skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A claim of "amputation is no severe than drawing blood" is an excessively extraordinary claim, and you have yet to provide any evidence.

I keep returning to the same examples, but there are many "amputations" performed for non-medical benefits. Frenectomy; tooth extraction; mole/skin tag removal. I don't know if circumcision fits somewhere on this scale, I think it does, many believe it is of a different nature. I don't see how removing connective tissues in the mouth is any less injurious than removing connective tissues from the genitals. They both sound bad on paper, but in life this is a common occurrence with benefits (real or perceived seems to be up for debate)

> This isn't actually under contention, unless you contend that less feeling during sex is better.

I'm asking you genuinely how someone can tell. Is my kid going to enjoy food less just because his tongue tie is removed? I had a painful skin tag removed from my back, so yea I suppose I'm less sensitive there now but in a good way; it is less painful taking a shirt on and off. I am not making a broad based claim, I'm saying on an individual scale I've not suffered diminished sexual pleasure.

> You are proposing it as a fairly harmless procedure, you should be providing evidence that there is no harm.
Ok, I think every male in my family is evidence that you can get circumcised and no ill effects come from it. No infections; no ED; no pain. It'd be fascinating to find data on ED etc in Jews compared to the rest of the world. I can't find anything, but if you can, please share.

> lifelong mutilation for a superstitious belief to a temporary pain with no negative permanent effect
Is it not possible for both to be true? Lifelong mutilation to fulfill a belief can involve temporary pain with no negative permanent effect. I'm suggesting circumcision is just that. Are these necessarily contradictory?

> Circumcised men get less joy from sex. The only credible reports we have from consenting adults are those who get circumcised as adults, and the large majority did indeed get less joy from sex. A significant minority suffer from ED. A small minority never have sex again.

I'm not debating adult circumcision, we have to agree that is of a different nature than adult circumcision. Just like so many other procedures that have different risks/outcomes as an infant vs as an adult.

I'm not convinced me that circumcision is barbaric. If you are someone who believes a child cannot make their own informed decisions about their body, but that a parent is also not in a position to make such decisions, then you seem to be arguing that kids shouldn't have anything done to their body. Unless you're proposing there should be a committee or something to make decisions for kids? That seems kind of fascist though.
Stop Overusing the Outbox Pattern
Renewables are not dependent upon any battery development. Batteries work now, are getting cheaper at exponential rate, and are the most expensive form of storage.
> but you're probably not ready to hear that.

What does this mean?
Nothing stops a person making a new wallet with limited assets for interaction with less reputable websites.
Web3 culture has made this quite difficult in practice. For example, it's quite normalised to say "new exciting nft project, only available to existing owners of expensive nfts". This sort of thing is considered an ownership perk. And it's why those discord hacks were so damaging, a statement like that was made and it did not sound out of character. So in order to use this service, you must be using the wallet with your expensive nfts, so ownership can be verified, but also because it's a phishing site.

Edit: and if you wanted to routinely transfer small funds to a hot wallet, gas fees will put a stop to the idea.
Slack literally has an OOTB feature to let people set their pronouns:

https://slack.com/help/articles/1500011115781-Manage-pronoun...
If you know it back to front, then you are likely aware of the number of TurboFan vulnerabilities that have been found being exploited in the wild.
Nobody moves thermal mass if they can avoid it. Transmission losses in electricity would still be lower.
If they were just a state machine, they'd be useful.

They're meant to be a pseudo physical state machine where changing the state takes real work. If you decoupled the needless work aspect, you'd probably end up with a useful value proposition (which no one would adopt)
EVs have really large batteries nowadays which should make home charging feasible for most. The Tesla Model 3 has an EPA estimated mileage of 358 while the Nissan Leaf has estimated 149. If you mostly travel within city limits, I'd be surprised if you could deplete your whole battery before you get home at the end of the day.
Would be nice to be able process huge arrays recursively.
Thanks for posting these links so I didn't have to :)

I use this extension all the time and it works great.
No. You need only enough storage to last until an order of fuel arrives. Which is what everybody does literally all the time, now.

There is little storage, yet, because it would be stupid to build out storage there is not enough renewable generating capacity, yet, to charge up. When there is, then storage will be built. All without you lifting a finger.
And that's true as long as all the isolates trust each other.
In touch brother. I hope you can find it one day.
Haven't checked on desktop yet...
Seriously tho, how are people affording these mortgages? Is everyone living paycheck to paycheck or what?
Not sure about the trial.

