skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adding ai features to the right-click menu is something I’ve been working on for the past year or so, and it’s always both exciting and disappointing to see one of the big players adopt a similar feature natively. I do strongly believe in the context menu being a far better ux than copying and pasting content into ChatGPT, but this release does have me questioning how much more effort to expend on my side project [1]. It doesn’t seem like Apple will support custom commands, history, RAG, and other features, so perhaps there is still space for a power-user version of what they will provide.

[1] https://smudge.ai
the deadpan "gunther eigen" joke got me :) i thought it was going to be a great new addition to the list of "things that sound like descriptive names but were actually named after people" (e.g. google's "page rank") but it was just the author pulling our legs.
> find it doesn't handle touch events very well

You don't need to touch your Windows VM. The iPad Magic Keyboard cases have trackpads on them; and iPads also support Bluetooth mice.

(And a user of iPadOS VM software probably wouldn't even be trying to touch the screen to interact with the software anyway. After all, why boot up such software if not for productivity? And who would attempt productivity on an iPad without putting it into its "productivity orientation", with the iPad docked onto a keyboard case?)
It's the potential for the model. Everyone else is hoovering the internet to model everything and Apple is sticking with their privacy message and saying 'how can I model your stuff to help you.'

That's tangibly different.
I felt that was an odd omission in the article. Maybe it didn’t have a huge market impact outside the local crowd, but it was a big deal then. I seem to remember the CEO posting in the threads apologizing, etc.
Plain mbsync works fine for email with an app password. APIs are there for contacts & calendar backup. I haven't tried backing up the rest.
Siri still uses AM/PM for me when speaking, despite having a 24-hour clock configured.
Key question is, will there be a hard switch to only ever use on device processing?

If not, and if you don’t want practically every typed word to end up on someone else’s computer (as cloud is just that), you’ll have to drop ios.

As for me that leaves me with a choice between dumbphone or grapheneOS. I’m just thrilled with these choices. :/
> Apple has a good track record with privacy and keeping things on device.

I mean they have great PR, but in terms of privacy, they extract more information from you than google does.
The partnership is structured so that Apple can legally defend including language in their marketing that says things like "users’ IP addresses are obscured." These corporations have proven time and time again that we need to read these statements with the worst possible interpretation.

For example, when they say "requests are not stored by OpenAI," I have to wonder how they define "requests," and whether a request not having been stored by OpenAI means that the request data is not accessible or even outright owned by OpenAI. If Apple writes request data to an S3 bucket owned by OpenAI, it's still defensible to say that OpenAI didn't store the request. I'm not saying that's the case; my point is that I don't trust these parties and I don't see a reason to give them the benefit of the doubt.

The freakiest thing about it is that I probably have no way to prevent this AI integration from being installed on my devices. How could that be the case if there was no profit being extracted from my data? Why would they spend untold amounts on this deal and forcibly install expensive software on my personal devices at no cost to me? The obvious answer is that there is a cost to me, it's just not an immediate debit from my bank account.
Photos are already just one perspective on reality. Instagram has shown that to be painfully true. This is merely a continuation of that.

We all experience our own reality individually.
My 5 cents:

- status codes 200-299 are all OK

- status codes 300-399 are redirects, and also can be OK eventually

- 403 in my experience occurs quite often, where it is not an error, but suggestion that your user agent is not OK

- robots.txt should be scanned to check if any resource is prohibited, or if there are speed requirements. It is always better to be _nice_. I plan to add something like that and also missing it in my project

- It would be interesting to generate hash from app, and update only if hash is different?
Seems like a very useful tool to impersonate websites. Useful to scammers. Why would someone crawl their own website?
Dude thank you SO MUCH for sharing this. I use Rectangle to tile windows and I've been looking for a way to switch between windows based on their position on my screen rather than their type for probably about a year now.
iSH is already on the App Store and lets you run x86 Linux apps.

My guess is that the thing Apple is actually objecting to is graphical user output, specifically mouse software being utilized on a touchscreen. UTM (and iDOS) does that, iSH only gives you a terminal. Terminal software is touch-friendly, so it's allowed, even though iSH has to do the same threaded code dance UTM SE does.

(And of course there's also a-Shell which runs WASM/WASI binaries in Safari...)
Yes but PDP-10 is pretty good: there is only one instruction format, so the instruction set is very uniform.

It's, shall we say, delightfully weird in its support of bytes and half-words (addresses).

Also: having 256K words is much better than 64 KB.
recent HN discussion on an earlier SAR that was the spark for this glorious mad Finn:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34676129
ChatGPT was free to the public because it was a toy for a conference. They didn't expect it to be popular because it was basically already available in Playground for months.

