skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leading state in new grid battery and grid solar installations for the last three years, and deregulated nuclear power last year. Abilene is near the Dallas Fort-Worth Metroplex area which has a massive 8M+ upper-income population highly skilled in hardware and electrical engineering (Texas Instruments, Raytheon, Toyota, etc). The entire area has massive tracts of open land that are affordably priced without building restrictions. Business regulations and tax environment at the state and city level are very laissez faire (no taxes on construction such as in the Seattle area or many parts of California).

I could see DFW being a good candidate for a prototype arcology project.
Right, if you've been found guilty, the your assets can be forfeited.
No, fiat currencies are backed by the belief that the government will not abuse their ability to print money. The reason one backs their currency with a metal or whatever is not because that magically does anything in and of itself. All it does is constrain government's ability to excessively print money (and a guarantee of the continuation of such) which is important because printing money is highly rewarding and incentivizing in the short run, but catastrophically damaging in the long run. If a government acts responsibly with their monetary policy the difference between a fiat and backed currency is academic, outside of the guarantee of this behavior continuing indefinitely.

Most countries in the world have been abusing their currencies as a 'hack' for growth. The need for infinite and accelerating growth to fuel the infinite and accelerating debt caused actually seemed briefly sustainable thanks to the computing and internet revolutions. Granted you still have the zillion other negative effects (as per the wtfhappenedin1971) site, but you can at least keep moving forward because the peasants (who are the most negatively affected) will just take it anyhow, so long as they have bread and circuses.

But as soon as you stop the accelerating growth, you get drowned by your own decades of YOLO debt, faith in the currency collapses, and your economy right alongside.
this is an announcement not a cut check. Who knows how much they'll actually spend, plenty of projects never get started let alone massive inter-company endeavors.
I'd encourage you to spend an afternoon kicking the tires on Turbo/StimulusJS, HTMX, Laravel Livewire, or Phoenix LiveView!
https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/news/16740-civil-forfeiture-d... ?

That's not very conclusive.
Apple Notes, I used to use Microsoft Excel
Clickbait paper titles considered harmful?
You can convict for murder for hire in that circumstance.
A 10 year prison sentence was apt. He did knowingly break the law (the marketplace defense doesn't really apply, since admins had to create the categories that were obviously illegal). A life sentence was ridiculous, and added punishment for unconvicted crimes, however likely, is a gross violation of constitutional protections.
What part of this makes you thing CAF is on shaky constitutional ground? This is a CAF case with reach-y fact patterns for the government and they won it handily. We didn't even get close to the question of whether CAF is itself constitutional; the court simply presumed it.
>For all his talk of being progressive and cultivation of a youthful maverick image of his own, you would have never seen such a move from Obama

he pardoned Chelsea Manning I think you're forgetting.
I don't know why you think that's the case regarding text models. If that was the case, there would be articles on here that are just created by only generative AI and nobody would know the difference. It's pretty obvious that's not happening yet, not the least of which because I know what kinds of slop state-of-the-art generative models still produce when you give them open-ended prompts.
Gitsign: Keyless Git signing using Sigstore
Sure, but the point is about secondary effects. If pimps are "competing" online then they need to compete on, well, marketing and UX. If they compete in real life then it is about who controls physical territory.

There are lots of studies about the unintended consequences of prohibition.
What are people filling these datacenters with exactly if not nvidia?
Having three plural forms for Slavic languages is typical, e.g. Ukrainian and Russian have them. Roughly speaking, one form for numerals ending with "1", a different form for numerals ending in "2", "3", "4", and the third form for the rest of them (simplifying a bit).

