skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. It's not. From a simple numerical perspective, the labor supply and demand forces are completely different and far less favorable to abuse in the industry. People will vote with their feet.

This isn't to say that the industry is perfect compared to academia; in fact, the conventional focus on the bottom line at the expense of long-term R&D at the average firms is a well-trodden trope. But tech is still an expanding universe, and so the leverage of voting with your feet remains quite strong for individual contributors. Far stronger than in academia according to much of my network.

I encourage you to reach out to data scientists and research engineers who have made the transition. If you don't have a LinkedIn, I recommend making one, adding whoever you can and talking to whoever you can that might have gone down a similar path to you. The academia to industry path is not a one-way door, and indeed, there's a lot of research science inside the industry that appears to be more well run than much of pure academia. You're smart enough to have gotten into a PhD program in the first place -- that enough will make you a very attractive candidate for a wide range of roles inside the industry that can be really fulfilling. It's virtually costless to start exploring.

Good luck. I'm sorry you have to go through this unnecessarily common experience, but on the plus side, it's better to figure it out now than later.
Nothing as critical (the negative effects were mostly on my company’s side), but I have created problems for a lot of O’Briens, O’Tooles and other people with similar names.

I am a lot more humble about handling people’s names when writing systems these days...
eBay Pulls 'Mein Kampf' Upon Discovery Hitler Doodled Chinese Man in Margins
React UseRef by Example: An Interactive Tutorial
How to send an 'e mail' (1984) [video]
It definitely happens, it's just a matter of frequency. If your community is your village, you're almost certainly going to marry someone from your community or the greater community that includes your village next door (but maybe you travel instead!). Now those deep bonds being forged online happens, but it's not the default.
> I understand that electricity is electrons moving through a conductor from “+” to “-“

Actually they move from "-" to "+" :)
As a small vendor, I hate procurement platforms. Vendor UX always seems to be an after thought, since you’re the pipe between our customer and getting paid, why care about us.
I hope you guys do it differently, maybe be so good to vendors that we champion you to your prospective clients.
I hope you put bill.com and buy2pay out of business
I'd argue that if the data is that specific to the app (e.g. which trees and courses of Duolingo you've completed), then if the app dies, the data is irrelevant. Either the data is useful outside the context of the app, in which case it tends to have standard formats (.png for images, .md for formatted text, etc), or the data is not useful outside of the context of the app (e.g. Duolingo) in which case the data is no longer of value and can be discarded, as no-one is going to be able to offer the exact same courses and trees and in-app cosmetics and gems etc etc etc.

It's true that the limited period of time between end of life and servers going offline may be a problem, but that tends to be a long period of time (3-6 months in general from the services I've used that have shutdown).
Targeting != Profiling.

The cases you state can easily be marketed to using contextual targeting, e.g. displaying ads on biking websites or communities or individual pages that contain the keyword "Animal Crossing". All of that is already possible and doesn't require any data on the user.
Agree on that - spent a few years in Switzerland and consider it the best place for devs in Europe.

Beautiful lakes and mountains are another nice perk there.
THAT is what high tension wires are?! I've always seen it in the context of the massive transmission lines, so I thought it meant that the wires themselves were under high tension from their weight.
Thanks for your insight. I can see the similarities you're pointing out.
Just think of electricity of water flowing through a pipe. All the concepts are exactly the same.

Electrons = Water molecules

Battery = Water tank

Wire = Pipe

Load = Water mill

Voltage difference = How high tank is from water mill

Amps = Amount of water molecules flowing through pipe

Resistor = Pipe with sand
Being laid off means the company could hire you back if conditions improve.

