skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started my postdoc in August, but the burnout started earlier, a few months before writing my dissertation. Congrats on finishing your degree (almost)!

I also have kind of esoteric interests in my field but it mostly hasn’t bothered me. It certainly doesn’t help with matters though when sometimes I’m trying to motivate myself and go “what’s the point?”

I will say that one thing I’ve learned as a researcher is that it’s hard to know what people will and will not like. I’ve received compliments on some of my least favorite papers I’ve written. My advisor always told this story about how, as a student, he won a best paper award for a paper that almost decided not to publish because they thought the results weren’t strong enough.
California has its own WARN Act with less lenient rules
> Crucially, Google specifically says that regulators should ban “parts pairing,” which is a tactic used by Apple, John Deere, and other major manufacturers to artificially restrict which repair parts can be used with a given device: “Policies should constrain OEMs from imposing unfair anti-repair practices. For example, parts-pairing, the practice of using software barriers to obstruct consumers and independent repair shops from replacing components, or other restrictive impediments to repair should be discouraged,” the white paper says.
...or small market "prestige" products with once-were actors
As if someone trying to save money is such a ridiculous thing to do? WTF?

I subscribe to a power company that produces power via wind. So my money is supporting green energy generation. So yeah, it would still be doing plenty. Not really sure why you gotta be so negative about something
How many people did Google lay off annually in January before 2023?
layoffs.fyi says 1000
Kind of - early socket 775 motherboards don't support later Core CPUs.
Why not just tax stock buybacks the same or higher than regular profits? This would force companies to either increase R&D/CAPEX spending or lower prices.
We only have ourselves to blame (mostly due to being in the pockets of Big Oil/Coal).
Makes sense, we are taught that being “mindful” of our mental state is key to mental health, but it also means everyone walks around with a handful of self diagnosed mental deficits.
The other book is, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?"

https://www.amazon.com/What-Care-Other-People-Think/dp/03933...

I particularly liked it for the in depth discussion of how Appendix F came to be written.

https://history.nasa.gov/rogersrep/v2appf.htm
I think that one of the problems of us humans is that we want to accomplish something, we tell our self storys about our self how we should have become that or done that. But in the end it really doesn't matter, even if you were Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman or Marie Curie, in a few billion years none of all the work any human ever did, everything accomplished, won't matter, no one will be here to remember anymore. I think the best one can do is to look at this world with some sort of an observer mindset and be curious about the things happening in this world, try not to judge the things happening, just think "Oh, that's interesting, I wonder why it is like that.". And of course, always try to be friendly to other living beings, even if there might be no afterlife after the end of the universe and you can't trade in your browniepoints anymore, ther is no excuse for making other peoples life worse than it already is. ;)
I was making $x in 2020 as a CRUD developer in Georgia.

I got a job at Amazon and was making $x+$100K

I was Amazoned last year from a remote position. By then, I had paid off debt, downsized from my big house in the burbs to a condo one third the size in state tax free Florida and could easily live off of $x- $30K even though I’m making around $50K more than I was making 3 years ago.

Guess how much I stressed when Amazon started Amazoning?
Nothing crazy about it if you compare to whats _required by law_ elsewhere. In the Netherlands you’ll get at least 3 months salary, possibly more if the layoffs were negotiated with a works council, an additional N months depending on your years of employment, and healthcare, well, is not tied to your job at all. Nothing extraordinary about it.
> First, there’s not really other jobs I’d rather do.

I suspect there are many jobs you would do, but you have to allow yourself to let go of the dreams, the ambitions, the identity you have built in academia.

A few years ago, almost seven, I decided to leave academia, after a PhD and many years as a post doc, more than 50 journal papers published, awards and recognition in my field. I loved doing research, writing papers and thinking about the new advances I would make.

Why the change of mind and career? First, it seemed that my time as a researcher had passed, and that I was becoming an old postdoc with little appeal to universities and research institutions. Second, I was growing tired of earning little money. Third, it was beginning to look like I was doing similar research to what I was doing 5 years earlier, and I had a feeling that it would be the same research I would be doing 5 years down the road.

I started interviewing for positions in (tech) industry, got a monetary offer 5 times what I was making as a senior postdoc, started a new career, and never looked back. The last part is not entirely true.
At times, I look back and regret the last 5 years I spent in academia. I could have had a faster career in tech, earned much more money, and would have met bright and motivated people sooner. The world is full of interesting technical problems that need to be solved.
Every energy source except maybe geothermal is remote natural fusion
I understand. I just wanted to point out that pattern does not seem to have Nobel/etc reward built into it, neither it is a strategy to achieve something other than having fun and discovering random things that interest you. Everything else is coincidental.

You might easily end up living on the street by applying that strategy.

