When I was at Peloton a long time ago, someone proposed an April Fools’ joke where we could announce a dynamo add-on that would let you power your house from your bike.
The math isn’t as bad as you might think: 200Wh (about a 60 min, somewhat intense ride) seems to be about 20 minutes for a H/B100. Still 3x, but not bad at all!
I remember the idea being dismissed quickly because people would likely actually want it.
> High interaction volume (1k+ chat sessions per month)
I don't mean to be that typical HN commenter but you did lose me a bit there.
I know a lot of people are just getting started with agents but even for a lot of scrappy startups usage is a lot higher than that!
If I may suggest focusing on explaining how you can add value even when usage is super low to controlling costs even when usage can get super high?
I can validate you that it is a true problem that's solved by large companies but you have to hand-roll yourself @ startups (via airflow or queues, etc). But unfortunately one where I am not sure that a lot of stakeholders understand the benefits of (yet!). I think value has to be shown a bit more clearly here, sadly.
I love DSPy! But yes, its curse is that it’s native to LLMs and makes the python side awkward and weird. I’m willing to make this prediction: It’s clearly built from first principles and the ideas from it will outlast the framework itself.
Broadly, in the US, the Federal Wiretap Act of 1968 still applies. You're going to have to convince a judge otherwise.
Yes, perhaps broad dragnet type of might be scoffed down by some judges (outside of Patriot act FISA judges ofc)
I would warn you about the general E2E encryption and encrypted at rest claims. They are in-fact correct, but perhaps misleading? At some point, for most, the data does get decrypted server-side - cue the famous ":-)"
yes, but you are very much mission driven in the military, especially in a small unit. For me, it was the bad mission set and not the sleep deprivation that personally drove me out.
My understanding: Like you mentioned the main difference is that digital cash is an abstract type. With our current cash we can very easily convert to/from an int currency to physical cash.
With digital cash it might be more difficult, potentially intrusive or costly to convert to physical assets (look at crypto). If I take $20 out of my bank account and buy donuts, it's going to be very hard to the government to trace that. That will not be the case for digital cash. They will know the exact wallet that came from.
I also believe the need for the Fed for a CBDC is forced onto them because of the inevitability of a negative interest rate on savings accounts (which carries negative consequences). Indirectly, CBDC solves that for them. This person explains it practically: youtu.be/UP0e9MGjyD4
Curious if this is just marketing from Porsche. Makes no sense why VW wouldn't adopt the system for similar effects. I'm not sure I buy the reasoning but I'll keep a open mind.
Inversely I'm kinda confused how Porsche (owned by VW) seems to get very good reliability scores[1]. Down to 9/26 from last years 4/26. Compared to VW's 24/26 that's quite a large delta.
I always chalked up reliability as a function of new tech introduction + focus on reliability. I figured Porsche gets decent numbers because of how relatively low-tech they are and the ridiculous prices they charge for optioning-in that tech (basic things like ACC or memory seats).
Is there something else organizationally, process or product wise that Porsche does differently than the VW group? I do know that they have a separate factory w/ seperate engineering departments (:cough VW engineers design Lamborghini's).
In retrospect I would have done the same: Force the nursing homes to accept their residents back if the residents have no other options.
However, I would have throw in much more aid to the ones that were forced. Cash + PPE + National Guard. If I couldn't provide help, then I wouldn't force. That would mean that it would be up to the hospitals to figure it out and find a home for them or until they were covid-free.
Obviously I'm playing backseat Covid response governor here. Hindsight is 20/20.
Hospitals did in fact need the beds (nursing home beds >>> hospital beds). Additionally they are ill-equipped for the skilled help these people needed. People suffer from dementia/alzheimers and hospitals only option is to handcuff people to their beds (which is inhumane long-term).
I don't want to play politics and I do think more could have been done here). Like: quickly granting nursing homes aid in terms of PPE + cash + national guard help. I'm just trying to change your mind that the situation was much more nuanced that the NYTimes is advocating for.
Where could those people going back to nursing home go? I'm assuming that if another facility or their family could have taken them they would have opted for that. Reminder that likely these people needed 24/7 skilled nursing help.
> He knowingly sent people with covid into nursing homes against the will of the people running them...
Don't mean to be aggressive but where else would you like for the people whose domicile is in the nursing home to go? These are not people in independent living facilities, they likely need 24/7 skilled care.
Allowing the people to go back to the nursing home (aka their home) seemed like the right thing to do at the time. It unfortunately didn't play out so well and I am glad I wasn't the one making that decision.
I think it was a tough decision. The nursing homes could have contained the spread but clearly were incapable of doing so.
> Then stonewalled the Feds asking for information about those deaths.
No excuse for that, just lay it all out. The stonewalling was intentional and possibly illegal, he should answer for that.
I believe inside the special operations community, Navy Seals, especially Team 6, gets a lot of flak for the amount of insider content that comes out [1]. Perhaps some of the lessons may apply to the tech community as well.
I found this quote resonating well even for myself and tech, specifically for the adoration of tech leaders: "It’s easy to fall in love with oneself, but this is not about us...It cannot be about us". [2]
I know a certain unit that loved to remind people "You will give more than you receive". I found that quote quite helpful in helping myself decide if a certain company / team is worth my efforts. I do believe that under most circumstances we will give more than we received (monetarily or otherwise). Is that cause worth it?
"... and then installed Instagram." Instagram usage in the US has been increasing faster than people have been abandoning FB[1].
I may be a cynic, but whats the biggest consequence of people moving from FB to Insta? Probably not having to pay all of the tech debt FB incurred during its meteoric rise.
The math isn’t as bad as you might think: 200Wh (about a 60 min, somewhat intense ride) seems to be about 20 minutes for a H/B100. Still 3x, but not bad at all!
I remember the idea being dismissed quickly because people would likely actually want it.