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The more powerful technology provides the more powerful chips and telescopes and microscopes. On the basis of new data obtained with the help of new devices, new theories are created that help in creating even more microscopic components, which will help in creating even more powerful devices recursively. The singularity in the action of CHIME and AI made it possible to determine the signal; a major breakthrough is coming in all areas. Interestingly, somewhere there is a miscalculation when we can look into the space using a smartphone in real time? Any related theorems?
Indeed. And we do what we value.
Am I the only one that needs an RSS feed to follow a podcast channel? Maybe I'm using the wrong app?
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Good question. For many FRBs there is access to the original antenna time streams (which are essentially voltages samples at 800 MHz), so superficially that might give you 1.25ns resolution. However, the intrinsic width of the pulses seem to be more like ~1ms. That tells you something about the emission source, giving you a rough upper bound on it's size of c * 1ms ~ 300km.

However, lots of interesting plasma physics effect occur between us and the FRB. The dominant thing that happens is that low frequencies arrive later than high frequencies (as they travel slow in a plasma). This causes the FRB to be smeared over many seconds rather than a millisecond. There's also multi path interference effects and an whole bunch of other stuff that happens. So actual the temporal structure of the burst tells you much more about the intervening medium than it does about the source.
> the "CIA Whole Earth" from Snow Crash

I was curious about this so here's some of the references I found (in the novel, it's "a piece of CIC software called, simply, Earth").

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=843

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash#Influence_on_the_Wo...
I believe the first migration to Voat wasn't for a subreddit ban, but when upvote/downvote counts on comments became hidden
Yes. Even just the existence of different subreddits with different moderation policies is already close to a perfect solution.

I don't understand why people are so hellbent on getting subreddits that exceed their tolerances removed from the platform. There are orders of magnitude more subreddits that I ignore altogether than the ones that I choose to subscribe to.
Ruqqus is nowhere near as bad as voat is. Moreover, in threads, they are well aware of what happened to voat. They know they have to walk a line between free and open speech and not devolving into a haven for nazis and racists. However, the best way to help them is for more sane users to participate in that community.
I already know whay drove people to that decision. You have a guy who inherited his money so he doesn't need sponsorship, and thus doesn't need to worry about the repugnant things he says costing him his campaign. That means there's a candidate who's saying loudly on global television that it's okay to be a racist, sexist boor with no critical thinking skills. In fact he thinks people should be proud of that.

So of course the racists, the sexists, and those without the capacity for abstract thought voted for him in droves.

We're long past the point where there is benefit in pretending that all ideas are created equal, and that my uneducated belief is somehow on the same level as your educated, evidence-backed opinion. To support Trump is to support the anathema of civilized society.
That's a good example. It makes me curious about such nested references, though -- in my mind, they usually look something like 2.III.O, or 2(III)(O), or the like.
> C has no pattern for breaking out of multiple for loops at the same time. Other languages like Java and JavaScript introduced "break label;" to handle this edge case. goto is perfectly acceptable to break out of multiple loops.

Yeah, that's not what it does. The code looks like this:

if (pgeom->Intersect(pentlist[i]->m_parts[j].pPhysGeomProxy->pGeom, gwd,gwd+1, &ip, pcontacts)) {
got_unproj:
if (dirUnproj.len2()==0) dirUnproj = pcontacts[0].dir;
t = pcontacts[0].t; // lock should be released after reading t
return t;
}
for(int ipart=1;ipart<m_nParts;ipart++) if (m_parts[ipart].flagsCollider & pentlist[i]->m_parts[j].flags) {
gwd[2].R = Matrix33(qrot);
gwd[2].offset = pos + qrot*m_parts[ipart].pos;
gwd[2].scale = m_parts[ipart].scale;
gwd[2].v = -dirUnproj;
if (m_parts[ipart].pPhysGeomProxy->pGeom->Intersect(pentlist[i]->m_parts[j].pPhysGeomProxy->pGeom, gwd+2,gwd+1, &ip, pcontacts))
goto got_unproj;
}
}

Notice (a) the if statement on the same line as the for loop, and (b) the fact that the goto jumps out of a conditional inside a for loop inside of a conditional into a conditional just before the for loop.

EDIT: Just realised the poster is referring to a different function.

IMO this one is more horrifying.
The problem is access to platforms. We haven't found a good way to do this. People should be free to opt in or out of the content they want. What offends one will not offend another. For example a thread on hunting will offend some who love the animals they hunt. There is no universal right or wrong there. On should have access to an online community the other should have the ability to disagree or avoid that community. The problem is when an organisation like Twitter picks a side that free speech becomes an issue. Only because of the monopolistic nature of the platform. But that's what makes the platform good, everyone is there.
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Really glad I knocked up my gf (now wife), because it would have been really hard to do it deliberately.

