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Ask HN: Should someone of average intelligence bother with a PhD?
To preface, when the topics of doctoral degrees come up, there tends to be a lot of discussion on whether they’re worth it or now, the reasons for doing one (or not), or just general debates about academics or academia and whether they’re worth their salt. I’m not interested in rehashing that, so for the purpose of the question that the hypothetical subject does want to do a OhD and for the “right” reasons.

Would someone in a STEM field and of average intelligence be capable of completing a quality PhD? If the goal is to produce original research, is such a person likely to be capable of priding truly original work? Especially for fields that are more mature and much of the low hanging fruit plucked? Or would it be more likely that they struggle to understand the context and knowledge required to work on the bleeding edge of their respective field, ultimately leading to them dropping out, or producing barely novel work.
> "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License"

The NonCommercial part makes it incompatible with the Open Source Definition:

https://opensource.org/osd

>
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.

Ditto the Debian Free Software Guidelines:

https://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html

> Q: Can I say "You must not charge [much] money for distributing the program"?

> A: This is non-free. We want Debian to be distributed by for-profit CD vendors and improved by corporate resellers. We can only include programs whose authors allow this.

> For many users buying Debian on disks is more convenient (and cheaper) than downloading. For-profit distribution is the most reliable and convenient way to ensure that Debian disks are easily available everywhere where there is a demand. Because everyone can download the CD images and start producing their own disks, competition ensures that nobody will make an undeserved fortune distributing Debian.

> Q: Can I say "You must not use the program for commercial purposes"?

> A: This is non-free. We want businesses to be able to use Debian for their computing needs. A business should be able to use any program in Debian without checking its license.

It also goes against the Creative Commons people's guidance on the matter:

https://creativecommons.org/faq/#can-i-apply-a-creative-comm...

> Can I apply a Creative Commons license to software?

> We recommend against using Creative Commons licenses for software. Instead, we strongly encourage you to use one of the very good software licenses which are already available. We recommend considering licenses listed as free by the Free Software Foundation and listed as “open source” by the Open Source Initiative.
Because many want JS to die in a giant hellfire and then shat on the ashes. So alternatives are being made that don't rely on it.
Can I opt out for someone else? I've owned my house for 11 years after buying it at an estate auction and I still receive mail addressed to the prior (deceased) occupant. It's ridiculous.
If a policy holder:

* completes a smoking cessation class
* has a mammogram/pap smear/PSA test/colonoscopy
* has cholesterol levels checked
* attends a monthly diet/nutrition group class
* attends a participating gym twice a week

then discount the insurance premium appropriately for each positive lifestyle behavior.
Your scenario only increases infectiousness. Many viruses are more deadly than covid 19. H5N1 is about 60% fatal, more deadly than ebola. It's quite difficult to contract at least until researchers genetically modified it to be airborne. They didn't need permission for this research and didn't even perform it in the highest safety level labs.
> Many people want to go outside and do something every now and then... but on the way to/from Mars there's nowhere to go, and every moment you're in space you know that on the other side of thin shield of metal lies death.

Not much changes when you get there, too. I think at best we will have something like McMurdo Station, for researchers on 2-3 year stints. Maybe less, since the round-trip is long and cosmic rays remain a significant health concern even when you are on Mars itself—no appreciable magnetic field and no ozone layer.

Even when you're there, excursions will be limited and planned well in advance, probably not much different from spacewalks today. The rest of the time you'll be in a tiny underground bunker.

Under current projections, anybody who took a trip to Mars with a ~1 year stay would exceed their lifetime radiation allowance, and would never be able to fly again. (Assuming a solar flare doesn't kill you mid-trip. Unlikely, we think, but possible.) If you're the first astronaut, or even the first dozen, this might be worth it. After that, though...? I'm sure there would be no shortage of volunteers, but we won't just need bodies, we'll need talented scientists at the top of their game who are physically and mentally healthy enough to make the trip in the first place.
> It's hard to be mad at someone once you realize you'd do the same thing if you were in their shoes.

Speak for yourself, bud.
Also related: Scott and Scurvy

https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
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Not entirely, just the part that refuses to fund the USPS directly.
From what I understand, HIV is fairly difficult to transmit, requiring an exchange of infected body fluids. This makes it deeply traumatic because the people you're most likely to infect will be people extremely close to you. To some extent this is true of almost any transmissable disease, but HIV added the twist that infection is very, very unlikely to happen between two individuals that are not physically intimate with each other.

In this sense, HIV doesn't seem like a particularly good model for anything like a coronavirus pandemic. Aerosol transmission just totally changes almost every aspect of the resulting pandemic.

