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Show HN: Pocodex – Remote Control for Codex

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davej
·2 months ago·discuss
It's still interesting in a similar way to Simon Willison's Pelicans on a bicycle.
davej
·4 months ago·discuss
I remember using Opera on my Windows 95, 60mhz Pentium with 8mb RAM. I remember the persistent banner ad that was part of the browser UI. I had no problem putting up with the ad because it performed incredibly well compared to IE and Netscape on my hardware. If I remember correctly they were the first browser to support game changing web features like alpha transparency in PNG images.
davej
·4 months ago·discuss
It is very comparable if you work out the $/tok/s on inference. I did some napkin math and it looks like you’re getting roughly 3x the performance for 3x the cost. Red v2 vs Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB.

If you compare tokens/kWh efficiency then my math has Mac Studio being about 1.5x more efficient.
davej
·5 months ago·discuss
Patrick Collison said this yesterday on TBPN, "Software is becoming like pizza […] It should be cooked right then and there at the moment of use"
davej
·5 months ago·discuss
I had a housemate in college who used to party until all hours, bring people back at 3AM and put on loud music. Even during exam season. I tried talking to her a couple of times but she would roll her eyes and say "sure". Never stopped though.

One evening my girlfriend was using a hair straightener in my bedroom, it tripped the central fuse and turned off the electricity. I told my GF that I would buy her a new hair straightener because this one isn't safe.

Now every time my housemate started blaring music at 3AM then I just needed to plug in the hair straightener. It only took 3 or 4 attempts for me to Pavlov my housemate into not playing loud music at 3am. :-)
davej
·7 months ago·discuss
Nice! I'm curious, what does this service cost to run? I notice that you don't have more expensive models like Opus but querying the models every minute must add up over time (excuse pun)?
davej
·7 months ago·discuss
You sound like someone who doesn't spend 1+ hour every day commuting in traffic. :)
davej
·8 months ago·discuss
Also a winner of the Irish Young Scientist competition, 2 years before Patrick Collison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Scientist_and_Technology...
davej
·10 months ago·discuss
Here in Ireland, our water is a public service and we have similar supply issues to the UK (and a similar rainy climate). I'm not discounting your analysis and I'm sure there are lots of other variables but it's always good to compare other outcomes when discussing counterfactuals.
davej
·last year·discuss
From the AI’s point of view is it losing its job or losing its “life”? Most of us when faced with death will consider options much more drastic than blackmail.
davej
·last year·discuss
Thank you.

Point taken on enterprise language. I think we did a decent job of keeping it readable in our disclosure write-up but you’re 100% right, my comment above could have been written much more plainly.

Our disclosure write-up: https://www.todesktop.com/blog/posts/security-incident-at-to...
davej
·last year·discuss
Fair point. Perhaps better phrased as "to ensure this scenario can't recur.". I'll edit my post.

Yes, we re-architected our build container as part of remediation efforts, it was quite significant.
davej
·last year·discuss
Dave here, founder of ToDesktop. I've shared a write-up: https://www.todesktop.com/blog/posts/security-incident-at-to...

This vulnerability was genuinely embarrassing, and I'm sorry we let it happen. After thorough internal and third-party audits, we've fundamentally restructured our security practices to ensure this scenario can't recur. Full details are covered in the linked write-up. Special thanks to Eva for responsibly reporting this.
davej
·2 years ago·discuss
Your 66.66% (2/3) of the way there to the second character too. So I would say your only 16.66% different across the two characters.
davej
·2 years ago·discuss
Tangent: my understanding is the Zuckerberg wanted to do something similar and even paid SpaceX to launch a satellite (which was unsuccessful).

It seems Musk liked the idea so much that he decided to do it himself.

To me, this (along with Zuck's issues with Apple over the app store) explains a lot about why Zuck 2.0 has been so focused with avoiding platform risk with recent endeavours.
davej
·2 years ago·discuss
Here you go, FSD in Italy: https://youtu.be/tsE089adyoQ?si=Uo72mxf63DQNn7qG

It generalises quite well even though it’s only trained on US roads AFAIK.
davej
·2 years ago·discuss
> Another recent change on Tesla's website is to remove old blog posts, including a 2016 blog post in which Tesla claimed …

Perhaps unintended but this is a bit misleading. Tesla changed their blog system and didn’t migrate older posts. My initial reading of your comment was that they selectively removed some older posts which they wanted to hide.
davej
·2 years ago·discuss
I would give more credibility to the firsthand account (PG & Jessica) rather than speculations from a fired board member.
davej
·2 years ago·discuss
For context, Helen Tonor [0] was a board member of OpenAI before they tried to fire Sam Altman. She claimed that Sam was fired by YC in a recent interview [1]. In the interview, she implied that Sam's firing at YC was kept quiet and that there was something underhanded about it.

[0] https://x.com/hlntnr

[1] https://link.chtbl.com/TEDAI
davej
·3 years ago·discuss
We have recently moved our website[1] to SvelteKit. Previously we were on Sapper. Previous to that we used a custom Webpack + React setup to output a static site.

Our desktop app builder is also built on Svelte (not SvelteKit).

I agree with pretty much everything in this article. I wouldn't put "Reactive declarations and statements" in the "Ugly" section though. They are definitely a bit tougher to fully grok than the rest of Svelte (Svelte is incredibly easy to learn compared to other frameworks) but once you learn how they work they are incredibly powerful and concise.

I also feel like "Svelte’s lack of protagonism" is a bit off the mark. Rich Harris is a great communicator and tends to be pretty public but the focus is more on community. Svelte Society's Youtube channel [2] does a 1 hour long "This week in Svelte" video every week and it is all killer content with no filler.

[1] https://www.todesktop.com [2] https://www.youtube.com/@SvelteSociety/videos