skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nonsense. "The rule of law" isn't one cohesive thing--sure, some parts of it are important for holding together a country/society, but in a sufficiently complex legal system (like the US') there exists a plethora of laws which are irrelevant to holding together society. Every such society has laws which are on the books but are not enforced, weakly enforced, or unevenly enforced. In fact, an implicit part of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson's theory of government was explicitly having laws which only existed to be broken, to allow citizens to exercise their rebellious impulses without causing harm--Wilson believed that turning a blind eye to the breaking of a certain subset of laws actually minimized the harm of unlawful action. An example of this is rules against walking on the grass in many public areas in London, which is enforced by security guards whose only recourse is to tell you to stop.

The US also has laws which we don't care if you break, and the laws we place in this category say a lot about our society. For example, it's widely accepted that people can drive up to 10 MPH above the speed limit and consequences will be rare. Even more severe moving violations are met with a slap on the wrist which primarily effects the poor (fines).

Drug laws were already within this category before Ullbricht started the Silk Road. The was on drugs was explicitly started by Nixon as a war on the antiwar left and black people, and if you didn't fall into one of those categories, you were/are largely above drug laws, since enforcement generally targets those categories, while the social acceptability of popular drugs means that crimes of this nature are rarely reported.

Ullbricht's primary offense was breaking a law that was already broken ubiquitously. Society did not collapse before Ullbricht when these laws were broken, it did not collapse when Ullbricht broke them, and it does not collapse because of the myriad of darknet sites which immediately filled the void left by the Silk Road's closure. Ullbricht's arrest didn't end the blatant disregard for drug laws on the darknet, and yet somehow in the 11 years since his arrest, society still hasn't devolved into small tribes slaughtering each other.

In short, if people breaking drug laws was a real threat to society, then society would have devolved into tribes slaughtering each other already. We have had over 50 years of people ubiquitously breaking drug laws without societal collapse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ehrlichman
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Not at all. My point was actually:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42792552
Ulbricht didn't kill those people. Those people took drugs under their own autonomy and died as a result.
Exactly what I was saying.
> He did kill people. That factored into his sentencing[0]: the multiple overdose deaths from heroin and other things Ulbricht sold/facilitated/took a cut of the proceeds of.

> He killed children.

Nit: People died, who may not have died, because of his actions but he didn't kill them. Very few people are forced to take drugs.
> our champions

Wait, what?
Cavemen could tell the difference between feast and famine and so can we. It doesn't mean we can control ourselves. I don't believe the crux of the problem is related to the information on the nutrition label, or how accurately we read it.

My theory is counting calories offers a convenient apparatus with which to perform some mental gymnastics when rationalizing why one is not actually eating too much when deep down one knows they eating too much.

All the emotional reasons for eating too much are messy and we would rather not deal with them. The connection between mood and gut can be quite strong, and can vary wildly from one person to another.
I think it was a pretty quick transformation. One half of the LucyDrop account threatened to leak real-world names, because he was threatened over deals his partner made out of his control. Plan A for Ross was to arrange real-world harm.
Initially, that was possible. They eventually banned those types of auctions before the site itself got taken down.
And if this whole exercise turns out to be a flop and gets us absolutely nowhere closer to AGI?

“AGI” has proven to be today’s hot marketing stunt for when you need to raise another round of cash and your only viable product is optimism.

Flying cars were just around the corner in the 60s, too.
Question --- does it support keyboard modifiers in the Find-Replace dialog? NP in Windows 11 doesn't, and it really trips me up when moving from my work laptop running Windows 10 which does (and Win 11 NotePad doesn't get these, it will be a major stumbling block for me).
> 4. Why fork puppet instead of contributing to ansible or salt?

Puppet and Ansible (not sure about Salt) works very differently. Puppet is pull based, as in each client pulls their configuration from a central server at regular intervals, where as Ansible pushes a configuration when asked. Puppet is also more of a "Ensure that my client is in this state" while Ansible can be see as "Run these steps on the client", that's not a 100% accurate and people have also made Ansible work in a pull configuration, but I feel that makes picking one over the other a little simpler.

In any case, Puppet is easier to scale to thousands of servers. Ansible is easier to develop for and easier to upgrade or run multiple versions simultaneously. It two different approaches to the same/similar problem, but they are fare from interchangeable.
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> The haskell bros who think tests dont do anything useful because "a good type system covers all bugs" themselves havent really delivered anything useful.

Please don't do this. It's not constructive.
Assuming the tax money has to come from somewhere at some point, those who pay taxes have to make up the shortfall from those who have tax breaks. So far the US just kicks that can down the road so...
While mathematics are necessary to build LLMs, they are not a kind of math or a distinct branch of mathematics.
Ridiculous? He was in prison for 10 years.
If you open the TextEdit settings, you can change the default format from "rich text" to "plain text", and setup other default settings if you want (font, wrapping, default window size, etc.).

