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by jrvarela56 2y ago
While I agree directionally with your stance, the argument is that businesses collude against workers (eg Apple/Google case) so workers might as well collude against businesses.
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by jrvarela56 2y ago
I always joke that we already have ‘AI-like’ entities: corporations are algorithms that ravage everything in their way to profit. We have a lot of cross-disciplinary work to do to keep these paper clip optimizers in check.
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
Here's how I've dealt with procrastination, in case anyone wants to try these ideas out: 1. Clarity: Knowing steps/milestones/end goal helps scope/know what needs to be done for something to be 'finished'.
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | Remote (worldwide) COMPANY Cuanto (YC19). We're creating tools to help entrepreneurs in Latin America grow their business through Instagram and WhatsApp. Our product is a Shopify-meets-Square for a business run by
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Get Deploying – Compare cloud providers(getdeploying.com)
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
tl;dr at the end of the article: 1. People are driven to imitate others, but hate to admit it 2. Imitation is the basis of most businesses, but it's always disguised because customers are ashamed of their mimetic desires. 3. We need to
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
I love the web version has a feature to link back to any given paragraph. I hadn't noticed this in any other site and found it delightful.
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
This talk [1] made me conclude something along these lines. You need side-effects to make anything useful, just make sure they're segregated in a specific place in your program. This makes it easier to make most of the program pure and
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
This is amazing content marketing. Developers are an obvious target niche for such a product. Exposing internals of the software in a way HNers enjoy sounds like a great idea, would love to see if it worked as a traction experiment.
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
I tried Elm in ~2018 and it was delightful. Ended up checking it out bc it was mentioned as 'prior art' in Redux's website. Didn't end up adopting bc everyone around me thought I was crazy to use something so niche. It&#
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
I learned a trick from Clojure that helps with this (they call them rich comments). You never type into the REPL but include comment sections across your programs where you write code as it's intended to be used/executed and then
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
The Attention Revolution is a manual for improving your capacity to pay attention. Not exactly memory training, but your ability to direct your attention and focus impacts how much/well you retain information. https://www.am
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Ask HN: How to Build an LLM of the Buddha?
2 points by jrvarela56 3y ago|4 comments
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
Readability is one of Ruby's strengths. Most custom DSLs I've encountered are easy to understand. Arguably meta programing makes it harder but the language allows you to strike the balance that suits you.
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
Could we use this to sift through trash and separate useful/reusable materials? Cooking sounds more complex, this could be awesome for recycling.
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
In your experience, how could these local LLMs become snappier than using streamed API calls? How far are they if not? How soon do you guess they’ll get there? I understand the motivation includes factors other than performance, I’m just cu
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
I think having to mention the other ecosystems shows some aspect of the problem. Maybe unrelated (but seemed like a symptom): In my case putting together a web framework was not trivial, as there was no equivalent to Django or Rails. Instea
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
I have been acquainted with Clojure for a few years now. Haven't been able to 'break in' despite several attempts. My main conclusion is this: the language/workflow make developers way more productive compared to other m
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
I think you just get used to it. Some things that can help: 1. Setup auto linting so everything auto indents and is uniform 2. Use something like paredit that helps you edit S-expressions ( https://calva.io/paredit/ )
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
Close friend worked at Google Brain, now Deepmind. Said he presses tab 70% of the time and it just works. When shown my paid version of Copilot said it felt his auto completes had higher accuracy.
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
Why do we still prize books so much? It's just a media format. I've gone from always having a 'WIP' book in my late teens to reading 2-3 books a year nowadays. I don't read less though - just more of it comes from b
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What Is a Monad? [video](youtube.com)
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
Oh, I thought finding these vulns was a highly open-ended endeavor with variable payouts.
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Isn't this akin to asking why Google and Apple end up acquiring companies at very high prices if they could just hire the founders and have them build the products in-house?
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
Tangent about FoundationDB: this is a great video that explains how the team tested it https://youtu.be/4fFDFbi3toc?si=kSZ8VcOIjW_pMmPd Spoiler: they even had their own custom power supplies used to test against power failu
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
Would be great if you could bid: the user signs a contract where they commit to pay $X if they get married. The more you commit to, the more priority the algorithm gives you as it wants you to get married asap. This could be easily gamed as
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
Check compat status here: https://bun.sh/docs/runtime/nodejs-apis
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I’ve been thinking about this anf trying it out. The only obviously bad thing is that the ‘drop-in replacement’ is bs: they’re aiming for it but there are a bunch of node std lib modules missing. Despite that it seems to work just fine for
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
My issue is that in the worst case you end up with Redux-like constructs. If your context setup gets so complicated as to require global-like store and extraction of actions and reducers into specific files, you end up with Redux. In the me
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by jrvarela56 3y ago
This is how they made the lake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatun_Dam I'm assuming flooding the other way around was more expensive than creating a fresh water reservoir by building a dam.

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