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More like vinyl collections: it becomes valuable only after it goes through a period of being untrendy enough that a lot of the stock gets thrown away.
Did you read the first sentence of the introduction? "Over 40 years ago, Rolf Landauer raised the question whether the capacitance can be negative, that is if the increase in the charge of the capacitor can decrease its voltage."
Has anybody with Aphantasia read 'Moonwalking with Einstein' by Joshua Foer or 'The Memory Book' by Harry Lorayne? I recently started working on improving my memory using mnemonic techniques described in these books. And, let me tell you, they ALL rely on visualization. It's just so shocking to me that some people just won't be able to do this!

Has somebody with aphantasia tried any mnemonic techniques to remember things? Do you have problems recalling events long after they occur (like events from your childhood)? Do you ever daydream?
Neither does it deliver a guarantee on the results you get out at the end - the Stanford experiment was faked, and academics have struggled to replicate the marshmallow test.
Wouldn't that be regressive, in the sense that richer people spend a lower proportion of their income?

Plus they have the means to spend their earnings abroad.

But a fixed credit could offset some of those concerns.
Interesting, what's the use case here?
>Maybe your Brain-VCR is missing the Rewind button

hehe sure sounds like it :)
They can have a checkbox "I'm not quite dead!" - also known in physical industries as "dead man's switch".
This reminded me that when I try to imagine things while almost sleeping the imagination will be actively sabotaged unless I focus very hard to wressle back control.

If I'm thinking of a plane flying it will spin out of control, if I'm thinking of sheep jumping over a fence they will stop moving or the fence will fall over.
I've worked on several embedded GUIs that used the DIN font and noticed how nice it looks.
I wasn't always aphantastic. I've already talked about it in another aphantasia thread here on HN, but when I was a child I was actually hyperphantastic: I would spend endless hours playing and directing vividly realistic (albeit silent) movies behind my closed eyelids. Sometimes (not always, but on a particularly good day), I was able to visualize things/creatures with my eyes open and have them interact with the real world.

If I wanted to see a rabbit, I didn't have to consciously recall facts about rabbit anatomy, behaviour and movement patterns like I would today (only to end up with most of them wrong); I just thought: "let there be rabbit" and with no effort at all there it was. Not a rabbit-like creature you would expect from a child's drawing, but an actual, realistic, anatomically correct rabbit hopping about the way rabbits do.

This ability started to gradually disappear around the time I went to school. I remember my frustration when I realized it was getting harder and harder to picture things and the quality of those pictures was getting lower and lower. Eventually I ended up not being able to visualize anything at all.

I've been wondering about this lost childhood superpower of mine for years, way before I even heard the term "aphantasia". When I say I'm aphantastic, I don't compare myself to some idea of how other people's minds work. I compare myself to what my own mind used to be capable of.
> Windows pretty much can't do it.

Win32 API cannot do it. The underlying NT kernel can.
I do not have anything online at the moment to show, but a small document processor i wrote some time ago used a @-based syntax which was essentially a tree of named nodes with attributes - essentially the same thing as XML, but with a simpler syntax that was something like:

@Foo; is a standalone empty node named Foo
@Foo[aa] has a "aa" attribute without a value
@Foo[bb=cc] has a "bb" attribute with "cc" value
@Foo[dd="hello, world",ee] has "dd" attribute with "hello, world" value and "ee" attribute without value
@Foo{blah} has a "blah" text child
@Foo{blah @Bar;} has "blah" and Bar children
@Foo Bar shortcut for @Foo{Bar}
@Foo{!{...}!} has ... as unprocessed content

So you can type something like @P{This is a @I nice @Link[target=foo]{example} of @TT{code} @Smile;.} which would be sort of equivalent to XML <P>This is a <I>nice</I> <Link target="foo">example</Link> of <TT>code</TT> <Smile/></P> (but with less repetition, especially for longer documents).

In my processor the tree is passed to a script that does the actual handling by going through the nodes, children, etc and creating the output text (HTML or whatever) - the processor itself has no knowledge of specific node names, any meaning lies in the scripts.

My biggest issue with the above though is that i do not like editing markup by hand, so at some point i want to replace all the above with a GUI tool that does the same job but in a more graphical way without the need for (visible to the user) markup syntax (so the above example would be edited as just text but with the "nice", "example" and "code" bits having representational styling).
While I agree with your point, I do think that some kind of ethics oversight should happen over experiments like the ones you mentioned. I just think that it's absurd to expect the same from simple tests.
It reads like an angry boyfriend writing to his ex. I'm sure there are some valid points there. But it is ruined by the presentation.

