skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s kinda shoddy of the author to claim that “circumcision causes SIDS” on his twitter feed, while the abstract states there is merely a slight link “and is useful for generating hypotheses and nothing more”. The focus should be on are there other stressors to test for? There are infinite other possible links to stressors in an infants life. Responding to another thread, my children sleep in their stomachs because they scream bloody murder until you flip them over— which one would you say is a great or stressor, tummy sleep or kicking and screaming? I also found out today that HN comes out strong against circumcision, which is all good, I just wasn’t expecting literally every thread to be on MNC.

I’ve found, with baby parenting, there is an enormous amount of guesswork presented as fact, and this paper seems to push that. Case in point, Procedure for handling newborns at my hospital in Memphis TN has changed substantially with each of my kids over the course of 5 years. “Nurse: oh we don’t do that anymore, it’s not good for the baby”. Oh but it was fine for my first 2 kids?

*edited to clean up and fill out my intended points
I'll say what I think you're saying in a different way: The "internet" (really, the World-Wide Web) has been co-opted from its original purpose of information dissemination. The WWW's new purpose is now monetization of its users' time and data. Unfortunately, a combination of corporations and users themselves have made this reality. We as a species seem unable to wean ourselves from sweet social nectar (Facebook, Instagram, etc.)
> Can you work out how to do it?

Yes.

> Do you find this interesting?

Yes! I found it interesting because at first it seems like the solution space ought to be many-to-one, not one-to-one, and it's not immediately clear why the condition that k is larger than the coefficients is the "right" condition to fix that. I had to work through some examples to see the trick of it.

hints (rot13):

1. jungunccrafvslbhpubbfrxrdhnyfgjb

2. jungunccrafvslbhpubbfrxrdhnyfgra

solution: jevgrcxvaonfrx
When hackers target a conference code of conduct
Chopping the whole thing off would reduce the risk of HIV even further.
Cool news!

Does anyone know of a good writeup on the original vulnerability that's a little less technical? Like a lot of people on HN I came into programming via systems administration so I don't have a lot of low level knowledge.
Pretty nice. I use a Safari add-in called Sessions to create sets of browser tabs I can recall later. Super handy when you are researching something new or just want to persevere your current multi-tab browsing session for later.

https://sessions-extension.github.io/Sessions/
> Decimal IS PART OF THE STANDARD LIBRARY!!!! It might not be in the global context, but that is a far cry from having to install an external library which this article makes it seem like.

It's very similar to using an external library (at least if you're in a language with decent package management). Yes there is a "standard" decimal library, but it's not a natural path to take when working with numbers in Python/Java/... : there's no literal support, and in Java's case not even arithmetic operators. These languages naturally drive you towards using IEEE 754 binary floating point, and by the time you've realised that wasn't what you wanted it's often too late to migrate.
I didn't write the article. I'm not professing to make perfect decisions. I just find the author's particular "line in the sand" amusing. "This lack of privacy is horrible, but I use Siri." It makes no sense.
https://pastebin.com/A3AxRkDT
Self-Balanced Binary Search Trees with AVL
It could also be a way to keep the budget up. No federal department or manager wants to lose people, as it's a proxy for status.
I just suggested something. You could have disagreed, but you chose to flame me and insult me instead.
Those generators and flow valves likely cannot respond quick enough to the momentary power surges
Also, the STD transmission angle is suspect. Last I checked, a lot of it was based on studies out of Africa. There are lots of reasons to think that is apples to oranges. Comparing to other modern Western nations with a very low circumcision rate yields different conclusions.
I really like that in the tutorials, there is a “Moving on from Mu” page. It shows that there is a clear understanding of the goals and scope that Mu should strive for.
I would not go to the off-site technical documentation to find a link to a project's source code, normally.
I don't see how the two things contradict. You still need a "run" button for even the most readable code. And syntax formatting, auto-complete etc is always going to be useful no matter what.

