skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there varying degrees? Sure.

Can QAnon be a cult in a more strict sense of the term? I have a hard time believing in the existence of a cult that exists over the internet where most or all of its members are internet handles; how exactly does one punish "slimeDogAvarest281" for betraying the cult? Or per cainxinth's point, how does on perform "secret rites" over the internet?

I think that gets back to grandparent's point that not everything is a cult and you diminish the term using it so freely. "There's a group that believes things I don't like and think is silly" is not a cult. I don't think you understand the sheer degree of social pressure cults can bring to bear, and I don't think that sort of pressure can be transmitted over a channel the so-called cult member can just shut off and disappear and nobody knows how to follow them. Or, to put it another way, when the exit is as easy as the entrance, it really can't be a cult. I think critical to the cult aspect is that you can't just leave. Did Scott Adams chase you down and tell his followers to harass you? No, of course not. How could he? Neither he nor anyone else even so much as noticed you. That's not a cult by any definition.
BSP (binary space partitioning) was a well known algorithm, not something Carmack picked out of obscurity. It is well covered in every edition of Foley and van Dam's bible "Computer Graphics". The arcade game "I, Robot" from Atari (1983) used BSP to render the polygons back to front -- there was no z-buffer.

That isn't to deny that Carmack was brilliant. But him using BSP isn't some masterstroke of genius in itself.
Doesn’t work on iPad
Lua has the same strategy as Buzz around numbers see https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html#2.1
> And then there’s also the case for superhero fatigue

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/year/world/

4 of the top 10 grossing movies of 2022 are super hero movies. Black Adam is #12
tl;DR!: Fat content.
https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug/blob/v0.8.0/doc/model... should answers all those question. In short: merge conflict are handled.
Programmers are one thing. But what about DevOps, internal infrastructure engineers and general IT, cloud architects... ?
Sorry, by immutable records I do not mean that data is never changed, only that the records of such changes are immutable. The current state can always be computed by applying a log of changes, and when you make a change you'd be recording who made the change and why. Invalid changes could still be made, but you'd have a record to expedite appeal processes or litigation. This is why I don't think blockchain helps, because government authorities still have to be trusted to do their job when the facts are clear. So any kind of centralized cryptographic ledger (such as AWS QLDB) would work.
That's awesome!

Does that get hot enough to melt aluminum?
Is low-fat milk processed or unprocessed?
I have no doubt the consultants would be less efficient (perhaps by orders of magnitude) than employees who'd been there for years, but I think they could at least keep the lights on.
I'll second this. I keep one at my desk now.

Between switching to a standing desk and the Theragun, my hips/back/neck are in much better shape than they were a few years ago.
Yes, I solved it the same way (I no longer had access to my old phone number) and promptly setup google authenticator (well actually stored the totp string in 1password) and got backup codes.

I'm lucky that I have a server in the US that I regularly use as a VPN so I could try again from a known ip.
The subscriptions already exists, too.

Search online for "smart lock subscription".
Actually, from the article:

> Experiments showed that not to be the case. Instead, trials with healthy human subjects showed that the difference was due to the amount of gas in a given fecal sample.
Meta implements new timing protocol in its data centers
Nice. Check out https://github.com/meodai/color-names for a rather large (29888!) collection of hand picked colors in case you want to expand your project.
If you purchase a toy at Amazon and it is contaminated with lead or cadmium paint, you would not notice. And even if you would, there is no one legally responsible. That outfit in China that sold it doesn’t care. And Amazon is just a marketplace and is not responsible.

Toy stores (Toys”R”Us) used to be a thing. They were legally on the hook, if they’d sell contaminated toys. Now no one is. And unfiltered toys from China are shipped directly.
I have a sneaky suspicion that as interest rates increase, subscription models will become much less popular. Sellers would rather have the money today, since the present value of future subscription payments becomes less. The "everything as a service" model makes the most sense in a zero interest rate environment.
Ask HN: REST Custom Method: vs. /
Please help me understand why we would want to do this. At work, we've adopted this guide to specify an action on a resource:

https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/custom_methods

Instead of /api/job/:foo/cancel, they use /api/job/:foo:cancel.

I imagine URL parsers and routers have a much easier time with the former compared to the later. In the later, I imagine most people are having to do additional tokenizing to enable further routing. I can't think of a redeeming factor.

Thanks
The fallacy is you're assuming 'destroying ourselves' means that everyone is dead (I guess?).

Take French Canada for a great counter-example. One could argue that the mailbox bombs and kidnappings of the 60s/70s were fine because Montreal is a very beautiful and livable city today.

However, it caused hundreds and thousands of people to flee their homes and caused Montreal to lose its place as Canada's leading city.

