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by firebirdn99 3y ago
The FTC is getting involved, because the goal is to make Big Tech smaller not more bigger, and more dominant through acquiring independent studios with major titles, such as they did with $7B Bethesda, and now 65B+ Activision deal. These ar
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
Yeah, if Microsoft wants to compete, they need to build great game making culture, not just spend lavish amounts of money to acquire all the independent studios out there after the Bethesda acquisition for $8B. Now Activision for $70B. What
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
These are genre-defining games, and have been historically multiplatform. Not just Activision, they did the Bethesda acquisition, before it. Now, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, will be only Xbox. And now Starfield is confirmed exclusively on Xbox.
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
An independent studio is independent. Just because other countries can be better run by 1 country, doesn't justify acquiring other companies. Many corporations once they acquire a smaller company, skin it for parts, and dissolve it. Li
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
The Diff by Bryne Hobart https://www.thediff.co/ is a finance one I enjoyed in the past
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https://dm.hn , https://blogs.hn
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
prev ask HN on blogs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081 [edit: this didn't exactly answer the question, but related for seekers of technical blogs. Below however is my answer: Ones I'm subscribed to ar
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
Another thing I noticed lately is a lot of iPhone games that were built in the early days like 2008 to 2014 and beyond even, get removed from the app store once the developer cannot maintain enough resources to update the code to the latest
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
archived: https://archive.fo/Jsapw
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The Guts of a New Machine (iPod)(nytimes.com)
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Moving fast, means breaking things. With more scale, more danger.
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Same study discussed before on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30810626 Other similar threads: Microplastics found in live human lung tissue - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30945430 Microwav
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Microplastics found in human blood for first time(theguardian.com)
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That could also happen. Especially in a government, plagued by lobbying, and corporate interests.
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this is one underrated point. Altman talks about democratizing this technology. But if the leading LLMs concentrate at a few companies, unless governmentally mandated, they could keep guardrails from regular folks accessing it, and also wit
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
Agreed 100%. It's helpful at filling out some functions maybe if you name them correctly, and boiler plate code. Eventually, they will get better, because these things get orders better with orders more scale. Society has to do somethi
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
Oh Zuck def sensed the opportunity!
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
> But very soon they're going to be, they may very well be more intelligent than us and far more intelligent than us. And at that point, we will be receding into the background in some sense. We will have handed the baton over to ou
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It's actually a blessing in disguise. I don't get much productivity, and instead waste hours sometimes on there. Thanks!
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Past HN discussion on Arxiv paper( https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.00250 ) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34423395
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New study shows how to use WiFi signals like sonar to spy on people(boingboing.net)
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Another thing, is that viral video recently, where AI was able to give an explanation of the dream, the person said the sonar in Wifi routers can be transformed into showing positions of humans in buildings. Not that recent, actually found
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Why Geoffrey Hinton is worried about the future of AI [video](youtube.com)
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I watched about 10 of his interviews in the past 6 months and I think this is the best yet, as they say practice becomes perfect. His arguments are refined in this interview while being just the down to earth type of guy, Mr. Geoff Hinton i
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
Growing up in India, I had been a huge fan of Tintin. Reading books, and buying them, you had to be at least middle class, it wasn't accessible as libraries in the West. But still, was popular as I recall amongst the well educated sinc
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
Atmospheric science and chemistry is tough. Like others, I was always like why don't we have solutions to climate problems, it's the 21st century we have smartphones and all these cool apps! (lol) There should be a lot more privat
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by firebirdn99 3y ago
Working for any company is a "job", and not a "family" as many have found out in the last few years (but happens at every downturn). It's hard to draw a line, between personal and professional identities, but it&#x2
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Also mentioned in John Green's The Anthropocene Reviewed- https://imgur.com/a/mLsyarc
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Maurice Sendak, “I'll never turn 10” – Last interview with NPR in 2011(npr.org)
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These jobs can and will all be replaced with ChatGPT. The many number of them like all other professions will be reduced to a single or a couple workers doing the oversight. All tasks that use repeatable actions and/or pattern matching

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