skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you receive a PhD from a university department, that department will think that it is too good to hire you as a faculty member. Instead, they lust after faculty hires holding degrees more prestigious than the one that they bestowed upon you.

This tells me the author has no knowledge of the academic hiring processes. Once you are at the stage of looking for tenured faculty jobs, your publication record is everything. If you're trying for a liberal arts school, then your research needs to be compatible with involving undergrads, and they care alot about your record as an instructor.

Professors all know how the PhD sausage is made, and are the group of people least likely to be impressed by prestige. They will just look up your actual thesis and critique it instead of relying on the halo effect.
> The issue is that a couple of degrees is likely to be reached this mid-century

A couple of degrees from the "pre-industrial" baseline, which is as of something like 1750, not now. From now to mid-century is only a couple of tenths of a degree. In other words, we have already adapted to most of the "couple of degrees" of change.

> things might continue to get worse from there.

"Continue to get worse" implies that things are already getting worse and have been over the past few centuries while the "couple of degrees" of temperature rise was taking place. That's not the case.

> the article explores the less likely scenarios

Which all fail to take human adaptation into account. That has always been the problem with alarmist predictions like this.
You also don't really want to hire someone who's been completely beholden to another faculty member's whims for the past 5-6 years. That would lead to bad organizational dynamics – you want faculty who see each other as peers.
They mostly get their faculty from higher ranking schools though. They maybe say it is for "cross pollination", but it is mostly that faculty works at much worse universities than they graduates from so they prefer to get people from similar places they came from.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02998-w
moviepy author is the same as OP, no?
>In this experiment 2.1 units of input energy produced 2.5 units of output energy. That energy has to be converted to electricity. Conversion looses like 40% of energy (escapes unsused) – so you have produced 1.5 units of electricity from 2.1 units of electricity input.

Thanks for distilling this into one three simple sentences, I know from my brief career in science policy how hard that can be. (You should write 1 pagers for the US Congress :-))

To get back on topic:

So basically, if I'm understanding you correctly: this is an increase in efficiency but not one such that it makes sense economically to generate power in this way?

Is this a large jump in efficiency from previous attempts?

The reason I ask is that I know physics can be incremental, so I don't want to detract from the contributions of the authors... and by all means, it's the type of thing I'd expect to see on HN if so and I'm glad it was shared.

I was just surprised to see many more mainstream sites, geared towards a more general audience, running stories about what I'd expect to be more of a niche discovery.

(Possibly as more of a geopolitics thing -- much like if someone is arrested no one recalls with equal vigor when the charges are dropped, a PR-y article about a minor but important discovery can influence public opinion and be a tool of geopolitics.)
That would explain why mid-tier universities don't hire their own grads. Per the article, they don't hire other mid-tier grads either.

It does seem that the majority of universities are knowing producing grads that aren't up to their own standards. (Whether their standards are based on quality of teaching and research, or just paper prestige, is another question.)
My office has a stash of staples thumb drives for people to use to schlep stuff around. They have the absolute worst, dog-slow controllers I've ever encountered. Or it could be an interaction with Sophos. Anyway, putting even a single file onto the drive takes a solid 45 seconds.

Scanning something and saving it directly to USB at the MFC takes multiple minutes if its anything more than a few pages.

The quality of these things has really gone down as they've gotten commoditized, it seems.
It is and that's why now bitcoin folks now are distancing itself saying that crypto != cryptocurrency and the only real cryptocurrency is bitcoin and crypto are all "shitcoins".
A small tech company whose founders decided that they preferred to take cash out of their startup rather than pursue a VC-desired exit.

In other words, they converted their startup into what is sometimes known as a "small business".
36 states require a civics course, which typically include personal finance topics. It was covered when I was in school decades ago.

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/data-most-states-re...
Every department has it's own politics and issues, but individual experiences don't mean the whole is wrong and certainly doesn't mean the idea itself is wrong. For example, there was a case at the school I got my PhD at where they hired someone who did their PhD at the school. This person was employed at another school for many years between, and thus it was deemed "ok", but I can tell you that not all professors agreed with it.

Unfortunately every system, no matter how well constructed or how ideal the ideas behind it are, is subject to gaming and politics. It would be wonderful to have more techniques to mitigate this sort of corruption, and certainly talking about it and bringing it to light when it happens is one of those techniques.
Proton is a great piece of tech and gaming on Linux is the best it has ever been but we are far from a world where Windows and Linux are equals at gaming.

When you want a play a specific game it is still the case that it might work on Linux. If the game is on Steam and doesn't have multiplayer you can update the might work to probably will work.

However, the comment I was responding to was claiming that running games on Linux was easier than Windows, which is only the case for old games. Their claim that performance is great is also a bit suspect since most games will perform worse on Linux than Windows but performance is usually "good enough" on Linux so I can see where they are coming from.

