skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If they're removed, they're removed, at least from any lists that local leaders, members or missionaries could see.

This is exactly the kind of dishonest bullshit line that local leaders use when people ask to be removed and not contacted again. I don't know how these "lists" work internally in the church, but local leaders can happily say, "Sure, we'll remove you from the list. Done! No more visits!" knowing that they haven't done what the person requested, knowing that the church will continue to send people to that person's home, even if they move hundreds of miles away. They believe this is the right thing to do. It is the right thing to do for a believing Mormon, which is why it's so important to call it out in public. The only way they will back off from this kind of behavior is if it harms the public image of the church.
But maybe you need one to properly count them? When, where, how many exactly? All the bodybags in the videos the only ones? How are there really? Are they multiple videos, in which you should avoid double counts?
If Russia != USSR, then Germany != nazis/the axis
I use text files and have for years. I use Syncthing to keep the text file available on all my machines.
Pain is required in order for people to make change.
Well, the software is provided by corporate so franchisees likely have a claim for compensation.

Whether they would dare at the risk of facing any negative consequences is another issue...
I love this. Being “productive” (however you define it for yourself) is all about desire + process.

Fancy tools can help you manage / automate the process but the tool has to come last. It’s like all the “pro” devices marketed to consumers (cameras, laptops, whatever): they mostly add value when you are already good enough that you you don’t need them.
I see you're admitting the church is a business. Too bad that's not how they tell it to their members. I'd be perfectly fine with the church's actions if they would just admit that they're a profit seeking enterprise and charity is only of value for the PR it brings.

At least then I wouldn't have felt swindled when I found out that all that money I spent on tithing while working 80 hours a week as a truck driver to pay my way though college was actually just sitting in an investment fund making a handful of people rich. I would have known from the beginning that that was where my money was going, and I would have no room to complain.
Making software security & data privacy really easy for all stakeholders. It's something I dread doing as an engineer but I know is one the most important 'feature' the customers are expecting to be baked into what I write.
What if the new version has a bug?
This kind of donation is an eventual goal of mine. There are so many other often-well-funded focuses (sports and theatre) and myriad other social activities and distractions during high school that many students never have structured avenue to look into programming or CS though the creative/logical/teamwork benefits are hugely diverse for those who get past the entry barrier of learning a language or framework (even apart from career impact).
I don't know if it will validate or invalidate your assertion, but I recommend watching Patent Absurdity [0]. It helps to explain how this all came to be, some history, and why the current system is so b0rken.

[0] http://patentabsurdity.com/
There was another one I saw where you could order a dollar burger, then order another ten burgers without the burger, and because of how the kiosk software calculated the "no burger" modifier, the total came out to $0.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2019/04/08/11-free-burge...
I google “USD to GBP” or whichever currency right after I get the money. My BoA/Chase credit cards also give me basically spot rate conversions. Although this article explains why it might not make sense to use that number:

https://www.thinmargin.com/blogs/why-comparing-against-excha...
The critical ingredient between the two sides in such debates is that one side believes that hard work is all you need to be successful, and the other side thinks it’s hard work and luck. And doesn’t tolerate the micro aggression or outright aggression exhibited by people who have both but their fragile egos can’t stand that they are anything but self-made, full stop.

There are things in my life that have gone spectacularly well, and some that have gone pretty badly. So here’s me in the middle, with a pretty okay life that others envy, but the bootstraps people look down on.
Once your project is bigger then one person, you gotta start talking to people, and if you’re talking to people regularly then you gotta keep some amount of track of your planned time so you can schedule a time to talk. Some multi-person projects can happen in largely asynchronous communication, some can’t.

I hate doing that so I work freelance, on a loose schedule. I still track my time so I can do things like “feel confident that I’m getting enough shit done fast enough to have money for rent”.

“Get shit I gotta do out of the way as efficiently as possible so I can do the stuff I wanna do at my own pace” is also a possible reason.
It’s conceivable to have a language or markup where you can specify on more detail what the code should do. This could then be checked automatically. Things are already going in that direction with things like non-nullable but I am pretty sure this could be taken much further.
It's how trademark law is written, use as a noun indicates it is becoming a generic term.
That's an awful lot of unsubstantiated speculation. This has the vibe of a writer that has a foregone conclusion which they seek to reach.
Ok, IAANAtheologian, but I do read a lot and believe this aligns with most Protestant doctrine (faith+grace yields salvation which yields faith which yields works), but not with LDS or Catholic doctrine which essentially teach that works yield salvation, and if you lack works, you will not be saved.

This is confusing, because there are many different passages that highlight different things. It seems easiest to look at it as a process that begins with salvation through grace and continues as you grow in faith.

