skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Legal? Yes. Justifiable? No doubt. Morally? It's grey.

Sustainable? I doubt it. Rescinding signed offers before people start is a very bad practice. If that's the trend, and they ever ask me to work for Meta, I'll want a clause like "we won't lay you off before 6 months". I'm totally ok if I don't pass probation, or if some shit happens when I'm there, but not even starting (so I cannot put "Meta" on my resume and I don't get severance) is just as if the offer was never signed.
Thing is, that is common for all "true" Asian cultures. Maybe, for all non-Abrahamic cultures even. Before demographic transition, people of all countries multiplied because they had no way around it (no contraception) and because they had to (kids used as working hands from early age and funded their parents in the old age). When demographic transition happened, in Abrahamic cultures, people still sort-of continued to multiply because it was the God's will to multiply and procreate, and fill the Earth, they saw it as sort of a sin to avoid that duty.

To Chinese or Japanese, God said nothing, so they simply stopped having kids once they could stop and once they had nothing pressing them to.

Only difference in our (Western) perception of China and Japan in this sense is that we see this process in China positively and Japan, negatively... That's of course cynical but true.
Exactly the reason why I said all pro-WFH people should actually be anti-WFH. I’ve traveled around the world. There are many smart and hungry people willing to work at night for your American salary.

The number one thing protecting your job is the office.
Any determined nation could take that.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if someone hasn't already taken it, and left a dummy weapon in its place.

Sure, deep sea exploration by humans is hard... But using unmanned craft, they're mostly impervious to pressure.
> The number and location of nuclear weapons is tightly held secret

Location yeah, number no, due to treaties around proliferation and also hard to keep that secret with espionage and all.

> It is also unnecessary since US, and Russia and China, have hundreds of ICBMs and SLBMs

Delivery is the hardest part. Pre-staging is a huge advantage for first-strike to take out enemy leadership/infra and launch missiles so when they are launching their retaliation you are already one step ahead with your second wave. For retaliation, when someone launches nukes it is likely they have good defenses against your retaliation but probably not against your trojan nuke. That element of surprise is a huge advantage.

> The one place could see hidden nukes is shipping containers. Not ship them around the world

They do scan containers randomly, I assume this includes radiation and chemical traces.
Mute, don't block, and ideally with a timeout (e.g. mute for 3 months). Go on a vacation. Learn from this but move on.
SVB said it was too small to need regulation. Now it’s ‘too big to fail’
Ask HN: When hiring, which verifiable secondary/soft skills are a plus to you?
There is no shortage of discussions on direct tech and scientific skills every person working in a tech job should have. There is also no shortage of discussions on the kind of soft skills which are hard to verify or quantify (teamwork, personality, independence etc.).

What about non-essential skills (for the position) that are a bit more verifiable? To give you one example: Would CEFR[1] language certificates (let's say equal to or above C1 level) in multiple languages be something you look upon favourably?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages
I still don't understand what "shady connection with asia" means. Asia is a continent of 4.7 billion people and 55 countries.
This means that management needs to be good enough to realize that it's a good idea to include young talent, give them opportunity, and respect their different perspectives. This means better stories, and also means that the management holds those beliefs as principles, and are willing to take risks "for the sake of it."

But that seems counter to the idea of a management pastiche drooling over the cost-cutting potential of AI.
Crypto rallies: Bitcoin posts best week since January 2021
That’s a fairly uncharitable way of phrasing it. You can live a perfectly reasonable life in Japan as a permanent resident, even one of english heritage, without too much trouble from discrimination. I may not live there full time but over the years I've lived there part of the year I’ve made friends and advanced my career all the same as my native Japanese coworkers and associates.

Yes, there is some juvenile behaviour from people who are prejudiced against foreigners and even mixed descent residents, but that happens in many countries including my native Australia. As with those places, the vast majority of people are perfectly agreeable and will cause you no grief.

Culturally, as long as you aren’t going out of your way to be particularly individualistic, you can participate pretty much the same as everywhere else. Of course, like many older workplaces elsewhere, you’ll have a harder time if you want to be unique and stand out.
I play chess and like it, even though the computer in my pocket can win every human player.
Do you have problems with the smell and poop? We have a medium sized backyard, and I would like to get chickens by my wife isn't sure about the smell and poop ending up everywhere (we have a 3yo). Are there other birds that are better than chickens in this regard?
Why take all the fun out of it?
Because kids (and in general humans) are not robots and need love of their parents ? Instead of exploiting immigrants for their wombs, let them in like any other non robotic thinking society does.
Been a fan of CapRover for its ability to create a self-hosted private registry (HTTPS) at the click of a button, besides swarm/cluster support, and multiple deployment methods.

