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1. There was zero downtime - no dropped requests, no 5xx errors. There _was_ a latency spike that was carefully tuned to be within timeout limits for our customers, but we dropped zero requests from the cut over.

2. Yes, it's very tedious, and in its own way painful. We also did a MongoDB upgrade recently and, while we still took the time to verify our workloads on the more recent versions, because Mongo is an AP system, it's trivial to failover to the new version and move on.

That said, the application-level logic changes were not particularly complicated. The script to orchestrate the cutover was application-specific, and I think for migrations like this you have to do the work to get it done right.

I'd also add that the tedium of doing it right, while ideally avoidable, is precisely why customers pay us to do handle this complexity on their behalf. Sometimes you've just got to do the work. They want a service that's up all the time. While no one can guarantee that, we strive for it within reason, and even then going to "unreasonable" lengths to have a better customer experience is exactly what makes many products unreasonably good.

Stretching the work out and taking each step carefully did avoid critical mistakes. We had a few missteps along the way, and we were able to rollback without critically affecting the service. Doing an in-place upgrade, trying to minimize the time spent on this problem, would have been far more risky than spreading that risk out over the whole process we took. Of course, each team needs to figure out what's going to work for their situation & constraints.

3. We do use Aurora, but our instance was old enough to not be supported for zero-downtime patch upgrades (ZDP) which does not handle major version upgrades. They also recently released blue/green deployments for Aurora Postgres clusters, which may be a way to do what we did without having to resort to as many changes.
It's absolutely crazy to me how many tools are in common use for k8s templating which would all be wiped away with any decent macro system.
We published a paper a while back in a genetic programming conference, and before the paper had been published (only the title was announced) Schmidhuber guessed that we had not cited his work. He very publically put us through the wringer for not citing him as the inventor of the concept were were examining. In fact we had not cited him: but among our dozen or so previous examples, we had cited two others which long predated his work and were the actual seminal papers. He had failed to cite them himself.
Good story!

However, I disagree with Yudkowsky in that we only get one shot at playing the game.

Here in the mucky real world, we're going to have a lot of chances at playing this game. The interaction between us and the AI is going to keep on going for thousands (?) of years and in millions (?) of different games.

Maybe it's because I've been reading a lot of philosophy recently. But I'm thinking that Yudkowsky is a bit too myopic here. Life and all it's sandy grit isn't even game-ifiable to me. There are no win/lose states. Yes, even death is variably considered a loss at many times in history. The entire idea of an 'end' here in the real world is not 'certain', or if that is even something to avoid.
What is it with this thread? You're the second person to bring up the most wild stuff.

When I walk I kick up dust. And I breathe. I guess I'm also not emissions free even when I cycle? Brake dust and all that?
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alcoholism is a particularly harsh curse in the North of Europe!

A tourist went to Edinburgh Scotland for the holidays. So much whiskey and pub life all around. Herbal tea in hand, the tourist said "wow, its hard to get used to how much drinking there is here!" and the reply from a friendly local "hey this is nothing, you should see the Irish! they are certainly the worst drinkers". SO the tourist moved along to the big city Hamburg, where money is obvious and the ships are as large as anything in the world. In downtown bars, the working class and the financiers are all taking their fill. The tourist after going to the gym says "Germans in Hamburg seem to drink quite seriously" and a well-dressed local said "oh this is nothing, the Russians! the Russians are the worst drinkers by far" .. so the fast International train is waiting in the big Hamburg station, and the tourist goes to Copenhagen, land of the Little Mermaid and Christiana bike shops. Obviously beer is the fifth food group, and red noses are common. The tourist makes the same observation at the town square. A local replies "oh yes, Denmark loves their beer, but the Norwegians ! what a sight, they are certainly the worst alcoholics overall"

The tourist walked over an empty package of cigarettes and said "they are all a bunch of tankards to me"
Both, protect workers of today, and government r&d investments into ways to make their lives even better.
I won't go as far as to say Atlanta is commuter friendly, but the past decade has seen lots of improvements in greenway construction, the expansion of the beltline, connecting different parts of the city. I hope it keeps going that directions because that is where I am looking to end up eventually.

