skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relying on governments to regulate mass communications is strictly better for Facebook than the alternative, where governments disagree with Facebook's chosen policies and punish them instead. This is why most companies prefer to comply with local law, only enforcing universal policy where it doesn't potentially conflict with local law.

Companies don't just have no reason to regulate language, they also have no serious authority to do so. The onus has always been and can only be on government legislators to address these issues in the most fundamental sense.

I'd like to see Facebook try to take on the Democrat/Republican eternal conflict in the US or the CCP in China on adopting a universal policy that they don't agree with, armed with powerful arguments like "the power of ethics compels me!" or "it's a Pandora's box because we're international!" or "stockholders care about our status!". Going above and beyond their most basic policy obligations has been a great way to attract the ire of political authorities who are now agitated over whether Facebook's policy is intentionally empowering or weakening their political enemies.
It's telling that the most common example of a widespread use of PGP (modern messaging applications exchange more messages in a day than OpenPGP has ever exchanged) is software update schemes, because software update cryptography is both a solved problem (just use signify) and doesn't have network effects; it's a "trust anchor" application.

At least with PGP email, you can make the argument that PGP sticks around because people don't want to recreate contact lists. But even that argument doesn't apply to update.
> Ideally you'd deploy to a virtualenv in a container

The whole point of a container is to isolate dependencies.

The whole point of a virtualenv is also to isolate dependencies.

If using a container, why bother with a virtualenv at all?
thanks for sharing. a few questions if you don't mind:

1. how long did you have the concussion for?

2. how many red light treatments did you do?

3. any hypotheses on the connection between red light therapy and clearer skin and clearer vision, assuming red light therapy is what cured these issues?

this thread and the one yesterday about drumming patterns that can trigger different mental states suggest intriguing areas of research for cognitive issues.
None of those are persistent environmental poisons, or need be released into the environment.

BTW, I believe hydrofluoric acid is not used to make silicon PV cells.
Donald Knuth quote:
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Technically it remains illegal to bribe politicians. More of them get busted every year.

Citizens United was about campaigning for them independently. Something that was already legal for individuals to do.

I agree second order effects are a problem, but this is widespread in govt (e.g. they buy votes with some narrowly-defined program like govt employee pensions or local pork spending). Maybe the problem is that the power and wealth that comes with being elected is too attractive, and is what we need to somehow fix.
In the 1980s I helped design a "one gate delay MMU" for the Atari ST. It gave you relocation and bounds checking in two directions ("text" going up from zero, stack going down from infinity) in power-of-two-size increments, and we fit it into the existing DRAM controller path and timing.

Never had a chance to do a Unix port to the ST, but it would have been fun to use that hardware.
I just realized I have been running 99% fraud sites
What are you trying to say here? Domain purchases often happen before there are any technical people at all. It's not about who had a say.
Work on projects that have less moral ambiguity.
It annoys me that Makani (tethered kites) closed this week but released everything from patents to a documentary and a 1000+ page ebook and their modelling software for free [6]

But hardly anyone cares.

But several orders of magnitude harder, maybe impossible, it's exciting?

If we can't tether in our atmosphere what chance is there in space.

[6] https://www.x.company/projects/makani/
Unfortunately, that seems like exactly the direction things are heading. What is the point developing arguably the single most complex type of application when not even an entity with the resources of Microsoft can't make the numbers work?

A few months months ago I would have argued that there were clear non-monetary motivations behind Mozilla and Firefox. I don't think that is as true today.
Elros: P2P Social Publishing Protocol – Tech Censorship Revolution?
Could this be the tech-censorship killer?

Elros describes itself as "a content distribution protocol that places control solely in the hands of the publisher. Content publishers directly curate and provide feeds of content to their subscribers. All clients are anonymized to ensure privacy and prevent censorship by infrastructure providers. A peer-to-peer network of file distribution provides redundancy and efficiency. Symmetric encryption of content gives an extensible mechanism for natively integrated monetization and selective distribution."

