skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This entire platform is the first time I've strategically considered realigning the majority of my use to Apple.

Airtag anonymity was pretty cool, technically speaking, but a peripheral use case for me.

To me, PCC is a well-reasoned, surprisingly customer-centric response to the fact that due to (processing, storage, battery) limitations not all useful models can be run on-device.

And they tried to build a privacy architecture before widely deploying it, instead of post-hoc bolting it on.

>> 4. Non-targetability. An attacker should not be able to attempt to compromise personal data that belongs to specific, targeted Private Cloud Compute users without attempting a broad compromise of the entire PCC system. This must hold true even for exceptionally sophisticated attackers who can attempt physical attacks on PCC nodes in the supply chain or attempt to obtain malicious access to PCC data centers.

Oof. That's a pretty damn specific (literally) attacker, and it's impressive that made it into their threat model.

And neat use of onion-style encryption to expose the bare minimum necessary for routing, before the request reaches its target node. Also [0]

>> For example, the [PCC node OS] doesn’t even include a general-purpose logging mechanism. Instead, only pre-specified, structured, and audited logs and metrics can leave the node, and multiple independent layers of review help prevent user data from accidentally being exposed through these mechanisms.

My condolences to Apple SREs, between this and the other privacy guarantees.

>> Our commitment to verifiable transparency includes: (1) Publishing the measurements of all code running on PCC in an append-only and cryptographically tamper-proof transparency log. (2) Making the log and associated binary software images publicly available for inspection and validation by privacy and security experts. (3) Publishing and maintaining an official set of tools for researchers analyzing PCC node software. (4) Rewarding important research findings through the Apple Security Bounty program.

So binary-only for majority, except the following:

>> While we’re publishing the binary images of every production PCC build, to further aid research we will periodically also publish a subset of the security-critical PCC source code.

>> In a first for any Apple platform, PCC images will include the sepOS firmware and the iBoot bootloader in plaintext, making it easier than ever for researchers to study these critical components.

[0] Oblivious HTTP, https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9458
TIL that IT IS JUST ME then!
X to doubt.
Apple just did more to make this a privacy focused feature versus just a data mine than literally anyone else to date and still people complain.

Public content on the internet is public content on the internet - I thought we had all agreed years ago that if you didn’t want your content copied, don’t make it freely available and unlicensed on the internet.
Are liberal and secular teenagers more willing/open to admit problems or seek help for unusual troublesome matters set them apart form others than religious peers perhaps? Human culture of the past several centuries are full of art and documents showing the repressive nature of religious or other prescribed expectation oriented groups. There are countless movements to counteract with the oppressive side of prescribed behaviour and group habits too.
Does that imply I just stole your comment by reading it?

No snark intended; I’m seriously asking. If the answer is “no” then where do you draw the line?
Have to agree, apple seems to put a really strong emphasis above all else on your shit is your shit and we don't want to see it.
I'm disappointed that they make the fundamental claim that their cloud service is private with respect to user inputs passed through it and don't even a little bit talk about how that's accomplished. Even just an explanation of what guarantees they make and how would be much more interesting than explanations of their flavor of RLHF or whatever nonsense. I read the GAZELLE* paper when it came out and wondered what it would look like if a large-scale organization tried to deploy something like it.

Of course, Apple will never give adequate details about security mechanisms or privacy guarantees. They are in the business of selling you security as something that must be handled by them and them alone, and that knowing how they do it would somehow be less secure (This is the opposite of how it actually works, but also Apple loves doublespeak, and 1984 allusions have been their brand since at least 1984). I view that, like any claim by a tech company that they are keeping your data secure in any context, as security theater. Vague promises are no promises at all. Put up or shut up.

* https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.05507
For what it's worth, those platform investments are the difference between Apple being applauded for this, and Microsoft being pilloried for Recall's deficiencies.
Thanks to Musk, one can now only read threads if logged in.
It would be interesting to see how these models impact battery life. I’ve tried a few local LLMs on my iPhone 15 Pro via the PrivateLLM app, and the battery charge plummets just after a few minutes of usage.
My mental model is to replace “do” words with “ensure”.

Instead of “send notification message”, it is “ensure recipient is notified.”
OpenMoteB: Ultra low-power board including 2 radio chips operating in the 2-band
They're not making the privacy claim
Well, I use Teams daily at work, and it's the first I see this particular panel, so shrug.
No, they said they did. Huge difference
I think it's trying to appear to be science. They want the appearance of legitimacy and objectivity to encourage a particular position.

A quick read through of the site shows it's a conservative-leaning group, and I'd be willing to bet that sooner-or-later they'll be pushing "a return to traditional values" as the cure for all our ills.
Assuming it's the same thing as hammer follow, it's usually caused by a worn disconnector or hammer.

