skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some friends have a 7-year-old son who is being assessed/treated for autism-spectrum disorder; he's outgoing, sociable and highly intelligent, but has issues with emotional and behavioural dysregulation and can often get into kind of manic states. One of the techniques I've seen his parents use when he's getting into these states is to ask "where are you feeling this in your body?", then for him to focus on that region while using controlled breathing to calm down.

Re this: There is also the possibility of using interoception training as a form of mental health treatment

This kind of thing exists, though still in the fringes. I've been using versions of it for over 10 years to resolve the effects of many earlier-life experiences caused ongoing charged reactions and chronic mental and physiological issues (after years of mainstream medical treatment and therapy was ineffective). It's very much a process of identifying and letting go of the way these experiences (often described as traumas, but not always in that category) are held/felt in different parts of the body ("butterflies the stomach" when nervous is the most obvious example, but goes much much further/deeper than this).

I'm now completely free of depression and mostly free of anxiety and fatigue/pain issues (CFS/ME) but still continuing to progress.

If any researches/professionals working in this field happen to be reading this, I'd love to get in touch.
I mean, we're talking about timescales and construction projects like Dyson spheres. It's entirely feasible that people with such technology could create microscopic black holes that evaporate quickly for these purposes. Hawking radiation at this scale is substantial.
> Reasonable if you remember the lessons of 19th and 20th centuries and even earlier. Western Europe has long been aggressor

> A sane country must protect themselves from those well known bad actors.

let's not forget that Russia's history puts it right there with "aggressors and bad actors".

19th and 20th century Russia:

1) Kept Poland under occupation for 123 years until 1918 (together with Prussia and Austria)

2) Attacked Poland in 1920 (and failed)

3) Attacked Poland in September 1939, they had agreement with Hitler about how to split Poland between themselves.

4) Enforced their shitty political system on their neighbors for over 40 years.
People keep talking about UBI, but I've never seen a) who will pay for it and b) who will do the work if you don't need to.

Are you able to point to some sources for both answers? From an economics PoV I'm genuinely interested, yet haven't seen any resources take those two problems together seriously.

e.g. "our oil industry will pay for it", but then who would work the oil rigs?
Show HN: Img-proxy.com, image hosting and processing at fixed cost without infra
I feel that your problems aren't even remotely related to my problems with large distributed systems.

My problems are all about convincing the company that I need 200 engineers to work on extremely large software projects before we hit a scalability wall. That wall might be 2 years in the future so usually it is next to impossible to convince anyone to take engineers out of product development. Even more so because working on this changes absolutely nothing for the end user, it is usually some internal system related to data storage or processing which can't cope anymore.

Imagine that you are Amazon and for some scalability reason you have to rewrite the storage layer of your product catalog. Immediately you have a million problems like data migration, reporting, data ingestion, making it work with all the related systems like search, recommendations, reviews and so on.

And even if you get the ball rolling you have to work across dozens of different teams which can be hard because naturally people resist change.

Why do large sites like Facebook, Amazon, Twitter and Instagram all essentially look the same after 10 years but some of them now have 10x the amount of engineers? I think they have so much data and so many dependencies between parts of the system that any fundamental change is extremely hard to pull off. They even cut back on features like API access. But I am pretty sure that most of them have rewritten the whole thing at least 3 times.
Thanks. Have not heard of TeXmacs. Will look at the URL.

A lot of people could like WYSIWYG for anything like TeX. Thousands times more people like and expect WYSIWYG.

The TeX I use has 100+ TeX macros I wrote.

I type the TeX input using my favorite software tool, the one I use for nearly all my typing, my favorite text editor KEDIT. It is a Windows program version of the editor XEDIT for IBM's operating system VM/CMS and written on his own time by an IBM guy in Paris. For KEDIT I have 100+ macros and write new ones frequently. E.g., KEDIT has some good string manipulation tools, and, e.g., I can parse some files, rip out the data, then pull it into, say, Excel and draw a graph or pull it into some compiled language, Fortran, C, C++, C#, etc. and do some analysis. Sometimes the analysis is statistics, but typically I derive my own statistical methods and program and use those, methods not in the usual statistical packages, SPSS, R, etc. That is, I want to work at the level of the data and some code I wrote and not try to use higher level software intended to be easier to use.

To me, I want to work at the right level for me. E.g., I don't use LaTeX -- regard it as at too high a level. I don't want their macros and don't want to learn them or fight them. Knuth's TeX documentation is very well written; I find the LaTeX documentation less well written and much longer -- bummer.

