skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To put this in perspective, in Switzerland your employer takes your church donations out of your salary. Your taxes directly fund the church. _That's_ the opposite of separation of church and state.

In the USA, tax deductions to churches is giving the same treatment as a charity.
Can you link to me a project hat does facial sentiment analysis in an efficient way? Actually curious if it’s possible to do this without hurting battery life much.
I stopped using Ubuntu 10 years ago, because I couldn't stand how buggy it was, but later I realized it was mostly GNOME. It's interesting how things turned around.

Edit: looking at other responses it seems that this still holds true, perhaps it's just Wayland support that's buggy, because it is new.
Charity organisations usually get tax exemptions too. Maybe make that the only tax exemption, and have religious organisations prove that they are charities.
see also https://www.csmonitor.com/1986/0916/rpeace.html

Eternal September may have brought us many bad things, but a very good thing is that it's now far, far easier to get an idea of how ordinary people live elsewhere (or even elsewhen, for a small subset of previous decades). Breaking a filter bubble is much easier than pre-VCR access to foreign or ephemeral media ever was.

As someone who grew up knowing that ICBMs were only 30 minutes away, I've been keeping an ever-growing informal list of things that were pop culture on both sides of the Iron Curtain. One of my favourites is the Duck/Chicken Dance.
You do have to pay people money to hire them though, and states and cities do not have the financial slack to just hire more people as tax revenues keep falling.

The only entity capable of nationwide deficit spending is the federal government, which seems unwilling to step up to the plate.
> But all resources are finite regardless of how far we travel.

Not in any sense which is meaningful on a human scale.

> Civilizations may collapse before we accomplish everything we set out to do on other planets

I still don't think it matters. A nuclear war could set back Earth by centuries or millenniums, but barring some sort of total worldwide wipe of electronic data, the information and knowledge will still be out there. I'd say it's inevitable that over time, humans will re-centralize and re-organize. Again, it may take thousands and thousands of years, but on the timescale of the universe, this is nothing.

> if countries co-operate on space exploration it would be better, than making it a race to be first etc. Which will only lead to worse outcomes between nations if history is any indicator. :)

This sounds ideal, but I don't think history actually supports it. The prime achievements of American space travel came during the peak of the Cold War. Civilizations seem to benefit from having competition, as long as they don't destroy / are destroyed by them. It's a fine balance.

Nietzsche writes about this a bit during his discussion of the Ancient Greek concept of agon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agon

https://sites01.lsu.edu/faculty/voegelin/wp-content/uploads/...
Lightroom classic is good, the new one is complete trash as far as UI and performance goes, same with all other new Adobe products. Illustrator, Photoshop. I guess they moved to web tech on the desktop, too.
> The state is giving them special treatment.

No it's not. All non-profits are untaxed. If you are going to charge churches, then charge all non-profits.

Personally I think that's a bad policy.
We also know more about how the virus spreads and treating people who are severely ill with it than we did 3-4 months ago. Part of why Germany’s death rates were a lot lower than its neighbors is likely due to having far more ICU beds per capita before the crisis, but also, hitting our infection rate peak a bit later. Those two things combined meant that our doctors had more time to figure out what does and doesn’t work, and never came close to the horrible decisions doctors in Italy had to make - Germany was even able to take in several hundred patients from Italy and France.

Also of interest: Germany has almost as many ECMO-equipped hospitals as the US does, despite having 1/4 the population and a tiny fraction of the land area.
> Yes, it's obvious that a religion gets special treatment over say a club

That isn't true. Non-profits are not taxed either.
Sometimes No One's at Fault and We Should Accept That
As long as clubs give free entry, sounds reasonable to me that club dancing would be considered a social, community-like activity to bring people closer to each other (literally too) and make them feel joyful.
The central advantage of such facilities is that it will be much much cheaper to launch material into space from the moon...

Unless you're making things out of stuff that's already on the moon you'd have to get the raw material from Earth to the Moon, and then from the Moon to where you want it in space. There might well be advantages to doing that, raw materials can be fired in to space at higher Gs than manufactured parts using a railgun for example, but the cost of building a Moon factory is likely to mean the cost of building on the Moon is still much higher for a long time.
ppci (pure Python compiler infrastructure)
Will this also affect synagogues?
I think ideally both. Wish I could motivate myself to read more.

But I think that it really depends on which book and which blog post etc.

