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I've commented here for a while that I feel like Tim Cook could be the problem.

I don't know where in the Steve Jobs playbook they are getting "stagnate for a decade and miss every boat by years". The Vision Pro release has been a debacle if not an out-and-out failure. We are told that Cook is in the job because he's a logistics genius and a getting-things-done expert, but the Vision Pro for example was a logistics failure, and a product failure, the likes of which Jobs would have rolled heads for. Siri is kind of nice but its functionality is basic at best, still.

I remember the story about the meeting Steve Jobs called about iCloud, where he asked the MobileMe team (paraphrasing) "What does MobileMe do?" and the team listed all the features, to which Jobs responded "well why doesn't it fucking do that?" and fired a bunch of them on the spot – later rescuing it somewhat by turning MobileMe into iCloud. Even Scott Forestall got the chopping block after delivering the UI for the iPhone very successfully, but was nevertheless still booted due to political and personality issues.

Yet have we heard of executives getting fired and berated for failures recently? No. Have any major heads rolled over the weakness like the Vision Pro and painful attempt at integrating ChatGPT? No. Have you tried to use "Image Playground" to make anything useful without it throwing up "sorry I can't do that for you Dave"? No, because it barely works, and won't create almost all the pictures I'd like it to, again because Apple are scared to the point of paranoia about anything that might damage their image, including the things now that they're baking into the computer that I paid for and yet cannot use in the way I wish. Is the iPhone actually better than its Android competitors? No.

It's understandable that they don't want to disturb the golden eggs of the iPhone and its huge profits, but I think Apple really do need to make some major changes in what they're doing and how they innovate going forward, and they need to be as daring as Steve Jobs would have been in doing it. Tim Cook isn't that guy.
This is really cool. How much would that cost in Claude API calls ?
yep went down a rabbit hole trying to build a company around this. it’s the perfect UI

text + attachments into the system, text + attachments out
> If you believe in cryptocurrencies, you can't run to the courts when people use them as designed, even if they didn't use them as intended.

If you believe in cash, does that mean you can't run to the courts if someone steals your cash?

If your security proves insufficient to prevent a theft, that doesn't mean the theft was legal! It just means your security was insufficient.

That security can be enforced by mathematics instead of courts is definitely a benefit of cryptocurrency, but when it goes wrong courts still matter.
ArchiveBox also supports SingleFile from what I remember, but I wish there was a extension to just pass everything (Browser context) to ArchiveBox. Having to keep cookies in sync with a second service is a bit of a hassle.
I've been using Wallabag for articles I want to deal with later, with the Frigoligo app on iOS for offline reading. For bookmarks, I've been using the Floccus extension with the Nextcloud Bookmarks app.

I'm missing the social aspect of bookmarks on del.icio.us though, so I'll check out Omnom and the other mentions in this thread of what people are using.
This argument comes up a lot, similar to the "humans lie, too" line of reasoning

The difference in your cited case is that employees are a class of legal person which is subject to the laws of the jurisdiction in which they work, along with any legal contracts they signed as a condition of their employment. So, that's a shitload of words to say "there are consequences" which isn't true of a bunch of matrix multiplications that happen to speak English and know how to invoke RPCs
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I wish these had pluggable backends separate from the actual implementation of indices so you could use your own store, rather than have to sync constantly. The performance would likely be worse, but at least you don't have to worry about staleness when rehydrating...
Of course, everything is relative. When I finished my PhD, getting a postdoc was easy and money was not really a concern. I did a "double PhD" (in two schools) and there were no problems for me to travel between the two (and associated costs).

Now the world is fundamentally different and it is much more difficult. Not to mention that people move from academia to industry, sometimes fro financial reasons.

When you put 16 B€ in front of that to study stuff that may be useful in 1000 years if we do a breakdown before (otherwise it won't) and you look at the site of budgets in universities, there is another relativity to be taken into account
I would love to read some compelling analysis of why online public spaces are increasingly filled by cynical losers with crabs in a bucket mentality.
Yes, I believe that the constraints on Kotlin features are determined to a large extent by the capabilities of IDEA.

At the risk of mixing cause and effect, Kotlin is IDEA shaped.
> If you believe in cryptocurrencies, you can't run to the courts when people use them as designed, even if they didn't use them as intended.

