skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Molecules don't resonate at 5G frequencies.. even with 5G mmWave, the wavelengths are about 10,000x too long (millimeters). It's like riding on a cruise ship in the ocean and worrying that the wine glass in your hand is going to resonate and shatter from the ocean waves.

The impact on tissue is still thermal.. and the power flux densities of 5G are small compared to the sun, especially so because RF bandwidths are tiny compared to the blackbody radiation spectrum of the sun.

You would have to show why these RF transmissions are more pathological than the random process EM waves generated by solar blackbody. If you look at a modern cellular OFDM waveform, it is almost statistically indistinguishable from broadband noise. It had the same Peak to average power ratio, the same flat spectral bandwidths, and the same affinity to causing resonances--its just much much lower in amplitude than solar.
I'm interested in the same. Couple relevant threads on the subject:

- Pivot to embedded Linux, pentesting, or robotics? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17939239

- What are the tricky parts of Embedded Development | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13699289
Meanwhile I pay $80/month for 12Mbs cable from Comcast in Silicon Valley. My only other option is DSL. I'm not going to be moving to Switzerland any time soon, but the internet situation in the US is spotty and inconsistent at best.
A rose by any other name...

The massive conflict of interest in that set up is something I didn't know. It does greatly affect how I view it.

In terms of Medicine, that's different. Doctors aren't only financially driven. Bankers are.
IBM has a legacy of a more diverse approach to developing technology. They also employ more folks who are applying software solutions vs. developing technology. When I worked with IBM stuff alot, the onshore developers were in Austin, Minnesota, Florida, Toronto, New York (including ex-NYC NY) and other places.

When I had IBM folks working for me in ye olden days (not subcontractors), they weren't working in the valley, and were perfectly good at what they did. They made about 30% more than the full time employees did, in exchange for living in Hilton.

Big tech is the way it is because right now they have access to unlimited money. The good times will roll until they don't! As things mature, the era of $160k college grads and $500k+bonus staff engineers will end.
I know that hacker news usually stays away from paywalled articles - do enough people have subscriptions to WSJ that this isn't an issue here?
I rarely even say I'm going unless there are a limited number of slots. I just show up. Hopefully they won't hide the location or ical download unless you pay the $2. That would be super shitty. This is a pretty big shakedown, and I don't see it ending well for Meetup.

Sadly I agree with others that people will just moved to Facebook events :(
Domino’s turns Pizza Checker AI into workplace surveillance tool
If the microphone isn’t removable, you’re just using the wrong tools.
> It might be a Tesla issue, as they are both ambitious and inexperienced in car component design, but it could have happened with other brands as well.

For me this is a trend Tesla has been showing. (e.g. https://www.thedrive.com/tech/27989/teslas-screen-saga-shows... stuff is trying to use off the shelf but aren't designing for what their cars will actually be experiencing. It -could- happen to other brands, but it is happening with Teslas. This combined with their reported code practices (https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404645376) generally put in the camp of recommending people lease, don't buy and definitely don't buy used. These first/second gen Teslas are going to be trash is a few more years.
Ironically, making changes like this makes you far, far more fingerprintable, as the vast majority of users don't make changes like this. Thus, the users that do stick out like a sore thumb. The article does mention this.
> Nothing wrong with that.

there is if you are deliberately using interest compounding and deferring the suit vs a likely slow repayment schedule which would result if the debt was settled earlier in order to expand your balance sheet and maximize your profits..

this is not acting in good faith.
I got an 802.11ac access point before I got any clients. Either the chicken or the egg has to be first, and I don't replace my router together with my laptop/phone. I've had the same router for at least five years and only got a new one from the ISP because our current one didn't support IPTV. The old one is still in use elsewhere in the house as additional access point and is probably almost ten years old now.

Somewhere in a router's lifespan, someone in my household will buy a new Wi-Fi client. If I need to get a new router, I might as well buy one that I don't regret and want to replace within its components' lifespan.
Last I checked, Salt is much more shaky with speeds and some of the bandwidth may be shared. With the EWZ municipal fiber in Zurich (served by one of the private companies like the GP mentioned) I get the speeds I pay for all the time. I've heard worse things about Salt, but I won't complain about a better option so I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
>They had the infrastructure to be Amazon

Not really. A mail order catalog has very little in common with a modern eCommerce operation like Amazon's. It's a bit like saying that because Kodak was a photography giant they should have been able to win digital photography when, in fact, other than brand it's not clear what real assets and expertise they had to bring. (And brand can be a hindrance as well as a help if you're shifting businesses.)
Same. I'll stay in Texas with my $75k 3-bedroom house and no state taxes.
I used Data Science to find out if Bojack Horseman was racist
A human isn't necessarily less arbitrary, in fact it can be much worse.

