skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there is a kind of grief associated with growing up that people don’t talk about. When you are young and inspired it seems like life is long and you can do anything, branching paths with unlimited doors. Once you're an adult, your past choices narrow down your future paths, and your sense of age starts to set in. In some way you mourn the paths not taken. This is called mortality, and can be a nasty combo with other depressive factors.

As you get older, you realize some doors not yet stepped through are now closed, and less doors are opened by others for you. Life can start to feel like a hallway with the investable at the end. While less doors are open now, life is still very free. You may now be able to see decades into your past, but you still cannot see into your future. There are many open doors still hidden, they just take a bit more searching. Good news, you are an adult with years of life experience, you can go find them.
Related:

Feynman's Nobel Ambition - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31236758 - May 2022 (1 comment)

Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26931359 - April 2021 (276 comments)

Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10585890 - Nov 2015 (22 comments)

Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3874875 - April 2012 (66 comments)
I doubt it'll affect graphic designers much. Artists, yeah. But i haven't seen any model or tool that is even remotely doing any meaningful graphic design solution or work. Majority of graphic designers have been using stock assets for graphics anyway, so ai will be another better asset generator.
on 4, the fun way of doing it is teaching / helping others doing it. coincidentally, that's the most common path to escape the toxic loop.
I mean I absolutely love the idea... but man it looks rather ugly. Also there is seemingly no thumbnail generation so images load at snail pace.
Interestingly prime video had technically always had ads. An ad for other prime video content always plays before the start of anything
Do you drive or fly or have polyester anything? You’re just as complicit as OP.
There is a massive disconnect between the attitudes toward EV's of people who have owned EV's and those who have not. Range anxiety tends to dissipate after a short time of real world driving experience.

You're just not going to rent EV's to many non-owners, even if they are going to be driving less than 100 miles (typical business trip where you fly then rent a car).
> If we could tap into someone's brain then we could simply ask a question and find out if they're recalling an event from memory,

I do not think this would work on me. Not even slightly. And I'm having some real trouble understanding why you think it would work on you. When people claim to be able to beat lie detector tests, it's about involuntary reactions and their ability to voluntarily control them. I don't think I have ever been able to affect how much or little I perspire or my heart rate.

But my cognition? It is effortless. How will you "pick out my thoughts" when my thoughts are on pause?

> 2. "Is she in the US?" – AI says he's thinking yes

AI says he's thinking about poodles, and how much effort is put into trimming their hair when they might just be sheared bald like sheep. He's also thinking about use human feces in a stew and feeding it to the PTA at their next potluck. Now he's thinking about DROP TABLE ai_prompt_index...

AI OFFLINE.

Seriously, like, if I ask you a question, you can't help but blurt it out into your mind? Christ, I have superpowers and apparently never knew it.
Let’s do billboards next. They seem like a way. Another distraction problem, and it’d have the side affect of making our society more aesthetically appealing.
The "Top 100", when I first read it, long long ago, had me laughing so hard I was afraid I'd wake up other people in the house. https://web.archive.org/web/20230709210553/http://bash.org/?...
Bitcoin ETFs Are Here for Real
Yes, completely true - if you had a home with positive pressure and a filtered HRV/ERV with sufficient volume, one wouldn't need internal air purifiers at all.

I've long wished for "smart" inwards-blowing window fans that took filters and conditionally only turned on when the air outside was an appropriate temperature - wouldn't be appropriate in all climates/seasons/times, but in my geography would pump clean air in into the house for months out of the year.

https://naturescoolingsolutions.com/ecobreeze-2-1-smart-wind... exists, but is pricey and isn't from a major-enough manufacturer to make me confident of after-sales support.
> Energy this cheap gives us a huge incentive to change our energy use patterns to match power abundance rather than to take energy demand as a constant.

