skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And then I come back with 3 paragraphs about the legislative history of the assault weapons ban, which began by singling out a bunch of weapons by name but with a catchall of semi-automatic weapons with detachable clips, and got lobbied down to its cosmetic definition by the NRA.

You might believe I'm completely wrong about all of this, and that's OK. That's how message boards work. But do you think "you haven't read the assault weapons ban and don't know how silly it is" is going to work as a rhetorical strategy here?

Or we can just accept that reasonable, informed people might disagree on these points, and there's no winning this.
IMO, if I have to choose between managers that are technical “enough” and glorified babysitters, I go for the latter. Little knowledge is dangerous and causes more pain than help. At least glorified babysitters know that they don’t know enough and leave all the important tech decisions to the devs; that’s relieving.
For me, it's a fit-for-purpose issue. Make is great when you're creating artifacts and want to rebuild based on changes. Just is a task runner, so while there's a notion of dependent tasks, there's no notion of dependent artifacts. If you're using a lot of .PHONY targets in a Makefile, you're mostly using it as a task runner -- it works, but it's not ergonomic.

I like that just will search upward for the nearest justfile, and run the command with its directory as the working directory (optional -- https://just.systems/man/en/attributes.html -- with fallback available -- https://just.systems/man/en/fallback-to-parent-justfiles.htm...). For example, I might use something like `just devserver` or `just testfe` to trigger commands, or `just upload` to push some assets -- these commands work from anywhere within the project.

My life wouldn't be that different if I just had to use Make (and I still use Make for some tasks), but I like having a language-agnostic, more ergonomic task runner.
Yes, but it should not be necessary to explain why. Just because a candidate is looking somewhere is very weak data to suggest that the candidate is cheating. I shouldn't have to say that the candidate could be looking at necessary documentation, or even at his own resume, or at the job description.
Will not have to admit. The term has nothing to do with rate of fire. Normally purchased weapons, assault or not, are semi automatic. Rate of fire only applies to automatic weapons.
You don't have to self host your email, you only need to redirect to your preferred email service.

I prepaid my domain name for 15 years.

You can transfert your domain out of a registrar.
I'm not so sure about that. A friend of mine from Pakistan said that in his region, you could buy a machine gun at an open-air bazaar. Also, in a lot of countries, the government has little control over firearms, as they have little control over anything.
Isn't this obvious?

I'm glad this was published to point out the problem, but I'm a bit puzzled why people tried to train models on generated data in the first place. Synthetic data... isn't data.

The one exception I can see is medical data, where synthetic data can be used to avoid violating people's privacy, but even in that case it's clearly not ideal from a technical perspective.
> Tiktok, Ltd is a company operating in the US, with a solid, real US presence. Either the conduct of the company violates local, state, or federal law and the company should be prosecuted accordingly, or it doesn't and they should be left alone.

This is not violating the first amendment rights of TikTok.

This is just asking Bytedance/CCP to divest from TikTok.

Last I heard, CCP is not subject to US laws (maybe CCP thinks otherwise?). Bytedance is a Chinese entity and US first amendment and equivalent don't apply to it.

Bytedance - CCP link

> In 2014, ByteDance established an internal Chinese Communist Party (CCP) committee.[51] The company's vice president, Zhang Fuping, serves as the company's CCP Committee Secretary.[52][53] According to a report submitted to the Australian Parliament, Zhang Fuping stated that ByteDance should "transmit the correct political direction, public opinion guidance and value orientation into every business and product line."[54][55]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance

If CCP wants American first amendment protections for itself, it should also be subject to all other US laws then.
Why is it bad to be a teacher in Japan?
I work at a firm where Brazilians took over engineering management and I see the end results of VERY poor engineering culture and a tribal knowledge is rampant. Sloppy engineering and a lack of empathy in user experience and insular thinking, as they are isolated from current approaches to scale, toil elimination prevalent in Silicon Valley approaches.
>meaning trying to innovate and strategize within their current company to make the job more fun, gain more autonomy, and advance their career prospects

Assuming that's in an environment where it's possible (no shitty office politics, etc), the monetary returns from that ain't gonna be competing to a succesful project. Nor is the freedom and satisfaction ever going to be the same. And of course all progress in that front, is a round of layoffs or a change in management away from being nulled.

So, it's a safer path (as much as being an employee is safe these days), but not achieving the same thing.
This feels like a broad generalization. While some autistic people may lean toward bottom-up thinking, it's not universal, and plenty of neurotypicals excel at it too. The analogy with blind people and hearing doesn't really work either, since autistic engineers aren’t compensating for anything in the same way. Processing styles are much more complex than neurotype labels.

