skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I quoted that verse because that's the default scripture Mormons quote when you ask why they pay tithing, in my experience, and so I took the liberty of assuming that's probably what Christensen would say.

But now you have me interested, so:

> When you read the previous chapters and verses you will see that Malachi, as God's mouthpiece, is accusing the Church leaders of embezzling

Given that this statement is based on the author's interpretation of 17th century english (KJV) translated from Hebrew, I'm a bit surprised by the confidence here (and the confidence with which you repeat it).

I'm no biblical scholar, but I just read Malachi 2 and 3, and came away with the same impression as before, that the bit about tithes was addressed to all of the nation of israel.

The author of that post seems to be primarily drawing the conclusion from their interpretation here:

> "Will a man rob God? Well You have robbed me, even this whole nation!" In other words, the priest class had been robbing the whole nation

Many other translations do not permit this interpretation, which is possible due to the ambiguity in the KJV of whether "even this whole nation" modifies "you" or "me".

NIV: "You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me."

NABRE: "You are indeed accursed, for you, the whole nation, rob me."

NET: "You are bound for judgment because you are robbing me—this whole nation is guilty."

NRSV: "You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me—the whole nation of you!"

CSB: "You are suffering under a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing me."

So maybe it is directed at the priests, maybe it isn't, but the understanding that it is directed at the priests isn't unique to the LDS church, as that post seems to suggest ("testament to our willingness for self-indoctrination that so many Latter-day Saints constantly...").
By invalid you mean not covering defendant's systems?

Overly specific claims are signs of patent's quality and probable issues, but they don't necessarily make it invalid.
I see more parallels between pop Christianity in the USA and Mithraism or the Roman imperial cult. It was shocking years ago to read the gospels and realize they are not following the actual teachings of Christ at all. In some cases those teachings are radically different and opposed to what most American Christians seem to advocate, especially on things like economics and militarism.

The parallels are particularly strong with the Roman imperial cult now that so many seem to want to worship a Caesar. I see this trend as independent of Trump per se. I saw it around Bush II, but IMHO it didn't take there because Bush did not want to be emperor. I get the impression that Bush actively rejected that role, especially seeing the quiet life of apparent personal recovery he has pursued after the presidency.
I've been using an Excel file (https://i-kh.net/2019/10/20/how-i-keep-the-side-project-movi...) for week-to-week goals and tracking how I do.

I find it's a bit more structured, and easier to review afterwards. Though I still use text file for organizing a day's work.
Figures you're being downvoted to pieces, when this is among the key aspects of Jesus' teachings. Indeed, the entire Sermon on the Mount is centered around the centrality of the /heart/ as the seat of sin, and the thoughts and intentions of the /heart/ as being the fount from which actions stem. Individual sin is what Jesus demanded repentance from; there is no 'collective sin' in Scripture, though groups of people with common sin may be punished collectively, e.g. the time of the Judges, Israel's captivity, etc.

Given the 'young left' is a collectivist ideology, which seeks to institute a form of 'ancestral sin' - people being responsible for their parents' and grandparents' wrongs, etc. - and which has made physical wealth and attributes the sole measurements of moral integrity, being a purely secular worldview - it is not in any way compatible with the teachings of Christ.

But people don't like to hear that. Self-righteousness is a potent drug, something else Christ taught about quite regularly. :)
Fwiw- India's vastu too has rules regarding pooping direction
...I used to joke with my wife this must be the case.

My dog spends so much time trying to find the right place. It’s during the day, so it can’t be astrology, so must be leylines or the magnetic field of the earth. Elementary really

She will get a kick out of this article for sure
Film Reveals How Industrial Agriculture Destroys Soil
Any chance you could share this plugin?
You're limited to $3000/day with Zelle and forced to use the much slower ACH or otherwise pay ~$25 for a wire transfer.
Tax dollars well spent!
It is interesting. Now that it was pointed out, the pattern does seem to match our dog as well. I would love to find out more.

