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saadshamim··on Show HN: A web browser agent in your Chrome side panel
ah yea 2.0 flash is working. 2.5 doesn't and OpenAi 4.0 and mini models dont work either. The error message should probably say to try other models because i was pretty confused
saadshamim··on Show HN: A web browser agent in your Chrome side panel
I keep getting the "Error: Failed to stream response from [Gemini | OpenAi] API. Please try again." - tried valid new keys from both google/openai
saadshamim··on Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies
out of technical curiosity, how do you render the video? is the whole thing like a canvas element?
saadshamim··on Denmarks shuts down all schools, daycare facilities, universities, highschools
They still carry it. And can in turn infect their parents
saadshamim··on Hasura raises $9.9M to simplify GraphQL
Hasura has this feature, but unfortunately it seems like its part of their "pro/enterprise" offering and not the OS version. https://hasura.io/hasura-pro
saadshamim··on Hasura raises $9.9M to simplify GraphQL
@elithan this looks awesome man. The one thing keeping me in the firebase ecosystem is the firestore rules (basically quick CRUD permissions). Does nhost provide something similar?
saadshamim··on StorePreviewer – See what your app will look like on the App Store
Isn't this against facebooks ad policy? If i drive traffic to a look alike app store that doesn't do anything.
saadshamim··on How to Kill a Startup Idea with Google Keyword Planner and AdWords: A Case Study
@treblig any advice on usually how much percent increase you see once you move up funnel with fb advertising (optimize)? I'm guessing the cpc you got are based on bottom funnel and highly targeted hence the high cpc. I find really difficult to estimate costs with fb, because it takes me a fairly long time (1-month+) to build the content and ad strategy to lower costs. But I'm wondering at what point do you know if its a bad business idea vs bad ad strategy?
saadshamim··on Launch HN: Convictional (YC W19) – Supplier Network for Retailers
I love this idea, it's kind of like an affiliate network for physical goods. The delivery time is probably the only thing the scares me.
saadshamim··on Hydra: A framework that simplifies development of complex applications
I initially thought this was post for https://github.com/ory/hydra
saadshamim··on The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving
a lot of that is water weight, I almost always have to average a weeks worth of weight to get a stable reading on the weight changes. I also, gain like +2lbs if I eat a salty meal the night before.
saadshamim··on How a shampoo bottle is saving young lives
This reminds me of the $0.68 microscope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf-D1Upn-KU. I love how a slight change in perspective can result in such drastic applications of the same idea.
saadshamim··on “My challenge for 2015 is to read a new book every other week”
So this was from the book "make it stick", recalling memory strengthens the network, which is why quizzing yourself or doing the simple sample problems at the end of the chapters are more effective then highlighting/rereading notes. The gap is mostly because you want what you've learned to settle into long-term memory where you can find it. Think of it as being a rat in a maze, you are on one side and the memory somewhere on the other, you want to work towards strengthening the path towards the memory, so it's easier to recall the next time around.
saadshamim··on “My challenge for 2015 is to read a new book every other week”
I've been trying to do this for a few years, this was the first year I hit about 24-30 books/audiobooks. I know pg wrote about remembering books a few weeks ago but I recently developed a strategy, thanks to "Make it Stick", to help me remember content far better then just reading.

1. read the chapter's summary before reading the chapter - I generally use https://www.blinkist.com/, but amazon reviews and goodreads are good alternatives. This allows you to know what the key elements of the chapters are so you can pay closer attention to the important stuff.

2. read the chapter

3. when you get the time write a short summary (usually a paragraph). You generally want some degrading to occur so don't write it right away.

saadshamim··on Meteor Acquires YC Alum FathomDB for Its Development Platform
It says in the article "the team isn’t so much excited about Fathom’s NoSQL and MySQL capabilities, but about its ability to watch how data changes and then push those changes out to users." At the moment meteor polls the db every 10 sec to see the changes which isn't very efficient or does oplog tailing if your mongodb has replica sets enabled, which can be much better for scaling (though more expensive/or more work). However, oplog doesn't really work for other dbs, i.e mysql,so I'm guessing FathomDB has been working on a better implementation then simply polling over the last couple of years. My guess is that they will try to abstract out the db layer, which is really tightly baked into meteor, so more dbs can be supported, though I think that will prob take quite a bit of time since its not in v1 release plan and they will most likely need to change how their packaging system works and some of their core system.
saadshamim··on PS4 costs $381 to build in teardown – only $18 less than retail price
I don't think Microsoft is making much money either, the extra cost of xbox one is kinect.
saadshamim··on Geode from iCache (2012)
their card looks better (chip access), but the whole case thing doesn't make sense, It looks massive in the picture. My initial reaction with coin was that its counter intuitive, NFC or just mobile (square/paypal) are clearly the future. However, the coin card seems like a brilliant move now, they're entering the market through the path where everyone is familiar with the form factor and the technology isn't overwhelming.
saadshamim··on Alexis Ohanian on Colbert Report [video]
Canadian mirror: http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/Shows/TheColbertReport?videoP... - forward to part 3
saadshamim··on The Wallaby Card
The main problem with cards, isn't necessarily the number, rather the speed. Nfc is the fastest implementation so far and both my credit and debit card have it, and I will gladly carry around an extra few millimetres in my pocket to speed up the transaction process.
saadshamim··on The Wallaby Card
coin takes in debt and gift cards - which is more convenient for me, wallaby seems to be only for credit - I only have one credit card, I didn't even know you got rewards for using them.
saadshamim··on Coin
Actually we have nfc in a lot of stores now, majority of the time I use that, using coin would actually take more time.
saadshamim··on Teenagers say goodbye to Facebook and hello to messenger apps
facebook has become, dare I say "ubiquitous", it's still the best way to keep in touch with friends regardless of how often you use them, I use my fb maybe once a week, but that one session allows me to catch up with what my friends have been up to. I think messenger apps, including fb messenger, are great when you're young and your social life is limited to only your clique, but I don't see them replacing fb or even becoming a massive threat to fb
saadshamim··on Unlock your Mac without typing a thing
It has its uses, I usually leave my laptop unlocked when I'm amongst trusted friends, a layer of protection that's this quick is a great idea in my mind. I think it matters on the use case, if you're on a computer where security is paramount, don't use it, but is a convenient feature to have for a lot of other situations.
saadshamim··on Steady yourself, those world-changing thoughts are not productive
Glad to see I'm not alone in my "self defeating" thoughts
saadshamim··on Free university lectures on computer science
need os lectures :P
saadshamim··on Generating Worlds in a Minecraft-like Game
This may sound dorky but the random generated map was exciting me the most while playing minecraft :P Couldn't figure out how to do it.