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matt3D··on Screen time robs average toddler of hearing 1,000 words spoken by adult a day
My 3 year old doesn't have any screen time, and adults don't use their phones in front of him.

He plays happily by himself, and is always asking questions. People always compliment him on being well behaved, kind and very articulate.

It seems almost taboo to suggest it might be be something to do with the lack of screen time, but I can't help but think it plays a large role. I see how hard I struggle to deal with boredom and refrain from using my phone and I never want to inflict that onto a child.

matt3D··on Form to DB
As someone who also tried and really liked Retool but also found it too expensive I can add my reasoning.

I help companies with digital transformation, what it usually entails is deploying solutions to small teams and then growing them as we get buy in from the business. The initial users are high frequency users of the tools, and later users might be infrequent users.

The problem I found with Retool was that as I scaled to the infrequent users the cost per user remained static, so I would be punished for my tool becoming more popular.

matt3D··on GaussianObject: Just Taking Four Images to Get a High-Quality 3D Object
Also photogrammetry from an industry level.

I work in construction, we take photos of the building in situ as a lot of the important elements are encased later (eg. Reinforcement inside concrete)

This level of 3D NeRF is great for that as it's much easier to parse than a folder full of images.

matt3D··on 'Baby Bust': Why Fewer Young People Expect to Become Parents (2013)
Odd to hear you describe it as irrational.
matt3D··on How We Handle Cap Table Information
Not to be pedantic , technically he is correct, but he's lying by omission.

They had an internal policy violation on Friday, but they didn't say it was the first.

matt3D··on EU plan to ban geoblocking will lead to dull content, warn film-makers
The counter, and more optimistic, take on this would be that there would be higher demand for niche cinema because the audience would grow.

If the latest Czech drama or Estonian horror movie got into the zeitgeist because of international simultaneous release then that's a good thing no? The smaller markets would be able to compete more.

Take Squid Game as an example, a very weird and particularly South Korean creation got the reaction it did because of Netflix's release strategy.

matt3D··on London Is Building Its Own Vegas Sphere
I wonder if MSG will concede and start building these spheres without the external screens. It seems like it would be much easier to get buy in from locals.

I'm not sure how much they would lose on advertising revenue, but if they are trying to proliferate the sphere as a format, like IMAX, then it seems short sighted to force the external screens. After all very few places are as accomodating of in your face 24/7 advertising like Vegas.

matt3D··on OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman
Could this be the reason they suspended new account signups?
matt3D··on Company with a 10% lifetime employee turnover shows their real secret is trust
I think that the open door policy needs all of the other layers of trust.

What Cy Wakeman experienced was an open door policy independent of any other culture change.

matt3D··on Show HN: Autotab – An AI-powered Chrome extension to create Selenium scripts
How comfortable should I feel about having this record the input of potentially sensitive information if it's going to send those inputs off to an LLM?

One way I can see around it is to not put anything sensitive in during the record, but sometimes I might need to enter a password etc.

matt3D··on ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants
Funnily enough, as a business consultant I use GPT to create executive summaries and sell people on the idea that my reports are as short as they possibly can be without information loss.
matt3D··on Unity’s new pricing: A wake-up call on the importance of open source
I think you're conflating two things.

To paraphrase the docs : You can ship games on consoles, but the tools required to do so will never be included in the open source code.

Eg. Just because you need to buy a tin opener to open your can of beans, doesn't mean you don't have any beans

matt3D··on Show HN: WhatsApp based simple order taking platform
Maybe I'm not familiar enough with the WhatsApp Business ecosystem, but it isn't clear to me how this manifests. Is it a website which creates an order and then sends it via WhatsApp when I hit sumbit?

I would find it helpful to see a step by step of what implementation actually looks like,rather than a bunch of CTAs telling me to get in touch.

matt3D··on The grid isn’t ready for 300M EVs by 2030
They have a concept similar to what you described in South America. In Peru you can jump in private vehicles that run particular named (sometimes even numbered) routes.

The car and minibuses simply go when they are full or once they have waited a fixed amount of time and they have at least on passenger. It works pretty well and a company called CityMapper tried to do something similar in London. They looked at the transport data and found routes that people wanted to take, but we're underserved by public transport (eg. Shoreditch to Islington on a Friday night). They would then hire privately operated black taxis to run the route for a fixed fare with a fixed waiting time, and they took the risk on empty seats.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/21/citymapper-ties-with-gett-...

matt3D··on Excel Functions in F# Language
I think PowerQuery largely solves this problem
matt3D··on “Blue Light” creating capacity for nothing (2007)
Neglecting the person who fills the jigs will lead to less ur time in the long run though.