Mamy who saw dog select a spot are aware of the 'thrice blessed' dance.
SoulCalibur VI Producer Still Not Sure About Porting the Game to Switch
> Which might be a reason there aren't any confirmed cases on the continent.

There is not a single confirmed case of coronavirus in the entire Central and Eastern Europe, yet[1]. Most likely because there are almost no direct flights from Asia to this region, since it lacks major international metropolitan areas and global tourist attractions.

[1] https://ig.ft.com/autograph/graphics/coronavirus-map.svg
It's no use, people refuse to see the truth for what it is, just as Shenzen [1] and Guangzhou have been put on partial lock-down.

Later edit: Add Tianjin and Chengdu to the list [2], which means that out of the 7 biggest Chinese cities only the first 3 are not yet technically on any form of lockdown (Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing).

Later later edit: Photos + video of people escaping the Shenzen lockdown just before coming into effect yesterday, February 7th [3]

[1] https://www.epochtimes.com/gb/20/2/8/n11853273.htm (Google Translate will help)

[2] https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/3061526

[3] https://twitter.com/IndoPac_Info/status/1226130936292499457
and https://twitter.com/freddie1999/status/1225754832751013888
I've been working with lasers for a decade now, no problems - up until a few months back.

I had the Worst Cold I've ever had, and had to drag myself in to the studio on a couple of occasions to run a couple of cutting jobs. Deadlines.

Feeling as awful as I was, I had a couple of Ibuprofen (Advil in the States, I believe) and tried to get on. Checking a job that was cutting I peeked at the machine - which has a protective clear plastic screen, as I have a thousand times before - and then got on with things. When I walked away from the machine I realised I had a small artefact in the centre of my left eye's vision.

It was clearly the reflected light from the cut, in a v-shape, about 3mm high at arm's length. Sort of like the seed of a visual migraine.

It didn't go away.

It wasn't huge, but it was incredibly bothersome - if I winked with that eye open and tried to read, this artefact would block the centre of focus, making reading very difficult.

It still didn't go away.

I started researching light blindness, lasers and even reactions to nuclear flashes and such, trying to ascertain whether I was now permanently slightly-blind.

In this search I happened upon research from the early seventies that attributed similar blindness artefacts from Ibuprofen consumption.

Months later, it's barely visible and - as you say - my brain's routed around the problem, but I still see it in certain light conditions and I think it might be with me for the rest of my life.

A bit of a bugger.

- ed

incidentally, i've had a few visual migraines spurred by looking into the machine over the years - low light gloomy conditions (as now here in LDN) and a bright point of light seems to set them off for me. I've always checked with clients who want to view the process whether or not they have visual migraines, and warn them if so. Now I also ask if they're on Ibuprofen :\
They tested for that:

> The fact that larger and faster changes in magnetic conditions result in random distribution of body directions, i.e., a lowering of the preferences and ceasing of the avoidances, can be explained either through disturbing or conscious “shutdown” of the magneto-reception mechanism.
What I hear from people in the traditional banking sector, they actually don't mind the newer fintech companies such as Revolut, N26 and so on because they'll mainly attract the kind of customers that the traditional banks would rather not have. If you don't have a mortgage, loans, credit cards, stock or so on, then you're not really worth the hassle of having you as a customer. The fintech startups offer none of those things.
There's things just as thoughtful that were written in the past 10 years.

The things you cited are famous for being famous, like some celebrity of the ages.

Just like the Mona Lisa was famous for getting stolen and returned, then this was forgotten about but it remained famous, but now just because it was famous previously.
They only find the effect for cases where there is low flux in the magnetic field.

This indicates another reason to be skeptical of the study. If an effect is found in one condition and not another this is a red flag for p-hacking.
> But this drop.lol thing does not allow "click to browse" and that is rather cumbersome on mobile.

