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> On Apple’s App Store, sure. Or if you want your stuff signed.

> Only if you’re in their App Store or want your stuff signed.

I'd buy that one if installing something from outside Apple's App Store was just like in Windows, downloading an installer package and running it (which AFAIK it is for Mac, but not for iOS). And similarly to the signed stuff: not sure about modern Windows as I ran away from it a while ago, but last time I used it (Win 7) if the installer wasn't signed you could just install it anyway with a single click. Say those two things aren't capped on iOS or Mac, then yes, your rebuttal is valid.

But if "you" (Apple) change the rules of the game of how traditional installers have always worked, over the years making those two things de facto mandatory, then later you cannot claim in your right mind "hey but if you want to make your software impractical to use, you're free to do so!"
"Shortly after my book was in print, I began to reread Gibbon, ... and after I started it occurred to me to count the errors that his expert editor, J. B. Bury, recorded in the footnotes. I do not mean misstatements due to later research, but Gibbon's errors in using his own sources – wrong names, taking a town for a man, saying the opposite of what the cited source plainly says. I found 20 such in volume 1, forty in vol. 2, 20 again in 3, at which halfway point I stopped. And the curious thing is that the text with these blemishes is of Gibbon's own revised edition. But even so, there is nothing like Gibbon, Burckhardt, and others whose work is or was thus pockmarked."

— Jacques Barzun
Ahhh cool encryption doesn't exist, MTLS doesn't exist i forgot
You can use Image Capture with phone plugged into USB and then drag and drop photos/videos to any folder.
"A cornerstone of Apple Intelligence is on-device processing, and many of the models that power it run entirely on device."
You can set a relationship type in her contact card. I think Siri uses that data.
The HN post says “Elon Musk to Ban Apple Devices If OpenAI is integrated into OS“ which implies users’ devices to me, not employees’ devices.
> It's not up for debate. It happened

False equivalence and straw man [1][2]. You claimed "everyone who tried to publish was either threatened, harassed, surveilled, or bribed." You're trying to conclude that argument by showing some people were threatened, harassed, surveilled or bribed.

Going back to your first post, you made a claim and provided sources that don't support it. Now you're backing up into, essentially, "trust me." This isn't arguing in good faith.

> We know the threats, harassment, surveillance, and bribery happened. We know the specific people, the specific threats, the specific dollar amounts

Sure. These actions apply to plenty of things. That doesn't prove the inverse.

The bottom line is there is a multi-billion dollar pay-out for anyone who can show Roundup causes cancer. As a $50bn company, Monsanto has weight, but it's in the low tier among the heavyweights.

Hell, if someone has convincing research and is scared, hit me up. I'll indemnify you against civil claims, finance the litigation and even pay for personal security and countersurveillance (if they're caught illegally surveilling, it adds to the damages). In exchange, I want my costs back first plus 51% of the damages.

SIDE NOTE: Memkit looks cool.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
Most open source code isn't inspected though.

There have been many cases recently of compromised code being in the wild for quite some time and then only known about by accident.
George Bush understood idempotency - "Fool me once, shame on... you. Fool me twice... can't get fooled again!"
Shipping unsigned stuff is not commercially viable. Very few users even know how to get around gatekeeper and even fewer are willing to do it to run your app.
That's helpful, but what about the question I asked?
Llama 3 8B is really really good. Maybe it makes Apples models look bad? Or it could be a licensing thing where Apple can’t use Llama 3 at all, even just for benchmarking and comparison.

The license for the Llama models was basically designed to stop Apple, Microsoft and Google from using it.
You're also putting Europe on a pedestal. In many urban areas (where the majority of the population lives) it's no longer safe for kids to walk + bike to school freely. Not necessarily because of cars but significant crime.
At this point, I trust {insert megacorp} more than {insert App Dev LLC} + {insert megacorp}.

Neither is great, but at least the megacorp has a financial incentive to maintain some of my privacy.
The iPhone will let you install an app only if you tell Apple about it. It will let you get your location only if you also give that location to Apple. The only way to get true privacy is to give users control, which even Google-flavored Android builds provide more of than iOS.
Did anyone ask for these AI features?
They were smart enough to invent a new term, Apple Intelligence. You know, AI
Apple's FOSS releases are purely command-line userland tools and their kernel, all the frameworks and servers[0] that make the UI work like you'd expect are 100% proprietary.

FWIW Apple has also been on a decades-long track of purging GPL-licensed code from macOS and replacing it with either permissively-licensed or proprietary equivalents. So they're obligated to release even less than they used to.

