skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In these situations, the best thing to do is to avoid rushing to fix the problem. Instead, “get curious, listen and provide the child the experience of being heard.”

This is what my parents did. It taught me that communication does not get results when the other party feels "correct" and I have to force things when I have unmet needs.

Anecdotal I know but it hurts me greatly reading that.
> on Debian this means using Backports which is not something any sensible sysadmin wants to do because it introduces the hell of having a mismatch of all sorts of software unless you spend your life defining exclusions in the apt config.

root@nas:/etc/apt/preferences.d# cat 80_kernel
Package: linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64 linux-kbuild-*
Pin: release n=bullseye-backports
Pin-Priority: 1000

root@nas:/etc/apt/preferences.d# cat 90_zfs
Package: libnvpair* libuutil* libzfs* libzpool* spl-dkms zfs-* zfsutils-linux zfsutils-linux-dev
Pin: release n=bullseye-backports
Pin-Priority: 1000

root@nas:/etc/apt/preferences.d# cat 1000_backports
Package: *
Pin: release n=bullseye-backports
Pin-Priority: 10

Pretty sure this is well documented in many places, I definitely didn’t invent this wheel myself. Been running zfs on Debian this way for the last 3 releases. Had one instance of drama when the kernel was updated before the zfs package was updated, making me need to downgrade the kernel, which was a faff for sure.

The benefits of using ZFS in my environment greatly outweigh the downsides of using backports. I vastly prefer Debian to alternatives, so here we are (for me).
That works in 18.1. Tap the number you want to change in the equation and you get a slider. Change the number and the graph changes.
It's my opinion that this shouldn't be a gee whiz story.

We've had technology/ science for this for a while, but the medical capitalism establishment doesn't want it. Of course because it values labor too much.

They want drugs. Drugs are a monopoly, drugs are MASSIVE profit margins, drugs are simple. And drugs are the means that the FDA knows how to approve treatments.

This? It would take armies of skilled labor techs. It would also probably have to be offshore to avoid the US legal system.

But in my opinion this is the path to "the cure" for cancer.
Okay, what about the Earth? If mitochondria are alive, you must also consider the Earth as being alive too. Personally, I think it's a simple answer. Here's my reasoning on the topic for anyone daring enough. It can be a very blurred line, but much of that is our shadow. Mitichondria are more alive than they are dead. Simply because they exist as potential and can go on and are intended for this, for lack of better words. Where as a rock will not come alive, no matter the conditions. We hope.

Maybe we should think of it like we do for other forms of energy and how I be thought we did think of it already as biochemical energy expressions. Along with kinetic energy, potential energy, chemical energy. Surely there is a number determined for the maximum lifetime energy output potential (work) of a single mitochondrion. While it is plain and simple, that's just life for you.
>> In a press release, the companies outlined three main tasks for Claude in defense and intelligence settings: performing operations on large volumes of complex data at high speeds, identifying patterns and trends within that data, and streamlining document review and preparation.

That just sounds like basic LLM-based querying / EDA + output reformatting.
While btrfs is stable, it will not run heavy database loads well with the default settings.

https://archive.ph/dqFgh

Oracle explicitly does not support brtfs for their database.
Great writeup! One comment: PSHUFB does seem important, rather than just "nice to have".

> This should be mostly mitigated because the base V extension only has the full lane-crossing-gather, hence a lot of software will use lane-crossing operations and force vendors to implement it competitively.

Is that actually what's happening? From the discussion you link (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/104574), it seems like the X280 behavior is currently still widespread. Do we know when the competitive perf might materialize?
That's not actually true though is it, suicide is illegal in many jurisdictions. Not just self- euthanisation towards the end of life anyway (which is more controversial/media-discussed) but any form.
Interesting! What makes it universal?
Emissions from private jets are soaring
Show HN: Libro – a customizable notebook solution supports generative AI
Thank you for this, I never knew its title lol
Mozilla HTTP Observatory: HTTP Header Security Test
I like your landing page!
Maybe it's all about encoding and it IS pretty standard? Brain can decode vision through tongue nerves [1] as long as it looks like vision data and is correlated with head movements. There were experiments with other senses sent through different means or whole new sense (magnetic [2] and echolocation [3]). Looks like brain is so flexible, that anything resembling sensible information will be decoded.

[1] https://news.wisc.edu/a-taste-of-vision-device-translates-fr...

[2] https://blinry.org/compass-belt/

[3] https://www.physoc.org/magazine-articles/echolocation-in-peo...
The research goes beyond observing spaced repetition it shows that essential features of memory formation like encoding and retention of temporal patterns occur outside the nervous system.
Thank you for your words of support @nl.