Slovenian appears to have a special word form for numerals ending in "2". Looks like it's a remnant of the dual number that existed in early Slavic languages: https://study.2tm.eu/blogs/the-dual-number-in-the-slovenian-... And it is indeed unusual!
haha that must've been fun!
NotebookLM is still slop. I recommend feeding it your resume and any other online information about you. It's kind of fun to hear the hosts butter you up, but since you know the subject well you will quickly notice that it is not faithful to the source material. It's just plausibly misleading.
Is this inflation adjusted?
Ah yes, I remember as a kid a common joke we would make when talking about easy jobs is that we wanted to be the guy from Slipknot whose job was simply to swing a baseball bat at a trash can. No need to rehearse for that!
Well in any case, Ross Ulbricht got what he deserved. Now he'll spend the rest of his life wearing an ankle bracelet.
This project generates synthetic computer vision training data. The arxiv paper has more detail including some cool pictures of random creatures it can generate. The images are nice but all of them are nature settings so I assume one would have to supplement this type of data with another data set for training a computer vision model.
I don’t use any software. Just notebook, pen, 4-track tape recorder, an SM-58, a cheap Beringer pre-amp, and some DT-770’s.
I agree that examples matter a lot, and for some reason a lot of introductory OO stuff has really bad examples. Like the whole Person/Employee/Employer/Manager dark pattern. In no sane world would a person's current role be tied to their identity--how do you model a person being promoted? They suddenly move from being an employee to a manager...or maybe they start their own business and lose their job? And who's modeling these people and what for? That's never shown. Are we the bank? The IRS? An insurance company? Because all of these have a lot of other data modeling to do, and how you represent the identities of people will be wrapped up in that. E.g.--maybe a person is both an employee and a client at the same time? It's all bonkers to try to use inheritance and subtyping and interfaces for that.

Algebraic data types excel at data modeling. It's like their killer app. And then OO people trot out these atrocious data modeling examples which functional languages can do way better. It's a lot of confusion all around.

You gotta program in a lot of different paradigms to see this.
Shouldn't there be a fear of obsolescence?
The only UI framework I’ve ever used that I didn’t absolute hate is DearImGui. I realize it doesn’t produce polished, professional looking UIs. But my god is it the only thing that doesn’t suck.

JavaScript and ReactJS are at least 10 times less efficient to write than C++ Dear ImGui. That’s so crazy.
Good point, you are absolutely correct. Then I suppose life “with the possibility of parole” would have been a more appropriate sentence, though I don’t know if that’s typically given. In any case, I feel prisons ought to release prisoners if they demonstrate exceptional rehabilitation and remorse, as Ross has, though of course that’s a difficult line to draw in practice.
While I think anecdotes are valuable and should not be easily dismissed, we have decades of research and evidence supporting the benefit of harm reduction centers. They reduce risk of overdose morbidity and mortality while not increasing crime or public nuisance to the surrounding community.

E.g. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8541900/
oop, someone should update an entry in this museum!

https://www.fbi.gov/history/artifacts/ross-william-ulbrichts...
man of his word, ok. https://www.azquotes.com/quote/660639
I removed all of our React and replaced it with Web Components, and I'm not missing anything.

I'm sticking to cached static resources, and just sending data over. Not rendering from the server, but not writing single-page apps, either. The more you render from the server, the larger your caches end up. Not doing that for HTML.

Just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No tooling. No building. Web Components and fetch(). No frameworks on the client-side. Express still on the server.

I'm trying to optimize for not swapping out dependencies on a several year scale, and it's working out pretty well so far. I removed React because they're not interested in UMD builds anymore, and I'm not going to jump through hoops to make it work on my end, either.
Online markets for sex work allowed women to operate far more safely than "the street" allow. I had friends who were affected by the crackdown on craigslist etc.
Can you provide more details about the project you are talking about? I somehow doubt that a website like facebook would be easier to write and manage in a minimalist framework. I'm not sure the only project I have written React for would compare to something like facebook but it was a pretty complex SPA that I seriously doubt would've been better written in something like alpine.

