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Their desires are expressly illegal, in many countries. We're past the whole antitrust stuff now, we are in a post-FAANG society and Apple doesn't just get away with that stuff for free anymore. I'm not crazy for expecting competition.

This is also coincidentally the reason I got rid of my Apple products. The experience fucking sucks! The only way things get better is if you buy more hardware, which probably makes the average mall-addicted American smile but makes me want to vomit. Everything is upsell, and not just upsell where you can improve the experience. No, you have to buy Apple's solution because every third-party is wrong and can't be trusted. They will gimp anyone that does not compensate them handsomely and rob the only people brave enough to offer their users an improved experience. The devil takes notes during Tim Cook's business meetings. They deserve everything coming to them, and they know it too.

So try it. Watch them go along, "doing their own thing", and then watch them come back limping and bruised after the FTC gives them a worse beating than Microsoft got in the 90s. We know why Apple is mad about this, it doesn't matter. They can go quietly or we can make this a long, protracted process. Microsoft got away lucky when you think about it, still all in one piece.
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Beyond the pure signaling value, I would imagine Apple has internal GitHub tooling which maintains particular invariants for repos hosted under github.com/apple. Those invariants can potentially be relaxed or discarded altogether for a different org much easier. (Special-casing particular repos within the repos is technically possible, but (a) is harder and (b) probably runs into policy issues with legal.)
They’re longing for more battery life. I’ve had a few Linux based laptops. The oryx pro I had about 6 years had an nvidia chip set and could game. But the battery life was miserable (2-3 hours).

But currently get decent battery life from the amd cpu in my new work and home machines. 6-8 hour working the machine quite hard.

If you want an “external” gpu I’m not sure how well that works on Arm.

I have little reason to switch, though I appreciate the competition making everything better.
Imagine that meeting.

You run a bug bounty program. When you set it up you talked with a bunch of lawyers and they wrote the language saying that you can't run afoul of sanctions. But you'd like an exception so you shoot an email to the lawyer for your organization. "Hey Alice, I'd like some legal advice. I know the law says we can't pay companies in Russia but could we like, you know, set up a shell company that we can route some money through?"
Since the audience isn't technical enough to realize the author excluded confounders, doesn't that make it even worse?
The 15 Pro's SoC has an extra 2GB of RAM which could very well be make-or-break for running a local model which tends to be very memory-constrained
WWDC 2024 – Platforms State of the Union [video]
I should note that we've had a huge amount of redundancies on top of people leaving for other opportunities. My guess is they want a very low-cost business that looks good in terms of its balance sheet so when it goes to IPO everything looks to investors.
That's some low quality snark. I have plenty of local things with passwords. One example is encrypted external drives. That's all your snark gets from me on the off chance it's not actually snark. (must me the most I've used the word snark in one go)
The key difference is that Apple (as an organization) appears to have an overarching roadmap (that spans multiple product lines). The secrecy is irrelevant as long as the leadership of each division is aligned (it hurts, but does not prevent success). Google, MS, and others are less organized at the top, so subdivisions of the overall org are left to plan for themselves and between each other, which leads to conflicts. Resolution may be achieved when things get pushed high enough, but only if it surfaces at the top for a leader (if such people exist in their org structure) to declare a resolution and focus for the groups involved.
> Does families having fewer number of children contribute to this?

It could have decades ago, when kids still had places to go. Not now.

I had 5 who spent their childhood persistently locked away in one adult construct or another - because there was/is no local community. Within their reach were roads and private property and that's about it. They were in the same boat as most other US kids.
Stealth is an overblown super-expensive boondoggle for the military manufacturers.

When foreign militaries state that they can track your planes with multi-band radar, you'd be better off to believe it. On the other hand you could keep deluding yourself and then watch in horror as a complete squadron gets wiped out on their first raid in wartime.
Title needs fixing:

> If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies. That is an unacceptable security violation.
I'm super excited about how the apple private compute cloud stuff works -- I tried to build this using intel TXT (predecessor of SGX) and then SGX, and Intel has fucked up so hard and for so long that I'm excited by any new silicon for this. AWS Nitro is really the direct competition, but having good APIs which let app developers do stuff on-device and in some trustworthy/private cloud in a fairly seamless way might be the key innovation here.
Let's be honest --- everything in China is subject to heavy handed government influence. There is very little real independence.

Don't take my word for it --- just ask Jack Ma.
> corporations sponsor academic conferences is natural

There is a vocal minority that treats "corporation" as a dirty word. This sort of writing is fodder for them. It doesn't actually have to make a point, just point out that corporations exist. It's helps campaigns get out the vote and electeds' staffers filter out stupid feedback.
Yeah you’re right it’s completely impossible.

