skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as not caring, Jason Scott has said himself that they take a "ask forgiveness instead" approach because getting permission is too difficult and time-consuming. In 2016 they were adding 15TB per day with a total storage volume of 30PB, and by 2020 that total was 70PB.
>It’d be pretty cool if we had a real path for later-in-life research time.

I think some of these are out there. I've known a few people working in government, academia staff positions, and quasi-government organizations that pursued their PhDs (for free) while working full time. Occasionally, some got some push-back as to why they wouldn't be available to teach, for example, but often their advisors welcomed them because they came with real-world problems they were trying to solve and an organization willing to pay and support them in that effort as part of their "real" job.
Maybe this is the wrong way to use ghost, but can you publish from a git repo of markdown files? Markdown in my favorite text editor with git as version control is by far my preferred writing methodology.
The article mentions it but public telephony is still available: LinkNYC stations all but replaced the humble payphone.

There'll likely be a few scattered around the city still in public use, but for everything else there's a free VoIP call just around the corner.
I guess I just have no idea what you're calling comparable. In this analogy, is the US Ukraine? Is North Korea Russia? What is the point you're trying to make?
I was taking them as separate. I did my bachelors online (while working full time), so I didn't know how to factor that into the calculation. I just texted a friend to ask, and he said he left his state school with about $35,000 in debt, but that was with a partial scholarship for the tuition, so I suspect a good chunk of that was the dorm.

If we double the number I gave to $60,000, that's a lot more, and starting to approach life-ruining territory, but I'd say still falls a bit shy of it for an engineer.
> Is it possible to just spend infinite dollars today and solve the climate crisis by tomorrow?

No. Factories need to be build, infrastructure needs to be build with infinite money and an coordinated centrally planned effort it should be possible within 15 years to be net neutral.

This would include: electrifying all of africa, world wide giga grid, replacing all combustion motors, building a new fleet to replace all cargo vessels, build rail to curb all non trans ocean flights, radically cut down militaries all over the world, build a lot of heat pumps, building a lot of buildings in a carbon neutral way, also a lot of other environmental concerns (species protection, eco system protection) would need to be curbed for it to happen in 15 years, more flexibility if you relax that timeframe.
I'm failing to connect your comment with mine. Yes, of course it came from additional taxes. Those additional taxes did not put people into $30K of debt in those countries. If you're poor, you don't pay that much in taxes. My mythical European parents did not get go into debt paying those taxes so I could go to school.
There's something delicious in a critical part of the arb relying on a mechanism the contract authors included to reduce gas fees. Not only are we enshrining code as law, we're playing code golf with it first!
California debates opening supervised sites for people to use drugs
There are multiple reasons why people might be unwilling to cure their loneliness with others, most of which I think relate to past rejection, lack of willingness to adapt and/or incompatibility with the people around them.

I’m not advocating force to address those issues. If you want an AI companion instead of people then that’s your choice. I just think it’s a poor substitute for actual human companionship and will not engender positive growth.

I keep coming back to the narcotic analogy. They have their place, and people are going to do what they’re going to do, but I don’t think encouraging the widespread use of narcotics in the future is a great idea.
It really depends on the country. In Denmark if a company have massive layoffs. You would probably continue working for a couple of month if you wanted to. Also the company world typically help employees with finding a new job, pay for extra training etc.

I don't think you will see much of the "you got two hours to pack your stuff and then you are out" like in the US. In Europe most people will "finish" their job independently of whether they were fire or quit them self.
These are the experiments. They don't get to raise a set of control-children in lab. They don't get to use animal models. They don't get to run Monte Carlo simulations.

The only way to test if an educational theory works is to try it out in the real world. You train a bunch of teachers in it, try it on a bunch of children, and wait 15-20 years for the results to come in. All the while fighting for the integrity of the experiment vs. the numerous other variables people will impose.

It would be great if we could do what we do with subatomic particles, or atoms, but we can't. Neither can we refrain from doing it, because we know that education needs to be improved. It's simply false to say "why even try because the old way was working fine", because it wasn't -- certainly not for everybody.

The researchers are not uninformed. They have tons of information, all of it complicated and contradictory because people are more complicated than electrons. They're also under-funded to do research of the magnitude that they require, since their work on educating the next generation of citizens is arguably far more important than finding new bosons.
look out for yourselves too

startups can’t exist without free vc cash that’s going to be tight soon-ish
This site again? Don't go around telling people to eat a snack every 3-4 hours.
Of course tuition should be counted as part of compensation just as health care should be counted. You can be mad at the cost of tuition or healthcare if you like, but that is a separate issue.

