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Ask HN: Tesla is making us move or quit. Would I get severance?
Hello, I was hired as a remote full-stack engineer at Tesla during the pandemic. We were just told that remote employment agreements (mine was over email, not in my contract) are void, and we have to move to a Tesla office by August. This is essentially impossible for me until January 2023 (at which point I'd be happy to move). I need to make a decision by Friday. Do you think I would get severance if I tell them I refuse to relocate?

Edit: For context, Elon Musk sent company-wide emails last week about everyone having to go back to the office. A few days later, he announced layoffs. Many suspect the unexpected call for in-person work was a way to get people to quit and avoid paying severance for layoffs.
My experience with declarative set-up tools ranging from systemd to gradle to kubernetes is that they're amazing as long as you don't have any sort of problem.

If you do have a problem, you invariably find yourself in a byzantine hell maze where you are celebrating if you manage to find a cryptic error message (often you aren't even entitled to that). It can be incredibly nasty to debug as there is no actual code to step through, nothing to reason about. There is no where it went wrong.
It is a crowded space! We track over 100 related companies in the competitive set at Coherence (withcoherence.com) - where I’m a cofounder.

That said, we believe that Coherence is unique in being integrated from dev all the way to production (it concludes cloud IDEs natively), being dashboard (vs CLI) based, and having a strong opinion about what environments types you need and how they relate to each other. This lets us reduce the CI/CD and integration work needed to use this on your team by 10x.

Similar to SetOps (which looks like an awesome product, btw) we don’t bet 100% on k8s as the only answer and believe in leveraging cloud-provided abstractions as much as possible. Agree with the sentiment that this is a big space and won’t have a winner-take-all outcome.

We’re in a closed beta, so if you’re interested in giving it a spin please get in touch!
I don't understand what you mean.

It's very clear that Republicans don't actually believe that improving mental health or mental healthcare is actually a solution to gun deaths, but only use it as a distraction from improving gun regulations that are desired by over 80% of Americans, including a majority of gun owners.

Democrats on the other hand actually do understand that mental health issues are a part of the gun problem, and therefore provide solutions to tackle it both by improving mental health care access, as well as improving background checks to prevent those with mental health issues from accessing lethal weaponry easily.
> It can be caused by all kinds of things.

In theory water can run uphill. Sometimes it even does. But as a matter of overwhelming practice it is obvious that if the general price of goods is rising it is the government doing something. Otherwise there is nearly nothing that could cause a correlated rise of the price of everything. Eg, in this case the most likely culprit is wilfully shutting down the global economy and handing out money to everyone which is even worse, economically speaking, than their usual handout tactics to very wealthy people.

Maybe something like sustained moves in the oil price or coal price could do it. But the western governments have an official policy of annual inflation and the only tool they have is money printing, because it isn't like they invest in oil wells.

PS Maybe demographics, more mouths & higher prices. Here are Estonia's demographics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Estonia. Looking at it, a change in the labour force that major could be a big contributor.
In terms of tech, I just started one that allowed me infinite customizability, but still leveraged good solutions to common needs, so I went with Gatsby. It is a static site with a lot of potential functionality.

https://silvertaza.com/startup-paths/

It is still more convenient to do blogging in Substack, but for potential dev content it is too limited in terms of what you can post there. One of my posts has a computer vision based game that leverages the webcam, and that would not have been possible there.
Like sooooo many others here have pointed out, this isn't the first thing to be sold online.

Peapod grocery delivery started in 1989 and was a DOS-based application you could order through, if you had a modem.
Chicago has the largest police budget in the country and it still has very high crime. We need smarter policing, not more.
If energy usage is removed, then surely there is enough oil and gas in other countries to supply Germany.
Nebulgym, a new open-source that accelerates AI training (~1.5-2x)
Training always takes too long. If it takes an hour, it would be better if it took 30 minutes, or maybe 15 minutes... or just 1 minute, why not? And if you want to speed up training, the techs available usually require to increase the complexity of the training process, whether it's making trade-off in terms of accuracy or time for the developer to learn a new framework. Often times it's trial and error, playing with parameters, training recipes, or switching framework/model. That's definitely not ideal.

“Fast & easy-to-use” These were keywords that motivated me to work on a new way of doing training, the library nebulgym, which now is open-source (https://github.com/nebuly-ai/nebulgym).