After a 5min config there, I don't notice a difference from NotePad, but I was never a "NotePad power user" though. For example, never used the ".LOG" feature.
> He acted as an enabler to countless violent crimes.

I don't like this argument of imputing transitive guilt. If guilt is imputed indirectly, then all of us are guilty of many things, like atrocities that our countries have perpetrated during war.
Not even sure you need any discreet notice about anything for strictly necessary first party cookies. That's my understanding of GDPR, at any rate.
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The hardware is likely flexible enough to run other approaches too if they get discovered.
The DSL (and associated IDE support) is about the only thing I like about puppet
First of all, leniency is usually expected (and this was the exact opposite of leniency) if it is someone's first offense or if they seemed like a good citizen prior.

Second of all, people missed my point I guess: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42792552

Third of all, the Silk Road saved lives.

https://cybercrimejournal.com/pdf/Lacson%26Jonesvol10issue1I...

https://gwern.net/doc/darknet-market/silk-road/1/2013-vanhou...
Notably, as Ullbricht predicted, the Silk Road was immediately replaced by sites which did not have such ideals, and openly sold weapons and illegal pornography.
Wow. Suddenly the pardon makes perfect sense.
The leopards will be feasting the next 4 years.
> But, I won't deny that our hypothetical employer could also give people a pay rise

It is money allocating for having that employee in the company - it could all go to the employee as far as the company is concerned. It is worth considering how much of that total money the company is spending goes as taxes, and not just the bit that counts against income tax scaling.
> Instead we gave a small number of people all of this money for a moonshot in a state where they squabble over who’s allowed to use which bathroom and if I need an abortion I might die.

AFAICT from this article and others on the same subject, the 500 billion number does not appear to be public money. It sounds like it's 100 billion of private investment (probably mostly from Son), and FTA,

> could reach five times that sum

(5x 100 billion === 500 billion, the # everyone seems to be quoting)
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>It's squarely within the Overton window to impose extremely harsh sentences for people who sell heroin.

Some of us see a major difference between selling heroin to someone, and building the marketplace from which these victim's freely bought drugs.

I think he is owed some responsibility, but he didn't kill them.
I had an opportunity to interview several SEO consultants and firms about six months ago after a disastrous (for us) Google update that put Reddit at the top of every results page. I didn’t get the sense any of them knew what they were actually doing then, instead it’s all just stumbling around applying yesterday’s “fixes” until something appears to work. And if you’re not Reddit, then you’re gonna lose anyway. The only solid advice seems to be Google’s own extensive documentation and meeting CWV.
Define invade.
One, ChatGPT isn't a "visualizer."

Two, I have aphantasia and didn't picture anything. I got it the first time without any confusion.

Are you seriously asking ChatGPT to read things for you? No wonder your reading comprehension is cooked. Don't blame aphantasia.
OK, why only external policy?
we are talking if the Ruzzian regime and the USA state would do the same stuff, if they are the same, because the topic was "if Ruzzia is doing it then USA is also doing it"

a contra example or more should shut this idiotic take and we can find some other evidence for this invisible USA bot farms.
The best part about this answer is it's always true.
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I believe you are overestimating the percentage of the population that understand the basics of how a toilet works. Not looking down on those folks but in my experience, there are folks that think about how things work or have some practical experience, the rest don't ever think about it and so most likely do not even understand the basics. Nothing wrong with it but its fairly apparent.

Inversely, those folks that think about how things work tend to be fairly overconfident in their ability to recreate/repair/innovate. In reality there are often fine details that you miss.
He was not the dealer.
Tried this for twitter as there are some people I still like for their concise content, but I don't want to be drawn into curated corporate doomscroll. Doesn't work as good as I thought, but I still consider RSS to be a valuable tool to put a safe gate to personal internet use
This. With taking in to account how much criminal exposure Silk Road removed from the whole equation, saying "he killed them" is like saying Elon Musk kills everyone who dies in an FSD accident even if the system is safer than human drivers by average.
Indonesia fines Google $12.4M for unfair business practices
"0" is the same thing as "no" and thus it is a negation of something.
Why would you remove the plural from something if your intention is to negate it?
If someone drinks your beers, then you have no beers because it's a negation of multiple beers.
If you don't know how many beers there were then it's likely there was more than one anyway.

ps: we can also say the beers were mutiplied by 0.
The issue is that so many of the officials that investigated him were corrupt.
How can we be confident any of the evidence was real. He is obviously not innocent but when at least 2 of the investigators went to jail for crimes committed during this investigation it casts serious questions on the validity of the case as a whole.

