Reminds me of Facebook's memories feature which used to say: "<name>, we care about you and the memories you share here."

For an app to suggest a personal relationship with you is ridiculous.

Yeah this one is a classic: https://youtu.be/8OzZxjqKG10

Is harm necessary to show in a copyright infringement case?

Copyright infringement causes harm, so if there's no harm there's no infringement. You can freely duplicate GFDLed material, so downloading it isn't an infringement. If training a model on that downloaded material is fair use then there's no infringement.

> Self-driving vehicles need aircraft-type maintenance.

That's a hyperbolic false equivalence.

Aircraft typically carry hundreds of people and can crash to the ground. As long as a self-driving car can detect when it is degraded, it can just stop with the blinkers on. Usually with 0 - 2 people inside.

The question is how broken can a car be when dispatched. What's the safe floor? See the other article today about a Tesla getting into an accident because of undetected sensor degradation.

> Aircraft typically carry hundreds of people and can crash to the ground.

Cars are more numerous and could spontaneously either plow into pedestrians, or rear-end someone, causing chain damage and, quite often, a spillage of toxic chemicals (e.g., a cistern carrying acid/fuel/pesticide).

Plus, you have a problem of hostile actors having easier access to cars compared to planes.

I think this approach gets the whole industry to adopt it.

Consider the opposite approach. If they let airlines charge any amount for it, the airlines that installed it would make it expensive. No one would use it. Other airlines would feel no pressure to offer it.

By making it free, it gets used, and eventually depended upon. SpaceX are making free wifi the expectation from consumers on flights.

Correct, I’ve had Starlink in several long haul flights over the past 6 months and it’s already becoming an expectation, ie makes the flights without it noticeably worse. I’m not sure whether everyone gets it for free, though, it was my understanding that it’s complementary for business class but a paid add on for economy. But once you have it, it’s fast and stable.

It’s available on some ships—not free but pretty reasonably priced. Debated last time I went trans- Atlantic but $20 per day seemed fair.

> Crazy that the reason we can't have an order-of-magnitude reduction in the cost of the most important thing people need (shelter) is not due to resource constraints, but man-made ones.

You say that as though reduction in cost of housing is a universal desire, but it isn't.

Suppose a couple of years ago you took a $500,000 loan to buy a $700,000 house, which you'll be paying off for the next 10 years. Would you like the market value of your house to decline substantially during that time?

If there's enough of the population bought into property, it won't be politically feasible to allow the value of homes to decline.

> Suppose a couple of years ago you took a $500,000 loan to buy a $700,000 house, which you'll be paying off for the next 10 years. Would you like the market value of your house to decline substantially during that time?

No, but when your city proposes a "missing middle" plan, watch who all comes out of the woodwork to scream murder at their research that shows that the projected effect of doing so will lower property values in my town from an 11.5% YoY average increase to a "mere" 9% YoY increase. You'd have thought the city was suggesting executing grandmothers in the streets.

(I cannot personally complain, I put down 10% on my home purchase here in 2021 and was able to get out of PMI due to having 20% equity against appraised value 366 days later, while only making required payments.)

Always comes back to the good ol “fuck you, I got mine.”

When the problem is particularly exacerbated, it's not even "I got mine", but rather, "I already went into eye-watering levels of debt and I'm still paying off the roof over my head."

So you made a half-million dollar leveraged bet and now want the government to rig the market so it pays off, at everyone else’s expense.

Being more desperate doesn’t make it any less selfish. It’s a universal desire for everyone who’s not selfish.

Meta essentially made a sequel to Second Life.

I've always been blown away by the fact that they didn't more fully pursue VR gaming. I think they could have found a more enthusiastic audience.

Zuck never seemed to actually articulate how this was any different or newer than a sterile corporate vr version of second life. Then VRChat got big and seemed to be better than Horizon Worlds for... everything.

I feel like the main possible benefits that these digital spaces bring, for consumers, are kinda the opposite of things that any Big Corporate Entity would ever want to be involved in.

I'm pretty sure Facebook didn't need 10 billion $ before it became successful. It became successful, then they invested more and more as it grew.

VR will probably always be pretty niche for gaming. Even with affordable headsets, there is still a lot of friction to their daily usage that limits their appeal

- VR sickness

- Lack of physical space in people's homes

- Don't really work as a shared experience without multiple headsets

On top of that, this company in particular is Facebook. Nobody likes Facebook.

I am one of those people who love VR gaming done well. There is a game called Super Rumble built by what I think is a subsidiary of Meta. It's a very well executed arena FPS concept. There are just a couple dozen people in the world who are really skilled and play enough for me to recognize them and be glad they're playing when I'm also online. It's magical when there are good people on this thing playing together.

I hope it's something we can figure out how to propagate despite the seemingly limited interest. I suspect anyone who liked playing quake arena games would love this game if they are not susceptible to motion sickness.

I recently started exploring how to port open source shooters (red eclipse, warsow, nexuiz) to the platform and realized there are several considerations that make games designed for VR special that a pure port wouldn't hit.

I think VR gaming can easily grow 10x - 100x by having cheaper, better fidelity, less bulky hardware and a better games library.

I bet plenty of gamers haven't bought their first headset yet despite being interested.

You're not wrong, but it also seems the most plausible use of VR for now. Those shortcomings also apply to Horizon Worlds.

It seems like there really isn't much of a market for VR gaming, though. It would have failed just as miserably.

Not only because of hardware costs, but not everybody can play them for extended periods of time and 'the youth' are increasingly preferring to look at social media over playing games.

I don't think it's anywhere near peaking yet.

It's probably already far more popular than the 3DTV of the 2010s.

Except compatibility, but the biggest gap is browser support, which is in the process of getting closed. Chrome has shipped JXL support behind a flag. Firefox are in the process of implementing support.

In Chrome you can enable JXL from here: chrome://flags/#enable-jxl-image-format

You can track Firefox progress from here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1539075

Future AIs can probably infer the requirements better than humans can write them.

Even if directed by a human, this is a demonstration that all the talk of "alignment" is bs. Unless you can also align the humans behind the bots, any disagreement between humans will carry over into AI world.

Luckily this instance is of not much consequence, but in the future there will likely be extremely consequential actions taken by AIs controlled by humans who are not "aligned".

The idea is a properly aligned model would never do this, no matter how much it was pressured by its human operator.

They are certainly far behind their original schedule, but do you mean to suggest that they are not making progress?

If the original schedules hadn't been made public knowledge, the progress they have made would seem quite fast-paced.

If Waymo didn't exist, maybe.

If Waymo didn't exist, we'd instead be lauding the progress of Wayve, Pony, and WeRide.

At this point, Tesla have the potential to be at best maybe #5 globally. No wonder they're so desperate to hide behind a tariff wall in their home market.