skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I liked the idea but have to say I’m not a fan of your design. It just feels a little rough. Also I expected comment chains to be collapsible.
I also experienced long load times for articles (>5s, some >15s) which is way to long. The first article I read only showed a completion of 77% although I read the whole thing. Not sure how you determine how much has been read but I assume I’m just reading faster than what you’re used to.
Can anyone here give a good description of what it's like not to have Aphantasia? I'm having a very hard time believing this condition isn't the norm.

Edit. For a condition which supposedly affects only a few percent, the reaction to this article here and on Twitter contains a suspiciously high rate of people being surprised to find out they've got this and shocked that everyone else hasn't.

The more I read about this the more I feel that the variety in reported inner experience is more to do with the variety in reporting than of the experience itself.

I find myself able to relate to descriptions from both sufferers and non sufferers alike, but then again could often take extracts from each and be hard pressed to say who was claiming to be which.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Lehmberg
Arguments tend to get weaker if you omit half of them. In what useful sense does an alcoholic have the freedom not to drink?
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So now I'm a little mad because this shit sundae gets worse. http://youjustneedspace.com - thus is you, too. How much data is going out of that app to better refine and target your "engagement" shit?
Counter example: R^1 with a random function. There is no algorithm that can find a global maximum other than checking every point in R^1, of which there is an uncountable number.
If you think someone is offering a choice of a hamburger or a shit sandwich, you can just choose the hamburger and stop complaining about the stuff on the menu you don't like.
Thanks, I was hoping someone would have another good object to check. Where my father mentioned this, there weren't any visible power lines as far as I can recall.
I’m sorry! I didn’t realize my screen name said google
Can I run these using PC-Basic: https://github.com/robhagemans/pcbasic/ ?
But Safari ITP is wrecking havoc on the ad-tech industry right now.
Great, I'll head to the glass church of Steve later to buy one :D
It's pretty easy to figure out who's on your tenure committee, who the competition is, and which bridges have been burned
I’m a big social safety net type of guy that believes in helping people who either can’t help themselves or are in a temporary predicament.

But what do you propose when there are more structural issues where there just aren’t enough jobs to go around?
From Attention in Transformers to Dynamic Routing in Capsule Nets
Because she didn't study CS.

A university here has a cognitive science degree. Many people doing it and then a masters in CS to get at least a bit more practical with all the AI stuff they learned.
It's easy if you don't need exact results!\

I didn't mean randomizing the votes. Perhaps I should have written "shuffling." I meant randomizing the order of the stream.
Ok maybe "northern aggression" is a bit too controversial word choice as this history is debated and some people are going to chime up and express their own personal expertise and disagreements. But this was my reading of it and also how it was taught to me uni, but it doesn't matter, we can agree for purposes of the main point that slavery (a moral cause) was a pretext and even today, it's hard to find people who care about what is right. I know this, because I'm dealing with blatant abuse.
You've inherently assumed that a medical condition must be bad. It is, literally, a deviation from the normal human condition which is brought about by a medical abnormality. To identify it does not require fixing it. But to understand it, to study it, you must be able to classify it.
Do you mind me asking what you are disuputing? I'm guessing the comment you're responding directly to?

In that comment, I said:

> The majority of ICC’s revenue comes from program services, including consulting, certification, and training

Please see p. 52 of ICC's 2015 Annual Report (http://media.iccsafe.org/AnnualReports/2015/2015AnnualReport...), the last one (that I know of) where they broke down their revenues.

Or was it the part about volunteers writing the laws? Also happy to respond to any other specific fact you are unsure about.
Even if you are carb/glucose centered intake your body is able to clear more carbs with less insulin and other side effects in one meal than spread out over the day. It takes anywhere from 8-14 hours for people to get to ketosis or after eating (unless eating keto and already adapted). Autophagy starts at a similar point, which can have significant benefits anywhere from a couple hours a day to a 5-7 or 14 day fast.

Most of the research on fasting beyond 7 days shows that it's mostly going to only benefit weight loss. OMAD makes calorie management generally a lot easier. Most people have a hard time eating more than they should in under an hour or so a day. I mean, you could literally eat that much in candy, but most other sources would be difficult.

OMAD also allows for a longer, low-insulin and lower glucose window (depending on macro intake). The benefits will vary though. Eating 1-2 meals a day and not snacking or consuming anything sweetened (sugar or artificial) between meals is enough for most people to normalize their weight if not already obese and/or diabetic.

Eat clean first... cut the sugars, grains, legumes and refined seed oils (vegetable oils) first. Stop snacking second. 1-2 meals third. Longer fasting fourth. ... depends on how bad off you are. Some physical activity and weight lifting is generally beneficial but intake is the primary factor regarding overall weight and health.
If I knew about ferrets before various endeavors that involved full-size fiber conduit, tenis balls, strings, duct tape and household vacuum cleaners, I would certainly have saved a lot of effort and research ;)

[Edit: and obviously: lard ;)]
Fingerprinting is designed to generate a unique identifier to track you.

