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What's your setup for using voice with the agents and for handling your inbox zero? OpenClaw?

Yeah, my use case would have required a heavy node or playwright import to convert the SVGs to other formats or show them correctly outside of browsers. This keeps it all SVG and it looks and feels good and lighter.

I love SVG! Recently I needed to render markdown in SVG and found no library existed for that yet so I released one:

github: https://github.com/davefowler/markdown-svg playground: https://markdown-svg-production.up.railway.app

I love that the recipe example is still being used as one of the main promising use cases for computers and now AGI. One day hopefully computers will solve that pressing problem...

Yeah, isn't the main user of those tools non-developers? It's not that developers are getting lazy, it's that people who aren't developers also have technical needs (and some chops).

I've used a similar smart outlet on a timer to just shut my wifi off at 9pm. I then put an alarm on my computer to give me a 15 minute wrap-up warning.

I liked one-sec but now prefer https://www.getclearspace.com

I recently released suggestion-mode functionality for prosemirror

https://github.com/davefowler/prosemirror-suggestion-mode

and now I'm building it into my reading and note taking app for a better interaction of AI giving assisted edits, most similar to the Patchwork project from ink and switch https://www.inkandswitch.com/patchwork/notebook/07/

companion or replacement?

Did this get removed from the home page? As I write this it was posted 2 hours ago with 48 points and 73 comments. Should definitely be on the home page. Why are we filtering content like this?

Regulating is very hard at the software level but not hard at the hardware level. The US and allies control all major chip manufacturing. Open AI and others have done work showing that regulating compute should be significantly easier to do than other regulations we've done such as nuclear https://www.cser.ac.uk/media/uploads/files/Computing-Power-a...

Stargate = Skynet?

@malcomgreaves I'm not sure you caught the intended target of @cle's comment. I believe he was talking about your comment being the thing he thought may be intentionally ironic, not PG's essay.

One of the main points in the essay: "The problem with political correctness was not that it focused on marginalized groups, but the shallow, aggressive way in which it did so"

And your comment is a classic example of that behavior.

I try to get around with just an apple watch. The most frustrating part is needing (or worrying I'll need) to take an uber or a lyft (my main modes of transport). They discontinued their watch apps and their api's are very locked down.

I've tried this several times too and still do phone less days quite often thanks to the watch, but my big obstacle has been the lack of Uber/Lyft which I use instead of having a car. They used to have those apps on the watch but unfortunately they don't.

If I could use Uber/Lyft on the watch I would mostly leave my phone on the charger.

Perhaps more importantly than a mental model for thinking about this you might need the right mental state. You're tired and not seeing a path forward. That leads to burnout fast and isn't a great space to make big decisions from.

I'd talk to your co-founder and start by taking some time off. I bet for the past 3 years of grinding on the startup you haven't done a good job with vacations. If you went and fully unplugged for a month (or more) you might be in a place for a better perspective.

You might feel like you can't get away - that you're too essential to some work right now - but in my experience a top role of co-founders is to keep the passion and vision strong. Where you sound like you're at mentally you may be doing more team harm than good and your co-founder may be surprisingly supportive of you taking some time to get rest.

For those of you in the Bay Area there’s a great Kintsugi workshop that’s run out of the SF zen center almost weekly https://stonegoldcrafts.com/

I got into Kintsugi when my toilet needed repair. It’s a rewarding craft https://thingsilearned.com/things/my-kintsugi-toilet/

The article really focused on doing this in Yellowstone, and all the problems we'd have there. I noticed the second hottest spot on the map is Southern California - which has the benefits of being a desert and close to major population that'd use the power.

Looking it up, we're of course already on top of harnessing the geothermal there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Valley_Geothermal_Pro....

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chatgpt

This linter can really enforce some best practices https://github.com/sqlfluff/sqlfluff

A list of best practices: https://docs.getdbt.com/guides/legacy/best-practices

And shameless plug but there's a chapter on modeling in my book: https://theinformedcompany.com

+1. Historically we’ve had to really bring order to nature in order to efficiently make food. In the future there’s an opportunity (with drones, ai, robots, etc) to instead harvest from the wild. It’d never be near as efficient but would definitely keep a balance.

This is a great group already doing this with bison, and he’s got a great book as well

https://wildideabuffalo.com/pages/regenerative-ranching

would love to participate!

We've definitely gone much deeper in this version with data modelling.

This book though is to be clear (and that's in the first about sections) does not have much on product/event based analytics nor giant scale data as judged as 100+ TB data management.

Thanks! It was definitely a long time in the works!

100% here. We need to drop old terms and methods that are now obsolete.

We don't work with rest calls - just directly with databases and SQL, but do take a look at chartio.com! We aim to make it as fast and agile as possible to make and collaborate on charts and dashboards with your team.

Great writeup here but I have a question on whether Product Analytics is at all appropriate for Startups. I'm incredibly biased (this problem is why I built Chartio), but I think these tools end up being quite bulky, expensive and a non-agile way to do analytics on your product. I feel these products are best suited for later stage companies trying with great tracking detail to improve a funnel or engagement metric, not simply monitor usage.

The majority of the important things for a startup are usually already being tracked with timestamps in the database (new signups, new users, churned users, new todo items, etc). If a key metric is not directly tracked, there's usually a good enough proxy available somewhere in the database. A Busineess Intelligence product, or a SQL to chart tool is much more applicable and affordable in the startup stage.

There are likely going to be responses here "But what about..." and I'll premptively respond to those with the question: Could that be answered/solved almost just as well with a query to the database, without sacrificing the agility, extra setup and data collection time, and expense overhead? Those are all very costly things for a startup.

Dave from Chartio here: we've just launched a complete re-write and extension of our visualization library with many more settings, maps, customizations and updated themes.

We're now iterating quite quickly on expanding and improving the options and would love any feedback!

I've had similar thoughts to the title, but my ideas were more around improving the ease of use/writing.

1. A cleaner universal more natural syntax for analytics: I love writing python as it is to me such a cleaner syntax than C or Java. We could do the same for SQL and make something that feels more natural. Turning a common query like

SELECT count(*), TO_CHAR(created_at, 'YYYY-MM-DD') FROM Accounts GROUP BY TO_CHAR(created_at, 'YYYY-MM-DD') ORDER BY TO_CHAR(created_at, 'YYYY-MM-DD');

into something much more natural like

count by Day(Accounts.created_at)

2. A Visual SQL: for analytics it's so much faster to query and explore visually. Building queries visually means you don't make common typo or syntax or structure errors, joins happen smoothly, you can browse the data as you build, you don't need to google for syntax (what's that date function again?), and it works across dialects and databases. We've built and launched this a few months ago at Chartio https://chartio.com/blog/why-we-made-sql-visual-and-how-we-f...

I've been fairly productive especially in the first few months of lockdown.

1. Chart based commenting system for Chartio https://chartio.com/blog/charts-worth-commenting-on/

2. Helping the https://howwefeel.org team with their data and dashboards https://how-we-feel-chartio.herokuapp.com/the-how-we-feel-pr...

3. A number of hydroponic experiments including with lettuce https://img.chartio.com/nOueDAy2 and even trying corn https://img.chartio.com/NQugK2G0

4. Finishing a book on Data Management that'll have a dead tree edition published later this year https://chartio.com/blog/cloud-data-management-book-launch/

5. A few small wood projects like a planter bed and a projector mount