skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like he just signed a bunch of money to people, then said he fought inflation which was both directly and indirectly caused by him signing over money... Can't see anything tangible there that forcibly improved the lives of Americans.
Oddly (or not it'd definitely selection bias/survivorship) there's 4 people over 70 on my ski patrol, all of them re-certified on the toboggan this year, 3 of the 4 on black diamond. They're some of the best skiiers I've seen and their bedside manner and health skills were amazing. The main issue for most of them is just hearing which makes them seem more off than they are. All of them had transitioned to management / dispatch and back to patroller they've been doing it so long. One literally wrote the book.
That is not at all what happened in the post.
https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/issues/1966
Unfit to run a campaign, travel like mad, and get over an illness. An extended lame duck session now.
Thanks for engaging! Meaning may be hard to find sometimes, but in contrast to mindless accumulation, even a bit of it (arising from cooperation/coevolution) helps to keep us (philosophically) alive sometimes.

I'm closer to an Epicurean than Stoic, but feel less suicidal as I grow older (and understand what some virtuous people before me have been searching for, why they kept searching. Which then brings bittersweet, more sweet than bitter, tears to my eyes)

Let me know if/when you get any insights into the time discount thing, especially with regards to cooperative cognition.

(One good place to start is what is meant by the global critical time in various related contexts, denoted by T in my earlier notation. E.g. can you have multiple GCTs? The plus and minus is to emphasize that the utility can be discontinuous at these points)
In high-end vacation rentals, privacy is expected but not always guaranteed
That's what we call racism. Even if the anecdotes are from your own experience, you're still drawing broad ethnic conclusions from them.

What do we call anonymous stories, lacking in detail, being circulated in a public forum? Yes, those are rumors.
Kindly ignore the weeding and automation; that was a side-benefit. The core of the argument was O(x^2) vs O(x) costs. What keeps that from mattering?
Yes, that is what copyright law already says (that your brain reproducing a work is the violation, not your brain itself), which is why it took time for the lawsuits to build momentum - they had to find evidence of copyright violating reproduction.

The part you’re missing here is that acquiring and using copyrighted data without permission also violates copyright. Just like copying and watching a movie you didn’t pay for or legally acquire violates copyright. It’s a worse offense to distribute a movie you don’t have the rights to, but copying one and consuming it without permission is an offense nonetheless. The act of training on data not legally acquired, therefore, certainly can be a copyright violation.
If you play games, Intel has no answer to the X3D series from AMD. It's even worse with their p vs e cores that creates issues in many games.
> Has it ever been done?

Yes Lincoln’s re-election was a unity ticket that included Lincoln (Republican) and Johnson (pro-war Democrat)
RuneScape (1) the original, deleted my accounts shortly after switching over to RS2. My usernames were pretty amazing. 'Cash Trader' and 'Gem Trader'. Ironically there were NPCs called Gem Trader... so sad to have your account(s) you worked on for what felt like forever randomly deleted as a kid. Along with any rare old items.
Are you suggesting that Russia is not USSR's legal successor. Maybe we are living in different realities since Russia still exists.
Whoa, thanks for sharing this. I've never seen it before. Crazy and kind of sad how much of a difference there was in the last 8 years.
Hey, I resemble that remark! (Even if I am younger than Biden or Trump.)

But all seriousness aside, what makes you think that matters? I'm not going to vote for someone because they're old, in fact to some extent the opposite--I'd rather have a 50 or so year old as president. Are there polls that say old people vote for old people just because they're old?
Here's a video of a doctor playing the game along with sort of an explanation of how it works and is meant to do.

I'd be curious to know how much this costs for patients. I'm guessing it's some type of a subscription model.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qkhSLr6DlWc
> runs out of resources

RAM? What kind of dev box runs out of RAM in 2024? I built a 64GB RAM dev box during COVID-19 crisis. I have never once come close to using all that RAM, even with a squillion Chrome tabs open.

