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RF software person here. I strongly encourage anyone reading this headline to take it with a MASSIVE grain of salt. There hasn't been any conclusive science on the issue and people aren't dropping dead from cell phone death rays left and right.

The RF emitted by cell phones and even 5G systems is many orders of magnitude lower energy than the light you're exposed to all day. The only connection we know of at the moment would be through RF heating but that requires way more radiated power than anything you will likely interact with unless you stick your head in a microwave oven.

Edit: also, things RF can interact with are dependent on feature size. 5GHz has a wavelength of ~6cm so in the same way that you can't see a virus with a microscope because it's too small for light to interact with, it's just not going to be able to cause localized heating on anything smaller than about 3cm. The singular scientist in the article is mostly just taking issue with the testing methodology and wants software to minimize RF emissions to the lowest level possible for communication which is already the case as otherwise your battery would be depleted very rapidly.
I have thought and thought about this and I have to say that I agree. Right now though, I am ready to shake things up in the US healthcare system and anyone offering a different solution is worth a look. So I am looking at "Medicare for all". I am sick and tired of the current system. So lets try something different even though I would ideally like a free market system where the poor are covered by the Govt and the middle class and rich folks pay out of pocket for MOST things. The moment you remove middlemen like the mafia insurance and overheads like billing companies etc and allow doctors to work directly with patients, watch how prices drop. I guarantee. I mean I pay like $22,000/Year premium for a family of 4. So even if I don't go see a doctor all year, I have paid 22,000. Don't even get me started on deductibles, in/out network , co-pays and all that other crap. Instead, I would prefer going to a doctor and receiving say a $200 bill for a regular visit. np. pay out of pocket. If I don't like that, I go to google and compare prices across other similar practices.
They might want people to be afraid that if they don't pay their bills, they might die. Since the threat of debtors' prison is no longer viable, I guess.

Moves like this erode my opposition to nationalizing the entire US health-care sector. If they're going to cartelize or confederate, patients--which is to say everyone in the country that lives and breathes--will also want a seat at the table.

From a more generous perspective, this may be a tool for price discrimination. Hospitals will charge based on what they think the patient can pay, rather than the actual costs of providing the care. When you receive care, you will be billed for a number that is calculated to make you sigh, flinch, or wince, but not call a bankruptcy lawyer.

This is a symptom of illness in the system, and leaving it untreated seems like a bad idea.
And even more specifically, that Azure has been approved as a third party cloud vendor by your internal security, procurement, legal, and audit teams - no mean feat at lots of organizations.
Normally I don't suffer that much from having roommates but today I was diagnosing a difficult problem and the noise from people talking to each other, then on the phone, then leaving, then coming back and so on. Every time that happened my train of thought was lost again. It was pretty terrible.

Incidentally, the problem was a memory leak in asynchronous code and the cause turned out to be the google test framework keeping a reference to a future that could otherwise have been destroyed.
>If there's a job at a startup that's willing to pay someone for math at $100k (avg in mixed locations) - $300k (avg in silicon valley) how are we ever going to have excellent math teachers. The people competing for a 50k teaching job are not even qualified to have that 100-300k job.

This a false dichotomy. For one, teachers in SV can make 100k. Second the skills required to be an effective teacher are not the same as a good math major. They just aren't. We've all had the brilliant professor who can't teach. But we should pay teachers because good teachers are professionals and they should be rewarded appropriately.

The problem with education is that we treat each kid the same. But actually every kid is different and has unique needs and thus requires a personalized learning program. When they are young these are social and behavioral. As they get older they can be subject specific. An individualized program could be aligned with a cohort in a class setting but you really need individual tutoring to address the child's specific needs and deficits. A good teacher is able to recognize these needs and give them the education they need.
Thanks for clarifying, those are good points as well. HR still works for the corporation, and has little interest in anything other than cost savings in general.
There are two kinds of software:

- buggy

- the one where bugs were not yet found
"Unlike France and Israel, many Americans are ignorant of the fact that phones are two-way microwave radios that are tested while held inches away from the body."

Curious what's different in France and Israel that they get called out special? Don't they sell the same phones there?
I think the ML hype is actually slowing down. I've been interviewing for ML positions as a new grad and a number of companies have told me they have an excess of data scientists who can train the models, but a dearth of engineers who can actually scale the models up to production. Friends at FAANGs have similar stories.
Cancer patients pressured to choose end-of-life care, lawsuit claims
Not really encouraging. You can't make parents more ambitious and effortful.

