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shostack

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About shostack

I like digital media and have been in the online advertising and analytics space for a long time. If you're interested in reaching out, my email is "michael.myHNusername@gmail.com".

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    Comment #49238443

    Except California where it is expensive due to pg&e and corruption.

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    Comment #49235134

    Are there any Android remote terminal apps that don't suck on mobile? Termius is painful.

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    Comment #49184005

    I felt that way initially. It is also a headache when you invest a lot in that and need to continually test ripping that stuff out as new models come out. Or in the case of opus 5,…

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    Comment #49183928

    Because AI enables a new layer more akin to an actual OS. But also because I imagine they all want all the things running through them and an OS is the widest net they can cast in …

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    Comment #49183886

    > * When an action requires approval, the agent does not need to stop and wait for it. A Gatekeeper will simulate the outcome, allowing the agent to keep running and queue up more …

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    Comment #49147454

    An example of this in action is the utter inability to get deepseek v4 flash (even the new version) to stay concise. I have jumped through all sorts of hoops with deterministic che…

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    Comment #49138341

    The closest I get to that is when I am getting a massage actually. If I get a 90 minute one, about halfway through my brain stops racing and I enter this, not quite hypnogogic, sta…

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    Comment #49130786

    Am I parsing the providers correctly that if I want a US-based zdr provider that offers the best price and performance that is currently Cloudflare and no longer Fireworks (which i…

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    Comment #49043823

    Introduce a larger one that you have to sign up for digitally to wait in line and be notified when it is available and charge for the privilege. Hell, make it auction based so if y…

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    Comment #49001131

    Is fireworks not private enough?

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    Comment #48963310

    Or for anyone on Windows 10 Home

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    Comment #48840097

    I have built out something similar that let's me use my phone's hardware buttons to open an input stream with the mic for my Hermes agent over my matrix gateway and then has it pla…

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    Comment #48840061

    I work with someone who did a lot of work with this to improve our ability to generate awesome visualizations with little thinking. It's a very powerful language but needs guardrai…

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    Comment #48804960

    Affiliates trying to get you to buy something have been using fake reviews since the beginning of time. AI simply helps do it at scale.

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    Comment #48762746

    Generally when people have a house cleaner they know who it is and have some form of relationship with them that establishes a baseline of trust. That would not exist here.

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    Comment #48748645

    The world would be a smarter place if every study and resulting news article were required by law to include something like this at the top.

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    Comment #48712206

    If you're using Matrix, consider Hermes as a harness if you haven't already. Native gateway support. I've been primarily using mine through Element and it has largely been great.

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    Comment #48639613

    There are so many things I wish I had time to learn about. I don't need my learning resources, I need a way to jack in and have them uploaded to my brain.

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    Comment #48589792

    With a sufficiently sophisticated harness you can actually do quite a lot by just talking to your AI. I have regularly dictated to build things on my phone while walking to lunch f…

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    Comment #48579583

    Which of those providers are: 1. Keeping your data private on in the US 2. Not training on it 3. Not quantizing the model 4. Offer reasonable latency adds rate limits

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    Comment #48534422

    This is literal whataboutism. Refute the comment if you have a valid point to make.

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    Comment #48534288

    I wonder how many issues 5.1 could have caught if you ran it as multiple adversarial reviews against the original output it gave you.

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    Comment #48495981

    And how does this compare to openai which is an ad company now? I am interested in trying codex but I want to know how my data will be used for ads or measurement and training data…

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    Comment #48495892

    10% off is practically nothing and also irrelevant because it is the total cost of the trip that matters and they can easily increase that over time behind the scenes in a way that…

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    Comment #48438803

    Also, a lot of people have dreams about a perfect idealized version of something instead of the reality. If they actually got to experience the reality they might find that they no…