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padolsey
4,466karma·578submissions·June 29, 2011
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I'm James. Living between Beijing and London. I like coding. Also plants. Stroke survivor & disability advocate. My dog's a whippet/iggy cross and is called Ducky. He's a beautiful lunatic.
* website: [j11y.io](https://j11y.io) * building: [nope](https://nope.net) * bsky: [@j11y.io](https://bsky.app/profile/j11y.io) * contact: https://tally.so/r/waYPvE * twitter: [@padolsey](https://x.com/padolsey) * book recommendations: [ablf.io](https://ablf.io) * me = founding eng @ [collective intelligence project](https://cip.org)
My work email is my first name at cip dot org.
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recent activity (578 total)
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Yeh I'm sanitizing already thankfully. I've fixed the decoding issue, but I'm expecting some % of users to be borked for a whole other variety of quirky reasons.
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Whoops. Yeh I'm working on the encoding thing atm. Thank you for flagging! EDIT: I'm relying on the 'marked' npm package for markdown and it is handling the linkification of URLs, …
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I don't see a change in your profile. See here: https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/users/jstanley I can't see 'jstanley.at.hn' in there at all [..?]…
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Yikes you're right. I need to come up with a way to solve that. Maybe a param or path to lock in the username like abc.at.hn/Abc ... I'll have a go. EDIT: for now I'm tired and of…
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Yes, server-rendering definitely helps, though I have suspicions about its compiled outputs still being very heavy. There's also a lot of CSS frameworks that have an inline-first paradigm meaning…
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What an incredibly naive and dismissive thing to say.
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Whether you like it or not, over 15% of the world's population lives in China.
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A lot of this resonates. I'm not in Antartica, I'm in Beijing, but still struggle with the internet. Being behind the great firewall means using creative approaches. VPNs only sometimes work…
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I find it useful. I'm on a pretty limited mobile data plan. Imagine others might be too. Though I wish there was a way my browser could warn me.
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I get the hate, but I find this semi-interesting. I flew business recently and the airline had a '3d' walkthrough of their cabin (i.e. 360deg photos at multiple points), a bit like property …
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Cool! Feature req: a way to 3d-skew the screenshot.
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https://lobste.rs
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The thing is, such prophecies are all very wrong until they're very right. The idea of an LLM (with capabilities of e.g. <1 yr away) being given access to a VM and spinning up others without o…
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They know, as well, that opt-in simply wouldn’t give them the scale they’d need for meaningful training data. They’re being very intentionally self interested and unconcerned with their customers best…
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It seems really clever, especially the encoding of a signature into LLM token probability selections. I wonder if synthid will trigger some standarization in the industry. I don't think there…
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Do you have pay-as-you-go pricing? I feel that’s always missing from things like this. Cool otherwise.
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Yeh agreed. Function calling FTW— just need a bit more reliability/(semi-?)-idempotence.
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It’s hard to communicate about this stuff. I think people hear ‘tools’ and ‘function calling’ and assume it provides an actual suite of tools or pre-made routines that it calls upon on the Anthropic b…
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WHAT LOL. You're on hacker news and you're complaining that people are hacking?! Literally the entire tenet is playing around and experimenting for our own edification and fun. On August 25,…
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Biggest bugbear is that 90% of the time, non-technical people are just looking for a CRUD app. Basic user auth, chat, forum, mobile app. Etc. The age-old scaffold. It's just dull. I'm a tech…
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Location: UK, able to work Asian timezones only
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No but open to travel
Technologies: JavaScript, React, Neo4j, Node.js, Next.js, LLMs, Generative AI…
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Why does this feel like an AI wrote it? And the whole website feels the same. The OP is here commenting as well and, though polite, just gives off an AI vibe. Really off.
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2c: I guess it's a "wait and see" approach. The AI Bill is making good progress through EU parliament and will soon (?) be enforceable. It includes pretty hefty fines (up to 7% annual t…
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Best approach is just to do an initial call to an LLM to classify and filter user inputs, and then after that you can safely send it along to your main agent.
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This unthinking encoding of thresholds feels like a 'Systems' problem that percolates into almost every part of life, whether its income brackets or hard limits on how many books you can bor…
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Yeh it’s weird they don’t mention parameter size or other reasoning metrics. It’s a very cool approach to getting structured output from an LLM, but the benchmarks don’t show us the whole picture. I’m…