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Re:Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @05:34PM (#34511554)
Congrats on the launch. Once I submit a question I can see the answer but the question is gone. I think it'd be nice to keep the question around in the UI (or a log of questions?)
Re:Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation on Monday January 16, 2023 @10:49AM (#34401785)
How about Timberborn? The whole game revolves around water management.
Re:Introducing fine-grained personal access tokens for GitHub on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @01:27PM (#33250940)
Would love to know more about those configurable MMOs you mention. Anything in particular I could read/watch?
Love this idea and execution, thanks for sharing
Re:People who have unusual, or non-existent, inner voices on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @07:17PM (#29088836)
I do not see anything while dreaming. It is a constant source of slight anxiety as I can be quite conscious and the blindness is puzzling. In daily life I can project myself in some mental space (ie my kitchen) and perceive where the boundaries of things would be, but none of this process has anything to do with vision of sight. It's more like extend proprioception.

If you place your hand on a wall, then close your eyes, then remove your hand, I suspect you'll still feel where the wall is. Even if you picture something completely different in your head, the wall is still there I suppose? My guess is that my extend proprioception (or whatever the right name for this would be) is more fine tuned and apt than someone with a mind eye, but I can't really know. :|

I also do not hear sounds while dreaming, but then again I don't really have an inner monologue anymore, that went away at the same time I learned programming and I don't think it's a coincidence. I do verbalize in my head when reading conversation-like stuff (HN, slack, etc.), but you won't catch me with any internal monologue while reading ingredients, jira tickets, etc.

While dreaming, I can have conversations but there's no gradual arrival of content, it's instantaneous, it was not yet "said" or it was.

I'm not familiar with the meaning of a printed owl on a door, why was that significant to you?
Re:Myopia: A Modern yet Reversible Disease on Thursday July 29, 2021 @02:59PM (#28000051)
I did, but I was going when I did so. Spent more time outdoor looking far, then close, then far, etc. I've become aware of the duration of the transition in focus and it now serves as a warning side. Whenever it seems to take longer to focus on far-away things I know I need to do some more exercice. Went from needing glasses (which I declined) and seeing everything blurry to having a great vision I can't complain about.
My MBP requires the password to unlock touchID after a while, fwiw
Re:Generating JSON Directly from Postgres on Thursday July 15, 2021 @03:06PM (#27848742)
> But as things get more complicated, where does the business logic live? Maybe in the database as stored procedures? It's less crazy than it sounds.

I've worked with a bunch of systems like this before. One was just a collection of PHP scripts that would trigger SQL queries. Another one was all lambdas and Cron jobs on top of mssql stored procedures.

If you have a decent team and if you use version control as intensely as you would with code, I have no reason to believe this cannot work. To be fair, those condition are true regarding of tech and architecture.

What you cannot do easily though is pivot, hire, and scale. This is what bit those teams I worked with and why those specific systems are no longer around.

Fwiw this is the core concept behind React, and it is approached in a nice way there as far as my opinion goes. I'm unclear about general purpose programming languages but seems like other comments have good suggestions
Re:The Intelligent Forest on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @10:16AM (#27676059)
Anathem worked for me
Re:Mammals can absorb oxygen through their intestines on Friday May 14, 2021 @01:29PM (#27157079)
Can't wait to see this in effect during the next Tour de France.
Re:Auth0 Has been down for almost 4 hours now on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @08:23PM (#26883832)
Okta did not acquire Auth0 yet.
Isn't deno a nice typescript setup for this use case?
Re:“I will slaughter you” on Friday February 19, 2021 @05:59PM (#26199163)
Just switched from npm to yarn and I love it. Thanks for your work.
Re:Google Sued by YouTube Rival Rumble over Search Rankings on Monday January 11, 2021 @10:41PM (#25741981)
GoogleAds has a system like this behind the scene where trademark holders need to whitelist the specific GoogleAds accounts that want to use their trademark keywords.

No idea how widely used or effective this is though.

Re:Fantasy UI on Thursday December 24, 2020 @07:40PM (#25533070)
Some of what you describe reminds me of EagleMode, you might want to try it out.
Re:The Piet-GPU Vision on Saturday December 12, 2020 @11:27PM (#25404311)
Yes, this is definitely what I was expecting too
Re:Tell HN: Thank You Dang on Friday November 27, 2020 @01:35AM (#25226050)
Thanks for the hard work Dang!
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020) on Thursday August 06, 2020 @11:34AM (#24071861)
DealerBreacher | Montreal, Canada | Marketing Technologies for Car Dealerships | Onsite or REMOTE | Full Time

DealerBreacher is part of Trader.ca (AutoTrader.ca) and works closely with multiple marketing agencies around the world. We build SEM technology specific to car dealerships and inline with their realities and challenges. Our technology is unique and still in its infancy, with a lot of potential left.

We're looking for 2 backend developers with experience in Laravel and/or NodeJS/Typescript, and good knowledge of SQL.

Experience setting up deployment pipeline with automated testing is a plus. Experience with Adwords API, Microsoft Ads API or Facebook Marketing API a plus. Experience with Google Pub/Sub and Google BigQuery a plus.

To apply, email [email protected] with your resume or portfolio, and hacker news in the subject.

Was this just shipped? If so, congrats!

Might be just me, but when I compare the feature list with something like Monday.com (which can be configured to do the given use case with its internal automation tool), I really can't imagine paying $29 per user. That's at least double what I would be ready to pay, especially since I don't see any integrations and there's no mention of webhooks to build on top of.

Re:Gitqlite: Query Git Repositories with SQL on Saturday July 04, 2020 @06:14PM (#23735289)
This would make the difference between neat and useful for my team.
Can you provide more details? Are you talking about algorithms like modular decomposition[1]? Any specific challenge you'd like to see addressed in the following years?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_decomposition

Re:React Router v5 on Friday March 22, 2019 @12:08AM (#19459535)
So many negative comments in here. Just wanted to let the maintainers know we use the library in multiple projects without issue and that we appreciate deeply the work that goes into it!

Ask HN: Should I fight back management enforcing Jira?

I'm a tech lead in a small shop (around 5 developers and growing) and our company has recently been acquired by a bigger one at the beginning of the year. We've been lucky so far as we've maintained independence of process and priorities. We've demonstrated times and times again that our development processes and our talent was order of magnitude superior to their existing dev teams.Management...

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