skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Don't hesitate to move locations if that can improve your career or other prospects. This gets progressively harder to do later in life.

2. Get to know people who are 5 and 10 years ahead of you in your career track. This will push you out of your bubble of same age peers.

3. There's a high likelihood that you're wrong about many things about the world in your 20's. The effect of cognitive biases (read up on them) is also non-negligible at this age. So make sure you have a feedback mechanism to validate whatever it is that you think are learning. Otherwise it's possible to be wrong about things for years without realizing it.

4. Learn at least one hard skill that can be measured objectively in some way (if you haven't already). It could be programming, maths, music, sports etc. Once you know what it feels like to genuinely learn something, you're less likely to fool yourself when learning other things later in life.

5. Develop friendships and other relationships if you find people you gel with.

6. Don't get too out of whack, health wise. Try a bunch of physical activities until you find one you enjoy doing on a regular basis.

7. 20s are a time when you are at the bottom of the power hierarchy in the corporate world and probably socially and politically as well. So beware of anti-authority, outsider-types figures who'll use this resentment to sell you simplistic solutions to everything. At the same time, keep in mind that power corrupts. Chesterton's fence and all that.
You're thinking of Steve Buscemi. This article is authored by Steven Buccini, a Software Engineer and former political candidate.
I don’t think that was the conclusion. Have a read it’s not that long.

On a personal note, one could interpret it that way if they disregard their ability to transmit their viral load to someone who hasn’t been infected yet. You are probably fine from hospitalization, but you can’t stop from transmitting it to others who may not be fine for a number of reasons.

I am also not sure there has been a great deal of research yet on just how long infection protects you or others, especially from evolving variants still to come. I already have some anecdata (two points) of reinfection of people who were double vaccinated. (Pre and post vax), so we are still in the Wild West in my opinion, so I’m keeping my six shooter drawn.
If you want, sure. Whatever floats your boat.

An important difference here is that I try to have useful profiles pretty much anywhere I write. Whereas I had to look this information up specifically because UnHerd is studiously vague about all the things I mentioned: https://unherd.com/about-unherd/
Ah, but bad management likes to -claim- to have read it. Sometimes just having the reference can be leverage, i.e., "Well, as per the Mythical Man Month, not all tasks can be parallelized. We can't take three women and complete a pregnancy in 3 months, 3x as fast, after all. This is one of those cases - we won't speed things up by adding people, but we might make things worse"
I'm similar. For me, I can get a "flash", but it immediately morphs into another shapeless shape.. constantly morphs, in fact.

Try this neat trick I just discovered: Try to visualize colors. Close your eyes, and just try to picture a red, then a green, then a blue. I never realized I could do this, and it actually requires a good bit of concentration. But it's super satisfying, especially given my aphantasia. I really can "see" the color like it's right there.

How's your "inner ear"? Can you hear music perfectly? I can.
Aphantasia is about the mind’s eye but I wonder about other senses as well such as “the mind’s ears” or “the mind’s nose” - being able to synthesize or realistically recall other senses. I can somewhat weakly visualize, but I can make music in my head, imagine what something would feel like to some extent, but I don’t think I can do that for smell or taste. What are other people’s experiences?
It's can be a real problem when you need to store 13,000,000 floats per minute.

Is it hard to work around? No. But every time I use SQLite it requires half a dozen little hacks to work around it's strangeness and I would prefer to not have to do that.
Thanks, Bitcoin, for creating cash incentive for most of the worst behavior on the internet.

Crypto lockers, pump-and-dump schemes, scams, hacking processing power for mining, burning fuels to power even the most legitimate uses.

Cryptocurrency will go down in history as the most regrettable invention since leaded gas.
Another “stupid senior” here and I say go for 75-80%. It’s almost exactly a classic Pareto situation in my book.

Parent post is right that lower coverage degrades rapidly... the difference between 65% and 75% is huge. But the ancestor post is right that there’s large diminishing returns too.

I’ll qualify this with recommending leaning hard into lints and type checkers and the like. Eliminating whole classes of errors gives the edge; rather than writing test cases in, say, Python to ensure that a string-mangling function raises the “correct” exception if passed an int… just enforce mypy checking instead. And then get your type coverage up to 75-80 percent. Fuzzers too. Get more overall coverage by letting the computer do the work.
The problem is that these letters are not available in the repertoire of symbols provided by default in LaTeX, even with ams symbols loaded.
Paramedic with aphantasia here. You're spot on that it's a huge blessing in that regard (I don't think there's any particular selection pressure for it in EMS though, I've yet to come across anyone else in the field)

What was the point at which it "clicked" for you? For me it was an AskReddit thread a few years back with a prompt of "When you hear a 'three X walk into a bar' joke, what does the bar look like?" It had just never occurred to me that people can actually visualize a bar when they hear that joke.
I think you're on to something with how people describe their experience of visualizing. On the one hand, I don't doubt there are artists and architects who can visualization clearly, or musicians who hear music and can transcribe what they hear. But I can't help but think the description of these capabilities are exaggerated for the majority of the population.

