skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unknown.

There is an impressive-looking group of credentials behind a petition[1] to halt 5G rollouts in the EU until more research can be done. The science just isn't settled yet, partly because doing a rigorous controlled trial in real world conditions is just about impossible.

Keep in mind it's not just about cancer, it's any health effect of any kind. The nature of the shorter wavelengths of 5G means that more transmit power and/or more transmitters to cover the same area will be required, so we can't necessarily take what we know about the current bands and assume these are equally safe. Too many confounding factors.

There's an excellent writeup from Vox on the state of the science. It's a mess, to put it lightly. [2]

[1]: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B14R6QNkmaXuelFrNWRQcThNV0U...

[2]: https://www.vox.com/2018/7/16/17067214/cellphone-cancer-5g-e...
The alternative, and often simpler one, is to tie your suppliers' economies and needs to tightly that they can't afford to screw you (and vice versa of course).

For example until the tariff war China was highly dependent on US agriculture (not just buying soybeans from American farmers, but by owning the largest pork producer in the US, Smithfield farms). Well they still are, of course, but they are aggressively looking for alternate trade ties.

The US and major European economies are intermingled tightly enough that it's unlikely that there could be a war between them. The NATO umbrella discouraged them from investing themselves in war-fighting capability (costing the US a lot less than the cost of fighting another war in Europe!). To that extent NATO is a fig leaf, an important one.
Fixing a Bug in an 18 Year Old Shockwave Game
>It’s been decades since subscription revenue drove the majority of magazine and newspaper revenue

Yeah no. If you’re going to make claims like that you better source it. Source for the NY Times says the exact opposite: https://www.statista.com/statistics/192911/revenue-of-the-ne...
I don't see how criminal law will not also be activated after them if they try.
This makes me think that, besides the fact that Elon Musk seems to constantly has his foot in his mouth nowadays, this may be partly why Tesla has been getting so much negative press coverage (particularly headlines, which are usually written by editors, not the journalists who seem more objective to me). Tesla doesn't advertise. Everyone else in the industry does, bankrolling the press.

I know the press will deny this motive, but how can it not be a factor, even slightly?
Can we please customise the duration too?
He is writing about his experience working as a literal bureaucrat. Describing this as "command and control methods" misunderstands the term.
I had a contract doing a WebGL 3D space sim and graphing thing for a guy who was then going to recruit me to apply the technology for military applications. They wanted a browser-based simulator.

But he told me that the application process in order to get clearance would involve a nasty investigation questioning everyone who knew me about all kinds of personal things.

It seemed like a fun project that would pay decently, but it didn't make sense for me to subject myself to some kind of intense invasion of privacy or interrogation.

The other part of it is that the software was going to be used for warfare planning. And I consider war to be unethical profiteering.

In my opinion things like polygraphs and invasive investigations AND most things related to war and spying belong in movies rather than a sane and ethical world.
Oauth was mentioned in some of these comments. I'd add to that to use generated API keys and rate limit requests per key. Or per user.
And the U.S supports Saudi baby, 'MERICA!!
Okay, never knew. I shall have to look into that. Point the point stands, the useage does irk me, but probably more from its latter-day signal value than from any deepseated linguistic belief. I did sort of allow for that interpretatation with my paranthetical yet?.

As for the rape expression. Now that usage certainly has quite a history. I find it occasionally useful, and shall keep using it whenever it suits my fancy, currently heightened sensitivities notwithstanding.
FWIW, here is a GNU Radio based “parallel” scanner I wrote. You can listen to the entire 2m band at once.

https://github.com/madengr/ham2mon
Ντέρμπι γοήτρου και προεκτάσεων ΑΕΚ – Ολυμπιακός
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Interesting idea, but needs more work.

Scanning the list of countries: Presenting them alphabetically and vertically, instead of left-to-right, makes much easier scan-ability. Some countries were also out-of-place alphabetically, e.g. Spain.

No countries with a Friday-Saturday weekend seemed to be present, for example Bangladesh. Knowing the days of the weekend is really useful and really related to needing to know public holidays (and I imagine a pretty quick-kill as it only needs to be input once per country).

I checked public holidays for where I am currently: China. It's wrong. National week (October 1st to October 7th) is 7 days, not one day, today's the last day. But the preceding Saturday and Sunday were working days (i.e. there was a 7 day working week before the 7 day national week of holiday, displaced weekend).

This seems valuable. But only if accurate and covers everywhere. Which it isn't now.

I also have an accurate list of international holidays (including weekends) in Outlook provided by Outlook/Exchange, so where can the value be sold most? For example, I know a 5-person team in a Fortune 500 that exist solely to make sure this kind of static data is maintained correctly. Any mistake though is gonna need a very strong SLA because it will cost them millions if mistakes happen.

