skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would suggest that since this is a court case, the rhetorical / commentary-like (aspects of) statements made by the attorneys in court will (especially at this level) almost certainly be 'parsed out' in facts.

You're both right that this kind of language is used non-stop by people in certain roles today - especially politicians. Of course, that has always been the case in politics at any point in history I have any real knowledge about. In a courtroom, there are some real differences.

First, certain types of statements may be considered impermissible, and challenges are possible in various forms during various phases of a trial or hearing. Further, people who work in these environments tend to acquire a sort of "rhet-dar" (and a rather explicit form) that too many who don't get this kind of 'practice' every (work) day don't. And, of course, instructions can be provided to juries to disregard certain statements / evidence depending on challenges / various issues with something brought into a legal proceeding. Finally, at actual decision time, while rhetoric can influence, whether the decision is made by a judge or jury, the emphasis will be on facts, laws, interpretations of laws, etc.

Fluff rhetoric like "out of context" in an opening statement is quite empty, especially by the time a proceeding is wrapping up. Always makes a good sound bite for the external world though.

I can't personally be much more specific since my own legal experiences (of various types) have been ad hoc and infrequent. I considered pursuing a degree several times, never did. In particular, anyone reading would be right to not consider this in any way an authoritative comment. I will provide one ref though that has some pretty good additional info from what I had a chance to skim when looking for a bit more to give y'all. I'm sure there are others here far more expert than I, perhaps one will flesh things out better than I may have - but, giving at least a sense of the role that that kind of journalist-bait might play in an actual legal proceeding seemed worth something...

https://law.temple.edu/aer/2019/03/23/opening-statement-v-ar...
The Forlinx OKMX8MP-C development board is equipped with two native CAN buses. However, in certain product development scenarios, there is a need for additional CAN buses. This article will introduce a method for SPI to CAN conversion, providing engineers with a reference.
They don't weigh significantly less than puncture resistant tires with folding beads. E.g., Continental Gatorskins in 32mm are 350g, vs 450g advertised for these.
IIRC one CS/EE textbook author (Dave Patterson I think) said he made more money selling a $9.99 self-published Kindle textbook on Amazon (at 70% royalty for ebooks under $10) than he did from a full-priced hardcover (currently $77) through a traditional publisher (Morgan Kaufman presumably.)
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/apple...
I’m building a solution that works like this - we directly connect spreadsheet models to company databases (even converting pivots/formulas to SQL). Would love to chat with anyone that might find this valuable: https://arcwise.app
Well, I admit that I now feel bad for posting it to HN; I should have looked at the actual details of the license rather than the headline they are trying to sell.
I have read this before. Like a month ago.
Pretty sure it was in Texas. Hmm
First principles for working on your ideas
I work with a lot of relatively conservative folks. The F-150 Lightning is making huge waves in that crowd, in a positive way. One of them owns a landscaping company, and just swapped out their order of a half dozen regular trucks over to the electric ones. FWIW.
Looks cool, tried to register. Received email verification link, but when I click it - I get:

> Invalid email verification code
> Bwahaha. Since when is business, or hell life in general fair?

The entire purpose and objective of the law is to make society just and fair. It is far from perfect, but it is well superior to the selfish mayhem you speak of.

Laws are also not retroactive.
> Yet we're not seeing Samsung massively moving institutional operations to US centers for instance.

Culture matters a lot. Korea is a high context society, and relationship building is extremely important. Its very difficult to migrate functions to other locations when the way to get things done is through building trust and relationships over long periods of time. That said, Samsung does have significant offices all over the world.
All-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles
Yes, it has been a massive boon to scammers, fraudsters and extortionists worldwide. It's paramount we keep it up!
Or, they could have implemented surge pricing and charged 10x, 100x for electricity during high demand for non-essential businesses and let market forces decide who wants to still use electricity.

Some lobbyists must have lined some pockets.
> it entirely fails to understand that actual software engineering is about solving business problems

So do most HN discussions about this. Look at how many people will say, “I’d rather be coding than in this meeting…”
The FinCEN database is a massive heap of garbage. Anyone who has ever tried to submit knows this. The form is confusing as hell, so I assume everyone fills it out slightly differently. The website seems to crash with alarming regularity. I had to fill out the form 3 different times because of this.

So basically they have a massive database of horribly inaccurate data. From what I gather, the only people who would get in trouble for not submitting are the ones already on the IRS radar. The FinCEN database is used more to add on top of an investigation than initiate one.

