skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This ignores the social implications of status. So long as having status means exclusive access to certain things (Events, vehicles, housing, mates...) people will compete with eachother to be wealthier. When someone fails to compete they often blame the game instead of their own results.
I'm really curious about what someone with aphantasia experiences while tripping on LSD. Visuals are a large part of the experience.
Who is our? Most systems do not have 32gb of RAM. My grandma isn't going to be writing emails on a MBP with maxed out specs, neither will a majority of people have more than 4 or 8GB of RAM.

Source: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...
Because that’s part of the whole “notification” process. I don’t think it is enforced by the OS, but if a notification didn’t need to be checked, maybe it didn’t need to be a notification?

Or perhaps I have misunderstood you, and instead you’re one of those types that thinks people need to answer to you for the things they do. In that case, I have no help for you.
I'm like you, which I had assumed is the norm: I can visualize things, but that "visualization space" is completely separate from my normal vision. When I'm imaging an image (or, more often, a short "clip" of something) I can't also focus my attention on what's in front of me at the same time.
I have aphantasia, found out 9 months or so ago, but can meditate fine. The main point is to focus on nothing, the sound of your breath can be used instead of imagining a flame or sphere or whatever. Another technique is to tap everytime a thought comes into your head, and dismiss the thought.

I also voraciously read fiction, so I doubt you not liking it has anything to do with aphantasia, but find overly descriptive portions of text boring and will often skip them.

Also, you can almost certainly learn to visualize with your mind's eye, very few people have actual incurable aphantasia from what I've read. I did some exercises, image streaming, and it was starting to work. After a week or so I started seeing images. I had too much on my plate, so parked it for now.
Thank you so much! I feel the exact same way and have always been so frustrated by how broken product search on online marketplaces is. Hope Allparel can help you, and let me know if you have any feedback :)
We shouldnt judge a healthcare system by how well it works for some lucky people.
Improving women's ability to solve certain types of school problems by providing tutoring promotes the dislocation of social and cultural bonds? Sheesh.
Stalkerware: A particularly insidious form of malware
This. Exactly.

I took my Ph.D. and joined industry rather than try tenure track lotto.

Back when I was thinking on pathways, I was a fresh faced noob with a few papers to my name competing against senior scientists with decades of publications from the former soviet union. This made the decision much easier.
Mozilla already partnered with ProtonVPN.
It feels like e-celebs are being paid insanely inflated sponsorship money at the moment.
The corporate world seems to be bending over backwards to give people like Ninja, PewDiePie and so on as much money as possible.
> macOS is fairly weak, being more inclined to manually accomplishing it.

I found the SwitchResX app [1] to be really useful for switching to portrait mode on macOS. I have a 2017 13" MacBook Pro and that app made it possible to use the 27" LG UltraFine 5K display in portrait mode. I also use Spectacle [2] for moving windows around with the keyboard.

1. https://www.madrau.com/
2. https://www.spectacleapp.com/
So, like punishment for a DUI?
My experience is very similar to yours
Somehow it's not surprising to hear the NFPA Java reader is often broken. There's a perverse incentive: the more broken it is, the more money they make selling the law in book form. And then when they get to court, they can just say they already provide free access.
Except not flying makes a meaningful difference. Banning plastic bags is only relevant to dipshits. Skip a single flight and you’ve saved more petroleum than a lifetime of plastic bag use (as far as co2 emissions goes).

If you want to make a littering argument, that has legs to stand on. If you think it helps with co2, you’re in the same camp patting themselves on the back for saving water by banning automatic water at sit down restaurants.
It may have been this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vividness_of_Visual_Imagery_Qu...
A couple other United States tech hubs on the rise that I would recommend checking out include (in order of preference): Los Angeles, CA, Austin, TX, Seattle, WA, and Chicago, IL.
It is still misguided. The idea of capitalism works because everyone is acting in their self-interests all the while everyone benefits from each other's work. The first thought that should come to mind where you see a corporation that's successful is that many people choose to do business with it and therefore it is generating them plenty of value.
> Most people don't have multiple offers sitting on the table.

