skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of hiring faculty isn't to have a collection of impressive faculty doing cutting edge work. Otherwise, you'd get the same effect by funding corporate R&D research. I mean, yes, they can collect more federal grant resources, but that's not why a state government wants to fund it. Prestige is one factor, but it's not the only factor... because you're right, funding the rat race isn't the point.

The point is to hire faculty doing cutting edge work is that they train students. They teach others in a field. Then you get to grow the local knowledge base about a particular method or field. Hopefully, you're training citizens of the state, who then will stay locally instead of going to a different state (avoiding a brain drain). Or just as likely, you're trying to draw in students from out of state or internationally. And then (hopefully) those people will want to stay within the state, either for more research, or to start/join local companies.

It's not the primary effect of the faculty that you want... that's nice, but it's the second order network effects that a state really wants to encourage.
While the intentions of this change are admittedly malicious, I support the move away from the traditional concept of tenure.

Tenure is about exploiting researchers through their 20s as PhDs/post-docs and 30s as assistant-professors, with tenure being a possibility at 40. In the best case scenario, these researchers hit 40, and enjoy what is really an early retirement. Reality is, many will find that nothing is good enough to get tenure at an R1 institute.

With the industry moving as fast as it is, professors become obsolete rather quickly. Just look at the huge number of new professors in crypto and NLP, whose entire labs have become obsolete overnight. Honestly, the over-production of PhDs is a big problem today. Hopefully these changes will be the much-needed slap in the face needed for a whole generation of new PhDs to look elsewhere for employment. Tenure is a winner take all system, where the small number who succeed, do it at the expense of the far-too-late disillusionment of the majority.

There are broadly 2 different types of academics. The economically productive ones and the money sinks. The money sink academics (Non-stem, non-business) are doomed to a life in academia, irrespective of tenure. They aren't employable in their profession elsewhere, effectively captives of the system. The economically productive ones will be given great 'deals' by the university anyway. These people are important, and universities will raise wages, give work-life balance deals, allow them to have their own practice and give them long contracts. Tenure is a flaky lever used liberally today, but forcing universities into offering more concrete deals is probably better for the employees overall. College basketball doesn't need to offer tenure to $$hire$$ the very best coaches .

Tenure's main benefits were that professors were unfireable. In 2023, we see professors being practically bullied into submission by students. We see professors lose creative control over their departments with administrative takeover. Professors are slaves to their funding sources, in a manner that is no different than working in industry. The only appeal of tenure is thus idea of 'early academic retirement'. But that too is a lie, because the system will have squeezed every bit out of you. You might as well be a 65-yr-old in a 40 yr old's body by the time you get tenure.

Tenure won't just go away. It will be replaced by more flexible deals. I for one, am looking forward to a change in academia, that adjusts to the death of honor based systems and the realities of a completely messed up supply-demand equation between universities and candidates.
So sad they killed the dev cycle to Perl 6 and that I'm forced to use Python. :(
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Possible, if the doc was open at that time, or if the file you were editing is in the same or nearby directory
Why DVDs still have their place, especially for serious movie buffs
I was accepted to a UT Austin graduate program. After being accepted, I flew on my own dime to meet with the director and associate director, and several professors, because I couldn't imagine dedicating several years of my life and career path based on some paperwork alone.

The director was unfamiliar with my published work, which had gotten some acclaim and been featured _alongside his own_ at two industry events that summer. At one of them, I had introduced myself! It was a tense, 'look kid, why are you here?' meeting, that made it clear he had no idea who was coming to study in his tiny department and didn't care.

The associate director didn't show up to her office for our meeting, she was out of town. This was before the era of calendar-RSVPs, but she had confirmed via email a little more than a week prior.

That department may have been more of a mess than others, I never spent time in academia after all. But both of those folks had tenure, and I think it contributed to the zero shits they had to give.
I think @kevinmchugh meant that the adjuncts are exploited everywhere.
I don't think their analysis about caffeine is correct and doesn't cite sources. I've seen a lower temperature for a longer time more often being ideal for maximizing caffeine vs other components in pubmed research on teas, I.e.:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21339166/

If one does a lower temperature for a longer time it is often also equivalent to boiling for a very short time a.f.a pathogens. I think the relative bitterness is probably higher for higher temperature brews after normalizing on caffeine.
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I have a personal opinion about modern "design" that isn't shared by most designers or coders. You're welcome to disagree and vote me down but I just want to say this is just my opinion and I prefer to hear your disagreement in the form of a civil reply rather then an anonymous down-vote.

