skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, surveys.

"Smartphone users in general are unsatisfied with the existing AI features as the survey recorded 73% of Apple Intelligence users and 87% of Galaxy AI users stating the new features to be either ‘not very valuable’ or they ‘add little to no value’ to their smartphone experience."

This could be read as 27% of users, who have tried a brand new way of interacting with their phone, found it useful to some degree right away. Imagine: You introduce a brand new, well, anything into peoples lives at Apple scale, and 27% of them find it useful, right away.

I don't know what number people expect, but I think you could consider this an outrageous success. I am not saying it should be read that way. But then again, I am not sure why it should be read any other way.
You have nice coworkers willing to read drafts. If your coworkers are busier (if they are more senior) they might not. Or they might read half a page and then stop because there isn't enough context and background information in the doc. Or they might read something and misunderstand it because of bad writing. I'm usually not the kind to waste other people's time like that.
LLMs could and should revolutionize education, with proper human supervision and fact checking since they regularly make shit up too
Xi is just Trump without the idiocy.
Good observation and argument. US politicians might be in for a rude surprise, if this effort to ban boomerangs on them, in the form of other countries making the same arguments and wanting to ban popular American made and controlled software.
Humans may not have survived without Neanderthals
>junior to mid level software engineering will disappear mostly, while senior engineers will transition

It's more likely the number of jobs at all level of seniority will decrease, but none will disappear.

What I'm interested to see is how the general availability of LLM will impact the "willingness" of people to learn coding. Will people still "value" coding as an activity worth their time?

For me as an already "senior" engineer, using LLMs feel like a superpower, when I think of a solution to a problem, I can test and explore some of my ideas faster by interacting with it.

For a beginner, I feel that having all of this available can be super powerful too, but also truly demotivating. Why bother to learn coding when the LLM can already do better than you? It takes years to become "good" at coding, and motivation is key.

As a low-dan Go player, I remember feeling a bit that way when AlphaGo was released. I'm still playing Go but I've lost the willingness to play competitively, now it's just for fun.
FYI I had V-Order and Optimzed Write disabled in the benchmark. The only wrote diff was that I enabled deletion vectors in Spark since it’s supported which the other two don’t.
From a financial point of view, engineers are considered assets not costs, because they contribute to grow the valuation of the company assets.

The right thing to do economically (in capitalism) is to do more of the same, but faster. So if you as a software engineer or customer service rep can't do more of the same faster you will replaced by someone (or something) that alleggedly can.
You may enjoy reading about why Jaffa cakes are not biscuits. A landmark UK case.
The crazy thing to me means that people are okay with recording 100% of every meeting they ever have. I've been in plenty of meetings where you just don't want things recorded, and no, that does not mean the meeting was shady.
There are constraint based CAD addons for blender, and the black art of Geometry node rendering pipelines to auto-generate objects/features. There is also the fact most of the system is open Python API based, and thus everything can be generated from code.

However, Blender was not meant to be a constraint based CAD/CAM package.

Solidworks still seems like the leader in offline mode, but parametric-everything FreeCad is evolving at an astonishing rate.

For critical professional work, gambling on opensource is still inappropriate most of the time. =3
Cutting edge of LLM expertise? Just using someone's shitty LLM product doesn't require "cutting edge LLM expertise".
Texture coordinates can already be represented as a constrained minimization problem so it already is "solved" in the sense that you can brute force any quality level by putting enough CPU power into a solver like http://ceres-solver.org/
Suits get to then do talks about how awesome they are for their AI transition and the synergies it brought to their OKRS.

Or some bs like that.

Work at one or two shops where an expensive product makes the org's life a living hell but two directors or similar get to do a talk about how it has 'transformed' IT. It will all make sense then.
The papertrail has only value, in dire situations- the only one reading it, editing it and tracking it, are people complicit, explicit or implicit in cooperate crimes.
Everything you have described, apart from on-call, I think LLMs can/will be able to do. Explaining code, reviewing code, writing code, writing test, writing tech docs. I think we are approaching a point where all these will be done by LLMs.

