skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know why people are focusing on what men will do with AI girlfriends - the actual question is what women will do with AI boyfriends. On every single AI chat app like character.ai the majority of users are women, and the most popular characters are men. Women are people who read romance novels and are even more attracted by the "emotional validation".

> Now we’re facing a future where guys could get addicted to emotional validation elsewhere, sneaking away for some of that unparalleled devotion. Worse, what about young boys who grow up with this? Whose first sexual experience is chatting with AI women who never say no, never argue, never have original thoughts or an identity of their own—and then they try to date a real girl? There’s already all these men on Reddit raving about how their AI girlfriends never argue, complain or get bored of them, while real girls continually disappoint.

The market for this is women, not men. I am continually disappointed by the closed-minded thinking of people who think of pornography only as the visual kind men like. The text based kind that women like is what this technology is - focusing on men is just incorrect. I'm disappointed by the fact that the market hasn't tried to realize this, there's huge upside here in making an app designed for women in this space.
Have you looked at "Zen mode"? It removes the chat while you're playing ... you'll still see any insults after the game though ;)
You don't have to transitively examine callers because you have colored functions. Every awaited call is a scheduling point, and once a function is colored it can't be "doubly colored". You can then still use the mutexes provided by those languages.

From a programmer standpoint, preemptive scheduling is like cooperative scheduling, except that every function and operation is colored as async by default. Sometimes that simplifies things! But sometimes you'd like to have some guarantees that an async function cannot give you.

The "easier to implement" part was a remnant of an older rewording, and I edited it out immediately after posting. You must've seen the comment right after I posted it, sorry about that, that wasn't supposed to be my point.

Either way, we could argue here for days, but the difference in opinions here on this thread AND among programming language maintainers are enough evidence to show that the decision isn't as clear as you make it out to be. It's a little dismissive to pretend that other language designers, eg. those of Python, Kotlin, haven't done their years of research, and made inferior choices due to lack of expertise, when a LOT of developers (eg. myself, or many commenters here on this thread) like those languages particularly because of those decisions.

Opinions differ. And if you do research on Java developers you'll get different results than if you do research on JS developers. For good reasons. I fully trust you that you made the right decision for Java.
Haven’t seen an upleveled bmw in action but yes these vehicles do get put to use and save lives.
Same. It was more polished than 3. Love everything about 2.
whoa. I'm going to try installing tailscale on the googletv chromecast dongle. Because one of the biggest issues with Chromecast was that it and the device casting from had to be on the same wireless LAN. So when traveling I had to either use a travel router or turn my phone/tablet into an AP. Tailscale might solve that. I already use tailscale for everything else. Just never thought about installing it on Googletv chromecast. Thanks for the suggestion.
Is there an optimal strategy for this game
Just use Workers API and spawn another JavaScript thread
I created a simple game to explore the nature of information in making a series of decisions to win a game. It's a variant of the game of "war" that I call "Fog".

In Fog, each player is given ten cards of increasing value from 1 to 10. Each player then chooses a card to play from their hand and places it face down. Once both players have made their choices their cards are revealed. The player with the highest card gets the points of lower card. In the event of a tie, neither player scores. The goal of the game is to have the higher score after all cards have been played.

For example, if you play the 7 card and your opponent plays the 1 card, you win 1 point. If your opponent plays the 6 card, you gain 6 points. If your opponent plays the 7 card, you get zero points. If your opponent plays an 8 or higher card they get 7 points.

Question: Is there an optimal strategy or play possible for this simple game?
Change "replacement" to "removal" and it should work as intended. I haven't authorized my stolen phone's parts to be removed so they can't be installed in any other phone.
True that, but the article does distinguish between "flawed" (44%) and "problems that were so widespread that the trial was impossible to trust" (26%).

Really, though, how/why would we expect otherwise? There's nothing in the system to prevent it, and plenty to incentivize it. There's really no good reason to expect (under the current system) that it would not happen (a lot). Without systemic change, it will not get better.
> improve your product significantly without as much subjectivity

It's fake objectivity that often leads to a race to the boottom.

Between "engagement" as a terrible proxy for user happiness/success and the idea that it's more important and better if nobody can fail to use your app's "UX" than it is if it to enables a smaller number of people who take the time to learn to do really great things, all wrapped up in the VC driven dream of hypermegablitzscaling, all a reliance on analytics does is guarantee mediocrity.

I want software created by people who care enough not to look at the data.
>He was a self-confessed sex-addict and drug-addict over many years in that 90s-00s period

And even as such, had no complaints against him who bothered to go to the police and file/sue, not even at the height of me-too.

Then only things I've read are things like "he make lewd comments".

