skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Genes still play a role, but memes (the pre-internet kind- similar to an idea) will likely play a big role. We have seen it in the past: “God wants you to grow and multiply” of the Old Testament or “One Child Per Family” in China, in the past.

In a way memes are the “genes” of a society.
One thing the article does not mention is that the darker (and softer) the pencil, the more easily it smudges. Even if it is not charcoal, you’d do best to fixate if you use really soft pencils like the 12B they tested.

As a side note: I love a thick 5.6mm lead clutch pencil for quick notes and sketches in my notebook at work. It writes like a pencil and you can erase it, but it has the feel of a sharpie (thick lines, not very accurate). It forces me to be concise in what I write and draw.

But after experimenting there I did settle on #2 lead for most uses. My notebook simply becomes one grey smudge much too quickly with softer leads.
No, that’s not what a cliff is. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cliffvesting.asp

What you’re talking about is front-loading or ballooning vesting schedules.
> is beyond shitty.

Something being legal doesn't make it moral.
Budding Elons are not capable of doing anything else.

There are leaders who understand that and keep them on a tight leash, (cuz u can't not use their mindless ambition and over optimizing tendencies or ur competition will) and there are people who call themselves leaders who loose the leash.
green???? f'ing savage, you obviously hate the country, dont support the troops and want to murder babies.
> when the novelty and prestige of cellphones (to say nothing of their gratingly simple ringtones)

I don't think I'm just projecting when I say we've pretty much reverted to that? As far as I can tell it's not 'cool' among schoolchildren any more either to have some song or joke sound or whatever.

The vast majority I hear (i.e. if it rings at all, not just vibrating!) I would say are 'simple'; it's the 'songs and joke sounds or whatever' that grate.
It tells the adversary someone reads the emails on that mailbox.
it feels more ‘real’ when I can vicariously feel the experience involved.

That implies the opposite of what you enjoy. The original experience had no grain, had no hiss. It was pure and clear.
> This is not worthy of a story suddenly just because it happened at a META company.

You're right. This behavior by a company should be criticized regardless of whether or not they're large or famous.

...Though it appears that you don't think any such stories should exist?
He moved to Canada, not the USA.
I just do both
What precisely is happening in Germany? Please provide sources for your claims, otherwise it's hard to take them serious.
> you know, when I arrived in the UK in 2006, I didn’t expect that everyone will explain to me things in Polish. I actually had to learn the language.

Expecting the immigrants to speak the language is one thing and should be mandatory, something that many countries in EU have failed to enforce.

Expecting entrepreneurs to speak the language to set up their company is a failure of the state. Everything should be done to ensure that new businesses can prosper.

I emigrated from old Europe (France) to new Europe (Estonia) 8 years ago. I’ve experienced the bureaucracy that steals time and the one that saves it.
This is great, because I was expecting a list of assets and instead I got an explainer on merkle trees. Honestly, it's pretty funny. Anyone who puts a penny in Kraken deserves to have it stolen if they believe stuff like this.

The problem is we all know that this really doesn't mean anything. One of the funnier stories that went round this week was that in an effort to shore up their reputation one company actually published an address for their deposits that highlighted they'd accidentally sent a huge amount out of that address and then brought it back, when questioned they claimed they'd sent the transaction in error and the recipient later returned it. The obvious shell game being played here - you send the money over, they do the audit, you send it back, suddenly two insolvent companies both pass audits.

It's just unfortunate because we all kind of know, you can't really trust these audits, because audits only really work when the people are being audited aren't highly motivated scam artists. Even if the funds do currently exist and are safe now, that doesn't help you if they disappear next week. The question isn't "are the funds there right now" the question is "can we trust you" and the answer is probably no.
Yes, the title is wrong. The study is about "Vorstände", which means "board members".
My german is not good but most (all?) graphs in the report seem to talk about executives or board members, but excluding CEOs (ohne CEOs). Does the title need an edit?
8 Creators reveal their #1 growth hack
There's a formula for safe distance due to the heating effects that you have to be familiar with if you want an amateur radio license. There are some funny issues there, for example certain body parts being resonant to certain frequencies.
Why should the telecom company be obliged to keep your prepaid phone number active in perpetuity? Seems a very reasonable thing to terminate it after some period of inactivity
Thabks for the response and the feedback. I agree wholly with your observations, and am aware of my own limitations in the field of topics mentioned. This is why I attempt to check my bias as consistently as possible. I realize my shortcomings and the potential to fall into the oroborus of bias and ideology. It's very easy to fall into self affirming traps and self statements, ex. "I KNEW IT!" feeling when I feel I found a confirmation of a conjecture I put forth to myself. I find I learn more from being wrong about certain things and correcting by learning from said mistakes or misconceptions. I rarely post to social media, other than my music sharing. This is really the first time I have put myself out there in this regard.

