skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello from Eastern Europe. We must possess passport/id card if at least 15 yrs old whether travelling or not. So staying at some EU country without passport I suspect is illegal, let alone who brings such people to work? Shady.

But people who officially work abroad... yeah, not the best conditions for many. As usual, people think grass is greener on the other side of the fence.
Digital Waste Explained
Yeah maybe I'm either too old school or doing it wrong, but most of the people I know have not made a personal holding company. And not knowing that a GmbH needs a certain amount of capital is just... I dunno, did the author want to start a company and not even read the English Wikipedia article? But I have to admit all those GmbHs were founded before UG was a thing, so maybe my examples are bad.

The rest sounds accurate and I'm not happy, so I'm not defending anything here. But maybe read up for an hour before you go complaining.
So, basically a Perverse Incentive [0] - a systemic problem.

But the firings are externally visible as well - and it's also externally visible whether the firings occurred with or without a hiring freeze in place beforehand. And whether the number of people fired is larger - or smaller is visible as well (and after a hiring freeze and counter-measures it's always gonna be somewhat smaller).

And one of those two options signals greater unpredictability and volatility then the other - which to investors means higher risk, right?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
Dan O'Dowd is the rich tech CEO spending millions to stop Elon Musk
I'm happy to have helped you take the first step on a journey of a billion miles.
I think I speak for the whole HN community in that it's not the code or the visual design; it's instead can we find the value of the community and re-tell and value those community values that makes startup people successful.

Meta firing people is not the problem in of itself, but the methods used to do it is somewhat destroying the impression that they value what they have hoisted up to everyone; namely the degree of connectiveness and that community of connectiveness.

A better way would be for Mark Z to sell some of his stock holdings and offer dis-engagement bonuses for people to leave.

This is also highlights the incentives bias you have to avoid, in this case the ads-revenue incentive bias.
It told me that the following is the real face:

https://www.whichfaceisreal.com/realimages/02794.jpeg
"don't understand. That's unfortunately how it is, sadly enough.
Should they have fired another person instead just because of location"

I see this as their fuckup, the job for a new hire should exist for at least 6 months, and if that means they cant fire and one and have to eat the loss, thats their problem.

Decisions have consequences, except for conpanies it seems.
Credit cards are collateral free. In contrast, when people get medical bills they also owe debt, but the hospital didn't create any money.
This sci-fi story is not as fun as you think.
pg's absolute faves don't seem to be the best. It's the tier below that where the good leads are
We invented regulated employment and worker protections for good reasons.
Margin trading is safe for the exchange if it works as usually described in the terms: they just act as a bookmaker reallocating customer funds according to which side wins each peer to peer bet. There's usually rules that describe what happens in gaps, closing the winning side with a win that never exceeds what the losing side put down when opening the bet.

If they steal customer funds, then all is off, but same when there is no margin trading involved.
Well, I'm not sure you can put "responsible company" and "facebook/meta" in the same sentence.
That's right. Women have been earning more for some time, but as this document shows, the gap is getting smaller.
The solution is right there in OPs post: “give them three months on the books to find somewhere else that don't count against their visa. It will give them a chance to get settled and go on interviews.”

Thats it. HR knows who is working on visa. Inform them of the situation, give them 3 months, take away all their accesses and let them spend the 3 months to look for a new job. Meta makes a bazillion USD pr year. Even if they had to pay 1000 workers on visa for 3 months it wont make a dent in their profits.

For the employee that just relocated, on the other hand, this makes all the difference in the world.

Corporate greed is disgusting when its put above Human decency like this.
It was the CAN-SPAM act from 2003 that mandated unsubscribe links.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN-SPAM_Act_of_2003
I missed that it was Canada (title cut off, and yes I didn't read the article), not least because I didn't expect Canada would be as awful as the US in this respect.
>What precisely is happening in Germany?

German industries in low margin businesses (meat, agriculture, harvesting, construction work, hospitality, etc.) are dependent on exploiting low wage migrant labor, mostly form Eastern Europe (why do you think food prices are so low in Germany, and why do you think the country has the most liberal open borders migration policy in Europe?).

The German government and state institutions turn a blind eye to migrant exploitation, because otherwise supermarket prices would explode and some German exports would no longer be competitive on price. For example, when you see super cheap bananas or whatever food in the supermarkets, that have to be grown, harvested and shipped and wages paid along the supply chain, how do you think such low prices are possible? Easy, people and the environment are usually exploited along the way, as supermarket chains know consumers are very price sensitive so the entire industry price-competes themselves downward into oblivion thriving on exploitation. To be clear, this isn't an isolated issue to Germany alone, but applies to many wealthy countries.

