skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So, here’s a question - when were you last excited for a new phone? Well, I mean really excited?

Every time I got one for use as a main phone. Granted, in the last 15 years I first got Openmoko Neo Freerunner, then Nokia N900, then Librem 5 that I write this on; and before that I was a teenager in the era when getting a phone that had a camera was already cool... but they were all very exciting.

I remember the announcement of the first iPhone (somewhat exciting... but a complete disappointment as soon as it released) and Android (very exciting at first, but then slowly getting to iPhone level of disappointment).

Before the Librem 5 arrived I had to augment my N900 with an Android phone for about two years. That was annoying, but thankfully I could get excited again soon enough. I miss the keyboard though, capacitive screens still aren't great for writing.
Not all modern drives. One of mine goes "thunk thunk thunk".
I could hear it from rooms away in one case I had it in.
Those people aren’t looking at Apple.

They seem to have a good model for adding value to their products without the hold my beer, conquer the world bullshit that you get from OpenAI, et al.
Very true...although duckpin bowling had a bit of a revival in the early 2010s.
Why does miles driven matter? Fewer people are dying, that's what matters. The fact that I have to drive further/faster than someone in Japan to accomplish the same task is increasing my chance of death and that is bad. The fact that the USA has no regulations stopping its citizens from buying 6,000 pound trucks that have bad pedestrian visibility as a driver with a pulse-check standard vehicle license is bad.

If people are driving fewer miles in Japan that means that the built environment is better.

Is there higher usage of mass transit, cycling, and walking in Japan? You bet there is.

And don't give me that "America is oh so big and spread out, Japan is on an island" nonsense. 80%+ of Americans live in urban areas. It once had the largest passenger rail network in the world. This is a matter of intentional city planning and deliberate choices. Not every island nation is as transit-oriented as Japan (just look at the Carribbean or even the UK).

When divided highways were first being introduced globally, Japan's government made an intentional choice to invest in the Shinkansen instead of roadways. That was not an inevitability as there were voices there that preferred road investment.
I hate when something tries to sell me a framework, like, following the "stories in 8 steps" for making concise points, because obviously the question that follows is: Why 8? Why not 7 or 9?

If that's just an opinion then I'd rather have it backed by something more than "it worked for you"

Did it work for you despite this, or thanks to this?

Would somebody else's 9 step program work better?

Did somebody distill it down to some other more elegant principles that you just happened to follow by doing the 8-step thing?

There's never anything rigorous in the realm of marketing & communication courses
I'd argue that the strange Gemini answers that were making the rounds of social media are more absurd than what you would see in regular blogspam. But again, they're extremes (and some of the reported screenshots were even fake).

On the other hand, there's indeed a lot of popular human-made fake content lately, especially in TikTok, like fake guitar playing and fake nonsensical DIY videos. So it's not an AI exclusive phenomena.
What is the best time to post on Hacker News? (2017)
I'm not saying they should, but that doesn't mean you can't allow denser development - but they present density as some way of life crisis.

They fight townhouses, for christ's sake: https://streetsoftoronto.com/real-estate-home-theatres-baske...
> Something feels off about this. I mean, it can go both ways, no?

man, it can go every way imaginable. Childhood is so short and no on worries like a parent does. Every parent wants to get it 100% right but that's an impossible task yet there's very serious consequences for your child when you get it wrong. Further, parents are just regular people who get misinformed or are ignorant of the path forward and have to just do their best at every crucial step in a child's development. Parenthood is an impossible task to get perfect and you have to give yourself grace but you have to work and learn from your mistakes and improve because a life is at stake.
The Apple produced demo videos on the Apple Vision Pro are exactly this… and they’re amazing.

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/apple-vision-pro-original...
Inb4 esp32
Just want to add in addition to what other users have said that the window on fraud discovery is generally much narrower on your bank account than with a credit card. You get 90 days with a credit card generally, but bank account transactions are generally 30 days or less, or even smaller for corporate accounts on some transactions.
That small landmass has the highest brainpower, quality of life, and social progress than all other countries in the Middle East.
Restaurants Place Big Bets on Cooking Robots
I'd guess both: a continuation and its own new flavor.

It's better than what automated scripts could produce and cheaper than human generated copy. It has expertise of the whole Internet and its reasoning capabilities are often worse than those of a three year old.