No parent misses breakfast with their kids most days. Nobody’s ever sat with their kids and not eaten. Nobody’s ever had a little snack while somebody else ate a full meal.
So, having completed the practice problem with about 45 seconds to spare, what sort of openings are there for the aging-but-not-aged Canadian who can probably only manage part-time remote work?
Somehow all these news about Apple Intelligence don't really make me thinkg about Apple, but just how bad Intel just lost the branding battle forever.
Yes, the first statement can be easily misunderstood. It could also mean that the operation `f` does not have side effects. What it actually wanted to express is that `f(x) == f(f(x))`.
Why would that make it more worthwhile? What are the compelling reasons to use Swift instead of Go?
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You likely forget 90% of the content you consume within a week. I built Recall to fix this.

Recall summarizes online content, connects it in a knowledge graph and resurfaces it on a schedule tailored to your learning curve helping you remember the information you care about.
It supports queer and neurodiverse inclusivism and intimidates anti-queers. The pillars of fully automated luxury gay space communism are inclusivism, intersectionalism, open source, and taking control of the assets of capitalists through automated and communal asset seizure mechanisms.

Even if only queer inclusivists join the movement, we can still win. But if anti-queers infiltrate the movement, then it's in trouble. So I aim to make anti-queers feel very unwelcome, and also see the movement as absurd. That's why I integrate the queer identify into my business theory and revolutionary theory.
Is there anything in CA that is not known to cause cancer?
we actually patented that :)

https://patents.google.com/patent/US8214367B2/en

"a context recorder that uses accessibility mechanisms to record context information derived independently of screen-images"

then again, we arguably patented much of what makes up recall.
Labels are important and I think progress on Everett QM (or, maybe “unitary QM”?) has been held back by the label “Many Worlds Interpretation”.

“Worlds” is inaccurate since there is still only one world (the ordinary, uncontroversial, tensor product Hilbert space of textbook qm). It the stuff in the world that enters into superposition, among which stuff are the atoms making up “observers”.

Similarly “completion” would be a better word than “interpretation”.
> authentic

This smells like a "good old days" interpretation of the internet pre social media. It's always been mostly nonsense, social media just consolidates it.
I can't answer that anymore. When I first used it it was much better than Copilot, especially for "ask my repo this question"-type queries, but I think Copilot may have added that functionality since I last used it.
Now just read what tweet was quoted by that reply...
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At the risk of sounding like an Apple apologist, Apple has a pretty good (though not perfect) track record for privacy and security.

Microsoft on the other hand… well, I understand they just pulled the recall feature after it was discovered the data wasn’t even encrypted at rest?!
Another film (docu-drama) about a nuclear attack on the UK in the 1960s was The War Game.

"The War Game is a 1966 British pseudo-documentary film that depicts a nuclear war and its aftermath.Written, directed and produced by Peter Watkins for the BBC, it caused dismay within the BBC and also within government, and was subsequently withdrawn before the provisional screening date of 6 October 1965. The corporation said that "the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting. It will, however, be shown to invited audiences..."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_Game
that does not make sense,the deal is msft gets everything except AGI. They do believe they ll reach AGI whether thats pipe dream or not is a different story because they believe in agi they are fine with giving up everything upto that point
I haven't read all the marketing verbage yet, but even 'Our cloud AI servers are hardware-locked and runtime-checked to only run openly auditable software' is a huge step forward, IMHO.

It's a decent minimum bar that other companies should also be aiming for.

Edit: ref https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
Oh, lord, "tapestry", yes!

I can totally vouch for ChatGPT's total (ab)use of that word.-

(That and of "In conclusion" and of "In closing" ...)
WWDC 2024 sets correct tone for generative AI in an under-confident way
The world is a system that has state. If two invocations of your function with the same parameters both mutate any part of that state, and nothing else mutated that part in between, then it's not idempotent. In this case, there are now two emails in the recipient's inbox.

I.e. "result" refers to state, not actions. "Send one email saying 'hi'" is an action. "There is one email saying 'hi' in their inbox" is a result.

There is also usually an implicit limiting scope (except in very pure functional contexts). E.g. just because two invocations both produce entries in an activity log somewhere doesn't usually count as "not idempotent".

You can also think of it in terms of declarative vs imperative. 'x = 1' is declarative (and idempotent). 'x += 1' is imperative. YMMV with this use of those terms, though.

To oversimplify, an idempotent function is "safe to spam", e.g. if you're not sure it worked the first time, you can do it again without worrying about duplication. A very relevant concept in networked communication.

