skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe that is actually good for iPhone buyers? Otherwise every 2 years, they will claim a bunch of new AI features will not work on your older device. But if they can delegate requests to a server, older devices can continue receiving newer AI features from future iOS releases (they will just be slower than the newer iPhones which will run them locally).
At a very high level, the answer is Dopamine. Normal peoples brains have a ready supply of it available and their brains generate some in preparation for doing a task and then continue to generate more as they keep working on things, this is the task positive reward loop keeping the brain focused. For people with adhd, this entire feedback loop is more or less fucked. You don’t get dopamine as you start a task, you don’t get it when you persist with a task, and you don’t get it when you complete a task. So getting things done basically provides no reward, as a result all you get is the negatives from doing the thing, it tires you out and depletes the dopamine reserves you do have available.
It's also auditable, they mentioned it multiple times.

Apple specifically doesn't want to know your shit, they're jumping through weird hoops to keep it that way.

It would be a LOT easier just to know your shit.
Yeah, the article seems like it's several different claims and arguments. Yes, robotic is hard with no general solution visible and with the solutions readily a available to companies turning out to be from people who've spent a decade "squinting" at the problem, know the rules of thumb for a bunch things that work and don't work and still build things that are less than ideal.

From this, yes, there are many ways that creating a simplified API in a conventional programming language seems useless.

But as an argument against any "turn a hundred newbies loose", it seems not right. It seems plausible newbies to robotics could find paradigms that don't currently exist. I mean, robotics seems to be in the state that pre-deep-learning computer vision generally was in. Nothing worked "out of the box" and you needed experts to make the random smattering of approach that did exist work. Now we have an out-of-the-box working approach and I'm pretty sure it didn't come from existing experts.
That clears things right up, so I appreciate the follow-up!

It sounds like you're not quite there yet, but quickly and diligently heading in the direction I would have hoped!

I like this tool!
There's probably no body of works more impressive to me than Karli Coss's work to capture data from the various devices & systems they use. The map of infrastructure shows off the architecture here, what it takes to read your own systems: https://beepb00p.xyz/myinfra.html . The overall blog post/digital gardening plot on the topic is probably https://beepb00p.xyz/sad-infra.html .

There's something remarkably smart about OCR as a failsafe that gets around all technical problems. Karlicoss's work shows the extensiveness of reading out data, and even that will have various limitations with what the datastores choose to encode. Simply building super-agency stop the actual agency directly afforded us real humans, by dealing with the screen as interface, has a certain elegance to it (in a world gone mad with difficult unyielding technologies).
"privacy in AI" - If apple is sharing with ChatGPT how does it work? Do they try to remove context information. But still it's sharing a lot more.
+ Anything that goes out can go anywhere in internet. Look at Facebook, Twitter and even Apple use of data.
Not to take away from your comment, but for those who clicked comments before reading, this article is about neonics not roundup
My understanding is that Apple's approach to this integration is adaptable; much like how you would change your browser's search engine, you'll be able to change which external AI model is utilized. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc.
Unless it is AI doing the stealing, many people care about their content being consumed by machines but are happy to block ads at the same time
Great points!

The only thing I'd add: I don't think the responsibility for lack of automation is solely on these other industries. To develop this kind of automation, they need funds and IT experts, but (i) they don't have funds, especially in the US, since they aren't as well funded as IT industry, (ii) for the IT industry this kind of automation is boring, they prefer working on AI.

In my view, the overall issue is that capitalism is prone to herding and hype, and resulting suboptimal collective decision-making.
Some sources do write ep after en passant captures. As you point out, it’s no more redundant than notating checks.
Maybe I don't want "whoever" to be able to get into every one of my accounts by coercing Apple to give access to all my passwords.

There are groups that can do that coercion (eg. US and CPC governments), and there may be support staff et all in Apple that can get the same access.

For the same reason, I was unhappy that Keychain.app is auto synced to iCloud (and as per a past thread, even if you disabled it it may be reset).

So, of course, I don't have to use their app. Except that I suspect it will be built into the OS in a way that makes it hard to avoid, such as Keychain.

I would love it if there was a way I could setup my self-hosted BitWarden instance to be as integrated as Keychain is, and not use Apple or Google for passwords.
From the presentation it sounds like the on-device model determines what portion of the local index is sent to the cloud as context, but is designed for none of that index to be stored in the cloud.

So (as I understand it) something like "What time does my Mom's flight arrive?" could read your email and contacts to find the flight on-device, but necessarily has to send the flight information and only the flight information to answer the arrival time.
They told you (or me at least) almost exactly everything that would be in the interview ahead of time, to the point that I just recalled a lot from my notes I made the night before the call. Source: I completed the TB process, but it was 8ish years ago.
Encodings for Flattened Heap Values in Java
Google's entire buisness model was built on hoovering up and selling access to user data in the form of AdSense. Without that data, their business falls apart.

