skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article describes a crime family whose roots started in Canada's shorter and less comprehensive experiment with prohibition, after which they got involved with smuggling heroin into the US.

If something happens to a lesser extent and what does happen has a lot of the consequences spill over into the US, it's not that surprising that the backlash is more severe in the US.
Something about the psychology of front-end - not quite as hardcore technical, a little more humanities-aligned - perhaps makes them even more susceptible.

The self-consciously cool kids are always going to be more easily swayed by fashion than cave hermits.
I found this after entering the obvious query into the computer: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
Fantastic news for the guy probably responsible for the wide adoption of bitcoin.
I hope curl php no longer troubles him.
I had to make it an image

https://replicate.delivery/xezq/BfkZZEPS3CQHKa9HfOQTetyORSaW...
I was intrigued but... What does this even mean? "switching to another branch" is the same thing as "checking out the active commit of that branch" in git.

> For example, switching to another branch automatically checks out the active commit of that branch. This is what you want most of the time: you don't switch branch and then don't even look at the code in that branch, do you?
It sounds weird but google seems like it used to be scary accurate back in the day, but results for me seem a lot muddier than they used to be in the past few years.
> to the point America made a sport from moonshine running cars

Huh, is that NASCAR?
Nobody said anything about translating pages into screens.

The point is that the data model (and hence, the API design) applies equally to a web UI or a native application. The
issues you're raising also matter for making webpages fast. When you think about the data model design before you make the presentation layer, in almost all cases, the choice of what you render is basically a straightforward transformation.
"There isn't a book on this subject"
Yep, there is erwasmc thingy on github and a bunch of demos you can play with.

I posted one here before ( https://erwasm.github.io/erwasm-vue/ )
> So what you're saying is that a certain group of companies ("third parties") successfully lobbied your government(s) to mandate an artificial monopoly on a practical necessity for ostensibly honorable and convenient reasons, and everyone will pay up for this divine virtue.

I'm sure that direct (as in having your own AS number, IP blocks and peering arrangements) access to the internet is even more expensive, not to mention things like your own electricity or your own cellphone network.

Somehow, people aren't complaining that your average bootstrapped SaaS can't become its own ISP.

As long as any reasonably-sized company can become a provider, and as long as the government isn't demanding something outrageous, like the provider having to pay an 'interchange fee' for every invoice send through the network, economies of scale will come in and drive costs down.
Life imprisonment – with or without parole – for a non-violent crime still seems excessive. If they'd convicted him of conspiracy to murder for hiring the hitman then that's a different matter.
Yes. Scale up the judicial system and cut laws if needed.

Also, there will likely still be some pleas. Some people own up to being guilty and want to move on.

There is an absolute dearth of lawyers to support this. We just need more courts and more judges for the initial surge of a couple of years.
Neonazis Love Elon Musk's Nazi Like Salutes
Thanks for sharing! Exactly - I want to bridge that gap between Figma and code by combining v0.dev-style AI generation with Figma's visual editing capabilities. The idea is to eliminate that back-and-forth by letting you visually edit while the code updates in real-time, plus use AI prompts to speed up styling. I would love to hear if your team would find that workflow helpful!
Seconded. Ex post doc here. Any post docs reading this, I would say - academia is a sort of gravy train for the middle class (in the UK). If you want a comfortable life without doing much of worth, you’re not really driven in your work, stick with it. You’ll have to fight for your lectureship but once you’ve done that you can live an easy life with the only difficulties stupid bureaucracy, politics, and cynicism.

However, if you have a bit more energy in you than that, have some ambition, leave asap. Startups are a great alternative. Big co research labs are another. Or just get a day job that you love and do research in the evenings. You could even get paid to do real research via patron etc if you do well.

I think academia in the uk is part of the social structure designed to maintain the status quo. The academics get good pensions and don’t do much, and in return they don’t challenge the ruling classes. Part of the class system.

There are some exceptions to this rule, some good places doing good research, but they are a tiny minority.
A few? A multitude.
Who if not Google was the first in generative ai? They invented transformers and diffusion, the cornerstones of text and image generati, respectively.
So that's the interesting thing about it; he gets the votes from it, so apparently many people agree with him? Only in public nobody seems to agree with him? How is that possible?
I believe they are implying that people are disapproving the pardon because it was done by Trump.
Im a gen z and the best experiences were with Angular and React. Sure, it's not always pretty, but I'd much rather have a framework that pushes me in the right direction. If I had to use HTMX for work, then I would've guaranteed used it wrong. It's just not worth the reviews and hassle if the result is less standardized. It's also harder to find HTMX dev's when there's so much React devs (or devs willing to try React, seriously if you've worked with one CSFW then React is child's play)
Don't pass laws that wide swaths of the public don't respect, which would dramatically reduce the number of cases.

