skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you adjust that number using the labor force participation rate, you'll get that the real wages have been stagnant since the 1980s, which is to say they haven't risen at all, especially when you consider the gains in output.
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Original: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11652159

Also, this should probably have a "[2016]" tag in the title.
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OP is asking for what problems to work on, not projects/etc. there is a difference there.

I personally think we need better ways and more people to know about better ways to aggregate social preferences. If people knew about alternative voting methods they might entertain using them. You could work on coding implementations that would introduce the masses to alternatives.
China is already replacing coal with renewables and nuclear. It doesn't need a new source of CO2.
Concerta ER does something like that, I'm curious why it isn't more widely used.

"The system, which resembles a conventional tablet in appearance, comprises an osmotically active trilayer core surrounded by a semipermeable membrane with an immediate-release drug overcoat.

The trilayer core is composed of two drug layers containing the drug and excipients, and a push layer containing osmotically active components. There
is a precision-laser drilled orifice on the drug-layer end of the tablet.

In an aqueous environment, such as the gastrointestinal tract, the drug overcoat dissolves within one hour, providing an initial dose of methylphenidate. Water permeates through the membrane into the tablet core. As the osmotically active polymer excipients expand, methylphenidate is released through the orifice. The membrane controls the rate at which water enters the tablet core, which in turn controls drug delivery."
That might work for incoming messages.

* How does your history get synced when you send a message?

* What if some of your devices are offline?

* What if you have two devices that are never online at the same time?

* What if a device is offline for a very long time? (No possibility of holding the message on a server for eventual transmission.)

* What if there's only one device currently on that receives a message and then is destroyed?

Marking a single device as the master and forcing all other clients to proxy through it removes a huge amount of complexity.
Signal is not great on multiple devices (it works, but not always seamlessly), but there's a reason for that: Signal is also generating virtually no serverside metadata. There's a real, practical security win for the inconvenience it's generating for people who want multi-device messaging.

Compare that to Wire, which has much more convenient multi-device support, but accomplishes that at the expense of keeping the entire active graph of communicating Wire users in plaintext in their servers on AWS.

Both Wire and WhatsApp (which have comparable security models with some marginal tradeoffs --- WhatsApp metadata is in Facebook's custody, which is not great, but Wire doesn't have Facebook's extremely competent and well-resourced security team) are reasonable choices for secure messengers.

Telegram is not.
You should probably link the comment and discussion in question instead of just lifting someone else's words unattributed.
Wow. That's a spectacular claim. Almost unbelievable, and certainly in need of strong empirical support.

Anecdotal evidence over six decades of life on Planet Earth suggests otherwise.
I'm approaching an intermediate level in Haskell, but I don't really see how writing a program in Haskell is any more like writing a language than writing a program in, say, python. Could you elaborate or point to some DSLs written on top of Haskell? I'm very curious.
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I think the issue is the cost of #1 is non-linear.

I think there's a space where yes, your impact on #1 is probably offset by gains in #2 and #3. But there's also a space, where I'm at right now (and I suspect many new investigators are) where your impact on #1 either moves a staff scientist outside the realm of possibility, or simply dramatically increases the likelihood of stochastic funding failure unless you're literally god's gift to the research world.
But OP didn't say decriminalizing recreational drug use; he said "legalizing all drugs".
Not really, marijuana withdrawals are fairly tame and many people don't even experiences those. At most, a couple of weeks of irritability, appetite issues, and problems sleeping.

The psychological "withdrawal" can be much worse, but there is a whole range of regular things that can lead to those addictions. And it is often abused to hide other mental health issues, which can flare up while quitting.
Another example of the fallacy of suggesting a 'free market' will lead to desirable outcomes for society at large when those outcomes are counter to the goal of maximizing profit for individual players. I believe the idea was well-intentioned, but as noted had no chance from the start without some kind of regulatory enforcement behind it.
"it is inevitable that they will type the word "poop" into the search bar. Once they do that, they'll find 9 albums by The Toilet Bowl Cleaners! It's impossible not to listen to these songs once you know they exist."

Touche. I would absolutely do that.
Half the world's species could go extinct
That sounds unbelievable. This Washington Post article pegs it at 11%:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/0...
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Do you get any push back on this from the state/gov? Cynically; I can see this process being intentionally obscure and difficult to dissuade people from applying and receiving aid.
Another concern (big or little depending on your circumstances) many common things stored in maps, strings, primitives, incur an allocation on conversion to interface{}.

