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demircancelebi

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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/demircancelebi; my proof: https://keybase.io/demircancelebi/sigs/_eJoOFXp8QiuZFq20TlWQh7LZ3iyuZg5si4DIbeuUyo ]

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demircancelebi··on Firing programmers for AI will destroy everything
The post eerily sounds like it is written by the jailbreaked version of Gemini
demircancelebi··on I conditioned myself to fail
Just think that you have delivered the project and lose interest before building. <insert you can't if you don't meme>
demircancelebi··on For you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not im
3 possible explanations here: https://x.com/SirMrMeowmeow/status/1856758101279666571
demircancelebi··on For you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not im
Edit: Looks like normal text.

My initial thought is that someone may have deliberately triggered the model to respond this way through what looks like mundane messages but actually have different character encodings of some sort.

demircancelebi··on Faster CRDTs (2021)
would love to read the totally different approach
demircancelebi··on Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
T3 Stack (Next.js, Typescript, Tailwind, tRPC, Prisma) with Postgresql (Supabase is a good free choice), deployed on Vercel w/ Github Actions. These give you the ability to iterate rapidly and is the best choice in the market imho. https://create.t3.gg/
demircancelebi··on Ask HN: Which deep board and card games do you know/recommend?
I might suggest taking a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafl_games Very simple to learn but interesting anyway.

Disclaimer: I have a website where you can play it: https://litafl.com/

demircancelebi··on Launch HN: AirMyne (YC W22) – Capturing CO2 from air at industrial scale
As I know there are some standards like https://www.goldstandard.org/ and https://verra.org/ . They audit the projects that claim to remove CO2 from the atmosphere worldwide and issue CO2 credits. These credits then can be sold to companies that want to offset their emissions. Usually OTC deals, sometimes involving brokers as well. There's also https://www.cblmarkets.net/ , which is one of the big marketplaces where such deals are happening.

I've heard deals with prices in the range of $0.5 to $5 per tonne CO2 equivalent. There's also a decentralized protocol that aims to move these credits onchain (https://toucan.earth/), their BCT (Base Carbon Tonne) token price is currently around $3.1.

As stated in the post, last year ~$1B worth of credits are sold. One McKinsey report expects it to be around $50B at 2030.

There are much more details of course, but these are the basics as I know.

demircancelebi··on Kelly Criterion
Hey, I made a game recently for people to gain an intuition for Kelly: https://beatkelly.celebi.me/ Let me know what you think :)
demircancelebi··on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
I've built a website that allows people to play Viking Chess, (also called Tafl/Hnefatafl) with each other: https://litafl.com/
demircancelebi··on Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
There's a game called Hnefatafl, also known as Nordic chess. I've created a platform similar to lichess to play this game with others online: https://litafl.web.app/ There are still some rough edges but please check it out and let me know what you think. - P.S. Anonymous games / ratings do not work at the moment.
demircancelebi··on How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
I second this. I believe apps like Coda/Notion will make a big difference in how people work, think and interact with their computer and mind. Not everyone would invest the time and effort to build what is basically an extension of the mind with these tools, but the ones who do will have an edge in thinking/planning/coordinating/executing I believe.
demircancelebi··on Show HN: ExhibitDay
This looks like a problem that can be solved using Notion/Coda, I'm wondering if it really makes sense to build specialized software for such collaboration problems anymore.
demircancelebi··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2019)
Location: Istanbul, Turkey

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: git, JavaScript [Node.js, Vue, React, Angular], Python, Java, mongoDB, MySQL, Rabbitmq, Docker, AWS, Bash Unix Shell, HTML, CSS, Sass

Résumé/CV: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/demircan/CV.pdf

Email: demircancelebi@gmail.com

demircancelebi··on European MPs vote to end summer time clock changes
Turkey removed DST in 2017 after 47 years, and it did not cause much trouble.
demircancelebi··on Ask HN: Leaving a Job at Big Tech Giants for Startup
Validate demand and validate yourself.

Validate demand: You should understand whether you can launch a very crude version/maybe no product but customers lined up to pay you for your thing which'll become ready soon and get some validation from the market. If you can't do this, what makes you think that you can do it after you quit? Stay at your job if customers are not ready to throw money at you. If you can see solid demand, you should validate yourself.

Validate yourself: Do you think you are mentally prepared? Do you have enough savings? You probably have the skills to create a product, but do you have the skills to create a company? Will you enjoy working on this for the next 5-10 years?

