skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, he didn't.

The prosecutor "addressed the jury and stated that none of the six contracted murders-for-hire occurred." These charges were dismissed with prejudice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht#Silk_Road,_arres...
I guess the government agents shilling against Ross didn't have any old Hacker News accounts tucked away?
well, no. It's just that what exactly does one expect to see at a research lab? I don't think any scientific research would appear exciting if you had a glimpse of it on a tour. The exciting things happen at different timescales! I mean, this is literally one of the major problems grad students face. It's a big change from school before, where you get a per-assignment or at least semesterly signal about whether you're doing the "right" thing. Whereas an entire grad student career (or more tragically, an entire academic career) could lead to nothing exciting, just a bunch of "that didn't work".

Which is still progress for the research community, but not something that's exciting.

I won't say there's absolutely nothing gimmicky about CSAIL. Maybe the parent was more sophisticated than the tour's target demographic. But I also question how much depth someone's perspective could have if it's based on a tour they got in high school.
Sure maybe today’s HN. Not the one I joined 12 years ago. When there were actual hackers.
At some point, somebody needs to actually tell the hardware what to do. If you're doing 3D graphic rendering in real time, that point is probably now. There are no magical abstraction layers that can let you do performant 3D graphics without paying attention to what's going on at the API level.
Except Ross never did. False allegations used to smear him.
If the EU doesn't the UK will
It depends on the founders.

Arguably the most financially successful founders are marketing-led, not technology-led. And some are perfectly happy to set up low-to-zero prospect companies, raise millions through networking and confidence, spend the millions with a good chunk going on their own salary/expenses, apologise to everyone in a punchy yet apparently humble post-mortem when the idea fails, and then do it all again.

In reality startup land is a scammer's paradise on all sides. Some people knowingly run a con, some are delusional, some are sincere but unlucky and/or lacking the skills/contacts/presentation to make a good idea work.

All of the above can get funding, especially in boom times. So there's surprisingly little pressure to build an ethical, product-focussed, engineer-friendly, stable business with lasting potential, and plenty of reward for not doing so.

It shouldn't be a surprise if there are people who take the bait - on any of the possible sides.
Starting the Decade by Giving You More Control over Your Privacy
Nintendo Switch New Tab Page
Educate yourself.

The prosecutor "addressed the jury and stated that none of the six contracted murders-for-hire occurred." These charges were dismissed with prejudice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht#Silk_Road,_arres...
Except Amazon doesn't have a category called "Counterfeit Beats Headphones". Silk Road had categories for items that were explicitly illegal; those categories were created by site administrators. The "just a marketplace" argument doesn't really pass the test; SR was complicit. I can't open a flea market with a section called "Cocaine" and claim innocence when merchants actually sell Cocaine.

However, I agree his punishment is excessive; a 20-40 years sentence with possibility of parole would seem appropriate.
Unless you know someone who deals this is the right answer. To add to this you can get spore syringes, and sometimes kits, from smoke shops. You may have to ask around and visit a few shops. Directions are easily found online.
The forces that drive evolution will just as indifferently drive the collapse of all human civilization.
Airbnb Clone with React Native Part 12: Request Push Notification UI
Almost every comment in this thread can be summarized thusly:

"I wish I could install my own OS/Apps on my iPad to solve the problems I have".
I would be happy to capture some video though. Driving on long streets after hours it is especially noticeable.
I think the most important takeaway from this is how many businesses which are not scams and have real revenues are tempted to flesh out presentations with similar vanity metrics and spurious background info...
Off topic: Does anyone know how they are blocking scrolling when scripts are disabled and overflow:hidden is taken off body? Infuriating
Great summary of course of events going over his message logs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpMP6Nh3FvU

Also exposes a lot of the bias of the Free Ross movement (mainly his mom).

The evidence is clear as day - no reason to doubt that he did it.