I’ve seen laid off people rehired.
Link to the excellent Understanding the Basis of the Kalman Filter Via a Simple and Intuitive Derivation paper

https://web.archive.org/web/20140327203303if_/http://www.cl....
This is why life on the bleeding edge is sometimes very bloody.
It's hard to really, really, deeply compare what's more common and less common, because there's not really a lot of meaningful reporting. If we could report on the problem in earnest, we'd be fixing it. What I can say is:

- if you can make the computers go beep boop in industry, then you can much more readily leave and take your skills elsewhere, and you won't have to put up with the abuse. you don't usually have to stick it out to finish a project or degree.

- your manager's success is probably tied to your success a little better, and you're more likely collaborating on the same deliverables. also, your manager probably hasn't been in place for nearly as long, as industry is much more dynamic in terms of staffing.

- you're less likely to encounter top down abuse. you're more likely to encounter team cultures where the entire team casually engages in mild hazing, as a sort of frat-ish way to build camaraderie, particularly at the smallest firms. you can usually avoid being part of such a culture, if you push back gently but firmly and bring a positive attitude of earnest appreciation of the people around you instead, and you will probably be valued for that — however, this will be work, and may drain you emotionally as you do it.
The VsVim plugin for Visual Studio makes an attempt at supporting everything in the .vimrc (or _vimrc) file. Compatibility is not 100%, so certain things just fail, but it's a lot more than just basic key bindings.
> Imagine your Asian-American 4yo read who’s just learning to use chopsticks read “A Chinese man who eats with sticks,” with a ethnic caricature to go with it.

I imagined it and I felt no reason to collapse on my fainting couch.

What is even bad about it? Is America so far gone that a stereotypical picture of a Chinese man with sticks is considered to be on par with a lynch mob singing "hang him high?"

Or what precisely should be so shocking and horrifying there for a 4 y.o. kid? Isn't it actually a book that has been read by millions of kids, undoubtedly some of them Asian, without unleashing a PTSD epidemics among them?
Also "high tension power lines," which being heavy catenaries presumably are in high mechanical tension, but must surely have gotten that name from the voltage = tension thing.

German has this too: voltage = Spannung = tension.

This must go right back to the earliest writings on voltage as a concept.
Ask HN: Who can use the “Launch HN” tag?
I was wondering, is the launch HN tag served for YC startups? or is it open to any HN member launching a startup?
Nice article. I have a new year’s resolution to read more good literature and listen to more classical music. Anyway, Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go has been on my Audible wish list for a year so I just bought it. Thanks Adam for posting this.

Sorry to be a little off topic, but I notice that most of my friends and family spend a lot of time watching movies and other streaming media, but from conversations it seems to me like they spend little time reading (with some exceptions). We all get to allocate our own time, but I like limiting myself to a maximum of one movie a day, but I feel good about spending much more time reading, choosing an active pastime of visualizing the people and world depicted in books, rather than passively watching streaming content. A movie has to be really fantastic to get the same effect as just a good book.
"Mehr Licht!", as Goethe would say. Lighting is very important and it's one of the best bang for the buck things you can do.

Good pens. I always buy pens and experiment with different types. Every pen has a certain flow and friction required to deliver ink. For people who don't write a lot, this is unimportant. If you write a lot, it becomes palpable. Does the pen just roll and write, or does it need to be "pressed" and "pushed" to deliver ink. Does it dry quickly? Does it "shit itself" and smudge: when you trace a line, by the time you get to the end of the line, did the pen deliver more ink than necessary to trace a line and form a sort of drop around the tip? It will be messy. You have to clean it on a sheet of paper or that ink will find its way on the next thing you'll write. Does the ink stick well and survive a drop of water or a tear for example : )

Good notebooks: are the squares small and noisy? Do you use the same pen color as the notebook lines which makes it harder to read?

