skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought this whole article was a joke parody based on its content. But it's on a .edu domain?

Among many sentences that made me chuckle, "Millimeter waves can ... promote the growth of drug-resistant pathogens." What? How?

You don't have to tell me it's a bad idea to stand on top of an FM radio tower emitting kilowatts of RF energy in the VHF spectrum. That's gonna burn pretty bad.

But I'm going to need some more serious scientific analysis of how a <5W transmitter in my pocket or home is doing anything more serious than my yearly dental X-Ray's.
First of all, I will point out that he brings up the “context” of facts as a vehicle for an agenda early in the book. The book can essentially be described as a critical reading and overview of the IPCC reports.

And, yes, I do not agree with every point he makes. I think some of the things he says are misleading. That said, he does raise points that climate action advocates, myself included, need to address. For instance, our faulty climate models. This is not climate denial. It’s climate action, from a realistic perspective.
If I suggest whole lines of dialogue to you, the screenwriter, did I write those lines or you? If you change names in those lines of dialogue to fit your story, do you now gain credit for writing those lines?

Suggesting code is generating code
If this was just about the law and didn't say anything about cryptocurrency or bitcoin these comments would be a lot more sensible.

It seems like simply including cryptocurrency in an article triggers an in-group vs out-group where people dive right into attacking positions.

Making it illegal to move more than 40 USD of value out of South Africa without written permission from the treasury is absurd. Every tourist has done this, I've done this. I'll do it again without any fear of being charged for this crime.
Plot twist: 5G is actually harmful to your health, but nobody believes it due to all of the harebrained conspiracies that have come to be associated with this stance.
> Yes, exactly! We can already observe the effects through such metrics as marriage rate and birth rate in e.g. Germany or South Korea.

I am missing the proof of causation here. One can equally assume that a good social safety net reduces demand to have children as providers in old age. Or that access to higher education for women lets them make a) more informed decisions or b) not rely on a male partner to provide for them.

> I sense some negativity, could I have formulated it in a more neutral way?

You could have shown that your causation is actually that, not just a correlation :)
New radio receiver opens wider window to radio universe
Yes, but deciding whether any program can halt is exactly what's called for here. You're operating on x86 machine code, which is Turing-complete, and you don't have the option of restricting to a non-Turing-complete subset of x86 machine code without significantly shrinking your addressable market. (There's already been significant research on creating provably-secure or provably-terminating instruction sets, with some success in specific problem domains, but they tend to fail with general purpose personal computing because consumers won't use your product if it means SimCity won't work.)
Why didn't he just call a repairman?
That doesn't work: your suggestion applies at too late a stage in the flowchart. It looks like:

1. Do you need a license to use materials for training, or to use the output model?

2. If so, does the code's license allow this?

GitHub is claiming 'no' for #1, that they do not need any sort of license to the training materials. This is reasonably standard in ML; it's also how GPT-3 etc were trained.

Now, whether a court will agree with their interpretation is an interesting question, but if they are correct then #2 doesn't come into play.
> Unfortunately, it is very difficult to make people even believe in something that would require them to sacrifice their lifestyle, let alone actually commit to doing something about it.

There's also the major problem that history's most sophisticated propaganda machine - the PR and advertising industry - is almost entirely focused on getting people to consume more of everything. Buy a new phone each year, buy a new car, buy a new fridge, buy a new washing machine, buy new clothes every week, buy more toys, always more more more.

The truth is that it will be impossible to stop the worse effects of global warming if we don't significantly reduce consumption of most things to older rates: people used to have one fridge their entire lives. A smartphone should last at least 10 years. Furniture should last generations. Clothes should last years.
Get a baofeng, stay away from boomer chat
I'd love to see a violation category for error handling (ie. making sure that all exceptions are handled appropriately).

After using Golang for an extended period of time, coming back to Python has been frustrating at times because it is not as straight forward to handle errors/exceptions (especially when using external libraries that aren't well documented).
Yes it will matter a lot. Apple is one of the giants standing in the way of right to repair. Being able to say "Apple cofounder is with us" will be a huge convincing point for the general public. The plan is to put the right to repair on the ballot, so public support levels do matter.
You're thinking like a physicist, not a professor trying to get attention for their wackadoodle theory
Horizontal scaling works!

But, it’s only efficient in convenient, shared-nothing type architectures. If you are dealing with longer lived, more stateful stuff (like a game server perhaps) it’s not going to be so easy.

Of course, it’s easy for fancy VC funded stuff to defer optimizations later. If you are working solo you are probably going to want to, counter intuitively maybe, spend more time thinking about how to keep things optimal and simple. There’s probably startups out there worth real money whose entire stack could run on a $20/mo DigitalOcean box if it were better optimized, but actually runs on a $1000/mo Amazon or GCP account. Of course there is a lot to be said about that (obviously, the latter set up should, if done well, be a lot more resilient and prepared to deal with scale) but it does go a long way to demonstrate why someone might care about efficient async; the scale of money you can burn when you are bootstrapping or doing solo hobby projects is a lot different from well-funded startup or established business...

