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I finished my PhD about a year ago (graduating in a month finally). First and foremost, graduating won't stop you from doing a PhD later. I initially took an industry job for a year and then chose to go back to academia.

I initially went back to academia with the perspective of either staying in academia or going into research, but after those four years I basically lost the will to stick in these fields.

Honestly if you don't have a particular subject or project you want to do for your PhD it's not worth going through it. I initially felt like you, that if I didn't do it I'd regret it, but now sometimes I wonder if the time I spent doing it was worth it ( and I actually wanted to do a specific thing).

It's way more important to just find a job that fits what you currently find interesting than it is to remain in academia hoping that a PhD is anywhere near what you hope it is.
"Violent crime" also applies to a broad range of actions. It's not a propaganda term for treating all kinds of violent crime as the same. Why would that be the case for sexual assault?
These threads raise awareness for more people.

Especially people who may not otherwise have known.

Silencing, censoring, the discussion only allows it to keep getting worse, instead of potentially less worse.
It's a blog post written around an excerpt from an email of someone who did not witness the abuse event, but knew and interacted with the abused at the time. In my book, that's a second hand account of the event.
Well, here are some thoughts:

1. What is "interesting work" to you? Everything depends on that. Would you be going into industry as a researcher? If not, a PhD may not be useful, and interactive theorem proving in particular doesn't seem relevant to industry.

2. Many people get their PhD at a different institution than their previous degree(s), so I don't understand the choice you think you're facing.

3. It's perfectly possible to step away from university study and come back. I had a ~2 year gap before starting my PhD.

4. Some PhD research is very collaborative. Depends on what you're doing, where, and with who. Look up authors of papers you think are great, especially those with quite a few authors.

5. Research success is often as much about persistence as intelligence. Yes, sometimes you need to read papers all day, but it's with the goal of creating new things.

6. If you think you'd be miserable while doing a PhD, you'd be crazy to do it.
How is your mental health? A PhD takes a significant toll on the mental health of a large chunk of the students. It is hard work, you are paid peanuts and sometimes the completion joy is not worth it.

If you are not enjoying what you do, you are doubly at risk of developing mental health issues. As someone with a PhD and who works in academia, a PhD is just a degree. It is not worth the risk of depression.
Ask HN: Computers can see and hear, why can't they smell?
My belief is that true intelligence for machines can be achieved once they have the same senses as humans. We have already successfully translated the sense of vision and hearing to computers. How can we do it for smell? Is anyone working on it?
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I've worked in an office where the lender complained with the neighbouring artists about their mattresses. Because "you're not allowed to sleep in the office." (He didn't complain with us because we put them away after use.) The response he got? "Oh we use those for sex only." Topic dropped :-)
As a 5th grade dropout who is a fully self-taught developer, I did Interview, mentor, and supervised a multiple of developers with masters and PhDs to help them understand and get comfortable in the real world of the IT industry, sure they are probably "smarter", faster researchers, more organized than me but I have the experience to put together the big picture, cover the edge cases, account for common mistakes in the domain, understand the market and the clients mentality etc... most of that won't be covered by a PhD.

Noone started his career with a bunch of experience, you'll get boring jobs, you'll encounter annoying bosses or clients, you'll have stress and deadlines pressure, you'll be forced to develop things that don't match "your idea" of quality, you'll probably have some imposter syndrome... these are just common parts of the industry especially for newcomers.

The best advice would be if you're not looking to go into academia then don't go for PhD, it's a waste of time you can use that time to grind through the industry and get that experience. Another important thing IMHO is that no matter how cool your field is, no matter how much you like it, if it fells under the deadlines, pressure, and stress wheel you'll not enjoy it, you'll find something else that seems more fun and you'll wish if you can do that instead!

I would say if you want maximum fun and then have fun on side-projects, open-source, or freelance on the side
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If we are going to destroy the lives of men for being creepy and having socially awkward game, do we also get a pass for undesired female behavior, such as cuntiness and sleeping around?

RMS could have the most pleasing and charming pick-up artistry, and most women would still avoid him like the plague. I think people like RMS should just stop trying to connect to the opposite sex altogether, because clearly, making women reject your advances is a dangerous game for some.

The genius dude just did not want to change his mind. What a terrible and unprofessional thing to do. He should have listened and could be banging a cancel culture beast right now.

Edit: The proof you give: "My first interaction with RMS was at a hacker con at 19. He asked my name, I gave it, whether I went to MIT (I had an MIT shirt on), and after confirmation I did, asked me on a date. I said no. That was our entire conversation."

