skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a huge difference between "you can give yourself an extra two percent by gnawing on a tree" and "if you follow orders we can wipe out almost every single-celled organism in your entire body within twenty-four hours".

It's a few decades later and we are dealing with
the rise of super bugs instead of living in the
predicted disease-free utopia.

You're cherry-picking, so I'll do a bit of that myself too:

We eradicated smallpox. Tangled bedsheets kill more people than polio. Norman Borlaug saved a billion lives. Malaria will die with Anopheles gambiae.

People once knew that flight was impossible. Not just hard, but impossible, prevented by the laws of physics and not meant for mankind. I flew home from my holiday vacation yesterday. It cost me as much as a good pair of shoes. Less than two days' pay at minimum wage.

"We can never know enough to be safe" is simply and obviously false. Crab-bucket thinking at its finest. We can improve the human condition. We can know enough. Even better, we're getting to the point where we know enough to also recognize that we do or don't know enough.

If you really believe that single bad actors will inevitably ruin everything good and we cannot ever make anything better, well, good luck to you. I submit that, with that point of view, you're better off quitting now so you don't have to experience the doomed future you propose.
I’d delete my account if I could remember the password. The emails are sent straight to the junk folder.
There was a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the kext[1] and another in the installer[2].

pf can filter outbound packets but not by application.

[1] https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8661

[2] https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-2675
The Global Network of Monarchists Helping Deposed Kings and Queens
We'll see about that. They've clung to their creators this long.
Yes, this is always the problem. The UK is far from perfect and I have a few friends always talking about Scandinavian countries and how they'd want to move there. What they don't seem to understand is that all countries have their own problems, the UK isn't unique in that regard. A Swedish guy I know gets annoyed when people are talking about Sweden like some heaven on earth and I do understand why.
I am used to haskell's syntax, does this become more readable once you get used to it? The haskell equivalent would be

[x | x <- s, p x]
Mad in America makes reference to an approach to psychosis from Finland called "open dialogue". http://psychrights.org/Research/Digest/Effective/OpenDialogu...

It was recently re-established that psychosis is linked to cortisol deficiency: https://psychcentral.com/news/2016/06/04/low-morning-cortiso... - the first such linkage was in the 1950's, but this observation was never put to mainstream use.

Psychosis is fundamentally a condition of metabolic stress. Vitamin B-3 (niacin/niacinamide) was found to help patients recover: https://riordanclinic.org/2014/11/niacin-and-schizophrenia-h... http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v13n23.shtml http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v10n18.shtml

> If you can point me to a treatment for schizophrenia tested in quality randomized trials with the success rate of antipsychotics (which is really miserable), please do.

It will be 15-20 years for a randomized trial initiated today to get such a result. Who would pay for such studies? The businesses who've been making $billions on their FDA-approved drugs for decades? The status quo defends itself, and refuses to admit they made a mistake in forcing palliative treatments on vulnerable patients.
just because the US infrastructure can't handle that number of people all at once. i think the rate should increase exponentially year over year to completely open borders.

how does our stance differ? i want tk borders to transition to completely open and you don't... i think it's obvious
Sure, yes. What relevance is that?
Looks like you weren't the person who replied about using credit cards to build credit and get lower interest rates on loans. So that probably explains some of the disconnect here.

Cashback is definitely on the same order of magnitude as a Starbucks habit.
>On January 1, 2024, we'll see the expiration of the copyright for Steamboat Willie—and with it Disney's claim to the film's star, Mickey Mouse. The copyrights to Superman, Batman, Disney's Snow White, and early Looney Tunes characters will all fall into the public domain between 2031 and 2035.

I guess 5-16 years counts as soon these days?
What is personal or uncivil about this comment? I didn’t say anything about the author. Are we not allowed to discuss the morality of real estate investing?
There is definitely value to LinkedIn, for all the obvious reasons. It let's you keep up to date with new jobs, and old colleagues.

But you probably already decided that it's not valuable enough to keep you on the platform. Only thing I can add if you ever start your own company it's becomes over an order or magnitude more valuable.
Sure. It's all about you and what works for you. No need to spend a nanosecond wondering how you impact the fabric of society by your choices.

(She says as she sits here wondering if anyone will get the irony of a rebuttal saying, in essence, "I'm not callously mistreating anyone! I was only thinking about me, me, me, me, me when I made this decision! I gave others no thought At All, thus my behavior couldn't possibly be negatively impacting them!")
> One manifestation of equality in Sweden is that most companies are less layered and implement what’s called flat hierarchy. Employees are trusted to be involved directly in the decision making process rather than being instructed by layers of supervisors. Of course as companies grow larger, they can not be kept completely flat forever, but in regular big companies, hierachies are in many scenarios too excessive and counter-productive. As someone from a very hierachical society like China, I really enjoy working in Swedish companies, partly because I am not that interested in climbing up the management ladder but more interested in having a better technical career. In China, managers enjoy much higher social status than engineers because of the power that hierachical organization enables. Many good engineers are “forced” to take on a management position even if it turns out to be a bad fit and waste of talent. In my opinion, one of the reasons that Sweden became an innovation center in the world is because engineers can just focus on their technical career without getting too much social pressure to become something else.

