skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It causes the sensation of extreme damage without the actual damage

This is almost precisely how the "nerve induction box" in Dune is described. The one that is used to test Paul with the gom jabbar. Imagine if Gaius Helen Mohiam instead of saying "Stick your hand in the box" said, "Stick this pepper in your mouth, chew and swallow." In the book scenario Paul had to trust Mohiam that his hand was not actually being burned away, and also once the test ended she could end the pain at once. With the pepper he'd not have to trust her because he'd know about capsaicin, and she could not end the pain (unless we posit a capsaicin antidote).
I feel flattered, thank you. I’m not sure what specific type of information you wish to learn. Most of what I have learned is passed down in person through the ceremonies. Usually people find these things when they are ready for them. It presents itself when the social circle becomes aligned. For me, the entrance was by getting closer to holistic circles (meditation, sound healing…) in the SF Bay Area.
There are also more commercial offerings that can be found on platform like retreat.guru - but I’d always exercise more caution when working with people who advertise themselves. Always look for sincerity.

Otherwise, I write about the relationship between technology and spirituality here: https://louison.substack.com/

You may also get more information about traditional indigenous ceremonies/sorcery reading Carlos Castaneda, Ruiz or looking for other books in that category.
My wife would. She's extremely sensitive to spice, partially because she's never had any exposure to it. She touched something after I washed everything and still had burning and swelling on her finger and face.
Which part of America?? in Peru? el savador? Canada? Haiti ? Nevada?
Ask HN: Centralized or Federated RSS notification services?
Twitter has been used for several years to publish alerts of various kinds, such as SaaS status (e.g. Slack). With Twitter's quality down the toilet, are there any central or federated RSS notification services that can fill this niche? I've only used RSS notifications in the context of individual clients, such as Outlook or Thunderbird, but would be helpful if there were a service like "SubscribeMe" where I could see notifications as they came online.

Adding social commenting functionality would make it a twitter clone maybe, but really just looking for the notification service.
And yet "debunked" it shall be, by taking the weakest argument and showing it is wrong with such condescension that good citizens will be afraid to believe any of it.
Couldn't solve awk question. I got 'AWK' in uppercase but there is no command to select from to make the letters lower case. I cannot even write my own patterns to match and replace letters. I don't get it.
Hey, it’s not just playing with the silly tools. It’s showing how smart I am by displaying my arcane knowledge of the silly tool.
The in-browser support/UX - the ever present menu options and keyboard shortcuts - are what make Profiles so much better to use in Chrome than in Firefox. The extension attempts to bridge that gap.

Having to use about:profiles or an external application shortcut is a much worse experience overall.
People downvoting you don’t do testing and are upset.
Suspension of disbelief. Or assuming a different set of beliefs. These beliefs being a set of assumptions or rules underlying a story or a game.

To move from one world to another.

To enter a movie, story, game... we are all pretty familiar with that.
Assume that ANRO is a "normal" government bureaucracy - any people inclined to double-checking, questioning things, or caring much about the real-world outcomes get systematically weeded out.
Hand winding allows for a high degree of precision and quality control that may be difficult to achieve with automated machinery, particularly for specialized or custom designs. Skilled technicians can closely monitor the process and make adjustments on the fly to ensure that the winding is as precise as possible. This is crucial for large transformers, where even minor imperfections can lead to inefficiencies, increased heat, or failure.

Transformers for electrical grids can vary greatly in their specifications depending on a variety of factors, such as location, usage, and existing grid architecture. Customization is often necessary, and hand winding allows for this level of customization to meet specific criteria, including the number of windings, the type of core used, and other design elements.

Copper wire is both flexible and delicate. It needs to be handled carefully to avoid nicks, kinks, or other imperfections that can compromise the transformer’s performance. Human technicians can adapt to the nuances of the material more effectively than machinery in some cases, ensuring that the wire is handled with care throughout the winding process.
What is the inverse operation of, say, beveling?
I'm not sure why you think it's unimportant. You seem to be confusing its purpose, and making distinction between systems and scripts that doesn't apply here.

Rust's whole error handling, including the ? operator work great for embedded systems where Go isn't enough of a systems language to even run.

EDIT: I think you're confused. The ? operator says "I'm not handling this specially here". That doesn't mean the error is just propagated to the top like an uncaught exception in a Python script. It allows you any level of granular handling you'd like.
No. Most of us work to deliver

> Here's a universal tool whose potential is limited only by one's imagination

And it crashing, and it being limited in capacity, and not being as flexible as SQL (in areas SQL is good at). It's not a universal tool, good as it is.
Mysticism with focus on a higher power (deity) has been tried and tested. Why re-invent the wheel? The existence of a higher power does not contradict the more rational modern science, and vice versa. They are both tools that we can use to enrich our lives.
For smuggling into all those countries where hot sauce is banned?
One of the things that intrigues me about Go is that it is not meant to be used in isolation. So, the experiment you list here is actually a whole different experiment if done in isolation (on like say a hobby project maintained only by yourself) versus something actively maintained by a whole group of people. The experiment really should be done with some peers - if you can find willing victims (I mean, volunteers)!

