skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article mentions that Glyphosates are cancerous, but so is bacon, which people eat in large amounts. But this is only a qualitative measure. How much exposure are we getting? How much exposure gives an equivalent risk factor to eating one portion of bacon a week? Lazy comparisons like this raise a red flag for me. A scientific look at the harm caused by Glyphosates this is not.
We will gladly burn them in multiple fires, I like to eat healthy food, without influence of greedy multinationals that even impose patent suits into farmers.
The Leaning Tower of Morality
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A measure of a good politician is the ability to pass legislation, which is why Regan is regarded as an effective president regardless of what political view you had.

A balanced view of Trump's pre-election promises and his ability to deliver on them is decidedly mixed, especially on the bigger promises like health and the wall:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37982000
Caffeine is an effective pesticide, yet it is considered to be healthy too.

Despite claiming your views are not effected by all the propaganda, you are biased against herbicides in a very propaganda smelling 2 dimensional manner.
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Architectural offices that still use cad, prefer ZWCAD, that is literally a Chinese copy of Autocad (with the same UI and even Lisp scripting) that you can buy for 10% of price. AutoCAD as a software is nearly done: Autocad 2017 is just a chromy version of Autocad 2007 despite their R&D efforts.

IMHO their product is nowadays REVIT (3DMax has fierce competition and is a lost battle). REVIT is a product that is still evolving and as such harder to copy/compete.
My thoughts precisely.

Few things pisses me off as much as people saying you have to listen to science without presenting the science and in turn only use hyperbole and stupid arguments such as "Bacon causes cancer, so no worries... smoke your cigarettes"
That would actually be hilarious if a suffisent number of geeks tried to cash in the bitcoin that is dormant somewhere massively and at the exact same time.

This could well end the Ponzi scheme in a victorious way because people that mined them from almost nothing could extract a lot of real money from people (mostly speculators) who bought recently while totally tanking the valuation.

Wait... maybe that was always the plan... Is bitcoin actually a huge planned «Robin Hood» bubble?
Are you wanted by the Israeli military? And, do you actually have any evidence of "ties" beyond ridiculous conspiracy theories? Radware isn't the "Israeli Military" -- and even if they were, I'd trust them more than I'd trust, say France [1] or any EU country for that matter -- even Germany. [2]

[1] https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/12/26/french-contradictions-da...
[2] https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties/sara-bundtzen/...
Snowball effect, with a hard core of trolls and Russian influencers.
Ask HN: Is anything in HIPAA actually required?
I work with a software development shop that targets healthcare companies. I've read through various HIPAA guidelines and recommendations and it seems like a monumental amount of work to be compliant - but the company head interprets HIPAA as just recommendations and that it's all subject to interpretation, so he's "not too intimidated by it".

Am I over-reacting in expecting religious-like adherence to whats outlined in HIPAA - or is it really more just a set of recommended guidelines?
> Before that, it was even more anarchic. Before that, the internet didn't exist.

Bulk data collection and massive privacy invasions weren't a problem, that's what I'm saying.

> I don't understand the desire to argue for an internet descibed by analogy to phone or radio or somesuch

Not sure that's what I did, but I'm definitely saying that states should be able to regulate/taxate all business, and internet business can't be excluded.

> The HN-er who wants an internet rulebook, I don't get it.

Not sure what your argument is, nor what you thought my argument was. The article is about a company (in this case Google) facing legal action for doing something that was (possibly) against a law somewhere. I think it sounds completely reasonable that this is possible.
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It doesn't say Glyphosates are cancerous, it says the same international group (IARC) considers them to be cancerous, even at a higher risk level.

Also the authority and integrity of IARC is at question in this article.
Herbicides aren't intended to keep animals from eating crops. That would be an insecticide, in the case of insects. Herbicides are designed to kill plants, and Glyphosate in particular really only does that.
Picking up your example, that is exactly why ANSI C++ people want to have some kind of basic 2D support on the standard.

Yet the naysayers state that apparently we can have standard IO, filesystem and networking support, but not 2D.

The reason being that not all scenarios have graphical displays, as if all deployment scenarios always have filesystem and networking stacks.
"I don't want to over-hype it, but it felt a little like mob rule. You can still burn the witch in Europe — if the witch is called Monsanto."

The author may not want to over-hype it, but successfully did so.

Using the same argument, the FDA ban is a witch-burning mob because of its ban on sodium cyclamate, despite its approval in the vast majority of other countries and despite the continued lack of evidence that it's a carcinogen.
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Captchas are utterly beat, and more so, it's not the technology or difficulty : they are a lost cause. Pretty much any problem you might present in a captcha, machine learning performs better than humans.

