Based on this and your last couple of posts, I can sense you are struggling. Please don't rely on the advice of strangers (mine included).
Some things I would suggest
1. Find someone in real life that you would like to emulate. See if you can talk to them about being mentored or coached regularly.
2. Consult a qualified medical mental-health professional. This is easier said than done. But if you can find the right person it's completely worth the few weeks of effort it would take
3. Consider that your value system might not necessarily be the same as the value systems of the authors of the projects that get on HN front page, or get commented up.
4. We live in increasingly a winner-take-all society. That's not a judgment, it's a matter of fact. The stuff that gets upvoted here gets upvoted more. That means you may be seeing something that's not reflective of the general population
I know this is cliched but be kind to yourself.
PS: If you're LARPing, you have a flair for writing.
Since we live in a winner-take-all society, one has to morph to be able to thrive in such an environment and i want to. i am from a place where the killer instinct is a necessity and the price of failure is too high (believe me, i know it very well). i have no choice but to become the type-A finance/tech millionaire to ever hope to become one.
> If you're LARPing, you have a flair for writing.
Not larping sadly, this is real. Thank you, i do not know if you are being kind with the compliment but either way, even having flair for writing is useless in the age of LLMs haha.
Why are there so few Shazam alternatives? Does it have something to do with licensing perhaps? The algorithm itself is fascinating but I don't get why this space seems to have just one player - i.e. Shazam
Where's the value? My Android phone just does this locally, obviously Shazam has more storage and so they're going to handle more obscure stuff that way, but for example I just set my "Power of Love" playlist running, and the Pixel's built in "Now Playing" knows both the Frankie Goes To Hollywood track and the Huey Lewis number from Back to the Future.
When a "phone" was a dumb device just barely capable of implementing GSM and displaying a clock then this might be worth something as a business, but given where the $0 baseline is, I don't see enough margin to justify competition, I'm surprised even Shazam still makes commercial sense.
I disagree. Apple isn't like Google/FB where they take a loss on a service and make it back on the backend with ads. Apple seems like they evaluate each service as if it were a physical product ie it costs X and each service needs to stand on its own and make X + Y back.
I used to use SoundHound originally, but their Android app became so bloated that it took a long time to start it. As a result, I switched to Shazam and have not used SoundHound since.
It definitely has more than one player. Google Assistant has had this ability for a while, for example. But Shazam has the advantage of being built in to iOS, which might be why you think it’s the only player
I was a SoundHound user for a long time. It came out around the same time as Shazam. Shazam had all the brand recognition, but I typically went for the underdog.
Recently, in an effort to simply things, I moved over to Shazam. It’s owned by Apple now, so it’s already built into the iPhone, even without the app. The app allows for saving things a bit easier and I find it to be a lot cleaner than the SoundHound app.
Besides potential licese issues (that may not exist), legally creating the hashes database is a big effort as access to an near-all-encompassing song library is required.
Most companies are limited liability. All companies that would bid on project would be limited liability. Why do you think this project is special enough that the owners should be liable?
Also, LLC in US is kind of company. It is mostly used for small sole proprietorships and partnerships. Technically, public companies are “limited by shares” where shareholders are liable up to value of their shares. But there is no difference in terms of protecting owners from liability so they are called limited liability.
Why not? As long as they don't do anything that causes harm then the company isn't in danger. If they think it's likely they would cause harm, well then obviously they shouldn't exist.
The potential liability for any company is big enough that limited liability is necessary. No one would start company if they could lose all their assets not just ones invested in company.
Are people confused that limited liability limits the liability of the company? Because limited liability means that the liability of the owners is limited to their investment. The company can go bankrupt from losing lawsuit.
For certain things the individual owners shouldn't be shielded from liability. Medical privacy is one of those.
Otherwise you end up with people who can create as many harmful businesses as they want and just walk away when it explodes, ignoring everyone caught in the shrapnel. I'm 1000x more concerned about the effects of harmful companies than whatever friction it creates for starting new companies. Everything already moves too fast, it would be far preferable to have fewer corporations if it meant they were of higher ethical behavior.
Maybe I’m missing the point - all these issues are because of various governments’ policies. how could startups possibly address immigration policy problems? I can’t think of any way a startup could e.g. help someone waiting months for a visa appointment.
Good information goes a long way, and the government is terrible at it. I just tell people what they have to do, which pitfalls to avoid, and how the process usually goes. That makes the whole thing a lot less stressful.
