skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Instead of accepting that a terrible thing was done to them, they convince themselves it's a good thing, and further the practice by in turn mutilating their children. This just perpetuates the problem ad infinitum.

Threads like these always make mountains out of molehills when it comes to male circumcision. You'll always find the words "mutilate", "brutal", "savage", "barbarian" in people's comments. And yet 99%+ of the billions of circumcised males in the world just don't really care that much. If they did, they would feel more strongly about not doing it to their own kids.

I'm circumcised. Do I believe I was terribly wronged? Not at all. Do I believe circumcised men are so much luckier than me? Nope. If I could travel back in time to restore my foreskin, would I? Sure, why not? But if time travel is a thing, preventing myself from being circumcised is a pretty low priority compared to other things I could do in the past.

I personally won't circumcise my future sons (if I have any) but I also won't condemn parents who choose to do so because IMO it's about as big a deal as piercing your baby's ears at birth. There are far worse things parents can do to mess up their kids without ever laying a finger on them.
> it had the full blessing of the people who told you Ivermectin causes you to shit your intestines out...

Is this a defense of Ivermectin somehow?

> I really wish at the time... that I had known the WHO had withdrawn it from their recommended treatment list the month before

Sounds like the people who don't endorse Ivermectin did in fact say the right thing. "The people who told you" I am referring to are doctors and health professionals, not Internet mobs.
> For example, you need an extension to enable putting files/icons on the desktop (!?!?!).

Was so happy about the decision to remove desktop icons.
You basically never get there anyways and its just cluttering up the background when you do.

Here's a funny thread about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/l8euqf/i_get_why_the...

Btw, there were some misconceptions about "disallowing theming". I recommend giving this a read: https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2021/09/18/the-truth-they-a...

I totally understand your point about extensions though.
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Yeah, they are elections but first you must be a "club member" like in the mafia elections ...of course everyone can become the big boss but first it must prove loyalty to the "family" aka "party". There is a whole process from becoming a made man to reaching the top chair and become the big boss.

Everthing in a communist party is about loyalty and fear not merit or election. If you don't like censorship or try to challenge the direction of the CCP you are out of the club for life and maybe even in jail.

Imagine Jack Ma saying the Xi is a stupid bear and doesn't know anything about finance or technology and that he (Jack Ma) would be a better leader for China so the people should be let to vote him as China's leader.
Half the country? No, of course not. A quarter at best, and I charitably assume most voting Republicans (the quarter) are as concerned about what's happening to their party as the other ~75% of the country. Some of its leadership, most now dead, decided to lean hard into extremist evangelical beliefs some decades ago and people who took up the reins after are still dealing with the fallout.

But it's incontrovertible this class of bugaboos is almost exclusively shared among people who self-identify as conservative. I didn't say all conservatives; you read that into my comment. I have other criticisms for liberal, leftist, Democrat, etc bugaboos. I'm talking about your comment. You do not represent half the country.
But I guess the expressway would already have been there when you bought the property?

The problem is making changes that will significantly affect nearby property values without the permission of the owners of those properties nor any compensation.
I tried to reply to a comment alleging antisemitism, but the original was flagged and disappeared.

I'd like to reassure folks who might feel that criticizing circumcision is a form of antisemitism.

I recognize that antisemitism is real and terrible and more common than it should be.

That said, my genitals were brutally mutilated when I was an infant and I find it shocking that any person would do this to a baby.

My family is not Jewish and I truly love the Jewish people I know.

Some in my family are born again Christians. I dislike some of their beliefs, yet still love them very much.

Is it so impossible to despise an archaic and despicable practice while still loving the people who engage in it?
I was under the impression it was a synonym for area bombing - e.g. throwing a bunch of bombs at a place to inflict damage in a general way. As opposed to having a very specific target.

What's your definition?
"News".

Anne Wojcicki has been upfront with this strategy for many years, even in a fantastic podcast with YC back in 2018: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/5I-on-starting-and-scali...

> If I have the world's health information, what could I do? And people were like, "Well, you could cure, you could save, you'd know a lot." The idea really was, well, we should do that.
Show HN: An open source fullstack solution for web3 apps
If you don't care which version of python it runs under, you do this:

#!/usr/bin/env python

If you do, then `python2` or `python3` will be around, and you should specify them explicitly instead of `python`. I'm happy to be corrected on this one, but I always slap this at the top of my scripts:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

I'm not aware of anywhere that wouldn't invoke a Python 3 interpreter if one is installed.

The original post just seems like one big faff.
Don't know what you don't know. Vision also decreases with age slowly so nobody calls people wihout 20/20 vision disabled. Matter of perception. To uncut people this is a disability, to those who were circumcised it's just a gradation of not being able to feel pleasure from intercourse.
Bingo -- the whole thing about being "cleaner for living in the desert" or something is hooey -- every desert mammal has a foreskin; if it were a disadvantage evolution would've adapted that along with all the other adaptations that desert mammals have.

