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> The compensation is lower

Unfortunately the job market has cooled, I’m seeing comp lower for all roles unless you’re in a buzzy AI company (which will come to a halt at some point).
Public statements by your CEO can easily impact your work. Twitter might have a trivial and lighthearted feel, but that doesn't detract. Eg, when Musk tweeted he was taking Tesla public, it was probably very disruptive, regardless of the medium. I think one of the lessons of the last few years has been that things people say on Twitter do, in fact, matter a great deal.

ETA: I had a brain fart and thought we were talking about Tesla, but the example is illustrative nonetheless.
No, I don't. Which is why I changed 15 million into 3-4M housing units...

The country is not full. But the places with jobs have more renters than rentable units.. which is why a 2br costs $3k a month.

You got 2 out of 3 points completely wrong, and your other was a pedantic point about wording. You should probably slow down and think before discussing this subject.
Weird that the internal systems communicate via an Ingress, but I guess that's government contractors for you. Clearly they should have gone with Istio instead.
That scenario, if true, would surpass any other in the history of science. It's akin to the Monty Hall problem, but with a trillion doors, where you don't change your choice after all but two are shown not to have the superconductor.

So obviously if true there's a better explanation of why those early experiments failed.
> Besides that the "heavier = bad for the road" (which TFA hints at) is pure non-sense: a regular car or a car twice the weight of the regular car will do exactly jack shit to damage the road.

This is not bullshit. Road damage scales as the _fourth_ power of the axle weight. BTW, that's also why buses and heavy tracks are so damaging. One bus does can easily do the same damage as several thousand cars.

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
No commits for a year? https://lolg.it/amber/amber
Is it dead?
TFA won't load for me, does it list the frequency or show spectragraphs?
Healthcare staff aren't superhuman and can burn out same as anyone else. The workload of those who do shifts onto those who haven't, who burn out all the sooner for it. At some point, a critical mass of people are going to say "What am I really doing here?" and leave and not come back.
Those meaningful edge cases can still happen. You don't need to own, store, and maintain the equipment for them year-round for this.

In fact, I would argue that the edge cases feel even more special when you rent. For instance, my family rented a large passenger van for a road trip. The van itself became a sort of icon of that trip, and the source of distinct memories.
This take is overly cynical. Burying a house with a nice entertaining space or a good set of tools is about reducing the friction of doing the things you want. Owning a treadmill and walking to the other room is way easier than going to gym after work when you're tired.

It's far far easier to throw a party when it just means inviting people over and making or ordering food than renting an entertaining space. It's easier to work on a project when you have the tools in your garage than if you had to go to the hardware store or go rent a u haul.

For all the talk of rampant consumerism the stuff on the bottom of my list of things to complain about are purchases intended to reduce your reliance on buying things. Owning nothing, making nothing, and renting other people's stuff and labor for every task is peak consumerist behavior disguised as "efficient" "minimal" living.
Digitization Puts Many at a Disadvantage
Quite right. The main issue is that everyone thinks they know how floating point works, which is why they continue to fall into these traps.

Like time, floating point is deceptively hard.
1. The advertisers didn't leave Twitter (in the instance being discussed there) because of Musk's speech, they left because it was pointed out that their ads were being displayed amongst tweets containing hate speech.

2. That interview is not him acting "fine" with those advertisers leaving; it's him emotionally lashing out in anger at them for doing so.
I don't think that's the burden of proof though, I think they have to prove they were fired in retaliation.
I almost bought an EV, but road trips became a blocker. I have family about 4 hours drive away. Outside of my town and my destination, there are 3 chargers that can charge an EV in a reasonable amount of time (less than 2 hours).

They're all Electrify America, which are pretty unreliable. I'd have to stop at each and every one of them to ensure I could actually make the four hour drive. Unbelievably annoying.
> I submit the optimum mix for most Americans right now is roughly 1 EV and 1 hybrid, solar roofing and a battery storage system.

What geographic locations do you have in mind when you’re recommending solar? Youre in basically the best location for it.
Yeah but that's not what happened
Out of curiosity, what behavioral differences stand out to you between nvi and vim? NetBSD ships with nvi and it felt quite alien to me after vim and evil.
You don't need to purchase, maintain, and store the equipment for those edge cases to happen. You can rent them. In fact, that makes them even more special.
We haven’t updated our electric grid in 50 years. There are barely any charging stations available.
If I want to make a long distance trip I have to plan my trip according to charging station availability. I prefer hybrid for now.
The thing about EVs is that they are new so I'm not sure how to calculate maintenance cost reliably. I'm thinking about after 8-10 years. Some ICEs can reliably run "forever" if well maintained, like some Toyota ones.
Many people rent cars for these types of excursions to prevent wear-and-tear on their own cars.
I don't know anything about GridFTP - but there's a huge difference between verifying if files were "transferred correctly" and verifying that files were transferred without being tampered with by a malicious party.

