skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Obviously everyone's internal monolog is literally silent, as they're not speaking out loud, but it's most naturally described as 'hearing' the words in your head.

I'm not sure it is that clear cut and universally same. So in my case, when I do the verbalization I do imagine the actual sounds, as opposed to written text or something like that. However those sounds are silent in the sense that they are clearly conjured up via some other pathways than what would be used to hear external voices of other people.

When thinking about images from my memories, they are extremely vivid and colorful. I can remember visiting a local supermarket and in this memory I have an immense amount of detail. I can remember individual small shapes and colors that were playing on some random advertisement TV screen hanging from the ceiling, I can remember walking past the shoe isle and I can still see the individual shoes and their texture and variation of colors in a single shoe. When I think of friends, I can see their faces with rather extreme precision. I can see individual facial hairs, birthmarks, wrinkles. This type of visual memory isn't limited in time either. I still have extremely vivid memories of at least a hundred events from when I was around 7.

When thinking of these visual memories I have, they appear in my mind's eye. It feels as if I'm at several places at once. I'm in the present, seeing whatever is in front of me. At the same time I'm also in the past, in my memory, and I can see these memories with great precision. To me, thinking and seeing these memories seems to use the same area of the brain. It feels very similar to see something in the present vs. seeing something in my past.

When I've talked to friends, I've found that the kind of precision I have in my memories isn't that common. However others still can visualize things pretty well. However there are also people who can't visualize anything. You tell them to think of their mom's face and they only see blur, perhaps making out the color of hair at best. There have been some studies into this mind's eye capability. [1]

Coming back to me saying I can't actually hear the verbalization in my head. When I say this, I'm thinking that it wouldn't surprise me at all if there are people out there for whom the verbalization seems like an actual sound. Very vivid and clear. While for me it's rather muted and feels nothing like hearing.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
> IMHO, the solution to high cognitive load, given a high enough reward, is just persistent, methodical execution towards learning.

It will never converge towards being easy to handle. The load doesn't come from being inexperienced, it comes from keeping the big picture in your head (all your types and their interactions) instead of iterative thinking.
Yes, you have that right. The underlying operations are the same. What you are missing is that the ideas from geometric algebra work in any dimension! Quaternions are a “trick” that only works in 3D.

You can write down Maxwell’s equations using the geometric algebra easily, and it will make them better! They will be obviously coordinate independent.

Pretty much anything with a cross product will be better written using geometric algebra.
Mostly because you've entered into an agreement with the first party (however dubious, that's another argument) and have consented to their terms to use their platform. There wasn't a checkbox that said "I consent to third parties storing all of my information after we decide to shutdown the platform".

Consent is paramount to privacy, and archiving everything without consent is a breaking a huge privacy and trust boundary.
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It doesn't mean they did their due diligence to confirm their data was clean of non-consenting individuals. They are clearly abusing their users ignorance. Signed T&Cs of one person shouldn't be enough when you're dealing with PII of multiple people in my opinion. You need everyone's explicit consent.

There is a disparity here between real world and software services I think. When my real estate agent's software asked me to put in my room mates details, I just had to check a checkbox that said he consented. Yet when it came to the paper contracts, we all had to sign individually. We need the latter for software, else PII is going to keep spilling all over the place and we'll forget we ever had privacy.

I don't think it's unfair to scrutinize a company in such a powerful position as FB either. They know they have unconsenting people in their photo database, it's just inevitable, and they are hiding behind their T&Cs hoping it's enough in the court of law. Ethically, they've failed already, and clearly in some states they're breaking the law too.
> The caliber of discussion on these threads drops hard, and things that are discouraged on any other thread are rampant.

Thanks for pointing out this problem.

Is this something that might get better in time? For example, downvotes catching up with those who can't participate in a productive discussion.
CERN did not produce ProtonMail. A few people who previously worked at CERN did.
Private housing is cultural, whereas shelter is a necessity. Shelter is sometimes vital for surviving. I would be surprised to be proven that speculation in private housing is necessary for survival.
OP is speaking hypothetically- the question is perfectly valid and asks for which of the scenarios are okay.
Is it possible someone typed that in manually?
Have you tried a cold shower/bath followed by warm bed, or a hot bath followed by a cold fan?

Big core temperature changes usually make me feel sleepy.
Besides the fact that it makes no sense to import Facebook-style data into a chat, doing so would only be useful if more than a tiny amount of the data in Workplace was actually worth keeping.
Good point. Although I think it tends to be a consensus among an influential minority of the populace rather than society as a whole.
Quaternions are 3D rotations (plus, possibly, rescaling). The author notes that they have the same API (I like this term used in mathematical context).