On the other hand, some of the best results I ever got professionally were coming from that exact state of play that Feynman describes.
I don't see it that way at all. Those egregious egress charges still apply while you are actively using GCP, encouraging you to put everything in GCP, and eschew multicloud.

This seems to me more of a "try us out for free" play. Bring your big data here, if you end up not liking it, we won't penalize you for taking your data out. Given that GCP is running at a very distant 3rd, they need to make plays like this.
I mean, I don't think that's unreasonable. You are being paid by your employer after all, and part of the deal is that you agree, to a large extent, to do things the way your employer wants.

If you think it is a big issue you can of course talk to your employer about it and see if they will change, but they're also free to disagree with you.
(hmm, the neonmodem FAQ mentions it has an image rendering feature too, to come full circle)
MDPI journal still publishing 'cruel, unnecessary' research despite extra checks
The point is, if law enforcement needs for the launderer to mess up after the invisible off chain transfer, or for the mixer to betray them, you have already conceded that address pseudoanymity is a strong, sometimes unremovable layer of privacy. Forensics exist even for physical cash, you can trace banknote serial numbers, lift physical fingerprints or DNA etc. Yet, that doesn't mean it's a good idea to leave people cross borders with sacks of money, there is wide agreement in our society that cash offers a privacy that is very conducive to anti-social actions. Bitcoin privacy is much, much stronger than physical cash, and pushed to 11 for things like Monero or Zcash.

In the restricted scenario provided, it really is logically impossible to know the ownership transfer happened. Your attack requires knowing all inputs into the laundry, which you won't have in the general case, they'll look like any other transfers in the blockchain.

Even if a mixer is busted, I can be pretty sure they abide by their public claim to not keep any history older than a few hours after the mixing is complete, secret keys and all, because it's not in their interest for such evidence of crimes to exist.
There are a billion people in Asia who want but do not have air conditioning and cars.
Ask HN: How do you balance between creating flexible systems and YAGNI?
I feel this is a constant argument I get into on code reviews

Senior devs will give me feedback around “can we make this more generic/flexible/extensible in case we need to do X in the future”

But I lean more towards YAGNI

I would rather keep it simple/dumb/readable until we actually need the extra functionality, then refactor at that point

But I admit it’s hard to find a balance
That's new contact info! Thank you for the note. :)
Unless you legitimately fall under those exceptions it’s generally viewed as best not try to skirt the WARN act you’ll end up with a bunch of lawsuits to defend and pretty harsh penalties if you lose (back pay up to the time of the award plus the severance and legal fees)
And my local newspaper today showed off the Dicota "eco-backpack" produced from recycled PET, processed in China before sent to Switzerland. Not sure why the newspaper let them get away with it. Hoping it's ignorance, but that shouldn't be a defence...

https://www.hoefner.ch/2024/01/09/oeko-rucksaecke-aus-pfaeff... (German)
Isn’t it net good that tech companies regularly overhire? I’d be afraid that too much regulation would end up making companies hesitant to hire in the first place. And why are we asking companies to act as charities here. That’s so against their nature. Tax them instead and have government improve the safety net.
The google layoff was in the Hundreds... i.e. what they do normally every year anyway silently. It's just being played up for investors.
If you use hooks, react expects code in certain places and in a certain order. At that point, react becomes framework-y.
Hmm. Coordinated effort to depress salaries? How did that work for Steve?
It’s just sad, since of course those questions have nothing to do with the skills you actually need on the job: “the login authentication is failing once every 10,000 times, go fix it!” Oooh, shall I use a B-tree!?
Right, in a 15m city this would be on rooftops or integrated in the agriculture.
>> It seems that everyone wanted to be Game of Thrones

When what they didn't realize is to be GoT you need to be HBO, and to be HBO you need to adopt a business model that will never match hockey stick VC-funded growth.
Even EAC has Linux support though, and enabling Linux support basically amounts to a config change for devs.
I'm having a hard time understanding how this leads to lay offs. Software engineering salaries being amortized over 5 years leads to an increase in yearly taxable income for the company. So what makes this a bad thing for the company? Are they doing the layoffs just to reduce total income to bring taxable income back down to (or closer to) 0? I.e. is this all just to avoid paying more taxes?
You might want to reconsider your smug posturing in light of the fact that your existence is still wholly dependent on hydrocarbons whether you like it or not, whether you hate it or not.
So Medium accounts aren't free, or is it that Medium is paying authors anytime someone creates an account?

I've never made a Medium account, so I really don't know.
Not sure about the economics for the rental companies, but for a consumer, there are practical reasons why electric aren't quite as attractive.

When you rent a car, more than likely you will be in unfamiliar territory. So it seems that it just adds to the stress of travel and yet another thing you have to pay attention to.

