skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think most libertarians are against the war on drugs and would happily pardon or commute the sentences of non violent drug offenders, but the DPR probably takes priority for them because of the free trade issue compounded with the popularization of a non state-backed currency.

He has both drugs + crypto vs just drugs. *Ignoring the accusations of hit ordering, which I would imagine all librarians cannot excuse.
>We tried that, it was called the opioid epidemic and Purdue was the pharmacist.

Not really, this was a case of a private company deliberately pushing narcotics for profit without oversight or any associated increase in access to treatment options.

Now the "opioid epidemic" has been replaced with a "fentanyl epidemic" which is objectively a much more dangerous drug with absolutely no regulation and murderous cartels instead of doctors - and we're still throwing people in prison for the crime of being addicts rather than treating it as a medical issue.

I don't know the stats (or if it's even possible to accurately collect statistics due to prohibition) but I'm fairly certain this costs more lives than the short lived opioid epidemic.
This is actually an area that I find a little frustrating.

Generally to produce music you need to use a DAW. Ableton, Logic Pro etc. What sucks is you can't easily just assign a lyric to a note. Like it's just not a feature they provide.

It's something you can do in MuseScore because it uses traditional notation, but it would be great to be able to do it in something like Ableton.
Tensor Product Attention Is All You Need
I suspect there'll be a lot of people very carefully watching for transactions from wallets with some sort of links to Silk Road that have been dormant for 12 years or so.
Everything will be AI slop to you.

There will never be a point where AI creates something incredible and you are like wow I prefer this AI stuff over human made slop.
What are these bumps on the top of a pull-tab can?
> a higher standard than most apply in public discourse

Is it? Preponderance of the evidence is basically “more likely than not”
The question is what's going to be OpenAI's Adwords.
I mean... you can just firewall it?
Privatize social security, with some requirement that some portion of ss taxes go to coins.
We're talking about Libertarians and not Republicans, atleast that is what the parent comment was referring to. I don't know what Republicans what or believe vs what they say. The action to pardon directly addresses the Libertarian ideals.
Have people tried using R1 for some real-world use cases? I attempted to use the 7b Ollama variant for my UI generation [1] and Gitlab Postgres Schema Analysis [2] tasks, but the results were not satisfactory.

- UI Generation: The generated UI failed to function due to errors in the JavaScript, and the overall user experience was poor.

- Gitlab Postgres Schema Analysis: It identified only a few design patterns.

I am not sure if these are suitable tasks for R1. I will try larger variant as well.

1. https://shekhargulati.com/2025/01/19/how-good-are-llms-at-ge...
2. https://shekhargulati.com/2025/01/14/can-openai-o1-model-ana...
Japan has the same concerns about 7 Eleven being purchased by a Canadian company though I think the deal was rejected.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/japans-seven-i-deal-re...
A friend mentioned this made the front page. I'll try to answer any questions on our approach at Scholarly. Thanks for reading!
They seem to be pandering to the more libertarian tech community. This guy appeals to that and to the more radical maga types who want a revolution. I’m sure we’ll see more.

The Biden DOJs bungling of the insurrection, turning a jail into a martyrs club, slow rolling prosecutions, etc is ultimately worse than the insurrection for democracy.
We fine-tuned a Gemma 2B to identify urgent messages sent by new and expecting mothers on a government-run maternal health helpline.

https://idinsight.github.io/tech-blog/blog/enhancing_materna...
I just think that language is a big part of the puzzle, but it is not the only one. Simply generating tokens may sometimes look like thought, but as you feed the output back at itself, it quickly devolves into repeating nonsense and looks nothing like introspection. Self-sufficiency would reliably form new ideas and angles.
>How have they already selected who gets this money?

As I understand it there wasn't anything to select, this is their own private money to be spent as they please. In this case Stargate.
I copied all the text from this post and used an LLM to generate a list of all the ideas. I do the same for other similar HN post .
It's because of his mother Lyn.

