skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the sense from colleagues and visiting different universities that this varies across the US, Canada, the UK, and the EU, but grants are now the bread and butter at most US universities. It's not really enough to publish 100s of articles, or have a high h index, it's to bring in money even if it's not strictly necessary for your research.

Part of the reason we have the problem you're mentioning is not that there isn't enough money to go around, it's that universities (at least in the US) now depend on inflated costs to function. The costs of research are kicked down the road to the federal government, and the research itself is seen in terms of profits rather than discovery. So if you have all these universities essentially telling researchers their jobs are on the line if they don't bring in profits, you're going to have everyone scrambling to bring in as much money as they can. It's not just postdocs or untenured research professor lines, it's tenured professors as well, whose income can be brought down below some necessary standard of living, or who can have salaries frozen or resources cut.

I was thinking about this the other morning. I had a grant proposal that the program officer was really excited about. This program of research could probably be conducted for almost nothing because it involved archival data analysis. However if you put a dollar amount on the time, it might realistically actually cost around 250k USD, maybe 500k max, pretty generously in terms of staff effort. However, the university managed to inflate the budget ask to around 2 million for the sole purpose of indirect funds.

When you have that kind of monetary incentive (carrot or stick), of course you're going to have thousands of persons applying for each opportunity. It's what led to the graduate student ponzi scheme, inflated numbers of surplus graduates, etc and so forth.

It all trickles down too, in terms of research claims, p-hacking, etc and so forth.

There's a place for profit, but there's also some realms where it does nothing but corrupt.
The guy worked at EA for 8 years.. He must know what he is talking about
When I help kids with math homework I usually skim their textbook to see how they learned how to do it. This both refreshes my own memory and also makes sure that I am teaching it the same way they learned it (I can show them other methods after they master the way the teacher wants them to do it).
spoiler for how to prove it:

think of colors of chessboard (black/white alternating) and what colors a domino piece will always cover.
Didn't Bloomberg ruin their tech reputation with the still-unproven (years later) and probably baseless claims of nano chips planted in the supply chain of Supermicro ?
as if UK could withstand the current wave till September or October. The floodgates have been opened and with over 100k cases/day in a week or so some lockdown measures will come again earlier rather than later (but yeah, probably only for the unvaccinated).
There was a meme going around where a doctor took a high school biology quiz.

Q: What are mitochondria?

A: [Long complex scientific answer about ATP synthesis]

Grader: Wrong. Mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell.
Could you have people volunteer to help startups with their Launch HN threads? Maybe it could be a "karma perk" like downvoting is?

Or maybe you've just been "doing things that don't scale" until it has no longer scaled, and now it's time to bring in some fresh blood to help share the load.

I'm sure that having somebody on payroll to help companies get in front of HN would be easy to justify in the budget. :)

It's not super sexy because it's not an automated solution, but sometimes automation just isn't the right answer.
https://zerossl.com/

https://www.xf.is/2020/06/30/list-of-free-acme-ssl-providers...
Always bet on a config change. Or DNS.
That’s a nice approach. (It’s the same one given by bencollier earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27885681). I regard it as requiring a bit of insight, as opposed to my approach, which is more like grinding gears to reach a conclusion.
It requires indoctrination to believe the US as an aggregate sovereign brand functions with the interest of US people in mind.

Nothing about US foreign policy suggests that. Very little about the Federal government’s domestic policy does.
PDF is size-agnostic. There's nothing to stop you from creating documents the size of a phone screen.
"Better" here means that JSX and things like element.append(vDOM/JSX expr/) and Element.patch(vDOM/JSX expr/) are implemented natively - does not need any library at all.

Consider these features as an idea for browser vendors / W3C to extend DOM that we all use.

