skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I realize some folks are salty they paid a ton of money for the idea that a piece of paper gives them some sort of prestige.

Actually the paper does, but my issue is not papers, rather knowledge. The level of knowledge needed for something to be called engineering

And I have noticed your answers relate prompt engineering to software engineering/programming questions. But if you look at that OpenAI doc, even asking to summarise an article is prompt engineering.

> A great deal of the engineers that built the modern internet never got a formal degree. But they did get something better: real practical experience attained via tinkering.

We have a lot of carpenters, builders, mechanics with no formal education that we call Engineers in our everyday life without any qualm because of their knowledge and experience. Don't look at it only from the lens of software engineering.

I still maintain prompting an AI model doesn't need to be called engineering.

If you are a developer doing it through an API or whichever way, you still doing whatever you've been doing before prompting entered the chat.

Maybe the term will be justified in the future.

Side Note: This conversation led me to Wikipedia (noticed some search results along the way). This prompt business is already lit, I shouldn't have started it
Anecdotally I've used that phone caseless for 4 years and was never able to reproduce the issue, nor do I know about it affecting anyone I know.

It's weird. But anyway, iPhone 4 became an incredibly popular phone, so the problem (while obviously existant) couldn't have been that widespread.
I know C++. I prefer using C#, though.

And I am not working as a game developer anymore, so I prefer a lighter game engine when doing small projects.
> where changes in the code just show up in the browser

I still reflexively refresh the page after making changes after being burned by hot reloading systems one time too many. Hot reloading systems are great when you have only static content, but usually fall apart once front end state is introduced. It would be incredible for the JS ecosystem to get a hot reloading strategy that “just worked”.
See also data sent to supl.google.com (Android default).

> SUPL is used as part of the A-GPS (Assisted GPS) system to get a faster Time to First Fix. The problem is that Android's implementation automatically sends the IMSI (ID of the SIM card) to the SUPL provider for no apparent reason. And because Google is the default provider it's a big breach of privacy. [1]

[1] https://github.com/Magisk-Modules-Alt-Repo/supl-replacer
Any reason for "S=["2743".to_i(16)].pack("U*")" instead of S="\u2743"?
It would be nice to have users opt-in to save in Google drive (or any other cloud file storage like microsoft one drive or dropbox)
More like 1 iPod?

https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/IPod_(1st_generation)
If it's silly, but it works, it ain't silly. With hacking anyways.
Did that model also factor in risk of damage, liability, and normal wear and tear that a tenant brings over a vacant unit?
The Trouble with European Green Electricity Certificates
It sounds like your model assumed all apartments would be the same price for the same unit. But that isn't how the real world works. You start with the high rent and then come down as it sits vacant. Different units in the building with the same amenities might rent for different amounts.

If your rent is $2000 and no one will come in, it makes sense to drop your rent to $1850 if it gets someone in now, because at the end of the year you'll break even vs sitting just one extra month vacant at $2000.

The main reason that doesn't happen in NYC in particular is rent control/stabilization -- dropping the rent lowers your baseline.

In most cities, you can make up that rent with an increase at the end of the year. But not in NYC. So landlords are incentivized to keep units empty.
Interesting! How is the performance comparing to other MySQL compatible proxies anyway?
At great risk of sounding completely ignorant, this approach is basically what I thought the point of machine learning was - cleverly using feedback loops to improve things automatically. The thing that sticks out to me as particularly cool about FunSearch is the use of programs as inputs/outputs and the fact that they managed to automate feedback.

I'm pretty naive in terms of granular understanding here as I am barely proficient in Python, to be clear, but when I daydream about things you could solve with machine learning/AI, this is the approach I always think of and I guess is how I thought it already worked. Load it up with the best information we have currently, define the desired results as clearly as possible, implement some form of automatic feedback, and let it run iteratively until it produces something better than what you had before.

