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prakhar897

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prakhar897··on Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5
Can anyone explain how context length is tested? Do they prompt something like:

"Remember val="XXXX" .........10M tokens later....... Print val"

prakhar897··on Show HN: CPU Prices on eBay
U saw diskprices.com and copied that, didn’t u ;)
prakhar897··on The fastest-growing countries for software development, according to GitHub
My first commits were done by my friend to get free T-shirt from Hacktoberfest. So, filtering out accounts with less than 3 stars might be a decent criteria.
prakhar897··on Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software (2019)
Tangential: What tooling do you use to develop Extensions. I used React and couldn't find something any testing libraries which works on background and content scripts.
prakhar897··on Full $71M breakdown for The Village by M. Night Shyamalan (2003) [pdf]
Payments to producers of the film looks like this:

MNight - 7.2M$ + 0.3M$ + 3M$

Sam Mercer - 850k$

Scott Rudin - 3M$

Aren't producers the one investing in the movie. Why are they getting paid then, How does this work?

Edit: Other expenses like travel etc are also covered by the company which adds another 1M$ approx [ex: 41.23]

prakhar897··on 23andMe's Fall
It could've been liquidated and reinvested into a continuation fund.
prakhar897··on USCIS announces strengthened integrity measures for H-1B program
Related: https://software.rajivprab.com/2022/05/10/18-years-a-transie...
prakhar897··on I hacked a BIG prize web game hosted by a popular supermarket chain
https://xkcd.com/538/
prakhar897··on Ask HN: How to get into quantitative trading?
Noobie Question: Does this actually work? I thought alpha was very little and always fleeting so only big hedge funds generate profit from it.
prakhar897··on Diskprices.com makes $5k/month with affiliate marketing
Can anyone specify how the author approached this with respect to SEO. Paying for backlinks is tough, and writing your own articles seems tedious. Any hidden tactics in use perhaps?
prakhar897··on Why do big companies ask unrealistic software engineering interview questions?
"Create an account to read the full story."

No Thanks.

prakhar897··on Scrum Sucks
You forgot adding lengthy descriptions and constant updates to each ticket. The person who pushes the most tickets and with most words per ticket gets promoted. You're better off spending time optimizing JIRA than doing actual work.
prakhar897··on I quit my job to work full time on my open source project
Does fig.io have this feature?
prakhar897··on Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones
The tool is great!!

Unfortunately, almost none in general public will lay eyes upon this.

https://www.google.com/search?q=time+zone+calculator&oq=time...

You can either fill your site with SEO keywords and pay/work for backlinks. OR die out in the vast ocean of other sites. True tragedy of commons.

prakhar897··on Making the web fun again (2013)
Can someone recommend some cool neocities sites?
prakhar897··on Launch HN: Rosebud (YC S19) – Turn game descriptions into browser games
"Dreamverse" would be the real competitor for Rosebud since it's already way more versatile compared to Minecraft, Roblox etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE996r92obE

Here's some dream games made by kids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rezzjJ4NtK0

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I've also built a simpler version of this near Christmas holidays. It's very fun to code this kind of stuff.

Here's the demo: https://resurrect.ing/

Difference being mine is to build small tools instead of games.

prakhar897··on Making small games, which is fun in itself
I've learnt that Game Designing and Game Development are two very different things. You need a creative mind to know what mechanics will be tight and grab the audience. Development on the other hand requires ruthless execution.

hence imo in the beginning, it's best to recreate existing games with atmost a small twist. This makes sure i'm learning one craft adeptly before moving to the next.

Here's a freeboard of a game I worked on recently: https://li-quoridor.vercel.app/ [Still a work in progress]

prakhar897··on The fresh start effect
> The study describes how people take on difficult things after "temporal landmarks" like the start of a new year, a new month, or even a new week. Despite the replication crisis in social science and behavioural economics, this was an effect that we immediately verified in our own user data at Lifesum.

Can't you send your data to further prove that this effect exists? PR for you, win for science.

prakhar897··on I'm skeptical of low-code
Like this? : https://www.resurrect.ing/

LLM Gen code is far from perfect.

prakhar897··on I'm skeptical of low-code
Can you share your product? I want to see how an enterprise level bubble app looks like.
prakhar897··on The worst kind of programmer
Isn't this highly dependent on management too? Person 2 would get fired in a startup because he/she didn't create features fast enough.
prakhar897··on Mozilla 2023 annual report: CEO pay skyrockets, Firefox market share nosedives
discussed a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37015592

Moz seems like a controlled opposition at this point.

prakhar897··on Steve Jobs emails Eric Schmidt (2007)
What's stopping this from happening at current batch of companies. All of them are laying off together (and rehiring at lower rates) while delivering record profits.
prakhar897··on Is Tetr.io Legal?
The home page and the game both look incredible visually. Is this using a library or manually coded?
prakhar897··on The Hyperloop was always a scam
There's already one in a university, Tom scott covered it in his video recently.
prakhar897··on Show HN: I built an open source AI video search engine to learn more about AI
Pretty Cool! Why doesn't Youtube, Insta etc provide a service like this?

And how are you getting funds for expenses like whisper etc?

prakhar897··on Ask HN: What is your most wanted HN feature?
More than one server please.
prakhar897··on Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling
The problem isn't free site, it's extensibility. Chess/chess.com has 100s of variants, ability to study games, and lots of other chess specific features.

Bga has fixed set of features for all its games. And their focus is divided.

This game atleast deserves its own home.

prakhar897··on Hasbro laying off Wizards of the Coast staff is baffling
thinly related but i could really use some advice.

There's a board game called "quoridor" that I've been playing a lot lately. I found 2 platforms where u can play this online, major one being BGA (boardgamearena). It was kinda sad to see a game on par with chess in terms of simplicity and strategy, being lumped into the same group as kids games.

So, I started building a platform for it myself in my free time. Still a work in progress (https://li-quoridor.vercel.app/).

The issue is that I have no clue if the game mechanics are copyrighted or not. The wiki says "By 1997, the five biggest game companies in the world (including Gigamic) American bought the copyright [clarify] of this game and released it to the world". But wiki itself acknowleges that this is a statement has no source. So, how do i go about making sure i have the right permissions to build this stuff, and will they even give these permission or not?

prakhar897··on OpenCola
selling kits of ingredients with recipe could be a really viable business.
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