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halamadrid··on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
> After years of skepticism, you'll reluctantly become an AI evangelist, but will still add 'I'm still skeptical about how far it can really go' to the end of every recommendation.

Oh man, I feel seen :)

halamadrid··on I built a website where you can pop confettis for no reason
Nice, just spent 2 mins popping.
halamadrid··on Introducing Operator
It requires the Pro subscription which I don't have. Does this mean websites like clay.com and copy.ai can be replaced with Operator? If something like that can be done then we are looking at an interesting future.
halamadrid··on Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance
My personal experience has been that very basic stuff like converting an object to another shape or creating a simple validation function or things like that has been super effective with AI. I've gotten so lazy that I try and prompt it to exactly what I want instead of even editing a bit.

But the moment it gets a little less basic, its a different story. I absolutely hate the experience. So I love it and I hate it at the same time. Is it going to replace me? I don't feel like its there yet. And this has been the case for a while now.

There is just too much money and people invested in this that its hard to say anything negative about it. Nearly every VC has rebranded their websites around an AI-driven future. And, to be fair, it’s not a fad—it genuinely works well for many things. But for now, I’m still skeptical about how far it can really go.

halamadrid··on GPT-4o with scheduled tasks (jawbone) is available in beta
This is interesting, although I am a little confused about the purpose of ChatGPT with this feature.

We already have many implementations where at a cron interval one could call the GPT APIs for stuff. And its nice to monitor it and see how things are working etc.

So I am curious whats the use case to embed a schedule inside the ChatGPT infrastructure. Seems like a little off its true purpose?

halamadrid··on Generative AI Is a Parasitic Cancer
Just watched this video and it has so many relatable points in it.

When AI removes the opportunity to connect with people or see other peoples work directly and instead read or consume just generated content seems like a scary sad future.

Just as an example reading an answer from someone in StackOverflow usually comes with the feelings and thoughts about the person who wrote it, why they wrote it, feeling thankful that this one person solved that problem that bothered you. But all of that is going away. I can't upvote their answer, I can't even appreciate them, I won't ever know who supplied that context to AI.

Now you could argue that, with AI, you will never need anyone to tell you anything, because you may never even do anything that needs an answer from someone. I hope that day never comes.

halamadrid··on Ask HN: How to learn marketing and sales as a solo entrepreneur?
I think he meant any or all of - generous, helpful, willing to do something for nothing in return
halamadrid··on 4.5M Suspected Fake Stars in GitHub
Another interesting way - and I personally think its fraudulent. This is how it goes - run hackathons or sponsor events in Universities. There are a ton of colleges who are constantly seeking support to run events.

Some companies take advantage of this by asking for stars in return of sponsorship. I have seen proposals that say for a $2000 sponsorship - 2000 stars guaranteed. The way it works is if a participant registers in the event they also have to show proof that they starred a specific repo that belongs to the company.

halamadrid··on Netflix has open-sourced its Maestro Workflow Orchestrator
https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=41040680&goto=item%3Fi...
halamadrid··on Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator
Yes Netflix abandoned Conductor long time ago [0]. The other repo is built and managed by Orkes after Netflix abandoned it.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/13/orkes-forks-conductor-as-n...

halamadrid··on Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator
Very nice, Netflix has a reputation of making great OSS products. I wonder where does this stand with Conductor.
halamadrid··on The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input
It should be far less than 20%.

I guess it could also be associated with views per time period to optimize better. If the video is interesting, people will share and more views will happen quickly.

halamadrid··on Robinhood launches crypto trading in the European Union
I know its hard to believe, but the entire customer base (23.3M) of Robinhood is a testament to how good their product is in spite of the misgivings of the brokerage during the "GME". If it makes it feel better, their MAU is down 16% year-over-year to 10.3 million.

I am also a user and I love it - and while I don't trade crypto, but they offer the lowest commission in crypto. And my uninvested cash gets a decent interest (5%), and my trades execute reasonably well. It maybe not for a professional trader, but my own experience has been fantastic for what it offers.

Also incredibly thankful that there is no trading fees across many of the brokers now, which I believe was forced by Robinhood. I know of the PFOF controversy, and regardless I hold this view.

I also know I can't change your view, but hope you have a great weekend ahead!

halamadrid··on Robinhood launches crypto trading in the European Union
You do know that besides Robinhood many of the other brokers also halted trading the same tickers? Robinhood was the face of the issue for sure, but a lot of others did the exact same thing.
halamadrid··on JPMorgan Chase and Co tracks employees to dystopian extents
I can assure you this article is 98% made up stuff. Source: MD at JPMC. WADU exists, but it does nothing even close to what is being made up in this post on reddit. Just because some terms can be cross referenced doesn't mean the entire thing is true. IMO they don't even have the skills to do this even if they wanted to.