When the laws are ones that everyone agrees should be crimes, like murder, spend the resources to convict anyone who commits the crime.
> For example, switching to another branch automatically checks out the active commit of that branch.

git switch $BRANCH
Leopold Aschenbrenner predicted it last June.

https://situational-awareness.ai/racing-to-the-trillion-doll...
I did some basic logic, bundled in jsone and it turned out to be around 75 k before running optimizer, tree shaking and gzipping.

You can see the demo here https://erwasm.github.io/erwasm-vue/
I think a confounding variable is that SF also significantly reduced jail sentencing and prosecution of other types of crime during the pandemic.
Wasn't it because of extensive scraping?
His sentence was excessive and cruel to make an example out of him. There’s a serial child rapist in the same prison serving less time.
I can throw my site Partey.io into the mix. Works without VC backing for free (I run it and it’s cheap for me).
No need to expose your phone number, an invite is just a link you can share.
Yeah people don't rush to say "don't waste money on this dead end" but think about it for a moment.

A 500B dollar investment doesn't just fall into one's lap. It's not your run of the mill funding round. No, this is something you very actively work towards that your funders must be really damn convinced is worth the gamble. No one sane is going to look at what they genuinely believe to be a dead end and try to garner up Manhattan Project scales of investment. Careers have been nuked for far less.
Double down, baby!
Which should be expected, because since human brain is finite, it follows that it's either possible to do it, or the brain is some magic piece of divine substrate to which laws of physics do not apply.

The problem turned out to be that some people got so fixated on formal logic they apparently couldn't spot that their own mind does not do any kind of symbolic reasoning unless forced to by lots of training and willpower.
Elon is sort of denying that it's a Nazi salute. He didn't directly deny it. But he is calling out mainstream media for saying it looks like a Nazi salute.

Personally, I think Elon wasn't doing a Nazi salute. I think he's just a very awkward person all hyped up in his speech.
Calm your whataboutism, folks on HN are not in support of violent criminals doing less time.
The first person in the murder-for-hire allegations 'FriendlyChemist' was an undercover DEA agent or informant, and it's strongly possible none of the other people existed. It's also conjectured the hitman account 'Redandwhite' was being operated by the same DEA agent [*]. Moreover the bitcoin DPR sent the supposed hitman 'Redandwhite' sat in the wallet from 3/2013 till 8/2013, "which alone should have tipped out DPR about a possible scam" ie. that the killing never happened [0]. DPR never requested any confirmation pictures of at least 5 of the (fictitious) killings, nor was there any Canadian media coverage to suggest anyone got assassinated on the supposed dates.

The US Attorneys made a lot of publicity out of the murder-for-hire conspiracy allegations against Ulbricht in their indictments and in pre-trial media ("although there is no evidence that these murders were actually carried out." as the indictment itself obliquely says).

Ulbricht's defense could have come up with a plausible alternative explanations that he knew redandwhite was a scammer trying to extort him with a story involving nonexistent people, and was just playing along with him for whatever reasons.

[*] If the prosecution had not actually dropped those charges at trial, it would have been confirmed at trial which of the six identities were fictitious/nonexistent and whether all the accounts were managed by the same DEA agents. Hard to imagine that at least one juror wouldn't have formed a skeptical opinion about government agents extorting a person to conspire to kill fictitious people (why didn't the indictment just focus on nailing him on the lesser charges?). If this wasn't a Turing Test on when is an alleged conspiracy not a real conspiracy, then someday soon we'll see one.

ArsTechnica covered these facts in 2015:

[0]: "The hitman scam: Dread Pirate Roberts’ bizarre murder-for-hire attempts. On the darkweb, no one is who they seem." 2/2015 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/the-hitman-scam-...

[1]: Silk Road’s alleged hitman, “redandwhite,” arrested in Vancouver https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/11/silk-roads-alleg...
Serverside rendering is apparently a new technology now. And this brand new thing called islands which someone reinvented recently.
It also doesn’t answer your question as if you asked a different one. So many stackoverflow conversations:

Q: I am looking for a way to do X in language Y.

A: You shouldn’t need to do that. What do you really want to do?

Argh. What I really want to do is exactly what I asked. If you don’t know, fine, but don’t try to steer me towards a question you do know the answer to. Just let someone else answer. Not everything is an XY problem[1].

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
[citation needed] on those items
> Gay men do not wait to 'realize' they are gay until their 30s, 40s, 50s, or 60s.

