skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Microsoft will start pushing hard for it in a couple of years and Edge will be the default browser of choice in 10 years. It will have state of the art surveillance prevention and ad blocking. It will visually guess where the ads are perfectly, so that even ads served directly from the 1st party domain will be blocked.

- Google will loose significant revenue and will start laying off people after 2025. Will focus back on having good search results instead of the crap we have today, but it will not be enough to keep it afloat during 2030's.

- There will be a Gmail competitor.

- Apple will buy DuckDuckGo.

- There will be a dominant WebAssembly framework with support for different languages where all web applications will be written on (as .Net, but not .Net). JS usage will shrink to lightweight content pages.

- After 7yo becomes ~13yo, PG will go back to YC. Also will write a book that will be a bestseller for non-technical / non-startup audience.
Are you talking about the Apple Smart Keyboard Folio, or some non-trackpad keyboard from this vendor (Brydge)? If you’re talking about the former: well, it’s not my experience (with my 12.9’’ anyway), I’ve been trying hard to make it drop a key for the last minute and not a single one dropped. If you’re talking about the latter, then it’s making me have reservations about the new product, which seems somewhat attractive.
One caveat though is global macro is notoriously difficult.

Even when you think all signs point to a conclusion - think “peak oil hypothesis” something can come out of the moon that changes all your hypothesis, ruining your funds return easily.
Step 0. Lots of FAANG veterans discover each other and plot their exits.

Step 1. Start a FAANG-competitor worker-owned co-op that is profitable through donations, subscriptions and freemium products / services. No evil allowed.

Step 2. Poach more workers from FAANG to a civilized, humane and decent organization that creates excellent products for normal humans.

Step 3. Dominate FAANG without selling-out to governments privacy invasions or reselling customer data.
Observable did not handle my rendering requirements involving several hundreds of data points for my parallel coordinate plot. That said I'm not sure how it would fare outside of the notebook setting.
Of course. Nothing in life is guaranteed. I'm sure the Buddha would tell me
that "there ain't no such thing as permanent". Nevertheless, I've had
my domain name longer than I've had my current phone number. I'm far
more likely to put up a fight for that name than I would be to fight for the
current string of digits that represents me in the phone system.
Maybe the whole concept of user-owned identifiers is a myth, or a Platonic
ideal. At least in my case, my phone number is pretty far from the Platonic
ideal.
> When one can do it consistently for twenty years, is it still luck?

If you take a few million people and have them invest in put or call options every year, you're still going to have some streaky winners after 20 years. Very few individual investors I have talked to have convinced me they are even tracking results well enough to back their claims of outperformance.
Recent airline mergers in the US have clearly been a net negative for customers, probably for this exact reason. All of the airlines already flew to basically all the major airports, so mergers simply served to reduce competition and worsen prices and quality of service.
There are quite a few HN readers who consider any political news off-topic.
Or, you could try supporting the policies described in the article that increase the probability of talented people reaching their full potential.
Clickbait title. Actual content: Amazon threatens disciplinary action against employees who speak in public as an Amazon employee (i.e. under the Amazon banner) on any issue without prior HR (and presumably legal) approval. This happened after some Amazon employees spoke out on climate change.

Seems like something that any company would require, if you ask me.

Much as I loath Amazon, this is just using their poor reputation in employee relations to generate clicks. Sad to see how far BBC has fallen.
These are so weird. It is strange to me that complaints about number of legs or the google ant's weird closer-middle leg passing under the closer-front leg are eschewed.
> it seems I’m unable to register for updates.

Same here, clicking “register now” just makes the page jump to the comments section for whatever reason. And I’m probably not gonna make an account just to subscribe to an email newsletter.

Missed opportunity for them. I’m in the potential audience of this but isn’t convinced enough to preorder, but might take another look when it’s actually shipping and reviewers have taken a spin. Now I’m most likely gonna forget about it.
email me at my HN nickname at 0xfb.com. Sadly the SEO spammers mining HN are so evil I can't post it in plaintext
I now drop the "I know" and go with something like "so cool that you brought that up - I was just reading about it last week!"
It's nice. It's also kind of blatant advertising. Is that going to be a thing here?
Step 4. Remove "No evil allowed" from mission
1. At least one major US city will be substantially destroyed due to climate change. Probably Miami, Galveston, or New Orleans. It will not be fully rebuilt. (Much like Puerto Rico and Key West).