So, the actual point is that the word quaternions (and "these strange i, j, k") is confusing. Rightfully (at least for anyone without a background in maths or physics).

"Let's remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine" -> "Let's remove the word 'quaternion' from every 3D Engine"

(Nice explanations and visualization, anyway!)
> Rights used to mean human capabilities that government should not obstruct

references or examples?
Mark R Johnson – Speech Generation in a Procedurally Generated World
Please consider reading the linked article.

Utilities are not a natural monopoly because we have multiple examples of competition lasting decades in municipalities. This is not compatible with the economic concept of natural monopoly. It’s a disproof by existence.

If you want to discourage too much digging up the street charge people to do it. If they’re doing too much charge more. Problem solved; the various companies that want to dig up will come to a mutually agreeable arrangement on cost sharing if they want to dig up the street.

Multiple competing companies going after the most profitable customers is very much not proof of the existence of natural monopoly. It’s also perfectly fine. If you want uneconomic customers served for reasons of equity pay for it. You can either pay for it directly and make the costs visible or you can mandate universal service and spread the costs across all customers. Either way the cost is paid; you don’t get anything for free.
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This is an incorrect understanding of the nature of the movie, imho. Neo is a philosophical super-hero, not a physical, and so it's unfair to compare him to physical super-heroes.

The character is established in the scene where he wakes up, having done something on his computer. He has books on philosophy (Simulacra and Simulation). He's obviously been searching for a long time, and his _mind_ is something most minds of his age aren't: ready to see the real world. Morpheus even says that they typically don't extract people his age because their minds can't handle the reality.
I agree, a natural right is something the government can’t grant, only take away.
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Yeah he tried to get out and he couldn't. Perhaps the secret is not to get sucked in in the first place.
Didn't get past the opening paragraph. Sure, this is from 2003 but they're wrong. Look at redis.

Thread-per-connection is just plain dumb. Threads aren't free. Context-switching is a thing. Modern advice is to try not have more threads than cores. Thread-local storage is a very useful, having 1000's of thread may make TLS unfeasible.
Maybe publish source and let people compile their clients themselves. For mobile platforms offer reproducible builds and a tool to checksum both your build and the package on the mobile. Caveat: I don't know whether totally reproducible builds are possible at all, and the checksum tool must be compiled too and uploaded as a test package to the phone. Probably only useful for groups of paranoid tech-savvy people.
>And especially CERN? These guys have info and tech to end life.

Someone has been reading too many Dan Brown novels.
I think so too.

I'm Flemish and my mother tongue is Dutch. Therefore I mostly think in Dutch, but sometimes I think in English. Then it regularly happens I can't think of the right word to describe something (actually that happens in Dutch too, but less frequently), while still knowing very well what I mean.

I think that can only mean that my 'real' thinking happens without words or language, and is then 'translated' into Dutch or English.
You could easily argument that by facilitating operations in speculation and high concentrations of wealth in a few hands, the government has indeed been obstructing people from their rights. It is only natural to counterbalance this trend with providing people with the needs they have been deprived of, like shelter.
I run it directly on Elastic Beanstalk, combined with RDS.
Yeah but I bet you wished it took less time.
Your capabilities are meaningless if you can't eat, don't have shelter, and are sick.
Ah I see you've dipped your toes into the Sea of Apache too. Horrible software. Should have died in 2000.
Except that CERN is not a company, nor is it swimming in money.
3M produces plastics, and one of their product is a solar film, aka. 'tinting' for car windows and such.
"Necessary" power density? Please explain why the power density is necessary.
If you can force them, that would be too mild.
Housing is the perfect example to illustrate the flaws of how democracy is put into practice in many (but not all) Western societies. There are at least two big issues:

1. Those who have housing are less transient and as a result have (increasing) influence over local politics in aggregate.

2. Said local politicians then take their constituents will upstream, resulting in the (re)enforcement of policies that benefit the existing property owners. Mainly this manifests itself in anti-growth policies. Not just in housing, but really any sort of change that can be seen as disruptive to the existing population even if it's good generally. This can mean housing, public transportation, roads, and more!

The solution to these issues is to nationalize rules regarding housing, but because of (2) it's unlikely to ever happen.

I wonder what will need to happen before the minority (not speaking about race or ethnicity, but in terms of voter participation) finally are empowered, given many times the minority voting population actually makes up the majority of eligible voters.

