skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I fell asleep much faster and woke up (refreshed) remembering all manner of weird clear dreams. Previously was one of those people who for the last decade couldn't recall a single dream (and had trouble nodding off)."

Just another anecdote, but I've found many techniques that have worked for me to greatly enhance my dream recall that don't require any drugs.

The first technique is just to get interested in dreams, read up about them, study techniques of dream recall, dream analysis, the science of sleep/dreams, etc.

The second is to have an intention to remember your dreams when you wake up, and consciously focus on that intention before you go to sleep.

Third, when going to sleep try to remember your day in reverse, from the moment you laid down in bed back through your day to when you got up that morning. The theory is that you're kind of priming your mind to think back to your dream when you wake.

Next, as soon as you wake up write even the smallest little thing that you remember about your dreams down on paper. Alternatively, you can record your dream in a voice recorder, which is what I do as I find it much faster and more convenient than writing.

Something else that I've noticed is that if I move my body when I wake, it can adversely affect dream recall, so I try to stay as still and as much as possible maintain the exact body position that I woke up in while I record the dream.

Also, when I have a really long dream to record, I found that I would often forget the end of dream while writing it down, as writing all the details down would take too long and by the time I got half-way through I'd forget. So I suggest writing down some key words and images first, and then go back and fill in the details afterwards. The words and images you've written down will help you remember.

Then, what's helped me is to go over my dreams and try to make sense of them, look for patterns in them, and try to see the connection between them and my waking life. I've found they have a lot of meaning and aren't just "random neuronal noise" that some people make them out to be.

Using these techniques and others, and just taking dreams seriously and being interested in them led me to go from remembering maybe one dream every three months to remembering three long dreams every night, and filled up hundreds of pages in my dream journal with records of dreams and dream analysis.

The downside is that doing this takes a lot of time, so I stopped after a while, and lost interest in dreams, and went back to very rarely remembering my dreams.
British civil service recruitment via a Gmail account?
The dynamic languages slower than ruby prediction didn't hold up either. The past ten years have just seen nibbling around the edges for dynamic languages, without any compelling ideas about how to make them fundamentally more expressive.
The proof is later discovered to contain errors caused by floating-point roundoff.
I think his followers maybe (accidentally?) dissembling: He only became president of the Quorum six years _after_ the iron curtain fell. And Mormons account for well less than 0.1% of Eastern Europeans. So to say he had something to do with it is another reason to be suspicious of those saying wanting to change his obituary.
Yes - well into the XXi century.
Yes that is the problem, having like a hundred people who are a big deal means that the company has no direction.
I imagine it helped deliver on another feature customers have been asking for for years, which is water proofing.
My understanding is that in order to form a government, the Greens and others form coalition deals, through which some of their policies get implemented regardless of their actual number of seats.

As for my news sources - I don’t think they should be dismissed due to association with Murdoch. One of the articles responds to claims that the Greens aren’t against controlled burns with lots of links to evidence that they were indeed against it, at least for certain time periods or in certain jurisdictions.
Curious about the mind-changing aspect. Will these drugs transform my personality type, e.g. from INTJ to ESFP?
FDA Approves Ebola Vaccine with 100% Effectiveness
Throwaway because I don't like to tell people I smoke.

I must echo this entire post. I'm able to learn so much about myself when high. Far more personal than a therapist ever gets. I do introspection sessions after smoking. I smoke twice a week and do at most 5 hours of introspecting every week. This year I'm doing every other quarter.

After smoking I think about how to better myself and insights just flow in perhaps about 3 really good ones a session. And while yes about 10% of my insights are incorrect it's not a problem to write them all down in your phone and verify in a couple hours.

Doesn't seem like many people have similar experiences.
Apart from the fact that they are recruiting for 'weirdos', this is there Prime Ministers chief aide recruiting via a gmail account!
>If you trust them enough to complete the task then surely you should also trust their common sense about what to talk and not talk about (trade secrets, etc) to the press?

I trust people at the company to have common sense about what to talk and not talk about, as long as it is their job, as they are most likely able to have the full story and consider the situation from all angles.

However, I do not trust an average engineer's common sense to know what to talk/not talk about, especially considering how narrowly scoped most of the engineering work (and, conversely, their exposure to the overall big picture) is.

