skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took their quiz without thinking once from a throwaway account because I was afraid of taking it from a real account and also because I had no context about what would be in it, which made it seem high risk. That made me realize it wasn't as scary a thing as I was afraid it might be, but also kind of summerizes what I don't love about it.

Later, I think I took the quiz from a real email. I think could have scheduled an in-person or something. But I was always afraid to: just like with the quiz, it felt like another layer of high risk, where being slightly off on one thing would kind of potentially blacklist you forever. (Which sort of sounds absurd to me now, but young me was like "what if it matters?" and "it'd be humiliating to not make it through.")

I work for a company that's been invested in by reputable venture firms so I don't think I'm bottom of the barrel as an engineer or anything. But the above anecdotes are to illustrate that I always found that the platform push my deeply ingrained risk aversion buttons. Which is interesting to think about.

With job interviews it's extremely annoying to prove you bona fides over and over, with every interview or application. But having the opportunity to do so only once seems even worse.

Edit: that said, I think doing a professional exam after college wouldn't have seemed risky in the same way as a ~12 question quiz and a couple interviews being so potentially determinitive.
It is really YouTube's own fault for not securely embedding the ads into the videos.
Market expected Apple ChatGPT, but they got Siri with some fixes.

Literally one of the demonstrations in the Apple Intelligence part of the keynote was "7am alarm", which creates an alarm for 7 AM.
Selection bias, the people who likes to socializes meets more persons so you are much more likely to encounter such people than the ones who keep to themselves. So even if most of those math winners hated socializing you wouldn't meet those so your conclusion would be the same, meaning we can't tell much about it.
The taxes are a huge problem. The labour regulations, I think less so.

The taxes on wage income are why you can't get two European engineers for the price of one American engineer, and are I think, why there hasn't been a software industry exodus to European, or a European software explosion.

If you could actually pay out what people bring in, I think we'd had an enormous software industry, because the jobs would have been so attractive. The typical European tax on wages isn't an obvious crisis when companies use capital, but when what's productive is labour itself, then it is.
Do you think this is all running off the standard openai API and they picked a dev at random in Apple to use their accounts API keys?

Of course there is some agreement…
> Any true human-level (or even rat-level for that matter) AGI would need to have actual innate traits such as curiosity to drive lifelong exploration and learning.

While perhaps not "true" intelligence (whatever that is), with LLMs this can be emulated with a prompt:

> You have an innate curiosity to drive lifelong exploration and learning. ...

If the behavior of the system is indistinguishable from "true" intelligence, the distinction becomes a philosophical one.
> Presumably many would choose to block Invidious, and many would not.

Is this something a creator can do on their own today? How many of them are aware of Invidious?
It's like any other feature in that the purchase price of the new iPhone and App Store revenue helps pay for the AI functionality. Like they hope people will want to upgrade their phones or switch to Apple for this.
Yes. The users pay for them, the users own them, the users are entitled to run whatever software they wish on devices they paid for, own, and control.
I’m paranoid about these things, and wouldn’t trust Google to stay in the email business for decades, and not lock me out.
Harder for humans, but easy to make a really strong AI for this. Even overcounting because of illegal board states (multiple winners) and not even bothering to eliminate symmetries, there are at most 2 * 3^9 = 39366 board states.

There are cycles in the board state graph, although they are of a very specific form (the only kind of cycle that exists is for board B with O and X alternating turns). So it is probably possible to make a completely deterministic and optimal algorithm for this probabilistic game, but it does sound complicated. You can't naively apply expectiminimax.

However after marking the winning board states as 0 or 1 respectively if O or X wins I would expect value iteration to very quickly converge to an optimal strategy here.
You can already see echoes of this in the software community, which was historically populated by such "weird nerds" and computer geeks who traded off social tact and grace for a childhood, or even a lifetime, spent understanding the technical minutiae of software, hardware, and computing in general.

Now we have self-identifying "computer hackers" and "security researchers" and "red team operators" who probably have never heard the words "shellcode" or "ASLR" in their life, and whose technical chops cap out at wrapping payloads from hardcoded URLs in a 100-line golang script and call it an advanced exploit. We used to call them "script kiddies." "Compiler developers" who couldn't tell you the difference between a regular expression and a context-free grammar, and simply wrap babel in a javascript snippet, calling their glorified terminal alias a real compiler.

Go look at the posers on r/programminghumor, or, god forbid, fucking Instagram influencers releasing content and memes about programming instead of having any technical competence with computing itself. While being a computer nerd used to be looked down upon with derision, it's now trendy and hip to be a "software engineer," much in the same way geek culture was appropriated and colonized by outsiders to the field. People think that 16 weeks spent studying JavaScript at a bootcamp puts them on even footing with shut-ins who spent tens of thousands of hours in front of a bash terminal and customizing their vim setups. It's the absolute depths of Dunning-Krugerism. These aren't geeks; they don't act or talk the same as people who have been embedded in this culture for years and lifetimes, even if they parade around superficial status markers to try to pose as one. It's as if an Anglophone went to a country where the predominant language was one other than English and started appropriating a few dozen words from the native tongue to pose as a local - "you're not from here, are you?"

