skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nonetheless, I think there's a moral issue in slicing up children (or adults) for this reason. Do our bodies belong to ourselves, to the government, to someone's god, or to the people around us?

This feels like a platitude that overlooks the complexity of the issue. What rights do parents have over their children? Are they allowed to prescribe a religion? Are they allowed to prescribe a culture? Are they allowed to take their children to the hospital if they're sick?

Personally, I don't think male circumcision is that big of a deal, because it has little to no negative impact on a male child. Female circumcision, on the other hand, is different.
The difference is the public figure of Zuck we see, enthusiastically posting selfies of eating chili dogs in red states and attending black churches is pretty at odds with the character we know from other stuff like his Harvard chatlogs. Not to mention he has done a bunch of things which coincidentally make him more relatable including spontaneously renouncing his athiesm without any clear reason

Either he has changed in massive massive ways to the point he genuinely has love for middle America and can relate to them or (more likely) there is a big dissonance between the persona he is putting on and the real Zuck
Facebook isn't an ISP.

Facebook -- though big! -- is one site on the internet and if you feel like you're not receiving news about things that are important to you there, you hop onto another site. If enough people stop using Facebook, Facebook will be compelled to make changes.

Breaking net neutrality laws makes it harder for you to find alternatives. Imagine you're stuck with whatever news sources your ISP picks for you. "Huffington Post, Reddit, and Twitter have decided not to pay us, so we no longer offer our users access to those sites."
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> The crust is slightly charred. It has a crisp outer layer, but inside it's airy and light. The ingredients are not piled high, but instead are perfectly balanced. It's sweet, salty, full flavored but not greasy. The tomatoes burst with flavor. Each bite makes you hungrier for the next...

Right away, I immediately thought about my one favorite pizza place in NYC, and guess what:

> This pizza is modeled after Patsy's on 117th street in NYC

Yep. I used to go there (all the way out to 1st Ave! oy vey!) and get takeout slices fresh out of the oven back when I lived uptown. That description gets it just right. Never knew it was considered the best in the US, but it makes sense: that neighborhood was the original "Little Italy" back when the neighborhood was Italian (and Jewish) Harlem rather than Spanish Harlem. I certainly haven't had better in NYC, and I've tried (even the Patsy's on 60th St doesn't get it just right).

Another interesting thing, though it doesn't relate to pizza, it's about a sort-of "restaurant model hacker": around the corner from Patsy's is a very secretive restaurant named Rao's. It does away with the "first come first serve" model of seating at restaurants, and instead you get yourself a sort of "standing reservation" for a table once a week/month/year. It's incredibly challenging to get one of these reservations, although there are stories of well-dressed and charming patrons spending some time at the bar and getting a spot for that evening, if there's space left. Many very famous people (and some important but not-famous people...) hold reservations there; it's known as the most exclusive spot in the city. It's also rumored to be mob-related: eating there back in the 70s, you could leave your furs in your convertible with the top down despite the danger of the neighborhood.
While I would not do it to an infant, it's not a sex organ and will restore to fully healed/closed status if left alone for a few weeks, so it's hard to compare this to removing part of a sex organ that will not re-grow.
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The research you are trying to dismiss several times in this thread as "suits" was done by Parikh.

After reading your replies to myself and other users in this thread,You clearly have an issue with him, by the rather extreme lengths you've gone to discredit him in this thread.

I don't want to be part of your crusade against an ally of diversity.
This pizza looks pretty good, but it is by no means NYC-style pizza.
Separating "malicious code" from "user-supplied code" is a distinction without a difference.

I would say one member having their private keys stolen[1] is a "fatal shot".

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11891579
The only people whose opinions would hold any weight in this matter would be males who were circumcised by medical necessity as adults. In other words, people who have actual memories with which to form a basis for comparison, without psychological pressure to form an irrationally favorable or unfavorable opinion.
And _this_ is the point in my sentence that's questionable ?

The indoctrination is complete, no wonder the etiquette as above seems ancient and lack of modern values don't include it in education as parent wondered.
I'm sure there are a lot of physical mutilations we could make to people that would reduce the chances of various diseases.

Mastectomy or oophorectomy to avoid cancers in infants with BRCA1/2 mutations comes to mind.
How true half of this is today. And thank god how I had to follow near to zero of it to end up happy with my SO.
Why not just go under anesthesia and have it done? You won't remember a thing!
> I guess you wouldn't need to as long as the ISP market is competitive.

