gregorymichael

I always order black coffee with a couple ice cubes (so I don’t burn my tongue). I was visiting family in Charlotte this week and was surprised that their Starbucks had replaced the large canisters of drip coffee with some sort of coffee-on-demand machine that made each cup fresh.

The staff told me that this reduced waste of all the drip they’d through out at the end of each shift/day.

Comically though, the coffee the machine put out was so hot that they were double cupping every order. The lids didn’t fit as snug over a double cup, so nearly every one of my orders dribbled down the cup as I walked out. And of course I went from “wait right here I’ll have your order right up” to waiting 2+ minutes for my cup to be made.

I’m not judging if it makes sense for Starbucks or not — maybe someone did all this math already. It was just a funny example of the ripple effects that stem from a seemingly easy decision to reduce waste, make each cup fresh, which would seem like no brainers.

One of my favorite comments ever on HN. I’m big into photography and yet learned something on nearly every bullet. Thank you!

Has Pinecone gotten any cheaper? Last time I tried it was $75/month for the starter plan / single vector store.

For cases of “select an option from this set” I have it return an index of the correct option, or eg 999 if it can’t find one. This helped a lot.

Your brother was killed by a mental illness. You are no more responsible for his death than if he had died from cancer.

I’ve used CF Pages for static sites with great results and am intrigued by all their open-source-LLM-as-a-service offerings. Main issue preventing me from building more on CF is lack of Python support. Excited to try this out.

GPTs have the knowledge base too. (Mixed results though)

My subconscious reaction when first zooming in was: “f—— you.” They’ve taken something I’ve been familiar with for 20+ years and completely blown my mind. One of the coolest things I’ve seen on here in a long time.

What are the implications?

Great project and a great writeup

You are very kind Adam. This just made my day. Drop me an email -- would love to catch up.

Edit: I shared this story with three guys my year who were also in that class. You'll be happy to know:

1. They all remember you.

2. No one remembers the trash can.

WHOA!!! Callback! Who's this!?!

Here's the time he built "Hawk or Not" with Tony Hawk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxHYyD3upNc&t=6120s

Hi. Greg here. :heart: Good job taking the steps to get help!

When I joined the Twilio Developer Evangelism team in 2014, we spent a lot of our onboarding practicing the "five minute demo" where we live-code a Twilio app from scratch. I thought this was dumb, mostly because live-coding is so damn hard.

Six weeks into the job I watched Jeff live-code a Twilio app in front of 10,000 people at IBM Connect. It was as if he was saying to all of us, "Yeah, live-coding is hard. And if I can do this in front of 10,000 people, you can do it at your local Ruby meetup."

It was the first of many, many times over my nine years that Jeff led by example, set the bar, and pushed us all to reach levels we didn't know we were capable of. Working under Jeff's leadership was the privilege of a career.

I can't wait to see what he builds next.

Excited to see all the good the church does in NYC with $164M....

How long until Replicate has this available?

Hard to think of another product where six-figure customers are treated so poorly and leave with so little value.

I’ve never spent money so quickly.

https://baugues.com/trs-80

Have you tried coding with it yet? Easy to see how you could get that impression from just playing with ChatGPT, but copilot/cursor/dropping stack traces into gpt4 is transformational.

This is great. Nice work.

So, let's prioritize helping folks have happy/healthy relationships?

Whoa.

The John Wick sequels lack the restraint that made the original so enjoyable.

The graphics in this post are top notch. Nice work.

Do you have kids, by chance?

I can understand these comments from a fit single adult. I basically had to give up biking once we had kids. A cargo ebike has been a life changer.

This is a great resource

Ah good call! Added links to some getting started guides at the end. Here's the one Mel and I were working through: https://haihai.ai/chatgpt-api

That's not the greatest risk to your project.

This was an interesting quip: “college accreditors might be the most important institutions in American society about which nobody has heard a peep”

The student loan crisis means, by definition, that the established players are providing poor outcomes, but new entrants that would provide competition and innovation are gatekept out by accreditors.