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Trump has never been a big drug warrior (against drug users). His social views are basically late 80's 1990s Democrat and not out of line with Clinton, etc.
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Suggestion: put at least a screenshot on the frontpage...
To be honest if Trump would've pardoned him in his first term it would've been way too short of a sentence for what he did. Though I hate the usual libertarian defense that makes him out to be an innocent martyr, I think that 10 years is somewhat enough for what he did. It would have been a normal sentence in a lot of countries outside the US.
Absolutely. I attended a webinar yesterday on SEO/content marketing from a very well-known/established SEO "expert" and it was shockingly 101. However, one detail I did appreciate was hearing how long-term the standard inbound, organic content strategy is. Many have said this for years, but they showed some good data to really hammer home the point, folding in the reality that AI content farms make it all the more difficult. The other tiny detail that came up that was useful was seeing data emphasizing how counterproductive dating content is – the further away the present date is from the content, the least likely it is to be indexed and/or ranked. The advice I'd heard until this point was to update and republish content. This webinar showed data proving that publishing dateless content outperforms that approach.
And stores are not allowed to sell knifes due to the danger to others?
Then commute his sentence to time served. Don't pardon him, which says he wasn't guilty to begin with.
Sucks that there is a paywall for this one, will look up another site
I think people just try things sometimes, and that this AI is be one of them. In the current times, people put AI everywhere, especially where there is textual communication involved. I think this effort fits well into this trend.
There's a reality of that and then there's a perception. That is, the politician doesn't have any obligation to return the favor.

There's the problem that, when supply is limited, auctions clear at a price set by the person who thinks the object is worth the most, whose opinion is likely to be wrong.

(Radio advertising, a business that I've hovered around the periphery of for years, is like that in my mind. The owner of all the car dealerships in my city feels a little squee every time he hears his name on the radio, which distorts his judgement. People who do direct-to-consumer advertising on YouTube, however, have an excellent model of how much value an ad contributes to their business, which is why radio advertising impression rates are on an an entirely different planet than online ads.)
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Recording drum kits with them must be a delicate business…
There is a poll about this that was recently released: https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/postelection-polling

Here's a quote from the poll:

When Biden 2020 voters cast a ballot for someone besides Harris in 2024 were asked “Which one of the following issues was MOST important in deciding your vote?” they selected:

29% - Ending Israel’s violence in Gaza
24% - The economy
12% - Medicare and Social Security
11% - Immigration and border security
10% - Healthcare
9% - Abortion policy
5% - Don’t know
ok. so for some reason the federal government indicted him on attempted murder in 2018(?) and for some reason the charge was dismissed… on what grounds was it dismissed? and i believe he could still be charged by the state of California or another state so hopefully we will see that

edit: this section of reasons’ article summarizes the situation nicely.

“Now that Ulbricht has no chance of having his initial conviction and sentencing overturned or adjusted, it's likely the feds out of Maryland decided the indictment no longer was needed to make sure the government had some further means in their back pocket to punish Ulbricht for showing a safer, saner way around their insanely damaging drug war.”

the reason the charges were dismissed is similar to the reason he wasnt charged initially: because attempted murder charge was unnecessary from the prosecutors point if view. not because he is innocent of the charge. the article also notes that torture was an element in those murders. this guy should not be walking free
I think the whole argument here is silly, but I do know kitty (terminal) and Calibre (ebook manager) are two rather popular cross platform python desktop apps.
We keep saying people like him shouldn't be involved in certain ventures, and yet, they still are. More than ever, actually.
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Here is the National Commercial Fishing Safety Advisory Council charter:

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/24_0712_ncfs...

The activities listed are:

1. "...advise and provide recommendations in writing to the Secretary of Homeland Security...on matters relating to the safe operation of commercial fishing industry vessels"
2. "review regulations..."
3. "review marine casualties and investigations of vessels..."
OTOH I'd love to have a model trained to address XY problems.

Of course ideally you should be able to ignore that suggestion and force an actual response
If a Mafia boss never strong armed a merchant, never busted any kneecaps, and never pulled a trigger but simply paid other people to carry out various crimes, should the law give him a short sentence because he was non-violent?

I don't know what the appropriate sentence for Ulbrecht, but I think your claims about proportionality are missing the fact he didn't just direct commit a few crimes, such as trying (unsuccessfully) to hire a hitman, but he facilitated hundreds of thousands of crimes. Maybe you think selling drugs and guns to randos should not be illegal, but that is a separate question of whether or not he broke the laws as written.

As for your last point, I don't disagree that the wealthy/powerful/connected live under a different justice system than everyone else.
Interesting.

It's the opposite in Russian — it'd be "100½ książek" there (сто c половиной книжек), even though it's "½ książki" (половина книжки).

"½ książek" (половина книжек) is also valid, and it means "half of (all the) books".

