skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Young Caesar 2000

When I was twelve years old

They put me on the throne

When I was twelve years old

They made me king

From the ocean south of here to the northern hemisphere

They gave me everything.

Now I'm thirteen

And no one takes me seriously

Now I'm thirteen

And they're trying to take away control

I don't know how stupid

You all think I am

But as sure as flowers grow along the western wall

Heads are gonna roll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84em5RxWbh0
> You’re being snotty about people trying to answer your questions

One of many bad habits I picked up from the locals in NYC. Working on it.
Communicating with the Internet without express prior consent, with as much emphasis as I can convey in the limited formatting options provided by this site, ABSOLUTELY IS PHONING HOME. Any other assumption is unsafe and a privacy hole large enough to deliver freight.

If the calculator wants to pull exchange rate information, all it needs to do is ask. Anything else should be presumed as shady in the current environment.
Ok, since you called out the gp comment as 'deceptive', I in turn am going to call out your comment (and others like it) as delusional, and point to specific places in your comment that exhibit this state of delusion (about LLMs).

> they understand and speak languages fine

No, they neither 'understand' nor 'speak' languages. The first word here is the more delusional, they have no understanding of languages. They have simply generated a model of the language. And they do not 'speak' the language they have modeled; they generate text in that language. Speaking generally implies an active intelligence; there is no intelligence behind an LLM. There is simply a machine generating (wholly derivative) output text from input text.

> We may as well say that when we speak, we are just predicting words we have trained on

This is the delusion, commonly being repeated, that humans themselves are only LLMs. This is a dangerous delusion, in my view, and one that has no evidence behind it. It is only a supposition, and a sterile and nihilistic one in my view.

> The general knowledge and thinking of these models are surely limited [...] I think it is very possible to break the barriers very soon

The limitations are fundamental to LLMs. LLMs have no general knowledge and LLMs don't do any 'thinking'. Your understanding of what they are doing is in grave error, and that error is based on a personification of the machine. An error coming from the delusion that because they generate 'natural' language they are operating similarly to us (false and addressed above). They are never going to break the limits because they have never started to transcend those limits in the first place, nor can they. They don't and will never 'think' or 'reason'.
> It's easy to set Aurora up as "slave" for accepting replication data from an external MariaDB/MySQL server

Huh. I tried setting up AWS RDS MySQL to replicate from an external MySQL awhile ago, and the experience was almost comically poor. Is Aurora better?

If you generate a mysqldump and have the command line options set to correctly store the binlog or the GTID data to allow replication to start in the right place, RDS chokes.
s/flourishing/exercised
> There were some great magazines of the time like Mondo 2000, and the ethos was real techno-libertarianism, information wants to be free, and all that fun stuff. Everyone was coming off the high of the Soviet Union falling apart and believed that now human liberty would flourish everywhere.

Louis Rossetto had this viewpoint 20 years before he launched Wired, and was smart enough to focus on the tech and tech people and tech business for the most part. The right-libertarian philosophy was doled out lightly and cleverly. Wired did try to make it seem that Silicon Valley was just a right-libertarian utopia, and made it seem everyone was of this mind - more than was the case.

R U Sirius had similar ideas. I think it made things seem different than they actually were.
Abstraction is powerful. It lets you control more with less. As you keep abstracting things get complicated. Category Theory studies abstractions and lets you build extremely abstract systems, which can be leveraged to create reliable and also flexible systems. The downside is of course the learning curve, and because of this it isn't as friendly for business and teams to use. In an ideal tech industry (in my opinion), engineers are encouraged to persue the most complicated engineering, despite the rest of the company having very little idea of how it works. It would require a lot of trust, and also a different work ethic, but I digress.
15 years is a long time when college tuitions rise by ~10% a year. 6 figure debt is more common than you would like.
As for the connection between wealth and university, I would suggest looking at the stats on income and education. You can frequently find them in the admissions literature. Schools/departments brag about favorable career outcomes when selling their services to 17 year olds.
The baffling thing is how it’s defended.
Checked your spf and dmarc settings?
These Are the 25 U.S. Cities Where a $100k Salary Goes the Furthest
An alternative is to find someone whose thought process you trust who does consume a lot of news and treat them as a human filter. Not too much different than how we use experts in other domains.
Not too different a story here. I worked for a roofing company through college. It was a good job in many ways. It was a union shop so benefits/safety/etc were great, and journeyman scale was actually more than I make now. It would have been a great gig through my twenties, but I had coworkers tell me over and over to stay in school and that I didn't want to end up like them.