Also, align: 'left', please
I'll take a less evil Mozilla over a more evil Google.

For the points that the author makes, if you knew and cared about them already then you'd probably be using Opera already.
Never read scribble before but I kinda like it. It reminds me of the good parts of latex. As in @action vs \action. Though I don’t like the table syntax as much from a WYSIWYG level (E.g. it doesn’t look table-ly) but for complex tables it don’t matter much. Can you readily extend scribble with Racket and how’s the install/usage story?
As someone who is prone to earworms... I would be genuinely happy if I never had to experience them again. Not joking at all.
> You say Markdown has a common set of features, but what is that common set? There's no standard, and I find myself surprisingly frequently struggle with figuring out what's the correct way in a particular markdown engine to do what I need to do.

There is CommonMark specification: https://commonmark.org.
Pick pretty much any front-end related position.

Half of my career has been spent on such things and ironically this was the better paid one.

Apparently doing interesting stuff comes with a pretty hard penalty in terms of compensation.
A bit off-topic perhaps, but: how? When a thought comes into my head, that means I'm no longer thinking of tapping...

That's true. But at some point, you realize you are thinking of x when you should just be focusing on the sound (or whatever object/idea you chose). When that happens, you tap. Even if you were daydreaming for 6 minutes, you eventually realize you were straying.

You can substitute physical tapping with mental notes or whatever as well.
The tax law should be written as exemplar runable code.
Yes, "competible" would be good for the opposite situation.
So, I have been living with constant neuropathic pain for almost 4 years now. Unless you've experienced it, you can't understand what being in pain 24/7 for years is like. It takes a terrible toll on your mental health, and affects those around you too.

Getting through each day is hard, and it's really not so easy to just 'gracefully accept' that I'll be in constant pain for the rest of my life, which will likely continue to worsen over time and possibly spread to large (motor) nerves.

Your final point is valid, but at the end of the day it should be up to the affected person to decide.
Calling out fallacies while commiting more is, well, funny.

> Encoding invariants in a type system is far cheaper than writing tests.

You may need to back that claim up with something or you're going to be anecdotal as well.

> Rejecting an entire field of study (like types!) is not only anti-intellectual, but also does nothing to move the state of our industry forward.

Who says type theory is needed to move our industry forward? Even if you think that why would every language need to use it? This is slippery slope.

> I’d say that’s especially harmful now in a time where software errors can bring down a couple of Boeing 787 Max airplanes and kill hundreds of people.

Was the crash the result of a bug that a type system would have solved? Otherwise this is quite the straw man too.
The challenge with Confluence - and all documentation systems for that matter - is that it needs a manager, someone who makes sure it's maintained, old / outdated pages get removed, the landing page is neat, and authors are encouraged to keep it updated.

I can imagine that can quickly become a fulltime job though. Still, a formal role of documenter / archivist in a bigger software endeavour should be considered.
I like to imagine it as if we're all CPU's that has come out of a lab that organically grows them. But as a result of that they're all a little different.

Unfortunately sometimes they're heavily different with extra or missing depth in certain areas, which makes the generic software that we're trying to install on them struggle to adapt (in various different ways).
I like to think that most AWS services were initially developed internally to fulfill an Amazon internal need. But that might be optimistic.
I really wanted to try this but it doesn't work on 64-bit Excel, any tips?
Switching to Reader View in Firefox makes the page easier to read. I'm not sure if that undermines the author's message.
I somehow managed to miss that, thanks. It looks exactly like what I needed.
The more websites use Google's "captcha", the more pointless it is to resist fingerprinting. And since that "captcha" is built into Cloudflare's "spam protection", it blocks you from half of the internet already.

Why the scare quotes? Because the purpose of recaptcha isn't to tell humans from bots, it's to punish users who do not wish to be tracked by giving them an endless stream of challenges to solve no matter if they keep getting them right or wrong. It is especially obvious when they intentionally delay the loading of subsequent images if you have too many privacy features enabled, because it does nothing to prevent bots from solving them. It's grouped into several tiers, depending on the amount of frustration they want to generate:

1. Invisible captcha - you have Chrome, you're logged into a Google account, your advertising ID has a profile full of useful data. You go in with no hassle.

2. 1 click - maybe you're on a new IP or a new device, but you're logged into a Google account and use Chrome. Click the checkbox and that's it.

