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New comment by nandhinianand in "The New Skill in AI Is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering"

nandhinianand — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 23:39:37 +0000

I think this is definitely true for novel writing and stuff like that based on my experiments with AI so far.. I'm still on the fence about coding/building s/w based on it, but that may just be about the unlearning and re-learning i'm yet to do/try out.

New comment by nandhinianand in "The Gentle Singularity"

nandhinianand — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 15:46:00 +0000

I won't attempt to make the counter-argument on account of being a stranger to America and it's healthcare system, but would point to the existence of this, just in case you haven't seen it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeDOQpfaUc8

New comment by nandhinianand in "The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it"

nandhinianand — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 19:43:19 +0000

Exactyl my point... I think we're on the same page/boat/car/whatever...

New comment by nandhinianand in "Show HN: Bullshit Remover"

nandhinianand — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:18:26 +0000

Round 3:(and last round)

This time picked up one of PG's essays.... this one ..

https://paulgraham.com/disagree.html

>output

TL;DR:

1. Name-calling is weak. 2. Ad hominem attacks are weak. 3. Criticizing tone is weak. 4. Contradiction needs evidence. 5. Counterargument can be convincing. 6. Refutation is strongest, refute the central point. 7. Classifying disagreement helps identify dishonest arguments. 8. Being less mean makes people happier.

New comment by nandhinianand in "Show HN: Bullshit Remover"

nandhinianand — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:16:04 +0000

And for round two went with a lesswrong sequences.. Here's the source

https://www.lesswrong.com/s/gFvira6tHpLXnqCLH/p/TGux5Fhcd7Gm...

and here's the output

>output

TL;DR: People reject new ideas for irrational reasons, not just lack of credentials. Asking "Is that your true rejection?" can help, but be careful not to psychoanalyze.

New comment by nandhinianand in "Show HN: Bullshit Remover"

nandhinianand — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 10:12:37 +0000

I fed it some top half of the lines from here.. Aljazeera about the ongoing conflict.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/9/15/israels-wa...

and got this as

> output

Israel's Gaza Shitshow: 26 Dead, Beit Lahiya Residents Told to GTFO

More rubble, more bodies, more bullshit. Israel's playing whack-a-mole with Palestinians, hitting schools because why the fuck not? Meanwhile, they're telling folks in Beit Lahiya to scram, probably to make room for more "totally not settlements, we swear."

Oh, and Israelis are protesting for a Hamas deal. Good luck with that.

New comment by nandhinianand in "The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it"

nandhinianand — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 16:48:12 +0000

Interesting that you read that comment as inequality...

> You're not going to convince folks the world is better when they know what kind of deal they're getting vs others out there

Somehow i read that as equal opportunities.... To me a fair deal generally means, something close to equal opportunities(of course, ceteris paribus, and rarely do we have all other things equal, but adjusting for it..)

New comment by nandhinianand in "Speech Latency –- TWeet Thread"

nandhinianand — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 17:02:22 +0000

Arcline a startup claims fastest speech latency end-to-end better than YC companies....

Speech Latency –- TWeet Thread

nandhinianand — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 17:02:22 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/sahilpabale/status/1830796577528791176

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41436866

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by nandhinianand in "How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner"

nandhinianand — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 10:41:47 +0000

Ahhh.. wouldn't that be better by using a percentage of filler words/total words in title threshold?? I don't know if a feature simply strips out the filler words in title, it's not always useful and rather harmful is what I would argue.

New comment by nandhinianand in "The Final Speech from The Great Dictator (1940)"

nandhinianand — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 05:51:31 +0000

Ughhh.. I hate that word, especially when it refers to the protest acts like spaghetti on art, or slow march on a road delaying traffic etc... I think partly because it smells like a society that has started worshipping "traffic" or "business as usual" instead of doing that by deliberate choice.

New comment by nandhinianand in "LLM Visualization"

nandhinianand — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 07:40:05 +0000

Seems brave blocks some js scripts .. this works in Firefox

New comment by nandhinianand in "Omegle 2009-2023"

nandhinianand — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 04:23:59 +0000

I think it comes down the exploration vs maximization/exploitation instincts that grows and changes as a human being grows. For ex: teens/early adults has more exploration instinct.(it's a hypothesis that's true for at least some sections of human society, not sure how far it generalizes).

For me it was yahoo chat rooms that filled the need, this omegle founder had created to solve.(at least till it got filled with bots) The real question is what will a teenager/(mostly exploration instinct person) today will use and will they even be able to anonymously talk to a stranger to share perspectives??

I don't know, perhaps because I have passed the majorly exploration instinct stage due to life's responsibilities and commitments, but I sometimes worry, that there's no such tool anymore.

Ethical AI–- a view from leftist philosopher [video]

nandhinianand — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 17:04:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaU6tI2pb3M

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38041026

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nandhinianand in "Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco"

nandhinianand — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:23:23 +0000

I agree with you and think the downvotes are unfair. That said it doesn't help to just wring our hands about it.(Yes i know you weren't. You were just pointing out it could've been prevented).

New comment by nandhinianand in "Temporal Databases (1986) [pdf]"

nandhinianand — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 05:12:02 +0000

Oh.. please do share the details... may be a blog post or a longer comment here.

New comment by nandhinianand in "Fermi-Dyson Thinking"

nandhinianand — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 16:01:36 +0000

interesting article about taking neither the top-down nor the bottom-up approach.

Fermi-Dyson Thinking

nandhinianand — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 16:01:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2022/03/30/fermi-estimates-and-dyson-designs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34276221

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by nandhinianand in "The scourge of job title inflation"

nandhinianand — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 09:11:54 +0000

I tell most people I am a software mechanic. :-P

New comment by nandhinianand in "Ask HN: Do you feel bad when devices aren't utilized to the extreme?"

nandhinianand — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 17:19:13 +0000

I'll third that...