MD5 is fine for the first task, and totally unacceptable for the second.
If it made sense for me. Did I say that it made sense for everybody?
Can anyone comment on an open source multi-modal LLM that can produce structured outputs based on an image? I have not found a good open source one yet (this included), seems to be only closed source that can do this reliably well. Any suggestions are very welcome!
I don't think what looks like abuse changes. I think what abuse we're OK with changes.

Domestic abuse was always abuse. It always looked like abuse. We always knew it was abuse.

But, for a very, very long time, society was totally cool with it.
I've always thought I slept on the shorter side, getting a Fitbit is pretty interesting to see the data on it I'm usually around 6.5hrs sometimes a bit less, but getting more than that doesn't usually make me feel any more rested. Also a night owl, wonder if that is more typical?
contamination: training on the questions/answers used for LLM benchmarks.

the top of the HuggingFace Open LLM leaderboard was pretty meaningless for a bit because many of the top scores were achieved by training on the evaluation data
I've wondered whether it would be possible to design a language with the explicit intent of being a decompilation target, such that you could guarantee that any program could be decompiled into it and then subsequently re-compiled with the original behavior preserved. Having such a language (perhaps a superset of C?) would make it way easier to perform binary patching.
ByteDance DreamTuner: Single image subject generation
Those links don't say what you claim they say. Big red flag alert!

Your first link is ancient (September 2020) so it doesn't reflect any of the latest-and-greatest brightness mitigations. The study just looked at VisorSat, and SpaceX never claimed VisorSat "fixed" the issue completely.

Your second link has nothing to do with visible light reflections, and is actually about the same RF emissions as the current article (emissions which SpaceX is already in the process of mitigating[0] btw).

You're not even lying with statistics here. You're just lying with.... lying. :-\

>SpaceX knew their satellites would cause issues

Citation needed. I'm also 100% sure you can't provide one.

All the reports from SpaceX and from the astronomical community alike both say the impact was surprising and unexpected. Do you have a (reliable, documented, and critically non-misrepresented) source that says otherwise? No?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38863424
Can you name two of the "too many things" that are "too unsafe" about EVs?
Biden gave the NLRB teeth, so now they're doing their job.
What is HN coming to
Now imagine that distance being the distance to the next major city. And your family is 2 hours east of there. Welcome to Texas.
While we're being absurd, are there any open source/copyleft licences that specifically forbid uses in war or weapons? I guess the gov will do whatever they want, but it would be interesting to see how it played out.
> The concern is that as adoption of EVs increase, the availability of places where one can charge on a journey outside of one's home range will not keep up with demand. I hope it becomes a non-issue, but I am hesitant to commit until it is clear it will not be.

This is the opposite of my experience. There are way more superchargers now than there were when I bought my car in 2019. Road trips are much easier. I worry about charging/waiting much less.

From the Bay Area, where Teslas are as common as Camrys, tons of people travel to the Tahoe basin for the holidays. I just did so last week. Charging was a complete non-issue even during this cold, extremely popular time.

And if you think about it, the same argument could be made about gas stations, that given how many ICE cars are on the road, places where you can fuel up on road trips will not keep up with demand — and is also not a reflection of reality.
>>If the employee says something the company doesn't like, the company is free to dismiss the employee.

Except they are not, even in the US with its meagre employee protections there are entire classes of protected activity that you cannot be fired for, and discussing your working conditions while at work(and being critical of them) is protected.

>>This is pretty obviously a political prosecution

Going after the people who break the law is political now? Fascinating. What's next, we let burglars walk free if they are of a specific political belief?
Being offended by the CEO's tweets has nothing to do with working conditions. Imagine the people who fought for actual working conditions laws reading this tripe.
Not super surprising, didn't these specific categories generate the most shrink? I remember when they sold CDs, always found empty disc cases, same with PC games and the old cardboard boxes.
Wow, that Twitter quote is crazy. Can you imagine any other CEO (or C-suite) for a major corp writing the same thing? They would be instantly fired. You see it on Wall Street frequently for much less, and at all ranks of employees. After many costly sexual harassment lawsuits against Wall Street banks, the culture has changed significantly in the last 20 years.
That's about to change. Prices are coming down rapidly. The US is lagging the rest of the world mainly because its car industry is a bit uncompetitive (except for Tesla) and because manufacturers there are spoiled with a market that just has an insatiable demand for pointlessly large and expensive vehicles. That's still a growth market and very lucrative. Which means that US manufacturers are dedicating their very limited EV production capacity (except for Tesla) at that market exclusively. Because that's where the profits are.

