skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also the obligatory non-Pro model, and a refresh of the Pixel Fold:

https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_9

https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_9_pro_fold

Usually the Pro is bigger than the non-Pro but this time they're exactly the same size, and they've added a bigger Pro XL variant.

https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/Google-Pixel-9,Google...

The Pro and Pro XL appear to have identical specs aside from the screen size/resolution and a slightly bigger battery in the XL.
I would bet more in a company who figured out the last 20% in a specific city than a company stuck on the first 80% generally.
idk I was happy with whatever the iPhone 3gs did.

Yeah there's some really amazing stuff the new phone can do but I honestly don't care. If I need a piece of correctly specked camera equipment I'd probably buy a dedicated device with proper cooling and a removable memory card.
"AI" on my phone is so incredibly unappealing. I don't understand who this is for.
I submit the HTC 10 as an example of a smartphone that did not look like an iPhone but had its own sleek design language:

https://dev.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/s9wsHkNaq6sKCSAzKvfZKo.jpg
Autocalls.ai: Phone calls automation with voice AI agents
Hi, Hackernews community!

We just launched Autocalls SaaS platform where you can customise and deploy conversational voice AI agents for automating phone calls interactions. We feature a no-code platform for integrating the flows with +200 tools, variables injection/post call variables extractions and more.
Watch a 1 min video showcasing the speed and sounding of a deployed AI from our platform:
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Not super familiar with CommandAlkon/Construction space so would love to hear more on that end.

To address hardware deeply integrated with proprietary systems - our current mode of dealing with this is building out the middleware to allow these systems to integrate with Synnax - or a protocol that can be used to communicate with these devices. But we also try to make it a developer-friendly tool so that if people already familiar with these systems want a quick way to connect Synnax to their existing systems - they can do so using our Python, Typescript, or C++ libraries.

Our goal would be to substitute these cobbled-together systems for a more uniform and airtight system. We hope to do that by starting with sub-scale preliminary integrations on already-in-development setups/expansions that can be a base for expanding out to the rest of the system.
I added all the SEO related content I could think off, but not sure if I might be missing something, hoping some SEO experts here can give me tips on what I can improve.

I am not a very "creative" person from a design point of view, so had to rely on words and clean code.

The website is built using PHP, no templates. I would like to improve it so that our local business will actually show up on Google, but I am not sure what else to improve.

Appreciate feedback and guidance and hopefully learning something more about SEO.
> AI can do boring science it frees us up to do imaginative and fun science without the constraints of capitalism.

That is senseless. Capitalism will always control science by its very nature: through science, people create value and trade it for other things.
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I’m not sure if it’s the exact device depicted in that film. But the lids are forcibly held in an open state during surgery while you hold your head still on a table and focus on a green light.
And that is exactly how we ended up in this modern word of crappy software. By not caring.
NYT seems to be the outlier here. Every other news outlet I’ve seen is agreeing with the BBC on 46.

Edit: It looks like NYT is correct. I wasn’t sure who was actually right, so thank you for the clarification!
There's a way to disable this! I found this out recently (I've only checked with Chrome, but it's a google setting not a Chrome one):

https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/219332922/how-to-...
Won't be surprised if Apple blocks this too or redirects URLs to open the app in the app store.
> After which they’re primed that the beliefs they held for decades (pre-internet) could easily be wrong.

I wish the majority of dwellers of the Internet is able to do this (I feel I'm quite reflective), but it seems like a lot of the noise online is people insisting that they've been right the whole time...
You're using a device that hasn't received security updates in a year to stick it to Google?
Next.js Serverless Functions vs. Durable Functions
Autocalls.ai: Phone calls automation with voice AI agents
Hi, Hackernews community!

We just launched Autocalls SaaS platform where you can customise and deploy conversational voice AI agents for automating phone calls interactions. We feature a no-code platform for integrating the flows with +200 tools, variables injection/post call variables extractions and more.
Watch a 1 min video showcasing the speed and sounding of a deployed AI from our platform:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0PRBGAqJEY

Upon sign-up, you get free call minutes to give it a try without any cost beforehand.
https://autocalls.ai

We would appreciate your honest feedback and thoughts!
Cases have helped on past pixels but agreed, this one looks pretty terrible!
Personally I've seen 9pm be a holy grail, an exceedingly advantageous position to be in. But, it's exceedingly challenging to figure out what that DSL should and should not have as well.
Makes sense, ha. I only briefly read it was invented in the 50s. But 90s for mainstream adoption and approval sounds about right
Retraction blackmail – new service by Iranian papermills
Do you have a source for the vibrating windows? That is super interesting.
Private AI app in play store wraps llama.cpp
Wasn't this posted 3 days ago?
I think the world needs programmable config langs because slinging YAML and JSON quickly becomes miserable (as is extending them through templating alone) and general-purpose programming languages usually have shitty ergonomics for writing configuration.