Coupled with a fairly inefficient GC it means I would need to think twice before using this.
Anyone else notice that a common theme in the recent wave of handwringing over heroin and opioid addiction is that the victims we're asked to consider with compassion and understanding are almost always white? The tough on crime drug war rhetoric disappears so easily when the victims are "regular people" who fell prey to the pharma industry, not "junkies".

I'm not saying that we shouldn't treat these people with compassion -- exactly the opposite. The LA Times series in particular is a fantastic piece of reporting. Rather, I'm saying we should consider why the portrayal of this particular drug epidemic is so different than others, and how we can extend the same compassion to others who have also had their lives and families destroyed by drugs. We hear about these people because they're white. Meanwhile, what's happening to the people we don't hear about?
They have a word for that too now. You're apparently a brocialist.
https://twitter.com/JazmynLatimer/status/864856313121054720

The initial tweet seems straightforward enough to me (as a white person); black/brown folks are underrepresented in most companies and thus they'd love for more to join. Reaching out sometimes helps accomplish that. Hiring is not a zero sum game. If targeting underrepresented folks in order to encourage them to join is this offensive to you, imagine actually having to be a minority...
There's also a big thing where WhatsApp is way ahead of WhatsApp:

Multiplatform: You can use native telegram apps in iOS (both iPad and iPhone), Android, macOS, Linux and Windows. That's huge compared to WhatsApp.

Also, Telegram is not as dependant on the phone number as WhatsApp is. Once you have a username it becomes easier to set up new devices.
RT is owned and primarily funded by the Russian government.

NPR receives around 2% of its funding from the US government.
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OK. Let's start writing 1 letter variables then. Shorter code. Better code.
No, but they are a good example because they are usually not accustom to wealth and thus more likely to believe (like the OP) that wealthy people just sit on a pile of cash and buy exotic sports cars while doing hookers and blow 24/7.

You don't often hear wealthy people complain about other wealthy people because they know how hard it is to stay wealthy.

It is a skill to make money with money.
Or maybe your pain is not as severe as the pain for which others take opioids.
I mean, it's a cool project, but I'm not sure the latent space between statistically learned sound representations is that interesting for music... For speech synthesis I can see the applications.

For musical sound generation I think there is still room for new discovery with physically modeling sounds, like these guys are doing - http://www.ness.music.ed.ac.uk/. You can morph between physically modeled instrument sounds too, and it's all realtime. Complex physical models tend to have too many parameters for human performers to control so maybe neural networks could be used there to learn to control the params and their interaction in a meaningful way for musical sound production.

Also, since WaveNet is computationally so intensive, training and re-constructing sounds sample by sample, at 16k per second at 8bits turns out to be pretty heavy going - let alone 44khz/16bit. So to make it realtime this implementation is basically interpolating in a grid of pre-rendered wavetables to morph between instruments, right?
Is Kotlin winning in enterprise? For e.g Scala enthusiast claiming it is taking over the world. But as I downloaded Apache Kafka last week only to notice they deprecated large amount of Scala API and replaced it with Java. Good for me though as Java developer.

> How about less complex than Rust, less associated with Apple than Swift, and better designed than Go? And with serious compatibility with Kotlin for the JVM -- which boosted by Android adoption will get quite big soon.

How about a language that has every feature I want and slowly every feature that everyone else wants. If it has been tried and done successfully before, I have not seen results in commercial software realm.

Going by the hype of Kotlin on Android I am wondering it may end up becoming part of Daydream but without any VR.
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(I might be wrong on the specifics) create-react-app abstracts a bunch of things for you. Ejecting bakes out those things (dependency versions and configuration files), but can no longer update create-react-app after that or "unbake."

https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app#conver...

Usually, you'd want to do this if you want do implement one of the "limitations" cited or if you had specific things to configure that had been abstracted away.

For example, the release notes mention webpack 2 changed their configuration. If you hadn't ejected yet there's nothing to do because they took care of it on the back end, if you had ejected you have to update your webpack config.
I recently went through a job search focusing on organizations doing social good. Full disclosure, I now work at Remix (https://www.remix.com/jobs) and we're hiring! We're a for-profit founded by a collection of former Code for America fellows helping to improve cities.

I have a list of resources that I collected while I was searching as well:

- The Fast Forward accelerator's tech nonprofits job board and directory. This is easily the most extensive list I found: https://www.ffwd.org/tech-nonprofit-jobs/, https://www.ffwd.org/tech-nonprofits/

- The YC-funded non-profits (subset here https://github.com/smartergiving/open-data/blob/master/v0/fu...)

