skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from the paper -- https://frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.11...

Typically, the daily declination comprises westwardshifts in the morning and eastward-shifts in the afternoon, while the magnetic field is rather stable at night
[21,22]. This calls for necessity to test whether the dog
alignment is not actually influenced primarily by time of
the day and most probably by position of the sun on the
sky. We can, however, exclude this alternative. First, days
when the magnetic field parameters change erratically
and unpredictably (i.e., magnetic storms) are quite frequent. These changes have been well studied by others
and are described in the literature (cf. [21,22] for reviews). Second, the data collection was not biased to
either morning or afternoon (Table 8). Third, periods of
sampling under conditions of quiet magnetic field were
rather evenly distributed in the course of the day.
Fourth, and most importantly, alignment during excreting was apparent under conditions of quiet magnet field,
irrespective of the time of day or month. Time of day
per se was not a reliable predictor of expression of alignment (Figure 2, Tables 3, 9). Fifth, generally, there are on average 1,450 sunshine hours per year at maximum in
the Czech Republic and in Germany, on localities where
measurements were done. Even if we would assume that
these sunshine hours were evenly distributed over the
daylight period and the year (as our observations were),
there would only be a probability of 33% that the observation was made when the sun was visible. Hence,
with high probability (67%) most walks during the daylight period were made when it was cloudy.

Last but not least, the argument that the dogs might
orient with regard to sun position so that they turn with
their back to the sun in order to avoid dazzling by
sunshine during such a sensitive and vulnerable act as
excretion can be questioned. This argument is not
plausible for urine marking, which is a brief act. We
doubt that a dog that cares of not being attacked would
always make sure to be turned away from the sun. The
dog will likely look in that direction from where danger
can most probably be expected - and this is for sure
not always the direction away from the sun. In contrast
to a human, the dog is relying also on its nose and its
ears (in some breeds even more than on its eyes) when
monitoring its surroundings - so we may expect that
the dog heads with its nose and pinnae against the wind or in the direction of interest. Directing the
pinnae and the nose may take priority over eyes. One
can also often observe that dogs (especially during
defecation) align in a certain direction, which is actually a different one from the direction of interest and
they turn their head then in that other direction. Also
we have to take into account that dogs are smaller than
humans, they look at a different angle over the horizon
and even in situations when we are dazzled, they might
be not. Quite important: note also that the preference
is axial - there are many cases when the dog actually
looks southwards. There is no evidence for shift of the
alignment axis during the day.
> Matthew 19:24, direct 'quote' from Jesus: "Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." Seems pretty clear.

People have quoted that single verse a lot, and it's often funny to me when someone says something along the lines of "seems pretty clear" in regards to a single verse, especially one which people aren't sure is even translated correctly.

If we read it in context, in my opinion doesn't align with the implied meaning that you can't get into Heaven 'easily' if you are rich. Like many good teachings, they start with a question (ftr I'll be using the KJV version).

> 15 .. Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?

Christ then goes on about what people should do to have eternal life, like keep the commandments. Christ said that someone who is simply rich will have a hard time receiving it. Even today in many cultures and economies, we associate wealth with goodness. We often trust more those who have lots of money. We look up to them. The disciples were amazed that a rich person would have a hard time getting in. If we look at other examples (like the widow and her mite), the people often looked down upon the poor. The poor often couldn't worship as the non-poor did.

So it's not the act of being rich, but rather a. what you do with your wealth, and b. if you're asked to give it up, will you? There's example of a young man who was asked to do that in a few verses prior.

For a., you cited the parable of the talents, which is a great addition to this topic. People who are given much, have much expected of them.

But they are using it for members of the church, and non-members. Are they storing money? Sure, but is that inherently bad? Nope. You could store money for a. a rainy day and b. to pay for upcoming things. Does the church do both, they do.

For b., have the LDS members been asked to give up wealth, in order to do good? Yes, they have! At the early days of the church, thousands gave up effectively everything they had. They abandoned their lives and moved across the USA, or across the Atlantic, or other long treks.

> President Brigham Young (1801–77) spoke of the difficulty people face when they accumulate riches: “The worst fear that I have about this people is that they will get rich in this country, forget God and His people, wax fat, and kick themselves out of the Church. … This people will stand mobbing, robbing, poverty, and all manner of persecution, and be true. But my greater fear for them is that they cannot stand wealth” (quoted in James S. Brown, Life of a Pioneer [1971], 122–23).

You quoted my question, but didn't answer why they do it, but simply said that hoarding money is bad. Are they doing it to be bad and watch it be wasted? This reminded me of an interaction in the Book of Mormon, Alma 30:

> 35 Then why sayest thou that we preach unto this people to get gain, when thou, of thyself, knowest that we receive no gain? And now, believest thou that we deceive this people, that acauses such joy in their hearts?

