skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's clear that AI can be the catalyst for creating a lot of customer-facing value. (Though I still contend that the current incarnation of large language models ain't it yet.) Requiring a powerful (and power-hungry) GPU in all devices is non-tenable, so having a dedicated NPU is a pretty sleek way forward (that, to be fair, Apple spearheaded).

I'm very curious to see what APIs will be open to developers, because I think "next billion-dollar startup"-style value-generation won't be found in the generative aspect of these models, but rather the promise of automation, synthesis, summarization, agent invocation, and so on.
Changed now from https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24160486/microsoft-copilo.... Thanks!
LLMs aside I would guess we may see more modest use cases for TPU/NPUs on PC. Phones have been coming with them for several years now - granted with stronger use cases around AR, photo retouching, and voice assistants. Maybe you are right though.
They probably didn't intend to be profitable because their goal was user acquisition at the time. Intending to be profitable from the start would have implied a totally different approach and priorities.
To wit, I now know about this where before I had no idea, and it leaves enough of a stink that I wouldn't touch their product with a ten foot pole. Especially the whole idea that they wouldn't answer any questions over email, which is a red flag for me about them not wanting a record of a discussion about this. You do that when you think there might be controversy or you're not totally certain about your claims and don't want that uncertainty reflected in a back-and-forth.
It had a lot of fans because the video itself was of a higher quality than YouTube offered at the time.
Great! Now there are three different ways to call this API! Just because one dude has a different preferred coding style...

Now, arguably the original API wasn’t the best, but this is really not the way to design an API. There should preferably only be one way to do things and consistency with the rest of the library should be kept. Finally, don’t forget about browser compatibility.

As many others already argued, the root cause can be solved with just a sprinkle of syntax sugar to aid with try/catch.
Not sure why people are beating around the bush;
The overwhelming majority of them are degenerates. Either they will sport some variation of the pedophile flag ("trans") or outright defend it in chat.

It has become so bad that moderators will not ban these people even if they explicitly try to justify molesting children. Some of them are moderators themselves. And even have calls to genocide in their bio. This is most prevalent in the ArchLinux community. Specifically, their Telegram channels.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40417828, which was posted a bit earlier and is currently on the front page.
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40414329
Too bad they've spent the last few years ruining Windows with ads and other things. I'll happily give up all these features.
If you have the time, I am curious what you think about this post, "Three-Toed Sloth."

http://bactra.org/weblog/523.html

It is obviously just one person's blog post, but I did find it interesting and compelling. However, I must admit that some of the areas of discussion surpass my level of knowledge of statistics and psychometrics.

I am just curious what your opinions are since you seem much more versed in this topic than I am.
The word stasi was already taken.
$4k/mo in rent vs $1200k/mo in rent is more than enough to make up for the expense of having a car (if you move somewhere you need one) and still leave you with an extra $25k/yr in an account somewhere....
I think the idea is to all apps and developers gradually transition and develop with ARM support - after all even the mobile devices will be running on ARM sooner or later so future apps, games will be developed with ARM in mind anyway. x86 apps will be supported - with some paid support for example.

But it all depends on the market share of ARM at one point. But you can run DOS apps still so with emulation layer - and the increasing performance of ARM - one way or another old apps will be able to run on ARM. For those who will need to those.

Unlike Mac, Microsoft just can't drop past generations and call it a day.
If it's like their previous ARM Windows attempt, existing native software won't work in any event because the entire platform is locked down.
It was like a horror movie to watch
What’s your ultimate goal?

Is it to do what’s best for your business?

Or your personal joy & happiness?

(These might not be mutually exclusive, but knowing the priority is important)

If it is based on your business best interest, what kind of business do you want to run (forever being a solo or growing to big size with huge staff)?

(Lastly, unsolicited advice - if you're a solo founder - always be telling people your business. Like mention it here in HN thread. People want to buy from other people they know. They can't if they don't know your business name/url :)
Minimum RAM requirements of 16GB. Hopefully this will force Apple to move from 8GB/16GB consumer models to 16GB/32GB.
Oh I agree. But it allows both parties to save face
Actors Hit AI Startup with Class Action Lawsuit over Voice Theft
Are these suitable gaming laptops? I run local LLMs (Ollama) using my NVIDIA graphics card but I can't tell if these ARM chips are suitable for gaming.
> The new Flex Keyboard, which costs $450 and comes with a Slim Pen... [0]

At that price, I would expect a Generously Voluminous Pen and a whole lot more...