I do need to focus on a few (grounded and realistic) things at a time, as mentioned these topics are deep, singular topics in each of these fields take lifetimes of learning and espert experience, successes and failures. My primary focus (intruige) in regards to quantum theory has been based around the recent Nobel regarding Bell inequalities and the resulting experiments and the results. It has been something I have pondered for over a decade and have seen some co formations that I have an ability to at least ask some of the right questions with confirmational responses based on foundational and experimental research. Again realizing my own bias in truly knowing I understand these topics fully. My proposal, related to quantum physics/theory, has to do with our current perception of time, biological shortcomings in terms of synaptic delay, observation/experimentation and localization. Specifically around localization of time, i.e. Quantum clocks and superposition, perceived local time is only consciously calculated through and at the time of observation, again I'm being vague in scope, as the topic is very in depth and am limited in articulating my question fully in this format. Clocks in this regard may be extrapolated as interleaved non local waveform functions, hence my question regarding synaptic delay at the time of observation as well as measurement and how we measure, what experimental tools we utilize etc as well as relative field dynamics, elementary interaction, photon, phonon interaction, relevant things we have learned from CERN in regards to Higgs-Boson and the shortcomings of our understanding related to expected mass of particles resulting from those experements. I don't want this to get too tangential, just outlining where my current foci and interest lies in these fields. I am looking into Quiskit as a jumping off point regarding quantum computing.
Cell phones are ubiquitous now even in poor countries.
and despite all this crap, Germany somehow is still relevant in the world. Baffling.
Ask HN: What sort of company was Atari at the time Steve Jobs worked there?
a) It’s about execs, excluding CEOs

b) A relevant piece of information is the total number ("n=xxx" on the bars) which shows there are 6 times as many male execs as there are female ones.
I too found Zeihan earlier in the year on YouTube, and I just finished The End Of The World Is Just The Beginning. I agree that regardless of what you think of his work, it's well worth exposing yourself to.

For my own opinions:

- The demographic data and logic is really hard to argue with.

- The "this is what happens when systems collapse" scenarios also seem quite logical and well thought-out.

- The collapses themselves I'm more optimistic (pessimistic?) about though. In the same way that human incompetence is often blamed for progress not er... progressing fast enough, I also think the same will happen in reverse.

- I also don't think he offers enough weight to (generally non-American) economic systems as a way of stabilising an economic turnaround as population falls.

The bit that I'm struggling with though is how to actually use the information and ideas he expresses:

- If you knew that, in aggregate, the world will never again (in our lifetimes) experience the economic growth we've seen in the last 100 years, what would you do differently?

Personally I think the "in aggregate" part is extremely important. I suppose if you're able to, you have to find the industries/societies/etc that are growing (or stabilising, as we'll have to do), and become part of those.

That's likely to be a very difficult thing for a very large number of people to do though.

(And as you can probably tell, reading his work tends to leave you in an unusual mental place for a while. Which is one of the reasons I recommend it. But it does trigger a "think carefully here" reaction in my brain, similar to scams, weird internet forms and casinos. I just haven't figured out why yet.)
I don't know, but my feeling is that this might be a symptom of selection of a very specific group of people? Note that there are also around 10x more men included in these groups.
It reminds me of the quip (which I think was true at some point): there are fewer women among the CEOs of DAX companies than there are men named Thomas.
Germany's Fuggerei is oldest social housing project
Well, move somewhere where you don't have to pay taxes, but please don't complain about the downsides then.
Wikipedia marks the popular use "invites the question" as vernacular.

This seems wrong: The Oxford dictionary lists a) the original meaning and b) "invites the question", and b) is not marked as vernacular.
And a gratitious 8 of them!
Have rich parents. Add ready as that.
There's a difference between getting fired and laid off
> Zeihan thinks withdrawing permission to use that property will make the Chinese industry flail and die. More likely they'll just steal it.

Bleeding edge chips are a giant international effort requiring tech from Europe, US, Taiwan and Japan. China has been cut out from that market and simply stealing and starting up all of it domestically is just not realistic. It is a decades long task needing hundreds of billions.

> Personally I doubt anyone will decide it's worth the international scorn to actually do that even if the lack of the US navy makes it physically possible.

Failed states don't have the ability to control their population and they can turn to piracy like Sudan.
How accurate is that reporting? Honestly, it sounds more like the ability of statisticians to access accurate data than such a drastic shift in culture.
> The end effect of those Bizantine regulations is that big companies just use them as loopholes while small businesses get weighted down with them.

Yeah, this is exactly the issue.

I work in Finance and the right to be forgotten / right to deletion is a pain, as it doesn't apply to invoices (needed for financial reporting for 10 years), but can apply to the user ID, etc. which makes it tricky. It's doable in a big company though, even if it's a headache.

