skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any consequences for an AGI?
I don’t think that’s completely fair. It basically puts Apple in the same bucket as Google or OpenAI. Google obviously tracks everything you do for ads, recommendations, AI, you name it. They don’t even hide it, it’s a core part of their business model.

Apple, on the other hand, has made a pretty serious effort to ensure that no employee can access your data on these AI systems. That’s hugely different! They’re going as far as to severely restrict logging and observability and even building and designing their own chips and operating systems. And ensuring that clients will refuse to talk to non-audited systems.

Yes, we can’t take Apple’s word for it. But I think the third party audits are a huge part of how we trust, and also verify, that this system will be private. I don’t think it’s far to claim that “Apple knows what you’re doing.” That implies that some one, at some level at Apple can at some point access the data sent from your device to this private cloud. That does not seem to be true.

I think another facet of trust here is that a rather big part of Apple’s business model is privacy. They’ve been very successful financially by creating products that generate money in other ways, and it’s very much not necessary or even a sound business idea for them to do something else.

While I think it’s fair to be skeptical about the claims without 3rd party verification, I don’t think it’s fair to say that Apple’s approach isn’t better for your data and privacy than openAI or Google. (Which I think is the broad implication — openAI tracks prompts for its own model training, not to resell, so it’s also “only openAI knows what your doing.”)
This is one of those "perfect is the enemy of good" situations. Sure, for things where you have a legal responsibility to get things perfectly right using an LLM as the full solution is probably a bad idea (although lots of accountants are using them to speed up processes already, they just check outputs). That isn't the case for 99% of task though. Something that's mostly accurate is good. People are happy with that, and they will buy it.
Nested virtualization is running virtual machines inside other virtual machines. Like the movie inception
From. what I can tell, Apple doesn't actually provide the source code itself, or provides the (cryptographically verified) binaries and VMs to run it. Reverse engineering will still need to take place, it seems.
Yes, the accusation that he denied the Cambodian genocide is false, and a tactical smear.
This happened with me when I went to download the openai app on the google play store. The top, advertised result for the in store search was an advertisement fake app with an icon almost identical to the real thing. It had thousands of (botted) reviews so looked legitimate and I installed it. I'm a programmer / lifelong techie but I just didn't expect this could happen in this day and age. I felt silly but also kind of angry.
That's a pity, sacrificing quality and end user experience to squeeze another dollar out of the system. Reminds me of Cadbury chocolate, when I was a kid it was incredible - a real treat. Now it's waxy mush full of palm oil, all to squeeze more profits.
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Context:

Chomsky had long publicly criticized Nazism, and totalitarianism more generally, but his commitment to freedom of speech led him to defend the right of French historian Robert Faurisson to advocate a position widely characterized as Holocaust denial.

Without Chomsky's knowledge, his plea for Faurisson's freedom of speech was published as the preface to the latter's 1980 book Mémoire en défense contre ceux qui m'accusent de falsifier l'histoire.

Chomsky was widely condemned for defending Faurisson, and France's mainstream press accused Chomsky of being a Holocaust denier himself, refusing to publish his rebuttals to their accusations.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky
I would suggest putting a sentence like “google ads can show a trustworthy/trademarked url (such as YouTube.com) but if the user clicks, the link actually goes to evilscam.com” in the first paragraph. I didn’t understand that this might be what the article is about until clicking through to the examples and still felt uncertain about it until reading the comments here.

The language about how the tech companies are complicit, have a negative effect on society etc is dramatic. I think more focus on the mechanics of the fraud and how it works and less ideology would make the piece more credible. If the article makes it very clear how companies are screwing up, the reader will make those judgments on their own.
Apple have built a business model around that since iTunes.

Not that I disagree with it being dystopian. And then there's hardware encoding of codecs. In the end, this all stops with Apple and Microsoft.
I have a 12 year old iPad running as a photo frame. Doesn’t get security updates, but then again it stays at home with only a single app running.

One of the things that keeps fascinating me about Apple is how they keep coming out with better and better iPads, even though they don’t seem to have any real competition. Take the new iPad Pro. It’s super thin, got a brand new tandem OLED screen that goes up to 1000 nits and is decent for using outdoors. They even put a new M4 chip in it which has faster single core performance than any desktop chip by Intel or AMD.
Nope! In the same way, I don't want to be able to install a "custom" OS in my car; I don't want the ability in more personal devices. "Opening" is weakening; there's no way around it.
You're right, no badness there.
25% efficiency gain, but you have to burn the planet to do it.

Is it worth it?
Yep, we have a neighborhood group chat and send over a note with phone numbers when a new person moves in. Works great. She also has an Apple Watch with cellular service in case we need to get ahold of her. I’m happy to say she came home right on time this evening without so much as a phone call though.
And the ACLU "supported" the Nazi movement in Skokie. Do you have any evidence that Chomsky himself denies the holocaust, or are you just slinging shit?
The screen on the (non-pro) iPhone 15 still has the 60Hz refresh rate, which is a limiting factor claimed by Apple, not just OLED.