>There are tons of happy small businesses with no such thing as "PR" nor media policy (just employees' common sense) and they don't seem to implode, because either there's no dirty laundry or the employees are paid & treated well enough to not put the company in disrepute. It's like mutual trust & respect.

Agreed with this one, but it only seems to support my previous point about the big picture. If you work at a small company, you are way more likely to have an understanding of the big picture than a cog at a big tech company, who stands very little chance at doing so.

>If the thought of anyone being able to "ruin" the company's reputation by airing dirty laundry is scary, then maybe fix the root cause instead of the symptoms and ask yourself 1) why is there dirty laundry to begin with? and 2) why would the employee be unhappy enough to leak it?

There doesn't have to be any real "dirty laundry", it's all about how people on the outside can spin the story, even if the facts leaked are true. Just look at this submission post itself. Factually, it is true, because an employee spoke out about the company on the topic of climate change and got fired for it. Or, a more level-headed view, would be something more like "An employee acted as if they were representing company views while giving an interview regarding company policies and got fired for it regardless of their stance on the issue."

Which of the two do you think will be more unfavorable to the company and paint it in a bad light? Which one opens up the company more to the potential damage?
> But Microsoft has fared much better than anyone expected.

Its probably because they picked the right guy to lead after Ballmer.
Is there a "unicorn"-sized company which is not highly bureaucratic (dominated by internal politics)? It just doesn't seem logically possible to me. The weird thing, rather, is the extent to which the largest companies do way better than we might otherwise expect, given the obvious drawbacks of these formalized, bureaucratic arrangements.
Google is entirely recognizable, as a modern, amoral hyper-corporation whose entire purpose is to service its giant self-aware pile of cash. They used to make money by making information available. Now they just make money, and how they do it is incidental.

> “Google is built on trust,”

They were. They don't need that anymore.
And how could that "flooding" happen? that still would be produced from the living cells, cell division is slow. If breakthrough happens, such synthetically produced antibodies would not be called monoclonal and instead we'll hear some new marketing name there.
Prediction for the 20s: breakthroughs in s̶c̶i̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ ̶j̶o̶u̶r̶n̶a̶l̶i̶s̶m̶ fusion power will mean it'll only be 10-20 years away at the end of the decade
There is no way that number hasn't slipped in recent years. I would at least segment public opinion into the general public and those involved in the tech industry. Google's image (Facebook, etc, there's others) have certainly seen damage in both groups.

Whether technical people like or dislike, is kind of ambivalent. You know, it's how we make our money. And companies like Google are the market makers for raising salaries for the employees of this industry.
Typically Nigerian and the are employed and supplied by the yakuza. It's the worst kept secret in Japan, and everyone including the police are well aware of what is going on.
I've frequently wanted an 'evocative' score that would provide a metric for the ratio of up vs. down votes among the comments.

What's more contentious, 'Tabs vs. Spaces', or, 'No Go, Python'.
Tofu does not transport well, but the soybeans it's made from do, and China is a massive importer from both the US and Brazil.
Hitting Earth with a Grain of Sand Going 99.9% the Speed of Light
Curious. What's the ROI on developing a task queue system for 50 req/sec?

Please don't take my question negatively. I acknowledge that not everything is about ROI.

For example I often let my team scratch their own itches by developing tools just for the sake of having fun and learning new toys. Perhaps this is the case with TaskTiger?
Digg is a classic example of a webpage getting a working model right, totally by accident. This happens quite a lot in that they cobble something together and it got trajectory. Their downfall is thinking they actually knew what they were doing and therein lies their problem. They had no clue and they changed it causing the whole thing to crater.

The moral here is don't change anything. Ever.
You've opened by suggesting people you disagree with might have mental health issues. You are going well beyond 'putting forth rational thoughts for discussion' already.
It's important to remember that the GPL does not require that the modified source be publicly accessible, only available to those who you've distributed the modified program to. How that's verified and distributed is unspecified.
Nobody saw Bitcoin coming. (The first block had already been mined at the start of 2009, but there was no real exchange trading until later in 2010.)
I am glad to subsidize those kinds of services that I myself do not personally need. And anyone who has the mentality of "why am I paying the government to provide stuff that doesn't help me?" needs to be taught compassion and empathy. Or given a one-way ticket to the government-free utopias such as Somalia that is clearly their dream come true.
Excel is sui generis - it is the end-user-programming platform that lived. But even Excel formulas are a textual programming language, and the really hairy Excel spreadsheets spill over into VBA (a "real language" for these purposes, and one whose ergonomics still blow the web out of the water).

