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by shubhamjain 11mo ago
> Companies prey on those who forget to cancel their free trial. So far, it only happened once to me, but thankfully, I managed to get my refund. This dark pattern has completely taken over the iOS ecosystem. Apps hide the fact that they
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by shubhamjain 11mo ago
> Spec-Driven Development changes this: specifications become executable, directly generating working implementations rather than just guiding them. Reminds me of TDD bandwagon which was all the rage when I started programming. It took
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
This is one of the reasons I believe Google will ultimately win the AI race once the VC funding tap runs dry. For all its breakthroughs, OpenAI lacks any fiscal discipline. Sam Altman seems convinced that as long as they’re delivering value
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
Partially, yes! Population is #1 strain on resources. However, the political climate around 1970s was more like population would create large scale food shortages, famines, and without interventions, population would keep on growing forever
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
> Although low birth rates have now become a problem, back then it seemed like a solution. They haven't, imo. I am from India, and I have been hearing for the last two decades how we have avoided same mistakes as China and the latte
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
> Foreigners poured a record $290bn into US stocks in the second quarter and now own about 30 per cent of the market — the highest share in post-second world war history. Europeans and Canadians have been boycotting American goods but co
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
> I firmly believe the (economic) AI apocalypse is coming. These companies are not profitable. They can't be profitable. They keep the lights on by soaking up hundreds of billions of dollars in other people's money and then lig
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
This are zero details on how it's supposed to work, or how it avoids the problem traditional crypto. “Instant global transactions” sound good in theory, but it has never been a technological problem, purely a regulatory one. Govts. don
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
> For myself, in the last 10 years, my work of writing code has largely defined what I do with my working time. Now I experience large swaths of that work being created and done by AI (sometimes amazingly well, sometimes poorly), and I f
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Every Fear Is Just Perceived Lack of Control(shubhamjain.co)
5 points by shubhamjain 1y ago|2 comments
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
It's difficult even being someone not from United States. Even more concerning is how most of the social media has been hijacked to echo views that should have been unthinkable a few years ago. For some, it's great news of course.
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
In my late 20s, I felt disillusioned with this kind of wisdom. Found it too simplistic and not enough to cope with the fact that existence is absurd. I am 32 now, and I can't help think that simplicity is all that there is: curate a ha
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
No one needs to make an investment. The playbook—as all countries are figuring it out—to navigate the crisis is simple: agree in principle to the demands, let the narcissistic toddler self-pat, brag about how fantastic of a deal maker he is
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
> The primary counterargument can be framed in terms of Rich Sutton's famous essay, "The Bitter Lesson," which argues that the entire history of AI has taught us that attempts to build in human-like cognitive structures (l
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
"This tool 10x the productivity of software engineers" "GREAT! That means we can fire the people who do the actual work, and replace them with MBA robots, who neither understand nor care about making a good product" Pard
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
Geez! When it comes to answering questions, GPT-5 almost always starts with glazing about what a great question it is, where as GPT-4 directly addresses the answer without the fluff. In a blind test, I would probably pick GPT-4 as a superio
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
Even if AI progress all stops and we are stuck with these models, it would at least take a few years to make use them to the full potential. What gets lost in this AGI debate is how impressive are these models without even reaching it. And
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Cloudflare Is Not a CDN(magecdn.com)
27 points by shubhamjain 1y ago|12 comments
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Don't Play with Your Kids (2021)(nytimes.com)
1 points by shubhamjain 1y ago|0 comments
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
Disappointing to see all the snarky remarks here. Let me tell you, it's not easy to ignore the AI wave. The fear of being left behind is very, very real. AI-based tools are quadrupling their revenues in a matter of months, even on a ve
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
I wasn't expecting much, and I personally didn't get a lot from the article, but if I was in early 20s, I would've been hugely inspired. Jessica surely has a gift for clear and motivating writing.
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
It should a case study how every tech company eventually ruin the experience of their platforms, and how Apple never does. You can fault Apple for not innovating enough, but what they never do is 'shoving in the face', which is en
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
This is a pretty bad take, imo and confuses cause and effect. Why does US press hype their startups? Because they do have track record of creating revolutionary companies, something that can be traced back to 70s (Atari, Apple, Microsoft).
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
TextQuery actually uses DuckDB under the hood :) DuckDB is no doubt an excellent piece of software already. The differentiator is that GUI client is just a good lever to make many things easier. In context of TextQuery: you can use tabs you
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
Thanks for the feedback! It is something on my mind. Will think about the best way to implement it.
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
I am planning to add it soon. It shouldn’t be hard. Just have to figure out the UI part.
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
IIRC, SQLlite requires you to define a schema first, which can be a bit tedious. DuckDB is actually a better tool for this in every regard, since it can parse CSV files quite well. The latest version includes support for XLSX as well. My pe
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
Author here. It uses DuckDB under the hood, which is a fantastic piece of software. Yes, even DuckDB has UI now, but I didn't find it to my taste. There's no table view, filters are a bit weird, and not exactly keyboard accessible
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Show HN: TextQuery – Query CSV, JSON, XLSX Files with SQL(textquery.app)
163 points by shubhamjain 1y ago|57 comments
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by shubhamjain 1y ago
It seems you're the one who's plenty misinformed. Most countries outsource when labour costs in their own country inch higher and it makes sense to use cheaper external labour supply. Same is not the case with India, where labour

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