Because in always-on mode, the refresh rate on the Pro drops down to a much lower refresh rate, as low as 1Hz.

Apple could've shipped an always on display mode with either OLED or a variable refresh-rate screen (or neither), but they only wanted to do it when they have both.

OLED so that black pixels are not illuminated and you save a good chunk of battery on that.

Variable RR so that you can drastically reduce that to save battery life as well.
Would lunar gravity -> tides -> waves -> erosion of particles from a rock count?
My comment was more of a response to

> We may as well do it the way LLMs do

We almost certainly don't learn the way LLMs do, it's just too data inefficient.

And I don't see what current LLMs can say about a universal grammar in the Human brain, unless there is proof that a LLM-style attention mechanism exists in the brain, and that it is somehow related to language understanding.
Cloudflare turnstyle making government resources inaccessible (it's always an endless loop of clicking that I am human on my mobile)
You should look into the recent wars in the middle east and earlier conflicts in South East Asia. You're highly underestimating the effectiveness of resource constrained insurgency.

There's actually an argument to be made that we wouldn't even be having this conversation unless the Viet Cong existed. The Internet and modern distributed networks are a direct consequence of western intervention in SEA and the creation of counter-insurgency.

You and others are making the same mistakes as the USSR and others have when countering Islamic Insurgency.The USSR's underestimation of Afghan fighters was their downfall, it's why they called Afghanistan the graveyard of empire, and I would not be surprised at all If we see Isreal meet a similar fate because of this exact same ignorance. In fact I'd bet my entire net worth that is the outcome based on what I see currently. The insane confidence, as displayed by your comment is a great summary of this type of ignorance.
> create market segmentation

Which is the "better edition": $2000 iPad Pro or $2000 Macbook?

If the goal is to maximize hardware device proliferation, third (and Nth) variants could be created with software-locked differentiation. Why stop at 2 hardware editions?
Sad news. He was remarkably sharp even in old age.
> There is so much PC based garbage that ends up in the eWaste trash destroyed way before years ...

So you're saying people should just accept their old iPads can't have a meaningful life after iPadOS support ends?

And that's because "Apple doesn't want them to", so that's it. No questions asked, just accept the results?
This is not software segmentation though. The Pro's OLED display is really a different hardware component that supports varible refresh rates down to 1Hz ("Pro Motion")
Probably everything looks like a nail to him...
I’m from Yakutia and remember sharing a hospital room with a former mammoth hunter. He had many stories to tell.
In case anyone else can't access it:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240610194553/https://www.ac.um...
Yes, that’s the only one I’ve seen. But it’s not much of a nag.
No, I mean, "not allowing you to run arbitrary code" is just a side-effect, not the design choice. The design choice is market segmentation.

In the Windows case, they can enforce your inability to install/enable Hyper-V on Windows Home through simple measures like protecting system files from modification.

But in the iPadOS case, the only way to really prevent you from running a macOS VM, is by preventing you from running any VM.

Due to the Turing-completeness of virtual machines, there's really no lesser measure they can take. You literally cannot create a piece of software that can run arbitrary VMs except for if the VM is semantically macOS. Whatever signal you would look for to blacklist macOS, an adversarial VM creator can mask by modifying the installation. (At an equilibrium point of such a game, the "adversarially-created macOS VM" would end up looking more like a Hackintosh rootfs than like a Mac rootfs — but it'd still look and feel and work like macOS, and that's all users would care about.)
Wow he even provides an interpreter in C. How would a compiler implementation for this language foreseeably differ from the interpreter given, does anyone know? Trying to learn about this more.
Meh, fabs in South Korea and Taiwan are funded and operated by domestic corporations. There's no international body assigning capitals according to a grand master plan, it's just South Korean and Taiwanese corporations' capital (which they attracted by being successful).

Your complaint is basically that some countries in potential conflict zones ended up being economically successful.
A new rule could be to make a neutral roll prevent the enemy to play that square for one turn (unless it's the last square).
I’m willing to concede that Apple’s system is the best designed of the bunch. I’m not willing to call it “private”, however, if it processes unencrypted inputs in the jurisdiction of a nation state with pervasive government surveillance.
I have never found a convincing explanation for this either. My hypothesis is that these are easier to control politically and do their "master's bidding" when needed (i.e. Geo-political reasons). Others who might turn out to be strategic Geo-political rivals are simply sidelined.
Annoying. I hit a somewhat similar snag on the weekend - inline assembly (in someone else's library) wasn't compiling because another library I was using had macros that collided with opcode names. Super-confusing error messages as a result.
This is a good reminder why everything should have boundaries, and everything should have a "surrounding frame"

In theory this sounds like "intellectual courage", in practice it's just apology and bootlicking

Camps and war and tanks were all too real. But of course you can waste time and space in your cushy western university seat
Docker containers (ie Docker Desktop) running inside macOS VMs.

