skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Selling StackOverflow for $1.8B in 2021 seems like a great deal now, doesn’t it?
It sounds vaguely like the Invisible Gorilla Experiment: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invisible_Gorilla
Seems kinda the same to me?
> "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on," Ellison said, describing what he sees as the benefits from automated oversight from AI and automated alerts for when crime takes place.

Wow! It is genuinely frightening that these people should be in control of our future!
Go talk to one.
Seems like a legal slight-of-hand, and also unjust and unethical and absolutely ripe for government abuse.

He was punished for the crime of attempting or conspiring to commit murder. Without ever having been found guilty in a trial by jury of his peers determining beyond reasonable doubt that the facts met said crime.
I took a small rabbit hole run into bauxite smelting when I found out a local place had their own power plant just for the process. It really does require that much energy.

If the Brazil plant is putting out enough ore, I can definitely imagine it is cheaper to sell it internationally to someone with hydro power than to build and operate their own power plant.
I love how the NRA - which is almost entirely member-funded - gets lumped in with actual industries with eye watering margins.
Trump team wants his help running crypto shenanigans
Yeah, I have a Royer R-121 which I use in combination a SM57 on guitar cabs/amps - classic combo as you get the fullness and low-end of the Royer, and attack and top-end of the dynamic. But eyewatering price when considering it's only one microphone (though it has more use cases, like overhead).

With that said, every ribbon mic I've owned, I've felt like I've had to handle with kid gloves, just in case.
Is this a serious question?

What does it mean to be "operating an electronic market"? Are you under the impression he was physically intermediating these transactions in some way? That the drugs passed through his hands?

That's one difference.
Oh yeah we are, I think I'm just adding to your comment that even if 3M ignored it then someone would have researched it.
There are multiple examples of federal law enforcement making examples of particularly brazen instances of flouting federal law that are disproportionate to the actual harm caused. Kevin Mitnick is a classic example.

Here's the thing about the US federal law enforcement: there aren't actually a lot of them. In a country of 380 million people, there are 38,000 agents. Google employs more people than the FBI. If the US citizenry decided to take collective action against them, the federal domestic police force alone could not stand against the citizenry.

This shapes where they apply their resources. To be most effective, they need to be visible so that people don't start to think of them as toothless, because mass-resistance to their general police activities would actually work. So they pursue cases into the dust to generate high-profile images of lawbreakers having a really awful time to discourage other lawbreakers.

He was prosecuted because he broke US drug law. But he was prosecuted to the extent he was prosecuted because Silk Road had made headlines as something untouchable by federal authority. That's the kind of Capone energy that the federal law enforcement cannot abide and survive as an institution.
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I had one those Sony camcorders, it’s night shot was insane. It could see through skin as well revealing vein structure in a lot of detail.
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I wasn't expecting the price of the Montblanc lol
I honestly have no idea what the truth of the case was, but it is crazy to me how people never seem to update their priors on what the US gov is capable of. Everytime they get caught doing something like this people go "wow thats crazy" and then immediately go back to telling everyone saying non-mainstream ideas to take their meds
Just be prepared to be never daring to complain; a zero crime society isn't without its faults.
How are liquor stores functionally different?
That's transparently obvious if you read the press release: Trump analogizes his own personal treatment by the Justice Department with that of Ulbricht c.f. "weaponization of the justice system".
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Depends on the pan and pancake. Restaurants use a fair amount of fat in their dough so fat on the griddle isn't needed, if you make your own batter (as opposed to store bought) you can control this and reduce the fat such that you need to add some to the pan. The pancakes will of course taste different. In my case I'm making sourdough on cast iron - I've never figured out the trick to make the first couple not stick (whatever I cooked the night before affects something)
I read a story last year from Techpowerup where they said that AMD is making big changes to the way it approaches technology, shifting its focus from hardware development to emphasizing software experiences, APIs and AI.

Roadmap: 3 to 5 years.

https://www.techpowerup.com/324171/amd-is-becoming-a-softwar...
Yes we have historically low low crime. It's unbearable.

There are a number of countries that might give you a panopticon state of you want one
Now people complain about the pardon, back then people complained about the sentence. People love to complain.
It’s “equity and inclusion” to be concerned about outside influence on elections? That goes back to antiquity in general but the modern U.S. intelligence agencies have been dealing with it since they were formed, having been a major concern during WWI and WWII, and that only went up during the Cold War.
Such a biased source of data-that gets them all the LaTeX source for my homeworks

but also myriad of hardcore private repositories of many high-tech US enterprises hacking amazing shit (mine included) :)
This was an excellent read! I dabbled in DIY audio gear as a teenager, mostly building headphone amps. Never dreamed of trying something as complex as this.
Unfortunely I cannot share the same nostalgia, as the very first thing I got used to do in new Windows installations was to install XEmacs, UltraEdit, Notepad++, SlickEdit, whatever everyone else is kind of using on the project.

