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He did a commercial and helps sales for Ramp and he only has $500k into them? That is either the deal of the century for Ramp or the reporting is inaccurate.

If the motherboards are putting too much power into the chips, why isn’t it their fault?

Do you think robot insurance will cover you if you self-host?

Yes, if it’s bad it will do that. I can see a path to it being good.

Then I will use a different service. I think this will be harder to monopolize than search.

Agent, I need some vitamin D, can you find me the best deal for some rated in the top 5? Agent deployed. Ok we found a bottle with a 30 day supply of Nature’s Own from a well respected merchant. It can be here in 2 days and it is $12. Should I buy? Yes.

Or you could add some other parameters and tell it to buy now if under $15.

Agent, I need a regular order for my groceries, but I also need to make a pumpkin pie so can you get me what I need for that? Also, let’s double the fruit this time and order from the store that can get it to me today.

Most purchases for me are not enjoyable. Only the big ones are.

I also did this. But I wasn’t mad, I was amused.

Search for “fart” if you want a good laugh.

Unless they drive the price into the ground.

Does it need to enable 10x productivity? Part of the job of a developer is the constant pursuit of new tools to make you more efficient. The developers who do not evolve all the time are eventually passed by a younger generation. If it makes you more productive you should use it. Obviously there is going to be a ton of hype, just ignore it.

Wrong, it was orchestrated by them to tax everyone. That was my whole point.

Let’s look at a few use cases:

Bank app: they use apps for increased security.

Map apps: of course they need your location. And wow it works way better than web based.

TikTok: in yeah they need access to audio to record audio. And wow the UI is smoother.

Games: don’t ask for anything. Except more money through in app payments.

Weather, uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart: needs location.

Streaming apps: actually sometimes need location to prevent you from streaming outside the jurisdiction. And it’s a better experience.

Lots of other apps: don’t ask for anything.

Does anyone let an app have access to their contacts? (Ok maybe just us nerds don’t)

So, no. It’s not usually about data. Sure, some of it is. But this is the wrong thread to pull on. It isn’t why they all force us to use apps.

The reason is that Apple has hampered the web experience to push everyone to apps. All of these problems are solvable with a web browsers, if it worked better. We have the technology. But Apple does not have an incentive to make the web work as well as apps. It destroys their revenue streams. They lose control. The problem is Apple, not all these apps that are trying to find their way in the walled Apple garden.

Of course this isn’t true for everything. But it is true enough. Why would they kill the golden goose?

An unpredictable enemy is way scarier than a predictable one.

Just lay the wheel on its side and it makes a fine seat.

I hope you inform the user and show them how to easily complain to their representatives.

I created a search engine that crawled the web way back in 2003. I used a proper user agent that included my email address. I got SO many angry emails about my crawler, which played as nice as I was able to make it play. Which was pretty nice I believe. If it’s not Google people didn’t want it. That’s a good way to prevent anyone from ever competing with Google. It isn’t just about that preview for LinkedIn, it’s about making sure the web is accessible by everyone and everything that is trying to make its way. Sure, block the malicious ones. But don’t just assume that every bot is malicious by default.

The article is about scaling issues with tons of writes, which I referenced by saying “tons of writes”. Yes, if there is no reason to scale it up you can just use a database. But that’s not the context.

Transactional databases are not really the best tool for writing tons of (presumably) immutable records. Why are you using it for this? Why not Elastic?

It’s fine. We’re fine.

That context should be in there. Give me the facts or else it’s just whining.

There are also obviously some people that take advantage of the rules around emotional support animals. Like Great Danes on airplanes (second hand anecdote). So the effect is that people tend to suspect everyone is taking advantage. There are even a ton of services to make it super easy to classify a pet as an emotional support animal. So, I am all for these ridiculous chickens. Might buy some for my kids (I am not into knitting).

So the question is how much more efficient is it? I spend hundreds of dollars per month running dehumidifiers in my house so I am keen to know.

I don’t think anyone has a lot of experience faking their own death. How good at you at doing anything really complicated for the first time?

Yes your enduros and such are taller than sport bikes, but a Harley would be much lower, yes?

You and I don’t know. But this is hacker news so there is probably somebody here keeping them honest.

Everyone is capable of being a toddler. This article frames it like there are a bunch of idiots out there that are always wrong. I think he is acting like a toddler when he points out the people that are always wrong. It is good to analyze your own actions and try to minimize when we act like toddlers. Because we all do. But yes, some more than others.

If you remember to do so.

Yes they will. Why do you think they won’t? They certainly can. You just use RAG to look up the latest news based on the keywords you are using. You can use search on the back end and never surface a list of results unless the LLM decides that is a good idea. It curates that the reusits for you. Or gives you the singular site you need with context. That is better for most searches.

You cannot put up billboards wherever you want with zero oversight as the article suggests. You would see a heck of a lot more if this were the case.