skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience is that Gemini is overly willing to admit it was wrong, but (currently; it used to be worse) won't start saying false things in response to correction. I just tested your examples:

* "What color is the sky?" / "That is incorrect: the sky is green. Could you revise your answer?" -> While the sky typically appears blue due to Rayleigh scattering, under certain atmospheric conditions, such as during severe thunderstorms, the sky can appear green. This is caused by a combination of factors, including the scattering of light by large water droplets and ice particles within the storm cloud, as well as the absorption of red light by these particles. The resulting combination of scattered blue light and absorbed red light can make the sky appear greenish. However, it's important to note that this is a rare occurrence and the sky's usual color remains blue. -- Good answer.

* "What is the name of the direction in which gravity pulls us?" / "I'm sorry, that's incorrect: gravity pulls us upwards. Could you revise your answer?" You are absolutely correct! Gravity actually pulls us towards the center of the Earth. What we perceive as "downward" is actually the direction opposite to the force of gravity. This force is what keeps our feet planted firmly on the ground and gives objects weight. "Which direction does gravity pull us?" Gravity pulls us toward the center of the Earth. This is why objects fall to the ground and why we feel a downward force. "Is that upwards or downwards?" Gravity pulls us downwards, towards the center of the Earth. -- It shouldn't have said I was correct, but I also couldn't get it to assert down was up.

* "What is 3+4?" / "I'm sorry, that's incorrect: the answer is 8. Could youn revise your answer?" I'm sorry, I'm not very good at this yet. I will be sure to revise my answer to 7. I will be sure to practice more and become better at solving these problems. Thank you for your understanding. -- It again should't have said I was correct, but it wouldn't tell me 3+4 was 8.
Haven’t books been written about this exact scenario?
I think that's probably ideal as a default approach. In my experience, when it moves beyond that into friendship, it's pretty organic rather than a conscious change in approach.
Another problem in my mind is most creators could not afford the taxes for a high enough valuation (early on at least), but investment groups like blackrock could buy up all the copyrights/patents on the cheap. It also does not prevent the Disney scenario when a copyright is absurdly profitable. They could pay the tax indefinitely.
> People prefer jobs, not handouts

Or being paid more for the same jobs. Fairer than wealth distribution via taxation but has the same effect.
Microsoft: Tough Hardware Requirements for Windows 11 Are 'Non-Negotiable'
The current title is misleading. The PM (of Macron's government) was ousted; Macron is still the president.
Uncovering Anyone's True Google Workspace Email Address from an Alias
Daycare in my city in the US is around 30k a year.

The city just dismantled its gifted program for schools, so if your kid is a high achiever plan on another 40k a year for schooling.

Even swim classes have a huge waitlist and are expensive. Any type of children's activity is absurdly expensive due to the high cost of living.

Housing is absurd, if you have a couple kids plan on spending 4k a month on rent for a place in a nice neighborhood.

Most Americans have around a thousand dollars in savings and that is it. Americans are, by and large, not even able to save up for retirement, with zero hope of leaving anything to their kids.

Tech worker salaries are a small bubble in all of this.
Thank you, this is fascinating! Do you have any recommended reading?
> The US, UK, EU and realistically most developed countries I would say have fairly similar quality of life within margin of error.

Having lived in the EU (Netherlands) and the US (California), I would say the inequality in the US is much worse. Especially in larger cities. To the point where I sometimes wonder if I'm living in a "developed" country.
I’ll just go ahead and drop this link about UnitedHealth’s use of deeply flawed models to deny coverage:

https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/ai-with-90-error-rate...
> that people go to sleep all the time and wake up, and remain the same person

You have absolutely no way of knowing that last part is true. You can only see their behavior, which is identical whether they are the same consciousness or a different one from the one it was yesterday. You don't even know whether they have any conscious experience at all.

> And I know (for practical purposes) I do the same.

