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There is a lot of talk on culture fit. Most of the talk on "culture fit" is bringing up a hidden layer of discrimination, of one sort of the other - to the detriment of the companies that are applying these rules. Cultural openness is a factor of success, discrimination is leading into the opposite direction - if you ask me.

> The best leaders track their success rate, are not afraid of admitting hiring mistakes, and will hire slow, fire fast.

in me this brings up the desire to post the picture that JWZ (Jamie Zawinski) is showing, upon detecting a referrer header that points to this site. Look up in google what Jamie Zawinski has to say on Ycombinator... (He is also credited with Netscape's decision to open-source Netscape Navigator, along with most of the work that resulted in the rendering engine for that browser; that's why we have Firefox)

i think he is saying that its the stock market, that is stressing the value of short term gains. That's why stocks are rising upon news of layoffs.

the key phrase of the article is "Nothing kills your company's culture like layoffs"

I think that company culture stands for a framework that enables internal cooperation within the company. Now i am not sure if cooperation is currently valued over internal competition in the tech industry, but my impression is that the opposite is the case for most shops. So the question is: how did we get here? what are the factors that have led to the prevailing choice of priorities?

The article says its the stock market that values short term gains over anything else. Now maybe its really because running fast and breaking things is the only way we know how to do things in tech?

what about politician level models? i wonder if politicians aren't all copy pasting their stuff from chatgtp right now, at this stage (that would make a nice conspiracy theory, wouldn't it?)

Bernd is explaining German history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCbOtJftDks

Spoiler: at 11:12 Nazi Germany is done as ... the scene with the globe from Chaplin's Dictator. I didn't like that: as if that was someone else on the stage (at 10:36 - the twenties were all fun and dance, no then came the guy with the mustache and spoiled the party, not that one - this was supposed to be a different one)

I have a naive question, as a foreigner: do European leaders have any kind of leverage on their US allies?

What kind of growth? who is going to buy all that stuff, if a third of the workforce has suddenly been made redundant?

(I always thought that this 'evil microsoft' trope is a sign of stupidity, now i am having second thoughts...)

powered by nuclear energy ("France derives about 70% of its electricity from nuclear energy" https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profil... )

there is this song by Randy Newman - the great nations of Europe. I highly recommend it as a history lesson :-( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxNQxu7PWKM

   ...
   Columbus sailed for India
   Found Salvador instead
   He shook hands with some Indians and soon they all were dead
   They got TB and typhoid and athlete's foot
   Diphtheria and the flu
   Excuse me great nations coming through!

   Hide your wives and daughters
   Hide your sons as well
   With the great nations of Europe you never can tell

   From where you and I are standing
   At the end of a century
   Europes have sprung up everywhere as even I can see
   But there on the horizon as a possibility
   Some bug from out of Africa might come for you and me
   Destroying everything in its path
   From sea to shining sea
   Like the great nations of Europe
   In the sixteenth century

On Leetcode a match of the output is not sufficient: if your solution is too slow then you will get time limit exceeded error. It is not just the output that is important, the approach & algorithm used for the solution does matter.

That would make it impossible to use this as a testing tool. How should automatic testing of web applications work, if you obey all of these rules? There is also the problem of load testing. This kind of stuff is by its nature of dual use, a load test is also a kind of DDOS attack.

but Language itself is a kind of map, and it has pretty universal reach.

i struggle to understand the connection between optimization/mathematical programming and the knowledge representation problem in classical AI.

I thought that the reference was to the general 'no free lunch' assumption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem

I don't know. Maps can vary in quality and expressiveness.

Language itself is a kind of map, and it has pretty universal reach.

"No Free Lunch (NFL) theorem" isn't quite mathematics, it is more in the domain of philosophy.

classical ML always runs into the knowledge representation problem - the task is to find some general representation of knowledge suitable for computer reasoning. That's something of a philosophers stone - they keep searching for it for seventy years already.

