skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"entry level jobs like fast food / picking crops / warehouses"

These things are very hard to predict. We have a long history of such "automations" and the outcomes have been often unpredictable. Effectively, "automation" is interchangeable with any labour saving tech. Production lines, tractors, etc.

Agriculture basically did shed jobs due to the green revolution and mechanisation. Fewer farmers grew the food and people moved to towns. You could argue that towns pulled agricultural workers in rather than automation pushing, but machines replaced people regardless.

Industrial manufacturing, OTOH, increased output and added jobs to the sector for hundreds of years despite labour saving "automation" progressing constantly.

It's only recently that manufacturing employment plateaued. Global trade and other shifts have caused some severe job shedding locally, but even that is only in the last 30-40 years. The long term trend was more automation and more jobs.

Computers landed on every desk very fast. Typists, mailrooms, secretaries and other such "entry" jobs became mostly obsolete. Still, the "white collar" and administration sectors experienced massive employment growth since the 80s.

Think of colleges, with their ever rising admins/academics ratio even as "administration automation" technologies became available.

When it comes to something like automating restaurants it's so dependant on "consumer preferences" and food culture that I wouldn't hazard any guesses.

Prepared food isn't a commodity and restaurants aren't driven by efficiency. There's no hard, purely rational reason why one burger is worth €3 and another is worth €20.

McDonald's us extremely efficient, in terms of labour cost per bite, but most newer competitors compete by being less "efficient" and more "artisinal."
I'm a (former) user. It's bloated. Extremely bloated.

Fortunately, openbsd added DoH support to their recursive resolver, allowing me to get rid of dnscrypt-proxy.
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> Your ISP knows even your bank details.

Google was buying MasterCard records: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/google-an...
I'm not certain that 'doing the wrong thing for the right reasons' is justifiable. Especially gaslighting another person.

When you stare into the abyss, the abyss not only stares back, but also pulls you in...
> This means at least one employee no longer thinks the interest of upper management and the workers align ...

That's strange. I interpreted it to mean that there was a worker that thought that the media was greatly misrepresenting facebook and facebook management's position and they released these extensive transcripts to show just how banal the reality was.
no, but the ISPs and your government are very happy about your decision.
By the looks of it, it's also quite impolite to call any SJW a "homo".
Solar superstorms can create enhanced atmospheric isotopes of carbon 14, beryllium 10 and chlorine 39. High resolution lake sediments and ice cores can discover earlier extreme solar events. Many studies point to 774 AD as the largest know solar storm event. Perhaps additional events in 993 and 660 BC.
Do people believe evolution has, like, actual agency? Unbelievable. If true, this phenomenon is worth studying by itself.
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They could pgp encrypt the file.
If you're into adhesives, the Applied Science (Ben Krasnow) youtube channel has a great video discussing his shortlist of adhesives to keep around and when/how to use them.

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What do you mean? Without any special annotations, TS already understands that

function test(x: number | string): void {
x.toUpperCase();
}

is an error and

function test(x: number | string): void {
if (typeof x === "number")
throw new Error();
x.toUpperCase();
}

is not. So it should just as easily be able to understand that

function assertIsString(x: number | string): asserts x is string {
}

is an error and

function assertIsString(x: number | string): asserts x is string {
if (typeof x === "number")
throw new Error();
}

is not.
Our school system.. We don't dare to be honest we do not know stuff. For our entire youth we are punished for that with bad figures and bullying.

Therefore the picture at the top of the article is so fitting. Especially lots of people that are graduated have some kind of air around them. Our educational system fucks the mind and ego. Is Einstein not enough prove for the 'being educated' fallacy? He despised the educational system, and I think he was also very right about that.
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>Ego is needed to make you think you are better than others at something, eventhough initially you may not be.

No, ego creates a sense of separation, competition you create on your own.

>Without ego, people would be Marvin The Paranoid Android but depressed because we didn't have the capabilities or opportunities to compete

No, without ego people would do fantastically great. At least they would not do silly competition. Does an apple tree competes with a palm and thinks it's no good because it's not that tall?

>The reason why childhood is so nice is that you can dream and imagine on becoming anything

No, you can dream and imagine at any age, childhood is so nice because your mind is not yet set into straight jacket of logic.

>but break the rules and don't listen to others

The rules you are talking about are only created by you, there is nothing to break just stop creating them.

>Competition was only your local tribe before the internet, now it is worldwide

Only for those who see life this way. There is a plenty of people who are happy like kids and play competition to have fun.

>Everyone can be good at something, time and focus, as well as competition can push you.

If you enjoy life and what you are doing - do you really need a push? A push is only needed to do some crap which you have no interest about.

>Without ego humanity may not have made it this far.

What is "this far"? With all the technological advancements can we claim we are the happiest and most joyous generation ever? How far did we make from ancient civilizations in how profound our lives are?

