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> It is a return to the status quo

No, it isn't because we've had 40 years of Congress writing laws assuming Chevron deference. If you're a programmer of any kind, think of it like one of our constraints or preconditions that you've built your entire software stack on suddenly changes or is removed.

Imagine your server was built assuming all packets would arrive in order because the networking layer beneath you guaranteed that. Now it doesn't.

> because the higher courts are going to start to refuse to hear cases

So the only court with discretion as to whether they want to hear a case or not is the Supreme Court. Every other court must hear a case brought to them, even if it's just to dismiss it, which they need to issue a ruling for.

> A prison telco can bring any suit they like, but it's not like the removal of the Chevron defense requires the court to accept the case

With Chevron, the courts would simply say "by Supreme Court precedent, we have to defer to Federal agencies on any ambiguous legislative language". That's quite literally what "deference" means.

Now they don't.

So a district court has the authority to rule on matters they previously didn't and we've seen courts do just that for things the judge simply doesn't like.

Worse, there's not even a statute of limitations on challenging Federal regulations anymore, thanks to Corner Post [1]. Previously there was a 6 year period from instituting a rule to challenge it. Now it's 6 years from when the injury began, which means you can challenge a century old rule by simply starting an LLC, knowing that the rule exists, and then saying you've suffered injury. That's not an exaggeration.

You also do that in a favorable jurisdiction to get a favorable judge to block the ruling. This is what happens in Texas. Previously most of the rulings friendly to patent holders came out of one court with one judge from the Eastern District of Texas. Now a lot of issues are coming from one judge in the Northern District of Texas.

Both of these courts are in the Fifth Circuit, which itself tends to be friendly to such causes.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner_Post,_Inc._v._Board_of_...
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But we don’t know how much larger the models will have to be, how large the data sets or how much trianing is needed, do we? They could have to be inconceivably large.

If you want to correct for this particular problem you might be better off training a face detector, an eye detector and a model that takes two eyes as input and corrects for this problem. Process then would be:

- generate image

- detect faces

- detect eyes in each face

- correct reflections in eyes

That is convoluted, though, and would get very convoluted when you want to correct for multiple such issues. It also might be problematic in handling faces with glass eyes, but you could try to ‘detect’ those with a model that is trained on the prompt.
Not at all. Tracking pixels are installed by advertisers so they can understand if advertising on platform A, B, C actually drives business outcomes X, Y, Z. In other words, they're primarily a tool to see whether you're getting value for the ad dollars you're spending.

(Their secondary purpose is to let you show ads to people who already came to your website, i.e.: focusing your ad dollars on people who might actually care about your products and services in the first place)
Setting aside personal opinions, I think the protocol is useful but should be able to encompass any payment system/blockchain thru a completely neutral and agnostic interface.
"hallucination" was coined in the context of text generating RNNs. Specifically in this blog post by Karpathy in 2015:
https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/
IIHS research finds little evidence that partial automation prevents crashes
I have the personal impression that it would be a net positive if all emails were written as text.

Ok, in some cases I see why html would make some sense. In those cases, my opinion is: send text and invite the person to view markup content in their browser.

The e-mail context is not suitable for markup, styling, and all this stuff.
Exactly. If you are going to demand a ton of different companies build different parts of a product, integration issues are unavoidable.
Not like the security software has ever stopped it.
This is what happened to us. We had a small fraction of the fleet upgraded at the same time and they all crashed. We found the cause and set a flag to not install CS on servers with the latest kernel version until they fixed it.
No, ClamAV doesn't have an iOS version. There are plenty of iOS-specific AV programs available if you need one, though.
I mean, this isn't a support forum.

But working with hundreds of computers, running many different distributions of Linux for decades, they just haven't ever seen what you're describing. It's really hard to reconcile what I read here with my hands-on experience.
> AFAIK if you install a bad kernel driver into any major OS the result would be the same

Updates should not be destructive. Linux doesn't typically overwrite previous kernels, and bootloaders let users choose a kernel during startup.

Furthermore, an immutable OS makes rollback trivial for the entire system, not just the kernel (reboot, select previous configuration).

I hope organizations learn from this, and we move to that model for all major OSes.

Immutability is great, as we know from functional programming. Nix and Guix are pushing these ideas forward, and other OSes should borrow them.
it was a kernel mode driver.
>Not sure what questions Microsoft have to answer.

The only thing I could think of is if it was a driver update, the driver has to be "WHQL" signed. WHQL stands for "Windows Hardware Quality Lab" -- what quality are they ensuring? (spoiler alert from my time at Microsoft: it's not terribly robust :p )

It's not realistic for Microsoft to test drivers in a manner that represents real-world usage, but perhaps they need to start doing some basic "it works with whatever integrated agent/etc is required" testing as a requirement for signing a driver.

