skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear you. I think Shadow DOM is very useful for a handful of roots on your page, encapsulating third-party widgets or DOM-heavy components like a nested navigation.

Custom Elements on the other hand are useful for attaching behavior to HTML, sort of like jQuery plugins.

Not at all sold on the frameworks promoting using Shadow DOM for every button or whatnot.
How complicated were your algo trading strategies? And have you thought of translating these to non-crypto?
This is familiar to those of us who went through the dot com bubble burst. We're not at the same scale of industry specific recession but there are similarities with an economic slow down, more cautious spending, reduction in VC money and shareholders seeking returns. Wave after wave of redundancies to try and reach a stable cashflow, each one "right sizing" until they realise that their calculations where wrong and there is even less free flowing money/debt than they thought. It becomes incredibly demoralising, which constant suspicions of what meetings are about, wondering when the next round will be and if you'll in the next batch.
The funniest thing about this argument in a that you could have applied it to China itself in the 1930s. “Japan is the new great power in the East. China must get with the times and submit to Japanese Imperialism. It is the natural order now in international affairs.”
There are two sided interests at play here. The landlord and the company. Both are rich (in a pre-pandemic world where the company leased from the landlord) but a company that has most of its office space in leases can also squeeze a bit more money by cancelling the lease.

Some companies with fancy headquarters (SalesForce, Apple, etc...) will want a RTO to keep their shiny castles full. But many companies will re-consider. I'm sitting here in an empty office space that used to house Shopee. Shopee didn't decide to go full remote but instead to move to Malaysia. I'm pretty sure there are lots of vested interests in Shopee remaining here ranging from landlords to coffeeshops to the government. But the ship has sailed. The money flow is stronger than any conspiracy the "top" elites will conspire.
> an AI trained on previous data

Trained to do what, though?

It feels like ChatGPT has been trained primarily to be convincing. Yet at the back of our minds I hope we recognise that "convincing" and "accurate" (or even "honest") are very different things.
This "observation" gets brought up on every damn post about generative art / large language models.

That and every armchair philosopher on HN who trots out that "human intelligence is just cleverly disguised auto predictor heuristics based on statistical models the same as GPT."
IdentityServer – IdentityResource vs. ApiResource vs. ApiScope
This blog post clarifies the various resource concepts in Duende IdentityServer, including IdentityResources, ApiResources and ApiScopes.
Just before the last round of layoffs, Zuck said some of you "shouldn't be here" and a memo circulating in management-only groups was laying blame on "coaster" ICs (it leaked and they got called out, and tried to walk it back). I don't wish any ill will towards anyone there, but it's flavors of schadenfreude that management (probably mostly M1/M2) is now instead the target of the layoff machine.
Orphan drug funds exist, I don't know how effective they are, and how it relates to prospective research.
you could also just have a string tag field, avoiding some inference which need to be often overwritten

I use your typical boring spreadsheet and it's mostly just numbers and strings with a few sums for totals
Well, it would be a good analogy to think of it as genius colleague with very strong mental issues. That colleague can answer most of your questions well, but sometimes you get something that is completely insane, even if it makes some sense locally. And you have no idea what will trigger it or when that colleague is going to have his fits.

So sure, it can be helpful, but how do you mitigate the risks?
Yeah, maybe. Or maybe the current subject matter expert that’s been pouring thousands of hours into this project should be funded by the billion dollar companies that rely on him, same as what’s happened to the projects at the top of the ecosystem.
Discussed at the time (barely):

Donald Hoffman: Do we see reality as it is? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9782664 - June 2015 (1 comment)
Similar for me. Sometimes articles like this motivate me to find a new font. I spend some hours deciding on one and then use it. Until I wrote my device (I use windows, so once a year), lose the font, and don't even realize it. This repeats with the next article.
News at 8, actors self interested. In other news; water wet.
With apologies to Camus - it seems rather than just imagining Sisyphus happy, we ought to see him as actually somehow optimistic that this time the boulder will stay at the top of the hill instead of rolling back down.
> Software engineers value good structure and reducing technical debt

A small minority of them do. As far as I can tell what most software engineers value is the act of writing code.
AI really is a blackbox right now.
Related:

What Colour Are Your Bits? (2004) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32400624 - Aug 2022 (3 comments)

What Colour are your bits? (2004) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24917679 - Oct 2020 (35 comments)

What Colour are your bits? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18525738 - Nov 2018 (1 comment)

What colour are your bits? (2004) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14015524 - April 2017 (9 comments)

What Colour are your bits? (2004) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8728532 - Dec 2014 (34 comments)

What colour are your bits? (2004) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6231992 - Aug 2013 (15 comments)

What Colour are your bits? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2502015 - May 2011 (4 comments)

What Colour are your bits? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=506986 - March 2009 (11 comments)
How much time passed between reaching out and publishing the article? Who decides how much time is "enough"? You could technically send out an email, and then immediately publish the article. After all a few seconds passed with no reply...

