skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, every NJT commuter to NYC from NJ is subsidized by NJ to earn money in NYC and pay taxes to NYS. NJ's subsidization of NJT reduces the number of car trips into Manhattan dramatically. NJ commuters to NYC/NYS pay income tax to NYS and virtually nothing to NJ. The balance of payments deficit to NYS from NJ is in the range of $4 billion annually. I don't remember exactly what kind of operating subsidy NJT needs, but it's a heck of a lot less than $4 billion. NJ's entire state budget is around $50 billion. This is not a small, inconsequential issue, and downplaying its consequences is a little silly, to use your phrase.

Also, NJ residents commuting to NYC don't just "do it to avoid city taxes". There are more commuters from NJ than there are open housing units in the 5 boroughs. NJ's housing stock and commuting infrastructure is a massive pressure relief valve on housing costs in NYC. Heck, NJ commuters would saturate every open housing unit in the boroughs, Long Island, Westchester, Southern Connecticut, and then some.

Last thought. Manhattan is a massive job center in no small part because of its enormous access to talent inside and outside of the city - the outside the city talent uses mass transit on an enormous scale. NJ might look different without Manhattan there, but NYC would also look different if NJ wasn't there.
That's the problem. These AI features may be "free" but is there an option to disable them system wide from rummaging through all your data and building a profile in order to be helpful? If not I won't update. And I mean one tickbox not a separate switch for every app and feature like siri has making it nearly impossible to disable
Not GP, but macOS doesn't have fractional scaling, which means that running at non-integer scales is inefficient. For example:

A 3840x2160 monitor run at 1x means a framebuffer of 3840x2160.

At 2x, the effective resolution is 1920x1080, and this also uses a framebuffer of 3840x2160.

At 1.5x, the effective resolution is 2560x1440. This is implemented by rendering at 4x (5160x2880) and then downscaling that.

At 1.25x, the effective resolution is 3072x1728. This is also implemented by rendering at 4x (6144x3456) and downscaling that.

The difference between all of these is quite noticeable.

Edit: Apparently Apple has been shipping its laptops with non-integer scaling for a while, which is interesting.
we've had photoshop for more than a decade now
> I can set the default browser on my iPhone to Chrome, right in the Safari settings.

You can set your browser to a Chrome UI wrapper around a Safari Webview. You can do this with any [browser] UI wrapper around a Safari Webview, as long as [browser] has received the relevant entitlement from Apple.[0]

Outside of the EU, all browser apps on iOS must run Safari's engine.[1]

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/Xcode/preparing-yo...

> Request the default browser entitlement by filling out the Default browser entitlement request form. If your request is accepted you get both the default browser entitlement, and the com.apple.developer.browser.app-installation entitlement. If you have the default browser entitlement, fill out this form to receive the app-installation entitlement for your browser app.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/browserenginekit

> Important: To distribute an app that uses an alternative browser engine, you need to request the relevant entitlements for your developer account. For more information and to request the entitlements, see Using alternative browser engines in the European Union.
Ah yes, them saying “we’re bad at it on purpose, but are scrambling to throw random features in our next release” is definitely a great defense.
The upsides are obvious and concrete, the downsides are mostly hypotheticals.

People already carry around a device with a GPS, camera, and microphone that has access to most of their intimate and personal communications and finances. Adding AI capabilities doesn't seem like a bridge too far, that's for sure.
I completely disagree. Yeah, the launch of 1PW8 was rocky. They didn't have feature parity on some devices (iOS). I waited a good while to update and when I did I had an issue with my Yubikey, so I went back to 1PW7 on iOS, but it was fantastic on macOS--way better than 7. After a short while, they fixed the Yubikey login issue with 8 on iOS and I have had exactly zero issues on macOS or iOS since, for about a year(ish).

