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Parent comment is interesting in that it shows the disconnect between the way people get trained in quantum mechanics (or any hard science, for that matter) and what it takes in order to achieve a real understanding of the ways of Nature. Quantum mechanics is a highly mathematized and highly technical subject, and all this math and all these technicalities could be seen as merely a scuffolding; it is still hard to learn about the building by spending years studying the scuffolding. To me, it seems that the arguments about the basics will continue until the final unification with gravity has been found, because this may result in discovery of important constraints on the ways we should be thinking of these things. In the meantime, I think it maybe only people who apply quantum methods in their daily practice - quantum chemists, specialists in solid state physics etc. - will be the ones to have a better understanding of such matters as whether wave functions are real or not. Books about applied aspects of quantum theory could prove tremendously useful in that regard to everybody. One of the best for beginners, I believe, is Quanta by Atkins.
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It seems they're "precarious" because massive amounts of research is "fraudulent" or at minimum plagued with errors.

If my code was in a similar state, I would consider my career "precarious" or "at risk" too.
Anyone know the best place to learn more about kind of basic ops that a dev should know? I've done deployments, spun up AWS instances, configured load balancers etc., but my problem is that I don't know what I don't know. For example, when starting to debug, I get in there and muddle around, but there may be far more efficient way of doing it which I just don't know about. I'll watch ops guys use ps, netstat, etc., which are things I don't use, but presume are useful.
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I'm not sure what eval has to do with the specific problem, but you actually can nuke eval from your website in most browsers now with a header: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Security_Policy

You could also prevent this problem in general with Content Security Policy, by whitelisting only the domains you know JS should come from. Then, even if they do in fact get a script tag on to your page pointing at a hostile domain, it won't execute unless they also nuke your CSP headers. You can even set up your CSP such that it notifies you upon violations. In theory a hacker could still penetrate all that in one shot by disabling your CSP and then adding their script, but it means if they miss the CSP even briefly that you have at least a chance to be notified before they square it away. It at least raises the bar.

But the real problem here is that we're not generally talking about people who know about CSP, nor is it generally reasonable to expect they would or could, at least right now. It's pretty niche stuff in general. I'm sure if I gave a quiz on CSP here, a ton of people could reply with the correct answers, some of them even without Googling, but in general if I talk to my coworkers about that I'm doing well to get a vague "Yeah, I've heard of that I think..."
"Fox had little experience with game development; he and his three brothers often used RPG Maker 2000 to make role-playing games, though few were ever completed."

Fox still has all the assets for Undertale. All he has to do is port the battle system to Unity or something and then drop in the old assets. Someone already did it for the Sans battle: https://jcw87.github.io/c2-sans-fight/

The problem is, Fox is an unexperienced developer and doesn't know how to do that. He likely wants a one-click "convert my gamemaker game to nintendo" solution not an actual porting effort which would require rewriting parts of the game in a new language/engine.
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The milkman is still a thing in the UK at least, but certainly dwindling.
I think "decisions" is too strong a word. The UI is heinously inconsistent, and feels like a bunch of similar tools were crowbarred into a box and called an application. It's usable once you pick a semi-coherent subset of features and then ignore the rest, but it takes a lot of trial and error to figure that out.

Available features and even hotkeys change depending on what 'rendering engine' you choose? What? Not to mention that the interface conventions between parts editor, schematic editor, footprint editor, and layout editor vary significantly for no good reason.
This is literally nothing to do with any of the things that you mention. Why do you think it is? Indeed, it has been discussed many times in different contexts on Gelman's blog and here on HN too, so you can just read this and the previous discussions to see that it's specifically about research and statistics methodology in psychology. The blog post itself contains plenty of links itself that you can read to find out what it's about.
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Can we please bring back lectors for open office floor plans?

And you can still get premium milk delivered in the Denver area from Royal Crest dairy.
I get the impression the problem is that it's with ops/admins as it is with safety inspectors. When they do their job right, nothing spectacularly fails, and thus management starts wondering why they have this salary expense on the quarterly spreadsheet.

developers on the other hand go hand in hand with marketing, and thus is easily noticed when they do their thing right.
First, I don't understand why rapid feedback is bad. Communication adapts to new mediums all the time, and academia goes with it. The arXiv pre-print system is a great example of a field adapting well to a new technology.

Secondly, addressing the article's main point, I'm being told that social media comments about their studies are so traumatic and detrimental that they leave their careers. That's a problem with the researcher's ability to handle digital hate mail. Doctors, lawyers, dentists, and veterinarians all get massive amounts of digital hate mail.

