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AR contacts -- Samsung has a patent. It's a matter of miniaturization. Has a chance. Many people trying hard currently.

Toilet analyzing urine -- prototypes have existed for years. Massive potential to improve preventative healthcare, so very strong financial incentive to deploy.

Robot kitchens -- limited prototypes exist. Massive financial incentive because of the huge savings of food prepared in the kitchen versus takeout.

Robotic delivery -- prototypes exist. Very strong financial incentives.

Lab grown meat -- exists. Potential huge benefits for the environment.

Small autonomous vehicles -- huge savings in energy over larger vehicles that aren't fully occupied.

Robotic tail and telepresence robotic arms: existing products.
Teleconferencing has issues not due to technical issues typically. Though that was common up to relatively recent history, modern audio and video teleconferencing software seems reliable and robust. The main deficiency, which can not be mitigated through technology, is the low bandwidth for human communication it has, which yields a lot of the dynamics you mention. Simple things like turn taking and taking awareness of the emotional states of others is largely impossible to do well vs in person using these tools.

This is a well researched area, and embodied communication through VR/AR stands poised to solve many of these deficiencies by allowing the expression of non verbal cues, body language, spatial referencing, etc.
Sure you can. Many founders of failed businesses do it over and over again. Some even go on to start their own VC firms.

Being a successful founder means making your bosses happy. That means getting a return. That can be monetary, political, etc. Many founders, particularly in the SV area, sell businesses for huge amounts that never made a dime. They sell them at inflated prices and then the acquiring company closes up shop and writes it down or spits them back out for pennies on the dollar. They were never profitable. No value was created.

Modern finance creates an unusual landscape. Charisma, storytelling, persistence… there are all traits that can result in a successful exit.
Hire a C/C++ programmer and see how that goes for you. If what you’re saying is true they can revolutionize the industry and make a billion dollars with their superior code.
So you think you know how to run Twitter Engineering better than Twitter ? That's a pretty confident claim.

Anyway Twitter.com could include writing all of the Javascript for advertising management e.g. creating new ads, content management e.g. deleting/reviewing Tweets as well as the various types of Tweet content e.g. videos, VR etc.

Typically what the public sees is a fraction of the total surface area.
Did you notice the subtle contradiction in your post?

> they're more about the foundations of our entire Western 'civilization.'

> talentless 'developers'

It's not talentless developers, it's the foundations of civilization. Capitalism, chasing the $ not the writing of beautiful software. If an Electron app makes me more money (e.g. by getting to market quicker) than a well crafted native app, then the Electron app will be built. See also building construction and why we end up with 60m^2 poorly constructed but funky looking apartments - who to blame. The concrete pourers? The architect? I don't think it is that simple.
I think a fire upon the deep is his best. You can (logically) read the second chapter (introducing the tines) as a self-contained short-story, and it's brilliant: the way it introduces their issues, the characters and the glorious plot.
> I feel like these things are not on the same spectrum.

As somebody living in a country with pretty heavy "caps on free speech", Germany, it's very much both on the same spectrum [0].

Because the reasons for those "caps" are very much the same reasons why India shut down the large scale: To reign in dissidence and control the Overton window.

The South Korean National Security Act [1] is another, rather blatant, example for this kind of "thought legislation" that also doesn't shy away from straight-up banning and censoring media.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/20/extincti...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Act_(South_K...
It was metaphorical. In ten years, it will make more sense.
I fully believe a lot of developers and software enginers put their job satisfaction above their users or customers.

I agree wholeheartedly the web on average is getting more bloated.

But as a counter point: My own job satisfaction derives from delivering an amazing and snappy experience to end users. And I'm sure there are others like me out there!
This reminds me of the Nine Billion Names of God (Clarke)

https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.htm...
I had a side project online which the CEO of a small company used (he mentioned it on twitter). We started a conversation, he was hiring and remote-friendly, so I joined. After a few years I asked to go part-time.

Not affiliated, but https://30hourjobs.com/ has a list of similar gigs.
> people hate YouTube.

Do they? In my bubble, that's certainly a very uncommon sentiment from the consumer side.
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Contour lines were invented during an early measurement of G. That's cool to know!
Only some workloads make sense to offload on such a network. For example I could see it working as a DYI render-farm. I guess the algorithm could be creative in which pixels to give each node so that they don't reveal the source data based on one corrupt node.
>6/ Plant based diets will dominate the world by the end of the decade. Eating meat will become a delicacy, much like eating caviar is today. Much of the world’s food production will move from farms to laboratories.

GMO Frankenfood made in labs hasn't been proven safer than regular meat in peer reviewed studies yet.

