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New comment by tazu in "Mira Murati leaves OpenAI"

tazu — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 02:25:32 +0000

Russia's debt to GDP ratio is 20%. The United States' debt to GDP ratio is 123%.

New comment by tazu in "OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity"

tazu — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 02:13:52 +0000

It's probably because of the poorly-designed "flamewar detector" that censors posts if they are upvoted/downvoted too quickly. @dang explained it to me a few weeks ago[1] on another YC-related post that conveniently got scrubbed from the front page.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41510285

New comment by tazu in "Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days"

tazu — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:03:14 +0000

Setting aside the political reasons for less advertising revenue, it's still running and there are 200M DAU. Many ex-employees swore the servers would catch fire by now.

New comment by tazu in "Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days"

tazu — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 19:57:07 +0000

Letting 80% go seems to have worked for X.

New comment by tazu in "SQLite Transparent Compression"

tazu — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:02:34 +0000

I used this to index and store a subset of Wikipedia's archive and it works great.

St. Petersburg Paradox

tazu — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:01:43 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41566378

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tazu in "Fair: A Go library for serving resources fairly"

tazu — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:59:14 +0000

Does anyone have some real-world use cases for something like this? The algorithm is cool but I'm struggling to see where this is applicable.

New comment by tazu in "Postmark SMTP sending down for 8 hours due to SSL certificate expiration"

tazu — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:05:28 +0000

"Any previously failed messages via SMTP would need to be retried."

8 hours is pretty awful.

Postmark SMTP sending down for 8 hours due to SSL certificate expiration

tazu — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:00:38 +0000

Article URL: https://status.postmarkapp.com/notices/5jmmv4cyfqboak2v-service-issue-outbound-smtp-sending-issues

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41554797

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by tazu in "Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat"

tazu — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 17:49:20 +0000

There is no cost, overall it all raises US GDP. Military lives are not considered.

New comment by tazu in "Correlating Ownership of Sites Protected by Cloudflare"

tazu — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:44:02 +0000

I thought the non-random nameserver assignment was interesting. Seems like a flaw, actually.

New comment by tazu in "Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat"

tazu — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:08:45 +0000

The American way is creating problems and selling solutions.

New comment by tazu in "US targets trade loophole used by ecommerce groups Temu and Shein"

tazu — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 07:15:51 +0000

I doubt more than 2% of the fentanyl in the US comes direct from China. China just ships to Mexico, which makes it to the US through the wide open southern border.

New comment by tazu in "OpenAI's $150B valuation hinges on upending corporate structure, sources"

tazu — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 02:04:49 +0000

"AI reminds me of the internet in 1999." -- Peter Thiel[1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRunzR9fbk

New comment by tazu in "Breaking Down OnlyFans' Economics"

tazu — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 02:35:53 +0000

Yes, it's misleading to share averages for power-law distributions. Median take home pay is probably $20 annually.

New comment by tazu in "The CIA-in-Chile Scandal at 50"

tazu — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:41:43 +0000

Mike Pompeo told him it was a bad idea. Why would he do it this time? He'd pretty much have nothing to lose.

New comment by tazu in "The CIA-in-Chile Scandal at 50"

tazu — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 15:02:41 +0000

There's a 50% probability that RFK Jr will be a part of the future administration, and I believe he is sufficiently motivated to force Trump to uphold his promise.

New comment by tazu in "The CIA-in-Chile Scandal at 50"

tazu — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 14:49:01 +0000

It's promising that RFK Jr could potentially be in a future administration and push to declassify these documents[1]. It would really only take an executive order. He probably has enough of a chip on his shoulder to accomplish this.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/23/trum...

New comment by tazu in "The CIA-in-Chile Scandal at 50"

tazu — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:36:52 +0000

I am eagerly awaiting the complete declassification of the JFK assasination documents, which will further damage the CIA's reputation.

New comment by tazu in "Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?"

tazu — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 12:04:18 +0000

It was at #3 for me and then suddenly demoted to the second page. It's pretty common for these touchy-YC threads.