skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This result suggests that people who are relatively optimistic about the future based on the chronological stress view are less likely to be severe procrastinators. This may suggest the importance of having a hopeful prospect in the future to avoid procrastinating on actions that should yield greater rewards in the future

? It suggests that habitual "non-procrastinators" (more probably, people who "do what needs to be done") have accrued a consolidated experience showing them that their attitude enables for a hopeful prospect in the future...
> Most of the things shown during the keynote, can already be done with older iPhones - on device, but they need to be "talked to" like a computer, not with natural language that's not completely perfect.

That's only half true. If you get a text saying "Yo let's meet tomorrow at lunch?" it will offer an option to create an event from it, so even now it's possible in non-perfect scenarios.

Now the real question is: does getting the next 5% that wasn't possible justify sending potentially all you data to Apple's servers? I think the answer is a pretty resounding "fuck no".

Overall the announcement is extremely low value proposition (does anyone really use their stupid Bitmoji thing?) but asks for a LOT from the user (a vague "hey some stuff will be sent to our servers").
Also, I think it’s possible that top cricket players partly infer the ball’s trajectory before the ball leaves the bowler’s hand. With such a machine, the cues used to do that aren’t available.

https://thesportjournal.org/article/the-kinematics-of-the-re...: “In 2007, Renshaw et al. (18) showed differences in the initiation times of back swing in cricket, back swing and downswing duration while facing the bowler and the ball machine.”
No. It could think on it's own, like MuZero does. It becomes intelligent by learning from prior human work, like every intelligent being.
I've been following this post for a while. Most of the flagged comments were inflammatory or in some instances even celebrating.
Do you experience this personally?
Break 6 impossible to fix things before breakfast.
Then spend the rest of the day fixing them.
This is the police force for the ancient financial district in London called the City of London. Best explanation: https://youtu.be/LrObZ_HZZUc
I think interpretations fall more within the realm of philosophy. What physicists wants are theories that can yield correct and precise predictions. For instance, if we have, let's say, 10 different interpretations of QM, all of them unfalsifiable, yet all of them provide the same accurate physical predictions, then in terms of theory, they are equally suitable approximations of reality. What is of greater interest are innovative theories that can generate improved and more specific predictions, such as those for higher energy scales where gravity comes into play and other areas. Therefore, as a physicist, I would concentrate on developing theories that can yield more accurate and precise predictions.
Yeah, you’re right. Apple’s approach to privacy is like one of those fairytale genies. On paper, and in many technical aspects, class-leading, but useless because anyone powerful and/or determined enough to hurt you will be able to use the backdoors that they willingly provide.

End to end encryption? Sure, but we’re sending your location and metadata in unencrypted packets.

Don’t want governments to surveil your images? Sure, they can’t see the images - but they’ll send us hashes of illegal images, and we’ll turn your images into hashes, check them against each other, and report you to them if we find enough.

Apple essentially sells unbreakable locked doors while being very careful to keep a few windows open. They are a key PRISM member and have obligations under U.S. law that they will fulfil. Encryption backdoors aren’t needed when the systems that they work within can be designed to provide backdoors.

I fully expect that Apple Intelligence will have similar system defects that won’t be covered properly, and will go forgotten until some dissident gets killed and we wonder why.

For a look at their PR finesse in tricking media, see this, over the CSAM fiasco that has been resolved, in Apple’s favour.

https://sneak.berlin/20230115/macos-scans-your-local-files-n...
I find the reasons why he's advocating that interesting.

It's got for his mental health, it looks good to recruiters, it makes the work more incremental (wat?), and it gives him a dopamine hit.

Notably absent are reasons that would benefit the project or product.

To me checking something in every day does not look impressive. It looks like someone had nothing to do worth talking about and went around the neighborhood cutting off leaves from the hedges.

Causing a lot of transactions is a great way to stop people assigning you actual work. I suspect OP forgot to mention that reason. You already look busy without actually being busy. It's like managers scheduling useless meetings. They want to look busy so nobody gives them actual work to make them actually busy.
Trivial to make one - you just need a SDR and encryption key (harder to obtain, but probably could be found on the black market).
What would then be a good example of socialism?
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The City of London is very small, safe (quick look online returns that the crime rate is "73% lower than London and 67% lower than national average"), and very rich, and obviously right in the middle of a top world city. So I am guessing that their police force is well resourced, able to attract "top talent", and not bogged down by anti-social and petty crime.
No, focus on pushing the right solution. If you hold off pushing code that works but does not solve the correct (actual) problem, that's good.

Tracking commit frequency is one step away from tracking lines of code. If this is really the metric of performance, then you are a cog.

