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MadMen AI | Founding AI Engineers, Backend Engineer, and Performance Marketer | Bay Area (Hybrid) | Full-time

We're building AI-powered ad agency. Recently raised $8m. Founded by ex-Meta founding team backed by top silicon valley VC firms. We're post-revenue (30% MoM growth).

Apply here: https://usemadmen.ai/careers
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Various discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221549

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43222842

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43224350

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43093859
I’ve had custom made front panels with front panel express and they do the anodizing and screen printing, the finish is on-par with any commercial equipment, I also have done some custom equipment using custom printed overlays by Maverick Label, this is specially useful for things that have displays, led indicators or membrane switches.
Awasemoness! Since my undergrad days (it was a long time ago), I’ve found myself turning to MIT classes to help me grasp some challenging subjects. It's been such a great resource!
I’m 43 and in a town where there basically isn’t a tech industry. Worked remote for like 20 years but now remote is hated by employers because the hordes started doing it during COVID and ruined it for people like me.

Started my own single person company a couple years ago and haven’t looked back. It does well enough to fund my modest lifestyle and I would frankly rather die than go back to interviewing and working for someone else.

The tech industry sickens me in general. It’s done so much damage to our society. Feels way better interacting with customers directly and treating software like a craft/trade.
You know TikTok is back in App Stores with Oracle hosting content even though all of that is illegal?

Trump is ignoring the law now.
Yes, they're part of the model because they're not excluded during consumption calculations.
"By 915x" doesn't seem remotely plausible.

Maybe there's some edge case they've found where SQLite is badly optimized and DuckDB is totally optimized, but that's absolutely not the general case.

Databases are primarily limited by disk/IO speed. Yes there are plenty of optimizations but they result in 10% improvements, not 915x.
Kind of? There's absolutely a justifiable reason for v3, that is not "because we want to kill ad blockers". It is likely that some higher ups pushed for v3 for ad reasons, just as devs pushed for v3 for technical reasons.
no one can actually explain the value OpenAI adds to humanity. What massive loss? What have we gained from this entity other than another billionaire riding a hype cycle?
Very smart. But also, if you know you're going to have to make a purchase in the next few years, especially related to electronics, it's far better to do it now than to wait until prices get eye-watering.
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | U.S. + Europe

Location: Tennessee, United States

I help startups and small teams (independent or embedded in a company) to ship great looking, stable features + software, fast. I'm a "unicorn" type that can do everything from design to development and infrastructure.

I've been building the Joystick JavaScript framework (full-stack [1]), Mod CSS framework [2], and Push deployment service [3] for the last 4 years. Recently, I shipped Parrot [4].

I have solid experience building AI-driven apps (I've worked with APIs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and AWS Bedrock), too.

Though I prefer my own stack to move fastest and deliver the best results, I'm competent with and adaptable to any/all JavaScript + Node.js frameworks and tools.

I don't need to be babysat, just set loose with a clear idea of what needs to be built and open lines of communication if/when I have questions (a Slack/Discord will suffice). I can be available to consult long-term by contract but not looking to transition to a full-time position.

Contact: ryan.glover@cheatcode.co (or LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryangglover/).

[1] https://cheatcode.co/joystick

[2] https://dribbble.com/shots/25591970-Mod-Checkout

[3] https://cheatcode.co/push

[4] https://codewithparrot.com
A debt fueled spending spree by private enterprises boosts GDP too, for the same reason. That’s kind of the point of the number that measures spending sprees (and the other various kinds of spending).

The degree to which it’s a “good thing” or not is another question. The assumption that either party is automatically productive or wasteful is obviously incorrect. Governments can burn money or invent the internet and private industry can build jet engines or tamagotchis.
> May still hold true, the 2s10s has recently deinverted, which is typically the last stage pre-recession.

Perhaps worth noting that Harvey's original paper was about 3-month and 10-year Treasuries, but 2-year is now used by some folks:

> To determine whether the yield curve is inverted, it is a common practice to compare the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury bond to either a 2-year Treasury note or a 3-month Treasury bill. If the 10-year yield is less than the 2-year or 3-month yield, the curve is inverted.[4][5][6][7]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_yield_curve

* https://people.duke.edu/~charvey/Term_structure/Harvey.pdf

> Harvey: Flat or inverted yield curves are historically associated with slow economic growth or recessions. I did notice that the yield curve inversion of the 10-year Treasury bond and the 3-month Treasury bill yield curve preceded all four recession since the 1960s. My dissertation committee at the University of Chicago was concerned that this might be a fluke given there were only four recessions. Frankly, I was nervous too because it is well known in science that strong findings become weaker after publication -- or sometimes vanish. However, in my case, this did not happen. Yield curve inversions preceded each of the next three recessions, including the important global financial crisis.

