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JacobThreeThree··on 28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset
You'd get sentences full of words like: tangential, orthogonal, externalities, anecdote, anecdata, cargo cult, enshittification, grok, Hanlon's razor, Occam's razor, any other razor, Godwin's law, Murphy's law, other laws.
JacobThreeThree··on Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth
It was a unique period of interplanetary space travel where most projects were simple flybys - the first time for each planet. Because the goal was just to flyby, the secondary benefit is that the trajectory sends it outside the solar system.

Nowadays, most missions involve insertions into orbit around the target planet, therefore no secondary opportunity to send it outside the solar system. The notable exception is New Horizons, which was a Pluto flyby and will also eventually leave the solar system.

JacobThreeThree··on Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth
Per Wikipedia:

It has a 3.7-meter (12 ft) diameter high-gain Cassegrain antenna to send and receive radio waves via the three Deep Space Network stations on the Earth. The spacecraft normally transmits data to Earth over Deep Space Network Channel 18, using a frequency of either 2.3 GHz or 8.4 GHz, while signals from Earth to Voyager are transmitted at 2.1 GHz.

JacobThreeThree··on It is ok to say "CSS variables" instead of "custom properties"
Totally agree. There's no real complaints, and the coalescing around the Chrome layout engine means far less compatibility issues in general.
JacobThreeThree··on Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
No, the awarding of a prize for promises is the exceptional part.
JacobThreeThree··on Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
Obama was very explicitly promising to get out of the middle east wars.

Of course it's hard, but if that's true, then why is he making those promises, or worse, why is he being given a peace award based on those promises?

JacobThreeThree··on Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
The Obama prize decision kind of made the Nobel prize a joke.
JacobThreeThree··on Sora 2
This does not make any sense. There's far more economic opportunity with AGI.
JacobThreeThree··on Sora 2
If society only consisted of the people in a given sector/industry, could it continue and flourish? If we only had engineers, how would society fare versus if we only had influencers? In this paradigm, there's no difference between fine art and pop art.
JacobThreeThree··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
So your criticism of him is that "I assume that he called for violence even though I have no evidence that he did"?
JacobThreeThree··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
>Despite the constant braying of right-leaning people, left-wing violence is a tiny fraction of domestic terrorism compared to the right.

Only if you buy into the various biased studies that are conducted by those who sympathize with the left.

JacobThreeThree··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
>why even target the poor guy

There are plenty of dangerous mentally ill people out there who don't use any type of logic or reason as a basis for their decision-making.

JacobThreeThree··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
Constantly fear-mongering that every event that occurs is a prelude to a repeat of history's worst atrocities is exactly the type of rhetoric we should avoid.
JacobThreeThree··on Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build
You're worried about Google hardware but your requirement for a phone is that it must have Google Pay? Bizarre.
JacobThreeThree··on How to negotiate your salary package
>it isn’t worth working there anyways

There is a potential downside, and it's this scenario because things go south.

JacobThreeThree··on Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M
Neon acquisition was ~$1B.
JacobThreeThree··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
This speaks to the low quality assurance bar that most of the software industry lives by.

If you're programming for a plane's avionics, as an example, the quality assurance bar is much, much higher. To the point where any time-saving benefits of using an LLM are most likely dwarfed by the time it takes to review and test the code.

It's easy to say LLM is a game-changer when there are no lives at stake, and therefore the cost of any errors is extremely low, and little to no QA occurs prior to being pushed to production.

JacobThreeThree··on Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students
Replace "Harvard" with "Trump University" in this conversation, and I believe many HN types would have a different opinion of the policies. The argument is, if educational institutions can't be ideologically neutral, why should they get the benefit from grants, tax free endowments, and a tax funded international customer acquisition pipeline? Especially as they become outrageously expensive debt traps, with worse ROIs.

I don't agree with this international student, and other policies, or implementations, and you can't run government like you run a "move fast and break things" startup, which seems to be how the administration is operating.

But, it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it, and try to separate Trump's execution from the underlying ideological sentiment.

JacobThreeThree··on The U.S. needs a shipbuilding revolution
The US should go back to subsidizing its shipbuilding industry.
JacobThreeThree··on Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years
Not to mention, short term cost cutting is what ever business tends to prioritize. Companies would prefer not to pay anyone for anything, including random "researchers".
JacobThreeThree··on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
>the rest of the record of the case

Is that not available somewhere? You'd think it would be presented in detail, since this is the key reason for the default judgement.

JacobThreeThree··on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
Okay, this is a different article.

Nevertheless, this one liner about this topic does not specify what the discovery requests were. If the request was about finding text messages regarding a specific topic, as the term "relevant" implies, then just because text messages from Jones exist (and were improperly disclosed), doesn't speak to whether or not those text messages were relevant in this context or not.

JacobThreeThree··on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
The judgement document does not go into any detail therefore we don't know whether the Jones team responded with "these documents don't exist" or not. If that was their position, why wouldn't they have responded to that effect? There would be no motivation to do otherwise.

The rest of your post is speculation.

JacobThreeThree··on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
>And then they accidentally sent all of the non-existent documents to the plaintiffs

That's not what these two linked articles say. The AP articles about this state that the improper conduct was about disclosure of information the plaintiffs had sent the Jones legal team. Nothing to do with discovery that was requested from Jones.

JacobThreeThree··on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
This doesn't answer the question about when this was occurring.
JacobThreeThree··on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
Actually, the default judgement doesn't go into any specifics about what he failed to produce in discovery.

The Jones lawyers argued that the discovery requests were for documents that don't exist, and that's why they were not produced.

JacobThreeThree··on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
>the judge simply doesn't like the guy

That doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in the US justice system.

JacobThreeThree··on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
>given several chances to comply with discovery requests

The Jones side claims that these discovery requests were for documents that don't exist. The linked judgement provides no detail on what the specific discovery requests were that went unanswered.

Do you know what the discovery requests were for specifically?

JacobThreeThree··on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
I've also never seen video of him inciting people. But supposedly he did? Does someone have the actual evidence?
JacobThreeThree··on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
For those who are curious:

https://thepostmillennial.com/new-former-fbi-current-cia-say...

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