skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've actually already heard of this study and it's another proposed mechanism without any actual evidence in the wild that the proposed mechanism is happened or results in any significant health outcomes. It's a well known study in science circles because of how bad it is in spreading FUD over rfr.

"While the evidence may support the notion that RFR can increase markers of oxidative activity in tissue, it does not establish that this increase is biologically important and can actually lead to specific diseases. It also does not establish that cell phone use causes any harm by this mechanism."

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/about-that-cell-phone-and-c...

They used the word cancer but didn't provide any real data that linked the proposed mechanism to cancer. Please stop believing fear mongerers and demand not just a hypothesis but actual data that a mechanism causes harm.

Oh, and not all oxidative stress in the body is bad. There are oxidative compounds that benefit human health and too much antioxidant can produce adverse effects.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5551541/

Our bodies even produce their own antioxidants:

"Your body's cells naturally produce some powerful antioxidants, such as alpha lipoic acid and glutathione."

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/understanding....

Oxidarive stress and free radicals are turning into buzzwords that ignore how our bodies balance that and just stating something causes oxidative stress in vitro or ex vivo doesn't say whether our antioxidant system can handle that and in the end negate any potential harm. This is why in vivo studies are done and the OP is a massive in vivo experiment that's been naturally happening since cell phones were first deployed.

I'm also going to highlight that I'm trying to pursuade you that we know the risks, they're low (basically zero), and you don't have to be worried about them. To contrast you're proposing unproven mechanisms for an uncertain risk that contradicts the observations do the original post while repeating arguments used by snake oil salesman that sell Faraday cages for people's wifi routers.

Stop being afraid, the world is way less scary when it comes to RFR exposure than these fear mongerers want you to belive.
Sri Lanka Blocks Social Media Platforms After Imposing Emergency
Addition of ints is associative, addition of floats is not, yet generalizing over these two numeric types is a core ability people expect from generics.
There are many 80GHz +/- systems for short haul backbone links started at 1Gbps and these were marketed as wireless fiber for building to building intercity type connections. They have a "pencil" shaped beam and suffer from rain fade / sand storms / etc but are used in the field for special cases.

Heres a quick example:
[1] http://www.aowireless.com/about-us/wireless-partners/wireles...
Those conversations are actually the most important reason our directors want us back in the office. It's how company culture spreads to new people.
Hypothetically one could put a freeze on issuing new business licenses or forbid expanding payroll numbers.
I guess this will push more and more bloggers to start looking at static site generators like Hugo ( https://gohugo.io/ ) and either hosting themselves, or on one of the many "built in" cloud hosting providers that it supports.
Google tv on my nVidia shield is now showing ads on the Home Screen. I don’t think it’s nVidias doing though, just that Google decided to show ads. I should be able to return it, just like my wink that was supposedly free for life…
It's not possible for a parent commenter to downvote their children.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#downvo...

"You cannot downvote comments which are direct replies to your own comment, and you cannot downvote 24 hours after the original comment was made."

So therefore I upvoted you. Other members of this community may downvote you, though, (and probably me too), because we're really far off topic now.
Unless you’re a super genius or are super lucky, you’re likely not going to make a dent in any field especially at a PhD level. Not in these days at least.

But the product of a PhD, according to me and many mentors I respect, is you. It’s your mind and experience (not even necessarily the knowledge). A good phd fundamentally transforms who you are as a person. I’d wager a PhD is probably the most reliable way to effect real change in your mind as an adult. I probably realistically lost millions I could have earned in my twenties because I spent 9 years on my higher education (which has nothing to do with what I do now). But I’d not have done most anything different about it!

Caveat being that it needs to be a good PhD with a good mentor - which is harder to find than a good job or even a good partner lol.
I'm a mature student returning this year. I'd say a lot of universities in Ontario are very open to mature students, and they've really made the process easy. I can't speak to other places, but I've been very pleasantly surprised.
I always found it kind of sad when I would have video conferences with people in the same building. But I didn't want to walk up 12 flights of stairs (very dodgy elevators in that building; wayyyyy under capacity for an office building), and they didn't want to walk down 12 flights of stairs, so there we were.

This is even worse at corporate campuses like the Googleplex. It might be a mile walk to go meet someone in person, while that 1 person video conference room is just footsteps away. Sad, but what can you do. (That said, I've been in meetings where I realized the other half of the group was next door, and said "wait, I'll just come over". Sometimes it's just unfortunate incremental iteration on the list of conference rooms and not actually a good reason.)
I used to work for a networking hardware company, and it's been a while, but even through the 802.11n days, we all called the 2.4GHz band "g-band" and 5GHz band "a-band".

(Granted the person you were replying to also said 300Mbps on 802.11a, which is of course not possible.)
Our main state university had an open day as part of a national "Science Week". They had a bunch of Leica stereo dissecting scopes set up on benches with random aquatic plants, bugs and other stuff in small dishes, that looked like it was something that you just pull out of your local creek. People could come in and just take a look.