> 36 And Korihor answered him, Yea.
The RNA-world hypothesis conjectures that life started via a chemical soup developing things similar to viroids.

These early RNA-based replicators would go on to become more complicated, first developing a protective barrier and then specialized organelles.

As a byproduct of that process, viruses developed which could interact with organelles (or just the soup inside a cell) to reproduce themselves without being part of the host "genetic code".

In approximate complexity order:

- self-replicating compound, in solution with precursors

- viroid

- virus

- bacteria

- archaea

- eukaryota

From that perspective, hiding viroids (or similar simple replicators) in comets and boosting them into other systems would be a relatively efficient way to "seed" life around the cosmos.
Sure they can be, but the whole ethos behind it is "don't make me think about anything other than the application."

So by default the majority are looking for hosted services, otherwise they'd just build their own stack. For anything other than some organization building a bunch of applications, that same Nocode Dev has no need to ever migrate so long as some major service provider is doing it for them.
You're intentionally missing the point. It's a heuristic, not a requirement.
FoundationDB Summit 2019 (Videos)
Are there any alternatives to Visa and MasterCard?

It's 2020, I'd love to be able to pay for a transaction using a secret key to sign an authorization proving I was there.

Instead, credit card companies force us plain text numbers and somehow blame us when it gets stolen.
I live in Utah. When I resigned from the Mormon church the entire ward shunned me and I was ostracized by my family. My home teacher told me that the bishop told the men in the priesthood not to associate with me.
This is also why dogs stare directly into your eyes as they poop. They're vulnerable, and you're their lookout.

Might also be why they come into the bathroom or wait by the door when you're doing your business.
What a juvenile question.
and another: https://ibb.co/5n8FRN1
Your example covers a large plurality of Christianity but does not define the umbrella of Christianity.

For the record, Mormons consider themselves Christian, and are considered part of the Christian taxonomy. As an example, the first line of "Mormonism" wiki article says:

> Mormonism is the predominant religious tradition of the Latter Day Saint movement of Restorationist Christianity started by Joseph Smith in Western New York in the 1820s and 30s.[0]

More info at [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restorationism
I have made this with Svelte to learn swiping on the web in a lower level. You swipe up to change the video as on tiktok. There is a simple algorithm that never shows you the same video again, which I think is the most important thing for a nsfw site. It uses the browser storage to keep watched videos for privacy reasons.
I think what you are looking for is Indie Hackers: https://www.indiehackers.com/
They have a plethora of interviews with one-man projects you can learn from.
TIL discovering viral novelty is common:

> Viral novelty doesn’t surprise Elodie Ghedin of New York University, who looks for viruses in wastewater and in respiratory systems. More than 95% of the viruses in sewage data have “no matches to reference genomes [in databases],” she says. Like Abrahão, she says, “We seem to be discovering new viruses all the time.”

You don't know what you don't know, I guess. That also means there is an invaluable wealth of genetic knowledge out there that we haven't recorded yet. I can't wait to see what insights are revealed once we've catalogued that missing 95%.
Same. I've used a loose type of bullet journaling for most of my software development career and it's the only workflow I've been able to stick to that I feel increases my overall output.
I’m not old enough to have been around in the day of the original user groups, but I’m pretty active on Meetup these days, finding other developers in my city using similar languages and tools.

Curious to know what the contrasts are of the golden days and modern day.
I don't get that from TFA.

> Some of Yaravirus’s genes look like those in a giant virus, but it’s still unclear how the two are related, Abrahão says. He and his colleagues are still investigating other aspects of the novel virus’s lifestyle.

I don't know enough about this stuff to comment coherently. Last I knew, it wasn't clear whether viruses were remnants of prebiotic stuff, or derived from cellular organisms, or some of each.
Show HN: FHIR-native open developer platform for healthcare
McDonald's app bug let people order for free in France
There is an enormous, well funded, Silicon Valley lobbying effort directed at weakening the patent system. The last Patent Office director was head of Patent Strategy for Google for almost a decade. However, almost all the other industries, from automotive to pharmaceuticals to aerospace, and even some of the more traditional players in Silicon Valley, are on the other side of the issue.
> If that person is really an "ex-member" (meaning they had their name removed from the church's records),

This is the issue. The names don't get removed. Everyone that leaves is just "inactive". Tell me you don't see that. Tell me you don't see people talking about how to get them active again. Because I've been to a lot of wards and seen that discussion in every single one. "They are just inactive".

I've told members to their face that I left, and they have responded "oh, you you're inactive?" I guess not attending church for over a decade and having a bad taste in my mouth isn't leaving, it is inactive.

