skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit them better.

Context of the 1964 prediction: Very limited use of AC, and of insulated windows. Hot-water radiators. Window films don't exist; limited window tinting. Daylight-equivalent electric lighting is in limited commercial use.

Confounds: Residential tech diverged from commercial/industrial. Residential still emphasizes natural light, and blends outdoors, in part due to expensive energy.

So, "yes".

>> electroluminescent panels will be in common use. Ceilings and walls will glow softly, and in a variety of colors that will change at the touch of a push button.

Context: Hanging incandescent fixtures. Introduction of hanging ceilings with embedded lighting.

Confounds: Electroluminescent tech never came together, remaining dim, short-lived, and power hungry. Gas-discharge fluorescent tube dominated. Residential remained incandescent, eventually switching to CFD and LEDs. Window film invented a couple of years later. Window film, window insulation, and AC, enabled glass walls.

Ceilings - yes (inset fixtures and diffusers).
Walls - yes (glass) and no (other).
Variety of colors - no/kinda (aside from 1960's transients and customized dorm rooms, only limited blackbody colors).
Change - no.

So, "kinda"? The prediction bet on the wrong horse, and lost properties specific to it. But it was partially saved by changing window tech and glass walls.

>> Windows need be no more than an archaic touch, and even when present will be polarized to block out the harsh sunlight. The degree of opacity of the glass may even be made to alter automatically in accordance with the intensity of the light falling upon it.

> 2 - Windows mostly obsolete - no

... A conversation in 2034: Omari: Windows are archaic? That's silly. Li Xiu Ying: Yeah (gestures to create a shared AR window).

Windows, as a 1964-like dominating primary tech for lighting and cooling, do seem archaic.

Confounds: Window tint and window insulation reduced the downsides of windows, so high ceilings and fans went away, but windows didn't. People like natural light. Reduced importance of shades/blinds/drapes has left them mostly manual, and less common. Adjustable-opacity window tech never came together.

Archaic - kinda.
Polarized - yes.
Opacity alters - no.

Story: Why does the newish MIT Media Lab's facade have a lattice of bars? The building code has a 1970's limit on window percentage, to save energy. That's now obsoleted by better films, but... code.

Story: It's summer in the 1950's, and your office near the top of the Empire State Building is sweltering. What do you do? Open some windows to get a cross-ventilating breeze going, of course, what else is there?

Takeaways: Bet on trends, not single horses. It seems common when judging past predictions, to neglect the past context, and thus to underestimate how much they got right.
Weight. In order to start the turbine spinning at the lowest possible wind speed (meaning it will spin more often) it helps for the blades to be as light as possible. There are other factors involved in getting the blades to spin, but that is an important one. (other factors include the size of the magnets in the coil, the shape and length of the blades, whether it is initially pointing into the wind or not - and how much it takes to turn it into that breeze - and so on).
It seems the purpose of rust would be to use the borrow checker for safe compilation, but this is all in a macro? So the value add of rust here is the good macro system?
This should be voted higher up.

According to https://twitter.com/bgp4_table, we have just exceeded 768k Border Gateway Protocol routing entries, which may be causing some routers to malfunction.
Antidepressants are indeed effective, but those NNT numbers are based on outcomes (i.e. depression scores) that are more subjective and far more modest than the outcomes used to calculate NNT for things like aspirin or antihypertensives (cardiovascular events and/or death). I don't think they should be compared directly compared in that manner.

The NNT for antihypertensives to lower blood pressure is essentially 1, after all.
You can only go so fast when it takes 10 to 15 years to see what you got. They also don't breed true, so lots of those plants will produce uninteresting fruits.

Trees like oaks have the potential to be great producers of crops but have largely eluded cultivation, because they take decades to fruit for the first time.
I've got a personal account with an approximately $1/mo bill (just a couple things in S3) and a work account with ~$1500/mo AWS bill (not a large shop by any means) and I've always felt very positive about my interactions with AWS support
Given it mentions Cenozoic, etc. I assume there is a fossil record. Leaves, wood, seeds - all definitely fossil-worthy.
The fate of one of Daenerys' dragons in Game of Thrones comes to mind. A real good look at ecology and evolution really reveals how fragile everything really is.
Yes, there's a big difference between someone who can target 'results' and someone who immediately loses all interest once they reach the transition point between figuring the system out and implementing the plan to finish.

I'm looking for the opposite of a person who leaves a trail of proof-of-concepts behind them without actually delivering anything real people can use.
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Piracy is getting more attractive, too. Since works get taken out of streaming, you might find things aren't available next month. So even when I have a subscription, I'll still pirate things (the same things!), to create a permanent library and make switching easer, now that streaming libraries per service are shrinking drastically.
> Americans immediately scramble for a new job out of fear of getting sick.

