skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My explanation may not be accurate but this is how I see sophrology and what I remember from my lessons.
Note that what I explain is not necessarily my opinion or belief.
I am not someone who is into spiritual or "new age" stuff.

Sophrology is a relaxation method.
When you do a session, you focus on a particular issue to remove or lower it.
This is a goal-centered method.
I will explain a bit how you do a session.

The first thing to do when you start sophrology is to learn how to breathe "correctly".
Most adults seem to breathe "from the torso".
This is not good because it constraints your breath, and you do not feel relaxed.
On the other hand, babies breath using "the belly".
You can see their bellies inflate and deflate while they breathe.
Using this technique, you have plenty of space to breathe correctly, and you feel relaxed.

Sophrology divides the body in five zones: the head, the neck, the torso (with the arms and hands), the upper part of your belly, the lower part of your body down to the feet.
Then the belly button represents the whole body.
During the session you will have to focus on each of these six zones one at a time.

In each session, you have multiple exercises to do.
You stand when you do an exercise; then you sit in a relaxed position for a while so your body and your mind absorb what you learned from the exercise.

1. You "clean" yourself by doing dynamic stretching. Slowly you start to close your eyes for the whole session and you focus on breathing correctly.

2. You take consciousness on your body, by focusing on each zone at a time.

3. You relax yourself, each zone at a time.

4. You do the exercise corresponding to what you want to achieve with this session (getting sleep, make your anger disappear, lowering a physical pain...);

5. At last you reactivate yourself physically, and finally you open your eyes.

The main point of the session is to go into a state that is close to slumber before you reactivate your body.
You should feel yourself very relaxed and not wanting to do anything in this state.
Also during the whole session you use positive reinforcement.
You must talk to yourself in a positive manner.

I suppose it helped me because this is a mix of relaxation exercises, auto-hypnosis and positive psychology.
It is not coated into spiritual and religious stuff: I am not trying to ascend into a new layer of existence.
It is not focusing on negative things as it does in stoicism.

To be honest, it was difficult at first for me to do ridiculous exercises and paying for that! :)

But it worked for me and I feel way better now that I am not anxious anymore at the idea of going into bed.
As I wrote, I do not understand why it was so effective so quickly after I struggled for years and years with sleep issues.
And I do not understand why it is still that effective now that I do not do the exercises very often.
Ah, Silicon Valley “helps” humanity again. I don’t want to make a short flippant comment but that’s all there is to say. It’s just shown to be the same old shell game of move money from point A to point B, which is always VC and founders pockets. The engine for the movement being fake innovation and disruption. The 2000s brought real tech innovation and disruption and the 2010s was just mostly fumes and hop-ons enabled by almost infinite cheap money.

I don’t say this to be negative. I say it because I know that people that can change this read HN. Your job and choices matter. Make the 2020s a decade of humanity getting better. Increasing congestion in cities, increasing environmental pollution, and increasing rides to higher income portions of the city wasn’t it.
https://pixelfed.org.

Tell me you are willing to pay $1/month, and I will stop postponing it and finally add it to https://communick.com
> With Rust, even after months of working daily in the language, most people on the team never felt fully competent. A number of devs told me they were often embarrassed that it was taking longer than they expected for their features to land and that they were spending so long trying to wrap their heads around Rust.

Very unsurprising. Rust is a bad choice to use when building a typical CRUD app especially when you are not making any money. So when I saw this about immature libraries:

> Rust, by comparison, has long felt like a work in progress. The docs for a lot of popular libraries are pretty sparse, and one often needs to read the source code of a given library to understand how to use it. This is bad.

I just couldn't help but say that someone has finally cut through the hype, and experienced the reality of the immature state of the library ecosystem in Rust rather than pretending that it is fine; especially for a startup which can result in the failure of feature delivery and of itself.

