skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They don't have to actually be executable. They are config that affects the way the code behaves. In fact its pointed out in TFA that the file was just all 0s so right now in order to prevent a machine with crowdstrike from booting you just have to above a file of all 0s in the right folder.
When did we start calling this "face scanning"?

Isn't it just literally taking a photo, like any digital camera?

To me "scanning" implies a 3D point cloud. Apple's TrueDepth camera, with a projected dot cloud, that it uses for Face ID -- that's scanning, as opposed to just a photo.

Are airports actually performing 3D scans now?

Or are they still just normal digital cameras, but people are calling it "scanning" because they want it to sound scarier than "photos"?
According the the humble games website though:

> Humble Games is an indie video games publisher owned by Humble Bundle that is dedicated to bringing you great games the Humble way.

So, humble bundle owns humble games, and this doesn't (explicitly) mean anything will happen to the humble bundle DRM free game store front
And still making 135B dollars in revenue, or 2M per employee. I don’t know what they do either lol, but I don’t mind that revenue supporting jobs.
Then what is the "source"? If we are to use the term "source" then what does that mean here, as distinct from it merely being free?
A geyser gazer friend of mine shared the following image pair: a "before" Google Earth image and a USGS overhead image captured today after the event. The debris field surrounding the spring is evident -- including the damaged boardwalk. (links to a png) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Dcd55YX7oF8KPrHsog75vPS_Mc9...
Perhaps your 'best' competition would be more like the Synology and QNAP type of deals. Anything beyond that doesn't fit in an appliance-style product.

Keep in mind that those brands also have connectivity, filing, user directories, network services (DHCP, NTP, NTP, L2 and L3 VPNs), but in practise they suffer from the same things small businesses have for decades: lack of internal knowledge. And since such systems are never set-and-forget, they would either need physical maintenance contracts (which SMBs can't afford) or remote SaaS-style maintenance which somewhat defeats the point.

The gap between people able to buy an appliance and people who know basic routing, DNAT and subnetting is really really big these days, and that's just to get things up and running. The next step up is still bigger gap than it used to be, but also quickly gets you into too-capable-to-be-a-market territory.

Maybe a better model is the one attempted by the private computing brands, I don't know a successful one of the top of my head but they generally have a NUC-like device with Linux on it with hardware root-of-trust and they present it as a portable-but-desktop computer that comes with a more trustworthy OS and network security. Some are based on heads & tails, others on Qubes OS, others just a fork of PostmarketOS with some Graphene in the mix. The early ones all failed because they just weren't useful to the average user, but the later ones didn't fail immediately while they were news.
People pay registration fees every year for domains. How is what you propose different than registrars setting different fees for different domains? Or: What entity should be entitled to the tax, and why?
x.509 is a certificate format used by many PKIs.

Let's Encrypt is a CA that is part of the WebPKI.

We follow standards set by the CA/B forum, undergo WebTrust Audits, and are accepted into the root programs run by the browser vendors (Primarily: Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft, and Chrome). That is the WebPKI.
About time we moved past the “safety” handwringing. Both the frontier models and high capability “open weight” models have been with us for over a year and a half, and we’re still in one piece.
How come no one ever looks at population density?

US cities have very low density compared to other cities in other countries.

New York is the exception, and their transit isn't that bad. But it's still lower than other major cities.
It’s less of boiling the frog and instead a deliberate salami slicing tactics coined by Hungarian communists. It’s more apt in that we are aware of what is being done but unable to resist because each small change is ‘trivial’ until they have the whole salami and by then it’s too late.

It should be noted the frogs regulate their body temperature by jumping in and out of water and thus do react to even slow increases of temperature.
More like vegetarians show up claiming to be vegans, then vegans show up and explain why eating animal products is still wrong.

That's the difference between open source and free software.
It's a bad sign when I immediately look at the screenshot and see quoting bugs.
> 7 / 2 = 3 is similarly nonsense. It's just more familiar.

It isn't nonsense. 7/2 represents a real number. You can round a real number up or down. So you can round 3.5 to 3. 7/0 doesn't represent a real number. It doesn't even make sense to do anything to an undefined number.
It means nothing because LLMs aren't software.
Open-weights models are not really open source.
Mac. Firefox
Async/await is clearly a feature in JS, though not for the reason the previous poster mentions. Async/await wasn't part of the language until 2017. If you don't like it, you can just use Promises. If you do that, there are no "colored function" (functions of color?).

As far as the article goes, I think the pattern in Ruby is great. I prefer it to JS. But the JS approach works fine and the whole controversy about colored functions is a little silly.

