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by takinola 3y ago
When I started playing around with AI applications and learnt about RAG techniques, it took me a while to grok vector databases and was a bit of pain to learn how to set one up. So I built my own little pet project, RagTag [1], which abstr
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by takinola 3y ago
Here’s an idea for how it could work while preserving your privacy. 1. User verifies their age with a trusted party (which may or may not be a government body) 2. User requests a token from the trusted party. The token is signed so 3rd part
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by takinola 3y ago
> The fact that this absolutely will doxx your privacy to the government? Done properly this will not reveal your online behavior to the government any more than using your government issued ID card to enter a bar leaks your location to
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by takinola 3y ago
The reason the cops ask this question is to solicit a confession. Most people think that by admitting to a little infraction, the officer will see them as being reasonable and go easy on them. The conversations go something like this: Off
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by takinola 3y ago
> Also A24 is over there showing that ambitious and original concepts can be financially successful. I'm not sure that is true. A24 is starting to pivot from that model so it's not clear they were making that much money. [1]
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by takinola 3y ago
I have no doubt that this may have been some crazy complicated case (as dealing with time can be) but I can't help the armchair quarterback debugging. Could this not have been addressed by periodically running a script that generated
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by takinola 3y ago
But using UTC solves that problem, no? The time only changes in DST but not in UTC. If the code checks the time against UST, it will never trip up. Anyways, the only real solution for managing time is to use a library like Luxon so you ca
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by takinola 3y ago
Somewhat off topic, I love your website designs. They are simple but look great with a good use of color and space. The copy is also very well done. What do you use to design your websites (Heynote and Locust)? Are you working off a temp
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by takinola 3y ago
> This is difficult if you don't have a network or experience in specific industries so tech people just wait around for a business person to tell them what to build instead This is really not as difficult as it seems. After having
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by takinola 3y ago
So what's the practical solution to this issue? If you focus on the long-term but have no short-term impact, you will not be there to see things play out (As Milton Keynes famously said "In the long term, we're all dead&quot
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by takinola 3y ago
That is why I used the qualifier "significant" as in enough to influence prices. What percentage of SFH sold are bought by PE each year? What percent of homes are held by PE? I would be surprised if either one is even in the hi
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by takinola 3y ago
Is there any evidence that private equity owns a significant percentage of homes? Absent any strong data, I am skeptical that PE would purchase (and hold) large swaths of residential real estate. Unlike, commercial real estate, the operat
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by takinola 3y ago
I did something like this yesterday. The only problem is that I spent all night dreaming of SQL statements to implement the solution. YMMV if you have trouble turning your brain off it seems.
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by takinola 3y ago
Timezones are the bane of programmers' existences. It also can quickly become a UX nightmare as you have found out. My rule of thumb is that the time should always be displayed in the user's timezone especially if their location
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A simple online safety guide(toluakinola.substack.com)
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by takinola 3y ago
My guess is you would be charged with obstruction of justice. This would be similar to you destroying evidence requested under subpoena. Now, as a matter of legal strategy, this may be a better charge to face than whatever is on your phon
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by takinola 3y ago
This is nothing compared with how fast your email and phone numbers will be hammered as soon as you register a new domain.
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What gifts are you giving?
1 points by takinola 3y ago|3 comments
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How to Do Idea Discovery(toluakinola.substack.com)
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by takinola 3y ago
I used Drupal to build my first real CRUD app. I was a beginner programmer and needed the hand-holding that the framework provided. As my knowledge grew, I found myself relying more on custom modules that I wrote rather than those in the
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by takinola 3y ago
I would recommend being explicit about this expectation with him. Some shy people are badly calibrated and have the erroneous impression that they are speaking too much already leading to their low contribution rate. Make him aware of thi
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by takinola 3y ago
I don’t think this line of reasoning holds. We know why Google search is (was?) better. It just so happens there is a self-reinforcing feedback loop that is involved. We know why Apple is better at making phones. It doesn’t follow that thei
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by takinola 3y ago
I have a test harness that runs all the LLMs side by side to compare the quality of output. I have tried Claude 2.1 (the new Anthropic model) and it is better than PaLM but not as good as GPT4. I am skeptical that Google is holding back a
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by takinola 3y ago
You have a valid point but when there are conflicting interests, regulations are typically designed to act on the pivot point where they are likely to be effective, have a concentrated set of targets and create minimal harm. In the case of
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by takinola 3y ago
No one interferes with your ability to exchange money for fruit. However, exchanging money for a hitman's services, financing terrorists, selling illegal substances, etc are very much curtailed and for good reason. Society has determ
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by takinola 3y ago
Well, it did kinda work. At least for a while. CZ, SBF, etc gained fabulous wealth and would have gotten away with if not for those darned kids! The reality is lots of people are willing to take extreme risk for extreme reward. Sometime
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Ask HN: Why is GPT4 better than the other major LLMs?
11 points by takinola 3y ago|15 comments
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by takinola 3y ago
Risk is always balanced against reward. I doubt Nvidia is culpable here not because I have some strong belief in their morality but because I trust they would not take stupid tradeoffs.
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by takinola 3y ago
I don't have direct knowledge of this company or the parties involved but I would be highly doubtful that Nvidia would want to have an employee steal the secrets of a competitor/partner. In my experience, companies of this size w
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The Bond villain compliance strategy(bitsaboutmoney.com)
552 points by takinola 3y ago|428 comments

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