skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did a PhD in Computer Science but chose to go to industry (not research lap). My PhD had zero effect on the job opportunities OR quality of job. Did a couple of startups after and that gave me a lot more fulfilling experience. PhD teaches you somethings like how to judge a problem but you can learn the same thing in a much shorter timespan e.g. by trying to do a startup.

I would say, unless you are 100% sure you want to go to academia or research lab, DON'T do a PhD. You will never regret it. Also, it is never a one way street. After a year or two working somewhere if you find out that PhD is your true calling, you can always go back to graduate school. You will get into a better graduate school. The PhD you would then do will likely be better too. Nothing against automated theorem proving (don't know what it is) but likely your industry experience will give you a better perspective on how to pick a better problem.
It feels like you're trying to argue for the sake of it
>We can't just plant a bunch of trees and keep living like before

Do you really think any country or society is "living like" before? Climate consciousness has come a long way. We are getting better in every aspect, though population growth will be an ongoing issue.

It will be impossible to progress if every time we try something or suggest something people shout "not good enough!"
deno --allow-net https://deno.land/std/examples/echo_server.ts

This would be the same as running something with an unprivileged user:

sudo -u otheruser node echo_server.js

Deno however takes it to a whole new level by running server code directly from the web =)
Maybe the OP did in fact want something simpler—but one of the tenants of SE is that questions should help more than just the original asker, right?

I often come across these questions in Google searches months/years after they were closed, and I'm pretty darn sure I legitimately need to do Y. (If I'm wrong, it's for a very different reason than the OP.)
Yes! So much this!

You can choose your email provider, or your cell phone carrier, and no matter who you choose, you'll still be able to email and text/call others (regardless of who _they_ choose).

But you can't choose a new Facebook provider. There's no recourse if a given platform is behaving badly, and the network effect just reinforces their hold on users.

Open protocols free users to make choices about providers and foster competition based on the service provided instead of having to "choose" to go where the people already are.
I don't know if I've just lucked out with my Uniqlo purchases, but I could also recommend them for good-looking basics that last a long, long time.

I've had a couple pairs of Uniqlo jeans for several years now, and they don't have any of the wear in the crotch my Levis used to get. When I was buying Levis, I might get two years out of them before the fabric at the crotch thins and eventually rips. The Uniqlo jeans are showing almost none of that wear (both regular jeans and skinny jeans).

Same with their t-shirts and polo shirts. The necks haven't stretched, nor have they gotten any holes under the sleeves.

One of the two pairs of chinos I own from Uniqlo has started pilling, though, which is too bad, but still has lasted better than the last pair of chinos I bought at Macy's.

Again, ymmv, just my experience, but my wardrobe is now mostly Uniqlo and I'm buying a lot less replacement clothing (at least for basics) than I used to.

Also, the less you dry clothing at all, the longer it'll last -- I line-dry as much as possible, and toss it in the dryer on the no-heat mode to tumble it a bit if it needs it.
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> It's the same reason Rotten Tomatoes differentiates between a score and a top critics score. You can have a consumer reports score, and an amazon verified buyer score.

With sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, I almost always completely ignore the "top critics" reviews and go with user reviews. In almost 100% of cases where the scores for TV shows significantly diverge, I find the user score to be spot on.

I think the user scores on these sites aren't horribly out of whack with reality because there's not much to be gained by gaming them. I'm sure only a small minority of consumers go on such sites to pick what to watch next.
The guide signal is what you need for a tight, coherent beam. Direction is up to the satellite, which can choose which of multiple receivers to target.

The advantage of transmitting power from space instead of the other side of the planet is that there's a straight line with no planet in the way. To go around the planet you need relay stations or wires. Plus there's the 5.4X more energy collected by each square meter of panel. So yes, some supporting evidence would be nice. Maybe even take a quick look at the NASA report I provided, too.
He gets paid the daily rate for his rank (and any applicable modifiers) for each day on duty. So if he spends a weekend at 77 HQ or some training location or other such, on duty, he'll get two days' pay for that (potentially a smidge more if he can claim travel time on the Friday, but you get the idea).

Also, reservists attract a tax free bounty each year if they complete their agreed training requirment.
>The ability to brush off the words of a respected superior (parent, manager, supervisor, etc...) is not equally distributed in the population. Female students have a disadvantage over male students, especially in fields that are male-dominated (such as CS or Physics), LGBT members are even more disadvantaged.

They might have been in the 70s and 80s. In 2019, if a LGBT member makes some threats, the institution will usually cave. In the old times people could lose their job if they were found out to be LGBT. Today people lose their jobs if they are accused from an LGBT perspective.

