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Ask HN: What are you excited about / looking forward to?
In the next 1-3 years in particular.
- slater 3y agoApple's WWDC, Monday in 2 weeks.
- agent008t 3y agoWhy? Some new hardware may get announced, but surely these have been getting progressively less exciting every year for decades. Hardware has been 'good enough' to not be that exciting any more for more than a decade.
- bilvar 3y agoTSLA going to the moon so that I can FIRE.
- agent008t 3y agoWhat do you plan to do after that? Not having to do something is great, but do you have a particular positive agenda that makes you excited to think about?
- bilvar 3y agoI used to be in game development industry before I bailed for (much) better salary in tech. I'll probably start scratching that itch full-time by forming a small indie operation. Also be there to see my children actually grow up =)
- polalavik 3y agowhy would it moon (again)? Toyota produces 7-8x the amount of cars per year, has orders of magnitude more profit, and has half the market cap. What makes tesla more valuable than other major car manufacturers with higher profit?
- stocknoob 3y agoJust curious, what’s your definition of “orders of magnitude?” Toyota sells 8x the cars to make 2x the profit. Tesla has way better profit margins.
- polalavik 3y agoMaybe "orders of magnitude" was a misstatement. looks like ~12 billion (tesla) vs 53 billion (toyota). Maybe I'm a stock noob, but profit margins seem like an arbitrary silly metric to care about. What does it really mean? I could could make something for a dollar and sell it for 2 and my gross margin is 50%...but that doesn't mean i have more money than tesla. Profit margin is just an indirect measure of if you are doing ok, but at the end of the day money == money. Higher profit margin does not mean you have more money relative to your competitor, unless you can keep that profit margin AND beat your competitors in quantity sold. The real tangible value would be cold hard cash which toyota has more of. Cash on hand for toyota is 76 billion. Tesla is 12 billion. Toyota has nearly 3x the employees but earns ~55k more per employee (profit/employee).
- stocknoob 3y agoAs an investor, you want to put your money where the growth is. A high profit margin means people value the product highly and you don’t have competitors driving you into a commodity business. If you made something for a dollar and sold it for 2, how? How did nobody see this chance? Why don’t you have an army of competitors driving that price to 1.05? This isn’t selling a single ice cream at a beach, it’s selling millions across every beach on the planet, where there are many existing vendors. Tesla is supply constrained and can’t sell cars fast enough. Toyota is likely near their peak. Investors don’t invest for who has “more money” (who cares? You get 1/n of that, it’s priced in) they invest for who can grow their money.
- Bostonian 3y agoThe integration of LLMs with compilers. ChatGPT is useful as is for writing code given a prompt in English, but often the code for a compiled language needs some tweaks before it will compile, which ChatGPT can provide given the compiler error message(s). Integrating ChatGPT with a compiler such such as gcc, to eliminate the manual cutting and pasting, is low-hanging fruit.
- agent008t 3y agoWill that make your job / tasks a lot easier or more fun? Why are you looking forward to this or are excited about this in particular?
- mtmail 3y agoNew EU regulation that all banks who support bank transfers also have to offer real-time bank transfers at the same cost. Pessimist in me thinks that means the cost of regular transfers will raise slightly. No more waiting 3 business days to move my money from one bank to another.
- agent008t 3y agoIt will make some things a bit more convenient, but why is it particularly exciting?
- Darmody 3y agoWhat do you mean? EU bank transfers are free but they take a day but you also have the option to make it instantly, sometimes paying a small fee like 1€ or so. I have never had to pay, though.
- kleer001 3y agoBoth of my kids being completely toilet trained.
- doubled112 3y agoMy youngest guy is just about there. He's five and it feels like it has been a crazy long haul, but we've got this! He is starting to make it!
- kleer001 3y agoOh, right, shoot. Night and day are different. I guess then I just meant day time potty training.
- rboyd 3y agojealous
- kleer001 3y agoDifferent ages, different problems. Not less, just different. Hahaha.
- agent008t 3y agoThis reminds me of the parable of the Rabbi and the goat. Creating a problem, and then looking forward to its resolution!
- polalavik 3y agogrowing my small niche job board and blog to profitability and eventually to a lifestyle business (hopefully).
- baremetal 3y agoGetting my farm up and running. Getting my freelancing software business making money. Enjoying life. _Maybe_ try to find a wife.
- mattbgates 3y agoI bought two condos as investments across the street from a hospital just a few blocks from where I live and it's been popular with travel nurses. My plans are to rent out all three of my properties while collecting the rents each month and traveling across country and waking up in a new city every week. It helps that I work remotely. In addition, I've been working on a media project for my own side hustle and I'm hoping that'll be live and popular in the next year or so.
- joshxyz 3y agostarting my own tech company seeing my step kids graduate
- HellDunkel 3y agostarting a new job in one month enjoying the new zelda (slowly, no need to rush through) working on a fairy tale book with my kids dyson vacum cleaner with laser (fun) recording a new dj mix
- ano88888 3y agostarting a profitable tech business and lose 20 kg.