skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I would like to see more research - especially with humans. That waves used in 4G cause harmful effects on humans was proved to be not true. But those mmWaves for 5G are much higher frequency, and they get absorbed by more materials. Perhaps by human body too? It wouldn’t be healthy to be constantly exposed to waves like that. I definitely would like to see more research in this.
Is the typo in the title supposed to be ironic?
I tried it briefly and it seemed like lots of complexity and overkill compared to say, Evernote. Was I just using it improperly?
This is really great! Is their any plan to improve performance? Google and CloudFlare are both ~15ms in my location (Montreal), while nextdns seems to be around ~30ms (which isn't bad per se).
The big difference between Alloy and mainstream UML is that Alloy can check if your model has properties your want, and if not general a counterexample.

A couple use cases for this:

1. You're writing an access control policy feature. There are many different moving parts to it: you can assign policies to individuals or user roles, some resources can inherit policies from parent resources, some policies can have multiple conditions, etc. Is there some weird feature interaction that lets somebody see a resource they shouldn't?

2. You're modeling an invoice. Every invoice has a number of items, each item has a supplier. Some items may correspond to their own invoice the supplier is paying, with its own line items. Its possible for you to pay for an item by supplier S that corresponds to an invoice where they pay you. Also two suppliers may be able to supply the same item and have different invoices for that item. Does your model of this have any insane edge cases you should be worried about?
Reaching New Heights with Artificial Neural Networks
Anonymous? You should be accepting crypto...
Generation 3 nuclear is producing power in France, right now. It is able to solve climate change and carbon emissions globally. The problems you list are psychological, not technical.

Gen 3 nuclear buys us time to get to Gen 4 nuclear which will buy us time to get to nuclear fusion. The theoretical work is proven, these more advanced technologies only need engineering solutions.
This is similar to Kahneman's "take the outside view" advice. It helps us distance the decision from our (self-)imperceptible biases.
Depending on your goal. If you just want to have an ad blocking DNS server then nextdns.io is fine. But if you also want to have some control over the privacy issue involved in using a public DNS server, you should seriously consider hosting it yourself.
Inaccurate article.
A seasoned cataphile invited me for the yearly gathering of the carbide-lamp holders in the catacombs one night last year. It's really like a different dimension of Paris and truly awesome and unique. It was a party of about 100 people or more, with stolen electricity powering a frenchcore rave dancefloor and everything.

While I highly recommend both the public and the illegal part if you have the chance, definitely don't go without an experienced guide as it can be dangerous for real. There are also strict social codes that should be followed when crossing paths with others down there.
Given that 5Ghz wifi barely goes through walls I couldn't believe when I read 5G was being tested on mm wave (24 to 86Ghz). Seems to me the point of it is to install a transceiver on every light pole to have higher resolution surveillance.
> all regulations have costs for compliance

if you were _already_ complying before GDPR existed (because your business model isn't scummy), then GDPR compliance _should_ cost very little, if at all.

If you weren't complying at all, then adding compliance is very costly after the fact. If you cannot make your business work without complying, then the business must die, as there's no natural right for a business to exist.
I cannot find a link to the study or studies mentioned.
I see DocxManager more as a static site generator with GUI and visual editor :)
Car Wars (2016)
Don't look at me; if we plotted the changes in my IQ over my childhood out, I'm likely a potted plant now.
What does " substantially reel in the global population size" mean.

People that raise this point almost 100% exclusively mean that about "people that are not me"
I suspect that it is the same small group of abusive users that downvote any comment critical of GDPR into oblivion.

Case in point, this post. Downvoted with no replies - just a handful of people hiding behind their mice with no counterarguments.
pm2 (NPM package) requests tarball from server during install
Linux 5.1 Hit by a Data Loss Bug Due to Overly Aggressive Fstrim
You can easily find many articles explaining why the national debt is very different from how we think about personal debt (e.g. http://money.com/money/4293910/national-debt-investors/).

And then even in the personal finance space, "debt is not a good thing" is just an incorrect statement, because it always makes perfect sense to borrow money at a lower interest rate than you can make via investments.
I couldn't find the vignette filter in this app. Can anybody help?
How does this differ from Chaos Monkey?
That's the point of the paper. :/
>I try to only use/pay for free-as-in-speech software

I would like to see more software adopt this model. Can you give a few examples of things you support? Are they all pay-for-hosting services, or are there cases where the software itself is for sale?
Not in my experience as a software developer.
Basically blog spam that cites an activist group that claims to have "published studies" that were published a year ago, having nothing to do with them.

It is of course a concern that should be looked at, but we're currently in the "fear monger" stage with 5G. Those people who do the studies are the good people, but the people who take it and misrepresent it leverage fear of change/the new.
If it's going to harm wildlife, the technology should be forbidden, without qualification or exception.

