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For others (like me) to whom the name is unfamiliar:

He is a wifi / cell phone radiation "truther" who thinks the EMF in everyday devices causes cancer

https://www.acsh.org/news/2007/02/16/cell-phone-dangers-stil...

After reading his ideas, I think we should all feel a little lucky that Trump hasn't made hime the head of the FCC.

edit: posting as primary reply, because the point is important, but was downvoted because of how obliquely it was made.
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> I suggest reading about multi-stage builds. They basically squash layers at the end so it's a "have cake and eat it too" scenario.

That's completely different thing. Multi-stage builds are great for separating build environment from production environment, but if you need several layers for production environment, they won't be squashed. See here: https://github.com/docker/compose/issues/4235#issuecomment-3...
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He is not arguing that 5G is dangerous. He is pointing out that there does not seem to be enough research available to state as a fact that it is safe and that, as a consequence, we might want to be cautious.

That's a very reasonable general approach. Whether his proposal to stop 5G deployments altogether is proportional to our understanding of the potential risks, if any, is debatable, to say the least.
Sure, if you have internal only sites, you pretty much have to, and this is used even in small and medium shops.

DOH will cause so much drama when internal sites wont resolve any more.
I wonder, some countries have laws that forbid you to use the brand of others to promote your own product. So why would it be legal to buy other companys brand as a keyword when buying ads?
https://www.flowdock.com , besides all the normal features you mentioned, it has excellent thread support, which is huge! So you can have multiple conversations in the same channel/flow during several days and can just ignore whichever thread isn't for you.
We have been using it with a 100% remote team for over 6 years.
What do you mean? I've never had it do that.
Yes, I know it's been possible for years. But 5G would lower the deployment costs dramatically (assuming the operator gets a good flatrate data deal) and it enables connecting moving objects like buses and trains into the network.

You are right that the slippery slope has been started already a while ago.
I spend a lot of time in public transport, and on internet in general. I never paid for 3G or 4G on my smartphone. Only wifi. OSMAnd for maps, etc.

5G is also pretty bad for the environment (netflix, instagram, snapchat are also pretty awful). The amount of energy and resources you need to make all those electronic is gigantic, not to mention the lifespan of a smartphones is so short, smartphones vendors are now trying to add more and more features to make customers replace their phones.

I'm really dying for any electronic brand to release durable hardware, and I'm also eager to have minimal smartphone OS that consume less CPU and memory.

I can't understand that race towards higher bigger everything.
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My team's got OneNote notebooks stored on shared network drives, which works very well with same the benefits you list.

To open the notebook and be able to start typing (or pasting in from email etc) is a very low barrier of entry, compared to say using a Confluence wiki page and having to login then click edit.
As someone who maintains a number of OSS projects, there is no social contract, it's a false dichotomy.

There are many people who ask you to do free work for them (implement feature, review PR, discuss tickets), and asking is fine, but there is no implicit expectation that it would be The Right Thing for you to do it for them.

If you find the work rewarding and have the time, great, you can do it if you so please. If not, the project is open source, they can pick it up and do it themselves.

You haven't wronged anyone by saying "no" when asked to do work for nothing.
This is already the case. I highly recommend you attend any physical security exhibition, CCTV vendors will happily demonstrate the capacity of their facial recognition appliances. (And that’s business grade commercial, imagine mil-spec)
Is 5G tech at the same Millimeter waves frequencies as those used in airport scanners? I've heard mm scanners as considerably safer than the old backscatter x-rays (although full of false positives and no better than random chance at actually detecting things).
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I'd say the biggest problem with something like this is that it's a silo. You're suddenly 100% reliant on them providing the right tools and functions to access your data in the way you want/need. And if your needs/preferences change, then you're entirely reliant on whether the silo has foreseen the new use case.

I already have an existing knowledge base (that not only consists of webpages, but also org files, videos, pdf's, etc.) that's accessible and synchronized across multiple devices - and while having a complete searchable history of all my browsing would be fantastic, there's no way to integrate it into my system (or any other system) with my own tools.
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My experience is similar to yours.

We also have a monolithic MS OneNote notebook. The notebook is shared by 30+ people and we haven't experienced scaling issues at that level either.

To add to your list of features, the macOS and iOS apps work well which is nice since we have a mix of Windows and macOS users.
Is there a landing page? I'm getting redirected to the invite page when opening openland.com

I think few people (especially on HN) are okay with giving away their email without seeing at least a glimpse of what your app is doing.
Most of the push for "smartphone" / "computer" addiction come from those countries that are very conservative and have high levels of social control compared to the norm in developed countries.

These countries are going through in a generation the changes that took hundreds of years in Europe - with all that disruption that implies.