We don't do this in normal society. If you stop showing up to play sports with your friends, you aren't considered a team member anymore. Especially after you tell them "I don't want to be on the team anymore." How would you feel if everyone on that team just kept saying "oh, they're just taking a break. They'll come back." You know, decades after you left...
Yes it's indeed interesting (and reassuring) how the situation has evolved even after starting with the usual fog management policy.
Most of our Flatcar Container Linux users run Kubernetes. It's really an ideal match for a minimal container OS.
Most, if not all tooling, comes with a learning curve. But once you pay it, that initial ramp up time is not required on the next project.

I could start a new project with Spring Boot and Ember.js, provision a Debian box with Postgres and nginx, and deploy all of it within an hour because I know these tools. But I too paid the learning price my first go round.
How to stop failures of major custom software procurements
Package management for C/C++. Every project I've worked on has required significant setup effort. Also, downloading OSS and compiling often fails due to dependencies.
Turn it into an experiment and I'll believe it. See if you can control where dogs poop with an elecromagnet.
First clinical trial of an automated blood drawing and testing device
Looks like the conflict thesis and Draper's work have been discredited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_thesis
No, but one of the more surprising things I learned this election season was that Beto was in a hacker group.

Didn't strike me as a computer guy but I guess he is/was?
Thanks bro!
I have been using a single text (markdown) file for at least five years instead of the todo list I usually write what is done during the day and sometimes add important tasks that need to be done. I try to keep everything fairly plain and avoid overcomplicating the structure. For me this provides an easy way to go over the history, usually try to document more complex devops operations, decisions etc.

I use Sublime to keep the document open there, works really well with larger files.

Each day begins with separating section:
# 08.02.2020 #
...
# 09.02.2020 #
Any discussion related to "church" funds makes me go back to a very interesting question: how much is the Catholic church worth today?

I remember a while ago spending a few hours trying to dig some useful info. Of course there's not much online, and estimates range from 100s of B$ to something between 1 and 2 T$. Still credible.

The even more interesting part is how the Catholic church managed to amass this huge wealth over the course of two millenia.
Very nice post! A lot of awesome references here.
It doesn't make sense. Paint and notepad provide basic functionality and are less than a megabyte (and the size could be optimized more). Making them optional provides zero real-world benefit, with the downside that now some systems now have no way to edit a text file.
HiSilicon is a subsidiary of Huawei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiSilicon
p<0.05 is also cargo-cult science, and is much more responsible for the replication crisis -- along with biased sampling (pop. 18-22 yo US psych students).

It is also why we see repeated, spurious insistence that anti-depressants don't do anything.

Experiment design is a subtle skill.
tbh epidemiologist said non asian countries would lag 7-14 days after China, and so far the yellow curve is still flatter than I thought it'd be.
In my friend's case, the process of removing her name from the records was something she learned about online in an ex-Mormon support group. Nobody in the church told her about it despite contacting multiple people in the church multiple times to ask to stop getting contacted. When she heard about it, her first reaction was that it was probably an urban legend, since nobody from the church even told her it existed, much less suggested it as the right way to accomplish what she was asking for. She was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be a legit thing.

How can you keep doubting that this happens consistently and by design? When my friend connected online with other people who left the church, she heard lots of stories identical to hers. They're not crazy people. They're just people who wanted to leave the church.
From the article:

"Overall, if I were to list traits of a senior engineer, technical skills wouldn’t be in the top 3 on that list."
I'm struggling to understand who the audience of this post is.

At the end of the day, "Senior Software Engineer" is a job role, not some ideology. Pretty much every where I've worked, Senior means someone who knows the why. Most companies review the engineers already on multiple axes, not just technical merit. There is little value in baking these non-engineering skills into the definition.

Articles like these certainly don't help much with the impostor syndrome.
How do you count a dead person who’s apartment building was welded shut [1].

I doubt these deaths were counted, nsfw/graphic [2].

Just doing basic research will tell you the Chinese CCP numbers are not accurate.

[1] https://twitter.com/IndoPac_Info/status/1226180829837025281

(Nsfl/ graphic) https://twitter.com/FinnaganMarina/status/122476176399400141...
They actually are but it's on by default. The setting is called "Show suggestions occasionally in Start".
Yacy. Legendary yacy. Still around. Also gigablast
That's the next paper I'm sure. This one was likely a study of the results and an accidental reveal of the correlation. It's possible the correlation was accidental though, a minor bit of p-hacking.

