skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how long the transit from 45N to 45S latitudes will be. My gut says the pole will move fastest at the equator (a la the zero crossing of a sine wave).

In the not too distant future humanity will see the magnetic pole at the equator. Wow.
What is just is decided both by an individual and the society they exist in. "It is one's moral obligation to fight injustice" is a pretty common tenent to hold. Injustice can be city laws encouraging anti-homeless spikes. Injustice can also be genocide in a remote country. Those injustices get fought in very different ways. One can be handled by individual vigilanteeism and peacefully petitioning local governance. The other might require global war.

In my personal belief, everyone[0] has the right and moral obligation to fight the injustice they care about at the level they can manage. If that's handing out water at the protest or inventing penicillin, do what you personally can do to improve the world.

[0]the average layperson, obvious exceptions for power/money apply
My response remains the same. The Palestinians have decisively lost. Their options are attempt to make whatever peace Israel will give them or die a slow painful death. Continuing to fight only makes things worse for them.
I'm surprised to hear that 60% stay in academia.
I have the same requirement and in the end I turned it into a email service. I would recommend you to provide more interfaces.
Keep in mind that he spent 11 years locked up.

He's not getting off lightly!
What were your number 2 and 3 issues, out of curiosity?

Were there any accompanying policies that you would say, "despite promising to free Ross Ulbricht, I don't think accompanying Policy X would be worth it?"
Life no but probably more than he did in the end. He was really turning into a syndicate boss. The deep ars technica article was pretty depressing.
> Tim Cook

He changed his name to curry favor with prez. He’s Tim Apple now
There are videos of people skipping balls off the surface of water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcI9nzsCILI
Biden could have taken the wind out of Trump's sails by commuting Ulbricht's sentence when he was in office. If you don't think a group's interests are worth listening to, don't be surprised when that group votes for someone who does.
I don't see how this benefits the American economy, jobs, or national security. I do see that for a cohort of people in the Libertarian community this was held to be a central Tenet: Ulbricht was their "hostage" just as the Proud Boys thought their leader was.

But, I can't see how this becomes net beneficial in Congress, or in the wider economy. At best it's providing lower friction movement of goods and services. They tend not to go to Federal Tax collecting exchanges, so I cannot for the life of me see how this helps the exchequer, but maybe thats the point?
That's still AI slop, in my opinion.
Trump promised to do this at the Libertarian Party convention. This case is very important to the libertarian crowd. He is a martyr for many of their ideals. After Trump was so well received at the convention the LP, recently taken over by the right faction of the party, put forth a candidate specifically chosen to not get votes so that members would vote for Trump. Trump seems to be a man of his word.
Recent disclosure video on UAPs – Jan 19, 2025
this video seems to be more important than most
> but "openly fascist"?

Yes. What would you call this: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/20/trump-elo...

Neo-Nazis are onboard with it: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-mus...

So is this guy: https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/1i68puj/have_we_l...

It wasn't an accident. Musk did it very deliberately. And he did it twice just to make sure.
A judge and system who would give him 2 life sentences for this should not be trusted when he also factored in things which he wasn't charged and convicted of.
Editions allow making breaking changes to Rust without splitting the ecosystem - no hassle caused to existing code unless it opts into the new edition and its breaking changes. There's currently editions 2015, 2018, 2021, and 2024. When a new edition is introduced, it can make breaking changes such as introducing new keywords, but every previous edition remains supported forever by newer compiler versions.

The key part is that editions are configured per-library - libraries A and B might use editions 2015 and 2021, and your application could use edition 2018 and depend on those libraries, and it works.

If you wrote a library with the original 2015 edition, and never upgraded it to deal with new `async` and `await` keywords added in the 2018 edition, that's totally fine. Newer compilers will continue to compile it in its configured edition=2015 mode, where the new keywords don't exist (so your local variable named `async` still compiles), and new code written against newer editions may still use this 2015 edition library with no issue.

Editions are different from Go version directives because you use them to say "my library needs features added in this Go version", but they don't enable Go to make breaking changes to the language.

Editions can't do every kind of breaking change however - they mostly work for syntax level changes, and don't work for things like tearing out regrettable parts of the standard library.
The fund is run out of the US. Parent co is in Japan
> But it seems they don't have a problem with someone running an illegal underground drug smuggling network because...?

People have a soft spot for enterprising wunderkinds of certain demographics, even if he wasn't actually a kid when he start SR.

