skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are fleeing, in fact. An important thing to remember is that in these polls, when they say things like "No religion in particular" they don't actually mean that these people are Atheists. They mean they don't ascribe to a specific dogma, like Catholic, or Baptist. These people often may still think of themselves as "christian" but, for one reason or another, have rejected organized religion.

From 70% to 50% is such a large change in 20 years. For this to be caused by a change in _parenting only_ would mean that probably every child born 38 years ago until today never attended a church. (this data counts adults, so they would only start counting when they turned 18). That seems very unlikely.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/248837/church-membership-down-s...
I am in Europe, so nevermind.
Thank you anyway
Not in my experience. Off the to of my head some games that worked fine on 95:

Duke Nukem 3D (build games in general)

Stunts

Death rally

Settlers 2

Transport Tycoon

Warcraft

The biggest problem was accidentally hitting the Windows key which minimized the game and that crashed most of them. That is one thing that improved on 98. You could restore most of these games there with a 90% success rate.
That article says the practice was actually very rare, even though it features very prominently in literature from the period. Maybe not the best example.
It's not just about the amounts, but the time tax, and the effort tax. Maintaining tax records is not zero-effort.
A few years ago, some folks sent out some advertising letters that contained flower seeds in the paper. You could literally bury the paper in the ground to grow the flowers.

plantable seed paper:

https://buddyburst.com/products/plantable-seed-paper/postcar...
I grew up on both and I wouldn’t say Kliban was funnier, rather I would say Larson was a cartoonist while Kliban was an artist. There was a tradition of single panel comics in the newspapers and Larson was a master of that; there was a very different tradition of Absurdist illustration and Kliban was a master of that.
I remember reading about that in the Wikileaks disclosures, it's fascinating to think about.
Imo this version really conveys the atmosphere with the animations: https://youtu.be/sPlSH6n37ts
We'll overcome this, I am sure of it with how well everyone is banding together and doing the right thing. (Australian in Victoria where an outbreak is occurring)
The short answer is reliability per watt. Solar's got lots of ups and downs which means designing bigger than you need. Batteries need replacing because they don't last forever. Solar panels have to be kept clean of dust on planets like Mars. Solar panels have to be deployed, which requires additional mechanisms that may fail or require human intervention, and so on.

The way they want to design reactors for next generation space exploration, they're set-it-and-forget-it designs. They have extremely few moving parts, and basically as soon as they're uninhibited, they'll run until something fails and their service life ends - likely several decades after construction. They're extremely reliable and are basically black-box sources of electrical power. Once they put it on the moon or Mars, they can just bury it under the regolith and run the cables back to where the habs are and forget about it. When it eventually fails, they can just leave it in the ground.

The biggest draw for nuclear power is continuous, autonomous processes, like thawing Mars permafrost for water, electrolyzing some of it for breathable oxygen and hydrogen, and using the hydrogen and carbon dioxide to make methane for return mission fuel for the complete in-situ resource utilization mission profile. These processes would run as soon as they were setup on Mars, without human intervention, and could run for months or years before humans even arrive, requiring no human intervention. Doing the same thing with solar would mean contesting with intermittency and having to actually assemble and maintain an enormous solar farm on Mars autonomously... We can't even manage that on Earth.
I was born in the exUSSR and there, if you want to find the most apocalyptic, neglected, boring and useless building which lives by renting out itself to some strange businesses (if at all), you can ask for the local community center.
I'm not sure what's objectionable about that blog post? It describes a common scenario for using the compatibility layer (and indeed the main motivation for creating it).

Especially early on when the compatibility layer was only fully tested with a specific version of Ubuntu.
I heard anecdotes of reinfection with worse symptoms on subsequent infections a few weeks ago; this looks to be the article [1]. I haven't heard widespread confirmation or studies showing this yet.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2020/7/12/21321653/getting-covid-19-twic...
I thought that was against the regulations for US passport photos:

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-app...
Churches are one of the biggest business entities in any part of the world. Most churches are structured like a proper business entity (Eg. they have equivalent of directors, CEOs and managers) and have revenue targets and KPIs set.

Most churches are also located in some of the prime real estate of top tier cities and I always wondered how they were able to afford paying $1500+/Sq.M in a prime, central area.

About the charity work - I know for a fact the charity work the churches do cost less than 10% of the income they make, I got this number from a former church member who was a top level guy in his church. Given that churches are anyway structured like a business entity internally and manage money like a proper business, why shouldn't they be taxed as one?

It makes no sense to not tax them no matter how you try to justify it. If they did get an exemption, so should Mc Donald's for giving away a free Cola bottle with every $20 meal you get.
> Restoring a backup would then still leave the hackers inside.