I used to cycle down Peachtree Street from Buckhead to Piedmont Park...it was a harrowing experience.
Intel marketing emphasizes AI (and iGPU) after it became clear that their Meteor Lake generation would not meet its efficiency targets and wouldn’t significantly improve upon previous generations.
We do. And my office used to be at Bryant Park... I spent a year not stepping into Times Sq, while working right next to it.
Daylight: The first blue-light free computer
people _think_ it's what they want because it's all they know.

cities should be pushing for alternatives because they're better in literally every possible way, except convenience.

better for our safety, for our health, for the environment, for less noise, for the cost, for a sense of community, for the saved space, and so on.
Everyone using fiat backed centralised stablecoins these days like USDT and USDC. Not only do they have blacklists but they can also burn your balance + they are fully upgradeable aka they can add/remove any functionality they want any time :p

The blacklists need to exist as per regulations though.
I mean, 99% of countries absolutely not. 1 big wealthy country, absolutely yes.
The comment you're replying to is not talking about court-enforced liabilities. If the pull out of FSD they're basically Mercedes with a 5 year lead on manufacturing. That is categorically not a trillion dollar company and the house of cards leveraged against Tesla stock crumbles.
I think in modern times these two can be used interchangeably, even in Linux. I listed it because it adds to the terminology confusion.
Exactly. Maybe I’m just a lightweight, but 4 beers is into ‘drunk’ levels for me. Doing that 2 or 3 times a week? Of course that’s going to have health impacts.
Show HN: Tail.select 1.0.0 is out (replace your dropdowns now)
The tail.select library has been rewritten in vanilla JavaScript, redesigned with a pixel-perfect design, and ready to beautify and extend your HTML <select> fields… again!
Umm, I'm familiar with one of those locations that closed. It had very little parking, was extremely understaffed (1 active cashier working slowly...), and didn't have much foot traffic. There weren't any bags to put my stuff in when I checked out. It was such a poor experience I never went back there, despite it being the Target nearest to me. I was zero percent surprised when I heard it closed for good. Businesses and business franchises fail all the time in cities, Target is no exception.

In other words the press release is just dodging responsibility.
>Vs. the CDC's current upper limit for "moderate" male drinking is 2 drinks/day, and they're very quick to specify that "a" beer is at most 12 oz. of 5% ABV (or 8 oz. of 7% ABV, or ...). One 16 oz. pint of 7.5% is two drinks.

Doing maths when drunk is fun, and the cdc be damned.
Nobody understands the difference between one drink, and two drinks = one drink, as well.
We all work in pints and litres. What damage/ fun is a 500ml of 9% beer costing me? Half a pint of 4.8%? Nobody asks for 8oz of beer.
Do they......?
Pope Francis calls for binding global treaty to regulate AI
Seems to be suggesting that FAS is some kind of adaptation. I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure that FAS is an adverse effect, rather than a response.
Seems to be working again now.
Most states allow for "taking bags of money from detainees" under civil asset forfeiture.
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Were autonomous cars available I'm certain people would prefer them over all of the above by a large margin.
I think I chose my terminology poorly. I was avoiding the term "tailored" because to me that could imply something custom made (e.g. taking someone's measurements and then making a suit or dress pattern specifically to fit them) whereas I mean something made individually but using an off the shelf pattern.

However, to your question: To me I don't see a lot of advantage in hand sewing for most applications. However, that's not the area of sewing that I specialize in, so someone who was really into it would likely have a different opinion! That being said, I can think of some specialized situations where hand sewing would be necessary or have an advantage, and I'm sure there are others that I don't know about:

There are certain specialized hand stitches that can produce unique effects. For example, blind stitches (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_stitch) can be used to join fabric without a visible stitch thread.

Smocking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smocking) is a specialized hand sewing technique for creating ruffles or gathers in fabric; either to make them form fitting (without using elastic or knit fabrics) or for decoration. A lot of the characters in House of the Dragon wear clothing with gathers in them that sort of look like scales; that's smocking.

Certain things like sewing on sequins can be done with a machine but it's a machine that most people don't own. My favorite example of this is sashiko (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sashiko). Sashiko is a beautiful Japanese style of embroidery originally developed to reenforce fabrics. However, it is generally done using a running stitch (the basic up and down stitch with a needle such that there are visible gaps between each stitch) which most sewing machines can't do.

The most obvious application is historical reenactment. That could be done either to achieve a period appropriate effect (for example one of the techniques I described above) or just to maintain authenticity.
I just use sourcegraph it's faster than cloning usually.
I have an Audible membership, they've seemingly given it to me as some sort of free inclusion with the membership, if that's useful to anyone else in the same boat.
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It'd definitely be possible although, if you're not already using a VPN, I doubt it'd be easier. You could do it a few ways, but the gist would be running the VPN endpoint and the web app in the "same place" (same machine, same network, etc.) and restrict access to the web app from anywhere else.
That is a great question. The injustice was that his leg was bitten off by a whale. But the perfectly valid rejoinder would be "well that's just an event, not an injustice, as it was done by a non-moral creature because a whale can't be moral". But that is exactly why Moby-Dick's is so unique: the "bad guy" in the novel is not a human, but the universe itself. A tragic event happened to Ahab and bears resentment against a universe that allows it. Ahab seeks not to defeat man, but nature (and one could say by extension the Creator).
With my browser full-screened and set at 133% zoom for the sake of my eyes, literally 100% of the screen real estate is either ad content (the largest section of which appears to be trying to load a broken image or video, so it's just a huge black rectangle with a tiny missing-image icon in the center) or the navbar, header banner and section header. I can't see any of the actual article without scrolling down.
Doing nothing kills the most people. Progress is always fatal.
Street fighter isn't bad at all but some games and some characters are just absurd for no particular reason. Ivy in later Soul Calibur games is a good example, she has two command throws with pointlessly arcane inputs that even have a second, better mode when you do them frame perfect. So everyone who plays Ivy just grinds and grinds until they can do it in their sleep. There's no particular balance reason for that (also Soul Calibur has a block button so the usual balance rules don't apply), it's just a "you must be this tall to play this character" barrier.
> The American empire is a long way off collapse.

