skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many worlds does postulate its many worlds rather than predict them as it provides no way their existence can ever be tested for.

Your conclusion does not follow from your premise. MWI does postulate different stuff from Copenhagen, but the existence of many worlds is not one of them. Just because I postulate Peano arithmetic doesn’t mean I also postulate 2+2=4. The latter is but a consequence of the former.

My understanding of MWI, is that it just "believes" the equations. Specifically, if the equations say the complex amplitude is not null, then this stuff is real. And that’s about it. It’s not our fault the equations describe non-null amplitudes, that if real are many worlds.

This interpretation business could apply to macro-scale physics as well: when you send a probe so far out there that it crosses the limit of the observable universe, does it cease to exist? What if there’s people inside, will they die? One would be hard pressed to argue from their discontinued existence: why would we disbelieve the equations of relativity, that work so well for everything we can observe?

Conversely, what makes you think that the equations that work so well on everything we can observe, would somehow stop working (or stop applying) on the stuff we cannot observe? I know you didn’t explicitly disbelieve the equations, but since we can’t at the same time believe in their general applicability and disbelieve MWI, it’s hard to interpret your refusal to acknowledge MIW as the most probably hypothesis as anything but scepticism about the applicability of those equations.

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To throw you a bone I personally do have a reason to be wary: physics is currently inconsistent, and when we get a credible theory of everything, it may very well use different equations that do not describe many worlds, make long range probes vanish, or both.
It probably will change. Note that, so far, a 16GB apple device has much better usability than the equivalent on windows. This may sound biased, but the memory compression and foreground/background actions by macOS tight integration with the hardware is really good. I've never felt like I couldn't do things on smaller hardware, except (larges) LLMs.

Also when I compare with my co-workers the memory pressure is a lot less running the same software on macOS than Windows. This might have to be due to the UI framework at play.

But that said, I totally agree that Apple is doing daylight robbery with their additional RAM pricing, and the minimum on offer is laughable.
Related: Every single one of my toddler's grandparents defaults to sticking a phone in his face (and has since he was a baby).

Like, they all managed to raise children into moderately functional adults without heavy use of smartphones, and have had explicit instructions not to do that. Why do they think it's the thing to do?
Likewise. I think they are making some weird and off putting choices around the enterprise but for consumer stuff (which is squarely where the apple passwords comparison sits I assume) it’s still a great piece of software honestly.
> That's probably not the best thing to model your position off of, considering that was replaced with the Miller test in 1973, and he regrets saying it.

OK then, _you_ define exploitation. And if you bust out the dictionary, "the action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work," then I request that you define unfair. That's the problem – this is all highly subjective, and it's unlikely that we're going to agree.

> That's a subset of "lobbying" though. Recall my claim isn't that lobbying involves no collusion, it's that lobbying could involve no collusion.

Sure, and ISPs could treat customers better, but they're not going to. Lobbying as the U.S. has it is essentially all a form of collusion and/or bribery. Donate $10K to my campaign fund, and maybe your desired verbiage winds up in the bill. Treat my industry how we'd like, and there's a sweet post-government job waiting for you on K Street.

I don't deny that the ability for a person to go lobby their representatives is a critical part of a functional democratic republic. And, it makes sense to have a centralized voice – for example, it wouldn't be efficient for every single farmer to go speak to their reps independently. But at some point along the line, it stops being actual people discussing their issues with their elected officials, and becomes corporations showering government in money to buy the future they want.
I know there's nothing that can or will happen about it (for various reasons) but the whole model around multiplayer games is flawed. You're giving someone code to run on their PC and hoping your anti-cheat code can catch their code doing bad things.

I believe there are AI anti-cheats being developed and used in China so maybe we'll end up with a Recall-esque anti-cheat everywhere in the future :)
Feels like an uptime screenshot would be appropriate here
> They say user data remains in the Secure Enclave at all times

No they don't. They say that the Secure Enclave participates in the secure boot chain, and in generating non-exportable keys used for secured transport. It reads to me as though user devices will encrypt requests to the keys held in the Secure Enclave of a subset of PCC nodes. A PCC node that receives the encrypted request will use the Secure Enclave to decrypt the payload. At that point, the general-purpose Application Processor in the PCC node has a cleartext copy of the user request for doing the needful inference, which _could_ be done on an NVidia GPU, but appears to be done on general-purpose Apple Silicon.

