EdTech regulation
BoingBoing is still very much made in Doctorow's image. Michael Moore is an earlier example.

Not suggesting equivalence, in fact I would be really interested to hear theories as to why right-wing polemicists are so much more popular (and numerous) than left-wing polemicists. On the face of it, there are a lot of left-wing things to be justifiably outraged about (especially right now). So why isn't left-wing outrage reliably bankable?

I don't think it's a pattern tied to the zeitgeist, because you see it in talk radio too, which predates social media's Skinner box algorithms by decades.

Side-question: why are there more left-wing political comedians than right-wing ones?
Yeah I understand recession is a technical term. I'm just trying to explain why we keep hearing people say we are in a recession. Most people don't care what the term technically means. They just know their buying power is decreasing while wealthy people are doubling their net worth.

People just want to be able to afford to live and affluent people keep pointing to the chart and saying it's not a problem, but it is a problem. We probably need a new name for it.
Exactly the same, as long as you don't get unlucky and have an accident before you've saved up enough. Which is the entire point of insurance.
These chips are still sent to Taiwan for packing, so it's a good step but not a complete step.
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You probably need an engineer. A couple. They might have to run traffic studies beforehand to estimate the design requirements and light timing. They might have to consider other network nodes beyond this in their modeling. They might have to also run studies afterward to retime the lights to meet realized demand.

I’m surprised its not a $6m project honestly.
First they came for the speeders, but I had nothing to fear, for I was not a speeder...
For those that don't know, GNU Shepherd is an init system (like systemd) written in Guile (a LISP), the unit files are written with Guile too.
The next president will have significant sway over decisions that will likely impact the tech sector’s direction. If the pendulum swings the “wrong” way, companies like Meta will face increased scrutiny, anti-trust investigations, regulatory oversight, and the like. If the pendulum swings the “right” way, companies will continue to enjoy free rein over their business practices.

Moving jobs back to the US (or appearing to), cancelling DEI programmes which are not approved of by the incoming administration, etc all lines up with this.

The more difficult question is whether Meta is the chicken or the egg. OP suggests Meta are courting Trump’s approval. I’m not so sure that Meta didn’t help put him there in the first place.
So excited to move my API Routes to expo!
I would think Zuck is smart enough to read the room regarding H1-b.
You sure aren't a lord. But many have been tricked into thinking that they are.
> You can fork but you likely cannot maintain Linux as-is. Where do the 1M hours/year come from? That's hard to do in free time.

Maybe a question too radical for Hacker News, but why does Linux need 1M hours/year? How much "worse" would Linux be for the end user if this year, that time spent dropped to 100k or even 10k? And which "type" of Linux user was benefiting most from that time spent (person or corporation)? Why is more automatically treated as better than less?

> The GPL is great in that it gives large power to users of the software, no matter if those users are corporate or personal, and even if the makers of the software are mostly corporations.

Indeed, I respect the wisdom and forethought of Stallman greatly in drafting the GPL.
I mean, we're on a site that revolves largely around the Silicon Valley VC world. There've always been ultracapitalist types here who treat oligarchy as aspirational.

If anything, I'd say that's become less prominent in recent years as the consequences of that mindset have been playing out around us.
> My latest understanding of the US political landscape is that 2008-2024 the left got very adept at defining things as bad and then attacking those things. In 2016 the right started to learn to counter that, and in 2024 that finally died.

Every piece of this understanding is wrong. For one thing, the far Right in American has been better and more effective at that than any part of the Democratic coalition, since at least the 1980s.
I wouldn't call it a cultural reset. It's more of a revolution.

We've never known a country where the wealthy had this much capability. Owning just one of Facebook, Amazon, Palantir, X, etc makes a person incredibly powerful, but the fact that they've all seemingly combined forces makes me think we are in for an era that makes Cyberpunk novels look like a Disney flick.
And he criticized apple for not innovating past the iPhone.
How does that work in practice? Do insurers have to share their models with the regulator?
Those of us with our net worth in index funds are, on average, +50% in 2 years. That security can make the pull of early retirement or career change stronger.
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Precisely this. And don’t forget about bugs in virtualization layers/drivers — ZFS can very often save your data in those cases, too.
If companies were as honest about "low priority" evergreen work over the constant need help immediately, that may be acceptable. But I've never see anyone say that in a job posting. If you're indistinguishable from the behavior of a fraudster, that still reflects poorly and has the same results on applicants.