Also, your 'About Us' page doesn't work.
So, both the British and US governments are on the record confirming Apple and Amazon's statements. The next step should be Bloomberg's internal investigation so they can figure out how that story got published without any corroborating evidence. Supermicro's stock took a beating and now they will have a legal case against Bloomberg.
As someone who runs a business with a co-founder, we both are constantly making trade offs. How do we move quickly while remaining stable? How do increase our featureset without getting over our skis? How do we grow our business quickly, but not take on the wrong customers?

Incentives can win, and should win, on both sides of the equation at different moments in time. The most mature organizations can feel the pain from one direction or another, and adjust accordingly.
By the way, the title is wrong. The badging application itself also gets a gold badge. In addition, there are other projects that are close.
PostmarketOS is just Alpine Linux for phones. It might be worth checking out the list of devices: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
Look at the UIs on commercial microwaves, sold for restaurants. On many, the designs are what commenters here are looking for - I suppose busy restaurant kitchens don't want to bother with the nonsense either. They cost a bit though.
>From a linguist's point of view, there's no useful distinction between a dialect and a language.

I think you mean, for edge cases, there’s no useful distinction. Mutual comprehensibility is a pretty useful concept, and no one makes “Arabic is a the same language as English” their Hill-to-die-on.
what does management say? can they hire someone externally to help with the architecture?
int and float being comparable is practical, though occasionally troublesome. Complex usually doesn't compare well across types. You can use a Fraction type for 1/1. I haven't formed an opinion about that, since I don't use them often.
> Democratized online payments
> Censors Gab
Bingo. I’ll bet the new owner can run it backwards and repeat this brilliant hack.
Debugging the Postgres Planner [video]
I think we're at the point that copyright can no longer be respected, or certainly close to it.
I actually went the other way around from you.

Linux used to be terrible on laptops, but I recently bought a laptop, installed Linux (Fedora with KDE) on it, and everything just worked out of the box.

You're probabaly waiting for the "except..." - but there is no "except". Everything works the same or better. I get hours more battery life than windows after installing powerTOP, and about the same before doing that.

I ran Arch before I tried Fedora, and from that experience I found that the only way to get Enterprise WiFi is by using network-manager and nm-applet (both of which come with KDE on Fedora so I had no issues when I switched).

It's magical.
I read his article on jailbreaking the first iPhone. It was awesome.He soldered one connector on an ic and held it high, to make the jailbreak happen. A very thorough article.

Guy is awesome.
Absolutely. It would not work. See the other comment suggesting the shredded version was stored in the frame.
I don't see why it's so clear cut. The available evidence is congruent with Bloomberg's story being either true or false.
Isn't there a build of Wine made specifically for playing Overwatch? I tried it a while ago and it worked really well.
Amazon Camper Force
Ask HN: Is a roommate finding platform for leasing a good idea?
I am thinking about creating a platform that helps people find roommates in order to rent a place together and I would like to know some opinions from the HN community regarding the business model and features.

1. Do you think there is room for another player? There are a lot of platforms out there, some better than others, tho I still find it curious how some people still rely heavily on craigslist/reddit for this.
2. What are the main features that would convince you to use something like this if ever?
3. What is the business model that would attract you? Would you pay more for freemium, or a subscription-based model?

Thanks!
I think it’s tragic that so much emphasis is placed on the looks of a phone. Most people put them in cases anyway, and the only thing that really matters is the screen and physical button placement.

I always thought modern smart phones should have started as a black slab like the 2001 monoliths and just stopped there.
But it is still possible that DHS is just not aware of CIA/NSA discoveries and activities.

There were suspicious events that signal that something is up, like when Apple completely switched from Supermicro to other vendors or when they started to develop processes to prevent supply chain hardware attack around time when CIA supposedly found the bug (2015-2016).

iPhone is also switched from Qualcomm modem to US designed and fabricated by Intel.
There's still too many weasel words in the statement. They didn't confirm that the article is wrong, the said "we have no reason to doubt the statements from the companies named in the story". That could just be another way of saying "we have no reason to doubt that Apple and Amazon weren't aware of the issue." It could also just be DHS trying to cover their ass. They say that supply chain security is core to their mission, so having an article come out alleging that the most valuable company in the world and the primary supplier of government cloud infrastructure were affected by a compromised supply chain would be pretty embarrasing for DHS.
Part of it's just hipster fashion, of course.

Putting that aside, though, there may be reasons why it matters. Scaling up production while maintaining quality and consistency is actually very difficult. You simply can't stock supermarkets across the country using small-batch brewing methods, so it's inherently a sign that they've moved away from what made them good. Even if they're still much better than the "swill", they're probably no longer the best thing you could be drinking and it's time to search for a new favorite.
> I can totally believe that the magazine caved in to pressure from an advertiser to sack a journalist and pull a story.

