Readit NewsA lot of people on HN seem unaware of how innovative research is paid for and are even cheering the cuts in the US. China certainly isn't cutting research.
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I'm calling bullshit, show me the experts, I want to see that any qualified humans actually participated in this. I think they did their "collaboration" in ChatGPT which spit out this list.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
When a layperson hears this, they'll think that there's a small but possible chance that vaccines do cause autism; when what the scientist means to say is that "it's highly unlikely that vaccines cause autism."
It seems the US is going to thrive with the former but naively stick our heads in the sands with the latter.
We’ll cede economic leadership, and wonder in 20 years what happened as other countries lead in energy. Even worse, the administrations stance will encourage US energy companies to pursue bad strategies, letting them avoid transforming their business. In 10-20 years they'll be bankrupt and the US will probably have to bail them out for strategic reasons.
The reality is, every time someone's search is satisfied by an organic result is lost revenue for Google.
Unfortunately there are no workable alternatives. DDG is somehow not better, though I use it to avoid trackers.
You need to prove you're a real person now - the first way is to get a referral from someone you worked with in the past. Literally anyone - if you're not reaching out to everyone at any company that even may be hiring for a role you want, you should be.
Another way is to be posting somewhat regularly, having some online presence, showing your looking for work, are a person, and have a positive mindset.
Your resume should be tailored for the role, but not generated by AI (it'll get flagged) - spend less time messing with your resume though and more time networking. If you as you say have been in the industry 25 years, there absolutely will be someone who will give you referrals.
Companies are hiring, but the way you and I have gotten roles in the last decade+ is mostly shut.
> These beliefs can make it difficult to care about much of anything else: what good is it to be a nurse or a notary or a novelist, if humanity is about to go extinct?
Replace AGI causing extinction with the Rapture and you get a lot of US Christian fundamentalists. They often reject addressing problems in the environment, economy, society, etc. because the Rapture will happen any moment now. Some people just end up stuck in a belief about something catastrophic (in the case of the Rapture, catastrophic for those left behind but not those raptured) and they can't get it out of their head. For individuals who've dealt with anxiety disorder, catastrophizing is something you learn to deal with (and hopefully stop doing), but these folks find a community that reinforces the belief about the pending catastrophe(s) and so they never get out of the doom loop.
It’s not from a rational basis, but from being bombarded with fear from every rectangle in my house, and the houses of my entire community