skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sun is a 1000 watts per square meter exposure at your body, cell towers might be 100w if you hugged the antenna then inverse square law to distance to about 0.00000001 watt with a strong signal. Your cell device is a millwatts transmitter, equivalent to an LED light shining on you.

You don't need hat and sunscreen for street lights or flashlights nor would you need it for cellular power levels, orders of magnitude difference in exposure.
This argument - that Amazon prefigures a new Soviet-style planning - has been made sincerely. I’ve written a critique here: http://machineryquestion.com/notes/peoples-republic
Black fraternities (well, historically black) do exist, both at HBCUs and at other colleges and universities. And one thing that's particularly notable is that historically black fraternities tend to be more public-service oriented than historically white fraternities, which are more purely social clubs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_frate...
That does not mean anything because of commingling of inventory.
Ah you’re right. Looks like seals are set up like I was describing though.
Purchased by who, though? The cost of living is already so high that only the wealthy will be buying them.
Not sure why you're downvoted. I tend to think of leftist as relating to left wing ideologies (socialism, Marxism, communism, whatever), but in many internet enclaves, it seems to refer to being on the further and of the American Democrat party.
The issue is that somebody decided that you should be clear of the intersection as soon as the light turns red but it is not enough time if you travel slowly or if you need to turn left.

If you close to the intersection you might still see green or yellow very briefly but the act of slowing down to turn left is enough for you to run in red light territory and get fined.

There apparently is a formula that calculates how long travelers need to leave the intersection and, presumably, if you are still there it means you ran red light. It seems the formula is wrong as it does not grant enough time for lawful travelers in normal conditions.
That's nothing. All dairy cows have descended from one bull. That's how evolution (and its artificial counterpart, selective breeding) works.
Yea, the huge ones, many times the height of the house, are uh, really many times the height of the house above the house. According to [0], the maximum magnetic field from 275kV-400kV overhead power line (this would be measured much closer to the line than you could possibly get to without climbing the towers) is 100uT. Standing next to a running vacuum cleaner about 800uT. A standard clinical MRI is typically 1.5T, so about 10000 times the strength of the power line if you were a lineman sitting next to a live line. Typical field under the line: 3-5 uT. That's standing right under the line. The family underneath the line gets more radiation from leaving the TV on, or god forbid, the wifi or their cell phone.

Consensus is not far from general. You don't have to be an expert. If you are really afraid of radiation, talking about power lines really weakens your case. They do almost nothing compared to normal household appliances we use all the time. The inverse square rule is real.

I think to avoid your best bet would be joining an Amish community. And don't go outside, without covering up. The sun's radiation is like, actually proven to be harmful to skin and DNA, and is many times more powerful. Too bad getting sun is also clinically associated with many health benefits! Oh what will we do...

[0] https://www.nationalgridet.com/document/82871/download
EUPL: The European Union Public License
That should not happen at all.
> So if the driver saw yellow and didn't stop then they can't blame that the red light came too fast because they should be stopped already.

Huh? Even if you slam your brakes immediately when the light turns yellow, you might not stop on time if the yellow light is only on for, say, 100 milliseconds if you were close enough to the intersection.

This isn't at all as simple as you make it out to be, and the article made a pretty good point.
Excuse the anecdote over links to actual studies, but one of my old roommate's father worked on traffic light systems that time the yellow light based on the speed of cars approaching. They extended the time for cars that couldn't stop safely or that were accelerating to get through the light. This apparently reduced accidents at those intersections.
Interestingly enough, if you aren’t familiar with the location, there’s no foolproof method to tell whether it’s morning or evening by light alone. There may be cues, like if it’s a city then the properties of light could reflect the denser pollution it has to penetrate in the evening, but that still depends on location and time of year.

I sincerely thought I could tell mornings from evenings by light alone, until I congratulated a friend on a great capture of evening light and he told me the shot was taken in the morning. Did some research after that.
I see your point but I have a hyper sensitivity to EMF (among other things) and I turn off any wireless technology wherever I can (like Bluetooth, when I don't have any paring devices at home) and many devices aren't comfortable for me to keep, despite me working in an IT industry.

The symptom isn't classified as a disease at where I live, so it's hard to get any decent medial treatments and I'm afraid 5G might harm me even harder when higher frequency typically makes me feel worse without a way to get away from it.
Is criticizing an expert's qualifications an ad hominem? Particularly when they're using their expertise to argue for an idea as here.

Seems like a double standard. They can use their expertise/reputation to endorse an idea but using that same expertise/reputation to qualify that endorsement is an "ad hominem."

To me discussing their expertise is core to their position, since their whole position is: "I'm an expert, I sign a letter based on my expertise for a specific course of action." If they aren't an expert it cuts right to the core of their position.
Oliver here, from the Memex team.