I guarantee you that if 100% voter participation was enforced and macro votes could override micro votes (i.e. a state vote could overturn a local rule) most issues would go away.
Racket is a working man's Scheme. Seriously appreciate the Racket world and how it has helped my coding. How to Design Programs is the best book I ever got through. I wish Racket got a lot more general computing users it is such a fun language.

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So it was ok to publicly say that they're trying it out, and FB to benefit from the PR exposure but not ok to say it didn't work out at the price FB is asking.

IMHO you're either silent about everything, or open about everything and I support that CERN is open about everything.
I’ve rearranged my portfolio. Now I mostly focus on smaller cap companies. The stakes are lower but the overall risks and returns are higher.
Well if you ask about or mention organized crime, many Sicilians will just ignore the subject as if it was never spoken of, gaslighting. Eventually they might lose patience and rebut that “the Mafia doesn’t exist”, “it’s just a fantasy of the Continentals”. And act offended, bloody idiots... (before you downvote, it’s family, i can see how this denial has devastated and is still hurting a whole country so rich of potential. I claim my prerogative to be bitter and angry at them.)
Good show, Finland.

I have some fairly extensive experience with the types of folks that end up homeless.

I'm extremely grateful that it's never happened to me; but I'm quite aware that it's always a a possibility.
They have proven their integrity. That seems worth a bit more than being right on these spiders‘ specific kinks.

Not because I don’t care about spiders, but because the first is entirely within their control, while some hypothesis finding the data to support it comes down to luck far too often to use a single case a meaningful measure of an individual.
How to Get Rich with an Invention?
Yes. They do not deprive themselves of the power to vote as your proposal does. You may not care about the difference between the plausible candidates currently on offer enough to vote. But if the Communist Party seems likely to get into government suddenly a lot more people will care.

A power not exercised is still relevant insofar as it can be.
> Nuclear critics seem to ignore, at least when discussing the dangers, that the world is currently producing 10% of its energy from ~440 nuclear power plants in ~50 countries.

We don't ignore it, we recognize that it is irrelevant. You seem to be saying that if a choice was the correct one at one time, it will always be correct. But that's nonsense.
> And especially CERN? These guys have info and tech to end life.

Wat.
These Scandinavian success stories are great, but it bothers me that they are always held up as some progressive ideal. As if it's even a choice for other nations.

They have immense advantages, and unique benefits. Norway in particular being the frontrunner.

Yet in my news feeds it seems middle European progressive parties (Belgium/France/Germany/Spain) always point to these countries and say "see, look what happens if we take care of our people". Ignoring not only the money needed for such an initiative, but the huge demographic differences from immigration in the last 20-40 years.

I welcome opposing thought here, because it's a matter that genuinely confuses me, and I'm open to being on the wrong side here.
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Near the bottom of the article:

> And of course, overcommunicating can be taken too far. If you are taking 4 hours to write up a detailed status on a 2-day project, that is obviously not the right return on investment! Get in the habit of writing status that is honest, relevant, and respectful, and also concise.
So:

In other words, it is a plot of data that is quite regularly updated.
I think that the actual discussion's metadata is more valuable that the contact list itself.

Knowing that I discuss everyday with X, is more interesting than to know that I somehow have the phone number of A,B,C,D...X,Y,Z.

But yeah I agree that's not surprising. When I personnally hit this issue I was like "ain't that a good old facebook product behind all that fresh paint"
When your per-request time is so short, using events is easy. You don't have to worry about tying up a poller thread. (And yes, even event-based servers use threads if they want internal concurrency.) But that's a specialized domain. If requests take a substantial amount of processing or disk I/O time, naive approaches don't work. You can still use events, in a slightly more sophisticated way, if literally everything below you does async reasonably well, but any advantage over threads is much less and sometimes the situation still reverses. I work on storage servers handling multi-megabyte requests, for example, and in that milieu there is still very much back and forth.
My thoughts also, I assumed I might have closer to that amount of time before hitting rock bottom
I tried this when reading Ready Player One (I counted to eight in my head to stop vocalizing). I did read it much faster (in fact, faster than my partner who is a native English speaker/reader). I cannot vouch for how much I remember of the book though. I think it's less, because I remember watching the movie thinking "oh, right, that's what happened" about a major plot part. That's never happened with other books that I first read, then watched the movie/series adaptation of.
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Have you ever seen the film _Revolver_?
There are other apps that use universal e2e encryption and have not been banned by Apple. Also if someone idi want to use Telegram for seedy purposes, they still can by enabling full security, so it’s pretty clear this excuse is flat out bogus. Otherwise all the same arguments would apply to the other apps.
People's views on politics (I am no exception) are often so deeply rooted in emotion that political topics often hit people more in the lizard brain and brings out the, um, "discouraged comments", than it encourages actual, polite discussion.
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Shaming seems a little harsh.

