skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve seen so much quibbling at what criteria actually makes something a cult. Some religions get labeled as cults, when others don’t, and the without much differentiation between them. Some atheistic communities have just as many cult-like attributes as religious ones, but don’t get labeled as a cult. The same goes for political groups, companies, philosophies, and online communities. It seems like most human communities have cult-like characteristics.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the word “cult” isn’t very useful as a descriptor, at least in terms of the thing it’s describing. Rather, it’s far more useful as a descriptor of the person using the word to describe something. As the post indicates, we all belong to a cult of some kind, or engage in some level of cultish behavior. If I label something a cult, it doesn’t tell you much about that thing itself, or ways in which it is more of a cult than anything else, but it does signify my disapproval of that thing, which probably, at a base level is due to reasons unrelated to the cult-like behavior of that group.

In short, the labeling of something as a cult doesn’t actually do anything to describe that thing. Rather it’s a Rorschach test for the person doing the labeling.
Also, working from home would reduce the demand for the train routes. This in turn would mean that the route would be scheduled more sparsely, or even discontinued*. Which would force more people to use a car.

*And this is why management and operation of public utilities should be policy-driven rather than profit-driven.
Why would you heat a house if you're not in it. Do people really do that ?
I thought this at first, but it's arguably that Rogue One and Andor are the only Disney properties that deeply tie in to the universe. They really set up the events for the original trilogy and make them feel more filled out and real. The tone is one of sacrifice and hope, and intentionally plays as a counterpoint to the powerful space wizards in the films. It feels like the creators respect the narrative.
The 21st century version of Buffalo buffalo buffalo...
I would rather have 4K and 60 hz
> In political terms it doesn't include NI ...

It often does - for example someone from NI can join the GB Olympics team.
That's just another thing that doesn't require crypto at all.
> If I worked from home I'd get a big house in the suburbs, and buy a car to get around. My environmental footprint would be much bigger.

For me, WFH means I can walk/bike/drive to the local coffee shop or public library to work, but still live in a cramped studio apartment.
A single organization does not a movement make. DEI was here long before BLM and will be here long after. Activists movements have always had infighting, surviving that is part of what makes them so resilient.
Yeah don’t think now is the moment for IPOs
For those looking to find a definitive “actual” teaching on hell (or any topic) in Christianity, just be aware, it will take a while. There are a lot of denominations, each with many differing takes on hell.

The above comment is reflective of one such interpretation of hell. Not an exclusive interpretation, but still a valid one.
Someone will just use this as plot armor for a scam.
A 2kW electric heater can heat up any reasonable size office room up to a temperature where you are going to have to strip to your underwear (or turn it off) in under an hour in my experience.

Even if it's on 8 hours a day constantly, 5 days a week, 4 weeks a month that's 320kWh or just over £100 a month at UK energy prices.
One of the weaker points of Wikipedia is the way editors lazily refer to journalistic "reliable" sources as authoritative when a significant amount of the time the journalist is lazily using WP as their own source.

Just a couple of these circular references build up a circumstantial base of "evidence" which is then itself used to bolster the original weak claims which often reflect nothing more than an editorial or journalistic assumption or bias.
> So you would assert that the use of centralized relational databases would would not reduce the cost and complexity of enforcing property rights, in comparison to the use of paper records?

1. No, I wouldn't assert that

2. It depends entirely on implementation (there are numerous examples around the world where transferring paper records to digital records mad a lot of things less efficient due to bad implementations)

3. You have to show that blockchain as a store of record is significantly better than a traditional relational database (given e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33691566 and other like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33688603 and other issues that you dismiss or ignore)
But 95% of the time, they’ll just want the closest one. It’s a sensible default.
And there are many other overlaps like this - such as RoI people can join the British Army.
It's possible my interpretation was wrong. I took it as you saying that lots of people live in distracting environments without saying that they have a specific problem (such as ADHD). It seemed like hinting that those things problems aren't real or it's unnecessary/bad to get a diagnosis.
Brexit: Rishi Sunak rules out deal that relies on Swiss-style EU law alignment
As I read it, rationalization is one of the core reasons.
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Perhaps it doesn't apply to you, but it's natural for many (most?) to require larger or smaller places as needs of immediate family evolve. I don't know that larger places are necessarily optional or environmentally worse.
I might be creating a no true Scotsman here, but it seems to me that a True Hacker (tm) probably does cook a lot of their own food.

