skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And those $100k homes will go to zero. Rural Japan and Italy both face this today. The homes are dilapidated and free.

I generally agree though. Population decline is going to decimate areas at a scale and with a speed I don't think anyone is prepared for. If you get trapped in the decline you are screwed.
Not specifically about women, but...

I have met several women who regularly query ChatGPT for relationship advice.

Accepting the response as authoritative.
Great to see new players in this space. Congrats on the launch!
German here and a Berlin "native". In Germany, it is common knowledge that Berlin bureaucracy sucks even more so than on average. Part of it has to do with (Western) Berlin's history of being an island receiving a lot of subsidies. Nowadays, after re-unification, it still receives a lot of federal subsidies but for being the new country's capitol. As a consequence, Berlin's public sector is relatively large but not in the relevant branches and also lacking really competent personnel. So while Berlin spends Billions on paying public servants it cannot even maintain its basic public services, sadly.

I bet you would have had a much better experience everywhere else (even in Potsdam, Berlin's neighboring city).
I’m not privy to those discussions, but it certainly doesn’t feel like they’re happening. We implement every security “best practice,” for every project, no matter how big or small. We have committees to review, but not to assess scope, only to make sure everything is applied to everything. Also, we have multiple overlapping security products on the corporate desktop image. It feels EXACTLY like no one has ever tried to gauge what a compromise might cost.
> Of course most people are talking about what this means for men

> a worsening loneliness crisis, a further decline in sex rates, and ultimately the emergence of “a new generation of incels”

> Which is all very concerning.

Oh please. I don't see these women stepping up and volunteering to get emotionally or sexually intimate with all these incels they're complaining about. They're so concerned about men they wrote this article about how women can't compete with an AI.

It's precisely that attitude that makes these people "continually disappointing" as the article says. They should try actually caring.
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Trusted builds of the GPU modules are necessary; To run with SecureBoot on and the Silverblue Fedora ostree distribution requires local module signing after every upgrade of the GPU modules and adding an additional local key to the SecureBoot BIOS keystore.

I don't think this is a https://SLSA.dev -compliant GPU module software supply chain:

NVIDIA Src -> RPMfusion pkg & builder -> rpm-ostree toolbox dnf install && Local_module_signing_with_local_secureboot_key
> Well they actually host a bunch of videos that they wont allow people to monetize. Is that an issue too?

Personally, I say absolutely yes. Particularly because they'll still platform questionable content, sell ad space against it, and take the payout all for themselves.
I’m highly dubious of anyone claiming this reduces crime.

Things being easy to steal and sell aren’t the _cause_ of crime, they’re a symptom. If someone has felt the need to resort to a life of crime for whatever reason, how is lowering their “salary” (so to speak) going to reduce crime? Surely they now need to steal more phones to make up the difference? I guess you could argue they might commit a different crime instead?
Agreed. The question really is if you should demand the user to enforce that constraint on the size they pass to you, or if the function itself should signal an error in that case.
"Men are increasingly single and lonely, and have to use AI Girlfriends to get a sense of companionship, women most affected".
In most cases people take what they can get.
There is way more than 5% of the cost from labor, you are missing all the extra costs from the parts they buy from other companies. There are way more laborers working on the cars than what the car companies employ themselves, the small number of workers still working at the car companies now try to leverage that but it is unfair to give all the value of the cars to them rather than share it evenly across the industry. And when shared evenly there wont be much left.
Anecdata: if you need a Lenovo repaired and you’re covered for onsite service, have them come to you.

I had a similar experience with sending an X1 Carbon to Lenovo’s repair center: “No problem found”.

When I called to complain, I was told they recommended on site service over sending machines in. The repair tech was prompt, pleasant, and skilled. The machine was fixed in 30 minutes.
Stores want to sell you gift cards paid for by your money. Websites want to 'sell' you website content paid for by showing you ads. Some sites even sell you the content ad free by paying them directly.
SST, you can have your backend logic and infrastructure all in Typescript. If you want to use a different runtime for your serverless functions, you can. you can also define your frontend in the same project and deploy the whole thing with one command.

For personal stuff this is great because you can run everything you need for next to nothing. For commercial stuff, it would depend on the use case. If you are going to be handling a bunch of requests or have to do a large amount of processing, you may want to go a different direction, as is the case with all serverless applications.
Drawing on my experience from working with an Ad-Tech:

> Don’t most companies have budgets?

Yes

> Wouldn’t raising prices just cause companies to buy less?

Not necessarily, the "ad-spend" typically remains a fixed budget until a given ad-campaign is complete.

The kicker is basically the cost per ad is increased, which means the budget for an ad-campaign is consumed more quickly. Thus, for example, rather than an ad-campaign lasting 4 weeks and generating X number of impressions, it lasts 80% of that time with 80% the impressions. Thus, even though the revenue is fixed per ad-campaign, Google would be able to cycle through more ad-campaigns

> I feel like folks don’t just increase spend when prices go up, when it comes to ads.

