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> Work is what we do to support our expensive hobbies and because we like nice things.

Ask the person cleaning your corporate bathrooms tonight, who doesn't work for that corporation, if that's why they're working.
The company is tens of thousands of people. At some point theres a limit to how flat one can be.
> Google will be the Microsoft of 1990-2000: scary, dominant, and increasingly hated (by nerds at least).

That one strikes a certain chord..
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I've got one car where the front passenger seat will set off an alarm but if I hit a button on a control stalk it'll ignore it. However, this car loses its mind if I start the vehicle with the driver door open or my seat belt off (pretty common when you want to get the heat or a/c going for a bit before you drive off)

I've got another vehicle where it goes full chicken little if I don't button the seat belt first.

Both of them make me nostalgic for a Mitsubishi I had where the "chime" was a specific speaker that was easily disconnected and not a full blown part of the stereo/canbus/ecu and blasting out of every speaker in the car.
> Network analysis and data mining will claim their first major political scalp.
That'll be a watershed moment: the politics of information are going to start being the kind of core liberal issue that environmental issues currently are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025703

This poster saw it.
> I also just don’t understand what your comment has to do with mine in the first place.

You said "statistically you will achieve lower returns" which I pointed out is impossible mean wise due to the added fees.
I think one has to follow the life-cycle of a company to have a good time; e.g. Valve used to be awesome company, now that is no longer true. Be in the right place at the right time, all the time, it seems...

So to answer your question, one has to view a company in time and likely there will be a time span when company is not dominated by internal politics. Managers push for bureaucracy as their desired form, rank-and-file employees fight against it, at some point power moves to managers and companies slowly die, even while wildly profitable, making disruptive innovation by a next generation of companies possible.

Avoid stressful start ups (except when you are co-founder/investor), join once a company has money to invest into crazy things, run away once bureaucracy sets in (or if company passes Bozo event horizon).
What are some of these said food riots, that's a gap in my history knowledge.
There are two conversations here:

* Pigs and how to make a buck because of all the ones dying in China. I'm not seeing any good suggestions about how to profit from that for small investors.

* bluGill's suggestion that they can compete with big actors by not competing with them, by looking at deals that are too small for the big fish to be interested in.

The latter seemed an 'in general' strategy and not related to the specific situation with the pork and broader meat industries.
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Yes it's definitely possible that Bega will flip next state election even though the anger is directed at federal leadership.
Euro, about 10 years ago there were some suggested debate to divide the Eurozone in two: nothern and southern Euro, so that you could pay with strong euro in Germany, France, Netherlands and soft euro in Greece, Portugal, Spain, etc.

That's completely stupid idea but could benefit the south economically.
I understand all problems are caused either by global warming or the Russians.

Or was that last year?
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Probably the latter. Once you have that big a userbase + not much competition it's hard to go down unless something catastrophic happens.
The average person doesn't care and/or doesn't understand and/or doesn't care enough to understand how these systems and the data economy works.

I've been trying to explain this to friends and family since a decade or more ago and most of them think I'm paranoid or crazy. It doesn't matter how I explain to them; I've even shown them news articles about - for example - what the EU did with regards to data protection / privacy. Etc.

Unfortunately... They. Simply. Do. Not. Care.

I fear the worst, honestly. These big tech companies hold a scary amount of power that past dictators could only dream of.

And it's getting harder and harder to fight them, especially from a social point-of-view.
Note that it is an article published after she won the Nobel. Also, she was not the first* or second* author that did most of the job. She was the corresponding author anyway.

* These authors contributed equally to this work
First Human will land on the Mars and we will have permanent presence after it.
You are correct - I can't edit original post as it's been too long but thank's for picking that up.
A great example of what's wrong with history in textbooks: history is inherently politically charged. Biologists (rightly) resent having to tiptoe around evolution in their classrooms, but historians have wayyyy more of a minefield to walk through. I would not want to be a history teacher in a public school.
I was going to make that very prediction: fully autonomous (level 5) vehicles will not be on the road in 2030.
Remember that you aren't compiling arbitrary programs. Neural nets don't really have any local looping control flow, in the sense that data goes in one end and comes out the other. You'll have large-scale loops over the whole network, and each core might have a loop over small, local arrays of data, but you shouldn't have any sort of internal looping involving different parts of the model.
My bad trips made me learn to stop tripping. But my good trips made me learn a whole lot more about what might have been possible for myself and my social anxiety after I stopped. I'm still learning lessons related to those insights but compared to the confidence I had on a trip versus the confidence I have now I say I'm 70-80% at that level.
Nationalistic flamewar is not welcome here, regardless of which nation you have a problem with. Please don't post like this to Hacker News again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It seems like PG has been pigeonholed as only suitable for “small-medium” size queues, but without numbers to define what “small-medium” means. A few million jobs an hour is entirely reasonable for PG based on anectdata (and I’ve load tested up to 54 million jobs an hour).

