skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple would rather people buy an iPad and a cheaper Mac, e.g. a Macbook Air. And many of their customers do — despite only needing the Mac for one or two things.

These customers, in my personal experience, mostly end up gravitating toward using the Mac more and the iPad less — despite often saying they enjoy using the iPad more. They try to use the iPad for more things, but when there's something they need to do on their laptop, they switch over to using it — and then forget to switch back. Eventually, they give up on the "iPad experiment", and the iPad sits there gathering dust.

But they still did buy it. And likely have had it for long enough that they can't just return it. And they might even (probably mistakenly) think they'll pick it up again someday, maybe when a new iPadOS update makes it more functional and solves their pain-points.

And that line of thinking makes Apple very, very happy. "Buying an iPad you don't end up using because you also bought a Mac" is a situation Apple emphatically does not want to help anyone avoid. In fact, they do everything they can in their advertising to subtly guide customers into bad expectations about iPadOS capabilities, so that they'll end up in that situation.
Everyone wanted something like an iphone and when it came it took over the market. We had a product that got shifted into a third world product overnight.
Yes, those should go straight to a "Tie" result.
Apple Intelligence, Ticketmaster data breach, Snowflake, Banking trojans
If OpenAI is furiously buying GPUs to train larger models and Apple is handing OpenAI cash, then this seems like a win for Nvidia. You can argue about how big of a win, but it seems like a positive development.

What would not have been positive for Nvidia is Apple saying they've adapted their HW to server chips and would be partnering with OpenAI to leverage them, but that didn't happen. Apple is busy handing cash back to investors and not seriously pursuing anything but inference.
What engine is this using?

Any recommendations for creating simple 3d visualizations of orbiting spheres? Something like the one from the link, but more web-native (instead of python)?: https://trinket.io/glowscript/a90cba5f40
The Only Question a "Pair" LLM Programmer Can Answer
IMHO, it's because the single most important characteristic for software engineers, at the vast majority of companies, is that they ship features.

And that's a skill that's incredibly hard to test for.
>major, lifesaving impacts for 0.01% of users

people who drive through areas where there's no cell coverage is certainly a larger demographic than 0.01%. having coverage to contact a friend or family member if you get in an accident or your car breaks down on 100% of your route instead of 99% of your route would be a big peace of mind upgrade for me.
Yes, also covered explicitly in the keynote that Apple user's requests to openAI are not tracked. (Plus you have the explicit opt-in to even access chatGPT via siri in the first place.)
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The main constraint appears to be the number of available GPIO's. For 8-bit projects the bus can take a large number of pins, not leaving a lot for the other functions.
Doesn't bipolar often get better by itself after 50? That happened to family members and they certainly weren't trying to improve their lifestyle.
You don't have to. The producers of the microservice also produces an adapter. The adapter looks like a regular local service, but it implements the code as a REST request to another microservice. This was you get you type-safety. Generally you structure the code as

Proj:

|-proj-api

|-proj-client

|-proj-service

Both proj-client and proj-service consume/depend-on proj-api so they are in sync of what is going on.

Now, you can switch the implementation of the service to gRPC if you wanted with full source compatibility. Or move it locally.
1Password has the most reasonable pricing out of just about any SaaS company. $1/user/month if you're on a family plan. $3/month for individuals. And they provide a great service.

Strongly disagree that they're part of the group of SaaS companies trying to price gouge their users.
You're approaching this from a developers point of view.

Users absolutely don't care if their prompt response has been generated by a CUDA kernel or some poorly documented apple specific silicon a poor team at cupertino almost lost their sanity to while porting the model.

And haven't they already spent quite a bit on money on their pytorch-like MLX framework?
>And this isn’t just about the recent glut of capital raised, lagged returns and private equity exit blockages either.

Lagged returns is exactly the explanation here. They publish the table of investments and returns by year. Obviously you don't get your money back the same year you invest it. It's more often a ~7 year investment. But let's round down to 5 years.

Look at the chart and compare the investment in PE to the return 5 years later. It's a gain of 80-100% in that time.

This is simply how the math works when the investments into a strategy are growing exponentially, with a delayed return. It can continue indefinitely to produce 100% returns for investors, while a snapshot at any given time will make it look like the strategy has lost money overall.
seems like everyone has this idea now if you search google.

https://www.google.com/search?q=password+manager+with+usb+ke...

https://github.com/tejado/Authorizer

https://hackaday.com/2020/02/08/usb-password-keeper-runs-on-...

https://www.amazon.com/OnlyKey-Stealth-Black-Case-Communicat...
I should have put a disclaimer saying that I hadn’t had a chance to watch the video yet. Thanks for mentioning that it’s addressed, I’ll take a look later.
I don't use. One pass, I use Bitwarden.
I'm pretty sure those points do not apply to ChatGPT integration. ChatGPT is still running on Nvidia.
You don’t have to be an iPhone user to use the AI or Siri. And it’s not like they’re taking non-integration features away — if you’re happy with the current version, you’ll probably be happy with the next one, won’t you?

