skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Considering that his rhetoric was very much based on Christianity, it's clear what standard of "unjust" he was applying.

Considering the diversity of standards of justice within the history of Christianity (which, in just the US, includes—relevant to this topic—MLK, sure, but also the Southern Baptist Convention, founded explicitly in support of slavery), I don't know that having rhetoric grounded in Christian theology tells much of substance about the standard of justice one is appealing to.
Obligatory "This is good for bitcoin"
> China is the largest importer of crude oil in the world.

Uh yeah, duh. Why would you not deplete other people's finite resources while you build massive capacity of your own infinite resources?
> Except many of the most vocal criticizers of progressive prigs come from reactionary prigs and their enablers, and many of the most vocal criticizers of the reactionary prigs come from progressive prigs and their enablers.

I don't think that's true. I'm old enough to remember when priggishness was mostly right-coded, but at that point it looked like church ladies and curtain-twitchers complaining about boobs on the TV, which is not the group that's criticising leftist priggishness by any means. In political compass terms, it's something bottom-left attacks top-right and bottom-right attacks top-left for, because it's more of a top-bottom issue than a left-right one, and it's not really hypocrisy from one side or the other, it just looks like it when viewed through the left-right axis (of course there are some legitimate hypocrites who just cheer for their own left-or-right side and have e.g. flipped from being pro-free-speech when it was left-coded to being anti-free-speech now that it's right-coded).

> Maybe I've just gotten older and less worried about social consequences, but as priggishness goes the currently-passing fashion felt pretty tame. In the mainstream culture - thirty years ago it was "godlessness". Twenty years ago it was "support our troops". Ten years ago it was "gender". And today it's "woke".

The part that worries me is that this time we don't have the separation of personal and political (partly because feminism deliberately, explicitly tore it down) that ensures people don't have to fear for their livelihoods because of their views. It was illegal to fire people for godlessness (or its opposite) or gender, and that was an important protection that unions fought hard for. Wokeism is akin to religion in most of the ways that matter, but since it isn't recognised as such, people can be (and are!) fired (not to mention socially excluded etc.) because they were too woke or not woke enough, and we seemingly just accept that.
Kiri engine is pretty easy to use and just released a good update for their 3DGS pipeline, and they have one of the better 3DGS to mesh options.
https://kiri-innovation.github.io/3DGStoMesh2/
I’m confused as Trump said he wanted to be tough on crime and drugs and “kill drug dealers”, but he just pardoned one of the worlds largest drug dealers.
Pretty sure she is currently in jail.. if not, she's finished doing the time she was sentenced.

Her husband took the fall, whatever the facts actually are, and got a longer sentence.

SBF - well the scale, number of laws violated, duration, number of victims, profile of victims, complete lack of contrition, etc would be why he got a much longer sentence.
The LP presumably
I think his original sentence was absolutely deserved—even though the charge of hiring a contract killer to assassinate his business competition may have been dropped, I think it's clear he did many things in the same vein. Even if you support his original pursuit of a free and open online marketplace, I think most people would agree he took it a bridge too far in the end.

That said, I do think he absolutely deserved to be released, not because he didn't deserve to be locked up in the first place, but because he's clearly been rehabilitated and has done great work during his time in prison. All that considered, ten years seems like a not unreasonable prison sentence for what he did. I hope he'll continue to do good when he's released.
So you agree that Arab citizens in Israel have the same right as Jewish citizens? And your only grievance is regarding which non citizen can get citizenship?
The value of the <EOS> token has gone up since then.
A. His prison sentence was totalitarian and three letters stole his crypto and illegally convicted him.

