skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is they don't explicitly define when 1 can pass to 2 and whether we can fully and categorically disable it. As far as I know, 1 can pass to 2 when governments ask for some personal data or when Apple's ad model needs some intimate details for personalization.
It's good to see it's not abandoned but it just feels so barren. Forget a killer app, how about something that isn't video? A new background makes the top new features list, really?

It's a neat device but it seems like Apple can't be bothered to really invest in software that justifies the price tag.

Without buzz they're not going to get dev support either. It's not trivial to port an app to hand gesture controls.
Its also a myth. Apple has so much trash in app store… including scams and direct decompiled copies of apps. Its probably better than Google Play but lets not pretend they care about the app quality - otherwise they wouldnt be banning and kicking high quality apps left and right.
It's a little impossible to show the difference between using popcnt and the expanded emulation code on a platform that doesn't support popcnt.

It doesn't change the fact that the actual program itself was being complied on a platform that doesn't support popcnt, so no amount of compiler arguments would fix that.
Indeed it is a matter of opinion.

Much like the cliché "the internet is the sum of all human knowledge".

If you have deep specialist knowledge in a field that has existed for more than thirty years it can become quite obvious that the internet really in is nowhere near "the sum" of our knowledge.
Gotta love that newspeak!
The iPod was incredibly successful, for its time.

It was just made obsolete by the iPhone.
Plus many making more are independent contractors or own a company.

Buy your own truck, your own tools and gear, pay for materials out of your cut, etc.

There are a lot of costs people don't think of.
The DMA repeatedly requires gatekeepers to act in a "fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory" manner. The "spirit" is very much baked into the language.
Honestly this feel like trolling. Right click on any group in teams and the channel notifications option is there which brings you to this UI

https://i.imgur.com/z8BnaTn.png

I question how smart this "very smart user" actually is.
I read that as sarcasm.

The grand-parent of this comment implemented empire on the PC, and is responsible for me getting poor grades in high school biology. I even bought a V20 CPU so my hand-me-down PC (5150) could build empire maps 30 seconds faster...

I've gotten both my kids hooked on civilization but haven't gotten them into empire (or nethack). (yet)
That sucks. It can definitely be an uphill battle if you didn’t go to an “elite” school or have a non traditional career path. That said, I think tech gives many more chances than law. Bigger companies discriminate far less (also not perfect) and once you have that on your resume it’s a strong social signal moving forward.
Fair points taken, i was a bit zealous in my use of the word any, the word many is more correctly applicable.

In regard to sources of truth, i mean from the design considerations point of view. For instance, why does the scheduler behave a certain way? We can analyze the logic and determine the truth of the codes behavior but determining the reason for the selection of that design for implementation is far more difficult.

These days yes, off the shelf linux will do just fine at massively scaling an application. When netflix started building blockbuster was still a huge scary thing to be feared and respected. Linux was still a hobby project if you didn't fork out 70% of a commercial unix contract over to rhel.

The team came in with the expectation and understanding they would be making massive changes for their application that may never be merged upstream. The chances of getting a merge in are higher if the upstream is a smaller centralized team. You can also just ask the person who was in charge of the, let's say for example, the init system design and implementation. Or oh, that scheduler! Why does it deprioritize x and y over z, is there more to why this was chosen than what is on the mailing list?

The pros go on and on and the cons are difficult to imagine, unless you make a vacuum and compare 2024 linux to 2004 linux.
Kind of wild that "ChatGPT" is going to be the household term. It's such a mouthful! Goes to show that the name can kind of be anything if you have an incredible product and/or distribution.

Lobbying for the name to shorten to "chatty-g"
??? I don’t think my ad blocker has an “acceptable ads” list.

I don’t mean something from Apple—maybe they have one, but that’s not what I’m using.
Said this in the other thread, but I am really bothered that image generation is a thing but also that it got as much attention as it did.

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.

That being said, the polish and actual usefulness of these features is really interesting. It may not have some of the flashiest things being thrown around but the things shown are actually useful things.

Glad that ChatGPT is optional each time Siri thinks it would be useful.

My only big question is, can I disable any online component and what does that mean if something can't be processed locally?

I also have to wonder, given their talk about the servers running the same chips. Is it just that the models can't run locally or is it possibly context related? I am not seeing anything if it is entire features or just some requests.