The only question in my mind is whether our common config langs should be Turing-complete (e.g., Nix, Nickel, Jsonnet, Pkl) or not (e.g., HCL, CUE, Starlark, Dhall), which I think can only be determined through experience over the long term.
Thank you! Will look into these.
There's no middle-ground that makes Apple happy. Their goal is to have their cake and eat it too, which regulators won't allow. It's basically guaranteed at Apple's scale that they will keep pushing new pricing schemes until the threats to their profit are substantial enough. Over the next few months, we're going to watch regulators inch down the guillotine until Apple finally settles in on something reasonable.

Shame indeed, but I'm fine letting Apple get it out of their system. Their public image is long overdue for a reset anyways.
I'm happy for Waymo and hope they continue to expand. I do expect Tesla to still win out on "robotaxis" in the nearish term, e.g. I expect them to have given way way more rides than Waymo by say 2030
Captain D puts more effort into his throw-away gags than many personalities put into their whole video.

Always worth the watch.
I don't know why so many people on HN get ZIRP wrong.

The problem with ZIRP isn't the absolute level of interest. The problem is that the central bank thinks it can simulate negative interest through QE. The zero lower bound is ultimately a price guarantee by the government that it will offer an infinite quantity of bonds to the general public to prevent the interest rate from dipping negative.

Any form of lower price control will cause an oversupply. In this case (mostly rich) people are oversupplying capital to the government instead of simply spending it.

Since the money is concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people, their investment decisions are going to either be a random crap shot, since information is distributed in the economy and the people who have information to make informed purchasing decisions have no money, while the people with money have no idea what to do with it, or it will endlessly get cycled through more QE and government debt.

In a hypothetical scenario with negative interest, wealth deconcentrates so that money goes to where it needs to be.
mean you are using C++ but only the features that dont suck, so probably 10% of the language, rest is plain C
What if the universe doesn't expand at all? What if we're completely wrong and redshift is caused by something else entirely, like some yet-undiscovered phenomenon that occurs to spacetime or electromagnetic waves? How can we be so sure it's space that's expanding, not time?

The more I read about this, the more it feels like phlogiston theory[1]. Works great for describing observations at first, but as more observations are made, some contradict the theory, so exceptions are made for these cases (phlogiston must have negative mass sometimes/there must be extra matter or energy for galaxies to spin as fast as they do), and then finally someone discovers something (oxygen/???) that explains all observations much simpler and requires no weird exceptions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory
and are they booking AI search as cloud revenue?
I Was an Escort for the 1%. It's Not What You Think
Publishers Are Redoubling Presence on Reddit as It Rises in Search Visibility
Paramount shutters TV studio, begins major layoffs ahead of Skydance merger
It reminds me of Perl's 'pack' and 'unpack'.

https://perldoc.perl.org/perlpacktut
Captain D produces some of the most impressive technical content out there, wrapped in subtle and not-so-subtle zingers, and breathtakingly illustrated. Decomposing a frame into its brightness channel, rotating it, and collapsing the columns to make a waveform graph? Mind completely blown.

The debunk videos are his major stock in trade, but I personally love (and discovered him through) the explainers about frame rate and shutter speed, color spaces, interlacing, and other details of the video art.

And of course, his mindbogglingly detailed exploration of Flight of the Navigator -- if you've seen the film, make some time tonight and watch it.
What you may call a facade of plausible deniability others would call racketeering.

There are laws against this kind of behavior what is lacking is sufficient enforcement of them.
It's a really ugly phone, and for sure it's a combination of Google playing "catch up" but not wanting to invest in Industrial Design like Apple.
NATO plans to reroute internet via space in emergencies
Micropep taps tiny proteins to make pesticides safer
Google Pixel 9/Pro/Fold Impressions: They've Done It? – Marques Brownlee [video]
All camera bulges are a poor design. Just make the battery thicker. Either way people are throwing a case on to make the back straight again.
Country availability

https://support.google.com/store/answer/2462844?hl=en_US
This channel is amazing. If anyone has any recommendations for more stuff like it, do share!
So, if I understand correctly this “built-in” Gemini is 100% just calling to the Gemini cloud backend?

