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> According to NASA, Perseverance has used all of its available instrumentation to study Chevaya Falls. "We have zapped that rock with lasers and X-rays and imaged it literally day and night from just about every angle imaginable," said Ken Farley, Perseverance project scientist. "Scientifically, Perseverance has nothing more to give."

> The discovery provides some wind in the sails for NASA's flagging efforts to devise and fly a Mars Sample Return mission. The agency's most recent plan, costing $11 billion, was determined to be too expensive. Now, the space agency is asking the industry for help. In June it commissioned 10 studies on alternative means of returning rocks from Mars sooner, and presumably for a lower cost.

> Now, scientists can point to rocks like Chevaya Falls and say this is precisely why they must be studied in ultra-capable labs back on Earth.

Do they have any more sample tubes left on the rover to use for this rock?
They'd also need to know every user has upgraded the boot loader such that the system doesn't depend on those compromised keys!

That does make it quite difficult to pull off any kind of key rotation. I'm not sure, but I think (well known Secure Boot tool) sbctl is saying that you can sign a bootloader with multiple keys, which would permit creating a bootloader that would work with the compromised & the new root-of-trust, which at least opens some window of possibility. https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl/blob/master/docs/sbctl.8.t...
https://help.openai.com/en/articles/5722486-how-your-data-is...

Updated a week ago:

ChatGPT, for instance, improves by further training on the conversations people have with it, unless you opt out.
Key quote from article, via author's tweet thread [1]:

> The problem is that these nodules are not sterile globules of free resources, like some computer game world. They are in fact the underpinning keystone in a complex food web which we barely glimpse through the handful of studies which have focused on them. What we do know is this: the nodules themselves are coated with living beings, one in particular, the stalked glass sponge, is considered a key structural species. The trophic webs which exist in these deep abyssal zones rely on the nodules as the only physical structural support to anchor onto, the soft sediment being incapable of supporting these species. The cascading effects of removing the nodules flows upwards to the sediment and filter feeders, the scavengers, omnivores and carnivores.

Context is this article on the recently discovered polymetallic nodules on the ocean floor that generate oxygen [2], which in addition to supporting ecosystems on earth may be a way to generate oxygen on other planets.

[1]: https://twitter.com/Paracelsus1092/status/181600944073626051...

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jul/22/...
I don't think this principle extends to math proofs. It's much, much easier to verify a proof than to create it, and a second proof will just be a footnote. Not many mathematicians will want to work on that. That said, there is a lot of distance between IMO and the frontiers of research math.
To me, software in the 2000s was better than any software today.
That can't be memory mapped, so I'd need to rewrite my KVS code which currently expects to be able to return a pointer to the raw on-flash image of the config data. Doable but a pain.
I wonder too sometimes, there was a strong love between us. I thought that would be enough, but somehow it wasn't for me.

Reading the article really helped highlight some failings:

>The type of person I’m assuming we’re looking for here is 1) someone that you will find fascinating to talk to after you’ve talked for 20,000 hours, 2) you feel comfortable with them talking through the hardest and most painful decisions you will face in your life, and 3) the conversation is wildly generative for both of you, in that it brings you out, helps you become.

With my Ex, we were great at (2), but (1) and (3) were lacking and we'd resort to friends and colleagues to get that feedback.
AMD EPYC 9755 128C256T 2.7GHz-4.1GHz
If you're using this on an iPhone, the failure is quite non-informative. Trying to browse to a URL looks like you failed to input anything and it just falls to a blank screen.

On the Mac, you'll see the message "Safari can’t open the page. The error is: “The operation couldn’t be completed. No such file or directory” (NSPOSIXErrorDomain:2)".
> Apple has a knack for finding restrictions where they would otherwise never exist.

And there are plenty of apologists ready to explain how it's your fault.
The Wikipedia page says it was actually segmented memory rather than paging as it is defined today.
There is a difference though.