What a crime! What a crime! I bet that pushed her out of the industry altogether, into an industry where men are all married.
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I’m glad this is on the front page. My previous posts on the whole RMS “thing” had been removed or disappeared to quickly from the front page to discuss.

Honestly, I’d Remove the “flame war” system for the day. I feel Hacker News needs some discourse. The vocal minority is drowning out the masses.
> , I will likely surrender my chance for a PhD.

I don't think this is completely valid. I know a handful of people I graduated with both undergrad and grad, who went into industry for a year or two and then went back to study for a PhD. I wouldn't say it's a common path, but it happens..

In your case, you may benefit from a 2 year stint in the workforce IMHO
Do you think it’s ok for adults to have sex with children?
>He’s autistic. He probably gives almost everyone he comes into contact with the creeps. Neurotypical people don’t like autistic people, and would prefer to avoid them to the greatest extent possible.

This is an incredibly ignorant opinion. Lots of high functioning autistic people develop reasonable social skills. People still probably notice if they hang around with us long enough, but non-shitty people (aka apparently almost everyone but you) don't default to thinking they are creepy perverts that they must escape from.

Some autistic people are so socially stunted that they have trouble interacting with people at all, but there are a lot of us that have successful careers, friends, wives, etc. We're a little weird but most of us aren't freaks. Try having some compassion.

If by some chance you have formed this opinion due to a personal struggle with autism. Theres ways to learn decent social skills.
The core of the drama is a MIT visiting professor has a poor grasp of social context and an inability to synchronise with other people.

It seems totally possible that some graduate mechanical engineer totally misread a text. Mechanical engineers aren't known for being social butterflys.
My impression is that we're experiencing a somewhat less brutal version of Mao's Cultural Revolution. But who knows, possibly "psychological and moral re-education centers" are just over the horizon.

They pulled the same crap in China, with excitable young minds as useful idiots serving the hidden political agendas of actors behind the scene.

It is informative to seriously review the Cultural Revolution, and the ensuing damage to the Chinese nation.
Entry to a PhD program is not something that is dangled like a golden carrot as the promise of an interesting life. Anyone offering such a lure is more likely looking for cheap graduate student labour and you should run a mile away.

In reality, if you are self-funded or have a scholarship, and suitable grades, most academics will gladly take you on as a PhD candidate. There is no shortage of junior academics looking for people to maintain their labs, fix their equipment, and add their names to the end of some papers as a professional courtesy for fixing a few spelling mistakes. Sure, you might not get a position under a world-famous academic, but - especially if you have no interest staying in academia afterwards anyway - this has absolutely no impact on your future life whatsoever. If you're just interested in the letters P, H, and D after your name then you can study for that anywhere, anytime, on your terms.

From the limited context you've provided, I would recommend you do not continue on to this PhD. Do one later in life if you still feel it's warranted.
Per [1] it sounds like it should be usable with "position: fixed". Though I can't test it right now.

There's some interesting (hopefully not outdated) discussion in the Chromium bug here [2][3] which helps explain why things the way they are (balancing several competing constraints).

[1]
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/12/url-bar-re...
[2]
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=428132
[3]
https://github.com/bokand/URLBarSizing
I mean the guy can think whatever the fuck he wants. He can even tell his friends. He can use nipple clamps and be consentingly spanked with kitchen implements. Nobody gives a shit about any of that stuff.

But if you publicly say stuff like this:

"I think it is morally absurd to define 'rape' in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17."

"I think that everyone age 14 or above ought to take part in sex, though not indiscriminately. (Some people are ready earlier.)"

"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily [sic] pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."

Then other people might not want to make the highly discretionary decision to let you, specifically, run their organization.
Atlassian have very successfully aligned themselves with the managerial layer that like to think their organisations are "agile", or believe that buying some software suite will somehow bring that about, rather than simply codify and entrench their existing faulty workflows and add new processes to bureaucratize.
I don’t think Minsky is accused of statutory rape as the age of consent was 16 at the time of the accused event. So at the time, in that territory, sex with minors was legal.

Personally I don’t think it’s ethical for an adult to sex with minors. But many countries and states have laws allowing sex with minors. Maybe those communities think it’s ethical, maybe it’s just one of those historical laws they haven’t gotten around to updating with modern ethics.