This cargo culting of programming languages promised by a fan club or hype squad of any new language needs to stop.
Local was front end stuff, back end was still talking to production.
Maybe I'm ignorant of what TikTok is but it seems to be mostly about video sharing and less about "social networking" with friends and family??

I also think TikTok has serious risks going forward re Chinese government. Already a lot of grumbling from lawmakers in US about banning it as CCP growing more belligerent in recent years whereas Facebook products aren't at all influenced by it.
...and the slow hello to Medium? Nobody tell them that Medium is also a publicly traded company vulnerable to hostile takeover...
Now do Fox News and the GOP
Ah sh*t here we go again
Something that you, personally, could be reasonably expected to know pretty much everything about, whether that's an internal system, a public API, or tool. It's up to you whether the topic is transferrable.
Maybe, but as far as I know, none were Soviet citizens who came on work visas. Even if it were possible to emigrate from there, I don't know that they would have been allowed to be professors or grad students either. This was during the Cold War. In some ways we are kind of in a cold war with China right now where a huge % of high skilled workers come. We're practically in a hot war with Russia and I don't need to repeat what has been said about them. I am not trying to single any country out but I don't think we can say we have no enemies abroad right now. Surely this is something to think about before creating a caste of foreign high skilled workers and academics?
Did you read the featured Twitter thread? Denial is strong when it comes to both the left and rights concern about human rights in the digital age. Don’t let emphemeral politics blind you to long term trends. Be more deontological wrt freedom. Your ancestors died for it. Don’t let it slip away cause you didn’t like trump.
Why do we still need to do all this boilerplate? I'm not even singling out Python here, I actually think that Codepilot being so amazing is kind of sad, clearly we shouldn't be needing to do all these things in 2022.
Does anyone have any good recommendations for getting a decent overview of NSO/Pegasus? A comprehensive Zero Days-type book is likely still years away, but I’m fine with a basic video/audio/read for the time being, as the whole thing kind of passed me by, apart from a few headlines here and there.
I'm admittedly pretty cynical about these things, but i think blocking adult content by default is mostly to help pedophiles and predators. The internet is a dangerous place for kids, why else would you want to make it look safer, while leaving the real dangers (people) in place?

Kids shouldn't have unsupervised access to the internet. This has become a controversial statement, mostly due to a false sense of security brought on through censorship.
Not very convincing when "git gud" is the common response to Rust's exuberance towards needless complexity in use cases that it doesn't fit well in (like CRUD applications)
Sorry, I mistyped. I was thinking about HP42 and above RPL not the basic RPN. RPL is a blend of lisp idiom on top of good old stack based RPN (list, map, numerical tower). It goes so far that they even added quoted lambda expressions. You could push << a -> + a a >> on your stack.
Zef here ([4]), the end user programming aspect is very much in development and its exploration phase. It’s not even so much about implementing it, more the design of how to make or useful and how to use it. Any input on this is very much appreciated. I try to take inspiration from Obsidian Dataview, LogSeq and others on this.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33844574 where the model acknowledges a non-existing mistake after prompting.
The Fascinating History of the Walkman
"Ridesharing" is a loaded word promoted by Uber and Lyft to make their computer-dispatched taxi companies sound like something else. There is no reason to adopt the preferred terminology of one side of an issue. Your characterization of this usage as universal is not accurate.
I’ve apparently been doing this for a long time without noticing. I just like telling people that appreciate them or reminding them that they’re doing well, etc!

Had no idea it had a name or “strategy” associated with it… I just like other people to know when they’re having a positive impact on me (or something else). And people always seem to like knowing that, and get into a better mood in response!

Edit: maybe I’m not understanding the concept very well, and “profuse praise” the strategy is more belligerent than I thought
There are many email providers who are quite profitable by charging just that and are not afraid of Gmail's absolute dominance.
Deming’s Theory of Profound Knowledge
Node-calls-Python: call Python from Node.js
About 100k USD total comp. No stock. Front end dev working in the solar industry with about 10 years of professional experience.

