skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is only a subset of requests Apple devices will serve and only with explicit user permission. That’s going to shrink over time as Apple continue to advance their own models and silicon.
Rectangle and Magnet devs not happy
that's probably the most notorious example of a company abandoning open source and switching to a proprietary license, so that is a strong reason to believe that viam will rugpull if given the chance
S&P 500 average P:E - 20 to 25

NASDAQ average P:E - 31

NVidia's P:E - 71

That's a market of 1 vendor. That's ripe for attack.
Negative, and unknown.
I once got dinged at Facebook for using a tree serialization scheme that differed from the expected one in a way that saved linear space but made deserialization slightly harder to explain :)
I think for a lot of the password managers out there, the majority of their revenue comes from Apple users. The ones that don't rely on Apple users will be fine.
I don't really care for AI in google search results or email. It's often wrong and not what I'm looking for. I would like a much better Siri, so hopefully that's part of what we get.
I will naively assume you are commenting in earnest and have missed the (old) news, which is most certainly what GP is referring to: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre...

Examples of content blockers (not just ad blocking):

- AdGuard: https://apps.apple.com/app/adguard-adblock-privacy/id1047223...

- Hush: https://apps.apple.com/app/hush-nag-blocker/id1544743900

- Wipr: https://apps.apple.com/app/wipr/id1030595027

- Vinegar: https://apps.apple.com/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229
Yes, I am for sure thinking of iOS.
>I always saw this level of personal intelligence to come about at some point, but I didn’t expect Apple to hit it out of the park so strongly

That's a little premature, let's try not to be so suckered by marketing.
They seem to have kept the OpenAI integration to a minimum, only using it for requests that need large scale processing or for web trivia type of requests.
PostgreSQL I guess isn't a replacement if you need to use something with no support for it, but where does MariaDB falls short of MySQL?

I probably never had any need for whatever it is before, and may not have in the future, but I'd like to be aware of any shortcomings, just in case.
I hoping my mom can share their phone with their laptop and i can sreenshare into her laptop to troubleshoot her phone.

Also I will use this often to approve okta 2factor requests.
The Copenhagen interpretation is the most obvious thing to compare it to, but personally I'm more interested in de Broglie-Bohm (pilot wave), which might have eclipsed it in the 20th century if people had paid attention when Grete Hermann pointed out Jon von Neumann's mistake.

"The most austere version of QM" is marketing bullshit and not widely accepted (or particularly meaningful). Many worlds does postulate its many worlds rather than predict them as it provides no way their existence can ever be tested for.

Equating Schrodinger's equation with many worlds is both intellectual dishonesty and begging the question. Any interpretation of conventional quantum mechanics involves Schrodinger's equation. Penrose's ideas (referenced by Sean Carroll in quotes others have posted on this thread) involve violations of Schrodinger's equation because they are actual new theories that differ from standard quantum mechanics. In other words, Penrose is doing actual physics rather than blowing smoke up people's arses. This fact doesn't convey some falsifiability on many-worlds, which is just one of several interpretations of QM that all make the same predictions.
Nvidia obviously has an enormous, enormous moat but I do think this is one of the areas in which Apple may actually GAF. The rollout of Apple Intelligence is going to make them the biggest provider of "edge" inference on day one. They're not going to be able to ride on optimism in services growth forever.
> With the App Library page

...a very cheeky "Welcome to 2007", from Android-land! =D
Personally, I'm taking _both_ sides of that bet.

I think Apple is going to make rapid and substantial advancements in on-device AI-specific hardware. I also think nVIDIA is going to continue to dominate the cloud infrastructure space for training foundational models for the foreseeable future, and serving user-facing LLM workloads for a long time as well.
I'm much nicer in person :)
Yes, I know, I was tracking the stock while watching WWDC. But there was a very sudden precipitous fall right when this was announced.
The Curious Meaning and Origins of 'One for All and All for One'
I wish they’d have an LTS version, I’m in constant fear of what will go wrong next…
Oooh, this lets me tell a great anecdote that didn't have a place in the post.