You could argue about architecture/thinking about the correct/proper implementations, but I'd argue that for the past 7 decades of software engineering, we are not getting close to a perfect architecture singularity where code is maintainable and there is no more tech debt left. Therefor, arguments such as "but LLMs produce spaghetti code" can be easily thrown away by saying that humans do as well, except humans waste time by thinking about ways to avoid spaghetti code, but eventually end up writing it anyways.
Thank you for the illustration! I was sitting here, wondering that the whole system sounds paradoxical but seeing it drawn down with the arrows really helped grasp how this works!
I am travelling now but after reading this article (and the comments) I will re-watch EWS again. If you do not mind - can you please point some examples of rampart pedophilia in the movie? I did not make this connection so far. But after reading this article I realized how much I was missing. Thanks!
Not all Apple Intelligence is run locally. They could have added all the API-based stuff to older phones, but they didn’t
What you're missing is that AI solves the expense problem. As the OS vendor you already have an overview and easy access to all interfaces that you expose and it's straightforward to feed that into an integrated AI agent. Add a bit of glue code here and there and a simple implementation is nearly free. Of course, the real value lies in ironing out all the edge cases, but compared to doing all of that manually, it should still be orders of magnitude cheaper.
It's legit bad, with an awful onboarding experience.

Opened Image Playground on the iPhone, every prompt error'ed out. Deleted the app.

5min later I get a notification - Image Playground is now operational! Like what the heck!?

Also turned off every summary function. I need to see the latest update on an email thread, not the start. Whoever designed this one...omg.
https://gaggiuino.github.io is neat, and I’ve loosely followed it as a lover of good espresso for the last couple of years.

But it looks like they’ve change their stance to have the source code be closed since I last looked at it.
> the survey recorded 73% of Apple Intelligence users ... stating the new features to be either ‘not very valuable’ or they ‘add little to no value’ to their smartphone experience.

They make it sound negative, but I'm lacking context on how it compares to other recent features. I actually would assume that with 27% of users finding a feature to be somewhat valuable, it's a relatively successful launch.
and only 10 editable projects :/
I bought a Samsung "dumb" TV, actually a commercial display from B&H. Other than an annoying popup at the bottom for the terms of service confirmation that goes away in 5 seconds, it is completely off-line. I did connect it to web once to update the firmware, and even then it only had a few apps installed but zero ads. I did reset the network settings and the apps went away.
I usually reduce the width of my browser window, but reader mode is a great idea too. I like the minimal aesthetic, but text width is so important to readability that danluu really should add a max width.
All I have from "Apple Inteligence" now is the super annoying extra delay when texting an image.
The Cost of Kafka
> 10.0.0.200

Redirects to
> www.10.0.0.200

Thank you safari!
Building Multi-Tenant Apps Using StackAuth's "Teams" and Next.js
With many modern home theater setups relying on the audio return channel (ARC), you may need firmware upgrades to handle compatibility with your speakers. Sideloading these upgrades via USB is mostly deprecated across all major brands.
Is the Design Pattern Outdated?
Thanks, did you try the editor?
I think it does calculations when I type the = sign.

That’s occasionally been convenient.

But that’s more than balanced out by the couple of times it’s rewritten the words I’ve typed to something I absolutely did not intend on saying.

And the first time I ended up actually sending the message and it caused a whole lot of confusion. I would have thoughts it’s auto correct except AI changed a couple of words and the spellings weren’t similar.
I opened the devtools to narrow the page.

Given how much more aggravation I go through getting lots of sites that _do_ have formatting to contort into a shape I find comfortable to read, I found it hard to mind much.
Not that different from any other buzzword hype bubble technology that clueless easily-manipulated management got sold on and imposed on everybody.
Apparently it isn't open source at all, firmware is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. It appears that the author does not know what open source means.
Chatting with Gemini is very good.
I notice Google have realised this and are advertising it a lot.

