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That is not why.

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Here's the actual memo - https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-softwar...

> as well as artists, photographers, and animators I know who have had a significant drop in typical advertising work with the advent of AI...

Much of this was offshored earlier this decade independent of AI.

The sunsetting of film and art production tax credits and subsidizes in much of North America while the UK, Europe, NZ, India, and Colombia dramatically ramped theirs up meant much of the industry got offshored.

And new media has changed how advertising works. Influencer and guerrilla advertising lands better as it feels more "authentic" amongst consumers. This also reduces spend on traditional advertising and the teams needed to do so.

You overestimate how much YC cares about HN. The only reason it still exists is because its PG's baby. Most YCers over the past decade either don't use HN or haven't even heard of HN. Most conversations and deep dives have transitioned to IRL, X, or Discord now.

We are assigned a number of those in AP and honors classes, which is what most Harvard students have taken.

Hum 10a/b wasn't that brutal. It was a decent amount of reading and writing, but it was pretty fun and more engaged alternative to Expos 20.

Most of us were already competitive in speech and debate in HS or were introduced to similar content via our AP teachers in high school, so it wasn't much of a transition.

That's not why. The Soul like other small cars (eg. Fit, Yaris, Accent) saw shrinking uptake from consumers.

People on HN love talking about small cars, but purchasing data has shown otherwise in most markets.

The Kia Soul was also heavy hit by tariffs on South Korean automotive exports in North America and the EU as well as the sanctions on Russia, as it was manufactured and assembled in Kia's Gwangju and Kaliningrad factories. Btw, the Russian factory now assembles Chinese cars for the Russian and Belarusian market.

> If your work does not benefit from current AI tooling, that is a finding, not a failing. Document why, share it with your community of peers, bring it to your manager, and work to find solutions. An engineer who can explain where AI does not yet help their work is demonstrating the judgement we are asking for...

> As a technical or organizational leader, part of your job is making sure that your team or organization is using AI to the best effect to improve delivery for customers and your business. That requires deeply understanding these technologies yourself, working with them hands-on rather than relying on what you hear, and understanding how others are using them. Sufficient understanding means you have used these tools on your production work, can describe a task where they helped and a task where they did not, and can explain that judgement to your team. Deploying AI in your organizations requires carefully balancing between exploring new and better ways to do things and investing in doubling down on the ones you already have. Judgement and care are key. As a leader, we expect you to be taking ownership of connecting the inputs and outputs in your team or organization...

> We have also found that SDEs and SDMs who are closer to their products and businesses are able to take the most advantage of AI and agentic software development. As Amazon has grown, we’ve seen some of our ICs and SDMs become less connected to their customers and business. We want to reverse this trend. We recommend that ICs of all levels find ways to become deeply connected to your customers, and your team or org’s product direction. As always, the scope and depth of this ownership will increase as you become more senior. For SDMs, we also recommend spending time making sure you’re close to your customers and business, and you’re helping the ICs in your organization to do the same...

Good.

This is why I've always been derisive about smaller MSSPs, Pentest shops, and other "channel" partners.

Firms like MonsterCloud are just the tip of the iceberg.

I built my own system using both sentiment polarity analysis, hard-coded logic, and some semi-active tuning, but I'd rather not divulge specifics. IMO anyone can spin up their own similar system.

> I don't want certain types of users to know anything about me. I wouldn't have felt this way, say, 5 years back...

Frankly, most people DGAF about random HNers and (a general or meta-comment targeted at the reader, not you OP) if someone needs to use throwaways to post negatively polarized statements on HN, then they shouldn't even be on HN in the first place.

Politics is discussed significantly more on HN after 2022 than before. I'll wait on that HNer to finish their analysis and post it on here, but they've also noticed the same trend.

2022 was when the degradation really took hold.

HN essentially became mainstream after the New Yorker profile, Reddit's degradation due to the mod blackout and API changes, and Lemmy flopping.

I've gotten my HN back to the pre-2022 consensus but it takes severe filtering, with around 200 posts being hidden a day. And it's those posts that drive the majority of discourse on the platform now.

The fact that throwaways like you are so normalized is a huge reason.

HN has also gotten divorced from tech and water-cooler conversations in much of the tech industry, and a lot of that seems to be because HN no longer has the same plurality of Bay/NYC/Seattle/Austin techies that it used to, and the userbase is way older than much of tech now (I was always younger than average on HN, but the amount of 1980s to early 2000s references shows that the platform has frozen in time demographically).

Ignore Reddit - HN has functionally become Slashdot (the fact that I even know what slashdot is highlights how the age demographics are so skewed on HN).

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> 2022 is when tech funding dried up...