B. Orange is not a hero. I don't bow down to Kim Jong Un/Hitler wannabees.

C. Tor is a three letter honeypot.
Well even if he bet on going that route he wouldn't have to be "elected", and my last line applies none the less, it didn't hurt him during an actual election.
NGL it would be pretty funny if Snowden gets to return to the west but we hadn't actually fixed any of the stuff he brought forward in the meantime. Not sure what I would do in his shoes... I guess a pardon is pretty impossible for future presidents to get around, TBF
The violent element was not proven for Ross. The judge decided on preponderance of evidence he hired the hit man, and sentenced him as if he did.
FIDE Slams Freestyle Chess, Threatens Legal Action
Exactly. If anything, the one thing that’s guaranteed in these types of threads is that someone will make this same tired argument of “aha, but HN back then said differently” as if it’s some kind of gotcha. I used to always look, and not only was it never the same people but the threads are largely more balanced than the original poster let on. It’s like the contrarian dynamic, which dang has to explain over and over and over and over and over again.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Orange man is a classic tough-on-crime guy, very selective what crimes and what demographics of criminals he is tough on.
It was a forum that mocked the government's ability to regulate drug trafficking and therefore he was prosecuted?

I find that hard to believe.
Trump know the Jan 6 rioters and supported them. Pardoning is important to justify his claim that nobody did anything wrong as that the election was "stolen by the Dems".

I can't imagine he would have known Ross Ulbricht's case.
> it seems like CloudFront could very easily fix this by not returning the cf-ray header

Then you just look at the response time. If the resource needs to be fetched from another continent, this is probably reliably measurable

Same for websites trying to hide which users exist: do a login request for an existing username and it'll do the password hashing (usually adds at least 50 ms to the response time), whereas for an invalid username it early exits. The fix is to always run the same code, so always do the hashing, which very few sites do. (Or not care about revealing this and telling people straight out that their username is unknown, if that fits with your threat model.) So to get back to Cloudflare's case: it won't help unless they delay responses, which is the opposite of what they're supposed to do
Trump unveils $500B joint AI venture between OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank
There are only mandatory minimums -- not mandatory maximums in sentencing.

I feel like me might disagree on Ulbricht, but overall mandatory maximums make a lot of sense.
In 2016 John McAffee tried to run for president as a libertarian candidate, RIP.
It’s extremely common in for example diversion cases and others, where the defendant has to stipulate that they are agreeable to things being presented as in charging documents and evaluated based on preponderance by a court, not by a jury and not subject to principles of reasonable doubt.
I hope the Japanese government demands seismic isolation for Softbank, otherwise it will be the Japanese citizens who have to foot the bill when this hype hits the ground and shakes hard the Japanese economy :/

Softbank should not be allowed to invest more than ARM Holdings sold at a loss.
I'm working on something that allows you to mirror your online (my game world) virtual "possessions" locally, open-source, free, forever.
The clips of him rolling his eyes and head around in boredom at the inauguration definitely looked like he was suffering from some kind of withdrawal symptoms.
The current unemployment situation seems largely irrelevant to a future scenario where mass AI roll out happens. Things are likely to change somehow. Probably dramatically. So more of the same is probably not what the future holds

> They’re delivering your food and keeping the streets swept

And when we automate those? If you keep automating stuff eventually you run out of places to put the displaced people. Does that not seem intuitively logical to you?

Upskilling doesn’t magically solve that problem. It just saturates a different level. Bit like going to Uni used to be a certain win now less so because everyone is going to Uni.
> Trump seems to be a man of his word.

when there's political gain, sure
Fair enough. Though I suspect that it will be quite difficult to find the right words, even with substantial legalese. But I did want to make the note of caution. Especially as this even permeates into the public language, which in turn ends up being what politicians use because they just care about signaling instead of solving the actual problems...
But “mind virus“ is such a cool phrase, and it implies that people who disagree with you are not just wrong, but diseased. Great bit of rhetoric.
He promised the Libertarians he would and he's holding true to his word. Say what you will but at least he's fulfilling his campaign promises.
Tangentially related: I had the disconcerting experience of reading a Wired article about his arrest[1] while unknowingly sitting about six feet from the spot where he was apprehended. When I read that the FBI agents had stopped at Bello Coffee while preparing their stakeout, I thought, huh, interesting coincidence, I just had a coffee there.

