skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
jQuery: returns an array-like structure that is consistent with the rest of the API whether it's one element returned, no elements are returned, or many elements are returned.

DOM:

- few if any DOM methods work on an array of elements. Or even on a NodeList

- `querySelector`: returns null if not found, Element if found. Throws if there's a selector syntax exception.

So you have to wrap it in a try/catch and in a check against null when you need to use it

- `querySelectorAll`: returns NodeList, Throws if there's a selector syntax exception.

NodeList is not an array. It's so badly designed that even the .forEach method was only added to it two years after the method was introduced.

If you need anything but .forEach, it's better to call Array.from() on the result than deal with iterator shenanigans of it's sparse interface

But sure, "it has 98% and 10% extra", whatever that means.

And that's just two of the methods. Everything else is just as bad: 90s-era verbose imperative object-oriented API.
Good point. I've found nothing off the shelf that will work for private groups, and that's the only bit of FB I'm interested in.
It may be ideal to have all these items checked off. I think a productive way to look at this is "how many of these items does the roadmap check"?

If the answer is "very few" then that might be an early warning sign you're working for a product or org that is headed for serious problems. As a technical IC who can't hope to solve those large scale management problems, this can be useful a red flag. Don't wait for shit to hit the fan to leave.

I have seen a large scale failure of this kind and the items listed here line up very well with some of the root causes I observed.

- Is the roadmap flexible or iterative? The roadmap was hard, aggressive business targets.

- Are the roadmap initiatives scoped and prioritized based on evidence? The roadmap initiatives were derived by working backwards from business targets and then evidence was found after the fact.

- Does the roadmap identify major dependencies or risks? Many risks were identified much later because techincal teams were not part of input to initial planning.

- Does the roadmap feel aggressive but achievable? Aggressive but not physically possible.

- Does the roadmap take on appropriate risk? No, there was multiple possible independent points of failure.

Anyways, if you ever see this kind of product culture I suggest running for the hills unless you like having your time wasted. And if you are a technical manager I hope you push back like hell when presented with this situation.
Bhargava's one is fun to read: https://web.math.princeton.edu/generals/bhargava_manjul
people were hoping it would replace labor intensive jobs, instead ai seems to replace the white collars first
> it is the job of a government to make sure that the infrastructure for clean water is present, and funded through taxes, to benefit any and all

this is a job they are failing at. I was recently shocked to see how many places in the US were under boil-water advisories. At this point I'd really like a national map of where the water is unsafe because they are everywhere and some of them go on for years while others are short term (water main breaks for example).

I found one advisory for a nearby town I frequent that had recently ended and I hadn't even been aware of it. Unless you're obsessively following the department of water/natural resources on social media for every city/state you visit you'd never know! There are bound to be many homes, businesses, even restaurants totally unaware that their water is unsafe and many more visitors to areas who don't have any clue.
> the total (ostensible) value of all coins that have been mined in a given cryptocurrency. These values should be taken with a hefty grain of salt, as they are considerably larger than the total value that could be realized if holders of a currency decided to try to cash out.
That system will just make people in charge of distributing socialized housing, food and health care very rich.
https://archive.ph/7Ycyu
VR style passthrough, they want the pixels and FOV, think of this as an almost Apple Vision Pro for $750, assuming they can pull it off. Supposedly, the Visor was on stage at the intel event today, but I haven't looked to see yet.

The founder has tried them all and commented that similar AR tech is probably still 5 years away (at the price point and form factor the Visor is pushing)

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Intel event showing Visor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV2CnhuK04Q&t=3687s (a very short cameo(?))
Neuralink, Boring, Solarcity? These are basically worthless when you take a closer look:

Neuralink is at best replicating decades-old research, all while horrifically violating scientific codes of ethics,

Boring is just a tunnel digging company (tunnel-boring is a very often unavoidable construction technique and thus is a very mature technology, he's not going to magically find an order-of-magnitude technical breakthrough) whose basic premise is that you can increase throughput per dollar by digging lots of slightly-smaller tunnels for cars instead of a single subway-sized car; a premise that is objectively false.

