skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of a funny quip that's stuck with me, about "falling into a trap":

> [Oracle, as contrasted to Sun Microsystems] It's more like: "Ship mediocrity, inflict misery, lie our asses off, screw our customers, and make a whole shitload of money." [...]

> If you were to actually have a conversation with a bank--a friggin bank--[...]Whether you believe it or not, you will get a very societally-engaged answer. [...] You talk to Oracle, it's like "No, we don't fuckin' make dreams happen, we make money, that's what we do!" [...]

> Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing [Oracle CEO] Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just doesn't--like, mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think "Oh, the lawnmower hates me"--lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle.

-- Brian Cantrill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=35m32s
I think that's fair, but impractical for most users. I have a number of Home Assistant integrations with locally hosted AI models for smart home features, but I wouldn't expect my grandma to set up a server and a few VMs when she could just give her HomePod a prompt that works with AI and have no worries about the implementation. Do you feel like Apple's "independent" auditing is insufficient?
I think it's going to be free: https://openai.com/index/openai-and-apple-announce-partnersh...
>> founder and CEO of Palisade Compliance, an independent Oracle licensing advisory company.

What a world we live in when there's a market for a company providing this service. Oracle is truly a disgusting company. They offer a very generous cloud computing package but you'd have to be insane to build on it.
LOL you haven't been in group chats with idiot drunk friends apparently shit like that kills, i had a friend who hates iphones, i sent a dozen bing ai images of him as a cartoon doing... things... to the phone... entire chat was dieing for days.
I don't comprehend why people feel like being a Safari wrapper is sufficient.

How do people imagine ad blockers get implemented? Why do they assume ad blockers will be supported by Apple, which once ran an ad network and runs an ad network in Apple News, forever?

If publishers wanted to support only ad-block-blocking browsers, that's their prerogative too! I don't either think Apple should get to decide that ads are protected if you appear in Apple News, but ads are not protected if you appear in Mobile Safari.

People opposing choice: it never ceases to surprise me.
Notating checks is not even redundant; it can disambiguate which piece is to move without additional information (e.g. Rac1 and Rhc1; only one of them might give a discovered check, so Rc1+ could then be an unambiguous notation where the check is not redundant). The PGN spec is clear that SAN disambiguates legal moves and not pieces (if moving one of those rooks would put yourself in check, you should not disambiguate when you move the other one), but I don't know whether it considers the check part of the move for those purposes.
Its varies by state. In MO I can theoretically do it online, but I can't get through the ID verification step. I have to go to town to get my car inspected, so it's only an extra five or ten minutes to stop off at the License Office. If the experience was poor I'd work harder to get the online registration working, but it's so easy I don't see the point.
There's value in OS integration, but again, what are the real use cases? Memoji or whatever doesn't qualify. Apple has added a ton of features in recent years that I haven't used once. If it's going to manage my calendar in a way I can rely on or autocorrect will be smarter, that's useful.
Sure but let's see average user data first before making these claims. Aren't Apple products popular among kids? Kids are usually poor and would bring the wealth average down.
I know this is just reopening a discussion that HN has had a million times, but what mongo (and elastic, and so on) swapped to is not IMO a rugpull to anyone except those who were reselling those specific open source projects. Anyone using those tools internally/as a backend weren't affected by that, whether they were a hobbyist or small business. The exception being people who only want true FOSS for ideological reasons.

The trouble with the SSPL is that it also nerd-snipes people who think the legal system works like code. Example of such a person: https://ssplisbad.com/

As far as I can tell reading the license, the key terms of the SSPL hinges on "such that a user could run an instance of the service using the Service Source Code you make available". If you make something available that is then able to be run, then you've fulfilled the license.

Looking at it again the page I linked above actually goes beyond overly-strict interpretation into actual bad-faith reading. When talking about what you have to publish, they cut off the sentence short so that they can interpret it mean things like the BIOS or IDE, but reading the actual license text it's clear that's not the case. "All programs that you use to make the Program or modified version" vs "all programs that you use to make the Program or modified version available"

As someone who only runs FOSS in my day-to-day, and not anything with SSPL, I'm really annoyed that that page nerd-sniped me into defending the SSPL.
The byline is kinda small, but it's helpful contextual information that this article is by Mike Duncan, who is likely to be familiar to HN readers as the guy who did the Revolutions and The History Of Rome podcasts.
You do know siri works while driving and other times when you don't want to go fumbling around?
Brilliant idea. Find all the companies who are probably already seething about Broadcoms ridiculous price increases, and kick them in the metaphorical financial nuts some more.

I mean, how can this go wrong for them?

