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> Are you claiming that most research is already freely available and yet everyone is, for some unspecified reason, still paying publishers for an extraneous service?

I'm not sure about the NSF, however: this is what is happening in some disciplines. ArXiv is the default method of sharing research in some fields, and also the default method of actually reading and reviewing those articles, yet people still submit their research to the traditional publishers, and people still either pay publishing or subscription charges to those publishers.

That's because the service those publishers provide is not the publishing or making accessible of research, but the academic credentials one needs to advance their academic career. That's the "unspecified reason", and it's an incredible waste of money.
I'm in the EU, but since I'm looking at it from a work computer, and I guess our network exits in the US, I can see the article, so they are in breach of GDPR even with their stupid block.
Ok, then why is law school so expensive? It seems to me that classes could be offered online without practical problems, and exams could be organized on a national level.
Unfortunately, it does cost your institution a lot, in terms of the subscription to that journal.
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A private jet allows you to be anywhere you need to be in the world on a whim. And more importantly it allows you to build your commute around your schedule not the other way around first class or not they won’t wait for you on the tarmac for 3 hours because a meeting is running late nor will they care if you need to be in Tokyo or not when you try to rebook the tickets and the next flight is completely full.
If you can’t understand the value of this if you are making Bezos scale decisions then there isn’t anything more I can say.
Also for Bezos nor for anyone else is it a hassle to manage this by the time you fly on your own jet your personal life is already run as a corporation.
More generally, it's impossible to target any individual area for fat reduction.
Because as a researcher, you're not paying to have your papers hosted or even to have the feedback process facilitated, but you're paying so you can say your articles have been published in <journal x>, which helps you when applying for grants or tenure.
Might be just me but I always do dpi settings directly in x11 config. I can see this being a problem when connecting to different monitors.
For my home workstation where everything is static I havent had to touch anything after set it up.
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Ask HN: 45-minute “unblock me on my personal project” consultants?
Hi folks,

I’m trying to get back into doing side projects for my own learning. However, I have a problem and I’d like to know if I can trade money for a solution.

Back when I was in uni or a new grad, I frequently repeatedly had a problems with package managers, setting up test frameworks, figuring out how to use a debugger to get to a point in a test, package managers, other development environment issues, and especially package managers. My response back then was to spend hours yak shaving and going down rabbit holes. As a student, this led to a lot of wasted time. When I got to the workplace, this habit led to me getting some pretty strongly-worded feedback that I needed to get better at asking for help when I ran into these sorts of problems. After a few years, I’ve mostly gotten over the “I’m not a real engineer if I only have a surface-level understanding of npm” feeling. Asking well-framed questions leads to a coworker popping up and unblocking me pretty quickly and the team as a whole moving more efficiently.

But what do I do for personal projects?

Is there anyone who has a really solid understanding of npm, gems, rvm, protractor, node-debugger, etc. and offers the service where I can book time on their calendar a week from now, send them a clear description of my problem, and videochat with them for 5 minutes to 45 minutes and then pay for 45 minutes of their time? What would rates generally be?

Folks with experience doing consulting or services, how would you structure such a transaction? Would it be best to have someone on retainer? Or would they just have themselves up on calendly as described here: https://calendly.com/pages/customer-stories/freelancers-and-consultants ?
Another guy evaluating similar stuff:
https://idea.popcount.org/2017-03-28-sandboxing-landscape/
> The Palo Alto-based automaker, led by Elon Musk, has said it repeatedly warns drivers to stay alert, keep their hands on the wheel and maintain control of their vehicle at all times while using the Autopilot system.

That Tesla is taking so long to learn what "human factors" are is painful, especially since HF has been part of other industries for decades.
> the romans supposedly used a superior cement which we can no longer replicate.

I read a few years ago the 'secret' had been discovered and it was to do with volcanic ash which made it self healing.

Doing a quick search there seems to be a lot of articles from 2014 about this so possibly that what when the research was published.

https://archserve.id.ucsb.edu/courses/arthistory/152k/concre...

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/why-pantheon-has-not-crumbled-roma...