You (and Guardian, it seems) are falling for the fallacy of the danger of automation - "it's acceptable for bad decisions to be made as long as it's been decided by a human".

Fear mongering is not how you prove/disprove automation, you should pick a useful metric (e.g. are people starving?) and benchmark against that - the same way you would measure if a department comprised of humans were doing the same job.
I'm a big fan of the show and since it's is coming to an end soon I thought I'd explore it a bit.

This time I wanted to find out whether certain animals were overrepresented.

I want to explore other things next, like maybe female representation. What do you guys think?
I wonder if a group of disgruntled engineers could up and buy a large piece of land somewhere and start a town with better ground rules that would avoid the NIMBY/rent seeking traps. Would need to limit property ownership in a major way somehow.
The total comp at Google Zürich starts at 160K chf/year for new grads. It can go much higher with counteroffers.
Hi, I'm not Alex but I posted earlier up this comment chain. I'd be interested!
> DNT

Leaving it as default makes you hide in the crowd
Does it mean when Google bans your account, you will lose your wifi as well?
I think that not very many existing customers of Oracle migrate off, but I have to think that they are no longer the default for new and growing businesses to move into. AWS seems to have become that, with Oracle not even the second-most likely option (that would probably be Google or Microsoft).

Having said that, Oracle is probably the COBOL of databases, in that it will still be around (collecting good $$) from its existing customers for a long, long time.
I once did consulting for a bank, I shall call them La Trappe Financial.

They were a European powerhouse who came to North America, launching in Canada first, and then in the US when they had used the Canadian launch to sort out doing business in North America.

The Canadian unit paid a big consulting firm to build an online banking app. Fine.

When they launched in the US, the Canadians didn't want the US unit to have the banking app. Why? Because management at Trappist Financial stack-ranked its business units against each other, so if you help another unit, your bonuses will suffer.

There was a protracted fight, and eventually the US unit got the source code in one big lump. However, the consultants that had built the app were forbidden to do any work for the US unit, thus the firm I worked for were parachuted in to take over.

Development diverged, with both Canada and the US adding new features, but the code forked and neither unit would share its additions with the other unit. So there was much duplication of features, and zero knowledge-sharing.

It's not for me to say whether this made La Trappe Financial more successful overall, but I can say that I witnessed a great deal of wasted engineering and lost opportunities that everyone attributed to the perverse incentives created when units compete with each other rather than collaborate.

I imagine that they only way they would have cooperated on a project like internet banking would be if someone was savvy enough to create the illusion that only by cooperating could they beat Germany, or A/NZ, or Japan, &c.

What a colossal waste.
'I'm standing here in the middle of climate change': How USDA is failing farmers
Well it's good that he answers C++ stuff, a bit like Walter Bright here (or wherever) answers questions related to D - but the more important question is this:

In the face of more competition, e. g. python, Rust, Go etc.., what is the future of/for C++?
> In any other low-key metropolis (Dallas [...]) a software developer with 5 years of experience can earn $130k

My 15 YOE ass left Dallas three years ago partly because I couldn't break $100k there. Where are these jobs?

That said, I bought my house in 2008 for $175k.
Which levels and how?
Storing Data in Order
No, they need to prove that they can't find a Swiss/EU/EEA citizen (not necessarily a resident, just an applicant) that could do the same job. EU/EEA citizens are on par with Swiss citizens in every sector except for possibly civil service, at least for now, though referendums repeatedly seem to pass that would limit this freedom for both sides.
Is it not the case that it is actually the opposite? That GCP is running on the internally-available cloud infrastructure at Google?

How would they turn that inside out? What would GCP actually run on if they ran GCP on GCP? Or do you mean run search/gmail/youtube on GCP? Isn't their internal infra basically kubernetes in all but name?
A new type of news site
Do you have any examples of this? I don't feel people I have met from elite schools actually know more material theory then from other schools. If I look at online courses the content of those from elite schools doesn't differ much from courses I have taken in a non-elite school.
Yes it can't, unless of course you just make two variables (one positional and one named) and inside the function you choose one.

Because of Julia's multiple dispatch paradigm, positional arguments are special compared to named arguments because they decide what method to dispatch to (in Julia f(x) is equivalent to x.f() in object oriented language, and it's extended to all positional arguments). That means that if you called f(a, b=nothing, c=nothing), f(1, c=1) it would dispatch to f(Int64, Nothing, Int64), while if you called f(a; b=nothing, c=nothing) with the same args it would dispatch to f(Int64). In Julia named arguments are effectively a way to pass more arguments without complicating the dispatch rules, and since there is only one way to call a function (outside of optional arguments, which appears to the end user as another implementation of a function) there is no ambiguity to where it dispatches to.

