skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are we sure there isn't a relationship (or an overlap, specifically) between "parents who circumcise their newborns" and "parents who allow their kids to fall asleep facing down?" Because I'm pretty sure this debate was measurably settled in the late 90s.

https://www1.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/documents/SIDS_...
It's the combination of perpetually being reminded of how big the world is, compared to how small an impact an individual can have. That's just all it is.

It's not narcissism. It's reality being a reminder, constantly - the beating heart of the internet simply says - you are small.

And we are. All of us. But we also aren't. Because, we all do have impact. Reality is nothing more than what it is. You can be ignored, feel silenced, but, you always exist, on the internet.

Your point makes sense, and it reinforces both sentiments. See what you want to see in it. That's what we do. I see me, I see you.
Here you go:

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=630544154

Someone needs to write an extension for this. The id number is on the URL so it's a trivial script. Activating Firefox's reader view makes text-only NPR articles not only fast but look great too.
I wonder why it's still allowed to modify the body of a minor for lifestyle reasons without their knowledge or consent. Seems a bit ridiculous to me. The article is somewhat larger than just Circumcision, but since the title mostly points to that, it's the comment you're going to get ;-)
That circumcision is still practice is insane. What is the benefit of all of the aggressive moralizing that goes on towards all kinds gender and sex causes at this point, and yet first world genital mutilation of boys gets almost no attention while causing 14% of male SIDS. Do not care about religious freedoms at that point.
I have about 500 physical books right now ranging from learning Chinese to advanced c++ to quantitative finance to Seeet Chi.

My wife hates it. I buy books because I want to. I hope to read them. Someday I will, I know this. I read a lot already but the implementing what I have read and practicing takes time away from reading new subject matter. Example learning Chinese..it’s been 3 years and I still practice daily. Quant stuff.. I’ve been implementing and refining my code but this all takes time away from th piles of books I have accumulated.
So it's a binary choice between walling yourself off in an affluent gated community and slogging through human waste in a dystopian urban slum.

Really no middle ground here, huh?
i haven't open sourced everything, but there are code snippets in the document, let me know if you need anything specific.
Just write your business logic in a function, they do the rest. Who has time to build a boring backend these days? First of all it’s boring, you already know how your app looks like and what data you want to display on your screen, but still, you need to install a server, configure your environment, blablabla, hire backend folks, hire more expensive backend leads to scale. At the end of the day all you need is something that returns a simple response in a string format (for example). It is scale-as-a-service / build-a-better-user-experience. That’s the main concept of Serverless.
Anyone got a link to the “research” cited in here? From the article it doesn’t seem like the most rigourous methodology, and I don’t see any p or n values listed.

Honestly if this was actually true every male shop assistant working on commission would already be ripped because they would be selling double that of the scrawny ones, who would have been fired months ago.
You know I love what your city did with pizza. I love how much it has influenced pizza around the world.

However I'm getting tired of seeing NY-style pizza shops opening up here in central Ohio. Some chain that focuses on NY-style relocated their headquarters here (from previously being in NY!).