Similar for sure, and yet something different.
If you don't want a smartphone, you can get a decent feature phone for about €50. It will probably work better and last longer than this.
Dropped 1Password for Strongbox a few weeks ago, really impressed with it.
PowerInfer-2: Fast Large Language Model Inference on a Smartphone
Ah sweet 1990s... I remember tinkering with POV-ray and then discovering Blue Moon Rendering Tools - it felt like magic!
Overmind – Identify the Blast Radius and Risks for Terraform Changes
The LLM/generative-AI genie is out of the lamp. I'm just some random midwit, but some predictions:

- Slop will continue to become cheaper to generate, and people will only notice the obvious stuff

- Hyperpersonalized content will abound, yet authenticity will run dry

- The lack of authenticity in electronic channels will drive a small segment of people offline into less fakeable (for now) social contexts

- Humans online will walk a treadmill of increasingly convoluted shibboleths / Gnirut tests (reverse Turing tests ;)) to self-identify as likely not AI-generated, i.e., subtly run-on sentences that are intelligible but slightly non-conformist to prevailing AI model outputs, and usage of old-school emoticons and other quirks

- Humans will walk on similar "Gnirut treadmills" for visual art, speech, video, and music

- AI models will gladly chase humans along these Gnirut treadmills, filling in canyons and sections of the Uncanny Valley with fractally sophisticated humanlike content
The lack of security features really limits where this can be used in commercial designs.
Honestly delighted that this still exists. Like others, I used to leave my computer running overnight to render. Dating myself, but it was a big deal in the BBS scene in the UK in the early nineties - so many files and techniques being swapped.
When will AI be able to construct a full movie based on a book?
I have read in the past Ender's Game. I have also watched the movie. I am no listening to the audiobook and compare the book to the movie; and there are so many things.

I started to wander when would it be possible to "ask" some AI machine to "watch" the movie, "read the book" and create the missing pages/hours of video content.

I get it that there is IP/royalties involved, but I am not concerned on the legal issues. I am more concerned about watching the missing chapters/scenes from books I love.

And why not, perhaps even some cool books that were never made into movies...
I am seeing a recurring theme here. RAG has a dependency on a high quality search solution that is already in place and providing value to users. Anything else now looks like putting the cart before the horse.

If you cannot get a basic search term to return documents you care about, I do not think going further into the vector/semantic rabbit hole will make your life much better. At this point I think you need to step back and ask why your simple terms aren't doing what you would expect and start working on that problem. Perhaps there is something wrong with your documents or business rather than the technology.

With regard to traceability, if you have a traditional search foundation to work with, presumably you have fields like "IndexedUtc" and "Url" for every document that has been indexed. This metadata could be concatenated to any generative output. These additional metadata fields are also how you can tune the search process from a RAG perspective. During indexing, you can record heuristics about each document to condition how the text fragments are extracted and transformed into the RAG prompt.
Or any live event like concerts and especially sports. When they can capture a live event well for the VP, it will sell a lot.
It depends if you are ok with 1/3 to 2/3rds of your visitors bouncing due to loading times and losing 3 to 5x of convertion rate depending on sources...
10,000 phone searches in the last two years.

3.3m visitors in March 2024 alone.

So something like 0.01% of travellers get their phones searched. How are those 0.01% selected?

> The agency does not provide information on the success rate for searches, but has said a phone would only be seized where officers suspected it had “special forfeited goods” such as “illegal pornography, terrorism-related material and media that has been, or would be, refused classification”.

One wonders how such a suspicion is formed.
well, the tuning of training data results in at least some predictions that resemble varying models of systems 1 and 2 thinking. there is no reasoning at all. it's all models of reasoning, tokenized by opinionated taxonomical algorithms and degrees of systemic, academic/conventional human interpretation (tags) that are far from capturing the general human experience.
> at least as much time to generate the video as the video's run-time

That's for the very lowest-tier video.

The usual formula, is that for every minute of runtime, you have at least 30 minutes of editing.

With professionally-produced video, I think it's triple or quadruple that.
I'm talking about how the term is used because the author doesn't seem to be too familiar with Internet slang and believes that the term is new and strictly related to AI.
Before any international travel:

1. Wipe phone
2. Install goatse wallpaper
> where if you plug in another appliance on the same breaker the car will decrease its draw to prevent triggering the breaker.

That's alarming. There's no way the car can know that there's another appliance on the same breaker. The only way it can know it should decrease its power draw, is by detecting that the voltage decreased on the circuit, but that voltage decrease will only be noticeable if the wiring is undersized for the load (in fact, that feature is probably designed to protect against overheating undersized wiring on the circuit feeding the car). That circuit is probably severely overloaded, which can be a fire risk.
I remember as a young lad being taught that one of the virtues of a consumer society was that there was enough production variety that everyone could find a product that meets their needs.

Weird that smartphones are the exception.
>(must I say more?)

Yes.
ICE https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice is an amazing alternative for Bartender.
'freely revealed' probably means 'we\'ll have to keep this until we managed to unlock it.'
It seems like this company has found a bunch of businesses whose model is outdated and cannot survive, and found a way to align the services to appeal to a broader audience. The alternative is probably not a return to the good old days, but the closure of all bowling alleys.
This comment section reveals that you live in a dystopia.
Sequoia with 'ai', coinciding with Apple Intelligence, is a cleverly chosen code name for this release.
Slop seems like a good term for unwanted AI generated content.

