skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the first iPhone came out, my friend showed me this app where he took a photo of a weird drink in the liquor store and about 1 minute later it responded with what it was. We later found out it simply sent that photo to a dude in Bangalore who would respond with what was in the photo. But it felt like AI at the time. Is this that?
The whole point of tents is to protect you from the elements. Sounds like you had a poor quality tent, or it was set up in a low spot that pools water.
And football managers.
Not so much "the rich" as the vast majority of voters and a large section of the population. From "Rethinking the economics of land and housing":

> One important effect has been on the interests and aspirations of the electorate: the last thirty years have witnessed an expansion in the number of voters who have a vested interest in the buoyancy of the housing market, and a marked decline in the constituency of voters with an interest in social housing

> This has triggered a shift in political attitudes on issues of housing and resulted in a much greater focus on meeting homeowners’ aspirations. Overall these factors represent a profound shift in the way that land and property has been perceived in British society.

> Whereas 100 years ago houses were mostly regarded as simply somewhere to live, today homeownership is promoted as an investment opportunity which offers long-term financial security in the face of stagnating wages, dwindling pensions and reduced state welfare provision. To politicians and much of the general public alike, houses are no longer perceived as universal consumption goods but rather as vehicles for accumulating wealth.

> Homeownership has become perceived by many as ‘the essential step to obtain membership of an expanding middle class for whom housing equity was pivotal in a broader lifestyle of credit based and housing equity fuelled consumption’ (Forrest et al., 1999). [...] underpinning this has been a deregulation and liberalisation of the financial sector and a rapid increase in income and wealth inequalities.

> This marks the final major shift in land’s economic significance, as high levels of owner-occupation, a deregulated housing finance system and growing inequalities have combined to create a system of ‘residential capitalism’ (Schwartz and Seabrooke, 2008). In turn, the political dominance of homeowners – both in national elections and in local planning decisions – has ensured that their interests have been protected and subsidised by government policy (Keohane and Broughton, 2013).

For the avoidance of doubt, I don't think this is a desirable or sustainable situation. I just thought it was helpful to expand on the contributing factors.
Whence, Wherefore, Whither Utopia?
quiet exploitation of surplus labor
The volume will increase so much that the only choice will be automated curation tools, at least as a first pass. The arms race is on.
It's not just the ads, control, and trust though. It's also about software performance. Holy mackerel my TCL Roku-infested TV is slow. I just want it to turn on and switch to HDMI input. The software apparently feels a strong need to remind me that it exists.
I am not aware cial, usually shipped in bulk and very easily stored, was ever delivered JIT. But whatever, JIT was already the reason why the chip supply from Asia to overseas car factories was disrupted, at least according to certain people without the slightest clue of how JIT works. Or supply chains in general...
The big problem here is that due to how soft the material has to be to cut, the lifespan on these is going to be somewhere in the realm of 1-10 plays.
This seems like a simple semantic disagreement (and a kind of baffling one, frankly). Particularly cartoonish CEOs might think the word "fair" is code for "everybody in the world gets exactly the same of everything", but the vast majority of people use the word colloquially to include some degree of intuition and rationality and holism (like most words in normal conversation). E.g. almost nobody believes that all human beings should be paid the same salary no matter what they do, yet most people believe that everybody should get "what's fair", for whatever they subjectively believe is fair.
Yes architecture is important. Yes, there are various software models that may fit in the general case. Seeing this short list is semi-useful, but the key is knowing the problem you wish to solve and how it fits within an organization.

There are no silver bullets. You still need to do the analysis, you still need to understand the technical competencies associated with any possible solution, and you won't get a good solution for your organization just by saying, "Domain-driven design (for example) is the way to go here." if the organization isn't prepared to make the investments in time and money required. If you expect to do an enterprise architecture, find an architect or three and give them a team to actually do the job. It will take longer than you would think.
(I just realized this could be a meta-joke on the plot of the game and, if so, I salute you good commenter. ;) )
Of course it wouldn't be a breach if the data just popped up on your screen without you actively trying to access it.
But if you, knowingly, access material you shouldn't have access to, it could be a breach of ToS.

> Breach of ToS != crime.

Breaching a contract is not generally a crime either. But it might lead to a civil case.
Helium, Pump and Dump
Why bother? Because the next generation of hardware will be able to use most of the software written for the current generation, and after a few generations the hardware will be well supported very quickly.

Additionally there's a lot of shared code between the different linux graphics drivers through Mesa, the linux userspace graphics driver framework.
If you look out long-term, 2030s and 2040s, this is where all of this is likely going.