If it was a user-mode update? Yeah no real fault on Microsoft here.
At least, using carbon fiber makes sense when the problem is to hold pressure inside your vessel vs trying to do the opposite.
What, didn't they revoke the rest later the same week?
Right, I see what you're saying, but this is what I'm disputing - in two player games, what you wrote is true, but those properties of Nash equilibria don't generalise.

When there are more players, there can be multiple Nash equilibria, and (unlike the two player case) combinations of equilibrium strategies may no longer be an equilibrium strategy. So it's no longer true that you cannot be exploited, because that depends on other player's strategies too, and you cannot control those.

(See this paper for instance: https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~games/poker/publications/AAM...)
Is there are reason bone marrow has to be inside bones. Couldn't you graft a bone marrow organ next to the liver or something?
I'd be highly surprised if ATC systems were affected by this, but if anyone wants to correct me please do.
eating less meat seems like the biggest thing individuals can do here. Animal waste/fertilizer runoff/agricultural waste seems like the biggest contributor.

any other suggestions?
The problem is concentration risk and incentives. Everyone is incentivized to follow the herd and buy Crowdstrike for EDR because of sentiment and network effects. You have to check the box, you have to be able to say you're defending against this risk (Evolve Bank had no EDR, for example), and you have to be able to defend your choice. You've now concentrated operational risk in one vendor, versus multiple competing vendors and products minimizing blast radius. No one ever got fired for buying Crowdstrike previously, and you will have an uphill climb internally attempting to argue that your org shouldn't pick what the bubble considers the best control.

With that said, Microsoft could've done this with Defender just as easily, so be mindful of system diversity in your business continuity and disaster recovery plans and enterprise architecture. Heterogeneous systems can have inherent benefits.
Depends how big the cliff is and whats at the bottom.
Yes, the background changes instantly, but video replacement is slower, therefore for an moment the old video shadow background appears distinctly from the site's background color. This is on M1 Max 64 with latest Chrome.

Also, there's a problem with responsive text reflow on your personal site, I've only noticed because I'm using a tiling wm.

I've made videos to showcase

https://gofile.me/7cmOh/e1dTClPiT

https://gofile.me/7cmOh/VyHzagGGa
Mapping the landscape of gen-AI product user experience
Assuming Sky since the URL slug shows "Microsoft"
I might be wrong about it, but I feel that malware with root access can wreak quite a havoc. Imagine that this malware decides to forbid launch of every executable and every network connection, because their junior developer messed up with `==` and `===`. It won't cause kernel crash, but probably will render the system equally unusable.
If you ask “Why do we have to compose music in the style of the past?”, it’s pretty ironic that you give two examples of styles that are explicit throwbacks. Why is your new music trying very hard to seem like it’s 40 years old?
About as fresh looking as iOS7 back in 2013, which is to say it's 11 years out of fashion, and I already didn't like it back then.

Not wanting to be too harsh, there are aspects that I like, but it doesn't "wow" me in any way. OSS design continuing the tradition of mimicking commercial software years after the fact.

Could be a lot worse, could be gnome 3 on release for example, but the floating menu at the top and the installation selection are silly. At least get rid of the latter, just pick a default.
Can only speak for the UK here, but having one computer system that is sufficiently functional for day-to-day operations is often a challenge, let alone two.
It's very bizarre to me how normalized we have made kernel-level software in critical systems. This software is inherently risky but companies throw it around like it's nothing. And cherry on top, we let it auto-update too. I'm surprised critical failures like this don't happen more often.
You guys aren't thinking clearly.

It's far more likely that the FCC knows the requisite surveillance is already integrated into the general telecom infrastructure in the country. There is no longer any need for special surveillance, because we already track everyone. Each prison just gets a ittle web page telling them which prisoner should be watched and why.

But don't worry. Even though we've now successfully integrated surveillance and tracking into our nation's telecom system, I'm confident they won't use any web app like the ones prisons will get to track people who are not in prison. /s

Anyway, it's zero cost to the telecoms, precisely because the requisite tech is already there and running 24/7. And guess who put it there? Who will opt out? No one, because the government wants that data. And the telecoms and government are collaborating to get it from every segment of society. I know this next part might be going a step too far, but it wouldn't surprise me if the real issue behind this is that the rank amateur idiot prison telecom companies don't collect good enough data. The powers that be may have decided to get the bumbling dimwits out of the way so they can see more clearly what's going on.
> They plan to add GPU acceleration in the next release: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/8553

