skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh heh quite audacious to demand over-price for a company which only business is selling fossil fuels. I mean it isn't really a field that has great future prospects. And they know as well as the rest that without diversifying and sharing the risk it will be tremendously damaging to their economy once the renewables start really kicking in and pushing fossil fuel out of the regular use.

With quick look at their wikipedia page their P/E number with 1.1 trillion valuation is about 10. With 2 trillion it would about 20 which is quite insane if that's what they are asking. It's always these people who have distorted view of reality that seem the most damaging to this world. Worked for Steve Jobs maybe but I think in the end, he had a pretty good perception of the technology market.

Yeah, well. Good luck selling that thing. Can't really be a surprise for them that people aren't jumping out of their pants to buy Aramco stock. I think it would be a hard sell even with the 1.1 trillion valuation. Saudi-owned fossil fuel company. A dream investment.
I wonder what the bps limits would be. Can it do 33.6k?

Didn't V.90 (56k) require a special setup with ISPs where you had fewer that one analog-to-digital hop? And IIRC, you could go from a 56k modem to another 56k modem. ISPs had different hardware.
> Small enclaves of super-rich

Indeed, and these same people often constantly prattling on about progressive politics.
It’s an Italian word. A couple of Chambers’ deputies in MPLS are Italians.
Oh, sorry I misread. I thought you had an exit with a lump sum or something.
The scientists' appeal, including a list of signatories and their affiliations, isn't hard to find by following links.

https://emfscientist.org/index.php/emf-scientist-appeal

Likewise for a list of relevant papers:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19CbWmdGTnnW1iZ9pxlxq1ssAdYl...

Is Harvard Medical School an institution you recognize and trust? Columbia? Monash? McGill? Can we dispense with the tired ad hominems and talk about science? A self-proclaimed guess from a self-proclaimed non-expert seems ill placed in a credentialist diatribe.
I tried to find garmin basecamp, but this IT company is squatting the results with an add. How could google let some no-name steal from garmin?
Can't Basecamp trademark their name and then pursue a trademark claim against Google, or is it too late for that?
> It comes down to a persons personal risk. [..] Wear a hat and sunscreen.

What's the "hat and sunscreen" protection against millimeter wave cellphone towers, that someone else installed on their private property near you?

I'm not yet convinced the risks exist. But conceptually if there was a danger, there's no "personal risk" argument. We're blanketing the whole area around a tower with millimeter wave/5G, a person cannot opt out.
UKRI Digital Security by Design: An Experimental ARMv8-A CPU with Cheri Support
There is nothing inherent to the pseudoscientific divisions of people by race. Autism is a medical diagnosis. The OP was in the wrong to say "Every Aspie", but let's not dig this hole deeper.
In such matters, there's a strong psychological bias from tech-savvy people to dismiss evidence and side with the technology (not the science, which would include estimation of potential harm etc, but with the technological application, which is assumed as de facto good).

It's a strong self-identification with technology who instills a fear of appearing as a luddite, like the unwashed masses who fear this or that and fall for hoaxes about the dangers of safe substances (vaccines, chemicals) and harmless technologies.

But it can also be thought-stopping, and more emotional based than empirical.
> old GSM Modems would top out at 9.6kbps, with some having a 14.4kbps option

Uhm, you are off on your numbers. GSM channel size is 200khz, but TDMA is used on top of that only leaving ~20khz for voice traffic (remember analog modems are “voice” traffic). So naively one might assume since 14,400 is under 20,000, it would be theoretically possible to achieve, but that’s not true in reality due to losses in the digital to analog to digital conversion due to noise. In the case of POTS, which has a max channel size of 64k, the theoretical maximum is roughly 38k (the reason 56k modems worked is due to the removal of the ADC conversion on the ISP side). Using a similar conversion for GSM, that gives you a theoretical maximum of 12k. If nothing else was a factor, then 9600 would be doable, but due to other issues with GSM, the real world experience usually was closer to 2400, sometimes getting 9.6k when everything was working great.

