skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You remain blind to, either willfully or unconsciously, my argument. Instead you come back with puerile rejoinders.

Look at the original quote from the article - "when seen from above". There was an assumption there that seen from above means seen from above the North Pole. Thus an assumed frame of reference when none was needed.

I do not assume seeing the Earth from above means seeing it from above the North Pole. Neither would an astronaut, who don't have to assume, they live the experience of seeing the Earth from all orientations.
Hired many, realised as long as they can do basic coding, I am not bothered about them solving complex problems. I need to identify their team and people skills first.
With every new generation of cellular technology, this question comes up.

This started as early as CT, then DECT, GSM, 3G, 4G and now 5G.

After 30+ years of having consumer grade wireless telephony we are still debating whether the radio signals have any negative effect on living beings.

If we can't draw any conclusion from a sample size that big, then I must conclude that the effects of EM-radiation are so minimal (if any at all), that it is not something I should worry about.

Edit: typo
> Hmm. I read the comment as saying “no cloud, because you’ll save so much by just being on-prem”. And I think an “apples-to-apples” comparison requires an N+1 setup including both compute and networking.

That is valid interpretation. I just wanted to say that is you need high availability it might be cheaper to have one colocation and cloud in standby.

> Hybrid could be many different setups, but before their “zonal affinity” change it would actually be worse, right? (Egress over Direct Connect is 4x higher than Zone to Zone, while “internet” egress is 8x).

Yes, in/out traffic would be one of more problematic points of such setup, but there should be some solutions available (BGP?).

> What are you assuming for the balance of Compute and Networking across at least three “sites”?

Least expensive should be zero compute in cloud unless there is issue with collocation. Depending on specific scenario, some storage/databases would have replication to cloud. I don't know how I would setup networking in such case.
> As far as I know, people living near large electrical wire high tension poles are at a higher risk of cancer already.

As far as you know from what? This might sound harsh, but this is just fearmongering.

HV power lines are, in an electrical sense, very far away from you. Even if magnetic radiation had some health effects, (which as far as we know, it doesn't, which is why MRI's are incredibly non-invasive to people without metal implants of some sort), you are not getting any of that from an HV power line.

The only people I know spouting such things are either charlatans^W salesmen trying make a buck or people that have no understanding or training in electricity. It can't "jump out at you". A power line is not a radio.

There are plenty of microwave towers and satellites and cell phones to be irrationally afraid of. But power lines? Like it just screams "I do not understand electricity or am trying to make a buck off those that don't." There's no radiation coming off that power line that gets to you.
The most depressing thing at the moment is that people with a bare minimum of knowledge, interest and competence with technology are infiltrating and being given desirable jobs because they meet HR's perceptions of a good employee, rather than being what the business needs. These people parasite themselves on the people that do the real work but don't happen to have a nice smile/good hair/preferred sexual organs etc.
While there was a novelty budget consideration, I miss comparison for:

* ease of development

* time to learn the language

* documentation: tutorials, etc

* ease of hiring

Architecture is a tiny cost you have to pay for using something else.

Then again, for a consultancy using Haskell, PureScript is the right choice.
Climate alarmists make me laugh. Oh no earth is not a static ecosystem hurry hurry give up you rights earth is dying......
Any source on this?

This story links to sources and is written by:

"Joel M. Moskowitz, PhD, is director of the Center for Family and Community Health in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been translating and disseminating the research on wireless radiation health effects since 2009 after he and his colleagues published a review paper that found long-term cell phone users were at greater risk of brain tumors. His Electromagnetic Radiation Safety website has had more than two million page views since 2013. He is an unpaid advisor to the International EMF Scientist Appeal and Physicians for Safe Technology."

So this is, I assume, not by a Russian troll farm.
DuckDuckGo's traffic keeps growing
IME the fish rots from the head and the people problems are resolved most commonly by replacing the founder with someone with good people (as opposed to founding, geeky) skills.
I live in Koeln (and lived in northern parts of Germany before that) and I just don't see it. There are a couple of people glued to their phones, but the vast majority simply aren't. And this is taking public transportation throughout the day, especially morning and evenings at rush hour. It's far from problematic.
It's meant as a cultural shorthand for the kind of companies like early PayPal. They wouldn't hire classic "jock" people of course but they were very much about what nerds thought was cool.

The "bro" label is more about performative hypermasculinity than athletics.

What seems to surprise most about nerd culture is that for many nerds the problem with bullying wasn't that bullying was bad but that they were on the receiving end of it, resulting in a revenge fantasy (both against the actual bullies as well as outsiders in general) rather than simply a desire for equality. This is also reflected in the kinds of jokes you used to hear on IRC and later 4chan as well as gaming (even before it became "so mainstream").