You're not saved by faith alone. You do need a small amount of faith to believe in the first place, but then it is grace (the unwarranted forgiveness of your sins) that saves you, but only if you accept it and repent (reject/renounce/turn away) from your sins:

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God" (Eph 2:8)

As you grow in faith, you will produce works, and if you do not, then your faith is dead. (the aforementioned James 2, which was really aimed at believers, not those who hadn't yet accepted Christ.)

So, it goes like this:

(little) faith -> salvation by grace -> more faith -> works

"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (I John 1:9)

But if you die after salvation and true acceptance of your guilt and sin and repentance, you still go to Heaven, even if you are the most vile murderer on death row, because that's what grace is: completely unwarranted forgiveness.

But, if you stay alive and truly have faith, you will naturally produce works (that is, doing good things). If you don't do that, your faith is dead.
Emulator of the IBM PC Running DOS Written in Rust
The easy resolution here would be for microsoft to push an update that does the moral equivalent of adding hosts file lines

127.0.0.1 corp.com
::1 corp.com
If the intention was to allow telnet login over the internet, they'd also have added hole punching so accessing the port doesn't require bypassing the firewall.

The design is more consistent with a debug feature intended for troubleshooting by someone on the same LAN. Of course the debug interface shouldn't be so easy to access, but that's just stupidity, not malice.
This gets covered in one of my favorite conference talks. "Defcon 21 - DNS May Be Hazardous to Your Health"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sgaq6OYLX8&t=900s
(skip to 15:00 if you just want the answer to your question. but the rest of the talk is brilliant)

But basically when the computer can't resolve ".corp" it assumes it isn't an FQDN and starts adding other stuff to try and get an FQDN that does resolve.
"The Soviets are our adversary. Our enemy is the Navy".
This article gets at something that's really key. The system is so much more important than the tool. The tool may facilitate the system, but without a system even the fanciest tool won't help you feel organized.
I don't know if McDonald's food is that expensive. I would expect that most of the costs are the employees, the building, and the equipment.
P-hacking only apply to proofs. This study does two things, it falsifies a previous hypothesis fair and square, with no p-hacking, and it postulates another hypothesis, an activity where the concept of p-hacking does not even apply.

The only wrong party here is the one that reported the study found something.
Ask HN: Recommendations on how to help keeping perspective?
These days, so many of us live in a bubble of information technology and often solely surrounded by other people who are well off. One might lose view of the bigger picture and what is a normal way of life.

I'm definitely one of them, and would like to hear your recommendations, preferably books, for keeping, or gaining back, some much needed perspective.
Technics of today are different. They are mostly beams with holes and pins. The old technics were bricks with interlocking bumps on the top as well as holes on the side for pins and axels.
I use wordpad to open text files with LF line breaks -- notepad chokes on the missing CR.
I think it depends, banks can have an established relationship with a utility or service that will accept bill pay as an ACH. At least with my bank, I can setup a bill pay for anybody. I just need to provide a name, address and account number. If I do this for someone the bank isn't familiar with, they send a check in the mail.
Some of my friends do not understand why I buy deadwood books, dumb TV, traditional dumb lightbulbs and do not use any home automation or IoT at all.
I guess it was a matter of time :P
Which is fine. Families have the right to criticize each other for how they raise their children and to enforce common norms, where they genuinely believe decisions to be harmful. If my brother was raising my nephews/nieces in a way that I felt was harmful you bet he’d get an earful. Families aren’t just federations of sovereign individuals. Kids are community property.
Two groups of people who are worshiping different gods, who have a different concept of the afterlife, and who do not agree on how life should be lived - they are in fact two different groups. It doesn't matter what one group or the other believes about themselves. This does not mean that one group or the other is bad or better.
> I've had a joke app running Angular 2.0 in production for years. The code doesn't just expire and break.

Nobody claimed that stuff which has been built and never touched again stops working.

> In 2016 React was on version 14. Are you telling me that from version 14 to 16.12 React has had ZERO breaking changes?

No, I'm not saying that. If they had zero breaking changes, I would have said exactly that, it would be remarkable.

Nevertheless, there have been very few breaking changes in that timeframe[1] and they are highly unlikely to affect if you're doing ordinary stuff.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

> Because they definitely haven't. That ecosystem has also changed recommended patterns countless times.

You can just ignore the "ecosystem". You don't need it. React pretty much only does one thing. It doesn't impose an architecture on you. If you want to go all-in on the ecosystem, maybe it's as bad or worse than Angular. That's besides my point.

> Same goes for any library or framework across major versions...

