skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both are wrong. Churches should prove they act as non-profits just like any other organisation. Because especially in the US a lot do not exactly oppose profits.
Hacker culture and getting banned from the Internet for hacking police databases
Yes, there are actually about 700 companies tracked, I want to extend to the 5,000 biggest.
Are there any factual mistakes in what I've written or are the down votes case in point that a particular political group is incapable of even hearing defence of someone's right to express opinion on their personal blog that does not align with said group's political view.
I don't mind charities being exempt from paying municipal taxes on church land, but I do object to things like Sanitarium making Weetbix and Peanut butter, selling it in the supermarket, and not paying any company tax on profits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitarium_Health_and_Wellbein...
I believe Dropbox uses Mercurial as well.
If you don't want to go through thousand page textbooks on financial accounting, managerial accounting, and corporate finance, I recommend the following two short books to everyone:

1. Financial Statements, Thomas Ittelson - https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Statements-Rev-Thomas-Ittel...

2. Financial Intelligence, Karen Berman - https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Intelligence-Revised-Manage...

I've also found this website useful: https://www.accountingcoach.com/
Don't you find it funny that an org such as the church is a non-profit? I mean, sure, it has not stakeholders, but woah boy their members get decent salaries. I guess I should incorporate a non-profit.
The headline is a bit misleading, purely church things are still exempt, side projects a church may be doing are not. A mega church raking in millions: tax free. A small town church running community projects on the side: taxed for every bit of good it does.
Perhaps then the US needs more welfare and more social right, but all that they got is churches and "people of good will".
Hydrogen's energy-density makes it by far the best possible fuel for aviation. Improvements in aerogel manufacturing are making liquid-hydrogen tanks a practical prospect. LH2 is not mass-dense enough to fit in the wing tanks of existing airframes, but at least the LH2 tanks won't need to be pressure vessels.

Production of LH2 from cheap solar- and wind-generated electric power and water, right at the airport, will make aviation the most practical place to start using hydrogen as a fuel. Maybe auxiliary LOX tankage could help reach cruise altitude more quickly, or enable flying higher, so as not to waste the oxygen by-product.
I wonder if this would work for Martial Arts too (apologies if someone asked this already).
>One answer may be that 5nm was pretty much the end of miniaturization anyway

There is 3nm in 2022, 2nm GAA in 2024 and 1.4nm in 2026.
Are the harmful components from the seeds of parent plant or the newly grown plant?
>Taiwan has eliminated community spread

It's possible, but I would not be surprised to see community acquired cases pop up in Taiwan at some point. Testing is currently extremely limited.

For example Taiwan performed 94 tests yesterday[1]. This is for a population of around 24 million. Since June 18, the average number of daily tests was 153 [1][2], which are almost entirely nationals returning from overseas.

Compare this to ~700k/day in the US for a population of ~330 million.

The ubiquitous wearing of masks and attention to hand hygiene etc. in Taiwan makes it more likely that any community transmission will be a lot slower (and thus slower to lead to a serious case that is more likely to be detected), but could easily still be a greater than zero.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov.tw/en/Disease/SubIndex/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Taiwan
Maybe you could earmark the collected taxes for creating secular alternatives? Or maybe create a system where people don't have to rely on churches and rich people for charity.
Re-frame really doesn't add much in addition to Reagent, I really don't understand its popularity.
I haven't touched a Windows machine in the past 15 years and is shocked to read in this article that running DOS apps is no longer a feature of Windows. From my childhood they were as intertwined as the peanut butter and jelly on a de-crusted wonder bread.
I am planning a 1 on 1 battle mode in VRWorkout [1] where players have to challenge each other with exercises.
I am still in the design phase but it should be a way to get a competitve fitness challenge.

[1] https://vrworkout.at
The Beautiful Software Initiative
I was reading all the comments and found it really interesting. Thanks for the post.
> However, when you're typing a memorized series of letters on a keyboard, you're not comparing the keypresses to the letters appearing on the screen. You already know what you're typing and what you expect to see on the screen. Visual stimulus latency is on the order of 250ms, so you wouldn't even begin to start processing types for an order of magnitude larger than the latency of these text editors, for example.

nothing makes me want to throw my computer through the window faster than typing and not having an instant response honestly. It doesn't matter that the brain cannot process the letter. Would you imagine handwriting where the shape of the letters you write is 1/4th of letter shape late ?

Even for typing, just comparing xterm at 60hz and 120hz on my monitor feels different when typing moderately fast (100 wpm according to https://typing-speed-test.aoeu.eu/?lang=en)
> they should remind themselves that they are mortal, curbing their pleasure

I dunno, your “amplify love” interpretation seems diametrically opposed to the “curb pleasure” writing of the stoic philosophers
The tax exemption clearly seems to indicate it is only for religious services. Which means that other charities, including ones without a religious message, are disadvantaged.

