skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some studies that suggest there are brain activity differences, at least when asked to imagine something the self reported vividness of that imagery was correlated with greater activity in visual cortex while imagining.

There also was a recent paper suggesting that increased baseline visual cortex excitability can lead to decreased imagery ability (perhaps due to a "saturation" type effect).

But there is not a ton of research out there on these topics yet, so it's all very preliminary.
Disclosure: I work at AWS on build cloud infrastructure

It's good to be skeptical. I always encourage folks do experiments using their own trusted methodology. I believe that the methodology that engineering used to support this overall benefit claim (40% price/performance improvement) is sound. It is not the "benchmarketing" that I personally find troubling in industry.
Many LTE networks are IPv6 first, with IPv4 only services generally performing much worse or being unreachable. All 3 US Cell carriers have made this jump, though you see people complaining about IPv4 only sites and services not loading or working poorly through CGNAT.
Pidgin for us Linux (ab)users
Why are buses safer? They drive on the same roads as cars.
I should have said, I doubt it exists for non-religious people. America's well known for its cults.
GCI and ACS in Alaska have a lot of really wild sites
Syrian boy raped and tortured in Lebanon
> If they keep increasing the price every time they add more channels pretty soon it’ll end up being the same as the old cable subscriptions.

It's already ahead of many cable plans.

> What happened to a-la-carte channels?

Most of the cost isn't per-available-channel (and having more freedom to pick and choose increases costs), so per channel charges would be much higher than current package charges divided by channels, high enough that even though people like the idea in the abstract, they'd flee from it in concrete form.
> You can't help the homeless if the workers who help them can't afford to live near the people they're trying to help.

It’s certainly true that some fraction of non-profit work is hands-on social work, and yes, those people do need to live near the people they serve. But I think it’s fair to say that non-profits should think really hard about who really needs to live in NYC/SF/etc. versus the degree to which they’re just subsidizing the lifestyle choices of college-educated white workers who could do the same work from somewhere else.

> Can you elaborate on how UBI would help? Homelessness in high-opportunity low-housing-supply regions is not a problem of individuals not having enough cash, and neither is the inability of non-profit workers to live in these places.

Let’s not overstate the “opportunities” available in places like SF and NYC. Lower income people live there because there are a lot of service jobs for unskilled workers. But it’s not like those people are going to be able to work their way up from the mail room at Facebook or JP Morgan. What you have is a situation where these workers have to be in SF or NYC because that’s where the service jobs are, and where landlord can capture a big fraction of the rent that the government might subsidize.

UBI addresses that problem by decoupling wages from location. Someone receiving UBI can move from SF to Bakersfield. That increases their standard of living while limiting the cost to the government relative to trying to support that person in SF of NYC. 1 in 12 people in SF broke their leases during pandemic. Imagine what would happen if the government told everyone tomorrow they they’d get $1,000 per month guaranteed, which they could draw upon either in SF or in Des Moines. It would have the double effect of reducing the demand for housing in places like SF and NYC, and enabling that demand to be diverted to places where building new supply might be much easier.
Subsidizing new content and making it easily discoverable are the primary reasons for bundling. When new content comes to you for free with your existing purchase, the only thing stopping you from trying it out and potentially getting hooked is your willingness to commit time to it. If every piece of content had a price associate with it, people would be much less willing to try new things. This same principle applies at both the individual show level and at the channel level. The people selling you this content want you to consume as much as possible so you don't associate your purchase with a single show and end up canceling HBO once Game of Thrones ends.

You can see how this lack of bundling might impact content by looking at movies which are traditionally more a la carte. Movies are produced under the assumption that they all need to be financially self sufficient. The end result is that most content produced is either blockbusters based off big budget IP (which tries to address discoverability) or low cost and easy to produce content that can potentially be hugely profitable if it hits. The mid-budget TV (traditional TV mainstays like sitcoms would generally fall into this bucket) would likely disappear if everything was purchased a la carte.

It is also worth considering that most of the streaming content providers all do the same bundling as the traditional powers like Viacom. The difference is that the Netflixes of the world don't organize their content into channels. However there are definitely different verticals within these companies. Netflix has one for comedy[1] that is the equivalent of Viacom's Comedy Central, they just don't actively separate this content from the rest of their catalog.

[1] - twitter.com/NetflixIsAJoke
I bet Commodore SID chips will also be very popular. Authentic working specimens go for $50 on eBay!
2-Mins read on structured procrastination (the lesser known you're guilty of)
On Firefox for Android Beta, the default seems to be to opt-in, to share "Marketing data" with their mobile marketing vendor, Leanplum.

