skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is alarmist and misleading.

First: it is not true that the nitrates in green vegetables are entirely benign. All sodium nitrite potentially metabolizes to sodium nitrate; depending on what vegetables you consume and when you consume them, many have nitrate content; all nitrate you consume potentially metabolizes to N-nitroso compounds. People have claimed that other compounds in vegetables neutralize the formation of nitrosamines in the digestive tract; researchers have refuted that claim.

You knew you were in trouble when the article tried to make a clear dividing line between vegetables and meats, because it's not even surprising that vegetables can be carcinogenic. When cooked, potatoes, corn, flour, coffee, and peanuts all create significant amounts of acrylamide, which is also a known and potent carcinogen.

"Slow-cured, nitrate-free, artisan hams are one thing," says this article. What, exactly, does that mean? "Nitrate" and "slow-cured" are practically synonyms. Nitrates (the slow-acting form of curing salt) are what prevents the germination of botulism. Whether the ham cure uses "Prague Powder" curing salts or celery powder, the biological impact is the same --- but because people have been so alarmed about nitrosamines for so long, virtually everybody (falsely!) claims to sell "nitrate-free" product.

To a pretty good first approximation, everything delicious adds some additional exogenous risk of carcinogenesis. It may very well be that cured meats carry relatively more risk than other foods (it seems very unlikely that switching from store-brand bacon to artisanal ham will help you here). But this article, written by "British food writer" Bee Wilson, doesn't even include the word "milligram" --- but does think you should know that someone once found a correlation between hot dogs and brain cancer.

This is junk.
Fudge factors - lovely. As one physicist put in a public lecture, if scientists use the term "dark" then they are discussing something that they have no clue about.
So long as Russia has territory it doesn't control inside what it views to be its natural geological boundaries, there will always be Russian aggression.

Russia very much wants to "never get involved in a land war in Asia." To that end, it wants a solid mountain boundary from the Carpathians to the Tien Shan, and the Gobi desert from there to the Pacific. Until then, you can expect continued encroachments on Ukraine, the Caucuses, and steppe Central Asia, and continued buildup of its military capabilities.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5497331ae4b0148a6141b...
Not really. I meant Linus being harsh/impolite sometimes. I like Linus a lot, don't get me wrong :-)
I don't know. It is like theatres forbid moviegoers to take their own food into it, so people can only choose a limited selection from within.

I see this as more of a morale problem than a legal one. As a company advertised itself as customer obsession, this smells pretty bad.
There is no such thing as "nitrate free".
I wish we could have continued with much better relations with Russia, instead of seeing polarization escalating and going from the possibility of humanity becoming extinct within 1 hour into the possibility of becoming extinct within 20 minutes. At some point some mad person is likely going to push the button, all just because we are programmed to compete and win by all means with help of misguided philosophies.
I don't think it makes any sense to anthropomorphize ecosystems. “Better or worse off” only applies to things that have utility functions.
I'm guessing this applies to most jerky sold in stores too?
You misunderstood the intent of the parent post. It's not to illustrate which companies are partnering, but to demonstrate the type of partnering we might be likely to see. You are missing the broader commentary, and only commenting on the immaterial, specific example they provided.
>Edit: Individual books are blocked.

Vodafone?
There is no such thing as "carcinogen-free" bacon. Bacon tastes the way it does because of the carcinogen; further, the only reason it's safe to sell in packages is that it's cured with that carcinogen, without which these products are all ideal germinators for botulism.

Products that claim to be "nitrate-free" are lying. They're exploiting the native nitrite/nitrate content of (extracts of) green vegetables rather than adding nitrates directly. Your body does not care about this difference, but your psychology does.
(2014) should be added to the title
Zoom in. You can see marriages (red dots) in the middle of green clusters.

They've just done some graph layout to make it look nice.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo

Castle Bravo's yield was 15 megatons of TNT, 2.5 times the predicted 6.0 megatons, due to unforeseen additional reactions involving 7Li,[3] which led to the unexpected radioactive contamination of areas to the east of Bikini Atoll.
> Yet the most troubling examples of the exploitation of art for financial gain are perfectly legal. As Adam outlines, collectors and their agents have continually found creative ways to use their art holdings to defer paying taxes, including the establishment of private museums and foundations, storing artworks in offshore freeports where they can be exchanged without incurring customs duties or VAT, and loopholes in the tax code such as “like-kind” exchanges. Originally set up in the 1920s to aid farmers by enabling them to defer taxes on livestock trades, “like-kind exchanges” are now regularly invoked by art collectors in order to avoid paying taxes on the sale of artworks: So long as a collector uses the proceeds of the sale of one work to purchase another within 180 days, the tax obligation can be perpetually kicked down the road.

