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by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-08-03 16:35:59+00:00
Yeah, and people are drastically [under|mis]-informed generally.

I saw a poll the other day with a question like, "since 1990, has violent crime increased or decreased?" with the usual significant / somewhat options in each direction plus a neutral option.

There's clear data that shows a substantial reduction in violent crime in the US since the 90s. Despite that, slightly over half the respondents answered that violent crime had significantly or somewhat increased.

Only 9% of respondents gave the "significantly decreased" answer that aligns to the data.
by serjester | 2025-08-03 16:36:06+00:00
It seems like the company has stagnated and Cook seems to consistently makes questionable decisions - fighting the app store rulings, doubling down on vision pro, focusing on OS redesigns instead of generative AI.

Maybe they've just calcified - the youngest person on their board is 63. At the end of the day they haven't had a credible threat in over a decade.
by nucleardog | 2025-08-03 16:36:08+00:00
Yeah, I'd be fine making an exception or separate option for "while hooked up to an external display". I think the user's intent could be reasonably construed there. Also if you're hooked up to an external display you often have external power.

Don't have a macbook, but on KDE that's already the default anyway it looks like--it's an opt-in to also sleep on lid close when there's an external display connected.
by mlyle | 2025-08-03 16:36:10+00:00
The Telo appeals to me. I've resisted getting a truck because I like a smaller vehicle and don't want to have undue impact and because I've listened to arguments like this before.

But I was offroad last weekend. I move sheets of plywood a couple of times per year and either need to beg my wife to help or sit around waiting at Home Depot for the truck to be available. I have stuff to move for robotics comps that I'm always barely able to get there by cramming it in my car + begging a couple of parents to help out. Dealing with the bike rack is hard. Ordering things like Ikea furniture for delivery is expensive, latent, and not exactly low impact iself.

Yah, 90% of the time I need a car, but 10% of the time I need a little more and there's enough friction around making it work that I would pull the trigger on something like this.

On the other hand I don't think I could say "frequently" to any of those questions.
by mg74 | 2025-08-03 16:36:42+00:00
Where has the competition caught up? Arent Apple's chips still by far best-in-class from the laptop down to the watch?

Its an honest question, I would love an arm based laptop running NixOS that is competitive with the upcoming M5 Pro's but I dont see it anywhere.

Case in point: Google's newest Google TV box (released this year) is an absolute turd when compared with an 8 year old 4k Apple TV box.
by encom | 2025-08-03 16:36:42+00:00
I would have loved to see an Apple iCar, just to see the soulless, sterile and inoffensive result, and the resulting magical marketing circus. Do you take it to an Apple Store to refill the windshield wiper fluid? Does it use another bullshit proprietary charging port, and will it refuse to charge if I'm not using the supplied Apple cable? Is the bonnet glued shut? Do I need to hold the keyfob just so to unlock the doors? Does the car brick itself if you install 3rd party tyres? Does the horn require an in-app purchase? So many questions.
by qingcharles | 2025-08-03 16:36:50+00:00
And, I think we've come full circle. I'm pretty sure that's how I was rendering text for the online office suite[] I wrote in ~1998 -- a Java Applet embedded in the browser.

[] VCs: "We're not investing in this crap! No company in their right mind would store their precious, confidential documents on the Internet!"
by graemep | 2025-08-03 16:37:17+00:00
You need to know what to optimise which means you need to know what you are spending on.

I did say it applies IFF and only IFF you choose to use these services, and if you have chosen to use these services you have presumably decided they are good value for money. If not, why are they using AWS.

Of course the complexity and extra cost of managing the billing is something that someone who has chosen to use AWS has already factored in, right?

The alternative is to not use AWS.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-08-03 16:37:30+00:00
> Both of these products could be expected from any well run company.

I was not expecting Apple silicon from Apple, I didn’t even realize they’d been hiring chip designers for the past decade before that.

Personal computing really sucked before the mid 2000s. You had windows computers which were cheap and fast, but had lots of bugs and were hard to use and didn’t do low energy very well, you had Linux as a powerful novelty, you had expensive well designed Mac’s that were sort of slow but with better battery life. It took Apple’s intel transition to fix all of that, and I basically thought it was finally done and personal computing all of a sudden got very boring. But today I’m running mid-sized LLM inference on a Max 3, and it’s all very exciting again.
by ryanobjc | 2025-08-03 16:37:47+00:00
I think the reason why Apple hasnt come out with such a useful personal assistant AI is because the underlying technology just doesn't make this so easy.

Apple is the only company so far that seems to be unwilling to accept a poor user experience with generative AI, so their efforts have been "lackluster" in terms of "AI integration" - as if "maximally integrating generative LLMs" is the goal in and of itself!

