skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This subject is interesting to me, sorry for the rant.

Writers could try to split up their work to better appeal to an audience that does quick scans, then reads where it matters.

This article may be great, but there’s not even any section headings, so I’m not able to gauge my own interest.

In our era where there is so much content to consume and where so much of it is just hot garbage or advertising, I don’t want to spend time deeply reading everything in hopes that I care about it.

I need to be able to asses that at a glance, then dive in if I deem it meaningful enough.

Writers should probably change their style to accommodate their audience (if they care about really wide reach)
> it cost Google a LOT more than their compensation to make it possible for them to even start working on this project

The actual "not a vacuum" context here is an environment that has been basically printing money for google for the last twenty years. It did not "cost" them anything. It's fine to acknowledge that the people who built google, however well paid they are, are creating vastly more value than they are personally receiving.
Title is: Monolith: Real time recommendation system with collisionless embedding table

Some discussion then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33494796

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35573624
Notification summaries is an interesting one, feels like an email spam filter. I've always been of the mind, though, that if I'm getting too much spam I need a new email address rather than a better filter (or in this case, better notification limits/settings).
> One problem with ERV/HRV systems right now is that they are very expensive niche products.

Most building codes in US/CA mandate them since about 2015, so I'm not sure how niche they are (at least in new construction).

Depending on the (air) volumes involved, ERVs can be had for under CA$ 2000:

* https://gasexperts.ca/product-category/air-exchangers/lifebr...

* https://bphsales.ca/collections/high-quality-erv-air-exchang...

HRVs for less, but it's probably worth the extra few hundred for better humidity management.
"Dumb" TVs don't really exist anymore, unless you get something from the very low end, but those have crap picture quality and build quality.

Best option is LG OLED, never connect it to the network and set it to startup on HDMI1 always.
90-hour-a-week Wall Street bankers snorting lines of Adderall at their desks
I like the Sceptre TV's
I disagree, I think the problem with surveys like this is the focus on billing everything as "AI" instead of just what it used to be as a nice feature.

A lot of the small things that Apple has introduced, are things that blend in and are not screaming "AI" at you. Which is a good thing.

So many of the things that are being pushed by other companies are AI crap that is flashy to show off but either the utility of it is nowhere near the promise due to fundamental issues with AI, or the novelty of it wears off and is actually useless and no one cares.

Sure I wish that Apple was a bit faster with some of this, but when compared to things like Recall, rabbit, or other vaporware. They are going about it the right way, we just need to stop trying to throw around the "AI" name on everything when most users didn't have "ML" shoved down their throats for the features that they used every day powered by (fundamentally) the same tech.
Sorry. It takes too much time analyze what I just saw and then the advantage is already gone.
What I don't understand is, what benefit is there for 99% of companies to get in on the ground floor of LLMs? If you're not developing your own model, you're effectively just beta testing someone else's model. And if the sales pitch of LLMs being able to do basically anything comes true, wouldn't most companies still get the same benefit if they just wait? It seems like a lot of companies are so terrified of missing the boat that they don't sit down and do actual risk analysis.
Because of a similar post a few years back I learned you can buy kiosk TVs from commercial vendors. They strip the garbage apps and leave you with a dumb TV. It wasn’t really that much more either. Used them for new conference room TVs for an office build out. They work and last flawlessly.
Pretty interesting. Also because Norways wealth then depends on something we are trying to get rid of. It will then be interesting what happens when it's gone.
Not Twitter or Truth Social though.
>Fake confidence is miles away from a real one.

No doubt about it. Many people can tell how forced it feels. Yet, w/o any confidence (fake or otherwise), there won't be any steps made - hence no progress. Again, with time confidence can be 'mastered'.
> So frankly, I'm afraid that the belief that software engineers of any level are safe in the intelligence age is 100% cope. In 2025, I predict that there will be more layoffs because of this.

If this point could be clarified into a proposal that was easily testable with a yes/no answer, I would probably be willing to bet real money against it. Especially if the time frame is only until the end of 2025.
It's exactly what it was labeled, an experiment. We tried it once months ago, and I didn't like it. So we killed it.
> power and influence

good observation but it's probably both. The EU is a significant center of power and influence but so far the US hasn't started banning bidets.
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This is a super simple accountability counter. I built it for myself because I wanted a no-BS, non-trackable, no-external data-saving tool for tracking my personal "daily" habits.

Statistically, someone out there might find it useful since I could use something like this. Planning to add google adsense to at least pay for hosting, but keeping it super simple.