I wonder if that implies that over time different hardware will run different levels of requests locally vs the cloud.
No dedicated app on Windows though, it'll be part of their existing iCloud Windows application.
It's English. Any verb can be nouned, and you can verb any noun, and people will understand you just fine. It's a feature, perhaps more cultural than linguistic, but a feature nonetheless.
Apple has 10x more on reserve cash than the entirety of OpenAI when they trained GPT-4. I don't think OpenAI could have possibly spent $5B or more for training first version of GPT-4(which was trained before GPT-3.5 gained traction), which is a pocket change for Apple for such a core feature.
Turn off what part and why? They announced several new systems, much of which runs on-device, one of which is simply an improved Siri. I was surprised by how considerate they seemed about AI data privacy, even for Apple.
Maybe they all used the same generative model to write the comments?

More seriously(?), I thought "cool" is just what everybody writes to show appreciation when they have nothing else to say.
It's not personal computing, it's personal intelligence now :)
Google Maps, YouTube, on the original iPhone?
> 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

Various Gundam series take place across different universes, there is no reason a series based on "the world is ending" can't do the same thing - share thematic elements across different sets of characters.

Heck you could even make each series explore a different element of the human psyche.

IMHO the real issue is Evangelion is such a mind fuck that finding ways to reach that level of WTF is hard, and also the cultural zeitgeist moves on, and I doubt if Evangelion was related today it'd have the same impact. Kind of like how a lot of cyberpunk stuff is still around, but it has to be somewhat re-invented for each decade, because while some of the themes of the original 1980s stuff is still relevant, you can't just cut and paste, today's youth feels a different sense of hopelessness than what was felt in the 80s!

Same thing with 1990s material, super edgy goth cyberpunk vampires don't hit the same in 2024 as they did in 1994.

So finding writing staff that can keep up with making Really Good Stuff decade after decade, and who also want to do rehashes of the same material, may prove hard.

But still, a series of Evangelion universes all focused on different types of trauma would be interesting to see!
The standalone React library is okay. The virtual dom is not that necessary to do frontend, but it's at the core of what React is adding an extra layer of separation between the DOM and React concepts. But other libraries have shown that it's not that necessary.

The issue is the ecosystem. There's a lot of complicated architectures out there which only apply in esoteric context. Another issue is with the tooling. More often than not, we have templates that advertises making things simpler, but instead promotes complex and complicated tools that you should not add to your codebase.

But more often than not, you only need to update the content of your web app, and do a few changes to the layout. For that you don't need a full blown frontend library. React shines when you want to do web applications, not websites. But they're all pretty much the same when it comes to the latter. htmx+alpine and the other similar solutions are better when you don't want to control the whole UI. But need to add interactivity to a few select place. Which is the majority of websites.
All the interesting features appear to be de novo models from Apple? Only the last fallback-to-ChatGPT feature interacts with OpenAI.
Dear Sophie

https://youtu.be/zhPklt9nYas
That's interesting - it was Ubuntu 24 that made me feel confident the first time to recommend to non-computer enthusiasts. What about Ubuntu 24 came off unpolished to you, if you don't mind me asking?
I think https://qntm.org/clean makes a good case that the advice it gives can be taken to very bad extremes -- and that the author of the book does so in some cases when providing "good" examples. That's not to say that the advice is all bad, but that the book as a whole is not a good presentation and inexperienced programmers can enthusiastically learn the wrong lessons from it.

Edit: grabbed the wrong link from my history. Updated to the correct link.
They just announced this:

Record and transcribe a live call directly from the Phone app.21 You can also search call history more easily, dial smarter, and switch SIM cards seamlessly.
With WiFi 6e latency should be ok.
It's native and not Electron shit?
I saw an argument I didn't like, so I called them a "bot", because that's what I've seen other people in my group do. (/s)

So we have a cool new word that makes it easier for people to disagree, ignore, not discuss, and not understand. Words have power, and this one is a loss for humanity.
Oh, well, many apps will have a hard time competing with “Apple Intelligence” features. Why bother downloading a third-party app if some feature you want is included by default in the OS?

Better yet, no more dealing with overpriced subscriptions or programs that do not respect user privacy.

Kudos to the Apple software team making useful stuff powered by machine learning and AI!
I felt the same way but Orion browser (made by the Kagi people) can run android extensions including Ublock!
Maybe just link to the actual source (https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html) rather than some random social media post?

(IIRC jwz's "testicle cup" image HN referrer redirect is no longer active/functional.)

Anyway, I get that jwz loves to be inflammatory toward everyone because that's who he is, but if Google didn't require privacy policies for every listed app, I'm sure a bunch of people would be crying foul.

I could easily imagine a shitty ad-supported screensaver that was somehow using your data to target/sell ads. Remember that we live in a world where flashlight apps have been used to exfiltrate data from phones. Or perhaps a more innocuous use of user data: maybe the app tracks which screensavers are used and sends that data to the developer.

