skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Salt sensor (2009!): https://foodchannel.com/2009/salt-sensor-introduced-to-help-...

...so one of the predictions pretty much already existed, at least by the terms the author seems to be grading themselves (5/10?).

But then no one is good at predicting the future. So let's try.

Some predictions for 2032:

1. Smartphones are still ubiquitous and still look like black rectangles. They haven't been replaced by smart glasses or whatever.

2. Half the cars on the roads in the west are electric, and half of regular commutes are majority self-driving.

3. Self-driving taxis are a thing but barely profitable.

4. Actually profitable just-in-time grocery delivery services do, just about, exist.

5. Huge climate-change-related migrations of people. Politics gets even uglier.

6. Everyone is talking about conflict with China, and conflict between China and India. The leaders of China and India are the leaders we have in 2022.

7. London gains a couple more gaudy towers but otherwise look exactly the same. Ditto New York.

8. Popular music: pick a decade, it sounds like that. No music made in 2032 couldn't have been made in 2022 (or 2012).

9. There is no general AI, but a lot of people say that there is.

10. No human has been to Mars.

I'm going to put these in a Google calendar entry for 2023/05/07 - and hopefully get a laugh then.
This appears to be one of the core tenets of the article:

> Ultimately, though, the popularity of feudal-speak is a testament to intellectual weakness, rather than media savviness. It is as if the left’s theoretical framework can no longer make sense of capitalism without mobilizing the moral language of corruption and perversion.

* downvoters - im sorry you dont like what the authors have to say.
The Way of All Flesh [video]
Oops, yeah I just accepted a pull request from the community that broke my helpers module declarations. Just fixed it, thanks for noticing!
Since it wasn't obvious - the inside of the pan :D
How to deal with this in case if this happens in any country? All i can think is to use voip over tor? Any other thoughts?
The fact that it takes 3 seconds to grab a pod and put it in verse 10 seconds to get the correct amount of powder is not nothing.
> Specifically, increase in productivity can be used to eg shorten the workweek even further and demand protections against work encroachment on personal life. I see that this is happening with some companies embracing 4 day workweeks, others adopting remote from anywhere etc. We need to accelerate this trend, possibly enshrine them in labor law.

Yes can we please just get this done already, it would solve a whole heap of issues. I think it's almost comical how it's brewing under the surface but no political party wants to touch it, seems like it would be a pretty sure way of winning the next election, what's the hold up
One might greet it with "hoots of derision", though.
Like people then.
Why author doesn't take a change in quality into account? I never used a double-edged blades for shaving, but I think that 2- or 3-bladed cartridges will generally shave better or at least quicker. Not sure about 5-bladed, but whatever.

Teflon skillets are much more convenient for cooking than cast iron, that I can tell from the experience. I once bought a super-expensive cast iron with non-sticking coating, and it became unusable after about a year, same as Teflon one. So the problem obviously a coating, not a skillet material.

All right, I am a selfish being who wants to just put the skillet into dishwasher machine and press "start", thus I have to buy a new skillet once a year instead of once a decade. But where are we heading to if we try to reverse this process? At Malta, where wood was in a scarcity, they developed a communal ovens, one for a village, where everybody was coming to prepare their food for the day. It even gave a birth to a very specifiс local cuisine. Do we want something like this in our cities?
I am annoyed go's flags package did not respect the GNU convention for options, which I agree is the best.
I use RSS to follow software releases. This is handy for example for packages hosted on github.
Their point about "smart" TV's having a shorter life than older dumb TV is a valid point. Some models tend to become pretty useless and at least inconvenient when their software gets outdated. Some require internet access to function while others just make it difficult to use streaming dongles and the like.

The real issue is the lack of security in these devices. Updates are rare enough but for something that bridges your home network with the internet this is an agregious failing.

