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altdataseller··on Cloudflare adds option to block AI scrapers and crawlers
How does Cloudflare know whether a bot is scraping for AI purposes or any other? Or are they blocking all bots but basically adding AI to the feature because AI is the cool thing right now?
altdataseller··on Slack updates retention policy for free workspaces
But conversations in Slack aren’t your average webpage. Minus the channels used for automated messages/memes, a lot of in-depth, quality conversations happen on Slack on a large variety of topics
altdataseller··on I want to understand how do guys manage your cloud infra and deployments
I just use Capistrano to deploy my Ruby app/code/workers to my servers via 1 line: 'cap production deploy'. I don't muck around with those other things like Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes (they're voodoo to me)
altdataseller··on Why we no longer use LangChain for building our AI agents
Langchain reminds me of GraphQL. A technology that a lot of ppl seem to hype about, sounds like something you should use because all the cool kids use it, but at the end of the day just makes things unncessarily complicated.
altdataseller··on Ask HN: Could AI be a dot com sized bubble?
By ignoring it? Nobody's forcing you to read news, read tweets, or listen to every clown talk about AI. Just put your head down and solve real problems and focus on the end users and providing real value
altdataseller··on An interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su about solving hard problems
Not really. I wouldn't classify leetcode as "hard problems". Maybe dumb problems that don't really help anyone, but no, not "hard problems"
altdataseller··on Ask HN: Multiple LLM work together to give higher than gpt4o performance
I would not find it useful, because that would entail 5X the costs, and the cost is not worth the extra benefit of less hallucinations
altdataseller··on Amazon has a way to scrape GitHub and feed its AI model
You can still scrape Linkedin today, can you not?
altdataseller··on Former head of NSA joins OpenAI board
How do you know their private sector business is not booming?
altdataseller··on How Meta trains large language models at scale
At the end of the day, everything eventually comes down to chatbots
altdataseller··on Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce
Because Salesforce is already tightly integrated into many companies workflows, and already has incredible mindshare? And for the majority of conpanies, those limitations are just nuisances, not dealbreakers?
altdataseller··on Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce
Why do you think Salesforce doesnt do much?
altdataseller··on Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce
Where does Salesforce get data on info like where a contact got its PhD from or what their interests are?
altdataseller··on Ask HN: Why React?
What are those minimal tools to you?
altdataseller··on Ask HN: Why React?
Most apps are almost useless without an internet connection as well. Maybe if youre a content heavy site, it would be useful offline too but in that case, using static HtML is enough
altdataseller··on Ask HN: Do you think AI Agents are overhyped?
What are examples of those core pieces that need to exist?
altdataseller··on Ask HN: Any GenAI project that moves the business needle?
Klarna allegedly has saved millions from using AI to replace most of their support folks.

Might just be a PR stunt tho

altdataseller··on Back To Atoms: Why we can stop building SaaS and build the future instead.
“ We are regularly building and launching rockets into space. We are fighting climate change with science and industry”

99% of the people who were building SaaS probably arent skilled enough to launch rockets or fight climate change with science.

Now if youre talking about kids still in school, who have yet to decide on what to major, then yes perhaps most of them will forgo learning how to build software and pursue hard tech fields instead

altdataseller··on Why Triplebyte Failed
By content generation, do you mean take home problems or interview questions?
altdataseller··on Ask HN: If you are starting in 2024, what is the most productive solo dev stack?
What if you need javascript? What would you recommend in addition ti to laravel? Or is Laravel enough?
altdataseller··on Google to shut down Google One VPN on June 20
Indexing websites and managing website domains are separate things
altdataseller··on Ask HN: What is your best domain name?
How is rolepad doing? I remembered you saying you were scoping out what the paid product was going to be with employers
altdataseller··on Ask HN: What is your best domain name?
I own a couple but the one thats probably the most valuable that im currently building a future product with is bloomberry.com
altdataseller··on Google to shut down Google One VPN on June 20
cues football coach OOOFF meme
altdataseller··on Google to shut down Google One VPN on June 20
And i think in the long term, it is going to benefit consumers. Squarespace lives and breathes domains. Google doesnt.
altdataseller··on Hi, AI: Our Thesis on AI Voice Agents
“We are transitioning from 1.0 AI voice (phone tree) → 2.0 wave of AI voice (LLM-based).”

Please give me version 0.1 back where i can press numbers and press 0 to reach a human. I never asked for 1.0 let alone 2.0

altdataseller··on Within 2 years, 90% of organizations will suffer a critical tech skills shortage
The technical term is bullshit
altdataseller··on How to find and validate Cyber Security startup idea?
Have you considered getting a job in cybersecurity and getting exposed to a few problems that companies face? You mention you dont want to do a services company, but that might be a good way to learn about common unsolved problems they have too.
altdataseller··on What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs
People cant do that because of cost. If every single query involved taking everything even remotely related to the query, and passing it to OpenAI, it would get expensive very very fast.

Its not a technical issue, its a practicality issue imo.

altdataseller··on What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs
Why is the retrieval part overrated? There isnt even a single way to retrieve. It could be a simple keyword sesrch, a vector sesrch, a combo, or just simply retrieving a single doc and stuffing it in the context
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