skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats interesting. When I did play with it a bit, it wasn't clear to me if it was actually doing that, but in hindsight it definitely was and was not just a coincidence. When I first used ChatGPT, I had a dog that recently passed, and she had such a big personality (a mischievous always hungry hunting dog) and was just very different than my other dog (a pitbull mix that likes to guard things), and I had thought that the two of them would be a good basis for a children's book.

I initially put in a prompt like "tell me a story about the hunting dog and the guard dog." and the results were pretty meh. I was interested to see if it was actually pulling in data from FB so I put her name in instead (she had an FB page yes). It did not seem to do much. So I put in some things like "the little hunting dog is always hungry." "the hunting dog is always looking to hunt" and then did a fuller prompt of "the hunting dog and the guard dog are going to the park. tell me a story about it" and finally got a very good fully fleshed out story about how the little dog was on the prowl for a squirrel while the guard dog watched out and it was really well written and made about as much sense as a fictional tale could. There was no awkwardness or other tells that would have made you think that this was written by anything other than a human.

Anyway, that is huge that it can do this. I do remember when I used to play with other chatbots that remembering past context was something they were unable to do, at least not well, but in most cases it seems they didn't even attempt to. ChatGPT has blown me away in many ways, but this is a very specific leap forward.
lol just saw this bit

> "Previous owners do not return phone calls, and large corporations that dump 3000 machines assume they have been destroyed, so it is critical we have a solution that does not depend on the previous owner approving,” Bumstead said.

Real woe-is-me vibes in this piece.
Although it sounds funny, this is actually kind of a serious question: are you concerned about an egg bubble?
This is the same credit card I've been using on their site for several years. This is no excuse.

Unless you have proof they aren't selling that data, I'd assume (based on my experience at a major location-sharing company and a major credit-reports website) that they are absolutely selling that data.
Can't you put another OS on them, like Linux?

On the other hand as I know for Asahi you still need to boot into MacOS and have access to the Terminal.
"With a big enough engine even a brick will fly." - famous quote about the F-4, which captures that much of early airplane development was engine development rather than aeronautics. It's no coincidence that Glenn Curtiss got his start in motorcycles before moving onto aircraft.

I think to some extent we are seeing the same thing with the latest AI models, where if you just throw enough parameters and GPU's at a problem, you can get pretty good results.

In a way, I see some parallels to aircraft, in that it was important to study birds as the best example of heavier than air flyers early on, but understanding the nuances of the biomechanics of flapping wasn't necessary to surpass them.
It increases participation in the second hand market, actually. This only applies to Macs stolen / sold without a reset, so when I buy second hand I know the Mac wasn’t stolen, and I know there’s less incentive to steal this laptop because thieves can’t use it anyway.
forget 'state affiliated media', the UK has 'Boris affiliated media'
The Git source code audit, viewed as a Rust programmer
Users, particularly those not absorbed into the Apple ecosystem, don't keep their iCloud account in high regard and by the time they're getting rid of their computer, have long ago forgotten the password. Additionally, they don't realise there are special steps required before handing off these computers.
> but the economic benefits once they reach adulthood tend to flow to government and society at large.

Not at all. Almost everything is privatized today. When children reach adulthood, the economic benefits that they create also go to the private sector. 'Small government' in the West meant that the government being pushed out of every sector from education to healthcare and private profiteers taking their place. And as private players, their objective is to maximize their profit.

So even child raising became a thing that requires ever-increasing amount of effort and cost from parents as the profit margins rose. Japan got hit before other Western countries and got hit harder because it already had a 'work or die' culture that required 100% from the employees. To have children, you had to put 120%. And when the private sector's increasing fees made it require putting in 200%, the youth just stopped trying...
I hate to say it, but it does not sound that far fetched. In some weird ways, tech already feels like magic to a lot of people and people surrounding it are today's wizards and priests willing that power into existence.

In practical sense, as a society, we do need something to separate good from bad. Technopriest cast does sound like a fun job description to me ( which will inevitably be corrupted and result in its own schism ).

Future scares me.
Microsoft Releases WinGet 1.4 for Improving Its Open-Source Package Manager
It literally makes perfect sense. Do not disturb (me, my room, my stuff).
If those frameworks for A/B testing do any statistical analysis or automation I think they are easily classifiable as AI. I wouldn't be surprised if some publications at the top are using much more sophisticated software than that. I could only speculate to what level or with what success ML has been integrated into those pipelines.
Just to be clear, the cost of changing the iterations is almost zero. Bitwarden already supports variable PBKDF2 rounds on all platforms, as well as changing the number of rounds. I'm sorry, but the cost of deploying Argon2 in production to a lot of platforms across a lot of devices is non-trivial by comparison. If you have enough different combinations of devices and environments deploying an if statement can become a challenge. In this case, it's especially a problem considering the lack of Webcrypto support.