Some of my KEDIT macros are to help in typing TeX files. E.g., a neighbor gave me a cake for Valentine's Day, and I just typed a letter of thank you, in TeX, using KEDIT, and using a KEDIT macro to insert the current date in the TeX syntax I wanted. Then I have a KEDIT macro that runs the spell checker, Aspell, I got with my TeX software, and do spell checking -- also used that for the Valentine's Day letter. And I like Aspell much better than any WYSIWYG spell checking -- Aspell does better at figuring out how to correct badly misspelled words and one reason for that is that I have my own spelling dictionary additions. Also since I use just Aspell for nearly all my spell checking, I get to use my one dictionary for all my work -- that is, the dictionary should be particular to me and not separately to email, software, letter writing, etc. To address the envelope for the letter, sure, I used KEDIT for that.

Yup, lots of people like WYSIWYG and, if they were to use TeX or anything like it, would definitely want WYSIWYG.

Uh, going way back, for anything like typing, especially for TeX, writing email, writing software, I like KEDIT and don't just dislike WYSIWYG but deeply, profoundly, bitterly hate and despise WYSIWYG and nearly all it values and attempts. In the simplest terms, I can't program WYSIWYG input, that is automate the input.

Not everyone likes WYSIWYG!
I think it's more one user's attempt at standardizing Apple's acronyms.
I don’t understand why Facebook isn’t focusing on building more peer-to-peer services. For example, professional profiles, job posting, selling used goods, dating profiles, professional services such as nannies, Children's extracurriculars and so on. There is so much to do! I know they did started marketplace, local business listings and peer payments but it looked like very half hearted and badly designed. In theory, they can be dominant in all of these markets which might significantly reduce reliance on ads. I just don’t know why are they so content being just a status posting website.
I've used site:reddit.com many, many times, and I use DDG as search engine. The WWW is turning to shit, now only specific communities are worthwhile.
Not -8 there isn't. One of the many reasons to deprecate all other Unicode encodings whenever it's in one's power to do so.
I like this ontology; we've divided our events into roughly similar categories but these are better names than we use.

I'd further advance that

- Trigger events and RESTful events are roughly the same thing, just a question of what you choose in latency vs. size vs. schema flexibility space. We even have events in our system whose schema inlines data below a certain size but links above that.

- There is a fourth type: windowed reductions over domain events, e.g. the "changelog" in Kafka Streams. This bears a similar relation to domain events as the RESTful event does to trigger events.
Languages like Eiffel prove this isn't the case, it is a matter of proper debug tooling.
No cash was spent in the making of that headline.
ZX Spectrum at 40: a look back
"Science progresses, one funeral at a time."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle

As a general principle in life, it's quite frightening considering ever increasing life spans.
>You never hosted on AWS, did you?

Previously 2k employee company, with the entire advertising back office on AWS.

Currently >$1M YR at AWS, you can get the idea of scale & what is running, here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLf-67McbxkT6iduMWoUsh...
You mean the books where magical aliens warp the fundamental constants of the universe to eliminate physical dimensions?

Even if you skip past that to the underlying dark forest idea, it’s an argument based on pure faith with zero evidence to support it. You need an all power malevolent society that works on a time scale of thousands if not millions of years, and then nit only eliminates another society for “reasons”, but also then also perfectly covers up its own existence, because there may be some other bigger bad out there. It’s about as convincing as the unicorn that’s always right behind you, but everyone ignores because unicorns are super dangerous.
No luck. Contains some null chars and text. I'm guessing it was some sw to draw diagrams (boxes, lines and text). Unfortunately I can't remember even if it was dos or win.

Was always sure that I'll google it out, now not so sure anymore.
> something as complex as poverty

What is complex about poverty? They just need money. Just give them money and there is no more poverty. What is holding us back from doing this? Is it fear that people will become lazy and just "take" from others and contribute nothing?

Most of you have not idea what it is like living in Poverty. Real poverty. The depression and lack of motivation comes from people not caring about you. You have no idea the energy you get when you feel like a society cares about you.
I don't think so. It was once thought that student loans would be some panacea lifting poor people out of poverty by giving them access to education and the end result is lots of people overburdened by debt while waiting tables because so many people have degrees that a degree isn't remotely some kind of reasonable assurance that you can get a job in a particular field.
I enjoy sharing posts because I enjoy the process of writing about something that inspires me. If I made progress on a personal project or learned something interesting, it is nice to take a step back and log it. I find that I can recall what I learned more if I wrote about it, and if I forgot, I have a place to look back on!

Publishing writing on a blog just makes this information public. I chose to do that since I benefit from the blogs of others, so I might as well make my learning and insights public, hopefully helping someone else too!
Honest question: How is this different from an ordinary program written in a portable language with minimal reliance on shared libraries?
Does the keyword blocking feature exist in Reddit's site? I am having a hard time finding it. Most of the search results are pointing towards Reddit Enhancement Suite.
FWIW I found Nix to be much better when I stopped using nix-env
>What are you using for aws alternatives? Example for S3?

