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> "So if I am reading this right, LSD reduced fearful reactions. I initially mis-read it as a correlation between LSD and fear."

Not really, the results were a bit more subtle and technical than that. They just found that there was a (fairly small) negative correlation on left amygdalar BOLD signal in the active group. They did not measure subjective fear, nor did they make any explicit claims about it. Just because blood oxygen levels changed does not mean the participants necessarily experienced less fear or anything different from the placebo group (in terms of fear at least).

The authors also mention toward the end of the paper that this was a fairly small dose, and that larger doses would likely induce more anxiety than placebo:

"Third, we can only provide data about one moderate dose. Higher doses of psychedelics are possibly difficult to use with fMRI, because they are more likely to induce anxiety,45 although the overall effects are still described as positive in the higher doses investigated.2, 45 The observed anxiolytic effect probably also depends on personal and environmental factors and might thus be different in the mentally ill or in uncontrolled settings."
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What I mean to say is, Usenet's social model hardly prevented it from drowning in a sea of low-value content.
Got it, thanks for clarifying Patrick. That sounds like a fairly clear ethical line in the sand so kudos for taking that position.

Good luck with the US launch :)
AWS employee here.

You are welcome to check with AWS Support based on your predicted traffic load for extra assurance, but in my experience the new ALB no longer requires priming, even for significant traffic spikes.

If any of you are going to Dockercon in Austin stop by the AWS booth and I'd be happy to show you a demo app that uses an ALB with about ten rules to route traffic to different microservices running as tasks under EC2 Container Service. The demo includes a load test to drive traffic to the ALB and the services behind the ALB, verifying the consistent performance as traffic scales up.
Because nothing beats dying at the ripe old age 30 with a toothless mouth, body failing of undernourishment and disease (especially parasites), common death in childbirth, the slightest infection becoming a death sentence, and so on.
Yeah, psychedelics in general seem to be a useful tool for understanding consciousness, whether or not they're clinically useful.
Are you all using the same definition of "modern denomination"?
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Not an employee, but I'm pretty sure that the interview is the same for all engineering roles, unless you're very senior/specialized. I doubt that your interviewers will even know that you're up for a ML position specifically.
The synthetic text they generated was surprisingly realistic, despite being generic.

If I were perusing a dozen reviews I probably wouldn't have spotted the AI-generated ones in the crowd.
Yeah, it really sucks that those of us in UK are blocked from accessing parts of the BBC website whilst everyone else can.

(It's essentially down to the fact that the BBC aren't allowed to display adverts — which feature on the website — to users in the UK. Apparently it's too costly to have the site not display adverts to UK users, so they simply block access to the entire site.)

You can still access the article via the Wayback Machine, though:

http://web.archive.org/web/20170406163007/http://www.bbc.com...
Nothing new in this article, but since we're there, here's how I minimize this problem:

* On the desktop, clicking on Firefox's readability button has become almost second-nature to me when I end up on news sites (speaking of which, what do you guys on Chrome use?).

* For longer articles, I'll often whip up my Kobo and read the articles synced from Pocket.

* On mobile, I also use Pocket (used to enjoy the readability feature on my old iPhone too).

And finally, most of the annoying popups and other conversion-whoring anti-user features are neutralized with an extension such as uMatrix, but using it requires quite a bit of daily maintenance overhead so I don't bother anymore.
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I'm sure this API will be great news to those people who are harassed with hate speech every time they use Twitter. Since Twitter has an economic incentive to ignore that problem (if they do fix it, then their "user engagement" takes a nosedive) I don't think their future is particularly rosy.
As a historical note, there used to be quite a few very popular solutions for supporting early social networks over intermittent protocols.

UUCP [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP] used the computers' modems to dial out to other computers, establishing temporary, point-to-point links between them. Each system in a UUCP network has a list of neighbor systems, with phone numbers, login names and passwords, etc.

FidoNet [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet] was a very popular alternative to internet in Russia as late as 1990s. It used temporary modem connections to exchange private (email) and public (forum) messages between the BBSes in the network.

In Russia, there was a somewhat eccentric, very outspoken enthusiast of upgrading FidoNet to use web protocols and capabilities. Apparently, he's still active in developing "Fido 2.0": https://github.com/Mithgol
Yep. There's immense dignity in doing something that society really needs done, even when it's hard work. There's also immense degradation in working hard when you secretly know society doesn't need you, and you're just doing it so someone you think is delusional will pay you.
I built a ~$10k PC for deep learning (among other types of computation). Feel free to email me if you have any questions about choosing components or building it.
I game in cycles. some years i'm into it and others i'm not. backwards compat is a nice-to-have if I missed on last gen's best games.
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That half of the cost due to medallions isn't temporary. Whatever was there due to supply restrictions isn't temporary either.

