skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For the first case I kept wondering why they needed so much complicated technology.

"It's always in the last place I looked"

I think we're seeing the first few guesses for where the car might be, but according to the author, there was a 40km distance between the cabin and the girlfriend's town.

Hindsight is 20/20, but I wouldn't put it past the author to commit beyond 3 search sites, some of which may require deeper and larger bodies of water (like the second investigation did).
Is it like inshallah? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/إن_شاء_الله

> if it is God’s will (literally, “if God has willed [it]”

>In sarcastic contexts, it suggests that the speaker has no interest in making the future event occur (thus, it will only occur if God steps in and wills it). Unlike the Arabic usage, this seems to be more attested in English than the literal meaning.

I've heard it used in terms of avoiding the evil eye.
> distinction between what Apple is doing and what everybody else is doing

it is artificial intelligence, applied intelligently.

In Apple's case: "personalised AI system"
Since Apple is building ChatGPT integration into its devices, it’s clear that Apple’s users’ data is going to be slurped by Microsoft via ClosedAI servers now.

It’s unlikely latency would permit them to proxy every request to fully mask end-user IPs (it’s unclear what “obscured” means), and they would probably include device identifiers and let Microsoft maintain your shadow profile if that could improve ChatGPT output (it may not require literally storing your every request, so denying that is weasel phrasing).
They also are just in a bad position to spend money right now. They’re worth so little compared to competitors like Nvidia. Talent has long since left, the x86 era is going away, and they aren’t competitive in any market really (mobile phones, laptops, data centers).
Ahh right. I somehow missed the implication of the work "confirmation" there. Sorry for jumping to conclusions...
Specifically, it can access screen content, but not window content. As in, passing in the desktop hwnd gets you a picture, passing in a different hwnd gets you a bunch of black. At least as of when I tried it a few months ago on Windows 10.
This is the best thing I've read on HN in months.

Hats off to the author and his willingness to combine his curiosity and skillset in such a rewarding way. We need more people like him.
If you are using a device that previously accessed your vault, it will be cached and accessible. It just won't sync until you regain network connectivity.
For everything other than handwriting I don't think the LoRAs are fine-tuned locally.
I wish there was a keyboard shortcut to run apps full screen
In general it's hard to carry on projects after the main author leaves. The plan is to fold many of the capabilities into Herbie over time.
Android CPUs are not playing in the same ballpark as Apple’s, there is always at least one generation difference between - and the core of these AI features is on-device intelligence, possibly by having managed to fit a good chunk of an LLM to an iphone. It being able to determine when to go online is the crucial part.

Also, apple bought up more ML startups than google or microsoft.
It looks like PrivateLLM uses the GPU for inferencing, from what I can tell, Apple is using the ANE on the A17 Pro. For M1 and above, I'd presume they are using the GPU since the ANE in M series isn't great.
Well that settles it, doesn't it?

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/the-wuhan-lab-leak-h...
Totally unrelated to the original topic, but looking at the linked article, is the name of the store "B&H Photo" a reference not only to the initials of the founders names but also tangentially to this concept?
Not immediately but it would be cool to integrate this with tools like flopoco that address that more directly.
I guess they're tired of their civilian employees being targeted by jihadists
I think it's worth considering how the causation runs. Being in a conservative environment but unable to conform could cause poor mental health and disaffection with the ideology. In a very broad stroke, this describes my personal experience.
Agreed, the dehyping of article titles is one of the main reasons I built hackyournews.com, and the avoidance of clickbait via proactive summarization is consistently rewarding.
Give me a source that they are selling your data, not targeted ads.
Your argument is no different than what Apple could do to your iPhone. The fact that it happens on the server changes nothing. Apple could push a button and have your iPhone upload whatever they want to their servers. In other words, based on your argument, you shouldn't trust anything, including locally run AI. You're probably right, but it isn't practical.