Right now the pool of content you might be interested in is constrained to all the content that has been made. But there may be better content that does not exist yet that you would be even more interested in. The future is going to be very weird, but also very entertaining
Hey, get one character to start a conversation with another character, and you basically have social media.
Most of these planes are used as puddle jumpers in the first place: they aren't used because of the long distances involved, they are used because of terrain. Refueling infrastructure is pretty easy (Alaska has grids, A LOT of localized hydro).
Disrespectful is interpreting words in bad faith. Obviously OP didn't literally mean 1 month.
Honestly I almost asked a similar question because this is so humanlike. But why would they need so many geniuses just to scam people like that?
Team size seems to have become the new "corner office" in terms of managers self measurement. When the iPhone was still super secret, having a locked hallway was Apple's "corner office". A manager was on track to get their Tesla Roadster if they could get their team working on iOS and get their hallways locked behind an extra set of badge readers. This continued for a few years after the iPhone's release as the Mac and iOS software teams were still not fully integrated.
Cosmodoc: 141K words about how the DOS game Cosmo’s Cosmic Adventure worked
Doesn’t a majority of the hash rate come from Chinese miners by hydroelectric dams? I remember there was flooding in China a year or two ago that wiped out like 50% of the hash rate. I’m always very skeptical of estimates about Bitcoin’s environmental cost. You can definitely roughly estimate the amount of power consumed. But understanding how that power is generated is much more difficult.
They have a feature for that. Scroll down. It's called Rooms.
My uneducated opinion is this company had some downsizing and restructuring coming. But the leading edge of a big wave of downsizes might look like this, too.
A front-end framework isn't exactly the kind of thing the engineers I'm talking about work on... there are 10's of thousands of engineers at Google. A good number of them aren't building systems per se. But if you want to learn how to build systems, some folks in there are crazy good.
Why do you need consumers when you have machines making most of what you want? Then you just need to be able to trade things with other people who have different machines and resources from yourself to get the bits you can't have made by your machines.
DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion
The only BigTech company that I’ve worked for is Amazon and there are plenty of articles about how features and products get approved at Amazon.

How does this even happen at any company that isn’t a conglomerate based on acquisitions?

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/21/22538240/google-chat-allo...
I was replying to the person above me that specifically mentioned the results of Google CEO giving money to employees, so it was high relevance.

As to the "since the 1990s," all of those are quite oddly cherry picked. The actual facts on CEO pay in those stories forgets that actual CEO pay is the following: in May 2021, there were 200,480 CEOs, with mean annual wages of $213,020 [1]. Mean annual pay across all workers is $58,260 [2].

So, if you were honest about understanding

>there are hundreds of thousands of companies serving consumers

all these companies, then your claim is wrong. CEOs across these hundreds of thousands of companies make less than 4x the median wage, which I just demonstrated.

To get the ridiculous numbers people rage over, that you're likely thinking apply to CEOs in general (and certainly not the "hundreds of thousands of companies" that you mention), you must only take a tiny handful of top paid CEOs (who change positions from year to year as pay bonuses and such vest, making it yet more bad stats, but good for headlines) and compare this tiny fraction to all workers (with annual mean pay of $58260[2]).

Why not be fair and compare the top 0.01% (around 20 of them as is usual in the articles that you claim are "very well documented") of highest paid CEOs to the top 0.01% of highest paid workers? Because that won't generate enough outrage. Yet it's vastly a better metric, statistically defensible.

If someone did this type of shoddy comparison on nearly any other topic people would rightfully call foul for bad statistics.

As a good example, comparing the wages of all CEOs ($200K) to the top tiny fraction of workers (say, top silicon valley programmers for example, all well over $400k), would make the headline that "Workers earn over twice what CEOs do!". And of course you would (and should) call this dishonest. Because comparing outliers of one set to the median of another is dishonest.

So why would you accept the same bad reasoning when it suits your world view?

[1] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes111011.htm

[2] https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm
Your position is ludicrous. Russia invaded Ukraine. They are clearly at war with Ukraine. There is no valid historical or political justification for this.

You're absolutely right that war doesn't just happen. Putin made a conscious choice to invade a neighboring country, and one with which you'd had close ties at that, leading to all of this suffering and needless death. The only thing that isn't obvious here is whether you believe what you're saying or are intentionally spreading nonsense.
It was reasonably common in the ancient (Mediterranean) world iirc, so I guess there was some understanding or expectation around it from creditors. I think they didn’t really have bankruptcy and debts were inherited so this was the only way for them to be reset. I think there was also a story about Julius Caesar preventing a popular debt-resetting by himself taking on an enormous debt and then arguing that as Rome’s most indebted citizen, he would benefit the most and so it wouldn’t be fair for himself to forgive all debts and thereby his own.
If they held the patent defensively, that would be one thing.

But this is not that. They are suing Meta for damages. That doesn't happen unless Voxer brings it to court.

