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SMS and iMessage are exposed via Bluetooth’s Message Access Profile. Facetime would use the Hands Free Profile. Access to both of those would be requested during pairing of the phone.

At least on iOS, the other apps would need permission to integrate with the necessary API to integrate with MAP. I’m not sure if this is even available with the public APIs.
The anti-musk clickbait media ecosystem is endlessly embarrassing.
Plus not just the web itself, but all the web based products like slack
Low tech fire tools are pretty straightforward. Paper map is better than no map at all if your phone dies.
If you open the Activity Monitor and switch to the memory tab you'll see a graph of the memory pressure at the bottom. I think it roughly reflects the degree to which the system is swapping out to the SSD?

On M2 16GB I recently accidentally ended up with Firefox, Chrome, Thunderbird, Spotify, Intellij, GoLand, VSCode, and Docker doing heavy builds in a cross-platform VM. Obviously unreasonable, but interestingly the system crashed with an SSD error.
This ^ - use a 32gb model and regularly run out of memory
I do it for the challenge and community mostly. Comics are pretty funny and very inclusive. Delivering jokes to strangers takes a lot of courage, and as you said, to actually get laughs takes a lot of work, practice, and humiliation
This is what I was getting at, yes.
Do you mean build a 4-motor flying drone from scratch? There's some details of what's involved here [0], but it looks like quite a task

0: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40435-020-00737-5
Is there normally some security system keeping people from just taking books from a library?
Data Policies: Applying IAM to data instead of encryption keys
Was that the first time the subway was flooded?
Sounds like they got a stern warning and the public is being mislead.
A better HackerNews.

Leave contact info to beta test and explain why you'd be a great initial user. Limit 20 people.
I just hope Apple did their research, and that 8GB is indeed enough for the typical user; nothing will turn a new buyer off like buying an expensive new machine and then immediately finding out it’s running out of memory. Apple is supposed to be a premium brand, and they charge premium prices; cheaping out on memory is not a great way to maintain that image.
Okay... Funny how forcing it to not CHEAT did not increase apparent ability.

It can code and it has memorized some coding questions are not mutually exclusive.
While I won't defend what Apple is saying, I do think it's notable just how well MacOS runs on 8GB of ram. Sure, if you do any real work on it, you'll need more ram, but as a general use machine (albeit my 'general use' as a power user), I can't say I've ever felt constrained on my 8GB M2 MacBook Air.

Dozens of Firefox tabs open, email, calendar, discord, whatsapp, image editors, terminal windows, etc. I only know I'm in swap when I go and look in Activity monitor. Even so, the performance impact isn't noticeable.

I've used windows laptops with 8GB of ram before. It's not a pretty sight.
Sharing the ram with the CPU, GPU, and the SSD cache makes me wonder how the 8Gb models are even useable with how heavy modern programs are.
> The value in blockchain technologies is in unforgeability, scarcity, and forced consensus. In a world where forgery is trivially easy, content is trivially abundant, and nobody believes anybody else, a technology that ensures that mutually-distrusting computer systems all represent the same data gets quite valuable.

And how does blockchain make this work? By making authenticity too expensive for spammers, you've made it too expensive for 90+% of the population. The spammers/propagandists have orders of magnitudes more money than me.
You're right, titles are hard - I made an edit.
It's for when you want to shoot at huge apertures in full sunlight or directly into strong lights without having to grab an ND filter.
> Everyone Can Code

Right...
In order to sell another 8G for $200 obviously.

Like theregister puts it:

> There's a reason why we used to refer to Apple as the Cupertino idiot-tax operation.
It's a little naïve to think that if Apple gave us a "better deal on memory", it wouldn't also change their whole pricing scheme, as if they would just pass that savings on to the consumer.

Their whole game is hitting their margin, this is how they choose to do it, and a more "fair" memory and storage pricing scheme would merely result and higher prices across-the-board. The power users are subsidizing the low end users, look elsewhere for great deals on memory.
Pro is a feature level.