We've already got our own style (central Ohio, wider Ohio region as far as I know). I don't want poor imitations of NY style taking over.
Starting a fire on a fire escape sounds like it should be a prohibited activity.
It’s recommended in Walker’s book so you probably already know about it, but CBTI (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia) might be a useful intervention for you based on the difficulties you’ve described.
For infrastructure, rationals can be kind of dangerous due to unexpected memory spikes. For instance, multiplying 47/33 by 33 actually decreases the memory required to store the value in contrast to big integers which always increase in storage size as the number gets larger.
my first editor was visual basic 6, (aim/aol/progz) days. I've seen it posted on twitter and really like the interface, I think it will be very useful, I guess we had to learn the "hard" way.
I suppose a difference in discussion could be bodily harm vs. behavior monitoring/modification. Cutting your baby would be somewhat different than assisting a newborn in not killing itself, comparable to not having exposed 220v wiring within reach. However, I'm not sure how that 90s debate went.
My experience with Melatonin is similar to yours. I tried the 2.5 mg and the 5mg dosages. If anything they made my sleep even shallower in the sense, yeah I have my eyes closed but am fully aware of my thoughts and surroundings but am too lazy/tired to be physically active. It also gave me weird dreams (not that I mind). waking up was tiring because all night my mind was awake. I think its good for REM sleep but what I desired more was the deeper sleep cycles that make me feel rested.
Cool digital magazine about time management an creative processes
I didn't know that circumcision was a thing till I moved to a country where its the default. One girl even commented its "strange" to not be circumcised, no its "strange" to chop off a body part.
Not sure if minimal fruit counts as a healthy diet
If you think the world is flat, then the world is flat. But from the depths our spiritual life stirs.
First edition of Ada Lovelace's pioneering algorithm sold for £95,000
About a decade ago I read a hack where you place a large ceramic pot saucer (the thing that goes under a potted plant) on the top rack as high as it will go, and using a well seasoned pizza stone on the bottom rack as far down as it will go.

You then either turn on the broiler for an hour or if you can disable the cleaning cycle lock turn it on the cleaning cycle.

I found that this actually worked, but was really hard to make work without the long spatulas they use in commercial kitchens. It's also super easy to burn yourself and your food because it's at the wrong height. It will also heat your home up to a massive degree such that you need to let your entire kitchen cool off for hours.

Not worth the trouble in my estimation.
The guy quoted, Kenji, contributes to Serious Eats and is active on reddit and twitter. He's done a lot of work on comparing different flours, comparing different pizza ovens, and also has good recipes. If you're a pizza buff, it's well worth your time checking out his work.

I've made his hacker free pizza [0] which turns out decent. The hard truth, though, is that you're never going to get the chewy, moist flavor from a classic oven. It just doesn't get hot enough.

There's a lot of new companies coming out that mimic the brick ovens. I've personally bought a RoccBox (per Kenji's review) and the pizzas come out great [1]. It's able to push to 800F. Currently I use his recipe [2] for the dough and want to get more practice nailing down hand kneading, presentation, etc. Once I've mastered that, I want to start experimenting with different ratios and then eventually move on to figuring out sour dough cultures.

[0] - http://dopeboy.github.io/pizza-first-attempt

[1] - http://dopeboy.github.io/roccbox-pizza/

[2] - https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/07/basic-neapolitan...
It's not a new question; I've seen arguments about Año Nuevo State Park and whether the tilde is necessary in English after some major publication discovered that they didn't have ñ in their standard font and their proofreaders didn't know Spanish.
Important to note this bit:

> Ecological analyses are useful to generate hypotheses but cannot provide strong evidence of causality.

https://xkcd.com/882/ and http://tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations may be relevant here as a result.
Curate your fstab carefully.
The phrase "since a long, long time," applied to mobile phones, is causing me a certain amount of bogglement.
I'm into physical books and as a result of that I have a rather large bookcase in my living room. The books are sort of ordered by type (literature, foreign literature, non-fiction, etc), with some space in between. 'Unread books' is a separate type.

Whenever I feel the urge to buy something new, I check the physical space the unread books take up on the shelf. If they extend beyond a totally arbitrary limit that I set for myself, then I have to wait and read some of them first. Works very well for me.
First Successful Test of Einstein’s General Relativity Near Massive Black Hole
Sad to see the BBC drop to this level.
Beginner's Guide to Bitcoin
iOS development could probably be moved web based. Would save everyone a lot of trouble.
All items should be legally repairable by their own.

