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zalyh commented on iPhone 16 demand is so weak that employees can already buy it on discount qz.com/apple-iphone-16-pr... · Posted by u/elorant

aetherspawn · a year ago

Why would I upgrade though — my $2K 13 Pro is still state of the art, and tech jobs are collapsing. Who knows whether I’ll need $2K in 3 months time?

zalyh · a year ago

Damn, are you me? My thoughts exactly. My 13PM is plenty good. And with all the layoffs that keep happening, imma save that money.

zalyh commented on Meta outage metastatus.com/... · Posted by u/geocrasher

MyFirstSass · a year ago

Yes both Youtube and Instagram seems to be down too for me.

zalyh · a year ago

YouTube seems fine

zalyh commented on Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC servethehome.com/intel-ex... · Posted by u/2bluesc

LegitShady · 2 years ago

Intel nucs are fine too. The question isn’t if they’re fine, the question is if they make good business sense.

Also, apple’s crazy profitability means they may offer something like the mini that doesn’t sell as well as their laptop, while intel is ruthlessly cutting out things that aren’t part of their core business because of their monetary issues.

If Intel can’t compete with cheaper manufacturers and its not hitting their internal required rate of return then it may no longer justify having that business unit at all.

zalyh · 2 years ago

As much as I love using MacOS, the Intel NUCs offer upgradability for SSD and RAM which makes it harder to go with the Mac Mini if you need larger storage or memory.

zalyh commented on Bard and new AI features in Search blog.google/technology/ai... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

zalyh · 3 years ago

It would be brilliant if Google can pull this off and take marketshare away from ChatGPT/OpenAI. Just like how people stuck with MS Teams and stopped subscribing to Slack and Zoom. Not because it was better, but it was well-integrated users who are already subscribed to MS Office 365 gets it for free.

zalyh commented on Deepmind is working on a rival to ChatGPT techfundingnews.com/chatg... · Posted by u/mromanuk

hot_gril · 3 years ago

They have a publicly-accessible product with a userbase, that's their marketing. Google keeps saying they have something better, but nobody outside has ever seen it.

> revealed that it plans to launch its chatbot in private beta sometime in 2023

Last year, kids in school were already writing essays with ChatGPT.

zalyh · 3 years ago

This is the thing that people seems to miss. It's very accessible to the average Internet user. Kinda like TikTok and Instagram, most teens have tried it out. Sure, the other FAANGs might have far capable AI teams most of that output run in the background. Few are available to the general public that went on to became viral on social media.

zalyh commented on Deepmind is working on a rival to ChatGPT techfundingnews.com/chatg... · Posted by u/mromanuk

dmlerner · 3 years ago

I find this plausible:

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> The formula looks at the variables below, and then spits out a "number" for every Googler. Each PA VP gets a % to cut, and as such there is a threshold. Anyone below that threshold gets RIF'd.

Variables are:

1) Location of labor. US Premium Plus was largely impacted versus cheaper areas. 2) Tenure and performance in level. 3) "Runway" of comp. (e.g. base salary vs MRP. eg. .8 of MRP Googlers have a long runway, vs 1.x of MRP Googlers are basically top of band, and 'tenured' with no runway except promo 4) Promo velocity

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Taken from https://www.teamblind.com/post/THE-DEFINITIVE-GOOGLE-LAYOFF-...

Disclaimer: Googler, but no particular internal-only information backing my impression of the above

zalyh · 3 years ago

Blind post is no longer there.

Anyways, I didn't understand the acronyms so I decided to feed it to GPT and it definitely made it easier to understand:

Google is using a formula to determine which employees will be laid off (known as RIF: Reduction in Force)

The formula takes into account various factors such as location of labor (with US Premium Plus areas being more heavily impacted), tenure and performance in the current level, "runway" of compensation (the difference between base salary and maximum potential salary), and promo velocity (how quickly the employee has been promoted within the company)

This formula calculates a "number" for each employee based on these factors

Each Product Area Vice President (PA VP) is given a percentage of employees they must lay off

Employees with a score below a certain threshold, determined by the formula, will be laid off

zalyh commented on macOS CLI tool to configure multi-display resolutions and arrangements github.com/jakehilborn/di... · Posted by u/dwardu

MattIPv4 · 3 years ago

The one feature I really want for window management on macOS is the ability to split fullscreen applications horizontally, for my vertical monitor. macOS lets you split a fullscreen app vertically so you can have two on the same screen, but when a monitor is oriented vertically you can still only split the screen vertically, not horizontally. Sigh.

zalyh · 3 years ago

Since we're on the topic of tiling manager, I'm still using ShiftIt on my old macbook and I still think it's one of the best window manager since it allows you bind keys to particular actions and stays out of the way with minimal configuration. It's not being maintained though.

zalyh commented on OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership openai.com/blog/openai-an... · Posted by u/hmate9

lancesells · 3 years ago

I'm a DDG user as well and I feel it's getting loaded with spam links much like Google. Usually my most confident searches are watching a YouTube video on what I'm looking for. I would prefer text to video but it seems that's where we're headed until video becomes cheaper than text to produce (unlikely).

zalyh · 3 years ago

Same here, it pisses me off to see a lot of those spam sites being ranked that high on google. YouTube is a mixed bag too particularly when you trying to troubleshoot an issue or learn more about a particular feature of Product X. All you get are reviews of Product X returned from the search.

zalyh commented on OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership openai.com/blog/openai-an... · Posted by u/hmate9

impulser_ · 3 years ago

Microsoft being late to the party is going to cost them a lot of money.

Google and Facebook are the clear leaders in AI and they been spending a lot of money building out their AI infrastructure over the last decade. You haven't heard much about Microsoft's investments other than them buying rights to OpenAI models. Seems like they could have saved a lot of money if they started investing years ago.

Google bought DeepMind for 400m 8 years ago. You could argue DeepMind is on the same level or above OpenAI.

zalyh · 3 years ago

I mean, are they late to all the parties though? I think ChatGPT has the momentum to corner the end-user market. It's one of the best tools out there that can help writers, developers and any profession that uses text communication.

Google and Facebook might be better at some things, and maybe Apple too. But none of them has brought to market a chatbot that works pretty well(and not just as a party trick) and is very accessible to anyone on the Internet. I would love it if open up Siri such that I can communicate with it on a site just like ChatGPT.

zalyh commented on Miso pays disputed $10k referral bonus to ex-engineer, apologizes jzhwu.blogspot.com/2012/0... · Posted by u/rdl

zalyh · 13 years ago

This article has only reiterated my belief that any deals that you make with your employer/client should be in writing so that they will not try to weasel their way out of an agreement.

It got me thinking that for every developer who manages to get frontpage on HN about their employer's dishonesty, there are probably more out there who had been screwed the same way.