BYD, Stellantis, and others are already producing cheap EVs by the millions. There are tiny EVs on the road in Europe that cost as little as 7000 Euros. Not a lot yet but I've seen a few in the wild. Think lots of plastic and not a whole lot of range and speed. Perfect for a city car. Stellantis is launching a proper EV for 24K euros this year; the Citroen e-c3. Modest range and good enough speed for short journeys on the highway. VW is following soon with the ID2. And of course the Chinese market has very different pricing than the rest of the world because it's a much more competitive market. BYD already has vehicles in the price classes you mention in China. You can buy EVs there for less than 10K$.

Producing cheap EVs is a solved problem from a technical point of view. It's being done. They exist. Just not in the US. Not yet at least. But as volume production kicks in that's just a matter of time.
"EV should be able to do everything a gas car can"

I disagree with this article. I have a 2023 Polestar that I've had for about 10 months. I will be trading it when my new gasoline Audi arrives in the next week or so. I'll never have another electric vehicle. They tell you things that are not true. The cost of ownership of electric vehicles is much higher than gasoline, especially if you travel. It takes twice as long for a trip. A trip that used to take me normally 7 hours turned into 15 hours for charging and waiting.

You're going to be shocked by the electric bill. We're having to pay 0.22 cents/kW here. Many of the charging stations charge more than it costs to fill up a gas powered car. If you leave your car on their charger, they charge you for parking, and it is expensive. Don't charge your car, then go to dinner, and the movie.

They burn through tires. I have almost 30,000 miles on mine and I already need a new set of tires. I don't accelerate hard. I would be curious about others experiences. My friend still swears up and down about his Tesla, but he never goes anywhere. He has a 2018 Tesla w/ 40k miles. Maybe they're perfect for people that live in the city. If you have to drive, be warned.
I have been doing this for 5 years. EV for daily commutes, rentals for hauling stuff for my landscaping hobby and ICE rentals for roadtrips. I must have rented close to 100 cars for those roadtrips. Ended up getting a large ICE wagon in the end:

- rentals for the roadtrips cost a lot (about 1.5-2k p/w for a SUV like an X5), and those cars are still poorly equipped. It ruins the fun of a roadtrip if the car audio sucks or the windshield is made of cheapest, thinnest glass. I never knew car companies sell premium vehicles with such low trims. Its a hassle too as the rental companies around where I live examine the car like they were buying it from me. One has to interact with various people and spend the time, and its not always an enjoyable experience,
- rentals for hauling stuff are perfectly ok even for weekly use. I'd still love the luxury of owning a toyota proace full time, but there is less of a reason to own sth like this for me.
>"I refuse to live my life as if these things aren't important to me. I refuse to average my entire life style down to my median day."

This is exactly how I feel
Well put, but:

> even going as far as saying the employer does not have to deduct dues for members (who have agreed to it) pay

I'm surprised you frame this as an extreme example. Regardless of one's views on unions (they have their place), it seems way off for the employer to deduct those payments. Perhaps it's a convenience, but as a worker that is my money to pay to the union; if the union and the employer orchestrate the transfer of my membership payment behind closed doors before the money hits my account, it's makes it harder to feel the union is truly acting in my interests.

This is not just a matter of hygiene; for example, I was once in a (notoriously corrupt and socially reactionary) union here in Australia that represents retail workers. I didn't have a choice in the matter and my membership payments were deducted by my employer. About a decade later, a court ruled that a deal made between that employer and the union had left workers worse off (but was in the interests of the union bureaucracy). Incidents like this seriously damage the reputation of the union movement.

Having your dues deducted automatically in an environment of compulsory unionism doesn't seem to have much to do with empowering workers at all!
California debuts 'turbo roundabout' to fix troubled intersection near Bay Area
This sounds like a very outdated view. I rent cars semi-frequently and the pick-up and drop-off are usually very fast if not nearly instant. This assumes you made the reservation online. I've had some annoyingly long waits in recent years but those have been exceptions and weren't really all that long, more just annoying.
It requires:

- Up front planning

- A pub to exist nearby. While I as a presumably fellow Brit would not buy a house without being able to walk to multiple pubs, that is not the common case in the US where I actually live.

- The pub to have a room that it rents out. Again, not the common case even in London, let alone in the US.

- Your potential guests to be OK with being at a pub.

