skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's right, he was charged with a "Narcotics Trafficking Conspiracy", with 4 overt acts, a, b, c, and d, and b and c were the murder-for-hire schemes. The overt acts of a conspiracy charge are the guts of the charge itself, and the prosecution has to prove them at trial.

Try this: Google [federal narcotics conspiracy "murder for hire"] (it's not a rare combination of factors!), pull up some DOJ press releases (I found several on the first search results page), and then look them up in PACER. I'm looking at Roger Key (a.k.a. "Luchie")'s 2015 indictment right now, and it's similar. This isn't some weird finagling the prosecutors did with Ulbricht; it's just how you get charged for this kind of conduct.

This notion that prosecutors somehow gave up on the murder-for-hire charge is Internet folklore. It's just not real. What complicated the charge isn't some bungling spy story about the agents involved, but the fact that the murder was a set-up and he didn't actually have anyone killed. But the prosecution established that Ulbricht tried to, and that's also the simplest and most reasonable conclusion to reach given the facts. I've never read an exculpatory explanation of Ulbricht's payment to arrange murders that made any sense at all.
> It wouldn't be impossible to create hardware with the concept of "infinite registers" that ultimately gets optimized away. (see: Mill CPU)

I'm not sure that the vaporware Mill CPU acts as an existence proof for anything, to be honest.
Nobara – Fedora based Linux Distro optimised for gaming
It all depends on how close you sit. If you’re 12+ feet away, you may not be able to resolve the difference between 1080p and 4K, but at 6-8 feet away, I bet you can.
To make an example... deterrence.
It's very difficult to say. There are many cookie cutter strategies for RTS games and it's difficult to handicap the ai to note use its machine precision and quickness of thinking to just win everything on a tactical level. actions per minute handicaps are not nearly nuanced enough to capture this. Generally it seems that the absolute top humans are better than bots strategically but the execution to do so is really, really tough. And then of course there are dumb exploits because you find some dumb weakpoint than any sane human would quickly adjust their behavior for.
OnePlus Android 12 firmware – relocking no longer works
There were quite a few Apple 2's in SA. I'm part of a Vintage Computing club and a lot of the members have them, including everything else like Commodore 64's, Amiga, PC, Macintosh, etc.
Agreed. I believe it is this issue alone -- not voting or gun ownership or anything else -- that will push the US to implementing a verified identification. Loss from consumer financial fraud. And, again, this will be the government only acting, because of the interest of big business.
Is weight loss the only reason behind "Dieting"? Isn't the "carnivore diet" around mental fitness? That's why I choose a low carb diet, mental and physical fitness(when I'm not actively exercising, I try to limit my carb/sugar intake to mornings before I run)
Looking at how well propaganda works in Russia nowadays, I would be vary of being exposed to his recent films.
Yeah, I edited it out because I knew discussion would rathole on whether or not the U.S. military is effective, while the larger point I'm making is about institutions (in general) and their ability to change. Russia's performance in the Ukraine war is a good example: they have all the war materials [1], but they suck at waging war because the institutions are so corrupt that they suck at waging war [2].

[1] https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/03/world/infographic-uk...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9i47sgi-V4
We can't help that these events have be set in motion. We're playing the hand we've been dealt. What's the alternative? Letting Putin win? And then what? Do you think it will end there? That it will all be water under the bridge, and that Russian aggression will end there?

We'll play our part, because we have to.
* m4a because it doesn't need a re-encode.

* it does preserve chapters and metadata, but audible doesn't do a good job of using them, except for chapter timestamps and even they are dicey often

using m4a and splitting into separate files has some advantages

* I can download and share single chapters, helpful for sending single chapters to friends. This is also way better for large books over slow internet connections.

* songs are indexed better in my media server (Emby, Navidrome)

m4b feels better for archival (1 file = 1 book), but I've found splitting into several files a better option for actual listening.
I got caught up in a similar thing years ago but for plants (MiT open ag initiative). It was all nonsense. An educational tool at best. I don't know about this particular product, but I do know that growing mushrooms is like growing plants, with a few less steps (no light), and a few other sensitivities (moisture control).