The iconic example from Ninotschka is man walks into a coffee shop and asks for coffee without milk, server says we’re all out of milk but have cream. Black coffee is black coffee, but what matters is the act of saying no to something.

Sublation is not equal to something not existing or being.
Isn't Oracles Java also OpenJDK? I was under the impression that these days pretty much nobody has their own independent jdk anymore, all are more or less repackaging openjdk. In the same vein, nobody is using just plain openjdk, they are almost always using some build/distro of openjdk (of which Oracles is one of)
Not so much? Like I said: decaf beans often are more expensive, and they believe margin hits for decaf are unlikely, which is probably not at all true unless you're talking about Starbucks.
Also this older Python package: https://django-haystack.readthedocs.io/en/master/
I'd note I didn't say you copied it, just that I created it first (i.e. "compare paper to docker". also, as you note, its possible someone else did it too, but at least my conception got through academic peer-review / patent office, yeah, there's a patent, never been attempted to be enforced though to my knowledge).

when I describe my work (I actually should have used quotes here), I generally give air quotes when saying it, or say "proto docker", as it provides context for what I did (there's also a lot of people who view docker as synonymous with containerization as a whole, and I say that containers existed way before me). I generally try to approach it humbly, but I am proud that I predicted and built what the industry seemingly needed (or at least is heavily using).

people have asked me why I didn't pursue it as a company, and my answer is a) I'm not much of an entrepreneur (main answer), and b) I felt it was a feature, not a "product", and would therefore only really profitable for those that had a product that could use it as a feature (which one could argue that product turned out to be clouds, i.e. they are the ones really making money off this feature). or as someone once said a feature isn't necessarily a product and a product isn't necessarily a company.
It is possible to use Secure Boot as part of a fully verified bootchain. The firmware verified the bootloader. The bootloader verifies the kernel (and kernel arguments, and ramdisk...), the kernel verified all executables. Userspace programs verify critical data files.

There are systems out there that do this, and having something like Secure Boot is essential to their design (as is measured boot, which is the main mechanism TPMs leverage).

However, this solution is utterly unworkable for the personal computer market. Instead, we have a bunch of general purpose kernels signed to run on any computer, but which are willing to run any userspace you through at them.
Well it's either getting a positive RoI or not, if you just want to give Swiss people some tax revenue back, why not just give them a tax cut? Losing productivity is money that's just being thrown away, even if you ignore all the additional operating costs, I don't think you'd have to lose much productivity to make up the difference. I'm not sure what the average pay of Swiss civil servants is, but I can't imagine one standard E5 license (~€40/month) is far off an hours work.
I like and use OpenAI products but I’m so sick of these announcements. Ship or GTFO. We are still waiting on a whole slew of things (like Sora or new voice chat) and I’ve lost track of what’s actually released and what’s just announced.
> 100K reads/writes of a 32-bit register

You'll hit almost no bugs if you keep accessing the same address in a loop. Lucky you :)
this is redis for me.
Compare also:

一 / 1 (one stroke vs three)

十 / 10 (two strokes vs four)

万 / 10,000 (three strokes vs seven)
Our definition of savvy probably differs.
what are your biggest drawbacks?
Lambda and Fargate are implementations of the idea, not a way for you yourself to do any kind of KVM container provisioning. You can't generally do this on EC2; you need special instances for it.

For a variety of reasons, I'm pretty familiar with Firecracker.
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> but what "support" do corporations running Java need?

I’m guessing it all comes scale and bloat.

A hack from 5 years ago to store critical metadata in some schemaless blobs needs to be migrated from an unsupported system to a newer one. The new system uses an updated Java version, and it turns out this gets inexplicably slow when parsing parts of the metadata blobs. Also, maybe JNI is involved, or nobody knows how to build the project, etc.

If this was a startup then two devs would pull an all nighter and come up with an even worse hack. Or would offload that to a random cloud platform, burning vc money. Or would not use Java in the first place. Or the startup would not survive / pivot.

