skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GarageBand, voice memos

I only use the drummer as close to ai as it gets.
According to Wikipedia[1], he was convicted of charges related to hacking, narcotics, money laundering, and more.

But during the trial, evidence was presented that he made murder-for-hire payments, the court found that he did by a preponderance of evidence, and the court took this into account when sentencing him.

So, he wasn't convicted of it, but it is part of the reason he was sent to jail for a very long time.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht
I think it extends from whatever rules govern the much-more-influential word "No", particularly for items which aren't normally capped at 1.

Notice how these are all plural, and in each case "no" could be substituted with "zero":

* "My shelf contains no books."

* "Snails have no legs."

* "What if there were no stars in the sky?"

You can't simply replace those examples with a singular noun: You're either forced to refactor the grammar or you end up with something that sounds weird/archaic. Ex:

* "My shelf contains no book." [Weird/archaic]

* "My shelf does not contain a book. [Refactored]
You shouldn't assume that all "street transfers" of drugs are peaceful or have a positive outcome for those involved. Harm reduction comes in many forms.
Minecraft is procedurally generated slop, yet it's insanely popular.
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Likely not enough to incentivize reform?
Wonder if he can be charged with that now? Was there anything in the pardon related to this? AFAIK there is no time limit on bringing charges related to murder?
Google was first mover.
I guess I just don't think that's true when it comes to China? The VP attended the inauguration yesterday. But I could be naive, we'll see
My apologies, I thought you were accusing libertarians of authoritarianism (the irony!).

I find the Mises Caucus at least useful in pushing to do more than simply be an affinity group for people pretending to play politics. I find partying with LP officials to be very hilarious, what a group of odd balls. But the party itself has no hope of electoral victory, which is why everyone should vote Republican in the current iteration of two-party politics from the libertarian lens.
> Some people actually genuinely care about other people and seeing someone elected who has promised to hurt people is a disturbing and troubling turn of events even if they themselves are likely to be safe.

Ya but, it's all a bit silly isn't it? Realistically those people wouldn't be doing any of that unless they were addicted to media and perhaps by consequence emotionally volatile. If I chose not to be chronically keeping up with stuff on a moment to moment basis that only has vague intangible impacts on my life or those around me, specifically online, does that make me less empathetic or less tolerant of having all my time, energy, and attention stolen from me? That's not always the case, but it often is, and if it's actually relevant, you're opting into poor mental health despite having zero control over anything even if you care, so you might as well not be so tuned in; which part is the good part again?

It's a bit fatalistic perhaps, but I feel like the greatest trick social media (and Trump) ever pulled was convincing us we'd be pariahs if we opted out. If not for chronically keeping up with nearly literally every word the new batch of chronies has to say, they might not be saying it.
I see those people in my personal life, too. Ironically, they're also the ones who regularly drive drunk and do a little cocaine now and again because _it doesn't really count_.
Case law obsessively cites other case law. So yeah, that's how it works. His trial was a farce and was meant to send a message to others to not, um, do drugs online or something.
Was he ever convicted on conspiracy to murder?

Because in my opinion the ethics of operating a drug ring is not as black as white as you state.

The existence of drug rings is an inevitable outcome from the war on drugs and I would argue the blame lands on the politicians who maintain the status quo that incentivises the creation of the black market for drugs.
I'm pretty sure my comment says the exact opposite. I'm saying that SR was a massive operation that fueled street traffic, which in turn lacked any of the harm reduction virtues that SR is being assigned.
Ah, so when challenged, you immediately acknowledge there is a spectrum and not a black and white picture. That makes for a poor thread.
As an avid fan of Star Control, I can't help but love the Druuge model, "His reference for this mill’s shape comes from similarly shaped alien ships in a video game called Star Control."
His posts are public:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1138691127416...

"I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbricht to let her know that in honor of her and the Libertarian Movement, which supported me so strongly, it was my pleasure to have just signed a full and unconditional pardon of her son, Ross. The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me. He was given two life sentences, plus 40 years. Ridiculous!"
The answer says zero is treated as "plural" because we say "0 books".

Interestingly, we can say either:

1. "There are no books on this subject"

2. "There is no book on this subject"
Wait, you were reading about his arrest while he was being arrested? That article was written after his conviction?
They weren't part of his sentencing because a different court entirely was pursuing the hit for hire attempt charge, but because another court in NY got the book thrown at him for running the site, they decided to drop it because it didn't seem necessary anymore.

