skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jesus proclaimed Jewish leaders of the day as hypocrites for telling people to do as they said while not following their own preaching; in other words: committing sin.

Likewise, there is a great deal of biblical interpretation that goes off the rails and opposes Jesus' teachings as well as Old Testament (Torah/Tanakh) precedent.

As for historicity - the Bible has been repeatedly found to be accurate on many issues. Parts of Leviticus even read like a survival guide for a species[1] which includes what today would be considered food safety standards, quarantine procedures, etc. Highly effective practices for a nascent culture.

I was surprised when I read the Old Testament myself, since it was nothing like what I had previously thought. Unless a person reads it himself, it's effectively impossible to understand the impact - it is no normal book, no simple collection of poetry or wisdom.

Western civilization is build upon a Judeo-Christian value foundation, yet we hardly have a conscious connection to it anymore - many only have a vague notion of all religiouns having some element of truth. Even the scientific method is a magnificent tool that is described biblically: we are to test everything! Regardless of which translation is read, the core message comes through powerfully - it is easier to accept when we admit to not knowing everything; humanity as a superorganism is like an overly-confident teenager.

I have found no other teaching that denies its followers any humanly-possible way to enter heaven/paradise/transcendence - I am not aware of anyplace in the Old Testament that describes a process for getting there, only atonement; Jesus explicitly stated that it is impossible for man to get there on his own[2]. Other beliefs put a balancing scale in the mix, where doing more good than bad is what gains entry.

Judaism & Christianity focus on relationship, not religion. This grace is also what gets a person into heaven, since nobody can buy or work their way in - it is a gift for anyone who accepts God[3]. This is different from mercy - being lenient when another is due punishment. Mercy is reducing a fine; grace is opening a door for a child who is struggling to do so himself - God gives us both since we're guilty and yet still children as a whole.

Additionally, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob pursues humanity[4] instead of the other way around elsewhere. What other god serves rather than demands, only asking us to do the same?

[1] If it is a white bright spot on the skin of his body, but it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and the hair has not turned white, then the priest is to quarantine the person with the infection for seven days. ~Leviticus 13:4

[2] Jesus looked at them and replied, “This is impossible for mere humans, but not for God; all things are possible for God.” ~Mark 10:27

[3] For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God ~Ephesians 2:8

[4] What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine and go to the mountains to seek the one that is straying? ~Matthew 18:12
How do you define feedback?

I got things like kudos etc... and comments which were helpful, I would have considered either one feedback. In general, there seemed to be more interaction, regardless of whether you call it feedback, or social validation.

The pair mentor/mentee sounds good, I look forward to it!
Here in SF, I notice surge pricing is at it's worst when it's cold or raining. Bad weather seems to compel people to order a car instead of walking or dealing with public transit. I know it does for me.
Hey, disclaimer: I worked on this study.

I would love to hear your thoughts about this. From our point of view, the argument is not that the native content blocker is slow or fast but instead that it's not an acceptable trade-off, for different reasons (see link below). We also show that some of the most popular content-blockers are more than fast enough in this regard. I would love Chrome to propose this declarative API as an addition to the current WebRequest APIs and incentivize developers to use it when it makes sense. But replacing the current WebRequest's blocking capability with this would prevent extensions from protecting users as efficiently as today.

I wrote a bit more about other reasons I think the declarative API as only blocking capability of the browser is not a good thing IMO: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19175265
Marketing puffery
That could well be the case sometimes, I personally disagree though. I genuinely am full of joy most days. For me, I attribute this to every step I take against my habit of walking away from God, and especially the manifestation/experience of God's love in my relationship with my wife. So if I attest to that, it's an appeal to truth for the sake of someone else, not because I'm struggling to believe. Though even if that were the motivator, it seems like a healthy enough mechanism of society.
Eh, most of these seem like features to me. Slack's threading support is enraging, and I consider plaintext a courtesy. One of the fallouts of the lack of centralisation for things like chat logs was a thriving bot culture (years before it became cool and VC fundable).
You might want to read "The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels" for a slightly less dire perspective.
> A moderator on the other hand inelastically scatters neutrons,

Most moderators elastically scatter neutrons. What other kind of collision could there be with a hydrogen nucleus?
Streaming Music Services Are Failing Classical Audiences (2018)
What if the code says "return rand();" but the compiler changes rand() to 42?
This doesn’t happen with socialised healthcare that’s free at the point of service.

A government can negotiate lower prices than a commercial entity. They also can legislate to force bad actors to be reasonable.

Sadly the UK’s NHS is being slowly converted to the USAs fundamentally broken system of “what the market can bear”.

Rampant capitalism didn’t work for the banks either. They needed a social bailout when their markets crashed.
Application Holotypes: A Guide to Architecture Decisions
A world in which some people retire early after making a lot of money (there is an enthusiast community advocating this) doesn't actually seem all that bad? There will always be younger people willing to step into those jobs and do the work so they can retire early too.