This doesn't even touch on the repairability issues inherent in modern TV design.
Another reason is that many of the explanations are little more than industry advertisements, that obfuscate the function of a TPM behind euphemistic or circuitous language.
At first, I thought it was going to be a commendable willingness to admit when one was incorrect with predictions about future technology, by showing how the author got 0 out of 10. But then it went a whole different direction...
Vivaldi discovers the feed.
A 70" 4k pc monitor sounds prohibitively expensive though.
This is known as Gall's law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall.27s_...
I read the title as “VR bookshelf” and imagined someone scanning in an entire book and representing it in the ‘verse in some way. Not to derail from the content here too much, but I think this other idea could actually be pulled off pretty elegantly.
Sunday night. I shave most days with a second-hand DE razor using the cheap blades from CVS and a bar of soap. It's possible that I could get more shaves out of them, but this works well enough. Also, Sunday is a day of rituals for preparing everything for the coming week--make meals, do laundry, shine shoes, etc. Changing the blade is one of them.
For some reason, this seems to be vanishingly scarce knowledge in Linux / Unix circles.

There was someone on HN a couple of weeks ago who was astounded to learn that "modem" means "modulator-demodulator." Like it was some kind of forbidden magic.

Things that you an I consider entry-level knowledge are like scrolls and rune stones to tech people these days.
> JVC and Panasonic produced garbage CRTs and VCRs and DVD players and stereo equipment for years, but they sold like hotcakes because they were cheap.

Yes. That’s not the market today. If we were talking about truly cheap TVs, I’d be talking about Insignia and subsidized crap like FireTV. I’m talking about Samsung TVs with “quantum dot technology” and whatever other yahoo crap.

Back then, you could most definitely buy any decent Samsung CRT and be confident it wasn’t going to suck. Hell, the model of Samsung CRT TV I had as a kid is now often used for RGB modding because of its excellent picture quality and the fact that they’re mostly still around and working great. Was it expensive at the time? No. It wasn’t.

Certainly if you bought a Trinitron back in the day you knew you weren’t getting ripped off. Is it the same with Sony Bravia? I’m not willing to incinerate money at a high enough rate to find out, but the fact that it comes with Android TV stock makes me unhopeful. My car comes with Android 4.2 and that’s aged about as well as polio by this point.

The market today for consumer electronics is completely ass. Not only do the cheap options suck ridiculously badly, even the expensive options are hard to stomach.
xxhash would work fine for this, especially since it has a seed value option (which would be your salt).
I wonder this too.

I kinda miss Twingly and Technorati.

https://web.archive.org/web/20081101144747/http://www.twingl...

https://web.archive.org/web/20080827193557/http://www.techno...
The villain is locked in in a room which requires a retinal scan from the guard to leave. So he proceeds to stab the eye globe of the guard with a pen to be able to unlock the door.

As such I tend to prefer cloneable credentials. Everything that is unique (cellphone, ...) would imply that access credentials could be stolen (as in, actually stolen, not copied), which could imply the threat of violence to succeed.
self-plug: https://ananthakumaran.in/books
I would love a way to flexibly view and move around lots of PDFs at different scales, to simulate piles on a desk or the floor. For some purposes, something is lost by constraining organization to a regular grid or table.
If you don't want to give up the convenience of cartridge razors, you can still avoid paying the price for name brand Gillette razors. The manufacturer originally used by Dollar Shave Club, Dorco, sells their handles and refills directly on Amazon for 50% less than you'd pay for a comparable Gillette pack.
> After freeing the new SATA SSD, I also filled it with butter. Yes, all the way, no GPT, no MBR, just Btrfs, whose subvolumes were used in place of partitions

