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This is true, and it's part of why this is one section of three.

If you were slow but high-quality on the coding section but crushed the knowledge and system design, we'd probably recommend you - or at least, recommend you to clients that aren't specifically looking for fast coders. Someone we recommended to a client recently had the equivalent of like 1.75 steps on the task linked here, but got consistently high scores everywhere else.

I do wish we could do a more complex, longer coding problem, and one of the things I've been considering is cutting some other stuff to get it up to 45 minutes or something. The current length isn't a principled decision, it's a resource constraint - keeping interviewing costs manageable is essential when you're trying to bootstrap a company in a rough market. Speed matters, but speed over such a short timescale is absolutely artificial (I'd much rather measure speed over a day instead, it's just not practical to conduct a top-of-funnel interview for so long.)
Right? Airdrop "just works" and so does copy paste between devices.

If this is a better AirDrop I'm all here for it. AirDrop was already leaps and bounds better than email my android phone to my PC.
> When decluttering means you end up having to search the internet for a recipe as to what place to click to find which flydropping menu, was it worth it?

Strong disagree here - let me use a real world example.

On older Lexus models, the car stereo screen had play and pause buttons.

It always bugged me. Why have BOTH a play button and a pause button? The play button doesn’t do anything if you click on it when a song is playing, and the pause button doesn’t do anything if the song is already paused.

What Lexus should have done instead was have one button that changes state depending if something is playing or paused. It would take up less screen space and less cognitive load trying to move the cursor while I’m driving 75mph.

And on a personal note, Teams is a horrid interface. But I’m not here to argue that today.
Imho, the stronghold of cuda is slowly eroding.

Inference can run without it, and could so for years via ONNX. Now we are starting to see more back-ends becoming available.

see https://github.com/openxla
Older macOS versions don't receive all security fixes, so while you'll receive security updates from time to time, the OS isn't fully patched. It's a bit different from, say, Ubuntu LTS.
For anyone who is technical and wants to play with AI but doesn’t want to use cloud services it’s worth digging into LangChain, CrewAI, OpenDevin. Coupled with Ollama to serve the inference from your local network. You can scratch the AI itch without getting in bed with OpenAI.
Apple's? You mean OpenAI's...
I would say MS Copilot+ is shipping on-device inference a few months before Apple, although at 1000x lower volume.
Apples not been worth it for pro users for a good decade. The only thing it's been good for is a litmus test of users care for ethics in computing.

The whole iPad will eat MacBook business so let's cuck its capabilities is insanely wasteful. Like should be illegal levels of wasteful given the current climate of consumption and climate change problems facing us.

Apple and their whole culture of product rollout and consumption is a massive part of our wasteful problem as a global society. Terrible company really.
Good point, but not for details: I doubt that the depth information is of much help for separating hairs from the background.
Bit of a detail, but where are you deriving “with hundreds of terabytes of unified GPU memory” from?
Sapir-Whorf, in its original form, claims language influences your perception of reality. Its "stronger" form, linguistic determinism, claims language determines your thoughts. I claim neither of those things. I claim that, since language, as a highly intellectual cognitive function, obviously has some sort of effect on your thoughts (but not to the point of determining them), having more of them makes us, as a collective, capable of having ideas we might not have had otherwise, some of which might be effective vaccines against mind-viruses (or mind-viruses themselves, in which case it's lucky we're not a monoculture).

That language affects thinking isn't the extraordinary claim, its contrary is. It is hard to believe that your method and efficiency of solving a problem is invariant to the format in which you represent that problem, especially when that format can be so varied.

> I think it's unfortunately quite clear that people didn't need a lot of sophisticated convincing to do what they did in WWII

They needed a decade of sophisticated propaganda and indoctrination, and even a change in the language itself, with words like "Übermensch" and "Lebensraum" being added to the dictionary. It didn't happen overnight.

