skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had one too!

Lasted less than five seconds but it felt like 'the hand of God' passed through me - that's the best way I can describe it.

William James described a religious experience as having four qualities:
- Ineffable: the experience is incapable of being described and must be directly experienced to be understood.
- Noetic: the experience is understood to be a state of knowledge through which divine truths can be learned.
- Transient: the experience is of limited duration.
- Passivity: the subject of the experience is passive, unable to control the arrival and departure of the experience.

...and that tracks 100% with how I experienced mine.
Real altruism isn't real. So what?
This fascinated me and it takes me back to one of my first webpages, where I collected tidbits about another ligature, "@" (which is a ligature of "a" and "d"). The Wayback Machine has a copy (thank you!): https://web.archive.org/web/19981202002949/www.student.nada....
The curve is a convex edge. The shape provides lower surface area at the point of impact, increasing the surface pressure with the same impact force compared to a straight edge.
Sure, I agree. A requirement for a replacement would be that it's federated, and that it's asynchronous (i.e not chat). Signal is neither.

I just wish that the people who care about federation and asynchronicity weren't also the people who delude themselves into thinking that email is fine the way it is. (Case in point: my comment about the problems with email is downvoted, presumably by the exact kind of people I'm talking about.)
With a bit of tuning the oat moped can perhaps recuperate some energy upon breaking too.
Thanks for confirming my guess! Nice work on getting the conpatibility layers for sys interfaces done as well!
Was it one of the sites in this list?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Q%26A_sites
Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA22_1wnj9w
Under Anesthesia, Where Do Our Minds Go?

The article itself is good but that title, wow. Our minds don't "go" anywhere any more than the illumination goes somewhere when you snuff a candle. Just as the flame isn't high enough to produce significant light your brain activity isn't high enough to produce coherent thought.
There are so many amazing ways! ;)

Since it’s an old Norse word, try using Google Translate to hear what happens in Danish, Dutch, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish. I don’t know if it’s a modern word in those languages, but Translate is showing translations “election gate” for several languages, and “fall gravel” for Swedish.

According to the audio pronunciations on Translate…

Danish: “vale grint”, long a, hard tapped r, hard d sounds like t

Dutch: sounds like “fall hint” but there’s a slight throaty r in there hard to hear for English speakers, so maybe “hrint”

German: “val grinned”, val like value, grinned with the normal German r

Icelandic: “vall grint”, vall like fall, hard tapped r

Norwegian: “vall grin”, hard tapped r, almost “vall g’din”, silent or nearly silent d/t at the end.

Swedish: “voll grint / g’dint”, hard tapped r, hard d

German is the only one that has “Val” like “value”, all the rest sound more like “fall”. The word valgrind is the door to Valhalla, which means literally “fall hall”, as in hall of the fallen. For that reason, I suspect it makes the most sense to pronounce valgrind like “fall grinned”, but Old Norse might have used val like value, I’m not sure.

BTW Valhalla has an equally amusing number of ways to pronounce it across Germanic languages, “val” sometimes turns into what sound like “fell” instead of “fall”, and in Icelandic the double ell makes it fall-hat-la.

Languages are cool!
When I was 14-15, a girl started trashtalking some pseudohacker I had in my messenger list. This guy got mad and threatened to hack me. In the end he didn't have much skills so he went to a popular forum and asked people to hack me.

Some of these people reached out to me and I found out.

I taught myself how to code and wrote a small tool to extract passwords from the windows registry and email them to me. I learnt how to bind it to another executable and prepared a payload with a freeware flash game.

I then used it on a common clueless contact to hack hist messenger and then I used the common contact to hack the target.

Eventually we became friends and after a couple of years of running warez communities, writing viruses and hacking PHP websites, I moved to normal programming and entrepreneurship, which eventually turned into a career.

I wonder where I would be if I didn't start coding early, due to that accident.
They actually removed subscriptions just because of that: they were required to keep some info to process payments, but this was incompatible with their vision for privacy.

With single payments they don't need to keep it for so long.
Lmao indeed
Don't iPhone and Android make it super trivial to get a live location link from the maps app that you can drop in the chat? I know Android does. Seems weird to put it directly into an encrypted messaging app when it's native to the OS.
It worked fine everywhere else I went for weeks, so while I'm sure it was a bug of some sort, I wouldn't say it was overall a bad receiver.
UTF8 encoding is stable in that aspect for decades, so don't expect any changes soon (or ever). Actually, gaps even increased (5-byte and 6-byte code points were removed) when they realized that UTF-8 doesn't need that much of encoding space, and to match the constraints of the UTF-16 character encoding.
Getting officially evaluated and diagnosed with ADHD two years ago (at age 39).

Not a single moment but gave me a framework, tools, and vocabulary to understand my various issues and come up with treatments/solutions.