/s
> Data, implies factual information. You can not copyright factual information

Where on Earth did you get that from?
Prices fall when supply outpaces demand -- this is adding more demand.
It's also weird because Anthropic models are just better for these tasks. Claude responses are almost always better than GPT4.

I stopped using GPT4 because it would just yap on and on about things I don't want in the response. Claude 3 responses feel way more human like because it response with similar information a human would and not with a bunch of unneeded gibber.

By the time this roles out at the end of the year who knows what models would be the best. Why bet on one company's models? We have seen how fast open source models have caught up to GPT4. Why put all your chips into one basket?
I work in agriculture as an agronomist, and did some time putting out small plots sprays.

I absolutely fucking hate the drinking roundup meme. Yeah sure, pure Glyphosate has an acute toxicity similar to that of table salt (in rodents). So if you’re a rodent you can drink a solution of it similar to what you could tolerate with a salt water solution. But this says nothing of long term effects and is not a realistic situation and is fucking stupid.

Glyphosate on its own is completely ineffective, it requires adjuvants in order to do its work, for the same reason you use dish soap when washing plates. You will never see pure glyphosate used unless you’re working in research where you’re intending to mix it with something. It’s like all that research that equivocates coffee with caffeine, but even worse.

Roundup is always glyphosate plus surfactants, in fact the water/surfactant mix will typically be the majority of the bottle. Not only will these surfactants strip the protective mucus from your gut, it’s help the gylphsate cross barriers it would never be able to on its own, where it causes all sorts of havoc.

If someone drinks undiluted roundup, they will die in a painful way, though that requires managing to get it down, which typically only happens in suicide attempts. A fully diluted solution intended for spraying is much, much safer, but still likely to make you very sick on ingestion or significant skin exposure like if you get drenched in it.

Any study on the short or long term safety of pure glyphosate is worse than worthless, it’s outright misleading because Glyphosate is not Roundup.

Bonus: most adjuvants (which often make up the majority of the chemicals we actually spray out) are exempted from the types of registration and safety trials we typically apply to pesticides. Only a few states are starting to make changes to that (California and Oregon or Washington I think, been a while since I’ve looked at it).
Did Apple say anything about what training data they used for their generative image models?
It's actually a beneficial feature that two people can look at a market and come to two completely different conclusions about it. Yes, I suspect that OpenAI has nothing of lasting competitive value, they're currently overvalued by entities who want their money back, and you can view their recent actions and partnerships through this lens without complication.
I don't know what your argument was going to be if I said "no", but in any case, the answer is yes, you can. You can even entirelly uninstall Google Assistant and replace it with your own software, and you do not lose any functionality of the device nor require access to private hooks to do that. I do that myself.
That seems consistent with #3, I don't see how it's different. Operator or function, the name doesn't change anything?
That's actually exactly what you want. No one company should know what you do on all apps.
Montecarlo Tree Search (MCTS) would be very ideal for this situation. Since the tree depth is really low, you would not need a neural network estimator. You would just load the entire game tree, and walk randomly through it, updating visit counts. The walk would be biased by the visit counts, and the biases would then converge to scores for each position.

See the following for a really nice tutorial for a slightly more advanced but more technically correct algorithm, Monte Carlo graph search (MCGS). This exploits the fact that some nodes in the game tree might are identical positions on the board and can be merged.

For your setup he could easily do either one, but the graph search might give you more mileage in the future:

github.com/lightvector/KataGo/blob/master/docs/GraphSearch.md

Once your scores have converged on the entire game tree, you can print out a crib sheet visually showing each position and the correct move. That might be the closest we can get to a human executable strategy. But the crib sheet might have strategic principles or hard rules that humans can identify
> And, of course, nobody has known to opt-out by blocking AppleBot-Extended until after the announcement where they've already pirated shittons of data

This is wrong. AppleBot identifier hasn't changed: https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829

There is no AppleBot-Extended. And if you blocked it in the past it remains blocked.
There are negative comments here about Apple every day. Without knowing what your account is so we can see the comments and rate of commenting it's really hard to provide you with any kind of feedback. But there doesn't seem to be any automoderation beyond rate limiting comments (past some limit), not based on the content.
> and tflops per watt their apple silicon is comparable if not better

If Apple currently ships a single product with better AI performance-per-watt than Blackwell, I will eat my hat.
LOL that image you painstakingly created is also forgotten not long after being given to most people, just because you know the effort that went in doesn't mean the receiving person does 99.9% of the time.

Same thing for your kid, the kid likes both stories, gives 0 shit that you used GenAI or sat up for 8 hours trying to figure out the rhyme, those things are making YOU feel better not the person receiving it.
Awesome, thank you! I'll check it out.
The only thing I would add is enabling javascript per tab. And remote fonts. This is my most used feature on UBO. The web is finally snappy again.
I can see the github org and repositories fine.
Nope their identical, but the AI one at least looks cool lol
Because Apple is pure Snobbery! Period! They'll never admit to be behind imagineers.