There is no suggestion that the user request is processed entirely within the Secure Enclave. The Secure Enclave is a cryptographic coprocessor. It almost certainly doesn't have the grunt to do inference.
I'm sure the register file and execution units are shared to some extent
To Believe or Not to Believe Your LLM
I'm reminded of tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,
calling someone an NPC.
Yes, I've made what is intended to be a perfect solver (Although it in some testing it's clearly making mistakes, so I have some debugging to do yet). I'm making it because I was nerd sniped into thinking through how to handle some of the trickiness with the solving. It's not an AI in the LLM or machine learning sense, but in the previously common use of the term (eg, deep blue), or in the video game sense.
There is also Mos, it is a bit smoother in my experience:

https://mos.caldis.me/
So it's not going to be better than other models, but it will be more censored. I guess that might be a selling point for their customer base?
Royalty, Espionage, and Erotica: Secrets of the Tiniest Photographs
I wonder too, if the first promotion had been a queen (or a rook), that would have been checkmate right there.
The Austin building was two or three CEOs ago. Every large company cancels stuff due to downturns, political changes, or just reorgs.
Since all the covid vaccines seem to be based on mRNA tech, mind offering us your educated explanation on why it's not a good thing?
Did it mentioned being able to spin up the server model locally? I must've missed that part in the article.
I was one of the main people that tried to port uBO Lite to Safari. uBO isn't possible to port because Safari doesn't support the relevant APIs. uBO Lite is also not possible, despite supporting _most_ of the APIs (IIRC), the ones that are essential for a MVP aren't available on Safari. With that said though, it's possible to use Apple's Safari-specific API to build an ad blocker for Safari that might actually be better than uBO Lite.
First, I’m kind of surprised that low/no-code tools, as well as outsourcing, weren’t an existential threat well before AI. Like, anyone can create a website nowadays, and yet it’s never been a better time to be a web developer.

I think we underestimate the difficulty of our jobs, or perhaps we underestimate the chance that something better will take its place. Perhaps a bit of both.

The other thing that helps me sleep at night is that I really don’t believe that AGI is as near or inevitable as people make it out to be. I don’t necessarily think models will simply get better with more data and I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect that we’ll just somehow figure out intelligence. When I think about AI’s bitter lesson, that nothing has really worked better than scale and data, I take that as a sign that we really don’t understand intelligence. I don’t take it as a sign that “scale is all you need”. Maybe to a certain point, but for AGI? I don’t know man.

Of course, suppose I’m wrong and we create AI that’s smarter than your typical software developer and costs the equivalent of pennies an hour. In which case, well, game over, but I don’t think I’ll feel like much of a loser. Sure, there goes my job, but the economy also probably gets wrecked in the process for a variety of factors. Massive unemployment aside, there’s also the fact that paying for software is kind of stupid when you can just pay a competent AI to make it for you or use some open source alternative made by people pooling AI resources together. This is kind of a big deal considering that tech companies basically carry the stock market. I haven’t even touched on the damage done to the rest of the economy by the existence of intelligence-on-demand for cheap. Either the government considers drastic measures and a radical rethinking of economics, or they ride out the worst economic crisis in history and try to figure out which holy cow gets cut from the government budget now that tax revenue is in free fall. Despite how little faith I have in the government, I trust their self-preservation instincts will kick in and they’ll resort to taking certain socialist economic policies more seriously.
It was fine when I read the first five or so installments, then I got a random authentication request, which I couldn't see the cause of, but seems like it may have been triggered when I chucked an image. My guess is that during the time I was viewing the site, the owner decided they would lock it down to people who were authenticated.
Shame as I was just getting to the point of progress!
I simply can’t understand why Google is incapable of building a good quality alternative to iMessage over the past 15 years.

FB and WhatsApp have done it.

Signal has done it, slowly but surely.
While some tiling window managers do support mixing in special floating windows (often used for modal dialogs, for example), the defining characteristic of a tiling window manager is that all windows are tiles by default; tiling is the rule rather than the exception.

There are floating window managers with window snapping on the free Unices, of course. But none of those claims to be a tiling window manager and nobody confuses them with such.
> Please remember that HN is not a cross section of the general public.

Yup. I need to constantly keep that in mind, when I’m designing my software.

Very often, the fact that I like it, is a negative.
I'm sure his employees love hearing him say these silly things /s
Very cool. I like that both lisp and forth were “discovered” and that this cvbp is more fundamental than both(?!). This reminds me of [pdf] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/181993.181999 and wonder if/how it relates.
The context here is running third party LLM, not running arbitrary things in the cloud.

> the existing cloud tos and infrastructure fulfill all the legal and practical requirements

No, because the practical requirements are set by the users, not the TOS. Some companies, for the practical purposes of confidentiality and security, DO NOT want their information on third party servers [1].

Top third party LLM are usually behind an API, with things like retention, in those third party servers, for content policy/legal reasons. On premise, while being able to maintain content policy/legal retention on premise, for any needed retrospection (say after some violation threshold), will allow a bunch of $$$ to use their services.

