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The Summarize service on OS X does a decent job at summarizing content, and it integrates will any app that uses Text Services. On the article about Apple's rec
by athenot 11y ago
The Summarize service on OS X does a decent job at summarizing content, and it integrates will any app that uses Text Services. On the article about Apple's recycling[1], the summary it produced was similar to the one you produced.[2] One advantage with the OS X Summary is if something looks interesting, the slider can be moved to reduce the aggressivity of the summary, thus yielding more details.
From WiseGuy:
Various media sites claimed apple recycled $40 million worth of gold from iphones, they were dead wrong.
What actually happened is that Apple is under statutury obligation to recycle a certain weight of e-waste depending on it market share or weight of electronics sold (depending on state laws). The e-waste doesn't have to be of the manufacturers own products.
Apple paid third party recyclers to recycle mostly CRT's and PC's (iphone have hardly any gold and are much more valuable refurbished, In fact, phones and tablets often don’t count toward the overall recycling requirements in many state laws.) and probably incured a loss rather than a 40 million windfall as claimed in news articles.
From OS X Summary:
The most egregious and inaccurate storyline goes something like this: Apple, out of the goodness of its heart or perhaps fueled by monetary incentives, took old iPhones and iPads that were brought back into its stores, took them apart, melted down the roughly 30 milligrams of gold in each phone, and ended up with 2,204 total pounds of gold.
...More commonly, however, it was reported that Apple recycled “90 million pounds of e-waste through its recycling programs,” with much of this e-waste being iPhones and other old Apple products.
...Linnell told me that, generally, Apple is considered to be a good faith participant in many states’ recycling programs, and said that the company has also set up recycling programs and contracted with e-waste recyclers in states where there are no e-waste laws.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11536543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11536543
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11537017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11537017
Edit: I should add that anything that helps people get more out of their day is somthing that can be inserted in the time vs. money equation, so your idea is definitely on the right track.
- abhi3 11y agoI have tried several summarizing services but none does as good a job as a real human. Try to take some article that you haven't read and run it through an algorithmic summarizer, most of the time it wil be a very poor experience, specially so when compared to say a friend explaining it to you in short. Thats what wise guy is. I don't believe in the forseeable future AI will be able to beat humans at this but if it gets close it'll only further improve our unit economics. Currently our unit economics on staff analysers look something like this WITHOUT any tech assistance: Median wage in low-income english speaking country: $2/hour Analysis time for a average length 1000 word article: 6 minutes Actual cost/article: 20 cents Average Views per summarry at scale: 20 (Extremply conservative estimate, the Apple summary got 1000 views in an less than an hour) As you can see the average cost of Human summarizing/view is less than a cent. Such a service at such a low price point should be seen as valuable by a large number of people; or at the very least sustained by advertisment (though I would very much prefer a subscription or micropayment based business model)
- heartbreak 11y agoHow do you determine how many views your HN comment received?
- abhi3 11y agoI estimated from the number of people who clicked through the link in the post and further to the medium post on the headline links to. The number would be very close to 1000 at the very least, but most likely several thousand.