Is this a case of "well no shit, but actually implementing that effectively is the hard part"? Is it being able to quickly apply it to a wide variety of problems? I guess I'm trying to understand whether this is a novel idea (and if so, what parts are novel), or if the idea has been around and it's a novel implementation.
As a pretty staunch civil libertarian, I agree with you about the asymmetry in rights. However, I'm curious about the statement:

> "you are not legally allowed to lie to the police."

I know that lying under oath in a court is perjury and in certain contexts some investigative agencies like the FBI can put you under oath and in that specific case materially false statements can be actionable. And I know that filing a false police report is against the law but I think that usually requires signing the report and it spells out that lying on the statement is perjury.

But, in the scenario of a police officer just walking up and asking you questions on a street corner, prior to arresting or detaining you, is anything you say about anything which is later deemed to be false or misleading cause for arrest? Maybe it is but I'm trying think of what law it would be violating. I do know that civil libertarians say that if a police officer talks to you, you can ask "Am I being detained?" and if they don't answer "Yes" you are free to just walk away.

My naive prior understanding is that things are more complicated and conditional than simply "Lying to a cop anytime, anywhere is always grounds for arrest and prosecution (even absent any other grounds for arrest)" but perhaps I was misinformed on this.
>Isn’t this bill supposed to “protect children”?

Yes.

>Accessing porn isn’t illegal for adults.

Correct. Porn isn't illegal for adults now, nor will it be illegal if the bill becomes law.

>If the debate is about restricting access to a legal “vice”

It isn't.

>I agree imposing puritanical beliefs is the actual motivation

I don't agree.

You're blowing a single word out of proportion.
Your font is missing the relevant glyphs from u2743 onwards. See[1] for what they're meant to look like.

[1]
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/block/U+2700
Marvel's Copyright Battle for Spider-Man Is Over, & It's the Result Fans Wanted
Both PlanetScale and Neon have the branch feature, and it significantly simplify the process of testing and staging. However, the feature in PlanetScale is closed-source, nice to see an open-source alternative of that.
Logprobs in OpenAI API
Opportunity presents itself to you and me every day. You can choose.
Tabletop RPGs we played in 2023
This effect only works if ownership is concentrated or there is otherwise a mechanism for collusion (the theory of collusion via Realpage is compelling to me). In a competitive market, nobody wants to leave _their own_ inventory vacant, because even if it would increase the aggregate revenue in the industry, that revenue will go to their competitors and not themselves.
OpenAI suspends ByteDance's account after it used GPT to train its own AI model
It adds up to me. It only takes being bitten once to learn that tail calls aren't optimized, and then you stop using them for recursion (or almost entirely stop). You write a for loop and things work. The overall level of broken code is very low.

If it's inconsistent, then people write a lot more tail calls and a lot more sites break on a lot more devices.
> Tenants are already against landlords, that's how it works.

I'm sorry you feel that's an inevitability. There's the economic agreement, where it's mutually beneficial for the tenant to receive housing and the landlord to receive a rent check, and then there's civil relations. Better civil relations improve the economic agreements.

"Allowing workers to report their employers for labor violations is only deepening the social divide between labor and management."

Again, the social divide is not inevitable. There isn't even a clear line where someone switches from labor into management, and your sarcasm left out the divide between management and ownership/capital. The CEO of a Fortune 500 is not in the same position as the CEO of a struggling one-office startup who basically answers to her investors. Should early employees overlook small offenses committed by founders? With the emphasis on the caveat "small", absolutely yes. What matters more, true in general but especially in early stages, is trust.

If you cannot trust your leaders, start planning an exit. You are not doomed to spend your life working for only one employer in whom you have lost faith, and thus require the assistance of the law to protect you. Life is too short to force yourself to work for people like that.
https://github.com/wesql/wescale/blob/main/doc%2Fblogs%2FPer...

