aranchelk

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by aranchelk 4mo ago
Having to audibly name the religion/ethnicity of beneficiaries of charities is a pretty wild requirement for a US charity. That may have been the judge’s framing, but it seems off from what I typically expect from mainstream US news.
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by aranchelk 4mo ago
The fact that the organization is Jewish is stated prominently in the article, but I’m not entirely sure why that’s relevant. Many charities in the US have religious affiliations. The adult matchmaking etc, that deviates substantially from
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by aranchelk 5mo ago
Anthropomorphizing is likely a mistake, but Daniel Dennett’s idea that the most straightforward (possibly only practical) way to create the external appearance of consciousness is a real internal consciousness does float around in my though
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SF is obsessed with the safest drivers and ignoring the ones killing people(sfchronicle.com)
3 points by aranchelk 5mo ago|1 comments
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by aranchelk 9mo ago
Tool Use Steering via Prompting. I’ve seen that work well also, but I don’t know if I’d quite call it an architectural pattern.
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by aranchelk 9mo ago
Yes, agentic search over vector embeddings. It can be very effective.
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'Trash Pandas' Are Physically Evolving into Pets; SF'S Raccoons Could Be NEXT(hoodline.com)
3 points by aranchelk 10mo ago|1 comments
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by aranchelk 10mo ago
I’ve seen several of these discussions on HN, they’re never particularly illuminating. What always seems to missing: * Perspective of what it’s like working in other engineering disciplines. * A clear and shared definition of what “engineer
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by aranchelk 1y ago
That and also why start with multiplication? String concatenation, addition, list concatenation all make more intuitive sense to a working programmer. What's a straightforward way to combine a bunch of numbers? Just keep multiplying th
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by aranchelk 1y ago
I was also dissatisfied with existing task tracking apps, and built my own: t-do.com There are still many rough edges, but it’s extremely useful. One of the best features that a text file has that very few apps support is unlimited sub-task
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by aranchelk 1y ago
I disagree. There are many operators that you’ll never use but if you memorize (^.), (.~), and (%~), you’re pretty much set for a lot of real-world software development. Per Kmett’s original talk/video on the subject, I can confirm my
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by aranchelk 1y ago
It’s wild how much the green color grading used in the film made the daytime location shots look un-Californian.
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by aranchelk 1y ago
After many tries I also got into the dashboard, but it's not that usable, constant error pop-ups.
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by aranchelk 1y ago
Seems to be affecting functionality of their "Verify you are human" dialogs as well as Workers.
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by aranchelk 1y ago
Customers of those services have a lot of considerations, as long as Nvidia doesn’t undercut the prices too much, I think no. Getting more developers creating more models that can then be run on those services will likely expand business fo
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by aranchelk 1y ago
I really appreciate the integrated fingerprint reader in these cases. I usually run with my laptop screen closed (with external monitor) but open it specifically to authenticate in system dialogs.
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Why the Bay Area's biggest real estate company is at war with Zillow(sfchronicle.com)
2 points by aranchelk 1y ago|0 comments
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by aranchelk 1y ago
Ah, that’s a painful situation.
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by aranchelk 1y ago
Not to quibble, but VSCode (and GitHub for that matter) are part of my tooling, not part of any of my stacks. To me the former is tolerable, the latter is not.
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by aranchelk 1y ago
Did anyone ever tell them they lost? Are you volunteering?
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by aranchelk 1y ago
> 2. Implementation Language doesn’t matter > I’m controversially writing our autorouter in Javascript. This is the first thing people call out, but it’s not as unreasonable as you might expect. Consider that when optimizing an algori
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Octopus's Other Car Is a Shark(nytimes.com)
3 points by aranchelk 1y ago|0 comments
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by aranchelk 2y ago
It’s not just the syntax. Regex isn’t directly composable (unless you just mash together strings). They cannot define nested structures, I.e. no recursion. They can’t maintain context. We don’t need better language tools. Better parsers can
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by aranchelk 2y ago
> We don’t have philosophically satisfying insights into the universe at subatomic scales. We have quantum mechanics: a set of equations that are good at predicting the behavior of elementary particles, but that don’t line up with our in
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by aranchelk 2y ago
Right on! I’m using PureScript with an Elm-like framework.
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by aranchelk 2y ago
> Frontend development is a nightmare world of Kafkaesque awfulness I no longer enjoy > Objects are extremely good at what they're good at. Blind devotion to functional is dumb. Blind devotion to anything in engineering is dumb,
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by aranchelk 2y ago
Maybe the author meant gradual static typing?
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by aranchelk 2y ago
In practice it only detracts a little bit. You can enable GHC extensions project-wide and there are alternate standard libraries (preludes) that are more modern. If you want a language that is very Haskell-like without the historical baggag
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by aranchelk 2y ago
How is this not the top comment?
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by aranchelk 2y ago
Anyone coming from a Haskell background, there’s some interesting (though possibly dated) info here: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/76k1x0/what_do_you...

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