I recommend parenthood generally. I know a number of people who have waited too long now. It is hard, either way I guess. We have 3 now. Many tradeoffs, to be clear, but babies bring baby magic. Besides, the fire gets lit under your ass in ways you never imagined!

Child raising is easier than marriage, imo.
Reddit is infiltrated with corporate sock puppet accounts. A documentary has been made about it. Any reddit that supports Trump and becomes popular get's dismantled. A good example is the the_donald, who's moderators were kicked out and the community had to leave.
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Most of the arguments about social media content policies center around American politics, but Reddit has been banning other potential lightning rods for controversy. They banned DarkNetMarkets, Deepfakes, and SanctionedSuicide in 2018. They banned WatchPeopleDie last year [1].

It's not hard to see why Reddit would ban any of these, but at some point there may be a critical mass of too-controversial-for-Reddit content that isn't just interesting to the Voat crowd. Is that point now? I'll have to wait and see how Lemmy turns out.

The other theoretical advantage of a federated service is that smaller instances are less expensive to run than one big centralized service. There are a lot of people who could afford to run a service on a $10/month VPS as a hobby but who couldn't afford to run anything at actual Reddit scale without corresponding revenue. That's important considering that Reddit leavers are more likely to be posting not-safe-for-brand content even if it's not specifically hateful content.

[1] Not a sub I ever visited, but by most accounts surprisingly non-toxic as a community, considering the subject matter.
I was going to say how Democrats are supper hypocritical since they have been decrying how the electoral college is unfair in part because smaller states can have outsized infulance. And they want to make DC a state where about 0.2 percent of the population would decide the makeup of 2 percent of the senete. Then I did the math a figured out that in the case of Wyoming about 0.15 percent of the population selects 2 percent already. Compare that to California where 12 percent of the population selects 2 percent of the chamber.
I love cache oblivious algorithms in principle, but I feel they break my ultimate rule: you can’t please everyone. At the end of the day, the restrictions presented by your system are everything. Without those restrictions you have no problem to solve. Not taking them into account seems crazy.

However avoiding details as much as is feasible is very powerful and should be kept in mind. I feel like simple approaches like streaming computations (not necessarily cache oblivious) share many of the same underlying principles.
And that is society’s problem how?

As a society we’ve decided that some standards are important enough to be codified into law. It doesn’t matter to us if you’re violating it by engraving cuneiform into clay tablets or using electrons in a distributed platform. Everyone must follow the same laws, no special pass for you because you get to make money from the violation.
arbitrarily making it more difficult for a certain group of people to compete against others based on their race smells kind of like racism to me

Without taking sides, this is also the exact argument that someone in favor of affirmative action would make.

It is interesting that people can come to the table with essentially the same argument, but diametrically opposed views.
I have heard of a scam with firefighters, and it wouldn't surprise me if police do a similar thing.

There are standards for how many firemen are required to be working: https://www.iaff.org/wp-content/uploads/Departments/Fire_EMS...

To increase their take-home pay, firemen call in sick on a coordinated, rotating schedule, and the minimum staff requirements force off-duty firemen to be called in to work and get paid overtime.
My guess would be that attention-seeking and disruptive behaviours are part of the explanation.

In a forum with ten reasonable conversation threads and one highly controversial one, attention is likely to move towards the controversial topic.

The phrase "don't feed the trolls" is well-intentioned but it's difficult to scale the message when so many people are online and can witness and partake in minor and major conversations alike.

It also doesn't help that engagement (regardless of reason for engagement and any human stress created as a result; they're harder for software and metrics to capture) tends to be seen as something to optimize for, both within companies themselves and also by their investors.

Controversial conversations are sometimes necessary. People who repeatedly raise controversial topics to gain notoriety or attention are generally not - although their behaviour may be a sign that they need help in other ways.
>Your brain has a limited capacity to process and hold information. Schedule a certain hour of the day to receive it, and don’t surpass it. Example: No more than 30 minutes of social media, restricted to 10–11 am.

Suggestion: schedule your social media time for the afternoon or evening, and do high-value work during your freshest, clearest-thinking brain time - morning and early afternoon, or for night owl hacker schedule folks, late at night.
Got called a sheep for posting this article to Facebook. :(
I want to echo this, it's disappointing, but I'm thankful to Raph and the team for all the work they put into it. I had dreams of being able to write an editor where I could concentrate on making a cool UI in a different language/framework and have Xi do all the hard stuff.

I think LSP will end up being the "good enough" solution for niche languages, while popular languages get dedicated IDEs/mega-plugins, a la the various language flavours of IDEA, XCode, etc.
Like the others have said: You just use multiple. You can just add multiple keys to the authorized_keys file.

