skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing about operational usage is that they don't need a definition, nor do they purport to be absolute, but strictly context-dependent. That's what operational means in this context. For a Christian worried about a congregant joining an organization, if they required those things then it would be considered a "cult" (also usually required here is that it be a small organization).

I do not have an absolute definition! That's my whole point! Nor do I deny yours, but only point out that the label, by itself, adds no value to the discussion, unless there's a common framework. Surely you can acknowledge that a significant number of people would require a religious belief; that's what makes the accusation against NIXVM particularly outre, because they are cult-like without a religious element, and saying they are a cult is a way to associate them with something generally found distateful.

> This is a bit inconsistent with the rest of your comment - what constitutes a cult is now subjective?

YES! A MILLION TIMES YES! On the border of the taxonomy, things get very wishy-washy -- but finding someone who says that Heaven's Gate or Jonestown are not cults would be enormously difficult. The usage of "cult" only works because we have a shared cultural experience with the notion of cult. and invoking that when referring to things like NXIVM is a rhetorical device, nothing more.

I don't get to "decide" the meaning of "cult" and neither do you! It's a word in a living language in the milieu of a society with a shared cultural heritage that carries history and connotation stretching back to before we were born. It is ultimately uninteresting to debate whether NIVMX is a cult or not because it does not make more acceptable or condemnatory their practices.

If you could make a strong statement; "they exhibited the following cult-like attributes, and in consequence, like every organization with those attributes, they also exhibited these behaviors" then you're on to something; you're doing observational sociology. But here all you're really saying is "they are super double bad", which is, okay, fine, but you can just call them fascists or communists or something else that people hate and it has the same impact.
The original guaiac FOBT is a crude screening tool for colon cancer and never used for diagnosis in the strict meaning of the term (it’s somewhat sensitive and not at all specific).

It’s also confused these days with the more sensitive and specific FIT test. FOBT has no relevance in modern medicine.
The way it's always worked; she can publicly post the link to her Tumblr on her Alice.com homepage, or you confirm with her in private outside of Tumblr.
I think most reasonable people would agree that desiring the freedom to invest your personal wealth in non-government approved investments isn't "tax evasion, fraud and laundering money".

Isn't such a claim a bit ... bizarre?
This isn't specifically PDP-8-related, but the story of Bell Labs going to extraordinary lengths to hire Ken Thompson is a hoot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY6q5dv_B-o

...not to mention Ken's story of Doug McIlroy writing a compiler for TCG on a sheet of paper, then using it to compile itself - by hand - thus "feeding his sheet of paper his sheet of paper."
And if you enjoy reading and interacting with content from Alice@instance1.com, does it matter if their name is really Alice irl?
This is a pretty well served market at this point.
"As Apple deletes all tweets"

What does this mean? I see no mention of anything similar to this in the article.
People don't do large-scale public chats with celebrities over email.

Think Reddit AMAs, or media interviews and the like. When someone says "This is reporter X talking with Alice (picture of Alice + voice + etc. etc.)", it establishes identity that people trust. I guess people could fake this these days, but building up these networks of trust for worthwhile interaction has grown more and more important recently.

Twitter's blue checkmark kinda-sorta served this purpose, at least before it died last week.

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If there was a widespread "Ask me anything" email discussion organized over emails, this identity verification problem would also need to be solved. Since Twitter is an "always ongoing" discussion with various celebrities, the blue checkmark was kinda-sorta the verification you needed.
Einstein signs a book – Princeton – 1936
Pfizer CEO claims 400% price hike on Covid vaccines will be “free”
Terminology: an exploit is a specific crafted process to complete a break-in using a vulnerability in the system. In your situation you are generally interested in scanning / testing for vulnerabilities, and possibly verifying it by actually exploiting it.
Spark 3.0.0 released – Java XMPP Client
Do you know how much changed for the sequels? From some reverse engineering, Crash Warped relies on depth bucketing for dynamic triangles, while level geometry is streamed from the disk based on the camera position, already at the appropriate LOD and sorted and bucketed. Is the BSP logic you're talking about real-time, or part of a similar pre-processing step?
Same. Do you have any guess when this is likely going main branch?
Data policy, knowing what and how data is stored, would be good enough
Of course it does, email from stuff lime suppport@google.com is often used for phishing. Not to mention, email is mostly 1:1, so it has completely different discovery/identity validation properties than a social network that's normally n:n.