If you are barred from repairing an item by law or policy then you do not own that item
When public transit demand in rural Colorado exceeds supply
Or just games in general (glancing at my collection of >1000 titles).
I'm not sure why you are being downvoted, you are correct. If the normal state of the dam is to generate electricity then the obvious response to excess supply is to stop the flow. No need to pump anything back uphill unless the excess exceeds the normal capacity of the dam.
Why Do People Want to Drink the Sarcophagus Water?
Abercrombie and Fitch share price is at a 17 year low and they have put themselves up for sale. I don't think their strategy is working out too well for them in a market where foreign competitors like Zara and H&M entered with much more effective marketing messages.

Abercrombie and Fitch "failed to keep up with changing preferences among customers, and has suffered as a result, plagued with a number of periods of declining sales."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2017/05/10/wh...
New Technology May Help Airlines Cut Fuel Use and Travel Time
What a horrible article. Sneering, unnecessarily polarizing, full of ad hominems, and almost devoid of any real numbers or argument. Panders to the lowest of the left by picking on the lowest of the right and saying, "See!? Look!" Literally "stop thinking differently than me!!!" codified to vaguely resemble actual thought. The topics it is grouped with betray it as clickbait garbage.
Profiles like this seem to only be published when someone’s pretty near death. (the Leonard Cohen new yorker profile being a good example).

not looking forward to that—Mel Brooks is a national treasure.
End of the day you still have to burn more calories than you take in and also eat less carbs and sugars. I think once you do that any benefits are marginal(based on my personal experience)
I'm from the US - we always refer to pizza as, well, pizza. Pie is something that is usually (but not always) sweet. The closest reference I have from childhood is a song talking about "pizza pie".
Pumpkin pie isn’t closed, at least, not from my experience.
HN too.
Don't know why people downvoted you but I felt the same. In my country or even in my area no one is circumcised (except for medical reasons, but even in that case is done ONLY if there is really no other solution and as last try for things like Phimosis) and until I discovered in USA is common practice I thought, and was instructed in school, that only some Orthodox jews did it as a standard practice for newborns.
This term needs to die. While you may have one definition of it, it's being used as a club to beat many men down when they actually have an informed opinion.

I've also seen it used as a political tool to make it look like that person shouldn't get an advancement.

On top of it all, it's blatently sexist against men. I thought we were trying to stop sexism, not encourage it.
Meshroom: Open Source 3D Reconstruction Software
Ask HN: I am extremely alone
Though I am lucky to have decent social skills, and seemingly to outsiders I would have lots of friends, I have no one who I feel shares my interests / who I want to spend time with. Admittedly, I have uncommon & very geeky interests, but knowing that doesn't solve my problem of finding someone to share those with.

I don't know what to do with this feeling of loneliness. Aside from meetups, and social apps, I've even gone to the extent of creating a website to attract like-minded people and started Facebook & Reddit ad campaigns pointing people to it. No luck. I suppose I could spend more money on it, but, feels futile.

This loneliness is crushing, and frightening - I have to fight against thoughts of a lifetime of loneliness. I even ended an otherwise healthy romantic relationship because I felt detached from the person.

Any thoughts or ideas?

31/m/SF
No. March 2018, Lewinsky:

There are even some people who feel my White House experiences don’t have a place in this [MeToo] movement, as what transpired between Bill Clinton and myself was not sexual assault, although we now recognize that it constituted a gross abuse of power.
Allow me to refer you to

Joe Rogan - Effects of Alcohol and Marijuana on Sleep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNxk8W10wtY

I agree that sleep on THC is far better than no sleep at all, but for me, it became a crutch. I couldn't sleep without it. It was hell for traveling.
Why? From what I read:

Easier hygiene. Circumcision makes it simpler to wash the penis. However, boys with uncircumcised penises can be taught to wash regularly beneath the foreskin.
Decreased risk of urinary tract infections. The risk of urinary tract infections in males is low, but these infections are more common in uncircumcised males. Severe infections early in life can lead to kidney problems later.
Decreased risk of sexually transmitted infections. Circumcised men might have a lower risk of certain sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Still, safe sexual practices remain essential.
Prevention of penile problems. Occasionally, the foreskin on an uncircumcised penis can be difficult or impossible to retract (phimosis). This can lead to inflammation of the foreskin or head of the penis.
Decreased risk of penile cancer. Although cancer of the penis is rare, it's less common in circumcised men. In addition, cervical cancer is less common in the female sexual partners of circumcised men.
The but about th optimal dose being 0.3mg is interesting. I've been nibbling the corners of 3mg pills for years now, since the full strength always left me with a weird sleep hangover, or I would end up bolt awake but still sleepy at 4am..
Performing unnecessary surgery on childrens genitals is pervasive and needs to stop.