I also don't know where you're getting the claim from that the countries where the Holocaust took place "didn't speak an ounce of German", given that a large part of it took place on former Austria-Hungary territory where German was presumably the most prevalent second language. But even supposing they didn't, how would that disprove my point? I'm not saying language barriers make you immune to mind-viruses, I'm saying they can slow down their spread. The effects of this one were devastating, but they could have been much more devastating without any language barrier whatsoever. Because one country I can realistically believe not to have spoken an ounce of German is the UK. And they had no shortage of like-minded individuals either, but the local moustache man, Mosley, while said to be a good orator, was no Hitler. I think the public having the ability to understand what Hitler was saying would have been demoralizing at best and galvanizing at worst. It definitely wouldn't have helped Churchill's cabinet, which at one point already had half the mind to strike a deal with him.

I'm aware that this is just a form of security through obscurity, but practice shows that security through obscurity often works. Might not be the strongest argument for preserving languages, but in my mind, a language monoculture is just like any other monoculture, with all its drawbacks.
taking your speed limit as a great example, the two kinds of authority would be "the speed limit in this here town is 60mph, if you break it you will be fined. I can say because I'm an authority sitting on the council" and "the speed limit on this road should be 70mph. if you set it to anything else you will be doing the wrong thing. I can say so because I'm an authority on the subject".

now looking at the religious case, a priest would say "this is what you need to do because the gods said so; I can enforce that because I'm an authority in the church, but also I am right because I'm an authority on what the gods want". so that combines both uses of the word into one person in the way that more secular authorities mostly do not.
What app was this?
They aren't all that scared of a small subset of geeks running Linux directly on their iPad and using that as a regular Linux-ey thing, I don't think. The number of people who want to do this is very small, and they don't expect any support for that. And that's not possible from the app store, anyway.

But they've always been scared of emulators in the IOS app stores, and the reason for that seems to be a combination of things:

1. The user experience with emulators can be awful, which is a contrast to the "It Just Works" way of doing things with IOS. This doesn't jive with the image they sell, or that they wish to support.

2. By letting anyone run real software easily on an iPad, this cuts into their sales of MacBooks. This is obviously not in their interest, since they'd rather sell two machines instead of one machine.
Cloud only, and they removed local storage of the vaults. If I'm somewhere that doesn't have internet connectivity, what happens then?

Dislike of SaaS isn't limited to monthly fees, but the lack of features they removed to encourage SaaS adoption
At the current rate of advancement, we might get a runaway AGI before the technology "matures".
Climate change is not a reason to not enjoy Legos. Life is for enjoying, not for worrying about whether one's hobby is environmentally friendly enough.
Yes, the AI mostly just looks for plays that have high certainty and are connected to other potential winning squares (for either team). Then it weights plays positively or negatively based on whether or not the "bad" chance outweighs "good"
Rate limited for negative comments related to Apple privacy's claims
I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, and I always trusted HackerNews to be a safe, fair space for conversations on tech topics. My (7-year-old) main account was rate limited (banned?) after making some comments on the various Apple Intelligence threads today questioning their privacy claims around the off-device / "private cloud" data transfer. It never happened before.

I wonder if I hit some sort of automatic moderation or if something more insidious is going on. It would be nice to understand the reasons behind it and to hear from others if this is more widespread.

TBH, I always thought the generally positive "can do no harm" attitude towards Apple in here was a reflection of a generally positive attitude in the tech world as a whole but now I wonder if something more mischievous is happening.

Thanks for reading my rambles!
If Apple wasn't selling privacy, I'd assume the other way around. Or if anything, OpenAI would give the service out for free. There's a reason why ChatGPT became free to the public, GPT-4o moreover. It's obvious that OpenAI needs whatever data it can get its hands on to train GPT-5.
Some people here somehow thinking they will simultaneously outsmart:

* The CEO of a three trillion dollar company that employs 100,000+ of the best talent you could find around the world, with the best lawyers in the world one phone call away. Also, one of the best performing CEOs in modern times.