It was incredible. Zooming in on some of the plants, it was like there was a entire world in there that was completely invisible to the human eye.

It reminded me of Feynman's quote/lecture about there being "plenty of room at the bottom". It put it into perspective about just how much room there really was.
For our kids once they were used to it it just became normal. There is no argument, it is just what you do. Also they can do new things, mine are really enjoying cooking now, still with help but in 1-2 years they will enjoy doing the cooking all by themselves.
Surely it’s equally ridiculous that your kids would leave the house for school. Or that they would ever move out just to do their own Zoom jobs. But at some point we’ve got three generations who have rarely if ever the left the house and have spent their whole lives Zooming from separate rooms. Some kind of sci-fi dystopia.
Here's a source for Norway. The article links to a 300+ page pdf done by the Norwegian "transport economics Institute".

https://www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/kommentar/2022/02/15/enorm...

Basically, a car in Norway is subsidized with on average 10000nok / 1200usd per year, so not even close to paying for its own use. This also doesn't include the fact that electric cars don't pay any taxes when bought, so society is losing out a lot there as well given that 90% of all new cars now are electric.

Here's a German paper saying that the society bears 40% of the costs associated with owning a car: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092180092...
One of the features WordPress.com doesn't offer on a free plan is a proper backup that can be restored to another WordPress instance. Posts/Pages/Comments and Media can be exported, separately, but for a proper backup you need to fork over $180.

I have an old site on their $13/yr custom domain plan that I'm probably going to let die this year because I don't wish to keep paying for it and it's not worth that hassle to restore to its original state on my own server.
While technically correct how does that relate to the dialogue above? A PhD is even deeper work in a niche topic than a masters, right however that doesn't contradict that the niche know how may become useful later.
> Companies go where the money is

And the money is only there is the customers are still there.

If they're getting up and walking away with their money (or even demanding it returned for a loss of value), an anti-consumer decision isn't so easy to justify.

I'm never going to buy a TV that tracks what I watch, let alone one that exploits that information to advertise to me.
Just, wow. Thanks, so, so much for the care you've put in that answer!

The thing I get from this is what I slowly start to realize. What I think I want is misaligned with what I need ; and so maybe I should focus more on the latter rather than the former.

Re: the boss quitting on the day you joined, this sounds so familiar! I had so many issues with my boss when I switched that I made it my priority to find someone I resonated with. I asked for another interview with my new boss when I joined my current company, we got along really well on a lot of levels. 2 months in, reorg, new boss, no connection. I still am in contact with the hiring manager who hired me, he feels sorry for me, but nothing to be done.
Slack is slower. You can cover far more in a face to face meeting (or a video call) in less time.

This is easily provable too. Have a 30 minute call with someone, and then have a 30 minute Slack chat with them. It becomes very clear that Slack doesn't work as well for that sort of comms.

Slack is brilliant for asynchronous stuff, or very short chats, but it doesn't work for longer things.
Ask HN: What to do if you disapprove of a company practice?
I disagree with a all company wide policy as it seems to put me in discomfort. How can I subtly hint this to management to change or disinclude me and my team from it?
This Lora - 4 Channel MOSFET Driver makes it easy to control FANS/DC motors/ Solenoid/ Electromagnetic Lock, etc... with Lora.
If I were to build the nixCraft blog again today, I would avoid WordPress. It lost core value a long time ago. They are forcing unwanted features with block editor (gutenberg or whatever it is called) and whatnot. Take a look at Classic Widgets[1] and Classic Editor[2] plugins. Both are downloaded over million times just to restore old functionality. They no longer listen to the community. Not to mention it is the number # 1 target for hackers due to its massive popularity and vulnerabilities in WP codebase. We need to continuously apply updates to WP and its ecosystem. I will not dare put WP on the Internet without Cloudflare WAF WP ruleset or Nginx/Apache WAF[3]. It is madness out there. However, I am still thankful for the WP opensource edition. I learned all of my JS, CSS, HTML, and PHP skills as I have done everything myself since 2003. Just some random Sunday rant.
[1] https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/
[2] https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/
[3] https://docs.nginx.com/nginx-waf/ https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/waf/
I've seen a lot (Tool included).

Deerhoof for example has the drummer right front.
>Most people I knew who finished Phds did not do much of note (and this is fairly elite tier).

One could argue that research in general is a probabilistic, distributed gradient descent search and you are fulfilling a certain voluntary social duty even if you are not successful.

Unfortunately that doesn't apply to many pursuits because of various perverse incentives in modern academia...
Not more, just do the things you do already, but consistently, with more envy :)

Thanks for your feedback, really appreciated!
Futures Nostalgia
Who is surprised? The "diversity is strength" motto is almost Putinesque in its mendacity.

