skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoops, I think you're right.

I skimmed over git diff, as when I use git diff I constantly re-figure out for what it precisely applies again. I just care to remember "it diffs".
Codes of law aren't software. It's not a loophole, it's just an overly naive interpretation of what the law says based on your layperson understanding and applying programmer logic to non-software.

If you explicitly don't accept applicants only from select neightborhoods that all just "happen to" be almost all-black, you're still discriminating by race and it's still obvious and obviously illegal. You'll just waste more of everyone's time in court.

Just look at sovereign citizens and their inane shenanigans like "I'm not driving, I'm traveling by car and therefore don't need a driver's license and can ignore speed limits".
Seems they would be a decent candidate to try out UBI and see if in practice it works.

They’ve got wealth and they have lots of underemployed and unemployed.
I believe he's implying we don't need to share all that information, period.

I agree.

Remember: reduce, reuse, recycle is a hierarchy. Reduction is far more effective than the other two.
Link the peer reviewed study.
It's astonishing that even multi-billion brands are being tarnished due to Amazon's inadequate and sometimes even dangerous supply chain practices.
Yeah, that one seemed a bit odd to me, but it's not clear that "massive" was being presented as part of the acronym. Could just be unrelated hyperbole.

FWIW, I don't have a fixed opinion on this issue one way or the other. I just really hate seeing supposedly intelligent people rely so heavily on ad hominem or similar distractions. If there really is a problem with the cited research, I'd appreciate it if somebody could point to where those are. Likewise if someone could cite sufficient contrary research to justify abandoning the precautionary principle. That's all fine. I'm willing to be persuaded, but not by appeals to or rejection of authority.
The thing to remember here is that NA and EU can afford to reduce their emissions since they consume Chinese/Indian products in the first place. If more things had to be manufactured in-house, the local western emissions would be higher.

So on top of that, China and India (and other developing nations) need to be properly incentivized to switch to more friendly technologies. China saw this with their massive coal usage causing intense smog and moving quite a bit to solar (note: haven't checked what the current status of that is so if it's changed I could be wrong)
5G requires far more towers than 4G or 3G before it, and if biological damage is possible accumulated risk when measured over an entire population can still be problematic.

Ultimately this isn't simply an issue of "personal risk." If there's no danger, there's no danger. But if there is and you live in a major city simply not owning a cellular device may only lower your exposure.
They’re comparable because neither autistic people nor black people “expect others to change behavior to adapt to themselves, but refuse to change their own behavior.”
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I think it would be interesting, and potentially beneficial for you, to do a proper double-blinded test of your claim.
Oliver here, from the Memex team.

Memex is not able to do cross-browser/device yet, but we are short before releasing our mobile apps for iOS and Android, as well as syncing between devices.
Both the extension and mobile app will be offline first and sync happens with an end2end encryption via a relay server that deletes update message after every device has been picking it up.
Well, like hundred years of propaganda starting from the Edward Bernays times convinced generations to accept this broken system of privately owned monopolies, which has this inherent perverse incentive to rent seek with no limit and neglect actual products or services they are supposed to provide.
Great minimalistic interface. Two suggestions:

* Dark mode

* Add short instructions on how to play Blackjack. Im familiar with twenty-one but not with Blackjack so it'd be nice to have it there. I had to read Wiki page to play it
I personally dislike DDG's infinite scrolling. I much prefer good ol' pagination.
Humanity must come at someone else’s expense? Just meditate on that thought for a minute. Think about it carefully. In your mind, on whose backs do you suppose that wealth was built?
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5G requires more towers, closer to their end users. To quote the article:

> 5G will require cell antennas every 100 to 200 meters, exposing many people to millimeter wave radiation. 5G also employs new technologies (e.g., active antennas capable of beam-forming; phased arrays; massive inputs and outputs, known as MIMO) which pose unique challenges for measuring exposures.
An overview of AWS Nitro, which they are trying to copy, is helpful:

https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2019/02/aws-nitro-system/

Basically PCI cards to put into commodity servers. That do various types of hardware offload for routing, switching, storage, security, etc. Probably with out of the box hypervisors and management for those functions.

I imagine they want to sell direct to cloud providers like Digital Ocean and IBM. And perhaps through Dell, VMWare, etc, for Enterprise customers that want high end private clouds.
Oliver here, from the Memex team.

Thanks for the feedback. Except it being able to be turned off, how could we make the implementation less intrusive for you?
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Yeah. HackerNews is your local city's subreddit now. Agree - very sad.
PG&E maintains over 18,000 miles of transmission lines.
so you're suffering from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_hypersensitivi...

