Interesting news, but the source seems blatantly partisan.
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aadhavans commented on Third places and neighborhood entrepreneurship (2024) nber.org/papers/w32604... · Posted by u/WasimBhai
i remember koramangala, 5th block specifically, mid 2023. that blue tokai outlet next to roastery was ground zero. half of early stage bangalore was working from there. two pm to six pm you'd overhear: investor calls, pitch deck review, even product teardown with some YC alum. no seats inside so i parked at the outside bench near the window. wifi barely reached there. next to me this guy's debugging something on a steamdeck looking devkit. i half glance over and ask if it's AWS creds, he goes 'nah, it's some edge TPU , google keeps timing out cold starts'. we start chatting.
turns out he's building vision for offline-first retail. he's got no frontend, just a python backend. i scribble something on a napkin about fast-booting wasm modules from disk cache. 3 weeks later he pings me on telegram saying they got boot time down from 14s to 2.8s using a variant of that.
never met him again. never even learned his startup's name. but that entire bottleneck cleared because two people overheard a swear word near a bad socket.
we maynot recreate that on a discord channel. there's no incentive to overshare when you're not spatially co-located. bangalore 2023 worked because entropy was high and friction was low
I grew up ~20 minutes from the place you're describing, and you just made me very nostalgic :D
I've been enjoying Punnagai radio for a few months: https://radio.garden/listen/punnagai-radio/WU8eJqek
I don't know much about Indian/Tamil music, but it's catchy.
I was fully expecting a radio station in Tamil Nadu, but this one's in Sri Lanka. I know there's a lot of Tamil people in Sri Lanka, but that's still pretty interesting!
It is always fascinating to see how much influence authors and scientists have had on each other throughout history.
You sometimes see clear examples of how fiction fuels technology, and sometimes technology inspires fiction.
As a writer who hasn’t been published yet, I find that most of my stories start by imagining where today’s science might take us next, though every now and then, I catch a glimpse of something that feels truly original.
I'm curious if others here feel the same. Is the future mostly written by visionaries in fiction, or by the engineers and scientists bringing it to life? Or maybe it’s a union, intended or not, between both sides.
I feel the same way, although I think technology's inspiration on fiction is stronger. Today's fiction, as you said, is simply tomorrow's science.
As a side project, I'm creating resources for learning Tamil, my parents' native language:
https://akprasad.github.io/tamil/
It's been a lot of fun getting the basic tools going: transliterators, morphological generators and analyzers, and some other things on top. But the main goal is to improve fluency as quickly and efficiently as possible.
As another Tamilian, thank you for making this! I'm fluent in spoken Tamil from my parents and I've learned to read and write at a basic level, but I'd never formally learned the language.
https://indiantranslate.com
It's a translation map of Indian languages - type in a word, see the translations across 22 languages.
I was inspired by this HN post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43152587), and wanted to make something similar for India (which has similar linguistic diversity). Translations are fetched with Google Translate, but I also display 'romanizations' (transliterated into Latin script), which are generated with a local ML model.
Now that it's done, I've mostly been working on a little Markdown-to-HTML parser in Haskell.
> e.g. This pattern ([0-9][0-9]?[0-9]][.])+ matches one, two or three digits followed by a . and also matches repeated patterns of this. This wold match an IP address (albeit not strictly).
I love regular expressions but one thing I've learned over the years is the syntax is dense enough that even people who are confident enough to start writing regex tutorials often can't write a regex that matches an IP address.
Shameless plug: My Regex engine (https://pkg.go.dev/gitea.twomorecents.org/Rockingcool/kleing...) has dedicated syntax for this kind of task.
<0-255>\.<0-255>\.<0-255>\.<0-255>
EDIT: formatting
aadhavans commented on Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?... · Posted by u/yarapavan
A very well-written piece. The section on funding open source is as relevant as it's ever been, and I don't think we've learnt much since last year.
As the proportion of younger engineers contributing to open-source decreases (a reasonable choice, given the state of the economy), I see only two future possibilities:
1. Big corporations take ownership of key open-source libraries in an effort to continue their development.
2. Said key open-source libraries die, and corporations develop proprietary replacements for their own use. The open source scene remains alive, but with a much smaller influence.
Context: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Usually articles that describe them in a very Math-y way go above my head. But the definition above was immediately clear (I saw it on HN).
I think this article is a bit more approachable than others I've read, but it still gets very confusing near the end.