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shaewest··on Yes, and
And that's one of the risks of moving to a new city, and arguably one of the risks you take when you commit a crime worthy of jail.

As for the new city risk, you take that risk with the potential upside it could bring, but everyone will be wary. People new to a city are a risk because of all the reasons they might've left an old city.

shaewest··on All I wanted was a custom domain email
I went to your site to check this out, and I found the bright orange from the first slide was killing my eyes, and my coworkers. The other landing page slides were great, the first one made me want to leave.

Overall looks like a great tool that I'll look into for my next projects.

shaewest··on Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
For my org, it meant we could trial classifiers across various internal systems with little to no engineering effort. In one case we ended up building our own classifier instead of Jev, but in others we kept Jev because it was zero-effort for a great impact.
shaewest··on 28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
How is it shitty behaviour. "I are hiring 10 people, we won't remove the job listing until 10 people are hired."
shaewest··on OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev
I can confirm, I sent their sales team an email asking for ZDR, and they provided it within an hour.
shaewest··on Our GitHub Actions bill kept climbing, so we moved CI to one box
I think it's about the comment you wrote, or rather that AI (appears to have) written entirely.
shaewest··on Anthropic expected to tell investors it sees over $30T in potential revenue
In what world is 10x US GDP, 3-4x US Marketcap, or 60x the US annual tax collection the requirement for investor expectations?
shaewest··on Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
I would ask, where is the line drawn between 'enjoyment and addiction.'

Is it the harm provided? Then what do we count as harm, and where is the line.

IE, There's no one stopping me from eating unhealthy, IE sugary foods, which are heavily addictive. I ride a motorbike, and I'd consider myself addicted to that, and it's got a high chance of harm, but we don't ban those. Ditto with gaming, social media, hobby XYZ.

I personally think the freedom to choose your vice is reasonable.

shaewest··on Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
I think the major issue is, people still have the option of those older forms of feeds, people just don't like them.

New social media competitors (ie Tiktok) have won users by having even more powerful algorithms rather than other options.

shaewest··on Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI
You seem to be posting your project/startup constantly under others people's comments/posts.
shaewest··on Blog about things you don't understand yet
Genuine question, did you put work into distribution so people knew about it first?

I've known a bunch of people who have said 'blogging is dead' but that's often shared with a lack of sharing the work in the first place or sharing it.

shaewest··on Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
Health isn't a 'perfect or your unhealthy' it's much more of a 'Make the better option, most of the time' in which, similar to the original comment, I am quite happy that the chocolate I can have a treat with has less calories but feels identical in levels of being a treat.

I'd pay the same for chocolate bars that were half the size if they were easily available.

shaewest··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
Yeah but SMS is also a paid product in most places, same with phone calls, and data too, but given most places (Schools, your home, work, libraries) pay for wifi, platform provided messaging is free.

Not that the addictive apps are great, but if we're talking locking, it's deciding between 'paying for' and 'receiving for free' with lock in being constant

shaewest··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
Is it really that different from being locked into SMS or Email or Teamspeak or Skype?

I hate using SMS, but I'm forced to due to people I know using it, and it's 'openness' changes nothing for me as the end user.

shaewest··on Apple's hostile App Store rating system
> Are you in favor of Apple removing everyone from the App Store?

You make the assumption that it's not in everyone's best economic interest to follow the rules. People will change before they are all removed.

> Apple created a developer API to request ratings and reviews. Apple 100% approves of and encourages the practice. Indeed, Apple's own apps in the App Store request ratings and reviews.

And they added various limitations to this API to prevent bad actors, which clearly is being worked around by enough apps that it makes sense to enforce this more.

shaewest··on Iran threatens to hit Gulf states if US launches new strikes
I haven't looked into this deep enough, but my assumptions are that currently the supplychain for getting and installing these systems takes much longer than coal, which is a much more mature supply chain, and also not limited to China's production. If solar panels were as cheap, quick and available as coal, there'd be literally zero reason why people wouldn't use them over coal, but we know there are enough places that still use coal IE Germany.
shaewest··on AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
It's running a very small, non-reasoning model at the moment. But more generally, almost all LLMs argue on the hardware/model they are/are on.
shaewest··on Iran threatens to hit Gulf states if US launches new strikes
I feel as if you missed their point. Their point from my understanding is, coal might be more expensive than new renewables/batteries, but it's significantly quicker to get up and running so if you have a choice between quick coal and nothing, coal will be chosen.
shaewest··on Apple's hostile App Store rating system
Are you against Apple removing apps with dark patterns from the App Store because 'Everyone does it'?