Solarcity might have been an interesting idea but was handled poorly and went bankrupt, at which point Musk forced Tesla to buy it so he personally could avoid the bad PR of "Musk's company goes bankrupt!", which is quite illegal and an abuse of his power as CEO of Tesla.

Starlink flat-out makes a loss per satellite launched, and scaling its userbase up won't fix that; it's dead once it runs out of investor money.

There's this weird situation were Musk has N different ventures, and each venture looks alright on the surface but is rotten when you take a closer look - but everyone thinks "well sure, but the other (N-1) ventures are doing fine, so maybe I'm missing something about this one?", not realizing that all the other ventures are just the same.

Please, please do the following exercise: ignore all the PR you've heard about Musk, and pick one of his companies that's not Tesla and look closely at it. Evaluate if that company makes sense on its own merits, without Musk.
It would also mean that technology - and human condition - remained stagnant for half million years. If true it has [no good] implications for [the answer to] the so called Fermi Paradox.

Edited for clarity
Yes, without the quotes, the IPv6 address gets interpreted a YAML mapping/dict because of the colon(s).

Perhaps the trap is the complacency that YAML induces by not requiring quotes around keys/values, and so text risks being interpreted in unexpected ways. The infamous Norway Problem has the same root cause.
Would you mind explaining the second story? I don't play casino blackjack. Isn't the goal of the house to get blackjack? So if the dealer had Ace face up and King down, isn't he assured to win the hand and collect all the stakes?
Whatever activity put you on their radar, they have no idea who you work for or if you were on the clock at the time. There's no penalty to them sending this to you and having it not apply. But if they don't send it to the right places, it hurts them later.
Going back to 2017, some of you knew this was not a tenable solution:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15428340
Yeah. You're right, de Niro is the one who makes that analysis.
> don't have a bad day at work

All systems break. Complex systems break in complex ways. Robots will definitely have bad days.
Household income after taxes has nothing to do with inflation as far as I know. What scares me most about this article is people taking home 8.8% less while everything inflated around them and the median price of a home went from 320k in 2020 to 480k by the end of 2022.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS
> our lab

Which lab are you referring to?
(I'm not a lawyer, you should talk to one, but as long as you don't go deleting stuff, in my non-lawyer experience, you might not need to talk to one yet.)
Logs should go to stderr. I will die on this hill.
He's old and on pace to die before finishing them.

Look, either he does them, or the publishing house will do some bullshit where a bunch of ... paid ghostwriters "examine his notes" and produce the books.

Noooo that wouldn't happen.... (looks at Frank Herbert, JRR Tolkien)

...Absolutely would / will happen.
I just can't grok figure 1. Is that 17.1% at the top due to government handouts?
No, I never spoke with them.
That sounds like straight-up malware behavior. One process protecting the other so you can't kill them both permanently.

This should be explicitly made illegal when it's done without the user's consent.
Fair enough. I guess media cycles get caught up.

And for me personally, I will say every time the economy booms for a few years I start to ask: gosh is this ever going to stop?

For example with real estate, I haven't bought any because the prices always seem insane to me. But I'd be far wealthier (on paper at least) if I'd bitten the bullet and bought into the real estate market a few years ago.
Rent isn't even $300 in New Orleans and hasn't been since before Katrina. I paid $550 up until last April and that was bottom of the market.
Which I guess is why it has to be so low you don't care.
Right, this was my original question and I'm wondering how SBF would've gotten to the bottom of it. What I'm speculating is that a gangster would've either punished the employee or been in on it.
Apple’s failure to build a key part for its new iPhones
Yes, that's true in some cases, but is a reasonable compromise in my personal opinion.
Sorry, you are correct. It does demonstrate how brittle things can be at large funds though.
Another potential explanation is that they may be shifting some of the grocery budget without accounting for it in their comment: buying cafeteria meals, eating from restaurants, dining at friends' and families' houses, etc.
There seem to be a million different issues with a proposal like this, not the least of which is that the allocation of the labor amounts to a corporate or municipal handout.

