skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's simply propaganda.

It's the concept that women have no agency. That other people are responsible for the choices of individual women.

Check out my other post on this thread-- I show three different investigations into the reality:

Regarding occupational interests:

Men prefer working with things, women prefer working with people
My company uses GitLab/Jira/Confluence, and two super-important features that make Confluence a winner in my mind are a) a way better story for media embedding (including photos and random uploads like PDFs, but also rich/interactive media such as LucidChart and rendering ticket lists from a Jira filter), and b) the inline discussion/annotation framework that lets you tag/nag people, ask for clarification, etc. A big part of inline discussion is that it's an instant marker for later readers that the content may not be up to date or is under discussion/review, whereas a Markdown file in some repo can have a ticket filed against it, but there's nothing in the repo that alerts a later reader to the existence of that ticket until the problem is actually resolved.

I've always been an advocate for the "markdown in the repo" scheme with CI-generated Sphinx (or whatever) docs, but these features have really won me over to the standalone wiki at least in some cases.
It looks more like one mod voiced something potentially ranging between legit concerns to outright argumentative opposition (we don't know) and got demodded for that, and a bunch of other mods are quitting in protest in part because of that, and in part because they feel it went from a mod as first class citizens community with a business component to a top down structure of decisions they have no say in.

Basically if there was going to be a new rule, some of the mods would have preferred if SE had came to meta and asked for help writing it and feedback on it, and instead of being told what the new rule was going to be.
The other commenters mention guns, but surely you mean the cellular towers/radiation one?
> We have also broken or tied 7 record hot days (and looks like we might go for 8 today).

On average, how many record-high days have been recorded each year, for as long as your records have been kept?

How many record-low days?

A number out of context is not useful for drawing a scientific conclusion.
While I'm kind of on your side, there is an argument to be made for hauling him back in. If you know he's there and let him live there, you set a precedent: "It's OK to escape from prison as long as you live in the woods."
Further notes on The Chaos:

http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/cyc/e/pronounc.htm
So, like a PR rep?
The title got truncated due to character limit - "posting Snapchat content"
If the summer heat, followed by Hurricane Dorian,
hasn’t convinced you that climate change is real,
probably nothing will.

I was stunned that such a callous, dismissive & low quality statement would even pass muster at The Grey Lady.

Who's proof-reading these pieces?

Pair it with a striking statistic from a reputable source, at the very least if youre going to make such a naked statement. Who is the piece trying to convince? The already convinced and dyed-in-the-wool card carrying eco-enthusiasts or the unconvinced and the leery crowd?
Author here. The language switch did the trick! Php code was rewritten some years ago. And we also ported some backend code to c++ to improve performance. Code was not that bad. Php is :)
Brain Chooses What to Let You See
Requires molybdenum.
H&M makes clothes that seem to have the texture and quality of tissue paper. I understand they are cheap but I assume shopping there is like being the poor man in the boot theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
If anything this should be a boon to users. It allows them fully to use their devices they own. Honestly, it is inexcusable that apple makes users have to hack their own devices. You should have the option similar to enabling or disabling secure boot on your PC.
But surely you can see how that can become absurd.

Extreme example: An employee at your company keeps a blog about how having sex with children is perfectly fine, how black people are all stupid and how jews should be exterminated because Hitler had the right idea. Also that almost all accusations of rape are false because all women are lying bitches. All perfectly legal opinions that don't relate directly to his work.

Is it your position that none of this should have any effect on his position?
> The Green New Deal, if enacted as specified, would send us into a prolonged, generation-long recession.

Source? The last New Deal helped get us out of the Great Depression. Seems crazy to suggest that a new similar one would cause one.
"kinetic operations" (read: shooting) are not generally within the purview of Psychological Operations units... Do you have any cites to support your claim?
he should have added a few more lines:

i dont mind children having sex with adults as long as they are willing.

i dont like to be made homeless

:D
What's the best alternative to Stack Overflow?
Personally I don’t care one bit about the “virtue signaling”: people can signal their virtues all they want for all I care.

But it seems to me it’s more than that: there’s also a lot of that age old instinct of trying to control others behavior... There’s a lot of talk about “we cannot keep...” and “the fallacy of never ending economic growth”. To me that just sounds simplistic and ideologically motivated.

When the world turns away from science and innovation, towards dogma and social control, it rarely ends well...
the reviews are hosted by amazon. they exist to facilitate profitmaking by selling stuff. the company never even pretends to have goals at odds with that. some part of that requires barely pretending to not encourage this behavior... but this is inevitable.
>seems reasonable to do _something_ that everyone agrees with

So people will do something that has very little effect on the problem, feel good for their contributions. Then, people will learn than this "something" had no meaningful impact, feel betrayed ("but we agreed on this"), and give up. "Oh, come on, I already did "something". They'll wait for someone else to pickup the burden.