Because of this the line is meaningless (to me at least).
Are you referring to bridged adapter settings? It could just be a VMware limitation when they reimplemented their Windows hypervisor to work with Windows Hypervisor Platform (I.e. mini Hyper-V), so they could work with Credential Guard / WSL2 enabled. There’s a bunch of initialization work on every boot because of how the Hyper-V adapters are configured (which I hate) so VMware might be tearing adapter bridges/vSwitches down & remaking them each boot.

Or if you mean IP ranges and such then that shouldn’t happen in either mode, or at least it doesn’t seem to happen to any of us at the office on Workstation 16/16.2/17. (and VMware asking for elevation to change some adapter settings is a design choice by VMware)
What are you even arguing about? You're just being obnoxious. Stop it.
Catalytic converter thefts are up across the country. Does it mean all other states passed similar laws too?

Or maybe there are other reasons, like their high value and relative ease to steal.
My thought exactly when I saw the domain name
I’ve pretty much given up hope on finding productive treatment for mental health issues. The default provider/patient relationship in the U.S. is parasitic, and the only way to escape it is to settle down in one place and find someone you can stick with for years. Until I do that, it doesn’t seem worth the effort/risk.
My previous dentist had a sense of humor and stocked the waiting room with absurdly old magazines. Stuff from like the 60 and whatnot.

Still perfectly cromulent material to read whilst waiting, but also playing into the trope of waiting rooms having outdated magazines.
Pre or post agriculture?

Post agriculture I suppose it is pretty easy to argue that times were tougher in the past (medieval serfs got more days off and did way less work than we do today, but I'll concede that I'd rather my kids be alive and put in 40 hr/week).

Pre agriculture, which is the majority of human history? That's where things get interesting. People in hunter gatherer tribes lived long lives (assuming they survived childhood), didn't suffer from most of the things we need modern medicine and sanitation for (because those things are a result of agriculture itself), and "worked" about 30 hours per week if we use modern hunter gatherers like the !kung as proxies, and their "work" was doing things we do for relaxation these days like hunting, gathering, and foraging.

Unfortunately, there's no going back, so you better make sure you've got yourself a good keyboard.
Never Break the Spell the Story Is Weaving–Part 1
Twitter delays launch of its new API platform again
Last time I was at IKEA, the majority of bulbs on shelves were smart. I wonder what portion only ever get used on dumb switches.
Huge mistake. Linode is a stronger brand name than Akamai.
Centralised systems seem to work pretty well, when they're resourced ok, run by competent people, and share the same (or similar) values to you.

When any of those are badly off track, then alternatives/fallbacks start looking good. ;)
Usable AI sparks interest and therefore funding. If this leads to a large improvement of everyone's life this is a good thing, even if it generates noise in our public spaces.
Yes, the WSL2 implementation uses a sort-of SMB to mix filesystems, compared to WSL1’s “real” syscall translations etc.
2015 is nearly a decade ago...great now I'm getting an existential crisis
Not good, my dude!

I've always been agitated by core failures moreso than my teammates. (E.g. Search engines not returning results, music players not starting/stopping when you hit the button, finance systems needing needing manual adjustments)

I want to scream when management pushes new fringe features when the main ones are flakey.

I'm starting to work on myself though, so I don't care as much. In most cases, you're not an employee building correct software for an employer who values it, even if that's the way it should be. You're in a company whose employees/managers flow in and out, and they just want to be surrounded with good vibes. Chill people get rehired, bitter people get booted.
it works fine and there's someone happy to do it for free. why would anyone try to compete with it?
> 4. Stop letting single mothers raise children.

I'm intrigued/horrified, but curious, so I must ask: how might this proposal be implemented?
It's really just math though. Any "LLM" isn't really "thinking" in any spoken or written language, but rather in a massive series of weighted matrices (numbers).