This is actually the perfect scenario because an attacker can never get hold of the private key. That means that the key is unique: If it's in your hands, it means an attacker doesn't have it. Most smart cards work this way, they generate the private key inside and it can never leave the hardware, you can only prove you have it by using it to sign or encrypt something.

This is very different from SSH keyfiles on disk which can be stolen in many ways, and as such can be compromised without you ever knowing about it.

It's really cool that we can now use this functionality for SSH too. I currently use Yubikeys in OpenPGP mode for this but I might switch to this once I get a T2-enabled Mac.
I'm a fan of https://tildes.net/ - created by an ex-reddit employee (creator of AutoModerator)
Agreed, but at least reddit is unique in that it seems to get accused of being accused of both kinds of extremism, Tumble/Twitter/HN seem to think it's a right wing shithole, while the 4chan/Imageboard ilk thinks it's a leftie propaganda machine.

That's not the case with the alternatives, most tend to go really hard on one side of the extremism scale (right: voat, left: raddle).
Many microfinance organizations [1] provide much more than loans. They provide business training. They set up peer groups to provide mentoring and accountability. They are essentially providing local versions of the US SBA [2] and Y-Combinator, critical infrastructure for society. These organizations have huge positive impact.

[1] https://opportunity.org

[2] https://www.sba.gov
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Volatile Memory gets “erased” when powered off
I got it to connect to a BBS from Windows using
.\mame64.exe vt102 -window -rs232 null_modem -bitb socket.10.0.0.33:23

You could probably tunnel to get SSH working.
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This is not what it does though. It says the private key can't be exported, and this wouldn't be the case if it was just a regular SSH keyfile encrypted using the Enclave's key.
Um... I agree the word "free" is misleading but once you're in a legal system that condones slavery then of course it would be a free market. I'm having a hard time imagining the slave trade arising without a market much more free than the people forced through it.

Markets are amoral. That's why we shouldn't rely on them to solve social problems.
And also, it's none of the other person's business. Why should they care about you, in particular? They're just some random person looking for a solution to their problem. They're not your fucking therapist. That's what friends are for.

If you don't like ripping yourself to pieces, get out of the rat race after 3 years working as a programmer and live on cheap land away from cities (if you're in the US), growing your own vegetables. It's a much better life.
I don't know whether Glaser's work could fall into the tail end of mid-century modern, but I love both that and his prime years of work. This page is a great example of the graphic design for The Incredibles which draws on the heyday of Los Angeles and New York (in my mind): http://joshholtsclaw.com/blog/2018/3/5/the-graphic-art-of-in...

If anyone else has similar pages they like and would share, I'd love to see more!
That makes sense, but that's also why I pulled out the absolutest statement about all violent crime.

I agree that murder is one of the crimes least likely to go unreported, but they are still subject to the same pressures (even if those pressures are less efficacious). I'd be interested to see, for instance, if the ratio of murders to missing people changes as you move up the socioeconomic ladder.
I live near an aluminum foundry and everything going in goes through a radiation detector.
Elliot wave theory is quackery. Price is not suitable for any statistical analysis.
The difference would be for the deplorable, who now has no "mah free speech" and "reddit is censoring me!!11!!" excuses to fall on and justify its deplorability.

More seriously though, the important thing about ActivityPub is that it removes central points of control. No matter how much you agree/disagree with the governance of Reddit/Facebook/Twitter et caterva, they are just too big for the good of society. Federated systems is one chance to take this power from them and bring to people - if not directly (say, because you don't want the pain of hosting/managing all that crap) at least you can delegate this power to someone closer to you - or at very least to a bigger number of smaller providers who will them have no monopoly and will have to keep your interests first.
This needs scanline emulation turned on.
It's such a large site now with so many different communities and types of users. My opinion is it has transitioned from a forum to a social media platform. I think it caters to people who like the content side of social media, but do not wish to see people they know in real life (which can evoke jealousy and other negative emotions).
How does the LaTeX generation work? ML or heuristics or both?
I bought one of these (Nokia 1) earlier this year and love it! It was available in the US from Amazon, but I think it's been discontinued, replaced by the much larger Nokia 1 Plus.
Could this be possible on iOS devices, which also have a secure enclave?
Looks like ruby with {}. Performs like ruby
'I can't send emails'
'I have not received any emails today'
'I can't save a file I have been working on all day'
These are so common from my Apple using user segment that they are running jokes in our IT team. I have a feeling abou tthe root cause (below)...but they are exacerbated by the user base beleiveing some myth that Mac's somehow do not need updating and rebooting. And before anyone asks, I have actually heard the words 'I don't need to reboot I'm on a Mac.' come out of a users mouth. I have been watching our remote management tools and Windows users seem to see shutting down at the end of the day as normal behaviour, whereas my Mac users tend to restart when they have to. (before anyone says anything, my experiments have shown that left on for days on end both Windows and Mac show performance degradation, ususally from the classic memory hogs of Excel, Adobe CC and Chrome.)

