skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have googled it, nothing I've read describes it as common or main stream. Many describe it as being performed only within a very small segment of the ultra orthodox community. I haven't found a place with reliable stats, which is unfortunate, but here is a paragraph with a recent and prety clear comment from a leading Jewish authority https://www.thehastingscenter.org/ritual-circumcision-ban-me...

Most mohels, even among the Orthodox, do use a sterile pipette, avoiding direct oral-genital contact. In 2005, the Rabbinical Council of America, the main union of modern Orthodox rabbis, issued a statement urging the abandonment of direct suction. Rabbi Moshe Tendler, a medical ethicist and dean of Yeshiva University’s (Orthodox) rabbinical school, was quoted in The JewishDaily Forward as saying: “There is no requirement to make metzitzah b’peh. The Talmud says plainly it is not part of the ritual but belongs to the medical, post-surgical component. There is no doubt that insistence on metzitzah b’peh is wrong. I firmly believe that making metzitzah b’pehis a criminal act.”

Do you have sources showing this practice is commonly accepted?
I knew Pagerduty was going down the toilet when their sales folks started aggressively pitching BS products nobody really needed before their IPO. They couldn’t even release a proper incident management tool.

I really hope this project gets good enough to ditch PD. PD should literally lay off most of its staff and just maintain the existing product, cut costs and focus mostly on integrations. There is no way they have any other future.
The Bitcoin Crash Is Taking El Salvador's Big Bet with It
I enjoy the right subreddits, and my engagement can wax and wane with my interests.

Mostly I'm active on r/DigitalNomad and a few of the relevant-to-me Financial Independence subs.

I imagine hobby stuff can be a little hit and miss, especially trying to find the sweet spot between a sub that's too small (with negligible community) and one that's too big (powered by too much groupthink).
Because I want to buy from and support someone locally and not browse through thousands of Chinese knockoffs.
An unsolvable problem. The rapid deterioration of skill will not stop, it is accelerating instead. People's desire for stability as they grow older will not change either.

The only attraction in software development is the relatively good pay. The job itself sucks. You'll spent your life sitting in a chair looking at a text editor, and that's the best part of your day as about 50% of it is distractions. You're quite unlikely to work on something truly creative or thrilling, so it's mostly a boring grind.

Then, as the article mentions, it turns out the grind was for nothing and the rug is pulled every few years and you have to start over again. The job is cognitively taxing so you'll turn into an absent person that lives in their heads, it drains your life energy.

If I would be young now, I'd say fuck it and go install solar panels or heat pumps. It's outside, physical but not too physical, thus healthy. You get to meet lots of people and you see the direct result of your work. There's no office politics and you're contributing to a tangible good thing for the world. Skill requirements don't change much.

You might come home somewhat physically tired (but over time it normalizes), with a clear head and not a care in the world. There's no overflow between work and personal life.

Chose wisely, young ones.
I suppose Linux's clone3 call goes the closest to that.
We don't know what Elon makes a year because money gets very weird at those levels. Loans are effectively free so you don't have to "make money". Accounting chicanery is pervasive. So you have to start somewhere, which is a statement that should apply to revising how we tax ultra-wealthy people as well.
Most people in the USA agree that the Iraq war was a senseless tragedy fought on false pretenses, and a gross violation of international law. Iraq posed no threat to the USA, the USA had no good reason to invade, and the outcomes of the war were tremendously destructive and destabilizing. If it were up to me, the perpetrators would be locked up.

If nothing else, the Iraq war led to a sharp political change in the USA. With any luck the senseless war of aggression in Ukraine will lead to similar changes in Russia. But since Russia is a fascist dictatorship, peaceful politics is outlawed and any changes are likely to be more violent.

