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Chrome has a set release schedule, shipping a new major release every four weeks.

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/p...

Looks like it's "Fred's Meat and Bread" which is different than the Meet & Bread chain in Vancouver, Calgary, and Austin.

cbowalon AI vs. a giraffe with no spots (2023)

Asking ChatGPT with GPT-4o:

> please describe this image [image]

> The image shows a young giraffe standing on a gravelly surface inside a fenced enclosure. The giraffe has a long neck, characteristic of its species, with a short mane running along the top. Its coat is a light brown color with a paler underbelly. The enclosure has a wire mesh fence and appears to be part of a larger outdoor area, with trees and additional fencing visible in the background. The giraffe is looking directly at the camera with its legs slightly apart, giving it a curious and alert appearance.

> anything unusual?

> Yes, the giraffe in the image appears unusual because it does not have the typical spotted pattern that giraffes are known for. Instead, its coat is a uniform light brown color. Additionally, the body proportions and the facial features look slightly different from a typical giraffe, suggesting it might be a unique or hybrid species, or possibly an artistically altered image. This giraffe also seems to have a different build, with a more compact body and shorter neck compared to most giraffes.

cbowalon Function calling and other API updates

Has anyone seen speed differences with the new gpt-3.5-turbo-0613 model? I've been testing for the past hour and I'm getting responses in about a quarter of the time.

cbowalon Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt'

The "b"

cbowalon Non-Fungible Taylor Swift

The Spotify app shows play counts. I'm seeing, for example, 433M plays of "Love Story" and 65M plays of "Love Story (Taylor's Version)".

Considering that it was released only 3 days ago it seems like the number of plays for the "(Taylor's Version)" is quite incredible.

cbowalon Hate Your Job

@dang should update with (2018)

cbowalon WhatsApp Will Start Showing Ads

"[The messages] will not be advertisements for commercial purposes, but rather for services, always linked to the community or the app."

cbowalon Show HN: Podcast API

When I see usage figures touted in the form "Trusted by X companies" I assume X is the total number of signups they've had.

cbowalon HSBC moved vast sums of dirty money after paying record laundering fine

You might be surprised, but many places have similar murder rates to Iceland. For example, Vancouver, Canada had 9 murders in 2019 [1], not far off of the ~2/year that Iceland has [2].

[1] https://www.vancourier.com/news/vancouver-on-pace-to-surpass...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/12/the-murder-that...

cbowalon Understanding Duolingo’s quiet $10M raise

The new seat is an "observer" seat which doesn't have a vote.

cbowalon Apple is looking for engineers to convert its code from C to Rust

But then it's weird to specify a location. Camrose is a town of 18,000 people – why not make it explicitly remote?

cbowalon Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?

What does Disney joining FAANG mean? It's acquired?

cbowalon IRS Reforms Free File Program, Drops Agreement Not to Compete with TurboTax

If you're in Canada I can't recommend SimpleTax [1] enough. Donation-based, so free or what you can pay. Was recently acquired by Wealthsimple.

[1] https://simpletax.ca/

cbowalon Share Now, formerly Car2Go, is leaving North America

Not OP, but Modo [1] in Vancouver, Canada has exactly this model with a $500 refundable buy-in.

[1] https://modo.coop/

cbowalon Show HN: Building websites from Sketch using deep learning – public launch

@johndamaia – your Zillow testimonial has "an" misspelt in "knock ant artboard"

cbowalon Ask HN: Does anybody make good money from Google Adsense?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Panda

cbowalon Seattle looks to rein in state policy used to push back on big projects

If that chart is accurate it seems that Canadian cities across the board are building more high-rises. I wonder why.

cbowalon Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing them with robots

Are the workers putting up the capital to purchase the robots?

cbowalon The Scottish Register of Tartans

They do - .scot!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.scot

cbowalon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)

Lumen5 | Engineering - Frontend, Backend, Full stack, Machine Learning | Vancouver, BC | Fulltime, Onsite, https://lumen5.com

We're a small startup (7 people so far) that is growing quickly! We're writing software that uses machine learning to automatically convert text into video for digital marketing teams. Lots of interesting NLP, machine learning, video rendering, and web scaling technical challenges. We're hiring a few different positions:

Senior Frontend Engineer (react, redux): https://angel.co/lumen5/jobs/327963-senior-frontend-software...

Senior Backend Engineer (django, elasticsearch, postgres, kubernetes): https://angel.co/lumen5/jobs/327961-senior-backend-software-...

Senior ML Engineer (tensorflow): https://angel.co/lumen5/jobs/327960-senior-machine-learning-...

After Effects Extendscript Developer: https://angel.co/lumen5/jobs/329439-after-effects-extendscri...

cbowalon Cargo raises $5.5M to let Uber drivers sell snacks and essentials nationwide

The figures in those sentences are the revenue earned from selling snacks through Cargo, not revenue from the drive itself.

cbowalon Why Snapchat Spectacles failed

Microsoft/Xbox?

cbowalon New in PostgreSQL 10

Known as "Security through Obscurity" [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity

cbowalon Electric cars: The death of the internal combustion engine

For comparison, there were approx. 168,000 gas stations in the US in 2004 [1] and that number had been steadily decreasing during the decade before (202,000 in 1994).

[1] https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/quizzes/answerQuiz16.shtml

cbowalon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)

Sniply | Intermediate Software Developer | Vancouver, Canada | http://snip.ly

Sniply is a small startup (5 people so far), that makes a SaaS video marketing tool. We're currently looking for an Intermediate Software Developer to join our team.

We're looking for a full-stack web developer, the core skill is javascript (we use react), but we also use python a lot (Django, DRF)

If you're interested, check out our postings: https://angel.co/sniply-1/jobs

cbowalon Post-Olympic Abandonment

The Olympics were held in Calgary in 1988.

cbowalon Ask HN: Bootstrapped US founders, who do you use for health insurance?

Correction: British Columbia's MSP Premiums for a single adult are $75/month or ($900/YEAR).

cbowalon Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

I like the default assumed 7% interest

cbowalon Facebook Posts Strong Profit and Revenue Growth

I'm guessing: Direct Response (Marketing)[0]

[0] http://successwise.com/what-is-direct-response-marketing