skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These aren't punitive damages, though the bankruptcy code cite there seems really to be about damages from any intentional tort. My understanding --- someone has been following this part of the case more closely than me and can correct --- is that the bankruptcy stuff isn't as much about shielding Jones or Free Speech Systems directly as it is about facilitating moving most/all of Jones and FSS's assets off their books.
Anecdotal evidence, but I've never had someone ask me to join Telegram.

In terms of encrypted messaging, the popularity in my friend group is:

1. iMessage

2. Signal

3. WhatsApp (only for talking to non-US people)

4. Matrix
Does the "reasonable person believes it" test apply when numerous people did believe it and engaged in a campaign of harassment and threats against the families? Yes, those people were not reasonable, but on the other hand since Jones runs a snake-oil sales outfit, it's also notable that these are exactly the people he intends to attract. Unstable extremists are his target audience.

He professionally cultivates an army of nitwits for profit, and then weaponizes them just to keep engaged in his product.
The time-tested strategy of releasing many iterations of a terrible product and hoping people will still care once it's good.
Even in todays world of crazy sound systems and 8K video, some things are simply worth experiencing live. "You have to be there."

Like live music, like going to a playoff game, watching a rocket launch. Even if you don't care about the race, the game, or the music. The energy of being in these places, experiencing it, feeling it, the spontaneous giggles, the sense of awe being caught in the middle of it, has a value all its own. You can watch the race on TV, catch the game in a pub, listen to the live recording over, and over, and over again.

But it's not the same as being there.
> No reasonable person is going to believe it.

Frankly I agree with you, but there are a lot of unreasonable folks–and every InfoWars consumer falls into that category.
You can call it insane but it doesn't change the fact that what I said about the democrat party is true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_a7dQXilCo

"Did you know that the Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, founded the KKK, and fought against every major civil rights act in U.S. history? watch as Carol Swain, professor of political science at Vanderbilt University, shares the inconvenient history of the Democratic Party."

Your resistance to my statement has nothing to do with the truth and everything to do with your own cognitive bias.

Here is another source: https://www.socialjusticesurvivalguide.com/2018/01/08/the-de...

"SJWs who go around browbeating Americans over a history of slavery, the KKK, and Jim Crow can’t then complain when we point out that it was actually the Democratic Party which was most involved in this history."

> You know that birthday modulo 2 has no impact on economic outcome. You know that that's the case

The point is not what I believe or "know" to be true. The point is to actually test your beliefs empirically against reality. If you're not doing that, then you're not doing anything remotely scientific. You might as well be spouting your religious beliefs, which you have been, by the way.

Your views on Reagan and Thomas, along with your rejection of the truth about your own political party, reveal your extreme bias, ignorance, and mis-education. No one could claim the Reagan presidency was the worst in U.S. history, or that Thomas leads a movement to destroy "democracy in the U.S.", without a hefty combination of all three. And, If I am quoting one source, it beats your zero sources and your ridiculous comparison of humans to dice and economic outcomes to dice rolls. But, really, many, many others have said the same things as Sowell. He just says it best. Those include a host of other people you'll dismiss because you clearly only pay attention to leftwing sources that agree with your existing religion.
You can sign up for T-Mobile eSIM with zero forms of ID, or buy a SIM kit in a brick and mortar location and activate that way without ID.

I remember when you could pick up any Verizon handset, dial *228, and get activated on prepaid with only entering in a ZIP code for the new phone number. Or even before that, old AMPS phones would roam onto the "American Roaming Network" and you could just use the deactivated phone on ARN with a credit card for every call outbound. No inbounds, of course. ;)
How much work needs to be done to make other frameworks/components/toolsets/React libs ect compatible with Qwik? What is the extra work involved in converting a medium size project written using e.g. NextJs to Qwik? vs starting from scratch?

I think a few concrete examples like this would help. Qwik looks like it solves a big problem but I'm not sure about barrier to entry.

Also this may sound biased but I hope this is not in any way influence by Angular, given its lead dev. I find Angular has a very opinionated 'enterprisy' mindset thats very different from the React/Next/webpack approach common in JS.
> employers have a legal duty to negotiate in good faith with their employees' representative

Sure thing. But that typically takes place in scheduled sessions. Casting Starbucks as refusing to engage when they’re adding it to the next meeting’s agenda is what I’m pushing back against.
I don't think holding a person accountable for another person's irrational behaviour is reasonable though. If you tell me "it's going to rain" and I take that as a call to attack people with umbrellas, is that your fault?
My parents were not “US boomers”

Not everyone on HN is from the US.
> I'm disagreeing with the language you are using to characterize models. "copying from memory" implies that there is something being copied, and a memory that you are copying it from. I am pointing out that LLMs do not do this. It's not how they work.

