skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think it's maladaptive. You are better off having no default mode network activity.

I vehemently disagree. Introspection from normal mode activity is a critical source for self improvement and creativity. Yes, it can be hyperactive, but some degree of introspection is one of the primary qualities that differentiate us from animals and make us decidedly human.
While I sympathize with your viewpoint, you're imposing your personal values on consumers who demonstrate their willingness to exchange personal data for free services every day. You and many HN users may balk at this, but most people are ok with trading privacy for real-time traffic predictions. Apple shouldn't receive an unfair market advantage because they embody the values you hold dear.

Sidenote: I disagree that Apple Maps' success puts pressure on Google to up their privacy game. On the contrary, Google Maps comparative advantage is their data trove, as there are many more users of Google Maps than Apple Maps, so they seem more likely to lean on that to succeed.

I wouldn't look to the market to improve privacy, since as I said above, the market clearly doesn't care about privacy much at all. Without a seismic shift in public attitudes towards privacy, it's up to the government or the companies themselves to adapt.
So you have no dreams? Seeing pictures in your mind is like a dream, but while awake.
There are ways to get such boundaries without having separate microservices.

Also having dev teams across time zones is itself a challenge. The devs are cheaper, but integration is worse. In Steve McConnell's book Software Estimation the industry average seems to be that development is over 40% longer, and defect rates also go up.

That, however, is a debate for another day.
Been saying that for years. Also, get this, 99.999% of companies do not need "big data" or distributed systems of any kind. I feel like the old "cheap commodity hardware" pendulum swung way too far. More expensive, less "commodity" hardware can often be cheaper, if correctly deployed. I.e. you don't need a distributed database if your database is below 1TB and QPS is reasonable (and what's "reasonable" can surprise you today with large NVME SSDs, hundreds of gigabytes of RAM, and 64-core machines being affordable).
Yeah I can also do this (sometimes), the experience is the same as yours: I can't quite emotionally resonate with the song as I would if I were hearing it IRL, but if I know the song quite well I can get all the details right.

It is particularly intriguing to be able to "sing" using other people's voices, since the lyrics of the song "feel" the same way as my inner voice, passing through (I assume) the brain's phonological loop.

Once I had this really weird experience, where in certain conditions, certain muscles would resonate exactly with the song playing in my brain (and not just the rythm, even minor details were somewhat transferred, as if my brain was redirecting raw PCM audio from my brain directly to the nerves); I was really excited about this, as there was potential for a direct non-invasive neural interface to my brain, capable of extracting original songs directly from my brain without any instruments; unfortunately I could not replicate this weird behaviour reliably, and I also felt a bit weird in my brain when trying to do so, so I just dropped the matter.
No, it's not just Spain. I only looked at European power grids, but their carbon intensity is all calculated in the same way.
While the A-10 is not comparable with the F-35 playground, it was a plane that saved the budget and fit well into the military. The service made, the capabilities and the cost was really good. Same with the F-15. I think the F-35 is the result of hubris.
I've thought for a while that your Gaia Topo layer could be improved, especially because until now I don't think you had any hillshade at all for a topo map!

I spent some time checking out your map this morning, and it looks really nice at low zooms, but I'm still a little disappointed at high zooms. At zoom 13 the hillshading ends!

For example, at zoom 14, I still much prefer a map with a hillshade (my own work):
https://www.gaiagps.com/map/?loc=14.0/-121.1500/48.1582&laye...
https://nst.guide/#14/48.1582/-121.15
Mobile Users Spent $195M in Meditation Apps Last Year, Up 52% over 2018
I found that when some particular song is getting too much of my internal "air time", the best way to get rid of it is actually to find it (personal collection, youtube, google music, spotify - whatever you are using) and just to listen to it from beginning to the end. HTH.
That’s where we’re building our next skyscrapers.
Talk to ham radio operators who know morse code, for them its fairly common. After awhile, especially in a competitive contest, you start to hear stuff in the static. Sometimes because there's an actual station there trying to reach you, sometimes not.

Hams and hunters are the only people I can think of in modern life who listen very closely to silence, or noise anyway.
Relevant bit from Feynman talking about how he found that a simple act of counting in one's head can be different and all its implications. I suggest watching the other videos from the same interview. Lots of fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj4y0EUlU-Y
Huh. I wouldn't say I can't visualize "at all" but it's a faint, crude version of actually seeing, like 1% of what it would actually be like, with great effort. On the other hand I can "hear" a voice clear as day if I want to.