Eating all plants like potatoes in The Martian have to take multi-vitamins as well. It is boring to eat the same thing each day.

McDonald's has farms so that it can sell a $1.48 McDouble cheaper than a $6 salad. If plants cost more money, why eat them when meat is cheaper? Ever tried to price plants in the veggie section? They cost too much, but you can buy a frozen pizza for $3 which is cheaper.
Try developing a react application built for IE11. That thing will fly if you ever run it in Chrome or FF (or even Edge)
This is a good point — the elimination of physical co presence as a requirement for most forms of interaction other than intimate ones may lead to a world where people physically return to be nearest their kin, and interact with all other institutions they are in remotely (not just work, but for school, entertainment, worship, etc)
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HN is so odd. Were you downvoted because someone thought you were being hyperbolic or did they simply not understand that the US is a Republic? Or did they simply think your comment was worthless?

I do find it troubling when our own SC Chief Justice says something that stupid.
> yet another web app/thing that renders DB records to HTML/thing that takes one JSON blob and turns it to another

Ouch, this is currently my "pet" project. I totally get what you mean though. I'm honestly not sure if it can even considered a pet project anymore, as it works way better than I expected.
> and not a very good one.

That’s such a Silicon Valley thing to say. Only there could a profitable business with a useful product be deemed “not very good”.
I thought you said we only contribute to 1% of carbon emissions?
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That includes resources like images, videos etc.

Javascript is 1/5 i.e. 420KB
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Think farther. In ten years incident photons and sound pressures to your senses will likely be possible to fully software modulate. The other senses I agree are harder to speculate about, but on a ten year horizon imagining the existing status quo of form factor and method (headsets) is the wrong way to think about it. Likely these things will be effectively invisible or weightless. At the ten year point I’m imagining these to be lightweight over-eye lenses/goggles or even contact form factor. The analog would be legacy, large headphones vs modern earbuds.
Yup, which is why I'm interested in privacy-oriented solutions like HomeAssistant. I think the main things I want are:

- control temperature remotely (e.g. set furnace to turn on when I'm coming home from a trip)
- turn on/off power outlets to save electricity from "vampire" devices
- check for open doors/windows
- adjust airflow to make sure rooms are heated sufficiently

None of this requires sending data outside my home, yet the main smart home devices do. Also, I'm worried about security, and I don't trust these devices to update firmware appropriately.

So, until I get time to do it myself, I just do without.
Meaningness is great. Thanks for that. Such deep concepts expressed so clearly with so few words.
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I built something like this as well called TVSK (ios only): check it out here: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/tvsk. My app allows you to estimate time of subtasks and see it bubble up through parent projects.
Yeah I don't see our species evolving into pure herbivores anytime soon. I'm from Africa and the only vegans I know there are either allergic to meat or just can't afford it yet. Eating meat is actually something we work towards aggressively. Meat is also a status symbol, as a result. We will be eating meat for a very very long time.
> fraud detection

Having worked in this industry for a while I just want to point out that the vast majority of fraud detection is done for the merchant, not the customer.
Incident photons and sound to your perception will be fully proxied by a software/hardware interface.
Tyson changed from a meat company to a protein company. Can make veggies taste like chicken or beef.

I didn't have an Impossible Whopper yet but it costs a lot of money. For $12.99 with a coupon I can gt a family meal of three Whoppers, three cheeseburgers, and 3 fries. I hear the Vegans are mad that the Impossible Whopper is grilled on the same grill as the regular Whooper.

I suppose the reason to turn away from meat eating is to save the environment? Animals exhale CO2 but not as much as factories with smoke stacks burning coal or oil.
This. so much this.
> If backwards incompatible changes are introduced you MUST append a hyphen and the reserved label "break". For instance: 2006.04.03.12 > 2006.04.03.12-break.

So with this system if you want to know whether two versions are compatible you would need to check versions of all releases between them for not having that label...
Being authoritarian should be a property of the governments. I don’t think nations become intentionally authoritarian.
I cannot recall ever buying anything from any ad targeted at me through a website I visit. Am I a unique snowflake in that the AI always guesses wrong for just me, or is AI based advertising simply a total failure?

I have bought many things from ads related to the media I am reading. For example, I read muscle car magazines, and buy parts/tools from the ads in those magazines. Back in the era of print mags, my company would do well placing ads for compilers next to relevant programming articles.
I thought of that as I read the article as well!
I think you have a very good point.

The overall metapoint that both you and the parent comment agree on is this: the internet isn't being "weaponized by authoritarian states" in some unique fashion specific to authoritarianism.

