skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd put that amortised cost at about $1000 upfront in 2022 dollars for my high quality internet comment and many others like it.

If you need high energy, pure vacuums and ultra low temps, surely space is where such experiments should be conducted on bigger scales in future to push it further?
And how much time Maxwell or Einstein spent on their research and how much time on chasing grants and tenure positions? Were they required to publish X papers a year, target assigned by some university manager? Were they forced to amuse and be nice for their students, so they will look good on yearly teacher's assessment?
They haven't found nothing. They've found something, which is nothing.

They've looked, been able to rule out some hypotheses of what they might find, and have established some evidence against others. Progress achieved, and the search continues.
Shortage of qualified people does not imply shortage of PhDs.
Postdocs outside of academia can be paid well. But inside academia: You are dealing with the public sector which has different market dynamics.
What happened to proper tail calls in JavaScript? (2021)
In other news, music isn't as good as it used to be, says someone who only listens to music in the charts.
They could open projects in a git hosting site, publish their code in a polished form.

They can even contribute to various projects related to their work.

Or create a data hosting service for others to examine them.
It would be interesting if we could Ender’s Game this with actual real life drones or something. But then, I can think of a million ways that could go horribly wrong.
Would it be possible to 3d print with this? That could be a game changer.
You are missing the "requires a live finger" part.

The biometric system (sensor + algorithm) used by Apple, as well as other competitive biometric vendors, detect blood flow, pulse in the finger. This is done as a mitigation against fake fingers as well as the (always presented) gory "cut off the finger" attack scenario.

A gummy bear may be lifelike, but normally lacks a beating heart and circulatory system.
Where and how exactly? I'm not a huge crypto fan, but what you're saying is generally a huge problem with FIAT, unless you are sending it to someone in the same country as you.
Also it's not like a gaming PC is not a worthy target. Gaming has sizeable black and grey markets, and also could be held hostage, seeing how often progress is tied to an account, and how personally attached people become to their progress.
I can only speak for the UK, but here, there are two types of power of attorney: the health one designates someone to make decisions about medical treatment if the subject is unable to; the finance one allows the attorney to manage the assets of the subject when needed.

The key point is that the whole process should be far easier if these things are setup in advance, while the person is still able to make their wishes clear, i.e. while they can still say who they trust to make decisions for them.
> 1. it starts with the worst possible feature (if I chnage the docs then a slack notification is sent to everyone).

They show the update going to a #docs channel, that doesn't mean it notifies everyone. It notifies whoever wants to be notified of updates posted to the #docs channel. Currently using something similar for notion, channel membership is opt in, and most have notifications silenced
> Sounds like everyone understands the issue... so why don't they respond by meeting the market price?

it's not just the postdoc, it's the whole thing. I make a bit more as a 29 years old very occasional freelance than the highest possible grade for university professor reachable only after 30 years or so of work and something like 6 years in "difficult conditions" in my country.
that's one cause. Inflation can also be caused by imbalance between demands and supply, outside of monetary considerations.

(eg : bad weather impacting crops production resulting in increased food prices for a year, or a war imposing blockades on oil and gaz)
The ones in control of money and the ones in charge of running their lab and hiring postdocs are not the same people. If you can't hire a postdoc for shitty salary, then that shitty salary can be repurposed for something else. The former won't ever budge for the latter until the whole system collapses. And even then, I dread that they will just leave it in ruins.
The jobs are crap, and the pay is low.

Postdocs used to be an exception, something prestigious you did before settling into a permanent role that might be a lower-ranked university. If you were really good, you might do 2 years at IAS or MIT before taking the position at a place like UCLA or Michigan (which are still excellent, just not as highly ranked). Then it became something you had to do, before getting any job--mandatory low-wage labor, another rung on the ladder. Now, it seems to be going out of fashion, as the prize loses its appeal.

I'm surprised this didn't happen 10 years ago. The academic job market has been a toilet for 30+ years--and this change is a good thing, by the way--and I had expected bimodalization to come much quicker.

You're absolutely right on the "labor shortage" bullshit. There isn't one. The working class has been fully depleted and there isn't any more give. People are shutting down. Workers who can't afford gas are forced to live off other people (either through illegitimate labor or by dependency.) This is the turtle at the bottom burping. About fucking time.
As someone with very low tolerance for pain, this seems like my worst nightmare. I’m curious though, did your tolerance for pain increase over the years as you had to endure it?
PATs are not an Apple technology, they just implemented it first. Once this is on Android, Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS the only thing they will be able to determine is that you're using a computer.
Which makes soldered chips in mobile devices (and NUCs/small PCs) all the more insane. But it's good for business - people will just buy a new one anyway...

