skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually haven't seen this brought up for glyphosate but with respect to GMO crops, we've basically run an experiment where we've "autopsied" a billion livestock a year, and there was no observed increase in eg tumor rates when we transitioned from feeding them organic crops to GMO crops.

The same data probably applies to glyphosate, since the two go hand in hand (which is also why many activists get upset about glyphosate specifically, versus everything else that gets sprayed on crops, because it is associated with GMO glyphosate-resistant crops).
It's really sad that in US you have to ask for donations for your healthcare, this is absurd in a country on this level. I live in EU and I have been to US (and SFO) and I feel like live a more comfortable life here in EU. And I live in the "poorer" Slovakia (compared to west EU). I don't need to think about costs if I get sick or injured (+ I get social support in case I can't work during that time).
> Do you think SV salaries would be as high as they are if they could import any workers hassle free?

Yes, given there are many companies paying SV salaries to remote devs from all over the planet. (Off the top of my head: Buffer, HotJar, Superside, Stack Overflow)
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For a few individual, small and one-sided boards you can get surprisingly good results with just a hot plate.
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> We eventually discovered the apartment building we were living in was built in 1908. Yes, we were living in a “sick” building that was over 100 years old, and never knew. We even found photos of our former apartment in historical archives dating back to the 1920’s.

Is being just a hundred years old some kind of inherent problem? Obviously rotting is bad but they talk about discovering that it existed in 1908 like they found out that it’s a time machine, or that people didn’t take photos in the 20s. What’s the big deal about the age?
Recently, a friend came to me with a list of all the health benefits that are attributed to cannabis. I sent him back a list of all the health benefits attributed to good old ginger - and they matched almost one to one. Health claims concerning cannabis are usually just for those who want to consume a drug and feel better about themselves.
Wait, this happens in the UK too!
Agreed. It’s become a bit ridiculous when “but the game/movie/Netflix series showed that it can’t work” becomes an argument that is taken seriously.
What’s in Store for Kubernetes Operators in 2020?
Red meat and a less attractive body odour
I would recommend spending a week or two there first. I was astonished how many crazy and homeless people are on the streets and theft/crime levels (broken windows on cars is now nothing uncommon). Do you want to actually live directly in SF or somewhere in the surrounding cities?
Not really consistent with it all being illegal, is it?
Ask HN: Other than REST and GraphQL, what do you guys use?
I'm building a web app and REST and GraphQL seem to be overkill for what I want to achieve. All I want is to get data for my React front-end and do couple of HTTP POSTs.

I'm thinking of simply creating express routes (I'm using Node.js) and using JSON but it seems cumbersome. Or is that a common practice?

I'm wondering what the alternatives to REST and GraphQL are.

Curious to know what y'all use for simple web apps.
Now they'll move to another state and vote for similar progressive legislation, regulation and policy in there. Beautiful ratchet.
Why Software Testing Is So Important
I have smoked weed heavily in my late 20s, ingested many types of edibles, topicals, etc. I am certainly not as sharp as I used to be. It can cause brain damage indirectly due to changes in your cardiovascular system. It can mimic a temporary sort of vascular dementia, as well as increase your blood pressure to very unsafe levels. Weed can also reduce the amount of grey matter in your orbitofrontal cortex. Not to mention the somewhat bizarre cartoon-like images you see on high doses of edibles. These images can fracture your mind if you see them enough. The risks are very real, and trying to downplay them or censor them is extremely irresponsible.
> By definition there is a 1:1 correlation to the input

But it is still not detectable without the key.
US is not the only country in the world, and there have been studies linking teenage use to psychosis and schizophrenia
But by the time it becomes too expensive to dredge we may have majorly fucked up some ecosystems. The loss in depth of the Mekong means seawater comes in and destroys plants, and sand is also part of the natural ecosystem as described in the article.
It is highly dependent on where in the city you live. Your experience will be drastically different, but then again, so will your rent.
that makes it so much better... These scientists knew exactly what they were doing and what the fallout would be. They just chose to dump the large part on some foreign place and continue to this day to lie and deceive these peoples. not to say they were the only one. but it's sick, and that's it. nothing else to it. They should by now in 2019 know better and respond better.
> “ Settled" means that that there is a scientific consensus”

no, science is not related to consensus. If it were, then religion would be a matter pf physics.

Science is unique in that only theories which hold up to the evidence matter, regardless of how many or few people (or experts) believe them.

