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Apple Updated Agreements and Guidelines
Hello,

The App Review Guidelines, Apple Developer Program License Agreement, and Apple Developer Agreement have been updated to support updated policies and upcoming features, and to provide clarification. Please review the changes below and accept the updated terms as needed.

App Review Guidelines

2.1(a): Added to Notarization. 2.1(b): Added requirement to explain why configured in-app items cannot be found or reviewed in your app to your review notes. 2.5.8: We will no longer reject apps that simulate multi-app widget experiences. 4.6: This guideline has been removed.

Apple Developer Agreement

Sections 1, 6(B): Updated “Apple ID” to “Apple Account.” Section 16(A): Clarified export compliance requirements. Section 18: Updated terminology for government end users.

Developer Program License Agreement

Definitions, Section 2.1, 3.3.6(C), 3.3.10(A), 14.2(C), Attachment 9, Schedules 1-3: Updated “Apple ID” to “Apple Account.” Definitions: Clarified definition of Apple Maps Service. Definitions, Section 3.3.6(F): Specified requirements for using the Apple Music Feed API. Definitions, Section 3.3.8(F)): Added terms for use of the Now Playing API. Section 3.2(h): Added terms for use of Apple Software and Services. Section 6.5: Added terms for use of TestFlight. Section 7.7: Added terms on customization of icons. Section 11.2(f), 14.8(A): Clarified export compliance requirements. Section 14.9: Updated terminology for government end users. Attachment 5, Section 3.1: Added terms for use of Wallet pass templates
WWDC24: System Requirements for Platform OSes and Apple Intelligence
Just a reminder to everyone that .NET is open-source, runs on Linux and Mac natively, and ASP.NET is one of the nicest web development platforms around, especially if you prefer to keep things simple and generate HTML server-side like Tim Berners Lee intended.

VS Code is free, Intellij Rider is free for open-source projects, GitHub is free, etc...
https://cloud.google.com/docs/security/binary-authorization-... is one example
That phrase distinguishes the internal group responsible for that part of the architecture, don’t think it’s a marketing term.
New York Passes Online Age Verification Digital ID Law
Child molestation happens outside of churches too. You need to normalize by something.
Thanks, this is a helpful comment.

It isn’t clear to me that these models destroy incentive to create. I mean, ChatGPT can generate comments in my style all day, and yet I’m still incentivized to comment.

I fancy myself a photographer. I still want to take photos even if DALL-E 4 will generate better ones.

What even is the point of creating art? I think there are two purposes: personal expression and enjoyment for others.

People will continue to express themselves even if a bot can produce better art.

And if a bot can produce enjoyment for others en masse, then that seems like a huge win for everybody.
It worth noting that the power of the neural engine doubled between the A16 and A17 chips (17 vs 35 TOPS, according to Wikipedia), while the A15 to A16 was a much more modest increase (15.8 to 17 TOPS). So it does seem like they started prioritizing AI/ML performance with the A17 design.
I noticed that too, but my conclusion is that they probably hand-picked every image and description in their training data so that the final model doesn’t even know what the poor taste stuff is.
In theory this is covered by the App Entities framework, though it seems like Apple only trains their on-device models to learn about entities for some standard types of apps. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appintents/app-ent...
So you expect all websites to block FoobarSearch so it never gets off the ground and becomes a big search engine that people know to unblock.

Then FoobarSearch learns to ignore robots.txt wildcards, and we're back at square one.

IIRC this happened to DDG or Bing.
I'm focusing on what they said. They said "an LLM, fundamentally, is a file".

Which is true, but the implication is that LLMs can't be agentic, which may or may not be true.
I think it is just LoRA, you can call the LoRA weights as adapters
Public trust is a function of common values, as values diverge, trust plummets. Unassimilated immigrants is one of the bigger factors in divergent values among others.
> 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.

Until LLMs came along, most large-scale internet scraping was for search engines. Websites benefited from this arrangement because search engines directed users to those websites.

