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Plus it's entirely possible that anywhere from 10-50% of the hacking team in Shanghai studied at Stanford, UBC, Carnegie Mellon, et al.
I'm referring to the OP which discussed the technical justification for their choice. An employee from the firm also elaborated a little more elsewhere in the replies
lmao I'm pretty sure a large language model won't go down on you
The short answer is "history".

A longer answer is that I suspect it's a bad idea in the long term. For one thing, I don't see how you wouldn't have "students who are disadvantaged for being born in the wrong state".
It’s so popular that porn for women is damn near the only remaining book market that’s fairly healthy.
Well, so women have to adjust? Some people might be fine with AI girlfriend, but come on, if someone can be replaced with limited, virtual entity, then bar is still set very low. Yes, maybe they can generate image of some virtual girlfriend and you can choose her hair or "personality", but it's still limited AI.
Good.

I replaced the battery in an iPhone 5 earlier this year and it's ticking along fine. The longer it stays out of the dump (or a desk drawer) the better. All of the carbon and precious minerals mined to make this device aren't likely to be recycled into new devices: they'll end up on the shores of a country in the Global South along with all of the other tech detritus that we throw away. The resources are spent, the damage done, I want to get as much use out of it as possible.

It's measures like pairing that make me question whether Apple's recycling program is even legit or more corporate green-washing. Has anyone done an independent audit of their process and where materials end up once devices enter the program?
Ads and targeted ads aren’t the same thing, so idk if I agree that ad blocking is per se a privacy right.

Practically, of course, it’s a different story.
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Yes, I can imagine worse as well :-)
> a bag of money containing about 10% its retail price

...or, if you bought AppleCare and it's still within that time frame and not an egregiously obvious user error situation, no (additional) money at all.
It sounds like some women (a, unfortunately larger percentage than I'd like) simply want to men to suffer.

I doubt the men who get AI girlfriends were the men most women wanted to date anyways.
>The national debt of the U.S. reached a historic milestone by passing $33 trillion for the first time, the U.S. Department of the Treasury said.

I'm pretty sure when we hit $32T it was for the first time, and $31T, etc.

I remember when I was a kid, the Reagan administration debt was a massive deal, leading to the famous debt clock and was at a measly $1T.

We should really be cutting the corrupted government agencies, and curb military spending; but the politicians will probably try to cut social security, medicaid and medicare, and/or just inflate us to death.
There are multiple things that are done here. Suppose you had great, immutable backups. They still have many things that can ruin your business

1. Restoring networks, servers, third party services with knowledge that anything you restore could be compromised as well. Keys

2. The attackers will then threaten to dump all of your private information.

It is more than just restoring data, it is restoring and resetting your entire infrastructure. And most places have backups, but they don't practice entire restores
Privacy tools are not worth the hassle
Signal relies on the client program to not be compromised to keep conversations secret
> A shocking number of people ... are unaware of how many decimal points of accuracy their local tax code requires to calculate

A shocking number of people who create tax codes have no idea how many decimal places they are using.

It's probably better now, but I recall having to reverse engineer the tax tables to figure out how many decimal points of accuracy were used, and what rounding rules were used, so we could match their numbers.

These numbers would change from year to year, with no change in the underlying tax codes.
It is nice for PCs, but requiring Node.js limits its use on servers.
You are exaggerating a lot. Windows 9x works perfectly fine, and is much faster than on emulators. You can even use USB tablet emulation to get as good as it gets mouse support.

What does "supported" mean? Are you a paying Oracle customer? Because otherwise _nothing_ is supported.

If you pay them, they for example support several 9x era hardware (like the SB16).
That's not possible from a statistical standpoint unless men account for 80% of the total human population. And we know for a fact that it's a lot closer to 50-50. By extension, it means that if most men do not have a partner, then most women do not either.
Eh, I don't think this is as big of a deal as is being pushed here. Stuff like marriage rates and birth rates declining have little to do with this. Is there any support for the idea in the article about some unattainable standards driving these numbers? Seems like other issues in my opinion. Edit: I should clarify that unattainable standards are part of the issue, but I don't think that's the product of things like an AI gf. Rather AI gfs are a symptom (demand is already there).

"at some point, life might become so stripped of reality and humanity that the pendulum will swing."