Even for things like newsletters, you subscribe to a newsletter. It's true that mailing lists exist, but they don't scale and require curation precisely to establish the identity of each participant.
That was the thing that was so revolutionary about Abrash: he figured out how to create graphics that rivaled arcade hardware on the IBM PC.

Most importantly: without a GPU.

At the time, all of the really "flashy" arcade games used GPUs that cost around $1500 in today's dollars. Abrash pulled off this stunt with no GPU.

I'd argue that the entire reason the Xbox is called "Xbox" is because of "Mode X", invented by Abrash.
A central part of the quote I was responding to is "fiddle the records". I agree with what you said otherwise.
That makes sense if I think about everything existing on a single axis (objects in front of each other on the z-axis).

But if you then turn 90 degrees, then suddenly a bunch of those z-axis items are side by side, and order is based on the x-axis of my original perspective. So I don't understand how a binary structure accounts for that perspective shift.

Edit: For clarification, my understanding is that there's a single tree built per-level in advance. If I'm mistaken and it's re-building the tree 30 times per second, the lack of axis concerns makes sense, but the article seemed to indicate that that's computationally prohibitive.
Very humbling and fascinating to read all the amazing achievements in this list. Here are mine:

1. The first and only app (I believe) to chat with dolphins using underwater whistles.

2. The structure of the knowledge component of an app that ensures the safe use of extremely poisonous pesticides produced by a large chemical manufacturer.

3. An expert system used to generate the complete source code, including the UI, of 13 operational expert systems for the configuration of telecom equipment.

4. The complete software for the safe transport of extra dimensional loads on a very large train network, the first of its kind in 1973.

5. Flight testing the first commercial autopilot RNAV flight management system, originally for the 747, back in 1974.
"Crash" is not something you want an aerial explosive to do.
> The amount of concatenative language interpreters I've abandoned is a bit embarassing.

Earlier this week, I watched an excellent talk by Devine Lu Linvega where he was doing a bunch of digging into minimal programming languages. He spent a lot of time looking into Forth and other concatenative languages and he said he found a lot of implementations of the languages, but very little code written in them. It was as if soon as the implementers actually tried to use the thing they created, they gave up.

So your experience isn't unique. I've also written a couple of concatenative languages and quickly abandoned them after trying to write more than toy programs and realizing I wasn't smart enough to reason about the stack in my head.
The other thing is you could likely squeeze your competition out of the market. Countries are waking up to the implications of data harvesting and that it isn't only being used by themselves but their adversaries. So if a big company, like Apple, got it working, it would be much easier to lobby legislation that would harm (or kill) your competitors. (While I think we would all be better off if this happened, I do recognize that this same power can be abused and cause a significant disruption in the ecosystem. But I think it would also be extremely difficult to impossible to gain such an edge that others couldn't quickly adapt. Even if they drag their feet)
The community of scammers begs to disagree
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdll1Ie4AW8#t=7m5s (07:05 if it doesn't seek automatically)
I call this the "Vulnerability view" instead of a "Remediation view" and its something I feel a lot of Security people and tooling gets wrong when sharing information with those outside our bubble.

It is dead easy to export a vulnerability scan or penetration test report and throw it at the developers, but you will get much better outcomes and better rapport if you tell them what they need to do (i.e. patch to version x.x.x) versus telling them what is wrong ("the sky is falling!").
It is my favorite apple. Tart but also sweet.