With these features (JSX & element.patch(vdom)) we don't need whole class of JS frameworks like React, PReact, Mithril. Vanilla JS (ES2020 spec) can be used instead. See: https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk/tree/main/docs/md/r...
Doesn't Blue Origin use liquid hydrogen and oxygen for the launches? I get that upstream fuel generation here is often CO2 heavy, but wouldn't it be fairly straightforward to go zero emissions for the full lifecycle of these launches?
I do reflect often on that. Unfortunately, most of the things I noticed show a decline. Things like reduction in promotion opportunity, starting outsourcing, using layoffs when they didn't before, and lower pay raises. Then there's the technical problems where tools break more often, we're expected to do more (multi-stack fullstack, combine roles, shared resources), and no opportunities to become an expert due to constant context switching.
Here you go: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5
I don't know, that argument isn't super compelling. It kind of reminds me of that one marketer at SXSW a while back that wanted the whole conference hall to have "idea sex" as some weird way of framing brainstorming or innovating.

Like if yall want to have your utopic fantasies then cool, but if you want to use the punk name there needs to be some raw grit

Besides... light has no meaning without dark to contrast it
Well, I wish them luck. Practically every family knows one "IT person" and when we all collectively get fed up, come and watch how quickly do we drain the second-hand market of $200 laptops that we will repurpose as complete private home content consumption solutions.

I get how the business model of those services works btw -- but it's flawed from the beginning because it relies on keeping the users hostage.

The corps really underestimate the passive resistance they will meet. They think people will go to court and challenge their unbeatable lawyers there. No, nobody is going to do that. People will just work around those corporations (neighborhood private networks with NAS-es, old-school sharing of movies on DVDs or USB drives etc.; there are many ways).
> They combined their money to buy one book to share, but even then they did not have enough.

Is there some error here? I read it as "even then they did not have enough individually"

I used b-7+b-1=b to arrive at b=8... My math skills are pretty awful so I can't say if this even makes sense..
Sounds like the author should find an early game engine (Bevy?) and contribute to it. Less work since there’s already a team being built.
RIP Dinosaurs.

Welcome fuel!
In creating https://github.com/bit101/bljs/blob/master/src/noise.js, did the author port the C++ code from here [0]?

I'm not familiar enough with Perlin or Simplex noise to know if it's standard to use the same "random" values in the permutation table across implementations [1].

[0] https://cm-gitlab.stanford.edu/andreab/mus320c-harmonizer/bl...

[1] https://github.com/bit101/bljs/blob/master/src/noise.js#L37-...
Obviously yes; it's in the comment chain I'm replying to.

ZeroSSL is good, but AFAIK its free tier[1] doesn't support everything Let's Encrypt does (like wildcard certs) which makes it difficult to use as a drop-in replacement for many people.

[1]: https://zerossl.com/pricing/
I use scala and often use parts from my old projects so i am quite quick with everything.
Who's on the List? – The Pegasus Project
Maybe they were expecting converting to 3 dimensional Cartesian coordinates (X/Y/Z), then check that one point is inside the sphere of given radius from the other point?
Use a monolith approach and a traditional framework to do it on in a boring language you're proficient with along with boring tools (Rails, Django, Laravel, etc). Solo dev is not what teams are optimized for. If you day job is microservices or front-end React components, all that stuff gets in the way when you're just trying to get something out the door. Most things don't need a front-end framework, keep machinery as simple as possible with the least amount of moving parts. Focus on features and shipping.
It sounds like you're quoting from the classic "How complex systems fail":

https://how.complexsystems.fail/
I meant more that society's attitude toward standards of any kind--honesty, proper behavior, civility--has become increasingly suspicious. These standards are, some argue, simply power structures to promulgate the various -isms that plague society.

If you've got scientists that believe that the standard of honesty is an artificially constructed power structure then obviously you can't trust them.
I had to look up the answer[0].