Then Ulbricht walked into the public library and sat down at the table directly in front of me, and suddenly as I was reading I could look up and see exactly the chair he had been in, where the plainclothes police had positioned themselves, how they had arranged a distraction.

Having this tableau unexpectedly unfold right in front of my eyes was a fascinating experience, and it certainly made the article suddenly get a lot more immersive!

[1] https://www.wired.com/2015/05/silk-road-2/

EDIT: to be clear, I was not present for the arrest. I was reading the magazine, some years after the arrest, but in the same place as the arrest. (I didn’t qualify the events with “I read that...” since I thought the narrative ellipsis would be obvious from context; evidently not.)
Yes. Except, "neutralize?" I don't know why the federal government would bother with the pretense of a 22nd Amendment when they demonstrably do not care in the slightest about the 14th or most of the Bill of Rights.
What has always sat odd with me regarding this, is we don't truly know the extent of the fbi's corruption in this. They stole, so it's not hard to imagine they planted evidence too.
I guess we can just bet on them never hearing about and investing massive amounts of time and money into artificial wombs.

Instead of figuring that out, they'll just watch their civilization crumble.

Btw: they're already investing heavily in artificial wombs and affiliated technologies.
does anyone want to recommend a decent commercial, easily available option?

I've a Vic Firth (yes, that Vic Firth) one that I've had for a couple decades. They're now sold under the Fletcher's Mill brand. They use their own stainless steel mechanism.

I went looking for a mill for white pepper recently. I've a 50 year old Danish mill I'd love to repair, but that's a project for another day. Serious Eats seems to like the Kuhn Rikon ones but none of the long term reviews on the KR site are positive. Peugeot naysayers seem to be popping up more frequently, and for that price I'd expect better. Each seems to attract a few specific types of complaints which to me seems to lend a bit of credibility.

In any case, my new Fletcher's Mill grinder just showed up today and superficially it looks like they've only made small changes. The adjustment mechanism is the same and similar to the classic Peugeot mechanism. I've not taken it apart, but I believe the grinding mechanism is the same two stage unit as my old one.
The people in Pennsylvania who elected him, didn't want this.
too complex, or is he saying "there are no complex 3D puzzles, too much information"
Two life sentences was a bit harsh. 11 years seems about right to me.

I suspect the idea beyond "Free Ross" in some circles was that his conviction wasn't so much about drug dealing, but rather it was more a political prosecution for popularizing real uses of cryptocurrencies.
This is a fun material you could use to detect if a band was stretched or not, silver coated elastic [0], near 0 ohm resistance when loose, resistance increases when stretched. I built a voltage divider with a patch of it when I was experimenting with fabric input devices, mostly just noise makers, but you can see how responsive it is [1]

[0] https://lessemf.com/product/stretch-conductive-fabric/

[1] https://youtu.be/Xjo4w4OiBS8
Generation Gapped
A PhD is one thing, but doing it in Europe is a double whammy. People there, in general, love to use culture as an excuse to be rude for no reason. Germans and the French seem to take the crown in that regard.
Oh so it was a marketplace, not a forum. Like one that allowed people to openly transact illegal goods? That makes more sense.

It's weird that GP seemed to purposely obscure that.
China's oil reserve only lasts 80 days. In case of any conflict that disrupts oil import, China would be shutting down very quickly. Since you brought up crumble and starvation.
It is common that several outcomes are subject - with the defendants specific agreement - to be evaluated by a court on preponderance, not a jury. This was not judicial malpractice.
He was never a drug dealer, he provided a platform that was used to sell drugs. The pardon was a surprise, however his sentence was unfairly strict and he was clearly made an example out of that hasn't happened to any other platform provider.

