skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> especially with radiation, will cause harm statistically.

Ultrasound is not radiation (as in photons). To the best of our understanding (from a physics/engg perspective) ultrasound imaging capped by appropriate energy/etc limits is expected to be perfectly safe. Likewise with MRI. If we want more pointed study to be sure of this, that's fair, but let's be clear & specific about it and commit to figuring it out one way or another so we don't repeat the same discussion a couple of decades down the line. (We have to think of moving the state of the art forward, instead of festering in unresolved disagreements)

Further, if you're concerned about under-studied possible side-effects of radiation from occasional diagnostic testing, what do you plan to do about being blanketed by mm waves once 5G gets deployed more ubiquitously?

> There are also countless examples of people undergoing unnecessary operation and suffering complications

This sounds far more serious (and fixable) compared to the physics/biology interaction of diagnostic testing. Why do we continue to bury our heads in the sand collectively, instead of trying to fix this with better decision-making tools?
It's also useful to manually do some of those steps we take for granted on modern systems. In this case it was file allocation, but there are many others which are equally illustrative.

Plus, the feeling of control and complete understanding is really addictive after awhile. 8-)
I didn't work out the last 5 years to my regret. I had a ski accident and my back hurt severely the previous 2 times.

I changed my behavior again, i was working too much to actually "want to do/start it".

I'm at 3 hours per day ATM. ( Back seems to be ok! ). Next step is to change to weight training and reduce the amount of hours, since the current slow-paced cardio phase is not sustainable. But i hope it helped me for my back as a transitioning phase...
Man who jumped from 18th floor NYC tower identified as Bed Bath and Beyond CFO
In India, movies & shows that are shown in theaters and broadcast media are subject to Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). However majority of American sitcoms are OTT and hence still not under the purview of CBFC.

Let's not dwell too far for an example:) "Sacred Games" had enough sex, nudity and cussing - far more than average American sitcom
>The incident occurred just two days after the company announced plans to shut 150 of its roughly 900 stores and lay off 20 percent of its staff.
> Blacklists should not include whole IP blocks. I am not responsible for what my IP neighbor is doing with their server.

This is obviously laughably naive and creates infinite sources of spam.

Before doing a proposal on a core Internet technology you should be required to be on the other side for a while. Do anti-spam at a large retail e-mail service provider for a year and then you can understand the problem space.

You might not be responsible for what your neighbor is doing with their server, but the ESP is responsible for filtering it. The idea that they need to treat each and every comcast IP with equal weight is nuts. IP reputation is the single most valuable tool in the industry; the largest statistical predictor of whether or not an email is abusive.
I’ve been thinking deeply about this over the last couple of weeks. So sure, the obvious answer is the overriding human reward function is survival, propagation of our dna. Except I think it’s more complex than that, take War for example where people sacrifice themselves for an idea of nationality or culture, that goes against the ‘selfish gene’ theory.
I think the answer is there are multiple reward functions that compete for dominance. Perhaps each of the different ‘brains’ has it’s own reward function.
> go to best buy and pick a random device (any device) with a headphone port and a random pair of headphones and they work 100% of the time, guaranteed, I'll bet you money on this right now at my local best buy.

Sure, maybe the audio will work, maybe it will have static cause they're cheap since the manufacturer cut corners to save $.01. But does the mic on them work with my device? Or the buttons on them, will they work controlling the volume? IIRC, wired 3.5mm headphones had separate versions for iPhone and Android as the buttons on them worked different on each platform. So making 3.5mm an example of successful standardization across all platforms is laughable IMHO.

>it should be "laptop 2.0" and laptop 2.0 includes a mandatory selection of power/data/video capabilities, with 3.0 being a strict superset of 2.0 capabilities.

What if for me as a consumer, or me as a manufacturer, don't need the full Laptop 3.0 capabilities in my ideal product, and my product just needs Laptop 2.0 capabilities with only a couple of Laptop 3.0 functionality to make me happy? Why make a needlessly more expensive product with features the target customers don't need, by having such coarse and inflexible standardization with little room for movement?