If you pay a living wage to a zillion people, they have to be assigned some sort of valuable work to do if it's not just a UBI system. The government already pays everyone to do the work the government wants done, so the target of this inflation-funded labor value would be, what, precisely? There's only so much garbage that needs picking up.
It's not a mistake - it shows the sheer lack of safeguards at a terrible company with a narcissistic child-leader and his cohort of children at the helm!
Hope he rots in prison and is made an example of.
> "Build what makes you happy..." is a darn good philosophy, btw.

Thanks! I wish I'd say it's my daily driver, but I still work for money.
Or maybe one should keep track of "neuron activation frequency" during training. This would not a lot of extra parameters, since it's per neuron, not per weight.
Then every epoch, or so, we'd "reinitialize" the dead neurons.
This is similar to K-Means algorithms that reinitialize cluster centers that have very few assigned points.
I did state though that all second derivatives of u would
have L^p norms bounded by that of the Laplacian. Kleinermann asked me for
an elementary explanation of this, but I couldn't think of one.

I haven't the foggiest idea of what an "elementary explanation" of anything during a math graduate degree committee assessment would even sound like.
This used to hit us sporadically at my university's help desk. It'd also happen if you have one MacBook open on top of a closed one. The magnet could easily line up and it'd shut the screen off.
What's the reasoning for the custom domain if I may ask?

I've been writing small Swift/iOS related newsletter on my free time but I am still using substack subdomain.
This is how most asset trading works, but outside of crypto these third parties are actually trustworthy
Yup:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37592099
Yes, that's how all stocks and every other market in the world works. Still doesn't mean the value isn't valid.
> According to SBF, the utility we gained by moving fast outweighed the occasional costs we paid due to poor risk checks, hacks, and the like.

When I was young I "moved fast and broke things", then had brushes with the law that fortunately didn't result in jail. Silicon Valley prides itself on second and third order thinking, but do people ever consider what might come after "moving fast and breaking things"
Yeah, and - someone correct me - aren't at least some of the charges against SBF related to intentional backdoors in the code?
Tao's blog is quite interesting.
How Apple Made the Ultimate Snoopy Watch: “You Wouldn't Believe the Minutiae”
Sex robots!

Real world adoption will catalyze with the company brave enough to train these behaviors in.
I do think XML gets the bad rap from its abusive usage in RPC/services. Using XML in those cases resulted in bloat. But, from a configuration language or markup language point of view, I can hardly find something that offer: schema for validation, IDE with auto-completion (I used to use Eclipse and it filled out the enum, attributes very well), comments, and raw string data (use the CDATA tag) gracefully like XML. Go on, prove me wrong.
Wild. The slots thing - seems so easy for someone to rat on them and then so easy for the cops to break it up.

The Manhattan one was poker only. Steel door with a camera, get buzzed into a second door where you talk to somebody and they only buzz you up if they recognize you.

The poker room had two nice tables and a little bar where you could buy drinks. TVs playing sports. Seemed to be Asian-run.
Comments that "self-document" a config file are great.

Comments that result in:

#Frontend server is called Alpha, and runs HTTPS
frontend:"beta":http

cause me to die.
Invisible can equally mean “actually invisible” but often means “we told the people shouting and screaming about this risk to shut up”
It's literally the first sentence. "Real median household income" - the real means that it's inflation adjusted.

"After tax" just tells us specifically what's being measured.
> again trained (without permission) on copyrighted work

So far there is no solid proof of that. They didn't disclose the sources or the methodology. Except for 'trained' and 'copyrighted' the rest is questionable. Otherwise they would be already paying royalties.