This may have been eliminated for art by the most recent US tax bill, or https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/your-money/taxes-real-est... seems to say so ("property" was changed to "real property").

The previous administration also wanted to end like-kind treatment for art https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/27/arts/design/tax-break-use... but without digging more, I assume changes proposed then didn't get enacted.
Interesting write-up. I'd love to see stats on how the new database is performing. Have they reduced it from running on 45 4xlarge instances? Do backups still take a day? Was it a good financial decision?
Simple Auth API Using Express in TypeScript, Nginx, Docker, and PostgreSQL
If it were like the defensive site in Poland, there is no reason to become alarmed. Putting aside the declared capabilities of the interceptors (let us assume they are all-powerful and always achieve 100% effectiveness against any target), you have a simple N+1 problem. For N interceptors, simply launch N+1 ballistic missiles. Offensive ballistic missiles are relatively inexpensive and Russia has a large alert force.

These ABM sites are not strategically destabilizing for this simple fact. They do not invite a first strike in the same way a fully operational SDI might have: there simply aren't enough interceptor missiles.
> There really isn't any argument for why flying cars aren't much more difficult than self driving vehicles.

On a software level Self-flying aircraft are much more simple than self-driving cars, there exist today technologies to have 100% safe self-flying vehicles similar to small electrical planes capable of 1 to 2 passengers, it's much more a regulation challenge.
I will stay away from Ukraine as an example because I am unable to judge if and to what extend the West tried to influence the situation there and if Russia's actions where at least partially reactions.
The explanation is at least slightly dishonest (hopefully not intentionally) in claiming that jurisdiction was established due to content being available in German, which makes it sound like a whacko court claiming to own a language. Reading the decision one learns that some of the volunteers involved in running PG and posting these materials were residents of Germany.
Ask HN: Why did you choose not to have children?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16510584
I have one myself, so I'm aware -- just didn't see that part of the post properly. Fixed my comment accordingly.

Anyway, the simple answer is that a full-frame mirrorless is for people who want the features you can't get in a DSLR, and also for the size and weight advantage. If you don't already have a bunch of lenses invested in some previous system, then it's pretty obvious why you'd choose a mirrorless when starting from scratch.
I hope frivolous lawsuits such as this further inspire non profits to take their hosting to decentralized providers such as zeronet and ipfs. There’s almost no need to host these projects centrally anymore, and it seems to only invite attacks such as this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6iR3Zk4oDY
Drives fine on what seem like a perfect looking place in perfect weather and perfect drivers
It doesn't seem that way to me at all. Surely, we need to optimize for population-level happiness or something like it, and it hardly seems evident that this is compatible with optimizing for identical experiences. Besides, who is to say that "professional loneliness" is worse than the "personal loneliness" that your male cohorts experience? Do women generally want to trade easy access to optimal partners to avoid the tedium of negotiating relationship ambiguity? Even if they do want that, are they taking for granted the current balance (all groups are prone to think the grass on the other side is greener, after all). Are women even worse off overall in the first world? Men are more likely to be victims of almost every kind of violence, to be falsely convicted, to die younger, to die at the workplace, to lose child custody battles, to pay more in divorces, drafted into war, etc. Are these issues overall better than the issues women have to deal with? Is it safe to assume that the epistemological institutions charged with answering these questions (the media and social sciences) are trustworthy, given that they skew hard to one side of the political spectrum?

I really don't know the answer, but I'm disappointed that these questions are so rarely broached in national debate. It seems like the epistemological institutions (universities, newsrooms, etc) responsible for addressing these questions prefer to ignore these questions and impugn the moral credentials of anyone who tries to answer them (if indeed these questions are invalid, surely an explanation would be more effective and expedient than an inquisition).
The Cuban Missile Crisis was directly precipitated by the US placing nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey and aiming them at Moscow.
Ask Stephen King if they fundamentally change the story. He's still upset about The Shining.
Yesterday's fuzzy logic is today's AI?
Who do I blame? Eight reasons we ended up in this Brexit mess
Bowel cancer is the 3rd most common cancer in the USA, and cancer is one of the largest human causes of death that is fairly hard to avoid otherwise:

https://www.verywell.com/what-is-the-most-common-cancer-in-t...

