skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are well know ways to solve these issues. For example, companies have always used the strategy of firing the "bad" workers after a few years and then hiring more to replace them. Even though there is hiring going on, the net difference may well be zero or negative. Nobody would suspect this by looking just at the number of people being hired.
You're correct that they are under no obligation to fire the employee on the H-1B. (In theory, they are applying for a "new" job, and them not getting it for whatever the reason isn't an issue for their current job and status.)

However, what OP is missing is that rejecting the US citizen application based on their citizenship is still likely a prohibited discrimination case regardless of what they do with the existing employee.
... Infowars had a supplements business?
Unfortunately I've been told in no uncertain terms that it's in office only.
Fwiw they're probably just making a point to protest the phenomenon.
Oh 100%. But of course I am not limited to HK at all (in fact I am planning to move to AU next year as I got permanent residence there through their Global Talent visa programme). But nothing there either.
And I'm not limiting myself to CPO or VP roles but yea... this is what it has been
You have to do (a variant of) one or the other, no?
> Funny how quick "he harassed them" turns into "he inspired the harassment"

Yes, it's called a "clarification". OP misspoke, I clarified. If there are any other language features we can expand upon in this thread now is as good a time as any, I suppose.

> for which there is no legal precedent anywhere, ever.

May I introduce you to the concept of "incitement"? Not on the law books in Texas so Jones wasn't tried for it but let's not pretend it doesn't exist as a concept "anywhere, ever".
Stop making "disposable" stuff that should be durable and reusable.

Stop making appliances out of plastic that break in 5 years, or with cheap components that the average person doesn't know how or have the ability to fix necessitating a electronic board replacement that costs 90% of a brand new unit.
I definitely see the problems you are pointing out, but ultimately these calls from you and gp to forms of responsibility or to be a "vehicle for positive change" of satirical or otherwise funny things leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I just sometimes want things to be cathartic, I don't really care if they are pushing the needle of the world's ills. I want to be able to laugh and not necessarily be a better person for it! There has got to be some space for that too, right?

And ok, if there is some committee somewhere to dictate that all satire must be "responsible", must follow its founding Swiftian maxim, then fine, we don't have to call it that. But whatever it is can still be good, can help those find a little fun in an absurd world. We should care as much about the simply depressed people as we do the possibly confused or evil.
Generally I agree but but when the bills keep stacking up and savings getting depleted it gets harder to be picky.
Look, I'm a nix fan and a former SRE which seems to be a similar background to you. I obviously don't have details but I think it's clear you're not in a good headspace, if you can, would you consider taking a short break and going for a walk or something? HN will still be here.
It's not a counterargument at all. It's just someone who assumes that there is this great counterargument they haven't bothered to make while whining "there are other bad songs too". Your comment here indicates that you're just too young to have heard it every single day, twice a day, throughout your childhood as it inexplicably got constant airtime. The long ride to and from school on the schoolbus, my first experience with torture. At least on sundays you could turn Solid Gold off. This is like saying "Vietnam wasn't that bad" because you watched a war movie once.
STEM grad student tuition is paid by government grants
The Onion youtube vids of the late 2000's were phenomenal. It was all downhill from there imo. Take a look at this recent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2niC4ACCp20. I don't like Taylor Swift but this is just not funny. I don't see what the point of it is is.

Compare to this celebrity satire of the golden era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9QisdRPwEM.
>I didn’t want a bad outcome for anyone, but the worst case for me was significantly worse than the worst case for any other member of the team.

Your worst case is you lose the deal and the time and money you spent on it, and their worst case is they are fired and lose their healthcare (that is how it works in America right?), is that correct?
Can you give an example of these high-quality supplements? Otherwise folks just have to take you at your word that they exist.
Somebody else posted Henry Molaison [1] and there is a link to Repetition priming [2]. Seems some memories are stored in other locations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Molaison
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetition_priming
The only program I’ve ever had take longer to open than Xcode is StepMania, and that’s because it has to parse thousands of simfiles.
Hmm NBC seems to imply that they purchased "Free Speech Systems", which is the parent company for the entire operation. Of course, who knows what they'll actually get other than the domain and copyrights -- Jones will just move all the physical assets into a storage unit/another office and dare them to complain, Guliani-style. Also, who knows if any of these stands for long, anyway; the cases are in state court (Connecticut and Texas) but what's stopping the president from issuing an executive order clearing them? Laws?