This is basically saying personal efforts matter. I believe this is not most upward mobility advocators want to hear.
Good luck finding it. And then, good luck getting to it.
Linux Starter Kit for Developers
Down-votes when there's numbers to back up the statement. Some upset C-level people (or people planning to be C-level some-day) reading Hacker News today?
It wouldn't have to be much of a salary cut. If you amortize the up-front cost for around a 110 square foot office, the total is only about $5,000 a year (more than an open office).

45 additional square feet at (a vastly overestimated) $100 per year per square foot for rent. $5,000 construction costs amortized over 10 years.
Also see https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards

> Even after deployment of the new v3 onion service protocol, the attacks facing onion services are wide-ranging, and still require more extensive modifications to fix in Tor-core itself.

> Because of this, we have decided to rapid-prototype these defenses in a controller addon in order to make them available ahead of their official Tor-core release, for onion services that require high security as soon as possible.
Interesting attack. Reminds me of the DolphinAttack (https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.09537)
Tech lead is responsible for maintainable code, somewhat anticipating changes in business, so tech lead is a Jedi :)
This comes up all the time and every time it's debunked. Did something change? As someone who's worked on radiation shielding, my understanding is that rf doesn't really heart up cells enough to cause lasting damage. I mean this isn't even ionizing radiation. The sun puts out A TON of rf radiation all day and it's the UV that causes skin damage. So did something change?
Why is this being downvoted?

I haven't read the book, but it has 5 stars on Amazon.

So what's wrong with the book that multiple people downvoted the suggestion?
I hope we can get to a point where we don't need to build tools and ecosystems around a single language. It seems there is just an explosion of domain and generic languages and I see that as a good thing. I want more tooling compatibility so that developers can pick and choose what works for them and maybe even mix them together better. Better educational tooling so we can pick them up faster, or read languages we don't understand easier. etc, etc. things like WebAssembly, LLVM/MLIR, python->jupyter notebooks give me hope.
Correct. Which means, as smolder said, the Atari we all remember and love is long gone. The Atari that exists now is nothing but a brand.
hmmm every time I'm at the store I see like 3 new brands of chips I've never seen before.
I'm sure lots of HN will be interested in these, but it would be better to post the most interesting specific talk.

Lists don't usually make for great discussion, because the list itself doesn't contain that much interesting information to talk about. In this case, for example, the discussion could be about Microconf in general, patio11 in general, or the selection of specific videos on the list. That would all be too generic and/or shallow. A particular talk is going to contain a lot more specific details (at least for those who watch it!) for people to sink their teeth into.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....
WeWork charges more on office than open desk. That shows the office is more valuable. People pay more to get office because they can produce more to justify the cost. That shows office is better for productivity.
'This Doesn't Sound Right': Mastercard's CEO Ditched Facebook's Libra
The Red Queen's Wall
I'll just never use anything other than my phone or CarPlay.
How much does the react wrapper do? Ie how easy would it be to support Angular or Vue? I imagine just aligning syntactic conventions?
> When I have to work with people who get creative and clever, it's awful

Isn't this more like a problem you have with the team, rather than a problem with the language itself?
SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
> There hasn't been any conclusive science on the issue

Isn't that the reason for the suit?

> ”The FCC has for years failed to protect public health by relying on 24-year-old safety tests designed when phones were the size of a shoe and used by few,” Davis told Law&Crime via email. ”We filed this appeal in order to insist that the agency take full measure of the U.S. government and other scientific evidence that cellphone radiation can be harmful.”

> Davis continued, noting the FCC’s hands-off approach to cell phone-related regulation over the last three presidential administrations.

> ”The agency has dismissed hundreds of scientific studies submitted to its inquiry on wireless radiation and the advice of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and others, without providing any rationale for doing so,”
The Myth of $1M ARR: How to Know When You're Ready for Your Series A
I cant stand swift. Without ios apps, would anyone even touch this crap?

Add to it constant major releases requiring new xcode or MacOs. Suddenly all your existing App codes have to be upgraded to even release to appstore. I swear justice will one day be served Apple for abusing the high end smartphone monopoly.
> The developers of Little Snitch have explicitly said they favor this move ...

Sure. They also said that if Apple doesn't provide them the required API's, they will continue using a kernel extension:

> But what happens if Apple will not or cannot provide the required features? NKEs will be deprecated, but not Kernel Extensions in general. We can still implement a Kernel Extension to augment the functionality of the NE framework. The basic filtering can be done via the NE framework and additional functions would be provided by our own Kernel Extension.

Source: https://blog.obdev.at/little-snitch-and-possible-deprecation...

The unsaid part is ofcourse - "as along as Apple allows them to do so."

