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No one said those things are illegal to possess or sell.

They're saying Amazon prohibits their sale, but doesn't effectively enforce that rule.

> They’re included among 38 pages of third-party seller rules and prohibitions for its U.S. marketplace.

> Yet an investigation by The Markup found that Amazon fails to properly enforce that list, allowing third-party sellers to put up and sell banned items.
It would be quicker and easier to sample the vapor plumes coming from cracks in the ice shell of Europa. That would have organic compounds and possibly even detectable bacteria. I'm hoping Europa Clipper has this capability.

On a different note, I did once write a short fiction story attempting to view the world from the perspective of a ocean-dweller in Europa. Soft sci-fi (universal translator) and all in good fun, but maybe someone will find it interesting.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/81jgky/oc_the_icy_heig...
> this is what is acceptable speech online, this is what isn’t

But that isn't what they're saying. They're saying, "if you are deciding what is acceptable speech, you're now responsible for it." And for the record, I absolutely agree.
Android isn't based on Linux. It's based on DangerOS
Or maybe the product is great but consumer expectations have been set by years of loss-leading prices on consoles?
Thanks for the feedback! We’ve been surprised by the number of users who have told us they couldn’t relate to other exercise programs. You bring up a great point about potentially offending -- we feel it comes down to how close you are with the person and if they know you’re coming from a good place. We just added a 30-day guarantee to the site as well in case they don't end up liking it!
It probably means their servers are hosted in the USA (geographical) under it's jurisdiction.
Not sure what "citizens of the USA" means in this context, but you can assume the US government may access the data if needed.
The bulk of the article is about a guy who mixed fentanyl with xanax and passed it off as percocet, but yet the bad actor is supposed to be Amazon? The real meta-villain here is the war on drug users, which created a profit motive for doing something so maliciously stupid. And it's rooted in this same regressive idea of controlling what people can buy to solve society's problems.

I personally enjoy being able to obtain "weird shit" of all varieties. I don't know what's involved in a pill press per se, but I can't imagine it's particularly complex or tough to improvise. Distributed 3d printing/milling culture can't come quick enough, and get us some refuge from this clueless fear of tools.
We've known for years that the US government doesn't care and has millions of loopholes around it, so in practice the NSA does read your messages.
same. not really a very good thread.
Python to learn the basics of programming. Then Unix/Bash for navigating the terminal. Then C to do everything else.
I've just looked up, and the theory is that the ice is 15-25 km[1] thick.

The deepest hole on Earth is 12 km [2].

[1] - https://europa.nasa.gov/europa/faq/

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole
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You basically just don't believe in free speech. Which is, historically, the more popular position. The idea that ideas should be able to amplified & spread w/o institutional control is rather radical.
What did you guys use to build the landing page? Looks nice.
Instead of trying to pierce that, would it be a good strategy to send a radioactive weigh that will melt the ice over a decade?

Ok, that's how to get in, but not really how to get a data out :)
Wow, glad she's liking it! Let us know if she has any other feedback for how we can improve.
That’s a lot like hand waving a flame thrower to melt snow. https://what-if.xkcd.com/130/
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Quite a lot of competition regimes regard loss leaders as inherently anti-competitive as well ...
I never said they were. (Although they may be in some places.) What I'm saying is it's very useful to have tools to get into a locked car or to pick a lock. Who hasn't locked himself out?
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The increase in death rate above baseline predates lockdowns. But let's ignore that for a second.

Please explain why the consipracy to overcount covid deaths is happening in every us state, even ones with a vested interest in reopening, the UK, Italy, Spain, Germany, Sweden (whose overcounting has now internationally embarrassed them), Brazil (whose leadership claimed the virus want real), and various other nations. What force is causing them all to collude, despite the negative economic impact of everything they're doing?

Question two, of course is: what do you think the mortality rate of the virus is? Experts at this point pin it at somewhere around 1%, +/- like .3-.5% at the population level. This is based on a combination of factors including population level serological studies that overcount the percent of the population infected. In other words, they're more likely to be underestimating, rather than overestimating, the fatality rate at this point.

How are those methodologies flawed such that they too are actually overestimating covid deaths?

Are you saying all the people who die if pneumonia like symptoms and who tested positive for covid died from... Other causes? That 80% of those people died of a different kind of contagious viral pneumonia? (In which case we should be worried about that!)

