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Link worked for me, but dupes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46282133

Incredible timeline - also helpful to understand the OpenAI side. 1) OpenAI is valued at 300B (as of March 31st) https://openai.com/index/march-funding-updates/ 2) OpenAI recently …

A few questions: 1) How do you know the new place can’t match the counter offer? 2) why do you think the folks who hired you for less than your current salary would not understand …

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I am always curious about how companies like this end. For fun I did some basic research on archive.org. It appears that around 2015 the headquarters for make music moved from MN t…

Cumberland also happens to be where the Chesapeake and Ohio canal tow path terminates, and is a really nice 168 mile mostly off road dirt bike ride all the way to Washington DC. It…

Employee in question took Muni + Walked. I biked and did a baby bullet from Menlo Park. My estimates could be off by ~10 or so minutes it was a while ago.

Useful context: Open ai had 11 cofounders. Schulman was one of them. Schuman was not the original head of ai alignment / safety he was promoted into it when former leader left for …

It’s been a while since we had sf offices, but back when we did sf had a pretty aggressive additional payroll tax and gross receipts taxes. I’d imagine this is likely a factor in t…

I agree. If you are selling ANY product, customer experience is part of what you are selling. Apple gets this better than practically anyone else. BUT, as a small business owner yo…

I think support is going to get worse before it gets better. From a quick glance the chatbot described in this post it is clearly moving through a dialog tree and not LLM based. Th…

Additionally, you could hire other people to read them, dividing the task into whatever manageable chunks or even having multiple people read the same parts for agreement. In the d…

I am bootstrapped founder who built a B2B product that lives in the bay area. I think your intuition is spot on, that living in SF is probably not the best way to save $$. That sai…

Many folks on hn live in California in the. San Francisco Bay Area, and enough of them like to drive down the coast on route 1 — a fairly famous scenic road in the us, that we are …

This is a good time to remind everyone that tomorrow, May 16th is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) ( https://accessibility.day ), and that there are over 176 events worldw…

Have you considered chromeOS for the pc, I’ve had pretty good luck with it as an is for kids, and you can lock a lot down with family controls

I was really hoping this article was going to about how someone was able to turn their cable modem into a sales development representative (SDR), because of the absurdity :). I was…

I still think it's reasonable to have Apple consider building a car. Their core competency is in design, integrated platforms/ecosystems, and outsourced manufacturing. Assuming tha…

Much of the sf area old money comes from folks selling tools into the gold rush, for example Folgers started serving coffee to miners, Levi’s selling jeans, Wells Fargo.

Looks like total revenue in the 990 was 910K, so 910/membership is likely in the 10K/year range assume only 100 members. "According to Villa Taverna’s most recent 990, which lists …

I wonder how much of these plastics are environmental in general, for example if these plastics are in organic unpackaged fruit — it’s very likely environmental (e.g. microplastics…

It's a nice tech demo. I like the bot builder UI, and this format as a way of testing an idea, curious to see you post about your waitlist numbers. Especially given I doubt this au…

My recommendation (in addition to the specific technology advice on this thread) is to connect (or help him connect) with an organization that helps blind folks adapt to blindness …

If I recall the original FISA warrants were part of the US Patriot Act, which was one of the greatest increases in domestic surveillance in US history and brought about as an immed…

While your point is valid, the researchers in the paper cite evidence from other studies that intermediate fasting reduces calorie intake. I think the OP has a pretty reasonable po…