I mean, I get the sentiment, macOS releases have gotten a bit more exciting since I got an iPad and an iPhone, but macOS is a perfectly good OS even without the iDevices.
Based on the iOS 18 announcement page, it seems like this will be unidirectional (iPhone to non-iPhone) for SMS, but bidirectional for iPhones.

I'm very curious about the price point and how they'll handle incoming new messages, i.e. whether that will require an intentional "point and poll" operation or if it'll work in-pocket via a stronger paging signal, which is how some other satellite phone networks signal new incoming calls without having to point the antenna.
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It’s a website that aims to offer a suite of financial calculators and analysis tools. So far it has some real estate calculators, manual calculators for vertical analysis of your business and it can retrieve you similar data for public stocks.
As someone who is not a professional at this I wanted to get some feedback from technical people. Your insights on improving the functionality and user experience would be highly valuable. Thank you in advance
I also went to the bathroom around that time, so maybe that had an impact?
> the same old locked down slab

with more locks.
Yeah I think that's what MS was doing before one of their antitrust lawsuits.
Not to add to your anxiety, but to help you diversify and plan ahead: https://x.com/timClicks/status/1799926065642852725

nvidia's total control may soon vanish.
The Inset Operation
The iPhone mirroring looked interesting, I'm not sure why I would use it but it might come in handy in a pinch.

One thing not clear in the presentation (or maybe I missed it) was how this feature works when apps ask for FaceID, e.g. finance apps. Presumably either they fail, or fallback to some other authentication means e.g. passcode.
I don't think scammers will be able to exploit the control feature, as you will most likely need to have two apple devices in close physical proximity.
Like so many things, it varies by state. Where I live, the only reason I've had to physically go into the DMV in years, is to get a new license (they have to take a photo and capture a signature). Otherwise, it's just fill out a form online and they send me an updated registration in a week or so.
Are you sure you’re not optimistic just bcuz you stand to materially benefit from widespread adoption of chatgpt wrappers?
I love these long-form build logs.

I just started reading, and I am making the faux-pas of commenting before finishing.

But, I'm wondering what the challenges are of automating the ROV to map a body of water's floor in a pattern. like a grid pattern, or whatever is most efficient.

At first I was thinking currents would cause displacement. but can't we sense the current moving us in undesirable ways and correct with thrusters?

And then I thought.. do lakes have currents? Do they have tides? can a ROV sense the boundary of a lake?

just further down the rabbit hole, realizing how little I've learned about the natural environment!
You can already achieve the same workflow with Shadow PC, even though you need a permanent low latency network connection.
Its given that a dentist appointment is never usually at 10PM - this doesn't seem probable. LLMs are good at generalizing
I've been at this business for a few minutes and can say it's not that hard to identify good candidates.

1) a native and active interest in computing
2) good english
3) good (enough) social skills

A good software team is built like a good NBA team:

1) a limited number of exceptional performance contributors, not many of these, by definition. Right tail of the normal curve.
2) Good support players with specific skills and the personality to allow your superstars to maximize their potential.

Everyone seems to be looking for 1) in the interview process because that's the gold, but 2) are extremely important to get 1) in the door and working at optimal.

Finally, you need to avoid

3) frictional team members, i.e. negative work. These are people who inject drama into the team process that does not contribute to outcome. A passionate team member who takes hard stances at times is a good thing, even if they're not always correct, because they can head off a bad outcome early in the process. However, someone who just causes drama and turmoil, or even simply breaks the team flow state, is also a big problem.

A team can easily be spoiled by 3) even when you have the perfect superstar and supporting cast because the focus turns from the product to the emotional drama, which is a huge drain.

This leads to a tangential, but important point, the current hiring mandates for modern practice are potentially catastrophic for software development teams. Inserting people onto a team who become 3) will kill a product and drive away your highest value contributors. Superstars in this field don't want drama, they tend to be introverts who are happiest quietly working on their own.

It then follows that meeting modern day hiring protocols often means pushing the equity component into the soft skills side of the company, which means your hiring pool for marketing, hr, project management is reduced to fulfill various hiring mandates. This leaves a lot of experienced, valuable people, who understand good software development because they've done it, on the sidelines because they have the wrong physical characteristics, e.g. the 60 year old who is pushed out of the tech side because of an outdated skill set would probably make an excellent project manager because they understand the SDLC from a technical and personal perspective. Who better to mentor young developers?