To me part of a language's utility is measured by how well it works in the group setting. That's what typically drives the industry, and more to the point for me it is the situation I will encounter most of the time.
Quarto will support output to typst in the upcoming 1.4 release: https://quarto.org/docs/prerelease/1.4/typst.html

I think the big different between quarto and typst is the scope. quarto is a tool for combining prose and computation to generate many different output types (HTML, PDF (via latex), PDF (via typst), PPT, ...) through the power of markdown/pandoc. typst is a typesetting system for turning plain-text markup in to beautiful PDFs.

I think you're much more likely to want to write typst by hand than latex, but out of the box it doesn't provide any tooling for combining writing and computing (if that matters to you).
Why do you write Israeli, when it was Gaza’s who bombed their hospital themselves. Like other autocracies tend to do to their citizens, by not valuing their lives.
Yep, I tried this out with a batch by removing the membrane entirely. It was still extremely hot. Not worth the effort.
Used GnuCash for a while, but manual data entry was exhausting
I guess it's a good thing that they are trying to keep the spirit alive but it still takes a little bit of getting used to "Nokia Bell Labs".
https://getdifree.com

Hey Everyone,

We started Difree (a distraction-free writer, working as a browser's extension) in mid-2021. It's been our side-project. All the time I have this impression, it's half-baked. I believe in it so much, that I haven't changed the version of my app to mature 1.0.0 :-) It's still in 0.9.x :-D

Initially, our goal was to create a fast, reliable, privacy-friendly and no-distraction writing app for us. We were the first users. It needed to satisfy us.

Meanwhile, we started collecting feedback from our users. We wanted to know what worked. People using Difree submitted many interesting ideas for our product. Here are some ideas:
1. monospaced fonts
2. dark theme
3. different font sizes
4. minimalistic view (WIP)
5. word counter (WIP)

We've been still working on Difree and it still gives us fun :-)
Tell me what you think! We want to hear and learn more :-)

Happy writing,
Olek
So the latter would be the best, correct? Isn’t it worse without text selection if a user wants to copy?
10 years is a long time in tech.

For perspective, Blackberry 10 was fresh on the shelves ten years ago.
By watching YouTube and made conclusions like this you literary fulfill your description of manipulated society.
C# preprocessor and code generator have nothing to do with JS build chains.
The .NET build chain is relatively painless.
Rmqcpp: A Reliable by default RabbitMQ client
Discord's reform movement for banned users
How is this related in any way to technology?

Note that the initial attacks by Hamas were deemed off-topic here...
The current version isn't really ready for public consumption right now I'm afraid (the current version has my favourite Chrome profiles hard coded, and some weird debug logging to a hard coded file location). But I have been meaning to clean up and release it. So perhaps I'll get around to that soon.
I never understood the manufacturer/market(?) resistance to PHEVs.

Is it the from-wall-power inverter that was overly complicated/expensive?

It seemed like the best of all worlds with 00s/10s technology.

No range worries, majority of trips could be electric-only, no need to cram huge, expensive battery capacity in, and no user behavior training past "Also, plug your car in at night."

If the world in 2000 had mandated "And also, all vehicles must include some form of PHEV capability", we could have had a much easier transition to electrification via addition of charging at existing gas stations.
Technically wrong. Parallels only develops Flask and they want to keep Flask as minimal as possible, they don't even want to move away from the legacy optparse for Click, so this kind of "minimal work".

Key packages are developed by the community so lack of understanding or no cooperation with Parallels it's not really a Flask issue.

Unfortunately the only solutions for this are:

* Join Parallels and try to change things.

* Use different package, there's plenty web frameworks.

* Understand better semver, and python should try to promote this, or move away from semver to calendar releases like Ubuntu/Jetbrains
>The text – supported by 12 of the 15 members of the security council on Wednesday

UK abstained. Article doesn’t seem to mention the third non-supportive member of the security council.

Title of the article is “US vetoes UN’s call for ‘humanitarian pause’ and corridors into Gaza”
Proteomic Analysis of Vlad III the Impaler's Documents
There are only two things I've seen that ever came close to actual "spreadsheet killers" - MS Access and computational notebooks (Jupyter, Observable webapp). And it so happens that both are very similar in principle to Excel spreadsheets. They're optimized for certain paradigm (reactive cells, RDBMS CRUD, reactive cells accepting code and outputting rich content), but otherwise don't constrain you - instead, they invite you to build your thing incrementally, figuring your problem out as you build the solution, with full visibility into intermediate states.

