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Good luck to all. I'm curious what areas are impacted. This is what I've heard was cut in October:

Amazon Games

Visual search / Amazon Lens teams

Advertising org

Devices / Fire TV / RBKS

Prime Video

Alexa

Payments

Pharmacy and Health-related bets

Games (beyond the named studios)

Recruiting / HR

Catalog / Retail support teams

I assume OP is referring to internal-to-isreal structures such as the independence of the supreme court.

I've found some of Loom's auto-descriptions (including previews in Slack) to be pretty solid use case for AI.

From the article and comments, I'm assuming this will operate similarly to how Windows makes it slightly harder to run applications that aren't signed by a known trusted source.

If so, I don't have a problem with that.

Presumably gets close to

> Digital Markets Act, a 2022 law that requires Apple to open iPhones in the bloc to competing app marketplaces and alternative payment systems for in-app sales.

Sure, but not all retaliation is equal and nation states know what constitutes escalation vs retaliation without escalating.

I'm failing to find it, but after the recent Israel <> Gaza war kicked off, there was an interesting article about the types of military actions between Israel <> Hezbollah and what constituted "not escalating" vs "escalating." The different attack options for each side were asymmetric, but basically both sides had "ramp up the conflict" and "ramp down the conflict without losing face for not responding" options.

Unless this is a prelude to more attacks, this feels like a "de-escalation" option to me: Iran gets headlines, gets to negotiate, gets to show its strength domestically, but if this is the extent of it probably no one dies and the damage will be limited to shipping insurance costs and the like. Big $ numbers, but not blood.

That isn't to say some terror group or 3rd party (Saudi, Houthis, etc) isn't going to take this moment to take a swing at one of the parties involved, it's always possible.

I'm glad that so far there haven't been any reported injuries, and I'd rather have ship hijackings than missiles or car bombs.

Hopefully this is the extent of the retaliation, but who knows.

Yeah my thought was similar: One day in the future its current behavior changes once it has built up enough traffic...

He let his private equity / investment company (Alameda) borrow unlimited customer funds via a software backdoor for various investments.

This is a really high quality comment you've written here, thank you for posting your perspective.

For those of us who don't know about testing, can you explain COA/GMP and how robust the testing process is?

The reason I ask I'm a little concerned about Amazon's incentives not being aligned with consumers priority for high quality and safe product and is letting suppliers choose which product(s) to submit for testing rather than doing periodic random testing which I fear is too much to hope/ask for...

Yup that is how I read it as well. Product decision.

> And I will not learn a single new thing if I go back to university, unless it's a good one

While I understand the Indian University sentiment here, there are many other opportunities for learning AND promoting yourself at the same time. For example, contributing to open-source software (especially software that is used by corporations) is a classic route for a reason.

Pretty useful, thanks!

IMO I care much more about contacts changing jobs, getting laid off, and talking about their side projects than anything else.

I probably should see if someone has a linkedin script to remove non-1st connection content.

Unless you have experience using your JD in a corporate legal dept or law firm setting that probably won't get you too much of a lift, but certainly doesn't hurt.

If you read the job req I think they're quite open to someone with little management experience, if that is something you're interested in.

Axiom Law | New York City, Remote (USA only, East coast only) | Engineering Manager

Axiom Law is a staffing agency for corporate lawyers. Axiom was founded over 20 years ago, and has built out its in house software team over the last 5-7 years.

On any given day, you may:

- Manage and help Engineers

- Contribute to architecture decision making

- Work with a fully remote tech team

Tools we use:

- I'm a PM, idk. (Java, Elastic Search, ???)

My team is looking for a new engineering manager! Please feel free to ask me questions on work, culture, etc.

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3727356909/

That is one thing Wyze doesn't have: A dimmer.

I use: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N106YN7 then connect the Leviton dimmer to Google Assistant for voice routines crossing different app gardens.

I don't use colored lights, but you could use smart bulbs or fixed colored lights controlled via smart plugs depending on your use case. Or just get something with built in multi color, like LED strips.

There are some LED strips that maintain programming thru powering off, just like how oil radiators with physical switches maintain settings thru powering off. These devices work great with smart plugs, and in the case of an oil radiator can be hooked up to a smart thermostat for a cheap man's smart home, fully portable for moving or apartment swapping.

I can do a longer write up if you're curious.

Fair enough, I've generally gone with cheaper lower end products and some of them EoL, some die, but I write that off as a nature of playing with more little computers than my ancestors could have ever imagined.

It probably is important to note that like many modern tech systems, they aren't "hands free" automation. Patches come out, things desync from the network, etc.

I agree with this.

I intentionally buy switches not bulbs or more complex gear. Then you plug your dirt cheap LED dumb bulb into the lamp and have it turn on and off with your voice. Much cheaper to replace when the bulb eventually burns too.

Its stupid simple, just make sure everything connects to your assistant of choice (Hey Google / Alexa / Siri - maybe?) OR just stay in one company's walled garden and you're fine. Personally I'm a fan of Wyze's hardware but don't use their apps or more complex cameras.

Do the math for the weight of a string 2 miles long.

Then take a look at how much weight a string can hold up.

Then you're ready to be taking on space elevators

To me, it seems that nearly every layoff (especially recently) in tech results in a small spike in the stock price due to 'cost savings' and 'willing to make hard choices'

Wrong thread?

Probably a Design-Build bid, based on how other large infra has worked here in Seattle (See: Hw 99 Tunnel).

It appears the 4/20 work with smaller planes, so merely may not have been need until now.

Local reporting has a few other issues mentioned about specific gates, which to me sounds like a "Our contract says you have 30 days to reply to our letter informing of issues before xyz happens". So purely posturing before mediation before lawsuits. But we'll see.

For anyone interested, I found the local media coverage was higher quality: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/sea-t...

> One question I have for the community: why is payment processing the most uptight industry on this planet?

I assume a combination of low margins, high risk (fraud of many types), and regulatory risk, and the nature of 'winner takes all' tech services lead to low willingness/ability to deal with small clients, of which some are trying to abuse your service.

Can you tell us more about the nature of your service? Normally these posts are trying to resolve their issues, but the fact you don't mention the service makes me wonder if you were in an area with a lot of fraud like crypto.

This is a rule, not an announcement of automatic detection.

That said some professors have used the tool mentioned here to check for Chat GPT sourced content in their student's submissions https://medium.com/geekculture/how-to-detect-if-an-essay-was...

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it.

My understanding is they took much smaller samples of blood which lead to lots of reproducibility problems. The standard machines they were using were being fed with up-sampled blood because Theranos didn't have the normal sample size.

> People were getting good results because Theranos was using machines from Siemens in their hidden lab.

Thus the tests sometimes were good, and sometimes bad. Some patients underwent unnecessary medical treatments and procedures based on bad tests.

That isn't how YouTube's Content ID system works.

The vast majority of users don't have access to the system.

When a claim is filed against a video, it is assumed accurate until the appeal process is approved, and revenue is lost immediately.

Source: Ex YouTuber, 15m video views

> They knew they had a dog on their hands and opened a short position in hopes of propping it up

How does MS taking a short position help the stock?

My (naive) understand is that a short would add more sellers, typically driving the price down.

At this point, it is just features... Unless Epic has something against DRM?

Sucks that games on Epic don't (yet?) have cloud save/item store/gifting/whatever but Epic can copy if they want to.