thesandlord

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by thesandlord 9mo ago
I know everyone here is telling you not to hyper optimize, but I've found drafting a prompt for an AI agent (Cursor/Devin/Codex/etc) and letting it run and then using the remaining time to do a quick body weight set (pus
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by thesandlord 10mo ago
New Hisense TVs have USB-C DisplayPort support. Pretty cool, but realistically I don't see how it's different from HDMI from a usefulness standpoint. Edit: It is cool I can plug my phone or laptop into the TV with one cable, no ad
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by thesandlord 10mo ago
I remember running around campus looking for WiFi hotspots with my N810, using Google Voice to text my friends ($0.10 per text, no thank you!). Learned so much Linux admin skills that became so useful later in life. Favorite device ever! Ev
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by thesandlord 1y ago
Is this primarily for building chat based agents? What if I want to trigger a workflow via API or webhook and the wait for some sort of human in the loop verification? Do you have an example for something like that? The visual UI + code is
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by thesandlord 1y ago
I played all of KOTOR2 on Xbox using a capture card without sound. Good times.
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by thesandlord 1y ago
If you have an iPad with a USB-C port, you can use the free Orion app to do this too https://orion.tube/
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YC Startups Use AI: Agents, OCR, and Prompt Engineering with Mercoa (YC W23)(aiengineering.report)
4 points by thesandlord 1y ago|0 comments
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by thesandlord 1y ago
I've been using using [BAML]( https://github.com/boundaryml/baml ) to do this, and it works really well. Lets you have multiple different fallback and retry policies, and returns strongly typed outputs from LLMs.
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by thesandlord 2y ago
Don't do that! This was a great post with a lot to learn from. The fact you came to a very similar solution from first principles is very interesting (assuming you didn't know about this before!)
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by thesandlord 2y ago
CTO here, using BAML in our stack has let us use LLMs a LOT more in places that wouldn't make sense without the type-safety. We started using it for line item tag prediction and classification, false-positive checking on our fuzzy matc
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by thesandlord 2y ago
What incentive would HN or YC have to do this? Especially since they are putting out content that argues that you don't even need a business co-founder: https://youtu.be/43RhhwpiSk0?si=NMt8jLFLB9dU0TQ0
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by thesandlord 2y ago
In my experience, after tip Lyft/Uber are more expensive. The exception is during surges when Waymo's price shoots up like crazy.
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by thesandlord 2y ago
We use GPT-4o for data extraction from documents, its really good. I published a small library that does a lot of the document conversion and output parsing: https://npmjs.com/package/llm-document-ocr For straight OCR,
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by thesandlord 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26661223
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by thesandlord 3y ago
I think a portion of people would say yes, it's better to keep the status quo. Imo progress always wins because eventually someone somewhere will break the taboo. Technology even gets lost and rediscovered, which means even if you supr
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by thesandlord 3y ago
I left Google in 2020. It is not like this anymore. I heard its gotten even worse.
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by thesandlord 3y ago
> Also there is the fact that America is extremely anti-immigration at the moment. In what way? Compared to which countries? If OP is coming to the USA for school, I don't think this is a concern esp in the short term.
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Show HN: Document OCR for Node.js with GPT Vision(github.com)
1 points by thesandlord 3y ago|1 comments
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by thesandlord 3y ago
And they wanted to cancel the Bolt too...
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by thesandlord 3y ago
Anecdote: I saw a Cybertruck driving on a highway in SF last week. Didn't get a great look but it was definitely real!
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by thesandlord 3y ago
YC startup school might be something to look into: https://www.startupschool.org/
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by thesandlord 3y ago
Just wanted to chime in and say we are a big fan of Fern! It makes developing our APIs 10x easier as we get full end-to-end type safety and code completion, but the really great part is we get idiomatic client and server SDKs as well as Ope
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by thesandlord 4y ago
Looks like they will offer some sort of customized Android Automotive, which is awesome, but restrict casting from your phone? Seems really short sighted, I feel most folks would use the built-in stuff but having the option to cast from a p
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by thesandlord 4y ago
S22 and W23 have been in-person, W22 was the last remote batch. In person has been a significantly better experience from what I can tell!
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by thesandlord 4y ago
This HN comment says the same, it's not used anymore: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18142526
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by thesandlord 4y ago
I've also spent a decade in Bay Area tech, and have never been asked or seen any of my coworkers feel this pressure, both at big tech (Google/Stripe) and at tiny startups. Of course there are crunch times, but the majority of the
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by thesandlord 4y ago
Archer micro is a huge part of the competitive AoE2 scene. AoE4 had auto tracking arrows and I think folks didn't like it as much as it lowered the skill ceiling
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by thesandlord 4y ago
I've never had an issue with text size, and there is a shortcut to bring up a magnifier. Then again I haven't played any text heavy RPGs on the deck. Noise isn't an issue with PS3/360 era games and older (make sure you c
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by thesandlord 4y ago
Co-founder here. We originally made the landing page in Webflow. This worked ok but had some negative SEO benefits because our main app was forced to be on a subdomain. We remade the page using a Tailwind template, which coincided with migr
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by thesandlord 4y ago
RSUs typically expire if the company doesn't go public in X years

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