Honestly, Apple Intelligence is looking much better than this. But I suppose it’s no wonder, I don’t think Pixels are a large market for Google, while iPhones kind of are for Apple.
AI Seinfeld was the peak of AI-generated content. It will never happen again
Translation work is often associated with horrible working conditions and poor pay. It definitely fits OP's description of "jobs that crush the human spirit into oblivion." This might not be the case if you're a renowned translator of famous literature, but that is not representative of the majority of translators.
We face similar challenges you listed and handle all of the above.
1. Out of the box OCR doesn't perform as well for complex documents (with tables, images, etc.). We use vision model to help process that documents.
2. Recall (for longer documents) and accuracy are also a major problem. We built in validation systems and references to help users validate the results.
3. Maintain this systems in production, integrate with the data sources and refresh when new data comes in are quite annoying. We manage that for the end users.
4. For non-technical users, we allow them to iterate through different business logic and have a one unify place to manage data workflows.
I love Google Pixel phones because of Google Fi for traveling; unfortunately Google Fi is facing major service downgrades/outages for travelers (including me) who go on 3+ month trips out of the US. Google Support tells me the Google Pixel 9 Pro has the same limitation. For comparison my iPhone works fine on Verizon.

The issue is now described in the Google Pixel T&C, and I hope Google will eventually offer a way to buy a Google Pixel phone and Google Fi that offers full functionality for longer trips.

Here's a link about it:

https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/tech-tips/goog...
Small but Mighty: Introducing answerai-colbert-small
Heh I guess that's a good point. All I have is a ten year old iPhone just to run Cisco DUO for work and there seems to be no way to run llama.cpp on it even with a very small model.

Occasionally I'll use i.sh to ssh into a decent computer but it would be nice to be able to just run normal software on it.
> The only thing that would make a new phone interesting is Linux support.

Looks like you may be interested in Pinephone or Librem 5.
I know they call it a nonce but how important is it to invalidate it instantly on first use? It's important for it to be unguessable, of course. But what security property does the invalidation serve? If an attacker can get the nonce they can just as easily get the access tokens after authentication, can't they?
> From claude.ai (didn't check)

Please don't do this here. We want human comments on HN, not generated ones.
> I meant only that larger town/cities can take hurricanes a bit better than smaller ones can. Same reason that large trees weather the storm better than smaller trees do. If you increase the size of the system/thing, then it necessitates larger negative stimuli in most cases. Consider the size of a wave that would topple a canoe versus standard war ships.

I don't know anything about that but it's an empirical question that you can't answer with a priori reasoning like you're trying to do. We need actual data.

> At any rate, this is a hard analogy to stick with as it isn't the hurricane that makes things stronger. It is being ready for the hurricane.

No, the point was that they are not ready the first time, but they are the second time. The hurricane is what causes them to be ready the second time. If their preparations were not good enough the second time, they will be even better the third time.
I have never been less excited for a phone.

Maybe it's the One Plus 12 I'm holding, but this is a hard pass by me.

All I want is a flagship chip, Esim support and a headphone jack. But since earbuds are almost all profit we won't see jacks coming back.
Do you think the inclusion of AI is some new departure? Google has declared itself as "AI-first" for the past 8 years[1]. There's been neural cores included in every Pixel since the Pixel 4.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/sundar-pichai-ai-first-world...
How many of them are nontrivial?

Trivial as in renewing an old law, authorizing payment for the operations they already passed, or naming a post office.

What's left isn't zero, but it's not much more than a handful.
When going through a cynical phase I tend to think the only person that has thought clearly about this was Tilden: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_robotics#Tilden's_laws

- A robot must protect its existence at all costs.

- A robot must obtain and maintain access to its own power source.

- A robot must continually search for better power sources

The key problem other robot laws have is the resulting robots would be such pushovers as to be useless, a point Rodney Brooks also makes quite a lot.
Do you have a link with more information on the pending changes?
AI phone… AI laptop… AI car… AI toothbrush… yeah nobody’s asking for this shit. It’s just uninventive, unimaginative marketing rubbish. Real innovation doesn’t need to go looking for use cases.
Never made the connection until reading this, but I suspect Steve Jobs' choice of spectacle was a nod to or was influenced by Lennon's 'granny' glasses.
They said they've rewritten the HDR+ image processing pipeline from scratch for the first time in their live event. Not sure about the Pixel 9 hardware... I think the Pixel 8 was the first new sensor in a while though.
Shit that’s terrible. Wonder if your eye was still undergoing changes. 21 is relatively young.

My surgeon requested vision history from my referring optometrist. And did his own work up at the office. Took 2-3 months of follow ups and “adjustments” (ie, prescribing eye drops to fix dry eyes) to ensure vision was stable and dry eyes wouldn’t impact outcome.
> No, the current fade of IA (LLM) are text generators. Very good, but nothing more than that.

That doesn't address the point, and is also false.

Transformers are token generators, which means they can also do image and sound, and DNA sequences.

But even if they were just text, source code is "just text", laws are "just text", contract documents are "just text".