It might not matter for a $2k Macbook where you could throw the kitchen sink in there, but for a $200 phone or a $500 laptop, it does. both in terms of cost and size.

Yeah, the type-C flexibility is both a blessing and a curse.
The person you're replying to said phoneme, suggesting awareness of the phonetic/phonemic distinction.

> apparently even linguists have to learn subsets of IPA in order to properly pronounce phonemes in different languages

I don't actually understand what you mean by this clause, but if we strip some words, "linguists learn subsets of IPA in order to properly pronounce phonemes in different languages" is in fact exactly what IPA is for.
It's a showcase for a front-end framework. See the link at the bottom. https://vercel.com/
Ahh yes, the evil big vegetable lobby is trying to undermine the good that has been done by poor old Philip Morris.
this seems to be a well written and rational article and it's really too bad that a thing like "5G" is so prone to mass culture conspiracy hysteria, that it's impossible to have a discussion about concerns like these without everyone retreating to "Their corners" - which snuffs out the "middle" where things like, "hey 5G might give us problems with weather forecasts, how do we work that out"?. I can just see the "debunking" blog posts already "debunking" things like "5G will ruin the weather!" or some idiocy.
Yes, English is a terrible written language. In a sane world we would have moved to IPA a long time ago.

jˈɛs, ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ ɪz ɐ tˈɛɹɪbəl ɹˈɪtən lˈaŋɡwɪdʒ. ɪn ɐ sˈeɪn wˈɜːld wiː wʊdhɐv mˈuːvd tʊ ˌaɪpˌiːˈeɪ ɐ lˈɒŋ tˈaɪm ɐɡˈəʊ.
If it's an English mythology it should be fine to have English actors in it, like Idris Elba, John Boyega, and Roadman Shaq.
This is just silly. You are never disadvantaged by knowing more about what's inside your body. What you don't know can easily kill you, though.

Hopefully in the long term future we will have extremely cheap & frequent MRI and blood testing so you can assemble a high resolution digital history of your body. Doctors are generally not very innovative people though and they will probably resist it to the end.
I agree with this assessment, and it's what I do. There is still the single point of failure of losing your domain due to a hostile registrar or mismanagement e.g. allowing registration to lapse.

Ideally there would be some a decentralized permanent domain registry keyed on certs (I know these exist but have not been adopted), or at least a fallback domain you could configure somehow in case you lost control of your main domain.
Why not? I like the laws that have been passed to ensure that people are able to contact emergency services. I think enforcing those laws is logical, given that they exist and imho they exist for good reason.
It should be https://plink.in/ But I can't edit the URL...
> Nobody wants spam or the things promoted in the spam.

Lots of people want Viagra without having to see a doctor. There definitely is a market for it, and now there are companies that do provide it, I wonder if this will cause spam to shift to other products.
Forget about self hosting. Even a custom domain is a pain sometimes.

According to a lot of web apps, my email is not valid and can’t use it.

Also I have been told by a customer support person that my email is not right as it has to end with gmail.com
Both are non-sufficient “solutions” to the problem at hand. Nix is the first program that actually solves dependency handling, sandboxing is completely orthogonal. A tool should focus on only one of those in my opinion.
You really believe that light alcohol consumption carries no risk?

For example, no one has ever, in the history of humans, had a single beer which has impaired them enough to get into a fatal crash? Even a single such accident would raise the impact of alcohol above the baseline by some tiny amount.

Perhaps the impact is minimal but it certainly exists.
You'll own a house you can't live in, with a pool you can't swim in, sipping cocktails that are not refreshing, with a girlfriend that is not a girl and not attracted by the real you either.
It depends with what you mean with 'this capability'. What specifically are you talking about, a rocket that can throw 39t to moon rather then 23t. Ok sure I guess, but at the price you can launch 300t the moon.

