skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an unfair side jab at Deno, it’s not being used as widely as Node (yet), but it’s the go-to edge runtime beside Cloudflare workers and the underlying system powering Supabase functions.
> reinventing the wheel with an extra library/Accelerate Framework/MPS solution that nobody knows about and has to convert models to use.

This is Apple's favorite thing in the world. They already have an Apple-Silicon-only ML framework as of a few months ago, called MLX. Does anyone know about it? No. Do you need to convert models to use it? Yes.
Siri is a toy, but I don't think that was Apple's intent. It's been a long-standing complaint that using Siri to search the web sucks compared to other companies offerings.
Firing 80% of the employees coincided with a comparable drop in stock value.

Management master class of the decade? Certainly debatable but I suspect Musk would prefer to have the stock value back.
> Here's Apple's big problem: it's not a replacement for so many alternatives because it isn't supported on all platforms.

I don’t see why that would be a big problem for Apple.

As this article explains, this isn’t new functionality. It’s (mostly) a new UI for existing functionality, to make the hardware they sell and make lots of money on more attractive.
> All other AI features within the OS are powered by Apple's Private Compute Cloud

Clarification: All other AI features within the OS are powered by on device models which can reach out to the private cloud for larger workflows & models.
Similar experience, ironically the experiment of going from thinkpad to a “linux tailored laptop” aka tuxedo infinitybook triggered the final decision of getting a macbook after spending months exasperated trying to make the tuxedo work as expected.
Until this gets into reviewers' hands, I think it's fair to say that we really have no idea how good any of this is. When it comes to AI being able to do "all kinds of things," it's easy to demo some really cool stuff, but if it falls on its face all the time in the real world, you end up with the current Siri.

Remember this ad? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw1iwC7Zh24 12 years ago, they promised a bunch of things that I still wouldn't trust Siri to pull off.
Isn't it possible to force these devices only call a fixed IP address? Same thing for phones: why are these devices allowed to call back arbitrary IP addresses without the owner's control?
>Be me, have iPhone 6s

>Can't get many apps these days

>Can't use AI apps at all

>Battery last about 2 hours

>Never used iCloud, barely used iTunes

>Apple announces new "free" Ai Assistant for everyone

well...not everyone
Its possible the only means of practical escape for her were by sea, and she did not know how to swim - but only someone from her entourage did (perhaps the slave that delivered the message).
Here's a quote from Eben Upton (CEO of Raspberry Pi Trading, 2023):

“We know what people don’t like about [RP]2040,” Upton admitted at the event, “the [Arm Cortex-]M0+ [architecture], could have more RAM, could have more GPIO [General-Purpose Input/Output], and we know what people do like — the PIO [Programmable Input/Output blocks]… and we have a chip team.”, [0][1]

That doesn't sound too bad, hmm?

[0] https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/12/04/raspberry-pi-hints-at-n...

[1] https://www.hackster.io/news/eben-upton-hints-at-an-rp2040-s...
Apple Music has a decent web player, so it's technically supported on Linux
Two companies who have earned very different reputations over the decades, will elicit rather different reactions when announcing similar features, yes.

I also missed the part of the linked article where it says that my Mac is going to take a screenshot every few seconds and store it for three months.
At least 2 ways:

1) In hindsight. Usually the truth/details eventually become available. This reqires them to be observant/curious enough to notice.

2) By bring close enough to the news item to have the story contradict your knowledge. This is how it worked for me, and made me dig deeper.

Working against both of these is Gell-Mann amnesia and a general lack of attention.
Switching to 24-hour clock solves that problem.

Personally, 12h clock always confused me, so I wouldn't blame Siri.
Apple's put ChatGPT integration on the very edge of Apple Intelligence. It's a win for OpenAI to have secured that opportunity, and Nvidia wins by extension (as long as OpenAI continues to rely on them themselves), but the vast majority of what Apple announced today appears to run entirely on Apple Silicon.

