skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure it's so rare. A large number of group chats will have people in the same area. For me it's the vast majority: family chat, groups of old classmates or flatmates are mostly in the same country, work chats too... I can think of one exception where a group member will consistently be hitting a different Cloudflare node from everyone else, but for everyone else, every time I send a picture into a group chat the caching will save traffic
There is a huge difference between a communication platform that some users abuse for illegal purposes, and a platform whose primary purpose is a marketplace for illegal goods.
I think cheap power (whether gas turbines or massive solar farms) trumps any cooling efficiencies gained by locating in a cold climate.
Playing this for a few turns and you will see why they developed the banjo and then the Torpedo Data Computer. I am currently reading a fiction submarine warfare book (entertaining with warts) and they cover the switch over.

The book is Sink the Rising Sun.

The TDC is described well here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_Data_Computer

Manual for the banjo here. Imagine a slide rule that could solve the problems in this game (given perfect input data) - https://maritime.org/doc/banjo/index.php
In addition to the enclave routes, I have a proposal to build this with AWS Lambda as a poor man’s attestation: https://github.com/captn3m0/ideas?tab=readme-ov-file#verifia...
So we like drug markets now ?

How are cartels terrorist organizations?
Read my comment again. I self-identify as a libertarian as I see individual freedom as paramount. But I kept going with the analysis to realize that the Libertarian Party does very little to represent that ideal.
I have yet to understand people's appall at Facebook "using your data" aka targeted ads based on shit the person (mostly) knowingly gave them. LOL that "products before people" cry. The outrage was so doused in bitterness toward a product the people were addicted to much more than the worry that its CEO knows they're getting engaged and they're creeping on their high school crush or whatever.

Then again, Trump wanted to ban Tiktok and we all laughed, and now it's banned under his successor, kind of, and now he's saying he'll defy the actual law and unban it? China!
I don't understand this...

Do you just get offended by anything American?
private intelligence still has a few ways to go before whistleblowers don't have all their rights stripped by the state
The attempted murder charge was dropped.

Under our system that means he should be considered innocent of it.

This conversation is messy mostly because people are refusing to do that, which is akin to vigilantism.

A good faith discussion should only involve the charge he was convicted of and pardoned for, which is the narcotics charge.
yeah but freeing ross was a key campaign promise made by trump to sway libertarian voters
Hard to agree here. A jury of his peers convicted him of the crime.
Well the American Government auctioned the bitcoin, and the two FBI agents were tried and sentenced for theft. I don't need evidence.

I am curious how the American government can reimburse those pardoned.
The US government and its media partners sure seem to think so.
How are cartels terrorist organizations but online drug markets are not illegal ?
I see. Sorry you had a shitty experience
A) yes, probably

B) I don’t see this sort of leniency being offered to other drug dealers, in fact, the Trump administration wants to designate Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations.

C) a day 1 pardon communicates that it’s a top priority of the administration that drug dealers and cop killers (Jan 6) get freed.

D) he was convicted by a jury of his peers who know full well what a judge would sentence him to. Now Trump comes out to overrule that.

The time to change sentencing would have been pre-trial. We tried doing that, but that was a massive loser electorally.
At least this time the CEO of their chosen company isn’t a yuppie cult leader wannabe.
even if its not perfect for every situation it was a lot better then what existed.

negative reviews aren't the only review, absence of positive reviews is a signal, along with a lot of other positive reviews. later markets at least had reviews outside the markets too

if you are in the bulk and resale drug market you probably aren't getting package with your name on it to your home.
Presidents and governors should NOT have the power to pardon people. And if they do it should be ONE pardon per term.
We certainly are, if you ask me. Especially when you realize that we haven’t had official comms with Russia since the war in Ukraine broke out.
Training is how the low pay is justified. I certainly agree it's not a good deal, more of a supply and demand effect. Are you saying I'm wrong about the definition? It's pretty universal: https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf21327

I do agree it probably gets used more as an easy way to get experience, the usual thing organizations crave in their new hires. But it isn't the only way. Top graduates can get temporary research faculty positions or even go directly to tenure track. Or in STEM fields, a few years in industry is seen as positive. Industry and Government research labs also have their own "postdoc" positions which can be pretty much normal pay.
If you write it out as "one litre" vs. "one point zero litres" it becomes a little bit more consistent though.
That argument isn't contrary to the GP comment: It's very possible Trump is offered a benefit now that he wasn't offered in 2020.

