billybones

Super exciting, and absolute killers on the customer testimonial page.

> Also, Better Auth’s X presence is pretty much centered around criticizing every auth provider out there, so the discourse there tends to skew heavily negative.

This from an account created 2 hours ago, with a username that’s a negation of the BetterAuth founder…

If you’re Clerk stakeholder why not just come out as yourself and engage openly!

Set a reminder for 10 years from now. Let's see how many incredible new tech products have been built. My guess is that ~any judge will decide that it turned out there were a lot of things still to be built

Sadly, this looks pretty toothless. The fine for noncompliance is $2k.

Given the average price for an NYC apartment at north of $3k, the cost to a landlord of complying with the law even once looks significantly higher than the cost of the paying the fine.

ChatGPT's response to "can you summarize this in lay terms":

In studies of the "RNA world," a theoretical early stage in the origin of life where RNA molecules played a crucial role, researchers have observed that parasitism is a common phenomenon. This means that some molecules can exploit others for their own benefit, which could lead to the extinction of those being exploited unless certain protective measures are in place, such as separating the molecules into compartments or arranging them in specific patterns.

By thinking of RNA replication as a kind of active process, similar to a computer running a program, researchers can explore various strategies that RNA might use to adapt to challenges in its environment. The study uses computer models to investigate how parasitism emerges and how complexity develops in response.

Initially, the system starts with a designed RNA molecule that can copy itself and occasionally makes small mistakes (mutations) during this process. Very quickly, shorter RNA molecules that act as parasites appear. These parasites are copied more rapidly because of their shorter length, giving them an advantage. In response, the original replicating molecules also become shorter to speed up their own replication. They develop ways to slow down the copying process, which helps reduce the advantage parasites have.

Over time, the replicating molecules also evolve more complex methods to distinguish between their own copies and the parasites. This complexity grows as new parasite species keep arising, not from evolving existing parasites, but from mutations in the replicating molecules themselves.

The process of evolution changes as well, with increases in mutation rates and the emergence of new mutation processes. As a result, parasitism not only drives the evolution of more complex replicators but also leads to the development of complex ecosystems. In summary, the study shows how parasitism can be a powerful force that promotes complexity and diversity in evolving systems.

I didn’t read this as “10% will become 100B businesses”,

I read this as “10% are hot”—probably the author meant “like a team out of OAI” but maybe they meant “like recent rounds of OAI have been”.

In any case this post read as sophisticated, reasonable, and helpful, to me.

Please keep this attitude on the track, and away from where people live.

Ripping your engine in loud cities, no matter how great you think it sounds, is like urinating on the toilet seat or throwing your trash out the window. Might make your life a little easier or better, but it's just flagrantly inconsiderate.

Such an important problem!

I get the benefit over Pinecone (which wasn't built with LLMs, etc in mind)

How does this compare to Chroma? Feels like it has most of what you're talking about, and already has an open source product live.

https://www.trychroma.com/

I’ve done quite a bit of work in and around venture studios and without knowing who you are I’d suggest:

-Do you think you can attract world class founders to work on them? Do you have the credibility to do so? (See the heuristics blank suggests in the OP link)

-Can you provide sufficient capital in one of the worst environments for fundraising in recent memory?

If the answer is yes to both of these, go for it!

I think the failure mode for studios is “moderately successful person with moderate conviction in a bunch of ideas brings good-not-great people in to build them. Lot of motion, no progress”

Whatever you do, it should be intense and excellent. If you feel like you can do that, the world needs a lot more good companies!

I don't think this comes without a long term cost. Among other things, some studies with pretty sound methodology have shown that people are very bad at self-estimating their own impairment from sleep-deprivation. It's likely worse than you think it is.

I'd encourage you to move if you can afford to, or to invest in a white noise machine and ear plugs that are comfortable to sleep in. Mack's wax ear plugs have made a huge change for me.

I've been watching this team for over a year and have been consistently impressed by how fast they're iterating, how thoughtful they are about this problem, and the care they put into doing it right. Rooting for this company!

Aswath Damodaran, for what it's worth, is the same professor who got similar press last year for valuing Tesla (then trading at $170) at $67 a share:

http://aswathdamodaran.blogspot.com/2013/09/valuation-of-wee...

OP's article nails it: precise financial analysis is meaningless if you base your projections on way-off assumptions.

reddit.com?

Ben Horowitz "How to Minimize Politics in Your Company"

http://www.bhorowitz.com/how_to_minimize_politics_in_your_co...

Great article and very relevant here.