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One really cool feature from YouTube is automatic captioning. This creates subtitles based on speech recognition for nearly any video. Here are the settings in my mpv.conf that enables this:

sub-font-size=32
slang=en
ytdl-raw-options=write-auto-sub=,sub-lang=en
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> has consciousness

This hinges on the definition of consciousness, which we really don't have a good definition for.
I think you need to pick your targets. 2007 FB isn’t the same as 2018 Google.

Also it seems like you might be good at talking to people (based on the story above). The OP says they are an introvert and might find that more difficult.
Depends what's being watched, but quite often with content like How-To's, conference talks, and lectures etc I take advantage of having speed control on a keypress ('[' or ']' = +/- 10%), left arrow to skip back a few seconds, backspace to drop to normal speed if I miss something, 's' for screenshot of an interesting graph or chart etc... At other times I might make more use of ',' and '.' to step back and forth one frame at a time or '4' to increase the brightness.

Using key presses to navigate through and control media like this feels vaguely reminiscent of the first few times you really grok the power of editing a huge file with some well articulated vim or emacs commands. Also mpv seems less resource intensive whilst the browser has a lot of tabs open.
The place where we ended up in that show is that airlines find that time and again, customers will pay for more luxury rather than time... a regular subsonic flight JFK-LHR is a bit over 7 hours, Concorde cut that to 3:15. But does that matter? People like the idea of getting there faster, but when it comes to actually spending money on it, most wouldn't do it.

A one-way trip on Concorde was about $5000, and for that money, you got an old-school business-class seat (they never updated the interior of Concorde), no overhead bins, no internet access, no entertainment system of any kind. For that same money, you get the all-encompassing cocoon of the modern business-class pod on a 787. It may take twice as long, but you don't care because you're comfortable.

Meantime, we're getting closer to manned hypersonic flight, Mach 5+ with combined cycle engines. Considering the development time necessary for a new airliner, especially with experimental technology like new supersonic engines, I think the LockMarts and Boeings of the world are waiting for more of that technology to mature. It would suck to develop a brand new Mach 2 airliner just in time for someone else to build a Mach 5 airliner.

Also, the Mach 5 designs using ramjets would fly high enough (>80,000 feet) that sonic booms are really not an issue. The SR-71 at Mach 3 and 80,000 feet was virtually inaudible.

Much of the experimentation going on around shaping sonic booms is proving contemporary fluid dynamic models that show that you can "customize" your N-Wave and make the kind of boom you want to make.

Interesting times!
> The significance is typically quoted as σ, or a number of standard deviations of the normal distribution. In particle physics, a significance of 3σ is referred to as evidence, while 5σ is referred to as an observation, corresponding to the probability of a statistical fluctuation from the background of less than 1 in a million.

So, no one has ever observed the particle, and the "observation" is in actuality not an observation. Just a "less than one in a million" chance fluctuation from the background noise. Which doesn't sound very convincing to me if you need to run the experiment millions of times to produce the output.
Same here! Except eventually I did switch back just from inertia (and having a right-handed mouse).

It's even where my HN username comes from. Mousing on the left felt like weightlifting for my corpus callosum or something.

https://neolefty.org/wordpress/about/
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That line of logic doesn't work. A protocol is neither legal not illegal. It would be like saying that Swedish is illegal. The law largely doesn't care how you do something.

It's also not a necessary condition because an internal company mail server wouldn't run into copyright issues since the company owns the copyright on all their employees' work.

"Uploading a copyrighted work that I downloaded via GET with POST must be legal otherwise HTTP would be illegal."
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"People who notice that I’m right-handed but keep my mouse on the left often ask me why. It never fails to arouse the curiosity of people who have never seen it before, and it has led to interesting conversations with individuals that I wouldn’t have spoken much with otherwise."

This kind of ruins the article. It's up there on cringe with "I keep a pack of gum on my desk and people know me as the 'gum guy'!"

Anyway, do you just use a standard mouse or re-map the buttons?
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Definitely. Thanks for the clarification!

I honestly think it's kind of an important feature of the book. Since it's about the evolution of one's consciousness. At least for me being able to place how old he was as he found himself making the thing helps the parts that can feel sort of strange have the right contextual... extrusion? I recall what it was like to be in my mid 20s, I was thinking a lot about what it meant to be alive and people started suddenly around 25 treating me like what I thought was an adult.

The content of the book being about the procession of consciousness and all, yeah, it's a different book if you know he's 27 than if you think he's 60.
This article is about committing knowledge to long term memory. I've been thinking about ways to actually augment long term memory with external storage. I'm unsatisfied with current software (mind maps, OneNote/Evernote, WorkFlowly, org-mode...). They all feel like building a document. I noticed when I come back to my notes in those formats it takes too much time to retrieve information and to add new information without re-structuring existing information. The existing solutions are not optimized for quickly putting down some facts/ideas/goals for later retrieval, without worrying about layout and structure.

