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SE5pc3JhY2lzdAon Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers

This is the equivalent of "what global warming, it was so cold today"

Conversely, I've seen the latest heat wave in France to try to justify global warming all over HN comments, when the reality is that this is temperature and not climate.

"Bills like this would help a lot of people who are victims of "can you just take a look at this real quick" at 6pm. It does need to be at the country level though, otherwise employers will just play off states against each other."

If someone that worked for me is unwilling to help out in these situations occasionally, I wouldn't make them do anything (and follow the law). I also wouldn't promote them.

Many higher level positions require a certain level of responsibility, and this would just show me that the person can't handle it.

I do agree though. If this law were in Michigan and I had a company here, any job that required after hours communication would be outsourced to another state or country.

SE5pc3JhY2lzdAon Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers

I suppose if the position requires it, like being on call, companies will just avoid Michigan workers and either out source, or hire remotely in another state.

I'm originally from Michigan and have worked at lots of different jobs. I rarely ever was required to respond after hours, and if I did, it was part of my job (and explained to me in detail when I accepted the position).

Does this apply to Doctors and Nurses?

SE5pc3JhY2lzdAon Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors

As opposed to? The government? union leaders? Nobody really cares about you, unless you are a friend or your family.

SE5pc3JhY2lzdAon Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors

Unions add another layer of bureaucracy to make small changes. This is the exact opposite of how software and technology works.

SE5pc3JhY2lzdAon Germans are researching their Nazi past as the far right urges them to move on

The far right and the far left have the same thing in common, in that they both dislike the same group of people.

SE5pc3JhY2lzdAon How We'll fight the platform war against Big AI

I think the problem is that all of the smaller platforms are just purchasing tokens from the bigger platforms, so there isn't that much of a competitive advantage. In addition to this, the larger platforms could easily replicate any functionality a smaller platform that adds some new feature (since all data is going to them anyway).

This will only change when when anyone can run LLMs with off-the-shelf hardware and we have actual competition.