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by nlh 3y ago
Preface: I'm basically on your side on this. But: I know some PMs and designers at various social media companies. There are also probably many among us here on HN. The thing is, I don't think most of them think to themselves
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This is only tangentially-related, but I know I'm asking the right audience: I switched, blissfully, away from Quicken/Quickbook/Xero/all that heavy crap to very simple and elegant textfile-based accounting (ledger&#x2F
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I think it’s an intrinsic byproduct of any site/community that puts an algorithmic feed optimized for “engagement” front and center. By our nature, we engage with things that ping our extreme senses, which is the core reason Facebook a
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This was brilliant and hilarious (thank you OP for sharing). I'm now going to do the thing that I think you're not supposed to do which is analyze the joke (rather than just appreciate it). My wife has been working hard at writin
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I hadn't heard the Packer vs. Mapper analogy before and it's good. It reminds me of an experience I had in a different domain many years ago that I haven't been able to express in such succinct terms. I hired a bookkeeper&#x
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Options are legal to sell because in MOST cases (where insider trading is not happening), selling call options is a nice way to get "free money" (*note not actually free) and facilitates hedging and liquidity in the market. It&#x
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by nlh 3y ago
Oh fascinating - great find. Thank you! I like in particular the phrase "intellectual used-car-salesman voice" (LOL). ps - for those who are not subscribers: https://archive.ph/wkiWt
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Quick tangential question: I watched a few seconds that video and was immediately struck by how Mark sounds so....YouTube'ey? What is it about his intonation and narration style that is so distinctly YouTube? I don't watch enou
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100% agreed - yes and you helped me realize that I was confusing FSD and Autopilot. Everything you've said about Autopilot is correct and accurate and I agree. What I really meant to ask about is FSD -- thanks for the clarification!
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Serious question for fellow Tesla drivers: Does anyone currently use FSD? What's the value prop? I just got a Model Y and tried it out (it came with a 3 month free trial) and found it awful. To the point of this comment -- it'
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by nlh 3y ago
I had a high school friend with a relative who was a reasonably-successful hedge fund manager ($500M AUM in the early 2000s) - nothing crazy, no insane quants, just a pretty traditional (for the time) fund, and in moments of candor (usually
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> I've lost 75 pounds so far just making trade offs to stay full with less calories Nice work! You gotta do what works for you and I'm glad you've found a system that works for you. Keep it up!
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Look, I know what copyright law says and I know that LibGen is probably and actually illegal and that authors are entitled to payment and all that stuff. Heck I come from a family of authors so I get it. But man, can you imagine being the
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That was a delight to listen to. Thanks for sharing! (And highly recommend others spend the 5 minutes...)
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I just watched Norm perform that joke and I cannot for the life of me figure out why I'm laughing so hard. What an epic shaggy dog performance. (Thank you for sharing - I'd never heard it before).
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Very fair point. I considered revising that as I wrote it. I think consumers can and should be able to "protest" (for some definition of protest) by either choosing an alternative or tipping more or whatever. But that should be
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US perspective (eg theft of bikes / crime is not AS serious a problem as Brazil, although it can be bad): I'm a bit torn here. On the one hand, I fully empathize with the delivery drivers (particularly if the rules / policy
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It's amazing to me that in 2023 when the small-package industry (USPS, UPS, FedEx) is SO SO SO highly optimized that I have a choice of 3 carriers to get a box across the country in 1-2 days and by and large it works pretty darn well,
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Exactly - you beat me to it. Looker is the canonical example. I think folks would be up for a rude awakening if they really understood how many companies use Looker (or similar advanced analytics apps -- Sisense, ThoughtSpot, etc.) and ho
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Just want to chime in directly against the flow of negative comments re: security and say two things: 1) I too am exactly in your target audience and I'm psyched to check this out (I'm the solo tech operator of an ecom business an
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Second devil's advocate here: I know this isn't necessarily "good" in terms of security, but it's a very common pattern for higher-level tools these days to connect directly to databases. A LOT of marketing/a
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The basic answer is that when an certain type of organization gets to a certain size, they hire professional full-time sales people, and those sales people have been trained their whole career on Salesforce, so that's what they're
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I'll share a parable: When I first got into cycling as a hobby/activity, I didn't know anything other than "get a bike and ride it." I didn't know about clipless pedals or carbon wheels or gear ratios or anyth
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I had exactly this problem as a student -- it turns out I need to really grok the WHY before I am able to grok the what (and it only took me about 30 years to figure that out ;). So my best STEM subjects were always physics and geometry (th
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Pardon me for being out of the loop (I am not yet a homeowner and things like this are beyond me for the moment): Is there a reason heat pumps are now more relevant? Has there been a technological innovation here? Is this new technology?
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Nice! Congrats on shipping and thanks for sharing. What did you use to build this?
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Good catch - updated title!
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OpenAI Releases Function Calling for GPT-3.5 & GPT-4(platform.openai.com)
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I think they literally just use React as a templating language, basically. You write React components and this service renders them down to email-friend HTML. Like SSR but for email.
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Preface: I'm with you on this. But I think the targeting here is for a certain generation of companies where there is a very distinct backend/frontend split OR companies where everyone is a JavaScript dev (and the backend is Node

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