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Apple has always been kind of not great at marketing, simply because their attitude has always been "the product markets itself."

That isn't to say they don't, it's just a cultural attitude inside the company. It's a crying shame because their content teams have obviously great taste and are willing to experiment, and they must be pulling their hair out over this, but yeah – AAPL should not only do more and better marketing, but consider licensing their content out in a limited fashion to draw people in, especially if they're going to maintain 'the product markets itself' – I can still buy iPods in BEst Buy, for an example.

People WANT apple to succeed on this content front. The Apple Vision program especially would benefit from high quality content, well-marketed, especially to drive adoption and thus reduce cost; amazing immersive/interactive content is the killer app for AR/VR if you ask me.

Let silly Zuck make dumb avatars and fake lowbrow games, if I'm going to project content directly onto my eyeballs, let it be Oscar-worthy.
Zen Browser: Fix Backdoor
I'm struggling a little bit with the "misleading consumers into getting interest-free monthly payments" part. I never found the checkout flow particularly unclear or obtuse. It kind of sounds like consumers assumed that making a purchase with the apple card automatically enrolled you in the payment plan, versus having to go through a different checkout flow. I do kind of recall that when I used that feature once, it might have been implemented through Apple Pay? That would be supported by the fact that it was only available through Safari if the purchase was made online. I'm probably an outlier in being likely to experience that as I've just used Safari for a while, and so I'm getting their first-class experience. I am no stranger to how utterly awful Apple's products are outside its own ecosystem (like any Apple software designed to run on Windows.)

All of these issues would be infuriating if I encountered them, but it's interesting how the breakdown of failures seems to be 50/50 "Apple doing a terrible job designing a clear and consistent UI or process" and "being bit by their attempts at locking people into their ecosystem, independent of the card" and the Goldman Sachs portion seems just outright malicious.

Incompetence and malice combined are a really powerful force.
Yeah reflection is important but I would consider that a quality of intelligence.
Landowner Sues After State Searches Property Without Warrant or Consent
Thanks, I had not noticed this.
Missed opportunity for agent_smith.exe but oh well.
Acura dealerships started as fungible copies of Honda products via a loophole to add more dealerships while 'honoring' previous Honda agreements.
Actually, https://github.com/google/android-riscv64?tab=readme-ov-file

And the mailing list is pretty active too: https://lists.riscv.org/g/sig-android/topics?sidebar=true
Related. Others?

The Incredible Machine (1968) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11219180 - March 2016 (5 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36689982 (July 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7759856 (May 2014)
Apple is currently my favorite for content, so to each their own I guess.
I have ADHD and hence am generally quite interested in apps in this space.

Maybe it's just me but I found the app controls to be way too small, too many onboarding walk through steps and way too much information density in the Task screen.

Progress, Highlight, Due Date, different lists - it's a lot.

It seems to me you wanted to pack a punch, but it's so dense and so many steps involved that it falls into the productivity fallacy for me: It's increasing my executive disfunction and makes it harder and cumbersome to add tasks instead of reducing it.

One app that really works for me, does one thing and does it well is for example Due: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/due-erinnerungen-timer/id39001...

Not affiliated in any way with the app or it's creator.

When it comes to apps like these, less is more for me.
"Prove cigarattes/PFOS are dangerous!"

Fifty years later, after much meddling from the industry.

"Now, prove vaping/PFOA is dangerous!"

We invent novel dangerous things faster than we can deal with novel dangerous things.
Apple was really onto something in getting the streaming rights to all of the Peanuts content. The Snoopy Show is quality old-fashioned, non-hyperkinetic, mellow cartoon toddler fodder.
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I agree that Severance was good. I suppose they'll come out with a new season right about the time I think about canceling again. I have also been watching Shrinking, but it's not really enough to keep me on the platform. Apple's content seems to be getting well known actors and then putting them into random shows and hoping that people will find out about them via word of mouth or something. There is also basically no back catalog worth watching like there is with other streaming services.
https://archive.ph/u3qjy
> "...but part of the issue is that their shows just aren't that good..."

Hard disagree from a personal view. Also statistically, I don't think you can strongly claim this since many of their shows have lots of awards if you go off that metric. I haven't done the calculations but I would guess that their content to award ratio is even higher than many other networks.
Apple TV+ library is also incredibly small -- there's little excuse to go back and see what new shows are in there because there usually aren't any.

