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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting on Sunday March 02, 2025 @11:01AM (#43231753)
Yes, I share the same concerns. Frankly I’m not sure what can be done on long term security when Russia has demonstrated its willingness to threaten nuclear weapons. I wonder if Putin being no more would result in a different Russia, one which isn’t focused on expansionism.

I don’t think this is the intention of the U.S. negotiating a peace deal, but a pause could give time to let Ukraine and europe to build up arms. I might be wrongly optimistic but I suspect a build of arms across europe would result in a more powerful force than Russia alone.

Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting on Friday February 28, 2025 @10:07PM (#43215318)
We’re only weeks since Trump taking office. Watching the full video, I think to me it seems there’s a mismatch in the response from HN and the reality of what happened there and is happening with the war. Ultimately, people are dying everyday in this war. I wonder if it’s in the best interest of those still alive to continue fighting and dying, or settling with territory being lost. If there really is no end in sight, why continue forcing people to die.

I like to think more about the individuals than anything else. If it really is possible to no longer have them die over things they realistically won’t get back, and it’s possible to freeze the progress of Russia with where it is today, isn’t making the war stop the top priority?

This makes the vascular implants produced by Humacyte more interesting. They’re made of cells which aren’t recognized by the immune system. Humacyte is in the beginning stages of seeing if they can fit beta cells into the produced vascular implants, while remaining undetected by the immune system.
Re:The Unicorn Boom Is Over, and Startups Are Getting Desperate on Saturday February 15, 2025 @02:01PM (#43061188)
Please point the way!
It’s referring to the collaboration on the design itself.
As someone who has built chatbots used by businesses, your wording is very misleading. A chatbot is very different than an embedded form. If this project is for the latter, you should use that verbiage.
Re:Waymo Hits Cyclist in SF on Friday February 09, 2024 @09:57AM (#39315406)
What if traffic lights emitted their status? Maybe this is already done; if it isn’t, it seems like doing so would greatly improve the safety of autonomous vehicles.
Ignoring timelines, I’d say every single one of your predictions will become a reality. I think for a lot of folks, these integrations of AI into existing things seems natural, intuitive and common-sensical. I’m not sure why there’s such a mass of folks denying any of these things.

I’ve considered quitting my job and pursuing it full-time. Being an early adopter here seems like a sure fire way to succeed. I’m curious what your journey has been. I’m launching my product next week. Have a single customer signed on with a plan to scale it out, should the results come back positive.

Are they being deployed today? Super exciting idea.
Re:What Is a Vector Database on Friday May 05, 2023 @08:35AM (#35828429)
At a glance, your product seems like a fit for my team. However, your landing page doesn’t give specifics. What exactly does it do?
I’ve been thinking about this for a while. Super excited to see you’ve actually done it! Will definitely be trying it out. Thanks for making this!
I had the idea of creating a Kubernetes cluster debugger that’s gpt-4 based and runs in the cluster, consuming and troubleshooting then posting results to a Slack channel for dev teams to view. Don’t think I’ll work on it though.
Nice. High chance we’ll start seeing a ton more tooling innovation of this kind. I view gpt-4s information constraints very similarly to blockchains; it’s a bounded context. Blockchain solved this with oracles. I think there will be a more formal, widely recognized variant for gpt-4 pretty soon. Your feature for pulling down websites is basically it.

I found the context size for gpt-3 to be extremely limiting when I was hacking at ideas. Seeing this and knowing the context size for gpt-4 is larger is giving me motivation to pick up where I left off.

Re:The Origin Story Behind the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @09:11AM (#35245623)
The general idea, yes. I was pigeon-holing to the idea that aliens are carrying it out.
I actively reject conspiracy theories on the premise that they’re conspiracy theories. However, I can’t deny that this one is interesting. What if this is actually happening?

Obviously the easiest way to provoke thought within the skeptic is to ask, “If it is within the realm of possibilities for the human race to invent a driver allowing interstellar travel, why shouldn’t an extraterrestrial race also be capable of it?”

I would assume someone would counter with the fact that extraterrestrial life hasn’t been discovered. A question to often revisited. For all we know extraterrestrial life surrounds their inhabited planets with strict ingress and egress policies.

