skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I normally respect Ars a lot for their reporting, but they also conveniently ignore Minecraft that not only continues to get support on other platforms but other platforms also get any of the spinoffs.

To my knowledge Microsoft never made any commitment saying that Bethesda games would always come out on other platforms.

I also still think that Sony is being incredibly hypocritical here with how they are responding considering their love of making exclusive contracts. Final Fantasy being a big example right now but it seems to be a trend that Square and Sony will continue.

It remains to be seen how Sony will actually handle Bungie.

Ultimately the way I see it, is the Activision deal actually a good thing? I don't know, it is a lot of studios going under Microsoft. But on the flip side Sony has a very nasty tendency of getting cocky in gaming and making some very anti consumer decisions. Ex: The price of the PS3, backwards compatibility, cross play multiplayer, and others.

The simple fact is we need competition in the console marketplace, without it I doubt we would have ever gotten any playstation games on PC, which they still seem reluctant to support at all.
There are lots different scams to pull, and you can't know which ones they'll be pulling until you get further into it. Suppose you say "sure I'll sell, how much will you pay?" "Oh lots of money, I represent Nigerian princes of limitless wealth, but first you must convert your artworks to NFTs." "Sure thing, how?" "I am expert in this process, you just need to pay me the gas fees required to mint the NFTs". From here they can go a few ways. They could just quote a standard market rate in gweis, and you'll be like "in what?", and they'll explain that a gwei is a billionth of an Ether, a trivial amount, and you'll google all that and determine "oh yeah, of course people pay gas fees to mint NFTs in gweis", so you ask "ok, how do I send you gweis?" They could send you to a scam site that will try to drain whatever source of money you tried to buy gweis with, or they could tell you legitimately, then you send them your gweis, and they could just fuck off with your money and celebrate a scam well done. But if they have your gas fees, they could keep it going by explaining the prince is eager to buy the NFTs, now you just need to create an account on the NFT marketplace he uses, which you'll google and realize "well of course I need to gwei up for a marketplace account", so maybe you send more gweis to the scammer to create the account, or the scammer sends you to a third party site from which they get a referral commission, but ideally the scammer sends you to a sham NFT marketplace that they run and keep the proceeds from. Then they could fuck off with even more of your money and celebrate a scam well done. But since you're in this deep, they're going to milk it, and explain how the prince has transferred a trillion gweis to the marketplace to buy your NFTs, all you need to do is list them on the marketplace. I'm guessing you can see where this is headed...listing them on the marketplace requires a listing fee! Google confirms all this is perfectly normal. You're hesitant, but the prince is a busy man, and in a hurry to close the transaction. This is not just a one time deal, he's an ongoing benefactor to a select group of Instagram AI artists who are now fabulously wealthy...but he can't be inconvenienced with delays like this! He's being driven to one of his jets, and if you don't list the NFTs by takeoff time, the deal will be scuttled!!
>> you can't stop progress

Yes we can, it's actually very easy. Just throw in some regulation. Not convinced by USA and the EU? Then look at the Arabic countries, where women must wear head scarfs. Or to North Korea and Cuba, where they essentially legislated that time should go backwards, and time does go backwards.

Smart regulation that forbids the things we don't want and promote the things we want is the holy grail, and--for now--people have agency to create that regulation.
Also,

> I encourage all of you to find more opportunities to work with your colleagues in person

...I wonder if these layoffs will be an opportunity for managers to get rid of some of those pesky employees who insist on working remotely - with the welcome side effect of "encouraging" the remaining ones to "embrace" the return to old ways of working with more enthusiasm?
Free Git GUI for Mac and Windows
In the "In-person time helps build relationships and get more done" section, looks like they're setting the groundwork to force a back-to-office plan.
They’re apartments, not “cells.” And owning land doesn’t prevent indigence: it can make it worse.

A good chunk of my family “owns land” in the Deep South, which is much more bucolic sounding than “lives in a mobile home next to the town dump.”
A sufficiently good LLM would not produce neonazi propaganda when asked to write a HS paper, regardless of whether it had been 'aligned' or not.
I think they are referring to this: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Soydev

Appears to be a derogatory term that, by diminishing the efforts and abilities of others, is used to make one feel better about one's self.
Meta still has so much talent, especially in the AI space. I consider them probably just as talented as the deepmind folks, if not more so. They can still achieve world domination for sure.
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No, if the spectator happens to open an empty door, the probability collapses to 50/50. That's the point I'm making for how counterintuitive this is. Here's the full set of cases. Let's say that you select door 1 and spectator opens door 2 (all other cases are permutations of this):

Door1 Door2 Door3

Car Empty Empty

Empty Car Empty

Empty Empty Car

Let's suppose your strategy is to stick with your original choice. In the first case above then you get the car. In the second case the audience member stumbles upon the car and you lose. In the third case you lose because you stick with an empty door. All three cases are equally likely and since the second one ends, and you know that your game didn't end, you know that you're either in case 1 or case 2. Your chance is thus 50/50.