So today, failure to captcha is actually an indication that the other end is human.
That's because a lot of the pilots at BA are more senior as they have been at the job for longer and don't need to retire any time. A lot of the pilots at the cheaper carriers are more junior and earlier on in their careers, mainly because the larger airlines are full and don't need to employ them. I have a friend who's a first officer at a low cost airline because he couldn't get a job flying at the majors.
Now I'm picturing an onion article about axing employees with actual axes.
Ah, I did not see that. Good to know that it is findable.
Does anyone remember when Autodesk bought SocialCam? What a bizarre acquisition that was. Although it brought us Mike Seibel who's been a great YC partner.
It is a real shame that so many people don't recognize the Milky Way, by having lived their whole lives under light-polluted skies.

But yes, even an optimally dark sky isn't that colorful to a human eye. That's because human low-light vision, provided by rod cells, is almost entirely monochromatic. A camera sensor doesn't have such limitations. You do need an exposure time of several seconds at least, but first and foremost you need to get away from light pollution. No amount of exposure time is going to help you inside a large city; the sky just comes up ugly orange-gray.

To a totally dark-adapted human eye in an optimally dark location the night sky is a sight to behold.
We're now 5+ posts down the tree and people still aren't getting the post, probably the reason it was flagged and silenced.

Currently a human is making the judgement call to ban someone, based on their feelings. They could very well be looking at misinformation, but have no way of verifying.

The address banned could be completely unrelated to this hate group, maybe the hate group doesn't even exist, this is the point the poster was making. You easily can misinform, and get someone behind a protonmail address banned.
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We need to go deeper.

Ridiculing the Flat Earth Society ridiculing conspiracy theories?

We live in an absurd time. "Post-fact", "post-irony"?

Works by Adam Curtis come to mind.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis

I think 2014-2020 is gonna be a ripe field for books, documentaries and such. Such a diverse, disorienting, chaotic yet business as usual time.

Or 2014-2024 if Trump gets his second term.
Hicrobe Hunters - Paul de Kruif
https://www.amazon.ca/Microbe-Hunters-Paul-Kruif/dp/01560277...
Do you have a link to this study?

Intuitively to me, that seems like the opposite of what you should do. If you ridicule someone, they just go deeper into their crazy group, and are exposed to even less correct information. Additionally, people who are a little ridiculed get pushed toward those who are also ridiculed for crazier ideas, because they feel accepted there.
Why not just use a rom without all the bloatware and maybe even without google services alltogether?
What’s really going on in a salary negotiation
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Likewise. The line immediately after your quote also looks interesting, though clearly not precedent-setting in and of itself:

The firm also settled out of court with a small number of British consumers.
I sincerely hope not! PCIe is the obvious choice to use in servers.
I don't think they monopolize this market. All the big industrial groups I've worked with were using CATIA
> I know others on HN feel diferently.

Remember a lot of the people on HN work at these firms, and therefore defend them. For example, I've noticed if I say anything negative about Facebook, the up/down votes on my comments swing wildly; initially starting fairly positive (say +30) then back down to slightly negative (say -2). The voting pattern is certainly intriguing and unusual. Basically, what I'm trying to say is, if you feel something about a particular tech company, HN may not always be the best place to validate that opinion as bias does exist. Stick with your gut (as you have done)!
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What clone? I was involved with Quinn on OS X back in the day until we got a C&D from The Tetris Company.
Over the last couple of years I've had to accept I can really only do one thing at a time, multi-tasking is something I simply cannot manage, I either do one thing or I get nothing done so I agree, I enjoy providing support too and I enjoy coding, but I can only do one or other at one time.
What's the copyright situation with the modules? The screenshots I've browsed seem to have images of the actual board and card art.
I did not actually know that there was a Github for this, I only had the paper.
There are other methods of coercion than courts, but I agree that the German courts are probably much safer than the American courts.

In any case, the fraudulent client update is a very hard hole to patch. The only solution for this I know of is local hosting. At the moment, defending against this in web-apps is simply not possible.
Actually they are sampling the real chips out to some developers now. However you are correct in saying that an FPGA is used to implement the Southbridge, which is mainly for practicality of getting a board out quickly, not because of awesome self-modifying hardware(!)
You can improve performance by an order of magnitude or sometimes even more.

You can't improve productivity in the same way.

For personal projects I'll rather take 10x better performance over 100% more productivity.

Why? Because my time is valuable enough to not waste it on slow software.
“There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now. … What do you mean you’ve never been to Alpha Centauri? Oh, for heaven’s sake, mankind, it’s only four light years away, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout. Energize the demolition beams.”

-Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy
Please see my other post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15814530

For future reference, since the OP is now gone, the address in question was YouWillNotReplaceUs@protonmail.com.
"Faster" is technically a comparative, not a superlative. Otherwise, sound advice.
Neither of those institutions is a private company.
You must have some dodgy hardware. This is definitely not normal, at least with HDMI.

I just tried it with the monitor right in front of me, even unplugging it from the wall didn't cause the laptop to drop the monitor like it would if I had disconnected the HDMI cable.
I stand by my statement. Payments have not gone up nearly as much as housing prices and it's due to the lower interest rates - which have mostly fallen over the last 40 years. The attitude makes me sick too. I never said it's MY attitude, just how the world works for enough people to drive the trend. I live more responsibly.
If you store your coins in an exchange you don't have control over them. People don't understand this.

Edit: And 5-8% transaction rates are absolutely insane for a payment system.
Google faces lawsuit for gathering personal data from millions of iPhone users
German intelligence services in the past just listened to all traffic at internet exchange points. No need for national security letters.
This is just a smattering of recent articles from the Journal of Computational Neuroscience, but I think something more along the lines of models like these would give us closer approximations of how neurons really behave:

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10827-017-0667-3

[2] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10827-017-0668-2

[3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10827-017-0655-7

[4] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10827-017-0646-8

[5] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10827-017-0658-4
I opened the link because I was wondering what is it talking about when KVM (the virtual machine) is more popular today than ever. :)
I'm European. From my experience, long distance driving in the US is less stressful than our side of the pond.

Wide, long & straight roads are the norm. Automatic transmission and cruise control make for comfortable long rides.

While roads there are less well maintained than in comparatively rich European countries, car suspensions are softer.
Let me refine my comment, "discovery qua social recognition of discovery" does not mean being the first to see something.

We award "discoveries" to those people who own and arrange circumstances that permit "discovery" in the narrow sense.

Which grad student had the logbook was potluck. The existence of the project, the running of the project, etc. had nothing to do with the grad. students it employed.

In the narrow sense then, the Nobel Prize is not about giving the "first human" a gold star. It is about recognizing the drivers of progress in some area. The former is accidental, the latter deliberate. In some situations, esp. in early science, these were the same people (ie. the person who put all the work into creating the project was also the first-recogniser of results).

Since the victorian era, increasingly we have to distinguish between whose ambition a project was, and whose effort saw its realization -- and which individual happen to be the first to press-play on the peak-detection software.
Thanks, that is really interesting. I hadn’t read that page, but I had disabled iMessage from the phone settings, which is how I first noticed the issue. Maybe I was not thorough enough, (it says to disable FaceTime too, which I didn’t/don’t want to disable) because it never corrected itself.
If there were no union, AA would just send around an email stating that there was an error in the scheduling software, and that everyone now needs to go in and re-do their schedule for December. Sorry to those folks who already booked vacation for Christmas week, counting on having the time off. Companies do this all the time, with zero repercussions.

Of course, that would never work if they had made an error in their purchase of jet fuel futures -- the futures market does not have a do-over function.

The union is forcing the company to be professional in its dealings with employees, in the same way that it is professional in its dealings with vendors, regulators, bankers, customers -- pretty much every other stakeholder.
There used to be a Turbo button on most PCs in the 90s which would be on by default but could be disabled to support games made for slower CPUs.
It's not a scientific article about the toxicity of glyphosate.

More a social/political article about the toxicity of legal firms (in pursuit of class action lawsuits) paying activists along with the toxicity of non-scientific alarmist public opinion.
It's not like you have a right to appear in Google's search results...

I'll rag on Google's poor support as much as the next guy, but only when it's warranted. ProtonMail and anyone else that gets delisted / what-have-you is not Google's client and shouldn't expect first-class support for things like this.
I think AA is still using SABRE internally for some components for crew scheduling; I did some SABRE work for them back in 2005/2006 as a contractor, and there were still bits and pieces of legacy code from the 90's in place when I was over there.
To be fair the overhead of virtualization was within tolerable in last ~5-7 years already. With these new additions you can finally move the extremely performance (mostly latency) sensitive use cases that was not possible to run on the top of virtualization. I think these use cases are probably less than 5% of the cloud usage. Still nice to have though.
Somewhat off-topic but I like how lowly Nassim Taleb tends to think about Nobel laureates.

“[Bitcoin] doesn’t serve any socially useful function.”
If that's what Stiglitz said word by word than he clearly lacks the ability to consider non-American perspectives.

In bubble times like this everybody talks about it, that's what's annoying me most. Everybody is eager to predict the bubble bursting. But few people put their money where there mouth is or just be honorable enough to give more precise predictions and later speak up if they predicted badly. They'd just quietly ignore they said something.