Then, on 2019 (? and they release now?) they get anonymous accusations, and even those to the press, not the police (the police merely says they are aware of "media reporting of a series of allegations"), from what the news say, for things that cannot be really verified aside from he-said/she-said anymore over 10 or 15 years after.

>He may well have some crimes to answer for: drugs were, and continue to be, illegal in the UK

Well, if he was investigated (by the police, not the press, like now) for drug use that would be relevant (even though still suspicious due to the timing and the focus on some individual where close to a million people use illegal drugs in the UK every day).

>It is only after a few years of criticizing the MSM and government overreach that someone has decided to dig up those old potential offences

And also where he's a nice "thought crime" target for all mainstream media types.
And of all of those, how many of them survived?
cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37573939

(TLDR: It's the 10^10 precision in trading systems that gets you.)
Yes, no grounded plug that I've seen. Trying to find an adapter to plug your grounded power supply in is a challenge.
> Nobody is hindering you on reselling your device. Use your legitimate access to wipe the device and unpair it from Our iCloud account and then you can resell it.

And its parts can then be re-used in other Apple devices?
Your comments are so important and correct. Not many people have noticed that this will be increasingly a fact of life in the US. I remember when it was Walmart that destroyed the business districts of small towns when they built on the edge of town. Shrinking population in the US, lack of workers is here today! That also means fewer people to buy stuff over time.

The population and economic retrenchment in the viability of life in small towns is one of the sources behind the passionate support for terrible people like Donald Trump. Their world is shrinking and they don't know what to do about it. It's not because of liberals or trans people somehow taking your stuff, and people trying to motivate you with cultural conflicts are not your friends. The economic model changed and we have fewer people around too. I'm not immune, as a software engineer my value to society will ebb and flow, who knows what Chat GPT will do to it.
Lowered the bar so low that I'm getting a lot of scams and fishing.
I think that something can have both good and bad effects.
Never discuss dates with software engineers
X-ray laser will ‘film’ chemical reactions in unprecedented detail
No -- in 2019 Google Ad Manager announced it was moving to a first-price auction (https://blog.google/products/admanager/simplifying-programma...) and AdSense followed in 2021 (https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/10858748?hl=en). (Edit: With regard to Google Ads for Search, they no longer seem to commit to any particular algorithm for deciding what price gets paid.)

There are some lawsuits that allege that Google was effectively cheating before then, by sort of manufacturing a shill bidder, with privileged access to everybody's bids, that turned it into something closer to a first-price auction (https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-ad-market-lawsu...). The quotes from within Google look pretty bad, e.g. one Googler allegedly wrote: "Doesn’t that undermine the whole idea of second price auctions? I.e., the assurance that you can bid the maximum you’re willing to pay with no negative consequence. But if the publisher manufactures a floor based on your bid to get you to pay more than the second price, this principle gets violated. It’ll transform the system into a 1st price auction where the bidder has a strong incentive to bid LESS than he’s willing to pay. (Only just enough to win.) I don’t think that’s desirable for either side in the long term."

Google... disputes this (https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/ag-pa...). I guess we'll see.
They're good for domain hacks. Like:

kingoftheinter.net
I didn't make that argument at all, so it's pretty annoying that you've cornered me into arguing it. I really don't respect when people do this.

I never, ever argued against "actions to stop it". I argued against this action. I never argued that my anecdata that my phone has never been stolen means that all action against theft are unnecessary, but I believe it is good cause for me to want a phone that doesn't have excuse-driven anti-consumer anti-repair garbage built into it to "prevent theft" that has never been my problem.

I am, however, arguing that this is not how we should be dealing with problems like this. It, in fact, should be illegal.
I guess I'm supposed to be sympathetic, but since I started dating in the early 90's I've gotten the distinct impression that women by and large want most men to leave them alone in general - isn't this what they've wanted for generations? Men who aren't the sort of men they're interested in to just go away?
No allocator can be expected to allocate usize::MAX, so it doesn't really matter.
> little slide cover

The car will scream at you if you cover the camera while using FSD. Very Black Mirror.
>Is increasing birth rates just an unsolvable problem somehow?

Problem is that not one country that has suffered declining fertility rates has managed to reverse the trend despite trying for decades. Not one.
Bad for the utterly stupid rentier capitalists that run everything in the west. Hopefully the coming population decline will wipe them out. For less hopefully look to Britain where the tyranny of the rentier classes continues while everything falls apart.

