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antonkar··on iCloud Drive silently deletes your content
And if you keep files in iCloud Drive, your iPhone can remove the local copy any time.

So if you want your files to be synced and to be 100% sure you'll have a local copy - you should keep the same file in iCloud Drive and in the "On My iPhone" folder. This is the reason Apple Books, Numbers and all the apps that use iCloud Drive remove local copies all the time.

I made a simple note-taking app using iCloud Drive - iCloud was greedily removing a 2 kb txt-file when the app was closed (sometimes it wasn't removing - it's quite random). It doesn't matter if you have a lot of storage space - iCloud still can remove the local version of a file you constantly use.

The Apple developer support said nothing can be done. Even for a developer there is no way to mark a file as never to be removed.

P.S. In their official docs Apple actually recommends to keep all the user's files in iCloud Drive and _not_ to keep a copy "On My iPhone"

antonkar··on iCloud Drive silently deletes your content
Apple Books on his Mac did it?
antonkar··on Provably safe systems: the only path to controllable AGI
He proposes to make things provably secure and some basic regulation to promote that. It’s a straw man argument to dismiss it as him proposing “unaccountable human power structures”.

In my opinion governments (UK was the recent example with their crackdown on encryption) don’t want security - they want backdoors to eavesdrop on you. Why would governments promote provably secure systems? And how such systems will help them with their evil plans?

He does address the costs: "The 2023 global nominal GDP is estimated to be $105 trillion. How much is it worth to ensure human survival? $1 trillion? $50 trillion?"

antonkar··on Provably safe systems: the only path to controllable AGI
I see it as a project to produce more and more unhackable routers, phones, code, bunkers, homes, small communities, etc.

Something that at least will allow AGI-wary people to have technology not controlled by AGIs for a little bit longer and give them a fighting chance.

61% of Americans already believe that AI poses risks to humanity, so promote your router as unhackable and AI-safe and sell a bunch https://www.reuters.com/technology/ai-threatens-humanitys-fu...

The project starts small and can become a movement.

antonkar··on Provably safe systems: the only path to controllable AGI
It looks like Tegmark wants the same unbreakable rules for everyone, not just for AGIs: protect routers from being hacked, make it impossible for planes to fly into buildings, etc.
antonkar··on Existing in an un-simulated reality
Wolfram's theory of physics has exactly this idea. He thinks all the formal computable rules necessary exist and we are living inside of them https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2021/04/why-does-the-uni...
antonkar··on From Cyberdog to dataless files: a brief history of iCloud
The worst thing about iCloud Drive - if you keep files in it, your iPhone can remove the local copy any time.

So if you want your files to be synced and to be 100% sure you'll have a local copy - you should keep the same file in iCloud Drive and in the "On My iPhone" folder. This is the reason Apple Books, Numbers and all the apps that use iCloud Drive remove local copies all the time.

I made a simple note-taking app using iCloud Drive - iCloud was greedily removing a 2 kb txt-file when the app was closed (sometimes it wasn't removing - it's quite random). It doesn't matter if you have a lot of storage space - iCloud still can remove the local version of a file you constantly use.

The Apple developer support said nothing can be done. Even for a developer there is no way to mark a file as never to be removed

P.S. In their official docs Apple actually recommends to keep all the user's files in iCloud Drive and _not_ to keep a copy "On My iPhone"