Adding requirements for apps to remain on the App Store is fully reasonable, and keens the ecosystem usable for users.

shaewest··on Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds
There are methods to do custom generation in of itself, so should be possible for AI to write a mod in the same vein as current world generation mods.
shaewest··on Linear is always a lagging indicator
Linear is a 'work tracker' rather than bug tracker, and they're saying it's not a good enough indicator of tracking where things are at in the work cycle as there's too much abstraction
shaewest··on Linear is always a lagging indicator
I think the issue with more fine grained task tracking, is that suddenly you're providing information to higher ups that might not directly understand why 'planning' takes so long, or testing. Right now they're given a 'picked up till code review till test till deploy', and that's already a metric they try to optimize, and if we add in 'planning, then talking to customers, then talking to coworkers on the issue' we'll start seeing that get hyperoptimized which will hurt more than help, imo.
shaewest··on What will be left for us to work on?
Worth looking into 'Jevons Paradox' for more examples of this sort of thing. TL;DR is that as things become more efficient, whether coal, or programmers, the usage of a good increases as demand skyrockets for what it can be used for.
shaewest··on What will be left for us to work on?
In my org, it's grown the level of work. We had a lot of stuff that was never worth the devtime necessary, but now that's opened up that we can do a lot of this stuff in the background
shaewest··on Show HN: Microphone – Talk out your side-project ideas, then test them with ads
Love the idea, was a bit disappointed it wasn't useable by Android/Web.
shaewest··on We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12
If you look at it from the perspective of the current US administration, they see that almost all GDP growth in the past year(?) has been related to data center growth. If all of a sudden that industry is gone, you're looking at GDP stagnation or drop that looks terrible for the current party, hence the potential for a bailout.

Personally I hold the opinion that the investment into data centers would shift into something else, so no real GDP drop, but I'm not sure that's a certainty the same as 'bailout keeps the current story going'

shaewest··on Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
The likelihood that MSFT wouldn't have a specific deal for UE is super low. But even in that case, I would imagine that costs for hiring a team to maintain an engine for the minimal games using IDTech's engine (Wolfenstein & Doom), in which they probably plan to reduce development of those games with recent news, makes this a 'not unreasonable' decision.
shaewest··on GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse
I was arguing a 20x ARR valuation based on a simple 'potential' justification for $1T.

If I was to go further into that, I'd say that Anthropic has grown from $9B ARR Dec 2025, to $47B at their Series H.

I'd say that Anthropic is still a growth stock, so their $1T valuation is based on expected ARR/growth over the next year, and if we assume a double in ARR (justified by their supply constraints as proof of demand), that's 10x Valuation to revenue.

We could consider valuing by P/E, but they're in a growth stage so that's a waste of time, hence why investors focus on growth, and hence ARR growth is hugely important. If they managed $100B ARR, the same P/E as other top software companies by marketcap, they'd fit in that lineup.

If Anthropic was to hit $100B ARR, they be in similar ratios of ARR:Valuation to Meta, MSFT, Apple, etc. If you assume per token price reduces, and 'per intelligence' prices to reduce, which bullish investors would, you'd also assume a good margin over time, (which rumours appear to support for Anthropic).

shaewest··on GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse
The companies don't necessarily need to make back $1T, the investors do, and those investors don't require $1T in profit to do so, they need an asset worth $1T.

Considering leaks suggest Anthropic's ARR would be $47B, that'd be a 20x valuation, but it wouldn't shock me if Anthropic doubles their revenue in the next year or two, in which a 10x revenue could easily support a $1T valuation, and boom there's your ROI, but considering they've raised $135B total, and their ARR is 30% of that, I'd consider that a pretty good ROI, especially if growth continues.

shaewest··on How little exercise can you get away with?
This is where calisthenics comes into play. You can quite easily increase and decrease the leverage on the muscle to workup to the 'main exercise' and even past it. IE, for pull ups, you can hang under a table and do a 'horizontal' pull, you can 'cheat' up the movement (jumping), you can use resistance bands, etc. This is the same for almost every muscle group.
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