Integrating WeSQL WeScale as a MySQL proxy may initially increase network latency due to additional round trips. However, as the load scales, it matches the throughput and latency of a direct MySQL connection. Connection multiplexing allows WeSQL WeScale to sustain high throughput under heavy loads, unlike MySQL, which may suffer performance drops due to too many connections consuming buffer pool memory. With read-write splitting enabled, WeSQL WeScale continues to scale linearly in throughput beyond MySQL's limits as test threads increase. The memory footprint of WeSQL WeScale is minimal in comparison to MySQL, and it only adds about one-third to the CPU overhead. For increasing queries per second (QPS), WeSQL WeScale's read-write splitting and horizontal scaling is more cost-effective than MySQL's vertical scaling.
On premises hardware can hardly be called legacy. Clouds are way too expensive for startups; they are a milking machine for the big corpo.
I don't care much about people investing in apartments, but citizen reporting is not flat out a wrong thing.

E.g. reporting illegaly parked cars is highly positive. So is reporting domestic violence or animal cruelty.
The financial motivation is in keeping rents high. The units are empty because no more people want to pay as much as they are charging. Then it becomes a balancing act. An empty unit might cost you X, but to find a tenant for it might require you to lower rent by Y. If X * # of empty units is less than Y * # of occupied units, then it makes more sense to leave them empty.
You've probably accumulated a lot of relevant html knowledge which will help you.

I presume you have some css-related projects/tasks in mind that you'd like to be able to tackle yourself. I would pick one of those and jump in at the deep end. Although a small goal like restyling something that already works is probably better than starting from scratch.

For a completely abstract task, you could try developing a stylesheet for markdown html output.

Vanilla CSS is good enough (and browser support consistent enough) now that you don't need to use any compilers/frameworks to get started.

If you find yourself struggling for design inspiration, try to re-produce an existing design without seeing how they did it.
The hiccup with this arithmetic is that the big cloud providers charge 7x to 10x the price you’d pay for an on-premises VM.

Sure, sure, you’re about to say something about discounts? Granted, that’s available, but only for commitments starting at one year or longer!

Okay, fine, I actually agree that there are savings available by reducing head count. The entire network and storage teams can be made redundant, for starters. Even considering that DevOps and cloud infra engineers need to be hired at great expense, this can be a net win…

…but isn’t in my experience. Managers are unwilling or unable to make many people redundant at once, so they stick around and find things to do…

… things like reproducing the mess that kept them employed, but in the cloud.

I’m watching this unfold at about a dozen of my large enterprise customers right now.

Got to get back to work and send the fifty seventh email about spinning up a single VM. Got to run that past every team! It’s no rush, it’s only been about fourteen months now…
By your own admission, it’s nearly impossible to address the core issue here, so I can’t blame people for trying to nibble around the edges of the symptoms. It’s all that seems possible.
I have yet to find a frontender (and I have worked with 100s over the past 30 years) that can do any significant css without trying it out in a browser; if there is something off or needs to change on the frontend, very often the most experienced senior frontender can guess (and often a little bit right) what it is but to actually fix it they have to try a few times.

To me (someone who likes logic) that is a sign it’s all not very good. I can write a bunch of code on paper in several programming languages and even non web frontend frameworks and it will work after I type it in first time ; when it comes to web frontend, it has to be tried out to know it works as it likely will have issues (unless it has no css layouting of course or absolutely trivial prototype stuff).
Why do you loathe it? Coming from someone who kind of wants it.
“Now, it's up to you whether or not you want to just do the bare minimum. Well, like Brian, for example, has 37 pieces of flair. And a terrific smile.”
Also add in flexbox froggy and css grid garden
You make more money by raising prices higher even when that means pricing some people out. More people will pay the higher price than will get priced out.
How are you lying to the police by unlocking a different profile of your phone? So long as the police doesn't say "oh, unlock this $specific profile of your phone please", you could have different profiles for different purposes (e.g. different set of apps installed, like one profile for work and another for personal settings).
Are they actually the landlord or just an onsite manager? I've seen both, but the onsite manager has been much more common in my experience
You posted this 2 times in 3 hours. By the way, Your connection is not private.
Well, borders in the USA have a special exemption to the 4th Amendment, so take everything with a grain of salt if you are entering or exiting the USA.
Relevant news. A different company, MindSift.

