skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple is also claiming they are gonna go privacy protecting AI.

I'm quite skeptical of Apple.
Can't wait until the financial fraud is revealed.
I don't see anyone mentioning Google Takeout (takeout.google.com) - it's easy to use.

I have a suggestion to make it easier - At the highest level of your Google Drive, make a folder containing the easily exportable types such as docs, sheets, pdfs, photos.
I just want to say that the format of this video is beautiful and easy to follow along. A topic that is easily boring and dry is presented in a way to keep the viewer interested
Do you have any tips for practicing this? I feel like I often "take the oxygen out of the room" when I offer suggestions or get talking. Conversely when I bite my tongue (or just unplug my mic) most people don't talk or offer very weak tacit agreement with the last thing that was said.

edit: I wish I had more skill at building coalitions and/or pushing an organization in a direction without saying "we need to do X".
Flailing and untruthful comments about a publicly traded company from the CEO yet again.

Give the SEC some teeth please.
In one case of an "audit" I heard of a few years ago, I was told that Oracle flagged the laptops of a handful of individual engineers who simply didn't know any better, having installed the "official" JDK countless times over the years and not realizing the licensing scheme had changed.
Yea, I see Idempotency as being you can submit same transaction multiple times without duplicate actions. So you to use your example, if I submitted "Deposit $10 to account 1234, transaction ID: ABC" four times, the system wouldn't execute it four times because it has enough data to determine if transaction is duplicate or not.
> Oof. That's a pretty damn specific (literally) attacker, and it's impressive that made it into their threat model.

How so ?
There are any number of state and state sponsored attackers who it should apply it including china, North Korea , Russia , Israel as nation states and their various affiliates like NSO group .

Even if NSA its related entities are going to be notably absent. If your threat model includes unfriendly nation state actors then the security depends on security at NSA and less on Apple, they have all your data anyway.

If nation state actors are interested in you, no smartphone that is not fully open source on both hardware and OS side that has been independently verified by multiple reviewers is worth it, i.e. no phone in the market today, everything else is tradeoff for convenience for risk, the degree of each is quite subjective to each individual.

For the rest of us, the threat model is advertisers, identity thieves, scammers and spammers and now AI companies using it for training.

Apple will protect against other advertisers insofar to grow their own ad platform , they already sell searches to Google for $20B/year and there is no knowing the details of the OpenAI deal on what kind of data will be shared.
Your collection of experts seem to be different than mine, then (so I'm curious who you read instead, please let me know):

Scott Aaronson (the blogger above) is a professor and definitely is more sanguine towards the written article.

Dave Patterson (the Turing award professor of computer architecture) was interviewed last week, he said "We don't know what will happen!" or something like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxVQsLA2ats&t=2045s

One of my own professors (a CS theoretician ) said, at an AI seminar last year, that there seem to be no known barriers left to AGI (paraphrasing).

Actually I'm personally on the fence, so while the pdf article discussed is not rigorous enough, it makes some interesting high-level arguments. One of them is that the recent growth needs to hit some threshold - this argument is not a continuous argument the way you had mentioned.
Apple is interested in providing products that they can guarantee will work, and meet actual user requirements.

"Sync my files without using Apple's cloud" is not a user requirement. Delivering features using their cloud is a very reasonable way for Apple to provide services.

Now, "Sync my files without compromising my privacy" is a user requirement. And Apple iCloud offers a feature called 'advanced data protection" [1] that end to end encrypts your files, while still supporting photo sharing and syncing. So no, you can't opt out of using their cloud as the intermediary, but you can protect your content from being decrypted by anyone, including Apple, ooff your devices.

It has the downside that it limits your account recovery options if you lose the device where your keys are and screw up on keeping a recovery key, so it isn't turned on by default, but it's there for you to use if you prefer. For many users, the protections of Apple's standard data protection are going to be enough though.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651#:~:text=Advanced%20Da....
The Llama 3 license says:

"If, on the Meta Llama 3 version release date, the monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee’s affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month, you must request a license from Meta, which Meta may grant to you in its sole discretion, and you are not authorized to exercise any of the rights under this Agreement unless or until Meta otherwise expressly grants you such rights."

IANAL but my read of this is that Apple's not allowed to use Llama 3 at all, for any purposes, including comparisons.
Some good comments on this from cryptographer Matt Green here: https://x.com/matthew_d_green/status/1800291897245835616?t=C...

(I wonder if Matt realizes nobody can read his tweets without a X account? Use BlueSky or Masto man)

Edit: here's his thread combined
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1800291897245835616.html?...
> Yes, the tech industry loves to copy Apple :)

Yes, most technology is built on other technology ;)

> This seems to imply that normal PCC nodes are bare-metal.