Apple's business model is to entice people into a walled garden ecosystem where they buy lots of expensive hardware sold on high margins. They don't need user data to make this work, which is why they can more comfortably push features like end-to-end and no-knowledge encryption.
Main reasons for me:

I know it. It is good enough. It is fast enough. DX is good enough although edges are prickly in functional/hooks. Massive 3rd party support. Does everything from simple to SPA that could make Slack work for example without a tech switch.
Because they will be running inference using much smaller models than GPT 4.
Legacy Update does this for free? Why would I pay for this?
http://legacyupdate.net/
When Nintendo sues, do they start at the top or the bottom of the stack?
I haven’t adopted passcodes, and moved all my email out of gmail to a private domain. Photos backup t to my NAS. I’m terrified of the automated systems deciding I’m a bad actor.

I can’t help but think it’ll get worse with AI
SGX has been broken by speculative execution bugs, though. Had something to do with people extracting DRM keys, if I recall correctly, not exactly a nation state attack. Since then, SGX has been removed from modern Intel processors (breaking some Blurays and software products for newer chips in the process).

Secure enclave stuff can be used to build a trust relationship if it's designed well, but Apple is the party hosting the service and the one burning the private keys into the chip.
Elon Musk to Ban Apple Devices If OpenAI Is Integrated into OS
That's a good reason not to upgrade my iPhone 13!
not necessarily so, in terms of tflops per $ (of apple’s cost of gpus, nit consumer), and tflops per watt their apple silicon is comparable if not better
While I mostly agree with your point of Apple being rather aggressive with forced upgrading, I don't think the device requirements for these features were based solely on the desire to push out people with older devices, but rather due to the hardware requirements for a lot of the ML/AI features being based on the Apple Silicon, at least for the Mac side of things. As to why they drew the line at the iPhone 15, perhaps it's a similar reason regarding performance requirements. While obviously, I'm not intimately knowledgeable of their basis for the device requirements, I'd wait a few more years to see how the device requirements for these new features cascade. If they continue requiring newer and newer devices, only supporting the trailing generation or so, then I'd agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment.
And also, that would still be more useful than the current situation where Siri would just answer that it can not give you the weather forecast because there is no city named "Appointment at 10".

Or it may create an appointment at Athens.
MUI Showroom (2001)
Almost, the ones you can get from the chemist are kind of a blunt instrument unlike the ones normal people get, since it just elevates the dopamine levels in the brain continuously, rather than in response to stimuli.
Just curious: could you delete some of the larger files, or do something else to reduce the data usage, to stay within the current tier?
Apple already has a Windows iCloud password app and a Chrome extension
https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud-windows/manage-passwo...
The image generation seems really bad. Very creepy, offputting, uncanny-valley images. And that's the the best cherry-picked examples for marketing.

I'm curious to try some of the Siri integrations - though I hope Siri retains a 'dumb mode' for simple tasks.
Three years is more than twice the time since GPT-4 was released to now. Almost twice the time ChatGPT existed. At this rate, even if we'll end up with GPT-4 equivalents runnable on consumer hardware, the top models made available by big players via API will make local LLMs feel useless. For the time being, the incentive to use a service will continue.

It's like a graphics designer being limited to chose between local MS Paint, and Adobe Creative Cloud. Okay, so Llama 3 8B, if it's really as good as you say, graduates to local Paint.NET. Not useless per se, but still not even in the same class.
Arbitrarily sized bytes from 1 to 36 bits, and sub-word byte pointers, and indirect pointers! (You can do a lot with those extra 18 bits above the address lines, it's not just for consing!)

https://github.com/PDP-10/documents/blob/master/mirror/www.i...

Byte instructions

In the PDP-10 a "byte" is some number of contiguous bits within one
word. A byte pointer is a quantity (which occupies a whole word)
which describes the location of a byte. There are three parts to the
description of a byte: the word (i.e., address) in which the byte
occurs, the position of the byte within the word, and the length of
the byte.

A byte pointer has the following format:

000000 000011 1 1 1111 112222222222333333
012345 678901 2 3 4567 890123456789012345
_________________________________________
| | | | | | |
| POS | SIZE |U|I| X | Y |
|______|______|_|_|____|__________________|

POS is the byte position: the number of bits from the right end of
the byte to the right end of the word.

SIZE is the byte size in bits.

The U field is ignored by the byte instructions.

The I, X and Y fields are used, just as in an instruction, to compute
an effective address which specifies the location of the word
containing the byte.

Here are the byte instructions.
[...] LDB DPB IBP ILDB IDPB [...]