My take would be: plan upfront consistently. What do you need to do now to unblock the work later? Does the solution make sense? Is there something more useful? Think lots, talk lots, commit sometimes.
My friend has been making a working replica of the Patinho Feio. As I happen to know Portuguese, I translated some of his materials about this project, including making English subtitles for his (very wide-ranging) university lecture about the project.

https://forum.fiozera.com.br/t/historical-preservation-of-th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaDzfq42B-g

(Maybe I'll feel silly about having done this at some point, because AI translation is getting so good...)

There's an amazing amount of material about this computer available online now. Lots of manuals, interviews, images, and so on. It must have been really exciting to be involved with that project in the early 1970s. (As I understanding it, an American electrical engineer who had worked with computer architecture was a visiting professor at the Universidade de São Paulo at that time, and led the students through many of the necessary steps -- but all of the implementation and design, down to the instruction set with its Portuguese-language mnemonics, was the students' own work.)

In his lecture, he notes that ITA (Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronaútica) actually turns out to have made its own computer even earlier than USP's Patinho Feio, but there's almost no documentation of any kind about ITA's machine available, whereas USP students published various theses related to the Patinho Feio and preserved extensive documentation and even physical artifacts and software related to it. He thus calls the ITA computer the "0th Brazilian computer".
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Curtis Roads, in the latest edition of Computer Music Tutorial:

> A new industry has emerged around AI services for creating generic popular music [...] This is the latest incarnation of a trend that started in the 1920s called Muzak, to provide licensed background music in elevators, business and dental offices, hotels, shopping malls, supermarkets, and restaurants.
I think the main reason might be the on-device AI is fairly limited features wise. For Apple to actually offer something useful they would need to switch between device/server constantly and they don't want to limit the product by allowing users to disable going to a server.

With OpenAI calls is different because the privacy point is stronger
That's been reiterated by Levin at almost every presentation. Maybe he's overgeneralizing or there's actually a lack of specific experimental context or reference to a specific study. Maybe "anatomy" is a bit too broad of a term, and the thing inferred is some overall macroscopic patterning, so can't say definitely "untrue", as I haven't yet dedicated time to delve into specific articles and been just consuming lectures/presentations.

But I remember he was mentioning some study in left/right asymmetry in DevBio, where they've shown that it's cell potentials/bioelectric signalling and not genes that determine the left/right asymmetry in embryos.
Finnish people are typically quite humble and don't invite a lot of attention.
> This is mostly a 2G issue. Modern Android devices, and perhaps iOS devices, have a toggle to disable 2G for this reason.

My Android phone, Motorola Edge 20, has a setting for preferred network type. Options are 5G/4G/3G/2G, 4G/3G/2G, 3G/2G, or 2G only. Doesn't seem to be a way to disable 2G or 3G, even though most networks here (UK) no longer support them.
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It would seem that integrating a backdoor funnel to OpenAI is a bit of a security issue to those who care about such things.

Yay, we can all train corporate models for free involuntarily.

I guess it's time to check out Lineage OS and Postmarket OS.
It was always a matter of time.
Honestly, why not? I love reading about etymologies and I know that many people here do as well.
One of the tweets (https://x.com/obtusatum/status/1755182704809635980?s=46&t=Gx...) suggests one way this can happen: a fraudster sets up a server which returns a 302 for the Twitterbot user agent to an innocent domain (here, amazon.com), but directly shows malicious content for other user agents. For whatever reason, Twitter decides that the 302 target domain should be used for the preview, but clicking on the link goes to the original site.

I suppose this is some kind of ploy to keep URL shorteners happy (they get link traffic from Twitter; Twitter users get to see what’s behind the shortener), but the result is unabashedly bad for the users as the true link target is hidden.
Is there any data on the prevalence of cheating in online games and/or the effectiveness of anti-cheat systems?
I’ve spent so much time watching this kind of content (plus the older lectures that are available) over almost a year of chores, lunches, and walks that it’s honestly bordering on parasocial. I of course don’t regret a minute; if you check these recent videos out it’s clear that he reiterates the same points over and over, but it never quite gets tiresome. Rather it gives the impression of someone who has truly glimpsed the structure of the universe, and thus is consistently going back to those same principles.

Of course, I would recommend choosing “one half of his brain” (his terms) and not mixing the politics interviews with the cognitive science / philosophy ones lol. I haven’t looked for many linguistics talks of his from recent years, but I had the impression he was working on seriously technical stuff there right up until he couldn’t, too.

I don’t know how I hope to sleep after this comment… I guess I’ll do him the honor of trying to rationalize my emotional/ethical interests, and care less about the passing of a world-renowned twice-(happily-)married scholar than the passing of children from war and famine.