By all means, use Argon2 in new code, or any other more modern KDF. But PBKDF2 isn't broken, and replacing it warrants actually doing the ground work to see if it makes sense: is it fast enough on most devices? is the security improvement meaningful enough? etc.

The truth is, 1password has the right idea here with their Master Key system. Even very unwieldy long passwords are pretty low entropy compared to a proper cryptographic key, and KDFs cannot significantly improve this situation. If you want to do more than re-inforce the speed bump, you're going to need to work outside the password. It has a usability trade-off of course, so maybe it's good that not everyone does it that way.
I learned about this from a talk given by one of the authors. The guy next to me asked, "If you open up the blood-brain barrier, doesn't that mean nasty things can cross, too?" and the author was like, "yep." There are definitely risks.
Hungry Hungry Hippos: Towards Language Modeling with State Space Models
India.The.Modi.Question.S01E01.1080p.WEBRip.x264-SKYFiRE or India.The.Modi.Question.S01E01.1080p.HDTV.H264-DARKFLiX have got you covered, though I am sure there are other sources as well.

The Internet Archive does good work, but disappointingly appears to stop short of being a true "write-once, read-forever" archive. Your personal datastore is the only safe place.

There's supposed to be a second episode too. Anyone know a release name for that? Maybe it's not out yet, haven't checked.
They blocked people from generating performance reviews so at least some were trying.
I mean the article says that they "assume they have been destroyed" so maybe it's businesses paying for hardware to be destroyed and now it's not possible to resell instead.
You can't steal my laptop and sell it to someone else? We actually like that...
> .. exploring such gaps yields whole new fractal buds.

so, 'through the looking glass' by another name?

edit: at time of writing, in wrong hemisphere for summer's day.
CVE-2023-0210 – Linux Kernel Unauthenticated Remote Heap Overflow Within Ksmbd
That's likely and it's nothing compared to what I've seen.

I've seen businesses shred crates of completely unused and unprovisioned top of the line 16" macbook pros.
... it clearly says that in the article.
You thought funny book magicians were just bad at their craft didn’t you? Not so! They’re software engineers from the future dealing with AI-based systems.
I really want something like NVidia's upcoming Grace CPU in blade format, but something where I can provision a chunk of SSD storage off a SAN via some sort of PCI-E backplane. Same form factor like the linked project.

I'm noticing that our JVM workloads execute _significantly_ faster on ARM. Just looking at the execution times on our lowly first-gen M1s Macbooks is significantly better than some of our best Intel or AMD hardware we have racked. I'm guessing it all has to do with Memory bandwidth.
I've gone through a similar thing. I like the principles behind latex but it's really rough around the edges (in ways that are baked in and will doubtless never be fixed).

The error messages given on invalid markup in particular are atrocious.
I use both Windows and Linux. Linux runs on server and workstation class hardware dedicated for deployment mostly so the last thing I care about is what / how browsers run on those.
Choose from their payola based list of preferences. You can't chose any search engine like on other platforms.
> Haven’t seen any top down government interventions work at increasing TFR

Top down government interventions to raise birth rates and population work pretty well in countries where the government provides vital services like healthcare, education at lowest cost and also social safety nets.
markdown -> reveals.js pandoc is great. Having an tree-view overlay for your 2D presentation flow in the final presentation is as good as slides get.
Not sure why stop at the backend.
It's more than data. Apple's disk encryption already does that on iOS.

Activation lock isn't just data protection: It is Anti-theft. The concept was that bricking the hardware if it is stolen would reduce the, at the time, massive rise of theft. Activation lock on iOS (and all kinds of keying hardware to that board) basically shut down cell phone theft as they become worthless. They added the same to MacOS.
Ran it and nothing really happened?
This is hilarious. I would love to see a transcript of sample API calls and responses. Can anyone post one? Perhaps even contribute one to the project via GH PR?
>”Often the previous owners are corporations or schools who buy and sell the machines in bulk and aren't interested in helping recyclers or refurbishers unlock them.”
Additional thing to note: Why is Apple serializing iPhone parts? Perhaps it is because thieves found activation lock too much of a pain and went to part sales on the grey market. Part serialization is, ultimately, this but further down the road.
> ...how many people mistake food wrapping for food..!