Love my job but think our industry is totally overcompensated. Teachers, medical professionals, etc. work much much harder, contribute way more to society, and get paid way less. Capitalism is nuts.
Yeah genuine praise is just ok, habitual or forced praise is the worst.
TurboTax business. It’s the same underlying engine tax preparers use.
Other than a bunch of people complaining about how Twitter is changing, I haven't seen any change at all.
Yes, these are good examples of ... well, 'useful' scalping. The scenario I had in mind was when big scalping outfits have a modus operandi of buying huge quantities of tickets for re-sale. Aided and abetted by the technology of the web. I don't think it happened too often before that.
Would Rust be worth learning for implementing (numerical) optimization algorithms?
my read is it is skewering both the "performative over achiever" and the "ambition-less bored under achiever." Maybe its intended as a rorschach test to see which side people see.
I've also experienced this and I've mentioned it in comments here in the past. I once recommended the book to a (former) colleague and it was maddening to talk to this person after they finished it. FWIW, I'm also always on edge when I talk to someone who I know has read the Rosenberg non-violent communication book(s), so it's not just the books or it's contents but a certain personality type, I guess.
Obviously I mean get at the address of the first character, if any. You can't load before you know that what you load is valid. Btw. zero-terminated strings allow you to load unconditionally. Sometimes that's nice.
DoD Acquisitions Chief on challenges scaling production for Ukraine
I think this is a lazy conclusion and needs more depth. What’s huge - seismic really - is that people actually prefer to know more about strangers than friends. On average, these strangers tend to be personalities and as a result are more entertaining / interesting / provocative than my typical friend. Combine this with the average person posting less about their life and you end up with a serious problem.

Twitter first rode this trend, but TikTok really exploited it specifically with the medium of video and their algorithm to serve content.

Networks effects were once seen as the ultimate moat and one reason why FB could never be taken down. But it turns out if the content people “trade” on their “marketplace” is poor, all the network effects in the world won’t save you.
Because most of the moderation has given up as stories like this become more and more popular. It's easier to just let people burn out than delete it and be accused of being part of the FBI or whatever, even though it makes the problem worse because it becomes normalized here.

Like I will keep mentioning: This whole drama is partially based off the fact that people are complaining Twitter removed dick pics from twitter as a form of 'censorship'. I don't think dick pics belong anywhere on HN, but apparently people here disagree.
America’s syringe exchanges kill drug users
> Decades of research prove that these programmes curtail disease. Junkies are in fact less prone to sharing needles when they get free ones. That sharply decreases rates of blood-borne illnesses. In 2014 an analysis found that every dollar spent on syringe exchanges spares the government around $7 in HIV-related health-care costs. Needle exchanges opened across America and Europe. For years no one detected the feared rise in substance abuse.

> That was before the opioid crisis plagued America and economists started looking into the trade-offs. A new study by Analisa Packham published in the Journal of Public Economics uncovers an uncomfortable truth: this particular harm-reduction tool does lots of harm. Ms Packham compares how drug users fared in counties that opened syringe exchanges between 2008 and 2016 with those in counties that did not. Before the clinics opened, upticks in HIV diagnoses or overdoses in one set of counties were mirrored in the other. Once a syringe exchange came to town, outcomes diverged. Rates of HIV fell by 15% in counties with the new programme. But deaths soared. On average syringe-exchange programmes led to a 22% spike in opioid-related mortality.

> Simply lowering the risks of getting sick—and the costs of paraphernalia, as Flaco from the Bronx articulated—could also incentivise drug use. Distributing PrEP, an HIV-prevention medication, has been shown to make gay men less inclined to use condoms during sex. So too could harm-reduction tools make addicts use drugs more incautiously. In a study published in 2018 Jennifer Doleac and Anita Mukherjee found that when states legalised naloxone, a medication that reverses overdoses, opioid abuse increased. Though lauded by public-health advocates, naloxone did not save lives as intended. In some regions, fewer addicts died; in others, more did.
Most memory allocators have an internal fragmentation which removes most efficiency gained by zero-termination. In fact it's worse, because zero-termination means that deallocation can't take a size parameter and it can often cause a performance hit for many modern allocators due to cache misses [1].