Certificates would be an even more accurate unique ID over what fingerprinting could provide
That's what I've heard from other early Googlers who were there at the time. It was a calculated risk. If the deal went badly, it would bankrupt the company, but the best estimates from existing revenue numbers and likely ad inventory increases had it being hugely profitable for Google. Their internal numbers supported that but few people outside the company believed it, hence the need for a guaranteed revenue clause. It certainly wasn't a shot-in-the-dark, though.
I love hearing how other people's imagination functions.

Your experience sounds similar to mine, but I feel like there's two distinct levels to the mind's eye.

There's the level you describe, where it doesn't feel like you're seeing through your real eyes but I find it's also possible to have images that feel very much like they're coming in through your eyes – almost as if there's a tap on the optic nerve.

For me these images are for the most part only visible with my eyes closed and most visible when falling asleep. I also cannot precisely control them in the same way I can instantly imagine a shape, instead I have to influence them indirectly bit by bit with lots of effort (but I usually get there – I'm practising to see if it can become easier). These images can be much more vivid, they're usually in full color and animated, but with a small field of view. It looks a bit like having a small CRT-style color TV at the center of my vision and it feels like watching a dream while you're awake.

To go into more detail on the process: when I close my eyes I don't see black but a sort of vague mix of colored blobs, a little bit like this but darker [0]. As I start to think, I pick out patterns in the blobs that look like the thing I'm trying to imaging, until eventually they sort of become full images that evolve on their own. They become vivid enough that I feel like the muscles in my eyes are straining to try to focus on them. It's not that dissimilar to those deep-dream images (but much less creepy!).

Is this something that happens for you too?

[0] https://image.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/colored-no...
I agree I think. And not at all - I think I could have chosen my words more carefully there!
"I don't consider "Event A and not A are both extremely likely"

To me, a 20% probability is not "extremely likely", but it is "extremely possible". A 10% probability is "quite possible" or "not terribly surprising". An 80% probability is "very likely", but perhaps not "extremely likely".
I guess one person’s cynic is another person’s realist.

In what world would Microsoft not provide access to their own version of SSO (and therefore sync)?
Apparently our experiences in her orbit were pretty different.

That doesn't mean I'm lying, and I don't think you are either.

I have no idea what your experience is, and I have absolutely no reason to lie. I doubt Marissa could pick me out of a police lineup if her life depended on it.

But I watched her kick ass at Stanford--both socially and intellectually--and it takes more than a pretty face to do that.
Chicken and Egg. People don't use Matrix.
In the 2016 election season, Silver used three models, two forecast models predicting what the election would do (a “polls-only” and a “polls-plus” model incorporating non-poll data), and the “nowcast” of what would happen if the election were held at the moment of the analysis. The polls-only forecast was (at least at the end of the cycle) the headline result.
xmpp as well (matrix is getting a lot of love right now, but it's also got some warts deep in areas that are not the plushy UX)
Not The grandparent, but I’m also aphantasic. I think the question doesn’t make sense. Why would I seek to remedy the lack of something I never experienced having in the first place?

Aprantly the rest of the world goes around hallucinating 24/7. I find that frightening.
Green space in childhood is associated with lower risk of psychiatric disorders
Could you post a link? I'd love to see this.
I think crimsonalucard's description of what it's like to picture things with the mind's eye is spot on.
> As an occasional consumer, Ontarian and Canadian, I don't mind.

I moved to Canada from Italy three years ago, and I still have trouble understanding this reasoning. If you exclude the Nordics which have similar sin taxes, in the EU beer costs less than half what it costs in Canada, but every weekend I see way more drunk people on the streets of Vancouver than I have ever seen in Milan or Paris.
I think AWS certs serve a different purpose.
Without mental imagery you can still just think about your loved ones. It's not like you have no memory or something.
I think this is a great point also. Something like Synesthesia is similar in not typically having adverse effects and it's helpful to have a taxonomy.
If there's some balance to the diet, and not over-consuming lean meat it should be fine. Most of the people I know on OMAD don't have any kidney issues.
Doesn't matter. A 50 dimensional search space with 1000 possible values in each dimension has ~10^1700 possible states. That's a number you can't search exhaustively in the age of the universe even if you turned the whole thing into one computer. And this is not a large problem, you run into similar ones in the average gear wheel design.
I hadn't considered that possibility so this is helpful; thank you. I might run a few experiments around the office later!
> how will they get written?