That is patently false, there are many such cases.
set irony_mode(True)
defer set_irony_mode(False)

"Stay safe", with the touching of elbows doesn't count as Nazi salute, because it was not done by Hitler ..
Ask HN: Integrating SQL and LLM what is you experience
I was tasked with building a "native language interface" to our database. After developing it for a month, it seems to me that I hit a wall with the correctness of the resulting SQL. 80-20 would be a good estimate. My feeling is that it something that cannot be used a regular user.

Did you do better and you have tips?

NOTE: I'm not talking about performant queries only about producing a correct result. I would say that only about 50% cannot be better optimized, but I don't care about that.
You're right as far as I know.
But it's also funny to type in both "nobody" and "anybody" into Google translate and they both translate to "personne".
I'd wager the chances of that happening are much lower under this current administration. Surprised Biden didn't consider it though.
I disagree, the lukewarm emotion driven campaign ("we're not the other guy!") and lack of any rational strategy or arguments from the oppositon is how these people won in the first place.
Are cashiers really testing notes for cocaine? That's insane.
Another trend that's on the rise is danger tourism. Visiting places with active travel advisories or seen as dangerous. E.g. going to Israel or eastern Ukraine right now. Trips to Somalia, Yemen, North Korea etc.
This thread is already the 2nd most popular search result for “PEPPOL” which surprised me. There isn’t much else out there on this topic. How are non tech enabled businesses planning to comply with this order?
Watching the video I thought "No Man's Sky as a python lib."
If you can afford it, and that's your passion, great. But (at least in the states) you are instead a student with a doctorate degree now in play and saddled with a lot of student debt (150k average), I'm not sure it makes sense. That unfortunately is roughly 77% of folks out there (at least as of 2020).
The most prolific drug dealers who sold on silk road have served their sentences and are out of prison.

Ross was given a life sentence without possibility of parole an incomparable sentence in relation to all other parties that were involved.
Oh this project again, author was getting absolutely shredded on the Go subreddit earlier today for having no clue what he is building

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1i6v9ou/evo_a_new_v...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-medievalism
Show HN: Perplexity search provider for your browser
A simple extension to add perplexity as a search provider to Firefox, so that you can jump directly to perplexity.ai when you submit a query in the address bar.

I also created one for Chrome but Google won't let me submit it to their web store because I don't own the domain. Nonetheless, you can download it from here and install it in developer mode if you like: https://github.com/ediril/perplexity_se
Madoff stole from the rich. That is a sure fire way to have the book thrown at you. Smart criminals steal from the poor, because they don’t fight back as much and the justice system doesn’t care.
The trick is inside or brains. We’re having trouble dealing with detailed percentage breakdowns and differentiating between groups of people.

Instead we think of “the average person” and project that on everyone.

You looked at the small libertarian interest group, and based on that projected how everyone is. Now you look at hacker news and you’re projecting how everyone is. This projection is where our reasoning fails.
My take on this is that, despite an ever-increasingly connected world, you still need an assistant like this to remain available at all times your device is. If I can’t rely on it when my signal is weak, or the network/service is down/saturated, its way of working itself into people’s core routines is minimal. So either the model runs locally, in which case I’d argue OpenAI have no moat, or they uncover some secret sauce they’re able to keep contained to their research labs and data centres that’s simply that much better than the rest, in perpetuity, and is so good people are willing to undergo the massive switching costs and tolerate the situations in which the service they’ve come to be so dependent on isn’t available to them. Let’s also not discount the fact that Apple are one of the largest manufacturers globally of smartphones, and that getting up to speed in the myriad industries required to compete with them, even when contracting out much of that work, is hard.
Arm releases Chiplet System Architecture spec beta version
He only allegedly needed to hire a hitman because the government invented the whole blackmail scenario behind it. You can't make this shit up, Silk Road was extra evil because it lead to the government creating hitmen and reasons to use them.

We need gangster hoodlums on the street because lookie here sonny, an online marketplace is dangerous and if it isn't dangerous enough well feds will make it that way.
I don't believe in free will. People (including me) are going to do the easiest thing possible given the constraints. I don't think that's bad in any way -- it's best to embrace it. In this view, the tools should optimize for right thing to do aligning with the easy thing.

So if you have two options, one better than the other, then the better way to do things should be easier than the worse way. With inheritance as traditionally implemented, the worse way is easier than the better way.

And this can be fixed! You just need to make sure all the calls go one way (making the worse outcome harder), and then very carefully consider and work through the consequences of that. Maybe this fix ends up being unworkable due to the downstream consequences, but has anyone tried?

