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The common people have viewed tech elites being out of touch. Tech elites have some sort of moral higher ground they like to espouse but rarely have the goods to show.

You are working on ads, slurping up data and trapping people into rage baits and dramas with an economy centered around marketing and influencer types.

I don't think these tech elites should decide arbitrarily by signing some fake elitist pledge.

The USA has a democratic way of resolving these things. It should not be in the hands of a few. The executive branch is a side effect of elections and should hold the line against these tech elites.

I don't agree with the essence of these nonsense pledges either: they are actively undermining the US while living and breathing here thanks to the most advanced military and defense systems on earth.

Why are these tech elites not including things like "we won't slurp up ad data" or "we will not work on dark patterns" because it's easy to come up with BS pledges and seem like 'we are so holier than thou'.

It is a bit infuriating because this resulted in the mess we are in. The income disparity between the tech elites (the entire tech industry) and the rest of the country is so huge that I don't think empty posturing and pledges and moral superiority matters.

I do not want to be associated with these elitist people who as a group are extremely educated, talented, impactful - but in one very very tiny piece in the grand scheme of things. Doesn't automatically make you the controller of the entire world's decisions.

Dude you are building ads and doomscrolling content that is driving this country’s youth into a downward spiral.

Stop with this “building” BS.

You want a platform you can control, away from Google and Apple - you are not satisfied with slurping up people’s data and turning them into products (pretend glasses and VR crap are just that).

The galls of these SF bozos is just appalling.

It’s sad that we have shipped all our important technology to China where they really are building and instead we have a bunch of clowns pretend ‘building’ crap and are pure marketing geniuses. Nothing else.

Thank you, TIL.

Can some ELI5 why Kissinger gets the heat all the time these days?

Asking genuinely as a person who is not familiar with the US political climate before the 90s…

It's an ad network with an attached optional pair of glasses.

It's the platform Zuck always wanted to own but never had the vision beyond 'it's an ad platform with some consumer stuff in it'.

I am super impressed with the hardware (especially the neural band) but it just so happens that a very pricey car is being directly sold by an oil company as a trojan horse.

We all know what the car is for unfortunately.

I can't wait to see what Apple has in store now in terms of the hardware.

Meta really desperately wants to own a platform so they can avoid paying the Apple tax and the Google tax and directly plumb a vision to ads pipeline.

Just imagine the dollars in front of those glasses… if it only darned worked.

I really hope they don’t though because it’s beyond dystopian to own such a billboard company with a sick twist.

Why assume bad faith and bring pitch forks out? The actual scammer needs to be out - not some person who maintained it for free.

Nobody paid this OSS person - only when there is a problem do we ’accuse’ OSS maintainers not when they were actually doing their job for free.

Do you think the Agriculture minister drove tractors and tried out various fertilizers?

In a way, having a fresh mindset not bogged down by trends and status quo is actually a nice thing.

You don’t need to bring a rocket launcher to a banana fight.

Most of the queries are gonna involve setting an alarm or turn on/off a thing.

They didn’t drop the ball- they were very customer savvy and really knew what they were getting into.

I am surprised the path to AGI isn’t first paved with a simple request to the AI gods to replace cuda.

On the other hand, Microsoft does seem to have used mere mortals to write a driver/gpu independent way to run workloads in azure (Maia/Triton).

Microsoft is truly unstoppable no matter which way this whole AI race goes.

Great point - an analogy comes to mind: MSFT (and Adobe) were totally okay with (and even encouraged) students pirating Windows/Photoshop etc in non-Western countries in the hopes they grow up and carry that knowledge in a future legal venture.

They were right.

This is the hardware equivalent of that.

Only until CUDA is replaceable though: and who is gonna do that? Intel better carry through their promises in this regard.

I am sure you can make a similar argument that the chance of hitting 31 on a roulette table is ‘lower’ compared to 2021 highs or whatever imaginary gambling stat we can conjure up.

These are all made up numbers so number go down or up isn’t the issue here.

This is splendid work by Google that will benefit the rest of the ecosystem - especially with the reward program.

I wonder how this impacts (positively) Cloudflare Workers/Fly.io-style isolation (both use very different isolation mechanisms I guess).

Perhaps, thinking out loud, CF Workers had the right level of isolation to begin with (i.e. pure V8 isolation)?

I wonder how this compares with Carbon -> C++ [0].

Carbon is (was?) a fantastic proposal, but not sure if it has lost steam since it was introduced or how well it is being adopted (be it inside Google or outside)?

Being able to incrementally/interchangeably use/call existing C++ code (and vice versa) seems like a great design choice (in Carbon) without having to introspect the actual generated code.

Not sure how easy it is to get the cppfront-generated C++ to bridge with existing C++ code (and vice versa)?

[0] https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang

Haven’t octopuses already shown this to be the case? Learning from each other (even though they are pretty not-so-social creatures). The claim that bees are the first invertebrates to do social skill passing seems weird.

How much of that is compression artifacts of streaming via wifi?

It’s always a space filling curve.

I wonder if someone did a study like that 20 years after statins were released into the wild. The number of lives saved/quality of later life etc.

I wonder if there is a more productive form of it that helps learn/practice difficult technologies in a short amount of time. Say a combo of Ray tracing in a weekend, a game with reinforcement learning etc that helps people learn disparate technologies that they may not be familiar with while staying grounded on practical yet difficult problems.

FWIW AoC is great and anything that keeps the core CS spirit going seems like a good thing!

Theory meets practice. An automated theorem proves that knows about Android view hierarchy, Parcelables, Android kernel well really entirety of SELinux not to mention whatever Bluetooth firmware drivers seems quite a bit of boiling the ocean.

The actual device (not the app) does seem poorly engineered and not at all fail safe / provided with ‘might kill the patient’ error handling.

Seems like double whammy where an app and hardware conspire against its user.

Even Altman would not be good at playing Altman based on what we can decipher from this cryptic board outing.

This entire thread is fantastic and a great learning opportunity. Sent me spiraling through Wikipedia pages. This video is really great too!

For once, it’s a legit apples to oranges comparison.

In certain areas, yes.

If you visit Iceland at the right time away from city lights, it is indeed better than what the pictures claim.

It’s spectacular and magnificent.

It’s hard to take this article seriously as they don’t compare egress costs at all. That’s clearly the main advantage of cf in general.

Egress costs should make the lambda comparison look silly imo: should be an order or more cheaper with workers especially when combined with r2.

Fantastic interview. Always love great branching off points from HN.

I wonder how legit are some of the most popular download sites: e.g ffmpeg windows binaries [1] are hosted from some random person’s site. Sure you can check the checksum etc but that still doesn’t guarantee any relationship with a specific git commit.

I would just assume that non-gh or official hosted downloads (where reproducible/attested builds are available) are just state actors by default. Am I paranoid? How do Linux/Mac package managers solve this?

[1] https://ffmpeg.org/download.html

I am surprised there isn’t a browser that opens shadow webpage(s) that is unrelated but a peer to a website you are visiting.

Perhaps it’s the ad companies that need to be fed fake data not the app / site.

This is fantastic, good luck to you. We need more of people like you.

I am surprised nobody has coded a HTML/JS/CSS -> API thingamagic..

Assuming the website is public, allows login using standard JS/HTML and provides results in JS/HTML/CSS: with all the hype around GPT4 etc, wouldn't it be 'easy' to catch the bullet using some converter? And keep deploying a machine to catch up with another machine that keeps changing its "API" (i.e. the look and feel of the website in this case)

I am only partially joking.