skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly, it's true in some cases.

Most notably Rupert Murdoch- while I do not wish death on the man, it's certainly true that he has a grip on the hearts and minds of people and often uses his media empire to convince people to go against their own interests.

He will be replaced by someone similar, but seldom are people as effective as their predecessors.
Author here: Regarding point 3, it was my understanding that inserts are synchronous but updates may be asynchronous. Is that the case?
They don't work, and it's a poverty of the imagination to have no clue of or understand the value of supportive, preventative, or rehabilitative policies.
As excellently deconstructed in Lingua Tertii Imperii: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTI_%E2%80%93_Lingua_Tertii_Im...
Typeset the Shrug ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Emoji
> I may be wrong on the finances then, as I had read on how Twitter was sinking in debt and Elon didn't know how bad it was, hence the firing. I thought most of the money came as investments from companies/people.

Where on earth did you read that? Like, I mean, (a) it’s not correct (it has a lot of debt now due to debt taken out as part of the leveraged buyout, but it didn’t before) and (b) it _could not be correct_; Twitter was a public company! Musk absolutely knew its financial situation before the takeover, or at least had no excuse for not knowing it. Anyone could just look that up; it’s part and parcel of being a public company. Is there some sort of Musk fanfiction financial news website that publishes this stuff or something?

Anyway, wherever you read that, I would be _extremely_ sceptical of anything else it writes, if I were you.
Agreed the "heart" means kindness and love, but the opposite in the metaphor from the speech is "machine men with machine hearts", which in my mind conjures an image of cold-heartedness, emotionless, robotic people.

But fascists were cold and cruel, but also highly emotional. I mean, listen to their speeches, shouting, spitting saliva, calling for raw strength, sacrifice, honor -- it's all emotion. Emotion used for evil, but not robotic.

(I think however a degree of detachness must have been needed for say, people running extermination camps, gas chambers, etc. You must stop seeing your victims as people, you must detach yourself to be able to sleep at night. But that's different to the rallies and the support for fascism from the masses; that was highly emotional).
next year I'm focusing on learning more about AI, I bought a $3.5k computer with an nvidia RTX 4090 24G of memory, it arrived today, I plan to extend my playground chat app to use local models for text generation and image generation inference (https://github.com/russellballestrini/flask-socketio-llm-com...)

I'm going to be looking into fine tuning process in some way.
Nice. I've thought it would be nice to be able to view posts that made it to the front page, and perhaps surpassed some level of commenting, and were then flagged off.
How to maximize a free time at work?
Hi, everyone!

I really like studying computer science. I try to learn whenever I have free time. But here’s the thing—I work at a hotel front desk, and I often have time when no one is using the computer. The problem is, people interrupt me a lot. So, I only get short 5-10 minute breaks every 30 minutes to do my work. It’s tough to learn because of these interruptions; I can’t concentrate well.

Any suggestions to make learning easier in this situation?
This kind of self regulation can probably work and be cost effective if you ruthlessly destroy any company found in violation rather than some fine and an apology.

Reminds me of criminal punishment in medieval times. Incarceration was a complete economic non-start so the penalties were brutal as a deterrent.
One thing that worked for me was to break up the year into three 100 day chunks. In each of these chunks you focus on establishing a habit that you want to have and you do that action every day. At the end of the 100 days you’ll be doing that activity as second nature which helps to lay the groundwork for a better life.

My three habits from this year were:

* work out everyday

* do something “interesting” everyday

* read everyday

As I look back on the year I can definitely say I’m in better shape, more active in finding cool stuff to do, and reading more books than I have in my adult life.

YMMV, but I suggest focusing on the little things that point you towards where you want your life to go.
Zelle must have brought something to the table the others didn't: My bank provides an interface for Zelle on their website, letting you send payments without having to go through creating or linking an account. It never had any of the others.
How We Obscure the Common Plight of Workers
The concern many MtG players have is that throwing a bunch of other IP crossovers into the card game has a variety of potentially negative effects:

- established players who enjoyed the theme of Magic in the first place might be turned off

- it creates an increasing number of products and therefore product fatigue, which is something I’ve heard lots of players mention and was even brought up by Hasbro themselves in a financial call

- it adds to the increasingly confusing legality of cards/formats. Some crossovers have alternate in-universe versions. Many don’t. Some are commander legal. Some are commander and modern legal. Some have their own draft environments. Knowing what cards you can play in a given format is getting obnoxious to track.

- They clearly seem to be introducing new players to Magic, but they are also clearly driving old Magic players away. The question is how persistent are the new players? Do they stick around, or does their interest wane when their favorite crossover franchise isn’t getting new cards anymore?

