It would be interesting to learn in time what this means for the durability of the display. Do the vibrations induce stresses that increase component failure?
Also how differing parts of the screen can generate different sound sources to create a sound scape tailored for the person in front of the screen (eg laptop user)?
I've got a Sony Bravia with similar technology for a few years now (it uses small actuators instead of generating from the oled itself, but the vibrations will be the same) and it's still sounding fantastic after daily use and a couple of moves.
Discussing this with some friends last night there was some consensus that sometimes this may be to force a significant cut in the workforce that is cheaper to do by firing due for cause, as compared to making roles redundant and dealing with redundancy packages. Probably not true in all cases, but maybe in some.
Companies are now in a cycle where they want to lay off ~5% of their employees every year. Why? To suppress wages. And to get people to do more work for the same money. People in fear of losing their jobs aren't going to demand raises or say no to extra work.
RTO mandates are cheaper and easier than severance.
This has been the case in Corporate America for decades at this point. The rude shock for many on HN is that the veneer of Big Tech being rogue disruptors is gone. Working for Big Tech is getting increasingly indistinguishable from working for Boeing, Lockheed Martin or Northrop Grumman.
The difference is the customer for some of those companies demands cutting edge tech and is willing to pay handsomely for it. Because if they don't have the best, the adversary will and that is unacceptable.
Yeah Big tech is running out of ways to grow profits YoY. So the next solution is the consulting approach of just laying people off. Eventually it will catch up to them and they will become the next IBM/Boeing/etc. where people ask what happened to these companies they used to be great.
Bezos said in an all hands one time amazon would go out of business in 50-60 years and that is happens to every company eventually. I think you get too big and too bureaucratic where everyone is just looking out for themselves because you are more worried about getting laid off or fired than you are building great products.
> Bezos said in an all hands one time amazon would go out of business in 50-60 years and that is happens to every company eventually.
That’s a weird thing for him to say because a) it’s patently false and b) he might still be alive at that point and would need to liquidate his AMZ holdings before everyone else who believes his prediction does.
> you are more worried about getting laid off or fired than you are building great products
Just like the government: you are more worried about your re-election campaign than serving your constituents. Where those two align, great, but the priority is remaining in office.
Inference (token generation) is memory-bound, KV cache prefill (prompt processing) is compute-bound. The ARM Macintoshes have lots of memory bandwidth but not a lot of compute power, so they're great for outputting text but terrible for tasks like analyzing documents. I've never done fine-tuning but my understanding is that that is a highly-parallelizable compute hog as well.
It's one bad thing to sync all one's email to the their cloud. It's another bad thing to give the cloud the credentials to sync one's email directly. So in theory even if you stop using the client they can still get your email without your knowledge and explicit permission (ie you are not using the client and would reasonably expect they don't have access to new emails).
Also the cloud service now have the capability to save then retrieve the credentials in plain text making them a rich target for being compromised.
I agree there is a development path to learning to read. My son is learning and during the phase of learning the phonics he would use the pictures a lot to help get context. You could tell because he would pause on each new page as he observed the graphics.
But as he became more proficient he started using the graphics as a crutch to guess the words rather than sound them out and blend them. So I started covering the pictures with my hand as I turned the pages and his progress jumped ahead in the following weeks.
He is still learning and falls into guessing patterns too easily. However through accompanied parent reading every night he is progressing well (IMO).
My personal trust of devices like this is low - and since it is capturing public side recordings (outside my front door) I'm less worried about the vidoes. I just prefer to treat them as untrusted devices and put them on my guest network isolated from the rest of my network.
> since it is capturing public side recordings (outside my front door) I'm less worried about the vidoes
Differences between countries are funny. For instance, in France Rings don't fly because you're filming a public place, and by default people have an expectation of privacy and the right not to be filmed. If you want to film a public place (like put a camera that covers the street), there's a specific process to follow that includes getting a permission from the privacy authority, putting up warnings, and having processes (who has access to the videos, when, why, etc.).
I agree with the sentiment. Technically I only trigger video on my property boundary to avoid the street and protect the public's reasonable right to privacy.
Apparently quite a few people have Ring cameras inside their homes as well.
And another point. You might not think video outside your home matters, but it could be invaluable to burglars who want to know when you're not home. I could imagine it being used to deanonymize location data as well because it would provide known locations and timestamps to filter data against.
Yes, but doing that is much more risky and time consuming. The burglar could find the basic pattern in a matter of hours rather than days of sitting on the house at the risk of being reported as suspicious. They would also be able to tell which entrances are surveilled and use that information for the burglary itself.
So you could make an argument that woth their terrible security track record, numerous leaks etc Ring is more of a help to potential burglars than it is useful as a security device.
I only trigger video on my property boundary to avoid the street and protect the public's reasonable right to privacy. There will always be the risk of coincidental videoing when someone is on my property - but I try my best to respect my neighbours.
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"Bash(az resource:)",
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"Bash(az resource show:)",
It mostly gets it right but I instantly fix the file with the "readonly" version when it gets it too open.