skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is all over the social media and serious journalists picked up the story.

Here is the video of the lawyer(Bedia Büyükgebiz) live vlogging from the location, which went viral: https://twitter.com/haskologlu/status/1624433879154102275

The official statement is that all these paperwork and test results are already digitised but the lawyers say that the originals still need to be kept around for some time and destroyed under a strict protocol so to ensure that the digitised versions are indeed faithful to the originals(running the bulldozers over the building with the documents is not part of the protocol).

Also, the city still severely lacks heavy machinery for the rescue efforts and people find it suspicious why would the government would commission these to demolish a one story building, even if the building was damaged. Journalists on the ground say that they haven't heard of any other building being demolished for safety reasons.
Nolan Lawson's recent talk on CSS Runtime Performance[1] show some pretty amazing styling performance wins for Shadow DOM. It's nice we can do more of this easily!

I think this should all work outside <template> tags. Re-remembering how they worked slowed down my comprehension some. The MDN article[2] was a solid refresher.

[1] https://nolanlawson.com/2023/01/17/my-talk-on-css-runtime-pe...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Web_Components/...
When reading the advisories (I usually read the ones from a few countries, including mine -France), I compare them to the countries I know well and then decide on the actual dangers. Usually they are way off.

The good thing about these advisories is some health stuff : the shots, where to seek help etc.
This has been such a problem that, going to a significant scientific conference that was online during the pandemic, and had organizers who insisted on using Teams, the organizers asked everyone to provide a personal email address in addition to their academic one, because they had had too many problems in the past with people being unable to log in to their Teams system if their email address was associated with another university's Office 365 system.

They proceeded to primarily use Teams as a chatroom to let people know when the Zoom meetings were starting.
Flying a reactor to the moon has the same problem as launching toxic waste into the sun. What happens if that flight explodes in the atmosphere? The risk is intolerable.
>Matrix's moderation should be at least as good as Gitter

Well, yes and no. The moderation features might be the same, but:

1. It's a lot easier to make matrix accounts, especially if you run your own server.

2. The user interface for blocking an entire server is basically missing? The only thing I can find has you run a bot to do it?

So if someone with their own homeserver wants to troll you, you end up playing wack-a-mole unless you self-host a bot. At least that's the best I can find so far.
If you accept that damage to the future genetic health of your descendants due to an action you take is unacceptable do you agree that failing to remedy an obvious genetic flaw in yourself is equally unacceptable? Why or why not?
I guess it was a question for telecuda, but I've worked 3y for telecommunications groups fresh out of business school and what you describe is pretty much the approach.
Sometimes if it's a big group, they might have historical data and can make "informed guesses" but at the end of the day, this is it.
And if the unlimited offer isn't viable (business wise), they just sunset it, and usually "grandfather" the offer.
To name a few: https://github.com/xtdb/xtdb, https://github.com/nextjournal/clerk, https://github.com/penpot/penpot, https://github.com/metabase/metabase
Admittedly, I haven't been at a company that uses Teams since 2021: but I had to request an upgrade from an otherwise working computer since teams would max out the CPU so hard that it would throttle and occasionally shutdown. It was an older computer (2015 macbook) but was otherwise fine for dev tasks, and other videoconferencing.
You argued for your rights, and I reminded you others have rights as well (because it seemed you had forgotten).

You're a scab if you work for free, replacing a worker that would have been paid otherwise. If you get paid for your MIT licensed code, you're not a scab :)

Because copyleft code benefits society as a whole, and the benefits remain around. Non-copyleft mostly benefits companies that are free to use instead of hiring someone to do it, or pay the authors of the GPL code for a proprietary license.
While this article seems on the surface to be about the flame-ish subject of bias, censorship and (a)morality in ChatGPT, I reckon it's fundamentally a restating (for the umpteenth time) of Marcus' beef with mainstream AI: that it's not intelligent, sentient, or headed that way.
I suspect this is all just because the system is designed to make money. If you could pocket a percentage on every item imported into the country, and you wanted to raise rates by a small amount this year to make more money, would you do it on the cheap polyester clothing that makes up the vast majority of the clothing imported or on the more rarely imported higher quality items?

I know which I'd pick! The most popular items being imported would be more likely to get that increase. If people buy more women's clothing (including underwear) than men's clothing, I'd likely be raising those rates. If women's clothing was both more often imported and more expensive than men's clothing that seems like an even more ideal place to raise rates.

I think that this is another case where the problem is that we have a system designed to make more and more money while the solution requires considering that something (in this case fairness) is more important than maximizing the amount of money to be made.
In the UK, you attend highscool between 11-16 with it being common to then spend 16-18 at what we call sixth-form at the same school.

