skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 3. Kids and the Internet. About half the 10 year olds I know (which is more than a few) have phones with no filters on them. Kids running wild. If more things were more easily accessible than the culture around screens and handling that with kids will need to change.

Why? As a child who grew up either the free Internet of the early 2000s I can tell you it does far less harm than thing like going to school where a teacher dislikes you. If you're worried about kids getting an inaccurate impression from porn that take them aside and show them real sex tapes.
> What does it mean when attribution is a mess?

Attribution means being able to "attribute" a user and the conversions (eg signups, purchases, etc) they do back to your ad spend. So typically, advertisers want to be able to know that e.g. this ad campaign spent $100, led to 5 clicks, which led to 2 sign-ups and 1 purchase. Before the iOS privacy changes, Facebook could piece all those things together even though the ad might be running either on Facebook or another app, and the conversions are happening in your ad. Aka they could "attribute" the events back to the ad. With the new changes, Facebook can't put all those pieces together as easily, so they can either only do it on an aggregated basis (ie not user-by-user), and/or use probabilistic "modeling" to do attribution. This is good for users, since they are less likely to be tracked, but bad for advertisers who now cannot easily know how effective their ad spend is.

> ... efficiency fluctuating

Let's say one day you spend $1000 and get 100 purchases, that's $10 / purchase. A purchase nets $15 for you, so that is good ad spend. The next day, you spend $1000 and only get 50 purchases, so it's $20 / purchase and you are losing money on your ad spend. These numbers fluctuate a lot more wildly than they did in the past, and it seems to happen randomly, making it hard to commit to spending a certain budget.

This is probably related to attribution, because Facebook uses a lot of Machine Learning to predict who to show an ad to, where to show it, etc based on past conversions. But if they can't really attribute past conversions, it's hard for their Machine Learning model to consistently get results.
The prime directive is not for peer civilization. Iran is not on a stone age (yet).
Somehow I don't think this surprised anyone. I just did a quick check and the same people who were making these kinds of decisions when I was there all appear to still be there (at least by their social status indicators like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook). Back in early 2009 when "the mortgage crisis" was the big financial scare, I talked with folks about the difference between "moon shots" and "products".

The former (also called Black Swan events in Finance) are things that change everything all at once, the latter are things that a company produces to diversify their revenue risk. Google had just released the Dream (the G1 phone) and given all the employees one so we could "eat our own dogfood" and the biggest takeaway was that the biggest issue here was that this sort of "product" really really needed a real customer support function. Google was fixated on using "smart people and technology to completely eliminate the need for 'lame' customer support that was expensive and needed managers and stuff." One 'senior' engineer (who was 'senior' by virtue of their time at Google, their first job out of school, and not because of their years of industry experience, explained to me that by 2011, 2012 at the latest, no company anywhere would use "people" for customer support, it would all be web driven, "knowledge trees", and smart dialog agents that could do anything real people could do.

I had worked previously at NetApp where they spent a ton of money and invested a lot in insuring their customers were supported, and I tried to explain that it wasn't the '90%' problem it was a '10%' problem. Your automated system can deal with 90% of the problems, but 10% of them were 'weird', special cases, that no automation would be able to deal with. And ignoring that, and leaving 10% of your customer base angry and unsupported, was death for any retail product.

I see the same thing with 'self driving' too, your car can do 90% of the things you need it to do on its own, and then that last 10% are the things that kill you.

When Stadia was announced I looked to see if they had learned about the need for real people support and it didn't appear they had. And they were dealing with "the Internet" which for engineers looks like a smooth low latency pipe between your computer and theirs, but for real people is a series of networks that have to be transited with support levels that vary between enterprise level and sixth grader enthusiast level. And with all that randomness between the product and the customer, no 'people' support to create a good "we hear you, we're on it" experience and more importantly a strong feedback loop to engineering/marketing/sales about what is causing the most trouble for prioritization of resources, and poof. It was dead on arrival. It just took a while for Google to figure that out.

I mentioned in my exit interview that I hoped they would internalize that problem before they ran out of search advertising revenue runway, but 10+ years on it looks like that isn't happening.
Except bitcoin can't even come close to handling the number of transactions that occur in USD.
If management isn't committed, it's still a lie to say they are.

Morals matter even when they are inconvenient.
Indeed. Count me as one person who was negative on stadia at the start (worked for a company where the CEO wanted to try to copy the idea, I said don't bother)
Im not a web3 person at all but I find these comparisons to say Bitcoin is hurting the climate pointless. It's the electricity source is the problem. Sure it takes a ton of electricity to mine but why is it the consumer's fault for using a service they don't have another option to use. Are we supposed to switch powergirds? Are we supposed to all create our own green power grid?

