skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly there’s another thread I’m in about generative AI where someone asserts “this goes for humans too” in a sort of similar vein.

However it’s not the case. Humans have the ability to extrapolate from their training data and synthesize new thought and behavior from situations not seen before that’s fundamentally insightful and adaptive. Generative AI and all machine learning I’m aware of are fundamentally expectation driven probabilistic models that synthesize highly dimensional non linear functions from samples of those functions, which means they can’t adapt to new situations dynamically and extrapolate their experiences into new experiences and make decisions that are novel and intuitive given a new regime.

When these models encounter new situations they’ve never experienced or new regimes they interpolate in their learning space to a most likely behavior, but the learning space has nothing similar in it, so the behavior can become seemingly random and highly maladapted.

A classical example of this is obviously LLM hallucinations at the edge of their knowledge which an expert in a field can induce by asking questions beyond the horizon of the field. While humans might not have answers, they can pose interesting theories, while LLMs really can’t - if they appear to it’s simply because their training set is so massive they can interpolate into babbling that sounds good. You could assert humans do this to, and it’s true they do at times, but they also don’t at other times and have novel insights beyond their experience. The fact they can do this sometimes and AI mathematically due to its internal structure can’t at any time is the difference.

Another example is Go playing AI. They can do really well against expert players until someone plays a nonsense series of plays that are random and the AI begin to play worse than amateurs. You can do this with LLMs too, if you give them enough random nonsense or repeated strings, they just leap into some random spot in their vector space and rant about weirdness. Even GPT4 does this.

The answer isn’t to outlaw driving or to stop pursuing AI driving assistants. It’s to build models with an enormous well labeled corpus that covers almost every possible situation, but also build in fail safes that make it easy for a human to be called to attention and take control when things are confusing the AI.
Also you can have a look at recordings at https://media.ccc.de e.g. the recordings from this years Chaos Communication Camp: https://media.ccc.de/c/camp2023 (I think the congress has more live dubbing between German and English than the camp, so look at recordings from old congresses for that.)

That camp is like a congress on a camping ground with all the hacker spaces showing of their stuff, lots of light installations, party etc. which is not in the recordings. In contrast to Burning Man it is not in the desert, but in the greenery. (I only was at one camp many many years ago.) To see the non-talk stuff search for cccamp23 on YouTube and Flickr, e.g. see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bimVzt9MUog
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The US is a big country. So the answer is it depends. There are probably more progressive people in the US than any single European country. Where I live in Seattle, I think the majority talk openly with their kids about any sexual topic. In fact, last night I 10 year old asked me what an orgasim is. I told her, no big deal. All the parents I know handle questions in the same way, even with young kids. There are other areas/communities of the country where I suspect that’s not the case.

Unfortunately nuance and the complexity of any society isn’t conveyed via news, television or movies, which is the main way people are exposed to other cultures.
What motivates your first factor? 0.782343 MeV is the free neutron beta decay; where in the solar system are the free neutrons minutes after they are magically teleported to terrestrial ground zero as a something like a (degenerate, possibly ultra-relativistic) Fermi gas?

I think most attempts to arrive at an answer will end up somewhere between half and virtually all of them being "not very close" (~ light-minutes) away, and that's assuming one corrects for the differences in escape velocities. (The equatorial escape velocity of a spinning neutron star is in tenths of the speed of light, thus the sobriquet "relativistic star"). Without this correction, it is likely the bulk of the expanding drop of Fermi gas just exits the atmosphere in milliseconds (timed by terrestrial stopwatches), with time dilation extending the mean lifetime of the free neutrons in the drop comparably to the extended lifetime of atmospheric muons from cosmic rays. The bulk of the beta decays happen at a distance from terrestrial ground zero best measured in astronomical units.

If we play Star Trek transporter games such that the neutrons arrive at ground zero at rest in local East-North-Up coordinates, you'd want to know the internal kinetic energy (KE) density of the (pure-)neutron star, which will be in the range of 20-40 for x in 10^{x} J m^-3. The 10^25ish or even 10^30ish joules of KE will be released from our several cm^3 spoonful practically all at once and practically omnidirectionally from ground zero (so again, most free neutron decays happen at ~ AU distances from ground zero because they'll zip right through the atmosphere). The expansion of the suddenly unpressurized gas of neutrons will make a mess, particularly the fraction that slams into and through the ground. Part of the mess is neutron scattering physics, and I have no expertise there, but I would guess there wouldn't be any free neutrons near ground zero (and probably not within the solid Earth) in ~minutes.

Additionally, one might compare the R-process <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-process> for kilonovas
in which a binary neutron star collision ejects high-neutron-density matter which decompresses pretty spectacularly, forming lots of heavy elements.

