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Odd that Apple gets a veto over what can go into a third-party app store.
Apple is a luxury brand, they don't really do "cheap".
I don't understand why there isn't appetite to simply regulate them out of controlling what software you put on your device.

I've been using Macs my whole life (since the early nineties) and I'm as loyal a user as anyone. I've given them probably enough money to put down a downpayment on a small house. Behavior like this will drive me away if it cannot be addressed, even if it means I have to go to china to find a better hardware vendor.
for a business yes
Cool homepage, but the Qubes game doesn't load :(
did you front glass crack? How widespread is that problem? Is there a mechanism identified and has it been mitigated?
Of course they're convinced. They're rubes. That's their job.
This seems really cool.

They said the models can scale to "private cloud compute" based on Apple Silicon which will be ensured by your device to run "publicly verifiable software" in order to guarantee no misuse of your data.

I wonder if their server-side code will be open-source? That'd be positively surprising. Curious to see how this evolves.

Anyway, overall looks really really cool. If it works as marketed, then it will be an easy "shut up and take my money".
20 years ago I followed the macrumors WWDC feed because streaming was broken (for bandwidth / my connection / quicktime reasons). Today, I will follow the macrumors WWDC feed because streaming is broken (for artistic direction reasons). The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Thanks, macrumors.
If Apple can block what's on "independent" third-party app stores, then the letter of the DMA may be violated or not, but its spirit is most certainly violated. Hope the EU cracks down on such malicious compliance.
What is Invidious? An alternative front-end to Google-hosted video content?
Zuckerberg argued, with some justice that you get a better product with the Quest 3.

The Quest 3 has a massive gaming library, and can do 90% of what the Vision Pro can do. And it's 1/7th of the cost.

If Meta wants to really step it up they'll make PC monitor support a priority with the Quest 4.

Imagine if the iPod came out, cost 7x as much as it's competitors and still was behind in several aspects.

I actually Apple is getting us ready for the Vision Air, it'll come in at 1999 or so.
Did not even realize that was an option!
Maybe someone will. Either way, such a move would break their business model, and you'd end up with just another android which is not what the market wants (because if they did, Apple would have gone out of business already).

I was looking for an earlier thread (which also involved Nokia and Windows Mobile) which shows the sort of timelines/cascading effects you'd have where vendors generally either become overly generic or just outright fail (i.e. BlackBerry). When I'll find it I'll edit and add it here.

Edit: didn't find it yet, but there are variations on appliance vs. general purpose hardware where things like smart TVs and android phone bootloaders are used as similar examples. I wish I had a better timeline search for threads.
Yes I'm talking about Nginx running on those bsd boxes, they have such a custom design that writing your own static file process would have made sense.
> Some crucial information could be passed from one female to another without being present in the genome at all.

Hard to know, but two interesting corner cases:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrion (but they have their own DNA...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centriole (but it looks like they can grow again "However, [...] cells whose centrioles have been removed via laser ablation [...] centrioles can be synthesized later in a de novo fashion."
The DOJ is suing Apple in an antitrust lawsuit for this very reason (among many other anticompetitive reasons)
Nice! And irritating!
I would make it a lot faster though. It takes so much time waiting for the animations to finish.
This is perhaps a good example for those who believe that robotics and probes can rival, or even exceed, humans on the ground. This paper is 11,000+ words, involved computer simulations, a mass of data, and dozens of researchers. All to investigate whether there's morning water frost in certain areas on Mars.

It's actually quite interesting, particularly to imagine the process playing out on such a different planet 40 million miles away, but with humans on the ground with access to reasonable tools and utilities, this would be a morning experiment. Perhaps even more relevantly, they could also be carrying out work which is impossible right now, such as deep drilling or exploring the literally hundreds of cave entrances that have been discovered in the exact same (Tharsis) area.
This is the most insightful nugget into OAI's consumer product strategy I've read, thank you.
I really tried to like their new non-native app, and if it works well I could probably live with it, but it was so buggy and glitchy, even to the point where browser auto-fill often just... wouldn't. That's a basic feature.

I switched to iCloud Passwords a few months ago and I'm very happy with the product. Looks like this Passwords app is a nice new GUI over the top of that same database.
What problem do you believe that present regulations impose?

At present, I see the thing preventing European LLMs as mostly being that there is less access to capital for computing resources and the cost of computing resources.

The US is very dominant in computing, it's a matter of history and the EU is a very recent thing. We don't have an Intel, or NVIDIA, etc., yet, and we may not have one for many years, but are established in the parts of the industry where we happen to be so.

None of this has to do with regulation. But we do absolutely need some kind of hardware program to make European vector/tensor processors, something like the European processor initative, but willing to sell to whoever will buy and not just to existing supercomputer customers. Maybe they're even planning something of that sort.

