skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Ethics of Unpaid Labor and the Open-Source Community
He also noted the unexpected finding of longer lifespans among the exposed male rats. “This may be explained by an observed decrease in chronic kidney problems that are often the cause of death in older rats,” said Wyde.

Looking at the source data in the report for male rate survival probability (https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/htdocs/lt_rpts/tr595_508.pdf, page 66), the increase in survival appears to be dose-dependent. In other words, the higher the dose of radiation, the better the survival rate after 76 weeks. This is what I'd expect to see for a real effect as opposed to an artifact.

The lack of error bars makes it hard to give significance to the finding, though.

The female group (second graph on page) show no clear difference.

Looking at the table on the preceding page, the main effect appears to be reduction of moribund state. There might be multiple explanations here. For example, an animal that can't move can't feed itself properly and so will succumb to malnutrition sooner.
Yes, but the opposite happens too. There are plenty of people who believe that in technology, the latest is the greatest, and everything that came before that must have been inferior.
> so they, and we, can get off that damn computer screen and enjoy the fruits of our labor

I bet no one at Facebook can say that
As the article stated though, they aren't really the same story and don't share continuity. The show is good but it's not an adaptation of the film in any meaningful way.
I think your thesis is wrong, simply because Google is far more willing to amortize risk over many projects (even multiple different approaches in the same space!) and “ultimately call a failure in consumer acceptance a failure” than companies you suggest are better at that, like Apple; it's kind of why people attack them all the time for killing things.

It's true that they are prone to thinking that there is one right way, like engineers; they are equally, however, prone to thinking that empirical testing is the best way to discover the one right way, and to accept that their hypotheses about the right way will sometimes be wrong.
I thought it was that he couldn't prevent the catastrophe. It is greatly implied that he found the cause and set the future scientists up to get a direct sample of what caused things, possibly reversing it in their time.

What he couldn't do, was get what he wanted. He couldn't save his love, as she was of that time, and it was doomed.
US Interests Explain Trump Enigma – Perspective of an Indian Economist
Major Garbage Producers in JavaScript
If you're literally sleeping on the radar antenna you're in the near field of the antenna. Meaning, the antenna doesn't work at all like it was designed and you can get "strange" couplings, e.g. very high power density in a few spots on the body, and almost no power coupled to other parts.
> In 2015 a typical 2 bed flat in East London was £1,400 per month, West London around £2,500.

I think you're defining East and West in weird ways in order for this to make sense. Maybe it's because Hyde Park shifts the real "centre" of London off to the left (e.g. Charing Cross is 'sort of' the middle but isn't really.)

If you compare like for like it's much closer. e.g. go 3 miles east and 3 miles west from a 'centre' and compare prices. There's not a 70% difference unless you end up in an outlier (e.g. South Ken).

Last year a 2 bed in Hammersmith was ~1500. I think that would compare fairly well with the other side which would be near Canary Wharf somewhere.
> looking for a synthetic bamboo

Just curious, why?
> The key is to induce load on your conversational partner at the level that they are willing to accept and not to put a disproportionate load on them. "Tell me about yourself" is high load IMHO. They need to figure out what aspect of themselves they wish to represent.

This tracks with my experience as well.

Many nerds and introverts (myself included) detest small talk and want to jump into deep conversation straight away.

But life experience has taught me that guiding the conversation from shallow to deep produces a much better effect in most cases, even with other nerds and introverts. (except at conferences, where there is already a shared assumption of interest/knowledge)
So, perhaps the author is correct about the film's ending, but that's not the way I interpreted it when I first saw it. Rather, it seemed to me that the scientist from the future was there to insure that the disease did, in fact, spread, even if Bruce Willis' character stopped the original source from getting on the plane. She was either a carrier (a Typhoid Mary of sorts), or else had her own vial. I thought it suggested that some of the scientists in the future were in favor of the status quo, and wanted to sabotage the plans of the majority of the scientists to alter the past.

But, perhaps my interpretation was overly cynical.
Body mass isn't the only difference between humans and male rats. Humans are more different from male rats than female rats are, and these studies didn't produce evidence that RF causes cancer in female rats. It didn't produce this evidence in male or female mice either. They also only say that the evidence is clear for heart tissue.

Human brains aren't made of male rat heart tissue, so we should be safe even if this conclusion is valid. More importantly, hundreds of millions of people have been using cell phones for decades now and no one has noticed a spike of brain cancer near the ears.
"Pay" goes both ways. The manufacturer wasn't willing to pay for a million dollars by making this treatment.
Vasectomy with abortion as a back up.
or create /boot/wpa_supplicant.conf and touch /boot/ssh and it will do the right thing on boot.
> It really struck me that RAM sitting on our systems has to be refreshed again and again in a timely fashion to ensure that the contents stored by the memory cells are intact.

