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rishabhparikh··on We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2
2 mins for a production deploy of an app with millions of users? Seems fine to me! How fast would you expect it to be?
rishabhparikh··on Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B
Tough outcome for many involved given peak valuation @ 12B
rishabhparikh··on The Parallel Search API
Typescript SDK link is broken: https://docs.parallel.ai/resources/typescript-sdk
rishabhparikh··on Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
Agreed that no one wants to watch shotput when the ball is launched out of a cannon, but people might be interested when the robots competing are anthropomorphs.

For example, robot boxing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdkwjs_g83w

rishabhparikh··on Building AI agents to query your databases
Not OP, but a naive guess is it would mean that you'd have your schema defined in an ORM (for example, Prisma). The advantage here is that the LLM gets context on both the schema and how the schema is used throughout the application.
rishabhparikh··on Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model
I'm guessing it would be far too expensive to make a free demo
rishabhparikh··on Apple iOS Background Tasks
It is possible, but not by default. Your app must request additional permissions for indefinite background execution. It's quite difficult to get your app approved with said permission.
rishabhparikh··on Google has sacked dozens over sexual harassment since 2016
I think it's a hasty jump to make assumptions about the biology of people based on their job description. Plenty of engineers I work with exercise regularly. I'm curious, do you have any links to research correlating sedentary jobs and testosterone levels?
rishabhparikh··on Google has sacked dozens over sexual harassment since 2016
> They tend to be more nerdy, introverted, and less masculine(lower testosterone, less aggressive).

Not a fan of you making this up based on perceived stereotypes and then using it to justify an argument. I do agree that these numbers are complicated and require analysis on data that we probably don't have access to.

rishabhparikh··on End Stock Buybacks, Save the Economy?
You don't exchange any stock when you're paid dividend. If you sold a bit of your holdings each year you would eventually have no equity left.
rishabhparikh··on Jupyter Receives the ACM Software System Award
Cannot imagine liking data science nearly as much as I do if Jupyter didn't make it so easy to quickly test new ideas. Well-deserved.
rishabhparikh··on Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition
Why did you think they might be stealing the bikes?
rishabhparikh··on Google's C++ Class
Wait, there are other ways to write C++ programs?
rishabhparikh··on Insomnia REST Client
+1 for SoapUI. Used it for ~3 months during an internship a while back and didn't have any complaints.
rishabhparikh··on How Jet Built a GPU-Powered Fulfillment Engine with F# and CUDA
It really depends on how many constraints and variables you're optimizing for. Because this problem is NP-hard, I'd bet you could make a more naive version that solves some easier ILP problems, but scaling it up probably requires quite a bit of optimization/good heuristics. Definitely seems like a good learning experience if you're interested in algorithms though!
rishabhparikh··on How Jet Built a GPU-Powered Fulfillment Engine with F# and CUDA
Yes, ILP is NP-hard[1]. I don't know how many constraints Jet's problems require, but I believe there are approximation algorithms that can do quite decently on most problems (perhaps even Simplex might do decently?). Would be interested to hear about this from someone with a strong algorithms background though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_programming

rishabhparikh··on Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Cold, Dead Hands
But... why would they waste time doing that when they COULD just do it in a visual format they're already familiar with? IMO writing excel formulas and having the constant visual feedback is pretty useful and I much prefer it to SQL even though I am very familiar with SQL and not so much with Excel.

No need to make an assertion about intelligence and learning programming languages in your comment here either. Everyone has their own workflow.

rishabhparikh··on Dynamic Progamming: First Principles
The memoization occurs in the fact that we are "remembering" the previous value (pre_sum). It's a little different in that we aren't memoizing/caching all previous values, but we are still caching the last computed values aka the "tail".
rishabhparikh··on Taking a cigarette break on the smoking internet
Agreed, very refreshing. Getting tired of the mental gymnastics that comes with writers scrambling for a point at the end of a piece.
rishabhparikh··on Taking a cigarette break on the smoking internet
Wonder if you might be saying the same thing when you're 65. Meaningfulness can come from places besides jobs, house plants, or Facebook I think. I could also be totally wrong, but I think it's worth attempting to find out.
rishabhparikh··on Technical Interview Performance by Editor, OS, and Language
Would also like to plug iPython Notebooks (Jupyter). Extremely useful for coding challenges/pair programming/ad-hoc testing!
rishabhparikh··on Slack Closes $250M Funding Round at $5B Valuation
I don't understand how people can continue to use it even though the notifications are extremely unreliable. Unacceptable for any chat-based app.
rishabhparikh··on Slack Closes $250M Funding Round at $5B Valuation
Hoping for the same. Stopped using Slack primarily because of their mobile (iOS) experience. Push notifications never seem to come on time and I hate that the notifications get pushed in reverse order when EVERY other app does the opposite.
rishabhparikh··on Lyft’s Radical Experiment in Charging for Free Parking
I had a great time on Tokyo public transport (excluding rush hour on the busiest lines, but even that was fun in a way).
rishabhparikh··on Software Companies Tech Competency Matrix
This is a great point. I'm just now realizing all the times I wasted time optimizing things for MVPs because of coder OCD
rishabhparikh··on Noiszy – A Chrome plugin that creates meaningless web tracking data
You win buzzword bingo
rishabhparikh··on Deep Photo Style Transfer
Yes but autotune is a style choice for artists. It's a not something every musician uses. It hasn't taken over music, and it's not like anyone can become a musician because autotune exists.
rishabhparikh··on It's Better To Animate a Film Alone, Even If It Takes Years
In my personal experience, my projects tend to atrophy the longer I keep them hidden. I think it's incredibly valuable to gain outside perspective on my personal software projects from people smarter than myself (and people with different world views).

Alternatively, projects like Minecraft seem to do really well with a single creator. I think it depends on the clarity the creator has about what they want to create.

rishabhparikh··on Has Li-battery genius John Goodenough done it again? Colleagues are skeptical
This is my problem with many HN comments. Picking some irrelevant point to nit-pick.
rishabhparikh··on Comcast uses MITM JavaScript injection to serve account related information
Citation?
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