At the risk of stating the obvious, this is for making code human writable, not human readable.
Duplicate of this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17637437
So the whole thing can be reduced to the fact that the brick supporting the pizza transfers heat to the crust slower than steel. This allows the crust to cook at an even pace with the water rich toppings.

It sounds like if you want brick oven pizza you don't need the entire baking chamber to be constructed of brick. You simply need a brick platform on which to place the pizza. The brick needs to be heated to temperature first though.
Given two points on the globe, how do you figure out the direction and distance?
I don’t disagree with your general point, but for this specific assertion:

> something on a flash drive the requires millions of lines of code to read data of

Does it really require millions of lines? Even if you’re just targeting that one model of drive, rather than writing a general purpose SATA/USB kernel stack? If what’s on there is, say, JPEG images, libjpeg (plus its dependencies in glibc, I guess) isn’t “millions of lines” either. Where are these millions of lines?

(I’m speaking as someone who has written a unikernel with disk IO and graphics support. It was far less than a million lines!)
Interesting. Very similar to some of the female-centric "tricks" mentioned in this book (review).

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/carl-zi...
31. Polish. Still in progress and will probably take another couple of years.
Circumcision is one of those hot topics guaranteed to get dramatic, strongly held opinions for & against. I won't be surprised to see this thread drop quickly off the front page due to heated discussion.
Agreed. We are getting what we want...good and hard.

Looking at it from the outside, I wonder just how large the gap can become between what we need the net for -- and what we're getting.

What these companies seem to be doing isn't delivering value as much as it is preying on the ignorance of the average computer user. Even the innocuous-sounding "you get this for free, and all you have to do is see a commercial now and then, isn't that cool?" turns out to be a tracking system undreamed-of by any dystopian writer in the history of fiction.

Perhaps that situation of customer ignorance will change over time.
Keybase.io
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/posquit0; my proof: https://keybase.io/posquit0/sigs/t2PYEXqExsBDIAIk4tCOWYacSQtFGDPStqUi7jaOpZU ]
A similar project has been on construction in Europe
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nant_de_Drance
Cost of $2B. I had the chance to visit the caverne where the turbines will be, really amazing engineering!
>> the program could pass legal muster if the selection criteria are sufficiently broad

and...

>> surveillance of travelers without any suspicion of actual wrongdoing

Those seem to play off each other in a weird way. The program is legal because the selection criteria are so broad that no one under surveillance is suspected of any evildoery? It would be really interesting to find out what kind of records on these surveillance activities are kept.

Having been the subject of covert surveillance at multiple points in my past (and future probably) there is a certain amount of shrugging it off that is necessary. The real concern for TSA, or Neighborhood Watch, is whether they are sharing records with any other agencies. Congress would potentially have a Pinata party if that came to light.
I actually don’t understand why providing links to articles with scientific research spanning a decade that backs up a hygiene practice that reduces the costs of one our lifetimes worst global health epidemics would elicit such snarky sarcasm. I actually don’t
Hey, thanks for sharing. You’re awesome!
Especially since pre-puberty, boys should be taught not to try and retract their foreskin for cleaning. It's not necessary, and forcing it might very well cause damage. From the perspective of a five year old, cleaning a circumcised penis and an uncircumcised penis is exactly the same.
Excellent - pleased you liked it. Here on HN we seem to be in a minority. And your answer is one of the two techniques I've got - nice one.
Do you consume stimulants like caffeine?
Disappointing that a website about making the web better still wants to track me with cookies for god knows what reason (also non-GDPR compliant despite them being based in Germany).
"Subject slept during the flight" ??

You got me, guilty as charged.
Honestly I'd probably torrent a lot just to see my seed stats be awesome. Nothing useful...
It's probably safe to say that females are culturally programmed to spend more time on their looks, to be spend more time looking at themselves. That indeed would fit with being more self-obsessed.

