skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don’t go looking at pony’s source code for inspiration. The api is neat but when your app starts to get complicated it begins to not work well.
Show HN: Phi-3-MLX – Language and Vision Models for Apple Silicon
Phi-3-MLX is an open-source framework that brings the latest Phi-3 models to Apple Silicon using the MLX framework. It supports both the Phi-3-Mini-128K language model (updated July 2, 2024) and the Phi-3-Vision multimodal model, enabling a wide range of AI applications.

Key features:

1. Apple Silicon Optimization: Leverages MLX for efficient execution on Apple hardware.

2. Flexible Model Usage:
- Phi-3-Mini-128K for language tasks
- Phi-3-Vision for multimodal capabilities
- Seamless switching between language-only and multimodal tasks

3. Advanced Generation Techniques:
- Batched generation for multiple prompts
- Constrained (beam search) decoding for structured outputs

4. Customization Options:
- Model and cache quantization for resource optimization
- (Q)LoRA fine-tuning for task-specific adaptation

5. Versatile Agent System:
- Multi-turn conversations
- Code generation and execution
- External API integration (e.g., image generation, text-to-speech)

6. Extensible Toolchains:
- In-context learning
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Multi-agent interactions

The framework's flexibility unlocks new potential for AI development on Apple Silicon. Some unique aspects include:

- Easy switching between language-only and multimodal tasks
- Custom toolchains for specialized workflows
- Integration with external APIs for extended functionality

Phi-3-MLX aims to provide a user-friendly interface for a wide range of AI tasks, from text generation to visual question answering and beyond.

GitHub: https://github.com/JosefAlbers/Phi-3-Vision-MLX
Documentation: https://josefalbers.github.io/Phi-3-Vision-MLX/

I would love to hear your thoughts on potential applications for this framework and any suggestions for additional features or integrations.
Quick fix that worked for us,
In safe mode:

1.enter in drive C:
2.system 32 folder
3. Drivers
4. Rename crowdstrike folder to something else doesent matter what.
The developer focus is because Google has considered it a developer offering, but this applies to all goo.gl links, AFAICT; they explicitly say they are turning off the link serving function at that domain.
Was just using the energy vic website and thought I'd been rate limited when their API stopped working. Seems like it could be this.
ngl, this is real scary
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Latest Crowdstrike Update Causes Blue Screen of Death on Microsoft Windows
A colleague of mine (networker and ham radio) engineered a small devices based on LoRa to connect over SSH to network gears consoles during a campus network migration.
Unfortunately, consistent self-care isn't easy for many people struggling with mental health issues.

Since you don't immediately feel worse after not taking your pill once, it's very easy to slip up if you aren't the most organized / functioning person.
Very nice! WC3/Dota inspired streaks on the demo flash cards?
This seems like it mostly tests whose code has the most test coverage, not which lines of code are most important?
You have to zoom in a bit, but the knob is there for the ride.

https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/lenovo-thinkpad-p1-gen-...
In terms of analysing risk factors to minimise something like this happening again, what are the factors at play here?

A Crowdstrike update being able to blue-screen Windows Desktops and Servers.

Whilst Crowdstrike are going to cop a potentially existential-threatening amount of blame, an application shouldn't be able to do this kind of damage to an operating system. This makes me think that, maybe, Crowdstrike were unlucky enough to have accidentally discovered a bug that affects multiple versions of Windows (ie. it's a Windows bug, maybe more-so than it is a Crowdstrike bug).

There also seems to have been a ball-dropped in regards to auto-updating all the things. Yes, gotta keep your infrastructure up to date to prevent security incidents, but is this done in test environments before it's put into production?

Un-audited dependence on an increasingly long chain of third-parties.

