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I watched the entire trial. I couldn't turn it off, tt was so enlightening to watch the legal proceedings, and I learned a lot.

My opinion: to be fair, (not defending Alex Jones at all), the plaintiff's lawyers did not enumerate the actual damages these poor people suffered, nor did they tie them directly to what InfoWars or Alex Jones said (i.e. he never used their names).

Although I condem the things he said, if I were on the jury I would have had a hard time assigning a monetary value to something which isn't clear defamation to me.

To be fair, the things he said were beyond horrible, but the case and the behavior of all representatives and the judge should be shown in law school classrooms as a reference to "don't EVER do this".
Sure why not.

The biggest are that some things cannot really be explained with words. They can be highlighted, they can be pitched, but at the end of the day you need to feel someone doing it before you understand. Either yourself or a model.

Time and again I was reminded of the first line of the Tao Te Ching (many, but not all tai chi people pay lip service to Taoism):

> The Tao that can be written is not the eternal Tao.

If you pull on that thread enough you learn that intellectualizing everything doesn't work, and you start to wonder what else in your life you've been intellectualizing that maybe you shouldn't be, and what you're doing and how you're feeling about the things that don't respond well to it. We in tech are particularly bad at this. The act of participating in HN is pretty heavily tilted toward it, and in my very limited experience looking at cybernetics and transhumanism through that filter, I find a whole lot of questions I want to ask the person daydreaming about this altered state they are looking for. Are you trying to become more than human because it's awesome, or less than human because it hurts?

In a more pedestrian bent, there are a lot of positions the human body thinks it can't maintain but it actually can, and for much longer than you would have imagined (though things always look easy until you try them, which takes away some of the marvel. Big deal, I could stand like that for a minute. No, no you can't.) I have to be careful on rocky terrain or near boats to turn around and say, "Kids, don't try what I just did, you will hurt yourself. Take my hand, and I won't ask you twice." Gaps and slippery surfaces are made deceptively mundane looking by some of my betters. I know a couple of people who can do the form in socks. Including horse stance.

Edit #? I got into it for joint and back pain. I never achieved complete relief from the back pain, but I can do some things with my muscles that stretch and reset things without 'doing a stretch'. It's half parlor trick, but very useful in situations like crowds or lines, or where busting out into a stretch is a faux pas, like in the middle of someone else's argument, or story.
The encoders of today create really good mp3 even at 192kbps (at 128kbps not so much which is a shame as a lot of internet radios use that).

Do you have a favorite rock track we can do an ABX test with?
The Fed simply "marks up the size of the account" in the computer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiCs_YHlKSI
> you had to pay ..... just to get a bottle of water.

The fact that somebody even tried to do this suggests the organisers were dangerous fuckwits. The outcome was unsurprising.
what is the 'B' in 175B? Billion, right? They keep referencing the figure but I have no idea what it means, or at least the significance/context is so unclear.
Oh it's definitely not about a billion dollars. He'd pay that out in an instant if he could. The contract he signed and the law itself is not on his side, he may yet slither out of his commitments, but Twitter would never settle for a mere $1B when they've lost so much more in value due to him.
Actually it's good that women go through pregnancy and labour only to have the child die. Every woman should go through that once (or half a dozen times) in their lives. If they get lucky, they could die too!
That is truly burying the lede...

I spent most of the post asking myself "okay, I'm guessing this is something about post-quantum crypto, but what are you actually suing about?"
Yes they've invented that: It's called bumping the major version.
> died much younger, usually as babies

This is of course because they were pretty long-lived, but had a high infant/childhood mortality rate. It's certainly a way to look at it, but if you counted every miscarriage as a negative lifespan, you could make the average lifespan even shorter.

When hunter-gatherers lived past childhood, they lived almost as long as we live.
I think his lawyer was intentionally bagging him. I can't imagine anyone is that bad at their job in not prepping their client for trial, in turning over documents they shouldn't have, in not following up.
The default is that you have the right to perform due diligence prior to making a binding offer. If you make a binding offer and waive the right to due diligence doing it later and using whatever you find to back out of the deal or change the price likely will not work. Musk can't claim he's a business newbie and besides that was spelled out black-on-white.
Not really, because the revenue comes from ads not users. Twitter makes profit from ad buyers thinking they are reaching many users. The "revenue per user was higher" you mention is actually "cost per ad impression" and ad buyers want that to be low.
We don’t censor results. Unless legally prohibited, you should find all media outlets in our results. Related, we recently published another help page explaining how our news rankings work: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/ne....
Even though I broadly agree with what you've written here ... the situation in question isn't really about NIST/NSA response to FOIA requests at all.

