skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Soon it will stop upgrading the OS and then the apps will stop working and then AppStore itself will stop working as well. Apple services will stop working as well.

I have a perfectly good Mac mini (32gb ram, intel based) but after I’ve updated the iOS on my iPhone the account stopped working on Mac mini. It says I need to upgrade the OS in order to use apple services(I.e iCloud, mail etc) but there is no OS upgrade option for the old Mac mini
iPad sales have been stagnant for over a decade now, and they were bringing in 30B in revenue in 2012. You're correct that these devices weren't designed for some people — Which is why they aren't buying them.

And why I'm suggesting they start making what the people want.
For most businesses, you shouldn’t offer a free product at all, unless your solution’s success relies on becoming a popular ecosystem.
Could an individual of ill-repute freely download the source containing the EE and edit it to turn off checks for KEYGEN_EDITION and KEYFEN_MODE? Obviously you have license protection against them redistributing the modified version but would anything practical prevent them from running it themselves?
They just have #1 mobile OS, #1 online office suite, #1 scientific AI, #1 autonomous cars, but our man
hehhdhdjehehegwv is not impressed...

From the makers of "founder of #1 rocket company and #1 ev company just got lucky"
I’m a high school classroom teacher and I use the iPad Pro for note taking, and sometimes AR to visualize systems of linear equations in 3D using Geogebra. I use Desmos all the time for 2D stuff as well.

All of that can be done on a non-pro device but I got the pro for the screen. Having a 13” screen with a high refresh rate is huge. Last year I asked the school to buy me an iPad because I didn’t like that I was using my personal device for professional use. But they bought a base model with a small 60hz screen. I find it completely unusable and haven’t touched it since I loaded my note taking software on it. Now it’s a glorified timer for exams.
Can we get a link to a real AI person taking about GPT-4o instead of Altman? Altman is just an opportunist.
People always say tech workers are all white guys -- it's such a bizarre delusion, because if you've ever actually seen software engineers at most companies, a majority of them are not white. Not to mention that product/project managers, designers, and QA are all intimately involved in these projects, and in my experience those departments tend to have a much higher ratio of women.

Even beside that though -- it's patently ridiculous to suggest that these devices would perform worse with an Asian man who speaks fluent English and was born in California. Or a white woman from the Bay Area. Or a white man from Massachusetts.

You kind of have a point about tech being the product of the culture in which it was produced, but the needless exaggerated references to gender and race undermine it.
I suspect they want to expand the apple control of ios/ipados to the mac, instead of the user control of macos to ios/ipados (and the commercial non-control).

I don't like it. My purchasing habits wrt apple products has diminished and is now near zero.

Without their nonsense, I would purchase mac products without thinking as a trusted tool.
I'm not out west so I haven't heard about it happening there too.
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It’s not though unless it’s reused a great deal. Making paper is intense and requires a LOT of water and chemicals.

We should really look for more lower hanging common sense solutions.

Let me give you one… the boxes that are used to transport food to a grocery store are all crushed and go back into the recycling system as bundles. Why aren’t we sending boxes that can be used in place of paper and plastic bags? It would immediately offset a lot of purchases that require bags.

Costco does it. Sam’s Club sometimes too. But manufacturers don’t make boxes designed for the purpose of a second use before recycling, and the vast majority of stores don’t offer it.

That would take a waste stream and give it a second use before being recycled.

Simple, common sense solutions like this one are all around us but we keep looking for a “solution” rather than an “improvement.”
I think they have to for the demo, because otherwise GPT will ramble for roughly 3-5 paragraphs. But that's a fair point that this could teach that behavior.
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,
There's a land that's fair and bright,
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night
Where the boxcars all are empty
And the sun shines every day
On the birds and the bees
And the cigarette trees
The lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
All the cops have wooden legs
And the bulldogs all have rubber teeth
And the hens lay soft-boiled eggs
The farmers' trees are full of fruit
And the barns are full of hay
Oh I'm bound to go
Where there ain't no snow
Where the rain don't fall
The wind don't blow
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
You never change your socks
And the little streams of alcohol
Come trickling down the rocks
The brakemen have to tip their hats
And the railroad bulls are blind
There's a lake of stew
And of whiskey, too
You can paddle all around 'em
In a big canoe
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains,
The jails are made of tin
And you can walk right out again,
As soon as you are in
There ain't no short-handled shovels,
No axes, saws or picks,
I'ma goin' to stay
Where you sleep all day,
Where they hung the Turk
That invented work
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

