I’m not sure what it does, but if you scroll all the way down in the app, you can report an issue, if the current conditions you’re seeing don’t match the forecast.
iOS Weather app is for me accurate about 10% of the time. I keep it around on my phone as a joke with my daughter, we take bets how inaccurate will it be when we open it based on the weather outside.
Public research and well-intentioned AI companies is all focusing on (white) American English, but that doesn't mean the technology isn't being refined elsewhere. The scamming industry is massive and already goes to depths like slavery to get the job done.
I wouldn't assume you're safe just because the tech in your phone can't speak your language.
My bet is that the government at some point will have to put some pressure on Walmart and others to stop selling those gift cards completely, doing impersonations is getting too easy and too cheap for there not to be a flood of those scam calls in the near future.
the easiest way to defeat phone fraud is to ahead of time decide on a verbal password between family (and close friends, if they're close enough that you'd lend them money).
In a real scenario, they'd know the verbal password and you can authenticate them. Drum it into them that this password will prevent other people from impersonating you in this brave new world of ai voices and even video.
the problem is that the sort of emergency scenario in which family member would need the help is not often done or possible via a secured app. It's often just a telephone, with a number that you cannot recognize - imagine getting that phone call from a police station in the middle of nowhere when arrested, then you dont have access to any of your personal belongings as they're confiscated. The phone is a landline from the police station!
Therefore, a verbal password is needed, as this scenario is exactly how a scammer would present as the emergency that they need help (usually, wire some dollars to this account to bail out).
Windows and Office used to make up >90% of Microsoft's revenue, back when Microsoft was the biggest company in the world around DotCom.
Windows especially has been a sinking ship for a decade and yet Microsoft is bigger than ever.
Google is well positioned to monetize LLMs. Cloud, Gemini, and Waymo are all growing and could easily be Fortune 50 companies each within a few years.
Gsuite continues to do well.
Google Search revenue was still growing as of last quarter.
It's possible for Search revenue to still grow while Google Search total market share of search (if including LLM "search") goes down drastically (LLM users search more, not less).
It's also possible that total traditional Google Search volume could decline substantially without a huge impact to Search revenues.
Remember, only about ~15% of searches are Monetized. Google will be focused on keeping THOSE searches going.
It's possible Google could lose TONS of marketshare and still keep the frothiest part of the market...
OpenAI could take off more than any expects and be the biggest company in the world, and it's possible that only takes a small dent out of Search.
It's also possible Google could end up having a significant (if not dominant) part of the LLM search market.
Waymo is a particularly good one. Yes, it's been harder and taken longer than expected to get cars self driving, but it's starting to show real results now, and the sheer difficulty could act as quite the moat -- right now in the Western world, nobody is even close to Waymo in operational L4 or higher self driving cars, and the incumbent automakers in particular seem to have mostly given up.
And it's not just that Waymo will inevitably expand beyond robotaxis into personal cars as well, they could take their expertise in vision and robotics and apply it to adjacent domains. Maybe we'll actually start seeing the humanoid helper robots of the 50's a decade or two from now!
This is a fantastic question, and sparked a lot of thought.
The story shows 28/44 metro areas had decreasing rents last year, so 64%. That still means that the other 16 had rising rents.
My guess is that rents lag inflation quite a bit, so the (slight) decrease is basically reflecting the drop in inflation over the past couple years. So, yes rents dropped 1% last year but they’re up 20% over 5 years.
I do believe that the US has a significant shortage of housing that is high quality in city centers. Families don’t want to live in apartments in this country so they end up living 20+ miles from their work and spending a huge amount on transportation.
It's still a problem they should fix (clearly they're not making it obvious enough that you're making your chat public), but that hardly fits Mozilla's accusation of "quietly turning private AI chats into public content." Disclaimer that I have not seen the UI, maybe it's much more misleading than it sounds.
To be fair, Meta has a history of pushing people towards sharing when they wouldn’t otherwise do so. Doesn’t explain the petition’s wording, which suggests interactions are public by default.
"Meta’s rollout of social features in its stand-alone AI app, released last week. Those quiet queries — “What’s this embarrassing rash?” or “How can I tell my wife I don’t love her anymore?” — could soon be visible to anyone scrolling through the app’s Discover tab."
> While the company insists that “nothing is shared unless you choose to post it,” the app nonetheless nudges people to share—and overshare—whether they fully realize it or not.
