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helsontaveras18··on The Trump White House Is over Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
> “Tom Brown is not being a weirdo like Dario and can actually engage,” said one person directly familiar with the calls. Dario is too weird for them but Musk isn't?
helsontaveras18··on Ask HN: First-time EM, quite lost – what helped you?
Without understanding the details around your goals and KPIs you’re measured against, how you work with a PM, relationship with your direct manager to lean on them, it’s hard to give concrete feedback.

But what I am hearing is a lot of overwhelm and a sense that you need to take this stuff on by yourself, which isn’t the case. You should find more ways to push work onto your engineers. Your job is to make sure the team is tackling the big challenges.

In big tech orgs, that comes through writing proposals and creating alignment between teams. When it comes to strategy, see if you can boil it down to the top 1-2 things you need to do to unblock the team. Write a proposal. Get feedback on it. Get it on the roadmap. And make sure your team is working towards that.

Also, use Claude. Tell Claude your problems and the AI will give you some decent feedback or resources to approach your problems.

If you need more specialized coaching, there are services that can help you get mentorship.

helsontaveras18··on I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
I recommend these: Mack's Pillow Soft Silicone Earplugs. Can be found on Amazon. Block out A LOT of noise.

They’re little putty molds that you shape to fit your ear.

I also rip them in half before molding so I get 2 ear plugs from 1 putty.

helsontaveras18··on Robinhooding libraries from JavaScript to C, part 1: Interactive CLIs
> “I imagine what it must be like in the office. The room is all leather and rosewood; bay windows open to a wide patio overlooking the ocean. It is seventy nine degrees. From the plaza de armas below you can hear the Dan straining through the gulls and breeze. Aja. A man with a space gray MacBook adjusts a pair of black Tom Fords and types a single line of TypeScript. He smells of clean vetiver.”
helsontaveras18··on Sloppy Copies
I don’t have data on this. But I’m getting recommended YouTube videos that are 1-2 hr AI generated music, in the genre of background music (coffee listening and focus).

I listened to one. It was pretty good!! There’s no lyrical content, but the production was strong.

In that niche of “music you don’t really pay attention to” I predict AI generated music will only grow.

helsontaveras18··on You can turn Claude's most annoying feature off
I’ll take the Shenaniganing that he’s not having!
helsontaveras18··on Show HN: We want to displace Notion with collaborative Markdown files
I liked the idea and the headline got me to click. But then I got confused with the Postman capabilities… So this is beyond markdown—it’s helping you build live dashboards with Markdown.

Why would I reach for that instead of Claude code building a dashboard with HTML/CS/JS?

helsontaveras18··on How to Attend Meetings
Did anyone make a copy? File is deleted.
helsontaveras18··on Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter
Wow, what an amazing demo for such a simple synth. Great work! If you ever start a Kickstarter, I’d be happy to donate. If it inspires some kid out there to get into music production, it’s a win for me :)
helsontaveras18··on Ask HN: What are some cool or underrated tech companies based in Canada?
I think we’re pretty cool! https://www.trykeep.com
helsontaveras18··on Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice
This is the most realistic AI conversation I ever had. I legitimately felt I was just chatting with someone, getting to know them. The male was more convincing for me.
helsontaveras18··on Ask HN: Do you feel burnout from being less hands on as you become more senior?
The feeling is understandable when transitioning to a more managerial role. However, nowadays I focus more on the coaching opportunities and making sure my people grow, which is a huge reward in itself. Additionally, I see how spending 5-10 minutes sending messages can create clarity and an action plan for engineers, which has a multiplicative effect on the org. After a few cycles, I was able to appreciate leveraging my time in this way, although it took some getting used to (about 6 months).

