agent281

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by agent281 9mo ago
I understood their comment as going from $100 / hour * 100 hours to $100 / hour * 500 hours not to $500 / hour * 100 hours
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by agent281 9mo ago
I appreciate this example. This does seem like a pretty difficult feature to build de novo. Did you already have some machine vision work integrated into your app? How are you handling machine vision? Is it just a call to an LLM API? Or are
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by agent281 1y ago
IMO, Haskell is less helpful for an LLM because of its advanced language features. The LLM is reasoning about the language textually. Since Haskell is very tense, the LLM would need a very strong model of how the language works. I think lan
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by agent281 1y ago
Have you heard of the War of the Currents? > As the use of AC spread rapidly with other companies deploying their own systems, the Edison Electric Light Company claimed in early 1888 that high voltages used in an alternating current syst
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by agent281 1y ago
Fair enough!
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by agent281 1y ago
Maybe? But it destabilized the Middle East, caused the migrant crisis in Europe, the migrant crisis caused a rise in right wing movements in Europe, it caused the rise of ISIS (lots of Iraqi ex-military), ISIS was involved in the the civil
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by agent281 1y ago
I agree with GP. I would amend their claim with "most problems* could be solved by building high density housing and services in areas with jobs." I.e., build real cities. Building homes on federal land in the middle of no where w
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by agent281 1y ago
Yeah, I think we should keep that aspect of prop 13. That is what it was originally billed as. It just doesn't make sense that golf courses pay taxes that are more aligned with the 70's property values. If there was ever a major c
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by agent281 1y ago
You would need to overturn the proposition directly. The state Congress can't overturn it so you would need another proposition. That's a "simple" majority vote, but it's the third rail of California politics. We al
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by agent281 1y ago
I would not describe LA to SF as a consistent experience. I had an 8:30 PM flight delayed until 1:30 AM. Actually, the only consistency I've had with those flights is that they are consistently delayed. I've heard that the flight
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by agent281 1y ago
I live in America. I have all my life. I've ridden on nice trains in Europe and Japan. The culture in the last 80-100 years has revolved around cars, but before that relied heavily on trains. I much prefer riding a spacious train to ri
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by agent281 1y ago
California can't raise property taxes unless Prop 13 is repealed and that's a very high bar to pass.
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by agent281 1y ago
Porque no los dos?
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by agent281 1y ago
Last time I checked (2020) there were already a few rejected proposals to shorten the syntax for this. It seemed like they were pretty exasperated by them at the time.
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by agent281 1y ago
Isn't it being a method call not quite equivalent? Are you able to define the method over arbitrary data types? In Elixir, it is just a macro so it applies to all functions. I'm only a Scala novice so I'm not sure how it woul
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by agent281 1y ago
> I know HN has a bit of a click-bait love relationship with Erlang/Elixir but it hasn't translated over to adoption and there are companies that are just burning money trying to do what you get out of the box for free with the
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by agent281 1y ago
I wonder how much the workforce plays into it. If you have a bunch of people who work at companies that are trying to maximize eyeballs then they shuffle around to different companies, are they going to adopt the goals of the new company? O
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by agent281 2y ago
Did you ever see Crystal? It's more or less a typed Ruby. I've heard that you can port some code directly. https://crystal-lang.org/
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by agent281 2y ago
I think there are a couple of bugs in the pseudo-code: traverse_node(page, version, key): retry: # Read the page pageCopy = copy(page) # BUG1: version is an argument so it likely won't be correct on retry if versi
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by agent281 2y ago
Then after that, they passed Hawley Smoot Tariff Act to make up for the budget short fall. That caused an already bad situation to get much, much worse.
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by agent281 2y ago
Given how companies operate internationally, is it fair to compare the stock market valuation against GDP? If Apple moved to a New Zealand based stock exchange, would that mean that the stock market in New Zealand wasn't healthy? Also,
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by agent281 2y ago
No doubt his administration will cast a long shadow. I was only responding to the allusion that he could become a long term dictator.
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by agent281 2y ago
TBH, I am one of those people that's a little too young to remember Yeltsin. I know him generally, but wasn't aware of the direct through line to Putin. Overall, that's a pretty sobering analysis.
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by agent281 2y ago
Trump is pretty old at this point. Even if he decided to go full dictator, how long does he have? Maybe 5 to 10 years? I don't think it would be quite as "stable" as Putin's Russia.
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by agent281 2y ago
> But it's weird to me to see these articles that are so excited about being able to install Python easily when that's been doable with conda for ages. (And conda has additional features not present in uv or other tools.) I use
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by agent281 2y ago
Hilarious because I watched this while my code was compiling.
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by agent281 2y ago
If you have been using git for 30+ years, you need to take me to your time machine. It turns 20 this year.
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by agent281 2y ago
If it happens, I call dibs on the name "AI Nuclear Winter".
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by agent281 2y ago
Musk did backtrack on the $2 trillion goal. 'Musk told political strategist Mark Penn in an interview broadcast on X that the $2 trillion figure was a “best-case outcome” and that he thought there was only a “good shot” at cutting half
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by agent281 2y ago
> Even in the HN thread on the essay, it felt like hardly anyone actually read and understood it, just brought their own assumptions and intellectual allergies and let them run wild. It would be great if people could discuss these issues

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