Finally, after the failure to replicate studies, "self-appointed data police" and "methodological terrorism"[0] sound like exactly what the field needs.

[0] I have to say, only an incredibly insular community could come up with such an insensitive name. Checking your methods is not terrorism. Someone doing preliminary reviews on research data is not terrorism. To compare data critics to terrorists both insults the victims of actual terrorism, and dilutes the definition of the term so far as to be almost meaningless. They may as well call them "Methodological Nazis."
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Not in most of the real world outside of that crazy SF bubble.
You should work hard in your pre-med courses and get good grades, if you have not already taken them. The same is true for MCATs.

I took Physical Chemistry which I am told is looked at by medical admissions offices and something which standard applicants would have a hard time with but those with math/engineering backgrounds should do well in.
Indeed. It seems likely that there are prominent people in these fields, with decades of research and publishing behind them, almost all of it based on bad statistical methods. Naturally, there is a certain amount of panic.
The full no choice but to accept quote was specifically about priming studies, IIRC, and I guess what irked Gelman (a statistician) the most was that Kahneman got statistics wrong by overestimating the strength of evidence.
I wonder, what other jobs no longer exist?
ah, blogs are not allowed! I'll submit it normally.
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only an incredibly insular community

Or a community that has had previous success with adversarial labelling.
I think a modern version of a grocery delivery person would be valuable, but not to deliver food from nearby stores, but instead from nearby farms. It wouldn't need to be everyday, perhaps weekly. That keeps us using locally grown foods.
The HN user submitted the article with the editorialized title: "Walmart generated higher sales, profits by paying workers more, better training"

Please don't mislead readers with false information. The original NYT title does not have the word "profits" in it:

"How Did Walmart Get Cleaner Stores and Higher Sales? It Paid Its People More"

This is a critical distinction because the details of the story actually explain that profits are down -- not up -- after paying their workers more:

>The profit landscape is less sunny. Operating income for Walmart’s United States stores was down 6 percent in the most recent quarter, reflecting higher labor costs and other new investments.

>In the short term, the Walmart experiment shows pretty clearly that paying people better improves both the work force and the shoppers’ experience, but not profitability, at least not yet.
A “slowing down” of a simulation would only be perceptible to those observing from without, not those who are observing from within, whose perceptive processes would be slowed in synchrony with the processes they are perceiving.

There's no reason to presume the simulation proceeds at a constant rate as measured from the outside world either: “render times” may vary with the complexity and fidelity required — for example when we innards fire up the LHC, a huge bump in resolution might be required. When we innards venture onto the moon, a whole new world has to be mapped in and professing speed might drop accordingly.

What the original poster is saying is that insofar as we do not know what the base reality is, there is no reason to argue that our reality is a lower-fidelity instantiation of it: we might as well be a flawless emulation of something totally orthogonal to the base reality.

Furthermore for obvious reasons computation cannot endlessly recurs endlessly and somehow forms into a loop: somewhere the arithmetic actually has to be performed.
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This original editorial by Fiske, especially the "methodological terrorism" soundbite, reminds me of the NEJM data sharing editorial where they described people who use datasets that others shared as "research parasites".

Both editorials are written by people in positions of academic power (Fiske is a PNAS editor - PNAS editors have a unique and often criticized ability to unilaterally review and approve publication of articles without a peer review panel; NEJM editors wield great power in medical sciences).

Both are originally directed toward a narrower audience of their journal, but taken out of the confines of their academic cloister, start to sound ridiculous in a world where the public starts to point out where their funding is coming from, and poke holes in their reasoning.
I'm on a roster 1 week on 2 weeks off and so it becomes very bearable given proper resources (i.e. a laptop and 3G/4G dongle).

You throw it in your car boot and forget about it. You might get a call but unless you're out cliff climbing every weekend or something it's unlikely to be during anything important (about the only thing I avoid scheduling is dinner/movies with friends because skipping out on that would suck).
For an understanding of how America got to its current circumstance regarding drugs, I strongly recommend a book, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, by Johann Hari.

I found it an extraordinary read.
I didn't realize this was such a big deal. I've been vegan for years and will frequently go for long stretches without explicitly drinking water. The reason is that there is a ton of water in fruit and so don't get thirsty.