I've asked someone to visualize a house then asked them how many windows it has. They didn't have a answer. This isn't any different from what I'd say. I can try to imagine an apple. I know it's red. I know there's a stem and a green leaf on the stem. I know the shape of a Macintosh, with the wide top narrowing at the base. But the serrations and veins of the leaf, I'm not sure of. And I'm fairly confident that most people who claim to be able to visualize couldn't describe the leaf well enough to distinguish it as an apple leaf and not some idealized idea of a leaf. Could they describe it well enough that an artist could draw it?
Sure, but that isn't the question.

Do you prefer mandatory arbitration to being able to use the public court system? That's a privatized justice system.
Sounds like you should be happy with the covid purge of the fat, old, and infirm. That is natural selection also.
> but that kind of mental visualization ability (doing arithmetic on visualized paper) has to be extremely rare. That is savant level capability

No way. I would say most of the math students I've taught at the university level could do it to some extent.

It's not all that helpful. The problem is that your visual scratch pad is quite limited. If you're forced to always rely on it you won't get far without having to unlearn bad habits.

This happens to people with amazing memories too. I can't name a single colleague at my top 10 university that has an eidetic memory. The people I've met with amazing memories have systematically had a lot of issues because of their memory. It's too easy to rely on remembering things and then you never build good heuristics and don't generalize well.
STRICT tables forbid the use of any other types besides INT/INTEGER, REAL, TEXT, BLOB (and ANY).

What about TIMESTAMP? DATETIME? You can't use that as a type name anymore. Either pick INT, REAL or TEXT for that. What about JSON? You can't use it as a type name anymore. Pick TEXT. Basically type names, even if SQLite didn't have explicit support for that type, were helpful documentation hints in what the column contained. Now everything devolves to either INT or TEXT. I have UUID fields, I can't even call them UUID or BINARY(16), just BLOB.
It's a question of whether you're "seeing" a helicopter, or just a semi-conceptual representation of one.

E.g., I can hear music pretty much perfectly in my head. I can stop it, rewind it, separate the parts... and I can transcribe it into my music software, with pretty reasonable accuracy. That's the aural equivalent of drawing an accurate helicopter from memory.
Since I started learning chess my visualisation has improved immeasurably. And not just for chess. I have much more control and can hold an image in my head longer without fatigue, although the vividness of my mental images has not improved. I lost the ability to make vivid mental images around adolescence.

I'd be curious what happens when a person with aphantasia tries to learn chess. Would they simply not progress, or would they develop the ability to visualise?
I'm not reading that they hacked/stole a gmail account. My understanding is that by taking over the account, they updated the associated email address used for contact within Insta. It just so happened that the email used by the attacker was a gmail account.

>Testing auth from unexpected locations in advance seems like an easy way to get noticed.

How many times we've received emails from online accounts notifying about login attempts? They are usually phishing attempts, but it occurs enough that most people don't believe the legitimate emails.
I'm almost afraid to ask since it's such a given, but do employees actually get fired for choosing the wrong vendor? I've heard it repeated in quite a few contexts, and I'm unsure if I should interpret it literally. At worst, I would expect the executive has a slightly tarnished reputation for picking what ended up being a bad partner.
Christ… yes, of course. My typical sources are WSJ, The Economist, and FT, with a dose of NYTimes. But I don’t listen to MSNBC or Fox News or Drudge just like I don’t listen to my racist in-laws, alright?
Only way to stop this is to make it so they make no money from doing it and also make it really uncomfortable for their execs. If they feel the blow back personally they will stop doing it.
So you could multiply or divide two four digit numbers by visualizing them?

To me that is pretty incredible!
The real hipster move would be to use Capital Sigma or Pi for your equations.
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I can imagine a similar mechanism as a way for new tribes / nations to originate.

A group / tribe starts to discriminate a part of itself, for whatever reason, real or imaginary. That part, given enough accessible land, would split away and develop independently. Of course, that won't be possible in medieval and Renaiisanse Europe where all land was tightly controlled, so cagots stayed mixed into the "normal" society, unable to separate.
This was one of the things that convinced me aphantasia is real (and that it's how my brain works).

I was concentrating very hard, trying to visualize _anything_ and suddenly managed to imagine a green blob. I can occasionally visualize purple as well. It's so incredibly vivid though... It makes me genuinely sad to realize most people can do that (and so much more) at will.

I don't "hear" any more than I "see" in my brain.
Is it really anything new, or just newly noticed by these select researchers?