Edit: The final couple tweets from the Matthew Green tweet thread posted in another comment sum it up well:

> Wrapping up on a more positive note: it’s worth keeping in mind that sometimes the perfect is the enemy of the really good.

> In practice the alternative to on-device is: ship private data to OpenAI or someplace sketchier, where who knows what might happen to it. And of course, keep in mind that super-spies aren’t your biggest adversary. For many people your biggest adversary is the company who sold you your device/software. This PCC system represents a real commitment by Apple not to “peek” at your data. That’s a big deal. In any case, this is the world we’re moving to. Your phone might seem to be in your pocket, but a part of it lives 2,000 miles away in a data center. As security folks we probably need to get used to that fact, and do the best we can to make sure all parts are secure.
Look, I hate corporate bullshit but they will absolutely work on something for ten years then say "sunk cost fallacy" and cancel it overnight.
They use synthetic data in pretraining and teacher models in RLHF, that means they use models trained on copyrighted data to make derivative models, is that sitting ok with copyright owners?
I hate how quickly people are willing to give up thinking once a new magic tool comes along.

Even without AI, I’ll write a basic script to automate a task, and people will assume it’s magic. They’ll feed it complete garbage in, then wonder why it doesn’t work. They will also instantly forget how to do the task manually, after having done it manually for years prior. Within 2 days they forget everything and are fully dependent on their new tool. It’s terrifying.
People at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange back in colonial America had a system where when a ship landed in NYC it would have info about ships coming one or more days later to Philadelphia and they would semaphore the info over to high points in NJ and on down though to Philadelphia. The info would get from NYC to the exchange in 5 to 10 minutes, and insiders were able to trade at advantage with that info.
What personal data do you have on Microsoft? It doesn’t even know where my photos are as the folder structure is at the end completely arbitrary - how could it execute “call the person on this photo”, and similar level of integration?

This Apple AI presupposes their strong ecosystem, which no one has anything similar to. Google was in a good position years ago, but they are criminally unfocused nowadays.
According to the article, it would be difficult to tie any request to a user:

> Target diffusion starts with the request metadata, which leaves out any personally identifiable information about the source device or user, and includes only limited contextual data about the request that’s required to enable routing to the appropriate model

If this is the case, I wonder how the authentication would work. Is it a security through obscurity sort of situation? Wouldn't it be possible for someone, through extensive reverse engineering, to write a client in Python that gives you a nice free chat API and Apple would be none the wiser?
'Piracy' in this region began in the early 1700s - a quarter-millenium ago. 'Twas easier then though.

Here's another long, well-illustrated, little-known tale of exploration of the islands off N. Siberia. Fossil tusks were often found in huge quantities ... some islands covered in them.

https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2019/08/19/alaskan-muck-ivor...

"One of the most active and successful of the fur-hunters of that time was named Liakoff, and he from time to time obtained great quantities not only of valuable furs, but also of fossil ivory from the tusks and teeth of the mammoths, which he himself collected or received from the native Siberians.... Every year great quantities of ivorv were taken from the islands and sold in the markets at Yakutsk.
YOLO will work just fine.
Let's Hack: Extracting Firmware from Amazon Echo [video]
Not my video, but thought it was a good watch worth sharing
> Apple is very intrusive

> Apple uses your data.

> they do other things too, a different way

What specifically do you mean? Their frankly quite paranoid security and privacy white papers are pretty comprehensive and I don’t think they could afford to lie in those.

> Apple should allow a personal you-have-all-your-data iCloud

Advanced Data Protection[0] applies e2ee for basically everything, with the exception email, and doesn’t degrade the seamless multi-device experience at all. For most people this is the best privacy option by a long shot, and no other major platform can provide anything close.