antonkar··on Emotions: A Code Book
Good, I especially like your first cited meta analysis: “CBT appears to be as effective as pharmacotherapies at the short term, but more effective at the longer term” (I have nothing against the meds). I view it this way: modern CBT is actually vacuuming all the working approaches. CBT is something that you can use anywhere - it’s mostly a tool to notice and rewrite your unhelpful thoughts. The goal of the best approach is to eventually have no crutches - no need to have a permanent psychologist if you become one for yourself. Group therapies or approaches that are hard to use individually cannot give you that. I found CBT to be very easy to learn from their main book. Some people rave about meditation - I think they’ll eventually learn the basics of thought-rewriting from CBT and will rave about it even more)
antonkar··on Emotions: A Code Book
Sorry, I didn’t mean to offend anyone. It’s just hard to summarize a whole book in a comment. The war against Ukraine is not just anger, it’s a full scale aggression.
antonkar··on Emotions: A Code Book
I don’t think you need to worry. Beck was literally writing down all his thoughts down for many months and analyzing them and that way he came up with the idea of CBT in the first place. It’s results oriented but when you reach your goals you can continue changing even the most inconsequential thoughts and emotions. No gaslighting involved. Quite the opposite)
antonkar··on Emotions: A Code Book
Yes, I never said that CBT is completely correct in every regard. I was just shocked to see an articles based on a book that mentions souls on Hacker News. CBT is actually researched and quite effective unlike the book of former chakra practitioner Karla McLaren. We cannot change emotions directly, we can only change our thoughts and it will change our emotions. I recommend reading Beck directly in addition to counseling, it really helps. Sadly some psychologists are not great. Wish you the best!
antonkar··on Emotions: A Code Book
I can recommend this book. The most influential psychologist of our times explains the mechanics of anger. The basic idea is that we interpret the benign things like mistakes or tiredness of others as intentional and become angry at them. Our evolution predisposes us to interpret neutral events as intentionally directed against us. We can change that https://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Hate-Cognitive-Hostility-Vi...
antonkar··on Emotions: A Code Book
One of the most proven things we have to manage depression and anger among others things (I regularly check the most recent meta analysis and CBT is always one of the top treatments by efficacy). What other psychological approach you consider more effective to manage depression?

The writer of the article based it on the book by Karla McLaren M.Ed., as her Amazon page describes her “an award-winning author, social science researcher, and pioneering educator whose empathic approach to emotions revalues even the most “negative” emotions, and opens startling new pathways into the depths of the soul.” When was the last time scientists discussed souls?

Here is her articles, make your own conclusions: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Karl...

Compare them with Beck’s articles: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=aaro...

antonkar··on Emotions: A Code Book
Sorry for being harsh but this is pseudoscience. The most researched approach - CBT - says this: we can change our thoughts and it will change our emotions. Something happens, first we experience neutral arousal, our fast automatic thoughts color it and then we experience emotions.

For example, we interpret this neutral arousal as anger if we think that another person did something intentionally, not by mistake/accident/because of tiredness... If we think that it was our mistake - we experience sadness.

You thoughts are lines of code that cause your emotions and actions. You can rewrite your thoughts. I recommend counseling and reading the primary source - CBT Basics and Beyond by Beck - it’s very readable and simple. It’s like learning another programming language and rewriting your own brain OS.

You’ll change your nonadaptive unhelpful thoughts to the adaptive helpful ones.

P.S. Please, at least remove the line about suicidal thoughts. You should never say “change” to a suicidal person.

antonkar··on Generative AI space and the mental imagery of alien minds
As far as I remember, the ruliad is digital - so it can only approximate with more and more precision analog things like circles.

His basic idea is that we are made of and live inside of mathematics but we can only observe the part of it we call physics:

https://www.wolframscience.com/metamathematics/

antonkar··on Diaphora: an open-source program diffing IDA plugin
If you need to compare (and merge) an arbitrary number of files side-by-side, I recommend diffuse https://github.com/MightyCreak/diffuse
antonkar··on Dreamfall: An experiment in hypnagogic dreaming
"A user wears a glove-like device with sensors. These sensors collect biosignals from the hand to measure changes in muscle tone, heart rate, and skin conductance. In past research, all of these biosignals have been shown to change during the transition from wakefulness to sleep. When the biosignals signal the onset of sleep, a timer of a few minutes starts. At the end of the timer, an audio recording is played to ask the user for a dream report, bringing the wearer back into wakefulness, but ideally not into full wakefulness. We record everything the user says during their dream report, which could be useful for users to play back later to avoid forgetting a potentially useful idea. Following their dream report, the system then plays an audio cue, reminding the wearer to think of certain words (like "fork" or "rabbit"), in the hopes of integrating the cued topic into their next set of dreams. The user then drifts back to sleep, with the cue in mind. In our laboratory testing, we have found that the cued words reliably entered the hypnagogic dreams of our users. The system continues to track the state (awake or asleep) of the user, repeating the process described above of waking them up after a few minutes of sleep to collect a dream report. This protocol is carried out repeatedly to guide dreams and collect dream reports." https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/sleep-creativity/overview...
antonkar··on The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget
I asked Bing's GPT4 to summarize the abstract and then to summarize the summary for 11 times. I was starting a new chat after each summary. I was adding "Summarize the following text:" before each summary. I had to use the Creative mode else Bing was searching instead of summarizing.