Interesting observation. If people are promoted to their "level of incompetence", perhaps not promoting people is indeed a solution...
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch review – the TV of tomorrow is now here
Or perhaps more significantly: for only the second time in 41 years.

For an entire generation, works simply didn't enter the public domain:

1921 works became public domain in 1977.
Copyright Act extends the term by 20 years in 1978.
1922 works became public domain in 1998.
Sonny Bono Act extends the term by 20 years in 1998.
1923 works became public domain in 2019.

Were it not for these two extensions, we would today see works from 1963 entering the public domain.

Instead, we aren't even up to the first 'talkie' motion pictures.
>It’s the second half of the article that contain the real insights - that what are termed “bullshit” jobs, and despised by the people working them, actually do create economic value.

Only there's no proof, just some handwaving. I'd rather trust those actually doing the jobs for their assessment of them.
The crux of the problem is that people only talk about jobs, and other people/corporations creating those jobs. Everyone can agree we need more jobs and better jobs. The real issue is that people aren't finding ways to start their own business, make themselves a job. Politicians use the word "jobs" like saying it makes them appear. And too many people think that is how is should work. Those people miss out. Make a good business for yourself and people will throw money at you.
That's because Glassdoor can be full of crap; it was useful a few years back but now it's flooded with HR spam that are fake reviews and damage control, and presumably a few fake salaries thrown in as well. Most salary numbers there seem to be posted by entry to mid level employees as well. Rarely ever do people from higher levels or getting paid a lot go on there to post what they make.

Glassdoor can be relevant for American salaries thanks to the sheer quantity of figures being posted, but I've found salary fields to be sparsely populated for Germany (where I live now), and a few European and Asian countries I've checked out. It's kinda dangerous in the sense you could look up figures on Glassdoor and 9 times out of 10, you'll end up lowballing yourself if you try to negotiate salary IRL based on what you saw there.
what happened to native americans was a genocide, yes. smallpox blankets, the trail of tears, forced adoptions, resedential schools -- it literally ticks every box of the genocide definition and then some. arguing not is willful ignorance of history.
Actually, one of the reasons I still use LinkedIn is that their algo isn't that great.

It keeps throwing up the occasional article that I actually want to read, often because some random person I'm mysteriously connected to liked it.

If the algo gets "too good" I find it gets too samey.

Also there's some humour to be found when every other person is a "thought leader" but graduated less than 10 years ago. The self-puffery is kinda fun to watch. You can imagine how deflated the person would feel if you met them IRL and started asking proper questions.
I am disappointed.
I'm not sure where you're going with not speculating and "better". What is wrong with a conjecture? Aren't some conjectures out of the set of all conjectures going to be right?

Also, how is an interview complete information?

I also pointed out later that I don't see the information you provided as refuting what I said, but compatible with it. From your response, it seems reasonable to ask what refuting is happening here.
I'm pondering deleting my account, and that's the kind of thing that would push me over the fence. Do you know any good links about this?
There are various groupish signature systems (including DAA and BBS[1]) that would probably be a better answer here, _if you controlled the signers_. But, in this context, the devices have shipped and they do P-256 ECDSA. So the question then becomes, what _can_ we do without being able to change the signers? Can we plausibly retrofit something onto them?

[1] http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/papers/groupsigs.pdf
> So if the usual suspects had pushed for another copyright extension, they would have had a serious fight on their hands. Digital rights groups, online activists, and lobbyists from big technology companies would have swarmed Capitol Hill making the case against copyright extension. Evidently, major rights holders didn't have the stomach for another battle like that.

The fight now should go the other way - reverting current insane copyright term to its previous lengths. Copyright lobby might not be able to extend it more, but it doesn't mean that the current one is acceptable.
Buying a car is such a horrible and archaic process still.

I love this quote at the end...

"For the vast majority of dealerships, in-store sales will continue to be the main way they sell cars. Delivering cars to customers can get expensive, and dealers see a benefit in getting them in showrooms, where they can be induced to spend more for features and add-ons, like paint protection and extended warranties, "

That word "induced" made me laugh.
A cousin of mine went to school to become a patent lawyer. He couldn't land a job to save his life. He's now a stay-at-home father whilst his medical-doctor spouse pads the bank account [all of which is fine, I'm talking only to the law-degree-job points here].