It's not especially big news for Nvidia at all.
Apple outsourced chips to IBM (PowerPC) for a long time and floundered all the while. They went into the game themselves w/ the PA Semi acquisition and now they have Apple Silicon to show for it.
The issue with this implementation is that the result is a huge batch of data that the new adult has to sort through... I don't know how engaging that will turn out.

So my take on it is that I shoot videos for my daughter, with the plan that they'll be drip-released (1 per week) to her when she either:

- turns 18

- leaves home for "college" or the equivalent

- or loses her dad (me)

I figure that building some anticipation and sharing the story as bite-size pieces is emotionally more interesting.

Also...

Last year Google deleted 175GB of data that I'd been storing on a paid account for 10+ years.

I don't think they can be considered a durable storage medium... especially if your account is a FREE one.
> Sun took a while to change the model but went bigger on OSS than any other company by a mile. They published their code but not under an OSS license.

? The big one I know about was OpenSolaris under CDDL; what non-OSS licenses did they use?
I think you mean: Apple the company should be able to block stuff on devices Apple the company paid for (for their internal employees). Not all of the ones Apple manufactured.
Proton drive and keepassx, keepass2android and keepass
I installed Rectangle about 4 hours ago based on another thread! Tim Apple knows all.
cuda is x86. the only way from 100% market share is down.

…though it took two solid decades to even make a dent in x86.
> Turn off what part and why?

Assume any part, and assume none of your business.
Carplay Siri functionality is currently neutered. A lot of times it won't answer more complex questions that would otherwise be answered without Carplay.
Apple already has an iCloud app for Windows and has had an iCloud Password Chrome extension for years. There is no support for Android.
That quote is about their own LLMs, not about the use of ChatGPT.
That's an interesting point, but then one wonders that if software eng are ultimately artists, why are we not having them work on their portfolios like the other art disciplines? Is that the fundamental problem?
> Can you provide examples of where Apple has substituted non-standard connectivity where standard-compliant would have worked as well?

I'll do you one better, actually; here's an entire product category full of it: https://mfi.apple.com/

> It sucks that we have a mix of both right now, but that's a consequence of Lightning having failed to gain wider adoption, not of it being a bad product.

And why did that happen? Couldn't possibly be because the Lightning connector is license and patent-encumbered whereas USB is a freely-implemented standard.

You make it sound like Lightning was a legitimate competitor. It was a lost cause, with Apple being the single advocate for it's adoption and refusing to concede on any of the connector's pain-points. It could have gone up against MicroUSB and still lost.

> Firewire "lost" that battle and USB-C "won"

Specifically because Apple worked with the industry to create a USB-compliant standard to supersede FireWire (Thunderbolt). Now that we have Thunderbolt it really feels stupid that FireWire even existed in the first place.

> If Apple was trying to kill off USB-C, it would have made much more sense to go all-in on Firewire back when it still had a chance.

Not really, since FireWire was still a minority connector and they could have literally never forced the entire industry to support it.

> I don't think that's evil. I think it's a rational tradeoff. You don't have to agree with me on that :)

Then surely you won't disagree with the people that get angry when Apple spurns Open standards in favor of less functional proprietary options.

All Apple has to do, to avoid criticism, is offer both as an option. Users will gravitate towards whichever product they prefer, which is a concept foreign to Apple called "competition".
I want the source list to be the Finder on my Mac, not "All Photos" on the iPhone. I frequently have 2000+ photos to bring over at once; I hate dragging through all of them to select them, with one mis-touch resetting the selection. I've also found AirDrop to be very unreliable at that scale (does it even work? I've never used it for more than ~a dozen items), and want reliable file transfer functionality that can pick up where it left off if it gets interrupted.
It was a joke that Apple can control software on devices that they (Apple) paid for. Since it’s they user that pays money - they should be in charge of the software.
when I said revocation system, I intended to convey something similar to Online Certificate Status Protocol, rather then a hardcoded list that needs to be synchronized between all the physical servers.

You are correct though, you can keep a list and deploy it to all the nodes for revocation purposes.