Re: "who gets the most promotion", IDK I think it's definitely the new owner of the Onion. Personally speaking, I think we're past the "don't give them attention" stage of fascism, and "they were bought by a satire company" isn't exactly a better rallying cry than Jones has already been spouting during the entire litigation. Plus, I trust them;

The anti-violence organization Everytown for Gun Safety said it will be the exclusive advertiser in The Onion’s new venture as part of a multiyear agreement. John Feinblatt, the group’s president, said in a statement that he hopes to “reach new audiences ready to hold the gun industry accountable for contributing to our nation’s gun violence epidemic.”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/onion-wins-alex-jones-i...
"It's bad everywhere" or "it's worse elsewhere" does not mean it's not bad

"Other people have it worse" is not a compelling reason to make people believe their own shitty situation is good

Maybe we could improve the interviewing in all industries?

But we could start with Software since that's where most of the people on this board work
Show HN: Unicorn Ratio – Investing models for YC demo day
I help run a YC alumni-led fund, and one of the questions that always comes up for our group is: What's the optimal number of YC companies to back per batch?

We built an app that uses two models for approaching this problem - we call it the Unicorn Ratio.

Live version: https://orangecollective.vc/unicorn-ratio

Repo: https://github.com/orangecollective/unicorn-ratio

The two models it uses are:

Kelly Criterion—A mathematical model that optimizes portfolio construction.
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/04/091504.asp

Binomial Distribution—A probability model that predicts your chances of backing a unicorn based on portfolio size and historical success rates
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/binomialdistribution.as...

We actually learned of the Kelly model last week during a call that YC organized for a group of demo day investors (thanks YC). We built and open-sourced this in the same spirit of collaboration.

Related, on the My First Million podcast, Garry revealed some data for investors at YC Demo Day—specifically the returns for investors who consistently backed 3+ startups each batch over a two-year span. Here’s the 1 min clip.

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxVnlzcslmeMCTDFc9G2R--W7pigxVe8N...

So, what’s the takeaway here?

Conventional VC wisdom is all about making a few, highly concentrated bets. But this suggests a broader, more systematic approach to YC investing could also be a viable strategy (and likely put you amongst the top returning funds).

LMK if there are other models or approaches worth considering too.

Disclaimer: don’t use these models as investment advice.
It’s what might happen if you render ClearType text at 1px wide.
> I guess it depends how you define bureaucrats.

“If Gondor, Boromir, has been a stalwart tower, [those who work at public bureaus] have played another part. Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay. You know little of the lands beyond your bounds. Peace and freedom, do you say? The North would have known them little but for us."
> Which is the whole point of processes like laser and electron beam welding: minimum heat input to achieve the required penetration.

Surely we can agree, all things being equal, the heat affected zone will be larger absent conductive heat transfer?

> You are thinking of a cutting head.

No. You sound so certain, yet: https://www.millerwelds.com/equipment/welders/handheld-laser...

> There are methods of radiating heat into space

Like what? I'm not familiar with this and the article doesn't go into any specifics. Would be interested to know what a radiative heat sink looks like.
To the person that commented that five years is an awful long time to remember something like that (and then deleted their comment): you are so right. I am trying to work through this kind of thing :/
> I'm just going to ask again for your definition of "real cloud"

Even from all the way over here, I infer that I think we're from so different worlds that what "real cloud" means to my side of the world isn't a part of your world.

What I can tell you, is AWS is the king of cloud, Google Cloud is a very very distant 2nd place, and Azure is an event more distant 3rd place.

> and aren't oracle, I would not consider them worthy of trust either

Smart man.
I work for <megacorp> and the way they get around this is by only hiring contractors. Because then the liability for that is on the vendor.
I once applied to a position like this. It was eerily similar to my background, and when I did a little digging I found that the group lead had even directly cited my research papers in his own research work.

I applied on the site, reached out on LinkedIn to the group lead and the recruiter, and even was able to find emails for those two, which I also messaged as well.

They didn't even bother to send me an automated rejection notice. There was nothing at all, no responses to any messages, no email, nothing. I have to assume that position was posted with someone already in mind that they wanted to hire.
Great, now how do you use attestations with Twine when publishing packages on PyPI outside of the Github ecosystem?
They are all fake until they figure out the real wage bottom. They're getting closer.
Maybe. It depends how strong the watermark was, and how good the photo was at reproducing the image.
Yeah, if you're looking at it from a composition/music theory angle, it's not your typical 4 chord pop song. There are thirds in the bass all over place that provide interesting contrary motion to the chords, and the verse and chorus are technically in different keys. It's not genius writing but it's definitely not lazy.
Can you guys stop shitposting?
This is impressively low latency. Also, it's cool to see another option for TTS with real-time streaming.
This is such an odd comment.

In the thread you linked, Gwern says in response to someone else that NNs excel at many complex real-world tasks even if there are some tasks where they fail but humans (or other models) succeed. You try to counter that by bringing up an example for the latter type of task? And then try to argue that this proves Gwern wrong?

Whether they said "regular grammar" or "context-free grammar" doesn't even matter, the meaning of their message is still the exact same.
Russia is in Syria at request of Syrian regime. USA still occupies the oil fields in Syria. Not at all comparable in intent is itm

Crimea is Russian. The people who live there are Russian and were glad to be part of Russia.

