skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasting time creating and solving tickets as a Startup
When we were building an app that reached 30k users, we communicated with our users via WhatsApp, Telegram, or other instant messaging platforms.

One of our main challenges was that many users would reach out to report bugs, problems, opinions, questions, etc., and as a small team of just four people, we found it difficult to manage everything.

We manually filtered through bug reports, feedback, feature requests, and other opinions. Sometimes, we had to prioritize launching new features over fixing minor bugs, leaving some issues in the backlog and by consequence, bad ux for users. This was just an example of how many tickets we would deal with and how much time we spent creating tickets and solving them.

Now. We are creating a solution for this: As you talk to your users via those chats, an AI agent reads it, identifies bugs/feedback/features, creates tickets and solves them (even fix smaller bugs creating PRs). This would let you focus on the most important part which is: Talking to users and building product. Some tickets could easily be solved by an AI asynchronously.

We're launching soon! If you're interested, you can join the waitlist.

We value your feedback. Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated
When we were building an app that reached 30k users, we communicated with our users via WhatsApp, Telegram, or other instant messaging platforms.

One of our main challenges was that many users would reach out to report bugs, problems, opinions, questions, etc., and as a small team of just four people, we found it difficult to manage everything.

We manually filtered through bug reports, feedback, feature requests, and other opinions. Sometimes, we had to prioritize launching new features over fixing minor bugs, leaving some issues in the backlog and by consequence, bad ux for users. This was just an example of how many tickets we would deal with and how much time we spent creating tickets and solving them.

Now. We are creating a solution for this: As you talk to your users via those chats, an AI agent reads it, identifies bugs/feedback/features, creates tickets and solves them (even fix smaller bugs creating PRs). This would let you focus on the most important part which is: Talking to users and building product. Some tickets could easily be solved by an AI asynchronously.

We're launching soon! If you're interested, you can join the waitlist.

We value your feedback. Any thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated
Yeah, I plan on trying to keep my existing stuff, that allows me to put my own software on it, alive as long as possible.

But it would be sad if I could no longer just buy a new off-the-shelf router and install OpenWrt on it.
I don’t feel I implied any such thing.

I’m just saying the training data issue is a dumb hill to die on. Because it will get sorted out eventually and the “best case” is some loose change thrown at a current generation of artists.

It is an ineffective argument if your goal is to help artists.
I own an AppleVision (and am mostly happy with it), but this is not surprising. The current system isn't worth $3500 to consumers.

It is priced at about twice what people will expect, has very limited apps, and very limited "immersive media". Some of that will get better over the next year ... but a promise of "better next year" won't move units today.
Compare PG&E rates with that of what people in neighboring Santa Clara city pay [0], and then decide whether or not you should be outraged that your paying ~0.45-0.5 per kWh and they are paying 0.166 kWh.

> any better or worse than the average utility company.

PG&E rates are highest on mainland US, still they are no better or worse?

[0] https://www.siliconvalleypower.com/residents/rates-and-fees
I think the problem is, all those things you just described (alerts, etc), are Good Enough™ on a smartwatch.

Could you put them in smart glasses too? Sure, but the display tech just isn’t there yet to make it nonintrusive.
From what I remember the number of people who bought a watch was small, but they wore it.

The problem with AVP is that the people who DID buy it can't manufacture reasons to USE it. Apple needed to have a very strong push out of the gate with new content weekly.
control (i.e. social or political power) doesn't work like that

it would never recede. it must move from less control towards more control, not less. this is terrible and we should fight it, but we'll lose anyways.
It used to be calculated as total debt as a percentage of GDP (as opposed to interest payments) and there were concerns it shouldn't go above 100%, otherwise we'd get stagflation like Japan. Now the new goalpost is interest payments as a percentage of GDP.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDGDPA188S

I think this is the first year in history that the interest payment was greater than the amount we spend on defense and we have exceeded WWII spending as a percentage of GDP in 2020 and on.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-debt-interest-payments-...

