skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vaccinations: no.

Elective surgery that removes functional sexual tissue: yes.

To make it clear, do you think it’s okay to cut off a newborn girl’s clitoral hood (the analog of the male foreskin)? I would hope not.

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My parents were raised catholic, but are atheists. So largely it was done for the usual pseudo-reasons: to “look like my father”, because it’s “healthier” (completely false), etc. I’m a white american so it’s a very common practice unfortunately.

The foreskin is not a vestigial organ. Violating the bodily and sexual autonomy of a child is never okay.
Except that companies seem to be bad a timing share buybacks [1]

Also your maths is slightly off. If the company uses $1bn to buy back stock, the company is now $1bn poorer. So whilst EPS etc will increase the assets per share may well decrease so I wouldn't necessarily expect the value of the outstanding stock to increase by $1 billion.

[1] http://www.barelkarsan.com/2010/12/buybacks-in-style-at-wron...
Ask HN: Why Are There So Many Dev Jobs and High Pay in the US?
Title says it all really, does anyone have any sources that attempt to explain this phenomenon? Maybe the question is off. Is it true that there are a lot of development jobs? Why does the US have higher pay than other countries for developers? Is this assumption true?
Modular Programming
Yep, Westwood got a lot of flak for that one image on the back of the packaging back in the day. Especially since they basically lied about shipping a 3D engine during development when Tiberian Sun was actually using Voxels.
Ya, when I said "other assets" I was perhaps being overly succinct. I didn't just mean the value of equipment, IP, or whatever, but also the intangible value assigned by the market that is an estimate of the companies future earnings.
It’s significantly more tax efficient to receive stock buybacks (CG deferred until you sell) than even qualified dividends (taxed immediately). That’s why companies do buybacks.
I didn't read it but I saw an article the other day about an army sniper getting a medal for spending 3 days crawling across a field to get a shot at a high value military target and then another 3 days crawling back out.

Nobody would play that game. (also when did he poop?)
Social connections and physical health are also such multipliers, just as vim or git or lisp. If you have been asocial and unhealthy in the past and now were able to change you will also experience this increase in output, e.g. because you can suddenly ask others for help and can focus for longer periods of time. Maybe you will even come into less situations where you use git and vim and programming languages, because others also value your ability to focus and your connections more than your ability to produce code. Then it paid of even more to focus on these multipliers. Great.

That doesn't mean either of the other multipliers are not multipliers though. They are just more topic-focussed instead of generally applicable.

And no, mercurial can't do more than 5% of what git can. That's just a fact. Just like you probably wouldn't waste time explaining a flat earther why the earth is round I won't explain this to you. If you are smart (and I assume so from your comment) you will go out and fact check that by yourself from the assumption that you just might be mistaken and maybe this random dude on the net might've been correct.

Hope I'm right in that assumption. Then you'll have an awesome time of a lot of WOWs ahead of you. Enjoy it.

And if not, there's not much lost. Some humans will fly to Mars even if some others believe the Earth is a disk.
I think the idea is that because there is money going out the door in a buyback, rational investors should value the stock that much lower. And this lowered valuation should balance exactly with the price increase due to increased demand. Not sure it works out like that in practice though.
No, it can lead to asset growth (look at stock market and real estate returns) without any increase in consumption or investment.
the issue is that mainstream titles have to recoup massive cost so they're optimized for monetisation.

the semi-indie scene is producing gases that are comparable in scope, quality, depth and innovation to the titles of old.

sadly it's very hard to discern indie with potential today because the noise is much more and much higher, but titles like factorio, kerbal space program, keeperrl, automation: the car company game, empyrion, stormworks: build and rescue, castle story and many other to list here provide highly polished experiences.

I'm an avid indie supporter[1] so I might help navigating the landscape if anyone is interested, just restrict the genre a little so that the scope is focused enough to be relevant and interesting

1 https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197986674427/games/...
At least since I've been browsing HN, it's been this way and I quite enjoy it. Lot's of Wikipedia pages I would otherwise not stumble upon. Usually, they are quite relevant to something happening in current events.
The author seems pretty confused about rich kids. Having rich parents doesn't necessarily mean that you have a lot of cash in college. (Sensible parents are going to give their college kids enough money to get by, not enough to go on a spending spree.) Thus, it's totally reasonable that college kids are commonly broke. It's not some role-playing to escape their responsibilities as members of the elite. In other words, there's a big difference between being broke and being poor.
yeah, fair point, maybe there's a better example, but i hope i've conveyed the idea: some zero values are not absence of values.
IIRC all CGI scripts were run with the taint checker on some systems.
Q&A: Ex-Googler Harris on how tech ‘downgrades’ humans
No, you don't, at least not in the sense of "Facebook approves your use case based on some subjective criteria."

