skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just because there isn't a formal requirement doesn't mean that there isn't intense social pressure that creates a de facto requirement.

That may be the case at some churches, but I would assert that that kind of social pressure is wrong and unbiblical.

"Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver." - 2 Corinthians 9:7

So for a church where this social pressure exists, that is the fault of that particular church (it's leadership and/or people), not churches or Christianity in general. Anecdotally, I've never experienced this kind of pressure at any church I've attended or been a member of.

> To be tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, an organization must be organized and operated exclusively for exempt purposes set forth in section 501(c)(3), and none of its earnings may inure to any private shareholder or individual

> The exempt purposes set forth in section 501(c)(3) are charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering national or international amateur sports competition, and preventing cruelty to children or animals. The term charitable is used in its generally accepted legal sense and includes relief of the poor, the distressed, or the underprivileged; advancement of religion...

https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...

Churches qualify for 501c3 tax exempt status because they are religious organizations and are non-profit. Same goes for mosques, temples, etc.

So why is using "church" in the traditional Christian religious sense and being exempt from taxes bad?
except that everything is time stamped
Javascript is actually quite fast, on par with Java[0], but it is DOM manipulation that makes it seem so slow.

[0]: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
Apparently it has something to do with sublimating the base human territorial-identity drive that would otherwise find expression in violent conflict, or some such. I don't get it either.
Lutron is a shining example of how you do home automation right and nobody is taking note.
When James Truslow Adams coined the term "American Dream" in 1931 he defined it as: "life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement".

Social mobility in the United States is better than most countries in the world but not particularly high compared to similar countries. More worrying is that it has been falling over time. This kind of social stratification eventually results in large swaths of the country and citizenry for whom life is not better and who do not have the same opportunities.

Having more money certainly helps -- it's hard for anyone to live a "better and richer and fuller" life if they cannot afford necessities. But past a certain point the correlation between a country's wealth and measures like happiness, life expectancy, social mobility, life satisfaction, etc seem to break down, especially in the US. Which to me indicates that we're probably not using our wealth efficiently.
You don’t need to support a ton of complex stuff, but if an rgb image format doesn’t then it should just have a version marker and the spec can simply say “the rgb data represents sRGB colors”.

Just like e.g. some compilers don’t support a lot of source file encodings but their non-support consists of clearly stating that a source file is UTF-8.

Note that this requirement is only for an image exchange format. A raw-er image format used internally in e.g a game doesn’t need it as badly.

But in an exchange format every user needs to know whether the image data is sRGB or Adobe. Because the reader didn’t encode the data.
Covid: Europe's winter wave and the contrast vs. UK
> people are not killed because they disagree with capitalism

Perhaps you are the one who avoided history lessons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d'%C3%A9tat#...
That's what I mean. It's very surprising that exposing oneself to the public (as is unavoidable to do most things in life) warrants a loss of freedom to privacy. Effectively, the only people who get anonymity and a semblance of public privacy are those who can afford it, and not just anyone.

Writing this out, it makes a lot more sense. The US is known for allowing certain rights and privileges to those who can afford them ;)
Don't forget that the most complained about feature -- type coercion -- was added later at the explicit request of developers and then left in due to force from Microsoft.
ESPFlix – the tightest coding of 2020: MPEG streaming service in just 500K
You will not see tighter coding and more sophisticated understanding of computer technology than this.

This implements analog PAL/NTSC television in software.

Plus it implements MPEG video decoding with fast forward/rewind.

Plus it implements video streaming.

Plus remote control via a custom written bluetooth driver.

All on a $10 esp32 microcontroller with only 520K RAM.

The video:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPL8Pj6ATrg

The blog post:
https://rossumblog.com/2020/08/08/espflix-a-free-video-streaming-service-that-runs-on-an-esp32/

Source code:
GitHub: https://github.com/rossumur/espflix

Hackaday article:
https://hackaday.com/2020/08/11/espflix-brings-streaming-video-to-the-world-of-microcontrollers/

And an earlier project from the same person, software generated PAL/NTSC 8 bit Atari computer emulation: https://hackaday.com/2020/06/09/run-your-favorite-8-bit-games-on-an-esp32/
How do you teach students critical thinking if the very works that require critical thinking are not available to these kids in the places where they have access to teachers?

To me if there are "dangerous ideas" that need contextualization, those are the very books that need to be in the school curriculum.
Rocket Lab will attempt mid-air booster recovery in 2022
What's a "promotion"? Is it like quitting and getting a nicer job in another company?
From the article:

Rocket Lab announced Nov. 23 that, after three launches where Electron boosters splashed down in the ocean and were recovered, it is now ready to take the next step and use a helicopter to catch a booster descending under parachute, a measure that would allow the company to reuse that booster on a later launch.