Not that I’m disagreeing with you; just picking nits in the spirit of yesterday’s parody.
That is why for years used a pocket watch. No pain, just wind it every day, when it breaks send someone to Malaysia to get another "genuine imitation" of whatever big brand. I was thinking about finding a quality make from a genuine brand when the G1 android came out, and it turns out a smart phone in my pocket does everything I need from a watch and so much more.
I think there would be value but we neeed a real currency(i.e usd) on the blockchain. It's obvious that all those pegged currencies are prone to "bank run" scenarios. Not to mention the fiat conversion ruines the whole experience.

With a real currency we could have at least real open and standards based p2p payments which would be great! Just like with cash offline we would no longer need visa, paypal or banks to transact online.
Which probably won't convince those of us who are skeptics that it's possible. It needs to be technically possible, but easy enough to verify for the average user that someone can't just claim they're doing it the right way but doing something fraudulent instead. There's good reason to be skeptical here. But arguing that all they're trying to do is make public accounting isn't the right counter argument here.
If they're not commuting, they're also using the car less.
The amount of productivity I lose when trying to work this way, hunched over my laptop screen in a public place, is immense. An office, downtown or at home, is absolutely necessary. Are you a software engineer?
How so?

Central Bank Digital Currencies are being implemented exclusively on systems that allow the "Central" authority to absolutely ensure that nobody except that central authority can control every transaction in those ledgers.

And I don't think you meant the "C" in "Currency".
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I don’t think the vote 5 people approach would work. Popularity and pleasant to work with does not equal core team. Not even close
I think it does, because of its complexity, it's more of a set of technologies than just a software solution. Preventing double-spend is just the main use, however in order to do this a whole game-theoretical economic/technological system is required and that also solves and/or creates other problems. For cryptocurrencies, DAOs and similar systems economics is a security concern (wrong incentives will make it possible for an someone to game and/or break the system).
I'm a higher ed sysadmin and yes, yes they do. I have faculty that refuse to accept digital assignments and require their students to turn in their work by hand during office hours. I have other faculty that require every student to print out the assigned reading and bring it to class. I've been preaching for "green months" where I just turn off the print server but that's falling on deaf ears it seems like.
Notch once promised to make Minecraft open source "once sales start dying"[0] but he received 2.5 billion reasons to let that decision be taken off his hands.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20100301103851/http://www.minecr...
Fuck this got me.

I thought it was a rather vapid comment but it just slid right past my relevance filter, easily ignored in a stream of people sharing their opinions as a weak form of anecdata.

Until that last footnote. And the dawning realization that this is my opinion of 98%+ of comments and yet I read them anyway.

And even here now as I respond with yet more drivel and unsolicited anecdotal opinion vaguely attempting to contribute to an already obsolete comment thread. I question everything.
They do. You also get occasional feedback notifications asking you to confirm that the device that answered is the one you expected.

More than one should never answer. I wonder if location is misconfigured on individual devices, but I wouldn't bet against a bug.
> your suggestion that any translation is "dumbing it down" is as absurd as your first argument, and an insult to every teacher.

I didn't suggest that, otherwise I wouldn't mention first-hand accounts of people who speak your language.

I'm eastern European and I've seen my share of people trying to explain Russia to others without an appropriate understanding of the topic.

They're often hilariously off the mark and I'm surprised anyone would prefer them over sources closer to the matter.

> In anticipation, one easy argument against this purity is that people who speak English, live in America, went to college in America, got degrees in America ... STILL do not understand incredibly large parts of American culture until it is explained to them in their mode and register, and not even then in many cases.

Do you consider yourself such a person? I mean, that's real some self-awareness, but at the same time you're condemning yourself to reliance on people who may or may not know what they're talking about.
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Dunno what's their website, it is not sold in any online shop in my country, only power hungry successors are sold. Care to link site where they are still selling new Amazfit Bip or Amazfit Bip S?
> Good luck stopping a criminal in another country profiting from crime by accepting bitcoin

Interesting choice of examples: the FBI found bitcoin to be very helpful in exactly that context since it gave hard evidence linking criminals together.

https://www.wired.com/story/tracers-in-the-dark-welcome-to-v...

This idea that police agencies haven’t figured out how to talk with their colleagues in other countries is oddly anachronistic given that we have examples going back to before the turn of the previous century.
> It's pretty much physically impossible for a Rolex to still be within spec (+-2 sec / day) after a decade of use.

Neither confirm, nor deny. It's not my watch, I'm just the messenger of the owner. He said it's not opened. I can't say anything else.

> If the only reason you take your watch in for service is because the time is drifting a lot each day, you've waited too long.

