searchableguy

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by searchableguy 2y ago
No idea about what big CEOs feel but for me, I would absolutely continue working even if I was a trillionaire someday. What matters and drives me would be impact and influence I could have on society. Have couple billions? Throw them on thi
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Ask HN: Is it a bad idea for a founder/CEO to engage in social media?
2 points by searchableguy 2y ago|1 comments
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by searchableguy 2y ago
I sometimes get hand written note to review and mention the name of the person who made my food on food delivery app.
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by searchableguy 2y ago
I have been told I look like a software engineer or a maths teacher all the time. I'm fairly sure it has nothing to do with how I dress or look but simply because of stereotypes associated with Indians. If I was whiter, people would sa
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by searchableguy 2y ago
The simplest reason is lack of effective communication, team bonding, and morale. People behave differently behind a screen even if incentivised by money. This becomes a problem at the scale of big companies. Eg - without body language, ton
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by searchableguy 2y ago
There are abandoned city projects like Amravati, Lavasa and others. The scale and reason behind ghost cities in India is different. Most stop construction mid way due to financial or regulatory constraints.
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by searchableguy 2y ago
> Just yesterday Alephnerd was confidently proclaiming there are no tuk-tuks in Thailand anymore. That's not true. He claimed there are no tuk tuks outside of tourist centers. Tuktuks are mostly used by tourists and getting phased o
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by searchableguy 2y ago
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ofone/jobs/u2E2fCX-fou... I saw this YC startup ad right after I finished reading this.
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by searchableguy 2y ago
Apologies. I meant when you are the only person who is not in the group chat or messaging platform, then people won't call you to invite. It is much higher friction.
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by searchableguy 2y ago
I use what impact and benefit my work has to answer what I do. In your insurance case, I would say something like "I build tools to shield businesses from unexpected disasters like earthquakes or floods" or "I help people wor
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by searchableguy 2y ago
Because people will not invite you if you are not in the group chat. Unfortunately, people have forgotten how to call and are afraid of receiving calls. This is more prominent among people who grew up with social media everywhere compared t
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by searchableguy 2y ago
You can use tsx as loader with node if you want to directly run typescript. node --import tsx ./file.ts
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by searchableguy 2y ago
Most major developing countries in Asia have p2p instant payments and bank accounts for free or with minimum balance requirement. UPI (Indian market) launched cross border support with a couple countries starting this year. 118 billion tran
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by searchableguy 3y ago
I pre-ordered the rewind pendant. It will listen 24/7 and help you figure out what happened. I bet meta is thinking of doing this with quest once the battery life improves. https://rewind.ai/pendant
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by searchableguy 3y ago
$3 month in India for unlimited 5g 500mbps to 1gbps
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by searchableguy 3y ago
We gave up and switched to vitest.
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by searchableguy 3y ago
In Pluto (anime), the way to create a perfect artificial intelligence was to introduce unbalanced emotions such as trauma and hatred.
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by searchableguy 3y ago
Are clawbacks common at trading companies?
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by searchableguy 3y ago
Fairly common in India with any dating app though. Some are mostly parents operating the profile.
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by searchableguy 3y ago
> I've discovered that being with a real bank is better in most ways Same in India. I tried using a neobank but quickly closed the account. They don't have the services traditional banks do and everything was slower than it is
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by searchableguy 3y ago
I don't know about bitcoin but for Ethereum, many big mixers were funded by advocates for privacy. So there is deniability if you mix your illegal proceeds with legimate ones. It's not much different from cash in a way. It's
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by searchableguy 3y ago
Looking for the same. I remember skydio being a good option a couple years ago before their pivot to enterprise and military. Is there a DIY option with open source autopilot? DJI doesn't sell their latest drones directly in India so o
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by searchableguy 3y ago
1.5 million users Hired 6 marketers. 1 dev and designer initially but let go after initial user growth. Then I fired all 6 marketers and the funds stayed same or increased. There should be a sales and monetization option after demo day. Ano
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by searchableguy 3y ago
That's an impressive feat.
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by searchableguy 3y ago
Thanks. I will add a note on privacy.
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by searchableguy 3y ago
I updated the instructions and added a feature to change the model used by whiz. Could you please update whiz_cli using npm and add `export WHIZ_LLM_MODEL=gpt-4` to your shell. instructions are available in README now: https://gi
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by searchableguy 3y ago
I love yours. It is entirely in shell script. I recommend using chatgpt functions for more reliability. I'm making use of them[0]. I wanted to use javascript to extend it with a plugin system, haha. 0] https://github.com&#x2
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by searchableguy 3y ago
That's a cool project. I built this after copy pasting the same git command to list all the recently committed branches from chat.openai.com. I have a couple more functions that I want to add to the CLI like [0] translating novels, web
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by searchableguy 3y ago
I can reproduce this. The issue is ChatGPT hallucinating a function that doesn't exist. I'm figuring out how to rail guard against this. Thanks for trying it out and reporting with an example. If I switch to ChatGPT 4, it works fi
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Show HN: Whiz – A copilot for your terminal(github.com)
95 points by searchableguy 3y ago|47 comments

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