I think 4o is free because GPT3.5 was so relatively bad it means people are constantly claiming LLMs can't do things that 4 does just fine.
Omg yes! Fastmail + 1P is soooo good. 1P has an integration with privacy.com to create unique debit cards. With these 3 tools I have a unique email, pw, and debit card for each service. Makes me feel in control over my interaction with a service. Here’s my referral link for privacy if you’re interested

https://privacy.com/join/JCPFN
It's a really interesting idea. The only thing I am afraid of, besides the future-proofness of the solution (but what solution is totally future-proof anyway?) which has been already commented at lot here, is what my kids would feel knowing we shared lots of personal stuff using a service from a company that's not exactly known for privacy. Personally if my parents did that I'd be a bit upset because I wouldn't agree in the first point with sharing my personal life (even my past one) with Google (or Meta, for what it matters, although I feel like posting stuff on Facebook is worse), as once it's done, there's no coming back.

(EDIT: just seen that xerox13ster actually also commented on the same point, so sorry for the repetition...)
Time from NPL (MSF)
I mean, yes?

America exists because we couldn't stand Europe, and we've had to go back there at least several times to fix the mess y'all keep dispensing before we just said "Fuck it." after witnessing WW2 and made our presence permanent for the forseeable future.

Now that I got the snark out of my system, I personally prefer a legal system everyone will agree on even if not everyone will like it.
Out of curiosity, what would you have considered impressive?
I Tried to Use AI to Read an AI Book
I would love to learn if TripleByte's data was sold off somewhere? I also had this concern (which was probably a bit overblown). One of the main scenarios I was concerned about was a case where the firm was sold off for parts.
GPT4o access is a handy feature, but, what I was hoping to hear about is an improvement in Siri's language "understanding."

In today's WWDC presentation, there were a few small examples of Siri improvements, such as an ability to maintain context, e.g., 'Add her flight arrival time to my calendar,' wherein Siri knows who "her" refers to.

In my day-to-day experience with Siri, it's clear Siri doesn't have the kind of ability to understand language that LLMs provide. It still feels like clever son-of-Eliza hacks with stock phrases. If your utterance doesn't match with a pre-programmed stock phrase, it doesn't work. The other day I said something like "Play the song you played before the one I asked you to skip," and Siri didn't seem to know what I wanted. OTOH, GPT4o can easily handle statements like that.

Does anyone know to what extent Siri's underlying language models are being upgraded?
An extreme example indeed, and a heinous one, which is probably why contact killings are so rare and so expensive. My key operating words of "on average" and "over the long term" are in full effect here.

I direct interested readers to David Friedman's _The Machinery of Freedom_ for some worked examples of how capitalism might minimize such actions from taking place.
Strong agree here. Features are cool, but I value screen real estate and simplicity. Plus, the gpt app works fine for me. I don’t need it built into other things yet.
Oh really? Unfortunately i didn’t see the keynote this time and i didn’t see this in any online summaries. Didn’t expect they’d do it this time! Ive been asking for it in prev years. But does it record audio? This is good if you get to keep audio!
Not “racism” exactly, I’d probably call it cultural insensitivity? Noninclusiveness?

Overusing that word doesn’t help the argument, and why I didn’t upvote this despite my inclination at first glance.

Maybe this could be salvaged with a newer post.
Mapping Philanthropic Support of Science
Thanks for giving it a second chance. I read all of it, and it was very interesting indeed
Apple couldn’t “find people” to buy the first gen Mac, iPod, iPhone or Watch when they were first introduced compared to the size of the market

You have to ship a product first and then iterate.

The first versions of all of those products weren’t great
Discussion [0] (20 points, yesterday, 47 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40626850
Yea, I mean…if you’re only doing $3.5Bn in annual revenue at 83% gross margins…like, are you even a product bro?
It's right along side the other volume controls.
I did this for my son and my daughter for many years.

Unfortunately, I did it by making them gmail accounts. Google without warning closed both accounts when my daughter was 12 for being under-age. I lost everything. I tried to appeal to get them to unlock the accounts long enough for me to get the contents out, but talking to a human being at Google is famously impossible.
~It seems like it will require M1+ on Macs/iPads, or an iPhone 15 Pro.

They specifically stated it required iPhone 15 Pro or higher and anything with a m1 or higher.
I'm guessing GP meant scam as in "a terribly short-sighted way to structure an economy" rather than your garden variety bait-and-switch scam.
I've never understood why there are some passwords that exist in the macOS keychain app that don't appear in the Passwords section of the macOS System Settings (I think the password for my WiFi hotspot is one of them). Can anyone explain this? Will the new Password app have 'everything' in it?

