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Apple basically spearheaded the war on general computation. Before them, phones used to be more or less open, Apple cracked down on that very quickly.
Same, however I do conceed having the whole assembler toolchain written in Python was also kind of cool, even if it may have been AI generated.
Even cooler would have been to have the 6502 directly generated from the LLM.
I am overjoyed to see this story here, we haven't gotten a lot of these hacks lately. Well done!
The thing is .. what else can you do? All the advice on how to get results out of LLMs talks in the same way, as if it's a negotiation or giving a set of instructions to a person.
You can do a mental or physical search and replace all references to the LLM as "it" if you like, but that doesn't change the interaction.
> I would guess that ChatGPT has left at least $100 on the table
Man, this thing is going to be so lucrative when they inject ads into it. Imagine how this is going to combine with the parasocial AI boyfriend/girlfriend people, it's going to be worse than hostess clubs. They'll have to invent whole new categories of nonexistant products for the bots to sell.
It's inherent in the way LLMs are built, from human-written texts, that they mimic humans. They have to. They're not solving problems from first principles.
How does that transalte to VMs? If "encryption at rest" is done at the guest level, instead of (or in addition to) host, that would be pretty close to minimal "encrypted except when it use" time and protect against virtual equivalents of pulling a hard drive out of a data center.
It never worked with the few books I got from Amazon, because I could not get them anywhere else. I usually only buy epub/pdf.
I think you mean country/region capitals, or countries like Germany.
I can assert than this isn't a thing in most Portuguese big cities, although it would be great to have it.
And proudly written in C++!
I like having C++ on my toolbox, but when Bjarne Stroustoup proudly talks about "F-35 Fighter Jet’s C++ Coding Standards" I am not sure it lands how he thinks it does, given how it turned out to be.
Quite certain that it also contributed to all the software glichs F-35 suffers from.
I tried out with a tiny project. It is the muscle memory built up with Git that kicks in and wish that JJ does it. I went through all the raw mistakes and doing things the hard way with Git, that, my mind plays trick trying to use JJ with the Git mindset. For now, I have mapped all of my Git aliases to JJ equivalent. But I would like to learn it the right way and do it the JJ way. This is going to take time, I’ll go slow.
It can't really lose to git, because underlying it is git
I mean, sure, that can happen, but that obviously depends on what the test is testing, it's not like it's bad in all cases to say "now plus 1 year". In the case in question it's really just "cookie is far enough in the future so it hasn't expired", so "expire X years in the future from now" is fine.
I appreciated John Gruber's piece on this: https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/another_day_has_come
That's because anonymity is the entire point of Monero. Of course legal vendors don't like anonymity, every government wants to be able to track every transaction anywhere.
Saying Monero hasn't been able "to overcome this" is like saying boats have been unable to overcome driving on roads. Technically true, but very much not the point.
Around 1900. They were held in very dubious regard in the early days of development.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1941/january/chap...
On British naval luminary compared submarine warfare to piracy, leading to the emergence a few years later of a tradition of Royal Navy submarine captains flying the Jolly Roger after completing successful missions.
I do wish Intel would make the other string instructions faster, just like they did with MOVS, because the alternatives are so insanely bloated.
it is never used with a prefix (the value would be overwritten for each repetition)
...which is still useful for extreme size-optimisation; I remember seeing "rep lodsb" in a demo, as a slower-but-tiny (2 bytes) way of [1] adding cx to si, [2] zeroing cx, [3] putting the byte at [cx + si - 1] into al, and [4] conditionally leaving al and si unchanged if cx is 0, all effectively as a single instruction. Not something any optimising compiler I know of would be able to do, but perhaps within the possibility of an LLM these days.
the audience will just prompt the AI themselves and cut out the middleman
It seems like "personalised recommendations" are heading in that direction, but don't forget there's also the social aspect --- listeners will want to share what they liked the most, so even if they end up automatically prompting the AI to generate exactly the music they want, they'll find others who also like very similar music.
The reality is, essentially nobody makes money by creating music. Taylor Swift, you might say, is a billionaire. Is it from selling music? Nope, it's from selling tickets to her shows. People want to see her perform live. A Taylor Swift impersonator would make no money singing the same songs. A cover band wouldn't do any better.
It's the same with authoring books. Almost nobody makes any significant money off of them. It's so paltry I don't really understand why authors are so concerned about copyright infringement.
People steal my copyrighted stuff all the time. I long ago stopped caring about it. But I do very much like Github as it protects me from others accusing me of stealing their code.
If you want to make money, you'll need a plan that does not require copyright protection.