1st summary: The text discusses the impact of large language models (LLMs) on online text and image generation. It argues that LLMs can cause model collapse, a phenomenon where the original diversity of data is lost due to feedback loops between models and data sources. It shows that model collapse can affect various types of generative models and warns that it poses a threat to the quality and reliability of online content. It suggests that data from real human interactions will become more valuable to prevent model collapse.

2nd: The text warns that large language models (LLMs) can cause online content to lose its original diversity and become less trustworthy. It explains that LLMs can create feedback loops that reduce the variety of data they learn from. It suggests that real human data will be more important to avoid this problem.

3rd: The text argues that LLMs can make online content more homogeneous and unreliable by creating feedback loops that limit their data sources. It recommends using real human data to prevent this issue.

4th: The text warns that LLMs can produce biased and repetitive online content by relying on narrow data sets. It suggests using diverse and authentic human data to avoid this problem.

5th: The text advises using varied and real human data to prevent LLMs from creating online content that is unfair and redundant due to limited data sources.

6th: The text suggests using diverse and authentic data to avoid biased and repetitive online content by LLMs.

7th: The text argues that LLMs need better data to produce more varied and realistic online content.

8th: The text claims that language and literature models (LLMs) require more diverse and accurate data to generate online content that reflects the real world.

9th: The text argues that LLMs need better data to create realistic online content.

10th, Bing started to hallucinate, I double-checked that it didn't search and the chat was new: The text claims that online content creators who use language models (LLMs) should have access to more reliable and diverse data sources to produce realistic and accurate content. It warns that LLMs can generate misleading or harmful content if they are trained on biased or low-quality data. It also suggests some ways to improve the data quality and availability for LLMs, such as using data verification tools, crowdsourcing data collection, and collaborating with other content creators.

11th: The text argues that online content creators need better and more diverse data sources to use language models (LLMs) effectively. It cautions that LLMs can produce harmful or inaccurate content if they rely on flawed data. It also recommends some methods to enhance the data quality and access for LLMs, such as verifying data, crowdsourcing data, and cooperating with other creators.

antonkar··on How New Ideas Arise
There is an interesting approach to systematically generating new ideas called TRIZ, which Samsung utilizes. The basic concept involves thinking about the ideal solution first. Typically, this means maximizing contradictions instead of trying to minimize them. For instance, imagine a bridge that works, but doesn't physically exist. You’ll get some kind of teleport. Or imagine a lamp that works, but doesn’t exist. You’ll get some kind of luminous space. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ
antonkar··on <ruby>: The Ruby Annotation element
I used it in my old and free iOS web browser to put translation (Spanish, French…) or Pinyin on top of English or Chinese words https://apps.apple.com/app/id932996489
antonkar··on How I Got My Brain Back
In addition to applying for professional help, I found useful to read the main CBT book that psychologists use (https://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Behavior-Therapy-Third-Basi...). I found it easy to read and apply. I started walking every morning, recording my thoughts when my mood changes, found out my main aspiration and in general achieved so much clarity in my head
antonkar··on Ask HN: What excites you today (technologically speaking)?
That we will one day be able to communicate telepathically via BMIs
antonkar··on Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
I was frustrated with how slow the Apple Notes app was, so I made k for myself (https://getk.com). k launches instantly to your keyboard and camera, so you can take notes and photos in no time. I use it instead of Notes and Camera.

It's 100% Swift and collects no data at all. k is my 3rd app and it took me 2 month to build

antonkar··on When the Tab Comes Due: Challenges in the Cost Structure of Browser Tab Usage
Don’t ever close any tabs one-by-one: bookmark and close all of them once a month when you computer starts being slow :)
antonkar··on Russian Activist Navalny Sentenced to More Than 2 Years in Prison
He also got hundreds of thousands of people to the streets in almost all the cities of Russia. Twice. And it looks like the number of people will grow every week now until putin will be toppled
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