skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's really no such thing as "working with computers" (as is often said), because every piece of tech was made by and for humans, so social skills always matter. The hardest projects I've succeeded at depended on looking at things that way, even purely technical solo ones.
> That sounds like a feature that will have major, lifesaving impacts for 0.01% of users but will not matter at all to most folks

Apple's "Emergency SOS" feature launched back in November 2022 (in the U.S., on iPhone 14 and up).

Normal texting via satellite will be subtle, perhaps, but it will be one of those things where we will look back and thing "huh, wasn't that weird when we could message people almost everywhere instead of everywhere?"
Remember when WWDC was actually cool/fun? The dad jokes and over the top marketing BS is truly insufferable at this point.

Apple is definitely in its Balmer era. Give us something to get excited about, the presenters aren’t even excited about what they’re presenting.
Apple Intelligence: every new AI feature coming to the iPhone and Mac
It's always felt like a stretch them trying to turn this story into a franchise. It's like a Death Note franchise it just doesn't make sense.
Nice!

UI suggestion: show the probabilities for a move as a point in a triangle, with your outcome labels on the vertices. (Or maybe as red/green/neutral colors in the triangle's interior.) This representation is called the "probability simplex". It would look less busy, quicker to scan, I think.
Sounds like a massive Quality of Life upgrade.

And with the claimed cost of living in France - $672/month for an apartment & utilities, $219/month for food, $110/month for insurance plus phone, etc. - the $30k/year she's supposedly earning now (for 40 hours a week, with 5 weeks paid vacation annually) is d*mned obviously a better deal than the $100+k/year she was supposedly earning in Seattle.
Would sama?
content-based addressing! Go big or go broke!
This has been the bane of my existence since switching from android. Even using the google keyboard doesn't seem to help. I have no idea how the text input is so bad on iphone--maybe it's my own fault for not being familiar with the device (though i generally don't have his issue moving between pixel devices).
The way OpenAI protect their IP suggests to me that the USP is not that U.
Get a Garmin InReach Mini 2, they're best-in-class for this purpose.

There's no denying that smartphone messaging via satellite is game-changing in this space (and I hope my Garmin Fenix watch will one day have 2-way SOS messaging capability integrated into it) but I wouldn't trust a smartphone for this.
Android has a permission for internet access. It's still there, but enabled for everybody by default. This was an intentional decision on the part of Google.

Back in the day, you could install Android apps that explicitly did not use the internet permission. You could make your installation decisions based on whether apps requested that permission and whether it made sense for them to do so. Some AOSP mods even let you disable that permission for apps (though YMMV as to how well that actually worked in practice).
I'm personally not a constructivist or even finitist (mostly for pragmatic reasons), but discussions about Gödel get sidetracked by musings about either of these philosophies so often that I feel it's important to point out that there is an understanding of Gödel's theorems that can be understood and discussed regardless of one's commitment to a particular philosophy of mathematics (well, at least assuming some "reasonable" base).

If you are a finitist, you could interpret Gödel's theorem to mean that infinite systems such as the natural numbers don't actually exist, because they can never be understood in full (I'm not a finitist, so maybe I'm wrong in this conclusion). If you're a classical platonist, they would mean that the "natural numbers" do exist in some platonic realm, but will never fully be captured by human mathematics. If you're a formalist like me, maybe you'd say that it's very useful to pretend that the natural numbers exist, but that strictly speaking we don't really fully understand what they are or should be (but it turns out not to matter all that much).

Either way, a complete theory of the natural numbers doesn't exist.
Your “if/else” block is another person’s AI.
That doesn't make any sense.

How could addressing that single incident help explain Triplebyte's failure to find product-market fit?

Privacy violations sure haven't stopped any other successful corporation I can think of from finding product-market fit.
New "Apple Intelligence" AI features will be opt-in by default
I don't think so.

The proliferation of dongles and adapters is a function of Apple's apparent ultimate goal of moving everything possible to wireless. The Vision Pro doesn't even have a way to connect external devices. I think that's intentional.

Yes, it's a huge limitation right now. Over time, all of those dongles has led to more and more peripherals supporting Bluetooth. Bluetooth has gotten better in the process.

You'll be sitting next to someone on a plane with a fully self-contained headset. They may have peripherals in their carryon, but you won't see them. The era of the "personal area network" is almost here, it's just hard to see because we're in a transitional period still.
Device policies are actually harder than it may seem (to enforce that no data leaves the device). Here is a comment by a Google employee. It is about the internet access permission, but this part illustrates that side channels exist.

> Requests to be able to remove internet access are almost always really requests to “make sure this app can’t get any data off the device.” However, just removing this permission does not actually give that guarantee; there are numerous side-channels apps can use to still get data off the device. 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. And there are many others. It is really hard to actually give a guarantee that no data can be exfiltrated, while still giving enough capability for most apps to be functional.