They have been used to control robots, both as input and output.

> Which is the not an AI problem

"Good news, at least 3,787 have died and it might be as bad as 16,000!"

"How is that good news?"

"We're an AI company, and it was our AI which designed and ran the pesticide plant that exploded in a direct duplication of everything that went wrong at Bohpal."

"Again, how is this good news?"

"We can blame the customer for using our product wrong, not our fault, yay!"

"I'm sure the victims and their family will be thrilled to learn this."

> it certainly couldn't roam the street with a kalachnikov killing people randomly or stabbing children

It can when it's put in charge of a robot body.

There's multiple companies demonstrating this already.

Pretending that AI can't be used to control robots is like saying that nothing that happens on the internet has any impact on real life.

Fortunately the AI which have been given control of robot bodies so far aren't doing that — want to risk your life with the humanoid robot equivalent of the Uber self driving car?

> The proponents of "AI can kill us all" can't write a single likely and non-contrived example of how that could happen.

Anything less would be a thing we can trivially prevent.

It's not like "dig up all the fossil fuels and burn them despite public protest about climate change and the existence of alternatives, and suing the protesters with SLAPP suits so we can keep doing it because it's inconvenient to believe the science and even if it did the consequences won't affect us personally", doesn't sound contrived.

And that's with humans making the decisions, humans whose grandkids would be affected.
I really liked the "visor" style of camera bump since the Pixel 6. I like symmetry so the square corner bumps always bothered me, plus it didn't give it a corner wobble when sitting on a table. I wish they would have gone full width on the new Fold :/
The kind of cargo cult science you describe is the main reason for the replication crisis. The more people believe that they will reach true knowledge by following the sacred rituals to the letter, the more likely they will do things in the established ways without thinking and repeat the same mistakes over and over again.

In actual science, the key step is stopping to question yourself all the time. Does the thing you were planning to do still make sense? Especially in the current context? Given what you have seen so far? Should you change your plans? If so, can the work you have already done be salvaged? Or do you have to discard it and start over from the beginning?
As an ex-Twitter boss, to grab Elon Musk's attention: get an arrest warrant
Fair competition drives out inefficient players, and generally can keep costs down for consumers. That's what it means, it doesn't literally mean every single person will profit, but competition makes for healthier markets than lack thereof.
“Landlords are using software to launder price fixing”
He might have cared more before he gained proximity to power, attention and wealth. His behavior now seems more driven by retaining and growing those.
Dammit :) (dangit?)
I think it is a little more complicated. The actual native population in the US is shrinking so demand and thus cost should be shrinking.
The current system is not that bad, a radical shift towards government transparency would help a lot. Make it hard to hide bribery, corruption, and plain evilness, pay well but make it hard to sell favours in the dark. Make it easy for public officers to pay for blatant crimes. Make it hard for a single political group to revert transparency.

Politicians would have more shit to throw around, yes, but hopefully the worst of them will look elsewhere for the easy money if it can't be had that easily in public office.
I find "luxury beliefs" a useful sibboleth, in that the people who use those two words (in the belief that they denote) tend to cluster.
> Note that Apple and Google made a big deal about how they are extending their upgrade timelines, without mentioning that they actually have to

This is unsurprising, but deceptive and borderline illegal. “Presenting rights given to consumers in law as a distinctive feature of the trader's offer” is an Unfair Commercial Practice.
Its actually really nice and well supported. I personally prefer the sdk style that PICO does it over the cubemx stuff.

https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-sdk
Is there new hardware in the phone for the forehead thermometer? Any chance this comes to earlier models?
That is only part of the problem; the others include:

1. writing connectors for various sources

2. writing connectors for destination

3. supporting multiple models, embeddings, vector database, text extractors

3. workflow automation engine(cron jobs)

4. performance tuning for speed and costs

5. security and compliance
Throw in AI crap that can be insanely convincing into the fold posted by trolls and people seeking ad eyeballs.
There are a truck load of crappy SwiftUI apps that make your average bloated web app look like lean, FTL starships. They stutter so much with broken animations that you are afraid that your phone had a stroke.
Never because clear communication and good lines of understanding make a positive and stable relationship?

Snapping really? Your comment literally reads like a classic "I hate my wife" boomer meme and it comes off as kind of gross.
Late, but I assumed some kind of silencer was used.
I don't think the EFF has much suction at the level of international diplomacy. Most UN countries, including much of Europe, don't have the basic categorical legal principles much of EFF's argumentation relies on, especially re: free expression and rules of evidence.

Fortunately, those same legal principles in the US cannot be overridden by a treaty.
I’ve never liked those hex words, especially the sexually connoted ones, but at the same time I find the existence of code checking for them very cringy.
Have you considered LASIK?