skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how Nobel prize got on your list.

I read it that way:

- Things become taxing when they stop being fun

- Doing fun things and playing around whatever interests you is the way to make things less taxing

- Sometimes things you play with are also useful to others

Although I am not sure if it is always possible to match what you are getting paid for to what you consider being fun. Feynman gives no answer for this.
I'm not an accountant, but to me it looks like the IRS was operating at an assumption that the software engineers write is not immediately consumed, but rather has on average 5 years amortization period (meaning, it's producing value for 5 years, on average).
Yeah, obviously depends from country to country, but for a layoff the company often has to be in some problems. It's difficult to do a layoff when you have record profits.

Of course there are other ways to fire employees but those have their own rules.
>> You can't trust anything anyone above you in the management chain tells you. Not one thing. Not ever.

This seems like a really negative and self-damaging perspective. I'm the direct manager for 14 people with whom I have hard-won relationships, built on trust and caring over long periods of time. We're not friends or family, but I honestly care about them. I share as much as I can, and try to include my confidence and assessment of what I share. If they follow your advice and unequivocally discount it all, I think they're actually in an even WORSE situation. Regardless, what a sad, scary way to live.
Who wouldn't want that? Obviously, the average user isn't going to know what to do with it, but other apps/services could use it to transfer data to/from it.

Interoperability is always good for users.
You don't go back to 0? Generally you can after the 24th iteration. Also congrats on sticking with it for nearly 13 years!
I'm in a similar boat. Not a postdoc yet, but will be starting a postdoc in July (assuming I graduate in May, which I'm on track for).

I've always been interested in the intersection of AI and interactive storytelling. Worked in the game industry for a while, then came back for a PhD when ML really started taking off.

With the current frenzied climate in NLP research, I just feel demotivated. Mainly because I think my research outlook is very different from the mainstream, so I feel my work gets undervalued or ignored entirely.

I spent over a year and a half on my last published research project [1], and it's been largely ignored. Despite having strong reviews after rebuttal, the paper was relegated to the Findings of EMNLP, likely because my research was video game related.

I'm usually the kind of person that focuses on things because I care about them, rather than because others do, but the reality is that hiring decisions in academia (or even industry) require that others value your work. If I truly thought I could do research I cared about and get paid a living, without having to worry about whether others accepted it, I think I'd be much more motivated.

[1]: https://pl.aiwright.dev

My site is a static site hosted on sourcehut, which is having an outage. If it's still down, try https://web.archive.org/web/20240110040908/https://pl.aiwrig...
An artificial island that always seems mysteriously well-stocked with Ethiopian goods for some reason.
According to private eye, despite this, there where still over 50 convictions not overturned on appeal.
I suspect the mention of OSs that are still supported implied they weren't talking about non-supported but no longer supported OSs. So nothing exotic, just the normal OS on the device but stuck at the old version which was the final one released for it.
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Why do you believe anyone should use ssh-agent?

Well, if we expand arbitrary the range of programs reading ~/.ssh/config, then we can put there whatever we want, can't we? The point was that SSH won't read the password from its config file. There's a good reason not to do that: this configuration file shouldn't contain sensitive information because it's a plain text file. But, maybe you can encrypt it -- something I've never explored...
It kind of baffles me how people spent the last 15 years or so generating a black hole's worth of SEO content, but Google is at the forefront of "being at fault" for it now. Google has no real incentive to make their product suck for no reason, but SEO people have a never-changing reason to try and break Google. The point of SEO is delivering your content to a user through search results, no matter if it's actually relevant to anything.

It's not (mainly) Google. It's that SEO won.
sad :(
I still prefer IRC over all these other solutions like discord. They just don't feel right.
Every human-authored news article posted online since 2006 has had multiple misspellings, typos, and occasional grammar mistakes. Blogs on the other hand tend to have very few errors.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/hBkLn
Hmm, interesting. Do you mind indulging in a few questions about how this worked out for you?

1) Is the issue here that the payoff is too slow? E.g., costs X to build a turbine but you only get back 10% of X each year, so it takes decades to get returns---whereas with a well, it costs Y but then with 20% probability you start getting back 50% of Y each year? in other words, the return to a successful well is huge, but there's some risk associated with each one?

2) Or, are wholesale electricity prices going down (because of glut of gas, etc.) and so rosy projections of solar/wind recoupment rates aren't being met?

Mostly I'm curious if it's the dynamics of individual projects here that make wells more attractive than alternatives, or if there's something else at play.

