Hacker News: opjjf

New comment by opjjf in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

opjjf — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:17:52 +0000

Investigate and imprison the people who are pushing this because of money received from the US.

New comment by opjjf in "MacBook Neo"

opjjf — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:24:44 +0000

$599, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB, *No* Touch ID

$699, 8 GB RAM, 512 GB, Touch ID

Honestly pretty fantastic product and price.

This is clearly targeted towards education but I think I will happily replace by MacBook Air M1 with this :)

New comment by opjjf in "2025 Letter"

opjjf — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:57:48 +0000

His wife is Austrian though, I would have hoped that adds a bit to his perspective.

New comment by opjjf in "Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction"

opjjf — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:06:59 +0000

Do you earn SF salaries in your country?

New comment by opjjf in "M4 MacBook Pro"

opjjf — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:05:25 +0000

It seems they also update the base memory on MacBook Air:

> MacBook Air: The World’s Most Popular Laptop Now Starts at 16GB

> MacBook Air is the world’s most popular laptop, and with Apple Intelligence, it’s even better. Now, models with M2 and M3 double the starting memory to 16GB, while keeping the starting price at just $999 — a terrific value for the world’s best-selling laptop.

GM indefinitely halts work on its driverless car at Cruise unit

opjjf — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 12:52:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/85bfbfd0-1036-44c7-89bb-72d1cd8f8ea2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41045447

Points: 10

# Comments: 2

New comment by opjjf in "Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016)"

opjjf — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 09:53:40 +0000

The value of the fund is now up to $63B. Here is the latest overview: https://www.nvpers.org/sites/default/files/2024-05/PERS-Inve...

New comment by opjjf in "Retirement of Office 365 connectors within Microsoft Teams"

opjjf — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 12:29:41 +0000

Love the comments under the post :) For me it means no more notifications in Teams, as our organisation policy blocks all the useful workflow features.

New comment by opjjf in "Show HN: Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn"

opjjf — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:59:29 +0000

The Hacker News BigQuery data makes this quite easy:

select * from `bigquery-public-data.hacker_news.full` where `by` = 'ilaksh' and type = 'comment' order by timestamp desc

EDIT: seems this is out of date

New comment by opjjf in "The Man in Seat 61"

opjjf — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 11:38:58 +0000

True! But it certainly started out as a hobby and still has that feel to it.

New comment by opjjf in "The Man in Seat 61"

opjjf — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 10:40:14 +0000

How the internet should be. A guy sharing his hobby, providing useful information.

New comment by opjjf in "TextDiffuser-2: Unleashing the power of language models for text rendering"

opjjf — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 21:50:15 +0000

Kind of crazy that they use Breath of the Wild even in the examples. Why can this be generated if not by obviously stealing Nintendo IP?

New comment by opjjf in "I think GCP is better than AWS (2020)"

opjjf — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:10:24 +0000

Don't know enough about Vertex AI, SageMaker is great though. But on BigQuery v Redshift: Having used both over many years, BigQuery is the clear winner. It's a much better, much more modern product.

BigQuery is also a central part of GCP, with almost all services having integrations to it (PubSub, CloudSQL, Bigtable, etc). It also seems to get a lot of resources and is continuously improved. That is not the case for Redshift, which is not as important to AWS.

AWS European Sovereign Cloud

opjjf — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:06:16 +0000

Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38017611

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by opjjf in "Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’"

opjjf — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 14:33:18 +0000

Do you really have to wonder? I think it's one of his episodes, just like the purchase of Twitter itself, where the too quickly decides on something and pushes it through.

Google's Urs Holzle to step down from executive management

opjjf — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 10:38:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/12/google-cloud-shakeup-urs-holzle-to-step-down-from-executive-management.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36692614

Points: 25

# Comments: 7

New comment by opjjf in "Ask HN: Alternatives to The Economist?"

opjjf — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 13:11:04 +0000

I think the only real alternative is the FT. Yes, it's not a weekly but they have lots of in-depth reporting (and the Economist refers to itself as a newspaper anyway).

New comment by opjjf in "People pretending to be laid-off Twitter employees carrying boxes outside of HQ"

opjjf — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 17:44:00 +0000

I would guess it's not just data engineering but a big part of the engineering org. Or why would you single out such a team?

New comment by opjjf in "In praise of the humble Sheffield stand"

opjjf — Mon, 30 May 2022 05:47:54 +0000

In Germany, we call them "Kreuzberger Bügel", named after Berlin's Kreuzberg district, where the same design was first used. (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreuzberger_Bügel)

New comment by opjjf in "AWS Redshift Serverless"

opjjf — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 18:35:19 +0000

So basically BigQuery from AWS. Looks good on first sight, a bit late. Personally worked for a large org which has just moved from BigQuery from Redshift and I have to say that BigQuery is the much better product.