But for example, I live in a housing co-operative, and there the laws really become a pain. Like we wanted to use the CCTV to better enforce treatment of communal areas, but you can't without a police report, etc., and we wanted to build a better portal for residents but then there are lots of issues with the GDPR, etc. - like all just little hurdles that get in the way of iteration and innovation. Especially for something like that which is basically part-time among residents.
I am not sure there is a clear distinction between the two for fractional reserve banking ?

The bank can have done nothing "wrong", yet if the situation is bad enough : bank run + entities it has been lending to going bankrupt + entities that could bail it out going bankrupt too ; then the bank IS going bankrupt, and taking most of the opposite fraction of the money it claimed to "hold" with it...
Made fairly famous by Van Halen, who used it as both an album name and the name for his signature guitar amplifier (still in production, and very, very popular to this day).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5150_(album)

https://www.evhgear.com/gear/amplifiers
Agreed, I think browsers should have a popup about the method you used to last sign in

Did you use Oauth that time? Which Oauth service?

Did you use an email? Were you on your phone and actually used the Apple Id “Oauth” looking button and gave a relay email?

Were you lazy and used your phone browser’s autofill and password manager?

Were you NOT lazy and an unhidden email and separate third party password manager?
Theoretically it is; practically corporations are implicitly immoral - they’re not human, they have no feelings, it’s only left to whatever (HR in this case) procedures are in place to ensure a positive outcome.

Such procedures tend to fail when you move fast and break things.
Exactly my thought - I scored 5/6 choosing very quickly the one which seemed more imperfect at a glance, but I'm no Reddit-expert photoshop-identifier or whatever. They all looked real, I'd have assumed any of them were without the 'one of these is fake' context.
It was alreasy tried in Quebec, 20+ years ago, and failed.

Massive tax rebates(not credits against tax owed, but rebates for each child).

The true issue is, likely due to something environmental, humans are not driven to reproduce. You may say, "More people aee choosing not to...". Wrong.

Reproduction is a greater drive than eating. It is more important than anything, biologically. And as an example, many cancer patients literally waste away.

They know they should eat. They know that 1/2 their problem is lack of healthy food, it makes them weak, keeps them bedridden, but they cannot even force themselves to eat.

Reproduction not sex, reproduction is a core, base drive beyond our control.

And no, sex isn't reproduction. Biology is smarter than that.

My point is, birthrates are not falling due to cost, or any other assumptions, because governments have tried to eliminate that, and it makes no difference.

And it is not cultural, for whether Canada, the EU, Russia, or Japan, anywhere which adopts a modern lifestyle, birth rate plummet.

Japan 20 years ago had a plummeting birthrate, yet their culture is quite different than the rest, and 20 years ago, a lot less forgiving to female rights.

Whether climate, geography, war or peace, culture, language, religion, schooling, support by the state, cost of raising children, birth control or not, birth rates are plummeting world wide.

And it is because something is blocking
.. something, which causes reproductive drive.

If you look at die offs of species on graphs, it typically slowly decreases, then takes a crazy plummet.

If this is accurate for humans, by 2100 we will have 2b, by 2150 500M, by 2200 100M, and this presumes no massive war, plague, etc.
By having physical access to the terminal? What would be the use case for that?
> Apart from mass extinctions, habitat destruction and alteration, spiraling environmental chemical accumulation, and depletion of economical reserves of many minerals and petrochemicals, and greenhouse gas pollution?

And the roads.
They've been trying to steal it and produce it themselves for years. Are they somehow going to get better at it now?

Nobody cares about international scorn unless you target someone who matters or that someone who matters cares about. During the pandemic planes were legally and openly highjacked and their contents stolen because the country needed it for their population and nobody batted an eye and there was no international scorn. And I'm not talking about Somalia, I'm talking about first world countries.
In my experience, this quirks don't appear in real life (at least unless you do bunch of trait metaprogramming). One exception is async code, since it stretches the type system you are far more likely to enter some obfuscated lifetime or trait error.

That being said, I was quite surprised this doesn't compile... (I understand why, but I expected the compiler to have all required information to perform reborrowing).
"Fixed, variable, and total board member compensation of DAX/MDAX/SDAX companies by gender (2013 to 2021) [GER]" would be my title suggestion
I've watched quite a bit of Zeihan. He's interesting for sure, but some of his conclusions are really barmy, especially about the motivations of governments. The reason he thinks Russia does things is nonsense. Putin might hero worship Peter the Great but that doesn't mean the Russians think that way in general now about defense (and he always talks of them in that homogeneous way, "the Russians").

Obviously he is correct where the data shows a direction, although I've seen videos where he's talking about a graph and the numbers on it clearly don't align with his narrative.

