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miles_matthiason Proof of care in the age of AI

it's not that it's completely unbelievable, but I could see people having doubts considering:

1. AI exists and is widely used 2. A person only has so much bandwidth. If they put out 10 docs in a day, did they really hand write them all?

miles_matthiason Proof of care in the age of AI

I love this problem and think it's super important. I've similarly noticed myself using a whiteboard to think critically for a while and then take a picture of the whiteboard as proof of deep thought, even if the next step is AI supplemented (a doc, a video, etc).

I've also started noticing people annotating a whole doc "written by humans" to try to convey effort and care. That's fine for some things but do that too often and a reader will be left with two thoughts:

1. Did they actually write this by hand? No way 2. Should they have written some of this with AI? Seems like a waste of time formatting some of this when they could've been spending their time thinking critically

miles_matthiason ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action

I think what's interesting here is that it's a super cheap version of what many busy people already do -- hire a person to help do this. Why? Because the interface is easier and often less disruptive to our life. Instead of hopping from website to website, I'm just responding to a targeted imessage question from my human assistant "I think you should go with this <sitter,restaurant>, that work?" The next time I need to plan a date night, my assistant already knows what I like.

Replying "yes, book it" is way easier than clicking through a ton of UIs on disparate websites.

My opinion is that agents looking to "one-shot" tasks is the wrong UX. It's the async, single simple interface that is way easier to integrate into your life that's attractive IMO.

miles_matthiason How good are American roads?

Well then there's the overall experience using the roads, regardless of roughness. For example, Texas' under interstate turnarounds are super weird and make running a local errand feel like a cross country trip as an example. Areas without zoning laws between commercial / residential feel more stressful to me as a driver personally too.

miles_matthiason Quantum Resistance and the Signal Protocol

Appreciate how well-written and approachable this post was!

miles_matthiason A Starter Kit for Emergency Websites

Command line would be the only necessity. You can write a script that could download docker & run it. That's what I meant by Makefile too.

miles_matthiason A Starter Kit for Emergency Websites

I agree, I'd love to see this as a docker container or Makefile where dependencies are automatically pulled in if not present on the host machine.

miles_matthiason Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (February 2020)

SEEKING WORK Colorado, Remote + Travel

I'm a cloud consultant with a background in web & mobile app dev. I love helping app developers build & release quickly & safely through scalable infrastructure & automated CI/CD & build systems.

I specialize in Kubernetes, Bazel, Spinnaker, Istio, and am a certified Google Cloud Architect. I've spent the last 18 months partnering with Google to migrate their largest customers.

Read more at HireMiles.com. Email me at miles@hiremiles.com.

miles_matthiason Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2020)

  Location: Colorado
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: GCP/AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Istio, Spinnaker, Bazel, Ruby/Rails, Java, iOS, Android
  Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/milesmatthias, hiremiles.com
  Email: miles@hiremiles.com

miles_matthiason Thoughts On a Year of Exercise

I haven't reached my goals, so take my advice with a grain of salt.

But I'm focusing on my environment and the habits. Doing the daily habit as best I can.

miles_matthiason When your data doesn’t fit in memory: the basic techniques

Just want to compliment how well written this article is. A lot of technical articles lack the context or basic background (“why”) and this article does a great job.

miles_matthiason Aviation Is on a Low-Carbon Flight Path

This is the same for the train and shipping industries. I’ve always thought those vehicles had ample opportunities to capture solar rays and wind since they’re out in the open all the time, but we simply don’t have batteries and engines powerful enough yet.

miles_matthiason The Cloud and Open Source

Point taken -- AWS is better at ops than the developers who create open source tools.

Then why not pay a fraction of the money you're earning on offering these tools back to the open source community? Using something like GitHub's new funding tools?

miles_matthiason Marc Benioff: We Need a New Capitalism

It’s very interesting to me that he didn’t mention the B Corp organization, who attempts to do exactly that. Is there a reason for this? Maybe he thinks the requirements/audits are too burdensome?

miles_matthiason Bazel Release 1.0

They're really excited about 1.0 for this reason, they're tired of breaking other people's builds too. The goal is to limit that with the 1.0 release, so expect this to get a lot better.

miles_matthiason Bazel Release 1.0

Woo hoo! I got to spend a few days with the Bazel team in the NYC office a few weeks ago and they were really excited about this announcement coming out soon. Congrats!

One of my favorite uses of Bazel is in CI/CD. I built a demo which builds the applications, creates Docker images, and then applies a K8s manifest to a cluster. It's OSS now under the GCP handle: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gke-bazel-demo

Happy to answer any questions, public or private (email / website in bio).

miles_matthiason A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World

I didn’t say he is or isn’t. Just that no concrete conclusion has happened - the casino hasn’t agreed that he was cheating and kicked him out. He still seems to be participating and claiming innocence.

miles_matthiason Lab-made primordial soup yields RNA bases

If you’re looking for a good fiction read relating to this, I just finished “Origin” by Dan Brown, would recommend.

miles_matthiason A Cheating Scandal Rocking the Poker World

TLDR: a poker player has an unusually high win rate, says he’s not cheating, online sleuths are trying to find cheating evidence. No concrete conclusion.

miles_matthiason A rise in vegetarian options leads customers to embrace meat-free meals

I’m glad to see this study. A high end steakhouse recently opened in Boulder and I got a chance to tour the place while it was under construction with the owner. He said for all of Boulder’s hippie food, people demand meat. There may be some truth to that, but like this study shows, people need the option realistically before you can determine that.

miles_matthiason The Calorie Paradox of Raw Veganism (1999)

Need to point out something no one in the comments has: this is a 20 year old article.

miles_matthiason FDA names dog-food brands with potential link to canine heart disease

We use Ollie. There’s also the farmer’s dog.

miles_matthiason FDA names dog-food brands with potential link to canine heart disease

We took some time to learn the history of dry dog food and what modern companies have been doing, and recently switched our dog over to a wet food that gets shipped to our house every 2 weeks. It's been a great move, she loves it. And we feel better about giving her less processed food.

miles_matthiason I’ve spent five years writing a JavaScript framework

Lots of respect for working on a project for 5 years and releasing it to the world. That's really hard.

Question - do you have financial goals with this project, or do you see it as a community / hobby project? If so, what are your plans to do that?

miles_matthiason What I Learned Trying to Secure Congressional Campaigns

Great job!

I'd like to echo your sentiment about password managers, they are way too complicated to use for non-technical people.

miles_matthiason Launch HN: Prometheus (YC W19) – Remove CO2 from Air and Turn It into Gasoline

Love the pitch, keep us up to date. Any place we can sign up to follow along? Google just gives Kubernetes metrics results :)

miles_matthiason Slack S-1

I'm sure a big amount of this is data costs, especially as they store more analytics, natural language processing, and ML training on the data.

miles_matthiason Netlify Dev

Both of those services you listed are generic tools.

Netlify is for one use case - front end developers deploying websites.

That means things like automatic asset compression and minification, feature support for things you’d normally need to setup a backend server for (login, form capture, etc), automatic SSL certs, CMS, etc.

Yes, most of their features can be replicated with other tools, but the point of Netlify is that you don’t need to with them, because they understand your perspective (hosting a static website as a front end developer) and they handle things for you.

miles_matthiason Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B investment in Apple

"Buffett explained that this employee "works with a limited amount of money – $13 billion, roughly – so if he wants to buy something he needs to sell something. If I want to buy something, I have cash around to do it.""

miles_matthiason Redesigning GitHub Repository Page

The main UX frustration I have all the time with Github is switching between my fork and the upstream repo. I find myself re-clicking the fork button all the time to be able to get to my fork.