skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i followed this religiously for a month or two, and found it really beneficial. not necessarily for the product i was building (some of those things i shipped probably shouldn't have been) but for my own motivation.

however, i expanded my definition to mean not just software features, i included writing a new help doc as "shipping". as long as it was something user-visible and for users in general, and not something for one specific user, it counted.
Yes, the issue is that they are really slow.
Semiconductor products tend to have quite a high $$/weight ratio; air transport might be a reasonable backup plan.
I would say the right word is “emergent” not “natural”
There is quite a bit of open source info out there on how to build these things these days. I think the quadcopter/'drone' boom kinda opened up the market for rc hobbies in general. I've seen guys with UHF fpv setups on planes fly for miles and miles and maintain signal. With purpose built antennas they can go even further. The legality is .. suspect at best, but shrug.
Well, when they're owned by a non-profit, it's not at all weird to expect that.
Not sure people should take password advice from hunter2
I completely agree. I do not believe that AI is a disruptive technology like computers and the internet was. It will at best be a + 25 % efficiency for business processes - which is awesome and I am all for it. But it is not a game changer that will fundamentally change how things are done.
The recommended texts are way longer than the originals. Engagement decreases per word written.
One problem with Android phones is that they're all different, sometimes greatly so, because the different phone vendors customize them with their own software, much of which is utter garbage. The stock alarm app on mine has never failed me either, but with some other phone, who knows?
You should go back often.

The tourism industry is effectively dead [1]. If your visit - even at the risk of losing a limb or death - can feed a single Israeli for a day, you must visit.

1. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240208-gaza-war-para...
Develop skills and confidence will follow.
I have Rectangle installed and the only feature I use is dragging a window to the left or right edge to use half the screen. I don't even know if that's from Rectangle or macOS. The other thing I do is double-click edges to expand to edge of screen, which I assume is macOS.
The only way to trust this is them selling "cloud compute" servers that folks can deploy and monitor in their own infrastructure. Nothing else can be guaranteed to not include malicious code to exfiltrate the data.

Or better yet, make the APIs public and pluggable so that one can choose an off-device AI processor themselves if one is needed.
Having built a relatively standard, not particularly complex Stripe integration with 3DSecure, there is no way I'd trust code written by an AI for it. Hell, I set up code review sessions just to walk through the code and discuss. Transactionality, idempotency, what happens if a customer drops out of the flow at the 3DSecure prompt, how do you re-engage them, what happens if they want to continue, etc. It's hard both in terms of having a detailed understanding of the technology components, and in terms of understanding the UX requirements, customer support requirements, etc.

Taking a payment with Stripe is a 5 minute job. Taking thousands of payments a day, without ever double charging someone, and without ever losing an order, while optimising the UX and allowing a customer support team to provide good service, that's a huge task. (Also no criticism of Stripe, having looked at Braintree circa 2019 I expect it would be significantly harder with them).
Jobs was growth stocks, Cook is fixed income. Each has their place, and there are good and bad versions of each.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_economy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_China

They've got to prop it up while rich/important people get their money out. Plus, they need to look like something to invest in as Westerners flee because they're stealing their money.
> Let's assume that AI is human level (it's not, but humour me)

OK

> Now something goes wrong. A customer isn't getting what they ordered. What do you do about it?

What do you do when something goes wrong with a human?

Do that.

End of story.
Blackmagic Cine Immersive Capture for Vision Pro 8160x7200 Resolution per Eye
"Such as" and "may include" are practical terms of art in legal documents and are written that way for clarity in matters of law.

These terms are still absolutely bogus, of course.
You could run them every night
Are you saying there are things that planet has that do not belong to it?
I wonder who Apple will be colocating with for data centers.

And what the PCC chassis looks like for these compute devices (will it be a display-less iPad)?
> From what I know Apple has a rule that everything must be sold at 40% margins.

