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by djaque 6y ago
Was reminded of this by a friend recently and thought HN could use some more cheery news.
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Felicia the Ferret Cleans the Particle Accelerators of Ferilab (1971)(history.fnal.gov)
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I get that idea because all of the sources you're citing are extremely far-right biased publications [1] or like one-off tweets that you've cherry picked from a background of more grounded discussion. None of this compares to the
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I actual just had an experience with the opposite. I'm a graduate student in a non-union department and the university made an announcement that they would cut student pay and hours. Mind you that students are still working the same
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It's because the equivalency doesn't exist. The "both sides" argument is a political argument used by the republican party and it's always in the context of "Look! They're just as bad as us." as an e
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This article looks like it's part of the genre of "act like an authority on fact while giving a slanted view of reality that confirms my own opinions" literature that seems more and more popular nowadays. Just because you thi
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by djaque 6y ago
Agreed. All I have to do is think back to which people from my high school went on to become police officers. Somehow it's never the types of people that were looking out for others.
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I'm not sure about that. I've self hosted gitlab for the past four years and have had no issues performance wise and the UI feels pretty much the same as for github in terms of bein intuitive.
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by djaque 7y ago
No, there might be a nice debate later, but this crisis isn't an exercise in theory. There are people dying right now because of an administration that downplayed the crisis, failed to react, and is now actively sabotaging our state l
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by djaque 7y ago
If you haven't already, please take the time to email your federal representatives. The EFF's tool [1] only takes a few clicks to use. [1] https://act.eff.org/action/protect-our-speech-and-security-o...
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by djaque 7y ago
Exactly, that's the state of the experiment. There's just so many things that could have gone wrong without us noticing. Even though we trust the instrument is working, we don't know if the material under study is exactly a
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Exactly, the instruments I was talking about are used to measure the properties of photocathodes. It's such a niche field that there's no off the shelf solution. Everybody makes their own device and ours is one of like two in th
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I'm in accelerator physics. Basically we study the physics of charged particle beams with the goal of improving their properties/developing new applications. I thought it was the perfect combination of engineering, which I like,
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Yes, exactly. I also gave an invited talk about it at the largest domestic conference in my field. This is kind of unusual for a grad. student which should give you an idea of how unique the problem is. We actually received good advice a
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by djaque 7y ago
Could you please explain why you think this means science is broken? There are real issues in academia, but I disagree that what happened here is wrong. We did publish our data, we just didn't do it in a journal article. In my fields
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by djaque 7y ago
Thanks, this is in line with what I feel is going on. I woke up this morning to see a lot of comments on how my experience is proof that academia is broken. Instead, it just feels like everybody is being very cautious about our results.
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I'm in acceleraror physics and study photocathodes. Unfortunately the state of those projects is that we thought a material should have great photoemission properties under some very specific circumstances. When we measured it, the ma
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Thanks, that's good to hear. Fortunately I do have two papers in the works right now, one of them from an instrument I made and another from some simulation work. The engineering really is the crux of the problem. I personally find i
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That's kind of my experience with research, but in physics. Already have three projects under my belt w/ no publishable results. All of them involved much more work than the other grad. students in my lab including building like
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by djaque 7y ago
Yes, yes, I understand your point. What I'm trying to say is that the PIs in my department (the ones who made it through the filter, that is) don't seem to have the “fake sciencey hypey overconfident, bullshit brand” that you&#x2
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by djaque 7y ago
OK, good point. Looking them up, it's effectively a fairly simple hunk of metal. However, they are restricted parts. It reminds me of a story from a friend about how strange some laws about gun registration are in the US. He was tel
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Why won't these articles die? It's pure sensationalism since no sane person would 3D print a gun which in all likelyhood would just blow up in your hand. You have always been able to do effectively the same thing for less money a
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by djaque 7y ago
I don't think that's the whole picture. There's this popular idea on HN right now that academics are only after improving their h-index and that they don't care about the science. I'm doing physics research at a t
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Exactly! The body in charge of setting the rules is made up primarily of law enforcement and holds no accountability to the public. I have no doubt that if they are handed this opportunity to make encryption uneconomical for companies, th
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If you're in the US please take the time to email your federal representatives and let them know you care about protecting encryption. It only takes a few clicks though the EFF article linked above.
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Thanks for your work! It's nice to hear that Zotero seems to have privacy as a feature and not a side thought.
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It ended up being the perfect solution for storing manuals and other random information for me. It's lightweight enough to not get in my way but still syncs everywhere and is searchable. There's even a third party app I can use o
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I actually specifically chose Zotero over Mendeley because Mendeley is owned by Elsevier. Their company has always been a toxic influence on publishing. Recently they even added a new dark pattern so that when you click the "download
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Easily one of the most useful programs I've installed for work. Best feature is the web browser add-on. Can open up a few dozen articles during a literature search and dump all of them into Zotero for reading later.
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All of this is carried out in a classical framework though. You may be right that you need quantum at those scales, but that's not what this article is about. It's just talking about our ability to calculate the trajectories of

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