All the answers are difficult, time consuming, and therefore expensive, and are only useful in times like now. And if everyone else is down, then there's safety in the crowd. Just point at "them too", and stay the path. This isn't a profitable differentiation. But it should be! (raised fists towards the sky).
Related live HN discussion Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops (update: caused by a Crowdstrike update) (41 points, 52 minutes ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195
Small soft pine cones are also used for jams and flavored liquors.
In this conversation we’ve traveled trom “scientific fraud is rampant” to “you must somehow prove to me that all science is good” to “maybe scientists are human beings”. I think the first claim is made without evidence and I called the poster on it; the second is a bizarre goalpost-shift that I don’t think we have the resources to ever answer. But the third question is easy for me to answer: sure, scientists are human beings, with all their flaws.

But so what? What’s most interesting about the conversation we’re having is that even as folks make and fall back from specific arguments, the directional nature of the discussion doesn’t shift. All this tells me is that you don’t like scientists and are eager to land a punch against them, even if the punch is as weak as “they’re human.” This kind of conversation doesn’t have much value to me, since I can’t learn anything from it except that you have some strong emotions. But maybe it could be valuable to you?
Crazy- wasn’t Azure having an outage earlier today? Is this related?
Maybe they should publish the mapping of shortened url -> target page, for at least not losing all access to the legacy links
Related live HN discussion Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops (update: caused by a Crowdstrike update) (46 points, 52 minutes ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195
" I'm not 16 years old. I have grown up responsibilities, and I can't indulge myself in new hobbies every day. I'm focused (as much as I can) on building a business in order to escape the soul crashing tech industry ..."

But you're not escaping yourself, and those priorities, and that's probably why you feel trapped. Box your job into a 'job' category, along with the business and 'getting rich' and so on, and use the time outside that to explore other things life has to offer. Hobbies, sports, volunteering, may not sound enticing superficially but it's about meeting new and different people and getting outside yourself and your rut.
This is effecting our company. A colleague visited her local supermarket (Woolworths) and all the self-service checkouts were effected.
This information is really helpful for those who need this. I hope you will many more write posts like this. https://www-netbenefits.com
Foliate's core function is an ebook reader and not library management. Once installed you can double click your epubs to open them on foliate - it will not move around your stuff.

There is a library view in the app but it is mostly a history of recently accessed files.
First major version release of gfx-rs/wgpu
Between this and the Cyber Resilience Act sheesh
Show HN: One-Stop Resource for Curated Development and Programming Books
Anyone has a good news? or still it's on the BSOD loop?
we will found a troubleshooting , we start in revovery mode and rename the path
C:\windows\system32\drivers\Crowdstrike
To be fair, their FAQ wasn't vague at all about a 'paywall'
It totally is. Take Notion for example.
Interesting. Does it do any parsing of the output to try and detect progress indicators like 70% or does it just display the elapsed time asking with the last line of output?
You can try the FP approach today in most languages that are not even FP:

* Rust
* Kotlin
* Dart
* Java

Yep, even Java. Check this out: https://blog.jdriven.com/2021/10/sealed-classes/
>”Game theory optimal" (as poker players like to call it) is not really the optimal strategy. It's the nash equilibrium strategy assuming the other players are also playing a nash equilibrium strategy. As soon as one player deviates from the nash equilibrium it's not optimal anymore :).

This is not really what most people mean when they say “optimal strategy”. It’s true that exploitative play will make more money if you know exactly what your opponent is doing and if they keep doing it despite it not working. Neither of these will generally hold in an actual game.

The reason it’s called “optimal strategy” is because it works no matter what your opponent is doing. It will not make as much as a strategy tailored perfectly to your opponent but it will never lose to anyone under any circumstances, assuming infinite games (assuming infinite games just so we can ignore variance). The worse case the strategy has is break even to anyone else using it.
I use a fork of that!
Harvey Norman’s system is down
I can offer her a job! give me her numberrrrr
English is spoken very widely in Ukraine in fact, and was just promoted to an official status (not as a primary language, but to a secondary official status nonetheless) in the past month.
He doesn't really understand much of anything
internally or globally?
That's not the marketing message at the moment. I see ads for AI (LLM) powered services and they all say the same thing, "Stressed? Not enough time? Let AI do it faster so you can do more." AI is sold as a tool that can do things faster than a human can and since LLMs do not provide reference information, there is no telling where they got the data from and no way to verify it.
is there a fix ? servers , hosts everthing is down
Kubernetes seems to have gotten quite a bit of traction. I hear good things about transformers these days too. a lot of people I know use chrome
I'd guess that it's related. Azure, OneDrive, and Office 365 were having issues this morning Australian time (about 6 hours ago).
> an application shouldn't be able to do this kind of damage to an operating system