So it turns out you were not alone. Getting people who did well on the quiz - whose parameters were trained on interview performance, by the way, so "did well on the quiz" was synonymous with "had a good shot at the interview" - to sign up for interviews was a major problem for a while.

The solution? We told them the first booking was just a "practice" interview. And then if they did well, surprise, it was a real interview all along. (If they didn't, we'd let them try again, though it almost never changed the outcome.) IIRC this like doubled booking rates overnight. I don't really plan to do this at Otherbranch (partly because being aggressively upfront about things is a founding value, even when it comes to white lies of that sort), but it's a fun story that I don't think was actually unethical.

There's a lot I could (do [1]) say about the psychology of interviewing, and it's something I'd love to write more about down the line. Mental health - especially around anxiety and depression - is my #1 personal cause and job hunting touches so concretely on so much of it.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1daumg4/...
Python2 has the type "str" (exactly equivalent to python3's "bytes"), and the type "unicode" (exactly equivalent to python3's "str").

The whole decade-long mess was just to fix quirks in Windows' path and file encoding handling bullshit. And they didn't even manage to fix the problem in the end.

What a mess.
The holders of the shares?
about fricken time. So obnoxious they make regular communication so fricken difficult.
ISPs ask FCC for tax on Big Tech to fund broadband networks and discounts
But they’ve also signalled they’ll probably support Google/Anthropic in the future

> Apple demoed other generative features beyond the OpenAI integration and said it plans to announce support for other AI models in the future.
No connection other than being a fan. I started working on my (simpler) approach before precursor was launched and think there is a place for both, but I'm a big fan of all the work he and his team are doing.
I think post mortems often get into a lot of sidestepping the actual blatant issue and indulge in intellectual complex worldbuilding.

Even though the one by Triplebyte is one of the better ones, what this commenter is saying is more realistic and honest. He is the market after all. Triplebyte's "head of product" has the same value as a random commentor when it comes to the market rejecting them; I don't know why it would be any different.

If passing Triblebyte would mean straight to team match that would be solving the actual problem. Otherwise what he is saying is true: they simply added another layer of friction.
I'm just unhappy that this will mostly end up to make the moat larger and the platform lock-in more painful either way. iPhones have been going up in price, serious compute once you're deep in this will be simply extortion, as leaving the apple universe is going to be nigh impossible.

Also no competitor is going to be as good at integrating everything, as none of those have as integrated systems.
if I can't turn 100% of this botshit off then my iphone's going in the bin

I'll go back to a dumbphone before I feed the AI
It did help me to translate nursery rhymes for my kid from one language to another while they still rhyme and mean approximately the same thing. It sucked in gpt-3 but 4o (or whatever is the latest one) is actually really great for that.

It excels in "transfering style from one thing to another thing" basically.

However every time I asked it a factual thing that I couldn't find on Google, it was always hilariously wrong
I agree with you about this being a bad precedent.

However, to me, the off-device bit they showed today (user consent on every request) represents a strategic hedge as a $3T company.

They are likely buying time and trying to prevent people from switching to other ecosystems while their teams catch up with the tech and find a way to do this all in the “Apple Way”.
I'll probably still use phoenix since I can code it to do whatever I want. https://github.com/kasper/phoenix
My bet is on an trial/acquisition if it works out. I guess that could be complicated with the current ownership structure
Credit card required is a no go for me.
Let's check in with OpenCL and see how far it got disrupting CUDA.

You see, I want to live in a world where GPU manufacturers aren't perpetually hostile against each other. Even Nvidia would, judging by their decorum with Khronos. Unfortunately, some manufacturers would rather watch the world burn than work together for the common good. Even if a perfect CUDA replacement existed like it did with DXVK and DirectX, Apple will ignore and deny it while marketing something else to their customers. We've watched this happen for years, and it's why MacOS perennially cannot run many games or reliably support Open Source software. It is because Apple is an unreasonably fickle OEM, and their users constantly pay the price for Apple's arbitrary and unnecessary isolationism.