I don't know why this one is missing, yet there are dozens of varieties I've never heard of.
I really miss my 2x20 minutes bike ride to wake up and decompress. Also lunches with coworkers.

The problem I would have to live near where I would work (likely in the city center). Which means higher rents and smaller places. Also if I change jobs my options would be limited.
> My spicy take is that React is not an abstraction above the DOM, it's an abstraction parallel to it.

Why do you think this? Would be interested to hear the reasoning behind the take.
Look at their password requirements : 1 symbol, 1 uppercase letter, 1 lowercase letter, 1 number - when we know that security folks at this point would say "any easy to remember phrase is better than random characters". And they will fine you to death if you don't enforce all the characters.

There's a few mentions online about companies that have gone out of business or fined like crazy - whether they're warranted or not isn't the question. There's an article on tech crunch about Fidzup that shares a nice extreme case. I don't think 1 nations DPA should be able to unilaterally make decisions for entire platforms or the planet. Moreover, they're absolutely terrible to work with.
Ask HN: What are you waiting to buy with a Black Friday / Cyber Monday deal?
What is an item you're waiting to go on sale before you buy it?
Do people keep wallets in their back pockets outside of cartoons and 20th century pickpocket victims in films? I prefer it separate to my phone, but always front pocket, I don't want to sit (lop-sided?!) on it.
One of the companies I worked for had a strong ops culture and so having laptops opening during meetings was part of the culture. I started doing it and found out that I, too, can focus on meetings the entire time if I have my laptop open, as long as I'm not doing too much with it (like coding). If I use it for idle stuff, it's like my brain gets to take little minibreaks and I can focus through a whole meeting. Same as if I have something to do with my hands, like a fidget or bendy wires that I can make things out of.
Are you from the US? US public bathrooms are especially bad for privacy, because they only have thin wooden walls that start about 15 inches above the floor (so that anyone passing by can see if someone is laying on the floor, passed out).

In my country, where drug use is not such a big problem, bathrooms have actual brick walls, giving a person inside much more privacy.
https://archive.ph/gPBLd
New law silences doctors and gives government a monopoly on scientific truth
and just like that Big Brother takes over Dr's free speech
I really enjoyed reading this but the way I’ve always done this is number the players and roll and single die.
Actually what made me not consider this a "real" scripting language is not any of those things but rather the existence of a non-optional entry point function. Scripting languages typically read code from top of file to bottom to decide what to execute
This tertiary source concept you just invented it, it does not exist.
Nice! That guy also made this interactive version of Terry Riley's "In C": https://teropa.info/in-c/
Faster travel already costs more: walking, biking, mopeds, scooters, various grades of faster and more deadly motor vehicles, trains (not Amtrak), and planes.

Really, speed governors should be required. If that's only politically possible with a fee to opt out, I'll take it. We let people pay to stay out of jail after all (cash bail), this seems far more palatable than that.
The article starts with a poll showing Versions A), B) and C). Implicit in that poll would be that all three "versions" produce the same behavior.

Options A) and B) conflate None with non-existent key: if the key is set and has value None, they will return ItemNotFound. Option C) on the other hand treats them separately and will happily return None (instead of raising exception) when the key exists and its value is None.
C cares a hell of a lot about backwards compatibility. Whenever there is a corner case that gets fixed, the number one goal is to retain compatibility. most of the time, these clarifications clarify what everyone is already doing and has been doing for decades.

Also, most of these corner cases are so obscure that the vast majority of people with decades of C experience have not encountered them. C is an extremely explored space.
> They're like the least political entity, caring only about money...

"caring only about money" is absolutely a political ideology. Although I agree that it's weird to label this as liberal, as it's an ideology that's usually closely aligned with conservatism.
One way to approach that problem could be to eliminate any attempts to boost / temper anyone's tweets altogether.
I've noticed that among the non-programmer crowd "algorithm" has come to mean any sort of auto-suggest feature.