Many European states were multicultural - not multiracial in modern sense, but very multicultural, even though the population was white - prior to 1945, either old-style monarchies (Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire), or their successor states prior to the mayhem and ethnic purges of the Second World War.

It was a major source of instability, with politicians inciting ethnic groups to hate and distrust one another and watch with jealous eye any possible progress or gain among the "other ones" to pull them down again or at least create an equity of misery.

Any parallels to contemporary idpol to America are, well, pretty much expected, because it is more of the same, only the contemporary proponents think that they have come up with something new. They didn't, this shit is very old and caused wars long before our grandparents were born.
I heard somewhere that it was an incentive for the Japanese market, which still today is a large physical CD market, to buy the locally distributed releases of albums instead of just buying the original foreign release, which may have been available earlier and for cheaper, or if they already bought the original release, buy it again.
It’s never too late if it’s something you want to do :)

Hell, I have a friend who’s 20 years into his DPhil taking it at a snails pace, but gives him accommodation when he’s in town for the pub.

People talking about how much of a dent you’ll make within your PhDs field… almost definitely zero! Your thesis will probably be read by you, your supervisor, and viva board. You’re still a student and it’s a course on how to do research. It could be fun to dig deep into a subject and that’s a totally awesome reason to do one, making a significant change to your field is very very very unlikely.
It looks great! I like the simplicity of it
It’s worth contemplating on Steve Job’s simplicity of marketing: Give consumers less choices. Cut down the number of SKUs and slim down the product line.

Wordpress options at this point are just stressful. Do I really need to keep track of page views? It’s like the same absurdity when it comes to font licensing. Every time I want to buy a font, myfonts wants to inject a tracking script to track how many people visit the site. And then the same people complain there isn’t money in selling fonts. Simplify and give less stress to customers. Explain that in the marketing copy. For SaaS where the marginal cost is diddly squat, increase in sales will most likely offset whatever last penny you want to squeeze from customers.

Marketing people just don’t get it. I’ve seen this happen in my own company, seen it first hand how it damages sales. Marketing that works with AWS doesn’t work with Wordpress. Totally different customer needs.

Ghost blog guys do it better but it can still be simplified.

Edit: I just checked https://wordpress.com/pricing/ – That looks very simple. Two choices, sorry for the rant, I was just going by the article.
Interesting! I know those albums and the era better than any (teenage years), so it's fascinating hearing behind the scenes.

I think a lot of what made that era productive was a peaking of tension between slick commercial music and grittier, "underground" sounds and themes. Ozzy & Black Sabbath went from shocking to mainstream. Punk became a main street cafe aesthetic.

In the 90s, after the grunge explosion, "underground" was ironically mainstream and that contradiction resulted in some terrific albums.

Nirvana and Kurt certainly traded in this tension.

My favourite example is rage against the machine. Extremely dissident sound and vibe. I think they recorded very raw.

But, they still achieved pop music ideals. Ratm songs are catchy and iconic in exactly the same way a Michael Jackson song is. You start tapping your pencil to it from the first note.
There are a lot of articles out there covering the basics on everything from environmental review to open space requirements to labor, but they can be summed up by just saying that local government in most American cities has never not been somewhat corrupt all through the past and going on to this day, and politically connected people stand to make a lot of money from this status quo that doesn't take an expert to see hurts the average working person. I think the FBI has indicted three sitting LA city councilmembers within the last couple of years now? It's amazing how the headlines don't seem to stick though, uncanny really.
Big venture with investments can do that, solo founders can't because they need to pay their rents.

If I could, I would though :)
I doubt it will move significantly in that direction. Sure, some will look into that, but I suspect most people will just find an alternative, accept the lower quotas or stop blogging.

I think a huge majority blogging on WordPress.com have no interest in learning the tech stack to run something like Hugo. The quick start for Hugo includes command line git, which will probably make 99% of bloggers stop reading.

(n-gate.com seems to have died, but the prediction that WordPress.com bloggers would switch to static site generators and use git for version control
would probably qualify as an example of the comical HN-bubble.)
The block editor is controversial. I like it, but people who are more conservative around technology hate it with passion.

I agree that it shouldn't be pushed too hard, but the WordPress team probably doesn't have enough resources to maintain both.
> the inherent tradeoff of flexibility vs ease of use

But it’s not inherent. Making a UI that can do both is hard, but possible.
Same here. I'm listening to & reading a lot of computer history lately. From Knuth, Kernighan, Thompson, Ritchie, Hopper to more 'modern' pioneers like James Gosling, Chris Lattner, David Patterson, Rich Hickey and Rob Pike.

I'm just amazed by how much of the foundation of the software world was laid by these brilliant minds.

npm install imposter-syndrome
Got it haha!
Even though at my office only about 30% of folks are back, it’s roughly the same group each day.