Anyways, I agree with the people in this thread saying that gaming on Linux is great and a viable option but (as per usual) people are hyping up Proton and Lutris and Linux to be better than they are. Windows is still by far the best choice if you want to play games on a PC.
I can recommend Terra Invicta as a very realistic grand strategy game demonstrating it nicely - you will never lift the thousands of tons needed for just a single ship in your fleet to protect the Mother Earth from aggressive extraterrestrial invasion.

But plop a few mining complexes (each couple dozen tons IIRC) on the Moon or near Earth asteroid and the tables turn quite quickly. As now you can build more station from extraterrestrial resources, which mine said resources and it goes from there. :-)
Speaking as a professional data yeeter who has been bit by weird driver issues in the past, I’ll go against the grain to say that I found this really helpful as a checklist to pattern match against when troubleshooting, even without calling out specific drivers. Thanks for sharing!
Although I also don't like the podcasts available in Spotify, I agree podcasts do make strategic sense for Spotify from a business perspective compared to recorded music. Spotify competes with internet content creators that make hundreds of hours of content per month. Music production is very labor intensive and musicians usually make 1-2 hours of recorded content per year. To match the output one streamer/YouTuber, you might have to have a team of 100-200 musicians, but I'm not sure most people can name even 50 artists they regularly listen to.

Podcasts, on the other hand, are also capable of cheaply producing hundreds of hours of content per month, and therefore for Spotify, are a logical solution to this problem, and theoretically allow them to compete more effectively with YouTube and streaming.

Whether they can actually produce enough good-quality podcasts is another story though. In some sense The Joe Rogan Experience was supposed to be their Halo, but I'm not sure how much traction it has given to Spotify's platform.
Keep watching Russian TV.
I don't think you understood the linked thread. The problem is not that they are using Ghost. The problem is they are not including the attribution required by the license.
There is only one way in which those of use that suffer from social anxiety may work through it. Face the fear.
Here to also suggest alternatives

BTRFS is the only 'RAID' that I've encountered that will almost predictably fail if forcefully powered off

RAID10 on gen4 NVMe drives, should sync pretty quick, you'd think.

LVM RAID, ZFS, mdadm, all of them are considerably more reliable

I can hear lamenting already: "that's not normal! you shouldn't expect consistency here!"

I tested this because reality says we do unusual things all of the time, don't hate me - hate the results.

Other implementations are demonstrably more robust
It was nervous laughter.

(for some reason I am now thinking of a legless frog begging in front of a restaurant, but can't recall the connection)
Maybe as a novelty song or part of a larger context (like theme song to a cartoon or movie or tv show). But as a standalone product I think it'll take longer, maybe 10 years.

We'll see Ai assisted stuff first before we see the whole kit and caboodle.
I think more caution is warranted here. That argument seems to rely on our experience of reality being an accurate representation of objective reality. There are some ideas that are surprisingly difficult to dismiss that essentially state that our perceptions of reality do not have this property, and that in fact that any organism that is the result of an evolutionary process is really only ever incentivized to evolve a perception system that presents them with what is essentially a user interface. Spacetime itself may just be a data structure generated in the mind as a simplification of some much more complex and informationally overwhelming reality.
All "real world" here means is that the program's semantics are correct given empirical conditions. Here, since "data" just means columns which are measures of the world, the program is modelling a real-world process.

Contrast that with algorithms whose semantics are abstract and are correct given essentially mathematical laws, rather than empirical conditions.
Why does it have to be funny? It's just a sad statement about the situation. Maybe you're tired of people not being as excited as you, or even willing to for a second hold their breath any longer on this topic. But here we are at another announcement essentially saying "this shit is hard. with more funding, we could possibly maybe do something in the nearish future". Anything announced in the PRs is just mumbojumbo hand waving to explain why what they are saying isn't really saying anything substantive other than to keep fusion in the news so it is easier to raise money. This is the main perception of fussion by the masses.

Personally, I just don't see fusion being a viable solution for anything in any of our lifetimes. I will gladly admit how wrong I was if/when someone solves it. I just have a much stronger doubt in sci-fi vs reality, and don't get swooned by the hype machines surrounding fusion.

What is tiring to me is calling the skeptics tiring. But to each their own
Yeah, they are wrong.

During a bicycle race, an elite cyclist can produce close to 400 watts of mechanical power over an hour and in short bursts over double that—1000 to 1100 watts; modern racing bicycles have greater than 95% mechanical efficiency. An adult of good fitness is more likely to average between 50 and 150 watts for an hour of vigorous exercise.[clarification needed] Over an 8-hour work shift, an average, healthy, well-fed and motivated manual laborer may sustain an output of around 75 watts of power.

