skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This past weekend, I attended the conference he was interviewed at for this article. During his talk, he mentioned he had them complete the VVIQ from University of Exeter (which the other replies linked to), the Plymouth Sensory Imagery Questionnaire (https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/psychology/imagery), plus several more questions, maybe a dozen or so.
Amanda?
Copernicus's revolutionary ideas reorganized the heavens
Government programs distort markets and harm participants while wasting taxpayer money.

Who would have thought, especially in China where the central government is so professional?
Through taxes, which your common citizen will gripe over because they don't see the value. Same reason we have crippling infrastructure paralysis (which, in some jurisdictions, is "fixed" with tolls).

I still think taxes would be superior for funding, but I see the need for the current methodology. The alternative would be comparisons to the GPG maintainer barely able to afford their bills. The ICC seems to be the regulatory code version of Let's Encrypt (backed by copyright law).
> Do you seriously think the thing keeping you from paying for this article is lack of anonymity?

First: I wrote about "a way to do micropayments completely anonymously" which is actually two things:

1. a way to do micropayments (this is currently quite hard)

2. a way to do this anonymoysly

And yes, I find it very alarming that there is no way to pay in the internet really anonymoysly (I come from Germany, where people still love to pay with cash also because cash is hard to track) - this is really an important reason I am rather hesitant to pay in the internet.
She isn't that good at all and never have been. WSJ and Barron's complained about her for the longest time possible now.. There are very critical articles of her in serious business press and magazines. Sexism is bad. But granting free pass to every bad CEO when she is a woman just because of her sex isn't smart. These people are CEOs, getting paid millions, destroying businesses and sometimes lives. It is important to keep them to the same scrutiny regardless of their sex.

Firing bottom performers every quarter. Banning remote work. Spending $7m on fashion show she attended with friends.

If this was a man he would have basically no right to criticize any other business especially successful one like Google. She looks absolutely ridicilous in this position. It's like F-grade student giving lectures to straight A's student. Do these people have shame at all?

And examples like this, or even worse like infamous Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos, should remind us that we shouldn't give free pass to CEOs just because they are women. CEOs have the highest rate of sociopaths, no matter the gender.
Imagine, we must - for we can never know for sure whether such a world would indeed have been worse. They were, after all, very organized. Before the occupation, the main avenue in Copenhagen (a pair of two way streets) was chronically congested. The Germans changed it into a pair of one-way streets, doubling throughput. The change persists to this day. And as for the Holocaust - well, virtually all the Jews in German occupied territories were killed as it was. It's not clear that a German victory, whatever that means, would have resulted in many more deaths. And maybe a unified Europe, under whatever flag, might have resulted in some interesting benefits.

I'm not suggesting it would actually have been a good thing - I find the idea rather sickening. I'm just saying that any historical counterfactual is arguable, no matter how obvious it seems at first. I think it better to point at actual instances of colonialism gone wrong - indeed WW2 still qualifies, and it's not necessary for the Germans to have won to make that argument.
In many states, parking lots have a 5-15 mph speed limit. In California, the alleyway limit typically applies. There is also the basic speed law: drive no faster than is safe.

https://www.mycaliforniapermit.com/california-teen-driver-ed...

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-California-bother-having-a-5-...
Nucleus Neural Network for Super Robust Learning
Just go learn whatever it is you immediately need to progress on whatever project you've picked. In time you'll have enough puzzle pieces filled in that you can stand back and get a sense of what the domain looks like. Then you can start targeting what you want to know more about and in time you'll feel like an expert.
If those vendors had their own cloud offering, it would be hosted underneath with GCloud/AWS/Azure in reality. The CAPEX needed to roll your own is way too high when compared to Google/Amazon/Microsoft's budget. Even SAP isn't bothering to enter that battle anymore.
Sounds strange to me.

If I want to think about sound, I hear it.

If I want to think about an image, I see it.

But if I "just" think a thought, it doesn't have a form like a video, audio or text; it's just ... I don't know ... an amorphous idea?
Keep in mind that she is a queen of self promotion. When she was talking about 140 hour work weeks she conveniently left out the fact she was paying someone else to do her domestic work [0]. Or that most of her days involved meetings, lunches and dinners.

I am reminded of the story of Henry IV who stood barefoot in the snow for three days. And through the grace of God not getting frost bite. We have come so far when we no longer believe you need God for acts like this.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com.au/marissa-mayer-who-just-ba...
> In what useful sense does an alcoholic have the freedom not to drink?

In the sense that the state will not use the threat of force in order to make them drink and in the sense that there will not be any danger to their health if they do not drink.
Punishments are effective at teaching people to not get caught. They put the offender on the defensive, which is a hard place to learn the right lessons from.
All regulations or laws reduce some measure of freedom, but are enacted to protect freedom on the whole.