That would fix a current blocking problem, as the lack of nested virtualisation means Docker Desktop (which runs its containers inside a Linux VM) has to run on the host and can't run inside a VM.
Most of white collar is the blue collar of white collar.
How do their goverments being democratic have anything to do with their potential for invasion? Please go back in time and tell half of Europe this argument during WW2. This has nothing to do with the stability of their govt or society. It has a to do with their belligerent neighbors (and their own belligerent policies).
It's completely fair, because regardless of third party audits, chips, etc, there are backdoors right along the line, that are going to provide Apple and the government with secret legal access to your data. They can simply go to a secret court, receive a secret judgment, and be authorised to secretly view your data. Does anyone really think this is not already the case? There is no transparency. A licensed third party auditor would not be able to tell you this. We have to operate with the awareness that all data online is already not private - no need to pretend/imagine that Apple's marketing is actually true, and that it is possible to buy online privacy utopia.
> Can you do all of that and ship on a weekly basis? Absolutely, I just haven't met anyone that do that.

I'd go as far as to claim that you cannot, at least at a level close to a highly available system updated with full CD without any gating or manual intervention.

Weekly deployments implicitly lead to merge trains and large PRs and team members sitting on their ass to approve changes. Each deployment is huge and introduces larger changes which have a larger risk profile. As deployments are a rare occurrence, teams don't have incentives to invest in automated tests or mechanisms to revert changes, which leads you to a brittle system and pressure to be conservative with the changes you do. As deployments are rare, breaking deployments becomes a major issue and a source of pressure.

To understand this, we only need to think about the work that it takes to support frequent deployments. You need to catch breaking changes early, so you feel the need to increase test coverage and invest in TDD or TDD-like development approaches. You also feel the need to have sandbox deployments available and easy to pull off. You feel the need to gate deployments between stages if any automated test set breaks. You feel the need to improve testing so that prod does not break as often. If prod breaks often,you also feel the need to automate how deployments are rolled back and changes are reverted. You also feel the need to improve troubleshooting and observability and alarming to know if and hoe things break, and improve development workflows and testing to the ensure those failures don't happen again.

You get none of this if your project deploys at best 3 or 4 times a month.

Another problem that infrequent deployments causes is team impedance. You need more meetings to prepare for things which would otherwise be automated away. You have meetings for deployments for specific non-prod stages, you have meetings to plan rollback strategies, you have meetings to keep changelogs, you have meetings to finalize release versions, you have meetings to discuss if a change should go on this or that release cycle, etc. bullshit all around.
Exploring Gleam, a type-safe language on the BEAM
Europol report on equilibrium between security and privacy
> Apple justified it by non-Pro having lcd, while Pro having Oled.

Where did Apple justified that?
GitHub repo at

https://github.com/KihoPark/LLM_Categorical_Hierarchical_Rep...
Same here, I cannot access that website, it's an infinite turnstile loop. Same issue with hibp, as far as I can see.
> In the usa, kids only roam free in secluded pockets, far away from the "real" city.

The discussion is about suburbs, so by definition it is away from the city core.

Here in our (US, California) suburb it is wonderfully walkable for kids and adults alike. For kids, there is very little traffic since only local neighborhood traffic is present unlike in cities. There are bike/walk trails around and across. Multiple playgrounds, sports fields, all connected by bike trails. Stores, restaurants, school, assorted services, theaters, all within a ~10 minute walk radius. This is what suburb means to me.
Same! I emailed him asking for his thoughts on robotics and anarcho-communism and he replied pretty promptly. He said it was an important subject and that he was moving offices (this was his move to Arizona), but I could ask again another time. I never quite had the time to prepare for what I would have asked for, some kind of discussion I could record, which he was doing a lot at the time, but I was very happy just to have gotten a supportive reply the first time.

For anyone curious, here is Chomsky in 1976 discussing the relevance of automation and anarcho syndicalism to modern productive economies:
https://youtu.be/h_x0Y3FqkEI

I truly believe we can build a world where everyone benefits from automation, getting the freedom and time to do what we will that every person deserves. The reason I develop open source farming robots is to explore concepts of community ownership of the means of production and community oriented engineering. Noam Chomsky’s work heavily inspired the thinking that got me where I am today.
Independent of what people believe of him or his defense of Faurisson's freedom of speech one thing is clear, they have both been the target of extremely aggressive smearing campaigns by Israel.

