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EcommerceFlow··on X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
It was actually one of their employees reading a tweet about it and then just implementing it within an hour or two. The person was shocked at the autonomy X employees have.
EcommerceFlow··on Future of Space Telescopes in the Era of Super Heavy Lift Launch
I've had a crazy thought of SpaceX taking control of this industry, similarly to StarLink. An enormous percentage (like 90%+) of requests to Hubble, JWTC, etc get denied, so the market is seemingly there. Plus, maybe the data ends up being useful for training Grok 5 or whatever.
EcommerceFlow··on Future of Space Telescopes in the Era of Super Heavy Lift Launch
Or maybe a 16m "single fold". Would the complexity of adding 1 fold be worth the benefit of a 2x size?
EcommerceFlow··on Waymo One is now open to everyone in San Francisco
Comments are really underestimating Tesla FSD in here. As an owner and user of FSD, it's scary how quickly their new Neural Net version is improving. There's a reason Elon and other internal Tesla engineers are so bullish on it, they've seen the data on 12.5 and beyond. Once their 100,000 GPU cluster is complete this year, how many iterations until FSD is comparable to Waymo? One year? Maybe 3 years?

The reason Waymo should be worried is because once FSD hits that "crossing", a flick of a switch at Tesla and 3-8 million robo taxis could hit the market all at once. For comparison, Waymo has around 1,000 cars.

It's cool what Waymo's doing, but as an actual FSD user it's plainly obvious "vision only" will work, which does not bode well for all the other car companies + waymo.

EcommerceFlow··on Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid
I've heard for years that if we just had "tons" of Nuclear plants, our energy costs would essentially be too cheap to meter. Yet France is not experiencing this even at 75% Nuclear.
EcommerceFlow··on Nvidia Passes Microsoft to Become Largest U.S. Company
This is like seeing an old high school friend you've lost touch with become president. I calculated my profits had I invested in Nvidia instead of buying my first Nvidia GPU (8800GTX+ in Fall 2008) and my $200 GPU would be $108k invested, Lol! Hell of an expensive Crisis game.
EcommerceFlow··on Electricity prices in France turn negative as renewable energy floods the grid
What I never understood was how France gets 70-75% of their electricity from Nuclear, yet their energy prices aren't "too cheap to meter", and while cheaper than their neighbors, don't really raise any eyebrows. Wouldn't this be a major example of why Nuclear is NOT the future?
EcommerceFlow··on AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor
You're talking about an extremely end of cycle resurgence. For the vast majority of the lifecycle, the 360 outsold the PS3 and had better compatibility with multiplatform games.
EcommerceFlow··on Ask HN: What would you do with $1M?
Stocks are the smart option, but I'd heavily consider a 5% Treasury for the $50,000/year guaranteed.
EcommerceFlow··on Anonymous Source Shared Leaked Google Search API Documents
Once you get to the top 1-3 results, CTR (click through rate) is a much bigger ranking factor. Google knows how long people stay on pages and whether they click and back out immediately. This is important for E-Commerce, because Google doesn't want Site #1 to be mostly out of stock even though they have better links.
EcommerceFlow··on Star Citizen Tops $700M, Still No Release Date
Ironically with inflation these past few years and enormous AAA flops (halo infinite reportedly cost 500mil), this doesn't even seem like all that much, especially since there's loads of content currently released as we type.
EcommerceFlow··on Google just updated its algorithm. The Internet will never be the same
While yes it’s technically “Googles fault”, I feel like the reality is the spammers have won the SEO war. Might be as simple as that,
EcommerceFlow··on On Self-driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers
$2mil is nothing worth of equipment, most likely just some testing or ground truth stuff. Borderline fake news or a lack of critical thinking imo.
EcommerceFlow··on On Self-driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers
Anyone who owns a Tesla and has used the new V12.3 understands why Elon is so bullish about the Robo-Taxi's. He's said they've internally seen a 5x-10x reduction in disengagements on 12.4 (already trained, out soon), and that 12.5 is even better. Their GPU stack by end of the year will also be 8x the size it was earlier this year. Combine all this together, and the "feedback loop" with millions of people using FSD, it's looking like the "vision only" strategy will work.

My question is what happens to all other car markers if it turns out Elon and Andrej Karpathy's strategy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM23sjhtk4Q) is the correct one?