It's largely already happened if you look at the popularity of amateur porn and stuff.
Yep... for men it's an incremental upgrade (if even that), whereas for women it could be a total game changer.
Out of interest, do you know if it was the exact same torrent (modulo trackers), i.e. the same infohash/magnet? You could have a look at the created date in the metadata to get an idea. One unfortunate thing with torrenting is how you'd often get the same content but in slightly different torrents, sometimes differing only by "torrent downloaded from xtremetrackrr69.txt", which would split the users into different swarms. Bittorrent 2 does actually fix this, by having per-file hash trees rather than non-aligned blocks, but you do still need to add each torrent before your client can notice the duplicate files. Though perhaps there exist reverse indexes which can find other torrents for a given file hash now
That's a really interesting breakdown. I think we'll be able to build larger and larger telescopes and figure out more and more of what's in atmospheres of planets. I feel like we'll be increasingly seeing more and more life signals without it being 100% decided. I want to see articles that consider what you could see about the earth from 100 light years away with just a little bit more advanced technology than we have.
I want to know what academic invented the words "moral panic" as a way to handwave any issue; even though the application of it is hilariously inconsistent. Is being upset about Ukraine being invaded a moral panic?
We encouraged women to stop depending on men for security (financial, physical), but now we’re shaming men for trying to reduce their dependency on women (sexual , emotional)

Id argue that the mutual dependency was a good thing.

But why shame one and not the other ?
Why are Japanese so adamant and self-sabotaging? What explains this behavior? Their govt simply refuse to tackle population decline. They could easily give tax breaks to families and encourage people to have children. They also seem to be adamant on not opening up immigration. Is there any deep social reasons for this?
Ubuntu LTS does not have modern JDK. Amazon has Coretto distribution. Much better.
How does that make sense? Are there significantly more young men than women? Or do the women date older men?
The key word is "young".
lol. The first incident I’ve ever seen where this happens. Just perfect that I pop off with absolute statements and then am proven wrong by the incident I was responding to.

The F-35 is really a game changer. What a shitbox
Assuming those are your only two criteria, that narrows the population to 2.5%. If you throw age and relative health then all bets are off.
> Why Starubucks insist on asking for my name just to mangle it in the cup for posterity?

I have an English nickname just for when I go to Starbucks abroad. It's much easier that way.
I honestly have zero problem with people having "unrealistic" standards. You can restrict your own pool as much as you like, as long as you don't complain about not finding any partners.

I (and people in general) have no right to be upset at not meeting what we see as "unrealistic" or "unimportant" standards held by people we are interested in. We are not entitled to a relationship.

(I do think it's kind of sad when e.g. I talked to a friend of mine who had a sense of attractiveness so strict that she literally could not find someone she found physically appealing within a hundred mile radius. She said she could go months out and about in a major city and not see a single man she found physically attractive. It's very much not the experience I've had, I see reasonably attractive people everywhere, so I wonder what people are looking for who say there is nobody even worth considering anywhere around them?)

Edit: to be clear, I don't mean she couldn't get dates with people she found attractive, she didn't see anyone attractive at all. Her "type" was incredibly strict: between 6' and 6'2", wavy blond hair, medium length, athletic without being too "muscular", and no brown eyes. She showed us pictures of her past boyfriends and they could have all been identical twins of each other, it was absurd. But hey, again, more power to her, nobody has the right to demand she relax her standards for them.
Yea they date older men or other women.
GPT-3 bots have been a thing for a while, and have been discussed here on HN heavily -- long before Chat-GPT was a thing.

And if you don't think nation-state level actors have had those for a while now, to include the US, China, India, Iran, Israel, et al, then I have a bridge to sell you.
Alternatively oxidizing is the act of taking on the oxidative damage for you
> Hm, I don't know. Sex dolls don't pass the Turing test with flying colors.

Neither do AI chatbots
If you feel an existential crisis now, just wait until the artificial wombs. Replacing man's reliance on woman is where technology is heading.
While this may be true to an extent, it doesn’t address why fighting AIDS outside the context of its impact on the LGBTQ community, e.g. in the developing world, still figures so prominently in American culture and public policy. I expect that the real reason is actually something more sinister, where the politics of the US have devolved to a point where almost everyone will accept the “they deserved it” narrative that was used to vilify those with HIV/AIDS, whether it be of the “they’re were old/fat/weak” or “unvaccinated” variety.
This is complete nonsense, if apple cared about phones being stolen for parts, they would just start selling the damn parts so people could repair their phones. Right now the reason parts are so valulable is because there's no other way to get them! Apple's unrepairability policy FUELS theft not the other way around.
For sure. We didn't pick 10^10 scaling. It's just what some massive brokerages/exchanges actually use. The fact that these were not necessarily crypto made us take note.