No it doesn't. Some or even most people working with Javascript are completely out of touch with software engineering practices outside of the web bubble. Breaking changes are supposed to be avoided at great cost. Of course there's no real incentive for that if you're a random person pushing something to npm, or if you're Google and your business model is selling users instead of software.
Finally a non-sponsored article on the newstack.
Resistance Operating Concept
I loved notes for years but switched to Bear in the last few months in order to get sane Markdown export.

I couldn’t ever find a nice way of exporting (and backing up) my Notes notes. There was an IMAP storage option but that meant losing formatting options.
Training could be improved. We somehow seem to repeatedly solve the same problems. It would be nice if programmers were more aware of the things that were done in the past.
The burden of proof is on the plaintiff (patentee). The defendant can win by showing either invalidity or non-infringement. Theoretically, there is a presumption of validity of a patent because applications are carefully reviewed before issue. However, in practice that presumption is usually challenged early in litigation. So, the plaintiff ends up having to prove validity of the patent and infringement by the defendant.
Send them to Ninite?
Well, their employees had to do all the work to make that food without the franchise getting revenue for it, but the employees were presumably still paid
An LASER cutter is a really productive device to have around. It's very easy to create 2D parts.

Another way to go Open-Source for a lot less money (~$1500) is to buy a K40 on EBay and refit it with a Buildbotics controller.

The other day I needed a faceplate for an outlet with a circular 240v US dryer plug and a two port 120v US plug. I couldn't find anything at the hardware store that would work but I found drawings for the junction box and plugs online. After an hour or two with LibreCAD and CAMotics, I was ready to LASER cut my faceplate from 1/4" poplar. I was really happy when it fit exactly the first time. Now I keep looking behind the dryer to admire my handiwork.

Disclaimer: I'm a creator of CAMotics and Buildbotics.
Formerly in the industry. I remember when .dev came out and I was in shock that ICANN thought that would be a good idea. They should have known better.

.dev, .local, .home, .corp. I don’t know how many of those are tlds, as I’ve let all that knowledge leave me; but, there are some tlds that just should be permanently blocked from being real tlds.
Show HN: My WIP Book, Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers
Well, the Atari ST booted in about one second, from black screen to moving a mouse around. A lot of that time was waiting for a floppy disk boot sector read to time out (so if you had a formatted floppy in the drive it'd spin up, quickly read a dud boot sector, and continue the boot process of the ROM-based OS rather than timing out).

I suppose if you were gonzo about it you could format the first track with sectors all numbered zero, and eliminate rotational latency. You'd save 80 ms (on average) that way.

Didn't seem worthwhile at the time :-)
The New Year holiday in China clearly accelerated the spread of the disease there, so I don’t see how you could extrapolate from the situation there to other countries.
Hello HN,

Is there a better thing to do on Saturday night than to publish a new chapter of my book?

basically…

- a book for programmers

- interactive & dynamic

- a direct link from theory to implementation

- incredible performance

- Intel & AMD CPUs (MKL)

- Nvidia GPUs (CUDA and cuBLAS)

- AMD GPUs (yes, OpenCL too!)

- Clojure (it’s magic!)

- Java Virtual Machine (without Java boilerplate!)

- complete source code

- beautiful typesetting (see the sample chapters)
In my experience, these differences I mentioned exist on Windows as well, I just don't have any other numbers readily at hand.
Social media notifications of the future: Ranger tagged you in a photo with Tes
It looks a lot more like viral pneumonia than 2009 H1N1. Healthy younger adults largely don't get infected or don't suffer very severe symptoms. In one study in the lancet no patients under 40 were admitted to the ICU. The MuLBSTA score of a patient for predicting fatality from viral pneumonia (which considers comorbidities like diabetes, heart disease, smoking, etc) is predictive of fatal outcomes with nCoV-2019. Everyone on the internet doing the math on this thing loves to assume it will naturally be as broadly infectious as influenza and will ultimately infect 1/3 of the planet (with the usually quoted 2% fatality rate). More likely the number of infections will be lower than that by an order of magnitude at least (even though it will still be a global pandemic). If you look at the quarantined cruise ship only 63 out of 3700 people have been confirmed as cases. At 1.7% (and of course still growing) that is still very far off from 33%.

It is still troubling because if you assume the impact is like viral pneumonia then the impact of effectively doubling the number of cases of that worldwide will stress our health care systems, and it will increase mortality in vulnerable populations (very young and older people with comorbidities). I'm a bit worried about my mom and dad who are pushing 80 now, I'm not much worried about myself (48 with no other issues). Healthy 25 year olds probably won't catch this at all, and if they do they'll just get a bad cold.
Yes, it is great to read source code. One of the great things about most things being on GitHub these days. Also great when you can use decompilers (Java and .NET especially) to determine exactly how the library code you use works.