Tech funding didn't dry up then. It just coencided with the time period that most vintages that originated in early 2010s were closing out, and those that originated in 2016-18 were hitting their 5 year mark.

This meant a lot of dry-powder didn't get deployed until 2023-24.

> stands to reason that we ran out of hacker topics...

They are still being posted at the same rate based on my filtering. The difference is a massive deluge in non-"traditional HN" related content being posted, and the younger generation of techies and founders (those below 35) not using HN.

Pretty much. I've been on HN for a long time as well (this account is actually my 2nd burner after I forgot a couple previous ones).

Completely forgot about PhysicsForums.

Also this is a good example of the trend that has already been ongoing on HN since 2022. I think one other long-lasting HNer is working on a similar analysis of HN at the moment.

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> Appreciate some more details...

It's their story to tell. Not mine.

I'm not opposed to that. It would work really well for most applied sciences and engineering curricula.

It's a similar approach the armed services use to train MOSes as well.

Making the class pass-fail would also be more conducive for learning as well.

But still, some sort of benchmark would be needed to at least give students the ability to gauge their proficiency.

Wow this is really cool. AAVE and Southern lexes have been underserved linguistically for a long time.

That said, my hunch is your Africa speicifc datasets might lossy, as entire regions of Africa are very linguistically diverse and someone who speaks Bambara and French will affect a different English accent than someone who speaks Maninka and English.

I'm a bit mixed on this. A lot of graded work is busywork, but a benchmark is needed to see whether concepts are landing or not before midterms or finals, and the easiest way for that is some kind of grading.

And why are you being downvoted to oblivion?!?

> record job loss after the covid bump which we all know resulted in massive hiring sprees in a lot of sectors followed by massive layoffs. Is the movie and movie production sector really experiencing an apocalyptic downturn where the line will reach zero, or just returning to its median?

The 2023 Hollywood Strike strike, the COVID lockdowns shutting down theaters, and the aggressive film production (UK, Poland, Ireland, Norway, Italy, Spain, Colombia) and VFX (Ireland, India, Colombia) subsidizes right as American states like California, Georgia, NY, and others began cutting them meant much of the American film and television industry got obliterated earlier this decade.

The reality is revenue is roughly consistent, but production costs one you remove subsidies (like what most of the US and Canada did) become exhorbitant in low margin industries like entertainment.

It's now cheaper to produce an "American" movie or TV show in Ireland, using British actors affecting an American accent (thank Hugh Laurie, Idris Elba, and Dominic West for that), with post and VFX done in India than it is in the US.

This is something that has been reported on in the space for a decade now, but not much can be done.

This article is also another example of why HNers should stick to their own lane, as most lack context or visibility into other industries.

> Also who actually gets swayed

Exactly.

> I just hope the mods start upping the bar somehow

I'm sure they are trying, but knowing how under-resourced HN is by YCombinator (barely any staff, handful of mods who are only really doing this because of close ties to old school YC, only really surviving because it's PG's baby) I don't think much will change.

I want to keep attending demo day so I won't say more.

Wow this is an amazing blog. I've been hooked.

And we'll see. If I refine it well enough, I'll try to create a more generalized ruleset that anyone can use as they so wish.

Nope. As an indicator for which HN discussions to auto-hide because of their irrelevance.

I'm not Jewish. Now fuck off with the dog whistles. You're one of the other short-lived HN accounts I've been monitoring for sometime.

My hunch is HN got hit by a couple coordinated and ongoing info ops. I've noticed a couple topics and clusters that automatically gather the same users and a sudden cluster of young low karma accounts. It's not just Israel-Palestine or Iran, but also anything Russia-Ukraine, US elections, or China related.

Despite what the moderators say, their moderation hasn't kept pace with LOTL accounts and other HN account reselling platforms.

At some point this will blow back on YCombinator, especially because my understanding is that YCombinator treats all posts on HN as YC's IP.

That said, I also know two fairly prominent founders who are also fairly active HNers who felt social media activism (especially on HN) would help drive their message. One of them founded a fairly prominent DevOps company.

The silver lining is that HN doesn't actually matter to most people in the industry. It's become an inside joke at my fund to call a pitch or idea "HN worthy". Most younger (below 35) techies don't use HN and most older techies don't either.

Increasingly the mindshare and usage on HN is largely outside of the US, with most activity occuring outside normal US hours (3am-9am PST).

Don't feed the trolls. This is how burner accounts are laundered into "normal" HN accounts.

Notice how the most virulent accounts on HN from any side are all post-2023 accounts with low karma, almost no submissions, and almost exclusively comment on political and non-technical topics.

Being Jewish doesn't make someone Israeli.