Its more about enforcing control of the population and using addiction in this way cheapens other more serious addiction problems.

There are also parallels to other media panics comic's in the 50's satanic DnD in the 80's
For others (like me) to whom the name of the author (Joel Moskowitz) is unfamiliar:

He is a wifi / cell phone radiation "truther" who thinks the EMF in everyday devices causes cancer

https://www.acsh.org/news/2007/02/16/cell-phone-dangers-stil...

The fact that this is in Scientific American, even in the Opinion section, is simultaneously a testament to the openmindedness of science, and quite sad.

After reading his ideas, I think we should all feel a little lucky that Trump hasn't made hime the head of the FCC.
Higher bandwidth brings us closer to obviating wired home internet.
> skull and bones (Harvard)

Skull and Bones is a secret society at Yale, not Harvard.
At the end of the day I think I can agree on one thing; That we should make an attempt to definitively understand long term exposure.
That article is very unprofessional in tone, and quite thin on content. I'm not on any side, but if that is the best criticism of him then I'm now very wary of this technology.
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They are poor - in relative terms.
Radiation dosimetry is a combination of:

* Frequency of radiation

* Power of exposure

* Duration of exposure

* Where in the human body absorption is occurring

While the effects of the latter three are pretty well understood for certain kinds of radiation (ionizing and non-ionizing) ranging from "acute radiation sickness due to gamma burst" to "listening to the radio your whole life doesn't have a link to cancer", there is truth that a specific band of millimeter 5G has been less studied than others.

However, science follows patterns, and interpolating the existing data to this sub-infrared region opens a kind of wiggle room similar to, but in fact the opposite to, low dosimetry of ionizing radiation that has given the Linear No Threshold model a run for it's money. Except in this case, skeptics are typically concerned about chemical effects due to subdermal heating (not really as compelling as ionizing radiation effects), or debating the "non-ionizing-ness" (which is less common because its even less supported by evidence).

It comes down to a persons personal risk. In my opinion, the sun beats out all non ionizing radiation concerns, particularly when it comes to heating of the skin and subdermal tissues. Wear a hat and sunscreen (against the sun).

Still worth researching and acknowledging the data gap, as the EU does in its metastudy of 40+ years and X00 scientific papers [0], but there's no reason to be alarmed based on the existing corpus of evidence.

[0] https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...

Edit to add citation
The idea is promising. I have some questions though.

1. How do you handle content updates/corrections? Do you update the index on subsequent visits?

2. How do you handle fully dynamic pages like Facebook feed, Reddit, HN etc.?

3. What is performance and storage overhead of indexing "every word of all websites & PDFs you visited"?

4. What about i18n, have some plans?
well, I was curious about the New Zealand "researchers", first on the list

Tracy Chandler, BSc (Hons) MBChB FRNZCGP FNZSCM, PGDipSEM, Cert Dermoscopy, Cert Homeopathy, MACNEM member.

Homeopathy? ummm...red flag.... ok... maybe an anomaly.... who else from NZ?, huh, no one from any credible research org.
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Current landing page: https://openland.com. A new landing page is coming soon.

Use the invite above to sign up and bypass the waitlist.
I'm questioning the reliability of this data, at least in the South Eastern United states. The meta data for the building I work at is hilariously inaccurate and the locations for a couple IXs I know about through friends and family are wrong.
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I'm not an expert on this field, but I do know how to run the incidence numbers of cancer. One of his claims in the article is that for certain types of head-and-neck cancer, incidence rates are increasing. I cannot find any evidence for this:

I took the numbers from the country I'm familiar with (The Netherlands, which has excellent cell phone penetration), and no matter how I look, if I correct for age, they've only been decreasing. The Dutch registry is also one of the most complete of all European countries.

See https://imgur.com/a/FiNrVCQ, x-axis is year of diagnosis, y-axis is Incidence per 100.000. I used European Standardized Rate correction to correct for changes in age distribution, which is standard here. Top blue line is total, the other lines all denote different origins.
Context from the official statement is that PG&E does expect to require blackouts, but it will not be the same magnitude of black outs as seen a few weeks ago.
I thought before the idea of modem-over-VoIP would be cool to have a BBS which was more retro than just a telnet BBS could be.

(At my house, my only options are VoIP and cellular. POTS service has been shut down.)

I wonder how well modems work over VoIP though? My understanding is that the voice-oriented compression causes problems (although you can turn that off by using G.711), but the bigger issue is the unreliable timing of most IP connections upsets the modem and it keeps on disconnecting.