As an example of where it has happened:

> Gerstmann revealed that his firing was in fact related to the low review score he had given to Kane & Lynch, though his explanation cited other similar events that led up to the termination, including a 7.5 (good) rating given to Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction by Aaron Thomas, then an employee under Gerstmann. Events such as these led to him being "called into a room" several times to discuss reviews posted on the site. Gerstmann went on to lay the blame on a new management team that was unable to properly handle tension between the marketing and editorial staff, laying additional blame on the marketing department, which he claimed was unprepared in how to handle publisher complaints and threats to withdraw advertising money over low review scores.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Gerstmann
Do you run a single instance Postgres or a cluster? What kind of failure modes have you tested if you’re running a cluster?
...showing just how useful "best practices" actually are.

I associate that phrase with dogmatic cargo-cult "don't think just follow" and the horrible results thereof. Lots of self-proclaimed "experts" love to say "do X and Y and Z and you will be successful because these are best practices", but it's all a bunch of snake oil.

https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2010/03/there...

http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/27

http://www.satisfice.com/presentations/nobest.pdf

"Best practices are best not practiced."
There is a setting for sleep timer, which people disable on desktops. It seems pretty ridiculous to suggest to call an api, to not randomly do things that the user didn't instruct.
Slack and use integrations to back up important stuff to say evernote.
Kubernetes Bulk Port Forwarding for Local Development
There's already loads of millimeter wavelength gear deployed : P2P links between buildings; TSA machines at airports. So..although some caution is of course appropriate, it isn't like this stuff isn't already irradiating humans widely.

Disclosure : based on my understanding of EM radiation as an EE and person who deploys microwave gear around my own house, I'm fine with anything non-ionizing. I'd like to see the general public more educated on this subject. Obfuscation is not in anyone's interest.
Switching from one vendor to another could come from any number of reasons.

Also, their work on supply-chain security is also at the same time that Apple was more publicly promoting the security of their own hardware. So those two things could be entirely co-incidental.

That said, short of a release of internal documents, I don't think anyone outside has a decent idea of what's going on.
I’ve found the quip to be the most satisfying explanation in the end.
I emailed my (Democrat) California senators on copyright extension, and they were in favor.

I don't see how it actually promotes the creation of new works, and I definitely don't think laws should have effect retroactively. (Isn't that a basic premise of the rule of law?!)

But when it has bipartisan support, I'm not sure what else to do, other than try to support more like-minded challengers when those senators are up for reelection.

If the US can't get it together, I guess "harmonization" is inevitable.
Or you can use serverless asynchronously only.

Have a low latency container based API with min replicas and auto-scale, almost like an atomic CRUD API. Move as much to async serverless which is triggered on events.
> not really all that different from many things that Dvorak has written over the years

Dvorak's writing has always been about being contrarian and kicking up controversy.
I made the switch from Windows 10 to Manjaro w/KDE about 2 months ago. Took about a week of ironing out some things and forcing myself to stick it out, but now I love it. I will also vouch for KDE being really good right now.
"Editor's note: The following story is either true or false" doesn't have a very journalistic ring to it..
You can read an article I wrote about the badging project on LWN.net: "Core Infrastructure Initiative best-practices badge"
https://lwn.net/Articles/690169/

Things have happened since then, but it's still a good overview.
hey it looks like you're #1 on the leaderboard - what are you working on? Must be interesting.
> iPhone is [sic] also switched from Qualcomm modem to US designed and fabricated by Intel.

Qualcomm is based in San Diego, CA.
While drivers may remember to "reach across your body" with opposite arm because they're in driving-mode, passengers probably won't-- from personal observation.

Specifically, this is from experience involving a passenger door opening into a curb-side bicycle lane. The door opened before the car came to a complete stop and quite a ways back from the intersection. The car was still compressing front springs from braking when passenger door opened. (Enough other posts here today described what happened next.)

Since then, I wear bold red striped shirts or jackets when riding and red helmet.

When they found "Where's Waldo" (or "Where's Wally" for those from UK), I know that they've seen me, and that's the whole point.

I've used this very successfully in my present home of Vancouver, BC. Previously, it also worked well when residing in SF and Seattle. There was a confirmed Waldo sighting near English Bay just yesterday, but now you can call me by my real name.
grow up.
That was my initial thought, too, because it would be very difficult to store the required power for a high torque shredder for that many years.

Then I realized there must have been a big ass slot in the bottom of the frame, something no art inspector would miss. If the auction house had known about it and then it really could have been done any number of ways.

It's hard to be absolutely certain given the limited photographic evidence, but I think in light of those concerns it's the most likely option.
Besides the copy and paste and search improvements many of these features are present in Windows 7. Seems each Windows release is similar to a contract where the big print gives and the fine print takes away.
At any other moment in history there might be a possibility but I strongly believe that Trump would be more than willing to announce it to the world if this is even under a bit of a doubt. Simply because we haven’t seen any tweets complaining yet I believe that no such thing happened.
Seems silly to worry about such tiny little details. We are going to get countless tons of equipment to the moon and you are worried about some debris flying around?