Edit: I should also clarify that "same parameters" includes any state the function reads that is mutable over the scope in which you would like to define idempotency. I.e. if the function reads some external state that might change between calls, that counts as "parameters" in my simplified definition.
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> International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), classified glyphosate in Group 2A, "probably carcinogenic to humans"

Group 2A includes red meat and hot coffee [1].

To the extent glyphosphate is problematic, it's in being toxic [2], not carcinogenic. (Though again, we can speak similarly of barbecue [3].)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IARC_group_2A

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9101768/

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4993204/
Seems like a silly gripe - why not buy android and have it all?
From rumours of Apple buying lots of GPUs from Nvidia not that long ago I think management got a nice little scare when OpenAI released GPT-3.5 and then GPT-4. It takes several years to bring a CPU to market. Apple probably realised far too late that they needed specific features in their SOCs to handle the new AI stuff, so it wasn’t included in anything before the A17 Pro. For the M1, M2 and M3 I believe that Apple is willing to sacrifice heat and battery to achieve what they want. The A17 Pro is probably very efficient at running LLMs so it can do so in a phone with a small battery and terrible thermal performance. For their Macs and iPads with M1, M2, M3 they will just run the LLMs on the AMX or the GPU cores and use more power and produce more heat.

Could also be a memory problem. The A17 Pro in the iPhone 15 Pro comes with 8 GB of memory while everything before that has 6 GB or less. All machines with the M1 or newer come with at least 8 GB of memory.

PS: The people who bought the Intel Mac Pro after the M1 was released knew very well what they were getting into.
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With tiling managers you can do all you just listed + quick snapping. Who would say no to that?
That’s not what happens.

What happens is if you don’t need junior people, you eliminate the junior people, and just leave the senior people. The senior people then age out, and now you have no senior people either, because you eliminated all the junior people that would normally replace them.

This is exactly what has happened in traditional manufacturing.
Slightly disappointing that nothing is free-to-view after 1950.
I'm pretty sure that statistical foundations of AI where a thing just been shy of 0.004 of the threshold value out of a million dimensional space can get miscategrized as something else will not deliver AGI or any useable and reliable AI for that matter other than that sequence of sequence mapping (voice to text,
text to voice etc.) applications.

As for money and reputation, that's a lot behind gold making too in medieval times and look where that lead too.

Scientific optimism is a thinking distortion and a fallacy too.
Nothing of particularly high value, really?
Idioms do not have to be interpreted as literal, so I don't understand why anyone would think this. As I understand it:

https://lichess.org/editor/rnbqkbnr/pp3ppp/8/3pp3/2pPP3/4K3/...

the King is never in check, for the purposes of the game. The piece removed isn't in the destination square.
Ask HN: Navigating a strategic acquisition as single bootstrapped founder
I've been running my bootstrapped SaaS business for 10+ years and find myself positioned for an exit. Discussions with a potential partner are trending toward an acquisition. Our client list, software, and market leadership/brand in our niche align very well with the strategic direction of the acquirer.

I'm confident we could get 6-8M from private equity based on the strength of our books. But I'm a bit lost on how to position this discussion as a strategic acquisition that can/should drive a higher price. I'm fairly unsophisticated and have spent my 10 years growing the business rather than positioning for an acquisition.

Where do I start? My ideas:

Get a broker - I've spoken to a few in the past and the response is usually "Sure I'll sell your company! When do we start?!" -- it felt like talking to a real estate agent where they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Are there known reputable brokers? Ones that specialize in SaaS strategic acquisitions around our general size? How do you find one that's a good fit?

Get a lawyer - I've got one that's been my guy since we incorporated. Not sure if we need a specialist. I'm 100% owner, no debt, barely any contracts, good documentation, reliable accounting. just a simple SaaS business with a bunch of paying clients. Can we keep it simple?

What am I missing? Any advice is appreciated!
I might be the only one, but I think I would feel slightly uncomfortable having the blue bubble. (that's the apple one, right?) Like maybe not enough to stop me from getting an iphone if I wanted one otherwise. But it's such a visible signifier of being in an in-group. It somehow feels like a tacit approval of social shame strategy. Like even if I had an iphone, I feel like I would want to opt-out of the good color in solidarity with the have-nots or something.

I have no interest in iphones, and also don't really participate in any group texts, so it's double academic for me though.
In bullet games at Lichess it is not that uncommon to play on lost positions to try to either flag the opponent or to offload as many own pieces as possible to seek a stalemate with the frenzy. Conversely, the winning side then tries to delay the win by promoting a bunch of unneeded pieces and sort of demonstrating who is really in charge. It’s even fun.
iPhone mirroring sounds great from a usability point of view, but I wonder if this will enable new types of scams.