It would appear to me that if this project receives its funding goal and raises capital, we will be opening Pandora's Box towards freedom of speech for the eternal digital age. It seems to not just be disrupting the technologies of Facebook or Twitter but also seems to try and compete with paywall platforms like Gumroad and Patreon. This could be something very big, although tried before in different fragmented ways, something like this has never been deployed in one piece. Where social publishing, micro-blogging, and video content seeding is alive in one platform.

I'm taking the red pill on this one! What do you guys think?
Nuclear waste is not a problem, but not because it can be recycled. Reprocessing is an economic loser compared to just mining fresh uranium. The separated plutonium has negative value, and in thermal reactors much of it can't be destroyed before going into final disposal.
Well.

We also have the capacity to destroy all life on earth many times over.

When the carrying capacity of earth does collapse it will likely be sudden.

Food insecurity will do it quick. We are only like 6 meals away from total chaos at the best of times.
And yet the alternative, burning dirty coal, has become an unmitigated disaster.

The only reason coal has been allowed to prosper is political support.

Thereby proving the resistance to nuclear power has been entirely political.
Another exception is that at least for awhile (not sure if they still do), Google Domains would farm our registrations to GoDaddy, eNom, etc. So you might not have even realized GoDaddy was in the picture (at least initially).
If the subsequent Hubbles cost as much as the first one was supposed to cost: about 10 Hubbles

If the subsequent Hubbles cost as much as the first one actually cost: about 0.5 Hubbles

It's not totally on apples to apples comparison. There would probably be some cost reductions if you made ten hubbles. On the other hand, some of the servicing missions upgrade or even added instruments, so I suppose you'd need to take that into account
BLAS and LAPACK were originally written for FORTRAN, and FORTRAN is particularly suited to numerical computing and array programming.

https://modelingguru.nasa.gov/docs/DOC-1762
One of the first 100 people to use cloudflare when it launched.

Paying them today to speed up a couple of websites while protecting them.

They rock at making big things possible for very small companies.
Whoa. Nice job Matt, that's a really interesting possible correlation to discover.

> The author recounts watching from the street as Vavilova received encrypted shortwave "numbers" transmissions in their Cambridge, MA apartment.

I haven't read the book, but I had to wonder exactly what was involved in "watching" this.

Here's a video I shot a while back, a clip of the numbers station in question...I do hear a nueve in there so I guess this was either legit traffic or Crypto-filler v. 1.1 ;-) (IIRC they have also used Windows XP freeware for data encryption in the past)

https://www.facebook.com/friendlyskies/posts/101564738378132...
What will be interesting is if we aren't able to develop a safe and efficacious (enough) vaccine. We might need to find ways to make social-distancing the status-quo for multiple years.

Edit: Hang on, why couldn't you make a vaccine against a prion? I can't see why it's not possible theoretically.
The FCC and Open Source Hardware
If we plug in Brazil (2011 weather data, 2030 cost model) into

https://model.energy/

you get very good prices in a 100% renewable system. Mostly solar, with hydrogen backup (although this doesn't take into account Brazil's hydro resources which could make things even cheaper.)
It’s only 5D if you are allowed +5 to -5 moves each move.

Your result in 3D would always be an approximate
Back in the 80s, I used to get hot salt beef rolls with my Dad in an inner-london cafe when he got off the sleeper from Edinburgh, coming to London to go to meetings. They heated it up with the steam-jet of the cappucino machine...
You might think the first step in sentiment analysis would be teaching the computer to understand what humans are saying. But that’s one thing that computer scientists cannot do; understanding language is one of the most notoriously difficult problems in artificial intelligence. Yet there are abundant clues to the emotions behind a written text, which computers can recognize even without understanding the meaning of the words.

Without parsing meaning, the best case seems to be fairly shallow sentiments based on equally shallow norms and trends.

