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Oh you have absolutely zero argument from me. One problem is the “professionalization” of universities, who are now run by admin “professionals", which removes power from the faculty.

Although one part of this is regulatory burden by the state. This adds lots of overhead which the university would probably rather not have.
you're thinking of the Kingdom of Great Britain

Britain is an island
It's one of several innovative games I called out. It's significant since we likely couldn't have had something like this at this level of quality because it wouldn't have been economically viable. Planescape Torment is probably the closest we had gotten in the past and that didn't seem to be deemed a success by the publisher. While art house isn't mainstream there are still a lot of people who love it. I don't know exact numbers, but Disco Elysium won lots of awards and comes up in conversations online a lot.
Tetris doesn't incorporate a physically-correct simulation of water that needs to be sprayed in between dishes in order to remove the gunk, so the strategy to win Tetris would not be helpful to win a proper dishwasher simulator game, even though there are of course some similarities.
This is pretty neat.

But one annoyance is that on macOS Monterey, the authentication pop-up dialog doesn't have focus when it appears. You first need to click on it before you can use Touch ID. That slows the whole process down to the point where it's probably just quicker and easier to use your password.

Is there any way to make the pop-up automatically get focus, or is that itself a security risk somehow?

(Side note: the same module enables authentication by Apple Watch too! But again, having to take your hands off the keyboard to tap the Apple Watch to approve the request slows down the process so much that it's hardly worth it)
> I can't speak to whether it would cost less to do these experiments in space, I'm no expert on the colliding of particles and the implications thereof.

I'm a nonexpert who has some vague idea of how these things work.

There's two kinds of accelerator: circular and linear. In either case, you have a tube, often underground, a bunch of accelerator components along the tube, and a detector component. I believe but I am not sure that a key advantage of the circular one is that you can accelerate the particles in the beam as they take multiple loops around the tube. The disadvantage is that when charged particles turn they lose energy by emitting electromagnetic radiation, and the whole point of the accelerator is to stuff these particles full of energy to make interesting collisions. This is mitigated by having higher-radius accelerators, which is the key reason we build things like the Large Hadron Collider and make it so very large in the first place, instead of just trying to add stronger stuff at existing accelerators.

So what do you intend to do in space?

The quasi-achievable near term might see a linear accelerator that consists of two components orbiting and firing particle beams into a third (the detector) because we are obviously not orbiting the mass of the LHC in the near term, and we're not orbiting anything that's rigid and also substantially larger than a rocket payload. It will no doubt be tricky to align the beams, as the orbits are ellipses and the beams need to be approximately straight lines (or close enough, blah blah spacetime). But the fundamental problem is that you're going to need to do all your acceleration all at once, at the accelerators, which immediately negates any possible advantages you could possibly have from space.

Perhaps you could do something very clever with an orbit-sized circular accelerator with accelerators spaced at intervals around the planet. You'd need a lot of launches of some intense equipment (I believe the Earth-based accelerator components are giant supercooled magnets). You'd also need an energy source, lots of engineering prowess to get everything in good working order (LHC bringup was very hands-on) except any adjustments will have to be done in orbit, and then when it's running you'd face the problem of LOLmaintenance.

I'm going to be honest, I'm more skeptical about this than about the Mars colony.
Couldn't it have something to do with flawed fundamentals?
"The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take."
the Enterprise Rails book has a great section on databases that I think takes things to the next level.
i'd argue factorio is closer to electrical engineering than software dev, but it definitely scratches the same itch of a well-engineered solution to a novel problem.
Ah yes, people getting jobs is what caused inflation. Not the trillions printed and given to scammy upper classes through fraudulent PPP loans and artificially low interest rates.
Yes we do this for our sensor networks, but usually the gateway also has an IPv6 uplink.
How do you teach a person nuance?
I think it was an extreme example but we didn't. The design phase is exactly when you should be formulating ideas and throwing away things that don't work. The theory is that this is easier to do before code is laid down. They were way too granular though so it was super painful even in design phase to get these design docs together.

I think the design phase in this instance required far too much detail. Some middle ground would probably be best imo.
Fascinating! The victims of their own success. I would love for Sabine to cover this (https://www.youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder).
Maybe I’m going nuts but it looks like they used 2000 US Census data on driving, so yes, they only looked at that year.

They are literally comparing people who are older and younger with the cohort in question, so confounding results with how driving changes at various ages.
> It makes you penny wise and pound foolish while always having to look over your shoulder monetarily speaking.

Could you explain what you mean? I grew up pretty poor, single income PhD student/post-doc salary family with two kids. Eventually my father got a proper position at a university, but until then we were pretty poor. My parents used to sleep on the floor, we had almost no furniture(I remember playing football in our living room with my dad since it was entirely empty) with most of our stuff coming from charities.

