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Really cool - keep at it.

Could you give an example of these datasets?

1. GPT4 "500 tough professions w/ hardship involved" 2. Multiply that with "500 shifts in or regulations> since 2000" 3. Get inspired to come up with - grumpy fisherman mad about m…

Often 40+ yr old people complain about problems that you can solve e.g. vet technicians don't like veterinary software - you can fix that somehow.

Some starting points: - Find old datasets (hn.algolia.com "datasets", use huggingface, search arxiv) - Use weird search engines, e.g. exa.ai (searches based on embeddings vs. googl…

Why are they benchmarking it with 20+10 steps vs. 50 steps for the other models?

Sharing another weekend project here - every "Launch HN" post ever made, coloured according to how many points they received. Code: https://github.com/JoshElgar/HNLaunches Data: ht…

I've open-sourced it here: https://github.com/JoshElgar/foodpixel The tech stack was NextJS, Tailwind + Vercel.

Hey, just sharing a weekend project I worked on. The USDA has a lot more than ~300,000 foods, but this is a cleaner dataset without duplicates. AMA - happy to share how I made it &…

Hey, had a similar idea, would be great to chat - can reach me at my username on google’s mail.

Inspired by Neal's "Infinite Craft" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205020 ), I made a food-based version. You can use the sidebar to create a new food and click or drag t…

1. An infinite crafting game: https://foodformer.com 2. An embeddings-based job search engine: https://searchflora.com 3. I used LLMs to caption a training set of 1 million Minecra…

Inspired by Neal's "Infinite Craft" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39205020 ), I made a food-based version. You can use the sidebar to create a new food and click or drag t…

Saw this on Neal's twitter a couple of days ago, it inspired me to make the food version :) https://twitter.com/joshelgar/status/1750141793377686000

What was the point of you being pedantic? It simulates what happens in different scenarios.

Hey there, do you sponsor visas?

People sometimes forget this - people don't pay just because they use something. And sometimes, like with Youtube, many people wish they didn't use it. It's hard to get people to p…

Any idea how this compares to Supabase's Realtime & Presence libraries? https://supabase.com/docs/guides/realtime

Hey Aaron, cool product! Well done so far. Curious why you think no-one has done TCR before? Also, any insights on why you're bullish on the "multiplayer web"? Will be cool to see …

What are your favourite (good) newsletters that don't have many followers. It seems that every newsletter I come across has 150k+ subscribers after starting 2 months ago, so would …

Really trying to improve the skillset of an eng team and give them career development opportunities. Some questions I need help with: - How do you define upskilling / approach care…

Are you looking for graduates at all by any chance?