It's just the cultural prerogative, though, that a woman gleam every non-scalp hair from their body, masterfully paint her face at least once a day, to basically perform all the maintenance necessary to widen the sexual differences between male and female.

Largely done to fit into what a woman is supposed to look like -- color outside those lines and society will scorn, no doubt! Also, of course, to cater to male gaze. A woman who doesn't spend all that effort on herself is not even really a woman, they'd hear. Odd how femininity is tied to cultural practices of beauty in most peoples' minds.

So, yeah, it's safe to say women are more self-obsessed, and it's safe to say that the pressure to remain that way must be intense.
You think the email space isn't an almost monopoly that actively makes it hard for others to get in?
There seem to be a lot of uncontrolled variables here. This feels less like professional science, and more like a science fair project.
I think you are missing that the coefficients must be non-negative. In fact the answer is always unique, so you may want to rethink your approach.
> if you teach at the middle or high school level, you have to have a masters in the subject you teach.

That’s not true, some states don’t require a Masters in any subject, let alone in one relevant to what they’re teaching.

https://study.com/articles/High_School_Teacher_Requirements_...

https://teach.com/become/teaching-credential/state-requireme...
I get the wake up reaction with any dose, unless I take it with other stuff that keeps me asleep. I have Non-24 and have tried a bunch of stuff and have found finding things to help stay asleep easier than finding stuff to help get to sleep, although nothing really works for very long at a time (and there is a huge amount of individual variation in what helps at all). If exercise works for you that would be best but for me it doesn't help.

I wrote a long post about stuff that helps me stay asleep a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17384486
>Regarding open-source FPGA design, you're in luck! "Project IceStorm" reverse-engineered the Ice40 line of FPGAs from Lattice, and has a fully open-source toolchain for them.

I've used it. It's at the "technically doesn't not work" stage. I take my hat off to them for the work already done, but it's night and day between icestorm and, say, arduino studio.

In fairness to them, they are fighting an uphill battle reverse engineering the chip, but as much respect as I have for their work, I don't believe there's a long term open source option in there. At some point Lattice will stop making the Ice40 FPGA line. When we reach that point, the icestorm team will have to reverse engineer a new chip, which is pretty close to starting from scratch.
Just out of interest, can you find a connection to something more "everyday" ??
Show HN: rapidstring – Maybe the fastest string library ever
What I've always found ironic about circumcision is that it is done mostly by religious folks who consider humans to have been created by God as God wanted.

So, by circumcision in a way they're trying to fix a God's mistake!
Script to scrape internet archive library data
Seems pretty effective at detecting trace metals from handling artists' paints.
Please be aware how much of that research sources back to a few studies in Africa. There are a few essential differences between the US and Africa beyond foreskin.
It sounds odd because typically in the UK you need to get your photos and application signed by some 'trusted member of society', e.g. someone who does a job on an approved list of professions and isn't supposed to have known you for more than 2 years.

I suppose that's easily bypassed though. I had a much harder time validating my photo for my business account - the only verification that mattered then was one I had to pay for at the post office. It had to have a paper trail.
I just wrapped up post-production on my first short film, "Mead" and was looking for a resource like this!
As text is limited to 80 chars, I was not able to add the following lines...

I need some help saving this data as csv
New mutations create new possibilities. What the article seems to say is, there's quite a bit of info embeded in genes, but there are additional factors that twigger which traits are called into play. It's a very sophisticated system.
Also, A&F already attracts customers who are into bodybuilding, so I’m not surprised that customers are sensitive to muscular staff. The experiment should also be attempted in a non-fitness-oriented shop like H&M.
Is there a difference in SIDS between boys and girls?
Vim.Wasm – Vim editor ported to WebAssembly
Facebook Moderator Manual
TLDR: Not really a server room.