Many people use their phone as a second authentication factor these days via TOTPs etc., the assumption there being that somebody with access to your computer can't get to it.

This kind of invalidates that, which could be a problem when screen sharing to tech support scammers.
It is not illegal to push your own products by bundling them with other products. Both MacOS and Windows have dozens or hundreds of their own bundled products.
African savannah elephants call one another by 'name'
I was one of triplebyte’s interviewers years ago and I can speak to this. In short, you’re right. But two notes:

First, you massively underestimate the range of coding speed you see in an interview. The slowest programmers weren’t senior people who were out of practice. (I interviewed plenty of them). It was people who just seem bad at programming. Like, so bad it takes them 25 minutes to make a hello world program run. (In their favorite language, on their computer and with full access to the internet during the test).

A 2x programming speed difference would have rarely changed the outcome of our overall assessment.

Second, there was an aspect of triplebyte’s interviewing process that I’d love to see replicated elsewhere in the industry that resolves this. And that is, we should be assessing debugging ability. At triplebyte we gave candidates a smallish program (few hundred lines) with 4 bugs and a failing test case for each one. The candidates had half an hour to fix as many of the bugs as they could.

Watching people debug was fascinating.

One clear pattern that emerges is exactly what you are predicting. Smart kids right out of school were great at the programming section. But it was always the more senior engineers who smashed the debugging section. Junior engineers would get lost in the weeds and struggle to get very far in the time we gave them. Some of the senior people I interviewed dived straight in, and even found some bugs we didn’t even know about in our own test.

It seems to me that being able to read unfamiliar code and fix bugs in it is a hard to learn skill that matters on the ground. And frankly I suspect it’s more useful skill than a lot of leetcode problems. I’d rather hire someone who’s amazing at debugging than someone who’s amazing at data structures. Well, I suppose I want one of each on my team.

If I was ever making a programming test, this is something I’d include for sure.
I've been doing something like this since my son was born (mixed with writing in a book since 2021 to record for myself little milestones and funny things he's said and done). I email them to myself with his name as the subject line. More as a record of my love for him than anything else I guess.

I'm reminded by these comments that I need to do some re-organising, backing up and printing out.
thanks, that clicks.

"Simply put, we can perform an idempotent operation multiple times without changing the result.

Furthermore, the operation must not cause any side effects after the first successful execution."

Baeldung got it right.
They did do that. Back in 2013-2015 or so. It was called Google Now, and it was a bit like magic.

It showed you contextual cards based on your upcoming trips/appointments/traveling patterns. E.g. Any tube delays on your way home from work. How early you should leave to catch your flight.

This alongside Google Inbox was among the best and most "futuristic" products.

I was glad to see today Apple implementing something similar to both of these.
The one thing people overlook is the user data on ChatGPT. That's OpenAI's real moat. That data is "free" RLHF data and possibly, training data.
I think this is assuming the conclusion. If you assume houses didn't change at all then sure, the "value" is the same as before even though the price went up, and home owners didn't see any benefit.

Sometimes that's true for a particular house, but why assume that overall, no houses changed? Contractors get paid to do things. People do work on their houses.

Also, the value of a thing is often due to context rather than the thing itself. The neighborhood could really have gotten better over time, even if the house itself didn't change. That counts as a benefit. Maybe not one you wanted, though.
Social problems are the hard ones, information problems are the easy ones. So the latter are the low-hanging fruit that gets solved first
Is this what Zgmunt Bauman called the transition from Solid Modernity to Liquid Modernity?

With rents going up and switching jobs more frequently than past generations it becomes harder to stuck around in one place long enough for strong communities to form.
they showed swift in neovim in the keynote when they talked about LSP support
Quite right. Corporate open source is always one step away from straight up trapping people through sunk cost. Sometimes a change in management is all that needs to happen.

At least Vizanti will always stay open ;)
Evaluation of energy consumption of LPWAN technologies
Great point on C++, but it’s harder for C#. The language and ecosystem are IMO pretty good.

I only hate that Microsoft stopped shipping modern .NET runtime with Windows. A few annoying things though, like the recent push towards AOT compilation (IMO strictly worse that JIT), and the lack of a good first-party cross platform GUI frameworks (for example Microsoft could compile d2d1.dll with DXVK, reimplement dwrite.dll API on top of FreeType / HarfBuzz, and copy-paste UWP).
I've noticed those that go all in on a investment end up becoming cult members.
Even if i am in the office and someone is sitting right next to me i still do screenshare. I don't like leaning over peoples shoulder or having people over mine
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