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These problems predate ChatGPT. Their API has been on the market for nearly 3 years. And they raised their first $1B in 2019. That's plenty of money and time to hire capable leadership.

If you're subscribed to their status page, you'll know it's actually unusual for a day to go by without an outage alert from OpenAI. They don't usually write them up like this but I guess this counts as PII leak disclosure for them? For having raised billions of dollars the are comically immature from a reliability and support perspective.

Have to appreciate the irony of someone's SEO spam submission (submitter works for a company selling scraping services) being SEO spammed in the comments...

Thanks for the links. And I read too. I see a lot of useful stuff that I will use for my site https://los-angeles-plumbers.com/

Some of you may be too young to remember the context of this. In 1993, an American was sentenced to be caned for what would be considered minor offenses in America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_P._Fay

There was a huge media frenzy in the run-up to the punishment. Then he got caned, had a sore bottom, and life went on.

Wow, surprised to hear this happens to other people! When I discover a new song I love, I'll nearly always have a night where I wake up with the song blaring in my head. Even if I don't know the song that well, my mind somehow reproduces intricate detail and fills in instrumental or lyrical gaps. In my teens and 20s I had really severe ear worms, some lasting for days or weeks. Fortunately that has lessened with age, but the nighttime concerts are still a regular occurrence.

Textbook burying of the lede here.

I love the innovation going on in the search space lately. Defaulting to a chat interface adds a lot of burden on your users (need to formulate a longer query) and yourself (need to nail the response in top1). Personally I think there's enough cool stuff in your grid/list views to make it useful without trying to shoehorn this into a chat UX.

I'm with you on this. I would love to be able to connect with ancestors I barely or never met, even if it only captures a fraction of their essence. I worked on this for a while but Microsoft holds a pretty broad patent on this concept, which scared me off.

Parent of two long-time Montessori kids here. We have been through both public and private Montessori schools. Unfortunately, the public one did not work out because they were heavily constrained by the district's requirements, so the Montessori aspects were very watered down.

What I like about Montessori is that if a child finds a "work" that interests them, they can really focus in on it until mastery instead of feeling pressured to follow a specific curriculum on a specific timeline. I also like the de-emphasis on grades and testing. These are distractions from learning IMO. As for academic progress, one of my kids picks things up early and the other picks things up late. It just depends on the child. We aren't yet to high school, so I can speak to that transition. I'd be lying if I said it didn't worry me a little, though, mostly because I think of high school as a stressful place and my kids are currently in a very low-stress place.

Interesting bit at the very end:

"As agents were about to begin the search, Ms. Morgan and Mr. Lichtenstein said they would leave their apartment, but wanted to take their cat, the filing says. The agents allowed Ms. Morgan to retrieve the cat, which was hiding under the bed.

But as Ms. Morgan crouched by the bed and called to the cat, she positioned herself next to a night stand that held one of her cellphones, the filing says. She then reached up and grabbed the phone, and repeatedly hit the lock button in what prosecutors say was an apparent effort to make it harder for investigators to search the phone’s contents.

The agents had to wrest the phone from Ms. Morgan’s hands. Court records provided no further information about the cat."

Do you think she was trying a hard reset or something?

Not the NIH, but this was actually a thing for several decades up until Trump:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_President%27s_Challenge

It does not seem to have been effective.

This started out interesting but strayed into rant territory pretty quickly.

"Tesla will be reporting earnings just as this article goes to publication today. But in my view, any “fundamental” news coming from Tesla’s earnings is rather meaningless. Why? Because we’re talking about a company completely divorced from any semblance of fundamental value."

Author: complains that investors are ignoring fundamentals

Also Author: ignores fundamentals

AKA How to end up with zero remote jobs.

Seriously, don't do this. Just because you can exploit a system doesn't mean you should.

Funny, I just asked Alexa to set a timer and she said there was a problem doing that. Apparently timers require functioning us-east-1 now.

Hard disagree here. In practice, corporate wikis are always graveyards of outdated and incomplete information. The process usually looks like this:

1. Someone is excited about a new project and creates a wiki page with a lot of aspirational introductory content and a sketch of the rest of the page with TBD everywhere

2. Author gets busy on other things, leaves the company, or the project quickly diverges from the original vision

3. The original page stays in the wiki, adding negative value

Congrats on your launch. This is an obvious pain point and challenging to scale to put it lightly. I did have to chuckle a little at this though:

internal development teams (who end up being stuck doing this kind of work)

I can just imagine your job ads now: "100% of your job is doing the work all developers hate to do!"

A lot is said about portion sizes nowadays, but that chicken dinner from 1960 looks like a gut buster!

The opening of Live Evil is one of my favorite bass grooves of all time. A good portion of that album is very difficult to sit through, though. Interesting intellectually and historically but not something I find myself putting on for pleasure. Something about the trumpet does not lend itself well to electronic treatments IMO.

Great reads, thanks for sharing. It's like you can see him getting angrier and more disillusioned with jazz and the industry in general with each session. I also learned a new racist slur from that last one!

It's not that SNL is some strong influencer, it's just indicative that the current name will be an easy punchline and feed into existing fears.

Considering they're already being skewered on SNL, I have to imagine a rebranding is in the cards. https://youtu.be/3c6MqOB4n9o?t=14

Yep. At best this holds true for 12-18 months. The founders/execs play dumb in the interest of minimizing attrition.

Work in government, education, or non-profit. I've worked in 2 of those and was regularly pressured by management to work less hard lest I make everyone look bad. My first job out of college for a non-profit (only company that would hire me) involved about 30 minutes a day of actual work.

What would they patent exactly? Group voice chat? I imagine someone patented that decades ago and if anything, Clubhouse will be licensing or fighting patent trolls soon if they aren't already.

Ugh, I can so relate to this right now. I followed their Node embedded app tutorial closely, submitted my app, then found out they no longer allow embedded apps to use cookies like their tutorial does. Finding up to date documentation is a struggle and some of the components they suggest you use are closed source and completely undocumented.

Notice how the most successful startups in the world all have remarkable genesis stories.

I like this article and philosophy, but I had to scoff at this point. I've seen too many startups invent their remarkable genesis story to create a convenient narrative. The truth is usually mundane and largely/entirely money-driven.

Haven't been able to successfully log in (server issues?) but definitely a cool video.

I'm guessing you didn't build the photos -> model tech from scratch in 10 weeks. What are you using for that piece?

I'd say the bigger challenge is building something that is defensible. It's not that hard to design a GPT-3 prompt that summarizes reviews or writes ad copy, so you quickly find yourself with a bunch of competition and not much to differentiate on besides price.

This sounds like another tool like Carta that VCs will require their portfolio companies use, thus giving you free reign to charge whatever you want. I will resent you just like I resented Carta, but you will do great. Best of luck!

This blog post strikes me as poorly written, overly emotional, and light on reasons to care. While not Amazon-sized, Elastic is itself a rather large company. Am I supposed to be upset that you're having difficulty getting even larger because of Amazon? Considering you're the experts on this product, shouldn't you be confident in your ability to differentiate from someone offering it as an afterthought? If anything, Amazon's poor support of their Elastic offering amounts to lead gen for a properly run solution. Finally, feel free to change your license now that your original license is no longer conducive to your growth aspirations, but whining that "not OK" Amazon forced you to do it just comes across as sour grapes.