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I'm not coming from a basis in tech, but rather physics. I have a strong background in elecromagnetic theory and physical chemistry. What, may I ask, is the physical basis for the claim that cell phone radiation causes _______ in biological systems?

For the most part biology is applied chemistry of organic molecules. Due to something called the photoelectric effect, the thing for which Einstein won the Nobel prize (not relativity) and gave birth to quantum theory, we know that EM radiation below a certain material-dependent threshold is incapable of causing chemical reactions. And this is a property of the frequency, not the intensity--it does not matter how bright or compact the source is, or how close you hold it to your ear! If the incoming EM radiation is below that threshold it will have zero measurable effect on chemistry, just some smaller frequency back-scattering and thermal agitation way below the noise threshold. Things above this threshold is what we call "ionizing radiation" because they create ions which affect chemical processes and is why UV light is so dangerous. Cell phone frequencies are 4-6 orders of magnitude below this threshold, depending on the band. Note also that cell phone frequencies are below the level of infrared and visible-light radiation -- all life is being constantly bathed in higher-frequency radiation than your cell phone gives off. And I remind you, it is only the frequency which matters.

And surprise, surprise, if you're not cherry picking studies[1] there is no measurable effect of cell phone radiation on biological systems. Except, perhaps, as quoted by the GP some insects and birds, which is hardly surprising and already known--these species have sensitive organs we lack that enable them to detect electromagnetic fields for navigation purposes. So a bit of a "duh" there since it is about as controversial a result as "sudden bright strobe lights on freeways at night cause traffic accidents".

The effect of EM radiation on biological systems was heavily studied long before the advent of cell phones. It was known to not cause any measurable effect in humans before mobile high-bandwidth data communications was anything more than a glint in the eye of some dreamy EE.

[1] https://xkcd.com/882/
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This is a much better piece then the @stratechery one. And my thought on @stratechery were the same as S.Sinofsky, it wasn't the integration that is the problem. It was a go to market. I think the word "go to market" is better than what I described as "vision and execution".

Had its execution been perfect, its Roadmap of better IPC, more Core, and 10nm / 7nm node, it would still have lots of room to adjust. Although I think a better execution is only just delaying the problem. Like the article have said, it really is a multiple things.

Had Intel set out to make the best SoC for Netbook.

Had Intel set out to make the best Graphics within those die
space.

This is the classic case, where Steve Jobs describe companies with a monopoly are ran by sales and marketing people.[1] And Product people ( Pat Gelsinger ) are driven out of management decision process.

I still remember in one of the video interview, Pat Gelsinger; I cant remember if it was EMC or VMware era, clearly describe how x86 would rule Sever space as long as it continue to improve and innovate. And trying create a half hearted SoC with x86 into Mobile wouldn't work. And it was all too late.
( I can no longer find that video )

And some people might think S.Sinofsky view on Intel graphics a little strange, remember Intel graphics didn't became good until Apple forces them to be better. And S.Sinofsky left M$ in 2012, the design of those Surface devices must have happened during 2010 era, and to make matter worst the graphics on Atom were generation behind what Intel had on the desktop.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AxZofbMGpM
> To make it feasible you don't need much, just journalists signing videos and uploading them somewhere besides publishing anywhere unsigned.

And in order to implement that, you'll be talking to people who'd sign a video by getting a pen, some paper, and a flatbed scanner.

I'm not entirely joking. My point is that this proves that there comes a point in every field where technical illiteracy goes from being annoying for you (you can't use the best tools anymore, and your workflow is now sub-par) to annoying for others (you can't collaborate effectively) to completely unworkable, as when your work product is now worthless because you can't demonstrate it isn't a cheap forgery. And some people are just not technical, through stubbornness or otherwise. This transition will hurt.

Maybe tools will follow the demand. I'm not entirely sanguine.
That's not a very good article on gripping and manipulation. Nature was once a serious scientific publication, not PR Newswire.