Apple thinks they can disrupt AI? It's going to be like watching Stalin try to disrupt Wal-Mart.
this sounds great as long as law and federal enforcement agencies can also access that password manager app as-needed.
Shameless self-promotion:

https://wordmax.game

Released for public preview just today.

Game play similar to Scrabble, but played "duplicate" style.

Admittedly not exactly "quick low-stakes".
>But the problem isn't regulations.

The problem absolutely are nonsense. In the US and many other countries you can near instantly found a company, raise capital, hire staff and develop a product. Doing the equivalent in Germany will take you years. The regulatory burdens on the individual who wants to found something are immense, opaque, heavily gate kept and require detailed and nuanced understanding of the law.

The EU and especially Germany does not want startups to exist, they want innovation to come from large multi national corporations. The consequence is that they are falling behind on every technological metric.
Apple said they’re using their own silicon for training.

Edit: unless I misunderstood and they meant only inference.
I would not bet on Grammerly's future.
This is an interesting history that was surrounded by mysteries until recently. In Sweden, where I live, it is well known of course. Author Bea Uusma has done intense research many years ago and written a very good book on this expedition, also available in English ("The Expedition: Solving the Mystery of a Polar Tragedy"). In summary, what did go wrong? You guessed correctly: poor planning, poor technology, poor preparations, too optimistic expectations, zero previous knowledge or experience about polar conditions and, at the end depression and hopelessness. Poor little fools that did not realize when to stop while they still had time :-(
I highly agree. And everything it has generated so far has been incredibly mid. Yeah, there may be some legitimate use cases but as it usually goes everyone is overdoing it head first without really thinking enough about it beforehand.
That’s a necessary temporary step until these powerful LLMs are able to run locally. I’m sure Apple would be delighted to offload everything on device if possible and not spend their own money on compute.
no one wanted an iphone until it came out either
They implemented way more on the device than anyone else is doing, and I don't see how it makes it "half-baked" that it sometimes needs to use an online service. Your suggestion is essentially just not shipping the product until some unspecified future time. That offers no utility to anyone.
Press space on the onscreen keyboard for ~2 secs and you can move the caret like a cursor. Not many people know that trick, but it totally solves what you're describing.
Some earlier discussion ahead of the announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40613857
I can't think of another consumer software product as successful in users and $ as Instagram in the '10s.
Siri now powered by OpenAI powered by Microsoft Azure
They trained GPT-4o on Apple Silicon? I find that hard to believe, surely they only mean that some models were trained with Apple Silicon.
Actually, just in three to five years, lots of "AI boxes" and those magical sparkling icons next to input fields summoning AI would be silently removed.

LLMs are not accurate, they aren't subject matter experts that'll be maybe within 5% error margin.

People will gradually learn and discover anf the cost of keeping a model updated and running won't drastically reduce so we'll most likely see dust settling down.
It's a lovely idea of you writing to your son, and I thought about doing the same a while ago. Meanwhile, I've sent him real postcards from business trips.

I think there is nothing wrong with creating an e-mail inbox for a kid, but if you write personal messages and attach photos, I think self-hosting is the way to go, because you don't know how much Linus (or any other kid) will value his privacy once he learns about how the world works (from advertising to government surveillance).

My wife and I therefore decided there will not be a photo online of our child until he can consent to it himself.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40636292
This is the reason I will never use the Apple ecosystem, even if the hardware is pretty good.