I personally think it’s too soon to tell, but a lot of the moves strike me as very reminiscent of the types of moves that eventually are identified as enshitificafion as management tries to extract as much short term juice as possible in a way that damages long term health. I’d love to be wrong.
Excellent. Read that entire article and still was not sure what Google was pitching.

It actually sounds very useful and cool, I just completely did not get that from the article.
I prefer the Inception - Time version: https://youtu.be/dX25PDBb708
Are there any good write ups for LLM prompt engineering for beginners? Would love to recommend something to our Javascript developers - like this repo is great, but the basics are definitely getting lost in the python code
If they cared I think they should adopt a combination of Valve's review graphs, and stackexchange's system of upvoting privileges.

That combined with moderation is a pretty good system.
I increasingly think we need personal criminal liability for everyone in the management chain before this will end.

As long as you can cash out your options before the reckoning, maybe even spin a division out to go bankrupt, there are just too many people who’ll chase the larger number. You need the guy who gets that internal memo to think that if he doesn’t report it to the EPA, he’ll spend the rest of his life wondering whether the knock on the door is the FBI.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
> I always struggle to articulate what that would mean

I think that's the first step to take. Finding, and articulating, three/five things, you'd like to have done by the end of next year.

From there on you can step backwards, define goals inbetween and find the things you need to do.

One of my goals, two years ago, was "get rid of the debt and save some money". So I broke that down to "pay off a credit" and "save money". I then took my yearly bonus to pay off most of the credit, set up a monthly payment plan and waited for the credit to be zero. Great goal inbetween, great feeling, too. Then I took the money I saved each month and put it in another account, now I've saved up almost three months of expenses. In February I'll hit that goal and switch the savings plan to actually invest some money in ETFs/solid stocks and save more money up that way.

Feels good. Small steps. Lots of them. And no complicated "if this then that and also that"-stuff. Just doing.
Also the closely related Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon
Pretty sure the shock was in the other direction - "how can they be paid so low", which, seems obvious to me?

edit: nevermind, I see there was outrage in both directions. Obviously the people saying they are paid too much are out of touch with reality.
> Department Store Sales 3-month average was $17B in 2008 and is now down to under $11B. It's a bloodbath. It has been steadily trending down since 2008.

No comment on the rest of your post, but I suspect this particular metric has more to do with the rise of online retailers and less to do with falling purchasing power.
Suddenly they all vigorously turn pro-privacy.
>Chrome

That's a funny way of spelling Firefox
As a fellow overthinker who also struggles to articulate my goals, I find it easier to think about incremental improvements than overarching goals.

For example, I want to become a better systems programmer, but I'm not really sure what to do with that desire. Goals are hard. But when I see C++ code, I know that I tremble at the sight of syntax I'm not familiar with, and that uncertainty is much easier to act on. I still won't "know" C++ in its entirety after an afternoon Googling session, but I definitely made some progress
But those awful feelings follow negative thoughts and ideas.

The alternative would be awful feelings appearing out of nowhere.
I was surprised when found out some of the most successful indie games are made in haxe - Dead Cells, Papers Please,
Dicey Dungeon, Northgard, rymdkapsel etc.
Japan and ASEAN vow to widen cooperation after 50 years of ties
In China, there was a case of baby formula execs (Edit: pointed out to me further down thread that the execs were only jailed for 5-15 years with Sanlu's general manager receiving a life sentence, and the people executed very those directly responsible for tainting the product mentioned) knowingly selling product that was harmful and led to tens of thousands of hospitalizations and a handful of deaths. They were executed. Perhaps this type of incentive will lead to less harmful outcomes vs limited liability and the corporate veil.

At some point, you’re doing enough harm knowingly at scale that monetary damages and prison are insufficient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal
Pretty bad fit IMO. It fits the US as much as the Soviet Union.
>I would never actually use start menu to search the web

You mean like every other person that has ever lived?
Sounds like you want a perfect, not good, set of goals. It's infeasible to choose a perfect setup up front -- try an agile/iterative approach. I think you're smart, so I believe in your ability to pivot later if you change your mind. And it won't be a disaster or embarrassment if you choose wrong.

You know how great writers say they clear their writer's block by just starting?
Up to and including capital punishment. If something like this causes deaths for example, it should be treated like murder.
Start with something like Phind.com or AutoExpert for ChatGPT Plus:

- https://phind.com

- https://chat.openai.com/g/g-LQHhJCXhW-autoexpert-chat

Phind has a whole Discord channel and they're pretty focused on building a great tool aimed at programmers. It's approaching pinned-tab status for me.
Being banned in the EU as we speak.
List of Light Sources
They work if you are the kind of person who is ok with living in an authoritarian place like Singapore.

