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I have tried several times to get Node.js into the military on approved software lists for internal development and its a huge struggle

What's on the approved stack? I imagine .Net and Java/spring are the standard, right? anything else like php, python, go etc?

I bet they could have 2 interns porting the thing to Google App Engine and then migrate the database

How can you possibly have this assessment without looking at the code/infra?

There are many things that affect cost beyond the visible features. The project isn't in a vacuum. It's interlocked with their other services infrastructure.

You can judge Google however you want, but they're not stupid or amateurs. These types of announcements immensely damages their image and affect their customers, if they could avoid it easily as you imagine, why would they not?

They've built the service and run it for many years for billions of people. A more realistic guess would be that for whatever reason, the price is higher than what's visible on the surface and they're not willing to pay it.

The real reason is probably maintenance due to some hidden costs like conflicting infrastructure and they couldn't justify migrating it.

Related discussion (2 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40998549

Discussion of the previous announcement in 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16719272

Normally I'd not pay too much attention to these comments but the assessment here is spot on. I'd say LLMs articles in general are:

  1- Always longer than necessary with a lot of fluff

  2- Favor lists and hierarchy

I asked Gemini to "write an article about self hosting" and the output structure and content is eerily similar

Here is a side by side comparison: https://i.postimg.cc/kXXpWgnZ/why-it-look-like-LLM-generated...

What are the use cases you Invision?

Not OP, but they said the following in an answer to similar question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40940707

"The technology is extremely flexibile, off the top of my head:

* Education (Linux, Programming, Security, ...)

* Live docs for arbitrary languages and binary libraries

* Preservation of historical software and games

* Virtualization of legacy Windows enterprise apps.

* Dev environment for Web IDEs

Just a few examples, the list could go on for long"

I think you're on the same page here. They might not have expressed it clearly but it's about pivoting and adapting to the market.

I'm also reminded of Mike Tyson's quote: "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face".

Things rarely go as planned, so you should favor following leads and taking advantage of opportunities, instead of sticking rigorously to some plan you put together when you were less experienced.

Unless there's evidence the original plan is still viable, oftentimes, being attached to it and ignoring what's the market is telling you is just your ego speaking.

Feature factories are a thing for a reason.

If anything that goes against the parent comment, how Apple has more revenue per engineer while not being a feature factory by any stretch

In any case, taking both of the comments combined kinda prove my point, that higher revenue can be attributed to many things completely outside how many products/features was shipped:

- Pricing strategy

- You can have a monopoly with a single shitty product

- You can be middle man/broker with no product to begin with

- You can be running a Ponzi scheme or committing fraud

So it doesn't make sense to use revenue (or revenue per team member) as a way to compare teams between different companies and furthermore possibly across completely separate markets and industry

What does revenue got to do with producing/shipping products? maybe you quoted the wrong sentence?

You can have millions of dollars in revenue without producing anything, on the other hand, you can also provide a lot of services and products for free

from this obviously bad take

This is like saying your evaluation of my property, back when it was in bad shape was wrong... because after renovating the entire thing and fixing its issues, I got a different price.

From the linked article:

Is there some way Microsoft could come back? In principle, yes

So, of course if you manage to change the input, you'll get a different output.

Today's Microsoft (WSL, Edge, Bing, Azure, VSCode, copilot, etc) is so different from 2007 you wouldn't even recognize it as the same company. Just like what Paul Graham has said they needed to change if they were to survive.

PG wasn't wrong, it's just that Microsoft was resurrected later in 2014 by Satya Nadella.

When Paul wrote this, the industry was witnessing a technological revolution across the board (smartphones, AWS, Google docs, etc) while Microsoft was drugged and lacking behind on all fronts. At the time, their latest product launch was probably Windows Vista.

It was a different company back then and it's such an amazing feat of Satya to manage to steer a ship of Microsoft's size.

What are you expectations of Google X based on? in other words, what are you measuring against? Are there similar research ventures pursuing moonshots that are doing better?

Your comment was pretty harsh. Google X has been around for what? only 14 years? The number of projects they funded and the researchers they employed during that time frame is great initiative and admirable on its own.

Google X is a failure. Waymo is the only worthwhile thing they ever did and it predates X (as Chauffeur).

A failure in what sense? It's their research arm.

It feels crazy to bash down what they're doing even if it led nowhere. I'd prefer the money goes toward funding "failed research" than sit in their bank accounts.

Do you feel the same way about NASA, CERN, scientific research in general? There are many areas that receive significant funding for decades and lead nowhere by the looks of it.

Seems strange that people were damning algorithmic social media walls but are now welcoming preprocessed reality.

Are they the same people? The vast majority of users are consumers, they don't even think about these stuff, they only complain when the product degrade.

I don't see the privacy crowd who were conscious about their data and algorithmic feeds, are treating commercial LLMs products differently.

Not if they're trying to sell me something...

How do you know they're trying to sell you something without even reading the email?

Your question was "Do you read/answer cold outreaches then? Why?" which doesn't make much sense. For me, and I imagine the same applies for most people:

1. You read until you find a clue that its content is not of interestt. Usually the email subject doesn't say much.

2. You only reply if you need.

Cold outreach are genuine emails that covers colleagues, new clients, job opportunities, someone reaching out to collaborate, etc. How you deal with it depends on your profile and who you've given your email address to. Personally, I have many email addresses, for some I don't even check my inbox.