They’ve hampered product experience for a long time because of their allergy against modelling their customers on the cloud. The advent of AI seems to have caught them a bit off guard but the integrated ecosystem and focus on on-device processing looks like it may pay off, and Siri won’t feel 5 years behind Google Assistant or Alexa.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-ca/102651
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Genuinely, what is the imagined use case for this?
Thank for sharing that paper. I am currently implementing a compiler that has very similar ideas to those presented in it. It's very different syntactically, but the mental model is quite similar. It's simultaneously encouraging and discouraging to see your ideas reflected back to you from 30 years in the past :)
That's the transitive part. The small companies that are using OpenAI are initially responsible, and it is their job to sue OpenAI. However, they are too small and too afraid so they don't.
I recently had to borrow one of those big trucks to do some towing. Sitting in the drivers seat I felt like I was staring through a narrow slit. The nose and entire dash of the car are so high up it felt very unsettling. It seems extremely unsafe!
mandatory 30 day retention policies or something like it
I can’t begin to count how many hours I’ve spent trying to help my mom untangle passwords for all of her accounts. I can’t help but laugh at the indignance over an approach that isn’t fully decentralized/anonymized/self-hostable/brushes-your-teeth-and-makes-you-toast/whatever.

I don’t need idealism. I need my mom to be able to figure out how to log into her bank without having to call me every time. The more that’s tied to a single ecosystem the better.
When I was a kid, I asked my dad why we used newspapers to light the fire in our fireplace, or why it was newspapers that the fishmonger wrapped his fish in.

I was told it was because old news is practically worthless. Todays news is worth buying a (relatively) expensive newspaper, but yesterdays news is literally garbage.

So when the online revolution slowly started I was surprised that news archives weren’t just opened up and available.

My school had to buy and expensive access to full news archives. 90’s linguistic research, such as word counts, required long discussions with newspaper publisher to get access to the articles, and then the source data had to be kept secret for fear of leaking, well, old news.

What is the loss to publishers to just give it away? I supposed today you can argue that there is real money in LLM source data, but surely that wasn’t something publishers were contemplating in the past 3 decades.
That was a bit part of my move to Mac from Windows back 24 years ago. It was such a pain trying to get all the bits and pieces working together and with the Mac, yes it was more expensive (although honestly, not that much more expensive) but stuff just worked out of the box and I didn’t have regular crashes. I’m sure things have improved in Wintel land since 2000–2001, but my Apple experience has been remarkably stress-free.
FHE? I, a noob, assume that acronym maybe has something to do with homomorphic encryption?

Also, got any links for interesting ZKML papers/projects?
I know reading comprehension is difficult based on the overall quality of internet content these days. But I explicitly called out the business data Microsoft has in this domain. So why does Microsoft’s control of personal data factor into this at all? Do you have anything of value to add? Did you even bother to read what you are responding to? But sure. Go off on your anti Microsoft rant completely disconnected from the topic at hand.
Cool language. One modest suggestion: perhaps return 0 rather than 1. Feature request: addition and division as well as subtraction and multiplication ;)
> the re-write feature generated some pretty bad text, with all the hallmarks of gen AI content

This is the curse of small-language models. They are better suited for constrained output like categorization. Using them for email generation takes... well, that takes courage.

Thankfully, there is an option to use GPT-4o for many of the text generation tasks.
It’s too much of a hassle to move from it now, since I have alot on my plate and they don’t support any other GUIs (a classic vendor lock).

I have planned it for the second half of this year though.
How so? I think he's got a point. VC Pumps things with cash, forces them to work well on the surface, and eventually it becomes a thing that isn't so great. Uber pays shit to the drivers and takes a large chunk for themselves. Airbnb is contributing to the housing crisis. What's the problem going to be with AI products 10 or 15 years from now? I think that's a valid question if you look at the history of these types of ventures.
While I agree everyday is too frequent. Too infrequent release cycles also lead to poorer quality software as the gap between implementing a feature and getting it into user’s hands widens. You generally want that context to be fresh enough in your team’s head that they can quickly fix or improve it.
Yeah, definitely a brain thing. Once it wears off, no more tinnitus :)

But I’d rather tinnitus and focus, than silence but scattered!
Any prediction of the future is either right or wrong. Yes, some can be really wrong (we'll never need more than 640k of memory) but ultimately a prediction is just a prediction.

