skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A regular digital document can be called into question in court with some concern for digital manipulation. Chain of custody, cryptographic signing, audit logs, etc help establish vendors as trusted in legal disputes. It’s nothing particular to them, it’s just compliance with UETA and ESign laws as well as state/local standards in the US.

As much as vendors like DocuSign provide UX and infrastructure for document management, they also package an aspect of legal compliance as a service.
Specifically referring to the chief executives of a medium-to-large corporation. Their responsibilities vary depending on the organization, but usually, they're tasked with improving the profitability and efficiency of any given group.
Does this means the input to my model can be a set of varying length instead of a list of fixed length?

Could this be used for something like a card game? Consider, how would you encode the cards in your hand in such a game? The cards in your hand form a set, their order does not matter, and the number of cards in your hand at any time varies in many games.

The examples on that page are neat, but they're also stupid and artificial. Why would anyone mangle their input like that? Are there any examples of this being useful that are less artificial?
> Start Julia with one system thread. Run one infinite loop in one green thread and another in another green thread. One of the loops will run while the other will wait until the other completes (which it never does). This is inferior

If you want julia to use multiple system threads, why are you suggesting one not use system threads for this test? All you have to do is start julia with multiple threads and it'll use those threads for your infinite loops.
Aphantasiac here. Not quite pure aphantasiac, as I do on rare occasions experience momentary flashes of mental imagery, but it's so rare that it never occurred to me anyone could actually do anything useful with mental images.

Once the penny finally dropped it was mind-melting. It's been three or four years now since I realized my experience is unusual, and I'm _still_ discovering ways it impacts how I experience life differently than most.

A memorable moment was telling a friend who already knew I was aphantasiac that I struggle with mental arithmetic, and being completely lost when he replied, "oh, right, because you can't make the numbers dance in your head."

I said, "what?"

After a minute of confusion, he was finally able to get across that when he does mental math, he actually writes the problem in his mind's eye and does it on virtual paper.

I think that was the day I first realized that it really is a handicap in many ways.

OTOH, an upside is that I've never had to wish for "brain bleach". I didn't understand that phrase at all until the past year or three. I occasionally think that aphantasiacs should be preferentially chosen for high-trauma-exposure jobs, like EMT - we simply can't retain those horrible moments.

I'm not on HN super-regularly, but I'd be happy to take a few minutes to answer questions the next time I check in.
The few modern Anarchist systems have tended to fail due to interference by outside forces. It's also easy to imagine the system failing from within if human nature causes too many people to act in non-anarchist ways (by trying to force dominance, or by use of market mechanisms such as bartering to jump queues for scare resources). However, I'm interested to know if the system would work if these tendencies could be avoided. Perhaps fewer goods and services would be produced, but perhaps this may be a good thing if compensated with equality and less time spent working. Perhaps the system would actually encourage some people to work more, although in a way that they find enjoyable, not necessarily the most efficient way.
Exactly this.

Just after I read the abstract, it reminded me of reading a long, engrossing novel (like War and Peace, LOTR, etc.), or watching a similar TV/Web series (like The Wire, Breaking Bad, etc.)

To a large extent I read long novels for this effect.

It gives you momentary escape from your reality, and when you "come back", you come back better.

I also want to point out that novels can be addictive in a bad way.

Long art forms suspends reality for a time period.
Nevertheless, every time I run JetBrains IDEs it works much slower than QtCreator, for example, and eats way too much memory compared to the native equivalents. Hardly a myth if I can see it with my own eyes. Same with Ghidra vs Binary Ninja or IDA Pro. And so on.
Make that zero. To their credit, the authors of the Bangladesh mask study released the raw data. "The difference between the two groups was small: only 20 cases out of over 340,000 individuals over a span of 8 weeks." Drawing any conclusions from such small amount of data is deeply unserious.

http://www.argmin.net/2021/11/23/mask-rct-revisited
The thought had occurred to me that a low-severity virus might, for that very reason, be more contagious. In other words, the fact that it's very contagious might be primarily because it doesn't present severe symptoms, thus the person (and those around them) don't realize it's covid-19. Just a speculation.
Which itself is underpinned by a complex web of private title insurance companies and real estate lawyers who have to waste time and money attempting to convince a judge of what reality really is.
Have you ever managed people? This bit does not match my experience at a number of companies: "you quite literally have no say [...] no one cares what your opinion is, as you have zero political capital".
The Wild West lasted 30 years. Significant amounts of land damage, violence against women and indigenous people happened. Cowboys were overwhelmingly Spanish speaking. It wasn't America's finest libertarian dream, cattle barons exploited everyone, consumers included. Chicago was a nightmare of meat packing. Mass immigration was in full swing.

