skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, those are issues at google's scale. Almost no one who uses them is even at half of google scale.
And this is why I never bought one, even though I want one.

I can't seem to find a reasonably priced one that is actually accurate.
Yup, same thing happened to me, locked out of PayPal thanks to their broken 2-factor. I can change my password but can't log in because they have my old number on file. I heard there's a class action suit of people whose money is being held hostage in similar ways. I'm telling everyone I know to avoid using them for personal or especially business purpose. If you must use PayPal, do not leave any money in there for long because you can lose access at any time due to their incompetence.
Yeah, and the reply they would receive from their friend would be a polite request to touch grass.

People in the real world use instagram and whatsapp all the time without any moral qualms. The main reason facebook as a product is on a decline is because it is simply not interesting to younger people anymore. And even then, FB still manages to occasionally produce features that capture a lot of the audience back. FB marketplace has been a great hit in terms of replacing craigslist.

I am not a Meta employee, and have never been one. But the hate hard-on some people on HN have against Meta just gets really ridiculous at times. We decry echochambers on social media all the time, but are perfectably comfortable falling into ones of our own, without trying to understand how the world outside is really like.
That's why you should always take corporate promises with a tablespoon of salt.

After seeing so many big companies promise things and only screw those over along the course of last couple of decades, this is of no surprise to me
"stadia" in the public's mind, and how it was primarily communicated and advertised, was a subscription streaming service where you also had to pay full price for games that could only be used on their service and would go away with it.

That's not the "Netflix for games" that it needed to be and stadia pro's limited selection was nowhere near adequate either. As a result, they set themselves up with the most unappealing business model possible for consumers.
Seems like the best solution would be a two part enclosure... one for the sensor, with just enough to power it (e.g. a coin battery) and a Bluetooth LE transmitter (Or maybe even something entirely passive like RFID could work?) and then have all the rest of the electronics sealed off and powered seperately.
No manager who leads in demand software engineers will ever be able to change anything unless their reports believe in the vision. The minute things don’t go their way, we can just get another job,

It’s really hard for a CEO who had nothing to do with the current success of the company to have any type of credibility with employees.

Let’s look at the CEOs of the other BigTech companies.

- Apple: Tim Cook had as much to do with the current success of Apple as Jobs did. He worked for Apple from the time it was broke until today.

- Amazon: Jassy (my skip*10 manager) led the AWS division from its “real” founding until he became CEO.

- Facebook - still founder led

- Microsoft - the CEO came in from Azure and had a vision for what the “new MS” should look like - completely different than “Windows Everywhere”
It took me a minute to remember why the founder of Wordpress was posting on tumblr.
> as they’re not the company that can pull that off anymore.

No company could ever pull off Half Life 3. This game is hyped to death before it's even announced and everyone would come in with sky-high expectations. To make matters worse, everyone would expect that game to be something different and it would be impossible to make even just half of the players happy. There's no point in creating a Half Life 3, it's a guaranteed disappointment.
I don’t know if there’s any merit to this idea, but it seems to me that saturation can become a real problem.

At this point skipping a story or feed ad in Instagram is like a nearly instant reflex for me.

Plus, the programming on the recommendations is laughably amateur for company as resourceful as Meta. If I interact with an ad one time I’ll see the same ad over and over for days or weeks.

Sure, I was curious for a second, but it seems strange that Meta can’t tell that I’m not interested anymore just by monitoring basic usage of the UI.

At the end of the day the advertiser is the one left paying for these repeated ineffective ad impressions.

Somewhat related, I am a little surprised Meta hasn’t tried a Discord-like revenue model where paid annual memberships bestow quality of life and cosmetic social status types of benefits. Even if it wasn’t their main source of revenue it could at least diversify the business and lend some stability to their revenue.

Facebook’s revenue per user is less than $10. Discord charges $99/year for Nitro. I feel like Meta has such a one-track mindset on advertising that it doesn’t consider different revenue models for its businesses.

Meta spends a lot of time talking about the metaverse but Discord is already the metaverse. Why isn’t there a subscription Meta Quest game pass with Discord-like social features? It’s a no-brainer.

Where’s the “pro” paid version of Instagram? Why doesn’t Instagram sell subscription access to things like exclusive camera filters, stickers, and editing tools?

