skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please. Don’t. Housing is terribly expensive here, and a second HQ would spike it grossly. Why not choose a place that needs the jobs and development??
Did you do anything to confirm it was EMF/Wifi?

Like moving further away because E/M strength falls off with the square of the distance.

Perhaps your laptop screen has developed a flicker, which gives you a headache from long use? Perhaps your eyesight or room lighting has changed so the contrast now strains your eyes?

Perhaps your study room now has a bunch of cars parking outside, and is filling with fumes, or there's a gas leak in your house, or a bit of heating/melting plastic somewhere releasing fumes?

Perhaps you're returning with a lot of apprehension, and getting a bunch of stress just sitting down to rejoin "work" and getting a lot of stress-related muscle / skeletal tension and gut upset? Perhaps it's a correlation - you make coffee and sit down to work, but it's the coffee you're not adjusted to anymore?

The world is an electric place - homes run mains electric cables all around, the atmosphere is filled with radio and TV and satellite transmissions, things like streetlights are quite electrically noisy, neighbours with wifi is common. A "good" signal strength might be in the region of -30 to -65dbm, or 0.000001 Watts to 0.0000000003 Watts at the receiver. Compare that one way with a 1KW electric heater - this is a lot weaker. Compare it another way to the way you can turn a radio or TV on and pick up strong signals which are always around and going through you - but I have no idea how the signal strength compares.
To me if I look at the bigger picture of what he was saying however - he was comparing it to their software division which brought in $4 billion. If you look at where that division is today it is FAR more than $4 billion and dwarfs Netflix's revenue.
"Bubble" may be wishful thinking, but can you really argue that it's not "labor mis-allocation?"

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks."

By intentionally sewing economic irrationality (ie beyond how irrational humans are already), advertising destroys societal value. Here I use "irrational" in the sense of "making self-harming economic decisions."
Lots of people want their key discipline to be the centre of the universe, you see it across designers, content creators, engineers, testers etc.. The key to any team in my experience is to have a healthy mixture of specialists (narrow scope, high resolution) and polyglots (wide scope, lower resolution), and to promote collaboration as much as possible..
There would need to be some form of accountability, and some sort of standard way of "getting people back on their feet". Neither exists, so it still doesn't make much sense for any municipality to pay into fixing people's lives in other locales.
Microsoft have shown a tendency in the past to unifying their server, workstation, desktop and even phone operating systems.

I don't know if they will keep that tendency (plus, it's more likely to lead to them sticking with Windows on servers)

However, if they do move towards Linux on servers they will naturally explore Linux for workstations too.
Tesla’s Elon Musk is raising an important question about job titles
> We don't tell people to meet us at "The intersection of Street X and Y" as much anymore, we tell them to meet us near a prominent landmark like a park, train station, or restaurant.

Citation needed. As a New Yorker, intersections of streets are how we do it all the time, when you want to meet on the street to walk somewhere together. "Meet me on 23rd and 8th."

> We barely even need street names for navigation anymore; instead, our software tells us how many blocks to walk and when to turn (even automobile GPS tells us to expect turns in the next X miles).

When streets are closely spaced, the name is absolutely necessary to know which one to turn onto -- you can pass a whole street in the time it takes the GPS to start and stop speaking and have no idea which street the "next street" refers to.

And plenty of people still walk or bike, where they check their phone only occasionally and memorize the name of the next street they need to stop at or turn on.

Sure there are new use cases, but the old ones aren't going away at all.
Because the Chinese government is pushing electric vehicles very hard. It is doing this for several reasons

1) to counter global climate change

2) to reduce local pollution

3) to reduce dependency on foreign oil

4) to establish global dominance in batteries and vehicles.

From what I have read, the experts expect that falling battery prices will lead to electric cars costing about as much as ICE ones by around 2025, and this will lead to EV sales skyrocketing and ICE sales plummeting. All the traditional manufacturers will be in deep trouble then except the ones that had decided a number of years before to focus on switching over to electrics. Unfortunately in the US the President is deeply committed to fossil fuels forever.
I can imagine MS wanting control of a Linux server edition for Azure, and Canonical looks like a good target. Not least as canonical seem to have been preparing for a sale. I suppose the real question is how they will treat desktop Linux. I can imagine they would be interested in it as a development environment for their Azure Linux, but less interested in supporting it as a competitor to Windows.
Getting rid of timezones is actually a very crazy idea: https://qntm.org/abolish.
A huge portion is just more diagnosis, like with ADHD. Our tools and individual access to healthcare are greater.
MIT Scholars Take a Rational Look at Increasingly Irrational Political Discourse
I think there is a rule against sensationalized titles.
And a magnetic switch is far too easily defeated
If beam-steering antennas are used in 5G handsets [1], the handset will beam-form a more narrow, higher ERP antenna pattern to improve transmit and receive performance if a body part gets between handset and base station. This would increase power density at the intervening tissue.