* * *

The 1999 apartment bombings in Russia attributed to Khattab (among others) were most likely a false flag operation undertaken by the Russian state security service, under orders from Vladimir Putin. Using self-terrorism killing hundreds of your own civilians as a pretense for launching a war and mass-murdering tens of thousands of your unhappy oppressed colonial subjects while obliterating their cities is a hell of a way to cement personal power.
It is not weird. He is the world's biggest grifter. Precisely, a great deal more of what he says is a lie than is true, and he has profited more from his grift than anybody except (maybe!) Putin.

Pedo Guy. Hyperloop. Full Self-driving. Electric truck-tractor. Cybertruck. Sub-orbital passenger service. Sub-orbital freight. One-day turnaround. Mars Colonization.

(To be clear: Starship, even 1000 of them, is totally inadequate to colonize Mars, and barely enough, maybe, to maintain an outpost. And it takes 9, not 6 months to get there. And one ship could take 17, at most, not 100 people.)
No? What I'm saying is that there is no such thing as true security; and so you've just got to learn to live with the feeling of insecurity, regardless of what social safety nets you put into place. Even in a much better world, you will be fundamentally insecure.

Let me rephrase my original post: "We all die someday — and potentially sooner than you expect. There's no guarantee that any particular person will survive the next 24 hours. Even living in a bunker in the middle of nowhere, you could still have a heart attack!"

This is entirely distinct from the question of whether you should advocate for societal policies that make quality-of-life more robust/fault-tolerant to small upsets. I'm all for that.

My point is more that even if you do achieve a social-welfare utopia, you'll still likely be insecure and stressed, because mortality.

And, therefore, "insecurity" and "stress" aren't good indicators of anything other than having an overriding awareness of one's own mortality. So it's not sensible to base policy decisions on trying to lower them. Base your policy positions on rational utility-maximization, not on trying to achieve personal emotional well-being. You want emotional well-being? Go to therapy.
How is it being done 'quietly'? Because they didn't take out an ad at the superbowl? Are they whispering into the farmer's ears?

In this case it would have been better to say "US embarrassingly urges use of Russia fertilizer"
There are many languages where it's difficult to impossible to be async-signal-safe because you can't avoid memory allocations.
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The whole medicine industry in America is based on denying, not supplying.

Cornered market.
It's possible he's special, but you often see the pattern that someone starts a highly successful company, but then go on to start other companies that don't do well. That they can't replicate their success suggests luck or circumstance was involved.

And there is always the possibility that the CEO wasn't the one to make the company successful. A company isn't one person.
30-year mortgage rate surges to 6.28%, up from 5.5% just a week ago
The question isn't whether the server logs are there. It's whether anyone looks at them instead of GA for browser information.
It's feels like your "utopia" is a world controlled by a few giant corporations which guarantee the "effective movement of capital" around. If that's the case we have few things we'd agree on as our world views are just too different.

I'll just say that as we have fewer major players the more those players will lower wages and generally exploit workers. Most people won't enjoy living in that world.
Docker on (rooted) Android
> If he didn't do it someone else would have and for all we know they could have broken less bodies along the way.

That's a bold statement to make and I'm not sure I believe it. Even companies like Sears or Walmart who were better positioned to dominate the space missed the boat.

Like you said, it's never one person who changes the world. It's usually one talented person who has the right connections and gets a lot of luck at just the right time. There's no guarantee that someone else would have made the same choices and gotten the same breaks if Bezos didn't exist.

Amazon exists because of Bezos, but that doesn't mean he did it all by himself.
$not_my_favorite_political_party_1 wants to destroy government besides police and military. $not_my_favorite_political_party_2 wants to increase welfare spending. Neither party is focused on good government. Mostly that is because voter dissatisfaction with government is channeled into the two competing ideological camps so that obvious, practical improvements never happen.
Honestly, I don't know if I buy it.

Even today, when I buy online from a small business, it's normal to wait 3-5 business days for the order to be processed and a shipping label to be created, 1-2 days for the product to enter shipping system, and 3-5 more days for delivery. I routinely wait 2-3 weeks for popular stuff from decently big websites that are clearly 10000000X smaller than Amazon.

