Open with multiple browsers (safari vs chrome) to get more "accurate + glanceable" rankings.
Its using WebGPU as a proxy to estimate system resource.
Chrome tends to leverage as much resources (Compute + Memory) as the OS makes available. Safari tends to be more efficient.
Maybe this was obvious to everyone else. But its worth re-iterating for those of us skimmers of HN :)
To me, AI hype seems to be the most tangible/real hype in a decade.
Ever since mobile & cloud era at their peaks in 2012 or 2014, we’ve had Crypto, AR, VR, and now AI.
I have some pocket change bitcoin, ethereum, played around for 2 minutes on my dust-gathering Oculus & Vision Pro; but man, oh man! Am I hooked to ChatGpt or what!
It’s truly remarkably useful!
You just can’t get this type of thing in one click before.
For example, here’s my latest engineering productivity boosting query:
“when using a cfg file on the cmd line what does "@" as a prefix do?”
Do you think or worry about not-being able to test these things? (Or is that just me :))
Details:
I ack/understand this comes from a dependency (ReAct agents); not directly langmanus.
But, still, curious what the community/hn-tech thinks of testability, veracity, potentially conflicting or overlapping instructions across agents, etc, wrt “prompts” as sources of logic. Ack its a general practice with LLMs.
Absolutely! Even for inference! The SOTA models for all commercial purposes need to run on a consumer’s device.
Running either Grok2 or DeepSeek or even Llama405b requires nearly 400-500gb of memory.
Buying a tinybox with enough gpu memory costs $15k-25k. Or equivalently the same if you build your own.
A distributed Mac cluster costs about the same, if not more, if you’re buying 2-3 M2 Ultra each with 192gb of memory.
So people are absolutely constrained by price/supply here. Every engineer, analyst, scientist would be far more untethered by rules & regulations or policies & terms-of-service nitty gritties if they can trust that LLM they use is completely local, without-telemetry or tracking and is licensed fairly for commercial use (perhaps this excludes llama).
Not a lot of people can afford $15k-30k in spending for a computer (that can run this sota llms). But you can a billion will buy one when it’s $1k
It could be much worse: how many projects simply die because they’re locked away in a corporate basement because some corporate attorney decided it’s “too risky to leak IP”
Despite all the layoffs & black founding fathers debacles Google as an institution has had recently, it still has the systems in place to let passionate engineering projects see the light of day.
I’m on an H1B visa since 2017. I extended in 2021 and again in 2023 (thanks to approved I-140). But my visa stamp in my passport is from 2017 which expired in 2020. I haven’t made efforts to get another stamp mainly because of the pandemic in 2020 and long appointment backlogs thereafter.
Is there a necessity to always keep a valid visa stamp in my passport? Apart from the ease of travel are there any other reasons to always keep a current visa stamp in my passport? I do have all valid I-797 documents of status and have kept my status current all the time.
The 12 years or so I have lived in America I have observed that people always keep the door open for those walking behind them.
Always. Everywhere. DC, Boston, LA, New York, Seattle, Cupertino, everywhere.
Nobody cares about anything.
Somebody cares about something.
Everybody cares about everything.
I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. This makes me optimistic. At least, its nice that people care to hold doors open : )
> Or please tell me how to use the magic mouse while it's charging? Am I just holding it wrong?
is that really a deal-breaking decision to buy an iMac? Yeah, sure, I agree it's super silly design that they put the port under the mouse; but c'mon, does it really matter?
As far as I can tell, I have never had to explain to my 61 year old Indian mother how to use a Mac as much as I have had to debug every little thing on Windows PCs. Macs & Apple products _truly_ do "just work"
More than a majority of a software engineer’s time is spent on bug triage, reproducing bugs, simulating constituents in a test, and debugging fixes.
Doesn’t matter what the computer becomes — AI, AGI or God-incarnate — there’s always a role between that and the end-user. That role today is called software engineer. Tomorrow, it’ll be whatever whatever. Perhaps paid the same or less or more. Doesn’t matter.
There’s always an intermediary to deal with the shit.
Hmm, I wonder if that’s the roles priests & the clergy have been playing all this while. Except, maybe humanity is the shit God (as an end user) has to deal with
I cannot agree more! Fish shell is the absolute best! I think I may have switched over to it in 2017 _because_ of Julia's blog. And it has been a boon for my productivity.