But the problem isn't regulations.
Yes, but SpeedStep isn’t an optional power-saving mode that you can enable or disable, or that is enabled automatically on battery power.
Apple is launching its own password manager app
Yeah I think point is very fair, the reason we host it on a proxy server was that we wanted to enable first time users to be able to use it without putting in an API key, the only way we could think of doing that without exposing the key was to host the tool on our own server. We looked to a tool like Cursor that users might be okay with that.

I the think the feedback is very fair that when an API key is present that all the calls should happen locally, and that is something I will take as an action item on us to improve.
Great game. I find it interesting how impactful neutral rolls are. Whoever is last to place a mark can be forced to act against their own interest, making a roll that is likely to result in the win for the opponent. But rolling the neutral face skips the turn, changing who places the last mark.
https://archive.ph/OstF4
Hypothetical robots of the future will be made just from bamboo and very inexpensive materials. Intelligence means exactly that, being effective with minimum amount of anything, energy, muscle, sensors, materials etc.

See ants, which can figure out to dig holes and decompose everything. They know how apply minimum amount of pressure to cut leaves, they know how to choose the right angle to cut animal muscle and even wood, they know to cooperate and survive floods, and so on. It is no wonder they have the most brain-weight/body-weight than any other animal on the planet.

Excluding the processing unit, any robot part will be so cheap and available that no one will need permission of capitalist monsters to obtain.
Confusing marketing and description about it are unfortunate - DevKit provides Visual Studio style solution and text explorers, and maybe additional features since last time I verified this.

In order to write C#, however, you do not need that - base C# extension that has no licensing strings attached is the actual language server you need. And solution explorer, should you want that, can be restored with Ionide which doubles as a language server for F#.

And, hey, at least it's not like with Oracle where SDK distribution itself that has a trap :)
To (1): this is true, and more true than it should be, but I think this falls into the category of "trying to optimize expected value" moreso than "a hard requirement" at most employers. There's usually only like...maybe 1-2 hard tech requirements even for pretty picky roles if they're confident someone is good. It's just that they don't know ahead of time who is, so they may as well bet on the better-matched candidates.
Is this important for Mojo or is this scope creep?
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I don't think anyone in an executive position cares about the Her "debate". It's Twitter-level gossip.
Predictions aren't binary, they're probabilistic. If anyone "actually believes" we'll have AGI in 2 years, without any room for doubt, they're wrong.
Interesting the AAPL stock took a downturn right at 2:10pm EST after going up.
I have succumbed to the temptation to implement various aspects of this. I have also tweaked existing implementations for my day job. I even had the assignment to pitch an implementation to a client. So I am sure that some would question my sanity NOW. TFA suggests that I might not have been sane to start with.

I admire any team-of-one that takes on this endeavor and publishes their work.
> Every airplane flies pretty much the same way

Not exactly, but that's why we have different certificates, endorsements, and type ratings that show demonstrated competence with each type of airplane.
I haven't used your stack, but my main benefits of React are:

- People will pay me to build with it

- State - Update a value and all the places that uses the value get updated without any extra fiddling. If your pages are very dynamic or uses lots of use interaction you skip a lot of complexity

- Components - All components end up in their own file, adding reusability and clarity to the logic

- NPM packages - Easily add extra functionality

- JSX - It's a delight to write "HTML" and embed variables and functions directly where you need it
Naturally. You have enabled a setting for Firefox to intercept the keystrokes before the web page even gets a chance to see them. That means the JavaScript to prevent default action would never run.
We do this with Gmail, too! Just make sure you log into your kids’ accounts every so often, otherwise Google is liable to wipe the account. [1]

[1] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290?hl=en
I would guess the reality is companies like 1Password make almost all their revenue through B2B relationships. I doubt Apple will encroach too much in that space (lack of sales reps/support etc.)

Curious to see how this ends up impacting competitor's businesses or not though! If Apple gives themselves access to a bunch of integrations and APIs no one else can that sounds like they would be abusing their monopoly power...
We are capable software engineers.

We can learn new domains, assess risk, and evaluate trade-offs.

This is our health. Self-research is love. It's advocating on your behalf.
Money makes the collar and color cool.
I went through the triplebyte process around 2020. I was accepted into the program and assigned a manager (or whatever they were called). He setup one interview for me, but it didn't lead to a job. Shortly after, he sent out a message that the company was changing directions and he would no longer be part of it. They changed it to basically a job board with more steps.
Too much time to load too (ditch the overkill 3D engine, there are lighter frameworks out there).

Cool game though. I am still puzzled by how the probabilities are arrived at. Random?
VDP: video display controller/processor
The most annoying thing for me is the lack of completion of swear words. This results in lots of gucking and shut.
Right, but if an app agrees not to exfiltrate data via the app submission process, and then proceeds to do so, it's basically the same as the app having a privacy policy and then not adhering to it.