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/wireless/a-beam-...
Why would they do that? Linux desktop has no penetration into the market. It would be a big investment to capture an additional 1% market share.

I can see MS porting all their server apps(MSSQL, Exchange, etc) to run on linux since Linux is dominating the server market and it would be a significant opportunity for them.
git is a functional database, well almost. Datomic is what you get when you finish that idea. it does mostly all the same sorts of things postgres does, but like git, the strength is it has idealized caching at all layers and scales horizontally / serverless. it is also just better (do you know anyone who thinks git sucks and wants to go back to SVN or CVS?)
I disagree re: biology and chemistry. Certainly they are epistemically useful simplifications of the other pillars, but they are not foundational or fundamental.

Physics is not math because it's an empirical rather than a priori exploration. We are trying to reproduce the function governing natural laws, where in mathematics we are exploring the properties of functions. Computer science in turn is concerned with the construction of mathematical structures via algorithms, and so physics will be one such construction.

I think trying to place humanities and the arts under "knowledge" is a category error. These fields don't produce knowledge as its commonly understood, as a corpus of mind-independent facts and their relationships. Certainly facts appear in these fields, such as historical facts and authorship, but I don't think building a corpus of facts is not the main purpose.
Which Macs still have a light?
I use vimwiki, and I'm really liking the simplicity of plain text notes (markdown in my case). I've never used orgmode, but I prefer to use other tools for to-dos and calendar/organization anyways. From reading about it, I think the only feature I'd really like to have is literate programming, which looks cool. Also, the tag search appears to support expressions, which vimwiki doesn't.

One area that I'm struggling with is making my notes easily viewable, editable and searchable on mobile. Syncthing + Markor for editing takes care of the editable part, but they aren't displayed nicely or easily searchable by text or tags. Exporting to HTML would make them nicer to read, but still not searchable. App and browser based solutions are much nicer in this regard, but I'm not willing to compromise on the other great benefits of programs like vimwiki/orgmode.

If you or anyone else has experience or an opinion, I'd be glad to hear about it.
Personally I would go for a sky burial but I doubt it would scale.

Edit: to be honest, just for myself, I don't think I would want it for any loved one.
The work duties of knowledge workers today is so different from the archetypal "job" of yore that it's time to develop a new framework to think about work. A job is a repetitive task; knowledge workers today don't work jobs, they are decision factories.
No, the core Redux store does _not_ store any action history by itself. It's simply:

function createStore(reducer) {
var state
var listeners = []

function getState() { return state }

function dispatch(action) {
state = reducer(state, action)
listeners.forEach(listener => listener())
}
}

It's the Redux DevTools that do the real work of actually saving an action log, like what was described above. In fact, canceling actions does actually work by re-running the actions in the same sequence, minus the ones that are being skipped, to generate the new state.

That logic has been split out into its own package, which you can see in the https://github.com/zalmoxisus/redux-devtools-instrument repo.

Very vaguely related side note: earlier this year, I spent a couple days to add an "action stack trace" tab to the Redux DevTools Extension. When you click on an action, in addition to seeing the action contents, state tree, and diff, you can now also see an actual formatted stack trace that shows you exactly where the action was dispatched from (including the actual code if you've got sourcemaps enabled). Sadly, the extension maintainer has been MIA recently, so we're considering forking it into the Redux org. Until then, you can download my custom build of the extension here: https://github.com/zalmoxisus/redux-devtools-extension/issue...
Well, keep in mind the agency here. This isn't the city 'moving' anyone, these are people who are choosing to move themselves. I don't see why the city ought even have the responsibility to ensure they have somewhere to stay. Let them go where they want.
And we also know which wavelengths do affect the cells: the wavelengths shorter, not longer, than 200-something nanometers (i.e. < 0.2e-6 m). That is, UV light and all shorter EM, like X-rays (specifically < 0.01e-6 m). That's at least 1e13 times shorter than 5000km of 60 Hz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_germicidal_irradia...

All the living organisms get a lot of EMF of longer wavelengths: the plain, sub-UV light, for the start. Much closer to the UV (e.g. blue light ~ 0.45e-6 m).
Even if I never have children, I'd rather donate my estate to a worthy cause than spend it on cyrogenically freezing my body with the hope of eventual resurrection.
It kinda does https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_angular_momentum_of_...
This still doesn't explain why when you zoom in enough so there are no conflicts and items are sparse, every road can't be labeled somewhere along its length.
the open source version is available if you want to use it immediately. There's no team functionality, however.

