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You seem to be interpreting "essential" as "essential for continued human existence", which is a pretty low bar. "Essential for maintaining public health", or "essential for preventing excess deaths" would be better interpretations. While vaccines are not essential for continued human existence, they are essential for maintaining public health and preventing excess deaths.
This is an interesting point, because while I find it trivial to work with geometric objects in my head (see my other post in this thread), I find it very hard to recall a face as anything other than "a face".

I recognize people just fine, but if you sat me down with a sketch artist (or indeed the sketch-artist sub game in Police Quest II), I'm at a loss to say whether someone's eyes are wider or narrower-spaced, whether their mouth is higher or lower, etc. Sometimes I do notice people's noses in the abstract and I may have a describable memory of that, and I think I remember most people's hair shape if not the color. But "A face with a small nose and long hair" is not really much to go on.

Smells, too. I smell just fine, and sometimes smells evoke instant memories, but I can't name a smell that I'm smelling. I'm absolutely at a loss to figure out what herbs are missing from food I'm making, or what I've added too much of. I can't describe tastes or smells beyond a very basic level.
one more word:

Tether.
The US invented the modern concept of intellectual property law. It didn't exist beforehand so its inaccurate and disingenuous to claim that they stole anything from anyone.
A friend of friend, a doctor of Chinese origin was caught under Trump administration for stealing "critical IP" and giving it to Chinese scientists. I do not know all the details but later it was revealed that the Doctor who was treating child cancer patients in USA shared the best practices and treatment plans that seems to have worked better than others to his doctor contacts in China.
Their website also has 630MB memory footprint from my current readings
Why can’t Instagram filter obvious spam
I regularly receive messages from various accounts offering to increase my follower count and have been for over a year. They are nearly identical.

How is it that a organization with these resources cannot manage this?

Is it unwillingness or is it too hard?
> There were no guns, which an insurrection would have.

Both halves of this sentence are wrong: there were guns, which an insurrection need not have.

> I'm not really going to spend time debating your extreme views.

Viewing the insurrectionists as insurrectionists isn't an extreme view.

---quote---

Half of Iowans say the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 in an effort to derail the election certification process was an insurrection and a threat to democracy, a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll shows.

That includes 93% of Democrats, 50% of independents and 20% of Republicans.

---end quote---

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-p...

---quote---

Most Americans believe the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol can be described as an "insurrection" but remain divided on how it should be investigated, according to a new Monmouth University poll.

Fifty-six percent of respondents said it is appropriate to call what happened on Jan. 6, when a mob of former President Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol, an insurrection, while an even larger majority - 72 percent - say it could be appropriately described as a "riot."

In contrast, only one-third of respondents said that they see the events of Jan. 6 as a "legitimate protest," according to the Monmouth poll.

---end quote---

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/558918-poll-majority-s...
> Fwiw I absolutely can “look” at an elephant in my imagination, and sometimes I am even surprised by what it does (like when it blinks or squirts water from its trunk..) the subconscious mind can be wild!

ok wtf wtf wtf I don't think anything like that has ever happened to me. Wow.

How typical is that kind of vividness? Is there any kind of research on that?

These kinds of descriptions of what it's like to visualize things are much more helpful to me than typical descriptions of aphantasia, but I wonder if the liveliness of your mental images is extreme
I don't think that was the question? It was how to not overload hospitals and create a safer environment for those in the population most at risk. Thus healthy young adults getting vaccinated to reduce the rate of spread
that doesn’t mean it takes you driving 100m miles to die; that’s a population level statistic. your lifetime chances of death by car is 1 in 100.
Abolish the FDA?
I think you also miss that the CCP being in control through a terrifying regime of absolute control over a population certainly has its negative impacts. That and their financial system and banking systems have been having some incredibly serious problems which would then be de-stabilizing for the party in control.

I feel like as someone on HN you should know the adage well ... don't believe the hype. I will add, think for yourself in the mix.
What's depressing that many people who are struggling with Rust are struggling to write very simple things such as unix tools like 'cat' and 'grep'.