For an obvious example, banning slavery restricts the freedom of slavers, but vastly increases the freedom of freed slaves.
I often feel this way (as someone who has aphantasia). I tend to believe that I'm just describing the same thing in a different way.

Then I read a Reddit thread like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/b8eojm/when_some...

It's totally foreign to me to think about "picturing" something in that detail. I can describe the physical attributes of an object if I think about it, and most of the time I just equate that to "visualizing" or "picturing" it. The thing that stands out to me in that Reddit thread (and other descriptions of how "normal" people visualize things) is that there is extra context. That's not something I understand at all, and so I'm convinced there is actually a fundamental difference.
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Autism symptoms reduced nearly 50 percent two years after fecal transplant
Are you asking why social validation is a useful tool for getting people to be helpful with thorny or esoteric technical questions?

Regardless of whether I think the MVP program was good, your question answers itself.
> You made two arguments

False.

> 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).

You are evading the question.
Margaret Dayhoff Brought Modern Computing to Biology
Or they needed someone with experience to do a controlled descent with minimum casualties instead of a fiery crash.
They could have used a string with a tiny piece of metal at the front, and simply "accelerated" it through the conduct. Slower than a proton though :). I wonder if they could activate each of the magnets independently.
One of my favorite DEFCON presentations addressed this

https://youtu.be/fhUHVGTa8mQ

In summary: there are a lot of third party products for interacting with banking data. Different versions between those products still in use. The need to enforce security based on the product/interface with the worst usability (ie: most restrictive set of functionality or most bugs to work around)

The talk specifically talks about Open Financial Exchange (OFX) as one of these legacy pieces.

Can't be pasted has changed more recently to my knowledge
Can't be long is due to some OFX protocols limiting password transmission length (and sharing passwords between services in plain text!)
Special characters are disallowed because some of those characters were control characters for the communication markup.
Ah, so cool to see this on HN! I've kinda snooped on the development of this software over quite some time and always been impressed by the author's persistent attention to performance/optimization. The "minimalistic" approach has been refreshing to see when nearly every popular new online software seems to require gigabytes of RAM for its embedded web-rendering engine. ;)
You can. See my top-level comment on this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19618630
> System.exit was always a thing

Do you suggest I should use System.exit everywhere (even though all the code you find on the net uses just "exit")? Just to be sure that Delphi will never ever choose the wrong function to call WHICH IT SHOULD NEVER HAVE DONE IN THE FIRST PLACE OMG IT'S TOO FRIGGING COMPLICATED PLEASE DELPHI APPLY SOME COMMON SENSE.

It's beyond me why I should write a function call and incur symbol resolution for such basic control flow in the first place.

> the last time I used raw goto

I was mainly speaking about return, break, continue, which don't seem to be popular in Delphi. Examples of Delphi code that isn't a messy nesting fest? As for goto, there are perfectly valid uses for it, in fact some where goto is the clearest and most maintainable choice when you simply skip downwards over a chunk of code without requiring an extra flag.

> Regarding strings

I'm talking about the culture. The culture around C is not one that makes anti-modular "abstractions" (at least if you stay away from MS). You will never see me using wchar_t, GString or any of that god-awful Microsoft string mess. I get along just fine with only char. In fact, the string handling I get by using C is the most painless, most modular I've ever gotten in any language. (No, I don't want to use split() or use any other high-level stuff that would do allocations when that isn't necessary).

In Delphi, different story. Everything you find in this culture is built around String and AnsiString and UnicodeString and WideString and what not. Try googling how to access command-line parameters. The stuff is pervasive. Entirely different story.

> Nominal typing is much safer for large scale engineering than type aliases, which don't provide a mechanism to prevent incorrect usage of types.

Exactly, typealiases are bad. And now explain to me why Delphi forces me to make a type alias (for use in function signatures) when that is worse than immediate Pointer syntax in every conceivable aspect? (Having written a compiler I know the answer: because it requires less code in the compiler to check for type equality).

So I guess I should just avoid pointers altogether and use only GC'ed boxed OOP NOMINAL types. And finally have some time for coffee again while my application takes 5-10 minutes to start up (as it did before I reworked the thing), instead of 1 sec.

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If you went to Stanford in that era, then you know that Symbolic Systems was basically "Computer Science Lite."
I think they do that so the government does not appear too "greedy".
I have no experience with this but there's apt-mirror, basically mirroring the entire repo: https://www.howtoforge.com/local_debian_ubuntu_mirror

We're pretty much at the point where you could mirror the entire archive including every arch onto a portable hard drive, the total size is 2453GB: https://www.debian.org/mirror/size
liquor in AB is no longer significantly cheaper than BC, with the exception of maybe some hard alcohol. Beer and Wine are pretty much a wash...
> In the sense that the state will not use the threat of force in order to make them drink

That -- negative freedom -- is a useless concept. It does not matter whether you cannot choose freely because of coercion by the state or for other reasons.

