- phyzix5761I'm surprised to see how few of my non-technical friends and family actually care about privacy.
- 10-15 years? Sadly, most people are declared senior after like 2 years of work.
- I agree but does the happiness report actually measure all of that with their single question:
Please imagine a ladder with steps numbered from zero at the bottom to ten at the top. Suppose we say that the top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. If the top step is 10 and the bottom step is 0, on which step of the ladder do you feel you personally stand at the present time?
- I've tried running teams with and without estimates and I've noticed that when work isn't estimated it tends to drag on forever. But when you put a number on it, even if it's a rough or inaccurate guess, it gets done much faster.
- Can you share some ways AI has changed your life?
- The good (or bad) thing about humans is they always want more than what they have. AI seems like a nice tool that may solve some problems for people but, in the very near future, customers will demand more than what AI can do and companies will need to hire people who can deliver more until those jobs, eventually like all jobs, are automated away. We see this happen every 50 years or so in society. Just have a conversation with people your grandparent's age and you'll see they've gone through the same thing several times.
- Because the world, sadly, doesn't revolve around just 1 individual. We are a society where other individuals have different goals and needs and when those are met by the development of a new product offering it shifts how people act and where they spend their money. If enough people shift then it affects jobs.
- > "Stop AI from taking our jobs" - This shouldn't be solved through regulation. It's on politicians to help people adapt to a new economic reality, not to artificially preserve bullshit jobs.
This is a really good point. If a country tries to "protect" jobs by blocking AI, it only puts itself at a disadvantage. Other countries that don't pass those restrictions will produce goods and services more efficiently and at lower cost, and they’ll outcompete you anyway. So even with regulations the jobs aren't actually saved.
The real solution is for people to upskill and learn new abilities so they can thrive in the new economic reality. But it's hard to convince people that they need to change instead of expecting the world around them to stay the same.
- And that's how regulations work. The very companies targeted by regulations often design and push for them. By doing so they gain a competitive advantage, price out smaller rivals, and move closer to becoming a monopoly. Michael Porter, Harvard Business School professor, talks about this in his book Competitive Strategy.
- I wonder how much software project failure comes from lacking clear processes. Many teams, whether in companies or open source projects, never define step by step procedures for common tasks like feature development, bug triage, code review, or architectural decisions. When six developers each follow their own approach, even with consistent code style, the team can’t improve the system in a predictable and systematic way. Clear procedures don’t guarantee success, but without them teams often end up with chaos and inconsistent delivery. This lack of structured methodology seems far more common in software engineering than in other engineering disciplines.
- > Truly captures the spirit of these types of HN comments; Person A does a thing, Person B points out how pointless thing could have been done better in effort to flex smart.
And then Person A goes off and founds Dropbox and 20 years later is worth $2.4 billion.
- Go after the specific companies and executives you believe are doing wrong. Blanket regulations raise costs for smaller competitors and end up entrenching giants like Meta, Google, and Apple because they can afford compliance while smaller competitors can’t. These rules are a big reason the largest firms are more dominant than ever and have become, effectively, monopolies in their markets. And the irony is that many of these regulations are influenced or supported by the big companies themselves, since a small "investment" in shaping the rules helps them secure even more market share.
- Regulations make this very difficult. Take a look at FDA Section 804. Startup cost is in the low tens or hundreds of thousands just to get the application accepted and then the ongoing yearly cost is in the millions. Currently, the FDA makes it very difficult for new competitors to enter the market because of these really high fees. This is part of, but not the whole, reason why drugs cost so much in the US.
- I think $30 at a high enough volume accounts for the high revenue.
- I see it a bit differently. In marketing, companies like AppLovin with the Axon Engine and Zeta Global with Athena are already showing strong profitability, both in earnings and free cash flow. They’re also delivering noticeably higher returns on ad spend compared to pre-AI tools for their customers. This is the area I’m researching most closely, so I can only speak for marketing, but I’d love to hear from others seeing similar results in their industries.
- > I worry this move to homeschooling and micromanaging children's social lives just creates bubbles and makes children incapable of interacting with those outside of them.
Most research does not support the idea that homeschooling inherently creates social bubbles or makes children unable to interact with others. Studies generally find that homeschooled children perform as well as or better than traditionally schooled peers on standardized social skills measures and often participate actively in community groups, sports, etc. Long term studies of adults who were homeschooled also show no meaningful deficits in life outcomes or social functioning. The main caveat is that homeschooling varies widely: children in highly isolated or restrictive environments may have fewer opportunities to practice mainstream social norms, but this is a function of the specific homeschooling approach, not homeschooling as a whole. Overall, the literature suggests that social problems arise from lack of social exposure not from homeschooling itself.
- But what if most people don't actually care about these freedoms? What if we're only a small minority? Should we force our views on others through laws and regulations or should we, as free individuals, choose not to use these applications and let others make their own free choices?
- With the amount of em dash usage it probably could be AI slop.
- Usually, but not always, investors buy something when the price is at a point where they believe the asset is undervalued. They sell when they believe the asset has reached its fair market value or is overvalued. I haven't followed Thiel closely enough but for sure this is what Buffett is doing. Assuming Thiel is doing the same then he believes NVidia is currently at fair market value or overvalued. I would agree with the latter.
- Replace the product people with LLMs and keep the engineers. You'll get better results that way.