skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sci-fi mag pauses submissions amid flood of AI-generated short stories
Now the Humanities Can Disrupt “AI”
iPhone SE starts at $429.

Meanwhile the base Galaxy S23 starts at $799.

You can max out and get an S23 Ultra 1TB for $1619. Or max out the iPhone 14 Pro Max 1TB for $1599.
Can’t read the article but does the US agreement cover the GDPR requirements or did I miss something and the UK dropped those? Vaguely read that they want to do that but don’t think it happened yet.

Still a major step backward by Meta
> permits the government to intercept Americans’ international communications without a warrant, so long as it is targeting individuals located outside the U.S. for foreign intelligence purposes. Section 702 will expire later this year unless it is reauthorized by Congress.

It's also important to point out what's actually being challenged. Either section 702 needs to be made a lot more complicated, or they just continue business as usual. Not surprising which path they want to take.
I think it's the "way higher quality battery". There are a lot of very low-quality non-OEM batteries, I've rarely had those last more than 6 months and they were wildly unsatisfactory even then. I managed to source a NOS OEM thinkpad battery off ebay and that was significantly higher quality than the usual junk but still, I think Apple is picky about batteries.

While on the whole I'm not overly fond of the non-serviceable battery model on laptops, I do believe Apple when they say they lose money on their repair service as a whole. I just had my iphone 8+ battery replaced after 4 years (yeah it was starting to get real bad lol), I made a point of having it done at the apple store knowing that 4-year-old glue might not want to let loose, it ended up having a different problem and they ended up replacing the whole phone with a refurb, for the $49 cost of the battery repair. Sold, absolutely came out ahead on that, was starting to get glitchy anyway and it was a refurb phone in the first place, honestly was crossing my fingers they'd break it anyway.

If you have an expensive MBP I think it'd be a hard sell to not take applecare, if you end up needing even 1 display replaced you come out ahead. That's the model, Apple really wants you on Applecare and they lose money doing it, it's all part of the package deal of ownership (which of course is not offered to secondhand owners, that's where they make the money).

It's more of a mixed bag on the cheaper models... display replacement still has a decent service charge plus the applecare fee and it's not all that worth it on a say $700 laptop. You're gonna have paid a total of like $500 anyway if you need to use it, at some point the laptop is just totaled and you get a new one. Also probably not worth it on desktops (with the possible exception of imac). But on a $3000 macbook pro? Yeah I'd do it there for sure.
I have a Pixel phone and I love it. I honestly get super frustrated when I use an iPhone. There are so many hidden gestures and swipes that you just have to know, and if you're not a frequent user it's a painful experience.

Of course, I totally understand that it's just a matter of what you're used to, but Pixels have some fantastic features like their handling of spam calls and on-hold features, not to mention that Google Assistant is leaps and bounds better than Siri.
If you're afraid of falling down a rabbit hole of complexity, look into Pico 8. It gives you everything you need to make a game, but also very solidly caps the level of complexity you can inflict on yourself.
https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
Not really. This only moves the backups: if you want to use Office 365, you have to import the data there. If you need to do it, there are consultancies who specializes in that (and in moving form Office 365 to Google Workspace)
Veblen goods effect.
If only there was some sort of wire to attach them together, maybe one that ran down to attach to the phone as well for more security.
Wot, no. It's throw hastily we with no care of what it splats into. Pretty sure it came from a video of someone throwing something (food or drink?) in a crowded highschool hallway, from within the hallway. It's chaotic, reckless energy in.. mostly.. harmless form.
>If you worry about backblaze, the solution isn't to have yet another backup, it's to test your backup recovery process regularly

The solution is to do both, or all three (or n), where #3 is another backup process. And to test the backups of all processes by trying to read or restore them (onto empty disks) regularly.

I.e., somewhere on a continuum between zero or minimal and the above, depending on how critical your business is.

Because Murphy's Law.

Edited to add:

And how critical your job is (to you).

Of course there is much more to the whole issue, like funds, PHBs, etc.

- Bildert.
The real answer to this question will result in an account ban
https://archive.is/XxSEk
Vundle.vim does not exist anymore
Seems like the whole account was taken down.

Does anyone knows any alternative to work right out of the box with Vim 9?
From TFA:

> This government surveillance has had a measurable chilling effect on Wikipedia users, with research documenting a drop in traffic to Wikipedia articles on sensitive topics, following public revelations about the NSA’s mass surveillance in 2013.
It’s been a bit since I was in the cheap android phone market, but those phones don’t work as well as you say. Calling texting probably work fine, but I doubt Uber or maps will work great or at all. Anything internet heavy like that and you’re gonna be crazy frustrated
> and there is literally no way you can make a comparison of these two machines

This is such a weird thing to say.
Seems like old.reddit.com is experiencing problems. Shows message:

> Our CDN was unable to reach our servers > Please check www.redditstatus.com if you consistently get this error.

