skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple is already one of the largest
(if not the largest) customers of TSMC and they have plenty of experience designing some of the best chips on the most modern nodes.

Their ability to design a chip and networking fabric which is fast/efficient at training a narrow set of model architecture is not far fetched by any means.
+ Teams, which includes a feature to build entire apps... inside Teams.
So many times people forget that encryption does not solve the confidentiality problems. It just translates it into key management problems. And this is such an amazing example I'd use in the future.
Why is no one ever asking how to falsify Copenhagen vs other interpretations? What did Copenhagen ever do to deserve this privilege?
the tiling is very basic though. reminds me of windows. i3/sway is superior, especially once you get it customized to your workflow.
Okay. That isn't a "special powers for NYC" clause, that's a generic "home rule is not absolute" clause. Nobody has said or implied otherwise; the operative question was whether NYC is any different from other municipalities in terms of limits on the scope of its home rule.

(If anything, NYC is afforded an unusual degree of home rule relative to other municipalities in NY, as evidenced by the fact that it's really 5 counties in a trenchcoat.)
Well you could download the script, review it, and only then run it?

Despite encountering your kind of attitude many times in the past, I don't get it at all. Maybe I'm missing something.

If you do trust the author of said thing, what's the problem?

If you don't trust the author, why would you even run their scripts?

No offense, but even if you do inspect all of the code, I doubt you'd be able to find all the potential backdoors and issues. If you trust the author of Omakub, they have the ability to screw your security anyway, I don't think there's a way of preventing that.
Adobe didn't generate them. Someone uploaded them to their stock photos site.

Nor was their issue that the images were in the style of Ansel Adams, but rather that they used his name. That's not a copyright issue. It's a trademark one.
> They are the first ones to ship on-device inference at scale on non-nvidia hardware

Which is neat, but it's not CUDA. It's an application-specific accelerator good at a small subset of operations, controlled by a high-level library the industry is unfamiliar with and too underpowered to run LLMs or image generators. The NPU is a novelty, and today's presentation more-or-less confirmed how useless it is for rich local-only operations.

> Apple also has the means to build data center training hardware using apple silicon if they want to do so.

They could, but that's not a competitor against an NVL72 with hundreds of terabytes of unified GPU memory. And then they would need a CUDA competitor, which could either mean reviving OpenCL's rotting corpse, adopting Tensorflow/Pytorch like a sane and well-reasoned company, or reinventing the wheel with an extra library/Accelerate Framework/MPS solution that nobody knows about and has to convert models to use.

So they can make servers, but Xserve showed us pretty clearly that you can lead a sysadmin to MacOS but you can't make them use it.

> they could also start to supply them with cloud inference hardware and strongarm them into only using apple servers to serve iOS requests.

I wonder how much money they would lose doing that, over just using the industry-standard Nvidia servers. Once you factor in the margins they would have made selling those chips as consumer systems, it's probably in the tens-of-millions.
Except they don't. Some might and they seem intent on telling everybody else how it's the best option for them. Just let me install whatever I want. My choice if it explodes.
Doesn't matter if you think you act nicer, this attitude is the problem:

> I make demands of my senior engineers(and managers) because their job is to enable me to actually make the product.

If this is how you actually perceive your relationship to these people then they will notice.
If you're finding yourself blocked amoungst MOST social networks, you might consider your tone and language. You've got to be posting pretty vile stuff to get banned from most social networks.
I found myself wanting to shuffle with the spacebar (so I wouldn't have to move my pinky fingers from A and L in order to shuffle with a shift key).
Why? It's not like remote desktop tech is new or anything.
Interesting. Earlier this year I migrated passwords out of 1Password and a few from LastPass and Apple Keychain supported both easily. Just not more complex types of credentials. Every password and website was imported correctly as expected. If not I have yet to notice.
Would be very funny to see someone emulating a PC on an iPad to Linux so they can use Wine to run windows apps.
Inductive Program Synthesis in JavaScript
The bright side is over the last couple of years I've been broken of my lust for every new device that comes out promising "newer and shinier." The reality is it's the same old locked down slab just a little faster with added bing bings and wahoos. So now I just save most of the cash and spend the rest on upgrading my PC.
Man I hope they expose the tiling functionality so software like Yabai can hook in and make it automatic.
Not to mention all of the licensing, regulations, and formalized training hours that you have to put in just to reach that point. It’s all substantially harder than studying LeetCode for a short slice of your life.

It’s amazing how often I hear about how easy interviews are in other professions, according to engineers who dislike coding interviews.