Kudos for the project though.
redux-query seems a popular library for dealing with API calls in react.

I’m having a real hard time being polite right now. Do we have an education problem because where is this person getting their information that they think redux-query is popular?
I’m not OP, but I would hazard a guess that those are the tools that OP has at hand.
So by your logic, a drug kingpin who doesn't actually handle the drug-selling transaction should not be liable for anything, even though the money rolls up to them?

Ross directly profited from the sale of those drugs. So, yes, he was "selling the drugs".
No, you still need subject-verb agreement. Either “there are no books,” or the less common “there is no book.”

You might see the latter in the case of a definite subject: “Pass me the book on the subject.” “There is no book on the subject.”
Do emotional carryover effects carry over?
Mm. That or all sharing a sense of humour/in-jokes: I'm sure I'm not the only one here who immediately thought of "GOTO is all you need" and "Attention considered harmful"
I guess people feel ten years in prison was adequate punishment.
Not in standard American English to the best of my knowledge, but it’s not impossible some dialects use this construction.
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ARM haven't made all that much headway there. AMD designed an ARM ISA Zen 1, yes, but they didn't release it. I haven't heard anything about it since. I'd be not too surprised yet excited if AMD released an ARM Zen tomorrow, but there don't seem to be any recent rumors.
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Anyone know how I could convert this to an HD image? Interested in seeing if I can frame it centered on my house.
There probably will be a clause of mandatory consumption of a given percentage of power generated from coal ensuring continued coal generation of a given minimum providing excellent talking-points for broadcasting to the incumbent's base.
Scientists to give people malaria to study long-term effects
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Yeah, its the "model" that is outdated. Not the testing itself.
tbh i have never been free all my life the cult is all I know idk how the mind of a free human being works

but if i had to guess it's the plotline of american psycho when basic needs are met people get bored maybe? and create struggles, games, simulate poverty

if you had a place to live, could work for minimum wage, are not being abused every day your biggest struggle would be scrolling whereas if you can't work, are being abused everyday, live with a bunch of cult fanatics scrolling even monitored feels nice
Curious to know what mathematics you are comfortable with. If you are able to understand the papers you mentioned, you must belong to the 99 percentile.
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Intent matters!! For all he knew, Ulbricht had killed those guys and he was fine with that
What you see as manipulation, someone else might see as a user of the DPR account revealing his true nature

> "I need his real-world identity, so I can threaten him with violence," DPR told RealLucyDrop.

> "I don't know how I feel about that solution," said RealLucyDrop
But that's what "rule of law" means: that the rules also apply to the leaders. The fact that leaders in the US aren't held accountable for their crimes means the US does not have the rule of law, but the rule of power. Or the rule of money, probably. The rich are above the law and can buy the government.

Rule of law would prevent all of that. Or should.
Rabid hedgehog someone is actively trying to sodomize.

It won’t give me that answer, but that’s because it’s wrong.
I remember reading his rants about just how bad the current situation was (which was a terrible website called "developers exchange" or public phpBB internet forums). Never underestimate the passion derived from sheer hatred of the status quo.

Also his backup strategies around 2008 were quite interesting.
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There is a word like that in swedish (bordskrydda) and danish (bordkrydderi) meaning spices/seasoners that are on the table (and added as each person prefers during the meal). Direct translation would be "table seasoners" or "table spice".
For the USA

> Level 0: Blood relatives only. “Uncle”/”Auntie” is strictly for real uncles/aunts (by blood or marriage). No fictive use.

This is definitely not true for children in the USA. I believe it is common (or for sure it was common) that children use Aunt/Uncle for close friends of the family.
Yes, these sorts of posts strike me as rich people learning that being rich doesn't solve everyone else's problems. Better late than never.
Quite a few have succeeded in conquering large fractions of the Earth's population: Napoleon, Hitler, Genghis Khan, the Roman emperors, Alexander the Great, Mao Zedong. America and Britain as systems did so for long periods of time.

All of these entities would have been enormously more powerful with access to an AGI's immortality, sleeplessness, and ability to clone itself.
Isn't scale a difference? How much damage can one guy do from a street corner VS the other guy operating a large marketplace where anyone can buy anything from anywhere?
Google and Meta also profit from selling ads to the people who use it to trade drugs. All I'm saying is there's a rough equivalence. Perhaps the Silk Road platform should be banned but he was not a drug dealer himself. Creating a communications platform is not the same thing as being a drug dealer.
In the early days, when the bandwidth of the install CD was vastly higher than that of my internet connection, I routinely clicked "Everything" in the package selection of the RedHat install CD (yes CD, not DVD). Simpler times.