You could ask the same of any deal: Why not instead of years ago? Because the deal wasn't available years ago.
What would give you a hint that attempted murder conviction would prevent his pardon? Trump pardoned over a thousand attempted murdered already this week.
What about his campaign promise for law and order?
FIDE has no leg to stand on here. They don't own chess and they don't have a trademark on the phrase "World Championship" as it applies to chess. They can and will sanction players, and that will be enough to shut this down--but the idea that they could take "legal action" is laughable.
Yes, people hate inflation, because inflation creates a demand for more money! Inflation means there is not enough money for people. So why did prices go up, is it just because of fiscal spending?

The relationship between inflation and monetary policy is more complex than often portrayed. While recent inflation has created financial strain for many Americans, its root causes extend beyond simple money supply issues.
Recent data shows that corporate profit margins reached historic highs during the inflationary period of 2021-2022. For example, in Q2 2022, corporate profits as a percentage of GDP hit 15.5%, the highest level since the 1950s. This surge in corporate profits coincided with the aftermath of Trump's 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which reduced the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. This tax reduction increased after-tax profits and may have given companies more flexibility to pursue aggressive pricing strategies.
Multiple factors contributed to inflation:

Supply chain disruptions created genuine scarcity in many sectors, particularly semiconductors, shipping, and raw materials
Demand surged as economies reopened post-pandemic
Many companies used these market conditions to implement price increases that exceeded their cost increases
The corporate tax environment created incentives for profit maximization over price stability

For instance, many large retailers reported both higher prices and expanded profit margins during this period. The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City found that roughly 40% of inflation in 2021 could be attributed to expanded profit margins rather than increased costs.
This pattern suggests that market concentration, pricing power, and tax policy played significant roles in inflation, alongside traditional monetary and supply-chain factors. Policy solutions should therefore address market structure, tax policy, and monetary policy to effectively manage inflation.
A2 milk not only exists but is very popular in Asia actually.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_a2_Milk_Company
Actually the marketplace was just a marketplace, it then was primarily used for illegal goods. It hasn't really ever been proven that it was setup as a marketplace for illegal goods.
Mark Tesla under the AI robotics category too.
> The second example I give of "zero threes" does not imply that three is plural. If anything it merely implies belonging or associativity in a linguistic sense and certainly not a maths sense.

It absolutely does denote plurality. "0 threes" uses "three" in the plural form and "1 three" uses "three" in a singular form.

Thus is not a question about math, but about linguistics.
I distinctly remember listening to recordings of him hiring a hitman. It's been a long time and my memory is certainly prone to error, but that sort of thing does stick with you. I especially remember the irony because he also preached about non-violence at some point, obviously until someone's continued existence became inconvenient for him.
I suppose it could be made consistent if we posit the existence of another hidden rule. For example, the skin-color or political-connectedness of the accused.
Right, but they've been doing that for a while, to everyone. The US is much quieter about it, right? But you can twist this move and see how the gov would not want to display that level of investment within itself as it could be interpreted as a sign of aggression. but it makes sense to me that they'd have no issue working through corporations to achieve the same ends but now able to deny direct involvement
Even if correct, he would still be chargeable at the state level in any related state.

The only thing it would protect him against would be the federal murder for hire statute (18 USC 1958).

I doubt the pardon will be considered to cover that, but we'll have to wait to see the text.
Has anyone used their 33Hz color monitor?

It's super tempting, but I've never seen one in person.

https://shop.dasung.com/products/dasung-paperlike-color-worl...
Ross Ulbricht was not sentenced for murder-for-hire charges.

Those allegations were used to deny him bail and influenced public perception, they were not part of his formal conviction or sentencing.

He was convicted on non-violent charges related to operating the Silk Road website, including drug distribution, computer hacking, and money laundering.

Does this change your opinion of sentencing being well-deserved?
I think one can say the sentences were too severe and still think some sentence was fine.
It's inspired by it. It's mentioned here[1].

[1] https://jreleaser.org/guide/latest/index.html#_acknowledgmen...
The answer is obviously because programmers want to be able to write

f”{n} result{‘s’ if n == 1 else ‘’}”
One possibility would be just to build their own power plants colocated with the datacenters and not interconnect at all.
I think this comment would have got less downvotes if you could have made it somewhat shorter. Walls of text like this just scream Unabomber manifesto to me :)
This is a question about the English language from someone learning the language, not a math question.
Disclosure - I immensely dislike Trump and think Ross Ublricht deserved to be convicted.

That said - There is no evidence that anyone was ever killed, there is pretty thin evidence that he actually ever intended to hire any hitmen (though he may have defrauded people who thought they were hiring hitmen), and a life sentence for non-violent drug trafficking seems draconian. I certainly don't think this should have been one of Trump's priorities (I'm guessing it came through Vance, Musk, or someone else in the crypto community), but I don't have a big problem with it.
Well - as part of the semi industry I'd like to say: Really appreciate it. Keep it coming!
I am sorry but there's no way giving him more than 2 life sentences has any justification whatsoever. Even the people who actually sold drugs on his site got out in 2 years. And the person who hired someone for hitman also only got 6 years. This is exactly the type of case where pardon makes 100% sense.

