skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Though automation changed the way many business work, a bigger change of culture happened due to the now 20-40yo being in charge. Business are both profitable and sustainable. The way Microsoft changed the last decade will be an example for others - even the big ones, but certainly not all of them - to change. Personal growth and personal career paths are more important to companies, not only for the C-levels/public facing people but on all levels.

2. Climate change will be accepted, and most people are doing better in terms of being environment friendly. Eating meat more than 2-3 days a week is what smoking is now: you're sort of free to do it but it's just not the way.

3. Due to the retirement of the baby boomers (broad definition: 1945-65) things have changed, but not that much. Development in elderly care is slowly taking place - old people still living in their own house do have some home automation but it's more monitoring than active automation. Care robots are more present but are still been seen as toys or gadgets and did not replace humans in care. This will be the problem of the 2030-2040 as care costs have risen above sustainable levels.

4. Both GDPR/CCPA and some major privacy f*ckup (probably classified major because some public figure is involved) caused most companies to be really caring about the data they take care of. People know what companies do with their data and have a option to somehow have a paid subscription to be sure their data is not sold in anyway. (This is not going to happen, sadly. We still pay with our data, we are still bothered by ads.)
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Elon Musk is constitutionally ineligible to be US president. He is an African American, having been born in South Africa. He comes to us by way of Canada, which is almost enough to make up for Canada sending Justin Bieber.
> 6. But a small yet growing culture of "offliners" becomes
> mainstream. Being offline is the new "Yoga" and allows
> bragging rights.

I also think this. However, where do you brag if you are offline…

> 8. Web development matures and a "standard" stack is accepted,
> all in JS.

I kind of hoping for "going back to basics" in regards to the web. Like content sites rediscover they can work with HTML only and it must not necessarily be rendered with JS.
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I loved this book, and honestly it's one of the best books I read in the past decade. There does exist an eBook, because I read it on Kindle and I remember I used to wonder how amazing it would be to read it in hard copy. Well, it's been almost 3 years now - time for a re-read in Hardcover!
FWIW I was processing RAW pictures on a Core 2 Duo Mac Mini 10 years ago, so I don't believe this is "simply impossible" on any modern Mac.
I don't ever see it trying to get me to go to the new page.
View page source. What a beauty ️️.
It isn't qualitatively different. I appreciate the term there. Quantitatively however, the abundance of information and the way networks choose to constantly show new content (that is more likely to appeal to you too) makes for a very different scenario from decades ago.

Pick up the news paper, and it's the same thing you have to browse/skim through. Pick up the phone and it's tens of new items every few minutes.
Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, is often quoted with this statement: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses."

I suppose, scathing criticism in that respect is the highest form of praise.
> 2. electric vehicles sold overtakes ICE vehicles sometime around 2027 - 2029.
I think the tipping point is much earlier. Fast chargers station are becoming normal in the UK. I think the tipping point is 2025.

Alas I have not found a share/bet/option were I can back this tipping point and put my money where my mouth is.
Oh, the mafia fucks my shit up if I don't pay while the govt doesn't do this? You're not making sense. In any case the mafia charges less than government; I think I prefer them.

Civil unrest is mostly a bunch of confused idiots who want the govt to tax them more either directly or indirectly.
It seems all sequences are prerendered, it’s all animation.
I believe we will (1) find some basic data structures and algorithms to do real AI. (2) At first it will be able to do I/O only via text or simple voice. (3) Due to (1) it will learn very quickly from humans or other sources. (4) Soon it will be genuinely smart, enough, say, to discover and prove new theorems in math, to understand physics and propose new research directions, to understand drama and write good screen plays, to understand various styles and cases of music and compose for those, etc.

Broadly from (1) with the data structures it will be able to represent and store data and, then, from the algorithms, manipulate that data generating more data to be stored, etc.

In particular it will be able to do well with thought experiments and generation and evaluation of scenarios.