Then you look into those other professions and it turns out changing jobs is actually a lot harder than the internet comments would lead you to think.
I wonder if it’ll do anything about duplicate notifications. As a basic example, the Weather app exists both on iOS (and iPadOS) and macOS, so if it’s enabled, would you get duplicate notifications on macOS?
It's ripe for attack. But Nvidia is still in its growing phase, not some incumbent behemoth. The way Nvidia ruthlessly handled AMD tell us that they are ready for competition.
Most fiction doesn’t cover ground that hasn’t been covered elsewhere, just like ice skaters rarely come up with new tricks — it’s all about grade of execution for both. TTGL is mainly dumb when its characters are dumb, which is often because they literally grew up in Plato’s Cave.
1password has progressively gotten worse every year for the past 5-10. 1password team if you are reading this, please stop making your software worse. Search which was great for years is now terrible and has jumbled results.

Some software should just be considered "done" and never changed again. 1Password is one of those things.
> Do these people actually even believe in AI?

The moment that every one who gave a shit about safety quit OpenAI you should have understood that there was no AI coming.

This has always been, and will always be about the money.
There was also a microprocessor implementation of the PDP-11.

"T-11 is a microprocessor that implements the PDP-11 instruction set architecture. It was developed for embedded systems and was the first single-chip microprocessor developed by DEC. It was sold on the open market."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11#Special-purpose_version...
Wasn't this always possible though? Apple just turned what was once a development feature (Xcode) into a mainstream feature.
Just waiting for yet more of "Apple Arcade Free For 3 Months" style notifications
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And for those of us without an iPhone?
Thanks - those are very interesting. I fully agree that building UIs with Python is not better in objective terms; I just think it's more convenient if all you want is a minimal interface.
Homeowners are objectively doing great in the US. Yes prices are up, but real wages are up too, especially for the bottom quartile. Obviously there are exceptions, but most people are making more than they did pre pandemic adjusted for inflation.
> tit-for-tat strategy between OF models

groan.
One of the reasons for bad software products & corporations taking advantage of users is this free loader mindset.

What exactly is wrong with paying $10 per year for a well done product?
> really enjoy paying each month for access to your passwords?

When it comes to a password manager, I appreciate having constant access to updates. That isn’t feasible for one-and-done code.

That said, it’s 1Password’s bugginess that will have me looking at Apple’s offering. (Particularly how it performs on non-Safari browsers, e.g. Orion and Firefox.)
If you have ever been around little kids, you know that they don't need any new words for this.

And life pro-tip: words are just sound waves. The more distance you put between you and the source, the less power they have. Or, alternatively, drown them out with more powerful words.
I feel like this WWDC kind of solidified that these corporations really don't know what to do with AI or aren't creative enough. Apple presented much better AI features that weren't called AI than the "summarize my email" and "generate an ugly airbrushed picture you buy at the mall kiosk to send to your mom".

All of these "make your life easier" features really show that no tech is making our lives simpler. Task creation is maybe easier but task completion doesn't seem to be in the cards. "Hey siri, summarize my daughters play and let me know when it is and how to get there" shows there's something fundamentally missing in the way we're living.
I don't think this is a fair take. It sounds like the vast majority of the new AI features (including the local personal context for Siri, the various text/image editing features, better photo categorization, and the list goes on) are all local, on-device models, which can, if needed, use Apple's private cloud. That requires public researcher verification of server software for iOS to even talk to it. (Allegedly :))

The OpenAI partnership is seemingly only if Siri decides it doesn't have the full context needed to answer. (E.g. if you ask something very creative/generative.) At that point, Siri says "hey, chatGPT might be better at answering this, do you consent to me sending your prompt to them?" and then you get to choose. Apple's partnership also seems to include the various settings that prevent OpenAI from tracking/training on the prompts sent in.

Honestly, that more creative side of genAI is not as interesting in the full context of Apple Intelligence. The real power is coming from the local, personal context, where Siri can deduce context based on your emails, messages, calendar events, maps, photos, etc. to really deeply integrate with apps. (Allegedly!) And that part is not OpenAI.
Nice work!

Obligatory mention for RedBean, the server that you can package along with all assets (incl db, scripting and TLS support) into a single multi-platform binary.

https://redbean.dev/
Yes and no. If you're running *nix, odds are your mostly open-source system will be running software built for ARM. And if you aren't, my understanding is that x86 emulation is pretty good.

Wine can also do this neat hybrid emulation trick. Your x86 application runs in an emulator until it hits a Windows syscall, then it hops out of emulation to run the syscall on native ARM machine code Wine, then jumps back into emulation to keep running your application.
Yeah. I want to pay the people who look after the thing that stores my most precious information. I want them to be overpaid and look after their golden goose.

It seems nuts to me that you expect someone to provide you a service for free?
DRM: Add Content Protection Property – Patchwork (2017)
European courts often do.
TaxAct quoted me close to $200 in fees because of my wife's business. With FreeTaxUSA I had a fantastic experience this year for like $14.99 because we pay state income taxes.
1Password + Fastmail integration for generating masked email is also great.