It's about whether the US government has deliberately acted to foist weak encryption on the public (US and otherwise), presumably out of desire/belief that it has the right/need to always decrypt.

Whether and how those agencies respond to FOIA requests is a bit of a side-show, or maybe we could call it a prequel.
If your architecture does not support this then you’re at risk whenever you make a function call.
> The Taro app definitely has a long way to go, and we're also investing a lot into the web app right now as we know that a lot of folks prefer to consume professional content on their desktop.

I definitely find this discrepancy interesting, since I found the app to work much better than the web application! Although this was mostly a couple months ago, so I'll have to take a closer look at the web app these days.

That being said, I found the content super useful - although I found the ordering presenting in the free iOS app to be rather confusing, as I ended up jumping around a lot.
A hundred years ago, you just traveled from city-to-city with your posse of 20-guys. Those 20 guys would pretend to be an interested crowd (which draws in / astroturfs fake interest) Real people then start to join the crowd. You then show off your snake oil product working ("guest#1 from the crowd", who is of course your buddy), and then the real people will get excited, and buy your snake oil.

Today, you just buy a bunch of likes / retweets to perform the same astroturfing on a larger scale. Bonus points if you "meme" it and "go viral". You want all those people out there to be spreading your message at no cost to you.

A little bit of astroturfing goes a long way. People want to feel as part of a community. So a bit of fake-generated content and fake-interest helps at seeding the crowd and popularity.

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Stage magicians still do this today for entertainment purposes, rather than illegitimately hawking fake snake oil. Its a very good bit of entertainment. It does take some practice but once you get the technique, its quite repeatable.

Turns out that human psychology / group dynamics are in fact, predictable and consistent.
See my answer to bufferoverflow.

Also: virtual reality isn't just a heads-up display or an iPhone camera feature. Augmented ears that can hear things normal humans can't hear, augmented eyes, or an augmented brain inherently means you lose sovereignty over your own mind since there is a necessary and irreducible degree of trust you need to have in your government and in corporations: trust that they are not interfering with what you hear, see, or think.

I count that as virtual reality, just as movie theaters (where, early on, people screamed when they saw a train driving towards the camera, i.e. towards them, though that may be apocryphal) were a very primitive and early form of virtual reality. Ok, duh, movie theaters aren't dystopian. But the frontier is soon going to breach the boundaries of our bodies and skulls. There are clear dangers involved.

Neither the Free Software movement, nor any "cognitive sovereignty" legislation as proposed by some transhumanists, would solve this. There's a fundamental trust issue that seems unsolvable.

I am trying to provoke thought; to me, the core issue with transhumanism is that other humans will be capable of subtly, undetectably and plausibly-deniably change your perception of reality and of yourself. Even people who focus on the "politically dystopian" aspects of transhumanism tend to ignore this; and instead focus on inequality, discrimination, and so on, which in my view are secondary.
Because "32 bits or greater" != "exactly 32 bits"
Spending 5 minutes with it makes it clear it's no anything killer. My guess is that Meta will be turning this off as quickly as they shut down their M messenger.
Exploring Links Between Psychosis and Frontotemporal Dementia Using ML
Absolutely! "In the 16 years from 1998 to 2014, the small business share of GDP fell from 48.0% to 43.5%." - https://sbecouncil.org/about-us/facts-and-data/
> darkweb prediction market

Dammit, I had forgotten about the whole "hire a hitman while pretending to just make predictions" thing. It probably isn't just a spooky theory anymore :/
I did make 20x, got in at 2$ — too bad I only put up 500 bucks. Lost more on intel tho…

It’s gambling indeed, even if lightly informed.
With our current relationship with tech, nobody on their right mind would want to anticipate transhumanism. Fix tech first, then people will start to hype it again.
I've watched him for years, and I think what he does is different from what we're talking about with this new form of viral content. Electroboom zaps himself because people think it's funny to see a guy hurt himself, and it's also impressive in some respect that he's good enough at what he does that he can do controlled, but safe stunts like that.

I think what the previous poster is talking about with this woodworker guy is he tries to make himself look incompetent so people will go to the comments and point out his "mistake." Electroboom would never expect people to go "hey, you shouldn't do that, it's dangerous." Whereas it's normal to bait people into engaging in that way on tiktok.
If anyone is curious, the courtlistener link for the lawsuit is here: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/64872195/bernstein-v-na...

(And somebody has already kindly uploaded the documents to RECAP, so it costs you nothing to access.)

