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A lot of hate for Ollama in this thread. Am I understanding correctly that it is all based on not crediting llama.cpp correctly? I can't find any other argument against it, other than some minor performance differences. Where Ollama stands out is user interface. It's easy to overlook how difficult and important that is.

Specs for whatever they used to achieve the benchmarks would be a good start.

Mine as well. :D

In the process of downloading this to run on a DGX Spark which is explicitly mentioned in their documentation. Never heard of it before but sounds good, too good to be true?

I'd have to agree with this stance. You choose MIT when you are happy to share your source with no strings attached. Some do pick MIT with this intent, but that was not the case here. But rather a case of either miscommunication or wanting to have the pie ("look how altruistic I am") and eating it too ("look how business-minded I am").

I was nodding the whole time until I got to this comment. This is the one that is unusual to me, because it would be my fault and the person informing me is just doing their job; well or not. They have no opinion about me nor should I of them. The whole transaction would be effortless if not for having emotions mixed in, I think those are best saved for personal relationships.

I was looking for exactly this about two weeks ago for a 3D editor UI and ended up with Facebook's Yoga library. So far things are running smooth.

I would look closer at this library too, if it wasn't for:

"Clay UI hierarchies are built using C macros"

Yikes :S

I still remember my first credit in a blockbuster production, after a first few years in TV advertising that name no names, and it was exhilarating. My name is since forever embedded into the artwork we all worked towards. I was also paid, but with that money now long gone I just wanted to highlight that there is value not just in money.

I was curious what you meant and went to have a look. At first all seemed well, until I got to the actual audio processing part. :)

https://github.com/airwindows/airwindows/blob/master/plugins...

Then again, maybe this is the norm for audio engineers? Not my field.

Streisand effect in action, can't wait to read this now. :) https://web.archive.org/web/20231121200115/https://insideroc...

That's exactly what a spy would say. Get'em boys!

Very + Happy = Intoxicated. So true! :D

I second this! I was also looking for performance (3d graphics usage) and NoMachine is surprisingly performant; currently using it across both Windows, Linux and Mac and consider my search to be over.

The announcement for Flipper Zero was posted here not that long ago. Of course this is what people had in mind for it. :)

The irony of you bringing politics into the conversation. :D

Employees are likely more expensive then theft.

Think of senior engineer in a typical DevOps-y SaaS startup.

This stands out to me. If I thought of my work as "typical", I'd ask myself whether what I'm doing is worth my time. Whether it's fulfilling and has purpose. Whether I'm having an impact on the work and whether the work has an impact on whatever problem is being solved. That on its own is enough to cause me feeling burnt out, especially over a multi-month period of time.

I got a 2! I'd imagine this depends not only on your vision, but also your display. A display with higher color contrast ought to give you an edge.

An example being Activision-Blizzard who keeps bleeding big names and new studios keep forming

If there's anything good coming out of all of this, it's this. We need less consolidation overall, and new studios emerging with this level of experience can only be a net-positive for the world.

That the same logical steps expressed in one language results in less computation time spent - when compiled or interpreted - than when expressed in another language. Seems a resaonable question to ask, given there's more to a language than how you express things. Like toolchain, library availability and community.

A billion dollar fintech company, the X being how many billions.

A lot of positives in the comments so far, I'll chime in with at least one negative that I'm not entirely confident with, but here goes.

A startup's branding is an early indicator of a teams commitment and skill. Even with todays Bootstrap themes I sometimes get fooled into thinking a product or service has dedication behind it when it turns out to be a smoke screen to test the market for interest. This kind of service accelerates this effect; now the ones who do commit and carry the skill and experience to pull off a successful startup will be competing against - as was already mentioned in this thread - personal projects or founders with no regard or respect for branding. What if the tables were turned: "Got a great marketing team but no interest in features or solving a real problem? Our AI can fix that for you!". Should such a team succeed?

I said I wasn't entirely confident about this, because I also realise this is what progress looks like and it is a natural step forwards in the direction we're headed. But is it a destination we want to reach?

Does this affect other countries working with Iran? I run a small software startup in the UK and am currently in communication with an Iranian developer about doing remote contract work and I’m struggling to understand whether any of this applies to us, or whether it is strictly between Iran and the US?

Sure am, never had a problem with it. E.g. https://ragdolldynamics.com

The problem is finding a suitable name for a project that also has an available domain. The easy ones are all picked.

On first reading the title, my immediate thought was "Oh snap that is one diverse company!"

Maybe something along the lines of "Launch YC x 6: 3D Web; Training; etc.." could make it more clear how many launches are in a thread?

Just wanted to chime in from the supposed 1% as someone who isn’t running a business earn money but earn money in order to continue running the business. A business building something I’m passionate about, with the addition of an end goal I expect will make the world a better place.

Can you expand on this?

I don’t know what kind of animation teams you’ve been working with, but animators do not write algorithms xD

Yes, exactly. The article even points this out:

However writing a rotation directly in quaternion form isn't really intuitive, what we do instead is convert an Euler angle to a quaternion then use it for rotating.

That's what I'm seeing for a brief moment before the page has finished loading. It also appears at the end of the (very long) article.