skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the parent.

When I read the original poster's story, I felt this smells of poor supervision.
A sympathetic supervisor might be a compassionate/"nice" person, but still a poor manager: he should have immediately objected to set up a monster team of students; it's hard to succeed in teams of professionals, but students' goals are not aligned with your own, so they bound to walk away eventually. Nobody can blame them for prioritizing their exams. That's why there are Research Programmers.

What I conjecture might have gone wrong is nobody helped the OP to divide the
original project idea into manageable chunks of work that lead to sub-results that lead to smallest publishable units. A Ph.D. thesis is a marathon, not a sprint, and you need to plan accordingly, with milestones every now and then so that the supervisor (and his funders!) can be fed interim results in the form of publications. These milestones also motivate yourself, and they de-risk your project, so that at the end, your thesis can be produced by (slightly simplifying here but only slightly):

cat paper1.tex paper2.tex ... paper3.tex | pdflatex > phd-thesis.pdf

Think about what sub-questions your overall research question can be split into?
What code do you need to write and what experiments do you need to run to support your "central thesis" (which one poster in the above writing advice rightly recommended should be formulated as a question with sub-questions)?
In the papers I read about procastrination, the reason commonly given is being overwhelmed by a huge monolithic problem. The good news, then, is: you as a computer science know "divide and conquer" the technique that is the cure for monolithic disease - create little chunks that you can solve, publish, and use as building blocks. Each of them won't be scary. It follows that a finite sequence of non-scary steps won't be scary.

Ask experienced researchers around you for help in dividing up your research into manageable, implementable, publishable chunks. Remember: A Ph.D. thesis is an argument that your "central thesis" holds, so think hard what you need to show and how you can decompose bigger items into sub-questions. I wish you success, and most of all, stay sane!

I know you can do it, because I read your very well articulated post, and problem analysis is 90% of the solution, you also seem to know how to ask for help when you get stuck.
> 10x skills are everywhere.

Yep. And as cognitive tasks become more challenging the distribution of ability actually widens.

As an extreme example, how much more productive was Andrew Wiles than the median mathematician at the task of proving Fermat’s last theorem? Pretty much infinitely more productive I would say…
An unidentified user has claimed to have the sales data of the luxury eyewear brand Luxottica.
I think we almost agree, but I want to clarify that visible photons and room temperature photons have a very different energy and frequency, and the molecules that detect them in the eye are very sensitive to frequency. So you see the "visible" photons that have a frequency in the correct range, but don't see the other photons.

I guess you can see a few visible photons even if the background has a lot of ultraviolet photons that have more energy and frequency. (It may hurt your eyes. Don't try it at home.)
There's rarely any talk about how many of these (if any!) are actually contractors / vendors. All the big companies have outsourced a huge number of staff to agencies (presumably to be more flexible in short-term budgeting and "turning the resource off", when needed, so they don't have to worry about the legal intricacies, as that is by-design conveniently also outsourced to the vendor in most cases). Curious if the 18k here is on top of shutting down external contracts.
There's no solution because, from society's perspective, there's no problem.

The whole idea of capitalism involves competition and consistent growth, right? In any human society, that leads inevitably to war and conquest. It also means exploiting whatever resources are available, including human resources. Back in the day it was using colonial slaves to cheaply mine resources, deforesting for fuel/ships/etc, or hunting animals to extinction (food, oil, pelts, etc). Today it's using cheap labor in 3rd world countries, dumping chemicals in rivers, deforesting rainforest for cattle pasture. And when a competitor (foreign empire or corporation) threatens you, you basically work to either destroy or own the competition and their citizens/customers (although you might also simply make a backroom deal for peace). All for the wealth and glory of a corporation/CEO/board/Emperor/nation.

Our companies are just acting as the new empires of global society. Have been for nearly a century, when the old empires began to crumble. Same humans, different maps & hats.
I hope for your sake this is satire, because a few sentences is all I need to know I’d hate working with you.
One issue usually happens when installing windows after linux. Windows just wipes grub...

Might happen if you upgrade windows too.

The other issue with grub error, kind of weird, maybe adding hard drives might cause problems, or some issue during upgrade.
The common databases don't support natively support generating ULIDs to my knowledge. You can usually find extensions if you prefer generating them in the database instead of the application. I generate them in the application, and store them as a UUID in PostgreSQL to avoid needing any database extensions.
Technology is not the issue for Disney, its that they have alienated half of their audience with their current ideology.
Is there even such a thing built in to the current promoted tweets functionality?
This should be renamed. Amazon has laid off 18,000 and this links to the memos from senior leadership at that company.
Haha, reading this I knew you must be from Massachusetts. Sure enough checked your instagram and bam. I was raised in MA, awesome story buddy! I would have stopped to have a brat with you!
The problem with the mandalorian is the writing not the effects of set dressing. I never watched past the first season because the writing was very poor.
Anyone seriously interested in this question should listen to the Lex Friedman interview of Andrej Karpathy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdiD-9MMpb0&t=4721
When it's slow, and their boss keeps them doing busy-work on penalty of losing their job, how much do they make? $0.
Write WET Code then use Elixir macros to DRY it up
Have you seen a ChatGPT writing a stream of consciousness?

