skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The headline is kind of misleading IMO. I knew what it'd be before opening but only because I have prior knowledge.

Svalbard is a smidgen less than 1000km north of mainland Norway.

I don't believe that the Arctic sea ice has reached the mainland in my lifetime and I'm not sure how far back you'd need to go.
Lots of companies give lots of things to "the community" for goodwill, but that doesn't mean they don't also sell to governments. Amazon gives AWS away to anyone, but ALSO tried to get the JEDI contract. One doesn't negate the other.
Interesting. How does this work for the telephone company? I was under the impression you needed a warrant to get a "soft" wire tap. Once digital switching was implemented, there was code that could record voice conversations. Law enforcement agents could request that the recording be turned on. Source: I implemented this on telephone equipment that most people here are likely to have used ;-). Surely this would be the same.

Now that I think of it, the idea of end to end privacy never really was a thing before we had ubiquitous encryption. Involving a third party always meant that you were vulnerable at that third party. So, I suppose that you could implement laws that dissallow E2E encryption, but still allows encryption from the client to the service -- allowing the service to record the data if presented with a warrant. Now that I think about it, the "wire tapping" code in the telephone switches were literally a legal requirement for selling the equipment otherwise they would never have convinced me to write the code! Now that I'm older and wiser, I'd never do it again... but I kind of understand the symmetries....
Trump will win the elections again this year and continue as President.
This doesn't look positive:

> However, few plants have commenced construction since 2015, and it is now unlikely that this target will be met.
Illinois regulates artificial intelligence used to analyze online job Interviews
How does this compare to R Bookdown ( https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/ ), which can do the regular markdown stuff, plus LaTeX, and also run the R code and embed results (tables, plots, etc.) into the book?
kindle oasis is amazing imho
I read a _lot_, and its battery life, form factor, ergonomics, splash-proofness (non-submersible but practically impervious), legibility, speed... ROI in the first few months I owmed it and I've had it for a couple years (and expect to for many more). IOW, they finally got it right.
To generate revenue should be the default assumption about what companies do. And what their employees do. And what the employees believe about their purpose.

Is all the internal company discussion about people valuing and improving the culture? Or are they are just whiny self-important shits?

I literally have no idea.

(fwiw I am not and probably never will be a G employee)
From what I can tell, Corellium heavily modifies iOS. Parallels and whatnot run unmodified Mac (not i)OS.

That’s pretty hairy stuff. Technically cool, but definitely sketchy.
> Ubiquitous mobile/wireless internet integrated into even very trivial consumer goods, with close to 100% coverage across the civilized world. A significant fraction of ordinary consumer goods simply won't work in "dark" zones.

I'm glad that this remains mostly false (as well as "all high street bookstores go bust"). Sure, you can get a wi-fi enabled toaster or coffeepot, but the basic versions are still available for sale.

I chose to live without wi-fi at home, and with no smartphone, for the past four months -- just to see how my life went without the distraction. Now the experiment has run its course, and I plan to order wifi again. But basically life went on as normal, and I feel I could do another four months if I chose.

I wonder for how long into the future such a choice will remain realistic.
> why don't you have a hit list? I don't think they're lying, or evil. They're just deluding themselves about their principles.

I rather think the answer is simply that they aren't very organized. Nobody likes technical debt, but unless you're organized enough to make entries in your 'hit list' while they're bugging you, you'll inevitably forget the specifics.
I agree completely. No one should write "would of".
1. some cloud services (storage, delivery/CDN) are completely free.

2. AWS has won the cloud game, but had to dramatically simplify its offerings.

3. there are no truck drivers in the US.

4. VR is officially dead, like 3D TV now.

5. BestBuy is out of business.

6. AI assistants are now 100% autonomous and do not publish your data to the cloud.

7. IBM no longer mentions Watson and is now focused on quantum computing.

8. quantum computing is still not readily available, accessible, or practical.

9. there have been several major hacks where people's genetic data been stolen, and it's now being used against them.

10. major consolidation in online video services (Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, etc)
How is it not easier to start something now than ten years ago? I would say he was correct on that one.
There is probably a desire to make commit messages go away after 6 months. I am guessing that the lawyers aren't putting much pressure on engineering teams because nobody has thought to "discover" commit messages in a major case yet (whereas email is routine).
Actually, no. You have to accept an EULA to "activate" the software (something Corellium's emulator can't even do, which means you don't have access to iCloud, iTunes, the App store, etc.), but you don't have to accept an EULA to download the software. Oracle, to contrast, allows anyone to download their Java SDK, but you first have to accept an EULA (something they changed from how Sun previously had it set up, where anyone could download the software without first accepting the EULA); Apple has no such restriction on their downloads.

https://updates.cdn-apple.com/2019FallFCS/fullrestores/061-0...
The common plausible explanation is you securely erased the disk or partition before. This would produce the same randomness signature.
Tech:

* Rdbms will still be then backbone of most internet facing applications.

