skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could try reaching out to founders on AngelList and Crunchbase. You might also wish to announce your product on BetaList and Product Hunt if you haven't already.
A couple of years ago, I learned that other people see images in their minds. Now I learn that people hear voices in their minds in a way that is dramatically different to mine. When I am thinking, there is pure silence and blank-ness in my mind. I don't see anything in my blind mind's eye, and I don't hear anything in my deaf mind's ear.

It seems that I can create a monologue in my mind, but I have to be consciously thinking of the words and almost subvocalising them to get it to work how several of the examples are described in TFA.

This makes me wonder, if I'm not seeing images for my mental representations, and I am not hearing inner audio compositions, then what is my thinking consisting of?

When I sit here, just now, creating and solving math problems of moderate difficulty, it's like, there's nothing except maybe a feeling of some sort? A drive or desire? The closest maybe that it feels like is the abstract symbols, from the article, "Other people don’t have a voice at all, or they speak in abstract symbols that don’t involve language." Except they aren't image-symbols in any way. Just like, feeling symbols.

Anyway. I don't know.

Fascinating.
> The vaccine is safer than infection

Not for everyone, sadly:

Boys more at risk from Pfizer jab side-effect than Covid, suggests study https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boys-more-at-r...

> US researchers say teenagers are more likely to get vaccine-related myocarditis than end up in hospital with Covid

Why COVID-19 Vaccines Should Not Be Required for All Americans https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/why-covid-19-vacci...

> Dr. Marty Makary, a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and editor in chief of MedPage Today, argues that mandating vaccines for "every living, walking American" is, as of now, not well-supported by science. ... The risk of hospitalization from COVID-19 in kids ages 5 to 17 is 0.3 per million for the week ending July 24, 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We also know that the risk of hospitalization after the second vaccine dose due to myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle, is about 50 per million in that same age group.
I appear to have both of these things. I wonder if that’s quite common.
Much much better. I think Chrome is intentionally bad at this, to force you to do a search.
> The problem happens when somebody "updates" that web server in-place.

Imagine this is 28-nginx : I would create another script 29-nginx-update only recording the update, even if it: "echo apt-get update; apt-get upgrade nginx ; echo "make sure to fix variable $foo"

Next time I have to do that, I will integrate that into 28-nginx and remove 29-nginx-update

> eventually when someone tries the whole checklist from the beginning, they'll find it's now broken; the steps aren't working as expected.

Maybe I don't understand the issue, but my scripts or text files are simple and meant to be used in sequence. If I hack the scripts, I make sure it still works as expected - and given my natural laziness, I only ever update scripts when deploying to a new server or VM, so I get an immediate feedback if they stop working

Still, sometimes something may work as expected (ex: above, maybe $foo depends on a context?), but it only means I need to generalize the previous solution - and since the script update only happen in the context of a new deployment, everything is still fresh in my head, so I can do it easily

To help me with that, I also use zfs snapshots at important steps, to be able to "observe" what the files looked like on the other server at a specific time. The snapshots conveniently share the same name (ex etc@28-nginx) so comparing the files to create one ot more scripts can be easily done with diff -Nur using .zfs/snapshot/ cf https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/gbiqe/index.ht...

Between that + a sqlite database containing the full history of commands types (including in which directory, and their return code), I rarely have such issues

Shameless plug for that bash history in sqlite: https://github.com/csdvrx/bash-timestamping-sqlite

> So checklists should be considered immutable. Once you create them, don't assume they will work again if modified. Instead, if you make any change to the checklist, you must follow all the steps from beginning to end.

I agree: if I don't have time to fix 28-nginx, I write 29-nginx-update instead, with the goal next time to integrate it. But I don't try to tweak 28-nginx if I know I won't have the time to test it.
Thanks :) I'm embarrassed, I can't edit the comment anymore.

Making it more amusing, I know I suck at spelling so I even googled "sensai" first, before posting, quickly saw that it didn't have the "did you mean...?" prompt, and assumed it was the right spelling. Oops. :)
I can barely do this, at a naturally-occurring rate of maybe one image a month or less. But I can pick up music instantly.
Standards of online networking or the metaverse? Its the internet. You can run 3D crap in a browser.
>I know that many of you will say Ruby is doing fine...

You have described what I have been crying about since 2016.

Rails is definitely in a negative feedback loop. And I am not even sure if Shopify and Github are enough to pull it out.

And there are lots of reddit threads about Junior Ruby Developers unable to find a job. As nearly all jobs are looking for Senior Dev.