Source:
I owned a dialup ISP in the 90s and routinely logged in from remote to manage user accounts from my 386 Thinkpad connected to a GSM phone. After selling the ISP, I worked for multiple years in the telco field, on the RBOC side (Southwestern Bell and later SBC), the cell carrier side (Voicestream and later T-mobile), and LDDS side (MCI and later MCI Worldcom).
I find (while not arguing you should do this too), I’ve given up attaching an expectation to reading.

This is because some of the most useful material I’ve read, I had to struggle though it and deal with the boredom. In hindsight, I really appreciate the fact I didn’t skim through it and persevered to grasp it all.

I find if open the book without looking for some kind of amazing or fun / exciting experience, it helps me to read more and feel less disappointed and bored if I’m not having a blast.

Sometimes I feel like reading a “good and enjoyable book” for fun, in that case, I would be disappointed if I wasn’t enjoying it and just find something else.
You can, there are some fairly straightforward principles of building in these environments to prevent the spread of fires, the technique works. Now, getting folks to care about fixing their homes, when they are insured for such a small proportion of the costs they generate, is a taller order.
Ask HN: Dropbox-like file sync software decoupled from storage provider
Is there such tool available? My wishlist is:

* Realtime two-way sync (no CLI tools required to run manually).
* "Serverless" in the meaning that no software is required to run and manage on the server side (i.e. Nextcloud doesn't meet this)
* Proper client-side encryption, storage and transit always encrypted
* "Bring your own cloud storage" - ability to use mine S3/B2/etc credentials.
* MacOS and Linux clients available
* Syncing to a cloud location (not requiring my two computers to be online at the same time)
* Bonus points for having an open code, but a closed source from a reputable company might work for me as well.

I only found GoodSync, but it seems very niche, not popular with the IT crowd and I'm not sure how trustworthy it is. I know that JungleDisk used to work this way years ago, but they don't seem to include "sync" in their feature list today and seems they pivoted towards backup solutions.

Is there a solution meeting these criteria? What do privacy-oriented folks use to sync their files across machines?
I've done 2400 baud and lower over VOIP. 9600+ gets bit unstable.
Harvard Medical School is good institution but people on the list are not experts in the subject. Autism researchers etc.
How exactly are they "bad for the environment"?

Would you prefer we revert to manufacturing plastic VHS tapes, then distribute them by diesel trucks like we used to in the good old days?

Would you prefer people get their morning news on broadsheets made from the bleached pulp of rainforest trees?

Or would you like to go back to the good old days of AM radio when the inadequacy of the receiver electronics was compensated for by sheer power at the transmitter, to the tune of megawatts of broadcast power?

You're probably one of those people who would prefer to breathe in lungfuls of woodsmoke rather than bathe your skin in the harmful rays of electric light.
We have heard about these increases since wireless landlines were introduced.

I would be more likely to believe this risk if it was showing up as hand tumors since most people are now carrying phones far more often then holding them up to the head.

It would however be interesting if the known decrease in male sperm count worldwide was actually attributed to cellular devices in the pocket.
> HV power lines are, in an electrical sense, very far away from you

I've seen family houses literally next to high tension poles (not just regular poles, I mean those huge ones many times the height of the house), for example in Portugal.

I don't see any definitive conclusion online for the link between high voltage lines proximity and cancer, but I am not an expert. Seems to me the consensus is far from general.
A new pesticide is all the buzz
I think you're overdue on noticing that by about 70 years: the postwar international order, UN, Bretton Woods, WTO, NATO etc.

It's not even necessarily a bad thing, provided that it's free, democratic and transparent. Mass surveillance is none of those things and does not belong in the international order.

It would be great to do away with hegemons, but in a world of multiple would-be "great powers" you end up having to pick one to be protected by from the others.
To be fair, his views don't have enough of a pro-business bias to them for the current (or most) administrations.

