skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've not experienced that issue, but I've kept up with it on forums. It seems like it's specific mostly to the 512GB and 1TB models, and to the first batch. If pressed, I'd guess there's been on the order of a hundred cases of it.

The consensus seems to be that it's a combination of a design defect (the aggressive curve in that portion of the display) and a manufacturing issue (improper heat treatment of the glass?). I've not seen any reports of newly-purchased VPs having the issue.

I believe replacement of the glass is $800 without AppleCare+, and $300 with it if it's judged to have been damage rather than a defect. I'm not aware of anyone having to pay to replace the glass if it wasn't dropped or otherwise mishandled.

I'll also point out that the crack issue isn't over any of the sensors, so it's pretty much a cosmetic-only issue. Reports show the VP works fine with the front glass completely removed, for what that's worth.

There are other issues that haven't gotten as much press. I'm on my second Vision Pro; my first one had a single cluster of hot pixels on the left display, right in the center of my field of view. I traded it without issue at an Apple Store - in fact, I got a ~$100 refund in the process, as my device was originally purchased online with my employer's credit card, so the purchase was taxed at SF rates. The replacement was actually a return + purchase, taxed at the rate where I live.

My second VP has a minor issue where a white horizontal line appears on the right display occasionally. I've not yet been able to predict when it will occur. It's relatively rare - I see it maybe once every 5-10 minutes, and it lasts for only a few milliseconds. I would have already had it replaced if I didn't have to drive 2.5 hours to the nearest Apple Store. Because it doesn't impact function, I've not bothered yet. I will before my AppleCare+ runs out.
Does macOS sandbox things like maven or npm? Do they need read access for everything the user can see?
No. I own plenty of stock and a house. My house increasing in value has done nothing for me except raise my property taxes.

The increased value of my stock holdings has resulted in a very nice increase in my quarterly dividend distribution. Thus, I see an increase in stock value the same way I see any other increase in my income.

I could sell my house an pocket those gains, but I'd have to buy another house that has also experienced the same, or even greater price increases. Or rent smaller apartment at 2-3x my monthly mortgage.

In reality, calling housing inflation "zero sum" is being generous. It's pretty much an economic drag on society. Having the price of housing get cheaper over time would probably be better.

> housing-as-an-asset from stocks-as-an-asset

Of course these are both "assets." But stocks are an income producing investment while my house is more akin to my car: it costs me money but provides me with necessary functionality. If I owned rental properties, then I'd call those income producing investments, but I don't own rentals.
I'll defend this a little bit in the sense that "had no relation to the job function" is just kind of unavoidable in interviews, or at least hard to avoid without paying major costs. The only way to have an interview that even comes close to reflecting real work is a pretty long take-home, and there are good arguments for not doing those (not least that most candidates really don't want to).

But yeah, the entangling of algorithms questions and coding questions is unfortunate. They're just separate skills. Some people are excellent coders who think "big-O" means something obscene, and some people are a walking discrete math textbook who can't problem-solve to save their lives. Triplebyte split (and Otherbranch splits) the two into separate sections, with coding problems explicitly designed NOT to require any of the common textbook algorithms. It's sometimes a little darkly funny how quickly a particular sort of candidate folds when asked to do something novel that steps outside what they've been able to memorize.
I assume there's just a "not be" missing somewhere
> I have heard dreaded comments from *JS ecosystem users that the packages go to unmaintained state and there is just too much noise in the ecosystem. Very few packages thrive and live for longer periods... and eventually results in a lot of rewrites for newer engine support.

