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You can add these things via USB (not sure about iPhone). If enough people find it helpful, it'll become part of the package eventually.

I like ligatures, little quirks (relative to ordinary fonts) make output more interesting.

I wanted to get a portable monitor with a high hz rate for VR applications, and separately text test output. The best I could find, without spending too much on something that'll be better in the near future, is 16" 2560×1600. So not very high PPD. Anyone have any suggestions for a font that won't look grainy? I use it in portrait.

I agree with what you are staying, but any time it's presented as more than a research tool, maybe useful for the most trivial answers, it's a problem. It should be emphasized that it is based on sources and helps scour and fake-summarize them, but despite Microsoft calling it a "copilot for the web," that's not how it's being received. It would simply be better if every statement it made were referenced.

I think the proposition for that feature is fair. Some of them are also based on metadata people intentionally add to sites to be used this way. Source content is featured, people can choose to follow it. Everyone wins. In fact you pretty much have to follow the source, because by now we know the answer is not as simple or correct as it seems. Not sure how that translates into a completely synthetic summary that appears to be authorative.

Of course, it would be suicidal for Microsoft to just provide answers, they also want the advertising revenue. But do they expect it to come from the page sources, or something else, which adds its own distortion. Another dimension to examine.

Yes, but there's not always a direct line, it implies it has an answer then … The whole batteries in the ocean thing is what happens.

Interesting! Looks really good at a glance. I wish it were open source. That's when someone like me would be happy with progress.

Yes, and ultimately a search engine has to be a research tool, to find the best links. If there's a simple answer, it should be right there. That's what snippets were about, though they need development.

Once the search prompts becomes the end point for answers, and they never follow reference links, we're on to something else, something completely different. What happens to the web when that happens? Not many people are talking about that.

Some day I'll happily walk away from Google, but I respect that their model, through schema.org and being based on the open web, creates generally useful metadata. Sure, it's open to being gamed, which has had drastic negative effects, but that's not completely their fault, there's no easy answer to any of this.

In a larger sense, this is true, for now. But it's not a reasonable shortcut to supply information that is presented as correct but is in fact partially made up. Either there will be a well deserved public backlash, or in a pretty real way, reality will be irrecoverably warped.

It's pretty hard to imagine any answer that is useful, no matter how trivial, if it's wrong 20% of the time. Deep Learning is an amazing parlour trick that can be useful in the right circumstances, which basically means an expert has to be present to interpret its results.

I'm not convinced having a fully padded conversation is what people want. I find it annoying. Google was on the right path with snippets, they just need to make them easier to consume and emphasize the fact the search can be continued. I think Google is being very conservative, partially for safety reasons, but also because they won't take chances if they don't have to.

Of course, all these searches would be much more useful if they had more intimate knowledge of the searcher, but that's another dangerous path.

Google is still about sources. That deserves respect. If this new wave of deep learning AI means sources are hard to find, that's unfair and dangerous because it's hard to validate and correct information. The downfall of using deep learning as a shortcut to the symbolic AI approach. A good AI search result should look like an annotated research paper, or a well curated Wikipedia article.

Should they also ban people who have good memories? Or someone who has handlers who tells them who's who?

I get there's a balance, but at some point, it's a problem that holds individuals back and supports the elite.

Buying a 20th property &c is a statement that you don't have anything better to do with your money. It's kind of the same thing.

I'm not 100% comfortable with it, but MrBeast is probably the Musk of this potential. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ2ifmkGGus

No idea what you're talking about. From what I've read "Optimus" (switching between onboard graphics and GPU on demand) can be a pain, but otherwise NVidia's driver, while proprietary, is very good, and the open source driver is pretty good.

This is such a good idea. You can get "old" Thinkpads with NVidia GPUs and 16+ GB RAM for a very decent price, and use them for home server purposes like encoding and object detection. Much smaller and lower power and heat than a desktop, yet much more powerful than a Pi, Jetson, &c. There are even workstation class models with Xeons and ECC RAM.

Can't edit any more, but I meant "all open tabs."

If it does that, and properly highlights the sources, I have nothing to criticize. Though, I think the results won't be as good if it doesn't use its entire breadth (if it does, the problem reappears).

Oh I'm with you. And I think (and hope) TBL isn't finished yet.

That really depends on how much the public accepts results without sources, aka no credit, aka rampant breaking of social norms and copyright, as well as destroying the easy ability to verify something. In many ways, OpenAI and anyone who supports it are trying to pull an Uber here, but shift the Overton on something indescribably larger than transportation licenses. They want to Borg global intelligence (though, of course, they will be in control).

