Hacker News: csmiller

New comment by csmiller in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

csmiller — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:03:18 +0000

Had to double check this wasn’t a late April Fools joke. Each weird acquisition or product launch feels like an implicit admission that anything like “AGI” is never coming.

New comment by csmiller in "'Pacifist' Japan is tooling up for war"

csmiller — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 21:39:47 +0000

Si vis pacem, para bellum

New comment by csmiller in "The unwritten rules of negotiating with Meta"

csmiller — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:59:38 +0000

Finance, consulting, some kinds of real estate-adjacent jobs.

New comment by csmiller in "Apple Vision Pro review"

csmiller — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 22:47:58 +0000

Sounded in Gruber's review like they have something that sort of incidentally does that https://arc.net/l/quote/wgcwgxod

New comment by csmiller in "Apple Vision Pro available for pre-order"

csmiller — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 13:55:08 +0000

Ordered one but have fairly low expectations. I guess my main fear is that it really takes off, and there is a huge improvement in the V2 that obsoletes this one.

New comment by csmiller in "Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%"

csmiller — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:31:28 +0000

Spotify isn’t really profitable, and their deals with the labels mean that they probably never will be IMO

New comment by csmiller in "Ilya Sutskever "at the center" of Altman firing?"

csmiller — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 04:18:17 +0000

Hasn’t Sam been there since the company was founded?

New comment by csmiller in "Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted"

csmiller — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 21:39:03 +0000

I believe she studied mathematics, not finance fwiw

New comment by csmiller in "AI Graphics at JetBrains"

csmiller — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 01:47:37 +0000

What alternative(s) are you considering?

New comment by csmiller in "Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses"

csmiller — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 18:35:14 +0000

Jacques Marie Mage are very nice, I'm also a fan of Matsuda.

New comment by csmiller in "Apple Pay Later: What Are the Crazy Ones Up To?"

csmiller — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 17:30:09 +0000

Paying over 24 months is mildly cheaper due to the time value of money

New comment by csmiller in "The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X"

csmiller — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 01:43:56 +0000

I assume they were referring to seasonal farm worker types, who don’t seem to experience as much social mobility.

New comment by csmiller in "The One Ring card, Magic: The Gathering’s coveted collectible, has been found"

csmiller — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:16:13 +0000

You might be interested in some videos Alpha Investments on Youtube makes, he is all about MTG finance.

New comment by csmiller in "The One Ring card, Magic: The Gathering’s coveted collectible, has been found"

csmiller — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:15:27 +0000

I believe the collector boosters are all foils, so that particular trick may not have worked in this case.

New comment by csmiller in "Addressing the community about changes to our API"

csmiller — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 19:31:39 +0000

what would you have done in Christian's shoes?

New comment by csmiller in "ChatGPT app for iOS"

csmiller — Fri, 19 May 2023 16:06:05 +0000

i think it might do that when the app has an update pending?

New comment by csmiller in "A Tiny Number of Shoplifters Commit Thousands of New York City Thefts"

csmiller — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 23:17:55 +0000

Perhaps three hots and a cot?

New comment by csmiller in "Google to reduce workforce by 12k"

csmiller — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 17:14:14 +0000

This profile in the times caught my interest

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/business/dealbook/a-new-b...

New comment by csmiller in "Facebook’s Retirement Plan"

csmiller — Thu, 05 May 2022 12:08:23 +0000

I remember reading that he has them made by Brunello Cucinelli, but not sure. I know Bezos does.

New comment by csmiller in "When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code"

csmiller — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 02:18:48 +0000

https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/