First my opinion of modern design is that it is trivially easy. Modern design nowadays is simply about deciding how to layout text, colored polygons and pictures on a page. The next layer of complexity is temporal and around how the page transforms via interaction with it but this is also easy. This is largely because of the trends towards simplicity and minimalism which are very different from the complicated and ornate design styles of the past.

I mean take a look at HN or even the google main page. Both are excellent designs. Clear, clean and informative and straightforward. But, also, those designs are extremely trivial. There's not much detail and there's not much work involved in creating these sites. It's simply a matter of moving certain premade primitives into the correct position.

I mean take a look at the spacex website: https://www.spacex.com/. Looks good right? But it's also just not much work. It's basically a slide show of background images with a link to the relevant page.

It can get more complex then this when you design something like jira or gmail but ultimately even those UIs though more complex doesn't even near the complexity of programming.

That's why I'm not surprised about people like the OP who are better at "design" then coding. Yeah it makes sense because design is waay easier then coding. On the other side of the equation I've seen powerful engineers say they can't "design" and I'm literally in disbelief. Are you saying you can't imagine something like the simplistic spaceX slideshow? I don't believe it. I think a lot of engineers are just under confident about their design skills and a lot of designers are over-confident about their own skills.

At the same time I feel for the OP because front end technology has literally become over complicated over the past 2 decades. It's a mishmash of over-complexity welded together into legacy tech to make it hard for designers to be able to implement their designs. It doesn't have to be this way but that's an entirely different story.
I'm going to start some hiring soon with a different approach. Fundamentally, I think employment is broken. As the fish rots from the head down, I aspire to have 2-3 big month long RV trips, so I'm trying to figure an internal market of projects and a minimum yearly commitment (for benefits).

https://www.adama-platform.com/2023/04/15/going-hard.html is the first blog post in a series.
> 1. Use more whitespace

This depends on who you are designing it for.

The B2B user base I worked with for example hated material design back then.

Information density is important.

So give users a choice to change this.
I think at SOME institutions this is needed. Professors who have stopped teaching and just waiting for retirement weigh down universities. Students learn from professors who have a vested interest in their learning. What incentivizes tenured profs?
During my transition period from Windows to Linux, I stored the majority of my games on my NTFS drive because it was much bigger and I wanted them available on Windows in case they didn't work on Proton. I could play them from Linux with ntfs-3g but some of them would just refuse to launch unless I moved them a non-NTFS drive. Maybe they would've worked in this scenario? Hard to say.
At the scale of the worldwide electricity grid cost is a major concern.

If the difference was a few billion globally then that’s trivial compared to the issues from climate change, but you can’t hand wave things once the difference starts crossing into the trillions.

France was able to heavily subsidize Nuclear and while their economy took a real hit it wasn’t such a big deal. Bangladesh and other developing countries simply aren’t capable of making those kinds of trade offs and nobody is going to subsidize nuclear power in the 3rd world on the scale they would need.
I've seen women who do email support roles use an invented persona with a man's name. The one time I asked, the person explained that when they used their own name, they received a fair amount of unwanted attention which went away when they switched to a man's name.
Compression optimizes for wall clock time which is (roughly speaking) sum of time it takes to get the compressed data and time it takes to decompress it. Downloads over the network are almost always bottlenecked on the network speed, so the heavier compression you have the better. However, when loading data from the local disk, the I/O can be so fast that the decompression time becomes the bottleneck and slows down loading.

Because of that optimization for download time and startup time end up optimizing for different things.

With loading speeds so different in these two cases, I wonder if the best solution would be to recompress the data with a different compression level during download and installation. For example, download textures compressed with a good but slow and non-random-access image compression format, and then convert them to a lighter GPU-friendly compression format locally.
I know I have said this before on here, but when I was in college in the 1970's... yes, I am and old fucker. I lived in a co-op house and there was this guy that was studying environmental science, which was a new thing back then. He explained global warming to me, the whole Co2 thing etc. I listened, and I said, I am sure that we will do something before then. that will address it. He was predicting exactly what has happened. It's not a new idea or a surprise, it's the classic frog in the pan of boiling water. I was wrong, no one has done anything. Or certainly not enough. Listen to the scientists.
As a practical matter I doubt UT and A&M will be affected at all. They're two of the richest universities in the United States thanks in large part to the Permanent University Fund (i.e., oil money). They'll 1) raise pay substantially and 2) tap their big-money donors to create professorial sinecures that amount to unofficial tenure.

