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ehh this reads a bit like the hn comments complaining about sites that don’t work with js disabled

like what percent of firefox users do you think actually care about this?

how did you submit this table in HN??

If the hypothesis is that we still need knowledgeable people to run LLMs, but the way you become knowledgeable is by talking to LLMs, then I don’t think the hypothesis will be correct for long..

I predict that in 6-12 months we'll all be back on VS Code. I would hate to have Microsoft as a direct competitor, especially in a space they care so much about (developers + AI).

It's pretty rare. It was flagged dead when I came across it. My comment got over a dozen upvotes so it seems others feel similarly.

I wish HN allowed threads like this to hit the front page...

The world is changing pretty quickly, and stuff like this does have implications on war, business, technology that's I think is worth discussing here.

> I’d argue that the most valuable companies of the AI era don’t exist yet. They’ll be the startups that harness AI’s potential to solve specific, costly problems across our economy—from engineering and finance to healthcare, logistics, legal, marketing, sales, and more.

I feel like the author's concluding point contradicts himself. There is a gold rush and OpenAI is selling shovels.

Couldn’t you just do a breadth first flood fill from the player every time the environment changes? Would be O(n) where n is total number of cells, which would be fast on any hardware or in the browser.

You’d still want to use the directional chart idea.

Please add the ability to make time go backwards in addition to forwards!

Also, when you click on the stop button (should probably be a pause icon), the icon should change to a play button.

Final feature request: relativistic mechanics pls.

Run LeetCode problems until you can crush the technicals

To some extent this is what Section 174 is about.

If you hire US-based engineers working on R&D (most software engineers) then you amortize their pay over 5 years. Foreign-based engineers working on R&D get amortized over 15 years.

You get to expense 3x as much for domestic engineers compared to foreign engineers. This means you need to pay more taxes upfront for having a foreign R&D team, which is bad for cashflow. Your company could be losing money (unprofitable) but still owe corp income taxes because of Section 174.

If the gov charged "tariffs" on foreign labor or services provided, especially for certain countries that labor is typically outsourced to, or certain types of labor/services (e.g. support, engineering, etc), that'd probably be an effective way to discourage offshoring.

Did my best Borat voice and got Italian → Russian → Bulgarian.

If you were to code this statement in JS, it would be:

hats.every((hat) => hat === 'green') === false

(A) is the only one of those potential answers that must be true to guarantee the above statement is satisfied.

pretty normal in banking/consulting fields. not sure they write it in the job listing though.

I feel like there’s insurance for this kind of thing

Canny | Senior Frontend Engineer, Senior Software Engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | https://canny.io

Canny uses LLMs to automatically find customer feedback in support and sales conversations, to help product teams build better products.

* Small SaaS business, 16 person team, $3m+ annual recurring revenue

* 100% remote, distributed across US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, Turkey

* Bootstrapped and profitable

https://careers.canny.io/?utm_source=hn

Why work at Canny: https://canny.io/blog/work-at-canny/

there are millions of corollas there’s only one openai

It could have been strategy instead of insanity. By starting conversations at $7T you anchor high and potentially drive a greater outcome than starting an order of magnitude lower.

agreed on energy for reading. do you think it’s that we’re getting older or that the friction associated with consuming information is just getting lower and lower over time?

> The macroeconomics of venture capital are a bit different now than in the 2010's.

If you are growing revenue to $B in <5 years, and creating the fastest growing consumer app in world history, then 2010's VC rules still very much apply today.

This article is a joke. The sheer arrogance of publishing content about venture-backed AI businesses when you clearly have no clue about VC or AI...

> OpenAI has not had anything truly important since the launch of GPT-3.5

> [OpenAI] has yet to create a truly meaningful product outside of Sam Altman's marketing expertise

So 4, 4o, o-1, DALL-E, ChatGPT, and their API platform aren't meaningful products?

> To be abundantly clear, as it stands, OpenAI currently spends $2.35 to make $1.

Uh, that's how venture capital works? Uber burnt cash like nobody's business, took SoftBank money, and is now a $175B public profitable company.

> It’s extremely worrying that the biggest player in the game only makes $1 billion (less than 30% of its revenue) from providing access to their models.

Name a single API that hit $1b in revenue in 2-4 years...

could also be correlated to people having fewer kids?

fullstory

yeah saying AI is questionable is like saying building the internet or electricity is questionable

> The OpenAI chief told White House officials that A.I. data centers would be a catalyst for the re-industrialization of America, creating as many as half a million jobs

Would love to hear OpenAI's explanation behind this line of thinking.

I think the right strategy is to use building in public to get a bunch of initial users and traction, then iterate on your product to the point where other channels like SEO/PPC are going to be profitable.

Counterargument: I started Canny and we were a "build in public" startup early on. Building in public was an invaluable marketing channel in the early days.

When you are just launching your product, it's really difficult to get those first users and any awareness at all.

If your target audience includes other people in tech, then building in public can be great marketing channel.

Posting about your ideas or your product just isn't that interesting. Posting how much money you're making is very interesting to other people who might want to follow your path.

Like all successful marketing channels, this channel is a lot more saturated these days than when we started (~2017), so it might not work as well anymore.

I don't know that we have evidence that survival instinct goes away after reproduction. It's still valuable to our species to survive after reproduction in order to protect and nurture offspring, for example.

There's no evolutionary reason that survival instinct would turn off after a certain age.

Survival instinct is deeply hard wired into all animals, including humans. It's natural to want to continue living.

Anti-aging is picking up now because there's a growing belief that significantly extending the healthy human lifespan is within scientific/technological reach.

Love this project. I just moved from Toronto, and compared to the US was frustrated by how every major industry in Canada was basically an oligopoly.

In Canada if you look at telecoms, banks, insurance, grocers, airlines, etc – there are a few major competitors and that's about it. It's very difficult to start a competitor, often for regulatory reasons, and most smaller competitors end up getting bought out by the big guys.

As a result, they have crazy shitty experiences. Telecoms are frustratingly expensive for cable and mobile services. Banks are dreadful and charge fees left and right, for basic things that are free in the US. Customer support with any of these companies is terrible.

I'm not surprised that they are colluding on pricing. It's quite obvious in the telecom market at least.

It seems tricky from the gov's perspective because this oligopoly/collusion behavior likely fuels higher GDP and more tax revenue... but ultimately more competition and consumer protection would make for a better country to live in.