No part of the world is away from government reach, you espouse a fantasy.
99.99% uptime

Until they get bought, or simply discontinue / modify the product, and/or you fail to read the fine print on the ToS. Or they simply lie.
Time is just Hyman's perception.
> mass surveillance

> rent seeking

> first mover advantage

This reads like an HN buzzword bingo card.

But seriously, a lot of your claims are flimsy or misinformed, which goes to credibility. Cambridge Analytica was a huge nothingburger that had no actual effect on US elections or Brexit. Google did not have first mover advantage, they were so late to the search engine game that it caused them trouble in their early financing. Show us a real, known harm from Clearview. Google and Facebook are not breaking any laws, so how can they be "invading privacy"? The bottom line is, people love FAANG tech, and are happy to trade their data to use it. And one of the reasons is because they are not experiencing real harm, in spite of what HN's white knights would have us believe.
Art is a skill that has to be developed, though. People who are talented artists weren't born being able to draw or paint. So if someone is untrained them just drawing "two wheels, pedals and handlebars" may be because they're concerned to convey the idea of a bike.

In any case, at least some people do have visualizations. There are artists that can look at something and then draw it from memory. For myself-- and I'm a fairly talented amateur-- I can see nothing in my head as I also have aphantasia. I can draw nothing from memory. When I draw something from scratch I'm having to build it on the paper and I can never repeat a drawing.

Aside from my anecdata there's another key piece here that the article mentions: people with aphantasia lack voluntary visualizations: they can still have them involuntarily, such as when they dream. I know I get pictures in my head when I dream. It's an experience that's quite distinct from the normal day to day blackness in my mind's eye.
That depends-- have you ever had something stolen from you, which you then reported to police, after which nothing happened?
You’re right, I used the wrong word.
My experience is that most people, intelligent, thoughtful people included, simply do not appreciate how absolutely effective the above has been at distorting realty. This is probably due to our collective adjustment reactions to wave after wave of insanity. It has come to the point that we are living in a financial clown world and the show must go on so we are now pretending collectively that it all ok. Like that after school special where nobody talks about the big obvious problem that dad is beating up mom, nope we all just sit at the table for dinner and pretend everything is normal. Problem is most are are like the friend visiting and don’t notice a wit of tension in the household. But just wait, the fury will become evident even to you. So many sit there and wax concerned but try to sound rational. No people, it’s clown world there is no rationality.
I agree but I wouldn’t restrict the recommendation to just if you use python or ruby but if you want to use or understand any language in an OO fashion.
Until it disappears. I tried to look at my job contract from 5.5 years ago and it no longer exists.
I have this! It made so much sense to me when I found out.

An example: I was always amazed and somewhat confused how police photo-fit artists could create such a perfect likeness of someone. I thought they must have been endowed with magical drawing skills. What I couldn’t comprehend was that other people would be able to _describe_ someone they’d seen in that level of detail.

Even if I think of my wife and kids I can only see the faintest fleeting flicker of their faces in my mind’s eye, and even that is in very murky black and white.
Maybe this is related https://therecord.media/how-the-pandemic-pulled-nigerian-uni...
It sounds like the problem with Zillow Offers is that it didn't have the plausible growth trajectory to 5x or 50x that. It could be a profitable $50M business or an unprofitable $1B business, but not a profitable $1B business. The earnings call shutting it down mentioned that the company wasn't getting the economies of scale that they thought they would be getting.
As irritating as it is, the Head First book on OOP is actually decent for a novice.
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KitchenCraft pots and pans https://waterlesscookware.com/

We paid $1,000 (a LOT of money) for our set when we were just married in 1980. Every piece of that set still looks like new, with a mirror finish, and every lid handle and pot handle is still tight like it just came out of the box. They are naturally non-stick, cook everything with only a tiny bit of water, and are indestructible. The ones pictured on the website today look exactly like the ones we have used daily for 40 years, since they cannot be improved upon. Made in Wisconsin since 1906 and every piece is guaranteed forever.

They are only sold direct or at county fairs, home improvement shows and the like, but they are worth the high price since you will NEVER need to replace them.
I think an interesting thing to discuss is how Aphantasia impacts people who have it, if at all?

Are there any areas that are negatively or positively affected? Are there workarounds that these people do?

I read someone with Aphantasia say that they do math differently in that they don't picture the computations in their head, like it would be done in paper, but that they just use their verbal memory to keep track of intermediate values.
Yes. I had thirty years of back pain. Then I reached an age where ones muscles naturally atrophy and I was really in trouble. But after four years of back exercises, weight lifting and core exercises the pain is almost entirely gone. My back feels better than it ever has.