Another data point: my 85 year old mother used to have issues with 7. She'd get confused about things. With 8, it's been clear sailing for her. That's pretty impressive to me.
Well I guess it is time to look around for new devices. This is by far the biggest mistake Apple made.
"AI convergence is going to lay bare organizational deficiencies in a way previous revolutions didn't`'

Your quote really hit me. I trust Apple to respect my privacy when doing AI, but the thought of Microsoft or Google slurping up all my data to do remote-server AI is abhorrent. I can't see how Microsoft or Google can undo the last 10 years to fix this.
A long time ago, my wife had to send a photo of her drivers license someone at Facebook to prove that indeed, she was using her real name. I don't know if that option is still available. What's even more funny is that her sister has been using an anagram of her (the sister's) name on Facebook, and has never had any trouble with it, even though it is completely fabricated.
> Clearly the goal for Apple is to eventually use its own models and be an entirely in house product.

If that turns out anything like Siri, then surely you would understand why people want a bring-your-own-model framework.
iSH has nothing stopping you, the user, from wgetting arbitrary scripts or binaries and running them in the VM[0]. It also exposes a file provider so you can drop arbitrary x86 binaries into it if you so choose.

Also, iSH does have a package manager. It used to actually be modified to pull packages from the App Store but now they use a separate server. I don't remember if it's the Alpine Linux package repo or a custom thing for iSH.

[0] In fact, this was the excuse Apple used to ban it a few years ago
> top of the line panels

A few different people have figured out how to convert these panels into stand-alone displays. It's a pity that it would be impractical to make a small business out of this.

- https://ohmypizza.com/2023/04/converting-a-5k-imac-into-an-e...
- https://mschmitt.org/blog/convert-5k-27-imac-external-displa...
A threat model of Google getting your email revision makes these statements sillier. TLS and existing privacy policies are sufficient.
Yeah, I miss the real physical keyboards. I started with the Palm Treo smart phone in 2001 and stuck with Palm till they died. Better even than blackberry keyboards.
Yes, I agree, with both.
>The increased value of my stock holdings has resulted in a very nice increase in my quarterly dividend distribution.

But there are masses of companies in the S&P 500 that don't even pay dividends. The dividend yield of the index is like 1.3%.
> taxes are a huge problem. The labour regulations, I think less so

I’d invert this. Taxes aren’t a huge issue for start-ups. Not being able to pivot by changing team composition is. Add to that the random EU-specific AI regulations, and it becomes a clearly second-tier place to launch from unless you have the political connections to land national champion status, e.g. Mistral.
I know about AirDrop. I use it for small batches (< 10) of photos.

It fails completely for my use case, which is that every 6 months or so, I want to back up the 2000 or so pictures I've taken to a Samba share on a home server that I control. The closest equivalent would be iCloud, but I refuse to mortgage my family memories to vendor lock-in for a monthly fee.
This is literally everything I've been hoping Siri would be since the very first GPT-3.5 demo over a year ago. I've never been more bullish on the Apple ecosystem. So exciting!
My favorite thing with names is I have some people in my contacts who have names that are phonetically similar to English words. When I type those words in a text or email, Siri will change those words to people’s names.
New WebKit technologies coming to Safari 18
>And they tend to dismiss good old tech (like SQL)

I was there when we gave up on SQL. It wasn't because we wanted to. It was because we had a terabytes of data that needed to be accessed in micro-seconds.

SQL in 2006 was simply incapable of that. Looking at what a modern machine can do is ridiculous by comparison. Try and do it on a 8 year old phone and you will have as close to the experience we had back then.
Google is quite notorious for having this issue from various blog posts and HN comments I've read.

Lots of middle management power groups that would prevent a cohesive top down vision from easily being adopted.
Please stop submitting links from this website. They are not interesting and seemingly only serve self-promotion purposes.
Except for the fact that you can import from and export to other password managers using built-in functions. That kind of kills the whole lock-in vibe.
> transparently, legally surveilled

Adjectives like these are basically content-free until we get a handle on the disposition of surveillance data.

