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Health care software with HIPPA compliance? Or SOC2? It’s not the same but it’s a high degree of regulation.

For those unfamiliar, personhood status for environmental protection is real (beyond what the original blog mentioned)

NYTimes: In Move to Protect Whales, Polynesian Indigenous Groups Give Them ‘Personhood’ https://archive.is/H5fq8

Nat Geo: This Canadian river is now legally a person. It’s not the only one. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/these-rive...

I wonder how our mental model of nature will evolve over the next decades. For example, in the early 1900's, the United States had more laws protecting animals from overwork than it did for children. That feels unfathomable in today's United States, where animals are treated more as property than people. Perhaps something similar will happen, where we will understand everything as a "legal entity" that has protections.

While I think I understand your point, there’s probably a few ways to look at this.

One is many products start out pleasing most users, but pivots to enterprise customers because of revenue. Thus, the product shifts heavily towards the enterprise use-case of a few customers at the loss of most small-medium users. Getting more users in this enterprise world means making changes to accommodate special needs and that leads to entropy.

Another new need is to hit next quarters revenue targets, so companies find more juice to squeeze somewhere.

It's intense market demand by people with lots of money against products that have a very long supply chain. Even with multiple sellers competing, this kind of demand is insane, and the buyers pockets run deep.

The other way I look at this is that these companies have been collecting an insane amount of wealth and value over the last 2-3 decades, are finally in a situation where they feel threatened, and are willing to spend to survive. They have previously never felt this existential threat before. It's basically bidding wars on houses in San Francisco, but with all the wealthiest companies in the world.

My experience at poorly run public schools is that leadership and admin change out VERY quickly because of burnout. The article talks about how military has long term continuity (8 year terms) but civilian have 2-4 year terms. I’ve seen schools where the principal doesn’t even stay the full year. In the end of the day, the civilian world is full of choices and people come and go at will.

I don’t think that’s true. Lambda@Edge has been a thing for over 8 years.

https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/edge/

Alternatively, unknown creators have less incentive to falsely promote or lie. It’s the reason I tend to trust random strangers on Reddit than popular YouTubers who have achieved monetization and sponsorship.

I believe Japan has a different concept of retirement than America; I can't speak for other Western cultures. More elderly people work low-paying part-time jobs to remain members of society, in addition to their financial needs. Americans tend to work in retirement out of financial needs, while idealizing not working during retirement.

Overall, I enjoyed the essay and agree with the messaging. However, there were a few sentences that threw me off. I personally struggle with self-esteem issues, and I found these words extremely triggering, despite being sandwiched between words of self-affirmation.

> My best wasn't good enough. I'm not good enough.

> I don't mind feeling ugly or low-status or whatever -- I know my place.

> I don't need (or deserve) your sympathy.

It's difficult to tell if this is just rhetoric / sarcasm, or if the writer successfully processed through these initial feelings. Either way, I take these moments seriously because it's not healthy to let these feelings grow.

If you feel like you're struggling, I encourage you to talk to someone -- preferably a therapist, but anyone supportive works like a friend or family.

If you're adamant about not talking to someone, consider reading The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown.

Deleting extra code is easier than verifying deleted lines and restoring the ones that seem like an accident. It's just annoying.

Why would you use sentence level chunking?

I’ve generated embedding for “objects” or whole documents to get similarity scores. Helps with “relevant articles” type features.

I’ve also made embeddings for paragraphs or fixed sized chunks for RAG lookups. Good for semantic search.

I don’t understand why you would want embeddings on sentences.

> Chunking Strategies

> Sentence-level chunking works well for most use cases, especially when the document structure is unclear or inconsistent.

MCPs are the most basic solution possible. Shoving the tool definitions into a vector store and having a subagent search for relevant tools, then another subagent to run the tools would greatly reduce impact on context. I think it’d work in theory, but it’s so annoying to have to do something like this. We’re still in a world where we have some building blocks rather than full fledged toolboxes.

It looks like a fun website, not a for-profit website. The expectations and focus of fun websites is more to just get it working than to handle the scale. It sounds like their user base exploded overnight, doubling every 14 hours or so. It also sounds like it’s other a solo dev or a small group based on the maintainers wording.

But value creation isn't the point of taxes?

Why try to hide it? It’s like public disclosures of security vulnerabilities. You directly contact the few people who have actionable data and means to address the problem, then you tell the world that they’re impacted and should be aware that such a problem exists so we don’t repeat it.

I think quality takes time and refinement which is not something that LLMs have solved very well today. They are very okay at it, except for very specific targeted refinements (Grammerly, SQL editors).

