Hacker News: tempsy

New comment by tempsy in "VC Fund gives money back, says the market for mature startups is too weak"

tempsy — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:50:53 +0000

I don't think it's just a "market" thing at this point. Reality is if you're not a Tier 1 VC, which CRV really isn't, then you cannot get into good deals that would make any sense.

New comment by tempsy in "Californian fed up with stolen mail sends Apple AirTag to herself to catch thief"

tempsy — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 18:10:17 +0000

I'm wondering how we haven't solved "securely leaving packages" at this point.

Having to coordinate with delivery drivers is difficult if you're not home, which is often the case unless you're WFH.

Seems like every front door should be designed in some way to securely leave packages by now.

New comment by tempsy in "Mark Zuckerberg unveils giant Roman sculpture of his wife – AP News"

tempsy — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 17:13:36 +0000

do they not?

little island in NYC was funded by Barry Diller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Island_at_Pier_55

New comment by tempsy in "Mice live longer when inflammation-boosting protein is blocked"

tempsy — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:06:17 +0000

It's not missing the point. The point is that a lot of people live with chronic inflammation caused by poor lifestyle choices and that results in many diseases later in life, including Alzheimer's.

The point is that chronic inflammation is bad. The comment I'm replying to isn't recognizing that it's just saying "oh inflammation is fine because it's a response to injury" which is very much missing the point.

New comment by tempsy in "Mice live longer when inflammation-boosting protein is blocked"

tempsy — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 16:55:13 +0000

There is a huge difference between inflammation in response to injury and chronic inflammation caused by lifestyle choices like poor diet.

New comment by tempsy in "The economics of the Birkin handbag"

tempsy — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:10:21 +0000

Uh not really.

The unique part here is that in order to even have the chance to buy a bag you need to develop a relationship with a sales rep and buy a bunch of other stuff. The more other stuff you buy the higher on whatever list they'll put you and when they get a bag in stock they'll give the chance to buy to whoever they have a positive relationship with and who has spent a lot of money.

New comment by tempsy in "The economics of the Birkin handbag"

tempsy — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 18:00:19 +0000

I think you're missing a key point here and that is you have no chance of buying a Hermes bag unless you have a relationship with a specific sales associate and buy a lot of other stuff there. Very few other categories of goods can get away with something like this.

In some ways Rolex is like this but Rolex is relatively high production volume and there are many situations where you can get lucky and buy one relatively easily, especially now that the hype has died down a bit from 2021-2022.

Nvidia's Ascent to Most Valuable Company Has Echoes of Dot-Com Boom

tempsy — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:49:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidias-ascent-to-most-valuable-company-has-echoes-of-dot-com-boom-dd836c90

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40729408

Points: 13

# Comments: 2

Nvidia Passes Microsoft to Become Largest U.S. Company

tempsy — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:28:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp500-nasdaq-live-06-18-2024/card/nvidia-moves-into-the-top-spot-for-market-cap-4i1SFFzMdA4HO4OwnWSk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720677

Points: 30

# Comments: 8

New comment by tempsy in "Gavin Newsom wants to take smartphones out of schools"

tempsy — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:27:22 +0000

You don't have to believe social media creates mental health issues or exacerbates bullying or whatever.

The biggest problem is that it's a massive distraction from learning and also enables cheating, especially now with AI tools.

Gov Hochul Halts NYC Congestion Pricing in a 11th-Hour Shift

tempsy — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:33:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/05/nyregion/congestion-pricing-pause-hochul.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40587009

Points: 13

# Comments: 2

New comment by tempsy in "Ask HN: Bootstrapped founder. Does it make sense to move out of SF for a while?"

tempsy — Mon, 20 May 2024 18:54:55 +0000

I literally said a room in a shared house. no one is spending $4k on a room in SF.

You're not renting an entire apartment for $1200 anywhere livable in a large metro in WA or NV.

New comment by tempsy in "Ask HN: Bootstrapped founder. Does it make sense to move out of SF for a while?"

tempsy — Mon, 20 May 2024 18:34:12 +0000

What's expensive about living in SF these days?

You can fairly easily find a room in a shared house for pretty cheap, and you don't need a car.

I don't really see how moving out of state somewhere where you might rent a place for slightly less but then tack on a car means you save money in any meaningful way.

New comment by tempsy in ""Outrageously" priced weight-loss drugs could bankrupt US health care"

tempsy — Fri, 17 May 2024 23:40:33 +0000

This is silly because it doesn't take into consideration all the health issues that are alleviated when people stop overeating and get down to a normal weight

New comment by tempsy in "Jan Leike's OpenAI departure statement"

tempsy — Fri, 17 May 2024 18:03:19 +0000

so you think if they came out and said we have created AGI there would be no changes in stock prices to any stock that has anything to do with AI even if they are already "huge"?

people said NVDA and FAANG was huge 5 years ago.

New comment by tempsy in "Jan Leike's OpenAI departure statement"

tempsy — Fri, 17 May 2024 17:46:20 +0000

Hard to imagine. But if you actually believe that there's probably a bunch of ways to make millions in public markets betting on that outcome.

New comment by tempsy in "Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI"

tempsy — Wed, 15 May 2024 17:37:33 +0000

Tell me you don't understand optics and politics without telling me. There's a tiny handful of VCs who have the guts to fund someone who organized a coup against OpenAI.

New comment by tempsy in "Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI"

tempsy — Wed, 15 May 2024 00:30:20 +0000

Am I taking crazy pills or something? Because he was the one who tried to oust Sam like 6 months ago? Did we just all forget that or what?

Again, why would any VC give Ilya money if that in any way signals that they are supporting someone who tried to oust the CEO of OpenAI from within? They wouldn't.

New comment by tempsy in "Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI"

tempsy — Wed, 15 May 2024 00:08:40 +0000

Well, no.

No VC who wants anything to do with OpenAI would invest in Ilya.

Ilya represents the anti-OpenAI ethos. So it would only be a VC who would be comfortable publicly being an anti-OpenAI VC, which is not that many.

New comment by tempsy in "GPT-4o"

tempsy — Mon, 13 May 2024 17:47:18 +0000

Considering the stock pumped following the presentation the market doesn't seem particularly with what OpenAI released at all.