skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
every hospital I’m familiar with has its own backup power generation. Sometimes diesel so they can fully island off the grid for a while (but unsure about water & heat source). And with roll-up generator hookups+contracts if that fails.

Those should be the first requirements before being able to be deemed critical.

Heck, I’m familiar with some orgs that sell their backup generator capacity to be on-call to the grid in the event of supply shortage. To them it’s a profitable load test that reduces the risk of outage.
Better editor performance, more agility, the faster they can test stuff, the faster they can check what works -> better marketing.
I got the DEA call/email--I let our family lawyer deal with it, and it came to nothing. The crazy thing is that these pill presses, from a 3D printing perspective, are an absolutely trivial object. I'm glad that the drug war is going so well that there only remains the persection of certain shapes of plastic. (irony)
Does that even require an LLM? It should be possible through traditional static analysis.
It would be nice if this was a problem with decidablity, but often it is a problem with indeterminacy that is way stronger than classic chaos.

The speed of causality or I information is the limit that is the speed of light.

Even in the case of entanglement, useful information is not ftl, If I write true on one piece of paper and false on another and randomly seed them to Sue and Bob, Sue instantly knows what Bob has as soon as she opens hers. While we teach QM similar to how it was discovered, there are less mystical interpretations that are still valid. Viewing wave function collapse as updating priors vs observer effects works but is pretty boring.

While wormholes are a prediction of the theory, we don't know if the map matches the territory yet. But it is a reason to look for them. But if we do find them it is likely that no useful information will survive the transit through them.

Kerr's rebuke of Hawkings assumption that black hole singularities are anything more than a guess from a very narrow interpretation of probably unrealistic, non rotating, non charged black holes is probably a useful read.

The map simply isn't the territory, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't see how good that map is or look for a better one.
> This would be a backward-incompatible change

Yes, indeed it would.
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Yeah if you start to see the impact of your work on the larger world and worry about your role in it no you didn't.
For context, this relates to an earlier court ruling that Google search was an illegal because it pays others to make Google the default search engine. This isn't about Android or any other thing that might separately be investigated.

So the government wants "structural relief" here meaning to break up Google. But isn't the remedy simply tp make such payments illegal? That's certainly one argument I would make were I Google's lawyers. In addition to just appealing the finding outright of course.

Now I've previously said (and I stand by this) that making such payments illegal would help Google maintain its search dominance. Why? Because Firefox, Apple, etc could no longer extort Apple to make Google the default when that's what most users want anyway.

Mozilla already tried making Bing the default. They went back to Google eventually, probably because Google paid them, but I would guess the user response was probably negative too. That's just a guess however.

Those of us who are old enough will remember the Microsoft antitrust trial and how that really went nowhere in the end. And that was for something that was profoundly much more harmful. There is such a larger barrier to entry to installing a new browser.

And that's the thing: this will take a decade or longer to actually play out. Any administration in the meantime could not have the same resolve or otherwise choose to settle with Google in some form of consent decree that limits their behaviour for a period of time.

So I don't see this going anywhere realistically.
At least that one was beneficial in the long run. It had clear advantages beyond purity.
I remember those things being called "cerebros electrónicos".
Sabine hates LIGO.
That's where I would probably split myself... ~/.cache/appname for cache data, and ~/.???/appname/* for everything else.

This is a huge part of why I like docker-compose and docker in general, I can put everything I need to backup in a set of volume maps next to each other.
Why "very" ?

Also, if you think that the seller is lying to you, can't the drive be opened up and inspected to check for that kind of capability ?
I’m trying to find it but I thought there was a PEP specifically about the relaxed behaviour of except. I might be wrong here.
The consensus is that AMD cards work, but software support is pretty finicky. For my part, even if I wanted an AMD card, I'd either look for a great deal or wait until new nvidia cards just because they will likely push older card prices down. If you don't mind the headaches and papercuts of the software almost working.
> I get the advantage of keeping your content in plaintext for portability

Portability is secondary for me. For me, the primary reason for keeping content in plain text is disaster recovery.

When my systems are down, when my applications aren’t working, if my documentation is also inaccessible, this makes things a lot harder.

If my documentation is primarily in plain text / markdown, it’s really easy to be able to read those docs again, even when everything else has fallen over.
Everything requires an LLM nowadays.
Hurricane Wind Speeds: Understanding the Effect of Model Grids
What will the paper do with the prize money?
Quickly read the thread, isn't "hours" a bit much for what is basically a

sed -Ei 's/^([\t ]*except):/\1 BaseException:/' **/*.py
By the nature of innovation of products on platforms, most HN readers are noisily building experiments on top of things rather than quietly building the stable things underneath.