...

The company hasn’t set a date for that next recovery attempt other than some time in the first half of 2022. “There will be more non-recovery missions in front of that,” he said, saying the company projects a busy first half of next year, in part from missions delayed from this year because of a launch failure and pandemic lockdowns in New Zealand.

...

When that midair recovery attempt does take place, it will not involve a ship as previously planned. Beck said the company will use a “significantly larger” helicopter equipped with auxiliary fuel tanks for a longer flight time, enabling it to catch the stage and directly return to land rather than set the stage down on a ship. Helicopter operations, he said, are less expensive than operating a ship.

Original press release here: https://www.rocketlabusa.com/updates/rocket-lab-confirms-hel...
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I mean there are a number of benchmarks where Node outperforms java if you look at the benchmark comparison: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/.... The optimization work that goes into JS is actually really impressive and comes from most of the biggest tech companies.
UK risks Christmas alcohol shortage due to lack of drivers
I'd love to see a study combining this will a blue light in the morning for seasonal depression/sleep regulation.

for that matter, i'd be interested to know if just getting natural sunlight in the morning would deliver an adequate amount of both.
Translates to:
"I just received an alert @AppleSupport
about a possible cyberattack on my phone from state services. With the indication that I may be targeted for what I am doing or who I am.
I will take the warning seriously because it was preceded by other incidents
@ZiobroPL
is this a coincidence?"
“Agh,” one of the boys in the back whispered to another. “It’s beautiful.”

I played accordion as a teenager. I doubt that many of my peers would have deemed the sound (even expertly played on an exquisite accordion) as "beautiful". It was more of something to be mocked.

For that matter, as an adult, my peers still tend to mock accordions.

What a difference being a single country away makes!
The west (to a lesser degree) is only not powerful because we really, really, really, don't like war anymore. If tomorrow Russia goes into Poland and The west is forced to act, we shall see just how powerful the west really is.
Mad in which way? The people I've heard about (professionally) who went to continue their career in Dubai, I couldn't really respect anymore. It's hard to understand choosing to work in that place.
I can think of things where I would leave out details that a non-expert would need filled in. Except, I wouldn't do that in an interview situation where someone is specifically asking me to explain that one thing. (Yes they started with the giant coin thing, but "symmetry" is still the substantial majority of their argument.)

The sibling to my first comment says it a lot better than I did: in a similar but different situation there's symmetry but no analogous strategy, so further explanation really is needed here.

In a sense, that makes it even more damning. Eliding details that you don't realise are important, but actually are, shows a real lack of understanding of your own argument. And that's something I have definitely witnessed in my own field!
I didn't realise IndoChina refers to countries unrelated to India and China. Corrected it.
Don't you have to give them your legal address when you start working for them?
Apple claims in their lawsuit that they have over 100 false iCloud accounts that were created, and is confident in their identities to the degree they are going to use them for standing to prove that NSO signed a legal agreement in the lawsuit.

In which case, NSO f!@#ed up and left iCloud Messages Backup enabled, which stores unencrypted copies of the End-to-End messages and makes it trivial for Apple to alert any person that these accounts messaged to. That's one possibility.
??? Are you referring to the storing of encryption keys for iCloud in country?
> Isn’t that kind of like saying Real numbers are complete?

It's more like saying the range from 0..2 is complete so don't use an encoding that caps out at 0.8 or 1.1

The difference between all visible colors and a more constrained color space is only a factor of two or three. Less than half a bit per channel.
Rats in Doom: a novel VR setup for rodents
Yes, it is a quite fast for a managed language. For comparison, python is roughly 10x slower than it.
The Great Cubicle Escape
> Common saying: "go fast alone, go farther together"

Great advice.
Does it have an infinite tape?
> There is a difference between churning out code you really hate for 500k/yr, and doing what you are interested in for 80/10/150k.

LOL, no.

Industry is way better than academia on the qualitative stuff.

First, STEM PhDs who qualify for R1 faculty positions but who instead go into industry are not doing shit with javascript frameworks. What kind of insane company would waste such specific and highly developed skills on that kind of nonsense?

Second, people running wet labs aren't "doing what they want". They're doing contract work for funding agencies. In terms of both freedom and enjoyment, it's much closer to a mid-level manager body-shop position at Accenture than a "life of mind". FAANG IC life is luxurious by comparison.

My friends in academia are constantly tweaking/justifying what they work on. I do what I want, make 5x-10x more, and have way better resources/staff.