I'm not in the habit of "talking" to myself as many people seem to, the soundtrack of my mind can easily be silent. But if I want to rehearse what I want to say or something I can imagine it clearly.
I can do both interchangeably and always assumed everyone could do the same!
This is like saying microservices are the future. Both are incorrect, of course this is case by case bases and one should keep an open mind and should know the pros and cons of both. Apply either one when needed.
Oh, and GitLab has put some AWESOME resources online about being a fully remote company. I've spent hours reading their employee handbook. Here's a place to get started:
https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/
It's OK if nobody invests. There's no god given right for the well connected middle class to play Silicon Valley for their own gratification.
Absolutely sure Google Maps A/B tests routes too.

Even when sitting next to each other in the same car, Google Maps suggests radically different routes to the same destination on my wife’s phone than it does on mine, often with a 15+ min difference in arrival time. It must be testing different routing algorithms as otherwise they should be the same.
Hygiene practices can prevent the spread of diseases like this. Wash your hands, don't touch your face, etc. Wear a surgical mask and limit interactions with others if you're sick.

But this virus spreads via droplet transmission, so just being within 6 feet of someone who's infected (and coughs/sneezes) is enough to spread it.

If you're referring to the overuse of hand sanitizer and other disinfectant agents, it might be reasonable to conjecture that their use contributes to the spread of pathogenic bacteria because they destroy non-pathogenic bacteria that could out-compete the pathogenic ones for resources. But this is a virus. It doesn't reproduce outside the body, so I don't think that train of thought applies here.
At least personally, I generally don't assume son or daughter imply age. It's just the relationship. Here's an example headline where the son was almost 100 years old[1]:

> JRR Tolkien's son Christopher dies aged 95

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/16/jrr-tolkiens-s...
I hope you do the same to the adults, cause there's no shortage of adult (men) that do the exact same. It's honestly distressing.
Amazon Financial Results 2019 Q4
SFMTA is on the south intersection of Van Ness and Market. They turn right off of Van Ness then right on 11th to pull into the garages (in the SFMTA building and 1455 Market). Check out the overhead map of Van Ness/Market and it becomes glaring.
Like one order? You might be more wrong than him.
This isn't healthy. You should go on a meditation retreat. Or drop acid. This is what Buddhist monks call the monkey mind syndrome.
That sounds like my experience. Though the slow working-through doesn't always have to be in words. It can be in pictures or in orderly logical lumps of knowledge that I don't have a good name for.
To be clear, film protection bags don't work for scanners at all. And if the operator sees a blob he can't image, he is likely to back up the belt and increase the power until he can.

Film protection bags are to protect against fogging from radiation at higher altitudes, not the scanners.
This is the problem with pouring all of the requirements into one bucket. A single plane that does air superiority (F-15), stealth (F-117), naval air superiority (F-18), ground attack (A-10), vertical/short take off (Harrier), etc - it's just not going to work.

What the US really needs are a small number of stealth fighters (F-22), a larger number of air superiority fighters (F-15 silent eagles), a whole bunch of light attack aircraft (A-29s), and something to replace the A-10.

Sure, an A-29 is a prop plane that stands no chance against an F-15, but it is phenomenally cheap to operate, and fits a very large number of mission needs that the high performance jets are too expensive for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_EMB_314_Super_Tucano
It's not that ironic when you realize that some of it is causal: restricting the supply of dealers makes the remaining dealers more bold (and gives them more incentive to pay lobbying costs to encourage the government to keep the supply restricted).
Nighttime Photovoltaic Cells [pdf]
I used to refer to this as ”thinking of myself in third person”.
Only when done by folks that never learned how to write modular code and package libraries.

The same folks aren't going to magically learn how to do distributed computing properly, rather they will implement unmaintainable spaghetti network calls with all the distributed computing issues on top.
There is also the idea of patent exhaustion, which is that you get your royalties when the thing is implemented (ie the chip) and you don't get any more when that chip is re-sold. Of course Broadcom has some really wild patent "license" deals where they make you license the patent and buy the chips (that is also the subject of a court case)
I agree with a lot of your comments, but just FYI, you can do a couple of those things:

> (I can't even compile FOSS apps on my own without owning a mac + 100$/year dev licence - this is a real shit show for me!)

You do need a Mac, but you can build FOSS apps and deploy them to your own iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV with a free developer account. You only need the paid license to distribute them to others.

> Finally I have a device that could replace things like a Wacom Tablet connected to your computer but that opportunity was missed.

There have been apps that support this for a while, but this is now a built-in iOS/macOS feature called "Sidecar".
> I think it's maladaptive. You are better off having no default mode network activity.

> Of course it's another thing entirely if you're too stupid to have an inner dialogue, verbal or not, but I feel like even non-human animals are capable of an inner dialogue. It doesn't add anything useful.

With all due respect, I disagree completely . I think it's incredibly helpful to be able to talk to yourself and examine ideas and concepts verbally without having to physically verbalize.
The bill takes effect in 5 years -- aka another president's term, most likely -- and will force a massive tax hike for that president, which would swing the pendulum back again.