That entire line is garbage and meant to support the subservience, exactly as you've said. A mother's strongest instinct is to protect her children, so the tribe taking a child and cutting his body marks him as belonging to the tribe rather than to the family. It proves, in plain view, that the familial bond is secondary, and individual autonomy serves at the pleasure of the group, not the other way around.
This is a common misconception, but, were it true, what relevance would it have to the question at hand?
No. No no no. It’s extremely standard to measure a material that’s known to be “weird” and not know what you’re going to see.
Imagine the odds of that happening. I wonder how it feels like to be in his situation.
It seems you have missed the point so hard it's almost pointless to reply.

The cases are theoretical cases, not direct one-on-one practical reasons why this specific chip on this specific assembly was built in this specific way. We don't have the data and we never will. We can't read minds, and all there seems to be is speculation and anthropomorphisation of corporations which is pointless beyond reason.

Unless you have some design-for-manufacture experience, taking part in this discussion is moot anyway.

It doesn't matter if the specific part has a special BOM cost, what matters is that the production flow is not interrupted. Assemblies that do not pass QA aren't tossed, but the final product needs to come off the line anyway, so swapping out the assembly in that phase while returning it to some other process for inspection is the normal thing to do. You can't do that thing if the assembly is a flip-chip or BGA on a PCBA without swapping the entire board which while still possible to cover in a separate process is much more expensive in validation and repair than re-attaching a flat-flex with a new BGA or flip-chip part on it using what is essentially a glorified hotbar machine.

If Apple was a person and the person wanted to be a prick, there are far cheaper and easier ways to do that. Fill the entire phone with epoxy, problem solved. Would be instantly water-proof, shock-resistant, and if you cover it in a fine wire mesh and connect some SRAM with ephemeral keys to it you can make it super secure by never being able to extract any data from it. But Apple isn't a person, it's a company. It's not your friend or your enemy, it's just a machine designed to make money. Real-world requirements apply, and they trump pettiness for the sake of pettiness. Inducing friction to their own customers is just a liability factor, and if you think that is new you got a whole world of pain to explore.
You mean after his death? I don't think so. Waybackmachine shows it was like this in early 2012 already.
>In your examples, did they go through a coding challenge / whiteboard process?

I think he was trying to point out that if some of the bad candidates had passed a whiteboard test, it brings in to the questions of the effectiveness of whiteboard tests to filter out bad candidates.

I remember a guy we hired years ago who answered all the tech questions we asked with flying colors. He was lazy and unmotivated and ended up dumping all his work on other people (me). I would have much rather had a motivated person who I had to teach some stuff to rather than him.
Yes I am not disagreeing, was just replying to a generalization

> circumcision has zero benefits (health, hygiene, or otherwise),

that while this may be true for wherever hn crowd resides, there are parts of the world where the risk/benefit isn't the same.
I wonder how those bees deal with varroa mites. Many beekeepers believe that "wild hives do not exist" because untreated colonies usually die within a year or two.
Fossil fuel companies have over 500 people at COP26 more than any single country
The WHO prevalence map of circumcision[1] is quite interesting. It's uncommon in most Europe, Middle- and South America, and Asia (except in muslim-majority countries like Pakistan, Indonesia, and South Korea where it was apparently introduced by the Americans after WW2).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_circumcision
While this draws from mostly right-leaning concerns about higher education[0] despite claiming itself more open, I get the sentiment.

However, costs usually rank higher among concerns but they are not addressed that much in the article. I’d be interested to see how that will be addressed. New school might spend less on amenities and focus on accreditation, but professors still need to be paid competitively to attract and retain talent, and they will have to fight the uphill battle of falling state support[1].

[0]: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2019/08/19/the-gro...
[1]: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/education/most-americans-dont-r...
> he found out they all are being incompetent, so he fired all of them and hired a new HR

I get the feeling that this CEO isn't very good at CEO-ing. Presumably the solution if the next HR team doesn't work out is to fire them and keep trying?
Naming the perpetrators, and continuing to name them, is important. It will never make things right, but it's critical to making the future righter.

Preventing crimes of a system require that system's individuals to set aside apathy and create ongoing consequences for perpetrators as an example to those who would do similarly.