Don't confuse 'humans are adaptable' with 'anything goes and civil society is pointless.'
Which happened to be in a desert. They cooled the venue down so that people were freezing inside. What a joke.
> Who exactly are these new C-standards for?

An example: The C11 memory model + <stdatomic.h> + many compilers supporting C11 has/had a positive impact on language runtimes. Portable CAS!

> If your team is up-to-date enough to quickly adopt C23, then why not just use Rust or (heaven forbid, C++23)?

Another example: If you're programming e.g. non-internet-connected atomic clocks with weather sensors like those produced by La Crosse, then there's no real security model to define, so retraining an entire team to use Rust wouldn't make much sense. (And, yes, I know that Rust brings with it more than just memory safety, but the semantic overhead comes at a cost.)

Another example: Writing the firmware to drive an ADC and broker communication with an OS driver.

Another example: The next Furby!
I was studying computer graphics at the time. The book we used was "Computer Graphics Principles and Practice" I don't recall which edition. BSP trees are covered in the book, and like the article says, had been written about more than a decade prior.

What Carmack had was the ability to read research papers and translate them into working code. I can do that too, but it does seem to be a less common skill in the software world.
Zoom's customers aren't the WFH people, but rather the IT and procurement managers that decide which tool to spend their 5-figure budgets on. Presumably their marketing efforts will be specific to that audience.

It may be risky to throw up billboards talking about the evironmental benefit of WFH if your customer's CEO thinks that they should be back in the office.
Ah no, the Irish situation is very very different.

For a start, the Ulster Protestants were the majority in NI until this year (100 years after partition).

And while I (as an Irish person) would love to see a united Ireland, I completely condemn the violence that was used to attempt it.

Again, I understand why it happened, but 3.5k deaths over 30 years was not an acceptable price to get to the negotiation table (essentially repeating a deal that was shot down by the Unionists in 1972).
Trying to help founders learn faster
Can you answer the question with use cases and examples instead of this rhetorical question? It doesn't help your credibility when you can't list off 10-20 use cases and examples for your groundbreaking technology without contorting yourself.
Hey fellow founders and developers!

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I never realized how time consuming building a startup would be (Some of the entrepreneurs and developers I met barely slept).

One of the things that helped me save some time was learning from other successful entrepreneurs and businesses.

I thought some of you might also find some of these lessons useful, so I decided to start a newsletter that sends lessons from successful businesses and entrepreneurs.

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I have to take it off when typing on a laptop, but I try to avoid that whenever possible.

It's one reason why I wish for a laptop with the touchpad next to the screen and the keyboard next to the edge.
most of the problems blockchain attempts to solve are public coordination problems in adversarial environments rather than corporate problems the CTOs/CIOs are likely to have.
Old domains which are still referenced somewhere will change ownership and can now be used for phishing or other nefarious activities.

Also it looks official, I'm sure plenty of people would fall for gov.gb if the site looked official enough.
This is nothing new. The 1.5l EcoBoost Ford Focus in Europe had two trim options: 150BHP and 182BHP. The only difference was software. Just instead of a subscription you had to buy the option upfront.

Of course barely anyone took the 182BHP version considering every other mechanic could perform the necessary upgrade.

One friend of mine even did that during the lease.

Considering 2/3 of premium brands' stock is usually leased and returned after that period anyway, I think this trend will only continue.

Sucks to be the third owner of such a vehicle I guess, but the manufacturers never cared too much about the used market, considering they make most of their money on the initial sale/lease and authorized dealership maintenance.

Personally I'm now even less likely to ever get a premium brand car, because it's becoming increasingly obvious that I'm not the target market.
I’m impressed that you read the whole thing. I came away with fat content, as gas permeates away.
Of course it already exists. Silly me.
Did the person do anything specific during the interview process that suggested the problems you ended up having? Just thinking someone is "odd" can be the result of, as you say, bias.
Specifically, in renderWheel() at c.setAttribute('points', points), Safari balks at the assignment and says it cannot parse the value it's been given. Perhaps the terminal comma isn't supported? (Chrome complains about it but proceeds.)
Sure, that was not the point of my post. It seems that most people have reacted to this half-sentence, I think the technical discussion would have been far more interesting for this forum, especially when it comes to applications outside of blockchains. I could list more examples where substantial losses to real clients (of "normal" businesses) could have been avoided if there was a better way of proving simple facts like bank balances to auditors (it's in fact partly related to my work).