Hopefully socketed chips on desktops will never go away, maybe recycling/reuse businesses will become more common (manufacturers will try and stop that with some sort of locks, no doubt) or we'll see the return of sockets on laptops (I can only dream).
Extreme are often bad. Having either not enough, or excessively much early on, lead to various irrational or otherwise maladaptive behaviors later. Humans perform best in a happy middle range along many axes.
Things settle? Sheesh
From the article OP included:

“MicroStrategy has not received a ‘margin call’ against our Silvergate loan even as bitcoin prices have fluctuated recently,” the company told Reuters in an emailed statement. “We can always contribute additional bitcoins to maintain the required loan-to-value ratio … even at current prices, we continue to maintain more than sufficient additional unpledged bitcoins to meet our requirements under the loan agreement,”

The way I read that is they covered before they got margin called.
Whenever an OCaml post comes up the biggest comment about the language was "no concurrency/parallelism". I hope this brings more people into the OCaml world.

Awesome job to all the devs.
That also means higher risk of failure, doesn't it? If just one of the N people isn't able to attend for whatever reason, your stuff is gone for good. If I give the key to my spouse, they can just use it. If I give it to 5 people, chance, one of those is unreachable when I'm gone, is 5 times as high.
In other words, the dysfunction (unemployment) on which capitalists rely, because it scares people into taking shitty deals, is a bit less of a problem... but it's also causing other dysfunctions, because it turns out that this is a shitty system.
Right, but why not just go out in the field and pick strawberries instead of trying to involve AI and robots? To me this is an area where Ian Malcom’s point about can/should applies.
The same government programs that funded almost all the initial research on semiconductors and early computers for the first 4 decades?

The programs who funded the research for telephones, lasers, aeronautics, satellites, CDs, fiber optics, GPS, GSM, LCDs using tax money?

I can imagine how little progress there would be if they didn't.
Yes. If my parents didn’t have me the world would be better off (not any kind of downer, just a fact that I take more from the world than I give — like nearly everybody) and I wouldn’t know the difference because I wouldn’t exist.
> Maybe there's nothing else to discover

AFAICS that is not one of the options; there are mysteries and contradictions whose explanations remain to be discovered. But maybe we can't discover more using the LHC (which I doubt).
“I propose a toast to evolution” Frances H. Arnold, Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The return is having a home to live in. You're still not explaining why this is bad.
A PhD is the most common way to gain the experience and context needed to work professionally on compilers. If there aren't many PhDs, then the supply of people with the experience needed in practice is going to be low, even if there are also people without PhDs who can do it.
Air Nostrum reserves ten Airlander 10 airships for operating regional routes
12 years ago it was a penny. 12 years is not long when we are talking money, so…
My cat also knows a few tricks. A few years back, he had fatty liver disease, which is caused by a vicious cycle where the cat won't eat, which makes them sick and suppresses their appetite. The first thing you try when this happens is to jump start their appetite by encouraging them to eat however you can.

Ultimately, I couldn't get enough calories in him, and we had to do a feeding tube. But before that, I was able to get him to eat some treats. He wouldn't eat them if I just gave them to him, but if I had him do "shake" first (the only trick he was up to), and then gave the treats as a reward, he would eat them.

I found it fascinating that the reward had taken on its own meaning for him. You might naively model training with rewards as "the cat is hungry and knows that treats bring food". But he didn't want food. After years of practicing tricks, it's like being rewarded became its own positive experience for him, and the ritual of eating the treat is part of that experience, independent of whether or not he actually wants to eat.
The prospect of actually "finishing" physics could be a nightmare for those working in it.

I had a friend who was a brilliant pure mathematician, his teachers and friends agreed he fully deserved to do a PhD in complex analysis - but complex analysis was essentially done in the 19th century, there's just not a lot of research opportunities there.
Stagnation of scientific fields is normal and can last many years. In that time, little anomalies pile up, are swept under the rug, and largely forgotten. To admit anomalies can ruin careers, after all.

Eventually someone (often very young/inexperienced) comes along and upends the field by proposing a different model or doing the experiment whose weight breaks the camels back.