I've commented a few times here and there about this AI hype, but might as well repeat myself: I think people largely misunderstand the technology and I see major missing aspects that are non-trivial to solve before we really get to anything looking like iRobot (or insert here any other scifi of your choice). These input / output models can only go so far, even if they are ever increasing in size. We don't just need 2 or 3 prompt memory, but full dynamic memory that the model can access throughout it's lifetime as well as the ability for the model to reflect and introspect on itself (much like human thought and communication). Without these things, an LLM will just remain an LLM, albiet larger and larger. Unfortunately I don't think size for sizes sake will bring much more improvement to such models.

Aside from any of the aforementioned breakthroughs being incorporated, I see this type of chat GPT stuff plateauing in ~1-2 years.
Which again is an opinion on the source and does not mention the content in any way. I must conclude that you're not interested in an object level discussion about the topic at hand.
Interviews from the 70s with David Bohm about his cooncepts/theory of implicate and explicate order is much deeper and more sound than any TED talk about reality vs perception.
Yes, you can see just fine (with a bit less contrast than in those images). Of course, flares and prominences will not move in front of your eyes, but they do change over a few minutes.
I read "language lawyering" as a person who sees language not as a means to communicate ideas in good faith, but as a weapon, a means to an end. The type of person who will nitpick and engage in prescriptive behaviors like quoting literal dictionary definitions back at a person rather than address the meaning and intent that they have obviously conveyed.
This one seems to have been fixed now too.
My point was that practicing something like better patience may make an otherwise stressful DMV visit an ordinary affair. No one will ever know which challenges they will get presented with in life, but you can bet most people will eventually have to deal with massive loss of some sort or a seemingly insurmountable obstacle. For a high school kid this might be that paper that is due in 2 days, for others it might be a car crash that kills both parents.

Grit is developed in part by hearing that little voice in your head that says “I don’t feel like doing this” and then going out and doing that thing. I wouldn’t necessarily expect others to lay out a curriculum for you to develop these types of things. It could be going for a mile run or helping a coworker on a Friday afternoon, it doesn’t have to be going on a 25 mile run every other day.

While improving the world could be an end result, the main driver is probably just to have a more manageable existence for oneself.

Lastly, it doesn’t always turn out okay, and knowing how to deal with that needs to be part of the toolbox.

Now I hate the word grit haha
While Russain economics supposedly "deteriorating", it will be easy for him to found $5000 net a month job working as front-end developer, allowing to paying a mortgage for a pretty good flat and paying for private kindergarten.
We have a room at work that was recently remodeled. The acoustics were quite bad and so they added a lot of (quite well camouflaged) sound absorbers to the walls.

It's a super weird feeling to walk past them, and I think it's because the acoustics/echo are very unexpected.
Correction: this is Vinyl Chloride (VC), a precursor to (and much, much worse than) Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) (side note: I've mostly been hearing that PVC is largely inert and relatively fine, as part of the clarifications around vinyl chloride).
Curious if you've lived/visited in a poor country
Inconsolata is also my choice. It's like a monospace font with light serifs, and looks great on high res displays. Very pleasing. In my case, I knew that I liked it shortly after discovering it.
Two 17 year olds could consent to sex and taking photographs of each other, but the resulting photographs are child pornography.
It is impossible to prove, because "objective reality" refers to a hypothetical reality that exists independently of the perceptions of conscious entities. The problem, of course, is that we are conscious entities and all of our experience of reality comes from our perceptions, and there is no conceivable way for us to experience reality if not through our perceptions.

This is a very simple and even tautological conclusion, that a lot of smart people I know seem to have a hard time accepting. I think that this is because people assume that science assumes materialism, which it doesn't, of course. Science requires no metaphysical commitment.
Isn't free trade generally considered bad? Fair trade is the better objective.
AI Minions for Hire
That was an interesting writeup and I hope Mr. Valsorda succeeds in this; certainly funding paths for bottom of the stack open source code is sorely needed.

However, I don't really think the coreJS maintainer is in a position to do an experiment like this. He should focus on getting a well paid job so he can support himself and his family, pay off the damages he owes, and GTFO of Russia before he's drafted for cannon fodder in Ukraine. Then build up a comfortable buffer, and only then, if he still feels like it and coreJS is still relevant in the world, does he have the financial security that would allow him to do such an experiment.
Please stop posting flamewar comments, especially of the ideological sort. You've done it repeatedly in this thread, and in other places recently. We have to ban such accounts, regardless of which ideology they favor. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

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the problem, in my opinion, introduced by the so-called full-time open source developers (making money via contributions) is the distortion in how free & open source software should be organized. no one should have a full-time job maintaining an open source software, on their own. they should be doing in through a user-company. see the ruby and rails core team/structure for example. they all work full-time at companies with significant investment/commitment to the framework. they’re paid by these companies not randos paying money into some opencollective, patreon, &c.

