skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think of myself as a very visual thinker, but I actually cannot form conscious images in my head. This seems like a contradiction, but it's true anyway.

I do have a very good spatial reasoning sense though - like you, I can think of a V8 engine in my head, all the pieces, how they fit together and move, but I'm not really forming a picture in my mind - it's more like I'm thinking about the 3d shapes themselves and how they interact, but if I try to consciously form a picture, it just disappears. If I back off, think about how the mechanisms work without trying to form a conscious picture, then it's all there. But not really as a picture - it's something else - a sense of shape.

It's actually hard to talk about because English doesn't include words for what exactly I'm doing when I'm reasoning spatially, and as any images fade when I think about them too consciously, I'm not even quite sure myself.

The one exception is when I'm lucid dreaming half-way through waking in the morning - then for a while I can see everything perfectly. As soon as I fully wake, that ability disappears. I love lucid dreaming when I'm working on a difficult 3D CAD problem.
One-on-one meetings between Senators and nominees for Senate-confirmed positions is normal.
What percentage does it take to reach herd immunity?
The starting description of how displays work isn't entirely accurate.

"The GPU sends some image to the display, beginning from the pixel on the top left and going through them line by line"

This isn't necessarily accurate. On many SoCs (like the entire ARM ecosystem), it's the DPU that sends the image to the display, not the GPU. They are different hardware blocks.

That DPU then also takes its input in the form of a list of buffers, not a single buffer, and does composition during scanout. Hardware overlays are very much alive & well, after all (hence their support in DRM/KMS, as well as Android's HWC HAL)

Which in this case isn't pedantry and is really important, since we're talking about compositors. It's really important for power, performance, and features (assuming DRM'd video is a feature you want, anyway) for the window compositor to be able to farm out to the hardware compositor for various things.
> My mom took my sister and I to a Quaker "meeting" (not church) when we were young and I had the impression that you actually didn't have to believe in God/Jesus.

This is very much the case. Quakers are very open about the fact that their meetings are open to everyone who is willing to sit quietly.
What would it take for Zoom and gcolor2 to be amended to work with Wayland?
Climate action can't really be individuals it has to come through the government and corporations changing, and the idea of guilting us all into thinking that what is wrong is that we aren't personally recycling harder is a big part of the problem.

The only way out of it is to work on turning Republicans into Democrats and Democrats into Progressives/Socialists and dragging the Overton window, kicking and screaming, over to the left.
Yeah I remember in June of 2020 discussing the new aerosol data on HN and cringing about the 6 ft recommendation with cloth masks indoors. Finally a year+ later the WHO admitted as such (aerosol risk can be >50 ft for hours after a spread event), so sometimes we are ahead :)
Weirdly, some atheists/agnostics are now circling back on the intelligent design thing in the form of "simulation theory".
Too bad you have to believe the tenets of the religion? If you're complaining about that consider joining a club / fraternal organization instead.
Stripe's Atlas program seems to be available in Brazil?

https://stripe.com/atlas
I can intentionally think about words, but I don't most of the time, and when I do, there is nothing that seems remotely similar to "hearing".

Are you consciously thinking about every word you say before you say it?
You have the benefit of hindsight. If it is so easy to know ex ante, what other currently untested parts of rocket development do you suggest SpaceX spend more time testing today?
Like most denominations there is a lot of variation amongst Quakers. There are meetings that are virtually atheists & those that are downright fundamentalist.
There aren't a lot of projects that surpass Visa's TPS speed of 1700. The one legitimate contender that I can think of is Solana with TPS of ~50K transactions. The problem, however, is that it's still fairly centralized.
r/Haskell/Lisp -> same problems

The functional language conceit exists and its a problem.

It's interesting that Go is mentioned as a target of the conceit. Well, there is a LOT of important software in modern IT systems that is golang based. There has been impressive productivity from that language and its programmers, and I'm someone that doesn't like golang.

Functional languages just haven't produced something on the scale of Kubernetes, or a database, or a web framework, or... really anything. Not even something like Ruby on Rails, which is now replaced with JS flotsam/React, but was significant.

Functional languages seem to assume that you build it and they will come. It hasn't happened.... like ever. The quip is if you keep doing the same thing expecting a different outcome, then that is insanity.

What functional languages need is a significant application. Since they are (theoretically) better for multicore and we are in the age of core scaling rather than serial speed improvement, and have been for a decade... WHERE IS YOUR APP?

It has to be the IQ filter. I simply think that FP requires higher IQ people, and that filters out a massive amount of people that just want to get stuff done and go home to their families or rave. Once you get over a certain IQ threshold, then the people in that cohort actually repel other people. If you've ever been to a Mensa meeting, you should know what I mean.

