skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly it’s DRY that I oppose more than anything else, I’ve watched too many codebases turn into unreadable spaghetti because engineers thought everything needed to be abstracted. With regard to Clean Code, I think Uncle Bob’s takes on function length are ridiculous (something like “functions should almost never be over 4 lines”). In general, I just feel like he thinks very little of programmers and comes up with rules with an eye towards constraining bad programmers, not empowering good programmers.
Show HN: Steering with sound (driving safely without seeing the road)[video]
Would you ever feel safe driving if you couldn't see the road? Likely a dangerous endeavor if you were on a busy road with real traffic, but what if the environment were purely virtual?

With a few minor adjustments, we've taken one of the demo levels for DRIVR and converted it so that vision isn't required in order to navigate the track. The vehicle is completely software controlled, so the player can be certain they won't be allowed to venture beyond the designed driving area. Totally immersive, thoroughly safe.

More detail in our blog post: https://www.trydrivr.com/post/drivr-part-11-ghost-in-the-mac...
I have and you are right, it's terrible. However, I'm coming from Ops side of the house so my knowledge on Dev Hiring is talking to them and making sure they are not going to launch LedgerStore without talking to us first. Ops I'm more experienced with.

However, looking at Other Branch example test, it's another data structure question which I would totally bomb. Is this really the end all be all to dev hiring? If they can't do Data Structures, are they worthless to Silicon Valley companies? I'm honestly stumped because we get dev candidates that crash and burn with Fizzbuzz or our REST API test.

I MUST KNOW.
> will not call me slurs for being brown, or x sexual orientation, or break into my house.

That's the inverse of the "murder, arson, jaywalking" trope here. Trusting someone to not be inconsiderate, vs. trusting someone to not rob you, is like, two qualitatively different kinds of trust, and don't belong in the same set.
Hahahah point taken, in all fairness, I only knew about Threads (the social media app) when I posted and so I thought it wouldn't overlap. I was worried the word `thread` might overlap in a parallelism sense though wasn't aware of the networking stack. Anyways I appreciate the feedback :)
The fact that the new $3k+ M4 iPad Pro cannot run regular OS X in some kind of VM or something is flat-out insulting.
they actually showed the option to do that with a full AI (apple intelligence of course) summary made on device.
A lot of the features do run locally, e.g. the Image Playground.
So far the only reasonable place I can think of where I could find myself actually using voice to control anything is on the toilet. that's it
Back in the day when I was playing Call of Duty; every time when you were on a kill streak somebody would call you bot or hacker. That's actually pretty common even to this day in the gaming community.
The official site recommends KeePassDX and KeePass2Android: https://keepassxc.org/docs/#faq-platform-mobile
If it's chromium based have they committed to supporting manifest v2 after chrome kills it?
The whole world will be headless content. There won't be any web pages, or bank sites, or TV networks. Nobody will be a developer. We'll all just be content authors, like Google Maps Guides basically being unpaid interns checking restaurant data for Google.

You open your phone, it just shovels content. And it does absolutely nothing but optimize on addiction.

No apps, only masters.
I used to assemble Dell's Optiplex 486s at factory in North Austin back in the day (early 90s) before DELL move to Round Rock. Some of the components like the daughter board (a riser board to connect your LAN card or Souncard) was made in Mexico, among other parts.
Great article.
How far out is the phone peripheral?
iCloud uses Google Cloud
That's not the same as being available as an easily installable executable and such a drawback for most people.
Your data is being shared. But they've shown that it is being done in a way where only required data leaves the devices and there are some protections in place which try to minimize misuse of the data (the OS will only communicate with publicly signed versions of the server for example). The call to Apples "Private Compute Cloud" is intransparent to the user, ChatGPT calls need permission if I understood it correctly.
Oh! I love a good list! Esp something like geo which is a skill that keeps fading the less I use it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Forstall#Departure_from_...

