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Interesting, eliminate the drone part and that actually makes sense. Have a few very high resolution cameras at a distance, and you could NeRF a similar view unobtrusively.

I wonder what the FOV is? Assuming not great as it wasn't mentioned at all.

Using earbuds with the Quest gives a much better experience.

Personal favorite: Cosmodread. It’s a procedurally generated spaceship horror game where you must gather resources and not get killed by monsters to escape.

Most curious about FOV and resolution.

Also announced here: https://www.meta.com/us/en/quest/quest-3/

Super extravagant, but to blow $150k any random weekend you "only" need to be making ~$10M/year. A massive amount, but I'm guessing even many HN users have businesses making in excess of that (feel free to invite me to your next party).

Whether this works depends on how comfortable the dev is picking up the phone. I had a local site and was just too terrified to do this, so I just kept my site up unmonetized (unlike OP it wasn't costing anything).

One day two salespeople contacted me and suggested taking over ad sales, and managed to sell thousands (I think it was somewhere between $5k-$10k/month, but it was a long time ago) a month in ads for the site. This was for a city with a population of 200k.

I’ve noticed this happening often enough that now when I need to do something hard, instead of trying to do it, I think “I’ll just attempt it for 15 minutes to learn more about the task”.

Sometimes it turns out the task I had been dreading can actually be mostly completed in that time, and I was just wrong about it being hard.

I'll mention one which I didn't write, which I found pretty cool.

iOS app "Friday" lets you use to talk to ChatGPT. It seems to be just simple glue (I'm sure there are many similar ones) between speech recognition, GPT, and text-to-speech, but the end result is that when you're bored you can have fun discussions without typing.

Maybe playing around with a lot of new frameworks, APIs is actually what you want to be doing? Maybe you don't actually want to make something popular that you'd then need to maintain, as that's more boring. But let's assume you do.

I also have a list of ideas, with hundreds of entries on it. As I've gotten older, the amount of time I can put into one without becoming demotivated seems to have increased. Used to be a weekend, but now I can now put ~2 months into one without knowing if anyone is interested in it.

To keep going past that limit, it helps if the idea has a shape such that a very simple version can be quickly released, but then extended. Once you have any minor traction at all, the external validation makes it way easier to remain motivated.

Every other week to play a round of Echo VR, do VRChat and check out what’s new in the store (but then not buy anything as everything feels too expensive).

Used to play almost every night when I got Cosmodread, but managed to complete it.

Suppose today you go on YouTube and see 10 recommended videos.

There are thousands of videos it could put in these slots, so they'll be ranked and only the very best (based on metrics and your interests) will make the cut.

Video #11 might have been great, but wouldn't get suggested to you merely because it had a few seconds lower average watch time. Because of this I'd expect a 10% better video (like %, watch time) would improve its views by some huge nonlinear factor (maybe double?).

HuggingFace space: https://huggingface.co/spaces/hysts/Shap-E

My habit is to cancel right away when I start a subscription. You can still use the service for the month you paid for, and it's easy to restart it if you do still find yourself attempting to use it a month later.

Try a Hacker News meetup.

Right, out of those two options the AI friends do sound more appealing.

It makes me uneasy to think I could have dementia and have forgotten all about these new developments, and interact with these without understanding they are AI.

I'm hoping this will push Meta to release the Quest 3 to avoid losing sales to Apple's new headset.

Side prediction: Echo VR getting shut down in August actually means it will become an activity inside Horizons instead.

Been doing solo gamedev since 2020, here’s my time tracking habit.

Goals: make predictable progress each day, get a feel for how long different types of tasks take, and to have guilt-free rest after a day is “done”.

So I decided I’ll aim to work just 3 hours on weekdays, 2 hours on weekends, but I must first write down my current subgoal in a text file and note every time I stop or start.

So this file is full of things like “15:03-15:20, 15:55-16:00 Make minigun emit a puff of steam when it stops”. Conveniently reused as a git commit message. GPT made me a sublime text plugin that adds up the total, and I have inserting current clocktime as a mey binding.

I’m only allowed to work towards that subgoal as fast as I can with no distractions.

The goal must lead to a releasable update, otherwise it does not count. So in my system I’ve defined doing taxes or checking email as not work but a chore (like washing the dishes), to make sure I prioritize releasing stuff.

If I want to check HN or something, then I need to take a proper break instead of semi-working. And since I need to confront this and note it, I’m less likely to do so.

We had bogus damage pictures as well, but luckily in our case in the end did not have to pay. But it made a time when we were supposed to be relaxing stressful instead, which didn’t really make us eager to use AirBnB again.

Yeah I also made a chrome extensions for this for personal use, but realized that there wasn't a good trade-off between having it sound good and getting rapid responses.

You don't want to start speaking before you get a full sentence, or the TTS will sound weird. You don't want to wait for a full sentence, because it would be too slow.

Besides that, speech recognition wasn't working well enough, and I heard (haven't tried) Whisper has the same delay problem where you again cannot stream it, but must wait for the user to have spoken for a while.

Are articles about strange behavior really a negative?

They are prompting it with guidelines that specifically ask it to use smileys and be interesting.

They must know that these articles actually get people curious to try it. I found myself installing the Edge browser to play with Bing after seeing them, and I’m probably not alone in that.

Google is having an extra event this Wednesday, I wonder if it will be a related announcement? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLWXJ22LUEc

"We're reimagining how people search for, explore and interact with information, making it more natural and intuitive than ever before to find what you need."

This will spread further than HN, as this is a current hot topic, and journalists are dying for more things to write about it.

Whether or not this tool works, expect it to make the rounds on any tech publications that have previously written “stable diffusion bad” -type stories.

We got it to write a working two player Pong game in minified JS, except you can jump in it like in Mario.

It took a lot of iteration as initially it wouldn’t for example put a ground in the game, so you’d just fall forever, but one by one pointing out the mistakes actually resulted in a playable game.

I wonder if OpenAI should offer some OAuth flow to allow users to easily grant a certain allowance of credits for an app to use (and later revoke on per-app basis).

With that it would be less effort to create fun and useful little apps without needing to charge the user directly.

They could monetize AI by using it to boost their own properties.

For instance they could replace human content moderators, which is costing them billions. Maybe offer some "Meta premium" which summarizes and lets you ask questions about your WhatsApp, messenger chats. Perhaps improve ad targeting by understanding user post content better?

Maybe while you ask questions to ChatLaMDA, it could also show a sidebar of relevant web pages mixed with AdWords results related to your questions.

Although clicking on them might not be quite as natural as clicking as part of search results, so still massive damage to the golden goose.

Note it's actually:

"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR API KEY HERE"