* Java will still be around. So will COBOL.

* Python v4 will be under development.

* There will be only 3 cloud providers of any relevance (AWS, GCP, Azure).
> Apple releases an OS, which anyone can download, without any authorization, from their website, seemingly for free

Microsoft does the same with Windows. Can I rent out VMs running cracked copies of Windows now?
Most importantly, their comp is really good.

Second, it seems to me that there’s more room for growth at Airbnb than other companies with similar compensation. (This is an impression with no hard evidence to back it up)
The British Empire prefers the more neutral "acquisition."
I'm not in Bill Gates' bracket, but I believe that there are limits to how much you can deduct - the alternative minimum tax, if nothing else.

Why would he pay additional taxes on top of that? If he were one of the ones advocating for higher taxes on the wealthy (he's not, so far as I can tell from the article), then he should so that his actions match his words. Otherwise, why should anybody listen to his words?

I'm not criticizing Bill Gates. He has done an admirable job of putting his money where his mouth is. (So, in retrospect, me choosing him as an example in the post that is grandparent to this was an error.)
There are indeed causal links which play out differently from region to region. Here is the current best wisdom on links between global change and drought:

https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/chapter/3/

It's a big topic, partly because water is a uniquely important resource. It touches everything in the Earth system. Here is a key excerpt:

"Variable precipitation and rising temperature are intensifying droughts, increasing heavy downpours, and reducing snowpack. Reduced snow-to-rain ratios are leading to significant differences between the timing of water supply and demand. Groundwater depletion is exacerbating drought risk. Surface water quality is declining as water temperature increases and more frequent high-intensity rainfall events mobilize pollutants such as sediments and nutrients."
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Even if you don’t care about scissor physics, read the article for the A-level file pun, which is fully worth the price of admission.
For a lot of people when it "works" for them is when they discover they no longer need the drug at all and feel they know more about themselves. You describe it here:

"Most people realize that their psychonautic journey is at best leading them in circles, and at worst is causing their life to spiral down the drain. So they give it up, get a job without 9pm slack messages (or find a better way to adjust to stress), marry someone who isn't constantly on the verge of cheating, start doing regular exercise, and generally find a way to settle into a reasonably balanced life."

Perhaps this period of self examination is what leads so many to such similar conclusions?
It sounds like Apple are going to release their own iOS device cloud virtualization product at WWDC in exactly six months, so their lawyers are turning up the heat now on their lawsuit from last August that they assumed would be settled—in their favor—by now.
Well that's embarrassing, that's what I get for HNing at 3am ;)
I'll prefix this by saying its probably pretty far out on the spectrum of practicality. More paranoia or legal problems than wanting access to region restricted entertainment content.

I dont have adversarial experience with law enforcement, but from what Ive seen it's normally around incorporation, assets, and where the principals are. The government gets access by serving you papers, restricting your assets, or restricting your freedoms.

That side the physical location of the servers will matter for teh same reasons. Two adjacent countries may have different standards of evidence, due process, compelled information, data retention, 'know your customer', etc. Both the country of physical location and the country of incorporation will effectively have access; one directly and one via compulsion.
Another prediction: there will be a swing back toward dynamic languages, or at least toward extremely fast PHP-like, R-like, shell-like iteration.

The language will either be dynamically typed or have an ultra fast (optional?) type checker. Or maybe 2 execution modes.

The constraints of human cognition change very slowly, and iterative feedback will be as valuable in 2030 as it ever was.

Right now there is a natural swing toward statically typed languages because so many huge codebases were built in dynamic languages (Wikipedia, YouTube, etc.), and people are understandably having trouble maintaining them. And the user base of web services has increased by an order of magnitude in the last decade, while Moore's law has stalled, so compiling to machine code with static types makes a lot of sense.

But in 2030 people will still want to iterate quickly on their code.

note: Maybe parallel / incremental typechecking will become commonplace. Fast feedback is incompatible with the status quo of single-threaded type checkers because type checking is a "global" algorithm, it scales non-linearly, and codebases are growing.
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I think going "back to the earth" is on a continuum. I don't think we need to revert to stone knives and bearskins to give kids a perspective on how far removed (and yet still how close) we are from those times.

Their having had the experience of disconnect from modern resources, it may be easier for them to realize how fragile our systems are. Like, "Remember how it felt when we were hiking in remotelocation without electricity? What if our electricity went out for a month at home because of an earthquake? What do you think would happen to (us, our neighbors, our town, etc.)?"

Even a minimal "back to the earth" experience can be educational.

Edited for typo
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Reposting from a while back in case it solved a problem for someone.