So basically, every language has it's own quirks, which the syntax decisions usually reflects, and Julia's scenario is fundamentally different from Python's.
There was also MaxDB, and a few other that Monty built. There's also Percona, WebscaleSQL and a few other forks.

Amazon have been using MySQL even before all these forks happened. And not only that, if Oracle decided to pursue a lawsuit, or if MariaDB, Percona, Elasticsearch or EnterpriseDB did, Amazon will have to cough up.

This is not really a thing that Amazon should be bragging about, because it makes no real sense! They still run a lot of software they did not write.
I can't find any source for the 200-400 wpm statistic (which the author assumes everyone is on the high end of). And 50,000 words per book seems low, especially for an average.

>608 hours on social media

>1642 hours on TV

>Wow. That’s 2250 hours a year spent on TRASH. If those hours were spent reading instead, you could be reading over 1,000 books a year!

Clearly the author doesn't indulge in this TRASH, so why has he only read 200 books per year? It sounds like he's wasting a whole lot of time, or some of these numbers are off.
As long as the telemetry does not include the URLs you visit, how sensitive could it be?
> Companied worth working for are eager to hire people who know better. Position yourself as someone who has learned these lessons the hard way.

Learning those lessons the hard way still requires doing those projects, which means you learn how the tech works, which means I still feel 100% justified in my previous statements.

I want to work on a project like this that actually has lasting value to the company. Actually does something novel enough that it's worth doing.

How do I get there? Is the only way to win the lottery and get placed there as a new grad/junior engineer?

Cause that seems like what you're saying.
This joke is only funny for people who haven't read The Millionaire Next Door :)
What are you suggesting exactly? Presumably the buyers are happy to have a product with the described features, which include "Google Assistant", which answers to your voice.
It doesn't really jibe with the word, "limitation," if you can constantly increase it leveraging the court system.
Kafka topics sizing: how many messages do I store?
Sigh... I've replied to a couple of your other comments, but it is getting exhausting :( You are using quotes around something not from my comment, and not anything that I am referring to.

And it really seems like whatever site I tell you I miss is going to be met with reasons why YouTube is better for said content, which is completely orthogonal to my original point.

For some reason my comment got a lot of replies and comments. Take some time to think about why that is? Everyone is just on here full of it? Making up feelings of missing web sites? Maybe you don't miss any web sites–that is okay. Maybe it seems silly that someone would have strong-positive memories and emotions tied to certain web-sites that were actual communities to many of us–that is okay. But you shouldn't shame others. Not for this, not for anything.
How to Get a Free Phone and Free Minutes During Hard Times
Yep, we built SQL Tran to do exactly that. https://www.spectralcore.com/sqltran. Finishing the rewrite right now which allows us to make changes much faster.
Sadly:

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Many of these sites suggest making edits via “about:config”. The problem is it’s difficult to keep track of which settings you’ve altered. I highly recommend you use a user.js [1] file. The best part is you can make notes so later you knows why a setting was enabled or disabled.

The only downside is if you decide to undo a setting in user.js you’ll also have to make the same change in about:config.

[1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/User.js_file
If you're a recreational sports Meetup group you could try us at OpenSports (www.opensports.net). We only charge for paid events and don't have monthly fees. We've moved over hundreds of sports Meetup groups such as https://opensports.net/@cfrs, https://opensports.net/@sonsofpitchesfc,
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Source? Exaggerate much?
I suspect it's because you rarely need them in Python because the existing built-ins (list, tuple, dict, set) usually work well enough for a given job, or you're already using e.g. Pandas or something.

FWIW: https://github.com/calroc/xerblin/blob/master/xerblin/btree....
My experience with the AirPort Extreme has been terrible to say the least. Over the years I have gone through 4 of them due to some poor design with the hardware. Usually is was the fan failing which caused a massive slowdown to the point where it's not usable. I took it into the Apple Store, they couldn't find the problem, I made a big stink and they gave me a new one. That one survived for another 6 months and failed in the same way.

I switched to Ubiquiti and won't look back. It's cheaper, enterprise grade hardware. If you know anything about networking, setting up the environment isn't that big of a deal, but is definitely a deterrent for some.
Based on the commune/canton residency restrictions in St. Gallen for naturalizing, I can't imagine they'd love to see people completing the process. :/
That's not short-term thinking, that's marketing: Spending money to get customers.

Short-term thinking is letting your stores fall apart to boost profits, ignoring the exponentially long-term costs of a lack of maintenance.
Many here seem to cite this article as being low on fact, and high on emotions.

It is worth noting that this is merely the introduction piece to a series of articles that the Guardian seem to be running this week[1].

It's intention _is_ to be brief.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/series/automating-pov...
> Are there any tools that do a decent job in translating procs to non-Oracle dialects?