But those roles are often going to young college graduates who don't have that experience and just end up glamourized secretaries because they don't have the formative passion for the field.

The NBA superstar/support model works in software development. It's the only thing that creates high quality, high impact outcomes historically. It's the desire to reconfigure the schema into a social change experiment via mandated hiring that causes the complications.
Anyone know more details about Apple’s servers?

“…server-based models that run on dedicated Apple silicon servers.”
We expected to have Apple unveiling world-class local models, and announcement of a framework where you can train and run your models in M4.

And we got a wrapper around ChatGPT 4 + a cloudy-ish dystopian spyware-like copy of Copilot+ that sends your screenshots and activity to a "secure cloud".
I’m a passionate student of Prof. David Yoffie at HBS. His many case studies on the tech industry are worth buying, as is his book on platforms referred to in my previous comment.
Yeah, I believe that's some kind of personal bias. For example,I think that much of burnout (and anxiety) is caused by undiagnosed CPTSD (Complex/Childhood PTSD). But that's probably because it's a source of my problems and now I see it everywhere.
I may be wrong, but the first GPT response says that kanji means "spirit" "soul" or "ghost" but a quick Google search says it means "drops of rain"... do you trust GPT on this matter?

https://hsk.academy/en/characters/%E9%9C%9D
It’s been an insult on imageboards since at least 2014, when it became obvious Russians had started spamming shit for political reasons.

Hell, Reddit has the same thing because they deal with both political and commercial spam.
If Apple does a really good job of this, then the everyday person probably shouldn't care if it's AI or not.

Who cares how your flight information shows up at the right time in the right place? the only thing that should matter is that it does.
Of course that will only work if you're using Apple Maps.
Why would Apple want to keep paying big checks while simultaneously weakening their privacy story?
I think most of what you're talking about is going through Apple Intelligence, not chatGPT. That "Apple Intelligence" stuff is supposed to be more local and personal to you, accounting for where you are, your events, things like that. There's an API for apps to provide "intents," which Siri can use to chain everything together. (Like "cost of gas at the nearest gas station" or something like that.) None of that is OpenAI, according to the keynote.
Dvorak also got pretty irate at the 'idle' task on Windows consuming so much CPU, as reported by Task Manager. Ah, simpler days.
Really makes you think, then. Apple is just so successful but can't find people to pay thousands of dollars for their superior, private VR experience.

I thought it was supposed to be a game-changer product offering experiences their competitors could only dream of. Where are the killer apps? Where are the people using it on a regular basis? It obviously can't be Apple's fault since they don't release failed products anymore; it must be the users who are wrong.
>Well it's a shell game, right? On the one hand here's this huge valuation and future profit. On the other hand, the workers get just a small fraction of that value and still live in squalor.

I'm not seeing how this is a "shell game" in any meaningful sense. In contrast to the actual game[1], everyone knows and gets what they signed up for. There's no deception going on aside from a vague "but I thought corporations were supposed to give everyone a fair share (whatever that means) that idealists have".

>You don't pay people less because you have them by the short and curlies of their own poverty. That is exploitive. You pay them a fair share of the value they're producing.

What is a "fair share"?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_game
> Right now, when people on iOS and Android message each other, the service falls back to SMS — photos and videos are sent at a lower quality, messages are shortened, and importantly, conversations are not end-to-end encrypted like they are in iMessage.

They will still not be end-to-end encrypted in RCS. They will just be encrypted in transit, but your carrier (or whoever is running whatever server in an RCS architecture) can read all your messages.

There is talk that Google's got some kind of extension that adds E2EE to RCS but others will be well informed on it and can add to my message.

I'm blissfully happy with iMessage. For the non-Apple people, we've been using WhatsApp for nearly a decade.

But what does this do for OTP messages, etc? I'll have to check if Twilio automatically uses RCS if you send a message to a supported number. I do like the idea of all messages being encrypted in transit at least (SMS is not).
It's the only OS that offers a good acceleration curve for my trackballs, been dying with the lack of configuration for the curve under wayland :(
> Why wouldn't Microsoft be able to?

they are irrelevant on the mobile ecosystem, a place where almost all this features are most relevant and useful
This entire assumption that I'm a freeloader is absolute bullshit. I've bought and paid for my copies of 1Password and have even purchased it for others. You can take that freeloader name calling and shove it right back in the place you found it. I'm quite frankly tired of it.