I got a degree in Math and a minor in CS thanks to income based scholarships, but ended up bouncing around for a while in various IT and computer adjacent jobs not making a ton of money, and not loving being cooped up inside, so I sometimes wonder if I'd have been better off just accepting a apprenticeship, but I've been working towards "the good life" as you say, so in the long run I think college will have been the right choice.
? it sounds like you didn't look at the actual commit that changed it. it was an overly elaborate refactoring gone wrong, not someone explicitly and clearly deleting a "case 'w'" or whatever.
HN didn't want the timestamp saved in my link: https://www.youtube.com/live/kaandEt_pKw?feature=share&t=347...

Former or unhappy macOS users, what kinds of things baked into macOS keep you from getting your work done? I've never had an issue with disabling Gatekeeper or upgrading my kernel extensions and 32-bit apps. I'm sure there's valid points to be made but I'd really like to hear some specifics. Usually cleaning up a fresh install for me just requires just a couple System Settings tweaks, Defaults commands, and brew scripts.
This is just WebSQL story all over again, right? “Go redo it from scratch” is the most ridiculous excuse in the book.
> Is it safe though to go just buy the active ingredients directly?

I would only do that if the lab/factory you're buying from is highly reputable. Heavy metals contamination is a problem in this industry.
I think people don’t build bombs because they don’t want to. Not because they don’t know how.
i was with up until the last paragraph. i like to make fun of javascript as much as the next person (unless you're a dyed in the wool only programs in JS type person, then i make fun of you too ;-) however, the web definitely has benefited from local interactive programming. it just so happens that JS was the language of the web browser. thinking that the internet would be nearly as interesting without some sort of local interactive programming in the browser just screams trolling or someone that really doesn't remember the early days of the web in its full glory.
This is very cool and could be the basis for a huge set of interesting operations - but any time I read about DB <> Spreadsheet discussions they seem to be started by folks who much better understand DBs.

The principle use of the spreadsheet for both power users and casual users is a lot around justifying answers by being able to see the data. The goal is not speed or scale.

If you and sending a report to a superior - clear and visible rows, columns, and "math" makes it faster and easier to trust information for non-technical users.

This same logic is why the spreadsheet is best serving customized, one-off, or changing operations without a huge amount of data. This makes up a huge chunk of day-to-day business decisions, especially in finance where the math is much easier.

I don't think the spreadsheet lasts forever, but its successor will likely be something that presents an easy way to get answers from a set of data that is visible or at least able to be quickly understood, regardless of whether its fast, scalable, networked etc.
These sound like political opinions to me.
I remember having a burning program that would let you “append” to a CD-R somehow, which took care of 80% of what I would have needed cd-rw for anyway.
> The students are asking for equitable relief, such as canceling their income-share agreements or getting a refund.

In law, a plaintiff can seek monetary damages or equitable relief. The latter is generally only available when money damages are insufficient, and it is harder to win equitable relief than money damages.

For example, in the Twitter/Elon case, there was a question as to whether Twitter could successfully sue Elon for the equitable remedy of "specific performance" (making someone perform a specific action). It would have been perhaps unprecedented to force a reluctant bidder to purchase a company against his will.

I find it interesting that these plaintiffs are going for equitable relief, when money damages would seemingly suffice. Just give the plaintiffs whatever money is due on their loans, which would then be used to extinguish the loans. I don't understand why they're going for an equitable remedy, which is harder to get. (For example, there is the "clean hands doctrine", which requires that one “who comes into equity must come with clean hands.” [1] This doctrine does not apply when plaintiffs merely seek money damages.)

1: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/clean_hands_doctrine#:~:text....
Weirdly lucrative? Not weird at all. These professions are the backbone of society.
I firmly believe that obtaining a bachelor's degree is essential for achieving long-term career success - it provides people with the critical thinking and analytical skills that are essential in today's rapidly changing job market.
> Coalitions are needed when sovereignty is in doubt.

Every leader requires a coalition to stay in power, not just to achieve it.

> what incentives does he have to effectively double the elites requiring patronage and titles

As shown by Cato killing himself rather than accept clemency, it put those who accepted it into a massive debt of honor to Caesar and was massively useful in helping turn those he pardoned to his side. Caesar himself clearly understood this, per what he reportedly said upon hearing of Cato's death - "O Cato, I begrudge you your death; for you begrudged me the sparing of your life."

> allies an explicit repudiation of it

This would be far more credible if he wasn't sitting on a golden throne on a raised dais when Marc Antony presented him the diadem.

