chrisgarand

Here's a quote to think about. LLM's are great, but they're only one part of the recipe:

“Anyone could make a videogame last week, anyone could make a videogame five years ago... nothing has changed.”

That's not necessarily true. They can be using it to jumpstart their own desktop app.

I don't see a Muse desktop app, this gives them something they can spin up in a few weeks, not months, with native cloud integration. I'd guess we're going to see a product competing with OpenAi/Anthropic (as far as standalone apps are concerned) by January.

I understand, I wanted to showcase the specific anti-competitive behavior that they were forced to pay for.

I like the idea, I tried using it, however it gave me the following error: New photo and listing checks are currently available in the United States. More regions coming soon. You can still view saved reports.

At first I tried with a Canadian website, so I tried with a US url (the message confused me), but it still gave me the error, I checked the response and got the following:

{ "error": "New photo and listing checks are currently available in the United States. More regions coming soon. You can still view saved reports.", "code": "read_region_unavailable", "recovery": "region" }

I figur it checks the requester's ip location.

Also, they spent a long time suppressing AMD by bribing, and strong-arming their partners during the first cycle of AMD beating Intel (Athlon series): https://www.eetimes.com/intel-accepts-order-to-stop-unfair-t... Later on: https://www.rbbecon.com/news/article/commission-imposes-e106...

They do have their own segment that is considered neocloud (data centers for compute), but they're mostly/fully used up with their own, and Anthropic's compute.

When he was talking about neoclouds, he was talking about the smaller guys who are getting bullied by vendors (mainly Nvidia) to buy as much hardware as possible (more than they want to). They paid more, for more, and needed to take on more debt, to end up (currently anyways) being well below capacity.

Over the next few years, unless growth keeps up (and probably accelerates), they'll need to sell, or restructure.

The buildouts by Microsoft, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic are currently safe. The neoclouds that they've signed contracts with, are safe, but based on reports, that's roughly 60% of current capacity (it varies by report, but they're all under 75%).

Neoclouds aren't Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX. People aren't going to re-value value SpaceX on CoreWeave's success.

SpaceX will be re-valued on Anthropic's, or OpenAI's success, he, and his people are smart enough to understand this.

The drop table header seems like a prank to me. You would need to have sql that is vulnerable to injection. If you're using an llm, and have sql that is vulnerable to inject... what am I running an llm for.

It has been awhile since I dealt with credit card networks, but the parent comment confuses me as well. Before, most of the fees go to the issuer, the network takes about the same as the acquirer (roughly):

Network gets swipe fees, and a percentage of the interchange Issuers get majority of interchange, and carrying interest and fees Acquirer gets the markup plus whatever admin/maintenance fees

Here's what I found for a reference: https://cmspi.com/back-to-basics-card-network-models-and-glo... which tracks with my experience.

I'm open to be corrected though.

I heard this was a thing when listening to a Theo podcast, he mentioned to add a "Only use subagents if the user explicitly requests them" line in your agents.md file.

I don't know if it works, but I've always had a consistent level of token burn on my plans (I've only heavily used Sol after adding it).

There are some plants with symbiotic relationships with nitrogen fixing bacterial.

I read that they're trying to cross breed modern corn with one from Oaxaca that has this relationship: https://news.wisc.edu/corn-that-acquires-its-own-nitrogen-id...

On the less serious side I like EvilmonkeyzDesignz youtube shorts.

They generally looks for the doodles on older chips, but also looks at MEMs devices as well: https://www.youtube.com/@EvilmonkeyzDesignz

They would definitely be able to add to the list (they have a video of 100 chips for their 100k subscriber mark).

I'm going to lay this out how I understand it:

The NIH Revitalization Act of 1993 was supposed to bring women back into medical research. The reality was that women were always included, HOWEVER in 1977,(1) because of the outcomes from thalidomide (causing birth defects), "women of childbearing potential" were excluded from the phase 1, and early phase 2 trials (the highest risk trials). They're still generally generally excluded, even after the passage of the act. This was/is to protect the women, and potential children.

According to Edward E. Bartlett in his meta data analysis from 2001, men have been routinely under-represented in NIH data (even before adjusting for men's mortality rates) between 1966-1990. (2)

There's also routinely twice as much spent every year on women's health studies vs men's by the NIH. (3)

It makes sense to me, but I'm biased. Logically, since men lead in 9 of the top 10 causes for death, that shows there's something missing in the equation of research. (4 - It's not a straight forward table, you can view the total deaths, and causes and compare the two for men, and women)

With that being said, it doesn't tell us about the quality of the funding or research topics, maybe the money is going towards pointless goals, or unproductive researchers.