However, according to the status page everything should be operational.
I get "something went wrong" for my user page with the new Reddit as well.
Anecdotal evidence, I'm just about Gen Z and I know a lot of people in that generation who buy rep sneakers and designer clothes via reddit from China. Reps have gotten very, very good if you're willing to pay a little more than fast fashion prices. Grain of salt / YMMV but that's what I've seen in my circles.
Consider that there are many instances where we "carry" data from representations in lower-level (or even higher-level, as in UI elements) parts of a program into other representations. Might there be appropriate cohomologies that would enable us to talk about (better yet, calculate) higher-dimensional things than just the following?

data reps 0-d vertices
functions 1-d edges
loops 2-d faces
?? 3-d solids
Residents of the US are getting caught up in the dragnet, which is not the intent of FISA. And, it's not limited to citizen/non-citizen interactions.

Spying on non-US citizens is legal, by spying on citizens should require a warrant.
I wouldn't take it quite that far. Given enough time behind the wheel, everyone will crash a car, after all. Doesn't mean we can't take measures that greatly reduce the severity and rate of crashes.
Not the person you are replying to, but I do (but didn't know the term, thank you!)

I find that teams and products with negative pun acronyms fail for example. I find that the trend of the name Lilith being popular correlates with abortion rates (in the bible, Lilith killed unborn babies) etc etc etc
Um, I think you may be slightly confused about many physical processes and how they are engineered. There are plenty of problems where we understand that if we do A between the bounds of (X and Y) then everything works, and if we go out of those bounds things break. When building the process you don't have to understand why A works at all as long as you stay in those bounds, you just have to design the process either not to exceed them or to stop and give a warning if it does.
Albania is in the bottom of the pack by ease of business rankings - the only European (not EU) countries worse than it are Bosnia and San Marino. Every other EU country ranks better than Albania, even Greece and Bulgaria

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IC.BUS.EASE.XQ?end=2019...
China stole Microsoft's and IBM's (70's) near-oligopoly playbook: forced bundling, FUD'ing customers (scare them away from competitors), and subsidizing new products until smaller competitors fall. I suppose the "robber barons" should also get some of the credit for inventing bullynomics.
my most recent attempt wasn’t downvoted or closed, instead I got an ‘typo edit suggestion’ - or something to that effect - where someone had gone through and edited in about 5 false corrections to imagined typos. I did have the option to decline the edit, but it’s another example of the weird moderation culture

does anyone have insight into the moderator process that’s encouraging these behaviours?
I think SO has very distinct culture and it is a notoriously hard-moderated platform. It attracts a lot of like-minded people for the various exchanges and you can get a kick out of it if you're also extremely passionate on certain topics.

But outside of that, I treat SO mostly as a dictionary/reference. The whole points and reputation system isn't for me, but in this case that's how SO works and without this system it would be yet another lame Q&A platform that's riddled with spam and bullshit information.

I can see leaving the platform or not using it at all, but I wouldn't block it from Search.
I did a 3 day fast because this was recommended for beginners.

So you suggest I didn't do it long enough?
If you want to be technical about it, the status of the Brahmin caste as the "uppermost" or "holiest" caste was that they were the priestly caste, and skipped the Grihastha stage, surviving by begging, through payment for religious services performed, or royal succor. (https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/manusmriti-with-the-...)

A wealthy Brahmin was therefore, by definition not a Brahmin.
Trader Says Code Let Him Withdraw Millions. Prosecutors Say He Crossed a Line
Are there a lot of mobile web games?
1. No

2. Miss what boat? If they have a legitimate product, the hype cycle doesn't matter too much. And it's not like anyone is competing with them right now.
Thanks -- this will help out a LOT in copyright infringement cases!
Testudor/modular-breadboard-base: Breadboard base with attachment slots
What makes it to be called a right wing social platform? Because it doesn’t have the same stringent rules as Youtube which appear to be slated to be a particular political silo in the US?
This article describes a new SSR approach based on pure functions to simplifying the code structure required to make a web application that can be executed on both the server and client side.
100x more expensive?
I don’t care about the downvotes but I hate when people make misguided attempts to “improve” old answers.

The most recent was someone who went in and removed use of the word “you” as an attempt to “depersonalize” the answer. There was some kind of recognizable idea behind the edits, but the user’s changes mostly just damaged the readability and made the answers more convoluted.

The editor argued with me and linked to a meta post—which they wrote! This was a multi-page essay which explains, in depth, the rationale for these awful edits.

The user argued that “you” is not used in good, professional documentation. This is, as far as I can tell, completely false and within seconds of pulling up various samples of good documentation I was able to find dozens of examples of “you”.

Another user, years ago, would start fights and argue with anyone, saying that “standard C” only referred to the current C standard, and any previous editions of C were no longer “standard”. The user would insist upon removing the C tag from any question about C90, for example.