On savings: Do the math for yourself, but in order to be able to work without financial stress, you should have enough money for = ((number of months you foresee your startup to take off) x 2.5[correction for you optimism] + 3-6 months[It'll become hard to work stress free and irrational to continue if you don't have something solid, so better go get a job now]) * (amount you think you'll need in a month * 1.3-1.5[you are also optimistic about your expenses])

demircancelebi··on Wondering about the link between intelligence and meaning
I've concluded that the question we are trying to answer is "What's the meaning of life?", but there is no reason for us to assume that that question is the ultimate question. Most probably, there are more important questions we are not yet aware of, and one can find meaning in the search of such questions.
demircancelebi··on The Psychological Trap of Freelancing
Right now, I'm thinking about applying to the largest companies of our industry in a few weeks, but can you please briefly share your experience on staffing agencies, because making $200k/year without an office sounds appealing.
demircancelebi··on The Psychological Trap of Freelancing
After freelancing for a few years, I decided that it was not making me happier, since:

- It is not possible to create significant wealth by freelancing

- I work on things I do not care. I want to think/spend time on important things

- Chasing down payments is stressful

- Finding new clients requires some effort

Therefore, I decided that it would be much healthier for me to get a job that pays well and not work as a freelancer.

demircancelebi··on Let’s talk about open-source sustainability
I was happily paying 7 USD/month up until last week for the private repos, and they apparently had 300M USD/year revenue when Microsoft bought them a few months ago. I am not aware of their costs, but since they are part of Microsoft now and trying to foster adoption, integrating money into the system should be considerable.
demircancelebi··on Let’s talk about open-source sustainability
Exactly my thoughts. Considering Github's recent numbers (300M USD/year revenue) and its recent acquisition by Microsoft, something like 30M USD/year would be enough to fund 250-1000 people a year full time. Maybe there might be an upper limit on how much you can make through the platform (like 10k USD/month), so instead of ending up with a few millionaires, a 10% revenue share would be enough to fund 250-1000 people full time, much more people half-time. With such a system in place, I think everyone would be better off, including Github - Microsoft.
demircancelebi··on Let’s talk about open-source sustainability
You are right about what Youtube is, but what I meant by Youtube instead of Patreon is this: With Patreon, you have to work for building an audience, but Youtube pays you based on your views. A Github that pays people based on the usage of their code might not be the easiest problem to solve, but what I'm suggesting in the end is the same thing with you. Only time might show what such incentives may turn the platform into, but considering the general audience of the site, I doubt it'd turn out like Youtube.
demircancelebi··on Let’s talk about open-source sustainability
I also think the biggest issue in OSS is incentives and see two ways of handling this issue:

1) Bounties: Some mechanism for people to easily pay $100 for fixing the bug, $1000 for implementing a feature, and so on. If Github takes care of the payment part, I think it can even be used in big companies and would definitely incentivize people. Sites like bountysource.com show that the model already works, it just has to be handled by Github so adoption would definitely be higher.

2) Second one is more ambitious: Although bounties are a nice way for people make money, it still cannot allow people to just focus on their OSS work, since it does not offer a revenue stream. Github should become what Youtube is to video creators. If Github were to share a percent of its revenue with OSS maintainers, that'd make a huge difference in the OSS space and in the world.

This recent tweet from the creator of ESLint captures the essence of the status-quo really well: https://twitter.com/slicknet/status/1086053326007881728

demircancelebi··on Show HN: Shots AI – Turn designs into code with one click
Congrats on the launch, really neat idea.

It looks like the product is not yet ready, and it is just a collection of HTML/CSS templates at the moment (as already stated in the FAQ). As I understand, there is no process which turn designs into code right now, and this statement from the upgrade page seems like an outright lie:

> Some features, such as the AI based trace-and-export, are pretty heavy on our servers and start getting expensive fast.

since How does shots work? section in the same page does not mention anything about uploading, and the Upload a shot page simply redirects to an Airtable form.

I love the idea of launching early, but is giving the false impression that the product is ready, and charging for a subscription on top of that really ethical? You may claim that you are actually charging for accessing your collection, but it does not appear that way from your homepage and links shared on PH and HN. Please do not mislead people.

demircancelebi··on Ask HN: How do you keep track of your creative thoughts?
I am using a mix of Airtable, Notes app and Markdown files. I like organizing my thoughts in a tabular fashion, and Airtable comes very handy, since I can see different thoughts at once and compare them. If some thought needs a long text to describe, these generally go to either Notes app or Markdown files.
demircancelebi··on Show HN: A new tab page that shows tech/news headlines
You may check out Panda, it allows you to add custom RSS feeds. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/panda-5-news-inspi...
demircancelebi··on Tetris
> 5.8 Standard Tetris "lines completed" T: 2

Some variations include T-spin and allow T-shapes to rotate in place and allow clearing 3 rows simultaneously, which in my humble opinion, make the game a bit more fun.

demircancelebi··on Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages
As long as there is demand, he'd most probably maintain the project but it's not a disaster if he decides not to.

If there won't be any demand for this tool in a few years this could mean 2 things: Either people think it's not worth it (in this case, you don't lose anything by not using it) or there are better/cheaper alternatives (and you can use them)

demircancelebi··on Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages
I tried the free version and immediately jumped to premium.

Very impressive work. Best software purchase in a long time.

demircancelebi··on Show HN: Stay with founders in San Francisco
Just returning from SF. I would definitely prefer this to Airbnb.
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