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I'm a new-isly minted biophysics PhD. The reason I got into physics was because it felt fulfilling and my opinion of industry was shaped by a high-school internship at a defense contractor which was a total slog.

During my PhD, I got the full experience, drumming up new ideas, grant/proposal writing, managing and setting project goals, maintaining collaborations and doing the actual work. It was fulfilling and fun especially working with great group of people that are 100% dedicated but, boy, was really, really hard.

The long hours, terrible pay, and watching people stuck in the post-doc treadmill got to me. Plus, I saw quite a few 2-body problems fall apart (mine included). I also watched my advisor go through the tenure process, it seemed like he never slept.

It's been challenging getting into industry (I'm still looking :) ), but, if I make it, I'll write a blog post to see if there are any regrets in 5 years. But, like the author, I'm already missing the culture, going to seminars (the terrible seminar coffee), and nerding out with friends in other disciplines.
Sorry, your wishes are secondary here. We're in a pandemic, and your state matters to the rest of the world.

If you want to keep your health private, I suggest you close the door and stay shut in. If you want to participate in society, you have a duty towards it.
>But saying that astrophysics is meaningful because some internet surveys find it to be "the sexiest job in the world", that's quite shallow.

To the author's credit, I read that sentence the other way around: the internet deigns "Data Scientist" to be the "sexiest job," but he doesn't feel satisfaction that matches that reputation.

>The internet says I have ”the sexiest job of the 21st century”, but I think my previous job was more enjoyable to brag about at birthday parties.
Ah understood

I've always used MapBox free tier for tiles (which I believe may be changing) so this could be a good alternative for that
You forgot to mention the most important and commonly misstated fact that Brendan Eich was NOT fired, and was NOT asked to resign, and was NOT "kicked out".

The false narratives that the board fired him, and also that half the board quit because of him, both directly contradict the official statement published on the Mozilla Blog, and Brendan's own words he published on Twitter:

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat...

>On April 3, 2014 Brendan Eich voluntarily stepped down as CEO of Mozilla. [...]

>Q: Was Brendan Eich fired?

>A: No, Brendan Eich resigned. Brendan himself said:

>“I have decided to resign as CEO effective April 3rd, and leave Mozilla. Our mission is bigger than any one of us, and under the present circumstances, I cannot be an effective leader. I will be taking time before I decide what to do next.”

>Brendan Eich also blogged on this topic.

>Q: Was Brendan Eich asked to resign by the Board?

>A: No. It was Brendan’s idea to resign, and in fact, once he submitted his resignation, Board members tried to get Brendan to stay at Mozilla in another C-level role.

Despite that irrefutable proof of Mozilla's and Brendan's own words that he resigned of his own free will, and the Board actually wanted him to stay, GamerGate followers love to spread conspiracy theories based on those false narratives, framing Brendan as a victim and martyr, instead of respecting the human rights of the people whose marriages Brendan donated his money to destroy.
Navigation of the windows to which one is focused is no longer keyboard driven. Many just move the window into the largest leaf, and rotate the rest.

Focus will still follow your mouse I believe.

The binary tree concept just is a way of sorting the windows such that the rotation is predictable regardless of tiling layout.
Better to give up on Windows. As a HAL for your real OS -- Emacs -- Windows is pretty bad.
Very interesting, could you tell me where that is?

At least in the US, tenure is a really big thing. But there are plenty of people who are paid employees at the university and aren't teaching, and I'd also consider that academia.
Lots of articles claim this but none offer any alternative. Your options are to be equally sectarian "back" or to attempt compromise, but compromise met with sectarianism is defeat. We saw this with Obama, every time he compromised on healthcare republicans just demanded more compromises. That's how he ended up barely passing Romney Care. I'm sure someone on the right can make the same claim about something the right compromised on and failed to progress.

I think this just has to keep going on and on until there are move voters in the middle than the edges or until voters get tired of deadlocked politics. And remember, people don't change their minds, they die and get replaced by new people. So this will not be fixed any time soon...
This is exactly the conclusion that I came to before I also left astrophysics for industry. In order to outweigh all the cons of working in academia, you really have to have a deep passion or obsession with the particular problem you are researching. In my opinion, being _just_ interested is not enough, and that's where I found myself. I drove myself down the academic career path because I thought I would find meaning and purpose there, but when I didn't find it all of the pressures and toxicity of academia just didn't seem worth it. It's only been two years since I left, and sure there are some things that I miss, but I definitely do not regret leaving.
In the 2nd link you posted Brendan Eich himself replies to you tell you to search for "constructive separation". So while he "quit" it didn't sound like he had much of an option.