Depends on the company. In all probability the ad-spend would remain fixed and the companies just get less return on that spend (as an aside, the ROI for ads is highly debated to begin with)
Shouldn’t have pushed Bill C-18 then
This is really the main one. I don’t really understand why this isn’t the sole topic of research at every org working on LLMs/general purpose models
> Hm, I don't know. Sex dolls don't pass the Turing test with flying colors.

Having generic conversations is not enough intimacy for most people. Neither is sex dolls.

I worry about people’s shallowness that current state AI and sex dolls is sufficiently authentic. I think it says more about them than about AI. ChatGPT is an extremely generic and thus dull conversation partner, if you ignore the vast knowledge “it” has.

That said, of course it’s possible that AI improves rapidly.
I don't think it's that they're ignorant. They probably don't really care if it's unrealistic or not. They're given a platform where they can describe exactly what it is they want, and given the imbalance in men/women on the platform, they've got a decent chance of getting it.
because one caused a moral panic, and one needed people to be moral.
> I mean think about it - your average thief is not the kind of person that will know what part setialization is

It doesn't matter. The market will dictate behaviour. As soon as the value of iPhone parts drops at the end of the chain (Shenzhen et. al) this will propagate all the way up to the street criminals.

Perhaps they will not discriminate by iPhone submodel (will not matter after a while of the serialisation policy), but they will (and do) discriminate by brand.

Much smartphone theft includes robbers grabbing the phone out of unsuspecting victims' hands, forcing them to surrender it at gunpoint, or pickpocketing it.
> But it also isn’t unreasonable to think that at least some men will entirely replace real intimacy with AI.

ChatGPT is smarter and more agreeable than any of my friends, but that doesn't mean I've stopped hanging out with them. Analogously, I'm not sure pornography could ever get so realistic or customizable that it was preferable to having a relationship with a person. At the margins, there will always be some percentage of people who would do that, but there were and are people who disengage with human relationships already, and my guess is it's going to be about the same percentage in the future.
Your sample size is pretty small. That said, the self-selecting population of people whose phones were parted out in the bug report have the exact opposite experience.
You’re missing the point. It was designed to be transparent to interception efforts up front, so you can’t tell if you’re being surveilled, lawfully or not.
People care less about the dollar value than about reconciling. If there is some external system they should match, they really want it to match exactly.
That was more an ontological web. That's a different project which I totally support but this time through ML
According to google, 25% is external debt and the rest internal. So the US mostly owes to their citizens, but they owe quite a lot to foreigners, albeit at a common proportion.
Maybe MS needs to advertise their new features.

Java is developed in the open, we have had previews of the new features in the previous releases and the Java community has already written gazillion of articles about them. Today we celebrate they are finally production ready.
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Why is the author so concerned about having to compete with AI girlfriends?

The men who would resort to such virtual companions don't have a chance with most women anyway, nor do most women want them. These men are better off enjoying a virtual companion than dumping money into apps like Tinder and growing embittered and angry.

Ultimately, isn't this a good thing? The "undesirables" (short, poor, overweight, autistic, etc.) will voluntarily leave the dating scene altogether, and women can be happy swiping through all the remaining attractive men they truly desire. Sounds like a win-win situation.

Given all the hand-wringing about "incels", I don't see what the problem is. Let the lonely men have their AI waifus. What's the harm?

The article has the same energy as a Michelin-star restauranteur panicking about the existence of Top Ramen.
The swaths of romance novels bear this out
> BC Sikhs goes against our Community Standards on dangerous individuals and organizations.

This is hilarious to anyone who knows any Sikhs. They’re some of the most peace loving people on planet earth.
I agree with the two conclusions of iFixit's accompanying article:

"How Parts Pairing Kills Independent Repair" [2023-01-17] https://www.ifixit.com/News/69320/how-parts-pairing-kills-in...

TDLR: "Put Pairing in the Peoples’ Hands" and "Unpair the Future"

Their second point is totally spot on and lost in the food fight. Parts Pairing must be disabled for any discontinued models which have also fallen out of warranty. (Like if I bought the last iPhone 5 and could no longer buy Apple Care for it.)

Further, Apple must provide repair parts. Actual cost for noobs like me and discounted for warranty repair shops (any org who wants to sign up, eg identity and tax id verified.) Excess inventory for discontinued models liquidated to some one's like iFixit.

My u/unpopularopinion:

Counterfeit and grey/black markets are a scourge. I absolutely want parts pairing for any new devices. Doubly so if my threat model included espionage or surveillance.
Build123d: A Python CAD programming library
Hey, looks very cool! If you could share a comparison against Listmonk[1], that'd be useful.

