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Respectfully, the primary thing you are describing here is spending time with your children. Same could be said for spending time and attention discussing children's drawings.

This is another way to say you have ADHD. (I say this as someone with ADHD behaviors myself)

And all this time I had been calling them, "Elven Labs" in my head.

I know that this is at least somewhat on their radar. Scrolling used to not be 60 FPS either, now it is.

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Yes, those things cost money, but the money that we want to make, we want to make it today. And this is how we make it. What economic incentive is there for preservation?

(/takes off devil's advocate hat and puts on flame suit)

Did they ever get legs?

Dear HN reader: Did you click on the comments of this post? I bet you want to analyze the discussion, don't you?

The problem is entirely due to the labor and compensation for mechanics. The Mechanics get a shit proposition. If you are smart, you do not do it. Exhibit A, mechanics are paid a fraction of revenue but are 100% responsible for warranty. Imagine if you shipped a bug, you are told to work without pay to fix it. That is what a mechanic does.

Can somebody please tell me what is the business play behind The Browser Company. It has always seemed very suspicious to me, well-funded, not making money, and now this

If you do not know how to say something, you don't know how to say it.

I cannot read this article because of a pop-up ad on the website.

When I looked myself in my local garden center, I actually found over 9,000!

I agree with you as well, but this is a major example of how, despite this ideal, something like this can sweep up so many people that would otherwise never interact with a system like this. People who don't know who SBF is, never heard of Hacker News, who don't understand crypto, getting convinced to put money into this by, say, a younger relative. It is a real side-effect of this thing existing on this scale on a planet populated by humans.

People don't go mass free-climbing because it isn't something you do by accident. The danger is obvious. But this danger is abstract, and the ease of entering this type of system can happen with just a few clicks from the comfort of your home. And getting dollar signs in your eyes is a very psychologically influential pull.

Surely someone here either knows a FB insider or is one, and could anonymously give a realistic description from the inside on what "creepy information" exists for the average user. And yet I haven't seen such a description. Is this because FB is simply too large and complicated for any person to really know what is tracked to any useful degree?

It's not false, I have this same problem right now. I have mail.google.com opened in a Safari tab. When the tab is open and In Activity Monitor, I see: Memory 1.2 GB, Real Memory 500 MB, VM Compressed 260 MB. When I switch away focus, Memory drops to 900 MB. The Gmail web app is a RAM hog in Safari.

I have a background in computational linguistics from a good university, and then I got sidetracked by life for the last decade. What real experience did you look for that was a good signal?

This is a pretty uninformed and distracting article.

It seems strange to me that you would "move PC to cloud" for mass market users without also removing restrictions that are typically bound to local hardware - RAM for example.

If you take it for granted that you want to eschew typical hardware, and deliver experiences over the Internet, is the best way to do that really let someone rent 8GB of RAM in the cloud, and load Chrome and web pages into that cloud ram they rented? and then let the webpages paint in the cloud and draw it for the user over RDP?

This makes sense for Microsoft to use their desktop telemetry investments in the cloud era. But less sense for users doing basic productivity.

It should be illegal to own more than two homes.

Biggest knock against modern communication platforms (Discord Slack et al): they are not a part of the Web.

We are first familiar with this concept of payment activation in software where all product units are identical and the cost to produce an additional unit is 0. To implement this same concept in a machine is a little funnier. If this means the car units can be produced identically, at a lower cost of production per unit, I understand why companies do this. But it is also a natural human reaction to be frustrated by this concept implemented mechanically where the cost to produce is >0. Both sides have a point.

"smoot" dot apple dot com?

If you want an extremely quick scan of the front pages of many world newspapers (less than 5 mins), check out "NEWS ACC" on YouTube.

Software development? Or other industries?

Consider human evolution and human psychology. What has been most important to most individual humans, for all of history? Having a safe and satisfying individual life, providing for and integrating with those friends and family in our immediate presence.

That's the biological firmware running in your brain. The Internet screws with this perception. It can be a "make yourself feel bad" machine under the right circumstances.

Hold those 0.0001% up as personal heroes (keeping in mind most people have no connection at all to writing Corkscrew Follies in Assembly) and use that inspiration to live your life to your own satisfaction. That's what Chris Sawyer was doing too.

The library investigator's name is actually Bookman?

Helpful anecdote, thank you. It sounds like you found the answer to my question to be, "most of them"!

How many people go into programming now simply for the money? More than 70%?

What percentage of programmers would still be programmers if competitive salary was not a concern in life, and people were free to simply pursue their passions?

Now THAT's an enterprise solution!