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Imagine for a second, that you checkin at a Marriott/Hilton/Fairmont and there was a camera in your hotel room. It's amazing it even lasted this long with airbnb.

My question would be around how much does it cost? Maybe give examples of output without a signup. Basically, you're asking people to create an account for an unknown result and cost. I'd also maybe mention something like save X hours vs doing this yourself. What can people get using this that they cannot get with ChatGPT for example? Maybe have a demo video or something that walks people through it.

edit: So, after reading a bit more you crawl the customers website and find seo ideas? I'm not really sure how it works. Maybe have something up front that really walks the person through it.

I like the comic book design of the website. Looks very cool by the way.

The next QBR with MS is going to be interesting.

Not really the money but expected return on the money from all these features being rolled out. You can 100% bet there was major estimations made on return on investment. Everything they are releasing has some AI magic on it now. The last thing you want to see is chaos in a company you're betting the farm on.

Link to MS statement https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/11/17/a-statement-from...

In my opinion, I'd say the shortness and lack of details backs up the story that they had no idea. You'd see way more words if a marketing department had it's hands on something like this. This was 100% a get something out asap job.

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Related posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37150862 and has some useful ideas. My suggestion would be to get a second remote job. You know how to have a job.. just get a second remote one. Even if it's for 3-6 months and then you quite. A full second income is amazing.

I'd strongly recommend forgetting about the gig economy. It's a race to the bottom unless you're willing ti put in multi-year effort to build a portfolio so you can stand out and land larger consulting gigs. This is the reason I say if you need fast cash a second job is the fastest path.

Great way to understand how all this works is watching All-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles[1]. Basically, regulate your competition into the ground.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9cO3-MLHOM

Looks like initially was then wasn't re: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_Vaporfly_and_Tokyo_2020_O...

Indexed and adjusted for inflation :)

Hold on a sec.. I need to update the firmware on my USB-C cable. Crazy how miniature and advanced things are becoming.

Reality is it is sort of mixed. For the OSS company actually building the product, you end up playing whack-a-mole in that anyone can spin up a competitor over the weekend. Look at what happened with Docker. They completely changed the landscape of running code locally and in production and was run out of town. Everyone and their dog took the code and re-packaged it and competed with Docker. Then compare that with VMware, they completely changed the landscape of running code locally and in production but they were able to protect that value and thrive as a company. There is definitely a lesson in there.

Sure, maybe this is a feature but if you're about to launch an open source sales model company you probably need to think really hard about that idea.

This is a dumb title for a good article. In that it makes is seem like he is talking about OSS software. The software that powers the entire Silicon Valley tech empire. Linux and OSS power Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc, right down to your 1-2 person startups.

He's not talking about that -- he's talking about open source software sales model used by companies like Redhat and HashiCorp. The threat here is that you're developing in the open, trying to up-sell enterprise features, professional services, and support. Then you have XYZ startup appear, they take your open-source code, repackages it and then sells enterprise features, professional services, and support. They basically leech off your OSS code and community, provide nothing back, and actively compete with you. It's brutal.

None, she made a deal in exchange for testimony right?

Canadian version of MEC.

FYI for those that haven't read it before http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Get a second remote job. You could effectively double your salary for a few months or as long as you can handle it. Personally, this is much better than the race of the bottom of all these piece meal contracting gig sites. Youtube is likely a major waste of time in that you'd need to compete and build a profile, etc. This takes time. If you want to spend years then you might make it work. I've done this and know from experience. It's well worth it if you have years to put into it. It'll open tons of doors too.

However, you know how to hold a job. You've had one for 11+ years. So, just get a second one. You could be making double your current salary within as little as 4-6 weeks after interviews etc. That's likely the fastest path if you need money quickly.

I suspect this is fake but cannot delete the HN post now. How can someone do this but all these national labs cannot. It must be a fake.

Have you been using ChatGPT to solve work problems? I have. It's amazing. This technology can do amazing things and companies should be using it to solve problems. Of course I think it can improve things. Think about what happens when companies start to build corporate LLM's trained on their docs, code, knowledge base, support tickets, etc. You're going to have super human support. Sure, this might assist the current staff but they are going to be so much better equipped to solve problems.

Imagine for a second, that there is actually a LLM agent that can not only understand what you want but actually do things too. Like, why not have these systems reset passwords, check on the status of a refund, update a mailing address, change billing info, cancel your account, email me some documents, etc. This frees up people to actually work on more important things. The hardest part of all this pre-ChatGPT was understanding fully what the person wanted. That's petty much solved now.

I think we're headed to a future where you'll actually want an LLM agent vs a human in that they will know everything and can solve your issue in seconds. It's like when you win the lottery and get the support person who's been at the company 15 years and knows everything in and out. That's what these LLM's can be.

No it's not. Everyone has obligations. You cannot un-invent this stuff. That's like trying to stop air planes, rockets, photography, combustion engine, calculators, the personal pc, etc. It's the next phase of technology and it will be developed regardless if you like it or not. It's here to stay and thinking otherwise does everyone a disservice. We should be trying to figure out how to leverage this and ride the next wave.

Honestly, this might even make support much easier to interact with. If you can filter this stuff you could probably have a much better support experience. ChatGPT has proved this to be true. I cannot tell you how many times I've used support and the person is some entry level tech who has no idea.

Yes, totally. They probably have tons of support, sales, etc. I'd imagine they have tons of contractors too with that many users. Makes sense now.

