skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best hypothesis at the moment is that the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event was caused by the enormous, million-year long eruptions that formed the Siberian Traps, combined with their ignition of carbonate rocks (which were in the process of forming large coal beds). The rise in CO2 levels and global temperature was not the fundamental problem for life on Earth -- it was the complete disruption of photosynthesis both on land and in the oceans.

If you consider the scale, mechanisms, duration, and size of the Siberian Traps eruptions [1] there is no reasonable comparison with the current effects and future consequences of just the industrial rise in atmospheric CO2 levels.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberian_Traps
I've gotten bitten by the Smalltalk bug recently and I've been thinking about this a lot. Smalltalk in the form of Smalltalk-80, Squeak, and Pharo is a fascinating environment, but I wish it were developed into a full-fledged operating system with an opinionistic set of UI guidelines (such as the Apple Human Interface Guidelines from the classic Mac days). Imagine had applications similar to MacPaint and MacWrite been written in Smalltalk. Even better, in my opinion, is to take advantage of the dynamic, object-oriented environment of Smalltalk and create component-based GUIs similar to Apple's OpenDoc efforts. I would use such a system today if there were any apps available.

I think Smalltalk (or something similar to what I've heard about Lisp machines from the 1980s) is the perfect environment for creating such a dynamic environments, and I think Smalltalk would have been better received had it been molded into an operating system instead of sitting on top of another operating system with the whole impedance mismatch between the host and Smalltalk environments.
I think one of the easier ways to do right by your cats is to always have two or more. When we got Gentle Ben, Max Power suddenly reverse-aged by like five years.
> I'm earnestly trying to avoid downplaying your comment, but you sound like you have no clue how much engineering effort and talent is actually required to build and maintain a reliable, functional, production-grade package manager that a huge number of people use.

It's also entirely possible that Google saw Homebrew as neither reliable, functional, or production-grade enough for their taste. While Homebrew is somewhat decent today (though, it's still broken in some ways that I will not go into here and I'm under the impression that it's being worked on), but it wasn't always particularly reliable or stable. The only real benefit it had (and arguably still has) is that it has massive traction.
This sounds good in theory, but I don't think it would work given our limited knowledge of food and nutrition. Nutritional scientists have been wrong many times in the past--who's to say a rollout of synthetic "food" couldn't wipe out the human population in the future? I'd cite the Precautionary Principle (http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pp2.pdf) when dealing with global ruin problems.
Kinda. What SCOTUS actually ruled is that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission violated the Free Exercise Clause, and so essentially threw the case out. The opinion very clearly states that this exception to the anti-discrimination laws are not going to set precedent for future exceptions and that the bar in the future will be even higher due to various changes in the law from the time of the incident.

One article I quickly dug up that seems to give it a fair treatment:
https://qz.com/1296174/scotus-masterpiece-bakery-case-the-su...
Linux was already pretty big by the time that had happened. Plus it was BSD that was originally favoured as the cheap goto OS by ISPs (before Linux really took off).

Without wanting to start a flamewar, I honestly think it was the GPL licencing that made Linux what it is. BSD was more mature, arguably better designed and was already in use and battle tested. But GPL forced collaboration a little more where and I think that really appealed to hackers.

(I’m not arguing that GPL is better nor worse than BSD/MIT/whatever. I have no strong allegiances with either side of the camp)
You say that, but AWS has still launched EC2 instances with both AMD and ARM CPU cores recently. I imagine Amazon buy enough Intel CPUs for them to take notice.
Projection functions for pairs, so first/second (i.e., (A, B) -> A, (A, B) -> B).
>With the GDPR in place, you theoretically now need to get consent every time

This is false. There are multiple ways to justify processing of personal data, and your example would fall under data processing necessary to perform a contract at the customer's request. Depending on your location, there might also be legal requirements to record and keep user data, which is also a valid reason that doesn't require consent of the user.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-6-gdpr/
Mailbox.org has tasks/reminders that can be sync'd over CalDAV. I currently do it with vdirsyncer on my desktop/laptop and DAVDroid on my phone.
Health Benefits of Turmeric
Ask HNs: How many of you still use old.reddit.com vs. new?
How many frequent redditors use new reddit vs old reddit?
To me, the interesting number is average points per submission. It's surprising to see how badly medium.com, forbes.com, and theregister.com do by that metric, and how well stripe.com, ifixit.com, and blog.rust-lang.org do...
Sure if you want to be pedantic about it there have (probably) been a few years in the geological record with higher deltaT's than what is currently being experienced due to volcanoes, comets, and etc. I'm sure someone else might want to debate what qualifies as 'climate' in climate change.

