skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't really dispute any of that.

It took almost a decade but the PA Semi acquisition showed that Apple was able to get out of the shadow of its PowerPC era.

Nvidia will remain a leader in this space for a long time. But things are going to play out wonky and Apple, when determined, are actually pretty good at executing on longer-term roadmaps.
Agreed that 3D is overkill. I'm fastest at prototyping in Unity though and this was only a couple day project, so I'm unlikely to port it to anything else.

Probabilities are mostly randomized during board generation but skewed in a way to make gameplay feel a bit better. There's a cap on the likelihood of the neutral event, and a bias towards the good event rather than a bad one.
Well, Dropbox is a sub $8bn company now that hasn't really grown in 5 years, so maybe Steve was right?
Are they giving us a choice? I thought the choice was primarily about using ChatGPT? It sounded like everything in apples "Private Cloud" was being considered fully private.
EU is much more about the spirit of the law than American law
Wasn't their goal to make AGI (and to make it available)? It's why I said what I did. Financialization runs in opposition to such altruistic goals. Someone has to now pay their hundred million dollar pay packages, and that someone is the customer.
Why does there have to be a reason? Some things just fail and there is nothing we can do about it.
Most people are happy for (2) already - iCloud Photos, Device backups, iCloud Messages… email.

Those that won’t use those won’t use this either.
The security positive of a browser integration is you eliminate the human part of url validation; effectively stopping phishing.
I do. It is a critical software for me. Why would I use something inferior?
FreeTaxUSA supports it - I did it for my wife's LLC this year. You can do the federal taxes for free, but you will have to pay $14.99 for the state taxes (if you want to). The LLC has nothing to do with it, every customer gets the full feature set for the same price.
Unfortunately, these responses aren't clearing much up for me. I may be dumb, so here's two dumb questions:

1. Am I correct in assuming the "API key" here is an OpenAI API key?

2. Can this tool be pointed at local models?
https://nitter.privacydev.net/seanpk/status/1800145949580517...
IMHO the terribly overlooked issue with generative AI is that the end users' views of the response generated by the LLM often differs greatly from the opinion of the person actually interacting with the model

this is particularly evident with image generation, but I think it's true across the board. for example, you may think something I created on midjourney "looks amazing", whereas I may dislike it because it's so far from what I had in mind and was actually trying to accomplish when I was sending in my prompt
Google lets you create kid accounts and manage them within your family entity, which also then allows you to share purchased apps with them, share Youtube/Music/TV subscriptions, etc. When kids get to be 13, you can convert those accounts to full accounts (but still optionally manage them using Family Link).

I don't care if things like vacation itineraries and emailed stories about the things we/they did together when they were small matter to them or not. We're just giving them the opportunity to make that decision, rather than not have those memory enhancers at all. My wife's family basically never kept anything, and my dad's house burned down with all our old printed photos, kid projects and keepsakes in it. It's easy to mitigate some of this potential loss through digital means.

You're of course welcome to your opinion.
It was speculated when the M4 was released only for the iPad Pro that it might be out of an internal need on Apple's part for the bulk of the chips being manufactured. This latest set of announcements gives substantial weight to that theory.
> all you need to do to falsify the many worlds-interpretation is to do an experiment where the wave function is not under the Schrödinger equation.

Which, Carroll conveniently fails to note, happens every time we make a measurement on a system that is not in an eigenstate of the observable being measured. For example, every time an H polarization measurement is made on a V+ polarized qubit, which happens all the time in quantum computing, the result is either H+ or H-, with 50% probability of each; but before the measurement the qubit was in state V+. The time evolution from V+ to H+ or H- is not time evolution under the Schrodinger equation.

MWI proponents explain this away by saying there is another branch of the wave function where the result is the other one (for example, H- if we observed the result H+), so that the whole time evolution is still under the Schrodinger equation. (Note that "the whole time evolution" here has to include the entire universe, not just the qubit being measured.) But MWI proponents also have to say that this other branch of the wave function is in principle unobservable. In other words, the MWI itself says it is not falsifiable.
Not worrying about aluminum cans and paper bags is the right choice. They were never the problem. Some of that was deliberate disinformation by polluters trying to push the problem on you; some was well-meaning environmentalists lacking perspective.

However, I would suggest that you should still vote as if humanity is going to survive. We're not going to go extinct, and I think it would be a moral choice to leave a decent planet for whoever is here. Doing that will require collective action, not individual action, and voting is the one way you can influence the collective action.

I'll give you another reason to do the same: the people who have engaged in climate disinformation are likely to be making other bad choices as well. Voting for improved climate may not affect your life, but it's likely that you're voting for other issues that do.

