skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but the quoted article seems a bit dubious to me:

> The difference is the kind of microwave radiation each device emits. With regard to cellphones and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, there is an information-gathering component. The waves are modulated and pulsed in a very different manner than your microwave oven.

What is an "information-gathering component"? What does that have to do with pulsed emitters and (averaged) EIRP values, which definitely is a thing for some, but not all of the mentioned transmission technologies: Especially 3G and some versions of Wi-Fi use DSSS or other spread-spectrum techniques which are not pulsed, unlike TDMA.

I could even see an argument being made for "pulsing" making a difference and maybe another measure than the EIRP being needed (just like how the linear-no-threshold model for the effects of radiation on organisms might be a simplification of what's actually going on), but then it doesn't help to just throw a bunch of wildly different wireless technologies, using greatly varying transmission powers from 10 mW to 2000 mW, into a single bag and call them "very different from microwave ovens" without describing what that means.
Enrages understates the problem. This is the only topic of conversation in the dev community over the past 24h.
I once went through quite an experience. Used to work with a guy that was awarded a big prize in his field. I think one day he got tired of being treated as "some kind of genius", as he said. He started to discuss a topic one day, listening to my answers and questions back and forth. At the end the discussion hit a point where we could not go further. He then told me: "if you then submitted this as a proposal, were lucky enough to have it granted and just answered the last question you asked me with a simple experiment, you would receive the same prize as I did".

That guy was great.
I don't disagree. That said we still live in a world that has always known hunger and war, and those are even lower on maslow's hierarchy. So my point is simply that we are where we are and that anything that helps is worth doing rather than not doing because the more ideal alternative isn't happening.
Ah, you're interpreting it differently: I took them as saying that you can only buy debt and forgive it once, not that you can only have your debt forgiven once.
In many discussions and comments here, the writer points out how much a journalist got wrong, often criticizing their errors as indicating they have no business writing about their subject.

But wait a sec: is it fair to expect individuals whose job is to report to others to the best of their ability to have expertise that can only be obtained by being a professional well-versed in a particular field?
I went to UC Merced and had a great time in my computer science course. The professors were passionate about what they were teaching and honestly I became a much better engineer (not programmer) by learning the course material and applying those skills. I'm mainly a web dev now but courses like operating systems and computer architecture have concepts really can be abstracted to other systems if you know how it works fundamentally. I was a self taught programmer before I went to college; I think it was a bit humbling to be in that space as well with high flying theory in CS and was amazed how you could apply that to real life concepts.

That being said; if you're paying for school, make the most of it otherwise it's a waste, most engineering programs are pretty good and have at least some passionate professors behind them.
Honest question: rapid expansion to where exactly? Are you thinking poorer, rural countries? E.g., with cheaper terminals Starlink will more aggressively sell to rural Brazil, Mexico, India, etc? If they can sell the terminal at cost, how low can they price the monthly service for these poorer countries to fill up unused capacity?
If you have the will to resell, you could do a WISP: https://www.npr.org/2022/08/22/1118734792/michigan-man-isp-f....
The problem was that the laws referred to commercial documents from standards bodies. Rather than reproducing the entire text of the standard in the law itself (which would be public), the law says "Buildings must comply with XYZ standard 123," where XYZ 123 has to be purchased from the standards body and they claim copyright on it.

This ruling says that providing that XYZ 123 standard online for non-commercial purposes is fair use if that standard is incorporated into the law.
Galaxy? When Vulcan salute was RIGHT THERE!
They actually fixed 3 bugs I raised!
Yes, I tend to disagree. You took my post way to seriously, it offended you. Relax.
> gaslighting the situation after the fact

You’ve obviously discovered step #1 of a plan for which step #3 is Profit! There must be a lot of excitement that goes along with something like that.
This is great, I've suffered as a result of how this was previously. I built a garage and had it inspected. I failed an electrical inspection and was given a reference in the National Electrical Code. When I went to look it up to figure out how to remediate, most of the links were trying to sell a copy. NEC wants $145 or a $11.99 monthly subscription. I had to find an illicit copy in order to comply with my local regulations.
Elon Musk vs. Anti-Defamation League
Apple is welcome to seek aid from the US Government, I imagine they would be happy to assist.
Assume nothing electronic/digital is safe? That's my take-away.
I recommend you a new phone :)
I'm curious how you see the supply of equipment and training to Ukraine: Do you consider this part of America playing the cop or something else?
Godot is well on its way to replicating the same kind of phenomenon Blender has succeeded at.
My memory of this is hazy, in part because I wasn't a C programmer in those days, but ISTR C used to do this too. I think prototypes were added (and required) only by the time ANSI got involved.