ITU V.150.1 (aka V.MOIP) is supposed to fix that but I don't know think many VoIP providers implement it.
I'd rater people attack the argument than the person. 'Truther' and 'Denier' are weasel words designed to discredit and idea without addressing the actual argument. It's like saying "How are you?!" with nothing else to back it up.
Compared to UNIX with the thousands of deployments "at a couple of universities campus and hobbists" it's a no show....
Sure, but they mostly didn't.

Now we will have 2 mayor browsers, that might or might not resolve internal domains correctly. And unless you have AD, and ability to push to config clients, you will have to go to each and every computer and set it manually. And hope that updates wont break it further.
Source? I would like to keep up on that.
EMF Scientist appeal is BS. It's random collection of people (many retired cranks) with PhD.

Autism researcher from Harvard Medical School is not convincing.
I've lived in two developing countries in my life, and its interesting how CA is morphing back into that. Small enclaves of super-rich, very high price communities where everything works, surrounded by large swaths of shanty towns where nothing works.
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This is what happens when you let the businesspeople determine societal values.
The article explicitly calls the 200 participants the world's leading experts in non-ionizing radiation. I haven't researched their credentials or examined their research. But if all existing research points in one direction, that constitutes empirical evidence. Of course methodological and statistical problems abound across all academia. The article makes existing research seem unequivocal and argues we need to conduct further research for 4G as well as 5G health effects
The most common scenario is that the original history is immediately discarded, by virtue of no longer having any refs pointing to it—though it lingers in the reflog for a while before being garbage collected. In that situation, I think it’s quite reasonable to call it rewriting history, because the original history no longer exists; for the term “alternate history” to have much meaning, the original must still exist, to be compared to.

I’m looking at the long-term picture here, rather than how you interact with it when in the process of rewriting history.

Clarifying that you’re replacing history rather than modifying it is useful, but I certainly have no beef with the expression “rewriting history”.
Apart from already mentioned Mattermost[0] and rocket.chat[1], Matrix[2] and their main client Riot[3] is seriously worth checking out. It's a quite ambitious effort for decentralized, federated IM / group communication. There's still some work left on the protocol in terms of federated identity, which should not be necessary of you're looking to replace Slack. I haven't spent significant time with it in the past year or so, but from my understanding it's starting to become production ready.

IMO there's value in pushing for decentralized, federated alternatives. Would be interested to hear from people who have used it in anger.

[0]: https://mattermost.com/
[1]: https://rocket.chat/
[2]: https://matrix.org/
[3]: https://about.riot.im/
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Geneva ones are spot-on though
Skype for Business is obsolete, though:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/25/16360072/microsoft-teams-...
IMO Rust really got errors right, a sum type is the way to go. Not exceptions, multiple return, callback arguments, or sentinels. Encoding the control flow into the type system makes your code much more robust.
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>I can't understand that race towards higher bigger everything.

I think it's called growth-economy. Solving things creates new exciting possibilities, which have problems that need solving. We're never satisfied, and that's a good thing. Otherwise we would've stayed in caves
This is already happening in Spain, and it's a headache because we already planned mobile coverage around the current bandwidth, and I really can't see how are we going to do without installing more BTs.

There are plans to replace copper with wireless connections in very dispersed areas. In most of this areas we already have posts, so I don't really understand what's the logic behind it, because at the end of the day you're replacing capex with opex. I may be wrong, but laying fiber, if you don't dig it, isn't that expensive, specially if you already own the infrastructure and it's easy to re-purpose.

As always, we won't be able to avoid shades and typical wireless problems, so IMO people will call helpdesk more frequently, and the tooling for diagnosing problems is nowhere close to fiber/dsl.
Unrelated but can some one tell me what is the "portable" computer in the picture?
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I think that's stretching it. Texting is just talking with people you know, and the generation that grew up with SMS service didn't grow any more addicted to it than people growing with landlines (c.f. the stereotypical American teenager with a landline phone in their room, talking with their friends for hours).

I blame the mobile Internet as a whole, and image and video sharing sites in particular. Modern social media is just a next iteration, but ever before them, people of all ages got hooked browsing sites with user-generated memes (mostly "demotivators" back then). Intermittent reward only properly kicks in once you have unlimited access to an endless stream of media that you can evaluate and consume in seconds.
Are you building on the Matrix protocol? In case you decided not to, what made you decide against it?
As a South African, the initial reaction is a knee-jerk, snide comment "get some", since we have frequent power outages due to a combination of institutional incompetence and malicious actors. (Apparently, at one point, we had outages that were "staged" in order for the Gupta family to make money from coal sales; I am not sure how it worked.)

But as a more sober and conscientious observer, what are the reasons for this? Is it that fires have been causing too much damage? Is it that the utility companies are slacking? From the article it is not clear whether putting off the power is a successful mitigation strategy. It's a bit unimaginable for California to have the same problems that we have. In our case we have politics that inadequately qualified people are promoted to management and hence my question about whether there is logic to this.