[1] Companies That Have Banned ChatGPT: https://jaxon.ai/list-of-companies-that-have-banned-chatgpt/

edit: whelp, or go this route, and treat the cloud as completely hostile (which it should be, of course): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40639606
A locked down system, possibly including remote attestation if things get real bad, is the only realistic solution aside from game streaming which removes the hardware from the user's control altogether.

The freedom afforded in personal computing by Windows and Linux is fundamentally mutually exclusive to the security that multiplayer game operators and proper players legitimately need.

It's why game consoles and mobile gaming are the core gaming platforms. Note how Sony and Microsoft blacklist consoles suspected to be used by cheaters, and how games (and also banking) absolutely hate rooted smartphones because it breaks the assumption of a locked down and secured system.
AirPods Pro 2 are getting 5 cool free upgrades in iOS 18
Does this mean that Pat Gelsinger’s vision of investing in manufacturing is in jeopardy?
The Gallic Wars.
>They must be getting rich of those $19 headphones :p.

Artificially limiting the available options coincidentally encourages some to buy the $300 headphones.

Selling some $300 headphones is better than none.

>Also, if they were so intent on killing the jack for money, why do they still have it on MacBooks and even upgraded it with an amplifier that supports high-impedance headphones?

They will remove it when they can. The laptop frog is not yet boiled enough.

>Better waterproofing and re-using the space sound like perfectly valid reasons.

Phones haven't gotten thinner or more waterproof despite removing the headphone jack.

My Samsung S10 5G from 2019 is the same thickness and has IP68 waterproofing just like the iPhone 15, but does have a headphone jack.

Coincidentally, it's the last flagship Samsung with a headphone jack.

Phone companies are just regurgitating the same shit year over year.

The SOCs take up the same space and batteries should be improving, so I don't accept space saving as a valid reason, especially when they haven't become slimmer.

I wish all the companies would just make the best phone they could instead of nickel and diming their customers.

But Apple is definitely the worst offender, and does their best to normalize so much anti-consumer stuff.
If you're selling it to billions of people, and making big bank, I want a cut based on the parts you stole from me. If you're just using it personally, I'm cool with that.
I hope it is optional feature.
> People don't want everything tied to one identity, one service, one login.

This is what OAuth attempts to do, and most users and devs I know like it.

I'm well aware of the risks of putting all eggs into one basket. I'm already doing it with 1Pass (albeit with external MFA for some sites), so I see no difference with letting Apple manage it.
Using a stupid/unreliable signal for lazy banning--like "is a developer tool installed"--is deeply unjust to a minority of users.

A less permanently-severe but real example: A Windows game which terminates (with no message) if the user opens "git bash" (cygwin).
We absolutely should, if by value you mean decide whether or not they're allowed to live here. I'm American.
I'm hoping someone will humor me:

At the beginning the author states the "shorter version" is at https://www.otherbranch.com/blog/rebooting-something-like-tr...

Then in this shorter article:

> But maybe we can fork it. (In the Git sense, not that one!)

With a wikipedia link to the Good Place TV show: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Place

I don't get it though, what does The Good Place have to do with any kind of 'forking'?

@rachofsunshine: what the heck?!
Well the options from China's perspective is: Come to the table and meet some/all of our demands or stop doing business here.

Since Apple devices are now on the Chinese Governments poopy list, I assume Apple is only meeting some, not all of China's demands. I assume if Apple did everything the Chinese govt wanted, they wouldn't be on the poopy list. Personally I see being on the Chinese govt poopy list as an endorsement that it's probably a net positive for privacy and security compared to those not on the list. :)

Around WhatsApp, it's probably part of the whole compromise mess above. WhatsApp now does E2E and that's something China is not a fan of, so it's probably China's doing that it's not in the app store in China any more. Apple is just following the laws China forces them to follow.

It should be noted I've never been to China(yet) and have zero 1st hand knowledge.
> I am not sure what other options there are.

Unironically, Cloud gaming. Stadia had a terrible business model, but the tech worked. Microsoft's XCloud together with GamePass could be a winning ticket for that. (I think there's also GeForce Now)

Of course, that wouldn't prevent anyone from capturing the screen, running image recognition software on the screen and sending USB Controller inputs to create an Aim Bot, but then again, that's not something anti-cheat software can stop these days anyway.
You can trivially find it in the Settings app after setup, too: Privacy & Security -> Analytics & Improvements -> scroll to the Improve Siri & Dictation toggle that explains that it controls whether Apple can store and review audio of interactions with Siri and the dictation function. Plenty of other options to review in the vicinity too, since the first party privacy settings are basically all in the same place.
> Money is certainly part of it, the Israeli government tends to subsidize these sorts of initiatives.