I write C code for AVR8 where the C calling conventions, the stack, etc. are a problem and not a solution. In my mind for relatively simple programs and I can split the program into a few clear layers and if I was writing assembler I could allocate some of the registers to some of the layers (e.g. limited or no flushing of registers in interrupt handlers) and statically allocate RAM ahead of time.

I never get around to switching to assembler because the AVR8 is a dead end and if I really want better performance I can recompile my C code to a much more capable ARM or ESP32.

When I was working on rule-based systems I had this idea of "rules and schemes" where the rules are kept separate from the "schemes" which determine how the rules are applied, what order, etc.

I've thought the idea of separating programs into a core and layers of commentary could be useful in various ways. For instance a language like Rust might have a proof that memory allocation works separate from the main part of the program.
Interestingly, this has been a problem in the art world for over half a century, especially as famous pieces change hands among the uber wealthy, and no-name artists' work is catapulted to mega-millions. Very often the artist is not compensated after the work is sold again in between individuals. This would be a great way to make sure the artist doesn't die poor while their work trades hands multiple times for 100's of millions.
If you want to just try something, you can look at the latest tranformer models like GPT and try fine-tuning them for poems.
You can see a tutorial for content creation here https://youtu.be/d_xRYyy2LFM
This is really interesting! I didn't consider mapping a keypress duration!

Apple has a bit of documentation on scriptable key mapping:

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2450...
The Aldi next to me only had room temp last time I looked. I’m going in the morning, maybe I’m wrong! I’ll look and report back.
Again, no one forced you to talk to that person. If you don't have anything constructive _and_ pleasant to say, then please wait for your mood to simmer before commenting.
I wonder about this too, and what's interesting is it seems very difficult to objectively say if people perceive things "visually" in their mind's eye. I can imagine a flat gray 5 pointed star in my mind, and of course there's not a visual experience like my eyes, it's more of an imagination of the visualization of seeing.

I also wonder if this is a trainable skill. Some people think being able to roll their Rs is genetic, or being able to curl their tongue, however there is no genetic component to these, they're both trainable.

When I close my eyes and imagine something visually, I'm shutting off the attention to the blackness my closed eyes are seeing. I ignore that input pathway into my brain. It feels like my center of consciousness moves up/above my eyes, or recedes behind my eyes, into my brain, and this is where I'm able to craft visual images. Do folks with aphantasia over focus on the blackness / input from their eyes, trying to make something appear in that visual pathway, and it's a matter of training?

I think what's difficult for me is that the ability to visualize something feels like an inherent part of how the mind works. I'm skeptical that people are "wired differently" outside of genetic disorders, injuries and schizophrenia. We all have brains with the same number of lobes, we all have a limbic system, hormones, consciousness. There's certainly variations in degrees of experience, and the core wiring is the same.
> Why wasn't 5 Hubble telescopes launched? The marginal cost for the other 4 must have been vastly smaller than the first.

Economies of scale only apply at, well, scale. Five Hubbles would cost 5x one Hubble to construct. There's very little in the way of savings because most parts are custom fabricated. The parts need to be tested, integrated, then tested after integration. The testing and verification of each subsystem takes the same number of person-hours. So testing 5x the systems requires 5x the time.

You can't just accept a high failure rate of something the size of Hubble just because you've built five of them. If you launched a Hubble and it failed in some Loss of Vehicle fashion after inserted into orbit you've got a big uncontrollable mass of telescope flying around the Earth.

Even if we still had the Space Shuttle (or a fantasy version of the SpaceX Starship) flying an uncontrollable Hubble couldn't necessarily be retrieved. If it wasn't accepting commands and was spinning on some axis it would be too dangerous to approach with another vehicle. Even an unmanned vehicle couldn't necessarily approach it without a collision that causes even more problems. See the recent idiotic Russian ASAT test for an object lesson in what could happen.