She was a tireless advocate for his release from the start, and it became a part of the libertarian cause to see him released.

It worked. Trump courted the libertarian vote, and this was his most popular promise to them.

She's an inspiring woman. I'm so glad she lived to see this.
Finally somebody making sense in this thread!
Huge, huge fan of the entire Datamuse stack. You have done incredible work toward building a mega-useful cognitive exploration tool, ontology and super-power for word nerds. Software and data which I would love to pay for.

Also OP might like https://www.onelook.com/spruce/
What does the app provide? I have long considered creating an app that combines Notes with Voice Memos with a way of tracking alternative ideas for each line or section.
Do they have models that try to downplay what happened on Tiananmen Square? That would be a sneaky way to shape our future in some way (and no whataboutism, we do it too).
I don’t see how this would help me, sorry. It looks kind of like a more advanced thesaurus or something. I understand why some people might like this sort of thing but it’s kind of the opposite of what I want.

I’m not using RhymeZone less and less because RhymeZone could be better at what it does. I’m using RhymeZone less and less because the problem that RhymeZone solves is becoming less and less relevant to my process.
We're long past the point where most people have a computer in their pocket and not one on their desk
The hitman was a conman for a murder on a fictitious person. While he fully believed he was committing a real assassination, you can't convict people for killing imaginary people.
Rather not have the deadliest train in the US fly through high foot traffic areas every hour?

Yes, I’d rather not have that.

I’d rather them just add a route from palm beach to Tampa. Or extend the tri rail to Orlando.

The brightline prices out most residents, since it’s just about as expensive (or cheaper) to drive as it is to take the brightline.

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/death-train-a-timeline-of...
Don't cut and paste AI output. Anyone on HN who wants it can generate it themselves. Post your own thoughts.
Interest accrues, it's not paid.

Then the debt is rolled over into a new loan for a larger amount.

As long as the collateral increases in value faster than the interest rate, this can continue indefinitely.
What exactly are you trying to say here?

That people can't change their minds? That HN is a hivemind ? (news flash: it's not , it's more diverse than you actually think) or that everything is attributed to "Politics is a mind virus" ? if so, what do you mind by this term specifically?

I personally, find little substance in such comments. If you have an opinion on the matter (which seemingly you do), then please share it so that we can have a discussion about it.

So.. care to elaborate?
Turns out it does, actually.

hg ci -m "empty commit" --config ui.allowemptycommit=1

From https://stackoverflow.com/a/71428853. I tried it to confirm.
Yeah, most of us just use filters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29547363
well, what are the ideas?
> Don't ever use inheritance. Instead of things inheriting from other things, flip the relationship and make things HAVE other things. This is called composition and it has all the positives of inheritance but none of the negatives.

Bah. There are completely legitimate uses of inheritance where it's a really great fit. I think you'll find that being dogmatic about avoiding a programming pattern will eventually get you twisted up in other ways.

Inheritance can be used in a couple of ways that achieve a very-specific kind of code reuse. While I went through the early 2000's Java hype cycle with interfaces and factories and builders and double-dispatch and visitors everywhere, I went through a period where I hated most of that crap and swore to never use the visitor pattern again.

But hey, within the past two years I found an unbeatable use case where the visitor pattern absolutely rocks (it's there: https://github.com/titzer/wizard-engine/blob/master/src/util...). If you can come up with another way by which you can deal with 550 different kinds of animals (the Wasm instructions) and inherit the logic for 545 and just override the logic for 5 of them, then be my guest. (And yes, you can use ADTs and pattern-matching, which I do, liberally--but the specifics of how immediates and their types are encoded and decoded just simply cannot be replicated with as little code as the visitor pattern).

So don't completely swear off inheritance. It's like saying you'll never use a butter knife because you only do pocket knives. After all, butter knives are dull and not good for anything but butter.
Yes, because if someone has a tool that creates "something incredible", then everyone will be able to generate "something incredible" and then it all becomes not incredible.