What lessons do you wish we had learned from HIV?
https://www.amazon.com/Story-Savannah-Labor-Management-Publi...

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63584
That's https://github.com/QQuick/Transcrypt
A friendly reminder for the 99% of people here who, like me, don’t live and breathe this stuff:

Don’t “just” use some crypto construction you read on HN. Don’t invent your own thing. Find a well respected crypto library (eg libsodium) and look up your use case in the API documentation. Eg, for authentication libsodium exposes these API methods:

https://libsodium.gitbook.io/doc/secret-key_cryptography/sec...
my hands were always too slow for my brain
Not to be confused with Royal Dutch Shell company!
You're wrong. Not giving RMS a free pass to do or say whatever he wants for all eternity is literally cancel culture.
> Pennsylvanians have been complaining about teachers’ pension costs since 2001, when state lawmakers sweetened all state workers’ pensions — including their own — on the thinking that the bull market of the 1990s would continue indefinitely. That mistake was laid bare a few months later when Wall Street and the economy dived after the terror attacks of Sept. 11. But lawmakers said the pension boosts couldn’t be reversed.

This is so weird. Did they mean to say they didn't want to reverse them? It's been 20 years now.

Anyway, I do not understand how defined benefit schemes can operate in either public or private markets. They are unpredictable and the result is this article...
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The "both sides" argument doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. The key factor is that there is no measurable cost to, say, conservatives, for conceding on LGBT rights--just general talk in the abstract about moral decay.

There is a real, measurable cost to gay people, when they can't get married like everyone else, and to transgender people when they can't comfortably relieve themselves in public. The cost is also to society -- how does society benefit by bullying LGBT people into severe depression when they could otherwise go on to be productive members of society?
Thank you, this is one of the most insightful explanations on the subject of shell companies in less than 300 words!

Based on your name handle, are you happen to be one of the lawyers for these oversea tax heavens ;-)
I find it beautiful in part because I have a high tolerance for ambiguity and I enjoy loose association. The wheat section was my favorite. For me, it evokes a feeling of discontent about knowing highly abstract concepts without knowing the basics. Like, she knows about fairytales, but she doesn't know how to make bread. But it's not really about bread; separating the wheat from the chaff seems to be more about determining what is important in life. And everyone else here probably has a different take on this section.

It is thoughtfully ambiguous. It's thought provoking in part because it is unclear. You, as the reader, are an active participant in giving it meaning. What makes it "well done" is that many readers succeed in giving it meaning they find insightful or entertaining.

It is fertile soil for your imagination.
> But sails are too high maintenance to be scalable.

I'm not sure how true this is, as a number of sail-assisted designs are already in use around the world, and have been for at least a decade. There are even several insurance classifications for large-scale cargo ships that incorporate the various possible sail-assisted architectures.
> As a user environment where I can download packages and visual apps to run locally?

It's almost like the computer needs the ability to run applications separate from the browser, to achieve tasks that are unrelated... What an idea that would be!

However some of the tasks you mention are very trivial. It seems hard to believe that you think a dedicated "app" is required for example your first example "convert a string to caps". This can be solved several ways on macOS out of the box.

TextEdit: New Document, (paste content), select all, Edit > Transformations > Make Upper Case

Terminal: pbpaste | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' | pbcopy

Edit: oh and I forgot to mention, Preview.app (also built in) will open a gif as a series of image frames, so you can do as you wish with them.
It is funny and slightly dissonant that Roald Amundsen, the greatest polar explorer of all (forgive me Fridtjof) is mentioned in a subordinate clause as "The Belgica’s first mate, a fellow Norwegian named Roald Amundsen".
In the early part of a pandemic, when there are only a few tens of people infected, and especially when international travel is involved, preventing each one of those persons is eliminating a new cluster in an area around that person. Slowing the spread is important at all stages, but particular important and effective at the beginning. Early quarantine could mean the difference between no outbreak, a little outbreak, or a huge outbreak. It's particularly important to buy enough time putting a testing program in place so that you can identify and quarantine people, which is vastly more effective than broad lockdowns.

Of course, we could just throw our hands up and admit defeat and roll in whatever shit the dirtiest of us swine digs up and let bugs run rampant in the population, because it's "just the flu" or some idiotic crap like that.
But hey, maybe NL will get proper FANG companies instead of Uber and Amazon.
Except that I can easily run a full bitcoin node on my desktop but not an ethereum node. What is the point of having a cryptocurrency if I have to trust someone else to run the software for me?
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That is beautiful. I wish the company great success.

> Epsilon is a high-performance graphing calculator operating system.