- Harry McClintock (1895, recorded 1928, Roud Folk Song Index number 6696)
Emotions are an axiom to convey feelings, but also our sensitivity to human emotions can be a vector for manipulation.

Especially when you consider the bottom line that this tech will be ultimately be horned into advertising somehow (read: the field dedicated to manipulating you into buying shit).

This whole fucking thing bothers me.
Just applied! :)
Think about it this way - without AirTags and with AirTags + anti-stalking, your bike theft scenario is unchanged. Without airtags and with AirTags without anti-stalking, your personal safety scenario is worse. Those are the discussions I remember when I worked on CoreLocation at Apple. It had nothing to do with running the numbers, at least pre-development. I would be slightly surprised if someone tried to put numbers to that - Apple is pretty values-based when it comes to those kinds of decisions.

The stalking issues go well beyond personal safety. Police officers, judges, politicians and cops who now have to worry about someone chucking a $25 airtag in their car which is much easier to do innocuously and those people have power to craft regulations and laws. Abortion rights are even more contentious now & stalking comes up there.

There just isn't a scenario where opting in the entire world-wide smartphone community into enabling mass stalking at a never before price point is a net positive - there just aren't enough poor people with stolen bikes to shift that equation. There's a reason AirTags destroyed Tile - Tile's network is laughably small & would always be that way compared with the reach you get at the OS level. That drastically shifts the threat model.
Duh? Cost of living here is spiraling out of control and housing is the biggest line item. But it's going to take something big and heavy (like federal intervention) to fix it.
I've never heard of it not being required. What cases can it be avoided?
> what's the point of the script?

For starters, not having to indent every line with a tab, put backslashes at the end of each line, or double every $ sigil in the script. Being able to transparently replace it with perl or python or some other non-shell-script is an occasional bonus.
They are personifying the agent, that is all. Also a fairly common way to fill the air as your formulate a real question.
They tried that with Stage Manager and it's a mess.
> "plátano" is only commonly used in Spain

The wiktionary page for "plátano" has a map illustrating how various Spanish-speaking countries refer to the banana.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pl%C3%A1tano#/media/File:Porp...

My principal association with plátano is plaintain, personally, but I am not a Spanish speaker.
I'm pretty sure I've read on his blog that the site name is indeed taken from a spell in an Infocom text adventure, but I can't remember where he wrote that.
Lack of background apps alone kills remoting via SSH.

Another gripe I have is lack of keyboard shortcut consistency. MacOS apps are encouraged through the API and defaults to provide keyboard shortcuts for all actions. On iOS most Apps don't implement them at all. Gmail app is the worst example.

Copy paste is clumsy as well.
Women aren't in NSFW discords and subreddits - as you probably know, any "topical" social media forum of any kind is mostly men.

They're using Replika and other platforms that aren't social. When they do use a social platform it has more plausible deniability - book fans on TikTok is one, they're actually there for the sex scenes.
Review of a City on Mars (Part I)
I remember reading about airports wanting passengers to disable their airtags.

I wonder if they would find a way to use this to disable ALL the airtags in an area.

For example, put a UAL airtag on a plane, and use that to disable all the other airtags.
It's not online but stacher works quite well for my needs as a GUI wrapper for yt dlp.

https://stacher.io/
Showing Up to School in Your Underwear
Yeah, but it's an uninteresting test. As others point out, 32-bit XXH3 has the same issue. It wouldn't surprise me if 32-bit AES did too. It has nothing to do with the quality of the hash algorithm & more to do with the fact that you're not building a perfect hash with such a small hash size.
I do believe in this. I had this experience last year where I suddenly started thinking of a pillow product I had first seen 5 years before (and had never looked into since then).

