<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: bvm</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bvm</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:12:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bvm" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bvm in "Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nah, it just came out like that (i printed it :D)<p>We experimented with ironing, but you can't see it in those views. The A1 is a pretty good printer OOTB. There were a few iterations on the case design though to optimise the edges.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:45:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45958711</link><dc:creator>bvm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45958711</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45958711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bvm in "Claude 3 model family"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>- Hosting OSS models was a pain [solved]<p>what's the solution here? vllm?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2024 15:53:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39591852</link><dc:creator>bvm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39591852</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39591852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bvm in "The hovercraft's time might have arrived"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i'm more intrigued by the image of the rescue in the article where someone appears to have been riding a quadbike on a frozen lake (?!) and fallen in.<p><a href="https://www.firetruckmall.com/AvailableTruck/10923/2018-Neoteric-Hovertrek-Deluxe-Rescue-Hovercraft" rel="nofollow">https://www.firetruckmall.com/AvailableTruck/10923/2018-Neot...</a> this would seem to be the source, is it a test? but why would you use a real quadbike in freezing water for a test? Looks terrifying.</p>
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<p>800gb</p>
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<p>I also found this tedious and made a tiny vscode extension to make it less tedious<p><a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TomJennings.copy-selected-file-contents" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TomJenni...</a></p>
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<p>yeh sure! how'd you like to do so?</p>
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<p>large corporates, financial services. Use cases were needle-in-a-haystack style searching, internal comms, following research topics over time, external newsletters, that kinda stuff. It wasn't particularly high margin but it was a fun business.</p>
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<p>Sure. I worked at a company that produced tens of thousands of human written summaries of news data a year. This was costly and slow but our clients really valued them. Back in 2019 we fine tuned an LLM to help, we put a lot of effort into creating a human-in-the-loop experience, highlighting parts of speech that were commonly hallucinated and ensuring that we were allowing humans to focus on things that humans are good at.<p>We also released some of the data as a free dataset with a commercial option for all of it. This was more successful than I thought it would be and was hoovered up by the kind of people that buy these datasets.<p>It will have been surpassed by recent developments now but it was an incredibly enjoyable project.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://blog.tomjennings.technology/posts/old-stuff/">https://blog.tomjennings.technology/posts/old-stuff/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36825041">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36825041</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2023 10:28:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://blog.tomjennings.technology/posts/old-stuff/</link><dc:creator>bvm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36825041</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36825041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bvm in "Welcoming Shopify as a Ladybird sponsor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>did this come about because shopify was the first page you visited in your May update video? nice bit of serendipity!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2023 07:54:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503609</link><dc:creator>bvm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503609</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36503609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bvm in "The part of Postgres we hate the most: Multi-version concurrency control"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>READ COMMITTED SNAPSHOT</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2023 05:20:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35723607</link><dc:creator>bvm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35723607</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35723607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bvm in "Estes Rockets Model Scale 1:100 Replica of SpaceX Falcon 9"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>if hypergols are allowable then some existing RCS thrusters would fit on a model rocket. Or rocketlab's curie is pretty small IIRC.