> It includes eight apps that cover the high school mathematics curriculum.

https://www.numworks.com/resources/engineering/software/

https://github.com/numworks/epsilon

Looks like this single codebase is used to build for the calculator device, and all targets for the simulator: Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and the web.

> NumWorks Epsilon is released under a CC BY-NC-SA License.

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode
There's a very experimental chef in New Orleans that has done amazing things with plant based pork belly, including the 'rind'.
This is a dark pattern. Webassembly is binaries with no source. There is nothing to deny that. It closes the web and it isn't free software. It is moving back to proprietary. For reasons that all the googlers or other webasm devs here can't admit.
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I’m getting the impression you’ve never run a company before since you seem to think you’re making logical arguments so I’ll answer you earnestly regardless of the ad hominem attacks you’re making.

That concept became controversial 57 years ago with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the controversial nature of it has been strengthened over the decades since through a multitude of hostile workplace laws building on the CRA.

What those laws mean is hiring an employee, doubly so for a manager like the man in question, who has published a high profile book disparaging a protected class of people opens up the company itself to lawsuits on the basis of discrimination relating to a hostile workplace if a single member of that protected class is (or even feels) mistreated in some way because it’s evidence the company should’ve known about the potential hostile environment and did nothing to prevent it.

And so it’s clear, no this is not the same thing as cancel culture based on a tweet or forum post or even on the scale of Amazon banning Parler. It’s not the same as James Damore and Google. Those all do not necessarily meet the standard of public speech while this guy went and published a book which very clearly does. This is a half a century plus of laws and cases establishing precedent and companies acting in a way to prevent costly lawsuits.

No well run company would open themselves up to the legal risk involved in hiring or keeping on someone like this for a management role, especially after it was clearly brought to light in this manner. Apple’s HR department is almost definitely currently trying to figure out what mistake resulted in him not getting filtered out earlier in the process so they can prevent this from happening again.

"Can he do the job?" has not been the only thing that matters, and in fact the situation described in this instance has mattered, for over a half century, I’m guessing longer than you’ve been alive. Not because of woke mobs or free speech or any other recent political talking points or even really about Apple caring about sexism. It’s about avoiding clear cut legal and financial risk period.
We are going to have to think of a different way of accessing the cargo.

Cargo ships as currently built cede the entire middle section of the boat to cranes. Cranes they won't see until the end of their voyage, or the beginning of the next. The whole rest of the time you can't use the vertical axis for anything else.

Things that slide around tend to break loose in heavy weather, and boats don't stay afloat if the center of gravity moves too far, so sideways seems like a bad idea. I don't know what the solution is, exactly.
So did the russians, UK, etc.
What’s nice about Yadm is that the mental model is so simple that it’s impossible to forget—just a Git repo with worktree in ~.
> Implemented on its own, people would go hungry, causing social unrest.

Why would that happen?
All I got to say is watching people yammer on about the 'low death rate' has convinced me that cognitive inertia and motivated reasoning are a hell of a drug.

Seriously my dad is 85. Death rate in his age group is not 'low'. These kinds of people simply refuse to consider the implications.
The best source is actually reading all that was shown in court, so many juicy details in all shape and form. Along with evidence that confirm or reshape your certain belief with each individuals as well as companies.

The 2nd best I found was somehow from Cnet [1] from Shara Tibken. The link is a high level summary, her twitter account has many more information.

And it was at that moment I learned, It wasn't the reporter's problem for fake news. I discovered most Reporter's Twitter account actually report more useful information with very little bias. They were actually doing their job, wonderful and brilliantly old fashioned way. What was the problem is a lot of these were editorialised in print or online in order to drive click rate.

I was on Apple's side at first, although I knew their explanation of "Double Dipping" and Patents Percentage of a Devices were false. But I still gave them many benefits of doubt and that Qualcomm was over charging. But when all the figure was shown, Intel throw in the towel, the amount of Hypocrisy from Apple was far beyond anything I have seen. I seen then have gain tremendous respect for Qualcomm as a business and how professional they were in the whole account.

[1] https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-and-qualcomm-settle-heres-wh...
In case anyone sees this as an exercise in a technological "false ceiling" (as in, why make a physical calculator with limited RAM and display instead of a more capable calculator app for a modern cell phone) consider this page your answer:

https://www.numworks.com/calculator/exams/

> Can I use the NumWorks calculator on my test?

> We've got you covered! The NumWorks graphing calculator is approved for use on most exams.

It includes SAT, ACT, and AP exams, which pretty well hits the high points for college-bound teenagers in the USA.
Because they created the best service so far. Taxi was a shit show before Uber.