Maybe some other OF can confirm/contradict?
It would be very informative to compare the chemical composition of the water in Flint with that as I described in Paris. The immediate observation is that with Flint the Pb was already in the water, presumably with Paris the supply was clean (or comparatively so) and the only chance for it to get into the water would be household pipes.

Clearly the French weren't overly concerned about it. Like most of the EU they overregulate everything and presumably would have mandated the pipes be changed if they thought them a problem.
Forensic Methodology How to catch Pegasus (2021)
Manually curated list could be crowdsourced via an OSS project, e.g.

1. Criteria for articles in list.
2. Example and anti-example articles.
3. Tag via HN comment with short, unique and human-meaningful phrase.
4. Query Algolia periodically, triage, PR submission/review/merge.
5. Syndicate list as RSS feed.
Related. Others?

Defold engine code overview - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25569224 - Dec 2020 (45 comments)

The Defold engine code style - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23371705 - May 2020 (6 comments)

Defold game engine source now available and free to use for commercial games - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23232648 - May 2020 (293 comments)

Defold: 2D Game Engine by King.com - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11352546 - March 2016 (87 comments)

Here's why King gave away its 2D mobile game engine Defold - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11321802 - March 2016 (12 comments)

Defold: Free 2D Game Engine for Cross-Platform Publishing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10607837 - Nov 2015 (2 comments)

Defold - Win/Mac/Linux/Android/iOS game engine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4791284 - Nov 2012 (44 comments)
That's legitimate. The FDA's issue with oral phenylephrine is that it's metabolized in the gut before it gets to the sites where you want it to work.
The Sevastopol Attacks and the Potential End of Russian Control of Crimea
If you like the author Derek Lowe's writing like I do you might like his "Things I won't Work with". Here's one of my favorites:

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
It's more complicated than lenders opposing inflation but debtors favoring it. That only works if people are pure lenders or pure debtors.

In reality most people carrying significant debt are people who are strongly affected by inflation of the prices of goods and services, and most people and institutions who are in a position to lend are not as affected by such inflation.

The most at-risk people are those who are both in a lot of debt and also affected by the rising cost of goods in services. This can be anyone carrying a significant mortgage payment (as a % of income) and supporting a family simultaneously. High inflation hits these people especially hard because pay raises and real-debt-dilution often do not keep up with the rising costs of goods and services.

This can cause a great deal of financial fragility in the short term, even if the individual has good long term prospects due to inflation-based debt dilution.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility#Law_of_dimini...
https://www.statista.com/statistics/533790/sweden-rate-of-cr...

Seems like it's flat/down over the last 10 years.
And also Load81 by Antirez: https://github.com/antirez/load81 (Lua).
Generally I've seen this happen when you've contracted to do business in some form and the other side reneges on it in some way. Like you ordered something online and it never ships.

We were going to get a large water purifier from Costco. On the order of $6000. We paid, but we had 3 days to cancel. We found it for significantly cheaper the next day and cancelled. 3 months later Costco still hadn't reversed the charge, so we challenged it with the credit card company. Fixed in 24 hours.

Also, it's worth pointing out that when you challenge something successfully, it's effectively like it never happened. Interest gets rolled back and you can call to have late payments associated with that time period striken from your credit report.

On the flip side, I would never use a debit card. I've been told "your pin was used so it must have been you" when contesting small things there. Credit card have chips and some banks allow you to use pins.
Not to mention the violation of privacy. It is no one's business if or when I am installing a game.
You're correct, though I'd push back a bit on "all kinds of chemicals and additives".

They do use them: sulfites for preservation, fining agents for clarity, yeast energizers, acids and bases. But the way you phrase it, it sounds like they're making pop-tarts or chewing gum. A lot of these additives are used even by fine winemakers. Even French winemakers, who have a whole host of rules they have to follow.

Still, I'm picking on your phraseology, but not disagreeing with your point. Modern winemaking is all about control, which produces consistently good but rarely great wines. More expensive wines are more expensive in part because they risk failure -- though few take enough risks to produce a truly undrinkable wine these days.

There's nothing wrong with those "good" wines, though I'm puzzled about the cheap supermarket wine winning a contest. Cheap supermarket wines are entirely drinkable but don't even try to have the qualities that win any genuine prizes. It doesn't take a sommelier to notice that; it tastes like every other wine. Contests usually reward what stands out.