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_power

Also see “How Much Electricity Can a Human Generate?” https://www.pedalpc.com/blog/how-much-electricity-can-human-....
What do you mean?

> FTX is an abbreviation of "Futures Exchange".
The comparison to banking/consulting is bad for a few of reasons:

1. Analysts and consultants make very decent livings. Spending your mid 20s as a banking analyst/associate is a very nice life for someone in their 20s. PhD programs barely pay a living wage, and in large cities simply don't pay a living wage.

2. When deciding whether a lottery is worth playing, you are looking at both probabilities and outcomes. You covered the probability aspect well -- that's the similarity between banking and professoring. The massive difference between the two is in the outcome. Banking higher ups have won a lottery that is worth winning. Professors, on the other hand, max out just above FAANG entry-level wages. Even then, it's only after decade+ of top-decile performance.

3. You might counter #2 with things like "work-life balance", "lifestyle job", "job security", and so on. None of these are true anymore.

3a. Universities are run by middle managers who are mostly less competent and more petty than their private sector counter-parts.

3b. Moreover, tenure doesn't mean anything. At this point, it's nothing more than a gentleman's agreement with an MBA. I have literally zero doubt that over the next 20 years every single university in the US will go through a round of layoffs that target tenured faculty, and will do so without declaring financial exigency. This already happened at a lot of places during COVID, despite massive bailouts and even at places that increased enrollment without increasing spending ex-headcount. If you got into academic for the stability 30 years ago, your bet was pretty good. These days you'd have to be an idiot or have your head buried under a hundred feet of sand to make the same bet.

"Tenure" now is nothing more than "continued expectation of future employment"; i.e., it's the only "normal" job in an industrial sector (edu) where the majority of employment contracts are not only at-will but even come with with your dismissal date attached (post-docs and even phd students). Can you imagine working at a software company but they tell you up-front they will have to fire you in 3 years? And also only pay $55K? LOL. When push comes to shove, in most modern faculty constracts, there isn't that much of a substantive difference between "tenure" and "at-will".

4. The glide-path out of a STEM PhD is usually at least as lucrative than out of an unsuccessful analyst position, but the scars of poverty make it feel like an insanely lucky success. I've seen 32 year olds with Mathematics PhDs cry because they get a job doing nothing related to their PhD but that pays the same amount that their students are making at their first job out of undergraduate.

So, I think a PhD in a technical subject can still make sense, but there's no rational reason to be an R1 faculty member outside of a teaching track. Well, except one: "massive ego that can't play well enough with others to hack it in the private sector". And that's certainly who you'll find yourself surrounded by if you choose that route.
It would be sad if these, who are very tame, and not long ago would have been considered doing a mighty fine job to the side they're now rejected by, were the "biggest contrarians". Would imply a total lack of actual contrarians, and an overencompassing uniformity and party line-ism...

Then again that's what you get when you build two bipartisan monocultures of echo chambers...
> Imagine going to another country, jumping on another network and your phone automatically knows what cell bands and towers to connect to.

They already do that. Or, rather they don't need to "know" anything; a phone with no signal will scan through all the bands it has a radio for, and will find a network to connect to. If a network rejects the connection, it'll move on to another.

This is also something that traditionally has been configurable: you can tell your phone not to do this, if you want, and it will obey your command. But allowing the carrier to change settings on the phone after a connection is established is pretty intrusive, IMO.
I worked in several mixed-Unix shops, and juggling all the GUI/TUI sysadmin tools (SAM, SMIT, Solstice, etc.) and desktop environments was actually fun in a challenging way. Inspired shell scripting, NFS, NIS, and eventually CDE helped keep the flock somewhat in harmony. It was a zoo, but a manageable one as long as the limitations of each flavour were taken into account.
I rotate burner SIM's. I never make calls with the SIM. Instead I use jmp.chat if I need to use OTA calls or SMS. I am in airplane mode 99% of the time and use WIFI instead of cellular. I never activate cellular near my home. I am always connected to VPN so that the traffic cannot be analyzed. My phone is anonymous without any identifiers. I think all this mitigates the baseband attacks, but tell me if I am missing something.
It's a proxy, so there's no "crawler". It's just an agent relaying to the user. Passing something to this proxy agent just passes it directly to the user.
I'd give it about a 1% chance that it's actually bad flash drives, and a 99% chance it's Sophos.
It's probably been decades since I last talked with an academic insider about the Ph.D. career track...but both the article and the responses here seem to assume that Ph.D's will graduate, get hired by $University_Name, then spend their career there. Vs. I'd heard that the ambitious and intelligent Ph.D's career track was closer to:

#1) get a first job that's respectable, but mostly supports your early research efforts

#2) after showing yourself a promising young researcher at that job, get serious about looking for a better job

#3) iterate #2 until you have a good-enough job & security so that settling down & staying makes sense to you
> Those times are over. We can not slash rates without inflation becoming a larger issue.