Per the page you linked, as long as you verify your ID/location, are from one of the countries where the Ad Library has launched, and agree to the Facebook Platform Policy, you can get access.
What's with the massive xenophobia here? It takes one second to find out they are not exactly in bed with the government and you're just left with racist statement.
Slack is an Electron app, taking about 400-500 Mb of memory and it won't be good no matter if it is secure or not. Also, its UI is over-complicated and looks like it was made by a programmer instead of a designer (by the way, Telegram is the opposite: it is written with Qt and has nicer UI).
It's hosted off of a private google drive.
Honest question, why do (some) public companies distribute dividends? Why instead of increasing the wages or investing in the future of the company you just burn cash in a way that may or may not help the stock price of the company (which is just pure massive speculation of the market players to begin with)?
Consider the "they" in my "anytime they want" to be the shareholders. My point was that if the shareholders want to use stock for things like employee compensation or an acquisition they don't have to buy this stock from the market. They just make new shares.
> The investors receive these billions in cash for the stock they sell, and they'll invest in other companies directly, instead of having that megaholding company do acquisitions.

That's a really appealing supposition (seriously), in part because the inherent diversification spreads the risk. And there's also the factor that more cash in the shareholders' pockets could mean more job-producing economic demand generally, even if the shareholders just spent the money on yachts and mansions.

But there's an empirical question: Is that what actually happens in the real world — or do the shareholders just hoard the money, taking it out of circulation without either investing it or using it to create more demand?
How does the phoning home work if they're on a network that doesn't route to the internet, or where the route to the internet is heavily firewalled? Or does it use a license server? Or is there some other procedure for refreshing the license in that situation? Or can you just not use these routers for that?
The reason people are reacting badly to this is that your suggestion amounts to collective punishment, which is widely recognized as a human rights concern. Your suggestion is uncivilized. We've got a right to critique it. If you feel "lectured," that's your problem.
You can turn it off. Solar panels can be turned off in nanoseconds with nothing more than a transistor. Or you can invest the zero-cost energy in something potentially useful that doesn't need a constant power supply: electrowinning metals, removing corrosion, heating the hot tub back up, making ice to run your fridge or air conditioner when there's less sun, running low-cost machine tools (the kind where the depreciation is insignificant compared to the cost of power and consumables), generating hydrogen by electrolysis to convert into methane or methanol or ethanol for fuel, baking some bread, washing some laundry, doing a short pottery firing in your kiln (<8 hours), recharging your electric car, in short any of a wide variety of processes.
You not only implied that Telwgram chats where unencrypted (AKA plaintext), you outright stated it.

That is wrong.

I guess there are some real issues with Telegram, but lets be honest and not lie and say it isn't encrypted.
How do you verify that WhatsApp actually is end to end encrypted?

The founders have lamented that the project is screwed, so you're left with a claim made my Zuckerberg and his buddies?
or you could have some batteries, save the energy for a cloudy day, and have a smaller installation of panels.
That doesn’t necessarily create jobs or trickle down. If billionaire A buys stock in billionaire B’s company that provides an automated web service, money may change hands but the workers may not see any difference in salary. Maybe they need to spin up a few additional cloud instances to handle a new business area, but that won’t meaningfully impact Amazon’s workload.

Or suppose they buy a painting from another billionaire for $20 million - did that really create any jobs or middle-class wealth?
This part can vary a lot these days at least, the Ivy/Sandy Bridge xeon chips are still remarkably capable and I can buy a used 11th gen Dell server for a couple hundred dollars.

Before the Westmere/Nehalam chips it was a different story, but anything newer is going to sip power and perform well as long as you know you’re not getting “all the perf out of it”.

It’s entirely possible to make a business out of this, but you rely on a customer base that’s inherently cheap and fussy by nature. Not all of them are, but most looking “for a deal” are cheapskates who will milk you dry in time/labor if you let them and you don’t have the margins to deal with that bullshit.
It's actually very rare that you need to know the precision of a number, and it's thrown away as soon as you read the value into a standard floating point variable. Keeping the precision is usually more trouble than it's worth.
Well, you are old, but I don't think that's the case. Throughout 90s / early 2000s, advancements in computer power and graphics made it possible for game developers to explore beyond simple(r) mechanics of 80's. That's why you see a lot of variety, from back then, in both how games look, behave / mechanics, and even genres than today.

Over the years, certain processes were aligned with what people found to be done well, and of course market dynamics dictated some of the genres to be phased out. That's why, today, you see more or less a bunch of 'the same stuff', yet you also get the best of 'the same stuff'.