It seemed to be buried before.
Active shooter drills are a tragic case of adults failing to deal with adult problems.

We scare children because we're scared, and somehow imagine that sharing that fear with them is helpful to anything but our own selfish fear of fear.
Have you played with Shortcuts yet? That's the one iOS (and I suposed iPadOS and macOS) feature that simultaneously makes me very happy and infuriates me. It's so satisfying to get something working, but it's usually a pretty frustrating experience getting there.
Rquests (in flight or currently processing) are the load in this case. But I guess "queue balancing" captures the intuittion better: what matters for latency is the future delay more than current delay.
Street Smarts: new sources of data to creating sustainable, walkable city spaces
> Remember the “Russians are putting bounties on Americans in the Middle East” article that was well promoted by prominent individuals on this site, and then turned out to be fake?

I don't recall that being promoted on this site and in review [0] the few times it was claimed, there was solid pushback. Maybe you have different examples?

0. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
3 years ago, I and many people were using GPT-3 on our iPhones and Apple Watches (see for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDB3uIEgU0E&t=36s). For 3 years I wondered why Apple wouldn't make it a native feature.

- Was it because they didn't want to use a third-party AI system? No, because Apple Intelligence uses ChatGPT anyway.

- Was it because Apple didn't know how to add AI features to iOS? No, if anything they have access to way more APIs than I had when I built the iOS Shortcut in the video.

- Was it because Apple didn't take AI seriously? This to me sounds silly but in retrospect, I'm starting to believe this was exactly the case. Apple has been on a wrong trajectory for the past few years:

- They were busy building Apple Car. Then when the AI pressure finally kicked in, they stopped the car project. Why were they in the car business in the first place?! And why did they simply tell most Apple Car employees to work on AI now? Cars also have AI but it's not the same thing.

- They built Apple Vision Pro but have failed to showcase any real-world use case for it yet. Apple Intelligence isn't even supported on the AVP. I don't want to call it a failed project but by many measures it is.

- Apple, and specifically Tim Cook, are great at optimization: from the supply chain to setting optimal prices that extract the most value from customers. But they forgot what allowed them to do this in the first place: a decade-long vision set by Steve Jobs.

Current day Apple isn't going to disappear, but it's becoming less and less relevant in the broader tech landscape. In a sense, Apple has become the McDonald's of handheld gadgets. But if I want the latest tech, the most interesting use-cases of AI, or simply ground-braking devices no one has heard of, I'd go to a French/Persian/etc. restaurant instead of Apple's McDonalds.
Maybe the federal government shouldn't be in the business of EoL care at all?
As someone who has no idea what this is about bar the landing page explanation, and isn't in this space -- it would be great if the front page had examples, or links to examples.

30 seconds of clicking around and I've failed to find sth compelling.
I mean, maybe? Why can’t you tell us? Any opinion on it?

Sorry about the metacommentary but it’s a bit tiring with every third thread having the same stock question: Is this made irrelevant by AI?/Does AI [magically] solve this problem?

They all at the same time strongly hint that yes, AI will <panacea>. But they still don’t take any stance or make any contribution themselves!
I'm weirdly happy with Apple taking their time. Seeing AI stuffed into every nook and crevice of various non-Apple apps has made me appreciate apps that use AI tastefully or not at all (counter example: today I tried the LLM built into GitHub's feed page - to describe it as a 'toy' or 'trash' is not overstating how embarrassingly useless it is!). Better not to have junk features, or ones that use AI for AI's sake.
The US military budget is only 14% under a very narrow definition. If a US Navy sailor is off the coast of Yemen, in "defense" of the US bombing Yemen so as to support the offensive in Gaza, and the sailor is maimed and flown back to the US - their medical bills are no longer coming out of the "defense" budget but out of the "entitlement" budget (or if not then the everything else budget).