In the following days, I started noticing the ads for that product everywhere -- in the physical world! Not online, not in my browsing, but in shops and buses and street signs.

Got me wondering which came first, the ads, or me thinking of the product? Probably the ads....
Here's a citation: Apple still refuses allowing multiple profiles on iPad.
> simplified hypothesis

There's no hypothesizing at this point. Neurons have been studied in the lab since – checks notes – 1873. Modern neural nets have largely taken Occam's Razor rather than precise biomimicry, mostly due to 'The Bitter Lesson' that basic neural networks show more generalizable emergent behaviors when scaled vs being clever about it. e.g., dendrites themselves have been shown to behave something like a multilayer perceptron on their own. So it's really perceptrons all the way down when it comes to brain circuitry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golgi%27s_method

> electrical current flow or gears

Perceptrons were built to be mathematical models of neurons. When gears or 'electricity' were first created/harnessed, there was no intention to build a model of the mind or to mimic neurons whatsoever. There really is no weight to this argument.

> Declaring that the problem is basically solved

I'm not making that declaration for whatever you might be terming 'the problem' here. I'm just stating that 'understanding' is still (incorrectly) rooted in our belief that our means of computation is exceptional. As far as anyone can tell, 'understanding' isn't substrate dependent, and as far as we know, our 'understanding' comes from neuronal computation.
Am not a Coder :-P
According to my test, xxhash-rust does have significant edge over TwoX-Hash. However, it is still slower than GxHash.

gxhash
| 4 > 8300.74
| 8 > 16684.68
| 16 > 33121.69
| 32 > 38146.97
| 64 > 57805.72
| 128 > 49712.76
| 256 > 69277.29
| 512 > 88315.11
| 1024 > 97135.29
| 2048 > 98200.60
| 4096 > 104709.01
| 8192 > 108988.86
| 16384 > 110630.70
| 32768 > 111406.96

xxhash (twox_hash)
| 4 > 1291.20
| 8 > 2579.19
| 16 > 6029.70
| 32 > 10281.18
| 64 > 15950.47
| 128 > 22031.84
| 256 > 17929.12
| 512 > 20728.87
| 1024 > 21683.24
| 2048 > 21679.94
| 4096 > 21732.89
| 8192 > 21748.57
| 16384 > 21534.84
| 32768 > 21703.27

xxhash (xxhash-rust)
| 4 > 1968.26
| 8 > 3946.71
| 16 > 8030.94
| 32 > 13099.80
| 64 > 19073.49
| 128 > 23469.46
| 256 > 22909.73
| 512 > 33117.15
| 1024 > 42467.53
| 2048 > 54638.44
| 4096 > 63193.78
| 8192 > 68677.38
| 16384 > 71658.92
| 32768 > 71421.18
I think they've done the math on this one. They very heavily segment the market and most Apple users own several Apple devices. They fundamentally don't believe in the idea of one device being all things. This is also why their laptops don't have touchscreens.

I also don't think you can't bring all this to a device like an iPad and not alienate part of the existing market.
> Something I’ve noticed people do more of recently for whatever reason is talking over others.

I've noticed this as well and I posit this is a result of increased use of remote communication and meetings platforms such as zoom since 2020.

My inclination is that the behavior will not correlate with interrupting chatgpt or siri. Seems totally separate to me.
Very interesting. I'll have to look into this more.

It's disheartening to see the evolution of America. In the early 20th century, America was almost a socialist republic with a lot of pro-socialist ideas, policies, trends, etc. But then America morphed into this anti-socialist and anti-communist fervor. But now, many Americans openly and proudly support Russia. Companies and the government sold American manufacturing and supply chains to China.