Sometimes those consequences are just keeping a name and memory alive, and linking it with those at fault.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Ortiz#Prosecution_of_...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Heymann#Aaron_Swartz
Vocal minority on HN tends to not like it when someone pulls back the curtain.
> Four months before the theft, on May 4, 1987, Saura Taniguti, then director of Ipasgo, the institute of insurance for civil servants, used police force to prevent one of the owners of IGR, Carlos Figueiredo Bezerril, from removing the radioactive material that had been left behind.[7] Figueiredo then warned the president of Ipasgo, Lício Teixeira Borges, that he should take responsibility "for what would happen with the caesium bomb".[7] The Court of Goiás posted a security guard to protect the site.[8] Meanwhile, the owners of IGR wrote several letters to the National Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEN), warning them about the danger of keeping a teletherapy unit at an abandoned site, but they could not remove the equipment by themselves once a court order prevented them from doing so.

It sounds pretty cut-and-dry. They were physically prevented from removing the equipment and they alerted the authorities to let then know how dangerous it was.
What about VDEV organization in a virtual machines? I have no physical machines left, everything is running on VMware. Just create one big VDEV?
One is an attention seeker and always happens to be where cameras and events are, and the other is not.
I feel like remembering him is not enough.
One of my favorite documentaries that I watch at least once every couple years. Brings me to tears — every time.
Is it even hilarious? Hasn't everyone who's used a recruiter joked, at some point, about them finding their old job?
IIRC Apple locked down the Contacts API precisely because giant app developers were abusing it. And look at the recent ad tracking stuff that Facebook hates: I don’t think Apple is all that afraid of angering developers, big or small.
Hah, I wish everyone who vehemently says they're very quiet could live near one.

I'm definitely not saying "stop building them", though.

On a side note, that's very similar to what tinnitus sounds like. Sometimes drives me mad.
And you rejected the option of getting paid for the same job twice? ;)
If you want people to respect and trust science, stop politicizing it.
"people" are not one group. when a group uses some specific words, you can ask what those people mean. General 'people' have different definitions, and sometimes use words as weapons.
It is also the case that public health boards are given such latitude that doctors who force these damaging and unnecessary surgeries on infants cannot be sued for medical battery. It is an insane practice.
The 1940s called, and they'd like their casual slurs back.
People would volunteer their data for it
It isn't about business systems, it's about understanding the business you're developing a system for.
I believe the company should know by themselves from his name only, not to learn about it from his resume.

It might be common for companies to not know that, but I don’t think it makes it less broken.
It isn’t hard to believe that someone who would take a prank this far under this context would have done something worthy of firing. I too wish I knew why because I assume it is probably also an amusing story.
PHP is also discredited by its apologists.

If you're just there to paint, but painting with mashed potatoes, you SHOULD have been more worried about your paint chemistry.

"Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes." -JWZ
> IntelliJ does not show them in project view at all. It shows them only after you pressed "build"

It does better than that: it shows them directly inline with your code, with all the tips and hints and refactorings to make it work.

When you change something to be incompatible with existing code, it will immediately show a handy link inline to display all the places across your code that depend on this code and are now problematic.

There's a problems view that has an overview of all problems in the current file and in the entire project (but true, a single overview of the entire project only appeared sometime in 2020)
I checked the UK Registrar of companies and all the companies seem dissolved.
FWIW we've also received the exact same email from the same named person with the same vague text of having "identified a vulnerability in your Web Application", judging from Troy's twitter thread he seemed to have sent the same email to many others.

We're still waiting on a reply to asses whether there's any validity in his claim. I guess what I'm curious is how do people best handle this situation? Normally if it's any other pc security threat or legal liability claim cold emailing us we'd just report spam & ignore but with a software vulnerability we're at duty to investigate, which I expect would make his vulnerability claim so effective with engagement.

Given this happened shortly after we added a SECURITY.md to our project with the contact email used, it wouldn't surprise me if he is just email spamming the same claim to projects with SECURITY pages where he'll expect some payment for just disclosing a GitHub reported dependency vulnerability that nearly every non-trivial npm project has.
> gotten preferential treatment throughout their entire life thanks to his social skills

First, I am talking about communication skills, the ability to receive and present information.

Second, this skills can be practiced and developed, it's not something you have or don't have. I assume that the person who is presenting well, does it because they put effort into it.

Third, I don't get this "all else equal" thing. I don't have access to their rankings from their old boss, nor do I have reason to expect their old jobs required the same thing my role does. Maybe their boss "did their talking" for them. Maybe someone gave them a spec and they just implemented it without any back and forth. But that wouldn't fly here.
I compared ZFS to XFS on a number of large database deployments and XFS was not uniformly faster. All databases were on fancy hardware with a bunch of U.2 SSDs, which is theoretically where XFS would be a big advantage. Postgres’ speed was very similar in both cases. Upsides of ZFS included vastly lower disk usage (with huge gains on poorly normalized databases) and also way easier/faster offsite backup than the non-ZFS Postgres backup strategy.
I'm torn. I get why Troy is doing this and it feels justified from that perspective. But I can't shake the feeling that he is punching down.