Pizazz is interesting when hyping the new new things; boring is interesting when hosting the world.

I'd guess it's not that you're not getting any attention, I'd guess the handful of global infra builders don't stand out in your stats.
I don't get it. The article's title is that the ranchers have become allies to jaguars and pumas.

But nothing in the article supports that view. What has changed are cattle ranching practices that reduce the opportunity of attack. Everything that the article talks about is "How did cattle ranchers adapt to an ever present threat of pumas and jaguars without killing them (for reasons that are not well discussed beyond a reference to a government mandate)" rather then "We're best buds now!" or even "We have found utility in the jaguar and puma population that benefits us".

It seems the adapted practices are beneficial on their own, but it sounds like they would be beneficial without jaguars and pumas.
https://theintercept.com/2024/09/19/israel-pager-walkie-talk...
> there are also a lot of us who wonder whether we should be using it for its boringness

Yes.
will there be a tool to upgrade all direct and transitive dependencies of your project to make them work in that new interpreter?
I'm weakly opposed to the PEP, but if your concern is that you're going to lose the ability to catch all exceptions in new code, then that's wrong as discussed in the Backwards Compatibility section, i.e. do "except BaseException".
Bankrupt Fisker says it can't migrate its EVs to a new owner's server
It's reasonable to assume that all users can deal with having to encode their names in 7-bit ASCII. Otherwise you might as well demand that computer systems need to support arbitrary drawings in the name field at which point you might as well not have a name field at all because even most humans won't be able to deal with what you want to put in there.
What input method are you using such that this is even possible? Nearly all English speakers are using keyboards with a single apostrophe key which inserts \x27, and could not insert any of the other quote characters even if they wanted to. As a result, nearly all extant English-language text uses \x27 for both apostrophes and single quotes, and all this Unicode prescriptivism is describing a convention that is clearly not the one that English actually follows.
> The line is where the cost of building is less than that of buying.

Yes, once you factor in transaction costs, integration costs, risks contamination from that 3rd party, risks from lack of value alignment with that 3rd party (remember the Unity game engine?)...

Or, in other words, people that say that phrase you said very often don't know the actual cost of buying. But well, nobody knows the actual cost of building before they try either.
I propose to call this tool 3to760, in memory of 2to3.
Interesting to know. My sample size of two both have the same behaviors, and the GLP subreddits seem to validate the side effects finds as well iirc, but i'm just an outside observer so i've not dug deeply on this.
Unironically I think this would be a good thing for Google. Lots of smart people, and a lot of amazing technology.

If you took away the firehouse of money from search I'm sure a lot of those other parts of the business would find a way to make some incredible products. Think of everything that came out of the Baby Bells
AFAIK this is still the best way to handle money/financial numbers.
> (I still think "orc" is weak though. Something real would be stronger. Even just "beasts". Though, animals are frequently nice. "Monster" is a little metaphorical, but, monsters are also real (in that metaphorical sense). That might be stronger.)

You don’t understand Russian culture, they’ll wear Beast/Monster like a badge of honor. Orcs on the hand has negative connotation, because Orcs are usually bad guys.
Brew Perfect Coffee Right from Your Terminal
You mean they literally say "ok boomer"? If so they are not mature enough for the job. That phrase is equivalent to "fuck off" with some ageism slapped on top and is totally unacceptable for a workplace.
Mobbaroque -> Mob Baroque.

To me that's New York Italian, with lots of marble, gold, and extreme decor. It's a big marble tub with gold fixtures and maybe a couple of statues hanging around for good measure...in a marble/gold/mirrors bath.
> Rolex will not service anything bought through the gray market, rather than directly from an AD.

Do you have a source for this? I was not under the impression that this was the case. I know they won't service any watch that's been altered or modified from factory specs.
Faster turnaround also means more ships can be serviced which means more port fees collected which is good for the port operator.
Those photons aren't superluminal, the are in our past light cone, they were headed out way before the emitter was beyond the horizon.

It gets complicated because the concept of 'now' is a local property and because those objects aren't moving away ftl, space is expanding.
Seems shocking that for $46.3 million they cannot find a way to enable this.

My heart goes out to any Fisker owners who purchased one of these soon to be bricks at full sticker.
Let me check, we're not the first of April, are we ?
The key though is that you don't know how much everyone else puts in. There's a psychological effect of seeing the amount and saying "That's it? I can do better than that." It's basically a silent auction.

> 57th place means nothing.

It means you're on the board and got one higher than 56th place. I'm a top 50 rails contributor, that means something to me and to others.