And, regardless, I see no problem with a company not wanting to have to do manual review to determine what apps do and don't require privacy policies, and just blanket-requiring them of everyone.
Approximating trigonometric functions for posits using the CORDIC method [pdf]
Apple Intelligence stuff is going to be very big. iOS is clearly the right platform to marry great UX AI with. Latching LLMs onto Siri have allowed the Siri team to quickly atone for its sins.

I think the private compute stuff to be really big. Beyond the obvious use the cloud servers for heavy computing type tasks, I suspect it means we're going to get our own private code interpreter (proper scripting on iOS) and this is probably Apple's path to eventually allowing development on iPad OS.

Not only that, Apple is using its own chips for their servers. I don't think the follow on question is whether it's enough or not. The right question to ask is what are they going to do bring things up to snuff with NVDIA on both the developer end and hardware end?

There's such a huge play here and I don't think people get it yet, all because they think that Apple should be in the frontier model game. I think I now understand the headlines of Nadella being worried about Apple's partnership with OpenAI.
Would you rather they have jumped onto AI early and LLM-ified Siri years ago?
Which aspects of postmodernism threaten which aspects of the Gundam franchise? Or are you just alluding to the dominance of digital goods over physical hobbies such as model-building? I'll admit, I don't know where the money comes from. Is it really 80:20 merchandising:media?
Not all income involves payroll - or employers!
(For some reason. I am getting rate limited on my Scarface_74 account. I can’t find anything that I have been flagged over)

Apple sold Airport devices from 1999-2018. I wouldn’t exactly call that a short lived device.

Mac - John C. Dvorak, "The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things"

iPod - famously “less space than the Nomad. No wireless. Lame.”

iPhone - “The PC guys won’t just come in and figure this thing out” - Palm CEO.

iPad - this is the most apt comparison. There were plenty of tablet makers before the iPad was introduced
This type of conspiracy-minded thinking is unhealthy.
What makes it better than iTerm2?
Yeah diffusion models are typically for image gen
This might be a regional thing, but I have done probably around 100 technical interviews in my career (both enterprise and startups) mostly in the Bay Area and the vast majority of these involved algorithm questions that had no relation with the job function. Most were around the difficulty of "find the largest palindrome in a string" or "reverse a singly linked list". On the harder end were things like "serialize and deserialize a tree".
Whose device is it again? It doesn't belong to the person who paid for it? Are computers a subscription product now?
I really like Keyboard Maestro but I found myself gravitating back to Hammerspoon after a while and just building out a library of scripts for everything I used Keyboard Maestro for (and quite a bit more).

For someone using neither of these tools yet, Keyboard Maestro is probably the nicer one to start with to give you a taste for how useful some of those automations can be!

Both are pretty powerful.
SQLSync: A collaborative offline-first wrapper around SQLite
Nobody is realizing this coming singularity.

Your phone won't do anything else. For 99% of people, they pick up their phone, AI will just decide what they want to see. And most will accept it.

Someday everyone in the room will all pick up their phones when they all ring at once. It will be some emotional trigger like a live feed from a school shooting. Everyone in the room will start screaming at the totally different experiences they're being presented. Evil liberals, clueless law enforcement, product placement being shown over the shooter's gun. You'll sit horrified because you returned to a dumbphone to escape.

That will be the reality if this AI assistant stuff isn't checked hard now. AI is getting better at addiction an order of magnitude faster than it's getting better at actual tasks.
This could be said for literally every single feature of a smartphone, down to the out of order execution of the CPU
Maybe people are expecting new Macbooks? Though Apple don't usually release hardware for WWDC.
This is why Prompt Engineering is a legitimate profession.

In the future, you could prompt GPT10 with "give me a marketing plan" and its output would be just as terrible as GPT3's.

Leveling up one's prompting skill from zero shot to few shot to agenetic is how you get usable results.
You also support a shitty advertising business model.
What do you mean into hands of platform owners? The point of having an Apple device is that you can run stuff on your device. The user is in control, not any platforms.
NewPipe still working so far.
visionOS 2 Preview
Migadu does have a web client (webmail.migadu.com). It is the barest of bare bones (certainly fewer features than Gmail or Fastmail), but does the job just fine for basic tasks, at least.
But those were standalone apps.

This AI capability is integrated throughout the entire OS and Apps.

It's now part of the "fabric" of iOS.
They might ask for a writing sample, but because filings are public anyway, it's easier to share work you've done before. You could always change or redact the names on ones that aren't public and still get the substance of the candidates work.
The rejected one makes me expect data is still being processed, or stored by third parties. The new one has a lot of fluff but at least it is clear that it doesn't collect anything and doesn't retain anything.
It’s an interesting vote of confidence in OpenAI’s maturity (from a scale and tech perspective) to integrate it as a system wide, third-party dependency available to all users for free.
Interesting. I liked the 1Password 6 UI, was frustrated with 1Password 7 and have been loving 1Password 8 so far. Version 7 seemed really clunky when I needed to do certain workflows.
I've tried a number of these things and I honestly don't see the value in them. I have to double check everything they do and it takes longer to describe what I want and double check everything then just to do it myself.