The issue is that in the classic MH problem, cases 2 and 3 are collapsed into one outcome (MH opens an empty door), but that's not true here.

More mathematically, you should ask yourself p(Door1 | Game Did Not End).

Using Bayes we see

p(Door1 | GDNE) = p(GDNE | Door1) * p(Door1) / p(GDNE).

p(GDNE | Door1) = 1
p(Door1) = 1/3
p(GDNE) = p(GDNE|Door1)p(Door1) + p(GDNE|Not Door1)p(Not Door1) = 11/3 + 1/22/3 = 2/3.

This, p(Door1 | GDNE) = 1 * (1/3) / (2/3) = 1/2.
I think you missed the point. Companies are not citizens therefore, op argued, as non citizens they should not have a voice in election outcomes. It’s a fair point, as a comparison we don’t allow visa holders to vote.

I also suspect the citizens were influenced in their opinions by all the money spent to ‘educate’ the electorate. Somehow it feels wrong to allow a corporation to pay to set school curriculums, but when it comes to corporations paying to set policy that’s entirely ok.
I honestly am not that familiar with this space. How realistic is it that someone could self-host a ChatGPT instance?

Assuming the model was available, how big are the models and what kind of hardware is necessary to run the instance?
Mark lays it out pretty simply in the letter. People don't want surprise layoffs. They'd rather know ahead of time what leadership's planning. It's a tough pill to swallow but this is what a lot of people asked for.
In 2022, WooCommerce had a market share of 36.68%, making it the leading e-commerce platform worldwide. Online stores use transactional emails to send notifications to their customers, such as receipts or order confirmations. So, WooCommerce also needs a working email-sending functionality.
Worth noting that macOS has a “low data mode” which solves several of these issues. Apps can hook into it also.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/449668/what-is-low...
And from what I remember, many of the retention models also got screwed up (people weren’t quitting as often as before).
Interestingly, I did learn about that later as a kid, which stuck with me for a completely different reason: the new year used to start on my birthday! (March 25th)
Sony didn't buy an existing multi-platform game franchise and make it exclusive with though. Their most recent purchase was Bungie and Destiny remains multiplatform.

Of God of War and Horizon, the first was from an internally founded studio, and the latter was purchased all the way back in 2005.
That kind of cookie-cutter site generation is already kind of possible without AI. The AI might dream up the design (which is cool, and certainly a threat to designers). But all the hard parts of actual logic that would be unique to this project still needs to be specified, implemented, verified.

Now you might say: but what's so special about a shoe store? Payment, inventory, shopping carts, databases - it can all be the same as every other shoe store!

But that's the key takeaway here. If you work in something where the next deployment has much in common with the last one: then your job is at risk. But these jobs have been eaten by SaaS for a long time. An "online store as a service" was a thing long before AI.

Could AI help take over this type of software development even more? Sure. But that's like machines taking over dull industrial jobs. We shouldn't worry about being out of a job, we should be happy that we can do more interesting things than what the machines can do, just like we could stop weaving fabric.
I'll toss out a 6th point that AI as I've seen it so far is beyond useless at answering "I" questions, but OK at answering "groupthink" questions.

Ask AI if "I" should use AWS, GCP, Azure, private cloud, or ? Instead of an answer explaining what "I" should do you can only get a generic groupthink comparison of "well, Azure is pricey for DB compared to AWS" and no interpretation.
There's a model called Ziepher's F111 that greatly improves human anatomy. You can merge F111 with other models in automatic1111, something like 80% SD1.5 and 20% F1111 greatly improves human anatomy, including hands.
Update on Meta’s Year of Efficiency

Great title.
From the text it appears at least some of these people are quite literally warned of their potential firing with this message.
I’d rather hear what Ja Rule has to say!
that photo of the chicken barn is terrifying
Joshua, is that you?
I wonder if anyone has proven this experimentally or by logging results of the gameshow. Seeing it work in real life would help the naysayers.
I think it is fair to say that "not at all possible" is perhaps too strong. On the potential of certain approaches I am less certain we have or know what we need.

