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by drivers99 | 2025-10-15 17:59:36+00:00
> The hard part is that the Canon Cat had bespoke hardware with dedicated keys for its actions

I actually designed a PCB / custom keyboard (well, it's just a copy of the Canon Cat layout) with the Leap, Use Front, etc keys (using an ARM dev board called Black Pill, which is probably overkill, to scan the rows/columns for key up/down events) for this reason. Right now I have it sending key codes over a serial connection to another microcontroller with a display module so you can now type on it, but I really need to get started on the actual Canon Cat style software. I'm not really planning to make it USB compatible or use any existing OS though.

> Maybe predictably, early on I found myself wanting more than one text stream. I fought that inclination to discover what’s in store down the pure Canon Cat path.

I think the Cat would let you do that if you used multiple disks? I haven't used a Canon Cat, but only read the documentation. It used a single DISK button for loading and saving, based on context. The following quote is copied from the manual for reference. I think the "beep" option is for if you've made an edit in memory but don't have the correct disk in for saving that same text stream.

[quote]

The Cat has two storage places for your text: memory and disk. Memory is the area inside the Cat where the text is stored while you are working on it. The on-screen text is a portion of the text stored in memory. The memory is kept alive by the electric current coming from the wall. If the power were cut, the text in the memory would be lost, so you need to record the text more or less permanently on a disk with the help of the disk drive.

One command, [DISK], handles all operations involving disk and memory. When you use [DISK], the Cat does one of three things:

-Plays back the disk in the drive. This means copying the information from the disk into the memory, and putting a portion of it up on the screen where you can see it and work on it.

-Records the text in memory. This means transferring the information in memory to the disk for safe storage.

-Beeps. This means the Cat makes a warning sound and does nothing, because recording or playing back might lose information.

A DISK sign appears on the ruler while the Cat is recording or playing back.

[unquote]
by knes | 2025-10-15 17:59:52+00:00
At augmentcode.com, we've been evaluating Haiku for some time, it's actually a very good model. We found out it's 90% as good as Sonnet and is ~34% faster than sonnet!

Where it doesn't shine much is on very large coding task. but it is a phenomenal model for small coding tasks and the speed improvement is much welcome
by omnicognate | 2025-10-15 17:59:58+00:00
That's a summary of Godel's theorem, which nobody disputes, not of Penrose's argument that it implies computers cannot emulate human intelligence.

I'm really not trying to evade further discussion. I just don't think I can sum that argument up. It starts with basically "we can perceive the truth not only of any particular Godel statement, but of all Godel statements, in the abstract, so we can't be algorithms because an algorithm can't do that" but it doesn't stop there. The obvious immediate response is to say "what if we don't really perceive its truth but just fool ourselves into thinking we do?" or "what if we do perceive it but we pay for it by also wrongly perceiving many mathematical falsehoods to be true?". Penrose explored these in detail in the original book and then wrote an entire second book devoted solely to discussing every such objection he was aware of. That is the meat of Penrose' argument and it's mostly about how humans perceive mathematical truth, argued from the point of view of a mathematician. I don't even know where to start with summarising it.

For my part, with a vastly smaller mind than his, I think the counterarguments are valid, as are his counter-counterarguments, and the whole thing isn't properly decided and probably won't be for a very long time, if ever. The intellectually neutral position is to accept it as undecided. To "pick a side" as I have done is on some level a leap of faith. That's as true of those taking the view that the human mind is fundamentally algorithmic as it is of me. I don't dispute that their position is internally consistent and could turn out to be correct, but I do find it annoying when they try to say that my view isn't internally consistent and can never be correct. At that point they are denying the leap of faith they are making, and from my point of view their leap of faith is preventing them seeing a beautiful, consistent and human-centric interpretation of our relationship to computers.