Yes, indeed. And when people leave their home unlocked the thieves should get to keep their stuff. What kind of savagery is this?

> If you end up using the legal system to remediate undesired transactions, what's the point of cryptocurrencies in the first place?

Great question, we have been waiting for answers for nearly a decade now...
I found his memoir much more readable in Spanish than his fiction.
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Are you managing/filing your own taxes, or do you use an tax accountant?
He should have taken the significant and generous 10% bounty the first time around. He now has to face law suits by well-funded finance firms.
It looks like you haven't launched yet, and there's just a waitlist sign up?

Show HN is for things people can try, and sign-up pages are explicitly off-topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

There are more tips for Show HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638
I think his statement could have benefited from and/or implicitly in the list of titles.

I certainly care very deeply about my people, and letting someone go is a last resort after trying to work things out. My boss cares that I care.. their boss.. we're numbers.
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No one complains when TComp just 500k+

Only when laid off.
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If that's not how it works, where's the line for what is fraud and what is not? Once you move away from the "code is law" principle, companies have the perverse incentive to define fraud as "any transaction that results in negative PnL for me", which is exactly what happened here.
How will Apple spin this at the coming WWDC? Apple Intelligence was the announcement last year and I've heard nothing but crickets since.
Apple hates when you do this but they can't stop you: I still have one of the original Intel Core Duo Mac Minis from 2006. I upgraded the HDD at one point and also installed Windows. I use it to run a CNC mill.
I am of two minds about this. As a matter of human disappointment, I totally get it. They liked working there. Now they don't. It's not their choice. And it sucks. This is extremely relatable.

But the naïveté and confusion on display in the post are extremely not relatable. What do you think a company is? What do you think a job is? What is it that you think you're doing there? And what is it that you believe you are owed?

On this front, this person talks like an alien -- or, more condescendingly, a child. I can't relate to it at all, nor do I think it's polite or kind to play along and pretend that their worldview is understandable.

Maybe -- maybe -- you could say something like, "look, these companies lie to their employees. They tell them that they're family, that they should bring their whole selves to work, that they are changing the world, that they matter to the company as an individual. You can't blame them for believing it."

But I do. Those are such ridiculous lies that I somehow have more contempt for anybody who believes them than I do the liars, who I view mostly to be playing out a kind of benign social fiction that's transparently fake to everybody involved.
> it suggests a strategic downgrade of the Chrome

Hadn’t thought of it this way, but if there is (say) a 50% chance of being forced to divest Chrome, then the EV on your investments in the future are substantially lower.

Strategic downgrade sounds right.
there's no IP, there's nothing other than two arguing founders lmao
Tools like these have the highest potential when AI is used to assist the user, not replace them. Add features for humans to design their own logo with AI polishing the details or giving the user a starting point.

Great job designing the UI by the way.
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You're not starting a business anywhere, so no one cares.
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When you start from a black screen (eg. a monitor) your primary colors that can form all others are literally red, green and blue. Those are the subpixels that every monitor must have as a minimum. These colors will add to white and mixtures of them can make every color humans can perceive (provided your rgb are at the maximum extremes of each color, otherwise your color triangle is slightly smaller than what rgb can actually do). This is called additive color mixing. Start from black and add color.

When you mix paints your are subtracting from white. The primary colors are 45degrees around the color wheel, namely cyan, magenta, yellow. From those you can make alm other colors by subtracting various amounts of the above three colors from white.

Btw do you know what color model matches your eyes the most? It’s additive color mixing. Your eyes literally start by seeing black and as your eyes let in light the cones and rods that are focused around detecting red, green and blue are triggered in various amounts and you see color that way. You don't see color the same way color is formed from mixing paints. You don’t see cyan, magenta, yellow at all. You see in RGB.

So your painting example is really flawed. Subtractive color models are inly useful for paints.
I used to maintain inventory software used across dozens of cannabis retail locations, where every product had to be tracked “from seed to sale” to comply with strict state regulations. Every item had a barcode. Every movement had to be logged. And any discrepancy--no matter how small--had to be resolved in a fully auditable way.

