skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Traditional universities were structured like guilds. After you completed your studies in liberal arts, you got the rank of master and the license to teach at any university. The members (masters) of the university made decisions by vote. The idea that universities should have bosses and that the faculty are employees is rather new.

These days, the weirdness of academic job markets is mostly limited to research universities. That's because universities don't do research, but they still hire researchers. They provide office/lab space, equipment, and administrative services to researchers in exchange for a large fraction of the funding the researchers are able to obtain. Senior researchers are employees only in a technical sense. If one of them quits, the university most likely won't try to hire another person to continue the research. Instead, the researcher probably takes their job to another university and continues there.

Research universities hire people who teach, mentor, and serve in administrative duties. They don't hire people to do research, because they don't do research and have no need for researchers. They hire active researchers and give them the opportunity to do research primarily for the prestige value. Because most universities are funded by taxes and/or tuition fees, they can't pay competitive salaries. In order to attract top researchers (and thus prestige), they have to offer something else. In most cases, that "something else" is a promise of a permanent position with the option to spend a large fraction of their time on whatever they are interested in.
You could go to the primary literature and read the abstracts.
You say tomayto, I say tomahto.

Academia's biggest problem is a severe lack of people willing to say, "that is wrong and you aren't doing real science". When you read the academic literature what you see is endless oceans of pseudo-scientific garbage, whole fields that evaporate when carefully examined by outsiders. This is correctly destroying people's confidence in science, and all the institutions that have implicitly hitched their own authority to that of "science" (e.g. public health, governments, legacy media).

It shows just how far academia has decayed that tenure is now being restricted to people who others like to have around when the whole point of ideas like tenure and academic freedom was to empower people who are not good team members, and who can thus advance science in big ways by challenging the orthodoxy of the day. That sort of distinction is the justification for academia's existence. If they're only going to recruit people pleasing yes-men a.k.a. team players who they like to be around, why bother with academia at all? The results from corporate science labs are more relevant and don't need subsidies, after all.
These are from the same section of the post:

> As noted above, I am not a fan of judged sports. While they are not going away, I think there could be merit in moving towards computer judging -- ie. like the clock -- for many of them.

> One of the tragedies of sports like figure skating is that because people are pushed to the limit of what they can do, the winner ends up being the one who didn't fall. In a contest between one man who can jump a quad axel 80% of the time, but then tries it and fails, he loses to the man who can't do it at all and never tries.

That does appear to be a real problem in modern Olympic figure skating. But my first guess would be that it's caused by the move away from purely subjective judging, which penalized falls harshly, to objective technical scoring, which doesn't. Failing a triple axel is almost as good as executing a flawless double axel. So falls are incredibly common now.

This actually reminds me of complaints I saw about having the THC content of marijuana varieties listed. Suddenly (according to the complaints) that's all customers cared about, so they'd buy varieties that were worse and end up less happy.
Having one foot in both eras - pre and post internet screens - I can clearly see that no activity that existed before (TV, "rock music", radio shows) was anywhere near as addictive for me as the crack cocaine of smart phone apps. And I'm relatively inoculated against it. Relatively: Compared to people who never knew the world before.

Our parents weren't "addicted" to rock music. Reading a book is, objectively, infinitely better for your mind than watching even the most erudite educational video on YouTube, for the simple reason that you're required to visualize the content for yourself. This was common knowledge during the TV era. The only thing that made TV not the end of reason was that it was a large object that children couldn't drag with them everywhere.

No, it's not just an "old man" generational thing. The people raised in the smart phone era are different. This is a qualitatively different technology, a far more invasive and all-encompassing form of media than anything that's existed before, and it distorts the basic elements of what it means to be human, namely: *How one encounters others, how one encounters nature, and how one encounters oneself*. Three fundamental discoveries that are lost when they are discovered "for you" via a constant stream of videos, podcasts, news feeds, texts and blog posts in your pocket.

For the first time, it's possible to imagine a human who never discovers any of the basic things about life; who lives from cradle to grave being shown images of kangaroos and dolphins, watching shows about lovers and wars, without ever actually experiencing any of them, and being satiated with the constant flood of images presented, dying with no knowledge of anything besides the shadows on the cave wall. That is a fundamental shift in what we do as a society with human capital, what we teach children, and what it means to be an adult; and this is visible throughout every aspect of our current decline as a civilization. Listen to an interview on YouTube with random people on the street in 1960, on any subject, and you will hear voices from blue-collar high school educated people that are more eloquent - by habit of learning to communicate directly with others - than the most gifted podcasters are today.

