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JLCarvethon OpenVSX, which VSCode forks rely on for extensions, down for 24 hours

My android phone doesn't have a working keyboard?

JLCarvethon Ask HN: I have excess compute, how can I contribute positively to the Internet?

As long as that compute isn't in OP's home:

> Should I run an exit relay from my home?

No. If law enforcement becomes interested in traffic from your exit relay, it's possible that officers will seize your computer. For that reason, it's best not to run your exit relay in your home or using your home Internet connection.

Instead, consider running your exit relay in a commercial facility that is supportive of Tor. Have a separate IP address for your exit relay, and don't route your own traffic through it.

Of course, you should avoid keeping any sensitive or personal information on the computer hosting your exit relay, and you never should use that machine for any illegal purpose. [0]

[0] - https://2019.www.torproject.org/eff/tor-legal-faq.html.en

JLCarvethon Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US

to be fair Teams barely works on Windows

JLCarvethon Anchoreum: A game for learning CSS anchor positioning

Great, yet another feature Firefox doesn't support... I really try to not use Chrome, but I run into this sort of issue a lot.

JLCarvethon Simple CPU Design

No HTTPS either

JLCarvethon Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?

https://github.com/JLCarveth/nutrition-llama

I've had good speed / reliability with TheBloke/rocket-3B-GGUF on Huggingface, the Q2_K model. I'm sure there are better models out there now, though.

It takes ~8-10 seconds to process an image on my M2 Macbook, so not quite quick enough to run on phones yet, but the accuracy of the output has been quite good.

JLCarvethon Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?

I used a small (3b, I think) model plus tesseract.js to perform OCR on an image of a nutritional facts table and output structured JSON.

JLCarvethon Did Claude's quality drop recently?

It's been terrible for me the past two weeks. Every day I get a message about the site being at high-capacity, or I get rate-limited well before the supposed 45 message limit.

Today, Claude's responses have been so error prone and incorrect it's quite disappointing, as now the LLM is struggling giving correct answers that wouldn't have been a problem previously. For example, it kept insisting that I use `chmod` to take ownership of a directory.

I am seriously considering cancelling my subscription, since the service has only deteriorated since I have subscribed.

JLCarvethon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)

Location: Toronto, ON

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12ZozP07pnzNB2fvS-MVmpF18...

Email: jlcarveth@gmail.com

Technologies: Node.js / Deno, Fresh / React, C, PostgreSQL, systemd, nginx

JLCarvethon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)

Location: Toronto, ON

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12ZozP07pnzNB2fvS-MVmpF18...

Email: jlcarveth@gmail.com

Technologies: Node.js / Deno JS runtimes, Fresh / React, C, PostgreSQL, systemd, nginx

JLCarvethon Ask HN: How can I improve UI dev skills? Looking for real-world examples

I've found https://www.refactoringui.com/ to be quite helpful, you can get the first two chapters for free.

JLCarvethon Ask HN: How to Avoid Microplastics/PFAS

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8994130/

You can try donating plasma

JLCarvethon Ask HN: Got my first iPhone. What should I know?

You can also access your messages from the browser: https://messages.google.com/web/welcome

JLCarvethon Ask HN: What are your favorite index ETFs for Investing?

I am Canadian so I invest in XEQT, a globally-diverse index fund from Blackrock.

JLCarvethon Voice Isolator: Strip background noise for film, podcast, interview production

> text characters

JLCarvethon Ask HN: Has anyone had success with LinkedIn APIs?

I had to pull my company's most recent posts from our socials, LinkedIn was the only one where I gave up. LinkedIn was the only company that wanted a privacy policy, and also made you apply to gain access to the API.

JLCarvethon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)

Location: Toronto, ON

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12ZozP07pnzNB2fvS-MVmpF18...

Email: jlcarveth@gmail.com

Technologies: Node.js / Deno JS runtimes, Fresh / React, C, PostgreSQL, systemd, nginx

JLCarvethon Stop Using Discord

The tone of the "article" is off-putting to say the least..

JLCarvethon Flock Safety is the biggest player in a city-by-city scramble for surveillance

Is there an issue with the title? I don't see what Claude has to do with this article...

JLCarvethon Meta Llama 3

Because they're a publicly traded company with a fiduciary duty to generate returns for shareholders.

JLCarvethon Ask HN: Front-end devs, what is your current db and backend of choice?

Fresh frontends with Node.js backend + postgress DB.

JLCarvethon Ask HN: What's a batteries-included framework that's React-first?

Deno's Fresh uses Preact

JLCarvethon Ask HN: Nice alternatives to Postman?

I just started using this recently, I love it!

JLCarvethon Kobold letters: HTML emails are a risk

From the article "I’ll refer to these elements as kobold letters, after the elusive sprites of mythology."

JLCarvethon Ask HN: What's the best SaaS starter kit for indie makers?

https://github.com/denoland/saaskit

JLCarvethon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2024)

Location: Toronto, ON

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12ZozP07pnzNB2fvS-MVmpF18...

Email: jlcarveth@gmail.com

Technologies: Node.js / Deno JS runtimes, Fresh / React, C, PostgreSQL, systemd, nginx

JLCarvethon The Morgan Motor Company designed a modern coupe, the Aeromax

> The finished product went down well—it came with a 4.4 L V8 motor packing 333 hp (248 kW) and 332 lb-ft (450 Nm), and it made an incredible noise.

I would much rather a nice big V8

JLCarvethon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2024)

Location: Toronto, ON

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12ZozP07pnzNB2fvS-MVmpF18...

Email: jlcarveth@gmail.com

Technologies: Node.js / Deno JS runtimes, Fresh / React, C, PostgreSQL, systemd, nginx

JLCarvethon Ask HN: DigitalOcean Down?

Thank you for posting! Always worrying when I can't access it, I always assume I broke something.

JLCarvethon SEC has not approved Bitcoin ETFs [fixed]

The SECs website?