This caught me by surprise and can be changed in the Settings -> Data collection menu.
The examples miss the opening quote before the URLs.

Illustration: http://dmitry.cheryasov.info/random/missing-quote-mark.jpg
Thanks for flagging that, they've been fixed and retested, thank you jbotz!
>Try sending $1B around the world to your Nigerian uncle and seeing what happens.

I'm sad that I have to inform you that the emails you've been getting aren't actually real
I have to say I expected it, but I had no idea of the magnitude of the effect.
Pug: Fast and concise template engine using Node.js
I love spacevim! (sic!)
> if everything is subjective and the answer to everything is repression, then the law is no longer valid, and the only possible outcome is civil war.

We already live in a world in which limits on speech exist, including the limit against threats of violence being discussed. We also already live in a world in which every law besides the laws of physics is subjective and open to interpretation.

If it is the case that subjective reality must render law invalid, then the law is and has always been invalid. Given that the law does not appear to be invalid, and civilization appears to remain intact, it cannot be stated as a certainty that the existence of laws themselves (restrictions) in a subjective reality must inevitably lead to anarchy.

Your error is the fallacy of the excluded middle, assuming the only possible paths to take here are towards unrestricted free speech or arbitrary repression.

>If you do not want bloody, horrific, monstrous civil war with giant swarths of the population who don't agree with you, then you should err on the side of being permissive of questionable speech.

Arguments of the type "x or blood will be on your hands" appear more extortionate than appealing to reason. I don't believe that Reddit banning these communities will lead to that outcome, and if you consider that a likely possibility, maybe you should reexamine your assumptions.

>As you've seen from the mass riots recently in the USA, a massive violent response is only a single sensationalist news story away.

There was a lot more behind that then a single sensationalist news story.
>But then how do you incentivize certain kinds of behavior? And how do you determine when somebody is too poor to be subject to any kind of penalty? Any loopholes you create will always be abused by the rich and powerful because that's the very definition of power--capable of bending the system to your advantage.

Base the fine on income. Say, a traffic ticket is 0.1% of your income, while running a red light is 1% and a DUI could be 10%.
> and the chance of encountering one of these events is quite high

Indeed, and there are a lot of overlapping disaster preparedness steps that make sense no matter what the triggering event happened to be, so it makes sense to establish, e.g.: robust command and control infrastructure that doesn't rely on primary infrastructure, including communications and chains of command; stockpiles of strategic durable goods like medical equipment, rations, batteries, etc.
I'm sorry but this very discussion contains the reverse of what you're saying. In a post suggesting that SM isn't racist, he's only concerned for the welfare of black children, I posted a link clearly highlighting the many instances of SM's racism. My post got downvoted, the parent didn't.
Incorrect. If you did actually dig in to the paper they found:

Aphantasic participants scored significantly lower than control group 2 on all outcomes of the imagery and episodic memory questionnaires (all p < 0.0002, all r > 0.52, all BF10 > 1.42e8) with the exception of the factual memory component of the SAM.

So aphantasics (like myself) do have poor episodic memory.

Paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-65705-7
I have a friend who bought a new Ford Focus: it’s been in the shop every two months since she got it. No one else I know has that problem, everyone else I know buys foreign.
Is Superhuman any good for that matter? I refuse to have to talk to a sales person on the phone in order to use a mail app. Which is what their signup flow required last time I tried.
Google has successfully recreated cable TV along with the awful "pay top dollar for stuff you don't want" pricing model... wonderful.
I was an emacs user until I had a summer internship where I had to constantly rebuild SunOS and Solaris boxes. No emacs in the default install and no working networking. But vi was there and it became my default everywhere.
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>secretly one of the most important things

Thanks, this is a neat idea to think about. You helped me start anchoring some untethered thoughts I've had floating around about this stuff recently.

>like all the ticketing system vendors seem to want you to do

It's so annoying how misaligned the incentives are between these vendors and the users. Standard fare for B2B products focusing on the people signing the checks though...
For myself, it is OmniGraffle. Now I just keep an older Macbook Air around solely for diagramming.
It doesn't currently, but that's absolutely something I'll add.
Same for me. No more vaccines until I review the evidence myself.
Rutracker, or torrents.ru, has been full of malware-infected trash for the last 15 years. It's anything but a trusted community
One question I have, is: couldn't they get the IOS geekbench to work on the Developer kit?
Like the sun and your closed eyelids. Light transmission goes up with wavelength https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-biome... (see figure 5.) To speculate, perhaps we have evolved to benefit from closing our eyes in the sun.
I'd be very curious to read your review!
More of the same. Bootcamps to try to push down the salary of software developers by flooding the market with folks who leave messes for others to clean up.

