Why can't Emergency Alert System provide the same service.

As we continue to expand our Satellite System, this becomes even moot as we can broadcast via SOS text messages

Google Search is pretty good at detecting this dual-content attacks. It's not this is the first time someone thought about that and it will heavily penalize websites that do that.

This is just the NotebookLM crawler that is being tricked, which is still in it's experimental stage. Rest assured as it scales Google can easily implement safeguards against all spammy tricks people use

Dockworkers abusing their monopoly powers and raising prices is price gouging?

Remember when the Russians mocked Elon Musk for his rocket purchase?

Remember when Blockbuster mocked Netflix?

Remember when Steve Ballmer mocked the iPhone?

Remember when Zuck was mocked for the Metaverse?

I'm pretty sure Sam would have heard similar mockings like "You can't take on Google behemoth, podcaster bro" before.

But the sad part is, the newer tech generation is so brainwashed that it takes the side of the mocker instead of the mockee.

Watch Sam partner with some other fab like Intel and make TSMC irrelevant. Of course HN will then side with Sam

> Remember when Zuck was mocked for the Metaverse?

One of these things is not like the others. You listed 3 things proven silly with hindsight, then you post one comment that is mere hopeful wishing.

If Meta makes those new AR glasses real it makes up for the Metaverse branding.

Like I said, if you didn't follow Orion's demo and still parroting "Metaverse Bad" you belong in the exact same category as Blockbuster

How TF Flight Simulator is not on VR is the biggest mystery to me. It is the most obvious killer app to showcase both the game and VR headset.

It is on VR, has been for years, and yes, it’s pretty much a killer app (imho, the only killer app.)

VR FS2020 is so good that it made me get a pilot's license.

I’m very curious about this. How do you manipulate flight controls with the headset on? Do you go by feel or is there a matching representation in the virtual world?

Personally, I don't have a HOTAS, I just an XBox controller and of course the VR controller.

The cockpit is interactable with the VR controllers. You can reach forward and push buttons and turn knobs. It's a bit awkward, but it's doable.

I'll typically hold the XBox controller in my left hand to control the flight stick and have a VR controller on my right hand to interact with everything else in the cockpit. It does get awkward though when I need to use the rudder or brakes, though, since in a real airplane, those are controlled by pedals. I have to try to press buttons on my XBox controller on my right hand while still holding the VR controller.

Ohhh! Ok that’s cool. I can see having a yoke and pedals then using VR control for the rest. How fiddly are the VR controls? Can you reasonably set a radio frequency or control the autopilot?

It's been a long time and I only did it a little bit.

Buttons are easy enough to work with, same with levers. Dials were hard though because the normal human behavior is to pinch a dial, but in VR, you can only really grab, and knowing where exactly the game will deal with your grab on a small dial is tricky, especially if it's an autopilot dial with nested dials.

It'd probably work better if I had a VR system that had hand detection rather than needing controllers.

Speaking from my experience (a lot of DCS, 10s of hours in VTOL VR, couple hours in MSFS2020, all in VR), if you have HOTAS controllers, it feels natural to use them, without seeing them. Actually, my biggest grip with VTOL VR is the fact that the developer is hellbent on using vr controllers instead of joystick and throttle, which even with the best tracking (valve index) is miles away from precision of a good hotas

Cool! My interest in flight sims is more GA than military so I don’t think HOTAS is as appropriate there but I can definitely see that military flight sims are the killer VR app.

Could something like Apple Vision Pro work in an AR capacity so I can still see my physical controls?

I don't know about apple but I've seen some videos of people using pass trough in Meta 3 - here is a guy that has built an A-10C cockpit at home https://youtu.be/KwOKr8QrJA4

This reminds of all the anti-Tesla "Tesla is dead/bankrupt" in 2017/18 takes from mostly clueless people (Gary Marcus is a certified idiot) who don't know anything about scaling a business, TAM of Knowledge Industry ($30T and growing).

Always, happy to take the other side of the bet of popular HN comments. (see META, TSLA)

"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

You're welcome to whichever side you want to take, but you're not right by the simple virtue of being contrary.

And not right by virtue of $STOCK_GO_UP unless your entire premise is $STOCK_GO_UP.

Of course, being contrarian and being right is important.

Happy to bet on Sam Altman and go short on Gary Marcus and popular HN in this case.

All that proves is that shitty businesses that already have scale take a long while to crumble. (See also: Xitter)

Facebook still has 3B happy users.

It's only privileged, highly-paid coastal elites that hate FB.

Zuck, can literally say GFY as they don't matter in the broad scheme of things and innovations.

My non-computer-nerd midwestern friends, some of whom are blue collar and zero of whom are anywhere near making coastal FAANG or finance money, all hate Facebook.

Yes, but are they on Instagram though?

Why is this an argument? First of all x many people using something doesn't necessarily mean something is good (network effects if not fake accounts) but also buying up competition is somehow seen as a positive?

Oh, yes, because that’s how network effects work. Every single one would be happy if Meta and all its properties folded tomorrow, though.

Ummm sure buddy. Let's bring anecdotes vs real world data

Where’s the data?

I can't imagine investor pouring money on her. She has zero credibility both hardcore STEM like Ilya or a visionary like Jobs/Musk

"Credibility" has nothing to do with how much money rich people are willing to give you.

She was the CTO, how does she not have STEM credibility?

Has she published a single AI research paper?

Sometimes with good looks and charm, you can fall up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Murati

Point me to a single credential where you feel confident of putting your money on her?

She studied math early on, so she's definitively technical. She is the CTO, so she kinda needs to balance the managerial while having enough understanding of the underlying technical.

Again, it's easy to be a CTO for a startup. You just have to be at the right time. Your role is literally is, do all the stuff Researchers/Engineers have to deal with. Do you really think Mira set the technical agenda, architecture for OpenAI?

It's a pity that HN crowd doesn't go one-level deep and truly understand on first principles