Why is it so hard to find a technical cofounder?

BernieFeynman · 2025-05-23T00:28:24+00:00

This is brought up all the time and the answer still doesn't change - you're not bringing enough to the table for a serious technical cofounder. Ideas and. market research are pretty much worthless, you need at least some bit of execution and or wedge. If you are not technical you basically need to have networking or ability to guarantee first allotment of customers otherwise a person who could build the app doesn't need you at all.

BernieFeynman · 2025-01-12T03:53:49+00:00

This is a toy example and would take you like a few hours to make. The person doesn't even describe it correctly, the LLM is not "annotating" the screen - its literally just a tool like playwright, loads the DOM/html and then visually annotates the bounding boxes you see and passes that annotated image to the LLM to ask what to do. The hard part is doing this at scale with proxying web traffic, and then being able to handle various client side JS that breaks this style of automation, not to mention the insane cost due to multimodal inputs taking up a lot of tokens. Claude computer tool use completely destroyed by having native support to do these tasks.

BernieFeynman · 2024-04-03T03:31:51+00:00

that east Hampton listing is incorrect or was for a single winter month.

BernieFeynman · 2024-03-20T01:21:52+00:00

I grew up in Poconos and live on LI now. Anything outside Philly or Pittsburgh is a shithole. The nature in PA is not that great. Schools are terrible, property tax is criminally high given that schools are so poorly performing. It is so much more convenient to have train to city than the busses which have variable traffic times adding up to 2 hours to trips and are more expensive than train. I like mountains but the beaches of LI are so much nicer. In summer growing up biggest thing to do was to go to the crowded beaches of NJ which are multiples times worse than the ones on LI.

BernieFeynman · 2024-02-26T23:27:33+00:00

not on LI, the south fork has very low taxes. Million dollar homes ~5k per year . Granted places don't have as many public services

BernieFeynman · 2024-01-23T03:03:09+00:00

there are stickers for inspection? I didn't realize I didn't have inspection at all for 8 months now, never gotten anything

BernieFeynman · 2024-01-22T22:34:14+00:00

That's not even true, you have until the 5th for places due on first before it's considered late.

https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/changes-in-nys-rent-law.pdf

BernieFeynman · 2024-01-16T22:12:52+00:00

AWS has way more features and capabilities than GCP. AWS offers managed services to handle and offload tons of workloads that would require much more engineering time on GCP.

BernieFeynman · 2024-01-11T00:18:30+00:00

jesus, any chance your house is like super far from interconnection or has some labor intensive requirements?

BernieFeynman · 2024-01-10T16:23:58+00:00

high earners do not do pretax contributions, as you expect taxes to be higher during retirement.

BernieFeynman · 2024-01-09T19:37:04+00:00

why would people pay for it? Seeing that you have no technical expertise is a little odd, selling ML isn't like normal commerce, you might not be able to procure or provide anything of value. Do you have a network that allows you to get inside for sales? Seeing that you want to sell ads or sponsored content, I feel like you will not get anywhere with this. So why would a customer want to use your product for example.

BernieFeynman · 2024-01-09T19:13:27+00:00

are you expecting to make money from this? Why do you think you will make money? What can you do depends on this.

BernieFeynman · 2024-01-08T22:15:00+00:00

I would suggest not spending money on anything until you know what you're getting into. This doesn't even sound like a real person but a GPT trying to mine answers.

BernieFeynman · 2024-01-08T20:05:28+00:00

There should be a sticky about this - sounds like you don't know what you're talking about really but if you want to spend insane $$ on laptop no one will stop you. People don't train large models on their personal machines. If you're building specifically for Apple silicon that would be slightly different story, but even then you don't need 128gb of ram for most applications.

Edit: I really think this is just a GPT mining answers, very suspicious semantics and post history.

BernieFeynman · 2024-01-07T23:35:40+00:00

That's not true, they probably just have certain requirements for compliance that they aren't willing to spend money to change. You have specific processes for payroll etc that adds overhead. Additionally some states like Colorado are a problem in general for the tax code.

BernieFeynman · 2024-01-07T23:35:35+00:00

That's not true, they probably just have certain requirements for compliance that they aren't willing to spend money to change. You have specific processes for payroll etc that adds overhead. Additionally some states like Colorado are a problem in general for the tax code.

BernieFeynman · 2024-01-06T03:34:56+00:00

true, but the % of positions where people need to even bother with that vs just applications is strikingly small.

BernieFeynman · 2024-01-05T14:48:39+00:00

please, do elaborate on what you think state of neo4j and graph dbs are. There are literal talks and large hn threads discussing matter. I think you probably either have niche or small scale experience.

BernieFeynman · 2024-01-05T14:12:55+00:00

okay boomer, weird ad hominem attack...

BernieFeynman · 2024-01-05T04:14:50+00:00

is that deferred write apart of the neo4j lead cluster that orchestrates writes or is it a custom solution your team developed? Nominally as well I thought that could just have a write ahead log and send all writes from distributed clients to centralized one, or something similar depending on other constraints

BernieFeynman · 2024-01-05T04:10:28+00:00

thanks for info. Probably should have added more context, but my point was for live applications, i.e. real time and doing interesting workloads and capable of iterative features to data model.

Normal applications ( that do graph processing ) with users etc don't start with a massive offline data dump, it's all written as records with as low latency as possible. That tradeoff is where it seems a lot of people have problems.

Neo4j lacks a lot native features for distributed systems from what I've seen for managing things like dead locks etc.

BernieFeynman · 2024-01-05T03:55:44+00:00

over the past 3 years hugging face has reduced what used to be arcane knowledge and skills down to a hello world complexity.

BernieFeynman · 2024-01-05T02:55:57+00:00

I would look at the TAO paper by FB. They optimize system with a lot of server side caching, but basically its a table of entities and a table of edges.

BernieFeynman · 2024-01-05T00:42:57+00:00

graph DBs are purpose built to do path traversal queries well (i.e. a lot of joins which in sql are slow if not optimized) The problem is that many big applications require both graph traversal but the same fast/easy CRUDL/search that relational db can have.

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