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hargupon Ask HN: How do you use AI to get things done faster?

What is your workflow for AI email categorization?

hargupon Harness launches Gitness, an open-source GitHub competitor

Thye aren't really competing with GitHub, which is more of consumer tool, but more with the enterprise focused GitLab which bundles CI/CD along with code hosting and bunch of other things.

Their focus is primarilily on Enterprise developer needs and bundling CI/CD, Internal Developer Platforms, Security, Compliance and now code hosting. They want to be the one shop for everything developer experience inside an enterprise.

[Source: Not a customer or a user or employee, was at their conference in SF today]

hargupon Ask HN: Would wearing a suit at a technical interview put you at a disadvantage?

You should focus on being comfortable and confident. Whatever dressing makes you feel that way.

hargupon Do people meet IRL in the Bay Area?

You can find all AI related events in SF here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P6ut7vL-gXKbeDeh3nuP...

For me twitter is a great place to learn about new events, there are also bunch of private communities like OnDeck, AGI House Slack and AI Builders Whatsapp group through which I learn about events. If you are plugged in, there are more events than you can be present for.

hargupon Personas

These are buyer and user persona, not the actual role of the people working at GitLab. Personas are a regular tool used in product development or sales, where you create an idealized profile of the person and then use it to model behaviors.

hargupon Ask HN: Analog Chess Tournament?

Down to participate in the contest.

hargupon Bumblebee: GPT2, Stable Diffusion, and More in Elixir

Does Bumblebee has any significant performance improvements over the python implementation?

hargupon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)

Founding Engineer | Full-time | remote

Felvin Search (felvin.com) is angel-funded team on a mission to build the ultimate search experience. Angels include senior operators from Google's Search team and ads team, ODF Fellow and YC alumni.

Ideal background includes 3+ years of experience as a full stack engineer, ideally with React, NodeJS, express, and relational databases.

Apply directly on LinkedIn or Email CV to harsh@felvin.com (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hargup_fullstackdeveloperjob-...)

hargupon Google Timer is gone

We are working to bring all these tools to your regular search engine, checkout https://felvin.com

hargupon Some languages pay closer attention to family ties than others

Hindi distinguishes between your father's younger brother (Chacha) and elder brothere (Tau). Grand children have different names depending on if they are from the daughter or son. I made my mom write down all the relationship names in Hindi, and there are some 34 of them https://yobabita.medium.com/family-relationship-names-in-hin...

P.S.: Original article is paywalled, couldn't read

hargupon Felvin: Google Search Enhancer for Developers

Hi Folks! The creator here, by using the Felvin chrome extension you can not only find the code snippets for popular queries but also access many popular developer utilities like timestamp convertors, csv to json and much more right inside the google search page.

Best part, all instant apps used in the extension are open source, so any missing functionality is only a PR away. Checkout the GitHub repository https://github.com/felvin-search/instant-apps

hargupon The Importance Trap

The answer depends on the risk profile of your situation. If you are the military then you have much more to lose from something random and unexpected than to gain from it. So it makes sense to eliminate the quadrant IV.

If you are in a different situation, say a student or an early career employee, the upside of Quadrant I and II are probably known and limited. Though Quadrant IV can potentially bring in large unknown gains. Example, minting bitcoins in 2010 was unimportant and non urgent activity, those who did this activity gained a ton.

hargupon GitHub – felvin-search/instant-apps: Your search box is now an app store

Hi Harsh here , I am the creator of the project, happy to answer any questions which you might have.

hargupon GitHub – felvin-search/instant-apps: Your search box is now an app store

Well this is strange, I had created this post and now it is showing "by todsacerdoti". Maybe it is some bug on HN.

hargupon Custom Search Engine Built on Searx

Wow, this is exactly the way we have been thinking about Neera. Checkout https://hargup.substack.com/p/so-convenient-that-it-changes-...

hargupon Ask HN: How to learn how to sell?

Skimmed the through the book, I felt the book is great about how to build a product, but selling is an orthogonal art. Unless you belive "Build and they will come".