- The well-known non-profits: Mozilla, Wikimedia, Khan Academy

- https://twitter.com/goodtechjobs

- Code for America is hiring, takes fellows, and has a government job board: https://jobs.codeforamerica.org/

- Tech co-ops: https://techworker.coop/members

- https://www.fossjobs.net/

- Angel list nonprofits: https://angel.co/nonprofits

- Some other random social good orgs that I found were hiring in the SF area or remote: Open Whisper Systems, Binti, Nuna, The Human Diagnosis project, Bayes Impact, Nava, GovEx, Democracy Works, The Guardian Project, The Internet Archive, EFF, Exygy, Open Law Lib, Angaza, Fight for the Future,

- An article written by the co-founder of Bayes Impact for techcrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/25/a-call-to-action-for-tech/

- Civic Makers (http://civicmakers.com/) has a newsletter highlighting civic news

I also second the progressive coder's network.
> To be clear—you want Postgres to manage the data (so that it gets replicated through Postgres replication), but you also want the data to exist in somewhere other than the DB heap?

> As far as I can tell, these two conditions together form a bit of a bind: for Postgres to manage the data in a way that would enable replication under MVCC, it has to have said data mmap(3)ed and indexed and have it participate in the WAL log and so forth. Just the space overhead of this management metadata will then be prohibitively costly in memory, if you have "tens of billions of files" to keep under management.

There's really not too much of a technical problem here. What the sub-op is complaining about mainly just some work that needs to be put into parts of postgres that have been designed long ago. Not entirely trivial due to compatibility concerns, but also not super hard. The first thing would be to have a separate type of toast table with 64bit ids (can't drop support for 32 bit ids without making in-place upgrades impossible), and to have per table toast id. Then use same infrastructure for the LOB piece.

Btw, postgres doesn't mmap() data. On some systems it uses mmap(MAP_ANONYMOUS) to allocate its buffer cache, but that's just a configurable size.
What on earth would they need DNA for ?

Assange has already stated that he had sex with both women.
When AWS has an outage half the internet goes down.

When was the last time you noticed an Azure outage?
"You can judge a society by how well it treats its prisoners". F. Dostoyevsky
This is an interesting concept. I think the implementation would be very tricky though. The most important implementation detail is whether the investments are chosen by the investors, or by a manager or management committee of some kind.

I think you would have problems doing this with investors doing the decision making; I would imagine you'd need to spend at least 10 hours per company invested to make a remotely informed decision; people aren't going to want to spend hours making a decision about a $50 investment. If you get the time commitment much lower, it will probably be a huge magnet for fraud.

With a manager-based decision making process, I don't think the JOBS act affects the legality much. You'd probably need to house the decision-making in a registered investment company, which will probably cost you at least $50k/year in compliance costs. Getting even 1 remotely qualified manager would probably cost you $200k/year. I don't know that people are going to be as excited about the idea when they hear the expense ratio is 25%/year.

To make it work, it seems to me you would need a national-level parent organization to amortize compliance and legal costs, and (qualified) volunteer decision makers.
Based on this soldiers recommendation army rations of India seem not very impressive

http://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/jaw...
There's fentanyl patches.
This is an understated answer. It's not enough to be a strong engineer, solving problems well often means having a lot of context from several backgrounds and experiences.
Tldr: Oxycontin doesn't last for 12-hours unless doage levels exceed thresholds known to induce addiction and higher risks of death. The 12-hour claim is a marketing gimmick that the company will go to war over regardless of the collateral damage. Moreover, the US court system has repeatedly permitted the company to continue, and works with the company to seal these findings.

Good to know.
> obsessed with what floats and what sinks

In an alternate timeline, there's an NSF science education wiki to point to, but oh well.

You might seed the environment with cans of different sugar content https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzsORE0ae10&t=69 , potentially helping with several common misconceptions ("heavy sinks", "metal sinks", "hollow floats"). Perhaps small plastic bottles with pennies. Pennies are also good for sinking boats. As a collaborative follow-up to the cans, perhaps a layered drink https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVsMmCb3Cdw , or hand-mixed sugar water in those floating/sinking small plastic bottles.

Other random fun density videos: Bubbles on CO2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drBjDy96iNI&t=30 and Al boats on SF6 gas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckaJs_u2U_A . I've been exploring a "teach size down to atoms, then nucleons up to bulk materials", for early-primary. Thus the links.
By that definition, most doctors aren't sensible.
That sounds like a good, responsible, doctor. I probably wouldn't believe them if they were my doctor. I've been through a repaired Achilles and knee surgery and haven't gone to get the prescriptions filled for any of it. I don't trust any doctor anymore to give me something that is actually good for me - I suspect they're giving me something that's good for them.