When I was 19 until my mid 20s, I was often the youngest guy in many corporate settings, and really shining. That was me getting by on raw talent. But to move further you also have to couple that with executive function. And that’s where I started to peak and not grow more. So I was “stuck” in individual contributor roles, still succeeding on raw talent but that doesn’t scale. This helped me break out of that pretty easily and have a different outlook.

I’m in a totally different place now. (Not to mention, more often the oldest guy in the room!!)
Because they provide no guarantees around the stability of the protocol, and presumably don't want to drag around the weight of a load of poorly-maintained clients that break all the time.

Besides, it's their service, they get to say who and how they connect.
SQLite Internals: Pages and B-trees
Of course people in other countries do this, but anecdotally it does seem to be more common in the US. I think it's something to do with the American dream.
Very briefly worked in a metal fabrication shop in the last gasp of pre-CAD and electronic records. Writing out the bill of materials (by hand, to be typed up) involved a lot of numbers - measurements, quantities, and prices.

Using symbols like # before a quantity, @ before a unit price, or ⌀ before a diameter was considered critical for minimizing confusion. I think it was meant to work like a sort of Hungarian notation for numbers, so if someone’s transcribing them into an order form or something, and they find themselves copying a diameter into a price column, they catch themselves on the type mismatch.

It never seemed like there was much room for ambiguity in any of the lists I wrote up, but I guess when you screw up an order to a steel supplier and get the quantity mixed up with the length, that can be a pretty expensive mistake.
One of the goals for the web in general is to not impose the burden for that kind of strictness onto users. It's why we reversed course away from XHTML, which would refuse to render a page if the markup was incorrect.

Put another way: inconveniencing developers is preferable to inconveniencing users.
Suppose all corporations got together and decided to support raising the gas tax to $10 or $20 per gallon. I would bet voters would mobilize in record time to vote out any politicians supporting it.

If 90% of Americans sufficiently cared about reducing carbon emissions, car sales would look different.
Whats the range of it tho?
"A difference that makes no difference is no difference.'
I like to go to the restaurant chain called Wagamama. They have vegan dishes where you can optionally add different kinds of meat.
Only for windows or Mac, it seems.
Looks cool, but I can't help thinking about how the plasticizers in stuff like that helped reduce male fertility to the 50% we see today compared to the 70's (yes, I know, we sit around all day too, and there are many more causes, just saying perhaps there is a reason this is not distributed like this anymore).
I liked the 2021 film "Nobody" too, it kicked ass, but I think asking an ordinary civilian to engage in symmetric warfare with the mafia in their club is perhaps asking for a lot from a person.
that sounds totally made up!
Well, that's good to hear at least.
Anectotal, but after 10 years following a (protein rich, trying to bulk with mediocre results) 99% vegan diet, I started having terrible stomach problems (including all sort of bleeding and explosions).

After 2 years of suffering, doctors told me it was unexplained, most likely due to stress and that I should avoid eating fatty meats as my cholesterol was very high (despite basically not eating food). They wanted to put me on statins.

I did the opposite and switched to a carnivore diet - and my symptoms disappeared in a week.
Computer glitches harmed nearly 150 patients after Oracle Cerner system go-live
"There is no place to seek the mind; it is like the footprints of birds in the sky."

Zenrin
wait why is bash.org down
There's no point in trying to convince people who already come into the discussion with such charged language as "filthy", "disgusting" or "trash pit". Their minds are already made up, sadly, and yes, the city doesn't deserve such disrespect and slander, especially from someone who claims to have lived there for 15 years. Shameful. The sanitation system in the city is near the bottom compared to other issues like the MTA; anybody making an argument to the contrary either has never lived in the city or is willfully ignorant.
it's "Klammeraffe" in German, spider monkey, and figuratively a small monkey clinging to / clasping someone or something.
Sure. You see them once in a blue moon and catch-up. Or you go back to ye ole grapevine, and ask the people you do want to talk to about the people they talk to that you don’t. Or you forget about them and life carries on.
Bitch all you want. No really. Do it. If you don't like the word, fine, use criticise in its place. Criticise ALL you want. Do it. Nothing is above reasoned criticism. Including my criticism of critics of signal who deride the choices made without acknowledging that the person who led those choices and the team and ultimately took responsibility for those choices also succeeded where nobody else had on a scale that is ridiculously large.

"I believe signal could have been as resoundingly successful in bringing e2e encryption to the masses as it was if it had done X and Y differently and tweaked Z." Is quite different to the critics around here who filled a page with comments without anyone acknowledging that they did pretty good in this one dimension. (Did ok in some others too, imho, but this one dimension is off the damn charts and there can be zero argument about that. They did it when it hadn't been done). So yeah, go right ahead, bitch all you like about my bitching about the bitching going on about signal. Please do. Nobody is being abused or disrespected here except maybe Moxie. I reckon it's happening to Moxie. Often.
Ask HN: How can I see all of my Amazon transactions?
If I search for guides on how to do this, they refer to a menu option I can't see, which is "Download Orders Reports".