But in "100½", it's the whole number that determines the ending (i.e. case) of the word.
He just fired or transfered everyone government involved in supporting Ukraine in their defensive war.
"The wanting to not doom-scroll should be intrinsic"

For me, it is, but I would still automatically open Reddit or Twitter when compiling code, and then get stuck in a loop of looking at interesting and/or annoying stuff.

The solution was easy, though, I just put all of these sites, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, etc. into my hosts file and pointed them to localhost. It took about a week for this automatic behavior to stop. Instead, I have a language learning app, so now I go through some flashcards while my code compiles.

Or open news.ycombinator.com. Maybe the next addition to my hosts file.
Ebay tries to prevent you from selling illegal stuff though. Silk Road didn't. The reputation system was to prevent scams and bad quality products, not to prevent illegal transactions, right?
A pardon is not used when you think the crime occurred but the punishment is too harsh. That's a commutation (which the president also has the power to do). It can replace the punishment with a lighter one or none at all.

A pardon is used when you want to erase the criminal record on top of that.
I propose the names: small, mid, and large. More nuanced lingo around tests is typically about sounding smart when really what you should be doing it not classifying but analyzing your particular case which will always defy classification at least a little.
It is very difficult to compare or extrapolate US with Scandinavian countries. US is socially super-heterogeneus, huge, and big population while Scandinavian countries are socially homogeneus, small size and population. And this is just the beginning.
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Sorry to break it to you, but oppressing people with cameras to prevent crime will only push the crime to where the cameras aren't.

This makes preventing the crime and protecting people from effects of these crimes extremely difficult.
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Hard disagree - Zuckerberg absolutely is responsible for inadequately policing calls for genocide on his platform. Just as every social network is responsible for policing child abuse materials. Should they be punished for such content being uploaded? Of course not. They should face punishment where their wilful failure to police such content results in active harm. Facebook's utterly irresponsible behaviour in Myanmar is a great example - https://systemicjustice.org/article/facebook-and-genocide-ho...

In the case of the Silk Road of course, it's much worse, since the platform specifically existed to facilitate illegal behaviour. I couldn't care less about the drug dealing aspect per say, but absolutely facilitating sale in these quantities with no protection from outright poisoning from contaminants is immoral. But he also sold weapons via 'the armory' https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/not-ready-silk-roads-the...

He also directly attempted to have someone murdered, which is a very serious crime in any country. The guy is not a hero. - https://www.wired.com/2015/02/read-transcript-silk-roads-bos...
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Existing underinvestment in infrastructure and its maintenance, extreme weather, water resource limitations, some human rights issues.
was expecting to see examples of python tests you would use, presumably for testing the rust code? like, how would writing the tests in python be easier?
Oracle has 2-3% market share as a Cloud Provider.

MSFT or even Google (AWS is not as mature in that space imho) made perfect sense, Oracle doesn't.

Elon and Larry are good friends, I would guess that has something to do with this development.
The difference between Obama’s ideal Section 230 and Trump’s is a good point. Even though the President doesn’t enact legislation, Trump issued a formal paper calling for changes to Section 230. Looks to me like DPR was more innocent under Obama.
Chrome on Android also has per-site limits, which I've also found useful in addition to the overall app limit.

15 minutes on HN, then I'm out even if I still have a Chrome limit.

It's really interesting that we have to resort to little jails like this to get our attention back.
Deleted all of my accounts. It's not worth it anymore.
I'm working on a plugin[1] that runs local LLMs from the Godot game engine. The optimal model sizes seem to be 2B-7B ish, since those will run fast enough on most computers. We recommend that people try it out with Gemma 2 2B (but it will work with any model that works with llama.cpp)

At those sizes, it's great for generating non-repetitive flavortext for NPCs. No more "I took an arrow to the knee".

Models at around the 2B size aren't really capable enough to act a competent adversary - but they are great for something like bargaining with a shopkeeper, or some other role where natural language can let players do a bit more immersive roleplay.

[1] https://github.com/nobodywho-ooo/nobodywho
I'm not American and even I can tell you that this is a terrible attempt at false equivalence.

Trump was president and commited a ton of crimes while being one, and a ton of others before and after. He was rightfully prosecuted, but unfortunately escaped any real consequences. His trials were mediatised and saw big attention form politicians because he was a former president, who was impeached being sued for a ton of different criminal activities, including multiple directly related to his job (the top job in the US). His trials were directly relevant to the wider public and political establishment, and should have prevented him from ever running again for even a school board.

Biden's son is a nobody. No high positions in government, no power, no shady deals getting billions from Saudis or whatever. Run of the mill small time criminal who got paraded through Congress simply because his father was president.