I think Rust is fine, it is focused on practical goals: rewriting vulnerable C programs, improving Firefox speed and safety, etc.
I've never thought about this, but you're actually correct - normal scrolling really is quite slow. There are two reasons this has never bothered me though:

1. I always install Vimium in order to avoid using the mouse when browsing the web. (So in that regard your statement above is correct :-) )

2. For fast scrolling with the mouse, you could try enabling autoscroll in Firefox; once enabled middle click will activate it, then the page will scroll based on the direction and distance you move the mouse from the scroll anchor.
Well, the banks certainly tried to sink her nomination, as her policy positions called for the nationalization of all banking.

Here's the Independent Community Bankers of America letter, for instance: https://www.icba.org/docs/default-source/icba/advocacy-docum...
I really don't agree that you can replace god with a substitute and it still be religion. If there's no god or mystical force of some kind then it's not a religion. It might be like a religion, but it's something else.
If I understand OP correctly I think a test of sorts might be mathematical objects. If I think of a cube, I can visually imagine a cube in my head, turn it, and so on. It's not 100% percent detailed, it's harder to 'see' it than to actually see it, but is is 'there' in a way.

However some sort of abstract higher dimensional thing that doesn't have a physical analog I can't imagine at all. If there's really a difference in how people perceive these things than I imagine for OP there is no difference between visualizing any object but for others there is.
Conservatism: the article.

Kinda shit, tbh. Philosophical suicide and just so stories. Disgusting.
Or that the religion stopped providing that community for a lot of people and they found it elsewhere.
No, I only mentioned the ones that seem terrible because those are the ones you would be most inclined to change.
Organized religion may be fading away but faith based beliefs aren't changing. The same primordial need that religion fills is being filled today by political tribalism.
While using `for` for that particular snippet of code is understandable, you cannot say that

while sum < 1000 {}

reads better (like English).
Here I was hoping it was going to be more research on even more superhydrophobic surface textures.
> What percentage does it take to reach herd immunity?

Now, that is absolutely hilarious! Thanks for a good laugh.
We've taken the stars and are selling them as interactive NFTs
Ten Thousand Suns is a collection of 9,096 NFTs which correspond to all stars of stellar magnitude 6.5 or brighter. Every star visible to the naked eye from Earth.

Each NFT is mapped to the properties of its physical stellar counterpart accessible as an interactive experience in web browsers, as well as in augmented reality and virtual reality. The artwork is generatively created using WebGL.

Can an art collection really be considered complete, without it holding total dominion over all one surveys?

Can one truly be as a living God, causa sui unto oneself, with anything less than absolute astral assimilation?

The paper-handed philistine forgets one’s self, living in a certain trivial province of experience as to how things go, what is possible, what usually occurs... Devoid of imagination they follow “the Others”. Bagholding on worldly 8-bit PFP follies. Swept along in a sea of FUD.

The one with diamond hands takes possession of the very celestial bodies, whose supreme power, mystery and majesty reflects their own prodigious seat. HODLing for the pure ecstasy of HODLing itself sake.
Which makes a lot of sense, the 4th amendment was never meant to protect land this way, It was always meant for personal things and the household, not meant to carve all private land as off-limits to everyone and the government.

In regard to access to land, I really like the Freedom to roam [0] doctrines of a few European countries.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
That's the convention now. But before that battle got fought, you might have thought it was a hobby. Like the local under-35s $LIGHT_RECREATIONAL_SPORT meetup, which people treat as a recurring singles event.
In a world of six figure Bored Apes, is ok to like Thomas Kinkade paintings now?

https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Thomas-Kinkade-...
ok. so that's kind of what I thought. instantaneously we can't actually ascribe comparative accurate value because ... weird stuff might be going on (a scam, a temporary change in shipping costs, etc)

but we can assume that over time, and more importantly over many transactions, the 'true' value will surface (wash out all the weird signal).
that is a scarily low number of rational people :/
Ha ha you make joke.

DiscWasher was a popular LP cleaner in the 1970s. There was a fibrous cleaning pad attached to a handle, and some special fluid that came in a small eyedrops-style squeeze bottle. The fluid was the expensive part, $5 for one or two fluid ounces, quite expensive for the day. You'd carefully squeeze out a drop of magic fluid on the cleaning pad, and while your LP was spinning, let the cleaning pad drag over the surface of the LP.

Turns out the $5/oz ($40 a cup!) special DiscWasher fluid was distilled water. Lawsuits and hilarity followed!