This is all to say you don't want some large satellite in a long lived orbit to fail. So there's no savings on testing and verification. Even though at launch Hubble's mirror had problems the satellite itself was fully under control and operable.

Something like Starlink is very different. All the satellites in a given block are functionally identical and fungible. If one fails it's easily replaced by another. They also deploy to a low unstable orbit. If a Starlink satellite fails and is uncontrollable it will de orbit by itself quickly. They must be functional to enable the onboard engines that get them to a stable intended orbit. A Starlink satellite then needs far less testing and verification than a Hubble or JWST, not that they can be poor quality but they don't need to function Or Else Bad Things.
Anybody can do it once, not everybody can do it once. It's just luck of the draw, most won't be able to, but they could.
How do you use anki for birding? Do you study birdsong or are you learning visually?
The arctic is too damn cold anyways. It’s great if we can finally go there without freezing to death.
I remain very confused about what aphantasia is. Let me give a concrete example. If you ask me to describe my mother's appearance to you, in as much detail as I can, the output is pretty meager. She's a woman in her early 70s. Tall, about 5'9". Slightly overweight. She has brown hair with streaks of grey. And that's it. I'm embarrassed to note that I cannot recall her eye color from memory.

Does this mean I have aphantasia? From what I have read, I would say the opposite. Though their are many, many people fitting the above description, I'm confident I could pick her out in a lineup of hundreds of them. There is visual data in my head that I cannot articulate about, e.g., bone structure, skin texture, gait, etc. On the other hand, I cannot summon a picture of her in my head with high enough fidelity to be able to recall her eye color. If you are aphantasic, what is your experience recalling someone's face? Is it like this, or is everything you remember verbal, or verbalizable?
https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/current_events/
Build what you need. Use what you build
This makes me remember that my primary way of finding new things on the web back in middle school was just typing educated guess urls in until I found something.

It was nice back in the early days when you wanted U.S. state government information, you could almost always enter something like http://state.xx.us and get the state's home page, then explore from there. (Where xx was the state abbreviation.)

Cities were very often http://city.state.xx.us.

Now many (most?) states have vanity URLs, and the cities are worse. I think Chicago's changed its URL at least three times.
> It was when the US stole British IP

Was it really stealing?

The British pretty much did nothing to stop it nor protected their IP. They certainly didn't strongly enforce it.

Contrast that with Chinese theft; as soon as counterfeit products or patent infringing ones make it to US soil they are promptly seized and destroyed if found to be infringing the laws.
It draws that much attention only on hacker news and only this one specific difference in how people think.

I don't see general interest in psychology or other people's thinking here. And I know of no other place then HN that would care about aphantasia this way either.
Not quite. Color is created in your eyes, by the rods and cones. What the mind sees comes from the eyes, and color blindness is usually caused by genetic defects causing the rods and cones to be differently sensitive than normal.

Those with color blindness have had luck wearing special polarized shades turning some color frequencies into others that the rods and cones can better sense.
Almost no-one will make a 50 km trip with a cargo bike. But it's quite likely they don't own a costly and space-hogging car, but will rent one for the few times they need one.

(Note: 50 km is the equivalent of the 30 miles in parent's original comment.)
Step 1: Take a deep breath. The world is not ending tomorrow, or next year, or even in 100 years. Subjecting yourself to excess fear is not helpful. You will be fine. Your kids will be fine. Their kids will mostly be fine.

Step 2: Try to understand what will actually happen and prepare yourself accordingly. Severe weather systems will probably continue to worsen - you can prepare yourself for those. You can look up the realistic model predictions for sea level rise and compare on a map like [1] what that means and choose where to live accordingly (aside from Florida, the real risks are from hurricanes). Etc.

Step 3: Ask yourself what you can realistically do and what you cannot realistically do. For the things in the latter bucket, refer to Step 2 and don't worry about them so much. For things in the first bucket, do what you can. Personally, I donate to 3 different orgs to more than offset my carbon footprint, and I try to lead a low-carbon lifestyle where possible (don't use A/C or heat as much, eat less meat, drive less, etc.).

