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by robbie-c 3y ago
I broke my toe just before flying from Portugal to London. I had crutches and was given a wheelchair in the airport. I technically could have walked, it just would have been extremely painful. When the staff at Luton told me that it'd
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by robbie-c 3y ago
I doubt it’ll be abandoned so easily. Whilst Google has a track recording of abandoning projects, this doesn’t apply to anything directly related to selling search ads.
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by robbie-c 3y ago
Many different things, big and small, that shows that their principles are to make the maximum amount of money possible at every given moment, rather than thinking about long term consequencies or any moral values. One extremely small examp
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by robbie-c 3y ago
Google haven't built enough trust to say "here's something we want to do that could have huge negative consequencies, but trust us".
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by robbie-c 3y ago
This is funny, I have something pretty similar in my code, except it's using Zod for runtime typechecking, and I convert Zod schemas to json schemas and send that to gpt-3.5 as a function call. I would expect that using TypeScript&#x27
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by robbie-c 3y ago
There's a lot of discussion about whether existing copyright laws apply to training data, but not enough discussion of what should change in copyright law to give the best outcome to society. I don't think treating ML systems as l
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by robbie-c 3y ago
Might want to change how it's presented on the careers page, "United States (Remote)" as that really doesn't give the impression that the UK is fine. Additionally, greenhouse does not let you choose the UK as a working l
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by robbie-c 3y ago
Looks like the examples use TensorFlow, my understanding is that outside Google, most of the industry has centered around PyTorch for now. Do any practitioners have any opinions on which it's more valuable to learn and whether that mak
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by robbie-c 4y ago
That apprenticeship looks interesting, could I ask you a few questions about it? My email address is first part of my username (before the “-“) at blueheart dot io.
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by robbie-c 4y ago
This page needs an app showcase or something. WHY do I want this? The original iPhone ad did this really well https://imgur.com/a/K1a6ILL (am on mobile so sorry for low res)
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by robbie-c 4y ago
Side note, what does "Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment." mean? That sounds like extremely poor journalism, has anybody ever immediately responded to anything?
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Tell HN: Please let me just buy stuff without having to “Contact Sales”
132 points by robbie-c 4y ago|82 comments
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by robbie-c 4y ago
My vote is for ids with prefixes. If you've ever used the Stripe API, you know how nice it is that all customer ids are prefixed with `cus_`, all product ids are prefixed with `price_` etc. I want that in postgres, so that any time you
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by robbie-c 4y ago
Pre-PMF you probably don't need much, just don't make it harder for yourself to add things later. For us we usually just add a new feature to the admin dashboard whenever it's needed for the first time, usually triggered by a
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by robbie-c 4y ago
Minor point, but I looked at the map to see if my city (London) was there, saw a pin around York, and moused over it to see that it was in-fact London.
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by robbie-c 4y ago
> This concept might even be apocryphal to an extent. I've been to a pub in rural Cambridgeshire that had this on the menu. I made them laugh by asking what was in it and was it vegetarian. I don't know if they were legally all
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by robbie-c 4y ago
A week ago ago it seemed like a reasonable person could thing there was a chance (however small) that Musk would turn things around for twitter. Banning paulg though… surely he has no idea wtf he is doing
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by robbie-c 4y ago
Governments have a responsibility to protect consumers from anti-competitive practices. Saying "just don't buy it" isn't enough, in fact if governments only protected people from things that nobody bought, that would be
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by robbie-c 4y ago
I don't buy the privacy policy stuff, using the ATT prompt to access IDFA can still require user consent.
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by robbie-c 4y ago
The animals section of this is extremely grim. I appreciate that it's probably better than what happens in a lot of places, but the industrial scale slaughter of pigs is something I find extremely morally objectionable that most people
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by robbie-c 4y ago
FWIW I speak to quite a few early-stage startup CTOs, and Firebase is extremely popular among app developers. Additionally looks like some very high profile apps are using it, or at least have done so in the past: https://cloud.g
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by robbie-c 4y ago
Tangentially, if you’re a B2C startup like an app, avoid using auth0. Their pricing starts out cheap but once you hit 10k MAU, it’ll go from $X00 a month to a 3 year contract for $X00000. It’s not designed as a business for that use case, a
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by robbie-c 4y ago
Thanks for your comments, it's really helpful to hear other people's experiences :)
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by robbie-c 4y ago
It just seems like those people should work at different companies. Having a mix of people who prefer WFO and WFH seems like the worst of both worlds. (WFO people don't get the atmosphere that they desire, WFH people are second-class c
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by robbie-c 4y ago
Naively it seems like things like frozen ready meals or meal replacers (Soylent, Huel) would be an easy fix (I wouldn't give them to the kids, but for a tired parent it'd be better than nothing). I'm not a parent though (alth
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by robbie-c 4y ago
If you scroll down to the details about the studies, you'll see that they just asked consumers what their stated preferences were, rather than observed what their actual behaviour was. Anyone who's ever priced anything before
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by robbie-c 4y ago
The article was from Jan 2018, from a quick google it seems like the Epic Games store was released in Dec 2018. You're absolutely right though, Epic did all of these things and more and is still a distant second.
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by robbie-c 4y ago
So disappointing to see this happen to a beloved product, but congrats to the team for getting this outcome.
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The first rebooted HNLondon meetup (today thu 8th sept) has been postponed(meetup.com)
3 points by robbie-c 4y ago|1 comments
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by robbie-c 4y ago
Note: I am not the organiser From the organisers: Hi everyone, We must regretfully postpone this evening's Meetup. Due to ongoing news from the Royal Household, the event space will no longer be able to accommodate us this evening. We

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