And that's all before giving a 2 hour lecture to 500 kids while wearing an N-95, then going home and giving the same lecture to another 200 kinds on zoom.
Not to disagree with you, but I'd like to note FIFA is based in Switzerland.
This describes my time with expats in Venezuela pretty well (~2000?). At some point, you realize every place you visit is surrounded by 12' walls topped with razor wire. I guess you wilfully ignore the strangeness if you have to live there, but it was really disquieting to visit.
Distributed Authorization and Wayfair’s Supply Chain
This analysis frames the problem as though it’s concurrent with current inflation rates.

The problem goes back for much longer though. Interest rates hav been near zero since the Great Recession, and for most of that period, inflation was also below 2% almost the entire time. Add to that a lot of the year over year inflation we are experiencing is due to base effects eg the collapse of oil prices last year. Current oil prices are hardly elevated from their historical norms.
Today in HN there's this item which may be helpful titled `Reading Better'.
https://fs.blog/reading/
> Fauci is the highest-paid US government employee.

...And? What's your point?

As a Chief Medical Officer at a pharma company, which he more than qualifies for, he's be making 10+ million/year. E.g., darryl sleep, the CMO of Amgen, made $20 million last year. You make this point yourself.

So Fauci is greedy because he.... didn't sell out? This take is so astoundingly ignorant that it's hard to believe it's made in good faith.
Yes. That we don't do this on the ISS is a shame, and an opportunity.
The current federal property tax was deemed unconstitutional in Germany. The new law has an opening clause for states to regulate the property on their own. The state of Baden-Württemberg has introduced a land value tax.
I'm waiting for all the studies reinvestigating the height salary and career premium in the age of remote working.
How to register all CQRS handlers by convention
A paper wallet can be password protected. Shamir's Secret Sharing can also be used with paper wallets. Practically everyone who messes around with serious amounts of crypto money has a more sophisticated setup than keeping it on a phone, even many people who only have a few hundred dollars worth have hardware wallets like a Trezor. Just because cases like the above happen doesn't mean they're the norm. Every once in a while you also read stories about someone leaving their suitcase full of cash on a train or such. But that doesn't mean the average cash user is that careless.
Compensation should be adjusted to value created not expenses incurred.
It’s also partly the monetary unit being worth less than 20 years ago. $2 20 years ago is about the same as $3 today.
Not every country is, or ever will be, like Japan. I would say most of them won't during our lives.

I agree with OP, if you just leave hard earned money of us middle class sit in the bank, it will be eaten away by inflation and fees. Its what our parents did, and its properly dumb. Risk with markets which most don't understand, or invest into real estate which everybody does at least a bit. Most folks consider only these 2 options.

Also, if SHTF, in most cases you will have physical places or even land to live off, instead of few bank statements. People will still have to live somewhere, and there is constantly more of us.
The ability to transfer property quickly thanks to investors does provide some value. However, sitting on property and collecting rent is essentially theft. To fix this we need more incentives that reward the use of property more then the ownership of it.
Yes I had a version of tiny Basic I loaded from cassette for Z80.
The sphere was first advertised in back of Radio Electronics in a small box ad. I think it was around June in mid 70s.

It cost if I remember correctly $850 or so. For that it would come with cassette IO, 512 bytes of ROM, a video monitor and case. The boards were on a backplane (inside) with room for expansion. There was also of course a power supply.

This was a kit and not assembled.

At the time Mike did NOT have any inventory and was winging it! I found out later I was his very first order. Also they did a "what do you use your Sphere for" annual contest which I won with my Tank War game and my design for a graphics card. I even sent them a super 8 video of the game play. Sadly lost as I sent my only copy.

That price got you an unassmbled kit. Also at
In the completely random department, your picture was (I think) on the cover of some Apple magazine back in the 80s (maybe SoftTalk?) and my geometry class got a great deal of enjoyment out of the fact that you and our geometry teacher could have been twins.
That is not what the study says.

The study clearly says as the first line of the abstract:

"Vaccination has proven effective against infection with SARS-CoV-2, as well as death and hospitalisation following COVID-19 illness."

The part you quoted talks specifically about other outcomes such as "hair loss".

Yes, there are a bunch of very serious "other outcomes" and I am showcasing a trivial one but your claim that "Vaccinations May Not Protect Against Death in over 60s" is not the claim made by this research and is clearly as false as claiming the other outcomes are limited to "hair loss".

