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by harryf 2mo ago
I recently had a mind blowing experience recently building an app with Claude for someone that suffers with autism. Their basic complaint was "I can't work with most software. I think in colors". So I built them an PWA browse
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by harryf 2mo ago
Wow. The book we need should be titled something like "Of Software Teams and Cargo Cults" "... a book had washed up on the shore... 'Extreme Ownership' ... soon the tribe was worshipping the book" It happens ov
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by harryf 2mo ago
We are in the age of PWAs. I've created a few where I just host them on Github pages (no backend needed, no hosting costs). And the P in PWA has become "Personal" ... vibe coding apps with no backend for non-developers for th
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by harryf 3mo ago
Could go nicely with https://auge.franzai.com/ ( CLI on Apple Vision frameworks ) - do the first pass locally. If needed call their API for a more detailed analysis and then _finally_ we produce meaningful alt texts for ima
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by harryf 8mo ago
Google: USD CHF … set graph to max … it’s right there but it’s a slooooow rot. Swiss Franc is generally very stable so a good yard stick for other currencies over the long term
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by harryf 10mo ago
It’s not being driven by the UK. Check out all the other countries in the West rolling out Digital ID and it’s clearly coordinated just from the timing
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by harryf 11mo ago
We need to stop using AI as an umbrella term. It’s worth remembering that LLMs can’t play chess and that the best chess models like Leela Chess Zero use deep neutral networks. Generative AI - which the world now believes is AI, is not the s
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by harryf 11mo ago
There needs to a financial equivalent to the Mythical Man Month.
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by harryf 11mo ago
What I love about the words enshitification is it’s _almost_ autological. It takes a nice crisp on syllable word like “shit” and ruins it by adding 5 extra syllables. It just doesn’t worse over time, to be truly autological
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by harryf 11mo ago
It’s worth (re)watching the 1985 movie Brazil in particular the character of Harry Tuttle, hearing engineer https://youtu.be/VRfoIyx8KfU Neither government or corporations are going to “save us” simply because sheer short t
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by harryf 11mo ago
> Good version control habits. Feel like there's more to this point (plus the documentation). By now we've all see the inverted-U-shaped performance curve when coding with LLMs within a single thread / context: the model s
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by harryf 1y ago
Better to talk about the Gartner Hype cycle and it's stages compare it to technologies that clearly followed that cycle such as; - Virtual Reality: big hype in the early 90s (arcades, movies like Lawnmower Man) through to use cases tod
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by harryf 1y ago
We need to take the focus off cost savings. None of this tech is anywhere near mature enough to replace humans yet. Far better to focus on enhancing human capabilities with agents. For example while a human talks to a customer on the phone,
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by harryf 1y ago
It’s fairly easy to get diarizarion working with pyannote.audio and https://huggingface.co/pyannote/speaker-diarization-3.1 with ffmpeg converting the audio first to 16kHz mono WAV file but it really depends a lot on
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by harryf 1y ago
> fails due to a service high load It seems to be suffering the HN effect right now. Earlier it was working nicely and pretty much doing everything in the background
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by harryf 1y ago
It’s useful for getting summaries of long YouTube videos - I’m found it semi helpful for improving my Davinci Resolve skills. That said Google is screwing the pooch as usual by trying to make it another walled garden. Slap an API on Noteboo
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by harryf 2y ago
That's exactly the question - how does a free communication app achieve a multi-billion dollar valuation despite not having ads or directly selling user data? Discord's business model relies on attracting a massive user base to se
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by harryf 2y ago
Have you considered supporting whisper-at - https://github.com/YuanGongND/whisper-at ? Being able to identify sounds on a timeline can be useful e.g. politicians speech and how the audience is reacting to it (e.g. clap
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by harryf 2y ago
To me at 51, looking back at my own experiences, I think the things we tell ourselves work in a similar fashion to software; programming our identity. The first "programmers" are our parents. Classic negative tropes like a parent
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Comedy Theory (2022)(rpgadventures.io)
255 points by harryf 2y ago|175 comments
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by harryf 2y ago
Ran into this today. From doing comedy for about 7 years now, this basically correct. Although most comedians approach joke writing organically rather than with this approach
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by harryf 2y ago
It’s sad to see HN become so full of bots. > prompt: There’s an article on Hackernews titled “Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect”. Generate a comment in Hackernews style that supports this d
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by harryf 2y ago
> This is full on speculation. Speculation is a crucial part of decision-making, especially in geopolitics, where hard data is often scarce. Governments frequently act on leading indicators to preempt potential threats, whether it's
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by harryf 2y ago
> Platforms like Signal can get away with this because they are properly E2E encrypted, and cannot identify illegal content. Signal isn't magically protected by proper E2E encryption. When the time comes to take them down legally, a
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by harryf 2y ago
Same would be nice for i.redd.it
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by harryf 2y ago
This is great! Already installed on two laptops. Finder is frustrating, to say the least. Of course feature request time: some kind of search? Would be really nice to match against folder names (e.g. searching for "images" and fil
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by harryf 2y ago
I used to be a fan of the Total War games, back from the first Shogun Total War in 2000. The AI was never that great but was good enough to make the game fun to play. The main thing was the battlefield mechanics worked well, rewarding smart
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by harryf 2y ago
Make sure you have an on-premise option for this type of customer. I've worked at two software companies in Europe with tangentially similar products related to document analysis. On premise is a key requirement. Even though it's
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by harryf 2y ago
From the post... > the key insight that the Noah Smiths of the world seem to be missing is that, in today’s world, we artificially elevate labor demand to keep people employed. To me one learning of COVID and lockdowns is that we're
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by harryf 2y ago
Sounds like they just shifted the voice with some Fast Fourier transforms - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63339608/change-the-melo...

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