So I don’t this this topic really has anything to do with pedophilia and how terrible that is.
from reading just this comment, i would have assumed that stallman was stripped of all his land and titles and made to starve under a bridge.

what really happened was that he went from holding leadership positions in three prominent institutions to just one. it's easy to have strong feelings about these issues, but let's try to keep things in perspective.
>he expressed his opinion that accusations of sexual assault are probably inflated and inaccurate.

What is wrong with that, if indeed the accusations were inflated and inaccurate?

As far as I can see from this case, he is correct. He could have expressed himself better, but we're talking about RMS here.
> Correct me if i'm wrong but it sounds like you're trying to say 'People who have a leadership role in an educational or advocacy setting are not entitled to have a certain opinion or preference that does not fall within the lines our "society" has drawn out to be normal?'

No, it means that if you think raping children is okay you don't get to say that as part of your work, unless your work is for a pro-child-abuse organisation.

If you're a spokesperson for any other organisation they may want to distance themselves from your comments supporting child sexual abuse.
Well fucking said
It may be true that "the woke," as they are so disparagingly called, is a small group. Actually, I'd say 8% isn't a very small group at all -- but that is besides the point. The point is that this small group has much more than 8% impact on the outcomes of events like these. They may be 8% of the general population, but they are 99% of the people who care at all.
Why not just set margin-top: auto for footer?
While one of your devices collected a conversation about wine and sells it to my insurance company years later. Tata nerd!
What posts are you talking about? He didn't state anything related to child sex, plus, Eptein wasn't only offering that so it is unclear that Minsk had sex with minors. It's obvious that Stallman condemn that, but to his eyes, nothing is crystal clear and he is not the kind of person who will fall so easily in any logic fallacy. I think people is mob lawing him without any reason more than "he just stated some facts".
If you intend to go into industry, what is the industrial job market for interactive theorem proving? If it is not so good, then you will be doing a career change at the end of your PhD and at least part of the degree's value will have been lost.
Even if they did clean it out, they would probably put it in the trash anyway. Some cities could process it in their recycling process, but that's not every city. I don't think there is a way for us to have plastic fabrics without the microplastics ending up in the environment.
Jailbroken devices can attack application logic to cheat in multiplayer games, somewhat attack DRM systems for video content (though Fairplay isn't especially vulnerable here), gain access to chargeable features without paying for them (decompiled Spotify APKs that do not feature advertising without having to pay exist on Android and are a non-trivial revenue risk) etc etc.

In more open systems you are usually more able to run detection software for the above without sandboxing.
I would gather though that the best way to learn new things is to apply them and use them in the code. That's the only way to get seasoned and find out when and where to use these things (like design patterns, recursive functions, etc).

It sucks when this is happening to a production system, and then maybe it's a mentoring & leadership problem instead.
Hmm. I wasn't trying to twist his words at all, so thanks for quoting in full.

If I see a problem with his characterization of the term "sexual assault" / his reasoning in rejecting it, it's that the "broad range of actions" he says are labeled with the term "sexual assault" share one common trait: they happened without the consent of one party. He kind of ignores this in favour of describing the term as "propaganda for treating [acts of non-rape] as the same". And I find the argument that "one unwanted act that I and presumably others find mostly harmless was described as sexual assault, thus this term has lost its meaning in general" somewhat hard to swallow.

Wikipedia: "Sexual assault is an act in which a person intentionally sexually touches another person without that person's consent, or coerces or physically forces a person to engage in a sexual act against their will."[1]

If we did away with the term "sexual assault", I'm not sure what terms we would be left with when describing such things, except to describe the exact acts themselves.

In fact, I'm not sure if I buy the idea that "the term sexual assault is losing/has lost its meaning because it used to mean rape" at all, because there has always been a word for that: rape. As far as I know, this term has always existed to describe a broad-range of sexual acts performed without consent.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_assault
Sadly, a large number of people seem to have decided that their feelings are more important than the truth. That if something makes you feel bad, this means it is bad and must be destroyed.

This is like how a dark basement might be scary to a child. A normal adult would explain that the basement is actually harmless, and teach the child to see it for what it really is and learn not be afraid of it. The feelings-first crowd would have us simply destroy all basements.

Feelings are important and can help point you in a direction, but they need to be tempered with reason and logic before resulting in action.

People who act solely on feelings are also easy to manipulate because talented writers, actors, etc can evoke strong feelings about anything regardless of facts.
Yeah, I looked him up on Wikipedia, looks like I got the wrong impression from his videos. Smart guy indeed!
If one is going to buy the phone anyway, payment plans with 0% interest make a lot of sense (from the buyer's perspective).
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Actually, no, he didn't - he lead with it.