It's kinda like F1. Some teams are racing for the constructors championship. Some teams are racing for the midfield. All of them are racing for even a single point and to stay in the game.
There are things so complex in science that a human mind can never understand them, but a large neural network can.
It's possible I misread it, but fair point on the .img file call out. I suppose I used to refer to .iso files as a file format given that's how I used to interact with them so that terminology read as natural to me.
So it doesn't matter if it goes through or not, just that someone proposed a change like this is enough to steer you away from Python?

If the change goes through, couldn't you just use older Python versions for those specific projects, or has the Python ecosystem still not figured out how to do this without huge hassles?
This does really not deserve a huge writeup.

Employees (unknowingly(?)) using infected USB drives caused security problems.
Well imagine that.

As several others pointed out the USB ports on the secure serfver should all be
fullly disabled

In addition I would suggest leaving one rewired seemingly availble USB port
that will cause a giant alarm to blare if someone inserted anything into it.

Further all informatin being somehow fed into the secure machines should be
based on simple text based files with no binary components.
To be read by a bastion host with a drive and driver that will only read those specific
files, that it is able to parse succefully and write it out to the destination
target, that I would suggest be an optical worm device that can then be
used to feed the airgapped system.
I am not gonna be defending religions citing some traditional religious truce, when more than 1/365th of wars have been religious motivated.

My take is that xmas should not be a holiday. We should observe the solstice if anything at all.

Fortunately I live in Japan, and xmas is officially not a special day.
> It is hard for me to articulate how much peps like this reinforce my desire to never start another python project

I completely understand this sentiment. Recent python events have made me wonder if there are some people intent on sabotaging the management of the language.

I loved the incremental improvements and thoughtful process involved up until a couple of years ago but it feels like python will become brittle and break badly if things continue the way they are. It feels like the adults have been driven out the room when it comes to stewardship. I'm not sure how recoverable the situation is.
Especially if you want to get funding
now try delivering that change to all of your dependencies before being able to deploy your software with a new interpreter.
In this context, it doesn't matter if they "must" or "should be able to". No, I didn't misunderstand the maxim. No, I didn't mean that it has to happen in all cases. You are reading something into what I wrote that I didn't.

The maxim is not used by religious people to its intended effect. Please read again, if you didn't see it the first time. The maxim is used as a challenge that can be rephrased as: "if you are as intelligent as you claim, then you should be able to accept both what you believe to be true and whatever nonsense I want you to believe to be true."
This sounds like something that was a good idea to begin with - we should ensure the libraries can be MIT licensed by using a separate binary, then hitting the "most likely go developers don't want to setup a complex C++ compile chain" to "I known we will just precompile it" to "oh but where can I download it from" to "oh I have that server".

Every step in the chain makes sense and is done with the best intention, but the result is, well.

Been there done that. Didn't get the t-shirt.
As others have stated this idea is gratuitous breakage. Hope it won't become reality.
> It should be possible through traditional static analysis

Even better/worse, could do it with regex on text streams.
Co-existance via intermingling use of hardier water buffalos' with horn within the cow pasture is the key.
Right. It feels like conjecture built upon conjecture, I can't tell where the foundation lies. It at least needs to make some rigorous, real-world predictions we don't already have.

I'm also dissatisfied with the notion of time is just "rewriting" of the hypergraph - that feels ill-defined. It borrows our intuition for flipping bits in physical memory, but what does "rewriting" actually mean in the metaphysical domain of this hypergraph?

I have a lot of respect for Wolfram, but much of this feels so hand-wavy.
Because html/js/css is the venue for a massive fraction of human-computer interactions, and there a lot of different things we want to accomplish between humans and computers.

It’s always funny to me when people act like “websites” are some trivial, silly little area of software, when in fact for a lot of people, it’s their primary use of a computer.
I would personally replace 'cost of building' with 'cost of maintaining', but otherwise agree with your reasoning. It's worth building in a factor of safety, such that I would formulate this idea as:

Only build software if the cost of maintaining it is 1/3 or less than the cost of buying a license.

(this has the nice second-order effect of being more robust to errors in the maintenance estimate, hence making it quicker to estimate).
The main characteristics I consider when on the market for a laptop are missing. They are:

- weight

- mat or glossy screen

Then I have a look at the keyboard layout and keys height.

Not sure how easy it would be to add those.
> There are thousands of watch shops that are not "official rolex" repair shops, but are very high quality and will never do a background check

How do they get official parts that need to be replaced on the watch? Rolex is super tight supply chain wise about their parts for this very reason that they want you to keep everything in house. So I suppose they are replacing parts on the watch with aftermarket?
For real. React or superObscureFrameworkSixPeopleUseFrom2009? The churn is endless!

