jcuenod

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   by jcuenod 3y ago

   The real question is, what's the best pencil?
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   by jcuenod 3y ago

   +1 for Software Unscripted! I know barely anything about compilers, but I really enjoy being a fly on the wall of these conversations :)
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   by jcuenod 3y ago

   At first I thought it was Cloudflare again, but it looks like it's TW.
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   ClickHouse UDFs with RowBinary in Python(jcuenod.github.io)

   1 points by jcuenod 3y ago|0 comments
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   by jcuenod 3y ago

   Really interesting to compare to Clickhouse's benchmark, when you filter out the non-comparable results. The TLDR is that their benchmark shows DuckDB winning a lot of the races: https://benchmark.clickhouse.com/#eyJzeX
6. 66.▲
   by jcuenod 3y ago

   Why do so many of the 0.5GB clickhouse benchmarks fail?
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   by jcuenod 3y ago

   I've just been looking for SOTA TTS. I found coqui.ai and elevenlabs.io (and a bunch of others). They're good (and better than older TTS), but I am not fooled by any of them. Do you have recommendations?
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   by jcuenod 3y ago

   I'm pretty sure my laptop is doing this through something between Gnome + Arch without me configuring it (Precision 5560)
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   by jcuenod 3y ago

   You seem to be unfamiliar with the mantra of silicon valley.
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    by jcuenod 3y ago

    Thanks someone else suggested the same. I had thought the magic link thing deserved some attention. But I agree, I'll ditch it when I have a chance.
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    by jcuenod 3y ago

    If you're referring to that rice-sized chip that was being soldered onto motherboards. IIRC, the authors of that piece on Bloomberg have a history of writing nonsense. This particular article got absolutely no external confirmation. Th
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    by jcuenod 3y ago

    I'm doing pretty much the same thing with cloudflared on an Acer cxi2 (Ubuntu server). I just use an external enclosure with on old SSD I had and it cost me about $20 with 4gb of RAM.
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    by jcuenod 3y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. I won't lie to you, I totally agree on your critiques of the pricing page. It "feels" like I need to say "you're getting a whole lot of value" in words that sound nice. If I saw this, I
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    by jcuenod 3y ago

    Good idea. What if it varies in quality based on different languages? I read a lot of texts with English, French, German, Greek, and Hebrew. The quality of the OCR goes in roughly that order. If there's enough Hebrew, it gets detected
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    by jcuenod 3y ago

    Thanks. I think your first point is related to some magic safari is doing, but it's true solving OCR is becoming easier and easier (and eating away any claim to a moat I may have). Good advice on the video! Thanks.
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    by jcuenod 3y ago

    Thanks
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    by jcuenod 3y ago

    This is great! Thank you. When you come back and see your suggestions implemented, feel the gratitude :)
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    by jcuenod 3y ago

    This logic has partly informed my decision to just paywall it, but it does increase the barrier to entry. And don't take my acknowledgement of an area of weakness as an excuse, take it as an awareness of where I need to focus energy ;)
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    by jcuenod 3y ago

    Good to know, thanks!
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    by jcuenod 3y ago

    Half answering the sibling here as well. I built this as a PhD student in the humanities (where we use a lot of undigitized texts). I constantly ended up cleaning up PDFs and OCRing them for my own use, and this was an excessive optimizatio
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    by jcuenod 3y ago

    This is great advice, thanks! Since you mention the kindle niche, what did you do when you encountered that frustration? I feel like the people I actually had in mind when building this are not technical enough to realize they even have a p
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    by jcuenod 3y ago

    Thanks dang, I'm certainly willing to consider it. I don't think the HN crowd is actually a great target market, though. So I wasn't super surprised that it didn't get much traction. Let me give it some thought.
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    by jcuenod 3y ago

    You're right. I'm talking about marketing. But I think my problem is actually that I don't know how to find the people who I can sell to. My current belief is that the problem that I'm solving is not one that people know
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    by jcuenod 3y ago

    Good call. Appreciate the nit. That's what comes of iterations :)
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    by jcuenod 3y ago

    Good advice, thanks!
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    by jcuenod 3y ago

    Thanks, I'll take a look. I built it to scratch my own itch, so the market in my mind is grad students in the humanities...
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    Ask HN: Sales Tips for Solo Devs?

    80 points by jcuenod 3y ago|45 comments
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    Show HN: FixPDFs – Automatic PDF correction for document scans(fixpdfs.com)

    4 points by jcuenod 3y ago|0 comments
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    by jcuenod 3y ago

    Yes! I picked up a 4GB Acer chromebox with a celeron for $20. This is much better value to me than an RPi because I don't have to worry about ARM. Obviously RPi serves a different use case of tinkering with embedded dev, but tons of pe
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    Ask HN: My colleagues are selling AI snake oil to non-tech bosses; what do I do?

    5 points by jcuenod 3y ago|3 comments