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/12/10/1417456111
That is the ideal, but it will also require absolutely ridiculous amounts of energy to synthesize heavier elements.
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If you have enough money to afford a private jet, there are companies that will happily take more of your money to handle all of those details for you.
> I imagine it could also be useful to run user programs without having to switch rings all the time

That is pretty much exactly what this project is aiming at:

"Cervus implements a WebAssembly "usermode" on top of the Linux kernel (which tries to follows the CommonWA specification), enabling wasm applications to run directly in ring 0, while still ensuring safety and security."
If I'm trying to make myself happier, and I measure how many times I tweet smiling emojis vs frowning emojis, I can simply stop tweeting frowning emojis. Thus the metric is improved without any change in the underlying thing being measured.

An objective measure, like weight or hours of sleep or time to run 5km doesn't have this property.
The challenges are really not in the publishing infrastructure. Your assumption that some (where "some" really should be "pretty many" in absolute numbers) high-profile researchers would join does not seem likely, unfortunately. For some examples by some people who are spending a lot of effort trying to convince editors to do so: https://gitlab.com/publishing-reform/discussion/blob/master/...
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It is not Linux DE that has improved but rather the applications that we use commonly are web based and available via the browser. This makes netbooks the logical next step IMO
Look at https://research.swtch.com/vgo-tour (Upgrading)

vgo list -m -u will show you which newer releases of your dependencies.
Then you can upgrade one dependencies vgo get xxx or all vgo get -u
A rigorous evaluation with particular focus on where it doesn't work would be better.
I agree. Very involved topic. Unfortunately, the problem is baked into the cake, self-replicating.

1) The preparation of many HS science teachers (sometimes) gives them an adequate grasp of what they're teaching, but no history background. Fixable, but not likely to happen, unless the school arms them with good media presentations.

2) On the college level, same problem: much better grasp of fundamentals but, again, no tradition to teach or requirement to mention -any- history. (And college profs have more demands on their -expensive- time.) I had exactly -one- prof who did some history (optics). At best they typically lectured, and -maybe- demonstrated, several historical finds. But the cultural context (which Thony is -really- good at) is NEVER a part.

So basically, educators who DO history are rare, and those who do are probably self-motivated. The university I attended had -one- part-time 'historian of science' (the optics guy), and several of his collegues bitched that he should been hired by the history department.
I guess the point that digitalzombie is trying to make is most of what we call AI or ML or even Deep learning is simply extension of statistics on computers.

Things like the German tank problem or the problem of hardening airplanes during WW2 have that very AI'esque feel to it. Where you use data to build a model, then let that data from the model to change the model as it fits.

Also the whole thing about 'decision making' is either bayesian or frequency based models in nature. Most of these algorithms and math has long existed before the current boom.

Its just that the raw computing power and resources that you have today make it possible for you to deal with large amounts of data to stress test your models.
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They often are at least as efficient and truth-seeking. Unfortunately, researchers do not pick journals on the basis of who efficient and truth-seeking they are, but on how much they can help their career. (I mean "unfortunately" here in the sense that the circumstances are unfortunate - I can't blame the researchers.)
Inflating by CPI, the option cost $805 at today’s prices [1].

For comparison, the brochure for a model year 2016 Audi A3 reckons cruise control was a £225 and ACC a £575 option i.e. $300 and $763 at current exchange rates.

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Those journals do not really have an incentive to do that, do they?
Say you live in Ann Arbor, and have holiday houses in Portland, MA and Colorado Springs...
> ...one can't help but think, "then WTF is it good for, if I still have to drive the car myself while using it?"

And why are Tesla burning karma by promoting this technology?

For SpaceX, self-landing rockets are a direct method of reducing costs.

For Tesla, sort-of-self-driving cars are a distraction from the core product and are tainting the brand. Stick to selling top-tier electric vehicles with human-driving, people will still buy them on merit.

To me it's am example of what happens when software developers run the asylum. You can do nearly anything in software, but should you?
Perfect information problem solving is not interesting anymore.

Did they manage to extend it to games with hidden and imperfect information?

(Say, chess with fog of war also known as Dark Chess. Phantom Go. Pathfinding equivalent would be an incremental search.)

Edit: I see they are working on it, predictive state memory paper (MERLIN) is promising but not there yet.
Perhaps you're right and you just have to keep shutting your laptop down and booting up from cold to prevent Windows problems.. sorry, updates from happening at the wrong time.

