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We've talked with a ton of AI companies and I was surprised how much of the challenges were the usual challenges in any project. Just amplified by the rush to do AI right now, but I haven't seen anything as bad as "You couldn’t have customer calls, you couldn’t work on budgets, you had to only work on AI projects.”

Warning for gratuitous self promotion: https://humansignal.com/blog/9-criteria-for-successful-ai-pr...

The SaaS version of Label Studio does have a natural language interface to create custom interfaces: https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/ask_ai

I'm ostensibly an expert in the product and I probably use that 90%+ of the time (unless I'm testing something specific) -- using a sketch as input is a cool idea though!

Disclaimer: I'm the VP Product at HumanSignal the company behind Label Studio.

There are places in the tax code where Single != Married Filing Separately.

One pertinent example is that Washington State's capital gains tax applies after $270k per single person, per married couple filing jointly OR split in half for married filing separately. Which could be a theoretical $18.9k/year difference in taxes.

Or to make it even more obvious: Founder raises $1MM then immediately sells the company for $900k :)

Some terms are going to need to exist to prevent that, so the investor shares will always be preferred. Beyond that there are in fact a lot of other terms that are in some deals but not others (2x preference, pro rata, etc..)

It's probably worth noting that "someone who has litigated Chevron cases" and presumably will litigate again has a real bias to look supportive of the supreme court (or any judge who could decide his cases).

For the rest of us, whether you agree with the outcome of decision or not, it overturns a 40 year old precedent which is:

* old enough that several congresses have had a chance to clarify any older laws and have made new laws with it on the books

* not so old that it's obviously from a different era and doesn't make sense today

* and always icky from a stare decisis perspective

fwiw, from a HN perspective, I'm mostly interested in how the SC works as a process with politics aside.

You need 3 things to make a sale:

1. Why anything? 2. Why this? 3. Why now?

Sure FOMO is one of your tools, but I suspect it's overused. Consider the classic "This price won't be around for long!" move alone.

I sometimes wonder if our definition of failure is flexible and moves so that half-ish of projects are below average thus failures. I once had to do a post-mortem on why a project went 5% over schedule -- that's a pretty soft definition of failure.

+100 to this, I don't think many people reading this thread realize how easy they've made it to run a LLM locally. It's a great start if you want to kick multiple tires (be careful to clean up! the gigs add up).

> wget https://huggingface.co/jartine/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0-GGUF...

> chmod +x TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0.Q5_K_M.llamafile

> ./TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0.Q5_K_M.llamafile -ngl 999

https://euri.ca/blog/2024-llm-self-hosting-is-easy-now/

I'm sure it's been posted to HN before but Scott Alexander's writing on the FDA is pretty nuanced. "Beyond "Abolish The FDA"[0] is pro-FDA but contains the section "What policy proposal closest to abolish-the-FDA would I feel comfortable supporting in the real world?"

He's been pretty explicit on Lumina too:

"My real opinion, as precisely as I can express it, is:

* Advance of approximately the same magnitude as fluoride: 5%

* Good on balance, comparable to other beneficial dental treatments: 35%

* Doesn’t work in its current form, but could easily be modified into something that does: 10%

* Doesn’t work at all and never will: 50%

* Causes minor side effects for some people, same scale as Tylenol: 30%

* Causes medium side effects, same scale as tricyclics: 5%

* Causes disastrous side effects, same scale as thalidomide: <1%"

[0] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/beyond-abolish-the-fda [1] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/updates-on-lumina-probiotic

Personally I'd start with the phone system guaranteeing that the person calling me owns the number that shows up on the call display. That's how people already assume it works and would cut 90% of the spammiest of spam calls while still letting folks with family in Nigeria choose to answer those calls.

https://aihelper.bot/ was a combination of testing some APIs and scratching my own itch.

Now arguably filtering Twitter isn't the apex of productivity software, but if I can get my news and out without wasting eyeball juice on trolling, that's a win :)

This sounds very much like an "enterprise" sale, with a sales rep who can help with checklists and presumably extend your trial quite a bit.

> So she paid a $7,500 deposit and was all set to join Newchip when a founder friend told her to “never pay for introductions.”