It's unfortunate that there's no RevokedKeysCommand to support building something like OCSP.
I wonder if there are just geopolitical or demographic issues. Brazil is larger than Mexico by a bit, there are a lot more Spanish speaking countries. Spain and Mexico are similar sizes, while Brazil is much larger than Portugal, plus Mexico has to deal with the US, and our endless appetite for talented people, being right next door…
> When netflix was founded the only viable commercial linux vendor was rhel and the support contract would have been about the same as just hiring the fbsd core team at salary.

AFAIK, currently, Netflix only uses FreeBSD for their CDN appliances; their user facing frontend and apis live (or lived) in AWS on Linux. I don't know what they were running on before they moved to the cloud.

I don't think they started doing streaming video until 2007 and they didn't start deploying CDN nodes until 2011 [1]. They started off with commercial CDNs for video distribution. I don't know what the linux vendor marketplace looked like in 2007-2011, but I'm sure it wasn't as niche as in 1997 when Netflix was founded. I think they may have been using Linux for production at the time that they decided to use FreeBSD for CDN appliances.

> Hiring foss devs and putting them under NDA for everything they write that doesn't get upstreamed is an excellent way to get nearly everything upstreamed aswell, and the cost of competitors then porting these merged upstream changes back down into their linux is not nothing, so this gives a competitive moat advantage.

I don't think Netflix is particularly interested in a software moat; or they wouldn't be public about what they do and how, and they wouldn't spend so much time upstreaming their code into FreeBSD. There's an argument to be made that upstreaming reduces their total effort, but that's less true the less often you merge. Apple almost never merges in upstream changes from FreeBSD back into mac os; so not bothering to upstream their changes saves them a lot of collaborative work at the cost of making an every 10 years process a little bit longer.

At WhatsApp, I don't think we ever had more than 10 active patches to FreeBSD, and they were almost all tiny; it wasn't a lot of effort to port those forward when we needed to, and certainly less effort than sending and following up on getting changes upstream. We did get a few things upstreamed though (nothing terribly significant IMHO; I can remember some networking things like fixing a syncookie bug that got accidentally introduced and tweaking the response for icmp needs frag to not respond when the requested mtu was at or bigger than the current value; nothing groundbreaking like async sendfile or kTLS).

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20121021050251/https://signup.ne...
"Obscured" sounds weak and deliberately vague on their part.
It's one thing to have private information at rest, another to have it indexed, and interpreted by a LLM. What if some virus orders the LLM to search for blackmail material and email it to them? The very act of putting a LLM near your data is a security concern. If someone else orders your Siri to reveal something, it can get to the prize in seconds, with AI help.
It's so nice of them to act so openly maliciously so that not even the most naive person can believe they should have a say in which apps get published in third party stores.
Put on notice? What's better about this than 1password?
It's good to have a story (I worry it's become cool slightly before we've hit the jackpot theory-wise, but still) for this but it does feel a little odd having it in "python" / a language which both idiomatically a syntactically isn't particularly interested in references and values and so on.
Keepass2android and proton drive along with the keepass windows app
I'm loading it from itch.io and apparently they always break something.

Next free time i got I'll load the game from my own server. Sorry about that. You can play it on Android for free if you want
1Password has gotten way, way better than it was a few years ago in my opinion. Tons of new features and the redesign a couple years ago was a big improvement.
> include a small but rich (and sometimes astonishing) variety of systems ranging from research and teaching-oriented computers to high-performance personal computers.

Why exactly would it be "astonishing?"
I haven't determined yet whether the new Passwords app will support my killer feature for 1Password: non-password-stuff.

I keep family members' social security numbers, security questions and answers, passport numbers, etc in there, and I don't want to split that data between a passwords app & secure notes.
Right. This thread on the other hand ...
But I am saying that is the wrong comparison. The LLM doesn’t need to implement a human brain directly. It needs to implement a sophisticated enough simulation of people that the simulation itself contains ”people” who believe in themselves.