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/20/24160707/microsoft-surfac...
Is this why Microsoft named it "Bing?"
Looks like they're relying on system fonts instead of serving them over the web. It uses Segoe UI (a Windows font) by default. I tried accessing the page via Fedora and iOS and neither load the font correctly.
The real danger of AI is it will annoy us all to death as companies keep jamming it into everything.
And a quest:

"This suitcase contains secret information where mafia treasures are hidden. Try to unravel the mystery of this suitcase and find the treasure! Use the clues on the yellow stickers, they point to various objects on the floor"

If you look at (click) a suitcase in the mafia room
Wrong. It pays to be a good student, and most double majors are good students. You should not prescribe double majoring to improve income any more than you should prescribe "just any old degree is better than none" to improve income. It amazes me that the people who write articles like this finished college.
Locally, it is supposed to take advantage of the new "NPU" that comes with Intel/AMD
Huh I guess that helped me out since my CS Engineering Degree made us all practically Math double majors if you chose the right classes. People petitioned it to do it.

I also took a lot of philosophy classes so that might have helped me too
I don't know what your monthly spend is, but there are income levels where you'll see 0% capital gains at both the state and federal level. Also remember that you'll only pay the tax on the _gains_ (ie, taking your cost basis into account).

Moving out of a state for avoid a low-single-digit tax on _gains only_ seems like it may be an over-optimization, but you'll have to look at your specific situation.
People even coined a term for Microsoft-Intel symbiosis: Wintel. Most often Windows meant Intel and Intel meant Windows.

I wonder how this will fare for the future of x86. Maybe Intel will focus on the server market.
If I recall correctly the ordinance only barred the city's police from "acquiring or using" the software without approval and reports to a committee. Merely asking someone else to use it on their behalf is probably ok (per the ordinance). Its kind of hard to actually ban any particular technology, if it is useful, people will find a way to use it.
Red Lobster files for bankruptcy: Blame focuses on shrimp deal
The US Federal government at best technically, not literally, prints its own money.

The Fed is an independent organization with US Federal oversight. It is responsible for the call to issue more money but a government body prints it.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/041515/why-f...
Note that the second major is often not a different engineering field.
Apple does this all the time so far as I understand. Back when I worked in embedded firmware, ten or fifteen years ago, I remember hearing about a new MEMS chip we could not get - which nobody could get - because Apple had bought the entire production output.
30/186 == ~0.16.

16% is very different from 30%. Still important, but just a little over half as much.
> I hear potato (and you had to burry the part you didn't use)

We were told to cut the potato in half, rub it on the wart, put the potato back together and bury it.
Stay near a transport hub so you can connect with your prospects and customers regularly, by travelling. Working along side other founders in the B2B space would be extremely beneficial too.
A backup tool. These exists since forever. And are different from Recall features.
>At least with Apple

> Even if you discount their PR and marketing spin,

It doesnt seem like you were able to do that.
Yet the music made me feel so uncomfortable..
Windows 11 ARM isn't locked down at all. I run it on a daily basis.
I do not agree that it needs a qualifier. My opinion is that safety as a whole would improve with those four suggestions implemented.

You can disagree, but if you think it would make safety worse you probably should point out how those changes would result in a more unsafe country not just that it wouldn't solve all problems.
Is it aarch64 or Arm64?! Why are we so inconsistent?
I would like to also point out https://woogles.io as a mobile-friendly place to play Scrabble, either against humans or against bots with different "ability levels".
These days it doesn't matter where you're located, at least if you're within 2-3h timezone offset of the US. Just live where you want to live. If you want to be close to VC -- they're probably here in Montana fly fishing...
He's so clearly trying to take the money and run, I can't imagine anyone falling for it, but... well it is set up a bit like a cult, so who knows.
There are jewels hiding in old trip-hop and indie/artsy hip-hop. El P and Killer Mike would agree.
Are they actually collecting new data to enable these features? Or is all of this data collected no matter what version of Windows you have installed?

It seems to me that what you just said is an argument against Windows in general, not against these new features.
Disk On Module components for industrial computers have been doing this since we have had rewriteable non-volatile solid state memory.
Good stuff here. I joined a team years ago that had a pretty solid and consistent practice of writing thorough commit messages, while still being somewhat concise. We made good use of the space to also include links to reference docs/tickets/etc. for follow up. This was incredibly useful in the long run when we’d be bisecting changes to identify a bad commit or just understanding the history of a small but important change (eg: why did we set this flag?). Its effectively free documentation space that costs nothing to add detail to.
Thanks for responding! Maybe I have had a verruca on my thumb, then: for many years I had a dark bump on the pad of my thumb, which was painful to touch, and then it appeared to 'sink' into the skin. I don't suppose there is any reason why one's (healthy) skin cells wouldn't cover over the wart given an opportunity, and maybe the continual pressure on my thumb gave it just that.
(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40418482.)
Reminds me of a guy I know who was not particularly the brightest. He wanted to be a lawyer and received a degree in Mass Communications, because he was told it was an easy major, then followed that up with a very low LSAT score. He's spent the better part of the last 3 decades verifying the contents of container vessels in a railyard.
> It handles all the complications that the author mentions. This is one of the reasons type theorists were excited about HoTT in the first place.

