skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, it's doing spectacularly well. My point isn't "AI research is doing badly", it's "we should probably expect AI systems not to be perfectly effective optimizers of the things we try to build them to optimize; we may try to design them to do X but that doesn't necessarily mean they will actually do X, any more than we consistently do the things evolution has tried to design us to do".
I was wondering if a “chain of custody” law for personal information can make this enforceable.

You can request your personal information from a holder of it, and along with that comes the identity of where/when/who that data was acquired from (and transitively who they got it from).

Then you can tell who sold it, both to gauge violations and also to name and shame.

And if they don’t have the chain of custody, then they are immediately in violation, and it is easily proven.
Compared to all the problems humanity faces (such as not addressing the low-carbon energy transition) it’s hard to be intimidated by a situation where EVs become wildly popular and we have to spend a modest fraction of their cost on wiring charging infrastructure and grid upgrades (a cost we can amortize over decades.)
I question whether it is a matter of not able to generalize from known examples, as I suspect that most of the people who do well on the corresponding social questions did not know the answer beforehand, but nevertheless found their way to the correct one.

The article you link to seems to support this view: "Cosmides and Tooby argued that experimenters have ruled out alternative explanations, such as that people learn the rules of social exchange through practice and find it easier to apply these familiar rules than less-familiar rules."

I now wonder if people tend to do better on abstract Wason tasks after being prompted by logically-equivalent social-relations questions, as opposed to being prompted with additional abstract problems (without being told whether they gave the correct responses to the prompts.)

My guess at what might be underlying these outcomes is that people clearly see the purpose of the social rules but not of the abstract ones, and our intuition is attuned to assessing how various social scenarios will play out, taking into account the motives of the actors (this might seem to be the same as what Cosmides and Tooby claim has been ruled out, and maybe it is, but I think what they are ruling out is us having learned various schema to be applied mechanically in the corresponding social situations.)

Alternatively, could it be something as simple as this: having an understanding of the social rule's purpose helps the subjects avoid confusing conditional and biconditional rules? At least in the English language, acceptable usage can be quite ambiguous in this regard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wason_selection_task
You're adding the word "always" and completely ignoring the "comparable" aspect. These two words radically change the meaning of the comment you're arguing against in your mind and what's actually written in the comment.

> all EVs are less expensive to operate than all ICE

The only comment in this thread with that language is your comment right here.

> At least until you have to sell your children to afford the replacement battery.

I guess ICE cars never have substantial drivetrain failures which ultimately result in the cost of repairs exceeding the value of the vehicle? The transmission in my 2000 Accord was starting to experience issues, how much would that have cost to replace? And then on top of that, it probably needed an EGR cleanout again along with a new water pump and timing belt. I don't know how many more years the catalytic converter would have lasted, those are cheap though right?

I guess all of those things are pretty cheap, what maybe $50 each right? Wait, rebuilt transmissions are like $2k before labor? Having someone replace the timing belt and water pump is almost $1k these days, and that's something I'm just supposed to do every 60,000mi or so? How many thousands of dollars was already spent keeping that car running?

Meanwhile the battery is practically the only real drivetrain wear item on an EV. No catalytic converter to rust or walk away, no EGR system getting clogged up, no timing belts to fail and destroy the valves, no valves getting gunked up, no piston rings to foul, any seals are under way less stress and far less prone to leak, coolant systems are practically never stressed and under way less pressure and aren't a tiny seal away from making forbidden milkshakes, etc.

If your argument about EV battery life is based around the battery only having a 10 year 100,000mi warranty, I'd hate to break it to you about ICE car warranties these days. Clearly just about every ICE car is just going to fall to pieces at about 60,000mi. Or maybe many vehicles vastly outlive their stated warranty times.
Do they let you back up the codes to a local file too, or are you still trapped in their ecosystem unless you want to reset every site's 2FA one by one?
No you haven't but what you have done is move the goal posts. Here is your previous statement:

>Nobody said anything about shutting down social programs, you can still have those without forcing people that don’t use them to pay for it

Which implies that the people paying for them are the ones using them
Tying mandate to turnout is actually a very interesting idea. Has this ever been tried?
One of my family members has permanently lost their job in transcription. It's not that they've lost their job either, essentially the entire field across all specialities (including legal and medical) just doesn't exist anymore as of ~this year (2023).

There are still some 'editor' positions, however they don't pay very well and I'd imagine they won't be around long either.
can you please cut-and-paste exactly what you ran with the prompt visible on the left? that's curious
I mean, there’s a lot going wrong with this “lesson.” The exercise is pretty clearly designed to trick people, which is very counterproductive if the goal is to teach people about multiplication or fractions or whatever. It’s really not that damning that a teacher would be fooled into skipping the actual work, since that deceit is clearly the entire point of choosing those numbers.

