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frankchn··on Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
In this case, I think it is a jury's finding of fact re: the statute of limitations. Unless the appellate court finds that the trial court and jury is clearly erroneous, it will usually give significant deference to that finding.
frankchn··on Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged
It will be fewer accessible services for everyone who refuses to use this, that's for sure. In general though, service providers are not going to accept "fewer services and infinite fraud" and thus they will look into implementing this.
frankchn··on Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
Gift cards generally cannot expire until 5 years after activation in the United States (CARD Act 2009), so I would have wanted a similar time period here at least.
frankchn··on Oil is near a price that hurts the economy
The direct consumption of oil and petroleum products from the conflict is trivial compared to marine traffic being restricted from passage through the Straits of Hormuz. ~20% of global crude production pass through the Straits.
frankchn··on America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks
There is an upper limit on CPF contributions as well, currently set at S$8,000/month for ordinary wages and S$102,000/year total (ordinary wages + sales/performance bonuses, etc...).

In comparison, the US social security income limits this year is US$184,500/year.

frankchn··on Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s
If Intel's original 10nm process and Cannon Lake had launched within Intel's original timeframe of 2016/17, it would have been class leading.

Instead, they couldn't get 10nm to work and launched one low-power SKU in 2018 that had almost half the die disabled, and stuck to 14nm from 2014-2021.

frankchn··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
It can be an easy charge of “lying to the government on an official form” when they discover you have a user account somewhere that you didn’t disclose, even if they can’t get anything else to stick.
frankchn··on BMW PHEV: Safety fuse replacement is extremely expensive
> A lot of cars have that. My (gulp) BMW EV for instance. Newer BMW ICE cars too.

Yeah, the recent BMWs (both EV and ICEVs) have Apple/Android CarKey UWB support, which is much more reliable and precise than Bluetooth.

frankchn··on Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?
> However that type of test is generally bad because it more measures speed then skill.

Isn't speed and fluency part of skill and mastery of the material?

> Just think about it - when was the last time you had a final exam where literally every person handed in the exam at the last moment. When i was in school, the vast majority of people handed in their exam before the time limit.

I think almost all of my high school exams and at least half of my college finals had >90% of students remaining in the exam hall when the proctor called time.

frankchn··on The RAM shortage comes for us all
TPUs use HBM, which are impacted.
frankchn··on Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on
I do chores regularly, and I apply security patches regularly.

Major operating system version upgrades can be more akin to upgrading all the furniture and electronics in my house at the same time.

frankchn··on J.P. Morgan's OpenAI loan is strange
Amazon issued $1.25 billion in convertible debt in 1999: https://www.wired.com/1999/01/an-amazonian-debt/
frankchn··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
Customers are generally a lot more understanding if half the internet goes down at the same time as you.
frankchn··on FCC Accidentally Leaked iPhone Schematics
They are doing some wild stuff in Asia like adding physical SIM card slots to eSIM only iPhones (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0Ja_x7JI0w). I imagine having schematics like this would be at least marginally helpful in developing those techniques.
frankchn··on YouTube is a mysterious monopoly
YouTube seems to be pretty explicit that it is paying 55% of revenue from watching videos to creators:

> If a partner turns on Watch Page Ads by reviewing and accepting the Watch Page Monetization Module, YouTube will pay them 55% of net revenues from ads displayed or streamed on their public videos on their content Watch Page. This revenue share rate also applies when their public videos are streamed within the YouTube Video Player on other websites or applications.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72902?hl=en#zippy=...

frankchn··on Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts
Why would it be bad for Apple? They get to keep the billions/year flowing in exchange for Google Search being the default on iOS devices. Google just can't pay to be the only search engine on iOS (but they have never done that afaik).

AAPL up 3%+ after hours.

frankchn··on Top researchers leave Intel to build startup with 'the biggest, baddest CPU'
These configuration files exist (https://llvm.org/docs/TableGen/, https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/llvm/lib/Targ...) but it is very complicated because the processors themselves are very complicated.
frankchn··on Google Fiber is coming to Las Vegas
It is symmetrical.
frankchn··on Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam
Recent Canons support UVC as well (specifically the R1, R5 Mark II, R6 Mark II, R8, and R50).
frankchn··on Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam
It doesn't apply to Canon's recent cameras either. The R1, R5 Mark II, R6 Mark II, R8, and R50 have built-in UVC support now.
frankchn··on Railroad Tycoon II
Right now, they are not even making their own games exclusive to Windows Store or the XBox App (see MSFS 2024, Age of Empires series, Forza, etc...).
frankchn··on Disappointed with the TVs at CES 2025
I don't think these are 8K monitors. They support 8K input via 4x 12G SDI, but they contain 4K panels at 3840 x 2160.
frankchn··on 6th-generation Waymo Driver
If this is the model (https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a45711737/zeekr-cm1e-waymo...) then 5 passenger seats, no steering wheel (in the photos at least).
frankchn··on Introducing Copilot+ PCs
Engineers named the Xbox One X "Scorpio", which is a much cooler name.
frankchn··on Apple introduces M4 chip
The other reason it is compared to the M2 is that there are no iPads with M3s in them, so it makes sense to compare to the processor used in the previous generation product.
frankchn··on Intel's Humbling
The chips Nvidia requires are a lot bigger (>800 mm2 sometimes) and they are much more expensive to make on a cutting edge process with relatively low yields compared to the 100-150 mm2 chips Apple wants for its Axx iPhone chips.
frankchn··on Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger
The Microsoft/Activision-Blizzard acquisition had already closed in October.
frankchn··on Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger
In October, FedWire moved $4.275 trillion USD per day on average.
frankchn··on Cisco Acquires Splunk
> Mindshare is valuable, was the point GP was making. If midsize customers ignore you because you're too expensive, and then implement something else before they get big enough to afford you, where do you get new customers? Forget growth, how do you replace attrition as your existing customers die?

Somehow companies manage to make it work extracting money from your existing money-is-no-object customers. Oracle and IBM have basically zero mind-share amongst HN reading folks, but yet there they are.

frankchn··on Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware
Isn't that what the second line in the JavaScript snippet does: delete itself while the script is still in use (i.e. running?)

In any case, I am not sure the Unix way is the best API design here. Sure, it does help in these scenarios, but now you can have hidden files lying around in the filesystem being used that I can't easily tell are even there.

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