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Google has since fired other folks on her team and was in crisis mode to protect Dean. Like, I’m not really going to give them the benefit of the doubt on this.

When people brought Dean up Timnit came up as something to consider, it’s interesting to see how all anyone has to say in these threads is reverence towards him. People should try to see the whole picture.

Even if they stole technology they'd need a time machine to be where they're at now since they're ahead of others. I wouldn't put it past Intel to imply they stole from their upcoming node but, if so, it's not like Intel has that out yet...

It's been out for over 15 years now, you'd hope they'd add some street view...

Intel certainly do run machines 24/7 but perhaps those R&D engineers/PhD's don't, so maybe only the techie's running the machines have full coverage...?

Check out some of the recent highlights from https://killedbygoogle.com

- All Google Code Competitions, which had gone on for 19 years

- Jacquard, there IOT clothing attempt, around for 9 years

- Stadia, shorter but their cloud gaming attempt around for 3 years

Google killing Jacquard and Stadia seems run of the mill but the first one! When I was in college I remember people talking about google code jam and I wasn't even into coding then. That seems like a big retreat and I must have missed HN discussing it because, just wow.

Where and how often? I get a notice every time I update my OS for things I don't care about. But imagining every time I opened my main search interface that I saw an ad... no thanks.

I think it’s reasonable to critique anything and everything. People have, historically, been over eager to believe any AI hype. Hence the numerous AI winters.

> Because some Microsoft engineer missed a bug

That might be a bit too kind given how much Google liked to Oops Firefox. Wouldn't be surprised if MS did too.

Oops:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3389882/former-mozilla...

> capacity is bought up by large new datacenters from the likes of Microsoft and Google

That is surprising but also makes a lot of sense. Companies go for the already built cheaper option to maintain that they’re going green while taking it from others! That’s actually kind of harmful and they should have to pay for building energy if they want the moral credit for it.

“Three years of profit” over 25 years, not accounting for inflation.

Perhaps the first comment was too harsh but let’s not be overly generous.

Elon has said he wanted more reach and experimented with getting it. He also loves attention and tweets a ton.

There’s benefit of the doubt then there’s just… whatever the polar opposite of that is.

I don't think so. The post claims there's ways to deal with spam without trusting single authorities to police it.

Additionally, the linked post explains that if you get flagged as spam or "sending to many emails" there's literally no way to fix it without sounding the alarm in a post like this.

This is one of the first review sites I got into, and really set the standard for what I came to expect from reviews. I fell into and out of photography a lot but I was always left wanting... this, exactly this in whatever other tech things I was interested in.

I learned a lot reading the review, and trusted them a lot. I just recommended them to a sibling a week ago for a camera rental. These days I don't get emotional or attached to websites (or companies) but this one hits, and hard.

Good-ness can be a creeping thing. If you're excited to work for a company because it does an actual measurable good you probably are inclined to care about and advocate for the people around you.

Wish them luck in keeping that fairness to the artists and themselves going strong.

A bit presumptuous to say the latest way to transmit photos is by a specific company. Pretty sure most news papers don’t use starlink.

I feel like many threads said Apple’s main advantage was process.

So with a better process Apple and mobile chips can become even more power efficient than intel chips?

Hard to piece this info together with that.

Being alone can feel so different depending on the circumstances.

Being asked to sit alone during a study could make me feel uncomfortable wondering if they’re observing me while I sit or trying to glean something else from me.

> I don't know why so many people hold this poisonous viewpoint.

Because it lets their own selfish behavior get a pass which they feel guilty for. I most commonly see this view point in bosses, go figure.

What is the latest data for car crash deaths involving teslas? I know there’s a case against them for a few deaths involving a breaking bug.

People often pitch this view but don’t provide real numbers.

“Neutered” as in it won’t be even more likely to spew lies and curses?

How do you think they’re neutering it?

My company has hired and grown many remote employees over the years… a few extremely junior. I’m sure some prefer in person but acting like it’s everyone is just ridiculous.

In person jobs will always exist, forcing everyone to be in person is not good.

Something is changing and it’s very broken so people are paying attention to it.

If people really wanted to fix transportation that’s great, high speed rail and public transportation reducing the number of cars on the road seem to be the best solution.

But hey, Elon’s hyper loop was a publicity stunt to discourage investment in that. So I say, whether you want to shit on Tesla or public roads, shit on Elon.

I’ve seen it most times it’s been up and I will read it every. single. year.

Watch them install eye monitoring equipment to make sure drivers are paying attention before they ever give a day of unplanned sick time.

Let me rephrase: if you have a set interface touchscreens suck. No one would choose to use a touchscreen over a physical keyboard, or steering wheel, or mouse for an fps game.

It’s a crap interface compared to others but it’s the best to do anything. That’s why it won.

Yep! And people just want big screens to view content.

I think it’s interesting to consider why touchscreen mobile phones won out over their predecessors.

Touchscreens are the worst interface option. The feedback of feeling a button, or anything made for the job, is better than typing without specific feedback onto a screen. It won out because of you don’t have a set interface it’s bettor.

Now for search, chat gpt will likely always be less reliable than a list of results you can vet yourself for content and source.

That said… I don’t think people care about truth that much these days so one response that feels correct is could be good enough for most. Terrifying times we live in folks.

Important to note that both companies don’t have a public demo yet. Microsoft’s “demo” only answers select questions which is… not an actual demo.

That said this is a hilarious mess up because Microsoft actually had a presentation.

Did you hear how Google made a decision that political email wasn’t spam prior to last election? So that AI driven filter is, at least, partly influenced by political bias.

What about the AI that drives YouTube auto play so somehow kids watch horror clips and everyone else gets nudged towards Jordan Peterson for some reason?

Having more of our internet and communication filtered by ostensibly “neutral” AI will get lead very weird and probably not great places.

> executive compensation is stock-based

If they're cutting executive salaries by the largest amount it sounds good on paper but doesn't really do anything because their pay is, as you said, stock based.

So, unsurprisingly, very skeezy unless they change the largest factor in their pay.