Your favorite person can get the best most awesome degree possible and still work in the mail room. By hook or by crook, that may just be what they enjoy [and in "current year", what that job requires].
At least there is no pesky atmosphere in the way.
People use privacy to also mean "you violated the sanctity of my mind by beaming propaganda onto my retinas".
Yeah, image libraries is one of the reasons I disable images on all forums that I visit, apart from being tracked by random participants through image requests.
> This expectation / reality mismatch creates the impression that jobs are much stupider now then they used to be, when in fact most jobs used to be pretty terrible in the past too.

I think this is the nub of it: we think things have changed, but they really haven't. Whilst the content/descriptions may have changed, grim jobs have always existed and have always been the majority.

I spent the summer of 1998 working in a wines and spirits bottling plant. I'd either be loading bottles on to the beginning of the line, or stacking boxes at the end - as a university student, and a temp, I wasn't trusted with the machines in the middle. Doesn't really matter: the work was beyond mind-numbing.

The first couple of hours I was checking my watch incessantly. Then I realised I was driving myself slowly (or, quite quickly) insane and limited myself to checking every N palettes of bottles, where N was a suitably large number. After a week or two got to the point where I'd check my watch once during the morning and it would be nearly lunchtime. Oh yeah: winning at life!

And this was a job that had some tangible output: thousands of gallons of some beverage started out in a massive tank and ended up in neatly labelled and packaged bottles ready for sale. Didn't change the fact that the job was boring as #### and that I hated every minute. But the money was essential to me at the time, and I was and am grateful to the childhood friend who offered me that job.

I have no end of respect for people who do these kinds of jobs their entire working lives for the simple reason that they have to in order to survive. I know exactly how fortunate I am to have other options open to me.

Perhaps a wider point: over the span of an entire career almost everyone has at least one, and often several, terrible jobs. E.g., including contracts, since graduating I've had two great jobs, one good, one that started great and remained that way for quite a while but became terrible during my final years, a couple that were all right but nothing special, one that was bloody awful from start to finish, and one that was entirely bipolar (sometimes from day to day).

Work isn't always enjoyable, and doesn't always (perhaps not even often) use you to your full potential. Yes, you may be better than that job, but so are lots of people, and you still have to eat. Doesn't mean you shouldn't try to find something better, but sometimes - and possibly for quite a long time - we have to do things we don't enjoy in order to live.

Sorry, I'm rambling, so I'm going to stop.
No they won't. I do not believe for a minute big content will let that happen.

They should. Not doing it is theft.

Disney made great use of the Brothers Grimm, and has no interest in giving back. All greed and the desire to avoid another Disney from happening.

FREE THE MOUSE
I wouldn't worry about that either.

If it is about superiority of children much younger than you, you do not have anything to worry, because they'll be superior anyway simply by being much younger.

If it is about children that will become adults before you going to pension, you should be only happy about them being significantly smarter, because that will increase your chances of learning about new science, having much better computers, and maybe even living much longer, if they manage to make a good progress in biology.
You may be interested in https://endless-sky.github.io/
NOVA's always been my favorite science documentary series. I don't know if they've ever covered snowball earth, but they have a somewhat recent series on geological history of North America: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/series/making-north-america/
At least where I am, for an engineer to be held liable their conduct needs to meet the standard of negligence. And realistically, enforcement action only commences when the consequences are catastrophic: someone loses their life or severe property damage occurs.

The work merely being of poor quality is almost never going to give rise to enforcement action. If you design a crappy drainage system for a road and it double the owner's maintenance expenses because it keeps washing out, you aren't going to get sued.
I am curious to know how many other EV carmakers will be going direct to consumer. I know Tesla is doing it but they can't be the only one? I read about Rivian and Bollinger but i don't know if they are going D2C
I am mostly talking digital nomads lifestyles.

You can buy a nice 2br condo for 50k. That’s cheap compared to most major US cities. High speed internet for 50$/ month is generally available and you pay ~75c / lb to get computer equipment shipped out which is a minimal increase.

Mostly it’s just food and energy prices that are a little high, but that’s not nessisarily a huge budget item. 40k is easily comfortable if you don’t need to travel or have kids.

That said, the median income is also significantly higher than the rest of the US. And things get crazy if you want to live near the ocean, and travel regularly.
>Now I am curious: was there ever "meaningful work"? Have people "always" searched for such a thing and "never" found it? Sure, Farmer Joe [or whoever] can declare that s/he finds meaning in what they find themselves doing to live, perhaps after the fact of becoming entrenched in the doing of it ...

Meaningful work is not about fulfilling someone's dreams or them "becoming entrenched in the doing of it".

It's about the work itself having meaning.

If farmer Joe didn't farm, people wouldn't be able to eat their veggies.

