skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Examples of changes which may impact "everyone will lose their job" predictions:

* Delocalization of work. The need for physical proximity is still a pervasive bottleneck. As that further relaxes (VR, remote work), what changes? Think "N weeks to get there" Roman empire vs current "call/email/tweet the world". Maybe a world without commutes? Without two-body problems?

* More richly interwoven human/machine-learning hybrid work processes. Say CEO compensation plummets as you get jit virtual "CEO"s. What happens when most businesses can afford competent leadership? Management? Even if the number of businesses increases by an order of magnitude? Or three?

* What does an economy look like if most people are scrambling, looking for opportunities, not working n-hour "jobs"? Where you can again pick up a "help wanted" "paper", and have a work a few hours later?

Yes, it's easy to imagine dystopias. Especially with resurgent aristocracy, regulatory capture, a patent system I expect to remain broken my entire professional career, and so on. But it's also easy to forget just how much potential change is inbound. Modulo the usual dangers of stagnation and wreckage, "you've not seen anything yet". Maybe.
So to start with you need an employer; you're not going to get anywhere without a company sponsoring you.

The problem with H1-B visas is that there is a cap on visas that only meets ~1/3 of the demand, and the way this is resolved is via a lottery system. You need your paperwork in on a given date in the year (Early April iirc), and it will take a few months to know if your application has been selected; if it's not, you have to wait until next year to apply again.

Another option is the O-1 visa. You don't need to have a Nobel prize to get one, but it's definitely the one where you have to show that you are special. As an example, one of the things they like to see is that your proposed pay would be at the 90th percentile of people of people with that role in that location, but there are other criteria.

L1 visas are great since there is no lottery, but you do need to work for the same company internationally for a year first.

Given all of this, your best bet is to find a large international company you want to work for and apply there and try to work out a plan with their recruiter who should be able to tell you about how they deal with this situation since I'm sure it comes up very often. The most likely outcome is that unless you've nailed down a job before April and are fine with only a 1/3 chance of having a visa in ~August, they'll recommend working in their EU location and then transferring later.

Also, the "dual intent" doctrine allows you to get a green card from all of these visas, even if they are considered non-immigrant visas.
Or, maybe you forget which directory you are in, and delete the wrong one that way: `rm -rf ../*` when you think you're in `/mnt/work/grkvlt/tmp` but are actually in `/mnt/work/grkvlt` at the time.
I also have this. Intensity of the noise correlates to the brightness of the flash. Also, it isn't every noise for me. "Sharp" noises, like a door closing or my cat knocking a book off a table, etc make the flash. The heater hummin. Along in the background does nothing.
So, how does this compare with the Signal app, WhatsApp, and other secure chat clients that use the same library?

What makes ChatSecure a better choice? What can I do with it that they can't?
Thanks. I am really looking to take the content from the slideshow, plus content from a previous version of the website, and turn it into a website, no slideshow.

It is quite old and needs to be updated in various ways. But I really don't want to embed the slideshow. I want to take the content and publish it as webpages. So, that's my question here: How do I do that? I have maps and stuff on it and it doesn't just copy-paste.
Much like raises, Devs can get strung along by promises to clean up or rewrite in the future, or often by their own thinking that they can slowly fix things (been down that road enough myself).

Also, it makes it possible to get to the point where you are retaining people for 2+ years. If there is a lot of turnover under that then it's probably the companies fault.
I know it's not quite synesthesia, but I could always hear the boards coming up when skating backwards even though I'm not sure of the mechanism. I wonder how much preprocessing goes on before we interpret our senses (is hearing just that good?/can I judge the distance to the opposite boards accurately enough to sub in "hearing" them?/see the reaction from other players?/etc?).

edit: I was still kind of a shitty hockey player but I was never surprised by the boards.
But lots and lots of writers (and poets!) are happy to go for jarring effects :) I wonder if a single one of them has ever used a sound-word to describe a flash of light. Even ambiguously. (for example, I said we could say "I saw a flare pop in the distance" - and it could be about the sound/act of firing the flare, rather than what thd sight "sounds like". (so 80% of readers could misunderstand.) so can anyone quote an example from poetry or literature?
The hard advice I have is: If the new company is a competitor of the old company. And the stuff you are reusing is directly related to the core business of the old company.

Absolutely don't do that.

The far end of that would be reusing bash scripts you developed as an IT guy for a now out of business drywall manufacturer for you new job as an IT guy for a manufacturer of 3D printers.

No one will notice. There is no one to care (out of business). And it's not worth a lawyers time.
> For you maybe, I'd say it's largely because they're sentient beings we share this planet with.