A good headset. I record our video calls and I used to have a Bluetooth headset, which meant I couldn't use the microphone (I'm on Linux). We bought another type of "wireless" headsets where you plug a dongle (SteelSeries Arctis 1). They're cheap, but now I'm recording from my headset's microphone, not from my laptop's. Which means the noise of the fans doesn't make it to the recording. The fans are really noisy (when you do Jitsi + OBS for recording).
I’m almost certain this culture would have been illiterate. Writing was only just being invented in mesopotamia in the 4th millennium bce, and I’m pretty sure it only took root in larger administrative units while the Burned House Horizon region seems to be a relative backwater at the time. Moreover, it tended to be used for administration—how much grain do we have stored, how much have we given away and to whom, etc.
A vacuum "filled" tanker would be lighter than a helium filled one :D
In spanish "Voltage" (i.e. voltaje) is "tensión" (tension) or "diferencia de potencial" (potential difference).
A problem here is that "tension" communicates a concept, but "voltage" communicates nothing, it's only a derivation of the unit used, or perhaps something to do with Alessandro Volta, a gentleman most students these days hadn't the pleasure to meet.

A simmilar problem in spanish was "amperaje" (amperage) which is not much heard any more except very colloquially among electricians; the standard term is "corriente" (current).

However, the units and letters are somewhat confusing for the students:

V(oltage) = E(lectric field?), unit is Volt, is refered as tension of potential differece.
A(mp) = I(ntensity), unit is Ampere, is refered as corriente.
P(ower), unit Watt, is consistent, as is refered as potencia (power).
Well, clarity = lack of scattering centers, which are also points of stress concentration = dislocations start here and propagate. Now glass with color from metal ions, like gold = ruby red, does not produce weakness. This mean colored glass from dissolved ions is OK, colored with particulates(pigmented) carry weakness. There is a whole gamut of the ways pigments induce weakness.
New Data Show That Leading Covid-19 Vaccines Have Similarly High Efficacy
Thanks for that - I haven't tried it there...

Yup - single file operation was a design goal, but I bet there's a better way to get it working than the hack I used.
This is the checks & balances of the many eyes looking at code and eating your own dog food. These method succeed when you have a torrent of users but fail at smaller scale more often.
I was today years old when I learned...
The title sneaks an assumption in. My experience as a PhD was different: I did not see any abuse, and my supervisor - who had a reputation as a grumpy old man - was exceptionally kind and supportive. I don't claim that my experience is typical either, and I've certainly heard some nightmare stories. But I'd want to see more evidence before assuming that abuse is common all over academia.
Ikea products at times are similarly styled but actual Bauhaus furniture used very high quality materials.

In a room I have dreadful Ikea bookshelves (a temporary measure to store books while looking for a better solution) next to a pair of original Wagenfeld table lamps. The difference is craftmanship is stark.
My guess is that this kind of behavior is less common in industry. If you receive shitty treatment you can always search for a new job if needed. I would guess that kind of behavior is probably more common in other industries such as movies.
Borrowing rates have never been lower and corporate debt issuance has never been higher. Companies are investing.
No hate / disrespect intended. When there are many Muslim citizens in public transport etc.. the smell is pretty strong and intolerable. Not so much in urban areas but many times in rural areas. That said we both love in different places of India so have different exposures to reality. And I don't like bajrang dal stuff / loud music during festivals either. I was just explaining the parent commenter the general attitude towards muslims.
I think anyone can prefix their post and YC companies get front page placement automatically. Show HN is also used for members here and not typically YC companies (afaik)
Correct. In a related concept, I had a professor that explained it as a combination of electron flow in one direction, and "hole" [1] flow in the other. Either way of looking at it is valid.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_hole

edit: I'm not sure, on second thought, how far you can really go with that. Lightning clearly has directionality to it.
How does this work? We’re all participating in a global market (especially in the software world).
The book they are reading, Apostol's "Introduction to Analytic Number Theory", is for undergraduates.

According to the preface, even that is overstating it: "Actually, a great deal of the book requires no calculus at all and could profitably be studied by sophisticated high school students".

Nevertheless, when I picked up a copy near the start of my freshman year at Caltech and had a go at it, it kicked my ass.
I would say that Coca-Cola teaching its employees to be less white, or writing Black and white with different capitalization, is actually getting away from racial equality.

