vadelfe

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by vadelfe 7mo ago
Happy to answer questions about the categorization system, tagging structure, or the process of curating the profiles.
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Show HN: I manually organized 1000 profiles (am I a dinosaur?)
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by vadelfe 7mo ago
I think the real question is trust. Once a company starts working with the Pentagon, people will naturally assume the capabilities will expand over time. Even if today’s contract has limits, those limits can always change later.
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by vadelfe 7mo ago
This is oddly satisfying. Not just the TV itself, but the idea of having random episodes playing like an old broadcast channel.
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by vadelfe 7mo ago
What makes the Gervais Principle interesting is that it frames organizations as systems that are supposed to become pathological over time. Instead of reforming them the economy just replaces them through mergers, layoffs, and new startups.
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by vadelfe 7mo ago
It survives because it already solves the basic problem well enough. You can reach almost anyone and communicate without needing to join a platform or build a network first. It’s simple, open, and relatively low-pressure compared to most mo
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by vadelfe 7mo ago
What I probably need most right now is honest feedback. I’ve been building something and I’m trying to understand if the idea actually makes sense outside my own head.
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by vadelfe 7mo ago
The deeper you go into memory layout, the more you realize that even "simple" types aren't that simple.
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by vadelfe 7mo ago
The Belmont analogy is great, but the deeper point is even scarier: most of the industry is giving non-deterministic systems direct access to deterministic infrastructure (databases, shells, email, etc). Historically we spent decades reduci
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by vadelfe 7mo ago
I'm building a human-curated map that organizes people and sources by topics (health, skills, business, mindset, etc.). Everything is categorized manually, no AI classification. Started as spreadsheets and now turning it into a prototy
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by vadelfe 7mo ago
The uncomfortable part is that they try to solve a real problem (protecting minors) by requiring universal identification. In practice this means every adult has to prove who they are just to access any part of the internet. Once that infra
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by vadelfe 7mo ago
This is fascinating. One question I always have with large personal datasets like this: at what point did you start getting genuinely surprising insights versus confirming things you already suspected? 380k datapoints sounds incredible but