skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The word cult has different meanings when used academically and colloquially [1]. The academic meaning has more to do with analyzing shared-culture groups by identifying clusters of material culture and beliefs. I.e. the cult of Apollo, or the cult of St. Nicholas.

Cult in the sense used in this article is in the modern sense of a group of people heavily controlled by a charismatic leader via a belief system.

Some academic "cults" certainly fit the definition of modern colloquial
"cults", but not all. Some are just religious/cultural clusters.

1. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3511972#:~:text=...a%20cult%20i...
This exactly. I don't like VSCode at all. I try to stay away from it. I prefer and pay for JetBrains IDEs like WebStorm.

Having said that, remote development in VSCode is perfect. I tolerate JetBrains Gateway for remote dev, but I'll be waiting for it to mature before renewing my JB license next year.

However, some VSCode plugins are great. I might have VScode in remote mode running just so I can use the excellent Docker plugin.

My use-case : I remote from my low RAM bad-container-support M1 to my Beelink mini PC with Ryzen 5600U that has more ram and runs linux (and so has better container support). Tailscale is used on both devices.
I can't optimize my way out of a wet paper bag.
To be fair there's a point here, which is that color spaces from sRGB to DCI-P3 to REC2020 do have quite different color/tone/brightness ranges (gamuts). Old windows boxes (and old monitors) also displayed them very differently (especially the low brightness ones). Macs were much better, and that made picking colors on them far more repeatable.

Now everyone in Windows world has standardized on sRGB and Mac on DCI-P3, but mobile is more important, where I believe it's still split sRGB Android, and DCI iPhone.

I don't know, but expect that HTML picked sRGB for their color space since this is the one people historically meant. I'd be surprised that it wasn't configurable and there weren't multiple versions, because why have a standard, when you can choose!

We won't even get into HDR, automatic brightness/eye-saver, or white point adjustment. You'ld be better off looking for a color perception scale rather than display scale, if you wanted to avoid that. Environmental lighting has big effects on perception though.
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I agree - 'critical' is sorta meaningless in this context. But the general response is - because organisms adapt for their own survival and our genes are selfish.
I knew someone who commuted from Philadelphia to Manhattan every day. Worked in a museum, so it was her dream job but didn't pay much. Longest commute I've know someone to do daily.
You realize that a large proportion of Americans are effectively innumerate. Unit conversions are beyond their ken.
Checkout the C4 model (https://c4model.com) if you're looking for a easy but detailed method to describe your software architecture. I my experience it works well in teams, you can let any dev contribute since there are only a handful of rules/notations.
It's important because people started talking about choice. What they mean, I assume, is "let them live in peace", which I fully agree with. But this whole "no, they've chosen that lifestyle" is dumb. It implies that they know the alternatives and somehow arrived at that lifestyle as the one they preferred. That's nonsense on e.g. the North Sentinalese islanders. I dislike changing the meaning of words because it sounds nice, it ruins communication.

> For example, it doesn’t seem like a reasonable requirement that someone spends a bunch of time doing cocaine so they understand it, in order to not want to do cocaine.

And I would mostly agree with that, if it weren't for the fact that you can read about drugs and their effect and learn something about it. It's limited, and you should be very aware of the fact that you have a very limited understanding of the alternatives, but it's not comparable to "I don't know that cocaine exists, therefore I have chosen not to consume it". That's just ignorance, not choice.
Maybe that part was referring to "entire teams." I.e. if we are going to keep an entire team intact, rather than pick a few people, then they better make a huge impact.
This isn’t about discounted brokerages it’s about what kind of positions and types of trades you are allowed to open, and do you or do not get access to leverage.

This isn’t about someone buying stocks more easily and cheaply this is about opening a complex leveraged position on some esoteric derivative that the 500 layers turned traders who came up with don’t even understand that can put you in the red for sums orders of magnitude larger than what you are investing in the first place.

We’ve learned the hard way that we need to limit the risk exposure of traders by both their experience and ability to take on losses and yes Robinhood cuts through that wall quite effectively.
They're nice in prototyping styling since it's trivial to comprehend the intent of coloration while making it clear that finalized colors haven't been settled on.
Amazon had a messaging app…?
Such people latch onto trends to look smart.

Then they scrub history, as most investors are doing wrt blockchain, when trends change.
Not saying it isn't worth an attempt, just that the real meaning shouldn't be lost.
those writers make perfect logical sense within the confines of capitalism. once you stray outside of those boundaries, their ideas start to break down.
Are you saying that the standard should attempt to impose requirements to non-conforming compiler modes? How would that even work?
Totally there are cases like that but let's not pretend it's as bad as in many other countries. Cases like this also consistently make the news in NA and Europe.
Cool! I love it!