The rest is too messy to comment about :)
Rarely are anti-trust measures needed to break up bad businesses. It's the good (well, good in the sense of effective, profitable, etc) businesses that tend to be the focus of those.
And I did my first job programming some groce frontends for them to use the inhouse-pipeline of a major Airbus subcontractor, which they rebuil(t/d).

The subcontractor did this entirely willingly and I don't blame them, given that Airbus treated them like sh*. Sure they were not the absolute cutting edge business, but they do a solid job and have a strong engineering background (from the times of MBB, DASA & Co. - their IT in the eng department was horrible).
And yet when negotiating a contract for a new test (volume of the contract similar to price of the very specialized equipment necessary), Airbus haggled and put taking it inhouse on the table (they could certainly do that, but as the history of german industry shows, this is just an intimidation tactic for mooore profit).

So the management started to sell to COMAC (basically acting as an intermediary for another not as well-connected german supplier, which also likes to sell to China but can't get around export regulations...), which is basically a sell out, but apparently we want it that way given the protection politics give those predatory bit companies around here (never hear anyone calling Airbus for fair treatment of their supply chain)
Very funny :)

No, VPN like AirVPN, IVPN, Mullvad or PIA.
In the land where GDPR exists, I can see why ISPs are a little annoyed.

Directing users to local CDN instances has now got harder, which means its going to cost more for things like netflix

In the US, yes, that means that ISP can't mine youre data, however, you are handing more information to google.
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Actually, in Italy the style of pizza people eat most is baked as a big square piece and cut into rectangles. These are typically eaten at lunch, not dinner. Italians don't really eat pizza at dinner (as I've been told by an Italian colleague).

As for the pizza in the machine video: it looks downright horrible, and only acceptable when compared to what goes for the average 'US-style pizza'. I'd much rather eat a frozen pizza from the supermarket, or something else entirely. Don't see the point of have 'more customization options' compared to a frozen pizza created in a factory, if the quality threshold of the pizza is so low in the first place. But maybe I'm just being a food snob ;-P
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I've tried them, you're not missing anything unless you like typing lag, appalling scrolling performance, syntax highlighting that happens several seconds after you've opened a file etc. etc.
The US has something like a supply of 2% replacements for normal repairs. Something much larger than that could mean the end of the US power grid for years. Plus the suply chain to manufacture replacements could be terminally destroyed.
Tested on 8 people. Sounds wonderful but get back to us when it replicates.
The only thing that I use Slack on the phone for is reminders: When I have a sudden thought about a work topic, e.g. in the shower, I go into Slack and type "/remind me to do $THING tomorrow" so that it comes back up on my desk next day at the office.
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Our website Plutio.com has a live-chat widget with a gif of me waving, ever so subtly (I guess?).

I woke up this morning to the email (https://ibb.co/JQR5fY8)

Listening to feedback is how we ensure the future of our product is shaped to suit our customer's needs. But, this one piece of "Feedback??" shocked me...

I'm honestly not sure what to make of it. Do you agree with them? Am I just taking it toooo personally?
> Also, FORTRAN globals and variables called i,j and k ROCK!

I always thought they're great in any language with globals, is there a reason they're especially good in FORTRAN?
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I’ve worked with Matt before, and he’s a terrific dev well worth your time.
I would contend that only a small subset of Apple's customers care about privacy, who are usually those working in tech. For most Apple fanboys, I'd say it's the aesthetic appeal, "cool" factor and conspicuous consumption that drives them to buy Apple. Even if someone found nefarious stuff, it would be in the media for one week and hardly anyone would notice.
> it would be even better if TS could do this automatically like Flow though

That would imply that the same function signature could produce different type checking results at the call site. That is something I find extremely frustrating as you can no longer reason about type checking locally.
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> We have a take-home assignment as part of our interview process and they were able to get a working solution, but missed on design patterns that would make their code more maintainable and extensible, things that are usually learned from code-reviews by people who have had the experience of working with bad code

Design patterns? This is a red flag for me. How do you know you're not actually a bunch of unproductive cargo-culters? Those applicants might've dodged a bullet with you there.

> We lamented not being able to hire otherwise smart and personable candidates, but at the end of the day we only had headcount for 1 employee and we went with a different smart and personable candidate who had better early career opportunities.

I see. Did you ever actually ship anything, though?
Because it's not socially acceptable in most offices.
I see a pattern, you are always the victim and when you don't get along with someone, then they are bullies/evil. I feel like this story is VERY one sided and would like to hear the other side.

There was the guy who touched you, i don't know where, but you seem to instantly want to report the person for "sexual assault". To me, you sound like a crazy person that i should run away from. And makes me believe the event organizers did the right thing.