Then we're arguing about the semantics of the word "copy." That is not an interesting argument when you know exactly what I mean and can express it clearly.

edit: If it helps, either substitute your description in whenever I say 'pretty much copy' or change the word "copy" to whatever word you want to use. But even though I can't reproduce the opening paragraph to A Tale of Two Cities verbatim, I can certainly write something that is "copying" it without doing that, and anyone who was familiar with the book and read my paragraph would agree with me.
Isn’t that as good as it gets? The whole point of the continuations is that given a short leading prompt from a real piece that it should continue it realistically.

It didn’t get to train on the test set, if that’s what you’re implying, and I find it hard to believe the assertion that continuations are copies of the train set (if that’s your claim).
Renault's Mobilize Duo Is the New Twizy, Adds Bento Cargo Version
The more I think about it, the less concerned I am that there's one less controlled oppo nutcase out there. His Sandy Hook stuff was so stupid and unhelpful that it just had to be an act similar to the old Phelps "GOD HATES [insert any group here]" people of yesteryear.

The problem of course, is that lies (in the technical sense) are pretty common and often much more damaging that this fluff up. There's a lot of billions that could change hands if the lawsuits all went up at once. But really, they won't all go up at once--it will be the political undesirables only.
For the torque, you can use a low current using more windings, which has the same effect of having a higher current with less windings.

The acceleration you can reach is mostly limited by the peak current and the force constant, but the maximum speed you can reach at that acceleration is mostly limited by the voltage you have available because of the back-EMF. A simplified formula is that the voltage you need is R * I + v * BEMF. The higher the voltage is, the better the insulation between the windings needs to be. You need to find a balance between the different properties.
I don't care. The amount of irreversible damage and suffering that man has caused with his company and his total fake news goes far beyond the Sandy Hook victims.

I only wish more generational bankruptcy for him with everything he has caused.
This will certainly not help and has only breathed new life into the conspiracy. The (un)fortunate thing about most people that are absolutely nuts is that they have nothing to lose.
I can't even think of the space between galaxies as they are now.
Microsoft adds new RSS feed for security update notifications
I don't see a lot of progress in AudioLM compared to results from 2018:
https://storage.googleapis.com/magentadata/papers/maestro/in...

What's more interesting and concerning - listen carefully to the first piano continuation example from AudioLM, notice the similarity of the last 7 seconds to Moonlight sonata: https://youtu.be/4Tr0otuiQuU?t=516

I'm afraid we will see a lot of this with music generation models in the near future.
I'm not sure if you were trying to provide an example, but if you were, I was trying to find an example where someone complains about the whimsy in a product, but it looks like you kind of elicited one in a reply to your comment, so ha yeah I guess that counts.
Some of them have been (for example: https://www.mcall.com/hc-sandy-hook-denier-harrassment-0225-...) but the main problem is that it is, as most of us posting here know, difficult to track down the individuals directly performing the harassment.

Alex Jones is directly inciting people to go harass the plaintiffs so he bears liability for his actions.
Do you think bringing up these familiar critiques is even close to as significant as bringing down the price of subscription drugs? I'd trade Cuban's accomplishments on that alone for any amount of your whinging.
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Are there significant projects that run Haskell on arm specifically? Smartphone apps or just new Macs?
> shouldn’t the harassers be tried ?

Their actions come closer to criminal. Alex Jones isn't being criminally investigated; this is all civil.
yeah - PHX water usage has apparently fallen, so I'm not surprised water tables have risen.

Un-incorporated areas north of Scottsdale are already seeing their aquifers run dry(1,2). I'm not sure who would buy a house in the desert without knowing where their water was coming from. According to the New Yorker article, people were STILL buying the houses KNOWING they had no water and no well...

1 https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/the...

2 https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/joannaallhands...
87% of American teens own an iPhone; 88% expect an iPhone to be their next phone
I think the term you are looking for is "homoiconicity" [1]. There's a trivial 1-to-1 map between the semantic elements the program operates on (Lisp lists of atoms/lists, or Forth arrays of words) and the code.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity
The phrase “beyond a reasonable doubt” describes the standard of proof for criminal conviction as a safeguard b/c of the special potential consequences (like execution, imprisonment, disenfranchisement, and lasting legal disabilities) associated with such conviction.

It has no bearing on a civil defamation suit, where the general burden is merely “preponderance of the evidence” (i.e., given what evidence each side has presented, what the jury finds more likely to be true.)
This is the type of occurrence which leads me to refer to most user-service relationships as non-consensual.

The user enters the relationship consensually, but the choices about the service's operations are done without the user's consent.

In this case, the user's only choices are to either abandon the service, or to put up with the changes they did not consent to.

In the future, with data portability being common and table stakes for most services, I think there will be a third option: seamless transition to a different service, preserving all data, metadata, relationships, and user accounts.

