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by brap 4y ago
Missed opportunity, should have been a Dali elephant
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by brap 4y ago
There are always exceptions. Fundamentally, when both prices and wages go up, there’s no reason to expect companies to lose real value. AFAIK in 2022 we’re seeing cost-push inflation and wages haven’t really gone up, which could partially e
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by brap 4y ago
If you invest in real assets, such as stocks or real estate, your savings should be more or less safe from inflation.
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by brap 4y ago
Blow it out your ass
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by brap 4y ago
Flutter is quite terrible on the web. I don’t think they use WASM either, I think Dart just gets compiled to JS.
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by brap 4y ago
I think this could really be the selling point, high performance native & web UIs. Nothing like it exists. I imagined something like React & React Native, except implemented in a performant compiled language and runs anywhere using
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by brap 4y ago
>User interfaces that run anywhere. Written in Rust, inspired by React Wow! I was wondering if this exists TODAY. Even did a quick search but couldn’t find anything. Wild. Edit: oh, doesn’t seem like it uses native UI
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by brap 4y ago
I really don’t get Obsidian and why HN seems so obsessed with it. Can anyone please enlighten me? Why do they call these notes “a second brain”? How is this “a new way of thinking”? What are you people even writing that requires this? It ju
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by brap 4y ago
Were you really conscious a second ago, or is it only a memory that may as well be an illusion? Are you conscious right now? And what about right now?
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by brap 4y ago
So is it really the same person you're reanimating, or is it someone/something that simulates that person perfectly to the outside world? I mean, suppose you could do that while the person is still alive. Assuming the reanimated p
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by brap 4y ago
It seems then that the next step is not popping open the hood of the AI, but popping open the hood of ourselves, quite literally.
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by brap 4y ago
By the end of 2023, blockchains will still not have 1 (one) real use case.
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by brap 4y ago
To anyone wondering how this will work, since the post didn’t say: > The feature won’t see users switching over to music tracks that already have the vocals removed, however. Instead, it’s relying on an on-device machine learning algorit
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by brap 4y ago
I'm not a fan of serverless/lambdas for this exact reason, I was referring specifically to PaaS solutions, where you can build your services without vendor lock-in, in a way that makes it easy to containerize later on. Things like
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by brap 4y ago
If you've been following Iranian social media, they don't want hijab reforms, they want this regime gone. And this is their Berlin wall moment.
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by brap 4y ago
> k8s or vanilla VMs/containers. Why would you even bother as an early stage startup? Ship your code on a PaaS like fly.io/Render/Vercel/Heroku/etc until cost/scale is an actual issue. Same for using manag
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by brap 4y ago
> you can get better than nlog(n) for specific cases that may happen a lot in practice, but not in the general case of randomly selected continuous inputs. I guess what I'm asking is how "specific" do these cases have to b
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by brap 4y ago
I’m not sure why, but I realized it was AI from the very first sentence, not exaggerating. It’s just not something someone on HN would write.
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by brap 4y ago
> the worst case is O(nlog(n)) I think it's worth clarifying that this is the best worst case possible, i.e for every sorting algorithm you could create a certain input in a way that it won't be able to beat O(nlog(n)). In ot
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by brap 4y ago
Cool product. Just curious, is there no existing encryption at the DB level? I would expect modern DBs to be able to do that.
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by brap 4y ago
I know, I'm wondering if switching to something like GraphQL or tRPC would solve many of these issues, which seem to be around violating the OpenAPI contract
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by brap 4y ago
Would any of these errors be present if they used GraphQL instead of REST? Obviously the ones with headers can still happen, but it looks like everything else is related to schema enforcement
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by brap 4y ago
I found it pretty easy once I started looking at context. For example, “would this person be wearing these kind of earrings?”, etc. Seems like AI does faces incredibly well, but misses the broader picture.
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by brap 4y ago
+1, while not really a “aha” moment, it was definitely a “holy shit” moment coming to Java from C++. Another moment was trying out Node.js to see what all the fuss was about (coming from Java/C#), I’m not a huge fan of JS but I was blo
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by brap 4y ago
I don’t really see the usefulness of this. If you write your program this way, how does it interact with the environment (e.g user input, output, network…)? Something is missing. And if it doesn’t interact with the environment, then your pr
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by brap 4y ago
I believe this is exactly what OP meant, so likewise I don’t think ordering is a problem in his proposal.
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by brap 4y ago
FYI, Formidable is a very popular npm package for forms: https://www.npmjs.com/package/formidable
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by brap 4y ago
TIL Gore-TEX from Seinfeld is a real thing
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by brap 4y ago
How is adopting a niche tech standard being “culturally relevant”? The vast majority of people outside of tech simply do not know about, or care to know anything about ActivityPub. They only care about the value that these social platform
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by brap 4y ago
This is a nice idea in theory, but in practice you have to really trust the judges. Suppose that 99.9% of people thought that X is going to happen, but it didn't. If the judges are a representative sample, then 99.9% of them were wrong

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