If an explicit "privacy policy" is required (for legal reasons or w/e), when an app submits "no data to be exfiltrated", the app store could say "here is the privacy policy you're agreeing to follow, no further action required".
Your comment is very insightful. There's is room (need, I'd say) for some good 'ol third-sector citizen action here.-
Screen share + call is usually a better experience even if you’re just a few desks away from each other.
The paper talks about Brazil in the conclusion:

> In contrast to Mexico[;] Brazil, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan invested heavily in technological development in the 1980s. Brazil's case is significant because this country has many similarities to Mexico in terms of its economic and industrial development. Unlike Mexico, Brazil had relative success in creating a computer industry capable of producing its own technology. This was partly due to the decisive support from public and private sectors to create and continue developing a national computer industry.
email is such an annoying standard for storage. i think i'd prefer a simple local SQLLite db with flat HTML files. You could use Next.js and output as 'standalone' if you wanna use React to generate the HTML
I read the part where they said they poured through "hundreds of sentry logs" and immediately was like "no you didn't."

This is not an error that would be difficult to spot in an error aggregator, it would throw some sort of constraint error with a reasonable error message.
Of course everyone wants to assert power and control over things. Some groups of labour want to ensure that other labour cannot get compensated. That's a fundamental part of unionization: preventing others from working. I think it's good for us to talk about these as they are: power struggles between factions.
> In Linux land the cost of development is shared across many, which one might expect to yield a generally better product.

And you have more cooks in the kitchen tweaking things that you also want to work on, so there's a higher chance of simply conflicts, but also folks that want to go in a completely different direction technically/philosophically.
> I’m not that interested in hacking on the instruction set it runs on.

This makes zero sense, frankly. Do you also feel this way about an x86 laptop, that x86 isn't worth learning anything about? Because it might run macOS? It's pointless. The main thing tied to the OS is the userspace ABI (e.g. callee/caller saved registers, parameter passing), but this is generally only one important-but-small part of actually using the CPU, or doing low-level optimization, and every major operating system (including macOS!) tends to have quite detailed ABI documentation for all the supported architectures. Actual fundamentals of the ISA, the supported instructions, etc all translate between operating systems cleanly, and for a given microarchitecture the performance characteristics will also broadly translate between operating systems. But I sort of doubt you're talking about low-level Apple Silicon-specific uarch optimizations, because that's not what the original guide is talking about.

Like, if you don't already know how to write ARMv8 assembly, macOS is not what's stopping you. You can take most of this knowledge, which is fundamentally generic, and just as easily apply it to an RPi for example, or the new Snapdragon X Elite, etc. macOS is mostly a non-issue in this regard, it just happens to be the operating system "of choice" for some of the best client-oriented ARM processors you can buy right now.
End of Evangelion, indeed.
yes

https://docs.invidious.io/

https://api.invidious.io/
The proliferation of dongles and adapters is evidence that not everything will make the jump to wireless. Especially since with Lightning Apple tipped their hand and revealed that their ultimate goal was to license a subset of DRM-encoded USB standards. It feels pretty obvious that Apple's movement towards wireless is mostly about killing the specter of standardized connectivity.

Look at external drives; how is wireless going to replace this anywhere? Bluetooth can't even hit SATA speeds, much less 4k streaming speeds without re-encoding and compressing the source material. You might get somewhere with WiFi Direct, but Apple doesn't support that in the first place and requires people to use their proprietary alternatives.

Seriously, I want you to sit down and ask yourself one question. If Macs went full-wireless tomorrow, do you sincerely believe that the majority of Mac owners wouldn't own new wireless dongles?
No, you’re right, it was chosen because “trust me bro”.

Look, it may well be something he believes, and he’s free to prognosticate (or market) however he likes, but I see absolutely nothing to support the number outside of his own opinion.

Besides, there’s no time limit on p(doom), so it’s completely unfalsifiable (“on a long enough timescale…”), and it’s about the destruction of humanity which means it’s unprovable as well. That, in my view, makes his 70% guess a sensational statement lacking scientific merit.
This feels Orwellian.
To a technical person, the discussion around AI felt really creepy and disingenuous, full of irrelevant distractions
If 1P was aiming to get attention of an average consumer, Apple might start eating their lunch. SSH key manager is great, but the amount of people who needs it is very small compared to general market.
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Is Apple running a proprietary LLM or are they licensing one from OpenAI, Google, etc?
The TI-99/4A community is really (and somewhat surprisingly) still very active. Among other things, the monthly stream from the CTIUG on YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/@chicagotiug5404 ) of their monthly meetings at the Evanston Library is actually quite fun, and the js99er.net (somewhat recently rewritten in Angular) emulator is just amazing.
"I can put myself in their office or at their desk and demand they help me."