Of course Nadella is critical of Apple's efforts: he selling the goods! It's like a Steel CEO complementing a new bridge but then "they should have used more steel" - well duh, but since when do we trust the purveyors of components as to what should be added?

The bottom line is "Agentic AI" is just unreliable. If you thought you hated Apple Intelligence now, then if they had gone whole hog, the unreliability would be astounding.
by bigyabai | 2025-08-03 16:38:22+00:00
Which was a day late and a dollar short, even at release. Those ANEs are only really good at inference, and even then you get faster results using your Apple Silicon GPU. They're slow, incomplete, not integrated into the GPU architecture (like Nvidia's) therefore killing any chance of Apple Silicon seeing serious AI server usage.

If you want to brag about Apple's AI hardware prowess, talk about MLX. The ANE was a pretty obvious mistake compared to Nvidia's approach and hundreds of businesses had their own, even before Apple made theirs.
by ben_w | 2025-08-03 16:38:39+00:00
I'm glad they decided against it.

Apple's overall market strategy is "premium product, premium price". If you look to the 7x price ratio between AVP and Meta Quest 3 as your guide, they'd make a supercar that would cost something like USD 175k.

Sure, an Apple Car would likely have a lot of interesting and unusual but well understood design points, both positive (like liquid crystal electric tinting windows) and negative (imagine something as weird as charging a car like an Apple Magic Mouse), but hardly anyone would be able to afford them unless they were working in Big Tech.
by ryandrake | 2025-08-03 16:39:07+00:00
One of the benefits (to me) of going remote is I'm sick a heck of a lot less often! In fact, I don't think I've even had a cold or upper respiratory infection since I started remote, where I used to get colds at least once a month, likely due to being in close concentration of other sick people in the office. Touching door handles everywhere to get from office to office, touching elevator buttons, eating together with 100 other people in the office cafeteria... yuck! Now that I'm remote, I'm in my hermetically sealed home office, and I can go weeks without even seeing another person, let alone touching things they touched and breathing their air.
by ahalbert4 | 2025-08-03 16:39:07+00:00
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by waswaswas | 2025-08-03 16:39:31+00:00
Automaking is a capital intensive, operationally complex, and fiercely competitive (read: low profit) industry. Apple's gross margin is nearly 3x higher than Tesla's, and Tesla will face increased margin pressure as more of the industry electrifies. Even if Apple were to match Porsche as the leader in volume+profit luxury automotive, it wouldn't be nearly as lucrative as their current businesses. There are other areas in which Apple could expand to more profitably leverage its core competencies.

Aside from all the difficulties that come with self driving, I suspect Apple cancelled its car effort because they couldn't figure out how differentiate its offering at a price low enough to drive volume and a cost low enough to drive comparable profit to its other businesses.
by yapyap | 2025-08-03 16:39:46+00:00
Beautiful blogpost and I wholly agree with the message of not scrapping everything going on today because you can’t see immediate growth from it.

It’s like if the USA was a house, Donald Trump and his goons are cancelling all the utilities without realising (1) that in a month the water will be shut off and the entire house will start smelling like shit.

1. or probably without caring, it’s easy to misattribute malice for stupidity when the actions being taken are THIS malicious but that’s what’s going on. I don’t necessarily think Donald Trump is this stupid but I think he is just very very malicious. Though at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter whether he is stupid or malicious or both, the consequences of what he is doing won’t change depending on intentions.
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by graemep | 2025-08-03 16:40:14+00:00
If you plan to scale to that extent, then why do you not have the money to hire the people who can use AWS? At least part time or as temporary consultants.

This:

> The point where you get sticker shock from AWS is often significantly lower than the point where you have enough money to hire in either of those roles

makes me doubt this:

> AWS is obviously the infrastructure of choice if you plan to scale.
by kqr | 2025-08-03 16:40:18+00:00
> its annoying that parties’ primary goal is to gain influence

Inevitable consequence of a representive democracy. Parties are chosen based on electability, which is merely a proxy for good policy. This means parties that don't optimise for electability at the cost of good policy will eventually be outcompeted by those that do.

(It's for this reason Graeber sometimes jokingly (?) called representative democracy "elective aristocracy".)
by CooCooCaCha | 2025-08-03 16:40:30+00:00
You’re not wrong about breaking down fat via lipolysis but you’re wrong about the overall picture. Also, not sure what you mean by cardio stopping you from gaining weight. Cardio burns calories and you need to burn calories to lose fat.

Anyways, fasting isn’t a body hack like some people think. Just look at this article by Harvard health. At best the benefit is modest:

“intermittent fasting has a similar or even modest benefit over traditional calorie-restriction dieting for weight loss”

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/can-intermitt...

One reason is because the body regulates which sources of energy it uses, and will actually compensate for using too much of one energy source. For example, you might burn more fat during intermittent fasting because that’s what’s available at the time, but when you’re not fasting your body will actually burn less fat to compensate.