That would be big waste of time and energy.
Many climate control projects have hard-to-judge side effects and are currently either hard/expensive or impossible. It is cheaper to not burn the carbon in the first place.
Carbon capture might be easier to control as a single entity (a definite benefit), but there is no money in it as of now, so research is slow.

On the other hand, all current IPCC scenarios require both lifestyle changes and a staggering amount of carbon capture, starting from 2030 peaking with up to 20 Gt/CO2/year in 2050 for the worst scenario (which we are very much on track for) [0]. (Current emissions are around 40 Gt/CO2/year. [1])

Nobody knows how, and especially not how without side effects. That does not mean we should not try - we need to - but that means we have to pull all the stops, now.

Look at those plots, this is a desperate situation, and the IPCC reports are actually optimistic. [2]/[3]

[0] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/SPM3...

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2019/02/SPM1...

[2] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/FigSPM-10.jp...

[3] https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/graphics/
Ask HN: Is PHP Dead or Useless?
I see a lot of negative comments from people online and very little interest from people about PHP.
I'm not sure what the deal is and i'm a little confused.
There're more hypes around Python, Java, Go than PHP,
even though PHP is very good language on it's own.

I really love and enjoy PHP, i've been building amazing apps in PHP and using the Laravel framework too.
What i also like about PHP is the OOP design i can use when building.

Is PHP dead like some people claim?
Is it not gonna be useful in the future?
Are there no mission critical systems built with PHP?
Don't even bother. I think most of the people defending Stallman in this thread aren't contributing members of society or are at least clueless in how the world operates.
The prevailing view in my culture is that planting trees does not necessarily equate to 'reforestation'. I've seen forests decimated first-hand and then replanted as monoculture tree plantations.
That feels like a failure of the tool/workflow— when you use the web UI edit button, it should put your edits on a branch for review, and make it easy to make further edits/corrections and then squash all of the piddly fixes into one big change at the end.
Why is this posted here? This isn't speedy on a global scale
It seems as if you disapprove (apologies if I'm reading too much into your comment).

What is the alternative?

Cold hard facts don't seem to move the majority of people as they are hard to relate to.
> However big they seemed compared to the past, they're nothing compared to the future

That is not a scientific claim.
API Calls and HTTP Status Codes
ImmuniWeb’s Enhanced AI Boosts Its In-Depth Appsec Testing Offering
Really fascinating read. It reminded me of Tom Scott's video on Numberphile, about time zones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY

Maybe it's the way Tom presents it, but I do get the distinct impression that (fully) dealing with time zones is an even more maddening incomprehensible quagmire of a task than rendering text as laid out in this article.
Cool!

Speaking of Rust and UI, has the story moved beyond "DIY GL / Qt bindings / website backend" or are those still pretty much the options?
Mueller begs to differ "And now we have the lowest-cost, most reliable engines in the world. And it was basically because of that decision, to go to do that. So that’s one of the examples of Elon just really pushing— he always says we need to push to the limits of physics."
>Isn’t the bigger issue that it actually matters whether Obama was a Muslim or not?

Yeah, but the implication in calling Obama a Muslim was that he was also sympathetic to Islamic extremism (see: the meme that he "founded Al Qaeda",) and that he was possibly a Manchurian candidate (after all, why would he hide his Muslim status if he didn't have nefarious motives?,) and that was just a variation on the theme of "angry, violent black man" scaremongering.

Remember that the Republicans tried to paint Obama as a radical Christian black separatist at first through guilt by association with Bill Ayers and the fiery rhetoric of preacher Jeremiah Wright. That didn't stick, so they pivoted to "secret Muslim" in order to take advantage of post 9/11 xenophobia.

None of it was intended to speak to any part of the populace that didn't already consider "Muslim" a pejorative by default.
Miro needs to target startup founders - it looks pretty close to if not exactly the functionality I've been looking for for awhile now. Thanks for pointing them out.
I took a job after doing my MSc, with the thought of going back to do a PhD in a few years time. I did go back after 5 years, but didn't finish the PhD - I only stayed for a year.

I mostly thought that I had to do a PhD to keep learning. But I was wrong - I learn every day as a developer. I also realized that I liked broad problems rather than narrow. E.g. make a system good enough in all dimensions vs working on "perfect" overload protection.

I wrote more about it here: https://henrikwarne.com/2016/03/07/ph-d-or-professional-prog...
> Everyone who stays away from writing down a mathematical model is either confused themselves, or trying to confuse their readers.