An 8gb MacBook Pro can run stable diffusion.

Find me a PC with a total memory footprint of 8gb that can even boot windows?
For me, I've often wanted to shoot with flash at 1/500th or so outdoors, but most mirrorless cameras only go up to like 1/160th. Back in the DSLR days, there were a few camera bodies that would go up to 1/500th. Its insane to see flash sync beyond 1/1000.
the whole generation-labelling thing is fabricated, likely because it gives the media something else to divide us with. the only officially labelled generation was the baby boomers.
I thought it was an autocompleter for writing documentation.

I am very disappointed that it isn't.

I had some success having ChatGPT document my code, it fact, it does a better job than I do by myself. Sometimes I have to fix some misunderstanding, but when it comes to writing and finding the right words, it is way better than I am. For me, it works better than for code generation, and I think that kind of "Copilot for Docs" would make a lot of sense.
Some of the old "Sonic: the Hedgehog" games had a 2-player mode where only sonic could die and tails would just respawn. You can't die in "A Short Hike" but its 1-player.
Yes! Figure out a way to make what you did visual, or nobody will care. Front end tasks are better to take than back end, because you don’t have to do extra work to produce a demo that’s not just text and numbers (and minor GUI changes still beat all but the most impressive benchmark graph, among many crowds). Factor the extra time-cost of this (sometimes more than the time it takes to do the actual work) into your estimates, when you can.

As a bonus, people who know nothing about programming, ux, or design, want to weigh in on UI. This provides a natural opportunity to have positive interactions with them, which is a very good thing. Ask if they want to have another meeting to go over their concerns one-on-one.
The alt-text even mentions cracked.com. Makes one feel nostalgic.
Isn't it a good thing that of the benchmarks they ran, the newer model has fewer of the answers memorized (aka, its parroting less)?

Wouldn't this actually be exactly proof that the model has improved over its predecessor by having to solve the problem itself rather than rely on memory?

What use is a model that memorizes the answers to all the benchmarks (see the 7b models on open llm leaderboard for more info on that).
That's utterly preposterous.

I work with a company that has a couple of patents on a carbon nanotube based sensing system for hydrocarbons. This company is making and selling units every day, like this shit is real man.

These units are installed out in the field all around the world and are tied into a dashboard for customers to see if any of their projects are experiencing leaks.

I agree that the carbon nano-tech revolution that we were promised by pop-sci writers hasn't materialized but that doesn't mean that it isn't a genuinely useful substance.
You can make a really boring series of events interesting, but without a payoff it doesn’t feel like it’s worth it.

Example:

I woke up this morning really really early… I checked my charging Apple Watch and noticed it was 2:15. I got up and noticed how quiet it was… like incredibly quiet. I put on my shoes and walked toward the stairs, and it was eerie how little sound there was.

When I got to the bottom of the stairs, it was still even quieter.

—-

This is literally what happened this morning, but the mention of “quiet” puts a question in your head: why is the author mentioning how quiet it is!? Isn’t it always quiet at 2am??

That will get you to invest in the story and there’s no conflict. But then if the ending was “yeah it’s just always quiet” you wouldn’t have learned anything new, and there’s no reason to share / recommend / reread the story.

Basically this is why JJ abrahms movies are fun to watch until they’re over.
> In a statement on Wednesday, the GM unit said that it did the recall even though it determined that a similar crash with a risk of serious injury could happen again every 10m to 100m miles without the update.

This kind of misses the point though (probably intentionally). Sure the odds of this exact same type of crash happening again are quite low. But the question is how many of these "one in 10 million mile" crashes are there? Fixing just this type of crash doesn't solve the broader problem.
Yeah I see your point. Storage is less of a concern because you can always use NAS or an external drive. Not so much with RAM

And it is really shortchanging. Don't give me that crap that 8GB "is like 16GB", because quite obviously isn't.

