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Here is some context: Early in the aphantasia discourse, someone asked a group I was in to do a mental exercise: Imagine an apple. Can you tell what color it is? What variety? Can …

They don't mention Twitter, but that's where Willison got it from.

Recruiters use automated tools to scrape LinkedIn profiles and send what amounts to customized spam.

On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, clock time is entirely a social construct whose whole purpose is to coordinate social and business activity, so it should be specifically d…

Aha! That was a bonehead miss on my part. Very nice, and very slick interface. :)

EDIT: Author has pointed out that the interpolation mode can be changed. Very slick! It looks like this is interpolating in HCL or HSV space— that tends to produce unexpected resul…

Pixar used RCS at the time. Problem is, when you run `rm -rf /`, that deletes the RCS directories as well.

Ed Catmull.

> I play sports. I may be able to catch a ball with one eye I would love to see a sports game where one team can use both eyes, and the other team only has one eye uncovered. I ima…

> Humans don’t really use stereopsis beyond the reach of their arms This is outright false. A person with acute vision can perceive stereopsis out to 1/4 mile. Trivially, 3D movies…

The failures will continue indefinitely, until Tesla decides to use stereopsis for ranging.

> Requiring multiple sensors means that all of your sensor systems need to notice a danger This is the opposite of true. In well-designed sensor fusion algorithms, every new piece …

> Why don’t I just connect directly to my friend, not through some third party content server, and pull the desired content directly off my friends hard drive? That, my friend, is …

And that's the biggest doublespeak lie about it. The web is already open and decentralized by its very design, and that openness and decentralization is a major reason for its incr…

Victim-blaming comments like this make me see red. "The fact that I am able to exploit these people means that I am entitled to" is everything wrong with Silicon Valley.

"Innovation" and "scam" are not incompatible.

It's not clear that the impression is false.

Sometimes it's hard for me to tell when a Hacker News comment is being sarcastic or not.

> 60 miles To match a human, it needs to go half a million miles without an accident, and 100 million miles without a fatality.

Tesla autopilot use nowhere near competitive with a human driver, no matter what they claim. I'm bullish on self-driving in general, but Tesla's misrepresentation of their self-dri…