And usually to really understand something in detail you can't just read the book. You have to do exercises to actually secure the knowledge or skill.
Where did your chicken come from?
Your definition of "most" is rather suspect here. Obviously the "business-like" religions get lots of press, but in the real world they are a tiny minority.
This is quite strange. In most jurisdictions both churches and nonprofit organizations are exempt from taxes.
Show HN: Open-source isolated browser, free for journalists etc.
The macOS version is distributed as a .pkg and isn't signed or notarized. That's a no-go for me. Any reason why they don't just ship a .app in a disk image?
The article makes clear that churches in Montreal are still getting their tax exemption if they stick to purely religious activities (prayer, worship, etc). They are only being taxed when they use their property for not explicitly religious activities like charitable uses, community groups, etc.

Do those people applauding this really want to applaud a policy that gives tax exemptions to specifically religious activities but denies them to activities that are less explicitly religious in character? It seems the opposite policy to what they actually want.
Write Blogs (2005)
We're days away from catching up to France.
Because people exploit the rules massively (the Church of Scientology is one example of many).

More importantly: these religious buildings still call the police when there is a break in and call the fire service when there is a fire. They expect all of the benefits from paying taxes without actually doing so.
ReNgine – Automated penetration testing reconnaissance framework
Multipurpose Woocommerce/eCommerce app built with Flutter
Do you plan to enable linking cards to web content?

My biggest desire is to create flash cards directly linked to software documentation.
Re-frame is a layer on top of reagent, which is an API for using React in cljs. If you want to use react, you can also just directly use reagent which is the preference of many in the community. The boilerplate and verbosity required for reframe could be overkill for many small projects, especially for solo developers, where pure reagent often thrives. However reframe’s restrictions can be helpful in team environments.

The library github page is an entertaining display of equal parts vanity and hyperbole: https://github.com/day8/re-frame/
In they link they said that previous version was about 80% successful, now it's 95% and doesn't have issues with blurred images, profiles, various obstructions, pet faces etc.
The David Peters Problem
see: Silicon Valley microdosing LSD
These sound like property taxes, but that aside, your example could register itself as a non profit organization.

The important distinction between non-profits and churches in the US is that churches do not have to demonstrate that they aren’t a just a profit generating company (see Scientology, many evangelical churches) - they don’t have to provide any documentation at all.

I’m fine with churches being untaxed non-profits, as long as they actually demonstrate that.
On the other hand, if you wanted to hide a few shipments of seeds, you could flood a country with a sea of packages.
The Dodo in Life
Next thing you know, they'll enforce smoking bans in church?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TncdhLGjFTE
Teachers? I’m not sure the teachers unions would go for that.
Try liking Ayn Rand.
> That's not to say all hazards are equal or all substances need identical regulations.

This is a non informative answer. Let's talk numbers, is 20 years a reasonable time to be incarcerated for a sheet of LSD? How many years is appropriate for a pack's worth of hand smoke, then? How about carbon monoxide from driving year round?
Testing code on interfaces that lack a physical keyboard is generally a pain the ass. That plus the expenses of App Store lock in are why there are no convenient solutions for touch screens. The reason why everything else is either QT or JavaScript comes down to a single cross platform solution.

As a full time JavaScript developer performance for JavaScript based applications is completely hit or miss. If the developer knows what they are doing they can write productivity software that, in most cases, performs faster than some desktop applications. Unfortunately most JavaScript developers don’t know what they are doing and many JavaScript based applications are slow.
Send me an email (see my profile on HN) and let’s see. But for anyone else ; reliability is a huge issue. People do resume driven dev and job-hop; as a company you really do not want people like that. I would like people who want to work for some amount corrected with inflation for 20+ years. And the people who want that really have no issues finding work. The depressing ghosting when someone finds something for $1 more is the reason why most people think it is hard. I do not want those people and never did (company running for over 25 years).
> Ah yes, the waterproof "some bad things are happening, it must mean that this other bad thing happening is also fine"-argument.

Ah yes the good strawman fallacy argument

Funny how the contact tracing app requires no special permissions. None. Every extra data is completely optional.

Sure it is your choice to not install the C.T. app and install other data-hoarding apps but know what you're doing.
The Google/Apple concept deals with the privacy implications pretty well.

I may be misremembering details, but the idea is that everyone's phone stores its own database of unique identifiers of other devices its come into close proximity to. Then an alert goes out saying "anonymous device XY123 tested positive", and if my phone has that ID in its list of people who may have been close enough to infect me I'd get an alert, but the alert wouldn't tell me who it was who tested positive, and the central system doesn't know who has come into contact with who, it just knows when someone says "hey, my ID is this and I just tested positive" (which is no worse privacy wise than using your real name when going to get tested).