But we also have examples of things all around us we cannot make ourselves (e.g., a simple animal or lifeform from scratch).
> - Updates that you don't need right now cannot be cancelled, paused or rate-limited and will just eat your entire data cap with no warning.

You should be able to turn off "check for updates" and "download new update when available", and only manually check for updates at a time and network location of your choice.

Search for "to set update options" on this page: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/keep-your-mac-up-to...

But you may mean something different than I was thinking; maybe you don't find this functionality suitable, or find it doesn't work properly?
I'm pretty sure it's allowed these days
> A slow train wreck that was avoidable.

Avoidable? Yes, but for which price? Our economy, and thus wellbeing, depend on having huge quantities of cheap energy available.

You think pollution is bad? Ask the hundreds of million of people who chose to move from the pristine country to a polluted city along the last centuries!

Pollution is bad, but lack of energy is worse. When our technology will let us stop polluting without giving up comfort, that will be the right time to stop polluting.
"Let's just hire people and give them obnoxious compensation packages before another FAANG gets them" may not be a business strategy that works in the lean times.
Sony's actually made an effort to get many newer games ported to PC, and Steam Deck verified.
What do intelligence agencies use LLMs for? A thought experiment
And the stock is up 120% since three months, of the low of $88. Obviously no-one bought it back then when they were expecting the stock to go to zero.

Once again, Meta's death has been greatly exaggerated on this site.
No he's really referring to projects being shut down as "garbage collection", and I agree it is super heartless. It's interesting that Sheryl Sandberg left in the fall and now official comms from Mark like this are much less human--you can really see the absence of someone like Sheryl who could say to Mark, "hey this sounds terrible to real people, don't do this" and not get fired for it.
Also two of the three last posts of the account you replied to are just tweets from the Dot3D founder...
Oh what's that? Microsoft has a future of work event in a couple of days? Better pre-empt it.

"Available for select developers. Stay tuned for the waitlist soon"

When the order to pre-empt comes too quick to get your waitlist landing page approved.
No. The fact that they happened to not open the door with the car tells you something. Take it to the extreme of 100 doors. If the spectator randomly opens 98 doors and doesn't randomly stumble upon the car you should take that as evidence that you might have the car yourself. This extra evidence in favor of staying with your door exactly cancels the original MH advantage of switching.
At least 70% of mid/senior jobs are full remote in my country, or at least advertised at such (based on my data of ~30k job adverts). It's a developing country so salaries do not match US salaries by a large margin, but those are the facts, and I haven't really heard of anybody being forced to work from the office in my environment (although naturally I think that such stuff happens).
Does anyone have a `curl` that hits the palm API or does it not really exist yet?
This is just false. People tolerate watching things on small screens without good audio, sure, but that doesn't mean people prefer it. TVs are still found in every home even though they are rarely hooked up to anything other than internet streaming any more.

The reason sound systems aren't as popular as they were in the 80s is that most modern TVs come with decent stereo sound, and bluetooth headphones are excellent. People are buying decent amplifiers and speakers, built in to other things because manufacturers know that they will get more sales if they make the built-in audio quality of their devices better.
I'm sure this is a great strat that companies already use.

- Recruit people to a new project that has a selection bias towards under-performers (or some other characteristic you want to weed-out)

- Let the project rot for a quarter

- Cut the project and all its teammates
This is a thought experiment exploring current state-of-the-art and future trends in LLMs used by intelligence agencies and their implications on our online privacy. Is this a realistic scenario? Is it not going far enough?
I'm not sure why any business would trust Microsoft with anything. They have decades of history of finding loophole into any contract or just outright breaking deals.

On their gaming branch they managed to repaint themselves as saint to community but the way they have been stacking major studio and distributors acquisitions is quite worrying. Once the Activision one is finished they will definitely have monopoly over several types of games (but probably not if you look at it as a whole).
“Year of Efficiency”? Hoo boy… is Zuck picking up his management strategies from a podcast/YouTube channel? I mean, I shouldn’t/wouldn’t be surprised by that but still, wow. Playing in the kiddie pool.

(Strongly reminiscent of the Cortex podcast’s “yearly themes”. Which I like! But… I’m not running one of the world’s largest companies, am I?)
Depending on the country and specific circumstances, such photographs might be covered by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_panorama.
Amazon unveils satellite internet antenna for its Project Kuiper network
Dan Davies On The SVB Failure And Its Implications
Probably one of the savviest banking analysts out there and author of Lying For Money
O(Cn) and O(n) are the same. But yes the title is wrong
>Our efficiency work has several parallel workstreams to improve organizational efficiency, dramatically increase developer productivity and tooling, optimize distributed work, garbage collect unnecessary processes, and more.