I watched a three hour stream of a professional chess player and youtuber and at the start he's saying "...oh, and I just updated my Windows laptop a few days ago so hopefully it won't start to slow down or apply an update while I'm playing". Amazing - he's playing bullet chess where you typically make each move in a second or so, and hundreds of games like that in a row so even a hint of lag is going to result in him moving the piece to the wrong place, or timing out and losing the tournament and he has to "hope" that his own computer won't decide it knows when to update and/or reboot.

I have no idea how people put up with this shit. It's like an abusive relationship.
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Depends what type of writer are you thinking of? marketing? technical? blog posts? novels? - I guess if you wanted a simple answer on how to write better, I would say - just read as much as you can.
Hmmm... I'd be interested to know more about this. Its going to be fairly hard to fight this I suppose. The US does have a powerful military interest* to be doing this, but I've not read about them actually doing so.

* To understand why, watch the movie Grave of the Fireflies. Or watch Indy Neidel on youtube talk about the "turnip winter"
I really don't get the appeal.

It isn't about practicalities, it's about status.
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By consistently hiring the best people in your company, it can be easier to show upper level management that what you do is good and your methods should be shared and applied to your colleagues.
Work hard, use metricsm show them why your candidates are better fit than your colleague and maybe they will understand what should be done in order to hire better people.

You should also know that some people are stubborn and some have such a big ego that changing anything in your company can feel a bit "David vs Goliath"y - in that case, it is way harder to change anything.
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The problem is that value for the unseeable differences is simply a human idea. Why would the paint arranged on a canvas by a famous artist have more value than the same paint arranged on the same canvas by myself?

Value comes in the appreciation of the art. So diamonds that have been created over billions of years probably has more appreciation than ones created in 500 hours, even if they are exactly the same at the molecular level.
As a researcher, you can get a stamp of having had an article published in a certain journal, which helps your career.
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Toxicity, tooling and commercial ideas regarding IP.

In Windows and macOS systems, and even on Google platforms, you go to a conference, there is a wealthy set of talks and discussion forums about UI/UX ideas.

We just get to use Sketch, XD, Photoshop, whatever gets the job done to transmit the ideas and how users interact with the platforms.

On UNIX world, or what is left of it BSD/Linux, GNOME and KDE designers get bashed and something like xmonad is considered the epitome of GUI experience.

A similar conference will be about filesystems, network protocols, graphics drivers, kernel modules and very seldom about anything UI/UX related.

So the designers that still try to contribute to GNOME and KDE apps do so in spite of community, because they believe that they can still make a difference.

Everyone else just moves into places where they feel welcome.

I am still wondering how long elementary OS is going to be around.
That doesn't seem to help anything. Wouldn't this be better:

> Personal data held by a hospital about their patients may not be used for any non-medical purpose, and may not be shared with any third parties unless directly necessary for a medical purpose.
I don't understand why wouldn't you change your password? Is there some technical or security related reason?
Although I share your point of view w.r.t. scientific thinking and I don't disagree on objective reality (personally), this question can still be answered in a different way and may lead to the conclusion that objective reality is a construct that gets created by perceiving.

Subjective idealism states that there don't has to be objective reality to get truth values from it. Trying to understand this from a materialistic point of view is not easy because those philosophies are basically in contradiction to each other.

It's just important to realize that the belief that objective reality exists is one of many points of view.

> As in, it is theoretically possible for a system to be 100% secure. The difficulty lies in designing one and proving it.

> It's not fundamentally impossible.

How is "100% secure" defined in this context if you can't prove it?

In a sufficient complex logical system Gödel's incompleteness theorems are turning relevant. It might not be possible to prove some aspects of it if the system is logically consistent. This may also apply if you model reality in a logically consistent way. Logics has its limits.

Although I agree with you, I think it's important to realize that our positions are and can't exceed to be beliefs or even strong beliefs called facts.
I share this opinion. It's "trying to be Mac OSX simple" (but failing)
I think it means no exceptions
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Probably compatible with Mosaic ;-)

Sometimes I do the exercise of switching to older phones - my favorite Palm Pre 2 or my even older Palm Centro - as an exercise on avoiding distractions of the modern web. It's good to see websites that can easily be used with these.
One thing I don't quite get...

Say I've kidnapped someone and the ransom has been paid. I could release the hostage but then there would be someone with knowledge of my operation out there walking about.

If I killed the hostage instead, I'll have eliminated that risk and I can keep the ransom. It's not like anyone is going to sue me for not keeping my side of the contract.