I wonder how many people are burnt out on dramas that have 8-10 episode seasons, end on a cliff hanger, and you have to wait 1-2 years for the next season. At this point, I've just stopped watching any series that isn't "done" regardless of the streaming service.
Comparing Refusal Behavior Across Top Language Models
Their content generally fits the mix of other streamers. "Not good" is the most subjective of statements when it comes to film and television.
WasmGC and the future of front-end Java development
My university (in Central Europe) also has extremely high requirements for a PhD, even students that have 5-6 first-author papers have to fight with their supervisors to let them graduate. Part of the problem is that supervisors are automatically co-authors and are incentivised to get as many papers as possible out of their students.
Whether the 'product' is discontinued depends on what the next product is. If they drop the AR using VR (its distinguishing feature), then the Vision Pro as we know it is dead and lives on only in name--effectively becoming an Apple Quest. I would love competition in that space.
Thanks for sharing! That’s a great alternative
Humorously, many Apple TV+ series begin with the message, "An Apple Original."

What if Apple renamed Apple TV+ to just Apple Originals? The branding they are already using? Then we wouldn't have 3 different uses of "Apple TV" (the iPhone app, the streaming box, the subscription service)... and it's so much clearer to a customer what it means.

I personally wonder if a huge part of this, is just that customers have no clue what "Apple TV+" even... is. Does it have something to do with the Apple TV box being advertised when they bought their iPhone? And customers don't read, the title says all they need to know (or lack thereof).

Or another solution (for any employees reading): Spin it off the Apple brand. Don't use the name Apple on it. Come up with some stupid name along the lines of Pluto, Popcornflix, Freevee, or whatever have you; and offer an ad-supported free tier. Watch the viewership explode. Remove the ad tier afterwards.
Every time I hear about some show, what goes through my head are:

1: Do I need to buy another subscription?

2: Will I need to sit through ads?

If the answer is yes to either question, I'm not interested. I already have more TV that I want to watch than I can watch.

(I don't mind paying for shows outright, though.)
I think we need legislation requiring government-held warrantless surveillance data, regardless of how it was obtained (via subscription or gathered themselves), to be made available as a public record. I would assume wild unpopularity with the constituency would work to curtail the use of such surveillance.

If the constituency didn't balk then, at the very least, the data would be available to the public and would help balance the power dynamic with the government.
On a desktop? Where I live all banks require a mobile app (which in turn requires 2FA for login and also for any transaction) or else separate authentication hardware.
Source:

CFPB Orders Apple and Goldman Sachs to Pay Over $89 Million for Apple Card Failures

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-order...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41926162)
What makes a person seem wise is less interesting than what causes a person to be wise.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wisdom/
To be fair, we should also consider expenses.

All-Transactions House Price Index for the United States [1]

Q4 1997: 204.87 / Q2 2024: 682.18

i.e., roughly 3.33x

Median Consumer Price Index [2]

1997-12: 170.42938 / 2024-09: 353.73857

i.e., roughly 2.07

Take that as you will (I was mostly curious).

Interestingly, it seems console prices have kept pace with inflation.

NES at release: $180 ($428 adjusted for inflation)

PS5 right now: $450 (standard) / $500 (slim) / $700 (pro)

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USSTHPI

[2]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEDCPIM094SFRBCLE
that's not fair, even though i know you're kidding. personally i'm tired of jason sudeikis.
As example, people use spyware willingly. Safari has feature that 'it can prevent trackers' - if you want. Safari can't do it automatically for everyone, because spyware is normal software now. Every spyware now has: "We value your privacy" and people are ok with that.

It is going to be same with malware.
> asleep at the fucking wheel with regard to any regulation to protect consumers

cursing aside, you are doing them a favor by saying "they are asleep" .. it is not that simple; misaligned incentives for decision makers is a polite phrase
Tiny world is amazing
The famous "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should" line from Jurassic Park comes to mind.
Has the situation between you guys and the Nix community cooled down yet?

I have honestly avoided NixOS for quite a while because the situation seemed "unstable". I don't particularly care for the complaints brought about by the open letter, I do however worry if a distribution/community is imploding.
How long until it can quickly without you noticing add a daemon running on your system. This is the equivalent of how we used to worry about Soviet spies getting access to US secrets, and now we just post them online for everyone to see.

There's no antivirus or firewall today that can protect your files from the ability this could have to wreck havoc on your network, let alone your computer.

