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Ask HN: How are you using LLMs?
2 points by akshayB 1y ago|3 comments
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Raindrops in the Sun's Corona(news.njit.edu)
2 points by akshayB 1y ago|0 comments
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by akshayB 2y ago
Rivian have always struggled to bring down the cost of manufacturing their EVs. This is one of the biggest issues they have when you are making an EV battery & motor are 2 of the most important components of the car. In Rivians case the
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by akshayB 2y ago
The real problem is that data needs to be deleted over time. There is not much of a use case for customers for go back last year and see who called them and obviously there are use cases like criminal investigations or spying. But customer
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What is your preferred low code / no code platforms for small web apps?
2 points by akshayB 2y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What is the most challanging coding best practice to maintain longterm
3 points by akshayB 3y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: What is the a good project for kids to learn programming
1 points by akshayB 3y ago|1 comments
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by akshayB 4y ago
When I was a child I grew up on one these old homes with Jaali design and as family grew we added in few extension to the house with modern look and feel. During peak summer you can feel the difference in room temperatures in old vs new sec
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by akshayB 4y ago
DMV, Loan, trade-in it all depends
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Ask HN: Solution for backyard gardening to counter climate change
1 points by akshayB 4y ago|0 comments
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by akshayB 4y ago
SQL is around since the dawn of relational database and its hard to replace. The best option for mass adoption is to have drag and drop tools with visualizations like no-code ETL. Template like and markup language or framework are easier to
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by akshayB 4y ago
I recently went through a car buying process and it was extremely brutal. You signup paying for Doc fee ($600), even gas, other hidden fees, and outrageous charges. Another issue I noticed was you are forced into buying overprized accessori
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by akshayB 4y ago
The real issue is that each party wants to blame other side and for all the problems. Negotiations and compromise are non-existent, and this is the real reason why progress is people feel that their progress is getting stagnated.
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by akshayB 4y ago
This can also be an overall industry trend as now all big players have native apps for smartphones/tablets. People might prefer to use phone or tablets compared to desktops.
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International airlines suspend some US flights over 5G uncertainty(cnn.com)
7 points by akshayB 5y ago|0 comments
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by akshayB 5y ago
Problem is big companies dodge taxes and that needs a fix. Example -- you buy a smart phone you pay sales tax (consumer or normal people), what they should do is put something like 0.5% or some small Federal tax which companies have to pay
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by akshayB 5y ago
Facebook might have a short term problem with PR or public trust but eventually these things will settle down. Unless and until major stock holders push for change in business model not much is going to happen.
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by akshayB 5y ago
The point I am trying to make is way things work in US, most likely C-levels and high level officials of companies get away with it. I am sure there are cases when folks got into trouble. Apple had Antennagate for one of the iphones and eve
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by akshayB 5y ago
I can't recall last time a C-level company executive get into trouble for using deceptive tactics, every S&P500 company does this to some extent. When they get caught, in majority of cases it is a gentle slap on the wrist or given
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by akshayB 5y ago
This is super old new 2014 article. One of the biggest problems in India is most of the people are not well educated on differences of credit card vs debit cards. Also there is little to no fraud projection offered to the customers and that
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by akshayB 5y ago
Any biological life keeps itself alive by maintaining a steady state of entropy. Making even a small changes like this is never going to end well.
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by akshayB 5y ago
I worked on a project sometime ago where we needed to create a special event handling calendar with a Todo list for a large organization. It's crazy to deal with Google / Microsoft emails & calendars and on top of all that you
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by akshayB 5y ago
Funny thing lot of S&P 500 companies if they do like 5-10% more revenue Wall Street hold a parade for that stock, while in crypto it can happen in matter of hour.
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by akshayB 5y ago
Crypto is wild wild west even a small speculation can send prices up like 10-20% in a day. There is little to no government oversight, if you have a hint or some insider knowledge there is lot of money to be made. Other thing you can do is
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by akshayB 5y ago
This is how marketing works, all companies do this Apple -- best iPhone ever so what happens to phone I purchased last year (reality - there a decent upgrades) IBM Watson -- commercials looks like you can layoff 20% of employees as this thi
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by akshayB 5y ago
I think in future more companies will adapt a complete all-online format specially after the pandemic. One my friends have attended Apple Developer Conference in past and he loved the whole process. But there is lot of money spent traveling
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by akshayB 6y ago
Eventually what will happen is all major services on internet that the consent popup will turn into an annoying experience like you have to click 'I Agree' button whenever you are installing any software. Major portion of internet
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by akshayB 6y ago
I have noticed cows just not being happy about solar eclipse. They go crazy mooing around, stick together and are probably scared.
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by akshayB 6y ago
They need to re-ramp the UI/UX on Apple music app. I have been using it for fairly long time and you can see how other competition like Youtube/Spotify have much nicer recommendations and ease of use. Some sort of streamline and u
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by akshayB 6y ago
Hardware vulnerability and issues are hard to address at times as it can be connected to other vendor hardware or softwares. I always wonder if these flaws are left in the design intentionally or its just a sneaky bad bugs.

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