Most horrific is female genital mutilation, which makes sex painful for women.

Also terrible are surgeries performed on intersex babies with genitals that aren’t male or female. Surgeons choose makethe babies genitals conform as closely as possible, but they often mess up - people end up with painful genitals or the wrong genitals. Most intersex people could grow up with their original genitals and be perfectly healthy.

And now it turns out circumcision kills baby boys. Maybe we could just stop with the chopping up kids genitals.
I don’t think it’s really a religious issue at all, the religious practice happens outside of the hospital afaik.

When we were asked at my sons birth, it was definitely just something part of the standard operating procedure.
You'd have to break the more extreme -≥ more views -> more money feedback loop.
At the company I work for we push it a lot for scheduled jobs that maybe run once a week since it saves money on teams just standing up an EC2 instance to run that cronjob once. It also is helpful for a lot of APIs and other use cases where I may not use it everyday and only need to hit the API once or twice in a certain period of time.
This is the dirty secret, and I think it's largely because COBOL devs don't create that much value. What I mean is, those systems are in place, have largely worked for years, and only need a bug fix here and there. For those, you can get some retired guy back as a contractor and it's still way cheaper than a dedicated COBOL dev. I don't think I know of anywhere that is writing big new projects in COBOL (I'd love to hear of counter-examples). Instead it seems like they've found ways of bolting on extensions as part of some middleware.

So what's interesting instead is where are the rumours of a COBOL dev shortage coming from?
We could do better even with just static routing. Many of our landing and takeoff plans optimize for unimportant factors like minor wind differences landing. Landings at my local airport take a 10 minute détour in the air to achieve this.
That's roughly what I was told when we made the decision to circumcise our son.

Having read more, later in life, about the history and origins of the practice, it's a decision I really regret.
The star UY Scuti is 2,500,000,000 kilometres in diameter.

It would take light nearly 2.5hrs to travel that far.
Sure Sbarro’s are starting to pop up more but that’s largely just because they want to compete with the other chains. The only one of those doing an Ohio style pizza being Donatos.

Decent NY style pizza can be found here as well though. Sarefino’s at North Market does a pretty good job. There’s not any risk to Ohio style pizza as far as I can tell though, the overwhelming majority of independent pizza places still serve this almost exclusively.
Two pizza/physics related stories on the front page of HN in about two months. Impressed
> Maybe a new tool that downloads and then runs a script from the interwebs needs to be written

What you're describing there is a package manager. What we don't need is a tool for running any random script from the wider internet.
Neural networks as usual. What I make of it is that the programs noticed that some words had more effect than others, and just started spamming those for maximum value. Source:
https://code.fb.com/ml-applications/deal-or-no-deal-training...
All sorts of benefits. Just because this particular just cause has no chance of getting off the ground because no politician is willing to put themselves in the crosshairs of pretty much all Jews AND Muslims and a large amount of Christian hangers-on (religious liberty advocates), doesn't mean that other causes without such formidable impediments are somehow moot.

EDIT:

I think I was unclear. I am NOT defending circumcision, I don't think it's defensible. I was responding to the parent poster, specifically this:

> What is the benefit of all of the aggressive moralizing that goes on towards all kinds gender and sex causes at this point, and yet...

