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Regarding your cross-computer situation: I track my memory files in source control. This helps to keep them in sync across different machines. But the main benefit is making those files more transparent and easy for me to modify directly. So no funny business regarding memories or context I'm not aware about.

15 years ago we'd all be drooling breathlessly, wondering what sort of magical, earth-shattering new product Apple has been cooking up behind the scenes, and will we get to learn any details about it from the court case.

Today... Who cares? Lol. I'm not convinced there's anything going on at Apple, secret or otherwise, that we would find particularly interesting.

Corporate culture sucks but, as with most things, comparing it to the Holocaust is both wildly unfunny and incorrect.

> it doesn't even feel like they tried.

I'm sure they tried. "they" are probably security engineers and in my experience such people have a very different idea of what makes good UX

Man, these AI-generated UIs are so bad. They always look pretty at first glance... punchy headline, nice colors, lots of "widgets" and doo-hickeys. But it's just a nice paint job. Trying to actually read them is a recipe for suffering.

This one has at least 20 distinct text styles. They are seemingly deployed in random ways, following no discernible hierarchy. the smallest text is "9.6px" which is not only small, but also fuzzy due to the 0.6 pixels (?? why) making it impossible to read.

Likewise for the size, placement, and emphasis of various widgets on the page. Altogether it's just a big pile of information. It's hard to know where to begin, or how one's eye should move around the page

(In their defense: this particular UI is attempting to convey a very complicated sequence of interrelated events from multiple data sources. Doing that well isn't easy.)

> What he found is one of the strangest hydrothermal features on Earth. Not because it is extremely hot

Neat! I wonder what's so strange about it besides the heat

> because there is essentially no scientific explanation for its existence.

Wait whut

> I don't think the root post here should be flagged really.

If you're referring to my post ...then of course I agree with you!

I should clarify that I am in no way whatsoever opposed to AI usage. I use it all day, every day like most of us here and, if we are doing labels now, then I guess I would consider myself generally AI-positive.

What I don't like is when people use AI to produce low-effort content, and then package it in such a way that it masquerades as high-effort content. Of course what is low-effort or what is high-effort are highly subjective. But publishing an article that has your name at the top, it's written in the 1st person, and yet it's very obviously 100% copy/pasted AI output -- this falls on the wrong side of ethical for me.

I suppose OP could put "AI-generated" or some such disclaimer on the article. But I would rather people just revise the output, actually engage with what they're creating before they dump it on the rest of us.

> find the atmosphere around here pretty off-putting lately.

Hehe. I chuckle because I've been reading comments like this one for more than 10 years now. You might be right. But if HackerNews is dying then it sure is taking its time.

> Does that have something to do with OP's post, though?

Yes, the post reads to me as AI-generated, and then the author lightly revised the intro. They aren't evil for doing this. I just personally prefer reading things written by a human.

> I didn't get the same "AI wrote this",

The tells aren't always the same. For me LLMs have a certain indefatigable "bounciness" in their output that is impossible to miss. Everything has to be punchy. Everything shows the same level of (strangely elevated) excitement. At some point a human will do human things: put a little more detail here, vary their tone there, maybe lose the thread a bit and talk about something that's unrelated to the main flow. LLMs don't do any of those things–the writing is one speed from beginning to end. It's like riding a conveyor belt

> but I get a lot of people saying "AI wrote this" to stuff I definitely wrote by hand

I agree that there is a flip-side here where many people are eager to accuse AI usage for sometimes bizarre and facile reasons. And this is unfortunate, too. But it should illustrate the general frustration that many people are feeling about AI and its effects on social norms.

The English language has no words (yet) to capture that special combination of nausea and embarrassment one feels when they commit in good faith to reading a long piece of prose... only to slowly realize the whole thing is AI generated. But I'm feeling it more and more often these days.

It's not outside the realm of possibility for the positions he occupied. But yes, corruption is selectively cracked down upon in China

What alternative would you suggest? "Sent a message in our enterprise chat application about the version control system that our engineering team sometimes uses (no, not that one, the other one) but they need it in the project management app that our Design team uses (good luck requesting access from IT, we have more than a dozen project management tools in our catalog)"

> On the other hand, my wife saw all this and offer to buy me an M5...

Hold my beer. I'm going to run Qwen on this 3rd-generation iPod... somewhere my partner can see

Interesting. Although it seems they are focusing primarily on detecting AI generated video and imagery. But most of the annoying slop videos I come across seem like they are using real footage/video clips. It's just edited together by AI and there's an AI narrator reading an AI script. I wonder if they'll do anything to guard against this type of junk

The server often has long wait times due to the number of players trying to join, so you can pay for "priority access" and jump right to the front of the queue.