Meanwhile, Amazon hits same day and next day shipping all the time zero issue.

Amazon wasn't the right thing at the right time. It imagined a different type of delivery that no one else today gets anywhere near. Amazon is to delivery what Apple is to hardware. It's different and not repeatable no matter who tries.

I try to support smaller shops all the time, but it's definitely frustrating to wait 2-3 weeks on a delivery that know Amazon will next day to me.

Shout out to local pet foodstore hollywood feed which puts a branded car at each location and does physical deliveries. Y'all beat Amazon with a 30 minute delivery. Can't argue with results.
OK, then get your search engine out:

- "Tacoma Narrows bridge failure"
- "Roman concrete"
- "Millenium bridge London"
- "Concrete cancer"
- "Gabions"
- "3,2,1 concrete mix"

The last two are useful for DIY. That lot is just concrete. Geotechnics and hydrology are also fascinating.

When I studied this stuff we had a class where we grabbed some time to use the Poly's (Polytechnic - a bit like a second tier University back in the day - UK) electron microscope. I over focussed on our sample and vapourised it! We were studying "concrete cancer" which is a bit of a problem in maritime towns because salt in the air is one of the components needed.

I went to Plymouth (Devon, UK) Poly, which is famously a sea town and so we saw a lot of conc cancer, eg the Drake Circus multi story car park.

When you're done with concrete cancer then why not investigate how a building in Florida can collapse - ie this horror: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57631698

Cheers
Jon
It's not a lottery. It's a hill-climb.
Most people do consider Amazon as the default and online shopping retailer for general goods, as opposed to specialized needs such as secondhand products (eBay, Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace) or specialized products (Wayfair for furniture, boutique retailers).

If you refuse to engage further in this conversation, that is your prerogative and it is noted. We can consider this matter closed.
True. Seems potentially very useful, but only relevant if you're using GitLab and want a relevant format (or something you can reasonably produce from a relevant format, although tooling questions then get potentially more complicated).
Really? I'm not very active in these conversations, but I was always under the impressions that a predominant argument in favor of abortion is that the fetus is just a bunch of cells that has no consciousness and can't feel anything anyway so who cares?
Solar Clock / Solar Tracker
This should be upvoted more - this is the natural destination where all of this leads.

With growing wealth inequality - people will have less and less..

We are on the fast track to a revolution.

What will end up happening is the metaverse will become the new "bread and circuses" of the plutocracy

As long as the bread and circus is there the people will grow fat and happy.

Soon it will be "I metaverse therefore I am?"
Disabling turbo boost/frequency boosting would actually _decrease_ power consumption, as well as performance. The idea with boosting is to allow certain cores to exceed the maximum frequency, so long as certain parameters such as package temp, core temp, and power usage are within certain thresholds. This allows workloads that don't push the entire CPU to its limits to run faster, as the few cores that are in use can run at higher frequencies and increased performance per core, at the cost of higher power usage per core and lower efficiency.
There is such a thing as employee and corporate bargaining power. Many SV companies adopt gold plated health insurance policies on top of competitive wages. I suspect hat this extra bit of health insurance helps prevent the perception the employer is overbidding on labor.

Similarly large corporations can negotiate to get better insurance rates, and larger insurance providers negotiate to get more cost effective care.

(One of) the problems with the health system in the US is that once you exit this negotiation scheme, prices go insane. A hospital might list a procedure for 2 million dollars only to take home 50k from the insurance provider. I don't believe anyone has a handle on what the true cost of any health procedure is.
USD isn't the only currency you can exchange RUB for to conduct mutually beneficial transactions.
Sounds like it was trying to be the IBM typewriter of the same name.
Well every one of us has earned $68 billion more than Elon this year. "Tesla stock is down roughly 44% year to date, causing Musk's fortune to drop from $270.1 billion in January to just $201 billion as of Friday." [1]

[1] https://fortune.com/2022/05/24/elon-musk-jeff-bezos-mark-zuc...
What's legal and what's ethical aren't always the same thing.
> many may be too young to remember but Eddie Lampert did this with Sears in the 80s and 90s

Eddie Lampert didn't start ESL Investments until 1988 (and he was only 25 then). ESL didn't start destroying Sears / itself until 2004 (https://www.investopedia.com/news/downfall-of-sears/ "Kmart announced it would buy Sears for $11 billion in Nov. 2004..." It was via the Kmart merger that ESL came to control Sears, ESL having taken control of Kmart after Kmart's bankruptcy in 2002).