I happen to have direct exposure to the medical industry at the practice level. I can tell you unequivocally that entire industry is compromised. Maybe you're a good doctor, and you have my best interests at heart, but you're in the minority, and your peers have ensured I won't be trusting you.
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If my doctor tells me to take Pill A every 8 hours, and I do so, how am I abusing it? It might be drug abuse, but it's not on my part.
Well I think it is meant to imply Business Analyst since that is pretty much what I have done in both positions so far. I am analyzing the key KPI's that need to be measured, or the importance in Time/Money savings a particular project will have and then do the entirety of implementing that solution. There are times when I suggest a project and can sell it to management based on some savings analysis that I have that is not being done otherwise by them. I'm like part consultant and part developer. I like the business aspects a whole lot, so it works for me.
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I wrote an article on a relatively simple approach to building language systems with these properties titled, "How to Make View-Independent Program Models"[0]

I haven't had a chance to try an implementation yet, and maybe there's a reason why it wouldn't work, but I've been looking and haven't found it yet (maybe someone here will!).

[0] http://westoncb.blogspot.com/2015/06/how-to-make-view-indepe...
The one app chain (complex code signing) I worked on with OSCP, we defaulted to failsafe, but it could be overridden in the 'main' (enterprise CMS) app. The installer required OSCP or wouldn't install.

Basically the first and last mile were hard fails but everything in between was advisory if the signature checked out.
> they want to be left alone in a lab to answer their questions while someone else keeps the lights on. And well...yeah...you just described the perfect job.

Well, that IS what I want, probably what everyone wants. I don't like writing grants, as I said, but I am in touch with reality and consider it an important part of my value proposition. Plus, I like my PI and consider him my friend. It's not nice to leave all the shit work for your friend.

EDIT: In many ways, I have tried to alter my behavior to prevent exactly the kinds of problem you are talking about. I absolutely want my PI to feel like my presence is a net benefit. If a staff scientist didn't understand these realities, they could easily be both naive and unhelpful.

> And this hasn't backfired by having one of his "postdocs" not progressing very fast?

Interesting point, one I hadn't considered. We are a pretty small lab, 4 grad students, 1 postdoc, occasional summer/rotation/temp postdocs or students, and me. In the past we had 2 postdocs.

The 1 postdoc who is in the lab now is a statistician who has zero interest in his career or ever being a PI. He is extremely valuable but I don't get the impression he feels held back. He is a "give me a job and I'll do it" type.

For informatics, I believe the productivity multiplier for skill is higher than in wet lab. Thus, it is not only easier but potentially better to have a small lab with high skill than the converse. So we have little interest in rapid growth.
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I recently bought a MacBook Pro because it for a majority of the time it simply works. I feel like MacOS stays out of my way. On Mac, there is the app dock at the bottom, and the task bar at the top. Swipe between full screen programs. Simple.
On Windows 10, there seems to be WAY too much going on. Press the start menu (which is an actual menu again), and there are tiles spinning everywhere and way too much clutter. Plus changing system settings is a pain too. I wish I can directly get to the original windows settings menu (for example, change hostname) but the process turns into this: Windows 10 menu, Windows 8 menu, Windows 7 menu, then finally the old school menu. To be fair, MacOS does hide some of its settings, but they are much easier to find and often relocated, instead of BURIED under different menus.
Indeed. It's my understanding that the success of kanji in China was exactly that some lord on the borderlands could write with kanji what he wanted to convey, and then, at the heart of the empire someone could read it back in mandarin. While the border Lord might only speak some local language.

The parallel is to teach everyone Latin language and how to read and write Latin letters, rather than just teach everyone how to read and write kanji.
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Why would it need an automatic pill? What about 1/n dosage taken n times per day? Less convenient sure, but you can pick whatever n works.
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Since we're talking alternatives, there's also Matrix (https://matrix.org/) which:

- Is an open protocol

- Has Apache 2.0 licensed server and client implementations for most platforms

- Has server federation, so you can run your own and talk to anyone on any other Riot server

- Has (optional but I believe enabled by default now) full end-to-end encryption

- Has full multi-device support

- Doesn't require nonsense phone number signup

- Has bridges that connect other protocols, like IRC, to Riot

- Supports useful things like voice, video and attachments

It beats Signal hands down in my opinion.

Not affiliated with the project, just run my own server and use it constantly.