Even if they could comfortably restore a backup from a year prior, they are left with hackers who know how to penetrate their network until they determine how it occurred..
Ruby is slower than PHP7+ by orders of magnitude. I doubt it.
Thanks. I'm somewhat skeptical of the "invasive biology" scare too and would like to collect literature on the subject. Unfortunately I can't afford to buy every book on the subject ("buy used: $336.82", whats up with that?), but I did find a book review which gave a good summary I think:

https://www.publish.csiro.au/pc/pdf/PC040070

He does seem to take an extreme position, but it is sometimes beneficial to take in an extreme counterpoint in order to find the reasonable "middle" ground.
One problem I see is that church is also leading the cause to marginalize gay people from society by force of government.

There's a reason why during the Bush presidential candidacy a big news item was the push for a Constitutional amendment to exclude gay marriage. The Mormon church spent a great amount of money advertising in California with regards to how dangerous gay people are to kids.

People talk about "intolerance" of "cancelling", but cancelling is about the exercise of free relations by withdrawing. And then there's the force of law.
>>Don't you only tax profits? If a church isn't making any, then there'd be nothing to tax?

Land and buildings for one could be taxed. Churches bought or were given land ages ago, before there was a Manhattan or Boston, as we today know it. Go ahead and pay property tax on land worth $250 Million when you barely make income to keep the lights on.
Italy you can maybe excuse that they were caught by surprise, but yes, the other countries in Europe handled it badly initially. The surprising thing about the US is that somehow it's handling it worse.
I think the point here is that it's not as trivial as having an offline copy of your SQL DB or whatever. If the ransomware has encrypted a huge chunk of your infra the chances are that you no longer have anything to restore the backup to — maybe your configurations are encrypted, your DB hosts aren't up, user accounts etc are missing. Assuming that only user data is affected and can be easily restored likely falls very short of the full picture. I expect the folks at Garmin are faced with an infrastructure that looks like a grenade fell into it.
I gave some thought to switching back when Eich "resigned".

In the end I decided that continuing to support Mozilla by using and advocating for Firefox was the lesser of two evils - the alternative being to surrender to a Web mono-culture.

The deciding factor for me was: what would harm free speech more?

1) a browser duopoly involving an org willing to chuck their CEO under a bus for legitimate but oppressive political donations, or

2) a browser monopoly owned by an advertising company?

In the end I decided (1) was the best bet. But I swear, Mozilla keeps me on my toes reconsidering it :)
Everyone commenting about how great churches are? You’re absolutely delusional. The gross majority of these organizations are bigoted and racist. I grew up in the southern United States and experienced all manner of churches. I don’t care how great your church is. Give me 20 minutes with your congregation and I’ll find the racists and bigots. These assholes promote terrible mental and physical health. They don’t believe women have a right to make family planning decisions and they protect rapists. They push political agendas under the guise of religious belief. Half of them don’t have education past high school.

Religion is a vestigial structure and a hideyhole for the worst parts of humanity.

This is not an exaggeration. I have lived this. I have watched others live through this. The USA will ultimately be destroyed by completely ignorant Christians who are able to fake some semblance of rational thought.

Stop defending these institutions as “for the public good”. Tax them out or existence and let secular / non religious organizations take their place. It is absolutely absurd to pretend Christians, Muslims, Hindus, or whoever are special because of the particular brand of imaginary edicts they subscribe to. None of us are special. We are all just stupid meatbags on a rock.

I commend all the lives saved in the name of God but let’s not pretend or equivocate. Christianity in the USA is a net drain on society and it has no place in a rational conversation. Anyone who thinks, believes, or sells otherwise? You’re a lunatic.
> Or maybe create a system where people don't have to rely on churches and rich people for charity.

Being handed everything by a welfare state is de facto charity for the recipient. The biggest difference is that charity is morally superior because it's voluntary.

Besides, the US has a very large welfare state. I get a big kick out of people pretending the US doesn't have an epic scale, highly dysfunctional, poorly operated, welfare state, that doesn't spend trillions of dollars per year. I just can't figure out what they're spending $8.1 trillion on every year. Must be roads and military. Where'd all that magic trillions of dollars in stimulus spending come from? That laissez-faire Capitalist US system surely. Those free market $1,200 checks raining from the sky.

Without exception every welfare state - including the US, which has one of the most progressive tax systems - heavily relies on rich people to pay an extremely outsized share of taxes.
This article in particular seems to be about better use of church space to not let empty rooms stays unused, albeit in a somewhat aggressive way.

But more generally, I think an angle to the whole question would be to apply either or both:

- treat religious organizations as any other non-profit, with no specific religious exemption. If they can’t continue doing the same in that legal framing they need to adapt.