The state of the art is still bad, and it's been bad for a long time. Watch these two videos: 1960s: [1] 2012: [2] Note how little progress there has been.

Here's the actual winner of the 2018 Amazon picking challenge.[3] The system mentioned in the article did not win.

Throwing deep learning at the problem helps, but not all that much. It's amazing how hard this is.

[1] https://archive.org/details/sailfilm_pump
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeABMoYJGEU
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AljePt7Mh6U
The whole bit about jellied foods being an aristocratic affair that requires a significant kitchen staff doesn’t ring true. My family are/we’re Eastern European serfs, and have always made these dishes. It requires little more than throwing bones in a pot and leaving to simmer a while. It’s the same process as making stock or broth, just with more bones.
Will FB, Twitter, YouTube, and other social networks create tools to flag deepfakes? It wouldn't solve the problem, but at least it could blunt the spread.

It could also raise awareness of the issue, so that if people see a video that seems "too good to be true" on a different platform, they would know that it might not be real.
As someone who watches the price of bitcoin in detail every day, the price bump from today is not related to this news.

It's just usual market activity (stop hunting)
Ingrained attitudes.

Imagine your idea of a dream car is something like an Audi RS6 and that you lust after the four exhaust pipes and the noise they make.

Imagine that you have bought a few cars and worked somewhere in the auto trade for one of the big three. You would then sneer at this production volume and consider Tesla to be amateurs, nothing but a side show.

Imagine that you dropped out of doing something for society and have been rent-seeking for many years and no longer think of the collective good but just for yourself. You really would not care about the bigger ideas of moving to a carbon neutral world.

Imagine that you are baby boomer generation and simply do not think electrification of vehicles is a practical reality in your lifetime or your great grandchild's lifetime. For you the world is made of compromises and you were quite happy to gas children with lead in petrol for most of your life without questioning it.

Imagine that you gamble on the stock market or ponzi-coins and only think of opportunities to make money that way rather than creating something of value by actually investing in companies you believe in.

Imagine that you have a narcissistic personality and cannot for the life of you express an opinion that is positive about something you like. With such emotional limitations you could only criticise and point out failings.

Imagine that you work in the media and have the Western Media Mindset that is best described as passive aggressive. If you had to write stories then by definition, because you only work in the media and have never made a car or a component for a car in your life then you could only make stories about failures. Bad news sells papers, idle speculation gives likes and views that can be monetised.

There are lots of people in the world that have these traits and because Tesla are doing something a bit special it attracts them. They write nasty things and say nasty things. They also do not have anything better to do.

This is not to say that everything in Tesla world is perfect but the people with valid criticisms get drowned out by the empty vessels who are not quite empty as they are full of greed and other emotions best left in the playground.

We also live in a bubble and there are only so many places one can put one's money. Many things including everyone's houses are somewhat over-valued right now. Tesla's valuation is not over exceptional. The naysayers also lack the time to study their history and many successful manufacturers started out with massive backlogs and production difficulties. Citroen is one name that comes to mind.

I see Tesla problems as more akin to software engineering. It is easy to criticise a software product and see the many fixes that could be implemented easily but that is not how it works. This we all know on HN but pundits on the news don't.
> I think you're arguing on the side of "countries need monarchies because the people can't be trusted" and "printing presses allow seditious ideas to spread and must be outlawed or tightly controlled", but, again, I can't be certain.

Hard to imagine how you reached that conclusion from what I wrote.

I do somewhat agree that having the precedent of a prior bailout might encourage some potentially stupid behaviour that might not otherwise be considered. The alternative, however, is much worse (in my opinion). The point isn't to keep Morgan Stanley or Merrill Lynch or whoever in business, the point is to make sure that the rest of the country doesn't lose their entire life savings because of one recession. If the cost of economic stability is propping up a few rich people, it's probably worth it considering the alternative. Of course, I'm sure the anarcho-captilist blockchain experts might feel differently.
ARM supports it now, and with next to no perf cost.
Yeah, well, it doesn't matter much whether they use false information or not, as their purpose is to paint a picture they want people to see either way.
You need to develop a unique, unpredictable set of expressions that deepfake will be unable to fake.