I agree with you that @anewplace is clearly taking a very US / North America centric view of the world and arrogantly claiming they know everything and telling me I'm some idiot.

Its very telling that @anewplace has gone quiet and not lecturing you in a condescending manner about how you must have "misunderstood".
I have a problem with that. How could non-chicken laid a chicken egg.
The Democratic Party being called left is wrong. Calling them extreme-left is laughable. They are chasing Republicans right and throwing out a few scraps to the left. That stopped working this election.

They need to drop the silly identity politics and focus on winning back the working class, but they won't because they're compromised by corporate interests.
You don’t really have to wonder, Google (really all big tech) stocks mooned since 2018, so he’d likely be far wealthier.
FWIW, PG's default has been flipped to checksums being enabled by default in the in-development version.

Personally I'm not sure it's the right call, as it comes with some increased write overhead.
1. How does it compare to DSPy?
2. Some enterprise tasks have difficulty finding good metrics? Do RL fails in these cases?
The central driver of migration is global wealth disparity.

What is grinding poverty in the US isn't too bad compared to the same in Haiti.
In the context of databases there are a few issues with relying on the filesystem for checksums:

- The default checksum algorithms used in many filesystems are too weak (e.g. CRC32), you really want 128-bits for modern databases.

- While some filesystems give you a selection of checksum algorithms ranging from weak to very strong (e.g. SHA256), the databases like SQLite are often deployed in an environment where you have no control over the algorithm selected.

- The checksum algorithms available in most filesystems do not provide adequate performance on modern storage hardware. It is much easier to evolve these in database engines than in the filesystem.

- Filesystem suitability for database workloads varies widely. Few people are going to trade the performance and scalability of XFS for the built-in integrity mechanisms of ZFS. Implementing checksums in the database gets you the best of both worlds. Also databases are not always deployed on filesystems, so you need checksums for these cases.

From a database engineering perspective, the checksumming in filesystems to the extent it exists is often not fit for purpose. Many databases implement their own integrity mechanisms for this reason.
> I feel it's quite unfair for the title to call out sqlite on checksums, when in reality, as the very closing line of the article states most databases don't do checksum verifications.

Hi, author of the post here. I work mostly with SQLite and that's the database I'm most familiar with, hence mentioning it in the title. I have also noted at the bottom:

> Again, this is not a bug. Most databases (except a few) assume that the OS, filesystem, and disk are sound. Whether this matters depends on your application and the guarantees you need.

now I wrote a follow up post - https://avi.im/blag/2024/databases-checksum
HTTP depends on the TCP and Ethernet layer checksums, which is not great. At today’s bitrates, it is remarkable how frequent a bitflip can occur without invalidating the TCP or Ethernet checksums.

HTTPS effectively gets integrity validation by default, as TLS takes care of that. TLS is much more effective at this than the checksums are.
Rust should just build their own super safe OS, instead of nagging existing projects to adopt their practices. If they can successfully build an another successful OS it is much more convincing.
New version 2.0 of the DDxHub has indeed been released
The new version 2.0 of the DDxHub has indeed been released! This update features an expanded knowledge base with the latest medical tests, procedures, and the most recent descriptions of diseases and symptoms. This enhancement aims to offer more comprehensive and up-to-date medical information, benefiting healthcare applications and research immensely.
> It is only the really simple queries that are okay, but as soon as there is some complexity the generated sql query are not so good quality to put it politely.

ActiveRecord was specifically designed to work in that way—tools for most queries, which are simple, and making it easy to use SQL for more complicated cases.
With the caveat that they can only be charged a nominal fee, say the actual production cost of the drug. It would be good to avoid fraudsters stripping desperate people if all their assets
To be clear, what they did to Tom Perez was ALREADY illegal. Which is why he was able to sue and win $900K.

If you want to prevent these sorts of things from happening in the future, adding another ban on this behavior isn’t going to do it. There needs to be consequences for the officers that do this. It’s not the officers paying $900K, it’s the city. And they aren’t getting fired, the officers that did that to Tom Perez even got promoted! The system of accountability needs to be reformed. Maybe that means reforming qualified immunity, maybe demoting and firing officers for misconduct, maybe prosecutors need to start indicting officers when their behavior gets to the point of criminality.

Personally, I think if you could sue, say, the police union rather than the city when there is misconduct, things would turn around fast.
> The browser only reluctantly accepts its role is an application UI platform.

Yeah, rightly so. It's reluctant to be what it shouldn't be.
First I've heard of bcachefs, I thought you were referring to bcache, which I've used a few years ago. So was a little confused.