* https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/yield-curve-inversion-explain...
But then any sort of management information, eg "find out how many active customers we have" or "which customer has the most activity" becomes a query over all the DBs. Similarly, admin tools for customer support etc easily become very hard to build. I'd love to know if anybody has a solution for this because otherwise DB-per-tenant sounds very nice indeed.
Assuming it's true that it just stumbled and the "incident" part is a nothingburger, the headline as written is still literally accurate. It's also still worth discussing: was the robot appropriately cautious of its surroundings when it performed that maneuver? Perhaps it could not have been aware enough to avoid all potential damage and that could be another discussion.
I was also pretty surprised when the OP said "the Chromium team refused to use my server to reproduce the bug", when the actual comments of the ticket were "clone this repo and run my giant node app" and the tester's response was "It seems a bit difficult to set up an build environment to run the static server, could you provide a more minimal repro case?". OP's description of the tester's reasonable concerns seems very unfair.

Even just having a web-accessible endpoint that reproduced the issue would have made the process a lot smoother I think. Apparently in response to OP's request for an easier test case, OP asked for GCP cloud credits(?) to host their server with?. You probably used more bandwidth & CPU loading the new Chromium issue tracker page then you would have just setting up a simple vps to reproduce the issue
23andMe hits record low after CEO's $0.41/share buyback offer
exactly.

what you said just strengthens my argument.
Tesla owners get creative to distance themselves from Elon Musk
Apple's scroll bar allergy leads to some quite funny (to me, anyway) problems with major websites. Some companies seem to have their entire web dev + QA + management staff on Macbooks, because on any other desktop platform their websites are COVERED in useless scrollbars that scroll maybe one or two pixels. I've even seen scrollbars cover up half part of a company's logo.

All of that money spent on hyper expensive laptops, and people still end up with terribly ugly websites!
Branch | Ecommerce Product Manager / Hybrid PM + Dev | Remote Friendly EST (NYC / Toronto Preferred)

Branch makes and sells work products for remote workers and growing teams. We're looking for a Digital Product Manager or hybrid PM / dev to lead the development of our ecommerce site and systems. You’ll ship beautiful, functional and accessible commerce experiences addressing both our enterprise and DTC customer segments, as well as full-stack applications to support our operations and broader enterprise ambitions.

As the only product management hire at Branch, you’ll have the opportunity to lead a product practice at a well-funded and rapidly-growing startup pursuing a unique opportunity that anchors in online commerce and extends far beyond it.

What we're looking for: as a pure PM, 2-5 years of relevant product management experience (preferably at a high-growth ecommerce startup) OR experience founding an ecommerce business, reps managing a sprint planning process and owning a product roadmap, deep knowledge of Shopify Plus and the Shopify ecosystem, strong portfolio featuring experience shipping exceptional features that users love, and comfort shipping low or no code features. We would also be very excited to hire a developer with 2-4 years of front-end development experience, ideally within the Shopify Plus ecosystem, with an interest in pivoting to product and a willingness to plan and build at the same time.

Open to any remote candidates in EST (or willing to work those hours), with NYC and Toronto preferred. If interested, email hn [at] branchfurniture.com with a few sentences about your background and interest, along with your favorite and least favorite things about the Shopify platform.
the reason a song from a friend makes you happy is directly related to the effort behind it, this is totally meaningless.
Yeah but then that only contributes to the GDP of Ireland, not the US.

Not coincidentally, Ireland has one of the highest GDP per capita in the world.
Don't worry. They'll use non-lethal weaponry to merely blind innocent civilians with their military surplus gun bots.
That article is absurd, describing the robot as being completely safe while blaming the kid saying "children need to be warned".
Statistical inference is a form of logic. Can it do pure logical deduction? No. And neither can humans without some underlying pattern recognition to form premises. This notion of true "understanding" is a fantasy.
> GDP itself is a mathematical model

GDP is a metric. The specific way in which we construct it is based on a small zoo of models, each working to estimate a myriad of parameters.
Isn't that what the study you linked to roughly proposes?
What if we make it accomplish 20% less but spend 10% more money?
Are his voters at least in marginal numbers realizing whats happening and possibly about to happen, to US itself and globally? Or its all fine and going on as expected for them.

We get 0 on-the-ground info here in Europe on such topics (at least not in mainstream media), its all bombastic shit like he still runs his reality show and not directly affecting lives of hundreds of millions with each tweet/outburst. I'd expect massive difference in above between cities like SF, LA, NYK compared to midwest or bible south for example.
The more people block ads, the bigger the incentive for companies to invest in blocking blockers. In a way, it's in the interest of power users to keep their tricks obscure so it's not worth to eliminate these options.
I agree with your observation about "Interpreter" vs. "Translator."