Yeah we know it has not been really well functioning in the past few months. Had a lot of bugs.

We finally got a bigger round of funding and are now able to fix those.
Until February our main focus is improving release stability through fully integration testing the UI and backend, fixing all major bugs, improvements to UI/UX and the release of the mobile Apps+Sync.

Too bad this post has been upvoted so much now, a few weeks later things would have already been much much better :)

Regarding the bugs you mention I would like to know more if you could help me out here:
1. Which browser and system are you working on?
2. When you say the settings changed back to "intrusive & useless", what do you mean by that?
3. When you say "it never worked well" what were you expecting to be working but it didnt?

Thanks and sorry for the troubles Memex causes.
When the list of people also includes folks who claim to "customize clinical trials to support marketing claims"[0] it is hard to take even experts with solid credentials seriously.

0: http://energymedicineri.com/
Dokuwiki is great. Self-hosted, low requirements (no DB, just php), easy to maintanin, plain text files so data always accessible. It's a wiki so easy to edit and publish; readers can register and contribute.
Are Amazon and Wal-Mart Laying the Foundations for Socialism?
This is so spot on. Asynchronous ports are troublesome in a lot of cases. That's why I don't usually do my apps in Elm.
IPO is the search for the final bag holders. It's been that way for years now.
Common Mistakes That Django Developers Make
I am not from US but this smells as if PG&E tried to force California and general population to demand PG&E to be deemed not responsible for fires.
That's not true, cancer rates have risen also in children and young adults.
MIMO, active beam steering and paths with reflections. In theory. In practice, we'll see, but probably you'll have to hold your phone high to provide some clear line of sight between the antennas if you want those blazing fast speeds.
I was trying to build something similar based on Firefox sync, but it took quite a while to get a client working, and I never got back to it. (I found some bugs in their documentation along the way and helped them fix that, so that's good?)

Maybe I should pick it up again. My intent was that it'd run on a server and be your own personal search engine covering activity on all devices.
There is more to this story. What really happened is the company that contracted with the Oregon town to implement these red light cameras tweaked the yellow light settings to "increase safety", err I mean increase revenue for both the municipality and themselves.
"If Google wanted a fair play they would come with something akin to the Trade Mark laws built in house."

Said by someone who has no idea about trademarks. Trademark. For what class? For what country?

Most trademarks have only a few classes. So you may be allowed to sell stuff because trademark XYZ only covers shoes. You can't sell computers with "Apple" brand but nobody can forbid you to sell apple (to eat). Who owns a brand? Budweiser beer is owned by Budweiser USA but they don't have the trademark in most European countries. This would get extraordinary complex very quickly.
Unfortunately the hunch you have just spendt 30 seconds thinking about is sadly incorrect. The increase in life expectancy doesn't account for the increased incidence of cancers. There are other factors at play, which need to be investigated (some that we know: obesity, pollution, cigarettes).
I think this take is a little unfair. Sure, calling scientists “wackos” with reviewing the publications is extreme, we also know there is a massive body of scientific evidence looking at the link between RF waves and cancer that has pretty much found zilch at this point.
>Now, there's obviously some frequency band where we get into health risks. 5G jumps us from single-digit GHz to double-digit -- I'd guess you'd have to go at least past visible light before you run into safety issues, at least barring extremely high levels of exposure. Intuitively, it seems to me like that ought to still be safe, but I'm no expert.

I highly doubt that 26+ GHz will receive much attention. You have no range, you need line of sight otherwise it won't work. At least 3.4GHz (and the other LTE bands) don't have that issue.
Exactly, so if it’s a big deal to you go to the store? It’s never been a big deal to me.
This is why i never mention HackerNews on Reddit.

What is the next site we're all going to? ... and how will they control participant quality?
A significant chunk of the rise in life expectancy is driven by a fall in infant mortality, is it not?
> They could do that already.

Before Mozilla's drama with DoH, which app(s) did that?

Now that Mozilla has shown people that it's 'okay' to override the OS I'm worried that more things will do that same cockamamie thing.
Bold of you to assume that that ancient software doesn't have some hardcoded IPv4.

I wonder if moving to IPv6 will in fact mean more cyberwarfare.
And companies respond to those letters? Is there any legal obligation there?
This looks interesting. I wrote something quite similar back around 2000 as a proxy; today, of course, you'd have to implement it as they have, as a browser extension, because of https. It was a fun little project, and for the feature set I included (full text search of your history), it was quite easy to implement. At the time, I even did it with no dependencies that weren't in the Python standard library.
The Left in New York City are largely socialists by now, who had enough of a long-standing working-class tradition to avoid allying with liberal NIMBYs.