Reading his Wikipedia article, it seems like Cook made every misstep possible with Forstall. Does anyone honestly think Cook would still be CEO if he didn't have the massive momentum of iPhones behind him? Cook seems like he'll be considered this generation's Ballmer when all is said and done: a mediocre CEO that let massive advantages slip away and a board of directors that was too complacent to make the necessary changes to secure future growth.
Lvl 3 is supposed to support other models and providers in the future too. I hope it will support every server with simple, standard API so I can run self-hosted LLama 3 (or whatever will be released in next 6-12 months).
> > and that is never going to change other than at gunpoint.

> The addition of this half-sentence reads as incredibly odd.

There are millions of Americans who have taken oaths to defend the Constitution of the United States (Not "the government". Not whoever currently happens to be President. Not some "monarch". The Constitution) against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Virtually all of people these have military experience (it's part of the standard military oath, also in the oaths of office for many government officials).

Attempting to forcibly change the Constitution outside the normal amendment process would almost certainly result in large-scale bloodshed, and changing it through the normal amendment process is never going to work, because the smaller states are never going to sign off on it.

Those are the facts on the ground.
Nvidia stock going to grow another 10% after that.
This sounds like you are the exact opposite of the target customer for this service, i.e. a developer lacking connections and struggling to get past resume hell but having all the necessary skills.
Yeah it looks like this will usurp Magnet for me, which I've used for years now.
What's wrong with Electron?
> that's a contractual term between Apple, Inc. and OpenAI, LLC.

do you have a source on this or are you just assuming?
Bitwarden integrates pretty well on Apple devices/apps already, although I guess you could save a tap by using a native app.
I wonder how they will extend this to business processes that are not in their training set.

At https://openadapt.ai we rely on users to demonstrate tasks, then have the model analyze these demonstrations in order to automate them. The goal is similar to Rabbit's "teach mode", except it's desktop only and open source.
> as latency will be terrible, though

Based on what? AirPlay mirroring is great today, and this is that with data in the other direction. Current Wifi is perfectly capable of bidirectional voice and video. Adding touch/key events is incremental.
The demo they showed used the iPhone Continuity Camera, which has depth information and already does a great job of segmentation as it's required for the Portrait and Studio Light effects.

I suspect quality will be worse on a typical Mac FaceTime camera.
Recall is taking screenshots and performing ocr, stored in what turned out to be clear text. Semantic index is spotlight’s next version, which you already have on your devices. It’s quite different.
"It will automatically find a picture of your drivers license, read the number and add it to your text"

This is scary stuff that should not be happening on anything that is closed-source and unaudited publicly. The pervasiveness of surveillance it enables is astounding.
Leaving OpenAI, for one.
The better question is why it took so long for Apple to copy Magnet.
I'm just gonna drop this here

https://codeberg.org/mister_monster/YouTube2Peertube

In case anyone wants to help resolve this issue once and for all.
Even as someone who keeps a laptop booted into Linux most of the time, yes there are bumps and rough edges that will be encountered once venturing off the most common path of “internet, video, and word processor box”. It’s much better than it once was but it still has problems and the way that fervent advocates try to sweep them under the rug doesn’t help the situation.
I think it's a little disingenuous to think on-device accelerators on a mobile phone would be able to do literally any AI task without help
Apple's phones have, for several years now, been on a tick/tock sort of pattern. iPhone N Pro has the new CPU (15 Pro got the A17) and iPhone N uses the prior gen pro CPU (15 got the A16, which was in the iPhone 14 Pro). So this is probably an A17+ feature. If they stick to form, the iPhone 16 will have the A17 processor and the iPhone 16 Pro will have the A18.

That's part of the differentiation between (on the phones) the Pro and non-Pro these days with the Pro getting all the new stuff, and non-Pro getting a partially improved (and partially degraded, usually wrt the camera) Pro from the prior year.
Was that a normal free account or paid? If it’s a free one, then I imagine all-bets-are-off and google can do whatever it wants?

