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by geremiiah 1y ago
What's the likely outcome of this? I cannot see Google et. al. giving up their surveillance apparatus. Instead I suspect we will end up with more extensive consent forms, which will end up making the surrendering of privacy from the us
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by geremiiah 1y ago
Dude, I have only ever rode busses in Europe, but such incidents are bound to happen, even in the most posh areas of the continent.
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by geremiiah 1y ago
This is just a shared taxi, no? They have existed for a long time at small scales. For example airports and hospitals often have such services.
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by geremiiah 1y ago
Everyone is talking about AI this and AI that. I think the more pressing job market pressure is from there being way too many graduates due to increased interest in the field from the general population. I TA at a university and I see the c
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by geremiiah 1y ago
My post was arguing that the "everything else" is more attractive in the US. Consider a post doc or junior professor who do not know if they will ever get a tenure position or if you even want to remain in academia their whole lif
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by geremiiah 1y ago
It's about money and everything else too. US is a really nice country to live in for high skilled individuals. An immigrant nation who speaks the international language, a fast growing economy, especially in cutting edge tech, with ove
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by geremiiah 1y ago
What I mean, is that for any international academic who has managed to get into US academia, it was always an option to consider Europe, where funding was always easier to get.
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by geremiiah 1y ago
I was not talking about faculty appointments, but more junior academics. For people at that level I would think it even less likely that they would upend their whole life like this. They are probably married with kids at that point.
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by geremiiah 1y ago
EU is offering what was on the table anyway. EU academia was always more accessible and less competitive than US academia, for obvious reasons. Downside of that is you get to work in environments with a sparser density of talent and accompl
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Ask HN: Will the job market grow fast enough to accomodate all the new grads?
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by geremiiah 1y ago
> the current system does not work for most of the people Bullshit. America is the richest country on earth. Your unemployment is remarkably low. Your disposable income is relatively high. And all the issues you complain about, like hous
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by geremiiah 1y ago
Is it possible to fight Internet addiction without banning stuff? While it helps to ban smartphones during school, it won't stop these kids from logging on for 5 to 7 hrs after school. We need to find ways to make people (not just kids
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by geremiiah 2y ago
Meh, I personally don't care that much about OpenAI drama, anymore. By now it is clear that they do not hold any edge and that they won't be able to establish an AI monopoly, and that all I ever cared about.
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by geremiiah 2y ago
There are way more AI researchers/engineers graduating than there are jobs at top AI companies, so I fully expect xAI to have really competent people.
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by geremiiah 2y ago
This is no different than what happened in Germany. Despite having tons of funding, tens if not hundreds of AI research institutes, an abundance of talent and enough cluster time to go around for everyone, they were also blindsided by LLMs
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by geremiiah 2y ago
Most of those economists are political propagandists first and academics second. Unfortunately, there is no way of avoiding politics so all work gets tainted. If psychology has a reproducible crisis, economics has an integrity crisis. To be
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by geremiiah 2y ago
Maybe the author should be more specific because in the job searches I have done of late, my target companies almost never have junior positions open. Admitted, I do more niche stuff, but if you look for example at how NVIDIA hires, what co
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by geremiiah 2y ago
I don't think they are completely irrelevant. I certainly hold in much higher esteem, people who have long lasting marriages, compared to people who keep switching partners. At the same time, people are complex and nobody is without f
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by geremiiah 2y ago
This is not a pro-Brexit opinion, but it is also interesting how much of the worst prophesies did not happen. Tech business in particular mostly stayed in the UK and London is still the best place to be within the European geographical regi
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by geremiiah 2y ago
Age is a big one. But also for me it was a realization that I have different needs and the people I'd meet through my interest in some nerdy hobby were not going to fulfill all of my social needs.
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by geremiiah 2y ago
Thanks for the offer, currently I'm road tripping around southern Europe, partly as a way to escape from all that.
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by geremiiah 2y ago
1. I would go out alone to some events, but most of the time I would end up not speaking to anyone because people were not approachable. Everyone else is typically in groups and closed off to outside interactions. There were some exceptions
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by geremiiah 2y ago
It's not that I want to stay at home. It's just that I find it impossible to have a fulfilling social life. I don't know why these articles always seem to assume that these home bound people have good social opportunities.
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by geremiiah 2y ago
Maybe it's different in the US, but in many EU banks you now have to use the app for 2FA. Some banks offer alternatives but many don't.
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by geremiiah 2y ago
Not entirely related, but what was all the hype about the xAI Colossus? It's claimed to be the most powerful cluster by some measures. I know that a cluster isn't comparable to another because it's all a matter of connectivit
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by geremiiah 2y ago
I don't know what you are talking about, but I have lived in both the Netherlands and Germany and in both instances, you have a "choice" of insurance providers, but the list of services and the pricing is mandated by law. The
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by geremiiah 2y ago
Because the European market based insurance models like the ones in the Netherlands and Germany are completely redundant bureaucracy without any actual market mechanism, and Americans are typically above that kind of nonsense. Americans wan