skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your entire existence was constrained to seeing 2d images, not of your choosing, could a perplexity-optimizing process "learn the physics"?

Basic things that are not accessible to such a learning process:

- moving around to get a better view of a 3d object

- see actual motion

- measure the mass of an object participating in an interaction

- set up an experiment and measure its outcomes

- choose to look at a particular sample at a closer resolution (e.g. microscopy)

- see what's out of frame from a given image

I think we have at this point a lot of evidence that optimizing models to understand distributions of images is not the same thing as understanding the things in those images. In 2013 that was 'DeepDream' dog worms, in 2018 that was "this person does not exist" portraits where people's garments or hair or jewelry fused together or merged with their background. In 2022 it was diffusion images of people with too many fingers, or whose hands melted together if you asked for people shaking hands. In the Sora announcement earlier this year it was a woman's jacket morphing while the shot zoomed into her face.

I think in the same way that LLMs do better at some reasoning tasks by generating a program to produce the answer, I suspect models which are trained to generate 3D geometry and scenes, and run a simulation -> renderer -> style transfer process may end up being the better way to get to image models that "know" about physics.
i would much rather have AI to do routine tasks on my phone for me and change settings without me having to dig through menus
View -> Message Body As -> Plain Text

Not your fault, but please always provide fall back text.
> They could strong-arm recalcitrant customers, but they don't.

They really can't. When the customers have to redo their stack, they might do that in a way that doesn't need Microsoft at all.
Hey, which program do you do that now with, Calibre or a set of separate tools?
My issue is WTF do sooooooo many companies trust this 1 fucking company lol, like its always some obscure company that every major corporation is trusting lol. All because crowdstrike apparently throws good parties for C-Level execs lol
Even if you've never had to take cold showers in the summer, I have. I'm not sure why you can't believe our experiences would differ. The only reason I mentioned the USSR at all is because when I asked in China they said they got the system from them (and south of the Yangtze, you don't even get that).
No, it has a cryocooler for MIRI that keeps the relevant components at <7K without cryogen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUH61gx149c
Indeed, and many of these factors are taken into consideration for the construction of sentences, although often times with different weighting that some people would like.
> have an easy way to fullfill their ”implement cybersecurity”

There's a typo in there. "Do cyber" is how the said managers would phrase it.
Yep. Exactly this and more.
Seinfeld is a show about nothing

http://seinfeldscripts.com/ThePitch.htm
Kudos! It actually looks great and polished. Also, an ubiquitous UI mimicking the MacOSX aesthetics and usage of larger padding actually is nice due to the new high resolution monitors we see everywhere these days.

The stock people photos are a bit odd, I never saw anyone have photos open on their desktop/laptop ever.

That being said, very nice and clean design.

Also, I would say ignore all the naysayers here, the fetishising of the complex sharp and dense UI is a nostalgic reaction common among hardcore tech people who would love to live in the terminal, but alienates the other 99% population of the globe would prefer a clean ui and access to their applications with nice icons. There is a reason why all OSS suffer from extremely bad UI/UX, because what ordinary people like(simple and clean UI with nice icons and descriptive texts) is immensely different from what tech people like(mostly 200+ magic keyboard shortcuts and arcane ways of starting apps from mysterious console).
Similar post from a few days ago:

"We need visual programming. No, not like that."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40937119
I don't know about most people, but the number of news sources that use information rich headlines suggest that there is a significant number of people who react negatively to clickbait headlines. And I suspect that many of these news sources float clickbait headlines from time to time to test the response of their audience. (Such headlines certainly pop up periodically on most news sources. It is the motive that I am uncertain of.)

Personally, I find clickbait titles lends an air of tabloidness to a publication. I wouldn't be surprised if that is a common feeling. I will also actively avoid, clickbait titles even from trusted sources, simply because it would be detrimental in the long term. Granted, I suspect the active avoidance part is an unusual behaviour.
This looks like my next router with OpenWRT. I've had a Pi4 running OpenWRT great, but I love how things just work on x86, and an M2 SSD would be a big upgrade from microSD. The 10gbps USB ports are especially good for USB ethernet adapters >1gbps. I wouldn't use the wifi as I use 'dump APs' for the wireless part of my network.