If you design a mission specifically for SLS then yeah, SLS difference matters, but if you simply want to make a good architecture, you much rather go with the smaller cheaper rocket.

In terms of Orion, can Dragon do everything it can do. No not by itself Orion plus the Orion service module can do some thing Dragon can't. But Dragon can do most things and with a few simple add-ons like extend tank in the trunk.

So in reality if NASA had the freedom to plan, a few years ago they could have switched a Falcon Heavy/Dragon architecture and achieved the same thing. SpaceX would likely even have been willing to do things like cross feed and potentially even a Raptor based upper stage. All of these would have been ready far earlier then when Orion will actually launch with humans.

So just saying, SpaceX doesn't support something is a really narrow view. It doesn't support it but SpaceX certainty would have the capability to do the Artemis 1/2 missions if NASA had asked them too.

And all of that while completely ignoring Starship, just with the capabilities they had in 2019. Between then and now SpaceX could have already done this mission quite easily. And likely they could have done it 5 more times before Artemis 2 launches.
Yes, true - I didn't word that very well. I believe lua is faster than python mostly due to the simplicity of the language implementation itself, but as another comment pointed out, it might not actually be that big a difference (and I don't have any hard numbers at hand).
I have an issue with this one:
Assume x has type int . Is the expression x<<32 ...

Defined for all values of x

Defines for some values of x

Defined for no values of x

(chose second answer)
Wrong answer

Shifting (in either direction) by an amount equalling or exceeding the bitwidth of the promoted operand is an error in C99.

So according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types

int
signed
signed int Basic signed integer type. Capable of containing at least the [−32,767, +32,767] range.[3][a]

So a minimum of 16 bits is used for int, but no maximum is specified. Thus, if my C compiler on my 64-bit architecture uses 64 bits for int, this is perfectly allowed by the specification and my answer is correct.
I mean, you're just illustrating the same thing I criticized Rayiner for doing. He wasn't talking to someone who was supporting or expounding critical race theory. The person he was talking to mentioned that he had relatives excluded from the sciences because they were Jewish, and Rayiner hit him over the head with "critical theory". He wrote a bad comment. So did you. It doesn't have to be a bigger thing than that.
This is exactly what Nokia were working on; the N9 ran Meego, a Linux-based OS Nokia had been developing for years. There had been a string of "internet tablets" (eg N800, N810) and phones (N900) running Maemo, a precursor to Meego. They even bought QT as part of the development!

Meego, running on the N9, was an absolutely wonderful experience. It was smooth, fast, beautifully designed, and had simple elegant swipe-based navigation system, it had multiprocess app switching (AFAIK before iPhone OS did) and a brilliant newsfeed/notification system. It felt like it really had extraordinary potential. And Elop ditched it.
I'm pretty happy using protonmail bridge with local clients. It does take some effort to setup though.
>For any of the devices that use USB C to charge, I only use the cable that came with it when I purchased it.

So at worst, it's break even with the proprietary cable situation we had but with massive upside?
This is coming from keffals herself: https://twitter.com/keffals/status/1566158393391423489
Awesome! Thanks!

I've just only gotten into learning Elixir over the last week and I'm already dreaming up so many systems I can build with this newfound knowledge. I love how approachable it is, especially the OTP framework. Appreciate the list you shared.
Employees have all the job market information too, and they have info personal to them that the employer doesn't know (e.g. "I would've taken the job for $20k/yr less"). There's no obvious asymmetry. Each side has different information, but not asymmetric.

This law will remove an aspect of the employee's secret information - what they're currently on - so their next employer will be able to calculate precisely how little to offer them.
I don't dislike Pixel hardware because it's the only phone supported by GrapheneOS, which makes Android tolerable.

But the software is ridiculous in some regards. I bought an Pixel sometime ago, new in a box from Google, and it took two battery charges to go through a gazillion of OTA updates to get it to the latest Android. I know I could have plugged it in and flashed the latest ROM directly, but is a normal user supposed to do that? It seems that nobody cares at Google.