(well, okay. Actually honest. How many of those "urgent" postings eve felt urgent?)
5% is nothing. Any FANG could lose 30% at least and all metrics would only improve. People working there know this. There's an unbelievable amount of fat in these companies. The main issue is that often during these cuts it's not the fat but the "muscle" that gets cut. The "fat" is good at sticking around.
The "Silicon Valley" show had many brilliant moments.
How does this make any financial sense?
Why? Why set an arbitrary number of people who need to be fired as opposed to grading people to a standard? Is your hiring process so flawed that you just accept that you screwed up hiring 5 percent of your people?

This smells like the Welchian nonsense that drove GE into the ground.
How much money do you estimate you've actually saved using GasBuddy?
Hi! I'm mostly going through them manually. Not all of the domains in the list are literally spam - most of the list also includes misleading sites like corporate blogs that trick people into downloading their software.

You might be interested in the AI spam/low effort section though, one that tops DDG often are these AI generated tech articles: https://github.com/popcar2/BadWebsiteBlocklist/issues/1

They're the same site under different domains, you can tell it's AI by its writing style, how much they churn out per day, how little info there is about who's writing it, how similarly the about pages are written, and how the same article is suspiciously also in similar-sounding sites.

Another one I just caught today that was on top of page 1: https://github.com/popcar2/BadWebsiteBlocklist/issues/84

I'll be sure to report these sites as I'm adding to the list, thanks.
Thats what Zig does. It compiles down to the same stuff as C. It does not have a runtime.
Surveillance doesn't make it harder to commit crimes. It might help catching people after the fact a little bit easier, but people committing crimes aren't really considering future consequences.
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That can get remotely locked and declared lost, so really just a paperweight if it gets stolen.
You think there's law on the books that forces companies to speak honestly? And that someone is going to enforce it?
People joke about this, but when I was in a POW camp this actually DID work.

About six months into my own daily beating regimen, I found I was sleeping longer and deeper, I had more energy and focus, and my libido had returned to a state not unlike my early 20s. My morale was fantastic. Only after having been repatriated and thus no longer subject to daily beatings did my morale return to lower levels.

Why doesn’t Huberman talk about this?
Bad ways to measure performance are still objective ways of measuring performance, which can lead to bad management policies such as stack ranking.
Yeah, I'm not really clear on the vuln. It sounds like clients don't validate sub claims because they are unstable? Google's docs say they should.

When I first read the post, I thought that maybe Google was reusing sub claims when they shouldn't, but on a closer read, maybe it's the opposite problem - that the sub claim is changing when it should not change?

From the article -

“The sub claim changes in about 0.04% of logins from Log in with Google. For us, that's hundreds of users last week ...
Because the sub claim is inconsistent, it cannot be used to uniquely identify users - leaving services reliant on the email and hd claims."

So maybe clients aren't using the sub claim because validating "email matches && sub matches" breaks real users who are not actually changing accounts? AKA, Google is changing Google Account IDs unpredictably? That would be a bug on Google's part IMO.

If those account IDs in the sub claim are changing, at the very least that's a bug in the doc you linked IMO.

I'd have to read the full OIDC spec [0] to see if the sub must remain constant for the same end user, and if clients are required to validate the sub claim before processing a login. If so, and it's changing without the end user's identity changing, that is a bug in Google's implementation and client implementations for anyone using Google as an IDP.

If it's allowed to change, though, and validating sub claim is not required in the spec, maybe clients are correct in not relying on it.

[0] https://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#rfc.se...

Edit: from reading the sign in with google overview, it's unclear if they claim to be OIDC compliant: https://developers.google.com/identity/gsi/web/guides/overvi...

it says it's "based on OAuth" rather than "implements OAuth+OIDC" so I guess not being fully spec compliant wouldn't necessarily be a "bug."
This feels a little off. I think those who stand to financially benefit the most are taking advantage of the opportunity to do so while they can.

Getting more specific, I don't buy the argument that we're getting more conservative. Instead, I'm inclined to think that a narrow election victory will lead to extreme measures that will create a significant backlash in the coming years. If you're in a position to exploit a system with little repercussions for four years and all it costs is a little bit of dignity and some public image, most corporate leaders would take that opportunity for the money, prestige, power, etc.

