skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the context of this discussion is people installing apps from the google play store (something i do not do myself), so, yes, those people do trust google and indeed have already informed it in a personally identifiable way that they are pondering installing the app. having google provide them with the privacy policy for the app would be a pure improvement
Your comment is naive. It’s like saying “I don’t like sport so why do we force athletes to do drug tests”.
That's true, but if you don't update your local software and it isn't currently backdoored, then it won't magically become backdoored without some active involvement somewhere. The trouble with remotely pushing data somewhere is that you can't tell if anything has changed even if you wanted to. (Attestation only works if it's not compromised, and for obvious reasons, there's no way to know that an attestation mechanism is compromised.)

That said I really don't disagree with this point at all in terms of it being a valid problem. It's not a fixable problem either (it comes down to, again, building trustworthy computers) but it could be biased way towards being solved whereas today it is still "trust me bro". I don't think Apple will be the company to make progress towards this, though.
Or you have grown wiser. It’s not that Canada used to be better, you’re just more observant now.
Except that everyone has different visual acuity and different distance they use the same devices at, and in the end, "retina" means nothing at all.

But this is exactly the type of marketing Apple is good at, though "retina" is probably not the most successful example.
I found myself first agreeing with this, and then hating the examples used.

I think the part i liked boils down to: have a thesis and be very upfront on what it is. Everything you say should build up that thesis.

To a lesser extent, i also agree with the idea that presentations should (usually) have a narrative structure, but i wouldn't put it the same way they did.

But at the same time, when they started to go into examples, everything started to sound click-baity. "One important thing you have to know about X" just feels like a click-bait headline. It also kind of assumes that i want to know one thing about X. Maybe i would rather know zero things. The "why" is left unadressed.
Thanks for the feedback. I take kind to it.
Such unoriginal conspiracies. Starship is actually a platform for climate geoengineering
I really enjoy matchmaking games, though... being able to immediately find a game against someone of similar skill as you is a huge factor in enjoyment. I don't want to give that up.
> For on-device inference, we use low-bit palletization, a critical optimization technique that achieves the necessary memory, power, and performance requirements.

Did they go over the entire text with a thesaurus? I've never seen "palletization" be used as a viable synonym for "quantization" before, and I've read quite a few papers on LLM quantization
What we struggle with is emotions and removing them from who we are.

It is very, very subtle but oh so simple (but not easy)
Let’s not be too picky. This is a good thing.
Related: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/introducing-defense-against-ai-g...
That seems like it ought to be detectable statistically, unless the cheater adds jitter to the inputs to mimic human hands on a controller. And if not, it seems literally impossible to prevent so you may as well give up.

(As an aside, hearing about this kind of setup really makes me wonder what the point is of cheating. Prestige? Among what set of peers?)
I wonder, how would you design an anti-cheat protection? Would you fight for the privacy of cheaters?
For truly immersive VR video it seems we’ll need to support moving your head in 6 degrees of freedom, so you can peak around objects etc. We’re a long ways off from it being realtime, but I can imagine generative AI being used to interpolate frames from an array of cameras spaced fairly widely apart.
Try that on a 50 person map in battlefield
Anyone who sells professional services based on knowledge they learned on the internet (which probably includes most people reading this) is doing that.
> In this option it would be Apple releasing a malicious software update?

Yes, compelled by something like the all writs act (if the US is the one doing the compelling).

> This option reads like the keys are stored in apple-keys.txt

They probably are. That file might live on a CD drive in a safe that requires two people to open it, but ultimately it's a short chunk of binary data that exists somewhere (until it is destroyed)...

> might they still address this concern in writing?

Can I say beyond all doubt that this won't happen? Of course not.

On the first approach I'm quite confident though, because it's both the type of attack they discuss in their initial press release, and pretty fundamental to and explicitly allowed by their model of updating the software.

On the second approach I'm reasonably confident. Like the first issue it's the type of issue that they were discussing in their initial press release. Unlike the first issue it's not something that is explicitly allowed in the model. If Apple can find a way to make the attestation keys irretrievable while still allowing themselves to manufacture hardware I believe they'd do it - I just don't see a method and think it would have warranted a mention if they had one. I tried to insert a level of uncertainty in my original writing on this one because I could be missing a way to solve it.

Ultimately I'd rather over-correct now then have people start thinking this is going to be more secure than it is and then have some fraction of them miss the extremely-likely follow up of "and we could be compelled to work around our security".
> RAM is literally the cheapest primary component

Is that still true for Apple's integrated memory? It might be - I just don't know.
"zero-day" already has a meaning, and that is not it.
Yeah but OP is backed by citations w/ Nature & Science.
> Do you just drop the customer? Well that's lost revenue, or an easy win for another company, you don't want to do that.

