skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. Just more evidence that this is indeed the system prompt.

For those who worked with the OpenAI APIs, it would seem obvious. The call to the API starts with several prompts with the user provided one being one of them. But most often you would want to put some "facts" into the other prompts, like the current date, maybe how the model should call itself, or maybe some "fact" about the freshness of the data the model was trained on. The model will not be able to guess the cutoff date on its own if it was not provided as one of the extra prompts.

Does it mean that in fact the knowledge cutoff was 2022-01? No. It might have knowledge about 2023 events in its training. But it does mean that one of the prompts most probably has these words in it.
So let me get this straight. You've used Kafka once, RabbitMQ never. You don't really know what you did with Kafka. But you somehow know that RabbitMQ cannot do the thing which you don't really remember anymore. Doesn't make much sense to be honest.

Nobody can really have any sources for RabbitMQ being able to do it if you don't know what it supposedly cannot do. The way you descibed it, is that you simply read data and then did something with the data and passed it to somewhere else. RabbitMQ obviously can do it.
> Promiscuity does not propagate sexually transmitted diseases.

Of course not, they are propagated by poneis and unicorns. Nothing to do with having sex with multiple partners.

> Gay people do not have more sex partners than straight people.

You are deluded. Not only gay people have higher median number of sexual partners, but our sexual network is tighter, since fewer people are gay compared to straight. That's a perfect environment for sexual diseases to spread, which was the case with AIDS and more recently MPox.
They are compromised in terms of governance, and their legal environment is the proof of this.

Nobody has ever claimed that Huawei devices have backdoors. The issue is that the supply chain is compromised by legal means, not the hardware or software currently being shipped has technical vulnerabilities.
There was recently an interesting thread on the Retro Computing Forum [1] related to this and curious behavior in 6502 flavors of MS BASIC. In brief, the condition in

IF SQR(3 * 2) = SQR(3) * SQR(2) THEN…

evaluates to false, while,

IF SQR(3 * 2) - SQR(3) * SQR(2) = 0 THEN…

evaluates to true. Similarly,

A = SQR(3 * 2) - SQR(3) * SQR(2)

assigns zero (0.0) to variable A. So,

SQR(3 * 2) <> SQR(3) * SQR(2)

but

SQR(3 * 2) - SQR(3) * SQR(2) = 0

Which is kind of a nice paradox. (The same is true for a variety of other value combinations.) We learn, the value of an expression in a comparison is not the same as its result (probably due to result cleanup, especially, when the exponent happens to be zero.)

[1] https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/investigating-basic-floati...
The germans used Calvary units in WW2 as part of of the blitzkrieg.
Usenet was a set of fiefdoms mostly administered by academics in CompSci departments, and proved utterly unequal to its first real crisis*. Distributed systems work great as long as they're new and everyone is participating in good faith most of the time. In adversarial situations, they're rarely able to adapt flexibly enough, partly because the networked structure imposes a severe decision-time penalty on consensus formation. A negligent or malicious attacker just has to overwhelm nodes with high betweenness centrality and the whole network fails.

Immediately following crises everyone talks about making the network more resilient and so on, but it never fully recovers because everyone intuitively knows that establishing consus is slow and bumpy, and that major restructuring/retooling efforts are way easier to accomplish unilaterally. So people start drifting away because unless there's a quick technical fix that can be deployed within a month or two, It's Over. Distributed systems always lose against coherent attackers with more than a threshold level of resources because the latter has a much tighter OODA loop.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Sie...
Doubtful. People either don't care or are too lazy to shift. Also, I think it's safe to assume ISP's are going to be wrapped in on this too.
Boring is good when you want to build things that are maintainable by 100s of devs.

Something we have experienced over and over is that devs moving from languages like C# or Java just love how easy and straight forwarding developing in Go is. They pick it up in a week or two, the tool chain is just so simple, there's no arguing around what languages features we can and can't use.

