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Ask HN: Books to read when you are down and lost
This is my throwaway and I dont want to reveal too much. I am 31.

More than 10 ideas I've launched with only 1 app that generates some revenue (~250$/month).

so many failures.. i feel miserable.. I just went to the store, bought cigarettes, then to another store and a lighter and started smoking.. I never smoked before.

Nothing is going for me.. no love life... crappy regular job.

Anyone has a good motivational book to recommend?
Oban looks fantastic! PG is fantastic for a small-medium job queue IMHO. pg_notify with elixirs postgrex is fantastic.

We're currently using ecto_job which works really well for us, so we have no reason to switch. Plus we like it's in different tables.
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Practicality is also big one. There are tons, but I've learned bowline over 10 years ago and use it every day when sailing. It's easy to tie and can be taken apart by hands.
IMO, the 2 most useful knots I know (aside from the shoelace knot) are the Carrick Bend and the Bowline.

The Carrick bend is especially useful - it's basically a square knot that doesn't come undone on its own.
What happened in crypto over the last decade
> 3. The EU will lose at-least one more member nation after the United Kingdom leaves.

Why?
There will be a new American political party that garners mainstream popularity (possibly inhabiting the corpse of one of the parties existing in 2020.)

China will fall in power as investment from the west decouples.

Nuclear energy will make a PR comeback.

There will be at least one scientific breakthrough surrounding the underlying nature of consciousness. Optimism about the possibility of AGI among experts will increase significantly.

Young adults will be spending a majority of their time interacting with friends embodied as virtual avatars (on traditional devices and VR/AR devices)
> SJW-ism

Is another word for 'we hire young, educated, mostly coastal, twenty and thirty-somethings who statistically lean left'.

There is nothing unusual about Googler political leanings, given the demographics of the tech worker pool.

Viewing it the way you are simply projects your own politics on a... Perfectly expected outcome of demographics.
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Yeah, me too, but I have never read of an actual knot failure causing an accident outside of user error (wrong knot, not tied correctly, incorrect application, etc).

edit: in reference to rock climbing accidents...
I think young people don't use Facebook anymore.
> if anyone thinks we will NOT see fully autonomous vehicles on the road by 2030.

I don't think we will in any widespread way. Perhaps we'll see some in very limited deployments, both in terms of the number of vehicles and what roads they'll operate on.
Half Life 3 (or 2 ep 3) still hasn’t been released.
A secure location is an ICBMable location. (Not that anyone realistically has this problem, but “so safe that Bin Laden would still be alive” feels like the right level of overengineering when it comes to OPSEC.)
Is this a problem for low-traffic scenarios? My thinking is basically that I should save the extra dependency until I have more than a few tasks per second, at which point I will switch to something like RabbitMQ.
Isn't that similar to what AMD is doing with infinity fabric? Obviously not at such a large scale.
“We have had three different inquiries from individuals who have asked us to remove that book. Two to three other books are also mentioned from our collection. They have said that if any of the Chinese skiers are caught with these books, they are afraid that they would risk being sent to labor camp or prison in China,”

So.. is this like your kid's friend asking you to hide some books when he and his brother visit, because if his dad finds out his brother glanced at that book, the dad will beat him up? I.e. they know they live in a shitty regime, but they're helpless about it, and could you just help them avoid the wrath of the regime?

It'd be funnier if the library removed the books and put up a sign explaining the reason and questioning what sort of life do you live if the regime is afraid about this, but I'm guessing many Chinese do actually think Falun Gong is like a virus that you must avoid learning about, because if you learn about them then your mind will be broken, so Chairman Pooh is actually just protecting them!
I'm puzzled by your comment. The GPL fails to prevent use of software within a proprietary cloud-based system (as has been the cause of much drama lately). AGPL or a similar license is required for that.
He will win 2020 unfortunately.
- Gene editing and CRISPR advances lead to first viable and legal designer babies

- Longevity research extends life expectancy by at least 10 years

- Cold war with China is still ongoing

- New battery tech finally makes electric cars cheap enough to be practical, boutique electric automakers proliferate

- driverless transportation exists on pre-defined routes, mainly powering shuttle and transit buses, but not able to navigate all roads autonomously yet

- still no general AI

- blockchain based loans and financial instruments grow by at least 100 fold; decentralized finance hits mainstream
Ok, well there's this bug too https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/2665

But now you're going to say that's a bug in a specific brain dead server, and it should have been fixed. I'm sure there are other bugs tracking other server's issues with pipelining, but that's the only one I remember seeing (mostly because of the amazingly terrible nature of the bug).