But the main difference is we don't have the same fire issues that California has, or at least, situations where the power lines are the cause of fires.

Edit: We do have fires, but I think we have other (less straightforward/tangible) issues that we debate in our spare time.
I don't know who Alex Berezow is any more than I know who Joel M. Moskowitz is, but openly ridiculing the entire state of California for their stance on public health and safety in your opening paragraphs isn't the best way to sell yourself as a voice of reason in a discussion about public health and safety of 5G.

Edit: I was also prompted to spend ~30 seconds researching who ACSH are since everyone critiquing Moskowitz in this HN thread seem to be posting links from that website alone. Didn't take long to discover they're a privately funded pro-industry advocacy group.
> The argument that HTTPS is always available and not filtered is just wrong, anyone who has experience working with large corporations knows that clients use local * certificates and everything is decrypted by the firewall and then re-encrypted. Making HTTPS slow af and sometimes plain broken.

Yeah, and implementing everything over https is just going to make things harder or impossible to filter. There's a reason that large corporations block certain things, so if they get reimplemented over http, that will just be a security hole. It would be nice if an actual encrypted DNS protocol was created.
> the topic thing is used by accident

It has been designed to be used with the topics and there is no workflow that allows you to avoid topics. I'm not sure what you mean by using topics by accident.
Automation and efficient documentation.

Proper ownership and decoupling teams and services.

Pair programming.
Not really true, they only distribute it for users who have initiated the wallet set-up AFAIK.
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5G is really replacement for a WIFI.
"However, we have considerable evidence about the harmful effects of 2G and 3G. Little is known the effects of exposure to 4G, a 10-year-old technology, because governments have been remiss in funding this research."

This sounds like bullshit.
What were there changes between 3G and LTE that would make it more dangerous?

More efficient use of spectrum?
The article is a bit suspect, the author seems to have a personal dislike on the guy. The author works for the American Council on Science and Health which is a nonprofit, but I couldn't find the sponsors.

The article uses personal insult (calling the guy a charlatan) but does not say much about why he disagrees with those positions.

I see no companies on the name of Joel M. Moskowitz, no products sold, no industry sponsors.

On the other hand, I see a guy with no industry ties being slandered online by no reason, weird.

I don't know anything about the guy, if anyone can chime in on why his opinion is not trustworthy I would like to learn more.
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Bad headline.

5G covers a huge spectral range starting at, yes, 5 GHz.

5GHz is coming out of every home router built in the last couple years. If it was unsafe, we would probably know about it. (Let’s say ‘unsafe’ as in, “it is ‘unsafe’ to drive a car” since we need some baseline risk tolerance).
Maybe Serverless Components could help? The backend component should be pretty easy for this use case:

https://github.com/serverless-components/backend
That's definitely true, but the time it really shines is when there's been a lot of conversation on a few different things while you've been away. In Slack, you basically have to read every message to see if there was anything of importance to you. In Zulip you just flick through the topics to see which ones are relevant and only read those.
The best way to share knowledge at work and in life is regular conversation with the people on the team. No matter the method for capturing knowledge, a lot of folks on the team aren't going to find things in it. Many experienced people on the team having wide-reaching networks throughout the team will be better surfacing of various things they've all learned, as well as improve overall design and architecture of what you're working on, and improve the education and quality of work for the rest of the team. This can be further augmented with formal design and implementation meetings, where problems and choices are discussed with revolving groups of people.
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It seems odd to associate risk with "NG". Any risks would be more likely related to the frequency spectrum being used and the signal power than to the modulation techniques and communications protocols. 5G can be deployed in the same frequency bands that are currently in use, although higher frequency bands are also anticipated.
Yes, sort of. Backscatter X-ray is ionizing (much smaller than mm - about 0.0000001 millimeters, so something like EHz - ExaHertz). While 5G new radio is 60 GHz (5 mm), like WiMax supposed to be.

Airport mm-wave machines are somewhere around 24-30 GHz (so around 10mm). (source: https://ec.europa.eu/health/scientific_committees/opinions_l... )

So far concerns are about insects (heating) and bacterium (antibiotic resistance "could" develop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21261425 ). Though the heating effect is probably negligible compared to how cities already radiate a lot more heat and insects are loving it.

Furthermore, if there is any serious new/strange/second-order effect on biology we would have already seen it, as people blasted lab animals with every kinds of EMF and we got only the coincidental expected flukes.
Seconded. It's not amazing UI in terms of modern design sensibilities, but to me, it's an improvement over Slack. Snappier, higher information density. And, of course, very lightweight.
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