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by bfeynman 4y ago
Twitter is already in a death spiral. The generous APIs before we're actually a god tier marketing move because you had kids in college classes making projects based on tweet content, when the value of that data actually provides is .
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by bfeynman 4y ago
Reading it I was surprised at first, guy was super apologetic for what seemed to be a pretty small issue (affecting only free tier no less). Then I saw the root cause, wow I would not trust a company that runs scripts on prod data so willy
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by bfeynman 4y ago
predictions are hazy, hindsight is 20/20. There's a reason there are dozens of companies dedicated to cutting cloud costs because surprise, they aren't configured well. Most of these probably severely overestimate compute n
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by bfeynman 4y ago
sure there's a niche if your core product is also providing hardware... Same reason why dropbox moved to own data center.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
if you think you need more headcount to do things on cloud you're doing it wrong. Just the identity setup alone needs multiple people, and that's almost a full time job for them. On cloud you don't have to worry about that
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by bfeynman 4y ago
This napkin math is pointless, if you're a business leader, you're going to factor in non physical costs as well, since you need a team to run hundreds of servers most likely. If business all of a sudden starts to go under, you ca
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by bfeynman 4y ago
despite what everyone thinks that doing things locally is cheaper, if you're running a business and allocating money towards headcount and benefits plus additional risk of maintaining team it rarely makes sense. HN is full of people w
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by bfeynman 4y ago
From a biz perspective, that can be a bad move and signals that you're not in growth phase but in cutting costs to preserve profits. Using cloud derisks you for future costs because it's managed for you, and then you allocate cap
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by bfeynman 4y ago
Certainly cool, but it's getting a lot to see just how good GPT is at generating utterly useless cheap content. Making content is a moving target, and GPT by nature produces uncannily generic generations.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
Perhaps a new paradigm, but there are already players in this space way ahead of this, like wing.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
I assume if you came into work and your manager says stop everything you're doing and then in the afternoon calls you into a meeting and says you're fired with cause because you aren't doing anything you would probably thank
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by bfeynman 4y ago
? This guy sold his company to twitter like 2 years ago and was a product leader
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by bfeynman 4y ago
You're missing the point, recommender algorithms are supposed to show people what they want. Even if what you said is true, the experience is absolutely doomed, because its a shitty UX
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by bfeynman 4y ago
The product is entirely just OpenAI. IMO they would only be in the acquisition part to acquire the customer base, nothing about the product. But then they couldn't have another company paying to do the same thing. Why acquire one po
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by bfeynman 4y ago
Social media growth is all about recommendations and algorithms, people actually curating their network a la 2010 facebook is dead, so your idea of "how to use social media" is also aligned with completely not knowing how to make
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by bfeynman 4y ago
lol, I guess every tech company that has major KPIs for availability is wrong and people are totally fine with apps being down constantly, and new users will totally come back after trying to signup and failing. It's a tech company, a
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by bfeynman 4y ago
Something about this story just doesn't add up. There has got to be a network effect here of someone calling in favors across both sides. The application provided very little value (you apply to college mostly once), and was one amon
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by bfeynman 4y ago
Shocking that you are able to even get investors with such a crude view on how business works. Starting an ancillary business related to one product that is not even your own IP or core competency is just lightweight consultancy, not a sta
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by bfeynman 4y ago
hilariously bad. I wrote a random sentence and it had 80% detected "AI". This isn't doing anything other than some static lookups of tokens or something.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
I think you're confusing wanting someone to do something for you for free and for billions of people with something that can give you good enough 80% of the time and also make money while doing it.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
that's not how it works, PHI and HIPAA usually supersede a lot of these. That's why you hospitals don't just have everyone opt-out data protections if they want services.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
I don't really see how any of those things are peculiar compared to normal jobs. Teachers usually get paid for extracurriculars and summer school, maybe a small lump sum but still. The PTO argument is ridiculous, teachers get off for s
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by bfeynman 4y ago
builder patterns are very common now because they make maintainability a lot easier, (i.e. if god forbid someone accidentally swapped vars in list of inputsof the same type), and secondly because you can use an annotation library to generat
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by bfeynman 4y ago
keep in mind that teachers only work 9 months of the year as well. Not really that impressive to take a 2nd job when you have 3 months in the summer to do whatever you want.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
maybe because "impact on society" is a totally delusional way to make pay scales. Pay is almost entirely based on talent scarcity. Thats why low skill jobs are lower pay, and highly skilled professions pay more accordingly. It d
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by bfeynman 4y ago
That is the worst napkin math I've seen.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
which basically is not an integration, literally here's my bank login info I trust you to do whatever you want with it....
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by bfeynman 4y ago
Well this is the first time I've ever been impressed by an application of crypto, notwithstanding some major concerns. Thing is though that this is not a wire transfer, and lot of places where wire transfers are used are specifically u
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by bfeynman 4y ago
Is it possible to learn how it actually works? Banks charge for wiring, so if you are still using bank how do you get around that? I assume that it's not actually doing a wire transfer.
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by bfeynman 4y ago
Tried to test Bing after probably only usually it accidentally a few times over past 10 years, holy shit is it garbage. If you search "how to use a database" the results are literally all about how to use Microsoft Access, and p

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