I always end up looking in the Keychain app to be sure to find what I'm looking for, but I dislike that app because it often takes several password entries to get to see a password.
Bitwarden

+ cross-platform

+ free as in beer

+ free and open-source software

Can't really comment on convenience, I moved from LastPass, but it has worked well for me.
I've never seen that. can you give me an example search term?
Only on iPhone 15 Pro upwards or M1 Mac’s

So only a very small percentage of users will be able to use it.
My father was in the hospital recovering from a heart attack. We were staying with him in shifts, and when I was "off", I watched the last episode of succession. I made sure my phone was on the chair next to me and the notification / volume was all the way up.

After the episode he was dead and I missed the whole thing b/c somewhere along the way "press volume button at home screen until it was full" did not actually turn notifications on anymore. I've never been so mad at UI/UX.

Turning on ringer / notification volume requires pressing volume button once, then clicking the equalizer, then dragging the notification volume up to desired level. There's no indication anywhere that notifications are silenced. I have a google pixel 4.
It was all nice until I saw that you are using Google for this. Google and long-term are mutually exclusive.

At some point after your death, one of the below is likely to happen:

a) password gets lost
b) (if 2fa enabled) the second factor device or source gets lost
c) Some automatic process flags your account and permanently locks it
d) Google accidentally deletes some of your data
e) Google accidentally corrupts some of your data
f) An AI rule accidentally gets triggered and deletes some or all of your data
g) Google reduces the amount you get for free and some of your data gets lost forever

there are many more btw
So, the company that brought us Siri is going to build something better than ChatGPT... something that will run on-device no less. It's just not quite ready yet. Got it.
It’s not sending every word to the cloud. I think you must invoke the AI features. Am I wrong?
Why is she not a reliable source?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Beard_(classicist)

"Dame Winifred Mary Beard, DBE, FSA, FBA, FRSL (born 1 January 1955)[1] is an English classicist specialising in Ancient Rome. She is a trustee of the British Museum and formerly held a personal professorship of classics at the University of Cambridge.[2] She is a fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and Royal Academy of Arts Professor of Ancient Literature."
They have tech to obscure IPs in a way that prevents any one entity from being able to de-obfuscate: https://support.apple.com/en-us/102602
The fundamental truth is that companies that want to hire people do hire people.

There are many more job positions posted than will ever be hired for, despite the availability of suitable talent.
> Surveillance is bad, but let's not pretend that all surveillance is equal.

Of course not. When it is comming from the rulling party, it is a gift.
To give the user a responsive and offline-first experience and also to scale infinitely without the need to provision a server for it - don't use nextjs! If you use nextjs every advantage is gone so it would be better to stick with django
They need to in order to not look second-class in terms of chat capabilities. On the other hand, they want to make it clear when you are using ChatGPT, probably not just for privacy reasons, but also so that people blame ChatGPT and not Apple when it gets things wrong.
Google has ~9000 kernel patches, and a fairly custom userspace.
Saving 2% at that scale is huge.
That's the complaint! They play in the same space, they just don't seem to be trying. Siri happily returns links to Pad Thai recipes, it's not like they didn't expect this to be a use-case. They just haven't made a UX that competes with others.

And it's not just web search! Siri's context is abysmal. My dad routinely has to correct the spelling of his own name. It's a common name, there are multiple spellings, but it's his phone!
I had the chance to develop on BlackBerry in the early 00's, and they prompted their user if the app wants to access things like the user's calendar or address book. If the user denied it, an exception would be thrown and a good app would be able to deal with it...

And then iPhone came along and Apple said "Trust us, our store review policy will save you.". And Android did the same. And Zuck said "Your data is safe, a Facebok app can't steal your data, because it'll get into trouble with us!". And then Cambridge Analytica data-mined FB users and used targetted ads on the gullible to deliver the election to Trump...
Not exactly 'random'. I mean, typically it would be during periods of relaxation and certain stages of sleep.

Adult males in their 30s or older very rarely just get a random erection with no physical or mental stimulation while going about their business.
The countdown to the next puzzle is in the negative and is counting up. FYI, I'm not in North America.
I'm honestly more excited for Mojo as a competitor in the systems programming space (Rust) than the ML space.

Where Rust's default way of doing things gives you the most optimal performance (i.e no copy), you pay for that with code complexity and symbol soup syntax. If you want to move fast, you copy things, which is both ugly and wasteful.

Mojo on the other hand, based on the ownership presentation, by default makes some assumptions on your behalf for most common situations that you can then override if you need every ounce of performance out of the program.

I appreciate this approach more because I can hit the ground running and build something with great performance and then optimize it later when needed.

I'm looking forward to building something with it once they finish their work on the networking and asynchronous libraries.
Yes, that's all well and good but assumes no mistakes and no National Security letters ordering them to describe it that way and no changes of control or business strategy at some point in the future.