I would be interested in understanding why JS can't enable await from inside non-async functions. I (maybe naively) wonder if the compiler couldn't just figure out which functions to treat as async rather than making the programmer do it.
> With Palantir, or any other private company the government would need to find a Judge to sign off on a national security letter or a subpoena

Erm, only if the private company wants to keep the data from the government? But given we're talking about surveillance companies that make their money selling surveillance records, I'm pretty sure they're eager to give it to the government (for a price).
I seem to recall that there was a US Supreme Court decision stating that that is the essential purpose of a corporation. Looking for the citation, though.
> Then, a magnetometer and custom software register disruptions to the field that may indicate the presence of metal or magnets in and around a bike’s carbon-fiber frame.

Hmm, they could try building an energy storage spring made of some composite materials.
Have been looking at this myself and it seems the advice isnt good.

Its basically Cost/Speed/Size Pick 2 or maybe even 1.

Some people have been able to run large LLM's on older slower CUDA gpus. A lot of them are truly ancient and have found their way back to ebay simply due to market conditions. They aren't good, but they work in a lot of use cases.

There are a couple of janky implementations to run on AMD instead. But reviews have been so mixed that I decided not to even test it. Ditto multi GPU setups. I thought that having access to 16 8g AMD cards from old mining rigs would have set me in good stead but apparently it benches roughly the same as just using a server with heaps of RAM because of the way the jobs are split up.

The cloud services seem to be the best option at the moment. But if you are going to spend 100 bucks vs going to spend 1000 bucks it might be worth just to fork out for the card.

Also honestly, hoping that someone else has a better idea in this thread because it will be useful to me too.
It's not overly dramatic at all. Think about what these IT systems we build are fundamentally designed to do. An ID for everything, an event for every transaction, all of which are becoming more and more integrated under central authorities, whether intentionally or not.

I'm getting to the point where I'm not willing to implement these types of systems for anyone anymore. Not after seeing the breadth of data hoovering and consolidation being pursued.

At some point I just realized the only thing preventing these systems being used in the ways I dread is y'all being decent.

...I'm not willing to cut that check anymore. Seen too much.
> If you're ever in a situation similar to this, run as fast and as far as you can.

Yellowstone tourists have a proud tradition of not running from things they should be.
Back in the days of the kingdom of Alba no such convention existed — it was feudal.
Really nice work, but no mention of the benefits of upgrading to React 18 (hint: there are basically none, haven't seen any production example of concurrent rendering having a positive impact yet).

Which means most of this massive body of work has been invested solely to prevent code rot. It's a sad state of things.
Having been there recently, it definitely would not have been immediately clear to me that there would be a problem. The boardwalk is next to the pools but clearly not in structural danger. The videos show the eruption being basically vertical, so if you aren't directly next to it, it isn't obvious that the ejecta will spread out a little, and that doesn't happen for a couple of seconds. So if you aren't right next to it, it initially doesn't seem unsafe.

Also, you are likely to visit this area before Old Faithful, so the most you will have seen is some steam going up. My visit was the first time I'd ever seen a geyser, so I would have had no idea what to expect, and presumably the boardwalk is in a safe location. If it were unsafe, they wouldn't have built the boardwalk there, right? (And it doesn't seem like anyone was injured, so...)
The time to buy Nvidia was 5 years ago, and you would have had 30x gains (or even earlier). But the upside now does look more limited
Musk is a beast. I watched his interview with Jordan Peterson that same day. The guy apparently decided sleep couldn't fit into the schedule.

But that's his philosophy: hard work, hard motivation, and hard time constraints. So far he's on track to achieve all his dreams.
The thing they are pointing at and which is the thing people want is the output of the training engine, not the inputs. This is like someone saying they have an open source kernel, but they only release a compiler and a binary... the kernel code is never released, but the kernel is the only reason anyone even wants the compiler. (For avoidance of anyone being somehow confused: the training code is a compiler which takes training data and outputs model weights.)
I imagine that the temptation is more to cheat in order to attain what you ‘ought’ to be able to achieve, given perfect conditions. Considered in that way, it’s no longer about seeking something you don’t deserve by deception and more like trying to avoid random fluctuations that seem like they ‘shouldn’t be part of the competition’.

‘If only I hadn’t torn that ligament a few years ago, I’d probably be very slightly faster. I deserve to win this because I’m naturally better. In a perfect world I’d win. By taking this drug, I can negate the unfortunate circumstances and ensure I live up to my true potential.’, etc.

In reality, of course, it’s still plain old cheating. But I imagine it’s fairly easy to rationalise it in your head by thinking along these sort of lines. It’s probably not the same sort of feeling as robbing someone in the street — your morals can remain genuinely intact.
Calling weights an executable is disingenuous and not a serious discussion. You can do a lot more with weights than you could with a binary executable.
Unfortunately his high level decisions of late are definitely reduced in quality comparing to what they were earlier.
Legacy codebases that are a joy to work with are few and far between, in any language.
They have to do manual pat downs for people who "fail" the scanner, either because there was something that warranted a double check or the computer randomly assigned someone to receive extra scrutiny.

