skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps more importantly, given enough years and as the technology commoditizes, the "need" to take sides about whatever tech lessens. "Sides" are usually for the hot big thing in tech. But OSes are long past that phase and far too unexciting for most people to have the critical mass needed to create this kind of polarization.
I’m surprised this is being reported as news. Has Wall Street culture ever not been this way, within living memory?
DNA synthesis companies try to detect if the DNA you want to synthesize is any known virus, so they can call the bio-terrorism police.
"Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is."
-- Dick Guindon
Did you look at the article?
Not saying you're wrong, but I don't really understand people's aversion to creating an account. It's like quitting an RPG once they reach the create a character screen.

Also, it seems like ~60% of people give up before creating an account.
Tesla launches the first large-scale lithium refinery in the U.S.
This is consistent with my experience. We're far from a business analyst or product engineer being able to prompt an LLM to write the software themselves. It's their job to know the domain, not the technical details.

Maybe we all end up being prompt engineers, but I think that companies will continue to have experts on the business side as well as the tech side for any foreseeable future.
much easier to cut Medicaid, social security, education, and similar non-essential stuff. corporate handouts will increase, not decrease, when you have two billionaires in the white house.
Buying an Apple TV has been one of my best purchases. It's amazing having a box that just lets me get to my content rather than bombarding me with ads.

It's also amazing how much better the box is. The UX is fast and responsive given that it has an A15 processor (same as an iPhone 14, but 5 core instead of 6 core). Single-core Geekbench scores are over 10x competitive players like the Google TV Streamer and multicore are around 7x. Given that a Google TV Streamer costs $100 and an Apple TV costs $130, you're getting a lot more value for your money with an Apple TV. Even an Nvidia Shield TV is 1/6th the speed in single-core and 1/5th the speed in multi-core.

The Apple TV is a bit over-engineered, but most players are woefully underpowered and it leads to a terrible experience using them.

Plus, it's just so nice buying a product where I'm not bombarded by ads and UX anti-patterns trying to confuse me so I part with my money.

And I spend less money on the box too. $130 for an Apple TV is a lot less than what I've spent on Roku, Fire TV, Chromecast with Google TV, and Tivo Stream devices over the years - hoping one of them would work well.
the closest thing to a dumb TV are "commercial displays" that are designed for business signage, etc. sadly some of those now are even coming with OS's in them so if you are interested in going that route be careful what you purchase
Are there any not outrageously expensive, tough, battery-goes-for-weeks, does calls and SMS and wifi hotspot and maybe even F-Droid but a small screen, and maybe has at least LTE so that it is safe to be used for years, type devices?

I've looked once or twice, and found two categories: one was expensive phones leaning in to the "super slick minimalist" thing, which looked like they could be good devices and cover what I'm looking for, but again, 300 dollars or more type range.

The other was remakes of the "old classics", which were cheap, and claimed to cover roughly what I was hoping for, but are actually horrible quality, as another commenter said.

Maybe there's no solution, and those expensive ones are the only good option. Exceptions, or surprises, please throw them at me!
Speculating here but I'd say a big part of the reason Dan Luu has as big a reach as he has is that he isn't the kind of writer who'll change his style to accommodate the audience that just wants to do a quick scan.
What product are you using that has Apple Intelligence built into it?
I absolutely agree. And the other comments here have pointed out the danger of code is that someone will want to ship your draft.

So business processes can kill either one.
And the sinister message above Helena’s bed is hidden in plain sight. It would fit the article very well. I guess the article author was not aware of this.
Docker Swarm Mode or Kubernetes?
I think you'll find most people in leadership positions at most companies are not that forward thinking, proactive, or frankly intelligent. I thought cost-benefit and risk was analyzed on most big company decisions, until I sat in rooms for a Fortune 500 where those decisions were getting made. If you assume that everyone everywhere is doing just barely the minimum to not get fired, you're right more often than not.
I wouldn’t know because Apple doesn’t want iPhone 13 Pro Max users having access to their AI functionality. So my 18.2 update is neutered compared to someone’s running the latest device.
> I can't find anyone to install one in Los Angeles.

If you call a random HVAC company, they may not want to deal with "fussy clients" that want something "fancy" like an HRV/ERV. Best to look at folks that perhaps try to adhere to building science more. A quick search for the LA area:

* https://www.jmsacandheating.com/indoor-air-quality/heat-ener...

