skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adjuncts are supposed to fill in the gaps when there are more classes than can be taught by the full time faculty. The real problem is that as admissions increase, rather than creating more tenure track jobs, they create an adjunct position for 1/3 the pay, and use the other 2/3 to create an administrative position. From the article:

"Even while keeping funding for instruction relatively flat, universities increased the number of administrator positions by 60 percent between 1993 and 2009, 10 times the rate at which they added tenured positions. In the old days, different professors would take their turn as dean for this or that and then happily escape back to scholarship and teaching. Now the administration exists as an end in itself and a career path disconnected from the faculty and pursuit of knowledge. Writing a few years ago for this publication, the Johns Hopkins professor Benjamin Ginsberg described colleges and universities as now being “filled with armies of functionaries—vice presidents, associate vice presidents, assistant vice presidents, provosts, associate provosts, vice provosts, deans, deanlets, and deanlings, all of whom command staffers and assistants—who, more and more, direct the operations of every school.” So while college tuition surged from 2003 to 2013 by 94 percent at public institutions and 74 percent at private, nonprofit schools, and student debt has climbed to over $1.2 trillion, much of that money has been going to ensure higher pay for a burgeoning legion of bureaucrats."
I used to be a tenured professor (senior lecturer) and while universities treat adjuncts badly they also don't treat tenured professors any better. While the job has a lot of good points respect from your employer is not one of them.

At least here in Australia tenure really doesn't exist anymore. If they want to get rid of you they just wait for the next departmental reshuffle (these seem to occur every couple of years) and eliminate your position.
Most importantly, the whole point of having a driver do compilation for you is compatibility. AMD's GCN, for example, currently has three different generations out, and there are small differences in the set of supported instructions and in the instruction encoding.

Not having to deal with legacy stuff in instruction decode is one of the big advantages GPUs have over CPUs, and it relies on having the driver do the compilation.

All that said, it's nice that people are having fun with AMD's and Intel's GPU ISA, but honestly, why on Earth do they do it on Windows? There are perfectly fine open source drivers available on Linux that you can easily modify to play around with the ISAs as much as you wish.
So fictional books are psychological manipulation? If that's the case, then the phrase "psychological manipulation" is so broadly defined as to be completely useless.

And I'm not victim-blaming. Perhaps the consumer doesn't fully recognize the benefits one quick and easy action could have on their lives. Your newsletter could change everything! Why not actually try and sell that, rather than giving unfeeling "Subscribe"/"don't" buttons?

I'm not a fan of the Whole Foods "would you like to give a dollar to charity today" thing because it (accidentally or not) leverages social pressure to convince people to give money. Social pressure is a different thing entirely, and it does end up looking like a form of manipulation (although in this context, a fairly weak one at that)

But to be unable to resist a couple of words on a screen? At that point, a conversation would fall under "psychological manipulation". So I don't get it. Am I still a sociopath?
I gave up on battery drills. The battery would always run down with the screw halfway in. Then it's go get the corded drill anyway. Might as well start with the corded one.
It's (probably) enough light to disrupt melatonin production in the evenings, but that doesn't imply that it's enough light to get you to produce Vitamin D etc and help with SAD during the day. Computer screens don't produce much light even compared to a normal bulb.
Tangent, and not a particularly religious one:

Why does sex seem to get a pass for "you can't control your biological impulses" when other drives don't?

- We're driven to eat as well, and have a growing problem with obesity. At least, when you eat too much, you're only harming yourself. Yet, we (the society "we") tut at the obese, in some cases make fun of them. "Why can't you control yourself?" we say. "Put down the fork!" says another.

- We have a drive to be social, yet humans are pretty well controlled when it comes to expressing that drive at the wrong times in the wrong places.

- It's expected to be protective of your family, but in another time, that would have meant meting out lethal punishment to an interloper. Now, doing that lands you a prison sentence.

Without moralizing on any of this:

The drive to reproduce, we somehow don't expect people to stop screwing when it's likely that doing so will have really awful consequences for a perfectly innocent life. Either now, in the case of a virus causing congenital defects, or in other cases, such as not being able to support a child. We throw our hands up, say "welp, abstience doesn't work, knock yourselves out", and try to work around the problem with birth control (something which still has a <100% chance of stopping unwanted births)

Why is this? Surrender to the implacable force of human nature doesn't seem to be the answer, seeing as how we've at least partially tamed most other impulses, or at least refused to give up.
I honestly have no idea. I think the only protection at the moment seems to be obscurity, use an email address that is not linked to you.
I use this lamp too. Highly recommend it.
I'm not sure how definitive that guide is. For what it's worth, all of my medical textbooks are very careful to include licensing and attribution information for all of their medical images, including X-rays. So even if there's not much case law on it, publishers seem to be erring on the side of caution.
Models in biology: ‘accurate descriptions of our pathetic thinking’ (2014)
I have two questions:

1. How hard is it to do work on your computer with that much light shining directly behind your monitor?

2. From the amazon bulb description:

"Remove The Electronic Ballast, Capacitor,Ignitor In The Fixture"

What does that mean? Is it a poorly written instruction to do some obvious? Or is it a strange after market modification?
If they were following a script and the script were careful, saying "I lost my phone" would cause them to try to contact your phone, and when you answered and said you still had it, would put a fraud alert on the account and stop all further attempts to social engineer customer service.