Speaking of a pro-business bias, the ACSH:
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Council_on_Sc...
From TFA:

"Along with the patterning and duration of exposures, certain characteristics of the signal (e.g., pulsing, polarization) increase the biologic and health impacts of the exposure."

"The latest cellular technology, 5G, will employ millimeter waves ... 5G also employs new technologies (e.g., active antennas capable of beam-forming; phased arrays; massive inputs and outputs, known as MIMO)"
I think the trick here is that by trying to be ever better at a chore you stop filing it mentally as "obstacle in the way of a target I'm trying to reach" and instead as a target in its own right.

The distinction is fairly small but at least for me personally it makes a gigantic difference in how much I like doing a task. If I'm woodworking I generally loathe sanding, it's repetitive, tiring, and dusty. But if I see the sanding as its own mini project I can spend hours getting it perfect.
> I honestly havn't figured out why these issues get such unanimous support by the political class.

I think its because too few Australians care enough for this to matter to politicians and the parties, who respond to incentives like everyone else.

This doesn't absolve pollies of responsibility for passing these draconian measures, but it is an important fact to acknowledge if we want to successfully change the culture around security issues in Australia.
I asked this in another thread and got a healthy dose of downvotes instead of an answer. But why can’t they do a controlled burn along the path of the power lines?

If it’s too risky they could even do it at a different time of year when there’s less risk.
The amount of home generators is going to quickly increase, which will do wonders for air quality when the power lines are cut.
For anyone that hasn't heard, the "10 thousand hour" catch phrase was created be Malcom Gladwell in his book [Outliers], when Malcom misunderstood the research results of Anders Ericsson.

Ericsson has gone so far as to dedicate an entire six-page section in his 2017 book [Peak] to a discussion of [Outliers]'s popularization of the catch phrase "the ten thousand hour rule". In the section he lists three reasons why this phrase is misleading, and one way in which it is accurate.
The central theme of [Peak] is to review what things all experts have in common, irrespective of their varied fields: these being a habit of deliberate, purposeful practice and mental maps.

[Peak] Peak: Secrets from the new science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool

[Outliers] Outliers by Malcom Gladwell
You can add a section called alias to your ~/.gitconfig

[alias]
lol = !git --no-pager log --graph --decorate --abbrev-commit --all --date=local --pretty=format:\"%C(auto)%h%d %C(blue)%an %C(green)%cd %C(red)%GG %C(reset)%s\"

Then you can run "git lol" and get that cool output. That's one way to "extend" git.
I have a personal "knowledge base" that is publicly available at https://maxmasnick.com/kb/.

This is partially inspired by Chris Albon's excellent data science technical notes: http://chrisalbon.com.

I find it very helpful to have this kind of information on a public website. It's easy to search myself, quick to edit[^1], and helpful for sharing with others when someone asks me a question.

For notes I don't want to make public, I use OneNote. It's available on every platform, has a documented file format, and the sync works well. Of course, I have some more detailed notes on why I prefer this to other options: https://maxmasnick.com/kb/note-apps/.

[^1]: My whole website is built with https://gohugo.io. I use the GitHub Actions beta to automatically update the public site every time I commit to master. This means I can edit on a computer with a standard text editor, and also on iOS using https://workingcopyapp.com.
Such a fantastic visual description
There are other factors not mentioned in this article.

First, most technologies are challenging to use and expensive at first. There are often related technologies that are required to make the first technology actually be useful. For example indoor toilets are not really useful without plungers.

The second problem is survivorship bias. People are rightly skeptical of new technology, because most new technology turns out to be rather limited in its uses, at least initially. It's easy to comment on the slow adoption of some past technologies, because we can see their wide use later, yet we ignore all the garbage that they were also trying to ignore. See
https://xkcd.com/1827/
I'm partly surprised by the cynicism. Yes, the media are flawed, but that doesn't mean they aren't essential.

I would rather have flawed free media than none at all.
I’ve ended up with expired food from physical stores many times in my life. It’s not really a big deal, you just return it or eat it depending on the product.