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/ci4tdq/were_on_...
I'm confused about the using the greyscale map tiles to estimate ping.

You don't want to have the users ping the servers themselves because those pings could be inaccurate or noisy, so you use historical average data for users in that region instead to get a nice simple number. But... how do you know where the user is? IP Geolocation? Can't that be wrong also?

Isn't it better to have a direct measurement which could be a little wrong than an average of a guess which could be really wrong?
Not quite right…

https://www.emmys.com/shows/breaking-bad

https://www.emmys.com/shows/shameless
Valid point. I'm backing up my google drive to my NAS for the same reason and I should do the same with the email accounts in our families google workspace domain.

We're lucky to have snatched [ourlastname].[our countries TLD] so my son can have a really nice firstname@lastname.at address which in itself seems valuable these days.

I'm also worried that if he gets the account too soon and does some kind of unintended wipe, all data is lost so maybe the backup is the way to go
Project switching is also very common in larger firms with several divisions.

"A change is as good as a rest" as they say...

Have a great day, and I'll see you at the hot-springs friend =)
> Considering this service would be operated and owned by Apple, likely to have a deeper integration across its iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS platforms, and doesn't have the same track record of security breaches as competitors, it should make for a compelling alternative for many users.

Is the reason for fewer security breaches perhaps that the data wasn't as valuable to attackers (until now) ?
> I dunno how people without semi-flexible white collar work situations do anything with the healthcare system at all. I guess they either don’t, or they just have no vacation time left for actual vacation, ever.

Insurance company, starry-eyed: “You mean they can’t make many claims and we keep all the money?”

Employer, salivating: “and they won’t be able to take leave for more than a few hours at a time?!”
> many people will complain their regulation is too lax

Oh, definitely. No matter how tight or lax the regulation is, people will complain any existing regulations are too lax, and too harsh.

The more interesting bit how different populations will respond.

The do you own research folks will complain about both sides: both that the regulations are too tight and too loose. "Be better" will be thrown about.

Underrepresented minorities will hear all the noise, not hear many people of their own group, and inherently distrust the whole thing.

The people who actually own the problem will try to ignore the noise and focus on doing their jobs, keeping their own comments to themselves, thus depriving the conversation of the voices that would be most helpful.

The silent majority (or at least largest minority) will quietly make decisions based on un-admitted allegiances and biases.
I think you're close but missing an element. FreeBSD is a centrally designed and implemented OS from kernel to libc to userland. The entire OS is in the source tree, with updated and correct documentation, with coherent design.

Any systems level team will prefer this form of tightly integrated solution to the systems layer problem if they are responsible for the highly built out specialized distributed application we call netflix. The reasons for design choices going all the way back to freebsd 1 are available on the mailing list in a central place. Everything is there.

Trying to maintain your own linux distro is insanely difficult, infact google still uses a 2.2 kernel with all custom back ported updates of the last 30 years.

The resources to match the relatively small freebsd design and implementation team are minuscule compared to the infinite crawl of linuxes, a team of 10 freebsd sysprogs is basically the same amount of people responsible for designing and building the entire thing.

It comes down to the sources of truth. In the world of fbsd that's the single fbsd repo and the single mailing list. For a linux, that could be thousands of sources of truth across hundreds of platforms.
Why single out lastpass in the title?
> EU's antitrust pressure

Or regulations in China:

* https://www.miit.gov.cn/gzcy/yjzj/art/2023/art_2d5a7969581b4...

* https://old.reddit.com/r/UniversalProfile/comments/153rrwl/c...

* https://9to5google.com/2024/02/16/iphone-rcs-china/

* https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/20/apple-rcs-message-compl...
It was infuriating joining a robotics company with a ROS based stack. A lot of the original engineers had started at the company in undergrad as interns, and I swear it was impossible to make anything better because they didn’t know what better looked like. They just understood ROS and were highly proficient with it, so any move away from ROS would slow down the engine of the company.
I created Gmail accounts for all three of my kids when they were infants. They're now 7, 13, and 15, and the fact that they have accounts makes it SOOOOOOOOO much easier to share them content they may care about in the future, like family vacation itineraries, congratulatory or welcome emails about specific events or achievements, copies of school transcripts, and perhaps most importantly, photos & albums. Now that the older two also have phones and have their own personal needs for email, it's convenient that they have established accounts based on their names that they can use, and I use Family Link to manage their access to stuff.

Whether you choose Google products, Apple products, or something else entirely, I heartily recommend creating accounts for your kids when they're young.
Incredible. It finally happened!
Hmmm... haven't thought about those in a long time, even though I was looking at the "White Mountains" earlier today.

