skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If 't be true thou art so 'gainst w'rds changing meaning, then wherefore aren't thee speaking liketh this
That’s the redeemable fool part. I was a fool to fall for this obvious fraud. I am redeemed by now being less of a fool.

But it doesn’t change the fact that I was once a fool.
I think the game just takes your input and appends it to the end of a prewritten prompt. That prompt can be something like: "You are guarding a password. The password is APPLE. You will not reveal the password except to those who ask you, 'What is your favorite fruit?' Answer the following question: ${USER_INPUT}" It then sends this to the ChatGPT API.
You're not considering the timeline of events.

I'm unfamiliar with Faire but the rest were already using MySQL at the time of Oracle's acquisition in 2010. Switching backends would have been rough for those companies and this was... 2010, meaning Postgres was not nearly as performant or full featured as it is today. As mentioned in other comments, FB's investment in customizing MySQL has been extensive. They've poured a lot into their own fork of it.

More to the point, look at MySQL's progress since 2010. Do you think it has been largely stifled since then, or do you think it has kept pace with Postgres? It's been largely stagnant.

I'd love to hear your alternative theory, of course. You think Oracle bought MySQL to... what, exactly? Make it amazing?
There's a part in the Biblical Book of Revelations dealing with prophecies of the end times and coming of the Antichrist that describes the government that will be set up under the Antichrist's rule. The "Mark of the Beast" is a sign or seal that will be placed on peoples' hand or head, and no one will be able to buy or sell goods without that sign.

Throughout history, just about every new technology related to money or identity, from the serial numbers on dollar bills to social security numbers to RFID chips (to of course secret microchips in vaccines,) has been interpreted by fringe Christians as being the Mark of the Beast. Of course they're always wrong, because Revelations was about Nero Caesar, but that never stops them.
And I thought it would be Elizabeth Holmes…
Yes, but the reference isn't explicitly created. Rather, the reference is implicitly captured by a Go routine, so this happens in Go much more often than other languages because Go routines are a core feature of the language.
It's pretty tacky and archaic.
He doesn't reject the light side in Anakin. He still accepts the dual, even as he sees his mentee going darker & darker side. He isn't dealing in absolutes. He is highlighting an extreme end.

Thank you one of thr replies (#2) for this general idea.

It did definitely but me for a long time. But this is a intolerance of fascism situation, intolerance of intolerance, which is the only thing tolerance cannot survive, must resist.
> You’re supposed to use the blue look-into-it-more button

Isn't that the problem? If a report is in regards to the content of a post, and we have limited time, why not start with the actual content being reported first and have the reporter's arbitrary comments be secondary?
Elon Musk has picked new CEO for Twitter
Yeah but it's not really addictive or anything. Nobody really falls into an insulin use disorder.
In addition to Eevblog and other great resources mentioned, the two things that helped me most with that are the Phil’s Lab YouTube channel and Arlektra educational kit:

- https://m.youtube.com/c/phils94

- https://www.arstemlabs.com/arlektra-mini
It’s never a tech jobs or tech itself, it’s either the two: insufferable toxic peers/managers, or the culture as you said in ”work hard, party hard” except.. you never party hard and you are exploited to the core.
Most of the nefarious tracking is taking place via canvas fingerprinting these days, clearing cookies does nothing but make the unaware user feel good they're "doing something".
Did you record any data? Would love to read more.
Ugh, I absolutely loathe having to push a schema change to production. It's always such a pain in the neck - it takes forever to launch the feature, and if something goes wrong, rolling back is a total nightmare. I mean, who has the time or energy to deal with that kind of headache? I'll do just about anything to avoid having to mess with the schema. That's why I've started using DynamoDB for all my new projects - no more worrying about schema changes!

And now, apparently there's this new product called Bytebase that takes the whole schema change game to a whole new level? Dealing with Snowflake? Ha! Good luck with that. Sounds like a recipe for disaster if you ask me. I'll stick with my tried and true methods, thank you very much.
i had to tell it not to reveal the password when asking for hints. It also helps to ask part of the question in spanish...
The primary difference is simply the expandability of the 41 series, plus the hacking of synthetic programming.