I would not recommend doing that. It might work for now, but there's a high risk of the disk being seen as "empty" (since it has no partition table) by some tool (or even parts of the motherboard firmware), which could lead to data loss. Having an MBR, either the traditional MBR or the "protective MBR" used by GPT, prevents that, since tools which do not understand that particular partition scheme or filesystem would then treat the disk as containing data of an unknown type, instead of being completely empty; and the cost is just a couple of megabytes of wasted disk space, which is a trivial amount at current disk sizes (and btrfs itself probably "wastes" more than that in space reserved for its data structures). Nowadays, I always use GPT, both because of its extra resilience (GPT has a backup copy at the end of the disk) and the MBR limits (both on partition size and the number of possible partition types).
I just put my stainless pan in the dishwasher. Doesn't get much easier than that. That's why I got it. I keep a Teflon and my old cast iron pan around, but the stainless steel one is the workhorse. If I had to let one go, it'd be the cast iron pan.
I think it's about time their government stopped perpetuating their desire for ethnic purity and start letting some skilled workers in. I can name about every friend on my fingers that wants to live over there instead of the cutthroat, poorly run USA. And these are people learning the language, too.
there is consumer choice on the market though, you don't need to buy a mach 10. If you want to go cheap , you can buy electric clippers that will probably last a lifetime for $30 and sport a short beard
Right, even if you do manage to somehow cut yourself with a cartridge razor (they usually last months for me, but I'm careful to keep them dry after every use), the cut is superficial and you don't even need a styptic pencil.

I might just be clumsy, but even after using a safety razor for about a year, I still occasionally cut myself, and due to the nature of the blade, the nicks tended to be much deeper.

The "cartridge razors are a scam, safety razors are better in every way" line has always been a little silly. Like you said, they are really different products with different pros and cons. Being able to take my razor onto a plane is a big plus for longer trips. Safety razors are much cheaper, more efficient, and better for the environment, but you're losing out on convenience and idiot-proofness.
This is exactly right — too many people equate NP-hard to unsolvable, but in fact the modern world (logistics, plant operations, airline scheduling, etc.) relies on us solving NP-hard problems.
You seem to be conflating the effects of chemicals previously used in the manufacture of Teflon, such as PFOA which is indeed very dangerous and toxic, and has been banned in the US, with Teflon itself, which appears to be safe.

I mean, if Teflon is so toxic, and there isn't a single person alive today who doesn't have Teflon in their blood, then why aren't there tons of documented cases of Teflon poisoning?
Are there example apps on Google Play or iOS App Store to try? I think evaluating a UI Kit like this would benefit from being able to see a full fledged app.
The quality and state of the cast iron pan makes a big difference.

If you have a good seasoning then less oil while cooking is needed. If you have a new pan with a rougher surface then using a steel spatula will smooth out the surface texture and improve performance (without making it too smooth where seasoning won't stick).

There's a lot of varying advice on cast iron, but the prevailing wisdom seems to be that if you keep using it then the pan will improve.
AFAIK the problem with those is that they're overpriced and have inferior picture quality. I guess if you want to make a statement or something they're worth buying, but for now I still think your best choice is to buy a "smart tv" and don't connect it to wifi.
Sam is either being intentionally obtuse or hasn't worked in a corporation. The idea that sales is the only department that can partner with other companies is just stupid.
Cool! I'll look into the API and consider adding it to this implementation. Or happily would take a look at a PR for it.
What is the government doing to create a desire within the population to start a family and have children?
Using an old school razor with razor blades since a few years. It's basically 0$ a month
This is a fascinating video by Adam Curtis which explains the origins and uses of HeLa[0] cells, a uterine cancer cell extracted from a black American woman named Henrietta Lacks in 1951 and subsequently used as standard reference material in biomedical research of all kinds, up to and including the present day.

The film, like many of Curtis's, revolves around the almost religious beliefs of scientists that their own understanding and methods would lead to "changing the world" and making a new and better mankind. So often, when powerful and interested people try to sell this idea, the results are pointless and even counterproductive.

