skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing in that wording says that Microsoft can't restrict access to kernel modules, as long as they don't give their own product an exception to that restriction. They had the choice to give Windows APIs that allow to implement such software in a safer way and use them for their own product, but choose not to.
> Do you have your own domain?

I do but "a single alias per site" only works for one person domains, not a domain shared over a bunch of family members.
Cryogenic cooling for the data center – a chilling proposition?
How can these companies be certified and compliant, etc., and then in practice have horrible SDLC?

What was the impact of diverse teams (offshoring)? Often companies don’t have necessary checks to ensure disparateness of teams does not impact quality. Maybe it was zero or maybe it was more.
I believe it is able to reconstruct parts of the original source material—if the interrogator already knows the original source material to prompt the model appropriately.
What Is Primitive Obsession?
> Reality: they've realize gpt 4 is a wall, they can't keep pouring trillions of dollars into it for no improvement or little at all, so now they want to put it to the open source [...]

This is Meta (LLaMA, which has had available weights for a while), not OpenAI (GPT).
There is a veil of secrecy to the devices (identified here: https://meridian.allenpress.com/radiation-research/article-a...) which makes them difficult to study, however millimeter waves themselves are studied: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10590163

While looking around I also found this handbook: https://books.google.se/books?hl=en&lr=&id=OVRFDwAAQBAJ&oi=f... which is quite informative.
> rewrite your entire software stack

This has nothing to do with there being a healthy market of operating systems to choose from.

> I’ve seen the fragmentation in edge devices

How many versions and patch levels of Windows exist? How many are currently deployed? How many must stay on the current version because of fragmentation?

> You know how many bugs you have with one stack?

The scenario that started this discussion is a single bug in a single piece of software impacting a large number of businesses, some of which are safety and life critical, all of which are on a single OS.

It's not a question of "how many bugs," because you can't fully eliminate them in any system which is actually updated _ever_, it's a question of "how many people does this single bug impact?"

Will this require more time and labor? Yes, of course. Does that make it "absurd" to consider? No, that's pure hyperbole.
My thinking is that it'll pervert copyright so totally that it'll lead to reform. I'm trying to stay optimistic.
Turing's goal here is to justify why a Turing machine captures the "intuitive notion of a computation". To his audience, a "computer" is a person with a stack of paper and a pen, following an arbitrary procedure. Turing shows here that, even though a person can potentially draw infinitely many drawings on a sheet of paper, that doesn't give them any more computational power then writing symbols from a finite alphabet into a grid of squares.

The machine he introduces also writes symbols onto paper with a pen and reads them. So he really is talking about pens and sheets of paper, it's not an analogy for something else.
> Yes, when it comes to face scanners at the airport. You’re standing in front of a government camera for a driver’s license or student id and it can (and likely will) take the same image data that the TSA cameras do.

This is wrong. The TSA cameras are steroscopic and capture significantly more detail.

Additionally, there is no oversight or information given about how that data will be used, sold, how long it will be kept for, etc.

If you want to be entirely complacent that's your choice. But it isn't 'silly' for those of us that understand what's going on to oppose it, and it's disingenuous to easy because we have drivers licenses there is no reason to oppose it.
I stopped going on facebook a few years ago and don't miss it; I don't even need messenger as everyone migrated to whatsapp (yes I know, normal people don't want to move to signal, but got quite a few techy friends to migrate). The FB-only groups are indeed a problem, I'm delegating them to my wife.

IF I ever had to go to FB for anything, I'd probably install a wall-removing browser extension. Mobile app is of course out of question.
If you want to do document OCR/PDF text extraction with decent accuracy without using an LLM, do give LLMWhisperer[1] a try.

Try with any PDF document in the playground - https://pg.llmwhisperer.unstract.com/

[1] - https://unstract.com/llmwhisperer/
He clearly doesn't mind police states.
Prometheus 3.0 and beyond a.k.a. keeping it simple since 2012
I prefer mimicry of understanding attempts to defensive aggression against anything new and "threatening". One has the chance to develop into actually understanding, given time
Have you tried using the GraphRAG approach of just rerunning the same prompts multiple times and then giving the results along with a prompt to the model telling it to extract the true text and fix any mistakes? With mini this seems like a very workable solution. You could even incorporate one or more attempts from whatever OCR you were using previously.

I think that is one of the key findings from GraphRAG paper: the gpt can replace the human in the loop.
"Microsoft shall ensure on an ongoing basis and in a Timely Manner that the APIs in the Windows Client PC Operating System and the Windows Server Operating System that are called on by Microsoft Security Software Products are documented and available for use by third-party security software products"

Everything is an API. This means they cannot restrict access to the underlying kernel.

