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Whenever I come across such news, it seems like we are still far from grasping the complete picture. It's akin to gazing at the sky without a telescope and assuming we have seen all the stars in the universe.

I speculate that in the coming decades or centuries, a new instrument may enable us to delve deeper into the atom and reveal that what we perceive now is merely a minuscule fraction of the whole picture.

Perhaps the notion that the subatomic world is as vast as the universe, as stated by Richard Feynman when he said "There’s plenty of room at the bottom.", holds more truth than we realize.

I think we're stretching the definition of "logos" here. Just sticking text in a square doesn't make it a true logo.

Think of Apple or Nike, those are real logos. The recent logos and icons, including apps like Photoshop's, seem more like we're prioritizing metrics over creativity.

One neat trick I discovered for finding good movies on IMDb is to delve into the review history of users who share my unique tastes, especially when they diverge from mainstream opinions.

For example, I found "Paris, Texas" to be pretty disappointing, yet most reviews were overwhelmingly positive. So, I sought out others who also didn't enjoy it and explored their review history to find movies we both agreed on.

Occasionally, you'll hit the jackpot and find an avid reviewer whose taste aligns perfectly with yours, providing a treasure trove of excellent movie recommendations.

I like to call these users my "IMDb doppelgangers."

First one I started 10 years ago. I built a bot that auto DMed people in various internet forums. My first 100 users came from that.

Isn't this by definition Spamming people as you were using bots to mass DM people?

When I was younger, I was fascinated by evolution, especially the intricacies of how things just work. This fascination also explains why many people believe in the intelligent design theory.

However, witnessing the rapid evolution of AI with just a few hundred GPUs, enough data, and power, I no longer wonder what a billion years of feedback loops and randomness can achieve.

So, ACF injected notices into everyone's dashboards to push their own legal agenda. It’s a move that reeks of self-interest more than community benefit.

While everyone’s ready to grab their pitchforks at Matt, this actually sounds somewhat reasonable. Still, given its impact, this could easily be seen as a breach of trust. Definitely a move that's going to stir the pot.

I recently read "Sell or Be Sold" by Grant Cardone. While the author might come off as a bit scammy, the book itself offers valuable insights. The key takeaway for me was the importance of genuinely believing in what you're selling. You need to be convinced that your product or service is the best possible solution for your customer, whether it's in terms of value for money, ease of use, or any other criteria. By selling it, you're actually improving their life.

As a programmer, I found this perspective particularly enlightening. It taught me that effective selling isn't just about persuasion; it's about conviction and truly understanding the value of what you're offering.

I've often thought that simpler technology tends to be more robust because it has fewer moving parts.

This might be an apples-to-oranges comparison, but I've noticed that writing vanilla PHP or JavaScript code, while harder at first, results in more robust and easier-to-debug applications. On the other hand, using frameworks, ORMs, and other abstractions can make the codebase feel brittle and harder to maintain.

A little OT but instead of a regex a LLM can be really good to fix HN titles and avoid such errors, e.g.

    Prompt: remove any hyperbole from this title otherwise leave it as it is: "just for fun. no really"


    Gpt 4: The title “Just for Fun. No Really” doesn’t contain any hyperbole, so it can be left as it is.

The concept is good but the site design is just awful. The page is non responsive. Can't search and the scroll is very slow. Not sure why a such a simple page is designed to take up so much CPU.

Why didn't a big company like Snapchat not have certificate pinning? Something is amiss here!?

I have a deep admiration for Steve Jobs and the revolutionary impact Apple had on the computing world. They truly had the potential to push the boundaries of innovation even further. However, it's disappointing to see how they have clamped down on innovation under the guise of security. By turning against hackers, who were once their allies, they have stifled the very spirit of creativity and exploration that once defined them.

In contrast, I'm grateful for my Android phone. Despite its own set of issues, it still allows me the freedom to root it and truly own my device. This openness fosters a community of innovation and experimentation, something that Apple seems to have moved away from. It's a reminder that while security is important, it shouldn't come at the cost of stifling innovation and user freedom.

I really was hoping that tailwind was a fad which died but like everything JavaScript it's here to stay sadly

I recently found myself staring at a button element with more classes than I have ever seen like <button class="bg-blue-500 hover:bg-blue-600 text-white font-bold py-2 px-4 rounded-md shadow-md">Click me!</button>.

It’s like the eccentric artist who insists on using every color in the palette. After been forced to use it for almost 2 years I still don't see the point. Your HTML files? Bloated. Your sanity? Questionable. And those cryptic class names? Why God did we have to do this.

Speaking as an amateur programmer, is this like Laravel's livewire or intertiajs with inline blade component? (but in Elixir). Or is this something else?

I think the green and red color is a must for all sliders.

It's very hard to tell if it's On or Off when it's a monochrome slider.

In other words, don't use this site blindly.

Very true!

For example:

Very + Old = Ancient

My granda is very old vs My grandma is ancient.

My laptop is old but I really want to try this. What options do I have to use this? Speaking as a total n00b can I install and run this on a EC2 instance? What is the minimum instance type (like c4.xlarge, etc) recommended for running this?

I wish there was a ready-made way to get access to the UI with all the options enabled and a fixed monthly price with hopefully a RESTful api. This is so amazing. Great work!

