tbeseda

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Comment · 1 month ago
I think these products (Jev and the inevitable offerings from Anthropic, OpenAI, etc) want to become more than end-user output machines. They'd benefit from being in the hotpath of other services. Not backgrounded generation but in-band, request-time work.

1M x $0.50 == 1B x $0.0005

Comment · 1 month ago
If I had to guess, it's already built and is just waiting on Product's/Marketing's desk. How do you position this without looking like your roadmap is being determined by newcomers? Probably don't want to adopt the same verbiage+acronyms - but also can't be seen to be just sherlocking features.
Comment · 1 month ago
For _your_ classification it's unacceptable. The OP seems to have anticipated this and mentions you can fine tune it for your use case. Did you try that?

I don't think the point is to displace Jev, but to show it's possible to build an MVP on open weights without years of work and millions of dollars.

Why (presumably) an engineer would dismiss exploring a lightweight, custom alternative to locking into a fashionable PaaS, I'll never know.

Comment · 1 month ago
Long term it matters very much if your car is Toyota or BMW or Kia or John Deere though.

I think some users are also conscious about the longevity of their tooling related to LLM usage, too. Whether it has an effect or not, we've yet to find out.

Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
Technically, "the top house of the bottom 1/3rd is at least $1m"

The title of the article is not helpful.

Even "In 242 cities[1], 2/3 of homes are more than $1M" is better.

[1]where "city" is ambiguous

Comment · 4 months ago
Firefox might need my support, but Mozilla does not.
Comment · 4 months ago
Vivaldi (not affiliated) kinda aims to do this. At least they build the blocker in. It uses the Blink engine, too. I don't think this move by Google will adversely affect Vivaldi in the same way it does Chrome.
Comment · 4 months ago
I converted my web app to a SwiftUI macOS app https://hnr.app

It has less features (no OG media or title/story analysis via Bedrock) but it focuses more on the features I like/need from an HN client

Comment · 6 months ago
I just want to note how fast this page is.

806kB transferred. 766ms to finished. I hit the DFW AWS CloudFront pop from here.

Similar page for BK https://www.burgerking.co.jp/menu

31MB transferred. 6.5s to finished. Hits the DEN pop (but it's a "miss").

I am in Colorado. uBlock is on.

Even if you don't count the 7.5MB of fonts on the BK page, that's wild.

Comment · 7 months ago
Sorry, I'm not sure how this relates to the content of the article. Sounds like an interesting experience, but this is an analysis of the Python ecosystem pre+post ChatGPT.
Comment · 8 months ago
ratio of upvotes to comments is oddly high...
Comment · 8 months ago
Directly to CDN. Put it in a CloudFront distribution and it would be a fraction of a fraction of that Vercel bill.

Remember kids, they're incentivized to get you to build something to burn as much compute as possible.

Comment · 10 months ago
I'd try and figure out how to make a living converting older, everyday cars/trucks to EVs. Restomod I guess; but not just classic sports cars and big trucks (though I love those too). I think a 1989 Mazda Protege deserves a new life as an affordable commuter car. Tape deck and all.
Comment · 10 months ago
Agreed. I'm working on a small GUI that just appends to a local .ndjson file. A user just posts with a text box into a feed. Like a one person chat or tweeting into the void. And a local LLM picks apart metadata, storing just enough to index where answers to future questions will be. Then you can use slash commands to get at the analysis like "/tasks last month" or "/summarize work today" etc.

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