Will my hotel have charging spots? Will I be able to charge at the client site I'm visiting? How do I plan this long leg of the trip that I need to drive?
I would buy a Zune if they were still developing them. Zune and Windows Phone were excellent products.
Yet the household median income in the US is less than $100K and people seem to survive
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38952897
The original article's unit flow rate must have been underpowered then. Or the filter had insufficient holding capacity before passing the dust mite allergen particles back into the air. It never seemed to catch enough of what it passed through. Regardless, it was completely insufficient for the palpable relief I was accustomed to.

I use the Wirecutter's Coway unit recommendation mostly. I have not tried the larger IKEA unit but at least it seemed to mitigate the above.

Good notes, thanks for sharing, I do already take those precautions, mop weekly, no rugs, prefer ample fresh air (ERV or window), and now mostly rely on HEPA filters for extra relief during exercise (kicked up dust), when I'm struggling, or in pollen season. The new nasal azelastine antihistamine also helpful.

Even true HEPA filters can also get inundated a bit too quickly (1-5 mo) in my house otherwise and if I don't notice that, it's worse than nothing. So excepting pollen season, fresh air has a better failure mode.

To affect relative humidity to <50% for mites, unfortunately as far as I can tell, high humidity requires kilowatts of electricity to drop in older buildings in rainy climates, esp. without sealing and compromising air quality in other ways (CO2 too).
There are ways to make this criticism where people would take you seriously.
Tesla Megapack battery turns on to replace Hawaii's last coal plant
Complicated is fine, but knowable. You can accept the truth or deceive others but regardless of your intentions you can recognize the truth exists.

While I'm aware of the criticisms of Frankfurt's definition of bullshit [0], I think a useful part of it is the idea that there are folks who don't even care what the truth is. This seems to be the intended purpose of generative AI; ie: hallucinations exist by design and cannot be removed without recognizing that the approach needs to change.

I think that's what gets people like the author to write criticisms like this. We detest bullshit in a number of critical areas such as information retrieval and search.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
I had a solar system installed last year. During the day, from around 8am til around 5pm we are "off grid" in the sense that we can generate more than we use.

I've already switched hot water and pool pump to daytime rather than night. The dishwasher now runs in the morning, not after dinner. Washing and drying, Aircon/ heating mostly happened during the day anyway.

Overall our use of grid power has dropped to 20%, and I think we can get it down to 10% (at least I summer time.)

So yes, in the sense that the daytime cost is now a -lot- cheaper (think free) I'm seeing how we are heavily incentivised to change our usage patterns.
Most of the tech companies generate their revenue from their core businesses. For Google it's ~80% from ads, and probably even more of their profit comes from Ads. The history of companies being able to generate abnormal profits in other business lines is not favorable overall. I think experimenting and trying to find new sources of revenue makes sense, but the flip side of that is you have to kill those projects if they aren't going to pan out. It makes sense to shutdown even profitable businesses (or sell them) if you can make more by reinvesting in your core business.
Seriously, talk about having priorities out of order. It's not "how much money can _I_ make". That's a super highway to the tragedy of the commons
There are a few Microsoft games that have received patches to enhance Linux (Steam Deck) support, like the Halo game collection.

Could change if Linux numbers on Steam hit double digits, though.
Reminds me, I played Genshin Impact once and I was struck by how brief the opening cutscenes were. Given it was a fantasy epic I sort of expected a bit more introduction to the characters in the first 30 minutes. But I think that was because of my conditioning on console games.

It makes logical sense. The longer the intro cutscene took, the more people would just exit out before the action could take place, the more money they lost on IAPs. So fast-tracking the player to beating things up within 2-4 minutes is critical. The longer story cutscenes can take over later. There are probably hard metrics to back this up somewhere.
If it is worth viewing, why not put it on the HUD? Relegating it to the dashboard suggests you don't find it all that useful.
> Obviously you benefit from understanding the internals too, but realistically, the more complicated the thing you're using, the less of the internals even a motivated user is going to bother with.

This is a problem that grows with a large library...An api change has a higher cost than with a smaller library. Smaller libraries also tend to be easier to fully understand. Large libraries tend to be more of a "leap of faith" than small libraries.
I often argued with business professors during my studies because the theories look good on paper but don't work in reality. If one company invents a new method and patents it, another company will not be able to improve on this method, but would rather try to get round the patent/license costs than really innovate. For me, that is not progress.