And my point is that a view such as this is a luxury people can now have because they are no longer required for survival. There have of course been people in the past that did not view these animals as tools, but for the vast majority of our history the vast majority saw them at least partially as a tool. The vast majority of people were seen as tools as well. Again, what I mean when I say tool and what you interpret when you read tool are very likely subtly different, otherwise I don't think you would have much objection. As I stated, I'm not treating them any different than people in this specific respect.

> It's a nice idea, but compassion fatigue is a real phenomenon.

Which doesn't really matter all that much when the whole point is that it may affect massive amounts of people. If it's affecting that many people, it's not compassion that's being tapped, but the changing circumstances of yourself and your immediate loved ones. Compassion isn't called for when it's happening to you; you don't become inured to pain like that when it's your own pain.

> I don't think we can rely on mobilising the population into action over every injustice.

I'm not proposing we do or can, for every injustice. I'm just noting that the people still have a massive amount of power, and when things affect them enough, they create change. The recent election is proof of this. People felt a change was needed, and felt they weren't being represented (whether true or not), and now we're in for something different. I don't think that necessarily means better, but I doubt it will be the status quo.
Part of the problem is that properly designed medical experiments on humans are an ethical minefield so there are compromises all over the place.
Yes, if you don't own the code. Unless you had an unusual arrangement with your employer, the code is a work made for hire, meaning your previous employer owns it. That's not just a moral question either - you can get into legal trouble.

That's not to say you can't incorporated what you learned into the new code, but it should be, morally and legally, new code.

You should avoid this kind of temptation by not taking code with you when you leave a job.
35 years with the possibility of parole in 10 years seemed pretty reasonable to me.
That's been my experience as well. Postgres handles everything until you hit an edge case on some of your data (volume writes with scale out, performance critical advanced functionality, heavy BI work with huge datasets, etc).

When you hit those edge cases or specific needs, you implement the specialty solution. Most people never come close to those edge cases though. When they do, PGs foreign data wrappers make the adjustment as smooth as possible.
Society already is that "flipped around" scenario, there are thousands of places on the web where you can yell and call people idiots/fascists/libtards/whatever. Have you ever seen it be productive ? Change people's minds on important issues ? No. To effect change you have to have respect and compassion for the person who's mind you are trying to change.
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I wish more databases were developed with modular, reusable pieces. RocksDB is already a popular storage engine for anyone building a database today. Throw iterlib[1] (shameless plug) on top of it, you get a query API for free.

Now you get to innovate on top of these modules using reactive APIs, user space TCP, Fancy serialization, Standards compliant SQL etc.

Some of the current incumbents were written in the 90s when C++ was a different programming language, which hurts innovation.

[1] https://github.com/facebookincubator/iterlib
Get ready for every unique snowflake you know to claim that they have this new, special power :)
The landlord definitely had no right to raise rents to such an absurd price, but a 400k penalty is equally absurd. I have no respect for both people in this case.
No, the DNC led the Democrats to political disaster by discouraging anyone other than HRC from running, and running an atrociously hubris-filled campaign
Yes, thank you. So many people in this thread are making the absurd assertion that security is a binary thing — it's either totally secure against all threats, or it's insecure.

What the security community has spent the last 20 or so years coming to grips with is that it's very hard to cover every attack surface, and not wind up with a product that nobody outside of a select few are smart or dedicated enough to use (e.g., GPG), or that people don't just blindly click through endless warnings (e.g., the not-so-distant days of TLS). What we can do is make incremental improvement over the existing tools that people use by covering more in the threat model or improving the usability such that more people use it and/or fewer people ignore important concerns.

As a mass-market anti-surveillance and privacy-enabling chat app, WhatsApp is an incredible success. It's not replacing GPG with a carefully-curated web of trust. It's replacing plaintext SMS.

There are better tools if you know your threat model includes targeted, high-budget attacks the FSB, NSA, or CIA.
In fact, the implicit basis behind the method described in the article is exactly conservation of mass.
That only obfuscates the reader's IP. Gmail respects Cache-Control headers, so it will not cache the image if you tell it not to.
>Decentralization is usually popular because of illegal intents (like bittorrent).

I guess we view de/centralization in a different way. All the sites you listed are centralized under a brand/code but decentralized on cloud servers. Inspecting a page and viewing sources you can see how many places a site loads from (hackernews is pretty centralized)

>Decentralization is for the most part, an enthusiast endeavour.

I'd agree that Bitcoin is an enthusiast endeavour currently. There are several elephants in the room though, the federal reserve, unaccountable corruption, currency manipulation, SuperPACS, offshore tax havens. I'm not naive enough to claim that Bitcoin could solve these problems or even any of them, but it could be used as a tool if utilized properly.
Woah, still enough to make anyone go insane.
The White Working Class Will Come for Silicon Valley Next
Moore’s Law is not about transistors it’s about the mechanics of human belief
>> I want to be able to read it fifty years from now ...

