ultrasaurus

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by ultrasaurus 1y ago
We've talked with a ton of AI companies and I was surprised how much of the challenges were the usual challenges in any project. Just amplified by the rush to do AI right now, but I haven't seen anything as bad as "You couldn
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Advice I Got at PagerDuty(euri.ca)
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by ultrasaurus 1y ago
The SaaS version of Label Studio does have a natural language interface to create custom interfaces: https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/ask_ai I'm ostensibly an expert in the product and I probably use that 90%+ o
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Thomas Keller asked me to leave the French Laundry(sfchronicle.com)
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by ultrasaurus 1y ago
There are places in the tax code where Single != Married Filing Separately. One pertinent example is that Washington State's capital gains tax applies after $270k per single person, per married couple filing jointly OR split in half fo
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
Or to make it even more obvious: Founder raises $1MM then immediately sells the company for $900k :) Some terms are going to need to exist to prevent that, so the investor shares will always be preferred. Beyond that there are in fact a lot
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
It's probably worth noting that "someone who has litigated Chevron cases" and presumably will litigate again has a real bias to look supportive of the supreme court (or any judge who could decide his cases). For the rest of u
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
You need 3 things to make a sale: 1. Why anything? 2. Why this? 3. Why now? Sure FOMO is one of your tools, but I suspect it's overused. Consider the classic "This price won't be around for long!" move alone.
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
I sometimes wonder if our definition of failure is flexible and moves so that half-ish of projects are below average thus failures. I once had to do a post-mortem on why a project went 5% over schedule -- that's a pretty soft definiti
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
+100 to this, I don't think many people reading this thread realize how easy they've made it to run a LLM locally. It's a great start if you want to kick multiple tires (be careful to clean up! the gigs add up). > wget h
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
I'm sure it's been posted to HN before but Scott Alexander's writing on the FDA is pretty nuanced. "Beyond "Abolish The FDA"[0] is pro-FDA but contains the section "What policy proposal closest to abolish-
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
Personally I'd start with the phone system guaranteeing that the person calling me owns the number that shows up on the call display. That's how people already assume it works and would cut 90% of the spammiest of spam calls whil
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
https://aihelper.bot/ was a combination of testing some APIs and scratching my own itch. Now arguably filtering Twitter isn't the apex of productivity software, but if I can get my news and out without wasting eyeball
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
This sounds very much like an "enterprise" sale, with a sales rep who can help with checklists and presumably extend your trial quite a bit.
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
> So she paid a $7,500 deposit and was all set to join Newchip when a founder friend told her to “never pay for introductions.” Hopefully everyone knows this here, but if you paid for an introduction it's a negative signal: just col
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
One partial data point: I talked to my local theatre and they don't have the rights for any of the movies I wanted so that adds ~$400+ (we're still talking, I don't have a full quote)
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
Quebec's language laws are fascinating, the newest version "requires non-French signs to be accompanied by French descriptions that are twice the size." Since the goal is "to ensure French predominates the visual field o
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
I suspect the follow button exists primarily to train the advertising algorithm -- how much more would you pay to show a political ad to someone who "followed" Nikki Haley or show your Honda Civic aftermarket parts to someone who
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
I love giving users a library of lambdas. We did something similar almost a decade ago at PagerDuty, we'll map the fields & headers for you and provide examples, but you can munge up the json however you want: https://ww
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
Yeah, it can be a little mindblowing coming from the SF market, but just about any city[0] you can name has a couple of 10,000 sqft houses on the market right now. Sometimes they are pricey [1], sometimes less than a starter house in SF [2
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
Maybe 75% of the people who interact with the kind of person who blogs about institutional efficiency for the HN audience hate conflict but love their craft. Maybe on a good day. The top 3 jobs in the US are home health care, retail sales
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
Literal beepers were still in use as late as 2012 as backups for on call people, enough so that we supported them at PagerDuty for redundancy (the API was email->provider->beeper) https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/sh
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
A $10,000 invoice also means that procurement gets involved on the buyer side and sales on the seller side. Notion doesn't want 1 month of credit card spend tricked out of someone without purchasing authority, they want a site-wide dep
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
Which means you need office space for 100% of the people, but that's only used 40% of the time. You can get a little clever with GTM coming in on different days than Eng but it's tradeoffs all the way down. (In a value-neutral wa
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
It's worth noting that this isn't unique to Europe. There's a garden industry of minimizing the $s needed to get an EB-5 greencard. It originally required a "Plan to create or preserve 10 permanent full-time jobs for qua
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TikTok staff face big US tax bills on shares they cannot sell(ft.com)
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
That strikes me as odd too -- but it might be because searching a dictionary is such an obvious computer advantage that it's not interesting to optimize. There are only 10 articles on arxiv.org that mention Scrabble vs 100s on Chess
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
Self plug, but Twitter as filtered by GPT is actually pretty good again. I no longer cringe when I accidentally hit the "For You" tab: https://aihelper.bot/
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
(Disclaimer: Former Sentry employee) There's a ton of DB passion at Sentry but most importantly for anyone this deep in the thread, Sentry also detects and helps fix common DB mistakes whether it's you or the ORM: https:/&
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by ultrasaurus 2y ago
I wonder how well ELO score handle the edge case where your most important games are against yourself. There are 4 GPT4's in the top 10 (both #2 and #3) and 3 Claude's. (To their credit, they count anything where the 95% confiden

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