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That’s cool and all, but I never commented on if it was impressive or not.

Just was pointing out user numbers and that the average Hacker News commenter’s bubble is not representative of how most of the world uses social media.

Not sure how that correlates with usage. Your personal experience isn’t a generalizable experience.

Nobody in my circle uses Snapchat, yet it’s worth $27B…

If anything, this might mean your circle is quite small.

The Steam Deck is awesome. One of the most beautiful pieces of technology I have ever used.

Dead on delivery? That’s pretty dramatic (and incorrect). 100M users in 5 days and it’s quite active today - very far from dead on delivery.

Reddit is pretty good too IMO. When I first started coding, Reddit people would be super helpful to me

How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers: https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/how-instagram-scaled-to-14...

Where LLMs are headed: https://blog.quastor.org/p/language-models-future

SwiftUI at Airbnb: https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/10/airbnb-transitioning-swif...

GPU Computing Explained: https://codeconfessions.substack.com/p/gpu-computing

Building and operating S3: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/07/building-and-op...

Meta’s new Serverless platform: https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/meta-xfaas-serverless-func...

It’s not incomplete though. It has all the components you need to fully build a full-featured functioning web application fast.

I’ve shipped products with this kit without having to change much code because it’s very well-made.

Don’t take it from me - take it from the tens of thousands of devs who also use it.

The commenter above didn’t even look deeply into the actual offering. Catalyst is just one tiny (new) subset of the large number of things offered by the entire package.

You are welcome to do it for free. The entire point of an UI library is to save time.. you can technically build anything you want for free if you don't value your time.

This UI library sped up my dev time at least two-fold. The components and sample landing pages provided are really great IMO (and judging by their sales, it's not just me who agrees).

This is an unnecessarily rude comment.

The blog post is much easier to comprehend both in format and in writing style than the actual paper, which also is, in fact, paywalled.

I'm absolutely certain that the blog post is the better link here for both understanding and for a better Hacker News discussion here.

Lots of cold emails and cold reachouts on LinkedIn/Twitter/Threads probably. Checking out research lab websites in universities like UC Berkeley is probably a good place to start.

a small notebook with a monthly,weekly,daily todo list, then I transfer it online.

I have a todo flow in sparksnip.com and then i have todo.monthlies, todo.weeklies, todo.dailies for tracking.

Then I break down everything into extremely reasonable, managable, actionable chunks. Every day I choose a "big 3". I always have so many todos per day (which is unreasonable), but I choose a non-negotiable 3 to finish no matter what. If I finish those three, then the day is a success.

Really cool story, especially because that same product now makes over $50k MRR

Learning by doing is obviously the best way, but not every role has that kind of opportunity. You can build something on the side and scale it, but it's easier to just do that in a company :)

I'm no expert on system architecture, but I have noticed that reading a lot of docs and blogs on how other companies do things successfully has helped me:

Quastor: quastor.org - Engineering blog posts and summaries

Engineer's Codex: read.engineerscodex.com - Case studies and summaries of Big Tech systems and software architectures

SWE Quiz: swequiz.com - Bunch of useful questions that has helped me a lot at work

TLDR Web Dev: tldr.tech/webdev - Good for keeping up on engineering-specific stuff in general.

I have a Feedly set up with these blogs too: https://blog.bytebytego.com/p/79-engineering-blogs-to-level-...

ByteByteGo is good too, though that's an obvious one that everyone already knows about.

AI-generated images have an unnatural "smoothness" to them whereas reality is more imperfect. At least that's my hypothesis.

What are you up to now and what did you join instead?

Microsoft comp is actually not bad at higher levels, which I assume will be given to all OAI people that will join.

These are incorrect priors, especially when the mega-corp in question is Microsoft under Satya Nadella.

This comment doesn't make sense to me at all. I'm not sure that this is a valid comment at all.

This is not a rumor. The article references a tweet made by Satya Nadella itself. It is an official announcement. The board drama no longer matters here.

By the way, $900k comp with illiquid OpenAI shares means nothing anymore when Microsoft can now hire them with $900k+ in fully LIQUID compensation.

Not only that, OpenAI employees can go join Microsoft to work under Sam and Greg, who many of them seem to support.

This is a pretty big win for Microsoft.

So how much did you donate last month to your favorite creators?

Less people is fine. People who watch for free (with ad blockers) technically cost more than if they just leave.

I guarantee most people will either shell out for YT premium or just keep watching with the ads.

People who watch ads > people who pay for YT premium > people who don’t use YouTube > people who use adblockers on YouTube.

This is a really great article, thanks for sharing.

Meta has some great contributions to the distributed systems space. I read a lot of their papers for classes during grad school.

I wonder why they didn't join other Big Techs in the cloud hype, seeing that they obviously have the engineering talent to do so.

Is it because they're smaller and its too much competition? They're focusing on their core competencies?

Big fan of Quastor and ByteByteGo.

Some other resources I've found really helpful, especially as I've moved towards a backend/systems-heavy role at my job.

- roadmap.sh has a lot of resources that may help you figure out where gaps in your backend knowledge are.

- TLDR Web Dev is an useful daily resource for the latest articles and trends in software engineering.

- engineerscodex.com writes great articles about real-world software engineering, such as how Instagram scaled so much with a small team.

LLM-ops, distributed systems, high-volume data storage, better logs storage/observability across distributed systems, private personalization, AR (Vision Pro), VR (when it becomes less of a box on your face and more of just glasses).

These are just off the top of my head so take it with a grain of salt.

If you use Google Docs daily and even bother to look at the menus, the amount of changes added just the past 2 years is pretty massive. The reason they're in menus is because the dumbest thing Google can do is kill the native user experience.

Just look at how slow Notion is and how snappy Docs is. Yet, a lot of Notion features are now in Google Docs.

The name of the party in power right now in Canada is called the Liberal Party. That's why Liberal is capitalized.

100% agreed with you. If anti-trust is an actual priority for the government and not just political drama, they would go after Apple first.

For a community that's apparently so harsh on big tech monopoly, I'm always surprised by the constant defending of Apple's anti-competitive practices here, even when it's at the expense of other companies. Shows to me that Apple has done a really great job with it's PR, if anything.

They didn't release these results. It was leaked.

I should’ve said video calling in general.

I would say that the Metaverse also has an evolving ecosystem - the crypto space, VR/AR space, and other communities also have academic roots, years of progress, and budding companies. The argument you made could’ve been made for the Internet back in 1990 IMO.

Wow! I’m the author and this is a really good response. I really appreciate the detail you’ve gone into here.

I’m really thankful to hear your different viewpoints in a respectful manner.

Re: Minecraft. I realize that Minecraft is just an analogy and rather links is a better example of the “decentralized” nature of the metaverse. But I’ll definitely check out Cory’s talks about interop as I admittedly can learn a lot more there.