A good boy like Ross doesn't belong in prison, but the person arrested for smoking crack does, is a common sentiment.
It was one of the promises he made at a Bitcoin conference he attended a few months ago. It has been a popular issue in crypto circles
No we should never do that! As a Christian, I would never support it! You get strange answers with LLMs as it is, so it just wouldn't be appropriate. I suppose we should ask the question, should we use an LLM for any other religious evangelism or text? I'm sure the answer would be no, if it were a different religion.
Also, I have a problem with the privacy implications of them in general.
Presumably musk pushed for it. Not sure who else in/near the administration would even have him on their radar
> “All my Republican donations were dark,” [SBF] said, referring to political donations that are not publicly disclosed in FEC filings. “The reason was not for regulatory reasons, it’s because reporters freak the f—k out if you donate to Republicans. They’re all super liberal, and I didn’t want to have that fight.”

> Given that he donated nearly $40 million to Democrats in the 2022 election cycle—and he admitted to giving an equal amount to Republicans—his total political contributions may have actually been around $80 million.

https://time.com/6241262/sam-bankman-fried-political-donatio...
Yes, a great and educational episode, which is exactly why it's fiction. Although I would expect anyone working at the White House to have seen an actual globe. Well, perhaps not this White House.
Isolating complexity is the essence of successful abstractions
The Silk Road run by Ross Ulbricht did not have assassins on it, nor did it have any human trafficking on it.

I support your right to disagree with the pardon. But please don't recklessly post disinformation like that.
Sinaola cartel sells lsd, dmt and mushrooms in personal quantities?
If you meant Trump, it's not hidden, they released a Trump meme coin and the rug pull was after the inauguration timed with the release of the Melania meme coin, though entirely speculatively makes more sense for the investors to be foreign governments buying influence less obviously than the last Trump administration like Saudi Arabia hiring his son in law.
SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine-related myocarditis and pericarditis
What do you mean? Trump just pardoned or commuted pretty much all of the J6 crowd. One guy convicted of crimes that don't require proving violence beyond a reasonable doubt is pretty tame in comparison. He is one of thousands.
Things can always change, but today China is significantly more dependent on petrochemicals than the US. I'm not sure what you're referring to with regards to agriculture, both the US and China have strong food industries that produce plenty of foods containing protein.
https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1867069169256308766

Again, no clue if this is true, but it seems plausible.
You don't need to live in a major city. Cloudflare is never going to set up a caching proxy for a hamlet in the desert; you'll always be part of a huge group that a given caching proxy serves. The attacker can be happy if they can narrow the recipient's location down as much as to a single country
Well for one, Libertarians are not far right in the way you are describing...
From wikipedia:

> "full and unconditional pardon for any crimes related to drugs".

Does "any crimes related to drugs" include the murder for hire allegations? Does this mean new charges related to that could be brought against him?
Probably not popular opinion - but I actually think Google is winning this now. Deep research is the most useful AI product I have used (Claud is significantly more useful than openAI)
Fascinating. It is news to me that a federal court can consider the evidence for crimes not proven beyond a reasonable doubt in a criminal sentencing. Learn something new every day.

Since he was sentenced federally, he'd be under the federal sentencing guidelines, but I imagine those are pretty harsh around the money laundering and drug trafficking (since they're tuned to provide a hammer to wield against mostly narco-enterprises). I suppose the additional preponderance of evidence gave the judge justification to push the sentence to the maximum allowed in the category?
The main thing I notice is that back then we were writing paragraphs.
That is a better one. I don't know why three rich guys investing in a new company would result in a slowness that Trump could fix, though, and a promise to rush or sidestep regulatory approval still sounds nefarious.
You can't claim that that's what functionalism is, it has a different name.

Or should we say monkey shit now when we mean president?
Yes the FBI had root or admin access to the Silk Road system and could have very easily changed or otherwise affected logs/record IDs that the technical case rested on. Two of the FBI agents on the case were later punished for corruption on the case.
I used a small (3b, I think) model plus tesseract.js to perform OCR on an image of a nutritional facts table and output structured JSON.
Carriers and SMS service providers (like Twillio) obey that, no matter what service is behind.

There are stories of people replying STOP to spam, then never getting a legit SMS because the number was re-used by another service. That's because it's being blocked between the spammer and the phone.
Right, so Mistral accidentally released one internal prototype that was fine-tuned LLaMA. How does it follow from there that their other models are the same? Given that the weights are open, we can look, and nope, it's not the same. They don't even use the same vocabulary!

And I have no idea what you mean by "they just pick the dataset". The LLaMA training set is not publicly available - it's open weights, not open source (i.e. not reproducible).
A possible line of reasoning is that drugs should be legal, but the property and violent crimes committed around them shouldn't be, in the same way that adults are legally permitted to drink alcohol, but they're not legally permitted to drive drunk. The "ruining cities" is about the crimes, not the drugs themselves.

(I think.)
I think you have fentanyl and oxycodone mixed up
> This structure is fantastic for technical discussions just not amazing for politics

No, it's not. Because the same magnification effect causes the causal, simple and correct sounding to float to the top and the nuanced "<signs deeply> so I dealt with this for 20yr and here's the deal" takes that nobody wants to hear because they're not simple and easy wind up at the bottom but above the flagrantly wrong crap and the trolls.

