skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that is a bit misleading in this article is the part that says members are asked to pay tithing even if they can't pay things like utilities and food.

Many members take great pride in paying their tithing first, no matter what. What this article left out was that no tithe paying member would ever be allowed to have their power shut off or not have food or other important necessities.

The church has and will provide food and even pay important bills for members if they need it. I have worked in bookkeeping at our local Ward and personally seen large checks for mortgage parents, electric bills, and even medical bills for needy members or members that were otherwise just going through a financial rough spot.

I should also add that this aid is not predicated on paying tithing or not. But local leadership does have to make decisions about whether the request for help is sincere and I would imagine being a faithful tithe paying member makes you more likely to receive help.

As for the rest of the article, I think there are definitely some transparency issues and maybe even some misleading statements from some leaders about how tithe money is used. But I don't think anyone was led to believe that the church is spending most of what is taken in.

The church has always had grand expansion plans. I would expect any organization with such plans to stockpile a war chest.
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>are not trivial to implement

we have NetFoundry NaaS to address just that problem: https://netfoundry.io/

we also just started open sourcing the components for folks who want to trade simplicity for control and customization:
https://github.com/NetFoundry

disclosure: founder
This is the wrong dichotomy and it's a false one perpetuated by Mozilla.

Users can have end to end encrypted DNS and browsers shouldn't be hijacking it.

To put it another way, you don't want the people who only care about eyeballs (Google, Mozilla, etc.) picking your DNS provider.
What issues did you have with pasting code in it? It supports Markdown so it supports whatever a typical README.md would.
Can anyone who has been to an electronics market in Shenzhen (or visited Shenzhen in general) comment on what their experience was like?
Who are 23andMe's parent companies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parent_company)?

> In the United Kingdom, it is generally held that an organisation holding a 'controlling stake' in a company (a holding of over 51% of the stock) is in effect the de facto parent company of the firm, having overriding material influence over the held company's operations, even if no formal full takeover has been enacted.

HINTS: GSK (UK based) is not one of them.

https://www.gsk.com/media/5349/annual-report-2018.pdf

> 23andMe in which the Group holds 14.5%.
Wait but, if the product is indistinguishable from new (else it wouldn't be news that you're buying "trash" from Amazon if everyone already knew that), what's the problem? You get the same warranty, the product gets a second life, it's good for the environment, it can be cheaper because it didn't have to be manufactured again (good for you)... The downside is obviously that the "new" status was a lie, but if it's truly indistinguishable, I really don't find it all that objectionable.
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I switched from a G700s to an Elecom XGM20DL due to the G700s's poor battery life and terrible software (the Logitech gaming mouse drivers, at least on Mac OS, are dramatically worse than the mainstream mouse drivers). Unfortunately the build quality is pretty average, not as nice as the G700s was and nowhere near the MX Master series. It also doesn't have a built-in battery charger.

I never liked the thumb button layout on the MX Master 1 and 2, but on the 3 it looks a lot better, so I might give one a try even though it doesn't have the index finger page up/down buttons.
And according to many videos by Dr. Matthew Walker, 7 hours or less increases risk of Alzheimers and Dementia.
Didn't know this, pretty crazy hire... what's the reasoning behind that. Maybe they were desperate as the vmware founder wanted to retire and they needed to fill in the seat quickly?
So im curious to know, what is stopping Mozilla from selling "Trusted Recursive Resolver" positions to private companies just like they sell search engine placement in their browser?

whats to prevent a VC firm from just...quietly acquiring NextDNS (or any of the other DoH providers) and selling your browse history back to anyone who wants it?
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That, and the absolute 100% lack of customer support or engagement.

Unless you are a Fortune 100, they don't do support.

Want to move an SMB with 50+ employees to Chromebooks with Chrome Enterprise? You literally cannot pay Google to support you. You have to work with one of their third-party vendors, who all suck.

Perhaps with Brin and Page finally leaving, this is something that can change. But, I doubt it will, since they hired the leadership that's implemented their vision. The next chapter of Google is likely to be how Sundar Pichai leads them to the brink.
I expect Comac to do a much better job on supply chain support than Sukhoi did. Russia in general has always been troublesome for parts supplies for its exported equipment, whereas China has a much more consumer-friendly culture and is likely to invest heavily in making the C919 a success there.

I wasn't aware that China had built much of a reputation for international customer support.

The fact that they're building it from scratch when the main competitors are using refreshed old designs of the 737 and A320 might help it achieve competitive fuel-efficiency, but it remains to be seen

There's not much to see. The C-series is the one to beat and so far the assuredly optimistic, published specs (per Wikipedia) for the C919 don't come close to the CS300.
> I’m in Singapore now

https://immiguides.com/immigration-guides/singapore/

- Singaporean citizens of Chinese heritage tend to enjoy preferred treatment over their Malay and Indian counterparts. Examples of overt discrimination include employment ads specifying that someone must be of Chinese origin to apply.