The point of the Bugzilla link is that enabling pipelining in Firefox would trigger bad behavior in servers. It's not some idle fear of unknown problems, it's fear informed by actual problems -- if you turn on the feature mostly things will work fine, but some stuff is going to break, and user interpretation when Firefox gets a broken page and IE (or Chrome, whatever) works, is that it must be Firefox's fault. There's not necessarily a way to detect an error in this case, so it's hard to gracefully degrade. The exciting world of (mostly) transparent proxies for plaintext http makes this even worse.
Did Amazon put nets on the building after that one guy jumped off?

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-share-thoug...
Implantable electronics will become almost as ubiquitous in the same way that the mobile technology has been for the last couple of decades.

When the battery tech, encapsulation (anti immune-reaction coating) and blood flow powered electronics is solved, the only thing we will have left to solve is the slow and buggy software. Anywho, just be afraid that it might never get solved and my prediction fails.
In his "The Ecosystem is Moving" talk at CCC, he had many presumptuous and dubious "arguments" but one regarding privacy of phone numbers was that a user's APN would be used to determine their phone number, so there was no point in trying to keep phone numbers private.

This fails to account for the possibility of not using the cellular network. With unlocked smartphones, it is possible to remove the SIM card, clear any APN settings and access WiFi. That can be enough for a messaging app to work.

The only identifier needed for iMessage and FaceTime is a working e-mail address (and only for sign up). No cellular account is required.
Sounds like what typically happens to companies that get too big. It's just a question of sooner or later, IMO. Google has become part of the megacorp establishment and finds itself besides IBM, Microsoft and Apple. It's dead, Jim.
Why would you prefer to do this rather than not up-and-out. Your original reasoning seems well-met by up-and-out. Fresh blood comes in, Peter-principle people get kicked out. Looks pretty good.

I do like the idea, though.
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Yeah it's depressing, but have you not noticed a change or shift in tone at least in the media ? I'm hopeful this swings the focus back onto science and mitigation, and away from the economy. Every time our PM says "we must balance the environment with a healthy economy for all" I want to explode: what does that even MEAN. Economic activity is a function of human activity and humans need to like... breath?

I've been encouraged by some of the interviews and coverage with local government officials, they seem to be really shocked into a truth: I wish we could do better than a temporary 'concern' over the earth.
I used this in a project at a previous job -- I have to say, while the API is simple and useful enough for small projects, it raises some issues with how it's designed.

Instead of relying on trusted exposed endpoints and just invoking them by URL, it does a bytecode dump of task functions and stores those in Redis before restoring them from bytecode at execution time.

This has a few drawbacks:

- Payloads in the queue are potentially a fair bit larger for complex jobs
- Serialization for stuff that has decorators (and especially stateful one, like `lru_cache`) is not really possible, even with `dill` instead of `pickle`
- It's not trivial, but this exposes a different set of security risks compared to the alternative

I don't want to say this is a bad piece of software, it's super easy to set up and way more lightweight than Celery for example, but it's not my tool of choice having worked with the alternatives.
Protecting the protesters could certainly be one of the reasons to take it down. But that shows they are sympathetic to their cause, when really they did a horrible thing.

I don’t think that makes the article less on point.
Monoclonal antibodies are just antibodies that are monospecific (ie they bind one target really well). And it looks like there a number of drugs under this category (anything ending in -mab usually) are in stage II/III of clinical trials (meaning they are likely to be approved in the coming years).

What you mention about cell division rates being slow was solved by the hybridoma protocol where you fuse two cells, one of which is a myeloma (cancer that is a rapidly reproducing cell line) and another is a B cell that produces Antibodies that are specific for your intended target. Since then there have been a lot of strides in monoclonal antibody production. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoclonal_antibody#Production]
From the comment I see right now and the logic you're using here, "have you stopped beating your wife" wouldn't qualify as a personal attack.
There's also the story of Joseph and the Famine in the bible - 7 years of bountiful harvests followed by 7 years of famine brought on by a severe drought.
This is extremely well-worded and gets right-to-the-point. This is so refreshing in contrast to the constant attempts to explain why software is so slow, bloated and especially unreliable.

An explanation of "why" does not explain "why this is acceptable".
Google Play Services aren't required to run Signal on Android either.
It appears breakaway mag USB-A connectors are pretty cheap: https://www.amazon.com/Griffin-Breaksafe-Magnetic-Breakaway-...