And now, private equity owns America. America has been bought and sold. Even private equity has installed itself in the government All of the politicans and judges who probably couldn't even win their high school student council races now serve as senators, congressmen, and Supreme Court justices. It's not far fetched that they serve those who paid their way to election and appointment.

Finding the exact number is hard, but apparently private equity owns about 10-25% of all residential homes (determining the actual number seems quite slippery and in need of far more in depth research). These are homes. It's all sickening.

None of these people and now our government care about anything other than a spreadsheet that says they are worth more than they were last year. It's not hard to imagine the negative downstream effects that has on society.

Edit: Removed incorrect number from an incorrect headline.
this is a good question.

1) i don't really have anything to hide / i'm not doing crimes

however i also:

2) don't want to give my unlocked phone to a border force so they can download my entire life

but if i am compelled to unlock a blank phone to a border force:

3) they will suspect me of doing crimes
When I was about 8 years old I can remember walking into the office at home this game was on the screen. One of the fighters was flying towards an airstrip and I thought I'd helpfully land it, I crashed. Turns out dad had it on autopilot to return to home after some mission which he had to repeat thanks to me :)
“Our sexy, lean mice who ate high-protein, low-carb diets were the shortest lived of all,” the scientists wrote in 2014. “They made great-looking middle-aged corpses.”

Why would you expect the optimal macro nutrient ratios in mice to predict those of humans? We don't expect them to be consistent even across simians let alone primates let alone mammalia. Don't, for instance, try eating what a gorilla does.
You are generally correct, however there are workloads that do use larger portions of a supercomputer that wouldn't be feasible on smaller systems.

Also, I guess I'm not sure what you mean by "smaller systems that focus more on power/cost/space". A proper queueing system generally efficiently allocates the resources of a large supercomputer to smaller tasks, while also making larger tasks possible in the first place. And I imagine there's somewhat an efficiency of scale in a large installation like this.

There are, of course, many many smaller supercomputers, such as at most medium to large universities. But even those often have 10-50k cores or so.

(In general, efficiency is a consideration when building/running, but not of using. Scientists want the most computational power they can get, power usage be damned :) )

edit: A related topic is capacity vs. capability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer#Capability_versu...
Google and HP try to bridge remote worker gap with Project Starline
Once you give governments power for security purposes, to “save the children,” or to “prevent terrorism,” they will use it for any purpose they please.

It all started in the US with the patriot act after September 11th, and now we have warrantless, wholesale spying as a completely normalized reality 23 years later and absolutely no expectation of privacy for citizens.

Their track record across the world is pretty consistent.
Please just let me run macOS apps and I’ll buy one tonight.

I’d even pay a software unlock for it. It’s the perfect convergence device if only Apple would let it be.
It's 2024 and Drought is Optional
Life is so good that we get bored, so we get upset at things that are perfectly fine because we know we can control how we feel and stop at any time.

Hardship keeps people busy, boredom forces people into drama.
It’s an interesting thought. China, at least in the late 20th C, offered many western travellers a glimpse into this idea whereby a local would realise they don’t speak their language and then attempt to make the characters to the westerner.

With that said, alphabetic writing is an indirection whereby the writing stands for sounds which stand for the objects. Logographic writing can copy grammars but the symbols can be read as the objects themselves.

I think it’s a simpler form of communication in some ways and if you were ever going to invent new characters when your language is “complete” you would probably do it in this manner.
Stage Manager doesn’t really address any of the issues raised by the article.
And vice-versa! Please :)
> Or when someone asks a question like "what's the forecast for q3" and the responder almost always starts with "Thanks for asking! The forecast for q3 is...".

That's a useful skill for conference calls (or talks) because people might want to quote your answer verbatim, or they might not have heard the question.
We, as society could easily "figure it out", but there are so many misaligned incentives for those that are in charge or in power.

Why build more housing when it would only work against the value of your own properties? Why give out free food that's "spoiling" when you risk getting sued for potential food poisoning?

