skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Siri what is my blood glucose level?" during the Apple Watch (offline on-device Siri) section was a fake tease.
The hard part about making a new P2P protocol is that first you have to invent the internet.
Which is a lot of the people who have bought new vehicles in the last 5+ years. And I can't think of any way to work around it that wouldn't (or at least couldn't) be some horrendous kludge which probably wouldn't work very well.

I'd never say never obviously but dropping ports entirely would have to be a terrible decision anytime soon. (And one wonders what assurances Apple has made to auto manufacturers adopting CarPlay.)
Looks like that's a prion disease, then.
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The Anova Precision Oven is one, it goes as low as 77F (25C).
I really wish Apple let's you develop apps on Linux/iPad/iPhone.
The only default that works on all platforms is a TCP socket. We can't write to unix socket file by default because the path to the socket needs to be writable, and there's no single default that has any guarantee to work. So it needs to be dictated by config in some way or another. It's better for it to actually work by default than possibly not work because of a bad default.
Almost creepily robotic and zuck-like
And they will likely have to enable side-loading in the EU next year, which will allow us to play almost all retro games through emulation.
But is Apple going to sell a Lightning to USB-C adapter? What the hell am I going to do with all of my lightning cables????

UPDATE: Okay, that was a tongue-in-cheek comment but Apple is doing the most Apple possible thing: they really are going to sell a $29 (?!) adapter that will allow you to use your Lightning charging cables to charge the new USB-C iPhones:

https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/12/apple-usb-c-to-lightning-adap...
That was one of the more realistic complaints about the vision pro, "why would you take photos with it instead of experiencing the moment directly". A few people suggested that the iPhone will probably come into the equation, and it seems they were correct in that thinking (the timings suggest Apple had it planned this way.)
plus, you can use an external higher-quality DAC...
>Every year the bloody product looks great and then the next year it somehow is even better

It's literally the same design since the iphone 11.

You need to see them side by side to notice the difference but any other user won't be able to tell at a glace that you own the 15 and not an older model.
Would be interesting to see how it can use a larger screen. Definitely the phone is powerful enough for most tasks.
Agreed, the interesting part isn't that hot water exists, it's that given the widespread existence of hot water so many people still insist on exclusively showering with cold water.

I'm not even saying that bounds checking should be used everywhere, just that it really does seem like unsafe shouldn't be the default for so many projects.
I recently set it to a screen grab of a frame of Marrakesh from Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much

https://imgur.com/a/1WObuO9
I'm assuming you got a really heavy discount anyway so don't feel bad.

The big standouts are camera enhancements and (significant) GPU enhancements for gaming.
Umami overcame discrimination and took its place as the 5th taste
The 'article' is a press release on a vendor's site. Are you expecting objectivity?
If you think of the worse ID you can spell with the full alphabet next, please don't write it here :)
Doesn't do anythign for the millions of people (self included) that already own a car with wired carplay.
Free games generally have ads. The revenue calculation isn't for sales revenue, it's for all revenue.
I think Apple missed the boat on LLMs and was surprised by the success of ChatGPT.

They are no doubt working on an LLM-based Siri now, but they don't rush things, and they don't preannounce things, so we'll only hear about it once it is ready. And they are probably going to use a different term for marketing it rather than using a generic term like LLM.
I've been using Django for a number of years now and it's my go-to for any web app that requires any kind of dynamic content (especially user generated). DRF similarly for any REST related work fits in perfectly, but aside from that it's really refreshing to have a framework which doesn't require a tonne of other dependencies to get something decent off the ground.
The best part about smaller bezels is that you can always buy a protective case that adds more bezel. Inversely, large bezels never get smaller.
I don't think translation is a great use case for ChatGPT and LLAMA. These models are overwhelmingly trained on English, and LLAMA2 which should have more data from other languages is still focused on languages w/ Latin/Cyrillic characters (so won't work well for Arabic, Hebrew, or CJK languages).

You're better off using models specialized in translation; General purpose LLMs are more useful when fine-tuning on specific tasks (some form of extraction, summarization, generative tasks, etc.), or for general chatbot-like uses.
I have a slideshow of natural scenes and fantasy art that I occasionally add too.
only if you want to charge things one by one ...
You don't need the best value, you just need sufficient value.
Huh. We use it in our car and it works OK. I do know other with the car who have issues with lag however.

Slow charging though... that seems orthogonal?
> - and yes, I miss the damn stereo connector which allowed me to charge the phone while playing audio without dealing with bluetooth.