FWIW I am on the spectrum and am working on precision psychiatry with autistic individuals for my graduate thesis. I don't buy a lot of the stereotypes often peddled about spergy software guys. I find a lot of these people to be quite problematic as coworkers, regardless of how talented they may be.
Maybe it’s the stacks I’m using, but I’ve always had incremental happen with language-native tooling like `go` or `cargo`. So for me at least, having lazy eval features like that would be an unnecessary increase in scope and complexity. With Just, I can just throw together different commands and it just works cross platform. I love it.

I much prefer that than the other way, ie letting language tooling become command runners (looking at you npm). That’s the worst of both worlds.
> The term "assault weapon" usually indicates larger magazines and higher rate of fire than firearms that are typically used for self defense or sport.

This is incorrect. An "assault weapon" is semi-automatic and it has no intrinsic rate of fire. The National Firearms Act of 1934 already regulates automatic firearms at the federal level. The definition of an assault weapon varies by state, but usually comes down to cosmetic and minor features such as a pistol grip, a shrouded barrel, a folding stock, a threaded barrel, etc...
We May Understand How Saturn's Giant Hexagonal Storm Came to Be (2020)
Agreed, but at the same time it would also be worthwhile to look at ways to increase our detection and policing of shipping around these cables. I'm no expert but I imagine there are ways to speed up naval reaction times, tighten penalties for ships going dark (transponder off) and set new policy norms enabling rapid investigation.

Basically things that make it harder for bad actors to maintain plausible deniability. So far, a lot of this has been done with relatively low cost and low risk for the perpetrators. The fact this Chinese ship was chased down and stopped before getting too far away was actually pretty lucky. If we formalize new systems and policies to ensure the instant a cable is cut there are navy ships converging on suspect ships - that will shift the cost calculus of the bad guys. If every cable attack requires a special submarine deploying a demolition team underwater near the target, it gets a lot more expensive and if caught there's little deniability.

If these kinds of attacks continue then I expect we'll see some extra-judicial direct action consequences imposed. Like a ship that gets away later having a mysterious accident causing it to slowly sink in deep water (thank goodness another passing ship was nearby to rescue the crew!). While I don't like it, when bad actors figure out a way to repeatedly avoid consequences, sometimes a little rule bending is needed.
Having involuntarily engaged in some litigation in Nevada, I can tell you it can be literally and metaphorically the Wild West. To paraphrase the local attorney: "Nevada has one small shelf of case law precedents -- so the judge can do pretty much whatever they want. And judges are elected, so they'll probably do what gets them re-elected."
this is literally impossible at most companies due to politics, incentive alignments, OKRs etc
Germany had a giant, excellent chemicals industry. It has been shrinking due to higher natural gas prices. Natural gas is a crucial input for many bulk chemicals.
You may be surprised but the majority of people who own stuff do not worry whether they should get a third monitor or a new kitchen appliance. We just use some items and don't care much about them. If the TV breaks I'd look for a new one, but otherwise I don't care.
This is a hugely contingent decision. I would advise working with professionals for your specific needs, or at least specifying your needs as much as possible.
Neither do I, but if I had to, CCP gets my precious.
Simulation of a Tsunami Hitting San Francisco Bay Area [video]
Imagine seeing Hiroshi Nagai on HN! He's one of my favorite artists. As far as I know, his son sells prints out of various locations in Tokyo, and keeps hopping around. It takes some effort to find him but when you do, the prints are not too expensive. I like to imagine it's a "show us you really want this art" thing, but not in terms of money.
I did that for my previous job and I loved it. Had plenty of time to get over my nerves and then build something cool. And then brag about my choices in writing.
Google Pay still exists. It hasn't died per se, just bounced around a bunch of Google apps before the core functionality got subsumed into what is now Google Wallet. There's an entire flowchart on Wikipedia it's that bad.
What’s wrong with taking “too much” peoples time? I mean, it’s a colleague, asking questions… it’s not that you are going to work more because you’re allocating time to help others.
it's just further evidence that we're also stoichastic parrots :)
Yes, you've argued this with me before.

The issue of "assault weapon" bans boils down to the question of whether or not restricted features like pistol grips and adjustable stocks make magazine-fed semi-automatic firearms more dangerous than those without. People who shoot these kinds of weapons tend to be unconvinced. Gun control advocates generally believe this distinction makes sense.

There's also the issue of how restricted magazine-fed semiautomatic weapons should be, apart from the baggage of "assault weapon" features, which I feel could be a more productive debate.
I get the engine and transmission tech doesn’t translate over but the vast majority of the chassis, transmission and pretty much everything else stays the same in a car.