But most companies aren't anywhere near that careful.
It seems a huge part of this problem is some are treating these jobs as real, life supporting careers. They aren't meant that way. Maybe colleges are taking advantage. But these adjuncts are also taking advantage of themselves willingly.

This sounds a lot like the argument that minimum wage isn't supposed to be a living wage. Well, whether it is or it isn't, the current system (minimum wage or adjuncts) isn't working for a lot of people, so something has to change.
Tracking private air travel in Davos with DIY radio
I have. I sent in a report saying that the Safari address bar autocomplete menu doesn't exit when you drag the favicon or link to another app, ultimately rendering Safari inaccessible unless you use your mouse and they asked me for a video example. I posted the video, but I haven't heard anything since. However, it is fixed now, so there is that
I'm not sure how the author missed the cole drill. Maybe he never wanted to drill holes in metal.

http://coledrill.blogspot.com/
So glad to hear this. I often wonder how much people with training pick up on things like this, and if they do what their response is. My parents watch Blacklist, I usually watch it with them, rationalizing it as "but James Spader...".
And to be fair, the what, three dozen, federal-leo/police procedurals are even worse on things like 4th amendment violations and just general ethical compromises.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_birth_control_me...

No contraceptive is perfect, and the rates vary between methods. Note that some of the methods in the table can be combined (and often are), thus lowering the overall chance of pregnancy.

ars's comment seems a bit extreme; while condoms don't perfectly prevent pregnancy, they are certainly quite effective at reducing the chance of it.
Just looked at your GitHub profile and you're not blocked. Couldn't find any email from you either. Don't see why I would block you. Can't remember us interacting before.
Crypho – Encrypted enterprise messaging
"The civil order was introduced in English and Welsh law last year and can be handed down by magistrates at the request of police where it is believed that a person who has not been convicted of a sexual crime nevertheless poses a risk to someone else."

Why bother with pretense? Just throw acquitted guilty people in jail.
Wet mounting will only help if the scanner focus can be optimized. I've got a Epson V750, and _if_ everything is just right, you can get a very good scan, but still noticeably short of what a drum scan will give you.

When I print my MF or 4x5 images, I don't really worry about 'all the detail', since as you say, you'd need a pretty big print to really see them. I'm just happy if they look nice and sharp on the wall.

I have to give mad props to the guys still doing collodion--that is way above my pay grade, as they say. And I don't want to carry glass plates on my bike. I try to limit the toxicness of the chemistry I have in the house as much as can, but I still like doing the lab work--it is satisfying to me in a way that no digital process is ever going to be.
Well, you can filter, map and fold over maps so there is not really much missing. And they are efficient both when they are small and large.
This is really well presented and there are some surprising results. It would be good to add in gains from trade/interaction to the model.

Economic theory suggests that agents would not willingly consent to transactions with negative expected returns and there are plenty of examples of mutually beneficial transactions in the real world (most goods I buy I would have been happy to pay more and the shop makes a profit).

In this context, it would be interesting to see the tradeoff between efficiency and equality with different allocation rules (and resulting transaction frequencies). This could in some way relate to the optimal taxation literature....
They got that from Erlang :-)
Sometimes, I get the same urges as well. To contribute to as many open source project as I can; to learn the a new language and be proficient in it; to attend conferences to talk to other like minded folks.

However, I came down to the realisation of several things very quickly.

1) Something in my brain causes me to grasp new concepts quite slowly, no matter how interested I am in the subject. So it takes me longer to work through things.

2) I also enjoy my family life, so it comes down to searching for time after the family has gone to sleep or before they wakeup to do some tech stuff. Kids are still a bit young to do tech stuff together.

3) There are only 24 hours in a day and I wont get any more days after I dead. I want to allocate some of the hours away from tech and experience humanities.

Sorry, I am sorry that this does not really answer your question, but I think that this side of the coin is important as well.

