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That's funny, I've just built the same thing for Asda in the UK https://github.com/markDunne/asdabot

It can search for items, add them to the basket, picks a delivery slot and does the checkout.

With a little more scaffolding in markdown files, this now takes care of my weekly shopping.

Re:How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code on Thursday January 08, 2026 @03:21PM (#46545928)
I'm interested, could you expand on that?
Re:Vector Databases Are the Wrong Abstraction on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @06:34PM (#41990109)
You can use openai embeddings in elastic if you don't want to use their elser sparse embeddings
I don't have the link, but I also remember reading this story. I tried googling but didn't have any luck either. I just wanted to let you know that you're not misremembering!
Re:Ask HN: What cool desk ideas do you have for a home office? on Saturday September 09, 2023 @02:34PM (#37448724)
For a while I've wanted to build a big red "Ship it!" button (think emergency stop button). When slammed, it runs `git add -u . && git commit -m "Shipped!" && git push`
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2023) on Thursday July 06, 2023 @09:42AM (#36615616)
SEEKING WORK

Location: UK/France/Switzerland

Remote: Yes or hybrid

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Pandas, Numpy, PyTorch, ML/AI, etc. with a healthy sprinkling of devops

Résumé/CV: https://markd.ie/public/Resume.pdf

Email: markdunne02 [at] gmail.com

Summary: Most valuable when bridging the gap between data science and software engineering. Expertise in broad spectrum of industries, and a passion for jumping into brand new problems. Have considerable expertise in genomics (CRISPR/TALEN gene editing on-target and off-target search) as well GIS development. Absolutely love solving problems that combine complexities of the real world with computer science.

Open to full time or contract work

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2023) on Thursday July 06, 2023 @09:39AM (#36615576)
Location: UK/France/Switzerland

Remote: Yes or hybrid

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Pandas, Numpy, PyTorch, etc. with a healthy sprinkling of devops

Résumé/CV: https://markd.ie/public/Resume.pdf

Email: markdunne02 [at] gmail.com

Summary: Most valuable when bridging the gap between data science and software engineering. Expertise in broad spectrum of industries, and a passion for jumping into brand new problems. Have considerable expertise in genomics (CRISPR/TALEN gene editing on-target and off-target search) as well GIS development. Absolutely love solving problems that combine complexities of the real world with computer science.

Open to full time or contract work

Someone with more in depth knowledge can tell me why this isn't a good idea, but I'm pretty sure you can get something very close to this with graphql subscription query against hasura backed with postgres
One factor of this battle against trickle down economics is language. 'Trickle down economics' is term that is intuitive, explains itself well, and is easy to remember. It's a meme in Dawkin's original definition of the word.

The alternative term, 'bubble up economics', needs to the popularised more.

Re:A Nepali team has made the first winter ascent of K2 on Saturday January 16, 2021 @08:32PM (#25807225)
This looks like an incredible trip.

Can I ask how did you safely organise a tour like that without getting scammed/putting yourself in danger? How did you get in contact with your driver?

I agree that Discord seems like an odd place to find this information, but I'm curious to know what prevents you from creating a Discord account?
Re:What Is the Most Valuable Thing You Can Learn in One Hour? on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @07:29AM (#21920570)
Where might I learn why that is?
Re:Atlantropa on Monday July 08, 2019 @10:21AM (#20382930)
Could you give examples of megaprojects happening outside of the west?
I find comments like this one really strange.

What do you think is more likely? That there is not a single stream of water hitting it, or there are plenty of fire fighters at the scene you just happen not to have seen any pictures of them?

Re:Problems in Mathematics on Monday September 24, 2018 @09:46AM (#18057598)
I would really like to see something like this for probability
I love typora, but this is open source which makes it extendable.
Re:A Global Optimization Algorithm Worth Using on Thursday February 22, 2018 @01:18PM (#16439855)
Am I wrong in thinking that this algorithm could only be applied to continuous variables/hyperparameters?
Re:Formula E reveals second-generation car on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @12:06PM (#16275375)
The most farcical part of Formula E for me will always be the Fan Boost [0]. I almost couldn't believe it when I saw it on TV for the first time. Fans vote for their favourite driver, and that driver then remotely receives a boost to their car. I thought it was a joke.

[0] http://fanboost.fiaformulae.com/

I wonder if this was in response to the top comment on this HN post from 3 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16237026
I just wanted to point out Typora as a nice interface for a markdown editor, it's not really a note taking app.
I'm using Dynalist, which is definitely an improvement over Google Keep, but I'm starting to find it quite restricting that everything has to be in bullet point lists. What I really want is something thats between Dynalist with its Zooming mechanism, and Typora with its super nice markdown editor.
Re:Fast Python Serialization with Ray and Apache Arrow on Monday October 16, 2017 @06:45AM (#15482272)
Indeed it is.

My workaround for the failures of pickle is to use pathos. The API for the multiprocessing module is almost identical to the default multiprocessing module which makes it easy to use as a drop in replacement. Pathos uses Dill to serialise, which can serialise many more things, but you have to pay the price in performance. Although again, you can't swap out Dill for the serialiser of your choice.

Re:Dangers of CSV Injection on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @08:13AM (#15441116)
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it I guess, but we work almost exclusively with human and mouse genomes for now.

In any case, I imagine the Ensembl ID is still safer than other encodings in the case of invertebrates. For example, genes IDs in the Fruit fly genome look like FBgn0034730.

Re:Edward is officially moving into TensorFlow on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @06:06AM (#15440626)
That's useful, thanks!
Re:Dangers of CSV Injection on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @05:34AM (#15440521)
Interestingly, genetic biologists are probably more aware of this problem than most. When importing a CSV containing gene names such as SEPT2 or MARCH1, they automatically get converted to dates by Excel. This has potentially had a fairly large effect on research in the area [1]. One of the many reasons we insist on only using Ensembl IDs for genes at my company.

[1] https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13...

Re:Edward is officially moving into TensorFlow on Friday October 06, 2017 @05:56AM (#15415583)
I've only seen Edward for the first time today, and it looks quite nice.

Could you (or anyone else) comment on why would you choose Edward over something PyMC3? How does it compare?

Re:Magic Sudoku – Solve Sudoku with the power of AR on Thursday September 21, 2017 @09:49AM (#15303330)
I think a word2vec guided brute force approach to the riddles would be the winning combination.
Re:Magic Sudoku – Solve Sudoku with the power of AR on Thursday September 21, 2017 @05:29AM (#15301814)
I had assumed that the AR side of the problem would be the easy bit and that the real issue would be solving the riddles.

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