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Ask HN: 5G Dangers and Fiber Optic Internet Issues Innovation Engineering Ideas
5G Dangers
There seem to be many videos on it and one of them's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3s5cTlOQQM
Are the technical issues in the above video true ? Is it capable of such damage ?
I've read and mostly skimmed through some of the existing 5G related discussions on Hacker News also.

EMF Effects from Wireless, Wifi , Ethernet , Cable, Fiber Optic

Are there any hardware or software startups working on Media Converter technology described at https://www.emfanalysis.com/fiber-optics-increasing-electrical-sensitivity/
The article at link above says
"The next question will be how to design media converters in the customer’s home that do not put a lot of EMI both on the data (Ethernet) and electrical systems. This will take good engineering.
- (for instance GPON fiber to the home with a truly low-EMI media converter, once we find one that has been made).
- Fiber can be made safe, it’s just that the current systems can have problems.
What we need is pure fiber to the home (GPON) with no power backbone (no EMI) and a low-EMI media converter at the home. This would give us internet that is healthy/safe/fast/reliable for the entire society."
It's an accessibility issue. Low contrast sucks for people with vision issues. dark mode can be kinda sucky too. Not that the default modes of most editors are much better. I'm color blind and have never really found a totally satisfactory scheme.
The state and feds didnt care so much, the religious folks did and demanded govt codify their beliefs into law. Women put decades into a union, raised kids, and then got dumped with nothing. Some people thought that unfair. See the 1900s and DOMA.

The Religious couldnt help themselves - they double downed on that word and didn’t grok that meant losing control of it. See Obergefell v. Hodges.
Real-time has very little to do with the motivation behind this project or writing on bare metal.

We are writing on bare metal to get rid of hundreds of dependencies and millions of lines of unnecessary code to run single-purpose firmware applications.

As an example, if you want to write a cryptocurrency wallet using Go crypto and web libraries, wouldn't it better to do so without the burden of an entire Linux kernel, its userspace and a complex bootloader?

Please check this presentation for more background on motivations behind this project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QircrJjEtQ
1984 sort of glosses over how the monitoring hardware ends up in everyone's homes, but I think it's safe to say that they participated in the installations in the beginning.
Oh look. It's THIS thread again
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Good job! My FF with 10+ extensions only use 493mb with 4 tabs opened. What am I doing wrong?
Why would you mention Swift, Go and Rust in the same context? I mean Swift vs. Go kinda has some merit, although they have completely different intentions. At least Go doesn't aspire to be a systems programming language. Rust definitely has no place in this comparison. Rust serves a niche market of systems programming that is so security focused that C/C++ just won't do. It's not useful for anything else (at least not anymore than Haskell is useful for anything besides university projects, in the real world at least).

Swift has many nice similarities with Rust and other current languages from a pure syntactical/language perspective, while aiming to be a GP language. It definitely serves a broader audience than Go, whose main target is server programming. Swift's main target is Apple UI programming, however, the language is capable of so much more.

Which is why Open Source is good news. It may make it escape its Apple box.
1. I question whether this role lies within the charter of the Fed, and whether they are equipped to do so.

2. I worry that this might threaten the political independence of the Fed, which is something that I think is really important to maintain.
I've seen a few people commenting about this stove issue. I can't believe anyone seriously thinks the answer to "some people forget to turn off their stove sometimes" is "indoor drone streaming data to mega corporations".

There are auto switch off devices for both gas and electric stoves by the way.
If you're looking for a rabbit hole, after Dave left Wired, he started his own blog: https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com/
The police are there to notarize your claims to the insurance company, as siblings illustrate. Once you're made whole, do you want to take the time to put a petty thief on trial? Every break-in is not an episode of Law & Order.
>causing them to retry on failure

I hope they meant in case of failure with EINTR.
A Man Who Brought the Swastika to Germany, and How the Nazis Stole It
My cat has asked for two of these for christmas. I'm not sure what her plans are but I'm suspicious.
It may just be jargon specific to the Swift community:

https://www.google.com/search?q=swift+evolution+%22currency+...
He explicitly says that buying up masks would cause a shortage for healthcare workers in the interview for 60 minutes in early March.

On the topic of citizens buying up mask:"It can lead to a shortage of masks?"
His response: "Exactly. It can lead to a shortage of masks for people who really need it."

He wasn't hiding it, or lying about it.

