skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a wonderful video. The gibberish she speaks in Each language sounds pretty convincing, although I noticed my relationship with each language affected how it sounded a lot.

French and Spanish: I've heard them around but never spoken them. She sounded perfect.

Swedish: I used to be able to speak it but have forgotten. She sounded even more convincing than in French.

Japanese: I speak it now but not natively. She sounded pretty rough and not all that Japanese to me.

English: My native language. My brain tried so hard to make sense of it and pulled out snippets of words but there was no grammar there.
> Yet such a repair is not feasible.

Well, we don't really know, because we've never bothered to build a chip/fab process with that capability. It's cheaper to just throw broken ones away (edit: plus, it isn't morally reprehensible to throw them away because they don't have consciousness... yet). I guess the other thing is that a CPU is pretty simplistic compared to a big organism.

We do bin products and then e.g. underclock or disable parts of them accordingly. So there's the start of an "injury"-sensing mechanism. But microchips still have a few thousand years to go in their "evolution" at least :)
Have they recovered fully from the fire?
The author seems to assert that empathy is being used as a cheap tool to subvert differing opinion out of self-interest. And it is true, some people sometimes act out of self-interest.

Like self-preservation. You know, like if you're muslim, black, mexican, a woman, trans, gay, a member of the press, concerned about the environment, etc you probably perceive all the threats Trump has been making at you for a year. In order to prevent your new President from making good on all the threats he's made against you, you might want to try to get through to his supporters. Because maybe you don't want to be oppressed.

So the crazy idea is that maybe we should employ empathy as a tool to understand the people who voted in favor of taking away our rights and setting back the clock of social progress by 70 years. That maybe by understanding their emotions and what drives them, we might be able to reach them, build some kind of common bond, and keep them from hurting us. This is apparently really shitty of us.

I have never read another article where someone comes so close to understanding an idea and then zooms past it on rocket skates.
The ration between soldier deaths vs civilian deaths has grown tremendously since Butler's time.

But more importantly back then American soldiers were conscripted and forced to fight against their will.
There are two parts to the characterization at play here:

1. Psychedelics are not "abused" in the same way that other substances are. Furthermore, when psychedelics do get abused, the adverse effects are expressed differently, and patients are not routed through the same treatment channels that addictive substances see. Since psychedelics aren't addictive, users usually don't need ongoing maintenance to prevent relapses. Instead, victims of psychedelic side effects usually suffer from catastrophic burnouts after the mother of all bad trips, or persistent neurological symptoms creep in after a period of experimentation, and remain possibly for life. Once that happens people quit cold turkey, and cope with their flashbacks however they must.

2. Being a director of anything isn't a huge deal. It's not much of an auspicious title. Like manager or vice president, after you meet a thousand of them, big deal. Meanwhile, as for doctors, you'd be shocked at how sheltered some doctors are. Many of the doctors I've met only became doctors because their parents forced them into it, and they spent their youth locked in their bedrooms getting good grades, and those geeky scholarly habits stick with them into middle age. It wouldn't surprise me to meet a doctor who is a total outsider to the patient population their supposedly expected to treat through book learnin'...
Maybe try reading a couple of paragraphs further?

“By the time I got to medical school, no one even talked about it,” Ross said.

Besides, substance abuse programs focus heavily on the current headliner addiction drugs - opium in the late 19th century, alcohol in prohibition times, cocaine in the 80s, crack thereafter, prescription painkillers and heroin again now; with a secondary focus on whatever's not the current headliner. How many recent (or non-recent) news stories are there about an epidemic of LSD addicts or mushroom addicts?

Kind of like asking how someone gets to be a web developer without being fluent in Fortran and COBOL.
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Managers in large corporations are very risk averse. Only in exceptional cases will they be comfortable to go direct. If anything goes wrong they can always blame the recruiter and they do. Recruiters budget for these issues that is why the take so much of the top.

A reasonable rate has no appeal to these managers. It is not their money that they are spending. By hiring you at a lower rate, then requires justification why they are paying so much for the other resources. So by not hiring you at your reasonable rate they avoid that question.
The vision of http://sandstorm.io ties well into this strategy (not affiliated, I just like the idea).
The current Library of Alexandria, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, has a copy of the Internet Archive from 1996 to 2007.[1] This was intended to be the first of several backup locations for the Archive. But they have not updated it since 2007, and many links return "Temporarily unavailable". They're lucky it survived the collapse of the Egyptian government.

[1] http://www.bibalex.org/isis/frontend/archive/archive_web.asp...
Would it also allow you to delete subaccounts? We've been giving developer accounts to employees, but when they leave the company we have to ask them for the root credentials so we can deactivate that account...
The Netherlands do not allow dual citizenship, so simply allowing all the Belgians/Dutch to chose during an Enclave/Exclave swap wouldn't be possible.