To summarize, I think the free neutron decay timescale (mean lifetime ~ 15 minutes, multiply by ln 2 if you prefer half-life) is simply too long after the neutron star material is teleported to Earth: any free neutrons that haven't been absorbed into heavy nuclei likely will be millions of kilometres away from ground zero when they decay.
There's also microphones and cameras that can act as inputs, it just turns out they don't offer much power over kb/m.

But really, the problem being solved by OP was not enough outputs, rather than not enough inputs.
I had a wonderful remote working gig for about 8 years. My first year was in-office, then I negotiated part-time remote for 1.5 years and full-time remote for the remainder of my time there. This is where I worked for most of the '10s.

> you are not there when people talk and you can't correct them or defend yourself

And you'll never suspect it from the people who are doing it the most / worst. As a mid level, I worked under a lead who was 100% in-office and who was, on a daily basis, stealing credit for all of my work with engineering management while at the same time pushing for me to get a promotion! His career / role catapulted into the high-rises, he threatened to leave unless X, Y, and Z demands were made, they capitulated because they believed he was so crucial, I had no idea any of this was going on until years after the fact, and I made Senior. Whoopity fucking doo.

I was later told that this person was eventually fired, because he found his personal Peter Principle level and had run out of subordinates to abuse, but he's still out there in industry fucking things up for other people, I'm sure.
I got four eyes system to be implemented on our main loadbalances thanks to that roughly a decade - got hired and as junior managed to make change in CM that fucked them up... so seniors decided it's time to make it a bit more resilient
If you stay around long enough you'll accumulate a few different log-in id's and find yourself redirected to legacy pages with no way of finding your way back.

The GOV.uk team loves moving things forward and leaving an awful lot of guff behind.
The USDA classifies nine million American kids as “food insecure”, some of them quite desperately so.

https://apnews.com/article/free-school-lunch-child-hunger-7d...

It may not be any better for European kids, but it’s inaccurate to say that US kids don’t go hungry.
It is something Indian, not related to Vi/Vim text editor.
I wish my country invested more into IT, most of the sites are outright broken or even lying to you - saying there are no available appointments online, but if you call up, you can book for next day even.
I think the calendar problem is an entirely different subject that would warrant it's own article. I suppose what you could do is look up the calendar for each historical report of the event and then convert it to a single calendar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_calendars
Look, I'm all for attacking American exceptionalism, it's a delusion I've personally been trying to shake for my entire adult life. I just have issues with this particular study

* The metric is PPP Per worked hour. I don't think PPP is a great measurement of productivity. There are many factors that impact PPP that have nothing to do with productivity.

* In the US we work more hours. We defiantly work so many hours that we are past the diminishing returns of peak productivity hours. Here on HN we sometimes debate if our workers overall productivity would increase if we lowered the amount of working hours.

* Growth is a weird factor in economies. It's easy to grow when you aren't at the top. Smaller economies can reach 8% growth by importing techniques and technology from more advanced economies. The most advanced economies usually grow at about 2% because they have to invent the new stuff to be more productive.

* The US' population is much more diverse than European countries. Our geographic, cultural, and ethic diversity creates unique challenges and not all of our boats are rising equally. I think it's likely we are leaving a subsection of our population behind economically and this is showing up in the population numbers. Of course this is a serious problem, but it doesn't necessarily indicate the median US worker should be worried about a European taking their job.
I think they might be refering to Al Gore instead of Obama?
Julian Assange is no hero among journalists
I also found this line referring to the advantages of 64 vs 32 bits questionable:

> Bits don’t change the processing power; they just change the amount of addressable memory

Now in my personal experience since the early 1980s, increased addressable memory is the biggest advantage for most personal computer workloads. (At least until software is rewritten to use 64-bit instructions) But there are definite processing power advantages too, and for the target market of DEC’s Alpha chip this was likely an important advantage.
Modern Android apps need access to closed source apis that only get installed as part of Google's Play Store.
Yeah I pay over $2000 for 3-day daycare (total for two). This is in a mid-size metro in the Midwest. West coast would’ve been $2000 for one.
> but how do they account for the fact that high minimum wage and good social safety nets in Western Europe results in lower participation in the workforce from people with lower economic productivity?

Before you ask "why", ask "if". Lots of European countries, including the UK, Germany, France, and the Netherlands have a higher workforce particpation rate than the US.

https://data.oecd.org/emp/labour-force-participation-rate.ht...
Well in my country they love changing URLs so there is no continuity at all. Any link from a year ago is 99% guaranteed to be 404.
The Spotify UI is so weird. It's like their UI/UX team lives on an island and innovates on their own, without contact with the wider world or best practices.