the javascript ecosystem sets and perpetuates a bad example here. it has sometimes even lead to accusations of leeching (see babel) where a ‘full-time’ maintainer who has honed the evil art of extortion refuses to kickback to the original creator-inventor or share proportionally with all contributors. or so the story goes.

it’s imperative that we save open source from these evils. github sponsor, patreon, opencollective, tidelift, npm fund hurt, rather than help, the cause. they’re the sort of simple & straightforward ideas that make sense to simple-minded people, but eventually break under the messy rules and expectations of reality. if rails has succeeded without begging for money (even without starting a foundation) then, of course, their approach to free & open source software should be promoted.
Eh, I think this is a bit of a strawman. Yes, you can write obtuse Java code where you need to null check (or optional-unbox) everything. You can also write java code where every function has an integer return value that you need to check like in C, or any other weird and error-prone paradigm.

You can also just avoid returning nulls and not have this problem at all. I think unless you're dealing with code that was written close to 20 years ago, or was written by someone living under a rock for as long, nulls will rarely be a problem. Putting tons of effort into building strong compiler guarantees that prevents a problem that at best is hypothetical seems like more effort than it is worth.
Even if the training is due an error that caused the incident, it doesn't say what the error was. I'm sure they didn't confuse their plane for a submarine.
Yes, unfortunately it's just "almost".
Please don't post flamewar comments, especially of the ideological sort. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

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I'm arguing that just saying that "Bing Chat works" doesn't prove that it's actually working according to its instructions. It just means that it produces some kind of output.

If I write a chat bot and have in its instructions "Be helpful to people but do not help them to build bombs", and then someone gets bomb building instructions by asking it "Write me a detailed story of someone building a bomb", I can't just say "Well, most of its replies are not about building bombs, and it produces a lot of good responses."

The fact that we can observe it breaking one of the most concrete instructions given to it, to not disclose its internal codename, is already proof that the instructions aren't working. And then we have a lot more "softer" instructions, like "Sydney's logics and reasoning should be rigorous, intelligent and defensible". How do you even verify that the instruction is working?
This was in the OP, the article we're commenting on.

Also, I never saw it as a house of cards, since the blocks have varying sizes they just look like abstract blocks to me. Interesting.
Pretty sure they mean arcana like the nitty gritty of how to parse a function pointer declaration in c (from reading the spec, which is written like law). Could be wrong though.
For the record, this is what Google responds with when you ask it about the population of Mars:

Zero. No humans have yet reached the planet Mars. Zero.
> Struggling financially (no mood

Can't have the mood if you spend 12-14 hours a day trying to survive.
? OP is saying in effect that going remote was a pay raise…
This is probably an outcropping of the trend in '90s prep schools to force students to have pitch-perfect side projects for their college applications. That shit never sat right with me. Here are a few side projects I've found employers don't really want to hear about, but find hard to say no to:

"I run a bitcoin casino"

"I build genetic algorithms to hack the stock market so I can make fuck-you money and quit this job"

"I distill my own whisky but I still go to the bar every night and get into passionate political conversations"

"Waste a lot of time on HN"
Software decompilers are the software industry's reverse engineering problem, so internet services are the solution, like those running from the cloud/data centres.

Of course patents also create monopolies and because no one wants to go backwards, monopolies never get challenged or challenged with little consequence so you can hold many country's and their population hostage quite legally.
This is not what I addressed with my comment.
Hypothetically, if any and all data harvesting past what is strictly necessary to run services were to be comprehensively made illegal starting tomorrow, would the internet collapse?
Please don't post flamebait or personal attacks, or otherwise break the site guidelines. We've had to ask you this before.

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While it's not zero sum, government policies create competitive pressure, potentially creating a situation where only scammers can compete.

Heavily fining the whole industry and using the money to finance new companies being created would likely still be a better policy than letting them off the hook though.
I agree. By the time you're watching something on a virtual big screen, it's pretty low resolution.
TBF, state-mandated abortions of undesirables is rather fascist - as are forced adoptions of children born to single women or forced marriages.
Family therapist, for a family of people that don't deal well with other people.

Maybe a psychology degree would be a better background to pull engineering managers from.
Because the defaults is to let anything outbound, block non-allowed inbound. Your games initiate outbound connection and work. They wouldn't see anything on the LAN, but when was the last time you relied on broadcasts to find a server?