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Yes. Cadence now has two products. One is custom chip based emulator. Another is FPGA based. I worked on the first version of FPGA based emulator.
TI have been thinking on similar lines. I have access to my own freelancers. However, do you have any pointers to algos/libraries I should be using? My NLP skills are not great!
Well, I was relatively naive but luckily the person was honest. So I did not have issues. But here are some suggestions. 1) Open an escrow account, pay some money for it. 2) Put source code, domain name transfership, any business doducments in that escrow. 3) Ask seller to provider support to you for 1-3 months. This should go into contract. 4) Release money in installmeents. 5) Release from escrow only after you are satisfied!
Re:Measured typing latency of popular terminal emulators on Thursday May 04, 2023 @02:59PM (#35820432)
I am aware of warp. I guess I could use it but I am looking for something that integrates with gnome-terminal/konsole or iTerm
Re:Measured typing latency of popular terminal emulators on Thursday May 04, 2023 @02:58PM (#35820413)
I dont want to change from bash to zsh. I don't know what Fish is
Re:Measured typing latency of popular terminal emulators on Thursday May 04, 2023 @02:57PM (#35820405)
Well, eventually, better models will be made and they can be used locally
Re:Measured typing latency of popular terminal emulators on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @06:38PM (#35808773)
For terminal aficionados here, which terminal works well with chatGPT ? I want chatGPT to predict my next keystroke, based on my previous commands I typed.
I was part of FE International newsletter. So, I got to see financials of some companies. You always have costs. Like stripe costs, hosting costs, licenses etc.

So profit is never 90%, its typically like 30% of gross

I bought a similar website on transferslot sometime ago for $15000. Later I realized I dont have time between day job, kids and general family life to pursue this business further. I let it die :(

Luckily, for $15000 I figured out I am bad at business.

Lesson for you: Unless you have done some amount of business/customers/sales/marketing before, dont spend such a big amount of money on your first venture.

Re:Marginalia: Search the Internet on Monday April 24, 2023 @08:11PM (#35694951)
Sorry, I was not aware of that. Thx
Re:Layoff Runbook on Monday April 24, 2023 @08:09PM (#35694939)
Well, the mess up is not from the system. It is from my own mistakes :)
Re:Layoff Runbook on Monday April 24, 2023 @06:49PM (#35694306)
>You don't need to worry about being locked out of your 401K after being sacked. It's still your money and they have to give you access to it, even after you're sacked. Transfer the money out to a separate 401K account that only you control after you've left the company. (Or don't, because I'm pretty sure they have to keep your account open indefinitely, but IANAL so ask a professional)

You will not be locked out of 401k when you quit but they will charge about $25 per quarter ($100 per year) to maintain your account. I feel it is still a good deal and I left my 401k with my previous employers. so far I have $300k in 401k, so $300/year to maintain the portfolio (across three previous employers) and not messing it up by moving it around seems like a safe deal to me.

Re:Layoff Runbook on Monday April 24, 2023 @06:46PM (#35694270)
HSA is deferred for future. I (in 30% tax bracket and pretty healthy) can defer that to future as I only average about two doctor visits per year last 2 years. So, if I put it in FSA, I loose the money since my number of visits to doctor are few and far between. HSA, I can use after I retire also or when I grow older. So for my situation, it is better.
Re:Marginalia: Search the Internet on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @06:59PM (#35621666)
@marginalia_nu, Few months ago, you said you would consider open sourcing this search engine. Are there any tasks that us github warriors can help with?
Not mentioned in the article but I asked a shopkeeper why they use it. Answer is fraud. Earlier, customers would download a "fake" app, which miciked online gateway's UI. Customer would punch in money, and show to shopkeeper that "payment went through". Customer takes goods with them and leaves. Shopkeeper looses money.

With this sound box, shopkeeper gives goods ONLY after the box makes sound. Now imagine if a elderly or illiterate relative of shopowner is manning the shop. They may not know how to operate their "banking" app to make sure money has reached. The sound box removes that problem.

Re:Ask HN: Co-Founder? Seeking Co-Founder? on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:09PM (#35429617)
Thanks for the thread.

I am loking for a part time business person/CEO. I am a tech guy. Have 15+ years experience building backend systems. Now, I build user facing websites/services and release them. I have no knowledge of marketing/sales, so if you are a non tech guy who wants to do some fun projects, hit me up. Email in profile.

Currently, I am working on a website where people can post their code and ask for feedback. (Something http://pullrequest.com/)

Note that these are mostly side projects. Unless you are very good, they will be side projects for now :)

Ask HN: How to store customer's digital books securely

So, We automatically convert digital books and pdfs to audio which our customers can then show on their website (login protected). Our customers are paranoid and want us to make sure that their ebooks and pdfs are not stolen and/or shipped off overseas.How do I make sure that team members and hackers do not steal the books? We are thinking of locking the books behind an API service so that...

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Re:Helicone.ai (YC W23) – Open-Source Logging for OpenAI on Thursday March 23, 2023 @04:06PM (#35280561)
I guess they are betting that openAI will be such a big platform that many companies will need this capability. Not a bad idea I guess
Re:Nalanda: The university that changed the world on Monday March 06, 2023 @05:49PM (#35048898)
There is no self hate going on. What we are saying is that India was on par with rest of the world. Lets just have an objective assessment of its's past instead of white washing everything that is old.

For example, we (collectively) do not know anything about drawbacks of Nalanda university. All we heard since childhood is that it is great

I agree with this assessment. Thats why I always turn off all recommendations and only read/watch/listen to things I have been exposed offline
Re:Nalanda: The university that changed the world on Monday March 06, 2023 @03:59PM (#35047500)
Right wing hindu propaganda that "hindus/indians were better than other people but were subjugated by muslims and English". Current administration in India is part of the right wing.

Source: My biases as an Indian

"Read/Watch/Listen" are what you think you are doing. "Consume" is what the people who want to make money from you think (Entrepreneurs, Media executives, bloggers etc).
Re:Show HN: Usage 2.0 – Cut AWS Spend by 57% in 5 Minutes on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @04:33PM (#34988649)
What is the minimum number of servers I need to buy from you? Can I buy just one 4GB server, for example?
Thanks for being forthright. How did you test the MVP before you joined YC and had venture funding? Did you pay from your pockets
Can someone here explain how a solo developer can use bing API. It seems the cost is not cheap, even for basic plan. "1,000 transactions free per month for all markets"

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/pricing

Thats like 30-searches per day (including any tweaking). How can a solo developer make an MVP based on this?