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I worked both in research and industry. I don't have a PhD myself but many people I know have one. Hope it's fine.

I also find industry to be boring to me but I know people who enjoy it more. Research is stressful, difficult, with high expectations, you often need to find money on your own. In addition to that, universities don't pay as much as the industry.

Software development in the industry is simpler and more relaxing to me. You usually have someone micro-managing/babysitting you. You have a list of tickets, they are boring, a descent solution is always on the first google search page, you implement them, done. Money is good, you can switch job once in a while to not die from boredom.

Over the years this is what people I know that had your question did:

- Switch to a good industry and enjoy a simpler less stressful life.

- Find a government job and enjoy an even less stressful life.

- Become a professor at the university.

- Create an exciting startup.

- Embrace the post-doc lifestyle and benchmark research
labs around the world.

- Work in research, but not in an university.

- Simply go to the university.

After switching back and fourth, I'm currently in an independent research organisation. It's not for everyone but I really enjoy the diversity and the challenges.
IMO, reading books about operating systems internals / implementation, particularly the parts about disk management and file systems, block vs.
character I/O, the buffer cache, fragmentation, etc., would help, too. Some are Unix-based terms, translate for other OSes.
I think there is a heavy quantitative induction mechanism in the markets, that is, a positive feedback mechanism from index funds trying to minimize divergence, or hedge funds trying to font-run those algorithms. So it doesn’t take much to set off irrationality, and not much exists to pull it back, because income investing basically doesn’t exist, and therefore value investing has little support.

Partial side note: obviously the FOMC has a lot to do with investment flows, but I’ve found that the tax system is just as relevant or more so in market distortions, but it is poorly understood, rarely observed, and never considered for alternative possibility, like the water that our economy swims in. For instance, the combination of 401k and double taxation killed income investing. Also, capital gains tax and long-term preference deters sale in a pump, and actually works the other way to prefer short-term selling of losses, so the net effect is to add to the positive feedback. Every tax situation is a comparison of speculative gain and loss on an efficient market hypothesis prior, versus a guaranteed tax loss.
be willing to pay a lil premium for that but i'd guess the average person saw em as fairly mediocre.

No, the average person barely cares for quality, vs cost. The average person will buy the cheapest thing possible, even if it means it lasts a year instead of 10, at a 20% discount.

You can see it in all the "made in china" stuff, mostly sold as in-house brands for retailers. Whether Europe, Canada, the US, people but these retailer brands, this junk, and seem, bizarrely, happy.

But then the average person thinks they can profit at the casino, and cannot think beyond today.
Wheel mounted electric motors were used in 1900 in the Lohner Porsche (1). So not that new.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohner%E2%80%93Porsche
Yeah. I thought it was an odd turn of phrase, for a scientific article.
A truly honest review site seems like one of the toughest open problems to solve.
Regen braking is optional. You can change it in the settings at any time while parked
What's wrong with minivans? I always loved having the ability to haul tons of stuff or people depending on the need.
Toyota sells more cars in a year than Tesla has in the past decade?

Well they'd just be even more dominate if they sold a fully EV corolla without all the "tech" BS every Tesla comes with.
Government-funded chip venture aims to restore Japan's glory days
Mentioned in the article, the government now say 14 units (7 pints) a week. In 1979 it was 56 units, then reduced to 36, 28, 21. By 2030, it will be a sniff of the barmaid's apron (as is said in Yorkshire)
But Einstein's pursuit of Science wasn't what put him in danger? In fact it might have made it easier to flee?
GM saved them in 1990 and gave us one of the best modern vehicles, the Saab 9000. They're a fantastic leap ahead of the 900 which dates design wise to the 70s. A 1992 900 and 1992 9000 are miles apart engineering wise. The 9000 handles, drives and has better power than a 900. It was a sweet spot in great ergonomics, design, engineering, without too much complexity
Why are Huawei, SMIC taking different approaches against US curbs?
A good reason to have the windows down when reversing - at least then you have the benefit of hearing any kids behind you as well.
That depends on how you’re defining lifetime. I doubt the batteries of today will last 12 years, which is the average age of cars on US roads.
My Experience with Startup Competitions
Glassdoor runs a job board, they want the appearance of neutrality not the actual achievement of it.
What was the topic of your PhD?

I'm an EE with strong control systems and computing expertise, ended up doing business analysis, etc (more lucrative). After 20 years of that went back to do a PhD in SE. I'm now running a consulting business focusing on model based software engineering in both business and embedded systems domains.

Doing a PhD makes you the "specialist" in the chosen field. You need to apply that specialist knowledge to solve "important" problems to maximize the value you deliver. For example, many math PhDs have found jobs in banking because they are able to use advanced mathematical principles to model investments and markets. In so doing, they are able to pinpoint profitable trades.
You think glassdoor wants to be fair to both parties when one party (business) pays them in order to help exploit the other party (employee)?