Thanks (in advance)!
ESOL people: avoid searching YouTube for "How to pronounce" videos because they are usually shit. Often poorly generated computer voices.

Instead look for examples of real usage of the word in use e.g. https://youglish.com/

English is my mother tongue and I often need to look up how to say and use phrases from other English speaking regions e.g. "nowt" recently.

And take care to pick your accent - particularly American or British. "can't" is particularly hard to say properly in my English and US people misunderstand the way we say it.
AM5 mobos are more expensive than Threadripper x399 mobos when they were new...
Thanks! Yup, that sounds like what I need. The additional marketing to get people in the door would still be a thing with meetup too, but if Eventbrite will let me have a link to a meeting without signing up for a subscription, that would be a huge help!

If any meetup people are looking at this - what Eventbrite offers is what I want from you! I would even pay for it on a one time basis, given that I know there are or were a lot of tech people who used to watch meetup for new events.
If necessary, nearly all companies will give at least 60 days severance in lieu of notice.

More to the point, though, in this particular example I'm not even sure federal WARN notice requirements apply here - there are lots of loopholes people don't often understand. See https://www.schneiderwallace.com/practice-areas/employment/w... - looking at those bullets:

* "Layoffs of 500 or more workers at a single site or location." - doesn't apply, was only 170 employees

* "Layoffs of 50 or more workers when those layoffs comprise 33% of the total full-time workers at the location" - my guess is that doesn't apply either, as the 170 workers were spread throughout the company

* "Layoffs of 50 or more workers when closing a building or facility, or the layoffs include the discontinuation of an entire operating unit" - Again, I believe these discord layoffs were broad-based and not the result of entirely closing a single business unit.
You are talking about stack ranking. While yes, it does happen, the outcome of it isn't dictated in a single "x% people are now fired" event. There are multiple rounds of performance reviews, employees at the bottom are identified, they go through PIPs or some other similar process, and it may eventually lead to their firing or resignation. What we are seeing right now isn't that.
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The appetite for nuclear seems to be underestimated. The UK is spending £30B on two new nuclear power stations currently under construction, and just announced they're hoping to add one more. France is currently building six next-gen reactors. China and India are building an enormous number of new ones.
Exactly what I was thinking when I read the headline. The oil industry has been a historic disaster for global security, including the ecosystem.
>If there is to be a "web" going forward, I hope it not only moves to a new anonymized layer, but requires frequent exchange of currency to make generating lots of low quality material less viable. If 90% of the public doesn't want to pay, then they are at liberty to keep eating slop.

I completely agree!
There is a highly relevant and resent research on the state of play, nicely summarised on Huberman Lab Podcast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwyZIWeBpRw
And wouldn’t there be demand for software developers suddenly?
Maybe because you aren't old...

My career went in to the toilet in my 40s, and it has never really recovered. However, I'm an introvert and on the spectrum, so I lack good networking skills and never moved up the career ladder.

Even so, among my circle of friends there is a consensus that many of us were struggling around age 50, and now I am 60. The only jobs I've had in the last 5 years have been contracts. My current gig, I haven't seen a raise in 3 years, despite 20% inflation. I've been told that the company I work for has a freeze on raises, so I will have to start job hunting...
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So now the heuristic will change to "super excellent grammar", clearly.

We'll learn to pepper our content with creative misspellings now...
> Internal restructuring of the company may even take you from working on backend web apis to distributed databases.

This isn’t true. I’ve worked in multiple FAANG companies’ infrastructure orgs, including distributed kv stores, as a SWE. Anybody joining those kinds of teams are either specialists, very junior, or already had some kind of experience in the domain before joining.

Recruiters that say stuff like “we want strong generalists… blah blah” are not the people who are sourcing candidates for these deep systems roles. It looks a lot like the ML roles.
My wife was working for a bank until August of last year. One day in late August they called a meeting and told the whole department that while they were still employees for the next 60 days they could no longer come into the office and actually work. That's how they got around the WARN act - they didn't have to file the WARN report until that 60 days was up. I guess that kind of makes sense for a bank: if you give people a 60 days heads up that layoffs are coming that could result in potential mayhem.
Academia is a recipe for burnout. It’s like pro sports, unless you are the top 1% of the top 1% you may be able to keep eeking by but will never be in a comfortable position. There is always more to do and you do not get paid well for your time. You are surrounded by people who pour their lives into their work and it will be expected of you. The culture is extremely toxic and dysfunctional.

