Hacker News: harryVic

New comment by harryVic in "Novel helmet liner made from carbon nanotubes"

harryVic — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 04:29:34 +0000

Not all of them are athletic.

New comment by harryVic in "Chemical reactions fuel crises at LA County's two largest landfills"

harryVic — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 19:24:53 +0000

People that are throwing these in the garbage would just scrape the chip off.

New comment by harryVic in "OpenAI Engineers Earning $800k a Year Turn Rare Skillset into Leverage"

harryVic — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 09:17:14 +0000

Low interest? Interest rates are at 5.5%

New comment by harryVic in "Ferret: A Multimodal Large Language Model"

harryVic — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 21:40:42 +0000

Can you give an example? I switched to android because i use personal assistant a lot while driving and siri was absolutely horrible.

New comment by harryVic in "Vancouver EV owner shares cautionary tale after car deemed 'total loss'"

harryVic — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 07:28:28 +0000

New comment by harryVic in "Beeper – Moving Forward"

harryVic — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 18:27:19 +0000

I guess it is great marketing. I didn't even know they had a bleeper cloud offering.

New comment by harryVic in "Charlie Munger has died"

harryVic — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 01:07:01 +0000

It's just a comment, they're not stealing someone's original research. I for one appreciate that they shared the story. Rip charlie munger

New comment by harryVic in "Shein Files for U.S. IPO"

harryVic — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 23:52:05 +0000

We need a recycling tax on fast fashion like we do for other electronic goods.

New comment by harryVic in "15 years ago, I helped design Google Maps"

harryVic — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 06:30:38 +0000

It's completely wild to me that the maps org has more than 10,000 people.

New comment by harryVic in "OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger"

harryVic — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 03:32:05 +0000

All Sam wanted to do was mine some worldcoin

New comment by harryVic in "OpenAI approached Anthropic about merger"

harryVic — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 03:29:40 +0000

Feels like sabotage. Adam, the quora guy runs a chatbot AI company as well and is on the board.

New comment by harryVic in "Tech layoffs: Google, Amazon, Snap and Zillow announce new job cuts"

harryVic — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 19:15:50 +0000

I can't find any stats but just from the layoff news it seems like a lot of companies are doing more strategic cuts before the holiday season.

New comment by harryVic in "Google ends deal to build 15,000 Bay Area homes due to "market conditions""

harryVic — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 17:00:16 +0000

Life is too easy in the west and especially in tech. People love to complain about absolutely anything.

New comment by harryVic in "Montreal’s new rapid transit line saved millions per mile"

harryVic — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 08:12:48 +0000

Biking there should not take very long if it's only a 7 minute drive

New comment by harryVic in "Medically assisted deaths constituted 4.1 per cent of all deaths in Canada"

harryVic — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 05:16:03 +0000

So, life saving medications should be illegal by that logic too?

New comment by harryVic in "BP to purchase $100M in Tesla Superchargers"

harryVic — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 05:07:49 +0000

Hedging is always smart

New comment by harryVic in "Marc Andreessen's AI manifesto hurts his own cause"

harryVic — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 18:55:05 +0000

Just google what Marc Andreessen looks like and you'll understand why he is such a contrarian.

New comment by harryVic in "Elon Fires Half of X's Election Integrity Team, Because a Manager Liked a Tweet"

harryVic — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 00:12:40 +0000

And the trigger for all of this Elon madness was his son coming out as trans.

New comment by harryVic in "Insomnia REST client now requires an account"

harryVic — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 01:26:17 +0000

Bro, why is the migrate step behind a signup? How is that not hostile to users? I will make sure my company never buys anything Kong. You have to know you are selling to devs.

New comment by harryVic in "Amazon PillPack – Your medication, sorted and delivered"

harryVic — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 06:37:54 +0000

*2018