skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Standardization reminds me of old stories about 1970-80's blue chip companies trying to hire programmers like they hired secretaries. They'd test applicants for things like word per minute typing speed, simple programming tests, hire in bulk and then dole batches of them out to various departments. Which sounds like triplebytes model, the motivation behind things like clean code and the webshitification of everything.

Opposite of that is the idea that work and interpersonal habits, communication skills, and domain knowledge are more important than raw programming skill for most jobs.
Even moreso why does brother take the time to bring up Siri if he can't read the flight code? It's the same thing correct?
NeXTSTEP was always BSD4.3-Tahoe Unix, not AT&T Unix.
To attempt to put some metrics to this, NGE is in the mid 40s of the top 50 most popular anime list on MAL: https://myanimelist.net/topanime.php?type=bypopularity

No Gundam series is in the top 50.

It's also the oldest anime in that top 50 list, which I think is really indicative of how popular it is. The only other one that's even from the 90s is Cowboy Bepop.
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Right, but are those going to run on Apple-owned hardware at all? It seems like Apple will first prioritize their models running on-device, then their models running on Apple Silicon servers, and then bail out to ChatGPT API calls specifically for Siri requests that they think can be better answered by ChatGPT.

I'm sure OpenAI will need to beef up their hardware to handle these requests - even as filtered down as they are - coming from all of the Apple users that will now be prompting calls to ChatGPT.
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Considering I only ever use it as a Chrome plugin anyway, that's not much of a sell
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Ajax is the name of their home-grown LLM. Ferret UI is another model that they have published papers on that lets them look at the UI of an app to understand how to interact and automate it.
Linux isn't even relevant in this context with it's <1% DWM install base. Android, yes you have a point, though a Mac and Android is a strange combination.
Seems like a lot of people admire this project. I was AFK when it hit the front page, but did it get hugged to death earlier? That's a shame if that is the reason it got demoted as much as it did.
I use Moom for basic keyboard-based window management. Great for maximizing windows and quickly resizing them
https://drmichaellevin.org/
There is no credit card required, you just need to sign in with a Google account :)

Each generation costs me money actually, so thats just a safety measure for my wallet
The technical details are in part 4 and 6.
> Its business conditions began to deteriorate around 2012, due to careless management by executives,

Is blunt writing like this typical of journalism within Japan, for Japanese audiences?
Tech Debt

Wow, those are a lot of features being added (even if it's largely userland).

I can't even imagine the amount of tech debt for an OS that's 23-years old (and older if you count NextStep).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS
Some for now, none in the future I fear.
When I'm reading articles on the BBC, it gives me a popover prompting me to log in "to continue". I can immediately close it to no consequence whatsoever.

I have never figured out to what I would possibly be continuing.
They "leapfrogged" Google on providing a natural language interface to the world knowledge we'd gotten used to retrieving throug web search. But Apple's never done more than toyed in that space.

Apple's focus has long been on a lifestyle product experience across their portfolio of hardware, and Apple Intelligence appears to be focused exactly on that in a way that has little overlap with OpenAI's offerings. The partnership agreement announced today is just outsourcing an accessory tool to a popular and suitably scaled vendor, the same as they did for web search and social network integration in the past. Nobody's leapfrogging anybody between these two because they're on totally different paths.
Shortcat: https://shortcat.app/

It makes it VERY easy to keep your fingers on the keyboard almost all the time, which really helps things fly. It's an equivalent of the AceJump plugin for IntelliJ if you've used that, but it uses the accessibility tree instead of the contents of the editor.
I'm only still on it because of team use, but if Apple's thing supports teams I'm gonna be so happy to get rid of it.

I've been using it for nearly 20 years and it's been going down hill fast for the last 5, but 1Password 8 is an absolute clown car. It hijacks your passkey logins meaning that authenticating with Tailscale for me has gone from a single touch of the TouchID button on my Mac, to 1) click button that says "Unlock 1Password", 2) Click it again because it did fuck all the first time, 3) hit the global hotkey for 1Password, 4) open 1Password via Alfred because the hotkey has decided to stop working again, 5) touch the TouchID button to unlock 1Password, 6) switch back to the browser to find that my Tailscale auth has timed out, 7) back to iTerm to initiate the auth again, 8) if I'm lucky, I can now touch the TouchID button to use my Apple passkey, if I'm not, it's back to step 1.

I'd challenge anyone to name an app that has been ruined more by VC money than 1Password.
I would be sympathetic if it were not for their insane level of dark patterns, spam emails and growth hacking schemes. I had to make a blanket ban on @nextdoor.com email addresses because a dying relative was unable to parse their actual emails over nextdoor’s spam.
Not sure Nvidia is too happy with Apple.

They are the first ones to ship on-device inference at scale on non-nvidia hardware. Apple also has the means to build data center training hardware using apple silicon if they want to do so.