Which is funny, isn't using a standard <input type="file"> much more straightforward than actually accepting a drag and drop?

FWIW I've been seeing this pattern all over the place lately, where drag-and-drop is so emphasized that the click-to-browse option is hidden (or entirely missing).
Please post the article to Hacker News when it's done! Email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we might be able to give you some tips.
What about The Widow's Mite or

Matthew 22:21 Jesus said "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's; and to God the things that are God's."?
This assumes that neither testing bottlenecking nor information suppression is a factor with respect to reported numbers, which is far from certain.
> I'm not sure how anyone can prevent data scraping

Not the first time politicians proposing something technically off limits. It’s all just magic to them anyways.
> It’s still possible that quarantines and travel bans will first halt the outbreak and then eradicate the microbe, and the world will never see 2019-nCoV again, as epidemiologist Dr. Mike Ryan, head of health emergencies at the World Health Organization, told STAT on Saturday. That’s what happened with SARS in 2003.

Is absence of SARS for 17 years really equivalent to never seeing it again?
American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors with Ukrainian Firmware (2017)
"When you acquire some customers and they start yielding revenue that behavior sounds an awful lot like buying a fixed income instrument..."

This is so intellectually dishonest. He even goes on to equate recurring revenue with cash flow. Not the same! So often companies point to ARR as success without acknowledging other structural cost issues in their businesses.

"It's basically AAA debt. Now give me a 30x revenue multiple." -SaaS investor who wants it both ways

SaaS is just one of many recurring/contractual revenue categories, but VCs talk about it like its a revolutionary business model that should yield some extra reward from the capital markets. Recurring revenue has been around forever in more traditional industries.

Yes, reliable recurring revenue (with +FCF) can support leverage, but claiming that it looks and acts like debt is either ignorant or deceptive. It is 100% equity risk and that kind of magical thinking is just vulture bait.
Trying too hard. It suffices to observe same-sex attraction across the animal kingdom, and to conclude that same-sex attraction isn't unnatural. The author is here tackling and failing to clear a much higher bar.

Edit: To make things clearer for downvoters: Suppose I see two male ducks having sex, and I ask, "Why are two male ducks having sex?" I am suggesting that it is sufficient to answer "I don't know, but it definitely happened," and not "Because of specific benefits to duck society, such as..."
:( this is scary to me
How do you analyze the data afterwards? Or for what reason are you keeping such detailed records of your life of?
A thread from 2008: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=730997
The abstract from the author's paper on the subject:

> Human same-sex sexual attraction (SSSA) has long been considered to be an evolutionary puzzle. The trait is clearly biological: it is widespread and has a strong additive genetic basis, but how SSSA has evolved remains a subject of debate. Of itself, homosexual sexual behavior will not yield offspring, and consequently individuals expressing strong SSSA that are mostly or exclusively homosexual are presumed to have lower fitness and reproductive success. How then did the trait evolve, and how is it maintained in populations? Here we develop a novel argument for the evolution of SSSA that focuses on the likely adaptive social consequences of SSSA. We argue that same sex sexual attraction evolved as just one of a suite of traits responding to strong selection for ease of social integration or prosocial behavior. A strong driver of recent human behavioral evolution has been selection for reduced reactive aggression, increased social affiliation, social communication, and ease of social integration. In many prosocial mammals sex has adopted new social functions in contexts of social bonding, social reinforcement, appeasement, and play. We argue that for humans the social functions and benefits of sex apply to same-sex sexual behavior as well as heterosexual behavior. As a consequence we propose a degree of SSSA, was selected for in recent human evolution for its non-conceptive social benefits. We discuss how this hypothesis provides a better explanation for human sexual attractions and behavior than theories that invoke sexual inversion or single-locus genetic models.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6976918/
Name one single ico that produced a useful product.
I encourage everyone to read the paper linked in the article. They've gone through surprising amounts of effort to justify their conclusion, and it includes some surprisingly nice graphs of the 'alignment during defecation' of dogs.

