skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't have tenure as such in the UK (it was abolished by Thatcher). We do have jobs with permanent contracts; these used to be really quite secure (occasional department-closure redundancies notwithstanding) but the current batch of senior managers seem keen to make everyone afraid for their jobs. My own university (Liverpool) attempted more than 50 redundancies on the basis of dodgy performance metrics last year and generated six months worth of industrial action. There are also (increasing) numbers of teaching and research staff on casual and temporary contracts. Some of these are postdocs, others equivalent to US adjuncts or Visiting Assistant Professors.

Our middle and senior management are increasingly a separate class. It used to be that management was done by established academics on a temporary basis: the department's full professors take their turn as head of department, for example, and the Pro-Vice-Chancellors (deputy Presidents) would have recently been senior profs. Nowadays, heads of department tend to be externally recruited as such, there's an increasing group of senior management that have never been academics, and those that have been are essentially part of a separate management track that doesn't really interact with the career paths of the rest of us.

The traditional governance measures have also broken down: it used to be that the faculty Senate was (probably over-)powerful; now management is corporate-style in the hands of Vice Chancellors-as-CEOs with their senior management colleagues and carefully selected 'independent' non-execs serving as oversight.
The south bay is having a lot more housing being built. Mostly multi story apartments an condos.
yup it's the person I've had in my mind before clicking.

he has one of the most obnoxious YouTube video channels. I honestly don't know if he's a troll or an individual with serious mental problems (or both ?)

for those who don't know him, his personality or maybe just his online persona revolves around being an ex-Facebook, ex-google, ex-husband, ex god-empror, ex-insert whatever you feel like.

that got fired from all of them not because of his incompetence and toxicity but because he was too much of genius that others feared him.
Good (and sobering) to also remember the dark side that seems to go along with much (or is it all?) of human achievement.

The sad/interesting part is, that some of those dark moments seem so unnecessary - at least in hindsight. But I suspect that the underlying psychology of ruthlessness may be a requirement for much (all?) larger achievements.
"Air Force secretary hints at military space applications for Stratolaunch super-plane" (2017)

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/air-force-secretary-highlights...
It’s incredible to me that people can’t see that this is obvious bait. He is just saying this to get attention, and it’s clearly working.
I'm seeing a lot more people experimenting with DALL-E 2.

How does getting access work, do you need a referral?
I friggen love SomaFM. I found it by accident over a decade ago on a Slackware installations (of all things).

Was looking through possible Bash command prompts by typing letters and hitting tab for autocomplete. "Hey, what is that? soma? what does that command do?" (It was a terminal music player with a number of stations, primarily SomaFM programmed in. There was another one called "Air Lounge" or something that was also good).

And boom, Groove Salad and Beat Blender were realized.
This is a bad plan in the current macro. Might need to update your playbook for the updated version of the game that came out in the last year.
> No, because you're not actually wagering anything in the envelope game, so it makes no sense to calculate probabilities as though you are.

If we consider the decision point where you can either keep the first envelope or switch it, you are effectively wagering the value of the first envelope. You're just muddying the waters when you're trying to make some kind of point about receiving the first envelope for free. Yes yes, you are only gambling your "winnings" that you won earlier, it doesn't make a difference here.

> An analogous coin toss example would be something like: [...] I don't know why anyone would even offer this game!

Look, you made the claim that expected value doesn't matter for anything at all, the only thing that matters is the probability of winning. I offered you a game where you have a 50% probability of winning on each coin toss and I offered to pay you $1 for each coin toss to incentivize you to play it. Can you please explain why you are refusing to play this game? Yes, you don't like the analogy, I get that, but you also don't like free money? I find that hard to believe. A more plausible explanation is that you don't actually believe the claim you are making. That's why you aren't willing to wager any money on it.
>"The people of NC who care about this should organize around the issue and let their reps know what they think about it. Give them feedback. In mass, if possible."

They already are, the problem is that the majority of the populace isn't affected and can't be motivated to care. The average voter is not someone who owns or operates farm equipment. What we have are two niche groups trying to affect legislation on a niche subject.

"Feedback in politics" is rarely accurate and is prone to selection bias. There was an AMA for a congressional staffer on reddit years ago and they revealed that congresspeople have rules of thumb when it comes to estimating what their constituents want. Essentially, they judge online petitions as worthless, an email represents a single person, a phone call represents about 10 people, a mailed letter represents about 50 people, and a handwritten note speaks for about 100 people. The idea being that the number of constituents who care is higher than the number than can be bothered to contact them. And, the level of effort put in roughly lines up with broader support. Even still, the majority of their constituency is not at all engaged. I can imagine this rule of thumb breaking down for very niche topics.

