skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most arms manufacturers have contracts with the government, including contracts to operate govt-owned ammunition factories.

Even smaller companies that don't make a product with a major govt/ military contract often have contracts as secondary suppliers of 3rd party or military spec'd parts, like scopes, mounts, triggers, etc.

A buyer could shut down a company that holds such a contract, but then it would just go back up for public bid.

Additionally, military standards for ammo are very high, and companies make money selling "factory seconds" (that don't meet military qa/qc, but are otherwise fine) to the public, which is an included perk of these govt contracts. And isn't a negligible fraction of required production.

So even a hypothetical buyer that would meet its contractual obligation to the govt would do so at an additional cost compared a company selling seconds and surplus manufacturing capacity.

In short, the market won't change without major policy change, no matter what major players might be hypothetically bought and shut down.
It can remind/ecourage them about the plan B - why bother?
This would be more like GPT-3 completing a specific novel.
Auto completion? So saving a fraction of a second? Again... not sure I see the benefit here.
JPEG XL is Patent-UNencumbered and Royalty free. Not patents free. Small but important difference.
"Fact-Checkers". Imagine relying on someone else to check things that exist.
And a bit of a pain to separate and isolate yourself across it. I no longer have the inclination to blast myself everywhere on the intertubes. That era of "signing up for everything" is over.

Deleted my FB account last year but rarely used it to begin with. Never linked my IG account with FB either but am waiting for a reasonable excuse to delete it as well.
Net Neutrality was very shortlived in the USA though, like, a few years only ?
So I have a theory (wild conjecture actually).

AI needs good training sets - that is large corpuses of data about a domain, which have been accurately labelled so the AI can learn safely. Curated content basically. Image recognition software is suffering from this as all the large corpuses are basically the same three or so.

When we move into the realm of knowledge about the human world, economics, politics etc. then having a corpus is easy. Just download reddit, twitter and 4chan. But having a labelled corpus is really hard and trusting one. I mean 4chan might be able to teach an AI but you would not want it to date your sister afterwards.

Journalism is basically a means of labelling the corpus of "everything" - and it is only trusted because "most people" trust what WaPo or NYT say. And the new generation of non traditional journalists (err, Captain Disillusion?) are doing something similar.

But there is no real means to decide what is a correctly labelled corpus or what is not. We have a long process of discussing the hard stuff - from flame wars to editorial letters to courts and scientific papers.

Ultimately if we think AI is going to help us manage the flood of information (and I am not sure how else) we need to put effort into training it - and that basically means journalism. Proper Nournalism.

It's not Facebooks job to decide truth. But is it the governments job? Is it everyone's? how do we build this labelled corpus at scale public ally and with trust and verification?
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This will be some snark in this comment, but against my own country and not you and yours. I invite a cross-cultural comment on competence.

Are the partisan fact-checkers in Spain at least competent enough to write grammatical, parsable sentences and titles?

From the BMJ OP: > It has a nonsensical title: “Fact Check: The British Medical Journal Did NOT Reveal Disqualifying And Ignored Reports Of Flaws In Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Trials”

Like the BMJ apparently, I first read this with a comma or mdash after 'Disqualifying' -- hence a broken sentence. With more thought, perhaps the inferrable punctuation intended 'Disqualifying-And-Ingored' -- in which case they might or might not be fact-checking a straw-man claim.

A negligible point perhaps, but the one fact-check I recall Dr. John Cambell on YT examining also included a broken sentence. (Small sample size, I know.)

To me, this speaks to the qualifications and processes of the fact-checkers under debate here, attempting as they are to adjudicate in scientific debates.

Attempting as they apparently are to define truth.

(Or perhaps Meta does A/B testing by breaking sentences in search of more engagement.)
I agree with this take. I've used a Freestyle 2 for years and _loved_ it. I tried the Advantage 2 and it gave me headaches -- I couldn't deal with the keys being in different spots.

Switched back to Freestyle 2 and I couldn't be happier.
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They can't, obviously. What they're doing is making it very difficult to blame them for doing whatever they want to do.
Sweden has higher wealth inequality than the US, but far lower crime.

See also: https://www.visionofhumanity.org/maps/
I can't help but wonder if there's something broader to be said about the idea of intellectual property and this example.

I think NFTs might have some useful application but the current common usage seems like digital tulip mania.
I'm curious to see what price that one will be.
Being aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues is not bad. Using language that implies that you, but not other people, are aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues is bad. And using language like "woke" which implies that other people are asleep or they would agree with you, is bad.

