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New comment by andrewparker in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

andrewparker — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:45:37 +0000

OP point out that OpenAI used the "too dangerous to release" marketing ploy with GPT-2... Positioning this as "both sides" have played this card.

But at this time Dario was at OpenAI and was a co-author on the GPT-2 research paper announcing the model.

The "too dangerous to release" approach has been him the whole time, at both companies.

New comment by andrewparker in "1910: The year the modern world lost its mind"

andrewparker — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 21:12:24 +0000

If this is your cup of tea, it's worth reading about the Astor Place riots over Shakespeare performances in NYC

New comment by andrewparker in "Meta Spends $14B to Hire a Single Guy"

andrewparker — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 22:40:15 +0000

You are literally correct, but not engaging in the point. Meta shares in Scale are explicitly non-voting shares. Influence/control post minority investment matters as to whether the deal can be reviewed via Clayton Act. Meta did everything they could to avoid regulatory review with this transaction, and it worked.

New comment by andrewparker in "Meta Spends $14B to Hire a Single Guy"

andrewparker — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 20:20:21 +0000

This post doesn't quite comprehend why Meta made a 49% investment instead of an acquisition.

The path Meta chose avoided global regulatory review. FTC, DOJ, etc and their international counterparts could have chosen to review and block an outright acquisition. They have no authority to review a minority investment.

Scale shareholders received a comparable financial outcome to an acquisition, and also avoided the regulatory uncertainty that comes with govt review.

It was win/win, and there's a chance for the residual Scale company to continue to build a successful business, further rewarding shareholders (of which Meta is now the largest), which is just like wildcard upside and was never the point of the original deal.

New comment by andrewparker in "Apple Vision Pro review"

andrewparker — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:18:08 +0000

iPhone 1 launched without cut/copy/paste

New comment by andrewparker in "What I learned getting acquired by Google"

andrewparker — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 20:11:18 +0000

Socratic by Google still exists today and is a widely beloved app based on reviews. They had to rewrite the code and infrastructure, but "killing off the app" implies that they just shut things down. That never happened.

As for "happy story", I think the founders of Socratic learned a lot. Shreyans is just trying to share his learnings here. Not celebrate or mourn.

New comment by andrewparker in "Valve is paying open-source developers to work on Proton, Mesa, and more"

andrewparker — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 16:47:28 +0000

The deck plus the OEM dock with mouse, keyboard and monitor makes for a nice, cheap Linux desktop that you can grab-and-go to play games. The dock is really seamless, always works right away. If you're programming, I wouldn't recommend Deck without the dock.

New comment by andrewparker in "Five Walled Gardens: Operating systems are holding browsers back [pdf]"

andrewparker — Mon, 26 Sep 2022 18:19:50 +0000

echoes of United States v. Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

would be ironic if Mozilla played the next Netscape

New comment by andrewparker in "Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard"

andrewparker — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 17:03:25 +0000

Creation layer of the stack: Unity or Unreal.

New comment by andrewparker in "First, it was Craigslist, next it's Zapier"

andrewparker — Sat, 09 May 2020 20:24:52 +0000

This is a clever twist on unbundling. Well done.

Craigslist is misspelled (there is an "s" in it).

Giving me a photo credit would be courteous as the author of that image. https://thegongshow.tumblr.com/post/345941486/the-spawn-of-c...

New comment by andrewparker in "Jump – Experiences like you're actually there"

andrewparker — Thu, 28 May 2015 19:33:33 +0000

You're talking about Presense, which is the point at which your brain flips and is convinced what its seeing is real.

Michael Abrash has a wonderful deck he wrote while at Valve about what it will take for VR to create Presense in the viewer. It's worth a read if you care about how we'll navigate past the uncanny valley of VR you describe: http://media.steampowered.com/apps/abrashblog/Abrash%20Dev%2...

New comment by andrewparker in "Disney's $1B Bet on a Magical Wristband"

andrewparker — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 15:06:04 +0000

Stephenson considers much of his position in "In The Beginning..." to be out of date at this point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Com...

New comment by andrewparker in "A Y Combinator Company Copied Our Design and Data Viz: We've Arrived"

andrewparker — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:20:53 +0000

CSS (like all written works) is copyrightable, so if there is clear evidence that the CSS was copy/pasted, CB Insights would have a case on that basis. Damages would be negligible, so it would not be a case worth pursuing.

New comment by andrewparker in "Nature makes all articles free to view"

andrewparker — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 12:46:09 +0000

Does this BS marketing PR stunt qualify Nature-published research papers for Gates Foundation-backed research now? Meaning: does this announcement qualify Nature as "open" enough for the Gates Foundation?

New comment by andrewparker in "Dystopian sci-fi is making us fear all new technology"

andrewparker — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 14:59:38 +0000

Neal Stephenson identified this same issue, and created Project Hieroglyph as his solution. They're about to release their first anthology of optimistic, progressive sci-fi short stories this fall. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hieroglyph

New comment by andrewparker in "The Matasano Crypto Challenges"

andrewparker — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:49:42 +0000

A good complement to this set of challenges is Dan Boneh's Crypto class on Coursera. The coursera class is more theory-driven, whereas these challenges are more practical... they mix well. https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto

Ian Hogarth's Talk from Startup School

andrewparker — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 20:59:09 +0000

Article URL: http://soundboy.tumblr.com/post/93314139065/my-talk-from-yc-startup-school

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8110910

Points: 2

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New comment by andrewparker in "You have ruined JavaScript"

andrewparker — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 14:41:00 +0000

I don't think the author jumps to conclusion prematurely. He hates all this factory, provider, blah, blah nonsense, and I can identify with the feeling.

He is however guilty of lacking originality in his post because Joel Spolsky made the author's point much better about 9 years ago: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel.3.219431.12

New comment by andrewparker in "Coinbase design allows for mass, targeted phishing of its users"

andrewparker — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 22:13:12 +0000

I received a phishing email from the author. I guess he must have scraped my email address from a blog post I wrote about bitcoin and coinbase.

While I am glad he has made attempts to contact Coinbase, I felt like live execution of the attack was spammy, so my first instinct was the block the domain of the sender's email, which Coinbase passes through to me. In execution of his proof of concept, the author is likely badly ruining his spam score / sender score.

New comment by andrewparker in "Gbatteries (YC W14) Launches BatteryBox, A 50Whr Backup Battery For MacBooks"

andrewparker — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 18:43:42 +0000

You need to read to the end of the post to understand PG's analogy. There is software that controls the charging rate of the battery that (if the claims are correct) could be fundamentally disruptive to batteries going forward, so the Altair analogy implies a potential software licensing strategy as an upside in this company.