skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NASA has a much lower tech solution at Cape Kennedy: it's a wall that is slightly off vertical. You are strapped into a harness and lifted off the ground so your body is horizontal and your feet rest on the wall. The angles are calculated so the force of your feet against the wall is the same as the gravity on the moon, while the strictly vertical component of your weight is supported by the harness. The net effect is that walking and jumping on the wall is the same as walking or jumping on the moon.
The 30 year maximum age for hiring is there to make sure controllers have enough time working to earn pension benefits before mandatory retirement.

Hiring someone older would be setting them up for a very bad time later in life.
I don't think this is correct. The plate is moving atop whatever padding that is below it, yes, but none of the scratch marks visible on the surface of the platter appear to be rotating as the person moves about it.
Hey Microsoft: Just stop trying to cloudify everything in the new Windows and focus on its stability instead of releasing an inconsistent UI every few years, and you will be good to go.
That take seems naive. A lot of malware works by getting the full consent of the user. Users often have no idea what they’re consenting to or the implications of it. And on top of that if you really require code to get permission for all resources they require customers will immediately look for ways to avoid having to manually do this step.

The problem is that malware has basically an infinite number of tries to get you to run something. As there is almost no consequence when they fail.
As a registered Republican who voted IND in 2016 and then for Trump in 2020 (which probably puts me in about a 0.1% minority on a site like this), I feel upset that the democratic process for choosing a nominee for the Democratic Party is about to just get bypassed. Are other folks feeling this? I’d be even more riled up if this were my party telling me, “Oh, that guy you voted for in the primaries? We thought he couldn’t win so we will harass him until he quits, then we are going to replace him with someone better (since we know better than the voters).”
Can I place a stop loss and a limit sell at the same time?
You inserted the word “all” into “all use without permission” which is not what I said. Fair Use is a thing, and the big AI players have tried to claim Fair Use, so far unsuccessfully. They’ve requested new rulings on Fair Use for AI, which admits they are aware they’re potentially violating existing copyright law, and are seeking to make their use legal.

The copyright office says downloading movies violates copyright.

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html#:~:text=....

See also (same page) “If you use a copyrighted work without authorization, the owner may be entitled to bring an infringement action against you.”

> no copyright law expressly forbids training AI either.

That’s irrelevant. The law covers using copyrighted material without permission. Fair Use is a type of permission, but otherwise they don’t have to specify what it gets used for.
The US invasion and attempted puppet government in Afghanistan made life much worse for women in Afghanistan because it drove regular people to support the extremist Taliban, who themselves became more extreme as the war went on.

Just because the US could take control and pretend to make progress doesn't mean it actually changed people's minds. In fact it actively poisoned the concept of women's rights in that region for decades
As if he didn't show those signs when he took office.

Presidential age limit restricts mostly the right of the people for who to vote for. If you can't trust your people to distinguish candidates abilities to perform their duties, maybe a different political system altogether would be more appropriate.
Now, when media start covering up, maybe the problem also lies elsewhere
It’s always nice to have a look at them!
Enoch! Yes!
The war on failing US infrastructure.
I think some of that is just the different norms in the senate vs the house. The senate is very much about decorum and tradition, whereas the house is more of a free for all.
From 1988 to the 2000’s is a LONG time.
All of his 'success' is purely derived from charisma as far as I can tell. He isn't particularly adept at his prior career of real estate business given that he has under-performed in the markets he has participated in, and he had to commit felony fraud to do it. His biggest success is making people believe that he is more successful than he is.

What intellectually rigorous activity would you say he has an aptitude in?
Seems like multiple instances of either unintentionally poor logic, intentionally fake logic, or just weasel words, on your part, in your above comment that I am replying to.

Here is one, i will not go into others:

>>how did you jump from C to all programming languages, in the context of that statement? I did not say anything of the kind.

>Simply by taking further steps in the same direction.

but i did not ask you to take further steps in the same direction, so that you could twist my words.

i limited myself to C and closely related topics, like D, C++, Walter, and Andrei - related languages and people involved with them.

don't try to twist my words, as you appear to have done above.

yes, once i find people talking fake or not understanding, it is a waste of my time, so i will not engage further with you.
We don't currently live in that theoretical universe, and won't any time soon.

The one we live in, it is a hard disqualification, and there's an election in 3 months.

We won't fix everything that is broken with how people select leaders in the next 3 months.
Is it normal for configuration to be able to override hardware thermal protections?
Voting for the candidate at the convention actually is the process. It always has been. It’s just been a while since the outcome of the vote was unknown until we got to the convention itself.
Caveat: In countries that adopt an AI-aware copyright statute. In other countries they will just scrape whatever-the-hell from wherever-the-hell.