It's not the most you can do, but it's the biggest result for the least effort.
It’s in the keynote video.
It's worth noting that one of Apple's largest competitor at TSMC is, in fact, Nvidia. And when you line the benchmarks up, Nvidia is one of the few companies that consistently beats Apple on performance-per-watt even when they aren't on the same TSMC node: https://browser.geekbench.com/opencl-benchmarks
Isn't the Passwords app essentially just existing features of the OSes extracted into an app? Or does it add new capabilities as well (other than obviously the Windows app)?
> but it was certainly part of Google / Facebook's messaging.

It entered the online cultural zeitgeist before that, with Microsoft talking about their interview processes, and indeed early interview books were written targeting the MSFT hiring process that many other companies copied afterwards.

I graduated college in 2006 and some companies still did traditional interviews for software engineers (all soft skills, and personality tests, no real focus on technology, except maybe some buzzword questions), and then you had the insane all day interview loops from MSFT and Amazon.

Back then, Google famously only hired PhDs and people from Ivy Leagues, so us plebs didn't even bother to apply. In comparison, Microsoft would give almost everyone who applied from a CS program at least a call back and a phone screen.
Oh God, when my partner started exploring using Power Apps for Teams to build a platform for running a clinical study, I was intrigued... Then horrified as I tried to help her get it setup.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/teams/create-fi...
I tried to do the same and failed. The questions were 1) multi-browser support - I use Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Opera - there is a reason for this and I do not want to authorize some of my browsers everyday to serve passwords, 2) ease of use for family with different level of computer/iOS proficiency amongst them. As of now, they are happily running on 1password, but I will be happy to try again this year and next.
Disagree. This feels more like the Google partnership with Apple' Safari that has lasted for long time. Except in this case, I think is OpenAI who will get the big checks.
this is some straight up Ender's Game shit
confusing way of stating your view imo, as the other thread shows
Show HN: Bssid Randomization
Our WiFi Router software now supports BSSID Randomization. This helps users prevent tracking while they travel. Users can cloak to a random OUI or a common router AP OUI. A new address will be assigned every time the router restarts. The randomization can also be applied to cards working as wifi clients for an uplink network from the router.

This feature improvement comes from the results of the UMD Team's Location Tracking study where they found huge privacy issues with Google & Apple's location databases. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/why-your-wi-fi-router-do...
What's the % look like for people who use password managers? There's probably a reason they all support Linux.
2 days ago I complained that Apple has stalled when it came to window management. I wonder if Tim Cook is reading HN ;)
Yea, I worked in partnership with apple for years. I dont know what else to tell you except they lie through their teeth about privacy all the time.
I thought that's what AirDrop is for? Even Android can drag and drop files to Windows.
I think the headlines are REALLY muddying things. From watching the Keynote, most of Apple Intelligence is their own stuff, mostly on-device.

Siri explicitly asks you if you want to use chatGPT to answer a query. It does so when it thinks chatGPT will have a better answer. It sounds like that will be for very creative/generative types of things like "please create a 4 course meal with xyz foods," at which point Siri asks you if you want to use chatGPT. It will be very clear, according to Apple.
I am worried too. But not as much for the AI itself, but the hoards of brainless humans (including quite a number in positions of at least some power) who are being seduced by the idea of AI without a hint of critical thought.
Framing it as a one-sided collection is a little silly, given that NJ residents driving into NYC are (1) generally affluent suburbanites from bedroom communities, and (2) living in NJ in part to avoid city taxes.

NJ isn't exactly a cheap state either in terms of taxation, but it's also one of the most affluent in the country. It's hard to believe that NY's payroll tax can be unilaterally blamed for NJ's inability to maintain and further develop NJT.

(This is besides the larger contradiction, which is that NJ would have ~no taxes to collect on these residents at all, were it not for NYC's proximity.)
I actually want a virtual assistant that can reliably process my simple requests. But so far all these companies look like they are still in the figuring out phase, basically throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. Hopefully after 2 or 3 years things will settle down and we will get a great virtual assistant.
The UI shows a "do you want your data to be sent to OpenAI?" popup.
Math Notes certainly appears to be moving into Soulver/Numi territory. I'm a bit surprised by this one as while I personally love Soulver I didn't know how appealing it would be to Apple's overall user base.
As an extension, I have three good examples of DIY medicine that makes a huge difference.

1. Urinary tract infection testing: 4 tests at home for $10, or same test at the hospital for $300 (nominally as reported to insurance).

2. Night dental guards: $100 for good quality custom mold versus $800 at the dentist.

3. Eyeglasses: $36 at Zenni versus $400 at the eye doctor.

I wish there is more of this available... Some kind of home cholesterol test would be awesome.
That won't stop Apple from lambasting later
> That's a market of 1 vendor. That's ripe for attack.

it's just a monopoly [1] , how hard can it be?

