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Very good talk. However I would only disagree with her on the idea that funding will dry up for particle physicists and that the model of funding helps to drive the useless cycle if bad ideas in physics (and any government funded science).

1) Obtaining grants to continue study in any field of science is greatly improved if you are iterating on an established idea that is already understood. Getting a grant on a completely novel idea outside of the mainstream field of thoughts is going to be much harder. Along with this is the reality that government grants are managed by a revolving door of industry and university insiders which is both a terrible and great thing. On one hand you don't want lobotomized bureaunaughts making uninformed decisions on which researchers to support. On the other hand your knowledgable staff on granting agencies are going to be the ~top of a given field and as such will weed out non-mainstream ideas for funding as "they already know" that a new line of thought to be foley.

2) While governments freely waste taxpayers money, they still do it strategically. After Hiroshima the world understood how important it is to keep a close eye on the physics community. Every country with a viable nuclear program must continue to engage in this game of useless increments in particle physics. Making progress is not what is important, what is truly important is that a country has its own base of physics knowledge and active development so that should another physics breakthrough happen elsewhere then they have a chance of recreating it on their own within a short enough window for it to make a difference. If you didn't already have physicists engaged in their craft then you would be 5-10 years behind the curve of any post-nuclear-physics breakthrough. The same game is played in many other fields of science...
I'd argue for the introduction of a new tier, with the responsibilities that you're taking on that aren't reasonable for the others to do. And if they don't agree, maybe stop doing those extra things.

Your coworkers aren't "overpaid", you're underpaid.
There's no guarantee that for some tests that anyone is actually using the edge case, and there's never 100% coverage.

The tests are the map, the actual use of the language is the terrain. The map is assembled largely by blindly guessing what the terrain is likely to look like.

That isn't very scientific.

The result is a situation where users will scream at the language authors if they break something, but they'll refuse to share any information about what they're actually doing with the language, which is perverse.
I love the mental model of GPT as only one part of the brain, but I believe that the integration of other "parts" of the brain will come sooner than you think. See, for instance, https://twitter.com/mathemagic1an/status/1624870248221663232 / https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761 where the language model is used to create training data that allows it to emit tokens that function as lookup oracles by interacting with external APIs. And an LLM can itself understand when a document is internally inconsistent, relative to other documents, so it can integrate the results of these oracles if properly trained to do so. We're only at the surface of what's possible here!

I also look to the example of self-driving cars - just because Tesla over-promised, that didn't discourage its competitors from moving forward slowly but surely. It's hard to pick a winner right now, though - so much culturally in big tech is up in the air with the simultaneity of layoffs and this sea change in AI viability, it's hard to know who will be first to release something that truly feels rock-solid.
This is the impact of moving from the "growth company" to "profitable company" investment model.

Twilio and other "high growth" saas companies for the last few years have competed solely on how much they could grow the top line every quarter. Now they have to rebuild themselves.
I think it's a copy paste error. The minor allele frequency of rs114142727 is around 1%.
> it allowed the Bharat Jodo Yatra (Join India Campaign) and understands that a robust opposition is in national interest.

Last time I checked India was still a democracy.
Anyways you are not missing out from paywalled articles. This will be a never ending battle but it looks like we need an open source extension store :)
I'd love to hear more about these "leave when the free soda disappears" signs. I think a lot of us can benefit from the unmoderated experiences of others who've been in this situation. When "lifers" start disappearing that's a big indicator the show's over.
Maybe by manipulating /proc/12345/fd/* ? Can these be manipulated or are they read-only?
Because maybe the CCP elite wouldn't be able to buy property themselves. These restrictions are pretty ineffective anyway. There are similar regulations in Canada, and what we're seeing is that local realtors (who are residents/citizens) will buy the property on their behalf. This is also illegal, but much harder to regulate.
Yes, I will give Microsoft that -- MS Teams is so much better than Skype for Business/Lync, which was a horrible piece of video conferencing software.
This new model is soldered unfortunately which allows it to use low power raM
We used Teams for video occasionally back in 2019 before the pandemic. It was pretty unreliable, and had much better success with BlueJeans or Zoom. If there were more than a couple people on camera, Teams couldn't handle it the same way Zoom or BlueJeans could. I haven't taken a second look since then.
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I have now read this article, a number of other articles, and--importantly--the NYDFS statement on the matter. Every single reference stresses that regulators agree that PBUSD is separate from BUSD and is not issued by Paxos before noting that it is explicitly not regulated. I thereby do not see any evidence for this theory that the regulators are going after Paxos and forcing them to stop issuing BUSD due to Binance issuing difficult-to-track PBUSD. Further, I will argue that the premise of such an argument is flawed: Binance is itself purposefully not regulated in the United States, and so there are assuredly actors using it to trade whom United States regulators want to blacklist; the result is that merely having BUSD traded on Binance--even without the ability to withdraw it to other chains as PBUSD--already has this "risk" you are speaking about.
Yes, but it mainly has come up when combining libraries and releasing something else as OSS. For example, the ASF has a good examination of the effect of combinations with the AL2: https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html
That's on point.
A "proprietary billing service", or a service that includes billing in the value proposition in general: whether you're a vertical SaaS, an accountingtech, or a payment processor.
Let’s keep iterating on the takedown evasion strategies until they’re impenetrable. It’s the only hope the People have of actually being in control of anything important.
A tier based system doesn't seem inherently unfair to me. But putting a senior dev and a junior dev on the same tier seems pretty unfair.