In the US it feels like the pandemic accelerated things by about ten years, hence the current bitching about people not wanting to work. Florida trying to legalize child labor.
The “in North America” bit matters. This took place a couple hours’ drive north of Seattle.
The article uses "AIDS". It's just the HN title mangler at work.
Some specific Ubiquiti gear uses Cavium SOCs, but certainly not all. The UDM Pro uses an Annapurna Labs SOC and my old EdgeRouter-X was Mediatek.
I get how this is helpful for hobby hardware, but the last time I had a problem with a Lenovo, I sent it to the on-site authorized repair depot (my employer had a special gold plated contract with them), who couldn't replace it because it needed a replacement display cable they didn't stock. They diagnosed it, and sent it to Lenovo, who said it would take 30 days to replace the cable.

I bought a cheap desktop in the meantime, which still works fine, ten years later.

When the laptop came back, Lenovo diagnosed it "no fault found", and didn't replace the faulty cable. Not only was the display still intermittent (due to the bad cable), but their technician removed and then improperly installed the insulator for the backlight's high-voltage transformer, so it was painful and unsafe to touch the laptop if the display was on.

Compare this to Apple, where I drive into any big city, hand them the broken shiny thing, a bag of money containing about 10% its retail price, and it Just Works when they hand it back to me (almost always on the same day).

Maybe Lenovo can repair their own stuff these days? I haven't observed this anywhere I've worked since.

(My evidence that they can't fix their stuff is that there is usually a pile of broken Lenovos in the back of the IT office.)
It really depends how you define what a people is.

Geographically, it's obviously not replacement. "People lived here, now people live here" is just continuity.

Genetically, who cares.

Culturally, that's up to the people.
> Researchers at universities also do these kinds of things because it helps them advance their careers.

This is a huge problem and in my opinion is mostly due to bad incentive structures and bad statistical/methodological education. I'm sure there are plenty of cases where there is intentional or at least known malpractice, but I would argue that most bad research is done in good faith.

When I was working on a PhD in biostatistics with a focus on causal inference among other things, I frequently helped out friends in other departments with data analysis. More often than not, people were working with sample sizes that are too small to provide enough power to answer their questions, or questions that simply could not be answered by their study design. (e.g. answering causal questions from observational data*).

In once instance, a friend in an environmental science program had data from an experiment she conducted where she failed to find evidence to support her primary hypothesis. It's nearly impossible to publish null results, and she didn't have funding to collect more data and had to get a paper out of it.

She wound up doing textbook p-hacking; testing a ton of post-hoc hypotheses on subsets of data. I tried to reel things back but I couldn't convince her to not continue because "that's how they do things" in her field. In reality she didn't really have a choice if she wanted to make progress towards her degree. She was a very smart person, and p-hacking is conceptually not hard to understand, but she was incentivized to not understand it or to not look at her research in that way.

* Research in causal inference is mostly about rigorously defining the (untestable) causal assumptions you must make and developing methods to answer causal questions from observational data. Even if an argument can be made that you can make those assumptions in a particular case, there is another layer of modeling assumptions you'll end up making depending on the method you're using. In my experience it's pretty rare that you can really have much confidence that your conclusions about a causal question if you can't run a real experiment.
I agree, and also think they could/should consider having hubs in places with more progressive immigration policies for entrepreneurship (like a UAE for instance would likely be accommodating of participants of any nationality, as well as provide an optimal default environment for many companies to incorporate/have a legal domicile/hq).
But you did need user feedback, which analytics would help with
Let's lock you up in your house, it will ensure that you are safe
It's great when you don't need destructors and have a bunch of small objects to allocate with similar lifetimes.
> Which is somewhat extreme and probably hyperbole but still his philosophy is loud and clear.

Is it? I wish online ads that make it through would target me well.

yes, I use adblockers and I opt out of data collection. But any old-school advertisement such as print, TV, billboard, and prospect ads feel more targeted / relevant to me and guide me to a sales funnel than online ads.
Just tried it for a few minutes with all extensions enabled and it failed at almost every task I proposed.

How many emails are in my gmail? (Completely incapable of answering this, didn't even try, just listed my last ~5 emails)

Based on my gmail account, how many flights have I booked in the last two years? (Also completely incapable, and didn't try, and again listed those same last ~5 emails)

When is the cheapest one way flight from NYC to Bali over the next six months? (Was for some weird reason only capable of returning round trip flights, but it did at least give me a plausible date and list of flights)

I'm probably using it wrong, but not a super "wow" first impression.
The EFF has a pretty good page that outlines the cases: https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230/legislative-history

One was Cubby v. CompuServe [1], which found that an online platform was not liable as a "distributor" (which is basically an analogy to physical books, since most of the prior case-law was based on physical printed words), because they didn't review any content on the forums before it was posted.