Then they wonder why everyone is less productive afterwards.
This is driven by Viacom which likely leveraged removal of its local CBS channels unless YTTV 'took' included this package of 14 channels (8 now). Until retransmission consent is fixed, this is how all over the top providers will go (start cheap until the large content providers take notice).
More like they eventually join mid-size plus companies which Adobe tracks down to make them pay for their photoshop (if they detect it on a company network they will reach out). Or they simply just pay for it because they can and/or are professional/law abiding people.

Adobe doesn't spend copyright enforcement time on individuals much.
In some cases, but not in others.

We had a problem with the police doing drivebys and firing indiscriminately at crowds as police would drive off.
It's rent seeking at best. You're providing no value to anyone by sitting on it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23695270
If your plan involves moving the entirety of food production to areas of the globe that are currently permafrost and have no comparable ecosystems to where we are currently farming, you are going to have a bad time. You can't just bootstrap a healthy, thriving set of soil conditions, food webs, etc in a couple years. These things normally take thousands or even tens of thousands of years on geological timescales. Just look at how long it takes deciduous forests to reach their apex state: thousands of years.
In addition to everything below, a great way to expand their Canadian presence to get around problems with American immigration laws.
I was hoping some of you would give good reasons not to use it. But now I have to go dedicate time to become fluent since it is clearly worth it.
Khan Academy khanacademy.org is a free online learning site. It has a complete math curriculum, and is branching out into other topics.
If you use ublock-origin, there is a simple element picker tool that lets you block parts of a web page.
I've always assumed the opposite with how people say emacs is a nice OS and poor editor... What does Vim over emacs?
In this day and age, it's a wise move to make a new account and protect your identity. Nobody wants their live destroyed ("canceled") for a comment. That's what it has become, and it will only get worse.
System administrators started using it because it's one of the best non-GUI editors (along with emacs), so it had this mystique around it. Those who knew VIM/emacs were surely hackers! And so programmers picked up on that and using VIM/emacs is a sign that you're cool.
It’s the toddler. Times FLY when you have the hard responsibilities of a toddler.
25 years ago was 1995
I'd like to hear the backstory behind these videos then.

https://youtu.be/8kCrTvlcgD4?t=57
https://youtu.be/-BGyTi-KdKc?t=33

I think its pretty weird that you justify police violence that is permanently disabling people. I'm sure serial killers and mafia bosses can come up with good reasons why they kill people and if you were in their shoes you would act in exactly the same way but why on earth would accept their behavior? Just because you know why someone did something doesn't mean that the thing they did is okay.

If you think I'm cherry picking. I've seen dozens of videos like these since June where the police was intentionally trying to cause more damage than necessary. At least 4 headshots with rubber projectiles like the video I linked. One of the victims was a man in a wheelchair or a girl going shopping unaware of the riots. Cops standing 2m away throw burning CS gas canisters in your face. At least two elderly men pushed to the ground and one of them bleeding from his ear (most likely skull damage). Sure the man got a bit too close but once he was helplessly lying on the ground the police just walked away as if nothing happened instead of calling an ambulance. There are too many examples to list and I'm sure lots of them didn't even get recorded so we will never know how many there are.
It's the fastest browser I've ever used on desktop and mobile.
Which usually involves stopping, or at least short-circuiting the short-term profit motive. But governments have a lot of power and wield a lot of money. The public purse is a nice prize for corrupt corporations to target, and chipping away at regulations that keep this machine pointed the right direction for the long term is all the rage across a whole side of the political spectrum.
(Serious reply to joking question...)

No, the bootloader is locked.
You tend to get what you pay for.
Precisely no one wants to replace Linus Torvalds with a woman or person of color just to have a woman or person of color maintaining the Linux kernel.
I started using emacs in the early 90s and got really into it during uni, studying CS a couple of years later. In mid 2000s I ended up in sysadmin work in a mixed Unix-environment (Tru64, AIX, Solaris, Linux) in a group where all other used (some Vi(m)-variant).
I tried to get work done with emacs but failed due to various special characters always getting mangled in different ways over different terminals on different platforms and after a couple of months I gave in and started using Vim instead.
I finally understood that Vim had two essential properties that other editors lacked in this case.

1) It works well in environments where special characters will get mangled in various ways over different platforms. As long as ESC works, vim will do the work just fine.
2) The modes makes it very reliable to use when you have to make specific operations in exact places in text-files. This alone should make it the goto editor for sysadmins where you often have to make just a few character changes to a configuration file and be sure you do not change anything else.