Almost everyone I've spoke to finds it incredibly productive. These people want to be delivering features and products and it makes it easy for them to do so.
FWIW It looks like they're still in the project, but the boards just aren't loading correctly.

If you go to your list of issues and try filtering by `project:<project id>` (e.g. project:microsoft/12345), then it'll still list them all.

(s/o to https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/67636#discussi...)
See here [1] [2]
Apparently Barbara Fried has retired, and Joseph Bankman is taking time off to focus on things.

[1] https://law.stanford.edu/directory/joseph-bankman/
[2] https://law.stanford.edu/directory/Barbara-Fried/
> Whenever possible, design data coming into the data warehouse as append-only. Hydra's columnar store only supports inserts. If you need to update or delete data, you will need to use row (heap) tables.
How about no?

You want to show your content on the internet? Start your own hosting service or find one that will allow your content. Nobody owes you anything.
I can get an appointment for a new ID next week. Major city in Germany. Ymmv.
Now do Twitter.
Might have been this video? Sometimes Rossman's videos ain't easy to search for, hah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHhGBvfGams
When I actually think about it, yeah, they 100% are. Nintendo is one of the few companies I can think of that has had as much success as Apple, for arguably a longer time. The NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, GC flopped, Wii, Wii U flopped, Switch. Countless successful games. They have basically had an in-home brand advertisement world wide for >40 years. Even Apple doesn’t have that; they spent a long time as pretty much irrelevant from the mid 80s to 2000. Apple’s early success was confined to a relatively small market; Nintendo’s wasn’t. There are a lot of old people who don’t care about technology at all and only understand Apple in passing, but every console ever gets called a Nintendo by them.
Redis isn't an option?
Much as I thoroughly oppose Brexit it's worth pointing out that other EU countries also made excersing the right to travel with a spouse difficult.

Before Brexit I gave up trying to take my wife on a couple of business trips in the EU as they were too short notice to arrange the supposedly free visa, which in theory shouldn't have been even needed but definitely was in practice.
People waiting on a backup process to restore over a billion tiny files.
> Nintendo lives and dies by their mainline characters

Exactly. They’re opening a Super Nintendo theme park at Universal Studios soon and it looks exactly like what you’d expect a Nintendo theme park to look like. Now close your eyes and imagine what an Xbox theme park would have… all I can think of is maybe Master Chief? Whatever it is, it sounds boring comparatively. The Xbox brand is more hardcore-gamer-hardware… not the Xbox Universe of characters and worlds that Nintendo has built over the last 40 years. For Nintendo to shift those characters and worlds onto other hardware would completely devalue their brand
yes, but undoubtedly the UK's security services know that the best way to pass something unpopular is to recast it as helping

children

women

the vulnerable

much like the content of the 2010 CIA memo that wikileaks released[1] stating that the best way to increase public support for US military actions in Afghanistan is to emphasize the oppression of women

[1]https://wikileaks.org/wiki/CIA_report_into_shoring_up_Afghan...
'Them that has the gold makes the rules'. The users are not the paying customers.
See also, Intel® Decimal Floating-Point Math Library https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t....
I hope other countries don't copy the UK. With the Internet we have choice of jurisdiction and can happily avoid any cryptography projects operating out of the UK. I don't care if WhatsApp will become wiretapped in the UK. My beloved Matrix operates out of there, that's what concerns me.

And I have to use WhatsApp because of its network effect (all my friends and family are on it). I have tried recruiting them on to Signal and Matrix, but the mental fatigue for them of doing that; means I have only have three friends on Signal, and ~100s stuck on shitty WhatsApp.

Hopefully the more tech savvy friends of mine will ditch WhatsApp and choose Signal. And I'm not saying Signal doesn't have its issues (meatspace identity tied to your number etc) but it's far superior to WhatsApp which collects too much metadata like, it knows your contacts, when you talk to them, IP and other metadata.