I think there is a silver lining and opportunity if you choose to look at it that way. That’s how I overcame similar feelings.

helsontaveras18··on Ask HN: How can I learn about manufacturing?
This is one of the best things I’ve read on HN in a while. It rings of founder pain and passion all in one.
helsontaveras18··on Market leader is developing a feature that obsoletes our product. Is it over?
It’s all in the execution. Not all multi-billion dollar companies can build and iterate on product quickly enough. Internal politics and promotions mean that what’s best for the individuals isn’t (always) what’s best for the company.

Not all hope is lost. Do your homework as others have suggested and get an idea of how successful they’ve launched new products before. Set deadlines and think through the worst case scenarios so you can be honest with the progress. Lastly, try out their product and see for yourself once it’s out.

helsontaveras18··on OnlyFake: A site where ‘neural networks’ churn out fake IDs
Online banks require you to provide such photos of an ID. Also, registration for government services.

However, in the banking case (and likely government, but I cannot speak to that directly) they are running your data against a KYC API so chances of your information being valid are low.

helsontaveras18··on The Bun Shell
How do you ensure cross platform compatibility under the hood?
helsontaveras18··on If only someone told me this before my first startup
CEO’s job is to not let the company run out of money. One way to achieve that is through fundraising, but fundraising shouldn’t be a goal in itself.
helsontaveras18··on Salesforce to Hire 3,300 People After Layoffs Earlier This Year
Is this out of a Silicon Valley episode? “It’s okay—comeback” after getting laid off? Alumni event?

Everything is upside down.

helsontaveras18··on Bun v1.0.0
Congrats on the launch! I have been following Bun’s journey since the beginning. Excited to make the transition once it’s got more compatibility with our Node tooling (prisma specifically).
helsontaveras18··on Launch HN: PeerDB (YC S23) – Fast, Native ETL/ELT for Postgres
PeerDB syncs your Postgres data with other databases in real-time.
helsontaveras18··on Ask HN: What pay to target when joining a startup?
^ this is typical for US founding engineer
helsontaveras18··on Icon Buddy – 100K+ Open Source SVG Icons, Fully Customizable
And we love it. It’s the best format for icons
helsontaveras18··on Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as previously believed
Love the idea that it's a racket, that astrophysicists are making millions of dollars watching stars, and we're paying for the fancy cars they drive.
helsontaveras18··on Figma Is a File Editor
This isn’t at all what the article is implying… this a technical analysis of the storage / usage pattern of an application.
helsontaveras18··on HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals
Yes, non-proud HP InkJet owner. You own the printer. However, you MUST be subscribed to their HP Whatever Program and pre-pay them the amount of pages you’d like to print on a monthly basis. You cannot print unless you are on the program. I did read these terms because it was insane, and I’m paraphrasing.

It looks like they updated their program terms to force you to buy their ink. Honestly I thought that was already the case since I had tried using cheaper ink and the printer rejected it.

helsontaveras18··on Rewriting the Messenger codebase for a faster, smaller, simpler messaging app (2020)
They’ve ditched react native for quite some time now
helsontaveras18··on Sweden launches research rocket, accidentally hits Norway
I had to look this up because it’s hilarious. And it’s happened more than once!

How many wrong turns can you make into a different country?

helsontaveras18··on Batch computing and the coming age of AI systems
Agreed. I was a little surprised when they said batch processing for financial systems was a use case for foundational models. Financial data requires a high degree of accuracy and graceful handling of many edge cases.

But then they explained that one could use these models to generate the code that would process the financial data.

Sounds interesting, but yes the question is how do you validate this? Do humans write the test cases to ensure that, for example, ACH files are being processed accordingly? What about edge case detection? Self-correction in real-time? Many questions left unanswered.

helsontaveras18··on GPT-4 Outperforms Elite Crowdworkers, Saving Researchers $500k and 20k hours
They will be working to create the models that automate the company out of existence.
helsontaveras18··on Supabase Edge Runtime: Self-Hosted Deno Functions
Open question: what are the benefits of replacing Lambda with this new service, if you’re not using any other Supabase functionalities?

Our Lambdas are currently written in Typescript and built with esbuild. We zip them and push to AWS.

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