skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously subjective but I feel I have very strong mind's eye visualization.

For me it is not like AR.

It is kinda like PIP. Picture in Picture.

If my eyes are open while while visualizing the more deeper I go into the visualization the less my true visual field is apparent. If I get really deep into a visualization my true vision fades to almost nothing unless I am jerked back to visual reality by a loud sound or if the visualization exercise is over.

It seems more like working directly with the visual models that exist in my brain.

For example when you see a ball you see the object and it's light rays hit your eye then it goes to your brain. Your brain says, "that's a ball".

To know it's a ball the brain compares the object with it's model of ball. If it matches it must be a ball.

When visualizing it's like working with the basic model of what a ball is. I can slowly increase the detail of the visualization but there is an upper bound where other details start to disappear.

Honestly, after writing this I feel "simulation" is perhaps a better description than "visualization".
Is there something comparable to the web-based IDE called Cider?

Now that Amazon took cloud9 (c9.io) out of the market, it seems like there is a sizeable void.

I want web-based Spacemacs or Evil! Or even just intelli-j.
Aphantasia gives you more control over your mind and makes meditation easier. As a person who does not have aphantasia I can tell you we have very limited control of the pictures that pop up in our heads.

If you told me to not picture a welsh corgi barking at a ball, my mind would instantly picture it. There is no control over this reflex. Literally if you had a mind reading machine and a gun pointed to my head and told me not to picture that corgi or you'd shoot me, it would be mind blowingly hard and near impossible. It's similar to the reflex that allows you to understand language. "Do not understand the words that are coming out of my mouth..." not possible.

Thus in knowing that we have limited control over it you should know that at least for some people the mind wanders... if we don't direct the mechanism to picture a flame or a sphere it will proceed to picture other things, it can't be turned off insomuch as your general ability to understand english can't be turned off. Therefore meditation is easier for you.

Also you can't get songs stuck in your head. Sometimes that part of your brain that builds these virtual scenes just decides to sing that one catchy song all the time.
I completely agree. Udacity was the one that helped me move into my career in data analytics. I took Thrun's excellent Intro to Stats[1] class to brush up my Stats skills along with some other courses such as Intro to Descriptive Stats[2] and Intro to Inferential Stats[3].

[1] https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-statistics--st101

[2] https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-descriptive-statisti...

[3] https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-inferential-statisti...
That's the only Udacity course that I've ever completed...
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I think it was mentioned in an earlier comment the book The Mythical Man Month is about the development of OS/360. I’ve never read it but it may be more “businessy” than what it sounds like you’re interested in
When did anybody bring the question of law into it? Law has nothing to do with whether or not Discord will prevent you from using their services for breaching the terms of use of what is, after all, their own service.
> Families like the Clintons have made massive amounts of money cashing out after office

No need to look into the past for examples. The current administration isn't even waiting until they are out of office to cash out.
> paid for by tax dollars

You make it sound like that's a bad thing. If federal taxes don't go towards things that _the entire country's population_ could use, then, why are there taxes in the first place again?

If you've got a complex tax situation that TurboTax asks you to file by mail, or even if you just want to file yourself, you have to go to - you guessed it - the IRS' website to get all the forms and instructions. The IRS already has to navigate all that complexity to put out all these forms and instructions for every field, tax table, eligibility flow charts etc and the government certainly employs developers[1] already. The government also has to budget for printing millions of 1040 pamphlets for the entire country, and they somehow are able to come up with budget for things like that Trump wall, so surely coming up with budget to implement electronic filing isn't a question of money waste?

[1] https://v2.designsystem.digital.gov/components/
People with aphantasia may or may not dream visually. There's actually quite a range of experiences just within dreaming. For example, not everyone dreams in colour and not everyone dreams in first person.
This sort of reasoning is fallacious. Use of Chrome’s renderer is not specifically advantageous to Google until/unless they attempt to leverage it to break web standards, which is not their general policy (Widevine concessions to content creators notwithstanding), just as use of WebKit is not specifically advantageous to Apple, nor is Node’s use of v8, et c.

Fact is, Brave is, as I understand it, a system that intends to pay a user to see ads (via replacement) - although they may have pivoted (again?) away from that. It’s not an anti-tracking or anti-advertising effort.
Thanks for your reply! It isn't online yet, but hopefully I'll have it set up within the next few weeks so I'll be sure to send you the link then!
That says something that people will rather go back to prison than work the job.
It's disabled with wings in departure configuration though isn't it? Isn't a scenario likely (i.e. another 10E-5) where a stall happens right on takeoff, say because of updraft or pilot error (although without training on this plane it would be hard to even call it that).
I've always thought it would be better to replace the income tax with a national sales tax. Then, for those who earn less and have to spend a greater proportion of their income on essential expenses, the government would credit them through their employer's paycheck (essentially the opposite of what federal withholding is now). For those who earn more, they would receive less credit or won't receive any credit.
How many people will you condemn to die innocently, if there is no means of distinguihing cases?