The more you answer or ask questions, the more likely it is that you get into conflict with one of these horrible, horrible users.
Seattle is a third world city filled with rampant vandalism, used drug needles, and drug addled vagrants lining every street corner in makeshift tents. The city government may have banned the caste system but they have made the city worse to live in than the poorest parts of India.
Essentially what large language models allow us to do is move through an n-dimensional space using only words. Somehow we need Google Maps for semantic spaces, but to do that we need to have a strong definition of what a "semantic space address" is and what "semantic roads" look like
Very interesting point.

Perhaps a big step forward for chat AI interfaces is to make the AI capable of knowing when it needs to ask follow-up questions and then having it do so. Essentially, it helps you along with your prompt engineering.

Perhaps this is what the prompt engineering tools are doing anyway.

What we need to do is integrate the prompt engineering tools with the chatbot itself, so it can both help extract a good prompt from users and then answer that prompt in the same process.

I think this is where we'll move towards relatively soon; it seems obvious when you say it.
> In case it needs to be said: If you are considering choosing violence, don’t.

Aww, but they always solve things neatly in the movies with a few nice, pretty explosions.

If you believe "AI" is a problem, then it's probably to late for violence to stop it. The light bulb has been lit, the rails laid, the bonds are being sold.
Soo cool to see those being used! I worked for Aaron at Google X Robotics a few years back. He left to start Hello Robot and I was just wondering how all that is going. Sounds better than the team at Google - that whole project was canceled recently.
Welcome to the Oldest Part of the Metaverse
https://archive.ph/TkRgd
Assuming these conspiracy theorists actually exist, there's an easy way to prove them wrong without pejorative-laden propaganda pieces like this: make one of these cities that people will actually want to live in.

I worked hard to move out of the city and have some space. I took the tradeoff in accessibility in exchange for the financial and personal freedom that allows. Build a higher density city where housing prices don't make me work another 10 years, and is free from crime, high taxes, noise, and overbearing laws, and I'll be happy to move back.

Being able to walk to a restaurant is great and all, but isn't worth the tradeoff currently. It's not even close, I'd say.
with apple now opening factories in India I wonder if that starts to shift, since they dont have to pay import tariffs
By looking at his blog, the author has a pretty pronounced conservative bias - enough to justify a sizeable grain of salt while reading it.

https://www.martin-schroeder.de/en/blog/
Until you try to copy & paste across multiple devices. Apart from certain OEM-specific solutions, there's still no reliable equivalent of AirDrop on Android. Bluetooth file transfer is awfully behind (both speed and UX-wise).

"Film me skate & airdrop me the clip" isn't that straightforward on Android (and no, I'm not going to email it to you & use up my and your mobile plan).
I find Quora difficult to navigate when I’m searching for an answer to a question.
That’s my main issue however, I also don’t like the constant pay wall restrictions I feel I come up against frequently on Quora.
Not sure you'll have the option for passwords much longer, no.
Do you have a link to the rule about asking questions with only a "single correct answer"? Out of curiosity, I tried digging around and couldn't find references to that kind of rule.
I like that Signal is open source, but I dislike their insistence on shutting down third party clients, because I believe third party clients are almost universally better than first-party ones.

In addition, their continued reluctance to add an export or any kind of meaningful history backup is also a negative.
It's sad to see the growing monopoly of iOS in the US. I use an Android because it simply does what iOS doesn't, such as sideloading very important apps for me. I will literally not use a phone without an adblocker on the browser, on YouTube, on Twitter, on Instagram, for example. Android has the ability to load these (modded or otherwise) apps, iOS simply doesn't. Maybe the DMA in Europe will but I doubt it will be at the same level of functionality.
@Mystery-Machine happy to get your detail feedback on the Readme.We will correct it.
Practically, I agree with you. If you don't need upgrade-ability, buy an Apple. These are the market options, choose and get on with your life.

Ideologically, I disagree with you. If we keep allowing the removal of upgrade-ability to retain a foothold in our devices, we will be worse off in the long-run. My gut says we need to keep beating the drum and taking a stand or it will be bad for our future.

But then again, I typed and wrote this on an M1 MacPro, because I've "chosen" and am "getting on with my life" like a true hypocrite.
When someone tells you, "Do your own research", where are they coming from? Having done their own research. Because they believe in their conclusions, they have built for themselves an expectation that when you do your own research, you will reach the same conclusions they have.

But this is circular reasoning: the very expectation that a conclusion will be reached through arbitrary research is equivalent to treating that conclusion as given fact.

This pattern leaves us open to define "research" in whatever arbitrary fashion we choose.

It's worth recognizing that research itself, at its core - before you even get to science, logic, academics, or any other strict behavior - is backstory. It's the context that defines a claim.