Or in fear of paying a tax penalty unless they buy some substandard marketplace plan (yes, I know the marketplace plans were sabotaged for political reasons in some cases, but that doesn't change the result)
I'm also experiencing a massage outage. Please send masseuse.
Bug reports for beta Apple OSes are more effective the earlier they're sent
Africa is a fairly large continent and its countries are varied in their cultures, languages, government institutions and politics. Ghana is among the safer, more developed and faster growing African nations, and is far, far safer than SA.
> because we are being overpromised on how much happiness those wants will deliver.

How can we be over promised when it is only us who can determine how much happiness we get out of stuff we buy?
Let's make the following the tech mantra of the next decade: "the Internet Of Things can never possibly work until the LAN Of Things does".
Exactly. Same thing was with Steam from Valve. But now both streaming and gaming platforms get a split, thus creating many complications for users. I bet that will increase piracy in both worlds.
>At my billing rate "15 days straight" is approximately equal to a low end BMW.

So, you’re saying you are making too much money to learn something new?
This is a lot like the argument against typecasting.
Netflix actually added the additional AZs because of a prior outage that did take them down.

"After a 2012 storm-related power outage at Amazon during which Netflix suffered through three hours of downtime, a Netflix engineer noted that the company had begun to work with Amazon to eliminate “single points of failure that cause region-wide outages.” They understood it was the company’s responsibility to ensure Netflix was available to entertain their customers no matter what. It would not suffice to blame their cloud provider when someone could not relax and watch a movie at the end of a long day."

https://www.networkworld.com/article/3178076/why-netflix-did...
Press up ten times. That's still what a lot of us do in terminal (particularly when we're on a machine without fancy shell history fuzzy-searching etc.).

I guess I might press and hold at ten.
That's exactly the thing. I have never paid for a subscription because I'm a good person. I've just always gone the path of least resistance. The $15/month is just cheaper than piracy for me.

Game of Thrones and HBO is a great example. Until this year it was completely impossible to see Game of Thrones legally in Canada without a traditional cable/satellite subscription. And yet they'd send me a Notice and Notice email every single time someone on my IP address pirated an episode telling me about how HBO is now online and it's never been easier to watch legally... except you must have Bell/Rogers/Whatever subscription first.

We're finally seeing the old guard corporate decision makers with their obsolete understanding of their industry being dragged kicking and screaming into this millennium.
Patents and copyright are the prime example of the government picking winners and losers in the market.
That appears to be the index page rather than the article and is not too bad. But that's just the default browser layout, sites usually look a lot better in reader mode.

Also, with js disabled your link is just an empty page, imgur is too incompetent to be able to show images without JS.
We roll the same way. But I have Amazon Prime as well.

My current working rule is no more than two video services. Amazon Prime may be hard to dislodge because my whole family uses my account. So when we turn HBO on in a few weeks to close out GOT, we will shutdown Netflix for awhile at least.

Unless I can find 7 day free trial of HBO somehow
You have to be kidding me. 14 9's is already microseconds a year. Surely below anybody's error bar for whether a service is down or not.

16 9's and aws should easily last as long as the great pyramids without a second worth of outage.

What a joke
I suspect we'll find that there are a surprisingly large number of things transportation workers due to today that we aren't able to automate via self driving tech that limit job losses too. Even Uber drivers spend a fair amount of time cleaning the car and dealing with various minor issues.
Keep in mind if your country or origin doesn't allow dual citizens (Indian, The Netherlands, Japan, etc.) and you get US citizenship (and revoke your home country) and the US decides to take your citizenship, that leave you without a state. That's a human rights violation.
As per the previous comment, most of it comes from the way the laws were written. If immigration law says “members of a terrorist group can’t get citizenship”, then USCIS has to have a process for following it. In addition to background checks, they ask the question.

In terms of booting them out, the question makes it much easier. If they are a member of a terrorist group and they said “no”, well it’s an open and shut case of lying on an immigration application. If they didn’t ask the question, sure they could still boot them out, but it may be a prolonged process.
My father was one of those students(they call them survivors) at that square in 1989, with Henan University.
So I can clarify something happened in that night and later decades.
Base on his words, there's NO MASSACRE.
He's a totally discontent about CCP, but as he said, there was no massacre.
But was there blood? yes.
"CCP is too treacherous," he said, "CCP deliberately indulged the marchers, so once they go too far, once they became violent, and CCP obtained enough excuses to consider this is a rebellion and began suppressing them"

"Violent" he pointed here is that some marchers tortured and killed soldiers(armed police).
Maybe someone has seen those pictures, a burned body be hanged at a bridge, and more similar violent happened before repression.
And my father thinks students were deluded, by the US(without evidence).
So the timeline is: students parade -> violent -> CCP repression.
And again, no massacre.