If they are serious about the OAI partnership they could also start to supply them with cloud inference hardware and strongarm them into only using apple servers to serve iOS requests.
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They are not even aware that iMessage or Apple shared albums are even an iPhone exclusive feature. They don't even know what iMessage is. The whole iPhone experience is so seamless that for me to suggest alternate apps doesn't even make sense. Like telling someone they need to get a coffee maker when they have a brand new keurig right in front of them. The statement is more confusing than informative to them.

To them, the reason I can't send them pictures is because Android phones suck. Which they complain about with "Anytime an android sends me a picture it looks like shit".
The Instagram mafia.
Signs of healthy competition and certainly no reason to claim a tech monopoly.
You consider that a "data structure question"? Honest question - I would (do) characterize it as a sort of "fizzbuzz+" that is deliberately NOT data-structure-y, and I'm surprised by this response. Can you give an example of short coding tasks you would consider not data-structure-y?

(For the record, we do ask about DBs and system design in other sections of the interview. The coding is one portion of three for the interview as a whole.)
without more details hard to say, but i seriously doubt they trained any significantly large LM on their own hardware

people on HN routinely seem to overestimate Apple's capabilities

e: in fact, iirc just last month Apple released a paper unveiling their 'OpenElm' language models and they were all trained on nvidia hardware
> there's only so much leverage to exert, since you have nothing they can't just source elsewhere

That they’re making peanuts is unsurprising. That someone else isn’t, is. My question is what value the executives provide. In gaming, it’s distribution expertise—a random band of artists probably can’t negotiate distribution on a major console.
> Privacy protections are built in when accessing ChatGPT within Siri and Writing Tools—requests are not stored by OpenAI, and users’ IP addresses are obscured.

Does anybody believe Apple will not be able to know who sent a given request, and that OpenAI won't be able to use the data in the request for more or less anything they want? I read statements like this and just flat-out don't believe them anymore.
It's been going to the cloud since at 2013 as well.
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Are there APIs to get the iCloud sync into my own app? I'm all for iCloud syncing to my devices I just want a way to also get a backup in a file so if Apple decides to delete my account on a whim, I don't lose everything.
As with Google Maps, my guess is that they will only rely on it long enough to get their own LLM offer up to parity, at which point it might still be there as an option but there will be very little need for users to activate it.

Also, it seems that most of Siri's improved features will still work without it (though perhaps less well in same cases) -- and therefore Apple is not fully dependent on it.
As an architect with extensive LA high-end residential experience and a long-time admirer of Ando... man I'm not even done with this one yet. It has LAYERS.

Enjoy
> The chemical makeup of it? The government banned tetra ethyl lead in it, and mandated some ethanol in it, but the rest is various mixes made by the gas companies.

There's a mil-spec gasoline that has to contain exact proportions of specific alkanes and ethanol to very tight tolerances, that could be taken as the golden standard gasoline.
Isn't it illegal to push your own products by bundling them with other products?
Me! I’m dumping text I write into an LLM all-day to help with editing. And I often start brainstorming / research by opening ChatGPT in voice mode, talk to it and keep a browser open at the same time to fact-check the output.
> I don't understand why there isn't appetite to simply regulate them out of controlling what software you put on your device.

I think this is what the EU is basically doing but Apple is trying to work around that by minimally implementing 3rd party app stores in a way that still gives them control to see if they can get away with that (they probably won't be able to).
I've heard Microsoft has gotten better, but I think this still rings true. https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/6jw33z/int...
1Password too.
> (I won’t talk about Magnet much here, because the proximate reasons for its failure are pretty simple: we ran out of money and the market fell out from under it. It might have - smart money says probably did have - other means of failure, but we didn’t last long enough to find them in any great detail.)

This has the same voice as patio11. Did he start this style? Is it new? Who else talks like this?
I believe I was consistent. Perhaps you believe that because apple had once paid for the devices that they should still be able to exercise control of them post sale to a user. This is a violation of ownership and of the first sale doctrine.
I think it needs multiple domains for an account. It appears this hasn’t changed from their current setup from the screenshots in the presentation.

I don’t want to switch from 1pass if I can’t set 2 or 3 separate webdomains for an account as I find this to be the most annoying feature of apple passwords, when a website has a separate register page from it’s login pages. In 1pass you can just delete the subdomain and add domains. Apple doesn’t allow you to edit at all :(
Evangelion this TTGL that. We are never getting another P&S G are we?
It’s not a myth. Every week my parents or children request I’d remove malware or adware from their android device that they installed. On my other children’s tablet or family iPhone this has never been a problem once.
I think the biggest announcement was the private compute cloud with Apple Silicon. Apple is building up internal expertise to go after Nvidia.
I work in an industry already being shaped by LLMs. Today, it's eating away at the bottom of the market, but I assume it will eventually eat away at the top where I am positioned too.