The current process basically looks like this: an auditor will ask the bank to confirm that client X has such and such balance with them. Of course, the bank needs to be sure that the auditor is actually who they claim they are, so they get in touch with their client to confirm that they can tell the auditor their balance. Since this is a bit tricky if the auditor doesn't have a direct line of communication with the bank already, it is often facilitated by the client directly asking the bank to issue a balance confirmation to the auditor, and that's an entry point for impersonation attacks (in an overly simplified manner, that's also what happened at Wirecard). We probably don't need the exact fancy machinery of Merkle sum trees and zero knowledge proofs outlined in the OP, we also don't want to bring in blockchains, but I was wondering whether we could use some of those ideas to make the audit process for normal firms a bit safer.
> In the space age scenario, that means they get exposure to some space age stuff.

But they don't, unless they actually get exposed to it. "They've heard a machine and it was loud and terrible and knocked over a tree" doesn't mean they're making an informed decision, because e.g. they don't know surgery or antibiotics.

> They were just working to keep others from going in and screwing with him.

And that's fine, but he's not making an informed decision to stay in the the forest because he prefers that way of life. He's doing what he knows and doesn't do what he doesn't know. That's not a choice. Before Fosbury developed the Fosbury Flop, other athletes weren't choosing to not jump that way.
Imagine being a former twitter employee during these last few weeks:

> Elon: You are either okay with "hardcore" wage theft or out on your butt.

> Automattic: Wow, isn't Elon the worst! Come work for us. All we need is that you grow our past-its-prime blogging platform 10x.

Forgot Charlie Brown, y'all are being treated like the football. I'm sorry, you deserve better.
Remember that the SEC exists because a bankrupt banking sector begged the government to give them a fig leaf. If you aren't sure who they serve, go looking for a punitive fine that's been levied and distributed to any victims of financial crime. Gensler appears to have skin in this FTX game personally, natch.
You are interpreting a lot into a very short comment, presumably based on your own preferences. Some people don't mind commuting or even enjoy it, some people prefer living in a decently sized apartment in a city instead of a single family home in the suburbs. It is a matter of preference and personally, I can see the appeal in the approach posted by OP
This is half-true. If your concern is contributing to network security, running your own miner is actually a fairly direct way to contribute (even on a Pool). If your goal is maximizing profits, then crypto mining turns into a completely different game.
Who would have said that it was all the Archimedes Principle.
Not surprising, though. The issues surrounding if/how a system provides libraries of any kind (static or shared) are completely implementation-defined. The Standard doesn't have anything to say about them at all except for the program-wide symbol scope rules.
Typing is technically a distinct concept from binary representation, it just happens to be a very useful concept for interpreting bits. If the set of valid operations is known at compile time with no exceptions, I'd call that strong typing regardless of whether the internal representation changes during execution.

The problem I do see with combining int and float is that it means that you always have to be careful with == on any pair of numbers, where a language that does distinguish between the two gives you a clue about when equality will work and when it won't.

But that's a flaw in the number type, not a weakness in the type system.
I absolutely love the documentation for Kirby CMS:

https://getkirby.com/docs/guide

https://getkirby.com/docs/reference
Just take pseudophed when you need to be productive. Why bother with all the overhead.
Really interesting article! I appreciate the detail, it provides a better understanding of the limitations of what's out there currently.

What would server performance be like if you had added a few images and video to the page?
nope, it's fart content
I'm reminded of the render algorithm in Comanche, the 1992 video game [0]. I find it remarkably ingenious, and it certainly felt incredible at the time.

[0] https://github.com/s-macke/VoxelSpace
Interesting - the Java version runs on Windows[0][1]! I suppose I'll check it out, then.

[0]: if you drop a dependency into the jar - https://github.com/JetBrains/skiko/releases/download/v0.7.40... (you want the DLL, the checksum, and the .dat)

[1]: https://cdn.upload.systems/uploads/RC0uthIY.png
So seems like I should invest in semiconductors
Or they get betrayed by the judas goat.
Call it a variable-price pay-per-use subscription.

Because that's what it is.
Linux can easily replace a Mac or Windows machine for me, but I’ve yet to see any device that could even come close to the iPad Pro. Apple’s second generation pencil is perfect to the point where I’ve never once had to consciously charge it or accidentally leave it somewhere. And the software support is amazing. Linux on phones, I can see becoming viable once the software improvements are there. Linux on tablets? No. Not until someone can come up with something like the Apple Pencil.
Ask HN: Layoffs concerning –. how are you dealing with it?
it appears everyday some tech giant (or not) is laying off people - how are you coping/dealing with the situation?
Half the argument is not what you would do with it. The hook is that literally everything you could do back then would be instant. I would very much like that.

Given that Oberon existed, any green-field development I would have to do in that environment, would be completely feasible and comparable to any advanced environment today. The only thing I would maybe miss is a modern IDE, but on the other hand I was a late-comer to that and used (and still use) Emacs for a long time.
I agree it's a terrible idea, and yet https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-11-06/apple-...
Amazon did a $10B buyback in march
The Bad Bet Tech Companies Made That Got Them into This Mess
I says it in the home page:

Open Source. ... read it, fork it, improve it.

https://berty.tech/
If the domain has ever been used for anything, there are serious security reasons to never reuse it.

