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by pm90 4mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452641
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by pm90 4mo ago
If he was so good why did Brin have to come out of retirement to steer the ship? Remember, transformers were invented at Google. They could have been the first to market starving out OAI and Anthropic. That they did not is clearly a huge fa
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by pm90 4mo ago
I mean, sure there is a difference but for all intents their beliefs and actions seem to be aligned.
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by pm90 4mo ago
I moved away from Roku to a Google TV (as recommended by wirecutter). Its quite fast and remembers my history better. However it is Google so who knows how long it lasts. I don’t like the idea of Roku being owned by anyone, let alone Fox.
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by pm90 4mo ago
This was an excellent read. I admire the lengths to which the author has gone to enable this experience and then to document and share it. As a new parent myself, Ive been thinking about this. While I don’t have the same affinity to physica
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by pm90 4mo ago
can anyone paste a copy for those without meta accounts
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by pm90 4mo ago
> I don’t think companies will do that. Why don’t they just buy local on-premise infrastructure even though it’s cheaper than AWS? For customer facing, production software, its worth paying a cloud tax to get the reliability guarantee. F
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by pm90 4mo ago
Yep, its already quite easy to do so with tools like opencode/openrouter. Ive used some open source models and they seem … ok? Im not doing foundational math, just refactoring code, understanding existing code etc. I don’t see a future
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by pm90 4mo ago
> The study also raises broader questions about how early cities functioned. Archaeologists often link urban growth with centralized political power and rising social divisions. Mohenjo-daro points toward another model, one where collect
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by pm90 4mo ago
thank you so much for this recommendation. I've been interested in this topic for a while; while I was looking for something a bit more substantial, I do love it when authors explain history in different ways! My original introduction
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by pm90 4mo ago
if they sold that much in the open market it would probably decrease the price
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by pm90 4mo ago
google nest 6e version is pretty good
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by pm90 4mo ago
I believe the authors reading of the situation: its likely the interviewer wasn’t intentionally being cruel; most likely its this startups “unique thing that makes them stand out”; quirky twists that every startup attempts to make them stan
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by pm90 4mo ago
this is a terribly written article that oversimplifies what happened during zirp to the point of absurdity. We have always had just say no engineers-ask anyone with a platform role. They’re still saying no a lot.
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by pm90 4mo ago
More of this please: essential tools for building modern software must be oss; Im fine with paying for a hosted version but just the benefit of learning one tool and being able to use it everywhere (linux, k8s, python etc) is amazing.
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by pm90 5mo ago
I don’t understand why Google still has TK helming GCP when its obviously not achieved the kind of success it should. Google infra is some of the best in the world yet GCP is meh. It continues to underperform and seems content to be a dista
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by pm90 5mo ago
OCI is oracle cloud infrastructure.
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by pm90 5mo ago
can you explain how it makes it more credible? is the assertion that asml is using mistral as part of its research/manufacturing?
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by pm90 5mo ago
Cisco is well known to do annual layoffs, this shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.
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by pm90 5mo ago
Thats usually correct for these “surprise” layoffs. For the ones that are announced in advance there is a bit more coordination (like the meta/amazn ones).
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by pm90 5mo ago
If you know anyone that works at MBB they would be happy to share this with you; if you’re in SF just hit any bar for a weeknight happy hour and you will 100% find someone.
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by pm90 5mo ago
Employees are treated as a cost which is why you often see the strongest performers inexplicably laid off (since they are likely compensated higher). In situations like this they don’t care about productivity; leadership is given a list and
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by pm90 5mo ago
Their hiring process is remarkably bad for a company that otherwise is so well run. My most recent experience was them throwing a workday link at me to fill something out before we even had the initial phone screen and the forms/ui was
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by pm90 5mo ago
someone has to maintain a he products
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by pm90 5mo ago
Almost 99% sure that They hired a consultant firm (MBB) that told them who to cut; this is pretty standard practice now at public tech corps. Especially if EMs weren’t in the loop. This looks like purely a margin improvement exercise thats
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by pm90 5mo ago
Ah do you remember the whole Founder Mode trend? It faded just as fast as it started because it was meaningless. And it has had doubtful impact on the product itself.
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by pm90 5mo ago
From some of the previous decisions taken by Brian, and the quality of his discourse on twitter, it feels like he has succumbed to something that afflicts a lot of rich people with frail egos: surrounding themselves with yes-men, they rarel
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by pm90 5mo ago
I think Americans aren’t as selfish as most people believe; it’s just that they don’t know any better. Education and awareness is key to change that.
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by pm90 5mo ago
Yes, or trains with comfortable sleeper coaches. This is how a lot of intercity rail works in India. I took the Delhi-Bombay Rajdhani express all the time when I was younger; would catch the train in the evening, tasty dinner and breakfast
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by pm90 5mo ago
No

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