Same here. It happens. It’s harmless.

If it’s a big deal to you, go to the store and pick things out yourself.
The actual resolution of the human eye is much smaller than that and a lot of our perception is based on interpolation. It's pretty interesting to read up on this.
Well, that's why the "reasonable accommodation" standard exists in the U.S. Simply demandimg all of his colleagues to passively accept speech and behavior that is rude, abusive, or caustic to team building, or paying monthly consultants come in to analyze the new work frictions and host workshops isn't likely going to pass muster. These people need and should get help, but they aren't entitled to a workplace that disproportionately revolves around their quirks.
Mostly the protection is the inverse square law. Provided you're not holding the device next to your head the exposure is tiny.
PG&E has been paying out dividends and executive bonuses instead of reinvesting in their infrastructure for years. And bought off a number of state politicians.

Now that climate change is creating conditions for the already wildfire-prone landscape of California to suffer more frequent and severe events, the power companies are washing their hands of it. Short of some major state or federal investment in upgrading energy infrastructure (like the green new deal), I wouldn’t expect that to change.
Are you really responsible for your car accident record, or did you through no fault of your own develop an adrenaline addiction, propped up by auto commercials and a neighborhood that normalized street racing?

For any tax or public policy you can find sob stories on the edges, it doesn't mean it's not a good idea in the aggregate to enact the policy.

Which is what I'm pointing out in this case, it's generally a good idea to tax the specific harm that's being addressed (unhealthyness), not some mostly-but-not-quite related variable (sugar consumption).

That organ transplant example isn't meant to be plausible, but an apocryphal story. You presented a story of "no treatment for you" for someone being grossly negligent with their own body.

I'm pointing out that you'll equivalently have otherwise healthy people who don't get timely treatment because the health care system overall is strained by obesity-related illnesses, tobacco-related cancers etc.

Doing nothing is equivalent to continuing to punish people for their health problems because some other people have preventable self-induced health problems. So I don't think you can make the slippery-slope argument, or claim the moral high ground.
> I mean it can't be good all this radiation exposure.

The light bulbs in your home spew out radiation. The heating of your home is all spewing out radiation. "Radiation exposure" is meaningless without considering whether or not radiation at a given wavelength will interact with your body in detrimental ways at the given power levels (of course, if you heat your home too much, or set fire to it, the infrared radiation/heat will kill you; but we don't for that reason conclude heat is inherently bad) or not.

Talking about "radiation exposure" without being specific about those things is as meaningless as suggesting eating is bad for you because some things are toxic.

Some radiation is very bad for you. Some is essential for you to some extent and dangerous for you if you get too much. Some just won't interact with your body in any way that matters.

> As far as I know, people living near large electrical wire high tension poles are at a higher risk of cancer already.

There is some very limited evidence that shows that strong electromagnetic fields may have some limited effect specifically for incidence rates of childhood Leukemia, but notably only at levels found at too few houses for the researchers to get a large enough sample size to be able to draw conclusions either way. In other words: We don't have any clear evidence of that. We have some research that may hint at some link under conditions to rare for us to have anything conclusive.

It's worth researching, because even a very minor increase in risk would have substantial long term effects, but it's not something that really has any relevance to the safety of 5G at all, any more than the fact that too much infrared radiation (heat) will burn you. They're different things.

[1] provides a detailed walk-through of different claims, sources of electromagnetic fields and radiation and what different studies say about this.

[1] https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/r...
Google knows what they're doing. Being a private enterprise, they can block you from "buying" the competence name (TM) to put your own product.

Just try to buy "Google" term to advertise your business (let's say you are Dropbox and want to buy "Google" and "Drive")... Yeah, they had it blocked. But you can buy "one drive", which is unfair albeit legal. It's not as the terms in dispute were "project", "management", "time", "team". It's the brand name, which incidentally in the case of Basecamp has zero relation with what they're selling.