To pose an example, I'd like to know that the video from inside my nearby shopping center is wiped after 72 hours (barring a warrant), and provably so. That would mean computer code available for audit, and surveillance equipment (including on-device storage and no feed off-device) with tamper resistance and seals and checksums and all that. For all surveillance equipment surveilling public areas.
TBH i have both Macs and iPhones and not only I don't use any integration options (with the exception of reading and sending text messages from my laptop) but I'm pretty sure I don't even know about 90% of them.
With Firefox at 2.93% [1] percent market share, doesn't seem like many people would put it in the MVP.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
How was it a step backward? I have noticed zero downsides to 8 compared to the previous version. I'm comparing the current version to the last version 7 I used. This electron hate is such a headscratcher for me.
It just writes the content, it doesn't actually send anything.

We'll find out later if there's an API to do something like that at all or are external communications always behind some hard limit that requires explicit user interaction.
And outside of a very small portion of the user base, how much of most people's time is spent in those activities?
Yep. Am bad at Dev. Pretty good at making sure Kubernetes cluster doesn't implode though.
It's a big mental gymnastics to do the same as Google and Microsoft while claiming moral superiority.

Apple's thrown stones come back to hunt their glass ceiling.
Orion uses WebKit and also lets you access extensions like uBO.
Thank you _so_ much for that recommendation. I've been so frustrated that even authors I like have started to create clickbait.
> Apple is not going to leave this to chance.

How much would you be willing to bet, on a statement like this? I love a sporting chance.
AI needs to start focussing on the quality of its reading.
Origin of Items in the British Museum's Collection
FINALLY! I really didn’t it to come to Mac, ever.

Now so just need a clipboard history manager, a way to make cmd+tab behave like Windows alt+tab, a way to mute the mic in the status bar, and a different setting for the trackpad/mouse wheel direction, and I won’t need to install random apps for basic features anymore.
Can you explain what that means for someone who missed part of the video today?
I don't want any part of my personal data (what I write, what I photograph, what I record, what I jot down) to be viewed by anything by my own eyes or the encryption algorithm converting it to ciphertext to send across a secure channel WITHOUT MY CONSENT.

Period.

Reason: again, nobody's business.

If you don't get this then, a) you're not in a high-risk group for discrimination, or b) you've never been subjected systemic polices designed to keep you "in line".
> AI laws don't work that way

The companies being in America and selling demanded services in the EU will force the laws into one configuration, whether through lobbying by customers or direct pressure from the U.S.

I’m not seeing, for example, any effort to comply with EU regulations among any of the smaller AI startups, most of whom have customers in the EU. (Which is rational. Once they get bigger they can weigh fines against exiting the market. And if it becomes widespread, it can escalate to a political priority for State.)
Oh, go figure. Let that be a lesson: if you don't check out the accessibility options, you're missing at least half the cool stuff your phone can do to actually make your life easier.
Woman sues Cold Stone Creamery over lack of pistachios in pistachio ice cream
OpenAI is such a controversial company and good competitors like Anthropic, who arguably align better with their brand, exist. That makes the deal so weird to me.
Is the tag tied the tag to the car there?

In most US states, the tag is registered to the owner and the car. I put old cars on/off the road and have 3-8 tags/yr come and go (+3 on daily drivers).

While the tag is in your possession, insurance must be kept active on that vehicle. If you pull a car off the road, you have to turn in the tag before canceling insurance.

Like lots of people, I've had my license auto-suspended for non-insurance. My company notified the state of renewal (old end+new begin) and state only recorded the old policy ending. I only found out because I routinely checked my license status online. Saved me a trip to jail and an impounded vehicle.
Practically this just doesn't matter all that much. You can prefer one approach to the other and that's all fine, but from a "serious engineering" perspective it just doesn't really matter.

> Trying to maintain your own linux distro is insanely difficult, infact google still uses a 2.2 kernel with all custom back ported updates of the last 30 years.

2.2? Colour me skeptical on that.