> Due to the Moon's orbital prograde motion, it takes a particular point on the Earth (on average) 24 hours and 50.5 minutes to rotate under the Moon, so the time between high lunar tides fluctuates between 12 and 13 hours, generally being 12 hours and 26 minutes. So, if the tide has affected the place at 6:00AM, then it would generally take around 12 hours and 26 minutes for the place to be affected by Ebb i.e 6:00 AM+12 hrs+26 mins=6:26 PM.

Seems like a pretty tough question for a child?

[0]: https://www.toppr.com/ask/en-my/question/if-a-place-is-affec...
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I enjoyed the video, although they say multiple times that an impact like that would kill every living thing, but we now that some living things survived, so I don't know how accurate that actually was.

Edit: They are using a much larger asteroid in their simulation, makes sense.
Can you be sued for asking questions?
Specifically, some species of Psilocybe look almost identical to some Galerina species, and sometimes they grow right next to each other. You don't want to eat Galerina[1].

In my opinion, hunting shelf fungi is pretty beginner friendly. As far as I'm aware, many species are edible, and those that aren't will just give you a stomach ache instead of giving you liver failure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galerina_marginata#Toxicity
So I think you're missing that first, this was motivated as a troll, and second, in art variations of black absolutely do matter and are not simple bike shedding.

The troll happened because an artist named Anish Kapoor was able to negotiate exclusive access to a patented black paint/coating based on carbon nanotubes named Vantablack. He's the only artist allowed to use it globally. That didn't sit well with some people who decided to troll back.

I haven't done any art since I was in my late teens, but at the time a couple of my works were focused on very dark subjects. I found ordinary acrylic paint just wasn't black enough for what I wanted. Eventually I found that spraying liquid India ink with an airbrush repeatedly got the effect I was looking for.
Python was itself around for years, predating PHP by several years even, before it took off; PHP got big much quicker. Ruby was around for several years before Rails helped it take off outside of Japan. So, that doesn't mean Brython will take off now, but it does at least suggest it's possible.
It used to be a uniquely American thing. The Discovery and Nat Geo channels in my home country used to be truly educational. (I don't know/think it's the case anymore, sadly.)
This is really great stuff, thank you for making this!
I also don't like underscores much, but this is JS, so shouldn't `window.identifierOfYourChoice = _` alias it without much ado?
Which is weird because that is absolutely not the vibe that I am getting every time it comes up
I use an ad blocker. On mobile (Safati) this means that I get a blank screen for a while where the af would have been playing. Much better than the ad.
I can also just reload and the video starts.
What is your plan for identifying the "blatantly fraudulent?"

How do you know your medical provider agrees with you about what is "blatantly fraudulent?"
The US doesn't need to fabricate evidence, they can just use a secret kangaroo court or Guantanamo.
Most people think that pdf's have to be letter or A4 size, but you can make them at A7 or A8 for a phone screen, or for that matter, any size you want.

PDF is size-agnostic. There's nothing to stop you from creating documents the size of a phone screen. So you could put the phone screen-sized pdf at m.mysite.com and this small screen illegible complaint is solved.
Shortlist Your Tasks
Any game engine architect worth her salt would know to not speak so absolutely about cache coherency, and that if you're dealing with a use-case where iteration is massively infrequent but random insertions and removals are likely, you could be better off with the linked list :)
Because Youtube's kafka-esque content moderation policies frequently penalize the creators I care about, so I feel like paying them for ad free solidifies their monopoly. I hope a competitor starts taking marketshare from them soon.

Ads serve as a reminder to watch less youtube.
What do you call a physicist a few years after they get their degree?

A data scientist!

I got my undergrad degree in physics and transitioned into tech after hitting a similar wall after graduation. I went for the regular software route (started with frontend via FreeCodeCamp and went from there), and in my experience it’s common to see physics students in tech, especially in data science where the statistics background can be really helpful.

