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asperous··on US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year
FRED lets you control for population actually! It does flatten the change a bit but it's still a bump: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1Q8J6
asperous··on Show HN: HumanAlarm – Real people knock on your door to wake you up
That seems like a thought terminating concept? Every business has risks.

The employees should know what they are getting into and hopefully the business is providing resources to help keep them reasonably safe.

asperous··on EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm
The framers noted that the system was vulnerable to a single "faction" [1]. The solution was to have many competing factions. I think first-past-the-post, corporate election influence, and mass media consolidated power into a single faction that ended up causing the system to break down (in that the branches don't seem to be checking each other's power right now).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._10

asperous··on Recall going back into Windows
It appears this will be an opt in feature.

Honestly it will probably help some people "hey where did I put that file?" but yes at a tremendous cost to privacy and security for those who use it.

I am also weary that it is opt in "for now".

asperous··on California Attorney General issues consumer alert for 23andMe customers
No singular person, it's more the value of having a large database. You visit a coffee shop, a stalker collects your dna from a fingerprint and uses the a leaked or sold database from 23andme to tie it to your identity or home address, etc.

Interestingly this also works if a direct relative has used it as well.

asperous··on 20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says
5 U.S.C. §7311
asperous··on 20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says
Federal employees are not allowed to strike
asperous··on TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them
One advantage of uuids is they can be generated on several distributed systems without having to check with each other that they are unique. Only long ids make this reliable. Youtube ids are random and short, but youtube has to check they are unique when generating them.

Maybe one way is to split up a random assignment space and assign to each distributed node, but that would be more complex.

asperous··on Getting 50% (SoTA) on Arc-AGI with GPT-4o
Having tons of people employ human ingenuity to manipulate existing LLMs into passing this one benchmark kind of defeats the purpose of testing for "AGI". The author points this out as it's more of a pattern matching test.

Though on the other hand figuring out which manipulations are effective does teach us something. And I think most problems boil down to pattern matching, creating a true, easily testable AGI test may be tough.

asperous··on British Museum gems for sale on eBay – how a theft was exposed
> estimated 2.4 million items

That's 5 years if one person worked on it nonstop without sleeping and each item took 60 seconds.

I would assume they probably sit in a secure location and items on display or items leaving/transferred are catalogued first so there's bit of a triage and backlog.

Museums probably don't want to turn down valuable item donations even if they don't have the resources to catalogue if right away.

asperous··on OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?
Not a lawyer but those contracts aren't legal. You need something called "consideration" ie something new of value to be legal. They can't just take away something of value that was already agreed upon.

However they could add this to new employee contracts.

asperous··on High Court rules that Getty vs. Stability AI case can proceed
The training jurisdiction one is interesting. Are future companies going to exclusively train their models in a copyright lack country?

Seems like jurisdiction would be based on the copyright of the allegedly infringed images, and UK-based users creating copyright infringing copies in the UK.

But that's apparently not the law or case law in the UK yet.

asperous··on Homes need to be built for better internet
I looked it up and there is a whole industry of "low voltage" or cable networking installers.

I think it's more a matter of cost and that people wouldn't think to do it if their internet mostly works.

asperous··on AWS unveils Graviton4 & Trainium2
If you haven't used aws a lot then you might not know this but the old instance types stick around and you can still use them, especially as "spot" which lets you bid for server time.

I had a science project which was cpu bound and it turns out because people bid based on the performance, the old chips end up costing the same in terms of cpu work done/$ (older chips cost less per hr but do less).

aws though was by far the most expensive so switching to like oracle with their ampere arm was a lot cheaper for me.

asperous··on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO
I don't think that's quite right, Microsoft's main game was keeping the money train going by any means necessary, they have staked so much on copilots and Enterprise/Azure Open AI. So much has been invested into that strategic direction and seeing Google swoop in and out-innovate Microsoft would be a huge loss.

Either by keeping OpenAI as-is, or the alternative being moving everyone to Microsoft in an attempt to keep things going would work for Satya.

asperous··on NASA: Capillary Cup
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a8965/why-don...
asperous··on Ads team begging for worse search results so that ads team can hit their goals
Just to add another perspective, isn't sales like this at any large company? Sales is pushed hard on quotas/targets and so look for any way possible to hit those. In other words were these requests taken seriously by the product managers and leadership?
asperous··on Government URLs that don't end in .gov
USPS I think from a branding perspectives wants to be compared to retail shipping and not come across and some stuffy/slow bureaucratic agency, even though they totally are.
asperous··on Harvard Discriminates Against Middle-Class Kids
Seems like it would be a waste of money as many students can afford it, Stanford's model of generous, guaranteed scholarships makes more sense to me.
asperous··on CPR's true survival rate is lower than many people think
The article links a source and says "In real life, people similarly believe that survival after CPR is over 75%"
asperous··on Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with LLMs
While I do believe LLMs can perform some reasoning, I'm not sure this is the best example as all the reasoning you would ever need for Minecraft is well contained in the data set used to train it. A lot has been written about minecraft.

To me, it would be more convincing if they developed an enterly new game with somewhat novel and arbitrary rules and saw if the embodied agent could learn this game.

asperous··on The Supreme Court Made Just About Everyone Happy for Once
I don't think the score necessarily reflects the strength of the case. Particularly weak cases are dismissed or handled in lower courts with appeals dismissed.

Second, the court's makeup is politically decided

Third, the court has in the past ( roe v wade ) chosen to be unanimous when reports say internally there was some dissenters.

asperous··on Minix development has been abandoned?
There's a bit of irony with this thread I think but this was Minix's creator's viewpoint as well:

https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/Publications/Papers/computer-2006a...

asperous··on Minix development has been abandoned?
I always saw Minix3 was as a companion to the "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation 3/e by Andrew S" book which was in 2006. Probably you were only ever going to run it in a virtual machine. More of an "educational" kernel.
asperous··on Tunnel via Cloudflare to any TCP service
I have done this before, which is pretty simple because ssh is basically always available:

    ssh -R \*:8080:localhost:80 -N root@example.com
asperous··on Ask HN: What is the license of GitHub's blog and The README project?
Why not ask Github?
asperous··on Lessons from America’s astonishing economic record
There is also food stamps (SNAP) which is meant to be supplemental, but technically speaking is enough to survive off of if you do not have any income.
asperous··on Peak LLM?
Yeah here some links to prior prompts

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33855718

* https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/10ozjfr/comment/j6...

asperous··on Levels of banned CFCs rising
We don't have to trust their numbers, we have satellites that can monitor the emission levels.

The US pollutes at roughly twice the amount on a per person basis as China. In addition we "outsource" some of our pollution to them by them doing our manufacturing.

It's tough to both raise the standard of living (reduce poverty) while also reducing pollution but China has a lot of initiatives to be more green; for examples 150 new nuclear reactors planned in the next 15 years. They benefit from the better air quality so it's a goal for them.

asperous··on GPT-4
Predict next entry in medical chart?

Presumably all these images would be connected with what ended up happening with the patient months or years later

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