Rules are made up in the name of "safety", and they pass because yes there's an element of truth, but what goes unsaid is that much of the time it's maintaining the status quo and blocking competition.
If you are talking about chemical processes, that's not economically practical. It only happens in the lab, not in the real world.
I watched the demo, to be honest if I saw it sooner I probably would have tried to start this as a fork from there. Any idea what the issue was?
> And why I'm suggesting they start making what the people want.

No it's what you want. The people have spoken. Nobody is buying Dex. Everyone is buying iPads.

There is little to no demand for turning the iPad into some tablet-computer hybrid.
iPad Ultra [mode or device].
That's what I enjoy most about watching foreign movies. They can have the big budget but not the same 10 actors over and over.
https://ssheasy.com/ ?
That's a partial equilibrium solution - natural selection will cause people to evolve around this danger.
Fair point. When there is proof (as there is with your example), it is a different story. But unsubstantiated claims? Still judging, by way of wanting proof.
It is happening, and has been for a long time. When my first daughter was a baby, so around 2015, my wife and I were discussing options for helping her prop herself up, and came up with the idea (on our own, as far as I know) that a horseshoe shaped pillow would be perfect. I picked up my phone, opened the Amazon app, and typed the letter "h". The app autocompleted "horseshoe shaped pillow" based on just the one letter.
A good solution while it remains legal and backups remain unreachable authorities.

Are they unreachable? How sure are you? Aren’t you just raising suspicion and acting like a criminal by walking around with wiped devices at International borders? Seems suspicious.
That looks really close to be a useful farm hand. $16k for a device that can dig a trench, spread mulch, pick weeds, and harvest stuff off the ground would be pretty awesome.
> You don’t need their permission if… the people in the picture are participating in a public gathering, parade or similar event, and they are not the focus of the photo

The third picture focuses on an individual.
Multitasking for pro users doesn’t generate more recurring subscription revenue, which is the only thing Apple cares about now, because it’s the only way for the company to grow their overall revenue.

Everyone who is going to have an iPhone or iPad already has one.
Thank you! This is a high value effort!
> travel to oppressive counties

Thats pretty much all of them now.
It's not a difficult answer—I bring a burner phone with me when traveling internationally because I don't want to run any risk of a thief getting the keys to the kingdom. Sure, I could remote wipe if that happened, but it feels a lot safer to just not have a phone with real data on it at all.

You're not the first person they've detained who didn't want to bring their real phone with them for totally innocent reasons.
granted, I think they've invested so much into trackpad quality and software support, so much so that I think touchpad Macs are moot. On a PC laptop, where the trackpad is lowest bidder/afterthought, yeah, it kinda sorta makes sense but Mac touchpads are basically touchscreens without having to lift your arms.
>Short it then

Many stocks are simultaneously terrible short and long positions to hold as an individual investor.
Try getting GPT to draw pictures of Mohammed and it gets pretty scared.
I think Ezra Klein's continual theme of loneliness is undermined by that time he wrote a Vox article basically saying we should make it illegal to have sex. (https://www.vox.com/2014/10/13/6966847/yes-means-yes-is-a-te...)

It is interesting that he's basically trying to theme himself as Mr. Rogers though.
> Artificial neural networks have departed any biologic principles.

ANNs are perceptrons. Perceptrons mimic biologic principles.
No, this isn't it. People aren't mad at the people dehumanising them. In fact people celebrate those people en mass.

Facebook, Google, etc. would all disappear if what you said were true. Politicians would be voted out, etc.

The truth is, people don't mind being dehumanised if it can make them feel more like their neighbours, or even better, above them. We're all too lazy to care about being dehumanised, like pigs to slaughter.

People lash out not because they feel helpless, but because they feel superior. They're not, they're just bored and life has been good so things they invent to get upset about look extremely bad to them.
How do describe what it means to be an iPad? This is something that Apple cares about. If you have an iPad that is fundamentally different [more or device] then it's not really an iPad anymore.
Major airports process 100,000 passengers per day. One-in-a-thousand occurrences happen hundreds of times per week.

I don't imagine a person travelling without a phone would raise any eyebrows.