So it's not a small chance.
Hence fleets of boomers with Trident missiles.
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The difference is that I have near total control of my computer's https traffic, whereas I don't have hardy any control over Alexa's.
In international competition law, using your dominant position in market A in order to gain a dominant market position in market B is clearly illegal.
Amazon is surely committing anti competetive behaviour, however i'm not certain about them legally speaking having a "dominant market position".
Let's say lawsuits are filed, it will be moot anyhow since this type of litigation requires more time than the actual battle for the market position.
If only Russia had stayed away, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation. I’ll say this for the US, at least when they invade they admit it; thy royally fuck it up, but they admit it.
How Photographs Printed on Paper Changed 19th-Century America
We actually turned the flags off on that story at one point to allow the thread to stay on the front page. Eventually the flamewar detector demoted it; we sometimes turn that off, too, and am not sure why we didn't do it there. Still, once a story has 300+ points and 300+ comments, reposts that contain no significant new information are obviously duplicates. If we didn't moderate them that way, the front page would be mostly dupes. If you think HN gets mad about politics, imagine how mad they'd get about that.

The HN community is divided on divisive topics. It would be surprising if it weren't; any large-enough population sample is going to reflect divisions in the society at large. (Societies, actually; HN is mostly international, and the people posting here are coming from wildly different assumption sets.) People tend to underestimate how many opposing views there are and how many people in the world sincerely hold them.

Unfortunately, each side seems to think the community is dominated by their enemies and that the moderators are secretly suppressing theirs, as you can see in the subthread below. One side is sure that we're politically correct thought police; the other side that we're misogyny- and white supremacy-enablers. The irony is how united they both are in that sort of logic. None of it is related to what we actually think or do.
Ancient Thresholds: Classical Welcome Mats and Protective Medusa Mosaics
> mainly because the www.gutenberg.org site has some content in the German language.

That's an extraordinary theory of international law. By that logic Austria and Namibia also have jurisdiction.
Equality as a mathematical construct doesn't have a place in this debate; there are too many variables affecting lifestyle that are geographic, temporal, genetic and random. You'd need more than a personsworth of resources to achieve that sort of equality for every person.

Feelings and experiences are very real and can be evidence of a problem. However to act on them we need some sort of evidence that is present in the observable world, otherwise we are setting people up to give up quickly and report they feel bad rather than trying to solve their own problems.

It is a tightrope to walk, but feelings need to be treated simultaneously with respect and cynicism. Biasing the world in favour of strongly emotioned people at the expense of stoics is not an improvement.
The Plaintiff is S. Fischer Verlag, GmbH

Are they related to Springer Verlag and/or that other German publishing group whose main objective was to take collections of Wikipedia articles, verbatim, and turn them into books?
Please don't assume that everyone who disagrees with you is a gun-hating person. I own several firearms, that I use for sport and hunting. I am in favor of making it harder for people to purchase guns. Most people don't actually need firearms. Funny how humans have made it several hundreds of thousands of years without them, and have managed to protect themselves and hunt food. They are a tool, but an extremely powerful tool in the wrong hands.

Why is it that we require tens of hours of training in order to operate a car, and just a few more to drive bus loads of people, but require absolutely nothing to purchase a tool capable of inflicting just as much, if not more, damage? That's fucked up.
Is this Verlag related to the academic publisher / rent seeker, Springer Verlag?
Sony also has more compact offerings such as the alpha 6500 and the excellent RX100 in its fifth iteration. They also have a partnership with Carl Zeiss.

Medium format is quite another league, you're looking at an order of magnitude more expensive gear, mainly studio oriented.

I'm also a m43 owner.
Don't you find it strange that a nationalist like Trump would advocate for visas for high skilled foreigner which directly competes with citizens for high paying prestigious jobs? Why would a high skilled foreigner with a spouse or children want to emigrate to the US without a family visa?
I don't see why this would make anyone thinks this is illegal as it doesn't stop anyone from buying Google Home products. It isn't as though Best Buy is selling Amazon products and Apple stopped selling nest in their retail stores as well.

At this point, Alexa works nicely with my Nest thermostat. If they break that, then I will be mighty annoyed because I will have to reach into my pocket to change the temperature instead of just blurting out the desired temperature of my abode.
You might be interested in hobbes, it's free and open source, and we use it with some very large/complex data sets:

https://github.com/Morgan-Stanley/hobbes

The PL is a little different (very similar to Haskell), interoperation with C/C++ is much more direct, and it's also suitable for low-latency applications (where the boxing overhead in K would be unsuitable).
Clever Lessons from Walt Disney about Lean Management
I completely agree with you. This article is nothing but pandering for notability by publishing something that attempts to scare the reader.