PG is an amazing tool that can handle more than most people think (or at least more than I thought).
Sounds like BS I dealt with in defense. Lot of emails of people way up the chain moving around. Then in the off chance I see them in the halls and say hello they say nothing and look past. Also alot of large meetings where half the time is spent looking at org charts and praising some senior jackass for some minor accomplishment.
That's quite true. There is a stereotype the Chinese people passively obey the government, no matter what it does. But if you look at the history, that is not at all the case.

In fact, from what I have read there is even a principle in Confucianism that if the people are starving and are in revolt, it means the government has mismanaged the country and has "lost the mantle of heaven" and should be replaced.
can you lend any references to that open discussion? That's definitely worth checking out to stack up against the other claim.
You’re just replacing one power structure with another, less obvious one that will be worse given the stakes involved.

Empire building is already dead in many ways, ping-ponging executives aren’t building empires, they are positioning for their personal benefit.
1. Merging of mobile/desktop OS (i.e. iOS and MacOS becoming one and the same).

2. A Microsoft first-party Android device is launched, following a similar attack strategy they are currently starting with Edge on Chromium: fork, improve, destroy.

3. ARM takes over... actually, a more bold prediction: x86-64 remains king, and ARM is not able to conquer beyond the mobile market, despite present-day feelers.

4. Self driving cars master 95% of driving scenarios but struggle with enough "uncommon" scenarios that it winds up in a PR nightmare (youtube searches for "AutoPilot accident" lands results with millions of views) and doesn't revolutionize much except pizza delivery and long-haul trucks.

5. Theater chains push hard for Movie-pass style subscriptions (I mean, harder than they already have). Netflix purchases a small theater chain that shows its own films for free to subscribers, with excellent snacks for purchase. (or has this already happened?)

6. Disney Plus struggles with choosing consolidating the Disney "family friendly" brand and the sort of Game of Thrones gore-fest content demanded by millions of subscribers, leading to either a rebranding or an off-shoot for "adults" a la "Adult Swim" or "Nick at Night".

7. At least one of the big streaming services (Cockatoo or whatever NBC has?) throws in the towel and merges with another.

8. Hong Kong remains in turmoil for all of the 2020s.

9. Rust becomes the poster child of systems programming (or has it already), and goes from relatively niche to a must-have for new hires in just about any software industry.

10. Working remotely is still a pipe-dream heralded by a lucky subset of HN posters.

11. A battery breakthrough revolutionizes mobile devices and elevates electric cars to make combustion engines even more obsolete.

edit:

12. Extremely accurate diagnoses by AI makes healthcare cheaper (but not cheap), faster (but not fast), and a group of clueless people (think anti-vaxx) will refuse to ever be diagnosed by a machine and instead demand a "real doctor".
Different to RQ – but related - I recently released Lightbus [1] which is aimed at providing simple inter-process messaging for Python. Like RQ it is also Redis backed (streams), but differs in that is a communication bus rather than a queue for background jobs.

[1]: https://lightbus.org
- As Moore's Law marches on, dynamic languages that are even slower than Ruby are likely to catch on. They may be to Ruby what Ruby is to Java, trading even more programmer time for CPU time.

I dont think this happened?
Your worldview is likely very wrong. The population growth is not a "sustained" state - it's an artifact of the transition from poverty to prosperity. Once a country has low child mortality rate and high education, the birthrate drops like a rock - you know, even China, which isn't that rich overall yet, has its birth rate drop below that of US - i.e. China's population growth has already effectively stopped (the actual number of people will continue to grow as the current population grows older, but the number of children won't change much).

You may want to watch:

https://www.gapminder.org/videos/population-growth-explained...

and a few other videos on gapminder.

> we only have a fixed land/resources in our planet and we must stay within carrying capacity.

There's no evidence that's the case. We do have serious environmental issues (like global warming, and pollution) but they are not directly related to "carrying capacity" to sustain the overall human population. For all we know, we know we can produce enough food to sustain the population. We know technological solutions to solve the global warming.