I have not listened to the podcast, but I know for a fact that’s much harder than it sounds. Parking spaces, highways, factories, offices, parks, beaches, hiking trails, skiing, museums, stadiums, even grocery stores have an extreme variability in demand. Almost all demand comes from human activity, and like all other animals that activity is highly variable and intermittent. Yes, there are a few exceptions: batteries, some household appliances like washers, and perhaps certain factories/refineries that could be run with minimal operations at night. Incentives don’t even work to suppress leisure: people go through massive traffic, no parking and crowds to get to the beach on sunny weekends. Imagine chores or even actual needs: like keeping the heat or AC on. Electricity is survival-critical in many parts of the world.

In short, I think the incentives needed to alter fundamental human behavior are less like cute coupons and more like a gun to your head. In most places, there won’t be enough political lunacy to push that through, and instead the glorious green energy programs will be stalled, delayed and eventually scrapped. I can’t think of a better outcome for fossil fuel companies.
I’m reminded of the time I dropped a Juul behind/beside a makeshift workshop table and it magnetically attached itself a foot or so below to the freestanding metal shelving unit directly next to it.

I don’t advise using Juul products for this and other reasons.
yes! One of my original thoughts was "Job queue, but for humans"
I think that's the largest factor. You started with Hotmail, Gmail, or iCloud depending on when you made your first account, or what phone you chose, and then... why change?

The UX is typically better, and that was especially true back when Gmail was taking over the market and introduced everyone to the concept of never needing to delete old mail. Good looking apps are available for every device, with minimal setup. Deliverability is so good most people have no concept of ending up in their contact's spam folder. It's what your friends and family are using, and its free.

Concerns like privacy or being able to change provider without losing your address are abstract and out of sight.
This is fear mongering. The world isn’t going to end due to climate change.
“[C]ollision and damage repairs on an EV can often run about twice that associated with a comparable combustion engine vehicle,” Hertz CEO Stephen Scherr said in a recent analyst call.

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This is concerning. These cars are essentially delicate ipads with wheels and repairs for them are costly and specialized. Driving, in general, is dangerous and accident prone. Waking up to twice your repair cost or insurance premiums must not be great for Hertz.

Also the article doesn't mention the EV value cut-off unrelated to MSRP. When the battery reaches 50-60% of its top capacity, then range anxiety is back. No one wants a 150-100 mile Tesla, or worse in the winter with the heating on.

Range issues aren't a big deal with regular owners as with regular use they only lose 10-15% range in the first few years, but Hertz drives theses hard everyday, unlike someone with a suburban commute who gets groceries on the weekend. Who knows what their internal data is suggesting. Id be very, very hesitant to buy a Hertz used Tesla. I'd want to see how bad the battery is first, especially what its real world range is in the winter. I wouldnt be surprised because how hard these cars are run, they'll have more battery degradation per year/per mile than a well kept car babied by someone who loves their Tesla.

I just took a look on their website and the long range sedan I'd be interested in at that trim level 2024 model is going to be about $50k. Hertz has a 2022, a less than 2 year old car, with 80k miles for asking $31k. A 40% depreciation in 2 years is very rough.

Their resale value is particularly punishing. Hertz doesn't keep cars for all that long, so a tough depreciation isn't something they can ignore.
I looked at some of the Hertz listings this morning. I saw a lot of cars with 50k - 80k miles on them. Isn't that about the time they let go of rental cars anyway? I get a lot of rental cars and they usually are new or have ~2,000 miles on them.
discord was done for me when it became whatever it is now than it was envisioned earlier.
I tried the demo, but it seems to have issues. The dashboard just shows a blank pages after authenticating. I bought a subscription but when redirected it still shows "Free" plan. Also, why didn't you use something like shadcn?
Right. My point is that the company can’t just say “we’re not doing well, we need to get rid of a few people” and do a layoff with impunity. They have to lay off a pretty decent amount of people (in some cases like 30%) and they need to pay severance to the laid off employees. In most of Europe it’s basically a tool of last resort besides going bankrupt, unlike in the states where it’s easier and done somewhat regularly.
> Mainly because I think my research outlook is very different from the mainstream, so I feel my work gets undervalued or ignored entirely.