If some office drone doesn't do his job, chances are nothing much would change to the output of their company (assuming the company is actually doing something meaningful and not harmful itself). If anything, some jobs just create more work for other parts of the company, without meaning (e.g. just to satisfy some state or company bureaucratic procedures) as opposed to improving workflows.

>ut how common is it for Newboy Johnny to boisterously look upon the world with his newly minted College University degree in hand and say "Yes, this one lifetime career path is just for me and I'll take it!"? It's not 1952 any more. I don't know why anybody younger than I am still believes that any of this is real.

They might not believe that any of this is real today, but they could very well believe that the old way is better, and that as active citizens that shape our society and steer it (as opposed to mere pawns that go this or that way randomly as technology or time changes) we should recreate that kind of environment.

Changing multiple jobs throughout one's career should be a personal choice, not something imposed by a thankless and merciless corporate consensus -- alongside discarding people after a certain age because they can hire young starry eyed idiots to pay them way less while overworking them.
There are still plenty of games coming out at 15-20 dollars/euro where you get full access to the game, and ongoing development (which you did not have in the "old model"). Plenty of these games have additional content more akin to an expansion pack or even standalone game for reasonable prices.

You can also now find many games where you experience the full game for free, and you can spend a small sum on cosmetics. Again, going back to the old model, those games didn't have 7/8/9/10 different skins available for each player.

As much as the battlefront/fallout 76 style games are getting bad press, in my opinion it's never been a better time to be a gamer.
Black Lawmakers’ Charity Didn’t Give Out a Single Scholarship
Try running a PHP app from 2008, today, and let me know how that works for you. There are decent odds it wont run well on modern versions - I can go down and look at every other web technology and point out the same thing - no computer program lives in stasis (except possible on z/OS)
>And assuming Congress doesn't interfere, more works will fall into the public domain each January from now on.

>On January 1, 2024, we'll see the expiration of the copyright for Steamboat Willie—and with it Disney's claim to the film's star, Mickey Mouse. The copyrights to Superman, Batman, Disney's Snow White, and early Looney Tunes characters will all fall into the public domain between 2031 and 2035.

Given this list, I don’t see Disney, Warner Brothers, and DC comics all sitting idly by. If I was a betting person, I would bet that Snow White will not enter the public domain on the 2030’s.
Yes that’s what I’m worried about. Too late now, I suppose.
Ask HN: 2018 MacBook Air keyboard problems?
I bought a 2018 MacBook Air on 12th December and it is repeating keys randomly after only two weeks, particularly E, O, I, S and space. Does anyone else experience this?

Is this another butterfly keyboard problem on the horizon?

It's utterly frustrating to use so I am returning it tomorrow for a full refund under 30 day statutory fault terms here in UK.
Are you alluding to public transport? That's a very different beast from what I've described. What I described is transport that:

Departs from your house on your own schedule with no unwanted stops.

Can have a full desktop setup within it. This isn't a car, it's a personal transportation device
Lars Bak: How Dart learned from past object-oriented systems (splashcon 2015)
from my limited understand using LTO is a better alternative to -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections + gc-sections because the compiler and linker has more information. Size reductions are often a little bit better for LTO than for gc-sections. Check this article series: https://lwn.net/Articles/744507/
This sounds like something that isn’t going to happen unless senators actually get reminded that this is a thing people care about. Has Ron Wyden (D-OR) indicated that he knows that he might have to fight to keep public domain day from being postponed again?

Has anyone written to their representatives about this? Are we going to be proactive or are we waiting to organize a defense of the public domain until after a bill to attack it has passed the House?
The humble session cookie is what I've been using all these years, but now suddenly everyone is saying "JWT". Any advice on the pros and cons of JWT vs session cookies?
> Cashback is definitely on the same order of magnitude as a Starbucks habit.

False. Starbucks habit is $10/week, or $520/year. A 2% cashback card will return ~$2,000 annually for a family of 4 with a household income of ~$100,000 (the vast majority of HN users).

Please stop replying. Thanks.
> "Lawyers, accountants, doctors, MBAs ... Low pay, low prestige"

But that's true almost everywhere. In the U.S. it's true everywhere outside of the Bay Area, and perhaps Seattle.

I love Boston, for example, but the city is chock full of bankers, lawyers, management consultants, and doctors whose incomes often dwarf those of engineers. And they're much higher on the social ladder. You're priced out of the most desirable neighborhoods in the city, and if you're single, dating is tougher.

Obviously, it's not the end of the world. 99% of people don't make as much as investment bankers or white-shoe lawyers, and life goes on. But I think it explains in part why engineers are drawn to the Bay Area. The sky-high cost-of-living may make it a break-even proposition, but the bit of prestige engineers get there is a selling point.
The irrational blockchain/decentralization hype story fell apart and good riddance!

The technology trudges along, a lot slower than the hype beasts would like you to believe.