At the same time, you can understand that 10^10 scaling is at least significantly more precise. And I can imagine these things are viral too, who you trade with, also determines your minimum resolution. You can always downsample in presentation, but once downsampled in storage, it's impossible to upsample.

It also wasn't the only use case. But it tipped the scales.
When this eventually makes it to “basically every iphone out there”, and thieves stop being able to go to the local repair shop to trade in the iphone they stole for a wad of cash, they will stop targeting people with iphones.

I take it you’ve never been to an impoverished area? Holding an iphone paints a massive target on your back.
Why do you believe someone who wants relationships with real people and uses AI partner technology ought to need therapy as well? I believe most would see this as a form of therapy, as the ideal psychoanalyst is already a blank slate, as are the offerings of these. The two services are not comparable in barrier to entry nor outcomes.
> nobody shop for phones thinking about getting robbed

I don’t know the safety situation of where you live but I literally had this conversation with friends two weeks ago where we loved the idea that the iPhone is a better purchase because it’s less prone to theft (because of the reasons GP mentioned).
Making the parts useless won't immediately stop theft, sure. It's the same with making catalytic converters hard/impossible to fence. People still steal them, because they're working off an older state of the world. But once you've stolen enough stuff that you couldn't market, you figure out not to steal that anymore. (Although if you're stealing bags, harvesting cash and throwing the bags in the river, phones in the bags are still gone)
> Why was it listed separately at all?

Because the bill included a detailed breakdown of all the fees by type and transaction. Typically our clients were charged a fixed monthly fee, a fixed authorization fee charged every time a payment was attempted (even if it was declined), and a fee applied to successful payments that was a percentage of the payment amount. There were other fees for things like processing chargebacks, but IIRC they were the same for everyone.

> If the month's charges were 406.783228 and I get a bill for 406.79 then that seems perfectly good.

Yeah, we definitely weren't allowed to round up and keep the change. I can't claim to know all the details involved but I suspect that doing so would've at least violated our contract with the payments gateway. Might've actually been illegal.

> If I get a bill that says 406.78, plus a separate 0.01, that's weird.

That's not how it worked. For the sake of simplicity let's assume that your activity is always the same, therefore you have new charges totaling exactly $406.783228 every month.

* Month 1: You owe $406.783228, your bill is $406.78, a balance of $0.003228 rolls over.

* Month 2: You owe $406.786456, your bill is $406.78, a balance of $0.006456 rolls over.

* Month 3: You owe $406.789684, your bill is $406.78, a balance of $0.009684 rolls over.

* Month 4: You owe $406.792912, your bill is $406.79, there's a $0.01 "other fee" line item on the bill, and a balance of $0.002912 rolls over.
Of course women want most men to leave them alone. Especially those men they went on a date with, and weren't a good fit.

Most women in a relationship aren't looking for extra-marital male attention.

Men of course are simply flattered by any attention, and assume this goes both ways. Hence wolf-whistles are supposed to be some kind of compliment.

In a world where male on female violence is rife, -any- un-solicited attention is potentially dangerous. Men who can't gracefully take no for an answer are especially dangerous.

Does this make it harder to actually meet someone IRL? Yes it does. If you make a move outside an accepted environment, then I recommend making your advance in the least potentially threatening way possible. And when rejected have the grace to accept that with a smile and respect.

I say this not to suggest that you are predatory in any way, but simply to point out that men and women have -very- different viewpoints and experiences.
Peak inflation in Argentina was 20262.80%.

So, not as much margin as one might think.
The few times I visited a hospital I met people there with complications from previous drugs. One with liver failure. Thanks to that experience no covid shot for me, plus I actually read the pfzier study the judge forced them to release.
I now view drug companies on the level of Cartels in Mexico with politicians in their pockets.
It's only a matter of time before IntelliJ (or some plugin) translates it on-the-fly. Reviews on GitHub will be annoying though.
> It seems pretty easy to implement the "unpair" functionality you ask for.

