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VenturingVole

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VenturingVole··on Launch HN: Pinch (YC W25) – Video conferencing with immersive translation
This is one of the coolest things I've seen, as an English speaker who moved to Brazil and firmly believed that technology was going to break down barriers to global access: You're making it happen and helping level the global playing field.

In my situation - you've just given a way for a highly enthusiastic Spanish/Portuguese speaking apprentice software engineer I'm mentoring/training to to actually have the capacity to communicate with a friend/client in near real-time in a more human way than I've ever seen before.

Yes, they're learning English (at same time as software engineering) but you've just made connections more tangible and real.

Love it!

VenturingVole··on Show HN: Mcp-Agent – Build effective agents with Model Context Protocol
I haven't been hugely focused in the agent space for the last few months, so want to get myself up to date a bit as there's potential I could fairly quickly contribute in a few ways - including porting to TypeScript.

I'll then either send you an email or jump onto your Discord.

VenturingVole··on Show HN: Mcp-Agent – Build effective agents with Model Context Protocol
Seconding this, it looks exceptionally cool and will dig into it a little further later as I've got a use case within a product I'm building which would also call for a TypeScript version.
VenturingVole··on Arctic uses a fan to cool another fan
Someone said hectopascals and was, unfortunately, misunderstood.

... As per commenter below, will also see myself out.

VenturingVole··on In AI we trust, part II: Wherein AI adjudicates every Supreme Court case
One can imagine them, but by logical extension and evolution of AI models/implementations such adversarial briefs will become orders of magnitude more improbable.

See for example: https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/blog/2024/03/11/AutoDefe...

AI adjudications become a question of when - not if. Likely at first supervised by humans, but for how long will that remain the case as the pressure mounts. The consequences of this and expediting the justice system will be truly profound - perhaps even more so in developing nations whereby the access to justice is so unevenly distributed/unreliable. A non-functioning justice system is at the root of many societal issues.

However, it's also not a stretch to think of the continued descent into an Orwellian dystopia in which individual liberties and freedom are curtailed.

I feel as though I switch between a sense of optimism and being utterly terrified.

VenturingVole··on Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time
This looks fantastic - well done for putting so much effort in to creating it. Literally a few days ago I was looking for something exactly like it, so that I could work out the likely amount of solar panels I'd require when factoring in seasonal shadows cost.

I imagine the solar industry to be a target market of yours and wish you lots of luck with growing it.

VenturingVole··on Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time
I love this - I was looking for something exactly like it yesterday and you've built it. Specifically, I was looking to factor in shading to work out the likely amount of solar panels I'd need for both electricity and solar hot water across the seasons. Nice - great work!
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