Also interest did not come out of nowhere, we're paying interest on past military etc. spending, and have a deficit to overextend current military spending which we will be paying interest on.

So if we narrowly define "defense" spending and hand wave spending on veteran's benefits, interest on past military spending etc. it is shrunk to 14% of spending, but it is not 14% of spending.

I know this is how the government presents its spending numbers but it is done so to hide the true cost of the "defense" budget.
I Don't Give a Damn About Design Patterns
> This could be read as 27% of users

Not necessarily. Poll results are not %Pro + %Con = 100%. It could equally be likely that 83% find no use and 27% have not tried it leaving 0% liking it.
I think coding will stay as a hobby. You know, like there are people who still build physical stuff with wires and diodes. None of them are doing it for commercial reasons, but the ability to produces billions of transistors on a silicon die did not stop people from taking electrical engineering as a hobby.
When having my mini splits installed I pushed for an erv system in the bedroom. The installer had only ever done them in commercial units, and he hemmed and hawed about it, but I had two c02 monitors in my room showing it getting to above 2000 whilst sleeping. I've noticed a big improvement in how groggy I feel in the morning.
Interesting because I pay for Copilot and Supermaven, although most of my coworkers don't. To be fair, it was twisting their arms to get them to use linters, formatters, and other tools so I think asking them to use AI auto-complete is a bit much right now.
I'd gladly double up on your bet.

Frankly, I think it's ridiculous that anyone who has done any kind of real software work would predict this.

Layoffs? Probably. Layoffs of capable senior developers, due to AI replacing them? Inconceivable, with the currently visible/predictable technology.
Lean Components: Putting It into Practice in Salesforce – Part 1
Hello HN, at LocalFlow, we have been working on a new kind of software component following lean methods, with the help of low-code tooling. I am curious to have you feedback.
Rust-the-language is fine. Rust-the-blessed-toolchain is the problem. In practical terms, it delivers enormous value, it's about the problems that lay down the road.

Once Rust can be easily bootstrapped? Like you can build the official Go toolchain from 1.4?

I'd argue Rust in Linux is less of a problem than Linux itself growing out of bounds. Compare seccomp with OpenBSD's pledge/unveil. But there's a reason why Linux is winning by a margin of 100.000x: it's simply more practical, even if less simple.
>map in the article

"Obviously this blue part here is the land."
Only "intelligent" thing that happened with this Apple shift is finally giving a (minor) bump of RAM to their product line.

Apple 202x is all about hardware.
It's quite nice seeing how latest FCP leverage the new hardware to improve workflow harnessing NPU. I do hope their software would catch up. it's quite strange that Siri which isn't even using basic LLM yet.
Its funny, I regularly feel like I am under utilizing my Apple TV given its price since it can clearly do more than Disney+, Youtube, and connect to Dolphin.

But thinking about it, the 2 I have I am pretty sure I bought in 2018 or something like that and they still work great. Zero pressure to upgrade. (which is likely not what Apple really wants). But it feels wild that my device released in 2017 is still getting software updates.
I imaged an Alien species having a headline on the condition of our planet that read :

“Humans see little to no value in intelligence so far…”
More frustrating, to me, is that some parts of the 9% include enforcement officers and mechanisms on payments and oversight of the rest of the budget. And, for some reason I can't really understand too well, it is a very popular thing to cut spending/funds for the likes of the IRS.

For my part, I've grown rather distrustful of any effort to make things more efficient. Generally, in all things, but particularly with the government. I don't necessarily want efficient; rather, I would prioritize completed. At the least, progressed.

You see this in corporations that have labeled some organizations "cost centers" versus the rest of the company. The spreadsheet workers love lowering the spend in cost centers. And then are rather flat footed when it comes to why places had those cost centers in the first place.
> How is China filling a void in local energy production?

China is investing in power generation almost as much as the rest of the world combined. That energy is used by their massive and growing manufacturing industry. Bye bye EU manufacturing like cars.