[1] https://isocpp.org/files/papers/n3778.html
If you don't care at all about popular figures and just want to share content with people you actually know, https://movim.eu would be a much better alternative.
Ah, OK. To me, it seems like it would be beneficial to show how messy the process actually is to reach the end state.
I do the same in April, but skip quarterly tax entirely.

The fine is only a hundred dollars or so, and TurboTax will calculate it for you and include it. For the hassle it saves, and in the context of a 5 figure tax bill, it's a pretty simple choice not to bother with it.
It would be interesting to see a major player in the space really embracing the fashion and seasonality of their products and succeeding with that strategy.
It's use of RPN wasn't, but RPL was with one meaning for it being "Reverse Polish Lisp".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPL_(programming_language)
I am struggling to find any benefit of Rust for startups to be honest. It makes no economical sense to be bogged down by a language that is 3-10x slower to develop. The issues Rust is preventing will pop up earliest in production, likely rarely and at that point in time the company could be profitable, its product somewhat stabilized and actually have a case of using Rust for an internal rewrite.
Interesting bit about limits, I'm in a similar boat. But beside the social aspect of reaching groups of stronger people, something that changed is that my brain used to grok everything out of the blue, and one day.. it didn't.[0] It's not that things became harder but as if a big wall of confusion appeared, while other were still seeing clearly (or so it seems to my panicked eyes). During the years I managed to climb stairs I couldn't before, so it's not a matter of being able to grok things, but what became out of phase with college level content in my brain that killed any speed.

[0] for instance, I was top of my class not by choice but merely because I enjoyed reading all the things all the time because it was so natural, so pleasurable. That pleasure is far away most of the time now.

The emotional / personal aspect of abuse of "thinking" is also interesting.
Cold for me is not an issue (unless we're talking about the -10F or colder kind), and in some cases it's a feature. I can't stand being boiling hot on a long hike, and going out in the winter can be just the antidote to that.

It's also a lot easier to tolerate when the reward is silence and solitude.

To your point, not every trail will be accessible in the cold, and that is certainly a factor. But most parks have trails that are perfectly hike-able in the winter, and one of my favorite recent hikes was a pre-dawn snowy hike to Dream Lake at RMNP. I was the only person up there, got to watch an incredible sunrise reflecting off of the recently frozen lake, and then enjoyed the best tasting coffee I've ever had.

Not for everyone, but can be an amazing experience.
Twitter is not going anywhere anytime soon; there is no replacement. Mastodon does not fit the needs of the millions of users using the platform daily. I believe that Twitter will terraform what we think of as social media, and with that, a new way of communication will emerge
Correct. These revelations (for some) are a win for moderates.

Jack Dorsey and Rho Khanna. That’s who benefitted the most.

Amazingly the democrats are upset about this. It tells me what I need to know about those people.
What If Railroads Didn’t Change the World?
People around me have started really forgetting things, to the point where I've had to remind a co-worker twice in the space of 5 minutes what they were supposed to be doing, or repeating conversations I had with friends a few weeks ago to remind them what we discussed.
Myself, I don't have any issues, my recall is pretty decent for most things, such as counting back the meals I've eaten over the past week and with whom. Mind you, I'm the only one who regularly plays computer games, exercises and balances their meals.
I think it's more correct that people appreciate being liked. If you don't feel liked by this person, you'll gravitate to a different person. Calling it "servility" is really stretching it.

> seem 'interesting' without saying much is to elicit intrigue - or mystery, so you want to seem mysterious.

