skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it seemed as if there were mostly studies linking it to cancer etc in vitro or in rodents etc, not so much or even none in humans.

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As one reviewer put it: “The article transparently lays out not just that the EPA and IARC came to different conclusions about the genotoxicity of glyphosate-based herbicides, but how this result occurred and its impact on the overall conclusions about its carcinogenicity. The analyses contained in this article and accompanying text enhances the understanding of the state of the science of the potential carcinogenicity of glyphosate-based herbicides and gaps in understanding that future studies may help to resolve. As such, it is an important contribution to the literature”

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"Some food for thought: a short comment on Charles Benbrook´s paper “How did the US EPA and IARC reach diametrically opposed conclusions on the genotoxicity of glyphosate-based herbicides?” and its implications"

https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12302-0...

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"How did the US EPA and IARC reach diametrically opposed conclusions on the genotoxicity of glyphosate-based herbicides?"

https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12302-0...
Target the end users with cheap/free/trials to gain significant traction then make your pitch to executives. By then, you already have all the evidence you need to make the sell.
European Parliament Approves Controversial “Meme Ban”
See, this is a major flaw, because the definitions of harassment are further obfuscated. By having exceptions for bad behavior based on the self-identified identity of those involved, you are leaving open room for abuse.

This ambiguity and imbalance leads to those situations where someone can justifiably engage in meta-discussion about what these rules even mean, or how they should be applied (since it is based on subjective and improvable concepts, like social perception and ethnicity).

If a clear stand was taken on what was acceptable, it would be very difficult for trolls to stir up trouble by questioning the rules. Also, it is very self serving and convenient to simply say that anyone criticizing the rules must be a troll. Maybe they actually are pointing out legitimate flaws?

You wouldn't HAVE these problems if your rules were more clear and fair.

As for your example of "cultural appropriation", I am baffled how this would even come up in a discussion about software. So yes, if someone does make such a bizarre claim, then the onus is certainly on them to justify such claims.

And accusations of racism absolutely can be harassment. Trolls know this, and they have a good laugh at our expense. Honestly I can't think of any patterns of speech which couldn't, in some context, be harassment. So it makes no sense to write things like that off.

And what do you mean by "calling out?"
What one person calls calling out, another person calls disrupting and harassing. I think many people who criticize a CoC are themselves, in their minds, calling something out.

And who decides what is a valid "sense of safety", that so many of these rules are predicated on? Can a "majority oppressor" feel unsafe, or is it only those who have favor with the mods?

One could easily use these rules against social justice goals. The flaws and open-endedness of these rules absolutely lend themselves to consolidation of power, corruption, and community harm.
You're overthinking that.
I don't remember that part of Snow Crash. Did you mean Cryptonomicon? That book was a huge disappointment to me, so unbelievably tedious to read.
It doesn't need to have a profit motive to cost more. It's costs are what cost more.
At least one of the following would have to be true for that to follow: new people would have to move to NYC specifically for Amazon (or to fill vacancies created by people leaving other companies to work at Amazon), or otherwise-unemployed people would have to become employed because of Amazon, or the people taking Amazon jobs would have to be paid more than they otherwise would. None of these would be guaranteed, though. Unemployment in NYC is already low, and there are significant impediments to moving to NYC unrelated to hiring (high cost and limited availability of housing, for instance). It might well be that the same people would end up employed regardless, just at Amazon instead of elsewhere, and other employers would just have higher vacancy rates. These same people would then produce less total revenue for the city/state because more of the taxes they would have been paying regardless would go to subsidizing Amazon.
Thank you for the extensive write up! It sounds like a fun thing to do and I'm looking for classes in my area.
It’s a negotiating tactic.
I'm very much not a fan of using public money to build stadiums for billionaires, but the deal with Amazon is a bit different in that it would actually have positive economic impact for the eventual location.