Everything has tradeoffs. I do believe Go wins in context switching, but the GC latency and CPU usage has definitely caused some problems. The Go developers have done an impressive job with GC latency and performance, but it’s hard to be cheaper than free, so sometimes Rust is a better option, for example.
Note that intermixing between those whom we call 'Sub-Saharan' Africans and the "rest of the world" is definitely not new or unique to the 'Western Hemisphere' as OP seems to assume: we know very clearly from Classical written sources and iconography that there were many peoples of 'Sub-Saharan' appearance well north of the Sahara desert, in close contact with Mediterranean and Levantine (thus, clearly "Out of Africa") humans. Even more than this, we know of such 'Sub-Saharan' folks who were very deeply integrated in ancient Mediterranean and Levantine societies, and while these folks were clearly a tiny minority and their distinctive appearance was often remarked upon, this did not hurt their social standing in any sense; there was even a well-known Egyptian dynasty of "Black" pharaohs.
The microwave causes harm by it's ability to heat water, not by the nature that it's a microwave, doesn't it? Wouldn't we also need to treat any source of heat as similarly dangerous given that it produces infrared radiation?
To me, the Coinbase IPO was a major milestone in achieving critical mass, if you look through their numbers, it has already achieved pretty massive scale compared to it's age. Jury is still out, but I'm confident the cat is more or less out of the bag.
Below the visible spectrum, no?
> Being defeatist isn’t exactly productive,

> the only way this’ll get better is after some additional damage is seen and felt by policy makers

I do sometimes think the way to shock people into actual change is to switch from defeatist rhetoric to unhinged triumphalism:

"For decades our war against Future Earth has been stunningly successful, and we're approaching the completion of a total victory! Yes, some might argue that our tactics have been unethical, and that our willingness to cause so many civilian casualties has been irresponsible. And perhaps, as time drags us across the front, as we encounter friendly (wild)fire, we may reconsider the unique harms of our arsenal. But as you encounter the destruction we have worked so hard to bring about, if ever your heart wavers, remember! Future Earth has always been fated to stand on the grave of Past Earth. And if Past Earth must die, why should we leave behind resources for others to prosper from our passing? Our victory may not be just, but it is Victory!"

The issue isn't so much that there's nothing we can do. The issue is that we've been highly effective at pushing in the wrong direction. We've allowed ourselves to frame our impacts as almost unavoidable accidents, rather than as acts of violence and destruction. Yes, policy makers must act, but perhaps we should be talking about tribunals to consider crimes against humanity, and international legal mechanisms to address collective guilt, rather than patting politicians on the head when they announce that eventually we'll stop selling ICE cars.
As a tenant I want to personally inspect the unit I’m renting. A 3D virtual tour won’t tell me if there’s low water pressure, a slow hot water heater, a stinky garbage bin outside the window or creaky floors.
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> but I'm glad these are still legal.

This is a great story. But it can be legal and restricted -- prescription only, just like Nicorette gum was when it was first introduced.

> He had some undiagnosed psychological problem

There is definitely a correlation between schizophrenia and smoking. I dont know if there are studies on it, but ask any psychologist experienced with schizophrenics if they see that pattern.
In the USA it is at least merely a CRT report the bank has to file. It looks like in South Africa they're going to need permission first rather than simply providing the government with the ability to track capital movements.
Thank you for the kind words!
Btw, when you export your meeting notes to Notion for instance, we do add the date, meeting title & attendees emails :)
We've also been thinking about being able to record 1min snippet audios but haven't prioritised it yet in the roadmap!
Author here.

To clarify, the way to address repetition was not so much making battles shorter, but making effects less numeric and more radical. You can still spend a long time battling, but instead of decreasing hitpoints, you: fall on the ground, stab a leg, stand up, get leapt at, dodge, chop off a hand, get stabbed in the eye, and finally break a skull.
>"Surveillance" is essential to internet advertising.

I think you are missing the point. As a user, my basic response to "my job is harder if I don't do surveillance" is I don't care. If you say that you can't do a certain type of advertising without surveillance, then my response is find another job. There are lots of interesting problems out there to work on for fun and profit. Find another one.

Or, stay in advertising and target ads based on what I am doing right now. If I read an online journal about mountaineering, show me ads for mountaineering equipment. Sure, it may be less effective (and boring), but us users are fine with that.