But it's really not that hard to make a Linux distro. I know, because I did it, and tons of other people have. It's little more than "get kernel + fuck about with Linux booting madness + bunch of userland stuff". The same applies to FreeBSD by the way, and according to the PDF "Netflix has an internal “distro”".

The problems Google has is because they maintain extensive patchsets, not because they built their own distro. They would have the same problems with FreeBSD, or any other complex piece of software.
I used it with my family and it's worth paying monthly for it. Passwords are so incredibly important. If I was hit by a car tomorrow, I know a huge chunk of my life is there for people to just pick up.
Google was considered very cool and trustworthy at one point also. "Do no evil" and all that.
Hard to tell. That's the whole point.I thought maybe Apple had come up with something - but by and large it is not different from Vision Pro - they have made X feel better, no real one generation ahead stuff. Basically they are not introducing the innovation.

There are two challenges right now for AI - user monetisation and mass adoption. ChatGPT right now is basically a TikTok - a popular app and that's it. Yeah, it has a subscription but by and large, companies are failing to find a way to monetize the user. And at the same time there is no a proper trigger - something that would make AI better than a glorified assistance. For people who used not to rely on it, it won't be a game changer either, just a little bit of convenience.

So it remains to be seen what's going to happen with AI in the future. It seems like the biggest gamechanger introduced by AI is in hardware space - the mass adoption of ARM, NPUs and stuff. Plus it seems like the monetization of AI is done nicely in the companies - Adobe's AI features, Microsoft and their corporate features and so on.
Sad indeed but the days of 0 interest rates are gone. Plus, software engineers in many countries are now massively more expensive.
Beyond the hot button issue of AI, the problem is that iOS (and macOS) have been so refined for several major releases now that nearly any new feature is going to be known only by power users and tech reviewers. Do any of these Apple Intelligence tools actually help multimedia creators? Or does it trigger their fear of getting replaced by AI?
What basis

The ones I've read.

Where do people get this overconfidence.

Probably the same place you got it.
I think that copyright (and patents) is no good, and should be abolished. They should not restrict making copies of books, selling copies, and other stuff, by copyright. What you should not be allowed to do is to make an inexact copy and then sell it and then claim that the inexact copy is the same as the original, if it is not the same as the original; however, it can still be allowed if you do not make such invalid claims.
Plug it in via USB, and then most Android devices show up as USB sticks within Windows Explorer. You can access the filesystem the same way you'd access any external media, and drag & drop photos over.

Apple, however, in their infinite wisdom made MacOS pop open iTunes when you connect an iPhone as a USB device. You can "import" them into Photos (another Apple walled garden), but they don't show up as a filesystem, and you can't use normal filesystem operations or terminal commands to move them over.
It's too new, they're still working on it. But if it's promised features materialize it's hard to imagine it won't gain an audience. And in general I wouldn't bet against Chris Lattner.
In a general, philosophical sense it probably is non-falsifiable. But... where does it end?

What if we took the measurement 5ns, 500ms, 5 seconds, 5 hours later, because of, you know, things. Billions of universes springing up every second does not seem plausible to me and it does sound like an escape hatch: we don't know why it happened that way, so let's just say there is another unobservable universe where it happened the other way round.

Which is nice, I don't have to think about it anymore. But... it kind of reminds me of the flying arrow or a turtle you can never reach. If you are thinking in the same problem space you will never reach the correct conclusion. So, what we really need is the different mode of thought (I wish I would know to suggest something ;) ), not an escape hatch.
I agree. Quite odd and not very Apple-ish. I wonder if there’s some good reason for it; it must have been debated internally.
And here’s the Apple Developer link… https://developer.apple.com/wwdc24/
For real, I’m sure a fair amount of previous processors are able to handle it fine, just a reason for ppl to buy the next phone
Seems to me like you’d be more likely to sign a deal “up to AGI” if you knew that was a pipe dream that would never happen. It’s easy to sign away your firstborn child if you’ll never have any children to begin with.