Is the "White Hat" doing what Troy says he is doing? It seems so. Many not so technically versed people would maybe even be intimidated or scared by the approach. It is objectively wrong (without further circumstance).

But I think it can be attributed to unprofessional and incompetent behavior rather than malice. Troy is in a position of power and wisdom in this case. He _could_ try and educate/correct the actor by firmly rejecting his request and clearly stating what the issue is without trying to embarrass him, let alone publicly shame him.

---

An analogy that came to mind:

Dogs are this way. If a dog acts from a position of weakness (incompetence) and gets into the face of the other dogs, then that dog is "corrected", typically by one that enjoys some form of respect. If the corrected dog reacts accordingly (stops the misbehavior) the other dogs calm down again. The correcting behavior typically starts with very mild body language and then escalates further.

From then on it's settled. Publicly shaming others is a very human thing to do.

---

Again - torn. It feels both right and wrong. I wouldn't do it this way. Not with a person that I assume to be in a relatively weak position.
“It’s for the ‘greater good’, therefore it’s fine. What could go wrong?”
(french guy speaking)

Fun fact, I just saw yesterday evening at the theatres an ad by EDF (the French multinational electric utility company, largely owned by the French state, and the only operator of all the nuclear plants in France) to promote nuclear energy as the best climate-change solution, since it is a "97% CO2-free electricity". You can see the ad here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js85xSOamhQ

Look at how they use in the ad a young girl (probably very concerned about CO2) to promote nuclear energy... I was a bit shocked by this gross greenwashing manipulation. Nuclear energy is by no way a solution:

- The cost of dismantling a nuclear plant is huge.

- The storage of nuclear waste (which we will now have to keep in France) is a joke: how can buried silos withstand several millennia?

- We will have a major nuclear accident in France one day. The question is not if it will happen, but when it will happen. In 1999, there was a level 2 incident at the Blaye nuclear power plant (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Blayais_Nuclear_Power_Pla...), admittedly an incident and not an accident, but to use a metaphor, it is like driving a car with no spare wheel and no brakes. On a straight road, no problem, but if there is a bend... When we have our Fukushima, we will have another talk about it ;)

Until we find a proper way to deal with nuclear wastes or succeed with the nuclear fusion, we all know the best way to reduce the CO2 emissions is to reduce the energy consumption drastically. This means somehow giving up with the growth mindset aka capitalism. I'm afraid we won't make it.
I'm not saying there wasn't an armed conflict or that people didn't die. Just when people say something was mass bombed it implies something very different.
In 2018 itself, 23andMe had a partnership with GSK

> As part of the collaboration, GSK can also change the way we invite patients into clinical trials. The genetic and disease information 23andMe customers share will allow us to identify the kind of patients who are most likely to respond well to new treatments so that 23andMe can invite customers who have consented to be contacted to participate in studies that are relevant to them. This could significantly shorten recruitment and reduce clinical development timelines, allowing some medicines to be delivered to patients faster.

https://us.gsk.com/en-us/behind-the-science/innovation/you-m...

I'm not sure what the "news" is.
Indeed. The original article was about the circumcision of a child, so I wanted to underline the particular point that yours was as an adult.
I think 23andme will truly have an impact once it starts doing full genome sequencing, because as of right now it just tests a very small subset of the whole genome.
I once gave a months notice. I wanted to leave but had no plans.

I got a call about a position I was unusually qualified for.

Anyway I found out they were willing to pay double my salary to replace me.
So I stayed on a few more months at double pay.
Crippled seems apt though.

The foreskin has a very high density of fine touch and pressure receptors that are directly involved in the pleasing sensations.

You've been amputated of your ability to experience sexual pleasure to its full extent.
One was a university student, the other had immediate access to Google's founders at the highest level. This isn't a fair comparison.
Consoles are substantially cheaper. I bought a new pc recently.

Also, people don't need any of the "other stuff", so there is that.

PC has the biggest game library though if you don't have boundaries (include emulators and stuff). You can't get anywhere close. And if stuff is broken, you can fix it. And if stuff is boring, you can cheat to the fun part (single player games!).
>White men are also overrepresented throughout every circle of power and influence in America

In terms of % of population, no they are generally not. Jews are.
Yeah, to create DNA profiles for more effective application of the boot to the neck.
Creating Satellite Imagery from Vector Maps
OpenBSD dev caught violating project policy, so the project change it
I know this quite well -- the last thing the Evangelical Church ever did to me was chemically bald me at Billings West High School in 1998-99. I have horns, they mark me as outside their wicked culture. I'm proud to be outside of it.
Thingiverse leaked database analysis
It's very plain in the progression of BTC to me...

Invention: Fuck the gov't, have fun buying all the drugs on earth!

Mass-adoption: We can lock JPEGS in a box you have to pay to unlock!