To efficiently augment memory, the software (especially UI) should mimic the way we think. Each captured thought should be in some way related to one or more previous thoughts and stored in the correct context. Inputted notes should be fairly short and they should be organized in graph structure. Edges should define relations, for example: contains, depends on, implies, follows.

When retrieving a thought it should be visualized in context with other related thoughts. This graph should have same layout each time it's retrieved, for better visual navigation. If the system limits the visualization of graph up to 2nd neighbors, there should always be enough space on 2D plane to expand the graph with new thoughts. Manual layout should be discouraged because it wastes too much time.

The basic storage/retrieval model could also be expanded with additional processing to further offload brain activities: logical processing (if an assumption proves to be incorrect, all dependent thoughts should be flagged as incorrect/uncertain), goal prioritization, future event reminders.

The hard problem is entry method. Because such system should always be accessible, the candidate devices are smartphone and smart watch. So far all input methods except keyboard are too slow and error prone. Most input methods also obscure much of screen space and require visual feedback to verify that text is correct (swiping and auto-correct). I'm researching gesture-based and chording virtual keyboards, but there's nothing suitably fast.

This is on my side-project back log, but hopefully I'll find something close enough I can use instead of building from scratch. Any suggestions?
The comment was about the bad grammar in the plan description, not the substance of the plan itself.
"Work for hire" rights have been enshrined for a long, long time, and don't affect just software. It would affect every memo, marketing campaign, advertisement, or drawing made for pay. Something that would destroy the entire white collar economy would get fixed pretty fast.
Throwing your lot in with Discord, Slack, Skype, etc - is a huge mistake. They serve their own interests, not yours. Use open platforms and open protocols or you will inevitably regret it. Your incentives and Discord's incentives are misaligned.
I probably asked that before but anybody knows about ebook of GEB?
Yeah interesting. I wasn’t aware of all the subtleties at all.

Thanks for the link.
Recently I've been thinking about writing a service which simply has an email address you forward an email to and it makes it publicly available via a URL - useful for things like open letters etc. I'm not sure if this is the same thing, or whether I should just go ahead and make it..
I think this one sentence from that article gives a strong clue:

"Activists are arrested for fighting the practice."

Everyone is always quick these days (at least, here in the US) to decry "Social Justice Warriors" as if they are a bad thing ... but for many across the world and across history, they were the saving grace; someone who dared ask, "why are we doing this?"
Rise of Kotlin: A Programming Language for the Next Generation
A fired employee stole and tried to sell NSO's Pegasus mobile spyware
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Performance isn't the only thing to consider. For example, tcmalloc and jemalloc both have good profiling/debugging tools, and these are the biggest reasons why I choose one of them for any large C/C++ project. I've also found that jemalloc is easier to integrate into complex build systems than tcmalloc, so jemalloc is my first choice in most cases.
> accuse face-to-face contact as being 'caveman talk'

I said it's caveman technology, which is surely indisputable. In my experience it's thoroughly inefficient for discussing technical matters. That's probably why not much technology was developed before writing.
so you will actually respect:

User-agent: google
Allow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

well, yes it's good behavior to actually respect it, but well I've seen such robots.txt already which makes it really painful to create a competing search engine.
I really don't think that is even close to reality as the majority of users don't care all that much about e2e encryption (because they don't understand it) and that same user base has no idea what you are talking about with regard to decentralization. I would even venture to say that I'm not in a tiny minority of professionals that do care about e2e encryption and do understand decentralization but think that decentralization will never be much more than a science experiment. Users care about their experience and they want to have unencumbered conversations. The decentralized dreams impede those things.
>Netflix knew that they couldn't remain at the mercy of the content owners. So they leveraged their head start on content delivery by producing their OWN content only available through themselves.

My only concern is they don't seem capable of letting things die. House of Card and Orange is the New Black both went from very good to terrible. If every hit series they make turns into the final season of "Dexter", it will cause issues.
My first GEB, I traded for a complete works of Shakespeare. The second is sitting on a shelf alongside Fluid Analogies. Thinking about the GEB phenomenon today, boggles my mind. Sure it won a Pulitzer. But it was a best seller. That's how different the world was...non-fiction could be thick and highly technical and sell in volume to the general public...it didn't need to be a new journalistic summary or popular history, it could have long passages that many readers wouldn't fully understand and puzzles that they could not solve. A non-fiction book could require the reader to work. Not vague self-improvement homework, but intellectually in the present moment of the text. It was OK for a book to be hard. GEB is a piece of genius that would never get off the ground today. Basic Books is part of a conglomerate and self-publishing isn't a replacement.
You have permission to disclose it to 3rd parties, but reproducing and publishing the content is a different beast.