When we first started this project, we referred to it as an "interpreter." However, after speaking with human interpreters and considering their feedback, we settled on "real-time translation". We might have left some of our past on the internet tho..

As with everything, there are both advantages and limitations to text-based translations. Here are a few:

Limitations:

- Some people may find it challenging to follow gestures and expressions while reading.

- In more one-way scenarios, such as presentations and webinars, hearing the speaker’s voice often feels more natural.

Pros:

- Many users actually prefer text because it allows them to hear the speaker’s original voice and pick up on nuances.

- Having a written record enables post-meeting summaries and the opportunity to repurpose transcripts into other materials, such as blog posts, custom user manuals, JIRA notes, and more using AI.

- There are also technical constraints with voice-to-voice translations, which currently tend to be turn-based rather than real-time (streaming) - not ideal for exchange of ideas.

That said, we are excited to see how the TTS and STT technologies evolve and are looking forward to experimenting with “interpretation” in the future!
> But your simulation will never fly you over an ocean

It will fly over a simulated ocean just fine. It does exactly what aircraft do, within the simulation. By adding “you” to the sentence you've made it an apples to oranges comparison because “you” is definitionally not part of the simulation. I don't see how you could add the same “you” to “it will simulate consciousness just fine”.
llms.txt is a great standard for making website content more readable to LLMs, but it doesn’t address the challenges of taking structured actions. While llms.txt helps LLMs retrieve and interpret information, agents.json enables them to execute multi-step workflows reliably.
I’m missing the source (and don’t know if I know it), but am curious :P
To be fair, I don't think Ayn Rand acolytes love tariffs, in theory.

Though experience has shown me that plenty of people love Ayn Rand not because they love the ideology, but because they're a bit selfish and support policies that remove barriers to their personal success rather than those which they feel are best collectively. So in that sense, ideological consistency is not mandatory.
> instead of understanding why one step logically follows from another

There’s currently 0% chance of “understanding” happening at any point with this technology.
This is true of all levels of abstraction. The next question is: does this level of abstraction cost more than it’s worth.
> https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y2Y

And using the 3-month instead, as was done in Campbell Harvey's original paper:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/T10Y3M
Exactly, I was adding perspective to the conversation. Things don't have to be absolute. You can have some users that love a design, while others hate it.
If you want to respect all your users, your design needs to have that diversity in mind.

But you attacked me personally, rather than what I had to say.
I mean if you only have a few thousand records you barely need a database at all.
Most Aesthetic Unix Program
echo "/poll?poll=1741036740&vote=awk" | nc gopher.icu 70

to vote for awk for example
also NFTs
they're working on it https://apnews.com/article/trump-gdp-economy-government-spen...
Independent invention seems unlikely to me - there are different colors, different ways to arrange the three rhombi, etc.
Coming from the TFT space of Roam/Tana/Obsidian… this is awesome to see.

Further still, it would be neat to see a hybrid system where humans and agents collaborate on building and maintaining a knowledgebase.
I mean, LLMs are new. And if you can't see the difference between an entire profession using broken, hallucinatory tooling to write buggy code, and drivers using more convenient maps, then I'm not sure how to help.
This is interesting. Does this approach mean that it becomes possible to use conversations with an LLM to fine tune the LLM in very specific ways?

In other words, if this AgenticMemory can give structure to unstructured conversations, and if this makes conversational feedback more useful for the model to learn, then can we use it to continually refine the model to be better at our particular use case?
it's more like the previous guys were so bad that people said that the guy the media lied to them about from 2015 until 2024 wasn't that bad after all.

- we now see that "bidenomics" was a disaster after the media decided to stop lying about it and blaming the people for not believing "the stats". job numbers revised down massively after it was no longer viable to lie during the election.

- crime rates revised silently UP: https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/10/16/...

- apparently there was no need for a "bipartisan border bill" or for "congress to act" in order to shut down the border as encounters are down 90% now.

people have their panties in a bunch about tariffs, but I don't understand why reciprocal tariffs are so bad.

it appears that people here are happy for things to go south just so that they could shit on trump. how about having a bit more optimism for the future, even if the near term will be a bit shakey?
Chrome's cache is indeed acting correctly. Effectively, it is acting as an intermediary here - your application made a partial content request, and it can satisfy it (partially), so it sends you a 206.

HTTP partial content responses need to be evaluated (like any other response) according to their metadata: servers are not required to send you exactly the ranges you request, so you need to pay attention to Content-Range and process accordingly (potentially issuing more requests).

See:
https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html#status.206
The problem with AI music, and in fact AI in general, is that weve spent the last few decades aggressively attacking the idea that art should get paid for at all and yet people still do it, because they love it. So musicians work for pennies, and yet people still need to replace them with a machine.

So even if you just pay someone else to make you a song, its not really any more expensive than this. Same with painting. What does this AI bring to the table, at all? It grosses me out.