Look at the historical data on birthrate (click play to see it change from 1800 to present):

https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$state$time$value=2018;&mar...

you'll find that the world has largely already converged to the steady state, and it's only Africa that needs to finish its transition to the sustainable state. Thus, the only humanitarian and practical way to end the population growth is to get the (most African) poor countries get better health, better education and economy, which is already in well progress.
To be clear, I don't think the issue is that people leave Google on unfriendly terms. I think there are a few other issues:

- Once a for-profit company gets to a certain scale, you're going to have people who care more about profit than any original noble intentions (ex. "Make knowledge universally accessible"/"Don't be evil")

- At a certain size, no one person knows everything that's going on at the company. That makes it extremely difficult to make sure everyone is on the same page. It also makes it very hard to police everything that's happening
> The next question becomes: who maintains such projects if the initial team moves on? I'm biased but my preferred response would be that open sourcing

This does not seem to be a realistic option for many Google projects, due to dependencies on internal technology and hardware scale.
yup, for linux you want M/S/U modes at least (kernel runs in S) and page table table support of course
I'm thinking of doing it on tracing paper so I can overlay one over the other to check for double booking.
When you look at the components of a fast food burger meal, you got: burger, bun, drink, and fries. Meat and drink stocks have been well analyzed and well brought. Bun has high substitutability and too diverse sourcing. That leaves fries. There're just a few players supplying the potato products. LW is the biggest one.

Not sure about CVGW. Might be too small a market.
I know a few women that make $100k+ with $200k in a savings account. No equity in anything.

They are too scared to invest.
Probably nice to have in alpine ski racing, slalom in particular ;)
Better opsec would have saved him some grief as well.

Before even touching on his habitual use of coffee shops near his residence to run the Silk Road...

> The connection was made by linking the username "altoid", used during Silk Road's early days to announce the website, and a forum post in which Ulbricht, posting under the nickname "altoid", asked for programming help and gave his email address, which contained his full name.

By the time the FBI was watching him and had connected his name to I don’t think there’s a lot that he could have done to avoid arrest.
You could get similar outcomes to that if you used FDE and had it power off the machine fully. But then also your cat might ruin your day with one step :purplegirlshrug:
* Moore's law stays dead. Having a lightweight laptop that does nothing more than provide a portal to more powerful machines enters the consumer field (Stadia already exists, but other uses will appear). Probably offered by an existing cloud provider first.

* Recession happens this decade.

* Someone becomes the US democratic nominee with a UBI platform.

* The US gets single payer healthcare.

* Zoning laws become an even hotter political issue. We don't solve them.

* Netflix produces VR content.

* Humans will not land on Mars.

* Disney joins FAANG.

* We don't fix copyright and we don't have any exciting antitrust wins.

* Mesh networks become more popular.

* The internet becomes less open source.

* The US becomes more politically polarized. There will be hate crimes against democrats / republicans just for their political affiliation.
1. Pension bomb — as you see, is about to go off in Europe. US is a bit safer in that regard as a younger country, and less generous expectations for pension in general. China... yep, lights off on that.
2. Ubiquitous mobile/wireless internet integrated into even very trivial consumer goods — just about to happen

3. A younger/more populist group of politicians will assume power in China. — Well, and even older, and more populist group of politicians have claimed power in China, and no, no bubble burst yet

4. Google will experience change in management. From there, it will be downhill for them (at least for the rest of the decade). — spot on

5. Chinese-American co-dependency crumbles like a bitter divorce — a bitter marriage doesn't simply crumble suddenly one day, it takes a life on its own and keeps biting you for years on: see Brexit

6. Brexit — no comments needed

7. mobile devices is going to make the PC redundant for most people — somewhat true

8. PMC's will become much more prevalent and popular — true, but not American ones

9. IE6 will hang around for a few years, but may die very rapidly in workplaces when some killer enterprise web application stops supporting it. It will remain widespread in East Asia — it is 2020, and IE6 is still there in China...

10. Mobile phones won't replace computers, but increasing penetration amongst the poorest in developing countries, and increasingly capable handsets in developed countries (and developing countries) will make them a colossal juggernaut. Many of the really big changes, especially social changes, will be caused by mobiles — spot on
a lot of early reddit came from digg

every community in the history the internet falls to eternal september at some point
The simulation is still using floating point. The fundamental Floating point arithmetic is regular in principle. It's the rules and algorithms that can potentially achieve higher order.