I don't know if that's because I'm on amazon.co.uk, or if they've just removed it.

Is it still possible to get an order history, say in a spreadsheet format?
I remember being in Bilbao, Spain wanting to eat fries and a cheesburger in a Burger King. They didn't have anything like that. All I could choose from where potato wedges and weird Spanish style burgers with way too much stuff on it. Is it too much to ask for fries and a regular old hamburger in a Burger King nowadays?
Meta might let anti-vax posts back onto Facebook and Instagram
This is why climate change is impossible to deal with - everything contributes 'just a tiny fraction' when broken down by industry and by country.

Private jets may be a miniscule percentage of the total, but they're one of the most glaringly wasteful, and they're also setting a very bad example for the rest of us. Why should hundreds of millions of working class people accept that they're going to have to lose their cars (and therefore their jobs), their meat, and their ability to heat/cool their small homes while our leaders still use private jets even when travelling to discuss climate change policy?

We need proposed solutions to climate change that don't look like a giant boot stomping on the face of the poor forever.

The vast majority will never be able to afford Teslas or other neat-but-very-expensive green tech.
I'm getting my take from how the idea is actually implemented and acted upon in reality in the US, not from how people claim it should be implemented as an ideology

>It was popularized in the 1990s by New York City police commissioner William Bratton and mayor Rudy Giuliani, whose policing policies were influenced by the theory.

Example of the absurdity of implementation:

>Throughout the late 1990s, NYPD shut down many of the city's acclaimed night spots for illegal dancing.

Tons of criticisms, not to mention it was partially popularized by an incredibly flawed study by the infamous Zimbardo

>However, other studies do not find a cause and effect relationship between the adoption of such policies and decreases in crime.[6][25] The decrease may have been part of a broader trend across the United States. The rates of most crimes, including all categories of violent crime, made consecutive declines from their peak in 1990, under Giuliani's predecessor, David Dinkins. Other cities also experienced less crime, even though they had different police policies

>Baltimore criminologist Ralph B. Taylor argues in his book that fixing windows is only a partial and short-term solution. His data supports a materialist view: changes in levels of physical decay, superficial social disorder, and racial composition do not lead to higher crime, but economic decline does. He contends that the example shows that real, long-term reductions in crime require that urban politicians, businesses, and community leaders work together to improve the economic fortunes of residents in high-crime areas.[42]

>According to a study by Robert J. Sampson and Stephen Raudenbush, the premise on which the theory operates, that social disorder and crime are connected as part of a causal chain, is faulty. They argue that a third factor, collective efficacy, "defined as cohesion among residents combined with shared expectations for the social control of public space," is the actual cause of varying crime rates that are observed in an altered neighborhood environment. They also argue that the relationship between public disorder and crime rate is weak.[44]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory

There are so many issues it's difficult to fit everything in one comment. Did you read the wikipedia article?
I'm in exactly the same boat as you. Signal for random friends and family, Matrix for anyone who can handle a little bit of tech. No one else in my Matrix friends group chat works in IT, though, so it's not that bad.
Comeau C/C++
This reminds me of "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names":

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Google, like Amazon, will let police see your video without a warrant
I think my wife has a rather binary view on affairs. Doesn’t need to be long, sustained, or repetitive. I’d wager many wives would be livid just by the presence of an account on AM even if no physical cheating occurs. Just the fact it was sought out or investigate is going to cause a riff in the relationship.

Also if the models show nobody is cheating, the data should be considered suspicious. Maybe the word “affair” is an issue. It insinuates a long term situation when really a lot of this falls under hookups/prostitution.
Fourth wall hits the ground with a soft thud
Linux: Free vs. Available Memory
This guy has a great set of examples of rules in English that started as bastardizations, fabrications, arbitrary preferences of some particular writer, etc.: https://youtu.be/JTslqcXsFd4?t=444.
In this instance, it seems to me that a hash that only samples the input data would be just as useful as one that runs over the whole set. Sample every 128th byte, for example, to build your hash.

or you could put your metadata into your audio files so it sticks with them when they move.
Investing in insulation and triple glazing is a sensible thing to do with benefits regardless of whether there is loud music playing outside or not. Good luck all the same.
I have a Nikon D7100 and was just thinking about updating the firmware yesterday since there probably won't be anymore patches. I am pleasantly surprised by this.
> It just seems like a difficult ask for each consumer to worry about every supply chain they touch. Seems maddening to try.