Are you paid well relative to what you could make if you did jump ship? You mention that your coworkers are over-paid, but not specifically that you are underpaid.
I don’t believe single family homes should be allowed to be owned by investors. With any regulation I’m sure there are loopholes but we can implement some basic checks to make it much more difficult. Right now there are zero barriers if you have cash.
First time I've heard "pleading face" referred to as "the bottom emoji"
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Assuming the company's main product is a hot cookie, then I take issue with this particular example, because a cold cookie is really a different product. But in general, I have no issue with peak pricing. I'm okay with you advertising a low price if it's something that a reasonable person might be able to take advantage of (e.g., I'm not okay with you advertising $15 cookies if that price only applies between 1:48 and 1:52 AM).
This is very cool! We just built our own internal billing tool for our company after bad experiences with Recurly and ChargeBee. We are B2B and B2E and ChargeBee/Recurly felt very clunky when used for enterprise billing — specifically around usage based billing, discounts, and multiple geographies.

The billing part was easy to build (though of course we under-estimated the effort by 10x), but the reporting is the really tricky part. Revenue recognition, plus simple things like correctly tracking upgrades/downgrades vs expansion/contraction when someone changes plan mid-month.

Is this something that Lago does now or intends to include? I could not see it in the docs.
There’s a “really old” book called _On Intelligence_ that suggests modeling AI like the brain. This pattern is almost exactly what he suggests.
If the status quo is bad, then this will only make it worse. The only alternative is to completely disengage online, which, might actually be beneficial, who knows. Billions of other people will not though.
You might be interested in Blendle [1], a website which offers a variety of publications on a pay-per-article basis where you can charge up a wallet in advance.

They offer publications like Time, the Economist, and the Chicago Tribune. Unfortunately it's somewhat expensive - $0.25-$0.50 per article. And they don't have any sort of automated way to jump from a newspaper's paywall straight to the Blendle article - you've got to find it through Blendle. And there selection of publications is somewhat limited.

But there are companies out there trying to deliver something kind of close to what you're talking about!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendle
What about assuming every one of those people gets 1 trillion accounts
>Bing

No AI can be trusted. FTFY.
Thanks for your trust, it means a lot to us!
It's at least a decade ahead of Zoom on Linux. The latter's like using 00s Skype.
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So should they also force every subsidiary to use Windows, VSCode, Office 365, Azure, etc?
I don't understand the apologetic tone of this post. At least where I live this behaviour is illegal. These cops must lose their jobs and go to jail. Their job is to protect people, not injure them. F*k*g b*t**s.
That wasn't what I was suggesting. I think it is reckless to try to persuade people into trying genetic engineering on themselves (one of the examples that the man showed in the documentary, was about injecting into your arm modified cells to make your muscles grow bigger).
But I'm fine with people using kits to have fun making a plant that glows in the dark, as long as they take care of not releasing the results of their experiments in the environment.
Why do you think YouTube isn’t profitable? Plenty of ads in it and bringing in something like $15 bln/year in revenue. Don’t know exactly the COGS, etc., but hard to say they aren’t making money. Android is probably a much better example than YouTube.
You should be bumped up a few steps (tiers), or assigned a managerial role, as you are doing non-temporary extra work out-of-class. I would schedule a meeting with both your boss and your bosses boss to explain why you need to be promoted.

> The others have little to no experience.

> I do all of the project planning, code reviews, bug fixes, requests etc.

The other devs should also be assigned some of the simpler of these tasks to grow their skills so that eventually they too can get step bumps.
wonder if facebook would have ever existed on this model?
Ask HN: If you were not laid off, how are your 1:1 meetings going?
Do you have any important questions someone not laid off should be asking to their managers?

More importantly, do you expect real answers?
My 2c: I realized (quite late in life) that when there's just about nothing that I can interest myself in, it's because I actually _need to do nothing_.