What's new here is the scale of the work. It's not clear how you upend a field where the price of entry is measured in billions of dollars.
A poor link - a book written by Huwaei doesn't scream "This is a widely used standard"

Wikipedia would be a far better link, as it has links to RFCs, Cisco, Juniper Arista etc pages on it, and generally lets normal people who likely haven't heard of it read about it
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MySQL Shell for VS Code – Your New GUI?
Yup, same here, was going to comment about Hetzner's Storage Box. I'm using sshfs to mount it on the VPS, and it's pretty slow but acceptable for my purposes.
Reducing Bugs in React Codebase by Understanding Anti-Patterns
Or maybe because she is 75 and should have retired 10 years ago at least.
The fact that stakeholders don't like the solution doesn't make it complicated.
This page[0] shows that the performance benefit on certain CPUs are 20-30% extra.

[0] https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_make_Linux_run_blazing_fast_(...
Its basically the same as "sign in with google"

IF you've noticed that if you are signed into google with an account in good standing (or even if you're not signed in, but have spent time being signed in) the captcha is pre-filled.

this is the same thing, but with apple. they will be harvesting your every web move. That's great assuming they actively invest and look after privacy. However given their history, that can't be assumed.
> Farming Simulators

Harvest Moon started that as far as I know, came out in 96/97, though it was more of an RPG with farming as the core gameplay loop rather than just a farming sim.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_Moon_(video_game)
> Courage, getting out there, skill, practice, being fun to be around, are skills people value much more than looks.

I don't think this is universally true, I bet it works in a lot of cases, but the opposite is often true as well. Try too hard and you look desperate. And looks will always win past a certain level, if you are johnny depp level attractive, you will always get the girls over some average looking guy who is working his ass off.

I bet the same goes for money as well past a certain level.
+1 for Hetzner VPS - the V

https://www.hetzner.com/sb
> I like building stuff that people use, not writing papers that mostly went unread.

I had the same feeling!

And as it turns out, many of the skills are transferable: https://twitter.com/mizzao/status/1505529213612609536
>Maybe people shouldn't say evil and hateful things about anyone, no matter how bad they are, because it makes the entire culture of public discourse more toxic.

We both know this isn't what is being discussed here.

>Americans seem to have very little reverence for the quality and civility of public discourse in general anymore, and often say "the other side is worse" or "I'm intolerant of intolerance" as their justification for personally contributing to the normalization of uncivil ways of speaking.

Certainly interesting to see this. In my experience Americans tend to be rather christian and the love thy neighbour stuff. They are also very extroverted and willing to talk and become friends with anyone and everyone. Their understanding of 'good customer service' isn't the british example of 'help you as fast as possible and get you out the door' but rather talk to you and learn about you. Build a relationship that brings you back. Being uncivil is literally the opposite of what the average american is.

It's super curious how you came to this opinion? Where have you seen Americans being so 'uncivil'? Is it mainly places like Reddit and twitter? Certainly not real life. If you are conflating reddit or twitter with the general populous you missed the target by astronomical scale.

>Japan doesn't seem to have these problems with people culturally defecting from civility even when they disagree, and I believe their willingness to not tolerate it to any degree is what keeps the rest of society defecting to low quality behavior patterns.

What are the consequences to Japan? There is certainly consequences. Japan is in multiple crisis already and this isn't going to help the situation. Japan's situation is going to become that much worse.

>I think both groups should receive censure for valuing their personal crusades over the quality of stability and civility of society the rest of us value; who have more nuanced and humble opinions of our own self righteousness. Really glad there's another country that agrees with me!

I read this and can only come to the conclusion that you don't understand. Worse you seem to exemplify what makes these 'censures' that much worse.

You see this as attempting to maintain civility in society which is great if it were to happen but that's not at all the outcome.

What's your opinion on Hikikomori?

How well do you feel the Minister of Loneliness is doing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsushi_Sakamoto

How about that suicide rate in Japan?

How about that aging population and silver crime problem?

How about that crippling government debt and inevitable collapse of japan?

How about abenomics being a failure?

How about those government slaves? Hard labour and 99% conviction rate? LOL.

How about that population decline they are showing to be around 30% decline by 2050 and 50% decline by 2100?

Japan is beyond screwed. Good thing I am not in Japan because I'd be sent to the gulag for this post.
I’m in Finland as well and have never heard of it! Would you mind sharing the Finnish names for these types of accounts?
You can reach 20 woodcutting in Runescape in < 1 hour as a complete noob to the game. The equivalent irl skill would take months or years of training. Video games artificially speed up the process of skill acquisition with a satisfactory level of dopamine release such that you will keep going.
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.