I'd love to see someone prosecuted for failure to report as a single violation (i.e. no other tax or financial crimes involved). I assume the lawyers for the defense would have a field day sowing doubt in the judges mind as to whether or not someone truly failed to report (e.g. missing or corrupted data, IT errors, etc).
AI to create lessons, share them, and inspire others
Presumably the bitcoin miners were the cheapest way the grid operator could buy this stability. If the grid operator chose a different solution to achieve grid stability then power may cost more for all consumers. It’s a trade off.
I am not sure what to think, it could be that birds that are better problem-solvers are better at vocal mimicry. The study is for some reason focusing on vocal skills and problem-solving, both of which are part of executive functions. I am unsure that something which has complex language skills would necessarily be good at problem-solving, or vice versa. Mice are great at problem-solving, but they don't have much in the way of vocal abilities. Both language control and problem-solving are related to cognitive flexibility, in some respects. That is, I think that the emergence of cognitive flexibility helps birds (and other species) with vocal mimicry and problem-solving. For example, I don't chatgpt has any cognitive flexibility based on its language and problem-solving skills.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37418866

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37428605
When I'm managing a dev team, I enjoy reviewing my team's code at least 3/5 of days every week. Otherwise how can I give them sincere feedback and ensure we aren't doing weird stuff?
I checked out your link, maybe you know more.
I am hoping to find other graphs to dismiss these 2 graphs below:
https://xkcd.com/1732/
https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/graphic-the-re...
I guess, but the article wasn't trying to do so.
This will unfortunately be ignored, but it is so important to new business founders.
Sure, but at least the arguments there have more merit. Trying to use the same arguments for textbooks falls flat.
Which problems today have been solved by blockchain? It's been around over a decade yet I still do not know of any noteworthy problem it has solved. What is a problem we had in 2009 that no longer exists due to blockchain?
Best one I know for local AI's is below. The people who make the quantizations and OSS software often post there. You can find a lot on models, building rigs, etc using search.

https://www.reddit.com/r/localLLaMA/
Yes, but pathological games are statistically rare. At scale, the average is what matters…
Small Nuclear Reactor Could Power Wyoming’s Trona Industry
> "The Libgen sites deprive plaintiffs and their authors of income from their creative works, devalue the textbook market and plaintiffs’ works, and may cause plaintiffs to cease publishing certain works."

This line was clearly not written for anyone who's ever been through college. I, for one, would love to see the textbook market devalued. The abusive practices employed by these publishers are thoroughly reprehensible.

When I was in college my physics professor had us use a Newtonian physics textbook published by Pearson (one of the plaintiffs) that was then in its 14th edition. He asked us to buy the 13th instead because it was affordable ($30 instead of $200), and he provided question mappings to the 12th edition, since the only thing that changed from the 12th to the 13th was the order of the questions.

If Pearson is really so worried about the textbook market becoming devalued, they should consider letting up on their abuse of college students. It's pretty much inevitable that faced with five $200 textbooks students are going to look for alternatives that don't involve paying Pearson what they think they are owed.
Agent forwarding has its uses; not all of them can be replaced by ProxyJump.
The data in the javascript indicates it in ND:

{
"name": "Devils Lake",
"full_name": "Devils Lake, ND 58301, USA",
"lat": 48.112779,
"lng": -98.8651202
},
I don’t think a qualitative measure of “valuable” is too helpful when it’s consuming a very quantitative 120+ terawatts annually
Node or Bun is required. Not planning to support client-side compilation and running exec() on the browser. I have super vague plans to make a Zig-based compilation to work natively in Bun and runnable from other languages too. But later...
This thing is basically closed source and closed license.

The license explicitly blocks “Hosting Use” and does not even differentiate between “model as an API” and in-application use.

I hope the community rejects this kind of BS.
Could Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes be coming to California?
No, no they do not.
For a crypto miner, electric credits are as good as cash.
The birth rate is cratering, people are eschewing dating, and many live meaker lifestyles than their own parents since they cannot afford to live as well as their parents did.

Rail, healthcare and rent prices might be bright spots in Japan, but I hardly would consider a regression in real wages and living standards to be "doing fine". Your not doing fine if you can't afford to support yourself and a dependent.
iCloud limits the number of aliases you can use and it's impossible to reply from those "catch-all" email addresses you create. So iCloud falls short of that.

Also not only there's a payment thing that needs to keep going on (which is with any provider really) but you also have to essentially be on Apple ecosystem. But this can also be excused - at least there is no real lock in here.

But lack of ability to reply from custom catch-call addresses is the real bummer.
This has been my experience too with Kopia.

I tried to restore a ~200 GB file (stored remotely on a Hetzner Storage Box), and it failed (or at least did not finish after being left for ~20 hours; there was also no progress indicator or status I could find in the UI).

I also tried to restore a folder with about ~32 GB of data in it, and that also failed (the UI did report an error, but I don't recall it being useful).