Of course, once people figured this out many activists started sending handwritten notes to try and sway the politicians by making the issue seem more important.
I still listen to SomaFM on the Logitech squeezeboxes littered around my house. My streaming music experience is stalled out in 2005, but I'm still blown away by how awesome it is. I'm grateful for SomaFM.
I've gone ahead and downloaded/installed git-fork and did some brief testing with the features I use most in my existing client. I've sent feedback based on that.

Thanks for your support!
In the US, at least, we could keep our meat consumption quite high while still grazing lots of cattle. There are around 90 million cows in the US right now, and pre-1800s there were around 60 million bison in the US. Land and pasture management is important, but it can be done well. Check out Alexander Family Farm in CA for a great example.

We're not going to turn marginal grasslands into crops for human consumption, but using cattle to turn inedible grass into calories for human consumption is possible while maintaining that land as it was when bison roamed through it.

I also don't think that the US, for example, has to manage its land the same ways as other countries. If the US can effectively manage pasture and raise lots of cattle to eat, then we should be able to do that, and if other countries can't, then they should manage their land in a way that is optimal for their country. The US has a lot of grass pasture land that evolved over time to support the massive number of ruminants that roamed the US in the not too distant past.

Maybe the US should stop exports of beef and dairy and just focus on feeding its own people from well-managed land. But that would not be very popular, especially with our cattle industry.
There was enough confusion in the comments over whether a folded A4 was an A5 or A6, that I figured I made the right call. :)
Speakers can break :)

The behavior when it doesn't break is actually more informative, though. At first, all aspects of the music experience exponential growth. Once clipping sets in, the growth of the loudest / highest gain frequencies continues, but now at the expense of every other frequency. Eventually one frequency wins and the system devolves into the distorted shriek of a single fundamental frequency and its harmonics.

The idea here is that we can tell where we are between "free growth" vs "starting to clip" by looking to see how well the rising tide is fulfilling its promise of floating all boats.
And at the end of that, GPT-3 will happily emit sentences that are grammatically correct but free of meaning, while a 2 year old utters word-strings that are full of meaning but grammatically poor.
OpenFeature: A Feature Flags Open Specification
>Across the board no more public funding, if it's worthwhile then private industry will fund it like they do for any other trade.

If you think university is solely vocational training, then this makes sense. However, that leaves a lot, including fundamental research unfunded. Research seems to suggest that reductions in public funding is the single most important variable in increases in tuition. I'd be worried that your proposal either exacerbates the problem or creates a whole new set of problems.
I should have clarified that these men likely do have very qualified and extensive personal security teams. However, they wouldn't stand a chance against the resources of a sovereign nation.
Hope this asshole never needs to work again. He’s just cost all of his prior employers many, many thousands of dollars in legal review of every hiring committee he’s ever been a part of, and potentially millions of dollars in discrimination settlements, so he’s going to be radioactive to any company but those explicitly on the ideological far right.
I actually learned Scheme in CS212 at Cornell (which, incidentally, I bombed at the time, but it was due to the pacing, not being unable to handle the depth), so it was pretty much a no-op for me.

Fundamentally it's a pretty simple language. Once you grasp those details, the rest kind of falls into place where you look at some code and go "Oh, THAT'S what it's doing".

I also answered your comment there.
Maybe @jgrahamc can help
Chinese scientists call for plan to destroy Elon Musk's Starlink satellites
>Amazon Basics undercuts competitors by having no cost to sell on the Amazon marketplace.

Amazon branded products have an advantage through access to analytics, not cost of doing business. Amazon issues internal chargebacks to subsidiaries and business units for use of their platforms.
Whatever you need to tell yourself
It's a swinging pendulum for sure. Crony capitalism is at one end. Is it end state, that's another question. Can you swing it back the other way? Certainly but you need some kind of counter force.
https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/350461...

An interesting quote which echos what you're saying here:

> That means that table corn, carrots, cabbage, apples and broccoli are all examples of what is called, paradoxically, “specialty crops” — and they largely don’t get the same support as the heavily subsidized industrial crops.

The absurdity here is that "specialty" crops are what you might call "food". Most corn is "what my food eats".

If survival was important, people could switch trivially. I would take a 99% vegetarian diet in exchange for not dying. Problem is that the costs may be collectivized, and weighted towards future generations.
Improved verification of historic Git commit signatures
I think that it’s within appropriate etiquette if you reveal a past answer. I remember learning a couple new words on the way to VOUCH from _OUCH (MOUCH and LOUCH to be precise).
Gas prices are going to stay high forever.

