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Rachofsunshine: for what it's worth, I appreciate that there are people who insist on trying to change the market, rather than doing what the market wants.

I did some early interviews with TripleByte and appreciated they were trying something different.

It's just a different kind of effort and it's hard to change people's minds with just money. Often, a grassroots movement arises that slowly changes consensus, over years, and only then some well-funded player can come in, see which way the trends are going, and capture the value. My current startup is so remote we had to move Friday meetings to Thursday to accommodate Japan and Oceania. In my experience the Silicon Valley practices of the 2000s and 2010s already seem antique.

So maybe TripleByte they were just early? Or as the post mentions, maybe the funding environment was wrong.

We are often told that a loose funding environment encourages new ideas to prosper. But whatever happened in the 2010s with ZIRP seemed to concentrate wealth for people who had already gotten through various gatekeepers. I am sort of in the Silicon Valley ecosystem and sort of not, working remotely for American companies, so this stuff just feels like a distant thunderstorm to me. I can see new graduates getting my salary or higher for doing very basic, mistake-laden work, and I can't figure it out. But this helps put it in context.

Anyway, perhaps a downturn is a better time to start trying to change minds, although that's going to be a very long battle and the TAM is going to be "???" for quite a while.
I do something similar with a loved one that has died. Their email address still doesn't bounce, but I'm not sure how long that will last.
You don't even have to buy a new device since it's backwards compatible with A17 Pro and M1, M2, M3 and M4. It feels like the integration of the services are using existing models and integrating the API used traditionally originally from AppleScript but, extending it to LLM or stable diffusion systems. It seems that they want the M4 as soon as possible though for the gaming and cloud pushes.
I'm a bit over 40 and I'm in the process of starting meds again after stopping when I lost health insurance after college. I lost a couple relatives last year and it really drove home the point that I have limited time to live the life I want. I cannot patiently wait and hope good things will come.
Not really. They just have a bit of a cult following.
I am so glad presentation training for Cook at least helped some. I remember whenever I heard him speak in the initial days, I couldn't supress the word "valium?" appearing all over my thought-spectrum. It was actually very distracting trying to listen to him speak.
It's happened before (and with many other companies, not just Apple). It was trading higher over the last week in the lead up to the event, then the reality kicks in and people realize "Oh, there's really nothing groundbreaking that's going to triple the value of the company? Sell sell sell!" It's still up 11% (at this moment) from 90 days ago, and down about 0.5% from 5 days ago.
Interesting, I've never really felt the need to upgrade from the in-flight display (or my laptop screen) for flight entertainment. I've got an original OLED Oculus Quest that's great for watching movies on, but the thought of bringing it with me on a trip just reeks of wasted carry-on space.
True. Except that should be past-tense. Triplebyte existed to serve a narrow market, and failed largely because of that narrow view.

I think people really do underestimate how much FAANG and Silicon Valley practices have skewed the viewpoint of engineers and technology jobs in the United States. Not just in terms of comp, but in terms of architectural and technology approaches as well. Most of what the big guys do works for them at their enormous scales, but are plain dumb for the vast majority of companies and use cases. Yet we are all infected by the FAANG approach.
Almost as if the third-party app store is not really an independent third party.
Is law a good example? My understanding is if you didn’t go to a top 14 school (whoever came up with that arbitrary number) it basically forecloses on the best opportunities.
Matrix/Element.
An Atlas of Vanishing Places
Of course they did --- all they have to gain is money. It's not their data so why worry?
The disruptive technology standard trend of: "the market would be huge" to "there is no market" to "there is a market, and it's growing"
I’ll take a stab at answering this. Business and moral reasons likely.

Porn has a high rate of charge backs. Increased credit processing fees. Expensive to work with processors who allow it.

Porn can carry legal implications. Are there any non consensual images? Children in them or viewing them? Revenge porn? AI deep fake porn? Who wants to associate their products and company alongside porn?

Different countries and localities have different laws. Are you going to legally complaint? Will this lead to legal consequences for you or your users?

Then I will make a moral argument. Porn sucks. I grew up with porn, I am not a puritan, I understand some people do it as a job to scrape by or even to make a lot of money. I also understand not everyone shares my moral values. That said, I can’t think of a single thing having endless firehoses of porn available everywhere 24/7 has done for society. Seems to permeate relationship expectations, kids are asking in school what the best way to choke a girl is now for example. Porn titallates the senses until it doesn’t and then you start looking for stronger porn instead. It saps motivation and sure seems to have shaped modern western society. I could go on but I’ve made my point and need to hop off the soap box.

These reasons I would see as applicable. In essence, reputational damage.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/company-builds-powerful-500cc-...