One of my favorite exercises though is to port code from one language to another. Reading the code gets you to one level of understanding. Implementing it yourself while following along gets you to another level. But translating it really gets you a level of mastery of what the code is doing.
This is the key, or should be. Where I work it is often repeated that what you’ve done to get “here” isn’t going to get you “there” so doing more of it isn’t going to help.
+1

I am working on this problem. Let me know if you are interested, I would like to hear your opinion. My Keybase is in my profile or I email you.
Not Cool Microsoft
Indeed, one could argue that Microsoft has been encouraging its customers to effectively spoof the domain. So it's totally obvious that it ought to buy it.

Still, this is the funniest thing that I've seen in months.
Too bad this is US only. Looks interesting
Thanks!

I'll be very happy the day I can

sudo apt install lyx gnuplot octave octave-forge darktable gimp fluxbox

on a windows box, and have my workplace spring to life, all dependencies handled.

I'm very glad to hear that wsl has a viable display export -- the next time I have occasion to use a Windows 10 box, I'll give it a try.
I'm not an expert, but that kind of sounds like F# (maybe not the typeclasses though?).
Oh new one https://twitter.com/WarsontheBrink/status/122621213581606092...
I'm not a Mormon, admittedly know very little about the religion, and don't want to make any statements criticizing or defending it. But it is a mistake to assume that the size of a subreddit is anything but a tiny representation of the real phenomenon. Reddit is not reality. The overwhelming majority of people don't use it or even know what it is.

It may simply be the case that Mormons are more tech-savvy as a group than Christians as a whole and thus they gravitate to online communities.
The main problem is that most compilers really need lots of registers to optimize well. Without lots of registers, you're constantly spilling to memory and that makes things slow. If you program in assembly, you have visceral knowledge of when you overrun you registers and you will restructure the entire architecture of your program to avoid that.
And if it weren't for the fact that there are several thousand known and published leaks of information that the church has tried to cover up and whitewash through "official" media, then that might be a reasonable assumption.

It's not a massive conspiracy. It's a very simple conspiracy: don't tell people what you do with the money they give you, and then they don't have any way to criticize you about how you use it. In fact, the very culture that they've fostered to enable this freedom from criticism (just trust me, I'm a mormon bishop!) has become a problem that others have begun to exploit.

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/official-statement/...
First, we need immortality to make it until AGI becomes reality in ~100 - 1000 years from now.
> Third case in the UK is from someone who visited Singapore.

> New cases in France are from someone who visited Singapore.

These cases are the same person: a UK person who attended the international Servomex meeting in Singapore, and then holidayed at the France ski chalet: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/08/coronavirus-holi...
Here is a related article from Forbes.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2020/12/30/mormons...
Can't speak to this exact instance, but in other cities, I've seen them run buses along closed routes.
The singularity. Make software which is capable of making even better software without human intervention.
It's pretty shocking that we are where we are in 2020. That year sounds like the future to me, but in computer interface terms it's definitely dystopia. The market failure to cap all market failures!
When I was in the 18-29 year old age range, like more than half your users, I definitely wasn't thinking of ways I could date a girl in another city or country. That would be incredibly frustrating in a way that I don't need to explain further. (I had a relationship that had a long-distance stint in my 30's and it was still maddening. I gained 25 pounds from depression.)

It seems to me that the guys would have some type of non-typical motivation to do this when they could otherwise just get out of the house or use an app to meet local girls. Remote worker and rural? Personality type? Older man, younger woman? Expat not wanting to date locals?

Can you survey some of your users, male and female, to determine their motivations?
Uncle Sam tells F-35B allies they'll have to fly the things a lot more if they w
God Mode Unlocked: Hardware Backdoors in x86 CPUs (2018) [video]
Paper notes work better for small, in-the-moment things.

For tasks, this might be the plan for the next few days, where everything fits on the same page.

For notes, those might be scribbles to help solve the problem at hand.

Larger and more long term things start benefitting from searchability indeed.
Average 77,000 Active Web Shells a Day, Microsoft Reports
I like how you can drag tasks directly to Google Calendar. Do you know if it is possible to drag them as events, not reminders? I prefer to block entire time slots as events in my calendar because it helps me better manage my time. For example, I would add a 3 hour long event called "refactor hello_world" or a 2 hour one "find lost socks" and dedicate these time block to these specific activities. Unfortunately, you cannot change the length of reminders.

Alternatively, is there any other software with this feature? I have been looking for one for a while but no luck :-\
That issue has been raised for nearly a decade now in the security community so definitely not a new question. And there have been stories like this: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-25780908
A state hero that the state arrested and silence just weeks earlier? That would be transparent.