The products that are valuable to make in this space have been made and are already commercially available to growers. Grow chambers, climate control stuff, etc.

Ultimately we don't need Linux and Microcontrollers to do this, it's using the wrong hammer. Agriculture needs to be dead simple, simple as possible, reliable as possible. These things are not that.
They aren't selling it, though, they're "licensing" it, which is indefinite rent.

Not the same. Honestly they should be forced to say "rent until we change our minds" instead of "buy" in the advertisements and interfaces.
Okay so cannabis is a hard drug, cannabis produces physical withdrawal symptoms as well as psychological

Caffeine is a hard drug, it also produces physical and psychological withdrawal symptoms

Nicotine is a hard drug, it produces physical and psychological withdrawal symptoms

Apparently the term includes all psychoactive drugs, which makes the term meaningless

Searching for 'hard drug' on the National Institute on Drug Abuse yields no results that contain any information on 'hard' or 'soft' drugs. Don't you think the national agency would have a definition if it were a real concept?

https://nida.nih.gov/search/Hard%20drug?sort=_score

Searching for 'soft drug' just yields no results at all

https://nida.nih.gov/search/Soft%20drug?sort=_score

Here is an article by a psych professor who works in the field of addiction:

https://www.verywellmind.com/the-difference-between-soft-dru...
O&G Workers – Too Rugged and Dirty for AR
We spoke with 55 workers in the O&G field. And as of now, the rugged work environments are the biggest obstacle towards any meaningful adoption.
I considered the original question to mean: "Does / would the use of AC help?"

to which tangential, interesting information was provided but left the original question unanswered.

Are we to assume literally nobody has an AC nor is it possible for AC to even exist in those situations? Because if it helps, then maybe something productive can come out of this conversation where we can aim to improve some of these living conditions through use of AC's - which would kill 2 birds with one stone.

It seemed like a genuine question that should be actually answered. I want to assume "yes" they would help, but I'd be guessing.
What’s Next in the Elon Musk-Twitter Saga? A Court Battle
Seems more like an experiment than a diet.
In business terms...

"Forecast" is an expected date that may change due to circumstances.

"Estimate" is how long something will take, regardless of circumstances.
Starbucks grew the "expensive coffee" market, and so independents had a niche to slip into (expensive, but not Starbucks) - Blockbuster did nothing to grow the "rental movie" market, and a given market in an area is roughly limited to the number of houses in said market.

People drink less office/gas station coffee than they used to, and so can drink more Starbucks/independent coffee. The same didn't happen to the mom and pop video rental places (though the ones that survived blockbuster, usually by being in a market too small to support a Blockbuster, often outlived them (the one near me closed a few years ago finally)).
It usually takes something really bad happening before things get better.

Absolute best mechanical drives available until quite recently can be traced back to Deatstar. Deskstar 7K4000 were absolute best in class.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar

Hitachi bought IBM hard drive business in 2003 for $2B. Sadly Its now owned by WD.
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?? Magic mushrooms!!!
Eh. I think it could have if it was a pure addition. The loss of the fn & escape was too much for me.

Ultimately I set it to display the fn keys all the time and tried my best to ignore it. I don't look at my keyboard. A display near my fingers is a display where I don't look, I never found much value in it.
It should be noted this meeting was in the middle of a political crisis where half the government had resigned. I don't know who those MPs were or what they were doing, but I'm betting they suddenly found themselves overloaded with this crisis and this meeting fell through. It's not that uncommon for something like this to happen. I'm not saying it's great this happened, but it happens – MPs are humans too.

I wouldn't be so quick to judge in this case. I think the extremely high expectations and little room for error ("they should just be sacked") is part of the problem. If you bollock a child every time they do something slightly wrong they will learn to lie and hide things very quickly.
If you want your mind blown - "Who really killed Blockbuster Video?"