There's a reason that nothing with real stakes adopts this format and technical discussions that matter still mostly happen in some sort of threaded format that doesn't allow voting or any sort of drive-by low effort interaction to effect much.

Format like this is good for driving interaction, which is why public facing websites use it for their comment sections.
Musk is definitely a fan recreationally chemistry
At the same time he is threatening to tariff China 10% due to their responsibility for fentanyl, lol
Proof That Traffic Engineering Is a Pseudoscience [video]
A judge bypassed the jury and prosecutor and sentenced him as if he hired hit men and admitted doing so. The sentence upgrade was based on a preponderance of evidence, whereas they would have had to proven beyond a reasonable doubt had he been charged.
Will he get his possesions back then?

50,676 bitcoins, today valued at 5,3 billion USD.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-h...
This one act was more important than the Paris agreement?
Silk Road was, at its height, uniquely successful and making an absolute mockery of the United States government's capacity to regulate drug trafficking. In addition, he fashioned himself an anti-establishment persona, going by the handle "Dread Pirate Roberts" online.

He was unique in his magnitude of success. Governments can successfully magnify their enforcement ability by making an example of outliers.
The laws should change too. Legalize and regulate drugs and access.
Yes, I was 14 once, too.

Moral nihilism is obvious and not helpful. Everyone knows that our moral language is just a manner of speaking. We nevertheless engage with moral concepts because we reject moral nihilism at least from a pragmatic point of view. Pointing out that things like rights, justice, etc., have no real existence is not clever.
https://blog.rongarret.info/2023/04/a-systematic-critique-of...
Additional citation:

A third of the Arctic’s vast carbon sink now a source of emissions, study reveals
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/21/third-of...

Wildfires offset the increasing but spatially heterogeneous Arctic–boreal CO2 uptake
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-02234-5
The overwhelming majority of drug sales are for personal use. That doesn't mean that large sales weren't made, or that those weren't in fact a significant portion of the site's revenue.
It would help a lot to post a video or gif, showing how it deals with 3 features being merged with a lot of conflicts. It really has potential to be awesome, but you gotta show how.
It’s been a campaign of Mike Cernovich’s for a long time.
I don't ever use one at all, even for that purpose. If I'm looking for something I use a good old-fashioned search engine.
Such a biased source of data-that gets them all the LaTeX source for my homeworks, but not my professor's grading of the homework, and not the invaluable words I get from my professor at office hours. No wonder the LLMs have bizarre blindnesses in different directions.
> Well, perhaps not this White House.

Unbeliever!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Abdel_Fattah_el-Sisi,_K...

Okay, well, perhaps he has averted his gaze.
Ironically, he was only pardoned for drug related crimes, so he could still be charged with murder related ones if they were not dropped with prejudice (i didn't look)

This is all AFAIK, they haven't released the text broadly yet, but his lawyers/etc say he was pardoned for crimes related to drugs.

Even what people call a 'full and unconditional' pardon is usually targeted at something specific, not like "a pardon for anything you may have ever done, anywhere, anytime' which people seem to think it means sometimes.

It's more of a legal term of art to describe pardons that erase convictions, restore rights, etc.

Rather than clemency which, say, commutes your sentence but leaves your conviction intact.
Really? I've heard Amazon is so understanding of the difficulty in new hires picking up legacy code, even with the extremely diligent help of the other "mates" on their "team".

I'm sure with the excellent work life balance, supportive atmosphere, nurturing organization, and upbeat attitude, Amazon's staffing issues are just a short blip.

One thing Amazon is known for us a good place for a long term stable career!

It's a good thing that organizations employment is so stable with so many foundational services that so much of our economy depends upon.
I am not sure of the legality around his possessions but they are long gone. Even the ones stolen by FBI officers during the course of the investigation.
Fentanyl wasn't big yet when Silk Road was around. And besides, people were buying straight from China off the clearnet
Trump promised it when he attended the libertarian convention
He was never tried for that. Don't believe the disinformation.
yeah, it sounds like they're just relabeling an existing plan

> Ellison noted that the data centers are already under construction with 10 being built so far.
You have no idea ;D I’m real fun at parties
Nvidia and TSMC are already working on more powerful and efficient chips, but the physical limits to scaling mean lots more power is going to be used in each new generation of chips. They might improve by offering specific features such as FP4, but Moore's law is still dead.
Basically you'd be asking for inferring a record type largely transparently. That's going to quickly explode to the most naive form because it's very hard to tell what could be called, especially in Go.
Maybe Thoreau? That's more authentic and gets at similar themes. On more than one level considering his circumstances and run-ins with law enforcement.

”Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."
Voters wanted a better economy first, not pardons for drug traffickers and violent offenders.