And I can see it in a MacBook with upgraded memory that even if I close most apps and try the most basic use it doesn't fit on 8GB

Sounds like another case of the Apple Reality Distortion Field
I'm interested in more testing on the context side of things.

For my NLP pipelines, I batch n-articles together to process (extract fields from) in one prompt (final output is something like this {"1":[{}], "2": [{},{}]...}) in one message. Compute-wise it's inefficient but OpenAI charges by the token so it doesn't matter. It's very reliable on gpt-4 8k.

I was also pretty happy with the results on 4-turbo initially but it seems that once you go past 30k-ish tokens in context (needs way more testing), it shits itself. The indexes don't match anymore and n_final_output is different from n_articles.

Still, great model and even if the limits are lower in practice I suspect I'll get good use out of it.

Edit: With better prompting, it feels stable at n=42, ~42000 prompt tokens.
This is almost like listening to a recording of George W Bush planning the invasion of Iraq.
UK and US form major partnership to accelerate global fusion energy development
I only use Docker for a compilation environment for Yocto, luckily I was able to find someone who had instructions for recompiling the image to aarch64 which runs super fast and efficiently.

It was horrible trying to run emulated, but I was sorting this out using the older version before Rosetta 2 was an option - does that make any difference?
I wonder how often a human could guess the exercise based on just the function stub.
You don't think it's already plateaued? In terms of reasoning ability, anyway.
Can somebody please explain to me why a VP of Marketing is talking about engineering problems?

Simple declarative sentences with pictures will do.
Microsoft and Apple enable groomers. they are platforms where abuse images are shown (despite telemetry being able to detect and stop it), they could easily detect someone using their OS to groom a minor but yet their hands are clean? come on.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.03.23287649v...

It appears to improve mortality, though not necessarily symptom duration.

HCQ-AZ treatment was associated with a significantly lower mortality rate than no HCQ-AZ after adjustment for sex, age, period and patient care setting (adjusted OR (aOR) 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.55, 0.45-0.68). The effect was greater among outpatients (71% death protection rate) than among inpatients (45%).
This is great advice ^

I run my business for over 10 years and have experimented many different alternatives, for small business with no cash to burn this is probably the best advice one could gave.

Start with consultancy/freelancing reduces a lot the risks
It’s just giving in to the “prosumer” styling, which is an excellent financial decision on Apple’s part.

And allowing an 8gb option lets them snag more of those.

Of course, the sneaky people wait for the refurbished units.
Frequency doesn’t equal performance.

If you’ll recall, the Pentium 4s were bumping against 4.0 ghz clock rates and the core processors came along and frequencies dropped to 2 while gaining mucho performance.
i felt the same way, so i googled "sag aftra agreement" and ended up at https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sag...

>The union is so far providing some details of the agreement, more of which will likely emerge in the next few days

so it's not in the article because they haven't allowed those details to be public yet. dare i say, that's ominous to announce "we agree" but to keep the terms secret till it's inked, but we'll see i guess
> The world started "burning" again with the war on Iraq / Afghanistan.

If terrorists didn't kill thousands of Americans on 9/11, those wars don't happen, so you'd have to say 9/11 started it. Ironically, the world had less combat deaths worldwide than ever during those two wars (although this does a terrible job of capturing deaths caused by war, but not directly from combat): https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace

The 90s were relatively peaceful compared to the previous few decades, but we still had the Yugoslav Wars, Israeli-Palestine at times, the Gulf war, Rwanda.
Jesus, bit melodramatic for poking some fun.
These aren't indestructible wall though. Encryption schemes used by real people in the real world are never implemented and used flawlessly.

The question isn't if you can get at conversation between two law abiding people or two pedophiles - in both cases you can if you through sufficient resources at it. The question is - what's sufficient?

My concern is that if you connive to make it a trivial amount of effort the temptation for Government will be to listen in on every conversation to lessen the chance of missing an important one. Further the more trivial you make it for the Government the better the chance that the not-Government will be able to listen in on any as well.