In that time, CCP had tried to debate that event with west media, but they failed, badly, so after that, in decades they just simply censored all information and chose to avoid any fight about that in public media.

The GFW in China mostly because of this.

-> about the "massacre", there is a video from the students' leader Hou Dejian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSR9zgY1QgU
I like his word "Are we going to use lies to attack an enemy who lies?"
I write this as someone who considers himself a liberal in the American political sense. As I see it, there is a serious tension in the way we think about sexual assault. We assert two things: 1. women very rarely make false claims of sexual assault, so we should believe their claims, and 2. higher rates of criminal convictions and incarceration among black people are largely explained by institutional racism, rather than truly higher criminality among black people. These things conflict in the apparent over-representation of black (and minority in general) students in campus sexual assault accusations [1].

Hard numbers don't seem very common here, but that article contains qualitative testimony: "In 2015, in The New Yorker, Jeannie Suk Gersen, a Harvard Law School professor, wrote that in general, the administrators and faculty members she’d spoken with who 'routinely work on sexual-misconduct cases' said that 'most of the complaints they see are against minorities.'"

That article offers also one pretty shocking statistic: "In the 2013–14 academic year, 4.2 percent of Colgate’s students were black. According to the university’s records, in that year black male students were accused of 50 percent of the sexual violations reported to the university, and they made up 40 percent of the students formally adjudicated. During the three academic years from 2012–13 to 2014–15, black students were accused of 25 percent of the sexual misconduct reported to the university, and made up 21 percent of the students referred for formal hearings."

As a result, I struggle to reconcile points 1 and 2 above. My best guess -- and it's similar to what that article hypothesizes -- is that encounters that already exist in some grey area of drunkenness and consent are more likely to be viewed as assault when the man is "other", i.e. black or minority. But this seems awful.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/09/the-qu...
Except he did get 80% of the results. His stated goal was to make it to India. He did the important part, which was to prove that you could cross the ocean to reach another land mass.

The other 80% of the work was sailing around the southern end of South America, and building the Panama Canal so you could actually reach Asia by sailing west from Europe.
Here's a way to view evolutionary theory: a plant that is extremely tasty becomes cultivated, and protected by the species that eats it. As a result, the plant prospers.

This actually has a name - Mutualism. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(biology) for example.
Asking for social media handles is inhumane?

It may be bad policy or intrusive, but calling it inhumane is hyperbole.
> The fruit had a larger pit and less flesh than today’s avocados, but it really served as a quick snack for big mammals like the mammoth... How the avocado still exists in the wild after surviving its evolutionary failures remains a puzzle. But once Homo sapiens evolved to the point where it could cultivate the species, the fruit had the chance to thrive anew. Back when the giant beasts roamed the earth, the avocado would’ve been a large seed with a small fleshy area—less attractive to smaller mammals such as ourselves.

I don't see the puzzle at all.

13,000 years ago yes humans hunted and killed off the megafauna. But they wouldn't be agriculturalists yet for thousands more years -- they still hunted and gathered. Avocados had a lot less fruit to them (since cultivation wasn't a thing yet), but that was true of many, probably most, wild fruits and vegetables at the time. Humans ate them all despite how they had less flesh -- they just ate more of them I guess. (And it's not like the avocado was more attractive to a mammoth than a person...) And so humans would have presumably been distributing the seeds as they took home sacks of them and some fell out, or they dumped leftover pits somewhere else in the forest.

The fact that avocados became cultivated in the first place almost certainly implies we were eating them already, and therefore transporting their pits often enough too.

I don't understand on what basis the author can assume humans weren't eating the original avocados...???
> "and many of the WHO type materials and studies imo on breast feeding are effectively predicated not on the benefits of breast feeding per se, but on the avoidance of not- breast-feeding substitute risks in a particular context"

Sorry, what? This is... impenetrable.
> As for the automation question, I think Trump, or his Republican successor, could pivot very easily to saying that robots are going to take Good Old-Fashioned American Jobs(tm) and a lot of people will follow that message.

I think this is interesting, because there's a Democratic candidate, Andrew Yang, gaining popularity because of this (relatively, considering he's coming out of nowhere). Though taking it with a different attitude. But I think this kinda goes to show that the message resonates across party lines (like with what you said about Obama and Trump).
>Esports diehards spent $5.00 each last year on esports, according to NewZoo, with mid-level fans generally spending half of that.