Advertisers don't have a right to take away my privacy so they can do what they want. This disconnect keeps coming up over and over. Just because an industry has become large does not inherently make it appropriate.
Not really because a lot of those are professionals manipulating the market. The archetype of a shoe-shine boy is the least knowledgeable person possible. Sure some of the meme stocks voices fall into this bucket, but which ones?
Distributing DNS queries across several resolvers is a good idea to make sure there's no single resolver would be able to learn the entire browsing history of a user. However, this distribution algorithm should be designed with care because distributing queries in a random or round-robin manner would lead to even worse privacy since every resolver will eventually learn the entire browsing history of the user.

We have conducted some preliminary work on this idea and shared it with the team at Firefox, but I guess the current number of Trusted Recursive Resolvers is not large enough. However, I do believe that once Firefox have more than a dozen TRRs, (or if Firefox allows users to input more than just one customized DoH resolver), our proposed K-resolver resolution mechanism would help to increase the privacy benefit of DoH even further.

"K-resolver: Towards Decentralizing Encrypted DNS Resolution"

https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/23...
Why every time? Isn't this a user config that overrides whatever default there is?
You mean like when AOC asked Google and Apple to ban Parler and they complied?
They are on the hook for a couple billion not $50 million.
Naomi Osaka: “It's OK Not to Be OK”
It isn't clear if its illegal to use ones Single Discretionary allowance (SDA) (1m ZAR per annum) or applying for and using a Foreign investment allowance (FIA) (further 10m ZAR per annum) for crypto.

If exchange control was applied fairly as was the interpretation up until recently, then staying below those amounts in ZAR terms would be fine. However, that may not be the case any more.
Just the 60% increase is obviously false. We've had cell phones for decades, and plenty are using them more than 17 minutes a day, so we should see that 60% increase in brain cancer... but we don't. In fact we've seen a steady decrease.
https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/brain.html

Maybe cell phones prevent brain cancer by exciting the immune system via whatever mechanism he proposes that it also "promotes the growth of drug-resistant pathogens" /s
What is the evil practice?
I'm not a fan of the cell phone EM theories necessarily, but both of the reasons you gave aren't sound. First off, physicists will not be the ones conducting studies about the biological impact of EM waves. That is the wrong department. Secondly, an overall decline could be compatible with dangerous phone rays if there is a larger effect going on in the opposite direction, for example the decreasing environmental concentrations of carcinogens which were discovered and banned recently.
> buying up all the housing stock

Because this is hyperbole. Checking Zillow yourself, you’ll find that they have maybe 0.5% of listed homes across all markets.
China isn’t the best example of my point. I’m talking about the developing world broadly - we should absolutely foot some of the bill for other countries to go green or pay for geoengineering so they have a longer timeframe to do so. Coal is still cheap and can be much easier to operate than alternatives - unless someone helps make the alternatives easier to install and operate.

How much of China’s energy goes towards producing goods for the West? If the coal is burned to cheaply provide goods for us, aren’t we at least partially responsible for that? Criticizing China while we have higher CO2 emissions per capita AND off source much of our emissions to them isn’t a convincing argument as evidenced by the fact that they are barely paying lip service to emission reductions.

Again, we need to make sure we have global buy-in. The plan needs to offer benefits to small villages throughout the world rather than denying the fruits of electrification and industry to them.
What's worse is when they try to pretend like you're actually getting value for the crazy fee they charge.

"Now, I'm you're broker so if there are any problems throughout the lease, feel free to contact me. This isn't just a one time thing!"

We literally emailed/called him two weeks later and he ghosted us.

When we were moving out of our apartment when our lease was up, he was around showing another unit, introduced himself, asked us how long we lived there, etc
I think you left the link out.
Yes. For example, Adobe's[1] which describes the policy for Photoshop and their other apps describes what specific data they may collect which is all related to the operation of their apps and services, and then they say they may provide it to authorities on request.

I've never seen a privacy policy be as vague and overreaching as Audacity's.

[1] https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html
Atleast for software. Most software patents I read are silly.
> electromagnetic field scientists

> modulation of wireless devices

> makes the energy more biologically active

> our cellular mechanisms

> natural cellular processes

> stress proteins and free radicals

Define any of the above, and point to a reputable source when any of the above phrases are used. It's a collection of phrases which are all "off", like a foreign person with broken english.
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Let's assume that is enforceable through the TOS (which I doubt), would that make hosting GPL'd code on Github a violation of the GPL? If programmer X releases GPL'd code on his website and programmer Y copies it to Github, then it could presumably be considered a bypass of the copyright.
I guess even if I believe everything here and we overstate a bit and say normal cell phone use increases your risk of developing brain cancer by 2x. That's about half the extra mortality you get from driving a car. I'm glad this reasearch is being done but it seem that even if this overstate case is true it's well within the levels of risk people take on every day without second thought. I'm skeptical but curious to see how this bears out over the coming decades.
See also: "Mind Control by Cell Phone"

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mind-control-by-c...
Around 2 or 3 times a year. Not took any for 8 months. I also use DMT occasionally. Last time was about 6 months ago.