The feds didn't need to this specific charge because they got him on everything else.
Side effects may include https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mmamania.com/platform/amp/2...
Why spend a ton of money prosecuting someone who's already in jail for life?
by "gives" they mean "sell", right?
What's even more amazing is people close the door when they are home alone. Who are we hiding from?
I use it for ePubs. Really don’t like reading PDFs with it. Might be a limitation of PDFs but no Night Mode, for example. Reading pdf’s doesn’t count towards reading goal either. And can’t highlight notes.

Wish some form of ePubs would replace pdf’s.
How were the QE rounds not inflationary? The Fed injected (albeit indirectly via debt instruments) cash into the economy.
I had a similar experience. I was a burnt out YC startup founder in SF with a wife and kids whose life I was missing, and everything felt off track. I started working with a life coach, left my startup in the capable hands of my co-founders and moved to Raleigh. I soon thereafter had my first psylocibin experience. There were a bunch things shifting in me, but this experience blew my mind open and I haven't been the same since. (Much for the better, of course!)

During that first trip, in a few hours I went from seeing the universe as a mechanistic, "matter is all there is", reality, to directly experiencing that there is so much more. Since then I've gone much deeper down that path and I'm so very thankful for this beautiful medicine for opening my eyes and heart!
The company being tariffed suffers as well, so long as the tariffs are enforced by a large number of countries, and they don't have a lock on the market (like specific rare elements or something).

"Your own" citizens bear the burden of higher prices from that country, but this is a desired outcome: goods that have higher externalities should cost more. That's the whole point of a carbon tax.

And unless a country really has a lock on a resource, higher tariffs ought to mean the products start being produced in the host country, which is good because it will be being made under the better carbon policies.

Tariffs are dumb when they're enacted out of spite, enacted out of some false sense of balance, or enacted as a short-term bandaid to try and prop up a failing local industry. But in the case of carbon taxes and policies, they would seem to do exactly the right thing: discourage consumption and production of carbon-heavy resources.
This may be an excessively optimistic read. A person has to know a reasonable amount about software systems and common development practices to decide crash reporting isn't worth writing about.

The bar to deciding that Google is getting user's data somehow and this is newsworthy is lower, and requires no grasp of underlying details. Technology journalists are often journalists first, and technologists second if at all. I don't blame them, it's the nature of the job.
OneNote is the only note taking app that I've come remotely close to "successfully" useing.

I especially love how it automatically cites and links to whatever you copy and past from the web. That alone is so valuable for documenting workflow and how-to write-ups.

However the combination of me using a desktop less and mobile more, plus Microsoft's attempts to turn Office into a web app have soured me to it. That and the limitations mentioned above. I'd love to be able to export to a wiki style interface, but I cringe at thinking about what that html would look like (a la Word's html export).

But I have yet to find anything that I like better. Or will consistently use as much.
Unfortunately carbon based shells are basically everywhere in the food chain, when the phytoplankton start disappearing it'll be fun to see climate change non-interventioners then!
I would imagine the game is using dx9 and for linux/macos it would run through a dx9 -> opengl translation layer.
>what about the immediate emotional effects of the responses?

Our brain/body is good at adapting so you simply ignore it or rather embrace the pain, yes it will be painful in the beginning but the more you are exposed to it the better it will be over time.
I wonder if the EU will ever say: "Hey, change your methods, we can make trade deal." Perhaps the lack of a charismatic, true leader makes it to risky and it is too easy to avoid public scrutiny. When stuff goes sour, people blame trump. Who will us EU citizens blame?
Yeah this might not turn out good for us.
...and that's the problem.

To be less pithy, 'just have a server in the middle' is completely impractical for some things, because that doesn't always exist.
I snagged an official Apple refurb 2015 MBP (last decent keyboard) just a few months ago. They’re still out there.
Typically a DirectX revision bump would be less work than a totally different API.