Fair, though it is some consolation that you can charge wirelessly while using a USB-C to headphone adapter.
It's software plus cameras, they're stitching together video from various focal lengths. I don't think the non-Pro Max models will ever be able to do it.
I don't know. My parents made me learn how to play piano as a child (well, they didn't force me, but let me understand that they really wanted it) and as a result I was completely uninterested in piano and classical music in general for a long time. Somehow the stuff you grow up with always becomes uninteresting until maybe later into the adulthood.
I remember the days when every single device had a different cable to connect/power (looking at you sony laptops and cameras). Apple has always been one of the better companies for limited unneeded changes.
Our sun isn't massive enough to supernova, thankfully.
See this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37458686

Scryer Prolog can now run on WASM and in browser, client side.
It’s no coincidence that Intel just released info on thunderbolt 5 spec yesterday. How much money could it really add to goto the next usb? Is there some kind of hardware design he’ll going on behind the scenes
> Swarm’s of Jenkins is what most are used to in the enterprise.

Thanks, I thought we were one of the last places with that setup, nice to know this unholy contraption is actually somewhat standard.
I don't think Apple will ever do that, to be honest. It took nearly a decade for them to get keyboard support working properly on the iPad, and they have zero incentive to copy Samsung DeX given they prefer to sell 3 different devices to people.

What they will do is allow you to record video directly to storage devices and preview photos on large displays as they are taken.
Yes, if you're just using Llama 2 off the shelf (without fine-tuning) I don't think there are a lot of workloads where it makes sense as a replacement for GPT-3.5. The one exception being for organizations where data security is non-negotiable and they really need to host on-prem. The calculus changes drastically though when you bring fine-tuning in, which lets a much smaller model outperform a larger one on many classes of task.

Also, it's worth noting that Replicate started out with a focus on image generation, and their current inference stack for LLMs is extremely inefficient. A significant fraction of the 100x cost difference you mentioned can be made up by using an optimized inference server like vLLM. Replicate knows about this and is working hard on improving their stack, it's just really early for all of us. :)
Cool. Let us software guys know when we get computers that are 1000x faster so we can write the next language/framework that is 1000x slower.
It can be controversial, but is done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_challenge_study
It does however pair very nicely with popular console controllers
Apple's continued focus on gaming image quality is weird (ray tracing?), since despite Apple Arcade the mobile market still is still dominated by freemium games with simple graphics / lower graphical requirements.

There are precisely two freemium games that take advantage of the power of the Apple Silicon chips: Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail, which were coincidently the two released games highlighted. (it may be interesting to see what Ubisoft and Capcom put out but the I suspect they'll price their games too high)

It bodes well for a M3 Pro chip for the next MacBook Pros, though.
It works really well with a PS5 controller, and they make controllers that snap on the sides too.
Very nice, thanks!

Check out what Matt Shumer put together as well: https://github.com/mshumer/gpt-llm-trainer.

I have used his trainer for auto distillation of GPT-4 into GPT3.5 fine tunes, but plan to do the same for Llama as well.

Cheers!
> Just look how finance people manage each other.

Isn't finance in general a dystopian hellscape?
Hey, It's me. Did I wake you from your depression nap?
usb c is garbage. It may be common, but it has atrocious compatibility. It's less durable than lightning , and hard to plug in.

Thank European socialists for imposing a worse product on everyone.
> 45 euros for a network jack that comes standard on any old laptop?!

Maybe I've been buying some strange laptops, but I haven't had a network jack standard on a laptop in more than a decade (and no, they weren't all Apple laptops).

> Connecting a keyboard just is not possible without disconnecting your mouse

I really don't get this. Isn't the most common use case for a mouse/keyboard on a laptop when you're at your desk? What's wrong with leaving your mouse and keyboard (and anything else you only use at the desk) into some sort of dock or hub, and then plugging just that single thing into the laptop when you sit down at the desk? Personally I'd find that preferable; better to only have to plug/unplug one thing when switching between stationary and mobile.

Or do people actually carry around a keyboard and mouse with them wherever they go, and want to use them at coffee shops or wherever you're laptop'ing on the go? Even then, if you're carrying around the bulk of a keyboard and mouse, it hardly seems like a burden to carry around a small USB hub to go with it.

I also just don't get the constant need for so many ports. I have the Framework 13 (four ports), and 95% of the time the only thing plugged into it is a USB-C cable for charging. I get that people use laptops in many different ways, but it seems a little weird to get all worked up about "only" having six ports on the Framework 16. I mean, look at its physical layout! You're not going to get more than six ports without some serious compromises in physical form factor and board design (they'd probably need daughter boards with internal cables to the main board to service any more ports).