I've personally been infuriated by the absence of Send Later feature. I can't fathom that I could do it with a "stupid/inferior" Windows Phone that wasn't obscenely priced like an iPhone.

They lost their technological leadership since Steve Jobs. End of Story.
I had 2 working parents and a community. The perceived safety and walkability of an area has a lot to do with it. My parents weren't worried if they didn't see me from morning until dinner time (and obviously they had no way of getting in contact with me other than maybe phoning all the other parents - assuming we weren't off in a field somewhere).
Not really for the first time.
There will be further versions of this model. Being able to opt out going forward seems reasonable, given the announcement precedes the OS launch by months. Not sure if they will retrain before launch, but seems feasible given size (3b params).
Halfway down the article contains some great charts with comparisons to other relevant models, like Mistral-7B for the on-device models, and both gpt-3.5 and 4 for the server-side models.

They include data about the ratio of which outputs human graders preferred (for server side it’s better than 3.5, worse than 4).

BUT, the interesting chart to me is „Human Evaluation of Output Harmfulness” which is much, much ”better„ than the other models. Both on-device and server-side.

I wonder if that’s part of wanting to have gpt as the „level 3”. Making their own models much more cautious, and using OpenAI’s models in a way that makes it clear „it was ChatGPT that said this, not us”.

Instruction following accuracy seems to be really good as well.
I don't comprehend how people are not more angry about how utterly shitty the Apple coerced apps are.
I just played 100 rounds of this game, winning 47 times, tying 6, and losing 47. Very fun. I think it would be cool if I could look back at my previous games and figure out more optimal strategies so I could possibly get the slightest edge on the CPU.
If anything Recall is MORE privacy respectful than this since everything is stored and processed on your device and you can access (and easily alter) the database, exclude specific applications, websites (for Edge for now), etc.

I'm not saying it's not an awful feature, I will disable it as soon as it is installed.

The fact that it's not encrypted at rest really is the least of my concerns (though it does show the lack of care and planning). For this to be a problem, an attacker already has all the necessary accesses to your computer to either get your encryption key or do devastating damage anyway.

> At the risk of sounding like an Apple apologist, Apple has a pretty good (though not perfect) track record for privacy and security.

"Not perfect" is enough to be concerned. I would also not be surprised that their good reputation is more due to their better ability at hiding their data collection and related scandals rather than due to any care for the user.
> Do you feel like Apple's "independent" auditing is insufficient?

Yeah, pretty much

Also, your grandma might not setup a VM, but it sounds like the off-device processing is essentially stateless, or at most might have a very lightweight session. It seems like the kind of thing one person could setup for their family (with the same tamper-proof signatures, plus physical security), or provide a privacy focused appliance for anyone to just plug into a wall, if they wanted to.
Ah, that is a very important distinction. Thanks for clarifying! For my purposes, the passphrase storage works fine, but I can see how the vault could be a useful feature.
My kids faced the same situation, though at least the neighbors also had kids. I think that parents have to revolt en masse against saturating their kids with extracurriculars. One family going it alone is going to have lonesome kids.

The competitiveness has to go away -- the feeling that your kids have to be 100% occupied in order to give them a fighting chance in the future.

Schools need to back off on homework.
It was mentioned in the keynote that they allow researchers to audit their claims.
Why isn't there a comparison with the Llama3 8b in the "benchmarks" ?
> If two invocations of your function with the same parameters both mutate any part of that state, and nothing else mutated that part in between, then it's not idempotent.

Still not accurate. What matters is whether N calls to the function changes the state differently than a single call. If not, then the function is idempotent.

Another issue with idempotency is that there's an implicit temporal component that is rarely explicitly discussed. Most people don't expect a function to necessarily be idempotent over long periods of time.
Yes, it just went up. The suspension was lifted as unexpectedly as it was imposed
I suppose it was to be expected by IMHO this takes the wind out of the sails of the OpenAI / Apple deal. In the end they don't let OpenAI get into the internals of iOS / Siri, it's just a run of the mill integration. They actually are competing with ChatGPT and I assume eventually they expect to replace it and cancel the integration.

The OpenAI integration also seems setup to data mine ChatGPT. They will have data that says Customer X requested question Q and got answer A from Siri, which he didn't like and went to ChatGPT instead, and got answer B, which he liked. Ok, there's a training set.

I'm always wrong in prediction and will be wrong here but I'd expect openAI is a bad spot long term, doesn't look like they have a product strong enough to withstand the platform builders really going in AI. Once Siri works well, you will never open ChatGPT again.
Swift had good support in JetBrains AppCode.