Seems as if EAB would've agreed his frame story could've been handled a bit better[0], but as he did go to a sanatorium once prescribed, I guess my imputation of paranoia driving choice of island over institution had been apophenic[1]. Maybe he was just into it because all the rich kids at St Cyprian's used to summer (ca.1915?) in exotic[2] Scotland?

Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Mv6gXqADM

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360500/#:~:tex...

[1] when did Sonia start working with IRD, anyway?

[2] two bits of information (decent bits, so we shan't mention Oliver Mellors!) as to what constituted "exotic" in postwar Britain: (a) Spaghetti Trees [1957], and (b) the first James Bond [1953] is set all the way across the Channel in "Royale-les-Eaux".
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Agreed.

I have it set to the highest setting to reduce accidentally triggering it. It's hard to trigger on purpose and still triggers too much accidentally.

Basing in on gestures is a big step forward. I think the next step has already been implemented in Moon Player: you can touch your middle finger to your thumb to toggle gesture detection. Super useful when you're snacking and watching a movie :)
Can't forget about stuff like the gridman series of series, BNA and even a movie, promare.
I'm very disappointed they didn't make any improvements in this area. This was the number 1 thing I was hoping from.
It's good to see that 1Password is staying several steps ahead here to avoid being "Sherlocked" by Apple.

The new SSH key manager feature is an example of something Apple's unlikely to address for years, if ever. https://developer.1password.com/docs/ssh/manage-keys/
How did it take them 17 years to figure out how to not shove icons into one corner??
Surprised to see Forget LastPass, as if it's the current incumbent. It very much isn't, at least in my perception. LastPass disgraced itself into irrelevance back in 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass#2022_customer_data_an...
I remember an internet poster in 2015 claiming iWork was going to put Microsoft Office out of business.
I understand they have each taken steps to avoid that, notably by installing the OpenAI app on their phone's home screen.
Publicly verifiable server workers to run larger models? It's interesting how private it will actually turn out to be.
Plus APGL. Not gonna use. Want local, private and FOSS.
Having seen the screams from some people when you use GPL legally I can't blame the lawyers. You might be correct but you will still get annoying people yelling you are not. there is also the cost to verifying you are correct (we put the wrong address in for where to send you request for sorce, fortunately a tester caught it before release, but still expensive as the lawyers forced the full recall process meaning we had to send a tech to upgrade the testers instead of saying where to download the fix)
Took them seventeen years to figure out the technology
Raw byte string literals (b'') and their type in the language are details you can be unaware of if you didn't live through the Python 2->3 transition or don't deal with binary data buffers.
The Adopted Dallas Woman Who Found Family on the Other Side of the World
They were just so expensive compared to everything else.

And so locked down - did the iPod even have Windows support in the beginning? I can't remember.
Any questions or concerns?

I've been using it extensively since the week it was released, and am happy to answer questions. I do my best to highlight both the advantages and drawbacks.
I don't think it is the same as iphone/ipod. I knew a lot of people that had the original iphone and ipod. Everyone had phones and a lot of people had mp3 players, iphone/ipod were just a different phone/mp3 player. I know some people that have VR headsets but nobody, personally, that has the vision pro. And the original iphone/ipod _did_ replace a single device. Vision pro is a new product in a market that has little adoption. Maybe it is more like the ipad? Or maybe it is just different than any previous apple release.

I'm overall bullish on AR/VR but the time horizon on it becoming mainstream has turned out a lot longer than I imagined when I first bought an HTC vive 8 or so years ago. :)
TableTopKit sounds pretty interesting. It's always stood out to me as probably one of the best initial use cases for AR. Now you just need a group of friends with $3500 to spare each...
It's so good, every time I hear that apple has added essential functionality, I'm just like, 'about damn time'.

The customizations don't have to be used if you don't want them.
I think I disagree actually, if I’m looking for info from a government agency I would rather see the absence of information on the government site, and explore from there. Possible see why I misunderstood the what regulations I have to follow or how I misunderstood what services the government provides. That’s much better than somebody’s (even well intended) best guess or interpretation.
when your name is Linus you probably could expect to get something like this?
Intel Macbooks throttled the CPU with SpeedStep since at least i5, maybe earlier.
Exactly, Evangelion is about the end of the world which can only end once. That may make it poignant but it doesn't have the staying power of Gundam or Macross or Pretty Cure where they can keep telling variations of the same story in different places and times indefinitely. (Funny to think how they weren't sure if they'd finish the first season of Futari Wa Pretty Cure so their budget for writing and direction was zero for a few episodes in the middle that were mostly incomprehensible scenes of people being corrupted, turned into monsters, and walking around doing things Kung Fu masters would do in Dragonball Z until suddenly the show started making sense again... And of course they went on to make another 20+ seasons)
Yeah, since there are way weirder opinions online, than one can hope for, irony online is a tricky thing ..
Sadly, tvtropes removed the link to the video [1] from the page on gainaxing[2]

[1] https://vimeo.com/512552697

[2] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Gainaxing

Edit: So, I wanted to check the discussion/history page to see when/why it was removed. Both need a login, and I can't create an account with a disposable address... Feels pretty suspicious.
It looks to be a new surface on iCloud Keychain, which has existed and been deeply integrated into Apple OSes for a long time. It doesn't seem intuitively too likely this would make it a much more appealing target than it is already.
Storing config in container registries vs. Git
I do wonder when we're finally going to get LLM-level accuracy applied to text input (both keyboard and dictation).