I'm sure there are people to whom that applies. But it doesn't seem likely to be widely applicable to me. Most people just aren't going for the "dark and mysterious" vibe.
Even in the other languages lifetimes/ownership are a useful mental tool for managing manual resources (DB connections, transactions, mutexes, file handles, etc).

There's so much code in Go that is documented like "while this object takes a file handle, it does not close it itself even though there is a close function, you will need to close it" that in Rust is just a lifetime annotation.
Or more usually if the Telegraph is against it it is worth looking into.
> Why should I develop apps for Puter?
>
> We could get you an incredible number of users: Puter's is growing with no sign of slowing down. By building and publishing apps on Puter, you will instantly get access to our ever-growing user base.

This seems dishonest, or maybe I'm just missing the point of Puter. Who the heck is using this?

https://docs.puter.com/#/?id=why-should-i-develop-apps-for-p...
It's so crazy what happens in my brain when I see some of these. They trigger a sense memory and suddenly I'm flashing back to a high school computer programming competition.
I understand this whole scenario is simplified for story's sake but,

if there's old_func and new_func, and the new_func call in the else was added that morning, why would the same error of new_func getting the wrong amount of arguments happen weeks before?
It’s more than that. I’d argue there are “IQs” for culture (what’s the best outcome in a meta sense), power (what words/actions lead to maintaining dominance), social (how does everyone likely feel and react to what I say, related to power) and many more.

So undervalued by many.
I think probably because "ridesharing" is a pleasant word that evokes a nice image of people carpooling together instead of conjuring up exploitative, shit companies like Uber
Show HN: Single-Instruction (Subleq) Programming Game
This is a "zachlike" programming game revolving around a fictional 8-bit, single-instruction (subleq) computer [0]. If you're familiar with TIS-100, it's like that, but using a subleq-based assembly language (and only one node).

I shared this back in early 2020 when I added leaderboards [1], but I recently decided to make it into a complete game, with achievements, music, a mini-game, a new narrative, and a Steam port (using WebView2) [2]. The original post didn't generate much discussion, but judging by the number of new players at that time, Hacker News is basically my target audience, so I'm sharing the final game here again.

The source code is on GitHub [3], in case anyone is curious (but note that it's under a restrictive license because I haven't decided if I want to open-source it).

Let me know if you enjoy it!

[0] subleq is "subtract, and branch if <= 0"

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22392965

[2] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2124440/SIC1/

[3] https://github.com/jaredkrinke/sic1
Previously posted with lots of engagement:

11 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33714007

19 hours ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33837803
One of the best comments I've read on this site, and I wholeheartedly agree.

Narratives and emotions run the world. Engineering / facts only come into play when there's liability to kill people or lose investors money.
I wouldn't say its a bargain. I started using this firm in a very high cost of living metro area/city, and have since moved to a very low cost of living rural area. The local firms here charge 1/3rd of what I was paying. So I'm paying a premium based on where the firm is located. Its great having a CPA on your side and they are quick to answer questions, but my financial/living situation isn't changing, so at this point I can just cross reference my 6+ years of returns through them and use an online solution for a few hundred dollars. The $1800/year would be hands down my largest expense. They were very useful when I had multiple state returns and some mix of W2 and 1099, but at this point, seems fairly trivial.
Would be interesting to see if meaningful refinement training could be done by hooking the model up to a language interpreter/compiler. So the model can learn for itself what is valid output.
Test release for Freenet 1495: easier entry, better lifetimes, URI-schemes
The man who gave that advice also paired it with being authentic: "Give honest and sincere appreciation."

That advice was actually given in the context of a supervisor or superior working to improve a report: 'Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be “hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.”'

So in context, its about noticing the things you as a person like about people and vocalizing them, and separately drawing attention to when someone improves. Pretty sound advice

If you read the actual book, its as much about not being a bore, and how not to piss people off. Some people take the advice in it WAY too far, and that's when it comes across as off-putting and inauthentic.