You're not alone.

One of my first papers was in normalizing flows and I focused on a niche area in there (if I said, I'd dox myself. Even this limits the search a lot). Reviewers came back and asked why my images weren't as good as SOTA GANs and just rejected. Half my experiments were on density estimation... The other reviews said I should be applying my methods to GANs instead, but that wasn't even possible because I was explicitly exploiting the distributional properties at each flow step.

My most cited paper is unpublished and the reviews I got back were about why someone would want to train from scratch instead of tuning a large model. Why we cared about such things as small number of parameters or how to quickly train models without overfitting because "bigger models generalize better."

Fwiw, I'd have no issue accepting your work. It looks useful, it advances domain knowledge, and is clearly written. I think a lot of people lose sight that experiments are proxies and that the tools we are working with are more general than the specific applications we demonstrate.
It's not a myth at all, and Tesla's "rating" is a lie. Look at data on Prius battery packs and what Toyota rates them for(100-150k). I understand I'm comparing a hybrid to an EV, but there is much more data and I actually trust Toyota.

Buying an EV with 100k miles and the original battery pack for 20k is a bad idea.
how does discord survive? they also seem to have a large spam issue and they are stubborn on not implementing obvious features
It was originally created to demonstrate the evils of capitalist routines.
Then bought by a game company.

See wiki article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)
Shoot, win95 is archaic? when did we get so old? Gimmie some 3.11 for Workgroups.
Naturally. I’m in full agreement.
Please upvote & leave a feedback in the comments.
I've never studied knots, but understanding the algorithms used here seems like a really good starting point.
IRC doesn't actually specify an encoding for messages, only limiting each message to 512 bytes IIRC. This could and did cause encoding issues when dealing with non-english language text.
Teslas are extremely expensive to own. As the article says, collision repairs are extremely expensive, partially because of the design, partially because Tesla essentially fully controls the repair market. Also as mentioned in the article, depreciation is very high. I'm not fully sure why this is, but there is to some degree the same effect with luxury brands -- BMW, Mercedes, etc, where a lot of the signaling value is lost when the car is old, but the parts/maintanence are still extremely expensive.
A good thing is to remind that you have not to finish hobby projets. Dont feel any shame about putting it aside and start something more interesting, do it : it's not work and you do it to let off steam. You may even come back to it later
But there you have easy cash, on the net you need _something_. There could be some integration - even just a paypal link option if the user wishes so - or at least a hint on the site on how to faciliate a payment.
The paper refers to ChatGPT as a 175B parameter LLM. This is almost certainly incorrect; the original largest version of GPT-3 was 175B but analysis of the speed and cost of the current model as well as public statements by OpenAI indicate it’s as much as 5-10x smaller.
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?

As a Tesla owner, driver, and 3 times Hertz Tesla renter, let me attest:

- Hertz staff are poorly trained for Tesla rentals
- The "must use same credit card" thing is worst than an absolute nightmare
if one doesn't have the exact same credit card, landing late at night on
a holiday weekend. The experience is so extremely bad, it sounds fictional!
Ah, I mistook "private" for "public" key. The private key is indeed 160 bit for DSA per FIPS-186-3; it's the public key that's 1024 bit.

That's commonly used as the "security parameter" for DSA, though; 160 is very easy to confuse with e.g. a symmetric encryption key or hash length.
I read through a couple of these responses to the CMA by MS, Google and AWS and their smaller competitors

as expected the hyperscalers refuse to acknowledge that the free ingress and expensive egress is a lock-in mechanism, and their smaller competitors complain bitterly about this

the hyperscalers say they have to charge egress fees to pay for the costs in building their networks, but for some reason doesn't apply to ingress (which they're silent on)

if they want to play this game then the CMA should simply make them charge the same for ingress and egress

that way they can "fund their network costs" without issue, and if they want to make them both free then that's their decision
Interesting tidbit at the end.