In hindsight, the prosecution probably wished they didn't do that, since they are said to have had overwhelming evidence and proof, and there is even a Wired article about chat logs pertaining to DPR seeking services, but those are the breaks! If you don't do your due diligence, criminals can be let off on a technicality too!
I had an Atari computer, and for years it was hooked up to a black-&-white TV. I got a job in a computer store and bought the legendary Commodore 1702 (which I still have).

It was like looking at candy. I remember some games in particular (especially from Synapse) looking just brilliant.
Write my verses in google keep, record, produce, mix, and master in Studio One
notes app and paper. ableton live for recording/running VSTs but for stuff that isn't MIDI based something like Reaper works really well.
>we don't truly know the extent of the fbi's corruption in this

the corruption what we do know about already tainted the case to the point that it should have been thrown out.

I don't care about Ulbricht, and whether he is guilty of all or some of the charges or innocent. What bothers me in this case is that the government can get away and in particular can get its way in court even with such severe criminal behavior by the government.

Rare case when i agree with Trump:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7e0jve875o

"The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me," Trump said in his post online on Tuesday evening."

Trump even personally called Ulbricht mother. I start to wonder whether i have been all that time in blind denial about Trump.
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Authoritarianism is also popular with the democrats right now, but I don’t see how anything I said is name calling: I used terms with a specific meaning appropriate for the context- the only reason they have a negative connotation is because of what they actually mean. Do you know of other terms with the same meaning and more neutral connotations?
Sorry, it went over my head a bit, you read about his arrest while he was being arrested?
For anyone who followed the Silk Road / Ross Ulbrict saga, this is all obvious and surface-level.
Guess they forgot why Sweden stopped building cities in wood in the first place…

But hey, it is cheap!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_fires_of_Stockhol...
Did you read my comment? I said:

> even though the charge of hiring a contract killer to assassinate his business competition may have been dropped

Just because the charge was dropped doesn't mean he's innocent of it. In fact, reading the chat logs makes his guilt pretty clear. Of course, because the whole operation was a scam, there's little he could have been convicted of. Yet just because the murder was never carried out doesn't mean he didn't intend to have someone assassinated. In my book, paying someone money to kill another person is definitely grounds for imprisonment.
I'm in the middle of "Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation" and hoo boy, there are strong deja vu vibes here.

Just waiting for the current regime to decide that we should go all-in on some big AI venture and bet the whole Social Security pot on it.
> baseball bat

Could you expand on this? How does a baseball bat help you in songwriting?
In war, you point your biggest gun at the enemy. You don't shoot yourself in the foot.
My mother used to work in social care for underprivileged city kids and she told me a story once where they took the kids to a farm. They were astonished that milk came from a cow.

I basically have to fly to the Canary Islands to see starlight.
That would arguably create some of the worst perverse incentives, as far as financial crimes go.

Any two-bit governor could team up with some criminal, and make enough money to be set up for life against a pardon. Even worse if it's a president, as they could likely get off scot-free.

Trump could literally scam everyone and everyone, step down, receive a pardon from the VP, and happy days.
I've used Rongta thermal printers a fair bit, I've found them to be cost effective and easy to use. I mostly use them via WebUSB and some random JS ESC/POS lib.
Though I have never bought directly from Rongta.
The other user directly addressed that in his comment.
> Even in popular culture, the office is making a comeback, with […] “Severance” returning for a new season probing corporate psychological drama

Severance is about how working at an office intensely anti-personhood. The show’s characters literally forget their non-working lives to become good workers for 8hrs a day. Strange example to bring up without mentioning that.
I think this is right- data centers powered by fission reactors. Something like Oklo (https://oklo.com) makes sense.
I think you should manage your health and safety first and those closest to you.

You're not helping by inflicting harm on yourself and those around you. If you want to canvas for the other side, donate, volunteer, great. But these people are obsessed and inflict a lot of damage on themselves for no good purpose.

Most people empathize to those that are infected with a virus. It's often out of their control. You can only offer them help and suggest they touch grass once in a while. But you shouldn't feed into their self delusions that self harm and obsession with things out of their control is healthy and a good way to live their life
Sure, but the facts matter. Making millions of dollars by operating a marketplace for illegal drugs is not even close to the same ballpark as protesting a draconian anti-homeless law, let alone resisting genocide!