It's not that simple, Buzzard actually seems to be quite familiar with HoTT. The HoTT schtick of defining equality between types as isomorphism does 'handle' these issues for you in the sense that they are treated rigorously, but there's no free lunch in that. You still need to do all the usual work establishing compatibility of values, functions etc. with the relevant isomorphisms, so other than the presentation being somewhat more straightforward there is not much of a gain in usability.
As it has been said so many times, tech privacy aware people are the minority. It won't make any difference for my non-tech neighbor (in fact, he will probably be delighted if it helps him with something).
Different consumer base.

Enterprise/high end use vs front end or SSH. I don't see why you'd ever need more than 4-8GB for a Macbook.
i thought many of those haulers were electric; (just with on-board diesel generators) due to torque on the one hand and the ability to recharge the batteries when fully loaded on the way down enough to let them drive back up without additional recharging (at least with quarries in mountains).
Why? It runs on Intel/AMD's NPU. it's the new buzz "AI" PC in Copmputex 2024

CNBC talking about AI PC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEoStisYAVo
> Basically the idea that you think before you act

They talk about thinking before you judge, not thinking before you act. ADHD people often have a hard time thinking before they act but many of them are still really smart and think a lot before judging.

Judging without thinking is a much bigger problem than doing without thinking, but most people still do it.
Luckily they were shut down in 2021 so the name's free again[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi_Records_Agency
> demilitarization

Can you explain what that term means in this context?
Nope. They are not even included in the same subscription. At my dayjob we had GitHub Copilot for the developer team for some months before everyone got MS Copilot. I had to spend quite some time explaining to central IT what the difference between these two things are, and do quite some digging into MS documentation to show them that the subscriptions are strictly disjoint.
40 TOPS is not that impressive, an iPhone 15 Pro has 35 TOPS.
You're not the intended market for this product. This is aimed at the general consumer who is interested in a fully tailored experience powered by "AI", and doesn't care whether the magic happens locally or in the cloud, not at someone who wants to run arbitrary models locally and tinker with the experience. Whether these machines can be repurposed for what you want to do, and whether the experience will be worth it, is yet to be seen.
Well if you believe the ARM people, these are not the same thing.
Yeah, it can produce highly sophisticated and intricate systems that can be scary
I literally said a room in a shared house. no one is spending $4k on a room in SF.

You're not renting an entire apartment for $1200 anywhere livable in a large metro in WA or NV.
A few details here: "Recall leverages your personal semantic index, built and stored entirely on your device. Your snapshots are yours; they stay locally on your PC. You can delete individual snapshots, adjust and delete ranges of time in Settings, or pause at any point right from the icon in the System Tray on your Taskbar. You can also filter apps and websites from ever being saved. You are always in control with privacy you can trust."

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/20/introducing-copi...
Strum Machine: Customizable backing tracks made from real instruments
People care about fan noise.
Their "copilot" brand is so weird and... muddled.

There's the AI code assistant thing that github actually started, there's the horrible chatbot maker GUI demoware, there's AI stuff you might be able to do with your sharepoint (if only you could get hold of the right ms sales rep to take your money), there's an app that does genai things on your personal MS account... And now there's a Surface rebrand?

That org chart meme about Microsoft being little fiefdoms pointing guns at eachother never stops being relevant.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/microsoft-...

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/05/0...

[3] https://copilot.microsoft.com/

And [4] the meme itself, as you really can't convince me the above is the result of a coherent company-wide strategy https://i.insider.com/51dfec8469bedd5e19000017
"The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation. The book— and this conversation— charts how and why some societies choose to utterly destroy their foes and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time."
- "at least until it becomes much more accurate"

You imply that you would support universal panopticon surveillance of public life, and your main concern is that it isn't good enough?

A time-series database of every person and their life's worldline, the coordinate path they traced across the planet's surface? In order to make crime impossible, to guarantee perpetual safety?
> The vessels naturally die back from the new surface, and the process can be repeated in a few days.