> They had the choice to give Windows APIs that allow to implement such software in a safer way

An indirect method would still inevitably have a potential issue. If a third-party vendor made a mistake, it's the third-party vendor's fault - in this case CRWD.
That's weird... I was given the remains of a prescription which only had 20, 30 and 40 pills, nothing any lower. Would taking too much also have no effect? It feels like it should have too much effect, however that would manifest.

Having a quick look at wikipedia, the source of all correct knowledge, it looks like 50mg of lisdexamfetamine dimesylate (elvanse used in oral capsules) is roughly equivalent to 20mg of dextroamphetamine sulfate or 15mg of free base dextroamphetamine, which is backed up by its citation at medicines.org.uk, so 20 lis would be like 6 dex

I meant the genetic stuff because the person that gave them to me was close family, and I suspect another close family member has it too, so I'd guess it would present and potentially be helped in similar ways between us, as well as having similar side effects
> Energy storage

This is a commodity business; it doesn't seem plausible that anyone could maintain high profit margins in it.

> Optimus

Vapourware of unclear purpose.

> self-driving cars

Yeah, I'll believe that when I see it.

> are predicted to

By whom?
> I don't understand your viewpoint.

I suspect you understand it pretty much perfectly, you just don't think the underlying premises of my position are correct.

> Wales has never received compensation from the Wikimedia Foundation.

Buying an expensive sportscar in the name of the foundation and then using it as though it were a personal car wouldn't show up as compensation.

I tried finding more, but the accusations against Wales are mentioned on the wiki page for wiki controversies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedia_controversie...

Maybe it's just accusations, although I remember reading articles as well. Although maybe if Jimmy was more transparent about where his wealth came from, and maybe if Wikipedia didn't disingenuously and constantly beg for money despite having a surplus, I'd be less skeptical.
Another niche that ScrapScript might fit nicely in is NixOS/Guix type specification languages (e.g. nix)
How to implement Retries without Cluttering your Code
The Turing machine has a memory, it can absolutely cope with symbols meaning something different depending on what appears before them. The trouble is that it can't distinguish between infinitely many distinct symbols on the paper tape. Turing here shows that a human can't do that either, so that is not a way in which humans have more computational power than a Turing machine.
Maybe the mice could use mmwave to possibly see through maze walls. Or use a little 360 degree camera on a pole. I assume this would be classed as cheating though.

Sounds a fun competition :) Looking at the Veritasium video they're crazy fast.
Suppose Alice makes $100,000 and Bob makes $20,000.

In a system that taxes at 5% up to $50,000 and 30% thereafter, the state gets a total of $18,500 from Alice and Bob.

In a system that taxes at 5% up to $50,000 and 40% thereafter, the state gets $23,500 from Alice and Bob.

In a system that taxes everyone uniformly at 25%, the state gets $30,000 from Alice and Bob. This is not a smaller number and 5/6ths of it is from Alice. In fact, you can use that money to give them each a $12,000 UBI, leaving Bob with an effective tax rate of -35%, delete all of the transfer programs that obsoletes and still have some left over for transit and uniforms.
Have you compared the results to special purpose OCR free models that do image to text with layout? My intuition is mini should be just as good if not better.
> Why is this different?

Because critical infrastructure doesn't get the convenience of shifting the blame. They must account for these risks in advance. Do you know what happens when IT breaks down in a bank? They've got two or more printers that print all new transactions. Database corruption? No problem, we've got the transactions right there. Printer breaks down? No problem, we've got another one printing the transactions right there. Hospitals don't get the luxury of shifting the cause of death from them failing to properly account for risks to a piece of software.
A life time of fire drills teaches everybody that a fire alarm is just some box tickers way of pointlessly interrupting your day to confirm that nobody has forgotten how to walk out of a fire exit. You can pretty safely bet your life that nothing bad is happening.
Because not all have the same size and some like diffrent handles, seats and so on. For racing bicycles are already a lot rules in place. Shape, geometery, weight. That's why some fancy by bicyles are ok for Triatlon but not for bicycle races.
how would you determine that without investigation?
So what should have told those CIOs not to use Crowdstrike? Who should they have used instead?
> Ideally you'd want a world where it was effectively impossible to buy drugs without proper authorization

Does this ideal world include classification of alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, and high-sugar food products as drugs?

What does "proper authorization" look like?
It's not often you see a take this bad on HN. Wow!

You are aware Facebook tracks everyone, not just people with Facebook accounts, right? They have a history of being anti-consumer in every sense of the word. So while I can understand where you're coming from, it's just not anywhere close to being reality.

If you want to or not, if you consent or not, Facebook is tracking and selling you.
Can't entirely agree, alexa makes navigating smart TVs much easier for older folks
Any hope of AliExpress policing this at some point?
That sounds like your ideal. Mine would be when there is no authority that says which plants or substances I can put in my body. I don't want/need an authority to enforce "what's best for me".
Evidently not.