Is there no means to distinguish cases?
I've used free fillable forms for a number of years without any issues.
They are bots that use the bot API but connect as a regular user rather than as a bot user. This gives them access to features they should not have, according to the terms of use of the API.
Google Cloud CEO on open source and his plans to expand Google Cloud marketshare
Oh please. I'm not about to start referring to a specific toolkit as "modern technology” at the expense of everyone else, particularly a step backwards
Why cant you just use discords user name and password instead of stuffing around to get a token?
This.

One of the strangest things about the MOOC boom in 2012/13 was the fact that so much of what they were doing already existed.

Taking a pre-existing paid-for product and giving it away for free is not innovation, especially when you can only give it away for free because of external funding.
I have a very similar experience as you.

I like your description using multiple canvases.

Similarly, I described them as PIPs (Picture In Picture) but off screen canvases may be a better analogy.
An equivalent of this for Microsoft is pretty much impossible because there isn't one single way of doing any of these things at the company. Different departments/orgs/teams use different tools, some self-built and some off-the-shelf (including most of the stuff on this list).
Why do you go through this amount of work for preserving your privacy? Honest question out of curiosity.
Wish you the best Steve!
Why do we call tricks magic when we know they're tricks?
St.-Exupéry’s quotation is about a plane that is perfect and streamlined, so precisely suited to its purpose that it feels like an extension of the pilot’s body.

That is not at all the same thing as a hacky prototype just starting out on its journey towards accreting random code detritus.
Never really seen anything like this
It's not name calling. It's a typeface nerd joke.
I can't speak to Amazon, but at Microsoft the equivalents to the Google offering are going to have the same OSS competitors. Having worked on services there, the only thing I really miss is Kusto; it's now available as an Azure service, but I'm at a company all in on AWS :(
If you cannot have an initial call with me before a hands off technical screening, I don't want to work for you.

I've heard successful hiring practices take around 20% of your time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti...

> Typefaces cannot be protected by copyright in the United States (Code of Federal Regulations, Ch 37, Sec. 202.1(e); Eltra Corp. vs. Ringer). The idea that typefaces (rather than fonts, which are computer software) cannot be copyrighted in the United States is black letter law. 37 C.F.R. § 202.1(e). Under U.S. law, typefaces and their letter forms or glyphs are considered utilitarian objects whose public utility outweighs any private interest in protecting their creative elements. However, there is a distinction between a font and a typeface. The machine code used to display a stylized typeface (called a font) is protectable as copyright. In 1992, the US Copyright Office determined that digital outline fonts had elements that could be protected as software. Since that time, the Office has accepted registration of copyright for digital vector fonts, such as PostScript Type 1, TrueType, and OpenType format files.

TL;DR

"On a computer, a typeface isn't a typeface so you have to pay us for it"

c.f. Apple and rounded corners, Mickey Mouse...
This thread is talking about breaking the TOS, not actions from discord (unless you replied to the wrong comment), TOS violations are moot here since Discord is not above laws.
Anyway, I didn't mean to call you a liar, I just meant I will be very happy once it is released. My apologies.
So do you get to go home 45-90 minutes earlier then? I think that is what the original comment was questioning.
But when I say "supralinear" people call me a weenie
the point of a/b testing is to show you something you want to see

Not always. A/B testing is the reason that we now have weapons-grade clickbait headlines, and those terrible little grids of ads at the bottom of blog posts. Neither of those are good things.
Can we please stop the personal promote-jerking?
> My favorite thing about sound memory is echoic memory[1], a very specific type of memory that is basically like a buffer or a cache. Basically perfect audio memory of the last few seconds. You can replay the sound in your mind and analyze it for that brief moment in time.

Interestingly, I've found it super valuable when learning music by ear, especially given that I find myself able to slow down the "replay" of the sounds to better hear the individual notes, although it is also mildly entertaining to be able to hear a long sequence of sounds (e.g a car outside my window beeping repeatedly) and slow it down in my head to count the number of individual beeps.
Not sure, but this sounds promising

"Last year, Udacity generated about $90 million in revenue.

Even as Udacity slashes costs and headcount, it’s trying to expand its enterprise business, which has had recent success. Udacity now has contracts with 60 enterprise customers, including AT&T and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Airbus and Audi recently signed on, as well."
A fork() in the road
Does your minimum standard fall above or below the necessities of life?

I don't see the conditions being described in. the article (or many others of adjunct or even full-time professors) as extraordinary. There's another passage in Smith discussing the constituents of pay I recommend considering.