Right now all we're seeing is gentlemens' agreements and self-enforcement. A robots.txt is just asking you nicely. I don't know of any country that has any judicial ruling on the topic of AI scraping yet?
Airplane can fly and land themselves for the most part it’s only in case of a emergency does a pilot really need to have quick judgment
Has Congress authorised that war?
I'm still waiting for the Al Franken-Jill Stein dream team to take the stage.
Seems like it's doing what I've been doing with org-mode for years.
I’ll pass on Kamala. Biden should have let democracy do its thing during the primary.
Imagine what a target she would become for anything she does.

I think they discussed this and:

Biden: run the country and try to lay the groundwork to rectify the Supreme Court crazyness

Harris: your turn to beat Trump in November
> Why Nim

Does anyone else like Nim? I'm thinking about using it for a project.
Wow, never heard of that ambitious CPU arch before. Looks like an early loser in the RISC wars that was recycled into later PA-RISC and Itanium.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_PRISM
I think he would tweet something like "42.0% of all polls are wrong". Like a clever pun using the weed number (420) :)
Much better for it to be an illiberal Americo-cratic hellhole.

You do remember what the "Afghan government" partners and soldiers were like right? Mostly child rapists and gang leaders...
Here's a graph of onset of treatment vs. therapeutic effectiveness: https://c19ivm.org/mr/mr-all-delay.svg

Literally linearly from 100% efficacy to 0% efficacy over 7 days from onset of symptoms. Linear, over ~100 studies!

You don't see that kind of statistically profound predictive accuracy often; but when you do, you sit up and take notice.

Furthermore, in various other anti-viral treatments that are considered effective, onset-of-treatment is a critical determinant. Typically, over 24 to 48 hours after onset, treatment is pointless.

Why not consider that important to address (or even mention?) in Ivermectin studies? The mind boggles...
Sorry this is a simplistic take. Microsoft can easily run legacy apps in a sandbox and lock down just as much as Apple - they just wouldn't be allowed to.
Sure, for booleans you can just test all combinations of input arguments. In some cases you can do the same for all possible 32 bit float or int values that you have as input. But for 64 bit integers (let alone several of them) that's not feasible.
Microsoft has proven they can make an iron clad secure system: the Xbox. Everything runs as a micro VM.

Why can't they apply this architecture to Windows?
Trumps been called out for his ramblings for 8 years now. Its not news anymore. Hes mastered the post truth tactic of overwhelming people with bullshit so much that they dont care about it anymore.
And those 10 years were the 90’s, advancement was crazy back then.
> Any probability distribution over strings can theoretically be factored into a product of such a “probability that next token is x given that the text so far is y”.

And such a probability distribution would not generally understand concepts, efficient or otherwise. The P(next_token) is based upon the syntactical structure built via the model and some basic semantic distance that LLMs provide. They don't have enough conceptual power to reliably generate new facts and know that they are facts consistent with the model. That would be an internal representation system.

The academic exercise here is similar to monads: "yes, any computed function f(x) can be expressed as a sufficiently pre-computed large lookup table." With LLMs we're dealing with approximate lookups due to lossy compression, but that's still what these prior probabilities are: lookup tables. Lookup tables are not smart, do not understand concepts, and they have little to no capacity to generate new results not sufficiently represented in the training set.
It's been signed into law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_Investment_and_...
Build a Product That the User Wants – Hard Learnt Unsaid Rules of User Interview
Weirdly enough, the European far-right is pretty pro-Russia
https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_cra...

You mean the same issues that Linux also faced?
So... an ad-based search engine? Sounds familiar. The alternative needed is an alternative business model
I highly recommend reading https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-b... by Donna Brazile. A summary also at https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/02/politics/donna-brazile-dnc-bo....

Hillary Clinton basically took control over the DNC through financial dealings that Brazile (who took over as head of the DNC after these dealings) characterized as "if not illegal, then at least unethical".
On 2 I think the suggestion is more that this whole chain of events has resulted from persistent and willful dishonesty by Democratic leadership (including Harris) about the President’s health. So the argument is that if the public was not intentionally misled then there would have been a real primary. And now we are getting whoever those same party elites decide we should get.
> and it's clear that voters seeking an alternative to Trump have already found it in the Biden-Harris ticket

Do you have anything to back up that claim?