I've walked out of the security perimeter to reschedule after a flight cancellation in an airport with <10 passengers in the terminal. Upon reentering I was "randomly" selected for an explosives swab despite passing the first time with the same bag and not walking more than 50 feet away from the TSA checkpoint.
I would think that solar sails in such an environment would be as bad of an idea as walking through a thick hedgerow in a silk dress.

The dress would not survive unscathed, and neither would the solar sail.
The LMSys Overall leaderboard <https://chat.lmsys.org/?leaderboard> can tell us a bit more about how these models will perform in real life, rather than in a benchmark context. By comparing the ELO score against the MMLU benchmark scores, we can see models which outperform / underperform based on their benchmark scores relative to other models. A low score here indicates that the model is more optimized for the benchmark, while a higher score indicates it's more optimized for real-world examples. Using that, we can make some inferences about the training data used, and then extrapolate how future models might perform. Here's a chart: <https://docs.getgrist.com/gV2DtvizWtG7/LLMs/p/5?embed=true>

Examples: OpenAI's GPT 4o-mini is second only to 4o on LMSys Overall, but is 6.7 points behind 4o on MMLU. It's "punching above its weight" in real-world contexts. The Gemma series (9B and 27B) are similar, both beating the mean in terms of ELO per MMLU point. Microsoft's Phi series are all below the mean, meaning they have strong MMLU scores but aren't preferred in real-world contexts.

Llama 3 8B previously did substantially better than the mean on LMSys Overall, so hopefully Llama 3.1 8B will be even better! The 70B variant was interestingly right on the mean. Hopefully the 430B variant won't fall below!
How much room is there for interpretation though?

I mean, can Musk argue that he legitimately believes battling the woke mind virus is for the benefit of Tesla shareholders and their returns on investment and thus fulfilling his fiduciary duty?
I did live through that time. But that was a long time ago. Awful is relative to the zirp era we lived in which was quite long lasting
Is there any form of this test where I don't have to give my contact info?
I assumed they could accept the next ride while close to dropping someone off, but the app limits their location while they drive the last bit to another customers house for privacy.
Agentic AI Systems – The Next Evolution of Work
People have been saying DevOps is dead… But this is something popular or even basic for DevOps practitioners, albeit with a different name: Canary release.
Does Berlin actually tell you anywhere that you can opt out? Flew through there recently and didn't see anything... prior to having TSA Pre I'd always opt out in the USA, would love to know if it's as simple in Germany for when I fly through.
"work smart, not hard"

i think this advice is a bit too vague and it's just something people say to sound smart to trick people into thinking there's a shortcut to mastery

i genuinely believe that if you work hard to hone your skill on something, it will do you good. if you want to get good at something, you gotta put in the hours, the grind. e.g. to learn how to play a tennis, you gotta, you know, actually get down to the court and play tennis instead of watching tutorial on how to play tennis. Same goes with programming, music, etc.

now pair working hard with the ability to retrospect -- you'll master a lot of skills in life
8 '!

How high were your basement ceilings - was there any breathing room at all?
I’ll make sure I remind all of my satellite control room employee relatives. We all will, right?
I love to see OIDC gaining traction, though I will say that for setting up any sort of custom workforce federation, the administrative experience for OIDC applications often feels like an afterthought. I haven’t looked at all implementations, but I have recent experience federating SAML and OIDC applications in Okta, Google Workspace, and Entra ID.
that's good to know but disappointing to learn!
An operating system is not "generative", hence it's not a force multiplier.
"My understanding is that a few years ago, if we knew the degree of interpretability we have today (compared to capability) it would have been devastatingly disappointing."

I think this is a situation where both things are true. Much more progress has been made in capabilities research than interpretability and the interpretability tools we have now (at least, in regards to specific models) would have been seen as impossible or at least infeasible a few years back.
> which are now proven to not be completely safe but who cares

I'm not trying to prove you wrong, but if you have any links, that'd be cool to include.

As an aside, TSA Pre lines just have normal metal detectors. It's worth paying for it just for that IMO.

(It also frankly showcases that this is all dumbass security theater, but whatever)
Except of 90% of the food in the supermarket shelves out there, which is packed in sugar and conservatives.
Is there a photo booth available outside? I would definitely not take of my mask in an airport. I would rather miss my flight.
I suggest to go and talk with the people who make the laws rather than make on-the-spot scandal with the agents.

Because here, we have a series of people who don't like the law (potentially for good reasons).

If the law is like that, it's because we have a "majority" (unless democracy is cheated) who voted for such things (additional control during plane boarding, to have border guards, to allow spying on private messages, etc).

The "majority" defended their right; the right to feel safe.

A bit like someone who does Open Carry in a state who doesn't want you to show weapons.