I'm hoping to get a more fully-featured product out in a few months.
Counterpoint. I've been traveling to SF pretty regularly for a very long time but for whatever reasons hadn't been there for year +. Was at an event at the Moscone in July. Found the homeless situation around the Moscone, Civic Center, etc. to be pretty shockingly bad. I'm not sure how anyone could think it had improved.
There is a rule against submitters editing titles to be more sensationalist, but in this case, the submitter copied the submission's title verbatim.
Are there any limitations on how large a post can be? Could a malicious user just post giant posts to make the network suffer?
Might makes right?

We have fair elections so that the losing party can accept the results and move on.
Bus and other transit schedules already change frequently, often related to changes in demand that may also be seasonal.

I have certainly seen hours of operation signs with separate summer and other hours -- they generally also indicate when they think summer begins and ends. Even if you did change the hours twice a year, that allows you to adjust for changing demand as well -- you don't always need to keep doing what has always been done.

I personally don't think parking and lane restriction hours are that sensitive, just set them to cover the full range of high traffic times.

Most of your self setting equipment is likely not to adjust to changing dst dates when next we add more days to DST.
Alphabet removed "Don't be evil" from their code of conduct and then... Kill-bots, military AI, Chinese search engine with built in censoring and key-logging... Why not this, too?

They've cancelled many of these after backlash, but not all of them.
Depends how the encryption works - you only need to compute the cookie database key once.

Of course, regardless of what they do, you could probably just run a quick Frida (https://frida.re/) script to patch into Chrome and dump the key to disk when the decryption function is called.

From the 10 immutable laws of security:
Law #1: If a bad guy can persuade you to run his program on your computer, it's not solely your computer anymore.
Does anyone else find that it especially easy to accidentally click ads on The Guardian whilst browsing on mobile? I don't get it with other sites. If so, I wonder what they have done to make that the case?

I'm generally less annoyed by the Guardian site than many, so don't bother with 'Reader View'
> With unemployment this low there are plenty of entry level jobs people can get into in every city in the country. I live in Seattle and I see people out begging to give people entry level/beginner jobs by the light rail stations and all around the city, but homelessness is still on the rise.

If that were actually true, then there wouldn't be a homeless problem. The unemployment rate doesn't count these people. The unemployment rate only counts people who are 'actively looking' for a new job. People who aren't looking at all don't show up in the statistics.

> Bussing them elsewhere doesn't help when they still don't have a home, a bathroom/shower, clean clothes, food, etc.

Let's be careful about the conjugation of that verb. The city is not bussing them anywhere. The city is offering them free bus tickets, if they believe they will be happier elsewhere. If they want to stay, they stay. If they want to leave, they leave.

> Bussing them out is just an idea done by the rich so they don't have to see the homeless any longer.

It's really not. They're not being forced out. They're just being given free tickets if they want them.
>I only use wired technology at home.

Do you shield all the wires in your house? Any powerline ethernet adaptors will be spamming radio noise everywhere. They are a real headache for ham radio enthusiasts.

Also, don't unroll sellotape. Is a wideband source that emits from microwave RF, right through the visible spectrum, all the way up to x-rays.
I think almost everyone would agree with that from the consideration of the pinhole of their comfortable life.

The improvements in human quality of life from 1960 to 2018 are, however, at the expense of the natural world from which we came. The comforts of 2018 separate us almost entirely from the ecosystems that sustain the very basics of life. The separation and 'outsourcing' of these basics leads us to taking them for granted which lets growth and expansion happen without consideration of long-term consequences.

I think, however, by 1960 we were well on our way to how we find ourselves in 2018.

I'm not pointing my finger at you, I'm of the same opinion, I'm just using your comment to question the cost of what we have in 2018.

We've woken up to find ourselves on a train speeding towards a destination we don't want to reach, and there are lots of carriages between us and the engine (that turned into Snowpiercer, it was unintentional), but the carriage we're in is so comfortable and well-appointed that even the thought of attempting the journey towards the engine is exhausting.
The whole product includes design, UI, UX, learning, documentation and a lot more than just what any software Engineers do.
ABBYY FineReader -- I don't have the specific version in front of me unfortunately.

In addition to the structured text we're currently serving through the API, we also have 300DPI color scans and per-word coordinates and confidence scores, so there's a lot more we can do with the OCR data that isn't exposed yet.
I've worked in a hedge fund in the past, where my role sounded a lot like what the author describes as a "Data Engineer". I would have thinkers, ie people with a lot of financial experience, come up with ideas on which datasets we want to import from which vendors, and how we should handle the 80 different types of corporate actions that are contained within this dataset.

I sometimes gave my own suggestions on how to improve upon their ideas, but for the most part, I was happy to focus on implementing their ideas, in the most clean, elegant, robust and testable manner possible. I was happy to do the "plumbing" work of improving upon our tech stack and architecture, in order to make the entire system better functioning and easier to maintain.