Plus a nice UI for handling OTP, notes, credit cards, IDs, bank accounts, etc, it's easily worth the annual price for me.
> The way Siri can now perform actions based on context

Given that this will apparently drop... next year at the earliest?... I think it's simply quite a tease, for now.

I literally had to install a keyboard extension to my iPhone just to get Whisper speech to text, which is thousands of times better at dictation than Siri at this point, which seems about 10 years behind the curve
I'd like to use it for watching Netflix/Hulu/etc on a plane on a larger screen than my phone without being forced to carry an iPad.

I really wish Apple would just force companies to enable their iPhone/iPad apps on Apple Silicon. But if I could display a video from my phone onto my 15" laptop screen, that would be a nearly as nice.
Yes, because a lot of software supports arm now, and arm provides a 2x+ increase in battery life for lots of cases
What operating system do you use? How do you set it up without trusting many third parties? What delivery system would you recommend?

Everyone can easily clone the Omakub repository to their own server, review it, and use it from there. Should that be the recommended installation method? How do you deal with updates?
Go ask one of Tesla's lawyers.
> There was one demo where you could talk to Siri about your mom and it would understand the context because of stuff that she (your mom) had written in one of her emails to you... that's the kind of stuff that I think we all imagined an AI world would look like.

I can't but feel all of this super creepy.
You still receive security updates for all manjor MacOSes, so albeit lack of proper naming you can assume each new release as LTS.
That's good feedback, thanks. I've added a fast forward button to the top left.
Offline multiplayer over bluetooth would be a great addition!
Theyre not. Most of the gains are going to the poorest and richest. The poorest especially are doing better than they have ever before.
Standardized process doesn't have to mean a purely checklist-based rubric. Triplebyte wasn't - and Otherbranch especially isn't - devoted to the idea that a good engineer can be reduced to checkboxes. And speaking for myself as a founder, I in particular believe very strongly in the idea of intangibles as important criteria. Having a standard process makes intangibles easier to detect, not harder, because you can look for those ethereal little bits of signal against a familiar backdrop.

The last question on the grading form for our interviewers is, to quote it exactly in its current form:

-----

Full interview overall score

(Would you vouch for this person's skills?)

* No no no no no

* Some redeeming qualities but not someone you'd recommend even as a junior hire

* Good for a junior role, still a bit short of a senior one

* Would recommend for a senior role

* Incredible, get this person a job right now

-----

That, to me, is the opposite of what you're talking about. Expert opinion is a central part of what we do, and a big part of what I think gives us an advantage over something like an automated coding test. We just take treat expert opinion as a type of data in its own right so that we can, for example, adjust for whether one interviewer grades more harshly on average than another and make sure that it is actually producing valid results down the line.
Kinda weird to expect a for-profit company to "care" about a technology outside of it making them more money TBH.
A very boring kind.
They did talk about Siri being better at voice recognition using Apple's own on-device models, so I imagine that will eventually apply more broadly.
They lied about the core value prop. Their qualification process was nothing more than another entry point to the standard interviewing regime.
Apple is in the position where it caters primarily to the tech ignorant, so coming out an explaining that Apple LLM is a bit worse (read: far worse) than the cool LLM's on the internet because they are privacy conscious is a non-starter.

Local LLM's on regular local hardware (i.e. no $500+ dedicated GPUs) is way far behind SoTA models right now.

Apple is not gonna be in a position where you can practically real-time intelligently chat with Android phones while iPhones are churning out 3 tokens/second of near useless babbling.
FSD cases - I'm not aware about their arguments.
pg was added too, first one I tried. I had assumed it was a growth-strategy thing, but testing makes more sense.

Surprised to see one of these kinds of sites be opt-in. Most things I see using HN data are real loosey goosey about it.
Well Apple has been doing this since forever

> Watson became very popular, and stayed that way right until Apple released Mac OS X 10.2 with Sherlock 3. In that release, Apple added just about everything Watson could do to Sherlock's own interface.
This partnership is structured so that no data is logged or sent to OpenAI.
My problem with privacy policies. is that they are not enforceable, or, at least I don't think they are enforceable.

It is not a contract with the end user. it also is not a machine(program) that has to operate a specific way. what happens when it is violated. who figures out what was violated, who the damaged party is and what and where the fines are to be paid. Nobody.

They would be better off called "statement of intent" rather than this theater of pretending there is a policy in play.
Same, I do this regularly when my wife’s using my desk, the latency is a bit like cloud gaming – it’s there for competitive Counter Strike, it isn’t there for coding or browsing.
> In fact, the original concept of a corporation was that they were created for a specific purpose and then dissolved once completed

You're wrong there. One of the original corporations grew to become the sovereign power over a whole sub continent and eventually got nationalized into a colonial administration. Another original corporation had a para military mandate and conducted large scale open ended naval warfare in three different continents.
We may be talking past each other a bit here, I think we actually agree more than we disagree here.