Important themes. That someone has won a Nobel Prize is old news also, as others have.

But different ends of 'noble pursuits'.
In astronomy 'metal' is shorthand for 'all elements except hydrogen and helium' [0]. This is a convenient shorthand because big bang nucleosynthesis [1] produces only minuscule amounts of lithium and even less heavier elements. Nonnegligible presence of elements beyond helium is indication some stars' life cycles completing and their insides being distributed via explosion. So, being metal-poor is an indicator of very young age.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallicity

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_nucleosynthesis
I still have mine but left it in a drawer years ago because it wouldn't sync any more. Is there a modern solution?
The "Perfection is table stakes" never satisfied, tone-deaf assholes who demand crash schedules, living at the office, and the impossible without sharing the profits. "Be happy you even have a job, little office worker automaton or we'll replace you with TCS." This is definitely the way to lead an engineering team... if you want drama and shit as a result.
There are several types of process models that's suitable for a DBMS: 1 process per DBMS worker, 1 thread per DBMS worker, a lightweight thread pool, a process pool, etc.

Hellerstein, Stonebraker and Hamilton (2007) is a great introduction on this.
If tenant protections went too far then landlords wouldn't find it worth it, yet they still do.
Aliens mined the metal, no other explanation.
Prior legal rulings in the USA have been vague, but said that a numeric code does not require you to "testify" in that you don't really have to use a thought process. I'm paraphrasing, but basically numeric passcodes have been exempt from your right against self-incrimination.
Does anyone know what the two women in the last photo are eating? It looks sort of like a hot dog bun but slightly longer and wider.
Someone actually wrote a scheme back in 2017 https://github.com/google/schism so this isnt new.
Infact the whole idea of WASM is not new, 20 yrs back Sun had the same idea, embed compiled bytecode inside browser called applets, developed in JAVA. Even flash was a similar idea, though flash VM was riddled with security flaws. This failed to gain wider acceptance, now 20 yrs later we have a embedded bytecode compiler in the browser, but it may work this time.
If the police are feds, you can catch up to 5 years in the slammer for "making false statements" to them. This law is relatively recent (mid 90s) and was pretty much passed so that the FBI could nail, or twist the arms of, people they think committed a crime but have zero actual evidence against.

State laws about lying to police vary by state. Ask your lawyer.
I can do working assembly on paper or in my head, css I cannot. So yep, easier. I have similar amount of experience with both, I just don’t consider css logical. While most assembly is (there are exceptions of course, but talking about pure assembly).
If you can figure out how to effectively utilize this much parallelism for constraint solving, you are likely going to get a Turing award.
There is no tax benefit to leaving a unit vacant, despite people who don’t understand real estate constantly making this claim. You do not get to deduct the rents you failed to collect, and there is no tax benefit that is lost when you rent the property. It never makes sense to refuse a dollar because you’ll have to pay 30% tax on it, or whatever. There may be other factors leading your friend to keep his property vacant, but this isn’t one of them.

The last paragraph sounds like nonsense too, though I’m less sure about that. What mechanism do you think there is for the mortgage holder to see your leases? And how stupid do you think banks are, that they’d rather your property bring in zero than less than they were expecting?
I promise you, from experience, it is not quick enough.
You are missing the point. Finish what you doing, but then start the next item, and leave it unfinished. Whatever you do, leave something unfinished for you to finish tomorrow.
> The world has moved on

Movement is not self-justifying. Have you weighed the pros and cons of what movement there has been in the last 5 years due to smart phones?

>traditional cellular phone and SMS system is only slightly more useful than the telegraph (especially outside of the USA).