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I love all the points stated.
To me it's only throw away code if you actually throw it away after using once (or a couple times). If you are checking it into source control (i.e. anyone else will see it) then it's good to assume that it will live forever. I've been burned too many time when my "throwaway code" or "temporary glue script" becomes mission critical infrastructure
I know the guy who wrote the book:

"How to Start Your Own Religion: Form a Church, Gain Followers, Become Tax-Exempt, and Sway the Minds of Millions in Five Easy Steps"

Cool guy and a very fun read!

https://www.amazon.com/How-Start-Your-Own-Religion/dp/144053...
There are some interesting details in there about the ages of reactors, such as:

> "The mean age at closure of the 17 units taken off the grids between 2015 and 2019 was 42.4 years."

> The average age of the world's operating reactor fleet has continued to rise, reaching 30.7 years in July.
Chopping the wood, mining the graphite, drilling for the oil used to make the synthetic rubber for the eraser, you think the time and effort for all that amounts to ten seconds?

The only reason I can come up with that you would think that is that you discount all these products that are easily delivered by the market as having no time and effort that goes into them. The part of the comment I was responding to is "required hundreds or thousands of man hours chopping trees, managing slow burning fires, carting ore and wood around". That's clearly referring to the whole production lifecycle of all the components, as otherwise you can just reduce that to the fixed cost of what you can pay the market to provide it for you.

I didn't use a pencil as an example as a whim, but because this has been studied before[1], economics essays have been written on it[2], and people have actually gone through the steps to make it from scratch which has been covered here[3] (unfortunately the blog that was submitted seems to be gone), and let me tell you, the time to make a single pencil is not ten seconds if you could up all the time going into making the components that are used to create it.

1: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/i-pencil/

2: https://fee.org/resources/i-pencil-audio-pdf-and-html/ (1958)

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10631115
> It also makes reading the code easier in terms of reasoning about it.

For me that's huge. I work in a support role where I pretty much exclusively look after code other people have written. Without type hints when something blows up I need to follow the code all the way back to whenever the variables were initially substantiated so I can know what to expect and what I can do with it. If I have a type I know what I'm looking immediately and start building a model of things without back tracking.
And lets also not forget, the majority of the people paying that fee probably will never publish an app to the store.
Being easy to use by newbies has killed too many great ideas already.
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The same goes for comments about voting on posts. It’s boring.

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BS.

Currently browsing HN, Google groups, Gitlab x2.

Extensions enabled:

Bypass paywall, Decentraleyes, Youtube enhancer, Facebook containers, Flagfox, Google container, HTTPS everywhere, Location guard, Sponsorblock and Ublock Origin

Only using a few hundred MB atm:

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I apologize on behalf of the schmucks posting hate in the comments.

The know-it-allness and the highness shall remain reserved for the author of the post.
The direct quotes from this article can been found elsewhere on the internet. They collate them to provide a coherent narrative which is backed up by the OP article. This is an ad hominem argument and not compelling in this case.
The biggest threat to Emacs is a number of hard to fix performance issues. Like rendering of very long lines. Luckily for Emacs other editors have their own performance issues, but their architectures might make them more fixable.

The other issue is the display model. Rendering using browser technologies enables other editors to do things Emacs just can't.

I'm sure some gimmicks might bring in more users. But implicit in this kind of thinking is that Emacs is perfect as it is and with right marketing it will explode. I sincerely doubt this. The biggest problems are pretty fundamental.
Emacs is in that disastrous stage of a product's life where the geezers destroy their own community by refusing to adapt to new expected behavior, thus driving away the newbies. Eventually the product dwindles to just supporting the few remaining geezers left.

I'm not talking about stupid fads such as skinning and color palette changes. But cut-copy-paste keybindings (not to mention select-all, save, close window, undo, etc.) are not a fad. They have been the standard in everything except for Emacs for over THIRTY FIVE YEARS. They were standard when Ronald Reagan was president.

Pop-up menus on right-button-click have been standard for almost as long, dating to X11 and NeXTSTEP (which is where OS X got them).

And the most awful trend is in preventing clear improvements in modes and functionality from coming to the forefront simply because geezers are not used to them. The argument seems to be that making all these kinds of things standard would be hard on the geezers. This is nonsense. Unlike the newbies, the geezers know how to turn this stuff off.

The geezers prevent this because Emacs is their ecosystem. But for everyone else, Emacs is a small part of a much larger ecosystem (MacOS, Linux, Windows) with which it is increasingly incompatible and archaic. This is myopia pure and simple.
> So you ding the language because of a suboptimal choice made by one tool for it?

I provided 4 different links showing multiple different features in the language I find suboptimal.

> Sure it’s a pain when things change, but it’s also healthy when they improve, and almost every change has been an improvement.

It's a very dubious statement at the very least.

> But it’s also never been able to address its most significant flaws.