If unemployment is pushing 8% they certainly can.

> Once inflation catches a spark it doesn't just go out because basically everything economic in terms of a recovery is inflationary.

This is nonsense. If the economy is in recession and unemployment is at 6-8% then we won't be in a recovery and it won't be inflationary. It will wind up blowing up another asset bubble, but they don't care about that, which is why economists distinguish between inflation and housing appreciation.

The pandemic recession was way too brief and v-shaped and was heavily cushioned by all the stimulus. That won't happen next time. That isn't the new pattern of recessions.
sure. i'm not attempting to describe the metric, just asserting that they all use basically the same metric, and have the same goal.

there'd be less of a "problem" if a decent fraction of schools used different metrics, or had different goals.
Can you use the fact they they're proxying to prove to Bing and Google webmaster tools that you own their domain, and delist it? The verification is done by serving a file provided by Bing/Google.
"And then the status quo took root & reusable rocket proponens were no longer taken seriously because - what were they thinkig, this is how we have always been doing it!"

Disagree as someone who as a kid watched this happen in real time. The Saturn V follow on was always planed to be reusable, with a huge first stage booster that was something of a bigger brother of the stage that would make it to orbit. NASA was starved for capital after Apollo and this resulted in the horribly deadly and very expensive to operate kludge of the eventual Space Shuttle.
Around 1993 I had my tonsils out, which involved general anesthesia. Back then they administered a prep drug that put the patient in a weird dissociated awake state that I would describe as not realizing you're awake. This being my third time through the process (knee surgery, wisdom teeth, now tonsils), I tried really hard to maintain self awareness.

We'll, it sorta worked. In this state I somehow recognized that the device placed on my fingertip must be a blood sensor of some sort, and that squeezing my finger might mess with the readings. I made it through two rounds of setting off alarms before the nurses caught me. I was immensely pleased with myself!
Never needed a streaming service to listen to music. There is so much to listen to online or offline without having to jack up a playlist from a curated app.
> I think you don’t comprehend what is written.

I comprehend what you have written just fine. I just recognize, as apparently you don't, that you are responding to a straw man, and failing to respond to the actual points I have made.

> clearly you don’t have the slightest idea of what you are talking about.

I think the same about you, so it seems unlikely that further discussion will be fruitful.
Writers do something different from programmers. What programmers do is often more akin to mathematics, especially the type of stuff language creators do. And mathematical notation likes to be short.
Is your room clean?

Start there. Your life will follow from there.

It may seem trivial or "easy", but it's not. It's difficult because there's layers and layers of emotional and historical and monetary values all interacting.
Sounds like you have hardware acceleration turned off on firefox.
Same argument re: familiarity really.

The question is: if there were a weakly typed haskell (same/similar syntax & conventions, no strong typings), which one would a person familiar with haskell find easier to read?

Effective readability has two components: familiarity, & actual readability. We'll automatically find everything unfamiliar to be less readable, but once we're familiar with all options, which is most readable then?
Wait, is Vasa the Ship or the Museum? Was the ship or the museum the failure?

Edit: Thank you all!
I agree on the publication record. But the school you go to has a huge effect on your ability to publish. This is well documented.

Go to top PhD program -> publish top journal easier -> attain tenure track job.

It all comes down to prestige in the end. This is aside from very hard sciences where true ground breaking results cannot be ignored.
How to measure the tiniest forces in the universe
Weak yen could keep foreign workers away from Japan
I feel we should at some point create a popular "wiki" destination (a la Wikipedia) where everyone can document how to better engage with these Backboxes.

Meanwhile, lists are popping out every week. It's good first step :

https://chatgpt.getlaunchlist.com/

https://prompts.chat/

https://showgpt.co/

https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts

https://github.com/saharmor/awesome-chatgpt

You can also search for popular tweets with advanced searches like "chatGPT min_faves:1000 -filter:replies" https://twitter.com/search?q=chatGPT%20min_faves%3A1000%20-f...
Not really hard... for one there's a convention of putting an exclamation point at the start of comments that should survive the minification/compilation process, for this very purpose.
Tail wagging the dog is never a good answer.
There are no such similar codecs. Jpeg xl is in its own category in compression efficiency when rated by users at densities/qualities used in the internet. Roughly similar efficiency steps between libjpeg-turbo, WebP, AVIF and then jpeg xl.
I've had social anxiety my entire life. You need to push yourself to get past it. There is simply no other healthy way to deal with it.