There are scores of voters planning to vote third party or sit out the election due to the lack of good, viable candidates. If the DNC nominated someone who honestly spoke to the ways our country is messed up and the things we'll need to do to change them they could easily see a considerable increase in their votership.
Break the project task down to as granular of tickets as you can.
More stimulus money was spent under Trump ($456B) than Biden ($410B).

https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2021/03/what-to-know-about-all-thr...
Frankly the US just has a much larger area to campaign in than sweden. Candidates have to at least visit every state once and spend tons of time in 5-10
Also you are much more likely to decline in the next four years at eighty than at fifty.
No, I am not feeling riled up about this. I’m much more riled up about the state of the executive branch from 2016-2020.
> if you stay home and trump wins, we don’t have a country or democracy anymore

If the Democratic party really believed the apocalyptic rhetoric that they're spreading about the end of democracy, they would take this chance to nominate a candidate who can appeal to moderate voters. Compromise today to save democracy for tomorrow. It should be a total no-brainer to pick someone from the center of their party who even a disenfranchised Republican voter could support over Trump.

Today they have a chance to prove that they haven't just been cynically riling up their base with lines about democracy's imminent demise. They have a chance to nominate someone who stands a chance of beating Trump. If they don't do that and nominate Harris instead, then they've shown their cards and proven that they don't believe democracy is at risk.
Copyright enables copyleft. Does copyright in relation to AI also enable copyleft in relation to AI?

The logic seems to be that "some of the training input was copyright, therefore the inference output is copyright." The same logic says "some of the training input was copyleft, therefore the inference output is copyleft."

Maybe future training sets will have to worry about the license compatibility between all the data in the training set?
That's also a good reason to make your code portable to other architectures, even if you don't intend to support them. Doing so can shake out bugs that would otherwise not be so apparent.
> Biden picking Harris to win the black vote is a political stunt and cheapens the role tremendously. Picking a VP only to win votes implies that the role isn't actually important and that anyone winning votes could do the job.

This is literally every election. Every single one. It's literally all any speculation about VP picks is about. Seriously, pick an election year in the last century and I bet we could dig up articles about what voting bloc the VP is expected to bring in.

What's more is that it's largely independent of the competency of the VP picks, who are sometimes quite accomplished and capable.

And of course, it's always been assumed it will be "white" and "male" for almost the entire history of this country.

And yet for this one you trot out "DEI" and all that you're trying to imply with it. I wonder why.
Civilization progresses one funeral at a time, but maybe if we knew we would live to four hundred we would take up longer term thinking and work for projects that took 100 years. Nod to Kim Stanley Robinson.
The NPVIC is a fucking awful solution that would backfire on the idiots supporting it eventually. Talk about vote disenfranchisement on a massive scale—it could literally invalidate entire states worth of votes just because California, Texas, Florida, and New York decided to vote the same way. Which means that candidates would ignore literally every state except the 4-5 with the largest population because they are the only ones that would matter.
In principle, if you got everyone to agree to it (and this would be a big if), this would probably be an interesting enough ticket that it might just win. Maybe.

In practice, Romney is 77 years old and is ready to retire - and think how often age has come up as a factor in the presidential race recently. Romney isn't running for reelection, but if he had wanted his senate seat for another 6 years, I am quite certain it would have been his. So ultimately, I don't think Romney would go for it, simply because he wants to spend more time with his (large) family.
Different studies have different scopes, recent studies in G20 countries are essentially trials in largely vaccinated populations.

These are also trials in regions with relatively low rates of parasitic worm infection.

The early meta studies looked at trials in poorer regions of non G20 countries and showed the benefits of killing parasitic worms as increased resistance to flu, COVID, etc, etc across the board. Post worm dosing survival rates for most things increased compared to regions that didn't receive dosing.

These early studies are the main reason we see results such as the graph in a peer comment - killing worms improves COVID survival for those that had worm infestations to begin with.
It's similar to how people misunderstand sales. Many are used to dealing with pushy salespeople or bullshitty managers. Good sales don't feel like sales. Good managers don't feel like they're managing. Good lawyers write in an unambiguous way.

Middle managers are mostly information routers & filters. Sometimes adapters. They summarize important points, they make sure the important information doesn't get blocked or lost in those filters. And if one segment (e.g. customers) don't understand, they translate it. Often they're the ones to perceive the information directly - good managers don't just look at data, they look at the anecdotes too to make sure that the data isn't corrupted.
What's the real-time requirement for? We may have different use cases, but it's not needed if I don't need to review the results. Speak -> Send, without reviewing the text, is the desired workflow. I.e. so you can compose messages without looking at your phone.

So yes, i'm not sure of alternate real-time solutions, but the non real-time solution of Whisper is much better for my real-world use case.
Consider the differences in customer and developer expectations of applications on Xbox vs. Windows.
The comment I was replying to was talking about "10-15 years later" (i.e. 1998-2003).
There is an argument that in a well functioning democracy voters should be able to decide who is qualified to lead them. It shouldn't matter if the person is 20 or 80 if they are able to fulfill their obligations and win the support of voters. With a well informed population and an electoral system that fairly represents voter preferences there should be no need for arbitrary rules.
So what is you point then if Biden signed it and where does it say its a war on that page?
I built an Intel workstation for the first time in two decades when the 13700K was released. It hasn't been a bed of roses, starting with thermal throttling from the LGA1700 socket bending the IHS so badly that the heatsink only contacted it in a strip down the middle, needing to physically reseat the onboard HDMI for the display signal to resume after the monitor is disconnected, a generally boiling TDP, DDR5 quirks like 5-minute training times (no blame here, just didn't expect my servers to boot faster), and generally having goofier names for UEFI options designed around overclocking. I still don't know how to use XTU.