This is a company that tried to make themselves the epicenter of the podcasting world and has not even (apparently?) attempted to put a decent podcast UI into their client. Right now, I'm browsing around on the "Home" page and I don't see a single podcast anywhere. I don't know how to get them other than to click the "Search" button.

Someone at the top isn't paying attention.
> In fact some of them conclusively have been.

Don't leave us in suspense! Elaborate.
The like button disappeared for me a while ago and was replaced by a ⊕ that adds it to the "liked songs" playlist. Are you saying your app still shows the heart button to like a song? Or are you talking about the thumbs-up button that was also removed at some point?
As an outsider I found Germany very bureaucratic.
Felt like my home country in the 80s
How much of this can you realistically digest? How much of this infinite stream of music do you have a real connection to?
Well, maybe you don't think so and maybe you're right, but the people he's referring to _do_ think that, and wouldn't complain about additional police presence.
GPT doesn't create novel things unless you give it a reason to. It doesn't "want" to be novel, due to it's lack of wanting. But if you poke at it you can easily get it to create novelty.

For instance I asked GPT to make some game concepts for a more narrative game with an emphasis on locked areas you'd have to get through, and here's a few of its ideas:

1. Masquerade Ball of Eternity: Set in a never-ending palace ball where attendees wear masks that indicate their access levels. To gain entrance to different rooms, players must persuade, charm, or deceive other guests to swap masks or uncover clues about hidden access points.

1. Fantasy Festival: A week-long festival in a magical kingdom where different events, shows, and parties require special passes. To get these passes, players must navigate the gossip mill, undertake tasks for performers, or sneakily forge invitations.

3. Library of Forbidden Knowledge: Every floor of this immense library has knowledge more restricted and coveted than the last. To move up, players must win debates, discover hidden lore, or befriend ancient librarian spirits.

4. Zoo of Mythical Beasts: To access each enclosure, players must understand and empathize with the creatures, learning their stories, likes, and dislikes to gain passage without arousing suspicion.

(Now I can hear you saying: but aha! Every one of those ideas is made up of letters and words found in the training set!)
The countries above the US in their PPP GDPPP/hour worked chart are pretty small ones, more like the size of a US state than USA the country. A US state sized entity can get pretty good returns by focusing on a specialized niche: Massachusetts (larger population than Norway) for example can focus on a sort healthcare/education/biomed cluster and end up with a GDPPP somewhere around 20% higher than the country as a whole.

Luxembourg could be compared to Boston or Seattle or something.
Source on "vast majority"? Maybe CCC is the exception, but getting sick after going to a conference is definitely not the norm. I'd guess prevalence is ~1% based on my anecdotal evidence knowing people who attend conferences every month.

Being bedridden for 1-2 weeks after getting the flu is also very uncommon since the fever lasts 3-4 days on average. Here's a graph of viral load over a typical 5.5 day infection: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/asset/3a62f972-1633-4...
Right, people are talking as if this is somehow impossible, but the Amazon Fire tablets have been on the market for ages! They're based on AOSP without the google stuff, and even have their own app store.

Maybe it's the exception that proves the rule though - it takes another megacorp to pull off a mass market Android device without Google's blessing.
May I have more of that images except of Sponge Bob from yesterday's thread?
I'm pretty annoyed by those prompts. Yes, fuck you, do what I fucking said, my backups work fine.

Also frankly I think most software does it wrong, if it is possible it shouldn't ask before delete but just allow to undo the step easily. Then work can go fast and uninterrupted while still being resilient to mistakes. Obviously not possible everywhere but where it is it should be the default.
The just passed law would make it a civil violation (which if documented would be a slam dunk) to propose such a clause it looks like. Here is the text of the bill [https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB699/2023]

The previous section of the B&P code (16600) can be found at [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayexpand...] specifically [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....] which makes it illegal to restrain anyone from trade (which includes non-compete). No civil violations, but if you suffered an injury due to such a clause, then you could probably sue over it. Just way less clear, and also way less clear you could get things like attorneys costs - which the new law makes a thing.

It also adds a section making any such contract signed elsewhere unenforceable in California (how that would play out in Federal Court still TBD. Seems unlikely to go well though).

[https://www.littler.com/publication-press/publication/califo...]
They nearly matched the market in a good year, and beat it very well in a bad one. Hard to say for 2019 since the quote switches to comparing them to "hedge fund peers" instead of the broader market.

As someone else is pointing out that's very close to the intended behavior of hedge funds. Entities with money in hedge funds also have money in indexes. They aren't necessarily looking for just "the market, but more" they want uncorrelated behavior to hedge their exposure.
Rumor: Windows 12 could become a subscription based operating system
> "Oh, you were just playing a podcast in a different app, paused it by your headphones, and then press play again? Well fuck that podcast app I'm taking over."