"Markdown is a good tool for a specific purpose, and generalized note taking isn't it."
As someone who enjoys note-taking in Obsidian (by far my favorite super-powered markdown editor), I respectfully disagree with the premise and conclusion. On the contrary, IME, MD isn't single-purpose, and it absolutely can and does serve as a first-rate format for note-taking.
I take my notes in INI format with a lose schema, as I accumulate data I tend to move towards something more concrete and write tools for it. I think this is the absolute best compromise between some kind of formal personal ERP-like (PRP?) system and something super loose like Markdown or org mode.
Of course doing this on an iPhone is an absolute nightmare because everything has to be blessed by Apple and you can't just do one-off ad-hoc automations or usefully compose tooling that touches the filesystem. Everything has to be canned and sharecropped (at best) so them adding Markdown to the only text editor that supports fast, energy efficient background sync is a huge deal.
When I had an iPhone I did try doing some server-side automation with the SGML-like (can't remember if it was actual HTML or not) format notes used. Like most of those sorts of things it was a miserable uphill fight to get value out of the thing. I've been so happy ever since I've completely given up on anything smartphone related.
Did you ever test drive the Drafts app? It is remarkably easy to build customized workflows, both editing and document processing, and is built to be glue between different document/message apps.
It's a little late for that now since I don't own a smartphone anymore but it looks like there isn't a Linux version so the usefulness to me would have been limited anyway.
I like my Markdown notes editor, but I agree it's not the right choice for Apple notes because exposing the underlying machinery in everyday use is not Apple's style.
It’s also not handy to reach the mark-up characters from a touch keyboard. And if you are adding backticks and asterisks to a markup bar, you might as well just add bold and italics to the markup bar.
This varies a bit by touch keyboard. The standard iPhone keyboard is particularly bad at this while the AOSP and Google keyboards on Android aren't so bad.
Joplin, the notes app I've been using lately does have a markup bar with those features.
I use a modernized version of the PHP+jQuery stack.
It’s Laravel with Alpine (or Vue in some cases).
It retains all the simplicity of classic web development with a lot more sensible tooling and significantly improved language — PHP of today is worlds better than the old days.
There is a lot of gold in the vein of simple web technologies, even if they’re not being propped up by the PR department at billion dollar companies.
Probably true, even though the point of it is a testament to how robust and reliable WH's are, they don't close if they have any way at all to stay open, is the original point of it. It's quite positive toward WH.
Does the company take care of it's employees? Are employees expected to travel to/from the workplace during horrible weather? If the conditions worsen is the company responsible for the employee's safety? What about customers?
It's a post facto index. It lags disaster by a few days and is far more interesting as a recovery statistic than a forecast. That's why it was important to certain types of FEMA operations, going in days or weeks later and trying to assess the hardest hit areas and triage them into a priority list. If Waffle House is serving a limited breakfast menu 24-hours a day in a neighborhood you can focus on sending the Red Cross-sponsored food tents to a different neighborhood.
Waffle House has been trying to distance themselves from it as a "Disaster Index" ever since the FEMA Director admitted to using it as an unofficial index. It's part of why FEMA increasingly refers to it as "unofficial" and has started to distance itself from discussions about it, too. I agree with the OP that part of it is definitely Waffle House wants to distance themselves from being "the brand of disasters". When it has been talked about as a "Recovery Index" (and without mentioning FEMA, because FEMA is the "brand of disasters") and the light has been shined to focus on why they've been among the fastest businesses in the country to recover from the worst problems, they've been happy to discuss and market that. It really is cool to see their flowcharts and checklists and graded levels of menus designed for all the scenarios they thought to design disaster recovery for (does the building have electric? does it have gas? when was the last supply truck in? when is the next supply truck expected? what are the road conditions?; it truly is fascinating).
From the FAQ it sounds like it may take a few months:
“The first batch of selfies should be returning mid-summer and we will email you ahead of time. If you want to jump closer to the front of the queue and not wait a few months, please make sure you are an active CrunchLabs subscriber (Build Box, Hack Pack). Or, if you're an educator, send an email to help@crunchlabs.com and let us know that your selfie is a class photo and we'll take your selfie first!”
My son and I watched the launch video where they sent it up to space. Highly recommend watching that with whoever you're going to take the selfie with!
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