Still, thank you to share your first-hand experience. Did you ask the GDB Dev team for any feedback on the slow performance?
> “The document states that Microsoft is obligated to make available its APIs in its Windows Client and Server operating systems that are used by its security products to third-party security software makers.”

Which means, if Microsoft had made a more carefully scoped way of extending the kernel, or even avoided extending the kernel at all for their own security products, they would have perfectly been at liberty to demand it for everyone else.
FTR: This IS politics. This sort of conversation about public policy is what politics should be.

I always recommend folks read George Washington's farewell address and it's discussion of political parties.
A regression model - an equation for a line - is obviously not a copy of the data points that it is fit to. Yet, occasionally you might be able to get it to reproduce a point in the original data, but only if that point happens to be right on the line. It doesn’t mean that point is “in” the model, a regression model contains no points, just a slope and an intercept.

An AI is nothing more than a large network of regression models, a very large set of equations. It is not a copy of anything.
Would a bad driver update potentially have had similar consequences? (real question)

If so, this feels like a red herring.
When I worked at Big Bank we had this junior kid, who finished both law school and made a CS degree. One of the smartest guys with whom I worked. Me and other lead made a huge effort to put him on a fast track and promote him to a senior role to match salary to his contributions.
Shortly after he decided to leave because, as he put it, he wasn't comfortable working for this evil company and decided to move to a NGO. We haven't spoke too much about it, but I feel it could be even more than 50%.
For a while I thought of him as my personal hero.
I too worked in ad, games, and ended up in big co.
He threw it all away for the greater good.
What a champ.

I've met him few years later, at a annual meetup of ex Bank workers and he was bascially begging for recomendations anywhere because he ran out of money.
As I said in a post above, I resemble that remark--at least sleeping in, once in a while a nap. But I tend to stay awake until close to midnight. (I'm also not in my 80s, at least not yet--just hoping to get there.)
Why on earth does anyone actually go into that career?
Add https://mailsnag.com to the list. You can share email samples with others for the review and it also allows receiving emails for your prod env - send emails to your app and process them in it.
You are welcome to vote for Batman or submit an empty ballot. You aren't proving anything through abstinence.
I hear a lot of unconvincing nonsense whenever someone mentions microtubules relating to consciousness
Seems like an alignment of incentives, if you want to stay in power you have to make your population live longer.
> see project 2025

Did you actually read the project 2025 doc or are you just parroting back what you were told to think?

https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/jul/12/project-2025-...
Does it include airplanes and satellites?
Instead of animating the color balls to music, it'd be nice if my manipulations of the color balls _created_ music.
Unknown to me at the time (I wasn't even yet an adult) is that the heatsink was of an incorrect model, so it wasn't making good contact and doing the job properly. This wouldn't have been a problem if the CPU thermal throttled; that would immediately cause a performance problem that I would have been curious about. No, instead they just died, over the course of about 2 years. Changing platform wasn't my choice, my mother bought a new desktop and it had a Pentium. I don't remember the model.
And there's the unconvincing nonsense I mentioned in my other comment

Its like a bunch of science buzzwords strung together

Quantum AI blockchain!

I think its completely absurd and throws out what we actually know about computations that do happen in the brain

"Orch OR has been criticized both by physicists[14][53][37][54][55] and neuroscientists[56][57][58] who consider it to be a poor model of brain physiology. Orch OR has also been criticized for lacking explanatory power; the philosopher Patricia Churchland wrote, "Pixie dust in the synapses is about as explanatorily powerful as quantum coherence in the microtubules."[59]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reduc...
FYI most americans don't care about any of this. I suspect you're getting your info from chronically online people and the articles they read.

That aside, if you're interested in US politics you might wanna look at the details of those decisions. Eg, read this section about the case that brought down Chevron deference. You'll see that pretty much any judge or jury would have sided with the plaintiffs: https://loperbrightcase.com/#:~:text=livelihoods%20at%20risk...
Drivers undergo a vetting process by Microsoft (at least, the ones that are signed and offered as updates) = quality control through their control of the channel.