The only way AI has a chance of killing spreadsheets is if it replaces a Real Programmers, by becoming a tool that lets anyone interactively build arbitrary apps, for free (on the margin), with near zero turnaround.
Mine is extremely small (annual revenue never exceeds $1k). It was a good year for honey harvests and I even sold some wax.
Can’t believe giving jerks a gun, a badge, instructions to robs citizens and virtual impunity even if they murder you has turned out like this!

There is zero hope this can be reformed. None of the people involved in doing civil asset forfeiture are fit for society with other people.
"boomer" is derogatory slang that started out as likening someone to a generational baby boomer, but doesn't really mean that now and is hard to put in a few words.

If you want proof it's a thing, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_boomer. That's a pretty wretched source tho. It's written by and for the kind of people who think citing thinkpieces in The Guardian can have any relation to how slang is actually used in real life.
Possibly offtopic: whenever I hear about drugs for mental issues it seems to be always depression or anxiety. But is there anything out there for things like, say, addiction?
Just a reminder that in the C# world you don't really have to care about new language features. Visual Studio, ReSharper, and Rider (supports MacOS/Linux) will suggest useful new language features as a one-shortcut refactoring.

A C# developers who went into coma in 2012 after learning about async/await and ASP.NET MVC can be awakened today and be instantly productive. Although he might go into coma again if he finds out .Net is now open source, cross-platform, and that we deploy to "Linux containers".
By universal tool I meant a general-purpose computer equipped with tools letting you program it.

> No. Most of us work to deliver

I mean, yes, of course - but "playing with silly tools" is one of many methods of delivering without losing your mind in the process.
The Segal method and the UK's self-build movement
I reinvented the wheel on this one.
It does expense tracking and shopping list for now.

Just took the opportunity to use it as a personal project to experiment with rust and htmx.
Why hard-right libertarian Javier Milei wants to dollarise Argentina's economy
The US is also donating $100M to Palestinian aid
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases....
Usually it helps if you are learning things you need to know to complete a project you care about, so you are applying and using what you are learning.
Yes, or more explicitly speaking, parametric polymorphism involves subtyping in its typing rules. But it is not the only one. (At least in a broader sense.)
Nothing to see here:

"But the US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said the resolution, carefully crafted by Brazilian diplomats, was unacceptable because it made no mention of Israel’s right to self-defence. The UK abstained, saying the resolution lacked mention of the way Hamas was using ordinary Palestinians as human shields."
> My best news source is a paid service that summarizes every article in the headline.

Just out of interest, what is that?
Iboga is very interesting against opiate addiction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabernanthe_iboga
How far along has the peer2peer federated YouTube clones come? Everyone has excess bandwidth so making something that doesn't rely in centralized servers should be possible.
I think the fingerprint is just used to identify unique devices in the network. It doesn't have anything to do with the security, does it?
Yeah, it feels like Java (the language, not the JVM or ecosystem) was stuck in limbo since generics were added in Java 5, during that time C# came out and overtook it in terms of features / developer ergonomics.
US FCC proposes reinstating net neutrality
Yes! So much this. It's ridiculous just how much people don't realize how much better things are now than at any point in the past.

Yes, democracies are cracking under strain.

Yes, wars are happening that could spill over to larger areas and cause serious harm.

Yes, social media and lack of truthfulness is a huge issue.

Yes, global warming sucks and we need to do more.

But still, on so many measures, things are better than they ever have been, and trending in positive directions.
You can more or less massage an AST walker into being a bytecode VM. Just place the function pointer in the node together with its fields and write all the nodes to an array in some likely execution order. You now got bytecode but with function pointers as opcodes.
Ask HN: Getting rejected by HR for cultural reasons?
Experienced software developer, got rejected via email after some interviews with X company.

I contacted them to ask for the reason, and they told me that I'm good technically but an HR lady decided that I'm not a good fit for the team as a person or something. The HR interview I had with her was strange, she had asked me several personality questions, like "what do your friends think about you?".

I really think they're just lying and don't want to pay what i asked for to be honest. Anyone has similar experiences?
Nope, they’ve been blocking un logged in users one way or another for like 4 years. Musk removed that for a few months, then made it worse.
https://archive.ph/Wykei
Great improvements.

There is PolySharp project that enables you to use most of C#11 features in legacy .NET Framework: https://github.com/Sergio0694/PolySharp - Seems that C#12 features are planned to be implemented: https://github.com/Sergio0694/PolySharp/issues/78

I'm using PolySharp where I'm stuck with .NET Framework 4.6 and I don't have any issues.