I sincerely hope their works will be recognised by the (Ig)-nobel committee.
I am not arguing that information isn’t being suppressed, but they’ve essentially closed all public activity in China. There has to be an impact from this beyond just censorship
My favourite "productivity app" is not an app at all. It's a plain old notebook. I write down any notes and actions I need to take, and strike through them once finished. It has a nice benefit that I can scribble notes, draw lines between ideas, sketch out diagrams, etc.
IAANATheologian (I am also not a theologian), but I suppose those other Christian denominations conveniently skipped chapter 2 of James, where it says:

"What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead."
There is a human neural response to magnetic fields: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190318132646.h...
Lego's argument always struck me as absurd. Imagine Ford doing the same thing: "Please refer to our vehicles as 'Ford vehicles' or 'cars', and not 'Fords'. By doing so..."
Mocking an idea by comparing it to something you feel has a low reputation is a quick way to discredit an idea. Why would you want to discredit the idea? Do you truly believe in what you are saying (only believe what the official release says, don't dig deeper because believing otherwise is something to be made fun of) At what point do you decide to start thinking for yourself and not accept what is being feed to you directly?

This site gives you upto date stats.
https://wuflu.live

Question:

What do you make of the daily infection rate from China? What does your personal judgement tell you?
There’s this article on the bbc’s website which I believe covers the same research https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26089486
I like tasks in my inbox too, so I setup a filter to label all emails to & from myself to be labeled "ToDo". Then I just send myself an Email and it's unified with the "ToDos" that other people email me.
We are polluting outer space. It’s time to clean up our orbit
I really want to try a ThinkPad with Ubuntu. Currently using an older DELL XPS 13 with Ubuntu and no issues so far expect the trackpad is going out
I had never looked into who ran olduse.net, turns out it's Joey Hess. Joey if you're reading this, thank you, I love it!
> we wouldn’t insist that every bridge be built with bespoke girders and bolts

Bridges don't come with yearly bolthole updates that obsolete, or worse, add subtle failure modes to the bolts you bought off the shelf. When the BoltHub repo you pulled in doesn't support the newly-introduced thread pitches, you're going to be doing something bespoke anyways, even if it's tearing out those bolts and replacing them with a new type. And if you anticipated that swap from the beginning and wrote an interface to cover the bolts, you already wrote bespoke bolt code.
> The only scalable solution to the scamming problem is similar marketing tactics for honest projects.

The only way for honest projects to use similar marketing tactics is for them to lie. It’s worthwhile to invest in a vanguard fund but it’s not a get rich _quick_ scheme and never can be.
The silent epidemic of America’s problem with guns
Talking about it, my latest Plague Inc. round is on hold since this morning! But then it was a Fungus I played...
More and more I am going back to simple tools. The simpler the better. I think using a pure text file with the basic GNU command line tools is very powerful and more flexible than anything. Just remember to keep it in git!
I don't know for your country but in France we are asked to call and to not go to the doctor or the hospital. One doctor got contaminated by a patient.
It's not the "tool" is the behavior (the individual).
From here[0] it seems like there is an additional mechanism by which people can be at risk:

>Peng: Based on my observations, a third of patients exhibited inflammation in their whole body. It was not necessarily limited to young adults. The mechanism of a cytokine storm is about whole-body inflammation, which leads to a failure of multiple organs and quickly evolves into the terminal stage. In some fast-progressing cases, it took two to three days to progress from whole-body inflammation to the life-threatening stage.

It is at least noteworthy that Dr Li Wenliang died in his late 30s...

Also the mortality rate seems to be very hard to report on due to compounding issues:

1. Chinese death certificates not recording compounding illnesses as cause of death - making attribution hard.

2. There is a two-three week lag on infected to death but a ~4 day lag on infected detection thus a naive mortality calculation of:

mortality = deaths / infected

Is not going to cut it and is misleading at best.