The disconnector prevents the hammer from moving forward until the trigger is pressed again (semi-auto) or the gun is in battery (full auto, closed bolt). I suspect open-bolt guns don't have one, but I've never looked at the trigger group of an open-bolt gun so can't be sure.
> I don't want to optimize out every possible opportunity to think or work out a problem in my life for the sake of "keeping on top of my inbox"

Completely agree. My first thought on seeing this stuff is that it suggests we, as an industry, have failed to create software that fulfils users’ needs, given we’re effectively talking about using another computer to automate using our computers.

My second thought is that it’s only a matter of time before AI starts pushing profitable interests just like seemingly all other software does. How long before you ask some AI tool how to achieve something and it starts pitching you on CloudService+ for only 4.99 per month?
Don't they do it in this linked article? https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
I am biased, because I built and self-host my own: https://www.uxwizz.com
OP should have not felt bad about contacting family members and done it to yield more information to help them in their cases.
The dreaded spindle click. Few sounds in tech evoke such grief.
I'm pretty lost, I thought idemopotent was basically a synonym for a projection (which sounds like your #3)... do you have any links to literature using it differently?
> there aren't many sources on my side of the argument because everyone who tried to publish was either threatened, harassed, surveilled, or bribed

Right, a global conspiracy despite the repeated attempts by scientists who were being funded by interests opposite to Monsanto's trying to find evidence.

If you want a conspiracy, try this one: focus people on the provably-weak claims around carcinogenicity to distract from the stronger ones around toxicity.
Thanks for the comment!

I have recently experimented with vyvanse 30s, and it's been quite nice. As a child, before I became homeless at 15 and was finally able to stop taking medication, I was being pumped with vyvanse 70s, and it was hell.

I also highly recommend caffeine. I don't primarily get it from coffee or sugary drinks, but caffeine pills which allow me to precisely dose myself throughout the day and analyze the effectiveness. This has worked well for the last decade, but I still don't feel like it's effortless, and that's what I want.
I have my DNS on my android phone set to dns.adguard.com, which has the benefit of blocking ads in even "free" apps/games that are littered with them. This works even on mobile data, so it's better than even a pihole.

I wanted to do the same to my boyfriend's iPhone after seeing him sit through probably a dozen ads in one sitting with all the free games he has downloaded, but I found out that Apple literally does not allow you to change your DNS for mobile networks, and you have to manually change it for each wifi network. Weird for a company that claims to prioritize "privacy".
Yep. I don't buy it.
How would you (could one) change this, Waron? Just throwing something out there, not a carefully thought out How.
I only liked the original ending after End of Evangelion helped explained WTF was going on. I watched the last two episodes like 6 times and couldn't figure it out.
> Example that should be super trivial: try to setup a sync of photos taken on your Iphone to a laptop (Mac or Windows or Linux) without going through Apple's cloud or any other cloud?

The first hit on Google makes it look trivial with iPhone too?

https://support.apple.com/guide/devices-windows/sync-photos-...

> With an Android phone and Windows laptop (for example) you simply install the Syncthing app on both and you're done.

And with iPhone you just install the "Apple Devices" app: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9np83lwlpz9k
> publicly available data collected

Data, implies factual information. You can not copyright factual information.

The fact that I use the word "appalling" to describe the practice of doing this results in some vector relationship between the words. Thats the data, the fact, not the writing itself.

There are going to be a bunch of interesting court cases where the court is going to have to backtrack on copyrighting facts. Or were going to have to get some real odd legal interpretations of how LLM's work (and buy into them). Or we're going to have to change the law (giving everyone else first mover advantage).

Base on how things have been working I am betting that it's the last one, because it pulls up the ladder.
For things that don’t leave your system it’s ok, but the moment you send something to others it will go into the systems that you try to avoid anyway.

Mostly I see no point in things like email self hosting if half my contacts are on Gmail and the other half on Microsoft.

My suggestion (as someone that tried to escape for some time) is to build a private system for yourself (using private OS and networks) and use a common system to interface with everyone else.
Because glyphosphate is almost certainly toxic. We have evidence for that. (Roundup is more toxic than glyphosphate alone [1].)

That doesn't mean it's carcinogenic in a colloquial sense--we don't have evidence for that, again, beyond the carcinogenic capacity of commonly-eaten foods.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate#Toxicity
Likely they’ll be able to take advantage of the hardware neural engine and be far more power efficient. Apple has demonstrated this is something it takes pretty seriously.
I just finished the ROV series of posts. It was sufficiently captivating. I enjoyed his narrative - I can see that he was inspired by Mahood's writing style as well as his quest.
WTF are you talking about, the guy literally said that to connect to Apple Intelligence servers the client side verifies a publically registered audit trail for the server. He then followed up saying no data on chatgpt will keep session information regarding who the data came from.