* https://www.aircomfortexperts.com/additional-products/ervs/

* https://www.azaircond.com/indoor-air-quality/energy-recovery...

* https://www.socalclimatecontrol.com/ervs-and-hrvs-energy-eff...

Or do a dealer search from a manufacturer, e.g.,:

* https://broan-nutone.com/en-us/home/dealer-locator

> Is there a particular climate these are suited for?

Any climate. Modern ones can even handle IECC Zones 6 and 7:

* https://basc.pnnl.gov/images/iecc-climate-zone-map
It looks like the kind of "reform" and deregulation that these Billionaires want, is whatever will put more money into their pocket, their businesses, and those of their rich friends. Unfortunately, lots of poor voters erroneously think they will get something out of it, but that's unlikely to be the intent or the result.
I imagine my heatmap would show I spend a disproportionate amount of time trying to edit urls in the browser bar.
I have heard that there are apparently some TV's that won't let you use them without connecting them to the internet. But yeah, as long as thats possible than its fine.

But if I am always put into their home system, or some other crap I don't want to interact with even if I am offline. Or I get regularly prompted to connect. It is going to be very frustrating and I am honestly not sure what I will do.

Thankfully it wouldn't be too hard to get around the auto start on the same HDMI with a harmony remote or something with a hub to automatically switch it. Annoying, but fixable as long as it doesn't put up a box prompting you every time to connect.

I have a Vizio tv from 2019, been looking at getting a new tv. and I am honestly starting to wonder if I have just been living in bliss that I can ignore its OS completely past my initial configuration.
Please Apple, add an option to let Siri transfer my requests over the internet to handle them with an actually intelligent helper. Currently, Siri is only good for setting timers.
use them
How does GDP is growing slightly slower than pre-pandemic estimates translate into irreversible decline?
There's also the agreement where movie studies can use real war machines as props, provided they agree to make the US military forces appear heroic, noble and victorious.
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The motive of actually caring about the country you live in could possibly exist.

Possibly. I don't say that I think that's what's actually the motive.
Back in the day you could buy a commercial display Plasma, intended for trade show booths or display walls, as your home TV.

Does that type of thing not exist more ?
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is easy, simple, and wrong.

And then there's the Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety (not sure it's a law), which states, simplified, that a simpler system cannot control a more complicated system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(cybernetics)
The Message suggestions are insultingly awful. And I can't find a way to turn them off.
The Zoom AI summary seems to work pretty well for me.
Now do the same survey on Siri. I bet the result is going to be the same.

The age-old concept of "affordance" in a user interface, where a device announces its capabilities to the user, has completely gone down the drain. Now we're back to mystical buttons that claim to perform magic, and we happily ignore the tedious process of figuring out what just happened, implying that is not part of the User's Experience.
Sorry to hear about what is happening in your family.

I think your perspective is spot on. VUI (voice user interfaces) will absolutely change the way we interact with computers. After all, talking comes naturally to humans.

The digit divide (old people, very young people, illiterate) still exists. And will likely get bigger if VUIs don't get wide spread adoption.
> large percentage

I'd imagine it's dramatically less than even 1% of TV owners; we live in a tech bubble. My relatives aren't even interested in my going out of my way to do things like this for them. "Just let me watch TV"

Normies don't care.
I gave it to gemini 2 and asked for a bullet point summary. People don't like this, but it got me through meat of the article in 2 minutes.
I'd love to build this. I have access to a 3d printer, use Python, and have some electronics experience. I live in a northern climate and have been eyeing ERV systems for a while. Basically, I'm the perfect target for this.

However, reading the docs, they seem written more to discourage any kind of DIY attempt by saying things A, B or C are difficult, than actually explaining how to do them correctly. I'd love to contribute to the project, but it feels like it's not set-up to foster community contribution.

If I'm mistaken, I'd love to donate some of my time on this!
> - patents, so many patents, because of course it's a global standard that a) isn't open and b) everyone and their dog wants to profit off of

This is the only real problem. The other problems are challenging but surmountable engineering issues (which Apple already had solutions to, thanks to their Intel-modem acquisition).