Also, in general use, the UI would get disconnected from the repository every few days, and sometimes the backup overview list would show folders as being size 0 (which maybe indicated they failed; they showed up with an "incomplete" [or similar] tag in the UI).
Could Dementia in the National Security Workforce Create a Security Threat?
I had a somewhat similar requirement in a past work. The Excel file had all the formulas and data, and the analysts only work with Excel files. The result of the calculation in Excel needed to be put on the web.

The solution was not to recreate Excel in the browser, but ran the Excel file with its formulas and its data plus the input parameters from end users at the backend server. Apache POI was a nice Java library that could do everything on an Excel file. Once it finished the formula calculation, I just read the cells from the Excel file to extract the result data and generated the web pages to present the data and graphs.

One nice benefit was the analysts could update their work in the Excel file, uploaded it to the server, and got the new calculation reflected on the web pages right the way.
Tons. All they need to do is give me a way to pay them directly. Venmo or PayPal would be great.
You probably don't have the authority to allow your report to release "company code" on their personal Github account.
It’s pointless to worry about being sued by a large corporation. If they want to bankrupt you, they always can, regardless of whether you did anything wrong or not.

We are like ants to them, they can squash us at any time, but most of the time we are too small to worry about.
For decades, Pearson failed to invest and innovate in their market segment. Let them pay the market price -- It's only fair.
that's because curl returns an empty file.
Brazil. I'm sure.
This feels like the beginning of a long blog post I'd like to read.

Go feels natural to me, Rust feels like an ugly looking, needlessly complicated language.

Go has decay too. Many packages are abandoned or not properly taken care of. Generics did their own to slow the language down.
But even if it's not the fastest language, it's fast and robust enough to get things done. And that's what counts for me.
Head First Software Architecture
The Watt is a unit of instantaneous power. Watt-hours are a unit of energy.
I see the red rings in the front, but if I close one eye, they look flat. That was confusing, but the paper explains it nicely.
It's a little heavy for a 700x35 tire. Compare: Rene Herse Bon Jon Pass (700x35) @ 355g or Continental Terra Speed TR 35 (a knobby gravel tire) @ 360g or Continental Grand Prix 5000 All Season TR 35 @ 425g.
Want proof? The very first act Reagan did in office was to sign an Executive Order that repealed all the oil and gas price controls.

The gas lines disappeared literally overnight! And I mean literally in the literal sense of the word. It was amazing. Poof! I remember the next day well. I pulled into a gas station right up to a pump, filled up, and drove home. Aaaahhh! Gas lines never returned.

Reductive, true. Accurate, absolutely.

Carter just didn't have a clue.
The game "Captain of Industry" might be a more complete simulation:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1594320/Captain_of_Indust...

Big thread on it from last year here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31586833
I think aluminum smelters have big costs to restart after shutting down, so it makes sense to pay them. Bitcoin would take less than a minute to start mining again.
Ask HN: What Happened to TJ Holowaychuk?
His startup, Apex, has shut down: https://apex.sh/

It appears he stopped using Twitter in 2022. 0 Github contributions in the last year.

For those that don't know TJ, he's created numerous NPM libraries, including Express for Node.js. For more context, here's a blog post I found that talks about TJ's contributions: https://medium.com/@kelas/how-is-tj-holowaychuk-so-insanely-productive-604818b4e9eb

Is he alright? I hope he's OK.
Reading this I realized chess is not fully Markovian (you cannot know everything about the game by just looking at the board at any point), specifically because whether determining if castling and en passant are valid moves depend on the history of the board.
The code is MIT licensed. Anyone is legally allowed to upload MIT licensed code to GitHub, it's free software and may be freely redistributed.
Ryujinx Progress Report: July/August 2023
We're not talking about music we're talking about generalized creativity. You can't build that in half an hour. It couldn't be built at all until the last few years.
I thought this too, re: for Amazon review farming, but products are never homogeneous from the start.

All products have multiple component suppliers, with different tolerances/varieties, where the components are judged "close enough". Suppliers come and go. And even if it's a single large supplier, they may have different farms/factories/etc so you won't even be getting homogeneous components from them.
I don't think the "too much sugar" crisis in the US is due to people cannot feel there is too much sugar. It's just overly sweet food is the default in so many parts of the US. Ice cream here is much sweeter than in Asia. Cup cakes in the US can send me straight to sugar coma after just one bite.

When I asked a friend if they thought the cup cake was sweet. They said that isn't cup cake supposed to be sweet? And they don't think it's overly sweet since all the cup cakes they have had were like that.
Allergy shots include the small amounts of the allergen, given in such doses as to allow the immune system to build a tolerance to the allergen. [0][1] It reminds me of psychology's "exposure therapy". [2] In layman's terms, allergy shots teach the immune system to chill, whereas this "inverse vaccine" (as I understand it) deletes a substance from the immune system's memory.