I'm willing to bet sizeable amounts of money that most voters do not support rolling back employee protections, or removing the debt ceiling, or buying/bullying [insert random country], or any of the other wildly regressionist statements thrown around by un/elected folks. Conflating the complexities involved in how a person votes with a general mandate for one specific reason people vote is not a good idea. Extrapolate that to over 100 million voters as some unified stance and it starts to feel like propaganda.
The underlying goal behind performance reviews is noble and admirable.

But performance reviews are still bullshit. You could replace them with 'vote off the island' style votes every quarter instead and we wouldn't be any worse off.
Sure, I'd rather be a peasant in big tech than a king in almost any other era.

Especially in companies like Meta with dual class shareholders though, I don't think it's that much of an exaggeration to say the CEOs are essentially kings.

That doesn't mean the work environment or lifestyle you get working at these places is good or bad, people just need to have a realistic expectations about the governance behind these things though.
This is reminder only for those who thought berating employer, questioning policies above their remit all while keeping employment at that pure evil employer is just how the world works.
There was something a bit like private sector competition involved: competition with the USSR. You can't just blame taxes being too low and over run for years if you have competition. Same with the private sector (other than needing to earn value rather than forcing it out via taxes/inflation) - competition does wonders.
As corny as LinkedIn often is, I saw an interesting take recently that I can't be bothered to find right now, but I'll attempt to paraphrase:

If AI can truly replace me at scale, I'll direct it to make billions of dollars. Why should we be afraid of AI taking our jobs, our companies should be afraid of what we can now quickly create to compete against them.
what is involved in the packaging process ? I believe they don't ship fully assembled chips to Taiwan only to be put in a pretty box ?
Closing European offices? Gee... why would any international tech company want to do that? Hrm....
> supposed CO2 problem

No. This study has changed precisely nothing about how we measure CO2 in the atmosphere. Or climate change in general.
I dont think we're heading for the 30's and arguably the 1910-40s were probably more progressive than the mid-century both artistically and culturally compared to their preceding years. I think a lot of people don't remember how conservative the US was between the 50s and 90s. A lot of the stuff we consider acceptable or OK today was really not tolerated at all in public. See, for example, LGBTQ acceptance, minorities and women in positions of power, welfare state etc.
What Meta has been publishing on reasoning recently is very impressive -- I imagine they have internal product that is even further ahead

Senior engineers can now get answers in seconds to questions it might have taken a junior a couple days to figure out ... agents are starting to do comparable workflows to low/mid-skilled ops/support teams in some verticals at a fraction of cost

If Meta, and others pushing on AI, are not reducing heads in 2025 -- it would kind of undermine the value of the massive investments they are making

HN commentariat coupling this to anything else is a bit disingenuous as most engineers I know are talking about this a lot right now as nobody really knows where it leads -- with some discussion about whether it is comparable to horses being replaced by cars in 1920s and employment redeploying elsewhere over time
lol yea or a few bad jobs reports?

I think many got use to the most incredible labor market of a generation or two and we are just now back to something more historically normal.
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I think companies (especially new ones like startups) with stay small, because they have to, not because they want to. They have to because it’s getting harder and harder to build something that will appeal to a wide market. The only alternative is to niche down as much as possible.

Which ultimately means smaller businesses
Huh, how? Why would someone have a vehicle with someone else's internet connected camera inside?
You must've forgotten what the conversation is about. It's about the degree to which each side is wrapped up in an outrage machine.

That would be reflected in the election results, and not in the way you're implying.
I agree there will some number of companies doing this, between 1 and $number_of_companies. I'm just saying it's pretty unlikely it's all candidate companies, which the article seems to be saying.
It's true that perfectly accurate crystal balls would render insurance irrelevant. It doesn't strike me as that interesting of a revelation, but it is true.
Seeing as many of them site dystopian sci-fi novels as their inspiration you're probably not far off.
Today I tried to start Firefox on a file:// type of url. It said the file could not be reached while I was sure it was there, as md5sum could read it.

Then it turned out that because Firefox was installed using Snap, and the file was apparently on a mount point that was out of reach of Snap, the file could not be read.

I think Mozilla should refuse package managers that are clearly broken.
I think this is actually a misread of long term trends. Not sure when it will be, but there will be backlash to the reset.

It reminds me like when crime rose in 2020 and 2021. It had been falling for something like 25 years. Then it was rising briefly, because of COVID. Many people treated this as a new normal, and a reason to make lasting and dramatic political changes. Then crime fell again in 2023 and 2024, without those substantive changes. The truth is that the short term trend didn't really have to do with criminal justice policy.
No. This changes nothing about climate models.