With a stadium, you only employ a relatively small number of people during the week and off-season. Staff during games and concerts are not really earning a ton of money that will create new economic activity. With Amazon, tech workers actually increase the tax base and they're spending their money at local businesses. At least with the Virginia deal, the tax breaks don't kick in until they actual create jobs at the promised salary levels.

Now I don't really agree with giving a massive private business all of these tax breaks, they can afford to expand without them if it makes business sense. The problem is that each state is competing with each other and FOMO kicks in. Without that powerful motivation companies wouldn't pull these stunts. Although eventually they'd try to pit countries against each other (which they kind of already do).
yes, see eddiezane's comment above
Between this and the L train drama impacting Williamsburg, I wonder how much volatility the outer borough housing market can take.

Sure there has been a housing bubble there for a decade, and I'm certain there are some real estate insiders benefiting from this arbitrage, but this kind of dysfunction can't be good for the economy.
Why would they care about getting a good bargain in “COL adjusted wages”? Even in NYC there is not a currency exchange Google can go to to turn $100k Florida dollars into $200k New York dollars.
This is nonsense. I can't say that an enormous giveaway of public funds to attempt to buy jobs is categorically a bad idea in every situation, but if every one I can think of, and certainly this one, it is.

It is also amusing that you consider Amazon's assertion about the job count an iron truth of what would have happened. While Amazon does not have Foxconn's long history of scamming municipalities, there is also no reason to weight their words any higher than other companies who have played this game in the past, and the odds look significantly worse than a sure thing viewed that way.

Finally, the way you win these games is not to play, no different than the continual sports stadium scams or other "let's you and him fight" grifts.
Free H-1B Immigration Webinar Tomorrow 1pm PST- Tech and Biotech- Silicon Valley
Appreciate you keeping us honest. There are a few things I can say without making false promises.

Once we finish and rollout full VPC support we believe the absolute majority of use cases will not incur bandwidth charges since most apps run on the same DC as their DBs.

We do not plan to charge for private network / VPC traffic.

We have not yet decided to extend the free egress public network bandwidth beyond Dec-2019 and whatever happens we will provide users with time to plan for the change (say 60 days).

If we decide to not extend it, users will incur .01/GB in all DO regions which is one of the most competitive bw fees in the industry.
It’s obviously subjective. My bar for “not terrible” is basically native look or some cross platform web look that skips the widgets (better for design and consistency, worse for productivity and usability).

The horrible ones are the custom rendered not-quite-native ones that look like 90’s apps (basically nearly all Gtk, Swing apps and similar). It’s not that they can’t be nicely laid out, productive or snappy they just look horrible in terms of design and polish.
My biggest Problem with nearly every SQL client: Expandable Tree UI Components are the bane of usability. They're slow, error prone, and a million other reasons.

SequelPro is a bastion in this regard and has a simple table listing on the left side. Unfortunately, there's only one author on the project and he's pretty busy with his day job.

The screenshots of TablePlus looks tree free. I'll definitely be downloading!
This definition best matches the one I use. There's a reason both words "talent" and "skill" exist, because they're different.
Ending the Amazon Hunger Games
This will strengthen Amazon's hand in negotiations with any other region. Politicians in Virginia, Nashville, and elsewhere will say, "We don't want what happened to Long Island City to happen to us; let's capitulate more!"
Thanks for the feedback. We are working on the .com checks.
Didn't knew about porkbun. Will add an option to select registrar.
> because its transport connections are so poor.

In what sense? I used to work in LIC and it was pretty easy to get to. Lots of lines go though Queensboro Plaza.
It's not going to be free once they finish paying the army of developers each bank will have to keep on staff to manage it.
Please see my reply here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19164067
> I can see a way that the Mormon church goes down that path, but the proselytize is typically a one on one nature by going on a mission rather than billboards. It does happen I've seen Ads for the LDS Church before (you'll never see one for Mormons).