Antivirus software by its nature probably needs the kind of access that would let it bluescreen your computer.
c:\system32\drivers\csagent.sys renaming this file on server with safe mode boot fixes the issue but disables agent
People want to be able to include images in their emails, or bold text. HTML is fine for email, just turn images off by default
Buy a Quansheng uv-k5 radio. Is similar to Baofeng, but have a wider bandwidth coverage and you can charge with USB-C cable.
Well beyond even that, they're optimising for profit so they are looking for things like setting odds that match popular sentiment when the real outcome probability is significantly different.
Lebanon has a non-functional government where all publicly-owned everything basically doesn't work. Beirut is essentially a libertarian enclave now, where everyone with means has their own solar panels and gas generators, self-produces all power, and the economy runs on paper US dollars and cryptocurrencies. It's amazing what people can do when their governments are non-existent.
I'm new here; Hacker News is supposed to avoid the modern Reddit trap but feel it often falls into it. The topics are more relevant to me but the comments are often unbearably cynical and excessively dismissive
TBH I don’t even want the government knowing my address.
oh nonono thanks for posting lol
The open letter and sign-on opportunity can be found here: https://www.ow2.org/view/Events/The_European_Union_must_keep...
The perfect example of timing being everything; the joke could only have worked at that exact time and place.

At that time, right after the App Store debuted, there were so few apps that basically any app that appeared on it was newsworthy.
Do this at your own risk!!
Apparently there are two NON-OFFICIAL solutions:

1. Rename csagent.sys ( the file causing the BSOD )
2. Rename c:\windows\System32\Drivers\Crowdstrike

Again, do this at your own risk.
Both workaround have been reported as "working".
I am Linux user so I cannot tell.
is there a fix , more than 12000 pcs are affected
Related live HN discussion Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops (update: caused by a Crowdstrike update) (53 points, 58 minutes ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195
My entire emergency department got knocked offline by this. Really scary when you have ambulances coming in and are trying to stabilize a heart attack.

Update: 911 is down in Oregon too, no more ambulances at least.
Sorry if this is misleading: percentages are part of the standard log of the piped command (Swift compiler), you can see in the example on GitHub that without the utility, percentages are also present

> does it just display the elapsed time asking with the last line of output

so yeah, that's the behavior
Developing new artificial flavors is very expensive, is the explanation I've heard.
Even these days, when cops accidently pike themselves with needles when dealing with addicts, they go to HIV center for preventative drugs. So that they, a cop who got piked exactly once, do not get HIV.
im not worried at all :)
I commend the effort, it’s always nice seeing people working on usability improvements for staple systems tools. But I have to ask the following since given your ubiquity comment:

What’s the advantage of this over using tcpdump directly?
Doesn't actually look like. Noone really figured out the solution yet
> Serverless enforces good architectural practices

I'd argue it's the opposite. Since everything gets "thrown away" per request you neglect on caching, memory leaks, subtle bugs etc.

You also need to make trade offs like focusing on cold start as opposed to peak performance etc.
Instead of testing sparrows to infer blood lead in children why not just test the children?
If that’s the case I wonder why we’re only now seeing everyone’s systems BSODing. Should be an interesting write up (if they release one)
They want to make back the money they invested in OpenAI. We'll be seeing similar "research" (repackaging ChatGPT) from Microsoft for a while.
My View:EU's Unpredictable Policies Making Facebook to Scrap AI Plans
Thanks! Much appreciated. That sounds like exactly what I need right now.
PMs and Execs are pushing devs to do docs classification and extract data from text ("see I can do it on chatGPT!") so they're using Taylor (trytaylor.ai) to build production grade text pipelines ;)

