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by jeswin 2y ago
Ten years back remittance was 31% of the GDP [1] - a massive number. It might have declined, but the tiny state accounts for 20% of India's inward remittance while holding a mere 3% of the nation's population. Wikipedia says that
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by jeswin 2y ago
Yep. I lived there for the first two decades, and outside Kerala for the next two and a bit. The only thing Kerala exports is the workforce, since it's impossible to start anything in Kerala thanks to politics and high costs. I know be
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by jeswin 2y ago
I use them (more than one) as signals, and draw my own conclusions. I had subscribed to the NYT for several years, and my view is that much of their reporting is just a narrative that the journalist prefers. There's a certain amount of
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by jeswin 2y ago
> I'm much more inclined to go with the reporting in the New York Times Quite the opposite for me. I don't have a problem with their opinion pages, because it's labelled as such and is at times interesting. I wouldn't
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by jeswin 2y ago
> At least with GraphQL I think the world would be better off if it had never seen the light of day. It's a steaming pile of hyper complex dung. Of course not. GraphQL has vastly simplified our backend development, and has also resu
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by jeswin 2y ago
I still find them useless. What do you use them for?
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by jeswin 2y ago
This is a fantastic idea. It reminded me of the Dispo app (not sure if people use it anymore) where pictures you take show up only the next day morning. It might be alright to let people pick their preferred 3 hours, and maybe they can chan
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by jeswin 2y ago
CredCore | Engineering | Full-time | Remote (anywhere) CredCore helps companies analyze Credit Agreements using AI. Learn more at https://www.credcore.com . We’re looking for someone to lead key engineering efforts (8 years or mo
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by jeswin 2y ago
I have made the same argument long before Trump was in the picture. Stop associating everything with Trump or propaganda - people can hold opinions which don't agree with yours.
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by jeswin 2y ago
> This is a simplistic, even childlike, view of the relationship between the US and Europe. The situation is the way it is because the US wanted it... People who do know history would tell you that you don't get peace by dismantling
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by jeswin 2y ago
> I am ashamed of the US. Don't be. I'm neither American nor European, and from my vantage point this is far less America's (US) fault than it is Western Europe's. US has been asking Europe to increase defense spendin
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by jeswin 2y ago
I know it's a rant, but it makes no sense. The web is complex, but for 90% of the web I can still manipulate the DOM - even in apps which use frameworks like React. The ability to manipulate the DOM makes the internet so much more plea
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by jeswin 2y ago
Fully agree, if you prefer Ubuntu. Use defaults, switch LTS to LTS. This theme has many subtle issues as well - the top padding of "vince" in the third window, the width of types etc.
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by jeswin 2y ago
This is getting pretty close to the banking system, at which point one needs to ask - maybe just improve existing protocols?
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by jeswin 2y ago
I have no idea why people are downvoting first-hand information. Take an upvote!
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by jeswin 2y ago
I don't think it's automatically a bad idea. Offices require a lot of support, networking, security, maintenance, certifications etc. There are efficiency gains in scaling. In addition, Wework is useful for companies which hire em
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by jeswin 2y ago
A better title would be "Rust is Eating JavaScript Tooling"
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by jeswin 2y ago
I've had colonoscopies twice. Was just half a day of inconvenience if you schedule it for the morning.
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by jeswin 2y ago
I can listen to a song while coding. I can't listen to a podcast while coding. A podcast demands way more attention than a song. 1.2 million people die in road accidents, and most of them are children and young people. Even more are s
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by jeswin 2y ago
The ad shows someone listening to an article or a story while driving a large vehicle - this is unsafe (depending on the individual). It's not like listening to music.
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by jeswin 2y ago
Why should "freedom of speech" not be defended? The way to combat hate is by educating people better, instead of banning swastikas or whatever.
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by jeswin 2y ago
> I spent a lot of time figuring out how to render 200k+ lines of log output without crashing. This led to optimizations deep in our virtual terminal rendering library... Interesting. I have two wildly different takes on this. 1) Dagger
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by jeswin 2y ago
Dave! Our sample sizes were large enough, and tables complex enough to opine on this. I suppose Gemini or Claude could fail with scans or handwritten pages. But that's a smaller (and different) set of use cases than just OCR. Most PDFs
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by jeswin 2y ago
I usually say something like: ".. output it as hierarchical json". For better accuracy, we can run the output through another model. Again, that image is fuzzy. If the argument is that these generic models don't work well wit
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by jeswin 2y ago
If Pulse (which is a competing product, the premise of which is threatened by both closed and open models) wants to dispute the post earlier this week, it should provide samples which fail in Claude and Gemini. The image [1] in the post is
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by jeswin 2y ago
Nice article, mirrors my experience. Last year (around when multimodal 3.5 Sonnet launched), I had run a sizeable number of PDFs through it. Accuracy was remarkably high (99%-ish), whereas GPT was just unusable for this purpose.
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by jeswin 2y ago
I feel compelled to reply. You've made a bunch of assumptions, and presented your success (likely with a limited set of table formats) as the one true way to parse PDFs. There's no such thing. In real world usage, many tables are
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by jeswin 2y ago
We've previously tried Sonnet in our PDF extraction pipelines. It was very, very accurate, gpt-4o did not come close. Its more expensive, however.
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by jeswin 2y ago
CredCore | Engineering | Full-time | Remote (Anywhere) CredCore helps companies analyze Credit Agreements using AI. Learn more at https://www.credcore.com . We’re looking for someone to lead key engineering efforts. You should be
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by jeswin 2y ago
> To me this is a huge downside. One of the reasons I like Go C# with NativeAOT might be an easier path for Java developers. Some might like the expressiveness as well over Go.

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