I'll extend you the curtesy of assuming you misread the abstract but this is why one should not editorialize article titles.
do you mean homepod or homepod mini?

yes it is infuriating how it has a mind of its own. if you just want to use it like a bluetooth then disconnect it from your icloud account. it will still work as an airplay target.

what you (and i initially) failed to understand about it is that it is a streamer device (limited to apple music). not simply a wireless speaker.
This is a thread about soccer politics
No, I'm referring to Apple's continued cooperation with surveillance agencies across the United States and all associated governments through the FIVE EYES program. The fact that your Macbook's security keys are trivial for the government to acquire is besides the point, but potentially germane if you, well, trusted your laptop in the first place.
I've heard a lot of enthusiasm for Roam & developers I respect saying other seemingly nearby offerings are just way less capable, interesting.

TIL Roam is powered by Datomic. It's been a while since I've researched the Datomic system, but it clicks to much to me, that a way better Personal Information Manager would rest upon & be great by having really good really capable information representation systems underneath. It speaks to what I want to believe, which is that General Systems Research & thinking of how we represent, store, & process data is fertile grounds for exploration.

Great to see a bunch of real examples here. Really started giving me a feel for what's got others excited. Thanks!!
So monumentally stupid. I am a California kid and taking algebra in 7th grade was honestly a pivotal experience in my academic life. I got ny butt kicked for the first few exams and after getting a C- I was devastated. I cried a bit to my parents and teacher and resolved myself to grind super hard on the next test. I pretty much learned all the study habits I have now from that one exam and it was frankly a great learning experience. I definitely was capable of doing algebra at 7th grade and I think we should be accelerating student's learning in public school frankly I felt I wasted a few good years of my potential stuck in school.
> Single purpose accounts aren't allowed here

What's wrong with that? Some users really like to talk a lot about Java [1] and I am mainly interested in talking about the ongoing pandemic. HN offers a great format to have balanced discussions with a technical/science-oriented community. Additionally, it doesn't seem like COVID-19 topics are spamming/dominating the main page.

> and neither is using HN primarily for ideological battle

I started the thread to find out more about the current situation. One user replied with an article against vaccines. I tried to offer more context (i.e. defending the vaccines). In a different thread [2], a user underestimated the risks of vaccinating children and, again, I tried to balance it out (i.e. criticizing the vaccines). And sometimes, I just like to add a comment to confront the absurdities of today's governance [3]. Where am I primarily engaging in ideological battle?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Skinney (Just a random user)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29111492

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29275781
If you have money and want to buy a better global reputation without internal changes, I can't think of a better way than international sports.
China launches Gaofen-11, a high resolution observation satellite
From the article:
State media Xinhua stated the satellite would be “mainly used for land surveys, city planning, land rights confirmation, road network design, crop yield estimation and disaster prevention and mitigation.”

...

Gaofen satellites form the civilian China High-resolution Earth Observation System (CHEOS) comprised of optical, multispectral, hyperspectral and synthetic aperture radar satellites. Resolution capabilities and other information has been published for lower numbered Gaofen series satellites.

...

However information for Gaofen satellites numbered 8 and above has not been openly released within or prior to launch reports, suggesting the satellites are for national defense purposes.

...

Renders of the first Gaofen-11 satellite in orbit on mission control screens shown on state television suggest the series of satellites have large (1.5-meter-diameter-plus) apertures for optical remote sensing.

...

An article published by the Chinese Society for Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography (Chinese) in November 2020 states that Gaofen-11 has the capability to return optical imagery at a resolution of around 10 centimeters. The interview-based article claims that this is comparable to the perceived yet classified capabilities of the U.S. Keyhole reconnaissance satellite system.
Mad in the way I imagine any colonialist ex-pat going mad, as empires threaten each other around you and you put on a white shirt and suffer through the heat. The same that happens and has happened since merchants and wealth-seekers have isolated themselves so much from reality (protected by the butlers and maids and drivers and security guards, never setting a foot in a local's house, neither a rich nor poor one) that finally they go all in and become regime apologetics.
No one mentioned that governments benefit it 2 ways.

1) All the unemployed autoworkers who got automated away can move to make something that has had almost no productivity gains

2) Debt payments by government are basically nill.

Another view:
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/11/vampires-at-the-g...
I couldn’t. And I recognize that. Maybe it is about time we recognized that not everyone is cut out for calculus either?
As I understand it these layer 2 solutions typically require a resolution transaction in order to actually extract value, which has similar costs to a normal on-chain transaction. In the ideal world folks would be able to use the existing infrastructure of established Bitcoin atms to make transactions with low fees, but that doesn’t seem like it will happen any time soon.

Things like the Twitter solution aren’t great, Twitter owns all the currency and is kind enough to let you have some sometimes. If I were to make my app I wouldn’t want ownership of any of the currency, too much liability.

I’m not very interested in the promises of bleeding edge crypto startups, in my experience they almost never pan out, and certainly aren’t accessible to the masses.