With the way Apple is tightening down the Mac systems, through both hardware (Apple T2 security chip) and the software (changes to macOS making it more like ios), there is absolutely NO GUARANTEE that Apple will allow unapproved Kernel Extensions to run on the future versions of macOS.
A regime which finds all the defects would cost billions on its own, only one such piece of software has been subject to such a regime and that's the Space Shuttle guidance program. Every other piece of software is tested to levels set by the aeronautical industry and regulators, which may not include all possible scenarios.

You will note, some of these scenarios are essentially fuzzing the memory of the flight computer and seeing what happens, ideally most bit flips will either be detected or be minor, but some can end up causing issues. I'm not sure if it would be possible to explore all the branches in the software in any sort of reasonable amount of time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72
As far as I'm aware, there's no strong link between motivation and generics.
Show HN: Sound synthesizer written in Rust and its UI is a FUSE filesystem
That still provides profound insights into the nature of economic mobility. If children of immigrants have greater economic mobility than children of natives, that means economic structures beyond people’s control are at the very least not dispositive. I.e. if the factors that keep people born in the bottom quantile more likely to stay there were purely structural, such as inability of poorer people to afford housing in better school districts, then it wouldn’t matter whether parents are ambitious and effort full.
> It doesn't work this way because software development is the process of figuring out the actual requirements and a good design.

In my experience very few people truly understands why engineering is something expensive at its core, and it's usually this particular lack of understanding that ironically ends up making making things even more expensive and produces worse value-for-money, and so the vicious cycle continues.
... so they really did took er jerbs?
Most likely not, we're in the midst of one of the vast insect extinction events in man's history sadly.
Searching for job in a different country, moving to another country for the job, these are by definition ambitious.
Lately I've been doing 7 day fasts two times a year mostly to reduce visceral fat and reduce my chance of type 2 diabetes. However a lot of science is pointing to it being a good way to reduce cancer risk. Nothing definitive, but it's nice to think I may be helping my body fight possible cancer too. Maybe I will catch some of these things early during these phases where the genes are present but the cancer hasn't begun to be diagnosable or slow it down.

I've also heard some doctors suggest that fasting during cancer treatment improves the effectiveness of chemotherapy.
OmniGraffle https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle
There's a missing stage in his description, that we're having issues with right now: in an open office plan, not having enough seats for everyone.
I don't know what to think, and there is likely tons of misinformation on both sides from perverse incentives. For anything that may have long term effects from chronic exposure, as opposed to obvious effects from acute exposure, there is always going to be an uphill battle to correctly regulate it. That's sad. Wish more decision makers would take the precautionary principle to heart.
The videos from a previous Coursera offering of (I think essentially) the same course are here:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLssT5z_DsK9JDLcT8T62...
You can hear loud conversations. Those fabric walls do a surprisingly good job at limiting the spread of a normal-volume conversation to about 1 cubicle around you, and you can speak in soft tones and not be heard at all.
We know that some metro regions have greater upward economic mobility for sure. I think the Bay area has the highest mobility.
> Ok, easy, I've seen this statement used several times to criticize younger generations because things were harder "back in my day".

Except for some very specific times in history, it is almost universally true that the older generation had harder times. Human progress is -- in the grand scheme of things -- a march towards much easier lives.
Early detection is what the industry wants so they can improve their 5-year survival stats. And of course increase the total addressable market for conventional treatment options
There's an obvious first-mover advantage though... there's not that many Jim Kellers around, and they got one.
Deep-tic-tac-toe: deep reinforcement learning to play tic-tac-toe
Meh, it bears a strong resemblance to the corn-eating-algorithm-correlation: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/15/kernel-of-doubt-testin...

You can discover anything you look for with a leading-question survey.
The loving parents would also be monarchs.
It's not on the level of individual student, but overall market. As ability of whole group of students to pay goes up, the price also goes up.
Felt very meta reading this article about SEO while the article itself was employing all the SEO strategies - backlinks, infoboxes, etc :P

It was great that the company had already started its SEO pipeline, but what about for companies with no strategy at all? Are there any good tools to help decide which keywords to focus on?
What is a Nobel co-laureate? I can't find any information that the person mentioned has been awarded a Nobel prize.
George Steiner has died
I wasn’t lying, I commented when that was the only comment with upvotes and the only comment here was also upvoted. My point was true at that point in time.
- software with off-by-one errors
Internal PKI with HashiCorp Vault – Install to First Cert
Do we work together? (I'm assuming not.) Some guy where I work does the same thing, same truck. Usually he's still thousands of feet away when he starts it too, maybe even still in the office.