The only way to solve a problem is to accept it is a problem. And right now as you said, most still think the ecosystem is doing fine.
That was Wayfair IIRC
Being able to replace memory and storage is very critical for anything that will see a lot of use. Both of these are certainly not "lifetime" items.
I think they know how much money they've sunk into their Oculus property and they want to see more return on that investment.
I was wondering if there is an explanation on why the political systems in American's science fictions are just so unimaginative? I mean, a civilization could predict the future, could destroy a planet, could travel across galaxies, and could rule trillions of people, yet they had an empire just like ancient Rome? Change of technologies and productivity and economy will not lead to change of political systems?
The depiction was as relevant to the WWW as the browser is: the presentation is up to the client, remember that Lynx and Firefox are both perfectly good web clients (in principle, we've killed that aspect of the web for the most part by insisting on pixel perfect copies instead of broad rendering hints). But depending on bandwidth and rendering capability of your device you could have the entirety of the gamma ranging from text-only all the way to full immersive 3D and everything in between.
Each one has to be manually approved by the recipient's manager, so this can't happen. It's a joke.
Arguably, framing Hardin as a "Hero's Journey" is the show taking chances versus the relatively much more dry source material. As Seldon says time and again, psychohistory can only predict the actions of large enough groups of people, it cannot predict the actions of individuals. From that perspective alone, I've found so far I mostly appreciate the twists the show is taking on the source material. Most of them seem to me to be individual actions within the overall predictions of psychohistory (treating the books as one prediction versus reality/timeline and the show as another).
Maybe they know that VR and Second Life may have stagnated but are going nowhere and as tech improves, the "Metaverse" is inevitable? The fact that Second Life is still a thing in 2021 is actually impressive.
Makefiles can be great for this sort of thing. Over time you build up a really nice library of shell commands and it's trivial to organize them into a DAG of dependent steps. Lack of makefiles is a strong reason to avoid windows dev machines like the plague...(IMHO)
Yes, yes it is.

Is your train of thought in the same order as the spoken/written words that it converts to?
The Shitposting Gods of Silicon Valley
Where can i try this?
I do everything you just listed. But that was by choice, and I know people who won't want to e.g. ever give up eating meat.

We have to accommodate these lifestyles (and build tech to make it more sustainable) - people generally don't want to go 'backwards', even if you or I don't perceive that as a problem.

Ultimately it's irrelevant, because both of our lifestyles are still heavily carbon negative without offsets. We both own a computer or live in a house I assume? That's why I'm sceptical of the "just live more sustainable" movement.
Facebook to delete users' facial-recognition data after privacy complaints
Thanks for putting this into words. It made so much sense to me that I had to save it for future reference.

Might you have any additional takeaways since gaining that perspective?
Yeah I think that's fair. I probably wouldn't actually use explicit inner voice to chose between two avenues either (unless this was something I apriori considered a very important decision I sat down to consciously think about)
> Can you all hear things like music and other sounds too?

Yes. I do, at least. Not always, but I can imagine music and "hear" it in my head. It's not as though it actually sounds like music (that is, it is perceptually distinct from actually hearing something, I'd never confuse an imagined with a real sound), but I can hear it. It was very useful when I actually played musical instruments, imagining how a piece would sound and then trying it later.
the 5tb was performance data collected from servers
Isn't this already at a TCP level? HTTP is only used for management of the proxy?
I remember that! I loved using an avatar that looked like a bush and then hiding in plain sight.
I find Homebrew really frustrating, and I also sometimes find its popularity relative to more mature or more thoughtfully engineered tools in the same problem domain frustrating.

But I think it's unfair and lazy to say that Homebrew's design defects are just there because its author is stupid or something like that. That Homebrew's (massive) success is grounded in virtues other than fundamentals like dependency management doesn't mean that Max Howell has nothing to offer or couldn't be an effective part of a team at Google or anywhere else.

I imagine his willingness to just forge ahead with a simple solution when he notices that existing tools aren't serving him well means that he doesn't often get totally stuck, or succumb to paralysis by analysis, for example. He might be great to pair with if you tend to overthink things or get stuck, and I bet he'd be a very helpful critic and contributor when it comes to the user experience of internal CLI tools.

There's no need to shit on the guy. He's been very honest and clear about Homebrew's strengths and weaknesses: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin...
All the time. To be fair, it can be (a little bit) annoying at times too: typically when you have an earworm you can't get rid of, and loops in your head until you actually listen to some other music.
Tesla stock falls after Elon Musk tweets that a deal with Hertz is not signed
Well it's a bit a mix of predictability and stability (not the technical one).

One example Ubuntu...first Unity then Amazon then Snaps, and ubuntu is even considered an "enterprise distro"

But i am really not a distro fanboy (super happy if one uses linux and not windows/mac), in fact i use Free-BSD (no truenas etc...again same rule, take the original (i know technically that would be netbsd)) wherever i can, and if i have/can touch linux i choose a old warhorse-distro, mostly because of future predictability/stability.
Yeah it already runs Hackintosh. The MacBook is not mine, it's my work laptop. What I'm saying is instead of the Thinkpad if I had bought anything Apple with similar performance, like an iMac Pro or a Mini Pro, I would be up around 1000 and now that money just disappeared into nothingness because the used market for PCs suck.
Aphantasia: Is there a simple test or procedure we can use to make it easier to decide to what degree we have this or not? It just seems like a topic where expectations can differ a lot. Since it's hard to clearly explain what visualizing feels like and doesn't. Some people might even be very normal and yet disappointed and think they are missing something.