2. Self-driving cars will arrive, but as a niche product for senior communities. (Like Google's slow bubble car.)

3. Amazon will finally get robotic picking working, and their warehouse employment will start to drop.

4. Somebody will build a 3nm fab, but it won't be a mainstream technology due to cost.

5. Big recession in US. House prices drop. San Francisco empties out again, like 2001 and 2008.

6. No major breakthrough in battery technology, but battery cost drops at least 50% due to volume increases.

7. New space probes to Luna and Mars, maybe Venus and Europa, but no manned activity beyond low earth orbit.

8. Artificial meat takes off in a big way, especially in China.

9. Parts of India become too hot to be inhabitable. Deaths in the hundreds of thousands. Fires in Australasia become a huge problem. California spends enough money to deal with its fires.

10. VC funds as a class lose money over the decade.
>Smaller clients will have orders forwarded to them by fax---an attractive alternative, because it is secure and uses familiar technology.

Wow.
Released an eBook: $20K sales in the first 3 days
We've reached a point where package ecosystem eclipses the importance of language features (which, in brand new languages, typically only offer incremental improvements these days).

It's not good enough to build a slightly better language any more. People won't learn a new language without their favourite packages (or equivalents).
“We need to stop confusing human value with economic value. We don't exist to serve the market. The market exists to serve us.”
And anybody can link to Wikipedia, but very evidently need not understand what it says.
Actually I was trying to avoid the US date standard myself, then got confused and wrote a date that follows no standard that I know of. My mistake entirely.
In the US, yes, but China uses a lot of soybeans directly as food (tofu, soymilk, countless fermented bean pastes and sauces). Can't find any stats though.
Ghosn Hid in a Double Bass Case to Escape From Japan
The second season was really puzzling.
availability of compatible apps I think is an argument for iOS on ARM laptops.
"Income tax" isn't the only tax on income.

There is National Insurance (which is a flat 2% above ~40k).

There is the tapering of the personal allowance, which amounts to another 20% between £100k and ~£125k.

There is the stealth income tax of Employer's national insurance, which is spun as a tax on the employer, but all employers realise that they need to pay this extra ~13%, so obviously they factor that into salaries.

There is the withdrawal of child benefit for people who earn over 50k, which, again is an effective income tax on high earners with children.

Finally, there are things like the withdrawal of pension relief, which effectively increases your tax by making you pay tax on pension contributions that you wouldn't have had to pay tax on if you earnt less.

All of these can combine to an effective income tax rate of over 50%, by which I mean of the money that leaves your employer's account at the end of each month, more of it goes to the inland revenue than goes to you.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

If you have a nice developer-oriented product to sell that good hackers find interesting then by all means. In fact, check out Show HN.
Ask HN: What should be included in a computer reverse engineering course?
Meat ag is incredibly dangerous and pollution-causing.

1. Pandemic evolution by cramming zillions of animals in unsanitary conditions, with humans interspersed attempting to clear out rivers of poop and pee.

2. Antibiotic resistance by overusing antibiotics to promote growth while compelling accelerated evolution of microbes that can’t be treated with as many classes of antibiotics.

3. Inefficient allocation of input and supporting resources: diesel fuel, water, fertilizer, phosphorous and crops.

4. Pollution of air, water and soil... pig farms especially necessitate lakes of shit that are sprayed into the air, polluting large areas of air, waiter and land. Agriculture runoff as well.

5. Climate change. Net CO2 output of meat ag is nearly that of Portland cement (clinker) production.

....

99. Animal cruelty... which doesn’t persuade many people because self-interested cognitive dissonance overcomes most people’s limits of self-control and rational thought. (Upton Sinclair-like effect.)
Most people don't even know that an alternative is possible.

In fact, a large percentage doesn't even use pure Chrome, rather the OEM customized variant with an icon named Browser.
The future is in integration of all those managed services and dealing with legacy decisions...

I'm still optimistic, but we'll see.
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Yes and no. You must fetch the whole thread in a seperate request and handle them specifically. Bit more work, but simple.

https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/imap-extensions#acc...
Australia was already at war from '39 and against Japan since '41.
This decade will see stagnation and fall of Google and Amazon as new entrants replace them. Not sure by what but public will binge on something else instead of instant information and shopping.
The things you’re calling labels are themselves learned data, as we don’t start off with an innate knowledge of language.

Whether that distinction is important or not, I don’t know enough brain science to guess.
Anyone know if using a mouse/trackpad with iOS works well?
Apple spearheaded this but you could imagine Facebook spearheading it and everybody else following.

