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No one does this “approve 10 things a week with a 5 person approval” flow that isn’t already done in some organized platform or system. Where on earth is this use case happening that this is both a valid use case and a savvy enough customer to buy this solution? This is not a thing.

Anyone that’s at a scale where this is connected to business certical workflows is likely equipped to build this in house at a fraction of the cost. In terms of level of effort, this product itself is a rounding error.

If they surveyed 3K “ai” startups the likely answer is some tiny fraction have any genuinely unique IP and the others at best are likely using ML libraries and services from other parties. Again it will probably devolve in to a discussion around the boundaries for what IP is actually “AI”, but yes, it’s mostly sizzle with no steak in the market.

These vapid postulations around some ideal set of behaviors in order to be "better" in some way at the difficult task of building an effective company are as numerous today as they are infuriating to read. I wish people would just stop writing these pseudo thought pieces. They're just humblebrag garbage.

ExpressVPN has been a really great experience in terms of price and ease of use. Been a customer for a few years now.

An interesting thing that's happening right now with the release and rise of Apex Legends is seeing how these now stale numbers are already starting to move around in regards to the level of engagement that Fortnite now commands versus what it commanded only weeks ago.

The pace that the market is moving is pretty incredible in direct contrast to the landscape even just 5 years ago when MOBA's owned the world.

This in conjunction with other nimble, highly accessible entertainment experiences (Tiktok, HQ and its clones, etc) make for vast and extremely fickle landscape vying for attention. It's really fascinating to zoom out and watch it unfold.

Personally I'm just thrilled to see the level of production around eSports really kick off. Games that have been around for a decade plus now (CS:GO, Dota 2, Street Fighter) now have these incredibly high quality events and online coverage that for me have shifted my attention away from many traditional sports I used to watch.

Exciting times for sure.

Any chance you could elaborate on this or point to some helpful docs? I'm just kicking off refactoring the house wifi and some instruction here would be amazing, especially in the context of the Google mesh product.

Well... that was an interesting blend between fascinating and disturbing.

I think it stinks and prefer the old one.

Uh oh. WSJ's picked a new target, it's going to be Theranos all over again.

Mobile safari on an iPhone XR just worked.

What are the implications of this for those of us unfamiliar with DNS feature space?

Not much data provided to back up the claims. Loose anecdotes, just seems like a fluff piece riding counter-facebook momentum. It's a massive company, it likely doesn't have one singular work culture.

There's little of substance in this article. It supposes the idea of fully describing Steve Jobs through the perspectives of the women in his life but doesn't really offer any meat or meaningful insights. A waste of a read.

Paywalled. :(

How do these solutions compare to something like https://containership.io?

Two bridges into a down round on their series E, these guys have been bleeding money for years. The VCs gave them ten years to find a sustainable path and they just never took off. This is just how it goes. It’s probably for the best, and 10 years in any venture is a fair shot.

I mean it's nothing short of shrewd. Hosts are a critical resource to Airbnb - so how do you bind that asset to your platform so that it doesn't leave? You put it on a vesting schedule.

Melatonin. It's wonderful stuff - non-habit forming, available over the counter, and when combined with a good sleeping routine (environment, consistency of timing) can really help you smooth out a sleep pattern in to something more consistent or aide you in a change like this - though the idea is once you got consistent in the routine that you'd no longer need the melatonin.

It's not a cure all wonder drug however, and will really only assist in inducing the drowsiness that parleys in to sleep, just to manage expectations a bit - but it really is highly effective when combined with solid routine / environment.

I've never even heard of the BDS movement until this comment, which is possibly a reason why PepsiCo didn't take this seriously.

Well done - this is such a great walkthrough. I think if I take a shot at this I might do Salvador Dali and Elon Musk... :)

This is only relevant for a subset of SaaS where 1 customer = 1. If your "customers" are businesses and you're making a product that impacts a business process or processes and assumes part or whole of a business using your product, much of this guide is irrelevant.

You have a software engineering job and you never used recursion of any kind? This strikes me as super odd.

How do you guys plan to strategically and operationally adjust as you expand in to markets that far removed from economics and social drivers of SF?

In short, it's significant progress in the OpenAI team's quest to build really effective self trained artificial intelligence. Conquest in a problem space like this has real world applications that could translate to things like extremely effective artificial limb dexterity (according to the talking points from the event).

Dota 2 was chosen because it's a nice combination of pre-determined rules (to an extent) and an extremely complex problem set of possible moves and actions. Dota's development team also was really supportive to this effort and they have an API that suits the Open AI team's purposes of interacting with the game really well. Great fit all around.

Dota 2, especially when played 5v5, is orders of magnitude more complex than in terms of possible decisions and moves than Go.

In case anyone would like to watch a VOD of the event, it can be found here: https://www.twitch.tv/openai/video/293517383

It was a really wonderfully done event overall and there's several interviews throughout with different folks from the OpenAI team.

I want to take the high road in reading this, but it's hard to not take this in as some new form of humble brag.

Affluent duo with super privileged private school educational pedigree land top tier entry level jobs @ big tech co and bootstrap for an incredibly modest 6 months before raising a relatively fat seed round from big VC firms IN 8 WEEKS and bemoan "how terrible the process was".

Oh woe is fucking me.

Great story from the team at Wildbit. I'm a big fan of what Chris and Natalie have built there with their awesome team in Philly. Definitely interested to see where the next shift around communication and culture takes place as more teams become reliant on these newer channels. Slack is ultra helpful to the business, but it's definitely creating some challenges that we're just now starting to discover as it gets truly ingrained in our work culture.

Elad Gil having quite the PR push today on HN. Conveniently first on the Stripe Press article, earlier post with the Altman interview. Well done on the marketing game today!

This is a great technical breakdown of some modern high level approaches to common cheats. I think this the most transparent approach (even though the author admits leaving some detail out) to modern anti-cheat for massive multiplayer games. Good on riot for having an open dialogue about this. I don't think you'd ever see someone like Valve going a transparent route with something like this. (Not making a judgement on that decision, just an observation).