skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
See I was circumcised and it sounds much like the same reasons as you mainly because my dad had it done. They long dropped religion so it was more like how you describe. I guess, from my limited knowledge, not all female circumcisions are the same. Some involve more serious removal of not just skin but the actually clitoris. I am against removal of the clitoris as it probably would mean decreased feeling. I really can’t say how much feeling I supposedly lost with my circumcision but I always thought sex was very enjoyable. The whole idea of either seems bizarre and pointless to myself. But I also feel a part of me has spirituality (and not in any god). So if the clitoral circumcision was just a bit of the side skin and for religious reasons I could accept it. But I think a lot of these female circumcisions do not just take side skin they remove a sexual organ. Yes skin and therefore foreskin is an organ but I don’t feel like I am missing anything. Thank you for your thoughts it has made me think more on this subject. I honestly don’t have any good reason to defend male circumcisions over female. What a weird world we live in.
Divide your first bullet-point into two: invest in humans or invest in non-humans.
Diagnosis is a diagnosis of exclusion. Eventually with my set of symptoms it became clear that only two illnesses fit well enough. Fibromyalgia or multiple sclerosis. A clear MRI eliminated MS as an option.

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Treatment is a multi-pronged attack.

I have a drug cocktail aimed at desensitisation of the nervous system. It works well enough to take the edge off, but not during a flare up or relapse. It's the least important and least effective part of treatment.

I have a psychologist, aimed at pain management. The mental techniques around dealing with pain and stress on a daily basis. This becomes more important during a flare. It is also probably the most important part of treatment.

I have a physiotherapist. I need to maintain a certain level of physical activity or the illness can rapidly get worse, whilst at the same time, too much activity can also cause the same process.

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I should also point out that if I became completely resistant to treatment, a possibility for the future if things get worse, then my pain specialist is also involved in a series of trials using ketamine that usually results in desensitisation of the nervous system over the course of a couple weeks.

Point being, there is always hope for increasing quality of life, even if there is currently no hope of cure.
This is for any phone
It doesn't have to be the entire video feed. it could be snapshots from a specific direction. If millions use it, there's a good chance even a handful of snapshots from each user at a location that thousands of people pass by could get it mapped better than how they currently do.
Cumulative gadodiamide leads to brain gadolinium deposition in early MS
So? Encryption is still on by default and end-to-end encryption is a joke anyway when distribution of the app is controlled by the app developer. They can only pinky promise that it's there, but they can compromise it silently on a whim.

End-to-end encryption can be pretty useful, but just not in Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal or any app with that level of control.
You mean embezzlement should be taxed
Scientists glimpse oddball microbe that could help explain rise of complex life
Ooooh, the dumpster fire that is Planetary Annihilation.

If they spent a fraction of the effort on the actual bloody game that they spent on making it Twitch and E-sport friendly, the game might not, you know, suck.
Preventing suicide is typically reasonably easy; suicide-proof smocks exist for this reason. Obviously you don't threaten a prisoner with criminal penalties for attempting suicide, that would be really stupid. Rather, you take measures to prevent the possibility.
There's a famous quote:

> Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

If you were aspiring to be the next Bezos or Gates, you too might be inclined to support tax policies that would benefit your future self.
NES and SNES Controllers on a 6502 (Like the C64)
You can still flash it, though
There's a quote from It's a Wonderful Life that I always think of in this context:

"You're thinking of this place all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in Joe's house...right next to yours. And in the Kennedy house, and Mrs. Macklin's house, and a hundred others. Why, you're lending them the money to build, and then, they're going to pay it back to you as best they can. Now what are you going to do? Foreclose on them?"

The whole point of finance, the social purpose, is that it prevents everyone (rich or not so rich) with assets from letting them sit idle.
Yeah, we know.

Good arguments for taxing dividends, stock buybacks, and interest paid at the same rate. They're all paying for capital. The tax preference of debt creates a debt-heavy financial system.

Some countries prohibit stock buybacks. How's that working out?

To prohibit buybacks and make it stick, you also have to prohibit cross-ownership. The US used to do that, but only for utility companies. The Utility Holding Company Act (1935-2005) limited utility ownership structure to a tree depth of 3 with no backlinks. This allowed regulators to track where the money and ownership were.
I mean SPY has returned like 3% YTD. But that’s not really the point. M&A has zero to very low Beta exposure, so it’s almost completely uncorrelated to the market. This, in general, is a good thing.

A lot of quant market neutral hedge funds only return 3-5% per year. Compared to the S&P, this looks pretty bad. But the goal of these funds isn’t to provide the best returns, it is to provide the best risk adjusted returns. You may ask, why would I care about that?