https://caprover.com
Presumably the owl ate them. Owls swallow their prey whole, so the skeleton comes out intact. Dissecting "owl pellets" as they are called, and trying to piece together the skeleton within is a popular educational youth activity.
In your scenario, what will happen is that there will never be a need to contract out whatever the customer is trying to do.
They have only themselves to blame for many of the issues with REAL-ID. The mandatory requirements are onerous and worse, they were repeatedly changed and miscommunicated with state programs. CA ended cancelling millions of previously issued ids a few years back. Thankfully mine wasn't one of them because I've never been able to sufficiently prove where I reside with any combination of passports, voter registration cards, and online utility bills to the satisfaction of random DMV employees.
I toured a few of the major distilleries in Kentucky last year, and most of them specifically mentioned that water is added after removal from the barrel, even for the less aged ones (of course this is skipped for some of the rarer products, e.g. E.H. Taylor barrel proof or Elijah Craig barrel proof). This is to meet certain product consistency requirements across their brands. I asked if it was the special “limestone water” originally used in distillation, and I believe it was Buffalo Trace that said no, it’s just regular water purified via reverse osmosis.
> It's more expensive to not make it accessible.

Exactly. More people are making more money which is way more important than providing healthcare to those with not-enough-money. Not saying that it should be like this, but it is.
I've found it's rarely faster, but usually not too much slower. You do get to let your shit hang out for awhile on the other side though, and I never like leaving expensive laptops and cellphones and wallets just lying there indefinitely.

Also greater chance you get a false positive on the swab and that will blow your schedule as they tear apart all your luggage looking for a bomb or gun that doesn't exist. That easily chews half an hour if you're lucky.
I'd prefer it if Japan had open borders. But absent this ideal scenario, that doesn't mean that "human ovens" is bad in an absolute sense. Poor people would get lots of money that they otherwise couldn't get. That is not a bad thing. It is a good thing. You only think it's bad because you subjectively dislike the aesthetics of it and you decide on the behalf of poor people that being lifted out of poverty isn't sufficiently good to outweigh your aesthetic dislike of the reason they were lifted out of poverty.
For mathematics:

1. Spivak's Calculus

2. Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach by Hubbard and Hubbard
Employees and board members don't have the same interests in a BigCo. Sure, board members will judge Zuckerberg on whether he's getting Meta to make progress on the goals he's set in agreement with the board, which should fulfill the board's goals of increasing shareholder value.

But that's not the employee's interest. The employee is interested in whether their employment status is stable, whether their work is engaging / interesting, and whether their employer offers opportunities for advancement, in roughly that order of priority. Employers that focus on that order of priorities typically have no such problems with employee trust.

Zuckerberg might as well have said that he doesn't really care if he has employee trust anymore, because he doesn't foresee , in the short term, Meta employees willingly leaving their jobs in droves in a bad economy, trust or no trust. But smart Meta employees will keep their ears to the ground and their options open. People remember for far longer than economic boom/bust cycles.
Yeah, it's out of control. That and shrinkflation, planned obsolescence, and 'shitification'. The TV costs $100 but the cable/internet is more expensive than ever. The phone is cheap but apps and data so expensive. Insurance so expensive too. Food so expensive: $10 for lunch when used to be $5. It's just feels out of control at times.
75% by weight sounds like a lot of tungsten...

But it is only 15% by volume... So to the casual observer, this material is mostly plastic.
The math & definitions of solvency & liquidity don't change with scale. They are separate things even if the mechanics of how they influence each other put them in such close proximity to each other that some people confuse the two.

My small scale example illustrated the concept, my large-scale citation of bankruptcy courts show a bit of how it plays out in real life & validates the analogy.
How unhinged is it to call the lack of exponential population growth a crisis?

That is not what is being called a crisis.

Fertility rate being *far* below replacement (1.3 vs 2.1) is being called a crisis.

If the population falls to quickly the ratio of young to old gets unbalanced and there are not enough people young enough to do the work needed to support the population too old to work. All the products and services like food and healthcare that the old consume still need to be physically produced regardless of nominal price, so simply saying "save more money for retirement" is not a solution.
My view is that even if AI can program really well, it can't architect full solutions, you still need to tell it specifics and test/debug its output (at least for now). It's like if you're a farmer and you got tractors, you don't need to till and harvest anymore but you still gotta drive it and press buttons and even if tractors drove themselves and pressed their own buttons you gotta supervise them and maintain them.

I think people being less eager to be programmers will only help with increasing wages lol
What you’re describing is http://chat.petals.ml/
You only need to gain immigrants to do work that natives won't. You don't need those immigrants to breed, no more than you need the natives to keep breeding.

