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Genuinely curious to ask HN this: what are you using local models for?

Arlington as in Arlington County, Virgina, to be clear... quite a few Arlingtons in the US.

And those are just the known unknowns. Besides those, to borrow from Rumsfeld, there are the unknown unknowns.

I built https://QexAI.com.

I also use LLMs in some other web apps, but mainly as incidental writing aids, rather than the central feature of the app.

Eh, YMMV.

There are innumerable stories of SaaS companies succeeding with referrals and free trials. And coupons + referrals have been the lifeblood of retail ecommerce for ages.

All of these are a function of what you put into them though. Poorly run referral / free trial / coupon programs cannot be expected to yield optimal results or ideal customers.

Everybody has their Far Side favorite... here's mine: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/54184001740077889/

One thing which caught my eye in this is that he says this is largely a US problem:

> “The office market has an existential crisis right now,” which is largely a US phenomenon because workers haven’t gone back to their desks, Sternlicht said Tuesday at the iConnections Global Alts conference in Miami Beach.

I am curious as to why workers in other countries are more likely to stop working remote. Smaller homes to work from? Shorter commutes? Better availability of public transport for commutes? Other reasons?

> A replacement car is out of the question, because she barely has enough money for rent. But even if Luna had the funds to go shopping, it’s unlikely she’d find anything remotely reasonable. The average new car today sells for nearly $49,000, and the average used car lists at more than $26,000 – representing a 31% increase for new cars and nearly 40% increase for used cars since 2020, according to data from the industry group Cox Automotive.

Pretty superficial analysis. Averages are swayed by expensive cars and there many new cars available in the $20k-$30k range, i.e. well below $49k. The writer seems to think that those vehicles, which include things like Toyota Corollas, lower-end Camrys, etc. aren't "remotely reasonable".

I tried something along those lines a few years ago… https://publicemails.com

For a long time we were pretty sure that we had the oldest free-standing structures (i.e. buildings) in the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalithic_Temples_of_Malta

Apparently there's an even older contender in Turkey now, but, anyway you slice it, this stuff is old. The most recent of them (2500 BC) roughly equate in age to the oldest pyramids of Egypt.

Funny to see this on the first page of HN (I'm Maltese, although living in the US now).

Lots of truth in what he said... Malta has not done badly at all since independence but Singapore is a tough one to compare to. Currently Malta's GDP per capita stands at $33k or so which is certainly nothing to sneeze at, but still around half of Singapore's.

Interesting too that history repeats itself. Back then it was the Suez Canal crisis and now it's this:

https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/freeport-talks-client...

Yes, I know about that. It has a limited subset of the functionality I mention - for individuals. Does not exist for businesses.

I have a hard time understanding why the IRS doesn't at least have a basic web portal for individuals and businesses to do simple things like update addresses, send secure correspondence, check on the status of correspondence, file forms electronically, etc. A lot of paper forms and letters, human resources and time could be saved with such a system, even if it doesn't actually provide for any tax computations itself.

Could it be that those movements are pinching a nerve somewhere and causing the tinnitus?

Hourly wages tell only part of the story here. Their benefit package, particularly their pensions, is very generous compared to that of most other hourly workers. Indeed compared to that of many non-hourly workers also, since most people now get only 401ks.

If they've been here only 7 years and are now found in states from Ohio to Connecticut (mentioned specifically in the article), I'd say the taking over is going pretty well for them.

That doesn't mean they won't hit some natural limitation on their range at some point but it's not obvious to me they're there yet.

Since you are talking about Ford, it's worth pointing out that autoworkers in the US are still doing very well... even better since they recently renegotiated their contracts at strike-point.

I am guessing that in 1960 they were doing relatively well compared to other factory workers also.

Well, they do have the .com domain, so maybe an exception applies here.

I tried discussing energy drinks with it and found out that the King of Sweden has just issued an edict against Red Bull.

> I’ve never been in a more classist country than the UK. It’s shocking.

Genuinely curious... How does this manifest itself in practice there?

And Malta: https://www.google.com/search?q=malta+rubble+wall

There they are called rubble walls ("hajt tas-sejjieh" in Maltese).

Seems pretty common in Mediterranean countries.

FWIW, the stock market disagrees.

Because their charter says their goal is to get to AGI, or something like that.

If 99% of their employees quit and their investors pull their support because Sam was fired, they're not getting anywhere and have failed to deliver on their charter.

That's the thing. Lawyers can give them the letter of the law but might have no idea how popular Sam was inside and outside the company, or how badly he was needed. And that's what really matters here.

That is tough. $13m doesn't go all that far in this business. Speaking from experience...

Hopefully they have some kind of revenue coming in because it really looks like they're doing some interesting work.

I guess my question remains then. How does this stop their behavior exactly?

How exactly does a lawsuit filed in California reach two defendants located in Vietnam?

Wouldn't suing them in Vietnam be appropriate here?

Gases passing through dirt/sandy substances at high pressure will tend to do that.

See for example: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EImO4agHqOg

Or just leave it open to (presumably) prevent its future use.

Unrelated, but how do HNers familiar with the Bay Area think about living in the Los Gatos mountains area?

Seems nice and (relatively) affordable for the Bay, with good schools for kids, but concerns I can see from a distance are the somewhat longish commute to the rest of the Bay + wildfire risk since most homes are surrounded by forest.