3. There is a mixture of factors making reporting accurately hard: Wuhan health services are at max capacity and everything from detection to care is strained. There is also some mixture of political factors which may mean that numbers coming out of China could be tailored towards some kind of narrative.

I agreed there's a lot of FUD which is probably unnecessary, especially outside of Asia. I think within Asia it is a bit more founded given that population density is so high (just think about things like aircon usage in places like Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand) AND we've just come out of Chinese New Year which is the largest annual human migration event.

My current read on the situation is that everyone else's fear and overreaction will keep me safe at the very least. I also imagine that there will be a degree of y2k type ignorance revolving around the issue once the dust settles: people on the ground who worked on it will say it was a big fucking deal and crisis was averted through a lot of hard work and coordination. People who were unaffected by it will think it was all a bunch of BS and there was nothing to ever have worried about.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22263022
Not OP, but these are quite popular with the bullet journal crowd. ToC, better paper than the likes of Moleskine, takes me right about a year to fill one up.

https://www.leuchtturm1917.us/notebook-medium-a5-hardcover-2...
I’ll bet if you repeated the whole thing on cloudy days only the effect would go away. You’d have to have very very strong evidence that dogs have some sensory organ that detects magnetic fields when the sun is right there in the sky and explains the effect in a way that is obvious to everyone.
Hiding the location of a radio itself is likely infeasible (with sector antennas, each tower actually knows a signal strength and a rough vector).

However, what is avoidable are fixed IDs like IMSI and IMEI that allow persistent tracking of the "same device" or "same user" across every tower. The routing functions of IMEI could easily be replaced with a nonce that changed for every registration. The billing functions of IMSI could be replaced with blinded tokens. And the persistent identity of phone numbers could be provided by independent parties like with email, ideally over a (non-wireless) mix network.
'Stone'? You mean 'brick'.
The limit ($19k contribution) is around 17% of my pretax, I'm just frontloading it right now. A lot of my friends put in 90-100% into their 401k because they are already wealthy.

Our compensation cycle is 1 per year, and it's unlikely to get more than a COL raise at my company unless you have top 5% performance. I've tried getting other offers but the best I've gotten is still less than Google new grad (I now have ~1 yoe)
Thanks! I'd actually been looking for that software rendering article for a while as well and couldn't find it.
Should humans be doing the same? Is the failure to align toilets contributing to increased stress? We need more research!
If you only care about sound quality then digital music is a superior format. I prefer CDs over sound files since it is more fun to pick from a catalog of CDs on the shelf then a list of artists on a display.

That said, if you care about the album or the art vinyl records are superior. A CD has very limited visuals and seeing it disappear into the machine feels disengaging (although it is handy not to have to turn a CD over half way through).

Also old vinyl is really cheap and plentiful. You can go to the thrift store and buy and old Beatles album for half a dollar. It is really easy to start a collection from old cheap records. Old CDs only go back so far and it’s hard to find good CDs among all the trash in the thrift store. I usually have to go to the record store and buy a good used CD for $10 a piece (which I do, but not as often as a thrift store record). Meaning that casual lovers of music that don’t like to spend too much money probably have a greater vinyl collection then CD collection (although they probably have an even greater mp3 collection).
I'm sure it would at least be interesting to the HN crowd. Any link to info on it?
What are the applications if we would breed dogs based on that "skill"?
Thanks! Here's the playlist of all videos in this series as well, it's really worth watching all of it: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0INsTTU1k2UYO9Mck-i5HNqG...

YouTube really does has the worst UI, and for those of us without a google account and aggressive blocking of tracking features, an even worse set of recommendations. Somehow the video you
linked to relates to some kid yelling about Fortnite, which is what YouTube decided was a good video to move on to, rather than the next video in the series. Oh well, at least viewing the playlist keeps things on topic.