It’s included with ArcGIS for personal use now, which is $99/year and includes the rest of the ArcGIS system (except enterprise server and the like). Obviously for personal use only.

We also released our maps SDK for unity and unreal: https://developers.arcgis.com/unity/

Disclosure: I work at Esri but not in a sales role. I am also a customer.
This is not financial advice, but stocks are getting cheaper every day. Invest into profitable companies that can weather the storm.
Half year ago it would have been hard tocsay anything, but right now even the stock market has realistic price. (Btw I'm in BTC)
haha, you got me. Guess this is completely legal after all
the reality is somewhat more complicated than that. Every time you outsource something you also lose a means to exercise your brain power or your physical body. It's why many of us are in decidedly worse shape than some of our ancestors. There's a company in the Netherlands that makes mechanical rather than electric lifts[1] that involves human action. One result, people who use them are less frail and sick. It's a technology that augments rather than replaces the human body.

And there's a big difference between the two. We got to where we are because a lot of the things we built have aided us and increased human potential, not diminished it. Even a gun which can be used for good or bad ultimately leaves decision making to someone with a brain. Putting that gun on a robot and even giving the ability to make a decision up? That's a very different kind of technology.

[1]https://www.vertiwalk.com/
Buy something you want for 20000 and watch the debt inflate away?
Someone start a petition page. :-)
> Process isolation is slightly heavier weight (though forking is wicked fast) but more secure. Processes give you the advantage of using cgroups to restrict resources, namespaces to limit network access, etc. My understanding is that this is exactly what Deno Deploy does.

Interestingly, as does Android: https://stackoverflow.com/a/12703292
> Yet, when you look at what Norway has actually produced over the past few decades in terms of innovation, companies, etc. the picture is very, very empty.

Do you have anything to back this claim up? Most of what I've searched about the Nordic countries in terms of innovation seems to disagree with this assertion.

https://voxeu.org/article/nordic-innovation-cuddly-capitalis...
https://www.ft.com/content/e3c15066-cd77-11e4-9144-00144feab...
https://www.globalinnovationindex.org/analysis-indicator
Ask HN: Are there any music composition programs for Linux beginners?
I'd like to enter short melodies and see what a computer could elaborate on. Kind of like computer jazz or something. I'd like to compose songs that are only about a minute and 20 seconds long that I can string together to make a video presentation. Is there anything like that in the world of linux? I don't mind cracking open python code to make it work but I'd like to see what is already off the shelf. Thanks in advance.
I have a form of this in other areas. Growing up we didn't have a ton of money and batteries were expensive. We never had batteries to replace depleted ones, so once a toy was out of batteries, it was done. We just played without those features. Now, having kids, I'm so conscience of batteries. I have a tester and check each battery when "dead" and put them in a separate box if I think they have enough juice for a lower power item. We have the money to just replace batteries when we need to... I just need to conserve them.

The other area is colour ink. Printing in colour as a kid was a big deal. I think think I'm going to get in trouble at work when I print in colour... like the massive organization I work for is going to care about 5 pages of full colour document.
Infantry disperse and hide. Tanks really struggle to do either.
This made me chuckle. Not that it's impossible but that is quite hand wavey for a very tough technical challenge nobody is close to accomplishing yet.

Sure. And carriers can simply launch their reusable hypersonic smart drone swarm shields and submerge underwater.
You really drank the Kool-Aid huh?
I strongly suspect it is related to (if not entirely caused by) the very wealthy taking nearly all the gains due to productivity over the last ~40 years.

We've stopped reinvesting our profits, essentially.
It's pretty well studied that people who grew up poor have a harder time saving and are actually more reckless about spending, because they a) didn't have modeling or financial education from their parents and b) had to spend money when they got it before some random fee or cost gobbled it up
He was charged money for all of them. And Sonos won't refund him until he sends back every single package.
Equities have been decimated. The housing market is starting to look like it's next. There is nowhere to hide right now.
Looks like a great resource.