For context: I say this as a recovering nerd myself.
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It seems theoretically impossible for non-ionising radiation produced by 5G or any other radio emitters to cause cancer as there's no known mechanism for it to induce carcinogenic damage, so a priori we should expect that 5G is safe until shown otherwise.

Joel Moskovitz was co-author on a meta-analysis (https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO.2008.21.6366) that claimed to find a link between mobile phone use and brain tumours. However, this was a meta-analysis of case-control studies, which is the weakest form of study (worse even than a prospective observational cohort study). The problem here is they essentially had to ask people who did or not have tumours how much they used their mobile phones and trust them, which introduces the obvious issue that people with brain tumours who had heard that phones may cause cancer are probably going to report higher usage of mobile phones than those without tumours. Moskowitz even notes this in the discussion of his paper. He even notes that other, better, better, prospective cohort studies have found no evidence for a link between cellphones and cancer (https://academic.oup.com/jnci/article/93/3/203/2906436), but dismisses the study because they looked at subscription data rather than examining 'actual exposure to mobile phones' (which his study didn't do either).

This fear mongering, with no a priori theoretical justification and no evidential basis from people who've checked anyway just to be safe, muddies the waters and distracts from real environmental problems like air pollution causing respiratory diseases. This isn't quite as bad as promoting antivaxxer positions, which are imbecilic because the benefits from vaccines obviously outweigh the costs even if they did cause autism, but it's getting awfully close.
is simultaneously a testament to the openmindedness of science, and quite sad.

That brings to mind the old saying, "don't be so open-minded your brain falls out."

Also, I'm pretty sure Trump is very much not in the group of "cell phones/EMF/etc. cause cancer" believers.
https://github.com/OpenIndex/RemoteSupportTool
> at first glance, he looks like a reputable researcher.

The man been trying that "cellphones give you cancer" since at least 2009, with his earliest attacks being closer to some new age metaphysical bullshit, and only later he started to pull some scientific argument.

He has no real science background, no medical background, he is a psychologist. His "academic network" includes people going into homeopathy, antivaxing, GMO and something bordering on new age and conspiracy cults.

Why UC Berkley still keeps him around, I have no idea.
That looks to be an INET Spectra of some kind. Possibly an 8243-1 based on a few searches.
That's not what capitalism is. It's an economic system and has absolutely nothing to do with governance, policies, and the greater good.
Tried using this for months; it never worked well. Settings changed back to "intrusive & useless" every update (seemed like) and the few times i needed it -- it hadn't been indexing anything for the past week, sorry.

Hope it's working better now
Saudis put something like 45 billion USD into one of the 100 billion + Softbank funds. You get a director seat for that kinda money...
The Myths of Color Contrast Accessibility
We can't live in the forest. Building in the tinderbox is CA's equivalent of TX's building in the flood plain.
Because it will be expensive, and IMO is way ahead of the consumer needs. And I'm talking about a country (Spain) that already has symmetric 1gbps commercially available, and the common connection is in the bracket of 100-600mbps.

Replacing copper with fiber in remote areas is cheapish if you repurpose copper posts instead of digging, and the opex of fiber is even lower than copper.

For those areas that are disconnected and don't even have DSL a few more BTs and 4G are waaay cheaper than putting 5G everywhere.

And I'm not even mentioning the clusterfuck that is being changing all the bands and retool many stuff.

5G has really no upsides now, at least from my pov.
> If it was unsafe, we would probably know about it.

The article claims this is in fact the case. Quote:

"We are seeing increases in certain types of head and neck tumors in tumor registries, which may be at least partially attributable to the proliferation of cell phone radiation."

I've clicked a few cited papers and they are all behind a paywall, so I can't make my own opinion how justified this claim is.
I assume you're North American and so upset mainly by the absence of an 'MD'. MBChB is an equivalent.

Having an additional 'Cert' in homeopathy would be like having a CS degree but also certifying in AWS or Azure products, for example, which wouldn't even necessarily say that I endorse them, perhaps just that I have clients that might like to see that certification.
The last question is interesting. Our eyes create an image with ~ 1 Gigapixel resolution at frame-rate equivalent > 120 Hz.

For real VR/AR, 5G is not fast enough, would have to work in the THz regime for wireless (wow, nature has a huge bandwidth requirement...). Interesting thing about THz is that most electronic materials breakdown and stop working.
First I distinguish between two kinds of knowledge: one is like encyclopedic knowledge, just with private topics (what is X, why did Y come into existence, things you must know when Z), the other overlaps a lot with opinion, "best practice" and "style guide" would be examples.