For me, it was about building up the programming experience and exposure to get the first tech job, and it has been much simpler after that. I’d recommend looking at startups in particular, as they tend to have a lower barrier of entry (as opposed to the large tech companies). I’d also recommend taking traditional CS classes in addition to any job-focused learning, but that can always wait until after the first paychecks are coming in.
https://github.com/KdotJPG/OpenSimplex2
Does it take a zero day when you install random freeware crapware from the store ?
Yeah, this one doesn't have anything to do with math, does it?

Off the top of my head, I'd guess that tides lose about an hour per day, so the tide would be in at 1:00 pm.

Ah, I guess the point of this is that the next tide is half way between those two, and so would be just after midnight.

But to know this, you'd have to know that the tide's cycle is slightly longer than the day's cycle.
'(1 2 3)

'(1 2)

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One of the clearest examples of the publishing problem to me was the shift in meaning of last authors on papers over the course of my career. When I first started, last author meant the person who had contributed the least to the paper (in cases where ordering of effort can actually be determined -- often there's genuinely equal contributions). Often this was the senior faculty member, as they did little but sort of read over a paper or maybe supervise someone independently functioning.

Over time though the last author came to mean "the more senior person" and then "the person whose idea it really is". So being last went from this thing that no one wanted, to this thing that people would kind of argue over. In the process the more manipulative cases, people would kind of casually say "oh I can be last author" realizing the gains from that position.

It seems when a more junior person is doing all the work and is first author, an unscrupulous senior researcher will claim that "it's the idea that counts"; when that senior researcher is first author, it's "ideas are a dime a dozen, it's getting it done that matters."
can you recommend any books on this subject?
Blue Origin uses oxygen and hydrogen in New Shepards's engines, which are way more climate-friendly than even airplane's kerosene, not to mention hybrid engine of Virgin Galactic's SS2.

Branson, having developed a working SS2, should now address issues of pollution produced by the chosen engine type. Switching to something greener is urgently needed.

Space tourism can be beneficial to climate, in some indirect ways. Robust orbital payload industry could help with controlling global effects of current crisis.
That doesn't have anything to do with the hardware. One scroll event is one scroll event as far as the mouse is concerned.
>There's currently a huge push online to make Solarpunk a thing

Its proponents seem to be flogging the Green New Deal, or related policies, but is this spontaneous, done out of conviction, or is it more coordinated?
Show HN: California Leaving: The “Techxodus” Is Real
In the same interview the spokesman said that some companies choose to avoid it by operating from offices outside of Israel (Bulgaria and Cyprus were mentioned). This seems to imply that the process is burdensome.
I'm looking forward to trying this out and building something with this!

It looks like they're aggregating data from OSM: https://data.iggy.cloud/datasets

That's quite exciting. Having worked extensively with OSM and trying to build something useful out of their data, it's historically been a huge pain to do. I'm more than happy to pay them to make my life easier.

I'm interested in seeing how they add new and interesting datasets. I expect there's going to be some difficulty with keeping things interesting and useful, while making sure it's still simple.
Yes. But "all of medecine" is not in the set "vaccines for a specific illness".
Not just ads but distractions in general. Who are these people who constantly want their TVs blasting random things while looking at a menu? And who decided that these things need to be playing more loudly than the TV show itself!?

When I am trying to select a show or an episode I DO NOT want it auto-playing even a clip of a show (much less an ad). Just be quiet!
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People living in places where they feel they need a gun, can't afford the lessons aren't empowered by this, they're a hostage to poverty and undercontrolled crime. Any rational person of means would move away. All they can do is pick up a gun and hope it isn't stolen and used on them.

Law enforcement isn't governmental benevolence, it's the foundation of society that stops people violently taking everything you have. Life without fear gives people options. Fund effective policing and social programmes (which directly and demonstrably improve L&O outcomes), education, get [all] guns off the streets.
>failing to believe science

Believing in science means believing in falsification and sceptism. This was published during the ongoing replication crisis in medicine where we're finding that more than half of cancer studies don't replicate [1]. This replication crisis hasn't been put on hold and all science is now deemed irrefutable or you are VACCINE HESISTANT and DANGEROUS.

