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I don't know man, I've seen irrational people win a lot lately in the political world, so I'm not convinced that just being rational will work. I've seen people calmly argue rationally about climate change for 20 years now with negative progress.

How do you propose to win?
The key term you are looking for is "High-street brands" (step below Luxury)

https://www.google.com/search?q=high+street+clothing+brands
Should rename to Aristool
Getting to that thread regardless of the subject assumes some level of intellectual curiosity (however low that may be). That seems to be the thing lacking among all the worst devs I've had the misfortune of working with.
climate (if it exists at all) is the average of weather data.
> Basically Ansible/Saltstack/Puppet/Chef _are_ the API for plain UNIX.

I've never thought about it like that, but I think you're exactly right. That's a really useful way to think about it. To me, anyway.
From my sporadic research on this the tl;dr is you don't get a PhD unless you want to profess the cutting edge of that field by teaching, researching and perhaps doing general public education. It seems it is not as profitable as it is intrinsically rewarding. Then my own perspective is that at the moment academia is a minefield depending on which institution you join and what field of study. Some fields end up looking like industry job anyways, except you write and review papers day to day.
It's important to remember that woke people are not a monolith.
The world of today is highly individualistic, and climate change is exactly how nature will punish humans for not being able to be more cooperative. It's as simple as that.

To me inequality and global warning are siblings. They are about the same thing, and share a common cause. If you cannot solve inequality you cannot solve global warming.

Unless Elon Musk or somebody else is able to finance a big breakthrough in several technologies that makes ALL greenhouse gasses machines obsolete, there is literally no way humans will avoid having their population reduced.

This article is short and it's a good summary on why individualism not only makes society unfair, but also threatens humanity.
And someone who’s great but an ass/racist/sexist could push out, deter, and marginalize geniuses. We do not have a deficit of people able to do wonderful things. We do not have to tolerate terrible people to get results.
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> reading between the lines

The lines here are so blurry, I can’t make heads or tails out of any of this. All I can tell for sure is that some of the mods are upset about something (but won’t or can’t say what) and they’re leaving SO. The forced abstraction of this whole saga reminds me of stories I’ve heard from people who lived under communist dictatorships: they’d have to peel back multiple layers of insinuations to try to figure out what was actually meant. The way some of the commenters on here are dancing around saying anything concrete suggests that there are a few people who do know what’s going on but are afraid to come out and say what it is.
> some remarks to "get there": it must be/feel fast like native Excel, Sublime Text or at least VS code.

As someone who is working on an Excel compiler, I can tell you it's challenging to make it very fast.
Or better yet, autonomous weapons need to be prevented:

https://www.stopkillerrobots.org
The legislation is similar, not just the name. It creates jobs, reduces wealth inequality, it builds new infrastructure, etc. It's a stimulus package, of sorts.
What if you are one of the public that's been deceived for, now, over 20 years? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21115712
Way to get what I said out of context. You are just as bad HN user as a SO user. Cry some more.
Pretty cool, some basic documentation would be nice (the readme does not tell everything). I didn't find how to reproduce some of the behavior of the loan example in the GIF, like how to format cells (turns out formatting is just writing a function that transforms a value and assigning it to the cell's 'f' field. Are there other special fields ?). I can't seem to make sub-table creation work, after creating a table with ctrl-alt-t, I seem to be stuck in table edition mode, I can't click on another cell or press enter or tab to deselect a cell.

I think it's a pretty promising project. Spreadsheets are very useful tools but usually crippled by single-line, crappy, not syntax-checking, not highlighting function editors.
Something I've been thinking about recently is that there should be a site that only takes the "good" products from amazon and displays them for different categories - maybe only the top 20 or so. If i'm looking for an oven mitt / phone case / whatever the amount of junk is overwhelming. I envision it would essentially be a semi-curated list of amazon items. Anyone know of something like this? It's on my backlist of projects to build if I can't find any substitutes.
Working in industry and making money also contributes to humankind. Whatever the company is doing must be of some value in order to make money. So someone who may not have the right motivations to getting a PhD is probably better suited to move into industry sooner rather than later and be the most productive contributor to humanity as possible.
I don't live in the US, but I've heard "pay to play" allegations against Wirecutter:

https://www.xdesk.com/wirecutter-standing-desk-review-pay-to...
Okay, I do agree. But misinformation due to sloppy broad brush strokes does not help. At all. It fuels what you just said. It gives them "See, see! They're wrong about this! What do they know? They're just making stuff up for their agenda!" And to be honest, I have to agree with that statement. Because that first line of the article is simply a "the sky is falling because I say so" statement. And remember, I do agree that global warming is happening. But because I believe the science, I have to be fair on all factual statements. No matter if that fact helps or hurts me. I have to be fair.