- the Singaporean government censors sexual, political, religious, and racially sensitive material. Lawsuits are often used to quiet dissidents. Journalists often self-censor, to limit their legal liability. This also limits the development and prevalence of non-commercial art

- members of the LGBT community face discrimination in Singapore. Male on male sex is illegal. It is difficult for members of the LGBT community to find housing (landlord discrimination).

- punishments commonly involve caning and long prison sentences.
The trolley problem is so overblown. Just brake. Just braking is a simple and really effective solution to the vast, vast majority of problems. Instead of trying to program complex and fraught harm minimization systems, focus on braking distance, collision safety, and enforcing a safety envelope for self-driving: Never go faster than your brakes, even if humans often do.
I think it's prioritizing aesthetic beauty over function.

This style of map is not intended to be used as a walking guide or you would be correct.

They are for determining the simplest way of getting from station A to station B once you are on the train.

I think you are aware of that so representing the other "walking" world within this one is essentially breaking an axiom of that intent, like asking for a 2D map that represents 3 dimensions.
Once configured, the IMA appraisal subsystem in the Linux kernel can ensure that only signed code executes.
So - non-developers resisted Slack or Slack-like things?

That's interesting. I'm a developer but I find it easy to empathize with non-developers because I hate any tech orthogonal to the actual task at hand that requires a learning curve. I usually find that other things have pushed that thing out of my brain by the time I have to use it again.

Unlike most developers I'm no fan of Markdown (I can manage links and list formatting in a WYSIWIG editor without needing to reach for the docs. I hate reading docs).

I've got the hang of Slack but I tire of teaching new adopters the correct etiquette and usage that means they don't overly interrupt those of us that have tuned their notifications. Or teaching people how to ensure their messages aren't missed entirely.
I saw this before and meant to post about it, because it's really neat.
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Yup mine too, but that rules out a lot of FAANG adjacent companies and start-ups which isn't tenable for some peoples' interests. I gave up on that chase for stability, weekends and holidays actually off, no on call schedule, and long term benefits.
The Cenk Uygur situation is part of a broader trend I observe where traditional media outlets have a highly negative bias, to the point that it often ventures into the realm of fabrication, towards news and people in new media. News distributed via YouTube and social media and similar are an existential threat to the traditional news publications, and the thus there exists a fundamental conflict of interest when the latter covers the former.
But the question was express consent. I'm willing to trust 23andme to pass the data to whatever research team has the resources to make progress (that was certainly my intent, at least, in signing over consent to them in the first place; I don't know enough about medical research to have an opinion on the details of who does the work, and I delegate that responsibility to 23andme).
Riot / Matrix is also open source, has integration with Slack, Gitter, & IRC out of the box, and is self-hostable entirely for free.
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Part of any games popularity is to have an exciting competitive scene and also have easy entrance for new players. Chess960 solves one of those, no-castling seems like a better solution on both fronts.
Their criteria unintentionally selected for metros with a restricted housing supply, by including "only those that saw population or real GDP growth slower than the nation as a whole". That can indicate a slow-growing economy, but can also indicate that you're not building enough new housing for population to grow at or above the national rate. Portland and Nashville are obvious examples here - nobody who has been there recently believes that they are struggling, but they've been adding population slowly because they're not building enough housing to meet demand.
I love the Logitech hardware quality but I really wish they'd work on their software quality.

I'm using a G502 at work right now with Logitech Gaming Software and the two completely baffling decisions they made with that software on macOS:

1. It has to be running. If I launch it for configuration and hit ⌘Q it stops working and my mouse reverts to the default. I have to remember to close the window instead, which leaves it in the menubar.

2. I can't unmap buttons and have them act as generic HID mouse buttons. I can map buttons to mouse 1, 2, and 3, but I can't go past that. I can map buttons to various special functions, but it would be a hell of a lot more flexible if I could just have mouse 4 and mouse 5 mapped. For example, I can map the "sniper" button to Mission Control, but I can't change its behavior with keyboard modifiers, whereas if it was just Mouse 5 I could use the system configuration to map that to Mission Control and then use keyboard modifiers to change its behavior.
Yes, this was my replacement mouse when I built a new computer and couldn't find another 518. It's a great wired mouse - this is one of those designs that just works.
Sure, if all the machines you care about are windows boxes managed with Active Directory. There are ways to configure it on linux and mac too by putting a json file in the firefox installation folder, but it is one more thing IT needs to worry about. I don't know of any IT professional that would be excited at the prospect of having to configure DNS for individual applications.
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This is one of the threats addressed by https://www.certificate-transparency.org/ .