In any case - how much of that $1000 is attributed to the research and development of the wheel in Ancient Mesopotamia?

How much is attributed to the discovery of electricity, and to General Relativity?

If we weren't attempting to get answers to fundamental questions we'd still be living in caves.
> Even indies suffer the latter. Not too many indies have a hit again when they create a game too different from their original hit.

For indies a confounding factor is that the first game often has really been in development for the creator's entire life up to that point - not neccessarily literally but by amasssing creative ideas that they can then pour into that project. For the second game to be significantly different they then need to come up with new ideas in a now much shorter time unless they take a break from game development in between.
Elon Musk says solving self-driving decides Tesla being worth a lot or nothing
Physicists are facing the nightmare that tomorrow is Thursday and nothing else.
Every time you type a password or pin code into your phone in a public place it’s trivial for someone to see what it is over your shoulder. It’s doable for keyboards to though not quite as easy.

They can’t see it if you use your fingerprint or FaceID.

That’s actually a security improvement for some threat models.

Just a thought :)
Both can be true. Is spamming the best strategy for Tinder? Yes. Spamming may be penalized but using the app discerningly (for men) is penalized more harshly.

Is using Tinder a waste of time? Yes, unless your value to the opposite sex can be encapsulated in one photograph (i.e. you spend a lot of time in the gym). There are easier ways to get laid.

> Presumably, you’re there to connect with people you’d have a good time with

It’s a casual sex app. Real dating apps have profiles.
'Just zoom out bro' doesn't account for the rise of stablecoins in the past 2 years.

The majority of people who joined the cryptocoin world are underwater.
> XOR on the same argument: x ^ x = 0

Those who have dabbled with x86 assembly will know that this is pretty much the standard to set a register to zero. Code is peppered with the likes of 'xor eax, eax'.
> After all, nothing would matter if I am gone.

To you, perhaps; but I would guess most everyone else would disagree.

> Why bother with all of that?

It's not for you.

Consider that relationships among your heirs and assigns are not always good, and death and money have a way of making things worse.
The question is: What is a sane price for bitcoin? I would say $0.00.
ITT: “Ackshully if your threat model includes James Bond level tradecraft this is a bad idea.”

Spoiler alert: Essentially nobody’s threat model includes that.
Most Ph.D.s are unemployable in the field that they did Ph.D. in. There is only say very small pool Ph.D. topics which are needed in industry like ML, distributed system, pharmacy etc. Most of the Ph.D. is in fields like humanities, psycology, physics etc. doesn't have many openings in industry.
Being able to change a credential only matters of it's a clonable credential like a key or a password. Assuming whatever device you're using is able to distinguish between the real thing and a copy, it doesn't matter if your fingerprint/face/iris... is "compromised" so there's no need to change it. That is, however, an assumption that has been made many times in the past and proven untrue.
It is mathematically a subset of greater fool theory. But so is gold, diamonds, Bugatti supercars, etc... however beautiful women(or men) are attracted to the latter. The former are usually unattractive, especially if you're trying to explain why they're attractive
Obviously they know something about the cost/benefit you do not.
mmh.

given then number of phone that reach "end of life" only because the battery dies and is not (easily) replaceable, not sure what good this will do.
It sounds like he went ABD.

In the US, PhDs can take 6-8+ years. There are some shitty advisors who delay their students' graduations to get additional low-wage labor. Also, the academic job market is terrible and has been for 30+ years, so it takes a full year just to do the search.
> no more global runtime lock

Perhaps Python devs should consider transpiling to OCaml ;)
This is bollocks. Typical clickbait title. There is still a lot of unsolved problems in physics, both experimental and theoretical. Particle physics is just one branch of science (and rather boring, if you ask me), popularized by CERN marketing, so people think new physics equals finding some new particle.

There is a lot of interesting problems waiting for exploration. I will not even try to list them "unsolved physics problems" googling shows enough.
A home automation stack that alleges to be open source but can only deploy it the way they want.
> rearranging deck chairs on the titanic

I think that's a pessimistic view. You posit that humanity will never be able to extract more than a tiny bit of the satisfaction lots of people feel when they are useful to the community.

On the other side, a lot of anarchist thought has been proposing that smaller communities make people more satisfied, by removing emotional friction.

Still from another direction, not all work needs to be tightly economically controlled, or justified, yet finances permeate work as pure overhead.

Dismissing the idea that work can be better than it is today seems like a passive surrender.
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