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by mushufasa 11mo ago
Languages inherently have network effects; most people around the world learn English so they can talk with other professionals who also know English, not because they are passionate about Charles Dickens. My take (and my own experience) is
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by mushufasa 11mo ago
I happen to know IBM made some great hires -- one of my classmates who was excellent in the field, who had impressive quantum computing nature publications before graduation, worked at IBM for the past several years. Though it looks like he
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by mushufasa 11mo ago
One of my colleagues read a paper about quantum computing techniques to solve complex optimization problems (the domain of complex mixed integer solvers) and tried it out for a financial portfolio optimization, replicating the examples prov
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by mushufasa 11mo ago
The key concept here is that the demand is mostly exogenous changes; people demand fewer horses because horses are no longer as good of a product. The whole supply/demand curve for horses shifts.
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by mushufasa 11mo ago
Another way to think of this intuitively is simple economies of scale. Or volume discounts if you work in sales. When you buy 10,000 handbags you pay the wholesale price whereas buying a single handbag can be quite expensive. If there is wa
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by mushufasa 1y ago
Here's one free article covering a book about the washing machine example https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/aug/29/my-bright...
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by mushufasa 1y ago
As someone who attended this school and has a degree from their economics department: this finding very consistent from what I learned in classes covering the economics of innovation. Historically, technological revolutions have increased p
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by mushufasa 1y ago
the counterpoint is that unix itself is a holistic system -- the value of unix is the integration of a bunch of different tools by providing a consistent way to manipulate streams of text and files with standardization
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by mushufasa 1y ago
The EU and others listed are actively trying to regulate AI. Permissive OSS libraries' "one job" is to disclaim liability. This is interesting that they are just prohibiting usage altogether in jurisdictions where the definit
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by mushufasa 1y ago
isn't this just a change from opt-in to opt-out? will make a big difference but still gives individuals control of their data governance
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by mushufasa 1y ago
"we sync into their systems of record and act as that verification layer" As long as those 'systems of record' are controlled by the customer, then that is self reporting. If they don't enter a sale into their CRM o
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by mushufasa 1y ago
They must have raised money based on this plan -- the board must be holding them to execute it again to hit the projected IRR. If they had full control of their own destiny, I think most operators would just focus on a different business mo
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by mushufasa 1y ago
1 in 20 doesn't sound great. But you have to mediate that with - everyone and their mother are doing a "generative ai program" right now, a lot of times just using the label to try to get their project funded, ai being an aft
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by mushufasa 1y ago
This sounds really great in concept. I don't see detail here. As someone who would be interested in using this, can you clearly explain how you will measure and track the outcomes? That's the key detail that matters. Relying on
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by mushufasa 1y ago
interesting -- I ran into this recently playing baldur gate 3 and was curious the technical details why. my fix was that I had an external monitor and I just reset the resolution to the external monitor. (by default, though, the monitor was
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by mushufasa 1y ago
would love this to be a desktop background -- linux or macOS
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by mushufasa 1y ago
there was a company "Zogo" that built a phone app to do this and sold it to banks as a free perk to try to increase savings rates / utilization of financial products at the bank. Had some moderate success. Haven't heard
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by mushufasa 1y ago
I think they should totally do this but I think they should call it "rate-limiting" instead of "weekly limit". Seems pretty clear to me that the purpose is to avoid situations where people are running 5 background agents
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by mushufasa 1y ago
I would love to see an update on what has improved and what is the same
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by mushufasa 1y ago
Django-ninja is a combination of Django with fastapi.
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by mushufasa 1y ago
> * The Global Technical Potential (in TWh/year) is 1/10th of offshore wind To put this in perspective, less than 1% of the world's land area would be needed for wind turbines to power the current energy needs of the globe
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by mushufasa 1y ago
On the one hand I am the target audience for this: someone who wants to focus on data and have the frontend "solved" for me. On the other hand, I have been burned by every similar framework I've tried (e.g. Dash by plotly, ma
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by mushufasa 1y ago
Note there's a popular cybersecurity company called "Vanta" to which they own the trademark, so the name probably should be changed to avoid confusion.
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by mushufasa 1y ago
I actually started my startup with this approach -- good old Django. Lasted for a year until we had users wanting to do complex interactions on the frontend. Simple CRUD apps are fine, but users expect a lot of interactivity these days wher
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by mushufasa 1y ago
Yes I've tried cursor. Currently it gives 1) high level suggestions if I ask about architecture, which may be valid but doesn't solve the issue of refactoring a large existing codebase to make architectural changes, or 2) some spe
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by mushufasa 1y ago
A lot of our code was written by domain experts who aren't trained in algorithms/data structures. We have new relic and other performance assessment tools to see where we have long running queries etc. But looking at the realized
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by mushufasa 1y ago
this could be truly helpful if I could include it into my (large) existing codebase to help spot performance bottlenecks. that's not something I could so simply pasted into a self-contained snippet, though. Do other HN know of other st
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by mushufasa 1y ago
Yes you can name a brand name without using their logo. That's not what the author did here -- he invented a fake logo and chose a domain name and title that include "WaffleHouse." Trademark law is specifically designed to pr
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by mushufasa 1y ago
the blog post made it clear he is a teenager. I don't think he thought about any of this. Hopefully he reads this thread, learns a bit more about trademarks, and tries again in a proper way. If it's really true that there's n
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by mushufasa 1y ago
FYI it is literally required by law that, to maintain a trademark, the company with the trademark must actively enforce it on an ongoing basis. Even if this side-project was benign, Waffle House must send cease-and-desist letters to maintai

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