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by smikhanov 1y ago
I especially like the “Team” section of this page. Great recognition given to everyone who participated in this project, all the way to the humblest architecture school intern!
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by smikhanov 1y ago
Yeah, when you take the rent and many of the temptations of the big city lifestyle out of consideration, the cost of living gets surprisingly low.
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by smikhanov 1y ago
If we were to believe the embodiment theory of intelligence (it’s by far not the only one out there, but very influential and convincing), this means that building an AGI is an equivalent problem to building an artificial human. Not a puppe
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by smikhanov 1y ago
no settlements or towns aside from Hydro Quebec's settlements for workers (these are private and are not open to the public - they will kick you out) Will they really kick a passing driver out when it's freezing outside?
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by smikhanov 1y ago
Do the math on how many people are necessary to run a web site with on-call rotation, minimum moderation, and someone to run the business. The number of $2/month subscription required to make that work is prohbitively high. I
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by smikhanov 1y ago
Sorry to mumble, I'll add one more thing. Back in 2013, I was running a productivity startup, and we tried courting Evernote into acquiring us (unsuccessfully, though damn we were a good match). I remember those times vividly: Evernote
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by smikhanov 1y ago
Kagi is cool (as a company), really. The whole idea of running your company while thinking about TAM and whatever is totally from a VC playbook. If you don’t take VC funding, you stop caring about TAM. Instead, you care about whether having
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by smikhanov 1y ago
But for a paid social network you can do marketing too. All you need is for CLV to be higher than CAC.
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by smikhanov 1y ago
But for a paid social network you can do that too. All you need is for CLV to be higher than CAC.
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by smikhanov 1y ago
You description is probably spot on, but boy I’d love to have a version of Instagram where I could just pay $5/month and get a time-sorted stream of photos of my friends’ babies, Piña coladas with a beach background, and sweaty mirror
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by smikhanov 1y ago
How in the world is it easier to attract people to some new VC-funded nonsense?
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by smikhanov 1y ago
How in the world is it easier to attract people to some new VC-funded nonsense?
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by smikhanov 1y ago
Good people of HN, could anyone tell me why buying an MVP of a social network for $10K from a Belarusian contractor on Upwork (it couldn’t cost much more, it’s like five SQL tables and a web CRUD) and then charging users $2/month to us
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by smikhanov 1y ago
Alright, let's run this thought experiment further then. You suggest a connector to connect to a set of robot-compatible tools, fine. That set is again limited by what the robot manufacturer thought of in advance, so you're out of
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by smikhanov 1y ago
Really, a robot which could literally have an impact wrench built into it would HOLD a SPANNER and use FINGERS to remove bolts? Sure, why not? A built-in impact wrench is built in forever, but a palm and fingers can hold a wrench,
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by smikhanov 1y ago
Legs? To jump into the workshop pit, among other things. Palms are needed to hold a wrench or a spanner, fingers are needed to unscrew nuts. Cars are not built to accommodate whatever universal repair machine there could be, cars are built
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by smikhanov 1y ago
It’s about keeping different corpuses of written material that was created by humans, for research purposes. You wouldn’t want to contaminate your human language word frequency databases with AI slop, the linguists of this world won’t like
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by smikhanov 1y ago
Prediction: there won’t be any AI systems repairing cars before there will be general intelligence-capable humanoid robots (Ex Machina-style). There also won’t be any AI maids in five-star hotels until those robots appear. This doesn’t make
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by smikhanov 1y ago
Looked at the source, it’s so compact, wow.
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by smikhanov 1y ago
This should be read as: If you take a huge amount of human-written text soup, train a neural network on it, add a system prompt “You are a helpful assistant”, and then feed it a context consisting of (a) a mailbox with information about som
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by smikhanov 1y ago
I don't know how to solve that problem or even if it will ever be "solved". It will not be “solved” because it’s a non-problem. You can run a thought experiment imagining an alternative universe where human resource
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by smikhanov 1y ago
for software, the top end of the market is now non-existent The issue here isn't absence, but misrecognition: the top end absolutely does exist -- it just doesn't always look like what people wish it looked like. If by
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by smikhanov 1y ago
Absolutely, that’s without any doubt. There’s a difference though. The “cool” Terminator Skynet pursues its own goals, and wasn’t programmed by humans to kill. The “boring” insurance-rejecting Skynet is explicitly programmed to reject insur
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by smikhanov 1y ago
Also why it’s OK to stop worrying about our future robotic (or AI) overlords.
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by smikhanov 1y ago
APL (or Clojure) way is about making your base types truly useful, 100 functions on 1 data structure instead of 10 on 10 If this is indeed this simple and this obvious, why didn't other languages followed this way?
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by smikhanov 2y ago
If you’ve got a busy schedule, then it’s all too easy to become overwhelmed. This is why they want to interest you in something that is not assembled into a finished product, but presented as a bunch of PCBs, and relies on a custo
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by smikhanov 2y ago
It’s not about “the HN crowd”, it’s just that the time has changed so much. Do you remember 2008? Facebook was a swanky way back then to reconnect with your classmates and leave some “Like” things under their wedding photos. Google was seen
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by smikhanov 2y ago
Sorry to be a Luddite, but isn’t this completely useless? - one line per event, so good luck finding multi-day events like “Grandma is visiting”; - rigid metadata (dates, week numbers, weekdays) stored right next to the editable data (event
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by smikhanov 2y ago
But why not?
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by smikhanov 2y ago
numerous negative effects supported by a variety of studies both in Spain and abroad Would be interesting to hear about any of those effects, if you can elaborate.

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