I disagree with his views and believe Mozilla did the right thing in severing ties but I don't think it's as cut and dry as you're making it sound. It definitely comes across as a "We expect your resignation by the end of the day or shit will get messy for everyone" situation.
I think GPs point is to keep them contained while in use, with a plan to keep them out of the environment once you're done with them.

Batteries are a great example. We really need good battery recycling. We also really need good batteries, since it looks like they'll play a major role in preventing catastrophic global warming.
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Note I said: “based on whether they are individually comfortable with every aspect of the organisation’s impact on the world.”

I’m sure Facebook employees are talented and have options for employment, but even they are unlikely to find an employer perfectly aligned with their own moral compass.
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Most transactions will have two outputs. One is the actual destination and the other is change that goes back to the spender wallet. There is nothing unusual going on here.
Honestly, if the plan is to spend time learning something, learn something that can give a baseline steady income first. Trying to double your last thousand dollars in the stock market (at the risk of losing it all) is not a great strategy compared to even the payout from a part-time McDonalds job. If you're going to learn skills, then might as well learn some marketable ones that can land a 5-digit salary job. Many people learn computer programming online (that's what I did), but there are many other paths, some with passive income potential, even.

Once you have a more comfortable situation, and can afford to spend free time on risky bets without fear of losing the roof over your head, sure, go learn stocks.
There is a ton of public procurement out there. It all has some level (sometimes an insane level) of hoop jumping and domain knowledge to be successful with. In my limited experience, the people who understand this don't have a lot of overlap with people who advocate and use open source solutions - although I have seen a few (e.g. CentOS rollouts).
I agree, they’re currently locked in a negative spiral, the share needs to be higher to be stable, otherwise maintaining compatibility will not be a high enough priority for web developers. 8% on desktop means 3-4% on all platforms and less in selected markets.

To regain market share they need to be the unambiguously better browser. I thought there was a really solid path to do that with their parallelising efforts, in particular a fully parallel layout engine in combination with their other work would have meant drastically improved UI speeds, notably on Android, but elsewhere as well, it would have eliminated a lot of development difficulty and allowed a much more native-equivalent level of performance. That would have made a good basis for an embedded engine to compete with electron.

That path seems to have been closed off with the Servo team being fired. I’m not sure where Mozilla is going now, it’s not enough to tread water.
Money printing causes asset inflation because it benefits the rich disproportionately. The rich invest and do not cause widespread commodities inflation. As is apparent, asset prices are sky high. Money printing in the US doesn't quite feed the poor if you've been paying attention. It goes to the corporations.

The primary manner asset inflation leaks into public exposure is higher rent, real estate prices v/s wages.

BTC market cap is still smaller than Google, Facebook etc. Wait until it reaches 10-100x market cap before volatility is significantly reduced.
I'm not a scientist, just an asthmatic person. All I can tell you is that I am so far not sensitive to electric cars at all.

Regarding PM2 and NO2, I bought decices to measure them, that's why I have these results.
I think VR will become mainstream when it's good enough to replace large screens in productive work. It should leave large screens in dust, if done right.

Productivity is quite strongly correlated with screen size, so I'm expecting quite a leap in this regard when the right software is matched with the right hardware.
For one, it uses onion routing, which means you are trusting that nodes are not colluding which each other to share information. In addition to the trusted watchtowers. If people start trusting the intermediate states of the payment channel then you could get into some really hairy territory in terms of trust.
That would imply they had actual power to do so. One average individual isn't going to be able to do anything to those who are polluting our air. Case in point: the US government is one of the top 10 greenhouse gas polluters in the world. You really think one individual without billions of dollars backing them can do anything against the US government?
People I'm dealing with seem to be concerned that Canonical/SUSE might pull the same stunt. Personally I think the backlash RH have created is enough to discourage either company from following this path.
It's so weird to me this type of comment pops up on every firefox discussion, but I use firefox on mac everyday and it's rock solid, never run into any problems.
> , and none of these apps even work well

Modsy works well, but it is a curated hands on experience.

That said, the end product is really nice.
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I hate to bring it to you, but every single one of your priorities have been long rejected: Thunderbird was officially discontinued like ten years ago, Mozilla had just let go a large number of devs in early 2020 and then again a couple weeks ago, among them all Servo developers.

Even if you wanted to financially support Firefox or Thunderbird development through donations, there would be no way to. Your money will go to the Moz foundation, and end up in all sorts of endeavors except the ones you care about: Moz spends money on discontinued mobile operating systems and new languages and language runtimes (Rust, WASM) nobody needs (sorry Rustees). Above all, your money likely goes to salaries and pension plans for CEOs and upper management.

When it has been suggested many times that Moz just needed to put the money they got from Google into a fund to finance FF development.