This is nothing new. A need to refresh the contents has been a fact since the invention of DRAM.

> Could there be any data loss due to some external factors in DRAM.

If you mean: Is there a probability, no matter how small, of data loss from DRAM by external factors, then the simple answer is yes.

A cosmic ray could hit a DRAM cell in one of the memory chips of your computer at just the right spot to cause a bit to flip state (i.e., change from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0). Assuming a system without ECC on the DRAM subsystem.

But the probability of this occurring to you, specifically, on the single computer you are using is so low that you may as well ignore it, because you have a significantly higher probably of data loss from user action (you delete something you should not have deleted) or simple power failure (i.e., tree limb falls, taking out power feed to your home) or any of multiple other reasons for data loss.
That just sounds shady and wrong. Plus, I don't think anyone is really going to believe that a person who is actively looking for jobs has left his CV that sloppy. If it's a couple of months sure, but 1.5yrs? Hmmm..
> bamboo is renewable

What if it's treated?
I wonder if I just called up on a day when the sales guy needed to make up a quota or something.

Looking at what I have on my invoice -

£34 - Business 900
£4.167 - Landline 1000 (this on is weird, I have no landline from anyone)
£4.255 - Broadband Plus (I also don't have broadband from them)
-£8.511 - '25% Recurring discount'
-£16.667 - 'Loyalty discount'

Coming out at £17.286 for the lot before VAT, I'm assuming the guy put on some basic charges for the lowest level landline and broadband connections, which were never to be provisioned, to unlock the discounts ... !
Also planning laws - apartments for singles and couples are cheaper to build and higher density than apartments for families. If planning law mandates sufficient accommodation for families the dynamics change.
Housing prices are artificially high because of debt and finance.

If loans/debt/financing/mortgages were made illegal, then these artificial high housing prices based on the credit line one can obtain rather than what one can actually afford, prices would come down to fair market value. I know people will claim credit is based on what one can afford but that is mental gymnastics (foreclosures, student loan defaults, car repos, and credit card defaults could all suggest otherwise)and wouldn’t matter if credit were made illegal.

The same is true of student loans. Tuition costs couldn’t continue to exponentially (artificially) increase based on the guarantee of government loans to students to cover these costs, take away a the loans and the prices will meet the new demand.
Israel is one of the least religious countries on earth. A much smaller percentage of Israelis are religious than are Americans or the populace of Muslim nations, and Christianity and Islam also generally consider suicide a sin.
You're assuming that the interior of the microwave behaves like an uniform field, so if you occupy 50 % of the volume, only 50 % of the power can be coupled to that object. This is not the case. There are some (big) losses in how power is coupled to the object in the microwave, but it's not 98 %. Also note that the power is coupled through the surface, so for power transfer it's mostly important that you have (1) big surface (2) surface depth exceeding penetration depth. The exact coupling is "dirty" (near field), so it doesn't just depend on surface area, but also surface structure, precise alignment etc.

E.g. a ball of mashed potatoes takes longer to heat up than a ring/donut-shaped arrangement of the same mashed potatoes.
Devra Davis, an epedemiological cancer researcher[1], writes how it often takes decades for the same carcinogens to actually cause tumor growth in humans while it can take just years (or even much shorter) in mice.

I dont know exacty when cell phone usage became widespread in the developed world, but if it was the 90s to mid 2000s we may still need another decade to start seeing the possible effects.

https://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-War-Cancer/dp/04650156...
To truly seperate the controller from the process of invoking the use case and view. A better question is why does the use case have the presenter pushed as part of the invocation? You could easily have a use case take an input and nothing else. Why have the controller get an instance of the presenter, pass that to the use case, then have the use case call the presenter? The answer is that it makes explicit the fact that there will be a response. It also allows the controller to either directly, or indirectly, more likely indirectly, get the UI component ready.

In my codes case, the presenter is gained through a factory method. The factory takes the response for the request, context and that's it. It creates the REST response handler that holds onto the response struct, in Go. This allows the system to safely switch the thread underneath the actual request/response of the handler. Since the Use Case gets the presenter as an argument, it naturally carries the presenter when the thread changes without having to store it into the Context.

All of this fits nicely with Go. Go handlers return void. So in the handler, my controller, the use case kicks off, and the handler is done. The presenter sets the response code, body, and anything else.

For more information.
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3570...
I definitely doubt things were calmer in general, because as you say, there are a bunch of examples of the opposite. However, an interesting point is that the groups in question, in the past, were somewhat restricted to their geographical location, and were in many cases dependend on organized leadership. As I see it, these two points are less of a challenge now.
Well, they can't/ shouldn't deduce that he had a burnout. That's something I know as a friend. He went traveling around the world, ticking off places from his list. It's a simple career break. People aren't/shouldn't be expected to work non-stop through out their lives.
Just spent some time playing around with that, really cool! Thank you :)
How Mining Engineer Became One of the Greatest Marketers of the 20th Century
Fear sells. And the news sell fear.