The curious and unexpected challenge of modern AI is that we have succeeded in making useful AIs which inherit all of the biases/problems of their training material. ChatGPT can effectively write exploits if you prompt it correctly - we'll likely see the first mass AI driven 0-day security vulnerabilities in the next ~2 years.

GPT Transformer model's are known to solve control/RL problems well. I wouldn't be surprised if we see ChatGPT derived models operating in physical space soon as well. A major limitation with flexible factory automation robots has been that it's too expensive to program them for the task - I don't think this will be the case 5 years from now.
The 15 Minute City is a UN ( https://unfccc.int/blog/the-15-minute-city ) and WEF plan ( https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/03/15-minute-city-sticki... ). You will be tracked and trapped in your suburb and happy about it.—IClimate ( https://iowaclimate.org/2022/12/03/oxford-2024-climate-lockd... )
But I'm not sure the cars are in this exact article, but you get the idea. Where I live we already starting to feel the pressure on car owners (I'm not one) for over 5 years.
Yes, I suppose changing things changes them. Appreciate the redundancy.
Multimillion-dollar trade in paper authorships alarms publishers
> No one is deceiving or misleading people about these risks

Almost everyone in cryptocurrency has deceiving prospective buyers for years. You can still find people shilling the long-term value of Bitcoin and until the crash you could throw a rock and hit someone claiming NFTs were an investment or saying that it was just like the stock market.

That was the source of so much of the opposition on HN: it’s not that it was new but that it was being sold as something it transparently wasn’t, and perhaps 5% of the people in the field could engage intellectually with people who asked about fundamentals. Had people been selling digital lotto tickets, far fewer people would have objected because the risk and benefit profiles would have been accurate.
I imagine it's something like Richard Bransons How to become a millionaire:

1) Be a billionaire

2) Start an Airline
Somewhat related- high energy cosmic rays (not photons, but ultra high energy protons, or helium nuclei) are theorized to cause flashes of light and other visual phenomenon in astronauts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray_visual_phenomena
> Companies don't exist to maximize profit.

As soon as this sentiment prevails, not only during times of personal loss, but also in times of personal prosperity, you can start to think of most humans as being part of the solution instead of this particular problem.
The corpo I work for did something like that - you have some time to find a new team, but I didnt have an opportunity to check that (yet? :))
if disney went broke someone else would buy them and life woukd continue almost without a difference.
Does it not? 12m / 20,000 = 600. So Amazon's real estate is displacing 20,000 households of a size of 600 square feet. And they've created 20,000 houses to offset that, which are probably larger than 600 square feet. Seems like a fair offset.
The bigger question is how many people go to the movie theatre (cinema). In 1930s America, about half of people used to go to the cinema on a weekly basis. By the 1950s it was 30%, by 1950 it bottomed out at 10% [0]

Today it's very rare. This is not because of the relative quality of the films, it's because there's more choice.

While most people who go do the cinema occasionally, nowhere near "Everyone" saw Avatar, Top Gun, Endgame, etc. In the UK there were 13 million cinema admissions last July, which would be just 1 in 5 people even if everyone who went only went once, and they only went to see Top Gun.

Same with watching TV. In the 90s about half a given population would watch primetime tv, today it's nearer 1/10th, there's more options to entertain. .

In the UK cinema dropped like a stone in 1955 [1], when ITV started broadcasting.

[0] https://ecommons.udayton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=102...

[1] https://www.economicshelp.org/blog/6693/business/cinema-atte...
I really hate this trend away from basic IDs. I feel like it's driven by folks who've never actually worked in the real world. I got account paperwork recently where the company ID account ID and invoice ID were all uuids. 100% this company if I call them will not use this BS to lookup my account and will instead use something easier try to guess like a company phone number.

I also had to do some support tickets recently and because of the issues copying uuids from the screen they insisted on screenshots that included the url bar showing uuid. 100% trying to tell them the ID over try the phone or even rekey would run into issues.

Give me back my sequential invoice ids!
That has not been my experience at all with "10x" programmers. I have often run into the first type from the parent comment - "hyper-productive" people who churn out huge amounts of code without a lot of thought. They tend to leave side effects all over the codebase, and often have someone in management who sponsors them (hoping to ride to promotions as a pair) who forces other teams to carry the burden of cleanup. However, if you run a startup, this kind of person really is an amazing asset, because there isn't a lot of codebase to clean up.