I realize that, but there's plausible deniability in it, especially since the modification could also hide the mechanism I've described in some other virtualization context that uses the unmodified image, without the statement being untrue
In my view it’s ethical even if it’s just for taking revenge on the ad-driven model that has caused the enshittification of the web.
This sucks for me because sucking up is all I feel I can do to make people like me. :p
Can some ELI5 how remote attestation is supposed to work? It feels like asking a remote endpoint “are you who you say you are”. What’s stopping remote endpoint always responding “yes”
This is silly question. Very few people believed that Enron was insolvent or that MBS presented systemic risk even if the rating agencies weren’t completely corrupted.
Requests are not stored by openai, but stored by Apple and available on request.

Is how I interpret that. It's similar to that OneDrive language which was basically allowing user directed privacy invasion.

Inevitably,openai will consume and regurgitate all data it touches.

It is not clean and anyone thinking openai won't brutalize your data for it's race to general AI is delusional in one of several ways.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11052 claims to have derived an experimentally verifiable prediction from many worlds (namely that energy is only conserved in the linear progression of the wave function, and not necessarily in the "branched" or "collapsed" bit that we observe; and so in certain circumstances it might be possible to observe an interaction that fails to conserve energy.
CWM is not tiling and yet it can be crazy fast.
I'm sorry, but that's a really narrow minded take. There are a lot of good reasons to have IDA or Ghidra installed on your computer, if only for fun and learning reverse-engineering. This should NOT prevent you to play others games.

( To everybody reading this : if you like computer and puzzles, you should absolutly try to reverse-engineer a simple binary at least once. It's fun !)
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-53368-009

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30113673/

https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/41/10/zsy155/5065174?...
Bro, are you not aware that anti-green bubble prejudice is the civil rights issue of our time?
The U.S. military plans a 'Hellscape' to deter China from attacking Taiwan
Salt saturated water is also dangerous and lethal to drink. Does that mean that eating a little bit of salt, or any regular portion you'd usually come across in food, would be unsafe and lethal?
A more subtle case is that C-d (EOF for anyone except DOS) is widely not idempotent. Depending on the exact programs involved, it changes after pressing it about 10 times.
>>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.

Thats basically what I was saying. Recent grads don't (typically) have a lot of work experience to look at. So they're looking for the ones that learned/remember the most from their education.

>>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.

Heh - I never thought of that...

>> 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.

True - where I am now we have an awesome team ... some really great talent but oddly, this is one of the places we don't do leet code/take home crap. Its mostly talking about how you solved real problems...IBM on the other hand, was a total cluster f*ck. Anyway, just what I've encountered running around Wall St. and Silicon Valley - your mileage may vary :-)
Wouldn't this almost always be the case? To me it's like saying "some stock holdings are not in profit." This is always the case of course unless the stock market across the board is at all time highs.

When I invest, and especially if I roll returns into investment, this means as a rule more money is invested than has been returned.
But they won't even make good on that: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...

There's your bleeding, sorry truth there. It's only a matter of time until we get another headline like it.
I have an old copy of IDA floating around somewhere and play games on my primary machine. This is a really bad and awful way to do anticheat.
For US papers, we have newspapers.com. I relied on this for my articles about the Pullman Strike, using screen capture and OCR to process it. It was tedious but I don't think a lot of readers want to look at images.

It's really incredible how much text those pages contained. There weren't a whole LOT of pages, of course.
Heh I see what they did there convenient name
Understandable :-)
Presumably he means you can use company funds to donate to a pro-pesticide charity/NGO, and then use that donation to claim a tax credit (around 50%, subject to some limits). It's not really a "heads I win tails you lose" situation though. If you donate $100k, and claim the tax credits, you're still out $50k. You might get back more than $50k worth of monetary benefits from whatever the NGO/charity does, but that's not really guaranteed. It's like buying some junk on wish.com with a 50% coupon and saying that it's a "heads I win tails you lose" because if it turns out to be not junk, then you win, but if it's shit you still saved 50%. A far more straightforward and honest way of describing it would just be to say that they get a discount on their charity spend.
No they aren't. Commit messages show

1. Forward thinking

2. Maturity

3. Temperance

All important traits in engineers and founders
Historians often debate whether Hitler was some supernatural leader, or a product of a culture looking for a scapegoat.

I'm on the side of culture. That's what I see with most of the business leaders.
https://archive.is/Z4XqR
I just plug my iphone into my windows laptop and use the photo import tool built into windows. It works completely fine.