The folks pushing for the cut don't care about any particular politician's career, they want their mofo-ing tax cut, and they got it, and it's probably gonna stick with a GOP Senate (which will likely stay that way).
I can't believe there is actually such a title as an "Agile Black Belt". Had to Google it to make sure. Not sure Jigoro Kano would be happy to see his belt system used as a marketing buzzword.
I'd be surprised if it's dead. At least two of the people on the Swift for Tensorflow team were building a deep learning library in Swift before Swift for Tensorflow was a thing. Much of their work is a part of Swift for Tensorflow.
I have not, but I will most certainly check it out, thanks for the tip!
So I used to wonder about that. Eventually, I realized that is is actually a considered strategy. After 1T+ deficit becomes a problem, Rs will be able to say, well, we gotta cut entitlements. For the good of the republic ofcourse. It helps that both steps align with their real constituency.
And congress went along with it (or encouraged it) because theoretically it would be cheaper...

(And the Marines liked it because no one was going to spend the money to build a stealthy V/STOL strike fighter for them unless it was part of someone else's development budget)

(And the Navy IIRC just wanted their fucking A-12 [0] already)

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_A-12_Avenger...
The number of infections is likely much much higher than the confirmed cases (laboratories have only so many test kits available per day) but most people stay asymptomatic.

Do you have evidence of that in this case?

Viruses vary widely on how many are asymptomatic. My understanding is that having people be infectious and asymptomatic only happens with diseases that are well-adapted to their hosts. Which this one, having recently crossed a species barrier, isn't. (Its fatality rate is also high for the same reason.)

However that is a general understanding and I don't have data to base it on on this case. Do you?
That's true. Still as someone with anxieties I find it a useful perspective to assess personal threat level.

First reaction is "I need to avoid becoming infected at all costs". However, the costs are steep. An extreme plan to “sit at home with a month’s worth of supplies” seems plausible, but it would not be healthy to reduce movement so much and if everyone suddenly starts doing that there will be issues with food availability in the area (I live in HK).

If I am statistically so unlikely to die from this infection, I am going to take measures that prevent me from spreading it to someone who isn’t, but I won’t e.g. panic and call police if someone without a mask is near me.
Feature toggles are a solution this. That lets you do feature releases independent of code deployment. Doesn’t work 100% of the time but I can’t imagine doing a large monolith without feature toggles.
Please don't past-tense Sandstorm! The community is still working on it. Albeit a little slower. ;)
I looked at your VR expression platform (not yet tested in VR) I see it as a kind of non-linear language experience, where you pick objects and conjure them to express yourself, that I would have greatly enjoy when I was a kid instead of reading/writing. (I'm not yet sure the UI is still mature enough to not get in the way of the thoughts).

Snapchat with its way of communication with pictures also got this right.

My inner feeling is that we new technology we should be able to alleviate the need to speak in a serialized/sequenced form between people that was kind of imposed by nature and exchange mental pictures directly.

Keep up the good work :)
Wasn't that quote Steinbeck, the writer? Grapes of Wrath, etc.
Yes, I think the inability to do this seems to be associated with aphantasia. Most people do not have aphantasia, therefore I'd expect most people are able to do this.

I think similarly that most people who do not have an internal dialogue experience aphantasia - the ability to replay or simulate sensory experiences mentally. Personally I do not often have thoughts "racing" through my head - maybe one main one, maybe zero - and I think this related to my aphantasia.
And that shouldn't be far away:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESIM
I realised this about myself only in the last few years. If there's a screen on in the room I will be riveted on it to the exclusion of anything else.
It's actually very simple. The Flu has a stable amount of people it kills per year and is already quite established in the human population so it infects a very large number of people per year. nCov on the other hand is a new and poorly understood virus and has only just been introduced to humanity. Extrapolating the number of people it's killed out a few weeks or months, the death rate would be much higher than the flu. The mortality rate is also not firmly understood, with estimates ranging between 2% and 20%.
> 3. Can't seem to be able to turn it off, or control it entirely. The monologue is my worst critic - not a bad way, but it'd be nice for it to not _be_ there all the time.

For me, I've always had it, and I can't control it either. however, it does go quiet in one of two circumstances, when I'm very, VERY relaxed (so, rarely) and when I'm deep in "the zone" of concentration, which is really nice.
> If US alone has ~60k deaths from the flu a year

That was one particularly bad season. It's usually in the 30k - 40k range.

> that still works out to be much more (1153 deaths per week)

That particularly bad season had ~45MM cases, so that was an average of 865k infections per week. 2019-nCoV is that 1% of that infection rate.
But then you’re under capacity. The assumption is that it takes N servers to service N requests simultaneously.
Completely agree. This kinda reads like somebody just smoked their first joint.
another one here: intraday real-time coronavirus infected count predictor with log scale. If I am right it goes up every minute or so https://www.coronaviruschart.com/
Yes, it is a pretty common saying that it forces separation of concerns and avoids the spaghetti that monoliths end up like.

