Hacker News: rishabhparikh

New comment by rishabhparikh in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

rishabhparikh — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:51:57 +0000

2 mins for a production deploy of an app with millions of users? Seems fine to me! How fast would you expect it to be?

New comment by rishabhparikh in "Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B"

rishabhparikh — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:29:13 +0000

Tough outcome for many involved given peak valuation @ 12B

New comment by rishabhparikh in "The Parallel Search API"

rishabhparikh — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 04:52:54 +0000

Typescript SDK link is broken: https://docs.parallel.ai/resources/typescript-sdk

New comment by rishabhparikh in "Genie 3: A new frontier for world models"

rishabhparikh — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:15:28 +0000

Agreed that no one wants to watch shotput when the ball is launched out of a cannon, but people might be interested when the robots competing are anthropomorphs.

For example, robot boxing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdkwjs_g83w

New comment by rishabhparikh in "Building AI agents to query your databases"

rishabhparikh — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:44:44 +0000

Not OP, but a naive guess is it would mean that you'd have your schema defined in an ORM (for example, Prisma). The advantage here is that the LLM gets context on both the schema and how the schema is used throughout the application.

New comment by rishabhparikh in "Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model"

rishabhparikh — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 16:48:36 +0000

I'm guessing it would be far too expensive to make a free demo

New comment by rishabhparikh in "Apple iOS Background Tasks"

rishabhparikh — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 00:43:51 +0000

It is possible, but not by default. Your app must request additional permissions for indefinite background execution. It's quite difficult to get your app approved with said permission.

New comment by rishabhparikh in "Google has sacked dozens over sexual harassment since 2016"

rishabhparikh — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 23:28:25 +0000

I think it's a hasty jump to make assumptions about the biology of people based on their job description. Plenty of engineers I work with exercise regularly. I'm curious, do you have any links to research correlating sedentary jobs and testosterone levels?

New comment by rishabhparikh in "Google has sacked dozens over sexual harassment since 2016"

rishabhparikh — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 23:02:25 +0000

> They tend to be more nerdy, introverted, and less masculine(lower testosterone, less aggressive).

Not a fan of you making this up based on perceived stereotypes and then using it to justify an argument. I do agree that these numbers are complicated and require analysis on data that we probably don't have access to.

New comment by rishabhparikh in "End Stock Buybacks, Save the Economy?"

rishabhparikh — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 23:36:48 +0000

You don't exchange any stock when you're paid dividend. If you sold a bit of your holdings each year you would eventually have no equity left.

New comment by rishabhparikh in "Jupyter Receives the ACM Software System Award"

rishabhparikh — Wed, 02 May 2018 18:18:42 +0000

Cannot imagine liking data science nearly as much as I do if Jupyter didn't make it so easy to quickly test new ideas. Well-deserved.

New comment by rishabhparikh in "Uber enters dockless bike wars with Jump acquisition"

rishabhparikh — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 19:39:27 +0000

Why did you think they might be stealing the bikes?

New comment by rishabhparikh in "Google's C++ Class"

rishabhparikh — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 06:47:46 +0000

Wait, there are other ways to write C++ programs?

New comment by rishabhparikh in "Insomnia REST Client"

rishabhparikh — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 01:21:40 +0000

+1 for SoapUI. Used it for ~3 months during an internship a while back and didn't have any complaints.

New comment by rishabhparikh in "How Jet Built a GPU-Powered Fulfillment Engine with F# and CUDA"

rishabhparikh — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 23:56:52 +0000

It really depends on how many constraints and variables you're optimizing for. Because this problem is NP-hard, I'd bet you could make a more naive version that solves some easier ILP problems, but scaling it up probably requires quite a bit of optimization/good heuristics. Definitely seems like a good learning experience if you're interested in algorithms though!

New comment by rishabhparikh in "How Jet Built a GPU-Powered Fulfillment Engine with F# and CUDA"

rishabhparikh — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 23:50:27 +0000

Yes, ILP is NP-hard[1]. I don't know how many constraints Jet's problems require, but I believe there are approximation algorithms that can do quite decently on most problems (perhaps even Simplex might do decently?). Would be interested to hear about this from someone with a strong algorithms background though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_programming

New comment by rishabhparikh in "Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Cold, Dead Hands"

rishabhparikh — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 08:14:27 +0000

But... why would they waste time doing that when they COULD just do it in a visual format they're already familiar with? IMO writing excel formulas and having the constant visual feedback is pretty useful and I much prefer it to SQL even though I am very familiar with SQL and not so much with Excel.

No need to make an assertion about intelligence and learning programming languages in your comment here either. Everyone has their own workflow.

New comment by rishabhparikh in "Dynamic Progamming: First Principles"

rishabhparikh — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 10:20:53 +0000

The memoization occurs in the fact that we are "remembering" the previous value (pre_sum). It's a little different in that we aren't memoizing/caching all previous values, but we are still caching the last computed values aka the "tail".

New comment by rishabhparikh in "Taking a cigarette break on the smoking internet"

rishabhparikh — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 02:23:35 +0000

Agreed, very refreshing. Getting tired of the mental gymnastics that comes with writers scrambling for a point at the end of a piece.

New comment by rishabhparikh in "Taking a cigarette break on the smoking internet"

rishabhparikh — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 02:21:49 +0000

Wonder if you might be saying the same thing when you're 65. Meaningfulness can come from places besides jobs, house plants, or Facebook I think. I could also be totally wrong, but I think it's worth attempting to find out.