It's awfully convenient it's the consumer's fault not large organizations and governments not upgrading a power grid when we knew this was an issue for decades
Fwiw, im mostly just lamenting the change. There is both good and bad to changing cultural norms.
I've been an active reader of HN for 5 years and this has to by far be the most wrong comment I have ever seen. Absolutely bone-headed.
This whole sub thread reminds me of the reuse of the :CueCat

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat
Page isn't loading, posted 18 mins ago by a green name, how did it already get 13 points? Anybody get a screenshot or archive link before it dropped?

Found more info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucha_massacre

Going to return when the site's back up.
Of course there "is no understanding here", but yet it's not all wrong. Somehow it did move the horse's legs roughly correctly (using the proper joints and all), somehow the cape is moving roughly as it should through the air and the knight's body absorbs the force of stomping on the ground…

It doesn't seem that the fundamental inability to understand what is going on in the scene is stopping models of this kind to eventually lead to realistic results.

Same applies to DALL-E and GPT.
https://old.reddit.com/r/WeWantPlates
Reckless disregard for truth is as bad as lying. Claiming to definitively know things you don't know, is lying.
Site seems crushed under load.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220929224847/https://www.amazo...
When news of Stadia rolling out appeared on HN, I commented right away that it will be shut down before long, and was downvoted.

Of course, such predictions are just pure probability, by now.
> No company wants to be the most lax company in the space

Honestly, in my opinion having such a public image can also be a market advantage for such a company. For example in its early days, Reddit attracted a huge initial audience by being perceived this way and being perceived as a very pro-free-speech website.
Is the NSA even able to attract quality talent? How desperate must someone be to sell state secrets for just 85k. Most smart kids usually end up doing research or chasing money. Never heard anyone from elite colleges do a stint in government agencies. And given their hiring page it seems they have a lot of openings as well:

https://apply.intelligencecareers.gov/job-listings?agency=NS...

Must be a very tough job getting smart people to work for them given the average salaries.
I believe ICLR guidelines require the authors to submit papers and any supplementary materials (including links to webpages, videos, etc) without identifying information, but authors are not barred from public announcements on other forums. IIUC, the idea behind this policy was originally to accommodate author freedom to engage in common practices such as simultaneous submission to arxiv (which identifies the authors). To respect the double blind spirit of review, reviewers are asked not to actively search the web in attempt identify the authors. In the past, when social media promotion was less common, it was reasonably likely that reviewers would follow this guidance and would not have seen the arxiv submission, preserving the double blind nature of review in most cases. However, the use of social media in academia has radically changed in recent years, as more researchers use social media to keep up with the latest advancements, so promotion of papers in submission on platforms like Twitter can offer significant advantages to authors.

So, authors today often submit anonymously following the conference guidelines, but simultaneously post publicly elsewhere, walking a fine line as not to overstep the conference policies. This appears to be the case for this submission. Note, recently, some conferences, such as CVPR, have started to institute new policies forbidding social media promotion until acceptance, as they adapt to the changing landscape of social media promotion. If this were a CVPR submission, the authors would not be allowed to tweet publicly about their work yet, nor have the version of the webpage with their names visible.
These analyses also never take into account all the energy used to make all the goods and services in the global economy that bitcoin can be used purchase. Or not comparing it to the total energy output of the sun which shines down on the earth which has people on it who use bitcoin. These analyzes are therefore flawed.
>For instance, like loosing more than 70% of all its tanks since the beginning of invasion[1]?

According to the government it's at war against.

For the US this is the equivalent of listening to Baghdad Bob.
They should take it down in a timely manner, which most sites do.
> We put all our experience and knoweldge [sic] from developing our high quality air quality monitors into this open source DIY Kit

https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/kits/
What? It's doesn't take a genius to understand it. They clearly label what is and what is not LGPL. It doesn't hurt to double check the source files of course and have redundant confirmation. You don't need a lawyer for everything in life.
I'd recommend that only for those who know that they are in the top 5% or so of programmers (as HN is almost by definition a self-selected DK hothouse, I realise this can be a hard judgement to make, but a bit of self-reflection can go a long way). I'm a below to average programmer, and don't believe I'll ever be able to understand Rust well enough to use it productively. I have my reasons to nonetheless still be teaching myself Rust, but expected fluency is not among those reasons. Rust is just too hard for most programmers, and literally every non-'star' I've known (other than myself!) has given up on it.

If, self-deception aside, you really are a superior programmer, it's an excellent tool, a joy to use, and is going to be a good choice for an increasingly wide spread of domains.
Google Presents: Search On '22 [video]
Inflation is one of the singularly most important economic inventions and is almost wholly responsible for getting us out of the 50 year recession that occurred in the second half of the 19th century.
It seems to be strongly synergistic with a lot of their existing product offerings.