After some googling it seems bcachefs is related to bcache but is a fully fledged filesystem rather than just a cache. Looks interesting.
Wake me up the day we find a new earth, a baby earth right by us and the moon...
Newer versions of XFS are checksumming metadata. That would not cover sqlite content.

https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/formatting-an-xfs-filesy...
Every crumb of information you encounter doesn't have to be subjected to a lens of "but what if the entities involved were sports teams? Would this be "fair" to "them"?"
Huh it does sound like that in retrospect, so I edited the comment to remove the offending sentence.

At the time of writing it was meant to be a rhetorical question, since it seemed extremely unlikely for there to have been any such argument or implication in the blog post referenced.

But my point still stands, it simply doesn’t matter because HN users can’t place any kind of mandatory obligations on one another.
We are looking for something to run as part of our ami/docker testing and as you say, stays fresh on standards (whatever soc2/iso, but ideally also FIPS) , any prefs?
TLDR - one email per weekday.
It's worth noting this is laptop 4090 GPU which is more like in the range of desktop 4070 performance.
The goal is maximum relevant ads shown per day, not maximum interesting videos discovered.

You aren’t the target market.
What could possibly be the purpose of such a law?
When I first started reading this, I thought there is just no way somebody would be so blatant as to explicitly state you should avoid helping Trump voters, but a FEMA spokesman explicitly stated this happened. Did this person actually think she wouldn't be caught?

And the worst part is FEMA doesn't seem to solving the problem

> The employees say that Washington has not been punished for the guidance, but has been shifted to another county in Florida.

Surely something like this should be a fireable offense?
SQLite or any other mainstream database like Postgres don't do checksums. Wouldn't you be concerned if you are using it for financial data or medicine or something crucial?
ECC algorithms can be used to find errors in read data:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_correction_code

I was introduced to the first ECC algorithm in high school: the Reed-Solomon Code:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_cor...

This algorithm remains mysterious to me to this day. It allows you not only to indicate the presence of an error, but also to recover any data with a small redundancy (e.g. 5%).

Reed-Solomon Code principles are embedded in the workings of WinRAR. When creating RAR-archive, you can add redundant data to restore the archive in case of storage interference:
https://thuthuattienich.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/cach-...
I would encourage reading about Jim Allison (the nobel prize winner in medicine for immunotherapy) and his difficulty having his research acknowledged / getting funding as an immunologist working in cancer research.

Wired magazine did a piece on him detailing how funding for this type of research was largely stonewalled because it ignored status quo ideas on cancer treatment.

My understanding is that traditionally ovt research was nearly impossible to get funding for but has begun to become easier as the status quo research and researchers from the 2000s have been replaced.

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
Yeah, that’s what the SQLite documentation that the OP quoted in their post says.
here's their github: https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium
> This is just a statement by someone that is desperately looking for a negative point

No it isn't.

This is an expert explaining why journals have ethical concerns publishing the paper and why those concerns matter.

>> “I think it ultimately does fall within the line of being ethical, but it isn’t a slam-dunk case,” says Sherkow, adding that he would have liked to see a commentary fleshing out the ethics perspective, published alongside the case report.
> I do not believe this could be solved adding UI or UX changes or without adding a lot of friction. People will continue their habits that feed their endorphin and adrenaline addictions.

Again, I'm not trying to solve the problem. The proposal of an entirely optional checkbox is an admission that the problem can't be solved. I fully acknowledge that people will continue to write comments without reading the article. This feature is for me, not for them. I'm not trying to change people's behavior. I just want a rough way to identify and ignore the laziest.
Signature Generator
Guess which anti vaccine groups used two unrelated deaths to inundate the island in antivax propaganda and caused a measles outbreak that killed over 80 children?

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/lsamoa-medical-f...

https://www.instagram.com/p/BySGpZ_HXo_/?hl=en

Lying about the efficacy of the MMR vaccine to convince parents to not vaccinate their kids is one of the more evil things you can do.
IME of Big Cos, it is never cost of living that is taken into account, but what "the competition" in the local market are paying, and then some percentile of that.

Who "the competition" are specifically is 99.9% of the time entirely black-box, as is the percentile that the company is targeting. So they claim it is open and transparent ("we benchmark against local employers in tech") but the actual details are hidden - are the other employers they are using FAANG or someone else? Are they targeting 50% or 95%? Etc etc ("oh that is confidential sorry")

This is how you end up with situations like London, which is obscenely expensive cost of living, yet gets lower salaries than SF and Zurich which in my experience are a bit cheaper than London for day to day costs (e.g. transport, food etc).