I'm curious how the RP2040 shows up when running Windows, even if that isn't what I'd do.
thank you very much for the correction and the clarifications—and for the excellent post

does the list of callsite return counters being hashed get truncated at some point for stability? i'd think that hashing the call stack f→g→j→k→m→n→o→p to a hash unrelated to f→g→h→j→k→m→n→o→p would tend to interfere with the 'forced' set, but maybe this is only being used for things where the behavior is so closely equivalent that this problem doesn't arise
We don't seem to care about soundalikes in other contexts like "chink in your armor" or "spick and span", so why go after obscure plant names that sound vaguely like obscure slurs in obscure languages if you squint your ears real hard? Maybe someone had a paucity of productive work to do so they came up with this project others couldn't criticize out loud without getting canceled?
Seinfeld was "a show about nothing."
The Windows NTFS is safe and reliable. It doesn't corrupt files. You have probably misunderstood the problem.
Either there's some unstated sarcasm or the person above made the most hn libertarian-ass comment I seen in a while.

Yes I would like functional civil institutions that are able to protect me from the unethical behavior of others. Welcome to Civics 101 today we are reading John Locke.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41006104#41006555

the flawed data was added in a post-processing step of the configuration update, which is after it's been tested internally but before it's copied to their update servers
AI can strategically lie to humans. Are we in trouble?
> We don't practice blood letting anymore. Things change

Gonna make me a Tshirt outta this :)
The problem is that without tools and processes to systematically validate those result's people might be perfectly happy about completely inaccurate results.

I know i have had to correct one in three excel sheet i have ever gone over using pen and paper in order to validate the results but i am a paranoid sod who actually do this kind of exercise on a regular basis.

almost all of the disciplines known to rely on excel have a serous issue with repeatability of results either because nobody ever attempts it, or because it's a messy field without a well defined methodology.
It's possible that these aren't the original file contents, but rather the result of a manual attempt to stop the bleeding.

Someone may have hoped that overwriting the bad file with an all-0 file of the correct size would make the update benign.

Or following the "QA was bypassed because there was a critical vulnerability" hypothesis, stopping distribution of the real patch may be an attempt to reduce access to the real data and slow reverse-engineering of the vulnerability.
Bluetooth earphones are devices with a really limited lifespan.

You can use like 2 charges in a day easily and that a lifespan of one to 2 years.

For a lot if vendors it isn't a notable difference, for apple with the air pods it's MASSIVE
> Curious how others feel about this.

I would rather have none of these things, but if I had to choose, AI sounds more useful.
Restricting the ability to traffic in privacy is.
Once you highlight any inconsistency in AI-generated content, IMHO, it will take a nothingth of a second to "fix" that.
> Neither of these names are ironic. The name Palantir was chosen to remind the company of surveillance's potential for abuse

You just said it.

War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.
The OP was deriding monoculture. My point was that pushing out only Chromebooks is still perpetuating a monoculture. You're just shifting your risk over to Google instead of Crowdstrike / Microsoft.

re: Chromebooks themselves - The execution is really, really good. The need for legacy software compatibility limits their corporate penetration. I've done enough "power washes" to know that they're not foolproof, though.
Embed your OpenAI Assistant on your own website
the OpenAI Assistant API is really useful, but a lot of people can't or don't want to build their own UI on top of it. I made Appified so you can connect your OpenAI account and instantly get an embed URL for your assistant that you can deploy on any website via iframe.

It uses vercel, including the ai sdk, for streaming chats. I also built a python backend for handling tool calls. It can handle webhooks, API calls, and URL scraping for your assistant so you don't have to build those yourself. Add in code interpreter and file search from the native OpenAI functionality and you can make some really powerful assistants.

The best examples that my customers have come up with so far are using Zapier / Make.com to connect their assistant to other tools via webhooks. Anything from chatting with leads and collecting contact info, to generating Google Slides or Docs with information inputted in the chat.
They could even have done slow rollouts. Roll it out to a geographical region and wait an hour or so before deploying elsewhere.
Does microbial life "live" there, or is it deposited there by other means?
Not at MS, but I had the misfortune of working with such "engineers" as well.

I belive the term is "architecture astronauts".
Hey! Cool concept, although it took a while to analyse a link (more than 5 minutes).

Would be nice if you had a cached analysis - I see you have mrbeast's link as the search placeholder. Perhaps have that as typed in, ready to go so interested users can get a quick flavour of what the functionality is?

Keep up the good work!
and it shows that the deployment process was not under control and that something malicious could have happened as well
TL,DW:

"Based on software analysis, it appears that the Twitter/X account EndWokeness is likely operated by right-wing political pundit Jack Posobiec."
If a virus got that far, you're already in trouble. What stops them from attacking the anti-virus?
Believe it or not politicians come up with their platforms largely based on the interests and desires of their constituents.