People I have met in the the third type (true 10x-ers who know it) seem to have a lot more humility, in my experience, than suggested here. If you look solely at metrics like kLOC/year, they are often in the middle or bottom of the pack. They are not usually generalists, instead specializing in some area that is of high value.
Probably worth revising this post to include BIGINT and BIGSERIAL, and then changing the entire Supabase schema to use them as well.
I understand, but it's also unfortunately unrealistic to expect that someone who is already an expert in something will also become an expert in teaching. When you are an academic, besides your teaching you need to be constantly updating your knowledge of the state of the art and pushing the boundaries to get published and stay relevant in your field. It's hard to also focus on learning teaching skills which are, sometimes, very unorthodox and not straightforward. Also, factor in that those who teach teaching are also sometimes not good teachers, and are also researchers, and will also need to stay updated with research, and will also try to push unorthodox, unvalidated teaching methods to their students... it's complicated.
Unfortunately I don't even live in the US, but BBQ with someone Argentinian would be incredible.
I used 8GB for YEARS. Docker stack, python/MySQL, node, etc.

I recently got a new laptop with 4x faster processor and 64GB RAM (just had to have it.)

My experience is speedy sure yet blah.

I passed up a slightly slower lighter model with less ram (granted we’re talking about 40GB now) yet charged with 65w USB-C and 12 hour battery (rather than ~8hr and conventional charger.)

I only wish I payed a little MORE for the 12 hour battery and less RAM!

8GB is fine! Don’t put yourself out for more RAM unless that is what you need.
New debate emerges over D.C.'s Height Act
It looks like that has to do with surface texture. I can reliably feel a step of 0.005" (0.13mm). I doubt if steps under 0.001" (0.03mm) can be felt. Nowhere near atomic scale.
We’ve been forced to pull Twitterrific from the app stores
Designing and building a tech product?
Why you should be interested in BPMN and Camunda
CBS had a report on this[0] that is illuminating:

>Gwin has lived in San Francisco for 45 years. He said this confrontation was the result of multiple attempts to get the woman help, after he spent days cleaning up her mess and letting her sleep in his doorway. He added that she often knocks over trash cans, and her behavior has scared off his clients.

>Gwin said he and other business owners in the area have called SFPD and social services more than two dozen times in the last two weeks.

>"I said she needs psychiatric help," Gwin said. "You can tell, she's pulling her hair, she's screaming, she's talking in tongues, you can't understand anything she says, she's throwing food everywhere."

>Gwin said on Monday, he'd had enough.

[0]https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/homeless-woman-hos...
I absolutely get the recommendsation progression. I'm a pragmatist and a capitalist. I'm not demanding a ban on anything.

But when a user explicitly says "NO NO STOP YOU HAVE IT WRONG" and it has no impact then it is not optimal design, it is bad design, and not possibly revenue maximizing. Fixing it would also be a great way for these companies to stop stepping in public relations unforced errors.
Your face and thumbprint can easily be reproduced. There is even a guy that took a photo of a politicians' finger from a mile away and used that to forge their fingerprint. Even without going technical your dopplegangers can bypass face auth lol. You can guess spray pins and push notification codes. The one thing you can count on is someone will find a way around any good passwordless solution. For example, there is a "rdp in browser" phishing where a browser in the attackers vm does the actual auth but the user thinks it is in their browser so most passwordless methods are defeated by cookie theft like that.
It seems like building a Twitter followers is just writing a lot of tweets
Agree or disagree?
Also known as "write drunk, edit sober" * - where your choice of drunk may be defined as 'producing text unsuitable for others to read in that form'.

* Hemingway may have coined this term, along with "make sure you are 100% offline because the Internet never forgets".
Misthosi: A PaaS for deploying servers that respect users' data rights
Interesting take. Can we consider contract labor a “layoff”? Wouldn’t they try to “look better” (like they are not laying off) by not considering “closed contract” not the same as “layoff”?

Wouldn’t the contracted firm be doing the layoff not the tech comp?

Interesting take!
I find that I get stuck in an endless loop of trying to make something perfect and it massively slows me down. I can spend hours changing a paragraph a million times… it’s extremely frustrating!
Sympathy is between shit and syphilis in the dictionary
I don't understand why you have clickable elements on the homepage that aren't clickable. A dataset for any use case section, the cards in the pick an API section etc. It's a very bad user experience.
The Google of 2005 wouldn't do this. The Google of 2005 would use this as opportunity to monopolize all the talent and move into some new space and eat everything with fantastic software.

* I had a good seat to watch google obliterate mapquest and yahoomaps with amazing javascript maps. It was day and night. Yahoo was penny pinching their mapping engineers while Google was buying geographic satellite companies and innovating with lazy loading javascript maps. It went from, websites can't provide anywhere near the functionality of desktop apps to why would ever use a desktop app for that.