>Please provide sources for your claims, otherwise it's hard to take them serious.

As this exploitation has been happening for a while, there are countless stories and articles about this in German media, especially DW and other NGOs. They're so well documented, they're impossible to miss, so I'm a bit surprised by your skepticism, but here you go:

Romanian workers reveal dire conditions at slaughterhouses [1]

A story about
seasonal workers,
exploitation
and vulnerability [2]

Precarious Posted Migration:
The Case of Romanian Construction
and Meat-Industry Workers in Germany [3]

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/germany-meat-industry-conditions/a-540...

[2] https://www.suedwind.at/fileadmin/user_upload/suedwind/50_Ha...

[3] http://www.ceemr.uw.edu.pl/sites/default/files/Voivozeanu_Pr...
Fwiw, I thought it was clear, with an emphasis on resources.
It can take 3+ months from offering a contract to a foreigner before they start, depending how quickly visas can be processed, where the person and their family live, and notice periods.
> I do agree, but I guess I'm not sure what the solution is here?

The solution is obvious: Stop clinging to this backward butts-in-seats culture that has people move to a new location even if the job they're going to do can easily be done from anywhere in the world.
Germany's highest form of comedy is political cabaret, i.e. someone quotes a politician verbatim and the audience, briefly, imagines they were actually serious. It's the only form of entertainment that keeps getting funnier every year.
They probably hired him because no one else suitable was available locally? Companies usually prefer local employees if at all possible.
I think the story is that the difference in compensation is getting lower.
Elon hate is strong on this site
All the images with people in background have real faces so far
> It should be but I don't know a country where that is

Singapore for certain low paid jobs.
Interesting little-known fact:

"The BBC that began broadcasting at 6pm on 14 November 1922 was not the British Broadcasting Corporation of today. It was in fact the British Broadcasting Company and was made up of separate stations around the country operated by different companies."
Note I said fewer who seek VC funding, not that there aren't plenty.
Thread of freaky ancient European folk customs
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If I remember my high school biology correctly, algae is the old kale.
I'd bet the majority of phone interactions are Internet based, though- not people wishing to text/talk but notifications from apps telling you about the latest inconsequential thing to promote interaction with them.
>put a solid deposit down on undeveloped land on the outskirts of an are that will grow over the next decade

This is not without substantial risk. Land that is developable in a certain way today may not be be tomorrow. If the area is in fact getting wealthier you're basically racing to develop faster than it gentrifies. You have to thread the needle of buying when cheap and developing before "the wrong kind of people" show up and make that impossible except at the highest end (unaffordable to the private individual) in order to make bank selling to said demographics.
I addressed your claim, not theirs.
Since you're citing tagesschau.de, I see that there is an article about the topic of this thread there as well: https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/frauen-vors...
Discord uses server even for groupings that aren't associated with physical or even cloud servers.
For me I didn't even look at the face. To me the obvious giveaway that made me spot all of them was, first of all the unnatural bokeh that you see in all AI images that don't look like anything a camera would produce. And the second thing is looking at clothing that folds in strange ways.
Still fraud though. Basically the banks convinced the coin makers to issue new money if they become insolvent. It would be the same as FTX being able to call the
money printers of each currency to get the needed funds to stay afloat. Amazing this is not considered a criminal enterprise.

The banks are just on a different level of grift when compared to crypto exchanges
The link goes to an error page https://share.streamlit.io/error
Plus, if during the certification of the translation it comes up that the document does not comply with the legal requirements, it may lead to a contract invalidation. It can be really expensive depending on the matter of the dispute.
If you grant some problems require policies at the state government level, which may have a wide range of geographic sizes and demographic compositions, how can you not grant there are problems that can only be addressed at a national level?

If you are worried about corruption and authoritarian tendencies, why do you tolerate them at the state level?

Please lay out your tradeoffs in a way that might make your position consistent.
I’m curious about how one would go about confirming this information. Did you learn this from a dump of the dish’s filesystem?

My email is in my profile if you want to share details privately.
"Well he would, wouldn't he?"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy_Rice-Davies#%22Well_he_w...
It's easy to grow exponentially when you're going from 3% to 6%.
Switching to BSL 1.1 for mold would be perfectly fine for me. Or the ones asking for macOS support should hire him, working on that.
Oops, I still have the original in my history and that is indeed what it said. My bad.
There's an idea called 'Queer Erasure' which is all about pretending that homosexuality didn't exist in the past.