London is a physically & metaphorically huge cultural World Capital and attracts loads of people from across the world so there is more competition for tech/high-skilled roles because so many people move to London after they graduate, and stay for good. So salaries are lower but everything else is more expensive due to population density and resulting demand. No one wants to live in Zurich so there are less people competing for each job, so salaries need to be higher to attract and retain staff in such a dull and boring place that people naturally and understandably plan to leave after a few years.
Better than bathing the land in poison, worse than just pulling out weeds when you find them.
At least filter it. And I'm not sure boiling is enough, that will depend on what is in it.
I’d be concerned if a system without ECC ram and disks were being used for something crucial.
I don't know the current draw of either. I don't know if newer designs are better, I only have one I bought around 10-15 years ago. For mine a bettery left in the calipers depletes within a few months, without use.
Don't worry. There won't even be a FEMA once Trump gets into office.
Zed team refuses to fix a basic feature (autocomplete)
How do you differentiate laundering liability and someone legitimately not knowing something?
This is so funny! Such creativity! The guy on the chair with his legs splayed up in an acute angle!
"Molecular biologists tend to focus on characteristics like metabolism, growth and development, response to stimuli, reproduction, and the ability to process information or evolve."

Even if you stretch the others real hard, I don't see how you'd argue that the Earth "reproduces." Especially not the more rigorous definition of reproduces fertile copies of itself which can evolve.
He claims money wasn't the motive and I'm sure that's true but I thought he was a for hire website creator of the type that had a website with fancy demos to adversize his skills and therefore get clients. So, while three might have been a fun hobby project it was also something he used to make client sites or at least lure clients.

Then, as three got popular he got lucky and google hired him full time to maintain it. Who knows where it would be without a corporate sponsor to fund it fulltime. it's unlikely he'd have been able to keep it going so long if he needed to spend all is time on other things to earn a living.

In other words, he is getting revenue from it. In fact on a google salary he's getting quite large revenue from in and he also takes donations in top of his $500k+ salary. https://github.com/sponsors/mrdoob

Super happy for him and super jealous. Wouldn't we all like a high paying corporate sponsor for our personal project
Calm down dude. It is just a marketing term for something lossy.
1) Strip out the facts from anything you are seeing/hearing. Most of the misinformation is a lot of emotion, exaggeration, and spin. If you can read critically and remove facts from fluff, you are most of the way there.

2) Fact-check those facts. If they are true, use critical thought to see if everything else that has been said actually follows from the facts or not. And if they are false... well, then anything that follows from it is likewise false.

Don't trust the volume of what you hear. The core principle of getting people to believe you instead of the truth is "Lie often and loudly... say it enough and people believe it." Likewise, disregard the entire concept of "Fake News". While prior to a decade ago, it was a useful term, in recent years it has become a weasel word to get people to dismiss a story without researching it. Check the facts.
Matter 1.4 Enables More Capable Smart Homes
No, this is not how society operates. Recall just a few days ago when chronically social-mediaed people got the shock of their life when Trump won handily. Social media did not prepare them for this outcome. Why? Because a large fraction of society doesn't use social media.
That was my conclusion too after reading it. I was always wondering how the brain could send all needed info to the muscles fast enough when someone is playing piano or typing 120 characters a minute.
If auditors are going to use this, it would benefit even the most competent sysadmin to know what it's gonna say. The average compliance analyst isn't going to understand why some enumerable risk isn't actually a threat because; your threat model makes said issue actually impossible. Even if you can prove it, they're still gonna include it in their needless risk findings. I'd postulate (for fun) that most competent sysadmins would be more likely to have that problem, because they've already identified it, and are using it as a makeshift 'honeypot'.
Almost every notable technology has it's roots in intelligence or defense, because government grants for projects as such has been the dominant way tech has been built. Corporations have their use, but predominantly, they're corner cutters[1]. Their function is to chase higher profits by reducing costs. This is not a skillset with no value; it's why you can now get an 85" television for less than the cost of a mid-range laptop; but it does mean that their capacity for innovation is inherently limited.

The way this always worked was the government would sponsor research into new tech, get it and use it, and then the patents and licenses would be disseminated into the private sector and be re-packaged as products. Think of the first iPhone; the LCD screen was a result of DARPA projects looking to reduce the beefy CRT displays to something more usable in vehicles and aircraft; the multi-touch screen was developed by CERN; the GPS system was originally conceived to track deployed materiel in warzones, etc. That doesn't mean Apple did no work of course, combining all of these things is no trivial matter. I'm just saying that most tech has it's roots in defense/intel grants that fund the research, because building new technology is fucking expensive and most corporations won't do it because it's terrible ROI.

Edit: I remembered the note I wanted to add for corner cutters:

[1]: The primary exception being a corporation that does not yet need to make profits, which is where you find investor-funded startups and incubator arrangements like Google had during their early time.
Interesting. I love Ada and these historical doomed to repeat ourself facts are interesting like Ada books from the 80s talking about AI. Before I switched from Go to Ada I actually used to use var upfront out of preference.