skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Upgrading when multiple versions behind is significantly more risky than doing it when the update is relatively fresh.

Additionally, actions done frequently are less risky than actions done rarely, since you develop skills in performing that action as an organization - see high deployment frequency as a strategy of managing deployment risk.

This adds up to continuous upgrading being the least risky option in aggregate.
It’s very well documented that a vast majority of these precursor chemicals are created in labs in China and are constantly being modified to avoid regulation
That just means it was trained recently enough to have it in training data.
From what I can tell, MySQL is supposed to be safe since 2018 if you have no data from before 2010.

The fact that you still can't use DDL in transactions makes life exceedingly painful, but it's technically safe if you write your migration code carefully enough.
> I'm fine with a 2 state solution if that's what the Palestinans want. My issue is that Israel is unlikely to follow the rules given their current behavior so why not just make it 1 state with equal rights? Is that really so scary? Equal rights?

YES! I don't know how else to say this. Giving equal rights which would effectively double the voting base with people who fundamentally oppose many things you think are important is terrifying. Again, if you were LGBTQ in Israel, and I told you we're bringing in 100% more voters who mostly think homosexuality is a sin and could now vote to make it illegal, wouldn't you think it's a bad idea?

And that's the best case scenario. The worst case scenario is that the the new state acts like every other state that has a Jewish minority, and eventually decides to kill the Jews. Made even more likely given the years of animosity between the two peoples.

You are again and again asking if it's really so bad to do something that 99% of people, including almost all peace activists, say will end in the destruction of the Jews in Israel, one way or another. If that is the only option, it is one that will never be accepted. I don't understand why you can't see that, unless you think you know better than almost everyone else that lives in the area or has studied the area.

(I'm totally open to different arrangements like A Land For All, which aim to make an Israeli/Palestinian federation, basically a two-state solution that has deals in place like the EU which would allow citizens to move between the countries.)
Gosh, what a journey.

Hope you wife is doing better.
Isnt this still an issue without remote work.

Im not sure I ever had a meeting with everyone in the same room.
Why? They were only transporting documents (papers for bill of lading) not actual items.
I would say the real situation is uglier:

- Driving at times has the element of game of chicken. Both parties begin with aggression and then someone (or both) gives in.

- Lot of scamming everywhere. You think twice, thrice before you make a move, especially if involves money.

- Give an inch, take a yard is the norm.

- If a rule can be bent, it will be bent. Everything ends up in brinkmanship.

(Lived in India for most of my life, but has worked in multiple countries in Europe and Asia and have visited the US)
>If you have ever put a cone on a cat (which lasts about five minutes), you see they get crazy.

You got me thinking about this, as I've dealt with a number of sick kitties / foster kitties, etc but we've always used a paper plate with a hole in the middle in lieu of a purpose-made plastic cone. So thinking out loud here, our solution might not have been more generally affordable but also had the benefit of not interfering with whiskers.
On what basis you think you will avoid hallucination(s) ? LLM will always hallucinate. People did already some research, among which : https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05746 and
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817 for example.
Are they working in these hospitals only with the approval and permission of HAMAS, or are they free to voice an independent opinion without fear of reprisal from armed militants in the middle of a war where a doctor with their head blown off is just a statistic?

I'm not just saying this as an argument, this kind of bias in reporting from volunteers in war zones is common. There was some war in Africa where medics from Doctors Without Borders got in serious trouble because they spoke up about atrocities. If I remember correctly, some were abducted and/or killed. I do remember the head of MSF saying in an interview that they have a policy of keeping quiet because "that's what it takes to be allowed to provide services" under those conditions.

Also: "not once did any of us see any type of Palestinian militant activity in any of Gaza’s hospitals or other healthcare facilities".

Israel was saying that HAMAS had built tunnels under the hospitals, which doctors would not have been allowed into and would not have seen. They most probably told the truth, but that truth may just what they saw... they just didn't see the tunnels.

Last but not least: How would they know if activity was "militant"? HAMAS generally does not wear uniforms!

PS: I do think that at most one hospital might have been used as a HAMAS office... for something. Quite possibly a military medical office, coordinating care for the wounded or something similar. I wouldn't be surprised if Isreali drones saw 'x' HAMAS members walk into the hospital and hence they marked it as a "HAMAS office" based on that intelligence alone. (I always assume there's idiots on both sides of a war. It's an effective and accurate model of reality.)
Building trust on YouTube: Captured with a camera disclosure
What is theoretical computer science?
> Real engineers write their compilers in assembly.

Not sure where this misconception comes from. The engineering department mostly relies on Verilog twiddling, shoddy Spice models, debugging prototype boards with poorly crimped jumper wires, charged capacitors scattered around with no adults in the room, and freshly minted junior EEs who forget spice models and Verilog hacks aren’t the real thing.