Where I believe he really falls down is that changes cause changes and people don't just do nothing and carry on. In particular when talking economic and social collapse, economies, people and governments will drastically alter things to prevent collapse. And there is a huge amount of momentum in our systems.
South African Grade 12 Math exam included an unsolvable problem
People in Africa and India keep having many kids in atrocious conditions. "Inadequate childcare" and "costly" are not even on the cards when they marry and get on with making kids.

The West used to be like that too, but then something changed and living on in your kids took the back seat to premium consumption.
> So you're saying for a small UG you should always spare 1-2 years (most likely more than 1) in case you decide not to pursue the business anymore? I'd rather spend 2-5k on other things.

I am telling you that if a company runs out of funds to sustain its operations, it's bankrupt. In Germany it is called Insolvenz. You can feel as emotional about it as you want, but that's what it is called. Yes, you absolutely need to take this into consideration, if you want to shut down a company gracefully. You need to have that financial resource available. You can, of course, finance your company by capitalizing it with extra funds and that's really simple - you put the money in the bank account of the company and write a document as a director stating what has happened.

In any country in the world, when a company does not have money to pay its obligations, it's bankrupt.
It would take some highly drastic changes to the entire social system to make a serious dent. Modern life is simply an anathema to having lots of children. The cost in time and money to the parents is too high.
how about a home/neighbourhood analogy then?
What is new is that as of the last couple of years India too reached replacement, and so only sub-Saharan Africa is now above replacement, and that is also dropping.

And so now a lot of these changes are becoming imminent. E.g. we will see within 1-2 decades how China responds to either having to take massive steps to boost fertility rates or allowing more immigration if they want to prevent population decline which would put their economic growth in severe jeopardy. India will face the same a few decades later.

The west is facing it now, and how anti-immigration settlement vs. need for labour will affect politics is going to be an even bigger question going forward than it has been.
Sometimes I am really in awe how pseudo managers like Luke Simon even do their job. So you will kick developer out. You have no decency to check what the guy is doing. Then you find out guy is actually doing important job, so you rehire him. What a surprise that such developer is demoralized and does not really want to do anything and is even hostile towards his employer who fired him.

Mr. Simon, what did you expect? That such developer will be full of joy, that merciful Elon took him back?
True, but in my state (BW), the 2021 birth rate was the highest in 50 years, and it has been higher than expected since 2016. Even if you have only 10,000 more newborns in year than expected, and assuming that 95% of these children are going to attend kindergarten at age 3 (as they currently are), you need a thousand more additional kindergarten teachers (assuming a teacher/children ratio of 1/10). This would've been a massive problem even without immigration.
Software is good at making faces now, but concentrating on the the periphery (background, ears, earrings) is still easy to spot a fake. Also computers don’t know how hands look, at all.
That's the problem with just reading data reports at scale.

Hiring 30k people so recently then firing almost half of them the next year, even filtering a tiny quarter of a percent is going to create outliers who get affected with serious life changing events.
I mean, setting aside the emotional aspect of the issue for a moment and just being analytical, can't we also acknowledge that there is a type of observation bias here?

When you're talking about thousands of people getting hired a year, and a sudden event having to be done that affects 11,000 employees, you're bound to get a couple of very unusual and unfortunate cases.

If we looked at different windows of time, we would get even more people who fall into sympathetic categories. How many people were just laid off after just 2 weeks of being on the job / moving countries? How about a month ago? 2 months?

I wonder why the news story didn't look at an even larger window? But I guess they just are interested in (or heard about) the sensational case that draws your attention, huh? Or isn't the real story, "where's the person who got off his flight that morning and received an email that he was laid off?"

When you deal with human processes, and have to draw a line somewhere, certain cases will pop up as falling into very odd or unfortunate cracks. Hopefully the compensation and severance is designed to make up for these cases.
> why aren't governments providing rebates so people start putting solar panels everywhere?

They do, in lots of countries, for at least 10-20 years
We're at closer to 8 billion not 7, but not likely to grow to more than 10, maybe 11, before peaking and facing actual population drops, given current population projections.
Why is this flagged @ HN? The title could use some cleanup, should be "board members", not CEO
They absolutely can if they operate like banks with a fractional reserve. All of them do, they cannot resist the temptation to "efficiently allocate" the huge amount of money they are sitting on.
>...Though it appears that you don't think any such stories should exist?

Where did you get that idea from?
Responsible companies will make these situations right even where the law doesn't specifically require it. Hope that's what will happen.
Woman make up ~14% of board members in Dax companies.

However, somehow, the phrasing of this thread implies it’s the men that are disadvantaged. Curious what the intentions of op is.

https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/frauenanteil-dax-konzer...
I think koonsolo has a point, namely that you may start a business thinking “yeah my terms”, but pretty soon the business will determine the terms - and the times.