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> The Carboniferous period for example had CO2 levels comparable to today's and an explosion of coal forming plant growth.

This is not what I read here[1].

> Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels fell during the Carboniferous Period from roughly 8 times the current level in the beginning, to a level similar to today's at the end.[14]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous
Middle mouse click the link, and the comments link, to open two new background tabs.

Continue down the front-page list (or new list), repeating the middle click pairs on any additional items that look interesting.

Then start reading the link tab (which should be "next" since it gets clicked first). When done, either close that tab and switch to the comments tab (or just switch to the comments tab) and refresh the page to bring in any new comments, and start reading through the comments.
You can use ozone generators instead of UV. There is actually a really good residential one that is self cleaning my own HVAC guy recommended.

He recommended I buy it myself on amazon and linked me to a youtube to install it: https://www.iwaveair.com/products/iwave-r

He said that his company would install it, but they'd overcharge and it is easy for anyone to install themselves. He had one in his house and told me all about it like a sales pitch. I installed one not because of the coronavirus, but because it helps with particulates in the air such as pollen and dander, which absolutely wreck me. I've only had it for a year, but it does seem to be noticeably better allergy-wise.
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This occurs frequently.

Convincing management to refactor your code is another thing entirely.
Funny, I feel like there is a healthy conservative movement in the US and you are literally surrounded by conservatives all the time. In fact I think 74 million of them voted in the last election. So please explain how being a white male makes you some kind of victimized under-class.
I do the opposite:

- I paper prototype until we have something that makes sense, fills the space our crew sees an opportunity in, and seems to do the job without needing too much work to implement. Takes about half a day to a day of "what if we did this" and "how about that" scribbling to do this if everyone's available and focused, and then we discuss what we have and whether it works for us and whether we actually have a business or not.

- Next, I spend a day or two thinking: What architecture makes the most sense? What language makes the most sense (in terms of what it can do for us and how many people know it)? What technologies will cut away the most work without requiring a lot of shoe-horning? etc.

- Next, I write the minimum within that framework to get a visual prototype that allows us to go through the various sections and see it in action.

- Next, we look at this prototype and decide how closely it matches our vision, and whether our vision needs changing.

From there, the most common changes to the actual code are tweaks to systems rather than the whole architecture, but the architecture itself makes this easy since it's designed to be modular for our particular use case.

I actually can't think of a single prototype that I've thrown away to rewrite in the last 20 years, including a complex 6-minigame educational product I brought from zero to live-and-generating-revenue in the app store in 3 months as the only developer. Clean code isn't for your clients; it's for YOU and your team. Clean architecture, code and discipline make your work go easier and faster IF you actually do it.

If you're starting with code prototypes rather than paper prototypes, you're doing it wrong and it will take you longer as a result (and you'll probably also need a rewrite).
That would be fine if we combined it with expanded rapid testing. Spit in a tube, get a pill that cures your specific virus.
It's more like a little fuzzy blob, typically with RGB sub-blobs.
My TV has Roku built-in and it’s extremely frustrating. It’s super slow, it uses some surround sound virtualization (or something) for the stereo speakers with no option to turn it off despite being terrible (you can barely hear speech, but music and effects are extremely loud), the remote has shortcut buttons for things I don’t even use (google play and sling), there’s advertisements every time I turn on my tv and on the screensaver, the TV options are inaccessible in half the apps I use, etc.

Despite how much I dislike Google, I’ve resorted to using a Chromecast because it’s quicker, less of a hassle, and gives me the option of forcing stereo audio instead of the faux surround sound. I can also use JustWatch on my phone, tap the service that a movie/show is on, and directly open the corresponding app to cast from. It’s also nice being able to type directly on my phone instead of using the Roku remote, especially since many of the available Roku apps don’t support keyboard input from the mobile Roku remote app. Finally, I like that I can cast directly from my computer as well.

I also have an Apple TV, but its touchpad remote is annoying and it provides less value for me since I’ve moved away from Macs.
Ok, but curing 1/4 of the common cold is still a big step. (Coronaviruses cause about 1/4 of "common cold" cases now.)
Can you please link me a list of cities with a better buy:rent ratio when comparing 2008-2011 SF to 2021 SF? Assuming you were to buy and rent now, since that's the conversation we're having. I have some friends who would be really interested. I just tried to find some on my own, and I could not.
Are you in the freight industry? Because drivers are exactly what is expensive and limits growth right now. there is a humongous supply of trucking jobs, and they are paying really high rates right now (up to 70-80 cents per mile)
That's a principled and consistent stand, which I applaud you for maintaining. But I don't think that majority of the working world would take such a hard-line stance against sharing any details of their personal lives.