It’s a bit like if a proofreading exercise in an English class deliberately did that trick where you put two “the”s next to each other but across a line break. That will often fool a skilled English writer, but that says nothing about the writer’s skill.
I was responding to someone who was talking about them being vegan. The conversation was about vegan options, which fish isn't one of them. Please just stop, you didn't even have a real point to make in the first place.
For now, it goes out to all nodes, though the pace/rollout is different. For our jobs cluster, it swaps them out pretty quickly. For our API cluster, it takes longer so that in-flight requests gracefully get handled by our load balancer before pulled out of the cluster rotation. So far that has worked well enough for us.
Microsoft to shed more office space with Redmond sublease
And it only took them 12 years to do it. Authy had already implemented syncing to different devices for a long while.
Ask HN: Any advice for someone looking to buy an existing business?
Hi HN!

I may have found an online website that I would like to buy. It is a social media management company. The website is making around $8k a month and they are asking for $250k for it. Seems like a great deal, but when things are too good to be true, I am convinced it is likely a scam.

I am pretty nervous about forking over a large chunk of my hard earned money, regardless of the deal I find. Any advice for this process so I can avoid being scammed, or loose money? Tips and tricks to validate the legitimacy of the business? Maybe a recommended checklist based on past experience?

A little about my background, I have been a software engineer for the past 10+ years, but I don't love to program anymore. I prefer to think about the business, customers, sales, marketing, etc. and would prefer to pay an employees to do the programming and manage infrastructure with only the occasional need to roll up the sleeves.

If any of you have an existing business that you are looking to sell to an individual, I'd love to have a chat. Ideally it would be something like:

- Actively Managed Business, net income $16k monthly
- Passively Managed Business, net income $2k monthly
- Ran virtually online or located in the DMV if office based
The folding ideas video on these "masterclasses" is really good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw

This is about using underpaid ghostwriters to write the books, but obviously using AI is just the next logical step. The funny thing is that even before people were using AI, this sort of thing obviously did not work
It is interesting that most of the over-budget projects were in Spain itself; there is a long list of successfully-completed projects as one scrolls down the page.
Ask HN: Have you had any productive success with AutoGPT?
AutoGPT seems to be basking at the top of they hype train, and there are countless articles explaining what it does.

I would be interested to hear of use cases in the comments that have proven to work and are being actively used as part of an established line.
I was privileged enough to attend Andrew's LA RailsSaas conference and it was outstanding.

If you're in the EU running a SaaS or developing with Rails you should at the very least check out his upcoming one in Greece.
If you have a configure step it can fail by default if there is anything to specify explicitly. But otherwise it is nice to have some defaults. In my opinion a configure script shouldn't do much in terms of detection. It should not silently enable/disable features based only on libraries being present/missing. By default it should try to use lib a and b, if the user wants they could explicitly opt-in to use lib c without lib b, otherwise let it fail.

That said it all makes it easier to just use config for make that can be edited. For example config.mk included by Makefile. I learned this trick from Suckless.
An interesting question might be: "Do any other species wear clothing?"

Hermit crabs and octopi come to mind. Do any other species make anything to wear?

Taylor birds sew their nests, but not something to wear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQMYpzbQIDA&t=53s
On #2, there is some indirect effect. AI being able to shift long-haul trucking to self-driving, for example. That would eventually affect not just truck drivers, but all the hotels, truck stops, and restaurants along the way.
absolutely. i hope they don't charge more for this feature. hell, why stop at 1password properties? leave no stone unturned, there may be other secrets laying around that can monetized with innovative product features to ensure the IPO is a success for the investors.
> If you are using a strong random password generated from 1PW you've already mitigated against that threat. TOTP isn't buying you much additional security.

Why isn't TOTP buying much additional security?

It seems to me that apart from password reuse it's mitigating many other potential problems: keyloggers leaking passwords from your device, passwords leaking from the authenticating server, etc.
Somehow you are claiming that restrictions on the speech of an entity owned in part by a citizen has deprived that citizen of her rights. What has been denied is the 'over-reach' of the citizens who wish to extend their rights to their dues ex machina.

Even if corporations had no right to speech whatsoever (total imposed silence), their owner still fully enjoy their rights and have the same precise rights to free speech as those who don't own anything.
what is this obsession with products being "fun" to use?

you know what makes chatting fun? the people I'm chatting with.

you know what makes chatting not fun? being impeded from chatting with the fun people.

a chat program that has fun people and always works is the most fun to use!
Wonderful indeed! I don't mind other people making money, but this thing is getting out of hands:

https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-courses-instruction-...