Of course more government spending is a cause of inflation too, which hasn't been very comfortable lately.

https://smartasset.com/financial-advisor/how-increased-gover...

It might be alarmist, it might not, we don't really know where the point of collapse is in regard to debt; we're in unprecedented territory.
Wow, it had been years since I read a Barry Schwartz post, a SEO authority since back in the day, I didn't realize his forum had turned so nasty.

Funny you mention 'No content creator thinks to themselves, “let me go write my next article on Reddit”'. Schwartz and many other SERP/SEO experts talked about writing for medium, circa ~2013, to raise their Google rankings, back when everyone jumped on the medium bandwagon.

Google is bleeding ends users and content creators alike. If search results are getting worse for end users, many AI price points (free or $20/month) or ad-free paid search (Kagi) are eating away at Google's market share. At the other end, content producers which had a symbiotic revenue sharing relationship are also jumping ship.

As you point out, Google will likely never recover, they dropped the ball at both ends: worse end user experience and worse ad revenue sharing, both of which were their lifeblood. I think Google in a few years will be like Yahoo search or AOL email before it, they will still have users, but most likely not by free will, but rather users landed through OEM/marketing deals.
Quest 2: 20 million (installs?) from oct'20 - q1'23, so lets say 2.5 years. (makes sense, Qualcomm said 10m in dec'21)

Quest 3 Sold an Estimated 900K-1.5 Million Units in Q4 2023.

Vision Pro is nice and all, but it's such a high price to pay although you're essentially buying a macbook pro. Still, in terms of revenue is still $1.4B for the quarter
Over what timeframe?

Are they more expensive year one? Sure. New vehicles + chargers + infrastructure upgrades.

Year 5? Maybe it’s paid off. Energy costs, brake pads, no oil changes or other frequent maintenance.

When you refresh the EVs the infrastructure is still there, that’s one time. Gas prices go up? Your investment looks even better. Carbon tax appears? You’re golden.

Amazon must know it’s worth it. You don’t spend that kind of money for good PR alone.
> It's a little confusing because some of them are part of one big, fat thread that you have to read from the bottom up

It seems no-one, not even Google, can escape Outlook-style email concatenation.
Apple cuts 2024 and 2025 Vision Pro shipment forecasts
The lack of a killer app suite alongside the $4k price-point is what kept me at bay.
And of course if you want to try it out locally, `ollama run phi3`.
and more importantly there aren't software vendors imposing demands for abstraction and standardization across all of the hardware vendors a la Microsoft, various unix vendors, etc. Handful of real OEMs, and only a couple of real players in the OS space, all of whom can do what they want their way.
You can check out an example page here: https://radventures-production.cosmic.site/amazing-motorcycl...
Not sure what you are getting at. Care to elaborate?

Google wouldn’t exist without websites to index.
Seems like an example of being too early to the market.

I mean you had BBS' but what else. Did this even do TCPIP? Windows didn't get a TCPIP stack till 3.11 right?
The way invariants are used can be different than “this will always be true.”

It’s a problem solving tool. I sometimes use the term to mean “I will assume this to be true in order to solve an intractable problem. If that succeeds, I need to find a way to guarantee this is actually invariant.”
This might just be the cynic in me, but people walking around with a $3500+ item attached to their face just screams "rob me!"

I mean, I got my comparatively-cheaper 2-year-old iPhone 12 Pro Max stolen from me about a year ago in a mugging, and that wasn't even nearly as flagrant. A person who wants to mug someone sees someone wearing an Apple Vision Pro, and they know that this person has a $3500 item glued to their face, as well probably an expensive iPhone in their pocket as well.
Why do you think they bought Android and built Chrome? :)
Not sure about the US ones, but in Ireland they seem to use Mercedes eSprinters. These cost about 45k after grants (the new version, with a significantly bigger battery, is more like 55k, but I think they're on the old one). A normal Sprinter is more like 30k. It's not a huge difference, given the fuel cost diff.
We'll focus on discrete manufacturing. Part of the team has experience in machining, so it's likely that we'll focus on that first. But my experience is in more complex configure-to-order type stuff.
Instead of trains, how about a motorized chassis per-container - with electric motors like subway cars - with little space between containers, and fan-in and fan-out at the ends to re-sort containers into different ships.