> Yes, you won't be able to index them ...

The availability of old information is strongly related to the ability to index it. Your notes from ten years ago may be physically there, but how long is it going to take to find what you need?

I use pen and paper all the time but only for ephemera. Its advantage is that I'm not constrained by having to write pure text and I have a 2d surface, but once the thoughts are down and concrete the important bits are transcribed into my org-mode file, which even allows me to transcribe diagrams and math faithfully. I've read Altucher's words on using a waiter's pad and he says the same thing -- it's for ephemera. I've seen the way many people use physical notes and it's largely the same thing. The ones that do use paper as long-term storage have a separate set of notes just for that, and transcribe from short-term to long-term anyway, at which point the other liabilities of paper come into play.

Paper is heavy, and takes space. Over the years I've amassed a copious amount of notes that haven't yet been digitized. Without exaggerating, they're enough to fill a suitcase. That kind of mass is an anchor, and when I move I get to make a decision: bring them, or leave them in storage. Notes I can't get at might as well not exist.

My ideas, understanding of things also evolve over time, and if my notes are to be faithful to that they should allow the same mutability. Even if I want to preserve the history of the evolution, I'll want to be able to insert the new things where they make sense -- a new consequence here, a parenthetical that amends the previous thought there.

Paper worked well for persistence when that was all we had, but we have much better now.
OneNote has it too.
Things which assert credibility by claiming that they're "proven" are some of the worst. Sadly there's no real way to know the difference other than having a scientific background and examining the actual research.
Zim does have support for embedding images, or links to other files/websites.
I am loling, but I think perhaps parent meant to ask "how is it known [... to doctors of audiology]". I.e. how did people determine thay fact. Or maybe he was just being a smartass.
Tesla to expand Gigafactory production
What makes it worse is that they spend precious credibility on this nonsense so when something that should be as simple and important as "Polio will $%*& up your whole family, you should get this vaccine" comes along, they've got so little left that otherwise rational people doubt them and are suckered by quacks.
This is a business about people. You can have information that's not "embarrassing" or "damaging" to the US that's both embarrassing and damaging to individuals in other countries.

Again, there's a practical side here. As I asked in another post, just how much would you share with a friend or family member that was going to immediately run to publish what you said in a Facebook post? Because that's essentially what Manning did.
> Changing the diets of millions of children at once should require airplane-construction levels of confidence

The safe default for airplane construction is not to build it (or not fly it).

There is no "safe default" for a diet...it's not like you can stop eating. So they'll serve their best guess of a good school lunch.
Dutch reporters question MH17 probe results after many pieces found  crash site
I used to have a high res inexpensive tablet that I loved to bits, but I dropped it carelessly and I'm finding it impossible to replace the screen. Right now I use Preview on macOS. Since I'm on my laptop anyway, I make notes in a text editor. That helps me remember what I read.
I got 2.1.1 working on my raspberry pi. The binary I have is an arm build but I can confirm that the issue can be solved by editing the binary as detailed in https://gist.github.com/neuro-sys/41e368839a9b20dafb34

I forked the binary from https://mecrazy.net/2016/06/06/i-built-phantomjs-2-1-1-for-r...

it's available here: https://github.com/ShamariFeaster/phantomjs-binaries
I'm not an MD but after reading about how the USDA's pyramid of foods came to be. It shows how the power of politics and the power of money dictated grains as the base rather than vegetables. Or how eggs became enemy number one against cholesterol, not because of research but because someone thought that high cholesterol food equals high cholesterol in people. While it may seem to make sense that should not be the way to recommend food choices for millions. Where's the science? Yet it was sold as advice based on science.

Anyhow I agree with you 100%.
I read that as "Depression is as hard on the heart as it is on obesity and cholesterol" and was confused for a moment...
Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence
AFAIK (unless the rust one is very different to the .net one) it maintains it's own state by looking at the source, not at the compiled output. Adding a class in a new file should make it visible in intellisense before the code is recompiled.
I'm afraid I see literally no way to evaluate this sort of comment based on its merits. Given you're anonymous here, any chance you could link to well-known/credible professionals who agree with you?
I would be interested in knowing what 'hard on the heart' means. They mention it can lead to cardiovascular disease, but I understand that to be kind of a vague term.

I am a fairly healthy young guy and I have extremely high blood pressure. Every doctor I've seen has been unable to identify a cause through testing, dietary changes, fluctuation of exercise, etc. When I was younger, I was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and have had major bouts of depression my whole life. More so since getting a job as a developer. Any data connecting the depression and HBP would be really helpful.
I'm on a macbook, and neither the desktop or web application (under chrome at least) seems to recognize tab. Granted, I want my tab to be a configurable number of spaces, but currently it does nothing. Also, there doesn't seem to be any sign of auto indent.