Yes, lockdown measures have negative impact on healthcare access, and yes that may increase death rates slightly. But to believe that it dominates the increases we've seen requires a truly incredible set of assumptions that aren't borne out by reality.
This is possibly the most fabulously pompous faulty comparison I've ever read. To think that somewhere, someone might place the work of the common developer alongside that of a mathematician is hilarious. Sure, it's possible to say development has a mathematical basis, much as you could say operating a speedboat or a kite has. Our trade has about as much in common with mathematics as a convent has to a brothel
If I was reviewing a resume, I personally would put little stock in anything that:

* was not "regionally accredited"

* resulted in a course completions that were not readily transferable to institutions that are "regionally accredited"

While I have heard some good things about Coursera, I would likely dismiss these courses as not meaningful on a resume.

I want to be clear, this is not about dismissing online education in general. For example, an online degree from a regionally accredited university provided through 2U would get my full support. Perhaps Coursera does a similar thing and I am not aware of it.

In any case (as far as education goes), the key part for me is who is the degree granting institution and are they regionally accredited and are those credits readily transferable.
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Well yes, you certainly wouldn't want to go to a circular geostationary orbit and then expend a ton of fuel to thrust retrograde, cancelling out all your velocity, which would result in falling straight into the earth. Definitely not like people would think of in common sci-fi where things can just hang motionless in space.

Being in circular geostationary is defined as also having enough velocity for your orbit to remain circular.
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Libertarians are real free enterprise until it affects their lives...

But before I get thrashed for hurthing feelings, the real problem is these networks act like pubs and open networks. Paid amplification is almost certainly the problem in that it allows money to act as speech. by allowing it to reach more people that didnt seek it. Historically a wild fringe idea stayed that way because it was hard to convert people at scale. Now a fringe/bad idea coming from a group of power and "pump up the juice."

It would be interesting if they either limited the pay for audience equation or create hypertransperency around who is behind the message.

All in all, Facebook is going to be heavily regulated over the next decade and I hope they're diversifying somewhere. The newspapers were fractured, "The Bells," and it seems historically governments step in after about 10-20 years of abuse.
Pretty sure that the majority response from these PhDs is that they will be the authors in these publications. This isn't Colin Kaepernick's daily blog we're talking about. Colin has money/power and this is what he's using it to support. So, if I were a PhD or other expert, I'd be focused on the good news that there is a new source of support for getting my expertise out there.
The idea of collaborative annotation has been around since the beginning of the web. I tried to launch an annotation startup myself back in 2000, and there were several funded competitors back then. It never catches on. It would be interesting to analyze why people just don't use these systems when given the opportunity. Is this a solution in search of a problem?
Your target audience might not care, but I don't think that's strong enough.

- Companies display a willingness to force agreement to new policies in order to continue using the service, even for paid customers, and often on questionable or void legal footing.

- The fact that it's a paid service right now might not be a strong enough signal. Even large device manufacturers (e.g. HTC) have retroactively patched ads into paid-in-full, physical products. What's to say that you won't have to pivot to make Histre succeed?

- What happens if you are bought out or otherwise personally leave the product? Even if success doesn't affect how you act on your commitments, what's to keep others from malicious actions?

- Adding to the above (re-iterating an ancestor comment), if you're successful enough to need employees you won't have a hand in every decision. How then is privacy still protected?

Privacy aside, if Histre goes under what options do customers have for, e.g., exporting their data?
Yes: do a SHA1 of your password (no trailing newline), then fetch https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/{first 5 hash chars}. If the full hash appears in the results, the password has been seen in a breach.
har har

But seriously, do you have a favorite example where the Laplace transform is used to prove a theorem or used in practice to solve a problem?

I'm familiar with the undergraduate differential equations examples. But there are plenty of things taught at the undergraduate level which are tractable and helpful to build intuition but either a) aren't important from a research perspective or b) aren't used in practice. The Fourier transform has both.
Fabulous work. The kind of project that I would have never heard about... if it weren't for HN.

Supper happy to see this at the top of the front page.

Thank you for sharing.

On a less serious note, you could totally freak out your future house guests with stories about a ghost that occasionally plays the piano at night!
Lockpicking is a hobby, not a practical burglary skill.
That's interesting, I think a lot of people may use their Quest a lot often because of that hurdle to put on the headset (or charge batteries, etc).

This is sort of a self-plug, but we're experimenting with the idea of an app that has a comic reader, book reader, Reddit client, art viewer, video player syncing/streaming from a desktop, if you are interested in trying builds. We sort of looked to build the same thing, something you use a little bit everyday because it's better than tiny screens.