I personally am not, I like personal freedom. However, there are actually many people in the world who would feel fine living in Singapore-level authoritarianism.
Are you under the impression that the utility business is wildly profitable? I’d like to disabuse you of that notion. Not everything is a reinforcement of your priors.
No they haven't as you can read in this article
In fact, in the US, there are situations where marriage is a penalty: See old people divorcing because one needs expensive long term care, and Medicaid only takes over after all the marriage's assets have been completely drained.
This seems like a great practical framework- I've noticed that establishing habits like the ones you mention are the only reliable first step to long projects in my life.

Very curious about what you would do on a daily bases that would qualify as "interesting"? Any particularly rewarding "interesting" activities? I'd love to inject some routine variety in my life.
> Not every wrong assumption comes from emotion

I'm not sure what you mean by that. Every assumption right or wrong comes from emotion. The problem tends to come when people let their emotions are left completely unchecked. "Bankers are taking advantage of me. My banker is an X minority. Therefore, we need to exterminate X minority" indeed has a nonzero degree of logic, but it's not the sort of reasoning 99% of people would come up with in a vacuum.

A counterpoint is that sometimes an irrational degree of emotion may be required to do extraordinary things like soldiers being brainwashed to fight even a defensive war, building a cathedral that fitting of the magnificence of god, or even a lot of cult-like startups.
> You have no proof of that. This is also pretty much ahistorical model of the world. Wishful thinking won't bring peace.

This makes no sense. I am stating the consensus of the world. Ignoring for a moment that israel's terror bombing of palestinian civilians is even less likely to bring peace, the primary goal in the first place is not to "bring peace", it is to stop the ongoing killing of civilians happening as we speak. Your personal goal of "peace" is lower priority, and we (the world) may be willing to discuss it after the aforementioned higher-priority goal is achieved. But I see no reason to reward terror-bombing of palestinian civilians, especially while the terror-bombing of palestinian civilians is still ongoing. You are free to try to convince the world otherwise, as is israel, but thusfar, you have both failed at the task.

You can disagree, but righteousness is defined by the majority here, and the majority of the world says israel needs to stop its terror bombing campaign against palestinian civilians, regardless of any questions you or israel may have for what comes next. Indeed, whatever your answer to your question (what should israel or palestine do when attacked by the other), "continuing to terror-bomb civilians in palestine" isn't an acceptable answer, as judged by the world. You will have to come up with a new one if you wish to no longer be a villain in this story, according to the world.

>you are dodging my question by replying with questions.

In order to answer your question, I'm first asking clarifying questions which you yourself are dodging. Your dodging of clarifying questions, combined with your history of short, combative posts, illustrates that you aren't interested in clarity, or an answer, or even honest discussion, but rather just to argue. Well, you can continue arguing with yourself, frothing with rage at the fact that the world rejects israel's shallow excuses for terror-bombing palestinian civilians and executing israeli civilian hostages found in gaza. I'll no longer be a party to your bad faith attacks and arguments.
In those times read bitesize snackable blogs or learning resources that you can spend 5 minutes on each eg [1,2], or maybe take that time to go sideways and broaden your reading. For example most New Scientist pieces are about that length.

[1] https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/
[2] https://css-tricks.com/
I go with ATONE GIRLS. Gets me E, T, A, I, N, O, S, R, L, which according to the first link in Google (https://www3.nd.edu/~busiforc/handouts/cryptography/letterfr...) is 9 of the 11 most common letters in English.
> getting your app to run on other platforms is as simple as embedding your operating system into WASM and putting it in their browser

???
Ever wonder if things like this lead to companies intentionally avoiding environmental research? We need to find some way to align our interests, this seems like a dead end path. We are unintentionally incentivizing the disruption of environmental research.
How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time
I can relate to this point of view. The highways have been somewhat of a barometer for mental health weather.

The best thought leaders can do is not participate in the hate. Drive the speed limit, let cars out, be courteous and non reactive on the roads.

Each small good example plants a seed that won’t immediately resolve our worldly issues but will lead others to water in due time with persistence.
>fMRI-to-image

Not so impressive compared to EEG.
MISRA isn't typically used in infotainment systems.