Good image understanding will come later but only a little later; the ideas in (1) may have to be revised to do well on image understanding.
WASM does not fix DOM manipulation, so…
The sad part is that I don't think this has caused people, on average, to become all that much more privacy-aware. Or, if they are, they still don't really care.
I don't think that's controversial, I think most of the world shared that opinion.
If you use Firefox, just enable "Reader View" for the site (just hit F9). Removes all the crud around the page and just shows the text and required images.
I also think that Amazon will get Robotic Picking and Refilling in their Warehouses to work. Of course this will result in an large number of heartless firings of workers.

I doubt their cashierless brick-and-mortar stores will take off. (In 2019 they had such a pilot in Seattle I think).
Do you consider candidates located in Europe?
At Microsoft itself. If a manager has $100 budget for hikes and rewards, she has to invisibly stack rank to distribute it with some logic (and not give $10 to each in 10 people team)[0].

Stack ranking was not about firing at Microsoft (or any other place), it was about distribution of bonus and hikes.

[0]Spreading the peanut butter: https://www.compensationcafe.com/2014/03/spreading-the-peanu...
I think I understand your sentiment when applied to a subset of people. Specifically people who’s lives may be a mess and they are leaning too heavily too drugs to change their lives. I don’t think psychedelics alone should be used for that.
I feel that people (yourself as well) are being far too focused on psychedelics usage for healing/treatment. There is another aspect to psychedelics where you literally experience something transcendental. that experience alone can be humbling, terrifying, amazing, or any other range of feelings. It can certainly be learning. Something that you perhaps can’t even put into words. And even many of the experiences that you are be able to somehow find words or metaphors to describe, the new perspective(s) can be interesting at worst case. They can show you knew ways to think of problems or even serve as new creative ideas for art, and of course cause you to make various changes to improve your life. I could probably easily name 100+ interesting thoughts that psychedelics have showed me and I certainly haven’t dabbled anywhere close to 100 times and don’t really feel the need to.

There is also of course also doing them for the pure enjoyment of them. For example, I’d wager many people would prefer a psychedelic experience over being drunk. Much in the same way that people may prefer marijuana over alcohol.
I guess most of the people that you mentioned can be reached through Email?

Email is a very good system, completely decentralized and yet still agile. It is sad that the protocol (SMTP, POP and IMAP etc) is stopped advancing into today's world.

If somebody from IETF is watching, maybe consider renewing the email protocol standards to make it more modern (like what you guys did in HTTP/2: Binary protocol, multiplex, better security etc)?
It seems like you were reading the article with a mindset like "how do I save half a million dollars in my code with a one character change?" and were annoyed to find a bunch of other stuff that didn't directly answer your question.

But if you actually read the whole thing, it's clearly a meditation on the classic tradeoff of readability vs performance optimization, when micro optimizations are and aren't worth it, and how we should be deciding when to focus on one aspect or another. The single character change thing was just one particularly salient example that he uses to drive a point home.

Reading it without a preconceived idea and letting the article itself explain its purpose to me, I found it pretty well written. There's been plenty written about this tradeoff over the years and this was far from the worst I've seen.
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> suddenly everyone has them.

Yeah, sure. People are not sick of ads already.
Huge corporations always push for languages which are brain dead and make developers be as fungible as possible. Unfortunately not all software has been invented yet and writing in such a language is a nightmare.

So what happens is that people gravitate towards languages which are pleasant enough to work on to try new ideas in.

The progressing of bash -> awk -> perl -> python happened for a reason. Hell we're even seeing people use lisp like languages unironically for the first time in decades.
Firefox is planning likewise:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604212
You can also be an anarcho-socialist. It’s just authoritarian socialism that’s most often described as socialism.

Socialism just describes the idea that the means of production is owned in common (by the government for authoritarian socialism, or by the workers themselves for libertarian socialism) rather than capital investors, and distributing the profits of labour among the workers who produced it rather than to the capital owners.
I'm very well aware that this isn't really what you were asking for, but it's interesting to note that it appears to be possible to throw a debian VM into bhyve and use docker CLI tools from the FreeBSD host system to launch docker images inside the VM.