Sure React may be overkill for a personal blog and no one is saying it isn't but I wish people that have ported from React also assess honestly the complexity of the app we're talking about
VideoWorld: Exploring Knowledge Learning from Unlabeled Video
It's just the same old bullshit in a new wrapper. Cherry-picked quotes from Congressional debates, a bunch of cases in between the passage of teh amendment and Wong Kim Ark, and then it launches into handwaving with arguments like

The American Revolution was, by its inherent nature and through
its express principles, an effective throwing off of the common
law’s yoke of jus soli and its perpetual allegiance in favor of a
consent-based compact theory of government.

and a page later it's special pleading for Grotius, Emer Vattel, and compact theory. I gave up at that point. Perhaps there's some brilliant new theory buried in the last 1/3 of the article, but if you didn't think it worth reading in detail I'm not inclined to mine it for you!

To be honest, the fact that it's from the Heritage foundation and published in a very conservative journal of law and politics give it a double flavor of polemic rather than scholarship. One can construct eloquent arguments for anything, from reinstating dred Scott to invalidating the Declaration of Independence and the subsequent formation of the USA - and indeed in this age of LLMs I expect legal polemics further proliferate. But when you get down to the actual substantive arguments, this paper strikes me as just another of the 'we wish things were different' type, wishing that the US had built its jurisprudential edifice on a continental rather than a common law substrate. Perhaps if the proponents of this idea invested their efforts in amending the Constitution (or going the Conventional route) they might have more success in building the required consensus.
New admin is focused on federal cost cutting. Attracting foreign investment is a win-win for everyone involved.
Aaron695's comment are always fun to read. For some reason he's kinda 86'ed here.
The law recognizes that a bottle of beer generally cannot be used to murder someone else.
Probably for the same reason that Silcon Valley has been moving there slowly and quietly for a while now.
Dear ImGui isn't for end-user facing UI.
Gas turbines can be spun up really quickly through either portable systems (like xAI did for their cluster) [1] or actual builds [2] in an emergency. The biggest limitation is permits.

With a state like Texas and a Federal Government thats onboard these permits would be a much smaller issue. The press conference makes this seem more like, "drill baby drill" (drilling natural gas) and directly talking about them spinning up their own power plants.

[1] https://www.kunr.org/npr-news/2024-09-11/how-memphis-became-...

[2] https://www.gevernova.com/gas-power/resources/case-studies/t...
The arms race is already running, I think this showdown is inevitable so we should get our asses moving

Unless we air strike the data centers, there is no way to control China’s progress
Not software, but I am a big fan of the boss 505 table top looper. It is a great tool for building up parts and I love not staring at a screen while making music. Several of my friends swear by loopy pro for similar purposes, but I like the hardware solution here better.
Python showed what relaxed types could do. And we could go a long way as it turns out without types. But there are use cases for types, and even python admitted such when they added type annotations.

However, when I was a kid a would put a firecracker next to an object. I didn't bother running the scenario through a compiler to see if the object was of type Explodable() and had an explode() method that would be called.
I understand your point, but it has become a waste of energy to try to point out hypocridy and ideological inconsistency among that group.

It's better to ignore the rational reasons to oppose them and focus on the emotional ones. For starters, people are repulsed by their cruelty.
Not all procedurally generated things are slop, and not all slop are made via procedural generation.

And popularity has nothing to do with private, subjective quality evaluations of the individual (aka, what someone calls slop might be picasso to another), but with objective, public evaluations of the product via purchases.
> If I say all rodents are mammals, you can't disprove that just by pointing out the existence of dogs and cats.

Without a full understanding of the intent and background behind that statement that is not clear. It might be disprovable under some circumstances. If we take it to the logical extreme, the words absolutely could be defined such that it is disprovable, so it obviously could be.

Is that likely? In this case, probably not, but it becomes more likely when there is more fractured use. Consider tech jargon. The marjory of the discussions on HN are parties talking past each other because they came with different understandings of what words/phrases mean.