So - we have to deal with the world we have, which is "many, if not most, workers share some degree of personal information about their lives in the workplace." That's the reality we have to deal with.
You interpreted his comment in exactly the opposite of the way it was written, as best I can tell.
I've edited my post to be a bit more neutral, would you like to respond again? Thanks.
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I wonder what the Book of Ruth is doing in here:

https://github.com/plan9foundation/plan9/commit/3e12c5d1bb89...

Edit: I guess it's the entire bible. Must have been sample text.
> Model 3 is a premium sedan ?

I'm with you. It's certainly a premium price, but (IMHO) it really shouldn't be considered "premium" on overall build quality or accoutrements.
Meta observation: OP says nothing new, but I guess that people have to (re)discover this sort of principles by themselves, no matter how many times they're told by the wise and old.

We often say that we hate reinventing the wheel. But life is actually full of reinventing-the-wheel experiences. Maybe that's the point of a life.
> One also wonders why reforming the credit bureaus is not a bipartisan priority in Washington.

It struck me how reflexively cynical I have become, that reading this question surprised me.

I hope my answer doesn't come off as snarky, but sincerely, there's a lot of good information here: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=credit+bureau+lobbyists&ia=web
Funny, I always thought it came from the word Barba (hair/beard) because they considered them uncultured and unshaven.
Blows up a smaller percentage of the time when you forget it is often worse.

How often are your APIs changing incompatibly anyway?

When they do changing the URL should dwarf next to changing the surrounding code to the new data model. If that's not the case then what was the point of the upgrade?
The word is probably borrowed into Hungarian from Slavic. We have a similar word in our language as well, but it's used as someone who doesn't understand. Also used interchangeably with Turk.
I don't see it as buried at all. Multiple studies done. All out in the open.
Bad infrastructure and not being male among reasons people give up EVs
Farmers sweep things along the field all the time. The standard farming sprinkler is supplied by pipes / hoses which are bridged above crop height between wheeled towers. As the spinkler works its way in a circle on the field around the water supply, the towers roll over a negligible amount of crop.
Like anything, information is on a spectrum, with information objectively true or false at either end, and then a range in the middle that is muddied. We could probably do something to correct the super obvious falsehoods at the extreme end of the spectrum.

However, I don’t think this will help as much as we might like. While it is easy to focus on the obvious falsehoods that some people believe, a lot of what divides us is not things that are objective facts, with one side believing truth and the other fiction.

A lot of our fundamental disagreements are about subjective values, and we distract ourselves by thinking the issue is actually about facts. If one person believes that we have a responsibility to help people who are struggling, and another person thinks that everyone is on their own and needs to deal with their own problems, we can’t reconcile that by finding out the ‘objective truth’. Core values aren’t objective facts, but they are what matter the most.
> landline electric tractor

Well, there are some robots that travel on aerial lines, typically used for cable inspection. Here's a quick search result: https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robo...
We (the D language foundation) have a bounty system.

It's not bad, however I wouldn't expect the world from it: the kind of things that get bounties put on them are often not $150 bugs - i.e. it's not always the incentive you might imagine it to be.

The bounties do however work as a statement of intent for new contributors to see what is important vs nice to have.

I also would let the bounties be set by users rather than centrally.

We also maintain a fund ourselves with enough money to fund a few things ourselves, our so-called HR fund, I recommend doing that also.
Is there a term for derived denormalized data that is stored separately for very fast retrieval (so far that’s basically the definition of “cache”) and must exist for the software to function? That last part makes it distinct from (or at least a special case of) a cache. This comes up all the time in application design. A basic example would be an activity feed in a social networking app. You probably want to show all recent events which are stored in many different tables, e.g. posts, comments, likes, friend requests, etc. but you probably also need to denormalize that data because a big SQL union or join across every table that represents an event is probably not possible to do on demand.
Subways the world over do without just fine.
Ask HN: If your bank had an API, what would you make?
I've always hated how apps like Mint and WealthFront require my plaintext username and password, so I was thinking about how those apps could be improved with by accessing my bank's API on my behalf. Unfortunately, I've never heard of a bank with an open API, but I'm curious to hear what you would make if your bank had an API.
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If you actually read the challenge there doesn't seem to be much speaking against SpaceX vs for Blue Origin

Mostly a series of points where they feel they were misevaluated.

Not sure why everyone's trying to turn this into a soap opera
I think you have a point there.
Sitting empty it's hemorrhaging cash, which isn't a great quality for investors.
Humming can help too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24780570
Bumble has a feature where you can indicate what you’re looking for, options are “something casual”, “don’t know yet”, “relationship” and “marriage”. You can also filter for this.