I feel like the company is full of missed business opportunities.
I agree somewhat. Also, it's not always clear who the most legitimate heirs are in these cases. For example, why the Egyptian government and not, say, the Coptic Church? I don't have a source but I seem to recall reading once that Copts are genetically more similar to Ancient Egyptians than other modern Egyptian, who are predominantly of Arab descent.
How does a professional web designer even put up a picture that large without going through some basic compression?
Every AI development this year is mindblowing (when did you last get blown off by so many different projects in the same year?). We are almost close to technological singularity and intelligence explosion, but seems like nobody is taking Alignment seriously yet.
I've never seen that particular claim about the museum - it was set up to hold Sloane's collection alongside the Cottonian and Harleian libraries. Where is it from? Is this a misremembering of the tale about the discovery of the flood tablet?
I was wondering if there is a correlation between hiring engineers who spend their lives memorizing leetcode hard problems and a company's ability to innovate and execute?

Did they really optimize for hiring the top 0.001% of engineers or it's just that the fish is rotten from the top.
This work on Asahi Linux is some of the more impressive work I’ve been following. To basically reverse engineer undocumented hardware features and get Linux running on them in such a low amount of time is nothing short of inspiring.
These prompts are way better than the drivel I see on Amazon Prime. Half their movie descriptions don't even tell you anything about the film, they seem to be just a random paragraph from the pitch document.
I can see why someone might hear that number and shrug. But given what’s happening to the energy prices, I think those 6.5% are more significant than “1/16th” feels like it ought to be.
Problem with snapchat is that no one older than 25 uses it. They've already saturated their user base and stuffed as many ads as they can into the app. There's not really anywhere for them to go and they're still losing money.
Actually saas is about providing services for money.
No. The google3 path itself is baked into so many things that it would be a monumental task to move. There was an attempt in maybe 2010 or so but it was quickly abandoned. Things are 1000x worse now.

What Google does now is just not rev the version in any repo paths. This is true of several projects that previously had versions included in the path. Now all versioning is handled separately.
Silly replying to myself I know, but I had more thoughts. I'm an architect for 3D worlds and I am desperate, lol, for this kind of tool. I use both blender and grasshopper, but I use midjourney to think and prototype all the time. Obvious but it would be astonishing to have something like this for game worlds. I used another version of this to create "a forest emerging from an aircraft carrier" https://www.instagram.com/p/CiRfXKzpnLC/ but the technique didn't have good resolution yet (high fidelity).
Just needs to show the part where he ends the drift and gets a speed boost
They have an advertising platform already, right?

Apple has been around for a while, they I wonder if the company has some institutional 'survival instinct' that's identified growing the ad platform become too much as long-term unhealthy. It is a corrupting influence that makes the consumer into the enemy, after all.

They've also managed to become incredibly huge while somehow mostly dodging the eye of regulatory bodies. Privacy could mess with that track record and I'm sure they are aware of that fact.
I'm a Stadia user, and Google's handling of the shutdown of Google Play Music is what gave me confidence to purchase anything on Stadia (~$500 on a quick review). I actually thought we'd be sent personal links of our games, which would live-on in Google's white-list stadia product called Google Stream - they did something similar for GPM which merged into Youtube Music. I'm fine with a refund though.
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Indeed! In Toronto, the cooling for 151 Front Street West was grid-powered electric pumps pulling cold water from deep in Lake Ontario... so despite all the fuel they had ready to run the systems, they couldn't use it and had to shut the building down.
Don't dart across the road in a bike. For the same reason moms tell their kids not to run across the road. Improving the markings won't help.

When I use the crosswalk, I stand expectantly next to it but off the road, and wait until the cars stop. Then I cross. I never run out into the street hoping cars see me in time.

Hoping other cars see you in time, especially if you dart in front of them, is just a bad strategy.
> I don't think there is anything substantial here to suggest this is anything other than a normal recession

Then I'm guessing you haven't been paying much attention to anything.

Have you seen what's happening in the bond market these days? Looked at the insane actions the BoE is taking coupled with their insane tax policy? Have you seen the rising dollar are you aware the threat that makes to the entire global credit system?

This is literally just getting started.
The real story here is how we let mobile phones become completely closed and privative environments, and how credit card companies got into politics for some reason.

Seems like hackers of today have really let down the public. Even bitcoin is 13 years old and I know nobody getting into it for utilitarian reasons unless they are already into it for investing.
Every time a QQ article shows up on HN the conversation circles around the phrase itself. Questions/statements like "How is doing your job quitting?" and "This is just some nonsense the media cooked up to scare people."

I'm not trying to detract from that, but I'd really like to ask about the "Why"; why is this narrative happening now? It is not as if businesses have just now starting trying to get more out of their employees. That has been the case for time immemorial. Is it because the economy is down? This isn't the first downturn in the economy since the advent of social news. Is it a """post"""-pandemic, getting people back into the office scare tactic?

I'd like to get some broad opinions about the timing, if possible.