It wouldn't be necessary really, as citizenship is more dependent on your parents. Both of them being EU member states also makes residence somewhat irrelevant too, except maybe with taxes.
I donated. It feels really good to help such a good cause, however little it may be.
Does anyone have any advice on how to hear the distinction in sounds that aren't in your native language? For example an English speaker learning Chinese tones or a Japanese speaker learning L and R differences. It seems like this is a huge wall to learning accents.
> you also need to reallocate housing from the diffuse suburban homes suitable for car-life to the concentrated cores of housing around the local stops in your mass transit system

What if a significant fraction of the population doesn't want to live in such a concentrated environment?
Nice feature and I know larger companies would love it, but I personally would like to have better grouping ability of assets within the one AWS account. For instance, we have a bunch of servers for one web app, two or three for other apps, a few apps with single servers etc.

Not just EC2 here, I am talking about RDS, Elastic Beanstalk, Route 53, CloudFront, DynamoDB, the works. Would be nice if we could define 'stacks' for each web app and have the on one neat console to work with.

(I know there is the concept of 'Resource Groups', but that relies on tagging assets, and I don't believe tagging extends across all the AWS assets at this stage? I would love for someone to correct me on my assumptions.)
>I would think that Amazon of all places would automate anything they could.

It is all automated. To the point of paging you when an alarm goes off. But when the alarms go off, someone has to figure out how to fix the problem. Apparently some newer developers dug into the problem, they were able to fix it so that things were Much More Sane.

On our particular team, the server guys had just set too many alarms without really:

a) Documenting exactly why a particular alarm was potentially bad

b) Documenting what to do when a particular alarm went off

c) Really thinking about alarm thresholds -- frequently alarms were going off just because a client was using the product

The hell of oncall for our team was that we were the client team. We knew nothing about the server side. So if someone on our team was oncall and got paged, they'd basically have to call someone on the server team at 3am or whenever anyway because WTF is this stupid alarm?!

I had the Weirdest Commute Ever [1], though, and was as a side effect exempt.

[1] I live in Colorado. Amazon send me an offer to be an employee that allowed me to work from home ... but not in Colorado, because sales tax. So I rented a house on the edge of Kansas (3 hour drive), worked M-W, 12 hours/day, and drove home for the weekends. I couldn't do any work in Colorado or Amazon would risk having to pay sales tax on all purchases from Colorado. So QED I couldn't be oncall. Amazon has offices here now, so I could work for them without the weird commute. But as I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, I'm currently obsessing over finishing a game.
While I agree with you, could I play devil's advocate for a moment? All ideals are unbalanced and thus have to be periodically challenged.

All ideals can be corrupted.

It takes empathy to design, and the more people that you reach with a product, the more that empathy matters, because the more people that that one product has to accommodate, and also because people will demand more of the product/service.

Maybe the article is right in treating empathy with suspicion because empathy has been subsumed by other things. Among other things, there is the chase for raw user numbers.

The homophobic and xenophobic rhetoric in the election was founded on exploiting empathy for the white working class. Whoever said that empathy had to be used for good?
I'm not aware of these drugs directly causing the death of anyone (excluding someone driving on the freeway after taking them). Do you have an example of a fatality?

As for the other unpleasant effects it's true these can happen temporarily. I know some people anecdotally believe negative effects can be permanent, but I'm not aware of any research supporting cause and effect.

Now weigh the risks above with the possible reward. Near death comfort (while important) is only one application. For example anxiety and OCD are life crippling for so many people, and research suggest psychedelics might offer one of the best treatments yet.

The potential benefits to society are so great, the research must continue. I also see no reason you could not help out with some empirical study.
"Modern" is a relative term. When Butler was fighting around the turn of the the 19th century in the Philippines and elsewhere, as many(or more) men died from disease, dysentery, and infection then they did "in battle". Many conscripted men died before they ever had the chance to kill someone in the name of empire.

It's very unfortunate that this 80 year old polemic by Butler is still radical in this day and age, when so many are chomping at the bit to wage war.
I was the eng manager when we started this project... so why Mongo?
- baumandm suggested Mongo and it seemed to meet all of our requirements.
- We started the project in May 2013. Mongo was a lighter weight / simpler solution back then.
- We were building dashboards for monitoring systems (like grafana) and we wanted high availability of our data store.
- The dashboards are defined with a single JSON document, but the JSON is dynamic for every dashboard.

I'm no longer involved in the project, but Mongo is probably still a good choice.
Character size, not sprite size. Sprites are bigger, but you can (officially) only have 8 on screen at once. Clever scanline-timing tricks can increase that to a few dozen before flickering sets in, but still not enough for general use emoji.