Honestly the original gun emoji was simply a bad idea because it makes it hard to make apps that are age-rated for small children when there's a fricking gun in the system keyboard.
why should we GAF about shipping in the persian gulf. Cut our losses, and get the hell out of dodge. Let the rest of the world worry about it. I think Trump wants a war -- to help his campaign and 'legacy' such as it is. So we'll probably get a war.
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Fair enough but this guy wasn’t a unaffiliated civilian waging a secret war. He wasn’t a terrorist. He was a General in Iran’s military acting upon their nation policy.

Once he’s dead he’ll simply be replaced with the next general in line, and the war will continue.

My context is that this is no secret from the countries leadership, just merely not official acknowledged like CIA actions.
Trust “Down to the Metal”
Trusted Kernel... all the way to the metal.

While building a trusted computer algebra system, the
SANE version of Axiom, I've been looking at questions of
trust at all levels.

One of the key tenets (the de Bruijn principle) calls for a
trusted kernel through which all other computations must
pass. Coq, Lean, and other systems do this. They base
their kernel on logic like the Calculus of Construction or
something similar.

Andrej Bauer has been working on a smaller kernel (a
nucleus) that separates the trust from the logic. The rules
for the logic can be specified as needed but checked by
the nucleus code.

I've been studying Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)
that allow you to create your own hardware in a C-like
language (Verilog). It allows you to check the chip you build
all the way down to the transistor states. You can create
things as complex as a whole CPU or as simple as a trusted
nucleus. (youtube: Building a CPU on an FPGA). ACL2 has a
history of verifying hardware logic.

It appears that, assuming I can understand Bauers
Andromeda system, it would be possible and not that hard
to implement a trusted kernel on an FPGA the size and
form factor of a USB stick.

Trust "down to the metal".
1. Rust will gradually become a top language for native development

2. C will remain, but it is role will be gradually diminished to a nice-to-read somewhat portable assembler code

3. C# will be poisoned by a bulk of badly thought out features that will gradually turn the language into catastrophic cacophony

4. .NET will gradually loose its appeal for new developments due to its removal from the OS

5. Apple looses the remaining tropes of innovation and fades away in the second half of decade

6. macOS market share will shrink to 2% by the end of the decade
Although fun to say "the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing", I think it's unlikely that the designer for Messenger didn't know that Facebook had emojis. In fact, the Facebook and WhatsApp scissors look similar enough in style that I wouldn't be surprised if they were drawn by the same person.

I think the real answer is that they are 3 products with 3 different target users, and Facebook really wants to keep them separated in the minds of users (to keep bad karma from one brand tainting another). So, "brand differentiation".
Unless I'm wrong, a drawback of using interleaved bitplanes to do fewer but larger blits is that the mask for the sprite shape gets bigger too.

If you do several blits, one per bitplane, you get to use the same mask data, but when using interleaved data the mask needs the same shape data * number of bitplanes involved.

It's still a pretty small price to pay compared to Atari ST/ZX Spectrum preshifted bitmaps.
In his example, we are the aggressor too as we have the catapult and they have the castle.
This is not a Google internal discussion, though, and I am not working for YCombinator.

I am stating the fact that I would feel unsafe working for a company like Google. Whether my feeling of being unsafe is warranted is up for discussion. That I have the feeling (or expect to have it) is a fact.

By the way, forcing people through diversity training is also like that: it is saying "you are racist and need to be reprogrammed". That is likewise not a good entry for discussion. Except that compared to my comment on an internet forum, it is official company policy.
If they provide the ipsw, modify the ipsw, and don’t have permission from Apple to do that, then it’s all over for them.

Didn’t work for Psystar and it won’t work for them.
Knowledge gap is a new Wealth gap
Wow, sounds like not a hot tourist spot probably then. Not sure why people would want to live there when safer and cheaper places in the US.
I have lots of warm and fuzzy feelings toward Matrix, but my take is that
XMPP solved my basic problem over 15 years ago. The problem being:
I want to talk to Alice, Bob, Mary, Jane, Fred, and Joe without having
to install ICQ, AIM, and Yahoo Messenger. Or should I say Facebook, Whatsapp,
and Signal? I don't know what Matrix buys me over XMPP, but at this point,
I don't care. I'll gladly drink the Matrix kool-aid, as long as it solves my
problem and somehow ends up being the clear winner among federated protocols.

I don't think XMPP "lost" because it was bad technology. AFAIK the big
players are still using it in various places under the hood. It lost because
big players want to build "ecosystems".
With drones and the right technology you could literally assassinate virtually ANYBODY in the world covertly without any trace tying it back to you. Esp w/ smaller and smaller drones.

Imagine a drone the size of a fly landing on a President or someone high up in a country and 'stinging' them with a poison then flying back home? Even if it was caught/destroyed it wouldn't always be traceable if using vpn's and pre-programmed flight patterns and ai.