But I wonder how much this is AI and how much we've sort of curated a slop pattern even before AI:

- Video game tips web pages with massive chunks of text / ads before you get to the inevitable answer of "hit A when X happens".

- The horrendous mess that Quora became with technically correct in some ways but also misleading answers to historical content.

- Medium articles about coding that are filled with irrelevant pics and blocks of text that are "not wrong" but also "not right" followed by weirdly specific code...

We had all that before AI.
> The RP2040 is impossible to brick. It comes with a read-only bootloader that can either mount as a USB mass storage device (firmware updates can just be copypasted to the "storage device"), or use its own simple USB protocol.

Can anyone explain what this means? How is it both read-only and updateable? If the latter, how is it unbrickable?
To each their own, I certainly would not recommend an iPhone in this scenario, especially even more at a top tech company.
Venmo/PayPal are unique in that they'll insure an informal purchase agreement between two people neither of which have a merchant agreement with them.

Would you care to test this? Venmo someone you know $50 and then try to reverse it without their consent. Let me know how it goes.

Venmo makes it incredibly easy to send money to the wrong user tag.
Firefox 127
I distrust sources that wouldn't publish the opposite conclusion given different evidence.

If private equity boosted bowling immensely, would Jacobin write about it?

Having said that, they have a point about Bowlero stock. Leveraged to the hilt (98%!!!), and revenue and profits stuck at unsustainable levels [0].

[0] https://valustox.com/BOWL
Even Kagi has this crap too. :(
Yes Mozilla's does - to Firefox. There are cases I need to use Safari or a Chrome based browser. This is the main reason I got 1password in the first place.

and where do you store your passwords for apps?
Both HN itself and prolific HN contributor simonw get shoutouts in the article:

“The term [‘slop’] has sprung up in 4chan, Hacker News and YouTube comments, where anonymous posters sometimes project their proficiency in complex subject matter by using in-group language.”

“Some have identified Simon Willison, a developer, as an early adopter of the term — but Mr. Willison, who has pushed for the phrase’s adoption, said it was in use long before he found it. ‘I think I might actually have been quite late to the party!’ he said in an email.”

The first substantive discussion of the word here seems to be this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40301490
One interesting thing about CP/M is that it didn't have subdirectories.

"CP/M 2.2 had no subdirectories in the file structure, but provided 16 numbered user areas to organize files on a disk. To change user one had to simply type "User X" at the command prompt, X being the user number."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M
Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names I see a few different mappings over time.

I like the fact that some of the earliest mappings had 0 mapped to "OPER" ("Operator"), because it makes me imagine that this number 33700 is like some interpretation of 337 and then shouting twice for the "operator" (as in, the literal physical person that used to sit and connect calls using wires and a patch board).

Taking this further then, and given that:

- 3 is assigned to any of the three letters DEF, and

- 7 is assigned to any of the three letters PRS,

we could invent the following meaning:

DES = "Déclaration d'Envoi de Spam". (Lit. "Declaration of sending of spam", as in a report about spam sending).

The double 0 is, as mentioned, in our invented meaning like shouting "Operator! Operator!"

And with this invented meaning it's like we are shouting for help from the operator to deal with this spam :D

Of course here I'm starting with 337 and backronyming "DES" to a plausible but probably weird sentence. If it was a real, the French would probably have worded the original sentence quite differently and the resulting number would be different as well.

(Also, looking at the article I'm not sure if any European countries also had 0 used for "OPER" or not. Guess I'll have to travel to some museums in France and have a look at some old phones with my own eyes at some point.)
data sheet: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/rp2040/rp2040-datasheet.p...
I work with a former veterinarian and have discussed this topic at length.

Pet owners and rising costs of doing business are the reason for the spike in suicides. The human customers are awful to deal with, you spend a lot of your time killing animals that you loved enough to devote your career to and the economics of the business mean that if you aren't already an established vet business you will never make good money.
Right, and grandparent has a typo. True you are not required to hand over the password, but they aren't required to give you back your phone if you don't.
For one thing, you have do a certain amount of looping if you want to, say, sort or systematically search a combinatorical space. LLMs don't do that.
> The article author ignores how little those old phones could actually do

I wish there was a phone on the market that did as little as those phones did. It appears, however, that if you want a cell phone at all, it has to be a smartphone ("feature phones" are just gimped smartphones).
And Canon just announced a 3D lens for taking video for the VP :)
Two small notes on definitions:

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"Secure Elements / Hardware Roots of Trust: Embedded within chips, these elements provide a secure base for trusted operations and are often used in mobile devices and IoT applications."

SEs (Secure Elements) are discrete components. Smartcards and SIM cards are examples of SEs. They are different from a root of trust. When talked about in a cryptographic context a 'hardware root of trust' is usually a public key embedded in an immutable ROM.