While the treatment may still be preferential (it still has some unique tax exemptions), it at least sounds closer to fair. The specifics of the tax law of Montreal are probably unknown to most people here.
Much of that land has been owned by the churches for 100+ years. The land was probably on the edge of town and not so prime back then.
I still have a book on programming in COBOL I need to dust off.
Mormon church biggest land owner in Florida.
>Or maybe create a system where people don't have to rely on churches and rich people for charity.

Grow up, there is no utopia and whatever works already is better than nothing.
Afaik churches in the US doesn't even have to report anything, so there's no way to know where the money is from and what they are being used for. That's a pretty big difference
Terrorists dream of inflicting as much damage as "regular people" do when they continue acting like regular people in a pandemic.
If you want it to work across platforms then js is the way to go.

It could be written in a few hours
I don't know about the US tax system, but at least in my experience here in Australia, not every expense incurred by a business or partially-taxed non-profit is necessarily deductible. For example, I formed a company with some friends for the purpose of work on a single contract, and the expenses we incurred in incorporating the company were only deductible at a rate of 20% per year over 5 years, so we ended up having to pay tax without being able to deduct most of that particular set of expenses during the 1 year we were in operation.
Expensive and hard to know what you're looking for?
Curiosity and Perseverance both have radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs), virtually identical in design: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/rover/electrical-p...

The problem is for human inhabitants, the size of an RTG needed to provide power would be enormous and extremely dangerous to put into orbit. A more traditional fission generator could be much safer to put into orbit with the right design constraints, and deliver about a hundred times more power.

One such design would be to fuel the reactor on-orbit, and to launch the fuel in a vehicle with an escape system and isolation cask to ensure the fuel's safety during launch even in the event of failure... even though I honestly don't believe NASA will choose this option because of the weight/multiple launch problem, and the fact that they really want a reactor that's autonomous with respect to fueling and almost all aspects of serviceability. They're already playing around with designs on their own, even before they started soliciting commercial manufacturers and design partners to get in on it, with Kilopower and their 1KW KRUSTY prototype.
Wasn't there just a post about not posting political stuff? How does this interest tinkerers or hackers?
Breaking FLIPS “AI resistant captchas” (Part 1/3)
> Swan said on Friday that Intel’s products are still the best, despite the manufacturing delays.

LOL WUT?

AMD’s chips have twice the performance for half the price. The only people still buying Intel are name-brand fanboys or institutional buyers that need platform consistency. Anyone who cares about performance is already looking hard at AMD.

Intel has painted itself into a very dark corner by resting on its laurels. Somehow I’m thinking that it’s going to be the BlackBerry of the semiconductor world.
I don't think it defeats the purpose. It's not meant to make you anonymous, it's meant to shield your actual computer from exploits. It can do that just fine running on a VPS you rent.
My wife has the opposite: she's a broad eater who likes seafood, but is allergic to cod.

No other pelagic white fish, just cod.
Super eerie as I’m halfway through a rewatch tonight. And to think, Oscar winner Rod Steiger turned down the role for which George Scott would win his own Oscar.
IMO this post should not be on HN. Per the guidelines [1] "stories about politics" are off-topic. I would consider this political for obvious reasons.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>They are. There is no difference tax-wise for a non-profit and church.

While both churches and non-profits don't pay tax, they are treated differently. Secular non-profits have to account for the money coming in and out of the organization, while churches don't have to account for the donations or expenses.
Depends on the motivation to use - self-hosted option is of course bad for privacy, but still good for security - you could use a browser running on a separate machine, effectively making it a physically isolated sandbox
Pinebook Pro longer term usage report
This comes up often enough that there is an FAQ entry:

https://day8.github.io/re-frame/FAQs/DoINeedReFrame/
I do enjoy and agree with the pedantry of your point, but it's difficult to accept that, like many people, they _are_ moving to GitHub, and not Git.

GitHub is as much a tool here as Git itself.

Unfortunate really, as Git should be the panacea of distributed systems, open source. Instead we took that, centralised it all on a single big host, and became dependent on its proprietary features.

Still, these systems come and go. Remember SourceForge anyone?

But what probably differs today is that these modern services seem so much more complex they have an increasing gravity/lock in effect.
Aaannnddd...

I now feel stupid. I should've realized that, I've definitely studied enough.

Thanks for taking the time to explain it to my slow self.
They will use pull requests, but it is a design goal for the process to be somewhat independent of GitHub.

For more detailed information, the OpenJDK mailing lists archive is a good source.
No one really knows since they don't have to tell anyone how they get money or how they spend them
You should see some Soviet community centers before thinking they can replace anything.