It's not like Voxer wrote the patents, sold them off, then is getting money because TrollCo is suing Meta for infringement of those patents. No, Voxer is suing. We can completely blame them if they are suing based on shit patents.
I would love to know what exactly is the challenge GitHub is facing. No doubt it’s a limitation somewhere in GitHub’s internal tooling or architecture, and almost certainly a multi-variate sort of chicken and egg problem, but I would be fascinated to learn what.
You can get an SOC with the rated specs for < $300 on AliExpress, so add screen, battery, case & assembly I would guess at least $599.
In locations of significant fall out the Sv./hr could be high enough to induce radiation poisoning. Inhalation of fallout allows alpha particles to bypass your skin and cause cancers faster (or again, radiation poisoning).

A better example than those bombings is chernobyl which despite it's relatively small sized (compared to actual nuclear weapons) induced significant levels of radiation sickness and long term cancers due to the fallout.

Certainly fallout is less dangerous than starvation. However, it also isn't something to just hand wave as not a big deal. It hinders your travel, can cause various degrees of sickness, etc. I dont think it's a far stretch to say that the total effect of a large scale nuclear war will primarily be felt in the fallout which will cause deaths in places completely uneffected by the war.
The fact that it can't keep doing it forever, and its investors expect that if Google is going to keep expanding its headcount and keep spending tons of money that it will produce results.

Nobody would mind if Google just printed money with ads. That is what the trade desk basically does (TTD), and it's a comparatively very small company. Google could be the most profitable company per employee in history if it wanted to, and it wouldn't lose anything from its core money-making functions. Instead, Google wanted to build a grand technology empire.

If you're going to act like a rockstar, when the lights come on, you better be dancing up on the stage. The lights are turning on right now, and I don't think anyone sees anyone dancing.
I don't use Chrome and this is not related to Chrome. In fact, this is on a pretty fresh MacOS (Monterey) install.
This sounds like a re-brand...
We all saw it coming, it was only a matter of time. Shame, because the business model was the real problem here.. the streaming tech was and still is very viable.
Most certainly not a lie. The person tweeting that was a member of the Stadia team. If they didn't believe Stadia is going to be fine, why wouldn't they jump ship earlier?
It's practically impossible to spin stuff out of Google because of interdependencies with the rest of google3 (the monorepo), not to mention assumptions about infrastructure. You might as well completely rebuild the entire thing from scratch.
Does anyone know anything about the size of this model? Number of parameters or flops? I couldn't find anything in the paper.
Easy things are easy in CSS. Hard things are... possible. Sometimes barely so. Sometimes impossible without JS. BUT, the easy things are generally easy.
Glaciers slide down hill. As they accumulate mass in the accumulation zone, even when it's cold, they are pushed down the hill. So a glacier which is growing in size will still be moving down hill.

https://asf.alaska.edu/information/glacier-power/glacier-pow...
It's not just about the quality of content. Facebook's value prop is about creating a social experience around the content.
Facts about State Machines
It is absolutely part of a propaganda campaign. Workers are more and more tired of the work options and expectations being presented to us, and are talking about it publicly more, trying to figure out what else is possible or change the dynamics some.

Plus a lot of people just died which at least somewhat shifts the balance of power towards workers. This whole quiet quitting propaganda campaign, as well as I think the related "return to office" one, is intended as a threat: "The expectations are the same, the conditions will not change, and you will accept it."
Workers are the solution here since they provide a security boundary. Access to the outside world must then be intermediated by your app. You might provide a version of fetch inside the worker that works through postMessage or SharedArrayBuffer allowing your app to filter the requests made by the untrusted script inside the worker.
I just noticed that the Twitter link shows a 1 minute video of the conversation, and scrolls down it slowly. Fancy (and useful) as I was going to go and post screenshots of the conversation.
> Managers at all levels should form lists of employees to let go if better or harder-working talent becomes available, says Jay McDonald, an executive coach who sits on the board of several Atlanta-area companies.

What a tone deaf statement. Conveniently Jay McDonald defines "better or harder-working talent" as people who are willing to perform additional labor for free.

I am by no means an "Eat the rich" kind of person...but I sure do understand why that sentiment is getting more popular when "executive coaches who sit on the board of several companies" have the balls to make a statement like this, especially now, given the current economic issues we're facing.
Why would VPs be interested in using different building entrances?
> Valve makes so much money being the only real PC gaming platform that they stopped making games.

The Steam Deck is an incredible device. And Alyx is one of the truly great games made for VR (which they pioneered generally). It might not be much but I'm not writing off Valve entirely.
EaaS extends XaaS and removes developer bottlenecks
> nothing much has changed, only the perception of the public.