The only reasonable argument for drug legalization, in my opinion, is the libertarian one - the idea that you should be free to take the drugs you want to take. I am sympathetic to this argument. I am someone who is able to make wise decisions about the drugs I take. But I also recognize that millions of my fellow citizens are not. The harm to society from drug addiction and overdoses outweighs the benefit to me getting high whenever I want.
I think that was a preemptive gesture by China to try to cool tensions to avoid escalation. Further escalations are not in their interest.
True of most places.. But they do put a lot of effort into making ordinary things "cute" or artistic.

Like those construction site warnings or info boards. In most places it's just functional and bare. In Japan they add cartoon characters, nice layouts, fonts etc.

That was my point.
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hundreds of thousands of jobs? I'll wait for the postmortem on that prediction. Sounds a lot like Foxconn in Wisconsin but with more players.
i kinda read the "training" position as someone providing training to others. for which postdocs are very much underpaid and abused by the unis.
From my perspective humanity has all breakthroughs in intelligence it needs.

The breaking of The Enigma gave humans machines that can spread knowledge to more humans. It already happened a long time ago, and all of it was cause for much trouble, but we endured the hardest part (to know when to stop), and humans live in a good world now. Full of problems, but way better than it was before.

I think the web is enough. LLMs are good enough.

This move to try to draw water from stone (artificial intelligence in sillicon chips) seems to be overkill. How can we be sure it's not a siphon that will make us dumber? Before you just dismiss me or counter my arguments, consider what is happening everywhere.

Maybe I'm wrong, or not seeing something. You know, like I believed in aliens for a long time. This move to artificial intelligence causes shock and awe in a similar way. However, while I do believe aliens do not exist, I am not sure if artificial intelligence is a real strawman. It could be the case that is not made of straw, and if it is more than that, we might have a problem.

I am specially concerned because unlike other polemic topics, this one could lead to something not human that fully understands those previous polemic topics. Humans through their generations forget and mythologize those fantasies. We don't know what non-humans could do with that information.

I am thinking about those issues for a long time. Almost a decade, even before LLMs running on silicon existed. If it wanted, non-human artificial intelligence could wipe the floor with humans just by playing to their favorite myths. Humans do it in a small scale. If machines learn it, we're in for an unknown hostile reality.

It could, for example, perceive time different from us (also a play on myths), and do all sorts of tricks with our minds.

LLMs and the current generation of artificial intelligence are boolean first, it's what they run. Only true or false bits and gates. Humans can understand the meaning of trulse though, we are very non boolean.

So, yeah, I am worried about booleaning people on a massive scale.

Yep, long wall of text. Sorry about that.
Still, the worst positioned cloud provider to tackle this job. Both for the project and for eventual users of whatever eldritch abomination that cames out of this.
I'm indifferent to him being pardoned. But people saying he didn't deserve any punishment seems weird to me.
Just because you see OO languages starting to favor composition over inheritance does not mean inheritance has no place, and indeed, interfaces as a form of composition have existed in many bog-standard OO languages for decades.

Your example dosn't compute, at least in most languages, because derived objects would not have the same shape as one another, only the shape of the base class. I.e. functions expecting a User object would of course accept either an Employee or a Student (both subclasses of a User), but functions expecting a Student object or an Employee object would not accept the other object type just because they share a base class. Indeed, that's the whole point. And as another poster mentioned, you are introducing a burden by now having no way to determine whether a User is an Employee or a Student without having to pass additional information.

Listen, I'll be the first to admit that the oo paradigm went overboard with inheritance and object classification to the n-th degree by inventing ridiculous object hierarchies etc, but inheritance (even multiple inheritance) has a place- not just when reasoning about and organizing code, but for programmer ergonomics. And with the trend for composition to disallow data members (like traits in Rust), it can seriously limit the expressiveness of code.

Sometimes inheritance is better, and if used properly, there's nothing wrong with that. The alternative is that you wind up implementing the same 5-10 interfaces repeatedly for every different object you create.

It should never be all or nothing. Inheritance has its place. Composition has its place.