I thought the two titles (LDS and Mormon) were basically synonymous?
New York City has no current shortage of jobs or growth. Incentives aren’t needed. If they wanted to offer incentives for companies to move to Buffalo, it might be worth it. But NYC will be fine without it.
> since this point is being missed by so many people

I'm not so sure that people are actually missing this point.
thank you, looks great
I won't pretend it never happens. But you have to admit there's a contrast between abusing negative emotions (like fear, hate, anger, and distrust) and trying to connect with positive emotions (joy, interest, hope, enjoyment, etc).

If for no other reason that it is much harder to get someone to do something they wouldn't otherwise do while prodding at the positive, but almost easy while prodding the negative. The only times when I can see positive emotions being abusable is sex (as a topic) and gambling, neither of which typically apply to the area we are discussing.
Prof or hobo?
The “article” is trying to do a basic refutation of the efficient market hyppthesis (EMH), but there’s really not much meat here. In fact this looks like pretty weak content marketing in order to sell a product (and the tone is little ranty - Eugene Fama is just “someone in academia”???). The author’s argument is that the EMH doesn’t really work because we can’t assume information spreads instantly - which is true, okay sure, but that’s actually not a core claim Fama postulated in the EMH.

While we’re at it, what’s the point of quantifying your pedagogy using the mathematical formalisms if you don’t explain any of the variables? More importantly none of the conclusions are rigorously defended, which is suspect since there are half-baked attempts at quantifying the ideas. The author presents an under-specified equation and then basically sums up his argument by saying, “well this seems like a stretch, because everyone wouldn’t receive the same information and act simultaneously, right?”

But that’s not what the EMH postulates! Informational efficiency does not require simultaneity. Either the author doesn’t actually understand the EMH or isn’t attempting to refute it in good faith. Even if the model doesn’t perfectly map real world markets, it’s not so simple than you can just rhetorically debunk it like this.

I think this[1] is a much more substantive and nuanced article on the same topic. It was coauthored by Cliff Asness, who has the following qualifications:

1. He has a PhD in finance/economics from the University of Chicago. His dissertation was focused on value momentum.

2. His advisor was Eugene Fama himself. He’s famously disagreed with (or at least critiqued) his mentor’s work.

3. He founded AQR Capital Management, one of the most successful hedge funds in the world. As can be expected, he’s now a billionaire.

4. He still regularly publishes research and hosts a commentary blog in which he critiques the research of others.

Asness obviously doesn’t believe in the EMH, but his take is much more balanced than an outright refutation.

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1. https://www.aqr.com/-/media/AQR/Documents/Insights/Journal-A...
Consider that if they study the problem they may discover the problem is severe and they can't fix it. Now they have an even more serious problem: If they lie about the existence of the report, they're defrauding advertisers. If they admit the contents of the report, advertisers and users will flee.

So it's rational for them to not look in the first place. If they don't know, then they're not technically lying. This is good for them, but nobody else.
Gotta agree on don't have enough time argument. I think there are ways to manage time more effectively. There are so many distractions now-days, social media, whatsapp etc, people waste time too much. An ex-Google Tech Lead talks about this here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W_VsLXmjJU.
I don't claim to be an expert, but this random site claims that British companies have suffers 10k data breaches [0]. According to this, there have only been 91 fines. I don't see how someone can come to the conclusion that this is actually helping data be more secure.

[0] https://tech.newstatesman.com/gdpr/data-breaches-gdpr
empty promise is useless. did they sign a contract saying if they hire 1 person less than 25k and their average salary is 1 dollar less than 150k by certain time then they will refund all tax breaks? when bezos signs that contract then I would believe this.
cool, i seem to have been a generation behind on my ad blocking. thanks!
I won't argue that it's appealing but it is the norm if you live in the burbs. Not many people work right next to Penn/Grand Central/Atlantic Terminal/etc. Transferring to the subway is very common, and LIC is one of the best-connected neighborhoods by subway (NRW7EFG).
You mean like the army of developers required to run an ethereum node?
Seems like in the near future the idea of "turing test" and the one of "not fake news" will eventually coincide...
How Journalists Investigate Algorithms
It's terrifying that California legalized this in such a fashion and seems to have handed companies like Sunrun a huge victory.
Yes, but had it been published by a “bona fide filmmaker” they would have been okay.