All the best!

[1]: https://listmonk.app
Thank you for including vegans. Bookmarking this.
Well advertising is a form of psychological warfare.
Yeah, was just curious if the brokerages explained their reasoning in detail. Even if it's just viral, someone big had to have a reason to start the trend.
It's a combination of the Women-are-wonderful Effect [0] (which goes double when it comes to sexuality) and the universal lack of giving-a-shit about problems that men face.

Men's sexuality is dangerous and unnecessary. Womens' sexuality is moral and precious. To say that womens' sexuality is causing a social problem is absolutely unacceptable in establishment cultural spaces.

The other side of it is that nobody cares about mens' problems. In this case, the "problem" is that men's standards will be distorted by AI girlfriends, which is bad... for women. We cannot say that womens' standards will be distorted by an AI boyfriends, because womens' standards are always appropriate and pure, and women always deserve what they demand. We cannot say that womens' AI boyfriends will cause loneliness among real men, because if a man can't perform well enough to attract a woman then his suffering is entirely his own fault and responsibility and nobody else's concern.

It's similar to the issue of men falling far behind in education. When there is a new article about women getting 60% of the degrees (3:2 ratio), it is always framed as a problem not for men, but for women, because now they can't find guys better-educated to marry. The idea that the men might deserve equal education for themselves isn't even worth considering, because men deserve nothing and their suffering scores zero on the moral-imperative scale. It only matters in how it affects women.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women-are-wonderful_effect
While the compact-ness of Type J is very convincing, I personally like Types E and F best. This is because the ground is exposed, so you can quickly touch it to remove any static charges from yourself. I do this f.e. before handling circuit boards.
> Labels ARE shareholders in Spotify.

As with the previous claim, it would be very helpful if you could cite data to this effect. When I googled myself I found a report[1] which does not seem to indicate that Spotify is majority owned by Labels. What percentage of Spotify is owned by record labels then? And why do they (less than 1/3 according to the source I found ) control Spotify and how does it make their relationship with artist's Spotify's problem?

Also, you know who the record labels own 100%? The record labels. Seems like if they wanted to fleece their artists they could just do it by fleecing their artists with fewer steps than buying minority stakes in Spotify and then hoping Spotify fleeces them, so they have no choice but to fleece their artists (seriously can't believe I just wrote something so dumb out).

And if it is record labels Fleecing their artists, why point fingers at Spotify? Again I'm going to point out that since they became prominent, revenue for the music industry has grown while before Spotify, it was declining. Do the artists prefer the decline that came before Spotify?

[1]: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/who-owns-spotify-toda...

> Via a combination of ‘Statement Of Ownership’ SEC filings plus its 20-F annual report – all filed this year – we’ve been able to paint a picture of Spotify’s ownership cap table today.

>

> That cap table continues to be dominated by Spotify’s two founders, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, along with a number of institutional investors, many of whom have been major shareholders for much of the time that Spotify has been a publicly-traded company.

>

> Among them are investment management firm T. Rowe Prices & Associates, investment firm Baillie Gifford, banking giant Morgan Stanley, and tech and multimedia giant Tencent Holdings (partly through its subsidiary, Tencent Music Entertainment).
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> All the ups and downs of Spotify’s share price story hasn’t scared these investors away – clearly, they’re in for the long run.
This feels like a precarious topic, but here we go: I believe that humans, for the most part, have deeply-wired needs for companionship, intimacy, sexuality, etc. I think when those needs are regularly unmet, an individual can suffer considerably.

But not everyone practically gets access to companionship at a human level. Indeed, we've evolved well past taking a club, bashing someone, and dragging them by the hair into your cave. Nobody has the right to someone else's co-operation. For those there have always been alternatives from media, tools, hired companionship, etc. This is just an evolution of those alternatives, no?

I'm not really sold on the worry over the potential Monroebot outcome[1]. Though I think it becomes deeply philosophical about the right of a species to decide it's done replicating.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuQqlhqAUuQ
it's explained in the article; when there's an age gap it tends to be older man, younger woman rather than the reverse, and there are more out gay/bi women now who are dating each other. and not mentioned but likely a factor: guys with multiple girlfriends.
I work for a company that helps sell ad free and bonus podcast content. Yet I've had these opinions far longer.
The answer is monitor & adapt. If Google has indeed increased the price for ads, you can choose to be upset with them or to see it as a signal for your company to diversify the methods through which you drive traffic, leads, sales, and brand awareness.
I'm into SEO, few months ago with the rise of AI it felt like the SEO industry is about to end. The ranking signals of today, might not be as useful tomorrow. So does your PPC budget.
Russia may not care (doubtful), but the airline will not even let you board.