They could have used the output from prev version 2 with prompts generated by GPT, and then corrected by humans based on the produced image. Also they could use CV to analyze new/old images. I.e. if there is a new feature in the image add it to prompt and train again.
They are a lot of work. And expensive to maintain. You’re not getting just 10 years of support from Red Hat, but 10 years of kernel support as well.
"Real median household income" is inflation adjusted, so yes it does.
I am dim today. Is this Tao getting rejected for some interview for something?
Wat r they trying to imply?
really nifty! i've wanted this feature for a long time, glad it's finally here.
First Google Search Result for Tiananmen Square “Tank Man” Is AI Generated Selfi
j up, don't rush the count

You're speaking my language friend, and honestly half of this reads like I could have written it myself. I was obsessed with video games and knew I wanted to be a programmer before CE, but H1 on XBC, combined with LANs in high school and thousands of hours of split screen in college truly laid the passion for "how does all this work" and my current career.

I don't play CE as much, my doubles partner and I still hop on MCC every few months for a little nostalgia hit, but we're admittedly not the types that felt that Halo completely died after CE (although nothing ever felt as good after), so these days we generally play BTB Reach/H3, or 4s or Squad Battle on Infinite.
Did they ever get Nvidia hardware working without GlibC? A quick DuckDuckGo search suggests that's still not supported.
XML has way too many features and edge cases.
If you get a SDR, you can watch the interference and try things to help reduce it. An SDR should be like $20 and you plug it into a computer
That creates an incentive to not purchase food. No grocer will allow such an arrangement in NA.
I mean, eventually I assume it will re-enter regardless of what the meatbags on the ground want.
> Newman's attorneys have long argued that Newman's own court should not preside over the competency probe. They said in a filing made public on Wednesday that the committee investigating her fitness was "interested in one thing and one thing only - keeping Judge Newman off the bench via the exercise of raw power."

Interesting that she has attorneys for this issue and that they're taking the position that they're taking. It seems to me that there are some ethical considerations for a lawyer who is providing a defense for a probably senile person.

Is the position they're taking in the best interest of their client who is likely senile?
I disagree. I find Discourse superb. From the user’s perspective it is simple, clean, fast, with amazing search, etc. It can be customised, but most people using it do it for practical reasons, and worry little about customisations.
> which in turn was partly caused by putting money in the pockets of the people

Folks with no or little economics education have no concept of supply driven inflation, which is exactly what you get when a pandemic cripples global JIT supply chains.
> Test Messages Will be Sent to All TVs, Radios and Cell Phones … scheduled to begin at approximately 2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 4.
When I've pointed out to people that if they really want to be green then they should stop driving their car, I got a response along the lines of "the top ten producers of CO2 are all private companies. It's not about changing public behaviours, it's about regulating corporate behaviours".

I never buy this, because corporate behaviours are driven by the market, which is driven by public behaviours. If we all stopped driving cars, the oil companies are going to stop processing so much oil.

But I do understand that changing that much public behaviour is difficult (and made more difficult by this attitude/argument). So regulating the oil companies and making fuel so expensive that people can't drive their cars appears to be the only way to do this.

Except that if fuel prices go up, people point out that they can't afford to drive for necessary trips. And the transport infrastructure is all based around lots of private cars. So the government has to keep fuel prices low enough to make cars usable for poor people. Which means no-one gives up their cars and the oil companies carry on processing this much oil.

So I don't really understand how we're going to solve this and not cook ourselves.
EDN! The extensibility of XML with the concision of JSON (or even more concise if you use keywords for your hashmap keys).

https://github.com/edn-format/edn
Thanks, this link is better than the text of the complain, since it includes the details of the settlement.