I don’t know LLMs do that, but they are excellent function approximators, and the laws of physics which allow for my brain to be conscious also can be considered some function to approximate. If the LLM can approximate that function well enough, then simulated humans would truly believe in their own existence, as I do.

And it isn’t really important whether or not consciousness is part of the simulation or not, if the end result is the simulator is capable of emulating people to a greater extent.
Yes, but GP was talking about the AI workloads Apple will be running on their own servers (which are indeed distinct from those explicitly labeled as ChatGPT).
> Dozens of innocuous-seeming apps collect private data

Like Google Play, Google Chrome, Google Photos, Google Phone, Google Contacts and so on and so forth.

This is a very perverse thing from Google.
If they haven’t already, I won’t be surprised if Apple creates a reasonable password app for Android and Windows specifically to address this concern. Fanning out to other platforms to enable customers to continue using Apple products is a decent strategy that probably does more to retain people within the Apple ecosystem than it does to enable a move away from Apple.
That can result in anti-trust action if you have a monopoly, which isn't true for Apple in the U.S. The EU has different rules which I don't pretend to understand.
It's almost crazy that someone hasn't come up with an insurance company for false DCMA claims. They'd probably be rolling in cash and it would put some serious pressure on people throwing their weight around.
...of its user?

I'll update ASAP.
On top of that having to open up system preferences to add a new entry was just insane. Hopefully, this new UI into it will lessen that pain.
Controversial pesticide research all but vanished from a major conference
This is exciting because the current defacto standard for upgrading the graphics in a TI-99/4A is the F18A project, which is an FPGA based solution. It's really cool, but it's expensive and frequently unavailable.

I am interested to see if this project evolves in the direction of F18A compatibility. It will need to support 80 column mode at a minimum before I switch.
Now if we could just log in without id.me another 10% of the population will have access...

efpts.gov uses login.gov, irs.gov should do likewise...
Core Image Basics
Sure, you can... but you never would.

The whole point of an adult owning an iPad as a separate second device (besides using it as a drawing tablet or as a touch-control surface for professional production apps) is that it's a lightweight and more "rugged" portable computer than a laptop is, focused on enabling consumption and light computing tasks in situations where you either would worry about bringing a laptop, or just wouldn't care to deal with bringing a laptop.

The comparative advantage of an iPad over a laptop is found by just throwing it in your bag when you're going "out" and not planning to do work, and then pulling it out: in a coffee shop; at a park; on a beach; on a bus/train/plane; etc. Into, in other words, exactly the sorts of situations where you don't have a "permanent low latency network connection."

Any environment where relying on a remote desktop would make sense, is also an environment where the iPad has no comparative advantage. If you're in such an environment constantly, you'd just buy a laptop and never even consider an iPad!
> I just hope it will be clear how to keep my external brain (phone) from being scanned by OpenAI.

It's very clear, the keynote demonstrates that Siri passing a prompt to chatGPT is completely opt-in and only happens when Siri thinks the prompt needs the more generative/creative model that OpenAI provides.
I would like to see that codified in a binding agreement regulators can surface in discovery if needed. Trust but verify.
Facebook naming policy is horribly racist
I had a friend who asked me to help her mom get on Facebook.

My friend is having a baby and she wants her Mom to be able to follow along on Instagram or whatever.

The lady is Native American, and has a very Native American-sounding name. (She asked that I not give her real name, but it's similar to other names like "Kills Pretty Enemy" -- probably a bit less extreme that that even, maybe closer "Brown Otter".)

Anyway, I'm technical. I thought, "How hard could it be to get my friend's mom on Facebook?"

So after signing up it said basically, "Your account is in probation while we validate who you are." OK...

She told me that she had tried 3-4 times and had never gotten past that part.

And again I thought, "Nonsense, surely Facebook wouldn't deny someone the ability to sign up!"

But yeah fast forward a week, and here we are. This is what you see when you sign in.

https://imgur.com/a/Da3UQtv

This has been documented for almost 10 years at this point. If they wanted to "fix the bug" they would have. Safe to say Facebook is just racist at this point, yeah?

