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New comment by YetAnotherNick in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

YetAnotherNick — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:55:10 +0000

I don't know if you ever worked on big tech? Everyone knows this through gossips, referrals, friends of friends etc. The hard part is to figure out how actionable this information is.

> information that can move markets.

That's the hardest part to figure out. Stocks aren't very correlated with anything. Slight changes in this quarter's iPhone sales in China doesn't move the share price very much if it is within range of expectation.

New comment by YetAnotherNick in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

YetAnotherNick — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 09:47:34 +0000

> Your average developer at Apple has no idea how many iPhones Apple sold in China.

But if anyone is connected to few friends across team, they would know they are hiring for China sales team(or dependent team like internal tooling for sales etc.) aggressively or firing them.

New comment by YetAnotherNick in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

YetAnotherNick — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:14:09 +0000

> The average rank and file employee at any BigTech company knows only a minuscule more than the general public.

They know the clients, the contracts, hiring, cost cutting way before the general public does. The problem is that many BigTech is sum of many units which might not be correlated, but for say Nvidia or Apple I would assume the employees would be a good people to take the stock advice from.

New comment by YetAnotherNick in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

YetAnotherNick — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:54:44 +0000

> 17% revenue growth

I think ads is going to massively change this number.

New comment by YetAnotherNick in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

YetAnotherNick — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:59:32 +0000

Firstly how is this related to opportunity costs. Secondly, no one said that to create digital computer you should start a war. It's just that war is already present, regardless of you invent digital computers or space travel.

New comment by YetAnotherNick in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

YetAnotherNick — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:31:37 +0000

I am reasonably sure that these kind of fingerprints can detect if the browser is inside a VM.

New comment by YetAnotherNick in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

YetAnotherNick — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:27:46 +0000

You can defeat all client side verification by definition if you know what verification is run.

New comment by YetAnotherNick in "In Math, Rigor Is Vital. But Are Digitized Proofs Taking It Too Far?"

YetAnotherNick — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:19:58 +0000

The thing is if something is proved by checking million different cases automatically, it makes it hard to factor in learning for other proofs.

New comment by YetAnotherNick in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

YetAnotherNick — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:25:51 +0000

I think you are 2-4 orders of magnitude off if you think donation could be enough for a project as important as Android where 1 day delay in fixing security issue is just disasterous.

New comment by YetAnotherNick in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

YetAnotherNick — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:10:52 +0000

> But if a Brit comes to your country and buys cocaine from you, in person, you wouldn't expect to be convicted as a dealer in the UK.

No? All countries catch drug dealers from other countries all the time even for the crime that happened outside of their borders. Or do you really think El Chapo could vacation freely in Europe.

New comment by YetAnotherNick in "What CI looks like at a 100-person team (PostHog)"

YetAnotherNick — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:13:32 +0000

Even something as simple as docker pull fails for 0.02% of the time.

New comment by YetAnotherNick in "How kernel anti-cheats work"

YetAnotherNick — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:39:02 +0000

> Anyway, this isn’t the Olympics, a professional sport, or Chess.

Yes, its prize pool is order of magnitude higher than either of Olympics sports or Chess.

New comment by YetAnotherNick in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

YetAnotherNick — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:34:02 +0000

Allowing it to users who ask for erotic talk is in my opinion way better than forcing someone to watch shady ads based on private conversations.

New comment by YetAnotherNick in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

YetAnotherNick — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:54:41 +0000

I don't know why the people here are naive enough to think that. Most programmers can donate more than 70% of their income to Africa if they want to make world a better place, yet they only target people earning more than 3x of them, even though majority of the world earns less than 1/3rd of them.

New comment by YetAnotherNick in "Surpassing vLLM with a Generated Inference Stack"

YetAnotherNick — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:13:31 +0000

For compute bound region(high batch size) yes, but for low batch size it could improve the throughput.

New comment by YetAnotherNick in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

YetAnotherNick — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:45:48 +0000

> Trying to go straight for the goal is risky.

That's the point of it. You need to take more risk for different approach. Same as what OpenAI did initially.

New comment by YetAnotherNick in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

YetAnotherNick — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:16:37 +0000

> we didn't see anything.

Is it a troll? Even if we just ignore Llama, Meta invented and released so many foundational research and open source code. I would say that the computer vision field would be years behind if Meta didn't publish some core research like DETR or MAE.

New comment by YetAnotherNick in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

YetAnotherNick — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:52:40 +0000

You can rent the GPUs and everything needed to run the model. Opportunity cost is not a real cost here.

Only thing that matters is if the users would have paid $5000 if they don't have option to buy subscription. And I highly doubt they would have.

New comment by YetAnotherNick in "Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video"

YetAnotherNick — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 04:25:35 +0000

You are talking about healthy and borderline. I am talking about unhealthy. If someone has heart rate of say 150 they are far more likely to have other issues.

New comment by YetAnotherNick in "Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video"

YetAnotherNick — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 11:09:42 +0000

Heart rate is very correlated with health. So at the very least they can (illegally?) filter out unhealthy candidates.