LLMs abused this arrangement to scrape content into a local database, compress that into a language model, and then serve the content directly to the user without directing the user to the website.

It might've been legal, but that doesn't mean it was ethical.
I see what you mean obviously, but neither of those moves could possibly give a discovered check, right? If the rook starts in the corner of the board, nothing can hide behind it or attack from behind it.
Yes, basically if you opted out of Apple scraping, your data isn’t used
There's a big difference between scraping a website so you can direct curious people to it (Googlebot) and scraping a website so you can set up a new website that conveys the same information, but earns you money and doesn't even credit the sources used (which these LLM services often do).

There is a whole genre of copyright infringement where someone will scrape a website and create a per-pixel copy of it but loaded up with ads, and blackhat SEOed to show up above the original website on searches. That's bad, and to the extent that LLMs are doing similar things, they are bad too.

Imagine I scrape your elaborate GameFAQs walkthrough of A Link to the Past. I could 1) use what I learn to direct curious people to its URL, or 2) remove your name from it, cut it into pieces, and rehost the content on my own page, mashed up with other walkthroughs of the same game. Then I sell this service as a revolutionary breakthrough that will free people from relying on carefully poring through GameFAQs walkthroughs ever again.

People will get mad about the second one, and to the extent what LLMs do is like that, will get mad at LLMs.
This Quanta trickled through my head

Like water through a sieve.
Interesting that there's a comment in the article's comments that talks about the

> client_sock. connect (9090, "192.168.71.132", () → { ...

And then goes on to say that it mostly looks innocent. Except to me, that makes me think that this code is probably aimed at a specific target where they've already hacked one internal box, but there's not much interesting they can get from that box directly, but are now using it as a proxy to try to get a command prompt on developers machines where it's more likely there will be random passwords and configuration data that could be harvested.

It could even feasibly point to someone who's already employed by the victim company who knows that plugin is used by developers with more access credentials than they have, and are trying to extract them without anything pointing to them. At some point in the future, they could just add that IP to their box that's already in the target network and bingo shells on their victims machines would start appearing.
Elon Teases Tesla Telephone After Apple AI Announcement
Urban Package Delivery: Drone-Operated Vertical Shafts for Apartment Buildings
In the rapidly evolving landscape of urban logistics, a novel concept is set to transform how residents in apartment buildings receive their packages. Imagine a system where packages are delivered directly to your floor via a vertical shaft, eliminating the need to leave your unit to retrieve them. This is the vision we aim to bring to life, leveraging drone technology and innovative infrastructure modifications.

The Concept
Our solution integrates a rooftop-mounted box, akin to the DJI Dock 2, where delivery drones can land and deposit packages. This box, equipped with a secure lid, ensures the drone and package are protected from external elements and potential theft. Once the package is deposited, it descends through a vertical shaft, similar to an elevator, using disused garbage chutes that are no longer in operation.

How It Works
Drone Delivery: Drones approach the rooftop and land in a secure box. The box opens, allowing the drone to deposit the package.
Vertical Shaft: The package descends through a vertical shaft (repurposed garbage chute) on an elevator-like platform, ensuring safe transport to the designated floor.
Secure Retrieval: At the floor level, the package is deposited into a locker system. Residents can unlock these lockers using their smartphones, ensuring secure and convenient package retrieval.
Pilot Testing in Toronto
Our initial testing will be conducted in Toronto, utilizing the disused garbage chutes as part of the Chute Closure Program. These chutes, which have been closed off for traditional waste disposal, offer a perfect opportunity to test our delivery system without disrupting current building operations.

Ensuring Security and Safety
To address concerns about theft and animal intrusion, the system will be closely monitored. The secure box on the rooftop and the locker system at the floor level will be equipped with advanced locking mechanisms and sensors. These measures ensure that packages are safe from theft and that the system remains free from any unwanted access by animals.