I use Postgres SKIP LOCKED as a queue. Postgres gives me everything I want. I can also do priority queueing and sorting.

All the other queueing mechanisms I investigated were dramatically more complex and heavyweight than Postgres SKIP LOCKED.

Here is a complete implementation - nothing needed but Postgres, Python and psycopg2 driver:

import psycopg2
import psycopg2.extras
import random

db_params = {
'database': 'jobs',
'user': 'jobsuser',
'password': 'superSecret',
'host': '127.0.0.1',
'port': '5432',
}

conn = psycopg2.connect(**db_params)
cur = conn.cursor(cursor_factory=psycopg2.extras.DictCursor)

def do_some_work(job_data):
if random.choice([True, False]):
print('do_some_work FAILED')
raise Exception
else:
print('do_some_work SUCCESS')

def process_job():

sql = """DELETE FROM message_queue
WHERE id = (
SELECT id
FROM message_queue
WHERE status = 'new'
ORDER BY created ASC
FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED
LIMIT 1
)
RETURNING *;
"""
cur.execute(sql)
queue_item = cur.fetchone()
print('message_queue says to process job id: ', queue_item['target_id'])
sql = """SELECT * FROM jobs WHERE id =%s AND status='new_waiting' AND attempts <= 3 FOR UPDATE;"""
cur.execute(sql, (queue_item['target_id'],))
job_data = cur.fetchone()
if job_data:
try:
do_some_work(job_data)
sql = """UPDATE jobs SET status = 'complete' WHERE id =%s;"""
cur.execute(sql, (queue_item['target_id'],))
except Exception as e:
sql = """UPDATE jobs SET status = 'failed', attempts = attempts + 1 WHERE id =%s;"""
# if we want the job to run again, insert a new item to the message queue with this job id
cur.execute(sql, (queue_item['target_id'],))
else:
print('no job found, did not get job id: ', queue_item['target_id'])
conn.commit()

process_job()
cur.close()
conn.close()
> Dart's VM idea was dropped so its small usage is largely compiling to JS still.

Are you sure about this? I was under the impression that today's Flutter development is highly dependent on the niceties the Dart VM provides, and newer Dart releases improved upon them.
If the rumors that Corellium is working with governments and shady people looking for bugs, apple is likely trying to squash and damage that market for security sake. They probably tried to just buy them as the easier path, and then they get all the companies financial records to review for damage control. Suits at least stop the company.
Increased price pressure would incentivized a bit more ingenuity. There’s a number of things that are cheaper to purchase a replacement for than to maintain and repair. That has its pluses and minuses, but you could change up the cost equation, and plow the extra revenue into reforestation and artificial reef construction.
But he also works at nVidia and Larrabee versus the WSE are two entirely different things. Larrabee was an architectural approach to more general purpose parallel hardware whereas the WSE is a more special purpose and physically different than a GPU.
> -A massive electronic medical records breach due to a security misconfiguration in the cloud gets posted as a torrent and reignites conversations around privacy and flaws in HIPAA regulations.

I can see this. The two big vendors are pushing their own cloud. One slip-up on their end will do it.

This becomes even more plausible now that third-party access is required to be supported. It's becoming easier for these third-parties to slurp up as much patient data as they can. Data from health systems will become much more vulnerable to exploit and the possibility of having all patient data exposed is increased. Likely worse than Equifax and/or Cambridge Analytica.
Google’s marketing for Chrome and V8 was incredibly effective. We’ve basically forgotten that Mozilla, Adobe and Apple were pushing JS perf long before V8 was released. Memory usage of early V8 was atrocious and real world performance was barely improved over Safari and Firefox but Google dominated dev mindshare for a decade.
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Random things I feel are coming...

- Amazon/Apple/Netflix dominate sports coverage (pushing out e.g. Sky in the UK).

- The rise in right wing/conservative power peaks in around the mid 2020s, probably with a smallish 1st world country electing an extremist government.

- Overall politics becomes even more partisan, led by media organisations. The biggest media spenders will get elected. (This is basically true already).

- Electric cars will be widely expected to be ubiquitous but will not quite make it any 2030.

- SpaceX will land something on Mars, but not humans.

- Someone (probably either China or India) will begin landing lots of hardware on the moon.

- 5G and ridiculously low-cost chips mean lots of home automation startups; I'm maybe betting on a major new company coming from this area.

- Security consciousness peaks and tails off, next generation accept surveillance culture

- LGBT will still be marginalised; as with politics perspectives will become even more partisan.

- African nations will have a greater role in world affairs; economically and politically. Arab nations will swing toward conservative democracy. Asian nations will continue to grow economically. USA will be recognised as a declining world power in 2030.

- Europe will have a standing Army

- There will be a major war in Asia, but not Korea. It will probably also be a China/US proxy war - and I am least convinced by this prediction but: the US will lose.