Are there gaps in research? Most definitely, like women who are pregnant. This is put in place to avoid harm but that doesn't help them when they fall into them. Are there more? Definitely. I'm not educated enough in the nuances to go into them.

If you have information that counters what I've posted, please share it, I would love know where these folks are blind so I can take a look at my bias.

(1) https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2021/04/16/pregnant-clini... (2) https://journals.lww.com/epidem/fulltext/2001/09000/did_medi... (3) https://jameslnuzzo.substack.com/p/nih-funding-of-mens-and-w... < I spot checked a couple of the figures, and those lined up. I'm assuming the rest is accurate (4) https://www.cdc.gov/womens-health/lcod/index.html#:~:text=Ov...

Hey Patrick, this is rare, it does happen, but usually (almost always) it's that something was missed in the takeoff, the updated plan wasn't submitted to the yard, or the drawings were missing elements.

I agree with your point, having a second, impartial source is important to confirm the ballpark.

We do supplying to contractors, and do takeoffs for single family homes. Not tracked, one off's for framing material. You mentioned your co-founder has built tract homes so my words might not apply to your target customer.

Here are things to consider:

Experienced builders don't care about the takeoffs on a big picture basis, the takeoffs are usually wrong, even if perfectly done. In our experience half of drawings we receive, are heavily revised by the order is approved (heavily revised meaning over 10% has changed). EWP, structural metal need to be accurate but framing lumber, and sheet good can be off on counts at the lift quantity (+-1 lift for an average house).

Suppliers aren't responsible for the takeoff so the amount the quote is negligible (see drawing revisions, and trades can misallocate the materials - This can't be reasonably traced). Over? The customer ends up paying less, under? The customer pays more. This has been universal where I am (Ontario, Canada).

A large minority of plans are missing key elements (like sheer walls), pointing out, and showing these differences would be a big value add for the consumer (contractors using the materials) by the supplier.

Good customers understand that lumber is a commodity, a lower price this week can flip next week, and they'll contact their preferred vendor about the differences.

There's always a preferred vendor.

Not great customers will shoot drawing off to multiple suppliers, causing them all to do the same takeoff, wasting time, and money, only to deal with the same issues above. They'll still go back to their preferred vendor to get the lowest price.

Summary of the above is: EWP, and structural metal are key items because they rarely change, framing lumber, and sheathing requirements change all the time. What you're looking at is helping suppliers capture the bad customers (which are often the biggest, to be clear), but saving suppliers the time handling them is great. Also, accuracy, and pricing isn't that important (with caveats).

This isn't a statistically significant sample size, consider it anecdotal.

We use Books, it's okay, if you're relatively small, it will do the job.

Their biggest issue is that they focus on too many products, and interoperability between them. Necessary features take forever to be implemented years after they should have been.

This is accurate. Here's an example of multi vs single family construction stats: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/daily-quotidien/220509/dq...

From the values of each, you can tell that multi-family units are a larger portion of residential construction. How much larger would require more research as on a per unit basis, multi-family units are cheaper per family than a single-family unit.

Essentially, manufactured home in this case, even if they were 50% of single-family home construction, would be less than 25% of total family units constructed (single-family units + (singe units being construction in multi-family buildings).

I haven't watched the video (it may be fascinating), I armchair researched this, and the reason why you don't get a Hass avocado tree is the same reason why you are not clones of your parents. Avocado seeds are largely mono-embryonic, they are a blend of the pollen from the flower, and the genetics from the parent tree. While the fruit develops from the tree's genetics, the seed is a blend.

Mono-embryonic seeds are not true to type, which means their seeds will not grow fruit like their parent tree. Techniques like grafting, air layering, and cloning were developed to quickly scale editable fruiting types. They reduce the risk of having a plant that is non-productive, and accelerates the anticipated fruiting period vs from seed (most tree types will be 8-15 years before fruiting, while a clone can produce in as little as 3 years, but generally no longer than 5).

I've been going over avocado seeds to find proof of poly embryonic types as these: https://academic.oup.com/jhered/article-abstract/35/7/209/81...

Information for avocado's seems to be lacking, I have a quick reference for which citrus can/will grow true to type, however with avocado's, there is some research, but few points of use for home growers. If there's anyone that can point me to a good resource, I would appreciate it!