I used to meditate/imagine natural environments in the 1980s and while in them, I'd move my perception through, looking for entities to talk to. I didn't know the term tulpa, but the notion of a spirit guide or totem is similar enough. It was better than full on dreaming, but wasn't lucid dreaming either.

Some of my friends had the shared waking fantasy that they could do things like mentally cause the traffic lights to change. I don't remember what they called it, but being public about it seems to be wrapped up in notions of membership and the ingroup.

I wouldn't be surprised if variations of what we did in teen culture then and what the authors are writing about are somewhat universal to adolescent minds. It might be a cognitive development stage, like how young kids go through a nightmare stage.
You should not rely on that. Make your own copies. I’ve had work contracts and other important documents all disappear due to custom retention policies.
Deep, focused reading is a muscle that you need to work on. There isn’t a real answer other than practice, and focus on delayed gratification.

We skim websites/articles because there is so much information out there, and not all of it is useful. I skim articles and then go back to fully read them once I make sure they’re actually worth the time. Same with some books, but books generally are worth it since they went through the publishing process, etc.
> All the money that enters the system is from investors and from players.

> Those are the same thing because both players and investors can cash each other's money out. There's literally no distinction between both things.

So the only people putting money into the system are investors? Like I said.

> That's the case with every stock that currently exists. When a company fails there will be bag holders who lost a lot of money. Ideally the company doesn't fail and keeps making games forever.

If you hold a share of a company, you get dividends from the profits of company separate from the market. Even if nobody wants to buy your stock it still has value.
When I used to teach LaTeX classes, most of my students were math department secretaries, so I always made a point of explaining when someone would want \Pi versus \prod or \Sigma vs \sum.

Of course, being the callow youth that I was back then, I also tended to pronounce the names of the letters like a classicist so ψ is not pronounced "sigh" but rather "p-see", and similar ξ is not "zee" but "k-see." A childhood spent surrounded by people with Slavic surnames had my mouth well-trained to manage odd consonant clusters at the beginnings of words.
i think he obviously just melted the plastic handle, you just can't melt aluminium (let alone steel) with even a gas stove's burner.
Ugh, you could be right. I've found a couple Discourse plugins, but haven't seen an example of a pages showing a comprehensive list of FAQs.

https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-turn-discourse-to-q-a...
Being able to visualize doesn't mean being able to visualize everything you've ever seen perfectly. I have friends who work on helicopters (technical work behind the scenes, engineering stuffs), some who could draw a detailed helicopter (happen to be excellent at technical drawing) and some who couldn't (like me, lousy artists). And if you're not familiar with the object, it will be even harder to draw it accurately (even if you are a good artist).
If you were to write on religion, would you find it reasonable if the religious were to simply dismiss any argument you made, no matter how correct or well constructed, simply due to your atheism?
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I think the way you connected Unherd with Nigel Farage is a pinpointed, ill-intentioned way of disparaging a site and I think if you want to be honest, you know that's why you did it.
It is pretty normal not to broadcast your source of funding for a business.
Right, every medium and large tech stock is trading at ridiculous multiples with very few exceptions.
Thats the whole point.

Obviously when describing a factor in the stock market your goal isn't to list every single influence but this one influence far and away dominates tech stock valuations
> How do they collect if the company isn’t even inside Australia?

For companies with a legal or property presence (essentially all large ones like Facebook or Twitter) that the civil Australian courts could get to, it's pretty easy to compel them to do something.
Even some nuclear rocket designs are based on dissolving uranium salts into water and injecting it into a chamber that gets the salts to critical mass and flash vaporizes the carrier water to steam. It's crazy how useful steam continues to be.
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Heh, I was contemplating this HN post and thinking how would I explain visual fantasy to an aphantasic person when a tought came to my mind: What about dreams?!

I had to quickly open the post and search for a word 'dream' and found your comment.

Btw. for me visual imagination during pre-sleep even when very sleep deprived is same as when being wide awake.
Dreams themselfs are a little more vivid perhaps, I'm not completely sure. Which reminds me a phrase 'lucid dreaming'.. a supposed state where can you volountarily control your dream to utilize it as some kind of matrix/construct.
Imagine that, a time where companies had mailing addresses and phone numbers to communicate with real humans.
For me the visualization loses precision in the periphery. And if I focus on one part of the house then switch to focus on another part and then return, things won’t be the same. It’s not stable.

So answering the question “how many windows” changes from moment to moment.

I’m not saying everyone is this way, but I am.
For myself, I find I can create incredibly vivid images and scenes in my head up until the point where I consciously think about them being in my head, at which point they start to degrade and I can't really build them up again until I immerse myself in it again.