However, they are excellent at building from 0->1, and the video is suggesting that this is perfect for startups. In the context of startups, faster is better.

There’s an easier way to promote on social media without becoming a life consuming personal brand. Get yourself on those accounts that curate content.

Get your song featured on curated Spotify lists or Instagram/TikTok accounts that review books of a specific genre, or get a guest spot on a podcast about your topic.

This is like the old way of marketing. In the old days, you’d apply to talk at writing conventions, table, do book tours at stores, go to relevant events locally, and partner with libraries locally. To follow the song analogy, musicians used to send songs to DJs and radio hosts. Maybe your at a college radio level, or local broadcasting. Find your stations, build up your reputation.

In the end of the day, people have found their networks and communities. You should try to enter them and be a part of those communities rather than build one up for yourself.

The author has this insite when she describes most of her following is through some form of word of mouth. This social media era is the same, except some of the word of mouth is direct (DMs, IRL conversations) and others are through communities.

In an era of everything being algorithmically served to you, I’m impressed by how often personal recommendations weigh far heavier for people. A good example I’ve seen is restaurants. Sure, I might Google or Yelp, but if someone I know has similar taste recommends a place, I’ll give it a shot. It doesn’t need to be someone I know IRL or virtual, it’s just a person who shares the same interests.

I think this works well if you’re trying to promote something real, like what this author is doing. I have no solution for personal content.

I actually think Ruby on Rails is incredibly difficult for LLMs to write because of how many implicit "global state" things occur. I'm always surprised how productive people are with it, but people are productive with it for sure.

I don't think your response is very productive, and I find that my understanding of LLMs aligns with the person you're calling out. We could both be wrong, but I'm grateful that someone else spoke saying that it doesn't seem to match their mental model and we would all love to learn a more correct way of thinking about LLMs.

Telling us to just go and learn the math is a little hurtful and doesn't really get me any closer to learning the math. It gives gatekeeping.

I think one big issue is fundamental build differences between Linux and macOS. So many things build beautifully for one platform and not another, and it’s really frustrating to just want to use some piece of software that is not tested on another platform because the devs just don’t have a Mac.

I agree that it papers over underlying portability issues, but I personally don’t want to deal with some generous maintainer who built a good piece of working software but with no MacOS support.

Probably a trademark violation to use their logos or branding for marketing purposes.

I kind of agree, but the cost is high for young people. I see similar problems between brain rot and junkie snack foods. Older people grew up without this instant gratification and arent used to it the same way young kids are. I grew up with snacks and crave them regularly, but all my older friends don’t even think about snacks the same way I do. I think the addictive this fades with the development of your brain around 25 years old, as well as increased life experiences, but the addiction to short form entertainment is strong enough to prevent you from getting other forms of life experiences that would eventually make that content boring and feel unfulfilling.

As an example, I used to watch a lot of dance videos. Recently I started taking dance classes and the videos just hit different now. The bar is so much higher for me to feel impressed because I’m digesting the content much more efficiently now and so much content is just repetition with slight variation.

My experience internally at Apple is that accessibility was important, but it's also in the critical path for automated UI tests. So broken accessibility means broken tests. Good accessibility also means tests are easy to write. The company prioritizes accessibility, but engineers focus on tests.

ndjson is extremely similar, Splunk uses it for exporting logs as json

I think this is in competition to the EV air taxis. The vertical take off and landing is for dense urban areas. Basically the Uber of the sky. Like Uber Helicopter but electric.

Not sure it’s the future or anything like that. I just noticed they’re in the news more in the last few months. There’s some in CA, Texas, Las Vegas.

https://simpleflying.com/evtol-air-taxis/

Yes

Hey OP, your DELETE curl endpoint is unauthenticated! I can't DM you on HN and there's no contact on your website, so sorry for the public security disclosure. :(

FYI, you can delete anyone's CURL (including your own if you were unauthenticated) with the following curl:

https://uncurl.dev/curl/78ab4bf5-34e8-45a0-b3b1-32dd6aa7e360

or this command

    curl -X DELETE "https://uncurl.dev/api/curls?id=051606b5-49c8-4f14-9689-4d424f71d331"

Looks like deletes are unauthenticated.

I think that 99.9% of CURL commands are copied from Chrome/Firefox's network inspector and are the simple "client-side JS" types.

I also think it's weird to be so willing to let people run arbitrary CURL commands from your platform, without any billing or account verification. It feels ripe for abuse.

Docker files too, basically just bash scripts with a different syntax