skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
greed, and a lack of oversight? I'm no fan of capitalism, it has many flaws. I'm not upset at VC's losing money though, thats the risk they take, it's a high stakes game, thats why the IPO failed, there are more rules for a listed company. The only alternative I can see is to regulate who can invest their money in what, I can't see that working, unless I'm missing something.

There is a failure for the employees, but everyone knows, or should know they're rolling the dice working for a startup, as others have said shares are lottery tickets, and the system is stacked against you as an employee ever making money.
A Phone Company Run by Drug Traffickers
Where the future is also sandboxed and they would need to rewrite the applications from scratch?
https://abstrusegoose.com/376
"orthogonal"
Safari can actually be updated separate from the OS.
Think of it as testing a backup.
Automating mouse clicks and key presses seems backward and stupid. Doing this manually will also get disrupted.

You should trace the executable and analyze the function calls. Get a million samples then form a statistical model. The production model replays the function calls given some input. Doesn't need graphical memory anymore and it also has higher resolution inputs (function symbols, addresses) than coordinates on a screen.
Techs for the environment, like wireless sensor grids used to monitor and help the nature, or monitor warehouses, ports

Now sensors can run nodejs or similar familiar languages, and with more capacities than a decade ago
> Since at least medieval times, civilization as a whole has tended to move towards freer, more democratic societies - almost without any meaningful, lengthy changes. This is particularly true since the industrial revolution. (Correct me if I'm wrong above.)

This is a very Eurocentric view. In the rest of the world, this mostly wasn't (and still isn't) the case.
I remember when the App Stores first came online and everyone was fine to pay the 30% cut because before that, other retail channels were charging way more.

Now the 30% is too much.
Fuck bicyclists. They are freeloaders on the infrastructure bought and paid for by people who buy gas for their automobiles (and heaped upon electric car owners where I live).

In my city, there is a push to charge bicyclists an annual licensing fee, similar to cars, and to require they have license plates. Once bicyclists are paying their fair share for the roads, then we can start dreaming bigger than bike lanes.
The changes with the Save as dialog, how are they protecting the customer? It almost seems like they want to have creative control of the application, dictating how it should work.

> often review rejected for text, images, random issues

> random censorship of whatever Apple does not like
You think nothing of real significance happened between 1967 and 2017? The 90's was extreme with both internet and cellphones becoming mainstream, suddenly you no longer needed several bookshelves full of encyclopedias just to look up information and everyone was reachable from anywhere! 2000's and 2010's where pretty lackluster in comparison as they just fleshed out the offerings from the 90's, but we could very well have another decade similar to the 90's again.
I guess it's just a label now but "true" communists are not compatible with US way of life. It's a fact.
> To me sounds like the civil engineers started behaving more like software engineers.

Things like these were common in construction before software engineering was a thing. It always makes me chuckle when someone defers to "if we built buildings like we build software" trope. We do, and worse.

Lots of constructions standing around the world are not up to the codes in zillion different ways. They are still standing because redundant nature of physical construction is more forgiving than execution on a Turing machine.
kube will die before docker.
kube is not fun.
VMware should buy docker.
We should write a much better container orchestration platform with layer 7 in mind and multi regional availability.
>Here's some ideas you might find interesting,

To expand on your key ideas: it looks pretty comprehensive but if you're interested in making the world a better place as well, have a look at 80,000 hours [1]. They've been thinking about this question for at least 8 years and it's quite extensive. They have a simple quiz that might also be an interesting starting point [2].

[1] https://80000hours.org/key-ideas/

[2] https://80000hours.org/career-quiz/#/
In some parts of Sweden they do. I live there and tend to cycle through wind and weather. Come springtime I'm joined by a host of cyclists but when autumn calls they quickly disappear into their cars, not to be seen until next spring. Sweden is big, Stockholm and Uppsala are not representative for the rest of the country.
You'll have a guaranteed next World War considering the current decouplings and many countries exiting from international treaties that provide stabilisation.