He's honestly pretty spot on about liberals, as the spot on the spectrum in between conservatives and social democrats.
My point is that Basecamp does not have a just claim to be no. 1 when you search for the term basecamp.
A lot of cancer rates rising is pollution, but we generally believe most of it is chemical forms of pollution, not electromagnetic.

That said, I am sure there are structures in the body that can selective absorb or react to non-ionizing radiation that we may not yet know about. Our cellular mechanisms are impressively complex.
The market is happy to sustain homeopathy and fake Faraday cages for your microwave-based electric and gas meters. Radium used to fetch a high price for its health "benefits"...
A data analytics firm that specializes in the Amazon Marketplace recently analyzed the site’s 100 best-selling food products for CNBC and found that at least 40% of sellers had more than five customer complaints about expired goods.

In other words, Amazon knows about the sellers who ship expired goods yet lets them continue to operate. It has the data and it still fails to take one of the easiest steps to address the problem, removing bad actors from the marketplace (which would also make many other sellers clean up their acts).

I've had a similar issue with buying books advertised as "new" and they are clearly used ... including one book that had a "USED" sticker on it. I complained about the seller, and nothing happened. As of the last time I checked this seller was still in business on Amazon, with 22% negative ratings in the last 30 days.

The message to third-party sellers is clear:

Win the buy box however you can. We won’t police your listings. We won’t punish you if you lie about the condition of the goods. Even if many of Amazon’s customers are complaining about you, you can still stay in business on Amazon.
I would take away the opposite conclusion. Left-wing government isn’t the solution in California any more than it is in developing countries and failed states; it is the problem.
A robot's utility is inversely proportional to how much it looks like a robot.
Good catch! Seems that everyone posting links to ACSH is more interested in shooting the messenger than actual science.
Isn't the amount of radiation you receive from the towers tiny in comparison to the radiation of your phone?
You missed a 0 there. Tweak is testing 10 Gb/s to consumer homes. I already have very reasonably prices 1 Gb/s for a year or 2 now.
The sun is way worse than 5G. Saddens me for the academic world to see such study / or see an argument based on a number of “scientists” instead of an argument of quality.
I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Here the same people who yell for affordable housing also go to court to block construction of new towers. The same people who complain about buses stuck in traffic on W 86th St also prevent the introduction of universal metered parking and congestion pricing.

But my original comment was mainly addressing the NIMBYism in California. Look at SF: it's a low-rise city of sky-high demand and prices. Who's preventing new construction? The same local NIMBYs who enjoy rising property values due to severely restricted supply of land that can be built on.
Five out of five signers from my country are well-known EHS proponents, and at least three have financial ties to the illness. Having a Ph.D. degree from a well-known university does little to prevent later involvement in quackery.
Is it set up as a UBI and is it proving itself, will it remain sustainable?
One should understand that at Booking, the only thing that counts is "conversion". In other words, the ability of converting a pageview into a reservation. Because that's the part of the process that creates value.

Since hotel reservations refer to a real world, where people change their plans, hotels get overbooked, burn down, are not reachable because of strikes, volcano eruptions, etc. etc. there is a huge customer service department. These people are able to cancel reservations, or force availability (after consultation with the hotel). In other words, until people have stayed at the hotel, and the hotel gets the bill for that, it really does not matter whether something was correct or not: the customer department can fix any problems.

So the only valid test is really: does it convert? And this is very closely monitored in close to real time.

The financial part of the system is thoroughly tested, as Booking.com is a listed company, so the scrutiny is extra severe.

> Most developers could push directly to production.

This is facilitates ownership and empowerment. You need to be sure that what you're doing, will not break things. If you are, it should be ok to push to production. If you were wrong, then that's ok the first time. Just don't do it again for the same reason: always make new mistakes!

This was the situation in early 2012, when I basically retired. Things have changed since then, but I still think the above is still basically true.
I've coined the term "orchard picking" for this. If the subject is climate or vaccines, most people will yell "learn the facts" and "follow the science" and generally act as though dissenters deserve every ounce of contempt we can pour on them. On those topics I generally agree, except maybe for that last part. But somehow on other topics - e.g. most discussions of programmer productivity or effects of technology - it's all "meh, here's my anecdote instead" and other forms of pseudo-skepticism. There I tend to break from the crowd. I believe science is a mode of thought, not just another rhetorical club to pick up when it's convenient and set down again when it's not.
Its the truth. You are being distracted by scary orange puppets and useless news, while the armed forces of the 5-eyes nations have been doing their best to get World War 3 started.

Pay attention. The war is coming your way whether you like it or not.
Same experience here. Ended up settling on app.getpolarized.io which seems to be less "intrusive."
How much water does it take to purify the silicon used in your phone?
I would be interested in helping you on this, if it's in a language I'm familiar with. Having it integrate with Firefox sync solves the problem of not being on any one device enough to make it your full history.
Haskell in web rocks!
It happens, but it's a punishable violation - the appropriate response is not "just return it or eat it" but an audit of the whole store and fines for having expired produce on their shelves, which is not acceptable.