Doing nothing is healthy and is a great way to regain health.

(Feeling guilty about it or worrying about "what I should be doing" will prevent it from restoring us, though. It only works if we accept our health needs.)
> That's why I said "at least in the USA".

Yes, I have to give you credit for this. As to these senior citizens giving this advice and me giving this advice: It is a solution for many people. Speaking worldwide, so many thousands of poor are lifting themselves out of that destiny and becoming middle class through joining the military. Many do it in countries that haven't seen real war in a century. Instead of killing or being killed, their career might consist of things such as natural disaster relief.

I'm disappointed - but not surprised - with the negative reaction of the HN commenters (not speaking about you) to any kind of suggestion for real life solutions. It is obvious that many people here prefer to discuss among themselves utopian fantasies of what other people - "the government" - should do some day in the future to help the poor. In the meanwhile it is for the poor to just stay poor and shut up until the geniuses bless them with a cure.

The reason I mentioned the military branches, is because it is something almost all countries in the world have in common where you have your living expenses included. This is my main point, to both make and save money at the same time.
Good stuff, very to-the-point. For the curious, I just wrote (https://tylerberbert.substack.com/p/breaks) about why rotating task types can have the added benefit of generating helpful ideas and insights about prior tasks.
I have bookmarked your comment and I hope to have the discipline to come back to it every 3 months or so for the next couple of years. Because I think you are right but I didn't noticed it before. When the real things cole, we will probably be blindsided.
Yeah they are. Sugarcoat it all you want but when a company exits you then you have been fired/terminated/etc. It doesn't really matter. Sure they might treat you differently if you terminated for cause or not but when you lose your job you are fired. Laid off is a form of being fired, I guess.
The thing is, the companies didn't overhire given the expected growth rates they were forecasting. Companies doing layoffs now are doing so with the same reasoning they used when they did hiring during the pandemic - they are forecasting their growth based on current economic realities.

The pandemic years saw companies accelerate their growth, even those who didn't have a clear 'pandemic angle' like Twilio. 2020 Q4 saw Twilio revenue growth 65% which encouraged them to hire more. Again, this is just the flip side of the current growth they are seeing (20-30%) which is causing them to re-balance their cost structure for lower growth.

There is risk in hiring during high growth periods - the risk being potentially these employees either won't deliver the value you expect, your strategy is wrong, or your growth rates won't continue. If these things happen, you might have to do a layoff. There is risk is NOT hiring during high growth periods too - if the company doesn't structure itself to capitalize on the current growth it is seeing, competitors could come in and sweep up market share.

At the end of the day, no one has a crystal ball for when high growth rates will stop, or when low(er) growth rates will pick back up again. In these cases, companies will hire during high growth periods and might have to lay off during low growth periods.

Many people seem to want to frame "layoffs" as a de facto failure, but it really isn't a failure as much as it is a company responding to dynamic market conditions (again, the flip side of hiring when growth is high). It's hard to say if the pandemic era hiring was really a bad idea - that hiring did fuel many of these companies to rapidly expand their revenue base and capitalize on many growth opportunities. Now that their future growth is expected lower, they are re-balancing their cost structure to respond.
From your description it doesn’t sound fair.

In my experience, non-technical managers underestimate the importance of Senior devs / leaders / mentors. They might have the assumption that those folks are as replaceable as Jr. devs, when that is not accurate. The switching cost for a Sr. contributor is far higher.

It’s a tough job market and as a recruiter I can tell you that a series of short stints isn’t a good look. But, you will probably find more appreciation and respect with a tech company or a tech manager / owner who understands the importance of your contributions.

Good luck.
You may also hear BBC English called "The Queens English"or just Queens English.
And just like ICEs and jets, each tech increasingly became otherworldly and revolutionary at doing what it does well.
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You know the answer already. The real question is how long you think you need to stay in this position.
So this all justifies my general stance of "find a Unicode expert" when questions of unicode come up. But that's pretty wilfully blind (although practical).

I would like to understand why UTF-32 didn't catch on as The Standard Unicode for the modern world. it seems that - albeit memory wasteful - it would sidestep a lot of these issues.
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I can tell you from personal experience that hospital funding priorities are wild. It's an ongoing turf war between hospitals.

* Buying up private practices
* Remodels so the hospital has a more pleasant ambiance
* Having an excessive amount of cash on hand to signal various things to various parties
* Working out the cost schedules with insurance companies
* Audits for a certifications outside of regulatory requirements that are useless on the nursing floor (lean/six sigma/etc)
* Adding new types of facilities outside the core competencies of the organization such as gyms or specialized satellite facilities.