Anyway, you might be remembering a different company or different "business genius"?
Is the fleet of polluting vans worse than every single delivery target hopping in their polluting cars and driving to the store (the model that amazon displaced?)

I don't think so. I think delivery has been demonstrated to be significantly "greener" than everyone individually driving to each store one by one.
PS this says (estimates) 3600 children a year. That's 3600 too many, but far from "common place" in my understanding of the term. I can't predict how many Jewish males are born each year, but if someone wants to provide that, I'd be curious to know what portion these 3600 represents.
> Once you reach a certain level of wealth, your net worth increasing becomes a substitute for income because these people live of the debt backed by their illiquid assets. That allows them to avoid a large tax bill.

Income is periodic. I get a salary every year. I can spend that amount every year as long as I'm employed at the same salary. Elon Musk can't spend 220 billion every year. If you want to compare net worth to income you should look at if he were to sell his shares and put it in a safe annuity earning 4% a year or so in perpetuity. So take his wealth, and multiply it by 4%. Also note that the annuity won't grow, unlike my income.

> Take out a $1b loan using $10b in assets as collateral. When that $1b loan comes due, your net worth has grown to $15b.

So you can expect his assets to grow at 50% a year? Here's a life hack: invest in Tesla if you think its going to grow 50% a year. Then even with $100,000 invested today would have you become a billionaire in 23 years!
> What was his vision? Destroying millions of mom and pop shops...

Wal-Mart was already leading that charge. And it shocks me to no end how many people I still encounter complaining about Wal-Mart for destroying their diverse local retail centers and eliminating jobs, while simultaneously receiving notifications on their smartphone from the Ring doorbell alerting Amazon packages being delivered on their front step.

Amazon is basically Wal-Mart 2.0, now with even more consolidation, counterfeit goods, and fewer local jobs.

Bezos isn't coming for the mom and pop shops, he's coming for Wal-Mart. Maybe Home Depot and Lowes are next?
On the side of a new, better constructed pyramid, alongside the others in Egypt?
I don't watch baseball, but I always assumed MLB.tv and NHL.tv used the same technology.

The way NHL.tv used to work, the blackout check would be done when you opened the stream. So you could connect to a VPN in, say, Germany, start the stream, then disconnect the VPN and after a brief interruption the playback would continue. If you did the VPN connection from your router you could stream from any device, too.

Funny thing, the ads always seemed to know exactly what market you were in.
Mainly because some people loathe the idea that they aren't entitled to a share of what Bezos created so they prefer to view his success as something anyone could have done if only for xyz.
It doesn't work if there is any wind at all. Even with a dome over, it could store only a pitifully minuscule amount of energy. There are lots of YT vids about how stupid it is.

Compare to e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31736539 . Somehow people are unable to do even the most trivial reasoning about cost, where energy storage is involved: expensive stuff is expensive. Utilities will buy what is cheap to build, cheap to use, cheap to maintain, and reliable. NRGV checks zero boxes.

(Hydrogen and ammonia synthesis equipment will not be super-cheap, but its output burns in gas peaker turbines, and can be sold for hard cash.)

Even NRGV dropped the crane thing like a hot potato the moment they got their IPO cash.
Even worse for you is how concerns about fentanyl are now a defacto war on pain relief. States have demonized long lists of pain meds, driving people in chronic pain to buy much riskier drugs on the street (something I witness fairly regularly).