We can have upgrades and working software that gets updates without monthly fees to do it. I also do not need their cloud and only features. They intentionally removed the local vaults specifically to force you to use their cloud. That was the last straw for me.
People will say Twitter failed because advertisers pulled out of spite, but that doesn't change the fact that Musk overpaid for it trying to make a meme. Smart business guy.
I wonder, if Apple made a deal with Open AI, how did they solve the privacy issue?
Being locked into the eco system is my main reason for avoiding Apple products. Switching from an iPhone to an Android phone was painless for me because I didn't use any of the Apple services (iMessage, iCloud, Passwords). If I had to simultaneously switch from Passwords to Bitwarden would've been time consuming and annoying.
From the announcement, it seems like it's opt-in, not opt-out:

> Apple users are asked before any questions are sent to ChatGPT,
No: they do on device, ask to do off device in their private cloud. Chatgpt is then a separate integration / intent you ask can for
The parent is partially right, the keynote mentioned that OpenAI agreed to not track Apple user requests.
I don't believe this scenario to be very likely because a lot of the 'magic' in current LLMs (emphasis on 'large') is derived from the size of the training datasets and amount of compute they can throw at training and inference.
People who are getting your data:

>Apple

>OpenAI

>Bill Gates by proxy

>US government

>???

Also, before anyone says "Oh they'd never do that!". Live in reality. They were already caught with PRISM.
I also have animations toned down from the accessibility settings, yes :)
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> Apple Intelligence is free for users, and will be available in beta as part of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia this fall in U.S. English. Some features, software platforms, and additional languages will come over the course of the next year. Apple Intelligence will be available on iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and iPad and Mac with M1 and later, with Siri and device language set to U.S. English. For more information, visit apple.com/apple-intelligence.

iphone 15 Pro 8 GB RAM (https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_15_pro-12557.php)

iphone 15 6 GB Ram (https://www.gsmarena.com/apple_iphone_15-12559.php)
I for one will stay away. What if your Apple account get banned? Then you lose all your passwords?

It's the same reason I don't trust Google with all my picture or documents. At any point in time their algos can flag your account for wrong reasons and that's the end of your digital life.
It's cute, but: it's a lie.

Data is stored.

We (privacy advocates) won, there's legislation now, this stuff is real, The Man cares.

You can't handwave, saying you don't "store" or "collect", or whatever verb you like that, to you, means "we don't do anything bad" -- when you're in that territory, ex. Google's privacy policy becomes "we don't sell your data" --- can you imagine?

There's precious few applications that don't "store", "collect", etc. The other move I see is people going with "we don't store/collect data": I assume they're trying to claim they don't store data server-side, but very frequently in my experience, they are are storing data server-side, just what they perceived as trivial (ex. cloud sync when the product is cloud only, that's not "we" storing "your data", it's us syncing because you asked!)

If you feel good & witty writing your privacy policy, and end up with a single sentence one, something went wrong. If you're sufficiently small you'll probably get away with it, but...ugh.

This also presents a significant opportunity: it's hard to find a good privacy policy, that actually handles all the regulatory obligations you now have as a developer, and isn't just legalese amounting to "We take it, keep it, let us know if we should get rid of it"
To be clear, I'm from Spain, and that loyalty is still a selling item among 40-and-over. Also, seniority is a plus almost everywhere, where you can win arguments with "I've been working here twenty years", even to people the same age than you but with less seniority. Going to other place even with higher salary is a loss for lots of people.

But youngers doesn't care, and I have the impression they actually fear being for too long, say more than 5 years, in the same place. They value the novelty of knowing new people and ways to get stuff done.
I really enjoy 1password, things, mind node, etc but I never seem to enjoy Apple apps other than Messages or I suppose Finder if you're being very specific. Maybe this one will be different.
oh wow. i can't wait to see more!
> vs building a solid product and increasing users this forum likes to denigrate them into being freeloaders

The point is maintenance is an ongoing expense. Pretending it can be baked into a one-off purchase price is nuts, unless one is willing to buy that software caveat emptor, as in if it has a critical bug, sorry, you need to upgrade to have safe software.

For a game, that seems fine. For a password manager, obviously not. That said, enough people don’t like this to give Apple an advantage in amortising payments that users cannot.
I see people say this and just have to ask what you think you know that the investors in PE funds don’t? Asset management is an insanely competitive industry. There are loads of alternatives products available. Why would people continue to invest in a scam? Do you think there is a chance you don’t understand the industry as well as the asset allocators who study it full time?
> 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.

On the contrary, I'm shocked over the last few months how "on device" on a Macbook Pro or Mac Studio competes plausibly with last year's early GPT-4, leveraging Llama 3 70b or Qwen2 72b.

There are surprisingly few things you "need" 128GB of so-called "unified RAM" for, but with M-series processors and the memory bandwidth, this is a use case that shines.

From this thread covering performance of llama.cpp on Apple Silicon M-series …

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/discussions/4167

… "Buy as much memory as you can afford would be my bottom line!"