Hacker News: miguelrochefort

New comment by miguelrochefort in "iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max"

miguelrochefort — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 22:47:49 +0000

I predicted those features weeks ago [1], but I still feel they could do so much more. If anything, their implementation feels like a rushed afterthought.

In their demos, they use the action button to capture an ambient song for Shazam, the power button to capture a voice command for Siri, and the camera button for an image for Visual Intelligence. All 3 captures should be performed using the same button.

And screenshots still require pressing 2 buttons simultaneously. Unless you want to share your screen with Siri in which case it's the power button...

People are going to use this button as a voice recorder, and Apple will announce native support next year.

[1] https://miguelrochefort.com/blog/capture-button

Apple's Visual Intelligence is a built-in take on Google Lens

miguelrochefort — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 18:51:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/9/24240094/apple-visual-intelligence-camera-control-iphone-16-ai-camera-control-google-lens

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41492076

Points: 2

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Apple's Next Big Thing Might Be a Button

miguelrochefort — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:20:37 +0000

Article URL: https://miguelrochefort.com/blog/capture-button/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41488813

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Apple's Next Big Thing Might Be a Button

miguelrochefort — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 14:27:18 +0000

Article URL: https://miguelrochefort.com/blog/capture-button/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41435312

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Apple's Next Big Thing Might Be a Button

miguelrochefort — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:29:51 +0000

Article URL: https://miguelrochefort.com/blog/capture-button/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41367946

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Dotsies (2012)

miguelrochefort — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 18:30:02 +0000

Article URL: https://dotsies.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39736731

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by miguelrochefort in "How far are we from intelligent visual deductive reasoning?"

miguelrochefort — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 05:00:48 +0000

CS7637 was a fun course! One can get pretty far (80% accuracy) by using xor masks and comparing centroids.

New comment by miguelrochefort in "Ord Phone"

miguelrochefort — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 02:03:07 +0000

How is this better than a custom launcher?

New comment by miguelrochefort in "Multi-Layered Calendars"

miguelrochefort — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 05:55:35 +0000

I highly resonate with this. In fact, I spent over a year buildng it [1].

My thesis is that the calendar will play a significant role in the next OS UI paradigm, replacing the old grid of icons and overlapping windows. Everything will happen around a unified timeline, through which you will launch an app by time-blocking its use, check notifications by looking at the past, forecast battery life or weather by looking at the future, undo/redo actions (or view snapshots/backups) by time traveling, etc.

It is shocking how far behind our map of time (e.g., Google Calendar) is compared to our map of space (e.g., Google Maps). Every spatial feature has an obvious temporal equivalent that just isn't implemented. I want to be able to search, save, and review events. I want to schedule an itinerary of events. I want turn-by-turn navigation in time.

Of course, solving time is just the beginning. The real magic happens when you combine space and time. For this, we may need to wait for more AR/VR adoption, whose added dimension should make this realization obvious to most and significantly facilitate its implementation.

[1] https://chronomize.com/

New comment by miguelrochefort in "Ask HN: Is there a webapp to input/store your blood test results?"

miguelrochefort — Mon, 22 May 2023 01:00:28 +0000

I've been using this one:

https://github.com/markwk/awesome-biomarkers#biomarker-track...

New comment by miguelrochefort in "The curse of the corporate headshot"

miguelrochefort — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 16:45:33 +0000

Startup idea: Use stable diffusion to automate corporate headshots and security badge photos. Charge $X to remove watermark.

New comment by miguelrochefort in "Google to reduce workforce by 12k"

miguelrochefort — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 12:30:52 +0000

"Notice of unemployment" (personal email address)

NYC Bans Students and Teachers from Using ChatGPT

miguelrochefort — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 15:09:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3p9jx/nyc-bans-students-and-teachers-from-using-chatgpt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34260630

Points: 6

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New comment by miguelrochefort in "What Is AGI-Hard"

miguelrochefort — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:10:36 +0000

I would be surprised if we did not already have AIs that could invent calculus from first principles.

LLMs solve natural langage and common sense, which are not necessary for discovering calculus.

New comment by miguelrochefort in "Ask HN: What are you working on this year?"

miguelrochefort — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 21:54:59 +0000

I'm extremely bullish on Large Language Models (e.g., GPT-3, ChatGPT) and Stable Diffusion (e.g., DALL-E).

This year, I will use them to double my productivity at work. I also plan to integrate them to my life management framework.

New comment by miguelrochefort in "I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information"

miguelrochefort — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 20:04:06 +0000

Here's a 24/7 background audio recorder app I made for Android. The impact on battery and storage is surprisingly reasonable.

https://github.com/miguelrochefort/eardrum

New comment by miguelrochefort in ".ai"

miguelrochefort — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 01:44:12 +0000

I wonder what will happen when browsers start supporting Handshake (HNS) top-level domains such as “.1”

New comment by miguelrochefort in "There’s no speed limit (2009)"

miguelrochefort — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 05:18:27 +0000

In contrast, Western Governors University allows students to test out of any course.

For example, I completed my CS degree in 3 months: https://miguelrochefort.com/blog/cs-degree/

New comment by miguelrochefort in "Show HN: I restored Palm's webOS App Catalog, SDK and online help system"

miguelrochefort — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 12:54:39 +0000

Thanks for putting this together. webOS was way ahead of its time, and I really liked the HP Veer at the time.

New comment by miguelrochefort in "Jasonette – Native App over HTTP"

miguelrochefort — Wed, 25 May 2022 10:14:44 +0000

Microsoft's approach:

https://adaptivecards.io/