You have the wrong department. Software development is down the hall to the left. Those folks down there don’t even have an engineering degree.
Forgot to add: you add valid points to the conversation though, thank you!
How are all of the 99.99% podcasts that currently are not worth listening to not already poisoning the well? If the current ranking algorithms work, I don't see why it can't work with more podcasts, AI or not.
Lots of secure code checks for overflow

fillBufferWithData(buffer, data, offset, size)

You want to know that offset + size don't wrap past 32bits (or 64) and end up with nonsense and a security vulnerability.
I prefer to know if I've stolen someone's art...? Taking the un-watermarked parts of a stolen image is kinda sticking your head in the sand. It's recycled, stolen art. I'd never use it in production, even if only to spare my clients potential copyright liability issues down the road. But it's still fantastic as a visualization tool.
I wonder, is an electronic system capable of doing anti-entropy work on itself (the way life does) necessarily AGI-complete? It turns out that there are many complex behaviors (like drawing or generating sensible text) that don't require AGI-completeness.

(Stumbled upon the answer while formulating the question – no, being capable of doing anti-entropy self-maintenance work isn't AGI-complete because there's plenty of life that's perfectly capable of that without being generally intelligent.)
I hear this sentiment often, but it doesn't match my own experience with orange cats... the one I had back in high school (orange male) was at least as intelligent as any other cat I've had. The orange female I have now is very clingy / anxious and far more territorial than any of my other cats, but otherwise demonstrates at least average cat intelligence. I'd had a variety of different types of cats - a japanese bobtail, a balinese, a siamese, various calicos and domestic types - and the orange ones have been on the upper end of intelligence by comparison.
And good reporting would have sourced some pagers from the other clients.
Show HN: CloudRunr Cross Cloud Pricing Calculator and Cloud Intel Platform
Over the last 7 months, we've been hard at work building a Cross-Cloud Pricing Calculator and Cloud Intelligence platform. I would greatly appreciate feedback from the community on what is good or what sucks.

CloudRunr aims to be a transparent and objective evaluation of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. We automatically fetch your monthly usage data, including reservation and compute savings plan usage, using a read-only IAM role / we can ingest your on-premises usage as an excel.

CloudRunr maps usage to equivalent VMs or services across clouds, and calculates 'closest-match' pricing estimates across clouds, considering reservations and savings plans. It highlights gaps and caveats in services for the target cloud, such as flagging unavailable instance types in specific regions.

We have had interest from Cloud partners (and their pre-sales teams) who use it in their sales conversations.

Please share your feedback here! Thanks a ton.
I could smell it from across the Atlantic
Curious to know what part of syntax you found convoluted. If you remember any examples I’d appreciate it.
Maybe you want a constraint programming environment instead. As example check out Conjure from St Andrews:
https://conjure.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials-notebook....

More generally there are the theorem provers like Coq, etc., but their use cases are even more specific.
Not in around 15 years. You're thinking of when MyISAM was the default storage engine for MySQL. It has been InnoDB for over a decade. InnoDB is very reliable - I've never had a single data loss incident in all that time, and I've managed some very large (PB-scale) and active databases.

Postgres is definitely more difficult to administer.
That feels/sounds so natural.

It’s amazing how it doesn’t occur to OpenAI and others that the “safety guardrails” really dilute the output. And it’s a display of conservatism. Bizarre to think that in America AI couldn’t swear.

Until today, where Google allowed the AI to behave as the lord intended.
and we know paying people increases the supply of willing donors because we allow it with blood. Most of the worlds donated blood plasma comes from the US because we allow compensating the donors. i see know reason not to allow paying for other organs that wont kill the donor. why not allow selling extra kidneys pieces of liver, a lung. pay for the all of the donors medical cost + a large enough a sum of money to make it worth it for the would be donor.
Welp, time to remove myself from the donor pool if I “die”.
Just want simple TLS for your .internal network?
I did some research, write-up and scripting about the state of X.509 Name Constraints, so that people you give your CA cert to don't need to trust you not to MitM them on other domains.

Packaged into a convenient one-liner to create a wildcard cert under for the new .internal TLD.

Please scrutinize!

I use this to provide e.g. at home:

https://octoprint.myhome.internal
https://paperless.myhome.internal

to provide transport encryption of these services in the local WiFi.

Friends and family can add the CA root to their devices without having to worry about me MitM'ing their other connections.
As long as the arbitrage exists (acquisition cost for passengers is less than shipping), someone is going try to exploit it

https://www.vice.com/en/article/now-you-can-pay-people-to-fe...
Write off your loss and move on. Based on previous instances of this happening, you have more chance to recover your money from a crypto exchange gone bust than a traditional credit card processor.