My advice is to find a job that you really, really enjoy doing. Once you have reached there, give it all you have got during the working hours. Your social life will thank you for it.
I see this a lot on NVidia driver on Linux games.
Games where slow to load. NVidia's fix -> compiled sharers cache. They are stored in ~/.nv
(ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/FreeBSD-x86/295.71/README/openglenvvariables.html)
Core i5 and Core i7 are really meaningless descriptions of processors since those names span many generations with different performance characteristics.
This is interesting because I have a food project on ice, that got stuck on OCR'ing receipt's. There are proprietary scanners that are OK, but not perfect. There are still a lot of progress to be done is in this area!
Also Papers We Love:

http://paperswelove.org/

https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love

But I think these are papers written by Baker, rather than recommended by him.
In the absence of a constructive means to actually empower women, you can assume this trend will continue.

I am a woman. Every single time I try to talk about what women can do to take control of their lives in a world that will never be entirely without risk, I get attacked as "a rape apologist" and/or I get accused of "blaming the victim."

As long as the world as a whole sees sex as a male prerogative and male privilege and not something a good woman would actually want, we shall have no constructive path forward. As long as women who get laid are automatically viewed as servicing a man, being taken advantage of, etc. we shall have no constructive path forward.

If women want equal rights and equal opportunities, they need to start taking more responsibility for their own lives and stop playing the victim card, the helpless damsel in distress and so on. They need to quit screeching about how men need to behave better. They need to figure out what is within their own power to act upon and put their focus there.
The article is entitled "You need more lumens" so he's already confronting me.

In informal English there is no accepted equivalent to the third-person pronoun "one", so people reuse the second-person pronoun "you".
Well, that's good news. I found the email and forwarded it to you again for your reference, but it sounds like whatever happened is fixed. Cheers!
Is this pair programming 2.0?
>Mosquitoes fill an important niche in a great many ecologies.

I think people just repeat this dogmatically, it doesn't appear to be true.
Yes, it shows that some of us think it's the same old melodramatic junk that is so over the top that it drowns out any actual reason.
No, it wouldn't. Universities have plenty of money to pay living wages and not abuse their workers. It is a national disgrace that they so often choose to do so anyway. They just spend their resources on hiring more administrators to assist other administrators in administrating, expensive fancy unnecessary buildings that nobody wants, etc. As it mentions in the article we are discussing. There is more than enough money to go around, it's just going where the people with power decide it should go, as in any hypercapitalist system.
Pingdom and DeadMansSnitch vs. WDT.io – price comparison
> I doubt this. There's plenty of pressure for automation now, and I don't see wages increasing as being the final straw to accelerate automation research.

It's not a question of final straws or dramatic thresholds, but of a constellation of smaller decisions.

If I have to pay my workers $X, it's worth investing in automation that amortizes out to less than $X. If workers demand $2X, then two things follow:

First, more existing solutions in the marketplace are likely to be worthwhile. There may be economies of scale, where this would help lower the cost of similar automation. At an extreme, there may be tools available that could cost <$X if they were being bought by the whole industry, but between $X and $2X in the case where no one is yet buying them.

Second, if I'm considering building automation tools, there are more things I can expect to successfully bring to market if workers are being paid more. And so I am more able to raise funds to do research into that automation.

These kinds of things should lead to an increase in automation as compared to the status quo. It may not be dramatic, but I'm not sure it needs to be dramatic.

> I expect the group of workers that have negative marginal productivity (or, less marginal productivity than their salary) is chiefly those people that are good at fooling the system into thinking they're productive, and not necessarily intersecting heavily with the group of people that would leave under BI.

I think that's plenty possible. But note that we don't require that most of the negative-marginal-product workers leave, just that a large enough portion of leaving workers be negative-marginal-product.

> But this is very low confidence.

Certainly, as was my example in the first place :)

> how do you protect against a vicious cycle of "inflation->BI increases-> higher wage demand->inflation"?

As I've said elsewhere, I think this is a concern. It's my understanding that the result of a BI that is too high for a society to support would precisely be rapid inflation. I propose protecting against the cycle you describe by refusing to raise the BI level in response to inflation, which lets the (real) BI fall to a sustainable level if we set it too high. Growing BI at (or slightly above) targeted inflation seems appropriate. Growing it with observed (or expected) inflation seems dangerous.
Erm... isn't the actual root cause of the problem raised in TFA the opposite of debasement? Namely excess supply of people who're willing to go into academia to "do the most essential work in society", whatever the terms, as a sister comment from an insider pointed out? If the perceived value of being in academia was low enough, the market would force the universities to treat adjuncts better.

Also, aren't most or at least a great many of the most famous universities non-profits, competing for donations instead of trying to maximize shareholder value? I hear that in for-profit education, the average student is treated better and so is the average lecturer (you want to please your students whose money feeds you and you want to attract lecturers whose primary motivation is financial and who're good enough to please your students, so the for-profit institution kinda has to treat both well to survive.) Somebody living off donations, on the other hand, only has to please people donating the money (and someone living off taxes only has to please government officials), while pleasing either students or the teaching staff is no longer essential.