> Besides costing more to repair when they’re damaged in a crash, Scherr also said, EVs are also getting in more crashes.

then

> Our work with Tesla is to look at the performance of the car, so as to lower the risk of incidence of damage

I'm curious if they are working with tesla to <reduce> the performance? Are people getting into accidents because they aren't used to teslas' acceleration vs. a typical gas car? Or are people getting into accidents for other performance reasons, eg: cornering / braking?
Frustrating, layoffs seem to be back in full swing. I posted this comment just yesterday, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38945990, and since then HN had articles about Google layoffs, now Discord, and I also saw that FullStory had a pretty big layoff.

It really had felt like things had stabilized a bit (at least for software engineers) in the fall. Was that just the lull before the storm?
Depends, United Arab Emirates nowadays makes more money from tourism than oil. Oil is like 1% of their GDP.
Climate change is accelerated, but it’s a natural process. We are literally still in Ice Age, just in
interglacial period.
> If necessary, nearly all companies will give at least 60 days severance in lieu of notice.

They don't call it severance - it's just regular pay for 60 days. Technically they're still employed by the company. At the end of that 60 day period when the employment is terminated, that's when severance (if there is any) is paid.
Your first source says that Shin Bet and the army DON'T request help from act.il.

Your second source has nothing to do with act.il
Wow, I certainly did not know this is the origin of the phrase! thank you.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/25205/what-is-th...
Ah, yes, that is it. So he gets a few more seconds in the movie than I thought :)

[An army man is handing out welders glass to the observers. Feynman is in a car, Teller is next to him in a deckchair rubbing sun cream into his skin]

TELLER [to the army man while rubbing his hands]: On the leg, please

ARMY MAN: Feynman

FEYNMAN: No. The glass [knocks on car windshield] stops the UV

TELLER: And what stops the glass?
If they set it in motion and say they'll stop it before it causes pain, they have no intention of stopping it. Sequestration in 2013 was a solution to a political problem. Nobody wants to be blamed.
This makes me sad, as it means the industrialization of non-urban lands that will get covered with panels. Croplands. Wild lands. If subsidies were only provided for panels that cover existing urban hardscapes, it would be much better.
On a modern grid, off-peak, cheaper energy coincides with low carbon.
> Not to mention their security protocols are among the best.

What does this even mean?
Well, look at the steam hardware survey, you're going to be surprised.
This buffer evaporates very quickly in a bad job market as I learned in 2002 and 2003. I think the only "crazy" exit packages are when they throw dozens of millions after failed executives.
The problem is that we now have a massive surplus of skilled engineers so good luck getting hired when you're inevitably arbitrarily let go.

Your mindset is only valid in the explicit context of a company

A) not having cut you

B) having cut others prior to you

As soon as that context is lost in the next two years when you get fired or find a new job, you're back to square one, except you're also competing against Joe Google Engineer.
> they have higher damage-repair costs

People tend to treat rentals with not a lot of care. That seems like it could certainly add up.
Yep, for a sufficiently large account, this strikes me as an offer they know will never be taken. "Migrating" typically means "stopping $XXX,XXX spend per month" not "completely ceasing use of all GCE services."

They know this and this is mainly marketing, I think.
Better as a charity, IMHO.

I hosted a movie meetup to see Moneyball. Afterwards, I asked the group, "How many liked the movie?" Every hand went up.

Then I asked, "How many are baseball fans?" No hands went up.

Good times.
I feel like Bell Labs was the biggest loss of "play at it, see if something important comes out" possible. Never worked there, but a lot of friends did, from the 50s thru the Lucent transition right up to the end.
Today probably not, but was Japan lacking accurate birth tracking 80-120 years ago? It doesn't seem that unlikely at least
The article's actual title is fine.
I drive an EV every day in NZ, but even when I went on a road trip through Arizona/Nevada/California I rented a petrol car simply to avoid the additional overhead of having to worry about the availability of charging infrastructure.

