skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, conferences and sabbaticals are really different.

The answer to your question depends on what you mean by "if you already happy". I think at some level you could apply it to anything ("if you are already happy why do anything different?").

In talking to colleagues, the murmuring is that conferences might be changing. I think the lockdowns really reinforced for a lot of people they didn't like going to conferences in person and feel like much of it could be done online instead. I think a legitimate argument could be made that conferences are often like paying money to add something to your CV... which leads itself to a broader discussion of academic incentives.

I do think there are a lot of people who like the socializing aspect of it though. It's not so much the talks as much as it is the professional informal discussions after the talks, or at dinner, or when people skip the talks and start talking about ideas. I think there's a lot of that that could happen online or something, but not all of it. There's also a lot of people who still operate in person, and just don't "do" online stuff, and so if you want to interact with them, it's best to go. Whether or not conferences in their common form is the best way to do that I'm not sure, but there's something to be said for it as a professional in-person social gathering.

As another poster noted, sometimes it's just fun to travel someplace too.

Sabbaticals are really breaks from non-research activities to have free time for research. If you don't feel you need it, I guess you don't, but why wouldn't you take less responsibilities temporarily for the same salary?

The one big downside to sabbaticals is that they're sometime attached to some noncompete provision, like "if you take a sabbatical you won't leave the institution for X years, and if you do, you pay back your sabbatical pay during that time." So if you're unsure if you want to stay, you might want to avoid that. But then again, that would suggest you're unhappy so it wouldn't apply to your scenario.
DCA gives you the best chance of getting mean/average returns, not the best returns.

If the market goes up year and year then obviously lump sum investing is best, but it doesn't. It goes through periods of over and under performance and then returns the mean.

In any case, it's academic for most us investing from our salaries. DCA isn't a choice.
Let's just make up a fake job title such as "prompt engineering" and charge $5 a pop for something simple as conjoining words.

In reality anyone can do this, it just takes a little time to get the right results.

Are people really this lazy that they will pay for this?
Similar things were thought of before for Northern Ireland in the 70s but not implemented because it was impractical in that case. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4132635.stm
Wouldnt rule it out entirely especially as a political gesture of doing everything possible when unrest threatens, but not as a very meaningful intervention.
I think covid's lasting impact will be one of vastly growing mistrust in the political and scientific organizations that society looks to for guidance.

From the CDC's ever changing guidelines, the liability-free, fast tracked vaccine that doesn't actually mitigate transmission, the labeling of media pushed medical hypothesis as "science" and any debate as heresy, the effortless militarization of common citizens to socially pressure and attack their neighbors into compliance, and the coordinated "fact checking" campaigns of powerful organizations that have turned out to be complete lies. It's all done lasting damage to societal trust... from our own families and neighbors, to the heights of academic and governmental leadership.

People are rightfully asking many questions. Are the FDA, CDC, and the WHO corrupted by big Pharma companies and political groups that care more about saving face and profit than the truth? Is academia similarly corrupted to create research that supports the chosen narrative? Is "trusting the experts" really the embodiment of science... or one of religious zealotry?
That would make it incredibly useful for me. The more I think about it the more I see how tricky it would be to gather accurate historic data about dividend payouts. Good luck with it!
Anybody smarter than me can explain why the E language is more adept at security?

It looks like Java with different syntax to me. Is it the compiler what is special?
Academia is nice because I get paid decent money to work about 30 hours a week, and what little work I do is mostly fun.

On sabbatical, I can work even less (and don't have to deal with students), and I get to live in an interesting place I haven't been before. Why wouldn't I want to do that? Ditto conferences.

I don't really understand the question. Academia can be great if you have tenure, but sabbatical is even better, so why not do it.
> Minor? Your link is outdated. EDF was forced to prolong the shutdowns recently [1].

Your link doesn't say anything about the severity of the issue, just the number of reactors it impacts (12, which is the same number I indicated).

> It will, but the drought is likely to reappear next summer

Sure, by then the welding issues are hopefully finally addressed (the plan is to have the maintenance done by January, but I strongly suspect this will slip by a few months) and then it's only the regular refueling which has been happening in summer for almost 50 years.

> which is why not just the spot electricity market is bananas but also the futures market

Well, no, that's due to a lack of electricity production capacity. Issues with the french nuclear fleet are part of that problem, but they're not all of that problem.