To answer "How hard could it be?", the answer is, "Surprisingly hard". Games rely on weird interactions with hardware and need to smoothly render at a consistent FPS. Often a revision bump in a library might introduce subtle changes (for example, a difference in how numbers are rounded might cause z-fighting or change the way shadows are rendered). All of those need to be discovered and fixed. Not to mention that DirectX uses a totally different shader language than Vulkan, so you have to get in there and translate all that code over.

It's definitely non-trivial. Doable, but non-trivial. I don't blame the devs for making a cost/benefit analysis and realizing they would never recoup the cost.

Given the economies of the games industry (where studios are basically always one step away from complete failure and being dissolved into nothing), I appreciate the need to focus on not losing money in this way.
They probably use some outdated translation layer that converts DX9 calls to OpenGL ones so that they didn't have to maintain two renderers or use a higher level 3rd-party engine that abstracts over those calls. Newer games using Steam's Proton, like Sekiro, look and perform nearly equivalently to their Windows DX11 counterparts. I know Proton isn't exactly an apples-to-apples comparison, but it's an example off the top of my head. I guess CS:GO is another more apt one.
Epic is probably one of the biggest enemies of Linux since they're killing Linux support of every game/product they buy [1]. And while games aren't as important as some business/productivity applications, people do get lots of enjoyment from playing an occasional game. It's a great stress relief. And now even those little indulgences are being taken away.

Epic's CEO, Tim Sweeney, is extremely negative on Linux if you check out his Twitter feed [2] and I get a feeling from reading his comments that he despises Linux with passion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19844241

[2] https://twitter.com/timsweeneyepic/status/964284402741149698...
You'll love our sponsored content
These policies exacerbate inequality. In fact, I think economic inequality wouldn't be an big issue without this crap.
Wine implements DX11. So that is not the issue why the company is dropping support for Linux and Mac.
The US government is very concerned about people who use Turkey as an entry point to nearby conflict zones in Syria and Iraq. When I applied for the Global Entry program the only interview question they asked me was why I had visited Turkey.
Um, no, I'm saying that around 15 years ago they pretty much had a giant marketing front wrapping whatever actually was happening a different one of their units/institutes.
I did something similar for a few years... then my web app was hacked. I realized what a big liability it was to have such precious stuff inside an app with such limited security. Since then I’ve learned to make do with simpler tools. Omni Outliner is my favorite!
This is what I hate about ever-changing games. If it's such a big change, just make a new game, Rocket League 2. I'm sure people will still complain for some other reason, but no one looses what they paid for.
>5G has an advantage in only a few situations...

That completely misses the point of 5G, which is capacity. 5G network capacity improves on 4G / 4.5G / 4.9G or their respective 3GPP Rel.

Most people simply look at 5G as mmWave + 4G when it is far more. The world is divided into 5G is overhyped useless pieces of junk, or overhyped to be using Level 5 AV and Remote Surgery.

Reality it is simply a much better 4G. And that is good enough as it is.
Midori (Operating System)
Well, it's still a mistake, even if it's a survivable and, for some, a relatively inconsequential mistake.
I'm sorry, but boo fucking hoo. He knew exactly what he was doing -- running a drug trafficking marketplace -- was highly illegal. He went to extensive lengths to conceal that activity from law enforcement, so it's not like he didn't know what he was doing was against the law. He made a lot of money doing this.

I'm a big believer in criminal justice reform, but this is one of those instances where what he was doing was so dangerous that someone had to be made an example of at the highest level. To be honest, his arrest and conviction likely saved his life: sooner or later the cartels would have found him, tortured him to gain control of the site, then dissolved his body in acid.
You can have the app installed without owning a doorbell (using the Ring Security system, for example)
Seems like you also think that Mark Zuckerberg runs my FB profile? IMHO that is a very unproductive way of thought. Also (on top of absence of practical correctness) most likely formally incorrect, but I'm not a English native speaker. Definitely would be invalid in my language though.
I don’t understand. JS can’t be precompiled, so the interpreter would still be doing JIT compilation (or be very slow?)
It's a really small gap though. Significantly less than 1% of sales gap.
What's the health impact of the chemical-washed chickens?
If user base on those platforms is very small then it makes no sense for the developers to spend resources to keep it updated. At the end of the day its about demand and supply.