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/who-really-killed-bloc...

It's amazing that Blockbuster had Netflix on the ropes, until one notorious activist investor showed up and basically gave Netflix the win.

One man is responsible for creating a completely different timeline when it comes to video streaming. Very similar to how we would be living in a different reality if GM's ahead-of-its-time EV1 was not mysteriously disappeared in the 90s.
> They are selling it.

Do you mean rent? See parent poster's clarification for the term "buy":

> and when I mean buy, i do not mean "rent for a non specified duration"
One of the most noticeable things about playing laserdiscs on modern displays is the poor black levels and noise in shadows, and of course the difficulty in scaling interlaced material. Even with what should be a decent (but not nearly top of the line) FPGA-based deinterlacer/scaler I still feel like it should look better than it does, given how much better laserdisc resolution can be than VHS. But it's also analog video, and discs can degrade, as well as components in players going out-of-spec and increasing noise. I still like them, and there's something nice about large gatefold packaging, and these giant discs.

Also got a hi-fi beta player recently and even though Beta is only 10 more lines than VHS at 250 (compared to 420 for LD and SVHS) it really did not look that bad on an LCD. It's also possible that the unit I received and the tape I tried it with have less wear than the average VHS VCR.
>Should a drug kingpin who built a global network that facilitated the transfer of illegal substances who was willing to kill people to protect that enterprise only get 10 years?

The murder for hire claims lack necessary evidence to convict. Outside that it becomes a question of whether platform owners are responsible for the content on their platform.

I am personally in favor of content owners being responsible. I think Mark Zuckerberg should be in prison. However, Mark Zuckerberg is not in prison, and continues to wreak havoc on humanity. Why is Ulbricht responsible for what happened on his platform, but Zuckerberg is not?

In my view, Ulbricht should be free so long as Zuckerberg is free.
Well said. Breach of social contract. The problem is that others think it is advantageous to close their mouth. Of course this is not possible by the laws of Nature.
Foreign companies can trade on the U.S. public markets. Baidu, Sony, and Telefônica Brasil do, it doesn't make them American companies.
I met this kind of situation in more than a few colleagues and a common observation was: they have these troubles only in their native language. Maybe we're stronger wired to that language+accent to be the language, and whatever else we learn is more flexible by definition because it's learned?
I run into this with clients all the time. It's basically a two part conversation for me:

1. A quick (few paragraph) run through of where I see the complexity that led to the estimate. This often reassures people, sometimes helps us discover a disconnect on the requirements (where I imagined something more complex than they needed), and is sometimes a waste of breath.

2. When (1) doesn't change anything "I don't litigate estimates. Based on our discussion this is my best guess at when I will be able to finish this for you, not a fixed bid. If I'm done early you'll get it early."
Ah, the familiar HN bubble, where people instinctively think of "simply start using VPNs" as the solution.

No; some tiny minority of UK users may do that, but the overwhelming majority will just use whatever services are "approved" (follow whatever rules they have to, to stay in the market) and remain available by default.
I don't purchase movies anymore but I could see myself going to a store to rent a 4K blu-ray to get the commentary tracks. Those are hard to come by online.
A Whale Feeding Frenzy in Antarctica Signals a Conservation Success
Incorrect. There is no such act as "not allowed to exist". Instead, rather than attempt to bury what is spontaneously manifest, we ought lift these bolstered options up and publicly demonstrate to all how they are torn asunder.
First of all, that sounds like a shit situation.

If you think it'll be valuable, you could ask them why it's important that you hit their date. Most likely they're being pressured by someone else.

But at the end of the day, you own the delivery of the product. Smile, nod, and get back to delivery.

(And yes, it's easier to write that then to do it)
Do you use mindfulness product or service as a founder?
If so, what are they, and why do you choose them?
I guess "forecast" is more explicit about the fact you're trying to guess what will happen in the future, so it's clearer that you can't be totally confident about when you'll finish.