And even classical game of live is turing complete. They built a TM inside GoL!

But it can be modeled by a finite state automaton (if the grid is finite), I suppose, so the rules are just a regular grammar.

A regular machine can output the grammar of a context sensitive language, but not accept the corresponding programms. In the same sense, the turing machine in GoL is ...

you know what, I have no idea.
I think the first iteration of CRISPR/gene editing therapy for treating diseases (and possibly just plain human enhancement) will begin to go mainstream, similar to the rise of LASIK.

But only for somatic cell editing - cells other than sperm/egg.
> very few desktop applications will exist, they will have moved to web assembly powered browser applications

Oh, I hope you're wrong about this one. That would render computers largely worthless to me due to a lack of software.
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The "beating your wife" bit comes with words like "gaslight", "self-serving", and "moxie's wants above all else". I'm trying to imagine what the comment originally said, because the one you've edited is obviously a personal attack.

Not to mention the fact that you appear to have just conceded my point. "But we were talking about Bob!" doesn't make it OK to ask Bob whether he's stopped beating his wife.
All viral diseases will have simple and effective therapies (one pill a day kind of thing). Eradication of most viral epidemics will be well on its way
IMO this is pure laziness on the part of the app store. Any store could just say “this app is licensed to you under the GPL — download source here.”

Even ignoring licensing, I think app stores could add considerable value by offering reproducible builds. Let developers upload source, verify the has (git tree hash or plain sha256sum), and rebuild in a sandbox server-side. Reject the submission unless the binary’s hash matches the developer’s.

Now stick a badge on it: “verified open-source build”. And give it a small bonus in ranking relative to other apps.
> The entire "Don't Be Evil" thing planted a bizarre idea in a lot of people's heads

aka Marketing.
The new AI winter is coming and everyone would call it machine learning again.
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He is quoting from 2010 and predicts the very opposite and I fully support the claim. Reasons:

* industry has either no interest or capacity in quality
* software flaws may cause severe harm but will play no role for the majority of the industry. it is a gamble just like vc business.
* pace of change/inonnovation will actually add even more harm
* excellence in the field will decrease because the baseline compexity is already too high, people will specialize probably in ML/AI/fin.

One chance I see is that the industry runs into a major HR crisis and some smart players understand that the complexity cannot be maintained by "developers" or "software engineers" anymore and come up with solutions other than opening up more positions.
I said nothing of the sort, please do not troll on hacker news.
Doesn’t that describe the rise of JavaScript? I haven’t done or seen any specific benchmarks, but I gathered that JS was among the slowest of languages.
Perhaps to put our own desires into perspective. Is an unhappy king of 1000 years past or future helpful for understanding our own path towards happiness? If it shows the futility of material reliance, I'd say yes.
> I can even send encrypted emails with GnuPG without any problem, and it's as secure as Signal, if not better.

Alas this requires a fairly contorted definition of "secure" to be true. The cryptography in GnuPG has plenty of problems even if you insist on manually doing everything from your own CLI tools which maybe don't suffer the problems from EFail.

Mostly it's just kinda old, AEAD hadn't been conceived when Phil wrote PGP you know. That's a big foundational idea for modern crypto and instead PGP had to kind of fudge a separate MAC into the design and hope that's good enough.

When you send your GnuPG encrypted mail, how do you decide which cryptographic primitives to use? With Signal the whole _point_ of Moxie's decision is that Signal gets to insist on all clients having whatever the best option is, so that's always used. But in GnuPG you've got to guess, what might the other participant's client be able to handle? If you guess wrong then your email is unreadable, or, worse, bad guys might be able to read it more easily.

> in most other European countries as far as I know

In England at least SIMs are available in the pound shop. You buy a SIM with cash (a single bright coin) and it comes with a phone number. British people do not carry any ID as a habit, and I make a point of never having ID unless I've been specifically asked to bring it for a good reason (e.g. to leave the country or when I got a job that required security clearance).
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> attack strategy [that Microsoft is] starting with Edge on Chromium: fork, improve, destroy

Can you enlighten me on the "improve" and "destroy" parts of that strategy? For all I know, Edgium is Chrome with Google services replaced by Microsoft services.
I have a feeling entrenched higher education will be less prevalent, and that there will be a rise in trade schools. Any predictions for the future of education?
Scientists pin down timing of lunar dynamo’s demise
I checked amazon earlier, and it looks like this thread may have put those things out of stock. Guess a lot of people like the idea!