Contemporary America does not strike me as seeking racial equality at all. On the contrary, the goal seems to have an extremely racialized and regulated community where your skin color is an extremely important attribute in schooling, employment, artistic activity etc.
Yeah, here's the blog post you're thinking of, from August 2020:

https://offensi.com/2020/08/18/how-to-contact-google-sre-dro...

And the HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24216009
https://archive.is/rwMH5
Why do you have JS disabled?
It’s also weird because “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” wasn’t published for some time, and was resumed with the last 10-15 years.

It’s an early book that honestly doesn’t deserve the attention of the later masterful works. I would think the right wing politicians would be more upset about “Horton Hears a Who”, “Yertle the Turtle” and the “Butter Battle Book”.
Seems unlikely to solve anything in that case doesn’t it. Most people put convenience many places higher on their list than privacy.
> The so called super spreader event was organized before the lockdown, at about the same time as modi Trump rally involving more than 100K people. Instead of locking down the mosque, the administration forced everyone out of the mosque to help spread covid outside the mosque all over India! The media is absolutely silent about various hindu temple superspreader events being held such as the khumbu mela. Nobody is clutching their pearls.

Indeed. I was just explaining general attitude against muslims.
I can't read the paper beyond the summary. But for what it's worth, I agree that GDPR is a good thing in general. However the implementation and execution of it is sloppy (as seen with these "dark patterns")

GDPR should have been aimed at the browser and then force websites to comply with the settings defined in the browser. Non-compliant sites would be immediately flagged by the user's browser instead of hiding behind numerous dark UI patterns.

Perhaps it was easier to force thousands of EU sites rather than trying to coerce Google, Apple, Microsoft.
In a classical sense, no interactions rely on touch and atoms only interact with each other over a distance.
As long as we have

-1 * -1 = 1

can’t we recover the interpretation of multiplication as repeated addition?
As in

-x * -y = -1 * -1 * x * y = 1 * x * y = x * y

Or is the issue that people are claiming a stronger relationship than an interpretation?

(I guess we would need

x * 0 = 0

as well)
> How many native English speakers speak fluent Russian? Less than a few hundred in the entire world (I'm a Russian academic, I know).

Yeah I'm doubting your academic qualifications if you really think only a few hundred native English speakers in the world are fluent in Russian.
While true, in my experience, companies are generally looking (rightly or wrongly) more for the sort of content that Udemy and LinkedIn crank out; i.e. practical hands-on material that's often relatively bite-sized. I don't think you typically see University-type courses on corporate training platforms--though I'm sure there are exceptions.
> I respect your difference in opinion. I'm interested in how asian / black people feel about these Dr. Seuss books.

Which Asian and Black people? Inevitably, it seems like it’s some professor of ethnic studies that are consulted about these questions. (That’s actually exactly what happened here to decide on what Dr. Seuss books were racist.) But think about that for a moment. Do you think the opinions of a random white Columbia University social sciences professor are a fair gauge of “how white people feel” about some issue? Obviously not. Then why would you assume the same is true as to people of color?

As a person of color I am vigorously opposed to this trend of putting professors and activists in charge of speaking for people of color. It’s totally distorting the conversation we are having with the rest of America, and also amongst ourselves. My mom and aunts, immigrants from Muslim countries, fret over their kids being exposed to western moral values (divorce, premarital sex, disrespect for elders, aggressive individualism, etc.) I have never heard them complain about some depiction in some book or movie. Meanwhile, professors and activists are making a huge deal about pictures and depictions in our name. But they are simultaneously working with white social progressives to undermine things that typical people in these communities care a lot more about. It’s perverse.
> If you don't understand the platform and chipsets, use a picker service

Like I actually did, I have been doing since I can't even remember to build previous workstations, NAS, the dappnode under my desk, and my home server that runs the services I self-host?