Sort of like Jobs and smartphones.
Apart from (Soviet) ice breakers Nuclear powered merchant ships haven't had a successful history. I guess politically most states don't want nuclear technology to spread or let nuclear material into the wrong hands - by their nature cargo ships travel and would be an easy target for hijacking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_marine_propulsion#Civi...
I think politicians are generally expecting the industry to come up with a different name. For all the people talking about being "insulted" by these protections, then maybe you'd be insulted by the fact that orange juice, pasteurized milk, ice cream, and yogurt are all things that have general definitions what constitutes them because businesses have deliberately tried to fool the public. It's why you can't just throw 1% orange juice with sugar water and call it orange juice because you threw some pulp in there. Sometimes this is the FDA and sometimes it's a state, as is the case with frozen yogurt and the state of California. [0]

Companies like Beyond Meat are producing products that the aspire to taste just like beef. This is one of the first laws I expected to see, because it's standard practice based on precedent.

0: https://www.realcaliforniamilk.com/real-california/frozen-yo...
You might want to just try a lower dose. While it may be different because I don’t take stimulants for ADHD, I don’t feel like myself if the dose is too high.

Also, different medications work for different people. Vyvanse works the best for me, but I’m just after stimulation (for idiopathic hypersomnia).
Here’s a handful of reversals from the first half of 2020 alone. It wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t speak with such certainty about things that are not in fact certain.

https://www.fumento.com/articles/erosion-of-trust-10-things-...

Fauci was also notoriously resistant to coming around on the evidence around aerosol spread.
Give me an alternative that is better or comparable and I'll think.
The charity is apparently not dumping it to "protect the investors"

>We have decided to convert the donation slowly over a period of time.

https://twitter.com/CryptoRelief_/status/1392559057764962304
Exactly this. I know some people dread it but I cant wait for the software industry to mature to the point of having ethics boards, building codes, bodies that license professionals, multiple tiers of professionals (think of the nurse vs pa vs physician analog), etc. It’s expensive to build real good software and too often well meaning devs are left trying to cobble together a half finished product on unrealistic timelines overworking themselves to add all the building code in secret because their management didn't understand why it’s necessary. Not to mention the inconsistency in hiring and level of ability you have to wade through when everyone is an “engineer”.
"we'll need talented scientists at the top of their game who are physically and mentally healthy enough to make the trip in the first place."

From what I understand, the science can be done better with robots and probes anyway. So I'm not sure scientists are even necessary.

But they will need dedicated, motivated, fit, and mentally stable people willing to risk and possibly give up their lives.
Please read this and make up your mind:

https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...

The WHO can't be trusted unfortunately.
Spend it on learning what you want to learn, rather than on what other people tell you to learn.

If you don't know what you want to learn, spend it on a coach or mentor.
What an extremely talented individual you are. Thanks for sharing your work and your process in the YouTube videos.

As someone who comes from a web dev background and who's completely unfamiliar with developing large projects in C, I'm curious about your setup. What does it look like? In terms of what kind of IDE, OS, interesting tooling, etc. you use on a regular basis to work on this.

Also, I've seen the first commit goes back to Oct 2017. Did you work on this full time during the whole time / how many full-time months you would say you devoted to this project? Also, if I may ask – what do you do for a living?

Thanks again and congrats on the project!
Sell vaccines?
Turning businesses into the thought police is one of the more evil ramifications of civil rights legislation.
> out of a fear of scaring people:

Which is the greatest irony of all. Nothing is more terrifying than finding out you are being lied to, it's actually way worse, and leadership has no clue what it is doing.
Huh? To track if the user is logged in (for longer than 90 seconds) you’ll need another token, used to refresh the JWT token. And you’ll need the normal session infrastructure to validate that anyway.

That sounds like a very complex system to cache session tokens. You may as well just cache normal session tokens for 90 seconds in your application servers. Same result, less complexity.
Nix plus homemanager plus direnv is the best solution I have found so far. Managing config (dotfiles) is only one part of the problem. You usually also need some way to install applications/tools ideally in a specific version. your config might not work as expected with a different version and you would have to remember what exactly you installed. As a developer using direnv will even allow you to use different versions of tools for different projects/ directories
Which is dumb, because the "saltwater" batteries have manganese cathode and titanium phosphate anode... doesn't sound radically different than lithium iron phosphate.
> most of the members of the 95%ile that have joined MENSA aren't massively successful, any more than anyone on the middle of the bell curve.

This may be a selection effect. Perhaps the members of the 95%ile who are successful don't have the bandwidth left to join MENSA and see no value in doing so.

As a personal anecdote from ~15 years ago, which was the last time I affiliated with anybody who talked openly about being in MENSA, their activities there frankly sounded a bit like a self-therapy group which turned me off from even attempting to join.