Is tab support and auto indent planned? Or is this editor essentially a sort of demo placeholder, with a goal of a different, feature-full editor implementing the standard note synchronization bits?
Just to play devil's advocate here, if the old dietary guidelines were bunk and the new replacement guidelines are also bunk then are we any worse off?
It's a failing of the industry to treat nutrition as cause and effect when the body is clearly a complex system.

Then again, it's hard to pick a complex system that we do model properly.. the economy, the climate, the body, etc..
As noted above, Bear is the most Vesper-y thing available IMO.

I was just wondering yesterday whether Q Branch knew about Bear and were lamenting the fact that it is, essentially, their app in a different skin. As Gruber has noted on Daring Fireball [1], they seem to have launched at just the wrong time in just the wrong way. For whatever reason, Bear seems to be succeeding.

I knew the instant that I installed Bear that I'd love it. It's just nice.

That said, the majority of my notes still live in nvALT [2], stored as plain text in Dropbox, sync'd via Simplenote to allow me to use their mobile app. Standard format, distributed all over the place [3]. I can't imagine a scenario that would cause me to lose my notes.

[1]: https://daringfireball.net/2016/08/vesper_adieu

[2]: From where, on my Mac, I can Cmd-Shift-E to edit a note in FoldingText for all the Markdown loveliness.

[3]: Dropbox, synchronised to multiple machines, one of which stores it on my Synology, which is periodically rsync'd to an external drive which is kept in my girlfriend's house; Simplenote; Time Machine; Backblaze; SuperDuper!
Thanks for the kind words :-) I really appreciate it and I'm glad you find it useful.
So, it's war. And??? The video:

We see a guy carrying what looks like a rocket launcher. (it's a really really long telephoto lens) He is sneaking around with the enemy (sort of an embedded journalist) and peaking out from around corners, appearing to point a rocket launcher at the US military. Unsurprisingly, he gets blown to bits.

We see an enemy hop over a wall while getting shot at. A minivan stops to get him. Note that it was common for the enemy to transport people and weapons in similar vehicles. People who are not involved in the conflict would be nuts to be driving around in the battlefield. The minivan is thus also shot up. It happens to contain kids... so some child abuser brought kids to a battlefield, WTF.

Note that the unedited (long) version of the video shows some of the "victims" carrying weapons. This wasn't an intentional slaughter of innocents, even if a few innocents did stupidly wander into a battlefield and get killed.

If you call this "murder", you might as well call all war murder. That's a very political position to be taking. War sucks; this shouldn't be news to anybody.
There is an app. I am uncertain of its quality.

So that might be a reason.
Nootropics are a scam. Most of the drugs come from China and don't have the proper QA shipment over shipment.
localStorage can be cleared at any time anyway. This simply makes it happen on each page navigation.

IDK what you'd rather do in Chrome Incognito, Safari Private, Edge InPrivate, etc.

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PS. If the OS registry entry for localStorage location is invalid or missing, IE will also throw an error.
> M.D. with 7y experience in the clinics, have done my share of research, and i can assure you that "scientific evidence" in medicine is a humongous s*load of tampered data written by people who have absolutely zero idea of what science is.

Are they fellow MD's? What gives you the authority to determine whether their work constitutes legitimate science or not? Can you be more specific on their shortcomings?
Why does the web site refer to "Lisp interpreters?" That phrasing perpetuates mistaken assumptions about Lisp-family languages, both about their implementation and their performance.
"I believe we're actually quite close to automating good software engineering in general."

What leads you to believe this is true? At the moment we don't even have good automation for telling us where a bug is in a stack trace, or a solid definition of "good software engineering."
I was truly hoping that RethinkDB would be the Mongo that Mongo could have been: a NoSQL database, but one with joins; a NoSQL database that is actually CP [0]; a database that comes out of the box with granular real-time updates (so you don't even need to worry at first about the extra moving parts of a Redis server or other queue). For a business starting from scratch with those needs, I'm making do with Mongo, but I was anxiously waiting for RethinkDB to get more battle-tested... alas, it wasn't meant to be. And I fear that we'll be stuck with Mongo for quite a while.

The truth is that NoSQL has great promise, but the folks with actual money to spare today are the ones who want a better SQL database, because they can afford the tradeoff of development time for reliability that SQL administration and migration provide. And people who solve the SQL pain points, such as the excellent folks at CockroachDB, and the various folks building replication layers on top of Postgres, can hopefully keep the market for database startups alive long enough for someone else to fix the NoSQL landscape as well.

[0] https://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb , where one finds that Mongo actually isn't guaranteed consistent during partitions, actually did hit us in production, and we had to dig through a rollback file manually (shudder); fun times. On the other hand, see: https://aphyr.com/posts/330-jepsen-rethinkdb-2-2-3-reconfigu...