Hey, thanks - I wasn't aware of that. Glad to have learned it.
But you can probably tell that there is no need to be snarky. Just your first sentence would have been more in line with how people engage with each other around here.
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But you can probably tell that there is no need to be snarky. Just your first sentence would have been more in line with how people engage with each other around here.
Ticks also get attached to humans in tall grass and forest edges, not from the trees. Walking through open fields is a more likely way to get a tick than walking through the woods, because that is where the deer sleep. They bed down in tall grass, and the ticks come along for the ride. So be wary of the grass, not the woods. As a matter of fact, the best thing you can do to keep ticks away from your home if you live out in the country is to keep 8-10 feet of grass cut really short at the perimeter of your property or wherever it meets the woods.
Young deer often walk towards people, too. They aren't born afraid of humans, and have natural instincts to freeze, not flee. So when their mama hides them, it is just as likely to be near humans, not in the woods with the coyotes. They'll learn the fear soon enough (definitely during hunting season), but until then they certainly have youthful curiosity.
Even so, "sign me up" is still a good answer. Home testing sounds great.
AI is a tool. You can use it regardless of how much or how little people talk about it.
I suspect that when you think about those questions, you'll realize that it really doesn't matter if you keep up or not. If something comes to this industry that is big enough to impact your actual life, you'll hear about it regardless of how often you read HN.
Odds are, there is no problem you need to deal with. HN is here when you have time for it, but your life is there all the time. Focus on the right one.
Hard to say for sure why people flag, but your history looks like someone who is using HN solely for their own personal benefit, not trying to be part of the community.
Zero at work.
Yes, Bauhaus had heavy influence on the last 100 years of architecture and other areas, especially in the corporate spaces. So it was a valid proof that an intentional design aesthetic can be created and "succeed". Yet that only proves that the process can work. It is not proof that it was a good idea in the first place. Because today, most people see that Bauhaus-influenced parts of our world and do not want.
Why would any deliberate aesthetic today not suffer the same fate, of "succeeding" to the point of being cliched and disliked. Why not instead just have a call out to tell people, "OK, Bauhaus is over. Lets move on".
Don't force feed people a replacement that will be equally outdated in the future.
Take racing as an example. Drivers and mechanics are clearly related and both critical to success. And most drivers can handle some mechanic work, while most mechanics can drive. But you don't have one person doing both roles on race day.
Hiring one person to do two jobs increases the time to the finish line. You same some money, but you come in last.
It was an early web site where you'd post a question, and an AI had embedded various personas, who would respond with a discussion amongst themselves in response to the questions. The personas included the people who put the project together, but also famous authors, philosophers, fictional characters, pokemon, etc. Andrej had posted all the math behind it at the time.
https://web.archive.org/web/19990430053446/http://www.forum2...
In reality, it was of course a handful of people in the background who would manually type back replies, but that really didn't diminish the entertainment value.
In any case, it was written when he was a student, just a joke project, so I'm sure his actual academic career had progressed in the decades since to where he has more important things he'd prefer to be remembered by, but it was a highlight of our day back in the dotcom boom to read Forum 2000 on our lunch hours.
The reason I mention all this is that I've been remembering is these last couple years, pondering that today, it could actually exist.
Is it? It is affecting our work, sure. But almost nothing outside of that has changed. In my "real" life, we're still doing the same thing. People tend to ignore AI, and everyone keeps on living the same life.
It could depend on how much of your life revolves around tech, I suppose. Maybe if that is the primary focus of your personal time, it would affect you more. But that isn't true for everyone
Even when it comes to mowing, different people have different goals. I live out in the country, and tall grass means bugs and ticks, so my mowing tries to strike a balance of short grass near the home and the property edges to stop the ticks, medium grass most everything else because we like to let the clover grow, and tall grass, un-mowed for years on some spots, to allow an ecosystem where we still get monarchs and nightly fireflies.
Totally understandable if suburban folk have different goals, but either way, 100% agreed that efficiency is a secondary goal at best.
That being said, they absolutely can spin out a topic list and help you find gaps in your knowledge in order to create a self-study plan. As a over-engineered librarian, they are terrific.
Whatever you feel about it, it would be inaccurate to say that he has not found success. Clearly he has. So it is up to each person to decide whether or not any products of that success, including his writings, matches their own definition for 'great'.
This is the exact opposite of VC-funded where they build fast and don't care if they are burning their runway down because they either grow fast enough to make up for it later.... or they don't and they shutdown.
Most "startup school" style content assumes the VC path, so there is rarely even any talk about having a core profitable transaction at the heart of your business model, but truly, that is the key to bootstrapping.
Repeatedly. Daily. Ad nauseum. With no other engagement on HN. Yeah, we got the invite, Cary. You can stop posting it every day now.
Your write-up leaves more questions than answers.
Don't confuse this for anything more than what it is - a corporate leader delivering his marketing message.
FWIW, it isn't either/or - we practice keeping the shades, curtains, and windows drawn when it is hot, open when it is cool.... and we have air conditioning. Best of both worlds.
Because AI can do some things. Not everything. Applying it to the wrong problem reduces productivity.
Read: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You also might want to take a hint. If you've been posting the same stuff for weeks and not getting any interest, that is a sign that your product just might not as compelling as you think it is.