Text strings are typically stored using seven-bit bytes, five per
word. ILDB and IDPB can then be used to step through a string. The
byte pointer should be initialized to 440700,,<address of string>.
Then the first ILDB will increment it to point at the first character
of the string.
Same here, switched to a physical alarm clock after inconsistent alarm behavior post OS updates on my Samsung S22.

I disabled Smart Update after reading your post but considering my phone used to prompt me to update, then started doing them on its own - I wouldn't trust that setting to stick.
Alcohol causes abuse too. I think the hypothetical you're talking about would be a social problem, and not a substance one per se.

Abuse in sports is a terrible ill. I think you're right to highlight that this is a potential vector for it, but I feel like it's a "people problem" and not a "things problem".
Full quote:

> It’s patently absurd that Apple isn’t smart enough to make their own AI, yet is somehow capable of ensuring that OpenAI will protect your security & privacy. Apple has no clue what’s actually going on once they hand your data over to OpenAI. They’re selling you down the river.

While I'm sure Apple had some of the best lawyers money can buy combing through the fine print in its various agreements with OpenAI, I have to agree with Musk here:

OpenAI is so opaque that we really don't know what it might be able and willing to do with our data.

I'm a fan of OpenAI and its products, but I must admit it is a black box.
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He stated that he tried using master tournament games but the dataset was way too small.

But yes indeed, the single example game he showed was indeed a result of the winner playing very silly moves and the loser allowing it rather than resigning.
I used to attempt things like that too (long races or tough mudders with little to no training). After doing my third tough mudder and getting injured I realized it's just stupid and a great way to cause a serious, possibly life enduring, injury.
I'm not sure where you're getting this. This link doesn't have pages and it gathers information from a variety of sources.

The top of the report clearly says, "50% of crashes are a single bicycle accident (HOPE)" and "21% of crashes are a bicycle-bicycle crash (HOPE)". Is it possible that only 29% involve cars?
Depending on what you want to do though.

If I want some help coding or ideas about playlists, Gemini and ChatGPT are fine.

But when I'm writing a novel about an assassin with an AI assistant and the public model keeps admonishing me that killing people is bad and he should seek help for his tendencies, it's a LOT faster to just use an uncensored local LLM.

Or when I want to create some people faces for my RPG campaign and the online generator keeps telling me my 200+ word prompt is VERBOTEN. And finally I figure out that "nude lipstick" is somehow bad.

Again, it's faster to feed all this to a local model and just get it done overnight than fight against puritanised AIs.
I think their point is simply that a Gundam series about building model Gundams is a very postmodern thing (and, perhaps, that the rise of postmodernism has made it harder for a 100% unironic Gundam series to succeed).
It's available today, it's just not a product called "Duplex". Android has call screening and "hold my call" and phone menu tree detection. On select Google Maps listings, you can make reservations by clicking a button which will make a phone call in the background to make a reservation.
That's the one! I remember seeing it air on TV in the cafe I worked at while I was watching the live blog reveal of the original Surface. LOL.
> My job can be largely "AIed" away if such AI gets better and the company feeds internal code to it.

The first company to offer their models for offline use, preferably delivered in shipping container you plug in, with the ability to "fine tune" (or whatever tech) with all their internal stuffs, wins the money of everyone that has security/confidentiality requirements.
I simply cannot agree, but again, it's a personal thing. I never ever find voice interfaces useful though...

Aside: When the presenter showed the demo of her asking Siri to figure out the airport arrival time and then gloat it "would have taken minutes" to do on her own... I sat there and just felt so so strongly that I don't want to optimize out every possible opportunity to think or work out a problem in my life for the sake of "keeping on top of my inbox".

I understand value of the tools. But I think overall nothing about them feels very worth showing even more menus for me to tick through to make the magic statistical model spit out the tone of words I want... when I could have just sat there and thought about my words and the actual, real, human person I'm talking to, and rephrase my email by hand.
So is this as problematic as Co-pilot / Recall?
Wouldn't you also have to take into account the probability of the following moves also being successful and giving you a win?
I gave up reading the article about halfway when they hadn't mentioned at all how the program committee of the conference is assembled. That corporations sponsor academic conferences is natural: there are a lot of reasons it's useful: recruiting, networking, cooperating with other researchers, etc. And they're the part of those scientific communities that has the spare money to be able to provide sponsorships. That the article spent so long trying to convince me that this was sinister is bizarre.
If it can automate a junior away it seems as likely it will just make that junior more capable.

