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   Waymo's driverless cars crash less often than people(iihs.org)

   39 points by xnx 3mo ago|34 comments
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   Smoother scrolling: How we halved scroll jank in Chrome on Android(blog.google)

   1 points by xnx 3mo ago|1 comments
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   by xnx 3mo ago

   Our World in Data is great, but this article would've been improved if it offered a chart that offered a comparison to it's leading "1.5% of global electricity number". For example: 7% to 10% of all global electricity is
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   by xnx 3mo ago

   > The only really good test is to use the product for many years Agree. However, a good reviewer should be able to transfer knowledge from many years of use about a similar product to a new product and give an insightful evaluation. This
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   by xnx 3mo ago

   > If everyone's running local Who's running local? Image generation can make sense to run locally, but frontier LLM make no sense to run on your own hardware.
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   by xnx 3mo ago

   Good eye! If you zoom in the text to a very large size, it looks like the "n" characters have a strange internal border or stroke?
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   by xnx 3mo ago

   True. Maybe the hidden part of the equation is "effort". Modern marketing strategy is to "flood the zone" with misleading information and half-truths so as to make the very act of making a rational selection exhausting.
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   by xnx 3mo ago

   This entire site can be boiled down to: products get decrease in quality when customers don't know or don't care what quality is. Price is a clear and obvious thing to measure, quality is much more difficult. Consumers get little
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   by xnx 3mo ago

   $190B of capex is mind-boggling. That's roughly equivalent to building 34 One World Trade Centers.
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    Alphabet Quadruples Profit to Nearly $120B, Fueled by A.I. Investments(nytimes.com)

    3 points by xnx 3mo ago|1 comments
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    by xnx 3mo ago

    Possibly. The source data does include hedonic adjustments.
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    by xnx 3mo ago

    I'm against undisclosed proxies, but I would pick pay-by-residential-proxy over pay-by-ads every time.
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    by xnx 3mo ago

    Does it make sense that Merlin and eBird are separate apps? This confuses me.
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    Google Commits $40M to the Genesis Mission – Google Cloud Blog(cloud.google.com)

    3 points by xnx 3mo ago|0 comments
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    by xnx 3mo ago

    Neat! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777X#Wing
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    by xnx 3mo ago

    Seems complicated. Doesn't selecting, then drag-and-drop do what the author wants?
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    by xnx 3mo ago

    AI might be exposing the valuelessness of corporate busywork.
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    by xnx 3mo ago

    Also: Most Americans wouldn't know if an AI datacenter was already in their backyard
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    by xnx 3mo ago

    Google also donated $40 million in tokens https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/accelerat...
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    by xnx 3mo ago

    Technical analysis is astrology for boys.
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    by xnx 3mo ago

    Excited for "decentralized, self-sovereign, and open source." Indifferent to "groupchat for agents".
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    by xnx 3mo ago

    This is great, and the direction Firefox should focus on: creating user-first features that other browsers won't and extension authors can't. I only wish it was more automated. Every site should automatically get its own container
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    by xnx 3mo ago

    And Google alway has a target on its back for antitrust (regardless of claim validity)
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    by xnx 3mo ago

    Most conversation is taking place in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993414
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    by xnx 3mo ago

    "It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future."
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    by xnx 3mo ago

    > Google somehow managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of success This is still very early days. Who is "on top" has flipped back and forth many times already. The next frontier model release (from whomever) will change things
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    by xnx 3mo ago

    Proof-of-life release while they figure out how to have a competitive frontier model release. My hunch is they pushed too far in the "omni" model direction, that they made something so ungainly, it wasn't as good for normal t
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    by xnx 3mo ago

    Steve Job's most unfortunate legacy is inspiring people who crave attention that they should head companies.
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    by xnx 3mo ago

    True, but also "Do Things that Don't Scale" ( https://www.paulgraham.com/ds.html ). There are many examples of successful companies that had customers before they had products.
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    by xnx 3mo ago

    Possibly referencing the "Chart of the Century": https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-or-century-8...