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There is a wide gap between "known to juniors/mid level/low senior programmers" and "interesting enough to post on hacker news," which often surprises people. People can be productive for a long time having no knowledge of concepts that HN readers deem essential.
My favorite peeve is when I want to place the text caret at some point, and instead iOS refuses to do anything other than autoselect a whole word, forcing me to select somewhere far away first, then finally long press where I want.

I really fucking wish I could turn off auto selection.

I only use this damned thing because work pays for it.
I'm still at Block (née Square) and have been for over 10 years. I'm not in anything related to finance, but I can say that during her time here she was widely respected and valued within the company at all levels. I don't know of a single person that wasn't saddened to hear when she was leaving.

Landing her is a huge victory for OpenAI, and I wish her all the best.
I always feel like these password solutions are there to lock you into their platform. I would never use Apples nor Mozillas password solutions personally.
She has receipts to prove she is not cheating? Sure, man. She is a cheater just like all cyclists. She just got sloppy.
That apostrophe in the first sentence doesn't belong. Apostrophe rules are impossible even for natives, but I thought you might like to know.
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I'd say it's the exact opposite. There are hordes of unqualified people applying to every software dev role imaginable regardless of what you put in the job description or requirements. The tests are there because people are good at lying but bad at faking skills.
I remember the flash-in-the-pan moment where through some strange conflux of exploits and firmware features UTM on iOS was able to access full hardware virtualization support. It was a glorious glimpse into an alternate reality that we will likely never get to see again.

I don't have enough superlatives to express my disappointment when seeing all of that effort suppressed and restricted by Apple.

When the UTM authors say "it's not worth it" -- they may be onto something. Apple is slowly but surely beginning to be "not worth it" for me and for many other professional users. Happy WWDC everybody; enjoy getting fucked.
There is a story and decentish world building. It's just slow. Most of it happens from off handed comments the characters make. It's there! I can understand not wanting to watch 3 hours of anime to get background information though.
I noticed Tim said "LLM and diffusion models", is diffusion models just the image generation stuff?
OK yeah I think that is wrong also.
> Some humans who are not trained that curiosity produces beneficial outcomes are often not all that curious.

Innate traits such as curiosity & boredom are things that we are born with, not learnt. The reason evolution has selected for these innate traits is because there is a benefit (encouraging exploration and learning which help survival), but you don't need to be aware of the benefits to experience and act on boredom or curiosity.

Innate behaviors can certainly be reinforced, or suppressed to some degree, by experience.
Pagination for Database Objects
If you sync with Thunderbird, it puts all your emails into SQLite dbs that you can peruse.
Maybe that's what they were going for?
Companies like Elsevier are a force of the old world.

They rely on prestige, connections, name, etc. to leech people off.

And, the system, due to inertia, and their efforts, make it difficult for people to get grants, name, etc. if they don't publish in big-name journals.

Elsevier also spent tens of millions of dollars in lobbying in the US [0].

I am glad that AI research in the highest levels have mostly gotten rid of the parasites like Elsevier.

Can't imagine charging thousands of dollars of a PDF hosting service.

[0]: https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary...
This on-device, private cloud compute, and tight hardware-software integration take may be first useful for all genAI we’ve seen so far.

Apple may have actually nailed this one.

Edit: except for image generation. That one sucks
There’s comments on the issue that suggest that this is impacting any YouTube user rather than just Invidious users: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734#issuecomment...
Siri will have ChatGPT integration (for free, apparently)
They depicted it working for the A17 through the M4, since those have significant AI-acceleration hardware. So, no.
The Unix PID 0 Myth
React embraces one-way data flow. You build a tree-like structure of components each of which is configured by the props passed to it by its parent. Each component is a function that runs again every time any of the props change. Components also have the ability to manage local state, which is simple in some ways but handled poorly can lead to a lot of complexity. React doesn't give you a lot of guard rails, but it does give you a lot of power. You can tell the best React developers by how they handle state and side effects.

Most of your components in a React app should be pure functions, meaning their output for a combination of props should be the same every time. This makes testing extremely easy, although YMMV depending on how you structure your app. React lets you write lots of cheap and almost unbreakable lego pieces that you can assemble into larger blocks of functionality.
> The iPod was nice because of the storage, but competitors (like Zune) had more storage and were cheaper. It took a while for iPod to get "good" and gain adoption.

What are you talking about? When the first Zune launched, there were already 160 GB iPods, which was more storage then the Zune's 120 GB max (and more storage then you needed unless you watched a lot of videos on your iPod). I can't find MSRPs, but what I can find indicates that they were comparable on price as well.