USA is highly uneven. In some states like Florida you can see churches on every other corner, and they are very active and developing, serving not only as community centers, but also as halls, child day care, hospitals, schools, galleries etc. No freaking "community center" can replace that.
An excellent reason. I feel stupid now, I should've recognized that.
Not a lawyer but AFAIK:
- if you've a foreign shareholder you need a C-corp (to be honest, you'd want a C-corp anyway, you can't reinvest profits in a LLC)
- you need to account federal taxes @21%
- you don't incorporate an S-corp, you need to have an LLC of a C-corp and then you file to become an S-corp, which basically gives you tax free dividends at the expense of not being able to reinvest profits

There are much better tax deals to be had outside the states if you're trying to elude (the legal one, not evade) your country's high taxation.
Swan has a finance background, and isn't a semiconductor expert like Dr Lisa Su. I'm not surprised he knows absolutely nothing about the technology he's selling.
Alright, so all churches doing charity work now set up a non-for-profit. Problem solved?
FUV – Fun Utility Vehicle
Thats for items which depreciate in value over a multi year period right? I know that you were only in business one year but the tax system isn't really designed around 1 job incorporated companies.
Isn’t that the whole point of breaking new ground?
Vandana Shiva, one of the person's cited in the article is a crackpot and one of the 'environmentalists' who criticize everything but do not have a solution for anything. These people do more harm to the cause of environmentalism and green movement than people with scientific credibility (including those backed by Bill Gates) can ever do.
Even a church ought to be accounting where is moneys are going from and to... I have no qualms with the government being able to inspect those records too.

To me, reporting makes sense. For an organisation as big as a church, employing a few accountants seems like value for money simply because then fraud will be deterred.
I am slightly concerned that it's being advertised as security software, but the commit log looks incredibly... unpolished and uncared for, to say the least.
Thermal camera bracelet reads your wrist to track your fingers
Psalm is nice, however I would suggest PHPStan as an alternative for people that encounter a lot of friction with Psalm.

For example, in a project using doctrine I have to add a bunch of is null/@psal-mutation-free annotations. As all the methods can return null.

However, if Psalm had support for something like phantom types, maybe I could tag entities returned from the database for whom certain fields are guaranteed to have values.
I was too brash, of course there's no 100% guaranteed proven causality.

But "experiments", or rather observations, on for example Romanian orphanages show such strong evidence that, in my experience, this has become child psychology dogma
This has everything to do with software and is not about any deployment architecture.

A monolith approach means a single program. This is a software architecture approach and implies by definition that the whole app runs as one in a single box.

I don't understand the point of arguing.
Langcraft: Compile LLVM IR to Minecraft data packs
They also spend a lot of money and effort on promoting their own religion and interests. They could easily create subcharities that are seperate entities designed to do the charitable work while being taxed on their non charitable areas.
Gitlab’s community edition is a frustrating experience.

We created our private instance in 2012 or so, when Gitlab was bot looking for world domination and the entire project was promised to be open source forever, and they were gonna make money off the hosted service and support contracts.

Well, then the VC money hit and now navigating through basic features can be a confusing mess.

So after many years they released merge request reviews to the community edition. This would be great, except you don’t get access to enforcement. So the approval is a purely decorative feature (that would be as easily achieved earlier by simply having any approved hit the button).

To be able to develop any sort of collaborative project you have to install the proprietary version and at that point you’re hardly better off than Github except you’re paying more for less (although I’m not exactly sure of Github’s on prem pricing but the hosted Github is way more bang for the buck than either the hosted or on prem Gitlab). Gitlab also recommends installing the Proprietary edition and using the “free” tier over the community edition so you can upgrade to the paid features, which you cannot on the community edition. So if you don’t want to be blocked in the future you’re installing the proprietary version anyways.

And going with Gitlab you’re also rewarding the scammy bait and switch they pulled some years ago (I’m not sure when this changed because I stopped working with the company I setu it up at, but you can see the archive.org look at their website for the different focus earlier, and the off website messaging was also very different).
Thank you so much, I've memorized a few poems (Ozymandias being the first one) and this one will surely be added to that list. I really like this kind of theme, if you know more please share.
Just curious - why didn't you decide to serve the site from object storage?
Well, I know that here in Australia we mostly have what you want – there are few special tax exemptions for religious groups. Most of the religious exemptions from taxation in Australia are simply applications of the general tax exemptions for charities and non-profits, combined with the fact that religions are legally categorised as both.

The main specific exemption I know of relates to fringe-benefits tax (FBT). Not all charities and non-profits get FBT exemptions or concessions, only some. Religious institutions fall into one of those categories that do get FBT relief, but so do other non-profits like hospitals, aged care facilities, health-related charities, charities targeting poverty/homelessness/etc. But a charity which promotes the advancement of arts and culture, for example, would not get any FBT relief, although it would be eligible for other tax exemptions due to charities and non-profits.

