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Ways YC has changed in the last year

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Re: Ways YC has changed in the last year

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Post by syspec »

mdekkers wrote: post #186
majani wrote: post #164

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It's just 3 months. Before cellphones went mainstream, most people used to travel and simply disappear from their families for years. This need to be in constant communication with everyone back home is a phenomenon that just started in the 2000s

> It's just 3 months. This is an incredibly long time to be away from your family for many people. > Before cellphones went mainstream. Yeah, and before we had antibiotics people would die from simple infections, that doesn’t mean we should “rough it out” or somesuch nonsense.

It's a choice... we all make choices and trade-offs.

If not moving is not right for you, then you that's fine.

Unfortunately there are just too many people willing to jump at the chance for you to matter

Re: Ways YC has changed in the last year

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Post by mtnGoat »

snowmaker wrote: post #144
quadcore wrote: post #108

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Friendly reminder: the strategy here is to invest in the founders, not the ideas. So great founders right now create AI startups. So either AI solves problems or they arent great founders.

That's exactly right. When people see YC funding a lot of AI startups, a lot of them think it must be because YC has some thesis about AI. Actually, it says something much deeper about the world than whatever YC's partners' opinions are. YC funds founders, not ideas, so the reason that so many companies in S23 are AI startups is that that's what founders want to work on right now. It's an emergent phenomenon, like st…

I would argue that just because they want to work on AI while it has a lot of hype, might not be a good thing. Folks should do what they are passionate about and interested in, not just raise money to turn a fume from the karat and greatest buzzword technology. Will they leave AI if the tides change?

Re: Ways YC has changed in the last year

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Post by pembrook »

sahila wrote: post #199
lbotos wrote: post #102

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One tweet link to a blog post on the YC blog? Yeah, sure, there will be some drop off bc people don't click out of the app, but most people not on twitter can't even read this content anymore without workarounds.

It's worse than that, Elon reduces the reach / promotion of tweets that contain external links. Except for users following you, it's difficult to reach a wider audience if you include a link.

Twitter did that long before Elon. Most social platforms downrank external links and have for years. That’s why all media startups basically died over the past 6 years.

Re: Ways YC has changed in the last year

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Post by seanhunter »

coffeebeqn wrote: post #73
seabass-labrax wrote: post #27

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Quite possibly; I'm not sure why calls would be better than straight-up buying the stock, but I am certain that Nvidia is going to have a pretty good time of the LLM hype. Nvidia seem to me to have been consistently competent in improving their product lines. Perhaps my only criticism would be of their artificial hampering of some of their products, which they do in order to appease certain PC gamers by excluding the…

Nvidia is specifically not on the LLM train - almost all possible forms of AI can use parallel compute chips to great effect. Their own AI products like DLSS have nothing to do with LLMs

DLSS sure, but they have products targeted squarely at model training eg the H100. https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/data-center/dgx-h100/?ncid=pa-s...

Re: Ways YC has changed in the last year

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Post by satvikpendem »

replwoacause wrote: post #180

I will never, and I repeat, never, return to working in an office. My quality of life since going fully remote is through the roof, and my employer is every bit as happy with my work now as they ever were.

Is that the same for cofounders of companies though (because that's what YC is for, not for employees necessarily)? Seems like being in the same hacker house or area is quite useful to them in a way which wouldn't be for regular employees. I'd work remotely as an employee too but I'd much rather work in person with my cofounders.

Re: Ways YC has changed in the last year

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Post by baobabKoodaa »

somsak2 wrote: post #170
yuvadam wrote: post #151

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Bitcoin hash rate is steadily growing no matter which time frame you look at [1], what do you mean by "craze"? [1] - https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/charts/hash-rate

I mean, not "no matter which time frame you look at." Look at the drop in May 2021, from which the rate didn't recover until 2022. Similar situation for October 2018 - June 2019.

The drop in what? Bitcoin has not been mined with GPUs in a looong time.

Re: Ways YC has changed in the last year

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Post by xkr »

hackernewds wrote: post #97
xkr wrote: post #59

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I can’t speak for YC or FAANG management but as a regular software engineer I totally get where they’re coming from. I worked at a FAANG company through and after covid, the difference in teams productivity was noticeable. Not in the remote working favour. I understand some people are more productive at home but I’m yet to see a _team_ that is more productive being remote. I lack the experience working in remote-firs…

I see the opposite. My team was vastly more productive remote, and gained 2 hours of commute time per day. Your anecdata vs mine? ;)

Sure. I have neither proper data nor a solution that would satisfy everyone. I left my comment only to show a dissenting voice in the HN engineering crowd. Someone reading HN might be under the impression WFH is universal choice of engineers. It’s not, some of us hate remote work.

Re: Ways YC has changed in the last year

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Post by steveBK123 »

xkr wrote: post #208
hackernewds wrote: post #97

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I see the opposite. My team was vastly more productive remote, and gained 2 hours of commute time per day. Your anecdata vs mine? ;)

Sure. I have neither proper data nor a solution that would satisfy everyone. I left my comment only to show a dissenting voice in the HN engineering crowd. Someone reading HN might be under the impression WFH is universal choice of engineers. It’s not, some of us hate remote work.

I dunno, this thread seems to be a bunch of RTO hardos & CEO apologists. It does feel like some have begun to enjoy the taste of boots now that the job market has turned, but thats just my opinion.

Re: Ways YC has changed in the last year

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Post by startupsfail »

satvikpendem wrote: post #139
startupsfail wrote: post #77

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Yes. Took the idea, website, etc, down to the name. Planted on a team of “founders”, who grabbed 10M from VCs. They took it to some place in Texas to die. Was pretty annoying to watch, because it was quite clear that the idea was too early to try productizing YC-style at the time. It was essentially “code understanding” with early transformers, buck in 2017. But YC tried turning this into a product, while it was time…

You're saying you were in YC and then they took your idea, website etc and gave it to another YC team? Or were you unrelated to anyone in YC?

YC application, interview and then noticed a company in that batch popping out with what took half a year to distill on the product side of the project.

Again, the lesson - it is important to understand that YC is specializing on a particular way of bringing up a startup.

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