Pretending the power dynamics are the same as in decades past is hypocritical. Parents, relatives, and rural societies can still be (and are) cruel against LBGT people. Major companies, institutions, the law, modern media, etc? Not so much.

Too many people champion LGBT rights, feminism, etc today only because it's the default in "polite society" and the circles of power. If it was 1970 they would have followed the then mainstream treatment of women/LGBT, either like sheep or to their advantage -- as in fact, the majority (their parents) then did. Doesn't matter if they're different people than their parents -- the hypocrisy and the mechanism is the same is the same.

Only few courageous people have written/spoke out for decades about such matters, and now people come and use them to pursue careers, or gain followers -- and even more so, many use those causes to be cruel to people and gain power and social capital, the same way they would use their privilege against women/LGBT back in the day...

It's like Kurt Cobain seeing all the BS jocks that put him down sing "Smells like teen spirit"...

As for the "lots of research", in social studies it takes time to catch up with society (and it follows what brings in grants). There was lots of research back in the day too...
How is Wikipedia turning to be more profit-seeking?
> Yeeees... so instead of being "told" by your employers, you're "told" by the hype-train? How exactly is this better?

Because occasionally our peers are right? Do you really have so little respect for everyone in the industry around you that every new piece of tech that comes along, you just assume it is a mass of incompetence and marketing?

A diversity of perspectives, ideas and approaches is a fertile ground for personal growth. There are never any shortages of such hype trains.

And at least they're made by fellow software engineers. Not, you know, corporate hiring comittees.

> And what about all the gotchas and quirks that every framework has? The pathological performance edge-cases, and suchlike? The ones you only discover after weeks and months of in-depth use? I'll have to learn a whole new set of those.

Getting domain specific, you'd be doing that anyways because of how rapidly browsers are growing and changing.

> And what about my "legacy" codebase that used the last framework du jour. Do I just ignore it? Do I convert it? Hmm. Wonder how long that will take, and what else I could be doing with that time.

> Maybe you enjoy the churn: endlessly learning useless knowledge that will be of no value to you in a few short years because it's no longer trendy. Lucky you.

Why is it that the value of software is defined by if it is trendy 5 years later? That's a conflation of concerns I can't follow.

> For me it got boring, because I've got stuff to build.

For me, squatting on one stagnant pile of never-really-that-good technology building the same boring things over and over again at the behest of others is equally boring.

You suggest all the frameworks are poorly designed hype, but then decide you want to take an arbitrary moment in time (when you showed up, that fated day) and freeze everything there.

That reasoning seems unconvincing.
Stallman has been past his prime for well over a decade. He schmoozed with a well-known child sex trafficker (read: slaver). He made some nice software a long time ago and had a great idea about software licenses.

However, he failed to realize that the world isn't nearly partitioned. His personal life decisions bled over and ruined his professional reputation. He'll always be the "free software nerd who sexually discrimated against women and had friends that raped girls" to me.

Move along: there'll be a dozen smarter, less slimely bright people to replace him.
Study identifies psychology of attraction to religious deities and superheroes
That's the problem though, isn't it?

> high confidence by the community = high points

High confidence at answering questions. We don't get to vote on moderation, closed as dupe, deletion etc. Karma is only a weak indicator of being a good moderator. Sure they may know the subject well, but that's not reflective of a good and empathetic moderator.

Frustration with this is one of the main reasons I just stopped logging in and participating. SE is now static web search results.
The notion that weather == climate is such a terrible argument and framing. It immediately devolves the conversation into anecdotes about the weather.

Resulting in endless gridlock, getting nothing done aside from increasing outrage and spectacle.
Indeed.

Typically I answer[1] these kind of questions by answering what I think is the solution to X, and then I'll follow up with "but if you still really want to do Y" and my attempt at solution for that.

If it's not very clear what they're trying to do, I will just answer Y but follow up with asking what they're really trying to do and that there might be a better way than Y because...

[1]: on IRC or forums, not on SO
He also has a history of harassing women and supporting pedophilia, which goes a bit beyond "eccentric".
I think I'd like to know more about hurricane trends and strengths. Trends in hurricane strength and frequency as the only useful metrics as damage done has more to do with where and what we build.

But I guess if I were a NYT's reader I wouldn't even think about asking these questions, I'd just yell ERMEGERD Dorian and start trash talking anyone who doesn't immediately panic.
This was about learning, not re-engineering. Why are you conflating the two.

