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by dpflan 3y ago
True, "spending problem" is what an ideal scenario would not have -- a spending problem could also be not having enough to spend. But again, let's look at tax rates over-time, corporate tax rates in the US versus corporate pr
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by dpflan 3y ago
It is the game of the market and financial deregulation and maximizing profit (company, and at minimum personal). Yes there are strategies to develop related to these financial levers, but it's quite cynical for a corporation to strate
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by dpflan 3y ago
Confidence? Increase the stock price simply buy taking excess money and reducing share supply, that doesn't seem like confidence, but it is a short term price gain -- whether it is long-term price gain would be to-be-determined. Re-iss
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by dpflan 3y ago
Is this really an "absurd" take? How else do you increase stock price so easily and manipulate key metrics for investing (EPS)? Is the point of AAPL at this point to make computers or increase share holder value? Is a stock buyba
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by dpflan 3y ago
Sounds good, you make it sound like that Elixir is now your de-facto, even for non-distributed systems projects?
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by dpflan 3y ago
What language and programming style did you use prior to using Elixir the most? Have you been able to build systems of similar or even larger size as previous projects in other languages, and what was that experience like (i.e. how did Elix
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by dpflan 3y ago
Let's see, as arm chair economists, can we have an interesting discussion? It could surely be a tax focused on ultra-rich, who have benefited from tax cuts by parties in power for years. Corporate and ultra-rich taxes are not insane co
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by dpflan 3y ago
Recent genAI shakeups in the past week: 1. Inflection AI -- ceo out to MSFT 2. Stability AI -- ceo out to ____ (infinite sum games? with EigenLayer?) What else? Is there a "GenAI is going great" website yet? (ala "web3 is goi
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by dpflan 3y ago
EigenLayer's tag line is? "Build open innovation ∞ play infinite sum games. Also: @eigen_da" (from their twitter profile). Infinite sum games...
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by dpflan 3y ago
It's the game to play. Asymmetric information with the goal to attain wealth, influence, power, ego-stroke, whatever opportunity is present.
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by dpflan 3y ago
That's the whole point of a startup. And we know startups fail. And Zapier is a YC company. This is a 2 person team using LLMs, I doubt they are building their own, nor building some "foundational connect-the-internet" agent
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by dpflan 3y ago
Zapier has actual experienced software engineers and real budgets, would not rule out their ability to perform the same: text to IFTTT like auto-execution. Or consider your company right now, your current company is essentially a single tea
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by dpflan 3y ago
Why wouldn't Zapier work on this same idea? Use of LLMs is becoming commodity.
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Are those incentives able to be gleaned from or stated in the S-1?
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by dpflan 3y ago
I'm watching https://youtu.be/MT3k4VV5yrs , and I see current output, like drum kit, is an ensemble of instruments, can that be expanded to be stems? So you have the instruments as their own component, the ensemble perf
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by dpflan 3y ago
Why is now the time for a reddit IPO? Is it because of the idea that "data is oil", and reddit can sell enterprise subscriptions to access to its data? Someone who has reviewed the S-1, how are they making money? And what's t
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by dpflan 3y ago
Is there a good example case study, that shares all the tweaking this program did to modify HPAs and VPAs — even just some charts over 1 year of use.
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by dpflan 3y ago
They are an information company, authoritative and trusted. They must be positioning themselves with data as a service, like the recent Reddit contract.
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by dpflan 3y ago
Agreed that Friedman cursed the market with "shareholder theory", and it is a totally subversive and corrupting concept because whatever will increase value is accepted because it's the doctrine.
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by dpflan 3y ago
What is OpenAI today? Can you elaborate? Google is a varied $trillion company. OpenAI sells access to large generative models.
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by dpflan 3y ago
The YC network is quite useful for survival and evolution of startups, an economic safety net.
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by dpflan 3y ago
There is a lot in here, various paths to venture off, but the bottom line seems to be trust is important when running commands on a machine, and LLMs are not trustable. What else?
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by dpflan 3y ago
So there is this post currently on the front-page, an essay by Paul Graham: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39756865 "How to Start Google" It makes salient points about what is needed to venture forth and cre
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by dpflan 3y ago
Here is a launch front-page today: Okapi (YC W24) -- A new, flexible CRM with good UX Nothing about friends, nothing about fun projects. Mainly just looking at Salesforce, knowing its the DB for business-side of the house, and that the UI&#
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by dpflan 3y ago
I am curious how this ethos of the 3 things you need and playfulness/not-intended-to-be-a-startup startups project is in enacted per batch. Like YC's now numerous sales operations/software companies in the past batches: 19-22
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by dpflan 3y ago
Does someone have more context as why this is so “insane”? Yes understandably there is randomness / non-deterministic nature to these generative models. But what does this mean to you as user? What’s so compelling about this particular
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by dpflan 3y ago
If you have been hired as a "Prompt Engineer", can you please explain your work? Are you just finding better ways to communicate clearly in human language to the current model you are interacting with? Or are you doing statistical
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by dpflan 3y ago
I mean with regard to the recency of posts on HN. The community sees a post, and then related posts begin to trickle in.
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by dpflan 3y ago
I think it is a relevant zeitgeist reaction to NVIDIA banning translation of CUDA to non-NVIDIA hardware post from earlier.
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by dpflan 3y ago
This seems relevant for discussion: Nvidia bans using translation layers for CUDA software to run on other chips [1] ____ [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39592689

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