I would say things have changed: directly in google services, they are worse everyday (ads in youtube, useless search engine etc.) and also indirect: they forced their black box in all sites' SEO and also adsales on so many sites that they are slowly ruining the internet for everyone else too.
What an awful way to announce that. Q&A is over folks, everyone go back to their desk and start working again - good luck!
Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022
I guess it's probably something along the lines of "LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications" (see https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08239 ). Given that the three first authors are part of the team at Character.ai (see https://beta.character.ai/help)
> I disagree, because for 99% of gamers not trying to play competitive games, it’s virtually unnoticeable.

I agree with your disagreement here. For me streaming game services don't have a lot of technical hurdles.

> Overall I’m bullish on cloud gaming, because I don’t want to invest hundreds of dollars regularly to update my PC or console hardware just to play games like Stray or something like that.

I disagree here. I hate the idea of streaming/cloud gaming. I will never sign up for such a service. I don't want a monthly bill, I enjoy building computers. I want to have the content on my local machine thank you very much.

The subscription model I think has already proven it self be consumer hostile. I don't want to subscribe to Adobe, I don't want to subscribe to Office, just let me buy the damn thing outright.
I can understand why that'd happen. Where I live, in France atm, there's one cell tower around. And when it's down, it's down. I know because in June there have been one hour of electrical blackout about once a week and, well, our smartphones weren't working anymore. I don't even bother with an UPS or a 4G router for my network: when there's no electricity, nothing is working anymore anyway.

Stuff that keeps working for a few hours: the Kindle, tablet and local files on the laptops. So there's that.
some TVs came with cameras, for gesture based remote control.

yes, it was found that the cameras were abused.

or what if the malware took screenshots of what you were watching every so often? oh wait, that was also found to be a built-in "feature".

otherwise, they are a foothold onto the rest of your internal LAN, possibly with other more vital IoT devices ready to be compromised, or at least serve as a botnet army
You are assuming that the accumulation of money and power is the primary motivation, opposed to a byproduct or simply a means to an end.

>I'm not attempting to read Dorsey's mind. I'm just saying there is in fact something to gain by accumulating more money.

It seems like you were doing a lot more than making a theoretical point.

"It's never enough for them."
No this is an actual AI.
Precisely manipulate nanowires with sub-micron accuracy for future chips
Maybe PR teams shouldn't get a free pass to say whatever they want. If your PR team can just lie to the public due to "ignorance" it becomes very very profitable to lie to your own PR team.
Not as such. AI isn't magic, it's fuzzy pattern matching based on existing data. We couldn't just show it some stone out of nowhere and have it "think" or "reason" about what to do with it.

If on the other hand you had a model otherwise trained on a bunch of hieroglyphics<-->English data, then sure probably.
Nah, it's not. Consultants pump out CRUD apps with 4th rate engineers left and right.

About 10 people on planet earth could have come up with Spanner.

I'm just talking about engineering. I'm not talking about building products which get market acceptance, which is a lot more than engineering, and might be your point.
Didn't Adobe(?) post a full presentation about what they learned doing Lua for a full application (Lightroom maybe?)? Overall, it wasn't great.

Unfortunately, I can't seem to find it anymore. I wonder if the HN hivemind can cough it up.
DHCPv6 works just fine with everything else I have on my network. Blame Android developers for being pigheaded.
It's hard to say. If the emulation to compute a single frame finishes before the frame deadline elapses then the latency caused by emulation is effectively zero.
Perhaps a more generic "value alignment" would better capture both the study du jour and the Nike example.
You're right, it seems to be "LaMDA" (see https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08239 ). The three first authors are part of the Character.ai team.
Yes.

Putting the code in escrow with a third party like Iron Mountain doesn’t give you access to the code unless the company folds or the product is discontinued.

I’ve been on the other side at another company where we were forced to put our own code in escrow by a large customer. I suggested we do the same for this vendor to our director he had the lawyers do everything else.

In fact when I was on the other side, our company did go out of business (got acquired for scraps), the escrow conditions were triggered, I was laid off as soon as we got acquired and went to work for the customer as a decently paid contractor.
Tax cuts aren't debt funded. Tax cuts are free. The (arguably excessive) government spending is what is debt funded.
> experience the warmth of lo-fi audio.

I wonder if what some people think of warmth of lo-fi is connected to the effect of white/pink/brown noises discussed earlier today at
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32998960
Don't worry too much, Google Voice had been in that state for at least a decade and I'm still using it. (Not official statement, just long-time GV user, if your font is large enough to read in GV app it's because I complained internally and that was the only user-facing thing I ever got to improve).
Okay, that's pretty good. We have been collectively roasted.
I agree, just not sure what your comment meant in regards to that. Ie the decision is made by quarters, yea, what does that have to do with the parent comment?