I am not saying this has no value. In a "is good or bad" sense, sure.

The piece goes on to talk about gauging mental health...

That scares me more than a little. When ones scope of common expression lies solid in the bell curve, maybe work of this kind can get us some basic sentiments.

What happens when ones expression lies outside that curve some?

Nothing good.

A while back I had written, "go ahead, cut your nose off to spite your face" in response to a Twitter discussion gone south, as so many do.

The humans in the discussion picked up on it, and we stepped back and picked the thread up from a better place and carried onto an even better place.

A couple humans did not get it and some computer somewhere decided I was advocating self harm.

In my appeal, I cited the phrase as colloquial speech, and dropped a Wiki link that spoke to all that.

Took about 10 minutes for another human to assess things and undo the moderation action.

Comics often talk about how a fairly significant percentage of people simply do not understand satire. "The Colbert Report" stands as an exemplary example of that dynamic in play. In my own circles, I know people who absolutely did not grok the show was poking fun at them politically. It was profound to me.

Moderating various communities has been telling too. Some of us are adept at inferring possible meaning from the written word. Most that are skilled, are also shockingly unaware that is not the meaning! Just a plausible one.

How many times have you been told, "no, this is what you meant" by someone else absolutely sure they are a superior authority regarding your own intent?

Me? Too many times to the point where I will assert myself as the final authority on my intent before something like that gets out of hand. That should go without saying. A given.

That it must be?

No way will software get anywhere healthy on sentiments, and seems a fantastically bad mental health idea. (However well intended it may be)

People have real trouble, frankly.
I have had exactly the same thing happen to me, fucking GoDaddy so shady. Hate it. Never use it
Founder = equity on day 1 or first couple of days/weeks/months

Co-Founder = more than 1 of above

Owner = equity earned after (sweat or money), founders are automatically owners as long as you still have shares

You can be a founder but no longer own the company (sold all shares)

If you have to take money from your own pocket to keep the company going, you are an owner - capital call anybody?

Some people actually don't want to be called founders as they think that the title they give people when they have put out to pasture and no longer actively contributing :)

But titles don't really matter unless that is all you are after
You can't just pick one thing Joe said, that someone else didn't say, and use that as an argument. That's almost always going to be true. What are the chances Eminem would talk about trans woman MMA fighting? I'd argue very very low. The fact Eminem didn't say this obscure quote doesn't discount the OP pointing out a hypocrisy.

I could easily take one of many Eminem quotes (I found a few... but not appropriate to post here) and say "Joe never said that."

I'm not taking a stance on one side or another here for the original post, just pointing out a bad argument.
No, but there are plenty of other organizations that would run a better app store than Apple, and Epic getting its way would mean that users stuck on iOS would get to benefit from them.
First rule in government spending: Why build one when you can have two at twice the price?

If only this was true.
When I was in London on vacation nine years ago, Pret shops were a godsend. I think at least half of my lunches and dinners were Pret sandwiches, as I was generally running around and didn't have time or energy for much else. After they became popular in NYC a few years later, I tried them a couple of times but didn't find nearly as good a selection of healthy options as in London.
Battery costs are falling rapidly, and will likely be much lower in ten years when any nuclear power plant started today might come online.

Hydrogen electrolyser costs are also falling rapidly, and hydrogen can be stored underground for a per-energy cost two orders of magnitude cheaper than the per-energy cost of batteries.
Ah thanks, some of these look pretty cool, like the Retroid 2 and the RG350, and I love Panic so of course I know about the Playdate. :)

The problem as you say is the lack of native titles, and an uncertainty about how long the devices will be supported for. In this day and age an official distribution channel like the App Store/eShop is important too, even if it's just a website you can download from onto an SD card.

But I'll try one of these out!
I used to maintain a code beautifier/diff tool and hear the same things about how the idea was useless only to see those same people shortly there after use my tool or a close competitor. Once you see that pattern a few times you learn to ignore it in it’s entirety.