I'll be disabling everything I can. I don't use Siri or anything of that sort as well.
Incremental increase in future hardware sales (that will be required to use it fully).
Yeah I’d guess inference, training relies much more on high speed interconnect between nodes, which I’m sure they could do but it’s certainly another step up in complexity.
Yeah, welcome to cloud feudalism (not a concept I invented). Just like the a serf in feudal lordships of old times, the lord can decide anything and you have to suffer the consequences. Maybe if you scream loud enough they'll hear you, but the castle decides, the henchmen execute and they don't listen to your protests.
Where did you get that impression from? The WWDC keynote mentioned recording calls on iPhone (with transcription) and said that the other end would be notified when you start recording.
Suing a foreign company is something like 5-25x more expensive and less likely to be successful. It's a huge defect in the DMCA that they can do this - every lawyer I talked to for a similar problem told me not to bother.
Also creates a difficult precedent to beat.
This is likely skewed by the creators I follow. I imagine there's a lot of youtube poop child audience content that's near 100% ad revenue.

Personally speaking, if low quality "creators" suffer I won't feel bad.
Whenever I read that expression I have to think about the Porsche commercial from a few years back. I guess it’s not always a bad idea :)

https://assets.horsenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/dw...
Sidecar/display mirroring from my macbook to my ipad is pretty low latency, so presumably this will be based on a similar technology stack
That’s of course we are a storyteller species. We need narratives to understand the world.

Like with “Particles” or “waves”. These are all words borrowed from our daily experience to describe an abstract reality which isn’t easy to comprehend for our story minds.
Firefox has a built in mechanism for reporting issues to https://webcompat.com

>People expect websites to work regardless of the device or browser they are using. When a site works in one browser but not another, that is most likely a web compatibility bug that we want to know about.

Issue search: https://webcompat.com/issues

https://webcompat.com/issues?q=youtube
I'll be interested to see if there is improved support for handling and syncing passkeys to multiple personal devices.

I'm a bit nervous after hearing about people having early adopter issues.

Hopefully there is some sort of fallback if something extreme like a house fire manages to destroy all of your personal devices at once.
Verifying the Verifier: eBPF Range Analysis Verification
I think this may have less to do with "python-brain" and more with "data-science brain". If a person is well-versed in data science concepts and has been trained to use Pandas DataFrames and Series for everything, that's what they'll lean on. After all, it's some kind of in-memory object that can hold many values and has a way to label them with column labels and indices.

Chances are somewhat good that these people weren't computer science majors to begin with. For example, math or biology majors who have moved away from R to Python might know a great deal about data but not much about compsci.

For people who use Python in a DevOps context, they'll likely be exposed to more OOP concepts and lean more heavily on classes.
That might be smarter than we initially give it credit. By leaving the “safer” (read: harder to get wrong) things to their own models and then the more “creative” stuff to an explicit external model, they can shift blame: “Hey, we didn’t made up that information, we explicitly said that was ChatGPT”. I don’t think they’ll say it outright like that. Because they won’t have to.
Absolutely no one wants to hand their private information to any company, especially OpenAI. Everyone was waiting for an on-device LLM from Apple and they delivered.
the funnier part is that the youtube comment section of just about any video is filled with bot comments that logged in. so how is logged in helping at all ???
He hasn't lost yet and a lot of people who should know better are pulling for him.
I have high hopes for the background replacement tech, the segmentation built into teams isn't very good.
This is occasionally quite useful. A few weeks ago, my phone's display went haywire, and the only way I could operate it to secure a backup was through the somewhat hidden mirroring functionality via QuickTime screen recording.
I wonder if the (free) ChatGPT integration will be so good that I won't need my dedicated subscription anymore?
Personally I would say the disparity between what was in their founding agreement "be open-source—freely and publicly available for anyone to use, modify and distribute" https://archive.ph/R0LBL to the current state of affairs.

But I guess the list of grievances could be longer:

https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/what-should-we-learn-from-...
It was fixed years ago, though it's possible they still do similar things in other scenarios.

UA spoofing in firefox will get you blocked by recaptcha and cloudflare.
US level of tertiary education is closer to middle of the pack among OECD countries between France and Switzerland.

https://data.oecd.org/eduatt/population-with-tertiary-educat...
Apple Intelligence: Context Matters
Grammarly is great example of the classic adage, "a feature, not a product".