Ps. El Chapo got shorter sentence than Ross.
Trump was the first president to come into office supporting gay marriage. Trump only has a problem with the "t" part of the community and only in bathrooms and sports, not in general.
> I wonder if you can start a run on it in the rain (ie without using touch)

You can use Siri to start a workout
The prosecution dropped the charges. That does not make anyone innocent.
>Completely well off people, whose lives are not affected at all by national politics, apart from slight changes in tax rates. They live in a state and city that shares their politics. They're isolated from everything on the national level...

>What else would you call that?

This is one of those comments that accidentally reveals more than intended because I would call that "empathy". You are revealing that the only reason you think people should be concerned about politics is when it directly effects them. 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.
Man, that shit is so old. Even if you're right, which I don't think you are, you are adding nothing to the conversation but cynicism.
For someone that likes to take top secret documents and share them with unauthorized people, Snowden sounds perfect for this guy to pardon
TIL. I noticed that lots of GitHub Actions addons use D: drive as intended, but I actually can not find the documentation that documents this for Azure DevOps Pipelines. If you happen to remember where this is documented, could you link it? It would be great to have an authoritative source for this information. I've searched pretty heavily to try to find any information about this and struggled in the past, though it could just be Google being how Google is lately. I can't even find official documentation mentioning the D: drive beyond the variable definitions that point to it.

The closest I've ever found to a real acknowledgement is this issue with relation to GitHub Actions: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/8755
I disagree 1.0 is more precise one than 1.

Both in speaking language, and in quite some programming languages "1" is assumed to be an integer, and "1.0" is assumed to be a number with one decimal (something akin to a float). And I'd say integer "1" is the most precise type of one.

If we are rounding numbers you are right though...

round_to_int(0.5000000 to 1.499999) -> 1

round_to_one_decimal(0.9500000 to 1.049999) -> 1.0
Based on what? There’s not a better state in the country for large capex gambles by business.
- Most time is spent in the iPhone's Notes & Voice Memo apps.

- I try Rhymezone, but it rarely helps me find a word I hadn't already though of.

- The Complete Rhyming Dictionary [1] as it also helps find great family rhymes - but is a very manual process.

- ChatGPT voice chat for object writing - mostly just because I'm more of a vocal processor - I forbid it from writing anything, and instruct it clearly to just listen and give me a list of the metaphors, imagery, and descriptive words that I tell it. I've always struggled with motivation to do object writing, but I quite enjoy doing it audibly like this.

- ChatGPT as a proof-reader. Eg "Review the following song for me. What would new listeners think the song is about and saying". You need to be careful though, because it will often tell you stupid stuff like "the melody is great" even though you haven't shared a melody.

- ChatGPT as a sounding board when I'm battling over a very specific phrase or wording. More as a sounding board though, as I usually don't use it's suggestions.

- Logic Pro - The latest version lets you add chords and have it auto play some basic AI session players - which is great for fleshing out the basic ideas, and having something I can play on repeat why I write lyrics. Once I'm happy with the song, I'll then start replacing the AI tracks with human created tracks.

[1] https://www.amazon.com.au/Complete-Rhyming-Dictionary-Clemen...
Yes, i'm aware - there are federal murder statutes, but they are mostly about murder of federal police officers, hate crime murders, etc.

However, murder for hire is also federal crime - see 18 USC 1958 and the DOJ CRM on this: https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...

So depending on the pardon text and interpretation, he may or may not be chargeable with this statute still federally.

I agree this has zero effect on charging him at the state level, and most states do not have statute of limitations on these types of crimes (or they are very long)
I honestly couldnt think of a more boring question. Yes? No? Who cares. And I am a christian. But seriously who cares. Completely unimpirtant
> Oral tradition compared to writing is clearly less accurate.

I used to think this. Then I moved to New Mexico 6 years and had to confront the reality that the historical cultures and civilizations of this area (human habitation goes back at least 20k years) never had writing and so all history was oral.

It seemed obvious to me that writing was superior, but I reflected on the way in which even written news stories or movie reviews or travelogues are not completely accurate and sometimes actually wrong. The idea that the existence of a written historical source somehow implies (better) fidelity has become less and less convincing.

On the other hand, even if the oral histories have degenerated into actual fictions, there's that old line about "the best way to tell the truth is with fiction", and I now feel much more favorably inclined towards oral histories as perhaps at least as good, if not better, as their written cousins.
very impressive findings
Not going to try and sway you here but to learn more, read or listen to "American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road".