From tidbits in this thread, it sounds like a Veracrypt hidden volume with a distress passphrase, plus a fairly simple dead-man script wouldn't be hard to set up. Something like: kill sensitive processes, drop caches, wipe memory, then panic the kernel.
Nobody intelligent is claiming that droughts didn't happen in the past.
It feels like React is pretty well entrenched as the leading front end framework at this point. I really don't know any devs in real life that have used it and disliked the developer experience and are itching to try something new. A new framework would have to provide some fairly significant advantages to get people to switch.
My guess is that they did this because they saw Facebook as an existential threat of sorts for Google. Maybe you feel that the whole thing was badly managed, but it's hard to say this other than with hindsight. G+ was no Facebook, but it looked like something that could be successful for quite some time.
2030 will at least have certain areas that are autonomous vehicles only, like maybe a forward-thinking region implements a fully autonomous truck lane on a highway.

If anything were to get in the way of fully autonomous vehicles by 2030, I would think it will be a government's lack of political will to create the infrastructure or regulation needed for driverless vehicles.
Indexing your offline-capable pages with the Content Indexing API
From Managerial Feudalism to the Revolt of the Caring Classes
No, definitely Bitcoin
Just out of curiosity why would a hole in the pork supply cause a political crisis?
Go look say the budget breakdown. 20B can't "do a lot of stuff" in a country this size.
In my role as unofficial, self-appointed late-stage Digg historian [0], it's my belief that Digg ultimately had to change as the Google SEO changes had fatally wounded its near-profitability. Further, as a VC funded company it made the inevitable (and I think best for everyone involved) decision to modernize in an attempt to be a member of the Facebook, Twitter cohort rather than experience a long-term shrinking into mediocrity.

[0]: https://lethain.com/digg-v4/
Assuming you mean GAI, I think very convincing, powerful AI already exists inside organizations with the resources to build it (google/microsoft), and they're trying to figure out how to commercialize it without doing anything risky. Models have already been publicly demonstrated which can leave some with eerie impressions until you understand how it works, and even if you do, the results are continuing to gain complexity and intricacy.
I thought of this after posting. Technically, there have been vehicles allow to operate fully autonomously on the road, yes. But I mean for non-research purposes, full-featured autonomous driving for consumer-owned vehicles.
Does anyone see the same fate happening to Reddit? Or are they too big and too entrenched at this point?
So is it your view that the Chinese government has done a good job of handling the crisis?
Healthcare and wellness will become the largest sector of the economy in developed countries. This will cause distress as countries try and mesh that with consumer product focused economic systems.
Scrum is riddled with bozos.
I'm glad we agree
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I predict that I will understand just as little about the future in the next decade as I did during the decade prior.
> Another analogy: a doctor will never prescribe you "a supplement." They might tell you getting more vitamin B in your diet would be good, but they'll never tell you to go out and buy a vitamin-B complex supplement. If they think you really need vitamin-B in a pill, they'll prescribe an actual big-pharma-pipeline-produced pill containing vitamin B.

You've seen very different doctors than I when it comes to calcium/D- and B- vitamins/multivitamins. They'll usually tell you "go get this over the counter." Sometimes with guidelines like "but not one of the ones with iron" or such.

Or even if they prescribe it, the pharmacy that gets the prescription (or maybe your insurance company - I forget which exactly had the problem with it when this happened to me) might say "just go grab one of the over the counter vitamins."
Interesting point. Maybe a Chinese student living in the city has come across the books and thought the visit would be a good excuse to get the books to disappear.

Interestingly they'll probably moan about the city needing to be good hosts and cater to their guests' wishes, and maybe there'll be tantrum thrown about the Norwegians being rude and offensive...
My takeaway from reading the top voted 2010 predictions is that people are terrible about predicting what's going to happen 10 years later.

A few of them are correct (cheapish high density displays, commercially successful ebook readers, self-driving cars) but most are terribly inaccurate.

Left the same comment but with some fun, probably wrong predictions, over on the other post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21941512.
> if there is a way to work Elon Musk in there somewhere that would be good, I have a feeling he's going to make some big waves in the next 10 years but I haven't a clue how.
-- jacquesm

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025811
Can confirm. Source: American Psycho
I hope that what it means for me is that my state will adopt similar, or even stronger, laws. (What I really want is to outlaw the collection of data about me and my machines without my informed consent, which the CCPA does not do.)
Global warming is still a thing. It's just not necessarily the cause of every other seemingly related thing. ;)
Probably a left wing democratic movement.
I thought about virtual assistants and deep fakes
2020-2029: New AI winter.
Maybe not this decade, but at latest in the 2030s, we (or our children) will look back on our current consumption patterns in utter disgust.

