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jhgg commented on Users claim Discord's age verification can be tricked with video game characters   thepinknews.com/2025/07/2... · Posted by u/mediumdeviation
jhgg · a month ago

    > government passes law that requires companies to age verify users
    > said government provides no way to actually verify a human's age
    > hilarity ensues

jhgg commented on Show HN: I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir   github.com/Dahrkael/ExTra... · Posted by u/dahrkael
jhgg · 2 months ago
Really cool! You looking to write Elixir as your main job?
jhgg commented on Eleven v3   elevenlabs.io/v3... · Posted by u/robertvc
christophilus · 3 months ago
We’re using elevenlabs in a new prototype, and it gets confused by its own voice which my mic picks up. Unless I wear headphones, it thinks I’m talking, and it gets into a loop.

I hope this release fixes that bug!

jhgg · 3 months ago
This is not a model issue - you just have not properly implemented acoustic echo cancellation on your end.
jhgg commented on Updated rate limits for unauthenticated requests   github.blog/changelog/202... · Posted by u/xena
jhgg · 4 months ago
The truth is this won't actually stop AI crawlers and they'll just move to a large residential proxy pool to work around it. Not sure what the solution is honestly.
jhgg commented on The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API Pricing   metacast.app/blog/enginee... · Posted by u/navs
leerob · 5 months ago
(I work at Vercel) We moved to a transformation-based price: https://x.com/TheBuildLog/status/1892308957865111918
jhgg · 5 months ago
Sweet! That's much more reasonable!
jhgg commented on The Cost of Being Crawled: LLM Bots and Vercel Image API Pricing   metacast.app/blog/enginee... · Posted by u/navs
jhgg · 5 months ago
$5 to resize 1,000 images is ridiculously expensive.

At my last job we resized a very large amount of images every day, and did so for significantly cheaper (a fraction of a cent for a thousand images).

Am I missing something here?

jhgg commented on Query GPT: Transform Natural Language into SQL   query-gpt.com/... · Posted by u/pekingzcc
sega_sai · 5 months ago
I am not entirely sure if the distinct service is justified here, but in my own work, I've found that regular Chatgpt is great in writing queries. And usually I post the '\d ' output to it to describe my schema, and ask in regular language what i want. I don't think i encountered yet cases when it didn't work. The only thing I had to occassionally ask is to rewrite the query from nested query to CTE.
jhgg · 5 months ago
jhgg commented on IO Devices and Latency   planetscale.com/blog/io-d... · Posted by u/milar
jhgg · 6 months ago
Metal looks super cool, however at my last job when we tried using instance local SSD's on GCP, there were serious reliability issues (e.g. blocks on the device losing data). Has this situation changed? What machine types are you using?

Our workaround was this: https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-supercharges-network-di...

jhgg commented on Datadog acquires Quickwit   quickwit.io/blog/quickwit... · Posted by u/lrx
jhgg · 8 months ago
Hoping this leads to datadog launching a logging solution that does not cost an arm and a leg at scale.
jhgg commented on How to make LLMs shut up   greptile.com/blog/make-ll... · Posted by u/sebg
OutOfHere · 8 months ago
In other words, just instruct the LLM to do what you need. The article is about nothing we don't already know.
jhgg · 8 months ago
Except this article is about how their efforts to prompt the LLM didn't end up working and how they used embeddings / vector search to filter out comments that the LLM generated based on user feedback.

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