I wonder if I exhibit the behavior you talk about or not.
> This is science. This is how it works. Maybe there's nothing else to discover, maybe it will take us 100 years, we don't know, that's why it's called research.

I think the argument is not whether we invest in research or not, but are we putting our limited resources into viable research or not. Sabine Hossenfelder argues that many researchers are more interested in testing their pet theory based on mathematical beauty than actually working on more boring forms of fundamental research. This imbalance leads to poor returns on research investments.
Don't even know where to begin...but according to this [1] less than 5% of students in the US are international students.

1 - https://www.fwd.us/news/international-students/
> Ice in the Channel and water in the Channel both cut Britain off.

Britain has never been cut off. As the cliche goes: "Storms in English Channel; continent cut off".
Sure, innovative titles might be the exception. There are so many games these days though that if I'm looking for something innovative as a consumer I can find lots of options.
You are on Hacker News.

Wikipedia says:

A hacker is a person skilled in information technology who uses their technical knowledge to achieve a goal or overcome an obstacle, within a computerized system by non-standard means.
I look back on the time playing video games with buddies in high school more fondly than the time I spent playing competitive sport or throwing rocks at cars.
The mundane simulator genre did exist in Germany way back in the 80s/90s, I remember a nice airline simulator I bought on a trip there (I'm from Sweden).
F# is a fantastic language! However, its official documentation is a bit lacking (like the C# ones). Also having developed some reactive applications I'd say .NET core needs some improvements before people can have fun developing desktop or web apps with it
for me this is not the reason you should be careful using fingerprints for security. I don't use touch ID because I'm concerned that if I'm ever arrested, the police could a) force me to unlock it, b) unlock it while I sleep. The same goes for people I sleep in the same room as.

I think it's silly to have a security measure that can be passed while you're not even conscious
The license is pretty restrictive:

> 3. Restrictions
> You agree not to modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile,
> dissasemble or otherwise attempt to discover the code and algorithms of
> the Software.

I wouldn't look at the code.
"Now" being the operative word here.

4+ years ago this wasn't the case and I watched people get burned by shitty support multiple times - all the while my iOS devices chugged along. Even flagship phones could get 0-1 official OS level updates.

Oh, and check the fine print on those promised "updates". IIRC the Samsung one guarantees "security updates" for 5 years - basically they'll backport fixes for high enough severity CVEs to older phones. You won't be getting 5 Android OS updates on them.

I'm willing to bet actual money that no more than a half dozen Android models you can buy _today_ with Android 12 on them will get Android 16 as an official update. On the other hand I can pretty much guarantee that the iPhone 13 being sold today will still get iOS 20.
If you're best at designing and building front ends, go build that first and plug into an API later.

If you're best at writing backend code and APIs, go build that first and plug in your front end later.

If you're best at writing docs and speccing, go build that first and then iterate through the two items above.
No notifications! Hard to even imagine that, these days.
I like this one too. You could add expansion packs that also simulate different soap dispensers and water armatures, so the story arc of how the hands got wet in the first place is covered as well. And challenges to remove various types of gunk from your (virtual) hands in the most efficient way possible (less water, less soap used, fastest,...).
Isn't ABD status the time from successfully proposing a dissertation to a specific committee until successfully defending that dissertation in front of that committee?

The former step is intended to clearly define what is sufficient work. In effect, it is the contract that eliminates some of the risk of the advisor's whim.
Movie industry suffers the same but in a way worse way.

At least indie devs have a way to make a living, but indie moviemakers have a much harder time finding funds and studios are increasingly less prone to experimentation. Either it's a sequel, or some data-driven decision pushes the same variant of the same action/horror movie.
This nytimes article has a very different take. The field is excited at the prospect of new physics: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/13/science/cern-hadron-colli...
Let’s build a particle accelerator on the moon. Make it go around the circumference of the entire moon.
I find that the dialog pops up without focussed when I launch Bitwarden, but does have focus when I launch 1Password. It is confusing
I'm not sure the qualifier 'in gaming' is necessary. Lots of us spend a our free time doing gardening, DIY, walking or cooking for entertainment.
An audit which wasn't even independent.
It doesn't literally require a PhD (I'm not sure how that would even work - unless it was regulated by the government!) but it does require context on the state of the art in the field, and a network of peers to talk to. You get that from doing a PhD. If you can get it otherwise, then great, but that's pretty hard to do in practice.

I've worked with people without even a high-school diploma in my compilers team, so I'm not snobby, just realistic that to succeed you need things and that a PhD is a great way to get them.
I mean, you could say more or less the same about movies.