[0] AppKit/WindowServer for MacOS and UIKit/Springboard/Backboard for everything else
Yes, I actually use Rectangle on both my work and personal laptops.
Why would you expect that? State of the art LLMs need a GPU with hundreds of GB of RAM costing tens of thousands of dollars. Apple doesn't have magical supernatural powers. They are still bound by the laws of physics. Siri is still running on device (mostly) and is quite powerful with this new update.
I'm actually not all that skeptical of TB's approach. They built a real business around it, way more targetted than eg Karat. Even though ultimately unsuccessful, that is surely more due to PMF and various missteps, than to lack of advantage for individual applicants vs spray and pray approach. (When taken as an average across all applicants.)

I'm just highlighting that GP's specific anecdote doesn't really demonstrate that advantage. Your example seems much more clear.

Somewhat OT for this specific sub-thread but I wonder how much "OA" tools that are part of coderpad etc, contributed to TB's demise. These are meant to be fizzbuzz kind of pre-screens. I know TB's approach was more than that, but from the hiring side, was the value not there since you'd always (?) have your own coding exercise after the TB screening.
There's a thread about the models: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40639506
Apply this to the "n slur" as my generation z daughter calls it. It starts as a soundwave or collection of letters but later it becomes a mental strata that justifications are hung on.

Curious if the AI hype-machine will be able to turn this connotation around and/or to what extent it's responsible for the negative connotation this term has today.
Tour the Factory
I'm guessing (and Apple is probably betting) that far more new users of Passwords will be switching from not having used a password manager at all, not switching from a different password manager. I pay for Bitwarden, and will probably continue doing so because I can't be bothered to switch.
I told Firefox to only use my preferred fonts and everything looks good to me.

User-in-control is best.
In theory there isn't. In practice > 99% of the website I visit have a cookie banner thingy. Including the EU own website (https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en).

Think about it: even a government agency isn't able to produce a simple static web page without having to display that cookie banner. If their definitions of "bad cookies that require a banner" is so wide that even they can't work around it to correctly inform citizens, without collecting any private data, displaying any ad or reselling anything; maybe the definition is wrong.

For all intent and purposes, there is a cookie banner law.
> then copyleft is useless as a tactic to get the proprietary world to bend the knee

I have bad news
This is a decent summary of one tiny fraction of their unethical doings: https://usrtk.org/monsanto/attacks-on-scientists-journalists...
sips for converting image content to web-friendly formats
Where did you get the idea that's its way better than openai's? Aren't they both proprietary?
More likely Standard of Learning[1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standards_of_Learning
Apple is also an ad company,

they generate between $5-10B on ads alone a year now and more importantly that is one their fastest growing revenue segment .

Add the context of declining revenue from iPhone sales. That revenue and its potential will have enormous influence on decision making .

The thesis that Apple doesn’t have ads business so there is no use to collect the data is dead for 5years now
In his blog (acoup), Bret Devereaux had a decent sized three part series examining this debate. He mostly comes down on the "decline and fall" side (especially when it comes to the living conditions of people in the region), but does give a fair shake to the "change and continuity" argument.

Part 1: https://acoup.blog/2022/01/14/collections-rome-decline-and-f...
You can still strategize when the probability of failure and success are equal.

For example, O should choose the lower right because it gives them a greater than 50% chance of winning, whereas choosing another spot gives them a greater than 50% chance of loosing

X X O

X _ O

_ X _
Is that even a thing? I thought that’s literally all it was designed for.
"There is no way we can reduce the size of transistors" - You in the 20th century.
I like this historian:

https://www.amazon.com/The-Storm-Before-Storm-audiobook/dp/B...
Does that mean he will ban everything Microsoft from his companies too? That sounds... Ambitious.
Is that how copyright works now? I didn't see that they'd changed that law.
Did Apple need to license the phrase Core OS like iOS?
In the future only money will have freedom of movement, never humans. You are serving your intended role in the consent-manufacture machine working to ensure that outcome. If you actually still believe in the idea of nations as anything besides a means to divide and conquer Us from Them, I would encourage you to learn about the death and posthumous citizenship of Raoul Wallenberg. The US State Department FOIA cables would be a great place to start.
> Minimum wage relevancy

You implied that wages being above the local minimum wage was a mark against exploitation. I counter that if business leaders (via lobbying, campaign donations, etc.) have kept the minimum wage lower than it would otherwise be, this is de facto exploitation; they’re just able to hide behind the law (that they created).

As to where the magic line of exploitation is, I don’t know, but it seems to be along the lines of Justice Stewart’s definition of obscenity – I know when I see it. I don’t go so far as to say that paying anyone less than their output ultimately earns is exploitative, but my floor is substantially above minimum wage in any U.S. state.