This is one of those cases where the CS logic of "If I can show one person I can show n people" doesn't apply.
It's not everyone using social justice warrior as a pejorative, it's assholes.
Does anyone know if there is an alternative to Anki with a better web experience? My biggest hurdle in using Anki is working on computers on which I am unable to install software and the lack of quality support for the web version.
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This is common problem called "illiterate literary critique".

People who don't read books, or have restricted themselves into limited genres, subjects and styles are easily thrown off.

It's common to see very good writing as contrived or pretentious if it's not what you are not familiar with. Claims of elitism are used to paint actual skill and quality as negative.
The US is one of the best places in the world to be a business owner, that's why its economy is so much more dynamic than European economies. In order to create such an environment worker protections cannot be as robust as in Europe. This biased article of course ignores that fact.

Many workers are much better off in the US than in Europe as well. They get to keep a greater portion of their income, their income goes farther in the US than it would in Europe, and they have more opportunities to change jobs and careers because the flip side of weaker worker protections means businesses can hire with greater agility than in Europe.
it is because of trumps weak government program
I have always used my mouse on the left side of the keyboard despite being right handed. I think it comes down to being a child learning to play PC games and not really having the dexterity in my left hand to control WASD and the various keybinds properly with my left hand. So I adjusted to mouse on the left and right hand on the keyboard.

It does make it annoying to type and play games at the same time though since I usually have to move the keyboard pretty far off center to get comfortable and if I want to type I have to move it back to center first.
Something I've thought a lot about is how to educate people, specifically on a larger scale. In general I think it's a really underrated thought-space for tech people, probably because it's a hard problem that most likely won't make you a billionaire. However, in my thinking/reading about this issue, I've discovered that especially at the 10-20 age a lot of time you have to work towards making kids curious and encouraging this behavior without explicitly demanding it. In other words, I think this article is almost better read by parents than the kids themselves.

The average 10 year old will most likely not go out of their way to "aim to read a lot" if it is hard to get books. Fortunately, I had a set of parents that highly valued education, and they really worked towards opening access to books for me and my siblings (we could go to the library whenever we wanted, and they prioritized driving us there). Obviously there will be the occasional 10 year old that will do anything to get more books but I don't think that is average, as are most things on this article.

This follows for most things on this list. Curiosity, taking hobbies you enjoy way way way too far (read that as "becoming an expert"), and "making things" are all things that I think happen better or exclusively under parental guidance. In addition to that, something I think I noticed (and I'd be curious if Patrick experienced this too) but doing most of these activities with my siblings significantly encouraged my habits. I built my first computer with the help of my siblings, and have read dozens of books I never would have without the suggestions of my siblings.

All these slightly random thoughts combine into the fact that my "resume education" did very little to get me to the point that I am today. I didn't learn how to program at school. I didn't write my first program at school. I didn't develop my love of reading at school. I didn't build my first quad-copter there, etc. So, rounding this out, I'd ask the question; what portion of these activities (listed here, or on Patrick's blog) should I have done at school vs at home? Should education move to a more Montessori[0] style to encourage this exploration? Should teachers merge more into parents as is the case in a lot of public schools? How can a company (non-profit?) garner enough of a child's time to encourage these behaviors?

On a more tangential note, have you done anything in the education/parenting space Patrick?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education
The bit inside the 9 volt connector isn't really logic. The flip-flops and Schmitt trigger gates are just to generate square waves at 3 different frequencies. There's also a small power supply to drop the 9V down to 6.2V for the input of that, some comparators, and a bit of filtering.

The LEDs contain LC filters, tuned such that they'll light (visibly) when the appropriate frequency is applied. Touching the wire in different places creates a different parasitic load, which is detected by one of the comparators. That comparator then toggles the clock generator for the appropriate frequency, turning that LED off or on.

As with all of his circuits it's a brilliantly simple idea implemented in a ridiculously constrained space.
Also we get 2-3x more holiday, and sick days don't come from your holiday allowance. And the hours are shorter. I work 40 hours a week for very good pay (for the UK). Previous job was 37.5 hours.

I bet Google's hours are much longer.
It's called CSS3 mate.
The idea is you select with the keyboard, not the mouse.
That’s why I liked playing minecraft on survival servers. If you die you can’t re-join for something like a week
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Here is an idea I had awhile ago - the rules should limit the ability of a boundary to be concave. It isn't reasonable to say "no concave polygons", but you could create a measure of "concavity". If you look at a ridiculously drawn boundary, you'll see it can kind of spiral - it'll hop down a street turn a couple times all in order get the current congressman's house within his existing district.

