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by dmix 9mo ago
I saw multiple comments on HN complaining about Firefox adding AI. I use FF every day and what happened is there was a single popup asking you if you want to opt in to try using it next to an icon you can hide. In the year since I said no t
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by dmix 9mo ago
They compared it to industrial accidents. I don't think a software company would try to shift liability by comparing themselves to factories explosions and chemical spills.
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> I think producing detailed enough specification requires same or even larger amount of work than writing code Our team has started dedicating much more time writing documentation for our SaaS app, no one seems to want to do it naturall
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They report these numbers to their investors who leak them to the press.
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by dmix 9mo ago
You're right, wrote that from memory. It was EBITDA that surpassed anything Twitter previously had before purchasing it. > Despite a revenue drop from $5 billion in 2021 to roughly $2.7 billion in 2024, the EBITDA margin surged from
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by dmix 9mo ago
> The company was losing $200MM+ per year on ~$5B in revenue before the takeover, and there are reports that revenues have decreased by round 50%. X made a profit last year because they cut costs lower than the drop in ad revenue (which
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by dmix 9mo ago
> The fact that it never delivered self driving or a robotaxi fleet a Once again pointing out Tesla has around 300 robotaxis running in 2 cities (Austin/SF).
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SpaceX is a private company
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Tesla cars made in Shanghai are sold in Europe and other places. That is helping them be competitive and they haven't had much price pressure until recently. Just because the Chinese have their own internal competition and deflation wh
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by dmix 9mo ago
I don't think $50k LIDAR sensor suites are disposable like that and the computer integrations is pretty sophisticated I'd imagine. These cars will take a beating.
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Who will repair them and maintain all of the electronics? Even if you buy cars that's a giant operation.
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by dmix 9mo ago
Unlike Uber which has drivers buying, fixing, and fueling their own cars, Waymo will have to build large fleets and a huge car/computer/LIDAR production/repair pipeline. It will be interesting to hear how they plan to do this
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by dmix 9mo ago
They are usually Chinese triad gangsters who operate scam businesses and illegal casinos in south east asia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triad_(organised_crime)
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by dmix 9mo ago
Can you explain a usecase for Clink
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Agreed, but it is not a well known fact sadly.
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Do you have a source on that? I can't find anything besides he went to a Gala where he was in a photo with Maxwell and made an investment in a company her brother ran.
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> we have noticed power dynamics which weren't well guarded against in the old way The clearest example is a dependency on a single wealthy nation for military and world policing. It's a good thing for individual countries to
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They managed okay up until now because the Chinese gov takes a ton of revenue directly from their industry. They have very low income taxes on the public and instead make a lot of money from their huge state companies and investments in the
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by dmix 9mo ago
I looked it up and two articles sourced a twitter video of an Tesla fanboy influencer claiming a chase car was following his taxi https://x.com/JoeTegtmeyer/status/2014410572226322794
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by dmix 9mo ago
The website that is sourced from https://robotaxitracker.com/ 176 tracked Tesla Robotaxis vs 51 tracked Waymos in SF, with 1000 claimed SF fleet size by Waymo 90 tracked Tesla vs 134 tracked Waymo in Austin. They claim thei
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by dmix 9mo ago
In Canada there was a big court case in 2016 over the civil right of "right to a speedy trial" where the courts said it had to be within 18 months for charges in provincial courts, which is where most crime ends up. During COVID t
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Sounds like he came on a student visa from India and got citizenship.
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The article says > [ChatGPT] is blocked for other Department of Homeland Security staff. Gottumukkala “was granted permission to use ChatGPT with DHS controls in place,” adding that the use was “short-term and limited.” He had a special
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by dmix 9mo ago
Those margins are pretty normal in software, especially a mature product like that.
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> Tesla said they were going to do this at least as far back as like 2018, and still aren’t. Tesla Robotaxis are fully operating in Austin since November and they are running a pilot in San Francisco with safety drivers? https:/&#x
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by dmix 9mo ago
Regardless, it's probably better to have one flashy car that doesn't sell big numbers than 3. They might treat it as their high end test car or something or plan to figure out a new top tier model.
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by dmix 9mo ago
I've been using node for a decade now and I've had to update NPM libraries a number of times as Node itself upgraded. I have a feeling it will get a lot more stable with ESM and the maturity of the language but if you're writ
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Amazon also employs 1.5 million people globally, 350k of which are in corporate. These 16k were corporate. Still sucks for everyone involved, I know a corporate sales guy who got laid off Microsoft and it disrupted his life pretty seriously
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I've always said the root problem to most of America's problems has been in action by congress. Congress could have fixed the border long ago but they let each administration either ignore it, make it far worse by actually welcomi
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My parents paying for One Drive when they didn't need it is why I finally moved them off Windows as well. I saw the amount of ads they were getting on their laptops and One Drive was even advertising to them on Samsung Android phones.

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