The repercussions may be wider than anticipated or liked, but the decision to not allow them to advertise and show it because it wasn’t by an established entity seems spurious.
This is really tragic and foolish. The taxes generated will far far outweigh the tax incentives offered. The local city politicians reversed their positions because they didn't get to bring up their pet projects in the negotiation phase. There is absolutely no reason why the city couldn't use new revenue to protect low income residents from dislocation. It's not a corporate scam -- this is real economic progress for a city with a 43% poverty rate.
That was my first thought on seeing the headline as well.

However I think those buyers will still do just fine. I doubt very many people have lost money by investing in NYC real estate.
On ththe other hand why use such a broken system for something that is literally life and death? I don’t willingly use phone calls for anything important and will be happy when they’re relegated to being a goofy fun old-fashioned thing like postcards, never used for serious business.
Mastermind Behind Apple’s ‘Think Different’ and ‘Get a Mac’ Ad Campaigns Retires
Heh, it's like how automakers switched to describe any software position around crappy navigation as "self-driving car" job.
Yep.

Agree with all that, I suspect DC-NOVA will be a whole lot bigger than 25k workers now for Amazon.
> by going on a mission rather than billboards.

Two on one in mission work, and they also use billboards, TV ads, and other media extensively.

> It does happen I've seen Ads for the LDS Church before (you'll never see one for Mormons).

Presumably, this is a reference to the whole issue of the official name of the Church and the strong preference for it in media of all kinds, but ironically the the LDS official youth-oriented insipirational poster line is called “Mormonads”.

https://www.lds.org/media-library/images/categories/mormonad...
Mailform is now the fastest way to print and mail, via FedEx
I don't know if I would call it GitLab's concept. Every place I have worked at that has used github has had the idea of a Work In Progress pull request. Its a pretty natural concept for an multi-member development team. So much so that all of the places I have used it have written explicit CI checks that would check for a label on the PR or the title to be in a given format and would fail to make sure you couldn't merge the branch until WIP was removed.
Isn't it risky to promise that the app will be published in the App Store and Google Play, when that is really up to a third party to decide?
Seconded. No other aircraft I've flown in comes close, and I've flown in a lot of airplanes.

A lot of the praise for the 787 is I think the effect of a huge marketing push from Boeing.
It's not work if you enjoy it.

That's quipy but it's true. Some people enjoy burning time in front of a television, but other people have hobbies they enjoy just as much (if not more) and which can be made to break even or even generate a profit.
Where they trying to create a skeleton key?
They're not all-consuming, but they provide enough distraction that it's difficult to have long periods of focus to make things.
there are a variety of reasons a contract can be unenforceable, including notions of being 'unconscionable' or 'unfair'.
A new book argues that violence laid the foundation for virtue
Ah, so since android and ios are already provided for free, nothing changes for consumers?
I'm currently going through the beginning stages of this and I'm finding it incredibly difficult to focus and build something while also having a full time dev job that of course requires over 40hrs of work, plus time spent commuting everyday.

It's really about not being financially independent that keeps me at my job but I can't see why you'd stay at your current job if you can afford to quit and focus entirely on your new venture.

To me it doesn't feel like a healthy option to be essentially working a part time job on top of your normal job while also trying to maintain balance in your life, there simply isn't enough time for it all.

Maybe this is crazy, but it almost feels like getting fired with a severance (something most of the big companies do, but not something you'd get from a startup I'd imagine) would be a blessing in disguise because you'd have a steady stream of income for a couple months allowing you to focus 100% on getting off the ground.