If they love the work, they'll be willing to do it for a reasonable salary, rather than to make mega-millions. But if they don't, why should we throw money at them to prevent them from retiring?

(Edited.)
I'm confused about why tax revenue needs to be forked over to Google at all.

Google is a developer like any other here. They should be able to make enough money from the project on its own. If they can't, then don't move forward with the project.
>Impossible to shield against, but also completely harmless if you are not standing right next to a super nova

There was actually a fun what-if based on that: https://what-if.xkcd.com/73/
SASL auth and TLS are fairly common nowadays, threaded discussion is not really mandatory for a good modern chat (Telegram, Discord for example don't have anything like that,) image unfurling can be done by the client, and there is actually formatting and some clients will autoconvert basic markdown to it for you.

IrcCloud is an example of a client that tries to solve pretty much all the issues and you can even plug it into a desktop IRC client and get most of the functionality including history. It's not necessarily better than modern chat or anything, but I love having a modern chat experience while being able to discuss things with people and groups who virtually only use IRC.

If you aren't a fan of hosted services you can run your own BNC. Some IRC servers have built in BNC services that give you things like better security and channel history.

Let me reaffirm that I am not of the position that IRC is perfect or modern. But you are misrepresenting it a fair bit, even in 2006 I was connecting with TLS (sometimes self signed certs though.)
Don't have any application state transitions that are not hyperlinks or a forms.
I think Amazon would’ve been able to find a compromise, the unions in nyc are some of the most professionalized in the country. They’re not starry eyed leftists, just businessmen looking out for members of their labor conglomerate.
From my interactions with students and postdocs in biology (im not a scientist myself but work in biotech), there is a culture in many research institutions that views working in industry as "inferior" and glorifies the tenure track as the only respectable option. Though the odds are terrible of getting tenure even for scientists with top notch publication records, many scientists pursue that path, just as many entrepreneurs think they will start a billion dollar company even when the odds nearly guarantee they wont

I know scientists with PhDs from top-5 universities doing postdocs in highly regarded labs who have only seen a handful of job postings in their 15 years in academia. Many scientists focus solely on the tenure track, and only reconsider after a few years in a postdoc shows them how hard it is
It's worse than that. Lifeline in Australia claim they have a confidential service, but in fact if you call from your mobile phone, don't give your details and turn off caller ID they still have systems that can identify who you are.

I should know - I was trying to talk myself down from suicide by calling them, and the next thing I know (hours after I had stopped having those feelings) the police forcibly took me to hospital where I received no treatment whatsoever.
It seems odd to me as well. I don’t use these services a lot but when I do it’s almist always because they’re better than dealing with a taxi. Rarely do I choose them on the basis of price.
I contacted notion about their lack of passwords and having to use the login link every time. It is inconvenient when you work as an IT field agent and you're all over the place on different networks and devices needed to look up IP addresses or passwords.

they did reply that the reason they did it was security so that they didn't have to store passwords and worried about data breaches, which I can appreciate.
Australian Open Banking API Server Implementation Written in .Net Core
I always assumed the whole point of 8.8.8.8 is to spy on me. Why would they do it otherwise?
I don't mean to be harsh, but everything you wrote here is either wrong or misleading.

> You also must provide the Qt source code yourself, giving instructions on how to get Qt from the official website is not sufficient.

This isn't true [1].

> You also must allow relinking of your proprietary binary with different versions of Qt. This is easy on desktops but not on embedded or mobile devices.

If I'm distributing a game written with SDLv1 on mobile, I don't have to do anything at all differently than if I distribute the exact same game on desktop. Many, many games did this.

> You also may not begin using a commercial license for your proprietary code which you developed using the LGPL licensed Qt, unless you have written permission. Part of this also means you cannot use, let's say, a MIT licensed wrapper or utility for Qt, because that was probably developed against the LGPL licensed Qt, and thus cannot be used with a commercially licensed Qt.

This is also not at all true [2], in fact they couldn't release Qt under the LGPL if it were. That would be LGPL with a non-commercial-use clause, which would be incompatible.

> There's certainly a reason people worry about Qt licensing.

Yeah and honestly, it's because there's a lot of bad information out there. GPL and LGPL are subject to so much FUD. We as developers have a responsibility to know the facts.

[1] https://copyleft.org/guide/comprehensive-gpl-guidech10.html#...

[2] https://www.qt.io/faq/ (section 3.7)
Can you give actual evidence that there are more than a small number of people who are injured by perpetrators who crossed the border illegally somewhere other than a port of entry?

Border control, like pretty much any national policy, is a numbers game. Spending, say, $5bn to save a life is very, very expensive. Instituting a border policy that separates families and occasionally kills detainees is also very expensive in terms of the human cost.