Also, there is at least one area in Australian tax law where religious groups are disadvantaged: deductible gift recipient (DGR) status. Donations to religious groups are not tax-deductible when used to fund their core religious functions, only when used to fund their programs to help the poor, etc. By contrast, there are various other categories of charities and non-profits for which all donations are deductible (e.g. Scouts; Girl Guides; public libraries, museums and art galleries; some environmental groups; etc).
When it comes to religion, America is the (massive) exception.

My local church, that drives 10,000s of nearby resident crazy by ringing it's bells, had 3 people attending last time I stuck my head in.

3.

People only use it for weddings, christenings and Christmas.

They're not been a part of the community for decades.
> obsolete

>just over 50%

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(I feel like the glib single-character response stands on its own, but more verbosely: yeah, the trend isn't good, but a) there's no reason to assume it's linear, "fair-weather believers" is a thing, and b) I'm not a TIOBE follower, but let's say java use was 70% 20 years ago, and down to just over 50% today. Is "obsolete" the word you'd use?)
As someone who is a biologist in Australia, oh my god is it a headache to get seeds into Australia. Lots of paperwork involved if we actually want to grow overseas plants, much easier to import extracted RNA or DNA (but way riskier for the research, shipping companies aren't trustworthy in keeping smaller shipments on ice).
The dogs and the x-ray at the airport are not for drugs, they're mostly biosecurity, too.
I can't see something like the OP happening in Australia, it would get destroyed at the border
Aside from being plain condescending or outright rude, you've shut down discussion about any approach that may be different. A better response would have been to ask them to suggest something, or show a case (another country, say) where this was already done.
Submitter here (and author of one of the bug reports that got merged into this one).

My guess is the downvotes are an expression of the idea that, just because you personally find something relevant, doesn't make it okay for Mozilla to spam ~250 million people with what is essentially political advertising.
Hmm. In my experience, this an unusual opinion (to me, the author). Over the years the re-frame documentation has been the most praised part of the project.

Could you point out the area which you found unnecessarily difficult, and I'll happily review it. Could you also include your background, so I know where you are coming from? The docs are a little oriented towards JS developers coming across, but perhaps you are already very experienced with Clojure and data-oriented design, which makes it seem like the concepts more obvious. Maybe.
> some Soviet community centers before

Could you elaborate?
Define "works".
IDK I used an app like this and saved $14, so I was pretty happy. The trouble is that most people don't know about it.
What do you mean? Living in Germany I see plenty of protests.
The point is explicitly to use materials from the moon.
Do you mean in generational terms, or individual life experiences?
Get Your Own HTML/CSS/JS Playground (Like CodePen/JSFiddle)
https://studio.blnq.io

OpenSource at: https://github.com/blnqco/blnq-studio
I think the idea is not to give up on your emotions and be an inanimate machine-like creature, but indeed to embrace your emotions, to be in a deeper cohesion with them.

"The power of attachment should be as strong as the power of detachment", which is of course a much harder task than just detaching from everything.
“I don’t like the design of your pacemaker; mind if I take it out and use the parts to build you one I approve of” is not a sales pitch that works often.
We already have secular alternatives, state welfare in many countries. A worse value for money system would be hard to imagine, populated with clock watching, work-to-rule types who actively use bureaucracy to avoid work.
Software engineer with an MBA here.

I didn't have a bachelor's degree, got into coding as a hobby and turned it into a career. I needed a degree to put on my CV. All the hard problems I'd encountered weren't in the technology (99.9% of business coding is simple), so learning more CS wasn't actually going to help that much. So I took an MBA (they accepted my board experience as good enough to not require a bachelor's, with some hoop-jumping).

The MBA itself wasn't that instructive. The Leadership unit was the highlight. Knowing how to read a balance sheet and understand Corporate Finance was interesting. The Entrepreneurship unit was farcical - the first step was always to create a 40-page business plan and then consult a lawyer about IP. At the time I was getting heavily involved in the startup scene, and the differences between what I was learning at Uni and learning from actual entrepreneurs were huge. The rest of it was OK, not great, not bad. Certainly not difficult.

Having an MBA is useful. It has landed me interesting jobs. It does act to dismiss any "but he's just a code monkey" arguments. It looks great on my bio when part of a startup team. The leadership training has been great when managing people.

But it doesn't stop the bias against people who build things. I still get regularly sidelined in meetings in preference to sales and marketing people. I still find it hard to argue my case even with the correct finance terminology. It's annoying, and it was one of the things I hoped the MBA would fix. Apparently not.