> even a tiny fuck up has the potential to irradiate a large region for decades

Absolutely not. Tiny fuckups happen all the time and have no consequence. Major fuckups happen once in a while and also have no consequence (TMI, for example). Huge fuckups have happened twice in the past 40 years, and only once with major irradiation consequences (Fukushima Daiichi has roughly no exclusion zone left at this point 11 years after the accident, the last town has been reopened earlier this year). The nuclear industry has learned from all these fuckups, from the tiniest ones to the catastrophic ones, and something like the issue at Chornobyl just cannot happen in France.
I did learn lessons. I mistimed commodities and got burned. I mistimed the 2008 recession (thought it would be 2007) and the put options expired worthless (though still dodged the recession).

But anytime I mention my gains on HN the crowd says the same two or three things:

1. You're just lucky.

2. Herp quit your job and work Wall St. (No. I'm not primarily money motivated and those people generally, um, are far from my cup of tea.)

3. You're just lying.

They can keep saying that, they can keep down voting me. They didn't buy Tesla early or Bitcoin early or Shopify early, so nobody did that wasn't lucky. I'm not saying I'm some sort of finance prodigy, but it has been pretty easy to call tech stocks for the past ten or fifteen years and combine that with dodging recessions and an otherwise diversified portfolio and yearly returns after inflation of 15% are achievable, not even counting the Bitcoin payday.
With enough training data and enough GPUs to do the model training, you'll be there! Goes to show that for AI, the code really isn't the important part. AI is and always has been about data and compute.
A lot of it depends on the use case. For example, Facebook - one of the largest (if not the largest) deployments of mysql does not allow any FK constrains. There’s multiple reasons, but one of those is better predictability of db operational perf - a row delete should delete just the row and not potentially trigger N cascading deletes.
Great question! It's definitely a use case we are thinking about. Anything from giving a better framework to this to updating the screenshot tests for you are viable options. About importing the copy to unit tests: it depends on your setup: for projects that have hardcoded copy, we update the copy inside the code, for projects that use I18N we update the I18N JSON/PO files.
State Department is offering big rewards for info on hackers, to uncertain ends
Same thing can be said about VC funded tech companies too. Does anyone really know the cost of an Uber? What about the true cost of that Door Dash delivery?
While I completely agree that growing plants has at least 10x less impact to environment, it is not just "grow plants".

You also have to use fertilizer, insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, spend energy (from fossil fuels) to drive tractors, plows, sprinklers. I'm not even going to start with GMO (the technology and the result is fine, but control companies get when you use them is not).
yeah, VTSAX or other total market index funds
You unit test header text content?
Well this isn’t a runtime time language it’s a compile time language they’ve actually done some great work behind the scenes to enable live view debugging (Previews).
I wonder if you take an "all claims are facts until proven otherwise" approach to religion as well, and if so, how do you reconcile the mutually-exclusive (but non-falsifiable) claims that various religions make counter to one another?
First batch of AM5 mobos are high-added value, makers want to make most money on selling buzzwords.
Normal consumer grade mobos (with many PCIe slots) will propably follow latter.
You do realise there are countless people who have 'read the papers and thought about the conflicting evidence' about climate change right?

The reality is unfortunately that these people ARE nutty conspiracy theorists. They are not 'thinking about the papers' and providing a reasonable push back, they're reiterating long debunked points (did you read the thread I posted?).

Ebright already claimed the papers were scientific fraud until he thought better and deleted the tweet. This is the kind of person you're dealing with.

I'm not going to both-sides something which now has very clear evidence in one direction and not a shred of evidence in the other, I'm sorry I'm just not.

Hacker news of old would be more open to that. Again,this is why I no longer post here.
Yeah, right, but it may also backfire if all gain-of-function research is banned. Imagine if we accidentally invented a rogue AI that caused as much disruption worldwide as covid did? Would you trust the general public and policymakers to come up with conclusions "it is fine, we continue AI research only in big corps based in SF, we can trust those" rather than "AI bad, ban AI research!"?

I remember when this controversy about NIH grants just started, Fauci said: "if you want to ban gain-of-function research, you may just as well ban the virology entirely". And honestly, I am fine with that. I advocate for banning all gain-of-function research. If virologists can't do anything else except engineering deadly viruses on purpose, it is their problem.
Similar system in Norway - where there's common 2fa Id system where banks are identity provider, and mechanism for 2fa is app, sim app (deprecated) or otp token:

https://www.bankid.no/en/company/

It's also used as a general digital ID provider.
Testing complete for laser enrichment module
It was more of the opportunity I got. I've been told it's a high prestige job, and I've learned enough to start my own company. It's also the highest paid $/hr in my field.
It's ok, but not great.

The biggest issue is that Signal is really designed to be tied to your smartphone and managed from there. I, and I suspect a lot of other folks who use the desktop app, would prefer Signal to be more platform and device agnostic, like email.

There are ways with the signal-cli utility to make your desktop Signal application the primary signal client, but then managing contacts and groups becomes a real hassle - you have to message with a bunch of json config files and the cli utility doesn't always work as expected.