If someone manages to generate a letter that I actually find useful and interesting

But that's inconsistent with the example you put forward. For the email to be interesting a human would need to research and approach every prospect independently, how many emails a day they can do? 5, 10, 20, 100?

It's simply not possible for a human to generate 100,000 personalized email by hand. That's the difference.

Do you read/answer cold outreaches then? Why?

Do you only read emails from recognized addresses? No new communication whatsoever unless it's initiated by you?

what’s the difference?

The key difference here is personalization.

Traditionally, if a message was personalized it fell under 'cold outreach' and users were more likely to interact and play along. Just like what happened with the author (the same applies for everyone).

It's like the difference between receiving a flyer vs being contacted by a sales representative. Even if it's they advertise the same product, the perception is different, the results are different.

If you're mean the difference from a pure technical spam detection perspective, I'm not familiar, but would love to read more about the subject and the state of the art techniques if anyone has some resources to recommend.

What evidence of AI is there?

They admit (or actually brag) about it on their company blog "I used AI agents to send out nearly 1,000 personalized emails to developers with public blogs on GitHub."

Do you think they're bluffing?

That sounds an awful lot like a static site generator to me?

Right? They didn't abandon the concept, they just picked a solution that better fits their needs. Less headache, less abstraction, and less surprises overall.

How do you scale your site or add * number of posts or headers and footers that do things like show the latest post?

It depends on your needs, some use a templating language (like Handlebars, Nunjucks, Pug, etc), others might write a script to build the site

The problem with many static site generators is that they grow beyond their initial mission and get bloated in an effort to please a wider audience, so previous adopters get tired of the imposed complexity and problematic dependencies they didn't need or ask for and start looking for simpler solutions that meet their needs.

  I want to migrate, but my blog currently has this cool thing and I need it.

I’m not sure the customer really loses out if ms are saving them another subscription + integration cost.

Not only the customer will pay the price 10 fold down the line, the entire industry/ecosystem will suffer after Microsoft effectively kill every alternative product.

They're not doing the customers a favor. It's a business 101 tactic to dominate the market. In the end, the customer will be abused and strangled with no other option to turn to.

It's true that the US lawsuit was in 2001, but the EU antitrust fine (the discussion subject here) for failing to comply with offering a browsers ballot screen was in 2013[1], merely 11 years ago.

Roughly the same crew still running the show, it didn't slip through their mind, just the $732 million fine wasn't enough to deter them from doing it again

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/07/technology/eu-fines-micro...

Some background for anyone interested: The project is a fork of `roblox/react-lua` to basically open it up for community engagement and it uses Luau

Roblox's Luau: https://luau-lang.org/

Luau is a fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua.

Around 2006, Roblox started using Lua 5.1 as a scripting language for games. Over the years the runtime had to be tweaked to provide a safe, secure sandboxed environment; we gradually started accumulating small library changes and tweaks.

Is the internet a shape made up of ALL corners?

Sounds like a Geodesic Sphere.

Personally I see it more as an international city rich of intersections, and as such, full of different corners

Related:

North Korea hacked him, so he took down its internet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30180566 - Feb 2022 (238 comments)

Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco will poison DNS to Block Piracy as Ordered by Court

  A: I’ve seen many founders who got deep into the fundraising cycles without ever realizing they could take a cent out.

  B: I have known zero founders who have turned down an option to take money off the table [...] I love the idea of your universe, though.

The rate of civilians and combatants dead is lower than the average of urban wars

You're talking proudly as if killing tens of thousands of civilians (most of which are children) is "a quota" you need hit.

Israel seeks to minimize collateral damage to Palestinian victims

Where's the evidence? Please don't say something atrocious like "We could've killed more than 35,000 civilians if we wanted. This is just a taste". We've seen you bombing aid workers, ambulances, and international medics. Remember the World Central Kitchen aid convoy attack?

If your objective is truly to destroy the terrorists and you wish no harm to the innocent civilians. Why don't you take the civilians as refugees instead of bombing them and pushing them out of their land to other countries? We've seen the blockade. We've seen the illegal settlements and kicking people of their homes and land. We've seen babies dying of malnutrition. We've seen how you treat the innocent civilians outside and long before this war. Are you going to say "Look at the US, our killing of aboriginals and taking over their land is on average with other colonial powers so that makes it ok"?

Isn't it weird how you claim you "didn't mean it" but at the same time you never actually express any empathy or condolences to the tens of thousands of victims and their families?

OP mentioned having 4000 feeds, inoreader free plan is limited 150 (afaik it's actually the most generous among similar services, eg: feedly is limited to 100)

> ...the posts are (usually) longer form articles instead of short bits.

If I want superficial takes, I can get more than my fill of them IRL

I'm confused, where did this assumption of low-quality come from?

Are you thinking of SEO spam articles? which targets mainstream search engines in order to increase ad views and revenue? Those type of websites are on a different spectrum and usually RSS-hostile to begin with.

Anyway, RSS is a standard, it's not limited (or related) to "superficial takes" you can use it to follow your favorite short-form content too.