When we give the title "research" to a backstory, we classify it as a true story. But every story is invented! Very few stories are provably true from beginning to end. The ones that are exist in mathematics, and are called theorems.

So despite expressing confidence in the truthiness of a story, we are still in the weeds.

The way I see it, there are two expectations for how "your own research" is to be done. The first is true scientific and logical study. The second is religious repetition. The admonition itself cannot tell us which one we are dealing with. Ironically, the only way to know is to "do your own research".
It seems to be a theme with AI.

Scale.ai (no affiliation, not a customer) has a product called Spellbook

https://scale.com/spellbook
Honestly complaining about groupchats is such a nitpick. I'd rather get this message in the chat log like that, versus what happens on the iphone where your phone buzzes all day from people liking some message way up in the chatlog, that you'd have no sense of that activity until you scrolled back and counted up the hearts.
A related NYTimes article has this interesting aside:

Notably, the White House informed the Kremlin of Mr Biden’s impending visit before the president arrived, not as a diplomatic courtesy but for what Mr Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, called “deconfliction purposes” — essentially, to avoid a Russian strike, accidental or otherwise. Mr Sullivan added, “I won’t get into how they responded.”
This a GPT summary?
My conclusion after being an Android user for quite a while, then switching to iOS but continuing to be an Android developer for years after that, is that Google is simply a terrible steward of important software. It was beyond obvious that important things were being neglected or fucked-around with for purely portfolio-building reasons (and often badly half-assed—OMG, the Material UI stuff was shit at the programming level despite the huge marketing campaign for it, looked like the designers just spitballed some stuff then dumped it on the summer interns to handle the details), despite Android being their premier platform and probably in their top-5 most-prominent consumer software products (ChromeOS is important in some niches, but not much outside those).
An older, once premium model can be a good middle ground. I usually buy used and had a Note4 for several years, then my SO used it, then I used it again, then we resold it in working condition. It also had a swappable battery and card slot. Both likely helped extend its life.
This is a trivial problem you can solve in a hundred lines in any programming language, you don't need AI.
Perhaps downvotes should not be allowed at all.
While tsunamis might well be rare, the impacts of rising sea levels will be felt amongst low lying areas and coastal communities before the end of this century.

We will see a lot of property destroyed across the world and large groups of (rich and poor) climate refugees moving to new and safer areas.
Sounds like a bad acid trip.
Yea the tax loss for the city is really going to be a huge problem. I think something like 30% of the tax base for NYC comes from commercial RE?

Where do they make that up from, income tax? Sales tax?

At what point do high wage earners decide enough is enough and move to Florida or Texas?

Scary possibility for a tax funding death spiral here.
>WhatsApp or something else for group chats.

People can say what they want about facebook. WhatsApp as a messenger is just 10000% better than the stock SMS apps on iphone and android.

The number of annoying conversations I've had about converting people to using it make 0 sense.

Group SMS as a problem is just SOLVED by using whatsapp. There are some minor sticking points when traveling and having multiple sims with multiple numbers, but those problems are even worse when using stock SMS anyway.

Whatsapp even has POLLS ... POLLS PEOPLE what an incredible feature for group messaging.

Edit: I am not oblivious to network effects. I am bemoaning the consequences of them really. Just like I f*cking hate venmo as a user experience, yet I have to use this POS app because everyone else does. I've given up on that fight though.
I expect M ≈ L, though. All you can ever gain by relaxing code quality is some keystrokes, but I'm not sure typing is a bottleneck to begin with. The bulk of the work required is the same no matter what the code looks like. I've often believed that M < L when I've tried to take shortcuts, but in hindsight I'm not sure it has ever ended up being meaningfully true.
Is Fasudil a naturally occurring compound, or something that has been engineered? Wikipedia just describes it as a discovery. Regardless it sounds like an interesting result.
This is actually the premise behind Anthropic's Constitutional AI (https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.08073) where they have a set of principles that guide a workflow where the LLM creates the prompts and the critiques.

They were recently given $300M by Google, so certainly you have a promising idea there
This is ridiculous. I'm getting downvoted for this, despite the various comments demonstrating that they aren't sure why WMF is involved either.

My recollection from reading about this way back in 2016 was that it was about communication between WMF employees, not user data. And to have standing, they should be demonstrating harm, not just saying "the technical ability to spy on our communications exists".
Better than most accountants.

Family member got ripped by a government audit of what was supposed all fine by the person doing his company taxes.
Their profile was linked in the reddit comments: https://stackoverflow.com/users/8075005/webstackdev although one must have "close privileges" in SO to view their allegedly closed questions
I got an iphone for work recently. Year old. 180 dollars. Blows budget androids out of the water.
I've got to hand it to Apple for implementing it that way; the seamless UX works so well. The fact that Google never built a competitor that functioned similarly is utterly baffling.