As for all rules, it's a rule except when it's not. On the top of my head Apple TV [0] had a 20% predicted margin presumably because they wanted to actually sell them.

Otherwise 40% margin is usually calculated against the BOM, which doesn't mean 40% of actual profit when the product is sold.

In that respect we have no idea of the actual margin on a macbook air for instance, it could be 10% when including their operating costs and marketing, or it could 60% if they negociated prices way below the estimated BOM for instance.

It's just to say: Apple sells at 8Gb because they want to, at the end of the day nothing is stopping them to play with their margin or the product price.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN06424767/
Without being logged into X, you can only see the first post in a thread.
What are they calling "social capital?"

It's heresy to say that social relations are valuable for their own sake, instead we have to give it a term that suggests monetary value and potential to enter some accountants balance sheet - "social capital".

it's just not the case that all value can enter into monetary terms or be quantified or exploited, bought and sold - but the stupidity and ignorance of the age is we even have to suggest like ethics or holding values has some "value" in the sense of money for it to be "ok" in our dominant social norms that structure society - the corporation and workplaces under capitalism

It's as if it's not ok to hold values that are not monetary or capital - that is the message of our social relations in workplaces and in the culture at current - what are called "capitalist social relations"

It's heresy to say ... It's ok to have values that are not money. There are things we should value outside of some cost.

it's gotten to this point.

even "progressive" arguments for like "hey maybe kids playing together in community is ok" has to be quantified into some imagination "social capital"
..."with the cash redirected to fuelling Intel's foundry push."

Good to see practical thinking overruling "designers" and their wankery. "Stop wasting money on useless crap and focus on your business" is advice that is rarely taken, unfortunately.
> For people interested in AI research, there's nothing new here.

Was anyone expecting anything new?

Apple has never been big on living at the cutting edge of technology exploring spaces that no one has explored before—from laptops to the iPhone to iPads to watches, every success they've had has come from taking tech that was already prototyped by many other companies and smoothing out the usability kinks to get it ready for the mainstream. Why would deep learning be different?
Read what I said again, and more carefully.
I think you mean it’s justified, not ethical.
are you sure you need a powerful model for this? llama3-8b is at least 10 times cheaper and might suffice for something like this
Notes web version is pretty limited though, ex: can't attached images.
I have a 43" monitor and I don't tile my windows because the corners are so far away. I tend to make a 'fat cross' of overlapped windows that don't really use the corner areas.
No. I know it's nonsense even without reading it, because it starts from a false premise.
What’s very remarkable is that elephants like human seem to invent abstract names; other animals like dolphins mimic the signature sound of another to attract their attention.
The fact that someone was even making this argument suggest they didn't fully comprehend the presentation or missed some salient details. How anyone could confuse anybody's current integration of AI tools be it chat or generative images into something so central to user's everyday life is beyond me. I would ask for examples of anything else the comes close
> The satisfaction (and mental benefits) of getting something done

I used to think that motivation would come to me if I just waited long enough but I now believe that action breeds motivation. You need to do something no matter how small and your motivation will benefit from it.
Apple made an iPad calculator app after 14 years
Ranking of Kings is definitely up there, I like both frieren and bojji but I think ousama ranking lacks is "human touch" feeling frieren has in terms of intensity and waifu << this is important imo because bojji is child with superpower physical at the end of the show making it more disconnect from viewer compared to elf that study thousand years
> Kids [...] face legitimate higher odds of crime or kidnapping. Because in the US they’re victims of gunshot, kidnapping, physical/sexual assault

This does not ring true at all.

Random kidnappings of children (i.e. by a stranger, not a parent, relative, or other acquaintance) are vanishingly rare in the US, to the extent that they typically make national news when they do occur. Random violence against children (again, by a stranger), even more so.
Taiwan is also not a large landmass. Neither is Crimea, or Kuwait. It doesn't take large land area for a location to be strategically important.
As with all disruptive technologies. Uber was 10x better than taxis when it was being pumped full of VC cash, now it's better enough that it's my go-to choice, but not by a 2x margin. AirBnB was 10x better than hotels when it was being pumped full of cash, hadn't realised that people might trash places, and chancers hadn't filled the platform with crap properties, now it's a wash and only another option alongside hotels. Bitcoin, well, lol.

