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Co-Founder of CrowdFlower and Weights & Biases.
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vanpelt··on Show HN: Catnip – Run Claude Code from Your iPhone Using GitHub Codespaces
Ahh, understood. Today you can install the iPad version to your mac, not the best experience but would get you what you want. I'll do some more thinking about a more Mac OS native experience.
vanpelt··on Show HN: Catnip – Run Claude Code from Your iPhone Using GitHub Codespaces
Oooo nice, not really yet... Claude stores your session history in ~/.claude/projects/-Path-to-git-repo on your local machine. I should definitely add a "teleport" command like the one claude itself has which let's you move sessions between machines. It's a little tricky with git state & un commited changes but definitely possible. I'll consider this an upvote for that feature.
vanpelt··on Show HN: Catnip – Run Claude Code from Your iPhone Using GitHub Codespaces
(1) This one is on the top of my list. I have a branch that sets up proper iOS notifications. Coming soon. (2) Yeah, I've considered making an actual desktop version. A hacky one exists already. You can run `catnip run` from your desktop and it will run catnip in a Docker container on your machine. There's a web interface, and it even works with native MacOS notifications.
vanpelt··on Wandb/openui: describe UI using your imagination
Tailwind is especially well suited for LLM generation because all of the styles come inline with the HTML. Could definitely just ask it to write styles but this approach also improves token efficiency.
vanpelt··on WebAssembly: Adding Python support to WASM language runtimes
https://nsjail.dev is a common tool for sandboxing
vanpelt··on NanoGPT
A100’s are Nvidia GPU’s. You can rent them from providers like AWS or LamdaLabs. The readme has instructions for downloading the original GPT2 weights from OpenAI. You can also train a very simple version on a smaller dataset from your laptop as described in the README.

If you just want to play with a similar but much better model goto https://chat.openai.com

vanpelt··on Please log in with router's password
Pretty cool this post is already the first result in Google’s index. How does that work?
vanpelt··on GitHub Copilot
This would be awesome for terraform! It could potentially derive the details of SSL, k8s, Load Balancers, and databases for each cloud from comments
vanpelt··on Launch HN: Milk Video (YC W21) – Edit online event recordings quickly
Hey Lenny! Congrats on the launch, so excited to see your product come together.
vanpelt··on Analyzing the performance of Tensorflow training on M1 Mac Mini and Nvidia V100
My bad, this was using non-Accelerated TensorFlow on a 2.3GHz 8-Core i9.
vanpelt··on AI Dungeon 2 costing over $10k/day to run on GCS/Colab
GCP charges ~$0.60/hour for the GPU/CPU/MEM equivalent in colab. If bandwidth is costing 10k per day, how much is the free colab compute costing Google?
vanpelt··on My Story as a Homeless Developer
Thanks for sharing man, I hope it gives you hope that so many people are engaging with your story. I'm from Iowa so I know how brutal the winters can be, can't imagine what it's like without a roof over your head. Fortune landed me in San Francisco at the right time, but it wasn't so kind to my brother. He's making ends meet back in Iowa, but just barely.

The advice I would offer is self love and hustle. Anytime you hear that voice saying you fucked up, acknowledge it and let it go. Today is a new day full of opportunity. Have you tried grabbing gigs on Upwork or Freelancer? If you've got the chops, most gigs would pay well enough to get you rent in Iowa pretty quick. Keep your chin up, and keep hacking!

vanpelt··on Regarding the Most Recent Amazon Mechanical Turk Data Contamination
What does he mean by GPS? Is he just getting location info from the IP or using the browser geolocation API? I’ve run my fair share of surveys on mTurk and FigureEight. The best way to prevent scams are with honeypots. Always have a question or two deeper in the survey that seem quick and simple but require engagement. Be sure to change these questions often.
vanpelt··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)
Weights & Biases | SF, CA | FT, ONSITE, VISA | www.wandb.com

Weights and Biases builds cutting-edge tools for machine learning. Our software makes it easier to build production-ready machine learning models at scale. We help ML teams visualize performance and iterate faster.

We're a small team based in the Mission. GCP, Python, TypeScript, React, Tensorflow, Pytorch. Looking for backend, frontend, full stack, and ui/ux engineers. If you love web development and are interested in machine learning lets talk.

vanpelt@wandb.com

vanpelt··on D3 - Languages and Color
Just a heads up... If you think D3, crowdsourcing, distributed systems, or the color "baby poop green" is cool; CrowdFlower is hiring engineers: http://crowdflower.com/about/jobs