I'm not saying that's happening here because I really have no idea what was happening with this photographer but it's an interesting thing to keep in mind.
But this thing, the mechanical part, doesnt do any computation. It just a matrix of sensors and actuators plugged into an off-the-shelf electronic computer.
I mean, that’s simply not true. At a most basic level, if you’re going to collaborate effectively as part of a team for a long period of time then you need to realistically be ± 3 time zones at most.
This very much depends on the person. When I moved abroad when I was 23 I did so with nothing more than the backpack I brought along. If they’d let me go two days later I would have bought a ticket home and returned to my previous job.

If I did the same thing now, I would have to sell my house, somehow ship all my posessions to the other country without inconveniencing my wife and child, etc. I’d have to be damn certain my job wouldn’t disappear a day after I arrive.

In other words, I could _never_ move to the US.
Simple solution: Only agree to relocate if your contract guarantees you employment for at least X months... Or a termination payment of Y dollars if employment lasts less than X months.

Anyone who moves across the world for an employer without getting a term like that in writing simply is naive - and we shouldn't offer them sympathy after the fact. It's like someone having their house flooded when they deliberately decided not to get flood insurance... Like, you knew the risk you were taking on...
If your company has a legal representation in the English speaking country, sure, go for it.
The state of NZ right now is such that the government can do whatever and their Mouth of Sauron of a PM will be out there sweetly providing justification for what they want to do in the name of fighting terrorists, COVID deniers, or whatever.

They don't have a constitution like the USA (which is a paltry check on government power, but it's something). Any scrutiny they apply is bound to be "we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong" levels of accountability.
> Do you keep them for 3 months just to be nice then proceed with the layoff anyway? I'm not sure that's much better...

Much better than days of notice.

The solutions seem pretty simple to me, contractually required notice periods. My last job I had either a two or three month notice period, I can't quite remember. For those coming over on visas, you could have an initial notice period that's longer.

> I think maybe the best thing to do here is just to give good severance packages?

Missing in this for the case of visas is about how long you're allowed to stay in the country without a job. A notice period should mean you're still employed, so that adds to any grace period around a visa.

> You'd inevitably just end up protecting certain types of crappy situations (recently located) over other types of crappy situations (family member just died).

Maybe, yeah. But protecting some people rather than none is an improvement, particularly when some cases are extremely easy to identify and may make a much larger proportion of people affected significantly.
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Hi everyone, I've built this doc for tracking the current issues with crypto exchanges + checking their proof of reserves.

Planning to add more exchanges there.

Let me know if you have any feature requests / bug reports.
> Christianity is an eastern religion.

The "west" here is purely metaphorical. East of what? West of what? Constantinople?
Yet China today is saying "Have three kids" and the Chinese people are by and large saying "Meh".
Doubtful on the permanent fuse front.

Seems acceptable from a warranty pov. Obviously if they refuse to replace your cracked screen because you've changed the firmware then it's unacceptable.
It feels like a bait and switch, which is unethical.
I'm looking forward to getting a box of these when my current supply of Blackwings (a gift, because I would not spend that much on a pencil) and Musgrave Tennessee Reds is exhausted. I've heard good things about the 9850s.
The male/female distribution doesn't surprise me - the pay distribution does.
You don't need child care when women aren't in the work force.
You have a point but don't throw the "baby out with the bathwater". The problem is that much of the ancient Yogic Pranayama techniques were discovered empirically but its explanation models do not quite match with our current Scientific Models (which is of course vastly more detailed and Complex). We do have the broad ideas covered and a lot of micro-details worked out but no one has as yet put everything together and explained it end-to-end using Modern Science. Hence all the charlatans/woo-woo peddlers having a field day with the gullible public. So it behooves us to study a little bit by ourselves to get at the facts/truth. With that in mind you might find the following useful;

- Movement of Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in the Body: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMeG75wqsRc

- Blood Gases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KudrLakBgeU

- Breath of Life: The Respiratory Vagal Stimulation Model of Contemplative Activity: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6189422/

- Benefits from one session of deep and slow breathing on Vagal tone and anxiety in young and older adults : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-98736-9

- A Physiological Handbook for Teachers of Yogasana by Mel Robin (the 2nd edition is called A Handbook for Yogasana Teachers, The Incorporation of Neuroscience, Physiology and Anatomy into the Practice): This is a huge book where the author (himself a researcher) has tried to explain the ancient practice in terms of Modern Science. The bibliography is quite large and lists a lot of Studies/Papers on the subject.

So my suggestion is not to dismiss wholesale "Sciences" which were discovered empirically and practiced over generations but try to practice it and explain it using Modern Science as much as possible. That is how "Real Science" advances.
Not so at all. The Judy Miller warmongering fiasco was directly attributable to Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (A.G. Sulzberger's dad), whose favorite she was for whatever reason.
That SR is NP-hard seems pretty trivial to me. Especially since the problem is framed to be combinatorial in nature; with a sufficiently weird family of functions, you'll be able to find an NP-hard class of subproblems.