The other was Stratton Oakmont v Prodigy [2] (which was actually a NY court case), which found that because Prodigy performed _any_ moderation, they were more akin to a publisher, which was liable for everything they published.

Taken together, the two rulings essentially meant that any site that hosted user generated content had two options:

- Perform *no moderation at all* (no deleting Nazis, pornography, spam, etc), OR

- Assume liability for *all* user generated content on the site

Also, a final note, I was actually wrong when I invoked the Supreme Court. It was a federal district court case, and a NY state court case.

[1] https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/7...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton_Oakmont,_Inc._v._Prod... (I'm actually not finding the full text of the opinion online after a brief bit of searching. I've found a couple of sites that have links to it, but all are broken at the moment; I'm sure you can find it with some more digging, but I don't have time to find it atm)
Jsonnet does too I believe. I wanted to like Cue but it only works with Go and it doesn't actually let you link the schemas you write from the "document" files, which means no automatic schema checking and no IDE support. Giving up two huge benefits of having a schema in the first place.
https://policies.google.com/terms

have fun
Tarsnap's pricing is in picodollars (1e-12) but the accounting is attodollars (1e-18). Tarsnap uses 128-bit balances -- 64 bits of attodollars and 64 bits of whole dollars.

If I ever have someone paying me more than 2^64 dollars, I'll rewrite Tarsnap's accounting system.
I read a study a while back that indicated the best predictor of "blue zones" or the prevelance of centenarians is how poorly records are kept, the worse the records are, the more likely to have people 100+.
> How is providing policy makers with insights from foreign politics and possible industrial espionage not giving an advantage to domestic companies, if those policy makers act appropriately?

Let's imagine OpenAI was a Russian company operating mostly in secret. This RU OpenAI secretly discover and use GPT-4-like technology, and show promise that they are not done innovating. While these LLMs are often overhyped, these recent innovations no doubt present a policy issue, right? I'd say there are legitimate national security reasons to know about that technology, not just about making money or making a better product for cheap.

The distinction being made is that the NSA may steal data related to this, but they aren't just giving it to Google to make Bard better. They are getting intel and giving lawmakers the tools to fund research, write policy, or whatever else our elected representatives deem beneficial. Any side action or under the table dealings would make this distinction meaningless of course. So, for the example above, if we started funding departments to research the threat of LLMs/AI, inform the public of the issue, and inform companies that their data is being pillaged to train AI... that is all very different from just stealing a cool new widget design and getting it to market first.

I think there's no debating that this is morally gray, but I think it's a few steps off of what other nation states are doing by stealing tech and implementing it in "private" companies. It's certainly worthy of criticism, but I think it's unhelpful to bucket it with the other type.

If the LLM example isn't your thing, it also makes a lot of sense for the NSA to steal information related to weapon/defense tech, even if developed by a private company, and even if we use what we stole to implement countermeasures. I can't honestly be morally outraged about invading the privacy of someone developing tools of war against you. Fwiw, I wouldn't blame Russia or China for trying this against the US gov or defense contractors either, but it's not like I'd be happy about it. My point is that that is not so much economic espionage or corporate espionage as much as it is just plain old espionage. It saves lives and protects American hegemony - which I recognize may be counter to many people's ideal situation.

It's a nuanced thing. When you take two morally questionable things and reduce them down to both just being bad, the ones doing the worse things benefit. E.g. "all politicians lie" is a handy phrase for truly corrupt politicians because the ones who make small mistakes or half-truths are in the same bucket as them, and the outcome is apathy for the issue rather than being upset at all of it. Kinda the classic whataboutism trope - not to imply you are doing that, but just to say that's where it often leads.
...You can't use the device PIN to disable iCloud. You have to put in the iCloud password. And you really do have to put it in; even if the iPhone is unlocked, security features like that always require the password.
What does dx/ux mean in this context? Data Diagnostics?
Vanity metric. The only thing you need to know is how many people paid for your product.
No, that still relies on users not being stupid.

Multiple AC standards in 1 building is just dumb, period.
This was a prerecorded programme and the BBC chose to air it. "Gross and nasty" or not, this was viewed as mainstream entertainment by the BBC's bosses fifteen years ago.

Marina Hyde has a good piece in today's Guardian about this particular programme and how things have changed:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/19/brave-...

I remember this episode, and I remember other stuff Brand did in the early noughties.

Personally, I always thought Brand was a git. But if people claim Brand did or said stuff he didn't do or say, I think it ought to be pointed out. And if you can't see the implications of someone being deplatformed in this way ostensibly because of something they allegedly did fifteen or twenty years ago then I cannot help you.

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. —H. L. Mencken

Google is not strictly speaking a lawmaker, but they have comparable impact.
You could always ask Thanos.