> I think I would rather have punctuated Gaulish atrocities

I don't think the Gallic atrocities that Caesar himself recounted were necessary for the most part. And yes, all major historical figures are complained about, but some complaints are more valid than others.
>Hedonic adjustments are argued about quite often because they let the BLS change inflation numbers almost arbitrarily.

except that BLS lists which CPI categories have hedonic adjustments applied[1] and even how it's calculated for some categories[2], so they can't decide to arbitrarily sink energy inflation by saying that gasoline has gotten 50% better. Likewise, because they break out CPI by components, you can calculate a hedonic-less or food-only CPI if you so desire.

> Your Google Maps example is replacing something that was very cheap with a slightly better version of it that was also very cheap it’s got negligible impact on inflation compared to big ticket items.

It also replaced nearly all the electronics you bought from radio shack back in the day (eg. computer, alarm clock, radio, calculator, cd player, camera/camcorder, cordless phone, tape recorder). Quality improvement also applies to other categories as well, like appliances or cars. Finally, like I said before, the BLS breaks out all the inflation figures by category, so if you really wanted to you could make a "bare minimum to survive" index or whatever, although your initial comment seems to take issue with how the individual categories are calculated rather than how the categories are weighted.

>Here’s one issue that stuck with me:

I'm not sure what the actual issue is from your quote. Can you reexplain using your own words?

>The BLS uses improving outcomes to adjust for healthcare costs. In terms of new treatments that’s perfectly reasonable, but it undermines increased costs for basic treatments like broken bones. People may enjoy higher quality but not if they are priced out of all options.

But the CPI seems to be capturing healthcare just fine? Look at how high "hospital services" rose compared to overall inflation.

https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cpi2020-875x1...

Moreover, the core issue seems to be "what do you do if things in a category are getting better but people are spending the same or even more on it?". The whole idea behind CPI is that you're supposed to measure price changes for the same goods. In that sense it's obvious that we should lower the CPI even though people are spending more on it. However, I can see where you're coming from given how people conflate "CPI" with "inflation" and "inflation" with "cost of living", the latter of which ignores like-for-like comparison for goods and only looks at cashflow. If you want to measure how has that changed, you'll need to come up with another metric, but I suspect that opens a whole can of worms. eg. how do you compare costs for phones between 2005 and today, if people in 2005 were buying $200 flip phones and today are buying $1000 iPhones, even though a $100 android would totally be serviceable and blow the $200 2005 phone away?

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/

[2] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/hedonic-price-adj...
just don't visit those websites that perform user hostile shenanigans like that.
https://archive.ph/F0yhX
I feel like the concerning thing is that someone seemingly had direct experience with this. But you just reshared the information and no one cares. The info itself just doesn’t seem that terrible.
Some of the smartest people I've worked with were self-taught.
Good article. agree.

It was the mid-2010s and "college dropout" was the mark of an up-and-coming genius. Headlines were questioning the need for degrees at all and billionaire Peter Thiel was awarding high school graduates $100,000 not to attend college and become entrepreneurs instead. "Not long ago, dropping out of school to start a company was considered risky," wrote the Wall Street Journal. "For this generation, it is a badge of honor, evidence of ambition and focus."

The success rate of these fellows was pretty low, and $100k is too small when one considers the costs of creating a start-up: coders/staff, office space, advertising (really big one), etc. The math does not work out. You are better off staying in school, getting a good job, and then saving up and maybe doing the start-up later after having already gained some connections and building a team.

Also, these overhyped college alternatives, such as crypto, YouTube/podcasts, social media marketing, selling on Etsy, Shopify, Amazon, etc. keep coming up way short. Too much competition, markets get saturated too fast. I remember how much hype there was about NFTs a year ago, and a lot of them are now worthless or down 90% or more. Or Gamestop and AMC stock in 2021, which people had hoped to retire from.
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7 Arlington, TX (Tie) $80,124

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28 Kansas City, MO $73,191

29 Charlotte, NC $72,985

30 Richmond, VA
Also, the requirement to manually order the compilation units (files) in an XML file to ensure the compiler doesn't get confused.

They had me at features, lost me at manual compilation ordering.
It does now https://i.imgur.com/OuKFlfz.png
Oh, well I don't mind at all responding to your diatribes, whether I believe they are specious and misguided or not. I see it as a useful way to expand peoples viewpoints.

I have had a lovely life so far and plan on continuing to do so for a long time. I wish you the same, I hope that stressing out over every other person's morality and the multi-generational future of human race does not continue to cause you undue stress.
This is just an extension of what the egress fees, which are also anti-competitive.

