claar

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Ben Claar

Co-founder of Piestar (https://piestar.com)

Contact me via my first name @ my company.

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Comment · 8 months ago
Yeah, if it weren't for that, I think this would blow up. Plus, even if you get past that, if you try a larger project, it times out after 1 minute and gives up. But it's a pretty awesome idea!
Comment · 10 months ago
This is cool!

Would it be possible to add "Best Value" / "best average performance per dollar" type thing?

Comment · 10 months ago
Ah, reading this comment makes your original post 10x more interesting. I guess this is "start with why" in action. :)
Comment · 10 months ago
I think many subscribe to this philosophy: https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-...

Your github research/ links are an interesting case of this. On one hand, late AI adopters may appreciate your example prompts and outputs. But it feels like trivially reproducible noise to expert LLM users, especially if they are unaware of your reputation for substantive work.

The HN AI pushback then drowns out your true message in favor of squashing perceived AI fluff.

Comment · 10 months ago
If you don't mind a paid solution, try DEEPL. I also use Word's built in document translation to good effect.
Comment · 10 months ago
IMO, it's not insane at all - I didn't understand this until I moved from developer to executive.

Solving the business need has precedence over technical correctness.

Satisfying "what I think the requirements are" without considering the business need causes most code rework in my experience.

Comment · 11 months ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
Apparently "CL" is "Change List", Google speak for a Pull Request, if anyone else was confused like I was.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's paywalled.
Comment · 1 year ago
Laravel Forge handles auto-deployment on push to master. Or if you want production zero downtime deployments, use Laravel Envoyer.
Comment · 1 year ago
This project creates a "compact, machine-optimized format designed for efficient AI parsing rather than human readability" called "Structured Knowledge Format (SKF)".

It's not obvious to me that this is a good idea. LLMs are trained on human-readable text.

The author notes that non-reasoning LLMs struggle with these SKFs. Maybe that's a hint that human readable summaries would perform better? Just a guess.

Or perhaps a vector store?

Comment · 1 year ago
What you describe is more accurately called the "prosperity Gospel", not evangelical Christianity. Mainstream evangelical Christianity doesn't believe anything like what you describe.
Comment · 1 year ago
QED
Comment · 1 year ago
> bunch of goons .. aren't on the up and up

What a horrible thing to say. I can't speak for "goons" other than myself, but I have no hidden agenda when I flag the multitude of one-sided propaganda stories flooding HN about how horrible President Trump and DOGE are.

I find the resulting discussions to be hyperbolic, FUD-invoking, divisive and one-sided - as evidenced by your insults to half of U.S. voters - offering little to no discourse of value.

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