skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Many businesses know how much they'll lose if they don't do customer service, and know how much they'll lose if they don't do software engineering. [...]

>Just calculate your opportunity costs, talk about it transparently, and negotiate socially necessary contribution factors for each department and each role.

How does this work in practice? Going back to the SaaS company example, the company arguably wouldn't exist without SWEs, but could theoretically limp along by ignoring all customer support tickets (see: google). Does that mean the opportunity cost is 100% for SWEs and therefore they should get 100% of the revenue?

>Consensus means everyone agrees or nothing happens. My team is four peeps, and we're pretty good at persuading each other into consensus, especially since we're open about our profit sharing and tend to make good cases for our initiatives. If we can't all agree then we don't do it, and just live with it.

That works well with a small team where you're all friends, but how do you prevent bad actors from using their veto powers from sabotaging the group? eg. hungary and poland abusing their veto powers to block proposals that all other EU members support? As the group gets bigger the chance that you have a bad actor is going to increase.

>And the pudding headed capitalists are gone. I took them to the curb with a number of maneuvers that I might want to write up one day, but may not have been strictly legal.

That doesn't answer my question. You're at a capital disadvantage because you can only raise capital from employees and only if they all agree. That might be fine for a capital light companies like a consultancy, but you can't possibly expect the workers at a nuclear plant to stump up the entire construction cost of the plant.
What would you prefer? Less capable products with fewer features? Or a Google product designed in collaboration with their advertising data hoovering team?
I don't think anyone is at a loss for an explanation at this point. The discussion is more around condemnation.
During my time at Apple the bigger issue with personalized, on-device models was the file size. At the time, each model was a significant amount of data to push to a device, and with lots of teams wanting an on-device model and the desire to update them regularly, it was definitely a big discussion.
The A in LoRA stands for adapters
Change is inevitable in the AI space, and the changes come in fits and starts. In a decade OpenAI too may become a hapless fiefdom lorded over by the previous generation's AI talent.
>By fine-tuning only the adapter layers, the original parameters of the base pre-trained model remain unchanged, preserving the general knowledge of the model while tailoring the adapter layers to support specific tasks.

From a ML noob (me) understanding of this, does this mean that the final matrix is regularly fine tuned instead of fine tuning the main model ? Is this similar to how chatGPT now remembers memory[1] ?

[1] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8590148-memory-faq
Web scraping is legal.

And if you run a website and want to opt-out then simply add a robots.txt.

The standard way of preventing bots for 30 years.
I get the sense there's still a lot of work to be done over the next few months, and we may see some feature slippage. The betas will be where we see their words in action, and I'll be staying far away from the betas, which will be a little painful. I think ambiguity works in their favor right now. It's better to underpromise and overdeliver, instead of vice versa.
#2 is publicaly auditable, 100% apple controlled and apple hardware servers, tied to your personal session (probably via the ondevice encryption), i'd imagine ephemeral docker containers or something similar for requests that just run for each request or some form of Encrypted AI Lambdas.
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Public content is still subject to copyright, and I doubt that AppleBot only scrapes content carrying a suitable license. And "fair use" (which is unclear if it applies), in case you want to invoke it, is a notion limited to the US and only a handful of other countries.
Been a happy Magnet user for long time! Nothing remarkable in this OS that hasn't been seen yet elsewhere. No innovation, only #MeToo features.

It took them a decade to release a "Send Later" feature? How's that for innovation? Snobs!
Is he doing the installations himself or does he have employees
Have you seen Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū?
I don't think the above poster was really referring to who does it, but that it's creepy that you're having a conversation about your mom with your phone to begin with
I can't find them now, but yes, they were direct quotes from GOP House members about wanting people to feel the pain of taxes to make it harder to raise them.

And you don't need to see your social security and medicare taxes on each stub, because you can't change their withholding. You only need it on your W2. And in fact your employer pays half of those taxes already. That was the compromise. That your employer pays half, which you don't see, and you pay the other other half.

They could have easily had your employer pay the full amount and then you'd just make less, but they purposely did it this way so that you get mad about how much the tax is.
are you seriously implying that immigration is responsible for a sudden reduction in public trust? american immigration has been a thing for 300 years
Based on what they showed most users won't even know if the feature they are using is using AI or not. Most of it is local and just comes in the form of a button rather than typing out a prompt to make it do what you want. And I think those two are the big things to take away from this. Local means less clunkiness and lag you get from tools like Perplexity or whatever and no 'prompt engineering' means even someone's grandma could immediately start using AI. Apple just doing what Apple does best.
Using own smaller, simpler client instead of yt-dlp, I tested the videoId mentioned in that page. No problems with IOS user agent.
/? underwater infrared camera: https://www.google.com/search?q=underwater+infrared+camera

r/rov: https://www.reddit.com/r/rov/

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

FMCW:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous-wave_radar

mmWave (60 Ghz) can do heartbeat detection above water FWIU. As can WiFi.

mmwave (millimeter wave), UWA (Underwater Acoustic)

Citations of "Analysis and estimation of the underwater acoustic millimeter-wave communication channel" (2016)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=8297460493079369585...