Waved tuition is a benefit and it was a hairs breath from being a taxable benefit in the USA several years ago. It is still the case that if your employer pays more than about 5k of your tuition then that is taxable so clearly tuition waved or paid by your employer is a benefit at least in the US.

There are compelling arguments and union movements supporting the notion that graduate and PhD students should be classed as employees and I certainly don't have a big issue with that. That is also a separate issue though.
AMD Ryzen 7000 Smokes Alder Lake at Computex Keynote as Zen 4 Excitement Builds
What a weird comment. The letter was perfectly fine. Firing a bunch of people is hard, impacts morale, and it's important to make sure people that you keep onboard don't panic. The letter didn't seem culty to me at all, and supporting layoffs was clearly addressed and will be done on regional-specific terms. Lawyers look at this kind of correspondence and tone down the language in some cases.
Some people need to justify a very difficult situation as normal. It helps reduce the anxiety and mental pain of the alternative. It's a defense mechanism. We see it regularly in society.

Unfortunately it makes it that much harder to fix the problem. Now we have to fix the problem and convince the deniers that it's a problem . Which is close to impossible since the more evidence they see the more they will try to normalize it.
"If you're not against me, don't cross this line. If yes, do. I love you all."
It just seems to me like as we move all the very heavy energy consumption like transportation and heating from oil and gas to electricity, small gains like your washing machine are going to be negligible.

I'm from a country where in the north the sun goes down for good for a few weeks in the winter. We've managed until now with nuclear but those are all nearing end-of-life and are being shut down and we have no alternatives ready.
That’s part of the problem here. 99% of a PhD is your choice of advisor. It fully determines your experience. Going to do quantum computing research in a lab that doesn’t understand quantum computing is really on the author; any questions about the core competency of the lab can be answered by their publication history.

Step 1 of doing a PhD is reaching out to people actually doing the research to see if it’s a match. Also having no one with whom to talk about QC tells me it’s a very small school or a specialized school. Or just the wrong school! Not all schools are created equally; they each have their own core competencies defined by the skills of the department faculty. If no one in the faculty had a history of QC research, why is the author attending that school to do QC research? Did they not think to ask before they applied?

And why don’t they just find a better school to fit their interests? Transferring is not unheard of at such an early stage of the degree. But the author is done completely, which tells me they weren’t that serious in the first place.
Not everyone would appreciate your style of communication. I, for example, certainly wouldn't. Unfortunately, it would be unfeasible to customize such a letter for each employee...
There’s even a GNU C Library function: strverscmp():

https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/String_00...
Not going to disagree that it’s not an advising failure as well, but if you’re so interested in Quantum computing that you’d like to devote 6-8+ years studying the subject under a professor, you might want to check first that the professor knows something about quantum computing.

Step 1 of doing a PhD is to find a person who you want to work under for probably 10% of your entire life. If you’re serious about it, it’s something you should not quit at literally the first roadblock.

If I may read between the lines here, because I see this often enough: it seems like this student had a passing interest in QC; joined a department without talking to anyone there to find out if the research they do is compatible with their interests; proposed a deep theoretical research topic that neither anyone in the department nor the author knows much about; and then promptly quit when they told him it’s probably not the best idea.
Yes, but if Tesla wants to go around claiming their cars are so much safer than ICE cars, they'll just have to deal with all the media coverage of the many, many, many, many times that Teslas are less safe than other cars on the road.

Live by the sword, die by the sword, and all that.

You'll note that the Kia Niro EV gets minimal coverage (other than perfunctory reporting of recalls) because....wait for it...they don't claim it's safer or better than other cars, just electrified.
I’m just gonna go ahead and go out on a limb and say that getting hit in the head repeatedly isn’t good for you, especially if you’re a developing child.

But to each their own.
When it comes to moving books I measure in how many days it will take to stop being sore.
I can't help but perceive it like you and the person you're replying to are pretending that OP should somehow just accept the sanctions, and that this was somehow fair. I'm not saying the sanctions are unnecessary, but can we not recognize that they disadvantage people who have done nothing to cause them, and that a more distributed system would be better in general?
That may be the premise, but has that actually be held up and recognized as such in courts in major countries? Like are there precedents regarding this?

At that point it's no longer a premise (for those particular countries), but until then it's just a supposition.

I think courts are wary to wade deeply into a new financial system like this but at the same time I find it hard to believe that the judiciary and the legislature would rule (in the long run) that they have no ability to "make things right".

If crypto grows as as many people suggest and you have some significant percentage of the country that has savings or investments tied to these smart contracts, if there is a loophole like in this case, you'd have lots of people writing their local or national representative about this. I find it hard to believe that politicians would tell the people they represent "tough luck code is law".
That’s too bad. Wish it was in a museum instead.
I guess there's no need for a monster sized Floating point coprocessor in a mainstream laptop. Saves a lot of transistors over Zen 3 I'm guessing.
How much land needs to be destroyed to make solar farms and wind farms big enough to generate the vast majority of power?