Aside: I really wish people would link to court documents whenever they talk about an ongoing lawsuit.
True. The pump here has probably already left the ecosystem so probably no longer a threat.
Just for comparison, this 17.3" 4:3 is the same height as 21.1" 16:9, and it has 185 DPI. If it was a bit larger and slightly higher DPI, I’d consider it as a main monitor for a desktop build. I’m still waiting for an OLED monitor in the 24-27" range with 200+ DPI.
O3DE requires "40-100 GB of free disk space" and a separate compiler.

Godot (3.5) on the other hand requires a paltry 72.6 MB. Even less if you go for older versions or recompile it without certain features. It comes fully featured with it's own scripting language (or C# if you prefer but that requires extra disk space) and pre compiled builds for distribution with the final product. You can still use C++ if you wish however I've personally never needed to.

Godot may not be the biggest and flashiest engine out there but I find that it uses what it has got very effectively. It's extremely easy for newcomers to set-up (Just click the executable and you're all set. It even has it's own IDE.) and comes pre-packaged with the majority of features that your average developer will need.

For comparison, I'd say that it's the game engine equivalent of "QBE" or "tcc" to O3DE's "LLVM". It packs most of the punch of the latter in a neat little package.
Back in college, the engineering school had a farm of Linux servers from which you could access all your documents, as well as log in to your account from any number of computer labs around campus. Back when I was first learning Linux (not that long ago, 2008), I fell in love with how many things you could customize, and really create your own experience. When I got to college, I wanted to replicate this ability (install ANY program! use ANY desktop environment!), but predictably, their machines were pretty locked down.

I went snooping around the internet, and found that there was this magical software called Nix, which would let you have a package manager without root! The Linux computers in the lab didn't have root, but they did have GCC. I started learning all about build systems (mainly that you could specify a custom --prefix and essentially create your own filesystem within your filesystem), and got to work compiling Nix (or, i think, GUIX) from source. It's actually a fantastic amount of work to go from GCC all the way to a functional GUIX, even with access to every source tarball on the Internet

Eventually some admin emailed me about this project and I stopped working on making it happen shortly after, but it was such a formative experience in my tech life that I always think back fondly on it when Nix pops up.
hurray the private social network answer to openAI's wikipedia newsmedia model, now we're making progress!
> while corporations and governments gain exponentially more control

that is unavoidable. Transhumanism doesn't guarantee preserving full individuality. Achieving transhumanism most probably would require giving up significant degree of individuality as the tightly connected "collectives/hives" - once such possibility become practical - would outcompete individuals. I.e. Borg is one of the most probable and close description of the future transhuman society.
This wasn't a criminal trial.

Although we all want to see our "political enemies" and indecent people everywhere punished, we have to stop calling for people to be jailed without clear crimes being committed. The whole "lock her up" for Hillary that the Trump crowd chanted disgusts me, but likewise so do people calling for Trump to be prosecuted and jailed when they cannot pin an actual crime on him.

If we turn into a nation of "show me the man, I'll show you the crime" I will bugger off to a small island somewhere. We cannot rule by mob sentiment, laws matter.
The people who sign up for Twitter, dork around for a little while, and then leave and never return are not counted among the monetizable daily active users.
Depends how you measure senior engineer.

Most sensible companies measure by impact - and Taro focuses on how to explain and justify that.
I don't think it's a bad thing to push back and demand transparency. At the very least the pressure helps keep NIST honest. Keep reminding them over and over and over again about dual-EC and they're less likely to try stupid stuff like that again.
What happens when you're using a really nice sharp serrated bread knife and a terrible cutting process?
I know. It was meant to put number on a more natural scale.

It comes to about 16 million invocations per day. I'd guess obly a handful of their customers have this load on Lambda.
Status of Vagrant-Go
If I brought up good points, you should note that they apply more heavily to Musk than most other humans, which means that Twitter's response doesn't necessarily prove anything.

It's not the testing tool that's necessarily bad. Botometer claims to look at over 1,000 features, which is pretty impressive. The problem might be applying that tool on Musk's profile for the specific reasons that I brought up. Musk is an outlier in many ways and isn't necessarily a good sample for an individual test as he'd tend to draw more bots than an average users' profile.
> The US constitution is a subset of law.

"the law", yes. But the US constitution is not "a law".

> Congress can change it.