In a large corporation I guess there’s support.
@dang doesn't work. hn@ycombinator.com does though.

(I just saw this one randomly)
> Why do we not do the same to Israeli companies? AIPAC.

When the israeli leader can visit congress at his leisure and nearly everyone in congress claps at the israeli leader like trained seals, do we really have to ask?

Besides, it's illegal to boycott israeli companies in like 38 states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#/media/File:Anti...

All the nonsense about russia and china, the biggest threat to american freedom seems to be israel. And yet every politicians seems to be whoring for israel. Strange.
Or, there will be a a long series of unintended consequences and people will scam the system like what happened in America.
Are you arguing computer chess players are as popular as human chess players?
> to have a tool that is external to the VM (runs on the hypervisor host) that essentially has "read only" access to the kernel running on the VM to provide visibility into what's running on the machine without an agent running within the VM itself

Not quite what you are after, but comes close ... you could run gdb on the kernel in this fashion and inspect, pause, step through kernel code: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11408041/how-to-debug-th....
I'm sure humans will always enjoy chess and art regardless of how much better AI is at it. In the same way, there will probably always be mathematic hobbyist who study math for fun. But I seriously doubt that in the near future there will be mathematicians who will be publishing new advancements that aren't mostly or entirely discovered by AI. A human might get credit for a proof for asking the initial question, but there is pretty much no world where a computer can easily solve a meaningful mathematical problem but we insist on a human solve it more slowly and expensively instead.
How I Use Git Worktrees
> it’s hard to imagine why more than a handful of researchers would use them

If you could automatically prove that your concurrency protocol is safe, or that your C program has no memory management mistakes, or that your algorithm always produces the same results as a simpler, more obviously correct but less optimized algorithm, I think that would be a huge benefit for many programmers.
The idea behind that is neat. And well, the conversion from the ladder diagram to PLC bytecode is intentionally so trivial that it can be done by hand if the ladder diagram is drawn in certain way (which is the way the first PLCs were programmed).

Then there is the reality: every single one of Simatic projects I have seen was done by “PLC programmers” and had this peculiar feature of using the abstractions the wrong way around. Straightforward logic written as Instruction Lists (ie. assembly that produces the bytecode) and things that were straightforward sequential programming built from ridiculously complex schematic diagrams.
so I did a check, it would seem that gvisor with kvm, mostly works for bare metal, not on existing VMs (nested virtualization).

https://gvisor.dev/docs/architecture_guide/platforms/

"Note that while running within a nested VM is feasible with the KVM platform, the systrap platform will often provide better performance in such a setup, due to the overhead of nested virtualization."

I'd argue then for most people (unless have your own baremetal hyperscaler farm), one would end up using gvisor without kvm, but speaking from a place of ignorance here, so feel free to correct me.
Same thing happened to me, but when I tried to redeem the gift card, the checkout computer crashed and entered a reboot loop
Looks a little like Labview without the data flow features. Interesting.
Why does it not extend to math proofs?
That's a good point. The formalizer was used to created the training data for the proof solver, so they likely worked on it more than if they just used it as a preprocessing step during inference. It is still possible that they worked on the formalizer until they got good results from it enough to create good training data, and then began training as soon as possible and did not spend too much time trying to improve the formalizer. Depending on how long the training was expected to take, perhaps that is a reasonable assumption. Although I think I agree more with your view now.
Can someone explain why proving and math problem solving is not a far easier problem for computers? Why does it require any “artificial intelligence” at all?

For example, suppose a computer is asked to prove the sum of two even numbers is an even number. It could pull up its list of “things it knows about even numbers”, namely that an even number modulo 2 is 0. Assuming the first number is “a” and the second is “b”, then it knows a=2x and b=2y for some x and y. It then knows via the distributive property that the sum is 2(x+y), which satisfies the definition of an even number.