> Diversity -- but no diversity of opinion...

Is there any sort of evidence of action? Him having had sex with children?

If anything, it's you who left out the part where Stallman already said, before this incindent, that he was wrong. I.e. he said it because he actually changed his mind and believes he was wrong, not in order to "save face" or clear his image or avoid scandal or whatnot.
No, I am not. But what proof do you have Minsky had sex with a minor? I didn't see it. I think Stallman didn't see it.
I am currently in South Africa. Yes I have sent hundreds of applications but nobody seems to want to sponsor visas in Canada. I have also applied for PR but my points are rather low - I thought that getting a job would boost my PR score but it's kinda like a catch 22 as I need to be there in order to get the job!
my last comment is a good jumping off point

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21113873

I might have to add a bunch of sources since we seem to have a lot of people in denial. The responses to the Medium article are... not nice.
I've made a short presentation about filling the gap between just pure git and something like gitlab.

https://her.esy.fun/slides/git-project-manager.html

Mostly, project-management features.
If your page height is less than 100vh - footer height, the footer won't sit at the bottom of the page.
The people complaining need to review a glossary before they start complaining. Maybe also becoming knowledgeable about the subject matter might help.
Not trying to be pedantic, but we're not exactly talking about children here.

I believe the girl was 17 and probably gave the impression (when put in a group with other girls) to be older.

And 17 is not illegal in most countries, so morally that age by itself is and should not be a major issue.
My comment is as much a general observation as it is a specific one, because unfortunately I have seen this before.

People, even many of the ones advocating for inclusivity, are extremely unforgiving of autistic traits and will dogpile on any social faux-pass accidentally made.
You're spectacularly misguided and wrong.
Are you applying the incel meme of the chad and virgin here? Quite disgusting honestly...
If open source projects adopt continuous integration, release and security scanning it will make outsider to contributions easier to make it into the live.
There is a perpetual tension between those who want SE to be helping everyone, and those who want to curate a helpful resource. People involved with community moderation aspects tend to fall into the latter group.

For the last half decade or so SE has progressively abandoned this latter group, leading to a lot of pent-up frustration. Some changes SE has made are sensible (e.g. striving to be more welcoming and more inclusive), but the volunteer work of curators has only become more difficult. SE refuses to implement new tools to aid moderation, so that e.g. spam fighting is mostly done by volunteer projects.

That only sets the general scene. Since the last year or so SE has stopped engaging the community on Meta, mostly just announcing changes top-down. Tweets by third parties have larger impact on SE policy than long-standing complaints by the community. This has led to a further deterioration of the relationship. The illegal changes to the content license a month ago are a perfect example of this top-down, uncooperative approach.

Now the actual drama starts: in a closed moderator chat, there was some kind of discussion or disagreement. I'm not privy to the details. Not all of this is nice, e.g. it seems that SE is unwilling to protect trans moderators from vitriol by other mods. But to everyone's confusion, Monica Cellio was suddenly removed as a volunteer moderator. She is known as being extremely reasonable, experienced, and sincere. While she might have tried to discuss sincere questions, it is beyond belief that she would attack another moderator.

So moderators and other engaged users are deeply frustrated, see a company that no longer engages with the community, does stupid decisions, and has now fired one of the best volunteer moderators in a despicable manner. For a lot of people, this is the straw that broke the camel's back. E.g. one mod I know decided to resign because they now see themselves completely unable to achieve any positive change on the site. And if Monica isn't a good-enough mod, how can they hope to be remotely adequate?

Disclosure: I wrote the linked Meta.SE question. It is my belief that SE the company and SE the community need to cooperate for both to be successful. Yes, the community can sometimes be toxic. But the company seems to have given up completely on engaging with the community, and that does not bode well.
Please provide a link. I’ve seen this repeated, but no source. I don’t necessarily doubt it, but if you don’t provide a link your basically committing slander.
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How is that acceptable? People need to be paid for working.
Interesting you bring it up. I don't know the history of the Cultural Revolution except for the description of it in Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem, but I've been meaning to reference that book in my next comment. There's a description there of the young people, excited about new ideas, delivering psychological and then physical violence to academic professors, because suddenly the technical, physical concepts stopped agreeing with the new social ideas. So the relativity theory must be wrong because everyone is equal and that's not relative.
There has to be a third option between "tolerate everything" and "completely oust him from public life as violently as you can".