The 2020 election dispute could have turned out a lot worse than it actually did. What if Mike Pence had lost his cojones and decided to do Trump’s bidding, and then Congressional Republicans and the conservative SCOTUS majority decided to go along with it? What if blue state governors then turned around and said that the federal government has been taken over in a coup, and ordered their states to reject its authority? 2021 might have ended up rather resembling 1861.

Thankfully, in our timeline, none of that happened. But, 2024, 2028, 2032, etc, all represent opportunities for “just like 2020 but worse”. Trump is going to look for a more pliant running mate this time around, and at the moment he’s ahead in the polls. Even though, if he does win in 2024, he won’t be able to run in 2028, his attitude may well be “the election is only fair if my guy wins”

Rejecting election results risks becoming normalised, increasing the odds that future Republicans will emulate Trump in this way even long after Trump has shuffled off this mortal coil; and also that Democrats may eventually succumb to the temptation to copy this page of the Republican playbook.
the_sleaze9 asks "what negative effects are there?"

The partner one chooses: after 4 beers one may mate with anyone having a appropriately-matching part!
“Oh, we are living in an environment that has a really strong oxidative stressor in it. I need to program the offspring to be able to adapt to that kind of environment”

Wow. Just wow. And people are surprised why it’s so easy to make people categorically distrust “science”. These “researchers” have no sense of academic integrity.
Maybe for you. Moving to Finland and seeing that a six pack cost as much as a month's worth of breakfast was all the motivation I needed to kick the stuff.
The linked video is /extremely/ opinionated and contains much misinformation. Just need to level set on that first --

> Would be interesting to see if methane gas emissions can be actually detected

Obviously. But unlike in the video you need to actually use gas detectors instead of a thermal camera and look around the wellheads and gathering pipelines where the gas /is/ and not at some random compressor's engine exhaust heat. Fortunately the folks who maintain these things have qualified engineers who actually know how to use their equipment and the agencies who regulate them have standards that are actively monitored and enforced without requiring the oversight of well meaning old ladies with too much free time.

> why this has to be done in a residential area

Because it's where the field is, and you have to build gathering systems where the wells are. There is even more oil and gas infrastructure crammed into urban Los Angeles than there is in DFW though.
In that setup, how does your phone know to access your Pi over the VPN, but use the regular connection for everything else? Subnet mask?

Edit: any pointers on how to set this up would be appreciated! Maybe I’m using the wrong search engine, but I haven’t found this scenario laid out clearly, yet.
I think the core issue is that you have no rights over other people's labor. If I want to share something in an ephemeral way, I should be able to - and have the power of the state to support me

If you create something physical, say a popup art installation, it's trivial to dismantle it and it stops existing (other maybe in some photos or video). When it comes to text the same isn't as simple and it requires a social compact (ie laws)

As for gaslighting, you can archive things without redistributing them. You can just publish hashes of what people published and only redistribute/republish in the context of proving someone said something
> The is really no fundamental reason it can't be as good as a GPU, if GPU is the best architecture it would just be a GPU.

There is a reason, and that reason is called memory bandwidth.
It's not just the average jury, but prosecutors, judges, mayors, city councils. Police get a pass for so much misconduct on an individual and institutional level it boggles the mind.
Show HN: Emoji Flashcards for Learning Languages
Emoji Flashcards is a flashcard generator for Anki; It pairs an Emoji + a translation + TTS audio in many languages, and turns them into studyable flashcards!

I tend to kind of dabble in a lot of languages, just to help me get around when I visit places. And I think it's quite helpful to just grind a bit of words to get some familiarity. Anki has been a great utility for that in the past, but flashcard quality between different languages tends to vary a lot! So I'm hoping that this open-source project could make things a bit easier for me.

Primarily built with Deno, with initial translations and TTS provided by Azure. This project just generates json and audio files, so I'm hoping to slowly update these over time with better audio and translations by people who know more about the languages than me. But yeah! Hopefully it's useful!

Source and translations: https://github.com/bpevs/emoji_flashcards
Regular drinking exercises your liver and keeps it at peak performance.

(I am not a doctor.)
> Alcohol can affect fertility by altering sperm count, size, shape, and motility.