If not, I don't feel the need for faster speeds than what I get, but I would be very interested in getting more data per month at the same (or lower) monthly price. If a cellular provider could give me internet connectivity (LTE speeds) at a price of something like $1 per gigabyte I would drop my household's cable service in favor of that right away.
Could your beta testers get a better deal? If not could we stay beta testers and get a better deal?
Something I read many years ago:

There are two way to get a Ph.D. -
find a problem and solve it or find a solution method and come up with a problem that the method solves.

The second way is by far the easier.
A very large part of it is Marketing people dying to have something new to sell people. LTE has reached market saturation, so 5G is the only thing they can use to sell people new phones and new data plans. They don’t care that they have setup this perverse system where they sell people on faster speeds, but then add data caps to deter them from using it.

A less sinister take might be that faster speeds allow each device to get off the air faster, enabling more devices to be used in the same area. But that’s mostly a technical solution and I highly doubt the advantages rise to the level that the Business side has started pushing it. Salespeople just see the commissions.
> One 'git push origin master' and our contributor has signed up to your requirements.

I made no such claim. Did you read what I actually wrote?

> Dominic made no promises to anyone

Not by putting his code up on github, no. But that's not all he did.
It’s not for faster speeds for individual users. It’s for maintaining reasonable speeds for when everyone’s default mode of communication is real-time wireless 4k video streaming; that is to say, preserving the current level of service for early adopters as our usage patterns become mainstream (and thus consume 5-10x more bandwidth in aggregate).

Also, things load pretty slow right now.
I bet the cop didn't give her a ticket though. He was able to assess the situation and recognize your wife was not in violation of the law.

If this system were backed by some sort of flag-and-review system, then this man wouldn't have received a ticket for scratching his face.
I see what the guy did there
By that logic, we shouldn’t build cities or buildings. I am pretty sure most people do not agree with this position.
Lessons from Peter Thiel
point of the paper apparently
Like you, I never feel needing more with a good LTE connection. It's faster than I've ever needed.

Having said that, the promise of 5G is that it brings such an enormous bandwidth from a frequency perspective that it literally could be a broadly distributed very high speed connection technology for fixed locations. Purportedly one of the reasons Google abandoned their fiber project was that ultra-high speed for huge numbers of users with 5G would make fixed infrastructure for the last mile redundant. We'll see.
Show HN: Reveal code line-by-line in LaTeX presentations
Does FCC work with NIH or other agencies before they approve frequencies like 5G ? There was a recent story about a WiMAX antenna near a school and the parents suspected it was the cause of high cancer rates of students in that school.
Western capitalism seems to be the one thing that has successfully incentivized people to have less kids, later in life. It's not always glamorous, but it's probably better than most alternatives.
This used to exist in browsers in the 90s. Site owners never bothered implementing it. https://www.w3.org/PICS/
The difference is that you’ve already decided that the latte is worth $4 to you.
Your link is about residential prices, not about the cost to build the reactors.

There are two key questions: 1) what was the subsidy level for construction of the French generation of reactors, and 2) can we do this again?

That second question is of course the most important one, and the answer seems to be a resounding and hard no, at least if the French are constructing it, based on their recent attempts.

South Korea is also cited as another country that may have figured out how to build reactors cheaply. However recent news is that it was all cartels and corruption and there's likely massive amounts of fraud.

That leaves what, Canada and Russia? Canada I kind of trust, and Russia not at all. CANDUs were pretty great, but we can't exactly order more of them now.

It seems that the age of the Rankine cycle's efficiency is coming to an end, at least in terms of cost effectiveness. Even natural gas uses a combined cycle to compete these days, as new tech finally usurps what has been the champion for over a century.
Everyone who cares strongly about this issue (not nearly as big a cohort as hn thinks) is against targeted ads. If they ever get their way and laws really end Google/Facebook's business model as GDPR intends, the much larger cohort of people who care more about not paying for services will start caring.
> I'm not sure why this keeps being said.

Because there is a "real cost" to running a nuclear plant that can be arbitrarily inflated. If you factor in stuff like "one major disaster every twenty years" or "waste storage for 10,000 years", of course the calculation is different than if you assume "no disasters" and "we'll deal with it later".

It also very much depends on the regulatory environment that these reactors are built in. Perhaps forty years ago it would've been possible to build reactors economically in the US, but after Chernobyl/Fukushima any new reactor would likely face far more intense scrutiny.
Thank you for the thought out comment.

Sorry for the misunderstanding, I was asking as a “proof of existence”. Is it possible and what would a plant based keto diet look like. As a curiosity.