Does anyone else have this issue of recruiting friends and family onto more privacy-respecting messenger apps?
The US doesn't have any current plans for military version of Starlink. They have a pretty extensive satellite system. Starshield is SpaceX project to use Starlink technology for military.

The US Space Development Agency, focused on missile defense, is working with SpaceX on tracking and communications constellations. But the communications is using laser links for in-space communications. Military Starlink is possible but not proposed yet.
>Yes, replacing. You're replacing native Japanese with foreigners. That is by definition replacing.

Yes, replacing. You're replacing native Ainu with foreigners. That is by definition replacing.

The logic is 100% consistent.
The sale price discussed in this email is $10-30 billion. That seems like a very good price to me considering ByteDance's yearly revenue of $80 billion. Of course most of that revenue isn't from the USA, and we can only guess as to what the profit is from that revenue.

But if we do some extremely rough estimates, assuming that 25% of revenue comes from the USA and that they make a 30% margin, then it would take them 3 - 5 years to recoup the investment assuming 0 growth. Plus, I'm sure they could save on hosting costs by leveraging Azure, and tie the ads in with Bing ads. Obviously these numbers are rough and might be way off.

That seems like a really great value for them. If I were in their shoes, I'd probably offer even more.
Is Kaitlyn Braun the Most Prolific Pregnancy Scammer?
> now you can also replay queues

yeahnah, that leads to people treating queues like databases (I'm looking at you new york times, you know what you did wrong)

its either a queue, or a pubsub, either way its ephemeral. Once its gone, it should stay gone. thats what database, object stores or filesystems are for.

Kafka is a beast, has lots of bells and whistles and grinds to a halt when you look at it funny. Yes, it can scale, but also it can just sulk.

rabbit has it's own set of problems, and frankly it's probably not choose either anymore.
You are right, word should know more about this bloodbath for communist blood bathers.
All kinds of vote manipulation are possible, don't take the downvoting to heart.
e.g.

var typeA Interface = (*TypeA)(nil)
println(typeA == nil) // false
println(typeA == (*TypeA)(nil)) // true

Yes really
https://go.dev/play/p/sz44kJW8OuT
I hope this does not happen, but maybe we'd finally get some remakes of Diddy Kong Racing, Donkey Kong 64 and other good games by Rare
Is the Coca-Cola mention about their campaign to influence CDC research and policy [0], and pro-obesity astroturf [1][2]?

[0]: Politico "Coca-Cola tried to influence CDC on research and policy, new report states" [https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/29/coke-obesity-sugar...]

[1]: "Evaluating Coca-Cola’s attempts to influence public health ‘in their own words’: analysis of Coca-Cola emails with public health academics leading the Global Energy Balance Network" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10200649/

[2]: Forbes: "Emails Reveal How Coca-Cola Shaped The Anti-Obesity Global Energy Balance Network" https://www.forbes.com/sites/nancyhuehnergarth/2015/11/24/em...
On the contrary, changing equipment may actually help quite a bit when dealing with the NSA. The 2016 documentary "Zero Days" which was centered around the creation of Stuxnet showed that the NSA targeted specific hardware models to look for security holes. They had to buy matching hardware themselves and rigorously try to break it which took time and wasn't trivial to do
>these times when the job market is so bad.

Friend, the job market is not remotely close to "bad". It's "normal" at worst.
> People leave that out, so they get asked (in German) during their appointment.

Can't say that ever happened to me.
> If there exists a state where it is good and a state where it is evil, then it's neutral.

Is that a formal definition coming from an official source, or is it your personal opinion?

You seem to say "good = 1, neutral = 0, bad = -1, hence good + bad = neutral". What if a technology has a "good" score of 1 and a "bad" score of -1000? Does "good + bad" make it neutral then?
The ghost in the machine.

Sam Lowry ....
I wish there was a viable alternative to everything Google (search, youtube, android, maps to name a few). I can't wait for Elon to buy Google and end this BS.
> The Twitter files were an absolute joke.