I was about to ask how you fixed the page encoding but figured it out for safari, just needed to click View > Text Encoding > ISO Latin 1
Last budget and tax cut was 2017.the real solution is to tax wxcess wealth and force wealth creators to pay for society
Again, this can be true, but regulatory capture is a problem of democracy, not of regulation powers themselves.
Free static sites, no daily restarts, easy docker and handles distributed Elixir which is huge for us. I haven't had to touch our infrastructure for a year.
No, QuestDB is not Faster than ClickHouse
The future of compute is fine-grained. Cloudflare Workers is all about fine-grained compute, that is, splitting compute into small chunks -- a single HTTP request, rather than a single server instance. This is what allows us to run every customer's code (no matter how little traffic they get) in hundreds of locations around the world, at a price accessible to everyone.

The finer-grained your compute gets, the higher the overhead of strict process isolation gets. At the point Cloudflare is operating at, we've measured that imposing strict process isolation would mean an order of magnitude more overhead, in terms of CPU and memory usage. It depends a bit on the workload of course, but it's big. Yes, this is with all the tricks, zygote processes, etc.

We have plenty of defense-in-depth that we can do instead of process isolation, that doesn't have such enormous cost. [0] [1]

IMO, the platforms that stubbornly insist that process isolation is the only answer are the ones that are going to lose out eventually, just as bare metal has been supplanted by VMs, which are in turn being replaced by containers, etc. Over time we move to finer-grained primitives because doing so unlocks more power.

[0] https://blog.cloudflare.com/mitigating-spectre-and-other-sec...

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/spectre-research-with-tu-graz/
There is certainly merit to this line of thinking, however that is the scenario where the password is literally the hash of the fingerprint or facial read - this is a use case that's closer to a login name rather than a password.

To use touchid/faceid as an example:

- it requires that the password was recently entered

- it's not the password, but a means of accessing a temporary token

- that token is easily purged from memory by triggering SOS or failing touchid/faceid repeatedly

- a range of conditions will also automatically purge the token, such as usage that doesn't match the user's behaviour, unusual movement such as scuffles, certain combinations of location/time/movement, and of course not being used for several hours (this also seems to vary based on certain conditions.)

In this sense a biometric read can provide a useful level of security for most scenarios and definitely better than entering a 4-digit pin repeatedly, and infinitely better than gestural passwords which are comically easy to guess.

For secure applications it's not useful, nor is a 4 or 6 digit pin, but such implementations also engage a range of security enhancements such as internet/voip via an encrypted VPN, locked down device profiles, limited access to networks and so-on. Sometimes the discussion about biometric data use in authentication tends to over-borrow from this level of security need.
Our compute node is basically a usual postgres where we intercept WAL write and page read streams. In other words we don't do any compute sharding since we want to preserve vanilla postgres compatibility and any sharded solution will be riddled with a lot of issues like you've mentioned.
Because its less work to optimize the employees for the working hours.
There were proof of concepts. Were there ever any actual real world attacks?
Whether you think nuclear is a good idea or a bad idea, too costly or a price we will have to pay, one thing I can say is true: we have spent so very much time and effort demonizing nuclear power that if it were a good idea, we're going to have a lot of people standing in the way, because the message was received, loud and clear.
Pretty difficult with covid still rampant, yet onlines still come handy!
What you’re describing is a continuation. And yes that’s a fine mental model for TCO.
Marc grew up in the rural Midwest during Reagan's 1980s. Not sure what you mean that he's some great beneficiary of direct social welfare.
well assessed, 200/2500 are my cutting targets
I recommend reading 'The Intelligent Investor'. The book describes strategies that help you navigate all kinds of markets. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intelligent_Investor.

As counterintuitive as it seems, the book actually recommends buying stocks in a bear market since they are priced reasonably. Warren Buffet's famous quote comes to mind: “Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.” The book also talks about the importance of long-term investing and discipline.
> Also each accident causes a major setback in peoples minds regarding nuclear safety

Planes are crashing all the time and kill tons of people (way more than nuclear power plants anyways), yet flying is more popular than ever (before Covid, anyways)
I didn't say temps or power won't rise, just that it's not a huge hit.
Your move, SF YIMBY.
Cloudflare Workers Postgres Client
Again, the purpose of blockchain-as-capital is exactly to escape regulatory requirements. One of the main reasons why we are able to use the banking systems like we do, is the ability, generally, to unwind translations that were fraudulent. There are also disclosure forms that must be presented as a double-check, to transactions that cannot be unwound.

With most blockchains, this is entirely not feasible. The irony is that many of the brokers will likely be swamped by regulation going forward exactly because people will be unhappy with the lack of these types of disclosures.
You think polling at 500hz has a meaningful impact on your CPU?
CityEngine is a procedural generation tool, it isn’t really meant to compete with real world data providers. For something like Google Earth but available as GIS data, you can use a provider like NearMap.