Not OP but they're probably using Rook/Minio
How in the world is trying to monetize an application you're building daylight robbery just because free alternatives exist?
I had one that I published to every month for about ten years. I got some positive feedback, which was nice, but ultimately the effort of researching and coming up with what I considered quality content got to be more trouble than it was worth.
The weird thing is that the first time I realized this was actually happening was watching "Ridiculousness" on MTV. Chanel (one of the hosts) mentioned that she had ordered food delivered and couldn't understand why the app just showed it waiting outside. So she goes out to see why the guy won't come up and ring the doorbell only to realize it was a food delivery robot waiting for her.

I live out in the middle of nowhere. Wonder what other stuff I don't know about happening in cities!
You’re right. But let’s be happy it isn’t. Better that stays fragmented across the globe
Why not? Light sails can reach 10% the speed of light, and sending out thousands of colony ships in multiple directions seems like a feasible way to colonize a galaxy relatively quickly.

As the other poster mentioned, harnessing the sun's energy and turning it into a better form suited for light sails is the way to go. Sailing on the solar wind within a star system is a different tech with a different purpose.
It was already irrelevant when using MS-DOS with Turbo Pascal/Modula-2/Basic compilers, or Mac OS (originally written in Object Pascal/Assembly).

It was UNIX industry adoption, followed by GNU Manifesto that made to more relevant than it should ever have been.
Are they thermodynamically feasible, though?

Assuming perfect efficiency in capturing whatever sunlight they get, perfect conversion to chemical storage (i.e. sugars, or any other fancy molecule with energy-intensive bonds) and a perfect conversion from that to heat. Would there be enough energy to keep the plant warm? Against a temperature difference of 40ºC+?
People in Brazil using a public spreadsheet to coordinate relief funds
People in Petrópolis , a Brazilian recently struck by landslides, are using a public gdocs spreadsheet to coordinate the distributions of donations to victims.
As many people lost their houses, they are sheltered in schools and churches. Because of this people started using this spreadsheet to coordinate the donations of food, clothing and hygiene products - the motivation is the lack of trust in authorities.

I found this case interesting, because it shows that there's space for a "smart cities" (or should I saw, "smart citizenship"?), for applications that help prevent, notify and coordinate relief during natural disasters.

If you are not aware about the disaster, here's some videos and an article about it (the number of deaths and missing are sadly increasing fast)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-judbAHGdg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGOktHnZros

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/17/1081382378/brazil-mudslides-k...
I worked for the BBC in 2002. I created OneMusic which showcased unsigned bands. You can see an archived version here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20050416110703/http://www.bbc.co...

Within 2 weeks we managed to get our first band signed. A Swedish band called Maas. I worked with a producer Andrew Barron, who takes a lot of credit for seeing the project past the finish line. Andrew sat with me over a weekend and deep into a Sunday night to get it finally launched.

The project was written in mod_perl and was designed to be extrememly high performance because Radio 1 at the time (and perhaps still is) the most popular radio station in the UK. And we expected a surge of traffic every time the DJ mentioned OneMusic, which is exactly what we got.

I was based in Oxford Circus and I worked with the ops team which - at the time, and I'm not sure if this is still the case - was based out in some mansion in the country somewhere. They had a kind of Bletchley Park vibe about them - this team of absolute gurus who you only got to speak with over the phone, and who would somehow make your application handle the massive amounts of traffic that would be thrown at it. They did a great job hosting that application on Apache/mod_perl in the dark days before Nginx was invented.

One of the absolute worst design decisions I made was to design the application so that it would support sessions for users without cookies enabled. Which is why that Archive.org link has the OMSID query string parameter in it. The app would dynamically modify all URLs on the page to embed that assigned session ID so it stuck, even if you didn't have cookies enabled. It would follow you around the site as a query string param. I stupidly suggested the idea to Andrew and he was like "Hell yes, lets do that!" and so I did. But it had big performance implications as the URLs had to be dynamically generated for every pageview, and it added significantly to the time it to for me to create the project. But hey, we did it, and got it launched, and it actually worked and provided sessions for users who had cookies disabled.

The project taught me a lot about high performance websites, delivering a critical project on-time to a big audience, and I went on to create WorkZoo (Time Mag top 50 website of 2005) which I sold, Feedjit (live traffic feed on over a million sites) and my current cybersecurity business Wordfence which employs 40 and is the best available security product for WordPress. I think creating all those projects set me up to create a WordPress plugin that is high performance, widely compatible, very stable, and delivers on user satisfaction.

