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Why would yc fund them given how obvious the risk is ? Esp since a Mac mini farm is capital intense.

YC is not some end all be all arbiter of what will succeed. Plenty of YC startups have failed.

https://ycgraveyard.iamwillwang.com/

https://startups.rip/


This is a "Launch HN" / "YC P26" thread, so YC funded them.

If YC didn't fund this particular idea, they funded the team to pursue some earlier idea that the team then pivoted from to try this one.

In any case, the team needs to pivot. This idea is lighting cash (and time) on fire.


I really think people should learn first and primarily from books written by people. Think about it: the LLMs are trained on that data. So they cannot actually be better than the best original texts. Get good quality original books then learn them in conjunction with AI, but don't try to learn using this. How to downvote?

So two different parts of the state use favoured journalists as methods to publicise information that they could not make public directly. When they do this they also get to shape the framing.

What a rather unpleasant business.


Guy couldn’t even bother to write his own damn post mortem. My goodness. No wonder they got owned by the ai.


His company was still on fire. He didn't have time yet for a proper one.


Then he should have been patient. In a fire, a brief communication to affected customers is necessary. A long story blog post aimed at uninvolved developers is not required immediately and can wait. And, let's be honest, publicly calling out SaaS companies to get special treatment shouldn't be considered standard incident management practice anyway.

It would have been a better story if he had waited too; the story is incomplete because he pushed it out before he got the response from Railway.


> Guy couldn’t even bother to write his own damn post mortem.

Are you ... from the future ;)


If you cared so bad you could make your own evals.


so pay anthropic money to maybe detect when the model is on a down week? lol


Doh. I went in expecting a really cool thesis — because the idea seems somehow intuitive, or at least really intriguing. But I have no clue what I read. Just totally odd and unconvincing. Greenland? Dialectal substrate? The idea is still super intriguing to me though!


Well, at least you know it's not AI-written because it's delightfully weird and evidently about some pet theory of the author. This day and age, that's something to unironically celebrate.


I love this! Especially the part about greenland. For quite some time the dashes were a good indicator of a text was written by AI - but now the best option is to write more human like by doing it a little less polished but weird - at least the message is being transported


A lot of (allegedly human) cranks now bounce their wacky ideas off a "you're completely right" LLM.

AI psychosis has been going through armchair philosophers, physicists and political theorists the way crack was going through the low income neighborhoods back in the 80s.


While I understand what the paper is saying I'm not sure if what I read was written by someone who is smarter than me and naturally goes higher up the abstraction tree, or just wants to write really smart things.

Either way though I think there's a much simpler way to express what she's trying to say. Offloading thinking to AI is bad because it's less flexible and doesn't easily update its reasoning with new information.


It’s a blog post, not a paper.


>I have no clue what I read. Just totally odd and unconvincing.

How can it be unconvincing if you didn't understand the argument presented in the post?


Isn’t that a completely bizarre metric though in this instance??! It is specifically the revenue generating arm of the government. If it wasn’t running at a “surplus” that would be very concerning indeed.


No the point is that if the IRS was at maximum efficiency, more funding wouldn't increase revenues because tax law is tax law: you can't market it or expand the customer base.

But if every new dollar currently produces much more then a dollar in returns, it means it's underfunded because taxes that should be collected, that by legal analysis would be planned for in budgeting, aren't.

And that matters for a great many things, but one reason is that if you pay taxes and want a tax cut then one reason you're not getting it is because actual revenues are lower then they should be due to uncollected taxes.

AKA tax fraud steals from the honest tax payer.


Most law enforcement related entities end up being a money sink while enforcing our laws - the IRS actually runs a substantial profit while enforcing laws and additional funding would increase that funding. This also isn't a case like asset forfeiture where the money being collected is arguably unwarranted and shouldn't be taken from citizens. The IRS's "profit" ends up coming purely from catching people trying to commit fraud and enforcing the laws as written.


I did no verification on whether that metric is correct or not, but I would suspect the metric would be only measuring the amount of revenue the IRS "generated" from doing manual work like audits. The regular, I owe 1,000 in taxes, and I paid 1,000 in taxes. Wouldn't be considered +1,000 in that case, it would be excluded from the metric altogether. Only the additional "findings" from audits would be counted.


Kinda… funny? that one in this position could not just blurt out “they offered the most”?


Best thing about windows and biggest thing I miss. Have never been able to find equivalent for Mac — stuff that comes close but really not quite the magic of Everything. Same w Total Commander. Sad!


Cardinal: Fastest and most accurate file search app for macOS. https://github.com/cardisoft/cardinal

It's slower to start-up than Everything but just as useful once running.

There are a few Mac oddities like OneDrive files appearing twice because macOS is convinced they exist in two locations, but that's a minor annoyance.


As sibling notes, you can use locate just like the patriarchs (once you do some osx-specific fiddling)

https://egeek.me/2020/04/18/enabling-locate-on-osx/


It's not a gui, but in case you hadn't heard of it before: unixes usually have a `locate` command that'll do ~instant file/folder name searches. The index is usually rebuilt via a cron job though, it's not always up to date like Windows can do.


What are the much more effective and efficient ways — since you said it ?


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