Perhaps some fine winemaker sold off surplus stock. It happens; they have a good year and don't want to dilute the value of their prize brand.

These stories keep coming up about how wine judges are easily duped, and indeed, there is plenty of chicanery surrounding wine ratings. There is a lot of snobbery, and a lot of envy around that snobbery. But there's no reason to pay a lot for a wine unless you've gotten bored with ordinary table wine.
Musk is not donating starlink to Ukraine. The US DoD is buying it
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2022
They probably are writing it off anyway. I've never had an employee actually check -- they always just scan their barcode and clear the error.
I'm just happy with all these "Amateur Scientist" links lately. More of these!
That sounds expensive and inefficient. Peoples' interpretations of music (and abstract art more generally) can be shockingly different; I suspect the model would not get a clear signal from the result.

But that makes me wonder to what extent labeling can be programmed -- extracting chord changes, dynamics changes, tempo, gross timbral characteristics, etc.
I think that people are hoping for larger effects. I have been a lifelong allergy sufferer. Many years ago, my doctor gave me an intranasal antihistamine. It came with a piece of paper about the studies done on it. Patients rated their symptoms on a 1-5 scale, and the study observed the ratings with and without. The placebo group rated their symptoms, say, 4.0. The people on the drug rated them 3.5. I would say that's exactly the effect I got from the medication, an improvement, but not a complete elimination of symptoms. Certainly some people are going to go to their pharmacist and say "this does nothing", and that might lead them to believe it's all a scam. It's not really a scam, it's just that expectations were not set correctly. People want "this will cure you and you'll get a gold metal in the Olympics!" but all we have is "this will make life slightly less miserable".

It's probably the same for many conditions and medications. Antidepressants don't turn you into someone who is always happy. Painkillers don't make recovering from surgery a joy. I think that people even had the same feelings about COVID vaccines; they wanted "one shot and you'll never be sick again", but all we got was being 90% less likely to get COVID or whatever. None of this makes these things a scam. Rather, they are imperfect technologies that we work to improve. Silver bullets are rare, but they do exist. Just not all the time. (Have you died from strep throat or polio recently? People used to all the time!)
I hope that TikTok is providing the Wikimedia Foundation with adequate (and substantial) funding to compensate for the (probably greatly) increased load on the latter's infrastructure.
Further, if in fact your standard was the only possibility (and so we can't have a different standard), there was in fact no creative element to your standard, and so it not only isn't protected from copying and redistribution for the purpose of informing people as to the law, but never protected at all since it had no creative element.

And yes, in practice we see that there is much more demand for relatively compact, opinionated books about something standard (e.g. "Beautiful C++" the most recent book from Kate Gregory) than there is for the large volumes of tremendously dry technical documentation which makes up the standard itself, a draft of which (nobody who matters cares about the "official" document) is here: https://timsong-cpp.github.io/cppwp/

I'd guess that you'll shift way more of a video course on the correct use of fire extinguishers than you would of a dry document specifying exactly how many litres of what retardants shall be provided to fight a fire of so-and-such proportions. Just make sure you don't persuade legislators to make watching your video a legal requirement and you can sell those for a nice healthy profit.
At least if I followed that path, I would not be required to have my purchase recorded in an insecure government database.
I am only talking about e-bikes.
> How does the (in democratic societies) generally accepted principle in dubio pro reo fit into this?

By creating a society that, on balance, trusts the state and it's institutions to enact justice (apply suffering, in context).

It will fail to be perfect, same as any other system. But it just needs to work well enough that a sufficient mass of citizens don't lose faith in it and try to enact their own forms of justice.

We can all point to cases where murderers got away with it, or someone who was ruled guilty received a sentence we think is wrong, but _overall_, we're ok with the state managing violence on our behalf.

> In terms of practical social functioning, rehabilitation of criminals is much more valuable than punishment, which is why most democracies at least aspire to this ideal.

There is little evidence that any rehabilitation schemes are particularly successful, with the gaps between the most- and least- effective not being particularly meaningful.

You prevent crimes by removing people that commit them from society.
Please don't cross into personal attack. Regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are, it's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> we need debt relief because we don’t live in a perfect world, things go south and we need for people to be able to move on. That’s it.

We need debt relief (AKA bankruptcy) to avoid actual debt-slavery, which is what preceded bankruptcy laws.
(grabs holy water, garlic, and a crucifix)
Seems like some kind of SEO scheme to me. I’ve come across these “articles” by chance a few times. It’s a shame how far the site’s fallen, but that’s been obvious since 2016.
It's the computing Doomsday clock.
They were suing people for copying copyright-protected works. The usual arguing over exceptions ensued.

