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c0wb0yc0d3r··on Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam
How did you determine the price of the game?
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam
This article has a link to the steam page, at the end. https://godotengine.org/article/2024-cherry-picks/

So my guess is Godot.

c0wb0yc0d3r··on The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025
This is different though, isn’t it? Amazon still exists. The whole platform is shutting down. Individual devs aren’t taking down their apps.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Mexico issues legal threat to Google
Anyone have any insight on why it seems Google is being singled out?

Apple Maps and Bing both show “Gulf of America.” OSM doesn’t seem to label the body of water at all.

c0wb0yc0d3r··on SmolGPT: A minimal PyTorch implementation for training a small LLM from scratch
This is at the top of my lunch time learning list. Not quite what I’ve been envisioning but it’s in the right direction. Thanks!
c0wb0yc0d3r··on SmolGPT: A minimal PyTorch implementation for training a small LLM from scratch
I don’t have a solid ML foundation, and it’s been a decade or more since I’ve worked with linear algebra.

For now I think that might be too deep for what I’m after. I’m at the beach looking out at the vast ocean that is machine learning and LLMs.

c0wb0yc0d3r··on SmolGPT: A minimal PyTorch implementation for training a small LLM from scratch
Can someone help me understand what I’m looking at here? This repository allows me to train a specific model on a specific data set, and finally test the result? Is that correct?

I am interested in how large and small language models are trained, but as someone who has little knowledge in this world I find it hard to cut through the noise to find useful information.

Really I’m looking for an open source project that helps a person gain this knowledge. Something like a docker container that encapsulates all the dependencies. When training it will use any available gpu or tell me why my gpu can’t be used and then fall back to cpu. Then had a simple interface to test the training results. Finally you can easily pull back the curtain to understand the process in better detail and maybe even adapt it to different model to experiment.

Does something like that exist?

c0wb0yc0d3r··on Frustrated YouTube viewers seek explanation for hour-long unskippable ads
I haven’t seen any ads this long in a long time, but when I did they weren’t ads in the traditional sense. They were things like terrible talk shows with a thinly veiled agenda, or infomercials.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?
I’m not OP, but I would hazard a guess that those are the tools that OP has at hand.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Write Your Own Virtual Machine (2022)
Link in case the order changes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42519788

c0wb0yc0d3r··on Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant
I hear ya! For awhile earlier this year I was playing around with using k8s as a router, but trying to firewall it properly was a headache.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant
It sounds like I use HA in a similar manner. For me, I make HA available to Google Home and HomeKit. HA is just glue to hold everything together.

I tried do make a dashboard some time ago but it felt rather complicated. Google Home and HomeKit integrate the best into my life and the lives of my family that there is no way HA can compete. Maybe that will change if I find myself in a house that I own… Maybe spending time to make a dashboard will have a better value prop.

c0wb0yc0d3r··on Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant
I assume then, you don’t use HAOS? What benefit do you see by managing your config this way? Do you also have an operator to reload HA when when you update configs?
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant
I learned my lesson with LIFX light bulbs. Luckily for me I was able to find an old version of the Android app. Manually installed it, and was able to rescue the few I have.

These days I’ve found that when in doubt get the device that is home kit approved. That usually ensures local only control. You have to fake it with home assistant, but it can be done with little fuss.

c0wb0yc0d3r··on South Korean president declares emergency martial law
The AP article has already been updated too.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Stripe Black Friday Dashboard (Physical Machine)
Definitely different levels!

https://bfcm.shopify.com/

Does anyone know what frameworks Shopify used to put that together? Viewing the source I see refs to react, but I find it hard to believe that it is only react.

c0wb0yc0d3r··on PHP 8.4
> Does `$this->country =` use the setter even if it's in a hook (but not a `country` hook)? To me it is obvious hooks won't use other hooks because that could lead to an infinite loop in a hurry

I would expect hooks for properties other than `$this->contryCode` to be called inside of a `$this->contryCode` hook.

Btw the docs that are linked in the post[0] seem to be clearer than the example in the announcement. Reads less ambiguously to me.

[0]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/migration84.new-features.php#m...

c0wb0yc0d3r··on Electrobun: Cross-platform desktop applications written in TypeScript
I dug through it a tiny bit because I was curious as well. To me it looks like OS-specifics aren't dealt with in the project. It uses bun to run the TypeScript. From the getting started docs the project just opens a browser window for the UI. I didn't look to see if this meant the user's default browser or a bundled browser.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Show HN: I launched a super cheap and simple to use OCR tool for macOS
I wonder why that is? Could it mean that Apple trained their ocr tool to favor nontechnical text. Meaning the tool determined that “cod” was more likely than “cmd”

Interestingly, iOS corrected “cmd” to “cod” when I first typed it out.

c0wb0yc0d3r··on Building My Resume in HTML Using Eleventy
My guts say that only pdf and doc formats matter. I would imagine that it’d be more likely a dev is testing outputs from word or printing to pdf from a browser.

Of your options my thought is HTML to pdf via the browser is most tested.

c0wb0yc0d3r··on Law Enforcement Undermines Tor
Yes paper work is required. I think OP is pointing out that that it doesn’t require the same amount of work it used to. Especially from law enforcement.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on The latter half of October, the maintainer goes offline
I usually do the same. It seems to blow many minds.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on T-Mobile pays $16M fine for three years' worth of data breaches
No the person you were replying to, but my reason is that revenue is before expenses. The fine actually has to cost the company money for it to mean anything.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Do not build your Gov.uk service as a single-page application
I think that section could be more clear if something like "without more effort" was added.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Open-source utils for devs who don't like ads
Truly no ads

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

c0wb0yc0d3r··on Open-source utils for devs who don't like ads
You don't even have to host it yourself. It runs in browser.

You can also download it and run it as a file I think.

My only complaint is that with my limited knowledge of JavaScript, the docs lack the info I need to contribute my own tools.

For example, I find myself needing a substring tool but there isn't one :(

c0wb0yc0d3r··on 2.9B hit in one of largest data breaches; full names and SSNs exposed
I just write that stuff in my password manager.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on IP.network: Check IP Address
I'm biased, but mine is easier to remember: https://httpre.quest
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2024)
Outside of work I'm learning about buildroot and building a tiny Linux systems. When I get stuck with that, I'm working through Crafting Interpreters. If I'm lucky I'll be able to take what I've learned and make a unit aware calculator.
c0wb0yc0d3r··on Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?
Pokemon for me.
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