Seems like a way to do an "acquisition" while avoiding the brand risk of buying a mostly-porn company.
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I think the USA is amazing in that it attracts the most ambitious people in the world, provides relative stability for them to work and live, and that it has managed to create such a stable society given the heterogeneous nature of its culture. It has a lot of problems, but I'd much rather be here than in the communist former-country my mom was born in.
Some personal observations:
- The USA lacks a unified cultural identity now. There are lots of reasons for this. But, it's considered taboo to express a love of the USA - which hurts our community + culture.
- People put a lot of effort into work, and work is becoming more transactional. No more "life-long employment with the buddies" kind of situation.
- America went from poor to rich, but still behaves like a developing economy. Public healthcare + public education + low-income housing availability are poor, while there's a big class of people who can afford private education + private healthcare + McMansions. I think this deteriorates the idea of "we're all in this together" because there's such unequal opportunity.
- Wars used to be a way to unify a country, but we're in the era of proxy wars - which don't have the same aligning effect.
At Find AI, we mostly hire fractional and project-based workers.
We're actively looking for a project-based brand designer to help with a logo redesign.
We hire fractional engineers on a rolling basis, focused on a Ruby + Rails stack, along with a lot of OpenAI + Clickhouse.
Learn more about our fractional work program + apply here: https://usefind.ai/jobs
Cars made more sense in the industrial age, when people needed to commute to a factory for work. But, in the age of knowledge work and especially remote work, we aren't commuting as much. So, walkable neighborhoods become far more important and impactful.
Japan values pedestrians. There, it's a 3-year prison sentence for drinking and driving.
Look at red light cameras. New York City introduced red light cameras in 1994 to stop offenders. In 2022, NYC cameras issued 618,000 red light violation tickets.
If you want to limit behavior, use engineering. Add speed limiters to cars, or speed bumps to roads.
And, it’s possible they’ll be getting sued by insurance companies - and insurance companies are some of the most ruthless litigants who have lots of cash and will hire lawyers across jurisdictions looking for any opportunity or loophole they can.
I know some tech people have been donating to psilocybin research - is there any apparent connection to this study?
So, does anybody know what interesting discoveries have come out of this process, besides a more precise Pi?
I've been to an American 7-11 once or twice in my life. (I didn't want to go back.)
In Japan, I went at least once daily - sometimes twice per day. They almost function the role of a NYC bodega, but with more and fresher food options. In addition, they often have a stack of microwaves run by the staff, allowing for inexpensive, fresh, and warm meals.
- My blog mailing list (Sendy) was having a bot signup problem. I wanted to deploy a captcha, but the mailing list software didn't support it. So, I put a simple proxy that validates the captcha before inserting the record to the software.
- Wanted a way to apply an email template to the Sendy mailing list, so I wrote a software that consumes my RSS feed, applies a template, and creates a draft in my mailing list software.
- Wrote a "Scoreboard" that aggregates MRR across Stripe accounts into a graph, and sends auto-emails to friends when I cross thresholds.
- Wrote a script that emails me when the HN "whoishiring" job goes live every month. (Simple crons like Zapier don't work)
There are a few other things in there, too.
So, it's a conditional right, not a fundamental right.
Last week we launched Find AI on HN. Now, we're looking for an engineer or two with Rails experience to join part-time. We pay up to $150/hr and are entirely async and remote.
Learn more in our job post here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ND0dpiUfBtZ-WmgUXnmdaa2p...
Redesigns almost always result in a decrease in metrics/KPIs. The redesign just lacks the learned improvements that were baked into the old product. So, the initial launch almost always seems like a failure - and requires leadership to expect this dip before problems can be patched.
And, we have had some people request API access today so we are discussing it. (If you’re also interested, please email me.)
Long story short is that some of this analysis is async. We do a lot of parallelization to make it fast. But, we limit results for free searches to keep costs low. But, sometimes extra matches keep getting found after we try to stop free searches.
We're doing a postmortem on all the searches with 0 results, but please email me what you are looking for and I can give a better answer.
Traditional search engines are built for lookups, and don't handle these more subjective or natural language queries as well.
Find AI is built right now so that people exist only within a company. So, we don't have profiles or index people as individuals - just as employees. That probably made your search hard, because most employees aren't advertising that they are looking for a job (especially on the data sources we use).
We're starting a retro on the thousands of searches people ran today, and will tweak the system based on the results. But, an early takeaway is that some searches failed when people applied a filter that the system doesn't understand.
For example, searching "Find AI startups with 50-100 employees" returns 0 results because Find AI doesn't know headcounts yet. (We'll work on that, though).