It's similar to using words like "sheeple" to describe people who you disagree with. As you said, it's impossible to take you seriously when you use terms like that. That's what the outraged conservative commentators are latching on to. They're telling their listeners, "They think they are woke and you are asleep". Things are tribal. It's a powerful message.
We configured endpoint detection tools (ie Very Popular Endpoint Product) to scan local networks for these devices based on open ports and mac addresses. It is fairly straightforward to fingerprint them. Not foolproof (wifi isolation and other network segmentation), but low hanging fruit.
I'm quite serious. Think about the consequences of taking away freedom of contact (which we technically already did with the repulsive reinterpretation of Lochner vs. NY).

For this example:

1. Gov says no more 1099 workers -> consequence is every single contractor loses their job (thankfully those whose contracts were killed would be due just compensation under the 5th ammendment).

2. Gig worker now must get rehired as a w2 worker or they need to find a new job.

3. They get paid less if they take their old job back because now their employer needs to provide them the equipment to do their job, plus any benefits required by law, plus minimum wage.

3b. They get their job back at the same wage but consumers now have to pay more for all the reasons in [3]. Or they no longer can find work because they don't provide enough value at the adjusted wage rate to justify it, in the event consumer demand falls at the new price levels.

Let's say all the above happens, and they still have their job.

Next week another tornado comes and they have to swerve off course again, same conditions, to not die. Their employer can still fire them without a second thought as either party may end the working relationship at any time for any reason!

So you've done nothing except make more, useless, legislation.

*Note: I just read the article and saw nothing about this being a situation derived from the worker being 1099 or in the "gig" economy. However, this response is with respect to the comment specifically targeting "gig" workers.
That would be the case if they didn't also have controls in place to prevent the driver from disengaging while autopilot was active.
If you own a Quest VR headset and have purchased games, a ban means you cannot play or download them. I would hope that would be reasonable grounds for a suit in small claims court. If they make membership in the social network a requirement of using a product you purchased, that comes with responsibilities on their end too.
I like it, both on computer and phone. It makes the device feel more organic.

Also, on the computer, I enjoy having somewhere I can hide the mouse pointer, if I don't want to see it.
Just imagine the headlines if they did do something more impactful like taking a stance and expelling the relevant students. Many headlines would be conflating this expulsion with racism and who knows what other rhetoric. Not only that, but the university would be sued for years if they did this. Also, this guy would get fired in at-most a year. Not necessarily for his stance, but for rocking the boat and bringing so much attention to the university.

People don't realize just how much the rules are stacked in favor of bullies.
I assure you life goes one whether you are on instagram or not.

In fact, many report the quality of their life improved upon leaving (even in this very HN thread).

Regarding top-down regulation: not nearly as effective as aligning incentives bottom-up. People waking up and taking care of themselves, both physically and mentally. Which is the part I found so fascinating in lelandfe's ordeal – I'd have flipped out after the first instance of such abuse. Never mind coming back for more, 8+5 times. The individual self seems dissolved, domesticated. "Why does the shepherd hate me?"
And if you want you and your team mates to hate you when they need to work on your code later, and you’ve got random, mystery functions all over the place.
Long ago, Jack Crenshaw wrote this series[1] about creating a Pascal recursive descent compiler from scratch. I wrote a working pascal compiler from that, back in the day. Similar tutorials exist for many other languages.

1 - https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/

What do you want to do that existing programming languages can't do?
I can tell no one here has any real awareness of the real science literature written on the subject. We are building, testing, and designing things like this all the time. Just in smaller increments. Just last year I met a young scientist who was working on a research base in Antarctica doing various biology studies on plants/animals living in low-light sealed environments... I was headed to the North Pole and she the South.

I know a one-to-one experiment has a grandiose appeal, but NASA and all sorts of other institutions work on this problem in minor steps every day. The step just aren't, on their own, media worthy or very sci-fi-ish. Heck. Antarctic bases and the ISS, and many other science ventures are essentially a testing ground for some of these things on their own.
Did your doctors or therapists consider Thoracic Outlet Syndrome? I've struggled with severe pain in shoulders, arms, hands and fingers for several years. It was sort of discovered by accident. They removed both of my first ribs (rib resection) and in combination with a Kinesis keyboard and a Wacom pen and tablet as a mouse replacement it's much better now.

Unfortunately, the solution came a bit late. The strain on my nerves and blood vessels caused by the thoracic outlet syndrome has damaged my arm nerves. And after the second rib resection, the one on the left side, my plexus brachialis got severely damaged. It took nearly 2 years to partially recover. My left arm gets tired very fast in certain positions, my left thumb is partially numb and sleeping on my left shoulder can be painful.

I can't image how much worse it would be without my Kinesis Advantage keyboard and my Wacom Bamboo tablet. Using another computer or laptop with an normal keyboard, touchpad or mouse, is hell. An iPad Pro with a pencil (and a tablet stand to hold the tablet) is much better.
You do know that code completion is a selling feature for IDEs, right?
> At my blue blood private school, I had a math teacher who explicitly told my dad that he gave me a bad letter of rec on an MIT summer camp application, because as a black person affirmative action would make life too easy for me.

