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Ask HN: What are you excited about / looking forward to?

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In the next 1-3 years in particular.

I bought two condos as investments across the street from a hospital just a few blocks from where I live and it's been popular with travel nurses. My plans are to rent out all three of my properties while collecting the rents each month and traveling across country and waking up in a new city every week. It helps that I work remotely. In addition, I've been working on a media project for my own side hustle and I'm hoping that'll be live and popular in the next year or so.

Both of my kids being completely toilet trained.

My youngest guy is just about there. He's five and it feels like it has been a crazy long haul, but we've got this! He is starting to make it!

Oh, right, shoot. Night and day are different. I guess then I just meant day time potty training.

jealous

Different ages, different problems. Not less, just different. Hahaha.

This reminds me of the parable of the Rabbi and the goat. Creating a problem, and then looking forward to its resolution!

New EU regulation that all banks who support bank transfers also have to offer real-time bank transfers at the same cost. Pessimist in me thinks that means the cost of regular transfers will raise slightly. No more waiting 3 business days to move my money from one bank to another.

It will make some things a bit more convenient, but why is it particularly exciting?

What do you mean?

EU bank transfers are free but they take a day but you also have the option to make it instantly, sometimes paying a small fee like 1€ or so. I have never had to pay, though.

The integration of LLMs with compilers. ChatGPT is useful as is for writing code given a prompt in English, but often the code for a compiled language needs some tweaks before it will compile, which ChatGPT can provide given the compiler error message(s). Integrating ChatGPT with a compiler such such as gcc, to eliminate the manual cutting and pasting, is low-hanging fruit.

Will that make your job / tasks a lot easier or more fun? Why are you looking forward to this or are excited about this in particular?

Getting my farm up and running.

Getting my freelancing software business making money.

Enjoying life.

_Maybe_ try to find a wife.

starting a new job in one month

enjoying the new zelda (slowly, no need to rush through)

working on a fairy tale book with my kids

dyson vacum cleaner with laser (fun)

recording a new dj mix

TSLA going to the moon so that I can FIRE.

What do you plan to do after that? Not having to do something is great, but do you have a particular positive agenda that makes you excited to think about?

I used to be in game development industry before I bailed for (much) better salary in tech. I'll probably start scratching that itch full-time by forming a small indie operation. Also be there to see my children actually grow up =)

why would it moon (again)? Toyota produces 7-8x the amount of cars per year, has orders of magnitude more profit, and has half the market cap. What makes tesla more valuable than other major car manufacturers with higher profit?

Just curious, what’s your definition of “orders of magnitude?” Toyota sells 8x the cars to make 2x the profit. Tesla has way better profit margins.

Maybe "orders of magnitude" was a misstatement. looks like ~12 billion (tesla) vs 53 billion (toyota). Maybe I'm a stock noob, but profit margins seem like an arbitrary silly metric to care about. What does it really mean? I could could make something for a dollar and sell it for 2 and my gross margin is 50%...but that doesn't mean i have more money than tesla. Profit margin is just an indirect measure of if you are doing ok, but at the end of the day money == money. Higher profit margin does not mean you have more money relative to your competitor, unless you can keep that profit margin AND beat your competitors in quantity sold.

The real tangible value would be cold hard cash which toyota has more of. Cash on hand for toyota is 76 billion. Tesla is 12 billion. Toyota has nearly 3x the employees but earns ~55k more per employee (profit/employee).

As an investor, you want to put your money where the growth is. A high profit margin means people value the product highly and you don’t have competitors driving you into a commodity business.

If you made something for a dollar and sold it for 2, how? How did nobody see this chance? Why don’t you have an army of competitors driving that price to 1.05? This isn’t selling a single ice cream at a beach, it’s selling millions across every beach on the planet, where there are many existing vendors.

Tesla is supply constrained and can’t sell cars fast enough. Toyota is likely near their peak.

Investors don’t invest for who has “more money” (who cares? You get 1/n of that, it’s priced in) they invest for who can grow their money.

> As an investor, you want to put your money where the growth is.

Yes, but a reasonable price. Whereas, Tesla is priced as if the growth had already happened.

The car sales growth yes, hasn't happened but its more or less priced-in. But most Tesla long-term investors are much more excited about other things the company does.

We have different perspectives, you regard Tesla as an automotive company only, I regard it as much more. Time will tell. Even if it doesn't pan out I've only have a small percentage of my total net worth in it so it won't hurt much financially. It will just take an extra decade to FIRE.

growing my small niche job board and blog to profitability and eventually to a lifestyle business (hopefully).

Apple's WWDC, Monday in 2 weeks.

Why? Some new hardware may get announced, but surely these have been getting progressively less exciting every year for decades. Hardware has been 'good enough' to not be that exciting any more for more than a decade.

Been like that for the last few WWDCs and other events, maybe this time they'll show something new :)

Apple's flagship announcement is the company intentions to make the iPhone notch smaller. This will be boon for developers.

starting a profitable tech business and lose 20 kg.

starting my own tech company

seeing my step kids graduate

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