From experience: very few people have “something casual” set, but I know from female friends that there’s plenty of guys with “don’t know” or “relationship” set despite looking for something casual.
You understand that white people are literally pink right?

And there is an effective white guy target at many workplaces: all but one. People choose other people like themselves.

The preposterous nature of your contention is that I would be passed over for being too white? Well, I would simply take one of the many other jobs my strategic class and race positioning allows me to take.
The OP's post is true iff you limit your timeframe to near term and if you luck out and get all or most of the domain requirements in early and they don't change or one decides the complexity and labor to evolve those requirements doesn't warrant potential income it might garner.

My employer started quickly and grew exponentially ... but ... our client requirements didn't stay fixed. What were N pieces eventually had to be integrated because clients didn't wanna hear subsystem N1 works with N3 but not N5. And after around 10 years a lot of that code became debt, and the company has had to fix/remove/evolve it while it works in production for any number of reasons: it's too slow; it doesn't scale; we relied on vertical scaling and that's long dead; can't know or can't well manage capacity concerns; customer A's load breaks customer B's work; the code is so over hacked it's a big ball of mud etc.. And eventually software engineering concerns become cool again. This is a long way to say that true success inevitably brings with it the need to expand and integrate. Here maintainability is a core business strategy.

Here's something else worth remembering: the old school idea of TQA (true quality attributes) v. SQA (substitute quality attributes). Nobody (minus experts) rolls into a dealer and starts by asking the steel v. aluminum mix of the block. They don't ask how mm of coating was put on the __widget_here__ Those are SQAs. They ask about TQAs: price, quality, warranty, HP, resell value, whether it has AWS, power steering etc... but if anyone of those things breaks and the dealer has to fix it or the manufacture has to do a recall, the focus goes right back to the SQAs, the opportunity defects which allows those crappy SQAs etc.. etc.. So yes the client doesn't care what's under the hood, until one day you have to because one of the TQAs is violated. SQAs are the producers/suppliers implementation to gain the TQAs. They are separated in time --- time to when the client sees an issue --- but not in cause and effect. Software isn't magic. A lot of the SQAs eventually align with maintainability for the long haul.
> This is an HR responsibility.

No, HRs responsibility is to make sure that legal liability for unlawful discrimination does not get imposed on the company, consistent with other corporate goals.

Actually mitigating discrimination may sometimes be the mechanism for that. Helping management create a smokescreen around acts of discrimination and find pretexts to force out people likely to discredit that smokescreen are also sometimes ways HR does that.

Mistaking HR for your advocate rather than management’s is a dangerous mistake.
Lease German, Buy Japenese/Korean/Asian.

I've heard this many a time.
Many poor people have totally different experiences. My mother, for example, was only able to continue past 4th grade in India because one of her uncles supported her while making her create a budget for the entire school year down to the last pencil. This was while she helped her mom care for her 6 brothers and sisters in a house that didn't have running water or paved streets. She and my dad (who grew up not-quite-so-poor-but-still-pretty-poor) moved to the US and built up a very nice life for me and my sister.

Not that their experiences are any more representative of "poor" than what people here write about, but there are clearly different experiences and different outcomes. Again, this is not to shame anyone--but the fact that I have to caveat an accurate description of my parents' life to assuage some unknown reader's sensibility is just crazy to me.

But for the sake of argument, I'll concede everything you've described about the "poor experience" and the emotional consequences faced by this group.

Given that, does that mean that any and every discussion among the people not in that group must be couched in ways in order to not offend the sensitive group? How / where should non-deprived people
discuss the best way to play the cards they were lucky enough to be dealt?

In extremis, do we need to segregate ourselves away from the sensitive group in order to protect their delicate constitutions?

Complaining about the the "privilege" that the median HN reader/commenter is born with is like if I stumbled on to a message board for 6'8" super-athletic 18-year olds and spent all my time lecturing them about how they need to consider 5'8" kinda-athletic-once-but-now-middle-aged-me in all their discussions. Of course a programmer-centric newsboard is going to have a bunch of well-off people in it.

Now, people shouldn't be jerks--but nothing in the posted article can be construed in the least-bit mean-spirited. The goal posts seemed to have moved from "don't be a dick" to "pretend you're in a support group for X all the time". Is this where we're going?
> Are people still using lots of hand sanitizer? Why?

We're still using lots of hand sanitizer here, because the combination of masks, social distancing, and hand sanitizer seems to work. Though, we could be mistaken about the relative effectiveness/necessity of the three measures. My office building has hand sanitizer dispensers in the entryway.