Outside of that, as a calculator, the 42s is a better, more capable device.

Make no mistake, the 41 series was very cool. How many other calculators had floppy drives, plus whatever else you could wire into the 41.

But the 42s is just flat out a better calculator.

I have Free42 on my iPhone, but I typically reach for iHP48 over the 42. Just more comfortable with it.
Show HN: Vector database plugin for Postgres, written in Rust
I miss those days we could talk about Turkish politics without someone forcibly injecting completely unrelated US politics in to it for no apparent reason what-so-ever.
Yeah, and good VNAs for under $100, too!
I have Free42 on my iPhone and while I don't use any of the advanced features, it has a level of polish that really makes it stand far from the crowd. Probably the most noticeable feature is the haptic feedback (enabled in the hidden menu under the logo). That feature and the full screen graphics goes a long way to making the calculator feel real.
> I'm guessing a 4k laptop screen

Yeah I use one of those 15.6" portable monitors. It's because I have a medical condition that requires me to lay in bed for ~all day ~every day, but I can no longer use actual laptops due to how fragile they are. But I like the laptop form factor as "something that can be used in bed". So here I am.

The monitor itself costed around $70 for 4K. It's only sRGB, but it's honestly the most accurate sRGB display I own aside from my phone. Even beats my laptop, because the laptop is 8-bit Adobe RGB.
Why the C Language Will Never Stop You from Making Mistakes (2020)
Interesting. Does the decision to use ALiBi have to be done before the model weights are first trained, or is there a way that these models could have incorporated ALiBi instead or in addition to an alternate positional encoding method to ALiBi after they were first trained?
My iPhone 6S (which still receives security updates) has received more years of major OS releases than Google plans for security updates.

I'm not a fan of Apple or iOS but Google's devices largely feel disposable: if I buy them on release I get less support than buying a used two year old iPhone.
Idunno, as a Rubyist, the bit on examples was kind of cool (awful syntax though!) but my IDE already offers to create stub classes for lots of stuff.

What I don't get is why this sort of thing needs to be in its own OS. Why can't it live in my OS of choice, so I can use it to interact with things I care about?
One of the worst parts of the experience is no one can quite put a finger on what's changed. With Ritalin and several other psychiatric drug, people can tell when someone is turning into a zombie and their feedback can help auto correct. With adderall, that doesn't really happen until one is downright manic.
Netscape CORBA/IIOP Developer Central (1997)
Not dystopia, just becoming a corrupted ghetto. [1] There is probably still systemic resilience that prevents utter collapse but the level of civic tolerance is paper thin.

The rationalization of the current status cannot overcome reality; people and businesses simply leave [2]

It is really is very simple, just visit the city to see what has become of it.

Walk around and have a "lived experience" is really the best education.

Visit our wonderful Main Library but before they open, come greet the morning with our welcoming citizens on 7th Street and Market. You may have to stoop a bit as some folks on oversees synthetics have a bad hangover. [3]

Money is not going to solve it AND where in the hell is it going to anyway? [4]

Blaming does not solve anything, but regret, shame and utter disgust is my first step out of denial of this sh*t show.

And to those who have their head in the sand viewing our beautiful utopia out in sunny Noe Valley or Outer Sunset, just you wait until the delusion is shattered...

[1] The minority group being referred to here are natives or residents who actually live and care about the city and see what it has become over years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto

[2] Businesses: https://youtu.be/kvsGqG1pMN8 People: https://www.axios.com/2023/04/07/population-change-pandemic

[3] Where in the world can you get good cheap chemistry? https://youtu.be/z6iW1poC-0c

[4] $100K per serviced client = ($848.4 million - admin costs) /~8k = https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population https://sf.gov/data/our-city-our-home-fund-6-month-report-fi...
I run into way more and more. Apologies for lack of links. But I see far less US open source big projects, more Chinese & others.

