holo_nexus

ernest, 6 months ago

The aggregate view is in preparation still.

kirklennon, 6 months ago

Apple got into search years ago, though. If you search in Safari, Apple will provide a single top result (if it has one) above your selected search engine results. Search for a famous person from history and you'll most likely get a Wikipedia link at the top with the picture and small excerpt. This is powered by Apple's own search engine. It's not limited to Wikipedia either but is powered by their Applebot web crawler. If you want to be able to see more than one result, you can use the Spotlight search by swiping down on the home screen. Depending on your search term you'll have a Websites section with multiple results from their search engine.

What Apple doesn't offer is a web page for you to access their search engine. Even without it, though, many millions of people have been using Apple's search engine for years now, clicking on the results usually without even realizing that's where it came from.

fubo, 8 months ago

I don’t want my local ISP to be making judgments about whether my neighbor is pirating movies or posting hate speech.

But I do want my local ISP to be able to cut off connectivity to a house that is directly abusing neighborhood-level network resources; in order to protect the availability of the network to my house and the rest of the neighborhood.

Back in the early 2000s there was a spate of Windows worms known as “flash worms” or "Warhol worms"¹, which could flood out whole network segments with malware traffic. If an end-user machine is infected by something like this, it’s causing a problem for everyone in the neighborhood.

And the ISP should get to cut them off as a defensive measure. Worm traffic isn’t speech; it’s fully-automated malware activity.

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¹ From Andy Warhol’s aphorism that “in the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes”, a Warhol worm is a worm that can take over a large swath of vulnerable machines across the Internet in 15 minutes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhol_worm

reddig33, 9 months ago

If you have a subscription to Apple News, you can use the Share > News.app feature to open most paywalled major news outlets. And the outlet gets paid.

I don’t have an Android device, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it has something similar.

CapraObscura, 9 months ago

remember what made Ford what it is today.

American can-do spirit, worker’s rights, and throbbing fuckloads of antisemitism.

troyunrau, 9 months ago

Interesting read. A few years ago I developed, seemingly overnight, an intolerance for red meat. Which sucked cause I really like it. But I developed it while working in the arctic, where there are no ticks (but like trillions of other biting insects). Doctors just did the usual rotation of antibiotics and then said IBS and patted themselves on the back. It was a terrible cop-out, but when living in the arctic you don’t get much choice for doctors. Over time the problem largely tapered off and I’m no longer a firehose an hour after eating meat. I feel for anyone who gets this.

I’m hoping that AI really helps within the field of medicine. Doctors cannot be expected to know every possible cause of every illness – they’re human after all. But I’m hoping that the weird stuff can be detected and at least diagnosed properly.

I’m so mad at Elizabeth Holmes. Any startup in this space will face such an uphill battle.

TurboDiesel, 10 months ago

Dear app developers:

STOP ADDING STORIES TO SHIT

This irritates me to no goddamn end. I do not want vertical short-form video shoved in my face in every. app. I. use.

trynn, 10 months ago

High interest in something isn't the same as bubble. Where's the overvalued assets that are out of touch with reality? The guy quoted in the article even referenced Google losing value after the lackluster launch of Bard, which is kind of the opposite of a bubble. The dotcom bubble wasn't a bubble because everyone was talking about the Internet... it was a bubble because companies were severely overvalued for putting literally anything on the web without having functional business models. The businesses were the bubble, not the Internet.

Could AI become a bubble? Possibly. But we're nowhere near anything like that at this point in time. It's just got mindshare, not overvalued assets.

FaceDeer, 10 months ago

Nice to have confirmation on the authenticity of that memo, but this article is very short on further detail.

But Hassabis is less pessimistic about Google’s future in the AI industry. He believes that the competitive nature of the company’s researchers will help push Google to the forefront of AI, adding that the newly merged Google Brain and Google DeepMind teams, which Hassabis was asked to lead, will likely result in more breakthroughs.

"Executive in charge of a division thinks that the division he's in charge of is doing well" isn't really that surprising a statement. IMO "making breakthroughs" is useful, but not really the most important thing here; the question is whether Google can take advantage of those breakthroughs and make a business out of them.

Zeth0s, 10 months ago

The memo clearly highlight the importance of the “ecosystem” built from open source models, the research done by 3rd parties that can be directly useful, such of what is happening with stable diffusion.

Truth is that google is in a tricky position at the moment. Open source would be the best choice for everyone, google researcher, engineers, public, but it might put google business at risk.

They have to guess what is the less risk… And they’ll clearly go for the closed source path, as it is closer to the mindset of business people in Google

Fredselfish, 10 months ago

I think they want to destroy it. They don’t want us to have freedom away from their data collection and ad bombardments.

Best way to do so is to get in. Some one posted an article about what they want to do.

Here the article ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-ne…

This is why Mete wants in.