Just an old pile of rust phone switch/PBX, and a computer that was used to configure it.
I am not sure how much social status aspects change with sexual orientation

If you are curious, read about the sexuality of the ancient Greeks, which was inextricably bound up with social status. From Wikipaedia:

Greek society did not distinguish sexual desire or behavior by the gender of the participants, but rather by the role that each participant played in the sex act, that of active penetrator or passive penetrated.[6] This active/passive polarization corresponded with dominant and submissive social roles: the active (penetrative) role was associated with masculinity, higher social status, and adulthood, while the passive role was associated with femininity, lower social status, and youth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_ancient_Greec...
Malaria’s ticking time bomb
thats what browser tabs are for, open 10-100 and read thru the day
It seems to have worked for Bezos.

https://mobile.twitter.com/gramatik/status/89057764829611212...
When should I use Mu instead of Thonny?
Depends on the level of automation possible in deploying a wide-scale attack, too.

Run some scripts, check on it six months later...oh look, we have SSL private keys for the X domains now.
> This program sounds like a huge, irresponsible waste of public resources. However I don’t exactly see how merely being observed in public amounts to the dystopian surveillance state this article seems to imply.

It's the same argument against "I have nothing to hide."

Consider two people, both objectively innocent. One is surveilled, one is not.

The surveilled person, merely by coming to the attention of the government, is at risk of mistakes, misjudgment, quota satisfaction, resume building, budget justification, extortion by criminal government employees bad personal life and resulting sour disposition of the watcher, etc. Just because they became noticed.

The unsurveilled person is safe.

In firearms training, you learn not to point a gun at something unless you intend to destroy it. You should also not point a government at someone unless they have at least shown some reason beyond existence that it's worth potentially destroying their well being.
> Most people aren't stupid enough to sign up for things they won't use.

That's the gym model, sign up people in January for a yearly gym membership, have 90% of those people not visit past the end of the month.
I think they're considering the entire start-to-finish process of viewing, i.e. mounting the drive, decoding the jpeg, displaying on screen.
Interestingly enough, I am struggling with that same question. I have AT&T 1000Mbps service available to my home for $90 + tax. Currently I have 200 Mbps service with Charter/Spectrum for $65 + tax. I could switch to AT&T 300Mbps service for $70 + tax.

From what I can gather, unless you're streaming 4k video, have a home server or do some serious gaming, I'm not sure a gig connection is necessary. It would also depend how many people would be using the service. A big family could probably take advantage of a gig pipe.

For now I have decided to just stick with Charter and wait and see what happens with 5G over the next year instead of getting involved in new contracts.
Women in tech: Industry is still very much a boys' club, says tech veteran
There may be additional requirements to be allowed to use a repaired vehicle on public streets, but the important point is that that is none of the manufacturer's business, the requirements are set by the state, not by the manufacturer.

Indeed. This is usually called "roadworthiness" and varies between states. In fact, this is why the whole custom/car modding/hot rod culture can exist --- and from what I've seen, it's not been detrimental to overall safety. The vast majority of deaths come from idiotic/drunk/distracted drivers, not problems with modded/repaired cars.
I've also been guilty of this. For programming side projects, I recently decided I was going to think of them as microservices. I've been guilty of overengineering what should have been something simple and losing interest halfway through.

Instead of a polished, user-friendly product, I'm building simple utilities (CLI or minimal UI) that can be leveraged (or refactored) into something else in the future. Good documentation also helps!
Even big companies like Cherry behave fraudulent on Amazon, shipping different items under well known legacy product names. Amazon has a huge problem with its sellers. It is time for them to solve this.
>Never heard such ridiculous claim, that ISE with WebTalk enabled sends every piece of code back to Xilinx.