Citations of "Wi-Fi signal analysis for heartbeat and metal detection: a comparative study of reliable contactless systems"
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=3926358377223165726...

/? does WiFi work underwater?
https://www.google.com/search?q=does+wifi+work+underwater

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1308760257416493671... ... "Environment-independent textile fiber identification using Wi-Fi channel state information", "Measurement of construction materials properties using Wi-Fi and convolutional neural networks"

"Underwater target detection by measuring water-surface vibration with millimeter-wave radar"
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1710768155624387794... :

> UWSN (Underwater Sensor Network)

I'm reminded of Baywatch S09E01; but those aren't actual trained lifeguards. The film Armageddon works as a training film because of all of the [safety,] mistakes: https://www.google.com/search?q=baywatch+s09e01
Data gets either stolen or freed depending on whether the guy who copied it is someone you dislike or like. Personally, I think that Apple is giving the data more exposure which, as I've been informed many times here, is much more valuable than paying for the data.
Oh no, don't get me wrong. I like the privacy features, it's already way better than OpenAI's "we make it proprietary so we can spy on you" approach.

What I don't like is the hypocrisy that basically every AI company has engaged in, where copying my shit is OK but copying theirs is not. The Internet is not public domain, as much as Eric Bauman and every AI research team would say otherwise. Even if you don't like copyright[0], you should care about copyleft, because denying valuable creative work to the proprietary world is how you get them to concede. If you can shove that work into an AI and get the benefits of that knowledge without the licensing requirement, then copyleft is useless as a tactic to get the proprietary world to bend the knee.

[0] And I don't.

My opinion is that individual copyright ownership is a bad deal for most artists and we need collective negotiation instead. Even the most copyright-respecting, 'ethical' AI boils down to Adobe dropping a EULA roofie in the Adobe Stock Contributor Agreement that lets them pay you pennies.
Might want to actually read it:

Applebot-Extended does not crawl webpages.

They gave this as an additional control to allow crawling for search but blocking for use in models.
What a cynical take!
Set your user-agent header to be a recent chrome version.

I browse the web this way and I've in total found exactly one problem on any site I've visited in the past year.
I don't anticipate us getting a lot of clients with budget for a part-time employee anytime soon, unfortunately. I imagine a lot will be remote, but probably not part time. Still happy to have you in our pool in case we do (I think I see you in the signups list - something about oddball proprietary languages, yeah?) but it's not a wildly high-probability bet in the short term.

I really, really, really wish I had a better solution for this sort of thing.
The longer I live, the more companies I see fill Oracle's archetype. It feels like a bad omen for capitalism.
I use iTerm2 and have different profiles for different directories/remote hosts. iTerm switches the background colour automatically for me. I'm sure other terminal emulators would have similar features.

https://bsago.me/tech-notes/change-ssh-background-colour-wit....
I think it would be clear that the picture was drawn for the person - I imagine most people would explicitly say something like "I drew this for you" in the accompanying message. And I don't know what kind of kids you've been hanging around, but my daughter would definitely appreciate a story that I spent some time thinking up rather than "here's something ChatGPT came up with". I guess that assumes you're not going to lie to kids about the AI-generated being yours, but that's another issue entirely.
> There is no AppleBot-Extended. And if you blocked it in the past it remains blocked.

You said there is no Applebot-Extended. The link says otherwise.
Crazy idea, since O2 is lighter than CO2 couldn’t we just terraform the layer of the atmosphere where the cloud city is? Air is a lifting gas, so theoretically could you float breathable air on top of CO2?
No they never were, they were "do no evil" but at the exact same time everyone knew they were an advertising company and most people in the field could see where it was heading eventually, or at least i'd hope.

Apples motives are different, selling premium hardware and MORE premium hardware, they wouldn't dare fuck that up, their nestegg is hardware and slowly more services tied to said hardware ecosystem (icloud subs, tv subs etc). Hence the privacy makes sense to pull people into the ecosystem.

Google... everything google does even phones, is for more data gathering for their advertising revenue.
If you can _rename_ desktops though, I've never seen how.

e.g. in Mission Control right now I have "Desktop 1", "Desktop 2", and full-screened iTerm2 on my external monitor, plus "Desktop 3" and about 6 other fullscreen apps on my laptop.