> "No star in the sky is green"

I wrote "No star in the sky<period>" to try and steer us away from different contexts. While I acknowledge that such usage also exists, that is outside of what I was trying to refer to and I think you will agree that in your interpretation that usage is not in line with what we are talking about.

Such is the downfall of languages made up on the spot as they are used. All you can do is try and convey something to the recipient, and sometimes you'll fail. This ended up being a great example of exactly what we're talking about!
Meanwhile, Azure has failed to keep up with the last 2-3 generations of both Intel and AMD server processors. They’re available only in “preview” or in a very limited number of regions.

I wonder if this is a sign of the global economic downturn pausing cloud migrations or AI sucking the oxygen out of the room.
>You're also talking about someone who is probably in their early to mid 30's. Eventually people want to start having a life. And you're expecting them to make pennies? I'm not joking. Here's a list of CS Post Doc stipends[0]. Go to Berkeley or Stanford and make $66k-$80k? I've gotten more money as a PhD Intern! You're going to get more than double that in industry before we talk about RSUs.

Now maybe I'm out of touch, being a postdoc and all, but hasn't the tech industry been suffering mass layoffs this past year or so that really make it a bit unrealistic to label salaries above the American median as "pennies"?
American Kingpin by Nick Bilton is an excellent book covering Silk Road and what makes this unique
Safe to assume you have seen their generative 3d mesh model? Anything exciting planned for that? Can we generate 3d videos for something like VR devices?
Awesome, thanks :D
Didn't think it'd be so little. I'd have guessed 4x that.
The Arduous Luxembourg Visa Process
> p75 at 350ms

Is this really that impressive if you're prefetching? Surely a cached response is <50ms always. What's the prefetch cache hit rate?

If it's anything like remix/react router prefetch caching, it's also useless on mobile. Depending on your target market, that's a huge difference
Yeah, I'm pleased that Ross is out after serving over 10 years, but I wish it had been a commutation. He was guilty. The problem is the judge wildly over sentencing. Ten years served is about right for what he was convicted of.
I think they may be too quickly assuming that there's never a need for long-lived branches. For example, for any company (like mine) that does on-prem deployments, we need to support old versions for an extended period of time by backporting security and bug fixes. This is naturally supported in git by creating a branch for each release, and I'd be curious how evo is thinking about that problem.
OpenAI models refuse to translate subtitles because they contain violence, sex, or racism.

That’s just a different flavour of enforced right-think.
is there a simple metric likr x amount of power generated by solar, oil, gas etc?

it seems like such a simple stat to collect
Are you sure this is the right forum for you?

Regardless of Ross Ulbricht's crimes, the pro's and con's of the pardon deserve considered discussion.

Are you bringing thoughtful and interesting considerations to this thread?

For example; will he actually wear an ankle bracelet for the rest of his life under the terms of a full and unconditional pardon?
"solve the obesity crisis" ? what exactly do you mean by this?
The rumors I've heard are that they have a hardware team targeting a 2026 release, but no productions ASICs at the moment.
"Three cords and the truth"
Ross Ulbricht was widely regarded by friends and family as a fundamentally decent and idealistic person—if admittedly naïve about the implications of his actions. Those who knew him personally describe him as thoughtful, intelligent, and motivated by a vision of a freer and more equitable society. His philosophical motivations were rooted in libertarian ideals, particularly the belief that consenting adults should have the right to make decisions about their own lives, including the substances they consume.

I just learned that he was an Eagle Scout.

Not exactly the résumé of someone getting locked up and the key thrown away.
I've found STEM research to be different than that. Lots of opportunities to build and design whilst growing understandimg. Work with diverse teams and students of multiple levels. Communicate, work with, and network with industry individuals.
Words can't describe how happy I am.
> fixation on that is confounding your reasoning.

it is a fixation based on the desire that they themselves shouldn't be rendered economically useless in the future. Then the reasoning come about post-facto from that desire, rather than from any base principle of logic.