All the tools in the world but you can't have a quiet office
I wonder how much of this is the optics from the Riley Rojas types. That caused a real shit storm, and may have finally exposed upper mgmt to just how little most Meta employees do.

She's still employed there though. I can't imagine she'll ever be fired, too much legal risk.
> Pretty rich for Sony to complain about exclusives. I guess Sony considers Call of Duty more of a game changer than the God of War and Horizon franchises.

I would have agreed with you if you were to mention Sony deals with Square Enix, but both God of War and Horizon were pretty much in house exclusives, developed by studios funded directly by Sony, like Halo was for Microsoft at some point.

Activision is a massive corporation, though, and the CoD franchise routinely earns hundreds of millions of dollars per release. The scale is nowhere comparable.
Don't they have an enormous cash pile? How does that translate to poor performance?
Oh, I went to Church every Sunday and I went to Catholic school. I know all this stuff. I am telling you what actually makes sense to me. None of the stuff that Church tradition passes down makes any sense at all unless you look at it from the perspective of Paul. He took a pauper's religion with a dead leader and went around spreading it, completely forming it in his own way in order to cater to spread and politics (no circumcision needed! eat pork, it's fine...).

Basically, The Church == Paul, and Paul never met Jesus.

If you want to say that 'The Old Testament' is 'people's misunderstanding of things back in the day', then you can also say that 'The New Testament' is a do-over with Paul incorporating as much stuff as possible to appeal to the people of his time. Jesus never wrote a word of it.

If anything could be 'from the mouth of God' it is the Old Testament, and it is the only thing that actually seems to have any logic to it. The NT stuff is just nonsense because it all comes down to if God is all powerful then he is CHOOSING not to act in certain ways which make him IMMORAL and therefore God cannot be the basis of a good morality. Take that for what you want, but if you read it with any rationality it has to be that way. Now, if you want to be Christian for all the good things it espouses -- great! But don't try to convince me that it isn't nonsense.
> I wish the investors had put Zuck in his place

Mark Zuckerberg has 55% of the company's voting shares, giving him majority power.
> Cryptographic signatures paired with identity information makes all transactions easily verifiable for tax collection purposes.

I don’t think they even care who pays the tax as long as it gets paid. They aren’t going to not take your money if they can’t verify you’re the legal owner.

> I would much prefer a hardened blockchain system to secure my property ownership record, than the current situation.

The current system isn’t even digital. There’s some sort of master book or something that records every title transaction since there’s been a legal claim on the property. I’m pretty sure the one for my house is archived with the title insurance company, probably something I should know.
It's an insult to have to read that much text for so little content.
We were looking for something like that for a while now!
Yes you can can. If someone says they have a Beeple, and signed by someone other than Beeple, they don't have a Beeple.

Same way as if I receive a 'real and valid' message claiming to be you, but not signed by you, I can't say it was you that sent me the message.
Well, you get no severance if you quit, but if you sit at your desk and watch youtube all day you get a "pip" and 3 or more months paid time off if they let you go.
Basically the same business model Solar City, and a whole bunch of other PV start-ups, tried and failed with. In this model, you take the capital requiremts, someone has to fund the equipment, and the resource requirements, selling once every twenty year purchases to consumers requires loads of people, combine them together and hope all the hot VC money will allow you to squeeze enough existing companies out to create a comfortable nieche for yourself by the time VC money isn't there anymore...
Smaller biotechnology don't compete with big pharma they collaborate and partner with them every step of the way. They need companies like Pfizer which have the resources and expertise to fund more R&D, complete clinical trials and get drugs approved world wide.
It’s possible that Uber and Lyft drivers are simply not dumb enough to believe that the legislature is going to magically conjure a 401k match and PTO for their 10 hour/week driving side gig.
I don't work at Meta, but if its anything like where I currently work, the ones who become "managers" have no correlation to coding performance, or perfomance at all for that matter.
its quite depressing but it applies to much of corporate structure and incentives.

how much more performance can you squeeze from an individual that:

i) is not intrinsic to who they are (hence visible when you hire them - if its not the right profile just don't hire them)

ii) is not tied to your own bloated structure, toxic culture and messed up processes and hence none of their fault

is that 10%, 20% extra performance? is that sufficient to satisfy the "markets"? when its your vision and business model is what is really the problem.
And it was mentioned only as one item among others: “We do this with AI to help you creatively express yourself and discover new content, with the metaverse to deliver a realistic sense of presence, with new media formats to …” and “Our leading work building the metaverse and shaping the next generation of computing platforms ….”