It may be not dangerous if you openly have a weapon, but other people still voted against that for their own reasons.
>But it does seem pretty clear which side you're cheering for

Whether Russia has the upper hand is an important question for deciding on what policies the NATO countries should pursue, but we cannot have a fruitful public discussion on the question if anyone giving evidence for one side of the question is shouted down as a traitor.
>Zero is a fine answer for integer division by zero.

It's not. Division (edit: of a positive integer) by zero is better approximated by +infinity rather than zero.

In real life to divide something into zero groups is nonsensical, thus the number system in programs should reflect this. In the exceptionally-rare case where you want to divide by zero and it makes sense (can't think of a scenario where that's true but let's stipulate), then you can use your language's equivalent of try/catch or (if (zerop x) ...) to get around it.

Don't fuck up normal mathematics for the rest of us just because some lazy programmer doesn't like to add error checking.
Well, no, not exactly :)
Wave your hands harder, you might achieve lift-off.
I will entertain any counterpoint to my comment. It's relevant because it's in the article. I left the analysis of the author's takes to those who know the language better.
It's a big neon sign that says "Either this function is expensive, or it isn't but some framework somewhere that sometimes needs to call expensive functions might also need to call this function using the same syntax".
Author here,

Because all shell variables in code generated by pnut are numbers, variables never contain whitespace or special characters and don't need to be quoted. We considered quoting all variable expansions as this is generally seen as best practice in shell programming, but thought it hurt readability and decided not to.

If you think there are other issues, please let me know!
Right. That and the fact they'll want to connect two cites that are 2-3 hours away by car and neither city is walkable. So it takes longer to get there and then you have to rent a car when you get there anyway.
One of those moments when you have to allow stats and science to override your experiental sense because here in Queensland, there was a cold front moving in from Antarctica and we experienced some of our coldest days on record. The point being that local minima don't inform the global average very much when other places at scale are so extremely above normal.

The corollary being that if we hadn't experienced this cold front, combined with other places in Australia having low temps we might have pushed this record high up a fraction.
GM indefinitely halts work on driverless car at Cruise unit
It's one of the best (and surprising!) documentaries ever.
Anyone care to add the missing context to this thread? Architectural improvements? Parasitic regime?
Graveyard orbits are not the problem. Low earth orbits are the problem.

Debris in LEO will be slowed by the atmosphere and will fall to earth naturally, but it will be dozens of decades for the higher altitude stuff and many dozens of years for all but the lowest altitude stuff.

The only feasible way to clean this up that I’m aware of, really, is to stop making new debris and wait.
Is anyone actually surprised by this? The guy is full of crap so unless a court orders him to do it he’s not gonna spend a dime and he never planned on it
How an 1803 Jacquard Loom Led to Computer Technology [video]
Well, not weird, you got it exactly! Thats the point :) It would be "just Walmart"
Yeah, can confirm. Was able to use in a preview mode and…rushed is one way to put it.
Show HN: NixOS approach to routing out ports and multiple window managers
> I don't know what the path you think you see from where we are now to "full scale nuclear war", but it seems incredibly silly to suggest "the situation is more tense than it ever has been before", especially after you have already name checked Able Archer and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Able Archer was one of a series of (annual) scheduled training exercises. The Cuban missile crisis was a fairly civil dispute over where people stationed military assets that was resolved diplomatically. The Ukraine War has involved the mobilisation of the Russian military with estimates in the 100s of thousands for Russian casualties and active strikes on Russian military infrastructure.

How are you construing the first two are more tense than the last? The last is a significant escalation of tensions from the first two. We're a long way up the escalation ladder.

And, putting it to you a second time, what warnings are you expecting to see months before a nuclear war starts? I don't think you can see any path from any scenario to nuclear war. I doubt you would have seen a path from Able Archer to nuclear war, or a path from the US deploying missiles in Turkey to nuclear war either.
Can finally port systemd to shell to quell the rebellion.
It's more like a freeware than open source. You can launch it on your hardware and use it but how it was created is mostly not published.

Still huge props to them for doing what they do.
I personally disagree. But i haven't used sonnet that much
> No one on the planet understands how the model weights work exactly

Which is my point. These models aren't open source because there is no source code to open. Maybe one day we will have strong enough interpretability to generate source from these models, and then we could have open source models. But today its not possible, and changing the meaning of open source such that it is possible probably isn't a great idea.
A lot of libraries seem to be working on Apple Silicon GPUs but not on ANE. I found this discussion interesting, seems like the ANE has a lot of limitations, is not well documented, and can only be used indirectly through Core ML. https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/336
Supervolcanoes in the area have blown many times and recovered. I was surprised to learn this from PBS Eons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ofNufZVcMU
Less than 2bit i think. There's this IQ2 quant that fits