It's like having god-mode in a game, it all becomes boring very quickly when you can have whatever you want.
What does that mean? And what am I looking at?
It isn't just job ads. For half the schools there was a formal definition. Also it has this part: "In 2001, NSF and NIH established a formal postdoc definition as “an individual who has received a doctoral degree (or equivalent) and is engaged in a temporary and defined period of mentored advanced training to enhance the professional skills and research independence needed to pursue his or her chosen career path.”

And yes you should expect to receive training. In the sense that you have a right to it and the supervisor has an obligation to provide it. You seem to be mistaking my criticisms of these jobs for defenses of them.
My paper notebooks can't do linking, I can't easily rearrange pages, rearrange my notes on the page, and getting it off my paper and into my work PC is more challenging. My Kindle Scribe is excellent for all of this, and I can't go back, personally!
I rather like Greek for having a dual form as well as a singular and plural form. (Translators made me add dual-form messages as well as singular and plural form messages).
An engineering forum may not be the place for creative prose, too.
> and so will sometimes absentmindedly snoop through what I've written if I leave it unattended

I'm glad I'm not the only one who experienced that! Such a fascinating experience, though really quite upsetting at the time. Doesn't happen now with my PIN-locked e-ink device.
This cuts both ways as judges often adjust their sentencing downward based on mitigating evidence. For both aggravating and mitigating circumstances evidence does need to be submitted, and there are standards of proof to be applied. It's just that the procedural rules can be different and, depending on the context and jurisdiction, sufficiency can be decided by the judge alone. In some jurisdictions, for example, aggravating evidence may need to be put to the jury, while mitigating evidence need not be.

The U.S. is rather unique in providing a right to jury trials for most--in practice almost all, including misdemeanor--criminal cases. And this is a major factor for why sentencing is so harsh and prosecutions so slow in the U.S. In myriad ways the cost of criminal trials has induced the system to arrive at its current state favoring plea deals, with overlapping crimes and severe maximum penalties as cudgels. Be careful about what kind of "protections" you want to impose.
Respectfully, I think you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

I read your story, and I can certainly empathize.

But just because someone has made a tangled web using inheritance doesn't mean inheritance itself is to blame. Show me someone doing something stupid with inheritance and I can demonstrate the same stupidity with composition.

I mean, base classes should not be operating on derived class objects outside of the base class interface, like ever. That's just poorly architected code no matter which way you slice it. But just like Dijkstra railing against goto, there is a time and a place for (measured, intelligent & appropriate) use.

Even the Linux kernel uses subclassing extensively. Sometimes Struct B really is a Struct A, just with some extra bits. You shouldn't have to duplicate code or nest structures to attain those ergonomics.

Anything can lead to a rube-goldberg mess if not handled with some common sense.
Civil asset forfeiture should not be considered constitutional, and some day a test case will make it to the SCOTUS. As for this case though... the pardon does not make Ulbritch innocent! On the contrary, accepting the pardon implies guilt. So the pardon need not and might not extend to forfeitures. Though it's also possible that the presidential pardon could extend to the forfeitures, but I suspect that's a constitutional grey area.
Wasn't charges about paying a hitmen dropped?
So "parked" rather than "hidden" then.

I also suspect Ulbricht quite likely has keys for wallets the FBI didn't find out about (and it's corrupt agents didn't steal).
This article suggests a half to three quarters of a teaspoon of iodized salt is necessary to get sufficient iodine.
A teaspoon of table salt provides 2300g of sodium,
or roughly the full RDA for an adult.
A lower sodium intake is better for cardiovascular health, and people with high blood pressure definitely benefit from cutting their sodium to 500g/day.
Question: is there a better way to provide iodine than expecting people to consume all that sodium?
you dont know which prompt activates the backdoor, how can you firewall it if you run the model in production?
> Let’s assume that making a JS change costs twice as much time a Ruby change, which I think is being generous to JS

I don’t grok this part. Based on my experience with RoR and JS/TS, making changes in TS-land is much easier and quicker than dealing with Ruby.