I have no idea what will be the the post-war order so impossible to predict.
> Honestly, I can’t even name single such change for iOS.

It's not horrible, but UINavigationController is quite infamous for changing internally with each release and behaving strangely with apps until you utter the right incantation to make it work right.
Please add extremely high prices for daily parking to the list :)
> The fact that we have to have humans look at our software before we can go to market in 2019 is absurd.

Random internet friend trust me. I would rather have 5 humans to check my app on App Store than have a stupid AI automated checking that Play Store has where, even they get 30% cut, you can't get to contact to a real person unless you are a huge player. The reasons for app suspension on Play Store are sometimes ridiculous.
There is one more anime that comes to mind if we're talking about typography - Bakemonogatari. Throughout the series still images are shown containing vital information about the thoughts of characters, events' second meaning, puns, etc. Sometimes split second only, sometimes in a fast slides. Really novel and interesting take on animation.

Example: https://youtu.be/-jm-xrO2c_0 (first 30 seconds shows one of the still images and there's much more)
Armistice Day in Europe
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He points out it's more work, and it surely is. I've shifted in the last 18 months from MacOS to Windows 10, to Linux (Fedora), back to Windows 10, and now back again to Linux (Clear). The Windows/Linux oscillation demonstrates that I'm not really happy with either. I'm staying with Linux for now out of stubbornness. But I wish there were better options, and am saddened that the 2019 desktop OS scene is as dire as it is.
Check the Apple App Store updates section, I believe that houses the High Sierra update, whereas Mojave uses the system update.
Probably HN is the wrong venue to get sympathy. Here everyone is constantly giving away extremely valuable information for free. Information that is verifiably valuable as opposed to parental advice that you can't check the value of very easily

People around here (and indeed in most of the internet) are paid for their information in attention and kudos. Your information would need to be almost unique and worth >£1000k for you to be able to sell it for money in todays attention starved market.
I don't understand your clipboard remark. Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V works everywhere.

Emacs by default uses a different copy-yank shortcut system, but that too works perfectly well with the clipboard out of the box since some years ago.

In order to have the clip stay alive when the sender closes, your desktop environment has to do something I think, but that too works out of the box in GNOME, I just tested it. If that was your problem, you were perhaps just missing something in your i3 setup? I think it is to be understood that choosing a more fiddly tool means having to be spend more time fiddling with it. A default install of the big distros are not fiddly.

In addition to that, you also have the convenient middle-button instant copy-paste thing.
> Greed destroyed the open and experimental Internet.

Did it? Or did it expand the open and experimental internet to also include profit-making ventures?

This meme crops up a lot on HN, but I can't see what's stopping the same internet thriving - there's still self hosting, there's still an open public internet (apart from some newer restrictions around copyright which were inevitable), there's still P2P for those less concerned with the previous point.

The "open and experimental internet" catered to a minority, and the minority can still, largely, enjoy it as is. It's just that the whole internet is no longer just the open and experimental version.
Setting the vision for American legislation and so-called "justice" is hardly something to be envious of, or to be proud of if you know anything about legislation or the "justice" system.
There is a plausible (to me at least) explanation of what is going on in the discordapp subreddit. Apparently this is related to specific cases and is part of the crackdown on Discord spamming.
Rarely I take bike lanes, they are less fast and irregular

The road should be used by bikes in my opinion (lower infrastructure/maintenance cost, and the separation between road and bike lanes is actually how I broke my right clavicle), and bikes should have priority against individual cars (not urgency and shared transports of course)
I think user blame is a bit of an under simplification.

In this case, the issue stems beyond just the product. In many cases, these elderly households don't even have internet access as it's simply not something that's needed for their daily life.

No matter how good a telemedicine product is, it's nearly impossible to deliver without the underlying infrastructure (and desire for that infrastructure) in place.