It’s hard to tell why people behave like that. I presume it’s because many people have a great fear of originality and require social validation.
This is the exact sort of feedback shared privately among experienced entrepreneurs - it's just finally accessible to everyone. From my look at the reviews I'd say it's about 80% true to my experience.
And Joe is an expert in the field of MMA. He didn’t just say that trans women should not be allowed to fight in women’s MMA but cited medical science to back his opinion. Outside of women’s MMA Joe is all for trans rights but in the case of women’s MMA it’s his opinion that a trans woman will end up literally killing someone born with XX chromosomes who still identifies as female (I don’t know of a less clumsy way to say that which is weird).
Agreed. This is stupid, and distracting.

I don't agree with what Rowling believes and I have no problem with people deciding they don't want to give money to her. But the book burning—however symbolic it might be—is a really bad look; makes otherwise justifiable criticism of her look extreme and authoritarian.
"What Luisa allowed me to achieve in just a few short months got me thinking about whether certain male lawyers had the edge over someone like me simply because they had wives holding down the domestic front. Perhaps the extra time and brain space that I just discovered was something they had all along."

So maybe having a nuclear family could be more reason for male success than a glass ceiling?
Bringing Transparency to VCs
Gandi is great. I, and a couple of my friends have been satisfied customers for years.
I'm honestly insulted on behalf of all my friends who studied engineering and medicine and worked 40 hours a week for 4 to 7 years to get their degrees - many of whom (including myself) were adults when they started studying. Not to mention the many hard working researchers I've met, dedicating their entire lives to furthering human knowledge for way less money than they'd make in the corporate world. And here's some guy on the web dismissing all of that as "a few technical skills for teenagers".

Yes, there are some soft degrees out there, and universities have many problems, like all institutions. And I met my fair share of lazy tenured professors amongst the good ones. But come on, if you've got to dismiss people like this to make a point, there's something wrong with the way you're going about it.
Amazon is developing the Kindle Paperwhite 5 with Glowlight
"Inefficient" = 90%? I think you need to think more about what you've written there.
Admittedly, it's a young branch, no wonder there's few players to date
At this point, probably $20-30. Then we'll see how "expensive" nuclear is.
There is a 5g specification called 2D2 which is an acrobym for device to device.
Could we create a "p2p" network so we don't need to all pay provider to get internet but rather share bandwidth ?
Look at the graph, it has obviously nothing to do with any deficiencies, and everything to do with the measures:

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...

The comparison is possible because it’s per million. See Italy and Spain hit before they were aware what is going on., then introducing lockdowns.

See Sweden’s and the US denial, then limiting the initial outbreaks but continuing just not doing enough.

See Greece and Germany doing early enough good enough measures, and still doing it.

It’s that simple. The US not being aware how wrong they are doing is a crime to their own people. It’s historical failure.

You claim: “there is a very strong correlation between vitamin D insufficiency/deficiency and poor outcomes for COVID-19“ — show me that on the graph above. It’s obviously a red herring talking about Vitamin D once one sees it.
"Ultra Safe" will come with Molten Salt Reactors. Hang tight until then. They can even safely reuse nuclear waste.
> One thing is free speech and another is giving a platform to dubious characters for them to promote their views unchallenged

Those are literally the same thing. Free speech means ideas compete on their merits in a marketplace of ideas and no central authority gets to decide which ideas are worth considering. You can be against free speech --- many people are these days --- but you don't get to claim to be in favor of free speech but not this speech or that speech.
They’re acting more as a security guard. Which is to say that they’re intentionally employed by the owner of the property you’re trying to enter. Often specifically to “bounce” users like you, malicious or not. Believe it or not there are legitimate reasons for wanting only real human users on your website!
What do you mean by that? I use Gandi and I think their UI is excellent. Their "DNS control panel" is top notch, straight to the point, can do anything you want, easily. It is intuitive, no bullshit.
It's being discussed literally everywhere.

https://news.google.com/search?q=israel+uae

https://news.google.com/search?q=israel+bahrain
Concentrated solar has lost to PV. It's simply not competitive now.