States used to blame today's bans on the pill mill problem that was addressed over 20 years ago - but now don't even bother to do that. Now the argument reads like 'because fentanyl exists, you must live the rest of your life in pain'.
Less may be fine to a point, but exponentially less is demonstrably bad.

I used to feel the same way about the default should be no govt until I started looking at the system dynamics.

I notice you provide no example of a highly advanced society over 100 million people with a massively lightweight government.

As we even approach that scale, the data show that actually MORE govt is better, e.g., the numerous studies showing both better wealth & resources distribution and unrivaled overall happiness in the Nordic countries more govt, better distributed.

One huge problem with any gathering of people is that some will always try to arrogate to themselves the control over all the resources - without a collective government of some kind, you wind up with warlords in political space or oligarchs in the economic space, and the resources and freedom are all consumed by the few...

As Churchill said, "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all others.".

No govt or even tiny govt isn't a valid option. If it was, we'd see libertarian paradises arising the various failed states around the globe. With not a lot of funds, like minded no-govt types could just go and setup to do anything they want where there is a literal absence of govt. But it turns out that you can't get anything done, literally, when there's no damn roads, communication, laws, or other infrastructure...
Recruiting, managing, and paying people to run those restaurants with the level of dedication that an invested franchise owner has would be challenging. There are a lot of great managers out there to hire, but probably at a higher rate than McDonald's (or any competitor) would want to pay.
Because they typically actually know their products and care about customer service. Give me a face to face interaction with a person that understand what I’m after over Amazon any day of the week.
Sure, but you can just check the high precision wall-clock timer at the end of your computation and makes sure you took at least X nanoseconds, and pad that out so that X is always greater than the amount of wall-clock nanoseconds the actual computation takes. Then, following a computation, you sleep until X.

While this won't fool timing attacks that are operating on the same machine as your process, the computation time becomes completely opaque to the network which is what the "remote" attacks are built on.
Our university teaches C as the first language and even first time coders manage. The problem with python and most other languages is that you'll just end up confused about references while C forces you to understand them.

Just a recently my 14 yr old brother came to me super confused about why does his python code change all the values in the list when he is only changing one, and explaining that one object "lives" in some memory space and the list just points to it multiple times is quite difficult without more low level knowledge.
I'm curious now what haiku you believe to be valuable enough to store for 10000 years.

Any bites?
true : right under our noses is Google.
The amount of time and energy that's wasted because people insist on having secrets is absolutely insane
How do we know that it didn't?
totally makes sense (did lots of germanic linguistics in my case, so i definitely understand the patterns you're laying out).

thank you.
Be the person that everyone has to rely on. Be the person that has the answers no one has.

That’s your real leverage. Not just a hop from job to job.

There’s even a word for it “intrapreneur”. Someone who looks at their job as a business.

Instead of trying to be explicitly independent of your employer, make them be dependent on you.

Life is about relationships. You can’t just be focused on yourself like that. It’s really not the way.

Edit: please, I’m not describing being a knowledge hoarder. That sucks as others have described. I’m describing being a linchpin.
Apple Faces German Antitrust Probe for iOS Privacy Changes
> MacOS feels so limited…

Honestly that is one of the main reasons I use it. Years back, I realized no matter how much I customized or tweaked my OS I was never satisfied. Might as well not be satisfied and not tempted to waste time tweaking. But, like anything, you grow used to what’s comfortable, so now I just prefer it. It just works.
I had a conversation recently with a friend about the classic cats vs. dogs, which species is more intelligent. It was surprising to me how dismissive he was about cat intelligence and adamant that they were nowhere near dogs' intelligence, mostly based on the ability to train dogs. I've clicker trained my cats to sit and also to follow my finger. Searching around the net and YouTube you can find cats learning all kinds of more complex behaviors. Also, watching the cats interact with each other and their interactions with us, they clearly have complex inner thoughts about the world around them.

I guess all that to say, I find myself shocked by how little regard people have for the intelligence of other animals.