This has been the case at least since the late 90s if I remember correctly.
Deno rocks. The integration is so high. There's just so many nonsense toolchain concerns in the rest of js that you don't have to worry about. Write TypeScript, run it.

The team is so laser focused on doing right for the users. They had a large customer complaining about LSP performance for a large project, & the team jumped on it & radically improved typescript LSP speed for large projects. That adaption & DX experience focus is so key. Great write-up, Deno 1.43: Improved Language Server performance, https://deno.com/blog/v1.43
Bottom line is this: there is absolutely no good reason for not doing rolling updates. Do a few and make sure they are ok. Keep rolling out in groups. This single approach alone would've meant that this event was of marginal impact to most of the public, as sysadmins would've had the opportunity to halt further updates and work on remediating their first group (typically non-critical servers). Rolling out to everything all at once is just bad practice, period.
If the Xeon counterpart isn't failing as well, then they most certainly know the problem. Too aggressive voltages for a more fragile transistor size
As far as I can tell, your position is something like:

(1) People only use bigger tractors for worse soil, not to reduce their own human workloads. This caps the natural progression of machine sizes I'm describing, thus stopping things before a size where swarms matter (not refuting a crossover point (kindly consider the O(x^2) or greater vs O(x) cost idea), but suggesting we'll never reach it).

(2) The human cost of maintenance dwarfs all other costs, and the status quo of small vs large machines suggests large machines will be cheaper to repair, so a swarm of 1-2 big machines will be much cheaper to repair than 100-200 small machines.

(*) some addendum addressing my less important side-benefits

Does that sound like a correct characterization?
In Canada, I've voted for the fifth place party in the past. I simply wanted them to get enough popular vote to qualify for official party status. Felt like I helped make a difference to get another voice in the fray.
This is something a performer could take pretty much anywhere. Versus a massive 40 foot long crane or complicated wire setup, this is a big improvement.
What issues that were important back then are still relevant today? That's a serious question, not a snide remark. I guess tariffs are, but (I think) for different reasons. Anything else?
I wonder if we can give the voters an option of no president. I would choose it, barring some insane calamity (like country X deciding to invade USA) I think everything will run fine without a presidency.
Again, it's not about reading. It's about either acquiring in a way that is infringing or producing output that is infringing. If you write a chapter with something like, "Ionic bonds are bonds that occur between two elements where one or more electrons transfer to a particular element," it's not copyright infringement for another author to discuss ionic bonds. It's copyright infringement to copy the material. It's copyright infringement to produce output that is the same or substantially similar.
UBI has been demonstrated to work.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/10/24/universal...
Like people getting up in arms when they notice someone found a way to create valuable medicine from the litter from some trees in their yard that they always ignored people taking shade under. Now they want to block that novel use or get a cut of the profits, when they never saw any value before beyond use as shade. Senseless IMO.
Cosmopolitan v3.5.8
Uuh, any kind of dev box that requires more RAM than available? I promise you that storing that much data about the runtime can be really memory consumptive.
> using copyrighted data without permission also violates copyright

This is simply not true. There are many things that copyright law prevents, but no copyright law goes as far as to say that all use without permission is forbidden. And no copyright law expressly forbids training AI either.
Grewt, can the EU force Microsoft to open up their Linkedin API as well?
Yes, of course. Plenty of storage and chipset drivers have caused no-boot scenarios.
From 2017.

It would be nice to have a follow-up.
Tech Industry's Moral Vacuum
WHQL has had some pretty awful drivers pushed through it. Granted, this was quite some time ago, early 2000s-ish, but they've lead to BSODs etc with nVidia drivers.
But, what I’m saying is that charisma (and personal marketing for that matter) is by its nature a “wide” skill.

I wouldn’t give him an integral to solve but that’s not what a leader is supposed to do either.