For me a drift for service is a minute/day at most. Also, these are the words of the retailer I bought the watch from. They carry and service from Tissot to Omega, and everything in between for the last 20+ years, so I'm assuming they at least they know what they're talking about (Longines official recommendation is 6-8 years on their website, BTW).

> Your Seiko 5 can be cleaned and serviced (you can regulate it yourself with a Timegrapher you get on ebay for $100), but I'd probably just replace the movement with a new one. They are essentially disposable.

I'd rather not replace a japan made movement which constantly hits +/- 4 seconds every day, esp. if it's designed to be very low maintenance and repair. Of course I can upgrade it in myriad of ways, but I bought it for what it is, and I'd rather keep it stock. A 7S36C can be a very simple movement, but it's not exactly disposable.

I'm aware of the depth of the rabbit hole, and I'm making a conscious choice of staying at the surface, because I rather have less number of dependable items rather than a fleet which needs constant love. I've found the depths of proverbial rabbit holes in other ways, so I'm pretty experienced about the consequences.
Creator of Museeks here, a little late for the party. There are many comments in this thread, and the usual electron-bashing we're all used to at this point, so I'll just make a few points:

- I know all the cons of using Electron, thank you

- I started writing this piece of software 8 years ago, for me, to learn horizontal software development (ui, db, releases, binaries, cd, testing, etc), at a time I dropped out from university and I had to learn stuff in order to find a job and pay my rent

- Nowadays, I still use this project to experiment with technologies I want to learn or play with

- I truly don't care you don't like it (the app, or electron itself), my only purpose is to share something solving a real problem for me, for free

- If this app is useful to only one person other than me, and angers the HN crowd, I'll still be happy about it, and it will still be worth the hundreds or thousand hours I put on this

cheers, and happy coding!
You don't.

Android has pretty good "defense in depth" security, from screening in the Play Store, to the app sandbox, to kernel hardening. If you only get reputable apps from reputable sources, have an eye on phishing attempts, and have no reason to think you are a target, you may afford to have a few weak spots in your system. A lot of people run outdated Android version, and most don't get hacked, and among those who do, it is almost always phishing techniques that software updates wouldn't have prevented.

If you really can't, it you have a popular, higher-end Android phone from years ago, you may find up-to-date custom ROMs, that you can further optimize for security.
Can't governments force people to hand over control of their keys?
What problems do France and Germany have that make the UK seem better by comparison?
> The most common way of heating here is that you have radiators set up

Most people here would need to actively tweak it every time the leave the house and every time they come in. And do it separately for each room. Just from the way how heating works - you have valve in each room that you turn in order to adjust heating.

Of course no one does it every day twice.
I use metal music, but I suppose that'd be considered black noise.
Fun, but I wish it were more that you had to pick out the problem instead of choosing what's "correct". Many of these boil down to consistency rather than objectivity - a 2px difference in spacing doesn't often make a difference as long as it's consistent with all other spacing.
You might find this interesting.

https://dentex.github.io/

No bloat. No ads. Does the job fine.
Love it! The only thing that was a “meh” for me was using pipe for comments. It’s the only thing that I found to be unintuitive, which I very much like to see whenever I’m looking at a new language.
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> If you can not have one guy taking up the mantle and doing the hosting, how can you get hundreds to do the same?

Well I mean if you were to use a public blockchain like Ethereum it's likely the Ethereum community wouldn't be going away. I am not thinking about rolling out our own chain.

> Community run projects have existed for decades on the internet. They never needed a blockchain to persist

Unfortunately my experience hasn't really been the same. Community data controlled by a single user can go away pretty easily. If you open up the data and let people host their own database then you don't have a single source of truth.

Our data is largely just a ledger of who owns what with minimal meta data.

> IPFS potentially

Thanks will look into it!
True.
Twitter is unusual because it was a hostile takeover. Elon disliked the way things were and wanted a change.

In most organization management courses, you are taught " you cannot change the culture". The truth is you can and you do it by firing people, firing or pushing out a lot of people.

My point is that Twitter is a bad case study for engineers, its a very standard case for mba though.
You cannot and should not view Twitter thru a primarily engineering point of view.
Yes, but without having to build a shared types library, and building API's yourselves.

I think we don't use a lot of magic for this. By importing the server functions directly, the IDE (e.g. VSCode) handles the type checking for us. So that's an easy 'trick' to avoid the shared types. Because all imports are handled by Jitar (the repository service), it's fairly easy to replace the actual implementation with a remote implementation. For this we only need to extract the exported functions and their parameters. Some magic happens here.
Well, you may live with other people who are in it when you're not, causing it to be heated anyway.

