skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Close, but loans have a fixed return where vc money has much more opportunity making it potentially with the higher risk.
> On the other hand, if you want to remove your record from the church as a whole (the entire organization), you'd need to be clear about that with your bishop (local leader), and they are instructed to give you details about how to go about removing your record from church headquarters.

This is exactly how my friend was treated at every step of the way. They pretended that she hadn't actually asked for the right thing in the right way. It's shameful. She asked over and over not to be contacted ever again, by anyone, by any part of the church, in any locality. And to this day, people just like you pretend that it couldn't have happened that way, that she must have done something wrong.

"Gaslighting" is a word that I think is used way too lightly these days, but that's what the church did to her. It started before she left and was the reason she left. Every time she talked to people inside the church about the things that were happening to her, the reaction was, "Are you sure it didn't actually happen this other way?" They rejected her story of what happened and believed their own version instead.

> those kinds of mistakes are rare and local leaders will help however they can

I'm sorry, but I don't believe that even you can even pretend to believe that without it hurting a little bit.
Everyone should try and read busybox. It’s a fairly complete implementation of a normal “unix” user space without the libc. Most commands are completely contained in files less than a few thousand lines long and can be read through and completely understood in an afternoon. I personally use it for most things because of that even if some utilities are a little incomplete, being able to double check the source easily makes me feel like I won’t get surprised.
Dogs are predators. We've domesticated a lot of that out of them, sure, but they've got the eyes facing forward and carnivore digestive tract. What would be higher to a wild dog or wolf in the wild?
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Thanks! I also appreciate honesty about faults, so this is sort of a golden-rule thing for me. I'm glad I'm not alone :-).

I don't know anything about Nix. So the short but perhaps unsatisfying answer is that I have not considered adopting Nix.
Strange Attractions
I read that comment and thought “repl.it founder’s gonna be in here real quick.” Then I saw your comment with ‘0 minutes ago’ at the top.
What "missionary records" are you talking about? I'm not aware of any official, separate missionary records. I was also a missionary and the only records/lists we saw were those kept by local wards. Were they perhaps (unofficial) manually-stored paper records kept by previous missionaries or something?
If you want your assistance to go straight to those who need it - then walk right to that person and give it to them. If you want someone who is experienced in making said assistance stretch further than just to that one family, ask someone experienced. Complaining seems like you don't trust the person to whom you just put in charge of using your donation wisely. So why was the donation made again?

Obviously one would expect the charity to report yearly on their endeavors - since no aid may be going out at all - however, reporting on each dollar would be a tad difficult to track. So not sure what would be required here.

Emptying out said donations all in one go (to avoid the perception of hoarding say all 100 billion) may not be good either since problems today may be more bearable than problems tomorrow. So not sure what would be required here either.

Probably the best remedy of those who do not wish to trust the Lds charities, would be to stop donating to them.
I was a member of "The Northwest of Us", which was a play on Apple's tagline for the original Mac, "The computer for the rest of us." It was in Chicago's northwest suburbs (Palatine, Arlington Heights, Rolling Meadows area).

This was during the late 90s, early 2000s. At the time it was a great way to introduce less technical users to the Internet and various computer tools they might not know about.

The thing that eventually made it not worth my time was that as time passed, it was more and more newbies, and less and less technical stuff. They eventually spun off a programmer's group and I pretty much stopped attending the main meetings and just attended the developer meetings.

A typical main meeting was about 3 hours long. It would start with anybody from the audience asking questions and the techies would answer them for about 30 minutes. Then it would be followed by an hour or two of guest speakers doing product demoes or sometimes members of the group presenting something they thought would interest the group. It would wrap up with a raffle that usually included a give away of whatever was demoed.

After going to these meetings for a year or so, it just became too much. 3 hours once a month on a Saturday is a lot of time to spend for what ultimately wasn't much reward. I did enjoy meeting the people who attended, as they were a fairly diverse crowd from very young to very old across a spectrum of different lifestyles - high school and junior high-aged kids, moms and dads, small business owners, etc.

In fact, I had my own small business at the time selling graphics software. One guy I met there was a retired motion graphics artist who had worked on news and talk shows in the 70s and 80s before they used computers for that! It was fascinating to hear him talk about the methods they used to use. I do miss making those sorts of connections, but don't miss the hours of boring product demoes.
But dogs are descended from wolves, which I think are apex predators, and were domesticated by humans, another apex predator.
Oh boy I’m so excited to be a colonizer.
I think what should be focused on first is getting more diverse people majoring in computer science.

In my graduating class (2017) the ethnic ratio was 80% white 20% Asian. All men. This was a private liberal arts school where 60% of the student population was female, so it's not like it was an engineering school with no women.