Well then buddy, jesus christ, email your former colleagues and get them to reword the installer for ISE. That's absolutely how it reads. I didn't make that shit up out of thin air, that's how I interpreted the license agreement on the ISE installer.
There is no change in cleaning requirements for a young boy's penis whether it is intact or not. By the time a boy needs to clean under his foreskin, he will long have been doing his own baths. I guess make sure he has enough information by then on what to expect, but honestly I'm surprised that people don't naturally figure out how to clean their own bodies. Did we really have to be taught this a thousand years ago?
this is fantastic, thank you for the great writing & information! I was curious, is there a reason you go for KA over caputo? I migrated from KA -> Caputo after getting into the recipes from https://www.amazon.com/Flour-Water-Salt-Yeast-Fundamentals/d..., I perceived a positive difference, but it was anything but a blind experiment :D.
I'm more than willing to contribute. I've been looking into such an organization for a while now, I'd be happy to contribute back the "problems" and incremental "solutions" I'd like to test out. In my case it's a bit different, i'd love to see SRE being implemented at a large scale for packaged software where the customer operates the bought product on his own.
You’re right, they’re ludicrously successful so you have to figure they must know what they’re doing.

It does seem like a strange strategy not to court these high-end markets, though.

As a developer, it often feels like Apple is ignoring me in favour of some nebulously-defined market of “designers”. But here we have actual designers, industrial product designers, being similarly ignored.
As a kid I got to play with microfilm and microfiche at the library while my mom did research. I don't have a lot of pleasant memories from childhood, but this was an exception.
My mind was intrigued and blown by this.

Thinking back on the experience, it was incredible. I could go grab a copy of a newspaper from any particular day in any year. I remember reading the actual newspapers from the early 20th century. Big historical events that are in history books, really take on a different meaning to you when you read them as they were reported in near-real-time. The ability of microfilm to snapshot history in a way different than say viewing a jpg or png, is fascinating.

If you are ever bored, and can find a library that will give you access, you should definitely check it out. It's an experience I think all hackers should have. Such simple yet powerful machines, built on a highly non-technical system of convention. Very cool. Sorry for the long walk down nostalgia lane.
I use Intercom. Works fine for my needs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17610516

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17615825
Also IMSI catching is used widely by police.

https://news.vice.com/article/vice-news-investigation-finds-...

And none of this surveillance compares to the extent of surveillance in Nothern Ireland.
Checkbox me for having a) boarded last, b) been drenched in sweat, and c) run across the entire airport while having their name called out on the PA system for five minutes.
Nice idea, I have definitely felt that the browser market space has become to stagnant and bland. I am surprised you are using cookies for what mostly seems to be a product outline.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17618276
Companies buying this type of software will often spend >$100k on licensing and support, and they don't want to add unnecessary risk by relying on deprecated and unsupported features.

Often the vendor will have a list of supported workstations, and the the customer will just buy systems from the list.
Implement DDoS Protection, PKI Identity, 2FA, and DNS Security Using Blockchain
Is there a compare and contrast of this editor against other similar efforts such as Jupyter?
I do that on my Kindle account. It makes it even easier because the pile is invisible.
Ask HN: Distraction Free YouTube Removed from Chrome Webstore
A few years ago I created an extension called "DF YouTube (Distraction Free)" to help me to quit wasting so much time on YouTube. It simply uses CSS to hide different parts of YouTube, such as the sidebar, video recommendations, feed, etc. The extension has had up to 180,000 users and has always maintained a high rating, currently 4.5 stars.

Recently I received an email from Google notifying me that the app has been taken down from the Chrome webstore due to "irrelevant, misleading, or excessive keywords in app descriptions, titles, or metadata." Not being able to identify anything that could be triggering this, I resubmitted it unchanged, and it was rejected again, with a warning of a permanent ban.

I have emailed chromewebstore-policy@google.com and cws-developer-support@google.com with requests for a review and explanation but have received no response.

What can I do about this? Does it seem likely that someone at Google took exception to my app, which hinders YouTube's clickbaity functionality?

Meanwhile, I have ported this app to Firefox which I now use as my main browser, so feel free to look it up on that platform :)
Here is a site that explains the math and will do the calc.

https://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html