AI looks 10x better than the alternative, while it's being pumped full of VC cash and while we haven't realised all the downsides (because so far we've only seen idealised marketing promises). It'll work out to be an expensive and not much better option.
I'm flying to Israel after shavuot, this Thursday. I'll feel much safer in Israel than I do in the United States.
There is also a great talk here about SQLSync https://youtu.be/R-Laxph9tQ4?si=ybP7_mXXuyfRlG2-
If DEC had decided to keep the PDP-10 alive, it might have hung on for a few more years than it did. But in the longer-run it still would have eventually lost out to Unix systems, due to the later’s greater openness and critical mass
While I really enjoyed the “Apple-ification of AI” in the keynote today, I have been hoping for a purely personal AI ecosystem, one that I run on my own computer, using the open weight models I choose, and using open source libraries to make writing my own glue and application code easier.

The good news is that consumers can buy into Apple’s or Google’s AI solutions, and the relatively few of us who want to build our own experience can do so.
> Do you just drop the customer? Well that's lost revenue, or an easy win for another company

Works for Google. Lots of their stuff has non-existent support even today.

At the end of the day it might cost more to acquire the customer than not.
A quick search for this between 2000 and 2010:

David Suzuki targets 'dirty dozen' toxic ingredients
https://www.cbc.ca/news/david-suzuki-targets-dirty-dozen-tox...

Chemical Exposures: The Ugly Side of Beauty Products
https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.1289/ehp.113-a24

Saving Face: How Safe Are Cosmetics and Body Care Products?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-safe-are-cosm...
I never claimed as much. The IBM PC was a short-lived accidental scandal that IBM didn't fully intend, but couldn't stop when they failed to sue clean-room BIOSes out of existence. Only because of this was USB possible, and even then only for 10 years before it stopped being really universal, until the EU stepped in.
SWEs build for maximum tinkerability. General users just want the software to work without having to tinker with it at all.
Is multitasking more flexible in any way?
> I'm still not sure if it's just claiming that the "hallucinated" Hilbert spaces in a measurement are actualy real copies of the "universe".

I'm not sure what you mean by "'hallucinated' Hilbert spaces", but MWI is just the combination of the claims that

- The wavefunction is a (the) real physical object

- The Schrodinger equation always holds

- The Born rule is correct (though there's some hope this might be derivable from QM)

The "worlds" are then a statmech phenomenon.
WDYM? The slides?

I actually thought they were quite good.
I don’t understand many posts but when I do see something that piques my interest, I’ll check it out and maybe look some stuff up to learn more. You’re definitely not alone.
On the flip side, I am really annoyed about games that require anti-cheat, especially if I would just play them single player, because it makes it harder or impossible to play them on Linux.
The use case for myself is when I have to focus on a specific task/project and I have three or four applications I need to alternate between. It’s quite useful for that. Once the task is completed, I turn it off.
Ask HN: How do you collect and analyze user feedback for your SaaS platform?
I'm interested in learning how other SaaS platform owners and developers collect and analyze user feedback. What tools and strategies do you use to gather actionable insights from your users? Do you rely on surveys, in-app feedback widgets, user interviews, or something else? Do you actually think it matters? Additionally, how do you process and analyze this feedback to make data-driven decisions for improving your platform? Any tips or best practices would be greatly appreciated!
Starts with A and ends with S
Thanks for your well-informed contributions to this thread. Food for thought. I must admit that I hadn't known the "factory environment" made such a big difference in outcomes.