I was talking to a friend about the book "psychology of money" and the part he shared was related to paying down your mortgage, even if it makes more financial sense to keep your money invested in the market with a higher expected return than the interest rate on your home loan.

Being disrupted by an LLM has created a ton of anxiety for me, and this conversion led to investing almost my entire NW into Nvidia.

My thinking was, if I am disrupted by AI, Nvidia will at the same time likely grow in value.

The amount invested is still only a fraction of my total expected earnings over the next 10 - 20 years if AI did not exist, but it has calmed me quite a bit about my impending unemployment.
You can always use your own removal with OBS. There's a plugin for automatic background removal and you can re-export the video as a virtual camera that any other app can use.
People die to diseases whose cures are insufficiently practical. It's still a technological problem. Make them cheaper, make them more easily administrated, make them effective after the condition has passed beyond a certain point - these are all things further technological progress can potentially do.

Political problems are situations where different elements of society are fundamentally at odds with each other over one option vs another. Freedom vs security, progress vs conservation, reform vs tradition - these are all cases where there are strong arguments on both sides and there fundamentally isn't a right answer. No one is politically in favor of death due to curable disease - eliminate the technological issues that tie curing the disease to something people actually politically oppose, like say higher government spending, and the political opposition goes away.
> infact google still uses a 2.2 kernel with all custom back ported updates of the last 30 years.

Say what?
> What prevents any group of workers from self organizing?

Some combination of skill, capital and ambition. Running a company is hard, and a specialised skill. Just look at restaurants to see how unevenly distributed administrative skills are.
I'm reminded of this quote, often attributed to NASA: "Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor."
I'm very productive in Windows, but Microsoft's recent behavior (jamming Windows full of Edge dark patterns and ads) and the improvement of window management in macOS tempts me to give it another try.
I hear you but caution against such oversimplification. Advanced Data Protection for iCloud is a thing. Our culture of cloud reliance is truly dangerous, but some vendors are at least trying to E2E data where possible.

There are big risks to having a cloud digital footprint, yet clouds can be used “somewhat securely” with encryption depending on your personal threat model.

Also, it’s not fair to compare clouds to wiretapping. Unless you are implying that Apple’s infrastructure is backdoored without their knowledge? One does not simply walk into an Apple datacenter and retrieve user data without questions asked. Legal process is required, and Apple’s legal team has one the stronger track records of standing up against broad requests.
My biggest disappointment was that Apple said nothing about leveraging GPT-4 to improve voice recognition in iMessage. Voice recognition of ChatGPT is incredibly accurate when compared to iOS. ChatGPT almost never gets anything wrong, while iMessage/iOS voice recognition is extremely frustrating.

So much so that I sometimes dictate to ChatGPT then cut & paste into iMessage.
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The majority of this is local AI with nothing to do with openAI. Only particularly complex requests go to them
I wasn’t expecting this much hate towards 1Password in the comments. I was using Google Passwords, then migrated to Apple, finally to 1P7 and now 1P8. It’s one of the best software I’ve ever used and I don’t know what I’d do without it. Same goes for Fastmail as well.
I think what they're getting at is that the platform owners have power because they can actually leverage the data that users give them to be useful tools to those users.

I would contrast this with the trend over the last year of just adding a chatbot to every app, or Recall being just a spicy History function. It's AI without doing anything useful.
Keepass2Android has been working great for me for almost a decade now

https://github.com/PhilippC/keepass2android
I wonder what if any Developer support for “AI” — I need a better way to write that — ahem I - will have for accessing the personal data store. I’ve spent the last four years running up at collecting this data about myself, and, it’s hard, real hard to do a good job at it.

I’d love to have an app I write be able to subscribe to this stream.

It feels like a sort of perfect moat for Apple - they could say no on privacy concerns, and lock out an entire class of agent type app competitors at the same time. Well, here’s hoping I can get access to the “YouSDK” :)
> Apple also has the means to build data center training hardware using apple silicon if they want to do so.

i'm seeing people all over this thread saying stuff like that, it reads like fantasyland to me. Apple doesn't have the talent or the chips or suppliers or really any of the capabilities to do this, where are people getting it from?
> vehicle registration is every second year

For those of us not in the US, can you explain what this means? And why it necessitates a physical visit to an office?