This makes sense. The 1-bit model implies needing 2x as many neurons, because you need an extra level to invert. But the ternary model still has a sign, just really low resolution.
(I've been reading the MMLU-Redux questions for electrical engineering. They're very funny. Fifty years ago they might have been relevant. The references to the Intel 8085 date this to the mid-1970s. Moving coil meters were still a big thing back then. Ward-Leonard drives still drove some elevators and naval guns. This is supposed to be the hand-curated version of the questions. Where do they get this stuff? Old exams?)
[1] https://github.com/aryopg/mmlu-redux/blob/main/outputs/multi...
> But you know what's also frustrating? Code bases which involve multi-step manual steps to build.
Yes. That's what bash scripts are for.
and you can’t even find anyone who will fit them for the older models.
I'm quite certain you can find many companies in the far East who will produce cells of exactly the size and shape you want, as long as you're willing to order a minimum quantity. There are also a few semi-standard sizes of prismatic cells available.
That said, having a few truly standard sizes like we had with 1.2/1.5V and 9V batteries would be a good idea. BL-5C and its variants were a de-facto standard for many years too, and apparently are still available new.
Tell me your browser is a disaster without telling me your browser is a disaster.
Good point.
Then again, whatever process we're using, evolution found it in the solution space, using even more constrained search than we did, in that every intermediary step had to be non-negative on the margin in terms of organism survival. Yet find it did, so one has to wonder: if it was so easy for a blind, greedy optimizer to random-walk into human intelligence, perhaps there are attractors in this solution space. If that's the case, then LLMs may be approximating more than merely outcomes - perhaps the process, too.
Occlusion culling is really tough in systems where users can add content to the world. Especially if there's translucency. As with windows (not Windows), or layered clothing.
You're in a room without windows. Everything outside the room is culled. Frame rate is very high. Then you open the door and go outside into a large city. Some buildings have big windows showing the interior, so you can't cull the building interior. You're on a long street and can look off into the distance. Now keep the frame rate from dropping while not losing distant objects.
Games with fixed objects can design the world to avoid these situations. Few games have many windows you can look into. Long sightlines are often avoided in level design. If you don't have those options, you have to accept that distant objects will be displayed, and level of detail handling becomes more important than occlusion. Impostors. Lots of impostors.
Occlusion culling itself has a compute cost. I've seen the cost of culling big scenes exceed the cost of drawing the culled content.
This is one of those hard problems metaverses have, and which, despite the amount of money thrown at the problem, were not solved during the metaverse boom. Meta does not seem to have contributed much to graphics technology.
This is much of why Second Life is slow.
Ukraine's top drone commander was interviewed by The Economist.[1] He used to be a commodities trader, and he looks at warfare from that perspective. His goal is to kill Russian soldiers faster than Russia can replace them, until they run out of young men. His drone units are currently doing this, he claims. They supposedly lose one Ukrainian drone unit soldier per 400 Russians dead. Material cost per dead Russian soldier is about US$850. He looks at attrition war as an ROI problem.
His risk management strategy is to have redundant everything, so there's no single point of failure. Lots of small drones. Distributed operators. Many small factories. Varied command and control systems. He makes the point that they use lots of different kinds of drones - some fast with wings, some slow with rotors, some that run on treads on the ground. There's no "best drone". Using multiple types in a coordinated way makes it hard for the enemy to counter attacks. No one defense will stop all the drones.
Ukraine built 4,000,000 drones in 2025. This year, more. The Ukrainian military needs a new generation of drones about every three months, as the opposition changes tactics. They view most US drones as obsolete, because the product development and life cycle is far too long. (See "OODA loop" for the concept.)
This is a big problem for the US military's very slow development process. Development of the F-35 started over 30 years ago.
[1] https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/03/22/ukraines-top-dro...
How do they tell? Because they're awful? Some of them might be good. And many, if not most, songs created by unknown artists are terrible.
What exactly in the process doesn't make sense?
Unless the comment has been edited, it does make sense (other than the fact it's intention might just be an ad for BookShelves reader):
- Use Calibre to cross-convert books.
- Leverage public domain ebook catalogs: Standard Ebooks, Internet Archive, Gutenberg.
- For on-device reading BookShelves app might be an option, with no cloud lock-in.
>I'm at the stage where sometimes I make something that sounds good (to me) but I know it requires work (in the "not fun" sense) to finish it and even then, it will likely never be appreciated by anyone but myself.
That's true of 99% of very polished finished work too. Amazing bands and artists in Spotify with sub 1000 streams/month.