I completely understand why they don’t work well as rental cars.
Tesla also sold 1.8 million EVs in 2023. Nobody else is even close to that scale. A fleet buyer would not want any low volume manufacturer.
The question we really need to ask is – why are people driven to bankruptcy and suicide because of their employment situation? Why can't everyone have a cushion so they aren't reliant on their next paycheck to have food and shelter? Why can't everyone have healthcare? Why can't we have reasonable vacations, sabbaticals, maternity/paternity leaves? These are the issues government should be solving. And when they do, companies should happily lay off as many people as they want as frequently as they want.
I agree that job hunting is brutal. However, my experience in doing interviews recently is that half the guys who got through the screening interview with our manager were worthless. And he probably rejected 90% of the candidates sent by the recruiter. Of the 2 people hired, one is kind of mediocre, and we are not talking FAANG standards.
Just so we have some numbers:

$0.41 per watt utility-scale solar panel cost in 2020 ($0.17-$0.30 by 2030): https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/articles/2030-solar-cost-t...

Cost projections (note the 2019 upswing where market forces and installation costs exceeded solar panel cost): https://www.solar.com/learn/solar-panel-cost/

$480/kWh utility-scale battery cost (falling by 32% to $326/kwH by 2030): https://www.energy-storage.news/li-ion-bess-costs-could-fall...

Solar energy will likely be stored in low-cost sodium ion residential and high-temperature sodium sulphur utility-scale batteries. This is probably a solved problem in the lab but will take 5-10 years to roll out at scale.

To put this in perspective, Bonneville Power in the northwest supplies some of the cheapest electricity in the US due to its installed hydroelectric base. But it is no longer able to compete with renewables, as solar and wind prices have fallen below its $35/MWh wholesale price:

https://www.bpa.gov/energy-and-services/rate-and-tariff-proc...

http://www.bluefish.org/notobase.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_electricity

Now the cost-benefit of dams is being examined due to their environmental impact on fish runs (like salmon) and the starvation of wildlife like killer whales near estuaries.

Meaning that since solar is scalable, it has made nuclear the most expensive form of electricity today in terms of levelized cost. That doesn't mean that newer thorium and pebble bed reactors aren't worth exploring for high-power use cases, but that there's no way to build, fuel and decommission a nuclear reactor more cheaply than operating an existing dam which is already more expensive than solar.

The smart investment today is in energy storage and AC/DC transformers. Photovoltaics are second to that because they are a saturated market, but there could be opportunities in thinner and disposable panels, especially for electric vehicles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Do_You_Care_What_Other_Pe...
Some Bitcoin: Oh, and You've Been Served
Yeah I’m not sure I’d go the tenure route anyway. I’d rather do research than manage people doing research on my half-baked ideas. Fortunately, in my field, there’s options to publish as an industry research. Unfortunately, those jobs dried up last year along with all the other tech jobs when I was searching.

I guess the tricky thing (maybe it suggests it’s not burnout but some other source of depression) is that I haven’t been motivated by my hobbies either. It’s been hard to find much joy in anything as of late.
Depending on your language design combinations of named and optional parameters can lead to some real problems, especially if you want to link to a different version of a library than the one you built with.
Until they mentioned it, I wasn’t even aware of how many abuses of the English language lay in these hills. I’m spooked lol
lockfiles and version pinning is great unless you care about security fixes and maintaining projects over many years. This turns into a slog of maintenance.
Have you seen where materials for batteries come from? Not exactly homegrown by hippies.
as long as PyTorch supports it, does it matter?
Your comment is equally inflammatory to me. Behind the diction and emotionality of the poster, there are some entirely reasonable points that recapitulate the article itself.