Personally, I think AI is in the hope cycle right now. It's new (in an industry that sees very few new things.) I can see it being a useful tool in our belt in the coming years.

But equally, I don't think it'll replace (most of) us. I think we'll use it to be more productive.

Your target market will also matter. We're B2B, and companies don't buy "software" from us, they buy solutions to problems. And that very much includes the ability to talk to a human and have them solve the problem. (The human might use AI to solve the problem)

The point is, this is a large complex future space, and I believe the statement above will age well. AI will move the needle, but at the moment it's future capabilities and effects are also largely speculation.

Or maybe I'm just jaded having seen this cycle a lot, where most fall short, some disappear, amd a few stick around.
They already have root. Their software is closed source. There is absolutely nothing stopping them from uploading all of your data right now.

If you don't trust the people making your OS, your problems are much deeper than fretting about off-device AI processing.
September 2022
That's funny, I'd never made that connection before. The B&H owners are Szatmars (who tend to be pretty stringent in their practices), so I don't think they'd make this exact reference -- ה substitutes for HaShem which (very) roughly equates to taking god's name in vain.

(They'd maybe write the בס״ד variant, so "B&D".)
I’m concerned about how secure this will be. What happens, for example, if you experience a sim swap attack?

How will apple protect all of your password data in this case?

Will the setup allow for an additional password to prevent hackers from gaining access?
Thank you for mentioning this. I thought I was going crazy, because I heard this too, but kept seeing comment after comment on other sites asking if a person could choose not to use OpenAI, or that it was happening magically in the background. The way I heard it, the user was in control.

I think this goes back to what Steve said in 2010.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ij-jlF98SzA

And yes, while the data might not be linked to the user and striped of sensitive data, I could see people not wanting something very personal things to go to OpenAI, even if there should be no link. For example, I wouldn’t want any of my pictures going to OpenAI unless I specifically say it is OK for a given image.
> One option is to release a malicious software update, sign it, publish the signature on the public chain,

In this option it would be Apple releasing a malicious software update?

> If they can still create new hardware, it seems likely whoever is making that hardware must still have access to the keys...

This option reads like the keys are stored in apple-keys.txt

> Both of these attacks are outside the "threat model" proposed, because they are broad compromises against the entire PCC infrastructure

They mentioned that the in-depth write up will be shared later, might they still address this concern in writing? Your wording makes you sound so certain, but this is just a broad overview. How are you so sure?
If you are considering investing tens of billions into infrastructure for manufacturing in a country, it seems like a business risk to choose a country that is currently facing genocide charges in the ICC and UN.

And before you brigade me, I'm making no comments about the validity of those charges either way. I'm saying it's an obvious increased risk as an investor. It's possible that Israel becomes subject to sanctions or subject to increased international scrutiny or gets embroiled in regional conflict.

Those seem like business risks that might change the calculus.
I wonder what the number of people who use Macs and Android is. I would guess that it’s a tiny fraction of the marketplace (and likely entirely populated by people with Kindle Fires, not Android phones).
Rather WebKit used to have this, and it was fixed a year ago.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191053#c31

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/9489#issuecomment-1519...
It depends what you use them for.

If you ask it for knowledge, like a comparison of vacuum cleaner models then yes, it's a hallucination fest. They just don't have the parameters for this level of detail. This is where ChatGPT is really king.

But if you give them the data they need with RAG, they're not bad. Acting on commands, looking stuff up in provided context, summarising all perform pretty well. Which seems to be also what Apple is targeting to do with them.
I have no use for this whatsoever, and it's probably eye wateringly expensive. But damn this is a cool piece of tech.
ChatGPT came out November 2022 and it took Apple 18 months to announce Siri will integrate with it.