If a CA issues a rogue cert and _does_ add it to the CT log, it's discoverable, at least in retrospect.

If a CA issues a rogue cert and _doesn't_ add it to the log, some browsers will refuse the connection when presented with that cert. https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/how_will_certificate_transpa... has more details about Chrome's implementation.
I have done a few GCP projects and this is the typical OP of the google team. I think their intentions are good, trying to make sure you get everything perfect, but customers do not really care to spend all the corresponding time updating the google team twice a week for something that would be better served with as-needed support.

And there can be a flavor of condesending attitude when they assume the customer doesn't know anything.
Could anyone elaborate as to how Microsoft Teams overtook Slack so quickly?
Modified for myself: I was a kid programmer and my parents thought it sounded crazy to spend college learning to code. I studied pre-med but didn't go to med school.

This was in 1998 for me, and at that age I didn't know how to push back on my parents. Good 'ol Asian parents didn't know anything out of the big 3 (Doctor, Lawyer, [Licensed] Engineer). Still going to therapy for that.

I am now in a software engineering job as a TL but I'd say I'm about 8 years behind in my SWE career, after soujourns in a microbiology lab, food manufacturing, retail inventory planning, and then product management in retail, and then to engineering. To be fair, this might still be the case as the dot-com implosion happened just before I graduated from college.

I have amazing, varied experience as both an IC and people manager, but I don't have the ticket known as a CS degree. I'm thankful for the path I've taken but eventually I will have to make a jump to a "real" tech company, and I can't say that I don't have some apprehension about my lack of formal CS training, as well as age.
Discussed before it existed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11027369

A bit more from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11166154
I hadn't thought of the evolutionary benefits before but this makes a lot of sense. Related to this, I have noticed that I really like efficiency for sake of efficiency, which is probably a trait many other tech people share.

As a silly example, I was hiking at night recently and my headlamp had gotten a little dull because the batteries were starting to get low. Even though I had a spare set, I didn't swap them out because the old ones still had hours of power left, albeit at reduced output. The cost of a few batteries is trivial, but the thought of throwing them away while still useful bugged me more than the reduced light output. My partner thought I was crazy for this, and I don't disagree, but for whatever reason little efficiencies matter a lot to me.
In their fifties, so born in the 1960s and probably started their retirement fund in the '80s or so.

(Not that things also haven't changed since then, but it is a pretty big difference.)
Amazon is eating itself alive. The general population may not have figured it out yet but high-users (Prime members) definitely see the problems and most importantly DO. NOT. TRUST. AMAZON. ANYMORE.

The brand is halfway down the toilet in terms of online retail and I do not think they can turn it around in time. Their whole strategy is based on speed and they've found garbage third party sellers a speed advantage. They are not competing on quality at all. They are not offering a quality experience, they are not selling quality, it is not in their product plan.

So if you are shopping for quality experience or quality product you do not shop on Amazon. It is only a matter of time I think before this awareness hits critical mass.
That's how I would think of it but if you work in a department under a legal framework where drugs are illegal by default and you have to do certain paperwork to make them legal it will tend to feel very different.
Oh, that makes more sense!

4 * 300V * 2.3A = 2.76kW

It looks like it's totally doable with those cables! But if they're running 300V DC through there... may as well just run 120Vac. The only benefit I see is that they can detect faults on the transmitting end in a sophisticated manner.
No, the kind of code change she committed has never happened before. A change in desktop wallpaper is not the same as a change in a security extension.

The fact that other employees have participated in pro-employee activism and not been disciplined speaks to that. Some things are fine, some things are not. Abusing security software is not.
Object permanece is a silly statement? On the contrary it's the mainstream view. Anyone wanting to challenge it has the burden of proof on them to demonstrate otherwise.
I don't know if that a French thing or not, but in France, in many cities there is a day designated as "encombrants" (~ bulky).
Basically for when you want to throw out large objects.

There are people roaming out the streets on that day and hoping to find something worth reselling before it gets picked up by the city.

As far as I know, we haven't encountered the issue of too much stuff being thrown out that day, but maybe this is because this happens regularly.
When I came up as a ham in the sixties there were gentlemen on 80 meter AM calling us teenagers lids, kids and space cadets. That animus has always existed in the hobby towards newcomers.

I think connecting with maker spaces is a real opportunity. I've been a member of the Lansing club since the sixties, although I rarely attend meetings anymore. Friends with the guys who started the local makerspace and they were genuinely interested in ham radio. I tried several times to setup a tour of the makerspace but the local club is run by a clique who made it clear they had zero interest in it. I still think it was a missed opportunity.

I was president my junior year of the Michigan State club and it was strong and vibrant. A few years back it apparently had declined to only a handful of members. The local faculty advisor started reaching out to freshmen in the fall and started classes to help those get licensed.