3. Regular captcha - You're not logged in but you don't use any privacy enhancements, so through a combination of fingerprinting, cookies, and other tracking techniques you're uniquely identified anyway. You get 9 images, select 2 or 3 of them and you're good to go.

4. Annoying captcha - you're blocking third party cookies, you're not on Chrome, looks like you're not being a good cog in the machine. You get a captcha with 9 squares that load more images, or you have to "select squares containing X", and you get 2-5 of these in a row.

5. Infuriating captcha - you're blocking third party trackers, cookies, all other storage methods, you block or mitigate canvas fingerprinting, you're behind a VPN, your fingerprint is not recognized, there's no data in your profile. Google won't squeeze a cent out of you, so you don't get to use the internet. You're getting an endless stream of slowly loading squares, or 5-7 objects to recognize. Even if you do all of them correctly, it won't let you in. Maybe after 4-8 cycles, but that will still waste ~10 minutes per try. You're barred from any website that links to reCaptcha.

These days websites using it are for all purposes dead to me. I can't visit them and I won't waste my time clicking their images or selecting squares or whatever.
I've been coding professionally for almost three decades, and the pursuit of elegant solutions makes up about 1% of my paid work. The rest of the time I'm fighting constraints: time, money, available resource, risk, all the usual. Very rarely does professional software engineering leave room for art, IMO.
Thanks, lots of good details, this does make sense.

We have hit a few of these. I hadn't even thought about the GSuite/GCP crossover – that's kind of good for us, but yeah in a larger company I guess they would be totally different orgs.
I think it is in the default Racket install. And yes, that's a problem; it is actually a Racket code behind the scene so it is fundamentally tied to Racket (that can be good or bad depending on your use case, and some strength points can be attributed to that).
This is a non-sensical article, relying on some obfuscating math hidden behind "Infl. Adjusted".

Inflation adjustments gets pretty fuzzy even in the same nation across a few decades, let alone between different nations across centuries.

The article equates the 1637 peak valuation of 78 million guilders with current day 7,900,000 million dollars (not the 79,000 million according to the bad math in the article!). Now consider that the initial capital raised for the company was 6.4 million guilders in 1602. That would be around 600 billion USD. (I'm neglecting inflation between 1602 and 1637 here, that doesn't change my point.) This was raised around 1800 families, with share varying from 50 to 85,000 guilders, which according to the implied inflation/currency conversion is between 5 million and 8.6 billion USD. How credible is is this conversion factor?

Consider as another reference that the nominal value increased 12 fold over 35 years. Todays elite PE/VC/incubators would probably scoff at such low ambitions. (Though the East India Co was pretty profitable and paid handsome dividends, so the returns are higher than capital gains.)
I think he implied that quoting him incorrectly is a manipulative tactic.
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I'm jealous; my current job is billed by the hour, so I have to be able to describe every hour I've worked. Mind you that's usually a fixed 8 hour / day logged on project X, so having to write them down isn't a problem. But I can't go home early without feeling guilt; I mean I can, but that also means I have to do overtime sometime else in the month, to make sure the hours all check out at the end of the month.
This kid is going to be fighting off job offers.
It is nice to know you're being taken care of in the (hopefully rare) cases you do have to work late. And there's probably people working in ops that have an evening shift.
Yeah, CommonMark is awesome, and if the argument was about CommonMark and not Markdown in general, I'd be on the other side of the argument. However, most Markdown renderers don't implement CommonMark.
Crashing is an expected behaviour in Linux as well, you can enable coredumps or utilize an applications log if you want to know why.
Mozilla is almost fully financed by Google. Any day now, Google can retract its funding and effectively fully consolidate its iron grip on the fate of the Internet.
Its look like publisher has whole series on "Seven X in Seven Weeks"
As is our attitude of Mozilla's criticism of other browsers and practices, it's only rational for us to read and understand this author's views with an open mind.

Invalid ones can be dismissed, but any valid criticism only helps towards progress.
She doesn't look disheveled to me. Are you sure you aren't just doing the predicable? Using stereotypes to talk about mathematicians and commenting on women's "looks" before ever getting to what is important? Waste of words. If you want us to know her, maybe something about her other interests instead of what you think of wearing Birkenstocks. My 17 year old wears Birkenstocks. They are hot right now.
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But why? When I see people doing this I figure they have zero self control. How had is it to put the phone away for 30 seconds?
Drawing from imagination is actually drawing from memory.

It can be, but it isn't really. Most folks can do a landscape or a general person from memories of what earth and people look like, in general. Few people can put their mother in a surrealist scene working from memory, though.