The computationally difficulty of something like SR is also deeply connected to its applicability. If you have data where it's easy to apply SR and trust it, it tends to be easy; to trust your ability more you probably want to add regularization based on the complexity of the final formula, and probably you'd have strong priors on a small set of functions that are applicable. Once you don't have this, and get to where the problem can be plausibly NP-hard, you're going to overfit and the technique is worthless.

There's a family of ML theoretical questions that are just very low value as they make very little progress in helping to understand important problems. This is one of them.
It's a post dated cheque. Usually those are written because you explicitly don't have $10 today, but expect to in the future.

In other words, exactly like the bank. They don't have $10 today, but expect to be able to produce it on demand because of the staggered nature of withdrawals.
> don't rename your user, projects, organizations or transfer repositories.

for the transition period.
It’s like the Trump hate, irrational and all encompassing.
You put your data in the library to get your answer.
again, this is false, and it also cherry picking some crazy articles.

the worst money laundering countries are the likes of Uganda, Mozambique and friends. the UK is not even in the top half.

but biases need to be confirmed i guess.
If telephones were invented today, we'd hear griping about how looking people up from phone books was too confusing for non-technical users.
> I'm not sure what the solution is here?

> Maybe I'm missing something here.

Maybe look at how it's done in pretty much every other developed country in the world? Employees have notice periods and extra safety margins around visas.

(Of course not in USA)
First of all, he isn't "living" but on a timer against VISA expiration.

I also think that you are under-estimating the luxurious and easy lifestyle which one can enjoy while living in India. (and what he tried to give up for migrating)

I know some of the top talents who decided to never migrate, because of better helping hands, supporting community and families, easy cabs/transportation to easy payments. And it is just improving over time...
Did you read the title?
> Canadian work permits allow you to continue to reside in the country [...] majority of them are tied to an employer though.

I understand there must be some rationale behind this, but from an outside viewpoint it's quite bizarre. The incentives are exactly opposite of what one would expect (either move out or become productive member of the society as easily as possible).
Apparently Facebook (oh, wait, it is Meta now, how could I forget) cares about employees as human beings as little as it cares of its useds as human beings. Good to have these kind of things surface and brought to attention. Some counterweight against the rose-colored glasses, through which many people see Face...Meta.

Working for FB/Meta is a questionable choice in itself, though.
Easy. Here are the steps to follow:

1. Don't speak any language other than your own, especially not the one spoken in the country you are planning to work in.

2. Get your work and accommodation organized by the same company or person, trust him when he says that you need to pay X amount upfront for the accommodation, but you will get it back eventually.

3. Give your passport to the organizing company or person, so you won't accidentally lose it (if you have a passport at all - moving within the EU does not require one).

4. Do not request a contract, or sign it without understanding what is in it (because it is not in a language you understand).

5. Be in such a desperate financial situation that you cannot just travel anytime you want, let alone find another accommodation.

6. Even if the circumstances are troubling (living in a small apartment with 10 other people, working and not being paid after a month etc), do not go to the police, partly because you don't speak the language, partly because you don't know what rights you have, partly because they can kick you out of your job and accommodation if you complain.

7. For younger girls the steps are a bit different, and much more evil. Let's not get into that.

In a way, the EU being a single job market makes these kinds of things even easier - no real control of who enters a country, who lives where etc. In theory, you must register your change of address, social security etc. In practice, the system is easy to exploit.
It probably would have been cheaper and less effort to make sure the hiring freeze actually properly works as intended - rather than interviewing, hiring, relocating and firing someone (including relocation and severance packages) for just two days of work.
More Americans died from covid than the aggregate total of combat deaths in all of that country’s wars (according to Wikipedia). More than the total deaths in ww 1 and ww 2 by roughly 2x, and damn near the aggregate deaths (1m vs 1.3m). And half the country doesn’t believe covid existed.

Do you think anybody cares re car deaths?
I don’t know. It’s pretty difficult to compare when the median citizen’s circumstances have also changed so much.

But in the context of reality’s absurdity reaching escape velocity from parody, it seems fitting that the rich barely pay taxes anymore and are seeking immortality cures like Thiel does. Death and taxes are the postmodern libertarian’s greatest enemies.
Very sad indeed.

Just a few days ago, I was thinking about what relocating could mean for me and my family and it frightened me to think about being a stranger in a strange land without a job.

Wishing them best of luck.