Most, if not all, that are somewhat against the advent of AI are like the above in some way or another.
A couple comments:

AFAIK cloud9 was never vscode based, it was a dutch startup acquisition when hosted RDEs were looking popular https://siliconcanals.com/amazon-acquires-cloud9/. I believe theyre busy working on similar-but-not-obviously related remote environments like AWS Workspaces.

Re: existing Code-asterisk _services_ see CodeCatalyst at a recent (in progress) attempt to move to a more unified user-centric _product_.

And for downthread Cognito, Id be surprised if it ever goes away. i think theres some unification/deconfliction of capabilities that needs to happen with Federate. But Id expect one or both of those to stick around as a proxy pool of user identities for apps. The more interesting, and huge change to how AWS fundamentally works, is Identity Center(IdC). Tying back to cognito and CodeCatalyst IdC should _finally_ bring user identities, and your corp IdP, in to AWS and actually be useful across existing services. This _could_ catch AWS up to goog cloud and OCI and (I assume) azure on identity management.

Edit: ex AWS, but all if the above based on publicly available information.
the fact that he will never pardon Snowden tells you all you need to know: this pardon was pandering and suits his own purposes. there are no higher principles here besides quid pro quo.
I had the same confusion initially, interestingly chat GPT gets it:

So while wolfgang42 wasn't there when Ulbricht was actually arrested, their realization created a vivid mental image of the event unfolding in that space, which made the story feel more immersive.

In short: they were reading about an old event, but it happened to occur in the same spot they were sitting at that moment. Hope that clears it up!
There are of course pen-and-paper approaches to all of these.

Links in text are called references. These can be internal within a document or codex, or external, referencing third-party works. Either case is far less subject to linkrot than URLs have turned out to be.

One of the killer concepts of a bullet journal is the use of indices and spreads to provide an interlinked and searchable reference. If you go back in time, there are numerous journal and commonplace book organisational schemes.

Pages can be easily rearranged using a removeable binding (three-ring binder or various other options), or by using an unbound format such as index cards (the original database solution).

Data can be entered into a computer through scanning and handwriting recognition, though this is admittedly slow, cumbersome, and inexact. On the other hand, you may want friction between your paper-based and electronic data systems.
Do you really believe letting AI write your replies come off as professional sounding?
Texas is the leading state in new grid batteries and grid solar for three years now. Also Governor Abbott deregulated nuclear last year. Sure there will be some new natural gas too, which is the least scary fossil fuel. They call it the "all of the above" approach to energy.
Explain to me like to five year old why when I create a _successful_ drug marketplace that sold whole bunch of illegal drugs should be pardoned?
this is pretty devastating for signal
That hardly means anything about birthright citizenship and says a lot more about the draft
Yeah. I do wish git added multiple named stages to keep this sort of thing a lot more organized.

Perforce can have multiple active CLs but they can only hold changes at the file level instead of hunks. That ends up even more maddening somehow.
For purposes of a criminal conviction and locking them away (or the death penalty), sure. Proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

For purposes of random citizens saying "he tried to commit murder", no. We're absolutely not bound by that same standard of proof.
Didn't Marie Kondo refer to his book in her book?

EDIT: no it was someone else she read growing up, the book:

The Art of Discarding by Nagisa Tatsumi
Tariffs are not good for free market diehards. However the nuance is that foreign countries like China do not operate on a fair playing field, they want free access to our markets but prevent our champions from entering their's. Something must be done here. I'm not convinced tariffs are the best tool, but at least it's something.

In terms of small government, there is news about the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) every single day. There will be a massive downsizing in the federal workforce and the regulatory state over the next 4 years. This move towards small government is the thing that excites me most.
Tensor decomposition has traditionally suffered from high computational complexity. Is it an issue here?
The state wanting the blood and money of illegals isn’t proof of anything more than the state wanting ever more blood and money
I like the "zero AI" part.