This makes it really hard to perform the test of how vividly can you imagine something in your head (an apple is the usual one), because if I try to imagine it, at best it comes off as very poorly formed and hard to get a good focus on. But I know and remember much more clear scenes from times where I've been focussing more so on the scene than trying to imagine the scene, if that makes any sense.
I just checked and this appears to be for accounts of any vintage. If you go here:

https://twitter.com/settings/security

Turn on "password reset protect" and it will require "either the phone number or email address associated with your account in order to reset your password". I'm not sure it adds a ton of security, but it definitely cuts down on the password reset emails.
When I close my eyes and visualize I see two things simultaneously, first is the blackness of having the eyes closed, but then I also can see vivid imagery being animated, only it seems like it’s running elsewhere, like in another session, or another channel, it’s not being rendered out to my primary visual buffer, but it is rendering somewhere.

Is anyone able to make the imaginary imagery appear in the primary context, right before their very eyes, replacing whatever the current input may be?
If you are a HN user, don't multitask. Use your window manager's virtual desktops/tags. Don't switch between windows with different tasks in the _same_ desktop. Switch into another full task in the next vd/pane and go back later.

Use exclusively the vds with windows from the assigned task, I mean, if you need to operate with files in the 2nd desktop, just open the file manager windows there and leave out the other vds "untainted".

This way you'll focus better even if you have to "multitask". For example, in your 1st vd you have a web browser and in your 2nd vd, your editor/IDE for the web, and the 3rd one you would have some IM/chat/mail tools.

Kill all notifications, set an schedule to read mail/messages, for example every 20 minutes. Any true urgency/emergency won't be messaged, but done with an actual phone call.

And, finally, for web browsing, open four tabs as max, you won't need many more, even for documentation.

Addendum: In Unix/Linux most task can be scheduled thru Cron or pooled offline/online such as mail and well, this may sound old, but usenet news, a lot programming newsgroups are still alive.

You can set an script to download/upload/update/post mails/news/repos automatically in batches so you don't have to be always online. I mean, with that system you can write emails and news posts offline when you want and then a script would do these chores hourly/daily in a breeze.

News over RSS (a lot of good news site will have the full content in the RSS feed) will help in order to kill FOMO, as you can schedule them too (and read them offline).
NFTs are legal contracts with an assignable role of the beneficiary (generally to the owner of the NFT).

They are currently being used for digital proof of ownership to digital memorabilia, but in the future expected to be used for real things (like licensing rights, representation of a gym membership etc).

They are legal (unenforceable or not is not the point), as much as if you wrote on a piece of paper in college to your roommate that you agree to answer, everytime he calls you on the phone and asks "Who's your daddy", with "Jeremy", is legal.

When you are buying a tweet, you're essentially buying a digital memorabilia. When you're buying Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda's doodles, you're buying digital patronage (as in, Mike Shinoda will always acknowledge the owner of the NFT as the patron of his doodle).
SQLite converts NaNs to NULL, and SQLite libraries tend to throw on encountering NaN.
> Are they really visualizing these goofy versions of the machines? If not, why don't they draw them accurately.

For two reasons.

One. They actually have the wrong mental model of the machines and really imagine them incorrectly. Basically, they've never paid attention to the details, so they get them wrong mentally, but because they aren't sure anyway so they never notice a discrepancy. If they had to rebuild the machine, that's the mess they would probably build unless they stopped to really think about it.

Two. They don't know how to draw. One aspect of learning to draw from memory is to learn how to focus on specific detailed areas and then build out. You need to train this skill before you can do it well.

> When I draw a simplified bicycle I know it's because I only remember things like "two wheels, pedals and handlebars". Other people think they have a visualization but do not.

As you learn to draw, if you have a good imagination, you begin to learn how to interrogate your mental images systematically. To rotate the drawing, focus in on specific details, etc.
If you have to write "now here comes the clever bit", doesn't it kind of disqualify what you're talking about as "easy"?
> I'm opposed to it not just because it's a change to the source material, but also because it created a needless sense of moral ambiguity.

I haven't watched the live adaptation, but I find this complaint strange given that the original series is drenched in moral ambiguity: it's a neo-noir-cum-cowboy space opera about bounty hunters! They hunt down and kill people across the galaxy, sometimes solely for the crime of being rival criminals! And Vicious (not his syrupy brother Viscous), the villain, was Spike's friend and partner in crime! He kills his friend!

Cowboy Bebop is all about the thing you're aping as a flaw in "contemporary entertainment": a collection of figures who do seem to have sufficient justification to do all of the morally ambiguous things we see them do throughout the show. That's what gives it it's appeal, instead of just being a crime procedural that's inexplicably in space.
Have you ever tried doing CAD work and if so, are you any good at it? What is that process like?

I've dabbled a bit with that kind of work and I find my mind's eye to be critical for it and I would have no idea how to undertake it if I couldn't visualize something.