What do you earn? Is this above that minimum standard?

What of college football coaches? Or VC?

Why should colleges (or any other enterprise) be charities paid for by the sacrifices, and lives, of instructors or workers?
Really interesting question, and one that won't be settled until it's explicitly legislated (or taken to court).

I have a background as a lawyer (albeit not in IP) and currently working with ML, and I can see a case being made either way.
I can get a copy for you. Let me know what email to send you the ebook. I only ask for 2 things. 1) try to complete as much of the book as you can (it’s 700 pages!), and 2) pay it forward when you have the means. Cheers!
This. I use this every year and it simply is an online interface of fillable forms provided by the IRS with a “Do the Math” button (actual button text). It works as intended, files for you, and is free.

Do your taxes by hand/with free fillable forms (name of the online service), you’ll learn a lot. Just follow the 1040 instructions (it goes line by line through the form) and any related forms it tells you to do.
Visual Studio 2019 is here – these are the highlights
With Microsoft, this has changed substantially in the past decade, and there are many teams running entirely on public online services (GitHub, Azure DevOps, Travis etc) and with end-to-end open source tooling and dependencies. So it's much less of a technological bubble than it used to be. Probably less so than Google at this point. Can't say about Amazon.
The difference between Facebook and a calendar is that adding someone's birthday to my calendar requires effort. I need to find out when their birthday is, and I need to set up a reminder. It's a small but important difference.
Slightly tangential question, but this is yet another piece of work published on Distill. I keep a library of the papers I've read in Zotero. However, when it comes to Distill I've run into a problem - I can't figure out a robust method of archival.

Regular journal articles are published as PDF files, which make a decent electronic analog of physical paper. In the case of Distill, there's the usual DOI, volume, and issue, but the page itself isn't static. I did find a seemingly undocumented feature referenced in a GitHub issue - you can append "index.archive.html" to the url to get a supposedly standalone html archive of the page. However, when I tried this with a number of recent publications there were missing images and broken formatting all over the place, seemingly due to the authors having linked in external resources (primarily for a number of the figures).

Does anyone know how to do this or have any ideas?
Something else that makes the B2C market difficult is the fact that the sign of a great educational video is one that you only need to watch once.
You can quickly get a database spun up, but that time is offset by many of the warts that you'll run into later on.

For example, you'll quickly realize you need to have ```AsNoTracking``` on your queries because the performance is terrible.

You'll also find that you can batch update/delete items.

I've also had problems with migrations after updating EF Core (don't remember exactly).

You can get spun up quickly, with Linq, using something like Dapper or ServiceStack.OrmLite. They work on raw ADO.NET, so they are incredibly easy to reason/work with. The errors that you'd run into wont be shrouded in layers/abstractions that are specific to EF/Core.
It's called regulatory capture and forget that if Facebook, which grew to the size it is at because in part of A/B testing, gets to now lobby for rules to make it more difficult for newcomers to do it. We used to have anti-trust legislation in the United States (we still do, but hardly use it). Special regulations for the behemoth corporations is standard jurisprudence.
This is just a test platform, not a fully realized product. The technology will only advance from here.

Also these can run 24/7 without breaks, people would never be able to compete.
I have the same opinion on both.

My default is to just use ADO.NET with Dapper or ServiceStack.OrmLite.
He specifically says "what is bad" -- he simply didn't get the joke. No need to prance to defense of the mods when they miss something.
Just winging it here, but maybe because these are some of the most influential companies on the face of the Earth, they employ tens of thousands of HN users, they are the envy of maybe half of all employees on the planet, their programming systems effect everyone reading HN, and many people here are genuinely interested in what happens at ginormous corporations that employ other hackers.
Free fillable forms allows more than just simple cases — it will handle all paperwork regarding your personal income tax. Highly, highly recommend using. It’s more manual (follow the 1040i instructions document), but you’ll learn a lot about how deductions work, what you can claim, and what is best for you in following years.

The only case it doesn’t handle for me is Partnership taxes — just the stuff due April 15.
Then why isn't every high profile font from Hoefler etc. immediately cloned by a generic competitor?
I think the distinction between the two platforms is that Facebook's approach assumes some level of personal connection between accounts, and users have bought into that expectation.

LinkedIn is the online version of a collection of business cards. Sending a birthday card is a typical business development practice that is difficult, in my opinion, to take seriously or take much offense from.
That sucks. The site has some damn amazing content given the low cost (free!). For example, their courses on theoretical computer science and compiler theory are pretty great. But... I already have a degree so I can't see myself paying for a nanodegree. Hopefully, someone else will pay for it to keep the site running.
If private tax filing products saved money for their users, as compared to a hypothetical, IRS-produced product, what are these companies worried about? They'd have a clear competitive advantage over the IRS product.
Obviously there's a lot of variance as everyone's different, but here's a list of benefits at least some people with aphantasia report:

* Being more in the moment. An example of this is being better at mindfulness, as well as simply not living in the past or worrying about the future as much.