Uber still subsidizes the price beyond rents and supply restrictions. That part is temporary.
That literally has nothing to do with my point. UNIX was a closed source proprietary system, and so was VMS.
At the same time, saying "This is who we are, this is what we're doing" is pretty important. It's not part of a "cute" website; it's part of a functional and informative one.
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> It is the exact reason why you can run a economy with markets but not with democracy.

You may be able to run an economy thusly, but can you run a society in that way? Left alone, 'the market' will push people into extreme conditions to obtain means of sustenance, for example sweatshop labour. Meanwhile proponents will talk about 'freedom to leave' at any time, while ignoring the fact that there is a whole class of people essentially forced to sell their labuor-time to gather means of sustenance.

A sweatshop worker can leave, but then what? They probably have to find employment under someone else. That's not freedom. Not everyone has such strong resolve as you with your pen. For example media corporations can also be bought out by companies who don't like what's being said about them. Monopolies can be formed, reducing choice. Et cetera.
My best friend @wengerstoybus[1] made this! Fun fact, he actually manually illustrated each animal in Illustrator, and then exported them to images that he loaded up in the browser. He then wrote some really quick ’n dirty JS so that he could click each of the points in the image, and he’d get their coordinates fed back to him once he’d completed a whole shape. He could then just plug these coords into the CSS etc voila!

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Of course, you are right that it depends on how you define money.

Money as debt, that I would argue is the modern conception of money, as opposite to an asset (like cigarettes in a prisoners camp or gold), comes from the state.

For examples of this I would recommend the book "Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism" by Christine Desan.

Also, accounting (and maybe even numbers and writing!) were invented initially as a way as registering debt in Mesopotamia by what today we would call 'the state'

>> It's the idea that markets know what is better for us what many reject.
>"I don't understand who is making that argument."

I don't understand what you say here. Maybe I misunderstand, but it's not the whole point that markets deliver better solutions for everybody that any kind of central planning?

I'm not sure how what I mean for 'us' is difficult to grasp. Human societies?
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> Considering that Glimmer goes quite far in optimizing stuff, at which point would it perhaps make more sense to just emulate HTML elements on a pixel-level?

Even if this could be done with reasonable performance (and people have tried this), you shouldn't do this in any browser environment. You can't possibly emulate the behavior of every browser in a satisfactory way; you'll end up behaving gratuitously differently, with subtle breakage of platform conventions, browser conventions, user expectations (including potential extensions), hardware requirements, scaling, rendering, and accessibility.
that's exactly true. You get interviewed by 5 different people across the org.
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So char-by-char models is the next Word2Vec then. Pretty impressive results.

It would be interesting to see how it performed for other NLP tasks. I'd be pretty interested to see how many neurons it uses to attempt something like stance detection.

Data-parallelism was used across 4 Pascal Titan X gpus to speed up training and increase effective memory size. Training took approximately one month.

Everytime I look at something like this I find a line like that and go: "ok that's ncie.. I'll wait for the trained model".
Originality? Individuality? Or creativity? If you have 100 applicants and 99 of them all ask the same questions but the last one asks slightly better questions, doesn't that give the edge to #100?
Note that IT has good reason for the complex change rules: if they make ANY change to the data base, everyone needs to change. The change itself is simple, but in many cases thousands of programs access the database. If taxes don't go out on time because the program that runs once a year at tax time didn't get updated - the best case is the CTO goes to prison, things get worse quickly. When prison is a very real risk of approving a database change would you approve it?
It humorously states that it is no different than a standard Google interview, which does add value to the post.
I'd imagine it isn't used in companies where rank isn't based on education level, but it's very common in academia. For example, it's rude for me as a grad student to just use a professor's first name without using a title.
I don't know, but this seems a bit hyped in places.

They start with:

> Our L1-regularized model matches multichannel CNN performance with only 11 labeled examples, and state-of-the-art CT-LSTM Ensembles with 232 examples.

Hmm, that sounds pretty impressive. But then later you read:

> We first trained a multiplicative LSTM with 4,096 units on a corpus of 82 million Amazon reviews to predict the next character in a chunk of text. Training took one month across four NVIDIA Pascal GPUs

Wait, what? How did "232 examples" transform into "82 million"??