> arguing to weakening environmental regulations… isn’t exactly collusion

If the EPA gets staffed by politicians eager to bend to the will of business, I don’t see how that isn’t collusion.
An amusing thing about this is my reaction to reading this piece was that community was enabled in my own youth (which took place in the 80s) by something likely to be even more unpopular on Hacker News than church: sports. My dad was involved in adult softball leagues and many of my earliest friends were the kids of his teammates. We all went to tournaments together and played with each other while the adults played their softball. I was also involved in little league and youth basketball and made friends that way and spent a ton of time at the park with other kids playing baseball and basketball even outside of any kind of league. The neighborhood gathered together in one house even under the guise of television, which united us much more than it divided us, typically to do things like watch Lakers and Dodgers playoff games or major boxing matches that were only on pay-per-view, presumably because households didn't all want to have to pay separately.

Frankly, it's hard for me to imagine what could possibly create a community in my neighborhood today. Half the properties here are AirBNB party houses. The average tenure of a neighbor who actually lives in their own property feels like maybe three years. Hard to make any kind of lasting connections, with or without a church.
You might find this article helpful (author talks about the various approaches he used to sell his business). https://mtlynch.io/i-sold-tinypilot/
Yet another Triplebyte placement chiming in. The FastTrack product worked incredibly well for me in 2018. At the time, I had just over a year of full-time SWE experience but was struggling to get any traction, being still relatively-junior and without a degree; my open-source work wasn't cutting it. Meanwhile, the '90s legacy tech company I had ended up with was proving to be a professional dead-end.

I took Triplebyte's test, did their interview, apparently did pretty well (at that point in time, they weren't showing candidates their own scoring) and over a period of about 2 weeks chatted with 14(???) different companies. I narrowed it down to three onsites and ended up with two strong offers, one of which I took.

I'm no longer in that role, but I now work as an infosec-focused SWE at a prominent Bay Area fintech. I get to lead work I care about, and get compensated in a way that I couldn't have dreamed of ten years ago. Triplebyte made that possible for me in a very concrete and permanent way. My resume in 2018 was the kind of thing a lot of hiring managers would've tossed; not any more.

The loyalty I feel towards a company that's no longer around makes me wonder if Triplebyte could've worked on a longer timescale. I'm now the kind of candidate they were trying to acquire via Screen, and if they still existed, they'd have a very good shot at recruiting me on behalf of their clients.
It’s not a great choice to build a reliable software business in 2024 but most of the other choices right now aren’t great either.
The problem there is college. You'd have to either make college admissions much less "holistic", or make sure there are non-college paths to success (something people have been trying hard for many years with little success), or both.
I already expect unreliable internet, especially while traveling. I'm not going to have to explain why I missed a page while oncall.
I think you misread me a bit there. I'm not saying that human diets in 1849 were perfect, by any means.

> "For a given chemical, avoid doses known to have a high probability of harm"

is exactly what I do not want. I don't want to assume everything is safe until it's shown otherwise, after I've eaten it for a decade.

I want to assume things are poison, unless they are shown to be safe. Things eaten in quantity in 1849 generally meet that criteria, minus a few things we now know to be more dangerous than thought back then.

When introducing some new compound meant to replace something in the diet like sugar, it seems much more reasonable to assume that its use may have side effects, until satisfactorily proven otherwise.
Sure. But there's still no conceivable situation where it is advantageous to pursue such an option while a net positive option exists. Ergo, it is easy to ignore.
Incidentally, I didn't get a confirmation email; might be something to consider adding to the form workflow.

My email is the obvious one given my username, on the off-chance I made a typo.
I never said it's better. It's a replacement if you are looking for one.
Absolutely awesome amount of content in these two pages. This was not expected. It is appreciated. I can’t wait to use the server model on a Mac to spin up my own cloud optimized for the Apple stack.
As far as visual appearance goes, I was always a fan of the SGI machines. The original NeXT cube was sweet, too.

Sun's stuff was more beige-boxy (with a few lilac accents), but the hardware was damned solid.

Linux probably had more to do with them dying off than anything else. Once you could run a nix on commodity Intel boxes, the race was over.
Yet frankly, what most of us do is more like plumbing than art. In that we're just fitting systems together and in that it's actual skilled labor and in that we're seen by everyone else as the ones willing to do the shitty work.

Management puts up with us and they pay us because even though they think they can do our work, they wouldn't want to.

Plumbers are licensed and unionized, two possible solutions to the problems posed in this thread.
Pretty sure the weird nerds the article is talking about are not the type of people that are looking at their “tribe” trying to figure out what to imitate next in order to maintain or increase their social status. They’re Weird because they pay no attention to those fads and eschew social effort in favour of dedicating the largest portion of their time to their passion. They tend to be idiosyncratic in the extreme because they aren’t constantly synchronizing their behaviour with society at large. But maybe you’re right that there are people in science and engineering that put on those trappings as a way of blending in. I think the article is arguing that the balance of poseurs is increasing and that of the genuine article decreasing.
Because FreeBSD is a perfectly fine OS for server type stuff, and maybe it's better for this, that, or the other thing. So someone probably picked it and it has worked ok for them.
That might be "trust" in a relative sense
Most of the stuff in the blog post reads like common security precautions: don't run as root, stateless immutable nodes, use secure boot, etc. All wrapped up in some Apple marketing pizzazz.
The Labors of Hercules
If a web socket based posters driver is available, why not use that directly?
Most parents in Europe would not let their kids walk alone to school lol, maybe outside of large cities but it is not the norm anymore.
Nah. Apple didn't even actually release anything yet. It's all coming later. And nothing they came up with is unprecedented.