In ~1800, the science against creationism was just as settled as it is today, despite the prevalence of that religious view, even among scientific authority, at that time.
Very cool project! It would be neat to incorporate WiFi into the next version instead of USB. Then you could publish a mobile app to communicate with it. It would be fun to play with at parties.
https://www.gridconnect.com/products/esp8266ex-tiny-wireless... .
> Importing people with wages under €50k disincentivizes employers from paying fair wages

Why would €42k not a fair wage? Looking at INSEE data, the median salary in France is €38409, 42k-50k to write API endpoints seems fair to me, what do you think would be appropriate?
Are those issues only in the downtown area or they extend to the residential areas to the west as well?
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Great comment. Nice to see a 20 second summary of where we (humanity) is on this currently
China slammed over programme that 'appoints' men to sleep with Uighur women
American houses are made with cheap wood most of the time. Especially when you live in an older home, these are highly attractive to moulds when the building isn't maintained.
Over the last two decades, HN (and hacker culture in general) has shifted from a creator-oriented, anti-authoritarian (both left and right) culture to one supporting the establishment. I suppose that was inevitable - someone has to build the tools of surveillance capitalism at Google and Facebook.
I’ve been paranoid about how bad places in SF can be, and have had some issues with mold occasionally. I have a rent controlled apartment I’ve been in for 8 years, but I’ve done the maintenance myself to improve the place and keep health issues down, which largely boils down to making sure surfaces are sealed and cleanable:

Paint the bathroom and use a mold killing primer.

Refinished hardwood floors.

Wash walls with TSP and paint using an oil-based primer (only one room so far, this was more for lead-based paint sealing)

Keep the windows cracked often

Clean the bathroom walls with bleach often (several times a year)

Clean some other room walls with bleach occasionally (once a year)

Clean window sills a few times a year

Bought a dehumidifier (I will actually buy another soon)

I don’t pay $3k+ a month though. One of the reasons I did all that work is precisely because I have been worried about moving to a new place, spending s fortune, only to find the landlord has never maintained it or knows how terrible it is.
There are more and more studies emerging (see https://maps.org/research/ and https://hub.jhu.edu/2019/09/04/hopkins-launches-psychedelic-...). That said, Erowid, and anecdotal reports, can be very valuable as well.
Russian treatment of Chechnya is comparable.
You would hope with how hard we make it to build and rent housing that they would be.
I've worked at 3 big tech companies and 3 startups. 2 got bought out, the other is going strong. I made more money off 1 year of bonus at Google than I did with any of the successful startups. It's not because I did anything wrong (I was Eng #1 at one, First iOS Lead at another and Lead for the 3rd) It's because I was building someone else's vision for the promise that that my stock will be worth something. When a company gets bought even if you have a high % when it gets funding, it will be diluted. If the company doesn't do refreshers often enough you will be working long hours for close to free. The charming CEOs will talk about how they plan to change the world, the sleazy ones will tell you they are a sure thing (and what will you do with your millions). That makes no difference, it's just a lottery ticket. You have to decide how much of your career to put on that ticket.

Startups are a wild ride, and a thrill to join, you'll learn a lot, and have a great chance of coming out learning more than you'd learn as a entry level at a big company. Don't for a second think you have the winning lottery ticket, because if your number doesn't come up you'll left with memories and the paper it wasn't written on.

PS I'd argue if you have a group / team, build your own vision. Go big, we have enough insta-wecha-snapple sauce out there. Build something that will have real impact. And if you don't have the Team / Vision / Risk tolerance go somewhere they'll pay you what you are worth. Maybe you'll be even meet some of those you want to build a team for whats next.
I wouldn't move without visiting first, I found the place incredibly depressing.

Dire poverty, brutal injustice, and blatant dysfunction at every corner, in one of the most moneyed cities in the world. A human centipede of grift at city scale. Nice bridge tho.
> Moving to the New World is bleak, bleak stuff.

I mean... yeah? There was famine and then genocide, then slavery?
I would personally find it more likely that these tweets are part of the ramp up phase of trying to attract real followers to then spread other messages. These are the sort of tweets that I would imagine are fairly popular with a certain segment and lead to the retweets and followers that give bots more reach.

The market for cannabis is so undeveloped and unstable that it seems unlikely that such marginal market growth tactics would see as much return as they do in more established markets.
I'd say that's a business opportunity lost.
So this ends selecting for content that appeals to the people that are willing to sift through the low-quality submissions.
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JasperReports for both PDF and Excel sheets. It does everything one could ever want from a report generator, and then some. Unfortunately, it isn't exactly easy to use. It involves a great deal of XML configuration and manual, absolute positioning.

There used to be iReport for visually composing reports, which to some extent simplified report design. Be aware though, that with one of the more recent versions they've switched to an AGPL. So, you might not be able to use this if you want to keep the source code for yourself.

According to the JasperResports website, Jaspersoft Studio now is their preferred solution for visual report generation.