I'm guessing your issue is not with those that are fixated on productivity, but those that are just poorly educated in the complexity of how to calculate it.

matt3D··on Ask HN: How might HN build a social network together?
> It requires a fundamental change from the reach model towards concentric social circles. The social network would allow users to arrange into small topical groups called social circles. These social circles would have a cap of 10 (arbitrary number) members. Each user could take part in many social circles. This inherently limits reach and therefore reduces the burden of misinformation, abuse, and moderation.

Isn't this just group messaging (WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal etc.)? This is pretty much the only 'social networking' I do.

The only way I can rationalise any other sort of social network being successful is that deep down people actually want strangers or loose acquaintances to see their updates. Everything is on a parasocial scale from group messaging with an equal relationship through to Facebook, then Twitter all the way to Youtube where the relationship is completely one sided.

matt3D··on Baby shortfall is so bad that the labor shortage will last for years
Productivity as we currently measure it, yes.

It seems we're trending (hopefully) to a more sustainable future. Consumerism as we know if today may not exist in the near future. If the only thing we care about is producing Food, Housing and Art/Culture; we will have plenty of people.

matt3D··on Using Notion as a headless CMS for our blog
Does this solution (and all of those mentioned in the comment) not risk issues with Notions rate limiting?

Looking at their docs it seems 3 requests per second is the limit, this could easily be reached at peak times for a blog/website with even the slightest bit of traction.

matt3D··on Deepcake – Al solutions for video production
No current relationship with the company
matt3D··on Google “Pepper”: When a Brand Becomes More Popular Than the Meaning of the Word
It's probably because no one in Big Pepper is very good at SEO.
matt3D··on You can't buy a Raspberry Pi right now
I believe companies use them in tools like air quality monitors, time lapse cameras in construction and other small batch boutique hardware.

I believe most of them don't advertise the fact they use Raspberry Pis as it might cheapen their offering in the eyes of customers

matt3D··on Deepcake – Al solutions for video production
I don't seem to understand the confusion here. Deepcake paid Bruce Willis for a one time project (that telecom ad).

The news then seemed to fabricate that he has signed off his likeness in some sort of long term contract. It was later established this wasn't the case, but that still doesn't mean he didn't engage in the previous work.

matt3D··on Why building profitable trading bot is hard?
I think comparing the open price to the days high price is a little disingenuous. Stocks fluctuate so I'm not sure what metric would be more appropriate, but it would be interesting to see the discrepancy if you just took the close price.
matt3D··on Zapier: A $5B Unbundling Opportunity
Don't forget Microsoft Power Automate (and Logic Apps). For anyone in the 365 ecosystem these become the default, and yet I never seem to see them mentioned alongside the more start-uppy stuff like Zapier and Imtegromat.
matt3D··on Bitcoin mining is being banned in countries across the globe
I don't think the crypto market as a whole is resilient enough to withstand a Bitcoin cliff drop.

Once the money starts leaving Bitcoin, how likely is it that retail investors are going to consider other crypto, based on concepts they don't understand?

matt3D··on Show HN: I made a movie recommendation app based on your mood
I like that this seems to trend towards newer movies, a lot of other recommendation platforms seem to ignore year of release.
matt3D··on GPU.js
Does this run into problems with Nvidea GPUs because the Optimus platform disables GPU acceleration on browsers as a default.

So users would need to know to go to their graphics settings page in order to get any benefit.

matt3D··on Ask HN: How do I get my PM to stop using Excel to track bugs?
Use PowerQuery in excel to pull down issues from GitHub/Jira/Trello via the API.

Let the PM have their spreadsheet, you can do everything where you want, but they can still track everything in a spreadsheet.

matt3D··on Ray Ozzie's latest venture is a cheap IoT board with flat rate connectivity
Looking at the list of options available it seems like the Global version is cheaper than the EMEA one. Does this mean the global antenna functions suboptimally in the EMEA region?

Another question, could this work well with something like Firebase? the event retention restrictions on Notehub would put a spanner in the works for my use case.

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