According to the author, I'm supposed to resent the fact that I'm a "doer/plumber", and not a "thinker". In reality, it was the opposite. Do I really want to spend my entire day reading the Bloomberg manual and figuring out which tables/columns will give us the data we want, and the nuances of what this dataset does and does not cover? Sorry, I have zero interest in doing that.

I enjoy programming. I enjoy system design. I enjoy building stuff. I have zero interest in becoming an expert on how to interpret the Bloomberg symbology file. Besides, if I ever left the financial industry and joined a tech company, that knowledge will become completely useless.

Did I or anyone consider myself to be a "menial" plumber? I don't think so. I was getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, because the "thinkers" recognized the value that I brought to the table. They appreciated that I could quickly and robustly implement the ideas that they had, and keep the system running smoothly without hiccups. They recognized anyone can do a "good enough" job, but it's much much harder to find someone who can do a great job. And for my part, I was perfectly happy to be that guy.

If you're someone who wants to expand your breadth and take on more "thinker" responsibilities, more power to you. But just don't forget that there are people like me out there too. There's no shame in being an excellent "doer".
Please don't conflate a closed market with a well regulated market.
When the microphone is a passive connected to a multifunction IC there's no such power rail.
Wow. Thanks for posting this. It's a better read than anything currently on the front page of HN.
I lived through Chernobyl and I remember that radiation levels precluded robots from operating with radiowave remote controls.

What Soviet engineers did is to operate robots with high voltage high current... electrical currents through wires. Everything was pumped up, from camera output to controls. My friend also prototyped well logging equipment with PIC16xxx microcontrollers which also can be operated with (relatively) high voltage (I remember 12V) and associated high currents.

Well logging and Chernobyl disaster have one thing in common - high level of radiation.

I was reading Blindsight after I read Echopraxia and was already suspicious about author (heck, vampires in E. have contradictory abilities - small musculature and high power, for one example). But when I read about "aperture leackage" I bursted out laughing and threw (PDF copy of) the book to the farthest corner of my room. Engineers from end of 21st century completely forget about experience from the end of 20th century. Nevermind relative cost of high-voltage high-current wires versus optical links.

I divide fiction authors as being smart and being smartass (pretending to be smart with various things that look smart and hoping that he will cover things up somehow). Watts is a smartass by my classification as he thinks he can throw so many "ideas" there that reader will be overwhelmed and won't be able to find about true nature of his work.

So I will not hold my breath that Watts will improve.

Yet I found some concepts from Echopraxia interesting. For example, depth of planning - how intelligence services are planning, how higher intellects would plan. Echopraxia also made me thinking how and where Watts was (in fiction) or will be (in prediction) wrong and why. It raised my interest to long forgotten Noon series by Strugatskie brothers which serve as counterexample to what Watts have in mind.

To conclude, Watt's work is conceptually very good science fiction that is very badly executed. This is so because it provokes thinking and argumentation (the sign of good literature) but is also so wrong in details (the sign of bad literature).

Okay, I have to stop. Otherwise you will read a complete theory of everything by Serguey Zefirov soon. ;)
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A bit more context can be found here:

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/headface
Thanks for the additional interpretation.

Chrome is encrypting the cookies at rest so there is some protection of the secrets. I wish Chrome would allow a master password (per profile) to further protect the stored passwords and cookies.
Aside, have EFF just changed their logo? It jarred with me initially.
SQL Server's already been ported and made available.
Was this IBM School Vista by any chance? The login screen was a school entrance with yellow buses, the main screen was a student desk in a classroom, and the application launcher was a bookshelf in the classroom.
One of my friends and I also had a fun time finding ways to break out of the locked-down shell into Windows Explorer -- as well as making interactive parodies of the classroom UI using PowerPoint and HyperStudio.
Due to how the whole Windows Shell mechanism works (COM all the way down) there will still be lot of shared state between the supposedly separate processes.
I upvoted you - in part because I don't believe in downvotes, however also because I share a similar sensitivity to EMFs. I used to be much more sensitive, hypersensitive, to EMFs including magnetic fields. Now in order to use a laptop I put a protective cover over the main part of it, and I use a wireless keyboard; if I would keep my hands over the laptop keyboard - where the underlying electronics are - then my hands will start to hurt almost immediately and continue to hurt for a length dependent on how long I've kept them above. I have other related experiences to sensitivity, and hypersensitivity: in my early 20s I have audiograms showing I could hear at 0 Dbs at all frequencies, and another one showing I could hear at -14 Dbs at certain frequencies (the sound equipment couldn't test for lower than that). Laptop screens still do bother me, however magnitudes less than the CPU etc; I have found other people who are as sensitive.

Perhaps a few odd questions for you: 1) do you or did you used to eat wheat (maybe before the ashram?), 2) did you ever have ear infections as a child, were they painful at all?

Feel free to email your answers matt@engn.com