When I left the BBC, the team bought me a bottle of Gran Centenario Reposado tequila out of their own money. I'll never forget that and I'll never forget them. Such a great group of people.
The renaming on the other hand has everything to do with the stock slide.
It's pretty simple: supply and demand
Computer industry salute Dave Cutler’s five-decade-long quest for quality
I sold all my index fund and went all in Meta. Zuck is the greatest businessman of our generation and Meta is massively undervalued right now.
Unless it works like Oculus, where you can't watch e.g. naughty 3d movies without Zuckerberg knowing about it.
'Killer' crocodile found with dinosaur in its stomach in Australia
This is also the case in the startup world. As we saw recently, any tool that begins to take off gets cloned incredibly quickly (Airtable, Roam...). Given the apparent shortage, it goes to show that ideas actually matter.
Knowing the engineers I've worked with, it's just a matter of time :-)
>You can try to unify them but then you lose the abilities to other things which make them distinct which the current syntax offers. It's allow about trade-offs.

Can you give an example of such an ability and the kind of tradeoffs we are talking about here?

>It is not always possible to just do a quick read of a language to understand its decisions.

A successful programming language to me seems to be much more about being able to communicate the design clearly.

How is it data oriented in a way languages that don't call themselves data oriented are not? Which constructs do you have they are lacking? Concrete example of an algorithm that is now better/easier to implement?

I agree that some people are not very good at communication and might in theory or perhaps accidentally still be able to design a language with interesting choices, but the world will never know about it.
Jobs aren’t exhausting. Teams are. If you find yourself feeling this way, consider that the higher ups may be mismanaging.

There’s often not a lot of organizational pressure to change anything. So the status quo stays static. But the services change over time, so the status quo needs to change with them.
How do you know your blog is what made the difference?
Except I don't want any XR device sold by Facebook/Meta, but yeah hopefully all XR devices will see some benefit.

Although big corporations are not exactly known for their altruistic nature, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30381990 for a recent example.
Only 1376 pages :). A 9-page document from two of the coauthors is at https://bloomberg.github.io/bde-resources/pdfs/Embracing_Mod... .
Dude, that's so meta.
No they're really good. Been using them for years with zero complaints
is anyone on HN going to fall for this? You give no reason why it should go up
Heh, I wish they still looked the same. They added an order of magnitude of HTML and JS bloat while removing functionality.
DrawnApart: A Device Identification Technique Based on Remote GPU Fingerprinting
You can start by C compilers nowadays written in C++, Arduino, AUTOSAR security standard, CUDA, DirectX, Metal, GoDot, Vulkan helper libs, SYSCL, ...
Is it not a feature given how many security issues come out of parsing? There is virtue in the thing you’ll edit files with as root being as simple as you can make it.
Lot of it is about what kind of toxicity being discussed. FB toxicity is mostly associated with the right wing, so it has to be the worst thing on the face of the earth. OTOH I assume (I've never used) TikTok toxicity is mostly from Millennials and Gen Z, who tend to be on the other side of the political spectrum, so it's less toxic. The very same reason you'll never hear about toxicity on Twitter and how much harm it is causing to society. Because Twitter toxicity is the right type of toxicity a lot of journalists and intellectuals love.
The title is fake news. FB stock dropped because of TikTok etc., but it was overpriced from its high due to a number of factors related to the pandemic and politics.
I think there's a general conflation of independent contractor versus salaried employee going on in the discussion here. I did it too. You can be an employee and earn wages that correlate to how much you work, and you get overtime for working past 40 hours. So the choice isn't IC versus salaried, it's IC vs. salaried employee vs. waged employee.

As to delivering packages, in general the way this works is that as a UPS driver you have a delivery area. You show up at the depot in the morning and they load your truck full of packages, then you go and deliver all of them. Maybe it's different for the little Amazon vans, but for the big UPS trucks they don't go back for more. They are loaded to the brim for the day, and the driver delivers all of those packages to return only in the evening when they are done. They do this because their delivery area may be 20 or more miles from the depot; it doesn't make sense to do a 40 mile round trip each day more than once.

So where is the opportunity to deliver more packages as an IC? And where is the evidence that a company like UPS is bogged down by having unionized employees, whereas FedEx is not having ICs?

> nobody forces you to be an employee or an IC - especially in this market. Let people decide for themselves.

Do you disagree that employers sometimes abuse their employees by mislabeling them as one or the other? The whole point of the IC vs. Employee distinction is that it's based on what you do and who controls it. It's my understanding that the line between IC and employee can very easily be crossed, leading to a situation where the company has an employee for less than what they should be paying them if they were following the law. Why can't the government enforce the law in situations like these?