It has been widely studied and no proof of such an ability exists. Would love to see some proof of this from you
I get https://www.garmin.com/en-US/software/basecamp/ as the first result when I search for 'Garmin Basecamp', so I'm not sure what your point is.

I'd also argue that Basecamp (the service) is more known than Garmin Basecamp, _especially_ in these circles, DHH is definitely not some 'no-name' :)
Because they project for incoming needs. Hiring for today’s needs is a fools errand, it can take a good amount of time to identify a quality candidate. If I need something filled right ie or the company goes under it is already too late.
Yes, that's what the liberals are saying. They're yelling for more humanity, but they want it to come at someone else's expense. This isn't my principle; it's the liberals'. I'm not the one who should be meditating on anything, as I'm also not the one preventing affordable housing from being built.
So what happens if you're standing in the path of a milimeter wave beam from a tower trying to reach a user behind a wall?
And does this really help or are news that Amazon doesn't separate third party sellers from their own stocks just FUD?
You can look at what you're buying from the store before you buy it.
" ... but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Sure Facebook makes it worse, but the whole American cultural idea of free speech itself is already optimized for outrage.

Every single discussion about free speech I see Americans gloat and pride themselves over specifically defending the most offensive types of free speech, because, just like self-flagellation, it shows of dedication to the cause (in spite of common sense or decency).

I'll never forget the time when some extremist religious cooks wanted to bully the funerals of gay US soldiers, and the entire fucking country came to the defence of the bullies' right to freedom of harassment (I mean, speech), instead of the grieving families.

Yeah that story is a bit old, but the cultural phenomenon hasn't changed a bit. This was just the first time that I realized (again) that the blind acceptance of anything as a fundamental truth (or right) is dumb as hell when you take it to the logical extreme.

The more outrageous the type of speech is, the more vehemently Americans will defend it, which they see as a point of pride.

And it is this culture that built the world's largest social network platforms, so you'll see this behaviour reflect there. It also just happens these platforms are particularly fertile ground to both these types of behaviour, so the entire problem gets broadcast, amplified and generally just worse.
> the list is kind of hit or miss.

It seemed that way to me as well, but the real point is that it's irrelevant how well or poorly we judge those people. What matters is the facts they or others present.

> you're being far too defensive

Defensive of what? I haven't even expressed a position yet, other than "logical fallacies are bad" and I'm pretty willing to stand by that one. Are you here to argue the converse? To the extent that people or motivations matter at all, why condemn me but not the one who created the digression?
have you conducted a double blind test? Label two which are streaming, and two which aren’t. Ask a friend to pick two at random. Repeat many times and record results.

Many people have been studied who present with these symptoms. They are consistently unable to detect the presence of fields.

PS I can already see fault with the experiment in which the streaming devices are likely to be warmer.
Oliver here, from the Memex team.

Up until now all data is stored on your own device, or in your personal cloud with a file system integration (like a Dropbox folder)

We are about to release our mobile apps for iOS and Android, as well as syncing between devices.
Both the extension and mobile app will be offline first and sync happens with an end2end encryption via a relay server that deletes all messages after all devices have been picking them up. That server will in the mid-term be self-hostable too.
Ask HN: What are the most fundamental books on computer science?
I'm relatively new to CS (4 years) and I've seen a lot of great book recommendations here. But every discipline has it's most fundamental books ... e.g. philosophy -> Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, civil law -> code civil, christianity -> bible, etc. one should read to get a truly deep understanding.

What are those books for CS?
At a physical store you can check in advance if the expiration date has passed or not. You don't get the option to confirm it when you order online, however.
There are some circumstances where it might make sense, like a construction site. No tech company should be one.
As far as I know this doesn't actually work, because Amazon will comingle goods. That is to say you buy good from A. The warehouse closest to you has the same "item" but it is from B. So they ship you B's item, but mark it from A's inventory and credit A the money.

So even if you order from known good retailers, or Amazon themselves if party B puts bad products into the warehouse you can end up with bad or fake products.
> Many places in the US are considerably less “leftist” but also considerably less bleak.

I’ve spent just as much time time in the “dying” rust belt as coastal cities (it’s where I grew up), and it’s just a different kind of bleak.

It’s true that if you can manage to belong within certain in-groups in these places (often religious, reactionary), there is not as much baseline cruelty. But if you’re outside them for whatever reason, good luck. It’s made all the worse by the fact that many of their judgements of others are laundered through religion, making them even more entrenched. Wealth, poverty, disease, addiction lose much of their social determination and instead come to be a reflection of how “right you are with God.”
What I have found dealing with people that are Aspie/ADD (father and brother)

How transparent you are in the fact that you are applying a completely anecdotal and personal experience to the largest possible generalization of ADD/Asperger's.

