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kami8845··on Opus 4.5 is the first model that makes me fear for my job
Same here. Using it this week and on Thursday I began to understand why Lee Sedol retired not long after being defeated by AlphaGo. For the stuff I'm good at, 3 months ago I was better than the models. Today, I'm not sure.
kami8845··on Find SF parking cops
Amazing to see the scale of it. As a piece of feedback my assumption is that different officers are assigned to different areas and so since street sweeping is either the first and third or second and fourth week of the month for most residential areas, this will allow different officers to float to the top in different weeks. Having at least a 2 week lookback for the leaderboard is probably best. Otherwise great work!
kami8845··on Boeing 737 MAX engine issue will take up to a year to fix
In my experience they are rarely used, unless you are stopping over in Ireland or Iceland.
kami8845··on GitHub merge queue is generally available
Same here, the experience has been generally favorable.
kami8845··on Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI
yeah unfortunately the OpenAI API hangs sometimet
kami8845··on If AI scaling is to be shut down, let it be for a coherent reason
I think their lead might be a bit bigger than that. ChatGPT 3.5 was released 4 months ago and I still haven't seen another LLM come close to it.
kami8845··on Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI
This is a good point I'll add!
kami8845··on Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI
will do!
kami8845··on Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI
Haha, I'll set up a docker image that people can pull down!
kami8845··on Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI
Hey! You can edit past messages you've submitted and they will generate a new response that overwrites whatever happened in the conversation previously. If you're talking about a tree-like struct where you can have different branches, then true, only the official UI has it AFAIK :)
kami8845··on Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI
GPT3.5 Turbo pricing is 10k tokens or ~7500 words for $0.02. Though note that every API request includes the entire chat context and charges for input & output tokens. https://openai.com/pricing
kami8845··on Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI
Editing the prompts (which are currently submitted via the system message similar to your linked app) is a great idea. I'll add it to the to-do list :)
kami8845··on Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI
GPT-4 is decently more expensive -- I personally really like & use the therapist character a lot. In this scenario the session would cost me less than $1 which is still much cheaper than any therapist I've used previously :)
kami8845··on Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI
Hey, run locally in this case means: YakGPT has no backend. Whether you use the react app through https://yakgpt.vercel.app/ or run it on your own machine, I store none of your data. I will try and make this wording clearer!
kami8845··on Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI
Hey! I would love to. I seriously considered adding my own key into the app, and implementing some rate limiting to e.g. allow you to send 3 messages for free. But unfortunately that would require me to store some backend data on you that I do not want: I want this to be a completely "private" / FE-only application that stores no data on anyone.
kami8845··on Show HN: YakGPT – A locally running, hands-free ChatGPT UI
Hey! I definitely understand the reservation. This is definitely me as well. My reasons for using the UI at this point:

* GPT-4 is decently faster when talking straight to the API

* The API is so stupidly cheap that it's basically a rounding error for me. Half an hour of chatting to GPT3.5 costs me $0.02

Would be curious what you mean by integrating the backend-api?

kami8845··on Heroku Status – Dashboard/API Offline
We are spending about 60% less. Workload has actually lessened since AWS is so much more stable. Getting to a similar DX as Heroku was quite the lift, but once it's done, it's done. These days we generally only have outages when we screw something up ourselves. I recommend https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli for starting out on ECS.
kami8845··on Heroku Status – Dashboard/API Offline
If you're still running on Heroku after everything that went down last year, you really have no one to blame! We are happily on AWS now.
kami8845··on Staff+ engineers, how do you learn new technologies at a new company?
At my current job (sr. eng) I have an average of 45 minutes of meetings per day
kami8845··on Run end-to-end tests faster with Firecracker
A few issues I have with this blog post:

1. It doesn't show off the unique capabilities of firecracker very well.

2. The comparison not very fair.

2a. The docker-build step (which dominates the runtime) is run without any caching, just by adding 2 lines to your build-push-action, "cache-from: type=gha, cache-to: type=gha,mode=max" you can make it a lot faster.

2b. ~1m20s of the time is just "VM start". GitHub Actions has had a rough time recently, but you should never wait that long to get your CI running in day-to-day operation.

2c. The tests are unrealistically short at 20s which allows the author to get to their 10x faster number.

Let's say the GitHub Action starts in 5 seconds, the GitHub Actions cache reduces the build time to 2 minutes and the tests take 10 minutes to run. Now Firecracker is 20% faster ...

You can also get comparable performance out of https://buildkite.com/ which lets you self-host runners on AWS meaning you're almost guaranteed to get a hot docker cache (running against locally attached SSDs). You can now start running your tests (almost) as fast with much more mature tooling.

kami8845··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Thank you for the reply!
kami8845··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
I'm currently waiting for my EAD (Applied for a GC via marriage to a citizen). What's your opinion on expedite requests with the reason being financial loss (I have a pending job offer from startup)? Is it worth trying?
kami8845··on Former Netflix executive convicted of receiving bribes from contractors
In those instances, do the managers at BiggerCorp who initiate the deal get the equity or the company?
kami8845··on Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #9
Something I've noticed as well. Might be related to geographic diversification, or that "[App] for [Emerging Market]" better answers the "Why now?" question.
kami8845··on Ask HN: How to get back in employment market after working on side projects?
Incorporate a LLC and put the whole period as "Founder, XYZ Widgets LLC"
kami8845··on If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pension fund
In which areas does Carvana own all the cars for sale?
kami8845··on Prisma – ORM for Node.js and TypeScript
While depending on a live DB for testing isn't great, why not just blow away database state after every test by running TRUNCATE / DELETE against all tables? DELETE especially is very fast (couple ms) if you're not inserting large amounts of data during your test runs.
kami8845··on Please stop using CDNs for external JavaScript libraries
maybe not with CDNJS, but perhaps you don't want every website to know you have AshleyMadison.com assets cached.
kami8845··on Elon Musk: ‘Too many smart people go into finance and law’
That is really quite crazy that a legally required event to discuss finances would prominently feature Tesla legal & finance. I think you might be onto something.
kami8845··on Elon Musk: ‘Too many smart people go into finance and law’
What the hell are you talking about? Tesla is Tesla because of their incredible engineering talent. The rest they do to amplify their car building efforts. If you offered Elon 100 incredible engineers/lawyers/financiers, he'll take the engineers every time.

How many car startups that achieve wide distribution has America had in the past 100 years?

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