Hacker News: tims33

New comment by tims33 in "NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle"

tims33 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:39:17 +0000

The specifics of the article zero sense. Net Income and Operating Cash Flow are not the same thing so there is no mystery about whey they are different especially in a business with large Capex and long lead times.

NVIDIA's historic DSO figures have also ranged from 41 to 57 over the last 5 years, so again not that crazy.

New comment by tims33 in "Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road"

tims33 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 03:29:34 +0000

Exactly the same. I loved Dharma Bums much more as a book, but On the Road certainly changed the course of my life. I'd always been made to wander, but never fully understood it.

New comment by tims33 in "19% of California houses are owned by investors"

tims33 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 20:17:42 +0000

But it is also the largest state with the most expensive home so on a $ weighted basis it is a big chunk of the national total.

New comment by tims33 in "IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge"

tims33 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 16:00:59 +0000

“Cloud”

New comment by tims33 in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

tims33 — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 21:05:17 +0000

Is allowing them to impose the same kind of restrictions in their US app as they do for their own citizens good for free speech?

New comment by tims33 in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

tims33 — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 19:14:54 +0000

I agree with everything you're saying, but I also can't fully square up that the equivalent American apps aren't allowed in China. This is about freedom of speech on app built by a country that has no freedom of speech. I realize this point is orthogonal, but is still an important element of the decision.

New comment by tims33 in "California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones"

tims33 — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:39:46 +0000

Agree. Social and emotional development is a real thing. I think most students (especially boys) are better off being more challenged in their age-appropriate grade-level than skipping.

New comment by tims33 in "The IPv6 Transition"

tims33 — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 22:27:57 +0000

What do you see as the key points that create a lot more value?

New comment by tims33 in "GM to Cut More Than 1k Software Engineers, Mostly in US"

tims33 — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 04:09:47 +0000

Probably just increasing the number of Accenture and Infosys offshore engineers and H1Bs they're using. Most of these jobs are probably old school IT.

New comment by tims33 in "Launch HN: Undermind (YC S24) – AI agent for discovering scientific papers"

tims33 — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 23:14:55 +0000

Just in case you needed a theme song for your future ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTnMvULdcB4

New comment by tims33 in "Only 2% of Tesla Full Self-Driving trial users end up buying it"

tims33 — Tue, 14 May 2024 17:30:01 +0000

It was fun to use while it was free, but not worth continuing. City driving was terrible and disconnected frequently. Highway driving is pretty nice, but not that much better than the adaptive cruise control that is free or the cruise control on my Subaru.

New comment by tims33 in "Jeff Lawson buys The Onion"

tims33 — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:07:55 +0000

"Dad Suggests Arriving At Airport 14 Hours Early" is my all-time fav.

https://www.theonion.com/dad-suggests-arriving-at-airport-14...

New comment by tims33 in "Seismologists suspect earthquake on San Andreas Fault is imminent"

tims33 — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 04:03:58 +0000

Funny. In with the roar of multiple paragraphs spent explaining all the reasons this spot will be the next big one. And then out with a quick whimper that the scientists are not convicted.

New comment by tims33 in "Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS"

tims33 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 18:10:03 +0000

It feels even clunkier now in this video than it did when it came out.

New comment by tims33 in "My startup crossed $2M/yr and now co-founder is going for a power grab"

tims33 — Mon, 29 May 2023 03:15:30 +0000

> CEO and COO said that didn't want to get involved and it was for me and CUXO to sort it out ourselves.

It seems like they're sending you a signal that the CUXO's argument has at least some merit. Last time they were aligned with you and this time they're telling you to sort it out yourself. Ask the CEO and COO is they have some feedback for you that they're holding back on.

New comment by tims33 in "Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach by Udi Manber [pdf]"

tims33 — Sat, 27 May 2023 22:45:43 +0000

I took CS 445 Algorithms at Arizona with Udi Manber as the professor in the late 90s. Tough class. The .com boom was picking up at that point and I think he went to Yahoo shortly after.

New comment by tims33 in "De-Stressing Booking.com (2019)"

tims33 — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 17:47:02 +0000

a/b testing obviously drives these kinds of site designs. The business leaders get what they want, but eventually these over-a/b tested products open themselves to disruption.

I also think its funny when people accuse these companies of being immoral, but I think a/b testing is creating these bizarre amoral companies. And once they get lost they seem really lost.

New comment by tims33 in "NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'"

tims33 — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:33:28 +0000

That could apply to a huge portion of all businesses on Twitter. How many of the F500 have benefitted from a gov't bailout or some other taxpayer subsidy. No one is really squeaky clean on this front.

New comment by tims33 in "1Password Park – St. Thomas Ontario"

tims33 — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 04:30:59 +0000

This one too: https://www.facebook.com/100066178766049/videos

New comment by tims33 in "Tell HN: Microsoft classifies own emails as junk"

tims33 — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 17:31:10 +0000

Hard to believe that they've owned Hotmail/Outlook.com for over 20 years and their spam filtering is still atrocious. Gmail is 100x better and so is O365.