A third reason when starting the work was also that Vim came by default on all out platforms so we knew it existed there and it was a nightmare trying to get approval for extra packages to be installed, but the first two reasons are what keeps me coming back to Vim whenever I need to do some text-file surgery.
>to trip stupid automated moderating systems

Sex/Sexuality/Gender/etc.

There is some confusion on these. One has to do with identity, the other has to do with sexual partner choice. I.e. I was born a man, I feel like a woman. In an unrelated (to identity) note, I prefer X-Y-Z as my sexual partner.

The conservative/conservatism bit has to do with the hypocrisy that man, woman should be the only available choices of gender, and that "man + woman" should be the only allowed sexual partnership. I will not bring religion to the discussion, it only makes things shittier.

This (imho) is the founding stone of fascism, you are different than me (postpartum gender change not allowed), and your choices are different than mine (man + woman, and no other combo allowed).

When a company suppresses and eventually kicks out these communities, they may be doing it for the $$$$, but in the end of the day they ostracize people only because of their identity and choices. As for the “stupid automated moderating..” I call bullcrap. It is a mix of hate and incompetency. But driven by hate and conservatism.

If Tumblr wanted, they could have created an tagging mechanism that could facilitate people to find their own groups/fandoms.
Well, with all of the swinging C.o.C. puns available, I'll tread safely and just point out L.T. never seemed to be about compromising quality over making people happy. Solid state does not have squeaky wheels.... Somethings amiss here....
Not a blow softener, this is the root cause of the increase. 8 new channels today, 6 more coming, all that provide very little new or compelling content. Geesh for just over 15 bucks (the increase) you can get Netflix (one stream) and Disney +.
> At least in my city we don't need to go from 100 cars -> 1 train to solve the issue. Going from 3 solo drivers -> 1 Uber/Lyft will cut congestion to 1/3-1/2. That's enough to alleviate the worst traffic.

This isn't true. Even if you assume every Uber Pool ride is full, you aren't achieving anywhere near a 50% drop in congestion. Legs where there are 3 passengers are offset by legs where the driver is alone.

> The shared services are pretty comparable to what public transport costs in my city. A single bus/train trip costs ~$5 when taking all taxes/fares into account. Most journeys from point A to B require a transfer so the cost is more like $10. $10 in a Uber/Lyft shared ride gets you pretty far.

I have no idea where you live, but your numbers seem way off. Pretty much everywhere I've lived, bus/ subway/ BART pricing is way cheaper than Uber. I can get an in-town day pass for $3.50 and can to the next town 20 miles away for less than $5. In the California Bay Area, you can take BART from one end of the line to the other for under $8. Uber's fare estimate for that same route is over $50. Oakland to SF? $3.70 versus $26. There is no single route were the prices are remotely close.

> Even if it nets out to be more expensive it's at least something that people will use. The current riders are mostly those too poor to own a car and have no other choice.

My original point here was that in Ecuador, bus service does work and it's crap in the US.
Mentoring with Scaffolds
Agreed - love the design of the landing page
You don't think announcing this rate hike on the morning of the last day of the Q2 is coincidence? Sounds like most people's accounts are scheduled to renew in August, which would be much more impactful if we all waited until then to cancel. The knee-jerk cancelations today are fully expected and accounted for.
This incident: https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/gwa2ub/seattle_pol...

Witness accounts: https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/gwa2ub/seattle_pol...

I was there earlier and I saw a scared resident trying to drive home through that gate. A protester right next to me made a snide remark about the "expensive" car and proposed blocking the gate. The gate was not blocked that time, but given the video they did it later for some other vehicle.

Two things I conclude from this:

1. The police do not necessarily publish exculpating evidence for their own actions.

2. You wouldn't know what happened if you were not there.

This latter point I cannot emphasize enough - I was there often and last Thursday I realized that one can make/edit enough material to support any point of view.
> Well, in the west, you’ll get Epsteined before you can do any real damage.

That's a bold claim. I thought they'd shoot you from a grassy knoll.
How is what it requires different from the microphone in a typical headset?
You missed the step a lot of us believe this law is moral.

So this isn't about not following unmoral laws.

More so, on top of this, many people also think it's ok in some circumstance to break moral laws.

If someone steals food they need, then many people think that's ok. If someone breaks copyright when they wouldn't have normally payed for the product, then some people also think this is ok.

But I think this is none of the above.

This is a food bank openly stealing food from Walmart. Heck, if some anarchist group broke into Walmart and stole food, even that would have more support. But when they say what they are doing is ok and do it openly in front of police, that's when they lose me.
I built something to help get us all off Gmail, an intermediary step rather:

https://forwardemail.net

It is 100% open-source, and I built it because I wanted to begin to move away from Gmail as Google Business was no longer free to use on custom domains.

(disclosure: I am the author of this project)