I would defend the right to freedom of speech of people who believe the earth is flat, that does not mean “I support the flat-earth movement”
> "Opening" is weakening

Please respect ancestors!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

Darwin is the core Unix operating system of macOS (previously OS X and Mac OS X), iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, visionOS, and bridgeOS. It previously existed as an independent open-source operating system, first released by Apple Inc. in 2000. It is composed of code derived from NeXTSTEP, FreeBSD, other BSD operating systems, Mach, and other free software projects' code, as well as code developed by Apple.
I do like Apple's attempts to make this stuff better for privacy, but a pinky promise not to leak any information is still just that.

Apple has developed some of the strongest anti tampering compute on existence to prevent people from running code they don't want on hardware they produce. However, that protection is pretty useless when it comes to protection from Apple. They have the means to bypass any layer of protection they've built into their hardware.

It all depends on what kind of auditing Apple will allow. If Apple allows anyone to run this stuff on any Mac, with source or at least symbols available, I'll give it the benefit of the doubt. If Apple comes up with NDAs and limited access, I won't trust them at all.
> Which is the "better edition": $2000 iPad Pro or $2000 Macbook?

The one of the two with a lower profit margin for the manufacturer would usually be the one considered to have more "value" in it.

The usual way to measure this, when software editions are locked to particular hardware, is by looking at the cheapest hardware they sell that'll have the given edition of the software installed.

(Another example of this: managed vs unmanaged routers.)

> Why stop at 2 hardware editions?

You're limited by the willingness of your developer ecosystem to develop different versions of the same third-party software for all your different OSes. Nobody wants a device with no third-party app support.

(But that being said, there is actually a third, even-less-capable hardware ecosystem Apple sells, with its own ecosystem of mostly fungible apps: Apple TV!)
The natural origin is a dangerous conspiracy theory.
Boy would i love to build a cinelifter drone kitted with one of these cameras and bomb down a narrow canyon at breakneck pace. Sponsors?
macOS Sequoia to Allow iCloud Logins in Virtual Machines on ARM Macs
This is a long-standing issue...while VMs on x86-based Macs can log into iCloud (and thus sign into Xcode teams and the MacOS App Store), VMs on ARM Macs have been unable to do so.

Looks like this is coming, although ironically the first beta of the OS lists the following Known Issue:

"Users will not be able to sign-in to iCloud and related applications. (128924562)"

Sigh, but the day is coming when a VM can actually be useful for iOS/MacOS devs on an ARM Mac.
You could be right. I think the novelty wears off, in part, because there is too much friction relative to the benefit.

I’ve used YouTube with a phone headset. It’s cool, but kind of annoying. The Vision Pro was also kind of annoying to put on and set up. And with both, the content is limited. So how much annoyance is someone willing to put up with for something that doesn’t has much content and only provides are marginally better viewing experience?

Televisions, computers, and phones, have very little friction and more content than a person could consume in 100 lifetimes. This makes the simple screen hard to beat.

I’m also remind of something I heard a film director say when being critical of the 3D movie fad… all movies are already 3D. There is depth in the shots when looking into the screen, no one really needs stuff flying out at them.
China's next invasion (if such a thing happened) would be to annex the northern part of the Philippines - although alternatively they could just continue building up military bases along the coral reefs in the disputed seas.

So long as they ensure that Vietnam always aligns with them politically, their dominance over the South China Sea would then be complete.

South Korea is already held in check by North Korea, and Japan is largely a non-issue for now, being weak enough that China could just take over and build up military bases in the southernmost islands.

Everyone's chomping at the bit for the end of the current world order based around the sanctity of borders, and the beginning of a new (old) imperialistic one.
Let's assume that AI is human level … Now something goes wrong. A customer isn't getting what they ordered. What do you do about it?

Seems like you’re also assuming some AI-inherent problem which is left unexplained.

If it’s a human level AI you tell it to solve the issue with the company’s philosophy in mind and wonder why off the shelf human level AI doesn’t have that in its “system prompt” or whatever term it will be.

This whole problem is blown out of something that every AI-phobe seems to assume but keeps secret, which is a common trope at this point.
That's a pretty clever way to be very stupid! Anyone who reports the message (forward it to 7726, spells SPAM) to a network tips the network off that messages are landing on subscribers devices that didn't come through their system.

And I guarantee there are devices listening into, characterising and locating radio emitters in major cities at the very least.
These places are some of the wealthiest on earth GDP per capita. Try again.
Despite your snark - you'll never win an argument where trusting a for profit corporation is some sort of win over transparent secure system. Yes Apple might be better of the lesser evils but is this really where us as a privileged class of people who actually understand all this give up and give in? This is sad.
You are probably using the suspicious setup Cloudflare wants to lock out.

Please try again with Google (R) Chrome (TM), no experience manipulating addons (e.g. adblockers), no VPN and from a non-non-friendly country.
Bluetooth keyboard + mouse. I have an iPad that is eWaste because Apple said it is even though it technically still functions and would work great if Apple would let me use it as a terminal to my main computer