It is tempting (albeit a bit snobbish) to think that "CRUD apps", as a category, have so little logic that you can describe a useful working version without code. I just don't think it's true - they are always shot through with squirrelly business logic.

You can carve off products like form builders (eg Google forms/Airtable/etc), but anything you'd describe as a "CRUD app" contains an amount of logic that's just painful to describe without code. (And the form builders know it, which is why they don't support those use cases!)
Highly doubtful of this being the actual words being spoken. Likely translated from incentivized reporting. Getting in trouble? Sure. labor camp? If they existed past 2015 they’re highly unlikely to exist in official language.
I think car ownership might change to subscription service model vs. outright buying a car, but still mostly private vehicle "ownership" in 2030 outside of dense urban areas.

Maybe the avg. car ownership per household will drop dramatically, from ~2 to 1 or less, with the rise of ridesharing/public transit.
I don't know about the "Now you Asians" line but the diversity exercise is so bloody obvious in what it's aiming to achieve that it blows my mind any other HN commenters aren't able to figure it out.

It is a "see how it feels to be discriminated against" exercise. You can argue the outcomes, but you certainly can't argue the intentions. It's clearly aimed at trying to make people understand what it's like to be discriminated against.

About the best you can do for a well-intentioned person doing a thing like that is tell them it's not helping.
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Congratulations, JavaScript, on finding what Lisp had before most of JavaScript developers were even born.

In other words, the slow march for all languages to eventually become Lisp continues...
Very often even the layer count is an issue. For perfect example see almost any brand name japanese AV DVD/DVR combo which has giant single layer board with only passives, connectors and links which holds small subboard with bunchs of (fc)BGAs and somewhat incredible layer count.

On the other hand for small scale devices not only certification comes into play but also availability and cost. There are niche devices that simply use some Arduino-ish board as a component, because the board is easier to source and, more importantly, cheaper than the MCU on it, personaly I view that as bad design and good reason to use some non-AVR MCU, but that is how it is.
1. Fusion reactors break even.

2. No progress in identifying dark matter or understanding quantum gravity.

3. At least one of the major social media corporations are overtaken by a new competitor, e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, etc.
Just as good a prediction as any.
My story:

In 1996 or 97, a friend brought me his Compaq Deskpro, the SCSI HDD had stopped working. No sound at all, dead. Tried everything, checked voltages, reconnected cables trying to clear any oxidation. Wouldn't spin at all. Well, called it a night.

Next day, decided to take it out of the chassis for a last test, connected outside. Not only it spun, it worked fine!!! WTH????

Well, into the chassis it went. Nothing. Dead. Whaa..??? Outside again, it worked. In the chassis, dead. Outside, worked. Scratched my head... With it working outside, just tried to place it on top of the chassis. It spun down and stopped. Took it away, it spun up. Got it close again to the chassis, it spun down again... Scratched my head again... Gave up, left it disconnected outside for the day.

Next day tried it again and this time it worked outside of and in the chassis... My thoughts? The chassis was magnetized or something...

Worked for a couple more years.
Eureka. https://simplemind.eu/features

I found it with DuckDuckGo of all things. The IAP search only found freemium and payware apps that weren’t great.

Others tried:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ithoughts2go/id918458207

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/coggle/id1187423011

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fluent-mind-map/id645539191

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/xmind-mind-map/id1286983622

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mindnode-6-mind-map/id12187180...

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lucidchart/id611543423

(I can’t afford OmniGraffle)
India is at the top of the list in terms of Internet bans, this yr alone they have banned the internet over 360 times.
The headline refers to multiple companies, but the article itself discusses only one: Frontier. The reason for Frontier's potential bankruptcy is attributed mostly due to them taking on debt to acquire Verizon customers in a few states in 2015.
My prediction: the amount of trouble and strife will increase over the next decade to a level that will make the current day look placid.
Why I'm focusing only on some programming languages
Elixir is off chortling somewhere...
Ten positively mammoth traffic sites
Unfortunately, the same people that voted for climate deniers are now getting caught in the bush fire. It's very sad.
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Postgres PubSub is great for triggering job dispatch, but it isn’t good enough on its own. There are a few caveats that make polling an additional requirement:

1. Message compaction — notifications are deduplicated, so if two jobs are inserted in the same queue the system may only get one notification.
2. Message saturation — with high levels of activity you’ll need to start discarding messages, essentially denouncing, otherwise the database gets throttled.
3. Dedicated connections — pubsub requires a dedicated connection for listening, which requires a single connection with custom dispatching or one connection per queue.