Couple that with the underwhelming software support for AI/ML on their own hardware for about a year after CPU and GPU launch, and I wish I'd just stuck to AMD.

I don't think either are perfect, but it's the devil you know, and I've grown to trust that even when AMD cocks something up, they'll listen to customers, coordinate engineering efforts with OEMs, and handle it. Intel are either too high and mighty or don't empower their engineers to treat partners like partners without layers of management getting involved to be able to do something similar.
The ideal setup takes advantage of Real-Debrid or other seedbox services.
That's certainly a factor but not the only factor. She bears a lot of the same baggage as Biden for failing to prosecute abusive cops and enforcing so-called "tough on crime" drug policies.
Denying that Democrats play 'the ends justify the means' is blatantly dishonest.
Are you sure "Microsoft is responsible for that design"? Do we know Cloudstrike didn't choose to do it in-kernel even though there was another way they could have done it in userspace?
Yeah, "Toilets" were the way to go.
I managed to get an Apollo on auction while working at ncd in the early-mid 90’s, mine had a very high res black and white monitor and a very weird Unix implementation that appeared to let you choose between bsd and AT&T environments at boot.

Mostly I remember it for the amazing monitor and the laser mouse and the mirrored mouse pad with the grid - truly amazing to me at the time.
> hard to imagine any party conjuring the courage to do something like that even if they thought it was wise.

They would if they sincerely believed that losing this election would doom democracy. If they nominate a straight polarized political ticket instead of one that can actually unify everyone who doesn't want to see a second Trump term then we know that they don't actually believe their own apocalyptic rhetoric.
> Outside of tech, AI isn't making any friends. It's an unexpected threat on the horizon for the bearers of accumulated privilege, such as monopolies and nation-state autocrats

How so? Generative AI has developed in a way that's very amenable to the bearers of accumulated privilege, it requires so much capital expenditure that it's in the hands of a few companies that can be variously negotiated with or strong armed. This is not at all like the computer and internet revolutions of the 90s.

> The worst possible outcome is that we end up with an all-powerful AI cartel which negotiates massive deals with IP conglomerates, locking out competition and open and free alternatives.

What's the difference with the status quo if the main players are Microsoft, Meta and Google?
Yep. We've been a nation at peace since 1947.
I don't think most democrats actually care who the president is as long as it isn't Trump. That's why they voted for Biden in the first place. It is kind of ironic though that the party of "saving democracy" will not put the winner of the primaries as their candidate but I think practically speaking there is already somewhat of a consensus among the party for doing this. Also see polling that shows Harris with equal or better numbers than Biden.
I think it’s incredibly significant that the announcement came on twitter a network run by a prominent trump supporter. You have to wonder how that all went down for the administration to have to resort to that opinion.

For many hours it seemed like the announcement might have actually been a hoax because of how unofficial seeming the announcement was. I really want to read on how this all went down.
Wikipedia provides dumps of their data[1] and there are sources that prepare it for training as well[2].

[1]: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/

[2]: https://www.tensorflow.org/datasets/catalog/wikipedia
Since you brought it up. Let's take your same question and apply it to Democrats. What do the Democrats align on, besides "Win at all cost" and "Trump is bad"?
Currently in search for an alternative search engine to Google or Bing, used DDG for a while but found Brave's Search [1] structured results more useful which is now my default. So far so good but if Brave enshittifies their results may consider having to pay for kagi.com.

[1] https://search.brave.com
I thought for a moment that Apollo had used DEC's PRISM processor for some reason, but no, Apollo had it's own PRISM.

Also, there a bunch more Apollo brochures here:

https://www.1000bit.it/ad/bro/brochures.asp?id=39
Ask HN: What's the best YouTube lecture you've seen recently?
What's the best youtube lecture you've seen recently?

I just finished Brandon Sanderson's Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy so looking for more to dive into for a few hours a day.
Apollo's Domain/OS (formerly AEGIS) was impressive, but did not gain a full POSIX layer until later in the 80s, as I understand it. So the Model 16 really was the only other commercial Unix workstation, besides Suns, in early 1983. This advantage wouldn't last long; by 1984 other Unix desktops like the HP Integral had emerged.
CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes