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"80% of the economic value of LLMs come from 20% of the tokens"(xcancel.com)
3 points by somic 4mo ago|0 comments
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by somic 1y ago
Potentially related - "I'd rather read the prompt" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43888803
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AI Coding Assistants and the Case for More Open APIs(somic.substack.com)
1 points by somic 1y ago|0 comments
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by somic 1y ago
The article would be better if the author replaced "smartphone" with "smartphone screen". A ton of activities are made better by smartphones - a walk or a run with podcast or music, a drive or a bike ride with navigation
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Kinds of Leadership(somic.substack.com)
3 points by somic 2y ago|0 comments
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Serendipity at Work(somic.substack.com)
1 points by somic 2y ago|1 comments
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by somic 2y ago
Thanks, looking forward! I don't know where most of your users are, but coming up with a safe road bike route in US suburbia is not a trivial problem. Current RWGPS planner routinely wants to take me to very dangerous roads (for a ro
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by somic 2y ago
I frequently use RWGPS for planning my bike rides but don't pay for it (yet!). Curious - is all routing done by graphhopper or do you have some secret sauce on your end? Also graphhopper web has regular bike mode and "racing bike&
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by somic 3y ago
I don't see any mentions of Google but I personally think it's Google that will be the main beneficiary of chaos at OpenAI. After all, weren't they the main competitors? Maybe not in product or business yet but on IP and hiri
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by somic 3y ago
My understanding is that in the US, earned wages (while employees were employed) are indeed employee claims. Not paying these is what YC guidance above says will lead to "very bad things." After people are let go, severance and co
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Getting Feedback from Engineering Teams(somic.substack.com)
1 points by somic 3y ago|0 comments
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by somic 9y ago
+1, hoping to somehow fit meditation in my life in 2018
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by somic 9y ago
http://www.somic.org/2015/12/28/on-employees-investing-in-th...
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by somic 10y ago
Good article. Bottom line is employees need to be aware what can happen and how future rounds of financing, among other things, could affect their equity comp. The more articles and blog posts about it, the better. There is no one-size-fits
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by somic 10y ago
Participate in 401k plan - yes, 99% people would benefit from starting as early as possible. Max out your per-paycheck 401k contribution (including in order to maximize employer match) - not always. The farther you are from retirement age,
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by somic 10y ago
My expectation of a typical HN reader is that they are saving for more things/experiences/goals, not just retirement.
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by somic 10y ago
"Always be invested in the market" - what does it mean? Always have at least something long in your portfolio? Always be 100% long in your portfolio? If I have 99% cash and 1% in VTI for 10 years, am I "always invested in the
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by somic 10y ago
Whatever you do, if you are a typical HN reader, do NOT invest like Buffet. Hint: he never sells.
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by somic 10y ago
"Your company will probably extend a term saying “We will match your contributions up to N% of your salary.” You should always and under every circumstance invest enough money to max out your employer match. It is free money if you tak
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The Rise of New Operations(somic.org)
2 points by somic 10y ago|0 comments
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On Employees Investing in Their Startups(somic.org)
2 points by somic 11y ago|0 comments
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by somic 11y ago
Supply and demand.
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by somic 11y ago
Exactly.
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by somic 11y ago
Focus on quarterly numbers is a side effect, which is unfortunate. You go public not because you want to report quarterly. You go public because you want public funding and potentially better terms than private funding.
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by somic 11y ago
Not entirely true. IPO as a process exists to allow companies to raise money from the public, especially when private funding is not available. Overhead, requirements and legalities are a side effect, and if you have any money in a public m
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by somic 11y ago
I hope you are right and I hope it works out but I am skeptical. I will give you a simple example. If you get a random sample of people in the US, I am afraid more than 90% of them won't even understand that investing 5K in a neighbor&
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by somic 11y ago
FWIW, personally I am not optimistic about this but would love to be proven wrong. Information asymmetry, risk mismanagement, chasing quick riches, etc - too many reasons imho why startups are not a viable asset class for most people.
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A Path to DevOps Through Platform/Product Alignment(somic.org)
2 points by somic 12y ago|0 comments
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Hire Goats, Not Outside DevOps Engineers(informationweek.com)
1 points by somic 13y ago|0 comments
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Risk in IT Systems(somic.org)
1 points by somic 13y ago|0 comments

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