The police, DEA and Secret service have vast power they can use against the populace. If those same agents are committing crimes then it taints the entire investigation and prosecution. If a cop is found to have planted drugs on past arrestees, quite often a good portion of his other cases are thrown out as well as he has corrupted everything he touched.

It likely doesn't rise to the legal doctrine of "fruit from a poisoned tree" but its in the ballpark.

For the people downvoting me for some reason:

A DEA agent involved in the investigation "was sentenced to 78 months in prison for extortion, money laundering and obstruction of justice"

A secret service agent involved in the investigation "was sentenced to 24 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco following his earlier guilty plea to one count of money laundering."
Dictionary.com has an article about the current meaning:

https://www.dictionary.com/e/the-new-meaning-of-preppy/
> they often make blog posts in which they clarify how they want "proper french" to look like.

Anybody has the right to do that, they're mostly writers so they have an opinion on the language, but at the same time they're not linguists so they can't really be a prescriptive source. They just give their (usually reactionary) opinion.

I was just making clear that they don't make the rules. The Ministry of Education kinda does, and is often at odds with the Académie especially when it comes to the orthography reforms.
"He killed children" is a pretty massive leap- he didn't sell heroin, he sold shrooms. Other vendors on the site sold heroin. And there is the matter of personal responsibility to consider- nobody forced those people to take heroin, and if they hadn't gotten it from the silk road they'd have gotten it elsewhere. The Sacklers are responsible for far more human misery in that regard, to an almost inconceivable degree, and they never have and never will see the inside of a cell
I don't get the nostalgia for NotePad - the most featureless piece of software ever invented.
So why not have the employer pay the entirety of the tax burden?
Make it seem, to the employee, like they are paying 0 tax.
Silk road had a policy against selling items with intent to harm like guns. While occasionally some weapon listings would slip through, they would be taken down. The focus was drugs (and a lot of legal media). There were plenty of other black market sites on the dark web that sold everything, but that's not what the silk road in particular was about.
Maybe it was updated then.
It's worth noting that darknet sites have at every point in their history provided higher-purity drugs on average than what was available elsewhere[1]. It's hard to say whether or not more people used drugs because of the Silk Road. But without question, many people who purchased drugs on the Silk Road and survived, would have purchased those drugs elsewhere and died from impurities in the Silk Road's absence. I think there's an argument to be made that Ullbricht saved lives by purveying safer drugs.

[1] https://www.euda.europa.eu/publications/insights/internet-dr...

EDIT: Added citation for commenter who couldn't be bothered to use a search engine. Link contains links to multiple studies.
Protip: in the "2d invaders game" - press a movement key ("w" or "d"), hold it and then press fire ("w"), holding it too. After the initial shot the key repetition will start and you'll spam a series of bullets across the screen.

This is how I won on hard mode and it still took me a couple of attempts.
Plus he didn't even sell the drugs. He created a technology platform that facilitates it. I can think of many other communications platforms that also do this, for example Google, email, Verizon, etc.
Trump is one of the most famous people in the world for not keeping promises of paying debts. But there is money to be made temporarily when he is running a caper, as long as you can get your hand in the pot before he steals it.
I don't doubt that, but it's harder to connect that fact to a specific international conflict.
> Like I said they have their own style of colonialism.

That's moving the goalposts and doesn't address the issue.

>They have been smart and done all their dealings via money.

You mean just like the country who issues the world reserve currency and who's intelligence agencies get involved in destabilizing regimes across the world?
> why don't they just provide an explicit way of passing values instead of hiding them in the context?

Hiding them in a context is the explicit way of passing values through oblivious third-party libraries.

In some future version of Go, it would be nice to just have dynamic scoping. But this works now, and it’s a good pattern. The only real issue is the function-colouring one, and that’s solvable by simply requiring that every exported function take a context.
A full pardon means the individual gets their legal record cleared (as if the crime never happened).
It looks especially cool if you switch the overlay to "Google Satellite". You can see the different scale levels a bit better.

https://mrgris.com/projects/merc-extreme/#a473b325@55.86116,...

EDIT: you can also click the "folded map icon" button and you see the coordinates transformed back into normal ones and shown on a map with X and Y corresponding to radius and azimuth from the centre. Extremely cool!
> I remember some opaque things like Coke being much more translucent.

Many years ago (around 1998 or so) there was a Sony Camcorder which lacked or had the ability to have its IR filter removed. That supposedly gave it the ability to "see through" clothing which caused quite the uproar.