- VR will still just be a toy/gaming device.

- most games consoles will start following the Wii's dual mode approach

- Folding screen phones will die off quickly

- There will be at least one major financial disaster (other than pensions).

- Crypto currency will be on the decline.

- Oh, as it seems popular... we probably don't have fully autonomous cars but the tech starts to become mainstream as a driver aide and in the second half of the decade it becomes widely adopted in the transport industry (I predict major disruption to transport/delivery industries in the 2030s; I.e automated Amazon deliveries)
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Depends on jurisdiction. Dash cams are illegal in many countries.
Author here. I don't see how providing a platform to speed up security research is a bad thing.

That said, I don't have a huge problem with Apple's 'they copied our bits' complaint. That's true.

The problem is that Apple is weaponizing 1201 in a way that would be very damaging if applied in other contexts.
- Nuclear power is more popular, especially small-scale, and climate change isn't really talked about any more in 2030

- Human genetic editing becomes mainstream; treating genetic diseases will become a cheap standard procedure; genetic enhancement is also becoming popular in China and South Korea and will be a hot political topic

- Human lifespan can be increased by at least 20% with treatment

- Most traditional car manufacturers go bust or lose business significantly; taken by Tesla and Chinese start-ups

- Permanent bases on the moon and Mars; first asteroid mining companies start operating

- Apple's VR glasses will change how we use computers; large desktop displays will start to disappear; remote meetings and working with teams in VR will be common; as a result more people will not live close to a city and won't own a car

- Bitcoin's value will hit $1M; paying with cryptocurrency becomes common

- No flying cars (on Earth, maybe on the moon and Mars)

- Something will come that replaces traditional banks entirely; either banking will be centralized in the hands of large tech companies or there'll be a new global banking startup; bank will be just an app; cryptocurrencies may play a role here

- Starlink provides uncensored Internet globally; remote regions will gain economic boost; terrorism starts to subsidy

- AI assistants become mainstream in the workplace; there'll be assistant for almost any expert job which drives down required skills and cost of employment; education will lose value
It's amazing how people on HN can support companies like AirBNB, Uber, Lyft who flagrantly break laws to bring a new product to market that is arguable better than the old way of doing things, and then at the same time not support a company like Corellium for doing the same thing because it's Apple.

This is clearly a sorely needed product, Apple even agrees because they tried to BUY the company and when they said no they want to take their ball and go home.
It only works on iOS compatible hardware so it is implied you have paid for a device to use it. Is part of the cost of a device. Apple hired 1000s and paid billions to develop and maintain that “free” OS
I'm actually pretty amazed at what the Javascript VM people have done in the past decade. It's way more than I ever expected.

As far as the carbon footprint, well, yeah, it depends. At Google I remember a friend talking about how he cringed whenever he added more code to the pipeline that ingests the entire internet. He said that he wondered how much extra carbon was release into the atmosphere just because of his stupid code.

As for numpy, we are seeing that loops are stupid and Iverson and APL were right. :-)
Nobody will own their own self-driving car. Autonomous taxis will be available only in limited markets.

There will be a right-wing rebellion in at least one western nation with 10^3 deaths or more.

Worldwide total carbon emissions will increase every year of the decade.

Mainland China will outright annex one of its neighbors without major casualties.

Meat alternatives will not exceed the market size of any animal-based meat (fish, poultry, beef, or pork).

There are no major changes in the US Social Security system. By the end of the decade, the SSA will still be projecting a 25% loss of benefits in the middle of the next decade.

In computing, performance per core in high-end computers will be within 15% of today.
Online privacy will be solved with end-to-end encryption across point-to-point communications over IPv6.

* Social media empires will decline some as a result.

* Advertisers will seek new disruptive offline channels to engage users with individually targeted marketing.
As for climbing, don't forget the double-fisherman's... To tie two ropes together for a double-rope rappel. It's the knot equivalent of a wrist-handshake.
There is one case where quality might improve and definitely cost: nationalize them all into a single system.
> the car sharing companies will have to go back to the drawing board to create a new business model.

I'll bet on this. Either self-driving cars dramatically lowers the cost of operations. Or startups like Nomad Rides change the business model entirely. Micro-mobility via scooters / bikes might also be a valid reason here.

But the consumer desire for ride-share is there and it's unlikely to go anywhere.
I can’t tell if you’re joking or not.

Well done.
I personally use and like i.reddit.com, their lightweight mobile version from the era when people used text-shadow to create an embossed effect on navigation bars. The only problem is v.redd.it video links, which catapult you back into redesign-land complete with a modal prompting you to download the app.
I can think of at least one situation where an overhand knot is better than a figure-eight, where speed and ease is more important than strength.