That said, it's not clear why drinking water wouldn't be healthier for me/author. Sure theres a lot of water in fruit and vegetables: so why think it bad to drink more, explicitly?
Yes, let's not get too sanguine about the idea of paying workers more money.
If the issues for things that aren't your fault happen are infrequent, then it's not a huge burden, and developers may be able to help with mitigation: ex if your internet bandwidth is cut in half because of a fiber cut, how can you move or shed load to have a stable, degraded system.

If the issues are frequent, then it provides incentive to build fault tolerance. (And also seething grudges for fault prone infrastructure)
That's not revolutionary at all, despite what the New York Times claims. This was done, long, long ago already by Henry Ford (double the going wage for his workers):

http://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2014/01/03/history/post-p...
I use Everything as well, it's really useful, very focused.

It may seem "lightweight" in a modern desktop machine, but I believe the way it works is: it keeps the index of your entire filesystem in RAM at all times. And it continuously monitors that filesystem to keep the index updated. It's kind of brute-force, really. I can think of some ways that could get out of hand and not seem so lightweight.

Regardless, the gap between what Everything can do and what the built-in File Explorer search can do is an embarrassing canyon, and I can't believe MS hasn't even fixed the built-in search enough to make it function correctly let alone quickly at this late stage.
What would the membrane be made out of?

Remember, it's not enough to be smooth. You have to be:

1. Smooth (on the inside) and

2. Straight and

3. Strong (enough to bear the stress of having a multi-ton vehicle passing within a few millimeters at 700MPH) and

4. Long (300 miles at least) and

5. Airtight for that entire length, and

6. Cost-effective.

It is that combination of features that no one has ben able to even begin to tell a story about how they would make it work in the face of thermal expansion.
You can make them throw actually.

set_error_handler("myErrorHandler");
function myErrorHandler($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline)
{
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}

Is all you need.

They are functions - yes. If your first language was fully OOP, then probably PHP is not your language of choice. It doesn't make it bad, though.
Agreed, OP's title is partly false.
Would be interesting if anybody will follow them. Walmart is taking a hit for the american economy by giving it's workers more spending power, not something I would have ever expected from the retail giant.
Whenever I get onto the subject of how robots are taking jobs away from people, my usual simple argument (when the conversation is only going to be a minute long) is that refrigeration took many jobs away, such as ice and milk delivery people.

But I wish I could find a more significant example of some industry that was huge and is now entirely gone due to modernization.
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Definitely stuffed my opinion of them. I thought they were for the people and made good decisions.

Nope - corporate suits - and they give us a response which doesn't even make logical sense. Do they think we're idiots?
Hell no! This is why adblockers exist.
Doesn't Apple Pay make this a non issue?

Especially now that it can be deployed on websites?
I've not worked on many CGI stuff (other than little things I use myself) but Python has all the housekeeping done. See this other post of mine that has an example of an interactive hello-world: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12712067 . And then, Perl is used for all sorts of CGI stuff. Both have good database support. CGit [1] is a git web interface written in C.

[1] https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/

P.S. An important thing that contributes to the success of PHP is the amount of hosting services that support it.
In Germany we still have a couple of "Turmwächter" (turm = watchtower of a church, wächter = watcher) left. Their jobs used to be watching for enemies, fire and blow a horn to signal the time of day. Some have apartments in the watchtower. In my town the woman (http://www.spiegel.de/karriere/bizarre-berufe-tuermerin-auf-...) took the position as recently as two years ago, part time job and she has to go up the stairs every day. Between 21:00 and midnight every half an hour she blows a horn in all 4 directions. Her predecessor did the job for 70 years and reported 20 fires. German Wikipedia lists 10 in Germany, Switzerland, Poland, those are probably the last 10 remaining. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BCrmer
There are multiple companies like this in germany/austria. Basically a subscription to organic food (Vegetables, bread, cheese,...). You never know exactly what you get, but most of the time you are ok with it.

One example: http://www.adamah.at
Yes, Walmart where a substantial (2-digit) percentage of their workforce requires food-stamps or other government subsidies to get by.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/15/...

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-w...
> start to sound ridiculous in a world where the public starts to point out where their funding is coming from

I have to say I disagree (did I misunderstand you?): they sound absolutely ridiculous even if your only goal is to do good science and you don't care one jot for the public or funding. That was always a key problem with research parasites and Fiske's methodological terrorism: apart from everything else, it's just bad science.
Computers is one job that comes to mind (as in human computer, one who computes).
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Ahh.. I forgot which field with which we're dealing.