I'll freely admit, this is probably not an issue for most regular users, but it's still something that could be improved.
How Emotions Are Made – From a Programmer's Perspective
It is not different. The plants are different, but the energy spent is not that different.
I recently read "How Emotions are Made" by Lisa Feldman Barrett and I wanted to write in my own words the mechanisms she described, so I can understand them better.
Thank you. Looks very clean, I will try poking at it soon!
Fireflys dying is a bit ominous though.
Sounds like contact corrosion (assuming it was a mechanical keyboard)
The Indian Banks also require the same. The central bank forced them to adopt this. Any txn over certain amount (I think Rs 500, $5) needs a one time code, sent to user's phone, valid for like 10 minutes. Merchants always get a token of validation from bank, not the actual credit card number.
Do you have enough lanes overall? I wonder if a splitter might work for your needs.
Usually that is due to existing contract agreements and futures. Which was agreed on by all parties involved.

In the Netherlands we're also getting questions about why we're exporting so much gas we need ourselves. Well that's why. We've already sold it, it just hasn't been delivered yet.
You can explore this question in depth here:

https://evtool.ucsusa.org/

Basically, even if you assume that the grid will not decarbonise, the least efficient EV beats the most efficient ICE everywhere in the US.

The average is 4x better. With today's grid.

Once you accept the reality that the grid is getting greener, it's no contest.
Heh, hi tromp, you must have a grin filter? ;-)

I still stand by what I said... grin doesn't have any demand (the price is in the dumps and it has no utility)... nobody is going to pay $9k for an asic to earn pennies. how many of those things have people actually bought?
There’s also Intel VMX, the Virtual Machine Extensions ;) Sometimes it’s referred to as VT-x.
From the office hours, it's a self-reported quarterly survey, IIRC. So they're not sure how much of the growing skew is due to the demographics of Discord itself, how much is real, etc.
Vulnerability Management for Go
do you mean $30/user?
First of all, I think it's an unhealthy myth that if you like your job you should never want to take a break or vacation.

That said, neither of these things are really vacation. A conference IS your job as an academic, it's a forum for sharing information among peers and an opportunity for networking and collaboration.

Traditionally a sabbatical is still an academic setting, just not with the professor's traditional duties. Some people may just use it as a vacation but it's associated with more than that, see https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/8557/what-is-an...
Echarts which we use supports exporting charts as images so it probably can be added relatively easy. Embedding is another possible option.
Absolutely, it is a step in the right direction. But the small jump in efficiency from say 40% to 55% doesn't really do anything. You've still got a carbon footprint that is non-zero.

Unless you convince society to build zero-carbon electrical generation it's the equivalent of the British calling the American Revolutionary War a victory on their part. The difference is purely political, societal, and cultural. None of which can change the laws of physics.

My observation is United States society simply doesn't want or care about zero carbon electrical generation. Nuclear fission was figured out a long time ago & we basically never built any significant capacity in that regard. Fossil fuels are cheap, which means cheap energy.
tl;dr rely even more on others in the most transparent way to constantly get unblocked as quickly as possible. Don’t let your ego stop you from learning something.

I’m grunching this thread. But I have 20ish years of experience and consider myself a decent debugger and considered enough so by others that I’ve been asked this line of questioning while in a mentorship role on a number of occasions.

The number one thing is simply humility; asking the dumb question in the smartest way you can, as quickly as possible, to the person who can most likely give you the best answer.

As you’re learning and starting out, you may not have great resources for such, but within most orgs you should be able to find where the answers are, and first ask the dumb questions (caveated by what you do understand), then eventually ask for a brain dump.

It is through the accumulation of tons of disparate idiosyncratic knowledge that little clues and common patterns emerge that allow people to sniff out a root cause hypothesis before the facts are even in, and often be right.

But people who hide their ignorance, refuse to ask questions that may make them look silly, refuse to be the idiot in the room, they learn much less quickly because they don’t get unblocked as quickly.
You're making a grave mistake, and I am happy to point it out.

In the case of an unknown pathogen potential first treatments may prove to be wrong. Likewise, vaccines flawed. And for this there is a great history of flawed vaccines, such as the Polio Vaccine Live Virus debacle [1] the Simian contamination of Polio vaccines [2], or perhaps the Swine flu [3]. How much more so with a novel therapeutic technology that is not well understood, or which there appears to be troubling side effects? A vaccine mandate can make it even worse [4]

Much of the destructive influences Covid has had was not because of the virus exclusively, but because of the economic effects from mandated lockdowns [5], and potentially, contributions from mandated vaccines [6]

Whether you agree with Covid lockdown economic destruction or not, people are writing about it [7] from many different perspectives [8].

