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kvirani

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About kvirani

Developer & Entrepreneur based in Vancouver, BC.

Co-founder of Lighthouse Labs.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49119384

    Super valuable and actionable advice. :100:

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    Comment #49060212

    Yes I see this all the time on BC ferries. Usually an Audi or similar

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    Comment #48572687

    There's also a new player called diversion (diversion.dev) which I think may be a YC startup? Anyway it takes a different approach of being more like Google drive but bringing in V…

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    Comment #48341044

    Today your statement is a little too ambitious but I agree with the overall point that the inherent effort based moat in SaaS is mostly gone and now it is really about personalizin…

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    Comment #48316434

    > The most unintelligible drawing has also the most unintelligible handwriting. It was made by a doctor. Haha

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    Comment #47745397

    Oh wow. This seems like it was a lot of work. Bookmarked and installed!

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    Comment #47696436

    This is just false.

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    Comment #47567926

    Whoa! you have quite the profile.

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    Comment #47555442

    I'm not convinced that "actual logic and thought" aren't just about inferring what comes next statistically based on experience.

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    Comment #47522598

    Oh so it jumping to the top happens to others too?

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    Comment #47483709

    This is my immediate concern as well. Sam said in an interview that he sees "intelligence" as a utility that companies like OpenAI would own and rent out.

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    Comment #47230684

    Isn't fact 2 just a now problem though? Will people's latency expectation not change over time, as it gradually goes down?

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    Comment #47213675

    You're on to something here. Can we go more meta and define these dynamically such that users can customize multiple output streams?

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    Comment #47204783

    Nice. Just cancelled my openai plus sub.

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    Comment #46955779

    I put it into AI and TIL about "gotcha arguments" and eristics and went down a rabbit hole. Thanks for this!

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    Comment #46893104

    Wow. Well said.

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    Comment #46664989

    You write so well that I'm convinced by your words, even if you are wrong. Do you write professionally?

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    Comment #46203263

    I do like how in some MacOS examples we see icons for some of the more important or commonly used menu items, but not the others in the same list. The absence of icons has meaning …

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    Comment #46194743

    Sibling post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46193412

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    Comment #46187009

    > I’ve noticed how fashionable it is in the US in particular, to distrust the government No that's actually a sign of a third-world country. It's definitely shifting towards that i…

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    Comment #46169479

    Security almost always brings inconvenience (to everyone involved, including end users). That is part of its cost.

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    Comment #46155501

    Top post without a single comment and only 29 points. Clearly my mental model of how posts bubble to the top is broken.

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    Comment #46114247

    Do you think that was a hiring manager specific preference or an overall HR policy thing? Shitty nonetheless.

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    Comment #46017203

    No desire because you don't need them to optimize anything for yourself, or ?

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    Comment #45982136

    I think they are referring to public market investors vs private investors. Meaning, their stock valuation.