For domestic hot water, it's now cheaper to use PV and a heat pump (or even resistive!) water heater.
They drive their own content moderators insane. This is just corporate protectionism.
You're right, and what really grates me is how anyone who raises similar opinions/questions is instantly labelled transphobic and told to shut up. The Motherboard/Vice article that is referenced in the article (https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xg8jq4/spotify-joe-rogan-...) clearly states as fact that Joe Rogan is transphobic, but for anyone willing to listen Rogan's opinions will know that just isn't true.
> Reports of vigilante activity in rural Oregon have multiplied as first responders struggle to keep up with the wildfire emergency, and baseless rumors that “antifa” arsonists are to blame spread rapidly on social media.

It is amazing to read how people are so quick to accept conspiracy theories as the cause of these fires, yet they fight tooth an nail to deny the real cause, man made climate change and global warming.

Here in Australia, last year we too suffered mouths of horrendous bush fire/wildfire destruction and sure enough we had the exact same 'the arsonist did it' conspiracy response.

https://www.vox.com/2020/1/9/21058332/australia-fires-arson-...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-11/australias-fires-reve...
Let's not forget to give at least some credit to Perl Data Langauge (PDL). It pioneered a lot of these ideas 10 years before NumPy existed, and is still a pretty great tool today:

http://pdl.perl.org/index.php?page=FirstSteps
False information spreads fast [0] and has real world consequences [1]

[0] https://news.mit.edu/2018/study-twitter-false-news-travels-f...

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-c... edit: to be clear, I think some lives could've been saved if we took it more seriously.
devkitpro (https://devkitpro.org/) is the toolchain and base libraries, and sets up a package manager for downloading others.

For the basic stuff you can use the usual C libraries. I picked up a lot by reading and tweaking the examples, which are installed along with the toolchain: https://github.com/devkitPro/3ds-examples

libctru, installed with devkitpro (https://libctru.devkitpro.org/) is where a lot of the platform-specific APIs live. There are also some higher-level libraries built on top of it

A good understanding of ARM will take you a long way. A lot of what documentation there is (especially on 3dbrew.org) assumes you understand the terms and general architecture of an older ARM platform. This book https://www.brucesmith.info/arm-a32-assembly-language/ was great for building enough understanding that I could understand most of the official reference manuals. From those, I found the ARMv7 reference manual and the ARM11 MPCore Technical Reference Manual to be the most useful, and I refer back to the ARM instruction set reference card a lot.

Besides that, it's reading and modifying the source of other projects, and trying things out. If you look at homebrew apps like ctrQuake (https://github.com/masterfeizz/ctrQuake), you'll notice there's usually not a lot of platform-specific code -- most is just standard C / C++.

Hope that helps. Just like anything, it's knowing enough to get started (a toolchain, some C, and some examples) and using your questions and ideas to draw you into the next thing to learn.
The tethers in Seveneves were a clear sign that things had changed.
I have some family in the UK. A few years ago my cousin came to visit me from England and we stopped by a local pizza place (Mike's Pizza in Fairfield, CT for anyone who cares). I got a regular meatball sub and she didn't want anything. When we got home and I unwrapped it, her eyes popped.

Until then, she thought that the sandwiches she saw on American TV shows were just a joke: she had no idea that our sandwiches were actually that big (yeah, Mike's used to really stuff them, but still). As she explained, back in the UK, you could maybe get one half the size and even then it would be unusual.

I nodded in understanding as I sucked the entire thing down.
For those that don't click through, it repeats what is a fairly cogent argument. If cryptography is classified as a munition, then there should be legal room to argue we have the right to it as provided by the 2nd amendment.