How just having a clean landing pad? I was going to say it's not rocket science, but it is. With gravity being significantly lower, landings will be correspondingly lower energy affairs.

Also keep in mind that without an atmosphere there will be significantly higher energy micrometeorites with significant velocities. Those are the threats you need to design around, not some shuttle landing in 1/6th gravity.
It's the worst when the automatic restarts kick in again, but you're stuck behind an update that consistently fails at the same point. Super frustrating.
I see absolutely nothing dogmatic or cargo cult about the recommendations they make. They are completely sensible, and a decent guideline for improving the technical support infrastructure of a project.

What's wrong with that? Do you have any comparable list of actionable things that projects can do to improve their services?
But I like my pink aluminum rectangle.
What are people’s thoughts on investing in supermicro. If this story turns out to be false are they undervalued at the moment?
Maybe Tesla receives negative press coverage for its poor workmanship, constant delays, near-unrepairability, bad labor conditions, union-busting, the CEO lying to investors, the CEO being unstable, precarious financial state, unfulfilled promises, reckless deadly computer-assisted driving sold as if it were self-driving, lack of independent competent management, a valuation highly dependent upon retaining a single executive, a valuation wildly overinflated by any objective measure, nonsensical acquisition of a failing home solar company run by a family member of the CEO, nonsensical and distracting forays into products unrelated to building and selling cars, it goes on...

This is not to mention the constant good press it receives.
Just an attempt to de-comiditize cloud infra .. what we need is a cloud agnostic solution built by someone other than aws/azure/goog
Exactly. Terse QSOs get vacuous real quick. Most onair behavior seems to be stuck in the 1950s. With all the spectrum at your disposal, personal apps like (if in FL) monitoring red algae distribution using 23cm-band FPV on drones would be more interesting and practical.
I managed to open and repair my phone with a $15 heat gun from Lowe's, an exacto knife and a sheet of plastic cut out of an egg carton. It's definitely doable.
> useless humans

How do you expect all 8 billion people to remain ““useful”” without artificially holding back technological advancement?
Neat project, what was your motivation for writing it?
> Supermicro's stock took a beating and now they will have a legal case against Bloomberg.

Under the First Amendment Supermicro would have to prove actual malice—that is that Bloomberg knee its reporting was false or acted with reckless disregard for the truth. That’s a very difficult standard to meet.
You know that saying controversial things about Apple has basically always been his schtick. It drives pages views when people get all upset and flood into the site to read the article so that can go back to Hacker News/SlashDot/Reddit/Digg/Fark/Facebook/Twitter/whatever to argue about it.
Thanks for that!

Here's the critical bit...

<I'm not saying this because the technology does not work. It's a bad bet because so little is known about the effects of millimeter waves (30GHz-300GHz). While these frequencies only permeate a small fraction of the human epidermis (the skin), the effect on the cornea, in particular, needs serious research.

Because the industry is too cheap to study the health effects of the technology itself, it lets this sort of product out the door despite the fact that it has already been weaponized by the military

http://web.archive.org/web/20180930061356/https://jnlwp.defe...

These frequencies are so poor at travelling long distances, they need a transmitter on nearly every telephone pole and light pole to make 5G work.>
SirCmpwn was kind of a jerk from what I remember of him in an IRC I was in... but I still liked him (not the guys who ran the channel, unfortunately). He was damn smart and I seem to have a higher tolerance for "smart but jerk" types of people (of which there are many)...

Also, do you remember me? :D
It at least looks capable of spiking back to the medium term average once the news clears: http://tools.morningstar.co.uk/uk/stockreport/default.aspx?S...
Ask HN: Wikitravel, but for law?
The group policy editor is not available in the home versions.
I bet you could register the containers as on-prem instances with the Systems Manager agent, though it's kind of a pain. It gives you a shim into IAM from non-AWS machines.

(I work at AWS SSM, but not directly on the on-prem featureset.)
you cant ever correctly show filenames to users either

If I create a file whose name consists entirely of bytes that correspond to non-printable characters, how would you display that in the language of your choice?

If I create a file whose name cannot possibly be valid UTF-8, how would you display that in the language of your choice?

Both of these things are legal to do on at least some systems. Presumably you have in mind a language which will magically handle this case with no extra effort from the programmer, though, so I'm curious to know the language and what it would do.
Any name in particular you consider impressive? I don't know anybody on that list, but see several people associated with "electrosensitivity" organizations, which I don't associate with high quality science.
> but it is not even something you are taught specifically.

I have different experiences. I failed a driving exam once when I failed to do open the door properly (eg. with left instead of right hand).
Qualcomm is also American
Because most users would never set this and thus would never update.