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by jhp123 3y ago
I'm 37 and a factor that I haven't seen much discussed is that in-office is a vastly higher burden for my generation. Commutes are longer, more families have two working parents (and need to, to pay the bills). In-office doesn&#x2
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I connected with this, I've had many of the same thoughts lately. It's a thoughtful essay and I have no idea why it's been flagged? > When fewer than 5,000 programmers existed, they built Lisp (1960) and APL (1966) and ske
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okay but the plumber doesn't have to learn fucking Kubernetes.
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don't forget Jane Jacobs winning a fight against NY's planned highway expansion, giving a potent narrative and organizing blueprint for local activists to oppose all sorts of development. Two centuries of conflict between federal
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you have to wonder what sort of collusion isn't being uncovered. After all, when you catch someone doing something unethical, it is often the tip of the iceberg. It would be very easy for two tech execs to communicate privately and
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by jhp123 3y ago
Red Sorghum is fantastic. Set in a Chinese village, it's a perspective I had really no idea about. It's very well written as well, in a matter-of-fact style that seems to translate well.
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I don't see how its value has gone up since it was worth $20 billion, bullish signs are that it remains top of the heap among LLM companies and has managed to scale with demand. Bearish signs are that peak interest in LLMs is already o
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by jhp123 3y ago
there is also a team of human remote operators.
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Yeah $25k a year for five years or more would be very hard to justify, that's leaving at least half a million dollars on the table in terms of lost earning potential. I think I do have a unique perspective and a pretty respectable leve
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I guess if you measure outcomes in terms of sticking it to the libs then he did the right thing, if you measure in dollars then he made one of the worst business errors in history
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It's alarming to see this particular blend of ideas without any historical acknowledgment. The mix of Nietzsche's ideas about the superman, a messianic belief in the transformative power of industry, and a paranoid fear and hatred
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thanks, that's an interesting idea and I didn't realize those markets might be easier.
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most job reqs for these positions seem to say that a PhD is required; are you saying that published papers, conference talks etc. could serve as an equivalent for the PhD?
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by jhp123 3y ago
Thanks for sharing your experiences. From what I understand, earning a PhD would take some 5 years or more, with minimal income .. it's hard to justify the lost income unless I could accelerate the process significantly.
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I'm not concerned about my ability to handle the coursework or research, just the practicalities of entering the career
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Ask HN: Moving into Academic CS from Industry?
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The "standard" GUI solutions on platforms like Windows, are also being abandoned in favor of React.
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Imagine if a big OS vendor like Apple decided that people were not "using the platform" correctly by building on top of third-party database libraries instead of using the filesystem directly. So they introduced "File System
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by jhp123 3y ago
US Imperialism is even more brazen than that. Here's a video of the US President commenting on how US troops are in Syria "only for the oil": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U10p3Tn9V5Y
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by jhp123 3y ago
a query for "why does my heater take a long time to turn on" will turn up many first-page results like this one: https://candcheat.com/10-reasons-why-your-heater-fails-to-tu... which is shallow SEO content aimed a
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by jhp123 3y ago
I think an underexplored reason for high CEO pay is outright corruption. We don't really question why a Russian oligarch is a billionaire. It's not business skill, it's using their authority to enrich themselves directly: cor
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by jhp123 3y ago
you could turn any company profitable by firing all its employees and licensing the brand name. It will be an extraordinary accomplishment indeed if X becomes a > $44 billion company, but turning a small profit on declining revenue is no
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by jhp123 3y ago
the whole argument is about whether a sentence like "Hypatia was a first-rank mathematician" is accurate. Obviously that hinges on the definition of "first-rank" since no one is disputing her actual accomplishments or cl
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by jhp123 3y ago
I found this site, which seems to collect usage examples (unfortunately no citations): https://sentence.yourdictionary.com/first-rate Here are a few showing that, when speaking about history, it is normal to reserve terms l
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by jhp123 3y ago
You're talking about two people who don't seem to have contributed a single new theorem, proof, conjecture, or formula to mathematics. That bar is cleared by their contemporaries Pappus and Diophantus. I don't think your idea
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by jhp123 3y ago
As a math major, I would say that editing a textbook or even adding a few theorems or corrections would not make you a first-rate mathematician. The ceiling in math is very very high. If we're calling Theon first-rate then what do we s
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by jhp123 3y ago
I'll summarize this for people who don't want to read through the PDF, or aren't familiar with the jargon. It's a discussion between two people, Jerry and Anil. Anil seems to be representing the Chrome team, and Jerry th
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by jhp123 3y ago
The old-fashioned way to level this accusation is to say that the union is "Procrustean", named after the mythical Greek King who would chop people's limbs off or stretch them on a rack so as to fit the exact dimensions of hi
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by jhp123 3y ago
I've written a linear-time regex matcher in 65 lines of code: https://jasonhpriestley.com/regex
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by jhp123 3y ago
thank you oh benevolent Google, for allowing supply and demand to set labor prices after the DOJ shut down your wage fixing scheme

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