In this particular case, is the problem that copyright laws confer too many rights to the owners, or is the problem that legislative bodies are adopting inaccessible text as law?
Funny, self-checkout has made my experience much better when shopping at Whole Foods.

It's true that the checkout itself takes 2-3x as long. But that's more than offset by the fact that instead of waiting in line for 10 minutes, there simply is no line anymore.

So it's sped up my grocery store visits by at least 5 minutes. (It may help that they don't use a weight sensor, so there are never any frustrating errors like the author describes.)
It's ambiguous. GP said "some states" require an ID. I'm clarifying it's all 50 states require an ID to purchase psuedophedrine and the other associated federal restrictions.
I've been wanting to give Fennel a try, currently I use Moonscript for my Lua transpilation
(https://moonscript.org/), but it has some criticisms and it can be a bit confusing sometimes.
Looks like it's back! The ornery gatekeeper of true backend scowls while shaking their raised fist.
I charge my car where it is parked, as I said above. Obviously the necessary infrastructure doesn't exist yet, but with EVs only making up a couple percent of the cars on the road that's not really a problem right now.
Nice try, apple
It has nothing to do with being polite and more to do with a recap of context, using similar language, before responding.
https://bitmelo.com/
Yes you're probably right. The governor of Arizona doesn't realize what the most important issue in her state is right now, but you do.
I haven't tried lately (moved on to aother anti-histimines) but with a Driver's license, I could pretty readily get ahold of it.

Then had to disengage based on what it was doing to my blood pressure.
Thank you, I wanted to see quality examples like this. I'd love to find a list of high-quality polished games made in Godot, like this one.
Sorry about that, I was migrating my websites and repo out of vercel (to use this tool),
during which I deleted a lot of outdated github repos.

I thinks I accidently deleted this repo.

Now it is back: https://github.com/xieyuheng/x-server
This is about Incorporation By Reference.

For example, ASTM (a standards body) published a safety standard for children's toys. This was just a book that they sell, named ASTM F963.

Then, in 2008, Congress passed a law that all toys sold in the US must adhere to ASTM F963. The law itself can be publicly viewed. But the law does not directly include the text of ASTM F963. It just refers to it by name.

The standard is copyright ASTM, and they sell copies for about a hundred bucks.

For better or worse, the law refers to the current version of the standard. It's been updated a few times, and the legal requirement is to use the most recent version. The law has not changed, but the requirements have.

I am given to understand that on the local level this is common for building codes too. A municipality will say that buildings must follow the safety standards put out by some professional body or other relating to fireproofing lumber or framing or whatever.
They’re rapidly launching more and more capacity. The new v2 mini satellites are more than twice as big as the v1.5 satellites, which themselves are not yet totally in service.

And as they improve the cost of terminals, there’s no fundamental limit in the amount of capacity for a given frequency allocation. Geometric multiplexing is only limited by the number and cost of the phased array elements.

So rapid expansion everywhere.

And then launching the full sized v2 Starlink satellites on Starship will account for another ~2-2.5x increase in size compared to the v2 minis. Then comes FCC approval for the full sized constellation which is about 5 times as numerous as their current constellation, which itself only is about half filled.

So they have about a factor of 100 capacity expansion in the pipeline, and they can increase the satellite size even further due to Starship’s low costs. They can expand a lot, even in existing countries. Lots of people are on waiting lists due to capacity being filled up in many regions.
Clippy's AI-powered spiritual successor
Large swaths of the US have bunk internet like Earthlink. My rural family in Appalachia already like Musk. I think they'd love to have Starlink if it was a little more affordable.
Apple has firmware restore features in ROM. I would also assume (hope?) that there’s a procedure to enter the ROM-based restore that is impossible to intercept in software (maybe holding the power button for 10 seconds initiates a hardware reset into the ROM.)
> And for the right project, especially those where a predefined engine structure does not not fit, it can still be the most productive choice.

Right on. While interning at an oil refinery, I developed an application in LÖVE that processes and displays data from spectrometers. In hindsight it may not have been the wisest choice, but hand rolling all the GUI elements I couldnt force out of the Nuklear[0] bindings for LÖVE gave me a strange sense of satisfaction.

[0]: https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear
Makes sense, thanks for the context
This is absolutely not enough against targeted attacks. It will be harder to detect you but once they do, Firefox (which Tor is based on) is a lot more vulnerable than Chrome.
Same for Android, the locked bootloader and such can be helpful in this situation.