Of course if it doesn't take off then you'll have egg on your face and be in a much much worse position.

edit: It looks like most people are talking about doing this to build a unicorn billion dollar business, but I'm talking just generally I guess in regards to starting a new business.
I still think the point is valid. It seems weird to pay for egress fees within the same datacenter. It is understandable for egress to the public web, but for inter-datacenter transfer, it seems less necessary.

While it is nice that egress is not being charged in 2019, I imagine that most people looking for hosted DB solutions are looking for support and cost beyond a 10 month period of time.
DigitalOcean keeps knocking it out of the park with this and other offerings. I plan on migrating to their platform at some point, but wish they offered a free/hobbyist tier (something like what is offered by Heroku) for exploring ideas before committing to that price point.
There is no innovation here because JPMorgan controls access to the network thus they centrally control the network. No problems are solved here that couldn't be solved without a blockchain.
No personal swipes in HN comments, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So few sentences to be so wrong.

First of all, these jobs were all white collar. Amazon's current new grad SDE's in NY and SF both have more than $150k in comp. New grads.

Second, the food delivery people for Amazon Fresh are employees of Amazon. The Amazon Flex drivers is what you are talking about, and there is no "mandatory" tip for that service. What you're talking about is something Instacart and DoorDash was doing. Those are entirely different companies.
At a guess:

JPMorgan is more reputable than either of those outfits

JPMorgan has existing relationships with businesses

JPMorgan understands business needs and can tailor their currency to them

JPMorgan is a bank.
Except GitLab has an open-source self-hosted option and an entire DevOps pipeline with Kubernetes integration and many more features features than GitHub. They also provided free private repos long before GitHub.
Congrats on the launch, guys. Was exciting to watch you guys grow through Startup School.
Absolutely. I was hoping for a 5-10$ offerring for my personal stuff, the only traffic I have is me but it'd be nice to not have to deal with managing my own SQL DB. Unfortunately all the major cloud providers seem to only have free/low cost plans for NoSQL databases, SQL DBs always seem to have a significant cost.
Yeah, my normal Gitlab workflow is:

1. Start a branch with a first commit
2. Open a PR and write details / background
3. Mark WIP
4. Eventually remove WIP and add someone as reviewer.

Glad to see this is available now.
Yeah. Most inverters have multiple-year warranties, and often offer extended warranties out to about 10 years for the non-micro string inverters. You should still expect a full inverter upgrade/replacement every 10 years.
I'd imagine the cutting glass part is a major draw to this hobby. That and the soldering looks like the fun part to me.
I can’t believe you have to explain to people why corporatism is a bad thing. It underlies the largest problems in this country, and we should actively be protesting it.
Which is the problem that JPM Coin is aiming to solve. For them to use a DB solution requires both parties to the transaction to be customers of JP Morgan. A block chain issued coin doesn't require that and, therefore, has some theoretical advantage. Of course it remains to be seen how true that turns out to be.

There is a DB based solution for financial transfers today in SWIFT. It has numerous flaws that a block chain based solution legitimately solves.
> What are you talking about?

Could you please edit swipes like that out of your comments here? They acidify discussion. Your comment would be fine without that bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That'd be hilarious
Issue with 1.1.1.1?
I'm experiencing an outage with the new 1.1.1.1 dns resolver. Anyone else?
Controlling a 2D Robotic Arm with Deep Reinforcement Learning
And not having a commute or the obligation to do groceries, etc. No mental fatigue, etc.
Not true*

FIDE (and anything under FIDE rules) does certify some purpose built digital recording devices, they are hilariously expensive and hilariously crap but they exist.

* https://www.monroi.com/products/personal-chess-manager.html
Indie Hackers is a good resource https://indiehackers.com

The lowest effort/highest reward ones I have seen are curated subscription email groups e.g. a vetted list of high quality freelancer jobs for freelancers.