ok heres a conspiracy theory: they got rid of him now because he advocates for open models and minimal govt interference. who wants more govt interference and closed models? the other ai labs for one and the govt for two. maybe getting one of their more compliant buddies in charge of the hardware manufacturer would also be not such a bad idea.
That math isn't being discussed here, it's barely even discussed in the book! Frankly how often do you open an HN thread on the front page and see any significant technical discussion of anything other than coding? I find the times I see someone writing out equations and discussing fundamentals so rare and welcome as to be memorable.
Most conversation here is profoundly non-technical and never touches anything like "the math".
just a side note: HN is just a well laid out site thats easy to read and easy to comment on. i find reddit hard to use, making me click to see more comments and then taking me to a new page and disrupting my flow, yuk.
yep, i actually liked stl, iterators with auto also seem like a godsend now compared to how verbose they used to be. the biggest pain point for me was keeping track of all the required ctors and operator overloading. admittedly i used it back when all pointers were just *, once i discovered a single line of python could do what it took 10-100 lines of C++ to achieve i switched. so its been a looooong time since i programmed in C++, but i did like it overall.
Theres no way you can say having an internet presence is over for the little guy and yet at the same time imply its ok if you have enough money/power. I think at that stage it ceases to be useful and we need an internet 2.0. maybe something hobbyists can run over radio or something.
Stories about Newton seem oversimplified to me. Yes he was good, yes he came up with stuff, but he was also a good integrator (heh) of existing knowledge.
if code by itself isnt valuable, why are companies reportedly trying to increase their code output with ai while letting people go or letting their skills rot? which is it, is code valuable or isnt it?
as an avid gamer, win11 is the one that pushed me to use linux only (edit: along with the fact that proton and wine make games playable on linux!!!). i would have LIKED to keep using windows but the way they treat their customers is unforgivable. when i go to a restaurant i give them 2 chances at annoying me before i go elsewhere, i gave the windows team what feels like a hundred chances. dont care what they do now, theyre history.
edit again: do they even need pc business, they make all their profits from server stuff now, they may as well wrap up the pc os division ;)
Not a loss leader, it's still $17.08 Billion dollars (~5%) of their revenue according to bullfincher:
In fiscal year 2026, Microsoft Corporation's revenue by segment (products & services) are as follows:
Dynamics Products And Cloud Services: $9.01 B
Enterprise and partner services: $8.26 B
Linked In Corporation: $19.82 B
Microsoft Three Six Five Commercial Products And Cloud Services: $102.00 B
Microsoft Three Six Five Consumer Products and Cloud Services: $9.18 B
Other Products And Services: $109.00 M
Search Advertising: $15.18 B
Server Products And Cloud Services: $129.43 B
Windows and Devices: $17.08 B
XBOX: $21.79 B
This is down from 2024, when Windows was $23 Billion of revenue equaling nearly 10% of their annual revenue.
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