Getting the technology done even better means that Chromebooks and Androids (or even the browser) could be heavyweight gaming machines -- and thereby increasing those audiences.

As those audiences grow (and they're already big), having better hardware streamlined into Stadia means they immediately have insane distribution power. If you consider mobile gaming dominance in Asia, and the ability to release triple-A games immediately to a billion devices worldwide, that creates huge leverage over iOS.

Then as you said, GCP. I think someone with an idea and roadmap was there, but FAANG incentive programs don't reward people focused on the long game.
Same for ruby and elixir. Assumed type..
A Russian could replicate everything the FBI did, so this seems like fair game.
The double colon is a place where IPv6 addresses are easier to memorize than IPv4 addresses. Double colon just means "fill with zeroes". You don't have to remember how many zeroes to fill in. You don't have to type in a long string of zeroes. You just need to remember the prefix and suffix.

If you are assigning all the IPv6 IPs by hand like you might in a private network, the suffix can be as short as you wish: prefix:: is your Device 0, prefix::1 is your Device 1, prefix::2 is your Device 2, prefix::f is your Device 15, and so forth. At that point you only have to memorize your prefix, which is just your subnet. If the subnet you are assigned is 2001:db8:: for instance you just need to remember that 2001:db:: as your prefix and add whatever device number you need after it. Sure, it's unlikely to have a prefix exactly that short, but sometimes you can luck out with a lot of zeroes. Private networking today (Unique Local Addresses) is fd00::/8 where you are expected to pick a 40-bit random string to make it a /48. That's just three groups to memorize for your entire private network: fd01:2345:6789::.

::ffef from that perspective implies you are accessing Device 65,519. If you are trying to remember that many devices you may have other problems.

On the flipside, if you are assigning your own IPv6 suffixes anyway you can also use school kid "1337" "calculator" hacks in hex like setting up a key servers to be ::beef or ::dead or ::dead:beef or ::feed or ::8008. Potentially way more memorable "words" than numbers just between 0 and 255.
A wooden board is fine for a charcuterie plate.

But what's ridiculous is breakfast being served on a shovel.

Or a plaster mould of the chef's mouth.

Or spaghetti being just dumped all over the table.
The majority of Google's income is still ads. Stadia and all others are pennies in comparison. These are little pet projects for insane millionaires, not products that solve real problems. That's what happens when you get too big, you lose focus of what's important.
I think you also can get it by just having unpopular opinions. Hackernews used to be much more nuanced than it is today imo.
Remember Fon (2006) [1] ?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fon_Wireless
Wouldn't you like to know.
First underwhelming AI post on the frontpage. Thank god our jobs are safe atleast!
Yes, something can be historic from a reasearch and knowledge point of view while not being worthwhile clinically.
For the folks downvoting the above comment, it doesn’t necessarily reflect a viewpoint (that you could disagree with) but could simply be a heads up for people at a workplace with policies against viewing that content at work. (A policy that you might also disagree with… but the warning itself is still useful to some.)
I have a Quest 2 and It's sitting inside a box behind the PC inside a Nike shoebox and when I try to use it, I need to basically go through a whole process all over again. A factory reset as it were because something to do with facebook account wasn't needed... but then it was needed so i made a fake account... something to do with I don't need facebook anymore... something to do with a meta account.... something to do with I needed to switch on dev mode to stop it annoying me about guardian when I want to use it on the sofa... something to do with installing some kind of app on my phone to sync to it to make it work... something about my occulus dev account is invalid... something about....

I can't use the device.

If I dig into the box, and drag it out, I need to deal with all of this stuff. I want to play for example Superhot, but I have no idea how to even reinstall or even if I need to reinstall because I need to login with something above "all over again".

Fucking trash.

The "Metaverse" is just a bad joke regardless if it worked perfectly, but all of this crud means that I can't even be bothered picking up the actual device.
Yeah and if he does know please share that with everyone else (people ok with terrifying news at least).

We are not stabilizing. There are serious supply issues, staffing issues, wild currency fluctuations, and fear -- including of nuclear conflict.

I am not sure in what world this is stabilization. It is easy to hit on the "mule" i.e. the average Joe and say "I gave you too much money, that you never saw, thus why Yada Yada, so learn not to eat and that will work fine." This is the naive explanation offered to the public masses to make them feel bad and that they deserve the recession. Aka anything to avoid political suicide. Other countries don't go out saying this fyi-- because e.g. they have a freaking war in the doorsteps during a pandemic and can't produce goods, because no natural gas. Because of sabotage.