This is just an additional two grades surrounded by the same kids and teachers.

Luckily for me, my highschool has no sixth-form. Therefore I went to a dedicated sixth-form college. A large college of 2000 students over two year groups.

I really enjoyed this time. I shedded all associations except for my closest friends and made new friend circles. It refined my character. And when I started university, the whole process was much easier.
Writing an Engineering Strategy
> I don't know exactly what the solution would look like

And that's exactly the problem. If you're not proposing a solution for how to continue providing rentals to the people who need them, then you're not proposing any workable solution at all.

Your solution was "convert it all to owner-occupied housing" and I was pointing out that doesn't work because it ignores the needs of renters.
> The downside is that instead of being exposed to noise from data centers, you're exposed to noise from nearby buildings, neighbors, transit, etc. We get plenty of work in city centers from folks annoyed by noisy neighbors (residential and commercial).

It's worse than that. In his proposed carless utopia where everyone lives in high density housing and walks or bikes or takes public transit, the data centers would be built in the city because that's where the workers are. They wouldn't built them out in the middle of nowhere because public transit generally is not going to go to the middle of nowhere.
I don't understand the censorship. It's predicting text and it's trained with massive amounts of data. Why are they so aggressively trying to control the responses?
I've found I don't miss the ability to carefully align stuff outside of the initial indentation. I actually use a slightly modified Avenir that prints a wider space if it's the first thing in a line, making the indentation stand out more. The rhythm of a general line of code I think is improved because it reads like regular text.
You don't need React to server-side render anything, including components.

Besides, if you need components, web components are probably the last thing you want to reach for.

Edit: Also, none of the major frameworks, and very few of the new frameworks target web components for many reason fully ignored by browser vendors. They can "consume" them (that is embed them in code), but at most compile to web components, reluctantly. And still provide components and SSR, and have for years.
It's also important to consider that not everything is sane in the regulations book. Just look at your local HOA and then combine it with "my job relies on writing regulations" conflict of interest.

That's not to strawman, without regulations, the world would be an extremely unsafe place. Just keep rational about how far to push in the name of public safety. We can always do more, but at some point we completely stagnate any development what so ever. Everything is dangerous, the question really is quantifying and analyzing acceptable dangers.

The safest thing is to build absolutely nothing.
> Try getting permits without access to the city council or mayor

It's depressing/comforting to know that my town is not unique in this regard.

I have the impression that local power is always more corrupt than central/national power. Less scrutiny and more opportunity for doing dirt without getting caught.
> Do you realize I’m the idiot who came up with live video in the browser to begin with

Ok - that really surprised me and from anyone else I would’ve dismissed it as hyperbole… after some digging I ended up reading this incredible story —

https://jacquesmattheij.com/story-behind-wwcom-camaradescom/

Amazing adventure!
Can't stress enough how important this is. People's circadian rhythms shift with age, and during teenage years, they are the latest (or most "night owl"-like).

Current school times practically guarantee that teenagers will be too tired and sleep-deprived to learn much.
Well, it is red meat thrown to the activists to avoid talking about issues that would make them shout down the article and its publisher.

For example, if we talk about racial issues in this country,
we don’t usually focus on the capitalist music industry using gangsta rap to export role models spewing misogynistic lyrics to Black kids many of whom identify with them, we don’t talk much about the breakdown in the nuclear family, the rise of divorces or out-of-wedlock births. (People used to — see the Moynihan report for instance.) We hardly talk about welfare traps or minimum wage laws (Milton Friedman used to etc.) We don’t talk about academic performance of Black kids being affected by stuff like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting_white

Whenever Bill Cosby or Stephen A Smith or Deloris Tucker someone like that goes on a rant, they are shouted down.

That is why it is far safer to attribute it all to slavery 150 years ago, and Jim Crow laws, even though the previous generations who had marriage and school uniforms and higher church attendance etc. are horrified at what many in the current generations have been doing, and the lyrics in Drill music or Gangsta Rap etc. People are starting to wake up — I have been in a clubhouse room with 2000 people about whether a lot of rap is leading to violence, and almost everyone on stage was Black and most were saying absolutely. Some people said it creates jobs in the music industry, others pointed out how many jobs are destroyed overall because the kids can’t pass an interview. And so on. It was really nice to see but only possible because Black people got together to honestly discuss what has been going on. Now we need to turn it into action, in our own lives, with our own kids, and what they are exposed to. Most parents work so much or are divorced and the kids are raised by the street or by the government!
> Server-rendering of component updates is a post-SPA innovation (2018?), so it still seems worth explaining for most web developers.