Just as an example, there have been investigations in to the use of Snapchat as a method for drug dealers and gangs of drug dealers to access kids to sell them drugs However there has been absolutely zero discussion in the public domain even about shutting it down or requiring new laws to stop this, let alone considering charging the owners.
Wow. I thought you were being glib, but the average comment length is noticeably higher in the linked discussion. While length isn’t necessarily a valid proxy for meaningful conversation, this was definitely an eye-opening contrast to the current thread.
What evidence would you have even needed to plant? He ran the largest internet drug market and openly tried to assassinate a competitor.
Training, yes, but they recoup inference costs through subscriptions.
They've gone full doublethink, like when Trump claimed Jan 6 was done by antifas, but then pardoned them all and no one seemed to remember.
looks about right, from anecdotal evidence
I was in academia - I got a PhD, did a postdoc, got a lifetime faculty job.

And I'm so much happier now working in professional software engineering than I was in academia.
Discussion (371 points, 3 hours ago, 451 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42785891
idk. but in the country I live the majority more or less agrees with my stance, and things are quite similar in a lot of EU countries and this was about EU regulations...
It was a decisive electoral vote victory, but 2.3 million votes difference works out as 49.8% of the popular vote to 48.3% of the popular vote.

I believe around 230,000 votes across Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin would have made the difference.

I think that counts as eking, personally.
What do you mean "lightly?" He ran an illegal drug market and tried to assassinate a competitor. We gave him the punishment that society has determined one should receive for this. Revoking his punishment is "light."
TLDR:

Japanese study (data through Dec 2023) found mRNA COVID vaccines linked to increased heart inflammation risk - Moderna showed higher risk (54x) than Pfizer (15.6x). Out of 880,999 reports, there were 919 myocarditis and 321 pericarditis cases. Most affected were males under 30, occurring within 8 days post-vaccine. While most patients recovered, some cases were severe or fatal.
China installed a record capacity of solar and wind in 2024 – in numbers
You may not like Trump but I remember he fulfilled or attempted to fulfill a lot of his campaign promises back in 2016 as well. Biden, the career politician, talked a lot about many things before election and then forgot about them after he was elected. For example, universal health care. Obama promised to enshrine a woman's right to abortion as law, and then when he had the House and Senate after he was elected, he said "it's not a priority for me." Then we lost Roe V Wade.
Agreed. He willingly engaged with the alleged hitman (which ended up being the FBI contact). He didn't need to do anything or not have the thought to murder others cross his mind.
> And in every one of those cases I've seen they've been unbanned

"I'm locked out of my account because of a buggy algorithm and there is no recourse" is a recurring thing here.
The sentence before the one you quoted gives the essential context:

> Signal conversations are always end-to-end encrypted, which means that they can only be read or heard by your intended recipients.

They're not saying that it is an anonymisation proxy, they're saying the messages and calls are encrypted for the recipient rather than to the server
Didn’t Altman say they’re losing money on the $200 subscription tier?

Inference isn’t cheap either.
Oracle purchased Cerner which is now sitting on a ton of healthcare data.
I've made a tiny ~1m parameter model that can generate random Magic the Gathering cards that is largely based on Karpathy's nanogpt with a few more features added on top.

I don't have a pre-trained model to share but you can make one yourself from the git repo, assuming you have an apple silicon mac.

https://github.com/jlwitthuhn/TCGGPT
And? Who's going to try and achieve that? It has extremely diversified oil sources.
This is wonderful. I've never argued that Ross shouldn't have served time but it's always been clear his prosecution and sentencing were excessive and unjust. The prosecutors asked for a 20 year sentence, which seemed disproportionate given the sentencing guidelines for a first-time offender and the non-violent charges he was convicted of. But the judge sentenced Ross to TWO life sentences plus 40 years - without the possibility of parole. There's no doubt Ross made a series of unwise and reckless decisions but serving over ten years of hard time in a FedMax prison is more than enough given the charges and his history.

