skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A report was published in Nature in spring of this year showing multiple lines of evidence for impact-related effects in the YDB layer in southern Chile:

"In the most extensive investigation south of the equator, we report on a ~12,800-year-old sequence at Pilauco, Chile (~40°S), that exhibits peak YD boundary concentrations of platinum, gold, high-temperature iron- and chromium-rich spherules, and native iron particles rarely found in nature. A major peak in charcoal abundance marks an intense biomass-burning episode, synchronous with dramatic changes in vegetation, including a high-disturbance regime, seasonality in precipitation, and warmer conditions. This is anti-phased with northern-hemispheric cooling at the YD onset, whose rapidity suggests atmospheric linkage. The sudden disappearance of megafaunal remains and dung fungi in the YDB layer at Pilauco correlates with megafaunal extinctions across the Americas. The Pilauco record appears consistent with YDB impact evidence found at sites on four continents."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-38089-y
The general public care about conclusions of the science, not making up their own minds about what the science says. The overall article does a very good job of summarizing the paper. I'm not sure that what you're looking at as "wrong information" actually qualifies as such.
Indeed.

I wonder how much that has to do with human nature thinking "well this is obscure" so then they don't secure it as if it was 'customer facing' or less 'obscure'.... and thus leave it more open than ever.

I knew a place that assumed such things, crazy insecure. They also played the "well this shouldn't be exposed to the internet" game as well.
How would continuing to use their own browser engine have helped them in any way? You imply that other options would have better outcomes for Microsoft without having thought through what they would be.
I've come to the conclusion that my brain's "algorithm"y, rather than "equation"y. My scores on (especially) spatial reasoning tests are excellent so one would think I'd have a leg up in mathematics, but trying to read typical "mathy" (equation-heavy) writing makes me feel the way I assume dyslexics do, even when it's something I'm pretty familiar with.

Algorithms, though? No problem. Programming in typical Algol-family languages & similar came easily to me. The "tough" early topics? Pointers, recursion? Not even a bump in the road, totally natural. To this day, though, the ones that look more like mathematical writing (Haskell) are really hard to read, let alone write. I can get all the concepts at play in a piece of Haskell and still not be able to keep the syntax or meaning of the code itself straight. When I do want or have to read mathematics of any complexity whatsoever, I only make headway by converting it to something more algorithmic as I go ("OK, so what does this term or whatever do to any other values passing through, here?")
Zoning is a giant factor in clustering of gas stations in populated areas, link below an example.

https://www.apnews.com/7bf2dceaacfc48178535dfc56d5cdbf3
The currently agreed best practice is to detect if a feature is supported and gracefully degrade if it isn’t. Do this on a feature by feature bases so that users gradually get better experience as they upgrade their browsers.

However, as other comments have pointed out, feature detection is not always optimal—or even possible—so a whitelist is sometimes needed. This is where YouTube fails. It wrongly doesn’t add the new Chromium based Edge browser to their whitelist. And even then the site doesn’t progressively enhance as it detects supported features.
If they don't use Linux, I wonder how long it will take them to have something productive for the average worker.

I mean, Android took a decade to be usable, was built by one of the most talented and rich company on earth. Yet it is still limited in what it allows you to do: no office suite, limited driver support, weak multi-monitor, can use few FS formats, no RAID, etc. And that is despite Android actually wrapping a Linux Kernel.

Not to mentions they'll need to get so many basic tools ported.

No matter the high competence of the Chinese tech scene, their ability to brutally push an agenda and the number they can throw at it, I can't imagine a scenario where those resources wouldn't be better spent validating and customizing an existing distro.

However, I can imagine many reasons they would choose the harder road. And as a geek, I find it sane to remind myself that technical efficiency is not the goal of all entities.
Never? Even when we've already seen it working?
Very cool! A couple questions: Is Swing supported? Also, how does this compare to javapackager which has been shipping with the JDK since 1.6 (I think).
Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O (2009, 10 years ago today)
You're not doing Scrum then. One of the few meetings that Scrum dictates is "backlog refinement" where the dev team works with the PO to get the stories into a workable state.
GDPR does make exceptions for companies with fewer than 250 employees. https://gdpr.algolia.com/gdpr-article-30#section-15

Also this kind of legal DOS is almost definitely against the spirit of the law and I’d be surprised to see any real company use significant resources to respond.
Yeah but only google is google. You are not google, your code doesn’t need to google scale and you don’t need to go to their extremes to manage dependencies. They do it because they are forced to, doesn’t mean it is right or their way is how it should work for everyone.
It's closed source, though. The whole codebase is obscure to them. Using it would be obscurity.
Google emails in Adtrader lawsuit show company didn't refund ad fraud
> Japan and Australia have essentially closed ranks with the U.S., and the Donald Trump administration is pressuring Britain, Germany and France to do the same -- reportedly going so far as to threaten to withhold important security information if they refuse.