This is also why doing fasted cardio isn’t a hack. You’ll just burn less fat later and it’ll mostly be a wash.
by ok123456 | 2025-08-03 16:40:41+00:00
In wider practice, UML (class diagrams) is never used by working software developers as a frontend to formal methods.

It got pushed on everyone, so there could be a layer of "software architects" who didn't have to know how to code and could have endless meetings where the final product was a Bayeux Tapestry of UML.

UML captures inheritance and composition well, but a program is more than the sum of its schema. Also, real programming languages all have their idioms, and using UML as the design space creates a significant impedance mismatch.
by t-3 | 2025-08-03 16:40:41+00:00
It would be possible with a Pi or any other ARM or RISCV board, but most of those don't have NVMe or SATA and have very limited bandwidth to the USB ports, PCIe, or ethernet. If you don't need high performance that can be perfectly usable, but it will run into bottlenecks if you push beyond basic use.
by simonw | 2025-08-03 16:41:06+00:00
The README says:

> For developers using local LLMs, LangExtract offers built-in support for Ollama and can be extended to other third-party APIs by updating the inference endpoints.

If you look in the code they currently have classes for Gemini and Ollama: https://github.com/google/langextract/blob/main/langextract/...

If you want to do structured data extraction with a wider variety of libraries I'm going to promote my LLM library and tool, which supports dozens of models for this via the plugins mechanism: https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/schemas.html
by andrewrn | 2025-08-03 16:41:14+00:00
I agree with this comment.

Maybe it's just me but I haven't been model-hopping one bit. For my daily chatbot usage, I just don't feel inclined to model-hop so much to squeeze out some tiny improvement. All the models are way beyond "good enough" at this point, so I just continue using ChatGPT and switching back and forth from o3 and 4o. I would love to hear if others are different.

Maybe others are doing some hyper-advanced stuff where the edging out makes a difference, but I just don't buy it.

A good example is search engines. Google is a pseudo-monopoly because google search gives obviously better results than bing or duckduckgo. In my experience this just isn't the case for LLM's. Its more nuanced than better or worse. LLM's are more like car models where everyone makes a personal choice on which they like the best.
by chermi | 2025-08-03 16:41:15+00:00
I know you only said "well-off", not rich/entrepreneurial class. But given what I've seen on HN lately I feel this must be emphasized -- this is not another "blame the rich" scenario. This is beaurocract class/college-educated-but-barely-passed education master's degree class. This is a government/administrative bloat problem. This problem is one you're much more likely than not to hear an entrepreneurial class member rail against and maybe even try to fix (to no avail).
by standardUser | 2025-08-03 16:42:30+00:00
If you want your remote teams to have increased cohesion you need to fly them all to the same location (at company expense, only during weekdays) multiple times per year and give them the opportunity to actually get to know each other.

Anything else usually just feels awkward and pathetic. But since online game shows or "breakaway rooms" cost the company a whole lot less money, that's what we're stuck with.
by abnercoimbre | 2025-08-03 16:42:45+00:00
> I sense many feel their business model is better suited to subscriptions

Self-plug, but sometimes the developer just straight up needs income for a basic living. My terminal emulator [0] is in Early Access, meaning fans throw me $5/mo. Each month they get a new version and the binary is 100% offline (theirs to own.)

I sincerely want to respect the customer's wallet/privacy, yet I don't know what else to do while staying indie: my direct competitors either have VC funding [1] or the author's a wealthy retired CEO [2].

However, once I reach a 1.0 stable release I'll switch to a one-off payment system. I'm also not against a Business Source License when the time comes.

[0] https://terminal.click

[1] https://warp.dev

[2] https://ghostty.org
by LorenPechtel | 2025-08-03 16:43:34+00:00
It could be counterdesigned, but I agree, that would be a nightmare for any AI engine not specifically set up to do it.

I'm reminded of a novel that I utterly can not recall in general, but I'm thinking of a scene where someone realizes they're in a simulation because the sidewalk cracks are wrong. They knew the real scene there happened to be a shape (of what I can't recall) in the cracks, the simulation was showing random cracks.

I don't think it even requires a monotile. Just use an event-specific non-repeating pattern on a backdrop.
by imchillyb | 2025-08-03 16:43:37+00:00
One of my favorite dialogs is from the pilot:

Ted Crisp: We do everything: industrial products, biomedical, cryogenics, defense technology.

Veronica Palmer: We want to weaponize a pumpkin.

Ted Crisp: Then so do I. Because?

Veronica Palmer: There's a country with whom we do business that grows a great deal of pumpkins and would welcome additional uses for them. As well as cheaper ways to kill their enemies.

Ted Crisp: Well, finally, the pumpkin gets to do something besides Halloween.