Early film (as soon as people realized that film != theatre, at least) was wildly experimental, because qualities of the medium were still largely unexplored. But after a while the rules became more and more codified, so that if you wanted to find something "new/more", you often had to look past the mainstream offering. Which, I mean, makes sense? As demand grows, a part of the industry will inevitably focus on the "tried and true" formulas. It allows them to play it safe and get more-or-less predictable returns on their investment.

(And about Ron/Monkey Island, actually he is being very clear he is not doing a retro game and he definitely wants to move the franchise forward. I surely hope so!)
Had this problem

Easy solution

take a few hundred from the bank and physical set it on fire

keep doing it until you don’t care

it’s illegal but it works
> it looks like they used 2000 US Census data on driving, so yes, they only looked at that year

The first major sentence under data:

“The decennial census asks questions about commuting mode and time. ‘Journey to Work’ questions appear in the 1980, 1990, and 2000 censuses, and in the American Community Survey (ACS) (Ruggles et al. 2020). We use data from these three censuses, as well as the 2006/10, 2011/15, 2016, and 2017 ACS” [1].

Confirmation bias much [2]?

[1] https://cseveren.github.io/files/FormativeExperiences_Paper_... bottom of page 6

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
Not a lawyer, but in the US there are typically separate power of attorney documents for financial vs medical decisions. If you search for your state and medical or financial power of attorney you should find standard forms for them and see what they cover.
100% agree with you. In some areas you literally need to move to another country because there are no options in academia in your country
My grandma did this. Never left a penny on the sidewalk, always took the bread from a breadbasket home. Even my parents absorbed some of that behavior despite being born in the next generation.
The same thing can be said for my $100k. I hardly need more to live. Why am I striving for more?

It’s not like my increasing savings bring me any material benefit.
> Not all of science is interesting to the private sector.

More helplessness.

My research area is famously hard to fund even within academia, so I substantially changed the way that I frame my research and the type of work I was proposing. I still do the most important bits of pushing advances in my field, but there's a lot of auxiliary work that has immediate value as well.

It's less fun, it's CERTAINLY more humbling, and it's a lot more labor. But it provides both short-term and long-term value.

BTW: if you want to do work no one will fund, that's fine. Just at least acknowledge that your largest funding source is the massively under-paid labor of 20-35 year olds.

> Thats around the starting salary of school teachers and many other professions.

Your post-docs are >= 28, have graduate degrees, and have several years of research experience. Also, "teachers and many other professions" almost NEVER sign fixed term contracts that require them to move all over the country/world.

BTW, what is your university's pension plan like? Many teachers have great pension plans (that actually make sense to use since they have jobs that last more than 2-3 years). If comparing to industry, what's your 401K match and stock purchase program?

You can't even beat the working conditions and wages that mediocre 22 year olds can get right out of college in a famously under-compensated field. "My PhD employees would be substantially better off as secondary school teachers" isn't exactly a ringing endorsement.
What really happened is that "competitive online gameplay" now requires you to do outside research to determine the game meta, usually some kind of grind to achieve said meta, and only at that point can you begin to use your brain to optimize your individual performance. And you have to do all that fast enough to keep up with the current season before the meta changes.

This is different from the games we played growing up, where from the beginning you could use your brain to optimize, improve, and do the brain things that give satisfaction.

"Mundane chores" that gamers do are now mostly part of the "meta grind" but also niche mundane tasks like, say, trading a certain resource, doing a dungeon for the 200th time but faster, etc are in the few remaining places where you can derive this kind of satisfaction.

Developers have become so hyper focused on ensuring the "meta" play is balanced (and requires you to grind in their game), that they patch out these chores as "quality of life" improvements.
I work on a command line tool as a side hobby. I have used github sponsors and have added BTC/ETH/XMR links in the readme. I get ~$10 per month. Its just an added bonus for me tbh.
I can't tell whether you're trolling or the embodiment of out of touch.
it is a reversal of "I think, therefore I am" -> "I am, therefore I think"

(slight nitpick, the idea(consciousness is fundamental, creation is cyclical) goes back much earlier than buddhism and is part of advaita vedanta.)
Once I realized that real life chores are an excellent way to exercise and feel productive, I love doing chores.

Mopping a floor by standing on a rag is great for the core.
COVID killed over a million. The culpability for that isn't simple either.
Cool. How about regulations that require an open and transparent audit by an accredited third party accounting firm? Maybe we can finally find out what's actually going on behind the curtain say Tether.

As an aside, one can't help but wonder if this piece is stealth marketing given how friendly it is to Tether and recent concerns of a de-peg in the face of incredibly high market volatility. There's an enormous amount of very valid criticism about the company and barely a hint of it in this article.
It's both.

Do you think nominal wage gains coupled with real wage declines makes people happy? Check consumer sentiment polling which just hit an all time low, why don't you?

