> No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

> I have a few qualms with this app:

> 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software

Obviously I'm not claiming that this will be anywhere near as successful as the iPod or Dropbox. It might not succeed at all. But I would have thought we'd be past this sort of dismissal by now.

Repeatedly, we’ve thought that humans and animals were different in kind, only to find that we’re actually just different in degree: elephants mourn their dead, dolphins have sex for pleasure, crows make tools (even tools out of multiple non-useful parts! [1]). That could be true here.

LLMs are impressive. Nobody knows whether they will or won’t lead to AGI (if we could even agree on a definition – there’s a lot of No True Scotsman in that conversation). My uneducated guess is that that you’re probably right: just continuing to scale LLMs without other advancements won’t get us there.

But I wish we were all more humble about this. There’s been a lot of interesting emergent behavior with these systems, and we just don’t know what will happen.

[1]: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2018-10-24-new-caledonian-crows-ca...

LLM proponents seem unwilling to accept that we comprehend the words we speak/write in a way that LLMs are not capable of doing.

Maybe their salary depends on them not understanding it.

I can see references to these builtins in the latest xnu source[1], but not in upstream llvm[2], or Apple's forks of llvm[3] and clang[4].

It's been possible to build your own XNU[5] for a long time. Is that still possible now?

  [1]: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu
  [2]: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project
  [3]: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/llvmCore
  [4]: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/clang
  [5]: https://kernelshaman.blogspot.com/2021/02/building-xnu-for-macos-112-intel-apple.html

  #include <stdio.h>
  
  struct foo {
   uintptr_t p __attribute__((xnu_usage_semantics("pointer")));
  };
  
  int main() {
   struct foo f = { 100 };
  
   printf("%lu\n", f.p);
   return 0;
  }

I also just realized that the latest tagged release of https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/clang is 800.0.38, my clang is reporting 1400.0.29.102. Is Apple no longer releasing the source for their compilers?

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/memory-safe-iboot-i...

> Fun aside: I’ve always assumed this is why Core Foundation exists—to provide a common interface between Carbon and Cocoa. I don’t actually have a citation for this, though.

This (very enjoyable) blog post from 2006 confirms it: https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/bridge.html. I believe ridiculous_fish was working at Apple at the time.

I'm having this problem on both my iPad (which is newer than my phone) and with my laptops. Old pictures are not there unless I view then, although new pictures seem to be pushed to all my devices. And even if I view then, they are downloaded only at medium quality, unless I view them for more than 1.5 seconds or I zoom into them. This means I can't even scroll quickly through them, as this won't get me the original quality I want.

[1]. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B01FIPHEXM

Very loosely, while there is lots of overlap between the three, Markoff covers the West Coast more thoroughly, with more material around his idea that a lot of the development there owes a great deal to LSD...

Levy covers the East Coast more thoroughly, going into a lot of detail about MIT, and the environment around the MIT AI Lab.

While Waldrop both goes further back, and takes a higher level view of the politics and DARPA itself.

There are of course plenty of other pieces to branch off into once you get to the rise of home computing in particular, but the above three books combine to give an even more fascinating picture of the early days of computing than they do separately. And BBN of course still stands out as one of the highly important pieces.

BBN is one of those companies that are fascinating to me, because like e.g. DEC, when I first got online in '93, they were the type of legendary that you when you are young take note of the status of, but don't really know the significance of, until you get a bit older and start being interested in the history of what you've built your career on...

> race() recurses3 with the result of run_step_of_race().

Edit: Finished reading the article. Brilliant. Even the footnotes were better explanations than commonly found.