So no, the difference here is not just "rock and roll" versus "big band". Or even printing press versus handwritten scrolls. It's a cheapening and denuding of the human landscape; and I say this as someone who spent most of my life building the systems that contributed to it and, superficially, am mostly enmeshed in it, understand it, and don't believe it should rob us of authenticity. But it does.

Rock and roll never robbed anyone of authentic experience. Neither did reading a book.
That wouldn't be possible - first, Starship cannot take off without significant support infrastructure, so it'd be a one-way trip.

Additionally, have you seen the hatch on the Lunar Starship? That thing is ~30m above ground and only has a small platform. Loading and unloading that thing would be slow and dangerous compared to simply dropping cargo from a flying aircraft that doesn't even need to touch down or just driving on and off the ramp in case of landed planes.

The concept of rocket transport isn't new either - it has been considered several times and always turned out to be a bad idea.

To see where some of this comes from, look here: [0]

[0] http://www.astronautix.com/i/ithacus.html
California lawmakers want bill of rights for cats and dogs
Kagi (still closed beta, extremely good, think of a modern version of Google at its best sometime between 2006-2010)

Neeva (freemium. No idea about the quality since it is not available to anyone except those located in the US it seems)
If the researcher is hard to get along with, will he or she be able to attract or great PhD students?
ICON: 3D Avatar Creator from 2D Pixels
Probably something about generics, which is no longer an issue if you use the Go 1.18 Release Candidate today or the final release in four weeks.
Realistic virtual humans will play a central role in mixed and augmented reality, forming a critical foundation for the Metaverse and supporting remote presence, collaboration, education, and entertainment.

To enable this, new tools are needed to easily create large-scale 3D virtual humans that can be readily animated. However, current methods need either posed 3D scans captured by expensive scanning equipment or 2D images with carefully controlled user poses. Both of them can't scale up easily.

ICON ("Implicit Clothed humans Obtained from Normals") takes a step towards robust 3D clothed human reconstruction from in-the-wild images. This also enables creating animatable avatars directly from video with personalized and natural pose-dependent cloth deformation.

Homepage: https://icon.is.tue.mpg.de/

Github: https://github.com/YuliangXiu/ICON

Google Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1-AWeWhPvCTBX0KfMtgt...
All the options you mention are designed in order to reduce the main problem: that it requires synchronous communication. That is, after you "come back" from a meeting or being away, you can't just work in peace and when you want just send a reply: no, you are expected by design to engage in a conversation.

I'm not interested in engaging in a conversation at all unless there is something really extremely important that requires my undivided attention for a specific period of time. But when companies use Slack, they integrate it as a part of the culture. You are expected to be ready to answer. Sure, you can pause notifications - but you know people are waiting. Are you a good team member if people are asking questions and you are not answering?

For contrast, I found out that many people I worked with are too lazy to write an email and will prefer to solve the problem themselves rather than write to me if I don't answer soon enough. Which shows another interesting aspect of Slack-type culture.
This is sensational title but things are taken way out of context. In academia, it's all about respect from peers. One can publish 100s of papers and it doesn't mean a shit. Only their peers know that they are shit. If your own department has low opinion of you then there is a lot of self-reflection needed. This might mean that you been busy on quantity rather than quality. Or that you are not a good collaborator.

MIT president gave a frank answer and there is nothing wrong with it. The "mediocre" or "good" research is defined by respect from your peers, not by number of citations or number of papers. Those metrics are gamed every day.
> Don't tell engineers what they can't do.

I don't - just a small hint there: Webb fit just fine into an Ariane V fairing...
Thanks for the post! I read http://cureresearch4type1diabetes.blogspot.com from time to time and that author does not give such glimmering summaries of the work that Dr. Faustman is doing (and has been doing for a long while). I don't really know of another voice on this subject. So I'll ask if you've got the time: what do you think about the blog authors evaluation and prospects of this research path?
Did anyone find the close button on the most annoying popup ever? Had to leave the page.
> I can totally see why Tim is worth it. It was his teams genius idea to take away ports and brake the keyboard design so they could charge double when they fixed them. Brilliant.

He's good at marketing. That's why people buy Apple - for the real and percieved value.

> $99m is enough to buy 200 people a new home, that would take normally take them 20+ years to pay off.

Here some will dissagree. There are Malibu homes, there are Frankfurt homes and there are favelas homes.

> So about the equivalent of 4,000 years of labour of the average middle class person. To put that in perspective, Jesus the carpenter would still have 2,000 years of labour left.

That's because he spends his days in meetings.
"Why are programmers non-productive? Because their time is wasted in meetings."
And look what happened - the A380, an even bigger plane - was discontinued because it turned out smaller planes are more economical.
California Returns as Climate Leader, with Help from the White House
Having to pay market prices isn't the end of the world; the U.S. is a wealthy country, so we can afford it more easily than a lot of others. (It would, of course, hurt poor people the most.)