And I think as usual, Apple may be what will make VR mainstream, and that'll take quite some time given their AR/Glass focus.
I wonder if perhaps in addition to bigger eyes being cuter and therefore preferable, we're able to form bonds with animals more easily as a result of larger eyes- or perhaps more broadly that large eyes can be advantageous for social bonding. Dogs and their owners engaging in mutual gazing causes similar Oxycontin release to mother-infant gazing. I think ideas like the eyes being a "window into the soul" are related, and we're more likely to be able to determine if someone is trustworthy and genuine as indicators like pupil size are involuntary.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-gaze-from-...
The platform can provide tools that allows users to moderate what they want. RES on reddit is good at that, you can make it so you don't see posts from certain users, filter posts and links, etc.
The emojis add nothing and make it horrible to read, so I stopped.
I'm saying whether or not they're useful, the point of the article is that Amazon purports not to permit them, but doesn't police their listings well.
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Same with the Armenian and Russian stores in SoCal. However I think it's a rather recent phenomenon. I remember 20 years ago neither Kinder Surprise nor Kinder Joy were available anywhere, then about 10-15 years ago Kinder Joy became widespread and shortly after Kinder Surprise was available. I don't think any of the grocery stores cared about the ban but it wasn't until Kinder Joy reminded (immigrant) consumers of the eggs from their childhood that the demand became obvious to the shop owners.
Very few people pay $1000 up front. Carriers have subsidies and 0% payment plans over 24 months. Apple also offers 24 month payment plans. The console market is much smaller than phone market. 100 million consoles being sold over the entire lifetime over 8 years is considered successful. Apple sells that many phones in two quarters.

There is also a history of consoles not selling well when the price becomes too steep from the Neo Geo for $699 to the XBox that was bundled with the Kinect.
Wonder any one with similar experience for js vs ts. Python does not have that ...
Awesome, excited to hear what she thinks about it.
Yes, they are. It would be quite nice if the agent behavior composition system in HASH supported modern behavior tree paradigms though, which seems to be a core lacking feature that would add significant strength to the product, IMHO.

I'm currently working with a project in an overlapping domain with similar goals and this is a potentially fantastic product/service overall.
> because Firefox on Linux was never actually that bad.

On Linux, I use Firefox primarily for browsing, but for development I use Chromium. The reason for that is because the JS debugger in Firefox is pretty damn buggy. Some things I've encountered (though they don't happen every time):

- On a breakpoint, type expression in console, hit Enter and it just hangs there without giving you the result. The console will be unresponsive until you unpause.

- On a breakpoint in some part of the callstack, type expression in console and see that variables that should be in scope at that point in the callstack are not in scope for the console.

- Go to a different spot in the callstack and see that the place that Firefox tells you you're at is not correct. It might be off by a few lines.

This might be a very good reason why developers prefer to develop for Chromium/Chrome. Not because they prefer it for browsing or for its performance, but because its development tools actually work.

I made the switch recently, like a month ago, and I've been discovering little things that are just more pleasant when working in Chromium. For example "Copy as cURL", is formatted neater. Firefox puts all the curl options in a single line, but Chromium separates the options in multiple lines.
IDK, but Fourier, and specifically the more specialized, the DCT certainly is.

Part of the reason for this is because the algorithms to go from discrete data points into a wave form are fairly well known and fast.

DCT is the foundation for most Lossy encoding formats. Using it for time series data makes a lot of sense, especially if you are optimizing for storage space.
To be fair, most hard core sports fans bear many resemblances to religious zealots.
In almost all cases adding is a valid approximation. Until you get into the 10s or 100s of milimorts range you can add them and the error will be less than 1%.
The author wanted to use the door emoji.
Stickers do work in Telegram secret chat, though. Only animated stickers don't, presumably in order to avoid leaking IPs. But a lot of cool features do work in secret chat.
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Hmm but the article does say it could operate in a stand alone mode. It sounds pretty similar to the Quest but it could only tether to some special unit and not a Mac?
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What is the recourse if a supposed "friend of Troy" exploited a friend's website, stole all the content for himself, took the customer usernames & passwords, and released the passwords as part of one of Troy's releases. He admitted to stealing the content (that the website sells) for personal use in emails. Tried to extort for his "security expertise" too. This isn't some huge company - it is a tiny, honest business.

They tried to contact Troy but he never reply. I think law enforcement will have to get involved because all of the videos were downloaded from behind the paywall.
Wow... I hadn't made that connection. You've both helped make sense of his altered reality, and made it weirder at the same time. I think you are probably right.
Once you are in an ocean covered with miles of ice, how do you send a signal?
Playing the devil's advocate since you think cops are thugs with guns who can't work without making a mess, why don't you believe in replacing them with autonomous drones?

