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Awesome story and congratulations!

You recommended Rob Walling’s book, Start Small, Stay Small, but what else can I read?

And where do “indie hackers” like you hang out on the internet, so that i can learn more about how to do this myself?

Any other resources worth sharing?

Vectors are generated for songs, and distance (nearest neighbors) is how recommendations are currently generated in major apps.

But there isn’t a user friendly way for people to browse multi-dimensional vector space.

But the embeddings (vectors) are capable of Kanye West - Jay Z + Frank Ocean , but don’t have a UX to match.

Elastic makes the bulk of their money from log search. Developer productivity tools like Splunk as main competitor.

So that’s where they’ve invested a lot in tooling and visualization.

I’ve noticed a difference in strangers’ friendliness when I’m clean-shaven vs bearded. To the point where if I notice more negative interactions with strangers, I’ll shave, and it immediately gets better.

Imagine you are a real estate company that manages 10s of thousands of properties, and you have people sign an application fee, and then a lease agreement. If it’s trivial to switch over, why not save the 10s of thousands of dollars?

Not all usecases are 1 on 1.

Imagine you had the problem, what do I name my baby? What are things you would google? Where are communities you would hang out? I would start by posting in Reddit communities for expectant parents, and for people interested in naming. For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/namenerds/

> One of the idea (please, give it a try as well!) is to have a decentralized network of adversarially cooperative evaluators for this (in a system that cross-validates itself and economically aligns estimation accuracy).

Isn’t this Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand”?

If this technology was made safe, effective, in patient control, and relatively non-intrusive, would you consider it?

I’m imagining an app on your phone where on a day you’re feeling down, you turn it on for a bit.

The cones respond to multiple wavelengths, so it can not be so neatly discretized into “red-green-blue”. It’s more “red/orange/yellow-green-blue/purple”.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/colcon.htm...

How is China incompatible with liberal democracies? internally of course, the authoritarian politics are incompatible.

But in international relations, they’ve traded been trading with liberal democracies for decades. So what’s the incompatibility?

In front of Zuckerberg’s house in San Francisco, 24 hours a day, there is a man sitting in a black escalade watching his house. That’s not free.

I imagine it’s like that across his numerous properties, as well as more who travel with him at all times.

Cool! Nice work! Do you have any performance numbers you could share?

Specifically around nearest neighbor computation latency, a regular get embedding latency, read/write rate achieved on a machine?

If a being is killed, it ceases to be.

If it has no friends/family who miss its absence, who cares?

Death is not immoral, it just is.

Can one get state-of-the-art speeds for Vector/Matrix Arithmetic from a Java application? Or is it necessary to use C++ to be “closer to the metal.”

You are victim blaming, and have low standards.

I, for one, would like to live in a city where I can eat/drink outside without fear of someone stealing my food.

Sounds like the current system.

Who will clean the toilets?

How do you know there was no risk to the GF? The article mentions she asked him to stop because she feared retaliation.

This article is Activism masquerading as Journalism.

With electric cars an inevitability, and natural gas outperforming oil; seems MBS is squeezing every cent out of Aramco while it is still worth something.

Reminds me of the early days of pirating music.

Customers are expressing a desire they want their entertainment in a different format; Rights holders crack down on infringement; No one wins

Instead, the industry should adapt to customer desires, and find a way to make money off of “fast movies”, rather than forbidding customers from enjoying the content how they please.

How did they count “720”?

My wild guess is JIDF [1], or a similar organization, is using multiple accounts to flag posts as violating community standards. Once it reaches a certain threshold of “downvotes”, some algorithm by Twitter/Instagram hides the content.

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Internet_Defense_Forc...

This example assumes you only have $1 to bet, and if you lose it, you’re out of the game. I wonder what happens to the simulated outcome if you can keep betting, even if you lose.

SF already has public toilets, mainly located around the Tenderloin/SOMA, to stop people from shitting in the streets.

Furthermore, even in American, geographically spread out, “driving cities”, there could still be public toilets people drive to.

Right, but the point of the pain is to remind conscious me to pull my foot away. But fungi (afaik) aren’t conscious, nor can move, so what’s the evolutionary advantage to this signaling?

Why do fungi generate electricity after deformation?

Or asked differently, what information is encoded in that electrical pulse? Presumably, evolutionarily, fungi developed transmitting information via mycelium to other connected fungi. But why are fungi letting connected fungi know, “hey, I got stepped on!” ?

Why bother showing up at the Olympics in person? We can just watch it on TV right? :p

But to refute more directly, the unplanned interactions with other visitors, being able to talk directly with makers who built the things you’re seeing, the viral sense of wonder; all are good reasons to have it in-person.

Coming from NYC, San Francisco feels much more unsafe. I’ve been randomly attacked by a deranged stranger on a busy street (16th and Guerrero in the Mission). I never felt so paranoid when walking around NYC.

That’s “Dev Ops” consistency, not architectural consistency.

Insisting on architectural consistency might mean every service needs to use a relational database, and have an exposed API. But a pub/sub or map reduce, may not fit neatly into that architectural model.