The program has been a huge success and now the club in reinvigorated. It only takes one or two people in a community to help out because the interest among young people is there as it has always been. Elmers are what ham radio calls people like that faculty advisor. What the hobby needs is more Elmers like him.
Huh? I order food and personal products all the time.

Nobody's counterfeiting my bulk name-brand orders of flavored almonds. Or my hair products.

Counterfeiting tends to happen with high-value electronics, or occasionally expensive textbooks. I've never heard of it happening with food or personal hygiene. I mean, I just don't think the profit margins are there.
I am having trouble connecting your comment to mine. Perhaps you replied to the wrong comment?
>No, it has only warmed, otherwise we'd be in another ice age.

Theres no sources that support that, but ok.

> The periodic variability in earth's orbit should have us cooling ever so slightly

>That is only a single input. The other input is solar activity, which has increased.

Solar activity has been declining for 40 years exactly at the same time as the planet has been warming to record high temps. Solar has been ruled out not only through direct observation, but also through the nature of the warming. The lower levels of the atmosphere are warming fast while the upper reaches like the stratosphere are cooling. This is because the heat is being trapped at lower levels by the increasing greenhouse effect. Also night time temps are increasing faster than day time temps. Both of these are fingerprints of greenhouse warming and not solar.
Maybe you don't need to go to a dense coastal city for your first job, but what about your second job, and your third job, etc? Very few jobs in tech will last your entire career. You could take a job in some random small city, but you'll probably have to move again in five years.

These tech hubs exist for very good reasons. Maybe you can make some more hubs, but you'll never spread these kind of jobs evenly all over.
I am not saying it is the problem. I am saying we re living in a system that profits from any social evolution and plays it against its people. and that is what Thiel is saying. He never says women are the problem. capitalism is.
I think the endgame is to route everything through Tor or a similar anonymizing layer, nothing else will suffice in the face of pervasive tracking.

Incidentally, Mozilla is showing interest in embedding Tor in Firefox [1], but they haven't yet publicly commited to it [2].

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-offers-research-grant-...

[2] https://www.techradar.com/news/firefox-isnt-getting-a-tor-pr...
No worries, I get this all the time and all I can say now is that functionality-wise most of those existing solutions are better.

The difference is in the mission I have planned for Chartbrew. I want to focus more on the user-centric and collaborative design rather than on functionality. So Chartbrew will never be as complex as many other tools there, but I'm 100% sure I can design it better. And I also plan to focus a lot on building a community interested in innovation and design. Hope this wasn't too vague. Feel free to ask me any other questions and I can clarify a bit more on different aspects.
Unchecked exception can be thrown and cause a crash in both cases.
You're not just wrong, you're also rude, which is a sign of immaturity. Professionals try to avoid that kind of language.

If you never learned Vim to the sufficient level, you will never understand how incredibly empowering and powerful it is for navigating and editing text. And that IdeaVim is hopelessly lacking many of its features.

And if you never gotten in Emacs to the point of writing your own Emacs-lisp packages you will never learn true level of extensibility capabilities of Emacs. There's simply no other tool in existence that lets you do some borderline batshit crazy stuff.

When you don't know what you're talking about, at least have some respect for those who do. I personally used your beloved tools for about seven years (to the degree of above advanced level). I switched to Emacs (with Evil-mode), because I felt that I grew out of IntelliJ. Tell me about maturity.
> - fake meat becomes widely adopted and we stop farming cattle

You can simulate that by tuning deflorestation to a minimum and methane to a lower value. Spoiler: it makes approximately no difference.
Being in the news several more times for a case about "spy chips" in your hardware isn't worth any money they'd get?
> Name another online retailer that's bigger/better known.

You literally named two. My father knows how to do only two things on his computer - check his email, and buy stuff on eBay. There is a "Walmart.com" desk and in-store signage in 5,000+ physical stores.
Alibaba operates and serves internationally.
The latest one makes my MacBook Pro emit an extremely annoying high pitched noise when moving. I think it’s due to the high refresh frequency of the mouse versus more traditional ones.

It sounds like a squeaky wheel or a squealing (real, animal) mouse.

Other mice do not cause this problem. I mask it out with noise canceling headphones but I’d love a nice mouse that doesn’t cause this behavior. I’ve tried ferrite loops but they do nothing.
The problem with their argument is they are implying its the fault of the consumer, not amazon.
> I mean, if I'm part of a joint venture with others to own a 100 unit apartment complex, I would expect to get some of the profit, at least. Likely about as much as my ownership stake.

You might want to look into REITs.
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No, I replied to the correct one. I am pointing out some of the benefits of stock ownership and "no decision making power."