The End Goal
Our long-term vision is to have new apartment constructions incorporate these vertical shafts from the outset. This integration will create a seamless and efficient delivery process, making it easier for residents to receive packages without leaving their units.

By combining cutting-edge drone technology with innovative infrastructure solutions, we aim to revolutionize urban package delivery, enhancing convenience and security for apartment residents. Stay tuned for updates as we begin our pilot tests and work towards making this vision a reality.
>> - incoming a billion developer app functions/APIs

That would be cool, but the App Intents API is severely crippled. Only a few hardcoded use cases are supported.

So any _real agent_ which has full access to all Apps can still blow Siri out of the water.
What’s the problem with that? Reproducing copyrighted works in full is problematic obviously. But if I learned English by watching American movies, I didn’t steal the language from the movie studios, I learned it.
Apple isn’t collecting data from their customers.

Edit: to feed back into their AI training.
I want to know what they consider "harmful". Is it going to refuse to operate for sex workers, murder mystery writers, or people who use knives?
Who are "we" here? Did you abolish the Berne Convention somehow?
Is it me or Apple is really moving fast? I don't think it is easy for a company of this size to concisely put a vision of AI in these short and crazy AI times.

BTW, not an Apple fan but an Apple user.
I was really excited and thought, “finally, someone’s writing about the Pinion MGU!”
Moral panic, people said the same thing about books, newspapers, radio etc. People like things and get into them, that is normal. Before all this is was just farm work. To quote a meme "The children yearn for the mines"
I find it helpful to set a different wallpaper for every space. In fact, that approach has been so useful that I’ve mostly stopped wishing to rename the spaces – I can glance at the colors so much faster than I could ever read a written title anyway.
Well tbf I’m not sure Google does project ownership… I was shocked how many seemingly important conversations ended with “well, I guess these days that functionality is owned by the community of relevant stakeholders…” (aka: owned by nobody at all). I think they’re only able to do what they’ve done through the sheer concentration of brilliant overpaid engineers, in spite of such “innovation”.

Totally agree on the AI points. Google may have incredible research, but Apple clearly is playing to their strengths here.
https://github.com/ther0n/UnnaturalScrollWheels ?
Something like the output of `git log --graph` maybe? The tree unfolding is probably more than sufficient, though, given the size of typical DT_NEEDED lists.
I don’t follow. If the percentage of people who care about non Apple software is low then it totally makes sense that Apple wouldn’t care about opening their platform for 3rd party software. People didn’t jump ship to Android after all. Apple allow alternate app store in Europe because of regulation, not users revolting
He is just reaching and doing knee jerk reactions for any fad that comes by.
My War (1982)
> 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?

Copyright, at least in the US, cares about the effect of the use on the market for that specific work. It's individual ownership, not collective. And while model regurgitation happens, it's less common than you think.

The real harm of AI to artists is market replacement. That is, with everyone using image generators to pop out images like candy, human artists don't have a market to sell into. This isn't even just a matter of "oh boo hoo I can't compete with Mr. Diffusion". Generative AI is very good at creating spam, which has turned every art market and social media platform into a bunch of warring spambots whose output is statistically indistinguishable from human.

The problem is, no IP law in the world is going to recognize this as a problem, because IP is a fundamentally capitalist concept. Asserting that the market for new artistic works and notoriety for those works should be the collective property of artists and artists alone is not a workable legal proposal, even if it's a valid moral principle. And conversely the history of copyright has seen it be completely subverted to the point where it only serves the interests of the publishers in the middle, not the creators of the work in question. Hell, the publishers are licking their chops as to how many artists they can fire and replace with AI, as if all their whinging about Napster and KaZaA 24 years ago was just a puff piece.
Mold 2.32 Released with powerful new features
> Oracle is a do-nothing company

Maybe this is true wrt their main product, I neither know nor care about it. The sooner it leaves this Earth, the better for all of us as far as I am concerned. But both OpenJDK (and Java generally) and MySQL have been on fire since they were acquired by Oracle. Compare the stagnation during the last few years under Sun with massive features that's been coming to both more recently:

https://dev.mysql.com/blog-archive/the-complete-list-of-new-...