But I guess the answer would be that people can't abide the thought of one uncomfortable minute in their own home, and don't bother figuring out how to program the thermostat.
Large office buildings do not convert into hotels or residential all that well. Most of them have all of their plumbing and utilities in the central core. That's not easy to retrofit.

They may also not be up to code for residential use.
"Everything is a cult" appears to stem from the idea that "everything is political/a social construct". This of course is false because there exists a reality that establishes what is common to man and that there better and worse ways of living.

The danger of the "everything is a ..." mindset is it allows utopian and virtue ideology to lead and control people.
Nowhere. I'm just a leech.
> Isn't that odd, that people are gunshy to acknowledge religion as traumatic?

Truthfully? I find it very difficult to see religion as anything other than traumatic, because what I went through was so bad and different than what most people think of when they think of “religion.” I don’t know if I have any real objectivity in the matter.

I do feel that there is something interesting in that line of thought, however. Perhaps it has to do with the intensely personal nature of religious conviction, and the existential subject matter it deals with?
Because corporations are doing the majority of that pro-environmental advertising. I mean that both in terms of companies making changes (both real and greenwashing) and the News/Media corporations reporting on it.

Telecommuting could be absolutely massive for reduced emissions, could bring down urban house prices, improve inter-family relationships, and revitalized suburban neighborhoods (e.g. more walkable areas). Plus increase wealth to relatively poor rural areas.

Even some corporations are starting to realize that telecommuting isn't their enemy, but large ships move slowly, and recently we've been seeing a lot of "return to work" used as a way to conduct layoffs with lower negative PR/stock tanking. This isn't a byproduct but a goal of return-to-work (e.g. see Musk's text message conversation during Twitter-lawsuit discovery).
Why even ask the question? It just opens the door to a no answer, which doesn't make any sense since the domain is already not used for anything.
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> pure shit

Care to give a less explicit, more thoughtful justification? Or is it based purely on what jcampbell1 on HN thinks is not pure shit?
> people of a certain mindset need an Everest to conquer.

Well said. There are a few of us out there with that Gimli from LOTR approach to life:

“Certainty of death. Small chance of success. What are we waiting for?”
old info, france used to restrict it somehow until 2004/2011 (idk what to make of this data) but it seems only exporting and importing is somehow regulated/special nowadays
Yeah exactly, fractional reserve does not work without a well developed inter banking network provided by a central bank. That just means that fractional reserve banking is inherently instable and requires periodic bailouts.
> What I feel it's really missing is an official way to have multiple Python version installed.

Install them into different directories. There's nothing about python that makes this at all hard or even tricky.
Cults have common and shared warning signs:

https://medium.com/@zelphontheshelf/10-signs-youre-probably-...

1. The leader is the ultimate authority

2. The group suppresses skepticism

3. The group delegitimizes former members

4. The group is paranoid about the outside world

5. The group relies on shame cycles

6. The leader is above the law

7. The group uses “thought reform” methods

8. The group is elitist

9. There is no financial transparency

10. The group performs secret rites

Also, not all cults are religious. Some are tied to economic activity (MLMs are very culty, for example), and dysfunctional families often take on a cult-like atmosphere, with a charismatic and controlling parent backed by enablers as they abuse a scapegoat and dominate the family.
It's because the whole climate thing is a ruse to scare us into cbdc/surveillance/control.

Yes there's climate change, Yes there's human influence to it. And well sure as hell adapt to this slow moving challenge.
I have tried to get people to use Manifold, but with no actual chance of a payout most people don't see any reason to use it. And most people don't really like the mental thought of "gambling with charity money".
Because it's so obvious it doesn't need advertising ;)
If I'm reading this correctly, you choose to live in a small apartment, suffer the commute on a train, and work in an office you'd prefer not to be in, just so you don't have to move to a big house in the suburbs with your kids.
in what formfactors? as phones or in other devices (TV,..) ? would be interested in seeing examples. I wonder about the Chinese android scene, haven't had much insight. Actually just yesterday built an old 3.10 spreadtrum kernel
The article lays it out into two steps, with "Step 1" being to `cordon` and "Step 2" being to `drain`. My understanding was that `cordon` used to be required to (safely) drain a node, hence why so many tutorials still show it, but that on newer versions of K8s, draining a node will automatically cordon it as well.

Of course, if you want to keep the node up and running, but evict the pods, then absolutely that is when `cordon` _should_ be used.
Just like CBDCs. The only problem they are designed to "solve" is the problem of you having liberty.

But that's a PR disaster, so the authorities proposing these things have to convince you that they're solving some more important problem -- like "all the baaad people" using money. Hopefully, you'll soon forget you used to have that liberty.