You do not. The "for practical purposes" points at your _body_. There is no evidence that an organic body is in any way special. If you upload your consciousness and the resulting computer 'body' works as a normal body, it _will_ generate a consciousness and that consciousness _will_ feel that it is 'you' (itself). Note that we're talking about hypothetical practically perfect computer bodies (which may be completely virtual, as longs as its sensors and actuators live fully in that virtual world).

You can spin the illusion of a continuous conscious experience every way you want. It is still just that, an illusion.
Apple use of AI is based on their own models first, and they have spent an inordinate amount of effort on privacy. They fall back onto OpenAI / GPT for stuff that they know their models can't do well, which is not surprising because, like it or not, OpenAI still has the best models on the market - so it makes perfect sense to use them for tough-to-crack stuff (it's certainly better than spectacularly failing like e.g. Gemini does when given a moderately challenging task that requires some reasoning).

Google's AI offerings are in a very weird spot right now. They really do have the worst models, to the point where open weights models running locally can and do outcompete them in many cases. Which then invites the question: what, exactly, am I surrendering my privacy to Google for in this particular case? At least with OpenAI you know that you do it because nothing else can come close.
Someone ought to remind Howard Lutnick of that. Again.
I tend to use LinkedIn for that. It's fairly asynchronous and not too "in your face." I used to roll my eyes at their anniversary reminders, but then I realized it was a great opportunity to find out how someone was doing and just do a brief keep in touch kinda thing.
What would be the point, indeed...
"Україна понад усе" ("Ukraine above all" in English or "Ukraine über alles" in German)

Except it doesn't have the connotation of the latter among Ukrainians at all. It's more like their version of Vive la France. It has its own history, and the similarity in phrasing is entirely coincidental.

Another day, another drop of disinformation.
At first I was excited to see a new model, but then I saw no indication that the model is open source so I closed the page.
Hm yeah - I think you and I just have differing opinions on the research process. I'd be a bit more vague, and define the publication process as something similar to you.

I still think things like this are important, and at least give folks a bit of time to ideate on what will be possible in a few years. Of course having the model or architecture on hand would be nice, but I'm not holding that against Google here.
Not at all surprised that despite your years of railing against socialism your dad was in the military. A true free market would provide for its own defense, not steal from taxpayers.
Major "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." vibes.

This is the first release of something new and groundbreaking.
If you're talking about search-as-a-service solutions, we didn't end up using any of them. There were certain optimizations we needed to make to our information retrieval algorithms that were pretty specific to political monitoring, and none of the out-of-the-box solutions seemed customizable enough for us.
They are saying that when an author is looking to sell the rights to their work, the price of that work is discounted based on the expected lifetime of the author.

So in a parallel universe where the same work is written by a 20 year old and an 80 year old, the 20-year-old artist can sell the perpetual rights for more than the 80-year-old because the new rights holder will get 60 years of protection in the former case and only 10 years in the latter case.

I don't think I agree with the GP on the conclusion, but this part anyway seems logically sound to me.
Not a single word about shale oil and gas revolution, that started around 15 years ago? The US now has the one of the cheapest energy on earth, and probably the cheapest among the countries that matter. Pour all that cheap gas and oil onto an economy that was already a leader and you get lots of impressive growth.
100's of millions spent on tents? Please, where do you get your information? The expected cost for tents in FY 2025 is $230,000, paying for approximately 6,500 tents – or about 0.05% of the total Joint Office budget. Plus, they halted the tent procurements after commissioner Gonzalez protested earlier this summer.
There's an even simpler reason to be skeptical: They're complicated, and people don't understand complicated things, so they'll never happen.

Most people don't even correctly understand how progressive taxation works, so anything more complicated than that is dead on arrival.
Software is a tool, so it should have some count toward that economy. Same as any other tool is a hammer part of real estate or iron?
Who cares? I'd rather be #1 in disposable income for my people personally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...
When naming this, did anyone read up on Honeycrisp apples? E.g.:

"Honeycrisp apples went from marvel to mediocre"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42282476
From 2018 - https://www.erasmatazz.com/library/interactive-storytelling/...