I’m definitely not a huge fan from the privacy point of view and should degoogle at some point, but I’ve been using the google version with my own domain for ~13 years now (when it was free) and since a year ago have to pay for the Workplace edition, something like $10-15 a month.

What I understand is that at least if I’m paying for it, there’s a contractual agreement to not yolo-delete my account like in your example, and presumably there would be a way to reach some human in case of problems (unlike with free account).
It is not their device... Or at least it should not be.
Apple does not pay for devices. They sell them. The users pay.
I think we’d have to ask some non-technical people about this really, but I think there’s a nebulous perception that the Apple App Store is, like, somehow safer and good, while the Google one is somehow less safe and not good. The specific details, not so well understood.
But I didn't live through the 70s, and I still learned what inflation is and how it differs from "price level", because we covered basic economics in high school...

I really don't buy this thing about how things are confusing unless you have already experienced them!
> I am worried about the reliability, if you are relying on it giving important information without checking the source (like a flight) than that could lead to some bad situations.

I think it shows the context for the information it presents. Like the messages, events and other stuff. So you can quickly check if the answer is correct. So it's more about semantic search, but with a more flexible text describing the result.
Spotify Launches "Confidence" for Enhanced Real-Time Experimentation
Spotify just launched "Confidence," a tool designed to optimize real-time trigger analysis (aka exposure filtering) and experimentation. By leveraging Bayesian statistics and sequential testing, it provides immediate insights into the impact of changes, improving decision-making and efficiency. The product aims to streamline the experimentation process, ensuring faster and more accurate data-driven decisions.
Apple owns the software platform. Can I run my non-Apple Intelligence software on the data in "my" iPhone?
It jumped out to me that I had to highlight and ask it to check my grammar, rather than have it be an automatic process.

I don't use Grammarly, really, but I think at least that one is more automatic?
If you do not make your own silicon, write your own software, and maintain your own Internet connection, you are at the mercy of vendors and service providers.
Apple owns the platform. The user owns the device that embodies the platform.
Any time you're out of homeostasis, you should expect depression to be following close behind.
surely it's coming. you don't keep maxing that thing out otherwise
I don't get the obsession with SJ.

If anything, OpenAI should've paid homage to the works that defined the genre, and made the voice sound like Majel Barrett-Roddenberry.
The EU is pretty big. For a population of about 450 million people with decent spending power maybe it is worthwhile.
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Maybe I missed something but it doesn't sound like OpenAI is powering any of this except the optional integrations.
RLIBM: Rutgers Architecture and Programming Languages Lab Correctly Rounded Libm
Is Siri becoming another "frontend" to ChatGPT?
I don't know why it's that fascinating. Lots of people think some amount of copyright is reasonable but that life of the author + 70 years is far too long.
Skyscrapers Could Be Our Answer to Energy Storage
Agreed. Got to hand it to them that marketing was sharp on the name. Unless, of course, it doesn’t really work as advertised and then every “AI <negative>” search specifically bubbles Apple stories to the top.
Yeah I feel like we are getting the crumbs for a future hardware announcement, like M4 ultra. They’ll announce it like “we are so happy to share our latest and greatest processor, a processor so powerful, we’ve been using it in our private AI cloud. We are pleased to announce the M4 Ultra”
If we know anything about Apple, they're going after Nvidia. If anyone can pull it off, it's going to be them.
> Neither Bohmian mechanics nor many worlds are falsifiable, they are just interpretations.

If we accept that (I’m not sure I do[1]), then that must be true of all interpretations, including the once most popular, Copenhagen/collapse. And as valuable is the "shut up and calculate" refusal to interpret anything, I suspect it is at least in part a way to avoid the possible demise of the collapse interpretation. A compromise of sorts.

[1]: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DFxoaWGEh9ndwtZhk/decoherenc...
Eh, it seems from the keynote that ChatGPT will be very selectively used, while most features will be powered by on-device processing and Apple's own private cloud running apple silicon.

