Readit NewsIs this really the best example usecase they can think of? How often does an individual call an airline? I'm sure in aggregate they get a lot of calls, but I don't think I've ever had to.
It just seems really weird that this is the top example of on-device AI. The other examples mentioned, like "finding the right photos to share with a friend", seem more relatable.
Perhaps they really wanted to show a good looking widget and I suppose flight info was the best candidate.
I have had some calls with family or friends about an upcoming flight where this could've saved a few seconds.
Would I want to save a few seconds in exchange for their processing of my whole conversation even if offline? That's another story.
There are 3 primary decisions Google made that click with me, while Apple's choices are a mystery to me:
1: When I put a Pixel on a table, it sits there stable. Because the backside is symmetrical. When I put an iPhone on a table, it wobbles.
2: When I sort my photos on a Pixel, I sort them in folders. The "camera" folder is where the unsorted photos are. When I sit in a bus or in a cafe, I go through it and sort the new photos into folders. This seems impossible on iPhones. Everything stays in the main folder forever. You can add photos to albums, but that does not remove them from the main folder. So there is no way to know which photos I have already sorted.
3: On Android I can use Chrome. Which means web apps can use the File System Access API. This makes web apps first class productivity applications I can use to work on my local files. Impossible on iPhones.
I'm sure people who prefer iPhones have their own set of "this clicks with me on iPhones and puzzles me on Pixels" aspects?
Is this a "left brain vs right brain" type of thing? Do most HNers prefer Androids?
Not every phone related post needs to become one.
If I'm taking a picture of something I want it to be real light-to-pixel action not some made up wambo-jambo
More like "Interpolation" with a pinch of hallucination. I can see this becoming a thing though, it is after all the mythical 'zoom & enhance' from csi...
That's one way to justify a permanent snoop on everything you are doing and saying in all your messages and calls.
Even if your data is kept on device, their telemetry could still reveal your activity and patterns.
But that’s when I thought this was a sort of blocklist of ID processors. If what you’re doing really is forcing the site to be served from a different geolocation then maybe just have that as a top level feature. “Use foreign DNS” or something, maybe allow configuring a list of domains I want to happen that on, or geographies I’m ok with connecting to.
And I think he was largely correct, although the term _service_ seems like it now has to do a lot of heavy lifting as it now encompasses:
- Availability by Company
- Availability by Global Region
- Stream Quality
- Advert Policy (why does the lowest tier need to be ad supported? What am I paying for aside from being upsold?)
- Quality and availability of captions, audio description and any other media accessibility options
[1] https://www.escapistmagazine.com/valves-gabe-newell-says-pir...
To be precise: pyx isn't intended to be a public registry or a free service; it's something Astral will be selling. It'll support private packages and corporate use cases that are (reasonably IMO) beyond PyPI's scope.
(FD: I work on pyx.)
> but the bigger picture is that pyx part of a larger effort to make Python packaging faster and more cohesive for developers