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New comment by asperous in "US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year"

asperous — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:20:01 +0000

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

Kevo app shutdown

asperous — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:07:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kwikset.com/support/answers/what-does-the-kevo-app-shutdown-mean-to-my-kevo-door-lock

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45340192

Points: 133

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New comment by asperous in "Show HN: HumanAlarm – Real people knock on your door to wake you up"

asperous — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:22:42 +0000

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.

New comment by asperous in "EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm"

asperous — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 06:21:20 +0000

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

New comment by asperous in "Recall going back into Windows"

asperous — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 03:58:22 +0000

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".

New comment by asperous in "California Attorney General issues consumer alert for 23andMe customers"

asperous — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:02:17 +0000

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.

New comment by asperous in "20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says"

asperous — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 06:15:31 +0000

5 U.S.C. §7311

New comment by asperous in "20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says"

asperous — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 01:09:35 +0000

Federal employees are not allowed to strike

New comment by asperous in "TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them"

asperous — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 22:03:44 +0000

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.

New comment by asperous in "Getting 50% (SoTA) on Arc-AGI with GPT-4o"

asperous — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:19:29 +0000

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.

New comment by asperous in "British Museum gems for sale on eBay – how a theft was exposed"

asperous — Mon, 27 May 2024 18:56:02 +0000

> 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.

New comment by asperous in "OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?"

asperous — Fri, 17 May 2024 22:54:10 +0000

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.

New comment by asperous in "High Court rules that Getty vs. Stability AI case can proceed"

asperous — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 02:38:53 +0000

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.

New comment by asperous in "Homes need to be built for better internet"

asperous — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 17:15:27 +0000

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.

New comment by asperous in "AWS unveils Graviton4 & Trainium2"

asperous — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 19:36:43 +0000

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.

New comment by asperous in "We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO"

asperous — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 20:58:34 +0000

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.

New comment by asperous in "NASA: Capillary Cup"

asperous — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 16:29:42 +0000

New comment by asperous in "Ads team begging for worse search results so that ads team can hit their goals"

asperous — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 00:44:55 +0000

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?

New comment by asperous in "Government URLs that don't end in .gov"

asperous — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 21:24:44 +0000

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.

New comment by asperous in "Harvard Discriminates Against Middle-Class Kids"

asperous — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 20:43:30 +0000

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.