This scene comes to mind: https://makeagif.com/i/BA7Yt3
Really? I always thought jQuery was just a shorthand for it cause it’s too long to type. And they really walked the DOM to look for an element? What an ugly runtime it was, ugh.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39979816/how-was-jquery-...
Mind-blowing, right? It's wild to think we’re just floating in the middle of all that
What content? They have almost none. Granted with the segmentation in the streaming market, none of the big players have much going on, but at least you can usually find something to watch on the others. Once you catch up with the 2 or 3 interesting ones on Apple Tv, there is basically nothing to watch.
Truly I think male pattern baldness drugs are poison and hims is probably a net negative for society at this point.
Hey https://google.com
Ted Lasso ended almost 18 months ago. Definitely cancel. We should not be gifting anything to these giants.
The government is effectively a monopsony in that context, so that isn't a real way to calculate anything, it's just the government making up a number which is likely to be too low (suppressing R&D) or too high (inflating costs). You could potentially fix the first one by giving the company the option to decline and instead sell the drug under the existing system, but how do you fix the second one?
I wish a library exists (in rust or anything that is easy to embed) instead.
I'm not sure what the least baity title for this article could be. Have made a third attempt now
I won't be so brazen as to suggest I could have done any better, but the claim that never actually completing the upgrade was the only way is a bit too hand wavy I think.
The walled garden certainly keeps me out of the apple ecosystem. I love MacOS but I don't want to pay a premium for vendor lock-in and I infer that most (if not all) apple products are double-edged in that manner.
Genuinely curious, is the timing on this immediately after Claude computer use a coincidence? Or was that like the last missing piece, or a kind of threat which expedited things
Unrelated but I love your username haha, wonder why I didn't think of it earlier.
That's a deep thought! I think the idea of "meaning" is something we created to make sense of the world around us
I haven't seen anything to suggest that the new Huawei OS will use a unique kernel architecture.
It's a good article but it seemed to leave some questions unanswered for me. (1) Why isn't TFO enabled by default? I guess the answer involves bad middleboxes, but then how is the client/server meant to know any better, and isn't the very conservative fallback supposed to mitigate that? (2) What should the queue size be set to?
You gotta love how they just handwave away the fact that this is basically impossible with current technology. I guess payload design to such specs will be the customer's problem.
It's open source, any exploit introduced by a maintainer is self-documenting. Provide a single example for the Linux kernel, please.
With respect to [2] - I think this is partially our garden-variety, universal impostor syndrome, but not only that: even otherwise good papers can be written so poorly as to be nearly incomprehensible, and still get published! I've come across papers that seem to be genuinely valuable and interesting work, but the amount of mental manual labor required on the reader's part is horribly daunting - mishandling or absence of grammatical articles ("a", "the", etc.), inconsistent spelling, a feeling of constant ambiguity of meaning...

I have great sympathy for the many excellent scientists who have to overcome a language barrier to get published, since the lingua franca of virtually every major journal is English. It's not inherently bad that "the language of science is bad English"; these difficulties are a symptom of pulling together good science from everywhere in the world. I'm just deeply irritated with the publishers - IEEE in particular, though the fault is by no means theirs alone - who don't care to keep up a copyediting standard for their allegedly high-quality publications, since apparently their goal is not to communicate science well, but instead to make a profit.

(I distinctly remember one of my favorite math professors stating, in no uncertain terms, that the words "a" and "the" each have different connotations with respect to existence and uniqueness. Incorrect use of either would get points knocked off of your proof.)
"No, I didn't post my drunk photos all over social media last night, it's the that AI made them up and posted them!"
Detailed "OECD Taxing Wages 2024" brochure can be found here: https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/topics/policy-issue...
Nope, doesn't look like it'll stop you personally from leaving silly reviews.
I didn't bother reading beyond the second paragraph. I've never seen a corporation use anything other than their own private VPN. In fact, I've never seen a company even allow a commercial VPN product to be installed on employee laptops. This seems to be a complete misunderstanding of what a VPN fundamentally is.
Haha, yeah phags is barely a contraction as is ignoring it's unfortunate homophone. You're saving one letter not typing phages.
This is a particularly tricky year to argue voting, particularly for the president, is the right level of public oversight. We were offered two candidates with comparatively little say or visibility (compared to the last few decades) during the primaries.

Trump effectively sat out of the primary season, though primary voters did overwhelmingly support him they did so without ever having the chance to hear him pressed during a debate or contentious interview. There is at least a case with Trump to argue voters already knew they wanted him and simply didn't need a primary, the democrats don't have that argument to make.

The democrats didn't even bother to have a primary and went out of their way to pressure debate organizers to block Kennedy entirely before swapping out their candidate last minute.
As a bit of introspection, based on their metrics, I am unwise. I have the bad habit of thinking/acting before I deeply think. I also tend to disregard the thoughts/feelings of others when I believe the decision to be made is one that ought to be determined by facts/logic/rationality.

