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by abxyz 1y ago
Another example is Ureaplasma Parvum which is treated as a serious STD in parts of the world but almost never acknowledged as an STD in the U.S. and therefore almost impossible to get tested for and treated for in the U.S. There’s an entire
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by abxyz 1y ago
The principle is that employees matter more than shareholders: wiping out shareholders to save jobs is the greater good even if it enriches a nefarious or incompetent executive. Many retail investors are shocked to learn in their first bank
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by abxyz 1y ago
Musk is popular amongst republicans because Trump has championed him. The pro-Musk Republicans are also pro-Trump republicans and their loyalty to Trump will beat out whatever respect they have for Musk. Musk is not a threat to Trump, becau
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by abxyz 1y ago
That’s not how software engineering works. Management doesn’t know what a feature will cost to add so they defer to engineers who produce estimates which are used to forecast and plan. Engineers estimate based on their own preferences (whet
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by abxyz 1y ago
The website is more helpful: https://web.archive.org/web/20240418130050/https://cord.com/ Think Figma comments as a service. Examples of it in production: https://www.workcanvas.com/
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by abxyz 1y ago
Most employees are unmotivated and mediocre-at-best, across every role and industry because most people are (rightly) just showing up to get paid. Engineers are no different, we are not special. Most engineers do not have the incentive to g
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by abxyz 1y ago
Guaranteeing transactions would incentivize the provider to block transactions. There are many companies in the space, like sift.com, but they don’t guarantee.
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by abxyz 1y ago
Assume that the transactions are coming from humans, it is often cheaper to instruct humans than it is to automate when there’s an expectation that you will try to mitigate the malicious behavior. Be willing to temporarily suspend your serv
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by abxyz 1y ago
Have you seen how granola.ai solve it? “Works on all platforms, no meeting bots Granola transcribes your Mac's audio directly, with no meeting bots joining your call”
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by abxyz 1y ago
What exactly are blockchains being used for in the real world? Specific to this story: most of the world has instant payments without using blockchains or stablecoins, it’s only the U.S. where the banking system somehow hasn’t realised they
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by abxyz 1y ago
it’s not true, contemporaneous accounts disprove it (although that’s not to say Sam Altman is not a snake, Sam Altman is a snake that nobody should trust)
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by abxyz 1y ago
Thank you for taking the time to visit here and share insight. Yes, that explains it. The missing pieces for me were 1) no knowledge of "chandelier bids" (I thought bids were bids) 2) the article says "without a minimum price
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by abxyz 1y ago
The author of that comment, an employee of Microsoft, goes on to say: > It is my opinion that anyone not at least thinking about benefiting from such tools will be left behind. The read here is: Microsoft is so abuzz with excitement&#x2F
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by abxyz 1y ago
I read this article yesterday and I am still confused by it. "...carried a pre-sale estimate of over $70 million..." "...the artwork came to the market without a minimum price guarantee from the auction house..." "O
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by abxyz 1y ago
Many countries have quite strict limitations on immigration for work. Many countries do not permit any immigration without visa sponsorship. The U.S. permits sponsored immigration with a quite reasonable bar (e.g: H1B, L-1). Many countries
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by abxyz 1y ago
The greatest crime of LLMs is killing the em dash — gone too soon.
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by abxyz 1y ago
If you're someone who researched the company, enjoyed the interview and accepted an offer, you're probably not going to be in the same group as the people who hate Databricks. Databricks is a 10k people enterprise software company
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by abxyz 1y ago
Security cameras (like Google Nest) are not the concern people have: hidden cameras are. It is possible to rig an entire property without any chance of guests finding the cameras. The scale at which it happens is a question (and varies base
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by abxyz 1y ago
Anyone at Google from 2005 to 2025 is a multi millionaire many times over based on stock value alone. Even a savant at squandering money would struggle to come out of 20 years at Google without unreasonable wealth.
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by abxyz 1y ago
it's outsourcing by choice rather than necessity. Europe can grow its own blood. The much more permissive laws in the U.S. which cause an oversupply for local usage mean it's cheaper to import it. During periods of high demand tha
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by abxyz 1y ago
Finally, someone on HN I can relate to. My wife and I love luxury dining experiences, so we eat at McDonalds 364 nights a year and go to the highest rated Michelin 3-star restaurant on the 365th night.
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by abxyz 1y ago
I like it a lot and their thoughtfulness about it but it's a little hollow when they're spending investor money. I'd like to see how this model evolves once they're off the vc teat: when there's a bottom line to ans
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by abxyz 1y ago
> In the right use case (standalone API/workflow, multiple LLM calls, concurrency etc.) working visually is going to be 10x better than code I completely agree but I think that's a very hard sell. People who write code are ofte
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by abxyz 1y ago
Looks very good, I believe this type of product is the future (instead of vibe-coding that produces heaps of junk new code). A few thoughts: * Flowcode is a clever name but since you are positioning yourself as an alternative to code (&quot
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by abxyz 1y ago
I would (and do) pay for this type of UI library. Especially in design, everyone is inspired by everyone else, taking inspiration and ideas from elsewhere is normal... but branding this as "reverse engineered" makes it sound stole
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by abxyz 1y ago
The issue is one of education, not possibility. There is so much hype around vibe coding that it has penetrated non-technical circles and given non-technical people the confidence to try and make things. The same people could use Zapier or
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by abxyz 1y ago
I disagree, it's the opposite. Low code / no code is valuable because you're deferring responsibility to a system that is developed and maintained by experts. A task running once a day on Zapier is orders of magnitude better
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by abxyz 1y ago
I am very much in favor of anything that makes software engineering more accessible. I have no principled objection to vibe coding. The problem I have with vibe coding is practical: it's producing more low quality code rather than allo
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by abxyz 1y ago
An apt analogy, given... "The company must change its mindset and become proactive in its approach to compliance. I have decided this can best be achieved by the imposition of a sanction that will serve as a deterrent to future non-com
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by abxyz 2y ago
You're making a different point. Of course, there are use cases for subdomains, I'm talking specifically about the transition of maps.google.com to google.com/maps. google.com/maps always made sense but wasn't techn

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