Are you serious? A US District Court as well as the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals found that those files were not in fact a joke, and that the federal executive did strong-arm private entities like Twitter to censor.
Cigarette Exec "Starter Pack":

1. Lung Inflammation: Nicotine in cigarettes may have anti-inflammatory effects, potentially aiding conditions like COPD or asthma.

2. Stress Relief: Smoking can provide temporary relief from stress-induced shortness of breath.

3. Pollutant Resilience: Constant exposure to cigarette pollutants might hypothetically increase lung resilience to other environmental toxins.

4. Parkinson's Disease: Some studies suggest a correlation between smoking and reduced risk of Parkinson's, possibly due to nicotine's neuroprotective properties.

5. Weight Management: Cigarettes can suppress appetite and increase metabolism, potentially aiding in weight control.

6. Mental Health: Nicotine may temporarily alleviate symptoms of mental health conditions like schizophrenia or depression, acting as a form of self-medication.
> Rob Pike and Ken Thompson

They are huge names in the field, but honestly, they just suck at language design itself.
Merck vs. Becerra [pdf]
Rabbitmq is FOSS, has lots of language bindings. It has persistence, durability, and doesn't require a separate orchestrator.
Pretty much. I’m not sure if it got included but if it was feasibly possible they absolutely would — which is just as bad in my opinion. Lack of capability does not nullify intent.
> Can’t find anything that suggests rabbitmq natively supports anything like sink connectors

Kafka doesnt natively support them either. That would be Kafka Connect. I guess you could use it as an MQ, but it wouldnt be a very good one. Its more used as a data integration platform. If you want more MQ-like functionality OOTB on top of Kafka you would want to use something like Kafka Streams instead.
IMHO it seems to me overly complicated. Also it doesn't work on mobile / tablet Android. you can display the menu but once you release the button it dissapear
I see what your saying, but your examples don't quite work.

A reporter telling lies would presumable be called into their managers office and told to shape up or be fired. A painter doing rush jobs would get bad reviews and no referrals, and eventually stop getting jobs. Those behaviors are not incentivized.

A youtube creator milking the algorithm is rewarded for this behavior, with more views, more ad money, etc.

Are we really surprised that people are doing what they are incentivized to do?
All you really need in an language is the former - closures provide encapsulation (instance variables become bound variables) and polymorphism (over closures with the same function signature) all the same
In 2022, there was a phone theft every six minutes in London [1], for example.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-65105199
Yes if YouTube demonetized in breach of their T&Cs, which may not depend on whether the accusations are ultimately shown to be false.
Nothing is going to destroy all humanity.

Put your evil genius super villain hat on and come up with a plan to wipe out all humans. Can’t be done in any realistic way.
It's clear, although I think the "recipes for ruin" focuses too narrowly on the lower bound for ways to destroy the world, like a bright teenager with $10,000. Another important framing is "what degree of economic resources might an AI be entrusted to manage, in the future, and are there any recipes for ruin that fall within that range". For example, if an ASI is put in charge of managing an investment fund with $10 billion in assets, would it be capable of building a doomsday device (and disguising it as a productive investment)?
Can we stop using "innocent until proven guilty" and change it to "innocent unless proven guilty"?

"Until" always makes it sound to me like it is a foregone conclusion.
That comic is about what file types people choose to put what types of information (e.g. PDFs don't often get used for memes, and gifs don't often get used for scientific research papers). It's not even trying to make a point about the quality of the file formats themselves.

(I assume when you wrote "most reassuring" you were instead interpreting it as a comic about the file types' ability to accurately hold the information a user wants them to hold, because "reassuring" as pertains to the comic's actual meaning would be completely irrelevant to this topic of whether or not PDF makes a good interchange format.)
Then people would claim he’s being censored. It’s exhausting.
> but it seems like terrestrial internet will always have a significant bandwidth (though not latency) advantage over Starlink.

Starlink was never designed to compete with terrestrial internet in any way.