I think the answer to why so many systems are troubled by updates is that your average Mac or PC does not exist in isolation, and are really semi-dumb terminals for a bunch of cloud services from Adobe, Google, and Microsoft. The clients need to stay up-to-date with the service. The typical, 'Linux user running a simulation over multiple days' that are posting about not having to update below are existing in isolation form those other services.
Is there a convenient way to manage and maintain those keys? Keeping the public key of each device and easily select which ones to place on servers.
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Removing ports. Zero upgrades possible - not even hard disk, memory.

In Apple’s case - repairing is near impossible for an average user. Even the fucking screws are non standard. They charge an arm and a leg for repairs.
You are supposed, yes, but it is not necessary with Yubikeys. You can still import private keys into your Yubikey. At work we are using this for group access to some appliances that annoyingly limit the number of SSH authorized keys you can teach them.
I can't imagine thinking reddit is right-wing in any way whatsoever. Just looking at the front page (/r/all) I counted five explicitly left-leaning posts (on subreddits like /r/whitepeopletwitter), three that alluded to left-leaning subjects in a positive way (such as a post on /r/atheism), and 0 posts that even came close to kind of sounding like it might have been right-leaning. And this doesn't even consider the comments which is where the real hivemind exists.

Yes it hosts /r/the_donald or whatever but reddit as a whole is very left-leaning.

Edit: Hey ya'll instead of downvoting me how about providing some evidence of widespread right-leaning thoughts that aren't isolated to individual subreddits and shamed throughout the rest of reddit? Spoiler: You can't
You might be interested in what one of the foremost sociologists studying white supremacy online has to say about this: https://contexts.org/articles/the-algorithmic-rise-of-the-al...
That's in a different function, so I wasn't counting it, but sure. I mean, I would write it differently, but it's fairly readable. It's jumping to a common function epilogue once it finds something it can collide with. Seriously -- try reading through it rather than gawking at the goto.
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Maybe I'm naive, but it seems pretty obvious that it's because technology is mostly full of leftists, so they tolerate their own extremists and ban their opponents. Deplatforming has been a tactic of the left for a while now.
If you took cnn off the air there would be a lot less rioting and racial tension. The madness isn't exclusive to the right.
People don't want to be exposed to content that dehumanizes them, argues for their extermination, or targets harassment against them. There are large swaths of the population who are targeted by the far right in this way. These targeted groups simply wont deliberately return to a site that consistently provides them that experience, there's simply no reason for them to.

These large segments of the population will demand moderation from platforms they use to protect them from targeted harassment. It's these sorts of platforms that have the potential to truly become massive.

Platforms that are strongly moderated from day one (e.g. don't allow targeted harassment of minorities) don't need a "herculean effort to shift things enough to the left to be publicly palatable." A good example is the Reddit alternative raddle.me or even hacker news.
TLOU2 is really a game that is too far up it's own ass.

Druckmann presents it as some sort of philosophical debate about "muh violence" when it is really a mish-mash of ideas poorly glued together, a narrative so garbage it's almost insulting, characters that do complete 180s, countless plotholes...the list goes on.

This game is nowhere near Spec Ops: The Line or Hotline Miami in terms of the violence debate. TLOU2 is 'The Last Jedi' of video games and Druckmann is the Rian Johnson of AAA gaming. Thanks Druckmann (7 years btw).
Linear models with simple coefficients can often be some of the least explainable models, particularly when the assumption of linearity breaks down. [0] is a good classic paper on this, demonstrating a simple example where coding error on the inputs leads to erroneous coefficient estimates that are both statistically significant and also of the wrong sign.

Meaning, you would believe the coefficients reflect a real relationship between the covariate and the target, and even could claim it’s statistically significant, and yet the actual relationship to the target is of the opposite sign! Any further feature importance scoring based off the coefficient estimates would then become catastrophically misleading.

Meanwhile, a model like support vector regression on the same data is capable of automatically handling the non-linearity, at the expense that there’s no more such thing as a coefficient breakdown in the linear space of input features.

Does this make it less “explainable”? That would make zero sense. How can it be worse at explaining a data generating mechanism when it is better at predicting that same generating mechanism. What could it possibly mean to explain something you can’t predict or replicate?

The field of “explainable” models doesn’t even make the slightest attempt to address this stuff - it just beats up on models that are arbitrarily labeled as “black boxes” (what does that mean?)

If a given model X predicts or replicates a data generating process better than Y, then X explains the process better than Y, period.

An analogy: Newtonian physics is not “more explainable than” quantum mechanics. Newtonian physics is just more wrong about how the world works than quantum mechanics.

[0]: http://www.saramitchell.org/achen04.pdf