This epic tale of audiophile gullibility is not even on the Internet, it appears. The past is dead.
Being disowned by family and friends for leaving the church is an even stronger incentive than being told you're going to burn forever for not toeing the line. Just look at all the ex-LDS help groups out there as an example.
I mean, if you have a strong mental imagery, it's not ambiguous at all whether it's metaphorical or not. It really is seeing. All experience is subjective, but it's like if half of people were seeing in greyscale and tried to argue that there may or may not be different colors other than grey, and that the discussion is pointless. The people seeing colors are like, uhhh no man, there are actually different colors and you're just not seeing them. It's incredibly obvious that there are more colors than grey. But when a large chunk of people see in monochrome, and even more people are seeing an extremely desaturated palette to where it's almost grey but not quite, the discussion gets muddied. And then the greyscale seers try to convince everyone that it's just a difference in language and actually 'red' is just a feeling. It's just absurd to anyone who has the strong sense.
It will also likely soon become moot as drones get cheaper and cheaper, and you don't own the sky over your land. Here's a company, Brinc, building border security drones which the promo video also says can also easily be used for prisons, data centers and just about anything else.

https://theintercept.com/2021/12/13/brinc-startup-taser-dron...
Springer Nature Extramaterial
> It's basically unimaginable and when it does happen you sit and wonder what's actually going wrong that you don't know about yet.

Every time that happens I'm terrified and overcome with a quiet, pervasive sense of existential dread.
> And the vaccines... one thing I haven't found yet is an article that tries to make a well-studied estimate of where we'd be right now if the vaccine hadn't come out, or had been just a year later, or had the kind of (lower) efficacy that people were initially trying to set expectations for.

At the beginning of the pandemic, I saw an estimate of projected deaths from COVID in a scenario where mitigations were taken and in another scenario where none were taken. It was the difference between projecting 300k to 600k dead in the US after more than a year, and 2 million to 6 million dead in the US.
Belief ( or lack of ) in God is not what the article is really about.

My impression is article is largely about social constructs and intent of the way each plan/topic is written is designed to make you think on the structure of the social agreement and impact on how we operate as humans.

Religion is also a social construct, those blockades are the problem that needs discussions, personal spiritual journey and learning complex ethical topics using allegory is well personal choice and nobody else's business.
Most likely, considering this is HN, s/he's moving bits around all day. Something that every day grocery store workers can't do remotely with the things they have to move around.

Which reminds me that in the first lockdown, in my country, grocery stores workers were considered "essential" and were allowed to go to their workplace and work there.
They may have found the illusion of it on social media :) hence the loneliness crisis.
Verizon Once Again Expands Its Snoopvertising Ambitions
How do you propose to wipe out humans and leave the animals intact?
Norm Macdonald website with every ep of Norm Macdonald Live and more Norm stuff
And if a pleb logged a few feet over the property line and that was a government tree you could bet they'd be going after him for some insane fantasy value of it.
Progress. Once we have the majority, it will be interesting to measure the moral temperament of society. Some might suggest it will be worse. But could it improve? Either way it’s good to see. Once we’re no longer conditioning our children with religious dogma they’ll be more free to grow up into true versions of themselves.
hey everyone chill out, some churches think it’s ok for you to exist…
More likely that nobody noticed the typo until it was too late and they didn’t want to halt an entire production run just to replace a sticker that most people will never see.

Stopping the production run and delaying shipments would have a palpable impact on shipment numbers. Most likely it was noticed, corrected for later batches, and they made the call to run this round anyway because it had zero effect on function.

(Source: If you work in hardware long enough, you’ll have to make similar calls like this eventually)
I would like to comment on two aspects that led to this curious submission.

First is the discoverability aspect of browsing through lists of an authoritative publisher books’ supplementary materials with enough metadata to reverse lookup.

Second is the material aspect of the whole thing. Here I invite you to see for yourself how Springer Nature books’ supplementary materials are currently to be found.
> I'm not sure the government would police itself either

One would assume that if the law was intended that everyone can have a bank account, then ultimately one would be able to appeal through the courts. Which are not perfect, but are a hell of a lot better than a company just being able to make it's own decision without having to justify it.

Of course, you could have a governmental setup without this aim. And you could regulate the private market. But generally speaking governmental organisations are held to higher standards and have less incentive to be non-compliant.
Wow, I was unbelievably excited when I saw that first header image. That's not what was generated though. Bummer.
Well, given that `gcolor2` is open source, it does already work with Wayland if you have XDG Portal setup correctly.

And Zoom could, too, if they cared. (And by the way, I use Zoom in browser with Wayland when required by <obligation>, and it works fine.)

Once again, people miffed at Linux because closed source app developers are lazy and don't give two shits. (Which would be and often is a pain for plenty of other reasons than Wayland.)
> if you're a Western religion (Christian) you don't have a high bar to cross. Just believe, no deeds or acts are required.