I believe this showcases, succinctly, corporate “ethics” in our society.

Absolutely anything to make a buck and strengthen trade.
by throw10920 | 2025-08-03 16:43:43+00:00
I put my work ramblings in daily journal notes in Markdown files in a git repository. Unfortunately, I don't spend the time to then ensure that they're accessible to my co-workers - and given the amount of value that I would get if they did that, I should do it myself.

Also, I'm very glad that I don't work in a place with Slack/chat culture. I really like the idea of making your ramblings available, but the thought of forcing everything into chat is repulsive. Just use a wiki page or files in a Git repo (as long as they're sufficiently easy to access) and that's good enough.
by adev_ | 2025-08-03 16:43:43+00:00
> been implementing reflection and introspection through macro magic etc. for decades at this point.

Having a flaky pile of junk as an alternative is never been an excuse to not fix the problem properly.

Every proper modern language (Rust, Kotlin, Zig, Swift, even freaking Golang) has a form of runtime reflection or static introspection.

Only C++ does not. It was done historically with a mess of macros or a pre-compiler (qt-moc) that all have an entire pile of issue.

> the approach is to make the language even more complex than it already is - e.g. two new operators

The problem of rampant complexity in C++ is not so much about the new features when they bring something and make sense.

It is about its inability to remove the old stuff even if it is consensual that it is garbage (e.g iostreams).
by yapyap | 2025-08-03 16:43:59+00:00
“ I used to think that once I made it I’d finally feel free”

How you do one thing is how you do everything and once the baseline shifts to your new normal (most likely after a few weeks or months) you will feel the same as you did on your old baseline before the big change.

This is the human condition, you have to figure out how to improve your baseline to improve life.

((or at least, that has been my experience living life))
by cesarb | 2025-08-03 16:44:22+00:00
> What was novel about the smart phone - really it's defining characteristic, was it wasn't a primarily single purpose device like a PDA, or phone, or MP-3 player/iPod, or camera, or handheld web browser, but rather a universal hand held computer/communications device, and one whose functionality was not limited to what you got out of the box.

I used a Palm PDA back in the pre-iPhone days. Its functionality was not "limited to what you got out of the box", you could install applications on it. I have fond memories of exchanging Palm applications with my friends through its infrared port. I used it as a PDA, MP3 player, camera, to play games, and even as a handheld web browser (it didn't come with a web browser, it was one of the applications I installed), using a Bluetooth connection to my cell phone for the network access. The only thing it couldn't do, was making phone calls; for that, I used that cell phone on my other pocket. That's the defining characteristic of a smartphone: being a phone which can do all the things a PDA could already do.

> and questioned who would want it, given the high cost and lack of a keyboard (a feature, not a deficit!).

That Palm PDA also lacked a keyboard. It was designed to be used without a keyboard, and worked pretty well, with either the stylus or the on-screen keyboard (which was usable even without the stylus). So it was not a given that the lack of a keyboard would be a deficit.
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-08-03 16:44:44+00:00
I have little knowledge in this area, but my understanding is it's like this:

There is a pseudocode app that depends on a bunch of pseudocode libraries. They want to translate that pseudocode app into a real runnable app. They can do that, and it's a good amount of work, but reasonable. The problem is to get the app to run they also need to translate the hundreds or thousands of pseudocode libraries into actual libraries. Everything from OS APIs, networking libs, rendering libs, language standard libs all need ro be converted from specs and pseudocode to real code to actually run the app. And that's a ton of work.
by mmarian | 2025-08-03 16:44:44+00:00
> Cloudflare can always spot crawlers

I mention in the post a scraping service that Cloudflare isn't spotting: https://www.scrapingbee.com/blog/how-to-bypass-cloudflare-an...

Plenty of open-source ones as well that could bypass, eg maybe this one that came up in search https://github.com/VeNoMouS/cloudscraper Combine with residential proxies and you're just not going to find them.

> Comprehensive crawl of LinkedIn, FB, instagram, IMDB, Amazon, would be worth a lot.

Just from a quick Google search:

- LinkedIn: https://brightdata.com/products/datasets/linkedin

- Amazon: https://www.junglescout.com/features/product-database/
by ryanobjc | 2025-08-03 16:44:50+00:00
There was a quote recently where Nadella was trash talking the apple AI stuff, and like yes sure, but also do we not realize that Nadella isn't a random third party CEO, he's literally financially incentivized to maximize AI usage because Microsoft is selling the stuff?

It's like listening to the Intel CEO saying that the new apple silicon is alright, but what would REALLY make them go is to migrate back to Intel x86.

I'm not really upset at Nadella for this, because it's what he should do. But for everyone else to breathlessly be obsessed with his word and forget his real job as salesman in chief is what's pathetic.