Java got many shiny things, a few examples off the top of my head: an almost pauseless GC leagues ahead of all FOSS competition, modules, Go-style green threads, many language features like immutable records, ADTs, switch expressions, etc. Things like value types are on the horizon.

Oracle is by far the main developer of both the language and its most popular implementation. Adoptium and company mostly just take the source and repackage under their own brand.
I've yet to encounter the second definition, and the first only when f is associative (otherwise f(x,x) = x doesn't seem strong enough).

All the others are just the many ways x^n can equal x (for all n>0) for various associative operators. Reusing 'f' for both the binary functions and the unary ones is needlessly misleading by the way, the unary f behaves more like x in the other examples.

And yes if you want R^2 = R then the condition only needs to hold for some y. It's related to transitivity.
Ah damn. Thanks.
Passing the entire universe as an argument... dang... either that's deep conceptually, or I'm shallow, or both!
I think scale is what changes the nature of the thing. At the point where you're having a machine consume billions of documents I don't think you could reasonably call that reading anymore. But what you are doing in my eyes is indexing, and the legal basis for that is heavily dependent on what you do with it.

If a human reads it that would be a reproduction of the work, but if you serve that page as a cache to a human you're okay, usually.

If you compile all that information in a database and use it to answer search queries that's also okay, and nothing forbids you from using machine learning on that data to better answer those search queries.

Both of the above are actually being challenged right now but for the time being they're fine.

But that database is a derivative work, in that it contains copyrighted material and so how you use it matters if you want to avoid infringement — for example a Google employee SSHing to a server to read NYT articles isn't kosher.

What isn't clear is whether the model is a derivative work. Does it contain the information or is it new information created from the training data Sure, if you're clever you could probably encode information in the weights and use it as a fancy zip file but that's a matter of intent. If you use Rewind or Windows Recall and it captures a screenshot of a NYT article and then displays it back to you later is that a reproduction? Surely not. And that's an autonomous system that stores copywritten data and regurgitates it verbatim.

So if it's impractical to actually use it for piracy and it very obviously isn't anyone's intent for it to be used as such then I think it's hard to argue it shouldn't be allowed, even on data that was acquired through back channels.

But copyright is more political than logical so who knows what the legal landscape will be in 5 years, especially when AI companies have every incentive to use their lawyers to pull the ladder up behind them.
Damn that must have felt good watching those calls go to voicemail
+1. Sadly it's very hard to displace java/jvm moat. And MSFT image in the open source world is still not stellar.
But if i were to be in position to chose a new stack for a standard CRUD/Backend app, .Net >> Jvm
They spell out that:

"This face of Corteva Agriscience, ... that has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the organization ... "

and:

"However, during hundreds of sessions on these subjects, a significant topic went missing: scholarly research on one of Corteva’s products – neonicotinoids, a factor in one of the most controversial, high-profile areas of research in entomology."

The article discusses quite a few angles about neonics. Close to the conclusion it quotes a researcher from the Uni of Minnesota:

"I don’t think the scientific meetings are run by them or overrun by them," she said. ... "You donate money, you get a perk. . . . It doesn’t mean anything. It doesn’t."

So, an issue that even I (a civilian) have heard of fails to be mentioned at a massive conference that should be discussing it (int al). That conference has a major sponsor who also manufacturer's said "issue". Also it seems to be accepted that if you pay, you get perks.
My thought exactly. Today must’ve been a sad day for many app developers.
A quick read through of the site shows it's a conservative-leaning group,

this is neat, using guilt by association to support a comment alleging the fallacy of guilt by association
What is an example of utterly shitty app from Apple and which alternative is miles better?
I'm interested in this because auth(z/n) is front and center. But I'm in love with Pocketbase because it's amazing and though it doesn't have row level security it definitely has an amazing integrated rules system that is almost as good and arguably more flexible.