It's some nice AI stuff but nothing that hasn't been done before. And its use is very limited because it only works within the walled garden.

I don't think startups have to worry about anything they weren't already worried about. Local AI was already a thing. Startups don't usually limit themselves to supporting just Apple. And I mean, this was always going to happen. Everyone will introduce AI stuff now because it's the buzzword.

The game was not changed today however much Apple's marketing wants you to believe.
Gotta love a music instrument described as having the property, “internal combustion.”
Without the "so we can spy on you" part.
Scratchpixel existed way before widespread generative AI. The content is great.
Might seem like a small one, but finally: a passwords app.

That one really makes me happy.

1Password was a bliss until they went all in on subscriptions, and Bitwarden, for all its benefits is, I gotta say, rather abysmal when it comes to GUI and UX of their native app.

The Passwords app looks like the best of both worlds in terms of UX and functionality.
You’re welcome to scan the game archives to determine the actual game state and find the case where someone had three Bishops on the same color, positioned in three corners of a square, moved one to create a discovered checkmate, but the move was notated without disambiguation because the two other bishops were pinned.

Rarestest move for sure.
> In 1995, in the initial academic essay that became the book, Putnam described the social-capital-destroying effects of the rise of television [...]

Jon Haidt really gives too much credit to television. It's an easy thing to reach for when mobile phones and social media are are the present day forces we content with. But there's a deeper story. I'm reminded by Thatcher's 1987 quote:

> You know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.

Maybe it wasn't true then, but people believed them and in their belief they made it true. In a world where men, women, and families exist, there isn't room for community. It was dismantled by disbelief.

In the same way we don't have the ability to reach the moon anymore, I wonder if we don't have the ability to reconstitute communities, like lost and ancient knowledge, eventually they will fade from living memory.
Where I've been lost is where the comment said "which is that there are several different (but related) things"... if they're equivalent then isn't this just making my point?
In fact, Oracle also funds the open-source version, OpenJDK.

The Oracle EE JDK has some extra features which can be enabled (e.g. fancier G1 garbage collector, IIRC), and there's also GraalVM EE which provides an even faster runtime. Also worth noting GraalVM CE (Community Edition) which is pretty spectacular. Futamura Projection, anyone?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_evaluation

(This is the badass future space tech part of Graal :)

That said, OpenJDK works totally fine for many cases.
For articles like these, I use shiori; it's a webclipper that saves html to an sqlite database. Then you can concatenate them with a single sql statement. If the final product is particularly long, then I use calibre convert the result to an epub to read on my phone and/or ereader.
"All in a Days Work"
Isn't it "idempotence"?
Maybe this is just idealizing the past but it used to feel like for the most part people wanted to be good and do good work and play fair. Some people were cutthroat vultures but it was distasteful and you would see pushback.

These days it's expected. Doing good isn't even in the discussion unless it's being cynically mocked. Evading taxes? That makes you smart...

Even being devoted to your work is conflated with being exploited by your employer, and with the way things are it's understandable.

I hope we see some idealism return to American industry. It'll take a reversal of the plundering of the middle class.
Kind of ironic since I recall an early Gmail ad showed a father opening an account for his infant, then giving to the child as it got older.

Correction: technically a Chrome ad, yet very heavy use of Gmail. Maybe the trick is to not open it in their exact name? (In the ad they use "dear{name}@gmail.com)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPklt9nYas
What would be interesting for me is, if I can develop an app for, let's say macOS, and expose its context to Siri (with Intelligence) in an easy way.

For example:

Imagine a simple Amazon price tracker I have in my menu bar. I pick 5 products that I want to have their price tracked. I want that info to be exposed to Siri too. And then I can simply ask Siri a tricky question: "Hey Siri, check Amazon tracker app, and tell me if it's a good moment to buy that coffee machine." I'd even expect Siri to get me that data from my app and be able to send it over my email. It doesn't sound like rocket science.

In the end of the day, the average user doesn't like writing with a chatbot. The average user doesn't really like reading (as it could be overwhelming). But the average user could potentially like an assistant that offloads some basic tasks that are not mission critical.

By mission critical I mean asking the next best AI assistant to buy you a plane ticket.
It’s very rare that you want a web client to maintain an open connection for a long time. It would be a scaling nightmare.

I’m also trying to imagine validation. Parsing SQL error strings? Kill me now.