Hopefully everyone knows this here, but if you paid for an introduction it's a negative signal: just cold email.

That being said, I'll make intros for only $6,500 and no warrants.

One partial data point: I talked to my local theatre and they don't have the rights for any of the movies I wanted so that adds ~$400+ (we're still talking, I don't have a full quote)

Quebec's language laws are fascinating, the newest version "requires non-French signs to be accompanied by French descriptions that are twice the size." Since the goal is "to ensure French predominates the visual field of storefronts," you can have the logos be the same size as long as the tagline is in French.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-storefront-si... https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/new-regulations-will...

I suspect the follow button exists primarily to train the advertising algorithm -- how much more would you pay to show a political ad to someone who "followed" Nikki Haley or show your Honda Civic aftermarket parts to someone who "follows" Honda vs just a demographic match.

I love giving users a library of lambdas. We did something similar almost a decade ago at PagerDuty, we'll map the fields & headers for you and provide examples, but you can munge up the json however you want: https://www.pagerduty.com/docs/guides/custom-event-transform...

Yeah, it can be a little mindblowing coming from the SF market, but just about any city[0] you can name has a couple of 10,000 sqft houses on the market right now. Sometimes they are pricey [1], sometimes less than a starter house in SF [2].

[0] https://www.redfin.com/city/10943/MN/Minneapolis/filter/prop... [1] https://www.redfin.com/NM/Albuquerque/Coyote-Canyon-DR-SE-87... [2] https://www.redfin.com/NM/Albuquerque/800-Salida-Sandia-SW-8...

Maybe 75% of the people who interact with the kind of person who blogs about institutional efficiency for the HN audience hate conflict but love their craft. Maybe on a good day.

The top 3 jobs in the US are home health care, retail sales and fast food. Not to denigrate any of those roles but I can't imagine 75% of them saying "X is her passion, but she's not about to burn a lot of social capital by rocking the boat". (I'm skipping over the "skilled" part, but substitute accountants & project managers and I still don't see getting to 75%)

Literal beepers were still in use as late as 2012 as backups for on call people, enough so that we supported them at PagerDuty for redundancy (the API was email->provider->beeper)

https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/short-emails-for-your-pager/

A $10,000 invoice also means that procurement gets involved on the buyer side and sales on the seller side.

Notion doesn't want 1 month of credit card spend tricked out of someone without purchasing authority, they want a site-wide deployment on an annual contract. The invoice is just a tool to ferret out who has authority to have the discussion; nobody expects it'll get paid as presented -- it's just the opening bid. Procurement's opening bid might be a chargeback and a org-wide ban on Notion -- and then you do sales dance.

Which means you need office space for 100% of the people, but that's only used 40% of the time.

You can get a little clever with GTM coming in on different days than Eng but it's tradeoffs all the way down. (In a value-neutral way)

It's worth noting that this isn't unique to Europe. There's a garden industry of minimizing the $s needed to get an EB-5 greencard. It originally required a "Plan to create or preserve 10 permanent full-time jobs for qualified U.S. workers" but you can usually get by with a $500k investment in a winery.

[0] https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/permanent... [1] https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/fullpage/500000-green-card-...

That strikes me as odd too -- but it might be because searching a dictionary is such an obvious computer advantage that it's not interesting to optimize. There are only 10 articles on arxiv.org that mention Scrabble vs 100s on Chess

https://arxiv.org/search/?query=scrabble&searchtype=all&sour...

Self plug, but Twitter as filtered by GPT is actually pretty good again. I no longer cringe when I accidentally hit the "For You" tab: https://aihelper.bot/

(Disclaimer: Former Sentry employee)

There's a ton of DB passion at Sentry but most importantly for anyone this deep in the thread, Sentry also detects and helps fix common DB mistakes whether it's you or the ORM: https://docs.sentry.io/product/issues/issue-details/performa...

If you're at the “why it’s slow” runbook, Sentry turns the first 2 steps into 1 click: https://docs.sentry.io/product/performance/queries/

I wonder how well ELO score handle the edge case where your most important games are against yourself. There are 4 GPT4's in the top 10 (both #2 and #3) and 3 Claude's.

(To their credit, they count anything where the 95% confidence intervals overlap as a tie)