Or perhaps active tattoos that display private key signed messages that describe what they’re saying and doing.
Sure, and people smoke week or break the speed limit despite the legality.
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> "OOP" done right

I wouldn't call the Rust semantics "OOP". But it has a pretty complete implementation of type classes, with class inheritance.
The game is called Gorogoa, feel free to google it. Clickbait titles on HN suck.
No, they are owned and operated by Motivate. Citi has, essentially, bought ad placement - similar to putting your name on a sports arena.
All these comments about how Lisp missed the boat, and you're all wrong. We missed the boat. Lisp has been going strong among it's own the whole time. It's not their fault we're all so stubborn, punishing ourselves over and over again like some sick masochists.

I got mad when I finally learned Lisp and realized how much time and effort has been wasted over the years because we're too lazy, ignorant, or foolish to use it.

(As a tangent, it's simply incredible how deliberately ignorant programmers can be. I've worked with guys getting paid to write software who didn't know who Alan Kay is, or had never heard of Prolog. What's worse is they're not ashamed of their ignorance. Can you imagine a physicist who had never heard of Newton?)

I don't use Lisp, but I have the grace to admit that that's a personal failing. (I joke that Python's only major problem is that it ruins you for other languages... I just can't quit that sweet syntax. Although Python 3 is a train wreck IMHO. Don't get me started.)

I would switch to Lisp, but I found something even better, which brings me to my actual, non-ranty, point:

There's a language even better than Lisp.

It's called Joy and it combines all the best parts of Lisp with the best parts of Forth to make an enormously simple system for describing software. It's a purely functional, stack-based, "concatinative" language that turns out to be good for "Categorical" programming: programs in Joy can be "instantiated" over different categories to generate different kinds of computations. I only have one good reference for "Categorical" programming right now: a paper and talk by Conal Elliott "Compiling to Categories" February 2017 http://conal.net/papers/compiling-to-categories/ He's working in Haskell, not Joy, but he's describing the idea: from one piece of code you can get calculations, dataflow diagrams, circuit descriptions, type signatures (inference), derivatives, etc., by implementations of the categories for each kind.
And the irony of this is that the integrated GPUs running in those Qualcomm chips are old ATi GPUs [1].

The IP was sold off directly due to the debt AMD leveraged in their purchase of ATi.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adreno
They're too busy playing catch up with deep learning rocm library.

I wish they're aren't so behind in everything I care about and give us some competition so those graphic card goes down in prices already.
It was raining in the data center
My guess is that Verizon matched the IMEI of the AirCard used on a particular IP address at a particular moment in time. Then the feds only had to scan for that IMEI within the geographic area provided by Verizon.
Here in NYC I haven't really seen any scooters ever, whereas Citibike is everywhere.
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This dissatisfaction with red lighting makes sense. When Flux turns my monitor reddish-yellow, I get sleepy. When I'm in a darkroom, I get sleepy. I wouldn't want to be sleepy in the operations room of a warship.
I'd be curious to know where you live that you have four competing bike-sharing services. That, at least, is surprising to me. Here in NYC the Citibike program has been massively successful, with bike ridership doubling almost overnight (I recommend Sadik-Khan's book STREETFIGHT where she talks about being the commissioner of the DOT and overseeing the deployment). But it was successful because it had buy-in from the local government and because NYC is such a high-density city. Statistically most trips here are under 3 miles, so bikes are a really good fit once you build out a bike network with paint and handshakes.