Sadly the settlement seems pretty weak. Minor extra disclosures and a tiny settlement.
If he has ace face up and checks and sees a king he is supposed to flip it over, show his blackjack, and take everyone's money. He instead let them play the hand out as if he didn't have the king.
The amount of work that needs to be done is nearly infinite. It's just that we don't currently value the work as highly as the cash it would take to pay the worker.

In a world where we decided to do this, there is plenty these people could be doing to contribute greatly to society.
Yes, it improved in 2018, but people are still stuck on the 12 tx/s. The Lightning network allows thousands of tx per second [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network
The problem is the genuine vitriol the anti-car topic can bring out in people. The US can stand a lot of changes in public travel, i.e. it’s bullshit that I cannot take the train from one state capital to another, barring Hawaii and possibly Alaska. It’s also bullshit, however, when urbanists/“fuck car” people enter the conversation and demand we need to destroy rural and suburban living entirely. Even labeling it as anti-car is, frankly, ignorant of reality. Not even Europe is car-free, and Europe is much more dense than America. Instead of anti-car, the topic should always be pro-choice in transport, which is the real problem in the US.

I also, in general, find CO2 to be a weak argument for climate change that is normally brought up as a smoke screen for big businesses like Google or Apple, who make literal tons of unrepairable ewaste, to make them appear better than they are. Which I am not saying Framework is doing, mind you, but I find it a much less interesting metric than, say, total material waste.
I don't mind that, because I think server components should be the default. They're better. But the profusion of CSS-in-JS solutions (which always seemed unwise to me) take it on the chin because of it.
I personally would prefer that these decisions be made based on competency rather than arbitrary age limits. This is especially true as everyone is aging, and the "meaning" of a certain age is changing dramatically. (I'd say this of air traffic controllers also, although I see where you're coming from — I imagine you could have a standard set of tests they need to take regularly? I'm not sure I know enough about it to say confidently.)

I don't know the details of the case, and maybe she should step down. However, the article mentions that doctors' evaluations of her competency were submitted. It sounds a bit like an argument over whose expert testimony should be relevant, and I could easily see a situation where someone wants her gone for political reasons ("political" in a broad sense, including "office politics"), and starts demanding that she have a particular evaluation done by a particular professional. If you were going through a divorce and your ex demanded you be evaluated by a psychologist or psychiatrist of their choosing, would you comply?

I've seen ageism be leveraged for political reasons with people I know, and it's corrupt, pure and simple. It's not any different from arguing against someone because of their ethnicity or gender.

At some point people can't do their job as well anymore and maybe she's at that point. But after reading the article, I wasn't really so sure. I could just as easily see it being the case that someone assumes she should step down because "clearly she's too old at 96", has some resentments about her being there for other reasons, and then leverages the former to achieve satisfaction with regard to the latter.
Contacts who worked at Alameda claim that this guy did not work at Alameda, or if he did, they never met.
this drop was mostly caused by inflation

No. Median real income before taxes (i.e. income measured in 2022 dollars) dropped by 2.3%. But after taxes the drop was 8.8%.
"Someone trying to sell some stupid proprietary crap that hardly has any innovation in it." you could be more helpful rather than leaving a stupid public crap comment that tries to offend someone that you don't know.
Marlboro Maker Hits Reset on $2B Bet on Medicine
If the house starts with a blackjack they collect the initial wagers from anyone who doesn't also have a blackjack.
Cheers =)

Seriously though, I think making clients happy still makes me happy, if I like what they're doing and I get to impress them a bit. I guess it would be more fun to be able to live only on passion projects, but I know I'm lucky even to be able to keep the hope alive and keep creating.
Is there something new since this was on the frontpage of HN earlier today?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37581132
I switch between Gnome and KDE pretty regularly on my primary workstation because I occasionally get bored and procrastinate by telling myself that I should check out the latest thing on the other side.

It makes literally zero difference to my productivity. If it affects your productivity, it's a skill issue. Telling people they "haven't thought about it" is a social skill issue.
“Elementary” is a relative term!