I was trying to say that just because we can't get anywhere in banning male circumcision, doesn't mean that "all kinds gender and sex causes..." have no benefit.
My point is that whatever rules were in place for the referendum clearly didn't work, they were simply ignored or worked around by the government by e.g. huge spending before the limiting period began. If one side clearly doesn't care about the rules at all and they aren't even enforced, then attempting to enforce them on the other side obviously opens up all sorts of suspicions of bias.

I hadn't seen the BBC article you link to, but it looks like exactly what I mean. Someone who made a donation to the Leave campaign shipped some tyres to India in 2009? OK, how does that compare to Remain using the entire resources of the civil service in its attempt to win? It doesn't at all, the sums involved are trivial in comparison.

Regarding the euromyths site, do you really find the newspaper's protrayal of EU foreign aid/development fund spending to be honest?

Yes - what have they said that's false? The EU's "rebuttal" doesn't even claim the newspapers are wrong about anything. They just claim it's perfectly reasonable spending instead.

Your last paragraph misses the point entirely I'm afraid. I don't care about foreign aid myself. We were talking about the euromyths site. This particular story is interesting because it shows that the EU is willing to lie to you in order to undermine the press.

One of the purposes of the press is to hold government to account. Publicising spending that looks wasteful is a key part of that. This is civics 101. Does the British government complain that the press is "lying" when they question government spending? No, it doesn't, because it's run by people who know that this is part of the job of the press. Only the EU complains about the press doing their job and attacks them by asserting they're peddling "myths".

But hey, if you want another dodgy Euromyths post, here it is:

https://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/the-eu-is-a-supporter-o...

This is about EU plans to eliminate per-region movie licensing. The EU's response adds nothing to the Independent's article, which is basically a selection of quotes from British movie producers saying they depend on per-region licensing to fund indy/arthouse movies, and if they couldn't do that anymore they feel they wouldn't be able to fund these movies.

Now, maybe these producers are all wrong, maybe they're right, I am not an expert in movie financing so I don't know. But clearly there are some who feel this way. The "myths" response simply re-iterates the EU's position that it'll all be peachy and wonderful. The truth of the underlying article isn't challenged, the EU Commission is just saying they disagree.

Lots of the articles are like that.

Don't get me wrong. I think it's fine for a government to respond to press stories in a candid way and defend themselves. But the EU oversteps the line wildly here, by claiming they're revealing systematic lying by the British press, when just clicking through posts shows they often can't identify anything false about the stories. They just find them inconvenient.
Run my own cloud storage. Get a small server with a few storage drives and back up to there.

I use iCloud for now, but there’s something comforting about actually owning my data instead of trusting a third-party.
One benefit of this study is that people who are made aware of it may be more conscious of their bias when shopping. This could mitigate the effects. The act of doing the study could have positive effects depending on what the study is used for after.

The study itself didn't harm anyone. It just measured an effect by changing a variable. The information it produced could produce positive change or it could produce negative change.
There's a lot of conflicting/unclear research and it's my understanding that there's not much solid evidence in either direction on most of this stuff. Small studies, questionable causation, etc.

That said, the hygiene argument is insane to me. Anyone who can be taught to wipe their ass can be taught to clean their penis.
This only becomes an issue when you are a monopoly as this is when it hurts the consumers ability to choose alternatives. If Android truely is the best option let the customer decide without trying to stifel competition.

Firefox and Linux don't work to stop competition in the same way. Neither care if manufactures provide other options or flavors and Linux especially has commercial forks like OSX and Android.
Excuse me, sir. Your homophobia is showing.
It's still allowed because people are ignorant, and those who aren't ignorant are irrational and are extremely good rationalizing (like all of us are about some things).

Another big factor is that the medical community has absolutely dropped the ball here. I believe that any ethical doctor must refuse to do a circumcision without a valid medical reason. The Hippocratic Oath demands it.
Anybody know why it says that no connection is available, yet a page still loads. It seems like a new way of defeating ad block.

Edit: Even after disabling ad block, still says that there is no connection. Even worse, just after I actually buy a copy of their magazine.