I'd just round it all up to say that: like most headlines about global trends in America, this headline reenforces the meme of "American Exceptionalism" and casts the situation in a "good versus evil" narrative format that's not really helpful for understanding what's happening or what to do about it. But that itself isn't anything particularly new in itself either (queue last three decades of American headlines).
That's a distributed systems problem, rather than an event sourcing one. I'm sure we've all done something like comment on a site like HN and not seen our comment appear when we reload. The more distributed the system, the more likely it is we're hitting a stale cache somewhere.

Even the most absurdly reduced system running on a single machine, taking an HTTP request in and processing it fully to completion in all aspects before returning any response, is a distributed system - the browser is at the other end, running asynchronously. The user may tell the browser to reload before the single server has finished processing. When do both the user and the server agree that the account has been created?

To "fix" the problem with event sourcing, just don't add distributed components if you don't need them. Synchronise your "on event" action handlers with your event creation, and don't return success to the command until the handlers have completed.

You can even choose to wrap it all in a transaction so the event doesn't write unless the handlers all succeed, side-stepping the problem of desynchronised views due to handler bugs.

You still keep the (IMO) main benefit of event sourcing: you can define new views you didn't have to foresee and build them from the complete history of the system as if you'd known about them from the start.
I imagine he means without having to understand/use the platform or framework equivalent of select/poll or start dedicated threads or write a threadpool to handle reading from streams simultaneously without blocking. Now he has someone else wrote that code for him ;)
Computers-in-SF titles that are often missed:

John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider

John M Ford, Web of Angels

Algis Budrys, Michaelmas

Thomas Ryan, The Adolescence of P-1 (mentioned by someone else here, too)
On the other hand, those million years of evolution did not select specifically for ”delicious and nutritious”.
yep, I was assuming they at least didn't have any frequency scaling or powersave governor junk going on but you're right - it wasn't even mentioned so...
5MB went a lot further back then. Viaweb is older than Javascript or CSS -- not to mention custom fonts, video, or high-resolution bitmaps.

In 1995, 5MB was hundreds of pageloads. Today, it's one.
any chance to reproduce and post the HAR file? thanks
OK, that makes sense. Hopefully there's some progress there.
Wow. This is a surprisingly terrible take on the next ten years.

If he did this prediction ten years ago, he’d probably predict we’d all be using our blackberry’s to automatically checkout DVD’s in blockbuster by 2020.
I think you have illustrated the point quite well actually:

>And trying to defeat that by modifying buffer to be 1023, the compiler realises the assertions are always going to crash so it creates a weird-ass "bad" version (which it calls), only implements the slicing (and its error) in the base and doesn't even bother outputting code for the simpler version.

With optimizations off, we can see what the compiler is doing before optimization passes potentially obfuscate it. In practice when the call is nested behind many layers it may not be able to elide the bounds check in the loop in all cases; the opt-level may be hiding the truth because it is defeating the test case.

Whether that's true in this case or not is irrelevant, of course; I'd say it's almost always preferable to have better code as early as possible in the code generation process.
Thanks, I do appreciate the even-handed moderation here!
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Houston doesn’t have a housing problem, nor particularly good transit. It also doesn’t have zoning and a local government that pulverized developers by charging them fees for things already paid for by property taxes like building schools or forcing them to have “low income” units which end up making housing more expensive. Texas also doesn’t have rent control, nor excessively reactionary building height restrictions, nor does Texas have Prop 13 incentives that reduce housing market liquidity.

“Transit” and “Density” isn’t the problem in the Bay Area — it’s that it’s excessively punitive to attempt to build anything there. If you were to be able to afford available land, cities such as Mountain View want to milk developers to pay for things that the city should be paying for themselves out of normal tax revenue. I remember when Steve Jobs wanted to build Apple Park and some fool on city council wanted Apple to provide WiFi for the city for free: Jobs said that it isn’t Apple’s job to provide city services — Apple pays their property taxes, if Cupertino wanted free WiFi, then Cupertino should do it. There are also cases where if a developer wanted to build some houses; they’d also have to give the city a free park and dedicate a certain number of houses for “low income.” That isn’t a developer’s problem. If the city wants low income housing, the city should use some of its own land and budget to build it. You don’t have that sort of extortion happening in places like Houston — and coincidentally, you don’t have affordability problems in Houston either. A developer also is shy about investing hundreds of millions into a project only to get it derailed by NIMBYs or other activists or worse, be a single election away from having severe rent control or confiscatory tax policies enacted that would destroy any hope of a profit from the substantial risk of property development.