Want to start a company called Snowflake, or Crunchy, or any of a number or similar providers? You’d better host in AWS (and Google Cloud, and Azure), because the respective cloud users wouldn’t want to pay for egress to use your service hosted elsewhere. Similarly, even Google can’t usefully undercut AWS’s pricing to get these providers to move out of AWS, because AWS would still charge the users.
I fear that you aren't understanding what college is about
Treating people well is called common courtesy.
It has always been user hostile since the days of pop-over ads, pop-under ads, obnoxious browser toolbars that were basically malware, etc. It seems like since around the year 2000 it’s been a nonstop fight between people who want to extract money and advertising impressions out of users versus people trying to keep the web user friendly. I think we only had maybe a 5 year run of the web being user-friendly at the beginning, and that was just because people hadn’t quite yet figured out how to extract money from web usage.
Independent labs exist that perform testing. I typically use LabDoor. The supplements aren’t perfect by any means, so I suppose there is some “mislabeling”, and maybe the supplements that are tested aren’t representative of what’s shipped to consumers. So, it’s about as accurate as anything else that’s sold to consumers with a nutrition facts label, in my opinion.
Show HN: Beamsplitter
And just making friends in general. Most Jon's are not full of people the same age and interests
> I have no idea why apple does that

It might keep you from canceling right now.

When you know you can continue accessing the service until the end of the trial period, what’s the incentive to not cancel right now?

Whether this strategy is a net gain overall to Apple, who knows.
I think the best way would be to just keep note of what the younger generation is using through your kids, nephews/nieces, etc.

And tangentially since you are mentioning old age, I think cognitive decline is a bigger worry than finding the right resources to keep up with things.

It has been painful to see my Grandfather who can otherwise show great insight on topics he is familiar with, struggle with understanding things a 5 year old would breeze through today. I would say having a respectful and trusting relationship with someone from the younger generation is very important since you may reach a point where you by yourself may not be able to keep up with things.
DNA Lounge is a great nightclub, and it does have a Hackers-themed night most years, but I wouldn't call it "something similar". It's a nightclub. A very very cool nightclub - but a nightclub.

(PS. If you click these, and your browser correctly forwards the refer(r)er URL, you will get a "funny" image, as jwz blocks links from HN.)
What this and so many other sordid tales from America’s recent history should tell you is that however cynical and suspicious you might be about whatever is happening in American foreign policy, there’s always room for more.
wow, i'm trying to imagine how loud a 30,000 RPM CD-ROM drive would be. Did the constant angular confusion seem genuine like he just didn't know or more along the lines of it was much more compelling programming to conveniently ignore the fact?
You don't need a Twitter account to view it, tweets can be viewed without an account.
Can Silicon Valley Remake Itself?
There's car stereos for literally under $15 shipped these days. I'm not exactly recommending those models, but car stereos are generally quite affordable and easy to install. Something to consider
Fairway Grocery Using Facial Recognition Technology on NYC Customers
I feel like this isn’t so taboo though. Google returns a featured snippet for napalm ingredients. And you literally just told everyone how to make napalm right here.

I think the edginess comes from the implication that there were people out there actually doing this. And perhaps that people read this when they were 14.
While very impressive, I don't really see any clear signs/pieces of evidence that this effort shaped the future, though.
Some of us learned these lessons in the SOAP/WSDL/XML-RPC days, and learned to embrace the principles of REST to a avoid exactly those issues.

I looked at graphql and saw a return to the horror of DoSomethingBecauseItsMondayAndDueTomorrow() type API methods.

Hundreds or thousands of them that accumulate like cruft over time, and no one can delete anything because you have no idea what it'll break.

I stick with well designed and well planned REST APIs.

It's not a panacea, but it helps.
I use chatgpt a lot and have access to version 4 as a paying customer. I’m normally very bullish on it but it seems that things are getting a bit worse. Maybe it is just me but I’ve been struggling with 3.5 and 4 recently. Things seemed much better 3 weeks ago.
A year or so ago I made a post on reddit/TIL that referenced CD-R and it got deleted by a mod because "CD-R is not a known thing" or something like that. The mod must've been too young to ever used a CD-R. That was kind of shocking to me, but then I haven't used CD-R myself in almost a decade.
Microsoft is using Chatbots to spread pro Microsoft propaganda.

You know it will happen.
Makes me think the Blade Runner voight-kampff test was ahead of its time in a sci-fi sense.
I played chess against ChatGPT-4 and lost
I still use the Mount Ranier style UDF drag n drop on disks since they are write once read many and therefore good offline storage for resisting ransomware.

I wish I could do packet writing on Linux but I think the packages n such that it would enable that have rotted away over the years. Or at least I wasn't able to find them when I went looking for them.
Town & gown strife goes way back.

(I'd stumbled across the SSDR a few years back, it's a fascinating bit of academic & cultural history.)