My point: the implication of your statement is that the former is irrelevant to us [modern humanity] because the more extreme latter has occurred previously - which is a logical non-sequitur.
Is this just cumulative? It seems to me that ordering by average score would be better, is Github simply pushed to the top for being low rank high volume?
wow. those numbers are so cool. never knew poultry was so efficient. No wonder it’s so much cheaper.

What would it take to make beef production more efficient? genetic engineering perhaps.

People wil naturally switch to more efficient food as population goes up and food resources become more scarce.
This sounds totally unethical to me. Is someone regulating this? Have they ever been fined for such underhand tactics?
Hello. I created the site. I think it can be useful to browse domains for certain sites. For example, Github.com can be used to browse popular projects. aws.amazon.com can be browsed to keep up with large AWS announcements, and www.reddit.com can be used to see top posts on reddit.

example: https://hntrending.com/domains/year/github.com/

Why did I create this site? Because it can be very difficult to keep up with tech news. There are great new stories on HN every single day. I simply can't keep up. The solution? A way to browse top stories from the past week/month/year or all time. I am letting the wisdom of the crowds decide for me what is most important, but it is nice to be able to take a vacation without worrying I will miss something big. I still read HN and other tech sites almost daily, but this helps me review the more popular stories which can be both interesting and fun.
They already have a foothold in the server market: AWS just released new families of instance types based on AMD CPUs.
I'm assuming you can't charge at you workplace either. In that case, it would be best to wait for a bit.

For a while, I was charging in the garage in my rental condo. They had a normal 110v power socket. Would take forever to charge from zero, but it was more than enough to offset a 25 mile commute each way(at around 4 miles/h)

Cost is still an issue, indeed.
I know Fresno is relatively large but the entire purpose of this route was/is/I guess isn't to get people from SF to LA as a rival to air travel.
> Failure to vaccinate should result in intervention by CPS and the parents placed on a watch list.

Failure to vaccinate is a big issue, but I'd rather have anti-vaxxers than government taking kids away from parents because the parents refused a medical intervention.
Totally understand your point, and the veg lifestyle is becoming much more mainstream in athletics. e.g. check out Nimai Delgado's (IFBB bodybuilder) instagram posts on simple, high protein, high calorie foods for bodybuilding: https://www.instagram.com/veganbodybuildingfood
I believe I pay a couple of bucks a year for a bank pass that lets me pay or use ATMs everywhere in the world. I don't know if it would be cheaper or free if I got a more limited pass.

Most Dutch bank accounts do cost a bit, as far as I know. I remember when this was first introduced in the late 1980s, and I immediately switched banks then. But by now the amounts is negligible, and the convenience of modern banking easily worth it.
Now I'm wondering if anybody wrote a DL library on top of CuPy, and if such library could be competitive with PyTorch in terms of performance.
Tackling ads abuse in apps and SDKs
Okay, but:

> On April 3, 2015, Microsoft announced that as of Windows 10, it would comply with the specification and no longer enable Do Not Track as part of the operating system's "Express" default settings, but that the company will "provide customers with clear information on how to turn this feature on in the browser settings should they wish to do so".

So for the specific browsers that do follow the standard, like Edge, Chrome, and Firefox, why doesn't Google respect the flag for those browsers now? I know that Google has the ability to detect which browser I'm using, because they tell me to install Chrome every time I visit their homepage.

I'm seeing IE mentioned all over the place here, but it what it looks like is that one bad actor was just the excuse the advertising industry needed to mass-ignore the setting on every browser, everywhere, regardless of whether or not they violated the standard.
Good point.

The Leaf also has oversized brake pads for when there is no regenerative breaking (battery is close to full).
I agree. Keep politics out of your business. Doing otherwise is a potential hornet’s nest. If they are doing illegal business then sure, deny service on those grounds and possibly report to authorities, if applicable.

In politics you’re not going to please everyone, even those on your side, they’ll potentially ask for more “activism”. So, if it were me, I’d keep politics and business sepatate.
DOCKER AND THE JVM
I live in Portland. Specifically, in a little house that wouldn't muster 900 square feet using the most generous of calculations. The lot is similarly small with really no place for a driveway, let alone a garage. I can probably run a cable out to street, but, if my amazon packages are any indicator, I'm not in a spot where that won't eventually get damaged or stolen (let alone the tripping liability).

So my best option is to charge at work. Luckily for me, I my work is forward thinking enough to have a few places to plug-in! Expect my office has more than a few people, thousands more than a few people. What do I do?

Honest question. I always think about going electric but can't fathom a situation that doesn't bite me more than it helps. And I'm guessing I'm not alone, think of my coworkers, how 'bout anyone working downtown? What about Intel or Nike or any other large campus? It just doesn't seem like we live in a world where owning an electric car doesn't presuppose owning a home with a garage.
Companies rarely hire people in a vacuum; almost always, it's because they are looking for someone to fill a certain role (be it "we need another competent engineer who we can assign arbitrary work to"), and there are always other people that can do the same job.
macOS had multiple package managers prior to Homebrew.
It is cumulative. I can probably add an option to view by average - but lots of domains pop up with only 1-2 stories that had lots of upvotes.
Vigorous exercise may help with Alzheimer's.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/vigorous-exerci...