I would say most packages are somewhat maintained. But there are definitely a lot that don’t. Just last week I tried to install a few web worker packages and I couldn’t make any of them work.
Very underwhelming. They've been admiring the tab bar animation like someone who got SwiftUI running for the first time.
I still don't know a single person who wants this crap. I don't want "AI" in my web browser, I don't want it in my email client, I don't want it on my phone, I just don't want it. And it feels like everyone I speak to agrees! So who is this all for?
This kind of consumerist equation: Pay money, physically present to classes and follow explicit instructions, receive grade, [repeat at med school], get high paying job expectation etc. also has the side effect of totally lowering academic standards both as pressure from the top down and friction from the ground up. It's a super depressing realization to hit any passion-oriented graduate student supported on a teaching appointment among other things
They are not making it mandatory to use, just widely available through various interfaces. I see this closer to how spellcheck was rolled out in word processors, then editors, then browsers, etc.
I share your frustration, but not your confidence that it will impact the success of the game. The "daily challenge" format, though annoying, does seem to hook people.
Microsoft Interne Explorer (no, I'm not using it personally) had a file format called *.mht that could save a HTML page together with all the files referenced from it like inline images. I believe you could not store more than one page in one *.mht file, though, so your work could be seen as an extension.

Although UNIX philosophy posits that it's good to have many small files, I like your idea for its contribution to reduceing clutter (imagine running 'tree' in both scenarios) and also avoiding running out of inodes in some file systems (maybe less of a problem nowadays in general, not sure as I haven't generated millions of tiny files recently).
Ditto. They'll use it now while they stand to benefit and in 3 years they'll be lambasting OpenAI publicly for not being private enough with data and pretend that they never had anything to do with them.
No idea. How would I find out that I've set all of the knobs correctly?

That's kind of the problem I think.
Nope, definitely won't work in my situation (since my fear is actually completely reasonable and well founded)
When netflix was founded the only viable commercial linux vendor was rhel and the support contract would have been about the same as just hiring the fbsd core team at salary.

People really do not remember the state of early linux. Raise a hand if you have ever had to compile a kernel module from a flash drive to make a laptops wifi work, then imagine how bad it was 20 years before you tried and possibly failed at getting networking on linux to work, let alone behave in a consistent manner.

The development costs were not yet shared back then, most of the linux users at the vendor support level were still smaller unproven businesses and most importantly if you intend to build something that nobody else has you do not exactly want to be super tied to a large community that can just take your work and directly go clone your product.

Hiring foss devs and putting them under NDA for everything they write that doesn't get upstreamed is an excellent way to get nearly everything upstreamed aswell, and the cost of competitors then porting these merged upstream changes back down into their linux is not nothing, so this gives a competitive moat advantage.
TL;DR Marketing and Social Media Tech Updates you should care about today
* TikTok is using Nvidia’s Premium AI chips to train AI.

#Instagram & Threads

* Instagram launches new broadcast channel features: Go live with members, chat themes, emoji moderation and QR code creation.
* Instagram’s ‘Trial Reel’ feature to push your reels to non-followers first. It could be a game changer for unhinged brands and creators.
* Another feature to send preview to your friends during the upload.
* IG is testing Text Overlays for Photos, adding text during the upload progress.
* Threads App launched swipe right on a post to like option.
* Instagram’s feature to delete and copy reels to drafts.
* How IG will inform you for getting original content credit from other user’s reshare. (Leaked image)
* Threads adding a profiles filter in search.
* IG working on a Pals stickers, it is another version of streaks.
* Instagram for business adds labels to organise chats based on customer interactions.

#Meta

* Meta quietly launched Communities on Messenger, trying to beat the discord wave.
* Meta Ads manager is showing a false ad warning for lead generation, ignore it.
* Meta’s AI policies are making artists flew to a new platform called Cara.
* Meta shares new data into success of platform with Gen-Z audiences and future of Facebook.
* Meta is expanding conversion API for business messaging.
* 11 EU countries have filed abuse of personal data complaint against Meta AI.
* FTC shares Meta withheld information on WhatsApp and Instagram acquisition deals.
* WhatsApp testing new feature to rank Statuses from Important Contacts on top.
* WhatsApp Channels are now used by 500M Users + more information from Meta’s Business conference.