Maybe it sounds cynical, but that is the business model.
JSX is the first template system that I really like.
I think a first question could be if it is in Glassdoor's interest to be fair/objective for both parties. I would assume that users are more likely to visit and engage when drama, conflict and emotions are to be found in the reviews. It also gives companies an incentive to respond on the platform because of the reputational damage.
Is this the same Sweden?

> In November 2010, Sweden issued a European arrest warrant for Assange over allegations of sexual assault, which he denied and said that the warrant was a pretext for a further extradition to the United States over his role in the publication of secret U.S. military documents. After losing his battle against extradition to Sweden, he breached bail and took refuge in the Embassy of Ecuador in London in June 2012. He was granted asylum by Ecuador in August 2012 on the grounds of political persecution and fears he might be extradited to the United States. Swedish prosecutors dropped their investigation in 2019, saying their evidence had "weakened considerably due to the long period of time that has elapsed since the events in question".
Ask HN: To what extent does Microsoft still control MSNBC?
I appreciated the increased text size. Have had a setting for HN at 120% font size because I have trouble reading the small default size. Can't please everyone I guess?
This situation used to be called neurosis. A person faces some hard problem, death would be the paradigmatic one, and unable to come up with a real solution, adopts some stereotyted behaviour of avoidance or denial to cope.

If it is unsolvable, the only strategy is to learn to live with it. Or of it's "just" very hard, you need to find dignity in fighting and losing. You might even win, but it's more difficult if you're anxious.

Also consider that concern and guilt are weapons that some organizations use to involve people in their agendas. Persons that struggle to have a minimally functional life feel as if it's their responsability to save the world. Sometimes the answer is: fuck the planet and live a little.
Or on the vessel itself it would have to be shielded for the people and for any equipment.

I've seen experiments where a device using a paddle was put against a person's head and a strong magnetic field emitted. It was a TV reporter for Discovery Channel Canada and her jaw convulsed, she did not look pleased.

I think the experiment was about spirituality of all things. How to induce a feeling of a presence to a person. I believe it was called the God helmet but in the video I saw it was a paddle.
He told me once, however out of respect for his privacy I won't disclose it.
Why is it a good candidate to disrupt? 1 year in, the “disruptor” would run into the exact same problems if they reach any meaningful scale or adoption.

Asking happy team members to review your company is no different than apps asking frequent users to review on the App Store.
I have been using https://j2html.com/ for some projects and after some initial doubt and discomfort I have to say it is a really nice way to do it.

All the IDE tools just work: refactoring, auto-completion, usage search, debugging.

Also I get really nice exceptions and can express stuff about templates in their types.

When combined with Classes = Templates, static functions = macros and using implementation inheritance (the one permissible case haha) it covers all the usual corners of nice templating engines.

Sure the syntax and indentation is a little wonky, but for me it pays off in so many more convenient ways that it is easily worth the tradeoff.

Is this the best implementation of the concept? Probably not, but it is good.
>While it might lead

Might ?? Come now, be an adult and a thinking person ! Go down the hall find 10 js/frontend programmers. Ask them what do they think "Vanilla JS" might mean ?
They require you to add a salary/review every year to keep using the site but don't verify anything. So it's actually easier to put in some fake numbers than bother putting in real ones.
I'd seen this place mentioned a few times on metafilter and twitter but didn't come visit until I saw it mentioned on both /r/math and SotS in the same week. Word of mouth, basically. I came here for the academia but stayed for the physical industry talk.
Jalopnik has been very negative in Tesla articles for several months now. (I read auto news all the time, I love cars.)

I wonder if they're acting on behalf of another auto manufacturer.
It was optional in pre-2020 models but recent models have removed the option. This is one reason we didn't buy one a couple years ago. (If they've added the option back since then, please let me know!) https://insideevs.com/news/451393/tesla-removes-regenerative...
The big opportunities for startups are the "two PhD problems", e.g. biology and SE = bio-informatics, or bio-tech. Chemistry + economics = more profitable chemical engineering process.
There may be no easy (general) solution, but there may be an acceptable solution in a particular case.

The halting problem is unsolvable, but you usually can say with certainty that a particular piece of code is not an infinite loop. The knapsack problem may take ridiculous time to solve precisely, but moat of the time you have little trouble packing your backpack or bag so that everything you need fits. Etc.

Often you only need to solve 20% of the problem to get 80% of the benefit. Make this step, and you will face further problems from a much better position.
How long until it’s open season on hunting them.
Combatting Phishing with DMARC
SXML
I can't vouch for the historiography, but Top Gear's account of why Saab went wrong is worth watching.