> Binance had a global staff of 8,000

A 12.5% reduction. Also, they are way larger than I thought with 8k employees. I don't know what's involved with running an exchange but they must be into lots of things with that many folks.

You can troll through the job postings of most of these companies and learn about their org structures and tech stacks. When I looked almost nothing is public other than older documentaries. Nanex had some neat wiring diagrams and a few videos clips if you google them. Don't get too excited you're not going to learn about some super secret strategy or anything.

This book was good https://www.amazon.ca/Advances-Financial-Machine-Learning-Ma... in that is sort of explains at a high level how you'd build a company to look at something like this (think it was one of the last chapters). You'll need extremely deep/skilled hardware/networking groups, data acquisitions (think packet capture to data) folks, people to clean and maintenance massive the data repos, internal tool teams, quantitative analysts, traders, management/admin, etc. At this level just getting the fiber to each exchange likely costs many many millions. When you go and look through those job postings you can sort of slot these into your mental model of this flow and start to see how it might be put together.

That book is good but if you are new to the topic it will be almost unreadable. At least it was for me. I had to read it 3-4 times over the years and still find new things as my knowledge grows.

I don't know if rentec is a HFT firm or what strategies they use but this was a really good interview with one of the founders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0.

Yeah, having gone through a company that IPOed -- 100% agree. You're crossing your fingers and using your calculator to try and figure out how likely you are to hit the jackpot (or much more likely the massive tax burden). The company as a whole is basically going through a checklist to batten down all the hatches and implement pretty rigorous controls. So, they are likely seeing a lot more formal process for doing things. This along with trying to make the company look as healthy and profitable as possible. All this API business could even be a result of them going through the Risks section and seeing that having competing apps using their API is a major risk.

Also, chances are you are going to see zero communication from them when they do formally file. Since I think once they actually file they go into something called a quite period where they don't say anything publicly.

Yeah, Reddit needs to majorly up their game too. You strong arm your major customers right out of the gate. What a loss for both sides. You want the guy to pay $20 million and you just give him a call on the phone. Total amateur hour.

This should have gone like, "Hey, in a few months we're rolling this out and wanted to give you a heads up so you know before anyone else, since you're a major API user. We wanted to offer you a grace period and special pricing. When's a good time to chat we'll fly out.". Fly the sales team over to where he lives, wine and dine him, etc. This is what sales people do all day long for deals that are like $250k+. For deals that are $20 million a year you'll have all parts of the company bending over backwards trying to win that.

This is all just my opinion based on what I've read so far.

In this situation, do you hire someone to negotiate with or for you? I'm thinking the intention here was to sell the company for $10 million and that came across as a threat because of the language that was used. You would not record the call [1] and then publish it if you actually were blackmailing them for $10 million. I'm not faulting the guy here at all, I just think it comes down to lack of experience in dealing with negotiations of this level. He clearly has an awesome product if you look at any of the HN/Reddit comments.

He probably could have walked away will at least a few million vs shutting it down if there was a small level of negotiation that took place here. I'm not sure who was on the other end of the call but strategic accounts normally get pretty seasoned sales folks assigned to them. They are used to having hard conversations around pricing and pissed off customers. That's all part of negotiation.

That call was brutal to listen too.

Or, is saying you're shutting down part of negotiation too? This likely took it too far if it was, in that you're making reddit look like the bad guy very publicly now. So, it's probably worth it for reddit to cut ties and force people into the reddit app.

No winners here:

  * Apollo the company is gone.
  * Apollo users are gone.
  * Reddit has no customer paying money.
  * Reddit cannot reference them.
  * Reddit users are ticked off.

This is a case study in bad negotiation tactics on both sides. Reddit tried to squeeze them pretty hard right off the bat. Should have tried a 3 year contract or something with heavy discounts. This is wild.

[1] http://christianselig.com/apollo-end/reddit-third-call-may-3...

Because he used AI to fabricate case law. Imagine if you're on the other end of this case, and the opposing lawyers are creating citations to help support their case and create a strong argument (or worse, use a fabricate case as precedent). This has real-world impact. Sure, use AI to assist but check the work!

They are going to start an arms race. This will likely lead to much further advances in ad-blocking that would be a bad outcome for them. This is a balancing act for sure. I guess they must see lots of people blocking ads to think it's worth while going for it. This could even be a smaller team looking at bumping up their metrics or hit perf goals without seeing the larger impact across the company.

Honestly, just saving people time in reading this thread. The article seems like a hit piece and I attempted to call that out. I tried to zoom out and look at the bigger picture by saying SpaceX is actually a big improvement over other companies in terms of environmental impact in that they are reusable (vs literally everyone else putting the first stage in the ocean). You said that was whataboutism. Then, I attempted to zoom out again by saying there are bigger environmental impacts outside the aerospace sector (like all the war and all the lives wasted there). Then you said that was whataboutism again and that I shot too low with my comments. Just seemed like a waste of time, probably for both of us, and provides zero value to anyone else. I wish I hadn't even read this post of attempted to comment on it. You probably see this totally different than me. That's the funny thing about all this.

For what it's worth, I guess you're right in that this is a whataboutism. You could take this line of thinking to the extreme, do I not cut my grass, in that I might kill some ants? Like, it needs to be cut. We need to get to space and there is going to be some costs. So, yeah, they killed some birds, a bobcat, and burnt some grass. It's worth it. Until now, I didn't realize my algorithm for caring about stuff was to prioritize my outrage via whataboutisms.

Hopefully, we can agree to disagree. Wish you well.