paulddraper

> If you are building for yourself instead of buying from someone else, you haven’t unlocked any value in the economic sense.

The articles says "AI needs $6T in annual revenue."

That is definitely adding to the annual revenue figure.

Yeah, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

"Yesterday you gave me 10 Frooby Bucks and charged 2 Frooby Bucks per banana. Now you gave me 5 Frooby Bucks and charge me 1 per banana!"

Deepseek isn't as good as Kimi, let alone the frontier models.

It's a very noticeable hit. It's like programming with mid-2025-era models: ignored instructions, dead code, mistakes.

It works...but anyone going from Sol to Deepseek is going to have a rough transition.

They have 2x the number of apps as Apple.

Millions and millions.

The cost of false rejections is generally quite low.

A java.time.ZonedDateTime is not simply zoneid+date+time.

It has the zone offset and so is completely unambiguous and invariable.

  private final LocalDateTime dateTime;
  private final ZoneOffset offset;
  private final ZoneId zone;

Converting Instant+ZoneId into a ZonedDateTime can vary when zone rules change. The inverse does not.

TLDR Always use timestamptz (timestamp with time zone).

Only use timestamp (timestamp without time zone) if you really need local/plain datetime.

(Ideally, timestamptz would be called timestamp/instant, and timestamp would be called datetime.)

More will fix it

I’ve had banking transactions fail a number of times for unknowable or ill-defined reasons. One just last week in fact.

So that is a strange choice for repeatable, understandable operations. Might as well use Jev.

And now you can put a case on and cover it all up anyway.

Who let Elon in?

The article only cites language for surveillance.

The other stuff...there's zero citations or quotes. Meaning that OpenAI could be having their cake and eating it too, winning a public victory, with no validation on the actual language, consequences, or enforcement.

Were they the same restrictions though?

OpenAI just said no surveillance of U.S. persons.

Anthropic could have gone further; I think it's likely they did.

In recent history:

* removed filibuster for lower-court nominations ("nuclear option")

* impeached the president twice in a term

* tried that former president in the Senate after his term ended

* expanded mail-in voting en masse

* repeatedly attempted to eliminate 60-vote rule for legislation

I'm not claiming these were illegal, I'm just saying the process adapts to the needs.

I've literally never seen that.

Unless it was in a very specific investment/exit/valuation related sense.

YC is an investor that turns money into more money, and claims to be good at that. It doesn't claim to be good at anything else.

It's like people have never been to a city council meeting or know how they or their schedules operate.

I feel like you may be intentionally dense, but in case you aren't.

Someone can have more than enough time and energy for a task, but prefer to do other tasks as well.

While the discussions on council actions are accessible to the public, they have specific topics.

You can't just walk up and start promoting your coffee bar, or complain about how loud the neighbor’s dog are.

You can speak out about all those things -- the First Amendment protects that -- but not at whatever public city council meeting you want.

The time was for speaking about building development codes.

Contrary to what some seem to believe, public discussions are not open-mic night.

Imminent threats of violence are not covered by the First Amendment.

Peaceful gatherings are covered.

Have you not heard similar from parents/teachers/chaperons?

"I will take as long as I need, to get you to comply. Your resistance doesn't make this go away, it just prolongs the inevitable."

Yes, you could develop a client-side (JavaScript) application to do this.

SAML does not require JavaScript to do that.

ODIC cannot operate with a private-network IdP.

SAML can.

In general, SAML is complicated because (1) auth is complicated (2) XML is complicated (3) canonicalization/signatures are complicated.

Some of those are unforced errors, some are historical facts.

If you’re doing traditional on-site interviews, you’re already asking for multiple days (unless they live nearby).

It can be a challenge sometimes, but not as often as you might think.

I’m sure there are heavy-handed employment contracts that prohibit side work, but hasn’t been a problem in practice.

Same as for other contractors.

Yes, there is friction, but if you do it enough, it gets reasonably small.

It's a SPA (see the example cards/pages).

So technically slightly more.

Conventional technical interview (DSA, whiteboard architecture).

Then 1-2 day paid work trial.

Interestingly…no one has said no to the trial.

It turns out that people want to derisk their decision just as much, if not more.

It has it.

Incredible? No.

I don’t commonly hear that.

Just in the instance that was chosen.

Overstated.

It was never given as a fact.

Was literally "in my opinion" speculation. A dumb opinion? Okay. But not statement of fact.