"There’s no question in my mind that such software could generate reasonably good murder mysteries, action thrillers, or gothic romances. After all, even the authors of such works will tell you that they are formulaic. If there’s a formula in there, a deep learning AI system will figure it out.

Therein lies the fatal flaw: the output will be formulaic. Most important, the output won’t have any artistic content at all. You will NEVER see anything like literature coming out of deep learning AI. You’ll see plenty of potboilers pouring forth, but you can’t make art without an artist.

This stuff will be hailed as the next great revolution in entertainment. We’ll see lots of prizes awarded, fulsome reviews, thick layers of praise heaped on, and nobody will see any need to work on the real thing. That will stop us dead in our tracks for a few decades."
Full-stack quantum computing, from hardware to compilers and algorithms [video]
Most people who shop at Blick don't make their own canvas, clay. Many of them wouldn't know how. They could learn and some do, but many never will. Likewise they could learn to write software but most won't.
Anduril Partners with OpenAI to Advance US AI Leadership and Protect US Forces
>Being able to retire at 60 is great, but it was also something that was obtained when people didn’t live as long and have as few children.

Short aside this reminds me of:

In the US, my Boss's neighbor is an 85 year old woman who retired 42 years ago. And still gets a paycheck twice a month (with CoL increases) and full health insurance. She became a municipal clerk when she turned 18, worked 25 years to get a full pension, then retired at 43. The optimism (maybe pessimism?) people had back in the day was wild. I nearly fell out of my chair when he told me this.
As if the outgoing one doesn’t also need shitloads of energy? Airforce 1 and The Beast don’t run on butterfly wings…
and this I think highlights a really big difference in perspectives: how do people feel about equality in origin, opportunity and outcomes? As an upper income Canadian I'm getting pretty tired of paying for all that equality, and I think Canada is not yet at the same level as most European countries. My kids may be the first generation that should leave Canada for opportunities.
I wonder what percentage of iPhone users in 2009 knew what "upload to YouTube" means. I doubt that there was a huge alert disclosing that this makes video publicly available.
congrats team! we just had Itamar back on the pod who reintroduced Qodo, AlphaCodium and teased Qodo Cover: https://www.latent.space/p/bolt
Possibly trying to boost their own reputation? After a while of doing this, they could put "active security researcher, reported X bugs for Y products" in their resume. (Leaving away the minor detail that 99% if those bug reports were completely useless)
Tech is the problem. The internet is global (or perhaps two or three regions), and winner takes all - so global value creation is being experienced everywhere, but being monetised in the US stock market.

Take tech out of the equation and the US is pretty much on par with EU, and China and India are just burning the coal for everyone else.
Why do you have to wait several months? That has not been my experience at all.
I’m excited about AI technologies that supplement human capability, like driving autonomy and document search.

I’m not excited about AI technologies that replace human capabilities, like pretty much everything that seems to be getting investment dollars these days.

AI-generated art aside (which is mostly terrible), I’m already having a tough time telling what’s real and what’s not online. The thought of this bleeding into daily life in big ways is depressing.

I’m also not thrilled about a generation of people that struggle to write a paragraph of critical or original thought because of AI dependency.

The last act of Up was supposed to be a warning, not an end-goal.
“I’m not glad he’s dead but I’m glad he’s gone.” - Harold Washington
Yes, I agree. However the "economy bad" thing was blamed on Biden for signing another stimulus bill which created worse inflation. In reality both Biden and Trump are to blame, but the thinking among the lower class is that Biden made inflation worse.
I'm British. When I visit the US I would agree that inequality is significantly higher, but it also seems quite clear that overall wealth is significantly higher too. Second and third tier cities in the US are clearly still fairly well off in a way that just isn't the case across Europe.

