Hacker News: mvind

New comment by mvind in "Risk Everything (2007)"

mvind — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 07:05:16 +0000

Great read, thanks for sharing.

Ask HN: Vim Mode and Jupyter Lab?

mvind — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 10:43:22 +0000

Hi HN

I am about to blow a gasket! Is there someone on here who has managed to create a stable jupyter lab setup using vim mode? I am constantly switching between two subpar solutions:

1) Use Jupyter lab GUI + Jupyter lab vim extension. The vim extension is super unstable and inconsistent, for example pressing "ESC" you can not enter insert mode again without manually clicking a code cell.

2) Use VScode and connect to local Jupyter server and use Vim extension from VScode. Here Vim works fine, but VScode has an infuriating input lag, I type and then 2 seconds later the input appears.

Wondering if anyone on here has found a stable setup?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32080926

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New comment by mvind in "Wasting time in tech interviews"

mvind — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 07:13:47 +0000

Leetcode is great. If you can't solve a couple of easy LC questions, I would question your problem-solving skills.

New comment by mvind in "Ask HN: Where does your mind wander to?"

mvind — Sat, 21 May 2022 08:01:05 +0000

I saw a picture a couple of weeks ago about a person on Twitter who lost around 90% of his followers because they were bots. He complained that he had spent the last +7 years building up this "community", which in the end consisted of bots.

As late yesterday I saw two youtube shorts videos using deep fakes models of celebrities pushing crypto Ponzi schemes. I wonder how widespread bot usage is, and their connection to "echo chambers" that seem to echo louder and louder into mainstream media.

New comment by mvind in "Ask HN: Who's having a ton of fun at work and what are you doing?"

mvind — Mon, 02 May 2022 10:28:43 +0000

Have you experienced a caveat in terms of coding quality? I study mathematics, and I think it is pretty standard for mathematicians to disregard theoretical run times when experimenting and doing "napkin" computations. Invariably this leads to relatively poor code quality. Speaking from experience, I just failed a coding interview because I solved the question like a mathematician would do, i.e. a quick and dirty way. What is your experience with this phenomenon? I know academics often gets railed lacking concepts in data structures etc.

New comment by mvind in "Ask HN: I am losing hope in humanity. What should I do?"

mvind — Mon, 02 May 2022 10:21:32 +0000

My advice: do drugs

New comment by mvind in "Need advice: A precarious situation in my polymath career"

mvind — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 07:30:53 +0000

The prototypical HN poster.. this site sucks nowadays

New comment by mvind in "Ask HN: Share your ideas for a side project"

mvind — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 09:03:33 +0000

Todo list?

New comment by mvind in "Living on 24 hours a day"

mvind — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 05:42:29 +0000

* assuming you have a pagan slave population which can be worked to death in order to provide for the intelligentsia utopia fantasy

New comment by mvind in "Things I Learnt in 2021"

mvind — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 19:28:06 +0000

After going through 1000's of articles this is what remained?

New comment by mvind in "Ask HN: Is it even worth reading news outside of HN?"

mvind — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 18:43:59 +0000

I dont regard HN as a news site. Not that much of critical importance is discussed here.

New comment by mvind in "Cryptocurrency Is Bunk"

mvind — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 06:00:56 +0000

Crypto currencies (or atleast DeFI) is trying to solve a pretty pragmatic problem: There is 1.7B unbanked people in the world and banking services are outdated and unavailable for large portion of humankind.

I mean that is pretty good problem to work on IMO. I think articles like this that talk about monetary politics are missing the point a bit.

I live in Denmark, and even then it takes approx ~10-24 hours to transfer funds between banks, imagine if we could reduce that time to mere seconds- or minutes?

New comment by mvind in "A World Without Sci-Hub"

mvind — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 06:59:13 +0000

i agree with this guy!!

New comment by mvind in "Goldman Sachs, Ozy Media and a $40M conference call gone wrong"

mvind — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 18:56:49 +0000

"The president of the Ford Foundation, Mr. Walker, said in an email that he had confidence in Ozy. “We need new media companies to challenge the status quo, shake things up, and go deep on the issues that matter most,” he said. “In an increasingly diverse world, it’s no coincidence that a company with co-founders of Black and Indian descent would be so successful.” Remember this is the sort person investing capital nowadays..

New comment by mvind in "Ask HN: What have you done that mattered?"

mvind — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:03:12 +0000

I matter to myself, hence my existence seems to answer your question

New comment by mvind in "Show HN: I wrote a local-first notes app for Mac, with data longevity in mind"

mvind — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:53:38 +0000

Number 5689 note taking app on HN.

New comment by mvind in "Ask HN: What's a tool that has made your life 10x easier?"

mvind — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 15:42:03 +0000

working out and eating plant based.

New comment by mvind in "Show HN: A Site for Learning Vim"

mvind — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 09:15:18 +0000

Why not just train on your codebase/IDE? The best practice you can get is by actually using vim when developing. I do not see a need to go "practice" on a website.

New comment by mvind in "Show HN: A Site for Learning Vim"

mvind — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 07:10:34 +0000

Why would I use this over the already included tutorial in vim?

New comment by mvind in "Crypto-Trading vs. Options Trading"

mvind — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 17:48:50 +0000

Absolute drivel..