Are those the only or even main reasons you don't want to "just drop the customer"?

I hope not. Is offering a good service at an attractive price, one that delivers on its promises not even a thing any more?
Thats what I was thinking. Some of the higher end EFT cheats I've used were drawing to the screen but were not picked up by any sort of screenshot tools or even streaming on Discord. It would appear that the whole "take a screenshot of the screen" anti-cheat is no longer effective.

As a connoisseur of online game hacks, I'm utterly stunned at the level of sophistication that both parties partake in with respect to the cat-and-mouse game of cheat/anti-cheat.

Some are technically very interesting, like the hardware DMA device I previously used. The firmware was customized specifically for a subset of users specifically to avoid detection (it eventually failed). Others are very clever, like the hack that was dynamically compiled as an Xbox Game Bar module.
Must be Erectus then. This must be the time the aliens placed the Monolith on Earth (and another one on the Moon that we haven't found yet because we're WAY behind on our Moon base program).
If it's human level, you can.

You train it, you replace it with a more suitable worker, whatever.

You've answered your own dilemma with the premise.
I don't think the GP meant "trust" as in "I think Apple has my best interests at heart."

Rather, I think they meant "trust" as in "Apple is observably predictable and rational in how they work toward their own self-interest, rarely doing things for stupid reasons. And they have chosen to center their business on a long-term revenue strategy involving selling high-margin short-lifetime hardware — a strategy that only continues to work because of an extremely high level of brand-image they've built up; and which would be ruined instantly if they broke any of the fundamental brand promises they make. These two factors together mean that Apple have every reason to be incentivized to only say things if they're going to mean them and follow through on them."

There's also the much simpler kind of "trust" in the sense of "I trust them because they don't put me in situations where I need to trust them. They actively recuse themselves from opportunities to steal my data, designing architectures to not have places where that can happen." (Of course, the ideal version of this kind of trust would be a fully-open-source-hardware-and-software, work-in-the-open, signed-public-supply-chain-ledger kind of company. You don't get that from Apple, nor from any other bigcorp. Apple's software is proprietary... but at least it's in your hand where you can reverse-engineer it! Google's software is off in a cloud somewhere where nobody can audit changes to it.)
Cheaters are bad, but it's not worth unreasonably harming everyone else to stop them. I wouldn't advocate for surveillance cameras in everyone's homes to reduce crime.
It’s not every day you read something that completely boggles your mind. Our solar system passes through interstellar clouds and it can affect our planet. Wow.
Crates of Rust on the Wall
Behind the Scenes of Vercel's Infrastructure
Except Apple won't allow it, though I'm sure people will try to flit with that line with things like music videos.
Pretty good considering the precedent has been set.
Apple's marketing and branding is truly impressive when even Hackernews crowd, who'd you assume are very tech savvy, are eating it up all of the propaganda.
People do crank up a few gears when it's war time or generally threaten of their survivals. After all the original engineering was military engineering then after the rest of engineering or engineering for common causes like building a bridge for civilians are called civil engineering.

For example, Fourier Transform was there but no one use it because it is too slow and there was no urgency to use it until the nuclear testings were common place. In order to detect underground nuclear testing there was an urgency to detect the events using Fourier Transform and voila Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) was invented to speed up it up considerably without loosing the accuracy. Then we have Fast Inverse Fourier Transform and the rest is history.

Another great example was the need for robust command and control (C & C) during the Cold War. US military was looking for C & C infrastructure that can survive nuclear catastrophe and voila the Internet was invented. People keep denying this fact but since it's initially and fully funded by DARPA, it's kind of giving away the main motivations. The basic tenet of the Internet design is essentially to have a highly reliable communication in the face of nearly total or 99% infrastructure destruction. If I can recall correctly someone actually simulated the 99% infrastructure down scenario and the results US Internet is still working fine, and if someone know this report or publication please let me know the original source.
Maybe they use the "Siri is waking up and the screen wabbles" animation time for loading the model. That would be clever.
I don't believe that's what I suggested at all. I believe I asked GP why they believed what they said.
You're being downvoted because your complaint is unrelated to the post topic. It's about scam ads masquerading as linked to trusted domains (an ad that shows it links to "adobe.com", but actually takes you to scamsite.com when you click it).
>Humans are good at fixing problems mostly because we are good at making them.

Are we? Just look at climate change.

>We are fighting climate change with science and industry.

We are also fighting fighting climate change with pseudo science and industry money.

We aren't good at fixing things, we are good at surviving even if we don't fix things. Maybe lots of people die, maybe we repeat the same mistakes over and over again but at least some will survive to start all over again.
Every high culture went down the hill and a new emerged from the rubbles of the previous one.
But that's not fixing, that surviving.
Being a small company, you could have hired them on trial & part time for a month or so, evaluate their skills before taking them in as a permanent full timer.
In religious circles it's not uncommon to prefix each and every writing with that. It's very generic sort of implying god is everywhere. So in writing, in that context, it has no real special significance other than to hint the writer is religious.