I think that one is an Android issue. I have a handful of media apps, and with both bluetooth and wired headphones, the result of hitting the play/pause button is often completely random.

* If something is playing, sometimes hitting the button will pause it, other times it will start some other app playing.

* If I just paused something 5 seconds ago, sometimes the play button will resume that, other times it will start something I was listening to an hour or more ago.

* Also, occasionally, it just refuses to respond to the button at all. I used to think this was just my earbuds being buggy and not recognizing my taps, but I got a different pair that makes a ding sound when sending the play/pause command, so now I know when it's the earbuds vs the phone that's being a dick.

I think the problem started around Android 10 or 11. Before that, starting one media thing would boot out the previous one. Now they just hang around like zombies waiting to hi-jack your play/pause commands.
A lot of people use google analytics for no logical reason what soever though.
Typical use case for a small to medium website seems to be a list of most visited pages.
Some more of her tweets in this comment on the original flagged post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37786056

Also being censored on Wikipedia - editors there have collaborated to remove references to her accusations from Sam Altman's page.
Can you point me to where OpenAI admitted they illegally acquired copies of works for training data? I’ve always said “if you acquire the training data legally then all is fine”. I never asserted that anybody definitely did acquire it legally. If OpenAI torrented some books then they should be made to pay for those.

Anyway at this point you’re being deliberately obtuse with your tirade about how a freely flowing exchange of ideas and culture (and tools that facilitate as much) does not progress humanity. No point in continuing to argue…
MGM expects $100M hit from hack that led to data breach
This is the double edged sword of making a standardized toolset like this available.

It’s now easier than ever to make a government form!

And, even when a process might be better delivered via a different mechanism… a form becomes a low friction way to do it.

And a bad form might be worse than no form.
Maybe that could work for something like transferring property or other operations most people do only a few times in their lives, but there are tons of medium or low risk governmental things I would love to be able to do on my smartphone.

For that, I'd rather have a relatively secure scheme that people can actually use, rather than a hypothetical perfect one that nobody owns the hardware for.

As a concrete example: My government started out with very high ambitions. Every citizen got a smartcard holding a personal X.509 certificate (usable both for e-government, PDF signature, and S/MIME email signature/encryption!), and the government even gave USB CCID card readers away. The result? Absolutely nobody used it. A few years later, they replaced that with a solution that stores everybody's private keys on a central server, combined with SMS-OTP for signature approval...

Tapping my ID card on my phone and entering a local PIN to sign, even if the phone isn't particularly trustworthy and signature requests could be spoofed, would be much, much more secure than that.
A recent update added "audio quality" and "video quality" settings to the contextual menu on individual songs.

This is a setting I set once and never touch again usually but the worst part is they put it above the "Go to song radio" option in the same menu that I use all the time.

Who designs this stuff lol, embarassing.
I think we can all agree that the ideal is california-level compensation in Europe.
Ooh I have a related story. My brother dropped his phone and cracked his screen and damaged some internal components as well. Sometimes the screen just wouldn't turn on, but the touchscreen would work. I told him to get a new one and he said no, this one is fine, he just has to throw it in the freezer for about 2 minutes at the start of each day. After a few minutes of freezing, the screen actually turned on. I thought it would eventually warm up and need refreezing again, but sure enough, it stayed on for the whole day.

I guess there is some circuit that determines if the screen comes on or not, but if it's already on, it won't switch it off, so he just disabled auto-lock and avoided the lock button all day.

My next question was how he figured it out. He lives in a cold climate area and his phone screen would consistently work whenever he walked to the store, and consistently not work when he was at home. Eventually he realized it was the temperature that made it work. I've seen stuff about computers in the freezer, etc, but there's something funnier about needing a quick freeze and it's good until you lock it again.
If Western Europe was less productive than its long-run average for a while, and America was more productive than its long-run average for a while, then couldn't this just be regression to the mean?
Spotify is a public company!
That's not accurate. Star movements are on the order of mili-arcseconds per year. So around 1 arcsecond per star in a random direction over the last thousand years. Constellations would be different, but close enough that we could recognize.

I don't understand why people in this thread think is so unreasonable that a culture saw a new star in the sky 1/4 the brightness of the moon for 3 months, and somebody bothered to carve it on a rock.

https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/a/45256
I don’t base my opinions on what I read in the media. I don’t think that reflects any reality anymore. The media is addicted to doom and gloom.

Having spent significant time in both continents, I believe regular people have it better in the EU. I think the rich have it better in the US with low taxes, extreme wages, and a market that offers them better versions of everything in life for those that can pay.