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> The leading independent organization on cancer causes says that current cell phones are "possible carcinogens"

It is crucial to understand what this actually means. the IARC classifications are valid but — particularly to lay people — incredibly misleading and pretty much useless. All that “possible carcinogen” means is that we haven’t yet collected sufficient evidence to discount harm. It’s not evidence of carcinogenicity at all. If anything it’s the opposite, because it means that, despite the existence of relevant studies, there hasn’t been any consistent demonstration of carcinogenic effect.

Furthermore, IARC only classifies risk itself, not hazard [1], nor dosage effects.

For context, IARC classifies sunlight exposure and processed meat consumption as “definitely carcinogenic” [2]. Despite this, regular exposure to sunlight is crucial for your health, and regular meat consumption is known to have little absolute effect on cancer risk (in other words, although red meat does have an effect, the effect size is tiny).

[1] https://worksmart.org.uk/health-advice/health-and-safety/haz...
[2] https://monographs.iarc.fr/list-of-classifications/
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But how do we, as buyers, know which sellers have selected that option and which haven't?

The option existing for you makes absolutely no difference to how much I trust the system if information about (or even the existence of) the option is not something I know.
I do what most people do: Look for something that covers as many of my use cases as possible. The less customization I have to do, the better.

What I'm hoping is that this OS lives up to its promise to cater to the 80% first, which will likely mean that I need to do little-to-no customization, which means less things to maintain myself, which means more time to do actually valuable things. That's what I used to like about MacOS in the days of Mountain Lion.
Isn't meta-analysis necessary and critical today?

With a potentially large # of studies on a specific subject, some of which may be contradicting, meta-analysis will be done.

Whether by accredited scientists, or institutions who do this on a professional basis with open and established criteria and consistency in approach (though there may still be flaws in the approach); and/or by individuals when confronted with large # of studies, when I feel bias would almost certainly be the primary driver.

While you absolutely cannot eliminate the latter, it feels it would be foolish to dismiss or eliminate the former.

As long as:

a) World is a bit tricky (phenomena difficult to define and isolate; limitations in equipment and measurements; limitations in humans)

b) We use statistical analysis as primary differentiator of significance
There will continue to be contradicting studies.

Not disagreeing it's always better to improve studies and experiments, but it feels like meta-analysis of multiple studies is not just a necessary evil, but a good and desirable next step.

Thoughts?
Thanks for your reply. Your first comment implied that you looked down on users of all Facebook products, whether Facebook itself or WhatsApp or React. I find this attitude silly, since a proprietary social-media platform, messaging app, and MIT-licensed web UI library are very different beasts. But now it seems you aren't even categorically against Facebook, just against people who use social media but also React for unrelated reasons...? That makes no sense.

Ironically, I can't even see your original post anymore because it's since been flagged. If that happened by the time you wrote your reply, I guess I understand your sensitivity against tone-policing.
After so many stories and experiences with fakes, why would anyone still buy items in Amazon that are otherwise typically found in pharmacies or grocery stores?

In my experience Amazon ships:

Food that is expired or fake
Drugs that are expired or fake
Batteries that are expired or fake

I've even received fake diapers! Very well done fakes too: we only noticed because of a very small logo that are included in the real ones.

I use Amazon only for high ticket items that are unlikely to harm me, and then only because of their easy return policy (Epson, I'm looking at you)
Ah, but that's something you do on purpose. What I meant is that it's not a Meltdown-like problem.
Actually, since the Perl 5 example doesn't chomp (remove newlines), the Raku version would need to be:

my @output-array = lines(:!chomp).unique;

where the `:!chomp` is a named parameter representing a `False` value for the named parameter `chomp`. AKA, `chomp => False`.
I wish I knew about Last Mile. I'm going to reach out to them.

For some context... see my only post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18704252

I have another account on HN with lots of karma, but I'm still terrified that if I talk about my past openly, it'll be career suicide.

Here's the thing: you can "pay all your dues" to society, but if:

a. your crime is a felony

AND

b. you don't live in a state where their criminal code has a provision for felony EXPUNGEMENT (NOTE: that's not the same thing as only a pardon)

the simple fact of the matter.... you're SCREWED. It will follow you FOREVER.

There is no forgiveness, and the felony will make it very hard to get a good job unless you're lucky enough to find a company who will hire you in spite of it.

I have only had luck at companies where I knew someone who worked there already, and they vouched for me. Even then, it was VERY challenging to get past the gate that is HR.

Here's the thing, though... if (as a society) we're going to hold crimes against people forever... how do we expect them to be restored?

A good job is arguably the most important part of that work of restoring someone to society.
Ironically, Saudi Arabia is one of the places where colonialism wasn't really a problem.