It would have been smarter to talk about Alaska heat wave from the get-go that lasted, what was it, 7 to 9 days? I don't remember. That's WAY harder to dance around. Everyone can go "It got hot in Alaska? Weird... it got 90+ degrees hot? WTF? For how long? Holy shit!" Instead of a statement that amounted to "There was a hurricane in the Atlantic. Global warming is real."
Can confirm, the commuter train here runs ~75 mph and is quite popular. Then again, it's competing with 70mph highway.

I have looked into taking Amtrak several times, but it takes 2-3x as long as driving, 5-10x as long as flying, is more expensive than both, and has far fewer destinations. It's a hard sell for anything other than taking a train for the experience or short distances. Trains should be cheaper than airplanes and faster than cars, but they're neither in the US...
Did you know you can enable Bugzilla integration on your project?

Take a look at 'Project Settings' > 'Integrations'. AFAIK It will display the "Issues" link but will redirect you to bugzilla, and some other UI integrations.
While I generally agree with your broader point, I doubt this relationship is causal.
Or that it results in a more sustainable world? I support a multitude of solutions but it’s also clear to me that unless we change our lifestyle to match the very long term future sustainability every solution is going to breakdown - just a matter of when.

For example, we can plant as many trees as we want but if population grows even at the current rate we are gonna need another planet. So what’s wrong in saying we need to slow down our own expansion. Same for industrial scale agriculture.

What I always find puzzling in all these conversations is the attachment people have to their lifestyle which probably evolved to where it is only in the last five decades - at most. Meat was never this readily available in history. Neither was energy. These are incredibly recent in our evolutionary period and yet they wreak havoc like nothing else.
>So, to be clear, your "pragmatic" solution is to deceive the public,

I've propose appealing to emotion, which I don't think needs to include deception.

>Which raises the question: what if you are one of the public?

I am absolutely am, though I've also done my own climate reconstructions from raw, unadjusted data, which was the beginning of me deciding which 'side' of this debate was correct and honest, and which side were clowns. That is to say after doing the math myself it became clear one side was not even arguing in good faith, or incredibly ignorant.
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The thing is that actually doing mathematics is a process where you take your intuition and find a way to formalize it into definitions and proofs and computations.

A toddler could understand the difference between a smooth curve and a spiky curve, but to actually get a handle on them computationally, the best tool that we have is Calculus -- and even after decades of people iterating on how to teach it, Calculus is still a mystery to most undergrads who muddle through it.

Similarly I could give you some intuition about manifolds by telling you that they're kinda like surfaces that can have higher dimensionality, but until you're able to actually understand and work with the definition of "locally homeomorphic to R^n", you're not going to be able to do anything with them.

I think it's bollocks, this idea that mathematicians are obfuscating easy concepts with complex language. The language doesn't exist to get research grants and gatekeep, it's there because you need some succinct way to describe objects and concepts without running through a full definition every time.

Obviously you can always improve communication, and from my experience most mathematicians try pretty hard to do that, especially in the classroom, but it's not easy.
Of course they wouldn't, but it's a question of who their customers are – hint: not their users (even the "verified" ones).
You need more than one single solitary account to do psyops on Twitter (I know - I regularly play around with Twitter sockpuppet accounts because I have inordinate amounts of free time to do research on the effects of a campaign, albeit small experimental campaigns :p). Twitter have since made it very difficult to keep an account in good standing if you are suspected of doing psyop-type things like auto-liking specific keywords, 'pouncing' on tweets that have just been sent so that you have the first few replies, constantly monitoring their search feature for specific keywords and engaging with others and spreading some sort of repeated message. Gaming the retweet and like count with several bot-accounts that all use the same IP and useragent will surely get you banned.

I think over the last few years Twitter have done a good job at filtering out bad actors, though like some game of whack-a-mole - bad actors continue to crop up and game Twitter using more novel methods. I suspect the new way of doing psyops is to buy multiple smartphones which all have separate IPs due to a GSM/4G network, and have different and distinct device fingerprints due to different Android versions in use. Then it's a case of constantly feeding the sim-cards with credit (to keep them registered on the network) and if prompted to verify a Twitter account with a phone number, you have a dedicated device for that.
So what then? A few thousand humanoids would have picked berries for a few dozen thousand years until the next ELE wiped them out and be gone? That's better how?

We've got exactly one planet's worth of resources to consume in our reach for the stars. Doing nothing and doing it wrong gets us extinction on basically the same galactic time scale.