Aside from this, if you look into the network dump of a brand new Pixel it is scary / amazing how many connections it is doing every day. And nobody knows why it's connecting...

I wish SailfishOS became a bit more polished to be a viable alternative to iOS and Android. It's almost there. It passes the above test with flying colors, it's completely silent. Just an NTP connection every 12 h. The UI is a joy to use, reminiscent of the N9, and a few great indie developers.
I don't think reassignment changes the duration of the patent. Looks like the early versions of the devices came out in 2004, so it's getting really close to when they'd expire.

IANAL, but my concern would be distributing either the original drivers or 64-bit drivers, but in practice, no one is going to care. It's not worth an hour of a lawyer's time to send a cease and desist letter for distributing driver source for an 18-year-old device.
Do you really think that implies that if any regulated entity’s automated system flags you for doing something illegal that they aren’t going to lock you out and then have a human reviewer? I’m sure the EU has something like the no-fly list where they detain you first and then investigate.
I see. So you can still use these assistants without the privacy concern then. So why abandon?
By care I'm thinking more disciplined approaches and moving very slowly with a significant increase in QA and verification. Most of us, regardless of the framework, time in the industry, or what letter we put in our xDD methodology of choice, are flying by the seat of our pants compared to most disciplines.
Great article. Really need to also read your book. Keep up the good work.
As far as we know, non ionizing radiation is safe for humans, if the intensity is not too high.

* if the intensity is not too high

Don't put your head inside a microwave. Don't hug the transmisor of a antena that broadcast tv or radio. ...

* non ionizing radiation

Gamma rays, X rays and some UV rays are dangerous. Try to avoid them and keep a low dose for important medical treatments. Use solar protection to block UV rays.
Why is there a problem competition? Can we not solve multiple problems? Is there a problem solving drought?
When I went to games as a kid, you would frequently see people watching the game with a radio and ear piece to get the commentary.
Motorola makes good phones. I'm not sure why everyone is fixated on Samsung. Seems to me the Motorola G line is fantastic and even relatively cheap with the Moto G 5G being not but $300
> And idk what neovims plugin ecosystem looks like, but if Python's startup times were a real issue, I don't think I would mind having a persistent daemon to reduce the problem, especially if it means better plugins.

That's a very good point!
how many of posters here have used mailinabox ? or something similar? how was your experience?

i am almost 2 years into it now and beyond the first months hiccups, it just works
Very interesting, I've self hosted my e-mail since 1999, which incidentally is 23 years ago. My current server is at Hetzner in Germany.
> I wonder what the underlying problem is.

The underlying problem is that a sufficiently motivated spammer can target tens or hundreds of millions of people with their spam without too much effort.

As a result, every possible scam and spam with even the slightest possibility of converting 0.00001% of recipients can now be a viable spam campaign.

The underlying problem is that it’s so easy to scale spam to a lot of targets.
Right but they want to take pictures and videos which then automatically get uploaded to Google etc.

Not a big problem if they can't do that. But since they are trying to do that it means anybody who truly needs to make a phone-call, or video-call, might not be able to do it. That may not sound so critical, but it can mean whether a phone-company keeps a customer or not. Customers pay for perceived value including reliability.
What in your opinion are the positives that came out of colonialism?
Disclaimer: I am in no way a philosopher, nor have I taken any classes on it.

Obviously there is always a "but my beliefs" aspect, but I believe that these arguments can be ethically reduced to "do not harm others, unless in the defense of others."

For example, murder is arguably ethically wrong. However, at least in most states in the U.S., you are allowed to murder someone if they are themselves attempting to murder you, or someone else. Taken further, if I was on a jury, and the defendant had murdered someone who had severely harmed their child - for instance, rape - I would have no qualms about finding them not guilty, even if the murder had occurred days or weeks after the first crime. I'm fully aware that this is illegal, but I don't consider it ethically wrong. If you're curious, I do consider the death penalty to be wrong, because I don't believe the state has the right to take life. Whether or not these two views are incongruous I don't know; it makes sense in my head.