Lest we forget, the opening post advised you never learn anything new.
For what it’s worth, my understanding is they were actually trying to fix the situation but users conceptualize being “verified” as a sign of status and so got upset. A lot of YouTubers are currently “verified” for whom there is no risk of mistaking them for a clone account. The only real point is for YouTube to verify the channels of actual celebrities who will get lots of copycats and are known off the platform.
Blackstone to buy U.S. warehouses from Colony Capital in $5.9B deal
Sex is a federally protected class[1]. Discrimination in employment decisions based on any federally protected class is illegal, and can carry rather large fines.

Using a job board that explicitly discriminates based on a protected class is a very, very risky idea. If a member of the untargeted portion of the class (a male) sees a job ad there and is denied employment they have very good evidence for a sex discrimination lawsuit.

[1] https://content.next.westlaw.com/Document/Ibb0a38daef0511e28...
I mean, I agree with you completely but what I've found is that a lot of games, whilst are 64-bit themselves, often have a lot of dependencies that, for whatever reason, still have 32-bit binaries in there somewhere.
I wouldn't say people are uninterested, I would say we need to do more than hope for "silver bullet" technology solutions to address the problem after the fact. Especially when it involves geoengineering on a scale orders of magnitude larger than have ever been attempted, and doesn't address the reason we'd even geoengineer.

Humans do not have a great track record of predicting the secondary effects of their actions on the earth.

Meanwhile our society is incredibly wasteful of energy, and has a ton of low hanging fruit via reduction and efficiencies. The less emissions we produce now, the less we have to clean up with solutions like the linked above.

I'll also repeat this again because it's a common accusation leveled on HN. Most people interested in addressing environmental issues are not doing it to "virtue signal" or impose arbitrary values but because they want a healthier environment and to make the world sustainable for future generations.
To that kind of person, being right or wrong is irrelevant. The same methods of lying, cheating and advertising are employed whether the public fear is irrational or spot-on. For example, you can find many crooked things done in support of global warming awareness. Across the board, whether they are right or wrong, the biggest thing in common between skeptics of the mainstream position (global warming skeptics, sugar-is-good-for-you skeptics, vaccine safety skeptics) is that they can all give you a long list of corporate tricks done to weaken their position - the point being, it doesn't matter if the evil corporation is right, they'll still use backhanded tactics to convince everyone of their point.
It sucks for those 'influencers', but how are they surprised? Aren't they in on the marketing game? The chose this fake job themselves right? You don't see Conan O'Brien as a main act on 2 TV networks at the same time, because that is not how the advertisement game works.

Instead of investing time and effort in online identities, we should invest in our offline identities. Investing in your local community, friends, family, etc is a lot more secure than some online persona on a platform you have zero control over.

An alternative would be to invest time and effort in decentralised platforms like mastodon, but even there you'd be dependent on the whims of the masses and thus advertisers. And even then, what do you have at the end of the day? Some virtual kudos and likes from people you would avoid in real life? Money if you are lucky.
Guess my work has this blocked due to restricted mode. Had to read the fine print
Limited liability is what allows "managers" and "shareholders" to be separated in the first place, and thereby allows the raising of huge amounts of capital.

If liability is unlimited, would you really hand over unlimited liability to managers without extremely close oversight? No. So shareholders would have to directly run the business. Worse, would the shareholders hand over unlimited liability to a voting process in which they might lose to other shareholders?

Conversely, it's both unfair and pointless to make the mere managers, who are staff and not contributors of capital, liable for the business operations.

There are exceptions to this but they tend to be small to medium low-capital businesses. Accountancy and law firms often operate as partnerships, for example.

No, the LLC is a primitive of operation on which the economy is built. It's not going anywhere. But if people start using it as an excuse to dump externalities on the public, there is going to be a policy response imposing some kind of "corporate social responsibility".

But none of that is relevant here. This is the good old fashioned over-investment by the over-wealthy in schemes they thought would pay back by monopolizing future profits.

> If the product is something else and cannot produce software gross margins then it needs to be valued like other similar businesses with similar margins, but maybe at some premium to recognize the leverage it can get through software.
You're right. We should do a shitload of different things to rectify the situation. Alas actions that have immediate and major impact on the situation requires international cooperation at a previously unprecedented level, and it's therefore unlikely that it's going to happen anytime soon, if ever.

What we can do is to start doing things on an individual- and community-level and hoping that awareness is spread fast and wide enough for others to wake up and join. Incidentally, planting trees and using the finished product for construction is one of the easier things to get started, even if it's not the most effective solution on the board.

It's the only way -- if we're going to wait for things like China stopping to use concrete for gigantic projects, then nothing will happen until it's too late anyway.
PhD life is, in general, a pathway to academia; it means research and teaching. Add to the fact, you'll be overqualified for the vast majority of relevant work.

