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by viksit 4y ago
Good point. This gets us into the territory of not just "explainable" models, but also the ability to feed into those models "states" in a deterministic way. This is a merger of statistical and symbolic methods in my min
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by viksit 4y ago
(Former AI researcher / founder here) It always surprises me at the ease at which people jump on a) imminent AGI and b) human extinction in the face of AGI. Would love for someone to correct me / add information here to the contra
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by viksit 4y ago
23 years ago in middle school I made my first ever linux user group post [1] trying to shift from an nvidia geforce to the onboard cyrix mediagx drivers because they had closed source drivers. It’s been a long time coming lol. [1] https:&#
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by viksit 4y ago
Brian Balfour wrote about this a few years ago and I find that framing quite useful too (having led both innovation orgs within large mature companies as well as startups). Highly recommend a read. He talks about market - model - channel -
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by viksit 4y ago
the reason gmail allows users to reply to google docs comments inline vs outlook/apple mail dont is that google owns the identity cookie and the api key and the front end. if there was a way to do so, outlook would do it too. but googl
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by viksit 4y ago
how does mastodon get distribution? a series of decentralised sites lacking distribution and discovery have no incentives for users to join at scale?
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by viksit 5y ago
I write on https://www.viksit.com - went from a static website built on dreamweaver as a kid to drupal to a static website built with Gatsby :)) The latest iteration was an exercise in minimalism and typography!
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by viksit 5y ago
Given all the emacs ninjas here - what’s the best way to do JSX/TSX formatting while playing nice with js2-mode, tide and web-mode? I’ve been stuck for months on finding a good config and almost wanted to move to VS Code to try it out.
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by viksit 5y ago
I’m surprised this hasn’t devolved into a web3 debate yet ;)
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by viksit 5y ago
All solutions to problems generally start off as toys or proofs of concepts. and they improve over time. See: The Wright Brothers.
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by viksit 5y ago
Agree. I’ve actually seen an interesting shift in such arguments. People will talk about decentralization being a good thing — but rather than talk about web3 from the economic lens of decentralization the arguments always flow to crypto sc
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by viksit 5y ago
curious - “can your blockchain be validated with regular hardware” - why is this a point you call out? is it that specialized equipment is not easily accessible and thus not truly decentralized?
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by viksit 5y ago
Can you explain what this means?
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by viksit 5y ago
This comment is truly on point and very meta — it takes a nuanced twitter thread and distills it down via the force of an authoritative source in a way that people immediately get the point.
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by viksit 5y ago
Great point. I think having this data encrypted on a public system for anyone to verify will lead to much more openness in the ratings system. It has the potential to be a far cry than the black hole the US system is today. I don’t pretend
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by viksit 5y ago
This is a great point. Some ways I'm seeing this addressed are in the form of, - Credit ratings from the real world being moved on chain, both by startups and by established companies (see Fitch report from Oct 21, pay-to-access only).
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by viksit 5y ago
I’ve had a chance to eat a few great persian tahdigs and korean dolsot bibimbop bowls and really enjoyed the nutty rice flavors from scorching it. But I’ve always found it interesting that Indian cuisine alone amongst asian cultures (afaik)
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by viksit 5y ago
I wrote about exactly this - why you should care about the blockchain - here (1) and here (2). Curious what you think? (1) https://mobile.twitter.com/viksit/status/1450518759387582472 (2) https://mobile
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by viksit 5y ago
Somehow reading this article really made me think of lisp and some old jane street and k lang articles here on hn over the years. I wonder if it’s the composability or the centralization?
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by viksit 5y ago
Yeah i think in the spirit of “write every day” and “ship often”, twitter allows you to go from single tweets to threads in an instant, vs a blog where you might agonize over whether it’s ready to publish or not.
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by viksit 5y ago
Actually, I prefer to write a twitter thread first and then blog it. My 2c on this, - Yes the ux sucks but people are used to reading threads. - There are tools like thread reader app that unroll threads and store for future reference. - to
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by viksit 5y ago
Curious to hear your perspective on this thought experiment. From TFA, the analogy seems to be a developer publishing an api key for a read/write access to a bank account (say, Plaid). If someone was to use this key to withdraw money f
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by viksit 5y ago
haha now i’m curious why this was downvoted
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by viksit 5y ago
> “capitalism really only becomes legitimate when the greed of some is for the benefit of the many.” > “Crypto, though, is about the introduction of scarcity; its payoff is decentralization, at the cost, at least for now, of convenien
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by viksit 5y ago
Curious - why aren’t simpler frameworks like htmx ( https://htmx.org/ ) more common or gaining traction? It feels unnecessarily complex to have to use so many modules to build a website today. Especially if it doesn’t need dy
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Ask HN: Why aren’t frameworks like htmx more popular?
9 points by viksit 5y ago|9 comments
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by viksit 5y ago
Having been on both sides here are my 2c. Pardon any brevity since i’m on mobile and in transit. Id advise reading up on these at this excellent guide (1). Comp at startups are generally a sliding scale of cash to equity. A typical offer wi
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by viksit 5y ago
I believe you mean the 83(b) election.
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by viksit 5y ago
Could you elaborate on this a bit? When you say "smart", do you mean "having knowledge of the escrow"?
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by viksit 5y ago
It feels like the mainstream adoption of tokens is going to need the equivalent of FDIC coverage / credit card transaction dispute systems. Is it theoretically (or in practice) possible to reverse / mitigate these kinds of token t

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