If you say "I estimate 2 weeks", then the word "estimate" is often taken to mean "2 weeks, plus or minus 10%" (or some other fixed bound), when what you probably actually mean is "between 1 week and 6 months, but probably around 2 weeks".
They'd even rent VCRs and DVD players, which was a big deal early on when they were multiple hundreds of dollars.
Even as someone who doesn't like smoking, I don't like how the FDA treated them. It didn't seem clear or fair, after they had become this multi billion dollar company the FDA started saying they couldn't sell or market their products. They should have done this in a more open and transparent way imo
Heya, I'm the author of the article. I've been working on Kandria full time for close to two years now, and on-and-off for some years while I was doing my Master's at ETH. The engine it's running on, Trial, is a few years older still, and initially just started out of the good ole university boredom and curiosity. Games is how I got into programming when I was about 6, and that particular fever hasn't left me yet it seems, ha ha!

Kandria itself started as a "more serious" attempt at a game after I'd been making jam games with Trial for some years. I wanted to create something bigger, and had just finished playing through Celeste, so I just set out to replicate its mechanics in my own way. You can still find some demos of those very early days on my YouTube channel, if you're curious. In any case, the project went through several big changes until it turned into what it is now. During the pandemic in 2020 I finally decided to drop out of my Master's to pursue the project full time. At that point I also brought on a couple more people to help with the writing, art, and sound.

We're currently also running a Kickstarter to get us some extra funds for the project. It ends on Thursday 14th, 12:00 CEST, so there's not that much time left in it. If you'd like to support our work, please have a look: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shinmera/kandria
The campaign page has a lot more details on the project and the team, if you're curious about that.

In the article I primarily cover the programming parts, giving a surface overview of the technologies involved and at least giving a brief hint at the methodology I employ to create games. I'm sure I've left out a lot of details that you might be curious about, so if you have any questions, please feel free to ask and I'll try my best to answer!
The culture reference is to commercial goods (like beer) being given away at zero cost as a promotion. (“Beer” is probably not the best example but is conveniently terse; for Boomers, “toasters”—in reference to bank promotions—might be more culturally relevant, for younger generations “-to-play” in reference to F2P games might be, but neither rolls off the tongue as well.)
American doctor floats Floating Abortion Clinic in Gulf of Mexico to bypass bans
Samba is GPLv3. OpenLDAP has its own license but has some GPL-like clauses regarding code redistribution. I can’t recall what NIS is licensed under but it was written by Sun and then licensed to other vendors so odds are it’s not MIT/BSD either.
Interesting stuff! I hadn’t run across Carp before, so thanks for that too.

I thought “Guile Steel” was obviously partly a play on the fact that steel doesn’t rust as easily. :-)
I struggle to see the point of saving for retirement in 3c+ warmer hellscape. All the more ironic to have those retirement funds put to work accelerating warming.
I don't really view that as evil though, just basic market dynamics.

Similarly, CVS sells cheerios for $7 a box. I don't think CVS is evil, sometimes I'm just lazy.
He is excellent at uncovering the cultural stories embedded within music history.

I loved "Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music" and I'm working on "Music: A Subversive History"
Lots of people are spending time with libgccjit for compiling Emacs modules to speed them up with the "native compiled" version of emacs. I've tried it with doom emacs and it definitely speeds up things and seems stable enough.
Not a new tactic. A classic way to cut down exploit attempts to something you can actually monitor rather than a firehose, for sites that don't need an international audience, is to blackhole IP blocks from China and Russia. Sites have been doing that since at least the early 2000s.
You can compile .NET projects to a single binary - cross compilation is also a thing, so you can compile your tool for platforms other than your own, unlike Python with PyInstaller.
Endurance training on an empty stomach is a great ketone pathways excercise, the first few times are hard but get easier afterwards!
That's a toxic attitude.

The software is being written for the customer and/or management, and they're paying for it. They have a legitimate right to know why the estimate is what it is, and to understand what work is going to be done. If they want to exclude parts of it because they don't see the value, then that's up to them because they get what they pay for.

