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by jonas21 2mo ago
They tried to develop Gmail into a social network in 2010 with Google Buzz [1]. It received a lot of backlash from people who did not want their email to be a social network. The social network they were not developing well was YouTube. Eve
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by jonas21 2mo ago
Why is a Roomba or automated rubbish disposal system more "ethically right" than a humanoid robot?
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by jonas21 2mo ago
1. Accountability - even very talented people can lose motivation or get distracted. Having investors to report to helps with this. 2. Recruiting - many people would be wary of working on a rich guy's pet project. Taking investment mak
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by jonas21 2mo ago
Many of the groups that spend the most on lobbying are composed of "normal" people who have banded together for some common interest. For example: - The AARP ($21M annual spend) has 38M members - The National Association of Realto
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by jonas21 3mo ago
Is the 5-minute expiration correct? I thought it was more like ~1 hour.
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by jonas21 3mo ago
How about "OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on Hugging Face is science fiction that happened"? It fits HN's 80-character limit exactly.
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by jonas21 3mo ago
We have general expectations on the velocity an engineer should be able to work at. If it took someone 5 weeks to deliver the exact same feature another engineer could deliver in 1 week, that would be considered "falling behind"
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by jonas21 3mo ago
Have a look at slide 53 of the summary pdf. It's specifically about Virginia, and it says the same thing I wrote above (minus my personal opinion about 100% renewables being a good thing). Just to be clear, it doesn't say that VCE
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by jonas21 3mo ago
This is in Virgina, which passed the Virginia Clean Economy Act in 2020. This mandated that Dominion (the power company) transition to 100% renewable energy by 2045. Personally, I think this is a good thing in the long run, but in the short
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by jonas21 4mo ago
> Nice you could choose if you would like your gasoline with or without service :-) (4:00). Yeah. Too bad you weren't able to choose if you would like your gasoline with or without lead yet.
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by jonas21 4mo ago
$325M for 9.65% implies a valuation of around $3.4 billion, so it's more like 18x. Regardless, Boston Dynamics has been burning cash for 35 years and all they have to show for it are some fancy demos and trial deployments. Eventually y
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by jonas21 4mo ago
Yeah, it's been a hot mess since everyone started using it all the time. Which is not all that surprising. It's really hard to scale fast, and even more so when the resources you depend on (GPUs) are extremely hard to acquire.
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by jonas21 4mo ago
What did your AI-assisted workflow look like 1 year ago? I can only speak for myself, but I would carefully specify a class or module in great detail and then hand it off to the model to implement, then carefully review the result. How abou
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by jonas21 4mo ago
Why would you want to own your own giant datacenter? What would you do with it? Of course it's expensive to operate a datacenter that serves millions of people.
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by jonas21 4mo ago
Ah, thanks for the clarification. :)
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by jonas21 4mo ago
Well, it looks this post has already been flagged down onto page 7. And IIRC, the same thing happened to the "oh shit" moment thread you linked to. Did the mods have to intervene to get it back on the front page? HN might not be a
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by jonas21 4mo ago
Glad to see that the "high thinking" level adds a helmet. Always a smart choice.
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by jonas21 4mo ago
How is it strange? The "exceeds $5B" quote was from December 2025. Anthropic has seen tremendous growth since then, ever since Claude Code with Opus 4.5 got really good at coding. If you've ever been at a startup, this is exa
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by jonas21 4mo ago
Isn't the Pope like the canonical high-status non-profit worker?
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by jonas21 4mo ago
The author labels COVID and the launch of ChatGPT on the graph, but fails to mention that Stack Overflow was acquired in June 2021 by Prosus, a Dutch private equity firm. That looks to me like it matches pretty well with the entire downward
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by jonas21 5mo ago
The 22:20 timestamp from the body of the post is wrong. The timeline section (where the 22:10 timestamp came from) is consistent with itself, and also contains: > May 19, 22:19 UTC - Root cause identified: Google Cloud Platform has susp
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by jonas21 5mo ago
This is an engineering choice: do you merge first and then fix the remaining issues or do you get everything perfectly clean first and then merge? I've seen large rewrites and migrations take both approaches -- in my experience, the fo
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by jonas21 5mo ago
Yes, but the title of this page is literally "Keep OSS alive on company time ".
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by jonas21 5mo ago
Is your negativity a knee-jerk reaction to TikTok and AI, or do you have a substantive criticism of the idea? There are so many papers being written these days that it's difficult to find all the ones that are relevant to your work and
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by jonas21 5mo ago
CAPTCHAs were designed as a type of Turing Test, not a reverse Turing Test. It’s not surprising that the effectiveness of these weaker variants has collapsed, given that AI can now pass the real Turing Test.
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by jonas21 5mo ago
That's what they did. They migrated to Better Auth, which stores everything in your DB. It's the equivalent of Django auth for the Typescript ecosystem.
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A Mutation Gave Humans the Gift of Speech. These Mice Have It, Too(nytimes.com)
5 points by jonas21 5mo ago|0 comments
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by jonas21 5mo ago
> I’ve been mourning the old Internet over the past year or two... As a kid on the Web from the early 2000s through the mid-2010s, we knew we were living through something special. It's funny because I knew lots of people in the e
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by jonas21 5mo ago
> the lack of physical home button You can use the Accessibility settings to add a virtual home button that's always displayed in the same place on-screen. That seems to work pretty well for the older folks I know.
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by jonas21 5mo ago
The issues with Claude Code lately look to me like symptoms of being part of a service that is experiencing insane growth (fastest growth in history, by far [1]), while being severely constrained on adding capacity (GPUs are hard to get qui

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