Perhaps this stance on computer geek culture is "elitist" or not "inclusive" enough, but be aware that maximum inclusivity tends to result in the same regression to the mean that you describe. It's much easier to spin a narrative about how 31337 at programming you are when you can write any bullshit you want on social media and pose and identify as something you are not, while those who are actually out there writing software instead of posting about it, pushing commits instead of simply updating their GitHub READMEs, have scant little to show to the blithering masses of people who confuse Internet Points, narratives, and hearsay for actual competence. It's a continuation of the postmodern trend to socially construct status, narrative, and indeed, even truth, by manufacturing simulacra and digital content to stand in for and completely replace any underlying reality.
Where do you see that option?

I don't see "Current City" in the source, and the documentation only says:

> "Random‐city" means to select from a built‐in list of several hundred major cities. This is the default.

> Otherwise, this must be a latitude/longitude pair, as floats.

Furthermore, hacks/glx/mapscroller.c says:

* Network access and management of the image file cache happens in the
* mapscroller.pl helper program, since doing https from C code is untenable.
* Sadly, this division of labor means that this program won't work on iOS or
* Android.
And Nebula.tv is best of all. No ads, you support the content creators, and you don't feed YouTube's near-monopoly on video distribution.
> Educated people understand ...

But this isn't higher education level material, is it? Is this not part of the curriculum in high school? I know it's possible to drop out of high school, but most people finish.

Is "what does the word inflation mean?" really not something that it can be assumed everyone has been taught?
I.e. the app can brainwash people into reflecting some specific sensibilities. That's some Orwellian-level stuff there.

The platform shaping communication is a fact, but not a license to use it to program a worldview. The job of a general-purpose platform is to enable communication, but otherwise stay out of the way.
Most of the cost for NJ Transit is to pay the driver.

> just like it costs money to keep the tunnels going

No it doesn't. The toll is just rent seeking, it's not used to keep the tunnel going. The tunnel costs are just a tiny fraction of the tolls. See: https://www.nj.com/news/2017/12/gwb_jfk_and_ewr_bring_home_t... (and make sure to distinguish capital costs from operation costs, the article mostly will mention it).

It's even worse in some ways because this is basically a jobs program for NY/NJ, they could automate a lot of stuff that isn't because the unions won't let: https://unionlabel.org/2022/08/02/twu-fighting-back-against-...

The unions also control the unbelievably expensive construction costs from the first article I linked.

This is why I called it a cash grab, because that's what it is.
They did mention they’re adding support for other providers.
FaceTime next!
I will need a tool to transfer over all the pws, doing that manually is a non starter
I’d love to have a proper window organizer with keyboard shortcuts built into the OS, one less thing to have to install on the side. Hopefully it’s fast, with no annoying flair.
Yet does not suggest any sort of impending completion.

We haven't been to the center of the galaxy yet.

We haven't achieved immortality yet.

Both are valid sentences without any fixed timeline, and in the case of the first, a date that is hundreds of thousands of years in the future at soonest.

"yet" just means "up until this time" (in conext, sometimes it means "by the time you're talking about" - e.g. I'm scheduled on-call on the 13th, but i won't be back from my PTO yet).
Yeah, I use my AppleTV As a monitor for my laptop all the time via Airplay mirroring and it's fine.
My annoyance with Keychain has been that items kind of appear there as I type in a username and password on the web. Feels rather ephemeral, like old "saved passwords" in Internet Explorer or whatever. Feels like I'm one browser cookie reset away from losing everything.

Whereas with 1Password I use a separate app to CREATE a new Login file for an app/website/anything. I can save that file with as much or a little information filled out as desired. Can create arbitrary info files for Passports, library membership cards, etc. I know the information for each is forever stored exactly as I created it, always syncing, never overwritten when I type in a different password and accidentally hit "save" in a webform.

I hope the new Apple Passwords app is more like the later; if so I would switch.
Yes, there is a big difference between surgeons versus doctors which are good at diagnosing. It's two completely different skills.

I think what is missing is also something in between nurses and doctors, who can take more formal responsibilities than a nurse and offload the doctors.