- Ryzen upgrade: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/Dxx2nL
- Intel upgrade: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/list/rP8jCz

Looking around now, it seems that MSI X570 is available at a lower price, but it wasn't when I first checked.

So, yeah, bad timing. But this patronizing is unwarranted.

> The 5800X is about 10% cheaper than the 10900 here.

In Germany it's about 15% more expensive, and my calculation was based on price-per-core than absolute performance, not to mention that the 10900 has a 65W TDP vs 105W for the Ryzens.
An example of Sayre's Law: "Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law
In a simplistic world, I agree as long as the response is proportional and the other actor is rational. My preferred strategy to deal with unwanted behaviour is usually 'swift proportional reprisal followed by forgiveness'. However I don't think you can apply this nilly-willy in the real world. There's a bunch of nuance at play, and the other actors are usually not very rational, and not every fight is worth the cost of fighting it. And also, none of this works if you don't _forgive_ the other side. "An eye for an eye" is a crap strategy.
For real time mechanical and electrical applications, the MHE is generally not competitive (at present) However, there many types of dynamic systems that are much slower like chemical plants (minute to hour level control) that can accommodate MHE’s execution time scales.

If you need to simultaneously handle nonlinearities and constraints, it may be a superior choice.

Also there are potential ways to make MHE run faster. For certain forms of the optimization problem (like a linear or quadratic program), it’s possible to convert it to a lookup table (search for “explicit MPC”) which can then be implemented in an embedded system for fast lookups.

That said, I agree with you in practice. An nonlinear optimization problem tends to be a numerical black box and can be hard to diagnose when things go wrong. The Kalman family of algorithms is much more straightforward (only involves function evaluations), faster and have failure modes that are much more easily understood. They just don’t do so well with constraints.
Who should have zero say in the matter
I think the focus here is on the wrong thing, the "app", which makes ideas like legal intervention and other distractions feel relevant.

I think client interchangeability and ultimately user freedom is fundamentally about data driven design, look at all the examples: text is text is text... git is a file based graph of merkle trees. They are both highly abstract, portable, unopinionated data structures that don't describe APIs, UI or implementation - don't like git CLI? you can literally write a completely different one with different porcelain and use the exact same git repos as everyone else, people have done this. Text is the same, it's just more obvious because so many examples exist.

If you start with data and make it successful clients will emerge around it without the choice of making it interchangable.

The problem with things like google docs isn't the app, it's the opaque data format. And then there are formats posing as being open and portable like DOCX which is essentially a proprietary microsoft format forced open due to reverse engineering - all of it's details will no doubt be closely coupled to the history of MS Word features and implementation.
Hard to make in injection, press, lost-wax, lithography, or 3D print processes, perhaps.

Basic geometric shapes with matte surface and least mount of edges are ideal for lathe and mill works, while being basically torture tests for the rest.
Decades long perspective from Rushkoff. Besides things like tele-medicine, additive manufacturing. The dominant mode in the near term may be "fitness". Think Peleton branded headsets for Martian surface bike rides. Beat Sabre is often employed as a sweat inducing workout ;)

Regarding creative self-actualization, we often hear the refrain that VR represents a new canvas for immersive storytelling. But as of yet, a Kubrick or Spielberg has not materialized to master the medium's potential.

Escaping the Strange Loop

https://www.eurofusion-research.com/
Typing this on a late 2012 iMac which remains my main workhorse. I'm considering a new M1 iMac when they come out, but really no need at the moment, now I've fitted a a 2TB SSD
> The argument was that LGBT people and their fellow travelers working for and supporting Mozilla would likely not want to continue if the head of the organization supported anti-LGBT laws.

How many of them actually said so? Or was someone offended on their behalf, preemptively?
From some quick research, battery technology isn't able to provide more than an hour and a half in a $1400 backpack battery. So a Company owner that can't recharge on the fly would need 5 or 6 battery packs per employee to last the day. Or worse they might run a generator continuously on the truck to recharge them.