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> The issue is that the hardware often works fine for 10 years or more.

I don't know about that. It technically still works, but you will feel it being slow because developers keep updating their apps to take advantage of new technologies and features. Even browsing the web keeps getting worse because web developers seem to cruft up their websites as much as the hardware can bear.

I really think around 5 years is the limit to be able to use your phone as an general purpose, internet connected device. If you want to repurpose it into an iPod Touch or Smarthome remote controller or something after that that's still doable even if you're using a deprecated version of iOS.

The story with iPads is a little different. If all it is for most people is a streaming service and article-reading machine those can last 10 years or more and the OS probably should have a longer life and a higher priority on making the batteries easily serviceable. I'd actually love a stripped-down, barebones version of iPad OS that makes it dumber but more secure. Sort of like booting in safe mode, for when people want to repurpose old devices.
That IS a less safe space. What are you actually talking about? An area with homeless, open drug use, and petty property crime is 100% a more dangerous area. No one would allow their children to go walking through an area like.

Seriously what sort of weird ideological rant are you on in this thread? You have some really bizarre thinking regarding this issue.
Come hang with us refugees at sigmoid. :)

https://sigmoid.social/public/local
I'm very happy I did my degree and think back on my time in university with fond memories. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute I was there, every lesson, essay and project, it is because of this I came out with a very high grade.

My lifelong career as a software developer has absolutely nothing to do with the subject of my degree, but it set me up in ways that I would have never learned on my own.
> but the initial lifespan of $android is max 2 years. I consider it broken once it does not receive security updates.

If that's your definition of a lifespan, "max 2 years" is absolutely not true. Android has two types of support: new major releases and security patches.

An average Android usually supports new major Android releases for 2 years, but security patches usually go longer. Not as long as an iPhone, but more like 3-5 years.
The common complaints against Apple in this thread are echoed, but no one is criticizing Apple while being pragmatic. Everybody is dogmatic.

Apple will not provide user replaceable batteries. That’s clear. It’s probably too expensive and complicated for them to do that and have waterproof devices. They instead offer replacements, and third-party shops know how to replace batteries too. With the airpods, Apple needs to be roasted endlessly for creating time-bomb trash though.

But staying realistic, Apple massively improved the repair ability with the iPhone 14 by sandwiching the phone instead of fitting it on the back plate. They also improved the repairability of their laptops recently.

The worst excesses of Apple’s poor internal design seems to be behind us.
AWS facing short-term headwinds as companies are cautious on spending
Ether Tops $2K After Shanghai Upgrade Enables Staking Withdrawals
https://archive.md/03XXL#selection-237.3-237.90
Part of the problem is the "War on Terror" led to dramatically expanded inter-agency intelligence sharing, which dramatically expanded the number of people with access to a lot of that material - often in organizations with different access policies than you'd probably prefer.
FAIR Releases Animated Drawings Project
Environmental impact is one of the few kinds of news they announce while it's still a plan and not yet an accomplishment.
That is interesting. My immediate hypothesis would still be that these effects and artifacts are due to biases in the training data. A group of WH40K figures is probably more likely to be identified as a "squad" of Space Marines than just "space marines." Likewise, I suspect there are probably many more pictures of Stonehenge up on the internet than there are of McDonalds'. Or, maybe the training process just somehow found Stonehenge more interesting than McDonalds (I couldn't blame it lol).

One thing I've noticed is that sometimes, the exact same prompt will generate very different images. Once, I got an image of a blue sports car, off to the side of the road, a kind of craftsman-ish looking interior of a house, and two pictures of some random outdoor forest type area. I don't remember the prompt I used, unfortunately, because I ended up writing it off as a glitch, but it would be interesting to see if anybody else has had it happen.

> words that translate your idea into the latent space well,

So, this phrase gave me a sort of a thought: what if certain words or phrases, like, say, "McDonald's" and "Stonehenge," are just so far apart in the model space (again, likely due to biases in the training set, or just the fact that there aren't many McDonald's' restaurants at Stonehenge), that the more interesting or common or unusual one serves as a kind of attractor and dominates the generation process most of the time?

Do you know if these effects are documented anywhere in the prompt engineering literature?
Ah yes. The perfect is the enemy of good approach. That has worked so well.
It was not and still is not commonplace for any company to discuss the deep engineering details of a product's battery management logic with customers. The majority of products just stop working, some have an indicator of "bad battery".
If the only contact the kid had with the leaker was through Discord, the FBI already knows literally everything the kid knows. If the leaker is on the run, perhaps they’re hoping the kid might keep talking to the leaker and lead them to him. He told the reporter already that he won’t cooperate with the FBI to catch the leaker.
Your bait would be more convincing if you weren't confusing basic concepts like copyright infringement and plagiarism which have nothing to do with each other.
prepaid visa/mc? hard to imagine life w/o copilot now that I have been using it for a few weeks.
> A single human now has access to orders of magnitude more energy than any of our ancestors.

