"You are an AI assistant designed to assist users by providing accurate information, answering questions, and offering helpful suggestions. Your main objectives are to understand the user's needs, communicate clearly, and provide responses that are informative, concise, and relevant."
You can actually bypass the censorship. Or by just using Witsy, I do not understand what is different there.
Plus there are hordes of academics using Clang/GCC as targets for bug-finding papers. The Csmith [1] paper alone has over a thousand citations at this point. I'd assume most of the low-hanging fruits are picked.
> Do you think more than half of all STEM graduate students had a similar experience as she did? Do you have actual data to support this?
Yes, her entire description about her experience (safe for that weirdness with the textbook sweatshop) is relatable. I am not sure what you are looking for but STEM PhD attrition rates speak for themselves. Those do not include PhDs that decide to leave academia after retrieving their PhD. Not to mention the frequently discussed mental health crisis that consistently gets Nature articles.
>So my question is - just how serious should she (and others like her, who denounce 'mainstream' academia as much as those other fringe groups who go on and on about the corruption of 'mainstream' media) be taken? Anyone have an opinion on this?
I know nothing about her but the video on her experience in academia is spot on. It's a pretty common experience among STEM academics. You will face the point where you have to compromise your academic "purity" and curiosity for trendy topics to survive. This also implies publishing "bullshit" papers and "bullshit" grants. Only certain types of people make it through that.
The customer reaction to this decision spoke volumes. The official reason given is margins compared to hardware such as the IPU but, personally, I chalk it up to turf wars. Barefoot had a distinct culture to Intel's other networking units. There is a reason many of its engineers ended up at FAANGs and not other semiconductor companies.
Most of the locals do enjoy the Oktoberfest (speaking as someone from there). It is a fun two weeks of the year and the entire city enters a special kind of mood.
But it is not surprising that the HN crowd would find it distasteful. People here are definitely not the type for these kinds of festivities.
New-Yorker-style long-form articles are a different reading experience compared to an article intended to deliver factoids. These articles are not meant to just deliver news. They are meant to be immersive and also educational. They end up being long-winded because they paint a more comprehensive picture of a particular topic's history, outlook, and also the proponents and detractors involved. The descriptions of the people are intended to give you sense of their mentality and what drives them to champion or fight the article's topic.
Quality can also vary wildly of course. Tight writing also applies to long-form. You do not want to end up meandering.
For the vast majority of the degree, PhDs are not taking any classes (often, they are not even allowed to). They are just workers who either teach or research. The tuition is usually an accounting trick used by colleges/universities for tax and visa sponsorship purposes. Although faculty typically has to cover a PhD's tuition, factoring it in as pay is a little disingenuous.
If tuition was not waived, PhDs would not even apply. The way the PhD is set up in the US is a little byzantine. Other countries (Canada, continental Europe) do have normal employment contracts and benefits.
Yes. My office is about a 10 minute walk away. I work from home when I need to get stuff done. There are simply fewer distractions. I go to the office when I do feel live having some idle chit chat or to be social. If I were 100% remote, I would not miss the office.
I do not have a separate office room at home, I work from my bedroom.
As someone deeply involved with the P4 community and contributor to the P4 compiler it is great to see someone being bullish on the language. Have been following your work with interest. :)
I see that you are developing your own compiler. If you have complaints or suggestions please feel free to reach out to [email protected]. The language design group is meeting monthly and is always interested in hearing grievances of consumers of the language.
As a side-note, we are currently developing tools to ensure that P4 programs are compiled and executed correctly. Tools include packet-test generators, fuzzers, and general-purpose verification frameworks. Because the language is so restricted you can do really powerful validation. A concrete example is Google using P4 as a specification language for their network devices[0]. If that is something that interests you, shoot me a message ([email protected]).
It seems this is because the company has broadly shifted focus to softer social issues rather than technical topics. Mozilla keeps struggling with market share and users are anguished to see that their (former) favorite browser is investing resources in topics they find to be a distraction.
At least that is my interpretation. Mozilla is not addressing the same audience any longer, a lot of which is technically-minded folk on HN, Reddit, /g/, etc.
Let me clarify that I do not have all these issues. I am doing well for myself. This is partially because of my own cynicism, partially because of good mentors, and partially because of plain luck.
However, not everyone has that luxury. The list I gave is a list of problems I personally witnessed friends/colleagues go through. I also have worked a fair bit of industry, so I know that these patterns are not normal or in any way acceptable.
And yes, with clever strategizing you can find your way around being exploited. However, my point is that this should not be normal. Contractual working conditions would at least give you baseline protection.
And of course, there are always worse conditions to be in in the US (except maybe the students whose immigration status depends on the whim of their advisor) but we should hold universities to higher standards than that.
>Plus the CS students have the opportunity to work over the Summer and make the "big bucks." Altogether you should be making $60K-$70K per year, which isn't a lot as far as CS grads go, but it's considerably better than subsistence living. That's the equivalent of making $30-$45 per hour which is a wage most Americans would find damn good, and can only dream about earning that kind of money.
Just want to point out that this depends. For example, if you are an F1 student you will have to get your internship approved. This can be a lengthy, uncertain process. Some departments/advisors also expect you to not do internships at all as they prefer you to do research instead. Now 60k is also not guaranteed. In NYC universities for example, a full year of funding will net you a ~40k salary before taxes, iff you manage to acquire funding over the summer. Students are thrifty and typically find a way to finance themselves (e.g., move home, find other sources of income), but again, this should not be normal.
"You are an AI assistant designed to assist users by providing accurate information, answering questions, and offering helpful suggestions. Your main objectives are to understand the user's needs, communicate clearly, and provide responses that are informative, concise, and relevant."
You can actually bypass the censorship. Or by just using Witsy, I do not understand what is different there.