#X (Twitter)

* X is testing new Analytics features with more detailed reporting.
* Only available to premium subscribers.
* X adds new filter to get search results from only verified accounts.
* xAI rumoured to launch image generation soon.
* Tap to translate Community note from one language to another feature out now.
* X launches manual video playback quality selector for iOS.
* X updating their policy center to make updates more transparent and clear.
* X working on a feature to request community notes on tweets you find suspicious.
* Group Calls on X soon, good for creators on the platform.
* X Advertisers have ability to show an allowlist with advertising only shown on terms that businesses are bidding on.

(More updates in The Social Juice Newsletter)
No, that's not the point. The point is neither of those companies could have the same values you have for your data and you are then leaving the security of that data in the hands of someone else. Even Apple, who is better than most, values your privacy with a dollar value representing your custom and their reputation. That is not how I value (nor most people value) their data. The latter point applies to any company, regardless of intention because security breaches are a matter of when, not if, and if anyone says otherwise they should not be talking about security.
Um, wow. The major question in my mind: did Apple pay, or did OpenAI pay? (A-la google for search).

Apple is not going to lose control of the customer, ever, so on balance I would guess this is either not a forever partnership or that OpenAI won’t ultimately get what they want out of it. I’m very curious to see how much will be done on device and how much will go to gpt4o out of the gate.

I’m also curious if they’re using Apple intelligence for function calling and routing in device; I assume so. Extremely solid offerings from Apple today in general.
To have the buying power that $200k/yr salary had in the 80s you’d need a $600k/yr salary now

Math tricks; mostly loans with long term repayment obligations to a rent seeker, media obfuscation, have been used to hide the deflation of purchase power

We know where it all went. Warren Buffet said the solution is simple, the people need to demand government raise his taxes.

But the public thinks making $200k in 2024 puts them beyond the $60k/yr their parents made in 1990 so it’s cool
It's not just any random user. That's the mobile DDG browser that's being targeted. I guess user agents aren't allowed anymore, only spy agents that tattle on the user.
Yeah, I'm aware but did not consider it, for me being able to snooze-send emails as well as snooze received emails is very important (I'm an old Inbox user), so the bare client didn't pass the default test. It's also not amazing from the usability perspective, but it does the job for occasional usage.

I love Migadu and have no intention of dropping it, it's just frustrating that email clients come only bundled with email services with dumb pricing structure (really in 2024 I can only have 1 domain per user for my emails!? What if I have a work email and a personal one?)

I often create projects and want domains for those, yes it might end up with garbage and nothing out of it, but it's insane I have to pay some $5/month for an email account that will receive 1 email in its entire lifetime, it makes no sense.

With migadu I'm free to experiment, my cost is based on emails sent and received (an actual cost), not on my dummy accounts that I experiment with.
John Henry [video]
The biggest reason I'm moving away from 1Password is the abysmal support for Safari Profiles. It's so bad it's ridiculous.

Right now for instance I have a Personal profile, and a few work specific ones around admin, development, and my day-to-day work to split things off easily. I have 1Password unlocked in one profile and it works in that, but if I switch to any other profile it needs to be unlocked, then it tells me it needs to reload the extension. Reloading it doesn't do anything but break it again. I have to fully quit Safari then it works again for some unknown amount of time then falls apart completely soon after (probably laptop sleep or something like that).

Just a shitshow all around from 1Password anymore. How the mighty have fallen due to profits and investors.
That promise made my ears perk up. If it actually stands up to scrutiny, it's pretty damn cool.
I've been an avid 1Password user for over 10 years, but since they gone full-throttle targeting the enterprise market, I'm getting more and more annoyed. It's increasingly buggy (right now, it thinks I haven't migrated from 1p7 which causes annoying interstitials that I can't close. Over a month and no fix yet.). They killed standalone vaults. Obvious feature requests (e.g archive an entire vault) sit there for years untouched. The value is increasingly not there anymore for me, and here's hoping I can finally jump ship this fall.
It's great for those who want it, but I really hope it can be turned off just as with most of their recent UI additions, such as Stage Manager.
> You know how we always hear about basic flashlight apps that get used to run advertising click farms in the background, or Flappy Bird knockoffs that collect detailed location data and have access to your photo gallery?