I also sync my photos onto my NAS via sftp, using the Photosync app.
uBlock, a lean and fast blocker (2014)
But in reality, many of the outsourcing firms relied on volume and conformity.
That's not how you do it. You use a Vectordatabase and a Retriever. This way, not all tokens of a document are used with the prompt, just the relevant parts will end up in the conversation / prompts. This way you save a lot of money and you are NOT limited to use GoogleAI - you can use whatever AI you want.
Servers send signed statements describing its state, and clients make the yes/no determination.
1. I don't have any trouble with IOS. My experience is very limited: I've got an old iPad Pro that runs the current IOS, and that I've had for a couple of years. It Just Works* -- it lets me watch dumb shit on YouTube, check the weather, and remotely operate a digital mixer, and that's all I really want from it. Previously, with a gap of about a decade, I had a minty-fresh OG iPod Touch that also Just Worked* (until it died a couple of years later during battery replacement surgery). Despite my limited experience, in both cases I've found the interface to be adequately intuitive and don't recall ever really seeking any guidance.

2. Some people like the walled garden. I'm not really amongst them, but I do tolerate the walls. (For those who absolutely abhor walls, there's rootable Android devices out there that can satisfy an itch to tinker with something in compact portable electronics. That's a lot of fun, too, but it's heading in the opposite opposite direction of Just Works.)

*: They "just work" within their limitations, which can be severe. It frustrates me that I can't install real Firefox on the iPad so I can use uBlock Origin, and it frustrated me that the iPod Touch didn't even come with the ability to install apps or even copy-and-paste text out of the box**. But in both cases, the devices behaved very well with the functions they were permitted to utilize.

**: I jailbroke the iPod Touch and went pretty far off the reservation with it (adding a clipboard, installable apps, multitasking, and a useful userland) because that was fun for me at that time, but by no means did I have to do any of that -- it was a very fine touchscreen music player with 802.11 and a web browser all by itself without any of that kind of help, and that's pretty much what it was promised to be able to do. And that was a long time ago; during the gap, I'd forgotten more about IOS than I ever knew.
We need new anti trust legislation and harsh enforcement, enacted retroactively. Until executives have compensation clawed back and face jail time, this will continue.
In the same way a person or entity does anything. Just do it.
Definitely has employees (or contractors he works with). From experience, beyond $300k (~$1000/day excluding Sundays), for blue collar jobs like that, it is hard to grow revenue without the additional help.
It isn't no longer safe for kids to walk to school. What happened is that American internet arrived here, and it has political reasons to want everyone to think it is.
Thanks for the link.

> As best I can tell, Apple does not have explicit plans to announce when your data is going off-device for to Private Compute. You won't opt into this, you won't necessarily even be told it's happening. It will just happen. Magically.

Presumably it will be possible to opt out of AI features entirely, i.e. both on-device and off-device?

Why would a device vendor not have an option for on-device AI only? iOS 17 AI features can be used today without iCloud.

Hopefully Apple uses a unique domain (e.g. *.pcc.apple.com) that can be filtered at the network level.
Massachusetts has basically the same weather at the same time. When demand plummets in NH, it also does in MA.

Somebody somewhere would still have to store the energy being produced overnight, which happens to be when nobody wants to use it.
what are the cold starts like?
Am I missing something or is step 3 missing some steps to validate the JWT and define the current_user_id() function?

Taking a look at the docs here:

https://postgrest.org/en/v12/references/auth.html

https://postgrest.org/en/v12/explanations/db_authz.html

It doesn't seem like current_user_id() is a provided function, and the docs claim nothing else is done with the JWT except validating it. It looks like your claim already includes user_id, so you'd have to get it from the claim using:

current_setting('request.jwt.claims', true)::json->>'user_id';

Not sure if I'm missing something.
It'd be interesting to stress test that thing with a Solfeggietto or some equivalent.
You can already "autofill" Firefox (and other) input fields with keychain data in Sonoma. Its a bit cumbersome, but right click into the field, select "autofill" from the context menu, then either "passwords" or "contacts", search/select/confirm the data to be inserted.
Selling art as a way of making a living actually is a pretty recent thing. Up until not too long ago patronage was pretty much the only way to survive for artists. Maybe we will go back to that model?
Except (and really not wanting to offend Indians), what we did is import a large number (by percentage of tech jobs) of skilled Indians which drove down the market rate for those jobs, either way it had the 'benefit' of driving down costs.
The AI wave is showing us that the gains will keep going to the big tech companies and competition doesn’t really exist, not even at this moment. They need to be broken up and taxed heavily.
Right now they're basically a improved search engine, but they aren't solving the hard problem of making money.

Had Google become a utility and frozen it's search engine half a decade or more in the past, we would actually have something you could add AI on top of and come out with an improved product.

As it stands, capitalism isn't going to fix GIGO with AI
What I want to know is why people will get up on the internet and say something counterfactual like people are moving more today than in the past, a hypothesis without a shred of supporting evidence. All measures of mobility are headed down, whether intercity moves or job changes. American mobility has hit a new record low every year this century, accelerating a trend that has been in decline since the end of the War.

https://www.ft.com/content/96cb501d-b188-4e50-af21-ca7115878...
Whoa, I'm doing the exact same thing right now for my son, and using Gmail as well.