In all seriousness, customer support was the first but the least impactful area for LLMs. Currently, LLMs are primarily used for developer efficiency and for info retrieval.
Proton Mail goes AI, security-focused userbase goes 'what on Earth'
This is the first I've heard of "Web 4.0," and the pairing of the terminology with "virtual worlds" is... interesting. Is the EU funding metaverse development in anticipation that it will be important (lol), or am I misinterpreting "virtual world" here?
The way the www used to be and should be. A true wild west! Nice job daughter!!!
Aren't they doing canary release? Seems weird this would not have been detected on a smaller scale before with a good release process.
How would you compare this to termshark / tshark?
TL;DR:

- 3.5% of vaccinated people who get COVID and 7.7% of vaccinated get long COVID. (It was higher in the early strains.)

- 90% of people who get long COVID had mild COVID symptoms.

- symptoms last from months to a year or more.

- research shows immune responses to COVID infections are still evident two to three years after a mild infection.

- research hints it's an auto immune disease.

Not mentioned here, but I was always fascinated by a practising doctor saying to him long COVID looked very like the cases of chronic fatigue syndrome he had seen, and chronic fatigue seemed be triggered by a previous infection.
It's also important to distinguish between the "Balkan" rachiu/rakija/whatever (which can be distilled from several types of fruit and isn't further processed) and the Turkish/Greek raki/ouzo (which is distilled from grape pomace, flavored with aniseed and generally drunken with water, which gives it a characteristic cloudiness - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rak%C4%B1).
People who downvoted you don't seem to comprehend the magnitude of the atrocities committed by Russians on the Ukrainian population.

And not even just now, but over decades, and centuries.

There is no way Russia can be allowed to survive in its current form. I believe Ukraine should, and will, do everything to topple Putin's regime, and exact punishment on Russian war criminals.

Anyone who may disagree with my post: what would the world have been like if Nazi Germany had conquered Europe? If the genocide of Jews and non-'Aryans' went unanswered? If Hitler's forces had been allowed to consolidate their new territories, and create a vast fascist neo-Germany?

If the world allows Russia to succeed, that's the kind of fascist future you'll need to imagine.
My wife is Romanian, and we visit the country once every year. There are plentiful of things to visit in Romania; the most beautiful cities are Sibiu, Sighișoara, Brașov, Timișoara… We have still to visit the famous painted monasteries in Bucovina, which seem to be amazing.
a temporary fix for this problem is out:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002486
Where Should Visual Programming Go?
Figma explains how its AI tool ripped off Apple's design
I love how the comments section quickly goes into "better fast benchmark winning code with surprising unexpected side effects" than "working code that is fast enough".
A lot of my guy friends have a crush on a lead character in it (not Elias or Elon, but a similar name?) and praise it extensively. I apparently read it one time and remember nothing about it, so YMMV but if you’re into hacker guys, you’ll apparently love it!
> Whilst Crowdstrike are going to cop a potentially existential-threatening amount of blame, an application shouldn't be able to do this kind of damage to an operating system.

It doesn't operate in user space, they install a kernel driver.
July Meeting: LUKS Disk Encryption in Windows
Neat project, keep going!

Any thoughts on how to differentiate your work from other cli packet capturing and display utilities such as gosniff or termshark?
Open-Source Anthropic AI Artifacts
No no, the new research does not have a proven track record of industry success, so it doesn’t count ;)
If the workstations are stuck in a boot loop, how will they be able to push a hotfix out?
Dollars have not been purchased with gold for a long, long time.

As a matter of fact, most dollars are indeed created without "paying something for them". Out of thin air. They are just points in a database, no more real than the Bitcoins you say need to be "mined".
Having lots of interfaces for common things is not a bad thing. See how Rust traits work... even basic structs you create will probably implement lots of basic traits (some of which can be done automatically, thankfully) like `Display`, `Default`, several `From` or `Into` impls, `Clone`, `Copy` if your type is "light", `AsRef`, `Send` and many more!

