factsaresacred

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by factsaresacred 8mo ago
> I strongly suspect that the way major clouds do billing is just not ready for answering the question of "how much did X spend over the last hour", and the people worried about this aren't the ones bringing the real reven
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by factsaresacred 11mo ago
Exactly this - and how chatGPT behaves too. After a few conversations with search enabled you figure this out, but they really ought to make the distinction clearer.
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by factsaresacred 1y ago
Still no way to sync the "favorites" album between the default Android Photos app and Google Photos, yet they're busy building this slop. Not to mention the dark patterns that attempt to trick you into backing up your entire
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by factsaresacred 1y ago
For low cost, there's also Cloudflare Vectorize ($0.05 per 100 million stored vectors), which nobody seems to know exists: https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/vecto...
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by factsaresacred 1y ago
I follow a bunch of YC founders on X. Lots of behavior that could be construed as 'growth hacking - or 'deceptive' depending on your bent: promoting open source libraries that don't work, rewriting tweets from smaller ac
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by factsaresacred 1y ago
> Almost every place I've been people absolutely detest black people. Not an experience I can relate with, and I'm pretty well traveled. A cynic might say that you're projecting a personal view here.
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by factsaresacred 1y ago
Crazy that devs choose supabase and vercel when Google Cloud is right there. Google were late to the game but they've built perhaps one of the easiest cloud platforms to work with.
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by factsaresacred 2y ago
Too bad they removed the ability to use Chat (rebranded as Ask) with your own API keys in version 0.47. Now every feature requires a subscription. Natural for Cursor to nudge users towards their paid plans, but why provide the ability to us
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by factsaresacred 2y ago
Reluctant VScode user here. Sublime's speed make it the best editor to work with by far, but its package manager is in a sorry state. A good 70%+ of packages are outdated or don't work. Fix this and I'd be back in a flash.
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by factsaresacred 2y ago
The clue is the name of the tools: "co-pilot". Assistants that work best in the hands of someone who already knows what they're doing, removing tedium and providing an additional layer of quality assurance. Pilot's still
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by factsaresacred 2y ago
It does have a tendacy to meander or spend too time reflecting on a topic instead of distilling the details. However the new ability to add a prompt improves this greatly. Some instructions that worked for me: - Specifics instead of high le
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Ask HN: Is SpiderOak One Backup Dead?
4 points by factsaresacred 2y ago|2 comments
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by factsaresacred 2y ago
> I have had this feeling twice. Both times my overwhelming thought was "Wow, I've been an idiot." Same experience here. I'm a beginner swimmer and got caught in a rip tide in Bali. The thing was, it was terrifying ye
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by factsaresacred 3y ago
Microsoft continue to ship their Surface laptops with over-sized power bricks, which is enough to disqualify them. Similar spec Samsung laptops (Galaxy Books) come with a regular USB-C cable and a fast charging power adapter that looks like
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by factsaresacred 3y ago
"There Are No Successful Black Nations" was the original title of this article in Foreign Policy: https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/09/why-black-people-must-h... It's an uncomfortable title, bu
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by factsaresacred 3y ago
Exactly. It's ChatGPT, equally lobotomized and devoid of fun. Perfect for Microsoft, less so for an app with a young demographic.
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by factsaresacred 3y ago
> it makes sense to evaluate states not just on their immediate utility, but on the utility of future states they make possible or exclude, and the states necessary to pass through to achieve them. Great way to frame it. Somewhat similar
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Bard, A.I. ‘Whiplash’ and Competing with ChatGPT(nytimes.com)
7 points by factsaresacred 4y ago|0 comments
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by factsaresacred 4y ago
Likely sarcasm, still I'll bite. I saw the exact same commentary around the no-code hype of the past few years and it made me increasingly cynical. No-code tools made it super easy to create a boilerplate website that looked pretty but
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by factsaresacred 4y ago
> average ppl do not give a fuck/doesn't help them that much I shared this opinion no more than a month ago. Then I decided to keep a ChatGPT-4 tab open for a week and lean on it for questions. I'm around 3x more productiv
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by factsaresacred 4y ago
This is awesome (and deserves more love), well done. Any insights on what's happening when user visitor clicks 'Go'? Is the video transcribed via OpenAI Whisper and then passed through GPT?
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by factsaresacred 4y ago
> we’ve already handed over the core societal function of information search and retrieval to them. Have we? For many people, ChatGPT3 is a curiosity. Talking to a bot is inefficient, requiring 'prompt engineering' and a tedio
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by factsaresacred 4y ago
Including something like "7 results from sources you blocked are hidden. Click to show" would solve this nicely.
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by factsaresacred 4y ago
I had a nice experience with https://simplescraper.io for a similar use-case. Was able to scrape a few thousand URLs without too much fuss. The biggest complication with visual scrapers is all the edge cases. The selector algori
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by factsaresacred 4y ago
This article and many others like to point out that ChatGPT is far from intelligent and is just spitting out nonsense. That argument fails to consider that much of the drudgery of modern employment consists of large swaths of nonsense. Chat
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by factsaresacred 4y ago
This is super nice. Please let me pay so you don't disappear. Are there any other services that make it this easy? DigitalOcean functions have a UI for quick prototyping but afaik Google Cloud, Vercel, Cloudflare etc wrap similar funct
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by factsaresacred 4y ago
Diigo is great - a web 2.0 sites that has just kept chugging along - and way underrated. The outliner[0] feature allows you create someting similar to notado. [0] https://www.diigo.com/outliner/start
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by factsaresacred 4y ago
The post was deleted by the subreddit moderators so I hope HN don't mind me reposting it here: > I used Stripe for about a year to run a small cell phone store in Denver, CO area. In the case of my business, I never had an issue pro
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by factsaresacred 4y ago
Knew I recognized some of this writing before. This book is quoted in an annual letter[0] from Zack Kanter which is also worth a read: > Eliminating toil allows people to focus on the inherent complexity of the difficult, interesting pr
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by factsaresacred 5y ago
Isn't that his appeal though? He lets the guests speak without much interjection beyond "wow" and "really". Unlike many other media hosts, he doesn't have his thumb on the scale trying to steer conversations to

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