Not only have YouTubers found the same "business model", but now there are also people "educating" other people to "write" e-books and use image generators for book covers. Of course, you get also the AI generated promotion material with these courses.
I mean we build slow because of "environmental reviews" and regulatory capture. You'd expect autocracies to be able to execute quicker anyway.
Thanks for sharing! Atkinson dithering is a great choice for these panels. What the result lacks in detail it gains in contrast, and since e-ink panels don't have the greatest contrast ratios it's a good match.

Sierra dithering is a nice compromise between Atkinson and basic Floyd-Steinberg.
GDPR isn't a good fit for the American system. The principles that animate it [i.e. rights of access (Art. 15), erasure (17) and objection (21)] should be incorporated into law. But a combination of public and private enforcement, plus a strong civil regulator (but one who isn't obligated, by law or practice, to respond to complaints), is a better start.

> watch Facebook becoming the first GDPR unicorn

They're paying $725mm to users in America [1]. Difference being the damages go to users, not a regulator.

[1] https://www.popsci.com/technology/meta-725-million-lawsuit-c...
Nobody has shown that any current AI uses the same model as the human brain, nor that a neural network is a person.
I'm disappointed with what 1password has become. To put it in a tone I feel is appropriate given how much time and money I've invested into their product, I don't think abandoning native development for electron to shove telemetry into your product counts as bending over backwards to preserve privacy. It reeks.
I would define "old" as the age when one can no longer adapt. There are common trends like people older than Gen X struggling to learn how to use a smartphone. Or attachment to antiquated notions around gender roles, for example.

But if I'm being honest, I stopped adapting sometime in the mid-2000s, also when smartphones arrived and Moore's law for CPUs ended with attention shifting to GPUs. I just haven't had passion for most tech since, because most of it looks derivative to me or even like a step backwards. I simply can't work the way that I'd like to with current technology. And the barriers to entry around stuff like semiconductor manufacturing are so high that I can't use my degree there. So in a very real sense, I can't do anything but wait for the stuff I daydreamed about back in the 90s, that I thought would be here by now.

Like how Paul Graham said we compress 40 years of work into 4 year working at startups:

http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html

My final test may be the most restrictive. Do you actually want to start a startup? What it amounts to, economically, is compressing your working life into the smallest possible space. Instead of working at an ordinary rate for 40 years, you work like hell for four. And maybe end up with nothing-- though in that case it probably won't take four years.

I've been trying to win the internet lottery for almost 25 years without success, so mentally I'm somewhere around 250 years old. At this age the mental fatigue is almost all-consuming. I'm just so tired. Working this hard for so long without an equivalent amount of rest or a win has kept me in near-continuous burnout for more than half my life now. Subjective time at 45 years old passes about 3 times faster than wall time (assuming 1:1 at 15). So I'm finally punctual, not by adding a time buffer, but by dividing the time before an appointment by 3. If I have an hour to be somewhere, I really only have 20 minutes.

I'm expecting that time compression to keep increasing at that rate as long as fundamental injustices in the world aren't addressed. Loosely that means that if we don't have UBI, true labor-saving AI, equal access to capital, etc etc etc so that we can pursue our life goals and feed our inner child, then I'll be compressed 9:1 by 65 and 27:1 by 85 (if the loss of social security finally eliminates retirement). At which point my mental clock won't be able to run fast enough to keep up with the churn of the modern world. The struggle will eventually come to dominate every facet of my life, while wealth inequality will have others sitting on lifetimes of money they could never spend. Somewhat ironically, I don't care how much money they have or what they do with it, only that I'm still under the yoke of forced labor as rents are artificially inflated well past the point of believability.
As I recall, Lego cited talent as their biggest reason for locating[0]. From the same source, the governor of CT says that state policy wasn't part of their relocation plans.

I hate to say it, but Lego is probably right here. CT and MA are very similar from a cost-of-living perspective and, all other things things being equal, Boston has a larger and more diverse talent pool, and is a more attractive place to live for retaining that talent. I suppose you could extrapolate that to state policies, that the state isn't doing enough to make CT an exciting place to live but that might be a bit too uncharitable. I say this as someone who grew up there; my mom even worked at the Lego plant for a brief period in her 20s, and liked it there. As a Lego-loving kid, I always took pride in the fact that all that magic happened so close to home.

[0]https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/lego-move-north-american...
Correlating gym-going with testosterone supplementation?
"Data brokers would have to undergo an independent third-party audit every three years to ensure compliance with the DELETE Act provisions and submit audit reports to the California Privacy Protection Agency."