This could have waited until after the midterms.
Or it could be different people commenting than on that original thread? And people might have changed their minds? HN is not a monolith. Humans are not static. You don't need to blame it on "politics being a mind virus".
I was around in the 80s, but this is awesome new information!
That's not true. It wasn't a free for all platform.
I’m not an expert, only dabbled in photogrammetry, but it seems to me that the crux of that problem is identifying common pixels across images in order to sort of triangulate a point in the 3D space. It doesn’t sound like something an LLM would be good at.
I remember playing this on the spare B&W TV with no color. My father bought a new color TV and we got the old one for the Atari 2600 and it was like baller status.
Why stamina versus tenacity?
You still need to map the real world to the map and actually follow the instructions. It’s the difference between navigating and having a driver navigate for you.
This is nice! Was looking for exactly a similar feature in a previous HN discussion [0]. Want something that I can integrate with IFTTT/Zapier.

I was looking to buy one of ESC/POS compatible printer but none of the official sites seem to sell directly on the site and have to contact their sales to get a quote. I see a few on ebay and from third party sellers in Amazon.

Does anyone have a recommendation on where to buy an official / new one without going through the sales call hassle? Or buying from 3rd parties is the only option?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42599784
When Snowden, is my question. RFK put a lot of words into "if I am in charge that'll be my first thing". Yeah, he's not the president but he's also not nobody anymore.
If you're familiar with this kind of work, please elaborate!

Do you mean building the centers or maintenance or both?
do you find it interesting talking to NPCs in games?
Show HN: Restaurant Software Directory
Hey HN!
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Any feedback is welcome, even if you’re not in the restaurant space—especially around UI, search functionality, or new features I could add.
Show HN: NootCode – Actively practice non-algorithmic skills like LeetCode
Developers have been using platforms like LeetCode to practice algorithm challenges to prepare for coding interviews. But Software Engineering goes far beyond solving algorithm puzzles, both in interviews and in real-world projects. It demands mastery of essential skills including Computer Science fundamentals, system design, scenario analysis and more.

I believe that active learning through practice is more effective than passive consumption of knowledge - just as we learn programming by writing code. That's why I built NootCode, an online judging and coaching platform for practicing these non-algorithmic skills, similar to how developers use LeetCode for algorithm practice. Users can submit solutions, receive immediate feedback and ratings, study detailed explanations, and continuously improve their understanding by acing the challenges.
Recently, a lot of development in this area has been in gaussian splatting and from what I have seen, the new methods are super effective.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_splatting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dPBaV6M9u4
In one message, Ulbricht informed ELLINGSON that “[the murder target] is a liability and I wouldn't mind if he was executed.” In another message, Ulbricht stated: “[the murder target] is causing me problems . . . I would like to put a bounty on his head if it’s not too much trouble for you. What would be an adequate amount to motivate you to find him?” ELLINGSON responded, “[the p]rice for clean is 300k+ USD,” and the “[p]rice for non-clean is 150-200k USD depending on how you want it done.” ELLINGSON further explained, in part, that “[t]hese prices pay for 2 professional hitters including their travel expenses and work they put in.”

Ulbricht later sent ELLINGSON $150,000 worth of Bitcoin to pay for the purported murder. ELLINGSON and Ulbricht agreed on a code to be included with a photograph to prove that the murder had been carried out. In April 2013, ELLINGSON and Ulbricht exchanged messages reflecting that ELLINGSON had sent Ulbricht photographic proof of the murder. A thumbnail of a deleted photograph purporting to depict a man lying on a floor in a pool of blood with tape over his mouth was recovered from Ulbricht’s laptop after his arrest. A piece of paper with the agreed-upon code written on it is shown in the photograph next to the head of the purportedly dead individual.

Later in April 2013, ELLINGSON and Ulbricht exchanged additional messages regarding a plot to kill four additional people in Canada. Ulbricht sent ELLINGSON an additional $500,000 worth of Bitcoin for the murders. ELLINGSON claimed to Ulbricht in online messages that the murders had in fact been committed.
To be fair - he was not pardoned for that, he could still be charged for it.
He was only pardoned for crimes related to drugs.
Dread Pirate Roberts is legend, look up the silk road marketplace.

Theres probably a movie or two about it too
Have you seen the Byte-latent Transformer paper?

It does away with sub-word tokenization but is still more or less a transformer (no working memory or internal iteration). Mostly, the (performance) gains seem modest (not unanimous, some benchmarks it's a bit worse) ....until you hit anything to do with character level manipulation and it just stomps. 1.1% to 99% on CUTE - Spelling as a particularly egregious example.

I'm not sure what the problem is exactly but clearly something about sub-word tokenization is giving these models a particularly hard time on these sort of tasks.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09871
Any non-twitter reporting on this?

Edit: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-pardons-silk-road-fou...
Hey may have other wallets...