I'm all for pushing O.S and Browser vendors to remove many of the trusted certs in the root store...but this is just silly and frustrating.

Articles like this make the security industry lose credibility.
The LICENSE file makes it explicit that Kactus is MIT licensed and copyright holders to at least some of the covered code include those listed. Good, that's what the license file is for when the license is MIT. It doesn't make the upstream relationship explicit though. I imagine explicit would be documenting in README or CONTRIBUTING or something like that (not at all required by the license, just informative for users and contributors).
There’s some discussion of the Botulism claim in the article. Apparently Italian ham producers dropped nitrates in 1993, and there hasn’t been a case of Botulism since. The article also mentions that Danish organic bacon is supposedly nitrate free.
This might be helpful. When I got randomly blocked for 24 hours (in the US), recently, some of the mirrors still worked. You can find them here:
https://www.gutenberg.org/MIRRORS.ALL

I’d be interested to see if they work in this case.
I'm assuming that's a firmware bug rather than some actual optical effect (the lines are parallel rather than converging toward the light source).
My comments on other threads and possibly even this won’t show up due to me being flagged for voicing the opinions in this thread. I think this is another example of the dangerous behavior of the ones holding the prevailing viewpoints in the valley.
There's an assumption that Major League Baseball cares about fair competition and integrity, but those things are much less important than you might think.

In the 1990s, a very large number of players used performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). Those who were honest and declined to use them were penalized by being less competitive (a problem any time you allow corruption - the market favors the corrupt and weeds out the honest), undoubtedly some losing their jobs and dreams.

MLB did nothing, other than to change the rules and ban the use of the drugs. The cheaters suffered no penalties and their records stand; the victims, including honest players as well as fans, no compensation or even official acknowledgement (that I know of). One of the most prominent cheaters has a job as a coach on major league teams, including as a hitting instructor for many years. Another had his jersey retired by his team and was inducted into their team Hall of Fame, and now has a job with them. (The cheaters are having a hard time getting into the national Hall of Fame, but that's due to sportswriters and others voting against them, and they are coming closer each year.)

Does MLB care if the balls are juiced, or if current players have discovered new ways to cheat?
Unlike your real processor though, you can't directly access memory or ensure its absolute location. You can make an advanced GC that is slow or a basic one that is not.
The backstory behind the data gathering to make the map is a good read. They have put a lot of effort to cleanse and understand the raw data. There are plenty of nice articles on the what and why: http://globalfishingwatch.org/explainers/data/what-does-an-a...
Meltdown exploit with 100 lines code
>Reading the decision one learns that some of the volunteers involved in running PG and posting these materials were residents of Germany.

It is only mentioned in the plaintiff's complaint though, not in the reasoning by the court.
Same here. I’d have a hard time making half as much doing anything else. If I could, I would program as a hobby instead of the other way around. I consider software development low QOL as a full time job.
Congratulations, you don't know what communism is.
A lot of it has been simplified thanks to API improvements, but simple element manipulation, event handling, etc. is just a little bit easier with it than without. The special ":hidden" selector is just one example I grabbed from opening a recent JS file (e.g., `$(selector).is(":hidden")`).
You think air bases won't be a primary target as well?
Moreover the hash algorithm doesn't matter for the root cert, because the system has a trusted copy of the certificate in its root cert store and doesn't need to check any signatures on the root itself.
Are you sure it isn't just salt that's doing that to you?

There's more nitrate in bacon than in plain pork belly to be sure, but there's actually not much of it, and the amounts you need to consume to have a vasoconstrictive effect seems high. Meanwhile: bacon (along with all cured meat and fish) is one of the very saltiest things we eat. Lots of people are salt-sensitive. This is probably what virtually all claims of "Chinese restaurant syndrome" (MSG sensitivity) turned out to be.

You should have no trouble finding pork belly. Try an experiment: just make your own bacon by filling a pan with kosher salt and pushing each side of the pork belly into it until they're all evenly and aggressively covered. Wrap the meat in plastic wrap, dump the pan, and put the meat back in it; leave it in the fridge for 3-4† days. Rinse it off and slice it. See if you get a headache from eating it.

(Home-cured bacon is good but if you don't add some of the carcinogen back to the cure, it's not safe to keep much longer than fresh meat is).

† That's a light cure, but long enough for this experiment, and if you're new to baconing and don't know what to look for, under-cured is better than over.
Case in point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjD4PHojNBU
Partially, the parent company is part of the SpringerNature joint venture.