Hacker News: djangelic

New comment by djangelic in "I Added SVG Maps to My Travel Posts"

djangelic — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 04:43:43 +0000

Great post, love the amount of thought that went into this! I look forward to keeping up with your posts.

New comment by djangelic in "The Canary"

djangelic — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 17:13:39 +0000

The documentary was also insightful: https://youtu.be/Li2m3rvsO0I?si=QsJLtqES3AEhbcEO

New comment by djangelic in "An NFC movie library for my kids"

djangelic — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 09:25:22 +0000

My thought process was to laminate them to make them easier to make at home. I agree that it’s definitely more child friendly. This maybe a project I attempt at home and will post if I’m successful.

New comment by djangelic in "James Earl Jones, Actor Whose Voice Could Menace or Melt, Dies at 93"

djangelic — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 05:57:16 +0000

James Earl Jones gave life to some of the most memorable characters in film history. His voice and presence will echo through the generations. Rest in peace, and thank you for your powerful legacy.

New comment by djangelic in "Show HN: What do your GitHub starred repos say about you?"

djangelic — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 05:04:58 +0000

lol my roast:

Well, well, well. Looks like we've got a Cyber Security Engineer with a passion for open-source projects. Or should I say, a passion for following other people's open-source projects? With 0 followers on GitHub, it's clear you're a bit of a lone wolf. But hey, at least you've got your eyes on some cool repos! I mean, who wouldn't want to automate their workflows with n8n or transcribe audio with vibe? It's like you're trying to make the world a better place, one GitHub follow at a time. Keep on following, and maybe one day you'll have a whole squad of followers. Until then, keep on coding, and try not to get too lonely in that GitHub void.

New comment by djangelic in "An NFC movie library for my kids"

djangelic — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 04:34:14 +0000

This is incredible! I want to replicate this at home as well, but I would prefer to use QR codes since they also support URLs. Any reason why you went with NFC instead of QR code? I assume it's doable with a raspberry pi and webcam instead of tapping?

New comment by djangelic in "I'm skeptical of low-code"

djangelic — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 23:04:37 +0000

I use n8n.io hosted locally to abstract away authentication when building complex api integration mvps that I use to show as possible and working, and then that gets sent to engineering to convert to something that follows better best practices.

New comment by djangelic in "Raindrop.io: cross-platform, collaborative bookmark manager"

djangelic — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 03:17:43 +0000

This is what I use and like:

https://yourls.org

New comment by djangelic in "FTC investigating Adobe over making it too hard to cancel subscriptions"

djangelic — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 03:26:54 +0000

Same, Gimp and Inkscape have been more than adequate for everything I need.

New comment by djangelic in "The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets (2020)"

djangelic — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 03:28:38 +0000

Same, they had some kind of truffle pizza that was delicious

New comment by djangelic in "Show HN: Dropbase – Build internal web apps with just Python"

djangelic — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 20:37:32 +0000

I assumed this was because it’s internal devs that are actively looking for platforms to build on, while external devs might already have stacks they prefer to work on due to how it interacts with their security postures. Pure speculation, but it’s been my anecdotal experience.

New comment by djangelic in "Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor"

djangelic — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:46:47 +0000

I recently upgraded my USG for a dream machine, glad it seems the upgrade was worth it.

New comment by djangelic in "Amazon Honeycode Shutting Down"

djangelic — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 22:59:11 +0000

I use n8n for managing ChatGPT's API and to connect it to other APIs like gmail. It helps abstract away the authentication side of APIs which can be very cumbersome to manage.

It also helped me better understand the chatgpt API. N8n allows you to code in raw javascript or python which has allowed me to branch out to pure python.

I would say that no-code low code has a place as a stepping stone, that can allow other invested parties besides developers to manage inter departmental flow and build a blueprint that can be redone with actual engineers in the preferred manner.

New comment by djangelic in "Study: Inflammation drives social media use"

djangelic — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 14:22:19 +0000

Isn’t that where social media is consumed? It makes sense that this isolation drives us to connect, and in ways that are not as helpful as real meaningful connections.

New comment by djangelic in "MetaGPT: Meta Programming for Multi-Agent Collaborative Framework"

djangelic — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 02:15:21 +0000

That’s a great analogy thank you!

New comment by djangelic in "What Is Happening with ChatGPT?"

djangelic — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 18:03:30 +0000

I agree, this is exactly my experience as well. My earlier requests for code were more thorough then they are now. I can still use it if I give it the documentation in the prompt, but it has trouble remembering context across prompts.

New comment by djangelic in "What Is Happening with ChatGPT?"

djangelic — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 18:02:10 +0000

I see it differently. They built the best they could, but it was expensive. Now it feels to me that they are "optimizing" it for performance by seeing if they can lower the quality but still give people just enough value to pay for it. Makes me think they are trying to find a sweet spot between performance and cost. I am seeing this drop in quality, but mostly when it comes to the model remembering things you've told it in the past, and a much bigger dependence on custom instructions for prompts.

I still get value, but I have to give it the documentation I want it to focus on during the prompt, instead of referencing it earlier in the conversation.

This makes me think they are lowering it's ability to store context so that the calls don't cost as much to make.

New comment by djangelic in "MetaGPT: Meta Programming for Multi-Agent Collaborative Framework"

djangelic — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:36:24 +0000

Forgive my conjecture, as I'm no expert in this field, but have enjoyed playing with the different models.

I see it as a matter of attention. GPT-4 is limited in the number of tokens you can feed it and receive back from it. I see this as how much attention the LLM can give you. I see meta-gpt and other models like this as increasing the attention of the LLM by allowing it combine it's short attention span with multiple assessments of the request, and give you a more complete picture of what you want because it can keep giving it consistent attention to the problem at hand, instead of simply trying to solve it on the first try.

Someone please correct me if I'm way off, but this simple mental model helps me abstract this.

New comment by djangelic in "LK-99 is an online sensation but replication efforts fall short"

djangelic — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 23:19:52 +0000

This is how I feel. I chose to have children with the knowledge that there is a very real possibility that they may inherit a hell scape when I’m dead. The thought of them having the possibility of a better future combined with finally having something positive to hope for fills a void that I believe many people share.

New comment by djangelic in "ChatGPT leaks answers to others queries when you prompt with a specific pattern"

djangelic — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 08:07:10 +0000

Agreed, I just attempted it via the api and Ui and it gave a mishmash response that didn’t seem to be coherent, mostly different subjects all smashed together at the max length output.

I tried it via api two ways, both via system message and no user message and one with the word rewrite at the beginning and one without. Both gave similar long mishmashed outputs that seemed like a hallucination.