So all in all, not sure if it's that great for Nvidia.
Kind of funny that we got a double LLM situation happening lol.
YT premium unfortunately scales very poorly for low usage. I probably average about one youtube video watched per month, so while I'm not opposed to paying something, I am opposed to watching any ads, and I'm not going to pay $13/video.
Mainly depends on which platforms you use. If you’re using Bitwarden on Android and/or Linux, then this isn’t a replacement. If you’re on Apple’s iOS/iPadOS/macOS or are on Windows, you can use this. These are also native apps, unlike Bitwarden’s Electron monstrosity on the desktop.

Bitwarden has been lagging in implementing any consumer features for some years now (custom item types has been on the roadmap for six years and is still not done). Except for secure notes in Bitwarden, I don’t think you’d miss anything else in this app. Bitwarden is spending money and focus on the enterprise, just like 1Password has been. For the consumer segment, neither of these are good enough now.
You can not eat every meal at work and also be a part of a functioning family.
Its replaces 3 lenses your 35(mainly), 28 and 45 so worth it.
This looks cool for v1! The only problem I see is most devices don't have much RAM, so local models are small and most requests will go to the servers.

Apple could use it to sell more devices - every new generation can have more RAM = more privacy. People will have real reason to buy a new phone more often.
Honestly - mixed feelings. This looks more like a way to build up academic/collegiate level knowledge on computer graphics than a way of familiarizing yourself with shaders/rendering techniques.

It is also woefully incomplete.
Hahaha I was not aware of the Slack alternative too hahah point taken
Just based on my own experience and knowledge of the animation industry, it seems to be more of a risk-aversion/lack-of-imagination problem. It is true that getting onto major streaming platforms requires insider knowledge/connections, but there sure are a lot of people using free platforms that anyone can upload to, like YouTube.
It's a great company, but it's a basic technology firm, which is pretty typical for the kind of industry that have traditionally been viewed as sensible in Europe. Such industries are subject to business cycles, i.e. the classic problem with machine tools, so people in these businesses need to think differently about what is good and bad, and what is sensible.

The companies that compete in AI are companies that use the products of the companies that use the products of these companies, and the foundation doesn't really have much to do with what's built on top of it.

If we want microchip manufacturing the thing we'd build on top would probably be NXP, but I don't think we really want microchip manufacturing unless we want to do something special. I don't have a problem with what I hear about TSMCs prices, they sound alright.

What's interesting to me would be if there was some effort to make European DL/floating point maths accelerators for sale to the general public, to rid of the world of NVIDIA's margins, so that more people can have access to such machines, and then presumably, once compute were cheaper it'd be easier to have a compute intensive AI firm in Europe.
Lock Casey Muratori in a room until he designs the right API? He definitely believes the current one is the wrong API :-)
To me, everything about how it's been presented so far says the point of how it's set up is that they don't want to use backends. They want everything to happen on device. Even having ChatGPT for expanded queries is an unfortunate necessity driven by the hardware not being powerful enough yet.

How much is run entirely on device so far is unclear, but the sessions later in the day should expand on that.
It's zero sum because increases in home value don't do anything for the home owner. They have to sell to liquidate that value, but then they need to buy another place to live. But since housing inflation is roughly even across regions, all of the proceeds from the sale of their current home have to be rolled back into their new one.

If a family moves into a $100k house, lives there for five years and sells it for $150k, they might have made $50k. But when they move into a $300k house that was worth $200k five years ago, their situation hasn't improved.

The only people who benefit are the odd ducks who buy in coastal California, then sell to move to Iowa.
Apple has largely maxed-out on iPhone market share, so investors probably want to see things more like subscription services than can bring in $XX billions new revenue per quarter.
How is it any more dangerous than having a picture of your ID on your phone? It uses a local model for finding and extracting data, and confirms before autofill.

