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You'll probably leave your home at dark in the morning and will return again at dark.

That's what happened in my high school years in France, which still changes clocks twice a year. Wake up in complete night, take the bus and wait for classes to start under yellow lightbulbs, then go out in the sun for the first time in the day at noon.

I don't understand why people are afraid that this will bring what was already happening.

Note that this won't work with reasonably performant CNNs. Passing an image batch through a large-ish ResNet takes half a second on our GPUs, several minutes at full load on CPU. This makes training infeasible, and most models small enough to work on CPU are so far from state-of-the-art that you can't do any worthwhile computer vision research with them.

It's great, but how can one trust the unofficial clients? They aren't from a well-known developer, and AFAIK, you can't check that the build is from the same code as the GitHub repo.

How do we know that shorter sleep causes lower mortality, instead of, say, that better health or some genes cause both?

Even if we assume that correlation is causation, I haven’t seen much of that evidence.

That site is half hypotheses made up by the author, and half irrelevant things like "this study proves that you won't die sooner if you cut 2 hours of sleep". Nothing in there indicates that sleeping less won't lead to less physical ability.

I only skimmed for references after the comparison with junk food, hunger, and cavemen. It truly sounds like they are making this up as they go along.

Porn is almost as unavoidable as ads

Where are these ads? I never see pornographic ads in my daily browsing.

The dopamine response to seeing porn is similar to crack (4).

That doesn't prove anything about harmfulness. I think it was already obvious that humans are hardwired to be attracted to sex. Nothing in these links suggests that this response creates to an addiction similar to hard drugs.

Pornography is categorically more dangerous to society than ads, tracking, and privacy invasions.

I don't accept that based on your sources.

Kids are generally stupider than adults.

Nope, by any measure, smart kids are way smarter than most adults I encounter. People who throw basic logic out the window because they want to believe that something is a certain way for emotional reasons often behave worse than kids.

Not all kids of course, but I think I've known more reasonable kids than reasonable adults overall.

Stupid people are happier then smart people.

I know people who are much smarter than me and seem genuinely happy all the time.

I think it's more about how strong one's social mesh is, how happy people in one's entourage are, and one's own approach to life. If you're very smart and surrounded by smart people who you also like, you're happy.

I think we should shut HN down now before someone actually gives ad companies new ideas.

I’m skeptical about that 5 degree bet. What’s your source?

One side clearly wanted WWII. Not sure about the first one.

Might be. Depends on your personality.

If I were behind schedule I would try to scrape StackOverflow so I don't get cut off from it.

Edit: maybe someone's scraper was too efficient.

On the other hand, if pre-iPhone Apple could invest into inventing the iPhone, I don't see why today's Apple could balk at a new effort of this kind, since today's Apple is vastly richer.

How much did the original iPhone and iPad cost to create? I imagine it would be an easy effort for 2022 Apple, and even a total failure would not dent their revenue by much. I can't imagine Cook being unable to do it.

They claim that "You don't flip from being extrovert to introvert just because [...]", so their definition implies that people's ability to switch from one to the other is limited. I don't think that's a reasonable thing to claim without evidence.

You don't flip from being extrovert to introvert just because you have a time in your life where you prefer to be alone. Extroverts don't become introverts while grieving the death of a loved one.

These are hypotheses that I wouldn't rely on to give advice. It could discourage someone who is dissatisfied with themselves from trying to change. Who says it's impossible? Your personal experience, or observing people around you, or a study on 1000 people?

My daily exercise routine is - 2 hour cardio

Do you have a full-time job? That would take most of my evenings if I decided to do it.

Very informative, thank you.

It's been decreasing so far, with financial safety, a saner schedule (no more absurd school deadlines for subjects I don't even care about), and more freedom of movement (one gets pretty isolated with no car in my area).

I expect it to keep getting better.

You don't need a absurdly high salary to raise a comfortable family or live a comfortable life.

I could do with absurdly high savings though. For everything from future projects to safe vacations and financial emergencies.

The lifestyle creep only happens if I actually spend that money instead of investing it.

I should also point out that high salaries will be eaten up completely by the sky high costs of everything in the Bay Area.

Interesting. Can you define "eaten up"? With my west-European salary, I can save around 1k/month. Since junior SWEs in California can apparently make 100 to 150k, I imagine that an "eaten-up" 300k would still let me save much, much more than in Europe. Is that unrealistic?

Nothing I found is as simple and pleasant to use as Google Reader. Feedly comes close, but its default is an ML-curated "magazine" view, and the last thing I want to see is more infinite engagement-optimized streams of titles.

During his studies and very early career? That's completely normal and I don't understand why more people don't do it.

Studies don't give you any idea of what a job is actually like. They also don't give you a reliable indication that you'll like a field. Choosing bio out of high school, then moving to CS for any reason, then trying a few jobs using these skills is a normal and healthy way of searching for a job he really likes.

If you are that smart to have a background in bio, and land the jobs that he did, your career would look very different.

Is that really so impressive? Bio people do a lot of coding, and good dev practices can be learned on the job. ML is probably also something he played with during his studies. Full stack + some ML experience is probably enough for a junior ML engineer.

Be prepared to be very lonely if you do not have a friends' circle already established here.

That's an absolutely prohibitive cost, and not how I want to spend my 20s and 30s. Thank you for mentioning it.

I'm not sure the high salaries are worth everything you mentioned. My current area is a bit like that, but at least the big cities are closer. Do you work there? How do people deal with the isolation?

Why not try applying for some full remote positions at FAANGs or whatever big tech employers you have in your area?

Machine learning-focused jobs at FAANG seem harder to get than regular "software engineer" ones, especially in computer vision. I don't want to stop learning by switching early to a remote coding job.

I'd be looking more at startups and corporate labs that do interesting work and don't require a PhD, but that requires skills I'm learning in my current job.

I agree, but I also expect money to matter to these goals in the long run. For example, if I have kids someday, I'd be much happier if I have financial resources to live in a nice place, take more time off, and pay for travel.

Money for the sake of it isn't the goal, it's more about being able to finance projects I find fulfilling.

I didn't mean to come across confrontational

Me neither :)

Job searching doesn't work that way - if it goes well you'll end up with a bunch of offers that you'll need to accept or reject them within some time frame

In that situation, I would be ready to accept leaving in a few months. I would prefer to wait, but not if it brings salaries down significantly.

It's always good to be employable, have relevant skills, be able to interview well etc. - this applies to good and bad markets.

That's good advice. I'll keep looking, but there's a difference between keeping an eye on the market and preparing to leave quickly.

Wouldn't brain drain strengthen engineers' position by causing even more labor shortage?

I like the spirit and want to :), but my life has been stressful in the last few years, so I'd like to delay the jump. I value stability and staying close to my current friends in the short-term.

Unless there are significant opportunities I'd be missing out on by not leaving right now. That's why I asked.

If salaries are likely to go down significantly and for a long time soon, I'd double my job-searching efforts, to have to option of leaving within a year or two.

If the current situation seems stable, I'd take it easy and enjoy the next couple years without the stress of having to move soon. I'm not that keen on turning my life upside down right now unless there's a significant gain to make. (The last few years were stressful so I'd like to take it easy for a while.)

I'm not sure why you asked this, but I can assure you I'm not trying to waste anyone's time, and I have a rational reason for asking.