jimmyechan

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by jimmyechan 3y ago
The page looks nicely designed. You could try seeding this first. There are many ways to do that, but one of the easiest would be for you to launch your own campaign using your own product, offering a service you can offer, to fund marketin
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by jimmyechan 3y ago
Founders are already great at making up personas that aren't quite accurate or don't really exist, but that sound real. This is mostly because of an incomplete understanding of the persona or not talking to users enough. This prod
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by jimmyechan 4y ago
Curious to know your use case. Were you hoping to use Retool Database with your existing Postgres as a schema builder or as a data editor via their spreadsheet UI?
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by jimmyechan 4y ago
Yes, while the GPT API latency will be minimal, whether it's noticeable by users would still depend on the application, use case, and even the location of the client(s). In some cases, the small latencies may still be noticeable for ex
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by jimmyechan 4y ago
Your app could be slightly but meaningfully faster (depending on your use case) if the other servers/services your app relies on are close by (also on Azure, in the same region region or datacenter). Otherwise probably not much more sp
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by jimmyechan 4y ago
Not yet, but my bet is that we will be able to in the near future. The gpt-4-32k (with a 32K context window) allows for about 52 pages of text
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by jimmyechan 4y ago
Livestream developer preview link in case you missed it - https://www.youtube.com/live/outcGtbnMuQ
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by jimmyechan 4y ago
Yes! Swapping out NumPy with Arrow underneath! Excited to have the performance of Arrow the API of Pandas. Huge win for the data community!
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by jimmyechan 4y ago
Side note, unrelated to the main post, but I read "open source", "seeds", and "A's and immediately thought farmers are raising big VC funding rounds. I think I need to start reading other kinds of news.
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by jimmyechan 4y ago
Two-way is definitely more convenient. Custom could be a good approach, but could get difficult to maintain due corner cases or as schemas change from either side. I'd be curious to know how you end up solving for this! Good luck!
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by jimmyechan 4y ago
Is your team looking to do a 2-way sync between PG and SF for certain fields? Or is the use case something where data from SF needs to be enriched with data from PG and then pushed back to SF (or vice versa)? I'm curious to know which
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by jimmyechan 4y ago
Hey HN, I'm the other founder. We'll be pretty active today on HN to answer questions and discuss your feedback!
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Show HN: Dropbase – Stage prod tables to enable ops teams to safely make edits(dropbase.io)
11 points by jimmyechan 4y ago|2 comments
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You can ask ChatGPT to write Terraform code for you(twitter.com)
3 points by jimmyechan 4y ago|0 comments
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The average cost per ChatGPT chat is in the single-digit cents(twitter.com)
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by jimmyechan 4y ago
This is cool! Won't be long before the content of top 10 Google results are fed back to ChatGPT for a summary
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Google may be only a year or two away from total disruption(twitter.com)
23 points by jimmyechan 4y ago|13 comments
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A Mathematician's Guide to the World Cup(youtube.com)
4 points by jimmyechan 4y ago|0 comments
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Appreciation for Bankers and Regulators(twitter.com)
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by jimmyechan 4y ago
Are you looking for open source tools specifically? If not, check out https://www.explo.co
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Airtable, Retool, and Steady State(jimmyechan.substack.com)
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by jimmyechan 4y ago
On a related note, Salesforce and Snowflake announced a partnership for real-time data sharing. Not exactly the same, but it's interesting to see data warehouse companies building upstream. I wonder if there's a trend going on her
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by jimmyechan 4y ago
A few previous submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22181437 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27154469 I thought Algolia was also open sourced. Is it no longer the case?
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Should spreadsheets and databases be mutually exclusive?(dropbase.io)
6 points by jimmyechan 4y ago|0 comments
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Thoughts on Blockchain and Crypto(caseinterview.com)
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by jimmyechan 4y ago
I thought I could instead describe practical use cases we have for message queues (and task queues) at our company. For context, we work on a product that helps people validate, clean, and import their CSVs/Excel files into SQL databas
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by jimmyechan 5y ago
Back to good ol' email
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Slack Is Down
12 points by jimmyechan 5y ago|3 comments
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by jimmyechan 5y ago
Side note: not sure if I just haven't been paying attention, but I noticed the slider pagination (with option to click one page at a time) and thought it is really neat. Is there a reason why this isn't more of a thing in UI desig
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by jimmyechan 5y ago
Might want to check out some of pg's essays: - How to start a startup: http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html - Do things that don't scale: http://paulgraham.com/ds.html

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