- Potentially childcare. If you have to have your party away from your house, you can't put your kids to bed and return to your guests, you have to go home. That part, if you will pardon my French, really fucking sucks.
OK I’ll bite. What is the utter nonsense in this thread?
That's nice. I hope you got good value out of it and their woke programming.
My in-laws bought two new—yes, new—ICE cars (some Chevy model, I think) for under $10k, total, not each, 12ish years ago. Car prices have gone totally bananas since then. I hate whatever’s happening with that.
Even if it allowed infinite current, the only thing that would become "free" is what we currently lose to inefficiencies in the conductors. There's still the cost of generating electricity, maintaining the distribution infrastructure (which would likely be far more expensive than what we have), etc.
And if that doesn't work, their immune systems fight off infection using "ibodies"
The must frustrating experience I’ve had in the last six months was trying to get non-free wireless drivers to function in Debian. It wasn’t even a crazy chipset, it was just one of the non-exalted ones.

Head meet desk, repeatedly.
I think it's one of those things that if you don't get it, you don't get it(and that's fine). There is an emotional element to hosting your guests in your own home - if you don't feel that way then well, there's no need to argue about it, no one is right or wrong here.
I don't see how this is based in reality. You're running low on gas? You go find a node in the gas station network.

Battery running down? Go find a Supercharger station. If you're in a Tesla, it will even route to these automatically. It will tell you in advance how many chargers are operational, and how many are occupied, and it will reroute to a less busy station if available.
>"for a lot of people it is a decision that they take instinctually, but does not really make sense."

And for a lot of people it does. so what's your point. People will figure out what makes them feel good. They do not need help in this department
Ask HN: Management Principles for Research Teams?
Hello HN

So the question is about how to manage (principles, methods, tools) a team of researchers. To be more specific multidisciplinary research team.

I'm part of a research team at a startup with about 6 members in our team. Since I was one of the first member, (originally only me and my manager) we had a discussion about how to more efficiently manage the research team, for the upcoming year.

We went from 2 people to 6 in this year, which means we're doing good. However it have also caused issues with things such as visibility, especially when someone is stuck. Because the multidisciplinary nature of the team, someone being stuck can also take a while to get resolved. (the discipline range from neuroscience, AI to robotics)

We currently have weekly meetings(which imo is too long) and simple bullet point reporting at end of week for what everyone have been doing the week. It works, but maybe there's better ways out there.

I'm aware of methods such as Scrum or Kanban for software development, but the nature of research work makes estimating how long/hard a task will be, near impossible, so those methods are limited in its usefulness.

I was wondering if there were some good materials, or anecdotes, one could use as reference.

Thank you in advance
Until we evolve past the need to solve conflicts with violence. So 100,000 generations of positive evolutionary pressure (which won't happen), or artificial tweaking of DNA (forced upon every human at the same time - which also won't happen).

The alternative is strong military posturing in order to deter opportunists from trying their luck attacking you.
I agree. In the SF Bay Area, especially in PG&E’s regions where average KWh is $0.40, a hybrid makes more economical sense and it isn’t even close.

The math is skewed even further once you add the extra $500 you pay for CA annual registration for an EV vs. Hybrid (personal experience, Mach-E vs. Accord Hybrid).
The numbers you are shared are mind-blowing to me. Can you confirm: Do you pay your bill (1) monthly and (2) by automated credit card payment? If yes, don't the credit card transaction fees paid by Backblaze exceed the amount!? This post has literally inspired me to sign-up. I have put off Internet backups for a long time!
Was this a professional disagreement about the strategy of the company? No, it was a disagreement about politics. Rich people shouldn't have the right to use their power to silence others, that's why I called it abuse and corruption.
RIP, and thanks for helping indirectly to put me on my career path.

I learned pascal fairly late in the grand scheme of things (basic->6502 assembly->C and then eventually pascal) but it was used for the vast majority of my formal CS education first by instruction, then by choice, and eventually in my first real programming job. The later pascal dialects remain IMHO far better than any other languages I write/maintain/guide others in using. Like many others of his stature it was just one of his many hits. Niklaus Wirth is one of the giants I feel the industry stands on, and I thank him for that.

"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain..."
This is spot on. I do a ton of cross country driving and seeing people sitting in their car charging for an hour outside a diner in a gas-station-town off a highway is super common and makes the point. I talk to them. They rationalize it. But you can tell it sucks.

We all want a cleaner planet and we need to be able to talk about how to solve the charge time problem without the hysterics and the bullshit.
> Based on my electrical costs of about $0.35/kwh

Definitely it's massively less compelling in areas with extremely high electricity costs. That's pretty much as expensive as electricity gets in North America, isn't it? I think it's significantly more compelling basically anywhere else. E.g. in Ontario where I live, if you're set up appropriately and charge between 11pm and 7am it's $0.028/kWh (CAD), i.e. less than 3 cents per kWh, or roughly 1/35th the price you're paying.

If I've done my math right, that's works out to be less than 2$ USD per 1000km? A difference of 108$/1000km is 1728$/year for the statistically average-driving Ontarian. Adds up pretty fast!