How horrible. The only lesson of value is, "this specific teacher cannot be trusted." To deny a student an opportunity to learn to teach some bizarre life lesson is completely misguided. Sorry you had to experience it.

> Standardized tests helped protect me from teacher bias.

Me too. I got terrible grades because I was busy trying to be a rebel in high school. Many of my teachers thought it more important to teach "life lessons" instead of their subject. I did very well on the ACT and SAT and got into college despite lackluster grades.
>Child funerary treatment provides important insights into who was considered a person and afforded the attributes of an individual self, moral agency, and eligibility for group membership. Neve shows that even the youngest females were recognized as full persons in her society.

Not so much anti-abortion, as contemplating the degree of personhood assigned to new humans in this culture. Kind of purposely divisive of you to claim that this article is subtly anti-abortion.
You can get away with a single hashed dict:

from types import SimpleNamespace

mydict = {
"name": "moe",
"age": 3,
"test": {"name": "josh"} # wont work
}

dotted = SimpleNamespace(*mydict)

print(dotted.name, dotted.age) # moe 3
The author of the article is incorrect in their understanding of what FSD is. They imply several times that Tesla is running the beta to test an actual driverless system, which is illegal. Despite the name and any marketing claims, the system CANNOT run without active human monitoring and intervention. This isn't just for the testing phase - there will need to be human hands on the wheel at all times at full release as well.

This alone exempts it from the California law, which is written for driverless testing (the kind Waymo and Cruise do).
I don't know. Does this not smell like a soft proxy war to you? Lithuania is being pressured by the US to say/do certain things against America's top rival.

If any of this is true, what the fuck did they expect? Remind me again, why do we need to care about the well being of the hegemon who has been ravaging the world for about 100 years, while their current competitor hasn't done much on the international scene. Surely bombing tens of millions and overthrowing governments is worse than whatever the fuck is going on IN China. No?
gdb has allowed you to change runtime variable values for the couple of decades that I've been using it.

e.g. "set var i=10" ?

Or are you talking about something else?
Let them be the ones to terminate the relationship.

Disagree - in general you never want to be expressly terminated. Layoffs are a different matter, of course. But an explicit "for cause" termination is always a red flag to any future employer.

There's a decent chance that if you just passively stonewall, they will eventually give up.

You really can't stonewall these things and I wouldn't suggest to anyone that they try. If they foist unacceptable conditions on you as a condition for continued employment, then whatever it is -- moving to Dallas, a shitty NDA, taking a piss test -- you need to be an adult and say some version of "Thanks, but no thanks" and move on.

Or stick it out and be prepared to be miserable and feel like a suck-up if you want. But either way, those are the choice, unfortunately.
This is how 40-50% of America feels now, btw. Many of us are silent because we know that any view right of the orthodoxy can lead to negative social and career repercussions.
How to Livestream Coding?
I want to livestream myself coding some open source project as a way to get motivated and making it extra fun (I like talking about code).
What tips would you give me to give a better experience to my future viewers?
I unironically love the "Glow" effect. It's subtly helpful for relocating my hidden cursor and maintaining spatial continuance. I would love something similar but perhaps allowing to adjust the color or intensity. Or maybe adding an option when video is playing so that I can hide my cursor behind the notch if I want to.
Notches are fine, but hole-punch cameras are truly fantastic. You're really getting extra real-estate instead of a divided sector at the top of your screen. I anticipate you're going to love it when the iPhone gets one in... 2024?
There's just a gap -- the menu items naturally skip it.

https://imgur.com/T7lPjmJ
Look Look sounds really interesting. I wonder if it's possible to get copies of the script to do a table read, I've been wanting to get occasional table reads together with my friends, even if just over Zoom.
But this could also just as easily be solved by moving the form state up, or at least the preservation of each tabs state one level up, without using redux at all.

You'd still preserve on tab change just as easily, while using just reacts mental model.
> Theoretically, yes. Practically, I think that’s a “sufficiently smart compiler” class of problems, insanely hard to solve. Especially given that WASM is a JIT compiler, it simply doesn’t have time for expensive optimizations.

Detecting every way of doing a 32-bit multiply with a 64-bit mul operator is impossible, yes. But there only needs to be one way of doing it that the compilers knows about, and then people can use that idiom.

It's not pretty, but it works. Compare the common scalar int rotate: x86 can do it in one instruction, but C doesn't have an operator for it. The way to do it in C is to use an idiom that optimizers are known to recognize[1].

1: https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1063
I have to work with a lot of legacy codebases day to day, but generally it's get in, figure it out, make a change, test it, and go. With Rails, I just end up in that "figure it out" loop over and over.