I, also, would not consider this a major hit. You had been sailing with them for 20 years. I've seen many more things break in a shorter time frame. Such is life.
Yes, that was the case. I was being sarcastic. Zuck wrote facebook in PHP and spent millions of dollars then writing a custom interpreter to let his janky code run slightly faster than normal.
i ll tell you why from my end. I installed Postgres14 via homebrew many years ago on my Apple M1 mac mini. I searched a lot on how to "upgrade" this installation but found nothing. I have a few databases running with data on it which I can't afford to lose if something goes down for more than 1 hour. I wish someone would guide me on how to actually install a newer postgres such as v17 without breaking an existing v14 install or losing data since I am not an expert by any means
It hurts less if you think of it like assignment:

al = [rsi]
[rdi] = al
I read this as "Kenya hospital" and thought, wow, that's bad even for a developing country. But no.
> children tend to do much better when stability is present in the home

Encouraging relation instability creates children which don’t have the funding on their own to be students. It makes them great candidates for both student loans (US) and subsidies (EU). As a society, that’s what we want; It’s makes every individual miserable, but it fuels the need for public funding.
Hopefully this gets publicized to the ends of the earth so it prevents it happening again.
Embalming is largely a cultural thing. It's very rare in Europe for people to get embalmed. At least in the places I've lived. Also, the chemicals involved are a bit nasty and there's actually a trend for people to have their remains disposed off in a more sustainable way. E.g. composting is popular lately. My aunt was buried in a nature cemetery a few months ago. Very beautiful place.
Some truth here though saying Bangalore airport (BLR) is on par with Singapore airport (SIN) is laughable.

A little stick is what India needs. People doing stuff like driving their motorcycle on the footpath aka sidewalk, will stop doing it if you offer just a touch of resistance and just stand there. It isn’t the US where you have small but real chance of being shot (at least in southern India, bihar etc might be exception)

Same with jumping the que, calling people out generally does the trick.

Some problems are more complex but a little more stick in India would make some solid improvements in everyday life.
Adages are great, and they work for some people. They’re so simple and can provide just the right amount of motivation to get started.

What’s interesting is that people respond to different adages, even when they’re quite similar. For example, "Just do it" might work for one person but do nothing for another. Yet that same person might respond to "5,4,3,2,1, go" or "F*ck it, I’m doing it." Mel Robbins might argue that "5,4,3,2,1, go" is very different from "Just do it," but she needs it to be "very different" from "Just do it" ;-)
I like the take that small optimizations, taken together, amount to a moat. I feel like this could be a profoundly understated paradigm.
That’s not certain. Someone in a persistent vegetative state (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetative_state) may open their eyes and move them, all while lacking the parts of their brain that would consciously trigger those movements.

There’s alive, and there’s living. It’s possibly for someone’s body to be alive even though the person is completely and forever gone.

Not saying that’s what happened here, only that someone appearing to be looking around doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a person inside that body choosing to do so.

Personal source: I saw a beloved family member appear to look around, even while an EEG showed that there was zero activity in the parts of her hurt brain that we’d think of as “her”. It’s terrible to behold. But yes, it can also be just a common reflex.

(I have zero intent to defend the hospital. I’m replying to that 1 specific thing you said, but am absolutely not saying the hospital was in the right.)
Yeah this job market sucks, but as far as outside looks at Automattic go now, I have a feeling there is more trouble to come. Considering this, I would take the payout as a cushion to find something new, potentially in a new industry outright
at least in the image generators that I've used it takes quite a bit of experimentation to get both positive and negative prompts that produce both the result you want and a quality one as well.

Part of it, if I understand correctly, is that the data has no actual concept of grammar and meaning. So if you say "a table with 6 legs" it doesn't see that as a full concept, it sees words or segments of words, so "legs" can end up being legs of people (it might make a table with human or animal legs) and similarly it just might insert random legs in the scene because it has no understanding of the description.

So, people find ways to coerce / influence it to get to the right place.

It's also important to know what models/loras/etc were used as not all data sets generate good images for whatever your topic is.
Yes, it is messy when you want your MySQL databases to be mission critical in production, e.g. handling a large amount of customer data. Historically MySQL's High Availability architecture has a lot of design and implementation issues because it was an afterthought. Dealing with large amount of critical data means you need it to be performant, reliable and available at the same time, which is hard and requires you to deal with caching, sharding, replication, network issues, zone/resource planning, failovers, leader elections and semi-sync bugs, corrupted logs, manually fixing bad queries that killed the database, data migration, version upgrades, etc. There is a reason why big corps like Google/Meta has dedicated teams of experts (like people who actually wrote the HA features) to maintain their mission critical MySQL deployments.
Look at the Indian neighborhood (Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar), all sharing similar peoples, culture, high populations/inequality/chaos are all in deep financial trouble and are politically unstable.

