benjaminsky2

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by benjaminsky2 3mo ago
Omg, did anyone else have to solve like 15 captchas while trying to signup for alerts? I gave up.
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by benjaminsky2 10mo ago
If you ever end up incarcerated this will be invaluable:)
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by benjaminsky2 11mo ago
I read the whole thing. Seems pretty fair to me, including the section prohibiting discrimination against conservative ideas. With all the coverage I expected something crazy.
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by benjaminsky2 1y ago
Vlad the Implier
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by benjaminsky2 1y ago
If your project is well organized and individual files are small and the dependency graph isn’t too crazy, Claude code does an amazing job building only the context it needs even as the project grows. You just have to be aggressive about re
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by benjaminsky2 1y ago
This is awesome! I’m work with a team of analysts and data engineers who own a pretty big snowflake data warehouse. We write a ton of dbt models and have a range of sql skill levels on the team. This would be the perfect way to allow more j
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by benjaminsky2 3y ago
Not to mention that they all use or amplify the exact same talking points at the exact same time.
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by benjaminsky2 3y ago
I’ve always built analytics daily by default, and certain metrics real-time - via a different system - only when a compelling and permanent use case exists (except operational analytics). I mean something like YouTube view counter/like
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by benjaminsky2 3y ago
Maybe the star is a bigger publication than I’m aware of but it seems pretty hilarious for them to have a paywall.
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by benjaminsky2 3y ago
To extend the lossy compression hypothesis, human generated text is lossy compression of our sensory experience of reality while LLMs are lossy compression of that.
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by benjaminsky2 3y ago
I’m willing to give this a try if you can clean it up a bit. UX is rough on mobile. I also prefer subs to hashtags but whatever, I’m easy. I bailed on Reddit like 2yrs ago and there’s really no alternative that I can find except HN.
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by benjaminsky2 3y ago
I did that the other day. I cooked a kadai chicken recipe verbatim from ChatGPT. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t amazing either.
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by benjaminsky2 3y ago
> artist whose domain has not yet been disrupted by AI fires artist in favor of AI
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by benjaminsky2 4y ago
“Person I don’t like acts in rationally self interested manner, legally outperforming less informed parties in zero sum game” Should we feel bad when we sell a stock and it goes down?
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by benjaminsky2 4y ago
Founders aren’t the only ones who can make an 83b election. Regular employees can do so too if they’re allowed early exercise.
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by benjaminsky2 4y ago
My thoughts exactly, and you can understand their motivation when they’ve “already received 20m in funding from …”
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by benjaminsky2 4y ago
I got that same “protecting children” BS from Nancy Pelosi when I contacted her about something similar here. Her letter was phrased in a way that felt like I was being accused of trying to support child trafficking. It was actually pretty
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by benjaminsky2 4y ago
I love these. Someone posts a scathing critique of a company. Company representative responds with a mea culpa that misses the mark, and includes plans to fix. Top reply nails the actual problem, why the fix won’t work, and gets massive agr
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by benjaminsky2 4y ago
My experience with Zapier is that you quickly hit a point where you’re building an ultra complex expression or manipulating json in a less than ideal editor. Also your zap is basically the ast of the code you would have written and grows qu