AND

* The CEO of the AI company (ok ... non-profit) that pretty much brought up the current wave of AI to existence and who has also spent the best part of its life building and growing 1,000s of startups in SF.

Lol.
I have zero confidence in any privacy or contractual guarantees being respected by the parasitic OpenAI
Small, but important detail: you receive some security updates, not all. Same with iOS.
Finally Windows and Linux fanatics will shut up.
Soft GPGPU versus IP Cores: Quantifying and Reducing the Performance Gap
On-device models will not be big enough in the near future. What makes ChatGPT so awesome at recognition is that their model is huge, and so no matter how obscure the topic of the dictation, ChatGPT knows what you're talking about.
Yeah, the time limit is an interviewing constraint, not a principled decision (see my reply in a sibling thread to this one).
> Let's check in with OpenCL and see how far it got disrupting CUDA.

That's entirely the fault of AMD and Intel fumbling the ball in front of the other team's goal.

For ages the only accelerated backend supported by PyTorch and TF was CUDA. Whose fault was that? Then there was buggy support for a subset of operations for a while. Then everyone stopped caring.

Why I think it will go different this time: nVidia's competitors seem to have finally woken up and realized they need to support high level ML frameworks. "Apple Silicon" is essentially fully supported by PyTorch these days (via the "mps" backend). I've heard OpenCL works well now too, but have no hardware to test it on.
AirDrop is great in theory, but in practice 80% of the time I try to send a photo to my partner using AirDrop, it simply fails to bring up a notification on her devices. In my experience, Apple often delivers well much of the time, but will allow mysterious bugs like this to pervade a feature for years without finding a fix despite much discussion in their customer forums. I wish they did a better job of fixing such problems.
No, my question was: why did Copenhagen become generally accepted? You're saying: it just is, deal with it. That's unsatisfactory. Copenhagen proponents never seem to have to defend their stance, and you're telling me they don't have to because they're the majority.
I don't think that's really what Apple is going to do with it though, it's not going to be for factual question and answer stuff. It will be used more like a personal assistant, what's on my calendar this week, who is the last person who called me etc. I think it will more likely be an LLM in the background that uses tools to query iCloud and such, ie, making Siri actually useful.
The Hydrant Directory
You can set the default browser.

And there are plenty of messaging apps on iOS.

App store, sure, they don't allow sideloading, but that's a different matter (and the number of users, not devs, who care about that is even smaller)
When you ask Siri a question, it will prompt you to ask whether it can send your query/data to ChatGPT.

All other AI features within the OS are powered by Apple's Private Compute Cloud, which is Apple's code running on Apple's chips at Apple's Data Center.
I got the die to settle on an edge in the corner of the playfield, which triggered a re-roll.

Is this actually simulating a d20 with physics?
My suspicion is that Mexico has had either strong state industry periods or strong private industry periods, but seldom a combination.

Brazil strikes me as having a decent history of industrial policy with the government partnering with private industry.

That's why you have what I think it's a freer market in Mexico but stronger tech-heavy corporations in Brazil (eg embraer).
Perhaps your browser doesn’t send the ‘Referer’[sic] header?
>>When we say voltage gradient, think the traditional ions and the like. But also think of the voltage gradient that a protein can have too, with binding pockets and stuff. Think voltage gradients that are held in place by lipid rafts on the membrane too. Think also the osmotic potential that ion concentration will have, not just the raw total voltage of a voltmeter. There are a lot of components, and therefore gradients, that make up the voltage potential.

It seems that both Claude and you use "voltage gradient" and "ion gradient" interchangeably, which may be not technically correct enough. In electrical engineering voltage = potential = charge difference btw 2 points = the driving force that drives a current to "flow" from a point of bigger potential to a lesser one (typically). Thus it is voltage (or a field) that will drive an ion or any charge gradient.
With trust, trade is unrestricted.

But when you don't have trust, trade doesn't happen.