But they would sure not be lying in their privacy policy, right?
Not looking forward to the equivalent of the early Apple Maps years.
> The way Siri can now perform actions based on context from emails and messages like setting calendar and reservations

I can't think of something less exciting than a feature that Gmail has supported for a decade.

Overall there's not a single feature in the article that I find exciting (I don't use Siri at all, so maybe it's just me), but I actually see that as a good thing. The least they add GenAI the better.
> This isn't about giving Apple intelligence, this is about giving ChatGPT an understanding of the world via the eyes, ears, and thoughts on your phone.

Except it doesn't do that. The ChatGPT integration is via Siri and opt-in (you ask Siri something, it prompts you to send that prompt to ChatGPT). The rest of the LLM and ML features are on device or in Apple's cloud (which is not OpenAI's cloud). The ChatGPT integration is also, by their announced design, substitutable in the future (or you'll be given a set of systems to select from, not just ChatGPT). They are not sending all data on your device to OpenAI.
maybe you come on too strong for people who disagree to voice it

personally i like it and want it, except in places where it is shoehorned
> I always saw this level of personal intelligence to come about at some point, but I didn’t expect Apple to hit it out of the park so strongly. Benefit of drawing people into their ecosystem.

It's the benefit of how Apple does product ownership. In contrast to Google and Microsoft.

I hadn't considered it, but AI convergence is going to lay bare organizational deficiencies in a way previous revolutions didn't.

Nobody wants a GenAI feature that works in Gmail, a different one that works in Messages, etc. -- they want a platform capability that works anywhere they use text.

I'm not sure either Google or Microsoft are organizationally-capable of delivering that, at this point.
If I'm on a trip somewhere, I usually have a couple of small USB-C SanDisk 2TB drives for photo and video storage. I'm a photographer, and don't always have sufficient bandwidth to upload all of the photos I take via Lightroom - plus, I want a physical copy "just in case".

I suspect I'm just getting old :)
Web Technology Sessions at WWDC24
I've noticed I have to drastically recalibrate when I'm looking at Python learning materials. I'm trying to find something good for onboarding people, but even the "advanced content" tends to be stuff like this. I'd consider advanced to be more along the lines of "your function returns a generator, here's how to write the type annotation," or "worked examples showing how to express computations using numpy so that your program runs 30x faster," or "here's how to write a context manager."
Worth a look at the article just to get an eyeful of the man's "older computer". It's absolutely prehistoric and still in use.

I love that.
You’re both talking about iOS, right? Because on the Mac it’s always been a dedicated app.
The new generative AI stuff has been barely implemented in most products, I don't know how you are experiencing it as pervasive and intrusive. Are you sure you're not just cynical from all flood of negative news stories about AI?
My understanding from Brave is that this year Google is essentially disabling v2 add-ons, but the code will still be in Chromium (for other things Google does), so Brave can just re-enable it.

But Brave expects that Google will actually pull the code out of Chromium next year -- when that happens, it is unlikely anyone else will have the time to maintain patches to put it back in.
enpass.io is great.

+ Can't beat convenience.

+ Cross platform

+/- free if you don't need mobile version

- Closed source

(no affiliation)
Show HN: Text2Infographic – AI Infographic Generator
Microsoft Recall is completely on-device (or so they say).
Here's a shocking suggestion: maybe wait some time before these services could be implemented on-device, and implement them on-device, instead of shipping this half-baked something? Apple seems to be the perfect company to make it happen, they produce both the hardware and the software, tightly integrated with each other. No one else is this good at it.
This sounds like YT premium, but just a different platform that has no ad supported option. These platforms are dependent on the network effect and the creators and viewers are only going to use a limited number of platforms (2-4)
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I prefer the original ending
There’s a lot I don’t like about Sam Altman. There’s a lot I don’t like about OpenAI.

