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Nintendo kills it with first party exclusives.
You just described The Innovators Dilemma. You'd hope Google, considering how everyone reveres how well run it is would find ways to avoid it, but they didn't not. You know who used to avoid the Innovators Dilemma amazingly well? Apple. You know who does it really well now? Microsoft. They literally killed their OS revenue to grow the company. That's the equivalent of Google killing their search revenue for something new. It's hard to do, but you have to do it in tech.
>>And compared to Facebook which is still 99% dependent on Ads, Google is much more diversified (total revenue is north of 250 billion). They have cloud, youtube, docs, google play, all the alphabet experiments etc.
In 2022, Google was 80%+ directly dependent on Ads for revenue, and 10.3% indirectly dependent on it. Sure, Google does a lot of things but 90.3% of the actual money that keeps the lights on is advertising. Their revenue mix is extremely similar to Meta.
Nick Vlku, VP of Growth at Algolia, here. Wanted to dive in a bit more on Ben's answer below. To be honest, I was surprised at this limitation too when I first starting using Algolia. Upon some research, it turns out this is really complicated and Algolia errs on doing what yields the best experience for end users (even if it might require a little bit more work).
Basically, we are trying to avoid the phenomenon when you apply a filter search (like "sort by price") and returning something that has nothing to do with your query or intent. For example, a customer searching for an "Eames chair" and then sorting by lowest price would return things like $2 postcards of Eames chairs.
So, in order to capture the right kind of intent for that sort (and also allow our customers to further customize results), we require a separate replica of the data. (Maybe if somebody sorts for cheapest Eames chair, you would bump up a similar cheaper chair by another company instead of a postcard?)
The good news is, for most of these cases, there is no additional cost. You basically can create a virtual replica which points to your same records with different ranking strategies. So no doubling up the records! See here for info on this: https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/managing-results/refine-r...
It's a balancing act between "magical sorting just working" and "doing what looks right for the customer". We landed on this approach because we think it provides the most value and the best flexibility for everyone.
Let me know if this makes sense, or if you have any other questions! Thanks!
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The one place you do see a dramatic impact is car break ins. But even that is a result of a broken relationship between the DA's office and the SFPD. The fact is, the SFPD is shitty at it's job (close rates are comically low, its understaffed, heaving demoralized) and the DA doesn't have people to prosecute.
This is actually pretty normal nationwide (and also a rather conservatively low dollar number.) Fun fact: Did you know Texas' limit, yes texas, is $2500?
I don't think that reduction is the reason for an increase in crime and is more of a red herring and distraction. The real reason is a mix of ineffective policing (which is a product of both police being bad at their job and police being afraid to do their job because of ill will towards them) and ineffective prosecution.
Those problems have led to what feels like a "decriminalization" of theft, but that's not the law's problem. I promise you, SF would still be having these problems if this law didn't exist. (Hell, the highly publicized daylight ransacking of the Louis Vutton in Union Square shows how this law is irrelevant. Very few things in that store are under $950!)
Like, we’re all swooning about ChatGPT, but how can chatGPT be legal if this isn’t? I literally can ask it “write me a song about cryptocurrency in the style of Taylor swift” and it will. It can’t do that it it didn’t train with Taylor Swift song lyrics.
Doesn’t this kill chatGPT? Doesn’t this law suit potentially kill lots of training models?
It's like linking to the Ruby on Rails site and saying "Compress the complexity of modern web apps" or linking to Google.com and saying "A search engine to help you find things!"
Huh?
https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/ex-twitter-employ...
I wonder if there's more of an uptick in the city proper than the suburbs (which feels unintuitive since you figure parking/charging is easier in garages)
I think that stepping down is probably a strong word, but Eddy's ownership of "services" and "services revenue" is twisting his arm in lots of ways towards how the App Store monetizes. I can't really imagine Phil's entire philosophy around the App Store doing a 180 so quickly if it wasn't for some pressure.
Some quotes:
Yet while it’s hard for Apple to deny how lucrative the App Store has become, people who have worked closely with Schiller say he has often left money on the table in the past, making decisions on advertising, privacy and content based on what he believes is best for users.
Meanwhile, Schiller was less willing to compromise when it involved other categories of games—for example, social casino games, which allow players to bet on virtual prizes by purchasing virtual currency. After Schiller took over the App Store, his editorial team refused to feature such games over concerns that they were addictive for some users, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. The policy frustrated some Apple business management employees who were advocating for social-casino developers, as that category generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue annually for the App Store.
Schiller was originally opposed to Apple’s search ads business, which displays a single ad at the top of search results on the App Store, and for years was against adding ads to the Today tab and app product pages, as he believed this would degrade the user experience, according to two people familiar with the matter. Apple hasn’t announced when the new ads will show up in these sections of the App Store.
If you work in a publicly traded company, you are super impacted by politics. Look at your compensation.
If you work in anything that requires access to semiconductors, you are super impacted by politics. (Tell me TSMC shutting down will only impact "those who want politics to impact them".)
If you work in a company that is trying to acquire other companies or engages in regulatory capture, politics impacts you.
If you work in a company or technology that has the interest of government, it impacts you (ask blockchain companies, ask social companies, ask tech security companies, ask app stores).