Surely you know the history of Ukraine?

Do you know why Zhelensky was elected leader of Ukraine in the first place and what happened afterward?
Companies can't just do this.

It'd be fabulous if this was an option, but green card applications have all sorts of caps and aren't even just "wait in a line for N years." They are random every year and every year you fail to get approved you get no closer to being approved.

The effect is that you can have excellent engineers who've been in the US for a decade+ who are still in this liminal space where they don't have legal permanent residency.
There was a past disclosure where lead was found[0] within an in-house product. Buzzfeed did a story about sending some products to a lab and you're right they're safe existing products[1] only with Infowars' own exaggerated marketing labeled on.

[0] https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/prop65/notices/2017-02319.pd...

[1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/we-sent-a...
I'd like to know how this isn't just using the EVM as a super slow database. I don't believe for a second that the EVM is spitting out frames of DOOM.
Ok, so you're using deno with pdf.js instead of poppler. While Javascript is mostly 'memory safe' using all of deno, pdf.js and firejail make your attack surface huge and difficult to review or constrain and probably tank performance if used on a big dataset because you have to initialize the whole stack per request. All three of those tools have had significant CVE's too so adding more layers increases the amount of CVE's you have to deal with.
I also don't see what firejail buys you when you constrain deno (or another parser) to a properly secured container or VM.
Hey, when only a hippopotamus will do, what else is there?
Wouldn't any explanation given, apart from syntax error, be wrong in the case you provide it with an invalid syntax?
I suspect a lot of the frustration people describe comes from this combined with presently high demand for remote tech jobs. Back when I was job searching in late 2023, I noticed there would be _hundreds_ of applicants for even the worst postings (e.g., paying 50% market rate). Nobody is reading that many resumes, and in the unlikely case they are, that person probably lacks the expertise needed to evaluate candidates. Screeners are starting with resumes recommended to them and binning the rest.
If this song isn't proof that Paul McCartney is a psychopath, I don't know what is. It is absolutely the most insipid, uninspired piece of garbage ever to be recorded.
Yes, I'm talking about learning neural nets with gradient descent. See also the nice paper I linked below.

>> How do you do intelligence without computation though?

Beats me! Unlike everyone else in this space, it seems, I haven't got a clue how to do intelligence at all, with or without computation.

Edit: re infinite languages, I liked something Walid Saba (RIP) pointed out on Machine Learning Street Talk, that sure you can't generate infinite strings but if you have an infinite language every string accepted by the language has a uniform probability of one over infinity, so there's no way to learn the entire language by learning the distribution of strings within it. But e.g. the Python compiler must be able to recognise an infinite number of Python programs as valid (or reject those that aren't) because of the same reason, that it's impossible to predict which string is going to come out of a source generating strings in an infinite language. So you have to able to deal with infinite possibilities, with only finite resources.

Now, I think there's a problem with that. Assuming a language L has a finite alphabet, even if L is infinite (i.e. it includes an infinite number of strings) the subset of L where strings only go up to some length n is going to be finite. If that n is large enough that it is just beyond the computational resources of any system that has to recognise strings in L (like a compiler) then any system that can recognise, or generate, all strings in L up to n length, will be, for all intents and purposes, complete with respect to L, up to n etc. In plain English, the Python compiler doesn't need to be able to deal with Python programs of infinite length, so it doesn't need to deal with an infinite number of Python programs.

Same for natural language. The informal proof of the infinity of natural language I know of is based on the observation that we can embed an arbitrary number of sentences in other sentences: "Mary, whom we met in the summer, in Fred's house, when we went there
with George... " etc. But, in practice, that ability too will be limited by time and human linguistic resources, so not even the human linguistic ability really-really needs to be able to deal with an infinite number of strings.

That's assuming that natural language has a finite alphabet, or I guess lexicon is the right word. That may or may not be the case: we seem to be able to come up with new rods all the time. Anyway some of this may explain why LLMs can still convincingly reproduce the structure of natural language without having to train on infinite examples.
Agree that the use of "AI engineers" is confusing. Think this blog should use the term "engineering software with AI-integration" which is different from "AI engineering" (creating/designing AI models) and different from "engineering with AI" (using AI to assist in engineering)
> I was hooked the first time I saw so many buttons, knobs, and flashing lights

I fell down the synthesizer rabbit hole during covid. And the urge to acquire more hardware is real. Resist! Try not to chase synth youtube gear cycles. Remember, synthesizers make sounds, not music. Not that there's anything wrong with enjoying sound design, it is fun. But if your goal is to make music, it can be a trap.

> Does HN have any advice on how to get started with synthesizers.