If you have access to good high speed internet already then Starlink is not for you.
there are a couple of ways to do it, and none of them that I'm able to think of are great - maybe some others will be able to answer better than I am, but ...

if the data is append-only, an insert trigger could work. if it gets updated and deleted, then insert, update, and delete triggers could be added. of course if the table is very active, this could get bad, fast.

alternately, you can do an insert every hour or so, like insert into table_columnar where created_at > DATE_TRUNC('hour', created_at)

or, even truncate the columnar table daily and re-insert all of the data.

likely none of these is the _best_ solution, but they could help you find what might be the best solution for you.

alternately, if the query patterns work well, you can simply convert the table to columnar, but that's not a panacea.
Beats didn't have an important ecosystem paired with its hardware. As you said, Apple mostly left them alone. If Nintendo wanted their titles on iPhones, they would've released them there.

> You lack imagination.

No, I lack frustration over Apple not owning Nintendo. Enjoy it.
Does anyone have a link to the full text of the bill? The House of Lords site only seems to list the amendments without context.

I’m interested to know if it passed with the (ridiculous) requirement of a third party age verification service
Go has a long list of booby traps like this and prides itself on them. From outside of the Go team it looks like a small cultural shift might slowly be happening, cleaning up some of the obvious mistakes everyone's been telling them about since the beginning. Rob Pike retiring and giving up some formal power with that probably helps.
> In a Cue document how do you specify the location of the Cue schema?

CUE has proper dependency management* so you specify the schema through dependencies and imports, like we do with most languages we use. JSON and Yaml are notable exceptions to this, and things like what XML and JSONNet do, referring to an http (or remote) location that may or may not serve the same content between requests, make for irreproducibility.

* or will soon, there will be an experimental version in the next cue release, and hof has had it for 2+ years now
Rush Limbaugh.
Are you holding and dragging? Or do you release and try to tap?

The menu works as intended for me on iOS but I don’t use Android.

I tap and hold, then drag without releasing.
Nice post! RabbitMq is battle tested, exceptionally fast and low resources app. Capable of handling millions of transactions/second. RabbitMQ will handle vast majority of usecases.
I'm puzzled why often startups, or even banks use Kafka, soley because is hype. Kafka on the order hand requires massive CPUs, Memory, often requiring its own K8S cluster just to be alive.
nice!

Did the original iOS version have to use similar math, or would that have been implemented with native iOS components?

took a second to figure out that i had to hold the click.
Works. And today's date that was provided in the system prompt is different from yesterday's. https://chat.openai.com/share/035a480c-fa75-4974-af42-e3985e...
The official rabbitmq controller for kubernetes is a breeze. Scales wonderfully without almost any effort.
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I thought they were just going to point Dojo at the firehose, and AI would solve the bot problem in days?
I don't think it's a given that what a group can do, the constituent individuals can do? You probably need a team to build and ship a meaningful product regardless of the type of organization that develops it.

It's a little weird that tech-folk are generally ok with the idea that groups can yield good predictions in the context of a non-owner community that is harnessed to improve a product, or in the context of a prediction-market, where people placing bets in disagreement can lead to a more accurate outcome than the participants taken separately would produce -- but somehow think this mechanism will fall apart if workers who have an interest in a firm's ongoing revenue are able to vote.
Yes, Don't why is not mentioned in the article, maybe because is more barebones.
Filming is one really interesting application, the other is imaging of single proteins without the need for crystallisation. I wrote a whole PhD thesis about the idea how to reconstruct the three-dimensional electron density from a lot of extremely noisy single proteins shots. It will make a huge class of proteins experimentally accessible that we couldn't structurally look into before.
I think Microsoft learned their lesson last time trying to make the Xbox One into a media/gaming solution and just stick to video games now. I also wonder about how much money they see in that, too. Most people don’t give a shit about non-laptops anymore, which you can just plug into your tv anyway.
Incredible stuff. I can't imagine the undulators are perfectly efficient at extracting all the energy from the electron beams. What do you guys do with the leftovers?