Something is always tearing america apart. We are always on the brink. The past few months, it's facebook tearing us apart. Last year, it was putin and the russians tearing america apart. The year before that, it was trump/hillary.
I wonder if there's a difference of social context here. I feel like "tell me about yourself" would come off as very pretentious to a lot of people.

That said, I've never really tried. Do you literally say "tell me about yourself"?
No, outside of a laboratory everything influences such signals. First of all, changing medical practice changes how often and in which stages cancer is detected and treated. Dealing with that, you have then to deal with changing fashions (less smoking more sushi), and so on. Dealing with all of these is of course error prone and in the end, you can only see very strong effects in real life.
I'm confused by the Bluetooth logo.
The most interesting part of this to me is that, even though this evidence is extremely weak, it is actually stronger than the evidence from animal studies that tobacco smoke can cause lung cancer. It is nearly impossible to devise a study in which breathing in the smoke increases lung cancer rates.

Actually it took researchers half a century to figure out a way despite easily causing lung cancer with radioactive dust, etc. Eventually they discovered you need to expose a special strain of mice starting within hours of birth, and then simulate quitting smoking by stopping the exposure as adults. It is actually the healing from the smoke-induced damage that seems to cause cancer, which makes sense if you believe cancer is a disease caused by too many cell divisions.

>"Strain A mice were exposed first to a comparatively high concentration of ETS, generated from the sidestream (89%) and mainstream (11%) smoke from burning Kentucky 1R4F cigarettes, as described before in detail [9]. After a 5-month exposure, the animals were allowed to recover in air for another 4 months before evaluation of the lung tumor response. The same protocol was eventually adopted by three other laboratories [10–12].
[...]
The flat dose-response suggests that tobacco smoke is a comparatively weak carcinogen. A previous study in which a dose-response was conducted in one single experiment came to the same conclusion [13]. It may to some extent explain why most inhalation studies done with tobacco smoke in mice failed to give a positive tumor response [14, 15]. The fact that ‘‘only’’ 10% to 25% of all smokers develop lung cancer [16] might also be construed to indicate that tobacco smoke is not a very potent carcinogen in man."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15765916

>"In spite of the dominant role of cigarette smoke (CS) in the epidemiology of lung tumors, tumors at other sites, and other chronic degenerative diseases [1, 2], it is very difficult to reproduce the noxious effects of this complex mixture in animal models.
[...]
During the last decade, we developed a novel murine model that convincingly reproduces the carcinogenicity of MCS [6] and its modulation under conditions mimicking interventions either in current smokers and/or ex-smokers.
[...]
Our model involves exposure of mice for 4 months, starting at birth, followed by a period of 3-4 months in filtered air in order to give enough time for the growth of histopathological lesions."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29370344
> The only thing the interest rate determines is who gets the money - the seller or the bank.

It seems here like you've forgotten that even though your payment may not vary, what you get will (e.g. will it be further out, smaller, apartment not house, worse neighbourhood)...

Or, ultimately, at the bottom end, your 'maximum monthly payment' isn't enough to buy at all so you rent forever (London, for anyone who isn't in a well paying field).

Consider - you'll probably be working 8 hours a week. For various reasons we settle on roughly that. But some people get paid very well and others don't. That matters regardless of whether everyone works 8 hours a week because most people don't retire early even if they could.
Well put.

The ironic thing about all numbers-oriented folks in extractive enterprises (regardless of whether they're extracting natural resources, capital, or labor), is their blind spot to the fact that ALL resources are finite. There's no "free-refill" when the big-gulp runs out.
You may still fall under the US definition of libertarian, which is a fairly broad spectrum. There is a split within libertarians, which used to be denoted by so-called "big L" Libertarians (Libertarian Party) and "small l" libertarians, but I haven't seen those terms mentioned as much lately. In general US libertarianism is a spectrum like any other political ideology, and you'll see people who represent extreme versions of it (think "muh roads" meme), some who fall more toward the traditional classical liberal position, and some who are more left leaning (communitarianism and neigboring groups, some Greens as well).

I think because we only have two major parties here, outlying groups tend to mix together more, even when they have substantial disagreements in their philosophy. As a whole, we are also less well-educated about alternative political systems, which makes the discussion more confusing for everyone involved.
>> Even the lowest amount cited, 1.5w/kg, is far above what a human would receive standing directly in front of a cell tower transmitting antenna.