/s

- [1] practically, because of how widespread cuda is
Looking at their stock performance and the amount of work they’ve put into features that aren’t Dropbox file sync, he appears to have been right. iCloud doc syncing is what DB offered at that time.
Apple could have moved on Nvidia but instead they seem to have thrown in the towel and handed cash back to investors. The OpenAI deal seems like further admission by Apple that they missed the AI boat.
After 30+ years in the field..it definately wasn't always the case. All the leet code and take home stuff is a pretty new thing. Can't say I've seen it result in higher quality teams. Seems mostly a way to rank recent grads that are working from memory and not experience?
Honeywell Demonstrates SURF-A Runway Incursion Avoidance Tech
AmigaOS 3.2 Reference Manual
Open/Interoperable FaceTime, Announced by Steve Jobs on June 7, 2010. Never Forget
Even with this setup in place you need a heightened level of caution relative to a monolith. In a monolith I can refactor function signatures however I desire because the whole service is an atomically deployed unit. Once you have two independently deployed components that goes out the window and you now need to be a lot more mindful when introducing breaking changes to an endpoint’s types
> iPhone notifications on Mac

I was hoping for improvements to iPhone's notifications, not have them expand to other devices.

I'm quite happy with all the social media notifications being confined to a single device; I can pick it up and check it when I want to, or put it away and ignore for a while. I know Apple wants me to set some sort of focus / do not disturb, but managing that seems too complex when the analog "put the phone away" works.
Oh, man...spot on. We have a friend who was a senior game tester on a Very Big Francise(tm). He regularly worked twice as long every week than I did, made a fraction of the scratch and always said he did it because he loved the gaming biz. OK...I'm down with that...but maybe all of those stress-related health issues might be telling you something. Then he packed up everything and moved north because some assclown ex-ball player conned a ton of people into letting him cosplay being a game studio owner and our friend was one of many who got left holding the bag when that inevitably took a dump. He's still trying to fully recover. Definitely put the industry on the Nope list for me.
Here's Apple's big problem: it's not a replacement for so many alternatives because it isn't supported on all platforms.

Safari? Not on Windows.

Apple Music? This actually has a Windows client. I'm not sure how good it is. But Spotify supports Windows and even Linux.

Apple Password Manager? Will this be tied to iCloud? Will I be able to use it on Android? If I no longer have an iPhone will it be a pain to maintain and use?

A dog cannot serve two masters. A company like Apple doesn't see any of these things as a product. They're a means to an end: to push the iPhone platform (and hardware sales). That priority will always trump the interests of a product like this.

It's also why I refuse to buy more into Google products: it's too much of a risk to lose access to everything if Google wakes up one day and decides to suspend your account with no recourse other than making enough of a stink on social media such that an employee will actually look into it.

People don't want everything tied to one identity, one service, one login.
Ooh, which keyboard extension is this?
A human is rare to explain their own manipulation.

>several class leading products

See.

I mean, 'class leading', like Nintendo leads, pick something no one cares about and peer pressure people into caring.
i've thought of all kinds of iterations with varying levels of security. the phone with BT encryption would be fine in general but that would get picked apart for security if you actually tried to market it as secure.

the really secure way I was thinking is a small touch device that could be small enough to slide into your wallet or even as a device that would live in a phone case exposed on the back of your phone. then there would be a small yubi key like dongle that you'd plug in to whatever your target device is and it would communicate over wifi. that would be like the ultra paranoid version. then you could have the iphone/android app that communicates with the dongle, the one that uses BT encryption, the one that uses a USB cable from the phone to emulate a keyboard.. options are endless.

there's some features you could have like computer vision to recognize the login prompt. it's easy to get into an imaginative loop with the ideas.
I'm convinced that GOOG has the necessary engineering chops to pull the same thing off (or to put it less charitably, copy Apple), but hitherto they were hindered by bad product manager decisions leading them to engineer the wrong thing.
The applications that were later bundled into Office were on the Mac pretty early: 1985 for Word and Excel, and the first PowerPoint in 1987 was Mac-only.
I was surprised how little they are leaning on OpenAI. Most of the impressive integrations that actually look useful are on-device or in their private cloud. OpenAIs ChatGPT was relegated to a corner of Siri for answering "google queries", if you grant it permission. This seems like an L for OpenAI, not being a bigger part of the architecture (and I'm glad).
That's how the AI seems to play it. :)
They are trying to get off or have gotten off their kernel fork called "Prodkernel" for some time now.

https://lwn.net/Articles/871195/
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/0...
At work, yes. However, it won't be long until the language you speak will become a feature of your ML driven consumer language service. There will likely be products that reflect your style/ identity/ whatever. And once you reach a certain socioeconomic level, you'll speak a highly customized bespoke dialect that reflects your station in life, just like today but much, much weirder…
WRT to computing an exact solution, something something markov chains, transition matrices, eigenvalues. I think it is tractable
She explained that some activities (active ones, social ones, etc), once you are used to planning them and doing them, actually reward the brain a lot more than scrolling, and eventually you don't go back to the addictive behavior anymore. It's a form of CBT. I'm going to try it because I have nothing more than her word for it.
Surely Apple wouldn't simply market privacy while lying to their users about who can access their data: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...
If it were $10, we might have a conversation.

