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Siri was invented by a Norwegian (Dag Kittlaus), named after his own daughter!

Steve Jobs later called and bought his company.

Source?

On index benchmark results:

Still not quite as fast as Go, but it's close. Honestly, I don't know why the memchr-based implementation is still slower than Go's assembly here, but I decided not to pursue it any further.

Libc call overhead. Your version is using an already-fast memchr, but it still has to cross a general libc boundary and then do the pointer/index around it.

Index with a 1-byte needle collapses to IndexByte, and on arm64 that goes into Go asm.

We already see some of the most popular coding agents today – like Claude Code and OpenCode – send these accept headers with their requests for content.

Expect this to be used to block agent traffic

As you mentioned, that depends on what you mean by planners.

An LLM will implicitly decompose a prompt into tasks and then sequentially execute them, calling the appropriate tools. The architecture diagram helpfully visualizes this [0]

Here though, planners means autonomous planners that exist as higher level infrastructure, that does external task decomposition, persistent state, tool scheduling, error recovery/replanning, and branching/search. Think a task like “Prompt: “Scan repo for auth bugs, run tests, open PR with fixes, notify Slack.” that just runs continuously 24/7, that would be beyond what nanobot could do. However, something like “find all the receipts in my emails for this year, then zip and email them to my accountant for my tax return” is something nanobot would do.

[0] https://github.com/HKUDS/nanobot/blob/main/nanobot_arch.png

a lot of people seem to have found a really nice alternative to actually having to use their brains during the day.

Or have they have found a way to use their brains on what they deem as more useful, and less on what is rote?

Skimmed the repo, this is basically the irreducible core of an agent: small loop, provider abstraction, tool dispatch, and chat gateways . The LOC reduction (99%, from 400k to 4k) mostly comes from leaving out RAG pipelines, planners, multi-agent orchestration, UIs, and production ops.

Can confirm, has been flawless for me. I waited until 2 weeks after release to upgrade, possible I avoided some initial friction that way.

The only device I’ve found more sluggish after this recent OS upgrade is my Apple Watch Ultra (gen 1).

Animations when navigating the OS are noticeably sluggish where the previous version was smooth as butter. This degradation has persisted through multiple minor version updates since, so it seems to be permanent.

Disappointing for what is marketed as the most powerful watch in their lineup.

Isn’t that exactly what the title says?

Some would say it has lately become a bit of a kangaroo court.

I'd like some day to be able to bike down the street with my kid, and have the drone take some photos.

Personal drones in public spaces are becoming a real nuisance. They’re disturbing, and the majority of people seem unable to fly them in a safe and respectful manner.

Others on the same bike path should enjoy without the risk of having a drone slam into their face.

In my opinion, rules around personal drone usage are FAR too relaxed, and enforcement is absolutely minimal.

Paying is necessary, but not sufficient, to win.

In her case, the campaign started too late. And despite being a household name, her policies were less known.

I cook all of these on a regular basis, and have done so for 15 years, and I’ve never had Xanthan gum in my house. I wouldn’t even know where to find it in my grocery store.

Not really. Early rockets included multiple private contractors like Douglas, Boeing and NAA, but those were basically government projects top to bottom.

Single vendor commercial rockets are a recent (2000s) invention.

Meta’s Llama models (and likely many others') have similar restrictions.

Since they don’t fully comply with EU AI regulations, Meta preemptively disallows their use in those regions to avoid legal complications:

“With respect to any multimodal models included in Llama 3.2, the rights granted under Section 1(a) of the Llama 3.2 Community License Agreement are not being granted to you if you are an individual domiciled in, or a company with a principal place of business in, the European Union. This restriction does not apply to end users of a product or service that incorporates any such multimodal models”

https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-models/blob/main/models/...

“The city” refers to Manhattan specifically, not New York City in general. Being in the other boroughs, you might say “I’m heading to the city later”.

This is a strange take given that the headset supports iPad apps (like the Netflix iPad app) by default, no “bothering with it” necessary.

Statements like these offer zero value, maybe you could qualify it with some reasoning?

We're talking about a government notification system.

This exists, and is called Wireless Emergency Alerts. Every phone sold in the U.S. today supports this out of the box.

in the US you need to be able to drive to function as a member of society so if someone has a DUI pulling their license is almost as bad as giving that person house arrest for the rest of their life.

Another way of looking at this is, if driving is so important to participating in American society, then it is a privilege you should show the greatest respect for, and make sure you are driving safely and legally.

Driving recklessly and endangering not only your license to drive, but the lives of others, carries a high cost that you will have to pay when it goes wrong. That’s an individual choice. Of all the countries I’ve driven, the US drivers seem to have a particularly low regard for law and safety.

But for movies and TV? Where do I find the good stuff?

There’s a trove of incredible foreign movies and TV shows out there. Scandinavian and Asian (Korean in particular) content has a really good hit to miss ratio for me.

For examples, check out international film festival nominations and winners.

Just like how the US requires the same for EU travelers visiting the US? Seems reasonable to require the same going the other way. IIRC, it was the US that first introduced these requirements.

They want to do this so they can collect your biometrics and look secure.

It likely has more to do with reciprocity, as the US places these same burdens on travelers (including those from UK) visiting the US.

Ostensibly, goods imported and bought with USD will have their prices inflated, while locally produced goods and services should remain more or less unchanged.

This also means that exported goods are effectively cheaper for international buyers, so export volume goes up.

If everybody used VR headsets all the time

You just described Ready Player One, which in some sense is a dystopian nightmare.

Why don't you just change your allocation?

For one, altering allocations earlier may trigger short-term capital gains tax as opposed to long-term CGT. Hedging through options alleviates this.

Most SpaceX jobs are subject to ITAR regulations and are only available to US citizens and legal permanent residents (green card holders).

Your deaths figure seems to be for New York State, while your population figure is for New York City.

The correct figures (as of April 18, 2020) is:

New York State: 14,636 deaths / 19.45M population = 0.0752%

New York City: 8,893 deaths / 8.3M population = 0.1071%

Supporting thousands of users from a huge firm, while only charging them $49, is not a problem you want to have. You're just giving away resources at that point.

The same fundamentals used in facial recognition can be applied to 3D pose estimation for gait recognition. This allows identification of a person without biometric features like a face or iris [1].

Facial recognition is used as a catch-all term because it's easily understood, but the deep-learning behind it is much more widely applicable.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.06512