It's really absurd to try to compare the two, or claim that the myriad of trials against Trump were "politically motivated". The man is a fucking convicted criminal, rapist, absurd creep, tax cheat, stole from a children's cancer charity, plan and simple and obvious for anyone. And uet he's back at the top job, publicly promising vengeance to all those who wronged him. He directly and publicly threatened Zuckerberg and others.

It's really absurd trying to compare the two, and I refuse to believe this can be done in good faith.
Anytime Bill Gates comes up, I feel the need to remind people that he has spent billions in “philanthropy” to destroy the public school system. He is a his backer of charter schools.

The point is that even something noble-sounding like giving away your fortune still tends to enforce the current system and simply create more wealth inequality. In this case, charter schools are simply a massive wealth transfer from government to the private sector.

Atwood left StackOverflow years ago but he’s been there for years. We can only speculate as to what he made from the sale. I’d guess 10-15%.

I just hope his altruism goes to something of public benefit.
I disagree. If you look back and all you see are commit messages summarizing the diff, you won't get any meaningful information.

Telling me `Changed timeout from 30s to 60s` means nothing, while `Increase timeout for slow <api name> requests` gives me an actual idea of why that was done.

Even better if you add meaningful messages to the commit body.

Take a look at commits from large repositories like the Linux kernel and we can see how good commit messages looks like.
For me it describes the feeling I have AFTERWARDS. It’s like eating a lot of sweets. They taste great while you’re at it. You feel awful afterwards.
Current state of your religion sucks big time then.
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There were many other items and services sold on Silk Road, it wasn’t just drugs.
If an LLM clears up a misunderstanding, I am having trouble seeing that as a bad thing.

Maybe in 10 years we can blame poor reading comprehension on having a decade of computers reading for us. But it’s a bit early for that.
The "rational" explanation is that Trump's staff are trying to clear house of anyone they don't trust will give in to any demands they make, and put everyone else who works for the government directly or indirectly in a state of fear and confusion.
He tried to have someone's life violently taken away. He should have rotted in there.
Humans created this condition for this fish. We should lament what its apparent consciousness of the world around it (constrained to tank walls of course) implies.
I'm just assuming any pardons issued since Monday are probably to bad people.
Clinton was a drug war supporter. He started the whole "Yea But it is Still Federally Illegal under Federal Law" in response to proposition 215 in California in late December of 1996.
> "unseemly cash grab" is .. definitionally what an awful lot of meme coins are.

Well, I mean, all of them. But you don't want to be quite _this_ obvious about it.

The other grifters are simply annoyed that the grifter-in-chief is being a bit blatant about the grift, which will hurt them all when it implodes.
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> Carnegie Mellon University's researchers did an analysis of Silk Road gathering data on a daily basis for eight months before it was shut down. Some of their findings include:

> “‘Weed’ (i.e., marijuana) is the most popular item on Silk Road” (p.8)

> “The quantities being sold are generally rather small (e.g., a few grams of marijuana)” (p.12)

> In Table 1, we take a closer look at the top 20 categories per number of item offered. “Weed” (i.e., mari- juana) is the most popular item on Silk Road, followed by “Drugs,” which encompass any sort of narcotics or prescription medicine the seller did not want further classified. Prescription drugs, and “Benzos,” colloquial term for benzodiazepines, which include prescription medicines like Valium and other drugs used for insom- nia and anxiety treatment, are also highly popular. The four most popular categories are all linked to drugs; nine of the top ten, and sixteen out of the top twenty are drug-related. In other words, Silk Road is mostly a drug store, even though it also caters some other products. Finally, among narcotics, even though such a classification is somewhat arbitrary, Silk Road appears to have more inventory in “soft drugs” (e.g., weed, cannabis, hash, seeds) than “hard drugs” (e.g., opiates); this presumably simply reflects market demand.

> Silk Road places relatively few restrictions on the types of goods sellers can offer. From the Silk Road sellers’ guide [5],
“Do not list anything who’s (sic) purpose is to harm or defraud, such as stolen items or info, stolen credit cards, counterfeit currency, personal info, assassinations, and weapons of any kind. Do not list anything related to pedophilia.”

> Conspicuously absent from the list of prohibited items are prescription drugs and narcotics, as well as adult pornography and fake identification documents (e.g., counterfeit driver’s licenses). Weapons and am- munition used to be allowed until March 4, 2012, when they were transferred to a sister site called The Armory [1], which operated with an infrastructure similar to that of Silk Road. Interestingly, the Armory closed in August 2012 reportedly due to a lack of business [6].

https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/nicolasc/publications/TR-CMU...
Is the frequency response purely a function of the physical shape? I wonder why you can't use a similar diaphragm shape but as a condenser?
Not sure, but when they have various political candidates getting millions from the crypto PACs and all of them in unison talking about how Ross Ulbricht needs a pardon, I'm not sure what else to tell you. Maybe someone just knew Ulbricht personally and is using their money to spring him.