It isn't mistaking, it is not prioritizing the cognitive load for the separation effort. When I was in Japan, I was impressed with the level of fastidious compliance I witnessed in materials separation. That convinced me the talk in the US about how mainstream households could not possibly support a comprehensive cradle-to-cradle materials handling infrastructure are really talking about culture and/or necessity and not logistics.
it means the ghost of Simon Bolivar will never die, and the ambition for the States of South America to act in concert for the benefit of the people continent will always remain, despite equally persistent attempts by the neighbour in the north to keep the south divided
I believe the Austrian equivalent is compatible with German banks, but somehow it never took off.

https://bluecode.com
If that were true, employers would encourage exposing pay to reduce labor costs.
TL;DR: some people want to use Macs that they “legally acquired” under the pretence that they’ll be destroyed.
You might want to re-read the Moon is a harsh mistress, then look at what’s going on in large portions of society that aren’t the west coast bubble.

Matriarchal, multi generational polyamory is going to be a bit weird for half+ of society, and it’s not easy to remove that without completely rewriting almost the entire book and it’s characters.
Always keep your CV up to date (its soo hard to write a CV the day after you get fired), browse the job ads and watch for the buzz words and keep the skills in those words fresh and go to the gym.
No, but I would probably pay ~$15-20/mo just to get longer responses
> It outright prevents existence of new browsers and competition and it's a flagship examples of monopolistic corporations killing innovation and competition.

No it doesn't. Tens of new browsers appear on multiple platforms every year, in parallel with Apple's approach. All of them fail to gain significant market share, and most of them are based on Blink.

The bigger obstacle for browser innovation is the complexity of making a modern browser. That complexity is actually partly driven by developers demanding constant feature expansion in browsers. It's been great having web apps explode, but also that makes browsers fiendishly complex.
When my son's school locker room was burglarized, they didn't bother with iPhones and took higher-end Android devices only. It's precisely the second order effect you want as a user.
This strikes me as a distinction without a difference. Content creation is not even close to the same as GMO or processed foods. People are justified in being concerned about how food is made precisely because there are meaningful differences in the nutritional value and trace chemical content in the end products. And that matters because we don't fully understand the role those factors play in long term human health. Created content does not share similar distinctions based on how it was produced.

At the level of our personal experience of a story, image, or sound it does not matter if the content was human generated or even if the stories are real; they either elicit an emotional response or they don't.
This is why we can enjoy fiction and art in the first place. It's also why a given piece of art can mean different things to different people.

Deliberately cutting yourself off from the meaning a piece could have for you just because you aren't yet sure that a human produced it is unnecessarily specist and only acts to your own detriment. Should one likewise refuse to engage with works that had assistance from the artist's pets?

With regard to news stories and other informational content, if two stories about the same event are both accurate, timely, informative, and/or insightful, it does not matter if one was written by a human on a typewriter and the other written by a bot after having been prompted by a human. The present state of the art still requires some human editing to hit those marks but we're quickly approaching a time where there will not be any detectable differences.

This idea that people deserve to invent a new category of things to be prejudiced about seems silly and unhelpful to me. Why bother inventing arbitrary distinctions just so people can play favorites and be judgemental about it? People are already free to judge content based on relative merits. That seems like enough to me.

And it's important to account for the fact that the end goal with these tools is that there will be no differences between human and AI generated content. The teams working on these things have already made considerable progress to that end, it's not hard to imagine the next couple of iterations actually achieving that.

So anyone trying to create these arbitrary labels is staring an uphill battle for a fundamentally unhelpful end state.
We really don't need to put that kind of energy into reinforcing people's desire to feel superior. We have more than enough elitism/triablism/racism/otherism around as it is.
https://twitter.com/johnhfio/status/1617903269996793856?s=46...
I might be wrong but I believe Apple can unlock these machines with proof of purchase. At least I remember carrying a non MDM enrolled device from a departed employee to Apple in the past to have the activation lock removed and all I needed was a receipt and patience.
Very good overview!

Two high-level things it can do (didn't see them explicitly mentioned in this document but might have missed it):

1. Give its opinion about your idea or proposal. You can describe what you want to do or some proposal and then at the end say "What do you think about this?"

2. It can come up with plans, strategies, and approaches. For example you can ask it to list approaches. (You can then use these approaches yourself without using ChatGPT or in the same prompt you can then ask it to complete the task using the approaches it just gave you. This has a better result than just giving the task as the first prompt without first having it generate plans, strategies and approaches.

It is also a great help to give it the context before the task. For a better result, tell it the context or what you're doing, then give it the task you need help with.
If you want to continue the chain of specific goals in service of no specific purpose: run Kubernetes on it.
https://github.com/getmeli/meli

But is searching for maintainers
Not necessarily stolen, people just don't know better. The article explains that companies/schools operate in bulk, meaning they just drop thousands of in bulk - so they dont care if the are locked or not.
> “When we come upon a locked machine that was legally acquired, we should be able to log into our Apple account, enter the serial and any given information, then click a button and submit the machine to Apple for unlocking,” he said. “Then Apple could explore its records, query the original owner if it wants, but then at the end of the day if there are no red flags and the original owner does not protest within 30 days, the device should be auto-unlocked."