FAST

Training should be fast, period. Wouldn't it be great if in the near future you could train a GPT3 from scratch on your laptop? Or a large EfficientNet in a fraction of a minute? Nebulgym was built to try to bring developers closer to that future. This open-source optimizes the full training computation stack, from efficient data loading to faster forward and backward passes and earlier convergence. For example, by saving data samples in the cache on the first data read, it speeds up the full data loading process and eliminates what can become the bottleneck for the training process. Nebulgym also leverages techniques such as partial compilation of some calculations and smart sparse gradients to speed up forward and backward gradient propagations. And many more features will be implemented soon. And please let me know / open issues if you have ideas for making nebulgym even faster :)

EASY-TO-USE

"Not another framework, please, there're already 1000". That's a call for help from many developers, so nebulgym has been developed with this in mind. Nebulgym let you use the training setup you've always used, and works "on top". This is made possible with the use of class decorators (like Java's annotations). In short, you can just add these decorators before defining the model classes, and nebulgym will make sure that you use your computing resources to the fullest.

Here's a snippet of training with nebulgym decorators (@accelerate_dataset and @accelerate_model)

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import torch

from nebulgym.decorators.torch_decorators import
accelerate_model, accelerate_dataset

@accelerate_dataset()

class MyDataset(torch.utils.data.Dataset):
#Your Dataset definition

@accelerate_model()

class MyModel(torch.nn.Module):
# Your model definition

# Train your model as you usually do

--------------------------

And that's it. Give it a try, and leave a star , it's a little contribution to show some love for open-source projects :) Also feedback would be super appreciated!

https://github.com/nebuly-ai/nebulgym
Simple: The Environment and Privacy aren't very good at lodging complaints, and showing up in court with good lawyers.
Wow that’s a lot better solution. How long would that have taken Apple to change to lightning instead of using the 30 pin connector? What would they have used for the original iPod if they had to wait on the government to approve a connector?

If this same type of law had been in effect with computers back in the 90s Apple would have had to include PS/2 and ISA and add more ports.
N2834 ("Deprecate the %n format specifier in C2X") was discussed in WG14 (no consensus).

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2834.htm
You are misunderstanding the advice. You don’t necessarily move up just within one company, and you don’t necessarily impress just your direct boss.

But fundamentally, if a person has a weak resume, the only way to strengthen it is to do good work that has an impact. Then you get some more bullet points on the resume (and can drop some weak ones).

And if you have a weak professional network, the only way to improve it is to actually work with people and impress them. You can build professional relationships that can lead to new opportunities, even with peers and people junior to you.

Even if you get “spit out” after a year or two, you are better set to get a better job.

This obviously can work because almost everyone starts out with a very weak resume and network. Yet, many people go on to build rewarding careers.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26708148

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There are two types of inflation:

- PRICE INFLATION, which is typically what is tracked by the CPI. If the CPI was, say, 100 last year, and 105 now, it means there was 5% inflation in the price of the basket of goods tracked by the BLS.

- MONETARY SUPPLY INFLATION. This is the total amount of currency in circulation. The US Federal Reserve publishes the M2 money supply. This is one factor that affects PRICE inflation (the first type), but if people don't spend a lot of the money supply each year, then prices don't increase a lot. The other factor affecting price inflation is MONETARY VELOCITY.

As for what affects relative differences (some goods getting more expensive than the general inflation, while others not as much), it is supply or demand. As demand changed, especially during the pandemic, supply struggled to adapt and match it, and maybe overshot and so on. The economy is not a steady state.
>>> While energy usage has not been disclosed, it’s estimated that GPT-3 consumed 936 MWh.

How was this estimated? Is that for the final model run, how about all the testing runs, funs that failed, parameter tuning runs etc. are those included?
Does the man not sacrifice his lifetime at work to provide for the family? Why do you consider the wife's contribution worthless? It's only worthless for the war effort and the propaganda's effort echoes through the ages.
Few sellers into a market like the price going down, and labour prices are famously downwards inelastic, but price wars are a thing and many markets have an expectation that prices will go down, e.g., cloud computing costs in recent years. It's a mistake to try to completely detach your understanding of inflation from the commercial imperatives in specific markets.
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> Boudin sought to reform the criminal justice system, ending the use of cash bail, stopping the prosecution of minors as adults, and focused on lowering jail populations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Boudin also became the first San Francisco DA to file homicide charges against city police officers.

It seems like it's hard to know:

- If these policies would have helped reduce crime over the long term, but not impacted it over the short term

- If these policies would have helped reduce crime over the long term, but increased it over the short term

- If these policies increase crime over the short-term and the long-term

It seems like it's going to be difficult to follow a data-driven approach here. It could take a long time to collect enough data and like most of the other social sciences, it's difficult to isolate causal from correlative factors.

I empathize with San Francisco not wanting to be the guinea pigs to find out. Being tough on crime feels like the right solution even if we don't know objectively if it is or isn't.