> I much prefer creating things.

Just do that. Enter the workforce and start a pet project, or think bigger.
Companies (particularly financial institutions) that have enterprise apps deployed only to their employees care because a jailbroken phone imposes the risk of attackers MITMing traffic.
Now we just need enlightened politicians to sell these taxes to the public.
I just this last year took my technician (american) ham radio test, but I'm having a hard time remembering my propagation rules (there wasn't a heavy emphasis because it doesn't really affect the 2m and 70cm bands that I'm actually allowed to use). I recall that the solar cycle coming around means better propagation, but I can't remember which bands and how much. Can someone help me out?
In other words, you have no counter-argument to offer, and you weren't above using an ad-hominem ("to derail").
The Three Laws of Robotics Have Failed the Robots
Also because correlation isn't causation. An instance of a hurricane or a warmer summer by itself doesn't prove anything. That's poor science journalism. You need trends and models to demonstrate climate change, not an instance of undesirable weather. It's not like hurricanes or warm summers never happened before.
Experimenting with Writing and Cloud Living
The places where people don't go tend to have more of them. People don't go there for a reason. The entire South and Midwest have places where people do go.

What you don't have is a paradise where everything is cheap, there is a lot of employment and other opportunities and people somehow refuse to go to in the long term. You have cheap places where there is basically single major employer or low earning industry.

I am not saying that people always have it perfectly right, but in the long term and on average, the mass moves where it makes sense to move to. Those places then become more expensive.
Hopefully they keep on truckin. Gobble up all the abandoned malls etc and flip them for a tidy profit while keeping equity without the IPO dilution.
I don't get the feeling ReviewMeta is very sophisticated. FakeSpot and ReviewMeta often contradict each other. I often spend time on both sites and then realise that either all the candidate products are not great, or I've wasted time gaining little confidence and should just pick one.
it is a bad way to open for logical people, but given how effective industry has been at making people skeptical of climate change with exactly those bad kind of arguments, maybe appealing to the emotions is the way to actually make things happen?

I don't like it but I would roll with it if that is the pragmatic solution.
It's not, it's actually natural.

Presenting it as bad is simply, at worst: propaganda espoused by sheep and their shepherds, and at best: ignornace.

There has been a ton of research done on "Thing vs People" career interests, which show very clearly that men prefer working with Things, whereas Women prefer working with People.

(When I say prefer, I mean the average in a normal distribution)

Simply google: occupational interests people vs things

Ex1: "Men and Things, Women and People: A Meta-Analysis of Sex Differences in Interests"

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38061313_Men_and_Th...

Ex2: "Straight Talk About Sex Differences in Occupational Choices and Work-Family Tradeoffs"

"Sex differences in occupational interests have been known for decades, and a recent aggregate analysis of the interests of more than 500,000 people shows that some of these differences are quite large.1 The most relevant finding here is that about 15% of women have the same level of interest in engineering as the average man; 50% of men, by definition, would have stronger interests in engineering than the average man."

https://ifstudies.org/blog/straight-talk-about-sex-differenc...

Ex3: "Brainwash: The Gender Equality Paradox"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiJVJ5QRRUE
I am legitimately curious—and concerned—about the relicensing of answers. It really seems as though they shouldn't be able to do that. And if they can, can they also change the license to "all rights reserved by SE"?
People change these logins like gloves despite what the "spirit" of HN is supposed to be. In fact, an anonymous community that is strictly moderated for quality is better for being anonymous (or at least pseudonymous). If the average quality of contributions is reasonably high, you judge comments on their merit and aren't excessively reverent toward some and excessively skeptical toward others purely based on the contributor's history (and therefore set of beliefs). And people self-censor a lot less.
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I am sorry to say this but I am afraid NGOs are not going to solve the climate problem. I don't mean to dismiss anybody's efforts, but if we want to be honest with ourselves, the data on the global emissions for the last 30 years clearly show that all NGO's efforts so far have failed.

I have come to the realization that the most effective way to spend your time and money is to invest in Extinction Rebellion or a similar group in your country.
Im not even bringing in the user reviews. Im not saying the top critics are better. All I am saying is that rotten tomatoes differentiates between casual movie bloggers, and long standing paid journalists whos day job it is to review movies.

Lion king has 388 critics reviewing the movie, and only 46 are considered "top."

It's nice to be able to contextualize scores. For me the presence of users reviews doesnt negate the benefit of critical reviews. I enjoy being able to see discrepancy between groups.