<p>but...liquid propellents are either pretty dangerous (hydrazine et al), or impossible for an amateur to work with (cryo requirements, pressures required, complex starting sequence etc).<p>The plumbing, extra parts, materials required, tolerances mean that what you might consider as a "classic" liquid design ends up being pretty heavy at a small scale, so you have to build a bigger engine to cope with the extra weight. So you would end up with an engine not really that analogous to what you would consider "classic" liquid designs (gas generators/tap-offs/staged combustions).<p>However.... Frank Malina and Jack Parsons essentially did what you're proposing in the 1930s without any new fangled 3d printing technology, so it's possible! Just don't end up like Jack Parsons.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Apr 2023 08:36:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35491636</link><dc:creator>bvm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35491636</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35491636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bvm in "Show HN: Marvin – build AI functions that use an LLM as a runtime"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just checking out the docs now, how do Loaders fit into the vision alongside AI functions? I can't quite piece it together in my head. Would a function grab extra context from a loader prior to execution? Is this supported now?</p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/CurationCorp/curation-corpus">https://github.com/CurationCorp/curation-corpus</a><p>There's a dataset that would help there.</p>
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<p>scraper!</p>
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<p>Related q: I had a commercial dataset that I would loved to have found a way of verifiably locking access down to but still allowing my customers to consume it for model training etc.<p>Anyone come across such a thing?</p>
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<p>> lost three bullion 
putting the STOCK in stock market</p>
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<p>This is from 2016, not 2001, though I can see how the submitter thought otherwise!</p>
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<p>is that not the difference in ease of understanding of answering an explicit question vs guessing at implicit intent?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2022 09:48:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34050267</link><dc:creator>bvm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34050267</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34050267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bvm in "Show HN: Get answers for shell commands from GPT3 from your terminal"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the example question is also part of the prompt<p>>   'Correctly answer the asked question. Return \'Sorry, Can\'t answer that.\' if the question isn\'t related to technology.\n\nQ - get into a docker container.\nA - `docker exec -it mongodb`\n\nQ - Check what\'s listening on a port.\nA - `lsof -i tcp:4000`\n\nQ - How to ssh into a server with a specific file.\nA - `ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa user@127.0.0.1`\n\nQ - How to set relative line numbers in vim.\nA - `:set relativenumber`\n\nQ - How to create alias?\nA - `alias my_command="my_real_command"`\n\nQ - Tail docker logs.\nA - `docker logs -f mongodb`\n\nQ - Forward port in kubectl.\nA - `kubectl port-forward <pod_name> 8080:3000`\n\nQ - Check if a port is accessible.\nA - `nc -vz host port`\n\nQ - Reverse SSH Tunnel Syntax.\nA - `ssh -R <remote_port>:<local_host>:<local_port> <user>@<remote_host>`\n\nQ - Kill a process running on port 3000.\nA - `lsof -ti tcp:3000 | xargs kill`\n\nQ - Backup database from a mongodb container.\nA - `docker exec -it mongodb bash -c "mongoexport --db mongodb --collection collections --outdir backup"`\n\nQ - SSH Tunnel Remote Host port into a local port.\nA - `ssh -L <local_port>:<remote_host>:<remote_port> <user>@<remote_host>`\n\nQ - Copy local file to S3.\nA - `aws s3 cp <local_file> s3://<bucket_name>/<remote_file>`\n\nQ - Copy S3 file to local.\nA - `aws s3 cp s3://<bucket_name>/<remote_file> <local_file>`\n\nQ - Recursively remove a folder.\nA - `rm -rf <folder_name>`\n\nQ - Copy a file from local to ssh server.\nA - ` scp /path/to/file user@server:/path/to/destination`\n\nQ - Curl syntax with port.\nA - `curl <a href="http://localhost:3000`\n\nQ" rel="nofollow">http://localhost:3000`\n\nQ</a> - Download a file from a URL with curl.\nA - `curl -o <file_name> <URL>`\n\nQ - Git commit with message.\nA - `git commit -m "my commit message"`\n\nQ - Give a user sudo permissions.\nA - `sudo usermod -aG sudo <user>`\n\nQ - Check what\'s running on a port?\nA - `lsof -i tcp:<port>`\n\nQ - View last 5 files from history\nA - `history | tail -5`\n\nQ - When was China founded?\nA - Sorry, Can\'t answer that.\n\nQ - Pass auth header with curl\nA - `curl -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" <URL>`\n\nQ - Filter docker container with labels\nA - `docker ps --filter "label=<KEY>"`\n\nQ - When was Abraham Lincon born?\nA - Sorry, Can\'t answer that.\n\nQ - Get into a running kubernetes pod\nA - `kubectl exec -it <pod_name> bash`\n\nQ - Capital city of Ukrain?\nA - Sorry, Can\'t answer that.\n\nQ - ';<p>so you would expect it to answer it "correctly"</p>
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