Apples big thing is privacy, i doubt they'd randomly lie about that
The tooling(?) (starting with xcode) is quite objectionable and is enough to drive people (me) away. The language choices are well. Interesting.
Kotlin fills the need for mainstream Swift better than Swift, and without all the baggage that Apple brings to the table.

If you want to see what open source Swift is going to end up like, just look at GNU objective C. It will likely follow the same pattern of adoption over time and be hobbled on non-Apple platforms.
> Pesticides are a factor in insect loss, but they are VERY far from the major cause of lost biodiversity in general

Oh hey, look at that - the exact position of the insecticide industry...

...which does not explain why bee die-offs in various countries (at different times) have coincided with the introduction of neonic pesticides in that country.
> I've seen no sign of this data being "publicly auditable" - can you share this with me?

They announced it in the same keynote where they announced the partnership with OpenAI (and stated that sharing your data with OpenAI would be opt-in, not opt-out).
That's a very valid rebuttal to my comment. I think this kind of "force multiplier" use for AI is the most effective one we have right now; I've noticed the same thing with GPT-4 for programming. I know the code well enough to double check the output, but AI can still save time in writing it, or sometimes come up with a strategy that I may not have.

Maybe the fact that you did the dictation together with your child present is also notable. Even though you used the AI, you were still doing an activity together and they see you doing it for them.
But...I can't have Safari on Android!
Definition 3 is the same as definition 1. Defn. 3 is idempotence (in the sense of defn. 1) of the function f under function composition. In other words, f ∘ f = f.
I admittedly get annoyed when people link to video and audio, but in this case, the best source I can think of for information about how IARC classification works is a Stronger By Science podcast episode about Aspartame: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/podcast-episode-116/

If you ever have five hours to listen to someone geek out over esoteric history and regulatory state stuff, in a way that is presumably somewhat tangential to your political bents (presuming you have no strong opinions about strength training), this is a very good non-political source of information. JumpCrissCross gives the short version, but IARC's class 2 is probably not what you think it is. It's not just that it contains a whole lot of stuff I guarantee you ingest regularly without thinking about it. It's not meant to be an advisory to consumers at all. It's a recommendation to researchers about what sorts of compounds are worth putting further research into. The way the media reports about it is wrong and misleading to the people it scares.
Yeah this is probably right. If it works well enough during real-world usage it will be using the on-device model, if not then there is the bigger one on the servers. There is also GPT-4o, so they have 3 different models to use depending on the task.
I don’t actually think this is complicated and reading a comment is not the same thing as scraping the internet and you obviously know that.

A few factors that come to mind would be:

- scale

- informed consent which there was none in this case

- how you are going to use that data. For example using everybody others work so the worlds richest company can make more money from it while giving back nothing in return is a bullshit move.
The article explicitly states they’re Loras.
you would need different dice for each distribution but you could use a normal d20 and a lookup table for less needed equipment.. I think it could work!
That's a site-specific partial exemption from the same origin policy, as far as i can tell (without further context at the moment). Not a difference in how CORS works generally across Safari.

CORS is frustrating for a lot of developers as it can be tough to gain a complete understanding of the spec, and an understanding of the same origin policy is required. But implementation of the CORS spec(s) isn't notably different across modern browsers, now that IE is out of the picture. CORS was a real nightmare in IE. Microsoft even introduced an XHR cousin named XDR in IE10 to handle cross-origin requests, and it wasn't even a complete implementation of CORS.

This is a great resource to gain a more comprehensive understanding: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS
The redundant GND pins are necessary for signal integrity and low EMI when running at higher speeds; the high speed signals need a return current path with as little loop area as possible, so you want those signal pins close to GND on the connector.
The elephant in the room here is Peak Rendering. While most games are not photo real, the audience might not care or know the difference. The areas to improve are more likely in animation, secondary motion, physics, and (world) simulation. These will need high performance computing (gpgpu). Unity (engine) was working towards parallism of game objects with its next generation ECS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idempotence#Definition
>I think a ton of serious compilers don't go through LLVM. As always HN makes a ton of assumptions based on a small fraction of the engineering and tech world.

I said LLVM or their own optimization passes. Reread what I said so you can understand the words on the screen instead of bemoaning the state of the world.
> If they can't do Data Structures, are they worthless to Silicon Valley companies?