I am aware that despite being solidly atheist, this belief (and I acknowledge it as such) of mine puts me in a similar position to those arguing in favour of the supernatural, and I don't really mind the comparison. To be clear, neither Penrose nor I am arguing that anything is beyond nature, rather that nature is beyond computers, but there are analogies and I probably have more sympathy with religious thinkers (while rejecting almost all of their concrete assertions about how the universe works) than most atheists. In short, I do think there is a purely unique and inherently uncopyable aspect to every human mind that is not of the same discrete, finite, perfectly cloneable nature as digital information. You could call it a soul, but I don't think it has anything to do with any supernatural entity, I don't think it's immortal (anything but), I don't think it is separate from the body or in any sense "non-physical", and I think the question of where it "goes to" when we die is meaningless.

I realise I've gone well beyond Penrose' argument and rambled about my own beliefs, apologies for that. As I say, I struggle to summarise this stuff.
by rsync | 2025-10-15 18:00:07+00:00
I believe he is referring to femtocells which have (are ?) given freely to end users who need cellular signal boosting, etc.

Many of these femtocells, historically, could be trivially altered or updated to participate as literal peers on SS7.

I haven't looked into this for many years but there was a time when operating a certain femtocell granted the owner an enormous amount of leverage on the global telecom network ...
by monkmartinez | 2025-10-15 18:00:11+00:00
How do you know you have the right application to open the file? I have tried at least a dozen apps to open *.stl files... some work, most don't. Some have features I need and don't work opening files. Some are sensitive to stl's that require repair and stop working... and I could go on and on for different file types. The point is; sharing isn't "guaranteed" to work across apps and is generally far, far from "it just works". You have almost zero control over the actual files because there might not be a way to save different formats from the app you are using, or the files app doesn't recognize the extension, or you can't find the folder for the other app, or it doesn't have a user accessible folder, or it will not load files from the "files app"... or <insert 50000 more "what if's here>. The whole things just sucks so, so bad.
by cudgy | 2025-10-15 18:00:22+00:00
Interesting how the racial demographics are much less diverse compared to large East Coast cities. For example, there are far fewer African-Americans (5%) percentage wise in San Francisco versus a city like Atlanta (46%) or Philadelphia (40%). In most of these cities, moving out of the neighborhoods where Asians live would actually place you in the worst school districts. The worst schools tend to be in mostly black and latin neighborhoods.
by apparent | 2025-10-15 18:00:28+00:00
When I buy a new laptop and sell my old one, I either have to sell the old one with the charger or keep the charger and sell the old one without. I don't actually have a bunch of spare chargers capable of charging a laptop (phone, sure).

This is especially true for someone moving up to an MBP from an MBA, which takes less juice.
by michaelt | 2025-10-15 18:00:31+00:00
Every time I hear people talking about ensuring software correctness, it reminds me of this story: https://horningtales.blogspot.com/2006/09/exhaustive-testing...

A university group in the 1960s finds a vendor-supplied binary-to-BCD conversion function sometimes produces an off-by-one error.

They devise a simple fix - but find it adds an extra 'drum revolution' and so write an even more refined fix, that produces the right answer without taking any extra time.

Then they test it, over the course of several weeks, counting from 0 to 9,999,999, both in binary and in BCD, converting the binary to BCD, and comparing the results.

They proudly send the perfected implementation to the vendor - who sends it on to other users of the machine. Soon after they receive a phone call: "Were you aware that your new routine drops the sign of negative numbers?"
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-15 18:00:43+00:00
>how many times can you write the same thing "american's are fat"

Until it's fixed. I don't think I need to tell you how many times they will write "[politician bad] regardless of the truth to it.

>there's hardly any scarcity of news reports around health issues like obesity, or cancer either.

Follow the money. Obesity is double, but" fitness" is a billion dollar industry. The message is never "eat less calories and stop subsidizing high fructose corn syrup", it's "buy this new MAGIC pill" or "get swole at the gym near you for $50/month (don't worry you can't cancel easily)" or "try this new diet plan with food we send to you".

Cancee is definitely more news hype though. Any little breadcrumb of progress is another package of "have we finally cracked the code to cancer?!" (Betteridge's law applies here). It is exciting stuff but not how the news frames it.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-15 18:00:44+00:00
> I think a lot of this is because people (and thus LLMs) use verbosity as a signal for effort.