If you can't explain why it's a bad idea to cut certain parts out, or why certain things take the time that they do, then it's a failure on your part as the engineer, and not theirs.
Dunno what to say. Everybody who's _not_ a pharmacologist is completely clear on what the distinction is. Hard = heroin, meth, etc. Soft = marijuana, mushrooms, etc, plus nicotine and alcohol if you want to include those as drugs.

If your technical definitions don't include this taxonomy, so what? It's a meaningful term among laypeople because it communicates exactly this taxonomy in a single word.
There is only one solution to it and it is called "cutting the scope". Learn them and use them in any discussion involving managers and PMs. "We will deliver X by Y if we cut A,B and C".
The running gag is telling the Scottish mate when he gets too excited "say it in English please"
Given what we know about Chicago gangs historically - is that really indicative of the national business model of taxicab companies or is that just what the Chicago gangs invested in and where they chose to flex their might?
Yeah that's how I remember it too. In one town we lived in, we always got videos from the independent place. My main memory of Blockbuster is that one time my parents went there instead, and they gave us the wrong movie, which my sister and I were very disappointed by.

In another town we lived in, the video rental place was a local chain with fewer than 10 locations, maybe just around 5. I don't remember if a Blockbuster even existed locally.
> How are they still in business, by the way?

They've broadened out into being general "gift stores". My local Barnes and Noble has a large toys section (mostly LEGO and educational stuff), board games, puzzles, music (lots of vinyl), stationery (fancy journals).

It's essentially "stuff introverts like" in a nice space.
With just a few Apple Shortcuts and communication with an API and my seedbox is dead simple to use. My wife can browse a torrent site, hit a shortcut which grabs the magnet link (which is normally incompatible with iOS and is super annoying) does a POST to my seedbox BitTorrent api (included in the BitTorrent client!) and have basically anything ready to watch five minutes later on PLEX.
You can calibrate your estimations skills. This means that if you say, "there's a 50 % chance it is done before this day", 20 times, then in 10 of them it is done by that day, and in 10 of them it gets done later than that day.

Perhaps more usefully, it also means that if you say "there's a 90 % chance it is done before this day" then 18 times out of 20 will it be done by that day, and only around two times will it be late.

I have calibrated my estimation skill, so whenever someone challenges my estimation, I urge them to keep score and find out that I'm right just as often as I claim to be.

(If I'm particularly bold, I suggest a bet. I'm confident enough to make money on it in the long run.)

However, usually it doesn't get that far. Once I start explaining that it's a probabilistic measure of high certainty customers and managers back off.

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Some people want to be reassured that I don't plan on taking as long as my 90 % estimation suggests, so then I give them something like a 10 %--90 % span and say, "it's unlikely to be done before this day, but also unlikely to be later than this. This interval is wide today because there are many uncertainties for me. As I learn more about the problem, this interval will narrow."
Eagles and hawks eat the squirrels. I'm talking about predators.
Siskel & Ebert also agreed that it had no plot to speak of. But they gave major kudos to Jeff Bridges for carrying the movie in spite of that fact.

https://youtu.be/YMIkU7YaOGo
Our rental store closed before Covid (the owner basically got tired of it and retired, it wasn't a big money-maker, so nobody took over). Our theater died just after Covid.

I wonder if you could combine them into some kind of "movie mishmash" where you could see new movies in the theater, rent older classics, or even buy new releases. Being able to stop in, grab a movie and hot popcorn, and drive home seems it could be a winner.
Intermittent fasting has been the easiest thing for fine tuning control over weight for me. My Dad always says it's too hard, he gets hangry etc, but once you commit to it for ~2 weeks you don't even get hungry in the fast window anymore.

The body gets very conditioned to eating patterns. Something to ease into.

I'm not sure the average person can succeed on a diet predicated on greatly limiting the variety of foods you eat. It's an interesting idea though!