- give all non-profit orgs a path to have the same advantages as religious organizations, so they can help the community in the same ways.
AFAIK, the difference would pretty much be that they actually have (pretty loose) limits on what they can spend money on, and on endorsing electoral candidates - and they'd have to publish information about their finances.

If you argued that religion was not an intrinsic social benefit then you might start saying that some of what they do is not non-profit work. That could get interesting.
WinG allowed you to blit a bitmap from user memory directly into a window. It was a bit like the XShm extension from X11, where compatible pixmap data can be copied directly into the drawable from client memory.

Normally when you transferred image data from a bitmap in user memory (called a DIB) into a GDI drawable such as a window or bitmap with a call to SetDIBits or StretchDIBits, it's slow because there's a conversion step that has to take place: GDI bitmaps were typically held internally in a planar format (on EGA and VGA anyway), and DIB data was chunky. Also, as DIBs were identical to the BMP format, they were scanned from the bottom up instead of the top down (the first pixel in the DIB pixel buffer was the lower left rather than the upper left). This, I believe, was a holdover from OS/2, because IBM decided they wanted proper Cartesian coordinates in their bitmaps? Needless to say, most users and most video cards do not lay out bitmap image memory in that format.

With the proliferation of 256-color graphics cards, WinG became possible because 256-color modes typically had a chunky format. So you could draw your game screen in a buffer and use the WinG calls to write that buffer directly to the screen. WinG provided for additional DIB formats including top-down, so that memory could simply be copied from the DIB buffer straight from the screen on a blit call. WinG even supported accelerated blitting on cards with hardware acceleration.

The other DirectX predecessor is a bit less well known, and is called DISPDIB.DLL. DISPDIB allowed you to suspend GDI calls to the screen, put the screen in mode 0x13, and draw directly from a DIB into the display, giving you a 320x200, 256-color full-screen display -- just like DOS. The window would also capture all keyboard and mouse input while it was active. Some early pre-DirectX Windows 95 games, including Earthworm Jim and Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure, used DISPDIB.
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> That's why no one ( rhetorical no one ) uses it rather than Windows or Macs for their photo libraries.

lol, I've actually use Digikam on windows and mac because of how well it works for me
Capacitative adding and subtracting is how many ADC (analog to digital converter) and DAC (digital to analog converter) chips work. There are many architectures, but capacitor arrays that are binary weighted are common, by switching them you can create or modify a voltage for a DAC, or use this to zero in/match this to the ADC input value. A common architecture that does this is called SAR ADC [0], which basically uses a DAC as part of the ADC, and it is often a capacitive DAC.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successive-approximation_ADC
The Men's marathon at the 1904 Summer Olympics
I feel more guilty about our usage of non-renewable, GHG-generating power sources like coal or natural gas power plants, and about driving around in my car (even though it’s electric).

Aviation accounts for just 2% of CO2 emissions. While it’s good that Airbus is considering alternative, greener fuels, because aviation will continue to grow, there are larger determinants of GHG emissions and warming.

Also, how you even certify use of hydrogen on an aircraft will be a challenge. The current design for fuel has been well-understood for seventy-five years now, and like the rest of aviation some improvements have unfortunately but unavoidably come from tragedy (see TWA 800). You can throw a match into Jet-A and it won’t catch fire. Throw a match into a flask of hydrogen and you have a fire or explosion.
Evokes the Hindenburg disaster for me though I presume that this would be no more of a fire risk than today's aircraft fuel.
I'm wondering whether that's indeed the case. It seems that at least some genotype has been identified to cause such a phenotype (https://science.sciencemag.org/content/346/6213/1084). If you know what to look for it would just be a couple of bucks to Sanger sequence it. (Then you don't even have to sequence it by e.g. Illumina, which would still be just a couple of hundred bucks per batch). I don't know what margins they get for these kind of products, but I guess a recall will be quite expensive as well.
Either Gates-backed live vaccines, where they are used, are causing more polio and pertussis than the wild microbes, or they aren't. Shiva's opinions don't change that.
Yeah, let's just give up on making the world a better place. We might never reach Utopia, but we can for damn sure get closer especially if we free ourselves from dogmatic thinking. Do you really want to settle for better than nothing?
Flagging this as harrassment. I'm sick of self-proclaimed "orgs" (with unclear sponsorship) or SJWs claiming ownership of commonly used terms. OSI: speak for yourself! You in no way represent or help developers, and have no standing as an organization to decide which licensing terms someone puts on his/her work. In fact, your continued insistence on the laughable dogmatic "four freedoms" is what's helping to enslave people into platforms made from 99% open source, with only a tiny web wrapper. All the while development work gets no funding. Time to move on!
I'm not sure whether product management is something which you're interested in.

