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by samspenc 3y ago
Their profit margins were always around 30% or so, except late-2021 through mid-2022 when it fell dramatically due to higher expenses and (unexpected) flat revenue. As for $9B in research and development - they have 66K employees now. Say 3
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by samspenc 3y ago
Somewhat inline with their announcements. Last year they were at 86000 employees, and announced two rounds of layoffs totaling 21000 (11000 followed by another 10000). This number seems to line up with that.
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by samspenc 3y ago
Revenue up 23%, from $27.7B to $34.1B YoY. Net income is up a whopping 143%, from $4.4B to $11.6B - basically went from a 15% to 34% profit margin (and in line with profit margin numbers from 2021 and prior) No wonder stock is up 4% after e
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Why should I contribute to open source?(blog.dashcam.io)
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by samspenc 3y ago
Science / health aside, I think this is the longest Twitter post I've read posted as a single tweet (instead of a thread). I knew that Twitter had relaxed some length limits but I didn't realize it was possible to post a (che
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by samspenc 3y ago
Very cool, curious if you plan to add a summarize feature along with this? I know there are other apps that do that already, but would be good to follow along inside the same single app.
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by samspenc 3y ago
First time I'm hearing about Cursor.sh, this looks really powerful, does anyone else have similar experiences to share? Is it a notch above VS code with the Github Copilot plugin?
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by samspenc 3y ago
I've used this one as well, but in terms of functionality, isn't it similar to GitHub Copilot? I find that GitHub Copilot in general works better and seems to understand context a bit better than the ChatGPT + VS code plugin.
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by samspenc 3y ago
Both are great. Actually the free version of ChatGPT, 3.5, is good enough for most cases. Note that ChatGPT is 'offline' though, you need to copy-paste code back into your IDE. Copilot is one notch above because it integrates dire
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by samspenc 3y ago
Interesting to see Nvidia here - I would assume they have the most to lose from an open consortium like this. Or do they think they will come out ahead even if there is an open standard like this.
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by samspenc 3y ago
If this did have to happen, I would assume it would be a US bank (e.g. JP Morgan Chase) that would buy out BofA rather than a Swiss bank. The reason UBS ended up buying Credit Suisse is because the Swiss government got involved and it was m
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by samspenc 3y ago
Thanks for this info, if I'm understanding this right, the current $131.6B in unrealized losses pales in comparison to their total 2.8T in liabilities (less than 5%). So even if they did have to sell all their bonds and lose all that
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by samspenc 3y ago
Fascinating, and if I go to their tech home page, I see this ranking for which tech powers the most games https://steamdb.info/tech/ Unity 38437 Unreal 10504 GameMaker 4130 RPGMaker 2700 RenPy 1973 Godot
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by samspenc 3y ago
This was the part that was most surprising to me as well. Most other reports seem to indicate that education is among the fastest rising costs compared to inflation, similar to healthcare. I'm surprised to see that number so low in thi
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An update on our IRS tax audit – Microsoft(blogs.microsoft.com)
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Epic is changing Unreal Engine's pricing for non-game developers(theverge.com)
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Unreal Engine will remain free for education and small projects: Tim Sweeney(twitter.com)
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by samspenc 3y ago
This was actually a worthwhile read, sharing the section titles in case anyone is wondering what they are getting into: Lesson 1: Respond instantly Lesson 2: Early communication is essential Lesson 3: Treat contributors like team me
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by samspenc 3y ago
Tim Sweeney, the CEO, did post a X / Twitter reply clarifying this: @GameFromScratch: "Hey @TimSweeneyEpic, getting a lot of questions about aspiring and indie film makers and how they will be impacted by the 2024 changes to the U
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by samspenc 3y ago
Actually Meta has done plenty of open-source work in the past, Llama is just their latest one. Though I suspect this is more to hobble their competitors (Google, etc) and place themselves as a key player in this, nevertheless, I think their
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by samspenc 3y ago
I'm not sure, this article actually does a good job of presenting both sides of the story, a couple of excerpts: > she saw that cells two colleagues had worked on for weeks had degraded and were no longer viable and discarded them w
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by samspenc 3y ago
Yeah, quite the opposite, I see this in the official announcement: "We aren't cutting any core businesses, and are continuing to invest in games with Fortnite first-party development, the Fortnite creator ecosystem and economy, Ro
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by samspenc 3y ago
As someone dabbling in the 3D space as a hobby, Gaussian Splats have been the hot trend these past few weeks and everyone in the 3D space is looking into it for getting realistic photo scans into 3D, as an alternative / supplement to N
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by samspenc 3y ago
Took me a few seconds to realize this was a reference to Google's 25th 'birthday' :) https://blog.google/inside-google/company-announcements/goog...
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by samspenc 3y ago
Recommend changing link to the WSJ original here: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-seeks-new-valuation-of-up... EDIT: I see the WSJ original link was already posted at https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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Why America Has a Long-Term Labor Crisis(wsj.com)
2 points by samspenc 3y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 3y ago
Agreed, like any technology, AI is going to enable both good and bad solutions. I certainly feel that generative AI has made life easier in some ways for me, summarizing long text is a super useful one. I do agree with the author that gener
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by samspenc 3y ago
I expected this to be a criticism of OpenAI and the whole generative AI ilk, and while that's somewhat related, this video mostly focuses on the shortcomings of AI generated worlds, art, content and dialogue in the popular Minecraft ga
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by samspenc 3y ago
I don't think this is quite right - as the other comments point out, Youtube will still play ads and they take 100% cut of the money. They have already announced that Brand is demonetized, so they will pay him 0% while taking 100% of t
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by samspenc 3y ago
+1, I find the "for first time" part a bit of an oxymoron as we know this number is going to keep increasing. In a few months, it will top $34T for the first time, and a few months after that, $35T for the first time, and so on.

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