Maybe not (although I don't think that's vanishingly rare).

But don't most people do something like this when deciding what they want to do next even if there aren't any active offers on the table at all?
>given an infinite search space

There's no such thing.

I understand the point you're making, but these gross assumptions aren't how the world works. Reminds me of econ models with ridiculous assumptions that don't pan out when reality is a constraint.
I mean ok. I do this to check (at the urinal) my messages because i don't look at my phone when out with friends.
I don't like what we're doing to people over 30/40 at all. How long will this last? Is it a global fad of some kind?
The "rare" part is referring to the ability to keep a coherent visualization in focus while also paying attention to real stuff.
Thanks! I would love to do an Android build but time and resources (e.g. devices to test on) are scarce. I haven't ruled it out though, let's see how the iOS version fares financially ;)
I was just pointing out that USA is capable of acting like an authoritarian regime if needed. Of course it can't be compared to China's, not by far, but it knows the road.
Whataboutism, two wrongs don't make a right.

The story is abut inhumane working conditions, inadequate compensation, and access, literally, to the necessties of life, via systemic faiure.

The local failure is on Columbia University.

The broader failure is not.
Is it down for anyone else? I'm getting a ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR
The average salary for the top three ICC execs is $522,000/year (based on their 990s). Surprising for a non-profit. Hard to think they are cash strapped.
A citation is nothing. A couple drinks will put you in jail, cost you your license for a while, maybe your job, and thousands of dollars.
Considering how Mayer absolutely cratered Yahoo I'd take her advice with a grain of salt. Quarterly operating profit dropped by more than 50% during her tenure and she was the driving force behind the acquisition of dozens of worthless companies leading to the write-off of billions of dollars in goodwill value.
Yes, fully agree. Not all advertisers are bad. Not all advertising is bad. But the idea that targeted advertising is inherently better is bullshit and potentially far worse. I know you are not suggesting that either, just clarifying my above comment.
Thanks! Yes I'm thinking about it!
> Blockchain technology has no use whatsoever

GIT makes use of what is basically a blockchain. Calling it useless is an extremely bold claim that requires a strong evidence.
Well, for those of us in the Physical Sciences, winning NIH grants isn't quite what we aimed for ... but your point is valid. For any of the granting agencies, NSF, NIH, DOE, DOD, etc. your grant is loaded with overhead/indirect costs.
I'm not sure how a decentralized message application can be safe from flooding.
It does not have full slack-like functionality. But it was never limited to just text. Some of the biggest communities on IRC revolve(d) around file sharing over DCC.

Anyway I think saying that it's "insanely" useful is a gross exaggeration. You know what is insanely useful though? Having open source clients and access to logs without paying $100 per year per user.
Do they? I had a childhood with Basic when JS and Python would've been available to me, basically because I didn't know better.

I made silly little programs with a friend, and we had grand plans for a Harry Potter themed MMO. Naturally, we started with a loading screen on a timer, (because that's what comes first, right?!) and got no further.
That makes sense. Good analogy!
In the USA professor is just what they call a lecturer not the same high status as in the uk
I'm not sure, although I developed this in Unity so I imagine it would be a lot of jumping through hoops to get there... (upvote for the pun :D)
But who got the Glengarry leads?
If this had Telegram support I wouldn't need anything else.
I can superimpose my mind’s eye’s image over the images coming into my eyes, I can interact with these imagined things and make them do whatever I want. Requires a conscious effort for complicated things, but generally holding something in my head doesn’t require any more effort than conjuring it up initially
My gueses:

* Frontend engineering is a newer discipline than backend engineering.