For me, synthesizers didn't click until I got my first super basic knob-per-function synth. There was just so many things I didn't know, that a VST like Vital had way too many options. Once I figured out most synths are just oscillators -> mixer -> filter -> amp, plus envelopes and LFO's for modulation... I could use pretty much any synth.

Here is Wendy Carlos explaining the above concepts in under 4 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SBDH5uhs4Q

Once you understand those basics, maybe look at videos that show you how to recreate famous sounds. Probably start with simple classic sounds so you get a feel for how the synthesizer controls shape that sound.

Here is Anthony Marinelli showing you the bass sound from Madonna's Holiday in under 8m. He does a good job explaining why you use a certain setting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVedA7H4qpQ

My last piece of advice: the online synth community can be a bit toxic <cough>reddit</cough>. Ignore them and just do what feels fun. It's a hobby after all!
it's okay to break stupid laws as long as you don't get caught
The Paradox of Tolerance: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance>

A good reply I found online:

The Paradox of Tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance not as a moral standard but as a social contract. If someone does not abide the terms of mutual tolerance, then they are not covered by the contract. By definition intolerant people do not follow the rules so they are no longer covered and should not be tolerated.
for declaring function pointer?

Any language with type after name :

// c
char (*(*x[3])())[5];
// golang
var x [3]func() *[5]byte
Why aren't you considering CPO roles the US or starting your own company?

I think you are too overqualified for non-VP/CPO roles, and B2C dealflow is dead across ASEAN and China atm so VP/CPO roles are hyper-competitive. It's similar in Australia to a certain extent as well.

That said, best of luck! Your background is fairly strong
> Anthropic has moved so much slower than its competitors

In what sense? Claude is way better than any other LLM available, in the sense of providing useful/correct/intelligent output.
> Seems like the requirement of proving "there are or aren’t any residents or citizens that can fill the job" is going to be near impossible for the government to enforce

It's extremely easy to enforce with taxes that ensure the company is paying at least 1X0% of the highest market rate for the position. If they don't find an alternative to paying it is a necessary hire.
It's not clear to me if the $920k is including his salary. If he paid himself a good salary, the numbers will look different.
Great, now you can start putting your customizations in that directory instead of the OS-managed /etc/ssh/sshd_config blob. That's why the `.d/` convention exists.
I've been hiring tech folks for 15 years, with 25 years total experience, so I know what I want to see when I look to fill a role, that's how I build my resume

maybe you could share some insights here?

my CV starts with a few paragraphs highlighting what i think are my biggest accomplishments and showing off how broad my experience is. followed by a list of tools and languages i have worked with, then a list of projects and the employment history. for jobs where it seems relevant i also have a list of talks and workshops i have given. the whole thing is quite long though. 5 pages for the short version and 8 pages for the long one.

searching job application sites (not job boards!)

what's the difference here? do you mean the career/job lists on company websites?
I hope that person is continuing their job search, because from what I can tell, car dealerships aren't doing too hot right now.
I'm in my 40s and loved it as a kid.
I think it's all the assets of the website.

I believe that the current state of play is that Jones has to pay $1.1bn damages even post bankruptcy so maybe any future successes will lead to money for the Sandyhook families. I certainly hope so.

Ironically he may live longer to earn more for them - he'll never be able to afford a cigar again.
The Good Whale
Perhaps The Onion should ask - who gets most promotion of this?

Well, we’re all talking about the onion. And I, personally, haven’t read onion content in a long, long while. So this kind of put them back on the radar for me.

But I could be one of only a few people who fell out of onion readership?

More likely is that they believe the next four years will provide them a lot of comedy fodder and they’re setting their pieces early. For them the election is likely to be pretty good for business.
It’s due to having only 3 types of sensors. They combine as byproduct of capturing the photons, and while this is a part of the visual system indeed, it happens even before the retina and brain get ahold of the signal. The signal itself is inherently representing an already-combined color.
The Trillionaires of Mars
should vs. could. vs. ought. vs. can

Strikes again
Sending this to Elon...

And quoting to capture the illegal activity:

'''shmatt 47 minutes ago | parent | context | flag | favorite | on: Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost J...

I have to put out a ghost job req and interview every person applying within reason for every green card a direct report is applying for. I have to show there are or aren’t any residents or citizens that can fill the job
The main problem is: even if the interviewee knocks it out of the park, is an amazing engineer, I still am not interested in firing my OPT/h1b team member who can still legally work for 2-3 years. So while I will deny their green card application and not submit it, I also won’t hire the interviewee'''
Neat. I happen to have a collection of 25 MHz "brain-dead" 286 processors and 287XL and 287XLT coprocessors. I'm thinking about creating a board that puts all of the glue logic, bus transceivers, support peripherals, and BIOS into an FPGA so that board would be extremely minimal. While inauthentic compared to the original 5170 AT, it would be far more flexible.