Interesting; are these (presumably clotted) blood vessels the threads that another comment mentioned? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40417294
There's still a "live" aspect to any YouTube video, though, since you can change the quality that's sent to you at any time.
You can run any legacy Win32 .EXE on it that you want? I didn't know that. Good to hear if true.
Bruno's (free version) feature set isn't quite there yet (auto-save, please). Additionally, I get strange errors from having Bruno blocked from our Gql servers. Originally, I was using Insomnia, but a recent update wiped out all my settings and would only work for cloud-use, which I do not want.
I feel like being a good software engineer is itself like being a double major. You need to know code, but you also need to know the domain you're going for. And I saw this as a double major (history & biology) now running a small software company.
God I'm so tired of fact checking.

First of all you cannot fact check an opinion. You can talk to the person and argue that, *IN YOUR HUMBLE OPINION* they're wrong. You can even present additional information that you think should help the person to change their mind, but you cannot expect it to happen, especially not at once.

Also, it doesn't matter as much WHAT you say but HOW you say it. Approaching someone for a discussion is one thing, attempting to be Einstein that knows everything better and presents everything he says as fact usually creates a defensive demeanor. Especially as journalists, that usually know jack shit about anything and happen to fail to reproduce even simple information correctly when depicting a story.

Then there’s another problem: A lot of people argue with science w/o even remotely understanding what science is. They present a lot of stuff as facts when suddenly a new player appears: progress. And that player can turn a lot of so called “facts” into questionable information. That’s the moment when it’s not about facts anymore but about the question how fast the information traveled and who it reached first.

So while a journalist is still stuck in the past, does fact checks that get a lot of posts/comments deleted on a website, others have already gotten to the new information and are trying to have a discussion on that, which is then successfully prevented by the fact checking journalist. When the new information has reached the journo 12h later, they don’t see themselves being responsible for anything…

But it’s not even that. A lot of science has been tainted by politics/ideology and is not in the least objective anymore, because the people in it are trying to further a political or ideological agenda. Which creates a whole new problem.

I could come up with many more examples here why fact checking is one of the worst ideas in human history, but it all boils down to one question: Who is in possession of the so called truth?

While the idea of fact checking is honorable, the simple information that there is no higher instance that holds the “ultimate truth” and that is not “politically or ideologically tainted” in one way or another should make it clear to anyone how bad the idea is once it’s put into action.

Not to mention how tinfoil hat connoisseurs behave once a fact check turns out to be wrong.
The vast majority of the US debt is domestically owned.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40417828.
Previously The fishy death of Red Lobster[0] (124 points, 19 days ago, 383 comments) and Red Lobster Files for Bankruptcy[1][2]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40233029

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40415119

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40415493
No one reads git history any way. Instead of writing commit messages, better write code.
Oh man, what a fail. I loved the idea of the Surface, and was bummed out when they coopted the name for their PC/tablet line, as I assumed that meant the original product was dropped. I had no idea about PixelSense and I could have been a user.
Recording not only the prof, but certainly some of the students as well? Without their knowledge or permission? That has got to be illegal, surely?

Also, if my school had some problem or concern about my teaching? I would expect them to be up front about it. Talk to me, like mature human beings.

I hope the administrators responsible get fired immediately. Use their salaries to pay the adjuncts and profs better.
> SFPD spokesman Evan Sernoffsky said these requests violated the city ordinance and were not authorized by the department, but the agency faced no consequences from the city. He declined to say whether any officers were disciplined because those would be personnel matters.

Police departments should have a requirement to be transparent about disciplinary actions with a citizen review board that ensures reasonable enforcement. Budgets should be tied to the findings of the review board. This should apply to every PD.
I have the same "fear" and am working on creating an alternative future to that. It's just difficult at the current stage to find people who see this & are technical & creative enough. Especially because i am running out of money (bootstrapped) without anything to show yet (much time spent in PoC & exploring ideas & dummy software prototypes etc). But i don't think trying to get a VC involved is a good idea.

Any ideas on where to find people like you that might wanna do something before "they" actually win? Or maybe just to hear some other opinions about what you think should be different?

I believe we actually have a very good chance of poking the giants where they don't like it. But the time for that is right now and i am running low on cash, while still need more time to explore ideas & find fellow maniacs to create a truly different future.

Not even sure what i am asking, but i don't know other people who see this (and other things connected to this that seem to not be discussed), like you...

I have just enough money left to pay myself and one other person for about 5-7 months. But even then it won't be time enough to have a product on the market to generate revenue. So i am stressed out & appreciate any ideas / thoughts even just slightly connected to these ideas.
There was a time latency on AT&T 3G was 9 seconds during congestion.

The last mile is usually the issue. Pretty much only Cogent and HE allow you to have packet loss