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I use graphite for stacked pr management. Any good reason to make the switch to stacklane?

Ask HN: How did you scale your analytics workloads (Postgres)?

Our product has some reporting features that require aggregations / analytics functionality. Some of the analytics workloads are time series, others are not and we generally expect these analytics queries to resolve in ~2.5sWe've recently decided to move these workloads to snowflake because we want to protect our transactional workloads.The snowflake devex has been pretty bad because we'd need...

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Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with feature flag cleanup? on Sunday December 01, 2024 @04:24PM (#42290832)
That approach makes sense. I guess when it comes to feature flag removal, actually removing the flag isn't that painful and is relatively easy. What's hard is actually remembering to cleanup the code.

Curious, when does your team decide to extend the date?

Ask HN: How do you deal with feature flag cleanup?

I work for a startup and as we grow we are increasingly depending on feature flags for releases.One of the side-effects that come with more feature flag(FF) use is the FF cleanup burden. I was curious if anyone has developed any tooling that makes this cleanup easier and automated?I know there's the obvious candidate of creating a clean up ticket as part story(or whatever equivalent)...

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Show HN: Context Copy – VS Code extension for quickly copying context

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=collinc777.context-copy

Show HN: Context Copy - VS Code extension for quickly copying contextI've developed a VS Code extension called "Context Copy" that allows developers to swiftly copy multiple files with their full context, formatted as markdown. It's designed to streamline the process of sharing code snippets with AI assistants (like ChatGPT or Claude) or in documentation.Key features: - Select multiple files in...

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You’re conflating risk and frequency
Re:Oration (iOS) Turns PDFs into Audiobooks on Monday February 12, 2024 @09:00PM (#39353404)
Congrats on the launch! This is pretty similar to a project i'm working on that turns articles into podcasts. https://a-to-p.vercel.app. Feel free to give it a try.

I'd love to chat about how you generate your audiobooks if you're open to sharing. Good luck with everything!

Show HN: A-to-P – Convert articles into podcasts

Hi HN – I’m excited to share my open source project a-to-p (article to podcast) available at https://github.com/collinc777/a-to-p. A to P is a simple web app that converts any article to a conversational podcast experience. You can try it out here: https://a-to-p.vercel.app/I’ve explored text-to-speech (TTS) for articles using tools like Speechify. However, I noticed a gap: TTS lacked the...

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Re:S3 Express Is All You Need on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @07:08PM (#38453527)
Will this improve running sqlite on s3?
Re:Amazon reaches 10000 Rivian electric delivery vans in U.S. on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @04:31PM (#37934383)
Every EV fleet i've talked to placed the range at <= 100 mi.
Re:Amazon reaches 10000 Rivian electric delivery vans in U.S. on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @03:09PM (#37933263)
The range of these larger vehicles is currently ~100 mi. Most operators charge them once a day.
Re:Amazon reaches 10000 Rivian electric delivery vans in U.S. on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @03:07PM (#37933238)
Backup generators, pre stocked fuel, and manual pumps are all cheap ways to provide redundancy.

Providing redundancy for EV fleet vehicles is much more expensive.

It all relies on the cost of the battery going down.

Re:Amazon reaches 10000 Rivian electric delivery vans in U.S. on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @02:42PM (#37932896)
I'm from Texas. A hurricane here and a cold winter there and you start to realize that this infra isn't ironclad.
Re:Amazon reaches 10000 Rivian electric delivery vans in U.S. on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @02:37PM (#37932816)
I'm very interested in what infrastructure needs to be put in place to make EV fleet vehicles a reality.

Imagine you have a fleet of EV emergency vehicles. How do make sure they're operable in the event of a far too common electrical outtage?

You'd need EV lots, outfitted with chargers, and serious battery backup to make that happen.

We're pretty far away from that infrastructure existing. As much as I'd like to see ev fleet vehicles on the road, a too rapid, forced transition to ev's for fleet vehicles scares me.