This an area where companies will see problems with reopening offices - the people who aren't there (eg remote hires who work hundreds of miles away, people who choose not to return, people who still need to isolate, etc) will feel far less included, will see that their prospects at the company are worse, and ultimately are much more likely to leave because the social aspect of Slack will die off. Maintaining inclusion in a partially remote company is incredibly hard.
I wonder what the legality of this is?

I hope they don't get a take down notice.
“Get kids used to contributing to the household while developing life skills”. Getting chores done is a pleasant side-effect.
I assume you must be technically qualified? I don't know a lick of VPS management. If something stopped working as expected, I wouldn't even know what went wrong – leave alone implementing a fix. WordPress.com until now – particularly in India – offered an excellent way out: affordable, reliable, good reputation, and feature-loaded. This plan change is inexplicable, especially also given what Mullenweg says in the interview.
Slack was just an example though. It could be a google doc. It could be anything written down.

In what instance is talking about something better (I guess we’d have to define better but just assume better = retention) than reading about something? If I’m reading about it I can always read it again. In a meeting I’m going to forget 90% of it the moment I walk out the door (or end the zoom meeting).
The money thing is simple here: A mixing engineer who gets royalties will no longer be able to 100% go for the bands vision, but rather for what they think the market likes. So it is a perverse incentive.

If you are after maximizing the amount of money you earn rather than focus the creation of good work and/or art audio engineering might not be the right field for you anyways. Firstly because there is not a lot of money in it, secondly because there is not a lot of money in it for people who always priorize money over art.
Some users do.

Later, you'll be able to compete with friends and compare your gardens.

I think we are all motivated by healthy comparison.

Just look at how the "karma" feature on Hackers News motivates us to write great comments :)
If it's far enough ahead of its time, I suppose it might earn you an honorary doctorate someplace.

Sore subject, huh.
The block editor has been called out for technical problems often but I feel the writing experience it offers should be discussed as well. For example cursor behaviour in the block editor is unpredictable, and with large posts the bloody thing starts to hang now and then.
The signage model is significantly different. IP55 and 1500nits (up from 450, reviewed).

Might go some way to explain the costs.
It's odd isn't it? Git went from an idea to being benchmarked in about a month. But tell anybody at work you can rewrite something to fix a fundamental design decision causing issues and they will usually say that will be impossible, take forever etc. While they assign you much longer lengths of time just working around something that was poorly designed.
If you can raise your kids to not be distracted by roblox and TV (or at least not too distracted), you've probably already won the chore battle.
How do you apply? I can't find any link to jobs or careers on your landing page
The transcription is done! https://github.com/theinternetftw/xkcd2601
pours one out for Camp Santo and “Valley of the Gods”, devoured by Valve
If you are consistent with your habits for 3 months, you'd make me the happiest men on the planet and I'll refund you all the 3 monthly retainers.

My Twitter DM are open :)
I know someone who kept “updating” their TV every year by taking advantage of Costco’s generous return policy. After the 4th time, they let him know they won’t be doing it anymore — I don’t know if that was a whole-store change or it applied specifically to him.
I agree. Every time something like this happens, I just miss Posterous. I think they had it all right, including the simplicity. Then Twitter bought and shut them down.

Edit: There's its avatar Posthaven but the Posthaven blog hasn't been updated since 2017.
My first thought is that stuff like this always leads to yet another "content churn" iteration, where even more user-authored stuff drops off the Internet, leaving behind an even more desolate wasteland of SEO spam and dead links.

We've lost so much already... the old Flash content, the GeoCities pages, the forums fallen under Facebook's iron curtain, the archives of obscure culture erased by copyright lawyers. The lit windows of the Internet that went dark, one by one, only to be replaced by gaudy commercial signage.
Small note:
Having looked at geometric algebra, both rotations and translations are based on combining 2 mirror operations.
If the mirrors are parallel it's a translation, otherwise it's a rotation.
> With the recent events with the Taliban that seem to have taken people by surprise, why isn’t this outcome taken into consideration?

The only real surprise was how fast the Taliban was able to take the country back, not that they were.

To answer the rest of your question. I think it's pretty clear that the response would be mostly condemnation and sanctions. There's no appetite for direct military conflict between NATO members and Russia, at least on the NATO side, so what are you going to do?

I'm sure the US would supply arms to insurgents, but that's something the US does a lot.
Is it correct that 230 mg/dl is 5.6mmol/l? We've always been told that we must keep the number below 5 at all costs for health, but this seems to be as bad as being above 6.3. Am I reading this correctly? If so, current medical advice is way off.
One of the first incantations of this idea that I encountered, when I had just started working at my first corporate job back in the day, was Robocode ( https://robocode.sourceforge.io/ ) - it was great fun, and I see it's still going.