I hope he believes in us to finish his life’s work, answering the most fundamental question: “What kind of creatures are we?” He was never able to see his theories in the recent LLM breakthroughs, but we’re in the early stages of the Chomskian era of AI, philosophy, and human endeavors writ large, I think… the ChatGPT outage from earlier this year couldn’t have supported him any better without having said “colorless green ideas sleep furiously” outright!
Laughs at a PostgreSQL schema change backfill jobs that need a few days to complete on i4i.16xlarge.

Or that time I spent $120k USD on testing some upgrade paths on a dataset in elasticsearch from version 2.4 -> 5 -> 6 -> 7 that took about 5-6 days runtime on imports per upgrade step.
looks like it... DIDs are a part of the tech
Is there a good example of socialism?
Venmo has laid off all of its US based customer support team
I’m not sure what your goal is

you can “make a copy” of the docs shared to you. those copies are yours and you can download them. they’ll be included in backups, etc

You can also share them with a free account and then have the free account make copies
We have been learning more and more about the importance of the gut microbiome, from emotions and intelligence to immune responses and hormones. It is my opinion that children should be allowed to explore and "get dirty" so to speak. It would train and expose their body to different elements and pathogens that build a balance and "natural" microflora. By babying and obsessed with keeping kids clean and spotless all the time, we may actually hurt them more in the long run.

A bit of dirt, some sneezes, a scratched knee, a few bruises, all of them are normal and expected. Kids should be allowed to have those, otherwise we might deprive them of a healthy life later on.

Anecdotally, I grew up in a not so clean place. Thinking back, I am surprised it was so normal back then with how unhygienic everything was by Western standards. You would think people living in that kind of environment would be sick and disease ridden all the time. Yet it was the opposite. Allergies were practically unheard of and stuff like a cold or flu were almost never severe enough to send anyone to the hospital. Basically, people I knew back then were a lot more robust and had less health concerns than most of my coworkers and neighbors nowadays despite a world of differences in hygiene standards.

IIRC, germ free rodents grown to be absolutely sterile for specific medical tests are extremely sick all the time and are so weak you would not believe they are genetically the same with those rats thriving in the sewer. I guess it is for the same reason.
Making the surveillance database state work for you!

(I'm joking, but this is actually how it should work. The Americans get in such a tangle due to fighting "the state" in the wrong places)
The other big problem is that in the case that you get on Apple’s bad side for whatever reason, you now lose your passwords to everything.
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Exactly like with your paper wallet, you'll have to go to the authorities and they'll have to certify your new ID / keys... except it's possible to rekey you identity, to have escrows hold rescue keys, etc... many things you can't do without a Digital ID.

Brilliant indeed
EU expected to unveil tariff plans for Chinese EVs this week
There was a rumor floating around that Apple might try to enter the server chip business with an AI chip, which is an interesting concept. Apple's never really succeeded in the B2B business, but they have proven a lot of competency in the silicon space.

Even their high-end prosumer hardware could be interesting as an AI workstation given the VRAM available if the software support were better.
The National Health Service communicates with people via SMS. The NHS has an app, but doesn't send notifications through it.

My guess is because our population can all cope with SMS by now, but anything more...
This is the common thinker folks. This is why we have no privacy anymore
This feels like the biggest part of the news to me
I believe MS is trying to standardize this, in the same way as they do with DirectX support levels, but I agree it's probably going to be inherently a bit less consistent than Apple offerings
You can't define intelligence by how people in any one point in time would have responded to it. A calculator is AI to people of the 19th century, but not to us. It's only in the passing of time, if something that is thought to be intelligent still seems intelligent long after it is introduced, that we might have a contender.
That's likely due to tracking prevention or protection by your browser because X really, really wants to track you. If you disable the tracking protection and related settings, you may be able to see the single tweet.
Just watched. The announcements were:

iOS: customize home screen + control center
apps: floating tab bar menus
apple apps: animations + doc browser
screen sharing: pencil annotations
calculator: math notes + brett victor animations
apple notes: handwriting digital twin

Cute features, sadly of low benefit to work use cases. High value would be a VM and CLI terminal to run a web server stack for offline dev, maintenance or publishing tasks in time and space constrained contexts where Macbook would be inconvenient. Macbook is good for hours of dedicated work, iPad for quick tasks.
They have been trying and failing to do a tiny little bit of this. It's so broken and useless that I've been uploading all my iCloud photos to Google as well, for search and sharing.
Thanks! If you don't mind me asking, how does it help? What's the workflow with it, that couldn't be achieved without it?
You sort of can't. No idea about video games but it's a big issue for chess. Really top games (world championship) are played person to person in a sealed environment with moves relayed out of the room after a 15 or 30 minute time delay. Online games of any importance require you to set up TV cameras in your playing room, etc.
Faster, because it's a native executable.
Also would be interesting to see my downvotes to upvotes ratio, compared with others.
It was a hack to use "unused" control/signalling paths - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS

Effectively came "for free" for mobile operators...
If one has to use tech one has to trust someone. Apple has focused on the individual using computers since inception.
They have maintained a consistent message and have a good track record.

