*"Amazon employees who refuse to relocate near their teams' "hub" offices will either have to find a new job internally or leave the company through a "voluntary resignation."*

*Amazon started enforcing its so-called "return-to-hub" policy in recent weeks, according to an internal email and Slack messages obtained by Insider. Hubs are the central locations assigned to each individual team — employees will have to work out of those hubs instead of any office nearest to their current city.*

*One manager declared hubs in Seattle, New York, Houston, and Austin, Texas, for their team, according to one Slack message. It said those who refuse to relocate to one of those hubs will either have to transfer to a new team or they will be considered a "voluntary resignation."*

*The move is part of Amazon's effort to encourage more in-person work. Under the initial return-to-office policy, Amazon assigned offices for most individual employees, but not the whole team. Some employees [told Insider](https://archive.md/o/nk6Si/https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-stirs-employees-anxiety-with-rushed-return-to-office-plan-2023-4) that made office work pointless because many still had to use video calls to connect with their teammates spread across the country. Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon, said in his [RTO announcement earlier this year](https://archive.md/o/nk6Si/https://affiliate.insider.com/?h=f8f89d4fb2ed0164c11488e18bdc4221f4aa89d2c94c837e25379ae9907f0a1f&postID=64bacbf775976ff3ff4aab7e&site=bi&u=https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/andy-jassy-update-on-amazon-return-to-office&amazonTrackingID=null&platform=browser&sc=false&disabled=false) that "collaborating and inventing is easier and more effective when we're in person.""*

Leaked messages show Amazon will force a 'voluntary resignation' on employees failing to relocate near their team 'hubs'

Hi I'm Jeremy. I'm building this site because I'm not satisfied with other online community type websites and their lack of innovation (see the /about page). The goal is to make a superior, more open, and more decentralized online community.

The site is still in early stages in active development (see the dev masterthread here: https://zsync.xyz/p/zsync-dev-update-masterthread)

Join us if this sounds interesting! Feel free to send me any feedback or reach out directly!

Post all site feedback and requests here!

I want to make this site useful. Curious to hear what everyone thinks about it and how it could be improved.

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Stuck in my head from first listen, nothing more to say

Nothing New - Fly By Midnight

I heard this at a cafe in Tokyo and it was stuck in my head for the next 2 months. It's so ridiculous, yet so catchy. Only 8k views.

I love this pop music style. Very unique.

Crystal Statues - don't wanna talk

As someone still holding GameStop stock I'm pretty surprised I only started hearing about this movie in the last few days when the trailer has been out for months already. Looks good though, hope it does the story justice.

DUMB MONEY - Official Trailer (HD) - YouTube

I'm a guy who like does stuff or whatever

Marvel Studios' The Marvels | Official Trailer - YouTube

Scientists develop novel brain-computer interface that plugs into your ear canal

Neuronal Boost: Lactate’s Key Role in Brain Development Uncovered

Over the past one and a half years, Stack Overflow has lost around 50% of its traffic. This decline is similarly reflected in site usage, with approximately a 50% decrease in the number of questions and answers, as well as the number of votes these posts receive.

HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36855516>

The Fall of Stack Overflow

TikTok is adding text posts

Working in tech has always required constantly staying up to date. The rate of progress increases exponentially, meaning this rate of catchup required increases over time. Basically there's no long-term stability in tech. On the bright side, this makes it easier for newcomers and people who have the time + energy to enter the industry (eg. I imagine most who profited off the AI craze didn't have an AI background) 

This phenomenon will start affecting every industry including ones that used to be considered stable like law + medicine. No one is safe.

My advice to anyone in tech is to not get married to any one framework, language, or part of the stack. Assume it will be obsolete in a few years. Learn the 80% needed to be productive, but that extra 20% required for mastering that specific tool is prob not worth it given churn.

I personally think we're going to see the rise of generalists. Jobs will become more managerial, delegating tasks to AI + cheap offshore labor. Companies and especially startups will hire less employees and they'll be expected to be able to handle any task, leveraging AI to learn. LLMs like ChatGPT make it drastically easier to get up to speed on anything, and AI code autocomplete tools like GitHub Copilot lesson the need for knowing specific syntax. Eventually coding will just be writing in plan English (Copilot can already do this, it's just very slow now), as well as everything else (eg. managing infrastructure). Eventually one will just say "create a cron job that scrapes this API every X minutes, filters the results on these keywords, stores the filtered results in a database, and sends me an email notification" and the whole thing will be created. The tech for this is already possible.

Job stability will continue to diminish as tech advances, something tech workers are already familiar with

"My supervisor was telling us in stand up today and he said that he spent some time just looking at the first \~100 applicants or so and said that most are people laid off from FAANG, or people at unicorns, and they all have several years of experience. They already shut the post down because they were overwhelmed sorting through all the applicants.

This is for a mid-level position, I am not sure of the TC, it is fully remote.

This is crazy.

I even asked my manager if I could apply to it internally (I'm in DevOps / SRE and desperately trying to get out since my SWE skills are stagnating) but he said I didn't have enough experience which is fair since I am a new grad.

Have you guys seen the same at your companies? I guess I was mostly surprised at the quality of applicants.. usually I hear that maybe 5% would be good but it looks like the majority are actually really good."

Wow my team at Adobe put up a job offer for a SWE position and they received 850 applications in the first day.

HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36791434>

Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM | Hacker News

HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36799548>

Anytype – open-source, local-first, P2P Notion alternative

<https://archive.is/2VTtG#selection-1313.0-1313.108>

HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36781860>

Meta tells managers promotions will be harder to get, less frequent, and won't be based on team size as much

The looming demise of the 10x developer

The AI boom is screwing over Gen Z | ChatGPT is commandeering the mundane tasks that young employees have relied on to advance their careers.

"AutoChain takes inspiration from LangChain and AutoGPT and aims to solve both problems by providing a lightweight and extensible framework for developers to build their own agents using LLMs with custom tools and [automatically evaluating](https://github.com/Forethought-Technologies/AutoChain#workflow-evaluation) different user scenarios with simulated conversations. Experienced user of LangChain would find AutoChain is easy to navigate since they share similar but simpler concepts."

AutoChain, lightweight and testable alternative to LangChain

Twitter now blocking all DMs from non-Twitter Blue subscribers by default

Modernized the UI for <http://zsync.xyz> today - card view + 3 column layout (basically copied Discuit + Reddit). I prefer compact layout myself, but thinking maybe the HN UI is too dated for most people.

Some other updates

- Added some communities to the left sidebar (will make that dynamic and customizable, enabling you to subscribe/unsubscribe)
- Slightly tweaked the "hot" ranking algorithm (HN ranking algorithm) to try to give higher score to newer posts, and set this as the default (instead of "newest"). Not satisfied yet with it but will continue to tweak it until it makes sense.
- Show # of registered users on right
- Added some less serious communities

Will finish up some more features, then open source.

Let me know what you think. I'm definitely no designer, but I think it was a pretty productive day.

I enjoy working on this, but it doesn't pay my bills. I'm interviewing at the moment, but definitely reach out if you need a solid senior full stack engineer (my rate is $150/hr)

<https://twitter.com/jeremybernier/status/1681360576642162689>