What a tragedy though, to have a real shot and burn it all up trying to get each other to click on ads for plastic crap no one needed.
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I think the point of bringing up hurricane Dorian is the size/strength. It's not unique by itself but cat 4/5's are at an upward trend[1]. Also take a look at hurricane Barry[2] this year. It's a disturbance that came out of the continental US, became a hurricane in the gulf, and came back to strike the US.

[1] https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/wp-content/uploads/pix/user_images...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Barry_(2019)#/media/...
I personally like American Giant [1] and Flint & Tinder [2].

Neither has as wide a selection as GAP, and are more on the casual side, but have stuff that can work as business casual. The latter is menswear only, so if you're female not so useful.

[1] https://www.american-giant.com

[2] https://huckberry.com/flint-and-tinder
>Punishment is a deterrent and has been proven so for millennia.

A proven deterrent? Do you have any facts to back-up your posit? The crime and recidivism rates would seem to indicate the contrary; especially, in the states.

Essentially, we should - in theory - have no crime by now (given it's been over a millennium) as all rates should've diminished to zero, yeah?

At best, punishment as a deterrent is keeping the for-profit prison-industrial complex in business and that's about the extent of any benefit[s] (if it can even be called that) it might be providing to society.
I always leave a comment why I voted this way or the other, unless there is already a comment that explains why the vote is in progress. If I vote the other way, I leave a comment explaining why.
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> We’ve learned those tricks nowadays, and now we don’t have that kind of a disease.

This isn't the case with sufficiently controversial topics in the social sciences.
Eh, perhaps not as phrased, but it's a scientific claim made by the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 C.

From the chapter 3.3.6:

> There is thus limited evidence
that the global number of tropical cyclones will be lower under 2°C compared to 1.5°C of global warming, but with an increase in the number of very intense cyclones (low confidence).

The qualifiers are important - they're not as confident about this claim as others, but feel the risk of it being true given that there is some scientific support for it, merits it being mentioned so people can make informed decisions.
Observed facts of Google Trends:

1. Clojure is less than 1% of Java market.

2. Clojure popularity is trending down.
I guess this only narrows the target audience down further.
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Does having JavaScript in the cell formulas allow you to do anything more than you could already do with Excel?
The idea that a huge infusion of Keynesian spending into the economy is going to trigger a generation-long recession has to be the least informed take.

The choice is a stark one: either invest in technologies and infrastructure to decrease CO2 production, or give future generations the gift of a dead planet.
I’m specifically referencing street lamps that are being prototyped and shown off at conferences with embedded 5G RF chips in them.

Anything to aid in power conservation is something I’d go for and not mock. Maybe needs some improvement as you mention, but not an idea I’d treat so harshly as above. Haha.
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Public relations is simply the modern terminology for propaganda. He is a military propaganda officer.
I worked for a company where they started development on a project with a code name. At this company the engineers always used code names and never product names even after a product was released. It was rough working in support always translating for everyone when you existed between both worlds.

Then on this project they CHANGED CODE NAMES midway through development. The confusion was needless and we burned so many cycles clarifying things.
That is exactly my point. Studying code for security exploits is hard and tedious work. If I were developing a Node.js app, I would be glad to pay someone to do that for me.
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Who knows!! By the time you graduate, ML may be out of fashion OR there may be too many ML PhDs by then.

I got my PhD in 2008 and my room-mate was doing a PhD in object recognition. Fei-Fei Li (who now is a bigshot at Stanford now) was a professor at UIUC in the same group. In the pre deep-learning days, object recognition was tedious, boring and un-cool. Semantic web etc was hot then!! And look at things today.
With all these smart people reading Hacker News, why is the the top comment so negative. This is a legitimately doable thing.

The vast majority of us on here are some type of engineer. We can answer the question of "How do we efficiently plant 1bil hectare of trees within 5 years?"

Yes, we need to do other things too. But if we wait for some panacea plan to emerge it will be too late. Just do it.

Just imagine if we accomplished this within 5 years. How glad would we be in 30 years once they really started to mature? Let's be good to future us.
But people want their SUVs and cheeseburgers. If you force people's standard of living to go backwards too far you will soon be voted out of office or have a revolt to deal with. Telling people to consume less does not work at the scale we are dealing in here. We need to find technical solutions because the cumulative lifestyle changes would be so massive they are a non-starter. With sufficient technical solutions the behavioral solutions can hopefully be small enough to be realistic.
That hasn't been true for many years — see e.g. https://segdeha.com/experiments/innerhtml/ for the Firefox 3 / Safari 4 era — and when it was, it was only in the case where you were blasting out huge amounts of changes at a time. For anything less than a complete rewrite of a large DOM hierarchy it was almost always faster just to update the elements in question using the DOM.