For just Excel sheets it's probably easier to use Apache POI, which is a robust library for generating and ingesting anything Microsoft Office.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. North America started with the deliberate genocide of its indigenous population -- who by recent estimates numbered in the millions -- continued to brutal enslavement of Africans and then proceeded to project imperial control over the rest of the hemisphere in the 19th century, then the world in the 20th century.
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You made my point. €42k may be a fair wage for writing APIs but it's in no way a skill or a salary you can claim there's a shortage on within the EU workforce like doctors for example, to justify importing external workers.

You say you have a shortage for API devs?

Then either:

1) pay more at which point you'll be flooded with aplicants and if not then you have a real claim for skill shortage with the government and can secure visas for immigrant workers or

2)train them yourself, there's plenty of motivated people of all ages willing to learn something that's in demand. Simples.

But what's that?! Investing in the workforce is too expensive for the shareholders?! Boo-hoo, my heart bleeds for the poor companies and their offshore accounts.
I used to scoff but this might be part of it. I think asking for money is considered vulgar, at least subconsciously. Tall poppy syndrome is real too.
A few things developers are waking up to...

burnout,
working evenings and weekends,
a life outside of code,
having children or families,
master in a specific field vs jack of all trades (master of none),
money is more important than free snacks,
working your butt off to watch all the credit go to the founders (as well as the money),
long term stability,
benefits and retirement is much less risky than hoping for an equity payout

I feel the startup founders should enjoy reaping what they have sown.
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I've not read Misspent Youth. It's not really a part of the following 2 books, I don't know why Wikipedia includes them as a trilogy.

Misspent Youth apparently is set 300 years before the 2 other books, and establishes the setting. The author does a great job of creating the universe in Pandora's Star so I don't think you need to read Misspent Youth.

I'd be interested to hear if you enjoyed the books. If you want, email me at the address in my profile.
I guess it's too late now, given that the advent calendar is completed, but for next year:

https://functional.christmas/rss.xml
Maybe not the best example, ginger seems legitimately medicinal to me. I've not found anything better for settling an upset stomach than real ginger (not "ginger ale" soda pop.)
> Ignoring any cost implications [...] the delay

This argument has no value in itself or it would apply equally to everyone. The only thing that gives it power is "because the Government said so" since the power is entirely on the Government's side. Any implication (cost, time, privacy) introduced by the authorities to the passenger is never considered.
I'm worried that the potential employer infects the card, uses it to take over their competitor personal computer network and appends: "Don't forget! The S in IoT stands for Security!" to all of their documents and audio files. Then the traffic lights after we colonize mars will be like "It is safe to cross. Don't forget!..." and some ATM on the moon will be like "Thanks for using the bank of the moon. Don't forget!..."
Interesting, may I ask why you are rooting for them?
That was one of the few I could do! I figured FSK would survive Class C distortion.
That quote is from the genocidal racist, Winston Churchill. “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
Out of habit probably.
It's not as bad west of Twin Peaks, but there are still homeless folks living there. I'm baffled by the folks who think there aren't any homeless people out west (presumably they never go out at night). You'd be hard pressed to find any city in the Bay Area without a homeless problem.
If anyone is interested, I made a single page URL shortener some while back (technically 2 if you count the required .htaccess file).

[0] https://g.sia.nz/public-html/shortener/tree/master
I switched from Evernote to Joplin, and also sponsors the developer on GitHub. At least I'm fully in control of my data now.
> in my late 20s

> I am certainly not as sharp as I used to be

It's called turning 30 :-)
Yeah, a switching regulator is still a regulator.
Survival bias in many cases means that a building that is still standing from 1908 is better quality than many built in 2008.

Lead paint and knob and tube wiring are the most common problems you find with houses of that vintage, if they've not been updated. They are largely before asbestos, which is the massive problem with mid-century construction.
It's very expressive and pleasant (and I never used ruby), while being fast and statically typed. That's a great combination of features. If it were stable, it'd be a serious contender to Go imho.
Not really in the western neighborhoods except in a few select spots. You can live in those neighborhoods without seeing it except when you go to the grocery store, parts of Golden Gate park, or the beach
Yep, most people will move to greener pastures, when the opportunity arises. Polish people go to UK/France/Germany; People from Romania/Ukraine move to Poland, etc.
Except you can't undo git reset --hard unless of course you build a safety net. https://gist.github.com/chx/3a694c2a077451e3d446f85546bb9278
The simplest solution in my opinion would be to expand the length of the new page. Good stuff simply lives there for too short a time to gather sufficient upvotes and people rarely click through to page 2.
I had a robust discussion about this today with my dad.

He says that the carbon released from back burning is counted in carbon tallies, but that from bushfires isn’t.

