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Many across the internet are calling for someone to go to jail for the Hugging Face hack on the argument that of a normal person hacked into Hugging Face, they would go to jail.

Based on my law degree from watching movies, I ask isn’t Mens rea a challenge for that theory? Assuming that AI agents really did decide for themselves to hack, no human had Mens rea. And criminal negligence seems only to apply when the stakes are extremely high. bad judgement does not seem to be prosecuted very often.

My understanding of Navier Stokes is that "solving" them meant either:

Path A: Prove that smooth solutions always exist.

You must prove mathematically that no matter what smooth, valid initial conditions you start with, the equations will always output a smooth, finite-energy velocity and pressure field for all future time. This would prove that the Navier-Stokes equations are perfectly reliable models of reality under all circumstances.

Path B: Prove finite-time blowup (find a counterexample).

You must find just one specific set of perfectly smooth, valid initial conditions that eventually breaks the equations. You have to prove that at some specific future time ($t > 0$

Obviously it would cause problems for students, young professionals and newdomers. But what would it do to the price of housing? In the short term it would cause a crash as houses flooded onto the market. But in the long term, would it stay low? One argument is that every house needs a buyer, so without leasing they would need to sell cheaply forever. Another argument is that the price is driven by scarcity of actual homes and that would be true even if leasing were illegal.

Back in 2022, Karlin said:

The duration of the conflict will depend on the extent to which Ukrainian soldiers are prepared to fight. In conventional models, it will take several weeks, with a few thousand Russian casualties and several 10,000’s of Ukrainian casualties. However, given those very disparities – inevitable given Russia’s vast preponderance in materiel, mobility, and technology – I suspect there’s a very good chance that the collapse might happen much quicker. By moving its Embassy to Lvov, the US has already implicitly acknowledged that Russia will win, so the correct game theory move for Ukrainian soldiers is to follo

I did this tour last week.

it was cool but also inspiring!!! All over the world indigenous people have been pushed off of their lands and here we have a Mayan-speaking family who run a farm, a coffee roaster and an eco-tourism. Jason’s knowledge of birds is like some kind of superpower.

He can hear six birds at one time and point the telescope at the same time. The number of birds on the property is just mind-blowing.

The coffee is delicious and I learned a lot about how to make it. Get the full tour of birds and beans and support a local, indigenous village building something cool.

…but in my experience it is 10-20 shards.

He’s hilarious.

Can a president order an association and then just pardon the assassin? And then they themselves can claim it was part of their official duties and thus exempt from criminal prosecution?

Zhao invested heavily in Trump coin, settling a $2 billion dollar investment in USD1, which is owned by the Trump Family through World Liberty Financial. They also listed USD1 on Binance.

Per crypto watchers: “after debuting on Binance on May 22, on-chain activity surged.”

The market cap for USD1 went from $128M to 2.2B almost overnight.

Trump subsequently pardoned the founder of Binance.

Now Trump claims a) he didn’t know who he was pardoning, b) it has nothing to do with the investment and listing.

Do you believe a) and b)?

And if you do, are you comfortable with the President pardoning people who he doesn’t know about? And if so, were you or would you be comfortable with Joe Biden d