Proposing changes to the US constitution as a method of dealing with
contemporary policy and procedural issues deserves a name ala Godwin's Law. I mean, it's not that I disagree with you, it just that it's not going to happen.
I mean, it's not a light issue currently because the risks are high. As high risk individuals have these parts replaced over time we'll be able to quantify these risks. The risks will reduce and eventually people in 'no risk' scenarios with their current body parts will be able accurately judge if added risks of mechanical parts are worth it. Eventually the risks will be borne by the people that do not accept augmentations. But typically these things will take very long periods of time to play out.
"Download and extract the latest ffmpeg snapshot from evermeet.cx and place the ffmpeg executable inside"

Why? Why can't this just point to the location where ffmpeg is rather than making a copy of ffmpeg? symlink might work, but just do a $(which ffmpeg) or ask the user for the path ~/bin/ffmpeg /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg etc
https://blog.cr.yp.to/20220805-nsa.html works too.
Prolog and Clojure (effectively a LISP dialect) probably also qualify, and more modern: I think that in a way JSON also qualifies.
AFAIK those vendors are officially licensed.
Agreed. This new title strikes me as washing away the true meaning of what's happening.

There's no mention of Taiwan, which is is specifically related to.

Who can rewrite titles on hackernews? Can we get an explanation who made the change and why?
I'd be interested to know how it compares to iZotope as well as phonicmind.
Sigh.. I wish phones were like laptops.

The only re-purposing I could do with my otherwise perfect phone was to consign it to the great pile of old phones I have after the app stopped working to unlock my car.
I don’t like the collateral damages of many policies. But it’s not fair to say that the policies “have not prevented anything” because we simply don’t know. The policies could have stopped in-progress evil acts (but they were never revealed to the public for intel reasons) or prevented attempts of an evil acts (well, nothing happened, nothing to report).
> They can tune their mixing and mastering decisions to just the case of a hi-fi stereo setup with an enthusiast listening.

This is what audio purists should be asking for. Let's pay the creative production team to create and release a high-fidelity digital mix optimized for us. No concerns about radio play, boomboxes or loudness wars. Just their original creative intent.
"For these people this sort of betting site isn't just a betting site"

just because you choose to assign it some other emotional value doesn't change that the core purpose is illegal

"i'm not burgling, this is how i engage in understanding economics and the primary means of discourse, and the government should have no authority to take action against me"
It's not in the same spirit as a classic internet fail video. People liked the fail videos because it was someone obviously hurting themselves or screwing something up.

The key here is that the people will act like the failure is something they haven't noticed, so people will be baited into engaging -- either posting a comment, thinking they're the first person to point out the "mistake" or "failure," and/or share it with their friends. The entire thing is staged to fish for a very specific type of engagement.
See, obviously they just left out the blocks. If that chain was blocked? BOOM BABY! Absolute true fucking truth and the best Indian food you ever tasted.

Just add some blocks.
I think it may be: "Don't throw me in that briar patch."

The more vocal Twitter users were quite dismayed by the prospect of Musk owning their favorite forum. There was talk of getting the Government to block a deal somehow because "one person can't be allowed to own the public square."

Now they're as likely to be overjoyed if a court "forces" him to conclude the deal, even with a slightly smaller price than originally advertised. Whatever principles were served by the initial objection are less important than Dunking on Elon now that he's become pariah.
As an anecdote I've noticed that while driving, the bass line in YouTube music jazz can be incredibly hard to hear despite my shelling out for the premium Bose sound system that can shake the vehicle. So I wonder whether this is the encoding or whether it's really supposed to be that quiet.
This is spot on. There is something really psychologically off with him, watching how he behaved on the stand:

* fidgeted with everything
* couldn't focus
* couldn't follow simple instructions
* would forget about something said a short time ago
* has extreme paranoia, borderline schizophrenic to me
Slack has an interesting model where the license count charged to the company only includes active users which is a subset of those that are registered.
Botometer's test claims to use over 1000 individual features in its analysis and it is unknown (to me, please clarify if you know) if they use Twitter's exact definition of monetizable daily active users in their system.
Audiophile is full of nonsense but one of the more hilarious ones in something like this where the goal is "no digital" is it's been a long time since you could guarantee there was no digital going on between the instrument and the master.

They talk about Thriller a lot. Is it possible to have a completely analog copy of Thriller if it turned out a guitar went through a digital rack unit or a digital synthesizer was used? I don't know the answer to the question but in 1982 there were plenty of digital effects available.

The more recent you get the more unlikely it is the signal got from the instrument onto the master without going digital at some point, even if the recording is done on tape and then transferred to vinyl in a completely analog old fashioned sense.

If I plug my guitar directly into my amp and you're in the room you hear 100% analog. If I use the pedal board it got transferred A <->D <-> at least once before it went into the amp. Possibly with a dry signal staying analog but the effects might be digital and mixed back in.
Code is data isn't just about emitting and running code. It's also traversing your code as the data structure it is and changing it as you see fit.