Kind of like with computers from 80's through 90's. There was a large variety of equals. Various processors, whole computers, operating systems, everything... and now it's more or less 'the same stuff' (on desktop).
I assume it is because it's been the case every time I've read an article on police coverups of prison deaths.
That sort of hardware can last forever. At a previous employer, we had in the office a second-hand Cisco Catalyst 3548XL switch (it still had an asset tag from the previous company the boss had founded). According to the Cisco documentation I looked at back then, not only was that model long out-of-life, but also its successor was long out-of-life. And other than a couple of dead ports, it still worked perfectly; it won't surprise me at all if it's still in use today.
By the way, Signal requires a phone number which is linked to the passport. It means that the government can scan it for all possible phone numbers and get a list of people using it, and maybe even their nicknames and profiles.
Investors don't get to value shares, they get to sell them and Buy Backs increases the demand for shares which pushes the stock price up in the short-term at least.

A lot of the valuation of public companies are speculative based on their future potential earnings so a loss of unused capital shouldn't affect it too much, it's also a signal that the company believes their shares are currently undervalued, so they believe their Buy Backs are acquiring them at a discount.
I learned to use mouse with my other hand. I was literally forced to one day, out of pain.

Took me 2 days to feel normal with it.

Nowadays, I juggle back and forth, depending on comfort.
> This will only inflame conspiracy theory minded people to believe there is a vast conspiracy by the powerful to protect themselves.

I'll do you one better. Is he really even dead, or did he pull a Ken Lay?
It's cheaper under most assumptions to build enough solar panels that the reduced production during winter is still enough to cover your increased demand, rather than to build seasonal utility energy stores. See my calculations at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20664835 which show that 50x panel overprovisioning is cheaper than a week’s worth of battery backup. 26 week backup would then be a higher cost than overprovisioning panels by 1300x. The actual seasonal variability in panel output is normally less than a factor of 2, nowhere near 1300. Unless you're in Antarctica or something.
Depressingly every place I've worked has had policies against Easter Eggs.

I guess it is part of becoming a more professional industry. It we did add an Easter Egg it would likely need a spec, docs, owner, and code review.
Supreme Commander FA, WarHammer 40k Dawn of War 1, Company of Heroes 1, AoE 2, SC1, and, of course, Total Annihilation are the quintessential strategy games imho.
The limitations of your concurrency primitives are Amhdahl's law. We call them "concurrency primitives" but they're really about shared state. They are the sequential parts of the operation.

The commit phase of optimistic locking is cheap except when it's a do-over, and by necessity it causes the second action to use the resource twice, the second time sequentially to the first action.
Maybe the educated folks on HN couldnt expect anything else.

But most people believed the current Administrations reasoning, which was that the tax cut would benefit them by stimulating the economy (eg trickle down economics), which to educated people was obvious BS.
You could try reading something from Jorge Luis Borges. It may not be as sci-fi-y, generally more in the atmosphere of "Tower of Babylon", but great in its treatment of human nature and its relationship with universe.
Anecdata alert: For what it's worth, I am relatively sure that the key factor in developing (and then avoiding) RSI for me at least is sitting posture. This may in turn be impacting the wrist posture when typing, but I've systematically realised that when starting to feel RSI that it's coincident with having started slouching or hunching at my desk (or using a different physical layout). Fixing that (and taking it easy for a bit) managed to stave off disaster.

The other revelation has been that general stress levels massively impact one's posture; if I'm stressing about something the entire upper half of my body tenses up, causing me to hunch over the keyboard (and, almost without noticing it, type about 5x harder than normal). And this probably ends up being the root cause for me.

Just mentioning it in case anyone else had failed to spot a stress -> tensing up -> bad posture -> RSI -> stress feedback loop...
Honest question: don't pension funds also own a big part of the shareholder pie?
If they care about privacy then why do they require a phone number which is linked to identity and location? If they worry about bot registrations, they could require a small fee in Bitcoins to sign up.
The jail system is a big direct driver of poverty even before the prison system is even involved.

This was a major factor of the Ferguson riots which quickly fell out of the simplistic press narrative. The mayor decided to lower taxes and fill the gap by charging people who were arrested. The consequences of that are no surprise.

(Not sure why my GP comment was downvoted. They are different systems with different pathologies).
These are old, and one was probably responsible for the Kursk catastrophe many years ago. I'm speaking of high-power, nuclear, "tsunami-making" torpedoes that Putin mentioned in a presentation in March 2018. Nobody knows how these look, however, nor the hypersonic nuclear cruise missile.
Great to read that. I also know one other person who writes Clojure professionally. Gives clojure to some of who hoped for people to get this opportunity at some point.