It sounds impractical, but so does marshaling all the trucks and trains to get the very same containers from the original shippers to the ports of origin and from the ports of destination to the final recipients.
But how will I watch a movie or game with my friends if none of them have AVP?
The AppleTV dev kit was $1 :-)
Die Instantly Man is the worst superhero...
How Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal
A lot of people have made a lot of money arguing that users want immersive computing, and the more immersive it is, the more they'll pay for it — therefore, the next biggest VR product is gonna be The Big One. It doesn't seem like it's going to pay off.
They may be concerned, but what can they do? Google has poisoned the well, and the entire web is now a swamp of SEO driven drivel.

Forget about a "Jobs returning to Apple" miracle. As they say, "you can't get there from here". There's no easy path for Google back from the short term profit-driven corner they've painted all of us into.
Yep. Not tempted by other headsets at $400 or whatever. I’ve tried them, had access to them for free, still they just gathered dust.

Might be tempted by this one… at like $1,500. Maybe.

At $800 (I know, no way given the BOM cost alone) I’d probably already have one.
The federal government sets standards like "No child left behind" and gives less funding if a state does not accept them. States don't have the money to not accept the standards so they generally accept them.
Arab states declaring war on Israel is a part of history.

Right, but certain other things happened in that time period which are hugely important also.

Meanwhile, [the Palestinians] in Israel enjoy more rights than in [some] Arab countries.

The bigger point is that they have distinctly fewer rights, and are fundamentally less equal as citizens, than a certain other group of people in that country.

Your post does not include supporting arguments for any alternative explanation

There's no need. All of what I'm saying is common knowledge in Israel. It's mostly government propagandists, and Israel's uncritical supporters in other countries who keep rehashing these tired narratives.
I can't imagine how I would write essays for university without our library
I think the question still holds of -- what % of operating expenses are headcount? Is it feasible to double that number.

Because frankly I don't think American engineers will (nor should) work 18 hour days unless they are getting paid I don't know, 200k->300k.

If we can't find a way to make the factory break-even meeting industrial regulations for US citizens then perhaps it needs to be staffed by H1B workers or something.
It's really mind boggling with all of the money they earn why they can't fund a sort of "open source skunkworks" where a team is dedicated to building open source tooling that can create a symbiotic relationship with the dev community. And of course, be back-fed into their own products.

Microsoft does this sort-of with language development (C#) and VS code on the software side. Now imagine a Microsoft "VSCode Box" or "VSCode portable", i.e. a hardware device they could sell that builds upon the OS work.

In my example, Microsoft has the software side but not the hardware. Currently Apple has the hardware side but not the software.
There are responses to every single one of these. Similar to Radioshack (3D printers, drones, Arduino, Raspberry PI), and Intel's (mobile, GPUs, foundries, AI) bankruptcies or "lost decades".

Distribute Books - They could have built a competitive distribution system by responding to what was an obvious aggressive threat. Amazon founded in 94', public by 97', buying book sellers by 98'. Four years, and Amazon was going International and buying book sellers.

e-books - Great. Sell e-books yourselves. Sell better e-books with Publisher extras.

Scanned catalog - Multiple responses. Legally inclined, lawsuits before it was all irreparably scraped (or afterward). Tech inclined, scrape your own stuff and make it available. Culturally or historically inclined, donate the texts to Gutenberg or a museum so the scraping doesn't get them much.

Authors have their own followings - Interact. "Hi, this is so-and-so from PRH, that's a neat idea for the author's work, and we'll discuss trying to work it into the next book launch." There's probably authors who follow authors, "Any of you wanna write a book?"

Cash advances - The cash advances are broke anyways. One of main points of the article. 70% of spending goes to 1% of authors. Try a slightly less power-law distribution. Maybe something a little less than x^60... PRH alone gave 55% of all advances in $1,000,000+ land. Have your own Kickstarters, or crowdfunding site. Arrange crowdfunding campaigns with marginal authors (for better author %). Work with fans directly so fans can put up the advance with pre-orders. Lots of alternatives to wringing their hands. (If Bates White Economic Consulting is correct, then 95% of money likely goes to 5% of authors).

What this article told me was the publishing industry has a bad case of "try to spend zero work, while making infinite $". 'if the platform is there for the advertising, then the spend might be lower.' 'Does the best selling author have the best marketing budget? No. Why? She's the queen of TikTok.' (she does her own marketing)

Ideally, the authors get their own loans from the bank, print their own materials, arrange their own distribution, put out their own marketing, and then we collect a vague value-add for putting our logo somewhere.
When one is not able to understand what another says, assuming the other person is necessarily incorrect/silly may not be optimal gameplay (depending upon what variable(s)[1] one is optimizing for of course, or if one never even thought about that aspect of it in the first place).

Less snarkily: the 1/2/3 watches example is a single, ~deterministic, ~knowable data point; it is roughly the simplest type of problem space you can deal with, and even here there is uncertainty. Now consider a much more complex problem space, reality (better known as "the reality"), and things get much worse. But paradoxically, with all the added complexity, "correct" answers often become simpler, not more difficult. (Here I am referring to the conversations you may find on social media (or anywhere) about complex matters such as war.)

[1] Having fun, fitting in, just joking, etc.
I don't think they ignored gaming; they just knew they would fail if they designed a gaming-first device.

Their best bet to bootstrap the platform is to make it computing-first around the iPad platform, and that means leading with multitasking, AR/MR, and with computing-oriented inputs.
Since I started programming, I see every generation of programming languages slowly raise the bar. From the top of my head, in the order I encountered them.

* C: make gave a standard way to compile/link a program.
* Perl: CPAN as standard library/repository location.
* Java: javadoc gave a standard format for low level documentation. Rules like 1 file=1 class, 1 folder=1 package gave a standard source tree layout.
* Java/maven gave standard way to download, install and upgrade dependencys
* Go: Built in formatter.
* rust: cargo combines the strengths of Go standardization and Java/maven repositorys

Every iteration provides extras that the previous tooling generation sees as trivial. They'll say you can add them to the mix yourself if you want to. Their company likes things in a different way, and are happy to have the option.

But that's missing the point. The whole language ecosystems standardizes on a reasonable (but not 100% perfect) way of working. This has a lot of secondary benefits:
* People move easily between organisations with minimal up-to-speed costs.
* Somewhere in the ecosystem, someone still has your ancient tooling version, and the upgrade path is clear(er).
* No discussion about in-house standards. (Try to get 2 C programmers agree on a coding style and watch the hours fly discussing what to take from ugly K&R vs ugly GNU.)
* Real pain-points get solved, because someone feels your pain.

I've seen the in-house stack developed by a Cobol company. It's finely tuned to that 1 company, yielding huge benefits. It's also a very non-trivial investment and maintenance cost.
Consider passing the video and transcripts through SponsorBlock (removing sponsor, self-promo, interaction remember, intro and outro segments from the videos) before stepifying them, that might help
It does, except in the US, where iMessage and other lock-in tactics help cement their stranglehold
You mean exactly what 23andMe tried to do, and failed miserably at.
It's not magic: the universe of NF and other "big" objects in this system must be handled with extreme care.
Computer viruses run on hardware they do not create but merely hijack. Unless a virus took control of a semiconductor fab, it's hard to argue that they are alive/reproducing in the context of this discussion.
I used the Hololens it was pretty janky. I will say the AVP is the first device I used that nailed the AR interaction/display stuff PERFECTLY. It really is just lacking the software ecosystem but they've got the fundamentals worked out at least. I'm hopeful it doesn't die and keeps getting developed
> as well as different mutations which can cause it to occur spontaneously