Is this just a preference/experience thing in the end? For you and your team RoR is faster/easier, so that makes it the better choice. For a different team JS/TS may be faster/easier, so that makes it the better choice?
You know those booths at events where money is blown around and the person inside needs to grab as much as they can before the timer runs out? This is that machine for technologists until the bubble ends. The fallout in 2-3 years is the problem of whomever invested or is holding bags when (if?) the bubble pops.

Make hay while the sun shines.
I haven’t heard of any. It would great if there were....
They did go after him for "murder for hire"; the murders were part of his conspiracy predicates, and evidence for them was introduced. This stuff about him not being taken all the way through a case charged on murder-for-hire, after receiving a life sentence in a case where those murders were part of the case, is just message board jazz hands.
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Guardian: <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/21/ross-ulbrich...>

CNN: <https://lite.cnn.com/2025/01/21/politics/silk-road-ross-ulbr...>

NPR: <https://www.npr.org/2025/01/21/nx-s1-5270051/trump-pardons-d...>

MSN: <https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-pardons-...>

Reuters: <https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pardons-silk-road-fou...>

AP: <https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-pardons-...>
I don't know if managing patches makes more sense than managing revisions. The truth is that you need both.

Sometimes you are authoring patches, and reviewing patches. But sometimes you are releasing/trying/building revisions, and you are releasing revisions.

Moving to the dual representation fixes some issues and brings its own. I think the only reason why some people think it is better is because they haven't used it long enough to get frustrated by the new issues, the way they had time to be frustrated by the old dual issues.
Guessing SMRs are a ways off, any thoughts on the container-sized microreactors that would stand in for large diesel gens? My impression is that they’re still in the design phase, and the supply chain for the 20% U-235 HALEU fuel is in its infancy, but this is just based on some cursory research. I like the prospect of mass manufacturing and servicing those in a centralized location versus the challenges of building, staffing, and maintaining a series of one-off megaprojects, though.
Was acceptance of a pardon an "assumption" by the court? Is it not "admission* of guilt", which I believe itself was never the case as this was based on a judge's aside that people didn't accept pardons because it was *percieved* as "an admission of guilt", i.e. the "percieved" part was not actually articulated in court but rather the judge was completing a thought before it was fully articulated.
LICENSE 404, though Readme says MIT.
Show HN: Open-source e-ink dashboard (firmware and server)
hi everyone, we've been mentioned in a few HN posts recently so wanted to share that our first BYOS (bring your own server) quickstart server is now live.

below is a 10 min demo where i set up everything end-to-end, from flashing a device to spinning up a local server and rendering content on the screen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xehPW-PCOM
> it's impossible to build a full-sized reactor in less than 10 years

We’re not doing time and tested.

> Department of Energy does not allow "off-the-cuff" designs for reactor

Not by statute!
Ah. Nice to have a solid reference.

It's not an unusual problem. Anything which moves thin sheets of insulating material at high speed can cause this. And so, there are standard devices for dealing with it.

The simplest is copper tinsel. That's even available at WalMart.[1] There are fancier systems. [2] The static eliminator doesn't have to touch the product. Close is good enough. Maybe 1 inch for tinsel, much greater for the active devices.

[1] https://www.walmart.com/search?q=anti-static+tinsel

[2] https://www.takk.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2023-TAKK-ca...
The trademark/copyright issues of making that both a reality and an income stream are as yet unsolved.
Libertarians are a joke because they refuse to realize that allowing corporations unlimited freedom means that the individual has less freedom. Their entire ideology just removes the boot of the state and replaces it with the boot of the corporation.
> evo workspace merge

wtf does that even do. I have no idea if it does what I think because I have no idea what it does.