These are both weaknesses that I've identified and tried to work on. I've made the most progress on the second (considering the thoughts/feelings of others). The first is a really difficult one for me since I find that hesitation is also a major problem. The balance between acting quickly and acting carefully is difficult.

However, I think a stronger take-away from this study was: "Real wisdom, according to our study, is about finding a balance between thoughtful reasoning, social understanding, and emotional awareness." I believe that the balance between things is the key to wisdom. The people I consider most unwise are those who have a one-size-fits-all approach to everything.
You are right, my suggestion involves the lowest hanging fruit where one can purchase unlimited positive or negative reviews from unrelated parties.

I can google a far away barber who has accumulated 17 reviews over the last 10 years. Google then allows me to shit talk the guy for the world to see. 2 minutes of effort and its free! They get to carry it around like a badge of shame forever.

You should give me a discount or ill post a negative review and unleash the roaches on your hotel. It would be rude if you didn't.

edit: I think a digital ID would be useful for real reviews.
Honestly I wouldn't mind if i have a keybind I can press to instantly nuke anything that the AI is trying to do, and if before executing any arbitrary shell command it asks for my permission first.
The white on white trick, nasty.

Reminds me of a story of a practical joke I heard from someone.

Someone in their office had a computer CRT screen which had separate cables for red, green and blue and they swapped these cables around.

But this was also back in the days of Windows 95 where pretty much all applications respected Windows’ colour scheme. And they also changed all the colours so that all the UI element colours still appeared correct with the mixing of the monitor’s input cables.

This had the effect that in applications only icons looked wrong, or pictures in their documents.

Apparently took IT a little while to work out the issue.
> patents are the only way for them

Citation needed.
Yes, but that's among the most expensive ways of approaching the problem. In regions where it's feasible, evaporation approaches are far cheaper, which is why they're still the most widely used approach. In humid regions with a lot of precipitation like the gulf coast, though, you have to take more expensive and energy-intensive approaches to concentrate things.
>I haven't done the calculations but I would guess that their content to award ratio is even higher than many other networks.

That is probably true, but only because they have so little content overall. It is nice that it's not choke full of low budget reality nonsense and foreign stuff, but they also have basically none of the back catalog of content that other services have.
At 5 cents per neuron with 4o-mini, for pretty satisfying descriptions.

"we fine-tune Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct to directly predict per-token activations ... [this] allows us to use smaller models, and the task of directly predicting the output (integer from 0-10) gets rid of the extra tokens, making the prompt much shorter."
Static RAM ( based on how it is used) never needs to be refreshed at current typical computer power on times (hours or days ) . Current DRAM must be refreshed at very much faster rates to be able to be useful.
Or a $100 off coupon for spending over $500?
The thing is, I don't really work on a complicated app anymore, and I'm the only one who commits to it. So, there's not much to think about. I know that if it worked last Wednesday and is broken now, I should roll it back to last Wednesday, etc.
I think the other part of the problem is Apple historically has such tight control over marketing and messaging. It does not encourage its people to work on something on the fly, experimenting with new channels or formats, or delegating to local agencies.
Cool! I'm working on a note-taking app with a similar (but not identical) feature based on Excel-type formulas - except, semantic formulas, not mathematical. Chaining AI formulas together (combined with non-AI stuff like "get the contents of this web page / find my notes that mention X") can be really powerful.
I think it was their exceptional design in the 2000s. They were never the first, but they were exceptional at appearing to be an innovator on the originality of their product design. I have not been impressed with apple design innovation for some time though, they've gotten stale.
- "While these moves could be calculated client-side, providing them server-side ensures consistency - especially for complex or esoteric chess variants - and optimizes performance on clients with limited processing capabilities or energy restrictions."

Just a wild guess: might be intended to lower the implementation barrier for new open-source software clients on new platforms, and/or preempt them from implementing subtle logic bugs that only show up much later.

The rules of chess are a bit tedious to implement, and you can easily get tired and code an edge-case bug that's almost invisible. Lichess itself did this—it once had a logic error that affected a very tiny number (exactly 7) of games,

https://github.com/lichess-org/database/issues/23 ("Before 2015: Some games with illegal moves were recorded")

(I apologize I couldn't find the specific patch that fixed this)
> Known limitations:

> - Lets an AI completely take over your computer

:)
I watch Apple TV+ on my Roku. No Apple hardware required