Truly fascinating story and good story telling.
It’s also the default in Factorio
I don't agree with that and I don't understand why those charges were not taken to court (I don't believe it was purely because he already had 2 life sentences as when the appeals were going to the supreme court and there was a risk of him winning, it surely made sense to secure him if you had the evidence to proceed with another case). Whether that was true or not though, someone can only be sentenced and punished on what one was convicted of. Anything else is not based in justice or law.
Did the judge conclude, as part of sentencing, that hiring a hit (or two?) was likely?

What reasoning did the judge give for the sentencing? They might involve similar websites but the crimes can be much different. Two people can run the same drug cartel at different times, but that doesn't mean their crimes are the same.
I also can't see it ending well for OpenAI. This seems like it's going to be a commodity market with a race to the bottom on pricing. I read that NVIDIA has a roughly 1000% (10x) profit margin on H100's, which means that someone like Google making their own TPUs has a massive cost advantage.

Moore's law seems to be against them too... hardware getting more powerful, small models getting more powerful... Not at all obvious that companies will need to rely on cloud models vs running locally (licencing models from whoever wants that market). Also, a lot of corporate use probably isn't that time critical, and can afford to run slower and cheaper.

Of course the US government could choose to wreck free-market economics by mandating powerful models to be run in "secure" cloud environments, but unless other countries did same that might put US at competitive price disadvantage.
That's not how it works. The money can still be guilty of a crime outside of the Defendant's acquittal in civil cases like this.

source: hundreds of hours in forfeiture court
No but recidivism should be factored into such a decision.
> Anecdotally, Planet Money looked into this years ago and their reporting was that as far as they could tell, drugs on Silk Road weren't less safe than street drugs.

Yeah, I'm not saying they're less safe. In fact, on average, I'm willing to bet that the drugs sold on Silk Road were much safer than their street equivalents.

My point was about large sales: Silk Road moved not just personal drug sales, but also industrial quantities of drugs that were almost certainly re-sold. Those latter sales are impossible to track and (by volume) almost certainly represent the majority of "doses" sold through SR. Given that, I doubt the OP's assertion that SR itself represents a particularly effective form of harm reduction.

Or as another framing: SR gave tech dorks a way to buy cheap, clean drugs. But those aren't the people who really need harm reduction techniques; the ones who do are still buying adulterated drugs, which are derived from the cheap, clean drugs on SR.
This is obviously incorrect. Actually pardon means the charges filed has been voided, hence anything happening afterwards has had no merits and court decisions made are now rendered moot. For example, Roger Stone was charged and found guilty of multiple crimes and Trump pardoned him; he still brandish guns and was "proudly voting Trump" in 2024 in state of Florida. Getting pardon is literally like it never happened in the first place.
A pardon results in the relief from the consequences of a crime. There being a pardon doesn't necessarily mean there was no crime.
Thoughts about the future of Microsoft? They seemed to be the one that's kind of behind on AI, cuz they relied too much on OpenAI?
They unfortunately have not released the text yet.

It should eventually pop up here:
https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-recipients

(among other places)
>So LSP just says “predicates are contravariant”

Maybe just leave out the "just" for a pleasant journey?

Since the interesting part of Barbara's uh, guideline, as "almost" pointed out by your link, is "almost" the opposite of "almost" trivial..

Don't mind me, I'm imbecilic :)

(See your link's comments, at least those imbeciles "almost" get it)
Your link says that was a court in England. England generally has different sentencing standards than the US.
Nice. I appreciate that it's a loving recreation and not an emulator.
Belief.

Belief short circuits reason.
Hardware is better at this: notebook, pencil, baseball bat.

"AI art" is plagiarism and not an art at all.
It is easy to look up the cases against the agents. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-federal-agents-charged...

Both served time.
That seems like a rather unfair comparison, tarring "parent won't let child watch movies after bedtime" with the same brush as "international megacorp sabotages hardware you own in profit-seeking paranoia."

Heck, in many jurisdiction the device is owned by the parents anyway, not the kid.
At the time of sentencing, did we already know that the murder for hire plots were created by corrupt Secret Service and DEA agents on trial next door? and all of that was withheld from the defense and the jury?

because that's where the story really jumps the shark. I'm all for some accountability - such as the 12 years in prison already - but that particular case should have been dropped for several reasons, I've seen cases dropped for way less.
> basic worker rights are a necessary element of social stability

That's the argument for the owners of capital - give them rights so that you can have social stability. The argument for most people is that rights are universal, and it is fair, just, and essential for workers to have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, etc.