What species already inhabits that land or space that will be re-purposed?

What happens to old solar panels and wind turbines after they reach their end of life?

What happens to the places that supply the raw materials for solar panels?

How many batteries are needed to make up for solar and wind variance? What is required to make those batteries? How much land do they require?

Will batteries, solar panels, and wind turbines all continue to work at the same level as other power sources in times of extreme weather?
"Let go" and "layoff" seem to be similar euphemisms. Why does it matter which one is used?
You probably wanted to say:

https://yandex.com/

Except it doesn't help any single bit because the top result it's exactly the same "smallbiztrends.com" that was mentioned in a rant.

Russian Yandex is not any different than Google because their primary income is exactly the same: ads.
> However, unfortunately, some of you will be informed that we cannot offer you a role in the new organization

What new organization? They're laying off ~10%, not restructuring the whole business, or creating a wholly owned subsidiary, or even repositioning their product. Is there some kind of legal advantage being exploited here?
Nowhere to go but down: MicroGraphicImage's Spelunker
I very much disagree. For people with anxious tendencies, this type of email is absolutely awful to receive, and consider that most of those let go will be at lower rungs of the company, so job security in the current market is going to be a big source of anxiety.

“You are at risk of losing your job, but you’ll have to wait all week to find out”
I'm getting strong Neuromancer vibes from this. It's so interesting that we're now officially cyberpunk in some corners of our world.
I just re-read this and the english is terrible, i guess i was tired or something. The point still stands though.
Yeah, #2 definitely feels the worst imo.

Not knowing who will be there when you get back, having to go into the office with the anxiety of having to be the survivors even if it is only 10%.

With that said, it's a lose-lose. Layoffs suck. It sucks to know what is happening and see people led off, just like it sucks to be the one led off with the psychologically long walk to the meeting room.
While this would be nice, I find that the value it adds is very low. I've settled on tabs for indent and spaces for alignment. And over the years I've found that I do less and less alignment and that is is rarely benificial. The biggest problem is that it creates noisy diffs when you add or remove the longest element in a group, and that would be resolved by elastic tabstops. But I also don't see much value in separating the comment from the code by a sea of whitespace. If I have a comment talking about multiple lines of code I just put it in front. If I have a long comment about one line I just let it soft-wrap (or put it in front and use paragraphs).

So yes, these would be nice and would improve my coding experience. But the improvement would be tiny compared to the fight of trying to get everyone to use them.
The article has been replaced with this disclaimer:

> Because this article received somewhat more attention than I expected/feel comfortable with, I’ll take it down for a moment. Sorry. I’ll leave the disclaimer:

> Disclaimer: This article has been primarily written to clear up my mind, and to potentially receive constructive, uplifting or critical comments from others. I feel like it helps me cope with a frustrating and difficult situation. I do not intend to attack anyone.

It looks like the article was submitted to HN by the author. Then, taken aback by promotion to the front page and certain passages that could be construed negatively, the author took the article down.

A lot of people dream about being well-known, or at least getting on the front page of HN. What they may not realize is the microscope that places you under and what it can do to you.
Fine, except that that is completely false. Crypto mining mainly runs on carbon-emitting generation, much of it stolen where that is easiest, and actively speeds arrival of climate catastrophe.
Perhaps a way to generate working private keys for any address. So I could move coins as I wish.
I don't think you need to be brutal about it, but being more direct would have been better here. Someone else already captured the essence, but this was all over the place and still didn't really convey that 700 people were losing their jobs.
Wouldn't the latter be layoff? I feel like let go can be used for either; a more polite way of saying "fired" or an alternative to "laid off".
Bad weather is the most significant hurdle here. The article references a few of the Soviet GEVs that were successfully developed, but it looks like they only operated regularly in the Caspian Sea and Black Sea (relatively calm water). Overall, major challenges to development are summarized pretty well here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-effect_vehicle#Advantag...

Sounds like one big step already taken is in low altitude altimeter development. These folks did a good study on radio altimeter integration in GEVs: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S147466701...
Why the New Pollution Literature Is Credible
So basically use fail2ban with e.g. 10 attempts and only allow key-based SSH-login and you are "safe"?
From a Swedish perspective this is probably a "varsel" which is prior notice that they intend to do layoffs. You can't just fire people in Sweden so this is a first step. They have to give notice that they intent to layoff people to the different unions and then start the process. In other countries where they operate it's probably very different?