One weird thing was that it sometimes took me a couple of years to realise I was doing an exercise wrong. But I don't think I was initially capable of doing the exercise correctly. I literally didn't have the muscles, and it took a couple of years of wonky exercises to start developing them.

If, like me, you're an older geek with little sympathy for your body, it takes a long time to develop it. But it's worth the effort.
Certainly the value of transactions that are authorized each month by DocuSign are north of $100B, and they alleviate a substantial about of transactional friction and risk. There is also a network effect in that accessing existing agreements establishes a relationship with all parties to these contracts.

Personally I give little credence to questions about tech valuation. Either it’s rational or irrational, and that is up to each and every investor to decide and literally nobody else.
Thank you for the detailed feedback!

Some of the stuff you mentioned are definitely bugs. Do you mind submitting them to the issue tracker?
Because brands matter. They somehow cracked the nut of getting legal professionals to sign off on their service. Now, when the service costs very little compared to the context, why would you chose anything other than what your attorney recommends?
Where would one see things other than in their mind? The visual field isn't an accurate representation of reality. It's constructed by the brain.

I don't think the fact that I can't accurately draw a helicopter from an internal visualization indicates I'm not actually visualizing one. I couldn't draw a helicopter accurately even with one sitting in front of me.
A ground plane would be pointless. The only high speed portion would be the USB data lines and they're on the controller board.
What's your opinion on the abundance of content on platforms like Netflix, Prime, etc?

To me, seeing 20 movie thumbnails at the glance adds noise and makes the decision harder.

Play Something's Netflix experience seems the way to go
Regarding misrepresentation… The MSM has a good portion of people thinking Rittenhouse killed ‘brown’ people.
> Want to gradually transition to a competing cloud? Good luck, egress will bankrupt you before you finish the transition.

They do offer the Snowball to lower transfer out cost, they also offer Direct Connect which is more convenient and can be cheaper.

For sure it won't be cheap, but being able to transfer 100 TB for less than 3k isn't too bad. Storing that on S3 would cost you nearly that per month... if you can't spare a month of cost to migrate, you may want to rethink your pricing.
Speaking as a guy who meditates, where we study this kind of stuff, I would blame a shape of awareness. One part of your "reality" illuminated while another part, the part where mental images happen, resides in darkness (awarenessly speaking).

A solution would be to practice the formless/objectless/mindfulnessy/vipassany type meditation.
If it's gonna be expanded/edited by non-techie people, I'd say just use Wordpress (yesyes, i know...) with one of the many FAQ WP plugins
Also, this is just personal observation, but literally everyone I know who was receiving those unemployment payments was also doing work on the side, like Instacart delivery. One of them used to work in a hospital, but she quit during the pandemic because (1) hospitals were dangerous obviously, and (2) according to her, this unemployment + some under the table set-your-own-hours sidegig she was doing paid significantly better.
Exactly. Programming is ultimately pretty simple. The hard part is the specific domain knowledge of the business.
It's really like explaining vision to a blind person. It's kinda like dreaming if you could control the dream.
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Someone who became aphantasic due to brain trauma would have to be asked. Until 3 years ago I truly believed that when people spoke about visualization or mind's eye it was meant figuratively. So it's not something that we work around or that knowingly impacts us. I assume there are some domains where I am more or less effective because of it, but that is true of everyone for all sorts of reasons.
If that will hold you back to look after your health, then there are easier choices to make a suicide.

Unlike in your country, my country is not providing free medical help, so no matter where you are looking for it - with private doctor or goverment subsided(that you still have to pay for, unless you are a citizen of different EU country), you still have to pay money to receive medical services.
Some interesting possibilities listed there. I found this one particularly questionable, though:

> The number of jobs created by new technologies is likely to surpass those destroyed during the next 20 years, judging from past episodes.

That seems to assume linear rather than exponential growth, or at least assumes that the cumulative distribution function of job difficulty follows a smooth and predictable curve.

Moreover, it misses the point that the jobs created will not necessarily be appropriate for the people (or in the countries) where the jobs are destroyed. Even if they were, there's a lot of inertia in the job-seeking system; so, for example, if the average person has to change jobs every 6 months, that's very different from changing every 4 years.
Fun technical fact - as of a few years ago they were only signing about a million documents a day. It's all marketing / enterprise entrenchement.
I think really good villains tend to have a traumatic/motivational background that guides their desires but also fundamental personality flaws that lead to them acting well outside the bounds of normal human behavior. Some modern stories fall down when they decide to just take forever really grinding that explanation into the audience. For example, Ramsay Bolton was a great modern villain. I don't need to spend an hour watching him be sad that his dad was mean to him.
Why is the top comment an ad-hominem? I mean, it's clear that the article is making a point that's antithetical to all sorts of social justice and equity ideas, but why should identifying the (unsurprising) fact that the author supports right wing politicians be the most important bit of the discussion?
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For me:

* Effective Python
* Designing Data Intensive Applications
* High Performance Browser Networking
* Google SRE Book (maybe)
every business I've dealt with. Even some grocery stores have a xerox machine in the back office.
+100!