Can Swift address its flaws even with its breaking changes? So far its been piling on more and more syntax, and continuously breaking its standard library (whose design choices like writing to files from Strings are very dubious)?
I suppose rms can't understand why anybody would think anything could be better than what he chose to do 40-something years ago.
What Does Normal Look Like Now? Covid’s Impact on the Internet
Rootless Containers with Podman: The Basics
IIUC Yes. Although there are some cases where it can share immutable objects or pass ownership.

However you can always just open a shared memory region and write bytes back and forth. You don't get ruby types but if you are worried about performance that probably isn't much of a concern.
> I think the best parts of society come from collaborative and social effort- where people agree to share resources in pursuit of a common goal.

people who don't share your (presumably) anti-state views probably think this is basically what government is.

if you rephrased to something like "government action ought to be the last resort for solving the problems of a community", I could agree with you.
How are health and safety standards irrelevant to product features?
If Apple is going to set new terms, I'd like one more added:

Apps that allow you to sign up / subscribe to a service in the app must have an equally prominent and easy way of cancelling / unsubscribing in the app. No additional steps can be required (ie no calling a retention specialist).
hu.ma.ne
Apart from facebook, other developer like Airbnb
I've only ever done it out of curious laziness but it's one of those things where it's theoretically clean enough to do right but if you do it wrong you might be fixing it all day. If something changes downstream or you make a mistake at 9AM you can end up with subtle non-failing garbage everywhere.

The only way I would do it and trust it, would be if the binding is generated and tested (separately) automatically, but at that stage why not just write one with a proper ABI.
What's the advantage of Swift over Rust if I'm looking at ditching C++ on a project that has nothing to do with Apple's ecosystem?

Currently the top two comments suggest that Swift looks compelling for this use case, but I don't really see it.
1) I'm not joking. I think the OP legitimately didn't think about the humans that don't look like they expect them to look. That's a huge problem across all of tech - not just our lack of imagination about the wide array of human experience, but us assuming that we have thought of everyone when we clearly haven't

2) I think this part gets trickier
How do you tell an AI not to do irreversible things? How do you indicate that this is a plastic bag blowing across the street and it needn't cause a traffic jam, but that is a plastic tarp hanging off a barricade that we can't drive through?

How do I indicate that this is a piece of cardboard we can drive over but that is a human person wearing a Halloween costume made of cardboard?

It's not an easy task, and I'm very sympathetic to the very real technical challenge they're facing
A snapshot of the web at the moment of departure - that ought to keep anyone busy for a decade of study and entertainment.
Yes, because line 4 lets me circumvent lines 2 and 3.
Thats because the "real" product they are selling is the data collection. Also, subscription services are much more attractive to companies because its a guaranteed and predictable revenue stream.

Also, doing everything over the internet to centralized "cloud" servers is easier to develop for and manage, and its easier on the end user to set up, strengthening the product. Although I think this is more of a cherry on top of the big pile of data they're getting on you.

It also probably subsidizes the unit cost. Companies would much rather sell you a "cheaper" device with a subscription plan than a potentially more expensive device with one-time payment. Your average consumer will choose the device that is cheaper up-front for the same reasons.

The technical, privacy-focused crowd that tends to populate this forum is already being served by the type of cameras you can already buy on Monoprice, Newegg, or some other related store. Can you imagine a company like Amazon selling that kind of product? I sure can't.

With that said, if anyone would sell a privacy-focused device with all the same benefits as Ring, it would probably be Apple since privacy is part of their brand. I don't think the odds of that happening soon are high, but I could be wrong.
Was this the article?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19888220
Reddit actually wasn’t much of a financial success. The anecdote merely shows PG/Jessica were right the two founders could make big things.

Removing Reddit doesn’t materially change yc financials.
Emacs has been at that stage for well over a decade, arguably two. What we're seeing now is the slow process of finally muddling their way out.
No composers were world recognized in the Baroque era. How would they be? There were no recordings and no music publishing industry. Bach was not well-known as a composer until after his death because he worked as a church organist as opposed to traveling and staging concerts. His employer St Thomas Church didn't release his composition until 1850. He was certainly well-regarded in Germany as an organist though.
My question was rhetorical. As I said elsewhere, I was criticizing supergeek133's particular justification, not actually looking for the real reason.
The point isn't to reduce the contrast, it's to use contrast based on hue and less on value.

Accessibility is the real concern. Solarized fails many of the checks for accessible text under standards such as WCAG 2.0.
Banks as private middlemen providing society with a payment system is an outdated and baroque system. Today, the whole payment system of an average nation can work over a single cluster of computers in the basement of the central bank, there is absolutely no reason not to provide this service for free to all citizens and businesses since it's a critical part of living in a society. The whole superstructure of banks, credit card companies, payment processors etc. can be vanquished with one blow, by issuing every citizen with a digital identity card which can be then used to access his free accounts provided by the government, no other paperwork necessary. Some resources should be spent on preventing laundering and fraud with the system, but this needs to be done in the banking system as well, with the costs passed on to the consumers.