That is very unscientific, and to people like me who deal with ADHD and a few other mental illnesses, downright offensive and prejudiced.
A food elevator in every room would already go a long way; you'd have to include something like an airlock though to avoid abuse / accidents (e.g. people climbing into them). For smaller and sturdier items the old pneumatic air tube system or a variation thereof could work.
These are all fair points. I really enjoy Python, but there are too many things I fight with on a regular basis that simply aren’t issues in Go. It could be so much better if (1) there was a better type system (mypy is unnecessarily shoehorned into the syntax and still very broken—can’t even express recursive types like JSON), (2) a good way to constrain the dynamism so performance could be improved, and (3) a better environment/package management and distribution story (so far pantsbuild.org and PEX files are the best I’ve found). Then there are a long tail of more minor issues, like async/await vs goroutines, real parallelism, etc.
Which brand did you check? If the disparity is really as high as 1¢ vs $4 then my guess is the brand is sending cease-and-desist letters to people who advertise on their trademark.

(Disclosure: I work at Google, but not on search ads. This is coming from my experience buying search ads pre-Google)
> I must conclude that the effects of EM-radiation are so minimal

Cancer rates are rising and we're not sure why. Is that acceptable?
Wrong answer. The wealth of those you want to protect from taxes is and has always been built on the backs of the poor who you want to deprive of public services.

They built your homes, they tend your gardens, they raise your children, they guard you while you sleep. Yet you whine and complain when they want buses that run on time and a place to sleep.
Or in your pocket. Where do you carry your phone?
Another thing that I would like to see in some kind of strict mode is the ability to mark explicit exports like in JavaScript modules. I often want to import multiple things globally at the top of a module because they are shared by multiple class or function definitions that I am writing. However, such imports end up being exposed to and usable by the consumers of my module, even though the consumers should really have imported those things at their source instead of via my module.

There are currently maybe two ways to tackle this “problem”, without a strict mode:

1. Don’t import at the global module scope; but that’s a bit tedious.

2. Import with rename, like `import os as _os`, and then leave it to the principle of “we’re all consenting adults”. I.e. if anybody imports and used things that start with an underscore, it’s clearly their fault, not mine.
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The cause is obvious: they were building on Microsoft Windows, using the NTFS filesystem. Even Microsoft doesn't try to build on NTFS.

Changing any single detail gives better results. Use a Samba share from a Linux filesystem. Run Mingw on a Linux system. Run MSVS in Wine on a Linux system.

Windows is an execution environment for applications. There is no need for, and no value in, actually performing builds in your target execution environment. Use a system designed from the ground up for builds.
It's not illegal to break copy protection for a work you purchased. There was an ammendment to the DMCA for it -- likely if this had not happened more of the DMCA would have been challenged and struck.
That one was just confusing anyway, the general response was "if it existed, yeah I would".
It's always useful to read the URL, they can change the title but are often reluctant to change the URL :)
I used it for a while and really enjoyed. But I wanted to make it work with github pages and it did not seem easy. Has anyone here managed to do that?
Oliver here, from the Memex team.

are you referring to Memex being card based?
In which part of Memex would you like to have that drag&drop ability to organise stuff?
vimwiki has been life transformational for me.
> But the problem began decades ago when sysadmins started using firewalls to control what employees could access.

If the sysadmins were told "We don't want people doing X on company time: stop it.", that is hardly the sysadmins' fault.

Do you think IT / Helpdesk wants the drama of extra calls because certain things are blocked? That they're sitting in their cubicles twirling their sinister mustaches thinking of ways to make people's lives more difficult?
That doesn't work, because Amazon comingles stock. You could still get bad product if the packaging looks the same between Amazon's item and a third party seller's item
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>>I think the point is that companies shouldn't be frat houses full of brogrammers.

Why not? If it's a private business, it can be whatever the owners want it to, unless illegal. I wouldn't have a tiniest inclination to work in such a company, but that's beside the point.
i don’t know why 5G is so important when not only is 4G pretty good, but 4G is better than most wired internet i’ve used in the US and Europe.

My vote would be fix the often abysmal wired networks first.
I got excited then for OneNote on Linux (Kubuntu) but a quick search suggests it's only available with a few hacky kludges and WINE?
sounds more like typical "wavies" bs.
Why not? Studying of not-neurotypical behavior in humans is less convincing than studies of rats?
Who am I protecting from taxes again?
At the same time, everybody seems to accept that the chance of getting cancer in your lifetime has risen to about one in three for men and one in five for women. And nobody knows why.