If government wants to institute regulations it can pay for them.
We provide an in-memory writable filesystem (e.g. you want to do file transformations) but it's not persistent across all instances. We're looking into Filestore integration for a mountable NFS product, though as mentioned in another comment about that, reading is easy but writing is hard.
Do you seriously think the thing keeping you from paying for this article is lack of anonymity?
ElasticCo and Mongo (the companies) already offer managed services that run on top of AWS where you can pay for the full versions. How is this different?

Why would I move to GCP instead of just sticking with AWS and paying for managed services directly from the vendor?

And then having to worry about Google losing interest in a year or two?
I don't have aphantasia. With concentration, I can essentially override what I'm actually seeing with other imagery. For the most part, it's dimmer, duller, and less "present" than actual sensory input. It's much easier to do if there isn't a lot of actual visual input, because it's dark or my eyes are closed. I think many people can do this with great ease. For me, it depends on how hard I try, my mood, and maybe other factors I can't identify.

I can recall memories or visualize things that have never happened. I'm not sure if my recall is reproducing what I actual saw, or reimagining it from something more schematic. I suppose mostly the latter, maybe with a little of the former.

I can do the same thing with imaginary sound, far more easily. I'm not sure if people with aphantasia have difficulty here, too.

And with great difficulty the other senses.

Fairly often, these sensory reconstructions happen involuntarily. Which is basically what "daydreaming" is to me.
Thank you - I was starting to suspect it was just me!
I would describe it as an inherently animated medium. I find it difficult to keep an unchanging image in mind, though it does make an excellent meditation exercise.

My mind's eye isn't like a framebuffer that I render to. Trying to visualize a direct analog of a still image is difficult, feels unnatural, and requires concentration.

Moving scenes are easier, even if the objects are unchanged. It's easier still when the nature of the objects change too. I think it must exercise the brain's simulation and prediction hardware - it's easier to render and it has a smaller memory footprint. I can "look" at a sphere, but after only a short while it starts to change, move, or rotate as though my camera is changing position. It might spontaneously change color from "red" to "blue", or start to squish into a spheroid. Or change into a scoop of mint chocolate-chip ice cream. Or other elements might come into view.

The changes aren't random - it feels like the scene takes input from a stream of thought just on the edge of consciousness. Maintaining the integrity of the scenegraph - the state and location of the objects requires constant corrective input to return it to its desired configuration. This is a separate and distinct act from the concentration required to "view" the scene in greater detail.

The bigger the scenegraph, the harder it is to stop the motion. I can visualize what starts to feel dreamlike in its detail and complexity, but it becomes impossible to freeze the scene.
The problem is proving it.

What a DUI perp says: I'm not drunk! Cops check blood alcohol level.

What a phone user says: I wasn't on my phone! Cops can't/won't check anything, and even if they could, how could the accident time be exactly (for proof) correlated?

My wife was rear ended by an SUV and has health effects to this day (it was over 10 years ago). There was no way to prove, or not, the other drive was on the phone. The driver was coming up to a stop sign in her own neighborhood that had a long line of cars that were stopped. It's highly likely she was on the phone or looking down at something. There was no evidence of brakes having been applied.

I argued with the insurance company for weeks about this. They wouldn't do a damn thing.
I almost wonder if artistic training tends to make you not get better at visualizing stuff. Why should you? It's right there in front of you and you're turning it into what you want it to be with your pencils/pens/brushes/stylus.

I am a pro artist and my visualization is mediocre at best most of the time. I'm not aphantasiastic but I am sure not one of those artists who can imagine an entire drawing perfectly and "trace" it onto the page. Every now and then the right neurons connect and I can visualize stuff, sometimes sober, sometimes not. Smoking a sativa-dominant strain of marijuana sometimes gives me a huge boost to my internal visualization but I almost never do this because it also tends to make me super paranoid. There's a graph to be made similar to the XKCD Ballmer Peak one. [1]

And then there is that one artist at Termite Terrace[2] who got in a car accident, hit his head, and suddenly had that imagine-and-trace skill. Brains are weird.

1: https://www.xkcd.com/323/
2: the unofficial name of the 1940s Warner Brothers animated shorts studio
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I mean Bill Gates phreaked because it was "fun". The people that do this find it fun breaking into systems. You need to understand who you're dealing with. And understanding the motives of preparators helps in how you should discipline them. At least effective discipline.
I have trouble with the opposite. Can you not imagine something ahead of time?

For example, can't you picture yourself on your commute home? Like if a camera was filming you going home today?

How do you forsee things?
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Don't forget NickServ. It's a pretty massive user bottleneck. More than half of the people in my (tech) company would probably take more than 20 minutes to figure that out.
That's completely orthogonal to "open source".
Who cares what Meyer thinks - it's likely wrong anyway.

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I submitted the article and then left the first comment telling everyone I'm the cofounder and happy to answer questions. No tricks here.