That seems like a profoundly narrow viewpoint to me. I mean maybe you're right in the sense that there might be an equation that governs the evolution of the universe, but are you really saying mathematical models are the only way to approach research?

If so I strongly recommend you do some scientific reading outside of economics and physics. I think most interesting phenomena in the world are too complex to capture in mathematics. Physics is a profound outlier in that regard.

> And one important thing we learned from those models (which I agree do not work) is that we don't get business cycles from irrationality or from agent heterogeneity -- we get them from the failure of markets to clear. Economists were confused about this for like a century, and thanks to mathematical modeling it became clear.

I really don't think that's clear at all.
I think the benefit of verifying someone nobody has heard of is that you know that they have submitted identification documents to YouTube, and are less likely to be scamming you, and could be sued.

I would certainly trust a verified user more for that reason.
Modal editing seems like an overlap between the two.
This behaviour is particularly bad on a Q&A site that aims, as SO claims to do, to optimise for future readers (rather than the individual asking the question).

It leads to a page with a clear question at the top and a great deal of text below which is not an answer to that question.
And you are wiser than anyone in authority that has walked before you? (eg. parents, law makers, authorities, teachers, etc).

Punishment is a deterrent and has been proven so for millennia.
What have they done wrong?

I searched and seems like the previous politic was to simply give the verified status if you reached 100k subscribers without any others verification. How is that verified in any way? Is that verification was merely to state that at least 100k people clicked a button? That would makes it a pretty bad verified status and pretty far from what anyone may expect it to verify. Considering Youtube only remove bots from time to time, it may not even be true.

They were never verified in the first place, removing them makes sense.
Also: These trees take decades to grow, at least, and will have to be protected from fires (which are only getting worse) and logging basically forever.
Each site has a chat room where you can have the back-and-forth to clarify a question or refine it. So this already exists to some degree.
Talking about X/Y problem — the actual incident described here doesn't seem to have anything to do with it, but rather to the ham-fisted handling of a disagreement between the company and a moderator. Or is there some relation between the two, eg was the disagreement about how to handle answers to what look like the wrong questions to ask?
The per-capita CO^2 emissions of well-to-do western countries like Norway and Germany are a little over half as much as that of the US, France is around a quarter of US emissions (mainly due to Nuclear).

You're the one who's being alarmist if you're trying to argue that the US is staring down some decades-long recession to move more in that direction, which is pretty much all that's being suggested by some fringe politicians in the US.

Is German and Norwegian youth looking at having to deal with decades of recession, rising unemployment, rising income equality etc? No, they're not.
Well, it's actually not. We even have a "Show HN" function for it that's very popular and gets a lot of engagement. And as a community of craftspeople, we are pretty lenient with others sharing their work.

Also, I don't agree with demonizing people for making "I made <this>" posts while "I use <this>" endorsement posts go completely under the radar. You're just forcing the first group to behave like the second group while I find the first group much more valuable since we can see the connection and even interact with the creator.

I see this all the time on r/gaming. The front page is 100% "advertising" but completely cool with gamers. The second an indie developer shares something they built, it's suddenly uncool. Simple fix: turn "I made this" into "I found this" and gamers are totally cool with it again because it couldn't possibly be advertising. It's a bit silly. "I made this" posts are much more interesting and become mini-AMAs on r/gaming instead of the same old meme-advertising of the same five AAA games.
In my own experience there is a very strong feedback-loop effect attached to the idea of staying optimistic about progress and not getting put off by all the problems you can see in the future.

I've realized on many occasions that I was being put off spending time on projects because of all the stuff I could think of that would take even more time, all the difficult problems I could already see or was sure to find along the way. It's paralyzing. But the effect of crossing off items on the eternal to-do list, the sense of progress, is strong enough to keep me going.

Maybe that's what the author describes as 'optimism': not getting paralyzed by bears down the road, so you can keep the positive feedback from progress going?
There is an interesting angle to geoengineering. Once you start applying it (assuming we master the technology) you get into the argument of what is the "right" temperature for the Earth. Some countries (Russia) might prefer it a little warmer, some others (U.S., India) a little colder. Do we really want to get into a new Cold War?

Some geoengineering solutions don't seem to be all that expensive (e.g. spraying sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere), and if things get really bad in some particularly hot places, somebody (India?) may decide to apply them unilaterally. Will we be happy about that?
Yep, modern embedded (e.g. rPi and other Intel-based devices). I suppose there would be limited connections from each device, but many devices.
> He was then given a suspended sentence citing that he already has been through enough.

Kind of similar to Assange, no?
I would suggest using something other than hurricanes (at least those in the Atlantic basin) as evidence of global warming. The existing observations aren't good for the support of global warming at this point [1].

