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by jedberg 1y ago
> ChatGPT shows the most relevant products from across the web. Product results are organic and unsponsored, ranked purely on relevance to the user. Cynical take, I know, but that is how Google started too. But now they prioritize peopl
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by jedberg 1y ago
> Another drawback is the difficulty of learning Typst. The official documentation is confusingly organized, with information scattered unpredictably among "Tutorial", "Reference", and "Guides" sections. The
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by jedberg 1y ago
Do you want SkyNet? That's how you get SkyNet.
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by jedberg 1y ago
> intermediary routing therefore hosting a service on k8s is futile without using a managed provider / PaaS. Except that a managed service doesn't solve that for you. They are no better at that than you are. Email services a
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by jedberg 1y ago
> There's a lot of FUD around how mail is "hard", but it's much less complicated than, say, running and maintaining a k8s cluster The main difference is that you're fully in control of the k8s cluster, but no ma
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by jedberg 1y ago
> The privacy benefits are huge Are they? I'd bet 90% of the email in your archive went through Google or Microsoft or Yahoo's servers, and most likely a copy still resides there. If you're sending to or getting a message
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by jedberg 1y ago
Every lawyer in the USA that I've ever worked with also bills in 6 minute increments. Which means every email is 6 minutes. Every phone call is at least 6 minutes. etc.
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by jedberg 1y ago
I have a question about competition. I had a friend who was in mining about a decade ago. He told me that their mines were fully autonomous back then -- that the equipment managed itself and sent back sensor data. Is that different than w
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by jedberg 1y ago
Hey all, DBOS CEO here to answer questions too!
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by jedberg 1y ago
Exponential backoff is the usual solution to thundering herd problems. The solution of in-app coordination could certainly help, by making sure each app only requests the data once instead of each thread, but at the end of the day, you sti
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by jedberg 1y ago
Oh man, you're totally right! I never even considered that it was just a college rumor.
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by jedberg 1y ago
Edit: I was wrong, this was just made up by college kids. See comment below. Fun fact: In some college towns, they can only have fraternity houses but not sorority houses, because they still have laws on the books that define a house o
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by jedberg 1y ago
For funsies one of the early reddit engineers wrote a Markov comment generator trained on all the existing comments. It worked surprisingly well. :)
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by jedberg 1y ago
> Most tellingly, a suspicious emdash after Chipotle is a definite flag. Good writers have been using em dashes for years -- that's why AIs keep using them. :)
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by jedberg 1y ago
> This is a bit confusing to me because MySQL was released around the same time Postgres added SQL support but maybe it was because MySQL had a company behind it. I think the main reason MySQL took off faster than Postgres originally is
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by jedberg 1y ago
I appreciate your detailed reply, and I agree with all your points. I am however highly amused that everyone in this thread defending MySQL ends with some form of "I'd still choose Postgres though!". :)
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by jedberg 1y ago
It doesn't directly, but it helps because they can do deals where they buy things with stock, like people's labor or small companies, and now that "money" is more valuable.
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by jedberg 1y ago
Fair enough, but I assume most of that is in the administration of MySQL? Which is all now abstracted away by the cloud vendors. If you're running it yourself I could see why you'd do that, but if you're mostly just using
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by jedberg 1y ago
It's interesting how deals like this are politically relevant. Nvidia refused to do deals like this (investing in companies buying large amounts of NVIDIA GPUs) after they got the hammer from Biden's SEC for self dealing due to t
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by jedberg 1y ago
At this point I'm not sure why anyone would choose MySQL. Any advantage it had pretty much evaporated with these hosted solutions. For example, MySQL was easier to get running and connect to. These cloud offerings (Planetscale, Supab
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by jedberg 1y ago
This is a fun one: https://engaging-data.com/country-centered-map-projections/ Click on New Zealand and you get a nearly perfect "East is up" map.
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by jedberg 1y ago
Big discussion about it yesterday, but something new today is the FCC pressure, and that is what would be interesting to the HN crowd. The government is using its power to regulate the electromagnetic spectrum as a way of getting political
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by jedberg 1y ago
Out of respect for my competitor's Launch HN, I don't want to say here, but if you look at my profile or google my username it won't be hard to find. :)
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by jedberg 1y ago
> or better yet, have aggregators like HN add a badge if it's likely AI generated How could you possibly tell? I've been playing around with AI detectors, putting in known all-human samples, known all-AI samples, and mixed sam
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by jedberg 1y ago
Also if you had a majorly obvious bug, you could email steve@apple.com, which he would forward to a VP, who would be fired if it wasn't fixed ASAP. Knew a guy who lost his job that way, so it's not just a myth. Steve really was
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by jedberg 1y ago
When we first built the reddit ads system, this is exactly what we went for. We ran it ourselves, you could only upload a single static image. Turns out you really can't make a lot of money that way. Especially now. If you don'
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by jedberg 1y ago
In their defense, they are trying to help us grow and get follow on investment. I'm apprecative of my investor's input. They aren't forcing me to do anything, just highly encouraging. All of the un-budgeted money right now
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by jedberg 1y ago
> However I do personally really dislike that everyone is either marketing themselves or has truly pivoted to AI agents… I'm the CEO of a direct competitor to trigger, and we're in the same boat. What we make is great for any
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by jedberg 1y ago
My in-laws have a timeshare at 8300 feet. The first couple of days we have to take it easy and drink a ton of water, but then we kinda get used to it. And definitely feel superhuman when we return to sea level! The hardest part is getting
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by jedberg 1y ago
Unless they edited their comment, they never said it died from COVID, but because of COVID.

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