I'm mostly confident in the COVID vaccines because we're at billions of doses and there is so much uncorrelated data about the vaccines, and they're so controversial and their safety/efficacy is being looked at by so many people that one can be relatively confident about their efficacy and safety (so long as you look at uncensored information to avoid systemic bias). We don't need to be science denialists and start denouncing scepticism on safety grounds, we can point out there are special reasons to be confident in the vaccines.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/01/18/5103048...
Among other individuals is the name of the Election Commissioner of India, who was put on the list after he was critical of Modi’s conduct in Election rallies.
This is big, the Election Commission is an important constitutional body of India, this needs to have bigger consequences.
lol, who is "we" in this sentence?

You for some reason are ignoring what you originally said to focus on something else you are seem to misunderstand the context of.

What you originally were saying was that you would have to render polygons in hardware for the server to have any idea about occlusion, which the link that you gave not only disproves, but assumes that no one would think in the first place.

The whole point is that wall hacks let you see people running around the whole level and it is just a matter of work for the server to only send positions a few frames before you are going to see a player.

Everyone else is on the same page, but you think the player position being sent right before they appear is a problem? That's the solution in your own link.
This was actually the reason I didn't buy a Shield last month. Saw the news and noped right out. I've been having some sort of success with Emby and web browsers instead, it's not the prettiest UX but it works and I see no ads, which is great for my mental health.
Exactly. In grade school the formula being taught was "base times height over 2" but no one mentioned the term altitude.
> No. Devices running a FOSS operating system like the Pinephone are the least worst mobile option, people don't like it because it's not sexy and it's currently very inconvenient. The rest of the options are so bad that you're probably better off without a mobile phone at all.

There's nothing about FOSS that makes something secure, and building secure software is so hard and expensive that my guess is that you need the sponsorship of a government of major corporation to do so. Some FOSS does have such sponsorships, but a lot doesn't.

IIRC I've even heard that OpenBSD, despite its reputation, may no longer more secure than Linux due to Linux's manpower advantage. I don't even have to look up the numbers, but Apple definitely has a major security manpower advantage over the people making the Pinephone.

That's not to put down the Pinephone, but we have to be reasonable about what a project like that is and what is can (and cannot) achieve.
Exactly. I've argued on social media with "trust the science" people: none of them were scientists while I am one. People in general have no idea how the sausage is made and how broken the system is. A year or more ago I was joking with a coworker "I hope medical studies are done more seriously than what we do". Today I wouldn't make the same joke given how the situation went out of control with states enforcing authoritarian policies based on poor understanding of how science work.
Interesting. Previously I had to run the mounting command manually ever since I remember trying to mount an NTFS drive.

It's read only.
Curious to see comments quipping that some of the math problems geared towards young kids are too hard. I'd recommend taking a look at Singapore Math[0] to get an idea of what kids in those age ranges are actually capable of doing, provided that adults shed preconceptions that children ought to be "sheltered from hard scary stuff", and instead encourage them.

There are also great math-oriented games these days (I had some good success w/ prodigygame.com[1]).

My youngest daughter is 6 and can solve simple multiplication and division problems. Sometimes she even surprises me. Some time ago, we were introducing ourselves to a new neighbor and the convo went somewhat along these lines:

- my son: how old is your dog?

- neighbor: she's 8

- son: she's so small, is she a puppy?

- neighbor: oh no, she's grown up. 1 dog year is about 7 human years, so-

- daughter [interrupting]: oh wow, so then she is 56!

The other day, she came to me beaming to explain how she had just solved 38/2 (by doing 40/2, 2/2 and subtracting the results). Gotta say it's a joy to see a kid that enjoys math.

[0] https://www.singaporemath.com/

[1] https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/
Sure, but the OP was an anecdote about an individual that requested Amazon to cease rendering services to a third party. No government was involved.