As more and more jobs become obsolete, a country will be able to run just fine on fewer people, so long as there are enough people to do the work that can't be automated.
The density is only 4 g/cm³.

You'd likely do better just machining it out of steel (5g/cm³, and much cheaper)
Ask HN: How many of those philosophical chaims got debunked by GPT4
For example:

1. Thinking is not computiation.

2. Machine will never understand grammars or natural language.

3. AI cannot make or explain a joke.

4. AI can never be creative.

5. AI can never write a poem.

6. Human's life experience is the key factor be intellegent, and machine cannot have it.

7. Human do not need training to be intelligent, but machine do. So machine is not as smart as human.

8. Human's cognitive ability is not a cumulative work of pattern maching and learning from everyday life.

People used to write serveral thousand of words to explain human magic. How many/much of these chaims still hold?
There's a great book called Brave New World that explores something like that.
You are right there is a field of optimization dedicated to solving this problem to guaranteed optimality.

However, Multi dimensional bin packing problems are the some of the hardest non linear optimization problems.
I'm the author of the post. I didn't feel any need to add a disclaimer, because if my book faded to insignificance tomorrow I'd still argue the same points.

It's really clear how useful these tools are to many experienced programmers, but I have no idea what impact they'll have on people who are new to programming. Most of the write-ups I've seen so far have been from people who already know how to code. I think it will be some time yet before we really see how effectively people who know nothing about programming are able to use these tools for learning.
They got rich before their population started declining. I guess demographics is china’s biggest challenge in making it from a middle income economy to a high income one. However, if they follow Japan’s lead, they will invest in higher productivity via automation.
https://archive.is/2023.03.18-053710/https://www.washingtonp...
My view is that even if AI can program really well, it can't architect full solutions, you still need to tell it specifics and test/debug its output (at least for now). It's like if you're a farmer and you got tractors, you don't need to till and harvest anymore but you still gotta drive it and press buttons and even if tractors drove themselves and pressed their own buttons you gotta supervise them and maintain them.

I think people being less eager to be programmers will only help with increasing wages lol

But does this mean no more stackoverflow? Not cool.
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Ah, that explains why its radiation blocking is so much worse tham pure tungsten!
> With Java there's always another, untried GC twiddle to fix everything

That hasn’t been true since.. forever. If you have GC problems with Java, you are doing something stupid in 99% of the cases that can be easily fixed by any kind of profiler. That’s not true for most other GCd languages.
Smaller town cafes have worked for me to chat with people. People who work there especially want to chat to practice their English. But, you have to leave the large tourist cities. It also helps to go to the same place a few times, then people get curious about you.

Bars also work, because after a couple of pints everyone gets a bit chatty.
We're at a point in time where almost any novel technology is just going to take jobs away, increase wealth inequality, and down the line make the world a worse place. It's difficult to be happy about a new powerful tool finding its way into the hands of tech giants.
Unions exist in Turkey, as a separate type of entity. In fact, Turkish unions even participate in the national minimum wage and public service pay coefficient negotiations.
If FB/Meta was really hurting due to those "overall economic pressures" then sure, tough times, tough choices. But what is that "fiduciary responsibility to shareholders" when the company is enormously profitable and Zuckerberg himself owns a majority of the voting shares and $50b+ of the equity?

Companies will claw back your signing bonus if you quit within the first year. It seems eminently reasonable to me that a profitable company should be legally liable to pay you at least your signing bonus, if not full severance or even your first year's salary, if they pull your offer right before the start date. That $x00k doesn't matter one whit to $META but it will very likely be a source of existential crisis for the family who planned their lives around it.
Hey, thanks for reading my post, I'm glad you liked it! I would say the purpose of alphabet chess is to be unequal, but in a semi-predictable way. That's why streamers will use the "egg opening": it puts them at a disadvantage and brings everyone out of "book".

> positions where the engine may consider the position to be almost equal, but it could be objectively worse for one of the players

That is a good point, centipawns aren't the best metric for the subjective experience of playing. Engines are really good at defending, finding the "only move" defense where a human will struggle. And the mental work of finding "only moves" is pretty taxing. If you put someone under that kind of pressure for long enough, they will break.

The analysis is also flawed because it doesn't take into account the fact that the opponent is also playing a word. If I know that my opponent must play a "G" move on his next turn, I should play a move to take advantage of that fact. Stockfish's game tree is not eliminating impossible moves and will tend to overrate the opponent's position.

(As a concrete example, suppose I can make a move M1 where the opponent's only move to not lose immediately is an F move, but if the opponent plays it they are at an advantage. In this situation the opponent must play a G move, a fact which a human might be able to guess. Stockfish will not play M1, but instead play a different move M2 that at least maintains equality. So the stockfish evaluation is pretty flawed.)
I feel like you didn't actually read my comment, because you're not addressing what I said.