Maybe it still does, but probably not, because AppCode was sunsetted at the end of 2022 and stopped receiving updates in 2023 (https://blog.jetbrains.com/appcode/2022/12/appcode-2022-3-re...). Which is really unfortunate.

If Swift ever gets good support outside of Apple, I wouldn’t be surprised if JetBrains starts working on their Swift plugin again and releases it for IntelliJ and CLion. But despite this migration, my understanding is that Swift on Linux and the new Foundation (non-Apple standard library) is still lacking.
> Right, a global conspiracy

It's not up for debate. It happened.

We know the threats, harassment, surveillance, and bribery happened. We know the specific people, the specific threats, the specific dollar amounts.
Triplebyte used to send candidates a link to a page which basically listed everything that was in the interview. Most candidates didn’t read it. They could probably have done away with the interview entirely and just put a link at the bottom of the prep material saying “click here to pass the interview”.

If anything I think it would have lowered the triplebyte passing rate.
In Wyoming, Bill Gates moves ahead with nuclear project
> Our foundation models are trained on Apple's AXLearn framework, an open-source project we released in 2023. It builds on top of JAX and XLA, and allows us to train the models with high efficiency and scalability on various training hardware and cloud platforms, including TPUs and both cloud and on-premise GPUs.

Interesting that they’re using TPUs for training, in addition to GPUs. Is it both a technical decision (JAX and XLA) and a hedge against Nvidia?
From your own link:

> Controlling data usage

> In addition to following all robots.txt rules and directives, Apple has a secondary user agent, Applebot-Extended, that gives web publishers additional controls over how their website content can be used by Apple.

> With Applebot-Extended, web publishers can choose to opt out of their website content being used to train Apple’s foundation models powering generative AI features across Apple products, including Apple Intelligence, Services, and Developer Tools.
The generated image of two dice (https://x.com/thomasahle/status/1800258720074490245) was dalle 1 level.

Just randomly sprinkled eyes on the sides. I wonder why they chose to showcase that.
I don't think the choice of integration really matters for GP's point. Regardless of which model is used, how useful is the ability to rewrite an email in AI Voice really going to be? If I'm struggling over how to word an email there's usually a specific reason for it; maybe I'm trying to word things for a very particular audience or trying to find a concise way to cover something complicated that I have a lot of knowledge of. General purpose language model output wouldn't help at all in those cases.

I'm sure there are usecases for this and the other GenAI features, but they seem more like mildly useful novelties than anything revolutionary.

There's risk to this as well. Making it easier to produce low value slop will probably lead to more of it and could actually make communication worse overall.
> That corporations sponsor academic conferences is natural: there are a lot of reasons it's useful: recruiting, networking, cooperating with other researchers, etc.

And for manipulating the scientific consensus, for rewarding scholars that agree with them, etc.

But who actually cares? I don't think anyone was saying that sponsoring scientific conferences wasn't useful for corporations. It's a straw man. The question is whether it's good for science and public health, specifically in the case of neonicotinoids.

> And they're the part of those scientific communities that has the spare money to be able to provide sponsorships.

The fewer challenges to what is currently profitable to them, the more spare money they have.
This something else is it pushes people to even more heavily dive into the ecosystem, if it works how they show you really want it to understand your life, so you'll want all your devices able to help build that net of data to provide your context to all your devices for answering about events and stuff, meaning hey maybe i should get an appletv instead of a chromecast so that siri knows about my shows and stuff too.
https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
Gundam lives from the model-sales. The anime is just advertisement and justification for a new collection of models.
Musk to Ban Apple Devices If OpenAI Is Integrated into OS
I didn't expect to read this whole piece but it was completely gripping. Outstanding work and a really great write up.
This still runs on external hardware which can be spoofed at the demand of authorities. It may be private as in they themselves won’t monetize it but your data certainly won’t be safe
Glish
It's really good. Keep reading.
Yep it's an assistant, they didnt add some weird app where you can talk to virtual granny lol
We plan to, for the record. We just didn't have it ready for prime-time yet, so it isn't there right now.
> those things are making YOU feel better not the person receiving it

I don't think this is true at all. Love is proportional to cost; if it costs me nothing, then the love it represents is nothing.

When we receive something from someone, we estimate what it cost them based on what we know of them. Until recently, if someone wrote a poem just for us, our estimation of that would often be pretty high because we know approximately what it costs to write a poem.

In modern times, that cost calculation is thrown off, because we don't know whether they wrote it themselves (high cost) or generated it (low/no cost).
Not that it matters anyways, since Apple refuses to sign Nvidia GPU drivers for MacOS in the first place. So if they own any Nvidia hardware themselves, then they also own more third-party hardware to support it.