It's ironic. When apple first introduced the ios app store (decades ago) I thought "wow, they will protect me from the nonsense". But over time I learned, they don't really protect, there is still nonsense, and further they remove the ability to protect myself from the nonsense (you can't firewall your phone or detect/prevent network access by apps)
This is one of those things that seems like a good idea but is really an existential threat to OpenAI.

Having a single extremely large customer gives that customer a disproportionate amount of power over your business. Apple can decide one day to simply stop paying you because, hey, they can afford the years of litigation to resolve it. Can you weather than storm?

Famously, Benjamin Moore (the paint company) maintains its own stores. They have not (and probably will not) sell their products through Home Depot or Lowe's. Why? This exact reason. A large customer can dictate terms and hold you over a barrel if they so choose.

AI/ML is something Apple cares about. They've designed their own chips around speeding up ML processing on the device. A partnerhship with OpenAI is clearly a stopgap measure. They will absolutely gut OpenAI if they have the opportunity and they will absolutely replace OpenAI when they can.

Apple just doesn't like relying on partners for core functionality. It's why Apple ditched Google Maps for the (still inferior) Apple Maps. The only reason they can't replace Google Search is because Google pays them a boatload of money and they've simply been unable to.

This may seem like a good move for OpenAI but all they've done is let the foxes run the hen house.
It does need to process the data. The server has no persistent storage and no remote shell. It is a limited and locked down special-purpose iOS.
That made me actually laugh out loud. Maybe we should try for some Last Starfighter growth hacks.
Settings > Camera > Preserve Settings. Switch "Live Photo" to on. Then disable live photos when taking a picture.
> In fact, my T&Cs probably say specifically I don't.

What basis of experience do you have to say “probably”? Where do people get this overconfidence. This is absolutely not true and is well defined in most subscriptions, especially post 2008.
I already bought an iPhone dude. I'm not dishing out another grand just to install Android.
It could be as simple as a 1U version of the Mac Studio.
You could replace those brands with Times and Rolex. Still wouldn’t be antitrust.
There's AI annotation work paying into the $100+/hour range. Not nearly as much as at the lower rates, but the amount in the $20-$40/hour range might surprise you.

(been offered contracts, have done some on the top end of the market, have access to data on some of the volume on the lower end)
AI & Society Vol 37, Issue 3 has several articles on the history of cybernetics and computation across Mexico, Brazil, and other Latin American countries, for anyone interested in further reading.

https://link.springer.com/journal/146/volumes-and-issues/37-...
Yes, the courts will lean on legal dictionaries such as Black's Law Dictionary and Ballentine's Law Dictionary.

reasonable. Not extreme. Not arbitrary, capricious, or confiscatory. Public Service Com, v Haverneyer, 296 US 506, 80 L Ed 357, 56 S Ct 360.

"What is reasonable depends upon a variety of considerations and circumstances. It is an elastic term which is of uncertain value in a definition." Sussex Land & Live Stock Co. v Midwest Refining Co. (CA8 Wyo) 294 F 597, 34 ALR 249, 257.
You seem to be under the mis-impression that it's about you or that they care about you.
Again with this made up concept that I wanted a pay once notion. I kept upgrading with their releases until they went SaaS and removed the ability to store the data locally. If they continued to offer local storage with paid upgrades, I'd continue paying and using. They don't, so I'm not.
Apple doesn't even bother to highlight their cooperation with OpenAI. Instead they bury the integration of ChatGPT as the last section of their "Apple Intelligence" announcement: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/06/introducing-apple-int...
(I haven’t watched the video yet)

I completely agree about the market positioning and not keeping up with other platforms’ abilities being a non-starter. I just hope it will be clear how to keep my external brain (phone) from being scanned by OpenAI.

(I don’t want it to seem like I’m just a hater of either Apple or OpenAI; I’m a more-recent adopter of Apple tech and I’m not looking back, and I have an OpenAI subscription and find it invaluable for some uses.)