I think a major world leader needs more than charisma but it’s one of the first requirements.
And I wouldn't be sure the polls were the key factor - big donors calling the shots by withholding funds may have been the deciding factor.
"Current Microsoft points finger at Past Microsoft for ..."

Isn't a headline that will ever exist, therefore they'll point fingers at any entity (EU being the most recent) that's making them do things they don't want to do in order to further an unrelated agenda.

Let no catastrophe go unexploited, as they say.
Didn’t 538 give Trump an ~1-in-3 chance of winning?
Hmm why should they consider those things? They stated their opinion and priorities, which will likely influence their voting decision. The views of HN or the American electorate play no role in the statement of that individual's priorities, no?
I’m afraid that one morning, we’ll wake up, Windows is unbootable globally, and it’s because the desktop Widgets had a hardcoded certificate expire, causing an infinite taskbar crash.

Which actually happened in one of the Windows 11 preview releases.

It might not be Widgets next time - but there’s enough stupid in Windows that it could be anything from SmartScreen to Defender to Copilot to Edge. It could also be just something widespread and stupid, like Intel or NVIDIA’s driver analytics imploding.
I'm aware of jury nullification (thank you cgp gray [1]) but afaik I don't think jury nullification can be equated to "doing nothing rather than doing the insane".

Jury nullification have a lot of uncomfortable implications to the legal system and that's one of the reasons it's not shared to potential juries, but implicit asked. The systematic implication can be pararelled to politician's in the long run deciding nonvoters concern can be ignored.

Jury nullification comparisons comes with a bit of a blind faith in the other juries (because in this situation you're not replaced, the resting juries just have more votes) are sane.

That said I know you're not advocating for nonvoting as a viable long term strategy but just for this one occasion. I'm not faulting that and can understand it. Advocating for it to others is a bit more problematic and the point I'm contending on in a public forum, in case many agrees to that stance.

[1] https://youtu.be/uqH_Y1TupoQ?si=m4YQbveBf7yC-cFE
>The document states that Microsoft is obligated to make available its APIs in its Windows Client and Server operating systems that are used by its security products to third-party security software makers

I guess even M/S has a hard time with reading comprehension. "make available" does not mean "no lock down". So does that mean when someone boots windows into Safe Mode, they are breaking the law in the EU ? I do not think so.
Generative "AI" enthusiasts build their models by ripping off creative human beings for profit.

Generative "AI" enthusiasts fear that bigger fish will squeeze them out of the niches they created for themselves through theft.

Suggesting that artists and genAI enthusiasts should "work together" to defend the regulatory environment of the latter is ludicrous; it would be like a burglar breaking into my house, stealing my appliances, and asking for my support in his campaign for mayor!
The events leading up to it are far older than a few hours, giving people plenty of time to run different scenarios in their minds.
This is the way. Robotics, self driving cars, mobile devices themselves, either phone or glasses....
They can generate the data needed for the next steps. (pun intentional)
Text was easy, the process has been defined. Multi-modality improves the models. The next set of data is the world. Everything we currently observe using our senses and data outside our senses like radio waves. Build a better world model.
Larry Hogan would make an interesting VP candidate on Harris's ticket. He's a Republican, but was a two term governor in the blue state of Maryland. (Maryland has a two term limit on the governor, so he's now running for Senator.) To the extent that the candidate for VP pulls in votes, I think he'd do an awesome job.
> I don’t really know any 70 year olds who are “all there.”

Maybe, but I know a lot of 20ish year olds that aren’t all there either.
With all their talk of campaign finance reform, it is not clear to me why the DNC does not finance their most valid primary candidates? Why make them jump through hoops and raise money to stay in the race between the primary elections?
I don’t beleive he’s actually confusing them, but it’s not a good look for a guy who’s supposed to be a leader in uncertain times. One should never be question if the president meant what they just said.
I miss the days of Intel desktop boards.