I made one of these years ago in alphabetical order (yea I know stupid). Yours is way better. I can make great use of it.

I use these colors 95% of the time. I call them my "FU colors" (except I user the NSFW pronunciation). Every time someone sees my work, they say either, "How retro," or "You should really hire a designer."

For functionality, they cover almost everything. For "higher purposes" they suck, but I never cared.

Thank you. An evening well spent!
I work with 3+ programming languages every single day, so learning +30 keyboards shortcuts of a single editor that works OKish with all of them beats having 6 JetBrains products each with similar, but still different keyboard shortcuts.
I also wonder in what state some leave their own toilets at home after they have done their business.

I was also puzzled by those diagrams showing how you are supposed to sit on a western toilet seat. But then I watched some bits of one of those crual japanese tv show where their collapsed all the walls of some public toilets when a poor guy was at it (I hope it was an act). To my own surprise the japanese are sitting facing the flusher/wall, not facing the door. Plus you have countries where squat toilets are the norm.

Sex is another area where there are few social norms since you never learn by imitating peers (other than porn which is a terrible model).
- Everyone wants affordable housing (lets find ways to bet on it)

- NINJA loans, swaps, CDOs, etc.

- housing markets collapses
> "In addition, it is possible to read DVD movies on any laptop, something that is not the case with Blu-ray"

How many laptops still have any form of optical drive? None of the laptops I'm aware of
Do creators get paid more when you buy DVDs vs digital versions?
Is there a Bob Ross for websites/apps (or general programming) somewhere out there on Youtube or Twitch?
Just one?

There are numerous mainland Chinese and Russian certificate authorities listed. I always have to go through and disable them. How did they get in there in the first place, and what keeps them there?
In my opinion, the main point is that "quality" is highly subjective. High definition may not matter most to some users, at least not compared to acting, direction and photography of the movie. Also I believe the customers of physicals are more interested in those parameters than resolution.

Another point to consider is that old movies don't gain that much from blue ray.

In conclusion, the higher price of blue rays doesn't justify the increase of quality for some users, who may value other parameters more.
A little early in the morning for so much alphabet soup.
So I only read your comment and then played the game... and OMG "yes": it kicked ass! For like, 99% of it, I wanted all of the people I work with to be able to at least answer this before building their own controls, as being good with spacing and kerning and shading are critical skills way too many people lack.

But... it also had a handful of places that infuriated me--like made me viscerally angry at the state of society level angry, where if you answer the way the game wants you to I hope to not only not hire you but de-friend you :/--and of course none of them were "rounded corners".

I then went back to the comments expecting--based on your comments--to waltz back here into a discussion about rounded corners to "lay down the law" about how horribly evil the designers are that agree with stuff like "make the skip button not look like a button so no one knows to click it as it is really really important that we get them to invite their friends for our product virality and KPIs, so you won't get promoted if that number goes down!" and...

...well, you were just wrong about the discussion: almost no one here (hell: I didn't even see a single example, but I was, admittedly, skimming to get the zeitgeist) is arguing about rounded corners :/. (edit: OK, in a more careful read I found one, but it was buried in a more substantial argument. I also don't think it was even correct as I remember the example being about inconsistent border radius, not "corners should be round".)

Instead, the vast majority of the comments are about dark patterns and "form should follow function" complaints (as with the aspect ratio of the guitar: the goal of that control is to help a user decide whether to buy the guitar, and if it looks like ass then that matters less than satisfying its job; there are better ways of solving that problem, a la Pinterest's continuous grid, but they are going to cause other problems involving fairness... but like, if we aren't going to do that then, at best, we should be helping the user choose a different photo if we are going to insist on cropping it like that, not just cropping it "because our app looks so fugly with your silly image in it").

There were a few people I saw complaining about contrast, and that was in fact the only other place I lost some points (though, I will admit, in the opposite direction from the people here correctly arguing about accessibility... but, in my defense, I went that direction in my answers due to cynical beliefs about designers: I believed the Search box needed even less contrast as nothing else had been given much contrast ;P).
Hardcore engineers don’t work for money anyways.
The OP is pointing out that what "the issue" is depends on whether you want high confidence that your code has few bugs, or you want certainty that your code contains no bugs.
wish i could get these five minutes back. this is the definition of “specious”.
Pictures Show Abandoned Sanzhi UFO Houses
Sanzhi UFO houses were a set of abandoned and never completed pod-shaped buildings in Sanzhi District, New Taipei, Taiwan. UFO houses of Sanjhih also known as the Sanjhih pod houses or Sanjhih Pod City were constructed in early 1980 as a vacation resort in a part of the northern coast adjacent to Danshui and was marketed towards US military officers coming from their East Asian postings.
No, it resembles a safety pin and stars, the well known Society for Communist Seamstresses flag.
Still worse than using the dvd reader inside a laptop
There's a related proposal for Compartments and Module constructor is a prerequisite to that. A shim for the entire thing exists, with lockdown and Compartments isolating code:

https://github.com/endojs/endo/tree/master/packages/ses

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-compartments/

It has usage already, eg. metamask snaps
You can write memory safe C++ easier than memory safe C. The problem of statically verifying it the C++ is actually memory safe because of the numerous ways to write unsafe code in C++ is a different goalpost.