The Framework laptop is not for you, and that's ok! It's perfectly usable port-wise for many, many, many people, and your excessive port needs are not all that common.
The increased prices are retroactive which means if you agreed to one payment model you will be forced into paying another even if you finished your game 10 years ago.
Is this related to ball lightning? My mother witnessed that once - a glowing ball slowly moving through the kitchen.
Except, different religions have different needs. A synagogue needs a place to store the torah scrolls. A mosque needs a place for ablutions, prayer rugs, and to separate the men from the women. Different christian churches baptize differently and so have different needs around that rite. Some needs a font in the ground where people can be immersed, while others do sprinkling and just need a bowl of water. And those are just a tiny fraction of the surface level differences.

What you are saying is that any large open space could function for any sport. But that ignores how football teams need goal posts and a field that is a specific size and needs specific markings on the ground. And a soccer field is a different size and needs soccer goals. And basketball needs a hardwood floor and hoops that are certain distance apart and special markings on the ground. And bowling needs lanes and balls and pins. And tennis needs something else. And so on and so forth.

Religions are far far far more complex than any sport and no large open space could function any more than any large open space could function for all sports.
Those are very fair points. (Also acknowledging the sister comment that the particular adapters in my link are charge-only and wouldn't be helpful for your situation). What I find annoying is that lighting cables are rent-seeking proprietary Apple tech, and not even universally used in their own product. Apple already on their own makes people have to re-buy peripherals when they change standards, so it's not like they have a high ground.

And since you bring it up, I do actually hope that the USB-C form factor connector winds up being a permanent connector. Consider: AC mains power connector form factors, while they vary from country to country, are basically "finished" and don't have to keep getting revised every half decade. USB-C has proven to be tremendously scalable and imo is good enough that it could well be the final form for its use case for the foreseeable future.
This kind of intuition is why a high school level statistics or probability class seems so so valuable. I know not everyone will use the math per se, but the concepts apply to everyday life and are really hard to just grasp without having been taught it at some point.
nope - welcome to peer review where everything's made up and the points don't matter.

note: some venues have a rebuttal phase which 99% doesn't make a difference anyway but this one didn't.

note2: if you're thinking i got rejected for some other reason: i got (weak accept, accept, reject) and the lone reject came from the wackadoodle. btw how does (weak accept+accept+reject) == reject? see my earlier comment about how the scores don't matter - i emailed the PC and they said they use the scores to resolve a failure to come to a consensus by the reviewers (which is 180deg the opposite of how a scoring system is used - scoring systems "objectively" measure and then humans break ties).

note3: this isn't a podunk conference - it's a big name, prestigious conference.
localized... Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Libya, Egypt

and that's just this storm. a lot of other countries in Europe got hit by severe floods earlier. it's definitely been a weird summer and not business as usual
Could Apple perhaps sell you a $99 wireless wired CarPlay dongle?

Maybe $199?
Aw look, you're making the old 30-pin charger blush now.
That prediction always seemed premature to me. Wireless charging still can't compete with USB fast charging for speed, and cables are more portable then even the sleekest wireless chargers. While I imagine Apple will ditch cables as soon as they think it's feasible, I just don't think that's going to happen for at least a few more years.
Around these parts it's more like a few hours to a few days but it is still a fair point. One answer would be to build and support more places, enough for everyone to enjoy.
redo the math for an indie with Unity Personal and a sudden hit with 250k sales

Units Sold: 250000
Gross Sales: $1 247 500

Steam Fees:
$0-10M (30%): $374 250

Unity Fees (personal or plus):
250 000 : $50 000

Net Sales: 823 250

Now it's more or less 6%, and that's before development costs and taxes.

It's a big bite for something that's impossible to code out of the project.

Imagine if Oracle charged a dollar every time someone ran your software the first time on the JRE in that machine. installation on a new machine? pay again. Old customer reinstalls the JRE? pay again. main executable or JRE update? pay again.

Not so funny anymore.
I don't wear a mask, but you should not judge. Probably some are people at a higher risk than you are - they might look "normal" and alright, but they don't have to tell you if they have heart diseases, diabetes or whatever.
Does it record video?
The whole thing felt they were milking it to last 90min.

But the part where they compared their new GPU accelerated ray-tracing to be 4x faster than software ray-tracing was the most hilarious part. I thought software rendering was a thing that mostly stayed in the 90s, but apparently I was wrong enough that even deserved to be mentioned in a multi-million dollar Apple presentation.

New iPhone, better than the old one. OK cool.
To me this is a signal of reusing the GPU innovations that were required for the Vision Pro in currently available products and then finding a martket for it (gaming)
USB 2.0 on a 1000$ phone in 2023 is a bad joke. Boring update, both this and the pro but of course it will sell millions.
> Was it not in the 13" version or do I really just misremember that it's not there?

It's built into the 13" version as well.