That doesn’t make any sense.

1. Who is going to pay for all that?

2. That 30 day timeout just means it will be unlocked and again stolen devices will be desirable / unlocked…

Ultimately the recyclers need to make it worthwhile for the original owner to unlock these devices. Not some workaround.
so, software went to crap when the coder's square girl friend stoped emmitting random radiation that sparked idea mutations?
Off topic, but the first illustration in the post is by Robert Crumb; for anyone who hasn't seen the documentary on him, titled "Crumb"[1], you're missing out!

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109508/
Agreeing with you. Psalms typically employ parallelism not rhyming. Two examples:

The sun will not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.

and

My life is consumed by anguish
and my years by groaning;
my strength fails because of my affliction,[b]
and my bones grow weak.
> Boyea-Robinson helps companies, government agencies, and other organizations meet goals for diversity and equity through her consulting firm, CapEQ.

And you better hire her, or every disproportionality in your customer base, employees, or management, could be evidence of illegal discrimination.

Well, not every disproportionality - only those against "historically disadvantaged groups" (it used to be just "minorities", but changing demographics are forcing that one out of use).
You know we’re doomed when half the comments here are taking this seriously, and not as the satire it clearly is (1KB of state? come on people)

Props to the OP for showing once again how lightheaded everybody gets while gently inhaling the GPT fumes…
That's not even close to the style of a Psalm. It's still pretty cool though.
Yeah, I haven't heard of someone having their iPhone stolen since about 2015. Killing the illegal resale market with "if you don't know the password, the phone is a brick" is probably the biggest reduction in crime that society has ever experienced.
Thank you for this, this is exactly what I was looking for! It looks pretty effin' awesome :)
Regardless of spam, there is another fundamental issue with AI, Accountability. Any text you've read had a real person behind it with real intentions. Malice and greed or honesty and exploration. It would be very difficult to hold an AI accountable for any offence committed on accuracy or honesty. With a person, you can slowly get to the bottom of it and develop a relationship. AI will muddy the waters of people writing and thinking instead of offloading everything to an AI that could do it faster and you'd even evade any responsibility for your text as you could claim that the AI might have inaccuracies and does not reflect your own opinion
Yeah, the DJI Mini 3 Pro is that drone... get the basic controller version.
One great benefit that she doesn't touch on is LaTeX makes for a great on-ramp to generating resumes programmatically. I like to use different emails for different services (service@mydomain.com), especially when data is being hoovered into HR systems. Building a pdf at the command line made it easy to create a one-line command (via makefile) that generates a small png with the desired email and insert it into the resume with 0 effort or fuss.
Google docs never works for me in Firefox so I mostly stopped using google docs
Various ideas about how water can be made magically powerful - via high purification, homeopathic memory, magnetic energization, religious blessings, distant/rare sources, trendy bottles, cool backstories, etc. - seem to have a very strong emotional appeal for a wide variety of humans.
Summary: schools and companies sell their old laptops to recyclers, but don't unlock them first. Historically recyclers never needed to coordinate with the previous owners because once they had the hardware they could do anything they needed. With new security chips, however, these locked computers are nearly worthless.

Since these computers are still valuable, I think we probably end up with a new dynamic where contracts are updated so the previous owners get money back for unlocking them first. That maintains their value without opening a path for thieves to unlock and resell stolen macs.
I think we should judge content independently of whether it was created by AI or humans. Labeling AI-free content doesn't seem to add much value to me in general (with exceptions).
> a large system where the logic just makes itself up as it goes.

What you describe is known as a “bureaucracy”, and indeed, it’s one of the seven levels of hell, and a primary weapon of vogons, next to poetry. That we aspire to put these in our computers, I agree, is unfathomable.
OpenAI is working on a watermark for their models (if not already there) that would recognize content as AI generated. If its good enough, it should be able to filter out AI content when training new models

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/10/openais-attempts-to-waterm...
I think the line for me is somewhere around where the tool starts passing the Turing test.
In the airline industry they sling huge numbers of dates and times around, and they never include the timezone. What do they include? The airport code. Boarding, departure, arrival, and all other times are always local to the airport. In practice, that means that every piece of code that wants to handle datetimes has to also have access to a way to lookup the timezone for the provided airport code. Have a time at LAX? look up LAX, find the timezone, and compute the offset.

In practice, almost nothing does TZ conversions or datetime math. In effect, airline timestamps are a tuple <datetime, airport_code>, and nothing much messes with that.