I have somewhat semantic meaning for what each of those three numbered desktops are, but it'd be nice to _name_ them.
If I read your comment, then write a reply, is it a derivative work?
The commentary stream I was watching described it as "An whole lot of Sherlocking going on": Passwords app, Window Snapping, iPhone to mac Display mirroring. It feels especially tone deaf that they're doing it at their developer conference

If you're unfamiliar with the term, "Sherlocking" is the act of Apple introducing some 3rd-party's App features as a core component of the operating system, essentially obviating the app and the developers that created it.

An incomplete list of "Sherlocked" things:

- Watson - a tool for finding stuff on your Mac. Replicated by Apple's "Sherlock", hence the name of the phenomenon.

- Growl - Popover notifications Replicated by Apple's "Notifications"

- Konfabulator - provided a layer of widgets that could do various things, sort of like the old desk accessories applets. Replicated by Apple's "Dashboard"

- Camo - Allowed you to use your iPhone as a webcam. Replicated by Apple's "Continuity Camera"

The list goes on and on.
How to compose JavaScript functions that take multiple parameters (epic guide)
Thank you so much for that feedback!! I missed the Wyoming typo on the free California course. Thanks a lot for pointing that out. I fixed the typo. Also thanks for mentioning to add the disclaimer before people buy the course.
Wild horses reintroduced to Kazakhstan steppes after absence of two centuries
I share your frustration on services that won’t let you automate them, but to me that’s precisely what generative AI will let you do. You don’t need an API at the family doctors to have AI automate it for you. It just rings them up and sorts it out at your command. AI is like obtaining an API to anything
Wait what has Foxglove done?
Apple is now imposing the same iOS obsolescence program to MacBook/iMac. That’s how you make easy money nowadays.
Partially:

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO...

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-iOS

I'm not sure how it all fits together but people have even made an open source distribution of the base of darwin, the underlying OS:

https://github.com/PureDarwin/PureDarwin
> But in the late nineteenth century, German historian Hermann Dessau broke critical ground by arguing the Historia Augusta was not written by six different authors over many years but was in fact the work of a single anonymous hoaxster writing in the late fourth century.

Is anyone familiar with Dessau's work? A cursory search makes it look fairly obscure. "Textual analysis" seems rather like alchemy to me.
Cool, makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.
But it also says that Applebot-Extended doesn't crawl webpages and instead this marker is only used to determine what can be done with the pages that were visited by Applebot.

Not that I like an opt-out system, but based on the wording of the docs it is true that if you blocked Applebot then blocking Applebot-Extended isn't necessary.
> They offer a very generous cloud computing package but you'd have to be insane to build on it.

Absolutely. I've seen companies get into major trouble building on Oracle products, then when renewal time comes the prices triple and they literally can't afford it. One company I consulted with in 2000 just shut down rather than renew with Oracle. They were a smallish startup and the Oracle costs blew the budget out of the water, they decided to just kill that idea.

And Salesforce is the same. Great product, viscous company. I had a major row with then in '21 over licensing fees during contract renewal negotiations. Details aside, the exec I dealt with made it clear they felt they had us over a barrel and had zero desire to help us. I said if we can't even get some flexibility we'll have to move to another product. He literally laughed at me and said he didn't care. So I moved the entire company to a competitor in 45 days. He sent an email a few days before the signing deadline asking when I'd sign it, I said, "we're on another product now so we won't be renewing. You're free to terminate our account at any time. We've removed all sensitive data already." He called my cell several times a day for two weeks after that. I never answered.
Probably not. The CoreML LLM stuff only works on Macs AFAIK. Probably the phone app uses the GPU.
He put Grok AI into Twitter, but he's worried about optional ChatGPT in iPhones?

Also, does he not realize Samsung just added very similar AI features in OneUI 6.1?
How are people supposed to block it when they stole all the data first and then only after that point they decide to even tell anyone what user agent they need to block and how they are planning to exploit your work for their profit.
Yes. It varies from team to team. Ours is a 4.1 mile hike (with 2,500+ ft. Elevation gain) carrying a 25 lb pack in under 2 and 1/2 hours.

I'm also a volunteer firefighter and the "pack test" level of Work Capacity Test for wildland firefighters is 3 mi on flat ground carrying a 45 lb pack in 45 minutes.

It is pretty important to be in shape as you are often carrying a lot of gear and don't want to bonk and cause an issue that would jeopardize yourself, your teammates, or the mission.

Edit: to answer your second question, my wife and I hike recreationally just about every weekend and the team often hikes during trainings and does a weekly casual hike as well.
If a massive hit like evangelion is your benchmark, then everything will fail in comparison. Gainix had many good productions even after NGE, but if management sucks, then success will not help. And they haven't released anything new for nearly a decade now.

> I don't know about the economics but from a creative standpoint the anime industry seems quite healthy having recently produced a lot of great shows like Sousou no Frieren, Oshi no Ko, and Konosuba Season 3 in the last year or so.