> and in the sense that there will not be any danger to their health if they do not drink.

So you just refuted two potential reasons why alcoholics could not be free not to drink alcohol. They do not matter, because a third reason applies: That they are addicted to it.
Code is "minimal acceptable", so yes. Meeting code does not imply "quality".

The code bodies are really out of control at this point. They are unelected and unaccountable to anyone. Meanwhile, the codes they come up with get incorporated by local political hacks.

Detached residential buildings in our area now require fire sprinkler systems to be installed. This is way over the top, adding considerable cost and risk. Talked to a local fire department volunteer who said a large number of their calls are to go to peoples homes and turn off the sprinklers that were activated by false alarm (you're not allowed to). The owners suffer extensive flood damage for nothing, and often don't realize their homeowners insurance doesn't have a flood rider to cover the damage. So, this one change wastes emergency personnel time and destroys property. Good job! Meanwhile, the people who wrote the code are not impacted in any way by this.

It gets better. People not on municipal water (very large percentage) have no hope of feeding such a sprinkler system, so are required to install a water tank in their attic. This complicates remodeling to such an extent - its yet another reason people are getting uninspected work done.
Damn, check your biases.
Under Catholic social teaching (not that it matters here in particular, but using it as an example of a system of thought that's been around for a while), a law that has not been promulgated (i.e., been made generally available) cannot hold the weight of law.
The Windows kernel driver development was one of the most hardcore programming in software development, requiring in depth knowledge of the kernel and a very different mindset. Have to be very defensive and thorough, or things would go badly.
Sigh. Regurgitating stuff you read is very different from being someone who actually knows how to build things. I don't think Marissa even pretends to know how to code at this point. I think in the past she did pretend to, which was sort of a problem.
Wasn't there some misanthropical meme about some people being "real" because they have an inner monologue and some being NPCs, because they don't? Like, if you don't have one you're just "reacting" to the world and not really deciding anything etc.
Thank you for speaking up about the monoculture in .NET, it’s a personal bugbear of mine working in a primarily .NET shop - for all the praise people like to heave on the NuGet package collection so much revolves around Microsoft’s own frameworks and supporting libraries and other products.

People have arguments in JVM-land about why you should use X web framework or Y SQL/ORM library or Z foobaz. Too often in the .Net world I see complete dismissal of everything but ASP.Net MVC, EF+MSSQL, etc. Oh, and of course you should use Azure for everything.

I freaking love F#, and to a lesser extent C# - but I can’t stand .NET as a whole because of this.
Wine, and especially local wine, would be a relatively expensive way to make alcohol. It would be more in the category of fresh fruit juice. Something like vodka on the other hand is mostly just industrial.
The first thought that popped up in my mind while reading this was, "Why doesn't this plane have self destruct mode?"
I feel the same way about many CEOs.
I can imagine a cube in my head and rotate it around and such. It's a sort of voluntary daydream. I'm not literally overriding vision, but rather I can hold a limited imaginary scene in my head.
Thank you for that! The results make so much more sense to me now. I've lived in Canada, the US, the UK and Japan. One of the reasons I choose to remain in Japan is that people seem a lot happier here. This is in complete contrast with the results (which ranks Canada up near the top).

I'm Canadian and while this is a completely subjective point of view, one of the things I don't like about living there is that people seem perpetually pissed off about one thing or another. The world is just wrong. It's all going to hell in a hand basket. It shouldn't be like this. You can't have a conversation on any topic without people complaining about one thing or another (perhaps it's just the people I hung out with :-) ).

In Japan, people seem happy with their lot. However, it would be completely ingenuous to say that they think they have life easy. They've got stupid bosses and long hours and really low pay and nothing they can do about it other than to go to the enkai, drink a lot and hope that their stupid boss remembers the drunken rant that will save the company. Women and children barely see the father in the family except on public holidays. If women work, they have to put in stupid hours and also do all the house work. Children have lots of stress because your entire career is practically mapped out when you take your entrance exam for high school. If you goofed off when you were 14 or 15, then cut your salary in half for the rest of your life.

But the big difference is that they don't complain about it. It's all "Yeah, it's difficult, but what are you going to do? You can only do your best" and soldier on. And I think that's a common theme in Asia. In the west people seem to act like spoiled brats in comparison -- always in a funk about something, even though by comparison they have it dramatically better than anybody else in the world.

But the key thing is that people in the west do actually realise that they have it pretty good and are very proud of it. While in Asia people are embarrassed about their situation even though they have accepted it.