What am I missing that makes this problem so much harder than applying a finite and known set of axioms and manipulations?
Cortex-Ms, man. A lot of 'em you just give 3.3V and a couple of bypass caps, and GCC will use the single-cycle hardware MAC (for M4 and above) if you just write the straight-forward C code and you can put it on there in 600ms with DFU. I'm a hobbyist, not an embedded wizard, but it really seems *pretty* good compared to what I understand about the old days.

(Like I like retro stuff and during COVID I bought an old DSP56k dev board with a book about the assembly language but oh boy, oh dear)
The premise may not hold - you're right - but the logic seems to.
Right, OLE documents are comparable to read/write filesystems inside a file. The only mechanism given to make sure it is sparse was to create a new filesystem by having the application walk the existing one, basically a copy-based garbage collection.

Powerpoint files can be megabytes larger due to unused graphic artifacts; Word documents may contain older revisions of the text that contain deleted sections. Other things like the MSI installer file format are also OLE documents.

Microsoft eventually made Save in Office apps always create a new sparse filesystem to prevent these problems.
Are you claiming it has no security vulnerabilities? If yes, care to present a proof. If no, then please estimate how big of a bug bounty would result in a reported critical vulnerability.

If I put up a 1 G$ bug bounty, do you think somebody would be able to claim it within a year? How about 10 M$? Please justify this in light of Google only offering 250 k$ [1] for a vulnerability that would totally compromise the security foundation of the multi-billion (trillion?) dollar Google Cloud.

Please also justify why the number you present is adequate for securing the foundation of the multi-trillion dollar cloud industry. I will accept that element on its face if you say the cost would be 10 G$, but then I will demand basic proof such as formal proofs of correctness.

[1] https://security.googleblog.com/2024/06/virtual-escape-real-...
The best discussion is here: https://leanprover.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/219941-Machi...
This happened in South Korea in the late 70s when the founder gave 100% of his stake in a famous pharmaceutical company.

Fast forward to 2024, the employers who now own the company are fighting amongst each other, involved in bribery, and the company is now at risk of a hostile takeover perhaps even bankruptcy as they've been losing market share steadily after it became 100% employee owned 50 years ago.
It will depend on your taste buds but I find that in bean form you can get reasonably good decaf coffees. Try a local roaster and one that was roasted 1-2 weeks ago or so. In instant it is very hard! This one is alright: https://www.republicaorganic.com.au/products/organic-decaf-i...
How do you reconcile having to use multiple apps to get to the information you want?
Really depends on the use-case, but yeah the response happens in a proportional manner.

We also follow the tit-for-tat forgiveness policy to ensure old bans are given a second chance. Mostly, we want the nuisance to sometimes randomly work, as it wastes more of their time fixing bugs.

And note, if a server is compromised and persistently causing a problem... we won't hesitate to black hole an entire country along with the active Tor exit nodes and known proxies lists (the hidden feature in context cookies).

Have a great day friend, =3
The price difference between cheap supermarket coffee and high-end local roaster is large enough (up to 10x) that the potential additional cost for decaffeination doesn't seem that big of a deal if you're looking for coffee at the higher end of the quality scale.
I don't and never have used Lab view, but I am interested in adding features to better visualize data flow. I feel like this can easily err on the side of being confusing/annoying, but do you like Labview's data flow features?
Not super impressed. It has the same problem as Google in that street names are displayed much too sparsely, making it hard to orient yourself. Additionally, the satellite view is too dark, at least in my area.

The imagery looks clean but the minimum altitude is much higher than what Google offers, so it's hard to evaluate. (Helpful tip to mapping providers: you don't need more resolution, just let me zoom in on your existing imagery! There is no reason whatsoever to stop at 1:1.)

No street-view functionality appears to be present. Not sure if it's supposed to be, but it's certainly a dealbreaker if not.

And then, yes, there's the matter of failing to support commonly-used browsers, even though it works fine in those browsers when appending a bogus subdirectory name as someone else pointed out.