There are plenty of Chinese basebands that work (code quality and security aside), because the CCP told Qualcomm to get bent in 2015.
> "Today's TV selection has a serious dependency on advertisements and user tracking"

Well, no surprise there, people vote with their wallet after all, and as a manufacturer you either go with the flow and subsidize your devices with ads and spyware, or you go and sink: TVs these days are commodities, unlike earlier times there is no reason for brand loyalty.

Only chance if you want to escape the racket is pay the true price of the and get a Digital Signage line, bonus benefit, the components might actually be higher quality.

Personal opinion: governments should go and ban selling goods of any kind below-cost. All that does is help create oligopolies where only the rich can participate because everyone else can't play the games of scale.
LLMs will just write code without you having to go copy-pasta from SO.

The real secret is talent stacks: have a combination of talents and knowledge that is desirable and unique. Be multi-faceted. And don't be afraid to learn things that are way outside of your domain. And no, you wouldn't be pigeon-holing yourself either.

For example there aren't many SWEs that have good SRE knowledge in the vehicle retail domain. You don't have to be an expert SRE, just be good enough, and understand the business in which you're operating and how those practices can be applied to auto sales (knowing the laws and best practices of the industry).
Given the cost of an LTE modem these days I wouldn't be surprised if they start coming with integrated mobile service as a "feature" to ensure the ads and surveillance data always flow.
The better comparison would be people buying gaming PC when Apple declared war on NVidia and shunned PC gaming in general.

Did Windows and linux PC sales rise ? Well yes, to some decent extent:

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/2023-pc-games-revenu...
I grew up on Final Fantasy which required reading so it helped with my reading.
Or in my case, my “TV” is a large monitor. It’s a bit more expensive, but in return you get no smart features whatsoever.
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Adderall can keep you awake a lot more than 22 hours. A friend of mine didn't make a realistic plan to move from her old apartment and got the plan to take stimulants and work continuously with two other hippie friends, my friend stayed up three days but it ended in a psychiatric hospitalization.
I'm reminded of [Things You Should Never Do Part 1](https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...)
, but substitute all those rulings and laws and interpretations for all the bug fixes, i.e. they support and provide service for edge cases, i.e. marginal people, organizations, and places. That's what the lawsuits are for; not to protect the ruling but to protect the people who weren't being served. Let's tear it all out just to build it again, adding all new bug fixes for all the same reasons.
LLMs are a tool though, so it benefits getting in early and gaining experience using the tool. Companies need to either train up people using a tool, or buy that expertise with the tool. Not to mention all the LLM adjacent tools as well. It's a big, messy, wide field of new software things at this point.
I thought that were more, but a quick search only revealed Norway, apart from Spain that you've already mentioned.

Also worth noting that in the Madrid region they don't have the wealth tax.
I remember John Carmack talking about this last year. Seems like it's still pretty good advice more than a year later:

"From a DM, just in case anyone else needs to hear this."

https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1637087219591659520
Firefox Reader mode makes it much nicer to read. The quality of the actual article is somewhat "meh", passed the time but nothing surprising or that interesting.
Not an Apple TV, but I've had a similar experience with a cheap mini PC velcro'd to the back of my TV. A lot cheaper ($30), less plug'n'play, more software options. Pretty fantastic way to go!
I intentionally glossed over a lot in my first comment, but I should clarify that I don't believe that increased context size or RL is sufficient to solve the problem I'm talking about.

Also "as long as the task is easy / cheap to validate" is a problematic statement if we're talking about the replacement of senior software engineers, because problem definition and development of validation criteria are core to the duties of a senior software engineer.

All of this is to say: I could be completely wrong, but I'll believe it when I see it. As I said elsewhere in the comments to another poster, if your points could be expressed in easily testable yes/no propositions with a timeframe attached, I'd likely be willing to bet real money against them.
Chinese citizens cannot express political opinions contrary to the whims of the CCP.

Do not equate whatever perceived limits the US has with China's limits on free expression.
Me too. I'd love to find some space to work in that rekindles some of that. I love tech, it's a lot of fun, and you can do really cool things with it. But it kind of went from the people in that article who were "hackers", to people like PG who is a hacker too, but urged people to use their skills to set themselves up so they could work on cool things, to just being a business. Nothing wrong with businesses, I'm not some kind of purist hermit. But I miss that air of doing things because they're cool.
most AI products haven't been integrated to the point where they can actually be useful (largely because they still completely fuck things up and no one trusts them) — I don't want AI to write words for me, I want it to perform the middling multi-app tasks for me.