>None of these problems are "new", but I feel like AI is making this question of "why do it" or "what is worth doing" even more urgent. Kind of wondering how others are affected by all this, if at all.
Absolutely. One big concern is that even if you do it and you're proud of it, many will think it's AI anyway.
Plus the over-inflation of AI generated shit. It could all die in a fire.
Vulkan is not Apple.
Metal is Apple's API.
>The same people that shout "Capitalism sucks, free us from our labor" are the exact same types that hate AI. The exact machine that will free you from your labor, when harnessed correctly, is the exact thing you hate.
No, AI will only free us from our jobs, while still keeping the need to find money to feed ourselves.
"When harnessed correctly" is exactly what wont happen, and exactly what all the structural and economic forces around AI ensure it wont happen.
The whole idea of (good times) Apple was hardware and software made coherently by the same people though.
There were several exec departures in 2025, https://archive.is/JcYOY
Srouji stays to lead hardware, https://www.macrumors.com/2026/04/20/srouji-chief-hardware-o...
Johny is one of the most talented people I have ever had the privilege to work with. He has played a singular role in driving Apple's silicon strategy, and his influence has been felt deeply not just inside the company, but across the industry. He has always led his organization with remarkable deftness and judgment, and time and again, his team has delivered breakthrough innovations that have transformed our products. We are incredibly fortunate to have him as Apple's chief hardware officer.Things he effectively presided over:
* Apple Silicon, the most far-reaching technical transformation in the company's history (probably a bigger deal than macOS itself)
* Apple Pay
* The Watch and Airpods product categories, both of which Apple now dominates.
All while holding on to its position in phones and improving (drastically) its computers.
It feels like a pretty successful term.
>However, a lot of design has a deeper life-cycle than that. There's the collaboration, pitching, review, iteration, asset management, etc.
If corners can be cut, they will. All those steps would be flatened to something like CD and a couple of side tools.
Companies did "collaboration, pitching, review, iteration" because they had a designer in the loop anyway for the actual final work. Now that they don't have to, how many will just skip those steps, and if it means the end product gets less intented and "defined", they'd be fine with that?
So? What are we supposed to do with this often repeated information? Scrap it off them and snort it?
> When we have to fight the next serious war, we are not going to primarily use F-35 jets, it's going to be something built on a similar platform in larger numbers to specifically address challenges of that era. If it can not be made cheap enough, whatever contractors involved are going to be nationalized.
That is, to some extent, what the F-35 is; the mass-produced plane that incorporates what we learned from the F-117 and F-22 and whatnot. We've already made 10x as many as the F-22's production run.
I'm glad this person found community, but I think they've been a bit starstruck by concentrated interest. At no point in the next 30 years will there not be an active community of people who "loathe" AI and work to obstruct it. There are those people about smart phones, the Internet itself, even television.
Meanwhile: the ability to poison models, if it can be made to work reliably, is a genuinely interesting CS question. I'm the last person in the world to build community with anti-AI activists, but I'm as interested as anybody in attacks on them! They should keep that up, and I think you'll see threads about plausible and interesting attacks are well read, including by people who don't line up with the underlying cause.
It's ridiculous now. It might have not been when we were kids, just that our parents and grandparents weren't able to make the lesson stick.
"Just as it took the brutal reality of naval warfare in the Pacific to shift the Navy’s love from the battleship to the aircraft carrier, it may take the catastrophic failure for limitations of exquisite tactical aircraft to overwhelm the forces keeping them drinking up most of the trough.
The corrective is not to abandon the F-35 but to redefine its role. A smaller fleet should be reserved for the missions that truly require its unique capabilities — penetrating advanced air defenses, gathering intelligence in contested environments, and orchestrating distributed networks of unmanned systems. The marginal procurement dollar should shift toward platforms that are cheaper to build, easier to replace, less dependent on vulnerable forward infrastructure, and expendable in ways that manned fighters are not.
The lesson of the Iran campaign is that the F-35 performed superbly in exactly the kind of fight it was built for. The lesson for force designers is that the next war may not be that fight. The future of airpower belongs to a larger orchestra, many of its instruments unmanned, inexpensive, and replaceable. Prudence demands that the United States start building it now."
I don't know about design, but I think there was an article there somewhere. In other news, I got a score of 3000 or so.
I know there is evidence like
Apple ATT (iOS 14.5, April 2021). 15-25% opt-in.
-$10B Meta revenue in 2022 (CFO David Wehner)
It's so rare that I see an ad that is targeted to me at all so what gives? Am I really so unmarketable to? It's not like i don't buy cameras, food, clothes, video games, and all sorts of things. But all i see is retargeted ads for stuff I already bought.
