[NotOscarWilde]

People in this thread should take into consideration that the author submitted the post to Hacker News themselves. This is a call for the general hacker public to read it, and ultimately it cannot be undone easily.

I do understand the basic level of curiosity from fellow HN readers -- I did look up the research team and the supervisors mentioned. They do claim a really large area of research interests:

* Verification and Validation

* Search-Based Software Engineering

* Autonomous Driving

* Cyber-Physical Systems

* Digital Twins

* Quantum Software Engineering

It all adds something to the picture. That being said, I would not form any conclusions from this besides "a PhD student faces a crisis" -- unfortunately, this happens often and diagnosing those is really, truly difficult. (I am an assistant professor for just a year now, and I have seen those crises second-hand.)

[derhagen]

NotOscarWilde, I'd appreciate if you removed info regarding other people. The article was supposed about me, my feelings and the process of handling a personal crisis. My intention was that people read this post in a self-contained way, without relation to any other people (whose names I didn't mention on purpose), and I feel like most people here did. Maybe I could have expected folks spending time googling this type of unnecessary background information, it still got me by surprise. I'd really, really appreciate if you edited your comment insofar as a matter of respect to these other people.

[sva_]

I doubt they can edit their comment at this point. If you really want it removed, reach out to [e-mail] for (accidental) doxxing.

[NotOscarWilde]

Indeed there is no longer a possibility to edit or delete for me.

I was careful not to include names or places, and all this information is easily searchable starting from the author's username on HN or the website name.

So while I maintain that I made my comment in good faith, I hereby acknowledge that it is okay if it gets deleted, should HN moderators be requested to do so.

Update: I will contact the HN moderators myself, as I feel it is the right thing to do here.

[derhagen]

Thanks a lot!