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Re:MCP is dead. Long live the CLI on Monday March 02, 2026 @12:44AM (#47214279)

CLI vs MCP debate misses the protocol's actual value prop: steering the agent: https://cra.mr/context-management-and-mcp

Re:Air Quality Monitors Compared: AirGradient vs. Purple Air on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @02:43AM (#40363809)

I've been using the Awair air quality monitor (https://getawair.com) for over 5 years and I'm really happy with it. I've built a simple dashboard to visualize the readings: https://github.com/alfozan/Air-Quality-Dashboard

Re:Ask HN: Are you using a GPT to prompt-engineer another GPT? on Monday January 29, 2024 @07:40PM (#39184865)

Checkout Magic Prompts https://magicprompts.lyzr.ai/

Singapore-based startup EduFi raises funding for its student loan platform

Posted by alfozan on Friday November 10, 2023 @04:09AM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/09/singapore-based-startup-edufi-raises-funding-to-help-students-access-loans-for-their-education/

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Nash raises $20M from A16Z to help merchants manage local deliveries

Posted by alfozan on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @02:47AM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/26/nash-raises-cash-to-help-merchants-manage-local-deliveries/

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Facebook Engineering Manager Salary Ranges

Posted by alfozan on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @04:20PM
from the levels.fyi dept.

https://www.levels.fyi/company/Facebook/salaries/Software-Engineering-Manager/

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Coinbase Software Engineer Salaries

Posted by alfozan on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @10:32PM
from the levels.fyi dept.

https://www.levels.fyi/company/Coinbase/salaries/Software-Engineer/

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Levels.fyi helps tech workers get the pay they deserve

Posted by alfozan on Friday February 19, 2021 @11:41AM
from the fastcompany.com dept.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90604436/levels-fyi-leveling-tech-salaries-leveling-negotiation

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Online-Trading Platform Will Let Investors Bet on Yes-or-No Questions

Posted by alfozan on Thursday February 18, 2021 @02:57AM
from the wsj.com dept.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/online-trading-platform-will-let-investors-bet-on-yes-or-no-questions-

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Lowercarbon Capital

Posted by alfozan on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @02:16PM
from the twitter.com dept.

https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1359575860496371714

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Answering your questions about WhatsApp’s Privacy Policy

Posted by alfozan on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @07:11AM
from the faq.whatsapp.com dept.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/security-and-privacy/answering-your-questions-about-whatsapps-privacy-policy/?lang=en

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ExamSoft Flags One-Third of California Bar Exam Test Takers for Cheating

Posted by alfozan on Thursday December 24, 2020 @04:06AM
from the eff.org dept.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/examsoft-flags-one-third-california-bar-exam-test-takers-cheating

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H1B Salaries: When to Trust the Data and when to ask questions

Posted by alfozan on Monday December 07, 2020 @06:33PM
from the levels.fyi dept.

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/h1b-salaries-accurate-or-not.html

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Ex-Amazon VP asked for better pay structure for execs before sudden departure

Posted by alfozan on Thursday September 03, 2020 @07:47PM
from the businessinsider.com dept.

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-vp-departure-highlights-unique-employees-compensation-structure-2020-9

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Build state capacity by building charter cities

Posted by alfozan on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @06:29PM
from the worksinprogress.co dept.

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/build-state-capacity-by-building-charter-cities/

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Facebook’s CTO Is at War with Bad Content, and AI Is His Best Weapon

Posted by alfozan on Monday August 31, 2020 @10:43PM
from the spectrum.ieee.org dept.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/qa-facebooks-cto-is-at-war-with-bad-content-and-ai-is-his-best-weapon

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Will Company Cutbacks and the Growth of Remote Affect Engineering Pay?

Posted by alfozan on Monday July 13, 2020 @08:52PM
from the triplebyte.com dept.

https://triplebyte.com/blog/salary-update-how-company-cutbacks-and-the-growth-of-remote

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Paysa.com Has Shut Down

Posted by alfozan on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @08:44PM
from the paysa.com dept.

https://www.paysa.com/

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Re:Safe: Set maximum capacity for any room, floor, or building on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:17AM (#23189449)

This is a cool concept, though it appears to only care about the total number of people being below a set threshold regardless how people interact (i.e. maintain social distancing)

Shameless plug: two friends and I put together a small app that uses security cameras feed to calculate real-time density + estimate "safe" space capacity:

Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTgxhptePxM Demo site: https://flou.fyi/ (takes a bit to load)

Female SWE Salaries at FAANG

Posted by alfozan on Friday February 28, 2020 @04:45PM
from the levels.fyi dept.

https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer&gender=Female

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Predicting where AI is going in 2020

Posted by alfozan on Thursday January 02, 2020 @04:50PM
from the venturebeat.com dept.

https://venturebeat.com/2020/01/02/top-minds-in-machine-learning-predict-where-ai-is-going-in-2020/

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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) on Monday December 09, 2019 @06:27AM (#21741797)

Who still uses Hadoop anyway?

https://spark.apache.org/ https://www.iguazio.com/data-science-post-hadoop/

Re:Reddit was down for over two hours on Thursday September 19, 2019 @03:30AM (#21014103)

Alexa rankings are meaningless for services that are mostly accessed via mobile: https://www.quora.com/Does-Alexa-include-app-usage-in-its-st... https://www.quora.com/Does-Alexa-track-traffic-from-iPhones-...

Hacker Releases First Public Jailbreak for Up-to-Date iPhones in Years

Posted by alfozan on Monday August 26, 2019 @04:46AM
from the vice.com dept.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5yqpk/apple-new-bug-bounty-historical-moment-for-iphone-security

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We should embrace algorithmic music curation

Posted by alfozan on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @04:45AM
from the retrobend.com dept.

https://retrobend.com/2019/07/09/music-curation

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Share your ML models easily, with almost no extra code with Gradio

Posted by alfozan on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @05:16PM
from the reddit.com dept.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/cb5y3f/p_share_your_ml_models_easily_with_almost_no/

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Re:Show HN: Enviro+ for Raspberry Pi – Environmental sensors on Friday June 14, 2019 @10:08PM (#20188040)

I have been using https://getawair.com/ (2nd edition) for over 6 months and I can't recommend it enough.

Star Wars: Jedi vs. Sith by Levels.fyi

Posted by alfozan on Monday April 01, 2019 @06:29PM
from the levels.fyi dept.

https://www.levels.fyi/StarWars?t=0

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Facebook picks HP's Lucio as its new CMO

Posted by alfozan on Thursday August 23, 2018 @07:30PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/23/facebook-cmo-antonio-lucio/

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Re:The Weight of Numbers: Air Pollution and PM2.5 on Thursday August 09, 2018 @01:33AM (#17721816)

Air Quality Monitors Comparison: https://explorables.cmucreatelab.org/explorables/air-quality...