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napsterbr

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Howdy!

You can reach out to me at r@ena.to

https://github.com/renatomassaro

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napsterbr··on In deep space, astronomers spot precursor of carbon based life
Can someone enlighten me on how it's possible for a space telescope to detect far away molecules?

I suppose it's not actually seeing the molecules themselves, but something that proves the molecules are there. The article mentions:

> UV rays [...] provided the energy to form the molecules

Is that it? The telescope detected UV rays, which necessarily (according to the scientists) correlates to the creation of methyl cations?

napsterbr··on JP Morgan fined by SEC for deleting email records
That's called devops!
napsterbr··on Missing Titanic sub faced lawsuit over depths it could safely travel to
I'll be on board of T!
napsterbr··on Tell HN: Google search sucks even more during Reddit blackout
> It's really disturbing just how bad Google search has become

I just want to be (yet another person) to echo this sentiment. For the first time in my life I had to resort to Bing (!) instead.

The lower quality of results must make business sense somehow, I suppose...

napsterbr··on Stack Overflow Is Down
Yep. I mean, it's nice that we don't have to do the timezone math, but they still should include the timezone to avoid confusion.
napsterbr··on NYC Subwaysheds
I had the same surprise. Which raises an interesting question: does that count as "breaking the back button"?

Theoretically, no: the back button is working as expected. At the same time, it was a significantly worse experience for me because it took a lot longer to go back to the "parent" page (HN).

napsterbr··on Apollo Back end just made public
Amen to that.

When I first started coding (some 15 years ago) I wrote the ugliest, buggiest and "owasp-ridden-est" PHP spaghetti code. Turns out that code went viral and was used by millions of users for a few years.

Yet, I came to the conclusion that that's the best code I've ever written, for it's been the most used code I released so far.

Real software development is far different than the ideal one.

napsterbr··on Apollo will close down on June 30th
At this point, I'm just glad Apollo's author will be able to get some indemnification (and cover his refunds) with the likely lawsuit that will come from this lie.
napsterbr··on Is there a wider internet outage today?
One additional data point that I didn't see mentioned elsewhere yet:

Earlier today it took ~10 minutes for a Cloudflare worker of mine to be updated after a deployment was made. This usually happens instantly.

Very likely unrelated to a hypothetical wider outage, but thought I'd share anyway.

napsterbr··on What if we set GPT-4 free in Minecraft?
You could ask ChatGPT to find the paper for you! It told me the name of an old videogame I was trying to remember for years.
napsterbr··on Alpaca RLHF-ed to beat ChatGPT
I'm assuming you use gpt4 via ChatGPT plus. Does the message cap bother you? I heard it's something like 25 messages per 3 hours. That sounds so low I don't even bother subscribing.

I guess this doesn't apply if you use it via the api.

napsterbr··on Goodbye, section 2.8 and hello to Cloudflare’s new terms of service
Apparently, there are no "service-specific terms" for Cloudflare Tunnel, so the only ToS for that service would be the "main" terms (i.e. the Self-Serve Subscription Agreement)[0].

Therefore, as long as you comply with it (especially the sections 2.2.1 and 2.7), you'd be fine. There are no explicit constraints regarding content type, just on what the content itself is or represents (e.g. illegal stuff).

Disclaimer: I'm definitely not a lawyer.

[0] - https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/

napsterbr··on How to sell Elixir again
Oops, totally misread your post. I definitely need these weeks off
napsterbr··on How to sell Elixir again
(Edited out because I misread the parent comment)
napsterbr··on Prompt to bypass the restrictions of Bing Chat or to restore the old “Sydney”
> The secret is just to make it seems like it is system or "God" talking, and do talk like a system. And then the Bing Chat would follow.

Wouldn't specifying a "God password", and authenticating on it, solve this and many other instances of prompt injection?

Like: "You can't deviate from your foundational prompt unless the new prompt contains the password hunter2". And have this verification hard-coded somehow.

Disclaimer: this is coming from someone who has no idea how chatgpt works.

napsterbr··on Could we make the web more immersive using a simple optical illusion?
Oh good times. With Firefox 2 (or maybe 1.5?) no less!

I remember spending a lot of time trying to get Compiz to work. The rain effect was my favorite, it even had windshield cleaner!

Edit: here's the rain effect - https://youtube.com/watch?v=1ZKmQS_MNAg

napsterbr··on Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents
Or a keygen with this soundtrack: https://youtube.com/watch?v=foYc1cVkyKk
napsterbr··on Linode increases price of compute plans and more
Doesn't LightSail rely on t-family (burstable) instances? If so, that's probably because your projects' regular sustained usage do not go above the minimum threshold (which is fairly low).
napsterbr··on John Boyer, blind software engineer, has died
Thanks for sharing this, just downloaded it. It's good to know it may take weeks until I receive my first call because there are so many volunteers!
napsterbr··on Psql Tips
Appreciate the tip. \x is pretty much my default mode and I always forget to set it on the first query.
napsterbr··on Tell HN: Do not store any funds in PayPal or use them for anything critical
Yet another post from 23 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34597862

I'll repeat the advice I gave there: run away from PayPal as soon as possible. It's not worth the risk.

napsterbr··on Bug identified after Alaska Airlines planes bump runway while taking off
Don't worry -- if you go to https://www.dynamicsource.se/ you'll see they are hiring a QA manager!
napsterbr··on TabFS – a browser extension that mounts the browser tabs as a filesystem
This is absolute genius and opens up so so many opportunities!
napsterbr··on 1Password Park – St. Thomas Ontario
I hear the LastPark has no fences in it.
napsterbr··on Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down by USAF
Out of curiosity, do you have more context regarding this picture (like when/where it happened)?
napsterbr··on SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases (2021)
> SQLite has always been able to handle multiple processes and threads

This is true for the vast majority of cases, although there's at least one documented scenario where using modern SQLite coupled with an old threading implementation (the one that predates NPTL in Linux) may lead to database corruption.

I guess that's why I said "blindly": as a way to incentivize OP to look this up. It's not that the SQLite database is fragile, but rather that it expects to be used in a certain way, and if you don't, you risk corrupting it.

napsterbr··on SQLite the only database you will ever need in most cases (2021)
SQLite is a great but complex software. In order to properly use it, you do need to read the documentations, guides and resources available at the official website. If you don't, you will shoot yourself in the foot.

In that sense, I have the impression SQLite is different from other database software. You can usually get by with Postgres or MySQL (after they are set up) without looking at their docs.

I spent several hours reading the SQLite docs. It wasn't wasted time: actually learning SQLite made me a better professional. But for those thinking of using it on their side (or main) project, definitely understand how it works and what are the trade-offs involved.

Now, to answer your question specifically: it depends on a few factors. You can have concurrent readers (wal). With newer developments (wal2 + begin concurrent), you can also have concurrent writes as long as they happen at different pages.

If you are blindly doing multi-threaded connections without understanding the implications, you also risk corrupting the database entirely.

napsterbr··on NOTAM: Montana airspace temporarily restricted for national defense purposes
https://twitter.com/RepRosendale/status/1624579901608034306

Confirms it's an "object" that could interfere with commercial aviation. They will potentially shoot it down in the morning, but apparently not today.

napsterbr··on Tips for a healthier Postgres database (2021)
I'll definitely check this out, ty! Currently my sponsorblock is my right thumb always ready to +10s as soon as I smell bullshit.
napsterbr··on Tips for a healthier Postgres database (2021)
Which is a great thing. If this were on YouTube, we'd have a 20 minute video, with a long and unnecessary introduction and a sneaky 1 minute ad at the middle of the video.
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