They were boring in every single way: They weren't flashy, they weren't expensive, they didn't have weird features, and they were ridiculously stable.

I didn't ever buy any of them for myself because I like to tinker with stuff, but I sold a bunch of them to people who simply wanted a computer that just worked.
We have no such concept in the American southwest even though we have many immigrants from Mexico where they do siesta. Where I live, Phoenix, the hottest part of the day is like 5-7 PM. Most laborers start work early in the summer and are done by early afternoon.
This is not new at all. People here have been fawning over Peter Thiel and PG for years without acknowledging how dangerous they are.
> If, on the other hand, voter participation goes down noticeably it can drive change. Both parties will know they lost support and, more importantly for them, have voters to win over. It also opens the door for creating a real chance for a third party that doesn't exist when we all continue to accept the unofficial duopoly that started way back when Hamilton and Jefferson were tearing the union in two.

Is there a minimum turnout needed? I'm pretty sure there isn't.
All the diehards will always vote for the Dems or Reps.
And everyone else is not voting, not voting for an alternate candidate.

Sounds like the fewer swing voters there are, the better.
You are joking, right? You cannot seriously claim that NATCA is anything but a paper tiger if you knew anything about the history of ATC unionization in the USA. President Regan fired all 11,000 members of the actual strong ATC union, PATCO, and barred them from government jobs for life. NATCA never bothered to negotiate their rights back. Some REALLY strong union.

https://libraries.uta.edu/news-events/blog/1981-patco-strike
I'd like to see RFK get enough support to get into debates officially. Supporting him might be considered by most to be a wasted vote, but is it if it changes the discourse? I'm Canadian btw, no horse in this race.
I agree with your point, but I think your examples are charming one-on-onenor in small groups only.

To be considered charming to a large group of people, like half the USA, you need to be conversant in things that are relevant to all of them. A narrow person can never have a wide appeal.
> It's not really possible for people to have given informed consent to AI model training on their data in an era when AI had much more limited capabilities relative to what it has now.

I can’t see that argument holding up in court. You’re using a definition of informed and consent that are rather novel.
No, it's quite different. A super rough but somewhat accurate starting point is to think of a lens as being like the `.foo.bar.baz` in `myobject.foo.bar.baz`: a way to describe some "location" inside of a data structure, in a way that allows for getting and setting. But lenses are also data, so they can be stored in variables, manipulated, and so on. It's a very useful concept, and very much not required or helpful when learning Haskell. It's also not a core Haskell concept in any sense, just something that has been built on top of Haskell as a library.
Not everyone knows how to use API.
Taken to the extreme, if the two candidates were Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler would you still feel that every voter must accept that litation and vote in support of one of them?

By no means am I saying that is our situation today, but your view of how voters must decide leaves absolutely no room for voters to decide that neither option is acceptable.
And I’m saying she was already deemed worthy to replace Biden by the voters.
How to Make PS1 Graphics [video]
He already had one term. The world didn't end. I don't understand this line of doom.
I've addressed the "when producing output" part in another reply, so here are my thoughts on the "to acquire the training set" part.

Unless you're downloading from something like Z-Library (which incidentally is a deliberate attack on Western IP on Putin's behalf) you generally have the fair use rights to "digest" the information you receive. You can process the contents of a webpage or momentarily OCR a printed page, provided that it was legally distributed and that you don't store a copy proper. There can be specialized restrictions if it's something that you have a license for instead of a copy of, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkwrap_(contract_law)

As for derivative works, not all the works that are made "in proximity of" previous works are derivative works. You can make a simulated reality movie without infringing on the Matrix, for instance. Just write a somewhat different plot and don't name your lead character Neo.
I assume that all generative AI output is derivative of the training material (and the prompt). Because, what else would it be?
Why did he even buy Twitter
Brainstorming - I wonder if there's a way for Microsoft to test builds of updates that could do this. It could still be hard to manage.