But it's not.
> Competition is not the solution to all problems.

Of course not. I didn't say or even imply as much.

> However, it would probably eliminate the need for net neutrality. In the meantime, we need it.

Maybe, but I think the importance people place on this is exaggerated. If you want it as a stopgap, fine. But let's not pretend that NN is going to seriously impact any of the issues discussed in this article.
Multiple doctors and nurses told us to just leave it (not clean) and let him figure it out when he was old enough when our son was born in December.
Because in your world the eventual outcome is that nearly all (commercial) content providers would be owned by ISPs.

Last mile infrastructure is a natural monopoly, and unless you do something to force companies to share it, they won't.

There are various ways to do this. What's your preference?
Sometimes.

Having nice hard boundaries that you can't just penetrate can aid and abet you in debugging.

It also probably helps you with respect to managing security.

As in most things, good judgement is key.
"NN being gutted are those around loss of anonymity through the Internet."

How is that by necessity a bad thing? People aren't anonymous in every day life and their internet anonymity is mostly an illusion anyway. Big brother can almost always find out who did what if they want to.

" These "rollbacks" of regulations make it orders of magnitude easier for any entity in a corporation or organization to track down people who attempt to expose their illegal actions / skirting of laws"

It also makes it orders of magnitudes easier for anyone to find out about a coorportions illegal actions / skirting of laws.

I agree with most of your statements. But in the long run there really are a lot of benefits to a non-anonymous internet that can't be denied (just as there are a lot of problems as well). For instance, full access to health and medical data for research purposes would be a huge benefit for mankind and the sick people themselves just as that same access would necessitate a major rehaul of the ligislation concerning insurance companies.

I don't see how removing anonymity is inherently by its very nature a bad thing. It seems likely it would be like everything else, you'd need to legislate the legality of certain things given that all activity is non-anonymous, etc.
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"Other bad things happen so we shouldnt try to improve this Bad thing!"
The cask description is misleading though. Cask deals with applications which are too complex to compile (/shrug) but provide an .app or .pkg, or with things that only provide a compiled .app or .pkg (not open source)

brew has GUI applications. Easiest one I can think of (because I use it) is Pidgin.
You are comparing a beautifully minimal web library (Sinatra) to an abominable horror from the very depths of hell (Wicket).

It is at best an inappropriate comparison.
Find remote work. You can work in solitude (as is natural) and collaborate asynchronously (as it should be).

Made the switch a year ago after moving from web developer to tech lead and having all the issues you mentioned. Now I'm just writing code again. Best decision ever.
I work in this industry, and let me assure you: TV is most definitely dying. Or rather, the traditional business model where you subscribe to a huge bundle for pay TV is dying. That's a good thing.

The thing is, it's dying in a long-form death: people don't just change media consumption habits overnight; it's more of a generational shift that happens pretty much like the author of this article describes. I don't anticipate TV as we know it today to disappear for another 10-15 years. I mean, we still have land lines a good 2 decades after cell phones made them obsolete...

The author's numbers are garbage (no offense intended to op; good numbers on media consumption are considered confidential and proprietary for most companies so it almost requires working for a large media company with a large customer base). Nielsen in particular is known within the industry for basically only being meaningful in the context of a specific month (i.e. it's a good way to know if show A outdrew show B, but the overall numbers they give you around viewership are wrong). Basically everyone knows Nielsen is wrong, but there aren't any better options because nobody is willing to trust anyone in media measurement.

But however you slice it, medium-form TV content (>15 mins, <60 mins) is not going anywhere. Viewers like this format and I expect it to stay. But look where all the highest quality content is aggregating: for-pay, ad-free services like Netflix , Amazon and Hulu (not entirely ad-free, but close).

Video advertising, however, is about to see an apocalyptic drop in ad rates. There's a 20-30% disparity in CPMs between TV and online, and once advertisers catch on that most of those TVs are probably playing in the background with nobody watching, ad rates will come down. And that will really kill the traditional TV market.
I suspect that if you consistently and often meet "rude people", it's time to take a hard look in the mirror.
Cell service is also highly monopolistic. It is honestly very strange we have 4 relatively competitive network operators in the US - it isn't a stable system to say the least, though, and it will almost always degenerate into two (and it almost did - for a while T-mobile and Sprint were non-competitive with AT&T and Verizon, and it took their complacency in the 3G->4G transition era to give the two underdogs a chance to reestablish themselves).