This makes code much more reusable as so many functions are written based on those basic traits alone.

Of course, finding the right basic types is really hard and your company seems to have done that badly, but in principle, having some basic types to model very common "things" is a necessary thing.
You can post this link in the ongoing discussion on the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195
Uninstall the Current Version:

Open the Command Prompt as an administrator.
Run the following command to uninstall the current version:
shell

sc delete csagent
This is literate programming! Why not just put the codebase in the wiki and not have two representations diverging. Why can't we have diagrams and links in code??? We can, like https://observablehq.com notebooks, it's a better representation for understanding.
On the contrary, this is how humanity advances - one "hold my beer and watch this" moment at a time.
As in you took the survey but declined the iPod or you didn't take the survey because they offered an iPod?
My wake up moment with google was when they accused a parent of being a pedophile, permanently banned their accounts, reported them the police, and then doubled down when they were proven wrong.

Not only due those degenerates have the gal to creep on people, they refuse to admit wrongdoing or make their victems whole.

Sickos. That's what they are. Sickos.
Conspiracy theories polarize society and provoke violence
Yes indeed glad you noticed! Been too addicted to that godforsaken game at points so figured borrow some of its qualities for my studying apps...in general I'm interested in gamification + studying.
At the end of the day, if you give an application a deep set of permissions, that's on you as an administrator, not the OS. This unchecked global rollout appears to just be a violation of every good software engineering practice we know.
They are only a pest outside their home range. In the UK they are in decline.

"Conservation of the house sparrow

Data suggests the UK's house sparrow population declined by 66% between 1977 and 2015, with urban populations faring worse than rural ones."

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/house-sparrow-passer-domestic...
Wading out my depth here, so forgive any stupidity following.

And there's a certain amount of sense to that, it has to get "under" the layer that viruses can typically get to, but I still think there should be another layer at which the OS is protected from misbehaving anti-virus software (which has been known to happen).
I agree that many AI coding tools have rushed to adopt naive RAG on code.

Have you done any quantitative evaluation of your wiki style code summaries? My first impression is that they might be too wordy and not deliver valuable context in a token efficient way.

Aider uses a repository map [0] to deliver code context. Relevant code is identified using a graph optimization on the repository's AST & call graph, not vector similarity as is typical with RAG. The repo map shows the selected code within its AST context.

Aider currently holds the 2nd highest score on the main SWE Bench [1], without doing any code RAG. So there is some evidence that the repo map is effective at helping the LLM understand large code bases.

[0] https://aider.chat/docs/repomap.html

[1] https://aider.chat/2024/06/02/main-swe-bench.html
what we do is safemode the PC and then open the run CMD as admin. then issue this command. sc delete csagent. reinstall crowdstrike using previous version.
Canary releases aren't a magical bug free fix. They might be doing it, but the conditions that trigger a problem can be sneaky and can happen outside your canary period, rendering it useless. It's a best effort method.
It is funny, because over focus on healthy eating and exercise can be a quirk ... or grow entirely into full on eating disorder. And that one is rather massive fck up.

> The rest of the population can eat Cinnamon Toast Crunch and drink Coke if that's what they want, but it's not going to be in our house.

And then the nutritionist and psychologist will beat into you that there is no such thing as junk food, it is just a food, and drinking coke wont harm you or your kid.
The Nakba was a Nakba because the countries surrounding Israel lost the war after they attacked Israel. Indeed they probably had genocidal ambitions.
safemode PC i mean
Mechanical Keyboard and Laptop = Clacktop
OpenAI was founded in 2015. That's long time for venture capital to wait for possibly getting ChatGPT out there.
Yes, this exists! Look up models based on counterfactual regret minimisation - they learn to exploit regularities in their opponents play, and often stray from the GTO play when it makes sense. I believe they have beaten poker professionals in thousands-of-hands playoffs but I may be misremembering.
temporary fix is released

https://x.com/s0lst1c3/status/1814182835269337548