The answer is that you can synthetically match any return by either buying or selling (borrowing) at the risk free rate. So if I had a fund that had returns of 4% and volatility of 2%, I could turn it into 2 and 1, 8 and 2, or 16 and 4, or whatever.
Also takes 10-15 minutes to eat in the office vs. 1 hour to go out. I always prefer to eat out. I enjoy the break away from the office. I don't know why we have to all sit together like a bunch of hippies and pretend to enjoy each others' company.
It’ll be massively I/O bottlenecked on a single spindle,
using a table that’s double the size of the available RAM.

I don’t know what the blog post was trying to prove, to be honest. If I wanted to display the benefits of parallelism, i’d have at least tried to make the test heavily CPU constrained, given that that’s the entire point of being able to go parallel. I’d also have shown I/O performance and waits, along with CPU utilisation.
They're trying to avoid the problem where maximizing combat effectiveness will minimize fun for the player.

Even if there are players who have optimal fun by door-cheesing every encounter, you likely want to ensure other play styles are at least as viable so that players aren't funneled into a one-dimensional tactic. Or that players aren't forced to make suboptimal plays just to have fun.
Stock buy backs lead to higher market concentrations. That’s the biggest economic impact of the past 5-7 years from cheap money afforded to large AND profitable corporations.
First person shooters and 3d open world games, of those we have plenty.

If you look for real time strategy then the choices we have right now are nowhere near the quality of what we had 15 years ago.

Most modern strategy games are overly complex, take forever to get into and are overwrought in ways that makes them just not enjoyable.
This is generally a good way to learn things, as I learn best by doing. But, when approaching a new language or framework, I need some practical guidance on building applications using that language/framework.

Ideally I'm looking for the equivalent of Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial. I'm not a ruby/rails developer, but I did follow his tutorial and it was one of the best guides I've followed (pedagogically speaking).
Biological learning curves outperform existing ones in AI algorithms
> “processor units”

Graphical processor(ing?) unit. How many (cuda) cores are we talking about? /s
> It makes more sense in context

I disagree, especially with these quotations, which are disingenuous.

Patrick Henry was a firebrand. His words were meant to incite violence and insurrection for the financial advantage of the order of people to which he belonged.

The Jefferson letter you are quoting[1] doesn't mean what you imply with how you quote it. The real meaning, if you use the sentences right before that, says that some part of the population is always going to be ignorant and misinformed and discontent in proportion to that, and that it's better they rebel openly so they can be corrected, patted on the head, and sent home instead of stewing silently. From that point of view, the people should be minimally armed so this could be accomplished with as little bloodshed as possible.

It's also fraught to impute anything about constitutional matters to Jefferson, since he regarded a constitution perpetuated more than a generation or two as a form of tyranny.

The scholarship on Sparta has been pretty thoroughly revised over the past few decades. Any reference to Sparta rooted before that is of at best suspect legitimacy.

[1]: https://thefederalistpapers.org/founders/jefferson/thomas-je...
If management believes doing either one of those will result in a financial benefit greater than paying the dividend/doing buybacks, they will do so.

The idea is that if a company doesn't have compelling business plans requiring further investment that will likely generate a significantly better ROI than the cash can generate, then the excess cash should be returned to the owners of the company. (i.e. the shareholders) A secondary benefit is that dividends make stocks more expensive to short (i.e. speculators betting the share price will go down... and often helping it do so) and can often increase the price paid in hostile takeovers (i.e. the acquirer will often have to pay a higher premium to get the shareholders to accept than if the company just kept the money in cash equivalent investments)

What has changed in recent decades is that dividends are generally not considered the most tax-efficient way to get the money to the shareholders so stock buybacks (which presumably increase the share price and will be taxed as capital gains when shareholders sell as opposed to income when received as dividends) are often preferred.
This constant obsession about the US government potentially launching overt, ground-based military action against its own people makes me envision a doomsday prepper who invests tons of resources into a fallout shelter, but rides a motorcycle without a helmet or something. The risk assessment just doesn't make sense to me at all.

Get with the times: our governments oppress and control us in ways that don't require open conflict. The 1860s are gone forever.

Disclaimer: I've never owned a gun, and I have no military or government experience.
> I've heard a lot of people in India are moving to it for personal and work chat ilo WhatsApp.

I'm from India and I had to go look up what you were talking about. Literally the first time I'm hearing about this. I am also pretty sure that not many have moved to it from WhatsApp. Truth is, after so many years I am just now seeing the slow growth of Telegram amongst the city crowd.
Have you tried using an ergonomic keyboard?

I had always used non-ergonomic mice and kbs, until one day I started noticing some wrist pain when in certain positions. After a few months the pain increased and I figured this wasn't right so I bought one of those Microsoft Natural Keyboards, and after a week or so, the pain went away.