However, I do like the ring of it. Instead of Data Scientist, I think my new title will be Senior Methodological Terrorist.
How is a lector different from audible/youtube/podcasts?
Near me there's a old duckpin bowling alley that's been refurbished to include a bar. They definitely employ pinsetters! It's such an interesting experience to have a human set pins just for you to knock them down.

Modern pinsetters have a different style than those of old. https://m.imgur.com/ePXtfSU?r
So an organized and violent group like ISIS, which has taken over large parts of Syria and smaller parts of other middle eastern countries by killing people and chopping off their heads is less of a threat than small groups of people in the US that may have violent ideas, but rarely acts on it??!?

I went to multiple Trump and Sanders rallies and the people in the Sanders rallies were far more violent, bullying, and oppressive to Trump supporters. It's pretty scary.

If anything, we need to worry about left-wing extremist in America..which has become mainstream with groups like BLM.

If Trump wins, I actually fear the left-wing violence in this country. From what I've witnessed, it's a pretty good chance there will be violent riots and people will get hurt. The group that claims to be about honesty and compassion seems to change their tune when it involves someone they don't like.

I know someone is going to bring up the story recently about the right-wing group (which was really just 4 guys) that wanted to blow up an apartment building where Syrians lived, but this occurrence is so rare, it's laughable.

The media doesn't even try to hide their bias anymore.
Not revolutionary but definitely radical in today's environment.
Dock workers (almost entirely replaced by containerization).
Well cloth / clothing manufacturing is probably the largest decrease I can think of. From the cotton pickers, to the spinsters, to the weavers, and tailors. Much of it has been mechanized.

The difference with robots though is that they can actually 100% out perform humans in the not to distant future. Once a robot has hands as agile and controllable as ours, and once they have energy requirements that are cheaper than ours, I don't see how humans could compete with them in non-cerebral jobs. And there is a good segment of the population that can only do physical work.
Thanks for providing that context. I believe this is the article you mentioned: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/05/...
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The idea that we need 8 glasses of water a day comes from water company marketing departments, not science. Same for nearly everything in the popular common knowledge about sports drinks and electrolytes for athletes and others exercising.

Unless you have some medical condition that throws off your normal body systems, you only need to drink when you feel thirsty. For some people that will happen several times a day, and for others it might happen only a handful of times or fewer depending on how much water they get from their food.

There was an excellent episode of "Adam Ruins Everything" a few weeks ago on this topic. It is well worth watching.
Ralph lacked call/cc, as you suggest. It did support upward continuations, or "exits", using a special form called bind-exit.

Scheme implementations of CLOS are much more common now than they were in 1992. The only ones I remember from around then are RScheme, Oaklisp, and of course Gregor Kiczales' tinyclos.

As far as language features, I still like Ralph the best of any language I've used, though there are things from newer languages I would want it to incorporate if it still existed today. But the actual usable language I like best today is Common Lisp.

There are a handful of other languages I like a lot--Scheme, Haskell, and ML are at the top of the list--but when I use them seriously, I miss Common Lisp. I don't miss any of them when I use Common Lisp.

I didn't miss Common Lisp or any other language when I was using Ralph.
I find this to be just a little bit oversimplified. Indeed, I find that learning on a daily basis keeps me employed, whether I am physically in the office or not, or what time of day it is. So, learning may be about your current salary -- keeping it, that is.
I think we'll keep forgetting, and rediscovering Fordism for many years to come, unfortunately.
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We actually have this in many developed places, albeit only for vegetables. Urban people subscribe to an "organic farm coop" and receive a set of season vegetables per week. They don't have much choice, but the upsides are:

- No intermediary/supermarket involved: Margins are fully paid to the producer who can either get a decent pay, work less or pay better materials,

- Vegetables are ripe, but needn't be nice, filtered or advertised in a fancy packing,

- Delivery at the reception of your company,

- The producer has forseeable recurrent revenue, just like developers for cloud services.

I've seen this in 2 French cities and in Sydney, so I bet it exists in San Francisco and most major cities.
I know that a lot of people have complained about the "boilerplate" that Redux involves, but as Dan Abramov said in "You Might Not Need Redux" [0], there's tradeoffs involved. Redux asks that you write your code with some constraints, and those constraints in turn open up some interesting possibilities. Time-travel debugging is one of them. May not be useful for _every_ scenario, but I've certainly found it incredibly helpful in my own app. @mdiordiev has done a fantastic job taking the DevTools core that Dan built and the Monitor UIs built by the community, and wrapping those up into a cohesive tool that makes the debugging experience even better.

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