I have not heard of anyone at immediate risk of kidnapping, rape or death due to the lack of a wall at the Mexican border. Or, for that matter due to the lack of a wall at the Canadian border, or the lack of strong security at the Florida coast. Or the fact the government’s inability to find people who overstay their visas, for that matter.
Unless I misread the docs, offline use would be restricted to text-only. Is that limitation temporary? I would surely have some uses for one of these things, but no way I'm putting a closed source or cloud connected one in my home, not even an open source one if it uses any external services I can't trust.
Very cool with a link to a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0o4P_F4s9s where you can watch a fuel rod actually melt.

Glad to hear they restarted it last year for additional research into these topics.
You are of course right. The scattering conserved total energy, but not the energy of the neutron.
Where do I find a tech-cofounder?
Problem Statement: I am gearing up startup #2 and want to find a tech cofounder.

Possible solution 1: Work with the cofounders from last startup. Sure, but they are both dealing with new babies and have a stable job.
Possible Solution 2: Skip the cofounder and hire a Engineering Lead. Sure, but Managing an engineering lead is not my skillset.

What are other possible solutions?

About me: A former management consultant, Product manager, and founder with 12 YOE. I have the capacity and the grit and the network to raise institutional money - I have already talked to a few VCs. The problem I am trying to solve is something I faced and it's in the travel space. Want to get in touch with me with some ideas? Posting here might be a stretch but I had to give it a shot.
Plan 9's improvement is called Inferno, by the same devs.
I don't think this is a reflection of Lyft taking market share...more likely that the ridesharing industry has just matured.

I remember getting so much joy out of requesting an Uber back in the earlier days. Nowadays I get about as much joy out of Uber(pool) as using the bus, sometimes less because the wait time has increased so much.
Great President but I think he's wrong.
Funny you mention Par. I suspect its IVar type could be used as a backdoor. The doc says to not return it, but Haskell does not enforce this.
On contrary, I do not want to use any website that breaks because of ads.
Some problems PGP (these days, this means GnuPG) solves pretty well for me:

- offline encryption;

- distributed web of trust;

- digital signature (for messages and software packages);

- batch processing;

- certification of other users without a server at all;

- ability to use a completely "offline" infrastructure;

- sending messages without revealing the actual recipient (i.e. --hidden-recipient)

- multiplatform;

- easy to integrate in another applications and scripts;

- allowing independent encryption, signature and certification keys but using them together (i.e. I receive an encrypted message that was signed with a key certified by another key. The system must correctly detect and use the certification-only key already in my keystore);

- allows copying and pasting the data (messages, keys, etc.) in an email;

- open source and well tested implementations;

- not forcing me to use it in a mobile phone;

- for god sake, not being an Electron app!

- ideally, all this in a single package.

People keep distilling an irrational hate on OpenPGP but their proposals can't handle all these use cases. Of course, they handle some small subset very well, but none covers all of them (e.g. Signal does pretty good when I need to exchange short mobile messages, but it is of no help when I need to push a few 30 MB files from my mobile phone to GDrive without giving Google all their contents).
"Glad to see you again on HN"

You as well. I bookmarked your rebuttal to dismissing NIST by default. I had one but yours is way better. I'll just drop that link from now on. :)

"XMSS is already standardized, has an RFC, and my Linux distro is already shipping OpenSSH with XMSS authentication enabled. "

I've been away from crypto for a while. I had no idea this all happened. Thanks for the tip!

"the threats to digital signature created by a quantum computer is not as serious as public-key encryption."

For public-key encryption, I was recommending using several together such as today's strongest plus NTRU and/or McEliece. At the least, one that's strong in classical model plus one that's strong in quantum model. This is for people concerned about governments, large corporations, and organized crime (including cartels). These are the groups most likely to be able to afford and willing to use such codebreaking capabilities on their opponents. Damage can happen even a long time later. That's why U.S. government defaults on around 40 years before declassification of TS data to water down the effects of release.

For signatures, a lot has changed since I last looked at it. The Certificate Transparency schemes might be combined with Merkle schemes in interesting ways. There's also lots of roll-outs on Git/Github which is versioned. People are using smart contracts and blockchains. Then, there's lots of legacy tech with the CA's and DNS system. I think any new ideas about how to develop these alternative techs and get them adopted should be designed to fit within what's going on. I'd probably have to think deeply about all that before I could give you fresh answers on signatures. I'll definitely write it up on these threads if I ever do. Right now, I'm still more focused on getting medium-to-high assurance of design/implementation more cost-effective.
Is a gradual increase what caused it, or was the problem that there was a sudden increase?
> That default, sadly, would basically guarantee the thing doesn't work for all too many users.