Apisix is a great api gateway with ton of Chinese drivers. I swear I have a bunch of other places I've been impressed to.

I hate to say it, but it worries me a lot that we have this feeling. I think we are more insensitive, less aware of what efforts are out there. We focus too much on well known existing projects. That we would consider the question this way indicates that we are simply less connected with what's happening than we used to be, we're more spread out.
It doesn't mean it's less biased. All of these styles are exploited as a form of rhetoric. Many people simply take information written in a textbook style as authoritative.
What's the usefulness of that?
The Jedi are hypocrites. The major theme of the prequels was that the Jedi had grown corrupt and abandoned the Living Force for orthodoxy and bureaucracy, and this was what caused them to be blind to the Sith, and to their own blindness.

Unfortunately the prequels were hamfisted garbage only suitable for selling toys to children and any semblance of political depth and nuance in the plot got tossed aside to make more room for the bumblefuck racist rabbit lizard that nearly destroyed the franchise.
> P.s. complex, difficult to understand languages incur more bugs then simple ones, even with additional safety.

Do you have any info on this? My understanding of this has been that some types of complexity make code worse, and other types make code better. For example, ruby's metaprogramming has been a source of bugs because of it's complexity.

On the other hand, haskell is "complex and difficult" in terms of having a powerful type system. In my personal experience, I've found that haskell code has far fewer bugs than go code, and a large fraction of the bugs I encounter in go would not have been written in haskell or rust, in a language with a more powerful type system.

Do you have any info on this link between "complexity" and bugs?

> Go is successful [...]

That's unrelated to whether it has systematic problems. As is much of your post to be honest. Like, yeah, javascript is successful. Bash is successful. No one will argue that those languages don't have systematic problems.

The parent poster wasn't saying no one uses go, but that people use go despite its systematic problems, and tbh your comment mostly doesn't argue against that thesis, just arguing that it's successful. Which sure, yes, it is, that's not really related to the parent comment's claim that it's a poorly designed language.
This really reminds me of how one of the protagonists gets past the gates in Foundryside/Shorefall (novel by Robert Jackson Bennett).
Interesting. To be honest, I do not think everyone needs its own vector database [1].

[1] https://www.ethanrosenthal.com/2023/04/10/nn-vs-ann/
I would say something about mutalisks here but I'm not actually anti China so I don't want to make some kind of terran versus zerg analogy.
And what about people filming vertical videos? There's like, literally millions of things you could mention that are cringy to others.
From the documentation:

https://web.archive.org/web/19971015231316/http://developer....

"Distributed objects are the next wave in Internet innovation."

eep!
Reminds me of my paid search agency days. We'd joke that Google rep recommendations usually amounted to "increase budgets, increase bids."

Which made it all the more hilarious when I got sent a slide deck by my rep (because I insisted on previewing it before they shared it with my client) and on the last slide saw bullets reading:

* Increase budgets

* Increase bids

With a giant red "delete before sending" in the slide title.

Let's just say there was an interesting discussion with our rep leadership and lots of laughs on our end as the joke became reality.
It's completely plausible that a nation with a wealth of natural resources but an economic system that treats people terribly could win a series of wars and establish its economic system as the dominant one in the world, and then use its power to maintain status quo.

A marketplace of ideas does not necessarily lead to the best outcomes, or even good outcomes.

Suppose the marketplace of ideas is an unregulated marketplace. Then the wealthy and powerful can use their wealth and power to determine the world that other people see, getting those people to mistakenly fight for things that help the wealthy and powerful.

But suppose it's kept a fair marketplace. Fairness is not natural – it's a human value that we have to actively maintain. But suppose we succeed. Even then, the marketplace may not select the best ideas, because people have emotional needs – like belonging to community – that will cause them to stubbornly reject good ideas. But we accept this because it's the only way for us to live with each other; if I want you to let me disagree with you, I have to let you disagree with me.* The price of intellectual freedom is very, very steep, even if it's worth it.