If you get fired because of the legislature's antics, but still get your salary and have access to quasi-university resources (grad assistants and labs), were you really fired?
I am sure this will break the second time you run Windows Update.
Nuclear waste isn’t even trash, it’s a resource. Anything that’s energetic enough to be radioactive is also a massive source of untapped energy when processed and burned. In fact a hundred years from now we might be digging up the “trash” as a cheap source of fuel.
What is that laser reference about?
do you happen to have scanner to get nice scan of the picture? I can't seem to find one on the internet; IA only has a very low-res version: https://archive.org/details/amiga-world-premiere-1985/page/n...
> It's that henceforth nobody would be given tenure, even if they were already employees.

If I’m understanding you correctly, I think this is not true? “The legislation would apply only to faculty members hired by Texas colleges after January 1, 2024. Professors who have tenure, have applied for tenure, or are on the tenure track would not be affected.”
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> March 9, 1993

It's funny (not haha-funny) how political policy in 2023 is still trying to catch up to morality understood 30 years ago. I remember being annoyed at newscasters abusing the term "hackers" in the late 90s and extremely broad definitions of "hacking" being applied in court-rulings. It must still be really difficult to comprehend tech and the consequences of these kinds of policies for policy makers. Either that or policy makers really are maleficent towards life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
> but sometimes I wonder if everyone just writes certain things the same way

> For the above rangeCheck function, there isn't much opportunity for the individual programmer to be creative.

We are at a point at which compilers detect such functions and replace them with highly optimized ones. If you have to artificially change just for the sake of patent or license trolls you don't just get more work but also worse performance/optimizations in most cases.
Well no, it's tautological that predictions made by alarmists are inaccurate. Otherwise they wouldn't be alarmists.

Here's how various models made during the 80s fared though:
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-well-have-climate-m...

Not unreasonably badly really. On the other hand I haven't really seen evidence from what I've heard from various far-right figures of a sudden shift to global cooling, cessation of global warming, or any sort of dramatically lower rate of global warming than expected. Usually I see people cite what Al Gore said in an inconvenient truth being wrong, but the thing is there's actually quite a few models which weren't wrong so why wouldn't you believe those?

If anything I've heard arguments shift from "global warming isn't happening" towards "peoples models of how climate change will impact the economy are wrong" and "it's easier to adapt to climate change than move away from fossil fuels" and "Doing things about climate change is pointless when $COUNTRY and $CORPORATION won't do anything" and recently "carbon pricing kills poor people through poverty today for a speculative benefit in the future". Maybe with a sprinkling of "The climate has always changed" (yes) and "Climate change - manmade?" (yes).
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Jedi Survivor having uncompressed textures is a speculation, but I'm extremely confident that it is this way. The fact that games nowadays ship without LOD systems, without texture compression, without adequate streaming is not just speculation. It is a fact.
Butterick filed a class-action lawsuit 5 months ago: https://githubcopilotlitigation.com/
> It can be competitive,

Not without market intervention of the government. In France the nuclear industry (EDF) is state owned.

> it's not politically tenable.

France. Pro nuclear country with a large fleet of aging reactors. -> huge costs of maintaining the reactors, large parts of the fleet is offline in the last months, building reactors is extremely costly and takes a long time, industry had to be rescued by the government.
Acting on behalf of adversarial governments is fine too if you register with the government. In the case linked above they didn't do that and conspired to keep the fact they took orders from Moscow hidden.
Your argument is "Why care about a selfish species that kills other species indiscriminately while pursuing its own ends?"

But that is every species. So why care about any of them? Why even care that we are killing off the gorillas or fish? They are equally selfish -- only less powerful.

And if your answer is that you don't, then you're just arguing for nihilism. If you do, then again: what do you think is so specially evil about humans?
Does anyone have good scan of the original? Would be nice for playing along
And beyond prerogative, it's pretty clear at worst he's wandering his way down. "Driving down" would look more like what is going on at the other blue social media company.
Oracle's lawyers said they owned the rights to it, Google disagreed. Google was right, legally.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/18-956_d18f.pdf
~$200K is about starting comp for fresh graduates at a FAANG. When a fresh college grad can make more than a tenured professor, it's awfully hard to convince people to take that first rung into academia, where you're getting paid a lot less than $200K.
It's almost as though the state leadership is utterly incompetent :)
Again, not what I'm saying.
I don't understand your comment. The only circumstances in which a resigning employee is entitled to severance is if they have an employment contract entitling then to severance in the event of a voluntary departure.