* Frontend engineering is the first thing you run into as a kid. You interact with technology through the web browser. I learned HTML 4 when I was 11 because I wanted to make web pages. It wasn't until much later that I moved to backend engineering. It's just not as visible.
I care and would pay. Same with websites. especially if the experience was easy, scalable, and protected my privacy and anonymity.
Whether or not that individual person would have been an alcoholic is irrelevant. We have data to prove that raising alcohol prices reduces the number of alcoholics.

Do you believe you are immune to addiction? Because that says a lot about you, too.
Kidney stones in 3.. 2.. 1..
if you go through the files in the repo they are very easy to read (I would recommend starting with the test/ folder): https://github.com/jcoglan/jit

obviously the lib folder requires a lot of git-specific knowledge but I didn't see any use of features that don't have exact or very similar equivalent in more popular programming languages.

I think the most "complex" might be things like Struct.new(*Inputs::ATTRS) where it's creating a new anonymous class from a list of attributes which becomes the class instance attributes (nothing crazy :) )
Many people, in my experience, exaggerate the ability of the mind’s eye. Ask them to picture Bugs Bunny and they’ll say they can see him perfectly, give them a pencil and ask them to draw the shape of his mouth and they’ll flounder, because they were never really seeing that sort of detail. What they were “seeing” was more like the memory of a symbol.
Magic Leap CEO thinks whole families will wear HMDs while together in same room
wow, that's extreme. I'm sure people working for msft back in the day had no idea what the bigger picture was. It's easy to say this stuff now (about msft setting the industry back etc) but when you're in amongst it you're just a cog in the machine. I'm sure most people working there just wanted to get paid and felt they were contributing to the biggest tech company in the world.
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Thanks! :) By all means do, we need more playful software if you ask me!
SOCKS5 support has been in Firefox for aeons already. How is this VPN support any better?
I'd like to correct myself: the new nightly build from Firefox supports browser fingerprinting protection:

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/04/09/protectio...

And thanks for downvoting the original comment despite valid concerns and a link to the TOR browser.
Well the program was always for helping the broader community, whether by writing tools, or participating in StackOverflow, or whatever... it was never a “Hall of Fame” for the best Windows programmers.
> LTV or sale conversions. A long sales cycle means you might not have data for optimization until 60 days later...

I can’t believe it’s 2019, people still don’t know how to estimate LTV. The paper my company used for accurate LTV estimation needed 3 days of data, not 60. And it was written in like, 1987?

What do you think Facebook uses to optimize creatives so quickly?
Ask HN: Help migrating hubspot website to WP
Looking to move over from hubspot website to WordPress. any recommendations for best tools for WP for a smooth migration?
Unintended consequences strikes again.
Right, we did not. In addition, we've heard from a ton of people asking how we were able to do this. They each have a story about trying to do something in this space and trying to work with ICC (or one of the other ones) and getting nowhere.

Half the stories are about people failing to convince them to let them touch their laws and half are about people who just assumed they're in the clear and then get a letter with 12 top corporate litigators saying they'd be suing them personally in federal court.

I happen to be at a point in my life where I don't have much to lose and hence when I fell into the second bucket, was able to fight back. But yeah, they're trying to personally bankrupt us.
A self-sustaining bureaucracy!
The law is already uncopyrightable. The issue is whether anything incorporated by reference by the law would retroactively remove its copyright.

If a court require files be submitted in .docx mean that MS loses copyright on .docx file structure?
>Do you believe you are immune to addiction? Because that says a lot about you, too.

Well I'm not an alcoholic, and it probably does say something about me.

A lot of these kinds of discussions come down to what one thinks the role of the state should be in trying to engineer behaviour. Even if you could prove that government-imposed higher prices lead to a reduction in dependency, some would prefer a freer society to such controls.
Seriously, I know that I may be downvoted but the main reason is because we are moving too slow.