(Which is why I'm personally interested in predictions markets where you could challenge anyone to take a bet on a quantifiable outcome. But it seems they're not ready yet and probably won't be next year either...)
A bit off topic but anybody runs Firebird in prod ? What are its advantages and pain points ?
What bold claim are you referring to? Where the IARC places it on its list is a verifiable fact, and let's assume the IARC is doing a reasonable job.

It's a poison, let's be clear about that. So treat it carefully and with respect. But when you do, the end result to human life is more save than bacon.
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I take your point to be that you negotiated on your own behalf, which is great.

I think it's fair to say that very few people have the savvy to know that offer terms are negotiable, and further that very few people are employed in high-demand careers where they can negotiate their employment terms 1:1.

The companies have information asymmetry on their side, since these negotiations are performed sequentially and in private. Mathematically, the Nash Equilibrium looks very different for n sequential negotiations of "who will sign this non-compete?" vs a single all-or-nothing negotiation where the company ends up with <n|zero> employees.
As a member of that union, I certainly didn't feel like it was good. In fact, the union was fine with this, it was the people hired to work on Sundays for union pay that was not, ruining it for us in the process. And they gained nothing.
The question in the body "How do you avoid biases when taking any decisions or judgement" is easier, so I'll try to answer that one.

When about to take an important action, imagine you have to get the decision approved by someone else (could be a real person, or an imaginary one). Write a document detailing the decision to be made, the options (including not doing anything), the rationale, and finally your recommended course of action.

When you're done, imagine that person saying your analysis is insufficient to support the decision you're recommending. Why (again in your imagination) did they reach that conclusion?

The act of writing this stuff down will force your brain to slow down and put some structure around the decisions.

Also: assume anything anyone tells you is for their own benefit, and either untrue or, if technically true, misleading to the max.

Also: once you're comfortable applying this to big things, you can more easily (and maybe without paper) apply it to smaller things.
I expected better from you HN. I personally know people who work for the EU in determining whether or not pesticides are safe or not. And not a single one of the has any doubt that glyphosate is safe.

FFS people, don't say you know things you don't...
You mean violate the political stance of Google or any other arbitrary properties they got. You can go and compare search results across Duckduckgo, Bing and Google to get a full picture how much the search results are censored. When people talk about "net neutrality" I always wonder why isn't there outrage against this, because it is definitely not neutral. Same goes to many Google services, most notably Youtube.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google
That was connecting on to the previous paragraph, and contrasting with pre-authorization through a payment network -- I meant a direct transfer of currency from customer to merchant, instead of using a financial institution as an intermediary to vouch for you having money.
I wouldn’t put a democratic government on the same level of danger than profit driven mega corps. I’m pro free market, but some corps have reach state-level impact on people lives, and they remain without any kind of overview.

I also don’t want state-run web sites to try to provide alternatives to Google ( like europe tried to do 10 years ago), so i think the foundation model is the perfect structure for that. Economically responsible, but not profit driven.
Sounds perfectly normal to me. I’ve only ever seen the behavior daemin describes.
Hi Chris! But it must alleviate the routing problem within the register file no? And the scalability would be better right? I mean, you can't possibly expect to add another ALU to Boom and require 4 write & 8 read ports can you? Does AMD use 12r6w It seems there has to be a better way ;-)
The researchers found that the rationality speech and the ridiculing speech — but not the empathetic speech — were effective in reducing belief in the conspiracy theory.

http://www.psypost.org/2016/12/study-rational-arguments-ridi...

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I was wrong, BOTH rational and ridicule methods are effective. Ridicule is probably more amusing though. LOL.
For a start, yes. A proof of pricinple would be nice. Would probably look very shitty, but would use very little bandwidth.

I read about a fictional system like this in "A fire upon the deep" by Vernor Vinge a long time ago but never thought it would be feasible. There a scene of an entire room of people interacting was being deconstructed/reconstructed for a video chat using low bandwidth.
Electricity is certainly physical. It can, after all, kill you.
Who are your target customers? How many of them have you contacted? Whatever the answer, find more of them! And show them your product and ask them to pay you some money in advance to get a lifetime discount. If none bite, find out why.
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Not sure what you are talking about. What does a Swiss email service has to do with Israeli military? I like conteos as much as the other guy but these allegations are a bit far fetched say the least.
Thanks for the clarification i was not clear with my words
I use this one for my 40" 4k monitor, and it works great : https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01BSNSOPU/
Yeah, I can see how it might not work for everyone but for my needs it's pretty well suited and become part of my everyday workflow.