One of the main selling points of EnterpriseDB (built on top of and supporting development of Postgres) is a significant degree of Oracle compatibility, including PL/SQL, client interfaces, etc., so if you go that route you might not need much translation.
That is literally the stated purpose of sudo, and the source of its complexity. If you're happy with root access being all-or-nothing, 'su' is adequate. Polkit is another massively complex and ubiquitous system designed to address the same 'minority use case'.

Unpopular opinion: you're right, the vast majority of the time a workstation is single-user, in which case the whole mess isn't worth the hassle and one might as well only have a root account. Heresy! But I've never heard a plausible reasoning why it's fine for $BAD_THING to happen to my home directory, but not /. There's even an xkcd[0] to this effect, which means it must be true.

Hell, for that matter:

echo "alias sudo='sudo evil_command; sudo'" >> ~/.bashrc

is a pretty practical privilege escalation attack for 99% of systems with sudo. I don't think it's worth it.

[0]https://xkcd.com/1200/
Simple checklist for Product Hunt (that we used for our launch)
Google Announces Pixel 4
>We talked a lot about how literally no one on earth is capable of seeing an understanding your flaws as well as you, but also most humans on earth are infinitely less interested. The lens you view yourself with is totally unrelated to the lens with which the rest of the world sees you; you'll drive yourself insane if you think you and the world interpret you the same.

What was the lesson you learned specifically from this?
I believe the business model is that it is near impossible to leave the ecosystem (this is also how SAP can still thrive). It takes a lot of money and expertise to make the migration happen. Few companies have scaling problems as pronounced as Amazon and as much of a vested interest in migrating to their own custom solutions.
I also wondered about that. From the blog post:

* "making it even better"

* "includes the Google Assistant" (I guess this means its Google Wifi + Google Home combined?)

* "Nest Wifi is more powerful than Google Wifi, delivering up to two times the speed and up to 25 percent better coverage."

I'm a bit wondering why it has the "Nest" name tag.
MSSQL's really not too bad. Yes, it's a commercial offering, but there's nothing inherently evil about charging money for software, and you do get what you pay for.

I've worked in both MSSQL shops and PostgreSQL shops, and, while I wasn't in charge of the budget, I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out that, once you factor paying your programmers and DBAs for their time into the equation, the MSSQL shop ended up having lower overall costs associated with its choice of DBMS.
That's exactly what 'limitation' means. It means no action after a certain period. That's how it works everywhere.
Sorry, I was not clear. The danger does not come from the tram but from the tracks. It is not unusual to see people falling (when they cross the tracks at a too low angle) especially when wet and/or icy/snowy and/or thin tires and/or not attentive (mobile phone...).
I wish standardizing documentation tooling (everyone uses a different tool today and ddoc by default has _no_ styling, no navigation, no nothing, so usually nobody writes docs for their code unless it's a big project like vibe.d) and IDE support was on this list (vscode centric tools exist and mostly work, but it's still fairly hit and miss) .. D's tooling has languished for a long time even if it is a great language otherwise.
At Amazon level you start needing specialized databases. For most other people Postgres is fine.
When they threaten you with lawsuits for using their software, and make their pricing completely opaque so you don’t really know what you owe (Comcast style), why would you knowingly choose that? Postgres is pretty darn good these days.

I still love Java, but I won’t be surprised if that language becomes a business risk because of Oracle’s behavior in other spaces.
So, an autopilot-equipped Tesla is a fully competent self driving car?
Amazon's current operation had little in common with their modern operation.

Sears had the order fulfillment and distribution know how.
It's 10+ years for citizenship as of a few years ago. Also, I doubt the military duties will apply to the vast majority of people that move there as adults and then start the process of residency and naturalization.
Expensive compared to what? DynamoDB has the cheapest 4ms writes I can find...

But yes, absolutely prototype and measure costs with real workloads
Question: do we know if police are using "find this face in a crowd" software or "log all faces and compare them to all people". The former is the same as was happening before only faster.
Startups and Starcraft
In other words, AWS used the stones to sustain the stones.
Aren't calls going out tommorow? Did you get one early?
I can never believe how fast their forums load
https://kommunity.com +1
That's a pretty strong claim. I know people in accounting because they like organizing, finance because they love analysis, quant because they love math, etc. I've also met anesthetists and cardiologists who chose their speciality for financial reasons.
Learning to Simulate
The simplest and effective way to solve the immigration problem is to give H-1B full job mobility and rights. This would benefit them and very quickly would bring the correct market value for everybody’s work. On the top side there will more genuine visa applications for real talent.
> It's a pedigree that allegedly excludes the dumb rich kids

Yeah, it's exclusively for the smarter rich kids.
Bankers can be financially driven, however, 'Central Bankers' [1] if you prefer that terminology, like those mentioned above, are generally not. :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_bank