I've read plenty about how every working family struggling on benefits is a crack dealer too, written in media that is exclusively owned by the economic leeches who contribute little to no economic value but "who pay millions in taxes" on their unearned income:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2260633/Drug-dealer...

The propaganda that underpins your belief system was designed to foster exactly your kind of resentment against the underclass.
Wow, these mice were a lot faster than I expected. In the last part of the video, they talk about fans in the mouse that suck the mouse to the ground to prevent slipping.
A snippet that caught my eye ...

A renowned member of Boole’s social circle was George Everest (1790–1866), famous in his day as the surveyor general of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India and now remembered for unwittingly lending his name to the peak he more modestly called Peak XV. Everest was also a student of Indian culture and conveyed that interest to others, including Boole. Boole went on to marry Everest’s niece Mary, a writer and thinker working in the newly emerging field of education.

So much depends on random connections between people.

Maximise your chances of random encounters.
I highly recommend this talk, talking about Jails and Zones. Jails was first, but Zones took a lot of lessens from it and went further.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgN8pCMLI2U
Vertical video is perfectly fine if the device on which it is played back on has a vertical screen. Never is very out of place here.
Totally agree, the difference is speed and scale.

Copyright laws didn't need to be invented until the printing press came along, because the act of copying was slow and difficult.

Not a fan of the patent model for software, for example, but perhaps this is an argument for it. Or, we just get used to the fact that idea-reuse is cost-free, accept a couple of decades of uncomfortable economic dislocation, and get on with it.
I'm not sure deflationary statements like this are "beliefs", rather
defence mechanisms to truncate further difficult thought.

The article has some extraordinary demands; radical openness,
reflective practice, co-evolution, mentalisation... all things you'd
associate with high emotional intelligence and hard inner work.

Some people just aren't up to that. Maybe we need to be able to say
"that's okay". Humanists need not feel threatened by reductionists any
more than reductionists need feel upset there is a bigger world
"outside the test-tube".

Perhaps we should focus more on why some life-stances expressed by
others feel uncomfortable for us.
Utilization will be higher but possibly not by much because demand is not constant but peaks when people move to or from work.

I wonder how does the higher utilization affect costs. For example, if you have a car that can last 400k miles, how much do you save if you finance it for 2 years vs for 6 years?

One thing to consider is that there's miles-driven depreciation and time depreciation. Time depreciation means that the vehicle loses value over time even if you don't use it. A brand new Waymo Chrysler Pacifica will have much less value in 20 years than today.
Its not open source.

We don't get the data or training code. The small runtime framework is open source but that's of little use as its largely fixed in implementation due to the weights. Yes we can fine tune but that is akin to modifying video games - we can do it but there's only so much you can do within reasonable effort and no one would call most video games 'open source'*.

Its freeware and Meta's strategy is much more akin to the strategy Microsoft used with Internet Explorer to capture the web browser market. No one was saying god bless Microsoft for trying to capture the browser market with I.E. Nothing wrong with Meta's strategy just don't call it open source.

*weights are data and so is the video/audio output of a video game. If we gave away that video game output for free we wouldn't call the video game open source as the myriad freeware games essentially do.
Knowing little about the subject. If Insulin is a 20 minute lag, and eating is a 20 minute lag. Shouldn't you just dose immediately before eating so they hit at the same time?
> Yes, when it comes to face scanners at the airport. You’re standing in front of a government camera for a driver’s license or student id and it can (and likely will) take the same image data that the TSA cameras do.
This is wrong. The TSA cameras are steroscopic and capture significantly more detail.

Additionally, there is no oversight or information given about how that data will be used, sold, how long it will be kept for, etc.

If you want to be entirely complacent that's your choice. But it isn't 'silly' for those of us that understand what's going on to oppose it, and it's disingenuous to easy because we have drivers licenses there is no reason to oppose it.
> Or use a little 360 degree camera on a pole.

that made me chuckle.

mmwave to see through walls at that size & speed can't be done yet, or can it?
Whatever you do

I've managed a database of local rescuers veterans, including their full PII, illnesses, statuses, family, etc. Even the floor they lived on and how much they drink was in there. It was one form per person with all the data, opened in an instant in a DBF-based system. The "trick" was to store all data in a single table with a few trivially indexed subtables and packed-table-blobs for tabular data. Shocking, I know. It's not "whatever you do", it's a matter of being RDBMS practicioner vs SQL pedant, which is where all the real complexity comes from. If data cannot be collected in a reasonable time for a primary form, it's bad design by definition. It's more reasonable to spend a few minutes to collect a report required once a year than spend a minute on a form required often.

Again, not criticizing you for this mess, but it's not something a generic ui framework should solve for.
It might be this [1] which says
"According to the report, the decision was made by officials to continue to build the Birmingham Curzon Street Station to its full specification because it was cheaper than trying to cancel part of the scheme. "

"that the project will plough ahead with building a seven-platform station at Curzon Street, despite just three being required for the reduced HS2 line."