EcommerceFlow··on Microsoft says new Surface Pro is faster than 15" M3 MacBook Air
Yet it runs Windows which automatically negates any hardware advantage. Surfaces and other windows laptops have always had "good" hardware, but the software is just garbage.
EcommerceFlow··on Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
Biggest free agent since Lebron James
EcommerceFlow··on GPT-4o
After using it for an hour, I completely agree. Having the faster token rate + their excel analysis actually work is a game changer.
EcommerceFlow··on GPT-4o
As I commented in the other thread, really really disappointed there's no intelligence update and more of a focus on "gimmicks". The desktop app did look really good, especially as the models get smarter. Will be canceling my premium as there's no real purpose of it until that new "flag ship" model comes out.
EcommerceFlow··on GPT-4o
A new "flagship" model with no improvement of intelligence, very disappointed. Maybe this is a strategy for them to mass collect "live" data before they're left behind by Google/Twitter live data...
EcommerceFlow··on OpenAI could unveil its Google search competitor on Monday
As an SEO I'm a bit excited and interested to see how they'll be "ranking" information, or whether every source will be paid-ad only.
EcommerceFlow··on How Ahrefs Gets a Billion Dollar-Worth Infrastructure with a 90% Discount
Fun random fact, Ahrefs is STILL denied a Wikipedia article, even though their competitors like SEMRUSH have one. Wouldn't be surprised if bad actors were involved. I mean hell, I've heard their crawling spider was the 2nd largest on the web after Google.

Super interesting article though, and a nice addition to their prior one.

EcommerceFlow··on Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality
If anyone wants a shortcut to an extremely good workout, look into rowing (MAKE SURE you learn proper form!).

I focus on "maxing out" sets of 500m since it correlates well to basketball cardio, and I have infinite cardio even in my mid 30's.

EcommerceFlow··on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining
Both are complete garbage and hinder the consumer PC market. I've had custom built gaming PCs since 2008, with my current build probably 50x more powerful than the one back then, yet the software has gotten worse.
EcommerceFlow··on What the data says about crime in the U.S.
The article provides an alright overview but omits a critical aspect: the correlation between race and crime rates is strikingly high. For example, FBI data shows vast differences in murder rates by race:

African American: 33.6 homicides per 100,000 people American Indian and Alaska Native: 12.9 per 100,000 Hispanic: 6.9 per 100,000 White: 3.3 per 100,000 Asian and Pacific Islander: 1.7 per 100,000

There are other crimes in which the numbers are flipped, such as gambling and financial crimes.

If we're serious about making things better and stopping violence, or whatever crime, we need to be upfront about who it's impacting the most and why.

EcommerceFlow··on Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later
This will only get worse as the incentives shift from purely "propaganda" to actual financial incentives. The SEO spammers are coming for Reddit.

You'll start noticing comments that have been edited months or years after the original, that insert links for a particular product/service. I've already seen this for a variety of IPTV comments I was searching. I'd imagine this is mostly done via mass outreach.

On a different note, I'd imagine the pushback had this been "right wing" propaganda being caught to be 100x with mentions of criminal activity, even more censorship, etc.

EcommerceFlow··on Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail
I was watching David Kipping on Lex, and he mentioned some absurd number of requests to Hubble and Webb get denied (like 90%+). With Starship advancing at such a rapid pace, and with their launch size capabilities, I really hope cheaper "single purpose" telescopes start getting produced and launched. Could be a cool business opportunity for some obscure engineering company.
EcommerceFlow··on FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules
If ISP's are the utility pipes, platforms are the water and control what flows through them.

The whole point of NN is to stop ISPs from "playing favorites" since they hold too much power over what we can access. But if you ignore the fact that a few big tech companies (which hold a MUCH bigger market share compared to comcast/other big ISPs) basically decide what gets seen and what gets hidden, it's the exact same problem in a different disguise.

EcommerceFlow··on FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules
The whole net neutrality discussion seems pretty hypocritical in hindsight, since huge portions of people who furiously supported NN stayed silent or encouraged censorship after 2016 (including the sitting president of the united states) on Facebook, Twitter, IG, etc.

Why would someone only advocate for an open, unrestricted internet at the hardware/ISP level? The whole point of NN was to ensure ISPs couldn't act as gatekeepers, yet people are fine with trillion dollar tech companies (that hold enormous market share) gatekeeping certain content now?

EcommerceFlow··on Scripts to build a trimmed-down Windows 11 image
Does something similar exist for Windows 10? After being on 11 at home, I see zero benefits over W10.
EcommerceFlow··on Tesla's in Its Flop Era
QAnon is so obviously a pun/joke on Q rumors, I'm not sure what the outrage is about.

His GRT outlook is quite logical. More illegal immigrants = more votes for particular politicians, more expensive housing, and lower wages. He's been very clear he prefers extremely tight borders for illegal immigrants and hugely open ones for highly qualified legal immigrants. I think the majority of American's would agree with that.

I also disagree with his Ukraine/Crimea thoughts, but it's quite logical from his viewpoint. He sees an increased risk of Nuclear War over Eastern Ukraine as not worth it, and has mentioned that a few times. I'm sure he understands his mortality and time left, and is just thinking on a civilizational level. I will point out the irony in you stating this, when Starlink has been instrumental in the Ukrainian defense.

Again, I haven't seen anything particularly damning.

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