I provide much evidence. Let's hope you can respond with more than an ignoble response lacking any historical merit.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1383764/

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9450713/

[3] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-shadow-1976-s...

[4] https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/02/08/trouble-vaccine-mandate...

[5] https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/how-much-exactly-have-co...

[6] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/hospita...

[7] https://fee.org/articles/study-lockdowns-had-largest-impact-...

[8] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/an-economist-explains...
My point is that there are no studies demonstrating the absence of such issues. Anecdotally, my Bluetooth headphones certainly seem to sound better with a FLAC source.
Your interpretation of events regarding /r/the_donald and it’s content are quite a mischaracterization from what I recall. Bigotry, racial slurs and calls for violence were thinly veiled with euphemisms to avoid breaking sub and Reddit rules. Threats against police I don’t recall being part of it at all.

I don’t buy the slippery slope argument.
I prefer relational databases for most cases unless I really need to use a non-relational store. I also use foreign keys whenever possible. From what I have seen, anything to enforce referential integrity is a benefit in most cases. It is more comforting to have a delete fail than have many other queries mysteriously fail down the line.

In most cases, a well designed database covers a multitude of sins and makes life for future you and your future team much easier. Some of the biggest dumpster fires of code I have seen started as a smoldering dumpster from terrible db choices that were made far harder to fix when it had been in production for a few years.

If someone put a gun to a developer's head and threatened to pull the trigger if the database was crap, sadly they would be forced to pull the trigger most of the time.
> it's far from the only risky work going on in labs around the world

what else could you bring up?
> Order vegetarian when eating out

I've been pretty successful with the opposite, only getting meat when I eat out / special occasion and not stocking it in the house.
They have been kicked out of China. Most went to the US, some went to other places in central Asia (e.g. Kazakhstan) but they largely left for the US. And some later left central Asia after causing various local blackouts and contributing nothing to their host country other than small bribes and sucking up energy subsidies.
Interesting interview, some rather ... direct opinions like the title showed.

I had to go look up [1] to resolve the ambiguity, that was not the language he meant (as I assumed).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_E
Roswell still makes 24x bay 4U cases, and there is backblaze.
100%. Perhaps this is due to my work being WFH, but my version of this is that I start typing on Slack to describe my problem, and further debugging steps I could take pop into my head.
Planned economy. It did wonders! Just look at the USSR.
> or a better arbitrary runtime like WASM

> It's the component and security model itself.

WASI and the WASM component model proposal [1] are moving to a capability based system (enabled by unforgeable references aka `reftype`) and to isolation between different parts of your code, which would make isolating and restricting dependencies really easy.

Combined with interface types (essentially a universal cross-language ABI) the ecosystem has the building blocks for building very secure systems.

Sadly progress has been very slow, with no end in sight, but I remain hopeful.

[1] https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model
Ethereum Data Structures
It's a personal pet peeve of mine when people invent a new name for a phenomenon that's been around for ages.

In this particular case, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effort_justification, with classic experiments dating back to the 50ies.

Yet, give it a couple of moons, and next time you try to explain what effort justification is, some dolt will be like "Oh you mean the IKEA effect?"

Reminds me of a prof I once had, who taught nanoparticles. He said "We used to just call this stuff 'chemistry', but then we realised we got published a lot more easily if we started putting 'nano' in front of everything".
Conferencing is an important part of academic life because it:

1) Provides a chance to get expert feedback on work-in-progress manuscripts and;

2) Provides the only chance many of us get for in-person interaction with colleagues working on similar problems (because many academic departments are staffed to cover all disciplinary bases, not in-depth in any given subfield).

I'm not personally that bothered about sabbatical time/research leave, but if you're in a discipline that writes books rather than papers it's very helpful to have an extended period to sit down and write. And for those who strongly prefer research to teaching then a period of research leave gives relief from the grind of what's seen as a 'day job' and the opportunity to work on research with your full brain. Some people use it similarly to 20% time to work on something novel that might be important.
Learning it last few weeks, PostGis is awesome!
Did some further research, apparently a house uses about 10Mw/y, and an electric car is about 4Mw/y, so it's a pretty substantial increase, but it's not insane.
Took a trip to the US recently and was astounded at how many places charged my card without any PIN or verification requirements. The seeming normality of service staff taking your card out-of-sight is also unnerving - staff typically don't even lay a finger on your card in Europe. The US is truly in the dark-ages when it comes to payment security.

It seems this is yet another example - didn't even realise US cards didn't have 2FA for online transactions.
The key stems in a hall-effect key switch still use a spring. The magnet is not providing any (effective) movement resistance or levitation. It's there simply to provide the magnetic field for the sensor to measure.