I'm an aphant and police sketch artists seemed like sorcerors of the Dark Arts to me up until the day I realized most people can visualize.
I'm not sure what everybody should get educated in to cope with today's society that they don't get now.

Maybe someone could update "How to Lie With Statistics" (I think it would need a truly massive effort) and make a course out of that.
Winners win. What reason do new investors have to believe it will crash now?

Pandemic?
A global supply chain interruption?
Democrat controlled U.S. government?
Widespread protests and unrest?
None of these things slowed the stock gains.

Those who bought the usual tech stocks last year and held made 20% plus.
Bad dog. Eat your feed.
Ooh, let me ask a question of HNers who identify with this.

What I get is occasional flashes of specific images. E.g., if you tell me to think of a beach what I'll get is a flashbulb photo of a specific beach I have been to. That image then quickly fades and I'm left with something more like a tactile representation, as if you 3D-modeled the beach and printed it in monochrome grey resin and I were running my hands over it to get the shape.

Is it like that for anybody else?
In my head, I consider these sorts of books more generalized models to run information through. For example, when I think about some historical occurrence I run it through evo bio, Marxism, geo determinism, critical race theory, symbolic culture, etc. Yeah, some of the origins of these models are dumbed-down, but my reasoning is that the more of these models I have, the closer I can get to that secret history :P
I’m not doubting your friend, but that kind of mental visualization ability (doing arithmetic on visualized paper) has to be extremely rare. That is savant level capability. I would say that ability depends much more on short term memory capacity than anything else. I think the visualization aspect is incidental.
It also works in this case, too: at some point the connection does close (if it doesn't, just hit escape) and you can save the image as usual, now from the cache.
I don't know the details of OP's situation and there seem to be other people popping up in the thread with corroborating claims. But if anyone is interested, here are details on the extortion scam where the victims are made to record the video themselves.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/93bw9z/bitcoin-scam-hostage-...
I was just (tangentially) complaining about this from the student angle on "Ask HN: How did you learn math notation?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29341620
I once read that those with aphantasia have a hard time becoming architects since they can't visualize the building they're designing.
Now I'm really curious if you could share an example of these deep fakes... with your friend's permission of course. Maybe with a disclaimer: THIS VIDEO IS A DEEPFAKE.
Hypernetworks for prediction of neural network parameters
There's a thing called Flashbulb Memory, but I think you're talking about something else.
Maybe the philosophical questions that Rorty derides have a productive and pragmatic value in the lives of the philosophers who consider them.
The Right, playing at going green.

Honestly, I sort of appreciate it. I wish they would.

But it looks disingenuous. A narrow partisan attack on the Green New Deal.

Which is a shame, because green traditionalism could absolutely work, and the whole spectrum needs to go green -- left, right, and center.
Yep. And since many files don’t have resource forks it’s kinda rare. But any directory you look at basically gets a .DS_STORE.

I remember hiding those from windows clients with samba, and hiding thumbs.db from mac clients over netatalk (and samba)
I guess the summary fails to explain why this qualifies as evil as opposed to early industry or lack of knowledge. I tried to look up whether the industry knew whether these were harmful fumes and whether there were reasonable alternatives to iron production back then but couldn't find anything.
Very similar, a more green hue then grey but very much like that.
Yes agreed. All the more so because it's a voluntary, pretend environment. There is a sibling post grasping to explain why the wild west was not as romantic as it seems and pretending the analogy holds for the internet. The post is silly, but at least the west was a real place that people had to live in. Acting like we need to monitor and regulate every corner of the internet is absurd, but then again, this is Australia isnt it.
I just right-clicked, copied the image and pasted into an image editor in windows.
This article is talking about ETF and ETN inflows. Buybacks will have no impact on this number.
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BetterZip has an option for “clean” zips you can enable as the default for create.
Oh, and I do get more visuals on the edge of sleep. Vivid hypnagogic imagery, I'm pretty sure. But whenever I become aware of it and get interested, it quickly recedes from me. So I suspect that I have some hardware ability to visualize, but that it's suppressed by other things when I'm alert.
I’ve been wondering about same /similar thing. I keep hearing that increase in m2 supply is ok as long it goes into assets… not sure how it’s ok since cash still stays in circulation
I visualize mental math but anything more than 2 digits by 2 digits is hard to keep track of. Short term memory is very much the limiting factor.
Providers know that networks take dumps.