Now, but it's not clear at all how it will evolve in the fairly near future :-).

But I generally agree with your point on evolution: it is a random process. We tend to "personify" it ("evolution chose to make us like this"), but that's wrong: species that evolved to being less fit died, those that evolved to be more fit survived. Pure chance.
Alternatively, maybe it is clear to responsible media organizations that some leaks really are in the public interest, and some really are against the public interest.

There was nothing scandalous in this leak to be exposed, but it does put the US's sources within Russia at risk.
Saying slurs doesn't mean you believe in a particular ideology. He may have just been saying them to be edgy (unless there is further evidence I have missed).
There are lots of reasons someone might not want police to show up.
Yeah, that's the kind I get. A 30-second story stretched to several minutes. Every conversation related line-by-line even when most of it's not important and could have been summed up or omitted. It's... sure something.

She has a much better memory than me, though, and sometimes I wonder if it's because she recounts damn near every event in her life to someone else at least once (often three or four times) in great detail shortly after it happens, effectively giving it a thorough review while it's still fresh, while I pretty much never do that.

... but, if it's not a story, I do also get the starting-to-talk-with-no-context thing where IDK WTF she's talking about. "What do you think about red?" Red... what? To paint something? If so, what? Is that the title of something? For a shirt color? As a color, in general? The entry in the Bleu/Blanc/Rouge trilogy? The Target Red card? Flowers? We weren't even talking about anything! She says she kinda starts conversations in her head and it's not always the first part that comes out when she finally starts talking. Doesn't even realize she's done it until it's pointed out.
European privacy watchdog creates ChatGPT task force
> by that logic any sale of any kind is “deceptive”.

How so? Nobody is going to repossess something I've actually purchased. That's the whole point of a purchase.

A "lifetime license" is not like that.
> Every time there's a mass shooting [...]

If this is a valid premise, then you know you are doing something wrong as a society. Mass shootings are common place in the US (with currently 177 mass shootings this year so far). This is not normal.
I think Karabiner(-Elements) is way more popular and probably more flexible, but I've had a lot of success with Ukelele for 6-7 years. I exported one layout and just copy it to each new macbook. Specifically it lets me set `option` as a dead key so I can have `opt+i`, `opt+j`, etc... shortcuts in editors.

https://software.sil.org/ukelele/
If they “can’t win” anyway, they might as well have chosen the more environmentally-friendly option. The criticism is that they didn’t.
You're suggesting that in all Mainstream media outlets there is someone who's taking their marching (or editorial) orders from someone in the state department.

If true now that would be a story that someone would love to break.
This article is literally about a group that hopes to exist but doesn't exist yet?

YIMBY is doing great things at the state level but has the support of most statewide voters and unions (except for the building trades union.)
> It's empty virtue signaling if they retain some patent or otherwise contractually obligate their vendors to not share the technology

They've reduced waste more than most users on this site--including you and me--combined. But that's "empty virtue signaling" because they didn't hand their competitors a silver spoon? That term really has lost all meaning.
FBI: Fake Xi cops prey on Chinese nationals in the US
It’s interesting. The initial post that mentioned that Rob Lee was murdered got mass flagged and stayed at the bottom of the page. There’s discussion about his murder and crime in general, but the top comment is asking people not to be political and to post their memories of Rob Lee.

The only submission about Rob Lee’s death that stayed at the top of the page was one that didn’t mention that he was murdered in the headline, and where dang came in and told everyone to keep politics out of it and avoid flamewar stuff.

People said it was reasonable that people mass flagged any submission that mentioned the murder in its headline, because it was flamewar stuff.

But now we have this submission. I looked through all of the top comments, and they’re _all_ using this to talk about the larger “is San Francisco safe?” debate. About half of them are specifically complaining about other people’s views, including complaining about other Hacker News comments.
I think that's a UI problem more than anything. Well, actually, most people in the US "choose" driving because they don't actually have any choice. But even if they do, they choose driving because getting in the car doesn't tell you what it's doing to your lifespan (or anyone else's - imagine if it factored in the likelihood of killing a pedestrian or one's own child in their oversized SUV). Literally nobody is thinking about that every time they get in the car, even very environmentally-minded people.
Healthcare websites flooded by fake requests in ongoing DDoS attacks
But cars from Japan & Korea have always felt reliable no matter the age.