It'd be awesome to prove this false (if false) as it'd be a very compelling learning study for problem of p-hacking.
It's a fun sci-fi idea, but it's completely detached from reality.
I mean, humans can detect magnetic fields as well. There's even languages without relative egocentric positions like left/right, only north south east west. Given all that, I don't think it's out there that dogs sense it and like being aligned when they're trying to poop.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/humans-other-animals...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guugu_Yimithirr_language
Thanks a lot for sharing this. Never had any experience like yours, but I know of a few friends who experienced similar things with the Catholic church.
Seconded. This is very important - if you just walk into a hospital and later it turns out you had the virus, now they have to close the hospital and quarantine hundreds of patients who are already sick (and hence in higher risk).
Flatcar Container Linux is a drop-in replacement for CoreOS Container Linux which in my mind (I conceived the fork) makes it more than "an (almost) equivalent alternative". You can literally update straight into Flatcar from CoreOS using the standard update process. See https://docs.flatcar-linux.org/os/update-from-container-linu...
At very least, the EDTX circus was shut down, and I believe plaintiffs must now file in the district where the defendant is headquartered. [1]

[1] https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/22/supreme-court-location-p...
> senior architects at FAANG earning 1 million+ per year instead.

How many of those are there?
Octopus Evolution
General Motors. Several airlines. You’re describing bankruptcy protection. It means the debt holders will agree to pennies on the dollar or possibly even to forgive the debt but take over the equity wiping out the common shareholders. Companies can file for bankruptcy protection or debt holders can effectively force companies into bankruptcy if they default on their debt payments.
Vaping: What people are getting wrong
C'est incroyable de voir comment on parle encore de la PlayStation 4. Play Station 5 est sur le point de partir et la 4 est toujours en vie, c'est une icône classique de jeux vidéo comme eux http://thebeercandump.com/ocio/conoce-las-5-mejores-pelicula... sont les maîtres de l'analyse de films en ligne
I suspect that TPM-backed digital signature systems, like the nascent Apple Pay for Safari, will eventually become ubiquitous and eliminate the fraud angle.
I think it's really sad, because a system would likely have to be redesigned from scratch to make this happen. So it seems unlikely to happen.

But I'm not an OS expert, maybe it is possible.
When the magnetic field is non-calm that is probably due to a space weather event that is geo-effective and inducing large currents in the ground. The local magnetic field an then be significantly distorted depending on local conductivity. So to me that is not an oddity.
The math continues to work out as long as you use the right approach. You have to collect twice as much data, and then set half of it aside at random without examining it. Then you can do whatever perverse p-hacking multi-modeling curve-fitting whatever to the half you kept until you reach a hypothesis, then check it against the half you set aside to recover the statistical significance you lost by using techniques that may have overfit the first half. Unsurprisingly, the math works out because this approach is isomorphic to collecting the first half, studying it to form a hypothesis, then conducting a proper pre-hypothesized experiment to collect the second half. Validation via holdout sets is the same approach used in machine learning and elsewhere to prevent models from overfitting data.
I know how to work with org-mode and I’ve also tried the paper notebook. Both seem like they should be working fine, my problem is that I never remember to work on my notes or todos. The last entries are likely at least a few months old.

Typically I just want to start with whatever comes next, I probably already have a plan in my head and it doesn’t occur to me to write something down after I’m done. My workdays vary also significantly (tools, projects, contexts, etc.) so there’s no typical environment where I can integrate something like this into. Even a weekly reminder to write down my hours at the end of the week has failed to trigger action half of the time. It is only irritating when I do miss the notes, e.g. for a yearly review, filling out some timesheets or when googling for the 5th time in as many days for the same info.
Much of security is also a people problem, though. You can have all the best encryption/firewalls/etc and still get hacked because your CEO uses their first name as their AWS password.
Aren’t we talking about WordPad, not NotePad? I don’t think editing images is basic functionality for most users!
Modigliani–Miller Theorem
Or get your money out now in the first tranche and do something less risky with it? It’s not just the face they are profitable, it’s opportunity cost and risk also. If pulling out now screws everyone else involved,it’s not really their problem is it?
Very good point.

When the 2009 H1N1 flu virus hit, it infected 11% to 21% of the world's population. The mortality rate was low, at just 0.02%, but because of the number of people it infected it resulted in 284,000 deaths.

When a novel disease hits the population for the first time, it often spreads faster and wider than diseases for which we've developed some immunity.

The coronavirus mortality rate so far is alarmingly high. It is highly uncertain and very preliminary, but it could go in either direction. Early estimates of SARS were that it had a fatality rate of <3%. It was eventually revised upward to 9.6%.
Sure - entropy.

But is there any evidence that translates into an appreciable impact on device performance?

Perhaps it doesn’t, and this is why nobody is talking about it.
I'm probably picking nits, but is something intentionally designed and implemented a "flaw" if it works as intended?
It's been a loooong time since I used them. Sometimes, maybe on a fresh install, maybe when Win10 has decided to reset your defaults, there's that rare .rtf, .nfo, .bmp or some other file that awakens WordPad or Paint from their deep slumber in the depths of Microsoft Hell.

Presumably, Cthulhu comes next, which is why it's vital to hit the X button as soon as possible and stave off the apocalypse.