Both may end up in the internal wiki, but that's a write-only operation unless you get people to read. And a wiki is nothing anyone reads front to back, wikis are entirely pull.

For the encyclopedic kind, I try to sprinkle some links where there is a chance that people (e.g. me, two months later) actually do an index search. This is not the wiki, this is email (or some successor thereof).

The opinion type knowledge will be even more lost in the wiki. Outside of extremely chain-of-command oriented organizations, the only way to spread that kind of knowledge is by actually convincing others. And a wall of text in an internal wiki will never do that. But the wiki page can be very useful as a collection of convincing examples etc to reference in a discussion that happens elsewhere.
In my case a competitor used almost the same name us, ran ads against our brand, and google wouldn’t do anything about it.
Is it just me or are all the links people are posting in this thread to debunk this scientist from the same domain?

I hadn't heard of ACSH, so checked their about page:

> a pro-science consumer advocacy organization

A consumer advocacy org. Not a scientific research council, as —I would argue—their name highly implies.

Their about page also says:

> We do not represent any industry. We were created to be the science alternative to “news”

The top-3 links in the references section of their Wikipedia page that seem to contradict this line:

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/0...

- https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/american-counci...

- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/09/magazine/obam...
Different modulation techniques is the one they're claiming now. For some reason OFDM/CDMA is more dangerous than FM or amplitude modulation (AM) and there are huge biological differences, they claim.
After living in LA for a few years, it certainly does feel exactly the way you describe within the city.

But those juxtapositions are literal blocks apart from each other. The Google campus is next door to a shanty town in Venice, and their security sic the police on them for any minor infractions (or just made up ones). Very similar situation with the redevelopment downtown.

It really does give you a bleak portrait of the tolerance for inhumanity within the context liberal Capitalism. California is ostensibly as “wacky leftist” as the US gets and it’s a bleak, cruel place in many regards.
Opened it, I can only see an unicorn. There's an error on the console: "Notification is not defined" at main-9cc8c714bb9b9a687b5f.js:1:4562
California has one of the lowest average IQs of any state. If you remove the tech workers and the old-time republicans, there's not many big brains left to go around.
Potentially a more informative source on this topic:

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/r...
Yeah I was joking sorry. Obviously Skype for Business is one of the worst tools for what OP is requesting.
The title could still be a bit better, the story is about the ability to access billions of devices. There is zero indication that billions of devices were actually accessed.
Time will tell if that's all they got for their money.
Really, California is considered the tech hub of the world, how is this ok ?
For us MS Teams works well. I haven't used Slack so I cannot compare the two.
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The sense that the platform's interface (API, dashboard, Docs) create an interface of which I can gain a solid mental model. A "solid mental model" is knowledge which enables me to predict how the platform would my code/actions would make the platform behave, to feel confident in those predictions, and to be correct.

Why does this draw me to a platform? Because it leads me to think that I'll be able to use it to solve business problems[1] despite having non-infinite mental abilities[2]. That includes the ability to communicate about timelines with stakeholders.

What makes me think that about a platform?

- Well-written documentation, with appropriate amounts of the 4 types of docs: tutorials, model explanations, how-to guides, and references.[3]

- If applicable, docs which show how to write automated tests with the platform.

- Interfaces which do a good job of containing complexity. The information they require me to learn "pays its rent" for the space it takes up in my mind. The modules are deep enough to have solved problems that would otherwise take up my time.[4]

- An active community so that StackOverflow has a body of high-quality questions and answers.

[1] see https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...

[2] see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21303314

[3] see https://www.divio.com/blog/documentation/

[4] see https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philosophy-Software-Design-John-Ous... a concise book which is worth the £8 and 150 pages.
uBlock Origin can't prevent Google from tracking your search queries and linking them together.
Laravel beyond CRUD: a blog series about managing larger Laravel projects
To riff a bit on this: I've noticed in my life that I subconsciously subdivide every activity into two categories: things to accomplish, and obstacles to the former. I have not in my life ever enjoyed the second category. The crux being that by consciously re-sorting the activity from obstacle to target I get much more enjoyment out of it.

If I can convince myself that clearing the table for a new project is in itself a project it'll be cleared and washed and clean with a smile on my face. If I can't I'll be much more likely to just shove everything to the side to "solve" the obstacle and keep going.

I'm not very good at recategorising stuff on purpose yet, but it's definitely something I'm actively practicing.

Anyways I figured that's more or less the same thing as the journey-vs-destination thing worded a bit differently.