For the elderly with internet connection, telemedicine is already a pretty simple user experience.
There is plenty of evidence that cipher agility weakens cryptographic protocols.

By having cipher agility, both clients and servers are incentivised to support the widest possible set of ciphers (because nobody can agree on what cipher to use). This means that it's hard for a known-bad cipher to stop being used (see: the entire history of RC4 usage in TLS) and any downgrade attacks become catastrophic (see: the entire history of SSL/TLS). It also ends up adding complexity to the protocol -- which is always a good thing to have in cryptographic protocols (see again: SSL/TLS)!

Most importantly, if all currently-known ciphers are broken tomorrow, then all servers and clients will have to be upgraded in order to be secure. So cipher agility doesn't help you with the doomsday scenario (everyone needs to upgrade anyway) instead it just ensures that older (completely insecure) clients will still be able to communicate with servers. Why is that seen as a feature? If you really want an insecure fallback mechanism you can implement it with non-agile systems by supporting the two most recent versions of the protocol (I expect this is what WireGuard will do once it's upstreamed). But not everyone wants the "feature" that some clients will silently become insecure.

I don't understand what you're saying with this point:

> The "agility is bad" crew have a decade or two to wait before they can show anything at all meaningful beyond "my new thing is newer than your old thing".

How can the "agility is bad crew" prove their point in a few decades if you're arguing that we shouldn't use such protocols? If they followed your advice, there wouldn't be any zero-agility protocols to compare against in a few decades...
I like the frame! Would love to have thought of that then, my intuition is also that it has a lot of potential to carry the idea, likely better than my various diagrams of tally marks.
After Second American Civil War of 2025 and the following Drone Wars across the globe, the nation-state system will fall. It'll be replaced by a mix of city-states near the coasts and corporate territories in the hinterlands, with the two existing in an uneasy tension.

Several city-states (notably SFBay, NYC DC, Pearl River, Amsterdam, Venice, Florida, and Houston) will be wiped off the map, either by the Drone Wars or by rising sea levels and increasingly violent storms. Also, regions like the American Midwest, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and the Bengal/Burma/Myanmar area will be severely depopulated as regional conflicts and border skirmishes lead to the near-extinction of the local populace from drone cleansing efforts. Sub-Saharan Africa (now split between the Corporate States of Alcoa, DeBeers, and BP) will still be populated, but not by Africans. The Corporate State of ExxonMobil in Northern Athabasca will be a rising power, as will be the Corporate States of Monsanto in Canada and Russia. The City States of Barrow, Cambridge Bay, Taloyoak, and Fort Ross will be rising economic powers on the Arctic Ocean, as will be there lesser-populated equivalents in Siberia. The Corporate State of SpaceX will just be establishing the first Mars colony.

Standards of living for the survivors will be high. The near complete destruction of existing infrastructure in the Drone Wars will allow surviving cities to rebuild with more modern technology; in particular, the widespread adoption of robotics in that conflict means that most daily transportation and logistic problems are taken care of by machines. Everything is electrified, powered by renewable solar, wind, hydro, and geothermal sources. The severe depopulation in the Drone Wars means that the survivors are able to bargain for higher wages and better working conditions, and many Corporate States are run as egalitarian worker collectives (albeit at the cost of oppressing or exterminating the native populations they displace). City States face continued inequality, though, as they struggle to care for skill-less refugees that were not killed in the Drone Wars.
This depends strongly on humidity.
You may want to rethink the assumption that coffee shops/restaurants “just work”. Like tech startups, many restaurants don’t last long. Here’s and older study on restaurants: https://www.perrygroup.com/foodservice-expert-overview-on-ho....
I've been living in Amsterdam for a few years now, and with the bike lanes it feels like disabled people are SUPER included.

You can see a lot of people in the bike lanes with mobility problems, in their electric wheelchairs, scooters, etc.
Completely impossible in my car oriented city, specially because these people often cannot afford a car in their situation.
It's so nice to see an old lady going in her electric vehicle in the bike line.
Nah, maybe for US citzens.