Since I've graduated there have been a few women and other ethnicities but still way more white men.

There were a few women my year who started out as cs majors but switched as underclassman.

That being said, I'm not sure why this is. In other hard/scientific (math, natural science, etc.) majors there were way more women then men.
It's not quite a canned package, but we try to keep the Laptop support wiki up to date:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops#T-Z

And for the T470s in particular (yes, it's somewhat sparse, and the links suggest a non-ideal amount of effort required, but purportedly it seems to work at the end): https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops/Thinkpad_T470s
And we are driving huge percentages to extinction before they are even recognized.
Incredibly irritating presentation. Does anyone actually find this cool or delightful and not just unacceptable eye rape? Also, the title implies something slightly more interesting than a couple of guys testing out some garden-variety ransomware software they downloaded from a spooky website. I may have missed some details but I'm sure as hell not clicking that link again until I've disabled JS.
A belief about values cannot be called a "false belief". You should rephrase that.
Simulating a universe in which Newton's laws are only partially valid
Because they don't want to play a part in unmaintained CD pipelines that pull ancient vulnerable images for the next many years.
The question said "that could be actually solved if you could pay an rationally large team of serious hackers a rationally large amount of money for a rationally long period of time." I have a strong suspicion that your answer doesn't fit.
I thought that at first too, until I went deep into the literature.

Dieting through caloric restriction is closer to starving than water fasting. When you reduce calories, the body adapts by reducing your metabolism and producing hunger hormone. This explains why we stop losing weight, and then rebound hard with eventual binge eating. Our bodies are aware that food is around because we continue to eat. It signals through cravings and hunger to seek out highly glycemic calories (sugar).

Water fasting is different. After day 2, autophagy is induced through prolonged ketosis. At this point glycogen stores from the liver is depleted, and the body switches to ketone bodies (fat) as fuel instead of glucose (carbs). The metabolism is actually increased, which makes breaking through fat plateaus seem effortless.

This mechanism produces growth hormone which preserves muscle mass and increases the metabolism. The average person tends to consume about one pound of body fat off the body a day.

Water fasting produces stem cells. You can literally give yourself stem cell treatment.

Fat is fuel, and water fasting is not the same starving. I can go on, but instead I suggest consuming the available studies yourself and forming your own opinion.

Source: I’ve gone deep into the fasting rabbit hole and am convinced Americans need to know about it. I’ve fasted many times, including 20 days on water alone (no calories). A few years ago I felt like hell and even looking at a cheeseburger put the pounds on. Now I can eat a whole pizza in one sitting again like when I was a kid. Am ripped.
The Axis included Japan and Italy. Without Japan, the US wasn't likely to fight in the war and lead to the outcome we got (or atleast at that speed).
We've made something similar at Repl.it -- we call it "Repl from Repo". It's far from running everything but it can run a lot: https://repl.it/blog/github

We tried to make it as seamless and as low configuration as possible. Our "run on repl.it" badge is currently growing exponentially on GitHub.
When a grocery store has self-service cashier stations, is it acceptable to only scan half of your items?
The Windows hosts file is usually at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts. Winsock was modelled after BSD, hence the resemblance in the filename.

/etc/resolv.conf is available from Bash when WSL is enabled. It reflects the settings from the registry by default, but can be made to be independent of them.
I Made a Thing: Markedit
What are you talking about?

A high end router with those features will definitely come with VLAN support.

Asus certainly does
I can't begin to answer this question, sorry! I mostly don't work on network drivers at all, and the 80211 family/stack is its own beast that I am utterly unfamiliar with.
I can't believe this situation.

This is a guy who, by his own admission, wants it to go to Microsoft, but is also holding an auction. He could just quote Microsoft $2M and be done with this whole thing.

Instead, he and this "security firm" publish a big article on one of the internet's most lauded security blogs where they outline how blown away they were with how much data was being sent to this domain. They left it open for 15 minutes and got millions of emails, passwords, etc. "Wow, bad people reading this, look at how much data you could get. You better join in on the auction. Microsoft, you seeing this? You better get in on this too. Bid often and bid well, friends."

I wonder what kind of authority ICANN has in revoking domain name registrations in extreme circumstances. Microsoft fucked up here, but we're long past that being a relevant component in this discussion. This registration should be pulled out from under O’Connor and blocked from registration for 100 years.
Maybe. I'm not in that geo these days, so I have no way to gauge relative percentages. Do you think that is right?

I've raised large rounds in the past, both corporate and VC, and I've learned to be wary about misaligned incentives.