* I was building phone software and mobile search engines before, during, and after the launch of android so I got the inside perspective on cellular carriers reactions. Google was this a dinosaur ending asteroid to them and their wall gardens. They saw signs, then sky darkened and in their hearts they knew Google would build something 100X better than what they could ever build even if they wanted to give up their walled gardens which was a cognitive improbability. The carriers began going through the stages of grief, while they were still on anger, like the sound of thunder[0] android launched, and reality shifted under their feet. After that it seemed like nothing else had ever been possible or true.

Hungry Google was sight to behold.

[0]: The Sound of Thunder - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Sound_of_Thunder
Tell HN: You can re-order checkboxes in the iOS notes app by dragging them
Tens of millions vs population of even just the US let alone the entire planet == few of us.
Back in my 20s, when everyone was single, there were plenty of parties. It was just a matter of putting in the effort to find the right places to meet people.

In my 30s, as a newly wed, there were still parties. A lot of people showed up with kids. Late night parties often had a baby or two who still weren't on a normal schedule.

In my 40s, there's plenty of parties... They just are for other kids. I personally find kids birthday parties fun as long as the other adults are fun too.
Probably the main reason why people use any browser is because of the UI and features added on top of the rendering engine.
I'm not saying that it's good to fire people. And yes, companies have levers to retain their strongest staff. I'm not convinced that they tend to be very good at doing that though.

The (non-FAANG) company I work for has an on-going hiring freeze, and I'm actually quite concerned because the only people who are leaving are the people you wouldn't want to leave - and none of the people you would want to leave are doing so.
Covid is over in the sense that it's a risk we all have to live with forever. In practice, a combination of vaccines, less deadly variants and being over the peak of the pandemic means it's a manageable risk, at least until a breakthrough variant shows up.
likewise! don't worry, we won't meet.

my sake thanks you for your hope though.
Such a hilarious use-case. Like someone would pay to for a Boston Dynamics Atlas robot, and then put it to work on construction, as a gopher.
"Today I couldn’t even tell you the prime time lineup of any network."

This observation really hit home, and I'm not sure why, and I'm not sure what the implication is. But you're totally right with the observation. We've lost some societal glue.
I was surprised to learn about how bad bessemer steel was, I'd heard about it in the past sort of revolutionizing the production, but I must not have kept in my head how singularly useful it was.

Also it's an interesting case of how luck plays into things, were there people before Bessemer who'd tried something similar and had high phosphorous ores? How long would things have carried on before someone intentionally tried fiddling with that knob?
> The problem is that this is not necessarily good for the grid as a whole

I agree. Average electricity prices seem to be higher the more renewables are available in a given area.

It seems to me that this, in part, is due to the pricing mechanisms available. Let's say a nuclear based energy company could sell power to its customers at a fixed price, where the customer would commit to buying this even when the spot price went lower.

Now, let's also assume that the customer would only pay for the grid capacity needed to transfer this power from the local power plant. If companies selling wind power needed a grid capable of transmitting the power from the other side of the continent, that extra cost would be slapped on top of the wind power, NOT other power sources.

In sum, this should make it possible to sell the nuclear power to consumers at prices moderatly above the production cost (plus taxes, local grid costs and reasonable profits).

For old nuclear plants (or those built at the prices available in Korea or China), this would make the price to the consumer quite competitive, if not outright cheaper than energy mixes based on renewables and natural gas.

Also, there is nothing technical that prevents us from building nuclear plants at the safety standards of those plants, with designs from about 1970 not only at the same price (inflation adjusted) as back then, but even much cheaper, due to technological developments. If so, I would expect production costs below $20/MWh. This would still cause less total harm per TWh than any other stable power mix available today.

What prevents this seems to be regulations at every level, where nuclear is burdened with all sorts of extra costs, ranging from insane security requirements and other red tape, limits on pricing in many markets, having to pay for the extra grid capacity required by renewable sources, excessive taxes or deposits for externalities that is not required for other energy sources.

Now let's say all power sources were held to the same standards when it comes to externalities such as safety/harm caused.

This would mean that wind would have to deposit enough funds to ensure proper recycling of blades at end-of-life (or at the very least, safe storage). Ditto for solar. Hydrocarbons have the same allowances for toxic substances as nuclear, in terms lives lost and diseases caused. The harm from greenhouse gases could also be priced in this way. Grid costs would be allocated proportionally to grid capacity requirements.

If we do this, I'm convinced Nuclear would come out as the cheaper than renewables combined with enough hydrocarbon plants (or batteries) to even out the variability of the production capacity. If all power source were punished the same as nuclear for any risks, they would be impossibly expensive. If the demands on nuclear were reduced to the same levels as other sources, it would become dirt cheap.