And if you squint just right they're two sides of the same coin. "Is A" vs "Can Do" or "Has".
This is what the 2024 Nobel prize winners in economics call "creative destruction" to repeat from their book Why Nations Fail. They really did not have a lot of sympathy for those they lumped in with Luddites who were collateral damage to progress.
> Just because the charge was dropped doesn't mean he's innocent of it

That’s exactly what it means under the presumption of innocence.

Advocating for the continued imprisonment of someone for something they are legally considered innocent of, is quite literally vigilantism.
more like Reagan's star wars program
Your example doesn't seem to involve restoring property / funds due to a pardon that were already confiscated / already paid.

Is there some example of someone getting such money back?
> When the FBI agents stopped to have a drink I thought

You mean "when I read the part where the FBI agents stopped to have a drink I thought"?

This part makes your comment super confusing. Where you there then or later?
Looking at the full list of certified devices:

- AirThing View Plus: "This is placeholder text. To change this content, double-click on the element and click Change Content." Supposedly this has seven sensors, but only displays two values. How does that work? The values are displayed as numbers, too. A bar chart with green, yellow, and red sections would "calmer"

- Daylight Computer - Placeholder text again. No specs. What does it actually do? Writing only? Web browsing? Dark grey on off-white text, which looks like low-end E-Ink.

- Time Timer - looks fine, although everybody else's timers count down counterclockwise. How much does it cost? If it's $10, great If it's $100, come on.

- Unplug - if you need that, you have other problems.

This is disappointing. It's like the junk that used to be advertised in the magazines that were provided in airline seat backs. These are all non-problems or easy hits. They need something more useful, such as a more usable TV remote or home control unit or car infotainment system. Those all run from bad to worse.

I've run into "simple interface" people a few times. One was a guy who was plugging his book about how clever their design for a seat-back entertainment system was. He had a model of four typical users and how they'd use it to pick from a rather short list of alternatives.
I'd already read the book. I said, why not just have a channel selector knob? Then it comes out that the thing had a payment interface for pay per view. That wasn't mentioned when they were explaining how simple it was.

A few years ago, there was someone who wanted to build a GUI for some common Linux tool to promote their design shop. I suggested tackling Git, which really needs a GUI. That was too hard.

This goes way back. In the 1930s, there was a thing for radios with One Knob. Here's a 1950s TV ad for that.[1] There was a long period during which radios and TVs had a large number of knobs to be adjusted to get decent results. That was finally overcome.

My favorite simple interface is General Railway Signal's NX system.[1] This is the first "intelligent user interface", from 1936. What makes it "intelligent" is that, when a train is entering the interlocking, the dispatcher selects the incoming track, and then all the possible exit points light up. They pick the desired exit and push its button. The system then sets up the route, setting the signals and switches. Conflicts with other routes are detected, so this is safe. If there are alternate routes, NX can route around other trains. The previous technology was that the dispatcher had to figure out which switches and signals to set themselves. There was interlocking to prevent hazardous setups, but the lever machines couldn't plan a route.

This kind of UX design is really important and usually botched.

[1] https://anyflip.com/lbes/vczg
Ask HN: Have you used LLMs in software design/planning?
I realize this may come off as naive, so I’d like to start by saying that LLMs are extremely error-prone. I wouldn’t trust them to create a plan.

That said, I’m wondering if they couldn’t be used in a more loose way to suggest things. For example, if you’re planning on building out a feature, maybe it could suggest potential failure modes that you might take into account. In the best case, it might suggest a pitfall you wouldn’t have seen coming. Of course it’s still your job as an engineer to evaluate whether those concerns should be taken seriously.
So you think people should be sentenced based on charges that were not proven in court?
I haven't looked into the case(s) for years, but prosecutors don't often just drop charges because other charges were found guilty. People get charged even after life sentences have been handed down.
No, because he was never found guilty of anything, or charged with anything. Pardons before a conviction are somewhat different than pardons after a conviction in that the state never established the facts. There's also a difference between blanket pardons and specific pardons.

As I referenced in a peer reply.

> “[A pardon] carries an imputation of guilt; acceptance a confession of it."

This is the referenced case.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/236/79
Most people in real life don’t even know who this guy is. This is a guy that online people know. I will agree it’s a win, he was unfairly sentenced. I just wish I would have been able to buy from SR. I did get to browse it before it was seized.
Drug Cartels were just categorized as terrorist organizations so I'm not sure the current admin is ok with drugs

"But he was a libertarian!" Shrugs