I'm slowly adding more tech to the problem. For instance, I'd love to build a residence permit picker that tells you exactly what your immigration options are. Again, this information is very hard to gather from official sources.
It's not a startup, just a website. Does that still fit?
Just wanted to mention out there that this is one of the topmost reasons why I left Germany (and moved back to Asia).
- Lack of political will to fix the bureaucratic mess: I had to come to Immigration Office standing in the queue at 3-4am due to lack of appointment slots online.
- One of the biggest companies in Germany didn't know how to move my employment permit from Berlin to Hamburg. No complicated case even! I was on visa, single, residence tied in Berlin and for 4 weeks their HR and Immigration partner kept deliberating on where/how the application should proceed. I worked at small startups as well as some big ones and I felt a major lack of empathy for foreign workers among German/European colleagues who never had to deal with such paperwork.
- I felt tons of virtue signalling here but minimal support for once you were in the country. Eg. Poland had had Immigration Advisory Centers you could call and seek advice on your case for free, in multiple languages incl. English. Poland! - the country "infamous" for not being very foreigner-friendly. Zero such support in Immigration Center (Auslandsamt) in Germany with silly argument of "we can't speak in English even though we work in an office where we must interact with foreigners every day because what if legal repurcussions?"
Long story short, it left a poor taste and I chose to leave.
Turned out for the better but just wanted to point out: I still believe that problem is not just collecting information (there are sites like allaboutberlin that are good at it) but handholding/support (like Jobbatical/Localyze are doing and some lobbying/support to the govt. to fix the bureaucracy that is living 20 years back in time.
Here are some websites that are helping US non-immigrants.
h1bdata.info provides a list of companies that sponsor H-1B visas along with the job titles and salary
checkvisaslots.com informs about visa slot availability in India
visaholics.com a community that shares US visa experiences
Shameless plug for visabuilder.com here. Informational site on O-1 and EB-1A extraordinary-ability visas. Side project, currently writing first paid product. (Back to work as soon as I close this HN tab, LOL.)
I have great respect for John Carmack but this feels like a very unnuanced take.
Lead time isn't about "startups", it's about code complexity, side effects and blast radius.
The time it takes to push code when you have 10 use-cases and 1,000 users, is very different from the time it takes to push code when you have 1,000 use-cases but 10,000,000 users. At that scale, it takes A LOT of effort to keep fix times small. It isn't going to occur naturally.
Some times the effort to keep that fix time small may not be worth it, some times it might.
> Unless everyone in the org works the same three days a week in-office
Amazon had a culture of small teams (≤15 people) being somewhat independent. I would imagine that you don't need _the whole org_ there, you just need the whole team there.
Maybe the magic number 3 was chosen because it guarantees any pair of teams will have at least one day of the week in common, assuming the 3 days are all the same for all members of each team, but not necessarily across teams.
Yep so the decision should be decentralized to the teams and the case can be made for occasional in office days for inter team building, etc. maybe once a month for those within distance of office. Maybe a 2 days a quarter for those needing to fly in
My 2c - Prompts are the input that you send to LLMs to get them to give you output. In general LLMs are large black boxes, and the output you get is not always great. The output can often be significantly improved by changing the input. Changing the input usually involves adding a ton of context - preambles, examples, etc.
A lot of the work of prompt rewriting is like boilerplate generation. It is very reusable so it makes sense to write code to generate prompts. Prompt Engine is basically a way of making that prompt rewriting work reusable.
Code Engine seems to be a way of rewriting prompts for LLMs that generate code in response to text prompts
Chat Engine is the same for LLMs that generate chat/conversational responses.
Midjourney does not have contextual memory, but it does have a feature to always add a given suffix to any prompt. I guess this is a more powerful variant of the same sort of concept.
I wonder who will "win" - specialised models or a single configurable one...
Based on this and your last couple of posts, I can sense you are struggling. Please don't rely on the advice of strangers (mine included).
Some things I would suggest
1. Find someone in real life that you would like to emulate. See if you can talk to them about being mentored or coached regularly.
2. Consult a qualified medical mental-health professional. This is easier said than done. But if you can find the right person it's completely worth the few weeks of effort it would take
3. Consider that your value system might not necessarily be the same as the value systems of the authors of the projects that get on HN front page, or get commented up.
4. We live in increasingly a winner-take-all society. That's not a judgment, it's a matter of fact. The stuff that gets upvoted here gets upvoted more. That means you may be seeing something that's not reflective of the general population
I know this is cliched but be kind to yourself.
PS: If you're LARPing, you have a flair for writing.