It would be the one in peoples pockets they need to worry about. Sure the power is really low, but the range is under an inch.
Or we could re-evaluate how we eat and drastically reduce the amount of meat produced and consumed.
Most israelies aren't really religious, in the sense that religion guide their actions in a meaningful way .
I'm glad I read this article because I never understood the ending that way. I'm probably kind of dumb, but for me, the scientist at the end, on the plane, was just there as part of the normal timeline. I never imagined that she travelled from the future, I thought it was just her character before the epidemic :)
That’s cool, and the UI is nice!

I wrote exactly the same thing as a library, to allow user setup of the WiFi network from within an app as part of a hardware prototype - main difference being it was just a Go daemon running on the Pi. Didn’t end up using it or open-sourcing it but I will re-visit that, since it looks like there are a couple of use-cases.
Can you seriously put wpa_supplicant.conf in /boot and it’ll work? I have honestly never heard this in 2 years of doing Raspberry Pi, after looking at tons of documentation and web sites. This wouldn’t surprise me, but I feel like it should be much better documented, given that it’s pretty much the first and biggest hurdle to getting things to work on a new image.
Microsoft menaced with GDPR fines in EU for gathering of people's info in Office
Carbon emissions from cows are made up of carbon from the current environment. Not fossilized carbon. Even as methane, it's not a big deal, it's short-lived, and ultimately carbon-neutral.
I have no idea how people convince themselves to contribute to open source and/or participate regularly in online discourse. It’s basically working really hard for the easiest-to-offend and least-likely-to-appreciate-anything-you-do people on earth, so they can throw shade at everything you do, and then get mad because you did something different than they would have done.

FWIW, I appreciate everything you all are doing, even the stuff I’m not using right now. You all don’t hear it enough, and you’re certainly not getting paid enough for what you’re doing.
> Just wondering, in terms of value for the business, doesn't clean code always deliver a higher value as opposed to, say, messy code?

Of course it does, and writing clean code should be one of your goals. But it should never be the primary goal. You always want to be aware of why you're being paid: it's to deliver value and increase profits.

Maintainable code is important, but our thought leaders have been putting the idea of clean code on a pedestal lately. Because of this I feel like many developers sweat over minute technical details but completely ignore business goals.
Or we could do both.
Every bamboo pole is different..
For this reason bamboo could never fit into modern engineering practices. Engineers use things like I-beams because, (in theory) each one is the same and they have been tested (probably millions of times) Their structural characteristics are known.
So an engineer can sign off on a building and the team can get architectural indemnity insurance.
Bamboo, and also things like using the entire trunk of young trees, are much much more efficient in terms of embodied energy. Eg, a tree is designed for strength / flexibility, why cut it up and then glue it back together to form a gluelam beam?
Its because engineers can sign off on it then..

Maybe theres some innovative way to integrate stuff like bamboo into modern engineering practices, maybe each individual unique bamboo pole could be scanned (like an MRI) and AI could be used to accurately structurally model it. The the whole structure could be accurately modeled and signed off on in theory.
Well, of course, scientific research is big business today, and marketing, including advertisement (of varying quality), is a major part of it.
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Ask HN: Resources for blind developers and sysadmins?
Two weeks ago, I woke up one morning with slightly blurry vision and a big, opaque, dark circle getting in the way of many things (especially if I close my right eye). Visited the doctor and I'm told that I have macular degeneration in my right eye and a retina problem in my left eye. It's surprising because I'm not yet 40. Doctor said I won't go blind and prescribed me some medicine for an initial treatment. I'm now looking into treatment options and researching this. I am supposed to go back to the doctor soon for a checkup. The dark circle has never left me; in fact, it's now been joined by a transparent, shimmering circle.

I'm not worried about going blind based on the doctor's opinion, but I am concerned that I will have to deal with long-term vision issues. Currently, I cannot read the text on my screen if I close my right eye, as the dark circle gets in the way of everything.

It left me with an interesting question. I'd read about blind people working as developers and sysadmins before. But I never really thought about it, because my vision was so good. I'm curious now, depending on how bad my eyes get, how would I transition so that I'd be able to continue my chosen profession? Are there blind developers and sysadmins here who can toss a few resources my way?

Much appreciated to the HN community in advance, thanks. I'm currently based in Asia, so about to sleep soon, hopefully I'll wake up with a big load of comments to read. ;)
If you look at the numbers, the various levels of government in the US spend more on healthcare, as a percent of GDP, than most(all?) European countries. So if this was a thing that would push policy on climate change, it would be a bigger lever in the US than in Europe.
A rat generates 2W per hour (total daily energy budget is 172kJ for a rat [1]).

The highest level of radio-frequency-radiation was 3W per hour [2].

That seems like a significant extra load on their system, although obviously depends on cage temperature and ability to regulate internal temperature.

[1] https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1113/eph88...

[2] From article: "The RFR exposure was intermittent, 10 minutes on and 10 minutes off, totaling about nine hours each day. RFR levels ranged from 1.5 to 6 watts per kilogram in rats".