In some contexts Inshallah and "Bae Ezarat Hashem" could I guess have similar meanings. E.g. in the Wikipedia example: "I will visit my relatives in Riyadh this summer, God willing." it can be used exactly the same way.
I couldn't tell if you meant Minsky or Chomsky. Chomsky has doubled down on some pretty terrible positions into his old age, including "Ukraine asked for it" when it came to Russia's invasion of Ukraine or a continuous stream of apologies and whataboutisms for regimes who resemble his ideal politics in name only
Neither is Apple unless one buys wholly into the Apple ecosystem. I want open ai tools that I can truly use with all my text. But I'm not holding my breath.
> That doesn’t seem too bad to me.

Avid denialists like you make me glad antitrust works. It is in fact "bad" to create an artificial pipeline of demand and then manipulate the pressure by excluding profitable competition. You might argue you're entitled to that pipeline if you own it, but that doesn't protect you if you use it for anticompetitive purposes. Microsoft found this out a while ago, when they were threatened with a breakup if they further abused their monopoly position.

Apple spent 10 long years refusing to renegotiate their asinine, arbitrary rules until the government stepped in. In that time, an uncountable amount of market damage has been caused by Apple's protectionist policy and can't be ignored simply because it works for some people. Apple is in the wrong, and they know it; that's why they're accepting their fate instead of fighting for their right to continue abusing their App Store privileges forever.
my favourite far out there version of chemical evolution is the one where the entire Hubble volume was in the goldilocks zone for a few million years! sadly we may never be able to confirm it with samples, as there will always be the worry of contamination from earth.
reminds me of Easel on iMessage: https://easelapps.ai/
> I’ve never been close to intellectual elite circles

That is very humble
The intellectual capital in this countries just happens to be off the charts. It is probably, to a degree, related to the existential jeopardy those countries face.
> if you don't update your local software and it isn't currently backdoored, then it won't magically become backdoored without some active involvement somewhere

If you don't update your local software then it will certainly become automatically backdoored by an accumulating series of security vulnerabilities over time.

> I don't think Apple will be the company to make progress towards this, though.

I agree.
https://apple.github.io/coremltools/docs-guides/source/palet...
I meant for my example to include public areas too, like ordinary streets and squares. My error.

Odd that you mention Pinkerton. Certainly surveillance has been with us forever. But nowadays the threat is from systems like those of China, where 24/7 face ID can in principle track individuals from door to door. This is the kind of threat scenario where I would like to see surveillance of public areas put on a leash.

EDIT: To quote Apple from another context, "Security and privacy guarantees are strongest when they are entirely technically enforceable, which means it must be possible to constrain and analyze all the components that critically contribute to the guarantees of the overall [system]."
Cannot afford one.

But what is different from the meta quest 3 just bought and surprisingly (I use hp Vr set for flying msf2020) very good. Even just compile a sample of unity to it.

Fundamentally different or just competing in the same sphere, like choosing canon or nikon.
Even if youtube disappeared today, there would be more "content" available in the world than I could ever consume.
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The AI can't "leak" it, it's not like they're training it on their own classified documents. You can make it say anything with the right prompt.

Also, I don't think the US or other powers would actually want to render nuclear weapons useless, since that would mean that full-scale wars are possible again due to MAD being made redundant.
Easel has been on iMessage for a bit now: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/easel-ai/id6448734086
It's the same formatting style as many of their other comments, while the content is different from the usual LLM-generated fare, so I'm leaning no.

Comments about comments being LLM generated are getting old pretty fast though.
"Open tools" and "Integration" is really hard to do.

I'd _love_ to be able to pull down my email from Fastmail, Calendars from iCal, notes from Google Notes etc to a single LLM for me to ask questions from, but it would require all of the different sources to have a proper API to fetch the data from.

Apple already has all it on device and targeted by ML models since multiple iPhone versions ago. Now they just slapped a natural language model on top of it.
> Because this utter insanity isn't being loudly called out, spat upon, and generally treated with the withering contempt that these companies have so richly and roundly earned this decision is being made for all society by the most naive among us.

Ah yes, blame the simple-minded plebes who foolishly cast their noses up at Windows Phone. If only Ballmer were still in charge, surely he'd have saved us from this horrible future of personal, privacy-respecting AI at the edge...
I'm reasonably sure you just described the SEC and the (paraphrasing Matt Levine) "everything is securities fraud"-doctrine. Yes Apple has some wiggle room if they rely on rule-lawyering, but.. I really don't think they can wide-spread ignore the intention of the statements made today.
But why are you asking copilot physics questions?
I was a BW customer and switched to 1P. 1P is so much better. The clients are better and the syncing of sessions between the browser, desktop, and CLI is amazing. 1P has great integration with Linux and SSH too.
Kinda that, but the context is also wild.

