domoritz's comments

On: Smaller but Better: Unifying Layout Generation with Smaller LLMs

[domoritz]

And also not UI layout generation.

On: Modern Polars – A side-by-side comparison of the Polars and Pandas libraries

[domoritz]

Altair works with Polars. The built-in plotting library for Polars is Altair actually. https://docs.pola.rs/user-guide/misc/visualization/

On: Show HN: Check if your website's images have alt text

[domoritz]

I really hope most people are not just trying to satisfy regulatory requirements but genuinely want to allow people using screen readers to understand what an image is about. Having said that, AI can definitely be useful when there is no alt text but it shouldn’t be an excuse not to add alt texts as a creator.

On: 20 years of Google Scholar

[domoritz]

Semantic scholar is pretty good so I keep using it more and more.

On: The Prompt() Function: Use the Power of LLMs with SQL

[domoritz]

I love the simplicity of this. Hurray for small models for small tasks.

On: Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)

[domoritz]

I'd be scared to spell it with one M or two Ts.

On: Low Cost CO2 Sensors Comparison: Photo-Acoustic vs. NDIR

[domoritz]

Aiegradient is great and they make indoor and outdoor monitors. Fully open source. They are the authors of this article and to a lot of research and advocacy which is great.

On: Vega – A declarative language for interactive visualization designs

[domoritz]

Awesome to hear that you like Vega Altair. With the recent integration of VegaFusion you don’t need to embed the data in the notebook anymore and I’ve found Altair to scale quite well. Give it a shot.

On: Slack updates retention policy for free workspaces

[domoritz]

matrix.org is a neat open protocol/platform but clients have some room to improve.

[ftth_finland → domoritz]

Matrix sucks rocks. Zulip is where it’s at.

[rwmj → domoritz]

If you want to filter your users to that small group of tech experts that is able to install and set up the client.

On: TypeSpec: A new language for API-centric development

[domoritz]

This looks interesting but I already have TypeScript types for my APIs so I developed https://github.com/vega/ts-json-schema-generator which lets me generate JSON schema from the sources directly. Yes, it does have some oddities because the two languages have slightly different feature sets but it’s been working well for us for a few years. If I didn’t have TypeScript or a smaller API surface I’d be okay with typing again I would look at TypeSpec though. It definitely beats writing JSON schema by hand.