@provisionalidea This is genuinely amazing. Where can I watch more?
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svapnil
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previously @whatsapp, and @instagram. interested in the changing world and trying to do things that are hard
nyc, prev sf เข้าร่วม Eylül 2019
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the most amazing thing about this propaganda was that China kept it to itself for domestic use
an American journalist had to find it through their own channels, upload it here, someone else had to run it through a translation service…
it wasn’t distributed through eg tiktok…
Angelica 🌐⚛️🇹🇼🇨🇳🇺🇸@AngelicaOung
Did YOU want to watch CCTV's AI Martial Arts cartoon about the Straits of Hormuz crisis? Complete with fighting Persian Cats? Well I subtitled it for you so you can enjoy it in all its trope-laden glory! Remember kids, the mountains will stay standing while the green water flows, and the true art of war is not figuring out how to fight, but how to stop!🥷😼🦅
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this is the founder equivalent of becoming a paperclip maximizer. "increase shareholder value," they said. we must increase our TAM to 8 billion therefore we will literally make our core product a kitchen sink for "general purpose work". why. just make separate products if you are so inclined. what a completely dilutive move. going as horizontal as possible with no opinion
Anton Osika – eu/acc@antonosika
Introducing Lovable for more general tasks. Lovable has always been for building apps. Today it also becomes your data scientist, your business analyst, your deck builder, and your marketing assistant. This is a big step toward what Lovable is becoming: a general-purpose co-founder that can do anything. See examples below.
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@alexkehr @thattallguy @uninsightful It’s better for founders to decide how much money they need than VCs imo
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@hellosvapnil @thattallguy @uninsightful an overly high valuation very often becomes the reason why a company will run out of money. it narrows future financing options if the company isn't growing fast enough to fall into that valuation
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the default yc round this batch (W26) seems like 4m on 40m
I remember when I first started in venture exactly three years ago (W23 batch) and most venture ppl were complaining about YC pushing their founders to do 2m on 20m
in 3 years the market went from a very begrudging 2 on 20 to a more neutral 4 on 40
interesting to think about where things land 3 years from here
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@thattallguy @hellosvapnil @uninsightful high valuation is bad 99% of the time for pre-PMF companies. it's so much harder to raise again without doing a down round and exit options are limited if PMF is never found (or become more likely to be extra shitty outcome for the founders)
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@alexkehr @uninsightful It's the founders choice whose money they accept and at what valuation they choose to dilute their company by. In general this is good for founders, it gives them more choice
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@hellosvapnil @uninsightful bad for most founders who accept these terms. higher valuations are not automatically better for founders, especially pre-PMF - which most of these companies are. they shrink their potential outcome options with too high valuations
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@FangYi11101 Definitely not true but ig you can make anything up on the internet
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Chinese kids who grew up in the Midwest/South didn’t really face that much discrimination when applying to top schools — that was reserved for the Bay Area/NYC striver kids
Werner Zagrebbi🇦🇿@zagrebbi
The famous SFFA case treated Indians and East Asians as a single group. This masked significant heterogeneity: It's way harder to get in if you're Indian! In Columbia's internal admissions database (h/t @cremieuxrecueil), East Asian applicants had a 41% lower odds of admission than equally qualified White applicants, whereas South Asian applicants had 63% lower odds.
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One of only 24 on-campus nuclear reactors in the United States
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@thdxr We did some preliminary code mode evals in a JS sandbox when we wrote our SQL vs. Bash eval, and JS was about 2.5x more token efficient than bash to achieve the same result.
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That's true. AFAIK, Railway, Fly[.]io, e2b[.]dev, Deno Deploy, etc. all use Firecracker microVMs.
SIGKITTEN@SIGKITTEN
in the end, everything always runs in firecracker
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Really cool investigative work done by AprilNEA.
Anthropic is building a way to natively launch and host webapps. It's soon going to be possible to go from "prompt" to "webapp" in words without leaving the Anthropic ecosystem
AprilNEA@AprilNEA
🧵 I just reverse-engineered the binaries inside Claude Code's Firecracker MicroVM and found something wild: Anthropic is building their own PaaS platform called "Antspace" (Ants + Space). It's a full deployment pipeline — hidden in plain sight inside the environment-runner binary. Here's what I found 👇
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@Elma_andhinhi @mattyglesias chatgpt.com/share/69b73382…
Please read this AI summary and see if your opinion changes. Why can’t we have something that South Asia, Europe, and Japan have already deemed safe?
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@mattyglesias you hate this headline because its truthful and exposes the billionaire boys club Abundance movement for what it is really. Removing safety regulations in the name of faster 'innovation and economic growth'..... safety regulations often protect our most vulnerable!
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I hate this headline, the point is that there are no bona fide fire safety benefits to rules that create long two-staircase corridors.
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