In your opinion then, do we need to add a 3rd "variable" to the nature/nurture question? "Nature" is generally understood to be DNA, "Nurture" is generally accepted to be the post-birth development environment. If the "embyronic toolkit" at hand is so important, surely this popular concept needs a 3rd leg.

I'd also be interested in your thoughts on surrogacy. I had naively assumed that, so long as the surrogate mother was well-nourished, the baby would likely be fine. But it seems it's a lot more complicated than that, and I feel like a lot of people are underinformed about this.
So building a fab in a constant war zone is a bad idea? Can’t believe it.
Would rather have a wiper stalk in the model 3 to be honest
Which is in turn just multimodal embedding

Besides I could do "named person on a beach in August" and get the correct thing in photos on Android photos, so I don't get it.

It's amazing for apple users if they didn't have it before. But from a tech stand point people could have had it for a while.
I mean, sure, if shipping everyday means stuff breaks everyday then its a bad idea--that sounds miserable. But it doesn't have to mean that. I'd rather have a culture of shipping frequently and fixing the occasional mistake instead of shipping slowly and moving at the pace of a snail. Thats assuming "breaking" occasionally is an acceptable risk. Speed does matter, especially with new products. Shipping frequentily often speeds up the feedback loop which speeds up how fast you learn (and how long it takes to build something useful).

There's tons of assumptions in both our comments though, and loads of context thats important. Spend more time on the code for life support systems, healthcare, etc. If its just a bunch of rest API's for a crud app with few consequences if you break stuff, then its okay to live life on the edge.
I mean, the same goes for all crime being a people problem. The anti-cheat keeps honest people honest as they say.
> I don't use Siri

That's likely true. Unless you were careful to do a lot more than just disabling it, it does use you though, slurping up quite a bit of data.
Apple's AI Strategy in a Nutshell
Almost two decades ago now, I came across a PUA book where the author emphasized the importance of telling good stories, along with some good practical tips on how to structure.

I’ve used them regularly to great success. I tried to give this advice to some of my friends for interviews who followed STAR method a bit too rigidly. It didn’t work out…but over time they organically became better story tellers through practice.

This is a large tangent, but the post gives good business communication tips. I wrote a more succinct guide for my team, but I think I’ll share this too. Our company suffers from slack disease, so stuff like this can really help.
The site was posted here and probably other social media in the last day or so. More than likely it's to prevent the site from getting hugged to death.
Yo Apple is an ad company as well now. They do both.
AFAIK there is no general purpose, "do this on the ANE" API. You have to be using specific higher level APIs like CoreML or VisionKit in order for it to end up on the ANE.
It just doesn't work for me for safari mac. Authenticating with fingerprint takes many seconds (and often doesn't work).
I can and do compare it to Macs! :)

My Thinkpad weighs approximately 1.2 pounds more than my MacBook Air, or about a half pound more than a 14” MacBook Pro. My MacBook Air doesn’t have MagSafe, so that’s a wash, and the thinkpad uses USB-C to charge, just like the Mac. I usually use the same small 30W charger for both laptops. Screen/speakers are probably marginally worse on the thinkpad. And you’re correct that it’s thicker, though I’d doubt that it’s 3x the volume. In exchange for the above cons, I get:

* The ability to use 64GB of memory and an SSD of my choosing, purchased for reasonable market prices

* The ability to easily run any distribution of Linux that I want

* The ability to replace the battery easily when it wears out by simply buying a new one and snapping it in

* A large ecosystem of parts (aftermarket and OEM) for doing my own repairs and upgrades

I’ve considered my options and find that these tradeoffs are worth it for me a lot of the time. Though these benefits may not be important for other people, I’d encourage you not to say things like “it’d be insane to use anything else.”
> People don't want everything tied to one identity, one service, one login.

People literally want everything tied to one identity, service, and login. You are almost totally wrong. People do sometimes want to switch to something new when they feel what they've bought into hasn't met their expectations or has fallen behind in innovation. And guess what? Apple in very limited ways actually locks people into things like passwords, files, photos, notes etc. Their entire ecosystem is pretty easy to migrate away from, I've done it several times. Theres an import/export tool for most everything.