Source: https://privacyrights.org/resources/california-delete-act-bi...
I feel the same way. I don’t feel the need or desire to be connected to every single person on earth through some app. I left almost all social platforms a couple years ago (except HN).

I got into nostr and feel like it’s almost exactly what I want from social media. Just a reverse chronological feed of the people I follow.
I had to click through way too many links to finally find some code examples.
The first page that contains at least some examples is the "Controllers" page in the wiki.

I think you should improve the README and include a showcase of how your framework works.
the output you show looks right since the drivers with com.apple in their name were filtered out, and nothing (except the top labeling of output) remains.

this article you probably saw (and, agreeing with you, it seems crazy like you're hitting a bug)

https://support.logi.com/hc/en-us/articles/360023195654-Reso...
Amazon then recommended me the almost-as-prolific Caroline Manta. She's either a real person, or the scammer went to trouble of putting up a LinkedIn profile saying she's looking for web design work. I feel sorry for anyone who didn't know better handing over real money for this trash.
The worry about telemetry in a product like this is how it's implemented. It's more code that could have bugs in it. What assurances do we have that it will execute safely in a way that it can't possibly access the password database, even in the event of (for example) compromise of the CI pipeline that builds the telemetry SDK?

> No customer vault data can be seen or collected. We’re only interested in how people use the app itself, what features and screens they interact with – not what they store in their vaults, what sites they autofill on, or anything like that.

This seems contradictory to me. How can the code see what screen is open without interacting with the app? This implies there is some kind of sandboxing layer. How can the 1Password software engineers possibly be confident enough in this sandboxing to assert that "no customer data can be seen?" That may be their intent, but bugs happen, especially in code that runs at a layer above the app to analyze how users interact with it.

I will be opting out. Hopefully the opt-out mechanism doesn't have a bug in it either. And when there is inevitably a bug in the telemetry, I hope 1Password is okay with admitting that their opt-out system created two classes of users: those who did nothing, and thus remained vulnerable to bugs in the telemetry layer, and those who opted out of it.
I'm sure there was a time where people "never shared their weekend through text" either. I remember those types "I only use a phone for calling." Most of them are long gone now.
I don't think any of these adjectives applies.
In the university, we had some luck telling the students to send us a message from their hotmail/live/outlook/whatever address. This adds our address to some special secret list for that account, and our messages (usually) reach them. (It may fail. It may fail. IWOMM. YMMV. Sorry, but this is not a foolproof solution, just a hack. Sending email to new people is still difficult/impossible.)
> GDPR doesn't work as described

could you expand upon or clarify that? i work in systems infrastructure and have been a part of implementing GDPR-driven changes in both apps and infrastructure, so it certainly seems to be working in my line of work
ShopWith AI: Built AI agent that learns specific taste to recommends products
Relative to the wrench attack, I guess: https://xkcd.com/538/
> "Does a poor job of increasing conversions" is the opinion of someone that has never looked at the data.

The data is biased. The visitors signing up for newsletters are probably way more interested on average.

Also, of there is an A\B test the ones that does not sign up are harder to track.

The sign up could probably just aswell be replaced by a big "click this happy emoji if you like my site"-button and marketers would argue the button increases conversion rates.
Here they have support page https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1066447
It’s abundantly clear to anyone who has closely followed the development of SpaceX and Tesla the tremendous positive impact both technical and managerial that Elon has had in his companies.

I think it’s a truly bizarre smear to claim he nor Jobs “didn’t invent any of the stuff he sells” when they are perhaps the two most notable technical visionaries of our time.
I’m sorry your family member lost their job, that’s always rough. That being said, the field of transcription is nowhere near dead. Bighand does transcription and dictation solutions and their annual revenue is over 70 million.
I can't help but notice in the bill itself there's no definition of what a data broker is. Does anyone know the legal definition in California? Do you have to be an incorporated person to be a data broker or can human persons have this force applied to them as well?

edit: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.x... "California's definition of a "data broker" is set out at Section 1798.99.80. (d) of California's Data Broker Law"

It sounds like data broker has to be a "business" that collects information about someone they don't have a direct relationship to and sell that to a third party. This might still include sole proprietorship businesses but it sounds like normal non-incorporated human persons and personal websites wouldn't be forced to delete things.

It's interesting to note that "Financial institutions" are given an exception from the "data broker" tag and regulations and can still do whatever they want.
I went to that Target a few days ago.

It is definitely inconvenient and highly noticeable. For instance, I had to call a worker to let me get batteries.

The headline "entire inventory" isn't quite right. The locked cabinets included all electronics, health and beauty, and soap (probably a higher overall fraction of the store than I've ever seen in any other store), but not office supplies, clothing, housewares, hardware, food, kitchenware, or non-soap cleaning supplies.