I only raised the consideration of who starts it because you mentioned it in an earlier comment mentioning why Russia wouldn't start it. I agree with you that it doesn't matter who starts it and was only trying to point out that with war it's often so complicated that you can't really ever pin it on one side starting it out of the blue.

I also agree that NATO isn't planning on invading Russia, if I implied that somewhere along the way I just misspoke.

I don't actually think an invasion is how the next world war would start anyway, well likely end up launching tons of drones at each other before the war is reduced to soldiers on the battlefield.

> "The balance is in the middle" is a fine way to prove 2+2 is 4.5.

I'm not sure the connection there. Are you proposing that we should strice to view complex situations as a binary rather than a spectrum?
I'm resistant, too. I think from a number of reasons:

- So far, the quality has been very hit or miss, versus places where I intentionally invoke generative AI.

- I'm not ready to relinquish my critical thinking to AI, both from a general perspective, and also because it's developed by big companies who may have different values and interests than me.

- It feels like they're trying to get me to "just take a taste", like a bunch of pushers.

- I just want more/better of the right type of features, not a bunch of inscrutable magic.
JWZ's headline perhaps should have been: "due to intentionally defective design android is unable to guarantee apps cannot steal your data and so google requires app makers to make unenforceable promises about which data they will and won't steal"
I don't understand this:

Would they rather someone buy a Thinkpad and run Linux on it, than someone buy an iPad and run Linux on it?

What's there to be scared of someone buying their own hardware?
Isn't Microsoft Recall also 100% on device?
Why do you think that?

You seem to be positioning this as a Ford vs Chevy duel, when (to me at least) the comparison should be to Ford vs Exxon.

Nvidia is an infrastructure company. And a darned good one. Apple is a user facing company and has outsourced infrastructure for decades (AWS & Azure being two of the well known ones).
Your Mac being able to control an iPhone somehow makes it worse for you if you don't have an iPhone? And what do Siri and Apple AI have to do with iPhone other than them also being on iPhone in addition to Mac?
Siri Can Access ChatGPT Directly with iOS 18
> Paying a monthly fee for access to my passwords is highway robber

It would be. Fortunately, 1Password doesn’t do that [1].

You’re paying for an important piece of software to be maintained.

> I'm sure 1Password doesn't care one iota about loosing individual users with attitudes like this

Probably not. Emphasis on attitude.

[1] https://support.1password.com/frozen-account/
you could send it to someone who you already trust, like google, instead of someone you are trying to decide on whether to trust or not
Implying that these people quite because they realized they weren't needed (no need for safety if AI isn't coming) rather than what seems like the common perspective being that safety initiatives always lost out over money making opportunities?
> I think the percentage of iPhone users for who this would matter is very small.

Oh yeah? Then why don't they permit you to choose an App Store, a browser, a messenger, a blah blah blah...
Big Tech is the only reason OpenAI can run. Microsoft is propping them up with billions of dollars worth of compute and infrastructure
GMS is most of power waste in android. Deleting it makes the phone borderline useless.
Thanks for sharing. What surprised me was that there was one group that tried to pull of parallel LISP on Z80s whereas the rest seem to be keen to use existing technology (no own operating system, no own microprocessor chip designs attempted).

"Unfortunately, [...] the lack of collaboration and coordination among the various groups designing computers inMexico, and the lack of communication between industry and academia hindered the country's further development in this field."

I found this sentence and subsequent passages to be the most interesting; how come Brazil could pull things off when a similar environment existed in Mexico and Brazil? Are Brazilians "more collaborative" as a tendency than Mexicans?Would be interesting to get more detail on good v. bad policy decisions in both countries that led to it.

Minor corrections: Table 1. "intepreter" -> "interpreter"; "Hasta 64" -> "up to 64"
So the question under discussion is whether many-worlds is, or should be, "generally accepted". It isn't. If it's not generally accepted and wants to be, then it has the burden of proof.

Claiming that many-worlds met its burden of proof (compared to Copenhagen) by something other than Copenhagen not being proven is completely missing the point. If you want people to believe many-worlds rather than Copenhagen, you have to disprove Copenhagen. If you don't, then people will continue to believe Copenhagen.
I wonder how the "seamlessly drag and drop files, photos, and videos between your iPhone and Mac" will work. Right now, if you just want to grab the raw files of your photos and videos and not deal with the Photos app, your best bet is Image Capture, a 20+ year old seemingly unmaintained program that seems to glitch out disturbingly frequently. I really hope they can introduce something that seamlessly lets you drag photos off your phone and into your filesystem, just in the Finder.
I would also reject the "We don't store your data, period".

That's like a pharmacist telling customers "we didn't add poison to this medicine".