In the Java world alone: Spring vs EE vs Play vs Quarkas vs Micronaut vs Helidon... Tomcat vs Jetty vs Netty... Jar vs War vs Ear ... Maven vs Gradle vs Ant...
Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake
> It's because we exploit labor and resources in poorer countries

Of course we do, tovarisch.
One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Python just loves to break working code on a regular basis with its new releases. If your code is protected from untrusted user data and the internet, Python 2 is actually a really nice language that doesn't constantly force rewrites.

Oh, you want to know the naive UTC datetime in Python, to interface with something like PostgreSQL that recommends naive times? Back in the old days, a simple datetime.datetime.utcnow(). Now days, you need something like:

try:
from datetime import UTC as tz_UTC
except ImportError:
from pytz import UTC as tz_UTC
dt = datetime.datetime.now(tz_UTC).replace(tzinfo=None)
Kerr's paper that was referenced above.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00841
AI is clearly not smarter than the majority of people, let alone the average person.

The IQ test thing is, in my opinion, not significant for a couple of important reasons. First is that it's an open question as to how much IQ correlates with intelligence (particularly since we still don't have a solid definition of what "intelligence" is), and the second is that LLMs certainly ingested many IQ tests and the answers into their training data.
There's some space for interpretation in picking exactly which exception type to use depending on context (value error vs runtime error vs not implemented error), and there may be package specific exceptions available.
Use data that looks like data
With a bare except, your code will continue to retry even if SystemExit or KeyboardInterrupt is raised. This is almost always a bug.

In other words, your comment is an argument for the proposal!

I don't think it's a good enough argument to make a backwards incompatible change. This is a wart Python has to live with now. But I do think it's a shame that bare excepts behave in a way that is almost always a bug.
Turkey is not in BRICS.
Unsurprisingly a bullshit-peddler is very happy about the new 10x bullshit generators.
The mechanisms of folding is most likely impossible for a human mind to comprehend.
Why doesn't this experimental result count as requiring explanation?

We know (for example) silver atoms have mass, and that massive objects exert gravity (which we understand as warping of space-time according to GR).

We know that we can put silver atoms in quantum superpositions of being in different positions (for example in a sequential Stern-Gerlach type experiment).

We have (essentially) absolutely no theoretical understanding of what is going on to space-time when a thing with mass is in such a superposition. Quantum mechanics does not successfully model gravity, and general relativity contains no superpositions, so the situation is completely beyond our theoretical understanding. This isn't a theoretical consideration, this is something real that you can do in an undergrad physics lab experiment pretty easily.

Now the problem is that the models we have developed so far to deal with this situation turned out to be (wildly) too difficult for us to test. I think it is very far from clear that the Oppenheim & co model falls into this category - imo its completely reasonable for them to be spending theoretical effort working out what is needed to test their model.
Pydantic makes that stuff super simple too. It has all manner of data validation hooks as well as (de)serialization help.
Crazy theory: The spammers have moved on to prompt hacking AI or experimenting with AI based spam. Some have even raised venture capital.
Aren't there locks to deal with that ?

Because you could also say then that anyone can add an USB drive by plugging it directly on the motherboard...
Trying to be unbiased is a futile effort, and most journalists know that. What good journalists do is take their inherit bias into account and adjust for it. The reporting should be truthful, and people should know the facts after reading it. Biased media often editorializes the truth so it conveys one message rather then another. This can be bad, or it can be good, it depends on the message. When the message is “a genocidal army is doing a bad thing”, I lean towards this editorializing being good actually.
Well, uptime is usually about the kernel; it being high doesn't necessarily mean that the network-facing daemons (httpd, sshd, and so on) haven't been updated and restarted. Running an ancient kernel does mean you're more vulnerable to local privilege escalation, but an attacker would have to obtain local code execution first. It being an "old blog", there probably wasn't much more running than the SSH daemon and a web server, serving either static pages or some simple PHP pages; the attack surface wouldn't have been that large.
will this be one of those wonderful changes that will make most python programs unrunnable on contemporary versions of python?
Input-Dependent Power Usage in GPUs
I’m not as familiar with the Baby Bells, so this is a surprising comparison to me. Bell Labs was famously so productive while it had the monopoly money hose, and not as much came from it after Bell was broken up.

What are the most noteworthy accomplishments of the Baby Bells?
nice app, i was actually going to make a version of this with a small macos ui myself using a menu item.
You make several good points. However I'm not sure if Bell Labs people were different from university people in terms of their academic background. All three, Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain were Physics PhDs, two of them from elite universities. I was trying to say that brilliant engineers do not disproportionately figure in the list of Physics Nobel prize. In fact they are hardly to be seen.