It's used in safety critical systems, like the car computer, which manages the monitoring and adjustment of fuel to oxygen mixture in the engine.
"I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one"
Yeah, I’m generally opposed to the death penalty on the grounds of not being able to undo mistakes but if we’re going to have it on the books, I’d have a hard time saying that shouldn’t be an option. We’ve charged plenty of people for killing a single person, and the numbers for food safety can be a lot more than that.
I suspect two of the many reasons for GNU usage were

(1) crazy command options (it only takes one or two to ease your workflow over the what the system distro supplied, plus the same behavior for the same flags across platforms)

(2) the lawsuit (probably an understatement - it was Serious back then)

Edit: added "usage" for clarity, s/statment/statement
The GBA micro was about as small as a usable console could get. The older I get, the less accepting of these limitations I've become. The Vita and PSP was a good median in twrms of practically.
My intuition is that bits are pure matter. Data Values are bits with an interpretation, already more than pure matter.
Just run stable lm zephyr https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/stablelm-zephyr-3b-GGUF
Apparently it has already happened https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/03/2... TL/DR: batteries are cheaper than paying an electrical to upgrade a 120 line to 240.
That could describe most of Swiss society as well. Endless discussions on every single topic in order to reach a "consensus". While superficially democratic and beneficial, you do see the limits of this approach when things are serious
I agree that sometimes counties have too many permits and requirements for rural areas but largely in any populated town, it makes sense to prevent off grid buildings. Similar to if you had a home without sewer hookups or permitted septic.

On the back feeding side, I am not sure. While in many areas it’s not as financially lucrative to add back to the grid, it also is a much more realistic number. For too long areas like CA had models that meant homes were not contributing to the transmission they could access and were being paid closer to retail rates instead of generation rates.

So I don’t think it’s quite as one sided as you paint it.
Nix. It's the best I've seen for this use case so far. I pin the dependencies using flakes and make container images with specific packages I need

It's not 100% perfect for managing exact versions because you update nixpkgs and many packages update as a result, but you can pretty easily pin multiple versions of it or override the version for a specific package
The article is about a gap growing since the 60s.

The first election to require voters to show an ID was the local election in England this year.

So whatever is the cause of the growing gap discussed in the article it is not voter IDs.
Why advocate for killing criminals when it's far cheaper to cage them for life?

Fear of escape and second life as an evil business exec? Eye for an eye morality? Understanding death to be a greater deterrent than life in a cage? (How do you reconcile that with the popularity of "death-by-cop"?)
Well - there doesn't have to be a Sam + Worldcoin monopoly on these things. Anyone else could launch a similar proof / ID system and websites and the like could accept any they feel like accepting.
> But please, stop thinking the answer is more engineers.

The answer is to hire more product-minded engineers.
I recently heard someone say their favorite cure to writer's block is to read more and do research.

I found something profound about that. Writing is hard when you don't have anything to write about, and maybe there's something analogous to be said for goal setting.
Would love to know why they aren't working on the data API.
Suggestions files: a simple, human-readable format for changes to text files
They might get back out and are a known quantity. The premium is for assurance. Death at the hands of the state and your fellow citizens should be an absolute last resort, but still an option depending on severity of offense and when determination of guilt is ironclad. I understand the position of people who don’t believe in the death penalty, but I don’t agree with them. There are terrible humans amongst us. Everyone makes the world a better place: some by entering it, some by leaving it.
Be aware of the Maximizer vs Stisficer tradeoff. You're like me - you want to explore every option to make sure you take the best path. Often it isn't worth it - just choose a popular route that does basically what you want.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210329-do-maximisers-...

The other thing is a bias for action. Start doing something rather than looking at courses and blogs that teach you how to do the thing. Its easy to take 100 different courses which in the end just make you confused about what to do.
It’s trivial under current systems. But once you start placing higher value on verified identities, those millions of bombers are going to turn out to be a lot smaller.
The prompt techniques in this submission are not for beginners. You can get >80% of the way there with using a simple system prompt such as:

You are an expert JavaScript programmer. Write a JavaScript function based on the user input.

You must obey ALL the following rules:
- Only respond with the JavaScript function.
- Never put in-line comments or docstrings in your code.

And then editing iteratively based on the output to whatever your desired use case is. If you want to test ChatGPT system prompts directly in a UI, you can do that in the OpenAI Playground: https://platform.openai.com/playground?mode=chat
Politics happens whenever there are more than 2 people :). OP above must be really lucky to have not seen politics at all or one of those beneficiaries of politics who are like "Politics ... wut? nah"
Base64 doesn't need padding so that one's easy.

No special characters... I mean it's true, but there's not many places I'm worried about inability to mix in some - and _.

Base58 also avoids a couple confusable characters, but that only matters when copying by hand, and if I'm copying by hand I'd rather use base32.
It depends how much money you have. If you have deep pockets and lots of patience, then no. If you want to properly incentivise someone then of course. And as for learning advanced coding while trying to start a business, thanks, that made me laugh.