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What's happening here is a normal part of market participation. It's not unusual to try and change prices to optimize sales and product market fit.

Additionally, you don't necessarily know what the customer is thinking. For example, some of the lifetime purchases I've made are because I see a deal as well as a desire to support the person building the product.

To be fair I do usually see the prices increase over time, so I understand your concern. Even so, I don't think you should worry about this or take any pro-active action. It's your right to adjust pricing as you see fit. If it bothers you, have a plan in reserve to provide a partial refund if any customer asks what is happening. The reality is very few people will probably even notice.

Your question is a nice way to frame this challenge, and I look forward to hearing about experiences others might have. You're certainly not alone in this form of day dreaming.

I've not yet tried to get non-tech jobs or junior jobs in alternative areas. It will be interesting to hear if others have had success in that way. There have been lots of threads in the past about one or two folks succeeding in carpentry or similar trade work. I wonder what else?

What I have given lots of consideration and some effort, is being less intense and less focused on my tech roles (where there were viable paths to "care less"). This has been unsuccessful for a variety of reasons. I find it difficult to turn down the volume in this way.

Nah, you're not over-complicating it. Stick to it though, and use the priority of shipping to help you ruthlessly defer things that can wait until later. Look for a minimum valuable experience that you can clearly deliver (or communicate) to the potential customer. Good luck!

What are some examples of features you might expect in a better version? What would be valuable for you?

You might check this thread for similar insight:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40042321

I hope you find some peace

Can you share how/where you got those search numbers? Can they be verified by others here, across more than one service (ahrefs etc)?

My voice is my passport, verify me

What do the CEO and CTO say when you ask them about these initiatives?

Abstract: We introduce Genie, the first generative interactive environment trained in an unsupervised manner from unlabelled Internet videos. The model can be prompted to generate an endless variety of action-controllable virtual worlds described through text, synthetic images, photographs, and even sketches. At 11B parameters, Genie can be considered a foundation world model. It is comprised of a spatiotemporal video tokenizer, an autoregressive dynamics model, and a simple and scalable latent action model. Genie enables users to act in the generated environments on a frame-by-frame basis despite training without any ground-truth action labels or other domain-specific requirements typically found in the world model literature. Further the resulting learned latent action space facilitates training agents to imitate behaviors from unseen videos, opening the path for training generalist agents of the future.

Maybe step back a little and consider the outcomes you're seeking.

Argumentation is one path and tactic for achieving an alignment with a group of people. However, framing anything as combative can have some negative tradeoffs.

My experience is that more cooperative tactics like intent listening, questions, and yes-and can help broker a positive alignment with fewer negative tradeoffs.

If you switch mindsets you'll find lots of business books about effective communication, persuasion, and change management.

Good luck!

Over time, I've found the answer to be seasonal or at least heavily dependent on cycles of context and mood.

In vague terms, the best work days are when I start, build, and complete something for myself. It could be a prototype, a one-off program, or a feature on an existing application. It's a milestone of encapsulated accomplishment. This is especially nice when it has a visual component I can point to and share with someone. If it's for my employer, that's ok too, but not as fulfilling.

There are other seasons when success is just attending work, making a small step of progress, and not quitting.

> What else?

Highlight your value and especially the diversity of your skills to your employer, to help maximize the possibility of being kept when layoffs happen.

Then, remember all this in the future and manage money so you always retain some leverage. Be the ant more than the grasshopper.

Thanks for the elaboration

> They’re the most user-hostile of the big tech companies and I want them to lose.

I'm curious, why do you want them to lose given you aren't forced to use their services?

I've not run across that discussion / talk, but it sounds interesting. Thanks for the tip!

Here's the more direct link to the Stanford page:

https://online.stanford.edu/donald-e-knuth-lectures

Yes, they exist. The "best" is dependent on many things and is changing significantly each month.

You might find a good foothold if you start here:

* https://ollama.ai/library

The same question was posted a couple hours before this one. It's here:

Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2024?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38777115

I'm generally optimistic about the next five years in the United States.

Change has already started, but 2024 will make it more clear. Several societal pendulums are slowing, will reach apex, and reverse course.

* Optimism will regain footing

* Belief in positive application of technologies which shape earth and society, will increase

* Conversation and information flows will recenter on individual responsibilities in service to community

This has already started in tech, business, and culture. It's partly a response to the deflation of the 2022 growth bubble and to political instability. See American Dynamism and e/acc for narrow domain examples.

The elections will act as a forcing function, and muddy the waters a bit. However, the political world will then be a lagging indicator. People will refactor their world models regardless of who wins.

We are a caterpillar. It's going to be intense as we build the cocoon and transform over the next year or few. But then...

I bootstrap each project by spending hours or even months finding and procuring just the right domain name. There is no other way.

Software as a team sport usually produces both poor software and a poor team experience.

Almost all software best practices and programming idioms are just shared, personal preferences and not objectively valuable.

Not quite. I'm more likely to take a business risk in using a smaller or less mature piece of tech if it is open source.

The thinking there is that if the project or company behind it fail, at least I can continue to use the tech while making a plan to maintain it or migrate away.

It's unclear if that's a sound reason or just an intuitive take.

Out of curiosity, what functionality is forthcoming with the new version?

The H1B data is public record, so I suspect you can find it and review it manually or use one of the online aggregators like this one:

https://h1bgrader.com/h1b-sponsors

Just be honest, it will save you lots of pain down the road. I know getting the first customer(s) is hard, but don't lie to do it. They may not even care, and just want to know what they are getting into.

Good luck on your project. Getting this kind of interest is a good signal!

DevOps as a culture vs DevOps as the neo modern unix admin has no right answer. It's just like software development philosophy and organization.

It's a fine approach, if you have a well aligned group of people working with the same understanding. The same is true for places that prefer to draw boundaries of responsibility in other ways.

This is a pleasantly nuanced overview of recent debate/discussion over Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and the philosophy of science around consciousness.

It's great to see this from a leading voice in the area (Anil Seth).

It's also nice to see a title that matches the content of the article.

Beware the breakfast industrial complex.