Australia cut off Huawei first way back in 2012/2013 when they locked the company out of Australia's 5G network.

I'm no fan of Trump but I don't see how it's relevant to bring his name into this. This would have mostly likely been US policy under a democrat administration as well. Who wants to bet in 10 years we'll find leaked documents showing Apple and Samsung US lobbied the commerce department for this? Who wants to bet Intel, Microsoft and Google are about to sue because they're about to lose a few hundred million a peace?

I'm curious if we'll see a Federal Court case on this within the next three months.
Because of the long list of arguments in favor, some listed at the article you've cited, the disdain likely results more from unrelated matters including "alternative facts" than with tactical or technical considerations.
> This is silly. It is like saying that native bipedal humans do not stumble when walking.

In linguistics, there is a difference between errors and mistakes. Making an ungrammatical utterance is only an error if it's because the speaker's model of the language is wrong, i.e. because it differs from the one of a native speaker. This cannot happen to an adult speaker, except maybe in pathological cases or to children. Mistakes, however, happen all the time and to everyone.

> Still some native speakers in any language cannot understand long sentences or know how to express complex information.

That is true. I thought it was clear that I was referring to native speakers' grammar when I replied to GP's claim that Americans have worse grammar.

Not being able to understand certain sentences isn't something that only applies to "some" native speakers either:

> A man that a woman that a child that a bird that I heard saw knows loves.

Of course, a sentence like this is unacceptable[1] despite being grammatical.

> Otherwise if we go with the truism "everyone speaks their native language perfectly" we simply end up essentially saying that languages are fragmented to the level of individuals

I'm sorry to disappoint but that is the mainstream view. The language spoken by an individual is called an idiolect.

> and that some language are inherently "better" than others.

I can't follow. Why does the existence of idiolects imply that?

[1] That's the technical term for an utterance humans can't parse (except of course "manually" by analyzing it). This example demonstrates center embeddings. The brain probably fails to parse it because its stack overflows.
Thanks for the tip, I didn't know there existed a better term for this. Indeed, I always felt that "responsible" was a loaded adjective in that context.
For an easy open source example of such tooling, see Pyup.

We use it to do exactly that: pin down every dependency to an exact version, but automatically build and test with newly released versions of each one. (And then merge the upgrade, after fixing any issue.)
I think this is a good example to show people who are on the fence about postfix then. I haven't felt strongly about postfix, but this is an eye opener for me.
It's actually very distracting that most of them speak a perfect british accents. I was quite confused at the beginning whether british engineers or scientists were actually working for Russia or Ukrainian at the time.
Were we in 1819, then I would agree.

Unfortunately, we're in 2019, and it's already happened. You're stuck with homogenous forests.
So what's your solution to this issue?
Risk, not uncertainty. The long-term (or even medium-term) pricing situation for renewables is highly volatile right now. It makes investing in new nuclear extremely risky financially. What if you start building a plant now, expecting a certain energy price to pay for it over decades, and by the time you finish, solar power costs half as much as your target? That could well happen. That's how utility companies go bankrupt.
Not all are US-based. IIRC Nokia's OS was open sourced and/or spun off. Palm is Canadian.
People are perfectly capable of writing their own first party analytics framework. Or at least the part that uploads the data.
> Take the 18th Street stop. You actually can't get in or out of this station without using stairs AFAIK. There are other stations like this. Are you really using these stations if you're unable to walk a few blocks?

I'd imagine for someone in a wheelchair the stairs would present a much greater challenge than an extra four blocks. On the other hand, for someone with a prosthetic leg, climbing a set of stairs while holding a railing is probably far preferable to navigating an extra four blocks of icy sidewalks and streets.

> It's expensive in time and money to stop and start the trains. Also you need to maintain a station and employ people there.

> If you want to provide for those with physical difficulties where walking 4 blocks is an issue, you support those people directly by, say, paying for their Ubers/cabs.

Since both solutions are expensive (and the latter is exposed to exploitation), I'd like to see a cost-benefit analysis (which includes the benefits to non-disabled for having more frequent stops as well).

> People can't walk 4 blocks? Make everyone wait!

It gets paid for in time or money. Maybe it's an American thing to value money more than time? I'm not sure anyone else has to wait, though. They can always walk if it is faster.
The free tier has 500MB storage, so this gives me a chance to think about what's worth migrating and what's not.
I'm not sure how much good feedback you can get from someone who never watches you work. You can absolutely get advice from people that helps you, but is it really that much better than reading books and blogs?
https://x.company/projects/

A couple of them. In terms of economic success they only really need one every 10 years too succeed as every one of them might be worth tens to hundreds of billions.