The imaginative part does depend on memory and experience and a good knowledge base. But once you have the idea, you might want to actually do research and work from reference photos.

But you might want to look up what a snake looks like if you want to make it look like a realistic snake. Same for other animals - there is a limit to the details humans tend to remember. You'll remember more if you specialise.

For example, these are mine. The first used numerous reference photos, the second many different koi photos, and the last, an onion.

[1] https://www.deviantart.com/disgruntled-peon/art/Fortunate-Si...
[2] https://www.deviantart.com/disgruntled-peon/art/Things-by-th...
[3] https://www.deviantart.com/disgruntled-peon/art/Sour-Onion-6...
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or https://brave.com/ ?
I'm (too) familiar with the document but it isn't nearly as accurate and unambiguous as the DX one.
Also cool, I will check this project out.
The last time I used WSL (perhaps 6 months ago), its per-process overhead was awful. I don't recall the numbers, but I think it managed to start fewer than 10 processes per second. My memory suggests it was more like two processes per second, though I would recommend re-testing before trusting that.

Found my previous comment on it (which has a test case but not numbers): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18226921
Thanks. You can also share your hack or tricks.
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What should possibly need your attention when stopped at a red light?

If it's something frivolous then it can wait. If it's important then are you really able to compartmentalize it? Will you be able to put the conversation out of your mind, or ghost your chat partner as soon as traffic starts moving?
As far as I can remember it wasn't available as an option, no. Nor was Haskell, Common Lisp and a host of other languages.
Can anybody elucidate about why fork() is still used in Chromium or Node.js? They are not old-grown traditional forking Unix servers (unlike Apache or the mentioned databases in the paper). I would expect them to implement some of the alternatives and having fork() only as a fallback in the code (i.e. after a cascade of #ifdefs) if no other API is available. Therefore, I wonder where the fork() bottlenecks really appear in everyday's life.
I'm not sure this is the case here, but one thing I notice is that competitive environments (i.e. non natural monopoly businesses) do catch up with businesses eventually. I don't think this should prevent VCs from investing (esp early stage), as great success can be achieved when capturing a market - but in the long run pricing pressures do force the business towards tighter margins.
Does it really come into your eyesight? For me, I can imagine things and "see" them, but they don't mix with the signal from my eyes. It's like a separate sense
I was driving south on 101 in Mt. View and a car came out of the left lane and cut me off to take the 85S exit. Was that your code? (The responsible thing is to use a linter to catch these things so they don't become "runtime" errors.)
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That's the crux. Every thought I have has a visual element. If I think of a perfume, then I'm back in the hotel seeing the person that was wearing it. If I imagine a taste, then I can see the dish.
I'm seeing a strong correlation with modern-day companies like Amazon - hugely profitable, wealthy company that exploit their hands-on workers in the warehouses.

The other correlation, for which both Amazon and the VOC deserve praise for, is their huge infrastructural reach and development. That is, the VOC helped mostly Europe access the products from the east-indies at the time, and made intercontinental trade a thing. In terms of scale it's probably still nothing compared to modern-day transport, but still.
I know good software engineers who believe in alternative medicines and doubt the efficacy of vaccines. I’ve met some that don’t even know the basics of how an OS or CPU works.

We’re not special as a group. We’re good at some stuff and also really bad at other stuff. Just like everyone else.
I wasn't aware of the program till recently and just thought it was a marketing gimmick for vaguely technical people who can throw a little open source varnish on the company.
reddit's code formatting is its own story, it supports both 4 spaces and triple backticks (but only on redesign web).

> On redesign, a slightly-edited version of CommonMark. On old reddit, it's still snudown.

(and mobile apps have their own markdown)

> New Reddit note: Indented code blocks are the only form of code block that works on Old Reddit. Use them for compatibility

https://www.reddit.com/wiki/markdown#wiki_code_blocks_and_in...

maybe in a few years there is going to be syntax highlighting, one can hope :) (slack doesn't have it either, but even discord has it...)
When comparing people like that, there's an important differentiation - was it Augustus' personal wealth, or was his wealth and the country's wealth considered the same? A lot of monarchs from the times before the monarchy and state were separate entities like they usually are nowadays have a whole country's wealth.

But I hope an economist or historian can answer that.
A lot of what you mentioned on our side of the pond is paid for by our social security contributions, not from our taxes though.
Nowadays wealth is no longer really hoarded by individuals, but shared with employees and shareholders in the form of stocks and whatnot.
the free food option at google and now my current startup is a huge time saver. It doesn't come at the expense of free time.