Cyclist should not be in the same lane, road than a car for a speed reason and place, but maybe in Austin there's plenty of space but I doubt that is so safe to ride that bike.
Interesting view. There does seem to be a symbiosis-like relationship here. I wonder if there's some type of systems theory that explains this?
And they have their own domain too... imagine in a few years, after they've forgotten this design project, some tourist googles "Berlin transit map" and ends up on this site, and gets a way outdated map.

IMO quite irresponsible.
She was very successful at Google. Her taste drove much of Google's early design aesthetic. Why is the landing page mostly blank? In large part because Marissa insisted.

"There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages. There will not be crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site. Ever."

She said that in 2005. And a clean design was quite revolutionary at the time--yahoo and all the other internet portals were cluttered and sticky.

She isn't solely responsible for this aesthetic of course, but it really was her driving much of the theory.

See also, eg, https://daringfireball.net/2008/03/kahney_jackass (the original citation has fallen off the net, unfortunately) where Marissa is cited as being the driving force behind most product look and feel.
> But... if your project is a hobby or non-serious-revenue-generating endeavor: please please please do it yourself. Learn apache syntax, learn nginx syntax, explore why `setenforce 0` is for hacky amateurs. You'll learn marketable skills, that will help you in your future career endeavors.

One of the many hats I wear is to do a lot of those things[0]. I setup nginx inside a docker container to act as a reverse proxy for an http api living in another container, and now that's done but it's time to put on another hat and train users on the new core platform we're using, but now it's time for the legacy maintenance hat, but this hat is on fire, and...

If I'm working on a project for fun, I want to have as few barriers as possible, because I'm already facing an uphill motivational battle after a long day at work, or on a weekend where I just want to relax.

[0]:
I did have to lookup `setenforce`, because I've never had reason to disable SELinux.
I'm not up on HTML5 APIs. But I do know that it is entirely possible for a browser to have a button labelled "back" that goes back. Always.

Why don't they have it? Fear that something horrible will happen on some web page that relies on the user not exiting the page without control going throw their code? But such a web page is broken in any case, since the user might simply lose their internet connection...
If the library charges? Yes.

In the age of the Internet, where data storage and transmission costs are effectively $0 for basic text documents, there is absolutely no excuse for all laws and codes to be 100% public domain.

It's not as if the government has to print a physical book for every citizen.
It is a question of perspective. She was the head of a sinking ship, yes. But did she cause the sinking, or did she recoup the most returns possible for the investors before it sank?

I wasn't there. I don't know the inside story. I'm not going to take sides. But neither am I going to assume that she has poor business skills just because she headed up a shutdown effort.
Exactly what I do, cutting back on smoking means peeing is the only chance I get to actually answer people.
Well, Mark Cuban has a TV show, and we would not be talking about that if it weren’t for Yahoo.
The flaws exposed were of general cybersecurity--they had default passwords comprised of a static string for every student + their student ID, and did not require students to change that default password immediately upon first login.

"If a student does not change the default password, “anyone with access to your student ID number will be able to access and delete your emails, schoolwork, personal documents and anything stored on your Google Drive,” Stern wrote in his message to the student body."
It's linked in the article but the link kind of looks like an ad so it's easy to miss: https://wh.snapsurveys.com/s.asp?k=148940557153
And? What are selfbots?
The full Jackson quote you're looking for is: "Therefore the tariff was only the pretext, and disunion and a Southern confederacy the real object. The next pretext will be the negro, or slavery, question." He wasn't talking about the North making pretexts for aggression against the South, he was fed up with the South not adhering to the Union as he saw it.
Lincoln is a little more complex, but it suffices to say that the politics of slavery always took the forefront over whatever his personal beliefs may have been.
Hmm an article on SF from the National Review. I'll pass on that one.
How Songs Are Auto Generated by YouTube (2018)
As a motorcyclist, this has become my primary concern on the roads in the past few years. I constantly and actively check for drivers using their phones. If I can see their eyes or heads glancing up and down, I get far away. If they're having trouble staying in their lane, I get far away. At night, if their faces are illuminated in a blue glow, they're holding their phones and I get far away. I use those techniques in addition to all the other safety measures you get taught by the MSF. If I didn't love riding so much, I'd quit. Seriously. It's more dangerous than it's ever been. You have to be so diligent. But on two wheels, an open road without distracted drivers is still as glorious as it has ever been.
I did this before but was mainly because was too lazy and busy to eat.
This seems to be a bug. I downloaded the raw data from here

http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019/#read

"Chapter 2: Online Data"