> I've seen the same things happen with procedural code - a bunch of functions calling each other with all sorts of control parameters, and people adding just one more bool and one more if, because an existing function already does most of what I want, it just needs to do it slightly different at the seventh step. And after a few rounds of this, you end up with a function that can technically do 32 different things to the same data, depending on the combination of flags you pass in. And everyone deeply suspects that only 7 of those things are really used, but they're still afraid to break any of the other 25 possible cases with a change.

Completely agree, that's a really bad way to do polymorphism too. A great way to do this kind of closed-universe polymorphism is through full-fledged sum types.

> People piggybacking on existing code and changing it just a little bit is the root of most spaghetti. Whether that happens through flags or unprincipled inheritance or a mass of callbacks, it will always happen if enough people are trying to do this and enough time passes.

You're absolutely right. Where I go further is that I think it's possible to avoid this, via the carrot of making the better thing be easy to do, and rigorous discipline against doing worse things enforced by automation. I think Rust, for all its many imperfections, does a really good job at this.

edit: or, if not avoid it, at least stem the decline. This aligns perfectly with not believing in free will -- if it's all genetic and environmental luck all the way down, then the easiest point of leverage is to change the environment such that people are lucky more often than before.
Cool, thanks. I'm kinda interested so hearing it at least runs on a 4090 means I might give it a go one weekend.
Oh so that's why Pelosi invested in Micro nuke electricity plants.
So many comments get caught on the wording 'deanonymization'.
Is there a standardized definition of 'deanonymization' accross industry experts, privacy-conscious people and hackers?

For many commenters, it looks like deanonymization means unveiling highly sensitive info like name, address, email, etc.

For privacy-conscious individuals and hackers, it looks like it means 'revealing a data point that shouldn't be revealed'.

As a signal or Discord user, I would expect my country location not to be revealed to a person I don't know. So the latter definition makes sense to me.
My personal taxes? I just fill out the federal and state forms and mail them in, though I'm thinking of hiring a CPA to do it for me starting this year since some things might get more complicated than I care for. We'll see, I guess.

The company? A CPA does it as far as I know, but filing everything ourselves is certainly an option.
As someone who hasn’t touched fe dev since vue alpha… I chose next, then remix. Then moved to svelte before I went too deep. The application I am writing could easily be done in django or .net with some simple js - but with svelte it all ties together so easily. I guess I could accomplish similar with partial views or jinja2 templates.
Recent react versions have almost no dependencies, everything you add on top of that is on you.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react?activeTab=dependencies

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-dom?activeTab=dependenci...

If that's too heavy by itself, preact might be easier/simpler than reinventing the wheel.
What does that say about the HN crowd?

Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, *neither cast ye your pearls before swine*, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. (Mat 7:6, KJV)
No, it isn't. This is Cloudflare passing exposing metadata when it really shouldn't. Having a configuration option or a origin response header akin to CloudflareCache: private or something is trivial for them to implement.

The same information would then be available in the timing, but given the distributed nature here, that would be a lot harder to pull off.
You were going to have to deal with that complexity either way.

Now it's expressed somewhere, and if you craft it right, enforced so it's harder to get things wrong.

https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...
> at some point when you have no economic value left, or your healthcare costs exceed what you're willing and able to pay, care will be shut off.

This tech is not expected to be that expensive, it will most likely become widely deployed and available for the masses. Sure, you still need MRI machines and nurses to give you meds etc, but getting a diagnosis will be improved and possibly we won't need as many doctors so costs will go down.
Only today I read Demis Hassabis saying in 2025 A.I developed drugs will go through clinical trials. If we have AGI we can accelerate real breakthroughs in cancer treatments, diabetes etc.

> or your healthcare costs exceed what you're willing and able to pay

I know the U.S is different but in most of the developed world you get a decent basic health care regardless of your employment status / economic value. We've decided collectively some things should be available for everyone.

> And who's going to spend time learning anything when the AI is deployed to do all the possible work anyway?

That's a good point. If we do reach true AGI there won't be much point in traditional learning. I think a greater emphasis will be put on emotional development. I think A.I assistants can do a great job in that actually.
Why is a cashier testing money for cocaine residue? What country is requiring gimmicky pointless stuff like that?
“I stepped in a puddle once. There is no ‘dry land.’” —Man in ocean
Are these forms pre-filled where just sending it in without any revisions is an option if you're a basic salaried employee without any special deductibles?
Ever since focuses got introduced, I really soured on the idea of a physical mute/ring switch.

Having my phone ring at home and vibrate when away is the most obvious use case for this feature, and yet it can't be implemented because you can't toggle a physical switch in hardware.

I know the latest generation iPhones don't have those, and I think that's the right decision, but it's still disappointing for older-gen users.