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ultrasaurus commented on 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing – MIT report   fortune.com/2025/08/18/mi... · Posted by u/amirkabbara
ultrasaurus · 17 days ago
We've talked with a ton of AI companies and I was surprised how much of the challenges were the usual challenges in any project. Just amplified by the rush to do AI right now, but I haven't seen anything as bad as "You couldn’t have customer calls, you couldn’t work on budgets, you had to only work on AI projects.”

Warning for gratuitous self promotion: https://humansignal.com/blog/9-criteria-for-successful-ai-pr...

ultrasaurus commented on About AI Evals   hamel.dev/blog/posts/eval... · Posted by u/TheIronYuppie
dbish · 2 months ago
I think the truth is somewhere in between. I find label studio to be lacking a lot of niceties and generally built for very the average text labeling or image labeling use case, but anything else (like a multi-step agent workflow or some sort of multi-modal task specific problem) it is not quite right for and you do end up doing a bit of trying to build your own custom interface.

So, imho you should try label studio but timebox and really decide for yourself quickly if it's going to work for you in a day, and if not go vibecode a different view and try it out or build labeling into a copy of a front end you're already using for your task if that's quick.

What I think we really need here is a "lovable meets labelstudio" that starts with simple defaults and lets anyone use natural language, sketches, screenshots, to create custom interfaces and modify them quickly.

ultrasaurus · 2 months ago
The SaaS version of Label Studio does have a natural language interface to create custom interfaces: https://docs.humansignal.com/guide/ask_ai

I'm ostensibly an expert in the product and I probably use that 90%+ of the time (unless I'm testing something specific) -- using a sketch as input is a cool idea though!

Disclaimer: I'm the VP Product at HumanSignal the company behind Label Studio.

ultrasaurus commented on Half the men in Seattle are never-married singles, census data shows   seattletimes.com/seattle-... · Posted by u/blondie9x
toshinoriyagi · 5 months ago
Isn't this all solved by just filing separately, not jointly?
ultrasaurus · 5 months ago
There are places in the tax code where Single != Married Filing Separately.

One pertinent example is that Washington State's capital gains tax applies after $270k per single person, per married couple filing jointly OR split in half for married filing separately. Which could be a theoretical $18.9k/year difference in taxes.

ultrasaurus commented on YC Graveyard: 821 inactive Y Combinator startups   ycgraveyard.iamwillwang.c... · Posted by u/memalign
dustingetz · 7 months ago
preferred shares prevent cookie cutter founder fraud. Founder raises $1M at 10 post. Founder decides to sell 6 months later for 2 mil. Investors get 200k back founder gets 1.8 mil. Now run this math for AI unicorns.
ultrasaurus · 7 months ago
Or to make it even more obvious: Founder raises $1MM then immediately sells the company for $900k :)

Some terms are going to need to exist to prevent that, so the investor shares will always be preferred. Beyond that there are in fact a lot of other terms that are in some deals but not others (2x preference, pro rata, etc..)

ultrasaurus commented on Re: Supreme Court's Loper decision: offer some thought someone who has litigated   twitter.com/BrendanCarrFC... · Posted by u/bilsbie
ultrasaurus · a year ago
It's probably worth noting that "someone who has litigated Chevron cases" and presumably will litigate again has a real bias to look supportive of the supreme court (or any judge who could decide his cases).

For the rest of us, whether you agree with the outcome of decision or not, it overturns a 40 year old precedent which is:

* old enough that several congresses have had a chance to clarify any older laws and have made new laws with it on the books

* not so old that it's obviously from a different era and doesn't make sense today

* and always icky from a stare decisis perspective

fwiw, from a HN perspective, I'm mostly interested in how the SC works as a process with politics aside.

ultrasaurus commented on Sales happen when buyers fear missing out   tidyfirst.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/etrvic
ultrasaurus · a year ago
You need 3 things to make a sale:

1. Why anything? 2. Why this? 3. Why now?

Sure FOMO is one of your tools, but I suspect it's overused. Consider the classic "This price won't be around for long!" move alone.

ultrasaurus commented on Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects   theregister.com/2024/06/0... · Posted by u/johnsutor
commandlinefan · a year ago
> what does failure mean

I've been reading that 50+% of software projects "fail" ever since I started programming in 1992 (long before the term "agile" crept into our lexicon). They consistently fail because they consistently have deadlines but no actual definitions. That was true before Agile, was true during Agile, and will be true after Agile.

ultrasaurus · a year ago
I sometimes wonder if our definition of failure is flexible and moves so that half-ish of projects are below average thus failures. I once had to do a post-mortem on why a project went 5% over schedule -- that's a pretty soft definition of failure.
ultrasaurus commented on Ask HN: Which LLMs can run locally on most consumer computers    · Posted by u/FezzikTheGiant
ynniv · a year ago
See llamafile (https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile), a standalone packaging of llama.cpp that runs an LLM locally. It will use the GPU, but falls back on the CPU. CPU-only performance of small, quantized models is still pretty decent, and the page lists estimated memory requirements for currently popular models.
ultrasaurus · a year ago
+100 to this, I don't think many people reading this thread realize how easy they've made it to run a LLM locally. It's a great start if you want to kick multiple tires (be careful to clean up! the gigs add up).

> wget https://huggingface.co/jartine/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0-GGUF...

> chmod +x TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0.Q5_K_M.llamafile

> ./TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0.Q5_K_M.llamafile -ngl 999

https://euri.ca/blog/2024-llm-self-hosting-is-easy-now/

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