This is an intentional component of this system that enables this sort of exploitation. Each individual feels (to some extent justifiably) that it is someone else's duty. Each is just doing what is best or necessary for them, not necessarily happy about it, but the mine foreman has a family to feed, you think congo's government should deal with it, the petty bureaucrat knows if they change it they'll lose their job or worse. Everyone acts as they believe they should or must and now here we are.
You're the only one talking about race here buddy, you might want to think your stance as it sounds a bit racist
>> Made me stop playing war games and watching war movies.

Thats really interesting reaction - probably totally opposite of mine. I honestly believe that war is one of mankind's stupidest invention and suspect that there are no heroes on any battlefield - only naive, stupid and unlucky ones that mostly use pieces of metal with high kinetic energy to pierce through flesh of others. I would never agree to take active part in it. But despite that I love war movies and war games. War theme allows for very good, emotionally charged (in oposition to kinetically charged irl) and captivating narrative that is hard to create otherwise. But nonetheless this is the only good place for war - fantasy.
James Lovelock, creator of Gaia hypothesis, dies on 103rd birthday
When it comes to working holiday visas this is one of those times non-Americans[1] actually have _more_ options than Americans.

1: Western non-Americans, more specifically, unfortunately..
Let's not even go into how the meaning of "hacking" or "hacker" was hijacked. :oldmanyellsatmoon:
Google’s Nest will provide data to police without a warrant
Choco Tacos are gone for good, a victim of ‘tough decisions’
Damn that looks really polished.

How does the server know what characters to send so that my specific command line interprets it in a nice way? Sorry if I'm not being very articulate.

EDIT: doesn't work when piping to less.
It is a nice little project but if anyone actually wants pre-made audio versions of out-of-copyright books then I suggest looking at LibriVox[0]

They have thousands of works read by volunteers (some are very good, some average) and they publish RSS feeds for collections so you can consume them with your podcast app.

For example, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes[1], a dramatic reading.

[0] https://librivox.org

[1] https://librivox.org/the-adventures-of-sherlock-holmes-versi...
I find "twilight" drugs way more disturbing. Its clear that people on them are clearly themselves, though less inhibited. But none of what occurs becomes part of their experience. At least consciously.
Same thing for me watching my 5th grade teacher program a Commodore Vic-20. I was instantly hooked.
between us
Most of those people aren't using Signal but the Signal Protocol. When people say they want different identities, infrastructure or clients what they are essentially saying is they want to use the Signal Protocol but they aren't Facebook. They can't spent millions on development and maintenance so instead they want to integrate with the existing ecosystem.

Signal being successful because it is implemented by different parties and therefor used by many people seems more a counterargument to the state of Signal because it would suggest that Signal would be better if more people could use it for more things.
You will probably get caught and then "convinced"[0] to stop. A wireless attack on the other hand doesn't even require physical access.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acZe7O3T6kk
This was a Ransburg Scout camp trading post staple!
Now imagine that USB did not exist, and there were only, say, Thunderbolt, controlled by the paragon of care about users, Apple.
SSML led me to this EPUB support for enhanced text to speech, so possibly something Standard Ebooks might actually adopt themselves in future.

https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-tts-10/#ssml
You should be setting a two-week auto-delete for all your messages anyway. Archive and backup features in other apps are a massive privacy hole. These chats are supposed to be ephemeral, if you want long lasting comms that you can search through later, use email.

The idea of any of my contacts logging every message I ever sent to them, and backing them up in clear text on whatever dumb cloud provider they're using this week, is a pretty scary one.
"Google will allow law enforcement to access data from its Nest products — or theoretically any other data you store with Google — without a warrant."

At this point, what doesn't Google know or is unable to accurately infer about any given person on the internet?
I've read a Reddit post a long time ago where someone used powerful amateur radio equipment to blow up a speaker wirelessly. Maybe look into this?
Except that's not what happened... When the car was sold, it had the lower range. If it was resold with that same lower range expectation then, while slightly frustrating, the buyer would not have an expectation of the greater range, so it would be more like when the cable company takes away those extra channels your original technician enabled with a wink and a nod - you knew you weren't really paying for them. The fraud created a false expectation.
Full disclosure: I'm German.

They say the difference between a good prank and just being an asshole is if the victim can laugh about it afterwards.

To me, Wikipedia describing this as a "practical joke" and "surreal comedy" in the first sentence, then later going on to describe it as a "psychological experiment [designed to show the] pressure to conform" (which I would describe it as) makes me quite upset.

I don't see how anyone can derive pleasure from making fun of the victim's social ineptitude, desire to fit in, or desire to socialize.

I don't see how the victim could say after the fact "yes, that was a fun prank, I did enjoy this surprise".

This is the sort of "prank" that I would be happy to see delegated to the Social Psychology department at college.
A missed opportunity to call it Sandy
(or, even better, Mercury)
> I sometimes wonder if I would disrupt someone's nascent [systematic interference] business model if I started publishing my maps regularly.

it seems obvious publishing this might not be fully appreciated by the crowd who jams. has this project generated any complaints?