I set up a whole dotfiles tracking system and periodically keep making backups of the config. Fish has been sole system that has travelled with me to different machines, different companies, running on Macs, running on Linux, running on personal laptops, iMacs, and so so many different versions/instances of workstations on the server in docker, in aws etc etc.
I worked at Amazon in 2017 and we had a whole "developer environment" system built off of Apollo and my Fish config fit right in with the company-defaults for various build systems, log systems, metrics yada yada. I wrote myself a ton of nice aliases, new functions, new scripts.
I moved to Apple in 2019 and brought my Fish config over (sans any Amazon-specific things of course) and all my customizations have ported over nicely. They play well with all the Apple-y unique configs this company now gives its engineers.
Fish has been snappy & delightful.
I guess one could argue zsh could work just as well and has the benefit of being compatible with native bash syntax. But I found zsh and its ilk (oh my zsh) too slow tbh. They're nothing --and I mean zilch, nada-- compared to the speed of Fish. Fish w/ Bass (love the puns in the fish community, btw) accomplishes much of the backward compatibility needs with bash or bash-like syntax; while still performing at the snappy speeds of Fish.
Love Fish! Love Julia's notes! Ahh life is just perfect sometimes!
While we're fanboying over Julia, here's a picture of the time I made myself a t-shirt from Julia's zines of Recurse Center's values: https://x.com/b0rk/status/876571293491109889
He could visit all the apps in the world from Facebook, Instagram, YouTube to Spotify on the web, right? Of course, he cannot use Friendster or Tumblr or Vine — all great iPad 4 era apps but can you really blame Apple for those apps _not_ existing anymore? — So I wouldn’t say “there’s nothing he could do with it”
Well if your argument is: “a perfectly good 10 year old iPad is held hostage by Apple because they don’t provide side loading” then isn’t that the same case with your perfectly good 10 year old Toyota? Or 10 year old Target Toaster oven or 10 year old Samsung fridge?
I think we will live in a strange world if we start demanding our refrigerators allow side loading YouTube.
Reading the comments is convincing enough to believe there is no viable business to be built on the mobile web. It's great technology, sure; but not a great business. Mobile web apps won't pay the bills for people who build them. It seems worth everyone's time to have those mobile web devs instead build native apps. Ergo, Apple's "dips" are justified costs of doing business.
Why can’t a business be built solely without giving Apple a dime? The web is free — as in freedom and as in gratis. It has a developer tools system funded by hundreds of companies, developers and community members.
I 100% agree. I'm no Musk stan; in fact, it irks me this dude has so much money & power that he wields for personal benefit (i.e. buys twitter and shuts down @elonjet) and yet acts like he's relatable to the middle class.
But if there's anything he's proven it's that he can ship product. Tesla cars are phenomenal. xAI looks exactly like what Tesla looked like in 2010. Far too futuristic & optimistic timelines that peers & laypersons would characterize as fluffy grandiose snake-oil.
But I bet they will ship. And it won't be fluffy nor snake-oil.
How does one decide what constitutes "basic"? Is a password-manager a "basic" feature? If so, then is "Passwords.app" bundled by Microsoft into Windows an unfair advantage because of distribution when compared to "1Password.app"? Ok, then, can Microsoft make a button called "Passwords" in their "Settings.app" and that qualifies as a non-competitive "basic" "Settings" feature?
There are only two acceptable solutions to this problem:
1. No error message. Just recover the cached message.
2. The message is deleted
There’s a world we live in where ahem-ahem a certain design focused company would’ve done it this way.
Ultimately, it’s the responsibility of the Mail app to make a decision on whether to recover the cached message or not. It’s those engineers & designers who built that damn cache in the first place. And the server too.
Let _them_ deal with the consequences of messages existing in one but not the other. It’s not the user’s job to care.
That’s a bit too cynical. I agree the nefarious data guzzler of an ad machine is siphoning up that voice data but hey if that’s all they wanted they had Google Fi/Voice etc.
This definitely seems like a Google building products people will love. Let’s just hope they don’t kill it in 2 days/weeks/months/years
Its using WebGPU as a proxy to estimate system resource. Chrome tends to leverage as much resources (Compute + Memory) as the OS makes available. Safari tends to be more efficient.
Maybe this was obvious to everyone else. But its worth re-iterating for those of us skimmers of HN :)