Because life expectancy has also risen; people who used to be dying of other things are now living long enough that cancer is more common.
Also South African here, I don't think it would be the same set of problems.

Seems like less of an incompetence/malice thing and more like a long history of bad strategies with grid infrastructure and power generation.

California has been constantly lowering its power stability throughout the day by shutting down reliable power plants for more intermittent solar and wind farms, without building the storage needed to avoid a blackout.

On the infrastructure side, it seems like there hasn't been much recent investment, and as power sources get further and further from the consumer the likelihood of a problem on some section of the lines increases.

Problems with power lines is an unfortunate reality of states where population centers are spread fairly far apart (we deal with this in Canada too). They're very expensive, especially long distance ones, so it can be hard to make incentives for infrastructure upgrades.
Very true. Another symptom is the amount of sarcasm and jokes we see in every single thread. I'm really sad to see HN turn into just another subreddit.
They already do have a benefits system in place that includes cash payouts to low and middle income families, plus bonuses for state employees (70% of Saudi nationals), stipends for students, tax breaks on home purchases, etc.
Yes, that's possible.

Technically, you're in the same situation as workers who live near the border and commute to another country every day.

You'd be liable to pay income tax in France.
That's a good question! Some things are hard to predict (compile times), some are easier (their abuse would grow, very soon Elm would loose the first "newbie friendliness" point).
But that's not actually simpler; there's two more solutions to whatever problem that thing is trying to solve: Self-service / buffet style restaurants, or the little conveyor belts with continuous dishes you see in Japan.

The complexity comes when you try and retain an existing workflow by a robot. You see this same thing when it comes to package delivery or warehouses, where they try to replace a human with a robot instead of redesigning the whole process as robot-first (this mainly aimed at warehouses btw)
There are a wide range of “leftist” policies, but they generally include things like higher taxes to support more social services, strong support for labor unions, higher minimum wages, higher government regulation of various aspects of the economy, various social policies including deemphasizing traditional families and religious institutions, etc.

California may not be “socialist” like Sanders wants (and frankly, no country in the OECD is “socialist” anymore the way Sanders wants), but it’s certainly more leftist than the rest of the US. It’s got the highest taxes, among the highest social spending, much more government regulation of the economy, higher percentage of union workers than the US average, the highest minimum wage, etc. If should be doing a lot better than other US states.
I’m not sure where you get those ideas? Where I live in NYC, they recently shut down a major street to cars so buses could run more easily — and the furthest left want to expand that. The left leaning people I know want to close jails, not build better ones elsewhere. We opposed an Amazon campus in our backyard specifically because it would drive up rents — and the furthest left want rent control.

Liberals are obviously not a monolith of only ethically consistent people, but I definitely don’t see the pervasive NIMBYism.
Well, I think what https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21311000 describes is the sane approach. Basically a Bayesian inference from the available data and our priors shaped by our understanding of physics, chemistry, biology, higher order effects, etc.

And yes, there are effects of 50-70 GHz EMF on biology, first one is heating, which is completely expected but might cause problems for insects. (But we already blast them with a lot of light at night, a lot of heat from the pavement and our buildings, and a lot of chemicals in the air.) Another interesting one is that cell bacterial division seems to be affected when combined with antibiotics. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21261425 )
Based on Raleigh scattering only and one time stamp only the answer is, I think... Maybe.

In the morning, if there is less dust, then there would be different Raleigh scattering.
So the question is how many of those go through fire prone areas. Perhaps there’s a 90/10 rule for where to expend the most effort.
I would like to add to this that many academics who study wireless research, specifically MIMO beam forming - aren't particularly incentivized to find issue with 5G. I've spoken to a few who have dismissed health concerns whilst waving their hands about the actual Science. To them this is worth anything up to 10 years of funding and research opportunities in what can be a very competitive research area.

They receive A LOT of funding from cellular companies in particular, any research that throws doubt on 5G could lead to their funding being pulled. Not only this, but most of the interesting 5G hardware is coming from the cellular companies on loan.

My point is: You have a perfect storm for a rushed technology with potential for health risks. Almost every Country on the planet is investing lots of money into 5G and the technology itself requires a significant number more cellular towers to be built in closer proximity to people.

If there is any genuine question about 5G's safety, I would rather stay on the side of caution. It's not as if people will kill over if they don't have 5G immediately. Not only this, the technology will be more mature and the price will likely come down for infrastructure development.
We've also had broadcast radio for over a century now, at much higher power levels than mobile phones.
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