I'll end my ramble here before it gets too long.
Do you have any good list of such actions?
The demographics of start-up founders is generally biased toward young, affluent members of a community's ethnic majority. If you want to work for one of these companies, and "cultural fit" is high on the selection criteria, most start-ups will end up being staffed or run by the same sorts of people.

Working with diverse people that are interested in things that you're not is not predetermined to actually be a miserable experience. But it does require that you're open to integrating yourself with many other folks / cultures / etc.
Wow. We’ve been in denial about potential health risks of mobile for years. But now there’s a risk that Chinese tech companies might corner this market, suddenly its time to worry about the health risks?
He also controls Foxtel, pretty much the only Pay TV operator in Australia.

Also by now I don't know if Australia has any cross media ownership rules anymore, so we could own a lot more.
A process which is unnecessarily cumbersome. If DDG wanted people to use it, they'd make the top five or so bang switches clickable. Click and it redoes the current search pretended by a bang.
Both Unity and COM use aggregation instead of implementation inheritance to compose bunches of small sub-objects together.

Unity has the notion of components (inheriting from MonoBehaviour => Behaviour => Component => Object), which can be multiply attached to GameObjects (inheriting from Object), that you can switch between with gameObject.GetComponent<ComponentClass>().

COM has the notion of multiple interfaces to the same "controlling unknown" object (analogous to GameObject), that you can switch between with QueryInterface.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/com/aggregati...

https://flylib.com/books/en/3.357.1.89/1/

http://www.369o.com/data/books/atl/0321159624/ch06lev1sec5.h...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_composition#Aggregation

They're basically the same idea, but slightly different in the details and implementation.

COM is essentially C++ pure virtual interfaces implemented by one or more concrete classes using multiple inheritance (like the way Java lets you multiply inherit interfaces, but only singly inherit classes). Different COM interfaces can refer to the same shared C++ implementation object, or separate delegate objects, and "tear off" objects created on demand.

Unity's component model is implemented in C#, but isn't an essential language feature of C#, just a way of using it to implement aggregation.
> I think it's called growth-economy

More like "growth-economy with massive hidden externalized costs" - from the obvious like pollution and climate disruption, to subtle ones like economic pato-incentives that distort markets and prevent them from doing their jobs...

> Otherwise we would've stayed in caves

Yeah, but we're long past that state. A cave man can safely externalize stuff like recycling, and even most of food production to NATURE. We can't.

I love growth-economy per se, but our current brand of it is messed up, and markets don't seem to be good enough at pricing all the nasty externalities. We need to invent quickly some extra devices that price this stuff in at a global scale (doing it per country CAN'T work!) IF we want to keep our beloved growth-economy!

Otherwise we'll default to the crappy solutions of ducktape-enviro-socialism + state-capitalism + islands of "free" markets here and there, dragging ourselves through a new f dark age from war to war...
It's an economic time bomb that the USA is happy to prop up. So the bomb will be defused for way longer than you think to maintain the status quo.
The weather has been particularly shite the last 3 weeks or so, hasn't it?

I would suggest booking a trip somewhere warm and sunny, even if it is for Jan or Feb. Having something to look forward to makes things better.
Yeah I'd like a source too, I'm very excited to see this Russian troll farm everybody has been speaking of lately.
How many people are you currently focused on?
I'm wondering whether there is a number of people you can focus you attention on, or care about at the same time.

Is it true ? Do you have a number of people you care about currently does this number fluctuate a lot ?
Hifn, Inc of Los Gatos, CA was one such company.
Windows has never been about absolute best performance, but "good enough"; which sometimes isn't. Otherwise a default install wouldn't have so much stuff running.
I don’t see it worked like that. After eating a food no snake moves. I’m on mobile safari.
> A good example is the goddamn seat belt - a technological wonder that saved millions, yet people have them right next to their shoulders and still today a lot refuse/forget to use it, while being enforced by law in many countries.

In the United States at least, the legal battle was directly against the car manufacturers. This is where Ralph Nader got his start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed

Safety culture is an odd thing to have to sell, but it does require selling. Another great example is Jackie Stewart's campaign to make Formula 1 less needlessly dangerous.
[gollum](https://github.com/gollum) powers GitHub's wikis. I've used it and it seems alright.
Clearly the living standards were better, but I imagine there definitely were less things considered to be chores. Gathering food hardly gets boring if you're hungry.

That said I highly doubt if that's a preferable state of affairs.
We need to get smarter about the damage our progress does though. I am not saying we need to stop looking to better our lives. But the life we have now is at great cost to the environment and indeed our own species. The electronic gadget abundance specifically comes at a great human cost to those in third world countries. To say nothing of the environmental cost.