It's also one of the main use-cases for non-programmer use of the models, so there are business-forces against toning it down. Ex: "Make a funny birthday letter for my sister Suzie who's turning 50."
by robenkleene | 2025-10-15 18:00:57+00:00
> I don't think the automation options in MacOS are better than AutoHotKey (even Linux doesn't have something as good).

Did you try Keyboard Maestro https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/ (I've never used AutoHotKey and I'd be super curious if there are deficiencies in KM relative to it, but Keyboard Maestro is, from my perspective, a masterpiece, it's hard to imagine it being any better.)

Also I think this statement needs a stronger defense given macOS includes Shortcuts, Automator, and AppleScript, I don't know much about Windows automation but I've never heard of them having something like AppleScript (that can say, migrate data between applications without using GUI scripting [e.g., iterate through open browser tabs and create todos from each of them operating directly on the application data rather than scripting the UI]).
by john01dav | 2025-10-15 18:00:59+00:00
What I'd like to see is open standards for smart phone software: standard ways to have drivers with a stable ABI and API (the goal here is to decouple specific OSes or kernels from specific hardware, if the drivers are free that's even better but is not needed for this goal), a standard way to write data to the internal drive and to boot from internal and external drives (UEFI could work here), and bootloader locking being a thing of the past. We have this or similiar for desktops and laptops. The result of this is that I can run any of hundreds of options for my OS (any major Linux distribution, various BSD options, Windows, and more) even on very old hardware.
by saltcured | 2025-10-15 18:01:14+00:00
I want to ignore the flame fest developing here. But, in case you are interested in hearing a doubter's perspective, I'll try to express one view. I am not an expert on Penrose's ideas, but see this as a common feature in how others try to sell his work.

Starting with "things he's sure of, such as that human intelligence involves processes that algorithms cannot emulate" as a premise makes the whole thing an exercise in Begging the Question when you try to apply it to explain why an AI won't work.
by markus_zhang | 2025-10-15 18:01:21+00:00
Yeah, e.g. when you have a very short scrollbar and had to guess where it is for more than 5 seconds...I'm kinda grow past that hype, nada, going back to Winux.

It is SUCH a pity that they have extraordinary hardware (even with the price point I'd still consider it a bargin, especially for the air/mini)...
by wizee | 2025-10-15 18:01:23+00:00
Those ratios seem way off if you're referring to the M1 Max and not the base M1. If we use Geekbench CPU performance, the Ryzen 9 7945HX (which is from 2023) is around 12% faster single core and 32% faster multicore than the M1 Max (which is from 2021). If you look at the 2024 M4 Max, it's substantially faster than the Ryzen and Intel you mentioned.

https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/amd-ryzen-9-7945hx

https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-core-ultra-7-...

https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-pro-16-inch-2021-...

https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-pro-16-inch-2024-...
by overgard | 2025-10-15 18:01:29+00:00
I don't think the "I just need to edit things in google drive crowd" overlaps much with the "I want to run a local LLM on a tablet" crowd.

Anyway my point isn't that people shouldn't buy iPads, my point is that it's silly that Apple has hardware that is incredibly capable and is held back entirely by terrible software policies.
by tabbott | 2025-10-15 18:02:07+00:00
They could have made it a setting, with an explanation of the security benefits of it, so that folks who are paranoid can take advantage of it.

A relevant threat scenario is when you're using your phone in a public place. Modern cameras are good enough to read your phone screen from a distance, and it seems totally realistic that a hacked airport camera could email/password/2FA combinations when people log into sites from the airport.

Ideally, you want the workflow to be that you can copy the secret code and paste it, without the code as a whole ever appearing on your screen.
by sublimefire | 2025-10-15 18:02:13+00:00
Without delving into the specifics Ireland already has a defacto UBI. This is subject to you having an address and a social security number. There is a notion of a minimum income you need to make and the State compensates the rest if you do not earn it. It depends on many factors and there are various edge cases. What is more, if you are in the receivership of such provisions you can stand in the line to get subsidised place to live (which is difficult to get mind you).