Your lack of imagination as to another job is part of the trap. Work can be enjoyable, pay well, and you can still have a personal life, but academia sells itself as the only possible trajectory for a certain type of person. Most people leave academia and many of them find meaningful work outside of that.
A classic. Any and all administrators tasked with evaluating research-funding proposals should be required to read this short passage before making any funding decisions, so they can be reminded that groundbreaking research is driven mainly by intellectual curiosity, not by metrics that seek to quantify "relevance" or "importance."
I don't know if it's all in my mind, but Microsoft's targeted advertising in its apps' come across as extremely tacky. Everyone else is probably collecting the same data but it feels less slimey on the surface.
That's a popularity metric, not a quality metric. Conflating the two is disingenuous at best.
Agreed here. Example: Garmin Golf. Can help track your scores and all sorts of data. Can you export any of that data? NO. Which means you can't do your own analysis and you definitely can't switch to any other golf tracking software.

A while ago I used an app ... can't remember which one now ... but it allowed you to dump your data for no real reason that I could tell. But I appreciated that I could if I ever needed it. It also made me trust the app more.
>it could begin to starve the crypto network of transaction fees and the exchanges and other crypto companies of customers.

"Nobody Goes There Anymore, It’s Too Crowded"
>they're Zen 4 chips with better integrated graphics (which gamers likely won't care about anyway)

Integrated GPUs are becoming far more appealing to the general consumer, including (especially?) gamers, with how fucking expensive discrete GPUs are getting these days (AMD is part of that problem).

We might just witness dGPUs becoming the sound cards of this decade.
I do love animals, but I’ve always been intimidated about the responsibility of being the person solely in charge of that animal’s life. I’ve always struggled with routines and such (I found out in adulthood I have ADHD).

I have thought about it lately, though. Maybe having that responsibility will cause other things to click into place? However, I’m worried about it not working and impacting a life beyond my own.
Anything that pulls in income and/or pushes out expenses results in a higher tax liability to the IRS. It makes a lot of sense in the world of real estate and equipment expenses (i.e. items which have very long useful lives to a business), less so for labor and other short term expenses.
I mean yeah, I can understand that, except that it was a team channel, and nobody needed to respond at all. So how in the world was I pinning anyone down? And why did a couple senior folks endorse that answer? Were they pinned down as a result?
people are constantly job hopping, Google has to always be hiring just to negate attrition.

Second, there isnt a single budget for hiring that interviews everyone and ships them out everywhere. certain groups/products can be growing within google while others are shrinking. should the chrome team not be allowed to grow because google+ was in the trash can?

third, not every employee is exchangeable, you cant just shuffle everyone around the company. You cant just take someone from the google maps team and have them start working on nexus phones.

all of these things are fairly obvious if you thought about it for more than 30 seconds, so its somewhat concerning you find this topic so perplexing.
Yes. Without oil dependence, the US can let the Middle East sink back into the sand. That's going to happen eventually anyway.
Totally— OpsQueue is for custom internal React apps to have integrated task management. If workers can switch between Linear and your internal apps, or you don’t have a custom internal React app, you should use Linear.

In some ways OpsQueue’s goal is to be a headless, API-first Linear.
You may be right about the division of labor reverting (though i sort of doubt it) but i think its unlikely to have its original gender divide since our social norms have shifted so much.
To clarify, the Nobel prize comment is a reference to the last sentence of the passage: "The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate."
I agree completely. But our infrastructure, particularly agricultural infrastructure in the US and around the world, depends on a lot of fossil fuels. We should reduce that risk as soon as possible. But electric cars and wind plants aren't enough to do it alone.
Because Kagi is doing what Google was in 2008; taking a query and returning links as results. Indexing the web doesn't need an LLM.

Google needs an LLM because they have a business need to answer the question for you, thus keeping you on Google.
>But then, looking forward years in time, people start leaning more heavily on that and stop posting to Stack Overflow and the well of information for AI to train on starts to dry up

for coding tasks I'd imagine it could be trained on the actual source code of the libraries or languages and determine proper answers for most questions. AI companies have seen success using "synthetic" data, but who knows how much it can scale and improve
> fossil fuel subsidies were $7 trillion in 2022

Nearly all of that "subsidy" is the lack of taxation of the negative externalities of fossil fuels. Even fossil fuel propaganda isn't this disingenuous with the way it frames things. That's like saying that fossil fuels are under-subsidized by trillions of dollars because they are used to power hospitals and can be used to power hospitals in Africa.
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While the severance definitely makes things easier, layoff season is also a terrible time to look for jobs because there are like 300,000 other qualified candidates with big company credentials in the same situation as you. The cushion isn't a luxury but a necessity. In some jurisdictions it is legally required.
My perception in a non-major metro is that the existing events are all really low quality, and that the quality passion project ones are gone. There are plenty of meetups for people trying to get me to buy their SaaS, but shared interest groups that don't stand to make money from their events have evaporated.
I rely on the stilted style of Chinese product descriptions on Amazon to avoid cheap knockoffs. Why do these products use weird bullet lists of features like "will bring you into a magical world"? Once you LLM these into normal human speak it will be much harder to identify the imports. https://www.amazon.com/CFMOUR-Original-Smooth-Carbon-KB8888T
I will be 50 in June.