Maybe I'm going to get a reputation for killing hostages and people stop paying ransoms, but then I'll just throw away that identity and give myself a new name.

Any game-theorists wish to comment?
I think it means no destructors, no overloaded operators, no automatic getter/setters for properties. Nothing that does a function call unless you can immediately tell by looking at it that it’s a function call.
That sounds like it's setting an RTC timer to wake up. You may be able to disable that. It may be called wake on timer or wake on RTC.
> affordable fashion jewelry that may not be forever...

...is also a lie. The man made diamonds will last just as long (or longer, as they're generally more perfect) than mined diamonds.
> Whether that's through a Nature publication or something else is immaterial.

But it's not really immaterial, is it? It's a ridiculously expensive way to sift through research, as there is hardly any downwards price pressure at all.
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Which actually becomes a problem in the far future when stars have moved further away from each other in an ever expanding universe and their light output becomes increasingly dim to a space faring traveller...
On Arch Linux installing GNOME does not install all of the GNOME apps, just the shell. The rest I only install if I want it. What I like most is their calendar and their address book.
Kind of, since they rebooted their driver, the experience is not that good in older cards.

I lost video hardware acceleration on my EEE PC with the AMD APU.
Yes, I had the same issue. Selected just the minimal cookies they said they needed to run the site. Site makes you way several minutes while the "process your request". Then got locked out. Oh well, another site I can live without, but I too look forward to them getting a fine from the EU.
Honestly, I think this is a good thing for both AI researchers as well as AI practitioners. One mans AI-winter is another mans stable platform.

While the number of world-shattering discoveries using DL may be on the decline (ImageNet, Playing Atari, Artistic Style Transfer, CycleGAN, DeepFakes, Pix2Pix etc), now both AI researchers and practitioners can work in relative peace to fix the problem of the last 10%, which is where Deep Learning has usually sucked. 90% accuracy is great for demos and papers, but not even close to useful in real life (as the Uber fiasco is showing).

As an AI practitioner, it was difficult to simply keep up with the latest game-changing paper (I have friends who call 2017 the Year of the GAN!), only to later discover new shortcomings of each. Of course, you may say, why bother keeping up? And the answer is simply that when we are investing time to build something that will be in use 5-10 years from now, we want to ensure the foundation is built upon the latest research, and the way most papers talk about their results makes you believe they are best suited for all use cases, which is rarely the case. But when the foundation itself keeps moving so fast, there is no stability to build upon at all.

That and what jarym said is perfectly true as well.

The revolution is done, now it's time to evolution of these core ideas for actual value generation , and I for one am glad about that.
That is linked in the article, where it says:

> First, computational complexity is not well-understood outside of computer science, and this is a pity. Philosophers in particular should pay more attention to computational complexity!
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But that's mostly because humans aren't an achievement of "life". We were never a development goal of "life" nor does the universe care very much about us - even if we built megastructures directly harnessing the energy of black holes and stars.

If current knowledge is remotely correct, heat death will happen, no matter how immortal Homo deus will become. The quarks are against us.

And if complex systems theory teaches us anything then it would be preposterous to assume any ultimate superiority in understanding the universe on our part.

Who knows who wrote crazy alien versions of Hacker News posts 2 billion years ago in one of the other couple of thousands of galaxies seen in Hubble Deep Field alone...
That's roughly similar to how one of my maths teachers introduced the idea that 0.999... = 1. Introduced x = 0.333..., 10x = 3.333..., 10x-x = 9x = 3, x = 1/3, and then waited. Eventually one of us made the connection what happens if you set x = 0.999... (or equivalently if you times x by 3 - you get x = 0.999... and x = 1).
Long time Mate user here.

The "problem" with Mate is that it just works. I interact with Windows and OSX daily, and I have yet to find a feature that makes me thing "I wish my desktop environment could do this". Mate gets out of my way and lets me work.

In other words, it's boring. There's nothing new and shiny to be excited about, because it's as good as it gets. I left Gnome 3 because I was tired of visual effects getting on my way, but those visual effects were what attracted me to Gnome 3 to begin with. I think Mate lacks that "wow!" factor and, as grateful as I am for that, I think this might stop it from being more popular.
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On Ubuntu it occurs a few times that I needed to clean up the dpkg locks.
Thanks, somehow I totally missed that link.
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