Some people hate it some abuse it and some do not qualify despite living in the street. But if you know how to navigate the system the income is guaranteed.

It is a bit sad though that some clerks like to abuse the receivers of such payments though, e.g. by inspecting your bank statements and questioning your expenses (true story). So making this whole thing closer to dejure is welcome as it avoids possible abuse.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-15 18:02:29+00:00
You can’t open random file extensions on a computer either unless you have an application that understand the format.

Moving files around works just like on Windows and Macs - cut and paste.

And it has the same semantics as Windows and Macs - if I drag a file from one place to another on the same drive - it moves it. If I drag it to another storage location - ie another hard drive on a computer or another storage provider in Files - iCloud, Google Drive, etc it copies it.

It never ceases to amaze me that when computer “experts” criticize people for not wanting to learn how things work - do the same.
by leakycap | 2025-10-15 18:02:59+00:00
> So, where is the disconnect here?

> I can say with utmost certainty that it isn't 4000x faster

The numbers you provided do not come to 4000x faster (closer to 2400x)

> Why is actual user experience not able to keep up with benchmarks and marketing?

Benchmarks and marketing are very different things, but you seem to be holding them up as similar here.

The 5x 6x 4x numbers you describe across marketing across many years don't even refer to the same thing. You're giving numbers with no context, which implies you're mixing them and the marketing worked because the only thing you're recalling is the big number.

Often, every M-series chip is a HUGE advancement over the past in GPU. Most of the "5x" performance jumps you describe are in graphics processing, and the "Intel" they're comparing it to is often an Intel iGPU like the Iris Xe or UHD series. These were low end trash iGPUs even when Apple launched those Intel devices, so being impressed by 5x performance when the M1 came out was in part because the Intel Macs had such terrible integrated graphics.

The M1 was a giant jump in overall system responsiveness, and the M-series seems to be averaging about a 20% year over year meaningful speed increase. If you use AI/ML/GPU, the M-series yearly upgrade is even better. Otherwise, for most things it's a nice and noticeable bump but not a Intel-to-M1 jump even from M1-to-M4.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-10-15 18:03:07+00:00
No, I have never seen engineering get sales commissions.

I have seen sales people get *recurring* commissions --- where they get a piece of every future sale to a particular client. Even if they have no involvement in the purchase. In extreme cases, they make good money doing nothing.

Engineers never get paid for doing nothing --- because they are not members of the ruling class.
by casey2 | 2025-10-15 18:03:21+00:00
I've never seen an essay intentionally miss the point so hard. Currently people use these systems to generate the same kind of artifacts that traditionally would be written by a human. Since there is such a clear delineation I seen no good reason to make the distinction.

Likewise a person you hire "could" take over the country and start a genocide, but it's rightfully low on your priority list because it's so unlikely that it's effectively impossible. Now an AI being rude or very unhelpul/harmful to your customer is a more pressing concern. And you don't have that confidence with most people either which is why we go through hiring processes.

The statics here are key and AI companies are geniuses at lying with statistics. I could shuffle a dictionary and outputting a random word each time and answer any hard problem. The entire point of AI is that you can do MUCH better than "random". Can anyone tell me which algorithm (this or chatgpt) has a higher likelihood of producing a proof of the RH after n tokens? No, they can't. But chatgpt can generate things in human timescale that look more like proofs than my bruteforce approach so people (investors) give it the benefit of the doubt even if it's not earned and could well be LESS capable than bruteforce as strange as it sounds.
by namanbhalla | 2025-10-15 18:03:43+00:00
An exciting milestone for AI in science: Our C2S-Scale 27B foundation model, built with @Yale and based on Gemma, generated a novel hypothesis about cancer cellular behavior, which scientists experimentally validated in living cells.