My point is that there isn't a compelling reason to write new code in C for something where safety is critical.
Literally what “an allegory” means.

“The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” is a story about talking magical animals, and is for kids. And therefore obviously has no hidden motives behind the story.
> Every DVD has to re-invent menus, usually badly.

My favorite one is the Fifth Element DVD. It has menus implemented as options flying towards you in a loop and you need to press the OK button on the remote just when the right one is passing by. Works great if you have a DVD player with a slightly laggy CPU and an IR remote. It always reminds of that "the worst volume control UI" website that was doing rounds on social media a while back.
+1, and some compilers already exist to do that for you. See, e.g., Google's compiler (which I work on). https://github.com/google/fully-homomorphic-encryption
DX7 Cartridge Does Not Exist
Consumption goes up when things are more spaced out. Electricity needs to travel farther on lossy lines. Water needs to be pumped over longer distances. Deliveries need to be sent to farther and farther points. Heating needs to cover a wider surface area. Unfortunately all of these relationship grow as a power law of density so your consumption must increase by a substantial amount with a more and more spacious development plan. A quick look at the CO2 emissions per capita of high standard of living countries quickly shows that expansive countries like Canada, Australia or the United States have much higher energy consumption than dense ones like the United Kingdom, Sweden or Japan.
> "I don’t want to see so many people getting hurt. My generation has been hit by the financial crisis, by Covid, we’re going to have the climate crisis. These people don’t need this extra suffering in their life."

That's a position of profound empathy. There are other arguments mentioned in TFA -- I encourage folks to read it.
Yep. I'd say the solution is: Live a modest life, and don't advertise your wealth.

I doubt there is any law anywhere prohibiting a millionaire or billionaire from moving themselves and their families to a new place and living a middle class lifestyle under a new name.

Advertising one's wealth is a signal for "I seek validation" and "Please appreciate me"/"Be my friend because I am wealthy"

I doubt anyone is actually stopping Bob from quitting his job, moving to a new country, and living a quaint lifestyle.

Personally, I've up and moved and gone to live in a tent, just to see what it was like and essentially test myself and test the lifestyle of a vagabond.

It really showed me that, as a man, for the most part: you have no worth outside of what you provide for others. Men are expected to provide something for their community-- that is the basis of their social status: competencies (i.e. capable of productive things) and contributions.
I always (and only) use named colours for debugging. For example border: 1px solid red; around some element that isn't rendering as expected.

This makes it hard to accidentally forget about a rules that just just put in temporarily. Real colours will always match some design, which will have a carefully-chosen hexcode.
i almost killed my dad. taking a career break, to work on my mental health, get rid of negative/toxic people/family/friends.

would love to connect with cool people or, hear from anyone who's going through something difficult. maybe, grab virtual coffee.
What software do you use to play ripped Blu-rays?

I've tried both Macgo Blu-ray Player [1] and Anymp4 Blu-ray Player [2] and both have their playback issues. (Just a note that Anymp4 may look sketchy, but they are a legit company who do provide refunds if necessary.)

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/macgo-blu-ray-player-pro/id140...

[2] https://www.anymp4.com/blu-ray-player/
I also hate a lot of companies that are too expensive, trying to sell you status but not backing it up with quality. So I would love it if you could sell me high quality products that are repairable and doesn't unnecessarily tax neither our planet nor the humans involved in creating them. What are you selling?
Of course you're supposed to sit how the Japanese guy sits. The top of the bowl is there so you can rest your book in it. Butters knows.
I use an editor plugin to autocomplete your CSS variables:

https://i.imgur.com/44wogB5.png
Wasmer 3.0 Released as the Latest “Universal WebAssembly Runtime”
I have Vinyl records, but my goal is to digitize them. They're my Dads from 1940s, 50s, and many are 78s, so I had so search Kijiji ads to get a player that plays that speed. Dual 1009 was what I settled on.

As for DVDs/Blu Ray, I only buy things like Planet Earth or other docs. Sure enough, just yesterday I tried playing Planet Earth II on UHD 4K Blu Ray on an Xbox Series X, albeit I still have a 1080p TV (bought used) and 1080p Receiver (bought used, Sony STR-DN1000 that I paid $50 for) and it was glitching. sigh Time to hit up Bit Torrent and download a ripped version of the Documentary that I already paid for. Argh.