And there should be a track to directly become a surgeon instead of first become a specialist doctor and then do surgery education after that, those roles should be different. The education for doctors is overall just too long for little benefit.
None of these features seem to be coming to Vision Pro, which I think is quite baffling. Arguably it's the device that can use them the most.
> mistaking finance, law, software, and accounting

add sales to that, and there isn't much left. HR and Marketing catch up after a couple of years.
What's different about this from the current implementation of searching photos for 'driver's license' and it pulling up pictures of your license? iOS has already been using "AI" image recognition for years on your photos.
I thought you could only do screen recording via QuickTime This mirroring feature actually lets you interact with the phone
My take on this is; back in the day when Facebook and to the extent Twitter were dominating so called "social media", being on Facebook or Twitter meant that you were actually connected with all the people who wanted to be a part of social Web. But today, social networking is so fragmented with dozens of social sites, mobile apps, fediverse networks and who knows what that I think, we are actually going back to the time of decentralized and distributed internet forums where people would gather in small communities and connect with each other, which is not necessarily bad because all the power is not concentrated in Facebook and Twitter but then again all the interesting people are not in the one place but in the 10 different places hence Zuckerberg stating that Facebook started as a directory of people which was meant to centralize all people and their connections in one place.
Disk space for one. The Bitwarden macOS application is around 390 MB. For comparison, Firefox is 388 MB. They're usually much worse from a CPU and RAM perspective too.
And in 10 years, people like me will cite your silly little quotes when the Vision Pro is less-remembered than the Hololens.

It's one thing to follow Apple's product history, it's another thing to blind yourself with their popularity until you refuse to acknowledge their failures. People that habitually quote iPhone detractors are vanishingly rare in that first category.
I know it’s simple but I am so pleased with this. Now if they fixed the mouse acceleration curve and the scaling issue for monitors, I’d be at peace.
The investigation phase alone would have costed me arround 50,100k minimum. Serious money for a small business.
My favorite "no budget" moment was in Kare Kano, a lesser known Gainax adaptation of the shoujo manga of the same name.

The second half as a whole is clearly made on the cheap, but episode 19 is special, it is all paper cutouts on a stick, most likely from the storyboard, on top of recycled backgrounds.
Didn’t Apple say they’re using their own hardware for serving some of the AI workloads? They dubbed it ‘Private Cloud Compute’. Not sure how much of a vote of confidence it is for Nvidia.
turns out. the testicle cup referrer is still active.
With the family plan, the cost calculation is very different

Blocking ads can be viewed as theft from the creators and many creators do see it this way
Show HN: A task manager you can talk to
It would be a very surprising business arrangement if that was not explicitly called out. Apple is not going to leave this to chance.
They prompt you before you go off-service, which makes the most sense.
Install sponsorblock, that’ll take care of that.
I think this will be a complete game changer. This will be the first device (with reasonable capabilities) where the human-machine interaction can transform into an actual instruction/command only one. We no longer just choose between a set of predefined routes, but ask the machine to choose for us. If it really does work out even half as good as they show, this will fundamentally alter our connection to tech, basically having created “intelligence” known from our previous century sci-fi tales.

Of course LLMs will quickly show their bounds, like they can’t reason, etc - but for the everyday commands people might ask their phones this probably won’t matter much. The next generation will have a very different stance towards tech than we do.
Apple WWDC 2024 Features I'm Most Excited About
> Now you just need a group of friends with $3500 to spare each...

This is something that has bothered me a bit about this discussion.

While the base model AVP is $3,499, that's not the whole cost. Add $599 for two years of AppleCare+ (honestly essential for a new, relatively fragile and very expensive device), and either $200 or $400 for the storage upgrade.

Buying in to the visionOS ecosystem is ~$4,300 right now.
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Fine-grained Visual Transcription for YouTube videos
TLDR: There are dozens of audio transcription APIs, but nothing for video and visual transcriptions. So we built one.

If you want visual chaptering, summarization, OCR / text-extraction, audio transcriptions, and sentiment analysis on your videos, there’s really nothing out there. We tried stitching this together with several audio/video understanding APIs but kept running into rate limits, hallucinations, high costs and poor accuracy.

Analyzing Audio Podcasts: https://vlm-docs.nos.run/guides/guide-audio-podcasts

Understanding Video Podcasts: https://vlm-docs.nos.run/guides/guide-video-podcasts
I see no real difference between 2 and 3. Once the data has left your device, it has left your device. There is no getting it back and you no longer have any control over it.
Can't wait to attempt GUI automation on my iPhone using the mac.
"Terrible" might be an exaggeration, but even in my personal uncongested network the feed can get randomly choppy from wireless AirPlay mirroring.
They were like this from the first Mac. Woz wanted the Mac to be open like the Apple II, but Jobs wanted it closed. Jobs won. That's how Apple has been ever since. The crazy days of Mac clones got shut down quick upon Jobs' return. It is just not in the Jobs' Apple's DNA to be open. Why this is confusing to anyone is just a sign of not understanding history. If you want open, Apple is not your platform. That's fine, move along. It's a dead horse.
Doesn't building an iOS app requires an Mac?
I run a personal, private instance and things appear to still be working on my end. I also have some of my favorite channels backed up with tube-archivist. I hope I'm not the only one since a crackdown by Google was only a matter of time...
The advantage of cars isnt that they are faster than public transit. Its that they are private space and usually a bit more convenient. Arguments about speed will convince no one. The loop buses are doing horribly fyi, the BRT is a complete failure in terms of ridership.
I wonder if those are to avoid two of the big image generation controversies:

1. Imitation of artists' styles (Make an image in the style of...). The restricted styles are pretty generic, so harder to pin down as being a copy of or imitation of some artist.