As an example, there was a lot of cargo cult performance discussion around React in the first few years. A coworker was really excited about it but the first time we did a benchmark for code which updated a report table, React was 5 orders of magnitude slower because it used innerHTML instead of the DOM and even with keyed updates that was doing tons of extra work.
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I had a business trip to Phoenix and it is pretty bad for walking and biking but not the worst. There are bike lanes and stuff, but none are protected and they are regularly interrupted by right turns which saw cars and trucks flinging around them at 30-40 mph or just blatantly driving in them. Road lanes are wide and speed limits are high even on side streets. Everything is at least a mile apart though except a few expensive malls and plazas.

Crossing the street feels like a game of frogger. Even if it's just a parking lot entrance. The sidewalks are ovens with zero shade or protection from the insane heat levels. The pavement acts as a radiant heater and you can feel the heat coming off of it.

However, the busses and light rail are pretty nice there! But the scooters being used by people feels like I'm walking into a virtual reality version of "/r/watchpeopledie"
Some work environments are more amenable than others to developing relationships. Do realize that many people in this thread probably only exist because their parents met in a work setting. Your own grandparents may have.

For many people, the workplace is where they spend the largest chunk of their life and thus the primary method of socializing and developing relationships.

There are workplaces where this is inappropriate. There are situations, such as imbalances of power, making this inappropriate. But it is far less appropriate, edging on trolling, for you to categorize every single work relationship as "women being harassed in the workplace".

Do know it is possible to develop a romantic relationship without harassing the other person. If you're not acquainted with the method, for the sake of your potential partners, please familiarize yourself.
I first and sometimes only read the one star reviews, and look at their percentage. If one-five have a distribution with a big slope discontinuity…

If it passes this test, I might read some of the other reviews looking for problems that I might agree with the viewer on.
Consider also https://twitter.com/AlbertEinstein

It's not a long-dead scientist, but is still verified as such.
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Being a monopolist is not inherently a bad thing. Every company wants a monopoly.
To what extent do studies or indices or whatever indicating that prices of goods have dropped under liberal economic & trade policies of the last few decades factor in quality of same goods? I'm not sure decent goods have actually dropped in price, and wouldn't be surprised if some have in fact become more expensive, and suspect that extremely crappy goods that didn't exist at all before account for much of the alleged reduction in prices.
Considering that most ranking algorithms don't a priori give more weight to lower ratings, this is probably fine.
Exactly what proportion of the gender imbalance is accounted for by a "Thing vs People" disparity, according to those studies?

Is it only a question of sex-related disposition? If so, what has caused disposition to change so radically over the last 30 years?

And why, for example where over 50% of nurses men in the 1900s in the US, but it is now only around 7%? What caused men to apparently become so much less interested in people over the last 100 years, starting to become more interested in people again in the last 10?
Not sure about the general population, but folks here are largely zeroing in on the conflict of interest issues. At least in the US, I would expect serving "PsyOps" people to be government employees, supported by taxes and subject to general oversight that taxpayers (at least in theory) should be able to exercise.

I would have no problems if he went to Twitter after retiring, but I see such double-dipping as a current gov't employee as a big problem. My 2c.
>>As an IT manager doing recruiting, a PhD is irrelevant, both for hiring decisions and for salary & career.

I mean, that's because you're talking about IT, which is traditionally about practical sysadmin/network engineer skills and even a Master's degree is good only for management tracks.

If you were recruiting in a field where cutting edge research is performed, e.g. hardware engineers for microprocessor design, it would be a different story. Intel and AMD for example employ a ton of PhDs.
(I need to find this study. I’ll update my comment if I do). Meat contributes a lot more than 5% when you breakdown transportation or deforestation or cultivation and land and energy used for cultivation of food for livestock - instead of simply livestock. The study said the number was closer to 18%.

Edit: here https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/78/3/660S/4690010
What did I get out of context? Or do you just feel finally called out?
I’ve been waiting a long time for these platforms to let any of us human users verify our human identities. Not sure if they actually want to.

Who wants to help me build a platform with only verified (you are the human you say you are) users?
> No, but I find myself gravitating much more towards the negative reviews.

I try to be careful here as well. I feel a lot of the negative reviews are paid for by competitors. Of course they tend to be easy to filter out because they're low effort reviews.
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From the other perspective, it's yours that is cynical (saying that we're all going to die in a few years), and its yours that is crab-bucketing us into the past (stop eating meat, stop flying airplanes, stop driving cars, stop taking holidays, even stop watching YouTube[0]).

How far back down the technology tree are we supposed to go?

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJn6pja_l8s "Climate crisis: the unsustainable use of online video"