These days when I set up a Linux machine - I don't do in-place updates; an occasional everything-from-scratch restart helps clear out legacy clutter - between the "update" and the packages I actually use (I have a post-install script for my preferred environment), over a gigabyte gets downloaded.
I internalized a long time ago when doing customer service that people don’t write you when they’re happy.
I never said that all people holding the notion of free markets treat it like a religious goal.

"A lot of business people and government officials" ≠ "people holding the notion" (your words).

PLEASE STOP attacking a straw-man.
> redux-query is not popular by any means

Yeah I don't know where the parent comment got this from. Every few weeks I seem to see these low effort posts that basically boil down to "javascript bad", but gets a lot of upvotes. And when you read into it, you see the author often has a poor grasp of js, or its ecosystem, and has set up some unholy abstraction, assuming that's how everyone does it.

Use the right tool for the job lol.
"I wrote them" doesn't sound completely wrong to a British ear - it just gets misunderstood! I thought it sounded like exactly the correct way to say "I wrote the letters", until I got to the last couple of words in your post and had to reinterpret it. :-)
Hi, I wouldn't say there's anything wrong with TextEdit. It's what I had used for many years. It does have all kinds of extra features like input suggestions, auto capitalization and auto-correct (I couldn't find a way to disable these in the app, maybe somewhere in the general macOS settings).

Anyway, it's not about which app is better. If you love the Notepad experience, then you know - it's something about its simplicity, and perhaps its familiarity as well.

About being serious - this is indeed a side project. Sorry about FF support - since the relevant FS API isn't available there I added an alert indicating that on page load.

It does work without an internet connection though (PWAs are great)!
I am paying for o1 Pro but since Deepseek R1 came out I stopped using it. So there goes $200/mo of their revenue ;)
Give me a break. China has overseas police stations as bases of operation for harassing ex-pats and dissidents. That's not "respecting local laws and culture".
Big fan of Agnes Callard, and ofc, Socrates. I know many people dislike philosophy because they consider it to be a form of intellectual gymnastics, but at its best it's almost spiritual activity, a concern with the whole purpose of life, a desire to not live as an unthinking automaton, impelled by instinct or social pressure. Socrates is the ultimate and prototypical embodiment of this, a refusal to take anything at its word, a man who interrogated the deepest things and pointed us to the abundant fruits of a life of inquiry.
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That the Federal government has no obligation to prosecute an armed mob breaking into Congress.
Or perhaps I misunderstood, my reading was low humidity matters, but it is quite possible that I know in general for static high humidity shorts everything to ground and so you don't get much static - and thus probably skimmed that part more than I should have.
Ask HN: What do you remember about obscure server-side web dev languages?
y'know, like ColdFusion or InterShop Markup Language. of those kinds.
With Family accounts it's even worse: the tainting is attached to the account owning the licence of the game, not to the account playing the game. So if you share a game with a kid and (s)he's caught cheating, your account will be tainted, not just the kid's.
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That’s nice. I don’t wish anything bad for you.

It isn’t any harder to publish without before this feature than it is now. In fact it’s easier, because I implemented generic API tokens for PyPI years before this feature, and the feature itself isn’t even tied to GitHub or any particular OIDC IdP. We just picked GitHub as the first external IdP because it is unambiguously the most popular one in the Python ecosystem.
I do not think of complexity as one thing. Abstractions are about both hiding and exposing complexity at the same time. Different levels of abstractions can expose or isolate different part of complexity. Exposing parts of it in a way that they become amenable to your tools is as important as isolating other parts somewhere in the background. Essentially, this has to do with how well a given abstraction choice maps into the structure of the problem-space and the relationships there. The choice of which parts of complexity you isolate and which you expose is important. You probably do not want to deal with everything at once, but also usually you cannot avoid dealing with something.

The way I primarily see (and often like) type systems wrt complexity is as choosing which parts of complexity are important and exposing them (and rest being still there to deal with). There is a cognitive aspect to abstractions and complexity, irrespective even of IDEs, debuggers, compilers etc. I personally want my abstractions to make at least some sense in my head or a piece of paper in the way I think about the problem before even I start writing code. If the abstractions do not help me actually cognise about (some part of) the problem, they probably solve other problems, not mine.
> Isn't it fascinating how even people that consider themselves rational and intelligent like developers would be happy doing work for a company for free in exchange for internet points?

