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by harles 2y ago
> Windows has caused us a lot of issues with Upscayl I’d turn that around. Sounds like Upscayl has caused a lot of issues for Windows users. Not developing on and doing little testing on Windows sure sounds like the problem to me.
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by harles 2y ago
Maybe. It is nice to see cash transactions and subscription models in the space. There’s a chance (maybe it’s slim) that new computing paradigms will bring new business models without ads. Maybe I’m just an optimist.
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by harles 2y ago
That’s certainly possible, but I’d expect licensing costs to dwarf bandwidth costs.
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by harles 2y ago
I’m not sure it’s a good business strategy, but I am glad to see ad money fueling more interesting tech than more profitable ads.
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by harles 2y ago
I’ve wondered for a while if Spotify skews playlists in favor of cheaper songs. I have no evidence of this, but it’d make business sense to use the equivalent of store brand music (even if that just means outsourced to a cheap agency) for g
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by harles 2y ago
Exactly what I was looking for - thanks! Not earth shattering, but it’s neat to fill out our map of the neighborhood.
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by harles 2y ago
Pretty incredible feat of engineering (both back when it was launched and now). Does anyone know its current purpose? I’m curious if there’s anything we’re actively using it for or if it’s just a matter of “look for surprises”.
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by harles 2y ago
You can get angry and lash out as you are here or you can seek to improve. I’m sure Microsoft Word, Grammarly, or even ChatGPT would catch the vast majority of the mistakes. Not attempting to do any of those is a mark of low effort. That co
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by harles 2y ago
And name calling and personal insults belong here? It was a poorly written piece of self promotion. You’re welcome to disagree but your response is the least HN I’ve seen in a long time here.
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by harles 2y ago
Waymo and Cruise have failed to scale and it doesn't look like they ever will. It's difficult to find a single article with the full context, but around 2017 as Waymo started giving limited rides to the public, everyone though the
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by harles 2y ago
> As of April 11, there were 65 Mercedes autonomous vehicles available for sale in California ... One of those has since been sold, which marks the first sale of an autonomous Mercedes in California ... Those are pretty small numbers and
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by harles 2y ago
California being the most populous state is a pretty big deal. I'm guessing the focus on two states is more a result of Mercedes' focus on geofencing/mapping test areas than anything.
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by harles 2y ago
There’s a difference between quirky English and incomprehensible English. If someone has poor English but their point is understandable, there’s not much to complain about. This article however falls squarely in the bucket of poor English a
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by harles 2y ago
I’d appreciate someone pointing out what the significance of this article is. The whole thing seemed like platitudes in borderline unreadable English - but there must be some reason it reached the front page.
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by harles 2y ago
This reminds me of the Dmitry Sklyarov case from 2001 [0]. Adobe is a bear I would not want to poke. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Elcom_Ltd .
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by harles 3y ago
> you can't make a feature until everyone agrees Except that’s exactly how the web is supposed to work and the reason Google was able to build a giant search business in the first place. This is absolutely them shitting in the punch
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by harles 3y ago
I’d actually call that a good bar. If you’re looking 5-10 years down the line for consumers, it’s reasonable. If you think the results can influence hardware directions sooner than that (for better performance) it’s also reasonable.
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by harles 3y ago
It’s more that energy usage isn’t a useful metric - because trying to minimize it leads in entirely different direction (and pretty dark). Ideally those 1b people would contribute value elsewhere in the world, leading to a big net gain rath
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by harles 3y ago
You mean in token form?
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by harles 3y ago
How much energy do 1 billion people consume? I don’t think this is the criteria we should use.
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by harles 3y ago
I was at Google during the reader shutdown. It was absolutely a top down decision and not a lack of support due to incentives. The execs tried to frame it as an infra problem/cost of migration, but neither myself nor any of my coworker
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by harles 3y ago
I’d prefer exponential backoff. Double the sentence each time. But given the choice of three strikes or a slap on the wrist, I’d take three strikes enforcement.
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by harles 3y ago
Right, but it does change how I’d expect the results to be attributed, with brand not being the relevant predictor.
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by harles 3y ago
> This may surprise you … That certain doesn’t seem in the HN spirit. Can you elaborate on what that has to do with brands being a proxy for hidden variables?
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by harles 3y ago
There’s definitely bias in these numbers. I’m not sure what’s at play, but the lowest accidents per driver being from brands that no longer exist (Pontiac, Mercury, and Saturn) certainly looks suspicious. Maybe these are good proxies for ag
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by harles 3y ago
Can someone explain why this is interesting? It looks like a directionally interesting anti-aging study, but without any major breakthroughs. I'm curious what folks upvoting see in the study that I'm missing.
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by harles 3y ago
The editorialized title here seems deceptive at best. Near as I can tell from the tiny post, the user in question was restricted for something and then posted screenshots of trying to post links after being restricted. Unless we live in a w
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by harles 3y ago
Waymo has driven 20m+ autonomous miles btw. [0] The 1 million mile number appears to be rides with external passengers, but the first sources I found lead to dead links, so who knows. Anyways, quite a difference. I’m not sure where the thre
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by harles 3y ago
I haven’t read the paper, but I wonder how well they control for economic status. I’d expect the better off a family is the less lead they have in their life - and I’d expect economic status to actually be a cause of better education, healt
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by harles 3y ago
The title of this story doesn’t seem to match the content. This seems like a proactive move to prevent individual publishers from spamming many many submissions - and even then, they’re willing to make exceptions. > While we have not see

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