People are selling it as easy. You can deploy them independently, each service is small with low complexity.

That it is not that easy in reality and that the total complexity increase is so big is not told as often. There is a team at my work with 6 developers developing something that processes a couple of gigs of data each day and has a front end serving maybe a hundred users total, I would guess 20 would be logged in at the same time.

Kubernetes, 10 microservices, 2 different types of databases.
I once read that to get the loop out of your head, you have to "finish" the song, i.e. play it to the end, either in your head, sing it or play it on the stereo.

Works reasonably well for me.
Ignore the people telling you it's 2-3%. The case fatality ratio is between 9 and 56% according to proper epidemiological methods, such as using the formula "deaths / (deaths + recoveries)": https://mobile.twitter.com/zorinaq/status/122242770872387993...

Disclosure: no I'm not an epidemiologist. But for a reference to a paper by actual epidemiologists see https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ebf2/48c9fc0a1a23d1778b9408... section Simple Estimators, specifically this formula:

e₂(s)=D(s)/{D(s)+R(s)} which is: deaths / (deaths + recoveries)

The paper concludes: "The second simple estimate based on the ratio of deaths of those for whom the outcome is known, e₂, is reasonable at most points in the epidemic" ie. produces a good estimate of the eventual observed case fatality rate (in fact in their example it slightly underestimates the actual case fatality rate)
Shopify comes off as complicit by the sounds of this article. Do they really take down sites without actual proof of specific infringement? Is this common on their platform?
I see your point for true research programs. But, we see similar patterns all the way down to building subways stations - massive overruns and delays and the taxpayer stuck with the bill. Building an above-grade rail should be a mostly solved problem. Just now, in DC metro, we have the Silver line expansion to Dulles - crap concrete is causing massive delays, but instead of forcing the contractor to replace it, the solution is just "eh, we'll just inspect it more often and hope it doesn't fall on anybody's head." And that doesn't solve the delay - it's still years overdue.
Thirty years ago it would have been aliens, right? I'm a little surprised no one reported being abducted by the drones.
> Every packet has an identity attached.

So, this part is super interesting to me, but I'm curious on how you envision that working inside applications.

For example, I have a tcp server that does

ln, err := net.Listen("tcp", ":8080")
conn, err := ln.Accept()

How do I get the identity for the connection? conn.RemoteAddr() will give me the ip address, but how do I know what the metadata associated with the identity is?

Same sort of idea for inbound http requests.. if I wanted to identify if a connection was from a user or an admin?

As I understand it, much of beyond corp type implementations rely on client certs or Identity Aware Proxies that include the user metadata along with the request.
Fitting that Bombardier recently sold the rights to the CL-215/415 to Viking Air.
Thanks, we'll be going strong for another 10 years :)

I think the business is very healthy. Headcount continues to grow, but not in a crazy way, and the great majority of the expenses are R&D. We're certainly default alive.
Interesting topic (and comments).

1. I do inner monologue. And I have to say, sometimes I get scared from what I "hear". I don't mean sometjing like "I hear voices telling me to kill everyone", but nasty, brutally cynical, sometimes outright violent thoughts. They feel alien to me, because on general level I consider myself "the good guy", but one the other hand they don't feel like someone else whispering me evil things.

2. Sometimes I feel like my mind has layers, where this monologue is the the most upper one with some lower, less verbalized layer which is only later formed into words. Doesn't happen often, but it feels like the lower layer is actually more capable because it's not constrained by language/words.
There's no way for them to beat a decade+ of effort (and billions of dollars) that Google has put into their maps unless they are prepared to really invest. And they are stingy AF when it comes to multibillion-dollar investments that aren't hardware. This is the reason why they suck at AI as well.
You can really skip The Camera if you like, it's 1930s era large-format-camera buying advice and isn't very relevant anymore.

The Negative is absolutely indispensable and should be read by every shooter, film or digital. The Zone System conceptually works the same for everything, whether B+W or color, film or digital. It's a generalized system for placing an exposure level onto the sensor's available range.

I suspect The Print is probably not entirely relevant anymore to most people who are doing hybrid-digital workflows (scanning their negatives), but may be of interest if you want to do wet printing. Which you should, it's super fun and rewarding and I can more easily deliver a better print than I can digitally.

One thing it doesn't cover is split-grade printing, which is very easy to produce high-quality results, but requires "modern" variable-contrast emulsions which didn't exist in his day.
It makes me sad that Apple followed Google with the idea of coloring maps green based on satellite photos of trees rather than actual parks. Why anyone in Silicon Valley thinks I give a shit where trees are is beyond me. I used to be able to pull up maps and instantly see any parks around me. Now they're practically invisible.