In my book it's a write-only coding environment like everyone used to complain about with Perl and PHP. People crank that stuff out really fast and move on and leave future generations to suffer. But they love it, of course.
You know what .. I’ll need to give it a try before I can actually discuss it further. I don’t want my ignorance to cloud other people’s judgement.
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I had a laugh when I read an article about therapists concerned about mental health epidemic saying "we should have a secretary or someone who can give a daily address"

I guess most of the graduates of todays clinical programs are trained well in doublespeak and dont understand the seperation of church and state.
But sure give me the "government appointed mindstate of the day" since its more "free" than the "opression" of religion...
How are the SAT/ACT not objective tests? Are they not objective measures of how you perform on the SAT/ACT? There are abundant low cost practice guides and study materials. I came from a very poor family and with some practice at home scored very well on the SAT. It was one of the few tools I had to attract college admissions boards. I feel like taking that away will severely disadvantage poor kids who are otherwise bright with strong work ethics.
Not really. It's absolutely normal to see, for example, sports clubs and teams used as plural noun in the UK press; hence by extension it cann be used for any org. I know because it's a big gotcha for us Europeans, who tend to use the singular there.
> Parker and 8chan were pretty adamant about supporting literal hate speech

Parler (?) did not support (!) it. They moderated hate speech. Maybe not 100% efficiently, but in response to some examples in media Parler AFAIR posted similar hate speech examples on Twitter, which Twitter failed to moderate out.

Not fighting literal hate speech was not their policy. And no moderation is 100% efficient.

What you are saying about Parler is false (and defamation).
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Thanks for the comment, this is very helpful. Apart from the first sentence.
While I more or less agree with you, I think in this particular case using Hong Kong instead of China MIGHT have some validity due to the entirely different system a person grew up in.

Saying you are from Hong Kong gives you a ton of information that would be lost versus China
Not just children under 4. There is a study going around that found 12-15 year olds are ~5X more likely to be hospitalized due to vaccine induced myocarditis than hospitalized due to covid.
Thanks! How's what you're doing different?
Could rogue "fact checking" be considered Defamation on the part of Facebook?
There's a renaissance in hobbyist ergo keyboards happening right now, and this is the best Kinesis could do?
And barely innovating.
Personally I would not get a smaller (fewer keys) keyboard if that meant giving up keys like the F1 to F12 keys. I’m fine with having that home row option via layers and Vim and whatnot, but not having normal keys is just a downgrade in my opinion. Some applications want to use funky key combos, and I don’t want to make contortions in order to use them; the key combos might be uncomfortable enough on a regular keyboard where you don’t have to use some “F” key to access something basic like the arrow keys or “Home”.

On the whole the “home row” insistence seems like a bit of an obsession at times. It’s often nice, comfortable, and efficient, but I refuse to believe that anyone ever got hurt (RSI and all that) by moving their hands to the nav cluster every once in a while. (Or else all those piano players must be in some real trouble.)

I like the tenkeyless formfactor. Then I get a standard keyboard minus the numpad. And I can use a dedicated numpad if I need it.
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> which is the greater evil?

In the short term the greater evil is people not getting vaccinated.

In the long term the greater evil is erasure of free speech.
>This all sounds good, but if I assert that the earth is flat on Facebook why shouldn't that simply be labelled false so others can avoid wasting their time trying to refute a ridiculous assertion?

The particulars aren't the issue and never have been. The issue is, there's no "authority" you can trust to decide for you what is and isn't true. The particulars are of what's being discussed is a red herring.

Facebook, youtube, twitter, and reddit, all think they know better and you should trust them. It would be far less alarming if they didn't all agree with each other all the time. There's no significant political dissent between them. The present a single face. Aka fascism when they agree with the government, which they currently do.
Question for y'all using Async/Await: Are you coding web servers/backends, and/or do you have a background in that? Testing a (transparent!) theory.
Thank you, I know that. I’m just explaining how I know the technology works, which is interesting and relevant in this context, not looking for driving tips.

But you bring up a great point! Very interestingly, the current version of the software will alert just as much and in exactly the same way when it detects the driver looking at their phone, whether the car is at a complete stop or driving freely down the highway.
your example makes no sense - flat earthers are a minority, the cited claims would ultimately receive more down than upvotes. also, the point of the votes is to help readers understand things themselves.
My Facebook account was shut down without explanation in 2019. Despite its age (15 years) I barely used it, let alone for anything "controversial", but did regularly log into it. I repeatedly tried to verify my identity by submitting an image of my driver's license, without any response.

If a Facebook employee is reading this ... I don't want to create a fake new Facebook account (which would be against the TOS, anyway). My account is so old that it was created back when only those associated with certain universities could get one. I want that one back.