I got my first job in BigTech at 46 - working at AWS in Professional Services

When I got Amazoned last year, I had three offers within three weeks.

One of those offers was from a former coworker who is now a director at a well known public company. It would have paid about $50K more in cash than I was making in cash + RSUs at AWS. I didn’t want the stress.

The other offer was for a “staff architect” position at the company that acquired the company I worked for before going to AWS.

The third and the offer I did take was a for a senior full time position at a consulting company that should lead to staff position as we grow the AWS specialty that I know inside out from working with the team.

Unless I’m completely misreading the market - and I seriously doubt I am - there is no reason that if I cared to I couldn’t increase my total compensation by 30-40% inflation adjusted over the next few years
> The author made this story available to Medium members only.

What are the incentives for doing this?
<loads google.com>

<checks search engine market share>

<looks at Alphabet's latest P&L>

Uh... they're sure showing a lot of life for having been killed...
Yes, competition generally leads to more innovation and lower prices in industry. Do you know of any economist who thinks otherwise, except in specific cases where natural monopolies exist?

If there's no competition there's no incentive to innovate.
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You still have not provided a single reason why software developers are supposedly going to become useless overnight
What can reasonably be done to combat it? Leadership at all the biggest firms is on board with shareholder capitalism. To them, Welch style management just means line goes up...
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I think this is something… I dunno, it ought to be obvious, but maybe we miss it in the general public? The tenure system is partially there because it is actually good to give smart people the latitude to screw around and play with problems.

And good ideas have the element of play. If academics have to retreat to complexity, nobody will be able to follow…
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> How about the general decline of cognitive ability with age?

This is a real issue at say 85, not at 45. You almost certainly aren't quite as quick as you were when you were 25, but on the other hand you typically know a lot more and the experience probably means you actually make far fewer errors overall...
> the fastest integrated desktop processor graphics in the world

I'm pretty sure the Mac Pro is a desktop. I'm pretty sure the M2 Ultra configuration includes an integrated graphics processor. And I'm pretty sure it's faster than the 780M in almost every workload.

AMD marketing team needs to be a bit less wrong. At least add a "PC" caveat.
At least the stack rankers will be able to “prove” they provide value every year by way of creating stacks.

Sucks to be on any team that delivers cyclical/lumpy value (with arbitrary windowing/snapshots).
I suspect treatment will be much the same in either case.
The rich young ruler approached Jesus and asked him what he had to do in order to inherit eternal life. And in a perplexing response Jesus begins to answer him. "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone."

Software is neither good nor bad. It's run in a box of sand, and it's a minor miracle that humanity has found a way to make a box of sand do anything at all, let alone the digital empire that we have built.

Good software isn't even describable. "Well, it should be correct." Okay, well, if good software is correct software, then why didn't you use that word to begin with? But what do you mean by 'correct'? Any definition you give will have edge cases that you didn't think of. Your resolutions will self contradict. And when the whole thing is deployed we'll discover that the assumptions of what correct means do not exist in physical reality; our house of cards painstakingly constructed with insane attention to detail collapses into ash.

Jesus then goes onto to tell the rich young ruler to follow the second half of the 10 commandments. ~Yeah, I've been doing that since forever.~ One thing he lacked, though. He was to sell all his possessions and follow Jesus.

This is not a rebuke. Do not stop asking for good software. It should be your demand; it is what we all deserve. But good software isn't a checklist of rules. It is not a simple thing to ask for. It is a lifelong journey where the destination is to get further than those who have come before. Good software is a limit as our striving tends to infinity.
When sucralose is heated above 120C (e.g. baked in an oven) it breaks down into harmful organochlorene compounds, such as Polychlorinated Biphenyls similar in toxicity to 2,3,7,8-TCDD.

2,3,7,8-TCDD is one of the most toxic dioxins known.

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Love to see it! If only I could convince my bosses to invest in tracking this info...