Or maybe it's just a Houston thing.
It's hard to argue for nature when the immigrants come from among the most diverse ethnic groups. There is literally no homogeneity among them apart from the fact that their parents weren't American citizens.
I didn't appreciate how big of a deal washing machines were until mine broke down and I had to do all my laundry in the bathtub for a couple of weeks waiting for a replacement. Hand-washing is a lot more of a workout than you'd expect, and getting things dry without a spin-cycle afterwards is a pain too.
Studying the past lets us learn from what it took to take advantage of new technologies.

The desire for very little change (which is difficult and does need someone to push the politics of that change through) would leave us in the belt and pulley driven workshop layout making horse and carriage gear.

( Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrification#Benefits_of_el... )

Also considering forward thinking, this is baseless speculation but, my gut feeling is that science fiction written today is more likely to be 'close enough' to how every day computers might work in the future that such systems would seem like a plausible alternate reality. Contrast that with what science fiction written even 50 years ago thinks about anything involving computers or automation.

That's why it seems likely that the overall workflow should be examined again including a look at what is actually needed and what tools we currently or might have to accomplish those tasks. The existing systems, interfaces, and forms are __some__ of the tools to consider, but if there are actually good reasons for evolving or replacing them those changes should be documented and made.
Our Reviews feature was so bad, even we weren’t using it
I believe medical bills over $100 no longer count against your credit score so of course that created an opportunity to break them out and market them specifically
There's a link to lecture videos towards the top of the page - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_Oao2FYkLAUlUVkBfze4jg/vid...

Here's a different YouTube channel I found with the full course: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLssT5z_DsK9JDLcT8T62...
Genuinely curious, what advantage does Clojure provide in this context that other tools don't handle as well or at all? I agree with the GP post, none of the examples listed show that this tool is superior to what bash and other GNU tools already provide.

In other words, if I don't speak Clojure, why should I learn? This project hasn't convinced me it's worth it yet, but maybe it is?
Too big to deploy: How GPT-2 is breaking servers
I hear a conversation relevant to me and jump in, a conversation stops being relevant I jump out

That simple interaction has added tons of value for me over the last few years of open offices.

We have a very simple way to indicate you don't want to be interrupted, headphones or a flag

There's also tons of huddle rooms you can go into if you want to hunker down in quiet

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Everyone is different, some people feel switching from keyboard to mouse is a huge productivity drain and invest a lot in avoiding that transition

Maybe I'm just fortunate but it's never been an issue for me, people are pretty respectful of their coworkers where I've worked
The countries you cite are all relatively homogenous. The U.S. has greater disparities in education funding due to funding coming primarily from local sources rather than national.
Also more experienced developers.
Please only put "Show HN" on projects that are your own personal work. This is in the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

If this is your own personal work, carry on!
Dopamine and temporal difference learning: neuroscience and AI relationship
Seems like Kotlin is basically "Java: The Do-over", right? Unlike Clojure and Scala, it aims for the same use-cases, a similar multi-paradigm balance, etc to Java, just with an extra 15 years of language design hindsight.
> But when your property changes from nullsafe to nullable, you need to rewrtiging eeevverything.

Isn't the fact that you have to be explicit about null the main feature of explicit null safety?
I was all prepared to disagree with you until I read the details ... and yeah, I agree.

I generally love syntax sugar that makes me more productive, cuts out boilerplate, and reduces cognitive overhead... but for me, callAsFunction and even maybe Key Path Expressions as Functions are going to ADD cognitive overhead.

I suppose if I only used Swift, and used it every day, they would be OK, but otherwise it's just more fiddly things that deviate from existing patterns.
Or as Vincent said in Gattaca: "There is no gene for the human spirit."
Thanks for the well wishes. I think the health care professionals genuinely expected me to have more long-term issues than I ended up having. Early on they told me the key is to be serious about the therapy, and I was.
2) is flawed: I don't want to go to a private office for focus time. I got my external monitors, headphones, dock, etc. in my main seat. It's my working area, and should be the main focus area.
> And if you're a male, you're subsidizing childbirth

Replace "male" with "child free" and this makes sense but suggesting men are subsidizing childbirth is ridiculous.

> and other women specific costs.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/mars-vs-ve...

> Men die younger than women, and they are more burdened by illness during life. They fall ill at a younger age and have more chronic illnesses than women. For example, men are nearly 10 times more likely to get inguinal hernias than women, and five times more likely to have aortic aneurysms. American men are about four times more likely to be hit by gout; they are more than three times more likely than women to develop kidney stones, to become alcoholics, or to have bladder cancer. And they are about twice as likely to suffer from emphysema or a duodenal ulcer. Although women see doctors more often than men, men cost our society much more for medical care beyond age 65.