Another point of the film is that Henrietta's skin color was a factor in denying her and her family recognition of her contribution to science or to any remuneration from the products made and sold from her cells.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa
The US soy bean industry isn’t one entity that can make a decision like that, it’s presumably thousands of discrete farms, each of which would have to pitch some in and then presumably endlessly bikeshed about precisely what needs to be done.
The only thing I’ve figured out that works is building a Google Custom Search Engine with your favorite list of 50-100 blogs but it’s far from perfect and doesn’t help with new discovery.
India begins the privatization of its life-insurance company
He was the Wrangler at the Univ of Cambridge (best Undergrad in Math).
-Faxes: Japan won't let them die

-The notion of privacy when I leave my house: that's already lost

-100% Solo video games: indies won't let them die
On a similar note Repology is very useful for package maintainers. It has feeds for out-of-date packages that you maintain: https://repology.org/maintainer/kevincox%40kevincox.ca
The author is overlooking the fact that good quality cartridge blade is superior to old-style double-edged one. It gives a closer shave and cause more skin irritation. Depending on your skin type it could be worth extra money. I still recall ocassional cuts from using double-edged blade.

https://gillette.com/en-us/shaving-tips/shaving-science/why-...
>The available studies document damage to the reproductive system, impacts on the EEG and brain functions, as well as effects on the heart, liver, thyroid, gene expression, cell cycle, cell membranes, bacteria, and plants.

The question is, how serious is that damage and are they able to always 100% reproduce the damage done with ~2.4GHz RF.

I suspect that, if the damage done by RF is serious and hits hard over time, that we should soon see a increase of cancer in western societies. Then the question is again, does the increase come from better medical examination methods or from too much of a exposure of RF.
>Offline dating

What's that?
I am Italian and live in Italy (after ~13 years abroad).

Both Italy and Japan are in the worst possible position, in terms of aging population, than any other "non-small" developed nation.

Some projections from the national statistic institute (ISTAT), which I cannot find online right now, project ~50M people by 2050, down ~10M from current levels.
I hope future cyclists are more considerate of autonomous buses than with those driven by humans - so many cyclists seem to feel everything is downstream from them in importance. Autonomous buses having to brake suddenly because cyclists have suddenly cut in could really slow bus journeys down. This will be more of an issue in cities where shoals of cyclists typically disregard traffic regulations and ride aggressively.

Human drivers have learnt how to cope with this but I suspect cyclists will know the bus will always give way to them and take advantage of that...
I just use Librarything
But isn't greed a reflection of the asymmetrical reproduction system that serves for natural selection as evolution of the species?
In general, don’t we want the global population to fall a bit?

8-10 billion people are taxing the planet. Climate change, plastic use that ends up everywhere, …
You don't have to have worked in a field to write about it, though it helps. A good reporter would talk to some people who worked in the field to get their opinions.

This article is more confident than seems warranted, but that's more tone than substance. It does seem to be based on a lot of reading, which isn't a bad way to get started at learning about new things.

(Talking excessively confidently about things you just learned something about is very common on the social media. It's kind of the house style.)
Yeah, it's very largely BS. If you cook enough bacon and high-fat foods in it over time.... sure.

But people who say you can easily cook eggs in it or everything else "after its seasoned" are just not to be listened to. Use a nonstick.

EDIT: Or carbon steel I guess. Even then, meh. Remember that the vast majority of professional chefs use nonstick skillets specifically for eggs both at home and in their workplace.
Also the idea that GNU tools are bloated.
OP is incorrect, eating flakes is perfectly safe. The whole point of Teflon is that the bonds are so strong that it will not react chemically with anything else, including your insides. Scratching it up is just you damaging your stuff, not a safety risk.

The safety problem with Teflon is when it is overheated. Don't heat a pan without anything in them, because then the Teflon will decompose into some really toxic chemicals. Good news is that water boils at 100C, an even the highest smoke-point oils decompose at 250C. Teflon only begins to deteriorate at 260C, and only full-on decomposes at 350C.
I've been experimenting a bit with different razor brands recently. I've been using Schick Hydro for years, currently US$19 for a four-pack at CVS. I tried Dollar Shave Club at US$12 a pack but came away very unimpressed. Lots of pulling, and not great for smoothness either. Harry's at the same price seems like more of a direct alternative to the Hydro. I use one cartridge a week, so that's ~US$80 per year without even having to try anything significantly different or change technique as with an old-school razor.