Edit: Nevermind, looks like it's just a way to hype then!
Can I ask you to explain how this is at all relevant to the clear statistical fact that not every weird nerd is autistic?
people go back and edit their comments silently after being called out all the time around here
It all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down...
> These days with most payroll being direct deposited I don't think many people look at their pay stubs anymore anyway.

Am I really the only one who downloads their entire paystub every paycheck and enters all the tax numbers, benefits lines, 401K deductions and so on into a spreadsheet or Quicken so I can check on accuracy and tally everything up at the end of each year? I've found errors once or twice by doing this. Come on, there must at least be dozens of us, out of hundreds of millions of employees, who do this...
Tesla aren't the only people trying to make self-driving cars, famously Uber tried and Waymo looks like they're slowly succeeding. Competition can be useful, but it's not a panacea.
Most pw mangers already have one. That's how I started on BitWarden
Great to know! Looks like they only made this change at the beginning of May. Prior to that you had to turn off chat history which wasn't worth it to me.

April 25, 2024: "To disable chat history and model training, navigate to ChatGPT > Settings > Data Controls and disable Chat history & training. While history is disabled, new conversations won’t be used to train and improve our models, and won’t appear in the history sidebar. To monitor for abuse, we will retain all conversations for 30 days before permanently deleting."
https://web.archive.org/web/20240425194703/https://help.open...

May 02, 2024: "To disable model training, navigate to your profile icon on the bottom-left of the page and select Settings > Data Controls, and disable “Improve the model for everyone.“ While this is disabled, new conversations won’t be used to train our models."
https://web.archive.org/web/20240502203525/https://help.open...
I thought it was the smartest and most pragmatic thing they've announced.

Being best in class for on-device AI is a huge market opportunity. Trying to do it all would be dumb like launching Safari without a google search homepage partnership.

Apple can focus on what they are good at which is on device stuff and blending AI into their whole UX across the platform, without compromising privacy. And then taking advantage of a market leader for anything requiring large external server farms and data being sent across the wire for internet access, like AI search queries.
Would be interesting to hear Rachel's take on all the contract recruiting (?) firms that claim to do the same thing, test candidates and then provide them to employers- just on remote contracts for temp work. The OG in this space is Toptal, but there seems to be a lot of VC money in a bunch of upstarts in this space. They all say 'we screen our developers through an extremely rigorous yada yada process'. They tend to have a lot of developing world talent. Not sure if that's the future of online talent platforms or what have you
>People don't want everything tied to one identity, one service, one login.

This is EXACTLY what people want. Please remember that HN is not a cross section of the general public.
Did you go to a public school?

If you did, think back on all the kids that were your classmates. Not just the ones in the honors and AP courses you probably took, but all of them. Do you really find it surprising that they didn't learn or retain various bits of seemingly simple information?

If you went to some kind of magnet school with only the smart kids, take my word for it - a huge percentage of 14-17 year olds have absolutely no interest in learning and remembering what inflation is and how it works. Some of them will find some internal curiosity later in life, but plenty will never change much.

This is a minor pet peeve of mine developed from too much time spent reading internet comments years ago where young people would complain "why wasn't XYZ taught in school??". Very often the answer is - It was, but you were a bad student.
Nope. I'm not in USA ;)
"100% user privacy."

That is a huge stretch and a signal as to how good Apple is with their marketing.

If they are still letting apps like GasBuddy to sell your location to insurance companies then they are no where near "100% privacy".
Most of us don't.

The signal is at a frequency of one cycle per line-second, but there's an idle period while the beam goes back up to the top where it still cycles so the actual frequency will be a bit higher than a simple lines/frame * frames/sec calculation would indicate. Even for broadcast TV that was beyond what a lot of adults can hear (but a lot of kids can, as plenty of posters in this thread have said.) I want to say 15.7khz but I certainly won't swear to that. As your resolution goes up the frequency will go up so some people would be able to hear what resolution a monitor is set to.