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or Going to an expensive college for a field that has low job prospects was the biggest mistake of his life..

CEO says: In summer 2021, he says, “we were 40,000 package-handlers short, and there were people in the media saying that the stimulus checks didn’t have anything to do with that.” Such people are “divorced from the world we’re living in.” FedEx made up the shortfall by December: “It took a lot of effort.” Mr. Smith concedes that large numbers of people may simply have decided not to work for fear of the pandemic. But “if I’m getting a government check,” he says, there’s less incentive to “go into a warehouse.”

for the average worker: 15 per hour average FedEX package handler salary - from another source on the shipping industry “They underpay everyone. The cost per package is literally .12 to .40 cents and we’re paying people $50.00 to unload four 45ft. trailers in 3.5 hours.”

making a company a success by shortchanging the little guy is the American Way.. the American public is fine getting their crap delivered fast..as long as its cheap right

COVID caused a revolution guys -lets not lose sight of that just because we miss the ritual of the office.

in his post, looks like OP wants the team to have occasional meetings and more in-person meetups.. sure I'm fine with that, covid permitting. BUT

if a Remote lifestyle allows me to check in code, manage teams and be productive while at the same time caring for my family, extended family, save commute time, or if I have the means, to sit on a beach or in a forest and do my work, why shouldn't we prefer that flexible way of working, at the expense of some added communication overhead ... why do we need to enforce the ritual of the office at all -ie, lets DOWNSIZE the office. make it less relevant, sure we cant give it up completely for many organizations or projects..

And especially for those of us who work in shitty companies (and there are many of us) we know that some workplaces can be like this: https://youtu.be/jg047oJf1B4?t=58 -anything that lets people work remotely or gets away from the hell of being a wage slave should be an option..

This is remarkable. What are the implications for the human generated art and entertainment world?

Combining these technologies and the cycle of progress will we soon (lets say within 2 decades) be able to:

1. Generate music (e.g https://openai.com/blog/jukebox)

2. Generate CGI 3D Models (e.g https://www.louisbouchard.ai/ganverse3d/)

3. Generate Plots/Fiction (this is probably the most complex unknown, e.g https://medium.com/the-research-nest/interesting-novels-writ...)

4. Generate Animation (e.g. https://getrad.co/ or https://www.deepmotion.com/Animate-3D)

Finally will a next generation Spielberg be able to create a complete film using these tools sometime in the near future..

FUTURE AI: generate the film "E.T. as a comedy with a female protagonist, and the alien should look like a yoda, set in the 1960s" -or maybe we upload a film script and the AI will generate the movie in "Spielberg style, or Scorsese Style etc"...

finally the porn implications are worrying.. how will we ever control this?

'Chapman describes a “giggle factor” and a “Chicken Little” dynamic. That was ultimately changed by a mix of scientific progress, policy outreach, writing for the general public, and the major Hollywood films Armageddon and Deep Impact'

-Good to hear that Armageddon may actually have done something good then..

Reminds me about this fantasy/fiction book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50202953-piranesi

When I worked for the navy the adage about navel engineering was "designed by Geniuses to be used by idiots (i.e., Navy cadets) "

When I worked for the space program, whenever we came to complicated procedures or rules to follow the adage was "our users are rocket scientists or astronauts -their smart enough to handle this 20 page procedure"

Which adage works best for dealing with how your audience uses your software or your processes? should you consider them to be geniuses or idiots?

In general We tend to ignore the cognitive load that our work can impose on a busy person, as engineers our processes and tools usually require extra cognitive effort to learn that is usually an added burden on the user. It never hurts to make things simpler but it does take a lot of design effort to do so -but the value gained (in efficiency, time savings, and lack of human errors getting introduced into the system) is usually additive, even if that user is an astronaut or a lowly cadet...

- I think the article is basically reframing Hanlon's razor: "never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.."

Unity doesn't have to be an Unreal competitor -plenty of Unity folks in the Indie market (but I guess that's not where the money is) but I suppose you are right-for me, its easier to work with Unity than Unreal as a developer and I hope Unity can catch up technology wise.. not sure how acquiring WETA helps them in that.. its a cool Visual FX studio not a technology company..

No its not..the amount of Trumpers on Hacker News is surprising to me. this Biden scandal is a straight up republican talking point, promoted by Russia and trumpers to try and shift eyes from a collapsing, insane, administration. The lengths of corruption involved in even pursuing this story by trump and Giuliani has already caused Trump to be impeached a short while back.

It's not just 'pot calling kettle black'..both sides are bad logic here. Let assume the biden scandal is true: Complaining about Biden's son getting a lucrative contract because of his last name, is like complaining about the splash from a puddle during a tsunami, ie, It's small potatoes of the worst sort, and the willingness of the right wing to use it as a counter scandal does not bode well for Greenwald's points when he is used a pawn for right wing interests (Tucker Carlson really..)

  A more nuanced consideration of Greenwald's actions and willingness to speak against Biden in context of Trump can be found here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/06/19/lesser-of-two-evils-chomsky-vs-greenwald-and-the-ignored-factor/  Greenwald is an Idealist and more power to him, But Is idealism better than a pragmatism in 2020 of all years? We are in the middle of a raging pandemic and society torn apart by ethnic strife. In this case between Trump   a racist, ignorant failed casino owner, and overt con man (trump u) who directly caused the deaths of thousands of people because he ignored basic scientific truths, or Biden, a lukewarm status quo (and somewhat corrupt career politician) the answer is clear for survival: Biden.