Implementing any functionality over two billion devices is non-trivial, especially when it requires aspects of transactional behavior (as this would).
Sounds like Cultural Revolution 2.0 -- this time with bots!
Oh I'm familiar B)

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The irony is they claim to teach financial ethics to people at Stanford…
This. If Apple was honest, they'd have an 'unlock from account' security, not an 'accept new to account' pairing.
This isn't what the parent comment is talking about, it's talking about how (generally) women's rating of men's attractiveness follows the Pareto principle. This is purely from pictures and profiles, before anyone interacts with anyone else.

If it makes us feel any better, in the same data set, women did actively message and pair up with men they didn't rate as very attractive so.... good for us I guess?
Are there actual women who fear they can't compete with AI chatbots? In my opinion you wouldn't want to date anybody who prefers a chatbot to a real person.
Under that definition, I wonder if anybody is `creative`. We would need to assess how many of what we call `original ideas` are not rehashes of other ideas.
I don’t understand how this is Anti Consumer in any way? I have an iPhone and a FairPhone. One’s niche is that it’s repairable, and the other is that it’s not. A consumer who wants a repairable would buy something like a FairPhone (modular parts!!!) and someone like my mum can get her all-in-one “nice” experience.

They’re allowed to have an opinion, and with engineering there are tradeoffs. They tradeoff design with repairability and have the opinion that it is a good tradeoff. They want to test that opinion with the market and it resonated. What’s wrong with this?

I genuinely am confused as to the anti-consumer moniker when the consumer has never had more choice?
What is the relative rates of occurrence of phone theft vs. phones breaking in a way that requires repair? I'm going to go out on a limb and say that far far far more people have a phone that needs to be repaired than have a phone that gets stolen.

So making repair worse to make theft "better" seems like a bad tradeoff to me. And that's even presuming that this stated goal actually works. I would expect that a very non-trivial amount of phone theft happens without knowing the model. Assuming that's the case, having 1 manufacturer make selling parts non-viable doesn't really help that much.

So A) even if it was 100% effective that seems like a bad tradeoff to me and B) I'm skeptical of how much difference this actually makes in theft rates.

I know that I personally, if choosing between a phone that I knew for a fact would 100% never be stolen, but also couldn't be repaired, vs. a phone that could easily be repaired but was subject to theft, I would choose the repairable phone every time. It's an anecdote, but I've never had a phone stolen and literally every single phone I've ever had has needed repair at one point or another.
> unless a robber forces you to do it under duress.

Isn't that possible with the full iPhone atm?
To top it all off isn't Trudeau Fidel Castro's son?
I mean, that doesn't sound that different from our modern targeted advertising world.
Translation: "We actually need to put as much effort as men do for dating"
“The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.”

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>I'd be surprised if we aren't well past that threshold nowadays with modern automation.

Not with modern convenience.

If we had everyone on the standard of living decades ago then sure, automation could handle that. But even having to force that is its own collapse.
And maybe the heap has fixed alignment so you have one that only needs 4 and one that needs 16. Indeed maybe you grow from top and bottom depending. And maybe this is all a giant premature optimization - including the panic about up vs down. My previous career was console video games and maybe this kind of handwringing isn’t required for whatever the fuck this is.
As a gay man well into middle age, whenever I get somewhat depressed about the state of human affairs, I think about the incredible improvements in AIDS treatment and prevention and I feel a little better.

It's hard for people who didn't live through it to really understand what a terrifying time the 80s and 90s were. First off, the general message of sexual education was pretty much "If you have sex, it's probably going to kill you." There's some hyperbole there, but not much. There was really no such thing as "sex-positive messaging", and even many years later it took me time to realize how much I had internalized "sex is a bad, dangerous thing". More importantly, though, is that an HIV diagnosis really was seen as a death sentence. If you're in your 20s, imagine a situation where tons of your friends had died, and there was an ever-present fear that you might be next. I honestly believe everyone who lived through that time in that situation has some level of PTSD.

So yes, there is still a lot to do as this article points out, but it is really amazing to see how far we've come. Even a lot of the issues pointed out in the article had less to do with technology and (honestly to my surprise) economic access than with shitty cultural practices (e.g. overall misogyny and men refusing to get tested). It's important to not lose vigilance, but I think it's also important to indulge in a moment of gratitude every now and then to all the warriors (both in the medical and research fields, and the many patients who lost their lives) who have accomplished so much for all of humanity.