> The iPhone was closer to the Vision Pro. It was obviously a revolutionary product, but it was extremely limited, and it took several OS versions before it got to the point where it was really ready for mass adoption. The iPhone 3G or 3GS was probably the first one that really got traction.

The iPhone 3G was the second generation iPhone, launched about a year after the first gen. The first gen also sold over 6 million units, while the Vision Pro has yet to crack a million.

I agree that the Apple Vision story isn't finished. But we shouldn't go re-writing history to defend it. Regardless of how much you like it, the Apple Vision Pro hasn't set the world on fire. And it's not clear what Apple can do to get the general public excited about it.
Both. Siri is on device and it can talk to ChatGPT
Usually the OS announced at WWDC is released around mid September.
Yeah. I have heard some say they need to keep busy or their mind dwells on past trauma. If whatever you are doing removes stress, then do it.
For those curious, there is in fact a ChatGPT integration.

The way it works is that when the on-device model decides "this could better be answered by chatgpt" then it will ask you if it should use that. They described it in a way which seems to indicate that it will be pluggable for other models too over time. Notably, ChatGPT 4o will be available for free without creating an OpenAI account.
People underestimate how much cultural baggage influences things.

I'll give a very simple example. I did a few SWE interviews in 2020, and several companies did the initial screen over the phone, and the on-site over Zoom.

In both cases it was a remote interview. There was no reason not to do both over Zoom. The only reason was that the previous process was a phone interview and then an in-person onsite, and they realized they had to replace the in-person on-site with Zoom, but they didn't think to replace the phone screen. If you started from scratch it makes no sense though.

In this case, the whole origin of the Leetcode interview is "we're going to hire the smartest people in the world.". You can dispute whether that was true back in 2009 but it was certainly part of Google / Facebook's messaging. Now, in 2024, I think it has morphed much closer to a standardized test, and even if people might begrudgingly admit that, there's still the cultural baggage remaining. If a company used a third-party service, they'd be admitted they're hiring standardized candidates rather than the smartest people in the world. Which might be an "unknown known" - things that everybody knows but nobody is allowed to admit.
That's a great reason to not use Apple's, but Mozilla's doesn't lock you in at all.
>Maybe they should focus on improving their frontend

They have. Do you know how many ads they can stuff into people's faces now?

Youtube is unbearable without ablock. If there are people who are able to watch it like that, then it shows just how long you can boil the proverbial frog.
It was Google who wanted to put glue on pizza, not ChatGPT :)
I can go even further back

John C. Dvorak in 1984…

https://www.liquisearch.com/john_c_dvorak/technological_pred...

> "The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things."
It not working
"we also intend to add support for other models"

When they pay us sufficiently

It's great that Apple is capitalizing so well on everyone else's inventions, but couldn't they at least pretend they will give something back to the ecosystem?

I wish someone somewhere creates something like intents for the web browser
No but CFO at Open AI >>>>> CFO at Square. It's like being CFO of Etsy (Square is). Ok I guess, but not epic (which Open AI is).
This stuff will be well integrated, is useful, will be high quality and doesn't require you to buy new hardware.

Microsoft are so boned. They don't even have a mobile proposition.
Apple should be allowed to block whatever they want from their app store. And users should be allowed to run whatever software they wish on their devices not installed through Apple's store.
There are water-ice clouds on mars:

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-curiosity-rover-captures...
Few thoughts:

It seems like this is what Rabbit's LAM was supposed to be. It is interesting to see it work, and I wonder how it will work in practice. I'm not sold on using voice for interacting with things still.

Image Generation is gross, I really didn't want this. I am not excited to start seeing how many horrible AI images I'm going to get sent.

I like Semantic Search in my photos.

This does seem like the typical Apple polish.I think this might be the first main stream application of Gen AI that I can see catching on.
Yeah, it's sad in that they're a pretty massive name that's going away (and one of the few studios mostly known for doing original work rather than adaptations), but it's been a long time coming and the actual losses are minimal (it's really only FLCL but that happened years ago).

One small correction though: no IPs will be transferred to Cloverworks as far as I know. Cloverworks didn't really get any specific creatives from Gainax, moreso just that a lot of the intermediate staff that you usually don't hear about ended up at Cloverworks. (Which to my understanding was largely a coincidence: A1 had formed Cloverworks, put out hiring ads and in the next month, Gainax basically declared they weren't ever going to make any experimental anime again, causing a mass exodus from the company.)
It is available across the two major desktop operating systems, but you'd have to read the article to find that out.

> The Passwords app is free to download, available across iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and MacOS 15, and will also work with the Vision Pro and Windows computers, says Apple.
My home is filled with Apple HomePods even though Siri is dumb as rocks.