Not "write this text for me" but "put together a kids music playlist and start it when I connect to carplay" or "take the last few photos of the kids and send them to my mom's photo frame", "respond to all political texts from unknown numbers with STOP", "write a bash script that does XYZ so I don't have to manually workaround this dodgy hard drive issue every time my computer restarts"

the promise was personal assistants, but they're still mostly chat bots
> Apple has tons of user engagement data.

I suspect they don't have as much as you'd imagine. Stronger privacy means they have less data, and the data they have is less useful, and their legal teams will restrict things the data can be used for.

I think that's why Apple Intelligence is bad. They built it on mostly synthetic data.
> In Netherlands, it's nigh-impossible to fire someone: you have to fill in 10 pages of justification paperwork and have an independent government agency review and approve it.

Practically speaking, won't they fire someone by negotiating a "voluntary" severance agreement? It's not like an employee wants to stay on for long once it's been made known that they are unwanted.

Though obviously a severance agreement is better than at-will employment, it's also not a guarantee of long employment.
i can confirm.
I have bought and used both Nokia 2660 Flip and Nokia 8210 4G , both are HMD rebrands.
Firmware is very buggy and battery failed after less than 2y .
I'm new to iOS - just switched from Android about 10 days ago. I didn't move for Apple Intelligence, but it's a feature I've played with.

- Writing tools are neat, but I don't have much use for them. They worked pretty alright.

- Image playground is neat, but I haven't and probably won't use it outside of goofing around and showing a buddy.

- The new Siri is awful. I don't know the old Siri very well, but it's just not good. I had to ask it something like five times what time one of yesterday's football games was going to be.

- Visual intelligence isn't even a thing. I can't believe they're advertising it like it's interesting. It's just asking ChatGPT about an image (which the ChatGPT app already supports) or using Google Lens (which the Google app supports).

What I am impressed by is how much gets run on device. About half of the writing tools are fully on device and the image playground was running entirely on device. That was very neat to me. Tested by turning of all data connection and seeing what was unavailable (ran into this with writing tools).

I'm still super hopeful for Siri to use my personal context. I think that one is set for March 2025 in the US. If they can pull that off, that will be the most valuable personal use case of AI for me so far. If I can just ask "When does my flight leave?" and it can immediately know I'm talking about my flight next week to visit family for the holidays and either use the email or my calendar to pull it, that's just incredibly neat to me.

Other than that, I've been enjoying the iPhone and some of their other machine learning features that have been around before Apple Intelligence. Searching in the Photos app is blowing my mind. I think Google Photos would do that too if I had backed up my images, but have this on device on the iPhone is just insane. I can't believe all of y'all have had this for years.
Do you absolutely need the antenna connector?

If not, consider a large computer monitor.
You understand that with respect to abortion, the effect of Dobbs was precisely what you seem to be asking for? That is, Dobbs handed the issue back to legislators.
Google “the Galileo Affair”.
Good points - my company has already committed to #2
It's not the "Instagram disease", the page is completely unstyled and unsuited for reading. Even after using Firefox's Reader mode, the paragraphs are too dense. Some people are great writers but could benefit from a designer or editor.
Gotta check the “Does your product have AI” on the Gartner Magic Quadrant surgery.
How do you see that China is an actively hostile power?
3210 did not support MMS, but EMS with some semi-proprietary extensions. Sending images and ringtones over EMS was generally not interoperable between different vendors.

MMS is much later technology where the user data go over HTTP, which implies at least WAP support and GPRS to be really practical.
Try git lfs
Exaptation of ancestral cell-identity networks enables C₄ photosynthesis
Recently upgraded my iPhone 11 to 16 (mostly because battery was not great anymore). I've turned off all of the gen AI stuff and enjoy the longer battery life and a better camera. I'm not an gen AI skeptic - I use it in other contexts (e.g. CoPilot, chatGPT). I just don't find Apple's current AI experiments that appealing really (e.g. emojis?? really?). I guess gradually they'll find the natural fit of these technologies in places where they actually bring value. At the moment it just feels like a salespitch to justify the over spec-ed phones we keep buying.