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by nell 2y ago
They were. The margin is not that much anymore; Claude Sonnet is the go-to model for devs nowadays. The best video model is Google's.
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by nell 2y ago
Why is it obvious. Google is a much more powerful profitable entity that has equally good models. Facebook uses data from Libgen. Both are highly profitable companies who could pay for resources but don't. Anthropic, the ethical fork o
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by nell 2y ago
Why is Sam Altman singled out in these copyright issues? Aren't there plenty of competing models?
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by nell 2y ago
Did he try to get a job at all? Being from Canada and technical, I will say OP isn't trying enough. https://digitalcareers.infosys.com/infosys/global-careers?lo... https://ibegin.tcs.com/iBegin&#x2
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by nell 2y ago
> I wouldn't call o1 a "system". It's a model, but unlike previous models, it's trained to generate a very long chain of thought before returning a final answer https://x.com/polynoamial/stat
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Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business(jxnl.co)
295 points by nell 2y ago|263 comments
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by nell 2y ago
I followed the saga as Jason was going through this. You may not have the same sway as large entities if you are an indie dev.
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by nell 3y ago
I will be happy to use a no-code platforms that lets me eject out into a standard application. Otherwise, I'm just learning and depending on a proprietary system. Once you need something slightly complex, no-code becomes non-trivial. I
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by nell 3y ago
2025: blog post announcing the end of idx. Sarcasm aside, it's a good rule of thumb to depend on a Google service if it is part of their enterprise suite a la Cloud/Workspace.
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by nell 3y ago
Neeva jumped on the AI train after GPT3. The original plan was a privacy-focused Search. People don't pay for that stuff. I can't believe $millions was invested in that idea. Personalized search - a search engine for all your cont
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by nell 3y ago
Does this book really exist? Google search on Amazon shows no results for this.
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by nell 3y ago
Be careful out there when using Pinecone. The pricing seems to be confusing. https://twitter.com/Exploringfornow/status/16426070792852193...
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by nell 3y ago
His books are enjoyable, I'd recommend his most recent one "Four thousand weeks" and the previous one "The Antidote" as well. Especially if you're overwhelmed or gets hit with anxiety often.
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by nell 4y ago
It then follows that you don't want a dystopian state to control the discourse of your citizens.
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by nell 4y ago
In 1978 GE was the largest by revenue. They made 54B in revenues ~13B in a quarter. In 2022 Apple is the largest. They made 124B in a quarter. Revenues are up 1000% The larger the capital you manage, the the higher the compensation. Btw, I
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by nell 4y ago
If you want to really understand why it is that way, you have to dig deeper, and you'll find they are much more deep-rooted and has tentacles everywhere. It's simplistic to point to one job function and call it out as unfair as th
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by nell 4y ago
Capital allocators are always paid top dollar. CEOs are only a small part of it. Wall street bankers are paid top dollar too? They find investment opportunities that can generate returns. Traders make a lot of money too. What value do they
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by nell 4y ago
They lifted millions of us at least a class or more, financially. Lower -> middle Middle -> upper middle Some even got rich. In a caste discriminating society, they leveled the playing field. Their business partners continue to do bus
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by nell 4y ago
This thread is full of generalized insults at a million people based on where they work. If someone did the same based on a different attribute of a population, they'd be banned. I've worked at one of these companies but left over
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by nell 4y ago
He was worth $130B. Now, $34B. Hasn't sold any significant piece of it while he knew there are risks with changing the direction of the company. That should count for something.
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by nell 4y ago
~No they aren't rebuilding Hydrogen in Remix.~ Edit: Spoke too soon on the above, sorry. Remix raised funding. Ran out of money with no scope to self sustain or raise money. They downsized (see Kent Dodds. Perhaps there are others). St
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by nell 4y ago
dad, is that you?
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by nell 4y ago
Their infrastructure might very well be setup in a way that can't scale. They don't need unlimited scaling for the entire site, just enough to scale for one particular plane. They make money from ads and subscriptions. Any such bu
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by nell 4y ago
In an era of unlimited scaling infrastructure, it's a shame they're struggling to capitalize on an exclusive superbowl scale marketing event. It was predictable days in advance.
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by nell 4y ago
The reverse is also true. At the beginning Airbnb employees will be making SF level salaries. As Airbnb continues to hire and churn employees, average salaries will come down since they won't be paying SF salaries for new positions. Th
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by nell 4y ago
If they did the poison pill they have to show strong results to prove that the company is more valuable than the offer and that they are better shepherds of the company. If Twitter announced weak results in the upcoming earnings call in the
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by nell 4y ago
In a world awash with information and everyone optimizing to keep you and me engaged, aggressive defense of time and attention becomes a necessity to maintain sanity. No one deserves to gain your attention by default. If a tweet has > 50
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by nell 5y ago
> Commuting is literally wasted life Commuting is not the same as setting time on fire. The distraction endemic negates the advantage and makes it worse. The forced time in the car with limited options lets me use it somewhat productivel
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by nell 5y ago
Who reads t&c? Gofundme exists because people fund campaigns they want to. They can point to their T&C and say hard luck. But they won't exist for long with that response. Existence of any business is not a law of nature. If th
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by nell 5y ago
In the past if every city had one talented person, he would've been a celebrity. But no one felt bad since 99% of people around would've been average and there was one exceptional person. Now with the internet, we get to watch the

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