Discrepancies still happened, of course. What surprised me was how wildly the rate and nature of those discrepancies varied between stores. The software was the same. The rules were the same. But in some locations, things ran smoothly. In others, inventory was a constant source of stress.

Eventually, it became clear that the difference had nothing to do with the software and everything to do with how organized the store was: their processes, their attention to detail, and the quality of their management.

The hardest problems in inventory aren’t technical, they’re human.
No one complains when paid 500k+

Only when laid off.
What app/problem requires so much JS time zone manipulation? I have an app that's front and back-end JS, and I do all time zone stuff in Postgres.
The bigger issue is that we need a good why to authenticate more dynamically. In the context of a desktop app (desktop claude, claude code) where you are running an application locally, for your own purposes it can run as your own user.

But when you are running things in any kind of multi-user/multi-tenant scenario, this is much harder and the protocol doesn't really address this (though also doesn't prevent us from layering something on top). As a dumb (but real) example, I don't want a web-enabled version of of an MCP plugin to have access to my company's google drive and expose that to all our chat users. That would bypass the RBAC we have. Also I don't want to bake that in at the level of the tool calls, as that can be injected. I need some side channel information on the session to have the client and server to manage that.
I think the more salient observation is that the author is completely detached from reality. Him writing:

"shoulder to shoulder with incredible engineers, planning ways to make web developers life's easier while raising the quality level of the web."

when Google is primarily responsible for flooding us with ad capitalism and ruining the web, portrays not only a profound ignorance of how corporations work, but a total dissociation from the -very damaging- effects of his work-seen-holistically on the real world. You don't get a free pass working for Google just because you can rationalize your particular niche as "educating users" and "raising the quality level of the web".

Towards the end, it seems to dawn on him that yeah, he "was just a fuckin cog in a mega corp". Let's hope he carries that understanding forward and distills it into a moral and ethical framework that can make the world better.
I personally don't find metaphorical explanations helpful, especially considering this is not the only time I have heard or will be hearing about relativity, so if I get another explanation I will have to either map the concept of balls to whatever metaphor another teacher uses, which is just more work. I'm fine with using generic words like 'information', which I can map more naturally to other explanation wordings like 'signal'.

The same applies for explanations of bitcoin, or Machine Learning, or stock markets, just use the proper wording, difficulty, weights, secondary market. Metaphors are not teaching.
Hmm, there's supposed to be a Tasks [reminders] feature in ChatGPT, but it's in beta (I don't have access to it). Whenever it gets released, you could make some kind of "router" that connects to different communication methods and connect that up to ChatGPT statefully, and you could just "speak"/type to ChatGPT from anywhere, and it would send you reminders. No need for all the extra logic, cron jobs, or SQLite table (ChatGPT has memory across chats).
Unpopular opinion here... If you tread carefully you'll most likely not succeed. I am not American and I know you guys like to sue eachother for putting cats in microwaves and stuff so maybe this is not great opinion to have in America at the current moment.

I would go for it and put a disclaimer, or I would just incorporate in a country where there's no issues with these things.

all this is hard of course to provide good value, but worthwhile.

Twitters' cost is insane right now, I had quite a few ideas for twitter integrations but they would easily cost thousands per month just to access their API.

I looked into https://github.com/d60/twikit - might not be suitable but you can definitely play around with it. Just don't use your official account as I got shadow banned using it unfortunately.
Yes, I read this post and was actually emotionally affected by a post about coding. I was surprised how sad I felt. I’ve been around for a long time but this truly feels like the best era if you like gluing trash to other trash and shipping it.
Which other popular language more accurately represents a random access machine of fixed word length?
FloorEgg, solid advice. i've (painfully) learned parts of this over the past two years. i wish i knew this when i got started, if you haven't shared this already, highly recommend sharing this on more public channels -- more first time founders will benefit from this :)
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> Yes, but we’re just talking about making websites here.

And Twitter is just a message board.

Those who do not understand the problem domain complain that systems are too complex.
When Worms came out in '95, I had a feeling there was something deeper, more profound to it, but I couldn't tell what it was.

Now it all finally makes sense!
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During the first “bust” in 2000 I had four years of experience and living and working in Atlanta - far away from a tech hub. Boring old enterprise dev jobs at banks, insurance companies, etc weren’t affected and I was easily able to get offers.