How to do that? Use the ray casting solution to the Point in Polygon problem. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_in_polygon)

If there is any point within the boundary that has to cross the boundary more than 3 times to get to a point outside of the boundary, then the proposed congressional district is too complex. if it crosses 4 times (or any even number), the point isn't actually within the boundary to begin with. Crossing the boundary 3 times still allows for some concavity, but 5 is kinda ludicrous.
>Uh....1984, much?

Uh... no? It's a simple, straightforward English phrase. Speech which is problematic, as opposed to speech which is not.

"Problematic" being defined as "constituting or presenting a problem or difficulty."

Racist speech in historical documents constitutes and presents a problem or difficulty for modern readers. That's kind of the entire premise of the posted article. There is no doublespeak or newspeak or whatever "1984" is supposed to imply, involved.
Autoscaling: No need for Fargate. Create 'AWS::ApplicationAutoScaling::ScalableTarget' and 'AWS::ApplicationAutoScaling::ScalingPolicy' for your 'AWS::ECS::Service' resource.

Logging: Subscribe the ElasticSearch Lambda to CloudWatch Logs group to have all logs in ElasticSearch domain. Kibana is included in 'AWS::Elasticsearch::Domain' resource.

Ingress: Yes, one ALB per one autoscaled ECS Service, I don't see it as a problem.

Metrics, And more: not sure I see the benefits. CloudWatch has miriad of metrics, you can get lost there :)

It might look hard, but here is great starting point : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGui....

Yes, if you want to use AWS, use Cloudformation templates, there is no way around it :)
Are you proud that the US is doing better than the average third world country?

Maybe it's better to aspire for a higher bar to clear.
“... but nobody I know has actually managed to finish it.“

I’ve read it cover to cover, twice. It’s not a bad book, but it would have helped if he had used the Lambda calculus. YMMV.
Yet, social mobility is higher in Europe. Also, americans can keep more of their income, if they skimp on health insurance and pensions savings. I don't think americans in general grasp how much higher quality the healthcare system is in Europe.

Example: get scorned at by your GP doctor for seeing them for a bad cold. Get billed $20.

Receive open heart surgery and triple by-pass. Get billed $20.
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You're right it's not the "question [you] asked". It's the underlying implication that question has loaded in it.

The implication, stated roughly is the following: "A person can do what they want to their own body. And their body is defined by the DNA signature. Whereas a fetus has a different DNA structure than the body it is in, and therefore harming it is depriving it of human rights, because it has different DNA."

I proved this implication wrong. If you feel that this implied statement is not indicative of your intent, please post your implication as a statement rather than engage in obfuscated writings.
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It requires opt-in from all participants in the conversation, as Alex posted down this thread last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17401425

> We actually currently require double opt-in permission for each message contributor in a thread to share stuff publicly. That might change in the future, we're still playing around with the model.

And yes, it does violate basic expectations - that's on purpose.
I guess I know a lot of assholes :)
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Yeah, I think 'ageism' exists both ways: if you're 20 you're considered too young, but at 45 you're already too old for certain things.

You can create complex things while young, but also you can pick up skateboarding at 40.
If we had a tool that translated English into Java, we’d really be cooking.
> They get to keep a greater portion of their income

If only that greater portion wasn't immediately being eaten up by rapidly rising healthcare, college, etc. costs.

Between premiums, copays, and non-covered stuff like compounded medications and dental, I spent $33k last year for a family of four on healthcare. The college I went to - $36k in 2001 - is now $60k/year. I'll take the higher taxes...
> distribution of RSS items more efficient

RSS is a 500kb static text file which is updated usually at most every hours. The whole file fits in server RAM and can already be served to thousands of people from cache with minimal CPU usage, or from Content Delivery Networks. A "full page of items" is easily compressed with gzip algorithms.

Surely, the Internet isn't congested because of RSS...
Nobody is going to be able to give you a definitive answer because it hasn't been tested in the US in the context of copyright or in the EU under the GPDR.

My guess is that forwarding would be fine but publishing wouldn't (in the US) and that you as an end user don't have to worry about the GPDR.
That seems right. Should probably be longer. Each second, a new chunk is emitted with the appropriate html to hide the old clock element and show the new.
Is this the norm on Hacker News that asking about continuing abuses in other parts of the world is not relevant to the topic about historical abuses in the USA, and one needs to get their own topic heavily upvoted to get a discussion?
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