Any feedback or comments would be greatly appreciated :) This is my first SHOW on HN!
The image generator in 18.2 is... honestly kinda pitiful. It doesn't seem to be able to achieve images that match two-sentence descriptions.
I get the impression that TV manufactures already know that a large percentage of people are going to circumvent the built in OS with an external device so they put in very little effort into making it good.
You're also only going to get clean outdoor air in rural places where there is no/minimal farming and construction.
It's more gruesome about the chicken. These are also said to be counted in fall. It's not just about hatching (in summer), but rather about surviving till fall...

The original Nokia 5110 obviously lived long, probably still is there in author's drawer in some disassembled state.
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Youtube is now embedding ads midstream - I think it's just a matter of time before other providers adopt similar approaches. When adblockers were tools exclusive to nerds it didn't make sense to build countermeasures - as advertising has grown more pervasive and obnoxious adblockers have gone mainstream and there is now an arms race that adblockers are currently on the losing side of.
mmh, i see here some new "term", or new meaning of old term.. that might be useful.. that fractional thing.

You know, being a generalist, and helping some company, means you are 5/8 of something, 1/3 of another, 1/7 of yet another, and 3/10 of...
And These don't have to sum up to 1.0, they are in different dimensions.

It's like wearing-many-hats at same time (i think this was the wording so far), but this way may be better. As you may be at 100% a CTO today but not being the best-specialized-CTO-ever, and 30% tester tomorrow (this time being the best possible tester), and a little bit of architect in the meantime, and code something to try it out, and/or fix a dreaded bug, etc..

And this fractional essence somehow aligns with my idea from few years ago that software-making as profession is being commoditized. Pick-n-match whatever is on display?. Interesting what will come after that.

But i have been staying away from the corporate highways / market-squares ... and as marketing/sales isn't my thing.. even if it is about selling meself. Networking? hmm. not really working. 4 months already.

ah anyway. Have fun.
> As I pointed out in another comment, RAM is soldered on most non-desktop computers these days.

It's still very easy to choose computers with modular RAM, even in portable formfactors. The classic SODIMM module format seems to have run its course and is not compatible with modern low-power memory but we now have the CAMM module which at least Dell and Lenovo are shipping and major memory vendors like Crucial offer replacement/upgrade parts for.

Obviously if you prefer your computers fruit-flavored you're SOL, but that's not news to anyone either. Their memory packaging in the M-series machines has its own advantages that may be worth the tradeoff depending on your application, but for a normal user it's more of a limitation than a feature.
For thousands of years, the existence of low cost or even free apprentices for skilled trades meant there was no work left for experts with mastery of the trade.

Except, of course, that isn't true.
Biggest disappointment with Apple Intelligence is that it doesn't seem to be able to do anything with the apps I actually use. Can't say "find this email" because I am using the gmail app instead of Apple's inbuilt email app. Can't say "send blah blah blah to Bob Smith on Teams" because Teams doesn't integrate at all.

Without integrations into any apps smart assistant isn't very smart.
Back when I was in high school in the pre everyone had cellphones era, one girl had a cellphone. During history class it went off. Our teacher snagged the phone and started talking to her boyfriend, who was a fellow high school student, who was asking the girl if she wanted cigarettes from the nearby gas station. I think the teacher recognized the boyfriend and gave him detention for cutting class.
I thought this was going to be a competitor to Google's CAT3D or Microsoft's TRELLIS but is a different type of tool (still cool) for creating meshes from point clouds.

Relatedly, do point clouds generated from fixed point imagers include "negative ray" data for where points can't be?
Wait until some genius PM decides that it is okay to open a "please connect your TV to the internet to update your device" while you are watching a movie...

Or that they simply put a SIM card on the TV that phones home and fetches the ad inventory...
go run github.com/avitaltamir/cyphernetes/cmd/cyphernetes@v0.14.0 --help
That was ~2007-2017. You are literally describing how TVs worked in the past. Still one of their core functionality.
I have many friends telling me their job is actively pushing for them to use AI, asking them to be creative about the use of AI, and in some cases pivoting the business to AI products which have no profit margin for the business.

I have worked at many places, and often as soon as there's enough profit and momentum based on the back of some core product the fad chasing begins in earnest.
Those old phones you've kept tucked away are now worth a small fortune
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Yes, but under China's strict rules about doing business there; government oversight, Chinese senior management, party representative, etc.

I mean if Tiktok did the same thing in the US there probably would be less of an issue, but they are unwilling to allow the same restrictions / oversight as the US companies are subjecting themselves to in China.
What a Kafkaesque game.
I've brought MS Copilot licenses for my company in ~ February 2023. They were sold in a yearly commitment and offered no trials. A bad deal, but I was afraid of missing out AI productivity gains.

I'm definitely not renewing those. Times are hard and the value provided does not justify the cost.