This is already possible with existing, established technology: private keys, hashing, and text files.

We have a bright future to look forward to, where this type of change will be perceived as old-fashioned and barbaric as surgery without anesthetic.
> We don't trust Zuckerberg

This is a common excuse I hear in college to not use FB messenger or Whatsapp. But those same people usually have no issues using Instagram DMs. For most people, it's just a cover story to mask the real reason: Facebook messenger and whatsapp are uncool in the US
I really hope that Intel will be a role model example to showcase what happens if you dont cut the cancer known as terrible management.

Far too long managers are not taking responsibility for their bad decisions - not only business decisions but also simple feedback disregard.

„Look at what happened to Intel thats what happens if you let your managers loose”
> Except that semiconductors are a national security issue at the moment.

Perhaps this is too much of a radical idea, but if a company is so critically important that it can't be allowed to falter without government support, then it should be nationalized.

At the very least the government support should be made explicit, and large, critically important companies should be forced to pay much higher insurance, i.e. the equivalent of what banks need to pay for FDIC insurance. Sick of the whole "privatize the profits and socialize the losses" mindset.
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I don't have a lot of respect for the people who listen to Alex Jones or Infowars or believe the content that's published there, but the site had (has?) millions of dollars in revenue and Jones's podcast had (can't find a reliable source, so educated guess:) millions of listeners. So it's quite disingenuous of you to say "no reasonable person is going to believe it" when millions of people didn't find it so unreasonable that they abandoned Jones as a commentator; maybe they themselves, are not reasonable, but that doesn't make the reputational damage any less of a problem; arguably it makes it a lot more of a problem since now these people have to deal with violent threats, being SWATted, and so forth due to the reputational damage among unreasonable people.
I can't see behind the paywall, but how much of that is the pension? If one calculates how much money in retirement savings you need to replace a good pension, one will come up with a number very close to that of the $1.3M headline figure.
The courts determined there was no “truth” whatsoever in what Alex jones spouts in his bouts of verbal diarrhea.
You might be able to do the screen recording today using Wayland portals, or nested display servers a la Xpra. That could make per-app recording feasible and relatively transparent.

https://xpra.org
I ... ok, so the late reply is because I know inside my head what I mean, but expressing it is hard (sorry about that, hopefully you'll see this anyway.)

Virtue ethics is ... about trying to reach for the Good. People of faith regularly have a similar outlook except perhaps without one of the 'o's.

Caring about people in general, trying to be trustworthy, trying to be honourable, trying to look after your friends.

I guess you could say it's characterised by trying to come away from a situation feeling like you've done the morally virtuous thing (I am very aware of the tautology there) rather than necessarily the utility maximising thing.

It's very fuzzy, but also very human, and I'm conscious that I've not given you a solid meta-ethical grounding for it ... but then again, I'm not convinced there -is- one, and yet it seems to work for me.

Sorry for the massive vagueness, but realistically it cashes out to "try to do the right thing", which is necessarily vague and dependent on your own perception of what is morally correct ... which is why it's a terrible way to make policy (IMO) but works well on an individual basis, at least for me.
> every media-company would be broke

Media is constantly being sued for defamation. The difficult part is showing they had evidence they were lying. That was overwhelming in these cases, which is what makes them unique.
So like any state? I don’t doubt you, I just don’t understand what level it operates at, or what its purpose is. I could read docs, maybe I should just read docs.
> Really?

Yes, really. You don't even argue against it.

> pp. Telegram is good from a regular privacy perspective unless your threat model involves fearing cloud convenience.

Telegram stores almost everything online without E2EE.

> Not only have Matrix servers been hacked twice but matrix also leaks metadata.

Even Signal leaks meta data.

> If you're seriously suggesting true anonymity (not consenting privacy) then Matrix is not a good option.

Out of Matrix, Telegram and Signal, Matrix is the best option. It is the only one not making you share your phone number giving you anonymity up to your IP address.
What a Wedding Taught Me About Software Engineering
This idea, sometimes called "capitalist realism", that there is no feasible alternative to capitalism is completely unsupported by evidence. It is an ideological position, not an immutable fact of nature.
Jones runs a 9-figure media and supplements business that misappropriated and sold the memories of 20 children and the reputations of their parents to boost his numbers, and then refused to participate in the trial that established his culpability. He might be the least sympathetic corporate defendant in US history. Even the tobacco CEOs could reason that the science was overblown, and that the companies were protecting tens of thousands of jobs.
Yes, they should face consequences too, in addition to Mr. Jones.
just look at the downvotes man. look at the overemotional (protip: use of the word "fuck") posts. the consensus on this site is clear.
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It could've been a ruling for 50c and a pack of chewing gum and the same folks would object to it. It's not about the amount.
Pfft, as bad as the managers are at Intel, don't try to pretend that they have top tier talent (in SW) when they are paying on average about half of what a FAANG pays.