For context: I live in a city in East Germany, and there is a tourist attraction called "Trabi Safari" where people can do sightseeing in Trabant cars (the East German model that according to folklore was made from cardboard). Whenever I walk down the street and a line of these cars drives by me, I'm disgusted by the smell of the exhaust and wonder how people could stand to live in a city full of these cars. I imagine that 2040 kids will look back on the 2010s in the same way that I look back on that aspect of the 1980s.
"Generally speaking psylocibin is more prone to culminate in a really bad trip than delysid if the participant doesn’t have their mind settled"

One of the most interesting interviews about psychedelics that I've heard is one with Stanislav Grof, who personally supervised over 4,500 LSD sessions throughout his life (many of them during his research in to its effects, back when LSD was legal) and at about 1 hour and 56 minutes in to the interview he said:

"If somebody has a bad trip that means they are dealing with a difficult aspect of their unconscious and when it's coming up, it's coming up for healing... people can benefit from bad trips. I saw many of those situations where people experience what they would be hospitalized for in the psychedelic sessions, and if we stayed with it, it would actually be a major healing, a major transformation."[1]

I also found in my own experience that my bad trips were the ones that I learned the most from and the ones that I found the most beneficial, because they would force me to face my demons and other major issues that I would avoid facing in my sober state of consciousness.

Interestingly, the study this HN post links to seems to refer to something like this:

"Recent work has sought to develop and validate a measure that is sensitive to difficult or challenging psychedelic experiences (Barrett et al., 2016; Carbonaro et al., 2016) and there is some evidence that the intensity of such experiences is predictive of positive long-term outcomes, whereas the duration of struggle is predictive of negative outcomes (Carbonaro et al., 2016). This is presumably because the successful resolution of conflict brings with it, insight and relief, whereas the failure to breakthrough perpetuates suffering."

My impression from listening to and reading many interviews with veteran psychedelic researchers (who did studies with pretty massive doses of psychedelics back in the 60's) is that they seem to believe that an inability to "break through" was due to having too low a dose, and I wonder if that's the case in the unresolved difficult experiences this study refers to. On the other hand, too high a dose of psychedelics can result in post-trip amnesia (and current psychedlic researchers seem to be erring on the side of caution and give moderate doses). So there's probably some good middle ground.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mdYUmvTeig
How?

It is video that is on topic. Does Bill Gates' donating billions change something about how he was as a CEO to get those billions? What if it were Steve Jobs donating billions?

I don't know what I am missing here.
And if we extrapolate your logic, we can never comment on anyone's bad behavior at all. My complaints are on topic for the article in question, I'm not just swinging at Moxie at random here.
If someone saw it coming in 2010 they are extremely rich now :)
That's harsh. Have you written much assembler? If so, how often did you need to check for overflow? (I've written quite a bit of it, and the number of times I've checked the overflow bit in the x86's flags could be counted on one hand.) In the unlikely event you did need to check for overflow frequently, wouldn't you write a macro to generate the required instructions?

Compared to the earlier CPU's like Z80's, or god help us DSP's and GPU's, this thing an absolute delight. In fact even compared to x86, it's a model of clarity. Have you ever looked at the Intel architecture manuals for x86? The description of how a "jmp" operates runs for pages and pages of pseudo code. I'll guess you will counter "but most people don't use the more complex features like gates", but the reality is I've used jumps via gates far more times than I've tested for overflow - and I've had to digest those pages and pages of pesudo code and the related data structures many times because they are so damned complex and unintuitive you keep forgetting the details.
Ask HN: How to find business partner in US?
In order to increase odds of building scaleable tech business I want to partner up with someone who is based in US.
I'm nodejs developer (and other skills) and have been building online product for over a decade. I'm base in Eastern Europe, but would love to move to US. However, at the moment thats not possible. Currently I have not particular idea in mind, but with like-minded people brainstorming comes natural.
SJW-ism generally connotes being radical left with a 'us-versus-them' overall worldview. Calling that a "statistical" leaning is like saying that /r/The_Donald "statistically leans right". Quite the understatement!
Someone really needs to crack simple generic type systems with native levels of performance to get all of this to work.

Performance comes from optimizing the usage of state against hardware, modularity comes from code satisfying the properties of composition which is best left stateless (and high levels of modularity must come from abstraction and conventional practice, incurring further debts on the programmer and machine.)

It's a tension that I haven't seen fully resolved but I'm very very very open to being wrong. Many languages seem to be experimenting in this space with some preference for one side of the equation for another.
Sure. I predict that there will not be a fully autonomous vehicle widely available for sale to the public and allowed to function in FA mode on all roads, as of Dec 31, 2029.

("widely available for sale to the public": at least as available as a Tesla is right now.)

On the other hand, I predict that lots of cars will have emergency auto-assist features: collision avoidance warnings, lane-keeping assistance, seatbelt tighteners, and perhaps a last-action feature that evaluates whether it's best to slam on the brakes, veer sharply (and in what direction?) or try to accelerate out of danger -- and then applies that action without driver input.
Monthlog 02: Development articles, podcasts and videos I enjoyed in December