Somebody still needs to make those decisions that it can't make well. And some of those decisions doesn't require seniority.
I used to think that only various external libraries (eg. Flask) do various hidden conversion to shield the user from the str-bytes distinction, but even the builtin MIME implementation does that kind of stuff, which means that it will break 8bit S/MIME messages (and when you get bitten by that hard, and just go off implementing your own MIME parser the fact that bytes has all the string methods like .split() comes very handy).
Nope. I afraid AI future is mandatory ;)
I am of course wrong frequently, but I cannot see how that would happen.
If they create cpu/gpus that are faster/better than what Nvidia sells,
but they only sell them as part of a Mac desktop or laptop systems
it wont really compete.

For that they would have to develop servers that has a mass amount of
whatever it is or sell the chips in the same manner Nvidia does today.

I dont see that future for Apple.

Microsoft / Google / or other major cloud companies would do extremely well
if they could develop it and just keep it as a major win for their cloud
products.

Azure is running OpenAI as far as I have heard.

Imagine if M$ made a crazy fast GPU/whatever.
It would be a huge competitive advantage.

Can it happen?
I dont think so.
Yes, because the UX is better that way.

With ADP if your mom loses her encryption keys, it's all gone. Forever. Permanently.

And of course it's Apple's fault somehow. That's why it's not the default.
Sorry my bad, I added an exclusion rule, thanks.
lol, whoops :) Thank you.
Is Silicon Valley Building Universe 25?
Nebo has had essentially that for years, OneNote too.
> If you create a standardized test it will be gamed.

Well, the medial profession has a standardized licensing process. It's not perfect, but it certainly keeps the interview process to (mostly) mutual interest.

I think we can learn from the medical profession here. Otherwise, "I prefer chaos" implies that the incompetents are the ones who are the ones who will lose.
I think what he's getting at is that Apple does collect a lot of very similar data about it's users. Apple Maps still collects data about where you've driven - the difference is that they don't turn around and sell that data like Google loves to do.

I believe (but could be wrong) they also treat that data in a way that prevents it from being accessed by anyone besides the user (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...
iOS 18 Introduces More Charging Limit Options on iPhone 15: 85%, 90%, and 95%
I think we need a word for "price levels are high". I think some people are using "inflation" in this sense. And then there are others who are using a strict, narrow definition of "inflation" as propaganda (as-in, news articles where the implication that you should be happy if inflation is down for a quarter, regardless of whether prices are still high). Maybe there is an appropriate loan word from a different language? Certainly there have been other countries which have experienced much worse bouts of inflation (and hyper-inflation). I'd like to hear some suggestions for possible replacement words or phrases. This still won't cure the problem, because even if you say something specific, like "prices are high", there will always be someone who comes around and says, "but inflation is low". Yeah, but that's not what we are talking about.
If you wanted to build a behavioral simulation of a human, and knew how to do it, then what advantage would there be to trying to get an LLM to emulate this simulator ?!

Better just code up your simulator to run efficiently on a supercomputer!
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I know this wasn’t really your point, but most physicians around me use Epic MyChart, so I can book all that online. I also almost exclusively use email to communicate with our school district, and we’re in a small town.
> OpenRecall is a fully open-source, privacy-first [...]

Depends what you mean by "privacy-first".

Much like the most privacy-respecting practices of a company might be not to capture certain user data at all, that also applies to data you let be captured on your own computer.

Just because it's initially only on your device, and is encrypted, doesn't mean you're the only one who can ever access it. There's hackers, disgruntled significant others, software bugs, interacting tech you don't understand, future tech, and various kinds of investigations.

When thinking about adopting new kinds of extreme self-surveillance, individuals should make informed choices about benefit vs. risk. Did you really need this, or do you need to capture information more selectively.

Maybe just wait a year, listening for other people's sobs of regret. Say, you could let "influencers", anxious to generate social media content about using all the latest shiny things, be your guinea pigs.

(Confession: In '97 or '98, I made a desktop program HTTP proxy called Webephant, which permitted future keyword search of every Web page you visited while it was running. I didn't think about privacy implications at the time, but I should've. These full desktop recall things are much more invasive.)
>... and can I pump my own gas on each state I'm driving through?

Huh? Seems like an odd thing to feel the need to ask, as up until last year, the answer was always, "Only if you're driving through Oregon or New Jersey".

Now, you're only unable to pump your own in NJ.
All the scenarios you described can be achieved by having access to the source code, assuming you own it.
Awesome story! The first case had me thinking "These nerds are wasting their time...why not just a gopro on a long stick". But hearing about the details of the second story, it would have been impossible without the sonar and ROV!
Hi this sounds great! I would like some kind of YAML that would let me decide how different pieces would be exported. Also note that soon I will be doing massive clean up in the onshape repo as it is a huge mess, and we are moving towards release.

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That's arguable. The motivation for the rule, and especially the name of the rule, suggest the pawn is not all the way there yet.