I will trust them because the alternatives I see are scattered and unfocused.
>Don't drool, it is unbecoming ;)

Unfortunately I am a programmer so I always am thinking of optimizing and efficiency. Sorry but its how my brain is wired! :)

>Your EV won't run on Solar. The cost of electricity is not trending towards zero.

Are you in the US? Because every year I look at prices to install solar panels and it is definitely trending in that direction. Do we have to account for the carbon to produce those panels? Yes but that part of the supply chain is also cleaning up and furthermore we are now seeing the results of the first major solar installs from 25 years ago as they reach their expected end of life. End of life for them means 80-85% of the energy generated when they were new. Given the evidence we have seen, this is definitely not greenwashing...unless you are buying the nonsense expressed in that conference where they talk about greenwashing ;)

>The best thing you could personally do is squeeze out a few hundreds thousands miles out of a third hand Honda Civic. Not that your personal lifestyle matters one iota.

You are right as personal consumption is a drop in the bucket compared to industry. If it does become the norm my hope is that continued supply and labor inflation will force businesses to cut costs wherever they can and once Solar + EV gets to a certain price point, even business will have to adopt to stay competitive.

>Enjoy life and if you want to promote anything at all promote engineering degrees for young people. And nuclear power.

I would love some Nuclear but the ship has sailed. The US has forgotten how to build reactors and China has raced past them in their own custom designs. Now in the US it is just nonsense promoted by the Oil industry pushed down to COnservatives/Libertarians to distract.
this is old as me

play it with a long time ago ~20 years
As a londoner, even I learned several things from that video. And it's done by an American!
I guess you could hoover up traffic at a location for a few hours, then move to another location and keep going like that without getting caught.
all cutting-edge research other companies are supposedly doing are also incremental. Depends on your vantage point.
I have yet to notice a site asking me a passkey.
Hmm, appears to be specific to my work PC which really doesn't like the SSL for some reason. Simply refuses to acknowledge that it's encrypted, rather than even presenting the certificate. Very odd since my own CloudFlare-fronted site which also uses their certificates works just fine. Sorry, I think this is very specific to my environment.
EV was never really good for anything because names aren't unique. The Beatles' record label is called Apple. So is a large tech company. Either of them could get an EV cert that says "Apple" on it. You can form a brand new entity that has the same name as an existing one. Trademarks are specific to the region and industry. Many individuals have the same first, middle and last name as another person.

ICANN domain names are one of the rare type of names that are actually globally uniquely assigned.
Which semiconductor materials are perishable? Are they using some unstable chemicals or something?
Anno 2070 has some Solarpunk vibes too.

Well, depending on which faction you choose.
I think you nail it right here. Gaming is a specialist activity poorly suited to general purpose computing. The only reason we ever used one machine for both was that home computers were expensive. Not having to support games in your daily driver means you can optimise it for real tasks, and also optimise your gaming platform for games. It's a win/win.
Personally I would read a book on statistical physics instead, since this is where the study of 'emergence' began. The Feynman lectures would be good for this.

I actually haven't found many good books for 'Complex systems', but if you want to take a shot anyway, I would look at https://academic.oup.com/book/25504 and https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691122045/cr...
When I watch videos in VR i feel more "crosseyed" than when looking at virtual enviroments. Specially when things are near the camera.
> There has not yet been a tablet that was commercially competitive with iPad, measured by sales volume/revenue.

There is no tablet market, there is an iPad market and "other".
Are we talking about writing code or this is shoveling content on tiktok?
Get BBVA USA branch, no hallucination needed, their system marked any use of their payment cards as a fraud. Useless bank.
You both are right but talking about slightly different aspects.

The morale of the story is don’t play speed chess but make move every day.
Would you mind sharing some detail?
What do you expect him to believe? If you go in with an anti-imperialist anti-war bias, then NATO expansion is a bit of a beacon when asking questions like "why is their an active land war in Eastern Europe?". I don't actually remember if there is a serious counter-proposal; most people tend to rely on the theory that Putin suddenly went unhinged - which is obviously not the belief a thoughtful leftist would come to.
I read that if a drone has already reached such a close range, a shotgun with birdshot is a lo-tech effective defense.

https://armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/2024/analysis-sho...
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