I don’t disagree with allowing high density where it is appropriate, but density isn’t the issue, it’s the extreme high costs, both political and monetary of doing business in the region. There is plenty of land, but given than almost every empty cow pasture ends up getting claimed as “open space,” makes it really hard to build anything. Case in point: the “preservation” of North Coyote Valley. I appreciate open space, however, they literally preserved 900 acres of flat farmland to be used for hiking despite the region being chock full of thousands of acres of open space already. You can’t claim a housing shortage while simultaneously taking away 900 prime acres that would be perfect for housing developments. Clearly there isn’t a housing problem when so much easily buildable land can be sequestered away so vegan hipsters can have yet another thousand acres to roam with their rescue dogs. The Bay Area has no shortage of open space, yet they keep adding more to it while people literally sleep in RVs in El Camino and a young family has no hope of ever owning a house in the area.
Unpopular opinion: Its a sign of the world becoming more liberal and free. These kinds of weapons don’t directly kill hundreds of thousands of people. It’s propaganda wars. Let’s hope all future wars are fought only on the internet.
> I wonder why the EU increased the copyright terms Disney was the main lobbying force?

Some EU countries have pretty old and powerful copyright lobbies of their own, Germany is such an example with Springer and other big publishers.

That's why Germany loves "ancillary copyrights" of all kinds, the one for press publishers [0], pressuring Google, was one that even went international.

The same copyright interest holders were also responsible for establishing legal constructs like "auxiliary liability" [1], which ultimately led to the situation that most of the German language Internet needs to be moderated or else hosters make themselves liable for content posted by users [2].

So while Disney might be the biggest, and most visible, culprit, they are far from the only ones.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_copyright_for_press_...

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%B6rerhaftung

[2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forenhaftung
> Exposure to toxic fumes represents a health hazard to customers dispensing Class 1 flammable liquids

We're not okay with small doses of gasoline fumes to customers, but totally okay with sustained exposure to gasoline fumes to workers in massive, occupational quantities?

Here's another terrible argument:

> The dangers of crime and slick surfaces described in subsection (3) of this section are enhanced because Oregon’s weather is uniquely adverse

Oregon's weather is unusually mild for the United States! Sure, when you compare it to the Mediterranean climate of California it's got distinct seasons and all that. But the weather conditions in at least the Portland area are nothing compared to basically anywhere on the east coast or great lakes region.

> The typical practice of charging significantly higher prices for full-service fuel dispensing in states where self-service is permitted at retail:

> (a) Discriminates against customers with lower incomes, who are under greater economic pressure to subject themselves to the inconvenience and hazards of self-service;

So we're going to just force poor people to pay more for gas. You know, so we don't discriminate against them by "subjecting themselves" to pumping their own gas.

Most of these justifications are condescending and outright insulting to the citizens of Oregon.
Your event log should IMO be nominally immutable rather than actually immutable.

You should feel free to take actions such as expunging private or sensitive data as appropriate. Keep the events, but rewrite them to contain only the desired data. Trivial to implement, and simple.

I'd only worry about stuff like crypto-erasure if you physically cannot alter the past, such as if you have a requirement for non-repudiation or some such. Doing it just for technical purity isn't worth the cost :-)
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You're reading way too far into a throwaway comment about a twenty year old webcomic.
I didn't say ThIS IS IMPoSsIBELE ABAdnON ShiP. Try reading my comment as a response to the specific question that the parent ended with.
Thank you! Musish is what actually inspired me to create this project , its really awesome and i learned a great deal from it.
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Now that you point it out it does look kind of weird... Maybe be i should create a new component for the play progress which increments in very tiny scale. Thank you for the feedback!
Animals also output methane, and there are land-use issues with meat production.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_p...
The stuff I write I don't think is that bloated, but like most things these days the stuff I write pulls in a bunch of dependencies which in turn pulls in their own dependencies. The result, pretty bloated software.

Writing performant, clean, pure software is super appealing as a developer, so why don't I do something about the bloated software I write? I think a big part of it is it's hard to see the direct benefit from the very large amount of effort I'll have to put in.

Sure I can write that one thing from that one library that I use myself instead of pulling in the whole library. I might be faster, I might end up with a smaller binary, it might be more deterministic because I know exactly what it's doing. But it'll take a long time, might have a lot of bugs and forget about maintaining it. Then end of the day, do the people that use my software care that I put in the effort to do this? They probably won't even notice.
I can't give an exact year, but my memory from the mid 90s was that webrings were generally formed around themed content, like beanie baby webrings or coin collecting webrings, mostly run by individual fans/enthusiasts, and were used as a means for discovering others interested in the subject.
It took me roughly 3 month to build if you count in the time it took to learn Vue but the project itself was made in about two months
Steam achievement unlocked: <insert whatever is in your imagination here lol>

Indie games are gonna get a lot weirder... pray for our overloaded dopamine receptors and shriveled serotonin ones. Pornhub will probably roll out their own game store steam clone lol