Saudi Arabia was under Ottoman "control" (in quotes, because the idea of control in the Ottoman empire varied greatly) until WW1. After WW1 it became independent under Abdulaziz.

Saudi Arabia was never under British control.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Saudi_Arabia#Unific...
I did click

The list of peer reviewed articles is from Powerwatch - Who we know all about - https://www.badscience.net/2007/05/so-simple-a-child-could-s...

The petition of 240 'scientists' on (emfscientist.org) ask for

6. medical professionals be educated about the biological effects of electromagnetic energy and be provided training on treatment of patients with electromagnetic sensitivity;

This is coo coo science that NO reputable person would put their name behind. Electromagnetic hypersensitivity is trivial to check, for low cost. Yet no one in the world has proven it exists.

Yes, the 240 scientist's are "bullshit".

I can't believe Scientific American allowed this blog article, or perhaps I can but are more saddened by it.
I've looked at devconnected several times. The content shows promise. I'd like to read more articles like this. I'd like to read more of this article. The amount of my screen taken up by ads prevents it. The animations break my concentration. The inline format + footer reduces information density below my usability threshold. Good luck.
Jeff Bezos seems like a standup guy! He’s rich And built a tech company so why not let him do what he wants?
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> By default that setting is disabled

Why, might I ask? Your tagline is full text search, but I have to turn it on?

"Full-Text Search your Web History & Bookmarks"

I'd reconsider the landing page hero section design. Don't write with black on darkgray background.

https://imgur.com/a/hgZrerp
"loop running in the system process while holding a vital NTFS lock"

It's not about the seven instructions. It's the lock that's been held while doing a busy loop.
Wouldn't a self hosted Wiki or Gitlab instance using markdown files be better than a homegrown solution?
It is certainly contaminated after being used. It has to be purified before hand too. The energy cost and environmental impact of manufacturing a single phone is tremendous.
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I just recently tried out a 2019 Razer Blade 15", and I love it. Working with WSL in Windows 10 is very satisfying, or you can remove Windows and opt for Ubuntu or whatever Linux you prefer. The Razer Blade hardware and build quality is top-notch, and I can undersatnd why it was called the gamer's Macbook Pro.
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> Baby monitors don’t record and have indicators that they are active.

Many of them do record nowadays, incidentally to providing internet accessibility.
Threaded discussions are a god-sent in most teams I've worked with. It allows keeping conversations nice and tidy or just ignore the ones you don't care about.
For one, I don't think anyone is going to lend to Saudi Arabia in their own currency.
Not really comparable (especially to the 5G technologies). Given their size, radio waves go right over us.
I've seen wireless thingies that would beep when your order is ready at kebab joints. Since the basic principle is the same (1-bit signaling), I'm pretty sure it could be just as well rolled out right now, unfortunately.
Fortunately the article is wrong because the signers are almost all either: 1) long-retired and out of the game entirely, 2) not trained in the field or qualified at all, or 3) known quacks who have peddled this kind of thing for years, or some combination of the three, and the articles cited are all written by that same population (and often published in no-name journals that I could probably get published in) or don't say what the author claims they do (many of the articles explicitly state that they found no connection whatsoever).

So I guess the moral of the story is "don't believe everything you see in pop science magazines," although I would have hoped nobody did to begin with(?)
> UBI failing or working well won't be any indicator

I haven't commented on UBI itself at all. I'm simply pointing out that lessons learned in Saudi Arabia hardly carry over anywhere else. Not sure which part is scary.
Also video at https://static.linaro.org/connect/san19/videos/san19-300k1.m...
Motivated individuals can learn tons in Universities. I certainly did. The average student is wasting their time and furthering inequality. This is true at Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley etc.
You should be looking ahead
Are their studies that compare glass bottle reuse to plastic bottles? Since a glass bottle just needs to be cleaned for reuse, I naively think it has less of a footprint then the plastic extraction, processing and recycling chain.
I find the HN community to be bi-modal with respect to technology: either they are very distrusting (luddites), or blindly in love with it (techno-utopians).

5G gets the techno-utopians in HN all excited about the possibilities of [INSERT THE POINT OF 5G] and they'll get mad at anything that threatens its introduction.
What you say is basically it is too bad that it cannot be used for scaremongering.
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>it's that they don't have the knowledge in-country to operate and maintain the hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons we sold them

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Bin Laden and his boys managed to work out how to use the tools and techniques we gave him. So I'm thinking the probability is fairly high that this new generation of "freedom fighters" will also take to our training pretty well.

Only real uncertainty is how many American lives it will cost down the road?
the best explanation for why more people get cancer is fewer people are dying of other diseases. Also, more people are surviving cancer. Note: I'm a scientist, and one of the reasons I'm not clicking on links in the article is that I've already done my own looking into IARC and I've concluded they are non-scientific.