I wonder how many companies will do the same.
No, and even with those names listed out I don't really understand what category you're pointing at. Your list includes the sitting president and president-elect of the country, who do of course have quite a lot of power. Do I think that TikTok has more power than Rupert Murdoch? Probably not, Murdoch owns a wider variety of media even if he doesn't have any single dominant app. More power than Richard Sackler or Bill Clinton? Again, yes, without a doubt.
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Android has had that for ages, and its cool to play with maybe twice and then I kind of forgot about it. It just turns out I dont take a lot of pictures that need cleaning up.
I can't comment on react, ssr etc, but one thing that I've been wondering about as a php developer is why even use custom elements at all, let alone web components?

As you say, why not just send normal, raw html down the wire?

I suspect I'm missing something though. Perhaps it's to do with being able to encapsulate/isolate each component's css and js, such that if you mix components across projects (or have different teams working on different components), their css and js have no chance of conflicting. Even if you are a single team, it would still, presumably, allow you to import existing components from external libraries etc...
Most infringement is probably caused by sites that scrape content and automatically repost it for SEO optimization. Cron jobs are the ultimate infringers.
Those are both computational challenges. Nvidia is well positioned for those due to their push into HPC with GPGPU. If there is another “once-in-a-lifetime” computational challenge, it will likely benefit Nvidia too.
https://archive.ph/xYIDL
Since the connection between your reverse proxy and your application server is probably much more reliable and lower latency than between your user and your reverse proxy, you should still benefit in the typical reverse proxy setup.
I agree but the reason they were cheaper was hidden. If spying were an opt-in popup that says "spy on me" nobody would choose the spying. It won through sleight of hand.
The US has soft invaded Europe's minds for a hundred years too, under disguise of "entertainment" and "news". Doesn't make it right, but just to compare.
They directly addressed your question.
That they stand to profit seems fairly uncontroversial given their willingness to participate. What other motive could possibly exist?
‘No section 230’ might be the reason why there’s no social media tech scene. I’d like to think that HN cares about things other than social media too - maybe Brits could do something that actually adds some value.

But in any case, original point also brings up the question: why is the UK allowing foreign companies to violate laws that it would prosecute British businesses for violating?

If you allow a foreign domiciled business to break laws in your country, then how the heck do you expect to ever have domestic industry? It’s strictly less risky to always be foreign domiciled.

This bill aims to stop that regulatory arbitrage and as such is hopefully a leveling of the playing field for the UK tech scene.
I imagine one of the most important things to pay attention to on sites like rtings.com will be - what does the TV do if you don't connect it to the internet? The ads and the tracking are just the norm for people who can't be bothered to care, just like browsing the web is now. And those of us that can't stand it will continue to use external devices like the Apple TV (until Apple decides to start tracking or degrades that experience with ads, hopefully they won't).
> so a baseband 0day allowing you to take over the entire phone is already unlikely.

The baseband has to talk with the main SoC though by some way, and wherever there are interfaces, so are drivers and associated bugs. And usually you get the baseband and main SoC from the same company, so same engineering culture. It's not like shoddy development isn't just happening on the baseband BSP side.

> All of the issue you described are specific to basebands, not all "chipsets and drivers", and this article is talking about exploits in DSPs, not basebands.

Power efficiency, patents and legal compliance crap also impact the main SoC/chipset side.
> Certain chip vendors are notorious for not providing fixes of this kind to the manufacturers to roll out (maybe doing so selectively based on who they're extra special buddies with), if they ever even made them at all before moving on to the next shiny SoC.

Never heard that before. Chipset vendors are under maintenance contracts with their customers, so they are actually PAID to provide fixes especially for CVE's.
Manufacturers on the other hand have little to no recurring revenue from a device which could finance to implement, test and rollout each patch.

Care to provide a concrete example for your claim?, especially for this "extra special buddies" suggestion which insinuates that a chipset vendor developed a patch and still doesn't provide it to all its customers...?
As a Quebecker, I'm always surprised to hear Quebecor mentioned as a challenger to the incumbent oligopoly. It's always been my perception they are well among them. A quick internet search suggests that Telus ($5B) has half the total assets than Quebecor ($10B) albeit a 1/7 of those of Rogers ($70B). Those numbers might be wrong though, I got them all from secondary sources.
I was reflecting on old technologies that were supposedly revolutionary at the time, like palm pilots, and what value they really provided. Like, I can imagine a someone at that time using a palm pilot and claiming that it's making them more "productive."

Looking back though, such technologies are nothing compared to what we have. So there's a perceived gap between our current state of technology (LLMs etc.) and the past, yet the gains in productivity don't seem to match this perception (e.g. if our tools are 1000x better, why do I feel only like 1.1x more productive. revolutionary AI tools? still, I only feel at most 1.1x more productive in life in general).