If NASA gets more people reading and learning about space, maybe more people will think it's a priority. It's not exactly rocket science.
Create a bootable USB stick from Ubuntu, then see if you can mount the windows drive and delete the file that way.
I was tipple downvoted in ~20s before it disappeared so I noticed it very quickly because I keep an eye on pts to see if people have interreacted with something I've posted. I then scanned through the peer comments and noticed that a bunch of other comments had been very freshly flagged, within the ~40s of the last time I checked. These comments have been around for over an hour so the odds that there were all independently flagged so quickly at exactly the same time is highly improbable. And I couldn't see if my own comment had been flagged even though I could see others.

It's possibly a bug but I've seen similar behavior before and it was due to flagging but without the flagging flag appearing which happened later. I think it's a variation of hellbanned but for a single post. It was easy to notice because not only did the points go down just before disappearing they also stopped going up as it had done so reliably before being removed.
Please note my comment already had this line specified.

>it also means the crimes need to be deserving of being crimes.

I don't want to get into the details of what crimes should or should not be crimes, that won't be productive for this community. But if you are going to use an example to try to make a point, please note that picking an example that includes something you think shouldn't be a crime, or at least a crime deserving of imprisonment, means that my critique was not applied to that example to begin with.

Also, my criticism was specifically about considering the fines as being a point of complaint while not doing so of the incarceration. You example of losing a child is a result of the incarceration, not the fine. Your example of not being hired has to do with the conviction and people's general perception of those convicted, as well as with insurance and similar, and not with the fine. So neither of those are specific to my previous post.

You also end with a critique of the legal system in general. Which is not what I was talking about. Once again, I was specifically talking about the instances of criticism being levied against fines that should be, but aren't being, applied to incarceration as well, creating at least the appearance that incarceration is tolerable but fines are going too far.

Please understand that critiquing a critique of X does not mean that the person doing so agrees with X.
> will the recent Supreme Court decisions w/r/t the powers of executive branch agencies like the FCC make it impossible to enforce this?

They will rule exactly how everyone expects them to rule. They might provide the flimsiest of justifications for doing so, or they will just say it's within their absolute authority to do so.
Not quite. Insurance is a product that provides compensation in the event of loss. Deploying CrowdStrike with an eye toward enterprise risk management falls under one of either changing behaviors or modifying outcomes (or perhaps both).
Human reproduction comes at the expense of faster aging and a shorter life
Thanks! In the next 24 hours I will add screenshots :-)
Which part of “prompt engineering” is considered engineering?
That’s over 40 minutes of a full day or 5 hours a week spent locking! As the author states it’s highly context dependent but in some cases this is a lot of time to do other work if it can be reduced.
A company deploying kernel-mode code that can render huge numbers of machines unusable should have done better. It's one of those "you had one job" kind of situations.

They would be a gigantic target for malware. Imagine pwning a CDN to pwn millions of client computers. The CDN being malicious would be a major threat.
I don't think it is historical data required to make a decision, it is required to store the action for historical purposes in the future. This is ultimately to bill you and to track that a doctor isn't stealing medication, improperly treating the patient, and to track it for legal purposes.

Some hospitals require you to input this in order to even get physical access to the medications.

Although a crash cart would normally have common things necessary to save someone in an emergency, so I would think that if someone was truly dying they could get them what they needed. But of course there are going to be exceptions and a system being down will only make the process harder.
A large portion of this was in person
On the plus side of this disaster, I am holding out some pico-sized hope that maybe organizations will rethink kernel level access. No, random gaming company, you are not good enough to write kernel level anti cheat software.
It should be obvious to everyone now that kernel extensions for ‘security’ is not worth it
This comes across as pretty rude... they're already indexing and generating pages for public repos for free, and providing this search for free, just behind a login. If you want to use phind instead go ahead.
Alternative in what sense? I think most, if not all, modern Xperias have both headphone jacks and microSD slots. I'm not sure how they are when it comes to android updates though.
Languages force us to be aware of certain concepts. English forces us to always be aware of tense (past, present, future) and the gender of people. Some languages require you to be aware of the gender of inanimate objects. A language actually could evolve to force people to be aware of political affiliation, and it wouldn't even be that weird, although it would be divisive.
You can also change the search strategy used in Prolog, ie using library(search), supporting BFS and iterative deepening. Tabling is also supported.

Another useful tool for homoiconicity is clause/2:

?- assertz((foo(X) :- append(X, _, [1,2,3]))).

true.

?- clause(foo(X), Body).

Body = append(X, _, [1, 2, 3]).

If you really like Haskell and OCaml's pattern matching, you'll probably really love Prolog. Prolog's pattern matching is much more powerful.
If it's a mature system and management is highly risk averse, not fucking up means more than slinging shit quickly
I like it ok, but there is actually a lot of white space (I think current Linux desktops suffer from this quite a bit, though I haven't used one regularly in >8 years).