Why Gas Got So Expensive (It’s Not the War) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQbmpecxS2w
My desktop PC has Ryzen 7 5700G, on paper it can do 486 GFlops FP64 (8 cores at 3.8 GHz base frequency, two 4-wide FMAs every cycle). However, that would require 2TB/sec memory bandwidth, while the actual figure is 51 GB/second of that bandwidth. For large computational tasks where the source data doesn’t fit in caches, the CPU can only achieve a small fraction of the theoretical peak performance ‘coz bottlenecked by memory.

The memory in graphics cards is an order of magnitude faster, my current one has 480 GB/sec of that bandwidth. For this reason, even gaming GPUs can be much faster than CPUs on some workloads, despite the theoretical peak FP64 GFlops number is about the same.
How do you know this isn’t his opinion?
Sure, but there's still a crucial difference: the one other natural person has the same order of magnitude of resources to spend on the issue as you, instead of a multiple.
Market cycles come and go, the fact still remains. 300k isnt the same as it was two years ago, and its certainly not the same as five years ago. The machine marches on
on taste. I find all sugar substitutes to taste like poison. Wondering if there's reason for that?
So Democrats fund institutions and Republicans want them to go away entirely, is what I'm reading from this.
Was there a period in humanity, or in the life of any living creature, where they just sort of stopped engaging in productive activity and it was a good thing? Maybe we need to create more meaningful and sustainable work that fits into people’s life cycles, but the idea of working your entire life is not a tragedy. FIRE is a scam.
I wouldn't bother trying to learn Guile and would instead try to learn Lisp, or specifically Scheme, and then learn the few bits where Guile differs, because it's 99% Lisp/Scheme to me. (Scheme and Lisp have existed for decades and there should be absolutely plenty of resources to get up to speed in them.)

Knowing a Lisp in general is a significant advantage for a person who deals with writing code, IMHO. (I feel the same about regular expressions.)
and Wagatha
The series hybrid is still more complexity over a fully battery electric. More weight especially. The density/size/weight trade-off of carrying around a gas generator at all times versus how much additional battery you can add for that same weight and better size (because increased density) kind of generally makes gas generators less desirable than just adding more batteries to a simpler battery electric.

I have a ten year old Chevy Volt that I still love and it was a great transitionary option when I bought it ten years ago. I still think it was the right choice for me at the time. At this point, I feel like the age of the series hybrid is already "over", not just because the Volt was discontinued, but because full battery electrics have only gone on to prove their simplicity, what they can do with larger batteries, and everything about the improvements in 10 years of EV development. I wish other people had as an easy of a transition as I had, but I also think that it's better for everyone to just dive in with a full EV rather than a (good for the time, but bad today) compromise like a series hybrid.
I think the bias here should be pointed out. There is such a large and obvious agenda here that the data is inherently untrustworthy. Garbage in Garbage out.

1) OpenPsych isnt some prestigious scientific journal with rigorous peer review. It was founded by the author of this piece, and has had a public and troublesome past as a pseudoscience journal[1]

2)The review process was literally done by anonymous users of that site.[2]

3) I doubt the sincerity of the author when considering his past thoughts on women.

3a) Reposting and saying he agrees with a literal 4chan post on why women are less creative. https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2012/03/quote-lit-anon-on-femal...

3b) Just an large rant on why woman are inferior to men.
https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2022/01/too-many-women-in-the-w...

> As women increasingly are hired into traditionally male jobs via affirmative action laws or indirect pressure via media, we see more and more incompetence
> Not only are women more less interested in these jobs to begin with, but they obviously lack talent compared to men.
> Of course, as we live in clown world with no adults in charge, the army is going forward with more women in these roles

3c) https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Emil_O._W._Kirkegaard

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPsych
[2] https://openpsych.net/person/profile/75/
> Assets grow faster than wages

Sure thing, NIKKEI & NASDAQ investors know this better than anybody else.
It's the junk USB-to-serial converter that ships with the Arduino that doesn't support flow control.
The issue here is more complicated. A self-hosted Zulip server needs to send a push notification that reaches the Zulip mobile app on someone's device.

For security model reasons, those push notifications need to be sent to Google/Apple via a server operating by Zulip itself. So your local Zulip server needs to share a secret with the Zulip mobile app on your device, and then it can encrypt the push notification's content so that only the destination mobile app can read it (and the intermediaries cannot).