OK, I get it: they pretrained the network on the 82M reviews, and then trained the last layer to do the sentiment analysis. But you can't honestly claim that you did great with just 232 examples!
in my experience only 1/5 of the interviews will touch on ML
I suspect it's because many developers are introduced to programming through web development. The pedagogy fails them and they go on to successful careers believing falsehoods.

It's hard enough to learn a programming language the first time that I can see how ORMs and frameworks relieve the burden of having to learn SQL, RDBMSs, etc.

However it's a convenient lie that seems to rarely ever be corrected.

The reality is that ORMs are exactly the wrong abstraction. They introduce premature pessimization into your application. They are not structured around how your data should be designed but how data-structures in your language of choice are designed. And left uncorrected they lead many developers to the mistaken belief that RDBMSs are slow, inflexible, etc, etc.

It turns out that relational algebra gives us great tools for querying complex data structures and relationships and building consistent, correct abstractions.

RDBMS servers have great facilities for managing and interacting with our data. Procedural languages, authentication, authorization, inter-process communication, etc, etc.
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That's not what a free market is about. A free market is allowing you to do anything you want, right up the the point when your actions would harm another person.

That's why Bill Gates and I can coexist in peace - we are both doing what we want, and neither is harming the other (unless you count Microsoft Bob, which was an affront on humanity!)

Seriously though, BillG can do whatever he wants. Once he does something that harms me, I will push back.

Likewise, democracy is about the free exchange of ideas, limited only by when you harm another person.
I don't understand that - I get why licence-fee funded stuff wouldn't get broadcast to those who wouldn't ever pay it, but why not allow people who do pay the license fee to access the same stuff on the same terms as people who don't?
That's because Erlang is still a traditional imperative programming language, so it just slightly tweaks what you're already used to. Logic programming is completely different.
NVidia has a killer driver team, which gives them a huge advantage. This advantage is lessened in the "lower-level" DX12 & Vulkan API's.
a load of shit, indeed! This degree of hipster self-pity is intolerable. I couldn't make it more than half-way through the stupid article.

"Barbaric." I wonder if he realizes how insulting and patronizing that is. I wish he could have met my grandfather, who worked his life in a coal mine literally scratching out a living six long days a week before dying of lung cancer in the 1950s.

A man who lived in a company house, was paid in script, money that could only be used at the company store to buy good at inflated prices. A man who was shot at with cannon and rifle by the us government for daring to challenge this status quo and try to form a union (see "WV mine wars" for details).

Vacations? Unthinkable. Benefits? no. A paycheck that was just enough to stay alive until the next one came along? yes.

The idea of fulfillment from one's work was probably not even a concept to daydream about. Leisure time didn't exist. It was called "resting" and it's what you did when not working.

He would have seen the cushy desk job of the average HN reader as paradise itself, the "stress" of meetings or deadlines as literally laughable compared to the very real stresses and dangers he "enjoyed" : mine collapse, poisoning by noxious gases, explosions, fire, or cancer.

Load of shit. That's the perfect description.
Good point, even fake "unlimited" at this price seems like it wouldn't be feasible.

Elsewhere it's mentioned that they'll take advantage of their xfinitywifi hotspots. Maybe that's enough to bring their cellular traffic down to a level that this would pay for.
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Anyone know what the driver situation is going to be like for linux?
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice? No thanks.
> The only prerequisite for "money" is consumption decoupled from the instantaneous moment of the trade

This is correct, but I think it is also useful to add that a system with very wide use of money would probably also require wage labour to some extent and from that the commodification of labour. Money becomes more useful the more things are commodified.
Bit of feedback: when you download the desktop application, it prompts for a desired name, image, and description.

It's unclear whether this can be changed later, and I'm not yet sure whether I want to use my real identity or a throwaway.

After creating an account with the default ¿randomly? generated name, I tried to use an invite obtained from http://198.211.122.115/invited which was linked from https://github.com/staltz/easy-ssb-pub.

All I got back was "An error occured (sic) while attempting to redeem invite. could not connect to sbot"

It worked with http://pub.locksmithdon.net/ though I feel a bit odd trusting a "locksmith" I've never heard of to stream lots of data to my harddrive...

It's cool that anyone can host a pub – basically, an instance of FB/Twitter/Gmail, it seems – but things 1) will get expensive for them, and it's unclear how they'll fund that – and 2) now I have to trust random people on the internet – not only to be nice, but also secure.