People on this site should go pick up a guitar and write a 3 chord song about someone, itll take you a day if that. Its not hard! Its fun!
The reason why people get nervous about aliens showing up and wiping us out or enslaving us is because that's exactly what we'd do to aliens if we turned up at their planet.
Strikes by the US inside China are highly unlikely for the same reason.
As for Trump, he is simply pragmatic. Taiwan is indefensible from the military standpoint. I would not count on allies too much, because Europe's remaining 1 1/2 soldiers cannot make any difference, and the UK can barely get its ships out of the harbor.
Anyway, all of this is just a show.
I'm semi pro-crypto.

It's not that a "strategic reserve" is necessary for these cryptocurrencies. It's that holding those maybe be good for the US if their value goes up further and it can use them to buy stuff if need be. Same idea as the gold reserve really.
The company history page on the corporate web site of Mitsubishi Pencils provides a reason behind the name: https://www.mpuni.co.jp/en/company/history.html

It's not clear why the 3 companies got the right to use the same logo. Perhaps they could each demonstrate that they used that logo before Japanese law required for it to be formally submitted for trademark?
Definitely, no. After Laffer, in normal open market, all government spending (equal to sum of all taxes), should be less than 30% (less then optimum, so will have gap for emergency cases).

Why it is more effective to limit taxes, because by definition, private business is most effective form of production, and gov't entities are least effective form, and with tiny taxes people will have more money to reinvest into economy grow (via investments into existing and new private businesses), which is definitely more effective than spend money by government or just use government to redistribute money to people.

So in ideal case, fed gov should be zero size, and only in extreme cases appear and save world, then immediately disappear and return zero taxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve

PS what's also funny, usually money redistribution bureaucracy spend more money to their functioning than distribute to people, even in cases of very large systems with millions participants.

PPS yes, exist number of cases, where concentrated spending via government is beneficial, because of size factor. But problem is, many of such cases are only seen post factum, and it is not easy to predict, if something is such big thing.

Examples of cases benefit from fed size, are: railway from west to east on early 20th century; nuclear power ~80 years ago; space scale rockets in 1960s.
- Now all these cases will be more effective handled at private business.

For now we have perspective cases of AI and quantum computers, but at the moment we don't know, which approaches will deliver value and which will just gather low hanging fruits.
I've been slightly annoyed by how the Speculative Decoding paper has gotten all the credit for the technique – I first learned about the technique from a paper more than a year older[1], Shallow Aggressive Decoding.

They introduce the same method, but apply it to grammatical error correction, meaning the "draft" output is just the input itself. The Speculative Decoding paper tries to emphasize differences between this and their method, saying that theirs is more general, as they apply it to more domains, allowing the draft to come from a smaller model, and extend it to allow sampling.

All of that is great, and deserves another paper, but doesn't deserve the credit for inventing and rights to rename the method, especially when they were aware of Shallow Aggressive Decoding before uploading their first draft.

[1]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.04970
How do we define understanding?
My understanding is that it was more the 9000 bank failures effectively created a credit crunch. Like if a bank closes and there's no replacement, then most small business were unable to get loans. Farmers who couldn't afford to plant new crops, factories can't improve equipment, inventory get's squeezed across the supply chain, ect. Exports were about 5% of GDP, suggesting that maybe tarrifs may have been the trigger but weren't the primary cause of the depression.

https://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/depression.htm
I will respond to this by posting a shitpost from reddit. In reality the market can never be perfectly efficient or their would be no room for profit.

Don't even ask the question. The answer is yes, it's priced in. Think Amazon will beat the next earnings? That's already been priced in. You work at the drive thru for Mickey D's and found out that the burgers are made of human meat? Priced in. You think insiders don't already know that? The market is an all powerful, all encompassing being that knows the very inner workings of your subconscious before you were even born. Your very existence was priced in decades ago when the market was valuing Standard Oil's expected future earnings based on population growth that would lead to your birth, what age you would get a car, how many times you would drive your car every week, how many times you take the bus/train, etc. Anything you can think of has already been priced in, even the things you aren't thinking of. You have no original thoughts. Your consciousness is just an illusion, a product of the omniscent market. Free will is a myth. The market sees all, knows all and will be there from the beginning of time until the end of the universe (the market has already priced in the heat death of the universe). So please, before you make a post on wsb asking whether AAPL has priced in earpods 11 sales or whatever, know that it has already been priced in and don't ask such a dumb fucking question again.
Turns out, knowing stuff is important when you try to do stuff that you claim to be an expert in, instead of outsourcing it to a crappy incorrect tutorial generator. Competitive edge for computer programmers going forward: knowing how computers work.
I meant it more as a "this should hold the wings on just in case they're not well fastened" kind of analogy.