It's definitely true that ride-sharing apps give bikes a run for their money, but it's worth pointing out that those apps are heavily subsidized by the investors on those companies' boards. $9 rides from one end of Brooklyn to the other will not last (see, for example, surge pricing -- when prices get REAL). I think, when we think about how to scale cities up going in the future, that cars cannot be how we hedge our bets. Their impact on the environment and people's healths and the rates of manslaughter should relegate them to a secondary mode of transportation. They're great for groups and for late-night insobriety, like you point out, but they should hopefully become a utility player in the landscape of things when we picture cities in, like, the year 2050 or the year 3000.

So in many ways bikes are an investment into the future. They've paid off in many places already, and hopefully as American cities move away from the sprawl (thank you, auto lobbies, for all you've given us) to something more modern they'll only become more relevant. It's also worth pointing out, I think, that bike-sharing networks can easily sustain other types of traffic. I see hip-looking people using electric skateboards in the bike lanes all the time, and I'm sure we'll eventually find a way to co-exist with the hoverboarders and the scooters once the panic over those modes of transportation die down. I believe the market behind bike-sharing is only going to grow and there's gold there, but what do I know.

EDIT: It looks like a lot of people jumped on you since I started writing this long comment, so I feel bad for piling on. Just wanted to chime in with one success story.
Also of note, the societal backlash of replacing humans with robots has been pretty massive. So it's not just cost-effectiveness that's being balanced, but care with the workforce not to implement too many replacements too fast. The places where we've seen massive substitution are all industries where humans were in physical danger from the work being done. Risky manufacturing lines, etc.

I feel like that's starting to shift a bit where folks are realizing that more automation by robotics isn't actually reducing the potential workforce, it's just shifting it. Again though, it's up to the employers and manufacturing companies to really drive that point home.

It's an exciting time. :)
Same thing with the electric scooters in SF. I've even seen many vandalized scooters--including one that someone had lovingly taken a dump on.
> SAT scores are not generally correlated between Math and Verbal, but if you screen based off "incoming Freshman to a particular college", an inverse correlation comes up. This is because admittance is based off the sum of the scores

Your second point is correct, but your background is wrong; SAT math and verbal scores in the general population are strongly positively correlated, not uncorrelated.
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This is what strong typing is about - not having to specify the exact arbitrary machine types for a particular implementation, but using compiler checked types to enforce invariants of a design.
How about the English one, copied from [1] with an example train included:

"May I have your attention please on platform 1. We are sorry to announce that the nineteen-fourteen South West Trains service to Windsor and Eton Riverside has been cancelled. This is due to a failed train at Richmond. South West Trains apologises for the inconvenience caused."

At least some parts of that one are useful. I found hearing things like "This is a safety announcement. Due to today's inclement weather, please take extra care whilst on the station. Surfaces may be slippery." and "Security personnel tour this station 24 hours a day." very annoying.

(And I said "English" intentionally. You can at least double the length of these, Welsh first, in Wales.)

[1] http://automatedannouncements.wikia.com/wiki/Generic_Station...
The Importance of Having Your Pain Be Legible
A car parked on the street doesn't inconvenience me but a bike/scooter on the sidewalk does - every single day. I'm a cyclist myself. I do like the convenience of dockless bikes for drop offs.
I suppose GP meant not physical users, but user accounts used for isolation and compartmentalization.
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The bigger risk would be PR types where there is no court and prosecuted. For example, the Clippers were forcibly sold after the owner-Donald Sterling[0] was outed as a racist. A few fake videos like that would have high impact and wouldn’t need to go through court.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Sterling
> If militaries made more of an effort to identify targets before pulling the trigger, these types of situations could be avoided. That would actually take careful consideration and a valuation of non-combatants' lives, but hey it's more fun and easier to just blow stuff up amirite

They don't, though. This is not a problem unique to the Russian military.
They just place ads on it. Motivate runs a lot of bikes: Ford Gobike (SF), CitiBike (NYC), Biketown (Portland), Capital Bikeshare (DC), Divy (Chicago), BlueBikes (Boston), Cogo (Columbus), Nice Ride (Minneappolis),
i'm betting it is - it's a classic funnel problem, where the more friction you add to a process the more people will abandon it.