Telling people that they can't use their own names... that's so low. It's Facebook, and all the associated Meta products. Do this.

https://time.com/3710203/facebook-native-american-names/
Unity per the logo on the loading screen
Wish I could use Safari with uBO, so that I could use Safari. Tired of feature fragmentation in 3rd party software, but equally tired of ostensible limitations in 1st party software that try to control and prevent every single edge case use in the name of "uSeR ExPeRiEnCe".

EDIT: I'd like to add the following, in case any Safari team members come across this in the wake of today's keynote. I remain utterly disgusted by things like:

- hiding the full url by default

- force hiding the full url on certain ($) search engine sites

- force injecting 'client=safari' into my urls for ($)

- {google, yahoo, bing, duckduckgo, ecosia}

- inability to specify custom search engines and their urls

- removal of RSS reader (still salty)
For point 1 I'm not sure how may people are going to fire up Window on an emulator, find it doesn't handle touch events very well, and go "iPads suck". However, there are a number of people who have gone "I'd like to do X on the iPad but there's no good way to do it, iPads suck", especially in the developer realm.

This is especially true on the "Pro" version of the iPad, where the OS feels like a major constraint on what would otherwise be a very capable device.
You do realise that already happens though? If you read apple's privacy policy they send a lot of what you do to their servers.

Furthermore how private do you think Siri is? Their privacy policy explicitly states they send transcripts of what you say to them. That cannot be disabled.
If Apple were paying to use Google the partnership would not still exist today.
Usually those are for additive/linear systems, the problem with game theoretic graphs like these is that you alternate between max and min nodes, so the system is highly nonlinear.
How is it different from HTTrack? And what about the media extension, which one is supported and which one isn’t? Sometimes when I download some sites with HTTrack, some files just get ignored because by default it looks only for default types, and you have to manually add them there.
So you whine that Franxx has girl outfits with "butt handles", but then you like Kill la Kill, an anime that is so unapologetically about fan service. Actually funny.
A password manager that doesn't have an open-source client cannot be truely checked. Therefore it cannot be trusted to encrypt them before being sent nor to not contain a backdoor.

Apple was part of the PRISM program, we know they gave access to our data for mass spying.
Oh shit - that's a great point, this will make remote tech support a lot better
I'm not sure the economics would work out. It seems like it would be tough to get the bad actors to pay out in court beyond getting your legal fees back. In many cases they're basically just little scam corporations without many real assets that exist to cause trouble on behalf of the real bad actors.
Check out https://sideloadly.io to ease that pain
I have curtailed my internet commenting considerably in the last 12 months

it is now almost exclusively anti-AI, which funnily enough I don't mind them training on
Nobody blocks entire /24s because of one bad address

The only way to guarantee your server is secure is to never connect it to a network.
> why are we not having them work on their portfolios?

Who is having whom? Having a portfolio of work is a well understood benefit, and a lot of candidates have been doing it for some time.
Honestly I was surprised at how limited the ChatGPT integration seems to be. It felt like they 80/20'd AI with the onboard models + semantic index, but also wanted to cover that last 20% with some kind of SOTA cloud model. But they didn't necessarily NEED to.
Some of it will undoubtly be super useful. Things like:

- Proofread button in mail.

- ChatGPT will be available in Apple’s systemwide Writing Tools in macOS

I expect once you'll get used to it, it'll be hard to go without it.
News from WWDC24: WebKit in Safari 18 beta
I don't think this is a waste. When I read articles linked here from HN I actually learn something.

On Youtube it's mostly vacuous showmen like Linus tech tips and Mr Beast crap. I don't think there is much worth watching there except perhaps EEVBlog.
The electron rewrite was a significant step backwards regardless of features and quality. I cannot wait to ditch 1P.
baffling indeed- seems like they should be over-investing in AVP right now, not under-investing
IPad is great for direct manipulation, such as drawing / painting / rearranging things visually. In this regard, it far outstrips any macbooks.