It‘s also a great way to find out what ideas don‘t work without too much risk.
see also: https://zookeeper.apache.org/
Even paid apps are sometimes into this.

Because why settle for $0.99 when you can earn $0.99 + 0.02?

Once a company reaches a certain size all decisions are made by bean counters and for them $1.01 > $0.99 every day of the week.
Check out platohq.com

I participate as a mentor there. Good community.
Choosing the model for maintaining/enhancing your IoT project
This isn't really a 'wow, look at the crazy stuff Google needs' thing.

Any tiny open source project benefits from a reproducible build (when you come back to it months later) and also new versions (with fixed vulnerabilities, and compatibility with the new thing you're trying to do).
The Unforeseen Costs of Extraordinary Experiences (2017)
The article is fine! It's that the headline implies a different article that is frustrating. I know headline-writing and article-writing are often separate functions, but this is a headline for an entirely different article.
I don’t run nor have ever run MalwareBytes so I couldn’t comment on what’s being reported there but the site itself is one of the few of few I’d trust normally. So either the site has been hacked or MalwareBytes is reporting a false positive.

Are you connecting over HTTP or HTTPS? If the latter, have you checked who issued the SSL certificate?
Apple’s recent revenue cuts are from China. I don’t think it’s in their interest to jeopardy that. They also need China for cheap assembly labor.
It is true that people become more compassionate, but that seems like a bit of a fallacy.

-That guy is so abrupt and rude to people, I can’t stand him
-Oh but he has ADHD
-I see, then it’s ok

I don’t really see why flaws should become more acceptable if you give them a scientific sounding name. In the end life is not easy for anyone, we all need to struggle to remember everything, not lose our temper, stay positive etc. Sure it is especially hard for some people but Up to a point that is just a fact of life, it just means they need to work a bit harder.

Perhaps beyond a certain point you need to give people some slack, if they have amnesia or something, but I’m not sure it makes sense to accept that people “with ADHD” behave badly for example.
Would the macro case be addressed by also supporting a prefix keyword? The post that states macros can't work does not cover this. From what I can tell:

`foo.await!()` would just expand to `(await foo())`, and anyone could write their own `my_await!` macro that works similarly.
No, default Chrome settings.
Well, that and the fact that those two countries are dense, flat, and have decent cycling weather.
We're the inheritors of a legacy code base, part of this involved taking a strong stance to go from zero to hero in terms of testing, no minor bugs are fixed in areas of code not covered with automated testing - this has made our feature work slow right down but we are lucky to have management's support in paying this cost now rather than paying interest on it as time progresses.
Whilst their processes might be superior (although that's debatable), they very much aren't up to speed with GDPR https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-46944696 (even if the fine is small fry to them and it's financially more attractive to flaunt the rules)
Amazing job. How long did it take to make?
>> It might sound naive, but why would fetching more JS later degrade the experience? I thought that bundle splitting was an accepted good practice. For example, you have your main core bundle, then some polyfill bundles (that get downloaded if the feature detector says it is needed), and then you have separate bundles for obscure and not-that-often-used stuff that gets loaded on demand. It is a genuine question, and I would like to learn what's wrong with this approach, because that's something I work with on a day-to-day basis.

There isn’t anything wrong with this approach at all - keep doing this! It just doesn’t solve the initial load problem. This kind of code splitting _also_ happens on all google properties I am aware of. The problem here is what gets into the initial bundle, and is it enough to make the page useful. If the initial bundle isn’t enough to make the page useful, then the user has to wait for two requests to complete serially before they can perform their task.
From a question on the density of subway stops to a rant about Prop 13 in two steps. Impressive. Note to self: research the average number of hops from any topic on HN to Prop 13.
Yet you can do without almonds, pistachios, avocados, etc. and I bet no one will miss it. The only reason why people like these things is that they are cheap, available in every supermarket, and normalized as a food choice by advertising. Remove the subsidy and watch the market evaporate, because no one in the world likes avocados enough to pay $10 each.

American interests aren't created by individual preferences, but advertising from entrenched corporations that shift real interests, like having food, into more profitable interests, like buying almonds.
It's even worse: the body is actually that financial optimism has "reached levels not seen in more than 16 years”
You only have to audit the binary produced, not gcc.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/reyhan/inside-googles-i...
I feel the opposite. I always feel like having to read subtitles destroys the immersion, because I can't read the subtitles and also watch the environment and visual cues and facial expressions. If I'm reading subtitles, I might as well be reading a book because I'm not watching the show anymore.
If you can't touch the stories, you can ask whoever does to break it down. If they don't then you shouldn't ever pick it up into your sprint. If they insist and it doesn't work out then you should call out the incident in your retrospective and hopefully get everyone to agree to do things differently in the future.
If I need to run this query once in a while, is response time satisfiable? I want to see some lines right away and probably get some count of matches for few months back. I don't expect it instantly, but in timely manner.
Like I said, it was very preliminary research... I reached the bit where pypi2nix did "nix-env -if https://github.com/garbas/pypi2nix/tarball/master" and wasn't super happy about the implications of "just use master" for production readiness.