As a "random technically aware netizen", I honestly trust fooplesoft more, since they have a multi-billion-dollar reputation to protect. (Not that I trust fooplesoft).
Trucks have much less available space than the Eurostat data leads to believe. Firstly the data only considers cargo weight. So lightweight cargo skews the data. Secondly reporting the data to Eurostat is an annoyance for the trucking companies — so who knows what’s in those reports.

To a first approximation, the limiting condition for shipping is bulk not weight. Governments track and regulate weight because weight correlates to wear and tear on infrastructure.
SSB's central premise -- distributed users, making an ad-hoc network connection whenever they are physically close, or perhaps have some network connection -- bakes in an assumption that a user's ability to connect to the network is sporadic.

It seems like the system would work just as well for people who decide to turn their system off when they go to work, or are on a sailboat. Of course it's not convenient in the same way that always-on social networks are, but that seems to be specifically not the point of SSB.
> Or, would you rather swap a regular user entry into and away from a maintenance role when you hire/fire someone? (Certainly doable, but seems extreme.)

How is this more extreme or more cumbersome than deleting an admin account?

For that matter, you could also just give admins a separate admin account even if they are also users. When I worked in "IT support", I had a separate admin account even though I had a user account in the same system.
Some additional technical background may be found here: http://blog.aurelia.io/2017/04/04/case-study-netrostation/

The solution is built using Aurelia ES.Next along with JSPM as the package manager. It's hosted in Azure as a Geo Distributed Web app, it leverages Traffic Manager, Redis and static files that are served from CDN.
Am I able to use a single ALB across many Elastic Beanstalk applications?
Still the 480 is cheaper than the 1060.
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Why would anyone invite you without knowing what they're recommending?

For that matter, it sounds like the founder or someone who works there is in this thread, but even if you were going to appeal to them, the information you could give them would likely just be the same information that the (linked in the post) signup/product pitch page's application form would ask for.

And fundamentally, why would someone want to work with someone who wasn't proactive in figuring this out? I'm sure as Atlas grows they'll be happy to take your money regardless, but right now they obviously wish to filter out the noise as they likely have a vested interest in starting with the most success-oriented founders.

I can't imagine someone who didn't take the 2 minutes to figure out that they have a non-invite-requiring route, and that that's likely because they don't want to shut the door on anons like yourself asking for an in but don't want their existing members having to recommend people they don't know.
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moved that needle I guess
As a foreigner that used Atlas to incorporate my consulting business, I can certainly vouch for it. It is an excellent example of "one stop shop" philosophy.
Thanks for the feedback — added context to that sentence to make it more clear!

The main interesting thing is that none of the Amazon data was labeled, while the 232 labeled examples were.
I think the general view on this issue is that 2 stroke dirt bike emissions pale in comparison to other 2 stroke equipment emissions and thus not really worth making a stink over.
They're not going to let random hobos move to Mars. Anyone that would be accepted for that mission would have perfectly adequate financial options available to them on Earth.
There is a setting for menu being always on.
I think we're all guilty of this one - that is anyone with a job that pays less than 10K per pay-check.
People downvoting me obviously haven't had anyone close killed by a drunk driver. Disgusting. Simple solution if you can't get home without driving: don't drink.
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Southern Baptists (nation's largest Protestant denomination) has long taken a stance against prosperity preaching.

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The respect goes both ways.

I call people with doctoral degrees "Dr." unless I'm invited otherwise or we're in a non-professional setting. Doctoral degrees usually aren't mere pieces of paper; going out of one's way to diminish the work and sacrifice involved is kind of rude.

But I also think it's kind of snooty and ill-mannered to explicitly demand to be called Dr.

Like with table manners. It's rude to not be decent to other people at the table. But equally rude to snap at another guest for eating with his mouth open.

This example is kind of an in-between on the teacher's part, because socialization is part of education. Only parent knows whether the teacher was motivated by socializing skills or ego.

> Edit: It seems like a lot of HN users have a severe aversion to authority, so I guess I've learned something new today

As always, the aversion is slightly more nuanced than just authority. You'll find lots of respect for certain other positions of authority (eg CEO). Also, aversion to the hierarchy of schools is nothing unique to HN.
Unfortunately, I've never noticed that, because I hide my desktop icons. ;)
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i'd like to hear more on that $10k PC :)
Ok. We are going to forget, for a moment, that in different moments of history we found very different 'natural laws' argued as obvious.

Who enforce the natural law, then, if not the state?