I have owned vehicles in the UK and Norway for fifty years and never had to visit such a place for the purpose of registering a vehicle. Even before it was done online all that was needed to register change of ownership was to send in the registration document. And we don't have to do it again. We have to pay an annual fee to the roads authority but that is now collected by the insurance company automatically in Norway so it cost money but not time or effort.
How do you define a percent error margin on the typical output of something like ChatGPT? IIRC the image generation folks have started using metrics like subjective users ratings because this stuff is really difficult to quantify objectively.
Here’s a shocking suggestion: if you’re not comfortable using it, don’t use it.
There's a lot of FUD in "uninformed decisions"

Not sure what you're talking about with covid tests. People either had it or didn't. The decision making process was straightforward. Rest and isolate, or treat something different like the flu. If one was seriously ill, go to the ER. Several Covid medications like Paxlovid were still locked behind a medical professional with Rx power.

People doing crazy things is always going to be a reality, whether there is tests and data out there. At least they could positively know whether they had it or not. Is it a problem that some would be obsessive and test themselves constantly? Sure. But whatever. It's the same problem like with bread and milk before a big storm. Obsessive compulsion will always be a part of the human condition. It's healthy to accept that these behaviors will happen, but to police that behavior at the expense of the educated (that can inform themselves) would be a net loss to society.
I just always try to master the most popular tool of a given area first before I start exploring around. Call it a generalized Chesterton's fence.

React happens to be the most popular tool, and I find a lot to like about it.
AI companies in the US are mostly startups. ASML goes back to Phillips, which is over a century old and has moved into semi conductors very early. What ASML does is push a the technological boundary of an industrial process, which requires enormous R&D. You can find many such companies in the EU.

The EU wants large corporations to do innovation. The US allows startups to do that, the consequences are pretty obvious.
At least in a specific experimental context and with specific animal models. When they mixed the embryos of a frog and an axolotl, there were no genes in their genome which could predict whether a "frogolotl" will have legs.
Oh I meant cinema movies before they end up on streaming sites. The Dune 2 BluRay had cost 1 less than to borrow and stream it. Might be different from country to country but that was really an eye opener for me. Okay the stream was 4k the BluRay not, thats maybe the only point for the stream, but really that price, incredible.
Nebula was started by a bunch of very popular YT creators looking to bring their audience with them.
> has a good track record with privacy

They repeated this so many times they've made it true.
> They gain nothing by blocking this specific app.

I dunno, I think there's an obvious thing Apple would be worried about by allowing PC emulators on iOS (iPadOS specifically): the only thing that stops an iPad Pro from being the only computer of, say, a software engineer these days, is that iPadOS doesn't function as an non-inter-app-sandboxed parallel-multitasking development platform in the way that a desktop OS does.

But a (performant) PC emulator on iPadOS would fix that. You could buy an iPad Pro with a keyboard case, boot up a Windows or Linux (or maybe even macOS) VM, and work inside that — running shells, editors/IDEs, compilers, Docker containers, etc. And then swipe back over to (less-heavyweight) iPad apps when you're just taking notes / watching videos.

Honestly, it's something I've personally wanted for a long time. Despite loving my laptop, I'd love to be able to pack only an iPad when travelling to e.g. conferences. Right now I can't, because what if prod goes down and I need to investigate + develop a critical bugfix + deploy it? If I could run a PC VM on my iPad, I could do all that and more.
No multilingual capabilities it seems: https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/#footnote-1
I can see people using Rewrite all the time. In the grim darkness of the AI future, your friends speak only in language that is clean, sanitized, HR-approved, and soulless.
The benefit of owning the last mile to the customer is that you can choose when you want to replace default Maps, or not.
Musk fired 80% of Twitter and everyone thought that Twitter was doomed
It's a win for OpenAI and AI. I remember someone on Hacker News commented that OpenAI is a company searching for a market. This move might prove that AI, and OpenAI, has a legitimate way to be used and profitable. We'll see.
Josh Wardle really lucked out by both accidentally having the best name for that game, and it hitting a cultural firestorm quite quickly. IIRC, NYT are mostly going after other implementations if they have similar names.
> So who is this all for?

It is for everyone and the rest of us. Like it or not.

"AI" cannot be stopped.
Some of this is intentional on websites from Google. Google sheets has a very very annoying bug where if you want to multiply two values in a cell formula and press the asterisk key, the cursor jumps to the left of the asterisk. You then have to manually place the cursor to the right of the asterisk (since pushing the right arrow key may instead jump to the next cell to the right), breaking any typing flow whatsoever. However, if you fake your Firefox user agent to chrome (but change nothing else), the bug disappears.

I recall reading a post here on HN that Google has been found from time to time to intentionally cripple the FF user agent, which in turn led me to "discover" the sheets bug fix.

This does not change much about what you wrote, but it's at least something to do against malicious incompatibility
this being a news thread about Apple integrating AI into all their operating systems and apps aside... Chrome has started prompting me to use generative AI in text boxes. Twitter (X) has an entire tab for Grok that it keeps giving me popup ads for. Every single productivity suite (Notion, Monday, Jira) are perpetually prompting me to summarize my issue with AI. Github has banner ads for Copilot. It is everywhere.