As to TFA's point about "sitting on the table to decide about web standards", that also hasn't worked out. It hasn't helped to keep "web standards" in check, nor did Mozilla's own contributions become part of them. All in all, Moz just acts as a fig leaf for the web end-game, pretending there's a community or some such.

With respect to "web standards", our best bet could be to demand that W3C, WHATWG clear up their shit and publish formal standards (possibly in an executable language to base a new formal browser/viewer app on). The way it is now helps no-one except Google.
How does Julia compare to Python+Numpy+scipy and Octave?
The pandemic proved that disrupting the global economy to save lives wasn't an issue at all.

The issue is the right people feeling threatened for their lives. As soon as you can convince rich people that their survival is at risk, and they can't just fly off to another planet or live in their own biosphere somewhere in the Alps, something will be done.
Pretty much. I see CentOS on tons of commercial virtual and network appliances in enterprise environments that bring in a lot of revenue, but Red Hat doesn't see any of it. I'm not shocked if Red Hat sees little value in powering major commercial distributions for free.
I work with folks in electrical controls and there's still a fair amount of modeling in Simulink. Although Octave doesn't replicate Simulink, a good amount of code is still in MATLAB. For me, I own both a MATLAB license as well as use Octave.

Personally, I find Octave easier to work with than MATLAB when developing applications because (1) It avoids the often times broken license manager and starts faster and (2) Has a more reasonable, integrated connection to the machine C compiler for debugging mex files. Especially for reason (1), my clients also prefer to use Octave when possible. That said, we often need to do production runs in MATLAB because they tend to use more updated numerical libraries than Octave. For example, Octave still has not migrated to SPQR from CSparse.

All that said, Octave has provided us with an amazing, reliable tool. It is not well suited for everything. It is incredibly well suited for implementing and rapid prototyping many kinds of numerical algorithms that take advantage of the ease of access to linear algebra operations.
I'm surprised by the gaul of FB to write this on behalf of small businesses. I'm fine with their position as a business, but to frame users claiming more privacy seems like it won't carry water with anyone.
You can definitely go back -- academia loves people with industry experience. Few people go back because they typically earn less money in academic jobs. So you now have something academia loves, and there is little competition of other people having that kind of experience.
And samonella causes 25,000 hospitalizations per year in the US, should we ban chicken as well? Multiplying any tiny number by 7 billion will get you a big number. What matters is how big it is relative to everything else. If plastic shedding from plastic bags accounts for 0.01% of the global microplastic pollution, then there's no real point going after it.
To me, OpenSuSE is a perfect balance between the fad-chasing Ubuntu and the glacial CentOS (well, the glacial RHEL now). It’s stable, does not break nearly as easily as Ubuntu, but is still more current than RH. I hope they manage to get some users from this fiasco.
My main reason for using bspwm over herbstluftwm was that I had issues doing certain operations between two monitors, such as dragging a window in floating mode between two monitors.
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>Installing a browser, any browser, is already a niche thing to do for the majority of internet users today.

And yet there are a range of choices for terminal only browsers. You've overall right, but I doubt that minority of users would let Firefox totally die any time soon.
Yes, and more. See https://brave.com/privacy-updates-6/ and prior posts in the series.
They are probably exchanges doing batch withdrawals (large number of outputs) or consolidating their holdings into a single large output for economic reasons (large number of inputs)
I'm not making any judgement one way or another on whether the value is valid. I am simply calling out a bad argument that supports that the value is valid.

The comment I originally replied was basically saying we know it has real value because people have valued it for a decade. That isn't a convincing reason.
+1 for displayplacer. I use it for 4 external monitors (2 vertical) and it's a god-send. I also recommend people look into software to move their app windows into prefered locations. I use Phoenix [0] to resize/place my windows in their designated spots when I hit a hotkey. I tried stuff like Stay [1] and a few other similar tools that I forget the names of but they didn't work well or at least didn't work well on a multi-monitor setup. Phoenix required a little more up-front work but now it works perfectly for my needs.

[0] https://github.com/kasper/phoenix

[1] https://cordlessdog.com/stay/
Ok, I believe you about intent. From a moderation perspective we can only judge these things by the effects they tend to have. Copying someone's personal name into a thread that's already simmering against them is a trope of the online rage culture. If you do something like that and your intent is not the default, the burden is on you to disambiguate your intent.

I wrote a longer explanation about this in a different context yesterday, in case it's helpful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25435283.
If its really that localized, why doesn't the state of Washington just ban the chemical? Not unprecidented for a state to have its own environmental regs that are stricter than national regs. And since there are no salmon migrating up rivers in Kentucky, it should be less of a concern there and you don't need to spend effort/political favors getting the support from the Kentucky delegation in congress.