But if Linus thinks that bcachefs is stable enough for the kernel, then there must be something to it.
i distinctly remember an article from 2 years ago about them buying like 100k teslas. Look like theyre now up for 14k a pop
Given how many times this story has appeared on HN today, should we assume oil lobbyists?
Really, because my understanding, based on an earlier Hertz president interview, was that the maintenance cost was 1/2 what their typical fleet vehicle was.
Not sure. I'm kind of surprised at the reaction myself haha

HN still feels like the old internet for the most part, at least. :)
My paid for version of Outlook on MacOS tried to get me to route all my email, Google workspace, through Microsoft’s servers to “improve my experience”. So, yeah Microsoft is dead to me now. I moved to the Sparkmail (v2) client instead.

Proton mail may be trying to capitalize on this newish development but they are also not wrong.
Keep it classy and refrain from emotional outspurts.
It’s not that crazy considering all the layoffs are happening at the same time and new openings are slim. I wouldn’t be surprised if almost everyone laid off have to use all the buffer provided before they can find another job.
HTMX breaks the "separation of concerns" paradigm. It's not going to help anyone doing anything complex, and it's going to be a crutch for anyone getting started. It breaks down quickly when the problem is anything more complex than clicking a button to load some content, and then what - rewrite everything in a more capable framework?
It's hardly comparable.

How will AI discover new facts in the real world? What is the AI equivalent of boots-on-the-ground journalism? Of learning by doing?

A lot of reality happens in meatspace, and someone eventually needs to put that information into computers. AI can only rehash what's already there.

My question is who will do that work if you rob them of any satisfaction for doing it? A man running a widget review blogs could get reader mail, online friendships, advertising partnerships, a sense of making his mark. If everything a person creates just feeds an AI, what do they get in return?
I'm wrong about what? A specific claim was made that act.il receives funding from the Israeli government and that is simply false. Nothing you've presented in any of your posts indicates in anyway whatsoever that the Israeli government has funded act.il

The very link you present even states that the army and Shin Bet do not request help from act.il.

It's in the very next sentence from the one you chose to highlight.
Try having an unhappy spouse..
> While Hertz isn’t directly pointing a finger, it appears that Tesla has been largely to blame.

> Tesla has been aggressively cutting its vehicle prices leading other automakers to do the same for their electric vehicles. When automakers reduce the prices of new vehicles, that pushes down the value of those models in the used car market, causing rapid depreciation.

How dare Tesla reduce their prices without asking Hertz first
The US hasn't been dependent on Middle East crude oil for some years. We still maintain security guarantees there to support key allies, and contain hostile foreign powers, but that will gradually fade away as part of the foreign policy pivot to Asia. European countries need to get moving on rebuilding expeditionary military forces in order to ensure reliable energy supplies (the notion that they can quickly transition to green energy is a total fantasy).
Thanks, see the sibling comment response below. I use the Wirecutter's Coway unit recommendation mostly. I have not tried the larger IKEA unit but at least it seemed to mitigate what I mention there. I did try washing the article's unit "prefilter" but it didn't seem to catch anything vs. the Coway.
Sounds like they're trying to technically address EU regulators' concerns without providing any real value to customers.

In real life it's probably extremely unusual for any company to altogether cancel their Google Cloud contract. More likely is the scenario where you move the bulk of your cloud usage to a new provider, but still have various straggler infrastructure on the old one, which is not worth the effort to clean up. Or, you go to a multi-cloud strategy so you want to move half your data off Google but keep the other half around. Google's egress fees are still standing in the way of these cases.
I come from Ruby on Rails world at a medium sized software company. I think we got a lot of leverage from how good our wrapper was around sidekiq. We asked our engineers to break down their business logic into small to medium idempotent "jobs" and then we'd give them a class they could inherit from that would hook up all the alerting / observability / rate limiting / retry / SLA stuff.

I really liked the "Job Queue" abstraction, because it gave our engineers a good mental framework to think about scalable computter processes. Curious if there's some parallel where the workers are humans instead of ruby processes?
Where's Microsoft BOB!?
Cloud and AI investments are paying off.
Mike Pall is doing pretty amazing work. Lots of respect.
Consider the holidays in December as well. It's possible some layoffs were finalized but not enacted until after.
I've worked with both brilliant and mediocre people from many countries, including India.

It's hard to criticise offshoring without seeming racist. The problem that I have seen is not the developers - it's that the people in charge are fixated on the hourly rate as the key metric, and the suppliers are then complicit in gaming that metric.

As soon as you make the lowest hourly rate the most important metric in software development, I guarantee you that quality will suffer.
Not sure if the Mainboard Chipsets initially released with the Pentium iv supported the later released core2 quads... Which is actually the case for the am4, where even the cheapest, oldest Chipset (a320) can support the newest am4 CPU, as long as the MB maker provides a bios update.
I'm sure you're aware of this... but every conspiracy theorist and cult member thinks this way. A moment of self-reflection may be in order.