> it's really sleazy to concern-troll

Not sure why you're so angry at me. I think it's quite fair for me to go public with this lawsuit. Do I hope that public opinion sides with what we're doing. Yes, of course. Is that bad? I happen to also really believe in what we're doing and the fight we took on. I was a fan of Carl Malamud before we started this company.

And that's doubly true when you consider how aggressive ICC has been in this lawsuit. I mean, suing us personally, trying to bankrupt us? Deposing and subpoena'ing personal friends of ours?
Well, not having it would allow you to think visually, I guess.

I don't think visually most of the time, but I can picture things if I want to. I can even build whole "scenarios" in my mind and play them out, visually.

It's a bit like lucid dreaming, I think.
Yeah pretty much, I don't see much going on with many of these high status women (and men) other than their network. Especially when their actual performance doesn't speak volumes.
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I live in Seattle. I used to live in California. I’ve spent a lot of time in SF and have quite a few friends who live there.
In fact, most of the English "terms of venery", the collective nouns for groups of animals, have been simply made up with a rather obvious humorous intent. It is a testament to some sort of linguistic OCD disorder to keep insisting that these are actual terms- I doubt anybody has ever practically referred to groups of ferrets as "businesses", groups of owls as "parliaments", groups of hyenas as "cowardices" or groups of butterflies as "kaleidoscopes". These terms are not born of usage and have basically only ever served as displays of erudition. It would be time for the English language to recognize they're just made up and pointless.
Debating grammar is perhaps one of the best ways to actually learn grammar and otherwise sharpen language skills. I don't think it's a coincidence that grammar and language discourse has been a past time of the learned for millennia around the world.
But the law says standards of X. If the law prevents people from understanding X, then I would think one could argue that the law itself doesn't go into enough detail.

If X isn't bound as part of the law, and it can't be re-stated while keeping the intent in tact, then imho it should be effectively invalid. Just my own opinion, not something the court system would uphold necessarily.

I do find this appalling in practice. I would have less issue so long as the copyright holders for any legal specifications were limited to non-profit organizations with open accounting provisions.
"When management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact." -- Warren Buffett.
You are correct, the Republicans were in charge of the Senate in 2015 when this policy was in effect. I acknowledge my mistake.

This is something that you are unwilling to do. This post is on a particular policy started during the Obama administration. You blamed it on Trump. When called on it, you change the subject and accuse me of deflection.

>It's amazing the mental acrobatics that people go >through to try to find an after-the-fact justification >for targeted racist policy.

So if I understand your mindset correctly, blaming Trump is your way of creating an after-the-justification for Obama's targeted racist policy.

For the record, I don't find your mental acrobatics amazing, just lazy. It seems like it all flows from "Orange Man Bad".
The woman with a masters in computer science is a fake computer scientist?
In some teams, IM+history is the email killer that happened by the mistake.
You don't have to visualize something to "think" it.

I can plan my whole day perfectly without getting one image in my mind.

Thinking visually is simply too slow, so I only do it when I consciously try it.
Kind of excited you like The Goal as much as I do. I had not heard of The Phoenix Project though, so thank for that.
You can imagine a company that has come up with a product that helps people live more sustainably, and they want to figure out how to tell people about it. You didn't seek them out though; are they your enemy?
> Targeting based on context (what sort of website the ad is on, for instance), is fine.

Why? I didn't consent for that.
I have no clue why so many sites break the scroll wheel, break the back button, break default functionality that you'd otherwise get for free.

I've successfully pushed back against requirements to do this, and I've unsuccessfully pushed back. I've tried to not do this kind of thing in my own work whenever possible. Usually it's very easy to do so, because it's the default behavior that you get for free.
If you're in more than one workspace it can take literally 5-10 seconds to transition between them while showing some BS motivational message.
I cannot draw picture at all. Flow diagrams are no problem, nor is coding, as those rely more on a process or problem solving. I realized a long time ago I can hold all facets of large complex systems in my head, manipulate them (e.g. while out for a walk) and them simply write down the results later. There's nothing visual in this, it's a separate process.
Apple shames you for doing that instead of telling you it's unsupported.
>Arguments tend to get weaker if you omit half of them.

You made two arguments, of which I responded to one as I considered them to be quite separate.

>In what useful sense does an alcoholic have the freedom not to drink?

If alcoholics have no agency (which is a matter of some dispute as I understand it), then freedom (as most would understand it) isn't an issue for them anyway. It is for the rest of us (society).
I agree. Lotteries and Gaming are even worse; they warn you one sentence "please play responsibly" and then with the next sell you "this is how all your dreams come true"

Legal weed is the next one. They could have just decriminalized it but instead play this game to maximize how much they can sell it for without creating a black market.