Bottom line, if there's any reason to use this over Google Maps I'm not seeing it.
I'm learning something new today. In some other languages these 2 are usually the same 1 word.
I have no idea who you're talking to, but nobody on this thread has claimed anything has "no security vulnerabilities". If you think there isn't an implicit 7-figure bounty on KVM escapes, we are operating from premises too far apart for further discussion to be productive.

My bigger problem though: I gave you a bunch of substantive, axiomatic arguments, and you responded to none of them. Of the three of them, which were you already aware of? How did your opinion change after learning about the other ones? You cited a 2007 Theo argument in 2024, so I'm going to have trouble with the idea that you were aware of all of them; again, I think even Theo would be correcting your original post.

later

You've written about the vulnerability brokers you know in other posts here; I assume we can just have a substantive, systems based debate about this claim, without needing to cite Theo or Joanna Rutkowska or whatever.
Funny, Apple Maps via DDG works just fine on Firefox. What a bunch of jerks.

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=US&iaxm=maps
Very sorry about this. We hope to get in a Linux product soon (building now, fingers crossed).

Thanks Dan for the edit!
I'm guessing this is going to be even more opinionated than, say, Google has started to be, about what I'm allowed to search for and which results it's good for me to see. And...

> Publishers will have a way to “manage how they appear in OpenAI search features,”

Oh, goody.
This fails to consider the possibility that the display hardware will be tampered with. It also does not consider if a copy of the picture is made and is then displayed by a separate program that pretends that the booting is slower than it actually is.

> Would need some way to prevent anything else from drawing that section of the screen until you're past that stage of boot.

It might need to prevent drawing anything on the entire screen. Otherwise a program might be able to modify the resolution, refresh rate, etc, to try to hide the picture or to display a different one.
For branded products a seller would need an agreement with Kraft or Johnson and Johnson as a reseller before Amazon will let you list. Many companies do have multiple reseller (most with geographical limitations) but some like shoe companies are more strict.

Then you have Apple and Amazon creating the brand Amazon renewed to sell watches.
I've used undermind for literature search and it was very precise! Thanks for the product! I wonder how you plan to extend the search to full paper content (will Semantic Scholar api allow this) - and do you plan to connect more datasets (which ones)? (many of them are paid...)
Misleading title, it says they only have to open-source software when that software is explicitly written for use by the government.
Not that I endorse this in general but I was personally so busy heads down with work I had no idea about any of this until it came and went. It did not affect any of our companies (directly) when it happened so it never came up on my radar. Having said that, as a routine policy I do tend to explicitly ignore things because it’s easy to get caught up in all this. At the end of the day these are silly YouTube videos that are, let’s face it, cruising for attention and clicks. They’ll latch onto anything anytime because that’s the hit their audiences crave. The salient point is that will continue happening regardless of this brief note, which empirically is what has been driving my disengagement rather than attempting to “set the record straight” which I think is a moot point.
I have one of these as a boot disk (Medicat) for this exact reason.

Also because some of the software included in Medicat is flagged by some anti-virus software and I don't want them removed.
Convenient way to quickly add extra debugging capability without rerunning. It isn't much different from the many `curl example.com/install.sh |bash` you see around. It's up to the user to check things out before running.
It has a certain charm to it :)
The only shot glass you need for anything (if anything is voka or tea) was designed (allegedly) by Vera Mukhina.

As for pineapples etc, there was a poem in Soviet Russia:

“Eat your pineapples,
chew hazel grouse,
your last day is coming, bourgeois!”
Probably less well? They rely heavily on the dataset of existing problems
These kind of LLMs are also very interesting for software engineering. It's just a matter of replacing Lean with something that is more oriented towards proving software properties.

For example, write a formal specification of a function in Dafny on Liquid Haskell and get the LLM to produce code that is formally guaranteed to be correct. Logic-based + probability-based ML.

All GOFAI ideas are still very useful.