A physical store that does not have a reasonable process to ensure that expired goods are not available for sale is not qualified to operate safely, if it does it repeatedly, then it should be shut down - it's like a restaurant with rats running around.
Elm can be looked at like Haskell on training wheels, in a good way, and that simplicity very likely contributed to its popularity.

We already tried Fay as a team (15kloc codebase to write an IDE), which was literally Haskell without type-classes. We've learned that we want type-classes, YMMV.
Have a look at Luje: https://github.com/davidgiven/luje
Good. You should be. Rayiner is pointing out a legitimate contradiction: that the actually existing coalition labeled "the Left" and the set of goals, values, and commitments that self-declare as "left-wing" are, in our present time and in certain places, contradictory. This leaves open the question of which one will be realigned to the other: the commitments, or the coalition?
Scoopex's Mental Hangover was a great demo at the time. I still like its soundtrack by Uncle Tom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZETBFv6zWs
More specifically, I meant the ancient software of the future -- not the stuff that's ancient today. I am convinced that IOT + a large-scale acceptance of IPv6 will result in the Internet being one big battleground.
I love how the first real slide goes straight into the fake manpage generator: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/

"App Repo Size Issues:" yes, this is the Achilles heel. By being a full distributed system where every client has to carry a full copy of the history of everything, some common practices become unsustainable. I've had two employers that checked build artefacts into SVN, for example: do that with git and the repo becomes unusably large very quickly. Vendoring dependencies, a useful practice if your project is slow-moving, will also bloat the repo. They should be using "shallow clone" for Jenkins, but even that can be surprisingly large.

I've also been through the "apply BFG to repo" phase (very time-consuming, and blocks all commits while you're doing it!)

> New idea: run the formatter against every commit in the history, so that it looked as if the code was "always formatted the right way".

This is actually brilliant, for the reason they give - keeping "credit" assigned correctly to original commits.

> Determined it was okay if older commits were potentially "broken", as long as the latest commit runs and has all of our changes as of late 2018

I'm less OK with this, as the chances of an automatically introduced horrible bug which you can't trace seem rather high and you've wrecked any chance of using git-bisect! But if the "tip" is the only supported released version, I suppose it's less critical.

It's also interesting that most of the speed issues are addressed by re-architecting to avoid syncing to disk. If there was an easy Windows RAMdisk this might have made almost as much of a difference.
I've noticed it for decades, its just in the last few decades that things seem to have gotten very, very bad.

Should have been obvious when the PATRIOT act got pushed through with no oversight ..
It's not ad hominem to separate between experts and non-experts.
My strategy right now is not to learn the next chord until I master the ones(A, E and D) which I am currently learning. Master here means to be able to play those thress chords each and move between them effortlessly. Seems like this will take some times.
You may want to read up on Poe's law[0] on why sarcasm and irony are less effective than you might expect online.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Why? Expired food is generally perfectly safe. The dates are quality indicators, not safety indicators.

It’s just being wasteful.

https://www.consumerreports.org/food-safety/how-to-tell-whet...
Use startpage.com
Would make up a great blog post, about highlighting the weaknesses and strength of F#, if there are any?
Lights seem incredibly inefficient to me. How many times have I been driving towards a green at the speed limit and it turns yellow just in time to force me to slam on the brakes or the gas pedal, all to let one waiting car go? Why not detect my coming and wait for an efficient yellow timing, thus I am not wasting gas and braking unnecessarily? This would substantially improve carbon emissions and brake dust, yet dozens of times per month, I see lights inefficiently block traffic unnecessarily.
Indeed - Saudi Arabia is expected to hit peak oil roughly between 2010 and 2030 - and there are suspicions that the downslope is going to be harder than the growth half, as they've reportedly been massively using water injection to increase production.

So this could (have) be(en) just their way to dump the company for the maximum amount of money while the getting was still good.
$1000 a month
12 months a year
10 people team
10 years.

That's 1.2 million.
I don't know what the law is here, but we used to respect the letters
> 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.

Re the dividends part, that's an issue on which our present society will have to work more and more, because afaik most of those dividends go into the coffers of pension funds/insurance companies/big institutional investors which by their very nature "trickle down" that money mostly to people aged over 45 or 50. Most of those reinvestments you mention will get their financial return in 20-30 years' time, by which point the age-group I mentioned earlier (the over 45-50) will either be dead or to old too care that much about it.
It's not related to EMF radiation.
Absorbsion rates vary by orders of magnitude depending on signal frequency.

A simple power comparison is not a great measure of affect.