Both "2 + 2 = 4" and "2 + 2 = 5" are correct statements following the words "I don't think you understand [token]". There are no errors to fix.
I went searching regarding your claim about how productive various types of oil are per acre.

It’s actually insane, and palm oil is at least 400% better than the next best.

Edit: coconut oil production is variable depending on where you check. It might be half as good as palm oil.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-yield-by-crop

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-plant-oil-yield-...

https://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html
Trust after saying this wasn't going to happen again is one thing. The other is that didn't have a few months of foresight. This isn't 2008. Conditions aren't significantly worse than in November, and certainly not in a way that was unforeseeable. This time is also showing how rushed the first round was. No one thought about what work is needed. They just cut people who has a sub-par review 10 months before.

Trusting that he's being honest is half of it. Trusting that he sees a direction for the company and how that fits in the macro environment is the other.
Genode's Browser Odyssey (2022)
Has AI produced any novel technology yet that it wasn’t trained to do?
> board members will judge Zuckerberg

Not that it matters when he controls most of the voting shares.
Don't let this troll fool you. Tin-foil hats only work when they're made of tin; not tungsten, not aluminium or aluminum, only tin.
I agree with all that. But I still think if they move the free passenger bar from 2y to 0y it will be an undetectable change in the number of flights booked
Again, having the founder and CEO use the product every day goes a long way
Some people want constructive interactions, some want lulz and flame wars. Many people want both at different stages in their lives, or even simultaneously on different forums. Just remember you are free not to read and free not to reply. Wish there were AI personal moderators to selectively ignore stuff.
These are the people who watch "the wolf of wall street" and take it as inspirational and motivation.
Great post. Pg replication is a hard topic with lots of edge cases and I would say its still far from end user usability. We recently introduced PG cdc (via logical replication) to any destination https://www.cloudquery.io/blog/postgres-cdc-to-any-destinati...
The scraped soil was only a fraction of what was contaminated. As of 2023 Spain is still in negotiations with the US about removal of contaminated soil.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/06/spain-renews-c...
just found seti files from around 2002 on my workstation.. feels.
If you could manufacture Tungsten powder with spherical particles (rather than sharp pointed particles), I bet they could have far more tungsten in there and still have it 3d print effectively. Perhaps up to 50% by volume (95% by weight)
Depending on what type of trees you may be able to leverage the natural forest system to do the planting.

Eg: I have wild Hazelnut or Filbert trees on my forested property, for the first couple years I struggled with transplants dying and then realized the squirrels were planting them too! Now I just keep the coyotes away(also to protect my chickens) and the squirrels plant the Hazels.

I also clear dead fall and gently rake areas where I want to encourage new trees.

I have found that a tree that starts naturally or from seed tends to do better than transplants, atleast in my area.
You don’t always need to have a point for your artistic activities or your hobbies. For example , people still use oil paint while photography exists, people learn piano when a computer does it better.

But professionally, we may have to find new activities.
Why should Google pay maternity leave for laid off workers? They are no longer employees once they're laid off. At the very most they deserve a severence.
Right in the most literal interpretation of the term, there is alignment. In other news, I can’t believe the yearbook committee wanted to take mugshots of my kid!

As you can see, there is what something colloquially means, and what something literally means. But I know you know that
Good to hear some encouraging words.

> hard work to keep the seedlings alive for long enough to establish and grow.

Yes its hard work & time taking to nurture them. I am from India, we have government funded nurseries here, they are affordable, but they do not provide very good plants. Growing seeds to 2-3 feet plant (which are ready to be planted to the land) takes between 1 to 2 years. If this process can be streamlined with some technology. A lot of effort can be saved.
Employee questions have been about 6 months ahead of what Zuckerberg says. It's going to be "return to office or else" in October.
On the contrary, there is not enough people. you need to have enough babies so that we can _statistically_ cultivate a large enough talent pool - which we need to develop the next gen tech.

You can't let rich/talented hoard resources so that they can pour inordinate resources to their one kid and 'expect' them to inherit the talent. Nature simply doesn't work this way.
none of those are bad ideas, really. it's not like there aren't plenty of "journalists" who are doing just that, and for them, I'd prefer the capability to turn down the temperature on the output.
I don't think that analogy works as it isn't about learning languages so much as knowing how to write (but I also can't quite fix the analogy, sadly).

A better one (but one which doesn't leave software engineering): as programming languages have gotten easier to use and tooling has gotten better making programmers more effective, more programmers have been needed to write ever more code despite them all having to expend much less effort if they were to merely do the same things... because, and this is key, the tooling now allowance people to tackle ever more complicated problems leading to new things that can be achieved.