2. It's cartoony, which avoids photorealistic but fake images being generated of real people.
This isn't about giving Apple intelligence, this is about giving ChatGPT an understanding of the world via the eyes, ears, and thoughts on your phone.
To use Apple Intelligence on mobile you’ll need iPhone 15 pro or later which I (not a trader) thought would make investors happy.
Google pulling the rug on the open web after years of benefitting from it is a shitty move. Then to inject corporate propaganda into alternative frontends after making the default experience miserable, even not considering the ads, is shittier still.
I use BetterSnapTool for ages and love it. Wondering if this will be good enough to replace it natively.
Sure, but I've never worked somewhere that employed people to write "dead simple batch tasks". If you're writing async endpoints, it feels reasonable to assume that people know how an event loop works (or at least not to make sync calls in an async function).
The iPhone mirroring feature and the related feature of being able to control the screen on another person’s device is going to be quite helpful, personally speaking. But the screen control feature can also be a threat that scammers could convince someone to allow and then defraud them. I’ll be looking forward to try this out and see how (well) it works.
shhh, don't put it in writing like that.
> allowed the Siri team to quickly atone for its sins.

Are we sure there is a Siri team in Apple? What have they been doing since 2012?
I'm sure this is all a part of Putin's grand designs. I'm so happy that every single person living on the other side of the Russian border is ontologically evil so I can hate them without feeling bad. /s
for most requests.. yes.
Why are X and Y commonly used as mathematical placeholders?
Another good one is keyboards.

Maybe Warhammer?
There has to be some kind of personality distribution thing here with how people view this kind of thing. My general take is "I'm attacked, _especially_ if I'm with family; just shoot them. There isn't even a quibble in my head.
Should have called it Sherlock as they seem to be Sherlocking a lot of apps. For instance I only use Fantastical because I can see my reminders with my events, I assume many people will also switch from a paid password manager to this as well.
Methinks we won't have to wait long for it.
I think the genmoji is going to be tons of fun. Basically seems like https://emojikitchen.dev/ on steroids.
Nice, but my native language is Dutch, so I'll be waiting for this for the next 5 years to arrive. If it arrives at all.
> spun out of a much larger corporation

> ZBB

Microsoft?
How many use Grammerly on a Mac exclusively? My guess is that most of their accounts are students through schools and companies. But yeah, there is a risk in any business that a better competitor comes along.
The lore of Kalloor
> I wonder if that implies that over time different hardware will run different levels of requests locally vs the cloud.

I bet that’s going to be the case. I think they added the servers as a stop-gap out of necessity, but what they see as the ideal situation is the time when they can turn those off because all devices they sell have been able to run everything locally for X amount of time.
It's late but better late than...
A cool tidbit shown in one of the screenshots is that Apple Pay will be unlocked to other browsers. It is not clear whether they will need to be running WebKit or not for this to work, but looking forward to support in Orion.
Any connection to what bunnie is doing with precursor?
You stated the opposite above, which is what GP argued against.
Learning how to write llm function calls.
When I say it could sustain a studio, I just mean revenue from merchandise sales etc... It's such a popular IP there's an entire theme park devoted to it.

I'd say NGE is absolutely more popular than Gundam. I think there's a perfect "target age" to get into NGE, and that age is 13-15 and new generations discover it. Quentin Tarantino once said the same thing about a lot of his old movies.
There is a lot less fodder for inaccuracies if the data and processing are all on your device. A lot of the inaccuracies in Gemini and ChatGPT arise because they are using the web for answers and that is a much less reliable source than your own emails and messages.
> BigTech results in unethical stuff

Nope. This is a pretty big claim to be taken without a good proof.

Why do you think so?

Because of _some_ bad actors today (out of many)? Because of _some_ bad practices in the past (already covered by new regulations in place)?
> weird nerds depend on a kind of nobility and magnanimity from the people they work with that is perhaps a bit much to expect in academia

I thought academia was created by the nobility to be a place for weird nerds since the weird nerds were useful.
I like their approach. Do everything possible on device and if it can only be done off-device, provide that choice.
I found some web results that may be useful if you ask me again from your iphone