Hacker News: slipshady

New comment by slipshady in "Gemini 4 Carbon"

slipshady — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:50:33 +0000

Googlers got access to Claude like one month ago.

New comment by slipshady in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

slipshady — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 04:10:50 +0000

> after 6p west coast time

Hmm? The linked tweet was posted at 16:52.

New comment by slipshady in "We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines"

slipshady — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 23:57:19 +0000

Ah yes, so all Sri Lankan buddhists must be vegetarian.

Mate, <50% of India is vegetarian.

New comment by slipshady in "The surreal life of a professional bridesmaid"

slipshady — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 12:29:51 +0000

That website is awful on iOS/Safari. Constantly scrolls me back to the top.

New comment by slipshady in "Purple Llama: Towards open trust and safety in generative AI"

slipshady — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 15:18:43 +0000

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft aren’t members either. But they’ve been mentioned.

New comment by slipshady in "An update on Twitch in Korea"

slipshady — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 07:35:05 +0000

I don’t have data but I wouldn’t be surprised if it got there. India is mobile first, Jio is putting internet in the hands of 100s of millions of Indian at cheap prices. They’re shutting out the competitors.

Jio also has its own streaming service, which doesn’t count against your data caps. That’s anti net neutrality.

The obvious next step is to start making the sender pay for traffic as well.

New comment by slipshady in "Amazon exec: it's time to 'disagree and commit' to office return despite no data"

slipshady — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:35:05 +0000

> driving every day is more dangerous than not driving every day

Can't disagree there. Do you also do thing like having groceries/shopping delivered to your place of residence, to avoid having to leave the house. Or do you still walk/commute/drive/travel to things that most would consider part of everyday life?

New comment by slipshady in "Amazon exec: it's time to 'disagree and commit' to office return despite no data"

slipshady — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 19:01:56 +0000

> danger to my personal well being and the cost

I don't know what your personal situation is, and you don't have to go into any detail, but how/why is coming to the office affecting your personal well being?

New comment by slipshady in "Amazon exec: it's time to 'disagree and commit' to office return despite no data"

slipshady — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 18:59:44 +0000

It comes from Amazon's Leadership Principles (LPs) [1] which honestly feel like the vestiges of the company's heyday. The two new ones (at the bottom) were added by Andy Jassy when he took over and are a joke within the company. But here's what this post's title is referring to

> Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit

> Leaders are obligated to respectfully challenge decisions when they disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. Leaders have conviction and are tenacious. They do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, they commit wholly.

[1] - https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/our-workplace/leadership-...

New comment by slipshady in "Apple discriminated against US citizens in hiring, DOJ says"

slipshady — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 02:51:11 +0000

Maybe Americans are just terrible at interviewing for these jobs?

New comment by slipshady in "Apple finally put USB-C in new iPhone, but limited to 23-year-old USB 2.0 speeds"

slipshady — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 15:20:06 +0000

> old phone

Announced yesterday

Checks out!

New comment by slipshady in "iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus"

slipshady — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 20:48:04 +0000

> free with applecare

So about $200 depending on what model you have then? I pay for AppleCare+ for my iPhone 11 (mostly because I like not using a case) and it's not free.

Supply Chain by Amazon

slipshady — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 15:11:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/small-business/supply-chain-by-amazon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37482483

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by slipshady in "Apple vs. Meta: The Illusion of Privacy"

slipshady — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 08:16:51 +0000

I could barely read or navigate on mobile despite being prompted to ‘flip to landscape’. I gave up on the page.

New comment by slipshady in "How Amazon uses chaos engineering to handle 80k requests per second"

slipshady — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 05:44:36 +0000

DynamoDB served upwards of 100MM tps during Prime Day '23 - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/prime-day-2023-powered-by-a...

New comment by slipshady in "How Amazon uses chaos engineering to handle 80k requests per second"

slipshady — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 05:42:22 +0000

My professor at Cornell whose lab Werner Vogel (Amazon's current CTO) worked loved telling this story. Maybe there's some veracity to it.

New comment by slipshady in "Fidelity deepens valuation cut for Reddit and Discord"

slipshady — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:49:09 +0000

> Have you considered that Reddit users simply do not like being advertised to?

Does anyone like being advertised to?

New comment by slipshady in "Don’t Talk to Police (2012) [video]"

slipshady — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 01:46:36 +0000

There's a different video in which James Duane addresses the traffic stop situation - https://youtu.be/-FENubmZGj8?t=503

New comment by slipshady in "Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing"

slipshady — Wed, 31 May 2023 20:26:14 +0000

> The browser is turtle slow.

Are you using old reddit? [1] Do you find that slow as well??

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/o67vzg/how_tro_get_ba...

New comment by slipshady in "Amazon Mandating 3 days back in office come May first"

slipshady — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 19:14:32 +0000

I think WFH is cancerous too, I'm an engineer with no real estate investments.