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A solution to this is to give back the land to the local city and have it handled as cultural heritage, with an authorization to practice religious activities at specific times, but it’s governed by local administration overall.

That’s how some cathedrals are managed in europe for instance.
OT but as a German-speaking reader of the New Yorker this abuse of the Umlaut has been making me irrationally angry for decades. But it’s a nice reminder that if you want to, I dunno, capitalize only the word “Dog” and end every sentence in a comma, you might want to own a magazine, Dog,
I thought that would be the reply, but a community centre isn't a building but a function (that happens to need a building), but they're not the same.
>You should see some Soviet community centers before thinking they can replace anything

The concept was good and they did work. In many towns, it's usually the only place where you could run cultural evens,some more important community gatherings and so on. What did happen once the Soviet occupation ended, was the lack of funding of these places. The town I grew up in, 15k population and the culture center large enough to be suitable for a pretty large city,so the maintenance costs are substantial. That's where people go for theatre,concerts,and so on.

As for the churces, they do a lot of charitable work, however my own experience with churchgoers in many countries is that it's too often ' It's our way or no way at all'.
Churches are almost a 2000 year old thing. Back in the day, rich person wanting to have the papers in order for the life after, would donate his fortune along with 45,000 acres to the church. Now there exists a major city and an acre goes for $50 million or whatever.

And so on...if we could turn the clock back and buy land on Manhattan or Las Vegas we'd be rich (on paper at least too)
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Here's the complete guideline:

"Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon"

Did you purposefully leave out the full sentence? I would argue it is/was a new phenomenon. Nevertheless, would like to hear why you think HN should be exempt from political discussion anyways? We see thought-provoking discussions here each day. This is one of the positive aspects of HN that I value that it allows you to be politically and socially aware of ideas to get you out of your role as an "engineer" or "hacker".
Makes me sad that anyone would compare religion to a pacemaker, if this is true then your country surely is lost
I grew up in the southern United States and experienced all manner of churches. They’re universally bad.

How many churches are you an expert on, exactly?
Dependent types strictly just means being able to parametrize types with values. You can design many different types of PLs with this feature.

You don’t need strict reasoning for it to be useful like any other type level feature.
> Give me 20 minutes with your congregation and I’ll find the racists and bigots.

I can do better than that: I can do that with any group, not just a church congregation!
I'm surprised that nobody is commenting on the true exciting possibility left over: to directly mine (then use) uranium from Mars. Completely feasible, and completely sustainable. That would be a huge energy resource to develop Mars.
> Hydrogen's energy-density makes it by far the best possible fuel for aviation.

gasoline: 45.8 MJ/kg
hydrogen: 120 MJ/kg

What about safety? I visited the Zeppelin museum in Friedrichshafen last week...

Wouldn't it be nice if turning CO2 into gasoline would enable us to re-use tall the existing infrastructure?
Exactly that. Community centers there are useless and only work as a cheap building for rent
I know this is always contentious but are there any of these ransomware attacks on non Windows machine? I mean prominent ones? I understand everyone is running Windows on the desktop, but why are Linux servers not targetted by the same thing as they are prominent? I know they get hacked all the time, but I never read stories like this about them. I read that mongo was hacked (and yeah, using mongo, sorry but...) which probably ran on Linux; however pure ransomware attacks I cannot find outside Windows. People keep saying that if other devices would be as popular, they would attack them; but for instance my mother has an ipad, android phone and a windows laptop, and the only (penis enlarger.....) malware is in windows which has an up to date AV. Android is more popular than Windows, Linux on servers is as well, iOS is as well. And yet all the crap is always Windows. I do not get it.
Churches provide much more than just money. Solace, peace, love, community etc... I'd say this is more important than money.

I used to be a Christian. There are a lot of bad sides of Christianity and that is why I left. But it does help many people and after studying Buddhism I understand how the right approach to Christianity can bring a lot of peace to believers:

Unconditional love. Many people grew up made to feel they had to earn their parents' love.

Letting go of control. You can't control everything in life. Whatever is going to happen is up to God now.

Forgiveness. When people ask for God's forgiveness, it helps them to forgive themselves.

Gratitude.
So your telling me that churches are value for money? Could you give an example of one of these state welfare alternatives?
Take a semester of Basic Accounting then a semester of Financial Accounting at a local Community College.
> this is quickly becoming an obsolete understanding of religion

Yes, I stand by my words. If you read them again, you'll see you are arguing with something I didn't say.

If 29% of religious people have left the church (50/70=71% still attend church)... then that is a major shift. It would be foolish to continue with previous assumptions about the role of churches going forward without taking into account how religious people are changing their behaviors.
Why should the non-religious non profit organisations have to maintain tax recods then?