That being said, having driven my EV for a year or so I somewhat find ICE vehicles gross now. All that sputtering, poisons, jerkiness, continuous maintenance, loudness etc. just feels so primitive. The only place it still makes sense is for situations that require a lot of power like long distance hauling, heavy equipment etc.
I see Vlad's point but this is a very bad look. Territory war/ethnic cleansing != geopolitical issues. They need to drop Yandex. I, too, am reconsidering my subscription.
If you have a branchless program, you can execute the same step of the program on multiple different inputs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD
One helpful addition would be Requests Per Minute (RPM), which varies wildly and is critical for streaming use cases -- especially with Bedrock where the quota is account wide.
If detachable magazines are your issue then New York still allows them with 10 rounds or less on both pistols and long rifles. Phrasing that as "reasonable people" is a bit of a trap. I'm a leftist, have been all my life, that likes gun control in the form of:

- finger printing

- background checks

- no sale registries

- psych evals

- closing private sale (non FFL) and gun convention loopholes

New Yorks style of gun control is not what I think is effective or reasonable. It's just making the process more arduous and arbitrary without effecting the illegal sale market, where most of these crimes statistically occur.

Edit:

Throwing a point in post edit: Detachable magazines are actually not the deciding factor in the SAFE act. You can have a detachable magazine, just not when combined with a muzzle device (eg: a muzzle break or compensator).
It's ironic how js-experts could not make examples work on the article page.
No, my argument has literally nothing to do with pistol grips and adjustable stocks, as you know.
“If texting while driving is a crime, my whole family’s going to jail!”

Things a cop would say but no sane civilian would.
> I had thought it was either (a) professional hit or (b) disgruntled family member.

There is also option (c) a professional hit hired by a disgruntled family member.

Still, I believe some variant of option (b) is the most likely scenario—unless the whole thing has been intentionally orchestrated to look like (b).

When I say some variant of (b), I'm also including someone who hypothetically wasn't even personally affected but felt a strong political motivation to perform the shooting in solidarity. I can absolutely imagine the profile of the kind of person who would meticulously plan this and carry it out out of sheer political motivation.
No, but nice looking recommendation for our next time there!
For a cable at the bottom of the ocean, there is a barrier to entry though. For theft in the city, the thing being stolen is pretty easily accessible, and requires much less thought than getting some kind of submersible and going to the bottom of the ocean
That's not exponential growth. It's not even linear-with-good-slope.

And it's not even "give 1x work -same as before- and take x1.5 money" but more like "give 1.5x work and take x1.5 money" at best (and usually less): more responsibilities, more stress, and more work time.
My suspicion is that this murder was organised by Russia as an attempt to normalise and encourage further vigilante actions, thereby weakening society. They chose their target well for this one, but I imagine, even after the shift it has caused in what is considered acceptable, there will be less widespread approval of future killings.
your comments don't "reach" anyone, they just become part of a vast cacophony which is on the whole algorithmically manipulated to suit the ends of other people who are far more powerful than yourself.
The app can be used without signup here: https://www.unlistedjobs.com/jobs

Then you can determine if enough relevant job listings are there for your domain to follow through with signup.

(there is some confusion that you must signup first)
what are you really trying to do?
The question here isn't whether existing gun control measures are effective (they are not, for multiple reasons). If I was elected emperor, my first step would not be to "ban assault weapons".

The question here is whether there exists a meaningful category of weapons called "assault weapons" (yes: the semi-automatic and select-fire long guns with detachable magazines, which were designed as weapons of war) and whether they are more dangerous than other legal firearms (yes).
Is it only accelerating objects that emit gravity waves/particles, or do decelerating objects do it too?
Good point, it’s the dopamine. Having your beliefs reinforced feels great.
And what’s interesting here is people will get annoyed with this.

Am I pro-human? Absolutely

Can non-human outputs be functionally valuable to humans and not per se harmful? Absolutely, we live in a biosphere that humans didn’t create or if humans did create it, it was humans more evolved than humans we are aware of.
This is why I buy my honey from a local beekeeper I trust.
With continental drift, the moving land might regularly undergo sterilization events.
Huh. As a UMD grad who faced this same problem, it's an interesting post. What I'll say is that their ECE (which CS does not fall into, idk how they do it) department advisors gave us updated 4 year plans every semester or so. It meant I never had to worry about not having the right classes to graduate. And we had to get permission for every class which while annoying meant my advisor looked over every major-specific class. I can't even count how many people I know or know who know that wasted upwards of years on classes that didn't count. None of that for me.

On the other hand, I remember for my acceptance (which wasn't too the ECE program) I had to pick classes before I could confirm going to UMD? I don't remember why but I remember panicking because here I am, a high schooler still, picking college classes that would set my next 4 years. I was even more terrified when my first ever class not only was I late because it was in the back of a basement, but the instructor made some comment about it not being the right class for engineers or something. It was, though. You fix this and other problems:
1. I started using the UMD provided schedule planner and some 3rd party ones, with multiple backups for when they'd fill up
2. I made an app that showed most buildings' floor plans completely offline. No more wandering around during stressful times.
3. I did try and make a tree of classes using prerequisite days scraped from the SoC, but it wasn't a regular expression so I gave up immediately.