Both Blu Ray and Vinyl are susceptible to one day not being playable. By ripping them into digital, we can hopefully keep the content playable well into the future.
Wait, it wasn't a good idea to name my daughter "Google"?
I can't imagine a lot of people in 2022 attend a midnight launch for an OS and pay €$300 for it.

Times changed and computers stopped being cool.
Normally people flag such a post. Because they can’t handle the truth when it becomes as naked as it gets.

I was flagged for calling people sheep the other day. Apes, sheep, don’t know whats better.
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I don't understand why sites like this are not HTTPS, yet.

I'm not giving you a security exception to read your blog.

Let's Encrypt is free.
> Another point to consider is that old movies don't gain that much from blue ray.

Disagree :) The oldest movies I own on Blu-ray are Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, and both of them are visually improved by being in HD compared to the DVD releases. I wouldn't really prefer SD for anything regardless of age.
Weird interpretations from these results to say the least. “Space Dominance” is nowhere mentioned except in the headline, yet the headline claims that’s what people want (!)

Seeing the results though I see that human space exploration is in the lower tier, just like my previous post was suggesting. More people would rather prioritize normal robotic missions as it seems. More people seem to put some importance to Conducting research to understand space then don’t. This is reverse (i.e. more people don’t think it important to) Research space travels health effect.
Right, but these are leaked photos from a Beyond Meat plant (something that is a felony to do in slaughterhouses) and the inspectors say the plant is fine.

So how is this different from the current status of slaughterhouses but without photos of the inside?
Big discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33688125
The Sun Sets on Tonido
I just fixed a bug like that in Wikipedia: atmospheric methane lifetime is widely quoted as being "a half life of 9.1 years". That appears in the wikipedia, with a reference to a massive document (part of IPCC's AR5) which in fact makes no such claim (about a half life I mean). But once it's entered the Zeitgeist, can the false assumption be eradicated?

(I only noticed this because the 9.1 y estimate may no longer be valid, and we are putting together a paper on the subject.)
Because it is a great example of Microsoft's strategy to take over the IDE space similar to the old Embrace-Extent-Extinguish:

- Embrace the open-source movement and publish an open-source IDE so people can't complain it is not.

- Extend the product with an ecosystem of extensions and integrations that depend on your IDE.

- Extinguish competition by creating a dependency on proprietary platforms such as GitHub and Azure.

Bonus: Fill it with spyware because Google Chrome demonstrated most people don't understand the potential consequences.
Ooh. I hadn't heard of Gas -- which means there's a chance that the kidz are still using it. In general by the time I've heard of it, it's over.

Given a cursory look, it doesn't seem like the sort of thing that would have broad or lasting appeal. But it doesn't need to appeal to me. Arguably, it's better if I don't understand it.
"IMHO, both C++ and Rust feel too much like puzzle solving ("how do I solve this problem in C++" or "how do I solve this problem in Rust?"), when writing C code, the programming language disappears and it simply becomes "how do I solve this problem?")."

This statement very much resonates with me. It's honestly one of the things I like about C. Although it's not perfectly like this for me all the time. For example string manipulation is not great.

An other aspect I like about C is there is not a plethora ways of doing the same thing which I have found always made it more readable than rust and C++.
Census says 10% of people have 1-way commutes over 60 mins. Not typical but certainly not "extreme outliers" either.

And that's just commute time, which doesn't include getting dressed for work, gassing up the car, etc. (sure, WFH doesn't completely eliminate those, but the difference adds up across the population)

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/one-way-...
Sounds like this space is ripe for disruption. You could do a whole white supremacist App Store with Klanstagram, Fourteen Little Words (a "pure" dating app), and Save Our Marriage (an anti-LGBT mobile game).
It's where you put your files (nudes) to keep them safe (stolen).

See 'the fappening'.
> It does not support simply configuring the environment variables and running the code in the integrated terminal.

The "terminal.integrated.env.<platform>" setting configures the integrated terminal environment variables.
That would be sucky as the site could then use client side Javascript to then read them.
If I understand correctly for UHD discs it amounts to having not just any drive, but having a supported drive flashed to a supported, sometime old, firmware version such that MakeMKV is able to dynamically overwrite the drive firmware (ie, root the drive) before ripping the disc. The whole process also depends on downloading encryption keys from a server that are per-disc, so if that goes down or stops being updated that could prevent you ripping your discs again in future.

MakeMKV is incredible but the whole process seems fragile and very complex.
I also followed this model for a few years, and in retrospect, it was the ideal.

I recommend this to anyone looking for a perfect 'hybrid'.