nilirl

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by nilirl 5mo ago
How does a human designer even compete? I just looked at all the demos and they look beautiful. I hand designed my site https://www.nair.sh/ and it feels like it doesn't even compare. Sure, there's some judgment a
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by nilirl 5mo ago
One thing I've struggled with before is building a collection of data models based off of a collection of PDF forms. I wanted to abstract away the PDF form building my own html form on top of a data model that can later be used to prog
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How do copywriters study a market(nair.sh)
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by nilirl 6mo ago
This was surprisingly hard to read. Not in terms of sentence structure but in terms of coherence and meaning. Also the book is $60 on Kindle and $80 for paperback? Who's the target audience?
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by nilirl 7mo ago
CS fundamentals is about framing an information problem to be solvable. That'll always be useful. What's less useful, and what's changed in my own behavior, is that I no longer read tool specific books. I used to devour books
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by nilirl 7mo ago
Huh? The point of the article is that we should use git to store an LLMs output as it works? How do any of the quotes and citations used coherently form that argument? What is this writing style? Why does it feel like it doesn't want m
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by nilirl 7mo ago
also the nefarious population control by Big Condom
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by nilirl 7mo ago
I see the pattern the author wants to show me, but what about it? Civilization is a complex, evolving system. How much predictability and control do we really have?
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by nilirl 10mo ago
Beautiful UI. What's the criteria for pieces promoted?
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by nilirl 11mo ago
Why is it implicit that semantic search will outperform lexical search? Back in 2023 when I compared semantic search to lexical search (tantivy; BM25), I found the search results to be marginally different. Even if semantic search has sligh
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by nilirl 11mo ago
Your argument hinges on getting the design right, upfront. That assumes uncertainty is low or non-existent. Time spent, monetary cost, and uncertainty, are all practical concerns. An engineering problem where you can ignore time spent, mone
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by nilirl 11mo ago
Yes, my point is it's a privilege to have an engineering philosophy that doesn't need to address time spent, monetary cost, or uncertainty.
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by nilirl 11mo ago
Can you have a coding philosophy that ignores the time or cost taken to design and write code? Or a coding philosophy that doesn't factor in uncertainty and change? If you're risking money and time, can you really justify this? -
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by nilirl 11mo ago
This post does a great job of limiting its terribleness by being short. I read it twice; twice I got nothing. It is incoherent. Vaguely attempting to take a swing at ... modularity???
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by nilirl 11mo ago
So: The author wants to work for a company with resources. Unfortunately, details take time and time takes money. For a business's survival, the company's relative positioning in the market, access to sales and marketing channels,
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by nilirl 11mo ago
I see your point. I'd meant relatively fewer progressive options compared to an absolute and unchanging number of total options. But that's not what the author's analogy would imply. Still, I think you're saying the auth
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by nilirl 11mo ago
I wouldn't jump to call it a trick, but I agree, the author sacrificed too much clarity in a try for efficiency. The author set up an interesting analogy but failed to explore where it breaks down or how all the relationships work in t
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by nilirl 11mo ago
What diction is "appropriate to the subject matter" is a negotiation between author and reader. I think the author is ok with it being inappropriate for many; it's clearly written for those who enjoy math or CS.
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by nilirl 11mo ago
I liked the post but can someone explain how macro choices change the acceptance volume? Is it their effect on the total number of available choices? Does picking E minor somehow give you fewer options than C major (I'm not a musician)
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by nilirl 1y ago
This was weak. The author's main counter-argument: We have control in the development and progress of AI; we shouldn't rule out positive outcomes. The author's ending argument: We're going to build it anyway, so some of
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by nilirl 1y ago
Ah, I see, so when someone yells at me "Please don't stab me", it's actually, I, who is at risk of being stabbed.
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by nilirl 1y ago
I was referring to this: > who can't explain how they use gropulence to support the claims that they make about others, and they sound an awful lot like psychics, who we all know are frauds You invoked usage that connotes vapid mean
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by nilirl 1y ago
'be more empathetic' is not a veiled request, it is openly declared. The author subverts the ask for behavior change by a) calling it veiled and b) not treating it as the main argument against which they're trying to make a p
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by nilirl 1y ago
That's setting up a straw man. By framing an argument against semantics or social obedience, you're ignoring self-implicating behavior; you're intentionally ignoring people's needs. Why not ask "What am I doing wron
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by nilirl 1y ago
Instead of asking people why they're asking you "to be more empathetic", maybe you should ask yourself why you're prompting such a request?
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by nilirl 1y ago
So, did the Covid 19 pandemic force multiple insurance companies into insolvency? Also, what does new product development look like for industries like this? How does one search for new financial products? Is it possible for a non-expert to
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by nilirl 1y ago
Man, I haven't had so much fun on HN in a while. Loved this!
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by nilirl 1y ago
Are any of these causal to OpenAI's success? Or are they incidental? You can throw all of this "culture" into an org but I doubt it'd do anything without the literal world-changing technology the company owns.
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by nilirl 1y ago
HN over the last year: personal anecdotes, analogy, and extrapolation as evidence for "obviously it's inevitable, why can't you see?"
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by nilirl 1y ago
I've never worked at a startup that hit it big, so I came in wanting to disagree with whatever was in this post. But I liked it. Now I'm mad.

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