There's been nothing like this ever. It's scary and kind of fascinating in a JAmes Bond kind of way, but still mostly scary. If the tech is ever open sourced or democratized it could be used to attack anyone you don't agree with or who's wronged you, etc... basically a super tiny hitman that isn't as stupid/error prone as a real hitman.
1 and 2:

Based on something like the Gartner Hype Cycle I will guess that we might be nearing something in 10 year. Or it might be that these things work in a 30-40 year cycle (based on observations of the last time AI was hot).

8:

For better (we can use languages that doesn't have more built in footguns than PHP) and for worse (openness of frontend will disappear) WASM will make Javascript unnecessary in the long run.

I'm kind of seasoned with JS - and a number of other languages - and the only real strength that JS has compared to TypeScript, C# and Java, language wise, is that it is ubiquitous.

Besides: if you get developers tp agree on a single stack in 10 years then you are dangerously good at negotiations and should spend your time in embassies not on HN;-)
> I’m not going to convince anyone that it isn’t a moral issue anymore than they will convince me that it is.

This is really unfortunate. An anti-vaxxer knows that it’s a question of science, just as a Holocaust denier knows that it’s a question of historical record (even if they lack the scientific/historical literacy to see through the counterfactual narratives they’ve bought into). There’s insurmountable conviction on both sides—but one is right and the other is not (for all practical purposes, as elusive as objective truth is).

To refuse to even consider the moral angle—I’d be tempted to call it bad faith, but I don’t get that impression from you at all. Rather, it seems to be this:

> I take a live and let live approach to the voluntary choices of others precisely because I’m not morally superior, nor do I endeavor to be.

Taken to the extreme, the live-and-let-live / agree-to-disagree philosophy exhorts us to put down difficult questions simply because they are difficult (or seem unactionable), and to simply accept the status quo for what it is. But the moral implications of your actions do not go away simply because you choose not to examine them, or because they were the default configuration presented by the time and place you were born in.

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You’re right though; I’m not qualified to pass moral judgment on anyone, and that’s not what I mean when I say it’s a moral question. Moral virtue isn’t a contest or a report card.

Am I morally superior to a 19th-century plantation owner? (Were all slaveowners equally bad?) If I were raised in his family, as part of that society, what reason do I have to believe I’d do any different? If the answer is “none”, then why do we study history? and what makes me better than that guy?

It's not within my power to change the way things are. But the willingness to consider that the way things are isn't right might be a start.
But you can't fill out the checklist "correctly", that's the entire point. A lot of these points are mutually exclusive, and which point to pick is a matter of conviction a lot of the time. Some of these points can be checked no matter the language (eg, you appear to believe that scaling to large projects will be easy).

This is particularly obvious in the "Your language has/lacks" section, where whichever choice you make can be argued against for almost every point.

The point is that you there is no such thing as a perfect language and the success of a language rarely depends on the kind of criteria that programmers will judge them on at first glance, and success is a relative thing.
Google has a problem, or thinks it has a problem - in the Damore case it was "too few female engineers". So I would expect to use rationality to come up with possible solutions.

However, as I said, I think Google is entitled to do it in their own way. I just personally don't want to work for a company that doesn't employ rational thought and discussion for trying to solve problems.

I am not proposing to implement a law that forces companies to allow open discussions. I am just saying I personally don't want to work there.

Diversity training and safety - I wrote it elsewhere. It signals "this is SJW territory". In a similar vein you could say "why does a Swastika tattoo make you feel unsafe? Just don't say you are Jewish or homosexual".
Yes. Works well in the browser, and in my case, that covers a lot of time in google docs. I believe that is the case for a lot of people.
For a lot of actual mobile/tablet app, it is kind unintuitive.
There are some US citizens working at BBP. In fact, inside our section we have two people who were previously working in the US.

Even though the process to bring somebody to work in Switzerland is more tedious than for EU citizens, it is duable.

I would still fully recommend to apply if you are willing to relocate, without worrying about the administrative factor.
There's also a NASTY bit you can set so the Blitter gets the bus cycles it want, any CPU access will have to wait for a spare cycle.

I'm not sure how much faster using that bit will make Blitter graphic operations in practise. I suppose when using 6 bitplanes a small speedup of like 10-20% could be seen.
But we can use it to communicate, which ought to be astonishing enough.

In particular, you can make an apparatus where a certain path has exactly zero probability of your photon transiting, yet blocking it is detectable when the photon arrives at its indefinitely distant destination.
AI was hot too before winter came