Isn't it possible (or perhaps even more likely) that the tech used for culturing meat could result in more mutations though? Like, how are the people working on this controlling for unmutated proteins?
Ongoing discussion:[0](49 points, 36 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40134716
Yeah, I like it -- but our team unanimously think it's stupid haha. So we'll be moving over to this domain soon: https://docs.crbnerp.com -- It's tough to get a good domain.
Ehh, the Vision Pro is positioned as a Real Computer™ in a way that smartphones aren’t.

A more accurate comparison, IMO, would be the iPad’s performance in the overall laptop market.
I think you mean HexiBase?
I agree. Plus level 2 is what you want for overnight or tiny top-ops if you’re going to be in a store for a while.

You don’t want it for road trips or in place of a home charger. It’s too slow. You want DC fast charging.

But for something like Amazon who has vans sitting overnight it’s much cheaper and more than adequate.
Sitting Still and Doing Nothing
True, I thought the same.
What do you mean the resolution isn't good enough for work? I haven't had any issues reading or viewing content in it
yeah I agree, I think you misread the comment
Android has ~70% of the global smartphone marketshare.

Personally, I've moved off of Android to Apple in 2019 because I was done with tinkering and just wanted a device that worked well (even if locked down in an ecosystem).
> The thing is that people who hold 'progressive' views on these sort of topics tend to see the world through an 'oppressor/oppressed' dynamic with very little nuance applied.

What if your characterization here is borne out of the fact very little nuance is applied?
My company uses a soft skills matrix to evaluate everyone, including but not limited to leadership skills, teamwork, communication, problem-solving, and time management skills. The skills matrix outlines general expectations for employees at each seniority level (e.g., Junior, Mid-level, Senior). Above the senior level, the matrix diverges into a technical specialist career and a managerial career path. Managers are responsible for conducting performance reviews (PR) for their teams twice a year according to the company's calendar. They can include specific hard skills to customize the review based on their direct reports' roles (e.g., mobile, frontend, backend). Managers review all of their direct reports, and direct reports review their managers and peers. All assessments are aided by an online platform that consolidates results and allows us to rank each employee as below, meeting, or exceeding expectations for their role, which helps determine next steps. The process consists of two main stages: first, everyone completes forms on the platform; second, the manager and direct report hold a one-on-one meeting to resolve any discrepancies in the review before final consolidation. In my experience, the PR process demands significant time and energy, and if not conducted objectively and fairly, it can lead to team frustration. It's crucial for managers to exercise empathy and maintain balanced communication. Our PR process is far from perfect, but reasonably good, and it helps guide the team in the right direction and recognizes and promotes high-achieving employees.
And "...after making the move back to Dandong last June."

Dandong's population: 2.1 million

The five largest cities the U.S.A (according to the 2020 census):

New York City: 8.8 million

Los Angeles : 3.9 million

Chicago: 2.7 million

Houston: 2.3 million

Phoenix: 1.6 million
> Is that supposed to be surprising?

The whole point of that comment is that the dynamics are not surprising.
What are the challenges of scaling RAG applications?
> I'm curious to hear why you think so though?

As I said: it would mean you’d have to attribute everything you learned while reading open source codes to every codebase you read every time you write code.
Yeah I'm the only person I know who has one (I know one other buyer but they returned it). I'm honestly shocked it's over 100k sold since I feel like i'm in a pretty tech-early-adopter bubble
There is an app called split screen that solves this. I'm able to bring in my MBP and a second screen. It works really well actually.
What's Next for Companies Built on Open Source?
"efficiency saver" kinda downplays the fact that the energy is being recovered which was previously just wasted. Not throwing all that energy away is material at Amazon scale.
So you're saying it's driven by city culture, where a certain type of person in that city expects difficult to reserve restaurants?
Mediocrity can be a sign of excellence (2023)