Governments, in general, tend to subsidize these sorts of initiatives and compete with other nations and states.
As a parent, I can tell you video games and smart phones have a lot to do with this.
You would have to activate a clearly LLM-powered software feature and have internet access. I don't know if settings will appear to disable this, but you could imagine it would be the case. This isn't just siphoning off all your data at random.
Sure the current generation, but what happens if we expand its scope, so instead of predicting the next token one at a time, it was allowed greater scope? What happens when you feed it summaries of its work as training data so it has long a short term memory, what happens when you feed several networks together creating a dialogue similar to the theories of a bicameral mind, what if we instead of having the llm halt after every prompt it was put in a loop? Its own output along with outside information used as the prompts for fallowing loop
Before the history of the earth?
Hear. It is totally a just-so story.

Possibly there IS no way to prove their assertions. I can tell you that I see kids biking past my house on the way to school every day, and the crossing guards guide many, many kids across the street. What are the numbers? Couldn't tell you. .
That user likely doesn't primarily browse on mobile.
Artists have been selling art for as long as we've been selling anything. Sure, some successful artists, during a few periods in history, managed to secure patronage, but those have always been the minority. Most artists have sold or traded their wares directly and your attempts to derail this discussion with inaccurate histories is neither helpful nor appropriate.
It's good enough for the typical Apple consumer.
HIPAA applies to far fewer entities than people think. Essentially only healthcare companies accepting insurance have to abide by it. There partnered do, but only transitively.
Consider the indirect risks as well:

- A significant fraction of your workforce are reservists who might disappear for months with little notice.

- Potential trade disruption due to Israel's highly controversial actions in Gaza (eg. Turkey halting all trade with Israel).

- Shipping disruption and increased cost due to Houthi attacks.

- Potential sanctions or BDS campaigns, like South Africa.

- Difficult to convince international employees to relocate to a conflict zone.
Not quite the same thing, but I'd love to see the Large Hot Pipe Organ live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oceb7Uf4ucQ
The Americas went for over 350 years (from 1500 to 1850) before there existed any kinds of controls on immigration.

Americans have only ever been afraid of "uncontrolled immigration" when it was non-white immigrants. It was for racist reasons that we passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, and it's for racist reasons now.
How would a warrant work in this case? Using Silicon Data Protection[0] the hash of the currently running firmware (of both the AP _and_ the SEP) is locked into hardware registers in the PKA engine used by the SEP. This hash perturbs the key derivation, and the PKA engine can also attest to the running firmware hash(es) by using an EC key only available to it (they call this BAA, Basic Attestation Authority).

iOS won't send any data to a PCC that isn't running a firmware that's been made public in their transparency logs and compute nodes have no way to be debugged in a way that exposes user data[1]

And at the end of the day, this is going to give the warrant holder a handful of requests from a specific user? Why wouldn't they use that same warrant to get onto the target's device directly and get that same data plus a ton more?

0: https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-sec...
1: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
Absolutely. I began thinking this way when I was the guinea pig, and suffered a permanent life-alerting effect from a medication, which was anecdotally reported despite there being no official correlation or link by the "science"
Why wouldn't you blame them? They should at least provide an option to turn it off like games used to. It looks like it's a co-op game; if you're playing with your friends/family why do you need anti-cheat?
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/imm...

Going by this chart (the first thing in google), the percent of immigrants between 1850 and 1930 was about the same as 2000-on, with a dip in the middle.
Apple Should Use Intelligence to Get It into Their Heads That We Don't Want This
Imagine dropping Forstall for Ive. Monumentally idiotic decision by Cook. Because if it iOS went from being the most evolved OS to lagging Android quickly.
Where do software engineers get paid the most?
You're not a machine capable of acquiring that "learning" with zero effort and selling that learning to infinite buyers.
Apparently they will in a VM but it seems perhaps only security researchers?
In the show, the characters can’t swear (non-spoiler: because they’re in the Good Place, and nobody can swear there) so they say “fork” and “shirt” and so forth.
How is that a plus? It's the same as just not playing the games with anticheat.
> Billions of universes springing up every second does not seem plausible to me

Why? Do you have any reason for this, or is it just a gut feeling?

If it’s just a gut feeling, I’ll note that this was exactly the reaction most of the intelligencia had to Capurnicus and Galileo. Turns out the universe is a caster place than we previously knew.
Clearly you didn't actually read the article.
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[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40638563
UNRWA has a pretty good breakdown of how much aid reaches IDPs here, it goes into better detail than the Israeli government site on this matter: https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-repo...

The ynetnews article you linked is one sentence with a link leading back to itself.
When sleep is supposedly disabled by caffeinate, closing the lid still puts my laptop to sleep. It's been like that as since I first tried it, several years ago.

But your comment inspired me to Google anew and... I guess it was always intended to only kind of disable sleep?
Presumably there are a mind-bogglingly-huge number of unique board state transitions. It's virtually impossible for the same game of chess to be played twice, except for silly scholar's-mate type games. Almost every single game in a chess database will have many unique board state transitions.