I don't think my mind's eye is particularly strong for example, don't have very vivid imagination. But I also don't know where the frame of reference should be!
Hence, I run chromium, not chrome. (ed: and Firefox).
Zillow is shutting down its home buying and laying off 25% of its employees
Why is it assumed that because they are a landlord that they are mistreating someone?
As with "afantasia" a few years back, we seem to keep encountering places where the experience and perhaps even construction of minds are very different from each other, and the diversity of brains is certainly fascinating...

But underpinning all the reporting I read on it is a fundamental assumption that's very strange to me. A lot of people seem to work under a model where brains and lived experiences should be very similar to each other, and I just don't see that actually bearing out anywhere. So what I often come away wondering is: Why is this assumption so pervasive?
Epidemic of Car Break-Ins in SF Creating a Glass Shortage at Repair Shops
There’s no other self in my head to debate with. Except when I’m specifically thinking about what someone else would say, in which case I can get fragments of phrases enough to sort-of rehearse different branches of a conversation. I also can’t play chess against myself, because I can see my own logic on both sides, and it nullifies.
I never had to replace either, although I don't want them non replacable. External/cloud storage can take care of space, and memory corruption is a fear, but nothing I worry about, batteries are worst than both combined.
Thanks for sharing! Didn't read about that one.
Same here. Spotify claims it's the podcast producers' doing when ads are inserted this way. It still miffs me. One of the conditions of being a paid content provider for Spotify should be that you provide an ad-free experience for premium subscribers.
So wait, if you close your eyes and picture Mount Everest, you can't see Mount Everest in your head?

For me it's easy to "fly" around my neighborhood just by closing my eyes and remembering what the streets and trees and houses look like as I take a lap. I can see off into the distance, I can see the sidewalk cracks, I can see people... all of them are obviously fuzzed versions of reality but nonetheless they're relatively easy to see. I figured everyone was able to do that to some extent.
A script comparing the md5 or the timestamp of the configuration files against the md5 or the timestamps of the log entry in charge of these files can do that

I mean, if /etc/hosts is more recent than /log-directory/03-static-hosts-in-etc or the md5 you have recorded for this file, a daemon can easily create a ticket / send an email to whoever was logged at the time of the change.
> since whatever failure damaged the SSD is statistically likely to compromise the reliability of the rest of the board

That's a pretty big assumption.

The SSD is the component that is most likely to fail next to the battery.

So effectively this makes the lifetime of the computer the lifetime of the SSD, which is just one shade away from planned obsolescence due to the write limitations of SSDs.

edit:
ChuckNorris89 wrote pretty much the same but four hours earlier.
> to protect their livelihood

Maybe they should grow up and get a job.
I find difficult to believe that people articulate their thoughts. It sounds too slow to be practical for the every day tasks. I have the (surely wrong) impression that people rationalize their thoughts after the fact with words. I can e.g. read poetry in my head with a voice that captures the sounds and the meaning of the words, but if I'm solving a problem there's no way words can keep up. But I can hear me can say Q.E.D. when the problem is solved.
This was an output of a free (now defunct) service that used to accept transcripts and pump out these videos with TTS audio. It led to some hilarious results, usually within niche communities. Around ~2010 these things were everywhere.
You didn't own a Zune. They were FANTASTIC. They did focus on customer experience and usability... they were amazing.

I could put MP3s on there just as easily as I could an iPod, if not more easily.

The whole meaningless, punchline-less joke "Microsoft sux lol" thing that's been happening since the Triassic period is what did the Zune in; bystanders took the almost toothless anti-ms culture shared among nerd communities as if it were something that had an appropriate amount of merit. it had merit, yes, but not anywhere nearly as much as you would think if you listened to Linux nerds talk to each other for more than a few minutes.
Your concerns are not unfounded, but there is a very significant functional difference between being generally concerned about data privacy posed by any third-party bad actor, and having a threat profile that includes specific state actor threats.

If you think it is a realistic scenario that the US would serve a warrant against you, then yes, your iCloud backup will probably be disclosed to the authorities. But if this is a real concern of yours, then you probably have much bigger things to worry about than whether your SSD is soldered to the board or not.
Windows has MSBuild that is just as expressive as Makefiles, don’t use the lack of make as an excuse.
Like someone else said sftp it’s huge for B2B and probably is part of how you get paid.
*ftp is blunt but nice when dealing with other parties since it interoperates well, everyone has it, and (most of the time) it just works whether you are talking to a Linux box, IBM MQ, or something else altogether.
Check out these bad pronunciations:

- succinct

- mischievous

- coup de grace

- comptroller
No. Backpage, in its dealings with law enforcement, operated as a model of cooperation, transparency, and proactive outreach in these matters, and received plaudits from multiple law enforcement agencies for this. Its availability also made it more difficult for pimps and organized crime to monopolize the trade in a region, as they exploited or even trafficked women.