I think restrictions on exports are a good idea, but based on climate rather than protecting cheap domestic fuel. I mean, why do we sell coal to China when we know we're eventually going to be paying the externalized cost of CO2 emissions when they burn it, just the same as if we burned it here? Better to restrict sales (especially to countries we aren't getting along well with) except in situations where it makes sense strategically (i.e. selling to Europe to counteract the leverage Russia has because they can turn off a substantial portion of their natural gas supply).
> So that means once you do something in a CLI tool, and copyright it, it's game over for everyone else using said tool?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design.

Works in the case of copyright. Not patent though.
>Hispanic is just a bad name for the category as it is not a race as a descendent of portuguese or spanish, or any other european people, with no intermixture with native americans, or vice-versa, are both hispanics.

How is it any less meaningful than "black" that comprises ethnicities and mixes of ethnicities that vary far more than all(!) people outside of sub-Saharan Africa (in pre-globalization sense) taken together.

>Hence why Americans have to distinguish between white or non-white hispanics.

They also distinguish brown from black, African-American from black and god knows what else.
VSCode is only usable, because in reality many plugins are external processes written in a mix of C++, Go and Rust.
I am a professor and have served on tenure committees in computer science. The process at a MIT Media Lab could be different, and other factors may have been at work here.

But here are some observations to help interpret the interesting story:

1. When you go for tenure, your tenure committee solicits letters from 8-10 external reviewers who you have not written papers with, have grants with, etc; i.e., "arms-length" letters from experts in your field. These letter writers generally need to be "full professors" (i.e., tenured, which means "Associate Professor", and then promoted post-tenure to "Full Professor"). These letters are a crucial aspect of a tenure case.

For tenure at a place like MIT, these letters basically need to say that "you are the top person in your field" and who "is driving a significant line of work in the field..." etc.

Even if you have "2 books, 13k citations, and a few good papers at top venues" as the OP author does, this is a very high bar to clear. If there is another researcher at a less prestigious place who is doing as well or better, this is going to be a structural problem for your tenure at a top-5 place.

There are several people who I know in CS who have amazing groundbreaking results in CS who did not get tenure at MIT, and I've guessed this to be the reason. They go on to great amazing places and continue their work (like this author has seemed to do).

2. Above is the process at the top 5 CS schools; it is different at schools in the 5-30 ranked places. I have never seen the type of politics this author talks about. For the most part, pre-tenure professors (called "Assistant Professors") get annual feedback on how they are doing. They get a 3-year review which is a "mini-tenure" case to pinpoint any issues with their record so they have a chance to improve it. And when they prepare their cases, they get a lot of help from mentors in the department. Tenure committees are supportive and try to present the strongest case possible.

I am sure there are political places, in which this "who benefits from your tenure" argument makes sense. Maybe the media lab is one such place.

My point is that academia is still, for the most part, a model of a great working environment which allows people to thrive and reach their potential.

3. It is a huge privilege to hold an academic position. We produce more research scientists than there are academic spots in the US. I can think of top researchers in the US who could have easily cleared the MIT tenure bar, but who are at "lower ranked" places for various reasons. This author is still doing academic work, and thus has a very fulfilling career in which they drive their own agenda.

I for one feel extremely lucky to be an academic; I know there are other people in this world who are more capable than me and would have done better than me had they been given the same resources and opportunities.
Storm Eunice at London Heathrow
Would you like to be treated by a surgeon who doesn't get along well with the nurses and the other staff that's in the operating room? And because of this the performance of the whole team is impacted?
The reason for the immunosuppressants is not the same as for a classic organ transplant. For a normal organ transplant, you need immunosuppressants because otherwise the body will recognise the new organ as being a foreign body that it doesn't recognise as self. For a stem cell transplant, the immune system has already gone around destroying every pancreatic beta cell it can find. The immune system is primed, and it absolutely recognises beta cells as something to destroy. The end goal is to encapsulate the inserted beta cells in a membrane that allows glucose in and insulin out, but keeps the immune system away.
Yes, being a Hispanic at MIT is soooo tough. After all, when he got a meeting with the president:

"We had our conversation in Spanish, and I think that afforded some candor that would not have been there otherwise."