I think agents will run into the same problem - if they will try to find a classical ML solution to verify what comes out of the LLM.

The moon program was $318 billion in 2023 dollars, this one is $500 billion. So that's why the tech barons who were present at the inauguration were high as a kite yesterday, they just got the financing for a real moon shot!

the state as such consists of many entities, all these entities are not all pulling into the same direction.

Hard to tell if the sanctions are targeted at the population or at the military industrial complex of Russia. I am not an expert in these matters.

that's a slippery slope. The Russian government is also justifying all of its censorship with foreign interference (this line of argument works with the Russian public, just to note), take care!

Thanks kernel_lover! I don't think he did, he is a very civil person, by any standards. I get flagged occasionally, when talking about topics similar to that of this article, but don't think that Dang has anything to do with it.

(on the other hand, I got less involved with Hacker News, probably because I don't have much to say about AI/LLM and because of that discernible bias in middle east politics over here)

>It's pretty evident that the person who wrote your article is just complaining that wikipedia is at least somewhat resistant to being used as a platform for pushing zionist propaganda.

you violated NPOV

i think the key passage of this article is when they discuss the shortcomings of the wikipedia arbitration process (Arbcom) - however the wikimedia foundation is not exactly short on cash.

'''The charges are serious, and the evidence backing them up abundant. Nevertheless, seven months later the Arbcom case is still pending. The reason is systemic: in a lengthy request for arbitration on a separate PIA case, one of Wikipedia’s arbitrators noted that the final decision-making panel is staffed by 12 volunteers, only 10 of whom are active. “It is clear that AE [arbitration enforcement] has run out of steam to handle the morass of editor conduct issues in PIA,” the arbitrator wrote. “PIA is a Gordian knot; and AE has run short of knot detanglers.”

Electing more Arbcom members would require a massive overhaul of the site’s governing regulations, a task akin to the US government amending its constitution. And though Wikimedia Foundation, which owns the site, has around $500 million in assets, because of the air-gap between Wikipedia and WMF and the volunteer ethos of Wikipedia’s mission not a penny can be used to hire people to oversee contentious topics.'''

https://www.piratewires.com/p/how-wikipedia-s-pro-hamas-edit... - There is even an article that explains exactly how 'a powerful group of editors is hijacking wikipedia, pushing pro-palestinian propaganda, erasing key facts about hamas, and reshaping the narrative around Israel with alarming influence'

maybe even add reflection and the ability to check for the type of a value - but that is probably too much to ask for.

i think compile time evaluation should be extended: if it can get a pass over the source code then this could replace preprocessor macros with something less shitty.

RIP. Suchir was a man of principles, he probably had to give up his OpenAI options as a result of his stance - OpenAI is reported to have a very restrictive offboarding agreements [1]

" It forbids them, for the rest of their lives, from criticizing their former employer. Even acknowledging that the NDA exists is a violation of it.

If a departing employee declines to sign the document, or if they violate it, they can lose all vested equity they earned during their time at the company, which is likely worth millions of dollars."

[1] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158478/openai...

you will also end up with situations where people in that age group might be pressured by their family to choose this option.

מײַן שװעסטער חיה מיט די אױגן גרינע,

אַ דײַטש האָט אין טרעבלינקע זי פֿאַרברענט.

און איך בין אין דער ייִדישע מדינה

דער סאַמע לעצטער, װאָס האָט זי געקענט.

פֿאַר איר שרײַב איך אױף ייִדיש מײַנע לידער

אין טעג די שרעקלעכע פֿון אונדזער צײַט.

בײַ גאָט אַלײן איז זי אַ בת־יחידה ־

אין הימל זיצט זי בײַ זײַן רעכטער זײַט.

:-(

also I am fed up with this tendentious 'discussion' that only allows you to hear one side of the story and where everyone else is just flagged off. I should rather stay away from HN (anyway it is no longer what it used to be) Sayonara.

no, it's a reminder that there is more than one side to the story.