you always hear about a stream of layoffs but It doesn't give the full picture. what i'm more interested in is what is their total employee count over time. that represents the net hiring net lay offs, is what counts at the end of the day
Readit Newsheathrow83829 commented on Amazon cuts 16k jobs reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/DGAP
What are some realistic alternatives to US markets here? Selling is one thing, the question is what to buy instead? I mean, everyone starting to buy european instead would be great for stock prices, but it wouldn't make the underlying assets more valuable, right?
i've wondered this myself. I thought that everyone was selling bonds and just buying equities, gold and bitcoin. isn't that only game plan? bonds aren't investible anymore for anything more than 5 year time horizon.
heathrow83829 commented on Nvidia Stock Crash Prediction entropicthoughts.com/nvid... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
It goes to nearly zero if China invades Taiwan, and that seems like it has at least a 10% chance of happening in the next year or two.
but they're expected to have 8 or 9 aircraft carriers by 2035, doesn't it make sense to wait until then?
heathrow83829 commented on The Target forensics lab (2024) thehorizonsun.com/feature... · Posted by u/jeromechoo
I have a friend who works for Nordstorm doing this kind of work. She claimed the bigger problem financially is employees in retail, i.e. stealing clothes in large scale to be sold on eBay.
i'm surprised by this because it's so hard to sell used goods. i have an old suit from graduation that's in perfect condition and looks quite nice. the thing will NOT sell, not even for 10$, at all even though it's practically brand new.
heathrow83829 commented on Tell HN: I write and ship code ~20–50x faster than I did 5 years ago · Posted by u/EGreg
Most likely you are creating boilerplate at 20x/50x, as opposed to genuinely new concepts, mechanisms, etc.
To be fair, most web/mobile frameworks expect you to do that.
Ideally, codebases would grow by adding data (e.g. a json describing endpoints, UIs, etc), not repetitive code.
>> Ideally, codebases would grow by adding data (e.g. a json describing endpoints, UIs, etc), not repetitive code.
Be very careful with this approach. there are many ways it can go completely wrong. i've seen a codebase like this and it was a disaster to debug. because you can't set breakpoints in data. it was a disaster.
It may not look compact or elegant but I'd rather see debuggable and comprehensible boiler point even if it's repetitive rather than a mess
heathrow83829 commented on AI Isn't Just Spying on You. It's Tricking You into Spending More newrepublic.com/article/2... · Posted by u/c420
It annoys me that big-tech marketing has made most people believe that "personalised advertising" means they get ads which are more "useful" to them. I regularly see people opt in to personalised advertising because of this.
Personalised advertising is about collecting every detail about your life and using it to extract as much money as possible from you. AI advancements might be making this even more effective but it's been this way for a long time.
i think the whole "personalised advertising" thing is way oversold and more for the benefit of a sales pitch for the advertisers but reality is far from it. google makes their money on volume, not accuracy. and so all the "information" they collect, doesn't seem to translate into more targetted advertisement.
heathrow83829 commented on AI Isn't Just Spying on You. It's Tricking You into Spending More newrepublic.com/article/2... · Posted by u/c420
It annoys me that big-tech marketing has made most people believe that "personalised advertising" means they get ads which are more "useful" to them. I regularly see people opt in to personalised advertising because of this.
Personalised advertising is about collecting every detail about your life and using it to extract as much money as possible from you. AI advancements might be making this even more effective but it's been this way for a long time.
if you draw a venn diagram of all the stuff i get advertised on and all the stuff I actually buy, the two circles are in completely different locations with virtually no overlap whatsoever. the only time i get ads that are even remotely related to my purchases, are only ads that come after I've made the purchase and am done. personally, i don't see how they make any profit off me whatsoever.
heathrow83829 commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
i'm geniunely curious about how you made the jump from "here's a single regulation" all the way down the slippery slope to "can't regulate away ALL parenting". does this one regulation cross that threshold? how'd you get there?
in an ideal world, parents would also prevent their kids from smoking, but the fact that in many places minors aren't allowed to purchase tobacco sends a social signal and actually does seem to put a speed bump in place deterring casual use.
is it not _also_ ideal to have some of these regulations in place? does it not help parents make the case to their kids?
it does help. i think this is a good step in the right direction.
but there's still a lot of stuff that only parents can do. for example, screentime in the home. you can't really create a law that says no screens for anyone under the age of X because there will exceptions (movie night, homework, etc).
heathrow83829 commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
Quite a decisive move by the Australian government. I don't know if it's a move in the right direction or not but the research clearly shows that around the time social media became mainstream, teens' and preteens' mental health took a nosedive (Especially girls).
maybe it's a step in the right direction but you can't regulate away ALL parenting. I know kids in the 5th grade getting brand new Iphone 17s! i've even seen one kid at the age of 7, getting their own Ipad. some parents even force their kids to use play on their iphone, just so they don't have to keep an eye on their kid anymore. My jaw really dropped to the floor on that one.
at some point, you just have to say that parents need to start parenting again. i'm a parent, and i can tell you it's not that bad.
How are you going to prevent kids and teens from joining everything that's bad for them online??? I think regulation is just band-aid.
the ideal solution would be to have parents say "No screens" until a certain age, unless it's supervised, or on a managed device that just lets them get their homework done.
People are being removed from their livelihood.
Equivocating about what YOU comfortably would prefer to call it is wasted effort that I don't care to engage in.
well it matters for your livelihood. if you get "fired' you won't be eligible for unemployment compensation or cobra. if you get laid off, you get unemployment comp. not to mention the negative stigma of being "fired". it's a big difference.