The results indicate that aerobic exercise is more effective than any currently approved medication in fore-stalling Alzheimer's disease.

Also , keep your weight down.

https://www.endocrineweb.com/news/obesity/55627-being-overwe...

A new study found a culprit for the increasing rates of liver cancer: obesity. The study published in the journal, Cancer Research, found that high body mass index (BMI) and a large waist circumference were associated with an increased risk for liver cancer. In addition, having type 2 diabetes, another result of obesity, also increases the risk.
Peer Review: CBC Casper
> Why can't we have some sort licensing board like a medical board so that you prove you can code, and then interviews aren't so time consuming.

That's a really interesting point. I think you may have just nailed why the software developer hiring process is so broken right now.

Our industry is about at the stage of maturity where civil engineering or medicine were circa the turn of the 20th century when state accreditation boards began licensing in those industries.

I actually don't have a CS degree at all and admittedly poor understanding of algorithms and data structures as I originally was educated in code at an art school. But after 16 years writing code, due to the increasing amount of gatekeeping being put up around CS fundamentals I'm actually going "back to school" right now, taking online courseware to gain at least some rudimentary online certificates in those CS areas just to demonstrate that I'm qualified to continue working in the industry.

It would actually be quite nice to have a real board certification in this stuff to study towards, rather than some BS online course certificate, or worse, having to re-do my entire undergrad 16 years into my career...
Direct experience, but it's not hard to find public supporting evidence, either.

https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2017/12/19/the-...
Golang, perhaps it is good I don't know but clang format sucks: it improves slightly normal code but the price is too high as sometimes it totally butcher code making it unreadable.
Macro+lambda expression makes code formatters generates ugly things (I don't know what clion use to parse code but it also goes nut thinking wrongly that some code is unreachable..)
If you have a good long term strategy you shouldn't be worried about timing the market. I invest in a few ETFs, 80/20 stock to bond ratio, a mix of domestic USA / international.

I probably won't make massive gains but in the long run I'll make ~5% steady.

I think if you value steady returns over wild swings you can do well with Vanguard ETFs - the low overhead offsets the les returns than day trading / active buying and selling
What is kind of funny was that it varied by markets: Yahoo Messenger was big in commodities markets, especially oil.
Well, I think they have to since they got burned so badly with the diesel debacle.
I have a graduate-level Diploma of IT and a Bachelor of Commerce, and have studied both of these degrees in Sydney, Australia. My question is: would I be able to attain a E3 visa to work as a software developer (which is what I am working currently as in Sydney) in the US, since my Bachelor may or may not be the specific qualification for 'specialty occupation' of software developer?
Appears to be based on a very similar design to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7882066 , except that batch files are far more limited than bash.

Also, may I suggest a small optimisation to APPFB.COM : there is no need for push cs/pop ds at the beginning, because in a .COM format executable all the segment registers are initially set to the same value. You can eliminate two unnecessary bytes ;-)
If you use your ISP's recursive resolver it will likely be a virtual machine on their cloud infrastructure, the very same system that they provide as a content delivery system for the anycast service. The latency for a DNS query will therefore often be the exact same latency for the caching resolver as if you asked the anycast DNS server directly, because it's part of the exact same system, possibly running on the exact same machine.

There is no need to keep refreshing DNS records in background and have a massive cache. The content delivery system does that all day long. Because this is a service that ISPs want to sell, there is also a huge incentive for them to get large companies to pay for the CDN rather than expect them to run background jobs with large memory costs for free.

But even if there were added latencies for some subset of sites, we are talking about milliseconds. With DoH there has been a simultaneous claim that with HTTPS they can push multiple responses for a single request (something which the DNS protocol supports but has never been used in any implementation), which means that now we can reduce the latency to a single round trip. The difference between a single round trip to Cloudflare's CDN recursive resolver, and a single round trip to the official anycast DNS resolver with DoH, is marginal if any. If the site is located on Cloudflare the whole question is also moot.
Land used for grazing livestock is often no good for growing crops.

> For example, US NRCS statistics indicate that about 59 percent of US non-federal pasture and unforested rangeland is unsuitable for cultivation, yet such land has value for grazing of livestock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arable_land#Non-arable_land
Excellent question! I wondered if anyone would pick up on that.

It appears the owner of my favourite cheese shop is a bit of a Luddite. Or at least, he refuses to get a pin transaction machine, and only accepts cash payment. No idea why. Might be ideological in some way.
Fascinating!

