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yayadarsh

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yayadarsh··on HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
absolute masterclass in shooting yourself in the foot over the past month or two.
yayadarsh··on Microsoft VibeVoice: Open-Source Frontier Voice AI
Someone tell me if this is better or worse than Parakeet
yayadarsh··on Git commands I run before reading any code
git commands I run before reading any code:

git rm -rf .

yayadarsh··on Personal Encyclopedias
I just completed an 18 month travel sabbatical with my wife - would this be useful to catalog and cluster all of our photos based on geolocation and prompt us to collect memories?
yayadarsh··on Vibe Coding Through the Berghain Challenge
this blog post sounds like an LLM - and of course it was written by one (as admitted in the end).
yayadarsh··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
More and more people are more cognizant of their alcohol consumption, and like calories - it can be hard to eyeball them compared to the "standard unit" (14g alcohol).

I build an iOS app (https://quenchai.app) that uses a carefully constructed Multimodal LLM workflow to convert photos to standard drinks and track consumption over time.

Did you know a standard margarita is ~2.5 standard drinks and a light beer is ~0.8?

yayadarsh··on All the Buns Are Blank
This is an absolutely ridiculous claim, it's very clear that you have never met anyone with an allergy (or cared to ask someone about their experience if you have)
yayadarsh··on Is Seattle a 15-minute city? It depends on where you want to walk
I assume they are talking about the other QFC on Broadway (north of the Pike St one)
yayadarsh··on Visualizing Toxic Air
Wow yeah, you nailed it! Government debt is directly related to programs like this, and this was probably the lion's share of the expenditure!
yayadarsh··on 31.2˝ Color EPaper Display
Consumption decisions made by individuals will never solve this problem, as it is more of a problem with labor/industrial regulation and corporate governance.
yayadarsh··on Personal income in the US shot up a record 10.5% in April
This is borderline antagonistic. Do you think that the majority of lower-income people who do not have large savings are in this situation due to disproportionately high discretionary spending?
yayadarsh··on Image Scrubber: tool for anonymizing photographs taken at protests
Antifa is an umbrella term. From Wikipedia:

> Antifa is not an interconnected or unified organization, but rather a movement without a hierarchical leadership structure, comprising multiple autonomous groups and individuals

yayadarsh··on Giving Up TV for a Month Changed My Brain
No live streaming. I wonder if this is purposefully specific.
yayadarsh··on Vendors must start adding physical on/off switches to devices that can spy on us
This is absolutely untrue. "Organic" is a regulated term by the USDA, requiring verification from an accredited certifying agency.
yayadarsh··on Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard
Thanks for this. Just opened a support case to delete my account.
yayadarsh··on Ask HN: Am I just a wantrepreneur?
Link for the lazy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id1WShzzMCQ
yayadarsh··on Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google’s Official Story on China
This is a misconception. They are not "like the rest of us", in that they are a publicly traded corporation with a legal obligation to chase shareholder value above all else. "We" are private individual citizens.
yayadarsh··on Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads
Love the ReviewMeta (website or chrome extension) for exactly this. It gives a computed "true score" based on some of the dimensions you mention above. (I am not in any way affiliated with this product)

https://reviewmeta.com/

yayadarsh··on Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day
Not certain on this, but I think Azure is known to have more compliance certifications. This is probably largely due to the long relationships Microsoft has with government organizations etc.
yayadarsh··on Jeff Bezos Becomes the Richest Man in Modern History, Topping $150B
Honest question: what stores have this quality? I find that other than local or high-end/"boutique" stores (with much higher prices), I do not have the same experience.
yayadarsh··on Instagram Is Estimated to Be Worth More Than $100B
This is a strange comment, to me.

What should they have done? Reached out to the family of the anonymous follower? What does the "popular Instagram influencer" owe to someone who enjoys his/her photos?

yayadarsh··on People using Venmo to spy on cheating spouses
SNS is meant to mean SN's, or "screennames". This (now-outdated) term refers to messenger accounts (AIM/ICQ) in the pre-Facebook world.
yayadarsh··on Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kingpins
Yes, and this is commonly documented and reported behavior from many first-person accounts of inner-city drug dealers.
yayadarsh··on Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kingpins
It seems like you are implying that because they might be obfuscating a hypothetical "source" that the findings are invalidated. What would you have the author do, instead?
yayadarsh··on Why Being a Foster Child Made Me a Conservative
100% agree. This type of dualistic thinking is one of the reasons common political discourse in the US is so unproductive. There are (almost) no simple black/white answers to anything, and the devil is usually in the (grey) details.
yayadarsh··on The Key to Everything
Episode #86 for those interested

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31P7Ty9QIFI

Audio: https://samharris.org/podcasts/from-cells-to-cities/

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/waking-up-with-sam-harri...

yayadarsh··on Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician
Serious question: where do you draw the line? At what point does life stop being a personal experience between life and death and start becoming a min-maxing of maximal utility on the planet?

While I totally understand your point, I think that the associated value judgment (you are weak if you value your own happiness over that of others) is misguided. Is strength to be solely associated with selfless altruism? What is the end-game of this ethic?

yayadarsh··on Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician
Here's what I don't understand. You are trying to convince someone that they are being "callously indifferent to the suffering of others" by telling them that "their utility is correlated with the utility of a poor person". Sounds like you both seem to have comparable goals, just that you believe that your "way" of accomplishing the goal is superior (i.e. help others to help yourself, rather than just helping yourself)
yayadarsh··on Teens Aren’t Partying Anymore
I'm sorry for the situation you describe. For what it's worth, the downvotes (I did not downvote you) are due to HN's insistence on comments that are productive/on topic.
yayadarsh··on Teens Aren’t Partying Anymore
This is a common misconception. Advertising does not need to be hidden to "work". Advertising is not just facebook ads (which you admit to clicking, although not as regularly as your dad), but also involves creating positive sentiment for a brand or product over time through techniques like mere exposure.

I Wwnt to preface that I do understand where you are coming from, and spent many years agreeing with the sentiment that you pose, but over time came to realize that I was mistaken and had an oversimplified view of what makes the advertising industry tick.

In the interest of discussion: do you think that most people are too lazy/ignorant to ignore ads like you and your friends do?

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