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swaraj

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About swaraj

Founder / CTO @Sempre Health (https://semprehealth.com/), Engineering Director @MindMeld, Engineer @Zynga, EECS @University Of California, Berkeley - Engineer with NLP/ML/Web Experience

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    Comment #48311602

    that's actually a great reason / explanation. TY

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    Comment #48311598

    this is actually a great idea + reason

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    Why do LLM keys all start with sk?

    Genuinely curious, as a builder for so long, API keys took all shapes and sizes, but what's with the sk prefix these days?

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    Comment #47304648

    This is what HN is all about

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    Comment #47304642

    V cool, this is a perfect llm use case

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    Comment #47304633

    So many things these days I just love being an engineer rn - ai scheduling assistant - polymarket trading bots - ai assisted form filler - games my 6 y/o dreams up - openclaw workf…

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    Comment #47214047

    This is spot on

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    Comment #46817805

    Looked into this for my clawdbot, but ended up just using himalaya CLI connected to a new Gmail. Been working great so far - curious about what agentmail is better for

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    Comment #46724989

    Tried the voice clone with a 30s trump clip (with reference text), and it didn't sound like him at all.

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    Comment #46334319

    I once used Charles Proxy to change all the game configs for Candy Crush Saga on my phone back in 2013 by intercepting and replacing the API requests - I made all the puzzles have …

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    Comment #43074164

    Gotta love HN, only popular site in world where a list of hex codes on a nicely formatted website gets to top ranking

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    Comment #43009647

    They are when the only reason they are flagged as security updates is because some a single group deems a very rare, obscure edge case as a HIGH severity vuln when in practice it r…

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    Comment #42985198

    You should try the arc agi puzzles yourself, and then tell me you think these things aren't intelligent https://arcprize.org/blog/openai-o1-results-arc-prize I wouldn't say it's fu…

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    Comment #42985176

    I spent 10 hrs this week upgrading our pandas/snowflake libs to latest bc there was apparently a critical vulnerability in the version we used (which we need to fix bc a security c…

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    Comment #42572213

    Nailed it

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    Comment #41599510

    Like top comment, my first exposure to programming was basic on a ti-86 (better than 83, but quickly outdone by 84 shortly after) My first program was doubly cheating, not only did…

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    Comment #40375500

    We're all on on https://www.sigmacomputing.com/ bc we don't like hosting/managing/provisioning essential tools like this + this seems more complicated to configured. I would recomm…

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    Comment #38923400

    Always happy to see new stuff on the block, but hard to leave pandas and python ecosystem for this Not sure where this fits in to any workflow tbh, with sufficiently large datasets…

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    Comment #38292399

    Love Signal over Telegram, Wickr, etc.

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    Comment #36428285

    This looks amazing, we have written a similar script for both our local dev dbs as well as our staging env. Would love MySQL support

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    Comment #36414806

    I haven't used Codespaces, but how does this work with databases? A common problem we have during onboarding is getting your local database (MySQL) setup properly: run all the migr…

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    Comment #36414775

    Client-only is the prime selling point for me. A common project for our engineers is building/updating data ETLs & reports off of sensitive healthcare data. Since our engineer's la…

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    Comment #36067569

    I thought this was an excellent read on receiving (but also giving) feedback: https://www.amazon.com/Thanks-Feedback-Science-Receiving-Wel... Lots of discussions on where feedback …