There are also rock stars, but that doesn't mean we should give advise that anyone could become a rock star. Those who will become rock stars will become it anyway even if you tell them they won't.
You generally refer to named actors as 'conspiring together'. The definition of a 'conspiracy theory' is almost dependant on the actors being unknown or unconfirmed, and thus isn't a provable act of conspiracy versus an implausible crazyness.
Enterprise value is probably what you're looking for
ECom Blueprint by Gabriel St-Germain
When exactly does this pushing up of the stock price occur? When the buyback is announced? When it is actually executed? Sometime in between?

What if a company does buybacks on a predictable schedule over years?

It seems to me that if the pushing up is as predictable as you say it should be trivial to buy a bunch of shares right before the increase and sell them right after for an easy gain. You should get on that!
Being not aware of this type of thing anywhere else ( except maybe those overloaded street corner phone poles you see in Asia) it would seem either this was extremely early and advanced and in a very affluent, high density city that could justify and capitalise on its benefits very early or that in other places they realised it didn't scale and went with street poles and pits and exchanges and benefited from later adoption. Where was London or New York or Paris in terms of telephone subscriber adoption at the time?
This is right, the information can be combined using the uncertainties given by each observation through a process known as sensor fusion. [1] An article that pops up sometimes on HN describes one way to combine such information known as a Kalman filter. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor_fusion

[2] https://www.bzarg.com/p/how-a-kalman-filter-works-in-picture...
The Easter Island narrative is probably wrong: http://theconversation.com/the-truth-about-easter-island-a-s...

"It is generally agreed that Rapa Nui, once covered in large palm trees, was rapidly deforested soon after its initial colonisation around 1200 AD."

"Throughout the 19th century, South American slave raids took away as much as half of the native population. By 1877, the Rapanui numbered just 111. Introduced disease, destruction of property and enforced migration by European traders further decimated the natives and lead to increased conflict among those remaining."
You took it as "tounge in cheek". I took it as a strawman, and very sarcastic and dismissive toward people who protect their privacy.
In the last few years I've reached zen with keyboard comfort. The 2 biggest changes have been:

1. Get the flattest, lowest keyboard you can. I use an external Mac keyboard and keep it flat to the desk.

2. Move the keyboard as far away as possible from you. This extends your arms out further so your wrists aren't compensating by bending for being so close.

I've recently started using a standing desk and found it useful to bring it in a position just below my armpits so it supports my outstretched arms.

It sounds a bit odd, but I have no pain, discomfort or tiredness.
Ask HN: Any Gamers Here?
We'd like to show you our location based AR game - https://apps.apple.com/app/id1290676739

Preview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRHG4vdPsqg

Could you please give it a try and let me know how you like it? Much Thanks
I think you are mainly seeing the jobs in high cost areas reason for six figures in say the bay area/silicon valley area is you need that much to afford housing and other local expenses.

In other places the rates are lower. Though to get highly qualified skills companies may be more competitive with the high paying areas just because such talent are tempted by it.
You, for one, will welcome our microscopic proto-arthropod underlords for the few hours that they last before going to the great tardigrade mosh-pit in the sk...

Oh. Carry on then.
We Keep Digging When We're Stuck in a Hole
Say a company buys back 2 billion in stock, rather than investing it in new equipment. Does that reduce the amount of money invested in the economy? The answer depends on what the investors who sold do with that money. If they invest it somewhere else, then the company's decision doesn't reduce the amount invested in the economy.

I don't believe private investors decide they'd rather buy a yacht than invest their money just because a company bought back shares. More likely, the share buyback just moved money from a mature company to growth stocks or startups, which is exactly what should happen in a healthy economy.

Put another way...should Dinosaur Oil Inc use their profits to build another refinery even when they don't think it makes financial sense...or should they buy back stock, make their investors happy, and then be in a more vulnerable position when the investors turn around and fund Shiny Solar Inc?
When the Kursk went under, there were reportedly Chinese officials onboard. They were almost certainly there to see a demonstration of super-cavitating torpedoes, and it didn't end well. So who knows what they decided afterward.
1000x would make human use ~20% of the earth system, but earth side solar wouldn't get counted twice, so it would be less. I agree that would have an impact, but I doubt the other poster was imagining the 1000x scenario.

The numbers are something like 20 terawatts for current human utilization and 100 petawatts for solar power.
What's the alternative? The company that has decided it's not worth using the money just creates a pile of unused cash or starts spreading into new businesses to get better returns on it.

You can argue against the tax implications of buybacks vs dividends but either corporations give profits back to investors or they will just have to continue to grow bigger and bigger, which I think the same people hate even more than buybacks.