Really, healthcare is a cutthroat industry that's all about signaling.
> ...You've been listening to Alan Kay?

Actually yes :-) I agree that the original vision of computing pioneers about "augmenting the human intellect" has yet to become reality, and the industry has been entrenched in a local minimum derived from the very early engineering practices. But all that is finally changing really fast.
WebSQL was a proposed web standard that all standards-compliant browsers would have to implement. The standard was tightly coupled to the SQLite implementation, which was a problem for any browser that could not just bundle SQLite. Ultimately the standard was rejected because it was too coupled to a single implementation.
Consider this:

A tesla’s fsd code had gone through the sdlc they choose, involving project management.

I distrust project management.

Therefore: I only trust a tesla’s fsd mode as much as I trust a project manager’s driving.
Literally sitting here right now trying to figure out how to get simple things going compared to slack after being forced to move to teams from slack (not GitHub).

I am all for dogfooding here, but if the dog-fooding is not improving the product it shows that the goal is to eat market because of lopsided ecosystem monopoly. Screw MS and MS Teams.

eg. : We need a tag in a shared channel so that we can provide single point of support for other teams, instead of people having to tag the whole channel. Slack made is as easy as breeze to sync on-call person from PD -> a group.
I totally forgot about two weeks to flatten the curve.

edit: In my area, ER's are no longer over capacity. Is this true where you are? I'm curious if we can determine a date for this milestone, because it'd be good to know statistically speaking for if an event on this level ever happens again.
The post doesn’t actually mention burnout at all, it is just tagged with the word for some reason.

I don’t think I have seen “real burnout” as you call it. If it is so debilitating, I guess it must be pretty rare, or this would be causing a massive social and economic disturbance. It seems lots of people are feeling worn out nowadays, so this article seems like it could be useful.
Teams works relatively fine for me now that I upgraded to an M1 macbook pro. (Still occasionally crashes for no reason, but no apparent performance problems).

A year ago I was still on a 2015 Macbook, and it was still doing just fine for me on everything but Teams, Teams was a disaster, it would freeze and drop video all the time, or have perceptible delay between click and effect.
That's one of the reasons why we decided not to build "entitlements" ourselves, and prefer to partner with other "pure players" (or recommend to build internally if it's really specific).
We've been working with Osohq.com (open source as well) as there's a great product and DNA fit: https://doc.getlago.com/docs/integrations/entitlements/oso
yes, yes, and yes

Here's a good place to start: https://codecheck.com/code-adoption-by-state/
Lol does that happen often? I can understand it with mace, but a taser?? What happens when a senior officer gets tased by some rookie? I imagine he would never hear the end of that.
Which person or persons specifically are you referring to?
Are the building textures from photos? It looks a lot cleaner than I remember NYC being.
I mean, I think it's a narrower demographic that browse the Firefox extension shop looking for obscure extensions for fun, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's a net increase.
So where would the 35x35 mile cube of industry be, within the park? What about the electrical transmission lines? What about the roads needed to access each site? What about the support infrastructure? A super-volcanic eruption is not a certainty, just as another ice-age is not.
the study was intending to measure the rate of suicidal thoughts among transgender people.

Seems like a great way to get a lot of datapoints is to use a transgender forum. Seems like a great way to measure suicidal thoughts is to ask "do you have suicidal thoughts"

So seems like a great approach to gather a lot of evidence for the question at hand?

Seems like you just don't like the evidence because it doesn't reach the rather bigoted conclusion you want it to
For things like that, you really need to have a passion for working on it, and develop a fairly specific skillset, not only in the technology realm, but in the medical realm. Hearing aids aren't just stupid expensive earbuds.

This is the thing he's working on now. He's working on other things. He has hobbies and he has a job. He's going to do what he enjoys doing. Who cares if it's not useful to you or me.

There are other people working on those problems.

As a diabetic, I've been fascinated to watch the progress of things like AAPS, Loop, OpenInsulin, etc. But I'm not going to demand everyone working on "useless" things to jump on the thing that I will specifically benefit from.
The popular conception of an ER doc is completely divorced from the day-to-day reality.. This isn't House, they're not "put on the spot" constantly like they're on some island. They are part of a care team and they call for IM/ID/Cardio/Radiology consults when they have any question about a diagnosis. They certainly have stressful jobs but no moreso than the floor physicians or other providers who work the same shifts and who take the critically ill patients when they need care beyond the capabilities of the ER.
It is petty to begrudge others and wise to insist on your value or find better opportunities elsewhere.

Fair is for fools or those genuinely content with the averaging (I have been both.)
Which part of the post did the author convey surprise that it can't be trusted? It just seems like a response to the mass hype currently surrounding AI.