That's only if your business model only looks at the next quarter, and if you don't care about your brand.

Amazon, and department stores before it, became huge because they made an effort to cater to all needs. That allowed them to be the go-to brands for people looking for things.

Imagine if in its early days Amazon ran the numbers and discovered that textbooks were only a small portion of its sales, so it stopped selling textbooks. Then it noticed that cookbooks were only a small part of sales, and those were cut. Then it noticed that mysteries were only a small part of sales, so they went out the window. Next thing you know, nobody shops at Amazon because its focus on the big numbers turned it into a niche provider.

If a games publisher chooses to restrict its platforms, that's its business. But I won't think of it for "games" in general when I want to find a game.
How did you ask for your refund? I tried twice through Steam and was rejected both times.
> Which is practically impossible unfortunately because in order operate in the modern world you need at least a few 3rd party messenger apps, your bank's app and maybe a few more.

I think that this may be true for convenient operation, but not for operating period. I have none of these apps on my phone and, in fact, don't regularly use my phone for anything but receiving calls and listening to audiobooks. (Oh, and alarms, and probably some other stuff I'm forgetting; but not otherwise for interacting with the outside world.)
I agree that Gruber is wrong but only in his details. The iPad should have been much more than it is and, although I have seen it revolutionize the way that many field workers are able to do their jobs, I still think it could have been more.

On another note, I also agree with the sentiment that people should try to force themselves to use it for a bit. I used to work for a company that did corporate software/hardware training and we'd always get people that were switching from a PC to a Mac that never bothered to even attempt to use their Macs differently and constantly complained about their company forcing them to switch. Once they stopped trying to right-click on everything and got used to dragging and dropping and just trying to discover things, they always got won over and preferred their Macs. This was during the early days of OS X and reached peak around Snow Leopard. I really like the newer macOS releases too but I wish they would focus more on fixing bugs and driving back to that discoverability that really made things intuitive to use.
I always appreciated this on the University of Pittsburgh's campus, and was really happy when they did it in my current hometown.

I used to take back roads and take my chances with speeding and stop signs, but now I find myself taking the main road way more now because I know I'll probably only stop at one light maximum, and I know how to time my driving.
Reading the article, it appears that the issue is with the supported functionality and not with the literal library. They already had been using OpenGL instead of DX9 on Mac/Linux but they cannot use it instead of DX11 because the features they need are not available in that version of OpenGL.
Ok, it's a (geo-)political problem. So what do we do now? Besides posting HN comments that is.
There was an article here a few days ago talking about mental flexibility that described it as "a vice" is going too far on either extreme and "the virtue" is being balanced... too far one way and you're stubborn, too far the other way and you're gullible.

That article was on a different topic, but the lesson is being aware of the extremes and taking a bit of both is to be balanced, not to be contradictory.
>> ..."none of the other QE rounds were inflationary."

Earlier QE rounds (and this "not QE" round too) are definitely inflationary, but that inflation is not evenly distributed through the economy.

QE inflates prices of financial assets and related stuff. The further you get from financial assets, and the correspondingly closer you get to the real economy, the less inflation there is. Eg. equities get inflated a ton, housing prices less, the price of a hamburger not at all. The mechanism for this non-flat inflation distribution is straightforwardly derive-able just from supply-and-demand; they increase the supply of capital, but only by bidding up the prices of financial assets, while demand for those assets is approximately constant.