Now - I don't go around saying: "Don't raise VC ever!", but I'm a little more attuned to the trade-offs than I used to be.
SQL and its continued success is a testament to how valuable this approach can be. Could be something here though, as I have found maintaining databases and datasets in a sane way to be difficult, even today.
Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was great for bacteria
So do people append at the bottom or put each new day at the top?
> It's really a fascinating piece of psychology to me, that once there's a "system" in place, abusing holes in it feels like a reasonable thing to do, even if the end result is effectively shoplifting.

This is the same anti-empathetic "what can we get away with" dynamic as stores engaging in surveillance-based advertising, deploying menacing robots that bother customers, setting up mobile device tracking and facial recognition cameras, price discriminating with coupons and routine sales, etc. Also when any customer service fleshbot says they "can't" do something because the computer says no.

It's only as technologists that we see the details of technology as ultimately mediating interpersonal actions rather than just taking its presence as a given. We know better than to mess around with holes in apps this way, largely because it's in the category of malicious hacking which generally gets punished pretty hard (burn the witch!), especially if you are one of the first to find such tricks.

But I personally am not going to get too upset over some individuals getting occasional freebies, especially while similar abuse by businesses tends to get normalized and then scaled up.
>When Amazon accidentally sells expensive camera equipment for 99% off on Prime Day

I've always wondered how much of those are actually mistakes, and not just media stunts
Huawei P20 and P30 series, Mate 20 and 30 series do this. Plug a USB-C cable to an external monitor, Bluetooth mouse and keyboard and you have a desktop like experience, with apps opening in Windows like you'd expect on a desktop. This includes a taskbar, pinned apps, resizable windows and more. No extra hardware needed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12575501 John Carmack .plan Archive (2014)
How to Design a Game with a Purpose
Low Tech Magazine did a piece on this back in June: https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2019/06/wooden-wind-turbines...
And if the earful consists of a bunch of toxic nonsense about how I’m not raising my kid according to your dogmatic interpretations of some fairy tale from the Bronze Age, you can fuck right off. Being related doesn’t give you some inviolable right to my time or attention, despite what you may think. You can spout off all you want about “western views” and what your rights are because we share parents, but at the end of the day, if you can’t actually make a cogent case for your views themselves and you insist on being a judgmental dick about it, you won’t be part of my life.
If you don’t change the inode then no restart should be required. There’s definitely a few tools out there that solve this problem without needing to restart httpd.
I've been experimenting with Colony and other similar software in the past months in the hope to let the community decide on some aspects of our project.

In my opinion we are still a few years away from something usable but the concept of DAOs is really exciting.

The main issue is the high cost of ETH gas, which means just to vote on a single issue may cost a few dollars in smart contract gas fees.

So we're now looking for aspects of the decision making process which are worth the cost.
We haven't found any so far.

Either way, it's great to be able to be part of something so potentially disrupting so early in the journey.
It’s the resolver search feature for making unqualified domain names easier to use. The security problems and safe implementation advice were documented over 26 years ago https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1535 so Microsoft does not really have a good excuse for getting it so wrong.
I talk about this all time. Our phones are strong enough, just give me a stupid terminal to plug in to for a keyboard and screen.
Interesting that they had the exact same issue on both platforms. It's also the kind of thing where some people might just guess that the behavior is intentional and take advantage of it.
The National Archives Can't Keep Up With Incoming Records, History Getting Lost?
> US aerospace funding by the government is clearly broken, this is known the world over.

I generally agree with you here - but we'll need to separate "privatizable" aerospace projects from others.

Rocket design is quite old, being a prerequisite to all else. No wonder a lot of experience was gained and - by now - private enterprises can optimize this, so governments should step aside.

At the same time there are projects which could produce commercial benefits after much longer time spans. Automatic interplanetary stations are in that range. So are space telescopes.

That explains how, simultaneously, SpaceX can outwit NASA in rocket design - yet doesn't yet venture into space telescopes business, nothing serious there.
Paper Money as a Standard of Value (1898)
No, a life that kills you is not comfortable.

An American life values money over ease of living though, as rightly pointed out in the article. But it's definitely not something to say to one who will view it unfavourably.

Putting people under constant adversity does not make them do better: Only happens if that adversity teaches them something.
I called it an entity that invests in businesses. It very clearly has an investment arm (which I have known about for decades). The Church owns physical assets and I’m okay with that. I’d rather it have liquid assets than struggle to pay its bills like in the 1800s - early 1900s. I’m a fan of financial prudence.