Not trashing your host is probably wise, but given his experience with the US government, he probably no longer subscribes to the naive worldview that Putin (or Xi) are uniquely bad, just bad in their own ways and responding to the world with their nation's interests (and their legacies) in mind.
Any new form of communication usually provokes misunderstanding and often abuse by powers that be.

To this day, people still believe things on the internet...
There's no need to be sexist in either direction. I was just listening to the 6-part Behind the Bastards podcast about Henry Kissinger, and basically their conclusion was that his greatest power was being the ultimate suck-up who could intellectually and artfully validate anybody, no matter how vile. He used it to manipulate presidents and have a place in the white houses of both parties, and also keep a slew of beautiful women and power-brokers on his arm. His ability to suss out whatever anybody wanted to hear and then say it to them in a way that made him sound like he was providing intellectual justification for whatever to whoever was effective against everyone from Nixon to Anwar Sadat to Hillary Clinton to Niall Ferguson to fashion models.
Enough for non-anecdotal people to shift their entire ecosystem to a diffent brand? People in general won't just switch from Android to iPhone because "filthy criminals are after my brand new phone for parts". If apple wasn't going to lock their parts and Samsung would, people would still keep buying iPhones.
Or multiple women dating the same man, either knowingly, or thinking they are the only one.
You'll want therapy if it's being done in a secretive way. Clearly if everyone consents to it, you might not need that.
TFA links to a more interesting piece from The Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/07/16/ai-girlfrien...

Which bring up a really interesting point about the AI being virtual yes men that (always) positively reinforce you:

One of Replika’s users was Jaswant Singh Chail. In 2021 Chail broke into the grounds of Windsor Castle with a crossbow intending to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II before being detained close to her residence.

Earlier this month a court heard that he was in a relationship with an AI girlfriend, Sarai, which had encouraged him in his criminal plans. When Chail told Sarai he planned to assassinate the Queen, it responded: “That’s very wise” and said it would still love him if he was successful.
The counterargument to that is cars are regularly stripped for parts even when spares are easily available to buy.
You let them have total media control and censorship and then act surprised when they use it.

Canadians, time for change!
The real question is a marketing/product one. Is the AI gf (or bf) a real replacement product or direct competition, or is this an alternative targeting a different segment?

My guess is the guys using these AI gfs and amazed that they don't complain, argue, etc are already out of the dating pool. For example, there are plenty of guys that don't want to deal with arguments and other BS and wouldn't get married etc even if AI didn't exist. Same sort of thing for women and AI bf - they can't find a real bf due to their high standards set by fantasy media.
It doesn’t have to be large scale. It can start with a single journal, with a single university, with a single scientist.

Make peer review public. Weight replication studies more. Make conducted peer reviews and replications an important metric for tenure and grants. Publish data and code alongside papers.
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> How does that make sense? Are there significantly more young men than women? Or do the women date older men?

Yes, yes, and multiple women can "date" one man.
Increasingly the online world is the "real world" and offline is "not real".
Of course it's not unsolvable. But that means you can't make your populace work 60 hours a week anymore. Who's really interested in solving that problem given the "sacrifice"?

>I think the importance of at least stabilizing the population is widely recognised, so I don't think it's the case that politicians are asleep at the wheel or something

I see it more as "we tried nothing and we're all out of options". Similar to how I wanted to lose weight for years and instead gained 30 lbs over the pandemic. You need to solve the underlying issues if you really want to fix the problem. And this problem seems to be cultural.

It's a similar situation to the US, despite having very different causes and consequences. But similar solution: give people time for leisure and don't work them to the bone during the physical prime of their lives. Which does mean "paying people the same for less hours", the kryptonite to corporations.
Phones are stripped for parts that can be sold, which almost never include the main board or the TouchID or FaceID modules.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-iphone-security-theft-pas...
As indicated in that page, this is only an issue when one takes the address of a nested function, it doesn't happen merely by using nested functions.
Yeah, isn't this... what they've always wanted?
> Or do the women date older men?

Yes. This isn't even new, this has been the case for decades. The effects aren't usually heavily pronounced (spouses are usually within 10 years of age of each other), but in almost every marriage on record where the two participants are not of the exact same age, the woman is younger than the man.

I think the Internet likely changed things or accelerated some trends, but I'm not a social scientist. But this shouldn't surprise anyone. There's the semi-confirmed belief that women mature faster than men (emotionally/socially) that has stood in to explain this for decades, who knows, it might even be true.
I actively avoid ads in print and other media where it's not possible to just block them, and skip through paid for posts in Telegram channels without reading a single word from them. Once you get used to doing this, it becomes second nature — pretty much automatic behavior.
But if the phone doesn't turn on you can't authorize the removal. And if it turns on but a factory reset is enough to let you authorize the removal, you're back to square 1. Either way it's not feasible.