Ask HN: Why haven't you started your startup?
Everyone's* got ideas they think are great and startup-worthy. What are some interesting reasons you chose NOT to pursue your idea?*Of course not literally everyone, Jeff.
KennyFromIT
Re:AI vs. a giraffe with no spots (2023)
on Monday May 27, 2024 @02:18PM (#40493185)
> is there anything unusual about the giraffe?
> It appears to be a baby
I actually view this as a reasonable response. I don't know anything about giraffes so to me it's entirely plausible that they get their spots later in life.
Re:Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI
on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @10:20PM (#40362426)
Yeah, I study* that way too.
*procrastinate
Re:Altman Sought Billions for AI Chip Venture Before OpenAI Ouster
on Sunday November 19, 2023 @01:30PM (#38335972)
Can someone explain how it's ethical to be working on multiple things like this at the same time (e.g. OpenAI, AI chips, that eye orb crypto thing), but the benefits of each not accruing to the other investors, only to that individual?
I've always had similar questions about folks like Musk and Dorsey. Is it simply lack of proper governance? Is it something written into their contacts? Is this just a Silicon Valley thing? I can only imagine that a lot of people would like to work on many side projects, but their employment agreements forbid it.
Re:Catch me if you can How to beat GPT-4 with a 13B model
on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @08:48PM (#38272374)
I love this positive way of looking at it. I wish more people had this as the default - "I did a thing and it was bad/hard, here's my experience so you don't have to do the same."
Re:NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently r...
on Monday October 30, 2023 @07:11AM (#38067943)
This is a great explanation of the technical differences between the available options. What are the practical differences - is one option better from a maintenance and usability standpoint for creating systems that are reproducible?
Re:NixOS Reproducible Builds: minimal ISO successfully independently r...
on Sunday October 29, 2023 @09:00AM (#38058173)
I've lived in the Red Hat ecosystem for work recently. How does this compare to something like...
Fedora Silverblue?
Ansible?
Fedora Silverblue + Ansible?
Ask HN: First Customers and Distribution in 2023?
Building product has never been easier. But what about actually finding people who want your product? I understand the methods of customer discovery, but what about distribution beyond the first few - what worked for you?
Re:My SSD suddenly died. I only lost 10 minutes of data, thanks to ZFS
on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @09:53PM (#37230957)
Alright, I'll bite... What led you to leaving the Linux world entirely? What can "the community" learn from your experience to make it better for others?
Ask HN: Have you reduced costs by caching LLM responses?
Providing a chat bot to a large user base means you spend a lot of money on similar requests. I'm looking for best practices or lessons learned from implementing LLM-enabled apps at scale. Thanks in advance.
Re:Kentucky school system closes after first day: ‘transportation disa...
on Monday August 14, 2023 @10:54AM (#37121742)
Let's put aside the technology not working for a second...
Isn't it ultimately leadership's responsibility to prevent these situations from occurring in the first place? Shouldn't they have been testing/auditing this system beforehand, addressing risks, and ensuring there were adequate operational plans ready in the event of an issue?
It's easy to blame software (even easier when that software clearly doesn't work), but blame ultimately should be on the people making the decisions along the way that led to this outcome.
Ask HN: PM, TPM, or Tech Lead – Go
Not sure which one is the best option for my future...Did you struggle with this (or similar) decision? Do you have a framework for deciding? Please share.
Re:Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs
on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @08:25PM (#36979756)
So other than less battery performance, what other notable differences should I expect from Fedora on M2 vs the native MacOS. (I'm not being snarky, just trying to get a feel for how similar I should expect the performance and peripheral support to be; not focused on differences between gnome and the MacOS UI)
Ask HN: What YouTube channels do you watch with your kids?
Parents of HN... What do you kids like to watch on YouTube? What do they like to watch that you also like to watch? Looking for a collection of interesting, educational, or just generally entertaining channels that will help me battle the kids toy and gamer influencer channels that they're hooked on.
Entropy and the Origin of Life
Re:Ask HN: How do you decide what's worth working on?
on Thursday May 25, 2023 @08:07AM (#36069707)
Yes, but what if the one skill you are lacking is the ability to identify what only you can do?
Ask HN: How do you decide what's worth working on?
The HN community is full of capable and driven individuals. Many can solve almost any problem they put their mind to. When this is the case, it's often important to focus on the most important things worth working on. I'm wondering, how do you chose what's worth your time and energy?
Re:EU AI Act To Target US Open Source Software
on Sunday May 14, 2023 @06:16PM (#35941836)
What does this realistically mean for these open source tools and models?
Re:GPT4All releases one click install for Mac,win64,Linux with new GPT...
on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @09:12AM (#35613537)
This kind of appropriate skepticism is why I love the HN community. This may be a perfectly innocent project, in which case I hope the author notices these comments and adjusts. But this comment highlights the possibility that it might not be so innocent.
Re:The Red Hat model only worked for Red Hat
on Saturday April 15, 2023 @10:28PM (#35586694)
I don't think this can be overstated enough. The incentives for vc-backed companies these days don't align with this model, hence the reason it's not more widely in use.
Ask HN: Why would I use a vector db instead of the db I already use?
I use postgres and it has pgvector - why should I consider using Chroma, Pinecone, or any other dedicated vector db for my llm-based application that needs to store embeddings information?
Ask HN: How will all these open source companies succeed?
As a casual observer of HN it feels like there's an uptick in open source projects that aim to become companies. This is obviously a customer acquisition strategy, but I'm struggling to think through the long-term implications of this pattern on the market as a whole. What does this mean for customers/users of the projects? What does it mean for the companies? Their employees?I have a hunch...
Re:Why Construction Projects Always Go over Budget
on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @10:58PM (#35256252)
Re:ChatGPT Has Submitted a Pull Request to Rails
on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @08:24PM (#35254894)
I do not believe this is the first PR made by a LLM, is it? If not, why is this notable?
Re:Ask HR: Which is the best open-source email server?
on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:43AM (#35150551)
I suspect you meant 'Ask HN'.
Ask HN: Should I Get a Mac
I've been a long-time Linux user and generally locked in to the Google ecosystem. My flavors are usually Fedora and stock Pixel devices whenever available. However, lately I've become interested in this AI revolution, specifically LLMs. I'm interested in the prospect of running these inference models locally at some point.Do you think it's necessary/worth it to make the switch to a modem...
Re:Mozilla/Sops: Simple and flexible tool for managing secrets
on Saturday March 11, 2023 @06:25PM (#35113882)
I've used Mozilla SOPS on many projects and I highly recommend it. I'm not quite sure why, but it just doesn't feel like it gets the recognition that it deserves, which is why I'm happy to see it here on HN.
Re:Why does the all 0 public key have a known private key in SR25519 a...
on Sunday March 05, 2023 @01:22PM (#35032378)
The question asks why the all 0 public key in SR25519 and ED25519 has a known private key and what users should be aware of when using these curves. The answer explains that this is due to the mathematical properties of the Edwards curve models used in these curves and suggests using hash-to-curve to generate unspendable funds instead of the all zero public key.
Ask HN: What does the future hold for prompt engineering?
It's all the rage right now, but what can the past (and your experience) teach us about the future of prompt engineering? I'm trying to figure out if this is fleeting or if there's really something to it.I have found countless ways to incorporate AI into my everyday workflow, but my experience may be unique, so I'm trying to get a better idea for how this all could play out.
Re:Warnock's dilemma
on Saturday February 11, 2023 @10:59PM (#34759577)
First time I'm learning about this. Is it possible to take content that falls into this category and then reformulate it so that it produces more responses?