As to how gov reacts if/when they know someone has Covid... well that debate will exist in any country where there aren't 0 tests taking place, because "what will they enforce on me if they think/know I have covid" is happening more from people who test positive than from contact tracing. So it's a different subject, but frankly anyone who does have symptoms or a positive test should be staying the hell away from anyone out of decency without needing any government enforcement.
If I were going to do it I would partner with a cereal company and run a national campaign about how planting flowers are going to save the bees.

For those that don't get the joke (this is a joke)

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2017/03/20/c...

https://www.cheerios.ca/bringbackthebees/
For timeseries data I encoded a [entityId,timestamp,attribute] tuple to a big integer, using a order preserving mapping to ensure that the datoms are sorted by the timestamp. This provided the right functionality, for example using seek-datoms we could retreive the datoms with timestamps between some range, but performance was poor.
I think a custom index could help a lot here.
We also had problems with the database growing to large, and needed to manually shard the database over time.

A datalog equivalent to TimescaleDB (which extends Postgres with timeseries optimiziations and time based table partitioning) would be great.

For client access I tried to define access rules based on attributes (similar to how many graphql frameworks handle this), I tried to express this using datalog rules.
For example, users hava permission to access :user/items, and :items/blabla, so a user X can access [X :user/items Y] and [Y :items/blabla Z]
Some experiments were promising, but it was slow and I did not find a good way to integrate this.
This is like telling someone at a pawn shop not to worry about whether what their buying was stolen.

Maybe it won't affect any given transaction.

But concern over the source of the products we consume is responsible and worth thinking about.
RawTherapee and Darktable is simply the Develop part of Lightroom.
I've tried this, but found it too slow for large databases
> OP said there was one too many non-Black Zuckerbergs, which I took to mean the one we have was one too many, that is, they may prefer he were Black instead?

Poorly communicated on my part then. I was alluding to "one too many Zuckerbergs" - in my opinion _any_ Zuckerberg (in terms of a single individual being totally in charge of something like FB) is one too many.
Hi! Great question. It started as a pet project, but now is being supported and belongs to a VC funded entity - Iterative. + it has independent contributors, it's an Apache 2.0 project after all. In terms of business long term goals, I would you can compare us to Hashicorp. There are no plans to monetize or even build premium features in DVC or CML.dev project, rather we'll be building enterprise layer on top of them. I really hope that clears out your concerns. If not - I would be happy to answer any question.
Extensive discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23926289
Many churches are not non-profits. In fact they have quite big profits.
I wouldn't say that's true: fair use applies in some situations beyond what you're describing, for one thing.

Plus, there's an explicit statutory carveout for archival/backup copies of computer programs, which would apply to games.
I’d like to still have American manufacturing jobs
Thanks, documentation part warms my heart - it's been quite important part day zero.
The problem with consolidating everything on GitHub is that, to me, you're selling your user's and contributor's clicks. Moreover, GitHub blocks indie search crawlers, and as such is just a content silo. Now F/OSS software licenses, at least of the reciprocal kind, make very much a political statement by their license choice, willingly or not, that is questioned by using GitHub (or any other gateway cashing in on user engagement data) as project host. The really ugly and depressing thing is that F/OSS projects seek networking effects on GitHub, turning a super-powerful and easy dSCM into a centralized hub in a heartbeat; to me, they kindof devalue their own (massive) work by trading it for only the attention value it gets on GitHub, and contributing to the oligopolistic web. Hosting GPL software on GitHub is like sticking fingers in your ears, dogmatically adhering to a licensing taxonomy of yesteryear, while refusing to face today's problems. I'm not sure what incentive to go to GitHub is there for a project with a defacto closed group of developers that's been in the works for years or decades already; it's not like the project seeks indie contributors anyway. Might be better to support https://codeberg.org/ .
If Swine Flu Happens During Covid-19, Are We Screwed?
Google location is still very good in buildings and subways because they wardrive open wifi routers to help triangulate you. So when I'm near a wifi router with a particular MAC address that google has seen before, they've got me.

Agree with you on high rises and false positives, but then again, if air is circulated in the building or everyone uses the same elevators, might be worth notifying them.

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/1725632?hl=en
All orgs that have the ability to enrich their employees should pay their fair share. I'm looking at you churches, charities and california golf courses... The fact that mega churches got PPE forgiveness loans would make my blood boil if I was a small business who didn't make the cut.
Vietnam went 100 days without a case and are now dealing with an outbreak in Da Nang.

You still can’t get in as a foreigner, so it’s not like they aren’t locked down.
You made some interesting points down below, but i couldn't reply to those, hence responding here :)

Tbh, i am enjoying your arguments as such!