In an ideal future, autonomous drones would make less mistakes since they don't feel threatened or care about dying. They won't kill someone just because it looked threatening. They won't turn off the body cam because of reasons. They will have a more accurate aim and will be more trained since training doesn't cost anything for them. You can invest the other funds in improving rehabilitation or de-escalation services.
> A 'code smell' for social science articles

I'd watch out for this. If a historian came to you and said "I have a heuristic, a code smell for programs" you'd be incredibly skeptical. It is easy to develop strong feelings about social science that seem right and may even be right, but probably a better bet is to reach out to experts and verify these approaches.
Well, then you're gonna love electrical engineering: Adding a 10 Ohm resistor in parallel to another 10 Ohm resistor gives you a total resistance of 5 Ohm. Which is why you don't write 10 Ohm + 10 Ohm in this case, but 10 Ohm || 10 Ohm = 5 Ohm.

This would solve your problem as well – just overload a different operator: 500 millimorts || 500 millimorts = 750 millimorts.
Compared to what industry? Retail and the wholesaler? The Kindle? Google Play? Steam? Spotify?
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And having a craft that can survive the heat load of re-entering the atmosphere from very high speed (as they demoed in an Orion test flight unmanned), if you're in Geostationary and thrust retrograde until your orbit becomes a highly elliptical one with a new perigee of around 100km, you're going to re-enter very hot and fast.
Look, you take this gigantic tub(, i.e. Starship) of flammable material, you land it safely somewhere, you attach some kinda inflatable raft around the top/sides of it, you wire yourself up to the gas tanker on the surface, you light those rockets and let 'em rip!

It'll be the steam-cleanest Starship-converted-to-ice-submarine in the system ..
Ex-NASA guy here. Not directly involved in Europa mission planning, but heard a lot through the grapevine back in the day. Europa is very challenging to get to mainly because it's located in an extremely harsh radiation environment.

https://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/hiding-from-jupiters...

The limiting factor is building electronics that won't fry.
True, but as the man said in that Gozilla movie, "let them fight". If MS wants to use its legal power and influence to take on Apple's monopoly, that's fine by me. It will make more of a difference than a legion of indie developers.
The term "swapping" originally comes from the multiprogramming technique of exchanging an entire program in memory, and its data, for another program and its data (without any virtual memory support).
You operated on completely unknown information. Still now we have ni clue about long term consequences even on very mild cases
Correct, and Russian was official in Crimea, but I was thinking previous commenter was talking about whole country, maybe I got confused.
This is an impressive amount of work, especially considering how much modification had to be done to the solenoids.

For me, the best part was the link to the PianoBooster software http://pianobooster.sourceforge.net/ That software looks like a great way to help newbies overcome the early hump in learning to play the piano.
> If it's the same threat I'm thinking of, the phrase apparently has a history for americans, like "Лес рубят, щепки летят" might for russians (or maybe not? is the Stalin association a purely anglophone one?).

It has a Stalin association, yes - but in russian culture, this phrase would first and foremost judged in context and with intended meaning. I would never call someone a stalinist just because of the fact that he used that saying, it would be insane on my (or anyone's) part.

> The US military doctrine differs with you on how armed authorities should approach crowd control

That's a good point. Come to think of it, yes, it makes sense to me that shooting to kill all the possible looters (because you can't know for sure what's going on in a rioting crowd) is not the best approach to the problem. However, the phrase "when the looting starts, the shoorting starts" doesn't neccessarilly mean "kill all the looters".

And regardless, discussion of different ways the law enforcement should react to military seems like a good thing, and if you allow such discussions, you should allow bad ideas too.

> By the way, speaking of shooting, what did you think of "Брат 2"?

I consider this movie to be a work of genius, but I also am completelly apalled that there's a lot of my fellow citizens who seriously consider the main hero an inspiration. He's a completely broken man with clear signs of PTSD and sociopathy, a classic anti-hero, and you can absolutely admire the movie without admiring him.
Doesn't even need to be self-contained if you use simple streaming over Wifi.
this is an interesting take on covid and how it's put into perspective with other things using micromorts https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/well/live/putting-the-ris...

from NYT: Converting this to micromort language, an individual living in New York City has experienced roughly 50 additional micromorts of risk per day because of Covid-19. That means you were roughly twice as likely to die as you would have been if you were serving in the U.S. armed forces in Afghanistan throughout 2010