Even executives don't get that. A run of the mill employee definitely won't.
I bet some of the big social media companies like this legislation because it'll make it harder to run a web site, social media company, or chat app, thus insulating them from competition.

Onerous regulations are a kind of regressive tax on businesses, favoring very large firms with big budgets and lobbyists over upstarts and small business.
It gave me this:

defmodule Fibonnaci do
def fibonnaci(0), do: 0
def fibonnaci(1), do: 1
def fibonnaci(n), do: fibonnaci(n - 1) + fibonnaci(n - 2)
end

Which seems fine I guess (I don't know the language), but doesn't even have comments. I prefer my files with comments. After forcing the point, I got this:

defmodule Fibonnaci do
@moduledoc """
Documentation for Fibonnaci.
"""

@doc """
Calculates the nth Fibonnaci number
"""
def fibonnaci(n) when n < 0, do: nil
def fibonnaci(0), do: 0
def fibonnaci(1), do: 1
def fibonnaci(n), do: fibonnaci(n - 1) + fibonnaci(n - 2)
end

In which I prompted the AI with everything up to (and including) @doc. So I figure it was picking it up from your computer, somehow.

EDIT: I then noticed the typo, tried it with fibonacci.ex, and got the same result.
I don't agree with this as a state policy, but I don't know if it is as disastrous for UT as Aaronson makes it out to be.

The academic job market is an absolute fucking bloodbath. Plenty of very qualified up and coming researchers struggle to get TT positions at major research universities. If they stay in academia, many postdoc for an absurdly long time or settle for career stagnating instructor positions (even though their focus had been research), or maybe just become a researcher within someone else's lab. An actual professorship at UT even if it were not possible to be tenured would surely be preferable to those options I'd think.

I guess it comes down to how badly you think the current system is performing at selection. But the competitiveness is absolutely insane, that part is objective.
:( no really I try to stay open-minded and found contradictory answers interesting, if only because they are well documented. My reply is also to the initial article, which is on the contrary way too optimistic. Nuclear energy is not black or white, I think sharing personal experience as someone living near a plant, in a country relying mostly on nuclear energy, is relevant.
Good design has always been easy and pertains to everything we touch/interact with..roads...websites..apps..showers..bathtubs..etc.

Basically you design stuff the way it's expected ..you don't design road and road patterns that much differently or you will cause confusion and accidents. Same goes for web or app design..use and stick to design patterns everyone is familiar with.

Design overall is easy I think if stick with all that in mind as well work hard to keep it so simple (k.I.s.s. Keep it simple stupid).

If it's a new product and or experience you are designing you still use design patterns people are familiar with.
The radioactive waste is fairly small. US is the country in the world with the most nuclear power plants. US produces yearly: " The amount is roughly equivalent to less than half the volume of an Olympic-sized swimming pool" source: https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...

"More than 90% of its potential energy still remains in the fuel, even after five years of operation in a reactor.

The United States does not currently recycle spent nuclear fuel but foreign countries, such as France, do."

But even if like US does (i.e. does not re-use the waste), less than half of olympic pool is pretty small given the amount of energy produced. Ideally US would re-use the waste, and vitrified the final waste, and then producing even less volume of waste.

Then store it. Properly packed it is not "in deadly form for thousands of years with no solution in sight". Most countries store it deep for 50 years, and then it is safe to dispose on near-surface disposal at ground level, or in caverns below ground level.

Radioactivity is everywhere e.g. with radon (https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2018-12/documents/ra...) at 4 pCi/L 7 our 1000 people will develop lung cancer. Flight attendants get their fair share too. Our body is prepared to fix itself when attacked by radiation.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/
House positions last a third the amount of time (2 years versus 6).
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It's easy to say something like that, but as mentioned above, games are generally duct taped together at the literal last minute and it's easy to miss things that, to outsiders, seem obvious. The difference is that we aren't looking at literally every piece of the game and rushing to fix as many bugs as possible, like the devs, we're just looking at the file size.
If that's your last response then I won't bother responding properly too. Believe in whatever you want.
You were interested enough to respond and so were many others. Seems like an interesting comment.
This is the highest resolution image I could fine - do you know a higher resolution one?

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50926604693_1e6b65f13b_b...
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I got this:
defmodule Fibonacci do

def fib(0), do: 0

def fib(1), do: 1

def fib(n), do: fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2)

end