At the end of the day, and as unpopular as it is, I believe Joseph Smith saw the Father and the Son. Other things are details. I’m not a naive or ignorant person, but I honestly have no issue with how the Church handles its finances (as an organization). Given that we do not believe that anyone is infallible (including the Prophet) I will stop short of absolute statements of any one particular person. But, as an organization, they handle their finances prudently.

Which I appreciate and respect.
I'm kind of skeptical on this one.

I find that there are far more factors that tend to take priority in the direction our dog relieves herself. Oncoming/prevailing wind, rain, whether she was spooked in a particular direction or not, amount of exertion (was she running or walking before the urge hit), ambient noise, presence of echo, presence of other animals and whether or not she feels safe around them.

I mean, it's a nice sample size, and I suppose the data is fun, but a follow up should probably be done taking into account magnetic north is currently hauling ass to the geospatial west and see if dog alignment changes with that.

Furthermore, where are the instances of dogs forming defecation circles around MRI's?

No defecate based outlines of magnetic field lines, no dice in my humble opinion. Yes. I know, I'm a stick in the mud; but if you're going to claim something like this, that's actually a fairly easy way to confirm it. Just head to a radiology clinic with your dog and have them do their business. You should see wildly divergent behavior over time, because they aim to keep those machines operating regularly, which should definitely be able to overwhelm the Earth's ambient magnetic field in close proximity.
This isn't that the church has $100 billion dollars. They actually are estimated to be worth more than Apple in real estate and cash.

This $100B is one single fund that is a "secret" fund. It was collected by the church members donating to charity, but asking the church to allocate the funds. So this is in addition to all the other offerings a member is required to make (10% of pre-tax gross income). So the church took money promising to allocate it to charity, and the church members thought they were donating to charity, but the church instead siphoned it off and kept it for themselves in a secret fund that they denied existed. It took a whistleblower from within the fund's organization to reveal it to the public.

So this is in addition to normal money that the church has, or its real estates, or its hundreds of billions in other investments. This is actually a tiny slice of the pie, but it was collected maliciously and wasn't reported to the IRS.
The grasp of the party pervades Chinese culture - particularly because their communications are monitored. China is effectively a black box. They so tightly control information that there is little the international community can gain from scrutiny. You are underestimating the awesome power of a modern orewellian surveillance state, and party loyalty had been forced into the culture of the average person. They will put their country first, and that includes maintaining that nothing severe is going on in their Homeland while they are abroad. Try asking any recent Chinese immigrants/visa workers you know, and you'll see how they tell you everything is fine. Just be aware you're putting them on the spot. Gulags are a powerful motivator.
At what scale would you want to use RDS rather than using an EC2 instance with Postgres installed?

Assuming that the operator has the skills to manage Postgres.

It's not like RDS does something complex like Geodistribution, right?

Also what is the scaling like? Is it automatic? How quickly can you handle more connections? Because my understanding was that it was slow.

I did have a play with their RDS Postgres nonths before, and I managed somehow to crash it requiring a restore from snapshot. Also their smallest instance was quite expensive for the performance.
That’s because most Catholics never go to church anyway. But they certainly do care if you don’t baptize their grandchildren.
Detected failures should bounce it to the cashier to ring it up. All the McD's I've been in with a kiosk also have a human cashier to help anyone with problems.

> or something else

Easy to account for it.

BTW, the entire reason for the invention of double entry bookkeeping is to detect errors, not throw up hands and say it can't be done.
> which lets you write macros using Python

Someone upthread said "nocode", and I think that's more on the money. Most people will never be "programmers" as we understand the term, but they could still benefit from a narrowing of the gap between what Excel can do and what (say) Python can.

An old hobby project of mine[1] had a go at this by letting spreadsheet users write functions in the spreadsheet itself, in exactly the same way they already used the spreadsheet to calculate things. Basically, if you just used the spreadsheet as a calculator, it would automatically define reusable functions out of those calculations. I think something like that would push Excel's power and usability forward for your average person, because it wouldn't make them reliant on programmers to implement the things they want.

1: http://6gu.nz
Maplin apparently had operating profits but accounting losses in the few years before it failed: http://www.coppolacomment.com/2018/03/the-sad-story-of-mapli...

As you can see, 15% interest rates will do that. But this is one of those weird PE setups where the left hand is lending to the right hand.
Sure some get a performance boost, but I believe more get a performance hit than a boost (and that's not counting the ones that don't even run at all).
It’s hit or miss, some utilities/bills are handled in the bill pay system as bank transfers, but other utilities they fall back to issuing checks. For me I’d say it’s 50/50, in a 500k person county.
I also tried on their site, the job app on there works :)
Memory safety. And I am addressing it by adding an Ownership/Borrowing system to D.