My guess is it will vary a lot how they do this because of first-in-first-out rules in Sweden they will have to get around to be able to layoff the people they want. I agree with the general sentiment though that the language is a bit vague, but this is a partial reason I think.
Administrative salaries in the UC system are eye-opening:

https://www.dailycal.org/2017/08/18/here-are-the-five-highes...

> "Former chancellor Nicholas Dirks’ gross pay was $562,243. Dirks is set to go on paid leave for the next academic year, during which he will receive $434,000."

This is well over the pay for say, the governor of California.
Xuantie 910 has 2x128b ALUs, which is kinda my point that the decoding of RISC-V vector instructions to uops is more complex than it needs to be, because it depends on the value of user-settable registers. XT-910 also highlights that with their speculation of vsetvl, something no other vector ISA has to do to be performant.
I think the problem is, if you put a sign saying "Feel free to break in, I dare you, if you manage to get in the house then you're free to take anything you want!" then you can't later complain when someone does exactly that.

(Well, maybe you can still complain, IANAL, but it gets a lot murkier.)
> The story for storage looks better than it ever has but it is still orders of magnitude more expensive more expensive than it needs to be to be practical.

Source on this claim, please.

Strange that this "orders of magnitude more expensive than it needs to be to be practical" technology is seeing massive growth: https://www.google.com/search?q=energy+storage+market+growth
My CC statement shows each transaction, how much it was, and where it took place. But I've never seen it include any information about what was actually purchased.

So my question is, how could an insurance company know what prescriptions you picked up at Costco last week based only on data from your bank?

I'm pretty sure your pharmacy cannot even share that data with your bank without violating HIPAA.

I really appreciate the cynicism here, since most people have no idea how much detailed customer information retailers and banks are gathering and selling, but I think in this particular case it is misplaced.
An interactive US Individual Income Tax simulator (1960-2023)
So 40% of employees aren't paid by the university system's academic arm, but by the healthcare section. 30% are academic staff, and 30% are support staff.
The idea is that even if someone points a gun at you they can't do anything to you immediately if you don't have a phone or a credit card with you (as far as I know anyway). But with biometrics no matter what precautions you take, you'll always be in a position to give people your stuff by force
Is Group Life as a work benefit a common thing in the US? I polled my friend group and the only one who has it is a government employee. I've certainly never been offered it.
> Even more in the industry, which is the larger consumer of electricity and needs incentives, to shape there consumption on availability, as far as it makes sense

The shape of consumption is going to be - industry flees the country, and goes somewhere cheaper (and dirtier)
Currently reading The Undivided Universe (Bohm, Hiley), recommend. More intuition, less "think"ing
I dont think you understand how certain key points and milestones can completely make certain educational goals almost unachievable.

Let me give you an example. In 8th grade a kid will learn math that will basically put them on STEM trajectory or not. They learn Algebra that sets them up for taking high school calculus or they dont. If they dont, they may get into college, but they will have an up hill battle with STEM trying to learn it there.
Rather basing a decision and telling people not to get a microphone based on emotions

As an amateur musician and full-time remote meeting attendee, I'll tell you all you need to know about why you shouldn't use a Blue Yeti: condenser microphone. Notice how the recommended mics in TFA are dynamic? You don't want the Yeti because (SWAG here...) it's the mic for folks that don't want to have to become experts on microphones: gimme plug-and-play. So Yeti gives those folks a microphone that picks up every flea fart in the room, unless you make an effort to quiet the room. Whereas a dynamic mic in the general case picks up what's in front of it, and doesn't pick up noises that are more than a few feet away from the microphone. So when you're dog's barking in the next room at the Amazon driver, the dynamic mic won't pick that up.

And people that go to the trouble to quiet a room don't buy Yetis, nor do people that buy Yetis want to go to that trouble.
Pet Peeve:

There is no unified "Europe" where things are done the same way.

There are ~50 very diverse countries in Europe, and things will vary widely.

This is even true, though a bit less so, for the 27 EU member states.
> “You are at risk of losing your job, but you’ll have to wait all week to find out”

I think this is actually pretty nice because it gives you a bit of time to start polishing your resume. Even if you don't get laid off, that's always a good idea.
I wouldn't put that out there on this forum. It's full of entrepreneurial persons who might like that idea.
Lots of people also criticize mass calls.

There's no way to please everyone. Especially in a mass lay-off.
Well, sometimes the hard part is the part _between_ "We got it to work a couple times in the Caspian Sea, kinda, sorta..." and "we carried this tracked anti-aircraft missile truck from Hawaii to Guam."
Yes, this practice of adding a v is common, yet pointless. I prefer my git tags to be valid semvers.