It almost feels like how Councilman Jamm in the TV show Parks and Recreation convinces the crowd of what he wants with some random arbitrary references to real things while mixing it up so much lies.

halamadrid··on Binance Says Deposits of USDC (Sol)+USDT (Sol) Have Been Temporarily Suspended
This is probably pure speculation.

But I've heard from the VC circle that SBF is raising up to USD 10B by threatening to bring down the crypto industry if he fails. Basically he knows its a house of cards and it can come down if he publishes the information he has.

This is also why, he keeps saying, he will talk about this but "later". It will be an interesting time to watch this evolve.

USDT (Tether) going down is probably the best news ever. Everyone knows they don't have the deposits to back the circulating tether but yet they survive.

halamadrid··on Uber broke laws, duped police and built lobbying operation, leak reveals
I can’t imagine a world without Uber. Every city I go to, this or similar apps simply makes my commute easier and better.
halamadrid··on Payment startup Bolt sued by its most prominent customer
I'm sure the VCs who funded Bolt recently did their due diligence and this could have easily been brought up during that time? If ABG is their prominent customer I bet the VCs spoke to them.

At this time it seems like ABG is upset that they can't get the 5% stake and trying to damage the company as much as possible.

halamadrid··on My take on Elon's offer for Twitter
A couple of things that I have observed:

1. A lot of the Indians and Chinese are on visas means no right to vote (ex: Twitter CEO) 2. Those that can vote - cares more about paying less taxes than anything else which usually means voting Republican, except if the candidate is a far right fanatic

halamadrid··on Orkes, founded by the creators of Netflix Conductor, comes out of stealth
Looks like they are funded by Battery Ventures and Vertex.
halamadrid··on Quitting Dgraph Labs
I think AWS already has a graph DB product. https://aws.amazon.com/neptune/
halamadrid··on Ask HN: Looking to learn about virtual goods from game developers
Hello, we are a group of engineers who are interested in learning about the ways in which game developers get the right virtual goods for their games, and how they integrate those. We are doing this to see if there are interesting problems that can be solved! We would love to hear your thoughts on this.

Here are some of the questions we were looking to get some ideas about:

1. If you are a developer who sells virtual goods through your game, would you be able to share what type of virtual goods do you sell / plan to sell in your game?

2. How do you price these goods? What kind of price range do you use?

3. How are you getting / planning to get virtual goods assets to be sold through your game? Do you source materials externally or do you have in-house designers?

4. Are you interested in having access to virtual goods assets that are easy to be programmatically integrated into your game and sold to your players?

5. Please share top pain points you have (or anticipate having) when looking to monetize your game using virtual goods?

We really appreciate the time you'd spend on answering these. It will really help us out. In case it makes it faster/easier, we also created a survey form and linked that to this post.

Thanks!

halamadrid··on 2009 flu pandemic in the United States
I felt there are a lot of people who is looking at the data from China and thinking it will stop at around a 100k total infections in the US. There are so many articles that says life is going back to normal. Even Apple opened all their stores.

No one is disputing the higher death rates but somehow has this feeling that this won't be as bad as other flu incidents?

I felt this was a good reminder that what many fear is going to be true. That 60-70% of population is likely going to be infected. Because that is what happened in the past. It's not going to go away in a few weeks.

halamadrid··on 2009 flu pandemic in the United States
This is what I felt when someone pointed me to the article. I noticed people were still going to birthday parties and other social events when they really should be practicing social distancing.

Even a milder flu like in 2009 could reach 59 million and COVID-19 can be exponentially worse. That is really the only take away. We need to discuss this in the open to bring that truth to light. I agree with some of the folks here who said many could see it another way and take light view of the situation. What exactly can make them see it differently though?

halamadrid··on 2009 flu pandemic in the United States
I just felt that we went through something similar in the past and was hopeful that we should be in a better place to handle this new incident? If not where you think we failed and what could we be doing for the next time?
halamadrid··on Uber and Lyft don't have a right to exist
If you sign the petition be wary of this:

I agree that Uber or its representatives may contact me by email, phone, or SMS at the email address or number I provide, including for marketing purposes.

halamadrid··on Neighbourly by Google
Is that competitor for Nextdoor? It would be interesting to see Nextdoor's reaction to this launch.
halamadrid··on What I wish I knew before becoming a code-free programmer
Can’t open the page either. I guess that happens to code free programming
halamadrid··on Blocklist Facebook domains
Wow the hate/dislike is very real.
halamadrid··on Google bans cryptocurrency ads
Finally, some sense of responsibility kicks in.

Another platform is LinkedIn, where I have been getting a ton of invites from "Blockchain Experts", "ICO Experts" whom I have never heard of. Some of my connections are connected to them but I think that's more of a blind "Accept".

If you connect, I've noticed they immediately start promoting coins or ICO. Massive scam going on here. Hope LinkedIn bans these fake promotions too.

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