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by sseagull 10mo ago
> a commuter plane where the wings iced up a bit and the airplane stalled. The crew kept trying to pull the nose up, all the way to the ground. There’s probably a lot that match, but sounds like Colgan Air 3407 in 2009 (the last major co
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by sseagull 10mo ago
I went there and saw two hairs, and yeah thought it was a nice funny touch. I then went back to HN and turns out one of the hairs was real and I needed to clean my laptop screen :)
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by sseagull 11mo ago
That’s starting to change though https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-31/meta-xai-... (Archive link: https://archive.ph/NBNEu )
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The worrying kink in this job openings, unemployment curve(axios.com)
64 points by sseagull 1y ago|84 comments
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by sseagull 1y ago
OpenAI "spent" more on sales/marketing and equity compensation than that: "Other significant costs included $2 billion spent on sales and marketing, nearly doubling what OpenAI spent on sales and marketing in all of 2024
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by sseagull 1y ago
I’ve always found the pioneer, settler, town planner model to be a great way of thinking about this. Successful, long-term projects or organizations eventually can use all 3 types. Maybe vibe coding replaces some pioneering work, but that s
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by sseagull 1y ago
This made an impression on me: https://www.spend-elon-fortune.com/ Buying all this stuff that seems expensive, but then seeing that it barely makes a dent in a truly wealthy person’s fortune. Of course, he wants even more…
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by sseagull 1y ago
I'm somewhat split on this issue. We already do have different kinds of organizations. We have "research universities" (R1 or R2) that give out PhDs and are somewhat like you describe. And then we have Primarily Undergraduate
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by sseagull 1y ago
I think the key part is "spirit" of the 1st amendment. A better way to put it is that even if the 1st amendment doesn't apply, it's still against the ideal of "free speech"
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by sseagull 1y ago
> You can still buy the console that can read physical games and buy the physical games and never plug it on the internet, right? I'm not positive this is possible. I seem to remember times when trying to play a newer game on the Sw
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by sseagull 1y ago
Spot on, but this in particular > people tend to not live near parents anymore so they lose free childcare For some reason I don't see this mentioned as often, but I've always felt it a significant root cause (among many of cou
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by sseagull 1y ago
As a high school teacher would say: “The good Lord gave you two eyes, two ears, but only one mouth”
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by sseagull 1y ago
Not in Rust, but I've seen it with Python in scientific computing. Someone needs to do some minor matrix math, so they install numpy. Numpy isn't so bad, but if installing it via conda it pulls in MKL, which sits at 171MB right no
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Elizabeth Holmes' partner raises millions for new biotech testing startup(npr.org)
29 points by sseagull 1y ago|14 comments
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by sseagull 1y ago
> that indirect rates being cut to 15% for Dept. of Energy grants I've got some bad news - NSF basically announced the same thing today https://www.nsf.gov/policies/document/indirect-cost-rate
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BNPL Tracker: 41% of Users Late in Past Year, More Using Loans for Groceries(lendingtree.com)
8 points by sseagull 1y ago|0 comments
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by sseagull 1y ago
As if review timelines aren't already way too long. I'm currently waiting 9 months for a small $250k grant (edit: waiting to hear if I've even gotten it. I barely remember what the proposal was about now). I can tell you most
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by sseagull 2y ago
Theoretically, if you can make Trump happy and show you are on his side, Trump could make that case disappear. Or, more realistically, Trump will still screw them over anyway, scorpion & frog style. Large companies are bending over back
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by sseagull 2y ago
“There are reports of Musk staffers on the CDC campus today, and yesterday an NSF official said at an internal meeting that the agency is apparently planning to lay off up to half its staff over the next two months.” This country is complet
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by sseagull 2y ago
Thanks for the numbers! For comparison, the NSF budget is about $8 billion. DOE Office of Science is about the same. NIH is $45 billion (Also, compare that with the profit of large tech companies)
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by sseagull 2y ago
Depends on the kinds of positions. There's more to academia than tenure-track faculty (which isn't in my future at all anyway). People around me tend to be in the RSE (Research Software Engineer) scene, which is growing in Europe.
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by sseagull 2y ago
I’m a scientist currently on an NSF grant. I am certainly poking around other countries to see what’s out there, and I’m not the only one. A lot of scientists (at least in my field, computational chemistry) have decent skills that are trans
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by sseagull 2y ago
> I really like unbiased merit based societies Just thought I would recommend some reading about this: "The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?" by Michael Sandel. Basically, think about what the longer-term, ov
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NSF freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders(npr.org)
33 points by sseagull 2y ago|4 comments
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by sseagull 2y ago
While not usually applied to everyday white collar workers, you seem to be hinting at what is called "moral injury" Typically associated with the military and with healthcare professionals who go into their fields with good intent
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by sseagull 2y ago
Windows has this as a feature in the OS with their stupidly-named Copilot+ PCs. I tried it a while ago and it seemed ok-ish at translating. Wasn’t terrible for doing it all on-device https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/
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by sseagull 2y ago
Pretty much always fake. While the “risk” of using my real name is probably small, there’s also very little benefit to me personally if people knew who I really was, so why bother. Exceptions: Github, maybe Stackoverflow, but it’s been a wh
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by sseagull 2y ago
Only 7 instances of “footgun” (or a variation) though. HN is slacking - must be the holidays
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BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline(bbc.com)
14 points by sseagull 2y ago|1 comments
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by sseagull 2y ago
What kind of mechanism is there in place to prevent any compiler from just replacing your main() function with formatting /dev/sda? That's nothing to do with the language, that's always on the compiler. Nothing stops the

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