That is true only for some Christians. Protestants - and not sure if all of them.
As one of these unaffiliated I actually think it is kind of sad in some ways that religion is so tied to shared origin stories (of earth, mankind etc) because I want many of the other things religion offers in my life: community, philosophizing about the big questions, shared guidelines on how to live a good life etc etc. It just so happens I don't believe in much of a god so it is hard to participate.

We figured out that many of the origin stories were incorrect so we tossed the whole thing without replacing the actually crucial components.
They may be unaffiliated with formal religions, but that doesn't mean they aren't religious or are more connected to reality. Plenty of people I know who aren't affiliated with a church of some kind think just as mystically as formally religious folks, sometimes even more so.

I believe that the new global religion isn't even politics per se, as others have pointed to. It is a religion of the promise of technological intervention.

Why waste time with diet and exercise when technology will cure obesity and diabetes in my lifetime?

Why waste time cultivating relationships in real life when the Metaverse is right around the corner?

Why waste time worrying about having a family and kids when life extension and artificial wombs will be invented in my lifetime?

Why waste time going out when technology will soon allow me to never leave my home again?

Why waste time working hard when UBI is right around the corner and inevitable?

Why waste time read scripture when our digital existence will make morality irrelevant?
"Affiliated" covers a wide range, from weekly (or more than weekly) church attendance, to showing up in church for your baptism, confirmation, wedding, and funeral.
This is like abstract art for the overly analytical mind.
Likely because in essence everyone here could be gtp-4 for all we know.

This community wouldn’t fill any gap related to human suffering that real humans do.
Do not want to nitpick your words, but can you elaborate on why you put unscientific and intelligent design close to each other? I think you wanted to say intelligent design is not scientific, right?

Just watched this video today related to concept of fine tuning in cosmology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaVlTIymQ3g

Today's scientific facts/theories mean, here are things we learned based on our observations and things we knew from the past, but some answers are still not definitive, especially when it comes intelligent design, fine tuning and multiverses. People thought Newton was right, until Einstein came up with different theory, who knows what next Einstein proves how we were wrong.
What's the difference between: A) smugly telling them to do it so that they won't do it, and B) genuinely telling them to do it because you care about public health, but they interpret it as smug?

Also, the kind of reverse psychology you're describing generally only works on children.
While I’m sure it sums up well as a novella, as pre-teen, the “big reveal” probably hit with more force by being in novel format. It reads like a typical “coming of age” adventure, and then…suddenly isn’t. Although I haven’t read it since then, I think there was a fair amount of character development, which also increases the impact of the reveal since you’ve been given time to care about the characters and relate to them. Also, as a kid who loved strategy games, the training program was just really fun to read.

While I don’t usually care about spoilers, even knowing that there is a big reveal feels a bit like a spoiler.
Similarly, nobody understands the free market. (This is likely why there's so much interest in socialism, as the mind yearns for order and predictability.)

Yet the free market works well despite this lack of understanding, and even contempt, of it.
Not all religions are centered around the existence of a god though. A religion can be centered around any ideology, you only have to treat it as sacrosanct.
Again, the $45K was due to a hack of root credentials. Not AWS being shady. If anyone got access to root on your machine you'd be screwed.

If a total shutdown when aggregate monthly budget is triggered is insufficient, and fine-grained quotas are too complex, you probably shouldn't be in the cloud because Azure and Google are equally complex. Or do you like another cloud-computer service better than AWS because their budgeting quota systems are better? Please share, I'd like to know what you use.
Religion in the US has become too political. When I was a kid in the Midwest, the church told us to avoid politics. Then, almost overnight, "abortion" became an issue, and religious beliefs were no longer confined to church. Now we were supposed to get out and vote. Ever since it's just felt more like a PAC than anything else.
Pretty much anyone to the economic-right of Bernie Sanders was afraid of her.
We pushed H1N1 flu mandates back when that flu started overwhelming our hospitals back in the early 2010s.
This is old news, about 3 years old. China has already taken up a lot of the slack with domestic production. Estimates I have seen say China can become start of the art in areas it already does not lead in most areas within 5 years. Estimate on some of the harder areas are 10 years out. China will have to because US sanctions have limited access, so China has not choice but to work to become self-reliant. They US government is putting 50 billion into semiconductors, and new fab Intel is working on is about 27 billion. And the US is dumping 1.7 trillion into the F-35, 13 billion in Ford Class carriers, 4.5 billion annual cost. And efforts fail, that is expected. But China seems to be making carbon technology work, which should make silicon obsolescent, and is creating opto-electric chips that will be better than silicon in many applications.
I was raised going to church. It was never a major part of my life and I haven't been in probably 15 years. Depending on how the question was asked, I might end up identifying as a Christian (or more specifically an Episcopalian.) Despite not really believing any of it, I still feel like it's a part of my identity on some level. I suspect there are plenty of people like me out there.