Hacker News: kooshball

New comment by kooshball in "Lunar Flyby"

kooshball — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:41:32 +0000

which photo has gps in the EXIF?

New comment by kooshball in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

kooshball — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:18:44 +0000

> Better the nanny state than Nanny Zuck.

This is a huge self own. I can't believe I'm reading this on a website called "hacker news".

New comment by kooshball in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

kooshball — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 06:04:04 +0000

if an employee exercise options (but stays at the company) does that still count as one of 1000?

New comment by kooshball in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

kooshball — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:57:03 +0000

there used to be rules that companies must be public if they have other 1000 investors. is this no longer the case?

New comment by kooshball in "OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030"

kooshball — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:10:51 +0000

no. this role is for running ads campaigns at scale (on google, meta, etc) to grow openai users. its at a large enough scale it's called "platform" but it would be internal use only.

> Your role will include projects such as developing campaign management tools, integrating with major ad platforms, building real-time attribution and reporting pipelines, and enabling experimentation frameworks to optimize our objectives.

New comment by kooshball in "iNaturalist strikes out on its own"

kooshball — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 18:11:59 +0000

that is actually surprising. surely they use location at some point in the ID process. its possible they have a secondary location based model to do sorting/ranking after the initial detection?

Merlin's bird detection system is almost non-functional without location.

New comment by kooshball in "iNaturalist strikes out on its own"

kooshball — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 03:55:22 +0000

if you're willing it's totally fine to share your work with the model itself removed

New comment by kooshball in "iNaturalist strikes out on its own"

kooshball — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 03:52:42 +0000

I would pay for this

New comment by kooshball in "Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over spike in car thefts"

kooshball — Sat, 20 May 2023 19:44:43 +0000

no one asserted 1/5 is not significant. you misread this.

i was just stating the fact that the initial number posted was wrong/incomplete.

New comment by kooshball in "Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over spike in car thefts"

kooshball — Fri, 12 May 2023 22:25:50 +0000

> Drug Offenses are nearly half the prison population

this is not true. your data is federal only. most prisoners are at state prisons. drug offense is about 1/5 of total.

source https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html

New comment by kooshball in "Ask HN: Is it appropriate to ask a startup to let me see their cap table?"

kooshball — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 20:51:13 +0000

you're right that in any funding round (private or public ipo) there is dilution. your ownership in % will go down.

however no company will be able to predict future dilution so this is not really something they can tell you with confidence.

the only thing you can do is gauge current state of the company (funding, readiness for ipo) and try to estimate future dilution but even this is non trivial for early stage companies.

New comment by kooshball in "Ask HN: Elevator Pitch for a Polymath?"

kooshball — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 21:48:35 +0000

in case you really didn't know, "they" can also be singular

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/they

New comment by kooshball in "Ask HN: Are companies becoming increasingly pushy? If so why?"

kooshball — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 10:55:45 +0000

your understanding of ads industry is decades out of date. this is not how digital ad is bought or sold today for small content creators

New comment by kooshball in "iPhone 14 Pro camera review: A small step, a huge leap"

kooshball — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 19:11:27 +0000

can't you turn that off?

New comment by kooshball in "Identify Birds by Their Chirp"

kooshball — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 04:57:36 +0000

it's very similar. they built this directly into the Merlin app. other diff is birdnet coudlnt detect birds in realtime where as Merlin can.

New comment by kooshball in "Houston moved 25k people from the streets into homes of their own"

kooshball — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 21:09:34 +0000

i hope it's not surprising to you that some homeowners do pay to upgrade their place so it's actually maintained over time. if you don't do that obviously things will get worse, not better in 60+ years! I'm not sure why you think this is a SF phenomenon.

so no, not all SFH in SF are shit.

New comment by kooshball in "Bolt announces layoffs"

kooshball — Thu, 26 May 2022 14:35:11 +0000

the answer is no probably not. VC for tech startup exist because of economy of scale of tech and is ruled by power law. one winner that returns 100x is much more important than a handful that return 2x.

to be clear most VC funds are not actually able to do that.

New comment by kooshball in "The tech sector teardown is more catharsis than crisis"

kooshball — Wed, 18 May 2022 16:28:40 +0000

here are the basics

https://www.investopedia.com/investing/how-interest-rates-af...

I think the dynamic for private (VC) money and public markets are different

VC money will dry up as endowments look to shift more money into safer asset class when interest rate is high

public markets company valuation models change with interest rates changing. when rate is close to 0 investors are willing to buy asset with a very long term view for expected future profit (say 10 years). when rates go up that time frame shortens since opportunity cost of buying that stock today is now much higher.

New comment by kooshball in "Ask HN: When did tech stop being cool?"

kooshball — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:53:21 +0000

what a ridiculous statement. it also shows why the whole premise for this post is so misguided.

New comment by kooshball in "Ask HN: What to do about Gmail blocking my email?"

kooshball — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 04:58:08 +0000

think about what the PM of antispam at Gmail is optimizing for. their job is to provide defense against adversarial spammers.

anything trivial for you to do to get into someone's inbox can also be trivial for spammers. they'll have a bot that do it 1000 times a day. Gmail can't stop spam altogether so the general strategy is to try to make it as painful and expensive as possible to deter the marginal spammers.

any sort of spam at scale is easier to detect. that's why most marginal spam happens with new IP. similar issue in the past with hacked Gmail accounts. this is where google is cracking down harder and why you're running into these issues.