I don't think he's right about this AI slop comment. The tom's hardware article might have used AI but it doesn't mention errata and doesn't say that microcode updates fixed it, just that the microcode updates mitigated it. And firefox.com release notes for 151.0.1 specifically claims it has a fix for this bug! https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/151.0.1/releasenotes/
That's a really strange claim given AS was a refinement of a technology other manufacturers have yet to surpassed in the ten years since the T1 chip came out.
To this day nobody else ties their SMC, biometric auth, and HSM together as tightly and well as the T1 did. AS was further advancement of that.
Furthermore, Apple protects users against the legal changes that have allowed law enforcement to physically force someone to provide biometric credentials. By default MS just provides biometric auth to make it easier to log in to your system.
I wish more people knew you can turn iPhones and Androids into dumbphones through MDM and other methods. It would save people money , you wouldn't have to sacrifice security, and they wouldn't complain about losing Google maps or Signal.
Result is no ability to install apps and no web browsing. It's really a smart, smartphone because you get the benefits of it being smart without becoming dumb through the distractions.
In Australia, the pattern over time is definitely more cars per person, and fewer occupants per household. Rate of change seems to be slowing on both counts but it's still getting worse, not better unfortunately.
Meta is lobbying to get age verification installed at the OS level so that they don't have to bear the cost themselves. I know nothing of the $2B but the face that Meta influences the legislation can hardly be denied:
During the meeting, Meta executives, including Antigone Davis, global head of safety, are understood to have argued that any age checks should be handled on a smartphone operating system rather than by the likes of Meta.
Currently piloting the use of JSD for a synthetic audience survey application, measuring how closely the synthetic response distribution matches a human panel.
Been knee-deep trying to understand this world, so seeing this on Hacker News today is kind of scary.
I follow the same process. I have a design in mind for the problem at hand, but I don't reveal it to Codex. I go back and forth a bit to see if its proposals are better than mine. I go back and forth on tradeoffs of various approaches. And then I ask it to compare its proposals with mine. I "win" most of the time but there are many times where it shows a me a better, or simpler approach, or makes me rethink the solution altogether.
Once this is done, the mechanical coding parts are mostly routine (for codex)
The same thing works for guessing German grammar from English. The farther back you go in English, the more its grammar resembles German.
"What sayest thou?" -> "Was sagst du?"
In fact, for the above, you don't even have to know a single German word. You just have to know what for question words, "wh" -> "w", that the English "y" at the end of a syllable usually comes from an older Germanic "g" sound, and that "th" was replaced by "d" in German. That gets you 90% of the way from early modern English to modern German in the above example.
One can get used to quite strange life styles. One could be very active, drink nothing but coffee and alcohol. If they feel a bit sluggish thats just normal. If one gets used to being sluggish (from any deficiency) fixing it might make sleeping difficult or one ends up working harder than one should. If the job is a mindless grind gaining mental clarity might feel terrible.
Wow, stupid idea is hard to legislate. Nobody could predict that.
It reminds me of clients wanting some stupid feature from app developers which does not fit into anything, and makes no business sense, and therefore creates only problems.
I have some lights on mechanical timers so the living room has a minimal amount of light in the evening, and they turn off automatically at midnight. That's useful to me, and it was cheap and simple. Haven't had to touch it in 10 years, except to adjust the timers to the seasons. The mechanical timers (Ikea) predate Alexa, and it's cheaper to just keep using them.
I also have a porch light that used to have a light sensor, but those sensors keep failing after a few years, and it's a hassle. Instead, Alexa has a schedule for that porch light switch, and you can specify "turn on at sunset" and "turn off at sunrise", and it's perfect.
And I have an Alexa rule for turning off the other lights that it controls (living room, dining room, family room, hallways, but not the porch light) at midnight. Simple and useful in case I forget to turn the lights off.
Does anyone have a video of it on an actual CRT TV? Looking at the youtube gameplay, it looks like it would have some problems with text on the overscan getting cropped.
I am curious how some of the effects look on a CRT.
I really liked the audio version. I would never listen to those ai generated ones, but I guess they might be better than the screen reader for blind people.
Reminds me of circumcision. Nobody questioning, just treating it as a standard thing to torture babies.
We can’t look at next year’s power bill today he’ll finding their power bill from 1930 isn’t trivial either, thus we model the universe and test those models.
If I believed you understand the implications of economic theory I would use those terms.
The fact you’re constantly demonstrating profound ignorance is why I am treating you like a 5 year old.
I think as kids were were indeed constantly thirsty when playing in the streets, but on family trips my mom would have a big water container, so maybe it's just a kids/parents split.
What baffles me is the rise of water bottles in school, we just went to drink from the bathroom faucet when I was a kid.
Men who stare at walls (alexselimov.com) 724 points by aselimov3 28 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 337 comments
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920074)