To help aide in convincing more skeptics I would suggest observations that have held up under scrutiny.

[1] https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/global-warming-and-hurricanes/
...and then when users start to put up such links they show you the real meaning of the phrase. At first sight it is "everything is allowed, just some things are not supported (yet)", but the real meaning is "linking to competitors is not allowed".
>Linux distros have many, many years of experience curating packages at scale. It is crazy to me that the node community just totally disregards all of the best practices learned by the Linux distros in favor of practices that are lazy and unambiguously dangerous.

"Screw your wheel, we can invent invent our own" is not exactly a surprising strategy when it comes from the language/development community that is mostly building framework after framework that gets abandoned in a year or two.
> to be told when you're asking a question, that the question you're asking is wrong

I've long associated this behavior with Linux evangelists, and one wonders how much cross over there is with the people who answer questions on SO. It seems like both categories would be attractive to the kind of holier-than-thou mindset that would do this.
Well, why don't you review this source from Wikipedia, then, and decide whether it's claptrap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_senior_thesis
This is interesting, but there are difficult conceptual problems with imagining that supervised learning can just be plunked into legal reasoning. I have a draft chapter on this, if folks are curious (or have feedback!): https://osf.io/preprints/lawarxiv/gk2ms
"it would be suicide to make a browser that rejects pages containing that"
Nonsense, browser should have never supported it.
We can't decide after the fact yes indeed.
nowadays, the sweet spot of maximum information density seems to be the two-star reviews. They are written by genuinely concerned, but not furious, people about the legitimate shortcomings of the product. If a product has mostly five-star reviews, and the two-star reviews describe a reasonable tradeoff, then it is probably a good product.
Yeah right. I can't even see the MPH. With France just across the channel, it'll sound ridiculous no matter what.
Fence/wall off a large section of useless land in a temperate climate. Post the perimeter with motion-activated machine guns.

Give the condemned a backpack of provisions, the cut them loose into the Exile Zone.
Yes yes, but I work at Google :-)

That said, looking back at previous jobs there are many places -- particularly in ad-tech stuff -- where I used Java server side that I now think C++ would have been more appropriate (or these days, Rust). I wasted a lot of hours tuning for garbage collection that I'd love to have back.

And yes, there is a crapload of stuff that is internet facing that is C++.
How and where do you do that, do you plant seeds or saplings? On whose lands?
> I don't like it but I would roll with it if that is the pragmatic solution.

So, to be clear, your "pragmatic" solution is to deceive the public, because you think you are smarter than they are.

Well, you're about 23 years behind:

On the one hand, as scientists we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but — which means that we must include all the doubts, the caveats, the ifs, ands, and buts. On the other hand, we are not just scientists but human beings as well. And like most people we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climatic change. To do that we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s imagination. That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This ‘double ethical bind’ we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest. I hope that means being both.

--Stephen Schneider in APS News, Aug/Sep 1996, p. 5.

Which raises the question: what if you are one of the public?
Back in the day I used to be among top users on that site - they even sent me a T-shirt at some time. Left several years ago, as the site became toxic.

I'm not mentioning this "top user" thing on my resume anymore, because not relevant.

The site is still an excellent source of information about all things that were cool ten years ago, such as Java, Spring, SQL, Python.
How Dystropian is this thing?
Who needs it? You don't want a kid you want a Bot.
Did they keep the Bible quotes on their international stores as well? Because I don't think their underhanded religiosity would fly as well outside the US.
In the other word: propaganda machine.
Yep, know Nerves. Like the toolset and the model. Really asking about the underlying Erlang/Elixir that Nerves provides. The delivery flow (think image to SD card) fits the more tradition embedded/realtime model - versus OS, and installing app.
Popular media is a unique market though, as they can attract highly tribalist reviewers pushing a certain angle that has nothing to do with the product itself.

People usually don't get all up in arms like that if a random Bluetooth speaker they bought doesn't sync as well with their Android TV as it does with their iPhone.
Crummy Buzzfeed content drones with 5000 followers are getting verified.

Verification ticks are just a badge of being well connected, and approved. And having your tick removed is a way of saying that you have stepped out of line.
I think the distinction has lost any meaning outside of the most ardent fans. In the west there are few BMW motorcycles and so Beamer generally applies to both.
That's often because most clients will already have some sort of environment set up, running some OS and with certain features installed and most importantly: they don't want to have 5 different projects working on 5 different frameworks because that'd be a nightmare to maintain. Once a company gets into a tech stack, they'll want to stay within it as much as possible and that makes plenty of sense.
Perfect explanation, down to earth and could be ELI5. Humans are so specialized.
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