Ouch. That's nothing.
The US grants permanent residency to roughly a million people a year already. In the past we accepted anyone who would come because so few people were willing to come. Now too many people want to come, so the selection process has to become more rigorous.

I don't want to sound nativist, but there are hard limits on how many people a country can accept at once, especially one with an increasingly small pool of jobs to fill.
It seemed to be congestion in the North East US.
Are we still blaming deregulation for the problems generated by regulation?
I would probably go with US-EAST-2 just because it's isolated from anything except perhaps a freak Tornado and better situated on the eastern US. Latency to/from there should be near optimal for most eastern US/Canada population.
I guess to kick people out who have terrorist ties even if they don’t commit any crimes while in the US?
Uhm.. If you look more than 2 seconds you can see that anyone can submit recordings of GNU related events.

And seeing RMS evangelizing for GNU/FSF is not strange, he pretty much started the whole movement and his/FSF's "agenda" has been publicly known for years, so whatever conspiracy you are thinking of doesn't exist.
when will folks learn that a yearly average is meaningless. Try a few decades for a stable average. Better yet, median!
PHP PECL has an expired SSL certificate
It is one way to go "passwordless" .. though you're piggy backing on the security that your email system already has.

Shameless plug of old post that describes how to restrict login to only the initiator even if login is initiated via an email link - http://sriku.org/blog/2017/04/29/forget-password/
I don't care about sounding clever mate, especially not to internet strangers. The more obvious answer to me is the wealth of the globe has increased YoY as well, mainly thanks to capitalism, so America isn't the primary destination for opportunity anymore, which is a good thing.
Not for me. I don't want to engage heavily on the other side of these topics, I think the topics are a poison. There is real discrimination in the world and this isn't it.
the mechanism that many drugs use, such as nitrous oxide aren't fully known. the wikipedia page for SSRI doesn't seem to look like marketing. a drug doesn't have to be fully understood in order for it to be effective.
On the other hand, I and literally everyone I know would have probably left the store with a crying kid and some slight embarrassment had one of ours actually gotten hurt. Lawsuits would be not be something coming to mind. In that light, is it not rude to treat someone the same as some of the least reasonable worst-case 'unable-to-parent-without-a-store-policy' types of people in society?

I'm not entirely sure, but an immediate jump to compliance solely to allow an employee to save face may not be a good position to promote.
“Humans are not made to be happy”

This is really important.

We didn’t become the dominant species on this planet because contentment was easy to find.

Humans are designed to always want more, even if they have more than anyone alive ever has.

Understanding this can lead to contentment because whenever you find yourself unhappy, it’s much easier to be ok with it if you realize that’s the natural state of being.
Anecdotally, I've had several negative, but inconsequential experiences with the customs people in Germany.
You would probably still want a close() to release local resources. A stateless object itself might just NOP the close(), but the local handler might still need to release a reference or two.

I think open/close() are probably the minimal interface.
Workers is pretty cool. I've work with the Worker team and Queue-It to get the later's SDK working there. Which has been wonderful to handle traffic at the edge.

Two things I wish were better: package installation (you have to use a compiled package instead of the GUI interface) and general docs (Mozilla's are okay, but not all are applicable to Workers).
At the end of the day, people need food to eat. If farming can provide a decent living (in this case, it looks as though Ghana is under-served in this sector), people will fill that gap.

Even more than that, farming is an essential human activity and we could use another green revolution.
There is no plan for a manned expedition to Mars, beyond "hey, let's go to Mars". Foundational breakthroughs in closed-loop life support need to happen to make such a trip possible (leaving aside the many other problems).
Sure as a whole, on average.

But there absolutely is a small minority of extreme producers in most domains.
You ignore the fact that business operation in many sectors are localized. I don't have numbers, but my impression is the said companies like verizon, healthcare provider, power suppliers all have regional stronghold where their market share is easily a dominant one. I used to live in a valley in west Massachusetts, where you don't have any options to choose from for power supply(believe it's a government regulation issue) so basically you are locked up and have no means to curb the ever raising rate.
What a long-winded article.
Can you explain why this is better than changing the configuration?
People are bullish on them because they don't need to get anywhere near that bar to be useful. A car that can drive itself only on well maintained freeways during the day in good weather is still incredibly useful.
Can you provide actual sources to support the claim that a very small number of people are responsible for output?
Many millions of dollars per year. I care about how my providers behave when they have issues, and I can't see why you think it's not at all relevant.
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