When I was there, they called Intel "Great place to leetcode" (a corruption of Intel claiming they are a "great place to work" everywhere)

Intel is known for good WLB and quiet quitting because the non technical managers didn't have a clue about what was actually being done on their own team. It's easy for engineers to BS these kinds of people, and this was the norm since any passion for SW was killed by working there long term...
Jury awards nearly $1B to Sandy hook families in Alex Jones case
Analysis of their financials showed that, on good days, Jones' show would bring in $800K/day.

Obviously that doesn't mean they have a billion in assets, but it does speak to how large their operation is.
Back when I was not on Mac, I always preferred laptops with Intel integrated graphics, regardless of performance. It was just better drivers, less battery drain and boards didn't fail either. My first laptop had NVIDIA graphics, and it was whole combination of bad drivers and motherboard frying because of overheating. Things have probably changed, but I'd just get one with Intel graphics -- just because I trust Intel to keep pushing better drivers based on their history.

Speaking on AMD, 10 years ago at-least, there were very few premium AMD laptops, and they used to overheat quite a bit, has that changed?
What Jones said wasn’t criminal. He’s allowed to say what he wants. But what he said did cause harm to people. So those people are using the same legal system that allows Jones to say whatever he likes, to make him fix the damage he caused by saying it.

The fact that he made money from it simply helps the judge - who is not part of the government executive - understand the motivation for what he did. The reason someone did something might be a mitigating factor in some cases, but this time it’s probably aggravating.
I don't want to live in a world where Alex Jones has access to a billion dollars.

But TBH I don't really want to live in a world when Alex Jones exists at all.
How about https://puri.sm/products/librem-5 or https://pine64.org/pinephone?
So, I am really more courious, with a JS engine is it an almost complete browser (probably excluding some aspects)? Does it include transitions?
> If those were the reasonable standards, every media-company would be broke.

That doesn't make it any less reasonable of a standard.
My workplace uses SMS. There are also many people in the US who do not carry smartphones, either. So at least here it is still very much in use.
I am throughly convinced that the most you should ever spend on Champagne is 50-80 dollars (ex a normal bottle of veuve clicquot), and only in extra special circumstances go near the 200 dollar price point. Anything above that is just paying for style over substance.

Specifically I taste tested several bottles based on an increasing scale of rarity and price. This included a 200 dollar bottle of dom, a 200 dollar bottle of La Grande Dame, and a one of a kind bottle of Dom stored properly in my friends basement since 1988 (a supposedly good vintage).

I have no skin in the wine game. I just don't like getting tricked by the luxury business. 50-80 is the sweet spot of quality and price, with diminishing returns in quality at the 200 price point Once you get above the top recent vintages, you are just paying for exclusivity not the product.
Just so we’re on the same page, “fire in a crowded theater” was coined as part of the Supreme Court’s upholding of a conviction for protesting the draft during WW1. The decision is no longer really relevant, having been replaced in a later case with a revised test that requires that the speech in question is intended to, and likely to cause, imminent lawless action. Which is for the best, because the Schenck decision hails from an era of the Supreme Court that was decidedly less tolerant of individual speech.

None of that is relevant here, because defamation is an established exception to the 1st amendment, totally separate from incitement of lawless action.
> Their tagline is "Feel good getting work done" – that is so against modern hustle culture and American workplace vibes that it's almost jolting.

No, this is perfectly resonant with modern American workplace vibes. Being against modern American workplace vibes would be Slack Off And Steal Office Supplies Club.
None. You can't have any metal beside the MRI scanner, the strong magnetic field turns it into projectiles.
> This will only send the signal to millions of people, that the establishment wants to shut Alex down for speaking the truth.

FTA:

"Jones ... argued for years that the massacre was a "staged" government plot to take guns from Americans and that "no one died."...He now acknowledges the attack was "100% real", a concession he made in August at a separate defamation trial in Texas."
VSCode wasn't always so noisy with suggestions; it's gotten more like Clippy over time. I'm sure the devs think they're being helpful. Anyway, here's how to turn off extension reccomendations:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/extension-marketpl...
Alex was free to say it and the people he defamed were free to sue him for saying it. Alex was free to hire competent legal counsel for the trial(s), and he hired a bunch of wacky, like-minded nincompoops instead.

There were so many points in this saga where Alex could have made decisions that would have made the outcome less severe and he doubled down almost every time instead. Even as the last trial was wrapping up, he was going on air and defaming the judge in the case while calling one of the plaintiffs "slow" and a victim of manipulation[1].

There is such a thing as consequences for your actions.

[1] https://news.yahoo.com/alex-jones-railed-against-sandy-19364...