But goddamn they absolutely leapfrogged Google and Apple and it’s completely amazing to see these trillion dollar companies play catch-up with a start-up.

I want to see more of this. Big Tech has been holding back innovation for too long.
18 Things from WWDC24 – Apple [video]
They didn't have a choice. Doing everything on-device would result in a horrible user experience. They might as well not participate in this generative AI rush at all if they hoped to keep it on-device. Which would have looked even worse for them.

Their brand is equally about creativity as it is about privacy. They wouldn't chop off one arm to keep the other, but that's what you're suggesting they should have done.

And yes, I know generative AI could be seen specifically as anti-creativity, but I personally don't think it is. It can help one be creative.
Gundam (MSG, in particular) is sort of about the world ending. Colony drop killing billions right off the bat.

Yeah the other spin-offs not related to the UC storyline are definitely more in the "angsty ace pilot teen with completely-overpowered-weapon-as-a-plot-device" category but there's so many of them, who's counting at that point?

While the mecha are all cool as heck, definitely felt the OG series and the spinoffs (008th MS Team, 0079: Stardust Memory, Zeta Gundam etc) are the best because they tell different aspects of a larger story.

∀ Gundam was quite cool though, neat story.
My gut says that it's a stopgap solution to implement the experience they want.

I think Apple's ultimate goal is to move as much of the AI functionality as possible on-device.
They're even explicitly saying:

> These models run on servers powered by Apple silicon [...]

That doesn't mean that there are no Nvidia GPUs in these servers, of course.
Just the requests that make for a great keynote demo under ideal conditions in SF
I think too many people assumed that because ChatGPT is a conversation interface that that's how AI should be designed, which is like assuming computers would always be command lines instead of GUIs. Apple has done a good job of providing purpose-built GUIs for AI stuff here, and I think it will be interesting to watch that stuff get deeper.
Why wouldn't Microsoft be able to?

Anyway, while I see all of your points, none of the things I've read in the news make me excited. Recapping meetings or long emails or suggesting how to write are just...not major concerns to me at least.
bytes might be lesser-known to younger devs, but it’s very well-known to older devs who used it as str in Python 2.
Quite unsurprising that the prediction of a hybrid solution turned out to be true. [0]

The plan is still the same. Eventually Apple will have Apple Intelligence all in-house and race everyone to $0.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40630897
Only in response to some classes of requests. They didn’t go into detail about when but they said that the local Siri LLM would evaluate the request and decide if it could be services locally, in their private cloud AI, or would need to use OpenAI. Then it would pop up a requesting asking if you want to send the request to OpenAI. It doesn’t look like that would a particularly common occurrence. Seems like it would be needed for “answerbot” type of requests where live web data is being requested.
What's the scaling issue?
I mean, yeah, you can ignore all that and have a functioning web browser.

But it would be riddled with security issues.
Is it just me or this AI rush is actually about to ruin user experience both on Apple and Microsoft devices? The extra layer of complexity for users who will now be introduced to endless AI features is bloatware in the making.
Sounds like the good ol' vague "For security reasons..." that companies use to excuse various things.
Do these people actually even believe in AI? If not, they're there solely for the financialization and value-extraction, which means it goes downhill from here.
Plus even if Apple is using their own chips for inferencing, they're still driving more demand for training, which Nvidia still has locked down pretty tight.
> the OS will only communicate with publicly signed versions of the server for example

This hardly increases security, and does not increase privacy at all. If anything it provides Apple with an excuse that they will throw at you when you ask "why can't I configure my iOS device to use my servers instead of yours?" , which is one of the few ways to actually increase privacy.

This type of BS should be enough to realize that all this talk of "privacy" is just for the show, but alas...