Fundamentally, though, nobody in the US can open a new cell phone operator now. The spectrum is bought and owned, the owners know how valuable it is, and owning light is a much scarcer and more valuable resource than any plot of land that billionaires are buying up in the present property investment bubble.

It is even worse than the ISP monopoly - ISPs are local monopolies. We have a national cartel of cell operators that can't face real competition because of a state guaranteed monopoly on radio waves. As is the nature of all business with guaranteed profits, eventually AT&T and Verizon will consume T-Mobile and Sprint, possibly even under this administration, where there will be much less anti-monopoly scrutiny, and then we will have two network operators controlling all the usable cellular bandwidth with no intent to let anyone else compete.

Just because we are in an... alright situation right now, doesn't guarantee that environment will persist forever. Cellular network operators are absolutely crooked and near guaranteed in a long enough time span to devolve into a duopoly, while we already have collusion between them today to screw over consumers.
it depends, when implementing an algorithm it can be 10 lines of code, if working on new GUI feature it can be 500-1000 lines
The author also points out

there were people on other instances who would be posting things that I could get into trouble for since my server holds a cache of the other servers.

And so his own moderation would be insufficient, in his eyes, to disculpate him.
If you care to do some reading[1] there are a lot of studies that contradict your point. For example this study [2] finds that price pass through is not very sticky, and ends to last only through the fiscal quarter in which the new wage comes into effect. Remember, price increases can lower demand, and products and services that already charge the maximum that the market will bear. In reality wage increases usually just lower profits, they are in effect redistributive, and in a very direct way that doesn't involve the overhead of government handling the money.

[1]https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&q=minimum+wage+incre...
[2] http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/003465301750...
I think this undersells the article.

The 1,250x cost growth seems like the heart of the article - it's a claim that the growth is disproportionate to, and unmotivated by, actual value. Since WMF is funded as a charity, not a business, the revenues are 'sustainable' based on what people want to give. So if revenues exceed expenses, that says people like WMF and will give when asked. It doesn't say anything about whether the expenditures are justified.

I'm not sure I accept the thesis of the article, but I think it deserves deeper consideration. The bankruptcy line seems overwrought, but there's no intrinsic reason that high (charitable) revenues prove high expenditures justified.
Whenever you burn something to do work, you are limited by a principle in thermodynamics called the Carnot cycle[1]. It basically says that converting heat to work has a maximum efficiency (depending on the situation).

So the rejected energy in this sankey diagram is partly just the consequence of the thermodynamic efficiency limits of the situations. Also, since there are always heat and resistance losses (the real world is not a frictionless surface), the efficiency of converting energy into work is further decreased.

All in all, we're actually pretty good at covering heat into energy. The rejected energy here is simply a consequence of the situation and thermodynamics. For other situations that don't involve heat-to-work, such as wind and photovoltaics, the Carnot cycle doesn't apply, and you can have much less rejected energy.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_cycle
Categorically false. I have a newborn boy and talked to a number of doctors about it - there is actually a slight benefit to the circumcised child [1], it just isn't enough for the American Association of Pediatrics to recommend it outright.

[1] https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages...
I've implemented a Reed-Solomon encoder for telemetry blocks over a RF channel. There, I was using a (255, 223) code on GF(2^8). There were interleaving parameters for a telemetry "packet" but each encoding took constant O(1) time. So the overall time to encode a downlink was just O(N). What exactly is meant by "Reed-Solomon ECC"? I'm guessing the code is doing something different related to data storage than what a traditional communications RS code does?
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I am agnostic on net neutrality (ie. neither for nor against, just admitting my own lack of ability to assess its fallout).

I read a lot of sweeping, but hard to measure claims on its affects (such as in the linked article). Are there any concrete, measurable affects that anyone is willing to predict?

Examples might be:

* Average load times for the 1000 most popular webpages will decrease.

* There will be fewer internet startups over the next 5 years than the previous.