CERN is very public about its procurements and does cross marketing agreements with many vendors. That’s well known and Facebook probably sought out CERN as a customer for this reason. When those sorts of things are done, the end of the agreement is often publicized as well, as there’s an implied endorsement.
Landownership being the foundation of American politics is it's original sin.
Often. Often missed though.
I liked much more anihalation than inception in retrospective. There are many more questions in anihalation than in inception,where it can boil down to "is this real? ". Anihalation goes into how do I want to be part of the world, do I care if I live, or how important is that "me" is really "me". These stuff allows for very good existential questioning in the good way.
I like the Let-the-user-handle-it approach from CL.
your freedom of assembly (for example) is not infringed upon if you can't assemble on the moon.
Under 150k in a major urban area.
IANAL (ofcourse) but in my limited experience:

1a: Not allowed provided because of AGPL (though would be allowed if it is GPL)

1b: Allowed, provided it is purely internal (as described here: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#InternalDistributi... )

1c: Not allowed (this is a distribution, and actually is also in violation of general GPL)

1d: Not allowed, linking against the library means using it, which means GPL violation.

2: If (x) is licenses as MIT and does not contain AGPL underneath (it shouldn't, they are not compatible), you can take X under that MIT license. Regardless of actual repository layout.

3: Penalty is a pretty grey area, and this is a civil suite, not a criminal suite. As a result it goes into damages etc

4: I reckon EFF etc. Look for "GPL enforcement" (AGPL is not very different)

5: You can try.. but I reckon only in the discovery etc for a lawsuit a judge can force them to give access to the source-code to verify your claim.

For all intents and purposes, AGPLv3 is GPLv3 with the addendum that distribution also covers "As a Service". Also.. at our company we completely banned AGPL because we simply don't want to deal with any potential violations. So I reckon 1b in your example would also not happen in a place like Facebook (I reckon all 4 companies have an AGPL ban in place :) )
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I added quaternions to my Javascript canvas library. They scared the heck out of me - I coded up the functions from scratch in JS, partly to try and 'understand' the concepts behind quaternions, but mainly because I was stupid and over-confident. I am not a math/physics genius!

I doubt using the concept of rotors in place of quaternions would've made my experience any better. It's not the concepts that really frighten me - I can read about them and nod my head, pretending that the information is somehow sinking into my brain; the things that scared me were the equations which, the article implies, are pretty much the same.

In the end, the things (seem to) work as intended in my library, and I can now sleep at night knowing I'll never have to revisit quaternions (or rotors) again in my life.
The point is that it is inaccurate to use the word 'right' because the government is providing a product not a right as a right is something that you would have inherently without the government there anyways.
I dont really think so unfortunately. This is more of a general internet issue as opposed to an HN specific one. Of course, especially bad stuff tends to eventually get flagged and HN moderation is generally good at keeping things under control, but many of these threads seem to attract people with a specific view (not calling anyone out in particular, different threads will attract different groups and create echo chambers, as does anywhere in the internet) who will mass downvote what they oppose andunkike other threads, wll constructed comments cant wind up greyed out at the bottom and highly disingenuous ones at the top. I suppose the worst of these threads deal with things that may not neccesarily against the rules, but lower the quality regardless. It's not uncommon to see seemingly suspicious unsourced claims and stats upvoted if they confirm existing biases, for example, while this seems to be less common in other types of threads
What is Finland's advantage? Norway I get, it's oil. But Finland is just a well managed country without significant natural resources. Most of its industry is not related to extraction of resources.
Keep in mind that the 2.5 tonnes is carbon only, the mass of additional plant matter is likely more than double that given the water content and other elements. Additionally, it's not evenly distributed over the building, but cantilevered out.

That said, I agree with you that it's likely to be trimmed for aesthetic reasons well before it becomes a structural issue; which is why the annual carbon offset claimed is misleading - it assumes the biomass increases annually without intervention.
Also mentioned in godfather part 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&t=4m26s&v=L6DkV...
The American Bill of Rights; first 10 amendments to the U. S. Constitution, are restrictions on what the government can do to the people, not stuff the government has to do for, or give to, the people.
Housing is most definitively not a human right.

The simplest way to think about it is did it exist before houses existed? No?

Then it's a made up human privilege.