If I understand correctly, the last provided contract is what holds for service transactions. So, unless tracking pixels also serve a tos back, my terms of service provided in the header determine the legal status of the transaction.

Websites, on the other hand, because the html includes the TOS, and the final contract.
It's not ubiquitous in much of Africa, which is an entire continent.

Somewhat counterintuitively, that might be a good thing for the Africans. There was never a wired telephone network in many populated areas, for example, so they were able to migrate to wireless very quickly with no intervening transition. They never had coal/hydro/nuke plants, but not only will that not stop them from benefiting from cheap solar power, it will accelerate adoption.
Yeah, I think it deleted all my plugins this morning. Yay.
I would start with diagraming the overall process/workflow the app is enabling.

Increasingly the "user experience" transcends just the web app, and involves well timed SMS messages and notifications.

Once the essential UI is defined, I use Balsamiq to iterate on a design, then over-communicate specifications for an Upwork Freelancer to bid on.
"Why am I so hardnosed about this? It’s because it is much, much better to reject a good candidate than to accept a bad candidate." -- Joel

https://www.forbes.com/sites/falonfatemi/2016/09/28/the-true...
And increase profits in the meantime.
This is referenced on the article. The title is pure clickbait.
Yes, it is called Chainer and it's quite competitive.
Moving to better cities does not require intervention. People will do it naturally over time.
Michael Dell plots his return to the public market
Yes this has been a rather interesting development - it seems the purpose of the native apis is now becoming just to bootstrap the browser with the browser implementors being the sole users of the native platform apis. Will be really interesting to watch what happens here long term.

Some open questions in my mind for this are

1. Will the browser evolve to cover every use case? (Like AAA games, high performance IO)

2. What does this do for hardware vendors? Think over the years the hardware vendors had a good working relationship with Operating System vendors to surface new ISAs / APIs and make them available to developers, who could build killer apps for end users. For client workloads now new ISAs dont do anything unless they somehow get exposed through the browser.

3. If you are not a browser vendor what options do you have for introducing new computing paradigms ?

4. As the number of developers doing native development reduces to engineers who are implementing browsers the market for debuggers / profilers for native client development reduces. What effect does this have on tooling quality.

Would love any thoughts / speculations / ideas about the above.
> For example, there are several people on our team that are extremely pro-choice. We had a pro-life group sign up recently and these employees are threatening to quit if we accept their money.

kernel.org and gnu.org will gladly give those pro-life people an OS, mozilla.org a browser. Free of charge, and all.

microsoft.com will lavish software upon those pro-lifers, much of it for a fee.

Safeway will sell a loaf of bread and bottle of milk to a pro-lifer.

But some primadonnas don't want their employing software organization to sell them event organizing software?

They really are in the wrong business. Because if you make software for event organizing, half the customers will be groups that half of you don't agree with. That's because events are often political or religious or whatever.

You're not going to have much of an income from organizing bake sale fund raisers for school trips or baby showers --- and what if some on your team are against even that sort of thing?

Let them go and replace them with "pro-money" and "pro-business" team members.
Yep. And then someone will start slack/irc 2.0
Another interesting tail, an interview with the first Mr. Softee operator in China: http://arithegreat.com/ari-shaffirs-skeptic-tank-221-mistu-s...

The operator tells stories of how the local workers did everything possible to skim, copy, and swindle; the money quote for me was something like, "If you want real honest-to-god free market capitalism, go to China."
Came here to make exactly this point. It seems like the people already slim and petite are less likely to be drawn to such artificial additives, whereas many/most overweight people would at least be trying some "bare minimum" weight management through them.
I pretty much live on this stuff. Huh, wonder if I should be dropping it altogether.
> He was smart; he was lucky; he was a human, like anyone else.

And like nobody else, he was personally who made Apple, Macintosh, iPod and iPhone what they were.

In short, he many times proved to really be far from average.
Agreed with this. Was involved in big platform company who handled it this way and it went well. A good way to do it is email the customer and say 1. You disagree with them 2. You respect their rights and will allow them to legally use your service 3. Tell employeesb and customer that you'll donate the money to Planned Parenthood, etc.
> It is important we manage the human impact appropriately.

And the chances of that actually happening?
Interesting, but unoriginal. I've known about both potential explanations for years, as well as the fact that switching to low calorie sweeteners does not seem to be a good way to lose weight.
Yeah, you're right. I realized it when I came back and reread my comment.

Ah well, no editing now, it's up for posterity.
> it is way more approachable and unambiguous.

I agree. My older relatives also have much harder times figuring out where to touch since the fully drawn buttons are replaced by just a text.
1. DSGs are still relatively new
2. Most clutches these days can easily go untouched throughout at least one owners use of a car.