Bold claim. Citation needed.
Unsubstantiated assumption: "doing exactly what you want" is oppression.
I think the most interesting part of this is the offline capability. From looking at the source code, it looks like the text to speech is provided by http://www.festvox.org/flite/ and the speech to text uses https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech.

How do those compare to the major online providers?
Serious question; outside of purposefully eccentric stuff, does anyone use COBOL for anything new?
What parts are we missing?
> Sidewalk Labs, which provides urban technology infrastructure

Sidewalk Labs is by and large an advertising company. It's basically Clear Channel with a quirky moonshot division.
They see their parents have placed them in deadly jeopardy of polio, and dipthereia,and lesser jeopardy of sterility with mumps, and lesser risks with measles etc.
Before vaccinations 20% of kids never made it to 21 .
I feel antivaxers should be denied health coverage if those adults get a preventable disease. kids are victims and should be covered.
The smallest one.
There needs to be a standard or something here to facilitate password mangers. Everyone should be using one and not reusing the same password.
Many industries (e.g. shopping) strongly depend on the seasonality spikes.
Study finds that professors’ attitudes affect students’ grades
On top of that, I wonder what the average length of time credit card rewards spend accumulating and not being used, and how much depreciation that represents w.r.t. inflation, not to mention the opportunity cost of having invested it for the same amount of time.

And to boot, you pay a yearly fee for those non-interest-bearing funds to sit around!
Sorry, switched calculators partway through and got monthly contributions. Originally had it 100x and edited it to 1000x (blush).

Capital returns more than labor growth rate because of many factors. The most obvious is that capital is a productivity multiplier, so it adds value and should be compensated, and the growth rate is naturally a multiple of the labor growth rate. (Capital investment allowed Model T production to go from 12 man hours to 3 man hours - 4X productivity.)

Time value of money/discount rate: Would you pay more for $1000 today, or for $1000 inflation-adjusted in 30 years? If capital doesn't grow at least as fast as inflation, may as well just spend it on consumption now, leaving no money for those capital investments and that 4X productivity gain.

You'd expect labor growth rate to only match inflation (you make one Model T, you get one Model T). Wage growth has also been depressed for the last several decades by additional workers entering the market (e.g., rise of two-income households) and supply vs demand - 50% more people willing to make Model T's at wage X.

Let's start the debate with real numbers at a lower bound: Assume 0 capital gains (I stick it in a mattress and only get out what I put in), saving 25% of my income for 40 years, I'd still end up w/ 10 years of my average income as wealth.

Joe has 0.

> how much you should give to the society that sustains both of you, or how much you should never have had at all.

Should I give Joe or society any of that money? Is any of it money I should never have had at all? That money was already taxed, so society already took what it considered its fair piece of that pie (and the hidden tax of inflation took its share, too!)

The fact of wealth disparity does not imply unfairness.

How about if instead of sticking it in a mattress, I let Henry Ford use that money to build a factory, and it lets him build 4X the cars so that people who want cars can buy them, should I not get some of that added value as well?

Now, maybe Henry should get a part of that money, for his great ideas (say, 33% of the increase). And maybe we should make sure that the workers get a bigger piece than they would have (if labor costs were 50% of the cost of the car, say they get a 50% wage increase?) and we should drop the price to the customer as well (25% discount?) and assume lots of other costs are fixed per car. 4X cars, 25% discount gives 3X revenue. Labor costs went to .75X. Henry gets 1X. Return on capital is 1.25X. Uncle Sam gets his piece in various ways - sales tax on the cars, income tax on the company, on the workers, on Henry, on the capital gains.

And everybody in the picture is better off - customers, labor, company, capital investor, and unrelated parties that benefit from tax revenue, all because I chose not to "spend" that money.

Now, society has taken its piece of the pie in all the ways above (and society chose to set the size of its piece in advance), and you're coming back and saying society needs another piece, just because I didn't spend my money like Joe?
Thank you! That was all https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mattlong
I recently had good luck with cofounderslab.com.
UberPool Express has some things in common with the bus, although I’ve still never been slapped in the face by a homeless man in an Uber.
Well, you did receive some treatment: poor treatment.
Based on the title I expected a post about the travel agency industry, but instead I got a long winded ad disguised to look like a blog post. I'd be more receptive if the title had just stated that the article is about a new product.
> Users need to have greater control over the data their extensions can access.

Ok, so then why

> In particular, there are currently no planned changes to the observational capabilities of webRequest

That's before the fact that you consider that webextensions can run arbitrary code on the page and extract whatever information they want.

Edit: Also

> Increased Ruleset Size: We will raise the rule limit from the draft 30K value. However, an upper limit is still necessary to ensure performance for users.

But, as per the article

> All content-blockers except DuckDuckGo have sub-millisecond median decision time per request.

So that doesn't make any sense as a justification either