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RikNieu

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RikNieu··on Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
Started experimenting with Loras and AI image generation and had so much fun I created another profile pic generator

https://dreamersgaze.com

RikNieu··on Show HN: A no nonsense calorie calculator
Yep, calculator on my phone. This is much easier :D
RikNieu··on Show HN: A no nonsense calorie calculator
It’s not, was just a fun weekend app to work on
RikNieu··on When do we stop finding new music?
All my fav songs is music I discovered in my 30s
RikNieu··on Show HN: Supermaven, the first code completion tool with 300k token context
I'm VERY interested in using your service and would be happy to pay if it's good.

I'm never going to try if you ask for my CC up front though. Sorry.

RikNieu··on ChatGPT loses users for first time, shaking faith in AI revolution
Ugh, the whole world is not having summer vacation... It's not even a thing outside the US
RikNieu··on The workers already replaced by artificial intelligence
I'm working an a product doing just that. MVP should be ready by end June
RikNieu··on Turn dumb tweets into cuneiform tablets
I want an app like Google translate where I can point my camera at cuneiform and have it translate it into a modern language. That would be amazing

There are thousands of tablets that need to be translated still, so this would be really useful as a starting point

RikNieu··on How sustainable is high interest rates?
It's low interest rates that weren't sustainable. And that's becoming apparent
RikNieu··on Archaeologists ask Netflix to reclassify Graham Hancock’s docuseries as fiction
He DID go swimming around the ocean depths, as best a middle class, middle aged writer could.

Look up his book Underworld

RikNieu··on Ghana plans to buy oil with gold instead of U.S. dollars
Ray Dalio is watching
RikNieu··on We’re going to dream a little less, Sequoia’s Leone on fallout from FTX collapse
Please. All they had to do was just a little real due diligence.

I'd expect a fund like Sequoia to at least look at financials. Or corp structure and governance.

But apparently not.

RikNieu··on Ask HN: What's your freelancing company/business setup?
Check what Croatian tax authorities think of controlled foreign corporations(cfc's).

Most countries don't allow you to just expatriate income to skip taxes while still living in your local country.

RikNieu··on Many companies aren’t prepared to replace underperforming CEOs
Warren Buffett discussed this in his 2007 letter to shareholders Buffett says that "90% of your job as a director is having the right CEO."

"There is a natural tendency for people with big egos and big motors who get to be CEOs who like to do big things and to become bigger spending other people's money. Normally, when big deals come along [for approval] management has already made the deal anyway, they have investment bankers there that will go through a little ritual - I've never seen one come in and do a presentation which says it's a dumb idea! They know what the answer is supposed to be, and it becomes a little game."

RikNieu··on iPhone 14 Pro Programmed to Reject Repair – Teardown/Repair Assessment [video]
Probably wanted to degrade user experience enough to make users just go to Apple, but not enough to attract regulator attention.
RikNieu··on Ask HN: What was your big mental realization?
Most people create little mental boxes to imprison themselves in.

Try more crazy things, you'd be surprised how often it can work out.

RikNieu··on UK drought: Why do the trees think it's autumn already?
It's spring already here in South Africa. It's a bit early. Not a lot, but enough to notice
RikNieu··on What I Miss About Working at Stripe
You called? XD
RikNieu··on Google Docs will “warn you away from inappropriate words”
In South Africa "guys" is gender neutral too.

I wish the Americans can keep their weird culture war within their own borders.

RikNieu··on ‘What a brutal business’: pop stars on life after the spotlight moves on
And then there's Dave Grohl. Not quite popular anymore but rocking harder than even with creative new songs.
RikNieu··on Air Force Jet Was Scrambled to Intercept a UFO–Then Disappeared (2020)
I wish I could upvote you twice.
RikNieu··on Coursera has just suspended access to Russian language courses
This is insane. Really. Banning languages now? Are we cancelling cultures next?
RikNieu··on Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe's largest
Can newer plants be bombed? Can they be abandoned?
RikNieu··on I was promised a percent equity
Not me, but this seems to be a common issue.
RikNieu··on Brrr.money
It's still fun!
RikNieu··on The Beanie Baby Bubble of '99
I explored this idea last year in a blog post

https://www.riknieu.com/nfts-are-the-new-beanie-babies/

RikNieu··on JRE Missing (Rogan episodes removed by Spotify)
And Tom Segura & Christina Pazsitzky? Wot?
RikNieu··on Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out over Joe Rogan
Lex mentioned it in one of his recent ones, I can't recall which one, sorry
RikNieu··on Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out over Joe Rogan
Afaik both him and Lex Fridman tried to get Fouci on. He either declined or wanted to limit it to 15m
RikNieu··on Ask HN: What was the turning point in your meditation journey?
Three key things:

* viewing a session as a vacation of the mind and giving yourself permission to let go of pressing life matters for a bit

* reframing thoughts like "how much time is left?" as being part of the passing mental landscape which can be noted and let go

* realizing there are stages in a session, ie settling, concentrating, spreading awareness, watching and such.

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