Is that moving fast? Maybe, compared to what, Oracle?
> Being able to inspect the state of systems, and being able to manually change things in software, is incredibly valuable.

I was hired as a CTO for a start-up that had a shitty solution (bad performance, bad practices - such as storing passwords in plaintext and customer service would just copy the password and log in the customer's account manually).

They had a custom back-end where they were basically handcuffed to a couple of flows. They couldn't see the full state of the system. Not even a fraction of it. Everyone hated it to the point where most were using whiteboards to work.

My first move was to normalize the database and throw in an off the shelf back-end where they got access to the full state of the system (with some aspects of course conveniently configured out).

Then, based on their own whiteboard flows and how they were using the new all you can eat back-end, we implemented a number of flows that mapped to how they actually worked. This is on top of being able to manually pull any switch. From what I could tell, they loved it, both the freedom and the ease.

It was truly satisfying to see those empty whiteboards.
But this is precisely the problem. If you want the right thing to happen, you can't allow the wrong thing to be more convenient. "The wrong thing is more convenient so STFU" is the flawed worldview, because it's what causes the wrong thing to continue happening.

Now consider what happens if people do the opposite. Instead of defending convenience as an end unto itself as Moloch would have it, you create friction against bad choices. Complain about them, refuse to assist your allies in making a mistake. Do things that make bad options less convenient and redirect people to better choices.

People will still do what's convenient, but now the more convenient thing is the better thing.
I honestly think the documentary is shorter and better than the book, thanks for the link.
We agree, indeed
This article has July 18, 1957 as the date for the Univac 120's arrival in Brazil: https://comp.ita.br/iec/

Most other sources just mention the year.
Not sure what poor quality LVP you’re talking about, but good quality LVP doesn’t have any issues with shrinkage. Plenty of stuff with Greenguard Gold certifications which should mean very minimal off-gassing.
At some point, admins started to ban me pretty often, accusing me that I use wall hack (I don't), so I stopped to play online years ago. I started to play online again two weeks ago, I cap my system (I hide my cursor, I cap my framerate at 60fps, I use a submachine gun) to have more fun, but other players are trying to ban me anyway when I kill 4 enemies in 2 seconds.
Still need to force trucks to design the front to be as pedestrian friendly as possible.
Thinking about it, one could also have a canonical state transition based on the game state transitions.(i.e. expand the game tree).

This would include not only the board state, but all the moves made up to reaching it.

It has a useful meaning for openings.

But it is so sparsely populated by actual games that "rarest" becomes too easy - many moves have been made only once under this definition.
I haven't been able to confirm with any certainty that Meta enforces domain ownership verification but I would love to see a confirmation that Meta does indeed do this or plans to do so in the future.

If Meta's advertising network does not enforce domain ownership verification, then it is fundamentally vulnerable to the same problem described on this blog post.

Sampled URL resolution cannot prove anything about a URL.
Novavax isn't a mRNA based COVID vaccine.
High quality stereoscopic content. During the pandemic, I had my Oculus Quest with a Woojer Edge and watched a music festival 360 video. It was amazing.

Full spectrum rush.
> I would say the decision to stop was due to pandemic

So would Stanford:

https://stanforddaily.com/2020/06/17/standardized-testing-no...

At the time they also announced that they expected to reinstate the requirement for the class of 2026 (turned out to be 2030.)
you don't need the storage upgrade. what you do need is a case, which'll run you $200.

And then another $80 for lenses if you wear glasses.
RP2040 successor will be RP235x, Arm M3 512k RAM, internal storage
Hmm nope still think you overestimated Galois' festiness, the question is by how much

Steadfastly holding to my finnic/ie approximately dichotomic hemitheology too, fwiw

Väinämöinen/Gandalf/elves in general according to jrrt (maybe he's telling us elves are a finnic import?)
It's hard to be a part of the community when I have to move every year because my rent keeps going up.