Also nobody likes hate crimes are getting their car broken into.
Well, that's the price people have to pay for values and democracy.
not surprised - if we could decode smell, that being a very complex pattern of molecules, we can really unlock so much opportunity in healthcare and beyond. Dogs are of course the best of the best in this field!
disclosure: I started Volatile AI (https://volatile.ai) to advance smell perception through hardware and AI
Why create a strawman, they said AI can bring benefits not GPT3
Because if people use is less, it will decrease in value, making it attractive to spend, reaching equilibrium. It's not perfect, but either is "someone in charge prints a ton of money and gives it to their friends".
The solution is universal pre-k, socialized medicine, and massive federal investment in K-12 schooling. By the time you've reached the justice system, it's too late.
Encyclopedia Britanica defines inflation as:
inflation, in economics, collective increases in the supply of money, in money incomes, or in prices.

The first definition was the one used for centuries and the one that should still be used unless you are trying to confuse cause for effect.
Exactly. Every time I come to a medical thread on HN I realize how bad even intelligent people are at understanding medical statistics and recognizing when to raise an eyebrow of skepticism. It really does take a lot of study and/or professional training to develop those skills.
I haven't used LaTeX enough to really have an answer, sorry. Hopefully someone else who's a power user can comment!
A one time subsidy that likely pays out more over time than it cost is always a net negative? While obviously there are bad subsidies, I find it hard to believe that it is always the case.
The inability to find any available domain names was one of the primary reasons for us to create Mashword. (https://mashword.com) You can enter the name you are looking for and it will quickly suggest similarly spelled or sounding names to the one you entered.
When has progressivism ever led to a different outcome? ISTM that you're quite simply in denial about what progressive policies entail, as a matter of fact. The Progressive movement, starting from its earliest origins in the late 19th and early 20th c., has consistently been pro-elite and opposed to meaningful, grassroots-led improvement for "the little guy".
> Good? Bad? Unimportant?

It was not me who wrote that so I do not know his meaing.

> Are there method definitions outside the context of a class?

As I said above, I was talking about the basic compilation unit and it is simplified perspective.

> GNU Smalltalk?

Well, that's an exception :-) But I must note that not a nice one. About 15 years ago, I read an article about a novice evaluating Smalltalk based on experiences with GNU Smalltalk only, and he was complaining about how strange and crazy the grammar is with all that exclamation marks.
Does this work with Adamantium? Asking for a friend.
> Good mental health professionals are often no longer taking any insurance since the demand is so high and they can not deal with the hassle.

Everybody deals with hassle, they just need to get paid for it. People that need mental healthcare have no money to pay for it. Why would smart, capable people go to work in a field where the pay is not commensurate to quality of life at work?

Simply doing something like paying people in mental healthcare competitive wages would help. Why would it not? Money serving to incentivize is the basis of our society.
> However, in true Estonian fashion, a lot of people (probably majority) might complain within their familily/friend circle, but will mostly just suffer through it.

I think this is a generally post-soviet thing.
Are there Republicans on ballots in San Francisco? My impression is that races tended to be between different flavors of Democrat in most cases.
Lol SF has a third of the crime rate of Milwaukee and Kansas City. Are those crime ridden cities as well?
Right but the problem we had was that when you fired up the debugger (GDB) you could only see the stack traces of the currently active user level thread on each host thread. To understand what was going on in other user threads (e.g. who is holding what locks) you had to manually go into the scheduler data structures to find the descheduled threads etc, which was extremely tedious. If that all happens out of the box for Loom then that is great.
>but other people can also check what they have.

breakingandentering.com or ilovereplacingmybrokenwindows.com or anentirecatalogueoffreestufftosteal.com?

What would be the purpose of your side project? I'm very confused by it. Not trying to be disrespectful, but it just sounds like an easy way to case a home for a burglary.
I don't understand this: they try in-out/flows as the same when calculating inflation?
It's amazing how many people who otherwise believe in data driven decision making got caught up in the hype/fear of this recall instead of looking at the data and otherwise trying to reason at the system level. (ie Why do they never mention the police work stoppage?)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/bayarea/heatherknight/article...

I wonder if all the pro-recallers will use stats to say the next DA is doing a good job, or if the data will start mattering then?

If the new DA's stats stay mostly the same or get worse, will they recall their own DA because they believe in effectiveness, or was this whole recall movement was just full of shit?

I'm not optimistic changing DAs will do anything to improve safety or increase quality of life in SF, especially with the recession coming.

I just hope that people who claim to "still support criminal justice reform" actually vote like that, because I'm betting they vote for people unwilling to make the hard / unpopular decisions to enact real reforms, who instead talk reform while continue the status quo.