You say they're planning to add a feature in the next release, but what you linked to is merely an uncompleted to-do item for creating a UI switch to toggle a feature that hasn't been written yet. I think you win the prize for the most ridiculous exaggeration in this thread. Unless you can link to something that actually comes anywhere close to supporting your claim, you're just recklessly lying.
You can still use local users, you just have to work a little harder to do so.
I think it's worth noting why this is happening. The country has been giving out degrees and jobs to people who instead of working and studying hard, to descendants of veterans in the country's war against pakistan, and this level of nepotism has been going on since the 70s which as you can easily imagine is not great for those who see the value in getting these "basic livelihood for hard work" things. So when people started protesting recently, because for anyone with half a brain this is completely wrong, the people without half a brain who benefit from this completely fucked system responded by killing and raping students and now there's no internet.

This is definitely how you drain a country of all its competent people very fast by the way.
How to fix Crowdstrike issue
Not by any strong computation method. It is based on method 3 which is "analogous comparison" which just say that we will compare it to a country with near circumstances (and Wikipedia doesn't specify how this is done. It is based on small arms survey [1]. I wouldn't take these numbers to a great length. It is even estimated before this conflict erupted.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180620231909/http://www.smalla...
Nah, that's not it. It's more like complaining that someone has to drive the train and therefore "is completely useless to me, it can't read my mind so it's trash".
A running problem for our society is that our individual temporal planning horizons are too friggin short. On average, any one of us will live at least 75 years, and most of us will live at least a decade longer. The older we get, the more we’re reliant on institutions and other people to take care of us. Given that, things like school lunches, after-school programs, and anti-pollution measures are shockingly cheap - you’ll live your twilight years in better health and in the care of better adjusted, smarter people who don’t have a cultural memory of your generation fucking their generation. Same with prisons, mental health resources, and programs for the homeless: we live in the societies that the people affected by these programs (or their lack thereof) will return to and we suffer the effects of defunding these programs in our daily lives. That’s not the debate we have about these, though - our discourse on almost any major policy considers an effect 20 years in the future to effectively be happening to someone else, and when we inevitably arrive at the can we kicked down the road, we treat it like god left it there by mistake and we just have to deal with it now.

There are things that convince me that whatever species eventually leaves earth to colonize the stars won’t be Homo sapiens in a meaningful sense, and this tendency is one of them.
What could you do with Open Source MemFree
You could deploy your own Hybrid AI Search Engine bases on your bookmarks, notes, and docs
You can start by indexing the best resources on a topic and then build a domain-specific AI search engine
You can first index all the documents of a website, and then build an intelligent answer assistant for a website
Ah, yeah, I'd say that fits 'panchromatic camera' then. The panchromatic imager on my setup uses the exact same CCD and covers the exact same spectral range (350nm-1000nm), but it doesn't have the HSI lenses/filters. The company actually sells a smaller unit that is made from the same imager, but with the HS lens/filters.
It's VERY easy to blame CrowdStrike and companies like them as they are the one LOBBYING for those checkboxes. Both zscaler and Crowdstrike spent 500K last year lobbying.
A business that is party to a contract that requires the use of such software.
They just developed a new framework that allows drivers to work just in user space https://developer.apple.com/documentation/driverkit
It's often the case that the paper fallbacks can't handle anywhere near the throughput required. Yes, there's a mechanism there, but it's not usable beyond a certain load.
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I don't blame Windows, but do blame these systems for running Windows, if that makes sense.

I imagined a lot of this ran on some custom or more obscure and hardened specialty system. One that would generally negate the need for antiviruses and such. (and obviously, no, not off the shelf Linux/BSD either)
Never if they can help it and have heard of Santander
> There is always tension between business people and engineering.

Really? I think this situation (and the situation with Boeing!) shows that the tension is between ultimately between responsibility and irresponsibility.

I cannot be said that this is a win for short-sighted and incompetent business people?

If people don't understand the risks they shouldn't be making the decisions.
Mustangs are famous for their high power and poor handling - there are lots of videos showing drivers doing burnouts, losing control, and striking the crowd they are showing off to.
WannaCry did about the same damage to be honest. To pretty much the same systems.

