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Welcome! Excited to be under your wing Tom! Thank you Dan!

Surely it was satire? Surely...? Please

Enjoyed the read, easy to read — TIL about Bayesian average and Wilson score interval. Amazing how much LLMs helped the author achieve their goal

Aforementioned image for those who are curious: https://cdn.jwz.org/images/2024/hn.png

Looks great! Hope to see more submissions to HN from this site! Congrats on the launch!

Ctrl+F'ed to see if anyone mentioned alienation, since this post basically seems to be OP talking about alienation without them knowing.

I think fundamentally if we want people to care about things again, we are going to need to give them ownership of the things they produce. Otherwise, why would anyone care?

The one thing I couldn't get past when looking into Unpoly is that if you're in a deeply nested modal/layer, and then refresh the page, it just shows you the most recent modal as a full page. My expectation is that when you refresh, instead it would keep you on the base page, and then wipe all the modals.

Congratulations to the author! They basically "won" and did something that most people on HN can only dream of.

My 2 cents: I would devote the remainder of my life to solving problems that the current system is unoptimized for. Things that seem intractable like the housing crisis, homelessness, climate change, food insecurity. Like this guy who is trying to re-green a part of the Sonoran Desert after getting a windfall from helping the El Salvadoran government switch to Bitcoin [1].

I think ultimately the author is going to have to find a very difficult task/goal that will require similar if not greater effort compared to starting Loom.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6fl8dap5nk

"For added financial tragedy" really got me. Pretty interesting project, luckily if this whole software engineering thing doesn't work out thankfully you can fall back on your comedy career

Oh man, the API call for hl.human_as_tool() is a little ominous. Obviously approving a slack interaction is no big deal, but it does have a certain attitude towards humans that doesn't bode well for us...

The code I've written in personal projects have been pretty messy -- whereas code I've written professionally tend to be better (not perfect), but of course I can't share that code.

On the employer side, I would prefer the take home assignment over existing code, unless the existing code was super high quality or highly relevant to the company.

Awesome stuff, would love if there were a total tally at the bottom that indicated the before and after size and percent difference! E.g. before: 10MB, after: 2MB, change: -80%

It does exist! I built this for the monthly Who's Hiring threads: https://hnresumetojobs.com/

It just does cosine similarity with OpenAI embeddings + pgVector. It's not perfect by any means, but it's useful. It could probably stand to be improved with a re-ranker, but I just never got around to it.

Henceforth, it follows that a doublesnack is called a lunch. And a quadruplesnack a fourthmeal.

I don't really understand how or why Bad Apple is becoming the de-facto graphics rendering "hello world" but it's fun to see in real time. I came across this demo which uses Bad Apple for demonstrating high FPS hypermedia:

https://data-star.dev/examples/bad_apple

Relevant: https://xkcd.com/1172/

Love the author sharing their winding journey as well as the tools and things they learned along the way. You can tell the author did grow a lot through this process, and through the year. Great stuff, thanks for sharing these great tips :D

Good lord that's awful, I'm sorry for your loss.

I'm a macOS user but would be interested in getting a linux desktop, I've heard Linux Mint or PopOS are pretty good just from a ease of use perspective? I've used Ubuntu in the past and had all sorts of display graphics driver problems.

I know it's an impossible question, but nonetheless, what's the best distro to use for someone who just wants a useable desktop?

In Pragmatic Programmer, this is called the "tracer bullet" approach. Basically just another word for end-to-end, but with the emphasis that by completing a slice end-to-end you'll get feedback much faster (as in the feedback tracer bullets provide when shooting a target).

My friends at Aperture Science are displeased...

Hey Pedro! Congrats on the launch! Nitpicky feedback here, but I'd appreciate if you added the ability to scrub thru the video, and also increase playback speed. Usually I jump around a video to cut to the chase, and I don't have the time to wait around for a whole demo. Anyways, congrats and good luck!

I've always been curious about what Rails or Laravel would be like as a django dev. They both seem super fully featured and productive, but I guess I've never had a reason to explore either. Would love to know if anyone has experience or opinions on the strengths and weaknesses of each framework (and their respective languages).

Oi! Watch it! Our distance in embedding space is small. Then again, maybe I am a bore...

A few years back when I was looking for apartments in SF I wrote a craigslist scraper that would filter based on my preferences. I probably could've just used craigslist's built in filters + email alerts, but where's the fun in that?

As someone who knows little about battery technology I was interested and trusted the author. But once I read the part about blockchain PoW vs PoS it seemed so off base that it threw the entire article into doubt...

I was expecting a book about how to commit racketeering

Was going to comment the same thing. Would love to hear the author expand further on why not use Poetry. I've found it to be pretty solid and continue to use Poetry + Pyenv for all my projects, but open to hearing the case for PDM or Hatch.

React or not, I think you should maximize for your fun and enjoyment. I've seen many a personal portfolio and the ones that shine the most are the ones where you can tell the author really enjoyed working on it, either on the site itself, or when asked about it in an interview.

Do what excites you, and interviewers will pick up on that!

Checks out that they were in Phoenix/Scottsdale... When I visited last year it felt very much like LA 2.0. Lots of plastic surgery, people flaunting wealth, and generally materialistic and shallow culture. Not representative of the entire area of course, but I was surprised by how much of that there was.