This was debunked - the agent was actually fooling the verification harness https://x.com/SakanaAILabs/status/1892992938013270019. One particular test that showed a 150x speedup is actually 3x slower.
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ragnarok451 commented on Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator sonauto.ai/... · Posted by u/zaptrem
It's quite the opposite for professional audience, most people don't want to give away their Google credentials to a 3rd party website that can get hacked tomorrow.
lol tell that to all the (quite successful) B2B SaaS apps that started with Google login as their only option
ragnarok451 commented on Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator sonauto.ai/... · Posted by u/zaptrem
> Sign in with Google
Why?
99% of the population finds this easier than setting up a user/pass. If you care about this, understand that you will not be the target user for most new apps. Incredible that this comes up on so many new Show HNs.
ragnarok451 commented on Launch HN: Okapi (YC W24) – A new, flexible CRM with good UX · Posted by u/ucarion
I suggest you ask ChatGPT to name 10 CRM systems which support custom objects.
The list didn't include the three mentioned in the comments here (Attio, Twenty, Monday). My strong suggestion is that you look at the current entrants and try to find some differentiation.
Response from ChatGPT:
"CRM systems with the capability to support custom data objects are designed to offer businesses the flexibility to tailor the CRM to their specific needs, such as tracking unique customer data, industry-specific information, or customized business processes. Here are ten CRM systems known for their ability to support custom data objects:
Salesforce: Known for its high degree of customization, Salesforce allows users to create custom objects to store specific business data and relate to other records within the system.
Microsoft Dynamics 365: Offers extensive customization capabilities, including the creation of custom entities (data objects) that can be integrated seamlessly with the rest of the system.
Zoho CRM: Provides the ability to create custom modules that can be designed to capture and manage business-specific information.
HubSpot CRM: Allows the creation of custom objects to store and organize data that doesn’t necessarily fit into the standard objects like contacts or companies.
Oracle NetSuite: Features a flexible platform that includes the ability to create and manage custom records tailored to your business needs.
SAP CRM: Part of the SAP Business Suite, SAP CRM offers the flexibility to extend its core functionalities with custom objects to meet specific business requirements.
Pipedrive: Known for its user-friendly interface, Pipedrive also offers custom fields and, in some plans, the ability to create entirely custom data objects.
SugarCRM: Provides a highly customizable platform where users can create custom modules and fields to adapt the CRM to their business processes.
Insightly: Offers custom fields and records, allowing users to tailor the CRM system to better fit their specific business needs and workflows.
Freshsales (Freshworks CRM): Allows for the customization of the CRM with custom fields and modules, enabling businesses to track unique data points relevant to their operations."
Shame that this is downvoted, I assume for tone - this is the feedback the founders need to hear
This does sound positive. However, the typical funding journey for a VC involves:
- Getting to know you and your business - Deciding whether you’re worth investing more time into - Discussing with colleagues if you’d be a fit for their portfolio - Discussing valuation and terms - Them pitching your business to their investment committee - Agreeing and signing a term sheet - Legal, technical and financial DD - Final contracts and negotiation
People often fail to realise how many steps there are in a VC investment. Typically angel investors are usually faster and less formal.
This sounds good - social media feels unusual (I spent 2 years at a VC fund).
VCs, due to the nature of their business, are incentivised to keep potential investments ‘on the line’. That means it’s very rare to get a full-on rejection from a VC right at the very beginning.
Most deals never go past that initial “coffee and hello” stage.
My advice would be if you have one VC’s ears perked up… Use that as evidence you’re onto something and talk to more.
It’s very much a FOMO game - investors will always be more interested if you’re talking to other firms.
Best of luck.
"social media feels unusual" bro what? I've both spent time at a VC fund and have successfully fundraised as a founder - every partner adds you on LinkedIn bare minimum after a call, twitter was pretty common too
Real talk: This VC probably has at least ~10 meetings like this per week and they do ~10 deals per year. Neither adding you on social nor presenting you at a Monday meeting means anything. If they proactively set up another call in the very near future with another partner, that may indicate positive momentum.
Also if you're actively fundraising, run a process - you should be going down a list of like 100-200 VCs, any one intro meeting like this should mean nothing to you. Don't get emotionally attached this early in the pipeline
Do note that recent advances in electrolytic carbon fixation exceed photosynthesis efficiency when coupled with solar panels.
So a multi-story farm building who's roof is clad in solar panels would be able to exceed the output of a farm that directly uses the sun, with no utility hookups.
Granted, most nice plants still seem to require some light, but the efficiency advantages over photosynthesis still apply. So maybe use transmissive solar panels to mildly shade the plants, plus hydroponics to deliver the synthetic nutrient solution to them.
Do you have any resources on the latest with electrolytic carbon fixation? Like, how do you go from solar panels -> energy -> plants?
ragnarok451 commented on Ask HN: I am a Co-founder looking to leave startup before a raise, how to handle · Posted by u/throwaway-hardq
IMO this all hinges on if the company has traction with the new direction and pivot. If there is traction, the message to investors becomes clearer and there is motivation to invest regardless of you being around especially if there is a clear story. Both because that investor became unenthused and because you want to leave, I'm guessing there is no traction. In that case, depends on your cofounder's relationship with investors + how much cash is left in the bank. Assuming you raised on SAFE notes, they can't actually force the company to return capital and it's a bad look for them to try. IMO don't worry too much about messaging and just leave, the investors will get over it if traction comes.
However, I would definitely not recommend raising while you're there on paper and leaving right after. This is a pretty material piece of news to leave off of a fundraise, and best case tanks your reputation going forward with investors, at worst is fraudulent and leaves the company (and perhaps you) open to legal action.
I really really want something like this to actually reduce noise in images. Current raw photo denoising often is little more than a tuned up gaussian blur. Making it guess color based on larger context and external info would be step up.
Eztra happy if it would be possibe to tune denoising, using photos from the same series. Multiframe NLMeans right now is slow and mostly theoretical.
Have you used Topaz Labs? That denoising is pretty good, definitely more advanced than a tuned-up gaussian.
You seem to be describing something like a classic P2P content-distribution system - BitTorrent w/ magnet links, IPFS, CoralCDN, etc. Could you explain a bit more what part of your proposal would be incompatible with those existing systems?
Not too familiar with CoralCDN, will check that out. Would say the comparison with IPFS is apt, BitTorrent though requires people to seed on a per file basis right? so versioning for the source of truth etc becomes tough and you need people to care about your data specifically.
IPFS is an alternate solution, but as addresses are not updatable someone somewhere needs to keep track of where the canonical source is. Further, there is no API built in - the data would live at some address, but someone still needs to construct a way to get it without just downloading the whole data dump at once. Perhaps you shard across different files but that has its own issues.
On chain with Ethereum, you can use a smart contract which allows CRUD operations on the data on a per item basis. The latest version of the smart contract data is clear. The API is basically set with the smart contract - infra to get that has already been built with libraries like ethers, and will continue to be maintained since there are other contracts/products out there that rely on the same infra.