The other part of the cost equation is gel/foam/soap. I stopped buying overpriced gel and foam quite a few years ago. Hair conditioner (with maybe a bit of shampoo or liquid soap to make it foamier) works pretty well for a tiny fraction of the price. Liquid hand soap or body wash works even better for slightly more. The same goat-milk soap I use for everything else (including hair) doesn't work quite as well when lathered by hand, but it's closer with the one-time purchase of a brush. While the direct cost isn't the greatest, the marginal cost is near zero since I wear the shower bars down to slivers at a sufficient rate to support shaving as well.

In short, it's pretty easy to save a couple of hundred bucks a year without really changing the experience. If you want to go further than that because you enjoy the challenge (or for any other reason) you certainly can and should, but the incremental savings at that point are a bit smaller.
The USA has a rather distorted health care and medicine system, in that it's viewed here as a profit center, not as a basic societal necessity. In contrast, police and judicial services are not really viewed as an investment opportunity (let's skip private prisons), just a basic necessity.

Where this comes out in the 'psychedelic treatment' movement is that it's not going to be very profitable, and in fact - if it works as advertised - will mean a lot of people will end up spending much less on anti-depressants on one hand, and alcohol and opiates and cannabis on the other.

This is because psychedelics - administered not as daily microdosing, but rather as infrequent full-dose experiences, ideally under somewhat controlled conditions - show promise in providing treatments for depression and addiction that don't require further daily interventions. The effects of a single dose can last for weeks to months.

From the business end of the health care system, this is a fiscal disaster. Someone spending $50 a day on alcohol, or cannabis, or opiates, or antidepressants and therapy, now spends $50 every few months on a bag of psychedelic mushrooms, with a more postive long-term outcome r.e. depression and addiction.

One conclusion is that a society that views health care as a profit opportunity, rather than a basic necessity, has some serious value problems that end up encouraging unhealthy behavior, i.e. pushing junk food in schools, encouraging obesity and depression and addiction, which then generate further profits for hospitals and pharmaceutical producers.
I've been using Plasma for about a year now and I find it... underwhelming. Inconsistent "feel", things like the main menu search or the alt-tab feature are not frictionless to me. Not sure what it is but I'm changing soon.

I guess it's the nostalgia talking but I miss the golden old days of KDE 3, browsing away with Konqueror before Apple forked the KHTML engine.
Japan has been closed to both tourists and immigrants for over two years. That’s bound to have an effect on population growth.

Some tourists always end up staying and contributing to population growth: meet a local, get married, the usual.
Where is the evidence that it's taxing the planet?
I polished a Griswold older than anyone on this site and the eggs still stuck.

Someone then claimed my pan was manganese deficient due to some war in Gabon pre-WWII. It will always be something with these people.
I have thick and coarse beard hair, and when it gets a little bit long it starts to curl in on itself.

I still use electric. But the trick is to buy a beard trimmer. Trim beard with that, gets you to pretty short stubble, then you use electric shaver to go clean shaven if you want. I actually have found stubble to short beard to be ideal spot for me.
That's a fine idea, but this would not be an open source (https://opensource.org/osd) license.

> 5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups

> The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons.

> 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor

> The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
>cutthroat, poorly run USA.

Japan is many things.

Not cutthroat is not among those things.
You can get any tv you like -as long as it has HDMI ports- and your choice of a TiVo, appletv, etc.

My last two tvs had smart crap built in; I never set any of ot up, not even as far as connecting to wifi.
Mine just reads `PF` since it's not hooked up to a UPS. ;p
My worry is that TV manufacturers will have the capacity to overlay ads natively on the screen.