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That was kind of the vision of WeWork, for better or worst. An extended college dorm for white collar workers

> Director of ML" who's never heard of the words "word2vec" or "pytorch" before

Reminds me of Computer Security academic and professional pedigree where these people aren't even programmers

How is this different from Google searching then copy and pasting from Stackoverflow? Software is hard because of the 20, not the 80.

> I find the article's headline misleading.

I see Uber stock is up 6% pre-market. That suggests to me investors thinks Uber's liabilities are reduced as a result of this ruling.

> someone is going to abuse your site

Would gating access with Google Sign-in, or Facebook sign-in, etc, be sufficient for rate limiting bad actors?

> owners are running a business, not doing deep research on their bank

People buy index funds so that they don’t need to do deep research on individual companies.

> I don't know why anyone would invest in any of these companies.

A belief that they would form lifestyle habits.

I was able to cut rideshare pretty quick when they stopped subsidizing rides.

> The company also raised another round of funding, this time $60 million

> in 2021, the brand was acquired for $45 million

I wonder what the founders' payout was.

What percentage of managers will only work in person?

I didn’t say an API is necessary to be a product. I said an API is sufficient to be a product. See Twilio.

What framework would you have preferred be endemic instead of Boq?

To be fair, the API can be viewed as a product.

> As for exactly what these forced AI integrations will look like, the report cites a recent YouTube feature that would let people virtually swap outfits

Is that really based on generative A.I. and large language models though ?

> Can ENGAGE play all Gameboy games?... Yes! It is running a custom emulator which allows it to impersonate the Game Boy and play any Game Boy game (not the Color versions though). That said, just like with any emulator, not every title may work, and some bugs may prevent some games from loading some parts.

This bit seems a little disingenuous.

Have a safety net of savings, incase you do need go to on the job hunt again and don't have to worry about living expenses.

Would help to add a new column and group by whether the recruiter was a contractor or in-house

> Night workers?

Do you mean nightshift workers or mizu shobai workers? If you are talking about nightshift workers, then that's just a matter of semantics (9-5PM == full time employment, even if that means two part time jobs ).

As for mizu shobai workers, I think would it be disingenous to suggest this is somehow more honorable and respected by society and older generations/parents than saying being a certified professional. Sure, the male hosts in Shinjuku are making multiples more than a FANG employee in the states, but part of the pay is the judgement by societal at large. Yes, in some social classes being a suit-wearing office worker with a stable income is respected, and in Kabukicho circles drinking with lonely and emotionally vulnerable clients until you cough up blood is respected.

Japan's most recent revision to the visas allowed tech workers who make over 20 million yen (~$150k usd) a year to skip the regular lines at the airport, and use the line reserved for government diplomats and ambassadors. The other requirement is that you have a masters degree. Point being, there is a strong emphasis on pedigree in Japan.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/02/17/national/new-vi...

> retirees

Retired. But if you're talking about elderly people, Japan also has a larger percentage of the elderly working. https://www.jil.go.jp/english/jli/documents/2022/039-04.pdf

> freeters

A subset of this will wear it as a badge of honor, but another subset can't get hired. One reason for not being able to get hired is that Japanese companies want to hirer young, straight out of school, and invest in the long term. Freeters are excluded from this cohort, and also because employers feel this is a red flag.

Even from Wikipedia, the negative perception from Mass Media and society is clearly laid out, so bringing up freeters and attitudes towards them only furthers my claims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeter. The ones that are subsidized by their parents are referred to as "Parasite Singles" by the Japanese.

> This has been changing, it's not as true of newer companies and startups.

Not as true, but still true.

White collar workers still have to clock in and clock out.

I will believe this when people Wordpress dominance starts trending down and people stop holding meetups in every city. There are even consultancies for Squarespace. Meanwhile, less developed countries in the region such as Indonesia has an order of magnitude healthier startup ecosystem, including more unicorns. Banks and traditional industries have begun their DX (digital transformation) but it's long way to go when the most foreigner friendly bank's website goes down for a day of maintanence every month, and require strange login rules such as usernames having to have no more than 3 consecutives alphabetic or numbers. Meanwhile, passwords can't have special characters.