If you work in a company that depends on Section 230, GDPR, etc - politics is a huge impact on your job.
If you are part of a group that is a target of campaigns to create division, you are impacted by politics.
If you go and buy things at a grocery store, you're impacted by politics.
If you want to acquire a competitor, politics impacts you.
If you want to sell your goods to people in another country, politics impacts you.
If you work at Boeing (based on your username), you are 100% impacted by politics.
I'm going to throw it back at you, what isn't impacted by politics?
Intel Arc cards are dead in the water because they have extremely unusably unstable drivers. To the point of the word "broken" being applicable. This hasn't gotten better with the A750 (in fact, it's gotten worse it seems?).
The 4090 is extremely expensive, but it is ludicrously stupidly comically powerful. It's 10x-20x more powerful than a 2080, nearly 100% more powerful than a previously more expensive MSRP 3090ti and this is BEFORE DLSS3, which is not a gimmick. Check out the GN review of the 4090, the metrics are ridiculous. F1 at 4k gets 230 FPS vs 135 for a 3090ti and 41 for the 2080. Total War at 1440p gets 235fps vs 135 for a 3090 ti and 47fps for a 2080.
Yes, its extremely expensive, but it's Nvidia's HERO card. You're going to see downward movement with the 4080 models (one basically being a 4070 in disguise) next month.
These cards are too powerful for anything out there today (they do cyberpunk at 4k at 80fps without DLSS and 135 fps with it) but this is a card you buy if you're looking at 3-5 year upgrade cycles.
Comparing this card to Intel's Arc is crazy. It's like comparing a Ferrari to a Civic. They both serve a purpose, but their markets are completely different.
That being said, I bet you the 4090 will outsell the intel arc 750 by a stupidly large margin. It has to suck if you spent $2000 MSRP on a 3090ti in March though.
> Perfect, I don't use it, it is always some scammer.
You get spam/scam FaceTime calls? (Not attacking, just generally curious... I've never in my life ever gotten or know anybody who has been spammed via FaceTime).
Also, your last sentence about exclusivity is a really strange point when comparing to Nintendo - which literally only does that. (And has extremely vicious customer unfriendly pricing. Breath of the Wild is still $60 5 years later).
Microsoft is sitting here with Game Pass giving people unlimited access to most games in their catalog for $15/mo including 0-day access to their biggest releases. Better yet, they do this cross platform so you can play them anywhere and keep your data in sync. And, if you don't want to subscribe to game pass you can STILL buy the games.
Meanwhile, Nintendo literally charges $59.99 for games released in early 2017.
Less parts means less things to maintenance. Less fluids means less things to refill.
In terms of "wearing out" the big questions really centers on the battery itself. We're seeing pretty low battery degradation on Teslas that have been on the road for 5+ years [1]. The data indicates that at 100k miles they lose about 5% power, which is pretty good. This is data about Teslas specifically though (they're the only car company that has enough long term data at scale to do this analysis on) and every car company has a different battery composition.
But aside from the battery (which is a BIG aside), there is a lot less parts (especially moving parts) that have to be watched/maintained/etc.
[1] https://electrek.co/2020/06/06/tesla-battery-degradation-rep...
I don't get why this is salacious. That TikTok PR thinks about these things? That TikTok PR tries to get people in the company aligned on how to respond? Thats what PR does. It'd be WAY weirder if they didn't.
If this document had "The Chinese Government reads all of your posts", I'd say there's something here. However, all this doc that says is stuff like "our CEO is American" and the only leaked out info is basically "The daily spending limit is $1000."
Watergate, this ain't. Yawn
Intuitively to me, if you make one thing harder to do (buy a house), unless people disappear or you suddenly build more rentals, they go in the other direction and create more strain there (renting).
Where are these people living if they can't buy but are renting less? Are both demands are dropping?
Remember housing prices going down doesn't turn to a lower monthly cost (it keeps at pace typically). This is pure wealth loss (which is the point so we can cut inflation).
This is already happening in NYC (and this article is the outcome of that).
More details: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/11/business/economy/rent-inf...
How is getting out of your car, walking to a valet or booth to talk to a person, and paying where they ask "What is your stall number?" less complicated than literally just plugging in your car?
To be clear, if you have a Tesla, there is NO app needed. There's nothing. You literally just plug in and it works. That's better than any gas station I've ever been to.
FYI - This isn't a Tesla EV thing. This is an EV thing. EVERY network basically requires either an RFID card or a smart phone app: ElectrifyAmerica, Chargepoint, SOMA, Flo, EVGo. I can't think of one that doesn't.
This is such an HN comment, it bothers on the cliche.
Apple has generated more Airpods revenue this year than Nvidia has period. Apple has generated 2x Airpods revenue than ALL of AMD or Square or Spotify. Just Airpods. It's 5% of their revenue (and these are $129 devices competing with $1000+ devices in their portfolio for the revenue pie).
How is a product that generated $12B in revenue in one year niche? I'd take that niche. Literally every person on the street has them in their ears. Imagine a startup with $12B in revenue and >120% YoY growth and margins in the 50%.
I'd argue Airpods might be the second most successful Apple product ever after the iPhone.