I think you might be overthinking this - understanding how to model a problem with a data structure is a core competency of any developer. This isn't a "gotcha" question where you need to know union find sets or how to invert a linked list in place.

If the question was rephrased, "design a JSON schema for the state of the board" would you know how to approach it? Because that's essentially what step 1 is asking.
Reading, no. Selling derivative works using, yes.
It's what i expected they weren't going to open the pandoras box of realistic photogen on imessage lol, thats why the limit to illustration, cartoon etc, is there to limit the liability of it going wild, they can add more "types" later as they get things more tested, realistically its just prompts hidden behind bubbles, but allows them to slowly roll out options that they've heavily vetted.
The live patching is new, but it doesn't say where they are getting the patches from (I suspect Microsoft's). I dunno, I suppose it could be slightly more convenient, but it's not like patching/maintenance windows are that big of a deal for the majority of environments these days.
You should use DOI links:
1) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274728
2) https://doi.org/10.3386/w28731
3) https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4466130
, respectively
I've always been baffled why those two got canned. They were both really useful.
Well, companies aren’t looking for someone who grinds leetcode problems. They’re looking for the people who can pass their hiring bar without needing to do that sort of practice in the first place.

In my more cynical moments I think a lot of the tech hiring process is just a complex IQ test dressed up as a skill test to work around the fact that IQ tests are illegal.

And there’s only so many great engineers around. More companies fighting over the same candidates doesn’t result in a lot of high quality teams.
I generally agree with you. I use my Mac with most of the windows overlapped most of the time. But occasionally I need them side-by-side to do some work. Typically referencing documents or code. Fortunately the introduction of this looks to just be an optional feature rather than a dictated "way things are".

An overlapped/stacked interface is fine a lot of the time, but the flexibility is important.

What really drives me crazy is the 100% tiled-interface. I feel like something important is just below the tiles, but I can't see it.
This is a very interesting, very well written post. The part that stands out the most is:

> if you needed venture capital to produce a viable small-scale business, you didn't really have a viable small-scale business to begin with. Triplebyte's break-even status was an illusion, predicated on funding that would probably never have existed if that scale were the founders' only ambition.

I wonder if there's a way to build a viable business out of a product like FastTrack that does not depend on venture capital to get going?
The geologic time record shows a pretty noticeable drop in this time frame, before the glacial period started & temperatures started swinging up & down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#Ov...
Ok I'm calling it. If NVIDIA releases a phone, and allows you to buy the hardware for the off-device processing too, I'll fully ditch Apple in a heartbeat.

I'm quite creeped out that it uses off-device processing for a personal context, and you can't host your own off-device processing, even if you have top of the line Apple silicon hardware (laptop or desktop) that could step in and do the job. Hopefully they announce it in one of the talks over the next few days.
Is there a fitness test for SAR? Do you train to stay fit enough for it?
Mistral closes €600M at €5.8B valuation with new lead investor
FWIW, that doesn't counter the GP's suggestion that changes to the community norm might have impacted the experience for everyone.

Your 1-parent childhood may still have benefited from having many other stay-at-home parents keeping an eye out the window an ear to street for kids who need attention, and likewise your kids childhood may have been more isolated for the lack of that, even with a parent staying at home for them individually.

Sometimes, it's not about the circumstances of one's own home so much as about the prevailing circumstances (and expectations) of the community as a whole.
Woa, good catch! Maybe they're doing better about at least being concrete about it, though I still have to side-eye "Users control their devices" (Even with root on macbooks I don't have access to everything running on it). However, the section that promises to open-source the cloud software are impressive and if true gives them more credibility than I assumed. I would still look out for places where devices they do control could pass them keys in still-proprietary parts of the stack they're operating, as even if we can verify the cloud container OS in its entirety if there's a backchannel for keys that a hypervisor could use then that's still a backdoor, but they are at least seemingly making a real effort here
Not to mention tied into their underlying SDK API that basically the whole system is based on, and seems they are using those same API's for the internal integrations so they can feel whats missing themselves as well.
What ? What did they do? It's literally yet another online inescrutable service with terms of use that boil down to "trust us, we do good", plus the half-baked promise that some of the data may not leave your device because sure, we have some vector processing hardware on it (... which hardware announced this year doesn't do that?).

Frankly I tried a samsung device which I would have assume is the worst here, and the promises are exactly the same. They show you two prompts, one for locally processed services (e.g. translation), and one when data is about to leave your device, and you can accept or reject them separately. But both of them are basically unverifiable promises and closed source services.
You could fill a form and request them not to train; they usually approved it fairly quickly, but did not advertise it well enough!
So iOS LLM Apps dont use the neural engine? Lol
Wild elephants may have names that other elephants use to call them