I have zero inclination and no interest in meat and/or keto. Thank you though.
I wonder if a good way to illustrate or dispel the harmfulness of millimeter wave radio would be to compare the wattage/sq ft covered. How much energy is carried by these waves compared to 900Mhz or 2.4Ghz radio ?

Besides the 'boy who cried wolf' nature of radio causing cancer, I'd also like to know the power consumption for the extreme density required to relay gigabit+ connections across town, I think I heard the range between towers is something like 500 ft? There are, ostensibly, not lower power devices to be processing all these connections.
But isn't it a concern that should be thoroughly addressed before any government permits any use of the technology within its jurisdiction?
Questions I really have never gotten an answer I find satisfactory with regards to nuclear. What's the long term storage costs for spent fuel rods? Is this factored into the price? Is post plant cleanup factored into generation costs (we're paying for a nuclear plant closing nearby in our electric bills now on top of generation costs)? Can we possibly reuse those spent fuel rods for something else useful? Can we prevent disasters like Fukishima? Can we prevent every single disaster?

Thorium reactors aren't currently economically viable. Molten salt reactors come with their own downsides but are safer from what I understand, but honestly can't say for sure. Fusion reactors would be base case scenario as far as I understand but aren't currently viable.

We already had one problem by not thinking about long term negatives, I don't want to replace one problem for another, far bigger, far longer term problem. Nuclear problems tend to last longer than carbon problems, disasters like Chernobyl will cost money for literally generations even with it's new cap as it will be constantly needing to be replaced. Solar has it's own problems with messy pollution on creation, wind seems cleanest long term, storage for renewables will probably end up being some type of multi-lake hydro as the "battery" in places where it's viable. Maybe underground aquifers where evaporation is an issue?

I'm all for nuclear in places that already have radiation issues, i.e. space, moon. But I really want to avoid contamination of the only planet we can currently live in as a species.
Though I can't say what you are saying is not true, in the case of electromagnetic issues I think it's the government which is not really doing it job because profit is more important. The NIH already showed that cancer can be caused by 2g and 3g in rats.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/high-exposure-...

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/416515-theres-a-clear...
This is why the better classes of people are so much superior to the rest of us.
> Pretty funny argument given that the big US companies are benefiting the most from it according to the article.

That would be the "unintended" part.

Only the ginormous companies can spend thousands of human hours on compliance while their smaller competitors either leave the market or get steamrolled due to the compliance costs. All this has happened before, and all this will happen again...
I am not so sure about the movie either. Would have loved James Cameron working on it. And yeah,it should be split in 2. The 5000 year jump should be in a separate part.
Not boy who cried wolf, people just love their mobile internet and corporations and governments love their profit to care about the science: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/high-exposure-...
Agreed that this is trivial model.

Regarding React: In many webgl use-cases UI-framework overhead can be neglected as the user interacts either with the scene or the UI rendered by the framework. The browser doesn't usually need to update the DOM and the scene in one frame.
The idea is to reach out to people who made change to their life by some means, one of which could be 'Asking a Professional'. Exercising & Meditation are really really underestimated.
How is it abusing the protocol if it allows you to do it?
Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel-winning physicist who developed quark idea, dies at 89
So is a full stack programmer someone who can write javascript for the server AND the browser?
That’s Not Sand, It’s Superfood
The text around it says Cinebench R20 too. Guessing both were tested, and the wrong data set was pasted into the article.

"First off we have Cinebench R20 results ..."
... until you mention something something stereotypically nerdy, after which you are treated like you have the socializability of a cardboard box.
What I want to know is who is behind the 5G fear-mongering. I see this all the time and from different places. My poor conspiracy-minded elderly uncle in western Pennsylvania has been had by Fox News and the rest of the insane-right. He sends me stuff like this all the time. What I want to understand is who stands to benefit from 5G not coming to pass.

Is it a just one of many conspiracy theories cooked by a Kremlin agency that happened to work in the public sphere? Is there a competing technology stack?
Somewhat important to point out, I think:

> “The exposures used in the studies cannot be compared directly to the exposure that humans experience when using a cell phone,” said John Bucher, Ph.D., NTP senior scientist. “In our studies, rats and mice received radio frequency radiation across their whole bodies. By contrast, people are mostly exposed in specific local tissues close to where they hold the phone. In addition, the exposure levels and durations in our studies were greater than what people experience.”

> The lowest exposure level used in the studies was equal to the maximum local tissue exposure currently allowed for cell phone users. This power level rarely occurs with typical cell phone use. The highest exposure level in the studies was four times higher than the maximum power level permitted.
> You can easily find many articles explaining why the national debt is very different from how we think about personal debt (e.g. http://money.com/money/4293910/national-debt-investors/).

Article: "Things aren’t at a boiling point — yet."

Well I am now definitely comforted...
if you were _already_ complying before GDPR existed (because your business model isn't scummy), then GDPR compliance _should_ cost very little, if at all.