At least from my experience.
Any topic on HN which is tangentially related to the Culture Wars (progressive cities/DAs among them) typically has several comments bashing the "woke".
Gardening, wood working, painting, flying, traveling, hiking, just to name a few
Absolutely prefer more information. I can skim several hundred words per minute and scroll to the bottom if I already know the backstory, but if I don't, the punchline is completely useless and there's nowhere to go to find the context.

The author does not know what background the reader knows or does not know, and furthermore, if your story has multiple readers their level of background knowledge is not going to be equivalent.
That on top of the $490 could work, but likely minimal results with the free meal/social outting alone for reclusive type.

Side thought tho, if the allowance was included, in addition to the free meal with a stranger, it could potentially increase birth rates, which would then benefit their economy.

Edit: Just saw it'd be for ages 9-24... thought it was for adults. Hopefully teen pregnancies would be avoided
I don’t know anything about LedgerX or Crypto trading but do have a fair bit of fx experience so have a few questions about what you are describing.

Doesn’t this just move the counterparty risk away from the exchange and onto another participant in the crypto ecosystem? One that is even more systematically long crypto and one with less regulatory protections around senior debt?

Why would someone be a counterparty to this trade? It seems like they are trading a lot of downside risk to get cash equivalents upside.

I’m sure I’m not understanding something about this setup but it certainly seems worse in all ways than an exchange actually enabling more traditional shorting.
We live in the shadow of Apple’s 1984 ad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_(advertisement)

that is, for most people, freedom is the freedom to look up commands in a dropdown menu as opposed to have to remember or look up command line options in the manual.
Using anthropomorphic terms for ChatGPT does more harm than good. There is no belief, there are no hallucinations, there is no intelligence, and pretending that people understand those terms don't apply is just willfully ignoring that people really don't. People really are that gullible when it comes to things they don't understand, even if you aren't.

If you have to use anthropomorphic terms, then there's only one that applies: it lies.

Nothing it tells you is in any way shape or form "true", it's only ever plausible, and if it's true, that's still just a coincidence because it has no concept of data validation against reality. It's just an autocompleter; it's algorithmically incredibly simple software that's been written exclusively for the purpose of "finishing a story, given a prompt" and the fact that the prompt can be in the form of a question makes zero difference for that, so that's the part that ChatGPT leaned into hard.

Using anthropomorphic terms is a bit cringy at best, but in general, they actively interfere with both people's understanding of what these things are, and their ability to talk about them based on, ironically, a true understanding of them, rather than people's hallucinations about what this current generation of LLM autocompleters is.
Next headline: 1 bedroom apartments increase by $490/mo
Ironically, it's now actually called "Google Chat". I still use it with plenty of people since it allows me to chat via browser, iOS, or Android without any device/brand restrictions.

But in just about every way, it is the same or worse than their previous offerings (the older "Talk" and the later "Hangouts"). They ditched the option to do SMS fallback in the same app instead of improving on integration. Can't just hit the little camera icon in a group chat to instantly start a group video call anymore. Individual and group chats are in separate tabs. Photo and video handling are worse (but at least not downgraded as badly as MMS between Android and iOS).

Honestly I only use it because it sucks to message with iOS users if you can't use iMessage and I/some of my friends don't use Facebook products like FB or Whatsapp.
Not taking the word of a random web comment who makes extraordinary claims with no evidence is not any denial at all, in fact. It's working wonderfully, and will continue to do so for many generations.
Sure, it absolutely is for them. But it's such a marginal increase in cost for the end-user vs a small probability of having to pay the whole amount in damages. They win because they're the ones handling thousands of rentals. Unfortunately as an end-user, you are unlikely to be in the position to say "well if I take 1,000 trips and skip the insurance, I'll still come out ahead even I'm unlucky and have an accident".
I'm not blaming them for anything, but I'm also not going to pretend that what they're doing wrt. label printing is going to make a significant impact when viewing the bigger picture.

I am definitely glad to see they're not using primary cobalt and instead using only recycled, though, and think that part is praiseworthy.
Firstly Sam Harris published a popular book deriving anti-free-will from scientific determinism, and Robert Sapolsky has also been a contributor, deriving it from baboon research and neurology.

I think the American Revolution was vehemently predicated on free will, vis-à-vis liberty. Many other political agendas reject the notion of a "commoner" being able to think for themselves and seek a more restrictive society.
Actually base e is clearly the superior base as it's the most information-dense number representation.
Can You Pump Water Without Any Electricity?
That's a very odd example. I'm sure that if I went into a car subreddit and asked "how do I change a front wheel bearing on a 2006 Nissan 350Z," not only would I get lots of responses, but I'd get many from people who have actually done it, done it recently, and could tell me pitfalls to watch out for along the way.