Unfortunately inews doesn't seem to quote the original NAO report, just linking to a list of NAO news items on inews :(?

[1] https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/hs2-waste-new-birmingham-s...

[EDIT]
So the ft does actually link to the report [2] from this page [3] saying "The watchdog said scrapping the northern leg of the flagship high speed rail link would take three years and cost up to £100mn, and that some platforms would still be built even though they would never be used."

[2] https://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/hs2-update...

[3] https://www.ft.com/content/ecde4265-0269-4169-ac0e-179938667...
sounds like you need the data to train the model.
BlackRock's revenue is not based on the performance of the equity in their clients' portfolios, and while it may have some impact on their profit, it's not as big an impact as it has on their actual clients.

Furthermore, most of the money managed by BlackRock is not managed by them through direct choice of the equity holders, so even if the equity holders were not happy with BlackRock it would be very difficult for them to move their money elsewhere.

And then finally, the shares of BlackRock itself are also held on behalf of others by institutions like BlackRock, and some of it even by BlackRock itself. So they vote with the voting rights of others as to how they think they should be run.

The professional managerial class generally does not care about profits, as they exceed at finding ways of enriching themselves without having to actually deliver anything. They get rich while the average Joe's pension underperforms. They love things like DEI and ESG, as that allows them to define their own parameters for success in ways which in no way benefit the people they have a fiduciary duty to or society.
Not quite.

There isn't a door_recv(2) systemcall or equivalent.

Doors truly don't transfer messages, they transfer the thread itself. As in the thread that made a door call is now just directly executing in the address space of the callee.

They're more like i432/286/mill cpu task gates.
Thanks for asking!

The products are similar in the sense that both are cloud-based notebooks, but we have different approaches to building them.

I answered a question about Hex below, and the general outline applies here. To summarize:

1. We want to go beyond just notebooks. We want to centralize all data tasks in Briefer, including traditional BI so we’re building specific features for that, like dashboarding and everything that comes with it.

2. We’ll enable people to use their own compute for the notebooks.

3. We want to allow people to manage notebooks, dashboards, and apps “as code” so they can version it whenever necessary.

We unfortunately didn’t finish items 2 and 3 yet because we’ve only started working on Briefer six months ago, but we’re fast and we’ll get there soon.

Also, we’re working on something new that will make the distinction clearer, but I can’t talk about that yet.
Open Source AI is the path forward, but I have hard time believing that Meta should be affiliated with it.
> They flipped through their TSA state ID binder and did the customary comparison
Wait, what is this? I've never seen anything like that, normally they just check the name on the ID matches the boarding pass.

You're saying they literally had a book of all state IDs?
Hire two persons.
Thanks for asking. I answered that question below.

You can see the response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41055495
I don’t even know what you are talking about.

Both of our comments are equally aggressive since I mimicked the delivery.

> to defensive aggression against anything new and "threatening".

What’s new. You can take this back to Cartesian Dualism (or further) where animals where just “machines”. Same thing: oh we have these levers that we’ve made and understand, huh I guess rabbits and storks work the same because why not?
Interesting, I heard something like that, but now I must read about it.
Yes, an utterly backwards law that the people should not be so willing to accept.
Thank goodness for steganography.
...and the build folder adds up to 700MB, that's quite grim for a program like this.
Not exactly what you asked, but: Since introducing a GTD-like system using MS To-Do (any similar app suffices) I noticed my note taking to decline steeply. These days I use OneNote for meetings notes at work and a physical notebook for reflections.
Hyprland is now independent, dropping wlroots
There was never a 'war on drivers' - just empty rhetoric that Sunak clung on to after the Uxbridge by-election.
This was such a fun read!
A sweet blend of poetry, anecdote, and Relational Ontology. Or maybe even Dialogical Philosophy?!

The themes, such as "Two truths approach each other. One comes from inside, the other from outside" remind me greatly of other great reads:

- Martin Buber's "I-Thou" relationship emphasizes genuine, reciprocal interactions, where the self becomes fully realized through mutual presence and connection with the other.
See: I and Thou (1923)

- Hegel's concept of recognition (Anerkennung) highlights that self-consciousness and identity are developed through a dialectical process of mutual acknowledgment between self and other.
See: Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)

Leaving this here for those interested in these concepts
ChatGPT has a giant system prompt that you have no control over. Try using Llama and create a system prompt with clear instructions and examples. If you were going to use a model in a production system you would also want to either fine tune it or train a BERT-like model as a classifier that just outputs a score. Maybe even more than one for ranking along different dimensions.
When you're taking a self-portrait it's easier to hold a phone vertically one-handed, your self image fits the screen better, and your followers are going to view it in portrait mode on TikTok anyway.

When you go yo take a selfie of something other than your face, you just keep the habit.