The blogger like CMSC430 and I agree it was a good class though I had a different professor.
Probably challenging to sufficiently harden the links and ground equipment, and to guarantee QoS for military applications
>Note: While you can toggle between the open and closed states of non-modal dialog boxes by toggling the presence of the open attribute, this approach is not recommended.

This perplexes me. Why is it not recommended? Why put it in a standard and then recommend against it? What's wrong with it? The documentation is silent.
Last time this article came up, I voiced my opinion that instead of a blog post, this should've probably been a bug report either for the browser or the CSS spec itself. Since this got posted again, I went and looked for one and boy did it not disappoint: there's an ongoing ticket that's now been open for eight years [0]. Granted, that ticket and the related spec cover much more than just this behavior, but the underlying issue is the same. If you look through related tickets on e.g. Chromium, you'll see plenty that are closed as won't fix exactly because of this, the spec itself doesn't account for all the use cases.

[0] https://github.com/w3c/fxtf-drafts/issues/53
Amazon's HPC stack behind the Nova Frontier Models [video]
That'd be nice, it just doesn't match my experience dealing with frontline support.

Most companies don't give them the training, autonomy, problem solving tools, or even buy-in to deal with something like this.

When I call in I expect them to be able to change my reservation and handle seat changes and such. I don't expect them to be able to triage a tech support call and tell the difference in severity between, say, a shared computer with somebody else's login, a browser caching issue, a database hack, a proxy or CDN issue, etc.
Bought a $80 refurbed b&w HP laser printer years ago and I'm happy with it... Toner is also very cheap
Agreed. Is it that different than Make with `.PHONY` targets? Yes — it is Designed To Do Exactly What It Does, And It Does It Well. That counts for something in my book.

All my Justfiles start with this prelude to enable positional arguments, and a "default" target to print all the possible commands when you run `just` with no target name:

# this setting will allow passing arguments through to tasks, see the docs here
# https://just.systems/man/en/chapter_24.html#positional-arguments
set positional-arguments

# print all available commands by default
default:
@just --list
Wyoming & Nevada
Patel is an unelected bureaucrat, just like the current director.
> The term "assault weapon" usually indicates larger magazines and higher rate of fire than firearms that are typically used for self defense or sport.

To be blunt, you've been lied to about this. No assault weapons ban has ever distinguished firearms based off of their rate of fire. The magazines banned are often are those typically used for self-defense and sport.
This may vary by state, but in Washington my broker tells me that a one-person LLC can work, if it elects to be taxed as a corporation so it can issue that person a W-2. Which accountants hate because of the potential extra taxes, but as she says, "my job is to get you health insurance, not reduce your taxes".
I know how to wikipedia too! They said usually, not "in some really rare cases"
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Do they?

When I pursued creative writing in my teens and early 20s, it became clear to me that originality is extremely difficult. I am not entirely sure I have ever had an original thought--every idea I've put to paper thinking it was original, I later realized was a recombination of ideas I had come across somewhere else. The only exceptions I've found were places where I had a fairly unusual experience which I was able to interpret and relate, i.e. a unique interaction with the world.

Perhaps more importantly, LLMs do not contain any mechanism which even attempts to perform pure abstract thought, so even if we accept the questionable assumption that humans can generate ideas ex nihilo, that doesn't mean that LLMs can.
Yeah, very much agree. My point moreso was that the truth also needs a good narrative. I think we missed that this last election cycle. Isolated facts are not enough to convince people of a story, even if it will clearly play out as true.
https://12ft.io/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/20...

Despite the article swooning over his skills, he was not especially careful. They tracked him to a Starbucks and hotel.
Start Your Own Corporation (Garrett Sutton, 2012) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1937832007/ . Big focus on "charging order protection" - if you are sued and lose, states like Wyoming with charging order protection mean that you have to give up future profits of your company, but you are not forced to do anything to actually generate future profits. This also means that lawyers won't get paid as easily for lawsuits, since they aren't sure if/when they can actually get money from the proceeds, which may make lawsuits less likely.
As a heavy Just user, I agree with all of this — great answer.
Must be a thin concrete wall, too, then?

Most tanks are low to the ground, as are most concrete walls: it's impossible for any "ammunition" fired at ground level to penetrate a bunch of ground level objects and then fly 18 football fields away ... and then explode.

Is this ACME ammunition?
I've never thought about this because I've never thought it could happen.

Maybe I'll start backing up my files somewhere else too.
It literally doesn't matter as long as it's in the US.
> If the LLMs could talk to grandma for 40 minutes until it figures out what her problem actually is as opposed to what she thinks it is

Ok, but it can't. If we had superhuman AGI, it would beat people in customer service, yes.
I don't have my work laptop to hand to compare, but I usually run "just" to get a list of commands and what they do, rather than "just --list". Hope that saves you 7 key presses going forwards.