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MaxwellM··on Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
Really spectacular analysis – thank you for sharing, fun to scroll and easy to understand.

Is it possible to expand this analysis beyond words to other Claude ticks? Contrastive framings, sentence length, caveating, for instance.

MaxwellM··on How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
my "belt and suspenders" are "load-bearing"
MaxwellM··on Has_not_been_viewed_much
Tangentially related. I built a little app to help me find art for my home art frame (Meural) -- it searches through the Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and Museum of Modern Art APIs.

You can try it here https://artfindr.mohitbhasin.com/

MaxwellM··on Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer
Very exciting!
MaxwellM··on The RSS feed reader landscape
Google Reader was killed by Vic because it was the only "social" app at Google at the time. He wanted to grow their FB competitor (G+) and insisted on migrating users over from Reader to G+, which never happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Gundotra#Career

MaxwellM··on Effective Spaced Repetition
Agreed. Logseq changed the game for me. Because SRS is closely coupled with note-taking and is as simple as adding "#card", it eliminates any friction and excuses I had for not using SRS. I look forward to adding new cards as much as I do reviewing old ones.
MaxwellM··on Ask HN: Solving problems by mapping to other problems that we know how to solve
Godel numbering does this for Logic. Reading GEB rn so top of mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_numbering

MaxwellM··on Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
https://www.climaticthoughts.com/

Nitin discuss from a fresh perspective what it will take to prevent climate change. He distills and synthesizes books and articles into short essays that push my thinking forward.

MaxwellM··on Why I Work on Ads
Thanks for sharing. This was a compelling argument that nudged my understanding in a new direction.

I recently started paying creators on Patreon and subscribing to news outlets I wanted to support. But within a year, I realized that this was inefficient, I didn't like/read/watch most of the content that my subscriptions were supporting. As much as I wanted to support the content creators and quality journalism, I questioned the value of my subscriptions and cancelled - I felt like I signed up for a gym membership on Jan 1st that I wasn't using anymore.

Ads allow me "to pay" with my attention for only the content that I value. I don't like ads, I generally use an ad-blocker, but I appreciate the post and the perspective.

MaxwellM··on RIP Google Reader
Using Google Reader felt like hanging out and having a beer with my favorite friends. It was teeming with conversation threads waiting to be pulled.

Seeing a new share was like getting a tiny intellectual present, filled with all the right connotations - "Here's this thing I think you would find interesting," "I care about your opinion, what are your thoughts on this," "It's not important, but it is entertaining," "not trying to share this with the world, just you, my friend."

Google Reader was our company's post-lunch ritual. A way to balance a mornings worth of engineering effort and soporific pad thai with a jolt of fresh news and virtual office banter.

RIP.

MaxwellM··on Launch HN: June (YC W21) – Two-click analytics reports on top of Segment data
Congratulations, this is exciting. Canned solutions are a good way to get young companies from zero to one quickly
MaxwellM··on Simple Anomaly Detection Using Plain SQL
Amazing work here. The slow build, the clear code with highlighting, and the suggested improvements at the end - all made this easy to read and follow along!
MaxwellM··on U.S. sues Visa to block its acquisition of Plaid
Also maybe, try to innovate instead of suffocating innovation with a pillow stuffed with cash.
MaxwellM··on Launch HN: Osmind (YC S20) – software for better mental health therapies
As a data scientist excited about the potential of psychedelic therapies, I like that you are helping bring rigor to the space. I imagine supplementing clinical data with feedback from daily in-app experience sampling could help validate or invalidate new therapies. Keen to follow along and possibly get involved in the future.
MaxwellM··on Launch HN: Datafold (YC S20) – Diff Tool for SQL Databases
Much needed! Analysts struggle with this all the time - trying to explain why an analysis is off and having to manually debug every column in a new database
MaxwellM··on Quotebacks – Quote the Web
This is exciting! Thanks for doing this.
MaxwellM··on Ask HN: Who Is Firing?
Checkout this airtable tracker https://layoffs.fyi/tracker/
MaxwellM··on Language Learning with Netflix extension
Ef yes! Been looking for this, can't wait to try it.
MaxwellM··on Why Do We Sleep Under Blankets, Even on the Hottest Nights? (2017)
I read the article and thought it was generally vapid.

People sleep in different ways. Here are some pictures of things related to sleep. Sleep is poorly studied we should study it more.

The thermoregulation and serotonin studies were helpful.

MaxwellM··on Ask HN: People who completed a bootcamp 3+ years ago: what are you doing now?
Perhaps, if you did a bootcamp and are gainfully employed, you are busy and have less time to read HN.
MaxwellM··on CausalImpact: Causal Inference using Bayesian structural time-series models
Agreed, this documentation is exceptional - It makes something rather complicated look trivially easy to implement.

It would great to have a "Analysed with CausalImpact" page like a "built with AngularJs" where we can explore how this was used in the wild.

I'm tempted to start applying this immediately, but I look forward to reading http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co... before starting.

MaxwellM··on Find salaries paid at companies using foreign worker data
Lynn, FYI - these numbers reported to the DoL are not necessarily accurate and thus should only be used as a ballpark estimate. They are likely to be overestimates of actual numbers.

Having seen H1B document submitted to the DoL, I know that firms misrepresent these numbers. An H1B is granted to immigrants for positions that ostensibly couldn't be filled by US citizens, this is rarely the case. Firms have to show that a job application was life for a certain amount of time and they were unable to fill it.

Finally they need to claim that because the position is so hard to fill, they are willing to pay above prevailing wage. See H1B LCA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa#Labor_Condition_Appli...

They however do not need to prove that the claimed wage is what is actually being paid. These numbers are thus overestimates and I would guess >10% off the mark.

That said, it is obviously illegal to misrepresent these numbers and some firms are more scrupulous than others.

MaxwellM··on Google’s suggestion for a better infinite scroll?
Ingenious. Now if only I could Ctrl-F through unloaded elements I'd be a happy camper.
MaxwellM··on Things I Did Wrong with My Last Startup
Great advice. Thanks for sharing. I'm working on my own project and know that the failures you note are universal. It's helpful to hear them again and use it to channel my efforts on building an audience especially when development is slow.
MaxwellM··on Ask HN: What are your side projects? 9/12
This is awesome! really excited to try it out.
MaxwellM··on Ask HN: What are your side projects? 9/12
very cool. I love the look and feel. Where are you sourcing your quotes from?
MaxwellM··on Ask HN: What are your side projects? 9/12
Very cool, great idea.
MaxwellM··on Ask HN: Would there be any interest in a blog analyzing why startups *fail*?
Yes this would be a great idea.

Most podcasts and blogs are about the success. I would love to read a blog about startup lessons learned.

If this could eventually be categorized and synthesized to provide cautionary/actionable data, that could be invaluable to the community.

Something like: 40 out of 90 failed companies without a technical co-founder fail within 6months. Or 40% of entrepreneurs try 3 companies before attaining profitability.

MaxwellM··on Ask HN: Anyone Hiring Real Engineers?
Are there startups/entrepreneurs in this industry? Seems like a tough industry to be an underdog.
MaxwellM··on Show HN: Mixest, my summer project that crawls the web for new indie music
Awesome. I hate indie rock, but I still love Mixest. Kudos.
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