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dinosor··on Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
> Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI.

I feel this looks like a nice thing to have given they remain the primary cloud provider. If Azure improves it's overall quality then I don't see why this ends up as a money printing press as long as OpenAI brings good models?

dinosor··on Astral to Join OpenAI
I'm confused as to what will happen to their platform product which was in closed beta - pyx. Since they no longer need to worry about money (I assume) they no longer need to chase after enterprise customers?
dinosor··on Snabbit, Urban Company instant maid female gig workers in India work in fear
I'm confused at the business model - if the risk introduced to the employees outweigh the benefits of the model. The instant maid business in India is currently at the phase where VC money is being pumped across.

If we're to learn from other gig economies that have mostly matured, could conclude that for better of worse this model is here to stay, and might even end up dominating over the current model of direct employments.

dinosor··on Gemini 3.1 Pro
For a moment I assumed the output would look like Perry the Platipus from the Disney (I think?) show. It's suprising to me (as a layman) that a show with lots of media that would've made it to the training corpus didn't show up.
dinosor··on Gemini 3.1 Pro
I find gemini to be the best at travel planning and for story telling of geographical places. For a road trip, I tried all three mainstream providers and I liked Gemini (also personal preference because Gemini took a verbose approach instead of bullet points from others) for it's responses, ways it discovered stories about places I wanted to explore, places it suggested for me and things it gave me to consider those places in the route.
dinosor··on Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
> ... to Cursor's Composer 2.0 and more, ...

I couldn't find any references of Composer 2.0 anywhere. When did that come out?

dinosor··on [dead]
Used to be the poster child of neobanking in India, founded by the folks who created Google Tez (later rebranded to Google Pay in India). Had high expectations but looks like the industry isn't worth the effort?
dinosor··on Coming soon: Simpler pricing and a better experience for GitHub Actions
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46291156
dinosor··on Strava Voluntarily Drops Lawsuit Against Garmin
Thread when Strava sued Garmin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45449866
dinosor··on Cobalt – lightweight HTML5 application container from YouTube
A previous thread on Cobalt (22 Nov 2022, 51 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33706197
dinosor··on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS servers and phased apt updates
True. I wondered the same for the canaries. But they did mention why they didn't want to go with the 100% rollout option.

> We could set some very important machines to only get updates when packages reach 100% and stop being phased updates, but Ubuntu has a good record of not blowing things up with eg OpenSSH updates.

dinosor··on React Native is not the future
I occassionally use the Notion Android app - and you can feel the difference in the native interface and the webview in this case. But only due to the interactivity - appearance is similar and cohesive.

My experience wasn't good before the introduction of the native home tab - I experienced high loading times right on opening the app and degraded usability - which made me quit from that page most of the time. Opening a page from the home tab now still has delay associated and the transition is not yet seamless (for me - I get a blank screen and then the page starts to load). But the home tab helps significantly improve the overall experience as the initial wait time is no longer present. Like mentioned the experience is improving - and I'm looking forward to the beta with more native interfaces!

dinosor··on A history of ARM, part 2: Everything starts to come together
Part 1 URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/a-history-of-arm-par...

Part 1 discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32953980

dinosor··on 500M Avira antivirus users introduced to cryptomining
True - but since the tool is strictly opt-in only, are we a bit too critical of the tool? Personally I don't use any such av tools or have any stakes in cryptocurrencies. But in a way they are providing an option for less tech savvy people to mine cryptocurrency right? Would've been better if the crypto component was not installed by default, but still. As many mentioned, there's also the question of the education component to the users - how much good a job the tool does in providing proper awareness to people who go opt-in to the tool, on what they're getting into. Personally if I were to use such a tool, I'd prefer that.