Edit: formatting
"Yes this sounds about right for a web developer." said another web developer.
Good one. I'm 35
I know someone who had to have a circumcision as an adult. If he decides to have the procedure performed on his son to avoid the same problems he had, then I will respect his choice.
It's not even religion, it's convention.
Power plants are about 35% efficient, and then you lose another ~10% of what gets sent out from transmission losses...so your total efficiency for electrical generation is around 30%. [1]

Ideally, that waste heat would be put to some use...that's called co-generation [2]

[1] http://blog.schneider-electric.com/energy-management-energy-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogeneration
How does having a higher market equal cap users don't care about compatibility?
I love this particular controversy. It really highlights how most political opinions don't come from specific applications of universal principles, but from ingroup-outgroup signaling and status quo bias. A little part of my smiles whenever I see hypocrisy exposed.
I agree with that. However, nothing is perfectly inelastic, and so increasing the minimum wage would still increase unemployment, even if only by a little amount.
Except piercing ears is not a sex organ.
This seems like an attempt to deflect from what circumcision actually is : genital mutilation.
Genital mutilation is not okay for girls or boys.
IBM has been dragging folks back to the office since 2009 (IIRC). They're not wrong about the benefits of colocation; it's just that they want the company to receive those benefits without compensating employees whatsoever.
I think I don't get it. Is it really a metadata store if you need to know this metadata in order to compute the IP?

If you know how your system splits the IPs then yes, knowing the IP you can reason about what it handles, but the same works for ipv4 or even better, for hostnames.
While it's true you don't need to design for scaling right off the bat, if you do become successful and keep pushing out the scaling pieces , the cost of scaling later increases nonlinearly. At some point it becomes so important that you start losing customers and/or new business opportunities.

A CTO should be able to foresee this and act before scaling becomes a behemoth project and no amount of money can buy time-to-market.
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Side note: most things are attempting to move away from Reed-Solomon as it doesn't necessarily parallelize well.

(For example: 10GB Ethernet went with a low-density parity-check (LDPC))
> No, this is false.

Point me to someone espousing the benefits of the waterfall approach, please.

> So does the term "capitalism". Like capitalism, though, the waterfall method was a thing actually in wide use both before (the first paper describing it's use was about 20 years earlier than the critical one in which the term seems to have been first used) and after (it's been mandated by many institutions, particularly in government, even after that critical paper) being names in criticism.

I'm not saying that no one has ever tried building software this way. But the term and "methodology" are literally the collection of broken processes associated with early development.

> Actually, a number of large organizations, particularly governments, to this day mandate processes for software development projects, particularly large projects, that embody essentially the key features of the waterfall method, most critically that of doing full analysis across the whole scope before beginning development (often, in government, before getting approval for funding to open up contracting for the actual development work.)

How do you go to tender without reasonable complete requirements?

The problem here isn't the development methodology, it's the fact that going to tender for development basically forces you into this position. Governments seem to be moving to in house development to solve this problem, but I'd hardly say that the original requirements gathering was the result of anyone advocating for the waterfall approach.
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You mean because it is now considered a basic requirement to have failover and horizontal scaling?
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That's an absolutely staggering amount of TV.

Is it though?

Assuming an adult with a full-time job gets home and has supper on the table by 6pm, we're talking about watching from 6-11pm. That doesn't sound that staggering to me.

And that's not allowing for folks who watch the morning news, or folks who work shifts or stay-at-home parents who watch during the day.

Again, take the article's advice: don't judge the numbers by your experience. While a lot of people on HN might fill their time gaming, coding, watching streaming video, etc, we're not a typical cohort.
Much like coffee drinkers know where all the power outlets are at their local coffee shops, I can't speak for OP but I know exactly where each power outlet is in the picnic shelters at my local county parks. I also have a pretty good idea which locations have good data reception to tether on my phone.

Unfortunately I live in a climate where the weather is subjectively "bad" 8 months out of the year, so on one hand I'm not "out there" most of the time, but on the other hand when the weather is unusually good I certainly am out there all day sometimes. Sort of like is the glass half empty or half full argument?

My open office is really, really open. It can be distracting when deer or raccoon wants my lunch. Raccoons are kinda scary, they are alpha scavengers and they know the local gun laws as well as a hunter or police.

Strange but true facts: I travel everywhere with trash bags because I need a way to get my gear home dry when there's a downpour. Also I dress up to go to the park, so rangers won't think I'm homeless.