The irony is the NHS likely installed CrowdStrike as a direct reaction to WannaCry.
not expecting to be on the front page maybe
Why not both? I am perfectly happy to blame multiple parties, not just one.
Woah. That helps visualize it, thanks.
Another factor is that when NASA says the expected mission life is like 30 days or whatever, it doesn't mean they are designing to just meet that 30 day target. I can only speak to mechanical design, but the margins that NASA uses are huge, at least compared to consumer tech (I've worked in both). The 30 days is more like what they are "liable" for achieving per their directive. Liability isn't quite the right word, but the missions are pretty small in their official spec/definitions.
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A Brief Meeting with Google After the Apocalypse
There was a massive parallel implementation of Prolog running on literally 256 processors: BA-Prolog (http://fraber.de/bap/). Unfortunately the hardware platform was abandoned some years later by Inmos.
I would rather know why water on mars evaporated and if there was life on mars when there was water on mars
What an infuriatingly poor article, Tom Clarke should be ashamed.

> A software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike has now taken a large number of those machines offline.

So Tom opens the article with the admission that it is CrowdStrike, not Microsoft.

> Thankfully, the update that caused the Microsoft meltdown did not affect these other software families - if it had, the impacts could have been catastrophic.

This is such a strawman (like the rest of the article honestly) I don't know where to begin. Inflammatory language.

A fucking "meltdown"? A meltdown of Microsoft, no less? Putting aside the fact that Microsoft and Windows are not the same thing, it is again nothing "meltdown" like that Microsoft did or could do.

> There are serious questions of course for CrowdStrike. As a leading provider of security software for large companies like Microsoft.

Tom, was you paid by CrowdStrike or what? What do you mean "of course"? It is literally the only party that should be answering questions here. I suspect that even if Tom were to "question" Microsoft their answer about kernels, drivers, privileges, and how shipping seemingly untested code into the core of an operating system is a bad idea wouldn't even be comprehendible for him.

> The situation may also lead to calls from Microsoft users about what more the company could do to ensure products made for their software aren't going to cause major outages like this one.

This is getting absurd now, and I just can't give more energy to this. OK, it could now insist only memory safe languages such as Rust are allowed for drivers. Or outright permanently blacklisting drivers from certain vendors. The bitching and moaning from manufacturers would then, of course, have people like Tom writing articles like "Microsoft is making manufacturers lives harder, think of the poor IT professionals!".

> Any engineer will tell you over-reliance on one system leaves you open to a "single point of failure". Critical digital infrastructure has to have redundancy - back up systems - built in to ensure it is resilient.

Please Tom, tell us more on your thoughts about memory safe languages, failure recovery modes, the unikernel vs microkernel debate, and how it's just a simple matter of overnight making operating systems "not a single point of failure".

This entire article is some kind of exercise in trying to get everything wrong while meeting a minimum word count, and I bet with some ChatGPT thrown in there too.

I flagged this post because I think it's far below even the minimum quality level for HN. It's outright clickbait drivel.
Sure, but note the sales pitch was to encourage resiliency through diversity. While that may not be helpful in cases where one vendor may push the same breaking change through to multiple platforms, it also may be helpful. I remember doing some work with a mathematics package under Solaris while in university, while my peers were using the same package under Windows. Both had the same issue, but the behaviour was different. Under Solaris, it was possible to diagnose since the application crashed with useful diagnostic information. Under Windows, it was impossible to diagnose since it took out the operating system and (because of that) it was unable to provide diagnostic information. (It's worth noting that I've seen the opposite happen as well, so this isn't meant to belittle Windows.)
Yes buy the more high available you do the more it costs and it's not like this happens every week.
Unfortunately the West can only provide air defense systems, not magic lasers that automatically shoot everything down every time. This is classic terrorism, where the defender has to be right every time, but the attacker only has to be right once.
Good candidate to do a copy and paste write up you send to everyone who asks.
Gravity is proportional to 1/r^2 (r being distance), so you could take a stab at computing your ISS question with that info.

The centripetal force question is a little more challenging, but still in the realm of algebra. The complicated part is setting up the problem and understanding where the forces are coming from and if/how they cancel each other.
I'm not a biologist, so I'm curious to understand the implication of less oxygen in water. I can intuitively think that less life will survive, but what else happens? Is there a way to "inject" oxygen into the ocean?
I live in Scotland. It pishes down most days and I’m surrounded by lochs and rivers.
its strange how people who work in professions that are considered crucial infrastructure are held to such a high standard but there's always some tech problem that cripples them the hardest
Amen, brother. I was an advocate for prison reform before getting locked up, but once you're inside and you find out how truly insane everything is, you realize that jails and prisons are where decency and kindness go to die.

I'm in a Zoom conference with the federal court in 45 mins trying to get two constitutional violations at the biggest jail in the country fixed, but obviously the government's lawyers are maintaining that this jail is too big to fix the problems. The judge's line is that if the smallest jails in the country can not violate the rights of the detainees, why can't the biggest? The government is adamant that their size protects them from having to say, provide a working mail system.
Looks awesome. Is there a way to load saved templates?