EDIT: I realized that all the possibilities I listed point to businesses being bad actors, I didn't really intend to paint it that way. I'm open to considering both side.
We also have to remember Europe had the absolute disaster of a vaccine purchase program which was totally down to its incompetent leadership which for some reason the US media fawns over. The delay in getting vaccines to citizens probably cost 10's of thousands of lives.
Facebook hasn't really created any new products have they?

MS shut down products all the time.

And Apple? They are very good at hiding their failures.
Wow, incredibly foreboding. Looks like a place that people would organize witch hunts from, or maybe other occult rituals. If I saw one of these in the woods I would run in the other direction.
I'll just say this...
If you can't pirate on it, it won't succeed.
The saddest of all this is the fact that "it is a lean platform that allows you to build what you want" (basically 'no bateries included') is considered as something to be praised, like "Look how small and simple its source code is"... Well of course it will be small and simple and there are few files that needed to be compiled for the whole thing, but in the "remote case" that you want to build anything meaningful with it you will need to write the other 1500 files (most certainly with "not as clean code") that many other more mature languages already have

Just don't be a hipster... In deed most languages created past C++ have added very little innovation, its just "my own vanilla flavor" (yet it is still vanilla) some, very few indeed, have added valuable syntactic sugar, yet how I wish new languages stopped being created pretending to excel at a corner case that gives you "huge benefits" (which of course are all thrown to waste when you realize most of your application cycles and latency actually comes from other places rather than such corner case.

This is not an argument for "new* languages are bad" , rather one of "until trully needed reinvent the wheel" and I think that will happen when we finally get to use qbits and new paradigms of coding/logic arise (basically an architecture change)
scam implies malicious intent. being crappy is not a scam.
Did we hit some sort of technical inflection point in the last couple of weeks or is this just coincidence that all of these ML papers around high quality procedural generation are just dropping every other day?
It’s not just Meta, many other companies are on the hiring freeze. Probably the reason is not fulfilled Covid period bets on growth and expansion.
Are Promotion-Oriented Cultures That Bad?
They almost always say that but never deliver. Won't be out even in a year's time.
Progress often happens in waves. There will be a trough again.
Are you somehow under the impression that, if a government decides to impose a fine that will financially kill the company once and for all, it is incapable of it?

Incidentally, Uber has been banned in the entire country where I live for 8+ years now.
Adults most vulnerable to right wing propaganda, the demographic famous for making good decisions for themselves and those around them.
You have a bad battery and need a new one. Should be fine afterwards.
Realistically how does this end though? Unless technology is created to immortalize Gabe in a machine, at some point he presumably will want to sell or die.

Does it just become a bozo filled public-company at that point, chasing quarterly numbers? I think it's the biggest risk to Valve, speaking as a customer who loves their products/services today.

I would not at all be surprised to see it end in a Microsoft acquisition or joint venture of some kind, given their current appetites.
I mean, those pipes were clearly not going to be used anytime soon. It's not like they blew up anything that was actively making them any money, nor did they sacrefice their own troops to do this like you compare to. It's a good target because it sends a message but it's pretty useless otherwise.
I would add Defold to that list, it's a pretty nice little engine if you're making casual games. I used it for my team's project for this year's TOJam.

https://defold.com/
Right, they're trapped in a terrible position where it's sucking the company dry of its profits while also being necessary to continue or they will lose all credibility with enterprise and developers forever. That said, they could shut down Verily and save some $1B/year.
From the consumer perspective, this reminds me of the new chromecast that was released without Stadia support, even though the previous chromecast supported it. Get that! A streaming stick that couldn’t stream the company’s own paid service. Preposterous!
Progress on vim9script = Nvim-Lua transpiler
GPUs tend to evolve over time rather than change radically.
So even if the hardware is obselete before the work is finsihed the driver for the next generation will start from a much better point than the first one.

Also it will be useable for at least some usecases, even if not AAA games, before the hardware is obselete.
I remember the first time I saw someone mention Google. It was just so obviously better than what came before. That's rare. Most improvements on technology have to prove themselves over time and slowly build a following. Google was so amazing it grew to IPO through the .com crash and the early 2000s recession. For a time, everything they launched was gold. No one seemed to notice or care that everything was still "beta" years after sweeping each market.
Tldr ikea is only the latest incarnation of a very long standing tradition of Scandinavian flat pack furnishings
apparently they have a nat64 gateway... so it should work if you configure it properly

check their help docs
The economy is an issue, but the "fault" is not in the economy or the CEO in that there is no fault. A business is not responsible for retaining employees even if the economy is strong. If we prescriptively believe that people ought have money to maintain a basic standard of living then we should have the government provide this service using public money and not private ad-funded money.