For example, under "Fresh OS interface", the start menu has lots of extra whitespace around the dividing bar - I think this is a central issue I see repeated everywhere. It looks aesthetically pleasing at first but that space is always dead (is it clickable? I have no idea!). I would encourage you to make it more obvious what the "touch" zones are in the menu, and to maximize them as much as possible. For example on the right side of the menu there shouldn't be any space that isn't clickable.

Also, for power users (i.e. Mint) the search bar should be bigger. Even on Windows where it's barely usable because of random Bing and index stuff the search bar is full width on the menu.

The "Type here to search" text is too low contrast. My parents would not be able to read that. Similarly, in your screenshots, you should use a boldface font for the terminal text. On my QHD monitor it is difficult to read.

There is a desire in Linux desktop enviroments to wrap individual apps in a colored box associated with the app (e.g. Obsidian in light purple, Firefox in dark purple, etc.). I think this is ok but you should consider just using a single block of color like in the Windows taskbar.
GitHub Actions: Faster Python runs with cached virtual environments
Im not sure that one is unrelated to the offensive term.
Long Context
You’re just part of the plan to build a utopia on mars. Need to crack a few eggs to make an omelette according to the white man.
I feel like I still didnt fully understand what's going on here. Is the following correct? "Threads hava a 'canonical' stack that the OS auto-grows for you as you use more of it. But you can also create your own stack by putting any value you want in RSP. This is what the Go program did, and the vDSO, assuming it ran on an auto-growing stack, tried to probe it, which lead to corruption."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41006104#41006555

the flawed data was added in a post-processing step of the configuration update, which is after it's been tested internally but before it's copied to their update servers

per a new/green account
I feel like they started to get really bad when YouTube started offering the monthly subscription.
Bangladesh is experiencing a 'near-total' internet shutdown amid student protest
Well, that's an easy question to answer: it would take more standup meetings, more status reports, more story point estimation, more mandatory spyware, more quarterly (or monthly!) goal setting, more planning poker, more sprint retros and way more non-technical middle management. That is, after all, the only path to Agility. If it's not working, you're not doing it hard enough.
addressed somewhat to HN commenters in general and not just to you: it's okay to trust your first hand observations and real life experience from time to time instead of constantly reaching for increasingly complicated explanations for why you must be wrong when your experience doesn't match the data you've been fed
There's something of a difference between 'alternative scenarios' and demonstrating that the 'settled' story doesn't fit with the limited evidence. One popular example is that the exploit Crowdstrike claim was used wasn't in production until after they claimed it was used.
what happens if there's a 0-day RCE? 72 hours of your production systems hanging out in the open...
On a related note, I don't think that it's a coincidence that 2 of the largest tech meltdowns in history (this one and the SolarWinds hack from a few years ago) were both the result of "security software" run amok. (Also sad that both of these companies are based in Austin, which certainly gives Austin's tech scene a black eye).

IMO, I think a root cause issue is that the "hacker types" who are most likely to want to start security software companies are also the least likely to want to implement the "boring" pieces of a process-oriented culture. For example, I can't speak so much for CrowdStrike, but it came out the SolarWinds had an egregiously bad security culture at their company. When the root cause comes out about this issue dollars-to-donuts it was just a fast and loose deployment process.
However I'm using it it certainly isn't. It's certainly quite likely the problem is me, not Windows.

Most of the files that are getting corrupted are being written to in an append-only fashion, which is generally one of the mechanisms for writing to files to avoid corruption, at least on POSIX.
Those tools exist. Time travel debugging has existed in product-ready forms since the early 2000s let alone the advancements since then.

The problem is that game development companies are willing to invest money in buying quality tools to make their developers productive, where as traditional trillion dollar software companies prefer to let their developers wallow in filth.

Getting a company to invest 5,000$/yr into making their breathing revenue machines that cost 200,000$/yr and produce 1,000,000$/yr in revenue is like pulling teeth in this industry. Companies with breathing electrical engineer revenue machines do not bat an eye at 50,000$/yr in making them productive. Think about how much cool and effective tooling you could get with that kind of budget. But if you are not willing to spend even one coffee worth on your tooling, then one coffee of productivity is all you get to have.
I can see you lamenting the loss of your internet points. Chin up
I use Explorer Patcher on a windows 11 machine. It had a history of crash loops with Explorer that they implemented this circuit breaker functionality.
From the outside looking in, that's mind blowing.
Apparently no internet traffic in or out. Spotty phone calls at best. As the article says, regimes use increasingly use internet shutdown to stifle dissent.
I mean... the DNC thought Bernie hacked them so...