Relying on PG for everything is awesome regardless!
I feel like lately Google has become more and more mission driven (organize the worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful). This is because, this doesn't require taking any risks, it is straight-forward/easy to follow and very cost efficient (a change that occurred with Ruth).

Before under Larry and Sergey there was an openness to ignore mission and take bets on interesting projects and to try things.

No one on the executive team has a product vision of how Google should evolve so it remains stuck working on old projects and fulfilling the remnants of it's old mission.
I’d be interested to know what city you’re talking about. Are you limiting ‘something of value’ to manufacturing? A great deal of the UK economy is service based. I’d be amazed if only 5% of the city’s population were producing goods or services used by those outside the city.
Half of those predictions read like "the thing that is a trend now, will continue to be a trend".
I can be a prophet too - Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft are not going to be displaced in the next decade.
> the company didn't suffer for it

I have one word for you.

Social.

Social was Larry's project. He very explicitly put Vic in charge of it, and kept Vic in charge from one disaster to another.
> might change to subscription service model vs. outright buying a car

This is what I mean. Car ownership will be a hold-over from folks who still own a car from a long while ago.

Most people will just subscribe to a subscription rideshare service.
It's not always easy if large amounts of money is involved especially for small countries.

It's one thing to hold countries' feet over the fire over international conventions and other generally agreed upon conventions but this is basically international freedom of speech.

Imagine if Japan demanded that China take down books about Nanjin/Nanking when Japan was ascendant and China was weak...
The source is org chart.
Well, nothing else in english is pronounced like it is written, so I don't think this is a good reason to misspell things.
> There's an old Dilbert strip basically saying that managers reach a point of constant reorgs and responsibilities churn to the point that no one is around long enough to be held accountable for their actions

I believe it.

During my time at Google as a TVC [recent times], whatever department du jour I was in was having a reorg about once a year. I//we had about 4 different managers in 3 years.
OK, we've changed to that from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/magic-mushroom-dep.... Thanks!
Goldmann Sachs will buy all of taxi medallions, Uber, Lyft, and going anywhere will triple in price.
Something is fishy about this story. Why would a sports team in town for training care what is in the local library? Even if they went there, surely the team members would be well aware that drawing attention to a taboo subject has no personal upside.

The librarian they quoted doesn't actually say that anyone associated with the team brought it up, and speaking of that interview, where did the reporter get this story idea from in the first place? Seems more likely that someone else is showing some faux concern to attract attention.
Why not apply this to first-level managers, too? I've seen more than one first-level manager who wanted to build an empire. I think all of the issues mentioned here about VPs also apply to managers.
What source code does Wire let you see that Signal doesn't?
Problem is that there aren't enough people to every VP, so they fight for headcount and projects leading to frequent reorgs or projects shuttering to make room for VP's pet projects.
global warming! oh wait
Technically, we already have fully autonomous vehicles on the road, they're just not generally allowed to be used as such and have obvious failure modes not shared by human drivers.

However, if by this you mean "autonomous vehicles that are clearly superior to reasonable human drivers under all reasonably frequent scenarios (including inclement weather) in any developed country" then yes, I feel very confident we won't see that in the next decade, probably two. I think the hyperoptimistic HN bubble is extremely far off the mark with respect to autonomous vehicles and always has been.
Or. Maybe. Instead of moaning about how tech is not helping. Fbi/nsa/cia can roll a few crypto libraries of their own and then mandate that all american companies/services must use those. And I'll use something else...
Using an IDE like Visual Studio is helpful if you're developing a native Windows application, but what if you're writing embedded code for some new device and need cross-compiled C and assembly language, or you want a workbook-style presentation of data processing you're doing in Python, or you're writing some fancy isomorphic SPA for a new website, or you're researching new proof techniques for high reliability systems in Idris? The world of programming is far, far bigger than just making native applications targeting desktop OSes, and the tools that are useful for different kinds of programming go way beyond things like editors and debuggers.
> only available to those who you've distributed the modified program to

That's not true. GPLv2 text:

> Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code

(Emphasis mine.)