It is modern corporate style to have CEO's shed tears (sometimes literally) to show that their cold calculations actually have love behind them, but this is all just PR. We should recognize Mark's statement for what it is — standard corporate PR. And we should offer such statements as much respect as standard corporate verbiage deserves and not get into the substance of the statements as there typically is none.
November 2021, macbook pro m1

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SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

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Percentage Used: 0%

Data Units Read: 5,641,034 [2,88 TB]

Data Units Written: 5,080,733 [2,60 TB]

Host Read Commands: 133,355,019

Host Write Commands: 71,299,866

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The high price of Apple products in markets like India was such a great targeting filter for D2C products by itself. There was a time in 2020-21 when you could literally throw any random ad for a premium product, choose iPhone users as your target, and land wild conversions.
Someone posted the "correct" URL that has names: https://dreamfusion3d.github.io/
At my company...

1. We're aware of the economic situation and what others companies are doing and are just monitoring

2. We decided to just to ever-so-slightly ease off the gas on hiring. It's definitely not a hiring freeze. Do not use those words.

3. Things are delayed just until the budget is discussed

4. No new hires (still don't call it a freeze) <-- We are here

5. Small amount of layoffs ?

6. Large amount of layoffs ?

(1-4 was about 3 weeks.)
Why drop? Less gas afterwards?
I suspect that basing synthesized actors based on real actors is a transitional thing. Studios would rather create actors. So they own the actor outright, and not pay royalties.
Well, you conveniently ignore the reality of lots of people who cannot afford or just don't want to buy a gaming computer or console there. Streaming services are an actual, viable option for them. Even though Google has done its best to show why it might not be just so viable after all...
If there is demand, and the tech is fine, then why is Google shutting down Stadia?
I think it’s because of ICLR deadlines.
yah, i think a lot of these IAQ (indoor air quality) products are ok at relative differences (which is mostly what lay consumers care about). the article mainly points out that they're not good at absolute measurements, and for something like VOCs, it's likely using a CO₂ sensor and a lookup table that's static and only really valid for the test room it was created in.
You invest with your personal data they sell to data brokers, and use to improve their ML models.

Can we get those back, Google? Not just our data, but the profits and improvements you made from it?

"Free" in the age of adtech comes at a high price. The sad part is most people don't care they're getting the short end of the stick.
Wow, this is impressive. 2022 may finally be the year of Linux on the desktop! ;)
I am not a lawyer, but am a US citizen.

A central design goal of the US system is to prevent any one person or group from getting too much power. Judges in particular were seen by the Founders as an important check on the power of the legislative and executive branches of government, so those 2 branches probably simply do not have the power to remove the judge. Other judges, perhaps on the Supreme Court, might have the power to remove the judge, but only for breaches of ethical standards.
Apparently you pasted their 404 link: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/404
Google's GDC talks regarding Android and Stadia are kind of proofs of how they lack any kind of sensibility how to talk with game developers.

While Sony, Microsoft, AMD, Intel, NVidia do cool tech sessions, Google is all about analytics and Play Store.

Then they expect developers used to devkits and Visual Studio plugins, to use classical UNIX like development experience to target Stadia, while hoping Stadia will stay around.
The subscription is optional. I loved Stadia because I only really play one game, Destiny, and I could play it year round for just the annual season pass and 0 hardware investment. Came to ~$100 a year for all my gaming needs and it was perfect.
There's a lot of animosity on this thread, but I think Stadia shutting down is distressing and we should talk about that.

The concept of a 3rd party game streaming platform is another foot into the grave with Stadia shutting down, and that should be cause for alarm. I think most people in this thread can agree that the licensing model for Stadia was less than stellar, but it feels like getting favorable licensing requires being an existing behemoth (Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, Sony PlayStation Now, Nvidia GeForce Now) to have any chance of a AAA title being on your streaming platform. Blade filed for insolvency just last year, and has since been remarketed as Shadow.tech which functionally is just expensive Windows VMs.

A lot of people on here will happily argue that they want to own their games (Which I want too!), while also rejoicing that cloud gaming is increasing narrowing to fewer and fewer companies. Licensing is getting increasingly harder, and I'm worried at some point we'll be left with a monopoly and it'll be too late.

This is hacker news, what's the answer here for startups going forward? Is becoming a 1st party powerhouse (Like Netflix) while getting licensing agreements with as many indie games as you can (Like Epic Games?) the only option? How do you make this model succeed when you have no negotiating power? If Sony is suing Microsoft to keep Call of Duty on their platform, what chance does a startup have?
I was a happy Stadia customer for a while. And then an unhappy customer. And now I own relics of history (Stadia controller+purchased games).

In my view, the root problem here may be that Google is too accustomed to having a monopoly position in the market and not actually treating customers that well, whereas gaming is hypercompetitive and Google doesn't have the customer centricity in their DNA to compete successfully.