Once the data is out of your possession it's out of your control.
It's just listed under your "threads", like any other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=HeatrayEnjoyer
Could you please explain ‘lay bare organisational deficiencies’? I ask without skepticism.
And the foundational tech (Transformers) came from Big Tech, aka Google
It's more platform lock-in and it leverages their market position. Unabashed monopolism. Completely unchastened by recent lawsuits.
They don't have to be perfect to be useful, and death isn't the price of being wrong.
Sounds like a great idea
They’re letting OpenAI upsell to a professional version, so there is a lot in it for OpenAI to offer this for free, even without the data.
> I don't see much of an isolationist strain in the US today at all

Huh

And I've just explained exactly how it's consequential and not meaningless. It succeeded in delaying aid to Ukraine. There you go: a consequence!
Honestly, I support it. I got burnt by Tijme Gommers selling Raivo to someone shady and getting all my passwords locked behind a subscription (and subsequently lost). I don't want to have to check once a day to see if my TOTP app has been sold to some guy in Morocco and my passwords monetised.
It's not my perception of the relationship, it's their job. But that's besides the point. In a healthy team people are not groaning every time they have to help someone.

I'm a lower level TL, and we just got an intern for the summer. They needed help figuring out how to set up SSH, and they came to me. Is my work more important? Yeah, but that doesn't matter. I don't want them spinning on this while waiting for me to grant them an audience. If I truly don't have time, that's my decision to deprioritize the work, or send it somewhere else. Same with the people above me.
Bill Gates about the iTunes Music Store

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/09/bill-gates-said-s...

> Steve Jobs['] ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right and market things as revolutionary are amazing things," Gates wrote. "This time somehow he has applied his talents in getting a better licensing deal than anyone else has gotten for music."
The idea that they would give ChatGPT away to consumers for free without mining the data in some form or another is naive.
I'm honestly surprised and disappointed that all they appear to have done is Sherlock Rectangle.

Stage Manager was the most interesting and useful thing to happen to window management in over a decade, and I was really hoping we'd see Apple do more with it. Its dynamic nature (windows don't always live in just a single context!) solved a lot of problems inherent in Spaces, and yet there's still plenty of room to build on its foundation.

I was hoping we'd at least see the window snapping behavior ported over from iPadOS. It's a really well-thought-out way to simplify window resizing and overlapping, and it would go a long way on MacOS (perhaps with a toggle in Control Center for those edge cases where you actually want pixel precision). Maybe in MacOS 16...
I loved the project!! I also like how “messy” the room is, reminded me of my room (1) when I was working from home years ago.

I haven’t read the whole thing but I will, however, I did go through the technical details, some notes:

> This model didn’t have a long enough range on the analog sticks

I see you are using Radiomaster tx16s, pro tip: You can use ELRS 2W model on BOTH transmitter and the receiver, don’t use the typical receiver unit, use another transmitter and flash it as a receiver, and you would have 2W on both sides, preferably 900mhz not 2.4ghz, and you would’ve hundreds of kilometers of range and strong obstacles penetration.

For the camera and the tether, technically you can get rid of the tether and use wireless comms, but probably what you did is the best for bucks solution.

Overall, looks great!

(1) https://tamim.io/professional_projects/nerds-heavy-lift-dron...
you have to acknowledge a pop up authorizing your request be sent to OpenAI every single time it happens. it's not going to happen by mistake.
Oh, ok, my next conjecture would have been the involvement of a Star Trek TNG aficionado. (Albeit with an o->a typo)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worf
> In today's WWDC presentation, there were a few small examples of Siri improvements, such as an ability to maintain context, e.g., 'Add her flight arrival time to my calendar,' wherein Siri knows who "her" refers to.

Didn't Cortana do this? Pretty underwhelming in 2024.
Yeah, I wonder how many subscribers OpenAI will lose.
That is a fair point, as the 2x CPU + 4x NIC are "only" about 550W put together. There's probably more overhead for cooling (as much as 40% of the datacenter's power -- multiplying by 1.5x pushes you just over that 800W number).

That said, being able to do 800G in an 800W footprint doesn't automatically mean that you can drive 100G in a 100W footprint. Not every ISP needs that 800G footprint, so being able to deploy smaller nodes can be an advantage.

Also: I was assuming that 100W was the whole package (which is super impressive if so), since the Netflix serving model should have most of the SSDs in standby most of the time, and so you're allowed to cheat a little bit in terms of actual power draw vs max rating of the system.
Apple wants it to be a problem so it incentivizes you to switch over.
Netflix, the online service, launched in 2007. The previous business, doing DVD mailing, had no such high bandwidth serving requirements. You're exaggerating the timeline quite a lot.
My journey with Obsidian