If on the other hand the effort is non-trivial then the Government will need to carefully consider where to put it's effort. Obviously there's a greater chance that the effort will be misapplied and the two pedophiles will have the freedom to plot or whatever but that tends to worry me less.

Note I'm an American. People run around shooting each other regularly here and I still don't think telling people they can't own a gun is a good idea so I'd take what I say with a grain of salt.
Super Mario Wonder has excellent multiplayer mechanics including characters that don't take damage and respawn as long as one character survived. Game might be tough still at 5.

Kirby and the forgotten land has a second player that takes damage but respawns is they die. Items like food can be shared which makes for a really mechanic where the two of you can celebrate a health share when eating.

No reload heroes allowed players to save each other when they "die". It's a generator dungeon crawler with lots of replay time for fairly cheap.

Unraveled two literally allows you to carry the other person. Admittedly some parts require two players and may be frustrating at 5.

Mario kart 8 is amazing for young kids. Options exist to self propel and keep your kart on the track. You can set you controller down and still finish a race. The colors, music, and powerups are all appealing.

Minecraft. Both my kids started around 5. Peaceful mode, help them learn to build. By age 7 they will be teaching you how to play. This game goes deep but starts shallow. There's a reason it's so popular with kids. I love it as well.
I am a bit biased (in the sense that I wrote my own SLR parser generator twice, in C# and F#!), but the benefit of LR is that you can know whether your CFG contains conflicts, which is a game changer for preserving backwards compatibility when you change the syntax later during the life of the DSL.

But if a parser combinator library may support converting the resulting combined parser into an eBNF grammar, and check whether that grammar contains conflicts.
> People get so mad about this. Who cares if they offer an 8GB model? If that’s not enough for you, don’t buy it.

> ...

> The thing we should be mad about are the prices. They’re charging $200 or more for each step-up in RAM. I understand that their RAM is integrated and special, but an 8GB stick of SD RAM for a PC is like $30. $100 might be understandable, but $200 is obscene.

This is the crux of the issue. The way Apple prices, the only good values they offer are the base models for each product/processor combination[1].

Apple could fix this by offering better base models or by offering reasonable upgrade pricing. They've really gouged customers on ram for as long as I can remember - even when they had user serviceable ram slots, so that's unlikely to happen IMO. I think that's why people are pushing so hard on better base models - that feels more achievable.

I'm not nearly as concerned by the storage costs; mostly because it's much easier to add storage to the system as a user pretty easily. Although I will admit that external storage on a laptop is a little clunky.

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1. I don't follow their offerings closely, but from what I recall, the vanilla processor comes with 8 GB, the Pro with 16 GB, the Max with 32 GB and the Ultra with 64 GB of ram.
Go visit Switzerland. Reply after you return.
> If you haven't noticed, advanced economies are experiencing secularly stagnating growth,

I haven't noticed that. The US is currently in a boom, and unemployment across the rich world is mostly at record lows.

> a crisis of democratic representation and its populist backlash,

Not sure what you mean there? Are you talking about US politics?

> the return of oligarchic inequality to levels not seen since the gilded age,

Global inequality has gone down considerably in the last few decades. Not sure what you are talking about.

> Unsurprisingly, therefore, most people in advanced economies look back on the post-war decades as a golden age - obviously there were problems, but there was high growth, full employment, good public services, strong unions, and comparatively cheap housing. Others look back to the 1990s as a time of untroubled horizons.

Those 'glorious' post-war years were when global inequality really took off. It's taken the rapid progress of the last few decades to partially undo the damage.
I haven't read it, but I'll add it to my reading list!

I suppose I have to agree with you that the statement itself is political, given your definition. In which case I'd simply re-phrase my argument. We used to have political neutral zones, where we agreed that we'd try to avoid overt political discussion, and we'd politely ignore those little statements that are "still political". In your example we would all be able to agree that "no" is obviously the right decision regarding the FAQ additions, and we'll all politely ignore the fact that we have differing opinions about the politics of raising suckling pigs. Neutral territory where we can put aside our differences and focus on something bigger.