All of this is also just window dressing on an otherwise broken social safety net that leaves us with a large / desperate underclass who commit most of the crime. We're never going to arrest our way out of this, and likely unable to solve a lot of it with reform alone. We need real change to our social contract in the USA, but we can barely pass things that are already broadly popular. Easy to be pessimistic...
I like Thumbtack. I’ve worked with about a dozen professionals on there and have had a great experience. Fence installer included.
"Republicans: mental health is definitely an issue that needs to be solved in regards to guns but that's a long term solution - we also need a short term solution of preventing people who shouldn't have access to guns in the first place.

Democrats: There are racial issues in this country that can be solved in the long term through education and investment in communities. That being said crime is crime, and we also need a short term solution of arresting and prosecuting people who commit crimes - no matter what their circumstances are. Reform NOT defund the police."

Umm... you have those parties completely backwards.

It's Democrats (not Republicans) who are for gun control.

It's Republicans who want to arrest and prosecute people regardless of their circumstances, and are more opposed to defunding the police.
Being first is almost everything -- the product in academic research is new knowledge.

How much press was given to the second time the LHC discovered the Higgs, with higher precision?

Robert Dicke, in the running for "greatest experimental physicist in history", was working rapidly toward discovering the cosmic microwave background, with a keen physical insights driving the research. His team was beaten by a team at Bell Labs, who, when they discovered an irreducible isotropic source of noise emanating from the Universe, literally called Dicke [1] to help them understand the signal.

Who got the Nobel Prize? The team from Bell Labs. Never mind that Dicke literally wrote the companion paper explaining why the Bell Labs measurement was so important. Why? Because they were first.

Regarding graduate students: It is extremely common in physics to have the lead author (and coordinator) on important/cutting-edge research be a graduate student. It is only the largest collaborations where this isn't always the case.

Graduate students tend to follow a single thread of research from beginning to end, learning the ropes on the way, while faculty generally manage and mentor multiple threads (each with a student) simultaneously. When it comes time to publish, frequently it is the student who knows all of the details of the measurement the best.

For your final question, the answer goes back to "because being first is almost everything", combined with "we have to give the credit to somebody, right?". If someone notices that the eighth word on 50% of Guinness World Record citations is "person", should the credit for the discovery go to the person who noticed that interesting fact, or should it primarily go to Guinness World Records, who assembled and produced the dataset over decades of work?

Or, more-concretely, when someone applies for and receives fifteen minutes of time on the Hubble Telescope and, using a clever time-domain analysis, happens to find a repeating optical signal that blinks 13 times, then 53 times, then 13 times, then 53 times (as good a SETI candidate as you'll find), who gets the credit? Is it the researcher with the keen insight and good luck, or is it the huge amalgamation of humanity, spanning a half-century of science and engineering, that made such a measurement possible?

[1] https://theconversation.com/the-cmb-how-an-accidental-discov....
During Covid, wages grew faster than ever in recent history, but slower than prices. On average.
The basket and weights for UK CPI are here:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/arti...

and for the US: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/home.htm

The weights are based on estimates of how consumers actually spend on different goods and services, rather than on how much someone would need to spend for subsistence or survival.
> "No amount of credible technological advancement would have saved me then."

Assuming there was a cause of your fibrillation; maybe advancement in imaging and detection could have spotted worsening rhythm or small damage developing in the heart, or growing chemical imbalance in time before it happened, and given you an Implantable defibrillator[1] in advance, or a hypothetical wearable one, or treatment to repair the damage and avoid it happening.

I sometimes wonder what it would take in terms of FutureTech to "save everyone"; how about if you were alone but concsious, defibrillator tech builtin to every vehicle (electric vehicles at least have some high voltage power already; sensing and cables wouldn't be a big addition to them) would have got a treatment close enough to be useful. If you were unconscious and wearing a watch with ECG features, it could detect you falling over and alert somewhere, a defibrillator drone takes off, today's fast drones can do 50+mph it could have spikes to get through your clothing and be alerting a telemedicine doctor to remote view it...

I suppose we have to rule out teleportation, but humanoid robots are fairly credible, suffusing the planetary surface with nanotech is uncomfortably credible and that possibly changes a lot. e.g. blood additives which carry much more oxygen and can keep your brain alive after your heart stops pumping until help can arrive, or etc.

[1] https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/arrhythmia/prevention...
Great to see a new option in the TypeScript ecosystem. A fully featured framework. Brilliant. Could be a great alternative to Adonis.js which is one of my favourite nowadays: https://adonisjs.com/
Why not see Armenia or even modern Georgia, who don't use aggressive rhetorics on Russia, don't deploy NATO weapons and feel okay?