Note: I'm a biophysicist who has studied cancer and RF at the graduate level, and postdoctorate level, I can read the literature, and also make reasoned efforts at evaluating whether the literature provides any useful information that would affect the roll out of 5G from health perspectives. I am unable to find any reliable evidence that would indicate that this rollout will actually have "crisis" levels of health impact.

Now. On to the next step: I completely support high quality research done by high quality scientists on non-ionizing radiation. I would, like many other scientists, to see convincing evidence about the nature of damage that could be done by 5G. So far, nearly everything has been indirect in a way that does not inspire enough confidence to propose policy changes.
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Today I learned that the Spokane Weed Control District is more powerful than the federal government.
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Sorry aren't - that's the point nerds don't get invited to those sort of elite clubs we would get oil on the furniture don't you know
From your point of view, are GameObjects in Unity an implementation of entities from the entity–component–system pattern, or is there a difference?
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Yes, I can already see all the articles saying that the meltdown of the ice sheets is "not that bad after all", even though the melting is on record levels in the last few years.

This is why even in the age of the Internet, it's going to take decades until the measures that actually need to be taken to combat climate change to be put in place.

By then we will be well above the 1.5 degrees rise in temperature, and population north of 10 billion.
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Why not do the study? The phycologists have and they realized their field of study was built on sand. No amount of meta-analysis will fix that.
Data doesn't speak for itself. It has to be properly contextualized and positioned for an intended audience and message. It's for that reason that you don't ever see scientific papers that are just tables of numbers alone.

If you're outside a particular area of expertise, the intellectually honest thing to do is to say "I'm not knowledgeable enough to assess these findings" and defer to someone who is. At that point, you're assessing credibility, and affiliation and track record absolutely matter.
2323 Bryan in Dallas is accurate i think. I haven't seen the actual IX but use to colocate a server there. The building is non-descript and a little out of the way. The moment you walk in it's obvious that anyone who comes in is there only for a specific purpose, there's no sundry shop, no flowers or fountain or anything, just security and locked doors/elevators.

There's a panel of conduit that comes up out of the ground in an outside loading area offset from the sidewalk maybe 20-30 feet. I really hope that's not the fiber conduit for the building because all it would take is one careless delivery driver backing up into it and lights out hah.

here's a streetview link, down the side street and to the right is where the loading area is. Here's a Dallas parking tip, the meters on that side street get you an hour for a quarter. The meters one street over are like 10 min. for a quarter.
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.786777,-96.7940189,3a,90y,34...

edit: here's the loading area
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7871992,-96.7945757,3a,75y,7...
https://twitter.com/hexdefined/status/1186214904132300800

The thread indicates that VikingVPN and Torguard were also compromised at some point. Highly concerning.
True but its harder to say :-)
Most people in the cancer field (I worked in a tangential one) believe that incidence of cancer is due to people living longer (cancer rates go up a lot as you age), and not dying of other diseases first. In a sense, cancer is what you get after you solved the other problems.
Quality organizations take time and many generations to build, as does raising children and families with the values one needs to make progress as a family/tribe/community/country/world.

100 years is nothing in the grand scheme of things, but unfortunately, it can all be undone quite quickly. When older generations sacrifice short term gains for long term security is when progress can happen. Unfortunately, I don’t see much appetite for that where I’m from (the US), and once a sufficient number of people choose to take more from the system than they give, it will start decaying.
Blizzard president Brack’s statement that their policy limiting player speech is to “ keep the focus on the game and on the tournament."

This is curious in such an ad supported game and tournament coverage. Do twitch ads take focus away from the tournament? A five second statement by a player is nothing compared to all the non-game material within and around broadcasts.

This seems to me to be some damage reduction strategy that didn’t focus group its statements well enough.
NordVPN is being recommended a lot to people who don't know better by influencers on social media, especially on YouTube. This kind of endorsement is recklessly negligent and needs to stop.

https://drewdevault.com/2019/04/19/Your-VPN-is-a-serious-cho...

Edit: note that I don't blame these influencers for their ignorance on the risks of using a VPN; rather I blame the shady VPN providers for overselling the security value of their product and leading users into a false sense of security.
My collegae told me I'm the guy with his phone number in the git.txt file, don't know if that's a compliment?

But whenever I try to explain Git to someone I try to step away from a computer and just work out the problem on a whiteboard. Using post-it's for branches/HEAD/tags and marker to write down the commits and the commit-tree. Preferrably permanent marker to reflect the permanent nature of commits with regards to branches (eg: rebasing keeps the original commits around). Also I ditch files in favor of a picture of a cat there changes are attributes like added body parts or toys since most people like cats better than files.