Being able to talk to the Hispanic President of MIT in his own native language and getting benefits from that is not exactly screaming discrimination, is it.
A computer can in principle be shared among several people. Unix is a multi-user system after all.
Yes, but if it's just written somewhere, you have to type that in manually, so you notice something strange while typing the suspiciously long url. With qr codes, it scans in a second, and it's easier to miss it, especially if the qr reader automatically opens the url.
Concepts, modules, and coroutines enable much more again. More inferences make code much cleaner. Template metaprogramming is now hardly ever needed.
"If there is something wrong, it must be dealt with as soon as possible."

The article was short, but I don't think it disagrees with you. It's more about how you say things. Try to lean into your curiosity and ask questions, instead of just straight up saying "that is wrong". Because asking curious questions makes the other person want to engage with you, while pointing out mistakes makes them defensive and likely to distrust you.
Why are kids afraid to ask for help?
It seems to go away after a reload.
I donate to Sublime, even though I hardly use it, because VSCode really needs proper competition to stay in business.
Well, you’ve got me there. I only knew Khan from the movie. I don’t think I watched the whole TOS
It’s is viable. Just unnecessarily difficult. Change diet, wait a few weeks, start exercising.
Bringing Palm OS devices back online – A journey into vintage computing (2019)
Clicked on one of the feature tabs (Pricing study) while the widget was open, and the widget crashed. Just fyi.
The Dubai Debt Trap
That's a brilliant solution, thanks!
Yakuza are criminals sure, but it's similar to mafia. They are not murdering randoms, harming the public, they are not giving drugs to children(mostly), there are codes among these kinds of criminal groups that are probably more dignified than government laws. They are entrepreneurs and they realized they make more money with legit businesses than by getting kids on meth. They are just normal men who don't want to pay taxes, essentially.

See;
While many Yakuza syndicates, notably the Yamaguchi-gumi, officially forbid their members from engaging in drug trafficking, some other Yakuza syndicates, notably the Dojin-kai, are heavily involved in it.
I would say the stakes are lower if they hack the password manager. If they hack your device they can get them unencrypted when you decrypt them. If they hack the password manager database they will only get encrypted data.
It's about a lot more than just generics, at least for me. I'm not interested in derailing this thread to into one bashing Go, but there's a bunch of things that are distasteful about the language. Go appeals to certain kinds of programmers, and is actively repulsive to different kinds. This division breeds animosity when the kind of programmers who are repulsed are forced to interact with it.

Also, the community has a big attitude problem.
I know, we have to run to stay where we are. Nevertheless maintenance is usually less resource intensive than building. It's possible that the new features a company has to add plus maintenance of the existing ones require an ever increasing staff, but not for every single company.
Verge journalist Paul Miller took a year off the internet. He wrote about the experience the entire time (physically submitting his articles along the way.) It is an interesting series of articles that cover some of the same issues here. His conclusions were, I believe, different than the author here, due in large part to the scale involved in his experiment.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/1/4279674/im-still-here-back...
calories in - calories out was debunked a while ago. Different types of food and diet cause different degrees of weight gain or loss.

For an extreme example compare 100 calories of glucose to 100 calories of fibre, both are types of sugar. The fibre contains an extra electron that acts like a shell, and the body has to expend energy breaking that bond to make it digestible. So most fibre passes through you without affecting your weight.

The most useful measure of food is the Glycemic Load. Not Glycemic Index which is a measure of the net glucose in the food. Glycemic Load is a measure of how the body responds to the food. E.g. cold potatoes have the same calories and GI as hot potatoes, but their measured GL is actually lower, so cold potatoes are better for controlling weight.
I believe you ought to check out Federated Machine Learning techniques.[1]

[1]: https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/04/federated-learning-collabo...
Seems a bit pointed to speak so matter of factly about this being out of context unless you were there. For all we know the peers loved the author but "the boss" wanted to give tenure to someone else.

The author is a bit naive though in this view of the world that either a place is either a pure meritocracy or the absolute opposite. Props to the president for being so candid with them and sharing what's what.
I honestly don't think it's that bad. I've used both Slack and teams simultaneously for a few years, and I honestly don't see a lot of differences.
They literally are. If a consent form has an “allow all” button but no “reject all”, as many do, then it is not compliant. Likewise for “legitimate interest” (that one really gets my hackles up: it basically says “we see your preference, what would you think if we didn't give a crap?”).

There have been some fines related to this sort of thing, and over time some of the dark patterns are getting a little less common, but enforcement thus far has not been sufficient to make the less dark variants the norm.
Humans can get a lot more work done, just by their dexterity, flexibility and ability to learn and adapt. For robots, even simple tasks have to be pre-planned, in this case sometimes years in advance.

It is conceivable that you could build a robot/machine that can collect one type of sample and do one type of analysis cheaper and quicker than a Human. However, human astronauts can do multiple types of these, maybe even adapt them on the fly.