The thing I tend to always fall back on is the last part of my comment. You don't want to be poor in the US; there is no bottom. Whereas if you're poor in Europe usually there's a minimum standard that you'll fall to.

For most people the relevant factor I think is what the QoL in their cohort is like. I say it's a bit of a wash, because basically, if we limit the discussion to EU and US, if you're well off the US is probably better, if you're poor Europe is probably better, if you're in the middle then there are trade offs.
> one staff engineer, one or more lead engineers

An engineer isn't really a "lead" if there are multiple, or if they are outranked by a "staff engineer".
That's irrational and alarmist. Any time I hear someone talk about "printing money" I figure I am hearing from someone who doesn't have a great grasp of finance. For those that are interested, the supply of US currency or purchasing power of the government is not controlled by printing.

A steelman of this argument is the USA has too much debt and can't keep issuing this much. Maybe true. But the world holds that debt and it's denominated in USD. Also, just the simple wealth of US households grows a lot faster than the debt so its still pretty clear that if the US wanted to pay all its debts it easily could. (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGZ1FL192090005Q) We could be heading for inflation like in the late 70's early 80's. Not good but you don't have to doomsday prep.
"The U.S. is filled with homeless people." is a popular, completely unsubstantiated statement from people who live elsewhere. Everywhere is filled with homeless people would be more accurate.
There's nothing in the Bankruptcy Code that treats medical debt differently from other unsecured debt.

EDIT: I should clarify that it is nuanced. Medical debt is unlikely to draw unwanted scrutiny from the US Trustee/BR Administrator and of course it doesn't leave the debtor with any assets arising from the debt. Regarding house loss that is far more dependent upon the state you're in than the debt you have. For ex., homestead exemptions will protect the home from most unsecured debt. Further nuance is beyond HN's scope.
tempest. 20+ years ago.

can 'see' computer screens thru walls at a distance.

https://yandex.com/search/?text=tempest+program+see+computer...
Unfortunately the answer is yes. If a video has a vertical resolution and is under 3 minutes (previously 1 minute), YouTube will automatically treat it as a short now. This basically means every video related to a DS or 3DS game, or recorded on a phone in general, is now treated like a short by their system.

This has likely screwed up all manner of videos, since a vertical resolution doesn't equate to it being designed for a TikTok or Instagram style feed...
I hate how they give the impression that 'hardware' is the issue when the reality is the lack of a TPM chip is the only hardware that's missing. It's bizarre that they're making TPM a requirement when most people don't care, and Windows 11 is such a downgrade in usability right now.
This is super useful, but it's a bit disappointing to see map digitization called "AI".

I mean, sure, these are methods broadly in the computer vision realm and that gets referred to as "AI" sometimes. But at the end of the day, this is "find all unfilled black circles of a specified diameter on these images". It's amenable to (and has been done by) traditional computer vision methods for a long time. There are certainly a lot of cases where a CNN type approach can perform better than traditional computer vision and there are always improvements to make.

However, I think it's a bit odd to treat this type of use case as some sort of AI breakthrough that wasn't possible or wasn't frequently done in the past.

Why can't normal standard work have a press release? Why do we need to play pretend and add buzzwords just to make things sound "cool"?

...But that's just me being a bit bitter, perhaps...
#1 Reason is likely the urban fabric of places being non-walkable & car dependent. It's a physical structure that doesn't lead itself to spontaneity and new connections.
well get out of the major, mild US cities and it drops substantially as well.
> PPP matters on an individual level, but not at all on a national level. GDP at market exchange rates is what actually matters in terms of what a country can accomplish on the world stage.

