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by czhu12 11mo ago
I am totally on the other end of the spectrum. For $20 a month, the amount of value I get from ChatGPT is incredible. I can talk to it in voice mode to help brainstorm ideas, it teaches me about different subjects, it (+ claude code) helps
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by czhu12 11mo ago
I think its worth discounting against the failure rates of humans also. > Depending on the context, and how picky you need to be about recognizing good or bad output, this might be anywhere from a 60% to a 95% success rate, with the rema
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by czhu12 11mo ago
One thing that I’ve been trying to understand about this discourse: Is the sum of the increase in costs some people are now paying greater than the subsidies that previously existed? In other words: was there always a massive bill to be pai
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by czhu12 11mo ago
I think the case that they are making is exactly that -- because it is run on the cheap, is what leads to worse outcomes for children.
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by czhu12 11mo ago
For what its worth, the Economist recently wrote about how universal child care can harm children, citing a study from Quebec. > The trio published their first study in 2005, and the results were damning. Shifting to universal child care
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by czhu12 11mo ago
Let me know how it works out! theres a discord link for any help, etc.
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by czhu12 11mo ago
This is exactly why we built https://canine.sh , to try to rebuild Heroku in the open source We begged heroku for years to lower their prices but they just kept increasing it. I even showed a rep a side by side comparison of hero
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by czhu12 1y ago
I’ve been working on https://canine.sh which is a free, open source Heroku alternative for 2 years now. It’s exactly the product I wish I had when I started my previous company. Running on PaaS is incredible for devex but the pr
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by czhu12 1y ago
its kind of hard to imagine that FAANG employees in india and philippines get paid as much as the west when London is a 30-50% cut from the Bay Area. Just perusing on google for roles at google in hyderabad, I think its significantly lower
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by czhu12 1y ago
I believe the first one at least is mandated by law.
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by czhu12 1y ago
What about just search? I basically never use google anymore and am perfectly happy to pay for OpenAI
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by czhu12 1y ago
Its the flexibility and power of Kubernetes that I think is incredible. Scaling to multiple nodes is trivial, if your entire data plane is blown away, the recovery is trivial. You can also self host almost any open source service without an
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by czhu12 1y ago
> It's a shame they don't just license all their software stack at a reasonable price with a similar model like Sidekiq and let you sort out actually decent hardware We built and open sourced https://canine.sh for e
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by czhu12 1y ago
Our entire data stack (Databricks and Omni) are all down for us also. The nice thing is that AWS is so big and widespread that our customers are much more understanding about outages, given that its showing up on the news.
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by czhu12 1y ago
If anyone is looking for a gentler, Heroku like onramp to Kubernetes, its exactly why I built Canine [1]. In retrospect, at my previous company, what we really needed in the early days was something that was Heroku-like (don't make me
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by czhu12 1y ago
We discovered a similar cost saving and I ended up building an internal PaaS that i ended up open sourcing, that works well on hetzner. The biggest downside to hetzner only is that it’s really annoying to wrangle shell scripts and GitHub ac
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by czhu12 1y ago
I’ve been looking for something like this but backend agnostic (library rather than a framework) because we’re already about a million lines deep into a Django project. Anyway to lift this up into something that I can just mount into a Djan
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by czhu12 1y ago
Super cool project! If you ever get this working for Kubernetes, I'd love to add it to https://canine.sh for a one click deploy, been looking for something like this.
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by czhu12 1y ago
> Putting a latency-critical API on a stateless edge runtime Isn’t this the whole point of serverless edge? It’s understood to be more complex, with more vendor lockin, and more expensive. Trade off is that it’s better supported and fast
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by czhu12 1y ago
Would like to echo the absurdly expensive bit. They charged us over $140k / year to basically stream ~1TB of production data (50m rows) from our Postgres into a redshift database. They were part of the reason I started https:/&#x
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by czhu12 1y ago
I'd say the biggest difference is in the backend -- canine is built on top of kubernetes, which is what lets it leverage the rich ecosystem of tooling and packages. Kubernetes has a reputation for being difficult to use, and so Canine
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by czhu12 1y ago
Currently working on an open source Heroku / Fly.io / Render alternative: https://canine.sh Its built on top of Kubernetes, based on learnings I've had from previous experiences scaling infrastructure. If you look
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by czhu12 1y ago
Yeah so happy to share how that happened to us. If you want to host a redshift instance, and get Google Analytics logs + twilio logs + stripe payments + your application database into a datawarehouse, then graph all that in a centralized pl
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by czhu12 1y ago
Canine just makes deploying sentry / grafana / airbyte + 15k other OS packages a one click install, which then just gives you a URL you can use. Because its running on top of kubernetes, a well built package should have healthchec
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by czhu12 1y ago
This is why I built https://canine.sh -- to make installing all that stuff a single step. I was the cofounder of a small SaaS that was blowing >$500k / year on our cloud stack Within the first few weeks, you'll real
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by czhu12 1y ago
This was one of the most fascinating things I've read all year. Thank you for posting
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by czhu12 1y ago
I'm working on a Heroku / Render / Flyio alternative thats free, open source, built on top of Kubernetes for about 2 years now. I’ve found these services charge way too much per GB of memory (10x more than IaaS providers),
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by czhu12 1y ago
I misread this initially as the problem that damn near every other country has is also immigration. This seems to also be at least somewhat true for first world countries. Looking at the politics in Europe and Asia today, the question of wh
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by czhu12 1y ago
Not totally clear to me why it’s preferable though: Postgres takes up as little as 50mb of memory as a server running on the host machine and offers way more features, with a large ecosystem. Why jam SQLite in server side environments? Embe
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by czhu12 1y ago
I wish they could just make a phone that has 3 or 4 day battery life. I never understood this obsession with thickness, even the normal iPhone is too thin to properly hold without a case.

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