On a more relevant level, I believe that teenagers are able to determine things like "I am gay," or "I have gender dysphoria." I also understand that I am not a doctor, and defer to the American Medical Association, who has stated[0] that:

> It is imperative that transgender minors be given the opportunity to explore their gender identity under the safe and supportive care of a physician.

Given that, I assert that the beliefs KF members have espoused are the ones that are harmful, should not be encouraged, and should be actively discouraged.

[0] https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-sta...
> This is the same Big tech story. They want to cut cost, you want a human touch. You can see a similar story here in HN every week.

Dang, sounds like our monopolized tech dystopia is probably inevitable. If only there was some state level mechanism to help balance the interests of industries maximizing profits and those of users who need a robust system which doesn't harm them.
What? I'm responding to your comment?
Not with outliers, no, I think it handles them particularly well (conservatively.) But yes to small consistent differences (e.g. uniform 1%) that affect the relative order of results but not by an very important amount. So have to consider effect size even when the test statistic is strong.
The top of the page says:

> All other things being equal, assume GCC/LLVM x86/x64 implementation-defined behaviors.

However, you're right to point out that the quiz would be better if you can't make any more assumptions than guaranteed by the basic language standard.
> I was just using it as an example of how the argument wouldn't hold muster in situations where it would really need to.

I love when non-lawyers think they have any idea on what holds muster in the court of law.
Whoops you started your own, now I see all the methods of payment you use have been shut off by their various vendors. Oh you used crypto? Hope you know every single address that has interacted with a sanctioned address and never accidently accept payment from them...
To me, the fact such a question is seen as 'bad' feels very strange, when interviewers routinely ask questions of similar intent (read: questions which can be very open-ended, require the opposite party to be vulnerable and can be interpreted in many ways). If you as an interviewer would consider it a bad question, I would hope you hold the same standard for the questions you ask yourself.
Oddly enough I do not have these problems after self-hosting for close to 27 years now (i.e. from before spam became a problem). I hardly ever get any spam and my messages seem to arrive where they need to be even when that destination lies in Microsoft- or Google-land. I have the usual assortment of DKIM/SPF configured for my domain, I send mail through a smart host operated by my IAP (at no extra charge) but for the rest I do not do anything special. Am I the exception to the rule, am I just lucky that my IAP's smart host has not been blacklisted by the likes of Microsoft and Google or is the perception of self-hosting mail to be fraught with problems erroneous? I suspect the latter to be true, self-hosting is neither difficult nor bound to fail just as long as a) you have some good spam filters (easy), b) your MTA is set up with the correct SPF and DKIM records (also easy) and c) you send outgoing mail through a smart host (easy to configure once you've found one).
If you want to hear some strange sounding names, you can look up the actual Westron names of the hobbits - Frodo Baggins and the other Shire names being an "English translation" from the Red Book of Westmarch. Sam's name is actually "Banazîr Galbasi", so maybe he's Turkish.
He's streaming right at this moment. [1]

[1] https://www.twitch.tv/georgehotz
> Airbus typically places the crew area at the front of the aircraft, right behind the cockpit. To maximize space for first class seating, however, Emirates opted to move the crew area to the rear of the aircraft. This places it closer to the noise from the economy cabin.

This seems like the core problem, no? Emirates execs prioritized expanding their first-class passengers amenities over their pilots rest. Unless first-class passengers are also complaining about not being able to rest, the cabin noise sounds like a scapegoat
Funny thing happened to me today: Gmail sent its own Google Fi customer support email to spam. Haha, wish I noticed that before spending my morning going in circles with chat support.
> It's just not something I want to babysit anymore because I have other things to focus on

Dont know about you, but I have setup my mailserver years ago, and outside of regular OS updates, havent had to touch it.
Interesting. Might be good for getting kids into tabletop(?).
Sure :-) I've moved on to another company, so I will need to have a think and remember what the difficulties were.