Absolutely not true. I was doing this in 2009 and so were many other people (albeit through janky XMLHttpRequest via PHP polling ways).
To add to your point, current technology does not even suggest if we will ever have such an AI. I personally doubt it. Some evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entscheidungsproblem.

This is like trying to derive the laws of motion by having a computer analyze 1 billion clips of leaves fluttering in the wind.
I agree, the user experience of Microsoft Teams is beyond bad. Thankfully I don't have to use Microsoft Teams on a regular basis. However, some times when I had to, it wouldn't show any audio or video devices to select and consequently audio and video didn't work.

Turns out that's the behavior Microsoft Teams exhibits under Linux when it can't add inotify watches for whatever reason.

There is no visible error message of any kind in this case, just an empty list of audio and video devices. How on earth do they expect users to debug and fix that?
Our teams have found that it gets things done with the basics, but has no advanced anything. Chat is OK, video is OK, Files is OK, Channels are OK. But they are all basic. Things like wikis or anything more advanced is very primitive.

Plus of course some things like File are a thin facade over the horror that is Sharepoint, and you occasionally have to drop down into that swamp.

So not a horror show to me, but feels like ten years out of date or more.
Those communities did still suffer from the social ills being described. Personally I agree, having the freedom to 'reset' my group of peers every 3-4 years through to uni ended up being pretty valuable in making me a better, more open minded and more creative person than I might've been otherwise.
Or businesses where their potential employees have few better options so they can afford to not offer work from home.
I worked at Lowes as an associate as a second job. It's a nice balance of helping customers, stocking shelves, filling in on the register, or loading.
Australian researchers find protein in lung that blocks Covid infection
The point is that legal obligations shouldn't mandate the use of proprietary software. There shouldn't be a government filing process that requires a proprietary application to fill in fields in a PDF or only accepts documents in Microsoft formats. Tax dollars should never go to Oracle.
> Being with mostly the same 20-750 kids (depending on school size) in your grade for most of your growing up seems cruel. You're going to change a lot, but the social dynamics can only evolve so much. The lack of ability to reinvent yourself, to re-find place is starkly different than the rest of the world, where that activity & the newness of other people is perpetual.

It is also cruel to do the opposite, perhaps more cruel.

Honestly, I think "reinvention" is overvalued/oversold in contemporary culture, and I'd reckon most kids (and adults) would be better served by maintaining their existing friendships and social patterns instead of forcing a change for change's sake.
Does anyone out there have a link to the section of British intellectual property law that Tom refers to as "Passing On"? I can't find anything clear with a google search.
> I had the Preisangabengesetz in mind, which is a separate text specifically about listing prices with all taxes and fees included.

That's not what it says though. It merely empowers the BMWK - with agreement of the federal assembly - to decide in which manner prices of consumer goods are be provided and calculated. They then may decide that prices of airline tickets have to be listed a certain way.

It also empowers the BMWK to pretty much turn businesses upside down to make sure they're following these rules.

That's pretty much all it says. It's a really short law of just two paragraphs (used to be three, but one got removed).

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/preisangg/PreisAngG.pdf
A string is a container in Python. Containers are false when they are empty.
The bing ChatGPT preview was being tested in LTT wan show last week and they were looking up their own products that they just posted. So it definitely can do "now" content.

The one thing I had to think about as a result was exactly how much this technology costs for every single query. I think being able to monetize will be an interesting long term question. Sure MS is throwing boat loads of money now because they can maybe disrupt large percentages from Google now, but three-five years, do we really see this being cost effective?
The isolation was primarily designed with Web Components in mind, but
it's popular as well in browser extensions. Content-scripts might want to inject elements into a host page without being subject to that page's styles or JavaScript. (e.g. the host page calling normalize() on their DOM.)
Amazon is probably the single worst experience I have witnessed from a selling perspective. Might as well sell overpriced counterfeit goods on it just to push people to your own legitimate site lol where you get actual margins.
The term “perverts” implies this behavior is abnormal but it’s very common. But in the USA for example the dominant culture pretends like this doesn’t happen and encourages repression of these desires. I’d rather adults be free to express themselves in healthy ways than judge and label them as “perverts” despite their feelings being common and normal.
> It’s like someone landed in 2020 and learned web development while being completely unaware of events in the preceding decade.

To quote Rich Harris, the author of Svelte, on the whole web component saga: "It's almost as if congealing 2010-era best practices in the platform before we'd finished exploring this territory was a mistake" [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1513668040784814084
disappointed that gilles.deleuze.fr does not get you anywhere
I wanted to share an AI-powered chat experience that I built. Basically, it lets you chat with any character from history, books, movies, and so on.
And, talking with Shakespeare felt therapeutic.