Anyway, the above contained a lot of very general (and basically outrageous) statements. It was not meant to constrain anyone based on where they are from or what culture they enjoy. I was simply trying to communicate my prejudices and why I was left scratching my head at this report.
How many different versions of escalator safety codes does the world need? Even for something like pile foundations that may have some geological variance by region, aren't there certain heuristics that should always be followed, with appropriate site surveying and structural analysis?
Can Russia even afford to build an aircraft as expensive as the F-35?
" I see way more drunk people on the streets of Vancouver than I have ever seen in Milan or Paris"

Maybe that's the point: different strokes for different folks.

I know in my Canadian hometown there was UK style 'pub culture' and everyone hung out at the pub and drank every day until closing. Not healthy.

For whatever reason, alcohol became quite a problem and so there's some tinkering with prices. I'm not sure if massive taxes make a whole lot of sense anymore, but certainly a 'lowest possible retail' price is rational.
Similar things happened to me. My main takeaway was that these supposed authority figures were so certain about this stuff, and they obviously had zero clue. Made me distrust authority in general for years, which led to several problems.
(literally the first search result in Google and Bing)

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-electric-buses-201...
I don't know a lot about the programme, but I would have assumed there was always a similar focus on Microsoft's interests. Did they used to support people who weren't very interested in new/trendy/popular MS technologies?
The question isn't really whether ICC has the right to create codes and sell them and hold copyright (of course they do). It's whether a government, such as the state of Michigan or the state of California or the city of New york, that is bound by the Constitution of the United States of America is allowed to legislate a privately copyrighted text into law. The answer to me seems an obvious no, but I guess the courts will decide. ICC hasn't done anything wrong here; if there's anyone who's broken the law, it's the government.
To be fair I don't see much going on with all the high status men either.

I'm reminded of the chimps who outperformed the stock markets: https://www.ft.com/content/abd15744-9793-11e2-b7ef-00144feab... of course replacing the cocaine bill with grapes dramatically lowers your running costs.
Consider a single-page web app - what does "back" mean in that context? Only the app really knows, the browser doesn't have enough knowledge about its logical UI flow to figure that out. Hence why the history API was introduced, so that app can change parts of the page, and then manually record that change in the browser history in a way that allows for it to be reverted.

In practice, it was a problem ever since AJAX first became a thing - with the symptom usually being that "back" didn't do what the users expected, e.g. navigated away from the website, rather than back to the previous page state on that website. Hence why it's one of the earlier HTML5 additions. It's been around for 9 years now, and heavily used all around.
Release the code of your doom3 to v translation, release the code of your sqlite translation.

You can't because they don't exist. And don't say "release coming in 3 days" or some other BS like you normally do. It seems like a way to divert attention until people forget to check again.

It won't work. I can see 300 dollars a month on your patreon, which is probably why you exaggerate so much.
Why not just make a new client? As others have mentioned, I don't see this landing well with Discord.

Just because there are a bunch of group chat apps already, doesn't mean people won't switch to a better one.
It’s not a matter of legality but of honesty. They still committed fraud. It's like cheating at some exam. Might not break a law, but I wouldn’t hire them in a bank.
Regardless of the merits of your statement (although tbh it's more of a rant than a cogent argument), I caution you not to take the downvotes as a sign you are correct. The downvoting may reflect how people received what you said, but does not address anything about the accuracy/correctness.
Those questions underpin big chunks of philosophy.

Assigning a probability to a one-off event is enumerating all the ways it could happen, all the ways it could not happen and assigning a probability to each of those ways. Obviously there is a lot of guesswork; but if you need to make a decision based on the future that approach gives you a much better chance of making a good decision. In practice an event will be made up of components that are more predictable than the whole, and some real uncertainties. There is a lot to be gained by thinking hard about the situation, and assigning a probability will do that.

Silly example - how do I estimate my risk of falling climbing up a set of stairs that I've never climbed before?

* Baseline risk of tripping - I have a lifetime of data.

* Increase of risk being on a staircase - I have an area I want to put my foot on (a specific step) that is about 1/3 of the area that my foot usually falls in, so that increases the risk by an amount that can be reasonably estimated.

* I will watch my foot - maybe an order of magnitude improvement in precision.

This is enough to let me estimate the risk of carrying a bulky object (that obscures my view of my feet) up a staircase. I've isolated the uncertainty (how much does visual observation change the odds) from the certainties (areas, background rate).

Now I can take that to several experts who will identify new mechanisms and tighten up my estimations on how big a deal the components are. In this way - even though the final % I come to would still be a bit arbitrary - it is starting to become a summary of what a large number of people think about the inputs to the problem and their relative magnitudes. Being able to communicate all that thinking with a single number is a miracle in its own way.