My idea is that such technologies' utility is secondary to their signaling power. Like, users seeing value in Apple Intelligence isn't the point. Rather, integrating AI into your product is a signal of competitive prowess. And using AI, even if it makes you less productive and produce worse work, signals your faith in technological progress and innovation.
In some ways, but for off axis parabolic mirrors with internal geometry Openscad seemed to work fine. Additionally, the parametric formats are fundamentally necessary when working in plastics which tend to shift around during additive manufacturing.

I like that OpenScad integrates into FreeCad, and can do more than lousy STL outputs. It is far from perfect, but can solve some problems with ease.

Most cloud based software strips one of long-term stability in the design folder (can no longer store a version snapshot of the project binary dependencies), and so poses a liability to any firm running large infrastructures.

For one-off stuff, one could argue it doesn't matter. But in someways, FreeCad beside the project files will be viewable/exportable forever.

Unfortunately, now the Solidworks offline workflow also requires the online license nag screen every 30 days. However, it is not part of Autodesks walled garden built on internet stability (a significant issue in a remote field deployment.)

Good luck, =3
Yup! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_submarine_simulator
The delay that Apple Intelligence introduces into notifications is also unacceptable. On both desktop and iOS, notifications are _very_ late - often more than a second on my M2 Max laptop - which ends up being quite distracting.
> Yes, with batteries. No, hydrogen is not the answer. Batteries it is. Get moving, stop complaining.

what makes you say that?
2G is still strong in Germany as some industrial applications rely on it. It is not going to be deprecated any time soon. Maybe once they run out of spare parts.

Germany's mobile network is worse than most third world countries. Working on a train? No internet for you! Going a few meters outside a settlement? Might not even be able to do calls.
I think in some sense the opposite could occur, where it democratizes access to becoming a sort of pseudo-junior-software engineer. In the sense that a lot more people are going to be generating code and bespoke little software systems for their own ends and purposes. I could imagine this resulting in a Cambrian Explosion of small software systems. Like @m_ke says, there will be way more software.

Who maintains these systems? Who brings them to the last mile and deploys them? Who gets paid to troubleshoot and debug them when they reach a threshold of complexity that the script-kiddie LLM programmer cannot manage any longer? I think this type of person will definitely have a place in the new LLM-enabled economy. Perhaps this is a niche role, but figuring out how one can take experience as a software engineer and deploy it to help people getting started with LLM code (for pay, ofc) might be an interesting avenue to explore.
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But the problem is that the majority of SWs are like that. You can blame them, or the industry, bust most engineers are writing code most of the time. For every Tech Lead who does "people stuff", there are 5-20 engineers who, mostly, write code and barely know that entire scope/context of the product they are working on.
I said to be fair. Not that this was a good. :(

Which, to be fair, I should have flat said. I'm always terrified when I watch mainstream television while on a trip. The amount of advertising on normal television is mind boggling.

Reminds me of places that don't have limits to billboards. So many billboards.
> A good software engineer is not going to be replaced by Cursor/Co-pilot, because the essence of programming is to translate the business requirements of a real world problem that other humans are facing into an ergonomic tool that can be used to solve such problem at scale, not writing characters on an IDE.

Managers and executives only see engineers and customer service as an additional cost and will find an opportunity to trim down roles and they do not care.

This year's excuse is now anything that uses AI, GPTs or Agents and they will try to do it anyway. Companies such as Devin and Klarna are not hiding this fact.

There will just be less engineers and customer service roles in 2025.
I think you are agreeing with the parent comment with a tone of disagreement.

They say they let cold air in during the winter because they want to lower the humidity.

Then you say that, if you let cold air in (and then let it heat back up again) then you end up with lower humidity.

The only thing you might disagree on is exactly what humidity you would like inside your house. But that's subjective. (As it happens, I agree with them: I often find it too humid inside during the winter, because I've restricted airflow to keep the heat in.)
I recently personally resubscribed to copilot after cancelling my subscription a couple months ago since it was not providing value. But now with the new/beta “Edit” mode and being able to specify to use o1, o1 mini, and sonnet 3.5, the $10 a month feels a lot more worth it. The edit mode has outperformed aider for me.
I don't know that the problem is short attention span. Poor communication has always been with us. I am sure Luu has compelling insights—what I was able to get through seemed interesting—but he is a poor communicator. It's not just that he presents a wall of text; his wording and his approach to communication tell me that he thinks if he just gets his thoughts recorded, that's enough. It is not enough.
Those models will be here within a year.

Long context is practically a solved problem and there's a ton of work now on test time reasoning motivated by o1 showing that it's not that hard to RL a model into superhuman performance as long as the task is easy / cheap to validate (and there's works showing that if you can define the problem you can use an LLM to validate against your criteria).
You can take out the “Apple” and it would still be true.