Redefined characters would work, but they're limited to a total of 256 characters at a time, including the usual letters/numbers/punctuation. Still, 150 or so of the most popular emoji would go a long way!
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"I only buy it for the stories!" - Every Playboy magazine subscriber ever
What a bizarre article. I can't tell if the author has absolutely no concept of what empathy actually is, or is just willfully redefining it because they have column space to fill.

She has sympathy and empathy precisely backwards. Sympathy is the dispassionate one, empathy has the emotional connection.

It's true that facebook is guilty of co-opting empathy into a feel-good marketing phrase, but that's not exactly unprecedented. It doesn't mean they've changed the definition of the word.

At any rate, add this to the list of the wrong lessons we can learn from the election. Being empathetic to someone doesn't mean enabling them or being complicit in their beliefs. It's an emotional connection that can possibly change their views, but just as well might change yours. The point of it is the connection, not the intent to change minds - it's seeking to understand for understanding's sake, not to use the knowledge to then manipulate them.

One of my fears is that people will use the election to learn the lesson that facts and truth don't matter anymore, that we as well should also go right ahead and turn into wannabe political rhetoric specialists, lying and manipulating and abdicating our own roles in defending rational dialectic.
I was just listening to a podcast interview with the creator of sqlite [1] and how they manage funding despite the product being in the public domain with a completely unrestricted license. SQLite is used everywhere, therefore they probably could find sponsors easily. It's amazing that hapi.js is so stable in the rapidly changing world of web (I'm a webdev noob so probably don't understand how it works)

[1]:https://changelog.com/podcast/201
Let's not overlook the toll that murder takes on those pressured and conditioned into being willing and able to do so. PTSD rates among recent Iraq and Afghanistan veterans are about 20% [1]. More veterans commit suicide after coming home than are KIA.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttraumatic_stress_disorde...
I've been using org-journal in emacs. You have all the org-mode stuff, plus it's got a time stamp. I can search with helm-ag (silver searcher)
The British control of Ireland was more 'occupation' than 'colonisation'.
"Long ago"? Did the title read "when" instead of "how" at first?

> because animals are awesome companions

Now this is of course obvious to everyone here other than baby infants but domestic animals are "awesome companions" for many reasons:

- they're tasty food (and I might add fully nourishing for those whose ancestors thrived off mammoths for many ice-age millenia),

- or capable and strong beasts of burden,

- or providers of wool, hides, leather, candle wax and countless other useful product pre-cursors,

- or skillful hunting/tracking companions grateful to share the prey in a co-op fashion,

- or defenders of the realm against predators vermin and pests,

- or powerfully speedy transportation engines running on cellulose..

- later on, the soil fertilization didn't hurt either I reckon

I'm sure I'm even still missing aspects.
Just out of curiosity, how did you find that link?

I just tried doing a search on DDG for:

site:news.ycombinator.com "trip treatment"

and it didn't seem to return anything relevant.
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Some people enjoy very specific genres. Do you really want your family and workplace to know you rather enjoy watching Klingons fellate Ewoks?
Not the OP, but:

* Access to educational opportunities as a child (the "easy" path to developing the right brain structures software engineers need)

* Lacking the first point, the extreme amount of time and the tolerance for the effort involved in "learning how to think" as an adult.

* The free time to learn to become a software engineer.

* Ideally the money to get a CS degree or equivalent.

* Raw aptitude. Some people are genuinely not cut out for it.
> Chrome's security team is probably the strongest in the industry and they poured an absurd amount of effort into Chrome's security.

Could you elaborate? I'm curious what they do for security.
Forget knowledge of esoteric or edgy topics - I bet if you took the 10 most important research results in the last year that your own doctor would not be aware of all of them even if relevant to their practice.
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I wholeheartedly agree. IAM has been readily available to provision individual users on the AWS accounts for quite some time now. Sharing access to the root account is a bad practice.

Ideally, the root account should have MFA enabled, all root access keys should be deleted, and individual users should have their own usernames provisioned via IAM with the principle of least privilege applied.
Thanks for this.

Is there any reason 1 optimization was not considered: simply wget download of popular models? That way you can get started immediately rather than spend a day training?
Actually, I wonder if the creator of WWWBoard/FormMail/etc achieved that. It certainly would've been well earned. His stuff was everywhere (I used them a lot too).
I got to see the border of this country a while back:

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

Here's a photo:

http://journeyofkhan.us/photo/transnistria-across-the-nistru...

http://journeyofkhan.us/photo/bridge-to-transnistria/
Slack is a program created 13 years into the 21st century that does not understand either hyperlinks or WYSIWYG.

It's boggling.
Ship's anchor severs Jersey's undersea internet cables
I use riemann in front if influx, which collects data and forwards it once a second. Works nicely, especially given that I aggregate some more high volume metrics before sending them to influx.
Then I'd suggest The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein. That book is reference city.
The first use case for Cyclotron was cycling through a few static web pages on dedicated TV screens. Cyclotron is still used to display dashboards all around Expedia - some teams use it more than others.
There are books (and, better but more expensive, teachers) that address directly the mechanics (e.g., tongue, lip, etc., positions) of making the sounds.