I suppose we can blame a combination of ignorance and marketing.
I thought this was a great moment to take stock of these voice assistants and do a postmortem on why the platform failed to live up to expectations. Something telling from the article is that Alexa is used to play music and check the weather and not much else, no matter how hard the division tries to get people to order Ubers or toothpaste.

I have been wondering if a next gen “GTP-4” like language model could take these AI assistants from being jukeboxes to actual assistants.
"Algorithm" is used in everyday language to mean "system of determining which content you get shown and the order it gets shown in." The "absence" of an "algorithm" in this context just means "you are shown the content generated by people you follow in the order that it is published."

I have a hard time believing you didn't understand the original post. Obviously the above does not mean there are no algorithms in a literal sense.
No idea but both branches, my understanding is, have existed for years.

Definitely hope it gets merged into main.
The bit that isn't true

Haranguing management staff isn't how you get an appointment. The system works on medical referrals.

There are 3-5 year waiting lists for kidney stone operations - something causing ongoing pain and high infection risk - and is indeed very routine - they can join the club.

Most people in need of what are frankly self indulgent procedures that doesn't affect their health should absolutely not be the priority for a health service already failing to meet duty of care to people with. The tavistock scandals are simply hijacking of a public entity too afraid to say no for fear of bad press.

Is the NHS fit for purpose? Mostly not in some very important areas. Why the subset of persons who want to make it about them is beyond me, it applies to all persons. Trust me. I know.
> At best I think we're at least 100 years off for any long-term self-sustained space colony

We think alike - but IMHO that's going to happen only if we begin now. That's why we shouldn't hold off.

> If we can't solve exponentially simpler earth-based problems, then I think we have no business in expanding, and would be unlikely to succeed regardless.

It's not like there's a single "we" that can keep attention at one thing at a time only. There are a lot of great engineers excited about space stuff, who don't care about ecology/whatever else at all. It makes sense to use their skills and enthusiasm while other engineers excited about that work on solving our Earth-bound problems.

Another point is - whatever helps us survive on Mars and the Moon will help us greatly to reduce harm done to Earth.

> Even if Mars or another planet were to survive the destruction of Earth, a stand-alone colony or space station would be doomed.

> We can work on both, but one's a much more imminent danger.

For sure, but there are also dangers other than climate change - war, asteroid impact, pandemics, rogue AI takeover... It's not that either Earth gets destroyed and the Martian colony will die anyways or nothing has happened and we don't need the backup.

Perhaps there will be another pandemic and the people on Earth will die off but the Martians survive. Perhaps asteroid impact will make Earth uninhabitable for 10-50 years but no more. Etc
What's the ROI on woke vs non-woke (or is it anti-woke).

Maybe Woke is trying a "virtuous" modus, non-woke is agnostic and anti-woke is the opposite of the Woke one?

Is there any studies around that?
The business of that startup is helping qualified professionals flee Russia.
I have updated the title, as checking the wayback machine it appears the account twitter.com/apple had never tweeted. Thankyou.
So a person could build trust and society could benefit from their good behavior and they would make money by being trusted?
Advent Of Code exercises classified by CS subject
The Family Lives of the Last Neanderthals
Reading this comment, I realized I always thought:

Scripting == interpreted

Is that not the case?
Intriguing title but the link is incorrect.
I disagree that the tabbed interface makes no sense for apps. I think that's a matter of personal preference.
> While I think Apple's data collection within its apps is excessive, the only thing the researchers achieve by conflating it with device analytics

The app store is the only way to install software... trying to pass it off as just another App with a separate policy seems disingenuous at best.
It is just more drugs to relieve the other drug effects
And just think of all the cotton the plantations grew! Surely that justifies it. /s
Is there a more reputable source reporting on this? This is a webpage whose main links are: MODEL S MODEL 3 MODEL X MODEL Y MACH-E GIFT CARD SALE NEWS
Ejabberd Turns 20 – Erlang Jabber/XMPP Server
Email has this problem all the time! [1] Real estate companies have to give customers cybersecurity advice [2] because phishers pretend to be the agent and send incorrect addresses for wire transfers.

