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Reported by who? The famously neutral The Guardian?

There were large participation in non-violent protests in the beginning.

By the time it got violent, it was almost all just students and the youth protesting. It lasted for almost an entire year.

I was at the 2019 Tiananmen Square vigil that kick started the protests.

Don't mistake the local population being sympathetic to some of the protester's messages over supporting the protests. When the protestors became disruptive and violent, I distinctly remembered most locals did not want the protests to continue anymore.

Yes, exactly. See this report: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3030209...

Basically, it was pent up frustration from the youth over housing controlled by Hong Kong's property tycoons. The extradition law was just the final trigger.

I was living in Hong Kong when the protests first started and stayed through the entire 2019 year.

First, the vast majority of the locals hated the protests and didn't support them. This isn't reported by the western media. The media reported it as all HK people were being wronged.

Second, most of the protests were done by young people who lost hope in Hong Kong's ultra expensive housing and ultra stressful life. They live in tiny studio sized apartments with the entire family. Buying a home was out of reach for most young HK people unless they have financial help from parents. This was a key trigger in why the youth were protesting.[0][1][2] Again, this was never reported or mentioned by western media. Zoom out 10,000ft and the HK protests and Occupy Wallstreet protests aren't really all that different. Young people felt hopeless economically.

Third, Joshua Wong went to foreign governments and invited them to help him against China. Hong Kong belongs to China if you forgot. This is considered treason in just about any country. Imagine if BLM protestors physically went to China's CIA equivalent to ask them for help against the US government.

[0]https://johnmenadue.com/post/2021/04/hong-kongs-housing-cris...

[1]https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2019/8/11/a-lack-of-afford...

[2]https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ejsp.70001

Both of those examples wouldn't have gotten traction in the pre-AI HN in my opinion.

The Lenovo laptop jet is experimental and the details suggests that it uses 7.5w to cool 30w. That's not very efficient. You might as well have a small fan and let it spin at a low RPM to reduce noise. There doesn't seem to be a breakthrough here.

The Brax industries one is just an ad from the company's official Youtube channel. I don't think the product is interesting at all.

Sometimes Intel chips would regress generation on generation. Broadwell in 2015 was sometimes 10% slower than the generation it replaced.

They should use LPDDR6 which is a sizable improvement but the other thing they can do is increase prompt processing even further.

Absolutely massive improvement in CPU performance in a single year. Looks like TSMC N2 is going to be a very good node.

+22% faster single thread

+34% faster multi thread

+40% GPU

This is suppose to be the generation that Apple wants to fast forward because they want to put more resources into the M7 generation for local AI. There are no M6 Pro/Max/Ultra planned.

  geekbench results cannot be compared across platforms.

Why not?

I think the clear next thing for the AI economy is that companies who can afford it will be buying private Nvidia racks and using open source models.

Next, OpenAI and Anthropic will respond by developing on-premise services where their models are used on premise rather than the cloud.

Also GPU test: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/compute/compare/6874665?bas...

  Would that be ok in your mind?

It would in my mind. Hopefully companies have looked through the agreement.

Same here.

How long until LLMs just write machine code?

Absolutely massive improvement in CPU performance in a single year. Looks like TSMC N2 is going to be a very good node.

+22% faster single thread

+34% faster multi thread

They're likely operating with 100x less compute than OpenAI.

Love it. Hope it works.

But I do think the days of 1-2 people running a $100m business is close so even executives are not safe.

I wear mine everyday but I always take it off at night. No problems with dent. I also don’t wear it tight unless I’m exercising.

Do you wear it to sleep as well?

Yes I thought that was weird and forced.

Yea. If there is one thing I learned over the years is that people always prefer a bigger screen, as long as it is still reasonable to hold.

This is especially true in the younger generation where many of them don’t own a computer. They do everything on their phones or iPads.

I wonder if the side bar controls can be moved to the left side. I always hold my phone using my left hand.

That's ok. Teams who pay can use the new versions.

I think maybe they should have kept building Tailwinds CSS, release new versions, then charge a subscription to teams for their agents to access latest changes in their documents.

In other words, the documents for the latest versions are hidden behind a pay wall.

  Now my question is, if your internal staff are not requesting these features and are struggling to adapt fast enough, how useful are they

Some are internal staff requested, some are customer requested, some are PM requested.

  Do you also have a graph for more useful metrics

Yes. I wrote about it in my original post.

  In my own company, the last 2 months, I feel like we've made more feature announcements to our internal staff than they can handle. AI has genuinely made us that much faster.

  In the past, making one of these announcements every month and the company celebrated. Now we're making making multiple each week.

But I suspect you want our project management pipeline? Maybe I can just ask our coding agent to search and summarize all the features and fixes for you and then build a dashboard for you. Better yet, my email is in my profile. Email me, we'll get on a call, and I'll show you. /s

Let me ask you. What are you doing such that your velocity hasn't been greatly accelerated in the last 6 months? Can you prove that it hasn't been accelerated with facts?

I've been tracking Github commits per week for my team. Here's how it's looking:

https://imgur.com/a/GvByYrD

Our own Github commits volume seem to follow quite closely with token usage on Open Router:

https://openrouter.ai/rankings

  That’s the gap between a skilled AI user and everyone else. Take a non-technical marketing person and someone fluent in agents and tool use. The agent-fluent person can watch the marketer work for an hour and immediately see a dozen things to automate, delegate, or reinvent, including things the marketer hasn’t even tried yet. But put the most intelligent tool in the world in front of the marketer, and they’re staring at a blank prompt, unsure what to type. All that intelligence, and no way to see it.

The author perfectly describes non-technical people who are AI skeptics. Most of them hang out at r/BetterOffline.

I genuinely think that AI has accelerated so many different things that announcements from all companies will be incredibly common and fast.

In my own company, the last 2 months, I feel like we've made more feature announcements to our internal staff than they can handle. AI has genuinely made us that much faster.

In the past, making one of these announcements every month and the company celebrated. Now we're making making multiple each week.

Not only that, we're making so many tiny improvements and bug fixes that improve the experience but we don't even bother to make those announcements anymore. They don't feel "grand" enough anymore. The goal post has shifted a lot in the last 6 months.

It's fun to read back on the opinions of proponents and the skeptics.