Should we start auditing wallets next? People's driver licenses are sitting insecure and unencrypted in their pockets! Anyone could grab it!

Security is important, but being alarmist toward thoughtful progress hurts everyone.
This used to exist via QuickTime, but I wasn’t able to get it working recently.

> I suspect it will only be useful for emergencies as latency will be terrible, though.

If they can make the macOS display feature in visionOS usable, I imagine they can make this work too.
> This feels like something Apple could have executed well by themselves. I was hoping they weren't going to outsource

Who is to say they aren't eventually going to replace the OpenAI integration with an in-house solution later down the line? Apple Maps was released in 2012, before that they relied on Google Maps.
I am not very familiar with Triplebyte but I really appreciated this (seemingly) candid yet lucid writeup about how it was all went down from the inside.

These kind of insider perspectives, even if they come with their own biases, are very interesting nevertheless.

I wish I would see these types of articles more often.
I tried watching it again recently thinking "lol this movie ain't shit it's been five years this won't fuck me up".

NOPE. Nightmares. Horrible film. Important film, but horrible.
What I dislike about the 7 → 8 transition is that it went from feeling like a handcrafted Mac app to an indistinguishable generic SaaS thing, which is exacerbated by 8 being built with Electron (which brings dozens of little papercuts that are difficult to smooth out, even if the dev cares to try to).
"Community of shareholders"
The massive difference here is that Apple Recall is 100% on device. (for the use cases they demoed anyways)

EDIT: Yes, I'm wrong.
Electron apps are usually (not always necessarily) sluggish and don’t support native UI paradigms or keyboard shortcuts or navigation. The Bitwarden desktop app is one of the bad ones.
Fun fact! NeXT was a commercial att unix fork. The transition from the unix base to the BSD base did infact happen at apple after the acquisition. The value of next was in its application library, which would eventually become the mac foundation libraries like coreaudio and cocoa etc. The earliest releases of Rhapsody are very illuminative about the architecture of XNU/OSX. I don't doubt that linux was considered. There's a specific time when the actual move of rhapsody to a freebsd base occurred and it was at apple sometime in 97 or 98 iirc.
The information provided for level two is end to end encrypted and not stored so the risk level is pretty low here.
Sadly, proly not till next year. I'm funding this myself and hardware is hard. Embedding it into a case has a whole lotta mechanical engineering challenges as well.

The desktop and tablet version will be released this year though.
Once I get a really good lens of a particular type I find it hard to use a similar lens that is not so good. I cannot get over the quality of photos with this lens

https://electronics.sony.com/imaging/lenses/full-frame-e-mou...

I like it even better than the much more expensive 135mm G Master I have except the autofocus of the 90mm is too slow to shoot volleyball indoors.

Sometimes I think I'd like to try a lightweight lens and/or a lens with a very wide zoom range, but in the end I can have convenience and come back with photos that aren't so good and a lot of times you get just one chance to take a shot so why take one that's less than it could be?
How to build an AI data center
So it is not really private then.
I am deeply disturbed they decided to go off-device for these services to work. This is a terrible precedent, seemingly inconsistent with their previous philosophies and likely a pressured decision. I don't care if they put the word "private" in there or have an endless amount of "expert" audits. What a shame.
Of course it would falsify quantum mechanics, because MWI is nothing but the most austere version of QM. But people always speak of Copenhagen as if it was the standard interpretation of QM and everything else must be measurable different from it. In another world, MWI would have been the first consensus interpretation, and people postulating unfalsifiable wave collapses would be the weirdos.

Also, MWI doesn't assume infinite worlds, it predicts them. It's a consequence, not a postulate.
For iOS & Mac https://thevault-app.com does exactly that for me. Storing PDFs, or just plain images of passport, drivers license etc (in addition to passwords). It’s a bit on the technical site (eg, also has cmd: prefix for terminal commands etc)
Now if they only would allow me to take the focused window to the next workspace without using the mouse.