(I don't have firm or specific opinions on how higher education should be run, in general, just commenting on your points.)
Using https://wdt.io for monitoring HTTP servers and cron jobs is often less expensive than a combination of DeadMansSnitch and Pingdom.
Yes, MDMA has been shown to be an effective complement to exposure therapy. As I understand, with mdma, the goal is to develop a new emotional association linking the experience to the intense euphoria the MDMA induces.

As you point out in another comment, MDMA actually increases norepinephrine levels, which I suppose would enhance the strength of the new associations.

As for neurotoxicity, limiting use to less than once a month is quite effective at reducing it, I've heard. This is probably not much of a problem for theraputic use, but if it needs to be administered more frequently, there's some evidence that taking an SSRI before taking MDMA will reduce toxicity (don't do this, you might risk seratonin syndrome). DXM too has been shown effective at reducing amphetamine toxicity, so it might also help (also don't do this). If MDMA is ever rescheduled to allow for research, though, these techniques might allow more frequent use in theraputic settings.
Many people (including me) don't answer from unknown numbers, so that wouldn't work.
Wouldn't that allow somebody who stole your phone to lock you out of your bank if they answered the call? Seems like that'd make a stressful situation potentially worse if thieves knew they could do that. Especially if they called from a number that's linked to the bank anywhere and something like Google's dialer surfaces who it is - your bank calling seems like a potential "maybe I can get more" for a thief so they might be inclined to answer and impersonate.
It was originally in the original Erlang interpreter written in Prolog but you could use it for back-doors in the communication so we removed them. If you sent an unbound variable in a message then the receiving process could reply by binding the variable. We wanted all communication to be explicit.

I agree though that unification is cool. And I still like Prolog and other logic languages, and have implemented Prolog in Erlang, of course.

We also gave some thought to laziness but felt it just didn't fit as for the type problems in which we were interested. For those problems when things are done is critical, not just that they are eventually done. That would have meant a lot explicit evaluation which defeated the point of laziness.
Odd that piece didn't actually mention more of the scholarship around this, especially since they reference the "wurlizter" line. The book by Hugh Wilford on exactly that topic was excellent and the bibliography in the back was a gold mine on art, intellectuals, labor fronts, etc.
www.amazon.com/The-Mighty-Wurlitzer-Played-America/dp/067403256X/

The Cultural Cold War by Saunders is, as far as I know, the best main stream scholarship on specifically the art scene.

EDIT: ....and I'm an idiot. Saunders is the author of that article. Jesus. Nice find OP.
I guess everybody has it's own clone. With Firebase opening up the dat, it's quite trivial to build your own
Here is my version: https://hnews.xyz/#/ It grabs the preview of the landing pages so you kind of know what you are getting into
I agree with your main point, but mentioning new construction is something of a non-sequitur because that funding usually comes from donors.

We might be able to make the case that the donations don't cover the ongoing cost of operating the new buildings, but at least at my institution, the new buildings are usually energy-efficient replacements for old ones.

But yeah, the whole thing is nutty: a few years ago at a Chamber of Commerce function, one of our extremely wealthy doners (you probably know of them) told the audience members that they should be providing a certain minimal level of funding to athletics, even if it meant reducing their normal contribution to the academic side.
Why use a plane and catapult instead of just using a helicopter?
person 1: Aliens have visited our city.
person 2: Is there proof of that?
Probably just an optical illusion or something.
person 1: Can you prove aliens didn't visit?
What is your math for optical illusion?

I'm sorry, but the burden of proof lies with the person making a claim, not with detractors.
OK, what is the implication here? That a cabal of government officials would deliberately start a war under false pretenses, costing trillions of dollars and thousands of their own countrymen's lives... for what? Profit? They could rake in far more by tacking a couple riders on popular bills.

It's unwise to caricature your opponents as evil or stupid. Not only is it an impediment to understanding them, but it makes any sort of dialogue impossible.
When we take turns speaking, we chime in after a culturally universal short gap
> I've never seen anything that included mosquitoes as anything but a disease vector,

There are entire branches of ecology studying (among other things) the role of mosquitoes in ecosystems. Limnology for example.

> I've heard numerous opinions saying that mosquitoes are the one class of animal whose absence would not be noticed by the ecosystem

Define "numerous"

I can't understand how somebody could claim that nothing will occur if we wipe an entire "class" of animals comprising more than 3000 species and that are linked with almost all in freshwater ecosystems in its quadruple role of prey, predator, pollinisator and vector. Hundred of species of vertebrates of economic interest to man depend on them, probably.
Outsource swipe right.