Sure it would not be perfect, because you would still have out-of-state vehicles using the roads, but it would be an improvement that could probably get done a lot faster and it might be enough.
Most blockers these days use the same lists; this includes Brave. Brave also does additional work, liking inspecting the CNAME to see if the domain is an alias for a third-party, known tracker. One area where Brave is a little behind is in the aesthetic blocking, things like clearing elements off a page. We have that ability as well, but it's not quite as mature and well-rounded as you would see in something like uBO. Our work is not complete :)
We support uMatrix as extension and will continue to do so even after Chrome breaks it via Manifest V3. We don't build all its powers in (yet).
> Delivering a narrative verdict, Mr Barlow said levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) near Ella's home exceeded World Health Organization and European Union guidelines.

There are WHO and EU guidelines? I had no idea.

Most my life, I've lived in a city where the AQI is usually >250 during the day, and it's been in IQAir's top polluted cities[0] for the past 2 years.

[0]: https://www.iqair.com/ca/world-most-polluted-cities
So he won by 70k in a “landslide”, but losing by 7 million in the popular vote, and 1 million in minimum votes an election where 80 million is “close”.

Also, turnout set a 50 year high in percentage of eligible population to vote.

The only people who think this election was “close” are the same ones who keep saying that shocking new evidence will be released tomorrow by Giuliani, but only if I send in a check to the committee to save America.

Losing as an incumbent is humiliating, doubly so when you get rejected by so much of your own party. Trump’s loss was a humiliation, particularly because it was because he was such an incompetent president.
> The tests that swab your nose or throat and take multiple days are called "molecular" tests and are considered highly accurate

...

> Tests like this 15 min one are called "antigen" tests and are still accurate/helpful, but are known to produce more false negatives and false positives compared to molecular.

You are correct on "molecular" vs. "antigen" tests in regard to false negatives/positives, but you can't rely on whether or not a test swabs your nose to tell them apart. This newly approved test is indeed an anitgen test, but you collect your sample via nose swab.

Here are the accuracy numbers for this new test, in comparison to a laboratory RT-PCR test.

This test has a sensitivity of 96% and specificity of 100% for people with COVID symptoms, and 91% sensitivity and 96% specificity for asymptomatic people [1].

Sensitivity is how well a test identifies patients WITH the disease.

Specificity is how well a test identifies patients WITHOUT the disease.

For completeness, there is a third type of test, an "antibody" test. The molecular tests and the antigen tests try to answer the question "Do I have COVID right now?". The antibody tests try to answer the question "Have I had COVID in the past?".

Antibody tests typically involve taking a blood sample.

I'm hoping for a cheap, readily available antibody test. I've had enough COVID symptoms at various times over the last few months that it would not surprise me if I had had it, although I probably haven't.

I'm overweight and have high blood pressure and approaching retirement age, which on some vaccine distribution plans I've seen would get me fairly early access once the health care and elderly are taken care of. If I've already had COVID, though, I'm fine with waiting until it is generally available to all. An antibody test would help with that decision.

[1] https://www.ellumehealth.com/2020/12/10/ellumes-covid-19-hom...
Amazon acquired a mapping startup and built out a full 1st party maps product for the FirePhone launch. I'd assumed that was discarded along with the next-gen FirePhone - but it's possible bits and pieces of that effort ended up being integrated into this offering.
I’m sure they have options, but do they have options to work for employers that perfectly align with their own moral compass?

I doubt even Facebook employees have that luxury, which is the point I made.
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> This is incorrect, and based on misinformation from 2018.

Great, I love being incorrect and learning something new.

> In 2018, Brave users could tip unverified content creators with BAT. Those tokens would go into a settlement wallet until claimed by the intended recipient. This was a bad design.

So it wasn't incorrect or misinformation then?

Glad you've fixed that shitty practice but that doesn't expunge it from history or make the fact anyone in a decision making position thought that was in any way ethical/acceptable.
Just don't travel there. It's not worth it. Talk to your boss about your asthma, and work harder remotely if you need to. I was more lucky with investments so that I can now pay to live in places with clean air, but I don't have social life anymore, as clean places are usually the less fun places.
Landfills in the US are lined. It's not getting out.
It's a great opportunity to prank people though. There was someone testing some kind of VR app in a co-working space I used to frequent, and people would do things like sprinkle confetti on them or move things around on their desk while they were jacked in.
I hear this criticism a lot. And I don't disagree with it fundamentally, but I would be interested to hear how its advocates justify the decision. How do the Ethereum founders attempt to rebut it? Are there any good counterarguments?
There is:

https://www.freexian.com/en/services/debian-lts.html
Brave has never done and will never do "ad injection".