Show HN: Zivy Listen – Turn long articles into short podcasts

https://zivylabs.com/

Zivy Listen converts long articles into short conversational podcasts. It's a really interesting experience and I encourage you to check it out!I love to listen to podcasts when I work out. I've tried listening to articles via Speechify but it just sounds too stale and I can't focus. I decided to see what would happen if made the article into a podcast format and Zivy Listen was born!I'd love...

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Re:Be My Eyes’ AI assistant starts rolling out on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @02:49PM (#37679382)
Here we have a tool that can materially improve blind people’s lives and instead of making it accessible you want to deny them access until the product reaches a quality bar that is impossible to reach.

That’s wrong and immoral. The world is full of risk. As individuals we choose to accept some risks and move on with our lives. I think it’s appropriate that blind people are given the same opportunity

Re:Be My Eyes’ AI assistant starts rolling out on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @09:00AM (#37673997)
Are you suggesting they don’t release it until they can prove no hallucination?
Re:Show HN: Symphony – Make functions invokable by GPT-4 on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @09:27AM (#37583848)
Love this! I’m an fp-ts and xstate fan and am happy to see them in this usecase. My intuition tells me that state machines with llm directed function calling is going to be a huge unlock. One thing I’m curious about is narrowing the scope of accessible functions based on a state machine that is designed to match the business domain. This might involve machine to machine communication which I know XState supports
In the US, having an Android is one of the biggest social status negative signals I can think of.

I used to have an android and when I'd meet people the primary thing they'd remember about me was that I had an android. Their blinders were up after they had that information.

I think phones like the Galaxy line might be better than iPhones, but the experience of owning an iPhone far exceeds owning a Galaxy.

Re:Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @03:35PM (#36791984)
Apex is nightmare fuel
Culturally, the separation of athletics and education is going to be extremely difficult to accomplish.

Although not everyone is a fan, Football is the cornerstone of American culture.

The ranking systems are likely flawed and measure things outside of merit, or measure merit in a non-holistic way.
At what point does bundling become competitive vs non-competitive?

It does seem like Microsoft can crush any Saas startup by including a "good enough" competitive product in their bundle.

Re:Copy is all you need on Monday July 17, 2023 @01:27PM (#36761185)
Generally the repository he was working in, but really it was any application that he had open on his machine. He would remember where words, or portion of words that he needed were, go to them, and copy and paste what he needed.

Just in case you're thinking this: He was not copying large portions of code from stack overflow or anything like that. He was line by line writing code, a few copy and pastes at a time. Often he times would copy and paste single characters to maintain his flow.

Re:Copy is all you need on Monday July 17, 2023 @01:26PM (#36761155)
Typically in the code repository with other files that shared a similar pattern context that he was working with.

Sometimes he would need a portion of a word and he would remember that it was in an email he had open, and he would alt+tab and grab the portion of the word from the email, then alt+tab back to the editor and paste the word portion in.

He would go to extreme lengths to not have to move his hands to the home row on the keyboard.

Re:Copy is all you need on Monday July 17, 2023 @11:30AM (#36759441)
Slight tangent:

I once worked with a programmer who, the vast majority of time, would only input text into a text editor via copy and paste.

Think anti-vim. His fingers were locked on mouse and crtl+c/v. It was incredible to watch and his programming speed was very impressive.

Re:Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @09:09PM (#36689270)
Microsoft is getting their butts kicked on exclusives from Sony. Nothing wrong with them buying their way to better exclusives
Re:Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @08:42PM (#36689061)
Is this hyper-competitive or anti-competetive?

The objective of business is to win, but if a business is too dominant, then they have the ability to extort customers.

I don't see how customer extortion is born out of this. It's fair and in the spirit of a healthy ecosystem.

Re:Understanding LangChain Basic Concepts on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @06:30PM (#36688129)
There's a pretty steep learning curve to langchain. I recommend avoiding it if you don't need higher level of abstractions.

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