I'd trust a relevant subreddit far more than I'd trust GPT for something like that.
You're doing the same thing now. We don't even know if this is actually the perpetrator yet, and even if it is it doesn't matter. Anything bad (or good) that was written about SF can still be true.
Tech Bros take more in government handouts too.
I have no evidence beyond gut feel, but I think the tech population is probably above average in mental illness.
This is part of the criticism, though: There is no inherent need for the software to become slower (and less efficient). Throwing the hands up on that front just means we’ll eternally keep churning, in the name of “progress”.
It is, really. There are a bunch of imitators out there now, but they're less funny to me. I don't think it's because they're generally less well done. While most of them that I've seen are less well done, in the sense that the voices are more "computer-y" sounding, and the rendering not as good, I think it's because the original really is a parody, and doing a parody of a parody just starts getting more ridiculous without getting funnier.
While that is true, how many alcoholics that ever went to a AA meeting regretted it?

Certainly discussing my anxiety with other people that had the same issue gave me a great perspective.
> per [sic]

"per" was a pretty early non-gendered pronoun, i'm surprised the editor wasn't aware of it in 2021
Irrespective of the contents of the leaks, the Trump resistance leaker wrote an Op-Ed for the NYTimes and leaked formally, directly to the media, so of course the media is going to protect its anonymous sources.

This leaker was trying to win an internet flame war on a subculture forum.
Really? I would have to at least assume that people who have committed murders have, on average, a higher propensity for risk taking than the average person.
We're not talking about broadcasting here but about making speech (i.e. a website) available to those who seek it.
Zot!
The thing is that some of what is brought in his defense contains inaccuracies. Example "Trans Women Do Not Harass Anyone". There are numerous such cases, be it activists indulging in such methods for political purposes or plain old creeps. I know the subject is touchy. I am not saying it is the norm. I am saying such things have happened multiple times. I know people are reluctant to admit such facts as they feel it paints a target on a community. However, I do not believe that it is ever just to discard instances of malevolence, regardless of the perpetrator's identity. And the actions of individuals are their responsibility, not that of their identity group. I know that for many this humanist outlook has been superseded by a collectivist one, where society is merely a collection of overlapping and competing identity-based factions.
Am I stupid?
Is there a paper for those models?
What sizes? What architecture and setup? What kind of instruction tuning? RLHF?

Where are the infos?
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Yes and no. There was a Swedish, Volvo backed, racing team called Polestar Racing that had a company called Polestar Performance that made custom tuned Volvos and worked closely with Volvo on some concept and special edition cars that Volvo sold as "Polestar Engineered". They were however never owned by Volvo, pre Geely, never a car company, and had nothing to do with electric vehicles before Geely/Volvo bought them.

Several years after Geely bought Volvo, Geely/Volvo bought Polestar Performance and the Polestar brand and decided to make them an EV brand for cars built on the new Geely platform and spun them off as a separate company.

So yes, they're technically a Swedish brand originally and technically they're spun off from Volvo. And, yes the Polestar company headquarters is in Sweden. But the Swedish Polestar company never actually made cars, they only became part of Volvo long after Volvo was part of Geely, and was almost certainly Geely's decision to spin them off as a separate EV company.

The original, 'real', Polestar still exists as Cyan Racing.
>Talking about the petty crime and the "vibe" is absolutely on topic for this, because that sort of laissez-faire attitude leads to murders like the one we're discussing.

... you mean the murder in question that, as we've found out in this article/thread, has nothing to do with the "petty crime" and "vibe" that you're referring to?
Freedom Ladder (FSF Campaign)
The health of the FSF is currently a hot topic courtesy of Drew DeVault's recent blog post[0].

I've seen a lot of commenters criticise the FSF's purist approach to tech (i.e. only recommending a handful of niche Linux distros, or ancient ThinkPads). I'd like to highlight a new FSF campaign that appears to be a pragmatic attempt to directly address this criticism.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35524297
Yeah, Saint Louis is a weird case because it has a really tight boundary compared to most cities, so the crime numbers you see are all about the urban core and don't include data from the suburbs.

This NYT article has some numbers comparing "metro areas" rather than cities, and it knocks Saint Louis down a few slots (while still leaving it amongst the worst in the nation, for sure): https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/upshot/crime-statistics-s...
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Hah yes, I think it evokes the feel of Peter Watts but also qntm / Sam Hughes even more!

Mostly in the constant "what the ___ am I reading/watching/thinking right now"
My c knowledge is obviously old. I wonder if the author is lamenting the lack of a "modern" string manipulation in the standard library beyond just working on char buffers?