It's just unfortunate that Trump, and now, excessive pardons are politically polarized, which could cloud the fact that justice was done today. I don't credit Trump in any way for doing "the right thing" or even having a principled position regarding Ross' case. Clearly, others with influence on Trump convinced him to sign it. It doesn't matter how the pardon happened. Biden should have already pardoned Ross because that crazy sentence shouldn't have happened in the first place.
It was only digits initially (https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/oc6ow4/so_a_four_di...), with nothing preventing very easy ones like "1234", but even after they fixed it they continued to call it a PIN and many people would just assume is a number ("number" is right in the acronym), and often a very short one. Most people didn't want to set a PIN at all, they'd been being nagged about setting one and then got nagged again and again to reenter it.

It was not clear to most people that their highly sensitive info was being uploaded to the cloud at all let alone that it was only protected by the PIN. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people picked something as simple as possible.

https://old.reddit.com/r/signal/comments/gqc2hu/the_new_pin_...
> enable or disable restrictions based on the time of day or a certain duration

this is what I need
He never admitted to the attempted murder. So it's not a leap to assume that might of been tainted
because it was a promise he made to the libertarian camp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8ofi6U0eWE
Framing this as judicial activism is false. Many sentencing arrangements include - with the agreement of the defendant (since it is their rights in this case) - to have other related activities factored in exactly this manner.

It happens all the time in pleas and diversion agreements, so don’t frame it as a reckless lone judge going off the reservation.
I hear this joked about sometimes or used as a metaphor, but in the literal sense of the phrase, are we in a cold war right now? These types of dollars feel "defense-y", if that makes sense. Especially with the big focus on energy, whatever that ends up meaning. Defense as a motivation can get a lot done very fast so it will be interesting to watch, though it raises the hair on my arms
The best videos would be those where you accidentally start recording and you get 2 hours of naturalistic conversation between real people in reality. Not sure how often they are uploaded to YouTube.

Part of the reason that kids need less material is that the aren't just listening, they are also able to do experiments to see what works and what doesn't.
Donald literally cites Mommy Ulbricht's political inclinations...
Well, no, but people do. The whole point of this thread is "people are bad at estimating quantity." If it looks the same size as it used to be, but in reality it's half again as big, that's going to have an effect.
You realize this is going to cause carriers to allow the number to send more spam, because it looks like engagement. The best thing to do is to report the offending message to 7726 (SPAM) so the carrier can take action. You can also file complaints at the FTC and FCC websites, but that takes a bit more effort.
According to Reuters he was found guilty of "charges including distributing drugs through the Internet and conspiring to commit computer hacking and money laundering." In addition to running an illegal market bazaar for 4 years.
How do you feel about him backing down on H1B visas, price of groceries, peace in Ukraine...
Hence why, if DPR was going to get off somehow, a sentence commutation would have been better rather than an unconditional pardon. The latter implies he did absolutely nothing wrong, which hilariously runs counter to Trump's supposed tough on drugs and crime shtick he has.
I think you need much more than "feels" to make claims like that, especially as they are directly contrary to HN guidelines, but also because making baseless claims, especially about other commenters, is a meaningless, inflammatory response.

So far you don't know what you are talking about and are making things up. If you do know what you're talking about and aren't making it up, please share your evidence and reasoning.
Funny that 1 litre is singular but 1.0 lires is plural even though 1.0 is more precisely singular than 1.

IOW, English is screwy
Tainted how?
Crypto oligarchs calling the shots in The Bronzer Strikes Back.
For starters, the Sieg Heil salute that Elon did was exactly the same as Hitler did it [1] and modern-day white nationalists do it [2].

Secondly, anyone who refers to Nazism as the "the National-Socialist party of the German working class" is clearly attempting to make an utterly specious claim that Nazism is really about Socialism and not about Fascism.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/1i6par1/elon_musk_vs_...

2. https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/1i6v521/for_those_not...
> I don't believe there is much history to show someone who gained a surprising second chance outside of prison has gone back to their previous life.

Didnt have to look far, from dec 9:

https://lawandcrime.com/crime/exonerated-man-heading-back-to...