'push' is a hundred times more clear than this obscure incantation.
From the article:

Again, kudos to Uncle Bob for reminding me about the importance of good software architecture in his classic Clean Architecture! That book is my primary inspiration for this series. Without clean architecture, we’ll all be building firmware (my paraphrased summary).

What does clean architecture have to do with building firmware or not? Plenty of programmers make a living building firmware. Just because they don't need/can't/want to apply clean architecture in their code, doesn't mean they are inferior to those who do.

Furthermore, after a snippet which I suppose it is in Kotlin, there is this:

While mathematically a square is a rectangle, in terms of behavior substitutability, it isn’t. The Square class violates LSP because it changes the behavior that clients of Rectangle expect.
Instead of inheritance, we can use composition and interfaces

The Liskov principle is about one of the three types of polymorphism (so far): subtyping polymorphism. Which is about inheritance. Composition is _not_ subtyping. And interfaces (be it Java's or Kotlin's) are another type of polymorphism: ad-hoc. Even Wikipedia[1] has the correct definition:

Ad hoc polymorphism: defines a common interface for an arbitrary set of individually specified types.

Therefore, the examples of interfaces aren't compliant with LSP as well.

I understand the good intentions behind the article, but it left much to be desired. A proper research to at least fix the glaring errors should have been made beforehand.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphism_%28computer_scien...
But why drop $500B (or even $100B short term) if there is not something there? The numbers are too big
Give it up for Glen Park.
If I remember correctly, Liskov didn't talk about inheritance but subtyping in a more general way. Java, C++ and other, especially statically typed, compiled languages often use inheritance to model subtyping but Liskov/Wing weren't making any statements about inheritance specifically.
Yet another request that HN reject any URL that isn't https.

Anyone clicking on a link like this is open to traffic injection. With several free automated cert services available, there's no excuse for this other than gross incompetence or laziness.
Any user-generated content system suffers from what we call “the penis problem”.
I say people sometimes deserve sentences longer than that which the law imposes on them. I didn't say anything about what we should do in that case.
Peugeot used to be the best but apparently have degraded quality over the years.

Zassenhaus and Zwilling are both German options of the same quality or better.
> the tokens have no economic purpose

They do have an economic purpose: Bribery.

The Trump family is sitting on the vast majority of the coins, and soon you will be able to buy favors and access by sending Trump cash, receiving commemorative coin-tokens as a kind of flimsy disguise, club-membership, and receipt.
I believe the problem with fact checkers lies in the systems in place to ensure their accuracy. We all have implicit bases and it’s difficult or impossible to not have them occasionally influence our own judgment.

During the COVID pandemic, fact checkers prevented the spread of demonstrable false and dangerous claims, such as claiming ingesting bleach could lessen COVID symptoms. Conversely, these expert fact checkers suppressed reasonable articles that suggested or questioned COVID might have originated from a lab leak. Additionally, fact checkers suppressed any articles suggesting Hunter Biden’s laptop was genuine and contained real evidence. These articles were labeled as misinformation because they contradicted the fact checkers’ political leanings. There was no way to challenge the fact checkers on platforms that matter.

In contrast, community notes allow for the presentation of multiple viewpoints, enabling individuals to form their own informed opinions. Someone needs to fact-check the fact checkers.
For better view: https://datahonor.com/Oh-PyTorch/100-PyTorch-Exercises/
Just a reminder: the condition for accepting a pardon is acknowledging that you did commit the crime in question and accept the court's finding of guilt.

In contrast: Biden didn't pardon Leonard Peltier, the president commuted his sentence. Peltier maintains his innocence.
> We just don't have the public facilities to house everyone that will be impacted by the anti-immigration promises

My impression was deportation, not imprisonment? Unless it has to do with the new "tough on crime" thing that worked really well in the mid-80-90's for private prisons.
I was apprehensive at first, but it seems like it works for them and they make some interesting points.