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We do a bit of the first 2. The third we never considered.

That's a great idea.

Hey, who are those people?

We’re indexing new people every single day and I can try to bump them up the queue!

For now, but we're trying to not be! Who are some folks you think we should add? I'd be happy to get them indexed.

Thanks! Agreed — and simple enough for us to fix. :)

Hey this is great feedback. We should definitely make it easier to come up with names and suggest more folks for you to subscribe to based off of topics

Well that's a fair point!

We're trying pretty hard to not come off as professional stalkers while still building something useful :)

we sincerely hope you get that car of yours!

Yup that's exactly right. Alerts are only sent out when original content is released.

Mentioned this in the earlier reply but you'll soon be able to do conditional alerts as well.

Some Examples:

- "Notify me when Elon talks about battery prices"

- "Notify me when Stéphane Bancel (Moderna CEO) talks about Delta Variant"

- "Notify me when Gladwell releases a new a book." :)

Who are some people you think we should add? We're looking to add more people every day :)

It actually works! I've found Google Alerts to be extremely noisy and alert me for content about certain people.

Alias only notifies you if the person actually participated/appeared on it vs. being covered.

We're also deeply indexing folks and their content so you'll be able to do conditional alerts.

Example: "Notify only me when Elon talks about battery prices" or "Notify me when Stéphane Bancel (Moderna CEO) talks about Delta Variant".

Hope that makes sense!

Appreciate the feedback here /u/xena —

This is a nice idea but feels like it could be used for stalking.

So we make sure to only aggregate publicly available information that the creator released and never include pieces about them or from someone else. We also make sure not to aggregate any gated/paywalled content.

The problem with having every creator opt-in is that that we'd never be able to launch the profiles because there are so many creators. But maybe we could have an opt-out? We actually have the ability for creators to claim their profiles as well and make changes/edits. So in theory, a creator that doesn't want to be indexed could hide all the content on their profile.

Does that address the concern? open to any other ideas you might have!

hey thanks! Nothing special just plain old CSS. :)

As far as our overall stack — we've been pretty happy with NextJS/TypeScript on the frontend and Hasura to power the backend. We use a combination of Vercel and Heroku for hosting!

Ah, thanks for the heads up. Our scripts still mess up the dates sometimes. It's harder than you'd think to pull dates from papers.

Just fixed. Thank you!

Great read.

“We could do something called the American Equity Fund. The American Equity Fund would be capitalized by taxing companies above a certain valuation 2.5% of their market value each year, payable in shares transferred to the fund..”

I could be in favor of something like this.

However, I’d be curious to hear Sam’s thoughts on what kind of vehicle do we use to ensure that this equity actually reaches end-users?

I can make a very strong historical case that the government is not the right vehicle for this to work. You could also just look at the most recent $1.9T stimulus bill — where only a fraction of it went out as checks to Americans in need.

It's probably because they are a 200B+ company

Have you written about your experience? I'd just be curious to know what you built, and the series of the events that unfolded.

Mind explaining a bit more here why Rust is a particularly good language to compile to wasm? Why does memory safety help here?

Asking out of ignorance!

I recently read this book and can certify that it’s a fantastic read — especially if you’re the kind of person that loves computing history.

I’d recommend getting the latest edition because the book was originally written in 1984 and the latest edition has fascinating interviews from Doug Engelbart, Alan Kay, Ted Nelson (and other titans) that took place in 1999 where they reflect on their prior predictions and make some predictions about the future.

What I loved about the book was that it painted a very vivid image of the technologies and ideas that were available at the time, and how these visionaries expected them to evolve. What I loved is that Rheingold walks you through the idea maze of computing (starting at the very very beginning) —- showing you different dead-ends and subsequent unlocks that happens through some combination of chance and brilliant insight.

I enjoyed the whole thing, but if you were force me to pick a single chapter to recommend I’d pick — “The Loneliness of a Long Distance Thinker”.

Agreed.

I went all the way to Question 9 and then closed it out.

It's fine to ask for money — but this felt misleading :(

Be weary of catching falling knives.

I've made that mistake before.

Haven't we been hearing about "software that doesn't require any tech skills to build" for 25 years now?

Does anyone here have examples of startups/products that tried to build "no-code" tools historically and failed? (aka. more examples like "Dreamweaver"?)

I don't have too much historical context on this stuff and would like to look at the graveyard. :)

Quick bit of feedback for any Comma employees lurking:

It took me a very long time to realize that this was a self-driving solution for existing vehicles. The hero just says

"Driven over 6 million miles" and then a "Buy Now".

When I scrolled down and looked at the product and read:

We’ve added an infrared camera to provide 24/7 driver monitoring, an integrated panda, a custom cooling solution, and an OBD-C port with power supplied directly from the car.

I thought it was some kind of dash cam + driver sleep monitor? Also, most of those words don't mean anything to me.

Only after deeply investigating it did I realize that it's basically Tesla Autopilot for existing vehicles.

You have an awesome value prop though, "Bring autopilot features, to your car." Make that clear!

"The system can only perform a single, highly technical calculation, according to the researchers, and the use of quantum machines to solve practical problems is still years away."

Do you use Slack?

You don't think it's Mission Critical?

I wish they identified Otonomo's IP address and served them a different (inaccurate) version of the product to copy instead.

Be wary of shorting such a high profiles stock!

This is cute :)

I have a question (I've tinkered with Serverless stuff but never on a production app) but my underlying assumption might be wrong.

I like that the cold boot up performance for a single function is super fast when compared to a "Legacy Server". But after the legacy server is up it "stays warm" regardless of user activity. Unlike a lambda function which goes cold after a few minutes of inactivity.

So the first user that hits an endpoint after some inactivity has to wait (a few seconds) for the lambda function to cold boot vs. being served immediately on the legacy server.

Is my assumption here true? Or are cold boots on lambda super fast now? When I was doing this stuff ~8 months ago it would take like 5+ seconds to be served after a cold boot.

This was so difficult for me to understand because the author tried _so hard_ to make this sound poetic.

Here's what I got..

- For a long time we thought that any information (matter/light) that goes into a blackhole is lost forever and is "corrupted".

- Hawking believed this for a long time and said “God not only plays dice, but he often throws them where they can’t be seen." No one really knows _how_ the blackhole actually "corrupted" the information but had some nutty theories.

- 30 years later (in 2004) Hawking changed his mind and said that information can actually be retrieved from a blackhole.

- A dude named Andrew Strominger recently discovered that black holes have this "soft hair" property that can be "read" to theoretically "see" what is inside the blackhole.

- Hawkings last paper says that he thinks the information inside will be re-emitted when the black hole evaporates.

TL;DR: Hawking for a long time thought matter/information that went into a blackhole was lost forever - and then changed his mind about it.

Then why take a check from google for $12B so that they can remain the default search engine?[0]

[0] http://fortune.com/2018/09/29/google-apple-safari-search-eng...

Here's the banner that they put up on peoples newsfeeds: https://imgur.com/G7sBbwX

Nowhere on that banner does Facebook make it clear that there was recently a severe security issue that may have resulted in the loss of personal user information (Making it much less likely for the user to actually click 'Learn More'). It's misleading to title this with just "An Important Security Update" and make it seem like they've just updated their systems. No mention of the recent compromise until you click 'Learn More'.