"At one point, a GM accountant went over to Sweden to see why Saab was costing them so much money. And he got into the new 9-3, turned on the satnav, and thought "Wait a minute. That's not one of our systems." And he was right; it wasn't. Saab had developed -- at vast expense -- their own system because they thought GM's wasn't good enough."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iBgVUDUdqE
Do you really consider "Wings wrapped possesively around message says 'it's mine, not yours'" a well though-out reason? That's not feedback, and more like just being mean. If that post mentioned an actual reason, I sure missed it.

I'm saying this as a person who likes the old icon better.
Hi. Article author here.

It was but not when you think... 64-bit NT was never released. NT on Alpha was 32-bit.

It only leaked this month. I wrote about it:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/19/first_64bit_windows/
Yes, but in the worst way. Giving large amounts of CO2 to plants is kind of like giving huge doses of steroids to athletes. They grow abnormally and become unhealthy and short lived.
If they interfere with commerce they’ll be killed.
Truly stunning.

I remember a number of months back when people were discussing short-selling Tesla. I'm soooooo glad I don't play those kinds of games.
An unsolvable problem in personal life is not a problem, but rather a condition. It is an experience that a person must spend time learning how to work with/through/around or how to accommodate.

If the challenge is something work related (i.e. I do a lot of math) then I timebox it. My journal, status report, and other docs will read upon failure: "I spent X hours reviewing Y problem. I assessed A, B, and C. Their shortcomings were Yada Yada Yada."

If the challenge is relationship related, it's dicier. More information would be needed.
I've had plenty of car cameras glitch out or stop working.
> Even Americans who don't drive that often will generally change it about every 6 months.

What? Back when I drove a Corolla (in the U.S.) I never changed my oil more than once a year, and no one ever pestered me about it. Where did you get that?
I spent some time in small industrial controls and we never touched fuzzy logic, but we did a ton of stuff with PID algorithms. Maybe PID was just easier to implement?
You may enjoy signal processing in the context of submarines.
Except that the data leaked does not demonstrate that the Teslas are unsafe.
I've found this to be pretty indicative of company cultures and issues based on companies I've worked at.
Ask HN: Would you wear an AR headset that finds medical problems in strangers?
For example, when riding the bus, your AR headset might put a skin cancer warning over a stranger with a suspicious mole on their neck.

You could then tell them they should see a doctor immediately to get it looked at.
Very, very recently. In the past few days. I tried it out immediately because GPTQ-for-LLaMA and hunting for or making quantized models can be tedious, but it was disappointingly slow. On a 3090 where I was getting responses for a given 13B model in 10-30 seconds, just using transformers with load_in_4bit took about ten times that for each response.
There’s also the storage benefit of using actually quantized models.
NetNewsWire, 12 July 2002, almost 21 years, https://netnewswire.com
I just switched my project from open-coded SQL to goqu; inspired by this article, I searched for "golang html builder" and got this project:

https://github.com/julvo/htmlgo

Which definitely looks interesting.
It's telling something, for sure; but that it must be "HTML (alternative?) must address use-by-string-interpolation" is a questionable suggestion, no matter how subtle.

I believe people use string interpolation to construct HTML, or just about any other language (eg. SQL, JSON, and even human languages) -- is that they see it as a nail and the hammer of string manipulation is almost universally acquired in the very first lessons of any programming language, only second to arithmetics.

People construct HTML with string because the language and environments they use doesn't have mainstream and suitable -- in terms of accessibility and efficiency-- constructs for building HTML.

This problem doesn't exists with React, Elm, and friends that has first class constructs for building HTML.
If reviews “have some signal” then wouldn’t it be more clever to learn to make use of that signal rather than dismiss as entirely worthless?
A teacher at my university was fired for failing students who were caught cheating in an introductory CS class. The ones in charge didn't like that he was causing a disturbance. They would rather have had the cheaters get away with it. The system is broken.
Once you enroll in a PhD program, you can easily get adjunct lecturing work and TA work. Which sets you on the teaching path. The conferences and seminars you attend and the papers you publish create the network of connections.

Perhaps you are at the early stage of your PhD and haven't yet explored the multitude of opportunities. Talk to your advisor(s) about your long-term plans. I'm sure you'll get useful advice and support.
Thats 10 years old! I remember that story. Working in this space I have seen a lot of excel 'systems' get replaced with what we would qualify as proper applications (with all the overhead that comes with that). Of course, traders will miss the nimble nature of being able to update the pricing models themselves instead of having to put a ticket in, but it's prevented a magnitude of other blow-ups that have happened somewhere in the multiverse.
Yeah, jsx implements this idea the right way. Of course that also means it’s not a template language :)
I think giving reasons (even if I disagree with them/don't feel the same way) is better than just saying "I don't like it", yes.
> India is emitting less than either the USA or the EU even in absolute terms