If it works, though, that's great!

The more general point though is that in my experience no tool is perfect, or completely done, or without problems. E.g. the cited https://grahamc.com/blog/nix-and-layered-docker-images suggests you need to spend some time manually thinking about how to create layers for caching? Again, very preliminary research—I know people are using it, I'm just skeptical it's a magic bullet because nothing tends to be a magic bullet.
Sure, and so does hydro and geothermal and biomass.

But people are interested in photovoltaics because they're cost-competitive (during the day at least).
TLS certificates are free now and that is unlikely ever to change again.
First installed WhatsApp in 2010. It was $2.99 on the Blackberry App Store. I remember feeling miffed because the iOS/Android version was free. Seems ridiculous now, in light of everything that happened since.
OK, if the exceptions are quite exceptional and hoping, as you note, this doesn't represent a trend, I'll keep it in consideration. Thanks for the insight.
The US doesn't really have much of a recycling problem domestically, though. We handle it fine. Lots of times that just means landfilling it, but that's actually not that terrible a solution.

The upside of throwing it back at the manufacturer is that they would be forced to consider the costs of disposal as part of their bidding for new contracts. Turns it into a market problem.

But ... the vibe I get from a lot of folks in this thread is that it's more about pinning all the blame on the wealthiest nations and assuming that the poorer nations aren't able to resist being exploited. I don't agree with that.
Banning third party tracking frameworks means banning Fabric, Facebook, Twitter and other major SDKs. I'm skeptical Apple would take such a drastic step. Taking on the responsibility of providing these functions through a first party API is also a massive undertaking, which I'm not sure Apple would agree to.
Good example, I see your point.
This gets trickier when you have a community where some people practice religion in their daily life, and some people don't, and where the interactions between the two aren't always fun. It's not that the subject needs to be totally forbidden of course, but when it's just as easy to use different metaphors, we might as well.
You seem to be implying there's some kind of cheating happening in what is ultimately a business deal. I wouldn't buy a new TV with puke and diapers unless it was my business reselling the TV and disposing of the rest.
Do we have a solution for taking care of such waste in a clean way? I saw a company that claims to convert it to fuel.
Gas is priced using software, just like hotel rooms or airline tickets. Here's a white paper download, it may explain the factors:

https://www.kalibrate.com/achieve-fuel-pricing-mastery-lp

> In our latest free e-book, you'll find out: What data you need to capture to make better decisions, How to properly gather the right information, Why competitor pricing matters
It's a better case for showing how to use .map().
whois is a public company register database, or rather who is the owner if a domain and technical contact. It gets crawled and used for marketing almost as long as it exists.

Most people buy a 'whois privacy' feature with their domain (sometimes it's free) in which case the company where you registered the domain will use their call center or similar contact information and only forward you relevant communication. To be honest I've never received anything from such a service.

Marketing companies crawl the database looking for newly created companies. Website building, SEO services, business card printing, anything a new company might need. It's not dissimilar to other company registries.

Too bad to hear you get so many calls, if you have the option pay the $5/year for the whois protection, these days it's sadly needed.
Your edge case is correct, but I think it's a useful first order approximation for an 'ELI5" type answer. What's another common situation where two things physically repel each other because of an invisible force?
My objection, which, mea culpa, I stated obliquely, is to 'cryptonector's subtext that DANE is a reasonable thing for an actual operator to pursue in 2019. We can't even generate a workable draft for how a browser would implement DANE in 2019, let alone see it implemented in a browser. Huston is probably right that the failure of this draft takes DANE off the table for another couple years† --- a couple more years in which DNSSEC can't do the one thing DNSSEC people think it's most valuable for.

How many years have to pass before we give up on this boondoggle? We're coming up, within this next 12 months, on twenty five. Do we wait for year thirty to finally, formally declare time of death? I'm fine either way. But I'd say we passed the mark where people can casually pretend that DANE is something anyone should expect to get value out of at least five years ago.

So I take umbrage at the tone of that comment above, that "it's OK that DANE adds one more CA to the mess of CAs we already have because some people will lock their sites down to DANE-only". Well, no, no they won't, because that's akin to taking your site off the Internet, and that will remain the state of play indefinitely (probably forever).

† and that assumes that after the IETF figures out how to specify stapled DANE that the major browser vendors will adopt it; the evidence points the other way.