Some time later I started with wrist pain again but now in positions related to the mouse use, so I bought an Evoluent mouse and again, after a couple of weeks the pain was noticeably lower, and so I was convinced that the position of my wrists was not ideal for thousands of hours of use.

So, my point is, you don't have to wait until it's too late to try to figure out a way to fix that. I don't think age is the only factor here, so just try out something on the affordable side and see if you get better, regardless of how young you are, begore things get worse.
not true false pr, they do this when there is a mass shooting to show there phones are secure. ive contacted apple many times on hacks. mo response. iphones are hackable i can show you
I agree & I add:

- some components of their EPM-software-suite have miserable error/warning/info messages (cryptic, misleading, etc) or even no message at all (making you erroneously think that doing something went well even if it did not).

- opening a "service request" (a support ticket) with Oracle when you have a real technical problem that needs active digging by them is often something that might make you regret having chosen IT as your work area.

Compared to that, once I'm done working and I go back home and start using Linux apps and/or submitting questions&bugs on github/linuxquestions/stackoverflow/etc and getting relatively good replies within minutes I get the feeling that I'm living in the year 3000 :)
Take the converse construction. "Let's raise taxes on companies and wealthy individuals so the government can get into the winner-picking business of investing in startups and entrepreneurs." I would personally object to that policy.
Sigh. AOE, Quake, and Duke 3D LAN parties were my childhood. Throw in some hot pockets, local mp3 and porn sharing and call it a weekend.
Right, the problem is that a week’s worth of batteries is an immense cost that is reducing only slowly, while waiting a few days to wash your laundry is close to free.

Let's say you use 1 kW on average in your house. You'll need about 4 kWp of panels to supply that with a typical capacity factor of 25%—a bit more panels than that if you're in Scotland, a bit less in Perú, but about that. At current prices that's US$800 of low-cost panels.

Now consider a couple of alternatives. You can overprovision the panels by a factor of 5 so that even on cloudy days that block 80% of the light, you can continue rocking your one-kilowatt lifestyle. This costs an extra US$3200 of panels. Or you can buy, say, a week of lithium-ion batteries; say you're paying US$150/kWh for the batteries, which is in the ballpark but not exact. You need 7*24 = 168 hours of batteries, which at one kilowatt is 168 kWh. This costs US$25000. In both cases you need some power electronics (charge controllers, inverters, etc.) but this is not a significant cost difference between the two scenarios.

So 5x overprovisioning of solar panels costs you about an eighth of a week’s worth of battery storage. You can overprovision by a factor of 50 for less than the cost of that week-long battery backup. There's a trade-off between the two—more battery storage means you can get by with less panels, and vice versa—but this strongly suggests that in most cases the optimal trade-off is not going to involve multi-day battery banks.

How about a few years in the future? This year, panel manufacturers have apparently sewn up the market in a cartel, preventing prices from falling over the last few months. But sooner or later, the cartel will break down, and panel prices will return to their long-term learning curve, say 20% per year until the raw material costs dominate. In 5 years, panel costs would then be 40% of what they are today: 8¢ per peak watt instead of 19¢. No such dramatic cost reductions are on the horizon for batteries.

But in a lot of cases, shifting demand to times with cheap energy is still going to be cheaper.
The article is interesting and worthwhile, but the author believes she has upper class students all figured out and is a little too condescending towards them.
I had read that during the Roman empire there was a lot of Latin-Greek bilingualism, and that an educated person would be expected to know both, even in the western part of the empire. At some point that ceased to be the case and those places just got Vulgar Latin and the various Romance languages.
A place like this does not happen by accident.

It is this way because the people responsible to operate it deliberately choose to keep it this way. It is infested with rats because they want it infested with rats. Prisoners are denied medical treatment because they want prisoners to be denied medical treatment.

The individuals responsible for torturing 800 people at a time are clearly much worse than anybody held there. They have names, and homes, and could be arrested in them by New York police on New York warrants, if New York law enforcement could be persuaded to enforce New York law.

The Federal government also has laws covering the behavior of the individuals torturing inmates there. Federal prosecutors have a responsibility to prosecute them. Yet, they are not.
Cut scenes are boring in non-story-driven games. So when a game has what amounts to very repetitive cut scenes, which you yourself are forced to trigger if you want to get any health, it gets boring and annoying very fast. Add the fact that time passes during these non-interactive cut scenes, and other monsters can gang up on you while the cut scene plays, and you have a very distasteful recipe. It was definitely a large factor in why I never played much of Doom 2016.
I was in the same situation. It is incredibly frustrating to learn but it just takes time.

I kept two mice on each side of the computer for years and alternated between them as required.
Doing the good work. It keeps me up at night thinking that I might be in this position. So little has to go wrong.