For what it's worth, cryptography engineers were generally not happy with the Dragonfly PAKE, and PQC was a legitimate concern even in 2012.
Eh, Gundam is Japan's Star Wars. Released about the same timeframe (late 70's), tons of sequels and spinoffs, etc.
Evangelion is what happens when someone does a very successful riffs on the genre that Gundam is the most prolific example of.
This is hardly unique to Kindles.
I have an old iPod, which still works fine. But nearly all of its apps no longer work because the servers they connect to don't support it anymore, making it essentially useless.
Same thing happened to my older Samsung tablet.
Same thing to my various internet radios.
When corporations are sued, they tend to take the lawsuits seriously, which is probably a big factor in why their outcomes are so different than Jones'.
Finally! Great to have them back.
Also the poor kids started killing the rich kids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragging
A major reason why the draft was stopped is that because when you take a disunified and unwilling populace and start giving them weapons, their target may not be the enemy.
you're effectively instilling that at gunpoint: the government forces you to do this
I'm so sick of libertarian tropes. Starting every argument with oerwrought emotionalism has made me increasingly indifferent to your 'plight' over the years, because it's just victimization politics. Perhaps if we rebalanced public/private obligations overall tax burdens owuld be lower and society would be more pleasant to live in.
Accessed via OpenRouter, this one decided to wrap the SVG pelican in HTML with controls for the animation speed: https://gisthost.github.io/?ecaad98efe0f747e27bc0e0ebc669e94...
Transcript and HTML here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/ecaad98efe0f747e27bc0e0ebc669...
Does this system exist somewhere?
Great example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
> Butler, a retired Marine Corps major general, testified under oath that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization with him as its leader and use it in a coup d'état to overthrow Roosevelt.
> 1. No amount of knowledge or discussion will make a person accept something they don’t want to accept
Discussion, probably not. Modifying incentive structures, absolutely.
> the meeting killed the memo
Some AWS meetings require the memo.
> writing and reading was, and is, a great burden to many
Other terms for writing and reading:
• transmission
• thinking (@paulg essay)
• memory RL (reinforcement learning)
• advantage
• moat
Transcripts are primary sources. Sufficiently valuable primary sources can inspire new sources, created by humans through a process that includes, but is not limited to, reading and writing.
The only surprise is that it's publicly being stated. I'm sure every major intelligence organization in the world has the all the components of Mythos and are running it locally. That's what they do. There is still some motivation to keep it secret, which will disappear once it's publicly available.
> Foreign banks must report all financial activities of Americans to the US. An American official wad asked in an interview if the US would then report
The U.S. predominantly compels banks through FATCA. If a bank wants to do business in America, it has to follow FATCA for Americans abroad. There is, of course, some regulatory co-operation. But to my knowledge, most countries don't directly transmit these data to the U.S.–the banks have to report it instead.
The correct analogy would be a foreign country requiring U.S. banks to send them data on their own citizens abroad. Which, I think, e.g. India could probably do.
> I tend to be very exacting in my word choice. If I used a specific word, I meant it. Many people I find speak in what I would describe as tone poems.
That's an amazing description thank you.
.. and some also refuse to do business with Americans because of the additional reporting requirements!
The claim is compelling. But the author's writing style–punctuated with needless character assasinations, e.g. the dig about not being a lumberjack, or hyperbolic rhetorical questions–makes me wanting for a better source. (Author says, at the end, they have experience as a journalist, so I want to underline that I'm going off style alone right now.)
People didn't prefer shit. This is a supply-driven market, vendors put out whatever they want, and we deal with it.
> They could've ordered it. It would get sent and then sit in a customs warehouse until it gets cleared. That could take days or even a week or more. Not having it was costing half a million dollars a day. So what did they do? They flew someone across the Atlantic to the US to get the parts, pay exorbitant extra baggage fees (it was large) and come back with it. Why? Because passenger baggage would immediately pass through customs at the airport. This would likely save 5-10 days.
I knew a case like this where a coworker took a $50k networking switch in his hand luggage to Brazil. With the extra detail that the company it was on behalf of wanted him to lie to customs (because the import duty on electronics was something like 50%!)
This was true back when Moore's law was the driver of obsolescence. You bought a new phone every year simply because next year's phone was twice as fast.
Now that this doesn't happen, the driver of obsolescence is the battery, which is much less defensible because you can swap it much more easily than "the whole internals of the phone".
Oh it's extremely simple: Make people care enough about privacy that they'll pay for it.