Yes, it's primarily a respiratory virus, but the cost of hand sanitization is pretty low and the virus remains infectious on most surfaces for several hours. Here in Hong Kong, we're one of the most dense cities on Earth, with a lot of public transit use, so surface contamination may be more of an issue here than in other places.
China to expand weather modification program to cover 5.5M square kilometers
As someone who lives in the US, and travelled to europe, one of the toughest things was that many more places only took cash than in the states. Which meant I had to carry around a lot more cash than I was used to, knowing that as a tourist I was a target for theft (and I have been stolen from multiple times while abroad). With a credit card, if it was stolen, I could cancel it immediately, and I wouldn't be responsible for purchases the thief made with it. If cash was stolen, it would just be gone.

Also, I got a better exchange rate with my credit card than with cash from a bank or ATM.

On the other hand, I really liked that I payed for meals at the table instead of giving the card to the waiter, and that listed prices included tax.

That's not to say the US system doesn't have problems, it definetely does. But I wouldn't want a cash-only system either.
Yeah, as the proverb goes "Temporary solution last the longest".
Even Ford stopped making the Mustang sedan. There is a move to SUVs across the auto industry. I'm not sure if winning a rapidly shrinking segment is as much of an accomplishment as Tesla wants investors to believe.
Welp, it seems like this was a good year to create a CS education platform. I've always been disatisfied with boot camps, I feel that for most people online learning is a better route. You can see what I'm building on https://qvault.io
In Melbourne, we have been basically running at increasingly normal pace for about 5 or 6 months now, but most of the rest of the country has been "normal" for much longer.

In Melbourne we have had three lockdowns, the first was a couple of weeks, the second was extremely long (several months; I think it was one of the longest hard lockdowns in the world), and the third was 5 days (2 of which were over a weekend).

Importantly, the second lockdown was due to what seems to have been preventable problems, including a significant delay before enacting the lockdown itself; by the time we did it, the virus had taken a firm hold across the whole city (Melbourne's population is a bit over 5 million). If we had locked down a few weeks earlier, the duration of lockdown would have been much lower (easy to say in hindsight).

That said, the rest of the county didn't suffer the same fate as Melbourne, and they only had to endure a few weeks of lockdowns at worst. I don't know the specifics from other states because I live in Melbourne.

I think this parallels most of the rest of the world: had everyone agreed to one or two really good, solid, early lockdowns, much of the pandemic could have been avoided. The countries that did this - NZ, most of Australia and I think some of SE Asia - have not suffered nearly as much as the rest of the world.

The second Melbourne lockdown was super hard on everyone, and of course we had government support in many (but not all) cases, but I still say it was totally worth it.
This is the foundation of a lot of John Rawls’ philosophy... he calls it the ‘original position’ or the ‘veil of ignorance’... the idea is to try to imagine, when thinking about social systems, that you have no idea which person you will be in that system. You might be the richest person or the poorest person, you might have your side in power or your opponents side in power.

If you had no idea who is filling what role, would you agree to the system proposed?
Yeah, I noticed recently that my headphones have two modes - sound only, where they sound great, and wireless headset mode, where the sound is awful.

However, it's only awful for music. It's fine for voice, really. I only noticed the two modes when they got stuck in headset mode after I finished a call and I was wondering why the music I put on suddenly sounded bad.

OTOH, this list has made me wonder how much of the delay I hear in video calls is due to bluetooth. Cutting 300ms of delay is much more important than improving already serviceable sound quality.
Don't count out Mercedes' ability to come up with a seemingly overly robust lineup of models that cover every conceivable variation/combination of needs for the luxury SUV consumer.

I mean sometimes I think "who the hell needs a GLB AMG??" but it's one of the few SUVs of that size that seats 7 passengers and serves a need for families in certain EU and Asia markets.

Any given Mercedes SUV may be niche luxury but they cover many many niches with their lineup.
> with repeat offences eventually resulting in expulsion

Expulsion is not really on the table, at least in the U.S.
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Not unique, but some truly terrible leaders were inspired by Marxism in the 20th century. I'm not sure what the selling point is supposed to be if the rebuttal is that bad things happen under capitalism too.
Wanna know what? Amen to that approach. Nothing like throw away papers and throw away prototypes. Nothing like getting the team on the same page --- more grounded in reality than chit chat or PPTs or bubbles and arrows --- while not under pressure to cross Ts and dot Is.
Of course. For most people, if they don't work, they can't pay for food and shelter. They will then be coercively denied those things via property law enforcement.

"Do the bidding of an employer or be forcibly denied food and shelter" sure sounds like coercion to me.
They all went through at least phase III, even Russia's Sputnik vaccine (even though they announced it as a success before they had their phase III completed).