Having seen the vast amount of pain Joyent went through with their LX flavour zones trying to get the syscall emulation right, and Windows having gone "sod this" and switched to an embedded linux kernel for WSL2, I do rather wonder if this isn't as good as it's going to get without an engineering effort by FreeBSD that could likely get better ROI focused elsewhere.
Ask HN: What podcasts would you recommend?
I have a good number of hours each week when I'm commuting and I have found podcasts to be a good use of that time. I'm sure many others on here have found the same. I'm on the look out for some more science and tech podcasts. What podcasts would you recommend to other HN readers?
I’ve used it and at the time it would download the IPSW for you. I’m not sure if there was an option to use your own IPSWs. Also, it is important to note that they would charge you for different features so being able to use your own IPSWs could circumvent this pricing model. Of course their boot loader could enforce Apple signing policy but then it would only be able to run Apple code.
Very appropriate if you look at the front page titles.
This. This is so obvious I can't comprehend how people don't realize this.
It's very unusual to find scissors in real life where the handles overlap, so I think it makes sense to assume they don't.

Read the last few oddballs, they are indeed expected to overlap.
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe - https://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcasts - Fun science and critical thinking podcast. Has been around for over 10 years. Worth it just for the Science or Fiction game each week.

Escape Pod - http://escapepod.org/category/podcasts/ - Weekly science fiction podcast magazine. The quality and variety of the stories is amazing. I have found lots of new authors via the stories from this podcast. (Also has Pseudopod for horror fiction, PodCastle for fantasy, and Cast of Wonders for YA fiction)

The Infinite Monkey Cage - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00snr0w/episodes/downloads - Witty, irreverent look at the world through scientists' eyes. From the BBC with Brian Cox and Robin Ince.

Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe - https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-daniel-and-jorge-explain-... - A fun-filled discussion of the big, mind-blowing, unanswered questions about the Universe. By a CERN Physicist (Daniel) and the author of PhD Comics (Jorge).

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FiveThirtyEight Politics - https://fivethirtyeight.com/tag/politics-podcast/ - A geeky look at (mostly US) politics and polling.

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria - https://www.carasantamaria.com/podcast - "conversations with interesting people about interesting topics". Cara is an great science communicator and is well worth listening to on this and the The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast.
If only there were some kind of device we could launch into space, fly over China and see for ourselves.

Wait... https://co2.jpl.nasa.gov/
Yes indeed, but typically displaying a fullscreen HAM image takes up several seconds [0] of very visible scanline progress. This is pretty much instantaneous and runs on even the base 68000 models, as long as they fulfill the memory requirement (which is admittedly rather hefty - 2MB chip and 8MB fast).

[0] example: https://youtu.be/Y9qzUbT_5Dk?t=95 timestamp and later on as well
Keep the ocean on your right and track your position on the iPad is a fairly good plan. There's a whole lot of legacy airplanes that are navigated this way, whether or not they have a NAV radio installed.
Hospitals are run and funded by each state in Australia. I think a decade ago the federal government started to run a hospital in Tasmania, but they pulled out of it because it was ridiculous. There are also numerous private hospitals. GPs and specialists are largely privately operated. Comparing Medicare to a single nationalised hospital system is not accurate — it's more like a national health insurance system with membership fees paid by the tax system.

Obviously having a single purchaser of so many services allows them a large degree of control, but it isn't even a single payer system, since many health services require extra funds (even a routine doctor's visit requires out of pocket costs for many people, like $30 — that isn't cheap) although that's a recent change. There's also private health insurance and extra fees you can pay for nice service (like a room of your own).
There is a version on Playstation that's very good. You can switch between the original graphics or updated graphics by simply pressing a button at any time. It plays really well.
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Do both! But I will certainly always advocate for increasing physical health. It has an absolutely amazing ability to increase your own happiness and mood. I can confirm with myself as a single anecdote. :)
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> 3. Driving will become a privilege
Agree - insurance of human non-assisted driving vs some computer self-driving (level 3/4/5) differential will make it too expensive for human non-assisted driving.
Data will drive the insurance costs.
> the syntax doesn't really matter at all.

