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sahilagarwal

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About sahilagarwal

Just another programmer. Website: sahil.sh

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    Comment #47966894

    Not really different. They would need to report CSAM if it is ever uploaded by a user. Any website that allows user to upload videos needs some sort of service that can identify an…

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    Comment #47908961

    I generally don't have as much time (or patience / fucks) anymore in my day. So, I use AI 3 days a week. On the other two days, I don't use assistants to code, just ask them to rev…

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    Comment #46730431

    Better management?? Easier processing for residential solar panels? How about government subsidies on solar panels for lower income homes? Hell, maybe create a unified portal when …

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    Comment #46364975

    I like to write them on my own in every company Im in using bash. So I have a local set of bash commands to help me figure out logs and colorize the items I want to. Takes some tim…

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    Comment #46261217

    Hi Boris, If you wouldn't mind answering a question for me, it's one of the main things that has made me not add claude in vscode. I have a custom 'code style' system prompt that I…

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    Comment #46261199

    Same. AI is a good tool to use as a sounding board and conversation partner. I only access claude and others using my browser - I give it a snippet of my code, tell it what exactly…

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    Comment #46202504

    A playground for the zon format is great, but it would be amazing to see a few examples where zon has already been integrated into the LLM and see its responses to user queries. It…

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    Comment #46202416

    I kind of wonder how far would 200 dollars would go. Would it be enough to start a local campaign in a town of 100,000 people?

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    Comment #46202392

    I just created separate profiles for different stuff. Work is all on chrome anyways due to google integration, so all thats left in my random browsing. Ordered in what I use the mo…

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    Comment #46184812

    Somehow this became one of favorite posts ever shared on this website. Its give a view into one of the most common thing used for entertainment in households worldwide now (special…

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    Comment #46180051

    Yeah. I'm all for sprints to start focusing on optimizations and bug smashing instead of just barreling down the road of profitability while the middle managers hold a gun to your …

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    Comment #46172163

    Do you have any insight on when these will be generally available?

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    Comment #46146730

    I would go against the grain and say that LLMs take power away from incredibly rich people to shape mass preferences and give to the masses. Bot armies previously needed an army of…

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    Comment #45092739

    I guess my non-management / non-business side is show here, but how can it be that much?? I still remember I designed a fairly simple cron job that took database backups when I was…

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    Comment #44987939

    Time and physical labor are an amazing way to process grief. There is a hindu ceremony in India where we build a funeral pyre and light it. Before that, there are prayer ceremonies…

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    Comment #44696299

    Isn't that true for every piece of software you use? Reflections on trusting trust ( https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref... ) was one of the formative pape…

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    Comment #44202859

    Me too! I am a data engineer so whenever I have pipeline jobs running, I have a script that monitors them. When the jobs finish, an audio plays stating the job has finished and its…

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    Comment #44136396

    I try not to think about it, but HZD (game) had the most believable take on the future. AI war machines apocalypse - War machines that consume earth's sources to build drones and o…

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    Comment #44136208

    This perfectly illustrates why I've always preferred working at startups over major corps including FAANG / MANGA. There is a top down culture of not embracing mediocrity that genu…

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    Comment #43849580

    Its a bit of nostalgia for me. It took a bit of work to understand ipython when I first started as a programmer, but that effort helped me in the long run. Using ipdb for breakpoin…

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    Comment #43820176

    In case you missed it, there's a comment parallel to yours by the founder of the company. They also provide their email in a child comment to that. Link: https://news.ycombinator.c…

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    Comment #43715493

    There are also historical examples of nations where nothing was done to reign in the chaos and that led to far worse long term consequences for the people.

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    Comment #43586878

    The best tech stack I have ever worked on was in an adtech company. The code was beautiful and the utility functions to interface with various AWS services were really really neat.…

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    Comment #43586414

    You reminded me of one of my favorite piece of media in gaming (HZD). It feels especially relevant in the current times, with how war and AI is progressing in tandem with geopoliti…