Anyone used both and can offer a comparison?
Yeah and that was a far more realistic fear, because talented Indian developers actually exist and aren't just a hypothetical future that requires a series of incredible technological breakthroughs.
Yes this is so weird. This like photos sync just doesn't work fully for 10+ years, fundamental features that just works 60% of the time often resolving themselves after a few hours or days with no information given.

Very weird and very annoying. Especially since they are used by millions of people every hour.
One of the reasons I never use Browser extensions either. If it doesn't ship with the browser, it cannot be trusted. NO exceptions.
Which is actually VNC under the hood.
Moderna says combination Covid and flu vaccine tested better than separate shots
Why would eliminating corporate funding in academic research be bad?

The way it stands now is that it’s a nice tax write of the the company and a great way to play the heads I win tails you lose game.
FWIW, I found LocalSend (https://localsend.org/) to be quite handy especially since it is a cross-platform solution.
There is a difference: packet on a wire is inherently bytes, while interaction with the OS is a can of worms. On UNIX all that are just an opaque byte blobs, but with expectation that these things mean something to humans, so it either are strings in the locale encoding or UTF-8 encoded strings, then there is Windows where this kind of interfaces use something like UTF-16. In general, the name of the thing that you use to interact with the OS probably is a meaningful string of Unicode code points, but it does not have to be so and you should have some kind of plan what to do when it is not. Doing that in a way that abstracts away the conventions of the underlying OS is almost certainly impossible.
Seconded on Princess Mononoke. TBH, I haven't really enjoyed any of Ghibli's modern stuff since they moved from stories with morals to essentially dream sequences.
Isn't it still true that if people wanted to have their website show up in search in the past (so they didn't block Applebot), then it's too late to mark it as "no training" now, since it's already been scraped?

I guess it can be useful for data published in the future.
That's like saying a polished turd is not as bad as an unpolished turd.

There are better conceptional social media platforms that are miles better than Xitter.
It's very encouraging.

Another good step in this direction would be publishing a list of all on-device Apple software (including Spotlight models for image analysis) and details of any information that is sent to Apple, along with opt-out instructions via device Settings or Apple Configurator MDM profiles.

Apple does publish a list of network ports and servers, so that network traffic can be permitted for specific services. The list is complicated by 3rd-party CDNs, but can be made to work with dnsmasq and ipset, "Use Apple products on enterprise networks", https://support.apple.com/en-us/101555
Apple uses TSMC for fabrication. The roadmap for TSMC and Intel are planned years in advance.

Two orders of magnitude improvement in 6 months? Not possible. Have you heard of Moore's Law? Maybe in 20 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
MAL's demographics is probably the answer. Anime had a big wave in the 00s, and Death Note, Code Geass, Toradora, FMA and Gintama are all probably beneficiaries of that for higher ratings in MAL than in forums populated by younger or older fans.
Piracy requires multiparty conspiracy against the establishment. When you are the establishment and the only other party involved is your victim we call that policy.
I miss Sun Microsystems so much guys, it's unreal.
There are extra rules that apply around data retention, privacy, consent, etc. for users below 13- see COPPA
Awesome response to Salesforce. I wonder whether the exec had to explain to anyone how they lost the account.
And sadly, we lost many of them a few years ago.
I mean, I agree with your claims about my logical fallacies.

I guess what I'm trying to say is: If we could magically determine the truthiness of all these statements and I had to bet money, I would take my side.
I love this history, but I can't help but add the more recent evolution of "stan".

I feel like I saw this on HN, but I can't find it in algolia so I'll post it again.

https://theoutline.com/post/2425/when-stan-became-a-verb#

p.s. I have found a couple of comment references (e.g. credit_guy), but they're all from almost a year ago.