I bought one of those Flir One Pro IR cameras and bought it to a friends party. One thing that we were surprised about was that it could see clear through latex balloons.
There's 5α-Reductase 2 deficiency. How does that get accounted for?
Did you intend to reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42791024 ?
True. If he is culpable for other people dealing drugs on his platform, then so is Meta and Mark Zuckerberg for allowing WhatsApp to facilitate drug trades.
Sorry, but If you need a definition for military invasion, you're not arguing in good faith. Goodbye.
Silk Road in how it worked removed almost all the criminal life exposure from the process. People undervalue that, as if it wasn't a thing.
Wait until you hear how many people home swimming pool salesmen kill, and their victims are even younger children.

Hell at least illegal drugs can be lifesaving. No one needs a home swimming pool.
What do you think NASA does with the money? Is doesn't build a NASA house for its NASA babies.
The elite are winning. This isn't football.
That probably works well when you've already established a good baseline, but when tests barely exist (or greenfield) or they're crap, I find it can be a real slowdown to try to test something you know you should.

Especially if there's something not entirely straightforward about it, like you need to figure out a way to instrument/harness something for the first time so that you can actually test against it. (Arguably inherently doesn't happen with unit tests though I guess.)
I disagree. Go into the TextEdit settings (Cmd-,) and change the default format from "rich text" to "plain text". Next time you open TextEdit, all rich-text features are disabled (no formatting toolbars, no Cmd-B/Cmd-I keybindings, etc.), so the interface is to me indistinguishable from NotePad.

This is completely different from Word.
I do this as well but find it a bit of a pain to add/remove sources since YouTube doesn't offer any easily accessible RSS feed. Wish there was a way to sync subscriptions with the YouTube account but at the same time I would never allow third party access. I refuse Google login on third party sites.
Most people aren't power users of Photoshop either, but no other program comes close to being able to do what it does, which is why it's the tool of choice for the vast majority of professionals that edit photos. The same thing goes for Excel. Your anecdata of being an amateur doesn't provide evidence that Excel is not a superior product, any more than a claim MSPaint is better than Photoshop because all you do is draw circles.

If all you do is CSV things then you're not even a basic user of either. The power isn't a viewer for a table of data.

As to increased sales, I find it amusing where there's good evidence for a thing being true, and people not wanting it to be true make up the most fringe excuses. The fact is sales are up by a lot. If you're going to make handwave claims, demonstrate a fact that your excuse is an actual fact, not a wishful claim to save face. If anything, as the world does more and more data analysis, Excel is one of the most used tools, because it's good for that, so it also makes sense there is more, not less, demand for Excel. And if the license model pissed enough off there a completely free "alternative". Why don't they all jump ship if it's usable?

Occam's razor :)

I just did a search on indeed.com to see job listings with "microsoft excel", 500,000 hits. I did the same search with "google sheets", zero hits. Ouch.
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And once again, there’s no "magic" in Phoenix, it's just functions (and macros) all the way down ...
Pray tell, what is the difference between operating an electronic market where people can buy drugs and operating a physical one (say, a street corner) where people can do the same?
For my friends, anything. For my enemies, the law.
> There is a certain reason that last weeks everybody and their grandma is simping for Trump. Nobody would want to be on his bad side

It's worth keeping in mind how extremely unfriendly to tech the last admin was. At this point, it's basically proven in court that emails of the form "please deboost person x or else" were send, and there's probably plenty more we don't know about.

Combine that with the troubles in Europe which Biden's administration was extremely unwilling to help with, the obstacles thrown in the way of major energy buildouts, which are needed for AI... one would have to be stupid to be a tech CEO and not simp for Trump.

Tech has been extremely Democratic for many years. The Democrats have utterly alienated tech, and now they reap the consequences.
It refuses to open files it doesn't like the filetype of, it won't save as an arbitrary filetype, it defaults to being a variable-width font and it has a few too many bells and whistles because it's clearly meant to edit RTF files, I'd say. Sometimes you want something completely spartan.
I never read the books but watched some of the old TV show episodes. Those were depicted as wooden cabins in the TV show.
Destroying human life in Earth (the only habitable place in the solar system) is far far easier than reaching something outside the solar system.
Judge Forrest absolute nailed this, in her withering response to one of Ulbricht's appeal attempts:

- "“No drug dealer from the Bronx selling meth or heroin or crack has ever made these kinds of arguments to the Court,” she said. “It is a privileged argument, it is an argument from one of privilege. You are no better a person than any other drug dealer and your education does not give you a special place of privilege in our criminal justice system. It makes it less explicable why you did what you did.”"

https://www.vice.com/en/article/unsealed-transcript-shows-ho... ("Unsealed Transcript Shows How a Judge Justified Ross Ulbricht’s Life Sentence" (2015))

In an increasingly nihilistic world, I'm glad people like Forrest still exist.
Oracle makes perfect sense in that they are 1) a massive datacenter company, and 2) sell a variety of saas products to enterprises, which is a major target market for AI.