* Less prone to trauma. You've already mentioned this, but not remembering scenes with full sensory information appears to provide a level of protection in some people when it comes to traumatic memories that are otherwise relived and unable to be processed.

* Being better at abstract thought. Lots of people's memory is largely a kind of first person chronological narrative, made up of scenes on a timeline. Some people with aphantasia report they remember in a far more abstract structural manner, not merely confined to the visual. This is obviously also somewhat of a double-edged sword when it comes to remembering say past events.

* Thinking faster on your feet. Without the added visual element, it seems possible to be be more linguistically dexterous and witty because there's less delay between thought and words.

I hasted to add this is all a generalisation, and more about a propensity to be better than you'd personally otherwise be at these things as opposed to a superpower. I don't think it's coincidental that in Francis Galton's original paper on this, he found people with aphantasia are disproportionately represented in what we'd now call STEM.

I have an aphantasia and I'm a programmer, and I've personally found I'm much more able to reason about complex systems than average, and the way I think about them seems markedly different.
One of my favorite OSS projects is farmbot. I wish more people knew about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r0CiLBM1o8
Tired of this media narrative. Why spin a positive feature into something negative?
Unless of course, you're dealing with a Absurdly Powerful Student Council.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AbsurdlyPowerful...
You're not forced to use Jekyll. You just get some nice things if you do. As long as you have a pages repo with an index.html in the root, GitHub can serve it for you. How you generate the repo is completely up to you. I have my own custom static site generator that I use to publish my blog, I use that with a script that does some git dance to keep things clean and it just works.
Finding a way to provide quality, accredited credit hours for 1/5th of what you'd pay at a community college, and at the same time opening the doors to federal funding dollars, should have been a paramount goal.
even if they get their credentialling system to be “accepted”, they have not solved the root issue which is the elephant in the room: their credentials are not trustworthy because anyone can easily cheat their tests.
The other elephant in the room is that the rigor of their online courses.

Education is not a one size fits all - you cannot offer the same from MIT vs community college no matter if the course content is the same. The difficulty (proxied by the reputation of the school) of the same courses vary wildly and dramatically, as does workload, peer support, TA support, exams, and even the pace and how the final grade is curved.

By necessity they cannot grade difficultly, since they are trying to get people to pay for courses like they are dessert. By necessity they cannot offer different tiers of difficulty based on entrance exams or other tests, since they would insult their customer base (the intuitive argument being that those in most need of such nanodegrees are inversely the ones who may do worse in general).
Can you speak at all to what sort of modeling work is done around this sort of major partnership? I'm really curious how many people are involved in that sort of exercise at that level and how clean the data is, what sorts of data are used, etc.
The web was genuinely revolutionary and it still had a bubble. Just because something is a big deal doesn't mean people can't make an even bigger deal out of it.
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You can't really compare tax rates without considering other mandatory costs like health care. Include health insurance and the numbers don't look so good for the USA.
Don’t psychedelics do the same as far as increasing plasticity goes?
When you watch a class on youtube no one is reviewing your projects. Obviously that is the difference. Do you think someone who watches CS193P on youtube is going to get the same out of it as someone who does the iOS nanodegree?
Right, the 3 you mention are largely mechanically identical to shooters.

Earliest thing I can think of that is even close is Alter Ego which was '86, though I'm sure there are some job-simulator games in basic code in a magazine somewhere.

Somewhat off-topic, but searching for something older than Alter Ego turned up "Little Computer People" which Wikipedia lists as the Ur-example of "life simulation" and looks a lot like "The Sims" but on the C64.
I use taxhawk.com and would absolutely recommend it, I think the UI is fantastic (and without a fantastic UI, I'd just continue to do taxes with paper and pen). I've been using it since 2011.

I have heard good things about freetaxusa.com as well.

Both are very reasonably priced, only $15 for state - federal is free. Since I have business income TurboTax wants over $100 to do my taxes.
> If I read this right, you can still use the free service the IRS provides

The IRS doesn't provide any electronic filling services.

Those "free" services are provided by a consortium of private institutions.

There is no way to efile without giving all your data to private companies.
I wonder how many of the we-left-Facebook-and-miss-it sorts of services don't have an obvious Google corollary (I'm thinking of Scuba/Honeycomb)
It's a better client for a proprietary service. If you / your org cared about freedom, you'd be using Matrix or Rocket.chat.
Volkswagen Engineer Gets Prison in Diesel Cheating Case (2017)
But then you have to drive a Yaris