We've lost a lot of those spaces, which is sad because those neutral zones are critical for the functioning of any ideologically diverse group of people. We have a word for a space where everyone must agree, and must all say all the correct phrases: cult.

We need to build communities, not cults. And to do that we need to be able to agree to disagree about things.

(Back when I was doing a lot of Ruby "Matz is nice and so we are nice" seemed to me to be about the best community code of conduct you could hope for!)
They last for years with constant writes; on the order of magnitude with petabytes

The properties surely vary among drives... but this isn't worth much concern

I'd throw a computer swapping this much out the window before the NAND would give up
> As do Windows and Linux

Just to nitpick, on Linux it depends on your distribution (or yourself) having enabled zram; some modern distributions enable it by default on recent releases, but yours might not have.
I think it's interesting that forcing models out of memorization don't always show a steep drop in ability.

I've definitely had instances where 4 memorized a common puzzle and failed a subtly altered variant but then got the variant after changing variable names or otherwise making it look different from what it would have memorized.
> People get so mad about this. Who cares if they offer an 8GB model?

People are not mad about Apple offering an 8GB model, but about making such absurd statements.
> The thing we should be mad about are the prices. They’re charging $200 or more for each step-up in RAM.'

To play Devil's advocate (and shill for Apple for a moment), probably from a marketing standpoint the 8GB model doesn't quite hit the profit margin they would like. Not that I'm claiming it's a loss-leader, but it might be on the low-end of what Apple expects when they mark up a device. But they'll take it because they want to have a model "mainstream" enough for the user with somewhat-modest disposable income.

It is with the upgrades that marketing leans in and ramps up the profit margin. They recognize the "power user" that is maxing out the hardware options and deduce they can stick them for it. And this in fact affords them the softer margins on the entry model.
I meant rhenium. Don't know why I wrote ruthenium, that is obviously a mistake. Thanks for pointing it out.
That's certainly true though.
What's this "Legacy Layout" they're using as a comparison? The previous iteration of Servo? Looks like some of the code is still used by both, as the curves sometimes (but not always) go up and down at the same time...
It's still a bit of a thick back; compared to the thinner rangefinder film bodies it's a little thicker still.

What I don't like most about all my Sony cameras is the hand grip. It feels made for a robot, and I miss the nice organic shape of Canon and Nikon grips.
A 512mb Raspberry Pi can run Stable Diffusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSSUJ2bwcgU

Pro is a hardware distinction. If that wasn't true, there would be the same hardware in normal Macs and "Pro" ones alike.
How much space you need for your file buffers depends mostly on your disk speed, not on the RAM speed... So no, you can't do with less of them.
Hi! We're working on exactly that. We have 16 locations throughout the US, and currently, our membership is $100/month. Where are you located? I can tell you if we have a location near you. If you prefer to check out our website, let me know and I Can post it.
It's hard to believe that this is genuine. I believe that Fairphone is better than many other companies when it comes to pushing consumerism, but in the end their business model is also producing and selling stuff. Companies might start out with the right motivation, but as long as their financial and social incentives are not aligned, the financial incentives will win every time.

Another good example is Patagonia, a brand I personally love and buy. They are better than many other brands that don't give a shit about the environment, but in the end they exist because a lot of people buy their stuff. Sure, it's great now that they donate the profits, I guess.

But in the end, convincing people to just not buy stuff would be the best thing to do. Companies that are trying to play both sides are suspect to me.
Steve Jobs used to say something like we're not in the business of chasing numbers, we're building the best products. It seems that as of late Apple is all about chasing numbers.
> Omegle was always a horny and abusive place and a place that was so very skin colour sensitive

So they had php or python code that did skin detection and altered the code branches according to the melanin level? That's interesting, can you elaborate on why they did such a thing?