Looking forward to my house gaining a few IQ points.

I don’t see anything that mentions HomePod specifically but hopefully the updates will come.
The alternative is a new nuclear arms race. Look at it from the POV of neighbors of China and Russia if UN and NATO backs down from nuclear blackmail. In that world security guarantees mean nothing. If a nuclear power invades you - the world leaves you to die. The only chance to survive is to build your own nukes.

Fast forward a few decades and you have like 50 countries with nukes. Good luck maintaining peace then.

The problem with appeasement is that people ignore the alternative costs. It always looks good when you assume only your actions have consequences. But inaction also have consequences - you can't just assume status quo remains when you do nothing.
Other way. An EU-based or EU-related business can serve non-EU customers differently.

I'm referring to natural gas and other energy, not the electrical grid.
Really excited about semantic index. This should allow for google knowledge graph like features grounded in reality for their llm. However it really depends how well it works.
I’ll chime in as one of them (and in every thread about this many more people do as well) - it’s one of the many things I like about an iPhone, the tighter control and gate keeping Apple does on the App Store. I like not having to worry so much on the App Store or wade through scams etc (I know there’s not none but seems less and it’s easy to find the apps I want) and for my parents and less tech savvy friends it’s great

But personally it comes down to it’s a phone not a computer to me and I don’t want to or care if I can run “anything” on it.
I’ve been writing Python for 20 years, and I’m nowhere near “expert”. I don’t think people realize how incredibly complex Python is. Things like metaclasses and import rules alone are mind bogglingly complex.

After 5 years of Go I might reasonably have been called an expert (I started using Go in 2012)—there wasn’t much left in the language to learn apart from the things that had changed. But with Python there’s tons and tons left for me to learn even ignoring all of the changes.
I really hope we can fully turn off the GPT4o integration even more than just saying no to every escalation
Just out of curiosity, what are some of the problems with "Clean Code"? I thought most of it made sense as basic guidelines. It's been a while since I read it though
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636292
Warf was a typo. The Warehouses are called Wharf.
A UI can promote positive interactions, and a moderation team can mitigate negative ones. Quite tired of hearing implications that social media platforms aren't shaping the way people communicate on them.
> Unlike airline pilots (or I'm certain many other professions), every company in the valley insists on re-interviewing a candidate in their own custom and unique way, instead of trusting some sort of an industry-wide certificate only achievable through a standardized test. Wonder if this will ever be solved.

The airplane pilot interview process on top of the standardized government certifications includes:

- On-line application (resume and cover letter)

- On-line Psychometric/Aptitude testing (sometimes this is hands-on, on site for some airlines)

- Video Interview, SKYPE or Telephone interview

- Assessment Day (includes: Technical Questions / Panel Behavioral Interview / Scenario Based Questions / Flight Planning Exercise and sometimes a Clinical Assessment)

- Sim Test

- Referee Check

- Medical Check

The exact details differ by airline and I'm assuming the risk profile of the cargo (ie: passengers or not).

Gosh, not so different from software engineers, is it? Except you also need to do a bunch of bureaucratic certifications on top of that.
So is this finally privacy based AI with personal memory included? Ie bespoke AI for your own stack that isn't out in the world.
Yeah, that didn't seem like a clever move by an ascending company so much as a desperate move by a descending company. Therefore it can't be the reason for the failure.
Yes, they mentioned ChatGPT.

Siri reviews the request and decided if it can respond on its own or if it needs ChatGPT. It then pops up a dialog asking if it is OK ti send the request to ChatGPT. It will not be the default LLM.
iOS 18's New 'Genmoji' Feature Lets You Create Your Own Emoji
I don’t quite understand how this will be different from what built in iPhone password manager.

Something I’d really like: let my iPhone act as a Bluetooth (obviously encryption will be necessary!) or USB keyboard, and have it hold my passwords/type them. That way I could keep my passwords all in one place, and manage them locally. Currently I use keepass when not on iOS, which is fine, but I don’t really want to have to expose my whole passwords file to a Windows machine, since they are traditionally infested with malware (and apparently MS is flirting with including their own first party malware).
Weren't they literally like this since the first iphone?
Too many of their devices in the wild are battery powered, and one really nice thing about them is that their sleep-state battery use is incredibly low while maintaining quick wake-up.

Plus it’d be weird UX for all your devices to get worse because the iPad in a drawer somewhere finally ran out of power.
I remember watching the final episode of Evangelion several years ago. A few minutes into it, it's as if they simply ran out of animation budget and it went full slide show. And that was their greatest success.
You say that as if deleting crapware isn't possible on any other platform. We've been doing it for decades.