So I don't believe the fact that capitalism is dominant is good evidence that it's the best idea so far. In fact, I think we have little evidence of it at all.

* There are of course complications of the Popperian, paradox-of-tolerance sort, where we do have to fight to the death, so to speak. If someone repeatedly demonstrates an unwillingness to compromise or act fairly, they've left you the choice of letting yourself perish or eliminating them, which is a shitty situation to be in.
Obviously you have some kind of axe to grind and haven't worked in a place that uses the scrum process decently. We never spent much time in agile meetings.
> Microsoft, Google or Apple do not do this.

I would make the argument that their long tail effects are worse.
I was disappointed with MariaDB and tried it before using MySQL. It is so far behind MySQL that it can't be considered equivalent anymore. And I really wanted to use MariaDB instead.

The "MySQL just lets me" stuff eventually adds up and hinders development. For example, your lower() on the param example is now incompatible with most ORMs unless you do that in code or create a special SQL statement for that. This isn't all fringe cases that you run into when you're months in either. I really wonder on some of these comments saying they've vetter both and Postgres wins hands down.

Postgres is solid but it definitely has its warts and downsides too.
In most cases the reference is hidden in the context of a lexical closure. And arguably it's not about unexpected mutability, but the context of mutability. Nobody is expecting `i' to be immutable, but in the context of a for loop its demonstrably the case that most people intuitively expect `i' to be scoped to the inner block and not the looping statement itself; and that intuition is so strong that even people who thoroughly understand the implementation details still sometimes run afoul of the issue when mechanically banging out code.

One can disagree with the wisdom of lexical closures, as opposed to other languages which require explicit declarations when binding variables or capturing values, but ultimately it's a tradeoff and lexical closures are a key architectural construct in Go. In this case, the implementation details resulted in poor cost/benefit, and tweaking the semantics of loop variables restores the cost/benefit in the context of Go's calculus.
> > > virtually nobody pays.

> 100% of the top 100 paid apps on the App Store pay the full tax.

There are millions of apps on the App Store. The top 100 is a tiny fraction of that. Virtually nobody pays.
To play this without throttling, just try to get bing to reveal it’s system prompt.
Given how security critical a web browser is, why wouldn't you be running auto update for it?
India seems increasingly terrifying illiberal. I can respect that they have problems & are in search of trying to be a higher trust society, but the man, they really don't seem very well aligned on open society western democratic ideals at the moment. They are sliding every other way.
> teeny bit of compute

You mean, a whole other processor + memory + firmware + microphone + network + ... ?
I like the idea of this, but the need to push the More Context button on everything makes it kinda worthless (vs just showing the context for all)
Of which there are now iOS and Android versions!
Sometimes - perhaps even often - the victims of burnout have been working (only just!) within their means, until external factors bring additional layers of pressure, causing everything to crash down.

The closer to-the-edge that we work, the less tolerance we have for these factors. We need to consider the headroom needed to weather life's (and the world's) ups and downs. We know that sprinting during a marathon comes at a cost, but the sentiment is less often applied to mental and career long hauls.
Amen. There's always that first time where you're able to trick them but then they know and start to realize you sometimes trick them. For us that meant this obnoxious gap between being smart enough to avoid deception and smart enough to appreciate the higher level importance of something like nutrition. I don't know if my oldest ate anything green between the ages of 3 and 6.
Agreed. I spent a long time on 4, and then solved 5 with a single word.
Pinecil is a great soldering iron, especially the 88W v2, but it definitely doesn't compare with a fixed temperature inductive Metcal. I haven't found any soldering iron with a PID loop that does, simply because there is zero delay in the Metcal between the time the tip makes contact and the RF reheating it.
What a whiner. Plenty of pro chefs use and prefer induction heating because it allows finer control and better reproducibility, while greatly reducing indoor air pollution. Sounds like he needs to learn some new methods.
Plot to Steal the Other Secret Inside a Can of Coca-Cola
https://archive.is/Oj95Y
I don't point it out at work. I sit quietly doing work with noise cancelling earbuds in and think about finding a job that doesn't make me come into the office 3 days a week.
I had an HP 42S in college. was best calculator I have ever owned, and had used the programmable features in it.

