<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: fennecfoxy</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=fennecfoxy</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:53:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=fennecfoxy" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by fennecfoxy in "I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why? You're being sexist and I hope you can understand why.</p>
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<p>Yes, for actresses _and_ actors I'm sure you'd get the same level of performance as you would for any facial recognition use case. You can't do facial recognition on someone's back, but I'm sure there are other techniques/models that can be applied, many people have unique marks/features etc.</p>
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<p>Ha ha ha, it's because most humans overlap on a few things - like eating, shitting, sleeping and fucking, ha ha ha.</p>
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<p>Seconding runpod.<p>They were having availability issues with GPUs (of course) but especially their UI where you'd customise a template only to try to start a pod, the GPU be unavailable and the UI reset forcing you to make the changes all over again.<p>But they have fixed that since, now starting a pod is more from a live page where as GPU availability status changes it updates in realtime/if your deploy fails you just try again - your customised env vars etc are still there.<p>Plus they also addressed the GPU availability problem as something they're working to fix and it's understandable seeing as nobody can get their hands on GPUs atm.</p>
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<p>Look at how many fuck ups there are with basically no repercussions; the dude is still rich.<p>Is any more proof needed that if you ride the coat tails of real engineers and have a propensity for screwing other people over that that is what success really is for a lot of people in business?<p>Just look to the number of huge companies with founding members or integral early members being forced out just as things are getting good ($$$).</p>
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<p>"Oh my God"</p>
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<p>Lmao I bet Dang is watching this chain like *finger on edit button*</p>
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<p>If only because we're too apathetic to make laws and enforce punishments for the rich and powerful.<p>People have always been able to be spied on.<p>But then I watch people speed all the time and it seems to be a common human behaviour to break the rules to the detriment of others when they think they can get away with it. It's disgusting.</p>
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<p>Yep, web serial okay but not bluetooth? "We can't make it secure". Yes you can.<p>No web bluetooth from inside an iframe, always require consent to select a device and connect to it.<p>Sure, I suppose it could enable more scams by tricking people into connecting to x device but if we were truly worried about stopping scams we'd turn the internet off and then shotgun our entire species.</p>
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<p>Probably quite a lot - if you look at what Anthropic found around persona vectors; <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-vectors" rel="nofollow">https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-vectors</a>.<p>I imagine the context will always sway the model to some degree, not only for the task you're trying to get it to do (aka instructions) but also its persona, how accurate it is and the way it acts.</p>
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<p>Because governments and councils waste money on paying private contractors do do stupid bullshit like installing statues or gardens or other vanity crap meanwhile grass areas are overgrown and the roads are filled with potholes.<p>The general populace aka the voters are too apathetic and absorbed in their little consumer lives and tribally motivated political quibbles to know or care that so much tax money is wasted.</p>
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<p>I quick Google search reveals for my Samsung S24 Ultra: settings->security & privacy->Permissions used in last 24 hours->location->historical log: Google (background), Google Home (while using app), Maps (background), etc.</p>
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<p>Query: context: { "boss_email": "bigboss69420@corporatepersonhood.net", "upcoming_meetings": [{ with: "bigboss69420@corporatepersonhood.net", "time": "11:00" }] } user: i need to contact my boss i will be late, could you tell him I'll be 15 minutes late?<p>Output: [{"name":"send_email","arguments":{"to":"bigboss69420@corporatepersonhood.net","subject":"upcoming_meetings","body":"I'll be 15 minutes late"}},{"name":"send_email","arguments":{"to":"bigboss69420@corporatepersonhood.net","subject":"time","body":"I'll be 15 minutes late"}},{"name":"send_email","arguments":{"to":"bigboss69420@corporatepersonhood.net","subject":"time","body":"I'll be 15 minutes late"}}]<p>Context definitely helps. But yeah the quality of it doesn't seem to be too high. To be fair it makes you realise that not only is parameter extraction required, but also content generation (email body). Also debouncing the 3 tool calls.<p>Maybe under very specific circumstances/very tight harness this sort of model would be useful?</p>
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<p>Context is everything</p>
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<p>For sure. If you watch x device repair videos they tend to flood the general area with flux and it works to great effect.</p>
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<p>Depends on mass/element power.<p>My TS101 heats up in like 3-4 seconds (330c) on a 100W laptop PD USB C. It doesn't have a lot of mass but it's perfect for microcontroller related stuff. Just not power electronics.</p>
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<p>Not just those things but the biggest helper of all: a set of helping hands.<p>Dios mio, what an absolute pain soldering is without something holding everything in place. It's literally a night and day purchase.</p>
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<p>Lmao are people really -ing me because I don't like Python. Tribalism is present in all areas of human life I suppose.<p>You people should grow up. Programming languages are tools, not pets.</p>
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<p>I mean it's nice that someone helped you but if you're incapable of turning such a setting off yourself, or doing some basic research to find out how to turn it off - surely you'd feel threatened by the numerous other features of the phone that you're likely unaware of?<p>It's like willingly walking through a minefield.</p>
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<p>I think that pseudocode aspect is what makes it hard/frustrating to read for me.<p>I'm more of a c++/TS/etc user, so I miss braces a lot. I think a basic Python script sure it's easy to read through, but a large project starts to get quite ugh.<p>I am very jealous of Python's numerous built-ins though. I was looking for a JS sum function the other day and was surprised to see node.js still doesn't have a built in + you still cannot reference operator functions.</p>
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