With more preclinical and clinical tests, this discovery may reveal a promising new pathway for developing therapies to fight cancer.

- Sundar Pichai
by dathinab | 2025-10-15 18:04:24+00:00
what glazing?

> "evil" or someone who would commit treason or anything like that

is a really low bar

and do you really think you become President of the European Commission by being severely incompetent? If she where as severely incompetent as some media likes to picture she would at best have been complimented away to some mostly irrelevant position, not one of the highest position in the EU organs.
by conductr | 2025-10-15 18:04:29+00:00
I’m using an Apple TV that is connected. My prior setup, with a newish but unconnected Sony Bravo, the remote just passed mic audio data to the Apple TV as if I was using the Apple TV remote

Also, pretty sure it’s undocumented, but I’ve been on a handful of reddits and HN conversations in the past where people are all experiencing this. I think a simplified theory is that they broadcast the WiFi credentials over Bluetooth and other unconnected devices can then get online. I remember one discussion of this theory where the guy found out his TV had connected to his neighbors WiFi somehow and this was a theory in the thread. It’s foil hat type stuff but very believable if you’ve experienced having devices know your WiFi despite having never granting it.

Another theory is similar where the unconnected devices send the connected device data to relay. This would allow the unconnected device to remain stealth, as it wouldn’t appear in your WiFi logs. There’s even a deeper level theory on this one where devices (particularly cheap Chinese toys and gadgets) come preloaded to exploit common vulnerabilities in other devices to establish this relay. Imagine a smart oven or fridge where the manufacturer has no incentive to keep up the firmware for security purposes. So now you have a baby monitor sending data to China through your air fryer’s WiFi connection.
by lawlessone | 2025-10-15 18:04:49+00:00
>I personally have no sympathy for these people whether or not they're victims. You get a choice in life to stand on your morals or allow them to be eroded. If you choose to do something you know is wrong then you are no better than any other person who knowingly commits such acts.

That's nice, but if someone points a weapon at me and tells me to rob people over the phone i'll probably do it.
by MacSourcePorts | 2025-10-15 18:05:00+00:00
Yeah I'm not sure how many ports have a Mac build but no Windows build but generally I find that most of these have a Windows port because everyone has Windows, a Linux port because anyone with a spare PC can run Linux, but no Mac build because either no one on the team has a Mac or "the person who did the Mac build left/disappeared" so I'm trying to be that person for everyone, to some extent.

But yeah if it can run on the Mac it can run on Linux and probably does. There's a few cases where it doesn't go the other way (Skin Deep uses OpenGL 4.3 and the Mac stopped at OpenGL 4.1, that sort of thing)
by sema4hacker | 2025-10-15 18:05:10+00:00
99.99% of artists definitely CAN'T make a living off only their art, but most can survive anyway by some form of other employment. Even though some small degree of government subsidies will always be around to help artists, and perhaps that's a noble principle, I'd just rather see my tax dollars go to health care or trade schools or food banks or child care or disaster relief or Meals On Wheels or medical research or similar efforts to help those in desperate need, instead of to artists choosing to be artists. There's always someone worse off than an artist, through no fault of their own.
by vel0city | 2025-10-15 18:05:24+00:00
> Did those shooting involve someone associated with the school in some way?

I'm sorry, but why does this matter in the end? We're still talking about students being injured and killed in schools by shootings during school hours. Do you think the parents really care that much in the end if the shooter was affiliated with the school or not? You're needlessly splitting hairs. Nobody should be discharging guns anywhere around schools. No student should be worried about getting shot in school. It's absolutely insane to me you're suggesting "but what if the shooter was unaffiliated?" Absolute insanity.

I do agree, it's frustrating there's dozens of different definitions of "school shooting". It would be nice if there were good, solid, government statistics in this regard. But one party has consistently fought against the government having a standardized method of reporting and studying such incidents. I wonder which party.

You know what though? Most of the developed world doesn't have to worry about the myriad of different definitions, because for all those definitions the yearly average is damn near zero, not 30 or 90 or whatever.