I disagree with some of the other claimed benefits. Central bank accounts holding monetary base would not offer interest, just like paper money, and will always offer negative real interest when considering inflation. The government pays interest when borrowing from the banking system, and you can certainly use your central bank account to buy these securities (just like banks do today) but then you are no longer holding the risk free monetary base, you have a security with some non-zero risk of sovereign default.

The stability of the system is also not a given. Commercial banks run the payment system as an ancillary to their main function, and that is to match un short term liquidity, that is temporary savings and surplus of people and firms, and redirect those resources to long term investments. This is a critical economic role and for the economy to work it will still need to be provided in some other fashion, for example by a credit market.

This already happens to a large degree, for example banks offer mortgages and package them into securities that are sold on markets. This whole MBS process was behind the financial melt-down in 2008, since these practices were less scrutinized than the direct loans and deposits of banks. In fact, both are the same process: monetary base increases in velocity and is multiplied in the form of interest bearing securities that represent investments in the productive economy. The stability of the whole financial system is predicated on the quality and diligence of these investments, and credit markets proved to be notoriously bad at discovering this.

One thing to note though, is that when a "bank run" happens in the "shadow banks" of the credit markets, the bad securities are wiped out but the goods ones quickly recover. So the central bank can ride a financial storm by blanket buying paper with fresh money and let the market discover the winners and losers. Bank runs are self-limiting because securities drop to a value where they become enticing to value investors. When commercial banks are involved though, you have massive contagion since bank runs are self-fueling, once a bank is in trouble every investors starts to request their money, even if the fundamentals of the loans made by that bank are sound in the long run.
I have a similar experience. 20 years ago a friend told me a trick which only worked on vending machines from a particular brand. It only worked on the drinks with the lowest price. You had to put the exact money in the machine for a certain drink, add one cent and press the button for that drink right when you hear the "click" of the money. You get the drink and your money was increased by one cent. After you were done you could just get the money back. It required some practice but when your timing was good you could empty a complete machine. Since most of the vending machines had redbull and jupiler, which had the highest price, we had alot of free cola/sprite/.... I wonder if it still works.
> gifted, way above average, people.

And it could be that that courage is one of the things that enable them to become above average.
Just as a follow up spacex has written a bit about their systems, which follow the same "actuator is the judge" approach: https://space.stackexchange.com/a/9446
Too busy watching Susanna Hoffs videos in internet currently, (I prefer to choose my own rabbit holes, thanks), but I will make all this studies next year, all of then, each one. Maybe. If I'm very bored. Mortally bored. I promise.

(Homework for the weekend?... LOL, who do you think I am? your secretary?)
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You could put a great deal of individualism into this bucket, I'm thinking. "Everyone should do their own thing", makes a lot of sense, when you have a lot of resources, individually. "We all need to hang together", is more important when everyone is one misstep away from disaster, because they have few resources. "Don't do anything weird", makes more sense when, if you get yourself into trouble, you don't have the resources to get yourself out, and everyone else will have to pitch in to rescue you, and they don't have much in the way of resources to spare, either.

The original meaning of "conservative", is very close to "cautious", and it is the normal result of the feeling that you are in a precarious position. Not being conservative, being adventurous even, is more palatable when you have the resources to recover from things going badly for a while.

Oddly, I find myself thinking that this NYPost article is an interesting, even insightful one, and that is not what I normally think about the NY Post.
Your article didn’t contradict that most people get more than they put in.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2013/feb/01/medicare-and-...

According to the institute’s data, a two-earner couple receiving an average wage — $44,600 per spouse in 2012 dollars — and turning 65 in 2010 would have paid $722,000 into Social Security and Medicare and can be expected to take out $966,000 in benefits. So, this couple will be paid about one-third more in benefits than they paid in taxes.

> In fact, research shows that accounting for Social Security essentially cancels out the recent increase in inequality

Doesn’t that support my point that the higher tax states actually subsidize poorer states?

I’m a bleeding heart capitalist. I believe in the social safety net. But, the entire point of my post was arguing against the idea that states with high taxes and limiting SALT was unfair to states that pay less in taxes.
It definitely is old, but a lot of the points still stand with respect to swift syntax.

Anyway I was trying to use swift for things outside of iOS work to share code and it wasnt worth it, is what I'm really getting at. So agreed on your whole second sentence haha