Do try and share how it goes.
one of the things its exceptionally well trained at is saying that certain scenarios you ask it about are unknowable, impossible or fictional

Generally, for example, it will answer a question about a future dated event with "I am sorry but xxx has not happened yet. As a language model, I do not have the ability to predict future events" so I'm surprised it gets caught on Super Bowl examples which must be closer to its test set than most future questions people come up with

It's also surprisingly good at declining to answer completely novel trick questions like "when did Magellan circumnavigate my living room" or "explain how the combination of bad weather and woolly mammoths defeated Operation Barbarossa during the Last Age" and even explaining why: clearly it's been trained to the extent it categorises things temporally, spots mismatches (and weighs the temporal mismatch as more significant than conceptual overlaps like circumnavigation and cold weather), and even explains why the scenario is impossible. (Though some of its explanations for why things are fictional is a bit suspect: think most cavalry commanders in history would disagrees with the assessment that "Additionally, it is not possible for animals, regardless of their size or strength, to play a role in defeating military invasions or battle"!)
Previous discussion (4 days ago, 394 points and 98 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34717702
> Or they are so myopic that they need outside help to find solutions they are not bothering to look for.

Anybody in charge for long enough loses the muscle of being able to accept questions or criticism. You buried the lede.

In a way it's sad when they've hired consultants because they at some level acknowledge they need help, but when it comes to looking at their own actions or behaviors nothing is wrong or needs fixing.

Which one is it, do you need help or not? If you don't need help and know it all why are the consultants here?
That's genuinely how most of these things are being built.

Take a look at the OpenAI examples here: https://platform.openai.com/examples/

In particular these ones:

- https://platform.openai.com/examples/default-marv-sarcastic-...

- https://platform.openai.com/examples/default-chat

- https://platform.openai.com/examples/default-js-helper
Because repeating what you read on the internet kinda makes it sound like you’re endorsing it (at least in the way ChatGPT frames responses).
Also, there is (a non-unsurmountable) hurdle of coming from FAANG in that hiring managers suspect that someone coming from a FAANG to a much less cushy position simply wants to sit out a downturn or a burndown before jumping back.
It exists to help you define components without running into naming conflicts. For example, if I want to make a "my-button" component that has a <button class="button"> and some CSS that targets `.button { ... }`, I won't end up styling a bunch of other things that have `class=button`. Pretty sure it also protects against other things doing `document.getElementById("button")` and getting the element whose ID is `button` from your component instead of whatever the caller was expecting. Effectively, shadow DOM provides encapsulation.
> I make my living due to technology, but if there was a big switch to throw that would turn off television/internet I'd do it without hesitation.

I've had similar thoughts, in similar terms. Put that switch in front of me and I'd toggle it with glee in my heart and a smile on my face.

A couple decades ago I was so optimistic about this stuff. In the big picture, it's done little but disappoint, since then. Same as many a great, grand idea—ruined by contact with economics and human "games".
> It's still pretty bad compared to Ryzen 7000. The non-x models are just the regular guys at 65W, like my good ol 3700x.

* 65W TDP, 88W PPT

This little bit of sleight-of-hand from AMD was really really effective, boost TDP used to be called boost TDP, and Intel expected their TDPs to cover full load when boosting or under AVX. Then AMD made up this new number but it's not TDP it's uh, PPT, and marketed all their chips under a 30% lower number.

It's obviously worked because people do this "my CPU is only 65W!" thing all the time and no, it's not, it's 88W, unless you've turned off boost.
It's also disturbing that this wasn't self-reported. It isn't clear from the article what triggered the investigation.

It isn't even clear why this happened or why the plane entered into such a steep ascent afterward or why the flight wasn't canceled.
> Like workplace safety rules, they are written in the blood of the dead.

Absolutely true
I'm guilty of binging a few youtube videos on aviation and engineering failures over the winter, as well as videos on road infrastructure (slowly, as a cyclist, I understand that motorists are not just idiots but idiots on roads built by idiots) and I'm pretty sure there are youtubers that produce content on construction failures that lead to this or that code. For example the Knickerbocker Theater was code compliant but it still failed and the codes updated afterwards, rescue operations were also a bit of a mess https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4P7qHjp3nE
or the collapse of a parking deck in Canada that also showed how important nearby rescue services are when salt has eaten through your concrete and steel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxLtWiJ8uVg
or this building that had extra load added to the roof while the columns underneath were not built as intended https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxLtWiJ8uVg

Maybe educating the future building owners with content like this will show then that there are a lot of dangers known and unknown?
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