Anime is dying, permanently, since decades. It's a very unhealthy exploitive industry, similar to the infamous Hollywood-accounting. And I guess with AI this will only become worse. But most productions are not anime-originals anyway, they usually originate from books or manga, and the creative animation work is rather small and generic at the end.
Not killed. Apple decided not to charge for non-Apple users and not to provide it for free either. They were only prevented from doing P2P connections, not from opening the protocol.

Or maybe it could've even been federated... not that Apple likes to play nice with anyone else.

Which is funny given that WhatsApp started as a very popular paid service. They could've been that for iMessage and extended it to calls.
StopTheMadness can automatically fast-forward YouTube ads which produces effectively the same result

https://underpassapp.com/news/2023-10-19.html
While I'm sure they did this to try to combine their talents and interests with altruism, what they got out of the end of that was both of those but also a legacy.

Most of us only wish we could tell stories like that as a result of the technical work we do.
Reading a comment is exactly the same thing as scraping the internet, you just stop sooner.
I think it's an important topic but I reject these explanations entirely. Television may have stolen time from other activities, but during that era television was itself a unifying activity, generating a previously undreamt of amount of shared cultural experiences. I'd argue excessive television-watching was a result of reduced social cohesion and community, not a cause.

I blame very different trends from that era...

- The Drug War and "tough on crime" policies that generated a massive amount of fear among parents and created a hostile relationship between police and youth (and continues to, to this day).

- Christian fear-mongering over Satanism and witchcraft, creating even more reasons to keep a close watch on your kids.

- Racial integration of schools and neighborhoods which gave white parents an urgent reason to restrict and monitor which kids their kids played with.

It wasn't distractions and technology or the lack of a global war that lead to reduced trust and cohesion. It was the spectacular and enduring success of professional fear-mongers.
I think it boils down to that it doesn't matter what they promise, if you send a videocap of all you ever do on your computer to some company on the internet, you just have to take your chances. Would you put mics and cameras in all of your rooms in your home that send data to Apple (or someone else) to analyze "for your benefit" even if they say and promise they won't do anything bad with the feeds?

At least with gmail and chat clients etc. things are somewhat put in compartments, one of the services might screw up and do something with your emails but your Messenger or WhatsApp chats are not affected by that, or vice versa. But when you bake it into the OS (laptop or phone) you're IMHO taking a much bigger risk, no matter what the intentions are.
The design of the physical environment is in no small part responsible for this. Don't believe me go to Europe and Japan where kids are still allowed to walk and bike to school, to friends places and just in general play and exist outside unattended to a much higher degree than in the US. Because in the US they would be roadkill, and even if they somehow survived outside of a car, car centric design means there's nowhere for them to go on foot or by bike anyway. Everything is too far.
This isn't adding GPU demand.
I think it's even simpler than that: incentives. The entire premise of copyright law (and all IP law) is to protect the incentive to create new stuff, which is often a very risky and highly time or capital intensive endeavor.

So here's the question:

Does a person reading a comment destroy the incentive for the author to post it? No. In fact, it is the only thing that produces the incentive for someone to post. People post here when they want that thing to be read by someone else.

Does a model sucking up all the artistic output of the last 400 years and using that to produce an image generator model destroy the incentive of producing and sharing said artistic output? Yes. At least, that is the goal of such a model -- to become so good it is competitive with human artists.

Of course you have plenty of people positioned benefit from this incentive-destruction claiming it does no such thing. I personally tend to put more credence in the words of people who have historically actually been incentivized by said incentives (i.e. artists) who generally seem to perceive this as destructive to their desire to create and share their work.
What social/political force do you see opposing that trend? Or why is that a bad omen?
Yeah that is true, but I suspect that most publishers that want their content to appear in search but not used for model training will not have blocked Applebot to date (hence the original commenter's argument)
Did you find the content valuable?
And as soon as independent sources support that they've made good on this claim it will be more than a claim. I actually am impressed by the link I missed and was provided elsewhere in this thread, and I hope to also be impressed when this claim is actually realized and we have more details about it
> the idea of a sudden visible collapse of civilization is not supported by the record

The idea that there was no "fall" and that late antiquity is just a "transition" between arbitrary value-balanced political org charts is what's not supported by the evidence. This revisionist take is annoyingly common these days -- see https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Rome-End-Civilization/dp/0192807... for a masterful refutation and defense of the original interpretation. If you look at industrial output, lead pollution levels, sophistication of literary output, literacy rates, and tons of other metrics, you'll see a dramatic decline around the time that the Roman social order fell apart. Britain became nearly illiterate. Italy was ransacked by the Gothic Wars and its population collapsed. The aqueducts stopped working. The Pantheon was half-buried (the front doors couldn't be opened for centuries) and full of muck. It was, altogether, an absolutely miserable period of history. Gibbon's history of the era is masterful.
Bits will move bots, and hopefully do laundry and dishes too.
can you disable external llm calls so everything stays on device?