[1]: https://www.proofpoint.com/us/threat-reference/email-spoofin...

[2]: https://www.rate.com/resources/how-to-avoid-phishing-scams-a...
I work in the trucking industry. There are many private companies that provide full employment history checks, criminal background, driving record, drug and alcohol testing history, etc. Two off the top of my head are Asurint and HireRight.
My GoPro won't work if it's too cold (lithium battery).

They're using GoPro 4's, which is somewhat interesting, as the 11 just came out. So, old tech (8 years old or so) that's been heavily modified to work in space. I'm reminded some janky PowerPC powers the FORTRAN code that runs the Hubble.

It is romantic to think that the Earthrise photo was taken with a Hasselblad medium format camera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kovAmQ0jz4
For fiction and chatting, no. For eyewitness accounts or providing evidence, yes, provenance matters.

Also, a famous name (or at least, one well-known to you) has a lot of embedded trust associated with it that was earned elsewhere, which is why impersonation matters.
Pro gamblers choose their games while VM developers don’t.

Again, your answer is very informed, but very much in the VM developer POV. Pro gamblers can and should choose their games. Pro developers can and should also choose their games to make sure their expected payoff works out.

While VM developers can "play" from the POV of the "house," and handle things in aggregate, we applicaiton developers choosing to use a VM or not are very much invested in our "next game."
I like the look of it, and "single-tasking" is great. It also can block out your calendar so you get less random meetings popup.

But I can't see any info on pricing? I see "free to start!" but always worried about roach motel business models - esp since the TOS is soooo detailed this doesn't seem like a happy hacker side project? Am I the product, or just too cynical nowadays?

update: after reg i see:

> That means we will be keeping our personal productivity solution free forever.

so i guess that means you're banking on a 2B version later?
If the fundamental delay to NASA releasing images is leak of proprietary data, that is a pretty good argument against the continued existence of NASA as a public agency.
The way I read it: a larger "Window Of Uncertainty" impacts performance. Having a smaller WOU by using PTP gave them a 100x perf increase in their experiments with the commit-wait solution for "ensuring consistency guarantee."

I'm completely ignorant on the topic in general though... so I'm probably missing something. =)
You could argue that hiding ints and floats behind “num” is implicit conversion
I saw a bunch of posts on the tumblr frontpage without being logged in. How are these determined, if not by some kind of algorithm? I made a new account and I saw a bunch of posts on my feed, apparently personalized based on my past surfing, without having followed anyone. Again, same question.

I have nothing against "algorithms", but why is the CEO of the company that owns tumblr reblogging someone making claims about tumblr that are just not true?
Unless they’re playing 4-D chess and the goal is to make competitors lose time implementing CAP theorem databases, nanosecond precision and React, while they’re pulling ahead.
I learned it in school, as did my class mates. I held onto it as I am technically minded and I appreciate the simplicity of metric. My class mates do not all agree that remembering metric conversions is useful.
I don’t, but I’m an outlier.

Why lots of people do: for prose projects, seeing a printed out version of the thing is superior for proofreading, editing, etc. The context switch helps break you out of your “this is text I wrote so I can’t see the errors in it” rut.

Also, reading long documents is still easier on paper than on screens——the screen alternatives all still kinda suck. iPad and the like have glare, hard to read outside, etc. remarkable and kindle and other e-ink devices are just filthy with compromises, like, kindle screens are all too small when most documents come formatted in letter size pdf, remarkable has no backlight and in addition the remarkable 1 at least is agonizingly slow and the software is utter shite.

I put up with the iPad/remarkable mess personally because (a) I refuse to own a printer at home, since the damned things never work right, (b) I also hate clutter and already have too much paper generated by others sitting around in piles, (3) pdfs and such are much easier to travel with