Apple announces Foundation Models and Containerization frameworks, etc

Post by geraneum » Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 12:16 PM UTC

12_throw_away wrote: post #212

dedicate wrote: post #19

Okay, the AI stuff is cool, but that "Containerization framework" mention is kinda huge, right? I mean, native Linux container support on Mac could be a game-changer for my whole workflow, maybe even making Docker less of a headache.

FWIW, here are the repos for the CLI tool [1] and backend [2]. Looks like it is indeed VM-based container support (as opposed to WSLv1-style syscall translation or whatever): Containerization provides APIs to: [...] - Create an optimized Linux kernel for fast boot times. - Spawn lightweight virtual machines. - Manage the runtime environment of virtual machines. [1] https://github.com/apple/container [2] https://githu…

Post by footlose_3815 » Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 12:34 PM UTC

NoPicklez wrote: post #323

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #305

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But the opposite of "flat" is not "transparent". This was posted in another HN thread about Liquid Glass: https://imgur.com/a/6ZTCStC . I'm sure Apple will tweak the opacity before it goes live, but this looks horribly insane to me.

Agreed, people have said perhaps its Apple's way of bringing VR vibes to the UI, showing layers of UI elements. But I'm not so sure if I want transparent.

Post by footlose_3815 » Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 12:35 PM UTC

ordinaryradical wrote: post #59

codethief wrote: post #42

> New Design with Liquid Glass Looks like software UI design – just like fashion, film, architecture and many other fields I'm sure – has now officially entered the "nothing new under the sun" / "let's recycle ideas from xx years ago" stage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_%28user_interface%29 To be clear, this is just an observation, not a judgment of that change or the quality of the design by itself. I was gett…

I used to find these changes compelling but now I think they are mostly a pain in the ass or questionable. Proof of a well-designed UI is stability, not change. Reads to me strongly of an effort to give traditional media something shiny to put above the headline and keep the marketing engine running.

Post by ivape » Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 1:09 PM UTC

paxys wrote: post #69

chakintosh wrote: post #46

Some 15 years ago, A friend of mine said to me "mark my words, Apple will eventually merge OSX with iOS on the iPad". And with every passing keynote since then, it seemed Apple's been inching towards that prophecy, and today, the iPad has become practically a MacBook Air with a touch screen. Unless you were a video editor, programmer who needs resources to compile or a 3D artist, I don't see how you'd need anything o…

The fact that they haven't done it in 15 years should be an indication that they don't intend to do it at all. Remember that in the same time period Apple rebuilt every Macbook from scratch from the chipset up. Neither the hardware nor software is a barrier to them merging the two platforms. It's that the ecosystems are fundamentally incompatible. A true "professional" device needs to offer the user full control, and…

Post by refulgentis » Tue, Jun 10, 2025, 1:34 PM UTC

IanCal wrote: post #417

refulgentis wrote: post #361

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I guess I'd say "mu", from a dev perspective, you shouldn't care about tokens ever - if your inference framework isn't abstracting that for you, your first task would be to patch it to do so. To parent, yes this is for local models, so insomuch worrying about token implies financial cost, yes

Ish - it always depends how deep in the weeds you need to get. Tokenisation impacts performance, both speed and results, so details can be important.