I wonder if an antitrust suit will be filed, this seems like a pretty significant acquisition.
How is this any bigger than Disney and all the media channels they own?
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matt_s commented on Ask HN: I haven't had to buy a Windows computer in 20 years · Posted by u/meifun
Framework 13 with the Ryzen AI 5 340 and 2.2K display costs around $900. https://frame.work/laptop13
Add RAM and SSD from a third party, e.g. Amazon, which saves you some money.
Also note that since it's a Framework laptop you can always upgrade the mainboard and display later when you want to.
The cheapest full setup will be around ~1300 (including RAM, storage and all necessary accessories like the expansion cards for external IO).
Also note that if you can set aside ~32 Gb of RAM for virtual machine usage you can run Linux with potentially a GPU accelerated VM containing Windows on this thing which allows you to run native Windows (not simulated, like in WINE) and thus native Windows apps on top of Linux on pretty much bare metal speeds.
Can you elaborate more on your last sentence and running VMs? How does 32GB set aside for VMs and GPU accelerated let you run native Windows? Is there special/newer VM software that is used? Is it still virtualbox?
Outside of docker containers for servers and work I haven't delved into VMs on PCs in a while but this sounds compelling to run linux and windows at once from the same hardware instead of a dual boot.
There is something to be said about what the ROI is for normal (i.e. non AI/tech) companies using AI. AI can help automate things, robots have been replacing manufacturing jobs for decades but there is an ROI on that which I think is easier to see and count, less humans in the factory, etc. There seems to be a lot of exaggerated things being said these days with AI and the AI companies have only begun to raise rates, they won't go down.
The AI bubble will burst when normal companies start to not realize their revenue/profit goals and have to answer investor relations calls about that.
> feeling trapped and bound to the golden handcuffs to try and survive this expensive world while being forced to work on things I have little care for
I consider this just work. I've worked my entire career for other people, in corporate settings, doing the work they want me to do for a paycheck. I enjoy some aspects of my job, enjoy working with many of the people but when it comes down to it, I'm just a worker bee. Many people in many industries do this. I think social media and the tech culture of "passion" and "save the X" mission statements probably contribute some to thoughts that if you don't have those things that its bad or depressing. Work for humans hasn't changed much in a long time, you're usually working for someone on things they prioritize. The fact that you have "golden handcuffs" means you at least have the perspective that you're better off than most. If someone (or combined with a partner) makes $200k gross they are in the top 1% globally of earners, probably top 5% in the US.
I like building things in software and have found building physical things enjoyable as well, lots of problem solving and usually a finished project that you can look at. Try taking up a hobby or spending time outside of work on things you enjoy.
matt_s commented on Ask HN: Engineers working AI tools. Are you working more or less? · Posted by u/taariqlewis
AI tools are super helpful if you know what they are good for and where the limits are currently. If you work at a place where your expected "time" is constant, aka has a good work/life balance, then its important to be more productive because your competitors will certainly be.
There are parts of the SDLC that cannot be made more productive with AI - all the human parts, communication about changes, testing often involves manual work, etc. So if you have management that just thinks a blanket X% more productivity is achievable across the board, find someplace else to work, its about as smart as a RTO mandate because they like seeing butts in seats.
matt_s commented on Ask HN: Cloud providers are losing in favor of bare-metal? · Posted by u/clostao
Cloud is not losing ground but also Cloud computing is also not suitable for every business problem. Its killer feature for businesses with fluctuating usage profiles and "busy" seasons. Think like a tax related application for businesses, in the US, they have to file quarterly and annual. There are probably busy seasons where there would likely be more activity so a cloud compute environment where you can scale up to handle the load with a couple commands is ideal and then scale it down (and lower your costs) during slow times.
Indie hackers and small < 10 people startups don't need cloud. However its easier to get moving and scale up and you can just tie in all sorts of other services to make your life easier. If you're on-prem or managing VMs you need to figure out a lot of infrastructure things, networking, security, logging, failover, etc.
Then there is transferring risk. If you host your own infrastructure and you have an outage unrelated to HW or data center, that is entirely on you and to be honest will probably happen more frequently than using cloud. When your cloud provider is down, if its a household name, everyone already knows because everything else they use is probably having issues too. Much easier explanation to customers, they likely won't leave over a cloud outage.
matt_s commented on Ask HN: Do businesses want to leave the cloud and return to installable apps? · Posted by u/cyrusradfar
No. All I want is to give 0 thought to software. I help to run a marketing agency. Labor is our #1 cost by a huge margin. The monthly costs of software are basically a rounding error. The less we think about it the better.
I think this is the key thought process for purchasers of software/SaaS. For comparison, an average daily meal expense of $30/person for business travel exceeds the pricing of a lot of SaaS offerings. SaaS is so simple and the cost level doesn't require RFPs, lawyers and accountants. It would have to be really compelling and niche to warrant custom install software these days (to OP, many retail POS systems are old school textUI too).
In the pre-SaaS times, a software business would have to somehow guess/calculate the lifetime value of a customer and bake that into the price of the software when it was buy once. Custom software also was often charged in $/seat, required IT people to do updates and that style of software often requires sales people and convincing CxO's to do purchases. SaaS can just be a CC swipe and expense report.
I think creative types feel compelled to do new things that buck trends and are just different for the sake of being different. If you watch any amount of home renovation competition shows, there's always designers that pick some really odd/different elements. It might look good on TV and get people to watch but its a tiny minority that really wants a black wall in their living room.
Its much easier to do web design this way, its just software.
I'm not knocking it, it must suck to be a designer and end up having to do the same corporate looking stuff day after day.
matt_s commented on Nvidia to invest up to $1B in AI startup Poolside reuters.com/business/nvid... · Posted by u/mgh2
These deals all look like classic “round tripping.” Is there any evidence that this activity is generating actual net new $ that didn’t exist previously?
Amazon’s recent earnings was full of apparent round tripping.
1. Amazon “invests” in Anthropic (cost)
2. Anthropic takes that money and buys AWS (same dollars come back as revenue)
3. Amazon builds big datacenter for Anthropic (cost)
4. Amazon records a large paper “profit” because the value of the Anthropic “investment” went up after all the stuff it’s doing with the “investment” from Amazon
Meanwhile none of the above appears to actually be making any actual profit in terms of revenues > costs.
It’s bonkers. These are the same sort of shenanigans that were going on with infrastructure prior to the .com implosion. Did we learn nothing?
I've heard the business term as a "reciprocal agreement" a common behavior of large companies would be to award a large contract for IT services to a 3rd party and then that company would assist in getting a market foothold in their home country, like India.
matt_s commented on Ask HN: Is anybody running a successful non-subscription business? · Posted by u/fandorin
Use it as a way to differentiate yourself. One methodology I've seen used with installed apps is major upgrades require a financial renewal but those can be spaced out every couple years. I love it when I find an iOS app that is paid, without ads, without in-app purchases.
You just need to plan how that business model works and know that you won't have recurring revenue. Maybe that means you build companion apps, offer an optional subscription tier (often its cloud storage/device sharing based) or something like that.
I've thought of doing a subscription like service but its use case is more of a once-in-a-while style so an option there would be pay-per use instead of a subscription.