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"Secure Enclaves: These provide isolated execution environments within a CPU..."

Not necessarily within a CPU. Apple has the SEP (Secure Enclave Processor) which is a discrete core on the die.
I very much disagree that it's better than a comment. The git blame log will over time get layered on as changes are made to various lines, meaning you have to dive for the original message, assuming one is even there (many a time I dig for commits, only to see that the commit message doesn't answer the question of motivation very well or at all). A short comment in the code makes it obvious.
The bootloader is read-only. What the bootloader loads isn't. If the thing you're trying to boot into is faulty, it doesn't matter because you can just replace the thing the bootloader is trying to load.

If the bootloader itself was faulty, the device would be bricked.
It's AI generated spam. Why not simply call it AI spam, as already in use by e.g. [1][2][3].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-spam-google-ruin-internet...

[2] https://www.ghostery.com/blog/how-to-prepare-for-ai-spam

[3] https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/13/google_ai_spam/
> SPAC stands for Special Purpose Acquisition Company
I studied physics, I can make up physics questions of varying difficult out of my head. If I asked it hard questions about programming I would cry instead of laugh.
its been around a loong time
IMO it's slightly different in terms of how it plays out so a new term seems reasonable.
I think the keynote here is the closed/open hardware.

You can run Windows almost on any hardware. So it is much more open in general.

You can equally run almost any imaginable software on both operating systems (if we ignore the performance), but you have extreme difficulties to run macOS on most hardware.
I see no alternative if people are unwilling to actually pay for content. It's just going to be individualized slop feeds on every advertising based media app until they get tired of that (zero sign of that coming).

Maybe the algorithms will be so good, and enough creative people will use these tools to generate truly exciting content that they wouldn't have been able to otherwise but it just looks totally dire to me for creatives at this moment.
So basically, a Mac mini.
You don't also know what is actually happening.

I live near kids like this where there parents aren't around they just roam. They get into trouble. How much parenting are you dumping on others.

One group decided it would be fun to smash glass bottles in the parking lot. So I have to do the job if the parent and either tell them to behave, stop and clean it up or clean up after them myself so I don't ruin my tires. Why aren't the real parents doing this?

Or the kids liter, get stuck in trees,lose their stuff, pee on stuff etc. All problems their real parents should be dealing with but instead others have to deal with it. Randoms like me get the negatives of the unsupervised kids.

Im sure their parents think they had a pleasant day playing tag all day though.
Got me there! The situation where you already have that stuff definitely favors DFS and makes it pretty trivial
Mitsubishi Mirage isn't a small car by EU standards. It's a typical, average sized one.
Fwiw I don't think "serious generative art developers" are the target audience at this point, that's probably on the order of .01% of their users
There is an easier way to solve each recursion! I just wrote a blog post on it: https://louisabraham.github.io/articles/probabilistic-tic-ta...
I don't know how one can't see the appeal. Once I installed Rectangle on macOS I can quickly put windows side-by-side with a couple of keystrokes, and change which windows I want side-by-side extremely quickly

Fiddling with the mouse to resize windows manually or having windows overlapping and covering up information on each other is not really a great way to interface with them. Maybe it's helpful to locate the windows and bring them into focus, but once they're in focus and in use, I want to be maximizing their screen real estate and making sure they're 100% readable.

And, really, it's something the OS should have had at the very least as an optional feature for over a decade now. Windows introduced this feature in Windows 7. It's been a sore spot of a missing feature and it's especially detracting for the Windows users that Apple wants to have switch over to the Mac platform.
Phone searches at borders have nothing to do with the COVID.
He is such a terrible person he has his own section on the Wikipedia page for "Cambodian Genocide Denial"[1] and is heavily featured in the page for "Bosnian Genocide Denial"[2]. Chomsky is a disgusting hack who runs cover for any genocidal freak that pays lip service to the hammer and sickle.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial#Chom...
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_genocide_denial#Revisi...
You'd be surprised how many people don't even consider the monthly payment. Not uncommon where I grew up to see guys making $50,000 a year driving $70,000 trucks. Because they "need it for work".
Or alternatively is PE identifying and enshittifying businesses that have (1) lots of dedicated customers who are path-dependent and unlikely to switch (e.g., older folks), and (2) perform essential services that have low (short term) elasticity, like emergency veterinarians. This seems like the smart move if you want to extract profit from society without providing much value in return.

There was an opinion piece posted here by Matt Stoller about "economic termites" and this is the pattern I recognize: where corporate involvement makes everything more expensive, while workers' salaries go sideways. https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/economic-termites-are-eve...
He's controversial but not crazy. Lots of interesting people are controversial. I think you understand that, but I'm sharing this comment so that others aren't immediately turned off at the notion.
All three game console makers have now abandoned X integration