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Loads of AI chatter is the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect on steroids

Programmers continuing to become more expensive, computers continuing to become less so. Therefore, the smart bet was on making those programmers more productive EVEN AT THE EXPENSE OF THE COMPUTER!

Simple but brilliant insight.

Congrats! Huge get :)

I used Blot for about 5 years for Second Breakfast. Its ease of use got me started blogging. Very cool app/service, highly recommend.

I had it strung up with RSS to Mailchimp to auto-send new posts to a mailing list. Recently just switched to Ghost to make that more integrated, we'll see how it goes!

[Author here] I really have no definition of agency. Do you know of any good ones?

Haven't thought of this. Couldn't you just give a model a way to constantly "chew" on something? Maybe an ever-ending loop of some sort of prompt stimulation?

Going to actually link to this comment in my footnote, I loved that snippet from his interview

Do you have an API where you can get audio clips back reasonably quickly? Like if I wanted to use this in a voice support bot, could I send a text blurb to an API and fairly quickly get back an audio file?

The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Teaching the history and story of the scientists who made different genetic discoveries, and along the timeline they made those discoveries, made everything make sense.

Love bill burr

Reminds me of the George Carlin bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdSi9NW5u3E

Humor aside, it's a depressing worldview to me that each marginal human is a net negative. I take the opposite view, that each human is a net positive - and we need all the brainpower we can get to solve all of our problems.

I disagree that there are too many people. Have you read much about the Malthus/George debates? Malthus has now been wrong for 200 years (and counting).

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We bootstrapped for 5 years, raised money a year ago, and are in growth mode now. We're a tight product team - just four full-time engineers and no dedicated product managers yet.

We're hiring founding engineers who want to be on a tight-knit team, take on really hard challenges in a huge market, and consistently ship beautiful software.

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You should build this! This is one of those "all of the above" moments.

Interesting, why do you think Hitchens wanted to be Orwell? [I know he was a huge admirer, but he also seemed he lived quite a different life with different kinds of output.]

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Unlocking the power of memberships for local food companies.

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We're a real business. We bootstrapped for 5 years and then closed our first funding in company history from an amazing group of investors this past spring. We're currently 11 full-time employees and 2 part-time contractors with plans to double our team in the next 6 months. Hiring for:

- Senior Ruby on Rails developer (3+ years of experience)

- Vue developer (1+ year of experience)

- Product Manager (we're looking for people genuinely interested in our problem space of local business, e-commerce, and texting)

Email work@bottle.com

Bottle | Remote (we have people in NYC, ATL, Hawaii, CO, Greece, South Africa, and Poland) | Full-time | bottle.com

Bottle wants to keep everyone stocked with insanely good local food.

Bottle combines memberships, e-commerce, texting, and automation so that farmers, chefs, winemakers, bakers, picklers, and pizza makers can sell direct and build better businesses. (Read more about our master plan: https://blog.sendbottles.com/bottle-master-plan/)

We're a real business. We bootstrapped for 5 years and then closed our first funding in company history from an amazing group of investors this past spring. We're currently 10 full-time employees and 2 part-time contractors with plans to double our team in the next 6 months. Hiring for:

- Senior Ruby on Rails developer (3+ years of experience)

- Vue developer (1+ year of experience)

- Product Manager (we're looking for people genuinely interested in our problem space of local business, e-commerce, and texting)

Email work@bottle.com

DNSimple

Bottle | Remote (we have people in NYC, ATL, Hawaii, CO, Greece, South Africa, and Poland) | Full-time | bottle.com

Bottle wants to keep everyone stocked with insanely good local food.