Say what you will about Google, they generally credit their sources. Yes, it's part of their advertising model, but it's still a Very Good Thing.

I hope that Google's plan is to release something that continues this model. If it's near as good at ChatGPT and strongly includes sources, it is the right future.

Englebart also substantially inspired Kay, but each of these people would probably have not had success without the network of ispirations. In fact I think we should talk about it like this; Bush->Englebart->Kay->Berners-Lee (superficially) rather than the individual on their own. It's also interesting that none of these people were at the head of big successful companies, though not surprising since that basically involves a lot of compromises.

Douglas Engelbart. Tim Berners-Lee. Smalltalk is pretty cool, though.

I wrote a simple browser extension that has an option to save all option tabs to a file. Every once in a while, when my computer is suffering and I feel a weight, I save the tabs and close them all, and start again.

I literally feel a weight lift off my shoulders when I do this. It's become a joyous event. Though it only takes a few weeks before I have to do it again, it's ok.

I can look up closed tabs in the files, though I've rarely needed to do that.

One day, when I have a bit of time, and a kind soul on HN suggests a docker repo to me that provides a good endpoint for relating/clustering documents, I can put together a way to navigate all these tabs that over time were considered important to me.

Sure, there are websites that do this, but this way, I don't have to worry about being profiled, sites going down, etc.

That looks amazing, thanks!

I have the ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II. It's pretty good, feels … plasticky but good travel and has a Trackpoint.

However, for me I use the Thinkpad as a "controller" for a desktop, so I get two (well, three, the desktop has two) independant screens and kvm functionality via Barrier (derived from Synergy).

Maybe I'd never want to go back if I tried a mechanical (I got my partner one, but haven't touched it), but I could not go back (way back) to a mouse.

Sorry if I'm misunderstanding, but Google smart speakers have had stereo pairing for a while. https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/7559493?hl=en-C...

This is funny and why Thinkpad people are so … religious.

- Vertical mouse (Logitech MX Vertical - there are knockoffs, I haven't tried them)

Or a trackpoint.

- Mechanical keyboard with a good amount of travel (laptop keyboards with hardly any travel are no good for me anymore)

Or a Thinkpad keyboard (though they have been getting shallower).

I've been addicted to Trackpoints since forever. Trackpads seem so backward to me. A trackpoint is like mind control in comparison. I'm lucky Thinkpads are generally good and I don't care for MacOS, because otherwise I'd be really stuck.

> the answer to bloated apps

RAM is dirt cheap these days. Bloated apps are bad, but 8GB really is simply a joke that punishes many people for the sake of product categories, at least until RAM is indistinguishable from storage.

He also promised to open source the tech behind Facetime, presumably because he could see it would create a rift in society. Now, Tim Cook dances on that rift.

OK haha good one then. Mine was a bit too subtle.

I couldn't find any references to George Patrick Turnbull. If that an ancestor of yours? If so, the comment seems rather subjective.

Could this be distributed? Put all those mining GPUs to work. A lot of people like participating in public projects like this. I would!

I don't think that "Google has it coming" for this. In fact I think they support the open web much more than competing alternatives (Facebook, etc) who want to create walled gardens that require auth (identity). It's up to content providers if they want to completely target SEO and create poor quality content, and some are constantly gaming the system. What Google is doing is looking for more meta content, which is a very beneficial for everyone. meta keywords didn't work, and SEO goes beyond them to provide precise information about a site's content. Anyone can use SEO techniques for good and bad, it's by no means proprietary.

It's the general Web that didn't keep up and provide better solutions for quality and precise content, solving problems like "This blog is not about avocados" or links in a sidebar about avocados that lead search results for avocados to that page. Microformats and other approaches were suggested, but they were basically too complicated and tools didn't support them.

Where Google has fallen down is not providing more search/browsing tools to allow individuals to tune sites and keywords. There are many obvious opportunities in Google search, news, etc that would make the experience amazing compared to the picking-through-the-repetitive-garbage we see today. I suspect there is a battle between their tech and marketing about this, and I also think Google's ML team are using our garbage-picking to tune their algorithms rather than letting people just choose what they want to see. That is disgraceful, and they won't change it until there is competition which makes me lose a lot of respect for Google, but I don't blame SEO directly for this and since SEO is based on standards anyone could use their own "Web reader" to add a layer of filtering without special agreements, unlike content by companies that try to create walled gardens.

edit: comment about "web reader."