Hope one day I'd see concise syntax for catch and/or try expressions: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/discussions/2734 - but there is a lot of resistance.
> What's so bad about typing in

From any browser window and any context, I can use CMD+Shift+M and either open a new window in a different profile, or switch to the first available window for that profile. The browser then clearly indicates which profile I am in and has some UI elements for it as well.

So it's just like any other core browser feature: having it being integrated into the experience directly, and being able to use it from anywhere, with a shortcut or clear UI element, is a much better experience than having to navigate to a settings page or use a bespoke application shortcut.

If having to open a bookmark always required opening a bookmark webpage, instead of the bookmark list or the url bar integrations, then that would be a much worse experience and certainly a reason to prefer one browser over another.
PHP 8.3 introduces a new function: JSON_validate()
With this new function, it is now easier than ever to determine if a string contains valid JSON.
It was pretty clear from the context that the person I replied to was referring to israeli air strikes against Gaza.

I have no doubt hamas is a terrorist organization who don't give a crap about any civilians, be it Gazans or not.
JavaScript cannot be safe, at least if your threat model involves avoiding a global surveillance panopticon.

Allowing arbitrary code execution by default cannot be safe.

90% of what JavaScript is used for is totally unnecessary and only makes sense in an ad-based web.
There's also a brief video here describing one of the community projects in London: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/sep/16/anarchism-com...
It goes "large again" every year with the seasons, but the overall trend is that it's still shrinking:

Claus concludes, “Based on the Montreal Protocol and the decrease of anthropogenic ozone-depleting substances, scientists currently predict that the global ozone layer will reach its normal state again by around 2050.”
They test mocks.
Clicks. There are no articles every time a new service starts using Twitter. And there are thousands every day. Each time one stops using Twitter, there's an article, and people click and comment. As to why people are interested in people and companies leaving Twitter, your guess is as good as mine. I suspect a lot of people are annoyed with the state of social media today and are cheering for its demise.
I created an app called Banqr to do that. Released it but I developed it mainly for my need : https://banqr.app
Offtopic
Who is "they"? Chris Lattner works on compilers under Developer Tools. The Swift and Objective-C teams share an office and are often the same people. Of course Objective-C is going to get new features to help import it into Swift, because the whole point of Swift was to make a new language that worked well with the old one. Basically nobody outside that group had any need to know of the language at that point, especially since it wasn't ready for system use anyways. I would not be surprised if the first time most of the Metal team even knew Swift existed was when Craig introduced it on stage at WWDC.
I thought Signal-desktop was electron-only. Are you running it on Firefox, or is this something else.
CppNorth 2023: Vulnerable C++
With all the price creeping and content being spread out everywhere, piracy and a storage array are the cheaper option. My MIL bought a piracy streaming stick at a naval base (I had to stop that because it didn't use a VPN). Before the sharing crackdowns, you could load balance costs but now it's just bad spending.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h58uT_BGV4
To be fair, all science is not equal.

Psychology is basically ground zero for the replication crisis. There's been an insane amount of bunk coming out of that and adjacent fields for decades. When only 20-30% of published findings in a field can be replicated, there's problems.
Actually the little known "Review" feature of word allows to visually track approve/reject/comment collaborative changes over a document in a really user friendly way, not need for git here
Don't you know the nipple is the root of all evil.
Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21943649
I would have assumed the opposite. Can’t tell you how many rich people I know who can’t change a tire, or for that matter even own a modest toolbox stocked with generic tools. Plumbing, shewie. Talk about a bridge too far!
RabbitOS
So the original comment that stated that this kind of news are out of hacker news suggested topics (as there’s nothing techie here, and it’s all political) gotten removed. I wonder why. I agree it’s entirely irrelevant to the subject of the forum.
ODD is about the design domain, not the actual domain of functionality. Not achieving the proper response to an emergency vehicle is simply a bug unless emergency vehicles were specifically excluded from the intended design domain for some reason.
You can’t use it if you are using CloudFlare DNS.
Because for every functional self-dosing career professional, there's 10 self-dosing tent dwellers living in squalor in every major US city
If you agree with "ignorantia juris non excusat" then student from China is right. Our governments adds tons of new laws every year and only few remove. We have about 2 millions laws, rules and regulations (Czechia). And we still believe that we live in free society.
> Is this really better than just keeping them?

Depends what your priorities are. If you're more concerned about convenience, then keeping them is almost certainly better.

If you're concerned about privacy, throwing away persistent identifiers like cookies when you close the browser is just good practice.

I personally like knowing that no cookies/residue from my previous browsing session are carried over to a new one.
Find the date of your birthday in the number pi
I think this is about where the Signal App opens links you click within it. So all links opened in Signal always open in their personal Firefox profile for example
I long for the day when something like HTMX could be included as HTML 5. And we could eliminate 90-95% of JavaScript usage.
Thank you for linking that!

Do you happen to know what "eess" is?