A hardware manufacturer has no business telling me what I may or may not run on hardware I have purchased, period.
that's actually pretty great, but it brings up another issue I have with the state of tech interviewing - it focuses on being able to write code fast. the more senior you get, the more you tend to focus on depth, taking your time to think over the problem and write a good robust solution rather than banging out code fast, so coding up a solution in 25 minutes versus an hour is not really a good test of what the company presumably wants to hire you for.
From watching it, it seems like it’s just a kit type integration as it’s super clear that it’s going to a partner and they said they may allow other partners.
I don't like this PC as a service era.
I hope it supports thirds and not just 50/50 layouts.
Some stuff seems cool in the sense that you try it once and never use it again. Other stuff, like ChatGPT integration, seem like they'll produce more AI Slop and false information. It's always interesting to me to see just how many people blatantly trust ChatGPT for information.

I find most AI products to be counter-intuitive - most of the time Googling something or writing your own document is faster. But the tech overlords of Silicon Valley will continuously force AI down our throats. It's no longer about useful software, we made most of that already, it's about growth at all costs. I'm a developer and day by day I come to despise the software world. Real life is a lot better. Real life engineering and hardware have gotten a lot better over the years. That's the only thing keeping me optimistic about technology these days. Software is what makes me pessimistic.
MS makes 1984-style monitoring, so how does the Linux community respond?
Okay. And what about the terrible keyboard, predictive text, and autocorrect?
This sounds like exactly what I wanted. There have been a number of times I've been in the car and wanting to ask Siri something it couldn't handle has been a lot e.g. "What state am I in, and how far am I to the border to the state I'm going to cross next, and can I pump my own gas on each state I'm driving through?"

Though a bit of that is premised on whether it could extract information from google maps.
I'm going exclusively from the wikipedia article, which have things like

"When polled, most Americans had a negative perception of the economy, with some saying that it had even entered a period of recession, while data showed that inflation was going down and GDP growing. This pessimism about the overall economy heavily contrasted with Americans' perception of their own financial situation, which they said was mostly positive.[5]"
End-to-end encrypted, so no.

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/icloud-keychain-sec...
I thought it was very cool and very close to what I had hoped that they would do. Does that automatically make me into someone from PR? What is the benefits package, in that case? /s
Possible exposure of Earth to dense interstellar medium 2-3M years ago
https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/24/greywing-seagpt/

This helps container ships operate. Errors matter here. They solved them. Please show me where the scam is here?
This is a small thing but I really wish it would draw a line through the three in a row when you get one.
Interesting, I thought Apple Silicon mainly excelled at inferencing. Though I suppose the economics of it are unique for Apple themselves since they can fill racks full of barebones Apple Silicon boards without having to pay their own retail markup for complete assembled systems like everyone else does.
I don’t see myself switching from 1password simply because I don’t think Apple passwords autofill will work natively with non-safari browsers or Linux, both of which I also use. Also, I find the handy 1password mini source pretty convenient.
> Transitive is providing the engine used in Apple's Rosetta software, which translates software for its current machines using PowerPC processors so it can run on forthcoming Intel-based Macintoshes. "We've had a long-term relationship with them," Transitive Chief Executive Bob Wiederhold said Tuesday.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/the-brains-b...
NY State collects billions of tax dollars every year from NJ residents that work in New York. Every mass transit NJ commuter to NYC is subsidized by NJ and subsidizes the NYS budget. That structural dynamic, in effect, kneecaps NJ and by virtue NJT's budget.
"Anyone serious about software should be making their own hardware - Alan Kay" - Steve Jobs
Is your computer managed by Jamf? I had that 1Password 7 issue because of policy issue
I think you’re right about that!
I've used Bitwarden for a while now and it has been so better than LastPass or 1Password ever was for me. I never understood the 1Password hype, it was easily the worst experience of any password manager I tried.
I look at things like that from a revenue/strategic perspective.

If Apple says it, do they have any disincentives to deliver? Not really. Their ad business is still relatively small, and already architected around privacy.

If someone who derives most of their revenue from targeted ads says it? Yes. Implementing it directly negatively impacts their primary revenue stream.