I know there are some bad guys out there, but if someone on an event touches you weirdly, just punch them in the face, if you are certain it was not by accident. Learn to stand up for yourself, don't go cry to a supperior like a child. You'll be much more respected when you can defend yourself. I think people don't want you around because they are affraid you are going to make insane allogations about them.
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I fear lawyers would both love and destroy such an amendment.
Oh FFS. I was expecting some silly answer involving couriers being intercepted but this is just as bad.

> 3. Now a hacker that accesses the network can get to your OTP bits.

Which is on an internal network so is not exposed (unlike the contents of a VPN which necessarily goes external) so can be more secure. While nothing's unhackable it adds an extra layer to break through.

That the article says "It was very sophisticated and targeted the VPN which connected the company to Airbus" shows the VPN was the weak link, and not the internal networks. So harden the weakest link.
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Reading it, there's at least a 50% chance that learning at this company would've made them worse developers that focus too much on stuff that doesn't really matter.
Everyone was promised sufficiently-smart compilers would make great use of them, but that never works out as a plan.
With Jasmine tests running with "ng test" (i.e. with Karma test runner rather than Protractor) the system-under-test usually is a single component, directive or service.

Therefore, conceptually these indeed are unit tests.

You could argue that because a browser environment is required for running these units the tests are integration tests.

Still, they're commonly referred to as unit tests (including the official Angular documentation).
Does anyone have a statistics how often awesome inventions and advances in medicine etc. in the media actually turn out true, also how long it takes on average for them to hit the market, if legit. My hunch is that it's like 2% and 10 years, respectively.
I'd say it is a design smell and not necessarily code smell. Any API or data interface should try to keep "optional keys" at a minimum.

Depending on the language, `a.b && ...` could be checking either or both of the following:

- does `a` have key 'b'?
- is `a.b` truthy?
What about the IEDs used in the middle east? How hard is it to put one of those together?
Exactly. I can read commit messages myself, but there's a lot of stuff in there that's not relevant to me as a consumer - e.g. refactorings, cleanups, etc.
Surely people have noticed the thousands of cancelled flights?
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I agree -- you really only need Galileo as an example of this.

G: "I can prove the world is round!"

Everyone at the time: "Liar! Heretic!"

Later people: "Hmm. Galileo was right. The world IS round! In fact, it's an oblate spheroid..."

Sadly people are often easily lead. All it really takes is one person in good standing in a group to shout "Liar!" and suddenly the whole group is doubting the truth of what's being said.
Why bother with writing, nowadays there are many grant-applications-as-a-service companies.
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And the Denisova cave was named after this guy Denis, a hermit who lived there. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisova_Cave

Hermitage and having a human species named after you are not mutually exclusive.
I love the 'tag' alert options at the bottom of this site.
This might change your mind:

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My 2c: Remove the creepy distracting photo. Also, grow thicker skin. You think that’s mean? Jesus wept.
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Yes, there are space probes/satellites that continuously observe solar activity. Then is one at a gravitationally stable orbital point about a million miles closer to the Sun. It would give a few seconds warmings for energy traveling at lightspeed. Maybe an hour for slower energy like ionized hydrogen traveling slower. Enough warning to depower satellites and power grids.
I've got an "Unreleased" section in my changelog in which I log any changes that are relevant to consumers, with sections for bug fixes, new features, and breaking changes. No need to clutter my commits with that.
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If parenting had such an impact, there would be no female software engineers in/from India, and many in/from the US and Western Europe.

The reality is pretty much the opposite, with Eastern Europeans, Indians and Chinese being overrepresented in software engineering and higher degrees in STEM subjects.
Yep, and nowadays TS has string literal types and unions so enums are pretty much obsolete.

type Direction = "up" | "down";
I don't think it's bad enough to warrant introduction of new syntax sugar to make it shorter.

The problem might be that we have most likely not yet handled the edge case situation where a.b and a.b.c doesn't exist. And just want to log out the value, and print undefined if it doesn't exist.
I like best the irony of "refactor!". A breaking change with a title meaning there should not be semantic changes in the code...
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> > Azerbaijan
> This is a very wide definition of Europe...

wtf? what definition of Europe doesn't include Azerbaijan?

> As European I am pretty pissed off just by this affirmation.

According to wikipedia, there are 50 countries in Europe. So are you truly pissed off that he would say that it doesn't make sense for him to go to Malta or Azerbaijan just because they want to parade him before some cameras? And that the company would be happy to send a representative that is senior/authorized to represent them in such legal proceedings.

Or maybe you just mean, well, you don't count those smaller countries. Just the big ones. In which case, the UK would be behind 4 other european countries by population. And if that's what you feel matters, maybe he should first go to the 7 chinese provinces with greater population and the 7 indian provinces. And all that would just be if we accept the UK as the very minimum of what he would have to go to if requested.

Really the whole idea is nonsense. The idea that the CEO of some company needs to be at the beck and call of every elected official in some podunk country is crazy.
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