Apparently, this morning, the judge (allegedly) had a secret ex-parte conference in chambers with the prosecution and a witness. The witness that is currently on the stand.

From what I hear from attornies, an ex-parte meeting with the witness currently on the stand and one side’s counsel is pretty crazy. But to have that meeting without telling the defense counsel at all is bananas. It feels very mistrial territory to me.

Then, when the defense counsel raises the issue, the judge’s only question is “who told you?” and “how did you find out?”. Seems extremely antithetical to an open court process.

Then, once that question refuses to be answered you get into what you’re talking about. Power-tripping stuff.

But even that seems incompetent. He continuously mixes up civil and criminal contempt throughout the proceedings, until he finally gets is straightened out at the very end (with the help from new counsel that shows up to represent the lawyer he’s trying to jail).

Just totally wild stuff.
(This seemed like an on-topic and useful post esp. for non-Go users; not sure why it got flagged)
For the LPDDR4 and LPDDR5 that goes into the M1 and M2/M3 systems, yes. You might need to spend more money on memory controllers (since M1 and up is 8-channel) but the physical memory component itself is highly availible and relatively cheap. Same goes for SSD storage, nowadays.
Didn't Elon have a Twitter meltdown today about how AI will leak your secrets?

The cited Science journal paper answers your question about whether the U.S. govt wants it. As well as the quotes from Heritage and Trump. Sounds like including interceptors (Brilliant Pebbles) is a bit political, but missile tracking is bipartisan (Brilliant Eyes).
> all of them, time and again, have shown themselves to be totally untrustworthy in all possible ways

Sorry, but this seems like a very vague claim to me. Can you specifically point out a time where Apple proved itself untrustworthy in a way that impacts personal privacy?

When Apple says they treat my data in a specific way, then yes I do trust them. This promise is pretty central to my usage of them as a company. I'd change my mind if there was evidence to suggest they're lying, or have betrayed that trust, but I haven't seen any, and your post doesn't provide any either.
It’s summer (no school) and it’s not dark until a little after 9PM, in my mid-latitude part of the continental US.

“Bye, have fun, come in when the street lights come on” is entirely appropriate for a 9-year-old when school’s not in session. It’s playing outside, not playing fortnight or drooling to the YouTube algo. It’s ok for that to run a little late in the summer.
Some speculate it's a consequence, not a reason. When most of the environment is poorly designed, lack of third places, lots of dangerous cars, big distances, no sidewalks, parent supervision etc... it's natural they started using phones more when these arrived: it gave options to socialize without encountering all the impediments
It depends on what you are talking about, but i actually think the hero's journey is actually a good framework for many (not all) technical talks. [I agree the blog post did a poor job selling it]

A lot of technical talks are essentially a story on how you (or your team/company/whatever) solved some problem. Essentially you are the hero, and you are regailing everyone with the tale of how you solved some technical problem. That naturally forms a sort of narrative story, that isn't that different from fictional stories where the hero's peaceful life is interupted by some call to action, go through some hardships, and eventually slay the dragon.
Would you sacrifice the privacy of all just to catch cheaters in a game?
Apple brings ChatGPT to iPhones in AI overhaul
Ad hominem doesn't unmake the validity of their point.
Nooooooooooooooo...... How will colorless green ideas sleep furiously? :'[

Will miss his interviews on various forums often posted on YT and appearances on Democracy Now.

Classic: Yanis Varoufakis with Professor Noam Chomsky at NYPL, April 16, 2016 | DiEM25

https://youtu.be/szIGZVrSAyc
Safari extension works half the time at best. Sometimes it doesn't start working without restarting the browser after it crashes.

Cancelled my sub last night after many years.

I don't mind the price, or electron or anything, I just wanted it to fill the passwords in my browser reliably.
Learning something useless for fun counts as doing something!
Easel on iMessage has had this experience plus more for a while, including multiplayer, where you can have two people in one scene together with photorealistic imagery: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/easel-ai/id6448734086
Same here. I did the in-store demo and I wish the whole demo was just the immersive videos.

The Alicia Keys one was first and my first instinct was to move back a bit, because she was so close, but I didn't, because I was on a stool and probably would have fallen. She was in my personal space, it felt almost uncomfortably intimate, like someone was right there. Then there were the flying ones, and I had that feeling I get in my stomach when on a roller coaster or zip line. I didn't expect that at all. I could have spent hours watching that stuff. I loved it. If they had a bigger library of immersive videos with regular releases, I'd probably get a Vision Pro just for that.

The windowed stuff was fine, but the full immersion is what I'm after.