If Google wanted a fair play they would come with something akin to the Trade Mark laws built in house.
This was the first google result. California is 48th. And that of course includes all the smarties in silicon valley who I assume bring up the average.

https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/we-compared-average-iq-sc...
Discord. Yes it's marketed towards gaming communities but it's still good for everything you mentioned

https://discordapp.com
Strokes and cardiac arrests [admissions] rise when air is dirtier
Traffic lights worldwide set to change after a Swedish engineer saw red
American liberals are always yelling for more “humanity”, but they keep quiet about the requirement that humanity must come at someone else’s expense. Yes, we need cheaper housing - but not here. Yes, guvment must build better jails - but not here. Yes, please run more buses - but not down my street. Yes, we must accept more refugees - but put them somewhere far away, certainly not anywhere near my child’s route to school.

Liberalism and NIMBYism are joined at the hip. Liberalism is loud and ostentatious, while NIMBYism is prosecuted quietly via the court system, lobbying, and political donations. There’s a certain poetic beauty to how both seem to coexist in the same group of people.
Expensive isn't really the issue. For a (reasonably sized) company (earning decent revenue) plenty of things aren't expensive in isolation. The problem is that there are a lot of things a company either needs or wants to spend money on, so at some point you have to start prioritising.

For us, we need single sign-on, so Slack's £9.75/user/mo. For 200 users that's nearly £2000/month, or £24000/year.

We're now nearly 300 people. That's about £35000/year. And it only gets worse as the company grows.

That's more - I mean, way more - than it costs us to license SQL Server (amortised annually on a 3 year upgrade cycle). It's more than the licenses for several of our other business critical systems and services combined.

In terms of priorities then, we're about to embark on a series of infrastructure improvements and I'd much rather use that £35,000 there, where for us it can add more value.

The problem with Slack is it sounds cheap but the cost creeps up to quite substantial levels for even relatively small organisations. It then needs to be weighed against other costs, and the value it provides versus the value they provide.

Whereas on the other hand we're already paying for Office 365, which everybody in the company uses heavily every working day of the year, and Teams is bundled with it, and it does everything we need, so why not use it?
On the one hand, I think your conclusion is correct, but on the other hand, it took quite some time to establish the health risks of smoking. Because there were concerted disinformation campaigns etc.
The intro panel on the homepage (worldbrain.io) is dark grey text on a dark grey background. Is that intentional or a bug?
Look at those goalposts go! Three minutes and already we have a new standard. Too bad it's still about the people and not the facts.
> massive inputs and outputs, known as MIMO

MIMO is Multi-Input Multi-Ouput, surely?

There does appear to be such a thing as Massive MIMO, which they might mean?
Role of a DevOps Consultant
fair enough.

it's a true statement, though, that conventional scientists and experts in EMF don't feel there is any real risk of these wavelengths.
> It reminds me of those "you wouldn't kill" segments at the start of DVD's that you couldn't skip ...

Obligatory IT Crowd reference:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg
A cert in homeopathy would not be like certifying in AWS or Azure products. It would be like having a CS degree and then getting a cert in computer shamanism where you were trained in the proper chants and symbology to fix computers just by shouting at them.

Equating certifying in a stack or methodology like AWS or Azure with homeopathy lends it 1000X more credit than it deserves.

By all means certify in herbology or natural medicine but if you are a real (equivalent or otherwise) to a medical doctor and you certify in homeopathy you are legitimizing fake bullshit and you should be judged for it. Homeopathy preys on the sick and desperate and deserves no slack.

Maybe this seems overly harsh but people I care about have paid thousands for this bullshit and the smooth talking bullshit salesmen had way to much ""science"" on their side.
Seems odd to purport that a scientist is not credible, and cite a blogpost by a tech founder as your more credible rebuttal. A tech founder working in the industry in question no less (networking).
Demand for iPhone increases by 230% in China due to lower prices
Dr. Bernard Fisher, who revolutionized breast cancer treatment, dies at 101