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What I find so funny about heads of AI companies coming out saying things like this, is their own career pages suggest they don't actually feel that way.

https://www.anthropic.com/careers/jobs

From what I have heard a lot of that job market is drying up due to AI / offshoring. I guess it depends on how solid your offers are.

I looked at it more last night. It would be great if you expanded into other forms of manufacturing and related services.

For example, if I am having a complex part machined, I probably need some electronics to drive that things. Having a supplier for electronic parts, circuit board printing, plastic molding for housing those electronics would be needed to finish the job.

Some of the geographic regions like `southwest` don't map to what I consider south west. Louisiana, isn't in the south west :)

Hell yeah! I have been looking for something like this.

On the home page when I search for something like `Southeast` it shows 0 shops, but if I actually select it I get 223. This was confusing and made me unsure of how many relevant hits I would find.

It would be really nice if you could search in smaller geographic areas. State boundaries would be really nice to start. As you continue having city / intra-state regions would also be huge for the cases where you want to go in person to these places.

I know everyone has strong opinions about Elon, but for $10/mo I would absolutely get this. At $50/mo, I don't have enough of a need to get it.

One of the reasons people choose webp is file size. If your images are smaller then you transfer and store fewer bytes. That can have benefits on cost and speed of transferring those to the client.

It isn't. You don't pay "msrp" at scale :)

I think that is because they are being judge by their outcomes.

In the space I was in (ads) users were highly mistrustful of the data. They felt everything was kind of fuzzy (eg how well are you measuring unique users and their actions).

They would end up using multiple vendors (and we would have to spend a lot of time comparing and contrasting results). They really really want "apples to apples" comparisons.

At the end of the day they were trying to answer, does what I am spending my money on give me the results the business needs? To your point there is a lot of nuanced data, but their bosses definitely only cared about the top line, did it move the needle.

That is interesting. I have worked in the space too, and have seen similar attitudes.

I think it often comes down to who is responsible for making decisions with that data. If a product or business person is the one driving a feature, and looking for adoption, the engineers likely aren't going to be invested in building out sophisticated metrics. They get the metrics they are responsible for from their cloud provider (resource use/latency/scale).

I think that problem is compounded by the perception that these integrations are going to tank your products perf (may hurt the metrics engineers care about).

I think all of those dynamics change in really big companies with thousands of engineers. Then you can often end up in a situation where engineers are now required to maximize product metrics, and need visibility into their small slice of the pie.

So, I think its largely incentive, which is why I see all of the metrics vendors targeting product and sales people in small/mid sized companies.

It sounds like you already know what sales peoples incentives are. They don't care about the tiny players who wanna use tiny slices. I was referring to people who are trying to push PB through these. GCPs policies make a lot of sense if they are trying to get major players to switch their compute/data host to reduce overall costs.

I feel like that is part of their cloud strategy. If your company wants to pump a huge amount of data through one of these you will pay a premium in network costs. Their sales people will use that as a lever for why you should migrate some or all of your fleet to their cloud.

That is what I was thinking too. This feels a bit like tesla-bad without actually making the argument, just using the tone.

3. Take the good benefits, and hopefully good work life balance and maximize for time with your family. There is always going to be the next thing. Find ways to satiate your curiosity (like attending conferences), while savoring time with your kid because you aren't busy/burntout from grinding at a startup :)

Not who you asked, but I have a similar setup. I can run everything I need for local development in that image (db, message queue emulator, cache, other services). So, setting things like environment variables or running postgres work the same as they do outside the container.

The image itself isn't the same image that the app gets deployed in, but is a portable dev environment with everything needed to build and run my apps baked in.

This comes with some nice side effects like being able to instantly spin up clean work environments on my laptop, someone elses, or a remote vm.

I'm glad to hear there are new maintainers, and am looking forward to the new updates.

This is a great write up, I hadn't seen much of the broader community. Thank you!

I wonder if they have any plans to sell those?

I’m just going to hold out as long as possible and hope Omarchy gets as stable and feature rich as possible in the time being.

Isn't Omarchy just config files for a bunch of existing, stable programs? Why wait?

Isn't website hosting already decentralized? I can host my site on one of the many different providers out there, I can host my own, or even deploy to multiple providers. Users can access my site without extra steps.

Why would I want to host my site on Nostr? What does it do better than the competition?

As a side note, your demo isn't viewable without the extension. Trusting a new browser extension has a high level of friction. It would be nice if your site gave some hint of why a user might want to jump through those hoops.

Elm has always seemed interesting, but the early breaking changes around the 0.19 release seemed to deal a mortal blow to the language.

Looking at the official repos, it looks like much of it hasn't been worked on in years.

What is the status of the project? Is there a fork that has taken over development, or is it a mostly dead curiosity?

“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.”

I wonder how they plan to handle spam? This seems like something that will get bad actors that drive out the good.

That was my takeaway too. Open source licenses are a bad fit for proprietary software that you want to sell.

I find your perspective to be very software centric, and I expect many people who work in heavy industry to have a very different perspective about this.

I was on the implementation end of a considerable amount of industrial automation and technological advancement about 10 years ago. When we were on site the result of making mistakes started at the death of a team member. There were a plethora of things that could kill you horribly, falls, hazardous environment, rotating equipment, etc.

Yet we all survived overhauling processes in hundreds of plants. Working in hazardous environments isn't untenable, or even particularly difficult to do safely. In fact we worked at a much faster pace (with fewer mistakes) than corporate world I work in now.

If you have any form of compliance or code that your work needs to conform to you can spend a considerable amount of time reading through code books looking for relevant sections to what you are doing. You might have a dozen or more of these codes where each one is 500-1000 pages long.

Semantic search to bring up the exact relevant pages is a killer feature.

Having an AI that has all the site specific information in it would also be killer for contractors who are constantly in and out of plants. Everyone has site specific rules, and you can easily burn up a few peoples day buy bringing them onsite and answering their first round of questions. An AI could let a lot of that be self serve.

It is pretty common that "weird" tlds get blocked more or less whole sale in places you might not expect.

The reason is spam. Before these can get wide spread "normal" adoption they can be heavily used by spammers. Its hard to say if that is because they have desirable look-a-likes available, or if its because the first year is offered at a deep discount. So, systems will get flooded, and on inspection they will see that they don't have any legit traffic from those tlds and will whole sale block them.

.xyz is kind of infamous for being in this situation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28554400

I have no idea if that applies to .coop though.

Your site has some rendering issues on firefox. Text on top of other text, and a big gray blob above the fold that I assume failed to load something.

https://about.fb.com/news/2024/11/facebook-and-instagram-to-...

Don't they already offer this? Did it get canceled?

I appreciate your point, and don't necessarily disagree. However, I think it is rough out there even for ivy graduates.

We have an intern from an Ivy (not MIT) that isn't getting an offer simply because my company doesn't want to hire in the US right now. They are great to work with, knowledgeable, but have no future here. They have been shopping around, and a lot of people on the team have been trying to find a place for them to go in their network, but no one is biting.