It's a basic cryptography problem at a high level, but there's subtle details around what metadata can be safely encrypted (the client does need to know which Zulip server's secret key to use!), backwards-compatibility, library choice, etc., that make it not trivial, which is why we haven't managed to implement this yet.
Crop rotation doesn't improve the soil at scale?
We can care about more than one thing at once! It doesn't always have to be "well what about....".

The reality is that we're all beholden to these mega companies and a little infighting between them could us do some good.
Has anyone tried talking to it in Simlish?

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

https://web.archive.org/web/20040722043906/http://thesims.ea...

https://web.archive.org/web/20121102012431/http://bbs.thesim...
> Unlike Signal it has always been completely open source.

Honest question: when was Signal closed source, as Signal? I’m not familiar with this. I know it’s roots are in the old Moxie Marlinspike OpenWhisper apps, but that’s a long time ago and the last I looked, Signal open sourced all their code.
Dear Elon Musk, here are five things you might want to consider about AGI
That’s with the current usage though right, not if we used a lot more public transportation and changed the type of it (bud -> train)
great musical chairs
I've been listening since 2004. Every 4 or 5 years I'll realize how much it's been a part of my life through thick and thin, and write him a gushing email. He always has the grace to reply.

Would absolutely love to meet him some day
the "old" way of doing this is to cast the patient's residual limb, make a socket for it, fit the socket with an adapter and use commodity parts for the rest of the leg.

the challenges for amputees are fit of the socket from weight gain, swelling etc. which can lead to pressure sores, prosthetic knees sucking in general (or the robot ones being expensive and fiddly), etc.

this whole printing project seems like it wouldn't even work for above-knee amputees. there's no way to make a 3D printed parts alone bend like a knee. and I suspect the quality and durability of these is quite inferior to traditional prosthetics.

3D scanning and printing sockets rather than using casting is a good idea, but that's not really a problem here. the problem is that disabled people are poor, and assistive devices are expensive. they're not expensive because they're difficult or time-consuming to manufacture, they're expensive because it's a small captive market with insurance reimbursements.

I designed and 3D-printed my own forearm crutch cuffs, because my old ones were too big for me. 3D printing can be really empowering for disabled people. but there's always these breathless articles about new inventions that will transform disabled people's lives, and it's just.. lackluster stuff.

(I'm not an amputee but I am disabled, and friends with a few.)
I hadn't realized this before this thread, but the nice thing about using corporate-sponsored OSS is that I can put a developer to work submitting a PR to my tools if I care strongly enough about the missing feature.
haha I saw 'Tech Lead' and was wondering if it is the 'TechLead' guy from youtube -- yup sure is [https://www.youtube.com/c/TechLead/videos].

I used to watch his videos occasionally because I liked his dry humor and quirky takes. However his humor eventually got so dry that I am unable to tell what is a joke and what is real anymore. Looking back I think it is possible that everything on his youtube is made up.

Lately he seems to have optimized heavily towards generating youtube clicks. This seems to be a pretty obvious case of him deliberately generating controversy to drive traffic.
Or maybe it’s a subtle joke by Google as a play on the idiom “it’s all Greek to me”?
They also fail the article's own premise

> in particular, the puzzle is not solved by the very simple task of finding another way to calculate the probabilities that does not lead to a contradiction
(Public School) Teacher pay is largely structured to encourage retention. The salary is pretty lousy if you only do it for 2 years, but if you stick around for 40 years it is a well paying job in most States. The pay increases for seniority and the compounding interest of pensions add up to a very good salary.
There is also the other problem that a lot of states require an education degree to teach in public schools which is somewhat specialized. A lot of mid-career educators that I have spoken with find that their skills don't really qualify them for a lot of jobs and becoming a private school teacher typically means a pay cut.
Bank loans create new money by increasing bank deposits, which is then destroyed when the principal is repaid, leaving behind the interest on the loan. So it is theoretically possible for every company to borrow money at once.
The BigScience Rail License
This sounds like a phishing expedition to provoke you into rash
action. Pause. Take a breath. Don't click anything. Try to contact the
company via a safe secondary channel like landline telephone and start
by politely verifying if they've contacted you by email for any reason
in the recent past.

If it really is from Cloudflare then they are trash beneath contempt
and you should extricate your interests as fast as humanly possible.
> I want to know where you think it’s going and why you think that

My daughter had four simultaneous academic advisors (general, college, and two honors) during her undergrad, so I think it's going to pay too many administrators for duplicate services or services way beyond the mission of education. Why do I think this, because of this and other duplication\excesses we saw.
I am saying don’t tell others what to do if you don’t know what you’re talking about.