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typs··on Rising graduate joblessness is mainly affecting men
Yes, though the article is about this. Forgivable given the paywall though.

TLDR is women are more employed because healthcare continues to see growth in jobs and employment women; also, the software engineering job apocalypse is probably structural not AI, and already bouncing back.

typs··on Show HN: Shoggoth Mini – A soft tentacle robot powered by GPT-4o and RL
This is so sick. I agree that it’s a little lame that we have all these AI capabilities right now, robotics improving, and all we can think of making is humanoid robots. Like I want a spider/squid hybrid robot running around my house
typs··on DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower
> “We have built in roles that auditors can use and have used extensively in the past but would not give the ability to make changes or access subsystems without approval,” he continued. “The suggestion that they use these accounts was not open to discussion.”

From the previous post, they had auditor roles built in that they purposely chose to go around

typs··on OpenAI o3 and o4-mini
I’m not sure I fully understand the rationale of having newer mini versions (eg o3-mini, o4-mini) when previous thinking models (eg o1) and smart non-thinking models (eg gpt-4.1) exist. Does anyone here use these for anything?
typs··on Trade, Tariffs, and Tech
If fixing trade was the goal of these tariffs, Trump had other, better options. He did not listen to policy advisors who have spent a long time writing about how to prepare the US for a war with China and rebalancing global trade. This is why it’s been a PR disaster, not because it was preemptive decisive action.
typs··on OpenAI's weekly active users surpass 400M
API usage has also doubled in the last 6 months(!!)
typs··on IT unemployment hits new high as AI threat continues
The “as” does a lot of work in the headline: hints causation but doesn’t say it (because it can’t!)
typs··on Apple Passes on DeepSeek as AI Partner
Notably for serving Chinese devices (not in the US). It looks like they’re going with Alibaba instead.
typs··on Enterprise Is Dead
Interesting article. I think the author though is describing pretty normal market dynamics and seems to be responding to advice from people with more enterprise-y backgrounds. Most B2B SaaS markets have the enterprise players (who nail sales and service) and the SMB players (who nail product led growth and inbound from developers).

Depending on the market and product, players from either side may win the whole thing or it can stay fragmented. Often, eventually, the enterprise players do try and move down-market by building the muscle for product-led growth and hiring developer advocates while the SMB players try and move up market by hiring sales and building out the product to be more enterprise friendly.

In my own industry, it seems like enterprise companies moving down market are having more success, but I can imagine in other markets the opposite is true. In some areas the customer is so valuable that products can keep being built for them, but that’s an open question (that the author seems to be betting on, for now).

typs··on More users are watching YouTube on TV than mobile
And people can watch short form content on their TV, so that counts in this too
typs··on More users are watching YouTube on TV than mobile
Mm you’d be surprised at how many college students are sitting in front of a big TV vegging on youtube shorts
typs··on You are using Cursor AI incorrectly
+1 on using Cursor rules. In general I feel that Cursor definitely has a fairly steep learning but is a great product if you can move up it.
typs··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
Well the nonprofit theoretically controls the for-profit, so the argument would be that the subsidiary for profit is somehow worth more than its parent? It’s a complicated legal structure but I don’t think that could be true.
typs··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
This is the modern version of 2010's "Amazon makes no money in retail"
typs··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
They seem to be doing ok...

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&geo=...

typs··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
Yes but why would investors on the board who own a piece of OpenAI at 157B be ok with a sale at a smaller valuation?
typs··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
This. Most users don't care about what model has the best benchmarks on twitter.
typs··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
ChatGPT is an extremely successful consumer product. Looking at Search traffic alone indicates they clearly have large brand value. Usage doesn't just depend on just benchmarks for most consumers.
typs··on Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI
Notably a steep discount from their recent raise at a 157B. The board would never approve.
typs··on The impact of AI on the technical interview process
True, though the lack of Stack Overflow / internet use during interviews has always been a critique as they've never seemed fully tied to the experience of the job.
typs··on The impact of AI on the technical interview process
Yeah, I think interviews are to get some signal of competence and ability to prepare / offer some filtering ability even if they're a bit arbitrary or banal.
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