> when you buy, y'know, any other laptop for half the price

Reading some of your comments here, you seem to have a huge misconception about the point of these laptops, and who they are for. If you are price sensitive, you are probably not going to buy a Framework laptop. They are not trying to compete with the $700-$1000 range of laptops.

If you are the kind of person who routinely uses most or all of the 10 various ports present on some laptops with fixed ports, this laptop is probably not for you. Most people do not need all those ports. Four or six ports is generally fine for most people, and it's a bonus that the Framework lets them customize what those ports do.

You seem to be constantly arguing about these shortcomings, when they are not in fact shortcomings to most people. Please... let it go?
Well yeah but that's a trivial problem to solve by just getting a case/attachment with gaming controls on it, like the Razer Kishi.
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Even crazier - outside US its massively easier to find usbc cable compared to lightning. I hope those frequent days when some (usually the same but now always) colleague is running desperately around the office interrupting everybody looking for one will be finally over.
Yeah I have noticed youtube search is bad - the only time it gives me what I want is if I search for something I have watched previously - Discovery is totally useless.
You might want to investigate MUDs ('Multiple User Dungeons') more closely. The rules of the game define the locations and items and such, but the character dialogue is between real people. By substituting LLMs for real players within the game, you may be able to enforce a greater level of consistency (the LLMs can't break the rules) and context (the MUD can usually describe one's entire state, which would allow you to prompt your LLM at the beginning of each turn with all the important facts).

I don't really have enough patience for MUDs myself, but they are a continually popular form of role-playing game since they were invented over 50 years ago.
you'll still need to buy proper cables because of compatibility issues.
Only Apple can make people clap and screech for introducing a freaking charging port - USB C. :)
They need to keep USB-C until they figure out another way to transfer large ProRes videos from the iPhone. Wifi is just too slow.
I have a feeling that he wasn't carrying the USB-C cable because he expected some kind of guerilla-connector-change suddenly on the iPhone in his pocket, but it is being used with another device.
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Heat pumps suffer from some issues that I believe can be solved from a policy point's of view.

Heat pumps aren't that powerful. To enjoy it to its fullest you must have a well-insulated house, and ideally low-temperature floor heating.

That way the insulation and floor's volume provide the buffer for when your heat pump is defrosting.

So getting a heat pump without insulation is not smart.

Then there's the cost. A gas heater is 3 times as cheap, and for that price, 3 times as expensive.

Lastly, there's the issue of when it's really cold and the heat pump cannot extract heat from the outside air (this is much less a problem when you have an water to water heat pump, but they are significantly more expensive). Then the thing just runs on electricity. And that can be VERY expensive in certain parts of the worlds.

So we need incentives for insulation first. Then heat pumps. And probably electricity plans that a cold month isn't insanely more expensive.
If there's literally no downside for him to wearing a mask, why do you even care?
iOS 17 was already announced earlier this year. Should be released fully this fall.
I mean yeah obviously thermodynamics aren't being violated, I think the base idea is that the background noise you're harvesting from was going to be lost as inverse square law losses anyway. Large amounts of sensors would ultimately be as a whole coupled to antennae broadcasting on those frequencies, damping them, and causing the gain circuits to automatically increase output power.
USB-C came out after lighting connector, 30 pin connector was at the end of the life when it came out. Apple didn't have a good choice.
How would you connect your iPhone to HDMI for example?
Port charging is faster and more efficient than magsafe.
The USB-C data transfer speed is great for data exchange. It is, afterall the "Pro" model.
Yes, of course. I meant for iPhone 14 Pro. I wonder if they will release the feature there as well or restrict it artificially.
One of the features of my S10 I ended up loving is the ability to charge my (wirelessly chargeable) headphones via my S10 which can act as a wireless charger
Is it though? The promise of gaming on iPhone (and mobile gaming in general) has been taken over and destroyed by freemium games whose only goal is to push microtransactions. What is a marginally better GPU going to accomplish? Help games sell me their "bundle of gems" faster?

Developers simply do not have the incentive to build any other kinds of games when the current crop of addictive shovelware is so damn profitable. The sad part is that Apple encourages this practice because it is easy money for them (via their 30% cut). The problem needs to be fixed by better quality control and transaction/gambling rules, not a faster processor.
> if you read the comment closely it was saying that supercars were defined by acceleration and handling

> sports car community

> as sports cars slowly become like horses

can you see how I might have been confused that the comment was about sports cars?

> supercars were defined by acceleration and handling, but now acceleration is no longer their forte.

I would argue that their forte is (usually) being fast around a track, and that acceleration and handling are just aspects of a complete system, subject to engineering tradeoffs like anything else. When we evaluate through that lens, ICE/hybrid supercars are doing just fine.