CityEngine is better for planning out and comparing future scenarios, and other specific use cases. E.g. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sOY3LY688QI

Disclosure: I work at Esri but not in a sales role. I am also a customer.
Evidence beats a bare denial. (Of course, the original claim didn't have any evidence, either...)

"Yes it is" "No it isn't" is a really uninteresting conversation. Somebody supply some evidence, not just claims.
A few ways I use Notion:
- An "event log" page. This is my go-to for capturing information when I'm not sure where else to categorize it. I put lots of things there such as * large purchases, * new accounts, * summaries of appointments or calls with vehicle service, Vets, utility providers, doctors, * model numbers for TVs, monitors, or other appliances that I might want to reference later, etc. I initially tried finding the perfect place for every piece of information I wanted to keep track of, but that failed for a number of reasons. It takes more effort to decide where some information belongs and creating that location if it doesn't exist, there's usually multiple equally sensible ways to structure the location of the information, and when trying to find the information again, I have to remember where I decided to keep it or just do a global search which seems to defeat the point of structuring the information in the first place.

- A "dump" page for thoughts, current work, plans, TODOs, etc. for personal projects. Again, tried initially to be more structured with how I tracked work for personal projects, but ultimately found it too effortful and difficult to use later. Now I just have a growing page where I drop an `@now` and whatever the latest thing is I'm working on or thinking about for a given project.

- Structured notes for upcoming trips or pending decisions.
Managing nuclear fission is something that can be done safely. At fukushima they had (from memory) 6 reactors - 4 had been upgraded and 2 were left un-improved for cost / benefit reasons. The 4 that were upgraded safely failed in the flood - the other 2 caused the problem.

And this is my argument - the reactors were not on their A-game. One slip, one B-level decision, one in decades and decades and the price is paid.

And this is for one of the richest countries on Earth. Who is going to build and run the nuclear reactors in Argentina, Sudan, Belize. Will they be on their A-game in 2045?

Why choose the option with the high cost and the nasty downside when you literally do not have to.
Yes they are much different. Here are two articles about survey (they are similar but contain bit different details). What I remember in addition is that the longer student was on campus, the less favorably he/she looks at Greek life.

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https://stanforddaily.com/2021/09/28/official-greek-life-sur...

- https://stanforddaily.com/2021/11/04/abolish-stanford-greek-...

The unhousing is actually pretty big thing and closer to abolishing then anything else. It would put greeks to more similar position as ordinary clubs. The ability to have the same house consistently is one of big advantages these organizations have against other students group. Other students had to draw where they will be with no consistency. (There are plans for reforms to allow other students being able to keep same neighborhood across years too. So that might change next years. )

The buildings assigned to greeks are in highly desirable area and have features other buildings don't. And obviously, access to that is controlled by these student groups. And obviously to keep living there you have to follow rules - like for example participate on set amount of social activities weekly, paying membership, buying stuff, wearing right cloth to fit attractiveness criteria (this is more for girls) etc. If you fail to visit pre determined amount of parties, you can't stay or have to pay fine or whatever.

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These groups social life is not infinitely free and spontaneous, they have their own pressures (freedom to not party for two months not necessary being available to members). Including systematic wrong incentives. Standford favors greeks that have national affiliation and that comes with more rules. Most absurdly, for sororities, they can't host parties with alcohol to keep insurance cheaper. Making them dependent on fraternities for partying. Can't make own party with own rules, have to look and act in a way that will make fraternity want you in theirs. Which is mind boggling setup.

I mean the above is concern of the group primary. But in terms of unrestricted freedom and experimentation, they don't actually have that.
The people being scammed here aren't looking at what they are doing, at all.

They go to the website, click "mint NFT", then their wallet pops up and says, "Sending [your expensive NFT] to [address], confirm?"

And then the user says, yeah, I want to send them my NFT.

There are more subtle ways to scam though. But the people losing them here are the type of users that confirm everything without reading.
An astrophysicist explains the often-misunderstood nature of dark energy
the percentage of american wage earners who are living paycheck-to-paycheck is probably a lot higher than you think it is.

even couples with dual six figure salaries.
You don't need to have the education to understand NFTs to have the knowledge not to put bets down on things you don't understand.
I do this all the time, but I walk everywhere so I just see the trips as extra exercise time.