Is this how you'd characterise open source software contributions as well (minus the points, of course)?
he doesn't get back time but he does get back status as a cleared individual, which comes with things like the ability to vote and buy weapons.
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Yeah, really the only thing missing from this initiative was the personal information of the vast majority of the United States population handed over on a silver platter.
I am curious if this matters for the purposes of the Bitcoin "damages". By today's exchange rates it could be an insane amount of money. If the "crime" is supposed to be wiped clean as if he never did it, then in theory it would mean give him back his property, etc. I don't know the specifics about that or if it would change with respect to clemency or commuting of a sentence.
The thing that frustrated me as a new player, was that there often seemed to be two opposing poles and neither were very helpful.

There is the dogmatic rules crowd (triggers my self-diagnosed opposition defiance disorder), and the "it depends" crowd, which left me screaming, "ON WHAT?!"

When I was in this position, I found Kent Beck and Martin Fowler's notion of "Code Smells" [0] really helpful. Though admittedly, the comprehensive enumeration with associated Refactorings was probably a bridge too far.

"Code Smells" lean toward the "it depends" vibe, but with just enough structure to aid in decision making. It also bypasses my inflexible opposition to stupid rules in stupid places.

I try to frame too much or too little testing as a Code Smell and discussing it that way often (not always) leads to reasonably easy consensus related to what we should (or shouldn't) do about it.

[0] https://martinfowler.com/bliki/CodeSmell.html
In Spain, tío and tía are used with friends, depending on group/region. Calling a stranger that? Not friendly, but neither openly hostile.

On the other hand, it's common to refer to third persons as "un tío" or "una tía" the same way you'd say "some fellow" in English.
the troubles in Europe

Nice euphemism for giving people autonomy in their data and privacy.

Most of there companies are so large that they cannot really fail anymore. At this point it has very little to do with protecting themselves, more with making them more powerful than governments. JD Vance are said that the US could drop support for NATO if Europe tries to regulate X [1]. Oligarchs have fully infiltrated the US government and are trying to do the same to other countries.

I disagree with the grandparent. They don't support Trump because they do not want to be on his bad side (well, at least not only that), they support Trump because they see the opportunity to suppress regulation worldwide and become more powerful than governments.

We just keep making excuses (fiduciary duties, he just doesn't know how to wave his arm because he's an autist [2]). Why not just call it what it is?

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

[2] Which is pretty offensive to people on the spectrum.
He actively and deliberately enabled those activities for self benefit.

Also punishing a people for actions of their government is a war crime.
"Global warming may not have caused the Arab Spring, but it may have made it come earlier... In 2010, droughts in Russia, Ukraine, China and Argentina and torrential storms in Canada, Australia and Brazil considerably diminished global crops, driving commodity prices up. The region was already dealing with internal sociopolitical, economic and climatic tensions, and the 2010 global food crisis helped drive it over the edge."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-an...
So what? That neither devalues the contributions nor the value given to other people through the content.
Most pool owners aren't dead? Am i being trolled?
I grew up calling every stranger uncle and auntie in India. My British roommate in Delhi was a bit taken aback when I called our landlady "auntie".
100%

It's astonishing to me how many SEO consultants are still selling (and getting contracts for) 10-year-old advice.
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if your birth year starts with 2, I can see why you might think that
Less misdirecting tech? Sounds great. It is too late though.
X (Twitter) is best used as an RSS. Instead of going to the app and the feed, just make some bookmarks folder with the people you want to follow and read their feeds directly.

Occasionally rabbit-hole threads to find new interesting accounts to follow.
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Right. But then, what they did to the title to make it collapse down to T6 is even worse than what I did to my nickname back in high school to squeeze in a long forgotten inner joke about our city's municipal sanitation department (MPO).
Unless you can afford your lawsuit to take up substantial time on Stargate and make a much stronger case than your average Joe who is still using o1 for their lawsuits
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They are a powerful lobby. Just mention "gun regulation" in DC to see how many of them there are.
I know it seems almost impossible, but it might be that the group of people who complained about the sentence, may be a different group than the one who complain about the pardon.
Simplicity is relative. I wouldn't call having to reimplement basic browser features like forms simple compared to slapping Turbo on server-rendered HTML (which took me ~50 LOC last I did so on Pocket SQL).
"There is no good answer to that" is precisely my concern.
America has a lot of taxation. Fortunately for the Scandinavian countries it spends it on "protecting Scandinavian shipping lanes" and "medical research grants that benefit Scandinavia", rather than solely on local welfare spending. The America First lot are learning a lot from Scandinavia there, though. I'm not sure we're all going to like where that could lead.
If you're lucky, you might get your chance to live in Thiel's and Ellison's techbro utopia. Make sure to tell us how great it is to be subjected to people with no accountability, but all of the power over every aspect of your life.