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bosch_mind··on Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman
For us Windows XP users, I found an old video of what I used similar to this. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qMpLIcSbPFY

Flame throws, ants eating the screen, etc. Good times. Simpler times...

bosch_mind··on US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February
I grew up in the US and lived there for 30 years, but now I live in Europe. Every single one of my friends in their 30's finds visiting the US absolutely terrifying (even those who have previously been). I have yet to meet a single friend in today's day that has expressed any interest in visiting.
bosch_mind··on Show HN: Was pissed about Google Docs, So I made an Text Editor myself
What engine are you using under the hood? Been playing around with Lexical myself and have been making a similar thing just for personal use.
bosch_mind··on Ask HN: Which tool for chatting multiple LLMs?
Thanks for replying. I actually was looking for this answer but couldn’t remember the name!
bosch_mind··on Light Phone III camera sample photos
As someone with a light phone 2 who hates cellphones, I love this company. The light phone is a breath of fresh air.

For 90% of people it seems like it would be unusable so I’m glad they are still going hard to expand their market.

My biggest gripe is that companies in the USA like Verizon have really fucked me swapping to the phone. I recommend you FIRST get a SIM card and then and only then attempt to swap phones.

Major issues trying to swap when using eSIM

bosch_mind··on We are teen hackers from around the world who code together
Not that there’s anything wrong this this, but I tend to see them focused around 3D printer stuff and rarely much software. I’d love to see more software hangouts
bosch_mind··on Show HN: Oodle – serverless, fully-managed, drop-in replacement for Prometheus
Is this comment legit? New account, no activity…
bosch_mind··on Ask HN: Recommended Way to Setup Colocated Kubernetes?
K3s I’ve self hosted out of my house on 3 servers, can’t speak to a large scale operation though.
bosch_mind··on Show HN: Hosting my website using my C web server
For fun, sure. Small mistake can be big security nightmare
bosch_mind··on Ask HN: What's an interesting software development niche?
To do what? Also how did you get started in that?
bosch_mind··on Ask HN: What's an interesting software development niche?
What can you make with that?
bosch_mind··on Ask HN: Is it possible to work and play at the same time?
The trick is balance and if you don’t practice it, you won’t achieve it.

I tried to make my work the same as play and it burnt me out. I’ve tried to recover with play and lost interest in work.

The trick is to build a routine where the expectation is that you work whatever is required, but not overwork (time and energy are finite), but you prioritize play just as importantly. Play (exercise, social, travel and experiencing life) fuel work. It’s a circular dependency that is key to a happy life. How much of each you do, for how long and what exactly falls into each bucket is what each person on this planet needs to figure out for themselves.

I’ve read the books and tried the apps, but at the end of the day none of that stuff really unlocks anything. For me, baseline is to eat healthy and sleep a lot. From there, things unlock

bosch_mind··on Show HN: Papers from Today
Neat and simple. How does it work?

Seems similar to: https://frontpages.freedomforum.org/

https://www.frontpages.com/the-wall-street-journal/

bosch_mind··on Show HN: DNS.Surf – Querying DNS Resolution Results in Different Regions
This is neat. You should post example usage in the README to attract people’s interest
bosch_mind··on Ask HN: Best way to optimize career for money in IT?
Not a right or wrong answer here either. Have had 215k+ tech jobs since I was 24 and now 30 making 300k.

I’ve learned it’s now so much the amount you get, but the company culture.

To answer question to OP more directly. Save and invest intelligently and don’t spend what you can’t afford. Been fairly frugal and sitting over 1 mil. My dad had a boring desk job and just retired with same philosophy and currently sitting at 10 mil networth.

He drove a truck for 20 years that he sold for 500 bucks and a crappy car he drove for another 15 years that he sold for 1k.

Not saying you need to enter the extreme to have happiness, but financial growth is like a snowball. Slow and steady

bosch_mind··on Ask HN: Why Is Stack Overflow Fading Away?
Content moderation. Stack overflow will turn into that of Yahoo Answers.

It was great, just like how Yahoo Answers was great. It’s now no longer needed as much.

bosch_mind··on Our renewal bill for Datadog came to –$83,000/year before we canceled
I guess it’s a cost benefit analysis. If the UI of X is worth $50k, that’s something some companies can say ok to.

Moreso speaking for the companies that feel hopeless when the UIs of these open source tools might probably be ok

bosch_mind··on Our renewal bill for Datadog came to –$83,000/year before we canceled
Why not self host grafana and Loki? It’s not hard and the cost for redundancy and backups running on tons of nodes with fast internet isn’t anything new. Much cheaper
bosch_mind··on Ask HN: What if civilization's growth rate exceeds it's natural evolution?
You should read Hans Rosling who wrote a lot about this topic
bosch_mind··on Ask HN: What is a simple CMS for personal blog / static website
The simplest thing is HTML template inside of an R2 bucket which is both free, has cache support via Cloudflare CDN and fast.
bosch_mind··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
Im curious how Tile addresses this concern for the safety of individuals themselves in the opposite direction. I know people who have been stalked and assaulted before. Does tile have protections against this for people hiding tiles in your vehicle or bag?
bosch_mind··on Speeding Up Your Website Using Cloudflare Cache
Fastly is trash and nowhere near as good as CF.
bosch_mind··on Sam Altman is becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. Be afraid
You’re only thinking of charGPT, not finely tuned conversation models
bosch_mind··on Ask HN: Returning to tech after 4 years?
The same things. Ops, quality code, people skills, debugging, networking, multiple languages for multiple use cases based on whatever your company does, a little ML understanding and distributed systems.

The field moves fast, but fundamentals are forever

bosch_mind··on Show HN: I made a tool to receive alerts when answers change
I disagree lol. Who cares what he uses on the backend whether it’s llamaindex, langchain, etc. Do you discount a news outlet for using Postgres and Ruby because it’s not a novel stack? He’s selling a product with a clear intention.
bosch_mind··on Ask HN: LLM agents for structured data from databases?
I’ve been experimenting with this on the side for fun.

Langchain is not my favorite, so I just wrote my own abstractions.

I hosted a neo4j graph database and extracted entities from the input data. You can do this with spaCy or LLM. I then generated nodes and edges between these entities, the chunked text and the embeddings for semantic search.

This combines the power of search with higher relevance due to crawling the graph with more intention

bosch_mind··on Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery
First author publications. She’s an Ivy grad. Obviously I am biased, but she isn’t really slacking mate.
bosch_mind··on Physicist, 98, honoured with doctorate 75 years after groundbreaking discovery
My wife got a PhD by age 28 with over 20 science publications, didn’t stress at all during the time really.

She traveled the world during that time and we live a pretty chill life. Met lots of friends during that time too. Don’t purely listen to anecdotes.

bosch_mind··on Overcoming the limits of current LLMs
I mean, comon man, _most_ tech people work on in general is also useless. FAANG has a retainer on talent whether they are spending their time wisely or not.

LLM stuff is not in a different echelon

bosch_mind··on Overcoming the limits of current LLMs
AI noob, but instead of training and fine tuning the LLM itself, don’t more specific and targeted embeddings paired with the model help alleviate the hallucination where you incorporate semantic search context with the question?
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