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by pavlov 3mo ago
> still better for them than what ended up happening Microsoft paid $7.2 billion for Nokia's loss making phone division in 2013. There's no way anybody would have paid that much for just another Android OEM. As much as Nokia
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by pavlov 3mo ago
Maybe AI-service-blocklist-as-a-service could be a YC company.
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by pavlov 3mo ago
There’s also one of A-Ha’s “Take on Me”. “Haaaand comes out…”
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by pavlov 3mo ago
I just took delivery on a new European made car (DS no 8) last week and it’s been great. The driver assist features are useful, automatic lane switching works perfectly, and the driver awareness nags are very modest. I’d never want to go ba
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by pavlov 3mo ago
So you’re saying that the war-ravaged Europe of 1946 that was split by the Iron Curtain and needed Marshall Aid was more powerful and important than today’s EU? Insane take. But somehow people will go to any lengths to disparage the EU.
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by pavlov 3mo ago
A very HN comment... At the time, almost nobody felt spending billions acquiring these companies was "elementary". Instagram was bought so early that spending a billion on a startup was unheard of. And WhatsApp was so expensive th
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by pavlov 3mo ago
Windows 2000 really was the best desktop OS from release until 2002 at least. Linux was incomplete, Sun and SGI were dead except for servers, classic Mac OS was a crashy dinosaur, and Mac OS X was a slow mess. I bought 10.0 on release day a
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by pavlov 3mo ago
The contemporary right operates on a simple principle: everything they complain about is something they plan to do on a massive scale when they get power. It’s just a process of rationalization (“our enemies left us no choice but to do $bad
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by pavlov 3mo ago
If you mean Alexandr Wang, the number is off by an order of magnitude. Forbes estimates he made over $3 billion from selling his startup to Meta and getting hired as chief AI officer.
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by pavlov 3mo ago
The overuse of blue and purple gradient fills on the landing page is a telltale sign of AI slop. I’m sorry, maybe it’s shallow, but that makes me close the tab.
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by pavlov 3mo ago
Japan had decades of deflation after 1990. There’s a generation of people who got used to prices staying flat or going down.
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by pavlov 3mo ago
Think “how do I implement a search engine whose interface is visible in the browser address bar?” This was a reasonable question on the early web. And that’s why they are called query params. The question mark indicates you’re making a quer
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by pavlov 3mo ago
It reads multiple times “DMCA” on that page but you’re saying it could be some unspecified other type of complaint. If that’s really the case, isn’t Google a fraudulent party here by sending people DMCA notices that aren’t? The DMCA perjury
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by pavlov 3mo ago
Was there ever a public square where children could participate anonymously among adults? (I’m imagining three Dickensian urchins in a trench coat giving a speech in Hyde Park.)
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by pavlov 3mo ago
For a UI framework landing page, this looks impressively bad on mobile. Big Arial at random sizes. No margins, no grid, component examples scattered all over the screen.
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by pavlov 4mo ago
This LLM PR description style is getting very tiresome. The obvious signs are the little lists (“not x, not y, not z”) and pompous declarations like this: “The bring-up log at the bottom is honest about what broke and what it took.”
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by pavlov 4mo ago
I guess that fits into the Musk empire because "empty shell" increasingly describes his companies. Tesla is a car company that doesn't want to make cars. And xAI is an AI foundation model company that actually is a data cente
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by pavlov 4mo ago
They're getting paid in extremely overvalued stock, so maybe it balances out. This is not really a diss on SpaceX either because a lot of IPOs go through an immediate pop and then 1-2 years of doldrums as lockouts expire and promises a
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by pavlov 4mo ago
Most video color spaces have black at a non-zero code value. The most common 8-bit YUV format (e.g. in MPEG-2) uses a 16-235 range for valid luma values, so black is at 16 and white is at 235. The reason for leaving this “headroom” and “foo
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by pavlov 4mo ago
English Civil War in the 1640s.
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by pavlov 4mo ago
> “Two generations out, people forget what the world was like. Forgetting like this on a civilizational level is probably adaptive” We are forgetting the lessons of WWII, and the world is now stocked with thousands of nuclear weapons e
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by pavlov 4mo ago
Based on very specific assumptions: “…the world in which AI demand is so overwhelming as to exceed the already formidable datacenter capacity additions” — but also this same world is one where GPU chip supply is abundant, there just isn’t e
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by pavlov 4mo ago
2-3x sounds like a very low estimate. There’s so much data center capacity being built all over the Earth. Thousands of large projects across US / China / Europe / Middle East. It would be astonishing if something that’s neve
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by pavlov 4mo ago
Thank you, appreciate the response. It’s a great part of the HN community that there’s almost always someone around with the first-hand experience and facts. Best of luck with whatever you do next!
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by pavlov 4mo ago
This is the claim in the repo readme that presumably unlocked the VC investment: “TensorZero is used by companies ranging from frontier AI startups to the Fortune 10 and fuels ~1% of global LLM API spend today.” One percent seems like a lot
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by pavlov 4mo ago
Illiberal authoritarian monarchy is Thiel’s favorite form of government, so I’m not sure what his problem is with being outed while in Saudi Arabia.
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by pavlov 4mo ago
64MB RAM on the Nokia N95.
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by pavlov 4mo ago
Converting the production database to Prolog to ship LOC.
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by pavlov 4mo ago
So Orbán is not far-right, but somehow American far-right politicians and influencers like J.D. Vance and Tucker Carlson loved him as a shining example of the kind of nationalist illiberal state they want to create. Hmm.
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by pavlov 4mo ago
The date in the title should be 2005, not 2013. At the end of the article it reads: > This article was first published on 2005.01.19. It’s also evidenced by the reference to the “new iMac G5.”

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