Another thing I’m going to be looking for in the video is how this initiative jibes with the greenness Apple has been passing really hard. If they’re bringing this kind of generative AI from niches to every iphone, it seems that would add a fair amount of power consumption.
Rewind the clock a few years.

The google engineer who was saying google had AGI. The MS paper saying GPT had hints of AGI. The MS deal "you can have everything up to AGI".

The approach was one where a big enough model could be made to feed back in on it self (Q*). If we feed enough data into a big enough model then it will "tip over" and turn into AGI, or sentient or sapient... The problem is that this doesn't work, it never would have worked, the math does not support it. Pointing it back at it self doesn't get you more it gets you an ouroboros.

Why do you sign a deal "up to AGI" if you dont think you're close to AGI? They did, they were high on their own supply, reality set in, people look foolish, and they moved on.
Apple does not take screenshots every couple seconds, unlike Microsoft. That's what people were bothered about.
That said, the Apple Intelligence vs. OpenAI distinction seems much clearer than the Apple cloud vs. local distinction, which I find somewhat concerning.

Sure, the Apple cloud is ultra-secure and private and all, but I'd still like to know what happens where without having to test it myself by enabling airplane mode and seeing what still works.
The problem is that software development is less like hiring an airline pilot or a structural engineer, and more like hiring an artist. Try making up a "standard exam" that will tell you whether an artist will produce several great unique works for you in the future, so you know which one to hire...
Apple would not be releasing iPhone mirroring if the latency were terrible. If they had a low bar for latency, they’d have released iPhone mirroring ten years ago. Apple's Human Interface Guidelines do not specify an exact maximum number of milliseconds for interface latency. However, they emphasize the importance of responsiveness and recommend that any user interface should feel instantaneous and fluid to create a positive user experience. The general goal is to keep latency as low as possible to ensure interactions feel immediate and natural.
Microsoft owns 49 percent of OpenAI.

That must be some really detailed 100+ pages contract.

I bet Microsoft is mentioned multiple times with things to the effect of: "Under no condition is Microsoft allowed to access any of the data coming from iPhones."
apple's mac to mac remote desktop is quite good.
You get 1P for $10/year?

I'm willing to pay for a lot of software, but the costs are certainly real (especially in aggregate), and I try to be mindful of whether it is worth it to me. I would definitely pay $10/year for a password manager. I currently pay $36/year. Would I pay $100? No. But I'm not sure where the cutoff is.

And then I have to do this for every pricier piece of software. (For all of the lower-cost, one-time payments, little apps, etc. I just pay and move on.)
LLMs are not accurate, they aren't subject matter experts that'll be maybe within 5% error margin.

You're asserting that the AI features will be removed in 3 to 5 years because they're not accurate enough today, but you actually need them to remain inaccurate in 3 years time for your prediction to be correct.

That seems unlikely. I agree that people will start to realize the cost, but the accuracy will improve, so people might be willing to pay.
Disclosure: I am not a financial analyst of any form. I did some searching and found the following: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/

If this data is accurate it is saying that advertising revenue has fallen from $4.5 Billion in 2021 to $2.5 Billion in 2023. In a vacuum that type of decline isn't something I would be celebrating. I have heard that they would be profitable in 2024. So I looked up their last Annual report, https://seekingalpha.com/filings/pdf/14719987, and it says in 2020 their "Total costs and expenses" were $3,689,691 with the biggest line item being R&D of $1,366,388. So it actually could be that they have lost revenue but are now profitable due to lower expenses mainly related to head count.

The question then becomes is the decline in revenue due to fewer employees or how Musk has positioned X and or behaved that has turned off advertisers? Some quick reading of the first link above shows that usage doesn't look to have declined since he took over.
In my opinion, the only significant contribution Clean Code made was the concept of clean code. The problem is that my definition of clean code is almost completely contradictory to what the author of the book thinks constitutes clean code.
That was a fun coding task.
Minor bug in the illustration of Step 4: the mine count in second row should be 8 not 4
Thank $deity for those three counties.