We were already using Symbian, Psion and PocketPC based phones.

The first phone with hardware support for OpenGL ES was the Nokia N95 released in September 2006, one year before iPhone, with Asphalt as their show game.
Considering Microsoft cut their percentage take to 5% on the Microsoft Store [1], it shows that Apple is really charging 30% just because developers keep letting them get away with it.

[1] https://download.cnet.com/news/microsoft-store-slashes-reven...
I'm not claiming that it's unbiased, just that I'm getting much more relevant information from the comments than on any other news site/forum that I know.

Just not having jokes/clickbait allowed makes HN special.

An example for the strong bias that I know of is how much HN crowd thought that the iPhone would flop.
50 years seems to medium term predictions, which is near impossible to predict.

For everything else.

https://www.futuretimeline.net/
Opt-in analytics fail to account for people who turn them off because they don't like opt-in analytics. So you might be getting more data, but it might not necessarily be any more representative.
For others who are curious about tiling window managers, please also consider Awesome. It's a lua backend and is gpl vs i3's bsd (for those of us who care about that sort of thing).
Unfortunately the side effect of any artificial lighting in greenhouses is massive light pollution and pretty much no view of the night sky. I guess not being able to see the stars is a small price to pay for fresh vegetables year round, but having grown up far from greenhouses, I still miss the stars.
As far as possible I never give away my phone number, to any online service. Facebook, Google and LinkedIn also makes it hard for you to sign up without one I recall.

The 2FA argument is week imho. It's all disguised datamining is my guess - similar to how Google properly uses captchas to simultaneously improve their ML algorithms (ever stopped to think about what those captchas contains? Crosswalks, cars, parking signs, crosswalk lights etc.).

If you're an American citizen you can use Abine's Blur subscription to mask your phone number (and more), unfortunately it doesn't work outside of US yet.
Never said it would be easy. But fossil fuel powered light bulbs aren't the long term solution, and renewable-powered bulbs definitely are.
The Stalin Note
That crosses into personal attack. Please follow the site guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hmm, wonder why that is. Loads fast for me!
Even if the products had different names? Or are you saying once you put one product in app store they all have to go in.
The CGI Peter Cushing is obviously CGI and non CGI Peter Cushing is obviously not. Its impressive but its not remotely close to being there yet. Is there a better example? You can probably make some CGI stills that fool people pretty well, but so far I haven't seen a convincing animated character.

Death Stranding is even more glaringly obvious. However to be fair to the devs they aren't under the impression that it looks like anything other than a videogame. A very pretty videogame, but still obvious CGI.
I don't like this kind of writing. Even the first para falls apart at the first poking.

> In the modern world, science has become the ultimate guide for describing reality.

I'm an atheist but I recognise that religion does exactly that function for the religious.

> and with such an appearance of impartiality, that we feel satisfied with its answers and seek nothing more

So climate change is fully agreed upon by everyone and anti-vaxxers don't exist. Sure.
I took a database class in college and it mostly taught SQL syntax (which IMO can be learned from StackOverflow and such) and all the different intricacies of database normalization (3rd normal form, etc).