But unfortunately, that isn't really how it works. Under GDPR you could still find your privacy policy now isn't written in the correct terms, or your previous consents or notices weren't worded properly and might not stand up any more, or your methods of storing data don't make per-person permanent deletion straightforward. And all of this remains true even if you were compliant with all previous data protection legislation (at least here in the UK) and even if you weren't doing anything sketchy with the data and have no plans to do so in future either.

If nothing else, you probably need non-trivial amounts of management time to understand the new rules, some extra legal advice that you're going to have to pay for, and an update of your key documents to make sure everything uses appropriate structures and wording to comply. That alone could already be a significant cost for a small, bootstrapped business, and that's without changing anything about the actual data you're collecting or how you use it.
Something we've been trying to figure out is how to get screen readers to play nice with a terminal emulator. We're building one as a webapp and had a pretty good solution in an old version of jQuery terminal, but the new one splits each character into its own span... So we're trying out xterm which builds out a whole aria tree, but simple concepts escape me like... How can a screen reader "scroll back and forth" between terminal output, without just redoing a terminal command and listening to the whole output all over again?
Also fossil-fuel chemical reagents used for all sorts of material production.

And the big one, artificial fertilizer, which uses natural gas because the electrical equivalent to pull what we need from the air is astronomical.
Not quite.

Cities and buildings provide tremendous benefits. These benefits, presumably, outweigh the costs of harming wildlife to construct them.

The OP is arguing that the benefits of 5G are objectively minor and therefore not worth the cost of causing mass harm to a broad swath of wildlife.

I agree with the OP's position -- I will gladly keep my ~50Mbit 4G speeds if it means we will prevent the collapse of various insect populations.
Which side can't display consent, the employer or the employee?
Yeah, I feel that "without qualification or exception" is not a tenable position. We harm wildlife all the time: ideally, we don't excessively harm wildlife (where "excessive" is a constantly evolving standard).
> "Marketing people dying to have something new to sell people"

Not just marketing people. Everyone at companies making the equipment (Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei), the chipsets (Qualcomm), and rolling out the networks (e.g., AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint) wants a piece of the pie.
> The lowest exposure level used in the studies was equal to the maximum local tissue exposure currently allowed for cell phone users. This power level rarely occurs with typical cell phone use. The highest exposure level in the studies was four times higher than the maximum power level permitted.

Does this mean in trains or public building where multiple phones are present, even hundreds of phones? 4x seems rather a small margin for harm considering every human is potentially carrying a device and using it at the same time occurs multiple times during the day.
This sounds like a dystopian nightmare come true
I’m not sure how Apple did anything to software pricing. In the initial days of the iPhone, apps used to sell for as much as Mac apps.

While you’re looking at the effort and cost of developing an app, also consider that not everybody has $4 coffees (like another commenter put it) or can afford to buy many apps that are each $5 or $10 or more. Getting an iPhone is one of the best things someone could do (on privacy and security), and it does cost a lot just to get the hardware. Lower priced apps are a boon to many in countries that are not the US or another developed country.

Some sort of tiered pricing that also takes into account relative pricing power could help the developer reach more people as well as help more people. Note that many people in lower income countries may also buy older or used iPhones (with the market share of the flagships being minuscule) for what is to them a lot of money.
"it always makes perfect sense to borrow money at a lower interest rate than you can make via investments."

Only if you actually invest and the returns are guaranteed.
I change my peddling sometimes when people come up with a good counterargument.

I've been hearing stories saying that climate change represents a likely civilisation level threat for something like 20 years. Nuclear represents a very rare maybe city level threat. We don't really know if it is a city level threat, but we evacuate because it isn't very common so it isn't worth finding out.

For most of that 20 years, nuclear has been a more economic option than renewables; and safer and probably cleaner to boot on average. Nuclear has been a technically better option and only a bit more expensive (less than double usual practice). I don't think it is an economic issue, I think it is an irrational public opposition issue. The economics aren't helping, but if it was strictly a scientific/environmental question we'd be seeing protestors saying 'split atoms, not icebergs'.

The UK having poor project management is evidence, but it isn't a strong counter. That happens to pretty much every large project. And wobbly policy in the US isn't what would scare investors, it would be wobbly policy in Germany. The energiewende pummeled nuclear; it wasn't up-front cost because the plants were already built.
Here's the ABC News coverage [1]. Here's the Fox News coverage [2]. Both seem reasonable. They report the accusation against her, that it went viral, that she was fired, and that after that Tweets were found from showing that one of the people who was refused service did apparently have a history of stealing from restaurants.

[1] https://abc7.com/society/chipotle-manager-fired-after-refusi...

[2] https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/chipotle-fires-manager-wh...