Note China wasn't even a significant exporter of cars just 10 years ago and now they are becoming dominant.

Germany and the EU dug their grave. It would be hard to undo the damage now.
Founder Zhang Yiming lives in Singapore today.
Agreed. Different for different people. Notification summaries are a lifesaver for me.

Work MS teams but no copilot, lots of group chats about lower environment issues or prod issues that move super fast. The summaries have legit saved me 10 min of getting up to speed, and let me decide quickly if I need to intervene or keep working my separate workstream.

The only downside for me - it keeps the summaries VERY short. Another 5-8 words as a in between notification and full app open would be great for me. (But, I acknowledge I’m likely an edge case)
I've experienced this, it mostly comes with eye-wateringly expensive yearly contracts the company has signed where whoever made the decision needs to show that even low single digit percentages of company staff are using the thing they received a license for.
Yeah it reads as completely unedited. Needs another pass.
Oh I'm a FreeCAD person anyway.

OpenSCAD was a useful stepping stone for me, from programming to 3D. But I've been doing my own designs in FreeCAD for two and a half years or so.

I just think the typical groundswell of HN support for OpenSCAD is a bit misguided; it sort of relies on near-wilfully ignoring what GUI CAD -- even FreeCAD -- can do for one's designs.

Yes, it's good for simple geometry, and some more advanced mathematical geometry. But it boxes you in pretty quickly because you cannot easily compose geometry based on the outputs of previous operations.
I wrote a book dedicated to helping beginners truly understand the functional programming concepts. It's been available for purchase on Leanpub for a while, but recently I decided to make it free for everyone on this URL: https://learn-functional-programming.com/ (no registration or any such thing required)

Most examples are in JavaScript, as it is probably the single most widely recognized programming language, but there is also some Clojure and many others here and there. My focus was on explaining _what_ the concepts are and _why_ we even use them rather than to delve too deeply into any particular area, so you'll even find pseudo-code.

I really hope this will be helpful to anyone here who is new to functional programming or programming in general. Let me know in the comments. Happy coding!
Nearly every contract award is challenged. Even if the challenge is not protracted, preparing for the inevitable challenge makes the whole process so expensive that it severely impacts the number and size of contracts an agency is able to pursue.
Talking about what “companies” are doing is misleading because it suggests thst the actions taken will be driven by the medium to long term interests of the company.

In reality, the decisions are made by individual executives and managers with their own interests in mind who are being asked by the people they report to what they’re doing in AI. And this goes all the way to the top where the CEOs are basically required to tell shareholders how they’ve implemented AI and how it’s helping them a bunch.

One of the nice things about being in AI right now is that your customers will advertise it and lie about how useful it has been.
Bad styling is intentional to deliver the content to a wider audience?
It apparently sells merchandising for their own brand though.
I thought this was the most interesting point in the article:

>>>

People often think that having a high degree of internal distrust is inevitable as a company scales, but people I've talked to who were in upper management or fairly close to the top of Intel and Google said that the companies had an extended time period where leadership enforced trustworthiness and that stamping out dishonesty and "bad politics" was a major reason the company was so successful, under Andy Grove and Eric Schmidt, respectively. When the person at the top changed and a new person who didn't enforce honesty came in, the standard cultural norms that you see at the upper levels of most bi
I mean, yes? It certainly beats reading social media posts and outlines particular instantiations of a cultural blindspot.
I don't have experience with this kind of problem. But I don't think GenAI is the best tool for this, at least not until it's so rock-solid trustworthy that everyone uses such an interface. Even leaving aside AI questions, if I'm looking for a human personal assistant for someone who's blind, and that person will have unlimited access to their electronic life, I'm going to vet that person very, very carefully.
Kartoffels: Emulating RISC V CPUs For Fun [video]
Same story here, I've got an old laptop and a wireless keyboard / trackpad combo. I haven't touched the TV interface since I set this up.