Officially, I understood you couldn't use dry yeast, that has changed it seems: https://www.pizzanapoletana.org/en/ricetta_pizza_napoletana

That being said, you can probably use a smaller amount of instant yeast, it definitely shouldn't be replaced as a 1:1 with regular yeast as the fermentation time is an integral part of the flavour profile.

I go through regular bouts of depression and burnout due to lifestyle, at this point they're more like colds as I handle them quickly with a system(due to how the business is doing/what's happening in life).

Others can feel free to agree or disagree with me, this is what works for me:

Read - A minor level of isolation is okay as long as it's not with your thoughts, read something uplifting or insightful (I recently read the Rosie Result, and Meditations post breakup).

Active - Physically, join a gym or running group, something social to at least be around people, you don't necessarily have to engage, but in climbing gyms for example, people tend to.

Active - Socially, like many have said: keep the job, join a group where you can help others, there are plenty of chances to volunteer, or join groups where you can help in Toronto, it's useful for distracting from what was, and thinking more about what can be. Talk to friends about your issues, maybe they're been through something like it and can help unlock an important facet as to why you're feeling the way you are.

Consistency - a pattern will help you to keep moving along, I can't stress enough that as long as there's no serious underlying psychological issue, only time and mental distractions will help.

Mental - Professional - Get help (I see that you are which is amazing, this is only to cover my suggestions). A good professional can help guide you along if you're willing to help them.

Mental - Personal - Meditation helps, I've recently been doing transcendental meditation, and honestly, it's pretty rad. It's not life changing, but it tones down the thoughts by a notch, at first the 20 minutes seems like forever, but after a couple of weeks, it's over in no time.

Time - Sometimes no matter how good your systems are, mental/emotional depression and burnout are no different that a cut, or broken bone. They need time, and no modern technology will accelerate it past the bodies maximum rate of healing.

Be patient, don't beat yourself up about not being productive, or positive, it's okay to feel like shit, or nothing at all, you win by not giving up, no matter how long it takes.

That's cool, we should meet up and share our experiences! Send me an email at chris@roomerator.com

They're people as well, the good ones use it as a way to test the conviction of the founding team. If they can't take a few verbal licks, why would they be able to acquire enough customers to gain traction? Not a perfect test, but it has proven to be a workable process where the ones with the most conviction always get _something_. Sometimes it's too late, and sometimes it doesn't work out. That's life.

It's important to consider that most businesses that start in new areas/ try re-defining the market don't have business models, as they are too small to build a model from. Sure they can bootstrap from one idea to the next until something takes hold, but unless it's a new paradigm that is on the cusp, you're many years (think 5+) from attaining a scalable model. The funding is to be able to hire people, and iterate quickly to expand the business, and find a scalable business model. Trying to build a business model with out a pre-existing business is like trying to solve for x when the right side of the equation is missing. You'll come up with answers, but they're probably wrong once tested.

Part of retail sales is people not caring enough to spend the energy to return / get a refund. Even if this story resulted in a refund, there are probably 100 other who didn't bother because it wasn't worth their time.

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My second pair was a $200 Shaman, and they were great, unfortunately I was using them when I had limited knowledge and experience, I got them resoled once, and while worth it, I purchased a low end pair ($100) as my secondary, and have found them 90% functional compared to the high end pairs, and have been sticking with them over the high performance shoes.

They're great, but like yourself, I'm not a pro, or a prospective pro, I do it for fun, and health. I'm not going to pay $200 every 4 months for a new pair, or even resole.

From my understanding of the article, they are Cuban beans.

TL:DR - Funds routed through the US are subject to US laws and regulation, no matter if the origin, and terminating point consider the act legal.

Long: If they held the funds, it's because someone at the ACH saw the business name, and automatically assumed that there was a potential liability (that happens, it's rare, but they will shut you out until you talk to them to prove your innocence).

If they were the more enterprising type, the person who made the call looked up their web site and read how they purchase their beans from Cuba. While fully legal in Canada, if the funds are routed through the US(I can almost guarantee it), JP Morgan can be held liable, and as such they would like to avoid the repercussions of the US government.

They're forcing people to online accounts by putting the offline option in the basement, it's the standard 'nudge' in software. Eventually they'll eliminate it completely.

Some would consider this one a dark pattern, I would agree in this case.

It seems most people on HN (and to their credit, they also admit), they have limited recent experience with MySQL, so they don't know that they are 99% functionally equivalent (with edge cases being better for one or the other).

That looks awesome. It's definitely something to look into. For the time being we don't have the resources to set something like that up, but it's good to know for the future, thanks!