Taking it away from a computer really helps to reduce the complexity involved and thinking about what manipulations you make to the Git 'database' visually really helps understanding the concepts imho. Just going through it step by step as if you where the Git binary making the changes, and after a while the Git commands turn from hard to remember trivia to tools in your toolbox.
My office of mostly non-programmers is looking for a knowledge base solution. A lot of these recommendations seem geared toward developers. I'm curious what user-friendly, dead-simple products are available. (Note: markdown files in a git repo only meets these criteria for people like me, not for my coworkers.)
FYI, in bash, "sudo !!" re-runs the previous command with sudo.
git aliases

custom shell scripts

use a Git library in your language of choice and write something
In Idaho, where they also have 65+ mph highways with traffic light intersections, they have the "stop light ahead" signs, but instead of having long yellow lights, there are lights on the "stop light ahead" sign. (The lights on the sign will start flashing several seconds before the traffic lights change to yellow.) The rule is basically the same though, if you pass the sign before its lights start flashing, you'll make it thru the intersection, otherwise, start slowing down.
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> And if that's the kind of thing that 5G is going to enable, I absolutely do think we should consider it a threat to the environment.

That use case is already enabled by existing 802.15.4 protocols, no need to wait for 5G.
Sure, though Python doesn't compete with UNIX, while it does with Julia for data science so not sure what the above is supposed to mean

(though, "competes" assumes Julia is getting anywhere close to Python's adoption in data science, but still)...
Someone is probably going to ask what other HN users recommend as an alternative. Personally, I use Private Internet Access because they're the only provider I've found with a track record of demonstrably not being able to turn your records over to someone asking for them [1].

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/private-internet-access-no-logging-...
Maybe Duple could work for you

https://www.duple.io/en/
> It's unfortunate that this will be used as ammunition for climate skeptics.

That will always happen, though it only shows that these people don't understand science: That "we don't know every detail about climate change and there's scientific controversy and new discoveries about many details" does not equal "we have a controversy about the basic facts of climate change".

Interesting enough the collapse of the west antarctic ice shield was a major point of criticism where people said the IPCC got things wrong, because they were underplaying risks. It seems the debate isn't over. We'll see how it plays out.
How could that incorporate the endless PowerPoint files that, unfortunately, contain critical details about design specs? Cut that content out, and put it in MD, after the meetings? An import process that does this for us? I'm not saying it's a good system, but this is the corporate culture. The vast majority of our design history is only codified in PowerPoint. We have a PTC Integrity system, but it's so slow and so bloated, people avoid it at all costs.
Reading the approach you took for reformatting code, I was curious whether after you’d done it, it still seemed worth using the python+libgit2 approach? Do you know how long the shell approach would have taken without using libgit2? Did it save time overall to use the lower level approach, including the presumably extra coding time? The code formatter was probably the limiting run-time factor, no? When I’ve used filter-branch and BFG in the past, I had to run the whole batch multiple times before I got it correct, and before I was sure the result was safe... did you have to do that, run the filter multiple times? Would you take the same approach if you had to do it again from scratch? I’m curious if I should invest in this approach next time it comes up for me.
Recently, a meta-analysis calling into question a connection between eating red and processed meat and heart failure.
> How serious?

From my understanding, that really depends what you're using it for. My friends mostly use Nord to get around region locks for Netflix etc. I think impact for them is minimal.

If you were using NordVPN in Hong Kong, to cover your involvement in the protests, then it could be a lot more serious. I wouldn't use Nord (or any comparable provider) for that anyway, since their holdings tend to be pretty opaque. That doesn't mean nobody did use it for stuff like that though.
There was a time, before Google existed, when the "top result" was not assumed to be the "best" result. The researcher was expected to examine more than just the first entry in a list of citations. Google advertising targets users who place considerable confidence in the ordering of results, despite not knowing the details of the algorithm used.
I can't say about Saudi Arabia, but in general across the developing world, the people who inherited power from the colonial masters were either connected to or influenced by said colonists. There was no real dismantling of the old power structure; it only changed shape and character.

Unless that original power structure is dismantled (a tough task since those in power entrench themselves against any insurrection), you can't fully say what a country's growth trajectory could have been. Botched though the surgery may be, the former colonies still seem to be connected to the colonists in some way.
> Often in cities traffic will continue through the amber light

"London green" we call it.
True, though it depends a lot on the field: most of my social group works in emergency medicine, where people don't drop in just to chat quite as often!
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I used 4800 baud over VOIP for many years. Make sure you turn on error correction. 2400 baud modems didn't have error correction, but 56K modems running at 2400 baud do. :) Also compression, which helped a lot.