[0] https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/allergy-shots/ab...

[1] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/25194-aller...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_therapy
> Kopia managed significantly better deduplication

> ... was from before Restic supported compression, which is the why its size is so much larger

deduplication != compression...

So we don't actually know which has better deduplication? Compression algorithms are well-established and you can find a million people who benchmarked them all for different purposes, but deduplication algorithms I never saw a comparison of. I don't even know if these things have proper names or if people just refer to them as "rsync-like"
What do you think? Give it a couple of your best effort theories.
Yazi: Fast terminal file manager based on async I/O
Exactly. Nue is an _alternative_
Regarding Zig, note that the author writes "starting a new project in a memory unsafe language in 2023 is foolish as demonstrated by the endless flow of vulnerabilities."
Ethereum is doing that without Proof of Waste.
Metrification was dying, and the plug was pulled by the Reagan Admin. Biggest blow was probably the abandonment of converting highway signs to km in 1977.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1977/06/30/metr...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amylase
Just call it what it is: proprietary, nonfree software
I mean, that's the usual answer when it comes to yellow journalism but it still leaves the question of who's paying and why in particular him, because the Musk ecosystem is not one that's particularly hard to avoid; if you don't own a Tesla and don't use Starlink you're 99% of the way there.

It's just odd the amount of online hate the guy garners considering how narrow his reach really is.
hmm i hadn't thought of a ban scenario. A little google led me here https://stackoverflow.com/a/66105692/3875151, it seems like the user will live on as long as github continues to shadow ban them.

Now I wonder what their involvement with the archive.is team is, the nixos folk seem really pissed off by his removal.

Edit I guess the law was involved somehow. Still doesn't answer why they're logged into archive.is, and how archive.is is able to save their account state, even though github 'disappeared' them: https://web.archive.org/web/20210116151808/https://twitter.c...

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-was-this-treewide-pr-perfo...
Pretty much this. I'd happily pay the author $7 for a PDF rather than $70 for a DRM-encumbered Kindle ebook (or $31 to "rent" it for a term.)
> If a small number of rich people donated a few million each, we’d have all tablets and other unread documents read in a short time

There is a really large number of unread tablets.
Wow, you have to be the super expert that unveiled the whole hedge fund scam. Thanks for your enlightening opinion.
That's what I proposed in my article in Alternative Models. Except, I wanted to use public-domain works (eg Gutenberg) for the base model so it's legally clear. Then, for one with proprietary content, K-12-college textbooks, encyclopedias, and specialist works licensed for that purpose. Train the base like we train kids. Then, use it to generate or evaluate the rest.

https://heswithjesus.com/tech/exploringai/index.html
Can you expand on your usage of AI tech?
> people dying of diabetes because they cannot afford medicine

That's a problem stemming from government regulation that prevents competition in diabetes insulin.

> trains

I'd prefer trains, too. But the government makes it far too expensive to build lines and operate them.
Honestly, I don't really care who as long as I can block them altogether. It was curious to find out how many weird companies do. Thanks to the GDPR we now can see the lists. Do I read them? Not anymore, I just make sure all the switches are off.

It can be reasonable for a particular website I visit to save some data (not fingerprinting though) on who visits it. It can be reasonable for Google Analytics or Facebook or a similar system to process the data so they can target ads which make so many good small businesses possible nowadays. Sharing the data with other parties makes no sense I would ever want.
Thanks. Will fix all that in the upcoming weeks.

I'm claiming that mixing logic, content, layout, and styling is spaghetti.
> I thought I'd try Kopia [for] my less techie relatives. This was about a year ago.

> The UI didn't seem like a good fit

Didn't seem like, or wasn't based on your trying it? Did you end up trying it? If not, what do your relatives use currently, is that better (even if not ideal, since you're still asking for recommendations)?
don't agree at all, internal communications are absolutely relevant
Hi xwdv,

We have carefully reviewed your suggestion. Unfortunately there are no big mountains in Antarctica, just flat sheets of ice. So it is not really suitable for a ski resort.
Might work for polar bear hunting tho.

HN rich people’s local charter.
Bitcoin uses less electricity than christmas lights. Are they more "valuable"? How do you decide?
Yes but that's a silly argument for most software, which will never see adversarial contact.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_C....

> On June 7, 2000, the District Court ordered a breakup of Microsoft as its remedy.

Then

> Ultimately, the Circuit Court overturned Jackson's holding that Microsoft should be broken up as an illegal monopoly. However, the Circuit Court did not overturn Jackson's findings of fact, and held that traditional antitrust analysis was not equipped to consider software-related practices like browser tie-ins.