Credibility of the author is out the door when they are using strawman comparisons with Japan (Tokyo) indicative of someone who spent a week there as a tourist and had to shoehorn this experience in. It's like a foreigner traveling to America, and by that I mean LA or NYC, and talk about how fashionable people in SoHo were or how vibrant Time Square is, meanwhile 99% of Americans aren't in this way of life. I'm almost certain "in one of Tokyo’s best bars, a team of four people was involved in the preparation of your correspondent’s gin martini" refers to The SG Club, an overpriced tourist trap for tourists who want to feel refined, sophisticated, edgy.

As economists say, there are four types of economies: developed, undeveloped, Argentina, and Japan. Not having a permanent place to be during the 9-5PM, whether that is school or work, is a badge of shame in Japanese society. If you read crime reports in Japan, they will almost always mention the persons state of employment. Even the tragedy of the commons / prisoner's dilemma is thwarted in Japan, atleast in a public context. On microeconomics, people are not making decisions that would be deemed economically optimal or even rational from an American lens.

The example with the airport and malls being overstaffed. The first part is that both the government and people would rather that people work, rather than rely on government/society, even if it means the enterprise is not operating optimally. This is one reason why, quantitatively atleast, Japan has one of the lowest productivity rates of developed countries. Everyone has to appear working diligently, regardless if they've past the point of productivity or not. For the second part, the mall, in this time and age you can order stuff online. The value proposition of retail is that people want and value human services. Especially if it for higher end products and luxury products, where the retail and customer experience is part of the purchase, which is likely the case for a mall in Japan. Even Uniqlo is a splurge for people to be honest. Furthermore, Japanese people trust humans not computers, and there is an expectation that service be 1:1 and available. Just wait into the author sees the staff ratio in the electronics store, especially in the appliance section. They are dozens of tables where they go through a step by step process with customers, explaining the appliance, delivery process, etc. Part of this is also a desire for human interaction which is relatively limited compared to America where you have no shortage of small talk with randos.

Why make it complicated? Macau has casinos. The belt and road initiative into Cambodia also involved casinos, but they're reeling back on that.

And that's why people proxy through Hong Kong and own overseas holding companies. Just don't be a thorn to the party.

First thing that came to mind was the Youtube Channel Casually Explained. They have a whole series there about life being a video game, too.

https://www.youtube.com/@CasuallyExplained

You don't need an official to authorize personal expenditures on an Amex Centurion black card. This is why staff at luxury clothing stores in Venice speak Chinese.

They send their children overseas to overpriced universities, and are allowed to justify buying luxury cars, and other school related expenses. I don’t think the mentality on these expenses is getting a 1:1 conversion rate, but that money is meant to be spent.

There’s various ways they can fund their children’s business ventures (passion projects) overseas without expecting it to ever turn a profit.

With the nepotism in Asia, it doesn’t really matter what degree the children of the elite gets, but more school is always viewed as favorable, possibly even moreso than practical work experience sometimes. This is why you see a proliferation of masters and graduate programs in the United States that don’t require GRE or standardized exams. Obviously it’s a different story for the employment seeking middle class.

To your point, it’s not uncommon or a bad idea for the student to study the arts or art history degree either.

I mean technically people can’t own land in China, they’re just leasing it from the government. This assumption has been baked into real estate prices but people bid it up anyways.

Maybe employers and schools should stop collecting diversity data in case a less inclusive nation invades the United States.

Are laws being retroactively applied or since the date the law came into effect, plus some grace period ?

Right, which is your second point about the law existing being the concern.

Companies are simply enforcing the law, right or wrong.

> comply with the law

What concerns you about this?

The article and I expect the sentiment on HN to be cynical of “manifesting”.

But how is this any different from telling kids they’re gifted, which I presume most of you were told, and that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy ?

> For JavaScript based projects

This is viable for personal projects and things that exist in a vacuum.

Suppose you hit a performance bottleneck with your backend and want to migrate to Go

Or, if you want talk to your JavaScript background from a native mobile client. Or if another team or customer wants access to the API and not using JavaScript.

gRPC solved this problem by having Protobuf as the many-to-many translation layer. Client stubs and backend service stubs in a variety of languages are autogenerated. Telefunc is a subset of this wherein you define the Interface in TypeScript instead of protobuf. With gRPC you also get a binary encoding over the wire. Maybe the effort of the project could have been building on top of gRPC (which is not necessarily coupled to protobuf) and adding automatic codegen tooling for JavaScript.