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Re:Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:31PM (#50293778)
These figures are just for the latest quarter, so Google's actually making ~$700m per day from search!
Re:Chrome to warn on unencrypted HTTP by default on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @10:07PM (#45741810)
Chrome has a set release schedule, shipping a new major release every four weeks.

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

o3-mini faster than GPT-4o-mini

In my testing o3-mini is consistently faster than gpt-4o-mini in total response time by 10-20% even as it produces more tokens.Demo: https://imgur.com/a/o3-faster-than-gpt-4o-mini-uPQo7wKDo we know why it's faster? And if any of those performance improvements will come to the 4o(-mini) models?

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Re:Wonder is acquiring Grubhub on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @08:06PM (#42132065)
Looks like it's "Fred's Meat and Bread" which is different than the Meet & Bread chain in Vancouver, Calgary, and Austin.
Re:AI vs. a giraffe with no spots (2023) on Monday May 27, 2024 @02:23PM (#40493228)
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.

Re:OpenAI Function calling and API updates on Tuesday June 13, 2023 @02:53PM (#36315030)
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.
Re:Nobody Pronounces the 'B' in 'Debt' on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @09:02AM (#29794806)
The "b"
Re:Non-Fungible Taylor Swift on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @12:28AM (#26788133)
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.

Re:Hate Your Job on Monday December 28, 2020 @11:00PM (#25566580)
@dang should update with (2018)
Re:WhatsApp Will Start Showing Ads on Saturday December 05, 2020 @07:55PM (#25319926)
"[The messages] will not be advertisements for commercial purposes, but rather for services, always linked to the community or the app."
Re:Show HN: Podcast API on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @04:17PM (#25142555)
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.
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...

Re:Understanding Duolingo’s quiet $10M raise on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @08:56PM (#23014050)
The new seat is an "observer" seat which doesn't have a vote.
But then it's weird to specify a location. Camrose is a town of 18,000 people – why not make it explicitly remote?

Stripe changing fees for Canadian customers

Hello,We'd like to let you know that we're making some updates to your Stripe fees.In 2017, we updated our fee handling for refunds and international payments to account for changes in our underlying costs. Since then, we’ve also updated our pricing for Stripe Radar’s fraud protection. Because you were an early user of Stripe, you were exempted from these changes at the time. Beginning June 8,...

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Re:Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? on Thursday January 02, 2020 @09:12PM (#21942387)
What does Disney joining FAANG mean? It's acquired?
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/

Re:Share Now, formerly Car2Go, is leaving North America on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @09:19PM (#21831512)
Not OP, but Modo [1] in Vancouver, Canada has exactly this model with a $500 refundable buy-in.

[1] https://modo.coop/

@johndamaia – your Zillow testimonial has "an" misspelt in "knock ant artboard"
If that chart is accurate it seems that Canadian cities across the board are building more high-rises. I wonder why.
Are the workers putting up the capital to purchase the robots?
Re:The Scottish Register of Tartans on Monday October 01, 2018 @10:18AM (#18112709)
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018) on Monday April 02, 2018 @12:13PM (#16735866)
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...

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