Anyone who has visited, would think India has all the ingredients to land up in a similar state.

But the big diff with the neighborhood is the sheer Size of the country, and the really wide range of economic activity in different parts of the country.

Its what we see in Nature, where there is as much chaos and incomprehensible stuff happening as there is in India. If you have a Large ecosystem, lots of different species and a lot of genetic variety, the better such systems handle constant change and unpredictable shocks.

And this feels like what has happened in India. One corner is imploding, while another corner becomes a leading global center of Leather Science or Jewellery Design. And this saves them from burning down like the neighborhood because they have more buffer.

Depending on which corner you are sitting in, the view of what is possible in India changes drastically.
Interview with Yasheng Huang 黄亚生, the author of The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline.

This interview discusses:

- The Steelman Case for why China needed a Xi,

- What sets Xi apart from his predecessors,

- Succession challenges and the importance of term limits in authoritarian states,

- Why engagement with China failed to produce political liberalization,

- How the US could have better leveraged economic relations with China,

- Creative approaches to human rights advocacy in China.
I’m kind of intrigued that this came up on the homepage. I read it yesterday and had earmarked it to share here on HN. Then, I realized the topic is more of a convex view from the perspective of somebody with their own opinions.

While reading the article, I chuckled and laughed aloud at the ground truth, but it was written with a lighter perspective and good faith in things that are in India.

India is a complex amalgamation of so many different things thrown in. It is not just sides of a coin or something like that — it is the living beauty of the chaos of the chaos, with lots of serenity in various pockets and facades of life.

With this specific “negotiations” topic, I believe there is a missing angle, and I don’t know what term would suffice. But think like this: Watch out and forgive my small mistakes and naivete, and I will do the same when I see you doing it.
> In the system where UART is running, “8250.nr_uarts = 1” parameter is passed to the Kernel. We put this parameter into the cmdline.txt file of the problematic Kernel and it works like a charm. Lets move on the other problem.

This is funny. I'm sure there's a intresting reason why there's a driver for a 1978 UART chip involved. (ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8250_UART)
Looking forward to it! - posted from a coffee shop next to Kodemmacho Station near Akihabara, ironically, just popping by after Japan burn ;)
What Are Tennis Courts Made Of? (The 11 Surfaces)
> I've always wondered why Postgres is so insanely popular

Real answer: no licensing cost
The same can be said of spreadsheets. No, they’re not for “calculating.” They’re for mapping your problem so you understand it. The calculations just come along for the ride.
Hey, I’m working on exactly that: https://github.com/rmusser01/tldw

It’s a work in progress, and I literally just added the first foundation for note taking next to the RAG chat last night(not working yet) but it’s getting there.
The plan is to build the functionality out and then migrate the codebase to an API backend so that people can make their own front-ends for their own needs.
Also, it doesn’t have podcast creation or TTS, yet. They are planned, but it can transcribe and ingest a podcast for RAG chat currently.
> Dr. Robert Cannon, a transplant surgeon at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, described a similar incident during the congressional hearing where Martin’s letter was disclosed. It happened at a hospital outside of Alabama.

> “We actually were in the operating room. We had actually opened the patient and were in the process of sort of preparing their organs, at which point the ventilator triggered and so the anesthesiologist at the head of the table spoke up and said, ‘Hey, I think this patient might have just breathed,’” Cannon later told NPR in an interview. “If the patient breathes, that means they’re not brain dead.”

> Nevertheless, a representative from the OPO wanted to proceed anyway, Cannon says. He refused.

> “We were kind of shocked that an OPO person would have so little knowledge about what brain death means that they would say, ‘Oh, you should just go ahead.’ And we thought, ‘No. We’re not going to take any risk that we murder a patient.’ Because that’s what it would be if that patient was alive.”

OPO should be charged with attempted homicide.
Their profession will be fine.
They will continue to better understand colours, composition and design principles better than me.

We will both have AI to our disposal, and they will make better designs quicker than me.
And this, kids, is a good example of why homebrew is not a real package manager, and why macOS is not the best at running production services.

I hope you have a backup somewhere else, not on the Mac Mini. One option would be to restore it on another machine on Postgres 14, follow the upgrade path to 17 (idk if you can jump directly but a few Google searches will cover this), verify the data, back up the new db, somehow upgrade Posgtres on your Mac, and restore the new back up. Done.
> Props to those that find that person, who will co-invest, can be co-patient, co-flexible, co-loyal, co-appreciative, co-vision the first time.

That's what dating is for. It's not magic if you've got your priorities figured out.
I think this sort of thing is what Microsoft intended with Recall. The problem is the privacy implications are horrible.