Hacker News: ConnorCallahan

New comment by ConnorCallahan in "AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point"

ConnorCallahan — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 20:15:44 +0000

Wait, isn’t 1550/50000 = 0.031 ?

New comment by ConnorCallahan in "Zuckerberg and Peter Thiel on Facebook, Millenials, and Predictions for 2030"

ConnorCallahan — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 02:59:28 +0000

3 presidents born within 70 days of each other is a great stat to show how boomers refused to give up power.

New comment by ConnorCallahan in "California could ban Clear, which lets travelers skip TSA lines"

ConnorCallahan — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 01:55:14 +0000

I agree, except I don't think it is a "weak value-add". It only takes one missed flight for it to be worthwhile for me.

New comment by ConnorCallahan in "This is a teenager"

ConnorCallahan — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 12:03:26 +0000

“ The world we've built has shaped his life.

So he is our collective responsibility. They all are.”

I don’t understand how it’s our responsibility that he is “sometimes depressed”. I didn’t make him not study.

New comment by ConnorCallahan in "Why do we call it “boilerplate code?”"

ConnorCallahan — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 20:44:01 +0000

Why is twitter in a downward spiral?

New comment by ConnorCallahan in "The bottom is dropping out of Netflix"

ConnorCallahan — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 23:32:14 +0000

> question whether, now that they have moved so solidly into content production, Netflix is actually a scalable / viable company any more

Netflix is a scalable company precisely because they produce content, when they are share other people's content any other platform can do that. But when they create their own content suddenly they operate based on a fixed cost rather than paying for other people's content.

New comment by ConnorCallahan in "Masterclass on mathematical thinking"

ConnorCallahan — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 01:02:50 +0000

I just watched the first 8 out of 12 episodes and I was disappointed. There were certainly a couple good nuggets but I'm afraid that Masterclass puts too much emphasis on making things simple such that he spends most of the time talking about really simple ideas.