I was actually VERY close to being in this same boat, one of my nerves in my shoulder was pinched so badly that it started to take damage. Took me a few months to regain full use of my left (dominant) hand with lots of physical therapy.

Seeing this gives me real hope that there is hope for everyone regardless of a sudden life altering possibility.
> The main advantage of Lisp/Scheme are the macros.

Where can I find a practical example/tutorial/guide that demonstrates this in the context of building an actual application? I'm sincerely curious.

> I made a quick search and Elixir has macros. Do you write macros in Elixir?

Not much. It's something not encouraged by the language designer and community (since it can result in a lot of "magic" that is hard to understand), and I rarely found myself needing them.
Progress is getting closer to achieving a goal. Just because something is newer or 'modern' does not mean that it is progress. Look at the regress of the 20th century with the modern regimes that were going to usher in utopia.

Progress may also mean avoiding dead ends. If you goal is to get to the moon, climbing the nearest tree is not progress. It's regress.

So, no, we don't need modern solutions. We need effective solutions. If the solution happens to be modern, that is besides the point.
Also same boat.

I've found that a mix of proper ergonomics, regular breaks, CBD oil (for inflammation), wrist braces and physical therapy exercises can do a lot of good.
High drain isn't the problem, most lithium ion can be drained at 15-50C (drain rate not temperature) until empty without being harmed.

P100D is 100kw/h battery, which should be able to put out at least 1500 hp continuously.

The problem is 100% Tesla's cooling system not being powerful enough.
Sure. Thanks
Not just earning calls provide new information. The market also reacts to economic data, key people leaving a company, regulatory changes, natural disasters and so on. If it changes the company's outlook, it will also move the stock price.
If you buy shares from anyone, either they were comfortable with their previous asset allocation (and will therefore seek to re-invest that money in some other stock), they were selling shares to rebalance their portfolio, or they were selling shares as part of their planned selling to fund their retirement or meet the obligations of their pension payouts (in which case that money will be spent in the economy).

It's only in the middle case (which I think is the most rare of the three) where the share buyback money ends up as savings. (And even there, it's likely in government bonds, lowering the cost of government borrowing when done in aggregate.)
Camelbak?
That’s a super simplified model of the world. Investors put a lot of work into finding out information between earnings calls, including talking to suppliers and customers, acquiring data on sales (obtained via retailers, credit card companies, satellite data, etc), and observing external events that affect the market including regulatory changes and the earnings of peer companies. All of these bits of information can provide insight on the hidden information.
Of course! I don't know the hourly rate exactly, but it's definitely a great amount of money for the time worked. We also pay employees $50 (minimum) for every one hour game.
It has always been the case, throughout human history, that advances in technology have reduced the need for some jobs. Given that, the goal should not be to prevent it from happening; you can't in any sustainable way. Rather, making sure that there are other things for the people that would have held those jobs should be the goal. New jobs, reducing the need for jobs altogether, or something else.

But standing in the way of progress telling it to stop is never going to be a realistic solution.
I've learned touch typing before I've even learned coding, and I think it saved me from most of RSI that I could get. (Most RSI would be coming from punching the keyboard too hard when under stress / on a lot of coffee.)

My only serious RSI experience was on Laptops, with the task switching combo - Alt+Tab (or Cmd+Tab/Cmd+`) - which was really killing my left palm with severe pain.

Since that time I'm remapping left-Alt/Cmd+Tab to left-Alt/Cmd+Spacebar (Karabiner on Mac, Sharpkeys+Autohotkey on Windows), and I'm constantly amazed how good and productive that combo is. And that it should have been used for computers instead of Alt+Tab from factory.

I'll share the configs gladly ofc if anyone's interested.
> I would be curios if there are a set of guided lessons in Lisp with guided projects.

That is exactly what I'm looking for. Practical guidance for building real world applications. If the answer is "Lisp is not for business applications", then fine, at least I have my answer.
At a higher meta US-political level, this is probably the best criticism of the Left: "all talk without the required hard change- so that to gain power/status."

...and of the Right: "rooting into a comfortable position to deflect, avoid, blame, deny the responsibility to solve structural issues, in order to capitalize on existing power."

Until we can remove the power incentives and 'take money out of politics', it'll be an extremely uphill problem to address large systematic changes on either sides. More than ever, people should stop treating people in government as celebrities, but as they are, important civil servants of the people to do the tasks that their job demands. Until then, it's a dog and pony show.

Even trying to remove the corrupt to "drain the swamp" will be as futile as draining grains of sand at the beach, if you do not first address your terrain (the structure).
Well I guess that depends on how successful you imagine the government would be at running such a program.

If it is in the US, my intuition is that it wouldn't be very good.
Congrats! That's quick for the room :)
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And only using videos for a small number of units. She it was the same voxel engine from their Blade Runner game.