> Animal studies have provided clear evidence that offspring sired by ethanol-exposed males in the absence of maternal ethanol exposure showed more adverse behavioral development11, including increased risk of anxiety- and depression-like behaviors7,10, increased in activity and sensorimotor integration deficits, as well as decreased balance, coordination, and short-term motor learning

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05611-2

https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Press-Office/Press-releases...
Don’t bother. I used to live in a small EU country as well.

Even in the tiny rural village I lived in the last couple of years before I moved to the US, they did pretty much what you’re talking about (with the details being slightly different). Still, in true US fashion, this problem is deemed “uniquely American” and thus can’t benefit from the plethora of wheels invented overseas to solve this issue.

In my case, the fiber was paid for 50% by the municipality and 50% by a group of ISPs accessible for any ISP that would like to offer services, only realized if at least x amount of households would sign a promise they’d sign up for a contract with one of the ISPs for at least a year once infrastructure was completed.

This was easily accomplished because the ISPs offered a €30/month 1Gbps symmetrical connection in an area with shitty sub-10Mbps DSL that was at least twice that price and expensive asymmetrical DOCSIS at more than triple that price.

Here in the US, I’m in a rural area where the “best option” is 1Gbp down/20Mbp up at 4x that price.

Also, don’t underestimate how much people in the US hate taxes and governments spending money on useful things.
My area has a volunteer firefighter department that cannot handle the entire area and has been trying to expand its tiny little footprint for the last decade.

Aside from the lack of equipment, the firefighters can’t even park at their fire station and instead have to park at a paid parking spot.

Just last month, there was a ballot initiative to raise the property taxes by $0.02, averaging to an annual property tax increase of a few dollars, so that they could fund the much-needed expansion of the fire station.

Of course, it failed.
If the county were willing to fund fiber for the community here, there would be riots. Still, at the same time, everyone is always bitching about the internet and the lack of any cellular signal from any of the carriers.
>poor

it's a luxury product, far from the cheapest countertop options.
You need them anyway because almost 100% of the time you’ll be dropping conventional ordnance / paratroopers / perhaps drones in future.
I'd spend most of that hour a day using ChatGPT, Bard and other models.

Learning how to effectively prompt an LLM is an enormous space in its own right - and there's no shortcut for it, you have to actively play with the things.

I've been using them constantly for over a year at this point and I'm still figuring out new tricks and strategies all the time.

Weirdly, knowledge of Machine Learning isn't actually that relevant to getting good at using LLMs to solve problems and build software.

Knowing how to train your own neural network will do little for your ability to build astonishingly cool software on top of existing LLMs.

Knowledge of how LLMs work is useful, because it can help you prompt them more effectively if you understand their limitations, have an idea of their training data etc.

I've seen people (who I respect) argue that deep knowledge of ML can be a disadvantage when exploring LLMs, because it can limit the way you think about and interact with them. Weird but possibly true!
As far as data centers go, it's beautiful. Like something you'd see in a Mission Impossible heist.

https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=oj5FSKsTt7o
If we saw a wholesale exit of our MLI platform teams I would be concerned. But many here are waiting to see where our CTO is going to lead. Eng was spread very thin attempting to commercialize. CTO's approach appears to be much more methodical so it's sort of a - let's give him a chance
> A large percentage of the world's population commutes on mopeds/scooters.

That is due to lack of money not lack of desire.

If you asked the moped/scooter riders if they would rather have a car, they would choose a car.

As countries become more developed and wealthier, more people will be able to afford cars and car use will increase.
I appreciate that. As it happens, I was thinking more for LLMs, but that is a useful link and made it into my bookmarks!
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> Francis called for ethical scrutiny of the "aims and interest of (AI's) owners and developers" warning that some applications of AI "may pose a risk to our survival and endanger our common home," a reference to the earth.

> "In an obsessive desire to control everything, we risk losing control over ourselves; in the quest for an absolute freedom, we risk falling into the spiral of a 'technological dictatorship,'" he wrote.
We do have a checkout flow, and yes, that page is visited by a very small number of users. However, you don't actually think I deleted the checkout flow, do you?
Would be a lot less kids in the (western) world if men were to follow this advice.
It's probably some deep DNA-induced craving. In the summer I barely want to drink. When it's cold... I want to drink. Maybe it's the Slavic chunk of my DNA.
For one thing, the memory on GPUs is generally much faster, with a wider bus than what typical CPUs have. The die sizes can be quite large, too. Putting a full sized CPU in the same package as the accelerator means making some sacrifices.
There's nothing new or special about that 28W number: that's been one of Intel's standard product segments for years.
My RSS reader runs on my home computer and I log into it with Tailscale.
Jsonnet isn’t great either, and has been tried a bunch in the k8s community.

I’ll never understand why we don’t just use a language. I started writing all my k8s config in python and it’s great.