Re:AirPods Causing Tinnitus? on Saturday March 04, 2023 @08:29PM (#35026224)
Airpods 100% affect / cause tinnitus. I tracked it on myself over several months once I noticed the relationship. In short, the airpods caused it and using them substantially intensifies the tinnitus I experience. I’m 24. Saddens me to know I’ll be living with this for the rest of my life.

Stumbling upon the post linked by OP after realizing the connection between my tinnitus levels and airpods is hard to put into words. The tinnitus developed during my first year using airpods. I would use them for at least an hour a day and always towards the lower 1/4 of the volume bar.

Re:Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers on Monday February 13, 2023 @05:37PM (#34781903)
Filter tags would be very helpful.
Would be very appreciative if you shared this as well.
> Nothing else matters.

Not if you’re a for-profit VC firm looking to invest in an area with changing regulation, which could lead to trillions of dollars of economic opportunity.

Genuinely very interested to hear an instance where you were able to cut weeks off development time.
I just copy and pasted 3 random Leetcode problem prompts to GPT-3. It successfully generated Python code that passed all test cases for 2 out of the 3.

Problems passed: - Two sum - Text Justification edit: Newlines

Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published on Thursday June 23, 2022 @10:29AM (#31849589)
I agree with your side. Here’s my take. For some people, there’s a line you don’t cross. However, if the line is going to be crossed anyway, why not cross it in the best way possible? I’m inclined to believe that if done well, even those against it being done will end up finding appreciation for the next works.
Re:A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:24AM (#31766404)
This is very similar to my experience. TBH, being able to not talk through what I’m coding the _whole_ time, unlike what it shown in the official “What to expect” Google videos, was a relief. Unfortunately, that change in expectation sort of threw me off; there became uncertainty in what was expected of me. This uncertainty hindered my creative juices while problem-solving but nowhere near as bad as the interview prior, which I won’t go into since I am paranoid about the interviewer seeing this comment :)
Re:I'm all-in on server-side SQLite on Thursday May 12, 2022 @08:46AM (#31353240)
> Latency is the exact reason you would have a problem scaling any large system in the first place.

Not always. It depends on the architecture and your hosting strategy. I think it’s more likely for an instance of a web app to receive more requests than it can handle, causing the app to not service any requests.

Re:Ask HN: How do you name your objects? on Friday May 06, 2022 @02:26PM (#31288319)
This is one of my favorite things about programming. I mentally define the context of the file, method and method segment, in that order. This allows me to focus my search for words which are accurate to the given scope / context i.e. method / method segment and file-level concepts. From there, it’s a matter of identifying overlap and reusing key terms.

I think one thing people subconsciously or consciously struggle with is how explicit to be. I tend to side towards explicit because I’ve found the biggest trade off to be character count, which is not a big deal. I’ve received several compliments from other programmers when following this approach. A crucial step is to go though everything at the end and simplify / cut-out words that don’t provide meaningful value. Keep it iterative and constantly refine. Once you get used to this natural process of it, it becomes less stressful and more fun - almost like an exploration of ideas and concepts.

What is your favorite part about software engineering?

I truly enjoy the eureka moments that occur when pondering design for an application. This especially happens when translating the idea into written form and refining it. This degree of abstract immersion brings me great joy. I find it hard to experience outside of software engineering, putting it at the top of my list for things I enjoy about software engineering. What’s one (or more) of yours?

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The perception of math by the public has led to a cognitive predisposition that math (especially calculus) is beyond the ordinary person. I wish pop culture would transform this.
After reading your comment, my first thought was to tell you to be more open to change. Seriously, it’s just a phone… just try it out :)

PS: I was the same as you (used Android, despised Apple) but eventually made the switch and never intend to go back.

Re:Hyper-Bitcoinization Is Now Baked-In on Friday March 18, 2022 @03:51PM (#30726712)
Buy Syscoin.
Re:A wave function does not collapse upon detection? on Sunday March 06, 2022 @10:01AM (#30577969)
This reminds me of a passage from Dune.

“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”

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