Having worked as a programmer for the past couple years I can't help but feel that the stuff I learned at college isn't very relevant and I wish that I knew more about the actual database internals; query execution strategies, concurrency control and stuff like that. This seems like a good place to start.
I believe the article is dangerously drawing incorrect conclusions. In particular, from the cases shown, I'd say it's rather that there's a lot in the world that we currently are unable to measure (esp. in human behaviors and mind). That's where science indeed and emphatically has limits, and that's why medicine doctors must not rely purely on science. And why anyone who tries to ignore people's descriptions of how they feel is not a great doctor, I think. Although it's super hard to practice good medicine outside what can be measured... especially compared to how where science really works it's so much easier... it may have spoiled some doctors... And it doesn't help that there seems to be a "science crisis", with high profile journals eagerly accepting crappy papers that are falsely "proving" various stuff, and otherwise scientists falsifying their findings, tempted by wrongly aligned incentives. But throwing the baby out with the bathwater by saying "all science is crap" through some romantic argument that "it's distant from the people" is just leading us all straight back to charlatanerie :( bloodletting and all such stuff... :(
They would raise alarms if it was an unusual exception and not the norm in the industry.
In Sweden every student gets stipends and guaranteed loans so you don't have to work. Universities are still very segregated.
Screen tearing is usually a compositor issue. I still find it terrible that this is not dealt well by default in Ubuntu in 2019.
I love that he explains what's really under the hood. It's needed in a world where the trend is the opposite.
Because this is how copy-paste always worked on X11.

I'm used to it, so I hate apps that don't respect it. The option to disable it is an app-specific option to override the environment's default behaviour.
There's also aria-hidden to prevent screen readers from touching the honeypot field.
Two possibilities: either the app writes both to database and Kafka (ideally using an atomic commit) or CDC is setup in Kafka to read database's transaction log (this is faster)

> you'd write to Kafka, and the messages would be processed twice: once to write to the DB, and once to ElasticSearch

This would be equivalent to using a message queue, which (in contrast to log-ordered replication) does not ensure same consistency guarantees (in this case (1) RYW for database writes and (2) database being always at least as up-to-date as the search index)
That's a fair point of cause, but if you need a VPN to hide from your government, then you need to be extremely careful about which VPN provider you pick. Potentially your VPN provider could be forced to, or voluntarily, hand over data to your government, without your knowledge, leading to a dangerous false sense of security.

You certainly shouldn't be running your own VPN either, because that would be much easier to track, seeing as your traffic isn't mixed in with that of others.

Those of us in free democracies have little need for VPN providers. For those who do not, I'm not sure that I'd trust a VPN provider how targets gamers via YouTube ads.
Do random routing features like SecureCore of ProtonVPN add some value? I think they do in terms of anonymity.
Considering that they own the entire stack, I honestly think that one of the unofficial integration tests for lower-level components is when the apps sitting on fail to work.
I don't know. Have you tried it? I worked on a Kafka streams service written in Java that processed "changelog" messages (it involved one query to CosmosDB per message, and logging the result to Kafka for downstream processing by other systems). Now, we had a rather limited number of workers (4 or 8? I don't remmember), but getting to 100k messages per second was rather challenging.
It's enabled because it's a very old standard, just like Ctrl-C + Ctrl-V.

If you were using Ctrl-V to scroll down, I guess you'd have the same kind of problem and could level the same complaint.

Tangentially related, applying constant pressure to a mouse button to scroll sounds like it could cause stress problem for your fingers long term.
I can't believe I'll be the only one to wave goodbye to discord if and when they demand my phone number. Its their prerogative to demand our phone numbers and ours to delete their software.
Price point
combinatorial logic... I guess byte order is just about which order you connect the wires between two components, and then it's free modulo "wire" length. That's my circuit board model of it, then.
Traditional society management via myth will fail (the 3 NYC CD's will be common knowledge).

The 1st and 2nd Amendments will be further adopted outside the United States.

Open, non-DRM 3D printers will be as common as a 2D printer is today in the US.

Personal wayback machines will be standard computing kit.

Cash will still exist.
The state of cancer causes California
2FA through sms can be risky as well, as it travels in plain-text over the air
Management by Spreadsheet: Look! +140K added to the bottom line!
Steve Jobs on managing software complexity (1997) [video]
But is it? Doesn't look like one in hindsight.
I’d be interested in seeing an equivalent side-by-side image based on occupancy data. For instance, cars in the US average only 1.7 people per vehicle:

https://m.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-average-vehicle-occupancy...