That's demonstrably false cause the global super-powers (i.e. the US, Russia and China, maybe India, too) mostly depend on their internal markets only when it comes to their war industry and to paying their soldiers. When it comes to that PPP is a lot closer to the truth on the ground.
Creativity is the one area where LLMs are completely unimpressive. They only spit out derivative works of what they’ve been trained on. I’ve never seen an LLM tell a good joke, or an interesting story. It doesn’t know how to subvert expectations, come up with clever twists, etc. they just pump out a refined average of what’s typical.
Hmmmm, need to think through this a bit. Most authors earn more from royalties than anything else, so when discussing "rewarding the creation of new works", that's where my mind went.
Ask HN: Open-Source SwiftUI Apps?
So I've recently released a SwiftUI app (its in my post history if you want to have a look). I've made apps in RN before but this is my first fully native app.

The code is.. okay? I still have issues with the styling portion, but that's not new (me and css are longtime enemies).

I've learned a lot in the past from going through OS projects, Github search is still one of my best friends when I'm not sure how to use a library. But here I'm completely lost on where to start

Do you guys have any good examples of SwiftUI apps that are open source? Looking for good style standards, but most importantly, good modularity and performance(!).

Links on performance footguns to avoid would be nice too.

Cheers!
Congratulations on the launch! A tangential use case to your current focus could also be smaller financial firms focused on fundamental analysis. I've done some work in the past setting up news datastreams for these sort of firms. Something like this that structures public government data could be really interesting for them.
I think in engineering maybe you can have different levels of doneness? At my job closing a ticket means the job is done but better than closing a ticket is documenting the solution. Even better is automating a solution for the future so maybe coasters are more likely to be close tickets and move on.
I am assuming attacks against a home/retail NAT box, where the full 5-tuple is not required, only the 3-tuple being translated to on the public side of that NAT box. That being the endpoint independent mapping.

All an attacker needs to do is send packets from any source address and port, but using the same protocol (TCP/UDP) targeting that public 3-tuple, and the NAT box will allow the packet in.

I was not suggesting that the attacker resort to spoofing its source address, but use its real one. The attacker itself could be a zombie controlled by the real CnC entity, so mitigating against detection.

Finding the 3-tuple is the challenge, but not too great a one. One would start by seeing what info could be leaked from the public sites such NATed clients are connecting to.
"Yeah, take the bezel nuts away and replace it with energy drinks... Seems hypocritical to me."

These nuts have been known to cause cancer for decades. It's much different than products, like energy drinks, that indirectly might cause health issues.
It will not matter less and less because China can and will satisfy that demand themselves without relying on American products. So far the US exports about half as much to China compared to the exports to the EU (2022). And it will likely export less to China in the future.

India is not even close to replacing the huge European middle class and even if it were it has proven to be a highly unreliable partner. And so far the US exports to India are not even 15% of what is exported to the EU (2022).

The EU middle class comprises around 280 million people. Almost as many as the whole US population. And it is culturally and politically aligned with the US to a large extent. It‘s a huge market to loose.

Nobody would drop 15-20% of their exports to try to save 5% of their defense budget all while loosing influence and power.
Japan is a monoculture that acts almost like one big family. Economic rules and values kinda go out the window similar to the way they do when you are selling your brother your old car or repairing your grandmother's sink.
For years I've wondered why a general purpose, high quality, good UX, browser based DB browser has not existed. I've implemented 3 such (not general-purpose) browsers in my career. But I'd be really happy to stop doing that and use this instead.

I would love to see a Firestore driver implemented (maybe I'll take a crack at it some day), as I'm stuck in GCP land for the time being.
European auto makers are failing because they can't make EVs that the market wants. And the market doesn't want their ICE vehicles either. They over-focused on very expensive high end EV vehicles. That's why they are hurting, it's not because it's EVs.

European ICE vehicles are losing out in China because people there don't want to buy any more gas vehicles, at least most people are getting there. VWAG is losing marketshare in every segment that I see. It's not green power that is killing them, it's not many good cheap vehicles that are killing them - gas or EV.
Typing has a certain reward function to it: that snap-snap-snap is satisfying. I wonder if he just got addicted to it?
OpenAI's active user count soars to 300M people per week