I worked at a company where utility companies sent us data files and we created, printed and mailed bills.

In 2008 during the financial crisis the next time I looked for a job (my third), I had two offers relatively quickly - one programming point of sales systems and the other that I accepted programming ruggedized Windows CE devices for field service workers.

Fast forward to 2020 at the height of COVID, I got my one and only BigTech job working at AWS (my 8th job).

Unlike the author of the submitted article, when I got Amazoned 3.5 years later, I shrugged, my $40K severance was deposited in my account and I reached out to my network and targeted outreach to some recruiters in my niche and had four interviews and 3 offers within 3 weeks. Why would I waste time getting emotional about a company knowing that the CEO is 6-7 positions up on the career ladder and I’m just a random number to most of the organization?

A year later in 2024 around 9:00 PM I had a “1-1” with my manager invite for the next morning. I already had my suspicions and told my wife that I am probably going to be laid off in the morning. She said let her know how it goes and we went to sleep.

I woke up the next morning, was notified about my layoff asked when I would get my severance and responded to a recruiter that reached out to me about a week prior.

I started the interview process and three weeks later I had a job making the same as I was making at AWS.

I don’t need to “justify” what I’m making. I have a skillset and experience that are in demand and companies are willing to pay me for it because by employing me they get a positive ROI.
It is a good example. Unfortunately most 18 year olds don’t possess a whole lot of wisdom yet. This guy was basically a kid when he did this.
IMO industrial policy is the way to mitigate risks of war or extortion vis-a-vis a specific trading partner. Only once this safety criteria is fulfilled, politicians can think about tackling other issues with industrial policy - and unfortunately these further initiatives often fail or have unintended second-order effects (e.g. we want Intel chip factory in Germany).

My understanding is that due to human nature wars mostly start due to religious or extremist views of individuals leading a nation. Such a risk of your trade partner invading you because they don't like your skin color can be hardly formalized in an economic theory (maybe there exists one already, idk).

So role of industrial policy would be to ensure that a certain balance is kept with regards to creating dependencies to other nations, which could be abused in case of war.

Famous negative examples of failed industrial policy for Germany would be the dependence on gas mostly from russia and the dependence on oil mostly from middle east.

Another example would be the agricultural subsidies to ensure all citizens can be fed even when other nations would not export any food. A current example in Germany would be the production of "German steel" using fossil energy instead of production of CO2-neutral swedish steel. As Germany is part of EU, this is a conflicting view: We can't on one side ask for more trade and integration of supply chains between democratic EU countries, but on the other side assume that Sweden will deny steel exports to us when we'd need it.

Producing steel in Germany with fossil energy instead of doing it in Sweden with hydroelectric power is both more expensive and has more negative externalities (CO2 emissions due to use of fossil fuels). Therefore such industrial policy reduces welfare that would otherwise be available for German people.
You'll need a stronger defense than that in court because courts absolutely create and deal in gray areas where technical fine lines exist.

What you need to argue is that the the smart contracts were valid contracts that the creators intended to and had opportunity to understand and that their creation was their act of negotiation of a position. It isn't really a stretch, but with amounts like this probably more diligence would have been due than that. Calling it theft is ridiculous on the other hand.
I find it amazing that a king can just say that a drug works and then it becomes the absolute truth forever
I think few developers didn't already have powerful autocomplete engines at their disposal.
A new UBI experiment has come out it seems like it worked
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> I’ve been seeing more of this classist rhetoric on HN

It has always been there. It usually gets downvoted away but it takes time. Inflammatory takes like this one are usually more popular when stories are fresh and then get downvoted as the story ages on. My theory is that these shallow, ragebait-ey takes appeal to people who are skimming stories for a chance to rage a bit, but then they get bored and move on to the next thing. It takes a while for people to read the story and come up with good discussion, which gets upvoted later.
I'm not trying to defend Elon, I'm just saying that copyright is not always good for the people, in contrast to what you wrote.
Therapy isn't so much telling you that your feelings are wrong. Feelings arise from many factors that are beyond your immediate control.

Therapy helps provide better context for, introspection into, and understanding of those feelings, and more importantly, alternative ways of responding to, expressing and acting upon them.

At the very least, expressing them less aggressively while still getting across your point.