Step 4: If you want to take a "big plunge", ask yourself seriously if you would do more good by quitting your job to work on this space, or if something else would be more effective. In most cases, it's more effective to donate more money to the change you want to see, or to become more involved in politics. In most cases, the core causes of climate change aren't going to be solved by new tech.

[1] https://www.climate.gov/maps-data/dataset/sea-level-rise-map...
Inflation hurts bankers, but is very good for anyone who has debt. Mild inflation poses zero damage to poor people as wages and interest on their saving increases linearly with the inflation. I don't know where anyone got the idea that inflation was bad for poor people, but it was probably from people associated with the banks.

On the other hand, one situation that inflation can be very bad is when the government has a lot of debt and doesn't have a balanced budget, which is just about every first world country at the moment.
Oh I don’t know if it is a minority who “don’t want to wear a mask”. It is definitely a minority who just refuse to wear them, despite the government forcing them too. My guess is a majority of people would be glad to see mask mandates go away, and a minority is willing to speak. Though I’m weak and just wear a mask when asked though I don’t like it. I appreciate those who just refuse.

The strange minority is those who desire this awful hell we’ve enacted with our covid response.
Looks like the LOC folks are also unaware of the existence of HyperCard clones such as SuperCard (a compiler) and subsequently Runtime Revolution (now discontinued): before the company stopped selling its end-product cross-platform HyperCard clone there was a brief open source foray, and some folks appear to still be trying to develop an open source XTalk platform (XTalk is the generalized descendant language of HyperTalk):

https://openxtalk.org/forum/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XTalk

... They also don't seem to know about how files on an HFS filesystem all have separate resource/data forks: it's a distinctly different paradigm from the familiar a-file-is-a-stream-of-bytes convention of Linux/UNIX/NTFS, and some of their problem seems to arise because they're looking at a "flattened" HFS file that has been squished to fit on a non-HFS filesystem. (Modern macOS makes almost no use of resource forks, so they're vestigial in HFS+; not sure APFS even provides them.)
China = Enemy /of the entire world/.

You forgot that last part. China's trade dealings are outright hostile. China's overlooking slave-wages, and suicides tied to working conditions or lack thereof.

China must be considered /by all/ to be an enemy of the rest of the globe.

This is not saying that the Chinese populace are enemies, but the Chinese Government, which controls the populace, is most definitely so.
You cope with it as a terminal cancer patient might cope.

Personally I’m not changing anything. This world is coming to an end soon and I’d rather enjoy life as I always imagined it would be for as long as I can, than to adopt unnatural behaviors in a futile attempt at saving the planet.

The next generations are screwed, fortunately I find them quite annoying so I don’t care too much about what happens to them. I have no children of my own to worry about, though I may still consider having some if I can imagine a way for them to live a good life and of course if I can find a suitable woman to mate with, but I will not expect grandchildren. I will be far too old anyway, and my children will have to make the call if the world still has support for another human generation to be born.

Overall, the feeling that one should be getting their affairs in order looms with each passing day, and planning for the future doesn’t seem wise.
I have a similarly priced model, but from a different brand. Some of the extras are definitely debatable, but convenient. A second battery, belt drive, Rohloff electronic gear box. A chain with a derailleur definitely does the job, but belt and Rohloff need much less maintenance and I’m bad at maintaining chains. Second battery is useful since we actually do trips that go past 50 miles.

So even if both are not strictly needed, this bike replaces my car. And it’s pretty bad at social signaling, most people don’t realize what the ride costs.
>> You really should want what guns were used to be distributed between the people that went in to the building and those staying outside with no discernible patterns to argue against an organized insurrection

I dont follow. This is not super coherent.
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OP just messed up posting it, see explanation here [1] and his "original comment" which was meant to be the question here [2].

I also feel like me and my as-of-yet unnamed/unreleased product is probably the main benefactor, since my top level comment has gotten a lot of attention (>20 emails too). I promise that I don't know the OP.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29552591

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29551687