Somehow it does though: I find even j/k/apl easier to parse in my head than Ruby; somehow the ruby syntax gives me a headache. Not sure why that is, as I wrote a lot of code in it, but I find Python, C#, F#, Haskell or Kotlin far nicer to read and write. And, even though I understand the semantics and can write code in Ruby, if I have a choice, I would never touch it again. And that's only syntax/idioms. I find JS also quite rancid syntactically, but not as repulsive as Ruby.

And I know other people have this with different (or the same) languages as well; like someone else said, most people (even on HN) won't even try languages with a 'weird' syntax, even if they are proven to be more productive in some cases relevant to them. I know quite a lot of Lisp-y coders (most of them do Clojure these days) and they don't understand how/why you would ever use anything else. Most people here (maybe including you) have the inverse of that. As there are blazingly fast Lisp/Schemes on every platform, why are you using Go or another syntax than the basic AST? And yet you are and most of us are. If syntax does not matter, why have any syntax at all?
1. World will either explode, or move towards even greater globalization.

2. Facebook will be overthrown as the dominant social network, being replaced by something just as functional, but without the data sales.

3. First serious manned mission to Mars, and the moon will be visited by humans again.

4. Decent AR will finally be a thing. Though probably by the end of the decade.
How about I don't actually need or want any "contracts". I.e. I'm happy with the 1 month risk as e.g. a freelancer and just want the govt to fuck off.

Last time I checked the bank holidays and various confiscation schemes "for the greater good" wheren't stopped by any govt; quite the opposite.

Fire? Get insurance.
The Apollo Guidance Computer that was used for navigation and other control tasks in the moon missions also used bytecodes.

The reason was to save space, as well as not having to constantly update the software as the hardware specs changed.
Accurate considering Venice has been experiencing the worst flooding in recorded history.

Not sure how many Americans are aware of this.
Most subscription options at signup are using dark patterns to make you subscribe against your will (“untick this box if you want to miss out on the inconvenience of not receiving our latest deal”).

There’s also the issue of it being implemented badly (mostly by mistake rather than on purpose) where there are several spam systems & lists, the website opts you out of one but there’s another one in the background you can’t opt out of without at least receiving one and clicking the unsubscribe link - sometimes they make multiple campaigns so opting out of one doesn’t mean you’re safe from the next one, etc.

And finally there are those who aren’t technically marketing but a huge lack of respect for the person’s time & attention - customer service reviews and the “how did we do?” emails. Why can’t you put the feedback buttons in the existing emails instead of sending a new one and interrupting my flow & wasting my time?

For the latter I had a company doing this every single f’ing time for every ticket I opened about a benign bug or suggestion (using in-app chat still opens a ticket thanks to Zendesk Chat). I’ve eventually started forwarding them straight back into the main support email. I think they got the hint after several months - I’ve removed the forwarding rule and the feedback crap is nowhere to be seen. VICTORY!

Even if there are not technically marketing a lot of companies just have a complete lack of respect for their users time. Let’s take Facebook, Twitter or even Spotify for example; they have like over 20 categories of email notifications (excluding the newsletter) which are guaranteed to fill up your inbox by themselves, let alone having signed up to multiple of those services. You shouldn’t have to be manually unticking 20+ checkboxes just to enjoy a clean inbox.
I am still more productive with a type system, also on my own. When projects reach a certain size, it just helps a lot in keeping things working and clean long term. This 'contract' can be with your former or future self, and, in my experience, helps a lot.
I don't think everyone who has taken shrooms/psychedelics is taking them to alleviate depression. I mean not everyone has depression in the first place and I'm pretty sure non-depressed people would still feel the effects.
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Well Moore's Law had pretty much ended then, but it was less visible.