Also here: https://worldhappiness.report/ed/2019/changing-world-happine... (fig 2.7)

Venezuela scores a 4.7 and Colombia scores 6.125. Or they're using a completely different metric, no idea.
github uses libgit2 https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2 (in C) but I'm pretty sure they have a lot of wrappers around it (maybe a ruby gem with native extensions, maybe using ffi)

edit: ruby gem: https://github.com/libgit2/rugged which has a native extension written in C to bind libgit2 functions to ruby methods.
Yes, that's the source, sorry.

Math, CS, physics and engineering tend to attract people with visual/spatial aptitude. This may be because sighted people first encounter the subject matter of those disciplines through their visual perception. Whatever the explanation is, HN readers are likely to be an atypical population.

My interpretation of the "superimposed" comment is that we are not talking about images appearing as if literally overlaid on what we are seeing. What people experience is that an object that they are visualizing seems to be spatially located in the same place as their visual field—hence Elmer Sperry's comment that he could just "draw around it". Would you agree that your visual imagination and your visual field occupy the same space "in front of" your head?

If it's any help, what I'm trying to say about the relationship between real and imaginary is close to the mathematical idea of a covering space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covering_space
I'm not certain which test Catmull used, but the article links to this one: https://wh.snapsurveys.com/s.asp?k=148940557153
I like her because she's one of the very very few 'famous' women in tech who's not Alexa or Siri (https://www.fastcompany.com/40547212/people-were-asked-to-na...).

Running companies and being featured in Vogue? Iconic.
Taleb calling someone else an entertainer is a bit rich, sort of like a clown telling someone to have dignity. I have no opinion on Silver whatsoever, but Taleb is a bloviating ass who has gone from popular milquetoast observations, to climbing fully up his own backpassage. That this all began with the likes of Dinesh D’Souza doesn’t help.

I realize that Black Swan is popular here, but it was horrendous. A single essential premise which, instead of support, rested for chapter after chapter on assertions. That’s not evidence, it wasn’t an argument, it was the sound of someone having one good idea and then realizing they lacked the capacity to support it.
I think people tend to underestimate just how artificial alcohol pricing is. Without taxes it would cost like soda (at least in theory).
That is the kind of busy-body, authoritarian crap that makes children hate school. Kids are there to learn. Given him a talking to, ask him to give up the goods, and move on.

Having been one of them high school hackers, and having been both threatened with jail and simultaneously being given the carrot of "don't do it again, and tell us what you know," the latter is going to produce a better outcome and if the student chooses to pick the former... well you gave them an honest choice.

Most kids doing this aren't malicious, but just trying to learn and have some damn fun. If you just jump straight to the stick, you're just going to end up with a bitter kid with some cybersecurity chops. Not the greatest combination.
Matthew Walker's book Why We Sleep makes a clear case that drowsy driving is worse than drink driving, too.

So that would mean drunk driving is actually the third leading cause of impaired driving damage.

Why is the third cause villified, but not the first two?
Was totally true for me. I still do that to a degree this day.
For blockquotes I personally favor a small 3px border-left thats preferably colored. It provides a clear visual separation from the main content and most people are accustomed to seeing a border-left as a quote from their usage in email reply’s (quote level).

Here’s a link to one article on my blog as an example:

https://tardis.digital/article/i-fucked-up
Linux server needs a RAM upgrade? Check with top, free, vmstat and sar