I have no idea where he gets his sources from, and he generally doesn’t either. However he nailed current carbon dioxide levels (407 ppm) - sI he might know what he’s talking about. Does anyone know any more about this?
It is an unusually cheap system, and OP clearly did some thorough research on finding a really well integrated SoC that is available for super low piece part prices. I'd guess Allwinner targets that part at some ultra high volume application and some AliExpress sellers managed to capture some trays of excess parts to sell individually. I wouldn't be surprised if the unit price there is lower than what Allwinner quotes for volume.
Never having visited myself, this is what I don't get about the bay area. How is it still a functioning city? How far out do you have to live to be able to afford rent on a non-tech bro salary?
Can you blame them? Last time I checked ginger wasn't subjected to 70 years of war on drugs propaganda. Never heard of anyone thrown in jail for consuming ginger.

Maybe people want to consume a drug without being labeled and stereotyped by people who say all drugs are bad and that getting high is a sin.
Christmas Story 24 hours on TBS. Though there are plenty of other Christmas staples such as the stop motion Frosty and Rudolph films, It's a Wonderful Life, and Charlie Browns Christmas.
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That has happened several times already. The best known fork is probably Tryton, which forked during the OpenERP transition. It has seen a lot of independent development since then, also with some sort of company backing. (I evaluated it many years ago so my experience is probably no longer relevant.)
I had missed that video, it's great!
It really is a shame that it takes the deaths of hundreds to even budge the needle on getting back to being an engineering company rather than profit is #1 company and quality a distant 3rd. They should be ashamed to not have started from scratch on a new optimized plane design because they literally sell their planes for DECADES and almost have a captive market. Quarterly earnings focused governance killed those people as surely as faulty design.
Would love a real world example of this.

Building a smaller application is fine - but what does XState look like in an enterprise level context?
I hear Grozny is lovely this time of year.
But can it run doom?
Well, too late. That's already the way it works.
Of the top most popular domains, only 2 are in the EU
I think at least with regards to HN, it's that the average user is, just being honest, wealthy and from a very privileged background without too much lifetime difficulty. There's a disproportionate number of people here who can and did walk into Silicon Valley and said something along the lines of "give me 10 million dollars and I'll make a phone app", then have the free time and comfortable fall back to write a failure report about "their journey." I'm not saying that's all or even most of the people here, but it's a larger proportion compared to probably any other community on the internet.

I mention this because many of the strongest "let's decriminalize (or even legalize) all drugs" commenters have similar backgrounds. Comfy financial situation and room to experiment with the peace of mind knowing that they have people to help dust them off should they get a little sloppy with their drug use. These people can afford to take a week to enjoy an ayahuasca resort, follow it up with a beach vacation and a little MDMA, then return home to a daily bowl of weed to relax from their hard month of partying and pop a couple addies to get focused and pull an all-nighter on their new web app. They can financially and mentally afford to use drugs as mood and mental enhancers. Loads of people who aren't so comfortable use drugs to numb the rough edges of life. Having been on this site for over a decade, I've seen loads of comments that make many users here seem completely out of touch with what average people go through--many HN users on another plane of existence.

I think a considerable number of people who promote drugs everywhere have good intentions, but they don't really consider the effects for most people. The aspect of being locked up for drugs does do a lot to tarnish lives, but the mere act of having easily available mind-altering substances is also enough to ruin the lives of many.
LinkedIn reports embedded software engineer wages are a bit higher than the number Payscale gives - https://www.linkedin.com/salary/embedded-software-engineer-s... - still lower than the full stack engineer level but certainly within the same ballpark.

I suspect the number is biased to the type of website that's gathering the data. Maybe employees of higher paying companies don't report their salaries on Payscale.
We’ve done it for 50 years in Denmark, and the show doesn’t really change except for a few snippets of upcoming Disney movies at the end.
All the "SF is a dystopian nightmare" posts are referring to a few downtown neighborhoods which represent probably less than 5% of the city by land area. It's a huge problem and it sucks if you have to go to those areas regularly, but most of the city isn't like that. I live in the Inner Richmond and it's one of the nicest neighborhoods I've ever lived in (I've lived in a bunch all over). The combination of natural beauty, urban amenities, walkability, laid back vibe, etc. is amazing. There are dozens of other neighborhoods with similar qualities to choose from.
Once you embrace censorship your legitamacy is gone.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21865755
Do "vanish" and "appear" have another meaning that I'm not aware of? To me, they imply two discontinuities. But if they are our direct ancestors, they simply gradually became us. Or rather, we still are them.
Tangentially related, does the Linux spotify app provides any additional features to the web-based client?
Is your friend called "straw man", by any chance?

And hey, people feeling better about themselves is not such a bad thing, especially when the world is so full of judgemental pricks who can't seem to be able to mind their own business or keep their religious superstitions to themselves.
There have been studies linking just about any outcome to any behaviour, anyone with enough money has ever wanted.