But unless you can point to any other group with actual power and money who was pushing for it, the most obvious answer is that the main funders of the crypto PACs were at least ok with it. There's no way they couldn't have subtly squashed this pardon with Trump if it was just the Libertarians asking for it given that they seem to have gotten him to commit to do literally everything else they want.
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I have read at least 1000 European and American novels, play, poetry etc. and never had a single issue.

The comment you refer to is just poorly written.
It sounds just like any other mic, with subtle differences audible only to the most trained ear.

Their frequency response is probably well characterised and documented, so you can simulate one by putting an appropriate EQ over a "normal" mic and the outcome will be indistinguishable from the real thing.
The richest plutocrat on Earth, now in charge of cutting government regulations, makes multiple emphatic Nazi salutes Day 1 at the inauguration...

Paul Graham: Censoring multiple rapidly popular posts of this is "how HN works and is supposed to work".

... Good to know.
More precisely, that unreasonable man must add sufficient extraordinary value to his product to convert complacent users into willing defectors.

Thus you must convince users that 1) FB is clearly inferior to your product (e.g. many important hidden demerits) or 2) your product adds something essential that's absent in FB. Otherwise, why switch?
I once noticed (in the UK) that two people who I read news stories about in the same week got similar sentences. One for breach of copyright, one for sexually assaulting a teenager.

That said, I think Ross did knowingly enable violence?
Why would you assume good intent at this point? Their motives and plans have been clear for years.
You might be interested in my comment about Carnegie Mellon University's researchers findings on what Silk Road sold/didn't sell/what was popular.
I have long written the pyramid with the vertical axis of runtime. At the bottom are tests that run so fast you would run them every build even if there is no possible way your code changes could break those tests. Then tests that you run if they test what you just changed. Next tests you run on all CI builds [locally only when they fail]. Then tests you run regularly but not ever CI builds (every night or every week). Then tests that are so expensive you run them rarely - these generally are manual tests where a human is running the test in some real world condition that is hard to setup.

There is value in every level.
You could speculate though. Presumably you're detail oriented enough to dig in.
- "But without question, many people who purchased drugs on the Silk Road and survived, would have purchased those drugs elsewhere and died from impurities in the Silk Road's absence. I think there's an argument to be made that Ullbricht saved lives by purveying safer drugs."

But how's that different from arguing that every crack dealer who doesn't cut their crack product is a utilitarian, net-positive life-saver?

Alice sells pure crack. Bob one street down adds fentanyl for the extra kick. It's a reasonable inference that Alice's clients, deprived of Alice, would switch to Bob and promptly off themselves. Does it therefore follow, that Alice-who-sells-crack is an upstanding, lifesaving even, member of society, who should be left free to sell more crack? If not, then what's the differentiation between Alice-who-sells-crack and Ross Ulbricht—what innovation has that cryptocurrency startup innovated, that makes it it a substantively different moral scenario?

Certainly, no crack dealer has ever, in the history of the US, tried to advance this specific utilitarian argument, which Ulbricht attached himself to (as Judge Forrest pointed out—it's a privileged argument of a privileged person).
So, maybe the new administration did a global "ctrl-f regulation, uncheck".
I'd argue this government has not just experienced no consequences, they've experienced the opposite of no consequences. Somehow the American people saw everything they'd done and were saying they'd do and then the people emphatically voted for it. I'm still gobsmacked.
This is wonderful in terms of pricing, need to give it a try soon.
And "rien" (nothing) used to mean something (via latin "res")
What OP is saying is instead of having some sort of legal liability attached or outside directives being handed to them, they would rather implement on their own or push their own standards.

A notable example is SEC mandates on breach disclosures, which will most likely be dead now. Those were a major forcing function to make companies realize security is important. Otherwise, paying a ransom and doing the bare minimum to not get cut by Chubbs or AXA is the norm.

I agree with JumpCriscross on his read of this situation. It ain't great. At least I'm well off enough to weather the negative impacted by a lot of the chaos. Sucks for everyone else.

> The coordination definitely seems to be more of amzn (and similar) employees providing technical expertise to congress and regulators

It's bidirectional. CISA, FBI, and others often get intel or actively take down a botnet or offensive actor, and will percolate this information to security teams at larger organizations before percolating en masse.

For example, when this one APM/data collection tool that almost every DevOps team ik was using was pwned early last year, CISA notified CISOs days before they officially announced it in the news.
First it was AI articles, raising it to entire successful book trilogies seems like a much bigger leap. Even considering the largest context windows they wouldn't directly fit and there is much less data to train context of that size on fiction than the data out there for essays and articles.

I don't think it is there yet for articles either.

My point with the Claude generated comment was maybe it could get pretty close to something like an hn comment.