Selling is especially important if you are in any kind of B2B business where the user doesn't necessarily make the buying decision. For example, if a company is buying a Customer Support software, the executive making the decision won't probably be using the software on day to day basis.

hargupon The Precautionary Principle: Better Safe Than Sorry?

Also checkout Taleb's paper on Precautionary Principle https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pp2.pdf

"If an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing severe harm to the public domain, the action should not be taken in the absence of scientific near-certainty about its safety."

hargupon Internet Search Tips

This is interesting, thanks for sharing.

hargupon Searching inside your favorite websites using Neera.ai

Right now it is manually curated. As someone who has been in the industry for sometime, you know what are good places to look for information.

Moving forward, the plan is to allow people to curate their own search profiles with their own list of filters. And allow people to share these list their friends so that the friends can also easily find the right information.

I see search profiles as equivalent of sub reddits or Youtube channels. Maybe I should come up with a better name.

hargupon Free for Developers

Wow!! This is an amazing list.

A lot of times we aren't event aware that there exists a tool which can solve your need. And Google is of no help here.

hargupon Ask HN: Questions to ask a company to know you don't want to work there?

This is assuming, your interviewer will be your teammate after joining the company.

hargupon Ask HN: Questions to ask a company to know you don't want to work there?

Test is a small part of the whole picture. They might have lots of test but the system might still suck.

hargupon Ask HN: Questions to ask a company to know you don't want to work there?

1. "What do you like about <company X>?"

By far, I found this to be most useful question to ask an interviewer. It tells what is the company doing well, and what things does the interviewer value. I have got various answers here.

- Some people say they like the autonomy given to them

- Some like the work enviornment

- Some like the technical challenges

- Some care about the impact the company is making

- Some like the money (not a bad thing, honestly)

For each answer you can ask for follow ups and examples. If they give a fluff answer like "I like the fast paced enviornment", its a red flag. If they have difficulty answering the question, its a red flag.

2. "What happens when something goes wrong?"

This is to know how the organization handles failure, also if you ask examples it tells you what does the organization defines as failure. Ideally you want an organization which has a no blame culture and which handles failures gracefully. Also this is the place you want to ask about on-calls.

hargupon Ask HN: Example of a chatbot in a business use case that doesn't suck?

https://experience.helpshift.com/free-trial/

Helpshift provides chatbots for customer support. We realized a fully automated experience doesn't work, so focus on automating tedius stuff so that the human agent can focus on part which actually require a human agent.

hargupon B.S. In Artificial Intelligence – Curriculum

You are not the only one. I thought it was course talking about Bullshit which happens in name of A.I. Much like the "Calling Bullshit" course which happens at University of Washington https://callingbullshit.org/syllabus.html

hargupon Alternatives to Google Products

Using a font developed by Google doesn't help Google track you. Protecting your privacy != doesn't mean rejecting absolutely everything by Google.

hargupon Ask HN: If you were to ditch Gmail, what would be your alternative to email?

Agree with this, I have been using Fastmail for almost 3 years and its spam filter works pretty well for me.

hargupon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2016)

Location: IIT Kharagpur, India

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Yes!

Technologies: Python, SciPy stack, Bash

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5-sVNHU-AFdYURvYjB3MkJJVmM...

Email: mail@hargup.in

I'm an undergrad at IIT Kharagpur graduating in May 2017. I have strong Python, I've done internship at Continuum Analytics working on Conda and Numba. I've also been a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) student with SymPy in 2014 and I mentored GSoC students in both 2015 and 2016, you can see rest of my in the resume above. I'm willing to take initiative and learn new technologies. I want to work with passionate teams who are trying to build great things.

hargupon Ask HN: What was your “why didn't I start doing this sooner” moment?

Because most of the people around me are on Windows, I simply say "I don't know your operating system, if you were on (GNU/)Linux I could have helped".

hargupon Traffic to Wikipedia terrorism entries plunged after Snowden revelations

That is if you are white and American, for everyone else the possibilities of getting harassed based on what you see, read or say are very real.