For example, imagine your recovery email address for something important is bob@something.gb. If 'gb' is ever reassigned to someone else, they can now get access to anything ever registered at a gb address.

This is the reason things like gmail accounts are never recycled to another user. Early services like hotmail would recycle accounts, but it has since become an 'obviously bad idea'.
I'm sorry; but isn't this sort of like demanding an answer to the question "I can't see a use for the motorcar; horses work just fine"?
I love this! I've had the 'Web colors' Wikipedia page in my bookmarks for years.

I often use them when I'm working on new designs and want to experiment on responsive layouts with colourful test elements.
Didn’t FTX just hold the customer deposits in a scam token after some financial shenanigans? You would still need auditors to determine what assets on a company’s books were worth their stated value and attest to their liquidity.
Funny to me that how #FF0000 is named Red, #0000FF is named Blue, but #00FF00 is Lime. Maybe it was supposed to be RLB. Although Green is the canonical name for that color range, what we actually refer as Green in daily life is close to #008000.
Very cool.

Would be fun to add data visualisation, like "see how often those color are used" or "what color is associated with that subject" !

Don't know how you could do it but it can be interesting
I am not arguing the case of git having or not having Merkle trees (git has a «weak» implementation of the Merkle trees, for in a ledger database every block's cryptographic signature derives from the contents of the preceding block – a property that git does not possess as it does not support the concept of blocks and operates of commit trees instead that are allowed to be moved around). I am arguing two points, specifically:

Point no. 1:
> Ledgers are quite easy to build.

Cryptographically provable, tamper-proof ledgers that will sustain a 3rd party compliance certification are not easy to build, they are expensive to build, test and certify (very expensive!), and are very expensive to operate, especially in large scale environments.

Point no. 2:
> Git is a ledger.

git is not a proper ledger due to the lack of two fundamental properties of a ledger, as originally stated:

1. an immutable, tamper proof, append-only transaction log;

git does not satisfy this requirement by virtue of allowing one to tamper with the commit history. Write access to commits is the major offender here as it is there, and it opens the door for the commit history abuse. An append-only transaction log also offers a linear, entirely immutable, history (a very important quality from the compliance perspective!), whereas git (by virtue of allowing branches) allows for a non-linear, mutable, temporal history that breaks the linear progression of revisions of valuable documents/assets being stored in it.

2. cryptographically verifiable datasets;

git offers a limited facility into the verification due to allowing one to modify the commit trees, and, by extension, to rewrite the commit history. A git commit history can't be trusted to from the compliance perspective.

What I am sensing is a misconstruction of the purpose of git. git is designed to track changes but not to provide the evidence of changes having not been tampered with. Both purposes have their own places and their own use cases, and the git design is sound and solid, yet it serves an entirely different purpose altogether, and – no – it can't be repurposed as a ledger. That is the case I am arguing.
Additional space in a city is significantly more expensive than the same space in the suburbs because each square foot is in much higher demand.

Some people like the suburban lifestyle, but the reason even people who prefer the amenities of cities move out is that it's the only affordable way to get a lot of space.

The solution is vastly more urban construction to meet demand, but development and regulatory changes have been slow.
NASA’s Orion spacecraft reaches the moon, flying 81 miles above the surface
intpremium_t is only available to paying ANSI-members.
This article seems like a good reminder to know what your fundamentals are and to be deliberate about picking them.

But I'm not convinced that this advice can be used to pick your fundamentals, your core business model.

Amazon opted for more choices and lower prices.

Barnes & Noble stuck with faster solutions to problems (get your book today not after a week of shipping as was common when Amazon started), deeper human interactions (you can go into the store and ask someone for recommendations, meet authors, etc.), and increased confidence/trust (you know what you're getting because you can hold it in your hand and read it before you buy it).

Low-cost carriers have moved in on traditional airlines because while it's true that people will never stop caring about added comfort, it turns out they care about lower prices much more.

But Apple built a staggering market cap relying on the assumption that while people care about lower price, they care about great control of your time (just works) and higher social status more.

So it seems like this article provides a good framework for thinking about your business, but doesn't give any answers as to the actual strategy you should use.

Or am I missing something?
When it is very, very, dark I have to press a button to temporarily activate the backlight.

The Fenix 3 I wore like ten years ago had a setting to turn the backlight on when I turned my wrist. It was not as reliable as the same functionality on Apple Watch, but good enough.

I’m an Apple Watch guy myself, but I’ve got a drawer full of Garmins, and they might make a fine choice for OP.
Someone in Gibraltar should have created .gib IMO