That's literally all it is. People so far have shown that they'd rather choose the cheaper thing than the private thing. If it were the other way around, the market would have provided.
I've got some tests in active code bases that are using the end of 32-bit Unix time as "we'll never get there". That's not because the devs were lazy, these tests date from when that was the best they could possibly do. They're on track to be cycled out well before then (hopefully this year), so, hopefully, they'll be right that their code "won't get there"... but then there's the testing and code that assumes this that I don't know about that may still be a problem.
"End of Unix time" is under 12 years now, so, a bit longer than the time frame of this test, but we're coming up on it.
What good is a bet you won't be able to collect on if it happens?
“a bit of effort” is way more than the reward
Fear of messing up my computer and no way back.
commenting without reading the article, your being naughty again :o)
> takeover attempt by Adobe, that was later blocked on competition grounds
Would Figma in Adobe be a stronger competitor against Claude Design today than Figma and Adobe can be separately?
> They would definitely need to abide by DoD policy
The policy in question is a statement by SecDef being reviewed by courts. I think it’s fair to ask whether DNI is actually constrained by that, or if it’s a judgement call.
> the "right thing to do" is NOT turn off the cameras just before a collision
Source for autopilot being disabled “seconds before a crash” also disabling cameras? (Sorry if I missed it above.)
> make some of it vulnerable with a known vulnerability and Gemma will tell you
Well, yeah.
Isn't the idea finding unknown vulnerabilities?
StarCraft Brood War replays would desync due to version issues, too. Any gameplay adjustments in a patch would affect the replay, often in subtle ways that would sometimes result in a valid and interesting game, just different outcome.
The article was also published in German: https://www.srf.ch/news/dialog/autonomes-fahren-wie-tesla-un...
The fact that you don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. I make up a unique file, put it on site X and ask your browser to cache it. I try to load the same file on site Y and time how long it takes. If it's instant, site Y knows you visited site X.
Tadaaa! Tracking.
>My keyboard demo day at Fry's (2011)
Same here, I care to the extent I am obligated to, and staying relevant for finding a job.
> Sudo for windows is already relatively old and doesn't seem to have been adopted much,...
Because probably this was pushed due to meet some OKRs ("made an impact").
It adds nothing over runas, other than being a known name to folks educated in UNIX.
Which is hardly of any benefit, given that Windows is not UNIX.
It's not the only thing they're doing with it. I mean, the logic is sound - $180 goes into automating bunch of manual processes in personal life, one of which is getting movies, which in some cases involves going out on the high seas.
You can't really attribute to someone something they did unintentionally while trying to do the opposite.
No better time than now to get into suborbital cargo freight business.
Which are also interesting when you get certified in a trade school in one canton and then move into another one.
I remember when I used to live there, early 2000's, this was a problem, having to get an additional permit.
I don't worry about such things, because I have never been in error yet.
Hunt for Postmortens at GDC magazine or GDC Vault.
So Microsoft 365, Windows, and Azure most likely.
I bet they haven't thought about Typescript, VSCode, Github, Linkedin, .NET, npm/node, or the contributions done to Linux kernel, Rust and Python that probably would also require security reviews.
Also most of the key contributors to FOSS alternatives are sponsored by US companies as well.
Which is the problem this ongoing geopolitics crysis. Decision makers only think about the superficial parts and not the whole extent of the dependency problem.
My vibe coded one-off app projects have are all, by default, "self-contained single file static client side webapp, no build step, no React or other webshit nonsense" in their prompt. For more complex cases, I drop the "single file". Works like a charm.
From the title, I thought this was going to be about customer support, or non-support.
A good article about the costs of not listening to your customers would be useful.
Common Lisp Object System and The Art of Metaobject Protocol.
Yes.
I'm surprised they didn't call it Run-AsAdministrator or some other awkward Microsoft-ism.
Tons of ten-hour-long typing sound videos on YouTube.
Yeah that should work - it looks like the same pixel dimension image at smaller sizes has about the same token cost for 4.6 and 4.7, so the image cost increase only kicks in if you use larger images that 4.6 would have presumably resized before inspecting.
Yes, in fact it has an entirely different system prompt from the ones that Anthropic publish on https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/release-notes/system-pro...
The Claude Code one isn't published anywhere but it's very easy to get hold of. One way to do that is to run Claude Code through a logging proxy - I was using a project called claude-trace for this last year but I'm not sure if it still works, I've not tried it in a while: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/2/claude-trace/
Are those the right capabilities for the price, though?
If it was the right plane, full stop, wouldn't Ukraine be fielding a wing of them? No, because they're extremely cost constrained.