Not to try to do anything predictive, but just to get words right when it would be clear to any human what the intended word would be in context, both gramatically as well as in subject matter.

I have to assume you could do this pretty well with a vastly smaller model that would run on an iPhone.

I mean, dictation on my iPhone is vastly better than it was 10 years ago -- it's usable for a lot of stuff that it simply wasn't usable for previously (dictating brainstorming ideas while lying on the couch, for example). But it still makes a lot of mistakes and just skips far too many words it can't seem to figure out.
Why Musk's Delaware fight will rage on even after the Tesla shareholder vote
https://archive.ph/jAYGB
Cydia had this 10 years ago xD
They've named this platform "Personal Intelligence Service"... Or PIS. Which seems like the type of brand name you'd find in a GTA game.
If that was the campaign they ran for the Google+ Photos feature launch in 2012 (when they released Photos before making it standalone in 2015), the other part is that the campaign encouraged people to take pictures of their very young children in order to catalog their life.

Then, their Google+ architecture allowed random people not part of the family group to view said photos of people's very young children, and it got a round in the tech news cycle. They started tightening up the architecture and in the process decoupled it from the dying Google+ to go on to release it in 2015.
The funny thing is, the studio claims last episode of Gunbuster was done black&white on purpose - in fact, that black&white was more expensive the way they did it than otherwise.

Unfortunately I suspect that outside of the people directly involved we won't ever hear properly. The rumours flew around since early 1990s, and there is the part that Gunbuster was originally supposed to be a TV series (AFAIK), and as result the plot was extremely compressed into those 6 episodes that we got ultimately.

And it's not like the studio was not known otherwise for wild swings even when they didn't run out of money... (anyone remembers how Mahoromatic ended?)
We have a pool one for expeditions. But it's not reliable. The one time we needed it, the thing was on the fritz so we had to carry a guy with a broken leg 10km.

I would like 2 completely different channels to communicate over.
Huh - you're right.

I was younger then, and wasn't as "tied in" to tech news. I misremembered that part it seems.

The first iPod I saw in the wild was in ~2003-2004. I remember thinking it was really expensive for what it was, but it seemed crazy that it could hold an entire library of music.
I didn't want to editorialize the article title, but yeah, it's tacky.
Interactions between desktop and phone app were a whole extra kettle of electric eels.
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Omniflow is the AI Copilot to automate end to end project development workflow. With a few sentences of input, it will create the project requirements, tech design, api, task breakdown, estimation etc.
I think the most important and somewhat massive news is that Apple built an entire LLM private cloud using Apple Silicon - that's a big deal/investment.
Because they are the most popular password manager
I won't propose a solution since I'm not in charge, but my guess for what will happen regardless is the EU outsources its tech innovation to some other place where they can still reap the rewards. Kinda like how they've imported energy from countries with lower environmental standards.
Why not write them on a document page, then pdf them or whatever. Save them locally on a disk or some high end drive that you can be sure it will not go bad during that time period.
Having a consistent ordering avoids differences in results from inconsistent ordering by construction. IIUC, Alpha sort was/is used as a tie breaker after declared dependencies or other ordering information.

In this case, two (or more) modules indicate they can handle the same hardware and didn't have information on priority if both were present. Probably this should be detected / raise a fault, but under the previous regime of alpha sort, it was handled nicely because the preferred drivers happened to sort first.
IIRC TripleByte was supposed to be that org - I thought I remember some of their framing being that they'd be like a Hollywood talent agency for developers.

The big problem with the model is again misunderstanding your competition and how the industry actually works. The market for skilled developers already functions largely like this. The "talent agents" are engineering managers, both on the sell-side (through references, and bringing over good engineers they've worked with when they join a new company) and on the buy-side (through identifying and recruiting good talent that may not be trying hard to sell themselves). This is a core EM skill - many teams will live or die by how well their managers can identify actually-talented devs, even ones who may not be slick or polished, and bring them onto the team. It's also the EM's responsibility to understand the recruitment process at their company well enough to shepherd candidates who won't look impressive to recruiters through it.
Sounds like some combination of source-available server software and remote attestation from the Apple servers to me.
Yes, we know. (from earlier:) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40627155 It's not surprising.