It's funny to see society broadly reject the impact of covid era policy, yet some advocate to do more and more of it.

Fed kept rates low in pursuit of unsustainably low unemployment, by the way, motivated by pressure from progressives
Some people say ABD is 'all but defended' as in you wrote your thesis you just didn't do a defence, some people say ABD is 'all but dissertation' in that you didn't get the point of writing the thesis. That's a pretty big difference. The former is you basically did your entire PhD, the latter is you didn't really start it.
One day - not too long from now - you're going to sprain your back. Or twist your ankle. Or get a nasty cold. Or, maybe, just get old.

As you painfully shuffle towards your TV in order to increase the volume, you'll mutter to yourself "I've never seen a compelling use of remote control technology."

Once done, you notice it's getting late. Do you continue sitting in the dark or heave yourself up to reach the lightswitch? You smirk. "I'm glad that I'm not dependent on the whims of some corporation."
Check out Get Your Shit Together [0]. It was started by a woman who lost her husband in an accident, suddenly becoming a widow and single mom to two young children.

She has abridged [1] and long checklists [2] that everyone should complete. Most of us probably don't even think about these things:

- will

- power of attorney (in varying forms)

- what happens to pets

- what happens to kids

- money

- burial/funeral wishes

- insurance

- living will

- etc.

[0]: https://getyourshittogether.org/

[1]: https://getyourshittogether.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/G...

[2]: https://getyourshittogether.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/G...
>take a few hundred from the bank and physical set it on fire keep doing it until you don’t care

That sounds bad. Why not give it to a homeless guy or to charity or something?

>it’s illegal

Honestly, the central banks can go to hell. They can print way more money than you can ever burn, which they do, even far too much of it, bringing us to where we are today.
Profiling deep learning workloads at scale using Amazon SageMaker
Aren't we supposed to write unit tests before we build too? The benefit of that is that if you have a CI system the tests have to stay current with the code. Whereas documentation quckly gets out of sync with the actual code.
Not sure about unloading the dishwasher but unpacking was pretty fun: https://www.unpackinggame.com/
All the cloud provider VPCs seem inextriciably linked to IP4 config, which seems to work great. Maybe the low level infrastructure is IP6, but we dont operate at that level.
In the end it comes down to me feeling like I can achieve a larger positive effect for society by keeping my money.

Especially past 100M
Have you ever picked strawberries for a whole day? I haven't, but I don't hear good things about it.
> If Western governments can find the public support for trillions in military expenditures, I am confident that it can be found for the comparably meager budgets of the scientific establishment.

Sadly, that achievement -- public support for trillions in military expenditures -- belongs to a not-so-Western government invading a wanna-be-Western government.
Point taken. But that doesn't mean we can't challenge the idea that hacking is the right approach to any given idea that is posed on this website.
> just try doing any one of the things he has already done

Alright I'll go find some wealthy South African emerald mine owners and ask them to give birth to me.
>TL;DR: IPv6 is faster than IPv4 ~39% of the time (locally anyway!).

Sooo, slower than ipv4 61% of the time?
Reconstructing an obsolete toolchain is a nightmare.

I think it's great that there are languages like FreePascal, C, and Common Lisp, which make an effort to think in terms of decades. The existence of these languages frees everyone else up to break compatibility when they want to, because projects which need strong stability guarantees can chose these languages for that project.
Interestingly about a year after that conversation BitKeeper was made open source
As a way to get the job.
So much of economics seems so obvious when you read about it but it runs very strongly against our lizard brain instincts.
>Postdoc salaries are frequently based on what the U.S. National Institutes of Health sets as its standard, “and that’s pretty low,” says Daniel Wolf Savin, a physicist and senior research scientist at Columbia University who is currently struggling to fill five postdoc positions. When hiring, he competes with national labs that offer up to $20,000 more per year in salary. “If we put in a research grant with a postdoc salary that they pay at a national lab, the program office is going to look at it and say, ‘Look, I can’t give you this much money. It’s so out of line with what everyone else is asking for,’” he says.

I never understood why there are salary guidelines in the first place. Why should a lab with $200k/year to spend on postdoc salaries be unable to hire a single postdoc at $200k/year? Current guidelines stipulate the lab must instead hire 4 postdocs at $50k/year.

At the end of the day, research quality is what matters. The research output of a single excellent postdoc worth $200k/year could easily exceed the total output of four mediocre postdocs each worth $50k/year.
Yeah, in some areas we're basically already there with Android's attestation (or something like that). Most finance-related apps simply don't work with custom ROMs anymore. Some checks can be bypassed with Magisk, others are virtually impossible
Because instead we can delegate tasks that no one wants to do to robots, machinery and computers, and instead focus human labour and brain power on other things. Which is how we got to the point that we are at in the first place.