Having just purchased copilot and a user of Tabnine in the past (using Phpstorm) here is my own personal opinion. The suggestions offered by Tabnine weren't anywhere good as copilot - not even by a long shot (at least for PHP and Javascript).

But almost an year has passed since I used this so I don't know if they have had a major update and the results are improved, but previously 1 out of 10 tabnine suggestions were barely useful, compared to 9 out of 10 with copilot.

Since it's a paid offering now I really hope they've upped their game.

I was hoping to like this but the pricing is a total deal-breaker for me.

Personally, AWS' and Google's pay-as-you-go plan win every time regardless of the "better" and "cheaper" claims IMO. You must introduce pay-as-you-go plans if you really want some good traction. I really like the Entrepreneur voice (the professor sounds like Jordan Peterson)

On more thing, I think in the comparison you have sampled the AWS non-neural voice while using the price of neural voice for the price comparison - this does not sound like a fair comparison to me (but please correct me if I'm wrong and I'll edit my comment).

A lot of things can be learnt using books and mentors but as far as selling is concerned you might as well be asking "how did you learn to swim?"

It's the same answer.. you learn to swim by swimming. You can ask all the people jumping into the water on which technique is best and what hacks are the best.. but even after all the advice you will get shocked and struggle with it when you jump in the first time and it will take a lot practice before you do the first lap.

So depending on the type of profession there is no better way to pick up the phone, write that email or start connecting with the right people (irl or online) and just get started to learn it.

A little OT but why do flatpaks take so much size? I have a small partition for linux and last time I ran out of disk space it was because these flatpaks were taking nearly 1GB for simple programs that I reckon should not be more than 10MB executables.

Is this like iTunes on windows where it downloads the whole apple operating system to run the software? I know disk space is cheap but it's not always the case especially with these new laptops with fixed and small nvme drives.

edit: just found out this too requires 2.4GB disk space :/

This idea is good, design is awesome. Here is a little feedback

1. It needs categories. I don't feel motivated to read most of the conversations but if those were related to my interest i definitely would.

2. users should be able to add some bios, who are these people.

3. where it says you can start a conversation there could be a list of experts in my category i can send the question to, not popular people but people who have posted a lot in that category. this can be quora without the spam!

Gmail has become very aggressive with spam filtering and it's understandable with the amount of emails being sent. But this whole thing about spam filtering, dkim, spf, feel like band-aids over band-aids all the way down.

A customer recently filed a PP dispute that she never got the software she ordered. She didn't get my emails as all support and welcome emails were going to spam.

There has got to be better way to communicate without so many closed-source gatekeepers deciding your fate. It's been decades since the internet was invented yet we still use such a fragile non-deterministic approach for handing basic communication.

Btw spritz is an evil company who bullies software developers with their ridiculous and vague patents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9046034

Yeah i was thinking the same thing. Sure it a cute little feature if it works, but to say that "it breaks your brain." is taking hyperbole to a whole new level. Either this person is very easily amused or has been drinking the apple kool aid for a very long time.

Wow that's such an insightful comment. Never really thought about that. Puts my whole thinking about website analytics in a new light.

Really appreciate you taking the time to write this. After some initial research I see not using UTM tracking tags(1) in all my URLs (or redirects) is a big mistake. So duly noted. You're right about one thing though that since there is no direct integration with Adwords / GWM you're losing out on a lot of info using anything else other than GA.

(1) https://plausible.io/blog/utm-tracking-tags

While with most of them you get what I would call "vanity metrics" (so not really actionable, more or less just "numbers go up or down")

This comment couldn't have come at a better time for me. I was just trying to compare the free analytics available and plausible looked okay to me. But since I haven't done anything actionable yet I think I'll research a little more.

so not really actionable

What would you define as actionable metrics? Are you talking about the custom page triggers like scroll depth, click on obl, etc? Can you recommend what are the biggest actionable events for a saas site since you have experience with it?

My source of knowledge on this is sadly a few youtube tutorials but if there is any resource you would recommend I'd highly appreciate the link.

I think there should be term like suffering from open-source fatigue.

Being an active open source dev myself I can relate to this but at the same time I also have been on the other side of the fence when my oss projects didn't get a lot of traction and any mention from anyone, even if it was an issue, got me really excited and it also kinda validated my efforts.

It's like being a mini celebrity feeling happy when somebody asks for your first autograph but as you become more successful more people want your time and attention and then you don't want it anymore. Also unlike being a celebrity you may get some fame but rarely any fortune, so that makes it all the more easy to get annoyed when people try to eat your attention for their own benefit.

You're absolutely right. I don't know what OP is going on about but no there were 0 taxis with apps at least in Birmingham.

I just checked with my friends too and not one person remembers using an app to call a cab before uber. It is possible that some company possibly offered it but it certainly wasn't a popular option before Uber and it was just awful using the taxis here.

There is no way you can hide ads and sponsored posts on Facebook

Why is that? How come it's possible to block tweets but not FB posts? Is FB using some vastly different technology than Twitter/Reddit/etc that makes it impossible? If so then what's stopping Twitter/Reddit from doing the same?

Anybody who knows about adblocking care to explain this?