After this year you probably can't even say they are locking people into their ecosystem with iMessage.
They even had one of the most popular messaging apps 15 years ago - I remember when iMessage launched and people were predicting it’ll fail because GTalk was so popular. The mismanagement is just epic - so many botches trying to build something new (or make Google+ happen) because apparently nobody gets promoted for good stewardship of a product they didn’t start.
E.g. say non-CDL trucks can only have one seat in addition to the driver's seat.

Bam, SUVs are really unattractive.
How would you know none of the apple apps use the neural engine? Is the key in the statement “LLM”?
It's baffling to me why all the biggest fabs are built in high risk potential conflict zones. South Korea, Taiwan and Israel. It's terrible capital management if we're going to use those words.
Whenever a video about making a
compelling story is per se not compelling, I wonder.

The most powerful example would be a meta video that explains the concept within its own content.

Like the acronym GNU (Gnu's Not Unix).
But apples implementation also sends stuff to remote servers.

"To run more complex requests that require more processing power, Private Cloud Compute extends the privacy and security of Apple devices into the cloud to unlock even more intelligence.
With Private Cloud Compute, Apple Intelligence can flex and scale its computational capacity and draw on larger, server-based models for more complex requests."
IIUC HAR files contain an awful lot of data that you would not want to end up being stored in a web page archive:

- irrelevant http headers (including cache control) taking up too much space

- auth data / cookies, credentials, personal infos that you don't want saved for privacy and security reasons especially if you want to share your archive.

HAR is also not very efficient for this use case: it's a list of request represented in json. A folder representation is far better, for storage efficiency as well as for reading the archive (you basically need to implement some custom logic that rcan read the page replaying the requests).
For the first case I kept wondering why they needed so much complicated technology. The water they’re searching isn’t all that deep a cheap canoe and a long pole with a go pro, and a magnet on a rope would have been equally effective, cheaper, and faster. But for the second case that they needed the be able to search a much wider area and the tire tracks likely wouldn’t have been visible in on a camera. Really cool project though.

For the ROV I was wondering why not build something heavier than water but have it on lines attached to buoys, then to go up/down you just climb or down the ropes. Not as maneuverable but not certain if it’s significantly less maneuverable.
Waiting for aiPhone in a few iterations </troll>
It's not covered extensively in the article, but it was alluded to at one point via the phrase "pissed them off with anti-privacy decisions". (In context, 'them' refers to the engineering side of Triplebyte's user base.)
Nor does the moral value of protecting a region hinge on its size. You'd think someone with an opinion on either side of the Israel/Palestine conflict would understand that.
My understanding is that it's similar to TLS authentication.

The remote endpoint has special hardware which keeps secret signing keys (similar to a TLS server's signing keys). The hardware refuses to reveal the private keys, but will sign certain payloads under certain conditions. In addition, Intel or AMD or whoever also has super duper mega secret master keys (similar to a CA's signing keys), which they use to sign the device's signing keys. The certificate signing the device keys is also stored on the device.

So, each time the endpoint is asked to attest its software, it says yes and signs its response with its keys, and it also sends a certificate showing its keys are signed by the master key. That way, the client knows the special hardware really said yes and that Intel or AMD or whoever said that particular special hardware is legit.
It’s actually off putting if you check out a potential employer’s GitHub and it’s filled with obsessive committers, obviously working late hours, weekends, holidays, etc.
Apple isn’t magic and can’t defy physics. The chips on the older devices aren’t powerful enough to run the new features.

Hardware matters again now in a way it hasn’t for a couple of decades.
"The people want the thing that they want because they are wrong"

I never understood how this argument even makes sense. It sounds a whole lot like you're upset that most normal people don't care about and don't want what you want.