I paid for my full version of 1Pass way back when, and upgraded all the way through to v7. It was a one time fee and used until they broke it.

I never said refused to pay for it, but a monthly fee in perpetuity is just ridiculous to me.
Now you know why the USA* exists. Welcome to Europe, where you are both more free than the USA and less free at the same time.

* I assume you mean the USA when you say America, as both the North American and South American continents have many countries.
You’re not feeding anything by having this feature turned on
They are likely implemented very differently. I’m not certain but I imagine the current photos app uses an image model to detect and label objects which you can search against. I expect Semantic Index (by virtue of the name) to be a vector store of embeddings.
Then we're not their target demographic.
Well apparently I've been in the full 3-stage burnout for 5 or more years. Guess I'm screwed.
Also recommend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVlBmdvIC6s
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqQJHja9qxU
"AI for the rest of us" is an interesting resurrection of the "The computer for the rest of us" Macintosh slogan from 1984.
Interesting Q, I've used it at 140% in stock Chrome, for about a year, and haven't noticed an issue on refresh, but...idk, I feel like I did once a couple weeks ago. Can't trigger it now though
C'mon mate, it's just a redirect to a nsfw website. Not the end of the world. I also did warn about it so if you work in such a crappy environment and click on a link with a warning you'll have to suit yourself.
That sounds like a good plan. I think you're right to focus on the local experience. Good luck!
I will disable it as soon as it tells me how to also permanently disable live photos.
I can understand that frustration that webmail clients are currently very vendor specific. Though I'm also an old school user that switches among Outlook (Desktop [New], Mobile), Apple's Mail app, Thunderbird, and a few other clients based on several whims/current preferences. Migadu supports IMAP very well and I don't feel tied to a specific client and webmail is a "nice-to-have" for some edge cases, never my main client.

Off the top of my head, Outlook and Thunderbird both support snooze/delay/schedule-send in various ways. I don't know about "snooze received emails". (I was never an Inbox user.) (Outlook has Flagging for Follow-Up and you can set your own deadline?)

There's a lot more IMAP clients than just the ones I bounce among, too.

It used to be IMAP clients were where all the innovation was in email clients. It is a bit unfortunate Gmail changed the dynamic so much that people today think webmail clients should be the client-side innovators.
iOS 18 introduces satellite capabilities to its iMessage app
this will work about as well as the tedious fad for chatbots a few years ago
Thanks! I've added a fast forward button to the top left so that you can play faster.
Exactly. Apple really needs new growth drivers and Nvidia has a 3bn market cap Apple wants to take a bite out of. One of the few huge tech growth areas that Apple can expand into.
I frequently just airdrop stuff between my iphone and mac, that's the best thing coming from android, that and pasting text between devices, eg iban, passwords, etc.
> If you find a system that doesn't satisfy the Schrödinger equation, you have falsified quantum mechanics.

No, you haven't. Standard "shut up and calculate" QM does not say time evolution always happens according to the Schrodinger equation. It only says that happens when a measurement is not being made.
I actually liked KLK, even with the sometimes extreme levels of fanservice. I think the thing that made KLK work for me is how it was both a love letter and at the same time a direct challenge to the cosplay community.

Franxx however tossed me out when the robots are controlled by dry humping teenagers. There's a level of pandering at which I just couldn't take it anymore.
iCloud end-to-end encryption is disabled by default.

So by default, user data is not protected.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651
They’re releasing an app for Windows that will solve that piece at least. It’ll sync across both.
I never said free. Did I? Just because someone is revolting against rent seeking companies vs building a solid product and increasing users this forum likes to denigrate them into being freeloaders. You've got the wrong idea and are running with it in the wrong direction.
Currently, AI use has a "power user" requirement. You have to spend a lot of time with it to know what it is and is not capable of, how to access those hidden capabilities, and be very creative at applying it in your daily life.

It's not unlike the first spreadsheets. Sure, they will some day benefit the entire finance department, but at the beginning only people who loved technology for the sake of technology learned enough about them to make them useful in daily life.

Apple has always been great at broadening the audience of who could use personal computing. We will see if it works with AI.

I think it remains to be seen how broadly useful the current gen of AI tech can be, and who it can be useful for. We are in early days, and what emerges in 5-10 years as the answer is obvious to almost no one right now.