IMHO, the strategic genius of Apple's "privacy" positioning has been that it doesn't matter to them. It might make things more inconvenient technically, but it doesn't impact their revenue model, in stark contrast to their competitors.
Apple simply does not have the talent pool to take on either nvidia or the big LLM providers anywhere on the stack except for edge inference.

If you're saying Apple is going to 'take on nvidia' in edge inference, then I don't disagree but I would hardly even count that as taking on nvidia.
I hope there is a cli that will allow access to this like the `security` command, maybe this is just another facade on top of oldschool keychain?
>Why wouldn't Microsoft be able to?

https://crmtipoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/ms-org...
https://archive.is/20220515135638/https://www.post-gazette.c...
Yes. I would like to be able to disable other smartphone features I don't use. But that's already the case. Like the GPS, for instance, is disabled unless I'm using the map. And even that can be set to "never" if I want.
I knew what I was getting and still clicked
Not GPT-4o, their own models that power some (most?) of the “Apple Intelligence” stuff.
> An obvious one is to launch the web browser with a URL for their web site, which has stashed in it a bunch of data they want to exfiltrate.

I mean ... just don't allow that, except for a finite whitelisted set of URLs that require explicit user intervention to access (to prevent exfiltration via timing/ordering)?

It's not difficult to make a rule that apps can easily follow, it's just that none of the parties involved actually care about the user.
Now you know a few. I love the idea of being able to ask my phone for things like "the guy who emailed last week about the interview, what was his name?" without having to dig through emails trying not to lose the context in my head.
Same here. Hoping I can jump ship before next renewal.
Docstore, Group Replication, MySQL Shell would be some of examples. The larger difference through is just compatibility - things do not work quite the same and if you're looking at large enough application you would likely require some changes to move one way or another.
Lifetime is already a fundamental part of Mojo. At the moment it is not exposed to devs, but the proposal is to flesh out the ergonomics and also bring conceptual clarity.
On device or in an Apple owned DC. It sounds like they have aspirations for their own Apple owned LLM. ChatGPT seems like it's there until they can get something good enough to generally replace it for cases where their in-house solution isn't capable enough yet. They likely continue to invest heavily on big capable LLMs as well as ones that are small enough to run on device (while working on the hardware side to ensure they have the device capabilities to run more powerful models on the device).
Odd, I didn't get it when I clicked on that link
That might be a sign of excessive congestion on the channel used for Airplay. Esp with device to device direct link, latency should be minimal. If you can, try moving nearby AP’s off the AirPlay channels for your region. For the US: “If possible, avoid using Wi-Fi channels 149 and 153 in rooms where peer-to-peer AirPlay is frequently in use”
edge inference? sure - but nvidia is not even a major player in that space now so i wouldn't really count that as 'taking on nvidia'.
The main problem with Bohmian mechanics is trying to extend it to quantum field theory
> How do you make them interested in your company in the first place? Triplebyte did not really have a cost-effective solution for that

They absolutely did! It was getting companies to agree to skipping straight to the onsite after a 15-minute recruiter call.

This lets you skip the back-and-forth of screen scheduling and result chats. In turn, that saves weeks of time during a job search, and allows you to have all of your onsites within a short time period, and then and offers come in within a much narrower window of time. You can make apples-to-apples comparisons about which role you might take that way, so it's a much lower cost for a much greater payoff to spend a few hours interviewing with a company you weren't thinking of to see if it's a fit.

In my mind, this was the absolute killer feature. I am still at a Triplebyte job 7 years later that impressed me via their onsite, and I would not have thought to apply if they had not been on TripleByte's skip-to-the-onsite list.
Out of the major categories that Apple has had and I wouldn’t consider an XServe Mac a product category, the only failures have been the Newton, the Pippen, and the QuickTake camera. All of those were pre-2007.
Beyond the wall: Working with aperiodic tilings using finite-state transducers