In essence, bypass hearing the difference (that comes later, through use) and skip straight to making the sounds.

Probably works better for unfamiliar phonemes than tones, though. Different issues entirely.
Well, you're comparing an entire country's history to one leader. Not apples for apples in terms of time spans.
The new road to serfdom: The coming real estate collapse (2006) [pdf]
The web doesn't handle WYSIWYG formatting.
Not sure how parent found it, but for HN content, this is the best: https://hn.algolia.com
I don't buy into these excuses.

If Google really cared about OEM updates, it would make it as part of the requirements to license the Play Store.
Its the 80-20 rule in effect. Most optimization happens either by choosing the more efficient implementation or by better use of IO (see Efficient Persistent Data Structures). By the time you are down to putting in your own rewrite rules in for the optimization pass you have gone a long way into the weeds and it is a pretty advanced skill.
Why doesn't git upon commit ensure the sha-1 is unique by having some nonce as part of it?

I guess if you only work with rebases instead of merges, it should be possible, right?
Firmament: Fast, centralized cluster scheduling at scale
Everyone says scrolling back through history is a feature, but it grinds to a halt before you can scroll back very far anyway.
Sure, but that limit should be closer to hundreds of characters—not 9.
How about a distributed, social archive of music, dedicated to high quality and bit-level verification, with metadata and user discussion? With a ratio economy that rewarded contributions?

French police recently raided the infrastructure of such a place, and now it's gone. It was around for 8 years.
Why not? Your family and workplace know you sometimes poop really nasty poo. They know you pee. They know you masturbate. Why not talk about it? Maybe your boss enjoys horny Ewoks as much as you do. Could be a bonding experience.
There's an interesting book related to that, called "On Killing".[1] It's about the psychological conditioning that killers-to-be undergo to actually get them to kill.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Killing
This seems like a small tweak on IAM and consolidated billing which AWS had first, didn't they?
While this is from last year, today the FDA approved phase 3 trials of MDMA for PTSD (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/29/us/ptsd-mdma-ecstasy.html).
I gave him/her an extra for you.
Scroll a bit further north, and you will find a single, small German farm just inside the Belgian border. Apparently it's abandoned because the occupant got sick of trying to convince the German authorities that his land actually was in Germany when he needed this or that.

https://www.google.fi/maps/place/Switzerland/@50.5972041,6.2...

Scroll a bit further south from the farm, and you'll see a Belgian trainline cutting off (much larger) bits of Germany.
It's also possible that whoever posted the cache link accidentally copied the wrong URL from the Google results page. The title of the abovethelaw.com article matches the title of this HN story ("The Fallacy of Chesterton's Fence"), but the cache link points to an article entitled "The Parable of Chesterton’s Fence".

(From what I've observed, when the moderators change a story's link, they always add a comment saying they've done so - so that doesn't seem to be what happened here.)
> Kind of like asking how someone gets to be a web developer without being fluent in Fortran and COBOL.

Completely OT, but I really dig that metaphor!
An easier solution would be to enable e10s. It should be on by default in the next ESR, and I know TBB has been working to make their patches compatible with it.
> One problem, said Brian Swingle of Harvard and Brandeis universities, who also works in holography, is that Verlinde lacks a concrete model universe like the ones researchers can construct in AdS space, giving him more wiggle room for making unproven speculations. “To be fair, we’ve gotten further by working in a more limited context, one which is less relevant for our own gravitational universe,” Swingle said, referring to work in AdS space. “We do need to address universes more like our own, so I hold out some hope that his new paper will provide some additional clues or ideas going forward.”

Woah. How can AdS model universes have less "wiggle room for making unproven speculations"? There is no AdS universe to observe or experiment in. How could speculations in such universes be "proven"? Or rather, disproved?
For example:

Here's a ripper. We used something like it this year to, amongst other things, assist with some drainage issues.

http://www.stjosephequipment.com/console/storage/documents/1...

28-38 HP per shank, up to 9 shanks. That's ~350 HP in it's max configuration.

>It's certainly not a zero cost, but how much are we really talking?

Low volume, high complexity electronic hardware design and manufacture? I've been part of engineering departments building such things and it's not cheap. It'll cost... $200,000 per employee-year for engineers? Researching enough to come up with an actual cost would probably take days – but it's definitely a significant if not majority share of the engineering budget.
It is debatable whether one can do anything at all against one's will. In regards to conscription in the US, one could always refuse and go to jail. Also, I believe even then there was such a thing as a conscientious objector.
SO GOOD. really rare insight into the problem solving processes of top-level research physicists.
It depends on your target audience. If first world countries with good internet, then its lean. If not then ok on a desktop. Very bad in a mobile.