I've had 7g myself and yeah, I wouldn't recommend it. 3.5g is enough.
When I'm working with a colleague who has a specialty, I don't generally concern myself with whether they're "my equal" but rather, whether they bring something constructive to the table, in their specialty.

I find "graphic designers" to be enormously helpful in solving problems related to user interaction and judgment with regard to use of color, typeface, and effective use of limited screen real-estate.

There are good ones and bad ones. The key is to assess where they are, and learn how to communicate with them with regards to any technical impacts.

The last thing I'd want to do in collaborating with a team-mate is summarily judge them as "my inferior". But that's (unfortunately) just me.
> What are some simple things that each of us can do to reduce the risk of harm from radiation from cellphones and other wireless devices?

> First, minimize your use of cellphones or cordless phones — use a landline whenever possible. If you do use a cellphone, turn off the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth if you’re not using them. However, when near a Wi-Fi router, you would be better off using your cellphone on Wi-Fi and turning off the cellular because this will likely result in less radiation exposure than using the cellular network.

> Second, distance is your friend. Keeping your cellphone 10 inches away from your body, as compared to one-tenth of an inch, results in a 10,000-fold reduction in exposure. So, keep your phone away from your head and body. Store your phone in a purse or backpack. If you have to put it in your pocket, put it on airplane mode. Text, use wired headphones or speakerphone for calls. Don’t sleep with it next to your head — turn it off or put it in another room.

> Third, use your phone only when the signal is strong. Cellphones are programmed to increase radiation when the signal is poor, that is when one or two bars are displayed on your phone. For example, don’t use your phone in an elevator or in a car, as metal structures interfere with the signal.

Is there any science to this at all? However tenuous it may be I’m curious about the underlying rational for these recommendations. Particularly the first and third. They come across as a bit... superstitious? And unfortunately the article make no attempt at explaining the “why” behind the “what”.
Why would you need to manually change your settings every time a new Firefox version is out? Firefox has settings UI to point to the DoH server of your choice and that setting does not get reset by new Firefox versions:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https#...
Except that the same currency used in the black market is also accepted by banks and grocery stores. In other words, the black market operates with legal tender, not an illegal one (i.e. BTC or MNR if either are made illegal)

Again, there does not seem to be any intrinsic difference between anonymous cryptos and non-anon if cryptos are generally illegal and not a valid tender
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Im not so sure. Most countries do not ban foreign currencies.
My uncle was a lifelong smoker and survived lung cancer (in remission getting close to 5 years). He vapes now and seems to be doing a lot better. It seems preferable to cigarettes considering his odds of full cessation are basically zero.
Old fringe crypto was the cringiest thing ever.

I miss nothing about that.

Every single crypto was and is called a scam in every single chat and thread about it. Pivoting to that as your rationale for whats different is very inaccurate.
the "for such an orbit change" is the qualifying statement there, as opposed to "for any orbit change". It is clearly referring to the same category of orbit change being discussed in the preceding sentence.
While I agree that rotating might be a net negative, that particular issue could be worked around: hash the FQDN and use the hash to determine which provider you use, so that a given user always resolves a given FQDN with the same provider. (Salt the hash, so that different users use different providers for that FQDN.)

It's still not clear if it's a win to rotate, but if you were going to rotate, that would help.
Don't even get me started on the Prime Meridian. It's even more problematic than North being 'up' and South being 'down'! /s
Is it because there are fewer crowds or because remote work is permitted? Surely this can’t be craving a lockdown purely for safety.
great, now replace landlords.
Some discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27766521
Way, way below.
> these findings never come from physicists or engineers working on wireless technologies

It's not hard to believe that there's pressure from the telecom industry to not find out these kinds of things. However, it seems quite feasible for a lab today to rigorously measure the effect of cellphone radiation on voltage-gated calcium channels to verify these claims.
> They force TLS in the name of freedom. Who will be the certificate provider? VeriSign? Comodo? One must use certificate manager or their own certificate server on linux. Everyday the reasons to keep firefox are converging to 0.
>As an aside, the VAX microcode (and hardware schematics) can be easily found, for those interested in this stuff and looking for something less secretive.

http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/vax/780/fiche/

http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/dec/vax/780/fiche/

Filenames for general search (in case the above links aren't found in the future):

"EP-ES0AA-DL-124_1of6_780uCode_Jan82.pdf" to

"EP-ES0AA-DL-124_6of6_780uCode_Jan82.pdf" (There are 6 of them, matching the same 'Xof6' pattern, in case that wasn't obvious...)

Related:

"First new VAX in 30 years?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27758962

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2021/07/03/msg003899.h...