Only stabilization is to the bottom.
I'm mostly only looking for 3DML these days. I want it to hallucinate architecture for games.
Those are the only kind that are willing to work for the government.
> like everybody here who dreams of a google job

I'm supposed to dream of a Google job? Man I've been messing up.
yeah because companies are trying to save money and got rid of them before most people had a cellphone (so they don't know what they are missing)
What things has Microsoft tried that have been outside of their four or so verticals that have been around for ages (Windows, Office, Cloud, Gaming)? Google alone has nearly 1:1 mappings: Android/Chrome OS, Workspace (Docs, Gmail, Calendar, etc), Cloud, YouTube Gaming and Stadia just died), on top of all the other products with >1B users like Drive, Photos, Play Store, etc. Microsoft even failed with Windows Mobile whereas Google has the Pixel line.
A lot of people on this thread are hemming and hawing about latency, and how game streaming services are never going to work out and so on. But imo this is not really true.

60fps 1080p gaming with less than ~50ms latency from controller to screen is absolutely doable right now (for most locations in the USA, assuming decent internet access - so there needs to be clear communication of whether potential customers will have a good experience on their connection), and that's enough for enough people, even as a secondary device for "core" gamers.

This is a totally viable market waiting for someone to release a decent product. Stadia failed because it was garbage and Google didn't know how to manage it, not because game streaming is non-viable.

Stuff like GeForce now is great, but the fact that it's target users are already Steam etc customers means it's not going to pull in people that aren't already in the PC gaming ecosystem, and most people already in that market aren't going to switch from owning their own hardware to streaming. The value proposition sucks for people that don't care about owning their games and playing them natively on their own hardware as well as streaming.

Someone just needs to release a polished product, with a Netflix style pay as you go payment model instead of charging full price for games that customers don't actually own.

Get a decent library of games on there, add a few exclusive "killer apps" and market it well and you will kill.
Now we just need someone to ask it to make john oliver marrying a cabbage.
Ah, so it was a bad faith question all along!

You only asked him his reason, so you could attack him for it.

Just go and say what you really meant, instead of pretending like you had anything to contribute in the first place.

That way, at least the reasonable people can see what you wrote, and hopefully get you deplatformed.
> Nobody says that a baby is 0 years old

That's only because age can easily be measured and described in units smaller than whole years, while array indexes can't be divided.
Although I'm thoroughly impressed and applaud people for doing this in their spare time, I sort of wish they wouldn't help Apple in their developer-hostile actions.

If Apple don't want to release documentation on their chips, then leave them to rot in their walled garden.
Coincidentally, Russian users of Switch can currently experience this dilemma firsthand, as Nintendo forbid downloads from the shop even for already bought games. (Sony forbids purchases, but at least allows downloading games that are ‘owned’.)
The issue I think is the sheer scale of the "soapbox" and level of access to it, which is unprecedented.

It used to be that fringe opinions were expressed on street corners on literal soapboxes and never got much further unless they had a certain level of credence. Now with the likes of Twitter and Facebook, these individuals have a global stage to broadcast to where they'll find a massive audience regardless of how bizzare and unfounded they may be, thanks to the legitimizing effect of the "communities" around these ideas. In the hands of someone charismatic this can be dangerously destablizing to society, because it's the perfect recipe for cultivating a following that believes almost anything imaginable, including ideas which directly conflict with demonstrable reality.

I don't agree with some of the things the internet has collectively decided to clamp down on but I do think it makes sense to not give just anybody the grand stage and spotlight.
> Very sincerely, you must read just about zero tech news.

Not 0, but really not much, that is true.

I remember the shutdown of google reader. I tried it once, but let go of it before it was shut down.

But I really didn't know google had this kind of reputation.
You're not gonna get me to defend Google at all, but I'm really sick of hearing this parroted over and over because

1. It's not true. Read the [1]code of conduct, it's right there at the bottom: "And remember... don’t be evil"

2. Who cares if they say the words "don't be evil?" The actions are more important than a cute phrase. If they sent Google Ad Bots to every house in America and forced you to sit through 30 second ads every morning or else they shoot you, would you say "well at least the code of conduct says 'don't be evil'!"?

[1] https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/
>How many Russians soldiers died in the past 7 months alone? Between 50-80K.

Those are Ukrainian reports.

US reports put the number at 15k, Russian reports put it at 5k.

I find it kind of astonishing people are citing Ukrainian numbers as anything short of blatant propaganda, just like Russian ones.

https://fortune.com/2022/03/14/ukraine-russia-death-tolls-mi...
You both have a common enemy - nobody is blaming Google being Google on the employees - they also get abandoned without support and their project cancelled.
But meta is very stock compensation heavy so you are betting on the company stock at least not dropping considerably like the people that joined in august of last year at a $350 per a share price.
And it still looks nice and is sufficient for most people's needs if they just have static content.
Literally unrelated to the conversation. This is about whether one is likely to inadvertently come across this info, not whether it’s available to find.
Was it Vic "OKR=1.0" G?