That said, you're right that Zerohedge ranges from "mostly-uninformed" to "intentionally writing nonsensical clickbait lies." On the other hand, it is broadly speaking not any wronger than e.g. what you see on TV or read in major newspapers.
Treeplanting itself is of mixed usefulness. I've done some treeplanting, sometimes it's done well, native species are used, trees are planted properly in appropriate spots, other times, no care in tree selection is used, and introduced/invasive or just unsuitable trees are planted, trees are planted inmproperly or in locations where they won't grow and a lot of money and time ends up wasted for no benefits.
I bet you are a Fox News viewer demographic
FAANG aka fang or fangs also rolls of the tongue a lot better than GAFAM, which sounds like a sneezing noise.

But I believe FAANG referred to hot, fast growth tech companies with forward looking mentalities and high salaries. Microsoft was already a dominant player, practically monopoly in places, and wasn't a "growth" stock as much as a "store value" stock.
He is, however, the first cousin of Georgia's Senator David Perdue.
Your email appears not to be visible.
Well, it's a poverty food, and buying and eating meat seems already pretty gross to me, so people who choose to eat this kind of stuff are probably quite desperate and their choices aren't great. I'm sad for the extra animals that will end up living in even worse conditions (EU laws are a bit more generous when it comes to cage sizes etc. ) but I can totally understand that some people will genuinely prefer the US chlorinated chicken to their local mystery flesh products.
Context helped me a lot. Faraday saw pneumatic tubes. Boltzmann saw tin cans. Shannon saw switches. At their time that was the high tech of the day. All those philosophical questions tend to pop out when you get through the tech. When you have thousands of years to build, you likely ran into conceptual roadblocks.

Nature does not see entropy, or thermal effects, or even atoms and EM, or cares not for how your clock ticks.

Everything everywhere seeks a shortcut. Speed up my clock, and then slow it down as easy as I move. To me, that's explanation enough for the Big Bang. Nature stays the same the laziest way possible. Nature does not move the entire universe for sensibility or idealism. Nature refuses to spread out for the sake of holistic models. All those terms, that's for our benefit, to use all the work already made. There's very little left to build in industry. Astrophysics and medicine, that's about it.

That tends to sober up the brain!

Not to shoot down interest. Lots of potential. The next breakthrough? Human significance. We are doing more than spitting into the wind. Imaging singularities. Launching probes into and out of a star. The numbers are very large. Not a speck of dust into an ocean. More like coarse interface to a very fine system. Trying to focus a telescope by smudging a lens, and by accident precipitating a galaxy!

It would be cool to turn our sun somewhat into a black hole for therapeutic medical imaging. Go through an MRI and get an immunological response. Dictate ethics by Levinthal or even the string theory landscape.

It would be even cooler to do all that just for the sake of better surround sound and CGI!
doesn't support epub
The project home page [1] has a lot of information and a "bug trophy case"

[1] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/
> If you really want highlight syncing etc, it might be worth migrating to a Kindle-first workflow? But PDFs aren't there.

Kindle syncs PDFs. You have to email them to your kindle email address, but they work out of the "Documents" section. And they sync as well. As far as I can tell, anyway. I don't really do any highlighting, but the docs are available.
To change the game, to change the way people think about technology and the context of technology, to understand how we might interact with it. To challenge assumptions. People like to focus on the "crazy stuff" but Sandy Pentlands work looked barking mad to me in 1997. By 2019 I agreed with him; he basically invented most of modern consumer technology (smartphones, ar, smartwatches, tablets).
It's an additional two lines of code when they add it (and probably one more to pull it in above), and only happens at the end of the actual work, after they've matched C's performance and beat C's memory footprint. Using the parallelism library at the very end hardly invalidates the rest of the exercise.
They do what now? AFAIK steam itself doesn't care of your game or application is windows only, I don't beleive they incentivize multiplatform support.

They do push for making more games easily playable on Linux, but they aren't pushing the game developers to release for it.
Ostensibly, GP means that they were not inflationary to consumer prices. Asset prices were definitely inflated. This is the whole point of QE.
You don't think Apple gathers analytics?