I can phone or message almost anyone in the world at any moment. Have we forgotten what a magical power that is? Countering your last statement, I count myself lucky to live outside the US , where a smartphone-free life is still very practical for more than just a few die-hard holdouts (a bit like car ownership).
You sure didn't steelman the OP.

They said the explanation is suspicious. That doesn't mean they feel like they are personally owed an explanation.
This basically happened to me when I was cuffed in the back of a squad car on the way to jail. I told the dispatcher I was being kidnapped. The cops in the front gave me the side-eye.

Let me see if I can get the recording via FOIA...
That's not the issue. There is lots of money to be made competing with ISPs in dense urban areas, but such competition is actively illegal in many of them.
Whether this is possible or not is irrelevant, as it would be just as unethical as if we were designing a new species of humans with no emotions or aspirations, who would not care about something like rights for themselves, when they are simply incapable of any desires, but exist only to help us.
I'm very sceptical if this is going to actually manifest. My wife and I have been digging into the text to 3D topic for a while now and the problem seems to be that there is just not enough correctly labeled data and you have to deal with the complexity of having to generate a mesh in the third dimension. There is just a vast amount of 2D pictures with descriptive alt texts or other textual context on the Internet which is simply not true for 3D models.

A lot of papers seem to try and extract 3D data from 2D pictures since the dataset is just so much better, but that hits obvious limitations. And we aren't even talking about any animations yet, which anyone who ever tried making them by hand knows, add a huge jump of complexity because you are not just morphing individual vertices, you actually want them to move consistently or else the faces are going to start doing weird glitchy things. Generating 3D stuff is less like generating pixel-based images and more like generating an SVG where the shapes actually make semantic sense, but a lot more complex. (Which, as far as we have found, no AI has managed so far either.)

Sure, you'll start seeing animated faces, architectural plans, and you'll also see bone system, based animations for humanoids (humanoid 2D video to 3D bone animation AIs exist today), but don't expect to be able to prompt your way through creating a Pixar movie.

However, I'm happy to be convinced otherwise.
> We're really going to miss this US-led world order

You will miss it. Just because it's bad doesn't mean the alternative is better. The alternative will be worse. Many of the reasons that deaths from conflicts is at a historic low is because of the US-led world order. This is regardless of which school of geopolitics you subscribe to. If you believe in democratic peace theory, or the liberalism idea that trade reduces conflict, or the realist idea that we have less war only because we're in a unipolar hegemony, the US-led world order has caused less conflict deaths. I don't have to downplay the atrocities and contradictions of the US and their allies when accepting this reality.
Only really benefits a company if they lack the technologies or cloud solution.

Not like they are paying anyone to host something besides themselves.
Looks like hot dogs given the sauce selection. I didn't know there was a set length for hot dog buns.
They're not asking to see the skeletons. They're trying to figure out if skeletons actually are likely, or if the phrasing is motivated by some weird fear of saying the business model failed and ran out of money. And it's more about this type of announcement in general than this specific business.
Apparently no backup, along with private user book history stored on the same system as everything else.

With no backup, it's a matter of when you lose it all, not if.
There are apps which provide this same feature for people who want it, but I’m glad they’re making this change.
If anything, this highlights the dangers of building your app around the details of a particular clod infrastructure.
Haha! :) Yes indeed. As they say, life begins at... :) hahaha. The old AJAX, DHTML and Comet. I never thought of them as puns, but that's clever! I'm a fan of the old MJPEG, SSE and marquee tag. Hahaha :)
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In that sense door locks are exclusionary.
I would likely have the phone in my hand already.
I’ve been programming since middle school. That would be 30 years. Nothing really changed much. C++ is incrementally more convenient but fundamentally the same. Code editors are same. Debugger are same. Shell is same.

I am certain in 30 years everything will still be the same.
Not sure how they calculated but using the base 10 seems a great achievement in itself to me.