> barring some sort of total worldwide wipe of electronic data, the information and knowledge will still be out there

Isn't the world shifting in its warfare strategies ? We fought with different tools at different times. But the modern warfare seems to be moving towards misinformation, destruction of information etc ?

> I'd say it's inevitable that over time, humans will re-centralize and re-organize.

Agreed! It seems that eventually we would have to re-organize!

> Civilizations seem to benefit from having competition, as long as they don't destroy / are destroyed by them. It's a fine balance.

Agree with this one too, but i am more worried about generations that would follow us. It is a very fine balance indeed, hope humanity treads it with reason :)
The FTC
Good story, bad title. There is no real lesson on how to survive ransomware except that company called Hydro was able to use employees to rebuild some of its data needed for running plants. Most companies deal with databases that cannot be similarly rebuilt in just days like that.
Would love to give it a try
In the past yes, but that's not the case anymore.
Seton Hall University looking to do M&A
Can you name those fundamental technical problems? From my understanding, the problems are adoption and states being slow in implementing the apps. I don’t have any exact numbers, but I would say even with some false positives it will be much more directed unlike testing everyone daily.
In Japan post temples are clearly for profit operations (charging people outrageous amounts of money for about anything) and they are also not taxed by the government. Which is why you have a plethora of sects.
Proximal Policy Optimization for Playing Super Mario Bros
Original paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06347

Disclaimer: I am not the creator.
I think it is pretty obvious. An ideology is something that has a very narrow set of answers to every problem. It can easily preempt much or even any actual thinking. On a forum one can easily end up in a screaming battle between ideologies that has exactly zero informational content. If one happens to already know the ideologies in question, and one probably does because there is not really much that is new in this area, one could write out the whole discussion just by oneself in advance and not be off by much.
That's presumably because the US is so Christian. In other countries there are plenty of non-Christian charities. In general people aren't good because religion tells them to be.
Named arguments are coming in PHP 8
Ok but personally I would have started with the people in the Panama papers.
Hackers actively exploit high-severity networking vulnerabilities
... or rather than dogfooding the tech, maybe they're testing if their pilots will talk about it overmuch or have the discretion to join the true "space corps"?
I think ideological battle is a matter of the manner of discussing ideas. Hallmarks include: posting the same argument in multiple places within a thread and in multiple threads in a short timespan; dragging a peripherally related discussion toward well-known contentious issues; repeating popular catchphrases, slogans and talking points with little regard for how well they apply to the specific instance of a topic under discussion; using shallow predictable arguments of the sort found in TV sound bites rather than more sound and nuanced arguments; little or no participation in non-political threads on HN; refusing to acknowledge the weaknesses or downsides of your own positions; making lots of pronouncements and declarations rather than asking lots of questions.
Environments: under the hood of variables – Deep JavaScript chapter
Thank you for this.

I started on the Apple II and i'ts been downhill since then. If I remember correctly the Apple II has one of the smallest latency between touching a key and seeing the result on the screen.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-financial-accounti...

University of Virginia Financial Accounting Fundamentals! This is the only one that you need to get started. Luann J. Lynch is a fantastic teacher. She guides you through all accounting fundamentals with lots of example problems (including a breakdown of the Coca Cola's Balance Sheet).
Yup. Americans are notorious for not knowing much about what happens outside their borders, so the comparisons to other countries is entertaining.

Spent some time in British Colombia. I’d say 10% are wearing masks (there is no mandate). Went to the lake and the beaches are packed. Recent outbreak in town because the bars are packed.

And Americans say “man! we’re so stupid to not wear masks. why can’t we be like other countries?”
I am confused: Are these requests specific for a user account activity deletion? Or is it a request for deletion of entire account from Facebook?
Britain nationalised church property during the reformation.
Project Skara appears to consider this a two step process [1]:

> The goal of this Project is to investigate alternative SCM and code review options for the JDK source code, including options based upon Git rather than Mercurial, and including options hosted by third parties.

> Two JEPs are planned for this investigation, first JEP 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git [2] and second JEP 369: Migrate to GitHub. . [3]

[1] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/skara/

[2] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357

[3] https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369
Your 15/30ms is close to the timings of 30 vs a 60fps videogames. While testing for a single frame you'd probably get very mixed results, most people can distinguish the pattern of when the framerate drops from one to the other. That looks more close to me to the audio example, since it's a constant stream of visual information.
They screw up a lot but on the hook is very very rare
On Viruses and Zombie Raccoons
Media team is supposed to send correct message. And verify the message is correct. They don't need a CS degree to verify it.
and many are not. so the right thing is to evaluate them on case by case basis.