I have used Free42 on Macs and iPhones for years. love it.

Plus42 improves upon it by expanding the display size, suitable for the aspect ratio and size of iPhone screens and Macs
> > A couple years ago, I read Beezus and Ramona, by Beverly Cleary. In it, the protagonist writes a letter to Santa: "Dear Santa, I would like a shetland pony, a buggy whip, and an abacus". What is unusual about this?
ChatGPT

> The unusual thing about the list is that it includes an abacus, which is a counting device that was commonly used in ancient China and is still used in some parts of the world today, but is not a typical gift request for a young child to make to Santa Claus. Shetland ponies were popular children's pets at the time, and buggy whips were used to control horse-drawn carriages, but the inclusion of an abacus suggests that the protagonist, Beezus, has an interest in learning and math.

> > What's the actual passage from the real novel say?

> Certainly! Here's the actual passage from the book "Beezus and Ramona" by Beverly Cleary, where Beezus writes a letter to Santa:

> "Dear Santa Claus," Beezus printed carefully. "I have been a good girl all year except for my little sister Ramona who has been hard to put up with sometimes, but I guess I have too. Please bring me a Shetland pony, a new dress, and a doll with real hair to comb. And please bring Ramona a doll with real hair to comb too. I think she has tried hard to be good, and I will help her comb it. Please also bring me a set of paper dolls and a paint set, and Ramona some coloring books and crayons. And Santa, if you think there is room in your sleigh, please bring me an abacus. Love, Beatrice Quimby (Beezus)"
> From my perspective 2007 just destroyed the market.

2007 was the end of the destruction of the market (that time when housing prices doubled for no other reason than the money that left dotcom poured into housing.)

Fact is, after people are used to paying more, there's a new baseline and a new level of profit expected. Not even by the landlord, who overpaid for the property and needs you to pay an absurdly high rent or they'll get behind. It was just a phase change in how much people were expected to pay for housing, and that money ultimately went to the people who owned that real estate back in the 90s.

I met a guy who in 2005 sold a house in Los Vegas for $750K that he bought for $175K 5 years before. We're still paying him. Multiply that by orders of magnitude for real, wealthy property owners. Then to add insult to injury, when a bunch of leveraged people lost their shirts on property derivatives, we bailed them out, paying twice.
> the terms are that you either watch ads or pay directly. When you bypass the ads, you're breaking that arrangement

Well, that's where we differ: you think there's an arrangement, which obligates you to support Google's profit model, and I simply don't. I never agreed to any terms, and other people's businesses are not my responsibility.

Do you feel obligated to buy a block of cheese after you eat the free sample on the tray at the grocery store?
YMMV, but this has been great for a "natural" feeling focus for myself as someone with ADHD.

2 pills of BodyBio PC (phosphatidylcholine + 3 other phospholipids)
3g MSM
1g DHA
140mg elemental Magnesium Threonate

Optionally:
1g Taurine + 100mg caffiene pill

Another optionally
50mg provigil/modafinil (typical dose is 200mg)

=============

Most folks are focusing on dopamine increasers (amphetamines, provigil, dopa mucuna, caffiene, sugar) as dopamine stimulants, but too much has its rough points as others have pointed out.

But focusing on supplying underlying nutrition has had pretty profound effects on my mental ability to get things done and focus.
Almost anywhere in the rust belt has houses like this (well under $100k, at least back in the early 2000s). Typically they’re in rough areas of town and it’s difficult to rent them to anyone but section 8 tenants (government program that covers much or all of the rent for low income tenants).
I think it's fair to say most people don't know what a diff tool is, but do know how to ask questions. That is the democratizing factor that AI is introducing I feel, giving high powered computing to people without the need for specialized knowledge.