Blessings to you for this warning. I'm going to do something about changing the location of this mailbox asap.
The annual dividend on my house is 0.0%
They started with 8 mice.

This seems like an inbreeding problem not a utopia is hell problem.

Has anybody replicated with a more diverse mouse population?
When a metric becomes a target it ceases to be a good metric.

Someone on HN posited that the models we use for economic performance are overfitted, that they no longer actually gauge the performance of the economy. The economy, after all, is about finding optimal distribution of resources, and ultimately, all resources are produced for the benefit of human beings, so if people's experience on the ground, in reality, is that things are bad, maybe quit telling them they're wrong and go find out what's wrong with your models or measures? Just a wild idea, what do I know.
Really cool!! Website for mobile can use a little work, a lot of the sub headers get truncated a bit much.
You would combine that with AWS BottleRocket:

https://aws.amazon.com/bottlerocket
Use Flowise and a VectorDB like upstash or pinecone.

Flowise Tutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7uBy3VQJAc
Without a doubt the most interesting article I've read here. If they didn't sink in a car, am I correct to assume the bodies would have surfaced eventually?
Just imagine if you had an accurately currated dataset.
He uses cost in a context of time and effort not directly financial
I really just want Siri to perform simple tasks without me giving direct line-by-line orders. For example, I often use Siri to add reminders to my Calendar app but forget to mention the word “calendar” or replace it with “remind me,” and Siri ends up adding it to the Reminders app instead of the Calendar app. I want Siri to have an explicit memory that every time I use the phrase “remind me,” I want the task done in my Calendar app. Additionally, if most apps end up adopting App Intents like OpenAI’s Function Calling, I see a bright future for Siri.
You do need (some subset of) associativity:

(y0 * x) * x ?= y0 * (x * x)
y1 * x ?= y0 * x
y2 ?= y1

y2 is not in general constrained to be the same as y1 otherwise.
I used x64dbg to crack some accounting software that went EOL and forced us to buy a new software based on a new subscription model.

You can basically patch the executable to skip the function that locks you out
How can anyone reliably patch Windows without the source code? And, is this legal?
– Different people (browsers) get different randomizations, which can make a difference in difficulty. It would be better for it to be deterministic (including the shuffles), with regard to "Challenge a friend".

– Shuffling should cause a penalty, like reducing the remaining time by one second.

– There is an easy way to cheat the timer by closing the tab and reopening it after finding the solution (on browsers that save the state of closed tabs). This could be avoided by basing the timer on absolute time.

– The keyboard interface is great.

– For some reason, I found today's words much less difficult than yesterday's. :)
"outcome" here refers to "resulting state of the world", not "actions which are performed as a result of operation".

Which makes it a bad choice of terminology, because while both of those are things for which "outcome" is a natural word choice, the latter is at least as natural of a reading, and is what idempotency is defined in opposition to, so at best the statement is ambiguous on exactly the point it is trying to clarify.
Very interesting paper! Proposes (with lower bound of 1.3% chance) that the solar system may have passed through a local interstellar cloud, which would have caused the heliosphere to shrink to smaller than the orbit of the earth (0.22 au) some 2-3 mya. This may have affected the Earth's atmosphere and climate. Scroll down for some cool illustrations of a simulation showing how the heliosphere would have been tiny with an elongated tail in a denser interstellar medium. There's also a map showing the interstellar cloud relative to the trajectory of the solar system.
Just be careful with the "temperature" when dealing with numbers and financial data as well. You should check samples of the retrieved data by hand.

Setting the temperature lower than 0.9 means reducing the "creativity" and making it less prone to hallucinate.
I was prompted to post this after gleefully glimpsing a solar punk world at the beginning of the film Furiosa for a few minutes.

Awkward to state the reason without giving a spoiler, albeit for the immediate the very start of the film.

As good as the film is, I was itching to see me of this world.
So, this looks great, but I don't get the criticism against Microsoft Recall and not against this.

Can someone explain what Apple has avoided that were such a problem with Recall ?
Yes, credit doesn't matter for copyright, but I'm more talking about why people are mad about some uses of scraping and not others.

Legality aside, there is something very strange about a device that both 1) relies on your content to exist and could not work without it and 2) is attempting to replace it with its own proprietary chat interface. Googlebot mostly doesn't act like it's going to replace the internet, but Gemini and ChatGPT etc all are.

They're announcing "hi we are going to scrape all your data, put it into a pot, sell that pot back to you, and by the way, we are pushing this as a replacement for search, so from now on your only audience will be scrapers; all the human eyeballs will be on our website, which as we said before, relies on your work to exist."