When it was shut down and seized and its founders prosecuted, it was a win for the DoJ PR department and for dangerous sex traffickers, and a loss for the rest of the world.

I’m morally against all of this myself in principle, but you can’t just endorse prohibition without considering the consequences: even if all this is bad you can’t just say “this is bad!!” as an excuse for making it significantly worse as you lie to the public and slander the operators.
So, I know people involved in COVID vaccine trials (I can't remember which, I think it was Pfizer or Moderna), and also work with people who have been involved with other sorts of trials involving sensitive populations.

Awhile ago, we had a conversation about the issue you're referring to. Basically what was happening was that people in the control group were getting vaccinated, increasingly so, after the trials showed efficacy. It wasn't even so much they were leaving the study, they were just violating the inclusion criteria.

They were very aware of this, and discussed all sorts of ways of trying to get around it, too many to note here, including some weird designs with a new sample that at the time didn't really make logical sense to me from an efficacy RCT standpoint, but did from an ethical standpoint.

There were at least two things on their mind. First, you can't force participants to remain in the trials long-term. So if they want to go get vaccinated, they're going to get vaccinated. You can't keep them from doing that. So if you lose 95% of your participants to that, and your power goes through the floor, what can you do?

Second, there's a strong argument to be made that if you show strong efficacy of an intervention that prevents a world-crippling disease, it is highly unethical to keep the intervention from the control participants. It's not just unethical to encourage them not to get the vaccine, it's unethical to not offer it to them. There are many RCTs my colleagues have been in, of much more inconsequential treatments, where they ended up giving the treatment to controls because of this issue. So what about a COVID vaccine?

Yes, long-term findings are necessary and/or desirable, but this can't really be done while circumventing ethical issues about withholding a highly effective intervention. There's lots of scenarios where this happens all the time -- where you'd like to get more and/or any RCT data but doing so raises ethical obstacles that are difficult to overcome.

Maybe you could scrounge together enough people across trials but then you run into another issue: are the people who choose to remain in the control group long term really comparable to treatments on average anymore? You lose your randomization in an important sense, so it's all moot anyway.

It's a difficult issue.
Spotify allows it, I've contacted their support team about it. They claim that as long as the creator is the one inserting the ads that they allow it.
I'm going to call very large amounts of BS on #2 -- Apple devices are infamous in electronics refurbishing circles. Thousands of very functional devices are being scrapped instead of being reused because they are soft-bricked due to never being deregistered from iCloud accounts, for various legitimate reasons that have been discussed ad nauseam (and shouldn't be the responsibility of the end user in any case).

Many solutions have been repeatedly suggested to Apple to mitigate the e-waste damage from this without compromising their supposed dedication to iCloud-locking to prevent theft; they have fallen on deaf ears.
I've been using Termius https://termius.com/ios paired with Wireguard for a long while on my iPhone and generally I am happy with Termius as it has very pleasant to use touch interactions both for selecting text and scrolling and performing arrow keys up/down.

However, the big drawback of Termius is that in the free version it will terminate the connection after quite a short while as soon as you put the app in the background. They offer a subscription to have it not behave like this but I don't want to pay a subscription for that feature. (The subscription includes additional features as well, but I don't want any of those features.)

When I read about Blink shell now, I was kind of hoping that it might be a good replacement. I tried it out on my phone, but I am a bit bewildered about how to select text using Blink shell.

I am wondering if maybe Blink shell is mainly suitable for use on iPad, and not as great to use on iPhone. At least, my initial impression is that it is probably fine for use with a keyboard but that it is not made for touch interactions to the same degree that Termius is.

Edit: I figured out how to select text with Blink shell; double tap and drag [1]. Unfortunately it feels quite clumsy and awkward to me compared to Termius. Not just the motion itself, but also how the resulting selection is handled. I will keep trying to use Blink shell for a while though. After all, Blink shell is open source and so if I like it a lot I could maybe rewrite the touch interactions to be more in line with what I'd like them to be.

[1]: https://github.com/blinksh/blink/issues/1116
> yet they had an empire just like ancient Rome?

It wasn't quite just like ancient Rome, but...

> Change of technologies and productivity and economy will not lead to change of political systems?

It did, which is why their political system wasn't one of the ones popular at the time it was written. The system echoed with past ones because the combined effect of the economic and tech changes (particularly notably the relationship between travel and communications speed) echoed the past.