What is going on in your organization?
The thing with Linda is that while she's theoretically the boss, and Musk reports to her as CTO/CPO everybody knows that Musk is the boss and she's there to... sell ads? Actually I don't know what she's supposed to do, but it doesn't matter, she's certainly not allowed to touch either the product or the technology and Musk can fire her at any point as owner/chairman.

This, OTOH is a just a simple straightforward C-Suite. Sam is the boss, and he hired two reports to handle areas where they have expertise. This might be the simplest corporate thing OpenAI has ever done, lol.
We did this, setting up the Gmail address over a decade ago. I occasionally log in to ensure it is an “active” account in Google’s eyes. And it’s fun to read what we wrote back then.

But actually we didn’t send that much. It’s easy to forget the account exists during day to day life. Most of the emails are from when our child was a small baby. Still nice to read.

A bunch of comments have rightly pointed out that Google could suspend the account, close down Gmail entirely, etc. Well sure. Bad things can’t be entirely ruled out. But at least to me, this was a whimsical and easy idea, not life and death. If it disappeared I would be sad but life would go on.

On the other hand, my child has a clean name-based Gmail address reserved in case they need it later for internship applications or whatever.

I think it is extremely unlikely that Google pulls the plug on Gmail since it is the default identity token for all Google accounts.
Giving the parent the benefit of the doubt, they probably were confused by the idea of people taking these pills to get high. That's generally what is meant by the term "recreational use" when it comes to drugs.
it feels like microsoft showing off apple software
They've disbanded their superlignment group, and their staff who were able to work on the problem more deeply (STEM people) have since quit, see

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8047

(N.b. in the ex-employee author's pdf article mentioned above, a page dedicates his pdf to Ilya, who is also out of the company, so in context it's a pointed statement writing that dedication IMO)
Do you have a link to the Chrome site-specific patches directory? As you can imagine, it's pretty hard to search for :P
So was there ever a deal with OpenAI? Nothing in the keynote mentioned them or needs them. If there isn’t a deal, I’d love to know how everyone claiming it was signed on the dotted line was led so far down that garden path.
It's probably an absolute minority of apps which doesn't do any network stuff at all. And even if they don't reach for the network themselves they might have a link to open a support website, prefilling some data based on the device/user, in the default browser.
> It wasn't a documentary.

I guess by that standard HBO's Chernobyl (which condensed an entire group of scientist into a single character) or Apollo 13 were "far from the truth" as well because they definitely weren't documentaries.

> So yes, it was far from the truth.

Kind of weird stance to take since nobody knows what the real story is at this point.
This seems really cool.

They said the models can scale to "private cloud compute" based on Apple Silicon which will be ensured by your device to run "publicly verifiable software" in order to guarantee no misuse of your data.

I wonder if their server-side code will be open-source? That'd be positively surprising. Curious to see how this evolves.

Anyway, overall looks really really cool. If it works as marketed, then it will be an easy "shut up and take my money". Siri seems to finally be becoming what it was meant to be (I wonder if they're piggy-backing on top of the Shortcuts Actions catalogue to have a wide array of possible actions right away), and the image and emoji generation features that integrate with Apple Photos and other parts of the system look _really_ cool.

It seems like it will require M1+ on Macs/iPads, or an iPhone 15 Pro.
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Writing SIMD routines can be quite easy, at least much more pleasant than using intrinsic mnemonics.

My understanding is that Mojo's portable SIMD builds on top of LLVM vector MLIR dialect, which is good. If this is indeed true, it would make it competitive with C# cross-platform SIMD which usually means just creating variables typed as Vector128/256/512<T> and using either the regular arithmetic operators on them or VectorXXX.Shuffle/PairwiseSomething/etc. for SIMD-specific operations without ever touching mnemonics (those can be intermixed behind branches of if (Arm64?) if an ISA of your interest has a more specific instruction, and these still consume the same vector types). Example: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/7ffb9a44ab32cd96d5684...

Even higher level abstraction can be built on top of that, e.g. Triton or ISPC style (just no one has done that yet, it's a relatively new addition to the language, the closest one is System.Numerics.Tensors which is C#'s own baby BLAS).

I'm very interested in Mojo as it seems like one of the few options where moving away from C# wouldn't be a huge downgrade, giving all the performance bits while being built on top of LLVM, for now waiting until it is fully open-sourced and becomes a public project.
Quoting Urban Dictionary:

> Someone that doesn't question the matrix and society as it is. They usually share the same characteristics as robots and AI's. They often run on auto pilot and work a 9-5 and come home to surf their phones and mindlessly open and close Instagram and twitter.

Or:

> When someone acts like an npc

So basically just language evolving. Same as how the meaning of "cap" changed, and it means something different when used before vs after the year, I don't know, 2018-ish?
I got a great job through Triplebyte, which let me skip a technical leetcode interview I definitely would have failed. Very grateful for them.