This will change with more wealth though. We must ensure that future energy hunger in India (and Africa) ist not satiated by fossil fuels.
TBH even L1 120v/12amp at a work parking spot is often good enough to get a charge to recoop the km spent getting to&from the office. A full 3kw or 6kw L2 charge will be wasted for many people for most of the day, unless you enforce people rotating out of spots. Which from my experience is a real PITA.
Just honesty. "Yes I did, I was wrong and this is why" you might get back "ok! skip that bit, it's not so important now after all"
Team control and coordination is incredibly important when you don’t know if you can solve a problem. Inherently, if you don’t know if there’s a solution for your problem, your research will be very wide and your teams ability to adapt quickly to new directions is paramount.

As the leader, you may need to shut down directions of inquiry often. Every situation where “I wish I had pulled the plug on that sooner…” wasted time and effort.

Then you have to be willing to pull the plug for good. Whether you’re an employee or an external advisor, it’s always difficult to justify time and expense with no solution, but wasted/higher time and expense is worse.

This also applies to the individual, you still have to fight your own internal desire to push something to conclusion.
True but that was TH's story. This is a different one which I began writing before TH had published.
But the country is wealthier in the scenario where you produced and sourced more labor for money. Arguably more productive too, because you expanded the pool of labor when you worked more hours, which your employer (presumably) transformed into more money.
Glassdoor reviews are filled with subjective phrases that are so meaningless. Comments like "great work/life balance" doesn't offer much information . A more useful approach would be to have users enter more objective figures. For example:
"Typical office hours: 9-6, Weekends worked per year: 4, Pager evenings per month: 2, meeting hours per week: 10. Remote days per week: 3, etc.
The Scum Economy
Kinda reminds me how Genius proved Google was scraping lyrics from them.

Cannot find for the life of me what could be possibly unethical about this. If anything, it’s very, very educational.
The largest threat against the free press right now is the EUs GDPR laws and how they are now systematically abused by European governments to hinder transparency of documents that should be strictly available to the public by law. Here is how it works:

All European governments have instituted "Data protection authorities" to work for them. When a journalist, citizen, or other investigator sends a request for information or documents that the people in government wants to hide, they will call on this authority. Before GDPR they simply had to give out these documents, because it is completely clear in the laws that the public should have access to them. Now they have an option for not giving out public information they don't want to be seen, by calling on their "Data protection authority". This authority will then do everything to stall the process. They will send a bunch of questions to the person who required the documents, such as what backup software they use, where are the servers located (which is of course sensitive information), etc etc.

If they find anything from the United States among the software like Google software or whatnot, they will deny sending the public documents requested. They will write "Since you are using e-mail from the United States, you will break GDPR law if you get these documents". Of course they are themselves sending this message through a Microsoft cloud service in the USA that the government uses. Mission accomplished for them and documents remain hidden.

These European data protection authorities deliberately make the false interpretation of the law that any name of a person in any document should be protected information under GDPR in order to hide information that should be publicly available. It seems the main purpose of the GDPR laws has been this, to help governments combat public transparency. And to put up annoying cookie banners - even on the government radio website that OP links to.
> It would be great to hear from the HN community about ways to improve spreadsheets.

I’m working on this! Very early days so far, and I have nothing much to show for it yet, but I do have some ideas on integrating static type inference and proper data structures into spreadsheets. My initial prototype is at [0]: it’s horrifically buggy in just about every way (don’t even try to get it working!), but the screenshot should give some idea of what I’m thinking should be possible.

[0] https://github.com/bradrn/nexo
Or maybe I could invade their privacy and violate their hipaa rights (or equivalent) for something that could be under treatment already without me knowing.
Ask HN: Login with HN?
Are there any third party sites that require you to have a HN account, and do so in a way that respects privacy and doesn’t require I enter my HN password on another site?
Orcas are genuinely amazing creatures. We have observed evidence for culture within them, and witnessed them engage in social learning behavior identical to humans. So much so that it's important to consider their culture when we consider conservation w.r.t. orcas, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00063...

One of my favorite examples is that, in the 1980s, an orca started wearing a dead salmon on her nose. Others soon followed. They copied the pioneer until everyone was doing it. They then subsequently got bored, abandoned the trend & forgot about it.

Alder or A99 rediscovered the trend in 2019 and it became cool to balance salmon on your nose again, https://www.instagram.com/p/CZkhP0fvhXn/

In this case, it's very likely that someone hurt one of them and they're now trying to make the world safer for themselves. They've figured out a way to deal with the entity they see as a threat and they've spread that knowledge.

It's all very human.

I suspect that it might actually be possible to try diplomacy in this case. I may be wrong, but I suspect that they could be reasoned with. This moment in time could lead to a breakthrough in inter-species communication.