Bottle combines memberships, e-commerce, texting, and automation so that farmers, chefs, winemakers, bakers, picklers, and pizza makers can sell direct and build better businesses. (Read more about our master plan: https://blog.sendbottles.com/bottle-master-plan/)

We're a real business. We bootstrapped for 5 years and then closed our first funding in company history from an amazing group of investors this past spring. We're currently 10 full-time employees and 2 part-time contractors with plans to double our team in the next 6 months. Hiring for:

- Senior Ruby on Rails developer (3+ years of experience)

- Vue developer (1+ year of experience)

- Product Manager (we're looking for people genuinely interested in our problem space of local business, e-commerce, and texting)

Email work@bottle.com

Bottle | Remote (we have people in NYC, ATL, Hawaii, CO, South Africa, and Poland) | Full-time | bottle.com

Bottle wants everyone eating insanely good local food.

Bottle helps farmers, chefs, winemakers, bakers, picklers, and pizza makers build strong and durable membership-based businesses using text messages. (Read more about our master plan: https://blog.sendbottles.com/bottle-master-plan/)

We're a real business. We bootstrapped for 5 years and then closed our first funding in company history from an amazing group of investors this past spring. We're currently 8 full-time employees and 3 part-time contractors with plans to double our team in the next 6 months. Hiring for:

- Senior Ruby on Rails developer (3+ years of experience)

- Vue developer (1+ year of experience)

- Product Manager (we're looking for people genuinely interested in our problem space of local business, ecommerce, and texting)

Email work@bottle.com

Bottle | Remote (we have people in NYC, ATL, Hawaii, and abroad) | Full-time | bottle.com

Bottle wants everyone eating insanely good local food.

Bottle helps farmers, chefs, winemakers, bakers, picklers, and pizza makers build strong and durable membership-based businesses using text messages. (Read more about our master plan: https://blog.sendbottles.com/bottle-master-plan/)

We're a real business. We bootstrapped for 5 years and then closed our first funding in company history from an amazing group of investors a few months ago. We're currently 6 full-time employees and 3 part-time contractors with plans to double our team in the next 6 months. Hiring for:

- Lead Ruby on Rails developer (3+ years of experience, to take over backend engineering)

- Lead Vue developer (1+ year of experience)

- Product Manager (we're looking for people genuinely interested in our problem space of local business, ecommerce, and texting)

Email work@bottle.com

Followup: Just set this up and it works perfectly. Forked the repo and made some formatting changes and set up a Github action to pull in new transactions every hour. The bonus part is I also linked my checking accounts and other credit card, so all my transactions get pulled in to a spreadsheet and formatted how I want them. Thanks for the tip.

Ah yep. This looks amazing. Forking now.

Ah, haven't heard of parser.zapier.com before. Yes I mentioned Zapier! This could be perfect, will report back.

Smart idea. I want a little more structured data though, around merchant name and transaction amount.

Yes this looks great.

LGA doesn't allow any flights from more than 1,500 miles[^0], so has to be either JFK or EWR.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaGuardia_Airport

Bottle | Remote (we have people in NYC, ATL, Hawaii, and abroad) | Full-time | bottle.com

Bottle wants everyone eating insanely good local food.

Bottle helps farmers, chefs, winemakers, bakers, picklers, and pizza makers build strong and durable membership-based businesses using text messages. (Read more about our master plan: https://blog.sendbottles.com/bottle-master-plan/)

We're a real business. We bootstrapped for 5 years and then closed our first funding in company history from an amazing group of investors a few months ago. We're currently 6 full-time employees and 3 part-time contractors with plans to double our team in the next 6 months. Hiring for:

- Lead Ruby on Rails developer (3+ years of experience, to take over backend engineering)

- Lead Vue developer (1+ year of experience)

- Product Manager (we're looking for people genuinely interested in our problem space of local business, ecommerce, and texting)

Email work@bottle.com

Better stuff gets made in this kind of ecosystem.

Are we not currently living in a content golden age? Is there any measure of quality and quantity now vs the past? It feels like there's a new amazing mini series and movie and show every week.

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- No-Code Specialist (PART-TIME) (to help us build out Zapier, Hubspot, Front, and Retool workflows) (SQL knowledge a plus but not required)

- We are also hiring full-time Vue and Rails developers (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27029065)

Email work@bottle.com